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5.0 classic
Anathema Weather Systems
Weather Systems wasn’t always my favorite Anathema release, and I definitely wouldn’t have seen it as my number one of the decade. When I first heard Weather Systems there was a lot to buy into. At that point (and to this day) it was easily their best and most unique album. It wasn’t until Weather Systems that it truly felt like they had found their own sound that didn’t borrow liberally from bands like Radiohead and Pink Floyd. The melodies were excellent, the songs were beautiful, and the addition of Lee Douglas as a full time vocalist was the final missing piece. Instead of just enjoying it, though, I let the cynical reviewer in me start to nit-pick. I wanted to call it formulaic just because it took the previous album’s formula and pushed it to a higher level. I wanted to call it ‘soulless’ because it seemed to epic to actually be legit. And the second half of the album that I criticized as ‘boring’ in my original review is actually the stuff most similar to We’re Here Because We’re Here — while at the same time I complained about how Weather Systems lacked the depth of that previous release while delivering a whole second half that was perfect for it. I was stupid.
Bad Religion Live at the Palladium (DVD)
Cynic Focus
Death Individual Thought Patterns
Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane
Dream Theater Awake
Fates Warning Perfect Symmetry
This is probably their most progressive album of their entire catalog. Its the first one with the phenomenal Mark Zonder behind the drum kit... its the second one with vocalist Ray Alder and he has improved considerably since "No Exit". This is also a notable album because it was really the last one written with full band participation and not just "The Jim Matheos Experience".
Fates Warning Theories of Flight
When I first reviewed Theories of Flight, I hesitated to call it a classic progressive metal album. I felt it was too soon to make that decision, and that only time would tell. Four years later, and time has definitely told. Theories of Flight is a much-needed classic release in the progressive metal genre. When a band somehow manages to take the most solid and memorable moments of their breakthrough release (Parallels) and seamlessly mesh them with a sound they’ve been circling around for years, and do so flawlessly, then it is at least worth proclaiming that they’ve released a milestone within their own career. But is it worth stopping the discussion there? Four years ago, it was worth holding back on such lofty proclamations. Now? Now I can safely call Theories of Flight the classic release I always assumed it would become.
Metallica ...And Justice for All
Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine: 2010 Remaster
Public Enemy Apocalypse 91 The Enemy Strikes Black
Queensryche Rage for Order
Queensryche Operation: Livecrime
Skinny Puppy Too Dark Park
The Cure Disintegration
The Future Sound of London Lifeforms
The Orb Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
Within Temptation The Silent Force

4.9 classic
Cradle of Filth Vempire or Dark Faerytales in Phalluste
Damn the Machine Damn the Machine

4.8 classic
Anacrusis Manic Impressions
Musically the band has progressed far beyond anything they?ve ever done before. The music seems cold, precise, and calculated. Every note, every cymbal crash, every pluck of a string seems to be calculated and specifically placed there. The music is still riffy and thrashy for the most part, but they?ve added a lot more technicality to the overall form of those riffs and notes. The bass has also taken a more lead role, sometimes seeming to be the lead instrument with the guitars following behind it, and it is very clear in the mix. Even when it is not the lead instrument though, the bass doesn?t simply follow the guitars; it is always playing something interesting and inventive seeming to bounce in and out of the riffs and sounds. Also, Ken?s vocals have not mellowed one bit. He still goes from the low thrashy growl to clean singing (not in a metalcore kind of way, remember this is 1991), and he still makes full use of the black metal style high-pitched shrieks. The big difference is, as stated above, he seems more in control of his style, and more thoughtful about what style to use where. Also, his lyrics have completely evolved from the typical thrash topics of the first album to the critical, almost self-analytical lyrics we find now.
Anacrusis Screams and Whispers
Anthrax Persistence of Time
Carcass Heartwork
CHVRCHES Screen Violence
I don't know if most people even listen to both bands, but to me this is like a sweeter, lighter, less twisted The Birthday Massacre. Both bands use hard beats, layers of electronics, and excellent female vocals. This is just catchier and feels a little less dark. I'm sold.
Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast - Re-Mistressed
Dark Tranquillity Projector
Faith No More Angel Dust
Katatonia Viva Emptiness (10th Anniversary Version)
Lene Marlin Another Day
Megadeth Rust in Peace
Megadeth Peace Sells... (25th Anniversary)
Meshuggah Chaosphere
Neurosis Souls at Zero
Nevermore The Politics of Ecstasy
Slowdive Souvlaki

4.7 superb
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Eisley Room Noises
Emperor In The Nightside Eclipse - 20th Year Anniversary
The 20th anniversary version of this album is awesome. The first disc is listed as the 'Original' mix of the album, but it sounds exactly like the remastered version that I already owned. The bonus tracks on this disc are unreleased songs (I think...). The second disc is the 'alternate mix' which seems to really push the volume of the guitars and make the keyboards mostly a backing instrument. The extra tracks on the second disc are raw versions of songs that made the album. Not to mention the packaging....
Further Seems Forever Hide Nothing
Lene Marlin Twist the Truth
I have to admit that I'm a big fan of hers, there is just something about her music and that semi-depressing style rmixed with the pop elements that I really enjoy. Also, she has a great voice that fits her music perfectly.
Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet
Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime
Queensryche Empire
Riverside Anno Domini High Definition
Slipknot Disasterpieces
Testament The Ritual
Testament Dark Roots of Thrash
The God Machine Scenes from the Second Storey
This album is one of my top favorite albums of all time. The only thing that keeps it from a 5 is the useless instrumental in the middle of the album... otherwise this album is pure sorrowful emotion mixed with anger, and the very cool sounding vocals... this album deserves a full review some day (as does the one after it).
Theatre Of Tragedy Velvet Darkness They Fear

4.6 superb
Borknagar True North
I’ve never considered myself a huge Borknagar fan. I tried to like them when Garm was their vocalist, but the music never held my attention. When Simen “ICS Vortex” Hestnaes joined, the music had become much more enjoyable and diverse, but I couldn’t get into his vocals. That’s why I was definitely skeptical about True North when I read Simen would be taking on lead vocal duties again. It turns out I had nothing to worry about. The vocal melodies are catchy and so well written, and the same could be said about the music. Each song is full of dynamic shifts that hit the aggressive parts often enough to keep the old fans interested while maintaining an array of catchy, classy, prog-lite melodies at all other times. Borknagar’s True North will be defined by stellar vocal melodies courtesy of Simen Hestnaes and Lars Nedland, as well as classy progressive metal that only borrows from black metal without being dominated by it.
Eisley I'm Only Dreaming
Last decade it was Eisley’s debut album, Room Noises, that was near-perfect indie pop. This decade it’s Eisley again. This time it I’m Only Dreaming that stands as near-flawless indie pop. If you’ve never heard Eisley, just know that Eisley do one thing well, but they do it ridiculously well. That one thing is lush, chill, indie pop that features some of the most infectious melodies and gorgeous harmonized vocals I’ve ever heard. Any attempt by Eisley to do anything different has inevitably led to an inferior product. This was nowhere more apparent than on their previous release, Currents. Fortunately, the band realized this too because they have gone back to the chill, melody-drenched, sound of their first two releases and it’s a welcome return. One of my favorite indie pop albums ever, not just this particular decade.
Midas Fall Wilderness
I’m in love with this album. There’s honestly not another release I can think of that elicits the kind of moods that Wilderness does. A large part of that is due to the haunting, melancholic, vocals of Elizabeth Heaton. Her ethereal vocals simply embed in your soul. The music, too, is excellent. Wilderness mixes post rock, indie pop, ethereal goth, and electronics to create one excellently atmospheric backdrop that is drenched in melody and a pensive sadness. On the other hand, despite the morose atmospheres, almost every song feels just a bit uplifting at the same time. Almost like a dark cloud/silver lining kind of effect that is pulled off wonderfully. When I’m in the mood for these kind of feelings and this kind of almost abstract musical delivery, Wilderness could easily be my number one album of the decade. The only thing holding it back is that this is definitely mood music. You can’t just throw Wilderness on without being in the mood for what it delivers.
NOFX The Decline
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance (Revisited)
A lot of re-recordings of classic releases fail to resonate the same way the originals did. They fail to recapture the feeling, atmosphere, and most importantly, the unique features of the era the originals were released in. The Artist in the Ambulance (Revisted) doesn't fail to do any of that. The band has taken this album and somehow helped it to age right along with everyone who originally grew up with it. It's an older crustier version that doesn't always have the same power or youthful energy... it may even be a little worse for wear overall, but there's still something to this. Also, the production here has done wonders for the musical elements. Everything is clearer and the performances have been honed by twenty years of hindsight.

4.5 superb
Acumen Nation The 5ifth Column
Agua de Annique Air
Amorphis Queen of Time
Tuonela and Elegy are two of my favorite Amorphis albums, but after so many years it seemed like the band were never going to come back to that sound. Then they released Queen of Time. Queen of Time sounds like what Tuonela might have sounded like if Amorphis had kept the death metal vocals and totally upped the intensity. To me, Queen of Time feels like the most aggressive and progressive album of Amorphis’ career. The album still maintains the progressive death metal formula of the previous few releases, but the actual ‘progressive’ part, as well as the melodies, feel like they owe more to the Tuonela-era than anything current. That means the melodies are insanely catchy, as are the choruses, and the prog has more of that old-school folky Amorphis feel than anything they’ve done lately. The album is also very diverse in its moods and tempos which gives each song its own space. After the past few years, Queen of Time has become my favorite Amorphis release.
Anacrusis Suffering Hour & Reason Revisited
Anacrusis Silver
Anathema Serenades + Extra Tracks
Antimatter Black Market Enlightenment
Antimatter was formed by Mick Moss and Duncan Patterson (of Anathema) in order to deliver a darker, more melancholic version of what Duncan Patterson had been doing with Anathema (around Alternative 4 time period). The duo released three albums together before Duncan Patterson left to form another band, and honestly, that’s when Antimatter really found its sound — and Black Market Enlightenment is the culmination of that sound. Black Market Enlightenment features the heavy(ish) guitars first found on Leaving Eden, the electronics that have been a staple of the music since the beginning (although they did disappear for an album or two), saxophones & flutes, and the morose desperate atmosphere most prominent on Planetary Confinement. This is all brought together by the deep, expressive, vocals of Mick Moss as he generally imparts only one kind of message: loneliness, despair, and hopelessness.
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Atheist Jupiter
This one took a lot of time to finally click, but it eventually became one of my all-time favorite technical death metal albums. The reason is this is chaotic technical death metal that somehow manages to hide catchy guitar melodies, riffs, and choruses within all of the chaos. The trick was actually giving it enough listens to totally click. In the beginning the most apparent thing was the impeccable percussion of Steve Flynn, as his relentless playing seemed to fill every moment of every song (in the best possible way). Eventually, the twisting structures of each song started to become more familiar, and that’s when I was finally able to catch all the hidden melodies and hooks. Well worth the effort.
Atoma Skylight
There’s not a single song on this album that is representative of the entire release, that’s how diverse and original Skylight is. Over the course of its runtime, Skylight takes the listener on a trip that begins with a keyboard-heavy trek through post-metal soundscapes and doom-laden melodies before slowly evolving into a chill, catchy shoegaze style by the time it’s over. In between, Skylight impresses with its deliberate transition which finds heavy riffs and gritty vocals slowly replaced with mellow proggy melodies, increasingly ambient keyboards, and a slow build-up of atmospheric passages. So, while Atoma aren’t reinventing any genre, they deserve a lot of credit for creating a very solid, compelling work within the realm of atmospheric metal.
Bad Astronaut Houston: We Have a Drinking Problem
Bad Religion The Empire Strikes First
Bad Religion Suffer
Bad Religion Along the Way (DVD)
Bad Religion Against the Grain
Bad Religion 30 Years Live
Believer Gabriel
Bjork Greatest Hits
Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia
Brainchild Mindwarp
Caligula's Horse In Contact
In Contact was my first exposure to Caligula’s Horse and their rhythmic, yet melodic, brand of progressive metal. It took me to their fourth release to finally bother with them because, honestly, I felt like the band name was kind of stupid, and I assumed the music was just as bad. Obviously, I had been missing out. In Contact reminds me of modern prog bands such as Tesseract mixed with the traditional progressive metal of artists such as Porcupine Tree and Riverside, and they manage to take the absolute best from both versions of the genre. From the twitchy “Dream the Dead” and “Will’s Song” to the dreamy “Love Conquers All” there isn’t a single bit of filler on Caligula’s Horse’s In Contact. In Contact is another one of those albums that has continued to grow on me since the day I first heard it two years ago.
Cranes Wings of Joy
Dear Euphoria Dear Euphoria
Dear Euphoria Heal My Violence
Deftones White Pony
Devin Townsend Terria
Devin Townsend Project Ocean Machine: Live in Plovdiv
This is how live albums should be done. It contains two discs of live material. The first disc features a collection of Devin Townsend Project songs with orchestral accompaniment. While we all have a selection of songs we think should have made the cut, the ones that ended up here are still great and really well done. The Second disc is the entire Ocean Machine album done live with the surviving original members of that recording. Again, it's an absolutely flawless rendition and worth getting. Did I mention it also comes with a Blu-Ray of the entire thing, beautifully recorded with excellent sound and visuals.
Dream Theater Images and Words
Dream Theater Live at Luna Park
Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse
Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Emperor Emperial Live Ceremony (DVD)
Epica Omega Alive
Evoken Quietus
Exxasens Eleven Miles
Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True
Fates Warning Awaken the Guardian
Fates Warning Parallels
Fates Warning Awaken the Guardian Live
Fates Warning Live Over Europe
I'm so damn bummed that this is audio-only. It could have been such an awesome live package. Despite missing the visual element, Live Over Europe is still an awesome live album that is worth picking up. The sound on this recording is fuller and heavier than anything from the studio albums which gives every song a powerful sound that was mostly missing from the studio versions. Also, Ray's voice has grown better with age. Granted, he can't/won't hit the high notes anymore, but he now delivers a grit to the songs that totally compliment the heavier facelift given to each song. Also, the rhythm section trades away a bit of the bands traditional finesse for a harder more metallic feel that also compliments the songs. I just wish there was a blu-ray.
Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine
Fugazi Repeater
God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright
Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction
Hatebreed Supremacy
Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance)
Hooverphonic Blue Wonder Power Milk
Hooverphonic A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular
Hybrid (UK) Wide Angle
I Am Spoonbender Buy Hidden Persuaders
Iced Earth Burnt Offerings
In Flames The Jester Race
In The Nursery Era
In The Nursery Duality
In The Nursery Sense
Joe Satriani Satchurated: Live in Montreal
Judas Priest Painkiller
Katatonia Viva Emptiness
Killing Joke Brighter Than a Thousand Suns
KMFDM Greatest Shit
Lacuna Coil In a Reverie
Lagwagon Trashed
Lagwagon Duh (Remastered)
Lagwagon Trashed (Remastered)
Leprous Live At Rockefeller Music Hall
The album is cool on its own, but the DVD is near-flawless.
Massive Attack Mezzanine
Mastodon Hushed and Grim
I don't count myself as a Mastodon fan. I like random songs, and appreciate albums when they're on, but I never go to them on my own. This release will be different. This is easily the best thing they've done. It's heavy, progressive, and catchy without really losing what they've kind of always been about. I don't really hear an issue with the production on the actual album version, but the Dolby Apple Music version is definitely a little off.
Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?
Megadeth Endgame
Midas Fall Cold Waves Divide Us
Mourning Beloveth A Disease for the Ages
Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle
My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans
Neurosis Enemy of the Sun
New Found Glory This Disaster: Live In London
New Found Glory Kill It Live
Nightwish Showtime, Storytime
Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine
Numb Wasted Sky
Opeth Blackwater Park
Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse
Opeth In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
Orbital In Sides
Pain of Salvation In the Passing Light of Day
I?m not going to lie, Pain of Salvation lost me after Remedy Lane. I was a big fan of the band?s overly emotive, quirky brand of progressive metal fronted by eccentric main man Daniel Gildenlw from Entropia through Remedy Lane, but when they pushed the ?quirky? and ?progressive? further on Be I just couldn?t get into it. With every subsequent release, I would try to enjoy it, and fail. That finally changed with In The Passing Light of Day. During In The Passing Light of Day?s runtime, I hear the heaviness of Entropia, the epic-ness of Concrete Lake, the ultra-catchy melodies of Perfect Element, and the emotion of Remedy Lane? but this is better than all of those. If nothing else, those albums I couldn?t enjoy taught the band how to craft real songs that didn?t devolve into mindless wanking. All the youthful mistakes and Dream Theater meandering that would ruin songs in the past is gone? and that is definitely for the best.
Pantera Vulgar Display of Power
Paradise Lost In Requiem
Paradise Lost Icon
Paradise Lost Symbol Of Life
Patty Moon Lost In Your Head
Pennywise About Time
Pink Floyd Pulse
Pink Floyd The Wall
Porcupine Tree In Absentia
Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime (Deluxe Edition)
Queensryche Revolution Calling
Redemption Snowfall on Judgment Day
Remembrance Fall, Obsidian Night
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness
Riverside Rapid Eye Movement
Ron Jarzombek Solitarily Speaking of Theoretical Confinement
Roni Size and Reprazent New Forms
Sadistik and Kid Called Computer The Art of Dying
Samael Passage
Sarah Fimm Near Infinite Possibility
Sepultura Arise
Skinny Puppy 12 Inch Anthology
Slayer Seasons in the Abyss
Slayer Decade of Aggression
Solefald The Linear Scaffold
System of a Down Toxicity
Temple of the Dog Temple Of The Dog (25th Anniversary Edition)
Testament Practice What You Preach
Testament Live in London
The Birthday Massacre Pins and Needles
Pins & Needles wasn’t always a lock for my top five of the decade. When this was released almost ten years ago, I was a little disappointed that the band had dropped the industrial electronics and creepy darkwave atmospheres for poppy keyboards and giant hooks. Then something unexpected happened. Slowly at first, and then quicker as the years went by, Pins & Needles started moving up the ranks; not just within their own discography, but also within my personal favorites in general. First, there’s little doubt that Pins & Needles contains The Birthday Massacre’s best production ever. The beats are the punchiest they’ve ever been, the guitars are fuller, the keyboards are crisp, and there’s more done with Chibi’s vocals. Second, though, the songs might lack what originally attracted me to the band, but the much improved songwriting and influx of poppier hooks has turned Pins & Needles into an album I can never get out of my head, and the one I’m most prone to returning to.
The Gathering TG25: Diving into the Unknown
The Jezabels Prisoner
It’s hard to describe this album without gushing. To me, it has elements of early Killing Joke (Night Time-era) and The Cure (Kiss Me-era) wrapped in an alternative container, with just enough indie pop to make every song stick in your head. This makes the music, despite its deceptively simple melodic overcurrents, more complicated than it originally seems. Each song ebbs-and-flows through different movements, while the drums rarely just play a simple beat, and electronics and waves of keyboards wash over the entire affair. Their vocalist, Hayley Mary, perfectly complicates the busy musical accompaniment with her soaring, yet soothing, vocals delivering a convincing performance on every track. This is another album that could just as easily move up a few spots on my decade list depending on what mood I’m in.
The Offspring Ignition
The Orb U.F.Orb
The Prodigy The Fat of the Land
Thought Industry Songs for Insects
Thought Industry Mods Carve the Pig
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance
Thursday War All the Time
Tiamat A Deeper Kind of Slumber
Tool Undertow
Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler
Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar
Ulver have always released polarizing albums. From their black metal beginnings to the industrial of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell to the “whatever you want to call what they’re doing these days” of their latest release, Ulver have always managed to frustrate a certain subset of their fans. Their change has probably been easier on me than a lot of long time fans because The Marriage of Heaven and Hell was my first Ulver album, and “Nowhere, Catastrophe” from their subsequent release is still my favorite song across the entire discography. What I’m saying is, my favorite Ulver tracks have always been the ones with vocals. This whole album has vocals and it kind of mixes their Blood Inside sound with an almost 80s style synth pop sound. I’m not opposed to a good melody or memorable chorus, and when a band like Ulver can mix those two things into the lush soundscapes they’re known for, I’ll take it every time.
Void Of Sleep New World Order
Stoner rock meets a little 'Nothingface'-era Voivod with a bit of modern Katatonia darkness thrown in for good measure. Yes-fucking-please.
Voivod Dimension Hatröss
Voivod Warriors of Ice
White Lion The Best Of
Within Temptation Black Symphony
Wumpscut Embryodead
Yellowcard Ocean Avenue

4.4 superb
Blackbriar A Dark Euphony
Throughout A Dark Euphony, there is an abundance of new elements married to the macabre gothic metal Blackbriar have always been known for. Most significantly, the band has stepped up their game exponentially, delivering a wealth of guitar harmonies, melancholic keyboard melodies, huge crescendos, eerie goth interludes, and epic symphonic moments. These new elements provide a life and energy that previous releases just couldn’t offer, and they go a long way towards allowing A Dark Euphony to maintain its momentum while providing Zora much more to work with – and she was up to the challenge. It’s no stretch to suggest that Zora delivers a career-defining performance throughout this album. From huge hooky choruses to spine-tingling vocal trills and acrobatic vocal runs, she delivers it all with grace. It’s not often a band makes this huge of an advancement between albums, but that is what Blackbriar have accomplished. A Dark Euphony is the full realization of Blackbriar’s sound; consistently hitting a level earlier albums could only hint at.
Dark Tranquillity Damage Done
Lene Marlin Playing My Game
Metallica Ride the Lightning
Opeth Still Life
Testament The Formation of Damnation

4.3 superb
Blotted Science The Animation of Entomology
Dark Tranquillity Construct
I know I’m in the minority, but Projector is my favorite Dark Tranquillity release. I love the keyboards, the morose atmospheres, the clean singing, the melodies… the whole thing is basically Depeche Mode if they made a melodic death metal album. Having said that, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Construct is my second favorite Dark Tranquillity release. Construct is the spiritual successor to Projector in every way. It has all the sullen atmospheres, the Depeche Mode-influenced electronics and clean singing, and the melodic death metal that still manages to sound like nobody else. Probably the only thing keeping this from being my favorite is nostalgia.
Def Leppard Pyromania
Evereve Stormbirds
Evereve Seasons
Exgenesis Aphotic Veil
Some very good doom/death. Atmospheric, dark, and heavy.
Exodus Shovel Headed Kill Machine
Fear Factory Demanufacture
Flotsam and Jetsam Cuatro
Haken Vector
I wasn’t a big fan of Haken before this album. Before Vector Haken were just another traditional progressive metal band that seemed to put showmanship above songwriting, and they also lacked any kind of edge. I’m not saying they were ever bad, just unremarkable. With Vector Haken have fixed just about every issue I had with them. The most noticeable change is the heaviness and modern feel found throughout the album. On Vector, Haken no longer sound like a dated prog band. This is due to the modern prog and djent influences that have been added to their formula. They’ve also got better at writing actual songs and memorable melodies while still showing off their chops. If Haken can continue down this path, I can see great things for them in the decade to come.
My Dying Bride The Voice of the Wretched
Soilwork The Living Infinite
Who thought Soilwork could pull off a double album? Even at their peak, I would never thought Soilwork could write enough good (and diverse) material to justify the extended length. Surprisingly, though,The Living Infinite finds Soilwork doing everything right. They managed to merge the sound of their earliest albums with their modern direction without appearing contrived or forced. They also managed to pull off the double album by being smart and not turning it into an exercise in redundancy. The Living Infinite basically bludgeons the listener for eight tracks before smartly diversifying its sound with a more expansive, progressive set of ideas that pulls the album through the final twelve tracks. On The Living Infinite, Soilwork have simultaneously stepped back to their past while maintaining their current sound, but they have also diversified their formula more than ever before – and they did so without a single filler track. Based on what they’ve done since, this may stand as their magnum opus.

4.2 excellent
Anathema Serenades
Anathema We're Here Because We're Here
We’re Here Because We’re Here was the beginning of a trilogy of near-perfect Anathema releases, and was a huge musical leap from the sparse soundscapes of A Natural Disaster (released seven years earlier). The inclusion of Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) in the producer seat prompted Anathema to craft the most atmospheric, uplifting, and progressive album of their career. It’s an album full of lush strings, emotive vocals, warm melodies, and huge crescendos. We’re Here Because We’re Here was a confident step forward for the band – a move that found them breaking free of the artificial limitations that they had begun to impose on themselves. Anathema were no longer hesitant to break from the Floyd-ish atmospheres in favor of something a bit more dissonant, and they were more willing to occasionally step up the energy levels for more than a brief moment. This confident move led to Anathema’s best work up to that point. It turns out the best was still yet to come, though…
Arch/Matheos Sympathetic Resonance
Fates Warning’s 1986 release, Awaken The Guardian, is a classic of the progressive metal genre and that is due in no small part to Jim Matheos and John Arch. So, when news first broke that they were collaborating again and that their backing band consisted entirely of current and ex-Fates Warning members, I was definitely excited. I assumed it would probably sound like a hybird of modern Fates Warning with homages to Guardian and maybe even The Spectre Within. It turned out though, that Sympathetic Resonance didn’t sound like an unofficial Fates Warning release, Awaken the Guardian Part II, or even a hybrid of those two things. Instead, it was a dark, guitar-driven modern collection of powerful progressive metal, featuring an excellent rhythm section, and the triumphant return of John Arch’s unique vocal acrobatics. It was an album that even dabbled in the chaotic sound of modern prog while still retaining the melody and class Jim Matheos’ work is known for.
Argyle Park Misguided
Argyle Park Misguided (Remastered)
Probably the most diverse and entertaining release from the guy responsible for Circle of Dust and Celldweller. There are a lot of guest musicians on the album and all kind of different influences crammed into this industrial metal release. Definitely ahead of its time.
Atheist Unquestionable Presence
BATS The Sleep of Reason
I used to wonder what Voivod’s Angel Rat album would have sounded like if they had still went in an alternative rock direction, but had also kept the quirky progressive tendencies of Nothingface. Having heard The Sleep of Reason, I think I have a general idea of what ‘might have been’ had Voivod not played it safe. The Sleep of Reason is built on a foundation of alternative rock and/or Post Hardcore, but that foundation has been demolished by angular rhythms, atonal guitar riffs, and off-kilter vocals (with the strange lyrics to go right along with it all). This is an album that might take a few listens to really click, but it’s definitely worth the effort. Their next album should be checked out, too. Really, all of them should.
C.B Murdoc Here Be Dragons
I’m not a huge fan of most modern technical death metal. A lot of it is basically uncontrolled chaos and noise that is (admittedly) excellent in the moment, but doesn’t leave a lasting impression. Here Be Dragons is different. First, the death metal that they seem to draw from is more Slaughter of the Soul era At the Gates than Morbid Angel or whatever bands a lot of these other tech death artists find influence from. This At the Gates influence immediately affects the more melodic (yet ferocious) riffing style as well as the grittier, higher, vocal style. Another one of their obvious influences is Atheist; a band very capable of busting out technical, yet wholly memorable, riffs and melodies. This is all combined with the occasional rhythmic acrobatics of bands such as Meshuggah. Basically, this is like At the Gates combined with the technical chaos of Atheist combined with the quirky rhythmic experimentation and heaviness of Meshuggah without all the repetition. Yeah, it’s that good.
Dark Tranquillity Fiction
Front 242 05:22:09:12 Off
Graveworm As the Angels Reach the Beauty
James LaBrie Static Impulse
Katatonia Sky Void of Stars
This is modern Katatonia doing modern Katatonia things, but this album is more entertaining and memorable than anything they've done in a while. While I would like them to step outside of their comfort zone (I'm still waiting for them to make the metal version of the Disintegration album), this is still a great album. "Sky Void of Stars" is a heavier, more energetic, Katatonia that still retains their morose atmospheres and slower, moodier, passages. It's also one of the catchiest albums in their discography. I also like the occasional proggy flourishes.
Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent
Lagwagon Blaze
Lorna Shore Pain Remains
Listening to Pain Remains is like watching a top-tier action blockbuster. Whether or not that appeals to you will depend on your opinion of bombast, excess, and chaos because everything has been dialed up to eleven. The symphonic elements have gone from an interesting augmentation to an enormous and fully realized facet of Lorna Shore's sound. The guitar melodies are much more prominent and memorable, the solos are classy and impassioned, and the drums dominate with fills, blast beats, and a near unrelenting wall of double bass. The breakdowns, too, are enormous and crushing providing momentary respites from the deathcore chugs, melodic black metal riffs, and brief technical flourishes. There are also the huge dynamic shifts that can transition from the most delicate of keyboard melodies all the way to huge crushing riffs, which help to deliver a stunning array of varied emotions. Of course, there's also the vocals of Will Ramos, and they've absolutely been dialed to eleven. From soft whispers to creepy spoken word to guttural death growls and high-pitched black metal screeches, Will Ramos is all over the vocal spectrum. With the release of Pain Remains, Lorna Shore have proven the hype they've received over the last few years is entirely justified, and that is why this is easily my favorite album of the year.
Megadeth Anthology: Set the World Afire
Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve
Ministry Last Tangle In Paris - Live 2012
3 discs of their best stuff. High energy, great sound and a good way for the band to (maybe) set off into the sunset.
Nothingface Violence
Psychotic Waltz Bleeding
Rabbit Junk Pop That Pretty Thirty
Slugdge Esoteric Malacology
I'm not going to lie, I blew this album off for a long time because the whole slug theme sounded stupid. Don't get me wrong, I was definitely seeing the Sput-hype surrounding the album, but I figured it was the kind of ironic hype Sputnik users are known for. When I finally decided to check it out, I was blown away. I had assumed a band that crafted entire albums around slugs would be second-rate, at best, just hoping to get by on their weird theme. Instead, this was one of the best technical death metal albums of the year. On Esoteric Malacology, Slugdge manages to do everything right. They're technical without losing sight of the song, they're chaotic without veering into sheer chaos, they're melodic without sacrificing their dark atmospheres and heaviness, and they're aggressive without forgetting about dynamics. While most technical death metal bands can manage some of those elements, it's very rare when a band nails them all. I'm definitely looking forward to what these guys do next.
Solefald Norron Livskunst
If you recognize the name Lars "Lazare" Nedland, it's most likely due to his contribution to Borknagar where he plays keyboards and shares vocal duties. Borknagar wasn't his first band, though. Lars and his buddy, Cornelius Jakhelln, have been playing in Solefald since 1995. While every album is different, overall they like to mess with the black metal formula by adding rock, folk, prog, samples... basically whatever they feel like throwing into the pot, bouncing back and forth between ultra serious tracks and straight black metal weirdness that would give Arcturus a run for their money. Norron Livskunst is a totally comprehensive album that effortlessly encompasses Solefald's entire history by using their good ideas, ignoring the elements that have never really worked, and delivering a collection of their strongest material to date. It's a career-defining album that should thrill any current fan of the band and frustrate anybody that wants their metal totally serious. This will make anyone that takes their music too seriously a bit uneasy, and for that it's awesome.
The Birthday Massacre Violet
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer
I like The Dillinger Escape Plan’s previous releases (especially the one with Mike Patton on vocals), but I’ve never been able to get through any of their albums in one sitting. The sheer amount of chaotic dissonance has always relegated these guys’ music to a ‘short bursts’ kind of listening experience. At least that was the case before One of Us is the Killer. Don’t get me wrong, they’re definitely still chaotic and they’re definitely still dissonant, but where earlier albums seemed to go in 100 different directions without any real reason beyond ‘because’, this one feels like each song has some semblance of direction. Also, there are just enough melody and quieter sections to catch a quick breather before the next auditory pummeling takes place. For long time fans, everything I described above might be why they feel this album is a weak link in their discography, but for me it was just what I needed.

4.1 excellent
Dark Tranquillity Character
Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon
Kenn Nardi Dancing With the Past
It’s hard to fit into a few short sentences a description that would do justice to the 28 songs that make up the double CD that is Kenn Nardi’s first solo album. Over the album’s 2+ hours of music, you’ll get the technical thrash that Kenn made famous with Anacrusis. You’ll get moody, doomy tracks. You’ll get symphonic stuff… what I’m saying is that it’s a very diverse album that pretty much embodies what ‘progressive’ music should be.
Sven Vath The Harlequin, the Robot and the Ballet Dancer

4.0 excellent
*shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo
+44 When Your Heart Stops Beating
10,000 Maniacs Our Time in Eden
1000 Funerals Portrait Of A Dream
A Kiss Could Be Deadly A Kiss Could Be Deadly
A Wilhelm Scream Mute Print
Acumen Nation Territory = Universe
Acumen Nation Psycho the Rapist
Acylum The Enemy
Agent Fresco Destrier
Agrypnie Grenzgænger
Alanis Morissette Under Rug Swept
Alexa Borden Rule the World
Alexa Borden Flares
All That Remains The Fall of Ideals
Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession
Imagine, if you will, the chaotic post-hardcore riffs of Define the Great Line-era Underoath combined with the expansive peaks and valleys of a latter-day Isis track, add a bit of math metal to the mix, and finally push up the levels of intensity as well as the ambient atmospheres and you’ll have a basic idea of what to expect. The problem is that until you actually receive the frenzied bludgeoning this album delivers, you’re still probably not even close to knowing what is actually on The Long Procession. The riffs are crushing and chaotic, the drummer is a beast on the kit, and the growled/screamed vocals are pummling. Even when they move into a more melodic moment or switch to clean singing, the sheer intensity doesn’t let up at all. In between all of this dissonance is moments of electronic ambience that serves as excellent transitional pieces between each chaotic episode. No matter what you think you’re going to hear on The Long Procession you’re still in for a surprise.
Amogh Symphony The Quantum Hack Code
Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall
Amorphis Tuonela
Amorphis Elegy
Amorphis Silent Waters
Amorphis Forging the Land of Thousand Lakes
Amorphis Under the Red Cloud
Kind of like the perfect mix of Elegy and Silent Waters with even a bit of 1000 Lakes throwback in places. Definitely a huge step-up from Circle.
Amy Shark Cry Forever
I'm not well versed on pop (indie or otherwise), so I can't articulate why I like this more than anything else similar. Maybe it's her indie background that slowly morphed into the catchy electronics-driven pop that she does today. Maybe it's the real emotions that clearly come from a personal place instead of the typical manufactured bullshit. Maybe it's just her singing voice and the random way her Australian accent will come out when you least expect it. I don't know... I only know I like it.
Anacrusis Hindsight Vol 2: Reason Revisited
Anacrusis Our Reunion
Anacrusis An Evening With ANACRUSIS - Live at Delmar Hall
Anathema Judgement
Anathema Hindsight
Anathema Universal
Anberlin Devotion
Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders
Anthrax Anthrology: No Hit Wonders (1985-1991)
Antimatter Planetary Confinement
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album
Arcadea Arcadea
The album definitely has a cool sci-fi vibe that runs through it. I love all the really well done synth and the drummer is all over the place. If there is something that make take some time to appreciate, its the vocals... but they do fit these songs perfectly.
Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
I’m going to be honest. When I first heard All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us, I wasn’t too impressed. It was basically melodic semi-progressive keyboard-driven metalcore. I appreciated the cool use of keyboards, but most of the songs kind of blended together due to similar vocal melodies on every song. What initially kept me coming back at all was the song “Gone With the Wind”. That was the song where all of Architects’ musical pieces came together perfectly, and I kept coming back to it. It never compelled me to bother with the rest of the songs, though. That incentive came with the death of their guitar player and primary songwriter, Tom Searle. People were talking about the songs on this album being tied to his battle with cancer, and it got me curious. After a few listens, the subtle differences really started presenting themselves and eventually I was sold on the entire album. That’s not to say that there isn’t a lot of similarities between the songs, but additional listens should reveal each song’s unique features.
Architects Holy Hell
Arcturus Aspera Hiems Symfonia
Arkan Sofia
Arkan started out as a death metal band that liked to integrate oriental/middle eastern influences into their songs, as well as female vocals. This album pretty much drops the death metal vocals and goes for a more somber and subdued approach that is dominated by their female vocalist. Apparently, one of the members lost someone close to them and this album is the end result. While listening to this, it’s not hard to hear the album as kind of a cathartic release of melancholic emotions.
At The Soundawn Shifting
Atheist Piece of Time
Atheist Unquestionable Presence: Live At Wacken
Atlantean Kodex The White Goddess (A Grammar Of Poetic Myth)
Aurora (NOR) A Different Kind of Human - Step 2
Aurora broke onto the scene with her 2016 debut album, All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend. After a few listens, it seemed to me she was trying to be the Norwegian Bjork, but with less vocal acrobatics. She was definitely shooting for that quirky sound that danced the line between electronic, pop, indie, and world music... but that initial release lacked cohesion and direction. Her second release fixed those two things to some extent, but was still missing the strong songwriting that pop should have. A Different Kind of Human - Step 2 finally finds Aurora getting everything right. Her music is still quirky and left-of-center, but she has finally stopped burying the pop hooks, and it definitely feels like one cohesive album and not a collection of random ideas. She has also gone for a more electronics-dominated release, which I definitely appreciate.
Autechre LP5
Autumn's Grey Solace Winterrim
Avril Lavigne Under My Skin
Babble Ether
BABYMETAL LIVE AT BUDOKAN ~RED NIGHT~
BABYMETAL LIVE AT BUDOKAN ~BLACK NIGHT~
Bad Religion No Control
Bad Religion Recipe for Hate
Bad Religion Generator
Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill
Behemoth Evangelica Heretica
Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest
Before Evangelion I wasn’t really a big fan of Behemoth. They always had some cool music, but there was nothing to keep me coming back. Evangelion finally changed that as it started to diversify the band’s sound, and The Satanist was even better as it added even more dynamics and memorable moments. It’s I Loved You at Your Darkest that finally grabbed my total attention, though. This is the album that not only added acoustic guitars, varied tempos, clean singing, as well as a ton of melody, but it also used those elements well. Unlike previous releases, each song is easily identifiable and each has its own hook that makes it easy to make it through the entire release. I really hope they keep this up on the next release, too.
Bel Auburn Lullabies In A & C
Believer Transhuman
Believer 2 of 5
Beyond Creation The Aura
Beyond Dawn Pity Love
Bjork Homogenic
Bjork Vespertine
Bjork Utopia
Bjork is an eccentric little Icelander and it comes across in her music. It?s not like I?m not open to her style, I?ve enjoyed her vocals since The Sugarcubes, but as her musical cheese has fallen farther from the cracker I haven?t always been able to keep up. That?s why Utopia is such a surprise. Musically this reminds me of Orbus Terrarum-style found sounds, deep quirky beats, and lush waves of synth. Over the top Bjork just kind of sings. There aren?t any real choruses or hooks or any other commercial aspects, but Utopia has quickly turned into my favorite Bjork release.
Black Era The Tunnel EP
blink-182 Blink-182
blink-182 Enema Of The State
blink-182 The Mark, Tom and Travis Show
blink-182 Greatest Hits
Bliss Afterlife
Blood Command Funeral Beach
Blood Command Return of the Arsonist
Boards of Canada Geogaddi
Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave or Die in Long Island
Brand New Deja Entendu
Buck-O-Nine Songs in the Key of Bree
Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain
Cannibal Corpse have been working towards A Skeletal Domain ever since they added George Fisher on vocals back in 1995. His addition allowed them to move towards a more rhythmic and dynamic direction Chris Barnes’ deep grunts just wouldn’t have fit. Including Pat O’Brien (ex-Nevermore) on lead guitar in 1997 only solidified that direction and allowed them to also start including random bouts of technicality. A Skeletal Domain is definitely a death metal album, but it also pushes some boundaries. Cannibal Corpse have pushed the technicality of their songs without forgetting the brutality or speed fans have come to expect. They have also added a thrash element that periodically rears its head before being murdered by another blast beat and atonal guitar solo. Together all of these elements have created a Cannibal Corpse album that is darker and more chaotic than normal, but that is somehow probably their most accessible.
Carcass Surgical Steel
With the release of Heartwork, Carcass were one of the originators of Melodic Death Metal. Unfortunately, they followed up that landmark release with the underwhelming (but still decent) Swansong, before breaking up. Who would have thought that nearly twenty years later Carcass would come back on the scene and release the album that should have always come after Heartwork? Surgical Steel brings back the two things most modern melodic metal bands seem to be missing: ferocious riffs and aggression. They accomplished this by bringing in the best of their last three albums. There's the aggression and blast beats of Necroticism, the groove and accessibility of Swansong, and the huge riffs, melodic leads, and soaring guitar solos of Heartwork. So, while Surgical Steel might not have the unique sound that Heartwork did back in the day, it's still a better melodic death metal album than 90% of the neutered stuff that has been released since then.
Celine Dion Falling into You
Celldweller End of an Empire
Chapterhouse Blood Music
Children of Bodom Something Wild
Chroma Key You Go Now
CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe
CHVRCHES Every Open Eye
Circle of Dust Circle of Dust (Remastered)
Finally they've remastered their debut album. It sounds much better and blends with the rest of my music when on shuffle. One of the best blends of industrial and metal out there.
Collide Chasing the Ghost
Collide Vortex
Colour Kane A Taste Of
Conjure One Conjure One
Corrosion of Conformity Blind
Cradle of Filth Midian
Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace
Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast
Cradle of Filth Hammer of the Witches
I slowly wrote off Cradle of Filth after their last great release, Midian. It felt like each subsequent album just fell further and further away from the sound and quality that had made them so awesome in the beginning. By the time Hammer of the Witches was released my expectations were at rock bottom. In fact, the only reason I even bothered is because I read there were some new members this time around. With Hammer of the Witches, Cradle of Filth came back with an album that thrilled the fans that had been craving the dark, gothy, black metal that embodied the band's first four releases. Hammer of the Witches was more than just a nostalgia release, though. The new members injected a renewed life into a band that had started to sound like it was going through the motions. Finally, Cradle of Filth were back with an album that was creative, heavy, aggressive, melodic, catchy... and they did it without just going back and ripping off their classic albums.
Cradle of Filth Dusk and Her Embrace - The Original Sin
Cradle of Filth Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay
Nobody expected Cradle of Filth to recover from their 15-year slump with such skill when they released Hammer of the Witches, but they did. Despite that, there were still a lot of questions about the band’s ability to adeptly follow it up. It turns out any concerns were unwarranted. Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay is easily Cradle of Filth’s most visceral, nuanced, and consistent album in their 23-year career. The riffs are some of their best, the melodies are well-developed, and Dani Filth’s vocals sound better than they ever have. Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay does everything its predecessor did right, but better, and with more style, flair, and conviction. If there’s one thing you need to know going in, it’s that Cryptoriana isn’t as ‘instant’ as its predecessor. It will require a few more listens to click, but once it does it quickly turns into the better, more rewarding, listen.
Cradle of Filth Trouble And Their Double Lives
Cranes Live in Italy
Crown the Empire The Resistance: Rise of the Runaways
One of the more ambitious post hardcore/metalcore bands that I've ever heard, and for the most part they've actually pulled it off.
Cult of Luna The Beyond
Cult of Luna Cult of Luna
Cyanotic Transhuman 2.0
Cyanotic The Medication Generation
I'm not going to dispute that people should check out Whourkr, because they really should. I am going to say that comparing them to Cyanotic isn't really relevant. Cyanotic is more of a conventional industrial metal band - they're more easily accessible than Whourkr. Whourkr is more like Dillenger Escape Plan meets Atari Teenage Riot and if that's solely the kind of industrial metal that you like than this would probably come off as boring -- but for most industrial metal fans this will be just fine.
Cynic Traced in Air
Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy
Cynic Traced In Air Remixed
Czar (USA-IL) Vertical Mass Grave
Daniel Cavanagh Monochrome
Monochrome makes it pretty obvious who the main songwriter is on Anathema?s last few albums, because it?s basically the modern day Anathema sound. Granted, it?s not as proggy, there isn?t really any electronics, and it?s definitely less energetic, but otherwise it?s very similar. This isn?t necessarily a bad thing, considering how bogged down The Optimist was in electronics. To me, Monochrome is basically the album the band should have released and The Optimist sounds more like the experimental side project. Also, instead of the sister providing female vocals, on Monochrome they?re handled by Anneke Van Giersbiergen? which is never a bad thing. Having said all that? what does it actually sound like? Monochrome is driven by mellow piano melodies, acoustic guitars, occasional subtle synth/electronic elements, and the soothing vocals of Daniel Cavanagh with occasional input from Anneke.
Dark Tranquillity Moment
Although it seems like the addition of Christopher Amott and Johan Reinhodz could have been the perfect time for the second coming of The Gallery, unsurprisingly, it was not to be. Instead Moment is more like the second coming of Projector pushed through the modern sound of Construct and Atoma. There is definitely a feeling of continuity between Moment and the previous two releases, but the riffier nature of the songs coupled with the darker, more morose, atmospheres and melodies help it to stand on its own and not just feel like more of the same. If you've been a fan of Dark Tranquillity's sound for more than an album or two throughout the last twenty years, there's going to be plenty here to keep you going. Moment feels like Dark Tranquillity finally focusing on the melancholic sound they've dabbled in, hinted at, but never felt comfortable diving entirely into -- at least not since Projector.
Daughter Darling Sweet Shadows
Days of the New Days of the New II
Dead When I Found Her Harm's Way
What would have happened if Skinny Puppy had decided to explore the direction found on "Worlock" with its strong chorus and dark, gothy undertones... this album is the answer.
Dead When I Found Her All The Way Down
If you were to take Skinny Puppy's song 'Warlock' from their Rabies album and enhanced the darkness, atmosphere, and melody, you would have this album. The only reason it isn't closer to a 4.5 is because the last three tracks all drag a little bit. Still the best industrial I've heard this year.
Dear Euphoria This Night Will Flee
Death Human
Deathspell Omega Paracletus
Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis
Decapitated Carnival Is Forever
Def Leppard Hysteria
Def Leppard Vault: Greatest Hits 1980 - 1995
Def Leppard Live: In the Round, in Your Face
Deftones Around the Fur
Deftones Koi No Yokan
Do I really have to say anything about these guys? By now you’ve already made up your mind about this band and you’re either going to listen to it, already have or fucking won’t. Let me toss this out there anyway: Their best since White Pony.
Delerium Poem
Delerium The Best of Delerium
Delerium Epiphany
Review here: http://www.sputnikmusic.com/blog/?p=4594
Delerium Rarities & B-Sides
These types of compilations are almost always crap. This one, on the other hand, is really good full of great B-sides and well-done remixes. If you like Delerium's electronica meets pop meets new age sound, you'll be into this too.
Depeche Mode Ultra
Depeche Mode The Best Of - Volume I
Depeche Mode 101
Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech
Devin Townsend The Retinal Circus
Devin Townsend Project Transcendence
Devin Townsend has never been very consistent. For every City, Terria, or Ocean Machine album there’s been any of the post-City SYL albums, Physicist, and also a majority of the Devin Townsend Project releases. That’s just the trade off we make in order to benefit from the times his manic personality has created a gem, but it had started to be a long time since we had received gold. I’m not sure what changed (other than he let his band be included in the writing), but Transcendence is excellent. It takes the best parts of his Ocean Machine and Terria albums, and mixes it with the catchier parts of his DTP stuff, and the end result is his best album in a long time. Easily his best to be listed under Devin Townsend Project, if nothing else. It’s about time.
Diary of Dreams One of 18 Angels
Dido No Angel
Die Krupps V - Metal Machine Music
Die Krupps were one of the forerunners of the electro/industrial sound way back in the late 70s/early 80s, but after a decade of perfecting that sound, they moved into Industrial Metal — even picking up Lee Altus of Exodus on guitar. With ten years of electro/industrial experience and a legitimate metal guitar player, Die Krupps immediately jumped to the head of the pack. Despite their excellent pedigree, they never managed to make an absolute mind-blower of an album — mostly due to productions that could never capture the power of their live performances. V-Metal Machine Music is the first album in the band’s 30+ year history that finally manages to capture the heaviness of a Die Krupps live performance in a studio release. Finally, the riffs are huge and powerful, the beats are pounding, the synths are crisp, and the vocals are aggressive. It also doesn’t hurt that Metal Machine Music features some of the band’s best songs, delivering one excellent track after another.
Die Krupps Live Im Schatten Der Ringe
Die Krupps have always sounded better live than they do in the studio and this album just goes to prove that it is still true. 30+ years and still one of the top industrial metal bands.
Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia (Remixed...)
Dimmu Borgir Northern Forces Over Wacken
DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....
Dolores O'Riordan Are You Listening?
Dolores O'Riordan No Baggage
Draconian Turning Season Within
Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Dream Theater Score
Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Dream Theater Metropolis 2000: Scenes From New York
Dream Theater Distance Over Time
Dream Theater without Mike Portnoy has been a directionless mess. It really felt like all the personality left with Mike and what we were left with was a group of music nerds that could craft a nice term paper on the nuances of musical masturbation, but that couldn’t write an interesting song if their virginity depended on it. It didn’t help that new drummer Mike Mangini’s was as boring and uninteresting as I’ve ever seen from a prog band; almost like the Shawn Drover of the progressive metal world. That’s why Distance Over Time is such a surprise, because they’ve somehow managed to release one their best and most consistent albums since Scenes From a Memory. Easily shitting all over any other post-Mike Portnoy release, Distance Over Time not only manages to make Dream Theater interesting, it also manages to make the songs themselves the main focus with musicianship being a secondary driver (while still abundantly present). This results in an entire album full of actual songs that just so happens to feature some phenomenal musicianship. The only thing it couldn’t do is make Mike Mangini’s playing interesting.
Drown Hold on to the Hollow
Drown The Hollow Years
Eisley I'm Only Dreaming...Of Days Long Past
Electric Callboy MMXX
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP
Emperor IX Equilibrium
Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire...
Emperor Emperial Live Ceremony
Enslaved Isa
Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini
Enya Watermark
Epica Retrospect - 10th Anniversary
Everclear Songs From An American Movie, Vol. 2
Evils Toy Human Refuse
Evoken Antithesis of Light
Exxasens Beyond the Universe
Fair to Midland Inter.Funda.Stifle
Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors
Fair to Midland’s previous album, Fables From A Mayfly, was one of my favorites. Their blend of quirky, almost folky, alternative rock mixed with Darroh Sudderth’s unique vocals melodies was an instant hook for me. Arrows & Anchors lost a lot of that quirky feel, and it took me a long time to really appreciate it. Instead of folky alt. prog, the band moved in a more aggressive direction with heavier guitar riffs, more aggressive vocal parts, and less emphasis on the vocals and melodies. For fans of the previous release, that was a big shock. Over the course of the last eight years, though, Arrows & Anchors, has continued to grow on me and has slowly become a favorite… not up there with Fables From A Mayfly, but damn near.
Faith No More The Real Thing
Far Tin Cans with Strings to You
Far At Night We Live
Fates Warning Live in Athens
Fear Factory Mechanize
A lot of Fear Factory fans dislike the two albums without Dino, but I’ve always appreciated them — Archetype for its generic ‘best of’ Fear Factory sound, and Transgression for daring to try something different and mostly succeeding (even if it wasn’t really a Fear Factory album). On the other hand, the first album where Dino returned to the band, Mechanize, reminded me (and anyone else that liked the previous two releases) why there is no Fear Factory without Dino. Mechanize was a collection of everything that made Fear Factory great in the beginning without any of the extraneous influences that came later. Mechanize was heavy rhythmic riffs locked in with double bass, violent shouts and powerful clean singing, industrialized effects, and strong songwriting. It was the sound of a band reinvigorated – a band ready to prove to fans that they were back and ready to push the Fear Factory name to levels it hadn’t occupied in years. The following two releases never lived up to the potential found on Mechanize, but they were still solid Fear Factory releases.
Finch What It Is to Burn
Finsterforst Rastlos
Imagine if Borknagar dropped the pretentious progressive parts and replaced them with some of the black metal aggression that they’ve been missing. Excellent stuff… one of the only ‘folk’ influenced black metal bands that I can actually stand because they don’t come with an extra side of cheese.
Fiona Apple When the Pawn...
Flaw Through the Eyes
Flesh Field Strain
Florence and the Machine Ceremonials
Flotsam and Jetsam The Cold
Flyleaf Flyleaf
For All Eternity The Will to Rebuild
French Teen Idol Enlightened False Consciousness
French Teen Idol El Siete es la Luz
Front 242 Tyranny (For You)
Front 242 Moments 1 (Limited 2CD Edition)
Front Line Assembly Tactical Neural Implant
Front Line Assembly Millennium
Front Line Assembly Live Wired
Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon
Gabrielle Aplin Never Fade
Gabrielle Aplin Acoustic EP
Garbage Version 2.0
God Is an Astronaut The End of the Beginning
Godflesh In All Languages
Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage
Gojira Les Enfants Sauvages
Goldie Timeless
Goo Goo Dolls Greatest Hits Volume One: The Singles
Goo Goo Dolls Greatest Hits Volume Two: B-sides And Rarities
A lot of cool shit on this compilation. It also has "I'm Awake Now". Pretty much the best Goo Goo Dolls song ever. I don't remember what soundtrack it originally came from, but now I don't have to remember.
Gorguts Colored Sands
Greywind Afterthoughts
Greywind are an alternative rock band out of Ireland, and their debut album definitely took me by surprise when I first heard it back in 2017. Afterthoughts is just so much more confident and well executed than what you might expect from a new band. Musically and vocally, Afterthoughts reminds me of a heavier version of Flyleaf’s debut but without any of the screaming, and with better songwriting and stronger melodies. The difference is that Steph’s range is much wider than anything I’ve heard from Lacey, but the overall vocal tone and delivery is definitely similar. Having said that, this album is a little saturated with power ballads which can definitely be an issue during initial listens. Having listened to this regularly for nearly three years, I can say the abundance of mid-tempo songs eventually becomes a non-issue as they’re all so well done and memorable. Greywind is definitely one of the bands I most looking forward to releasing another album.
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II
Helloween Rabbit Don't Come Easy
Helloween Gambling with the Devil
Helloween The Best, The Rest, The Rare
Helstar Glory of Chaos
Hooverphonic The President Of The LSD Golf Club
Hooverphonic Singles 96-06
Hope Drone Void Lustre
There are definitely bands that do more with an extended runtime; more ideas, more dynamics, more styles… but that's not Hope Drone's thing. Hope Drone basically work within a limited formula consisting of raw black metal, funeral doom (or drone… I'm not familiar with drone, so I hear doom), and crushingly oppressive atmospheres. The thing is, they use this formula to great effect. Every track is an epic journey through morose atmospheres, throat-shredding rasps (reminds me of old school At the Gates), blistering black metal leads/melodies, and two basic tempos: really fast and really slow. Also, despite the extended song lengths, each track seems to end so quick, never outstaying its welcome.
Hungry Lucy Apparitions
Hybrid (UK) I Choose Noise
Hybrid (UK) Remix and Additional Production By...
Hypno5e Shores of the Abstract Line
Like its predecessors, Shores of the Abstract Line is a sprawling behemoth of an album that requires attention and multiple listens to truly appreciate. Unlike its predecessors, though, the work is entirely enjoyable and never feels tedious. Hypno5e have finally managed to craft their unique blend of prog, post metal, and djent in a way that flows, and is memorable. The mellow sections that often derailed songs on the previous releases have taken a more focused direction thanks to less spoken word parts combined with stronger melodies from both the instruments and the vocals. The heavier sections, too, have improved immensely thanks to a wider variety of influences and tempos. Shores of the Abstract Line finally delivers on the potential that previous Hypno5e albums only hinted at. The mellow sections are poignant and compelling while the heavier sections pummel the listener with more nuances than ever before.
I Am Spoonbender Sender/Receiver
Ihsahn After
Ikuinen Kaamos Closure
Imminent Sonic Destruction Recurring Themes
Mixing modern metal with the kind of prog that bands like Porcupine Tree have made famous. It can go from mellow melodic parts to rhythmic power chords on a dime and the vocalist is good enough to fit each section just fine. The only thing is that he is a bit nasally and it might be a turn off for some people, but I was just fine with him.
In Every Breath Distrust
In Flames Colony
In The Nursery An Ambush of Ghosts
In The Nursery Blind Sound
Insomnium One for Sorrow
Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun
These guys don’t ever really do anything different. They’ve found a formula based on cyclical guitar melodies, doomy riffing and death vocals combined with terrible clean vocals and it works. So, what makes one album any better than another? I don’t really have an answer, but this one is better than a lot of their previous releases. It’s like the best of their new stuff combined with a bit more of the moodiness that filled their first few releases. Nothing about this is going to blow you away, but it is very well done and the clean vocals aren’t used enough to ruin anything.
Insomnium Winter's Gate
It seems there are two camps when it comes to Insomnium. There are the fans that think their best times started with the debut and stopped with Above the Weeping World. They appreciate the dark, emotive, side of the band. The other group is more into the albums that started with Across the Dark. They appreciate the more aggressive approach Insomnium started using on that release. Of course, the people that are mostly into this album fall into the latter fanbase, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t something here for both sides. It’s not a stretch to say Winter’s Gate is the pinnacle of Insomnium’s sound. I’m not trying to convince anyone it’s their best album, only that it’s the best blend of all their elements. It’s the best of their melodic death metal sound mixed with progressive tendencies, acoustic guitars, melancholic atmospheres, and even a few black metal-ish moments. The clean singing, too, finally works for the band in a way it never has in the past. Not a single wasted moment in the entire 40 minutes.
Iron Maiden Rock in Rio
Iron Maiden Brave New World
Iron Maiden Somewhere Back in Time
ISIS Wavering Radiant
James LaBrie Elements Of Persuasion
Jenna Lynne Crash
Jim Matheos First Impressions
Jim Matheos Away with Words
Jimmie's Chicken Shack Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope
Joe Satriani Satriani Live!
Joe Satriani The Essential Joe Satriani
Julia and the Doogans Come Home EP
Juno Reactor Beyond the Infinite
Kamelot The Expedition
Katatonia The Great Cold Distance
Katatonia Night Is the New Day
Kate McGill Replaced
Kelly Clarkson Breakaway
Kevorkian Death Cycle Collection For Injection
Kevorkian Death Cycle I Am God
Kill Hannah Until Theres Nothing Left Of Us
Killing Joke MMXII
One of my favorite Killing Joke releases. It seems like they finally mixed just about everything that has ever made them good. It has the post punk of the earliest releases, the catchy sections of the Night Time era, the industrial metal of Millennium along with an increased use of electronics that were generally only used on the remixes. Nice work guys.
Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing
Kingcrow The Persistence
This was my first Kingcrow release, and it was definitely a surprise. I like how it blends the moodiness of bands like (modern) Katatonia with the subdued prog of bands like Porcupine Tree, but with a bit of Anathema thrown in as well.
Kirsty Hawkshaw O.U.T. (On Ultimate Things)
KMFDM Angst
KMFDM Wurst
KMFDM We Are KMFDM
Korn Issues
Korn Untouchables
Lacuna Coil Live From The Apocalypse
Lagwagon Duh
Lagwagon Let's Talk About Feelings
Lagwagon Live In A Dive
Lagwagon Putting Music In Its Place (Box Set)
Lagwagon Let's Talk About Feelings (Remastered)
Lamb Lamb
Latitudes Agonist
Leprous Malina
Leprous is a Norwegian progressive metal band formed in 2001 in Notodden, Norway. They originally made their mark as Ihsahn?s (Emperor vocalist/guitarist) backing band in live situations. Don?t let that mislead you, though, because Leprous don?t play progressive black metal. Their first four albums could broadly be categorized as the kind of quirky progressive metal that only seems to come from Norway, but even that doesn?t describe Malina. On Malina, Leprous has dropped any pretense of simply being a progressive metal band and opened their sound to elements only hinted at before ? mainly electronic music. It shouldn?t surprise fans of the band that this has finally happened considering the band count Radiohead, Massive Attack, and The Prodigy among more standard influences such as Porcupine Tree and The Dillinger Escape Plan.
Leprous Pitfalls
Pitfalls might have been an easier album for me to accept than it was for long-time fans. I wasn’t really that big of a fan of the band before Malina. I enjoyed the electronic elements the band introduced on Malina, and I appreciated the fact that Einar was starting to really let loose with his vocals. So, I really enjoyed the electronic and dance elements on Pitfalls, and I loved that Einar didn’t seem to be holding anything back on his vocals. I also didn’t have any issues with the ‘Einar Solo Album’ complaint that made its way around when Pitfalls was first released. It didn’t bother me that Pitfalls was not a progressive metal album by any conventional definition of the genre, because it was still absolutely progressive. There was really no other way to describe the way Leprous took their particular brand of melancholic prog, injected it with pop, dance and electronic music, and still came out the other side with something new and refreshing. Pitfalls was a vocal-driven, synth-laden, exercise in everything prog can be when a band isn’t scared to break from convention, and I was definitely hooked.
Lethian Dreams Bleak Silver Streams
Lethian Dreams Season of Raven Words
Lethian Dreams Red Silence Lodge
Life Cried Banished Psalms
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Longing For Dawn One Lonely Path
Longing For Dawn A Treacherous Ascension
Longing For Dawn Between Elation And Despair
Love Spirals Downwards Ardor
Lunascape Innerside
Lunic Future Sex Drama
This is like semi-atmospheric electro-pop. Kind of like t.A.T.u meets Delerium or something similar. It’s catchy as hell and has little flourishes that set it apart from your average electro-pop.
Lunik Weather
Machines of Loving Grace Concentration
Majestica A Christmas Carol
Malsain The Disease
Mar De Grises Draining The Waterheart
Mar De Grises Streams Inwards
Maria Mena Growing pains
Marissa Nadler Marissa Nadler
Marissa Nadler The Sister
Probably my favorite album of hers. Very chill and kind of dark indie folk featuring the haunting vocals of Marissa Nadler. Some people will tell you that it’s basically more of the same, but it seems that her songs have become less reliant on stripped down acoustic songs and more adept at being atmospheric and moody.
Marty Friedman Bad D.N.A.
Massive Attack Collected
Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony
Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone
Meat Beat Manifesto Subliminal Sandwich
Meat Beat Manifesto Autoimmune
Mechina Blessings Upon The Field Where Blades Will Flood
Medeia Abandon All
Medeia occupy a weird niche where that makes them hard to categorize. They definitely have a strong technical death metal influence running through their music, but they’re not nearly as chaotic or ‘technical’ as most of those bands. They also create subtle atmospheres through their infrequent use of keyboards and female vocals, but not to the point where you could really call them ‘atmospheric metal’. What I do know is I love the little niche they seem to occupy all alone. It’s heavy enough to fill that requirement, dynamic and prog enough to keep me coming back, and it builds just enough of a dark atmosphere to even fill my doom requirement (despite never delving into those lethargic tempos). So, they’re not breaking down any real barriers, but they definitely fill a niche that no one else seems to… and if I’m wrong, and there’s more bands like this, point me in that direction.
Medeia Xenosis
Why is this band so unknown? Maybe it’s because Medeia sit in a grey kind of middle ground between technical death metal, atmospheric metal, and even a little bit of metalcore without fully committing to one style that makes them not really appeal to a larger crowd. Yes, there are definitely technical death metal aspects to the album, and it really is the dominating feature, but they never really take the technicality or chaos to the level of some of their peers. There’s also a strong undercurrent of atmospheric metal in the subtle use of keyboards, some of the slower tempos, and the overall feel of just about every song, but again, they don’t fully commit to that being their thing. The Metalcore, that’s more of a minor influence in some of the riffs and leads as well as the occasional shouted vocal delivery, and I’m glad they haven’t decided to commit to that style because while working in small doses, it’s not what makes the band or this album so great. Personally, though, I love the fact that Xenosis (and the band’s discography, in general) doesn’t commit to one style or even let one aspect overwhelm any of the others. Doing that leaves an album that takes the best of both worlds, doing both styles really well. If you watch the video linked above, you’ll also see they don’t take themselves too seriously despite the serious and aggressive nature of the music.
Megadeth Greatest Hits: Back to the Start
Megadeth Warchest
Mekong Delta Lurking Fear
Mekong Delta The Music of Erich Zann
Mekong Delta Dances of Death (and other Walking Shadows)
Mekong Delta Kaleidoscope
Mekong Delta In a Mirror Darkly
This is the kind of progressive metal that is only going to appeal to those that can handle the higher-pitched vocals and precision of bands such as Watchtower and Spiral Architect. Another good description would be early Fates Warning meets early Psychotic Waltz. If you don’t know who any of these bands are, then this will probably drive you crazy. For the rest of us, this is an excellent slab of technical progressive metal that should satisfy anyone that’s still pissed about Watchtower releasing one song and then disappearing again.
Mephisto Walz The Eternal Deep
Meshuggah I
Meshuggah Nothing (Re-Release)
Meshuggah obZen
Meshuggah Koloss
Yes, it’s another Meshuggah album? but since it sounds more like “Obzen” than “Nothing” it means that it still rocks. If you love Meshuggah’s current direction you should love this, if you don’t then it won’t change your mind. It did sell 18,340 copies in its first week to chart at number 16 on the Billboard charts. Who could have predicted that?
Meshuggah The Ophidian Trek
Messiah (UK) 21st Century Jesus
Metallica Live Shit: Binge & Purge
Metallica Metallica
Michelle Branch The Spirit Room
Midas Fall Eleven Return and Revert
Midas Fall As Our Blood Separates
Midas Fall Evaporate
Midas Fall have been one of my favorite bands since their debut back in 2010. The seamless way they blend post rock, electronic, ambient, classical, and indie pop is second-to-none. The vocals of Elizabeth Heaton, though, are what really put the band on another level. The abstract, almost ethereal, way she sings and the emotions her voice carries are what really make this album my number one for the year, so far.
Ministry Psalm 69
Ministry Houses Of The Molé
Ministry Enjoy the Quiet - Live at Wacken 2012
Mister M Crysalide
Moonspell Night Eternal
Moonspell Extinct
This is the gothic metal album that could have come after Irreligious. This is everything that is right about gothic metal without any of the cheese. Great clean vocals, sparse harsh vocals, great melodies and excellent atmosphere.
Moonspell Lisboa Under The Spell
Mors Principium Est The Unborn
Mourning Beloveth The Sullen Sulcus
Mr. Bungle California
Murder Inc. Murder Inc
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
My Dying Bride A Line of Deathless Kings
Nahemah A New Constellation
Napalm Death Utilitarian
They’re labeled as grind, but the band have evolved enough that it’s probably kind of a limiting genre tag. I can tell you that this album is full of fucking awesome riffs that pull from metal, punk and death metal. And the vocals. The animalistic, throaty shouts of whoever the fuck sings in this band are what pushes the riffy goodness to another level. Hell yes.
Natalie Walker Urban Angel
Natalie Walker Spark
Necro Facility Wintermute
Ignore the soundoff by narcosis80. First of all, this isn't metal or even industrial metal. It sounds like his main issue is that he saw the band name and thought he was about to listen to some kvlt black metal, and then soiled his chainmail undies when he didn't get it. Second, industrial didn't die in the nineties (although it was a high point for the genre), and of all the bands he named, only Ministry are actually broken up. So, the main thing he's missing (to answer his question) is perspective and probably deodorant.

Edit: Well since narcosis80 completely changed his soundoff we'll pretend he wasn't bitching about how he hates industrial metal bands like this one... even though these guys, once again, aren't industrial metal. It's in the metal releases because that's how the website was coded, and that's not a very good reason to take it out on the band. When you start to call it like it is, I'll remain unflustered... promise.
NeraNature Foresting Wounds
Nero di Marte Derivae
Imagine the post metal of Cult of Luna meets the poly rhythms of Meshuggah meets the dissonant atmospheres of Ulcerate, and you have Nero Di Marte. At its heart, Derivae is a post metal album but where most post metal bands start out super quiet and sparse and slowly build towards a wall of sound, Nero Di Marte starts where most would end. They begin with the post apocalyptic walls of sound and throat shredding vocals and slowly build towards the dissonance and walls of double bass more common with a band like Ulcerate. If you like Amia Venera Landscape, you should be able to get into this.
Neurosis Through Silver in Blood
Nevermore This Godless Endeavor
Nevermore The Year of the Voyager
New Found Glory Coming Home
Nightwish End Of An Era
I'm not really that big a fan, but they definitely put on a good live show (on this particular DVD, at least). Great sound and cool songs. There is some terrible cheese attached to this DVD, visually speaking. Like all the shots of the band members looking like they're about to cry, and the multiple shots of the same two goth girl tarts covering their faces like they're witnessing the second coming of christ.
Nirvana Nevermind
Nirvana Nevermind (Deluxe Edition)
No Use for a Name ¡Leche con Carne!
No Use for a Name The Daily Grind
No Use for a Name Live in a Dive
NOFX The War on Errorism
NOFX White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean
Novembre The Blue
Now, Now Neighbors
Now, Now Threads
Mellow female fronted indie pop with an electronic vibe. Despite the upbeat tempos, the album still has a dreary, gritty feel that contrasts really well with the female vocals. Think Eisley with a dirty edge (and no harmonized vocals).
ohGr Devils In My Details
Having not heard any details about this album before its release, the direction of this album was a complete surprise to me. It's like a perfect blend of old school Skinny Puppy combined with the electro-pop of Ogre's previous two solo albums. This sounds more like classic Skinny Puppy than the last few Skinny Puppy releases.
Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes
Opeth Watershed
Orbital 30 Something
OSI Fire Make Thunder
Outrun the Sunlight Red Bird
Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane Re:mixed
This is easily their best album, and the subtle improvements only make this progressive metal masterpiece even better.r
Paradise Lost Draconian Times
Paradise Lost Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us
Paradise Lost Icon 30
Pennywise Full Circle
Pennywise Unknown Road
Pennywise Reason to Believe
Periphery Juggernaut: Omega
Melodic and proggy Djent. I never really liked their older stuff, but this one is pretty good.
pg.lost In Never Out
Philter The Beautiful Lies
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd The Division Bell
Pixies Trompe Le Monde
PJ Harvey White Chalk
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet
Porcupine Tree Nil Recurring
Primus Frizzle Fry
Project Pitchfork Alpha Omega
Project Pitchfork IO
Prong Prove You Wrong
Psychotic Waltz Mosquito
Psychotic Waltz The God-Shaped Void
Nostalgia may cause people to forget that Psychotic Waltz had been moving towards a darker, more atmospheric, sound ever since their second release. I say this because it would be a shame for them to come into The God-Shaped Void expecting something it is not. The God-Shaped Void is not a rehash of A Social Grace or even Mosquito ? it's not even a rehash of Bleeding (despite sharing some similarities). What it is, though, is a natural progression of the Psychotic Waltz sound; the same progression they were making before taking an extended break. It's a near-flawless album that puts the feel and ?song' ahead of progressive showmanship while still showcasing each member's immense talent. Also, unlike some other comeback releases we've seen, Psychotic Waltz isn't returning to a genre saturated with sound-alikes; they're returning to a sound some have tried to emulate, but none have managed to reproduce.
Psyclon Nine We the Fallen
Pure Reason Revolution The Dark Third
Pure Reason Revolution Hammer & Anvil
Queensryche Promised Land
Queensryche Empire - 20th Anniversary Edition
Queensryche 10 Live!
Crazy. Why would they release a live album that features the original lineup of the band playing live when they haven't been together in at least a year? I mean, I can't actually find where it says it was the original lineup, but it's definitely Geoff singing and since the music isn't being fucked up, it's obviously the original players... Even crazier...it's pretty damn good. Geoff's voice actually sounds good here. He's not tring to hit all the high notes, but he doesn't sound like he has post-breakup either.

Edit: Not the 'original' lineup. It's the original lineup plus whoever happened to be playing Degarmo's parts that particular day.
Queensryche The Verdict
Let's just get this out of the way. By this point Queensryche is down to two original members. The most iconic member, Chris Degarmo, has been gone for decades. The voice of the band, Geoff Tate, has also been gone for the last six years... and now drummer Scott Rockenfield is missing (not out of the band, supposedly, just missing). Yet Queensryche still perseveres. Of the three post-Tate releases, The Verdict is the first one that sounds like the band have finally found the sound and direction they've been looking for. It's easily Queensryche's most progressive and 'metal' release since Operation: Mindcrime, but it also contains the powerful melodies and vocal hooks the band has always been known for. Whether purists like it or not, Queensryche is bouncing back from the series of mediocre Tateryche albums, and when the albums sound like this, I am totally willing to embrace it.
Quovis Industrial Zero
This is ambient electro similar to Aphex Twin and The Future Sound of London, but it also has its own sound. It’s really like “Life Forms” except the theme is the evolution of the industrial revolution from the 1800s all the way to a time in the near future. It features plenty of well-done electronics, found sounds, spoken word sections to carry the story but also a surprising progressive rock slant in the percussion area. Well worth checking out for anyone into The Future Sound of London.
Rabbit Junk REframe
Rabbit Junk Rabbit Junk
Rabbit Junk Apocalypse For Beginners
I could gush about how much of an improvement Apocalypse for Beginners is over anything that came before it, but you should really hear it for yourself. This is an album where strong hooks and layers of melodic synth share time with aggressive riffs, throbbing percussion, and an abundance of electronics ? and it's pretty damn flawless. It's such an improvement over past offerings that it almost feels like a new era for the band. Apocalypse for Beginners is arguably Rabbit Junk's most complete and compelling album.
Rachael Yamagata Elephants... Teeth Sinking Into Heart
Red (USA) End of Silence
Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication
Redemption The Origins of Ruin
Redemption This Mortal Coil
Redemption The Art of Loss
Someone once said that Redemption does what Dream Theater seems incapable of doing. They can write classy progressive metal tracks that are full of heavy riffs and technically proficient solos while still keeping their focus on the actual songs. Redemption also has a vocalist that is a benefit to the band, and on The Art of Loss all of those things have come together to create another excellent album. The fact that they somehow managed to pull a myriad of awesome guest musicians, including Chris Poland, onto the recording only goes to show how much this band is respected. The Art of Loss is an album that had plenty going against it, but instead of calling it a day, Redemption has endured once again. The Art of Lossmaintains the heavy riffs and driving rhythms of This Mortal Coil, but returns the focus to the classy progressive metal that defined the band’s earlier albums. If The Art of Loss isn’t considered Redemption’s best album, it’s damn near close.
Remembrance Silencing The Moments
Remembrance Frail Visions
Rise Against Revolutions per Minute
Rise Against Endgame
Riverside Second Life Syndrome
Riverside Reality Dream
Rush Vapor Trails
Rush R30: 30th Anniversary Tour
Rush Clockwork Angels
I was late to the Rush bandwagon. Despite tons of bands referring to them as forerunners and inspirations, the first song I ever heard from Rush was some lame-ass song about trees, and I never looked back again… until Clockwork Angels. Going into Clockwork Angels, I fully expected more stupid radio prog, but what I got was a near-flawless progressive rock/metal album. On Clockwork Angels, all the good rumors I had ever heard about this band, and had dismissed, turned out to be true. These three musicians know how to play, and they know how to write excellent songs. The way the bass lines just weave in and out of the classy guitar playing while the percussion presses the songs forward with energetic, creative, rhythms is awesome. Since its release in 2012, I’ve gone back and listened to previous Rush albums, but this one is still my favorite. It has a punchy, clean, production with a full warm sound, and the vocals aren’t as high as previous releases.
Russian Circles Empros
Russian Circles Memorial
Sadistik x Kno Bring Me Back When the World Is Cured
I'm not really a fan of Rap or Hip-Hop. It takes a certain combination of elements (that I have yet to actually identify) for me to enjoy a hip-hop release. My tastes run from Public Enemy to Tech N9ne to the more experimental styles of Dalek and Sadistik. On a favorites list, Sadistik and his various side-projects would definitely be near the top. On this collaboration with Kno, the chill ambience is blended perfectly with hip hop beats, electro synths and sounds, and the rhythmic flow of Sadistik himself. The lyrics are what you?d expect from Sadistik; emotive, introspective, morose, and just a little bit hopeless.
Saltillo Ganglion
Samael Ceremony Of Opposites
Sanctuary Into the Mirror Black
Sarah Fimm White Birds
Sarah Fimm Nexus
Sarah Fimm Red Yellow Sun
Sarah McLachlan Surfacing
Sarah McLachlan Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Sarah McLachlan Laws of Illusion
Satanic Surfers Hero of Our Time
Scheer Infliction
Scorn Evanescence
Senses Fail Renacer
Sepultura Beneath the Remains
ShamRain Empty World Excursion
ShamRain Someplace Else
Shape of Despair Angels of Distress
Shape of Despair Monotony Fields
Moody, atmospheric and heavy funeral doom done right.
Sick of It All Death to Tyrants
Sick of It All Based on a True Story
Sick of It All Nonstop
Sick of It All The Last Act of Defiance
Sick of It All Wake The Sleeping Dragon!
These guys have never released a bad album or even an album that feels tired or bored, but this is still a surprise. It sounds totally refreshed and has more of a fun 'punky' vibe than they've had since their Fat Wreck Chords days. These guys have to be in their 50s, but you'd never know it.
Skid Row 40 Seasons
Skinny Puppy The Singles Collect
Skinny Puppy Last Rights
Skinny Puppy The Process
Skinny Puppy Doomsday: Back and Forth Series 5: Live in Dresden
Skinny Puppy Bootlegged, Broke and In Solvent Seas
Skrew Burning in Water, Drowning In Flame
Skyharbor Guiding Lights
Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror
I think I described it in a comment once as dream pop with a serious attitude. It’s basically programmed beats with noisy-ass guitar parts combined with soft female vocals (with grittier vocals thrown around in the background). It’s cool, just know that.
Slipknot Iowa
Slugdge Dim and Slimeridden Kingdoms
SMP Terminal
Soen Tellurian
Whereas the band’s first release was a homage to Tool (… and why not, they don’t make music anymore), Tellurian is basically taking the proggy Opeth formula and doing a better job of executing it. The vocals are better, the choruses are stronger, the music is much more focused and the overall body of work is heavier. I mean, it’s not really doing Soen any favors to compare them so closely to Opeth, but the similarities are undeniable. The fact that these guys are doing it better has to count for something.
Soilwork The Ride Majestic
Solitude Aeturnus Into the Depths of Sorrow
Solitude Aeturnus Beyond the Crimson Horizon
Spastic Ink Ink Complete
Spiritbox Eternal Blue
They've definitely simplified their music and reduced the amount of 'artsy' bits since the EPs, but they've also become much better songwriters overall. Whether Courtney is screaming or singing through a song (or even a little of both), each track has a hook and each track is unique. I love the blend of technicality and heaviness with the emotive (almost pop) vocal delivery, groove, and electronics. My only issue is I'm unsure as to why they'd add 'Holy Roller' and 'Constance' to the album, but leave 'Blessed Be' and 'Rule of Nines' off. Those two songs would have two of the best on the album, and would have kept up the energy levels a little.
Spiritbox The Fear of Fear
Stabbing Westward Darkest Days
Steve Vai Passion and Warfare
Steve Vai Stillness in Motion: Vai Live in L.A.
Like a 'best of' album, but better because the sound is so much better than on so many of the original albums.
Stortregn Impermanence
High energy blend of melodic death metal, black metal, and even a little prog. What really sets this apart for me is the fun factor. The sheer amount of cool melodies, blazing solos, and rhythmic craziness makes it worth listening to from start to finish.
Strapping Young Lad City
Stray Abuse by Proxy
Stray Letting Go
Strung Out Agents of the Underground
Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom
Swandive Anyone on the Air?
Sybreed Slave Design
Synaesthesia (CA) Ephemeral
t.A.T.u. 200 km/H In The Wrong Lane
t.A.T.u. Dangerous and Moving
t.A.T.u. Lyudi Invalidy
Tad Morose Modus Vivendi
Te (JPN) Therefore the illusion of density...
Crazy, spastic, post rock. Well worth checking out. The album is 'name your own price' on band camp.


http://zankyouk.bandcamp.com/album/therefore-the-illusion-of-density-breach-the-tottering-world-forget-tomorrowr
Tenhi Valkama
Testament The Gathering
Thank You Scientist Maps of Non-Existent Places
Thank You Scientist The Perils of Time Travel
The Beatles Abbey Road
The Birthday Massacre Walking With Strangers
The Birthday Massacre Superstition
I admit that I was upset about the abrupt change that came with the release of Pins and Needles. The album was slick, huge, and the emphasis was placed on making infectiously catchy songs that contained little of the dark atmosphere or electronics that were featured throughout the earlier releases. The album eventually grew on me and it is now my favorite. I say this because Superstition tries to retain the slick, hook-oriented, formula of Pins and Needles while restoring the underlying darkness and cold synth sounds of Violet. I’d say that they basically achieve their goal; although the emphasis is still more on the Pins and Needles side. If there is an issue, it’s that the album probably doesn’t hit any of those elements as well as the releases that originally featured them. On the other hand, it’s easily the best since Pins and Needles, and those that really missed the older style might even call this the best since Walking With Strangers or Violet. No matter what, though, this is definitely an excellent return to form after the disappointing Hide and Seek.
The Chant A Healing Place
The Chicks Taking the Long Way
The Cranberries 20th Century Masters (Millennium Collection)
The Cure Greatest Hits
The Dreaming Rise Again
Of all the early nineties industrial rock bands, Stabbing Westward was probably the best. They made the best use of electronics, had the best songwriting and the most talented vocalist. Despite some success, the band only lasted about seven years before breaking up. Eventually, vocalist Chris Hall resurfaced with The Dreaming. The Dreaming's first two releases were met with a positive reception, but it didn't stop fans from continuing to request a Stabbing Westward reunion. In 2014, fans had their wish partially fulfilled when Walter Flakus (keyboards, Programming) joined The Dreaming and effectively reunited Stabbing Westward's songwriting nucleus. Unsurprisingly, the Chris Hall/Walter Flakus combination resulted in The Dreaming’s best album. The blend of The Dreaming's modern, punky, alt. metal sound with the rhythmic delivery, strong songwriting, and powerful electronics of Stabbing Westward resulted in one of the best industrial rock albums in years.
The Future Sound of London Dead Cities
The Gathering if_then_else
The Gathering How to Measure a Planet?
The Gathering Mandylion
The Gathering A Noise Severe
The Gathering The West Pole
The Gathering Disclosure
Almost as a consolation to fans for losing Anneke, the band’s previous album was a throwback to their Mandylion days and it was pretty good, but it definitely lacked flair and character. So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that with the release of Disclosure they’ve returned to their proggy alt. rock sound and the band sound inspired again and even manage to surprise a little. Definitely near the top of their current-sound releases.
The Hundred in the Hands Red Night
The Jezabels Dark Storm
The Jezabels The Brink
The Jezabels’ debut album was excellent. The band had a knack for creating songs that seemed to build up before peaking at just the right time and moving on. The Brink is a different beast. The band seemed to have moved in an 80s electro-pop direction, but it’s a nice change that I definitely approve of. They’ve still got the kind of songs that Prisoner featured, but now they’re interspersed with more upbeat, poppy tracks that add a whole new dimension.
The Last Word Endlessly Crashing
This is another one of those metalcore/post hardcore hybrids that seems to be popping up all over the place. You know the type — metalcore heaviness and death growls combined with poppy, post hardcore singing and occasional catchy sections. Well, this is another one of those and it’s done really well. They have a keyboard player that kind of adds a symphonic element to the music and the vocals are really good.
The Named The Named
This is just a re-master (plus bonus track) of the album originally released as The Shizit. It sounds better than the original and the new song is cool too. I wish he would do another album like this. Great digital hardcore/punky industrial metal.r
The Ocean Aeolian
The Offspring Smash
The Offspring Americana
The Orb Orbus Terrarum
The Orb U.F.Off (The Best of The Orb)
The Panic Division Versus
The Saddest Landscape You Will Not Survive
The Used Lies for the Liars
The Used Artwork
Theatre Of Tragedy Aégis
Thera If This is the End
This Empty Flow Magenta Skycode
Thought Industry Short Wave on a Cold Day
Thrice The Illusion of Safety
Thrice Vheissu
Throes of Dawn The Great Fleet of Echoes
Thursday A City By the Light Divided
Tiamat Wildhoney
To-Mera Transcendental
Todtgelichter Angst
Trespassers William Different Stars
Tricky Maxinquaye
Trisha Yearwood Songbook: A Collection of Hits
Type O Negative Bloody Kisses
Ulsect Ulsect
I’ve tried to get into Ulcerate, Gorguts, and similar bands that blend chaotic technical death metal with a dark atmospheric undercurrent, but it’s just too much to deal with for more than a song or two. Ulsect is different. While definitely taking some inspiration from Ulcerate and Gorguts, they throttle the chaos just enough that I can make it through the entire album. That means I can finally enjoy the wall-of-sound riffs, atonal melodies, guttural death metal vocals, violent percussion, and dark atmospheres this genre has always offered, but that I’ve never been able to fully engage. The other thing that sets Ulsect apart from their peers is just how oppressive they’re able to make these dark atmospheres without losing any of the aggression that dominates the album. Ulsect’s debut album was definitely an overlooked gem. Hopefully they release a second album and start gaining the attention they deserve.
Ulver Perdition City
Ulver Themes From William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Ulver Shadows of the Sun
Ulver The Norwegian National Opera
Underoath Define the Great Line
Underworld Second Toughest in the Infants
Underworld Everything, Everything
Unter Null The Failure Epiphany
Vanessa Carlton Hear the Bells
Vanessa Carlton Liberman
Various Artists (Industrial) Remix Wars Strike 2: FLA vs Die Krupps
Verite Echo
Vicious Rumors Welcome to the Ball
Vildhjarta Måsstaden
Void Of Silence Human Antithesis
I can't get enough of this album. This has quickly become the best doom album I've ever heard. It's what Funeral could be with better clean vocals and if they still used death/black growls too. The music, though, is so much better than that band or any other doom album I've heard. Its atmosphere seems to border on nihilistic. It's crushingly heavy but also has a lot of slow dark moments more similar to Neurosis than another doom band. Check it out!
Voivod The Best of Voivod
Voivod Killing Technology
Voivod The Wake
The Wake is the album that almost never happened. The band’s guitarist (and main songwriter) of twenty-three years died of Cancer in 2005, which left the remaining members with a pretty tough decision. They could either call it quits or try to get another guitarist/songwriter with the same unique flair and technique that made their original guitarist so special. They went with the second option and released Target Earth. While Target Earth was pretty great, it wasn’t until The Wake that their new guitarist, Daniel Mongrain, came into his own. The Wake is the album that really brought Voivod back to the era of Dimension: Hatross, Nothingface, and even The Outer Limits. The Wake is full of the atonal riffs, breakneck tempo changes, and thrashy tempos that made this band so great in the 80s. Seamless blend of Dimension: Hatross and The Outer Limits with random moments of Nothingface. I hear very little modern Voivod in this, and that's just fine with me.
Voivod Lost Machine
Votum :KTONIK:
Maybe it started earlier, but I started to notice a new breed of dark, atmospheric progressive metal bands around the time Porcupine Tree started making a name for themselves. It wasn’t long after that when bands like Riverside starting getting bigger and bands like Katatonia started moving in that direction too. Votum is another one of those bands, but they actually do it even better. Their darker parts are more moody, their heavier parts are heavier, and their vocalist is much more expressive. On top of that, the songs themselves are just better. They’re catchier and more interesting. Just check out the opening track to hear what I am talking about. This is like a cross between Dead End Kings-era Katatonia blended with Rapid Eye Movement-era Riverside, but heavier and more entertaining than either one of those.
Waldgefluster Ruinen
I first heard Waldgefluster on their split release with Panopticon. The folky melodic black metal song was really good, but the acoustic track was dull. That left me wondering whether this album would be full of great black metal interspersed with tedious, meandering folk. The great answer is that the first part is true, but the second part never happened. Instead, this is probably one of the best post black metal albums I’ve heard. It is dynamic and varied, and the songs actually seem focused (as opposed to the tedious meandering that seems to ruin so many post black albums). There are elements of folk, early Ulver, 90s melodic black metal, and post rock. Well worth checking out.
Warpaint The Fool
Warrior Soul Last Decade Dead Century
Warrior Soul Salutations from the Ghetto Nation
Watchtower Control and Resistance
Watchtower Concepts of Math: Book One
While Heaven Wept Fear of Infinity
White Lion Fight to Survive
Within Temptation The Silent Force Tour
Within Temptation The Unforgiving
Within Temptation The Q-Music Sessions
Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade
This is the black metal album I've been trying to find for years. Every time I heard another black metal album and was slightly disappointed and didn't know why; I know why now. This is epic without using all the keyboards, backing female vocals, or shitty productions that most black metal bands use (all or some of) in order to get their sound. Despite the lengths, the songs never feel too long and they're not bogged down by silence in the name of "atmosphere". This is just just straight-up black metal with just enough melody in the riffs to stay interesting. What else can be said, I liked their previous albums, but this blows them all away.
Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage
Wumpscut Music for a Slaughtering Tribe
Yashira Fail To Be
I haven't felt this bludgeoned by an album since Amia Venera Landscape ten years ago. While Amia Venera Landscape and this band both share a penchant for pummeling their listeners with chaos, dissonance, and tempo changes aplenty, Yashira stands on their own too. For one, they are way more relentless in their attack. There's no clean singing and very little in the way of tangible ambience. Instead, Fail to Be's singular focus is on the dissonance and the attack. Admittedly, that singular focus does make for a slightly homogeneous album, but when it's delivered with such power and conviction, I'm not sure I care.
Yellowcard Beyond Ocean Avenue
Yellowcard Live From Las Vegas at The Palms
Yohanna Butterflies and Elvis
Zella Day Kicker
It’s no secret that I have a weak spot for female-fronted indie pop, as long as it doesn’t get too far into the pop. That puts Arizona native Zella Day right in my crosshairs. Based on my limited experience with the overall genre, to me Kicker comes across like a cross between Meg Myers and Eisley (two of my favorites). Zella Day’s music is poppy without sounding sterile or manufactured, delivering a sound that mostly feels organic despite the programmed nature of it. The melodies, too, are full and lush sounding without ever delving into that ‘cheap’ sound I encounter with more mainstream offerings. Of course, the star of the show is Zella Day. Throughout Kicker Zella Day mostly sticks to a chill vocal delivery that works great with the lush instrumentation… and of course every track is super catchy.
Zero Hour Dark Deceiver
Zyklon Storm Manifesto

3.9 excellent
Arkona (PL) Age Of Capricorn
Converge Bloodmoon: I
Exodus Exhibit B: The Human Condition
Funeral for a Friend Conduit
Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II
Hatebreed The Divinity of Purpose
Heaven Shall Burn Veto
Kenn Nardi Trauma
I was really hoping Kenn Nardi wouldn't stop making music after his first solo release, and I am not disappointed. Unlike the 'everything but the kitchen sink' approach of his first album, Trauma feels way more focused. Even better, that focus is more on the proggy metal/thrash than the more abstract and mellow stuff. If you liked the title track or "Ordinary" from the previous album, you'll like this one. Definitely brought back the Anacrusis vibes on this.
Mar De Grises The Tatterdemalion Express
Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm
Ministry The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
Moonspell Irreligious
Neurosis Times of Grace
Paradise Lost The Plague Within
Paradise Lost have been a lot of things. They were one of the forerunners of the doom/death genre, but they have also dabbled in the same musical playground frequented by Depeche Mode. In between, they’ve also done a few Metallica-goes-doom releases as well as a few Metallica-goes-Depeche Mode albums. Currently, though, Paradise Lost have been moving back towards their doom/death roots, and The Plague Within was one of their first releases to go 100% back to that sound. The thing that makes this release better than their subsequent doom releases is that The Plague Within still retains just enough of the keyboards and clean singing to keep things from starting to feel two-dimensional. Other than those few hold overs, though, The Plague Within is a moody, morose, slab of doom complete with melancholic guitar leads, guttural death growls, gothy keyboard backing, and lethargic tempos. Put it all together, and you have one of Paradise Lost’s best albums. Paradise Lost pick up where 1993's Icon left off, but they include the death metal vocals of their debut, the clean singing of their latter albums and the solid songwriting that they've always been known for. Excellent and dynamic doom.
Sentenced Down
Sublime Sublime
Tech N9ne K.O.D.
Testament Titans of Creation
When Testament's classic line-up (mostly) reformed for The Formation of Damnation, they settled on a formula that blended their classic sound with their more extreme modern metal influences. Since then, they've released two variations of that same formula -- and now they've released a third. If there is one thing that can be said about Titans of Creation, though, it's that it feels less like Testament by the numbers than the previous two releases. This is due in large part to stronger songwriting and better guitar melodies, as well as a slightly more diverse sound that pulls more from their classics. Whether that's enough to make Titans of Creations sound like anything other than more of the same (and whether that will even matter) will be up to the individual listener. One thing is for sure, with Titans of Creation Testament have released another excellent thrasher that proves they're still the most reliable band of the original thrash era.
Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana
I like Wolves in the Throne Room, but I don't know if I would have considered myself a fan before now. Their older stuff always felt a little too long, a little too sparse, and a little too repetitive. This album doesn't have any of those issues. This is epic, atmospheric, black metal done right.

3.8 excellent
Amy Shark Night Thinker
Anacrusis Reason
Anberlin Lowborn
Anberlin were incredibly solid and consistent throughout their entire career. Just because they're disbanding doesn't mean they're suddenly going to do anything different.
Anciients Voice of the Void
There’s no reason to pretend anymore, the classic Opeth that we grew up with is gone. It’s time to find other bands that can do something similar — Anciients is one of those bands. Anciients takes the the best parts of My Arms, Your Hearse and Still Life and mixes it with the gritty modern prog of Crack the Skye-era Mastodon. The end result is the kind of classy progressive death metal Opeth used to deliver with ease, but without the pointless repetition, padded song lengths, and extended sparse acoustic sessions. Instead, they have added the energetic, gritty, modern prog of Mastodon into their musical equation and come out better for it. Despite the extended song lengths, none of the songs feel like they’re long just for the sake of being long (my main complaint with Opeth). The vocals are also very versatile, alternating between powerful death growls and clean singing. If you miss Opeth, try this release.
Angels and Airwaves Lifeforms
I love (present tense) Blink-182 and everything they've done. I even like +44, and Boxcar Racer (to a lesser extent). The band I've never really managed to truly appreciate was Angels and Airwaves. I read what Tom wanted us to believe he was releasing, but his ambitions never reached what was actually laid down on the album... until now. This is the album I believe Tom has been hearing in his head for years. It's spacey and atmospheric, proggy and weird, and catchy as fuck. Whatever the Aliens have been injecting into Tom's booty-hole is finally working.
Anthrax For All Kings
In all honesty, For All Kings is great, but it is definitely front-loaded. It could have used a few more thrashers down the line to really push it to the next level, but it is still the best thing they’ve done since Persistence of Time. During For All Kings’ runtime, there are classic, nostalgia-laced moments mixed with an embrace of modern metal, wrapped in some of the band’s strongest songwriting. It’s an album that can riff its way into your head, but it’s going to stay there because of the excellent choruses. Like a cross between Persistance of Time and Worship Music. Riffy and relentless like PoT, but catchy and song-oriented like Worship Muisc. Definitely the best they’ve done since PoT.
Antimatter Welcome to the Machine / Too Late
Aphyxion Void
Arcane Roots Melancholia Hymns
Arkan Kelem
Astronoid Air
At the Gates To Drink from the Night Itself
The last two Soundoffs from Xeno have been him comparing non-August Burns Red-style bands to August Burns Red. Did they touch him inappropriately once or something?
August Burns Red Death Below
The pre-release singles kind of led me to believe this would be just another average August Burns Red release (which would have still been good, just nothing special). Instead this is probably the strongest, most consistent, release they've had since... I don't even know because every other ABR album has been good, but not very memorable. This is kind of epic-ish, melodic metalcore, but played with a conviction and at a level I haven't heard from these guys in a while. Yeah, it doesn't break new genre ground or anything, but this is played well and is memorable. I'll take it.
Authority Zero Broadcasting to the Nations
The first few songs are straight up punk and they're alright, but when they start blending the ska with the edgy punk the album gets much better. I've never heard their earlier albums so I don't know how this compares, but it's definitely not bad.
Birdy Birdy
Borknagar Winter Thrice
Borknagar have pretty much perfected their progressive black metal sound while they slowly move closer to the prog side of the house. I really like all the vocalists they have on this release.
Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague
Cannibal Corpse Torture
This brings together everything that makes Cannibal Corpse kick ass. Corpsegrinder’s vocals, crazy tempos and a healthy dose of technicality. Of course, there is more than a passing similarity to their last two albums, but they kicked ass too so fuck you for nitpicking.
Cannibal Corpse Torturing and Eviscerating
Circle of Dust Brainchild (Remastered)
Circle of Dust goes full industrial metal on this album. Whereas the debut was a nice blend of electronics and metal, this one is almost entirely metal-influenced industrial. Great riffs, rhythmic beats, and lots of electronics. The remaster definitely bumps up the power of the songs.
CygnosiC A Deity In Pain Reborn
Cynic Ascension Codes
Damnations Day Invisible, The Dead
Dream Theater Train of Thought
Dream Theater Live at Budokan
Dream Theater Chaos in Motion
Eisley The Valley
Electric Callboy TEKKNO
TEKKNO couldn't have come out a better time. There is, of course, the state of the world and the escapism TEKKNO provides, but there's also the significance it holds to the band itself. Each album since Crystals had been increasingly bland and uninspired, while at the same time neutering the heavier elements of their past; TEKKNO fixes all of that. If you've heard even a few of the singles, you know exactly what to expect ? huge breakdowns, brilliant pop choruses, modern and old-school electro, metalcore riffs, and a large dose of escapist fun. I don't know if you could consider TEKKNO a comeback release, but with as low of an opinion as I had about their last few albums, I would consider it one -- a successful one if their streaming numbers and concert attendance is any indication.
Enshine Origin
Front Line Assembly Improvised Electronic Device
Gabrielle Aplin English Rain
Gabrielle Aplin English Rain EP
Gojira From Mars to Sirius
Hanging Garden Blackout Whiteout
What a surprise. Hanging Garden were always an above-average doom metal band that pretty much played it by the numbers (ignoring their post metal sophomore release), but not this time. This takes the sound made famous by latter-day Katatonia and mixes it with some post rock and the melodic doom of Hanging Garden's first and third album. Very good.
Hypno5e Sheol
Outside looking in, Sheol is absolutely Hypno5e’s most experimental and abstract release, but with that comes a steep price of admission. It shouldn’t be a surprise if the first handful of listens all end the same way; with no solid recollection of what Sheol was about, but with a lingering certainty that it was compelling and worth another listen. With repetition, Sheol will slowly morph into the endearing album early listens foreshadowed. If there is anything negative worth highlighting, it’s that sometimes it’s tough to keep up with Hypno5e’s forward momentum when they are perfectly content to drop elements that worked in the past while, at the same time, devoting very little time to progressing the softer side of their sound. Despite these minor complaints, Sheol is clearly another confident step forward for Hypno5e’s sound (even if it comes at the expense of their past) that keeps their long-running formula intact while moving in an ever more abstract direction.
In Vain (NO) Aenigma
Into Eternity Buried in Oblivion
Iron Maiden Powerslave
Isole Silent Ruins
Just Surrender If These Streets Could Talk
Kardashev Liminal Rite
Mixing progressive death metal, black metal, and atmospheric rock with a huge helping of emotion and atmosphere, Liminal Rite, is one of the most compelling (and unique) progressive death metal albums of the year. Over the course of the album's runtime, Kardashev capably mix melody and aggression with bouts of ambience, growls and clean singing in order to create a compelling story that feels full of genuine emotion... and definitely stick around for the second half of the album, because that's when things really start to feel epic.
Kingcrow Eidos
Korn The Serenity of Suffering
If your stance on Korn is one born of cynicism, then there’s probably nothing the band could do to win you over. Jonathan still wears his angsty feelings on his sleeve, and the core Korn sound is still very much present, but it is being done better than it has in nearly fifteen years. It seems the band have taken stock of their 20+ year career and selected the parts that would best work for them today and combined them with some newer ideas and fresh sounds. The result, to me, sounds like a natural evolution from their best release, Untouchables, with stronger songwriting and a significant increase in aggression. The Serenity of Suffering is easily Korn’s most diverse release; featuring melody, aggression, new sounds and old staples in just about equal measures wrapped into some of the band’s strongest songs in years.
Ladytron Best of 00-10
Lagwagon Hang
The guys in Lagwagon have been through a lot. There’s the inevitable line-up changes that plague many long-running bands, but these guys also had to deal with the loss of their original drummer to suicide. That event affected the vocalist Joey Cape and every project that has come since. Things went from upbeat, energetic and sarcastic to dark, retrospective and cynical (by punk standards). That trend started with Resovle, but Hang finishes what that album started. This album is pretty damn riffy by LagWagon standards and it has also lost the last bit of childish sarcasm that filled previous releases.
Lo-Fi Scorpio Noir
Love Spirals Downwards Idylls
Madonna Ray of Light
Maggie Koerner Dig Down Deep EP
Marissa Nadler The Saga of Mayflower May
Metallica Master of Puppets
MiXE1 Starlit Skin
I swear to god that this band sounds exactly like Kill Hannah if they decided to pick up some of the mainstream heaviness that Linkin Park occasionally plays with. As far as I’m concerned, that’s a good thing because I like Kill Hannah and I like Linkin Park. The songwriting isn’t as strong as either of those bands, but they make up for it with an increased use of electronics and a lot of energy.
Monuments (UK) Phronesis
Moonspell 1755
Morbid Angel Entangled in Chaos
My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours
Napalm Death Enemy of the Music Business
Nebulae Come Sweet It Is Not the Night That Covers You
Necropoli I
This is probably one of the more diverse funeral doom albums that I’ve ever heard. A large part of the album is played at the super-slow-mo pace that you would expect, but the riffs are good enough to keep it going. Also, the songs are apt to burst into straight-up death metal at a moment’s notice in order to jar you from any self-induced comas. There’s also an atmospheric undercurrent that runs through the whole album and even the occasional sampling.
Neurosis The Word As Law (Remastered)
Nightwish Wishmaster
Nightwish Oceanborn
Oceans of Slumber Oceans of Slumber
I've been tracking this band for three albums now, and I've always had to fall back on their 'potential' to describe them. They've always been on the cusp of greatness, and each album has even had a few awesome songs, but no album has been consistent. That changes with their self-titled fourth release. They've finally dropped a vast majority of the death vocals and allowed their excellent vocalist, Cammie Gilbert, to shine. Their songwriting has also improved immensely. Previously, it sometimes felt like the music was aimless and there was very little in the way of memorable hooks. Not this time. Look no further than "A Return to the Earth Below" for this band's potential totally realized. Musically, the band finally feel like they're all on the same page instead of trying to pull the songs in multiple directions. Oceans of Slumber's self-titled album is one of the more unique 'doom' or 'post metal' albums to come out in a long time.
Oceans of Slumber Starlight and Ash
Each album has been better than the last, but they've always left so much on the table by steadfastly sticking to their prog/doom roots. On Starlight and Ash, they've finally kind of found their unique niche. I wish it was a little more catchy overall (and House of the Rising Sun is kind of pointless), but they're finally fulfilling a lot of their potential. They've done this by throwing in a little bit of that southern sound that reminds me of what Thrice did on "The Earth Will Shake", as well as taking a lot of influence from the dark atmospheric rock of Antimatter.
October Falls The Womb of Primordial Nature
October File Our Souls to You
Opeth Ghost Reveries
Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha
The more subdued of the two Juggernaut albums. This one isn't as good, but it's still pretty damn great overall.
Pestilence Spheres
Pine Pillow Talk
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
PVRIS White Noise
Rabbit Junk Xenospheres
It's kind of crazy. Rabbit Junk releases one of the best albums of their career, and that's the one that flies under the radar (at least here). Often referred to as ?digital hardcore', Rabbit Junk's latest release is another offering of hardcore/metal blended with industrial rhythms and electronics. The thing that has always set these guys apart is the catchiness of the melodies and electronics, and the serious rhythmic delivery of the beats. Those elements are here on Xenospheres, and with just about every release, the songwriting just keeps getting better and more diverse.
Radiohead The Bends
Radiohead OK Computer
Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe
Rotting Christ Non Serviam - A 20 Year Apocryphal Story
Russian Circles Geneva
Sadistik Altars
I think Sadistik is kind of losing his inspiration or something. Each release has been just a little less exciting and creative than the last. That's not to say this isn't really good, only that his brand of chill atmospheric hip-hop needs a new kick in the ass.
Sannhet Known Flood
Intense instrumental black metal/post metal. This is how this shit should be done.
Soen Lotus
It has taken multiple albums, but Lotus finally finds the band dropping the overt reliance on their influences and delivering the most original (and best sounding) release of their career. Whether that makes it their best release is up to individual interpretation, but I?d say it does. Lotus features some of the band?s catchiest songs as well as some of my favorite Soen riffs, along with the always exceptional rhythm section. The standout track is definitely "Martyrs" featuring an awesome opening riff, a powerful harmonized chorus, a chill mellow breakdown in the middle, and some great vocals through the verses.
Solefald In Harmonia Universali
Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip
Static-X Shadow Zone
Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 2
Strung Out Blackhawks Over Los Angeles
Susperia Attitude
Tech N9ne All 6's and 7's
Tech N9ne Planet
I see a lot of 1s and 1.5s for this album, and a lot of people complaining about over-saturation when it comes to the quick release schedule of Tech N9ne albums. First, I haven't really bothered with a Tech release since 'Something Else' in 2013, so the over-saturation complaint doesn't affect me. Second, Tech is just just fun driving/lifting music for me, and 'Planet' delivers on that. Every song has its own basic sound/vibe while retaining the dark, twisted, approach he's known for. Also, who can say "Don't Nobody Want None" isn't catchy and fun as fuck.
Teramaze Esoteric Symbolism
Moody, semi-heavy, progressive metal. Definitely an album that requries a few listens to before it fully clicks. These guys’ brand of prog is closer to the no-frills of Porcupine Tree or modern Fates Warning than the wankery of Dream Theater. Songs definitely come first here. This stuff is moody, atmospheric and pretty mellow in places. Well worth checking out.
Testament Dark Roots of Earth
Nobody plays guitar solos on a microphone stand the way that Chuck Billy does. This is thrash done right, featuring all of the original members except for the drummer. He kind of sucked anyway and they got band-whore extraordinaire Gene Hoglan to replace him.
Testament Brotherhood of the Snake
Apparently this album was a rushed pain in the ass to write; you couldn’t tell by listening to it. Brotherhood of the Snake is easily Testament’s best release since reforming the classic team on The Formation of Damnation. What really sets it up is the diversity that is present. If there is a quintessential album that blends just about everything Testament has done into one release, this is it. I hear The Legacy, The Gathering, Practice What You Preach, Souls of Black, Low, Demonic, and even some occasional black metal influence from Eric’s Dragonlord side project. It’s also good from beginning to end, which wasn’t the case on their last album. The only influences lacking from this album are The Ritual and any kind of power ballad.
The Contortionist Exoplanet (Redux)
The Dreaming From the Ashes
When I read that "Rise Again" was essentially a 'core-members' Stabbing Westward reunion, I expected something similar to "Darkest Days." "Rise Again" was really good, but it wasn't a follow-up to 'Darkest Days." This remix album brings the sound more in line with what I expected initially. Really good remix album that doesn't ruin the songs and actually sounds like a lot of work went into it.
The Elijah I Loved I Hated I Destroyed I Created
The Lillingtons Stella Sapiente
The Ocean Pelagial
The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic
I'm not the biggest fan of post metal. For me, there's just too many dead spots between the obvious peaks, a glaring lack of hooks and melody, and generally there's not enough even during the best sections to make me want to slog through the minimalism again. You throw in more aggression, some progressive influences, and cut all the needless silence, and apparently I'm good to go -- or maybe, at that point, it's not really post metal anymore. Either way, this is easily the best release from The Ocean. Excellent use of keyboards, lumber riffs, prog-lite melodies, beats, and song structures, and great shouts and clean singing.
The Orb More Tales From The Orbservatory
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II
Tool Ænima
Trivium Ascendancy
Type O Negative Least Worst of
Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still
Ulcerate (and similar bands) are so fucking dense that it's damn near impossible for me to make it through an entire album. They're just so fucking heavy and oppressive. Also, no matter the tempo, these kind of bands always feel so chaotic. Latching onto any one element is like trying to track a blade of grass in a tornado. I don't know if I'm just getting used to this sound (doubtful), but Stare Into Death? had me hooked from the very beginning. The best way to describe this is chaotic melodic dissonance. I don't know what they changed compared to previous releases, but I hope they keep it for the future.
Unearth Watchers of Rule
Vintersea Woven Into Ashes
On Woven into Ashes, Vintersea finally seems to be capitalizing on their potential. Avienne's vocal range is given more prominence, and the band's musical versatility is on full display. From the opening moments of "Unveiling Light", to the closing moments of “No Tomorrow”, Woven into Ashes is a solid display of musical creativity and technical proficiency. With its impressive musicianship, diverse range of sounds, and emotionally charged performances, this album should cement Vintersea’s place as one of the more exciting and innovative bands currently experimenting with what is possible within prog and black metal while still being one of the most accessible. While I still believe the best is yet to come, Woven Into Ashes is a really strong album that highlights Vintersea's potential and leaves me excited for what they will do next.
Voices Breaking the Trauma Bond
Voivod Phobos
Voivod Target Earth
I was a bit underwhelmed on my first listen, but the sound was low and I was distracted. Now I am half way through my second listen. Could definitely be the album that came after Dimension: Hatross, and I mean that in the best possible way.
Wake Thought Form Descent
This is progressive blackened death metal done right. It has plenty of aggressive passages, ferocious death and black vocals, breakneck tempos, and dynamic shifts. What sets it above a hundred other bands that do a similar sound is the conviction in which the songs are played, and the memorable riffs and melodies that make Thought Form Descent more than just a forgettable wall of sound.
Wayfarer Children of the Iron Age
Wayfarer sounds like the name of yet another cheesy folk metal band, but it’s not. Children of the Iron Age is actually a very well-done epic melodic black metal album. There’s nothing here that’s going to shake the foundations of the genre, but it’s also one of the better, more consistent, releases to come from it in a long time.
Wings Denied Mirrors for a Prince

3.7 great
Adimiron Timelapse
To me, this album sounds like the album that could have fit somewhere between Contradictions Collapse and Chaosphere. The vocalist has that raspy Hetfield-ish shout was used on Contradictions… and the music definitely uses the same thrashy technicality as that album, too, but there’s also more. The song writing on Timelapse is much better and less monotonous and it kicks in some modern metal influences and even a bit of Cynic and Voivod.
Alanis Morissette Such Pretty Forks in the Road
I know what you're thinking? how is Alanis Morissette on anyone's top list of anything positive? Even if we're talking the best releases of the day this album was released, how is she on the list? I get it. I definitely never thought she'd manage such a great album so late in her career, but she has. Maybe you have to be a certain age to really appreciate this because so much of it is introspective and can probably only be identified with by people who have lived a vast majority of their more interesting years; when you've reached the age where looking back is way too easy to do. There has to be more than that, though, because if the music couldn't support the lyrical themes the album wouldn't matter. Such Pretty Forks is such a mellow, atmospheric, and emotive album that only hints at the snotty alt rock of her 90s releases.
Anomalie Visions
Anomalie?s debut was definitely on the primitive side of the post black metal genre, but there was something endearing about it as well. The raw emotions, competent melodies, and subtle diversity was enough to let it hang in the upper tier of the genre. Unfortunately, Refugium didn?t really build on that foundation and felt more like a step back in sound and execution. Visions definitely builds on the debut?s promise, and leaps forward more than a few steps. It takes the melodic post black metal foundation of the debut and expands to include more melody, heavier riffs, great clean/black metal vocals, acoustic guitars, and an all around more entertaining listen without any of the dead spots that plague most post black metal releases.
Art of Deception Path of Trees
BABYMETAL BABYMETAL
It's like a car wreck and I just can't look away.
Bad Religion The Process of Belief
Bad Religion New Maps of Hell
Banks Goddess
‘Downtempo R&B’ is what we have listed on the site. Isn’t Downtempo R&B basically just trip hop? I don’t know if genre purists would agree or not, but this album shares enough in common with that genre to make it enjoyable for me. Lots of cool beats and the vocals are excellent.
Beyond Creation Earthborn Evolution
I love technical death metal just so long as the technical doesn’t overpower the death. This is one of those rare bands that manages to straddle the line between the two elements without losing track of either. My favorite thing about this album has to be the bass playing. It’s all over the music and is mixed right up front. Some might find that a bit overbearing, but it’s right where it should be.
Blue October Spinning the Truth Around (Part II)
Bodom After Midnight Paint the Sky With Blood
Borknagar Empiricism
Celestial Season Mysterium II
If you didn't know, Celestial Season was a doom band from the early nineties that quickly abandoned the sound for stoner rock similar to Trouble and Cathedral before eventually breaking up. They eventually reformed in 2020 picking up where their doom classic Solar Lovers left off. Of all their albums Mysterium II is easily their best. Utilizing the best influences from classic albums such as Serenades, Shades of God, and Turn Lose the Swans. Mysterium II is full of lethargic tempos and sullen tones, all backed by violin and guitar melodies and death growls. If the classic doom albums still speak to you, this is easily worth checking out.
Dark Tranquillity Haven
Darkspace Dark Space III I
Darzamat A Philosopher at the End of the Universe
Darzamat's 2009 release, Solfernus' Path, wasn't mind-blowing or even great, but it was definitely a step in the right direction. After its release, though, the band went their separate directions. Female vocalist Nera delved into the mellow progressive/atmospheric rock of NeraNature, and their guitar player moved into black metal with Mastiphal. The time apart and different side projects seem to be the difference between their previous release being decent and this one being pretty damn great. The band blend their melodic death metal roots with a bit of modern Cradle of Filth-inspired black metal, as well as an occasional nod to Nera's atmospheric prog stuff. They've also made her vocals much more of a focal point, which is smart since she was always the band's defining aspect. Altogether, the second coming of Darzamat is off to a great start.
Dimmu Borgir Spiritual Black Dimensions
Einar Solberg 16
The last few Leprous releases may have signaled a significant change in direction, but the release of Einar Solberg?s solo album should help alleviate any lingering discussions regarding them becoming a solo project. By showcasing a collection of songs that are solely by him, it should be evident that Leprous and Einar Solberg's solo work are distinct entities. Moreover, 16 deserves to be viewed as an independent release, surpassing initial expectations by delivering a distinctive and contemplative musical journey that focuses on creating a cohesive opus rather than solely showcasing Einar's versatile vocal style.r
Elif Endlich Tut Es Wieder Weh
Almost none of these tracks break the three-minute mark, which is just enough time to catch the groove and melt into the atmosphere while Elif takes you through a snack-sized emotional trip. Obviously, part of my attraction to Endlich Tut Es Wieder Weh could be the exotic German vocals which allows me to superimpose my own thoughts and interpretations to every song, but there?s more to it than that. The element that makes this more is the voice of Elif. Her smooth delivery and that wavering style she uses simply sucks in me in. Of course, it doesn?t hurt that the lush melodies and hip-hop influences are excellently done, as well. While I don?t know how Endlich Tut Es Wieder Weh compares to Elif?s previous three albums, I can say with one-hundred percent certainty that this one is a impeccably compelling collection of lush electronics, deep bass beats, captivating choruses, and Elif?s emotive vocals.
Epica The Alchemy Project
Fear Factory Archetype
Fear Factory Digimortal
Fear Factory Genexus
Felix Martin The Scenic Album
This is some crazy shit... Check out the guitar on the cover. What the hell is that? What the fuck.
Flotsam and Jetsam When the Storm Comes Down
Haken Virus
I guess the transformation is complete. There's basically no more traditional prog left in these guys. They've fully embraced a modern djenty sound that is rhythmic and chaotic. The only real remnant of their past is their vocalist (which is the element most people seem to be complaining about). They've stopped focusing on strong songwriting, and more on style and aggression. I, for one, like it. So, it's not nearly as memorable as their older stuff but musically it's intense, semi-unique, and just catchy enough that the album doesn't just end in an unremarkable blur.
Helmet Meantime
Imperium Dekadenz Into Sorrow Evermore
This is like 90s era melodic black metal with a hint of post black metal thrown in to break up the monotony and add a little additional color. Musically, this band is very good at establishing a solid atmosphere and even conveying a bit of emotional resonance with the vocals (despite not understanding most of the lyrics which are generally pretty unintelligible, as you might have guessed).
In Reverence The Selected Breed
hat?s the difference between technical death metal and progressive death metal? To me, it?s the melody and focus on actual songcraft that sets progressive death metal apart from technical death metal (and generally makes it more enjoyable). The Selected Breed has the prerequisite melodies and focus on actual songs, but it takes things a step further by crafting excellently dark atmospheres. Of course, The Selected Breed also has plenty of crushingly heavy sections and rapid-fire percussion, as well as the ferocious growling that is also a prerequisite for any band wanting to call themselves death metal. The Selected Breed is melodic, aggressive, atmospheric, and diverse. Everything a good progressive death metal album should be. It has an excellent production, too.
Insomnium Above the Weeping World
Invent Animate Heavener
Great atmospheric djenty metalcore. To me, it feels like the first half of the album is to please long-time fans and the second half is more of a moody, experimental sound for them (I could be wrong, I've only heard Greyview before this, and it's been a while). I'm not a fan of the clean/scream hybrid vocal that pops in from time to time. The only song it really ruins is "Shade Astray" due to sheer repetition.
Iron Maiden Dance of Death
Katatonia City Burials
I don't really consider myself a huge Katatonia fan. I didn't really get into them until Viva Emptiness and after Night is the New Day I found myself losing interest again. That's why City Burials is so surprising. On this album Katatonia brought back some of that energy that had been lacking for a while - there's even a legit guitar solo. City Burials feels like a combination of what made Viva Emptiess through Night is a New Day so compelling combined with the moodier songwriting of their latest releases along with a proggier undercurrent. Very nice.
Klone Meanwhile
This really reminds me of some sort of post metal / prog metal hybrid -- maybe something similar to The Ocean, but different too. Maybe a better comparison would be "Night is the New Day" era Katatonia, if Katatonia had a more expressive vocalist and more diverse musical pallet. At the very least, I'd say this album has the heart of a post metal release without actually being post metal. Each song is a slow lumbering track that starts quietly while building towards an aggressive crescendo. Each song also features some low-key musicianship and strong songwriting, as well. Easily the best Klone release so far.
KMFDM Kunst
This is probably the most interesting, energetic and inspired-sounding album that they've done since the early nineties.
Lacuna Coil Comalies
Leprous The Congregation
This is some cool moody/atmospheric progressive metal. The vocals take a little getting used to, but overall this is really good.
Mayhem Grand Declaration of War
Meat Beat Manifesto Actual Sounds + Voices
Megadeth Countdown to Extinction
Mirrorthrone Carriers of Dust
Mitochondrial Sun Mitochondrial Sun
Even if a majority of the people that give Mitochondrial Sun a listen weren't metal fans, this album would still have its work cut out for it -- Electro-classical soundscapes don't exactly have a huge fanbase. For those that are into that sort of thing, though, Mitochondrial Sun delivers a professional and enjoyable take on the genre that is easy to get into thanks to the well-crafted melodies, and solid sense of direction. The songs don't meander or take a long time to build; they simply jump straight into the center of each theme, build the atmosphere, and then end. With Mitochondrial Sun, Niklas Sundin has delivered a well-crafted and memorable blend of electronics and classical influences that should appeal to those into the genre, and may even appeal to his installed metal fanbase due to the darker nature of most the tracks.
Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come
Need Norchestrion: Α Song For The End
I really thought this band had Ray Alder of Fates Warning as their vocalist. The similarities are uncanny. The music, too, comes across like a modern Fates Warning album mixed with Ray's solo stuff, but with occasional quirky prog sections that remind me a lot of Pain of Salvation... Alright, so they clearly wear their influences on their sleeves, but they're excellent at emulation.
Nirvana Bleach
Nothingface Skeletons
Obscura A Valediction
Oceans of Sadness The Arrogance Of Ignorance
Panopticon Roads to the North
Another eclectic black metal album from these guys. This one is a bit more streamlined than the bluegrass/country meets black metal of the previous release. On the other hand, there are still some of those influences scattered around the album. The drumming on this is awesome.
Pearl Jam Ten
Pyogenesis A Century in the Curse of Time
What a comeback. Takes the best parts of their melodic death metal era and their alternative rock era and mixes them together (kind of like their Twinaleblood album did, but way better and in more equal parts). They mix it with a modern sound, punk influence and even a bit of prog. What a surprise.
Revelations of Rain Emanation of Hatred
Rivers of Nihil Monarchy
Starts out kind of sounding like typical modern death metal, but the progressive side slowly shows itself. Very good and interesting from start to finish.
Sara Bareilles The Blessed Unrest
Skrew Universal Immolation
Skrew started out in the early 90s as an excellent and diverse industrial metal band. Unfortunately, they started hoping on trends and diluting their sound — accelerating their eventual demise only six years (and four albums) later. Universal Immolation picks up where the band’s debut left off. It’s dark, heavy industrial metal, but there’s a difference. The band has integrated a pretty strong post metal influence into the songs that helps the album from just sounding dated.
The Birthday Massacre Diamonds
If I had to describe Diamonds for fans, I'd say it features the industrial influences of Violet, the electronic-pop of Under Your Spell, and the excellent songwriting and variety of Pins and Needles, but wrapped in a much more upbeat sound than any of those albums. It's not the type of album that is going to surprise anyone that has ever enjoyed The Birthday Massacre, but it also shouldn't disappoint them. Diamonds takes The Birthday Massacre's blend of electro-pop and industrial rock, and dives head first into the electro-pop side. This makes for an album that is entertaining, riveting, and memorable. They've also restored enough of their early abrasive industrial influences to create an enjoyable contrast to the syrupy-sweet pop melodies. In the end, Diamonds is another excellent outing from a band that perfected their sound long ago, and now seem content to simply alter that formula with consistently exceptional results.
The Halo Effect Days of the Lost
Like many others, when "Shadowminds" was released, I thought it sounded like a decent Dark Tranquillity song, but nothing more. The significant Dark Tranquillity influence was also a surprise because The Halo Effect is almost entirely comprised of ex-In Flames members. Fortunately, though, Days of the Lost isn't just a guitar-driven Dark Tranquillity clone. While there are songs that would fit comfortably in that band's discography, there's also a welcome throwback to Colony-era In Flames as well as a handful of songs that blend all the influences together. At the end of the day, The Halo Effect's Days of the Lost is an excellent combination of modern-day Dark Tranquillity and Colony-era In Flames blended to varying degrees to deliver an album that should be a welcome addition to any fan of either band.
The Hyena Kill A Disconnect
The Starting Line Say It Like You Mean It
Toxik Dis Morta
Having never liked their "classic" releases, I went into this with low expectations (kind of like Elmo up there) and came away pretty damn surprised. Dis Morta brings the intensity and riffs of classic Nevermore, the high pitched 'heavy metal' vocals of Painkiller-era Judas Priest, and the off-the-wall progressive quirkiness of Mekong Delta. Some might find the production a little strange, but with music this good and intense, it should be easy to get used to.
Velvet Acid Christ Ora Oblivionis
This album really plays like a ?best of' release. There's some dance floor-friendly old school electro-industrial, there's guitar driven tracks, and there's some of the more melodic atmospheric stuff. Essentially, Ora Oblivionis covers Velvet Acid Christ's entire discography and should be a welcome addition for any fan. The best track on here is easily "Adventures In Babysitting The Antichrist", but the collection of more melodic stuff ("The Colors Of My Sadness" and "Trash") are definitely close seconds.
Vinsta Freiweitn
Violet Cold Noir Kid
Let me start with the one real complaint I have. The production doesn't do this album any favors. There's so many elements in this album, and there's just not enough separation to appreciate them all. Everything just feels piled on the dead center of the mix with nothing able to truly stand out. Maybe that was intentional, but I'm not a fan. It's a shame because I think this could have been top 5 with a better sound. As it stands, the quirky blend of post black metal and electro-pop is really unique, even if the quirkiness sometimes veers to the very edge (like the Chipmunk vocals on 'Synergy').
White Lion Pride
Within the Ruins Halfway Human
Halfway Human is pretty much the same thing they?ve been doing since 2013?s Elite. Within The Ruins play Djenty, techy, metalcore with occasional hints of death metal; that hasn?t changed. The thing is, they do it so damn well. Every song is chalk full of twitchy start/stop rhythms, blazing leads, melodic undercurrents, and frantic riffing, and it?s damn near flawless. Also, they are definitely becoming better song writers with every release, and they have introduced clean vocals on this album? which is something new for them. Overall, Halfway Human sees Within The Ruins doing what they?ve always done at the top-notch level they?re known for doing it. This album won?t win them any new fans, but old fans will find another awesome (yet familiar) release.
Wolfheart King of the North
No review, no sound-offs, and barely twenty ratings. Was there something wrong with Wolfheart's latest release? If you ask me, there really wasn't. It's actually one of the top melodic death metal albums of the year, but it seems to have been lost in the shuffle. You'd think a band that can bring the emotive melodies of classic Insomnium, the ferocity of At The Gates, and the accessibility of Soilwork would have received a little more attention. They also bring some decent clean singing to augment the death growls, keyboards to provide a melodic undercurrent, and plenty of dynamics to keep the songs moving along. I don't know what to say besides it's never too late to check out those albums you missed.
Yellowcard Lift a Sail
This album reminds me a lot of New Found Glory’s Coming Home. That was NFG’s attempt at growing up and writing some serious grown up music about being all grown up. Ha ha, I know that sounds lame and a lot of their younger fans would agree. It took me a long time, but eventually I came to appreciate that album. So, it’s probably with Coming Home‘s help that I was able to approach this in a way that helped me appreciate this much sooner than I otherwise would have. Lift A Sail shares nothing with the band that released Ocean Avenue and their violinist is still under-utilized, but it’s an excellent album if you don’t yearn for a return to their past releases. It’s a serious, no-frills, alt rock album that seems to spend most of its time belting out catchy, mid-paced songs that try to prove how grown up we’ve all become. Except it’s much better than that makes it sound…

3.6 great
...and Oceans Cosmic World Mother
I wasn't following ...And Oceans when they were around the first time. Apparently, they started as just another black metal band, but quickly evolved into some sort of industrial black metal hybrid that never really clicked with most their fan base. That's not Cosmic World Mother. This album is blisteringly fast and aggressive black metal with little symphonic/melodic keyboard flourishes. It features the classic 90s-era black metal sound that I love. Having gone back though their back catalog since hearing this, I can say the second coming of ...And Oceans is easily their best.
Amorphis Circle
Anthrax Caught in a Mosh: BBC Live in Concert
Arch/Matheos Winter Ethereal
Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together
As Everything Unfolds Within Each Lies The Other
There is nothing unique about this album, but it is really well done. The riffs are hard hitting, the melodies are memorable, the energy levels and songwriting are all top-notch, and the vocals and screams of Charlie Rolfe are some of the best. Great modern post hardcore.
At the Gates The Nightmare of Being
Augury Illusive Golden Age
Great technical death metal that is able to show off all the skills while still managing to be memorable, heavy, and even occasionally melodic. The bass player, in particular, deserves a mention here because he is definitely the star of the show, even if he is sometimes buried in the mix during the more chaotic moments. If there is a flaw, it is the vocals. They're just a little too two-dimensional for me, but they get the job done.
August Burns Red Rescue & Restore
August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places
I'm not overly familiar with these guys (although I have heard them before). I like their brand of aggressive, progressive metalcore. Good stuff.
Aversio Humanitatis Behold The Silent Dwellers
Excellent unrelenting blackened death metal that probably has a little more of the black metal side than a lot of the bands that fall under the genre. The songs are epic and guitar-driven, played at a frantic pace with just the slightest keyboard undercurrent to create a little bit more of an ominous atmosphere. There are slower parts to contrast with the otherwise breakneck pace, but mostly you come to Behold the Silent Dwellers for the aggression and downright oppressive atmospheres.
Black Fast Terms of Surrender
C.B Murdoc The Green
Cannibal Corpse Violence Unimagined
Celeste Assassine(s)
It's hard to put my finger on what exactly draws me to this band with every new album. I like the melancholic feel of the music. I like the guitar tones, and the fact that you can actually hear the bass guitar. The drum patterns, too, are creative and keep the music moving forward. Celeste are really in a category all their own, and Assassine(s) is just the latest in the line of great albums from this band.
Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear
Most post metal drives me crazy because there are parts that are so good, but they're separated by large sections of plodding minimalism. A Dawn to Fear cuts out a vast majority of the sparse post metal influences and just consistently jumps right into what makes post metal so damn good; epic crushing crescendos, visceral vocals, abrasive melodies, and oppressive atmospheres. Even the longer songs such as "The Silent Man," "Lights on the Hill," and "The Fall" manage to keep the momentum going, and they don't waste any portion of their extended run-times.
Devil Sold His Soul Loss
Dia Frampton Bruises
This is definitely a different approach for her. It's not the indie pop of her Meg and Dia days, and it's not the slick pop of her post-The Voice appearance either. This reminds me of the atmospheric pop of bands such as Delerium. This is catchier than that and less eccentric, but it's definitely in the same realm.
Disarmonia Mundi Cold Inferno
Melodic death metal and metalcore meet. They're kind of a one-trick pony, but it's a good trick.
Electric Callboy Crystals
Generic Metalcore meets generic pop and somehow makes a fucking awesome baby.
Esoctrilihum Dy'th Requiem for the Serpent Telepath
Fates Warning Darkness in a Different Light
Graveworm Engraved in Black
If I Were You The Sleepless
Immortal All Shall Fall
In the Silence A Fair Dream Gone Mad
Linkin Park A Thousand Suns
Mechina Progenitor
Mechina are basically a one trick pony. They do an ultra-melodic, symphonic industrial-death metal thing, and they do it really well. Also, they’re kind of lucky in the fact that there’s not really anyone else out there doing exactly what they do. The problem from my point of view is there really isn’t much else to say. They’ve definitely improved their little formula with every new release to the point that that Progenitor is actually excellent. They’ve improved and diversified their symphonic elements and they’ve augmented the two-dimensional death vocals with an increased use of female vocals which finally helps to (almost) differentiate the songs. Mechina may be a one-trick pony, but it’s a trick that they’ve totally mastered.
Mors Principium Est Liberation = Termination
Mudvayne Lost and Found
Nevermore Dreaming Neon Black
Night in Gales The Last Sunsets
This sounds like the album that could have come after "The Jester Race" if In Flames had let a little At the Gates bleed into their influences. I mean, "The Last Sunsets" sounds like classic In Flames in just about every way imaginable. The vocals sound like In Flames (with a bit of At the Gates rasp), the guitar tones and riffs sound like In Flames... Honestly, if you had told me this was the 'lost' In Flames album the band had recorded between "The Jester Race" and "Whoracle", but never released, I would have definitely believed it. If you've heard this band's older stuff and didn't like any of it (honestly, they were never very good), you should still check this out because it is solid melodic death metal.
Nothingface An Audio Guide to Everyday Atrocity
P.O.D. Satellite
Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan
I'm only vaguely familiar with Periphery's discography. I've heard the Juggernaut releases and Select Difficulty, but the only songs I really bothered to come back to were “22 Faces” and “Marigolds”… until this album. Despite another stupid album title, the music on Hail Stan is the best I've ever heard from the band. The first three tracks are simply amazing. From the 16-minute opener to the aggressive “Blood Eagle” to the even more aggressive “CHVRCH BVRNER” it's a phenomenal way to open the album. After that, the quality is dialed down a little as they kind of go in a few different directions, but overall this is one awesome release.
Primus Pork Soda
Pronostic Deviated Inner Spectrum
Kind of reminds me of a thrashy version of Dark Tranquillity.
Red (USA) Of Beauty and Rage
Red return to what made them great in the first place. Emotional alt. rock driven by some very symphonic melodies.
Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory
Sadistik Haunted Gardens
I've been a fan of Sadistik's brand of chill, atmospheric hip-hop since The Balancing Act, but it wasn't until Altars that a full album of his really grabbed me. I loved the dark, moody sounds that came from the album, and how he jumped fully into the twisted atmospheres that were only hinted at before. Haunted Gardens drops a lot of the dark musical shades, but otherwise picks up where Altars left off. It's still a super chill hip hop release that is simply buried in atmosphere, over which Sadistik delivers his unique vocal take on the genre with his acrobatic word play.
Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun
She Must Burn Umbra Mortis
This is symphonic deathcore, but it's honestly nothing like the Lorna Shore album that dropped on the same day as this. This is guitar-driven with the symphonic elements as a supporting role. The tempos are also much more varied. The production and song structures aren't nearly as dense and layered. There's prominent female vocals in addition to the deathcore stuff. Essentially, it a great album that is much easier to get into the first time than the new Lorna Shore. Definitely recommend.
Skyforest A New Dawn
The easiest way to describe Skyforest is to label them as post black metal because there are some definite black metal ideas and sounds, and there's definitely that ?post' aspect as well, but it feels limiting to just place them in the one genre. I hear a lot of Agolloch in the band's folky atmospheric mellow parts, as well as their clean vocal deliveries. There's also some symphonic elements that could be compared to some of the better symphonic black metal bands out there (i.e. the bands that don't over-do it). Those also dual guitar harmonies, and the kind of twisting song structures that can keep you guessing. Skyforest might not exactly be ground breaking, but they're definitely experts at their genre.
Soen Imperial
Soilwork Overgivenheten
Still Remains The Serpent
Textures Silhouettes
The Amity Affliction Not Without My Ghosts
Chuggy, melodramatic, atmospheric, melodic metalcore with Blink-182-ish choruses. Yeah, the choruses aren't the best, very few actually compliment the songs, and they all sound vaguely similar -- it is what it is. The band also seems to veer to far into the melodramatic with some of the lyrics, but it doesn't really hurt the vibe overall. The music and harsh vocals are what will keep most people coming back. There's a lot of chugs, obviously, but there's also a lot of cool things done with the keyboards that provide a lot of atmosphere and melody.
The Offspring Conspiracy of One
Theatre Of Tragedy Theatre of Tragedy
Wake Devouring Ruin
I love how this band is able to mash together doom, death metal, grind, black metal, post metal, and even a little hardcore without sounding like just a mess of genres. In the end, I'd simply categorize it as extreme metal -- that genre I place things into on my iTunes when the band is heavy but doesn't really fit anywhere in particular. A lot of this album features the kind of neck-breaking tempos found on black metal, but the dynamics, riffs, and leads are something else (almost) entirely.

3.5 great
(sic)monic Somnambulist
...and Oceans As in Gardens, So in Tombs
Not as unrelenting and forceful as their previous release, and not as experimental as the last few before they broke up (or went on hiatus?). That leaves As In Gardens... in a weird middle ground where it doesn't stand out as much, but it is still really good. I'd say this one is more melodic than the previous releases, and maybe a little less aggressive but it's still well worth checking out. Also, this album does get a little more experimental during the second half. Nothing as crazy as their first era, but more than their last release.
10 Years The Autumn Effect
1000 Funerals Butterfly Decadence
A little more conventional than their funeral doom debut, but still pretty damn good. These guys are masters of oppressive atmospheres.
16Volt Wisdom
16Volt AMERICANPORNSONGS
1914 Where Fear and Weapons Meet
40 Below Summer Invitation to the Dance
40 Below Summer Fire at Zero Gravity
After the last two disappointments, this is definitely a surprise. Possibly as good, if not better, than their debut. This one is definitely more metal than nu-metal, and the more abrasive parts could be attributed to a hardcore influence just as much as nu-metal (most of the time). The vocalist is still their number one asset.
65daysofstatic Heavy Sky
65daysofstatic Weak4 & Come To Me
7 Horns 7 Eyes Throes Of Absolution
Melodic death metal meets Djent. That’s basically what it is and it’s a great take on a sound (Djent) that’s already getting really fucking stale. This album is chock full of leads and melodic harmonies. Best yet the vocals sticks with death metal instead of that raspy shout that a lot of these bands have decided to use.
A Day To Remember Common Courtesy
A Fine Frenzy One Cell in the Sea
A Static Lullaby ...And Don't Forget to Breathe
A Static Lullaby A Static Lullaby
A Tale of Two Cities New Horizons
Abel (NY) Make It Right
Abigail Williams In the Absence of Light
Abscission Vacuity
Abyssal (UK) Antikatastaseis
Abyssic Brought Forth in Iniquity
I used to love doom, but it feels like I don't have time to sit through such extended and lethargic songs these days. I need music that can hold my attention, at least the majority of the time, while I'm driving to work or making dinner or whatever... I can't be spending half my drive listening to lo-fi drone. Fortunately, Abyssic doesn't have that issue. Despite being doom/death, the band still has dynamics and tempo shifts, and thanks to the choir and symphonic elements, even the most lethargic of passages still has something memorable to offer. If you don't have the attention span to sit through most doom, Brought Forth in Iniquity might be your gateway into the genre.
Acylum Mental Disorder
Disturbing as fuck. Not as fleshed out as the album that came after this, but the raw nature almost makes this one more unsettling.
Acylum Mental Destruction
Ad Infinitum Chapter I Revisited
Ad Infinitum Chapter III - Downfall
To me, it's like the best elements of Amaranthe and Epica without the excesses of either band. This album also has my current song of the year, Somewhere Better. I can't get enough of that song.rMelissa Bonny is definitely underrated (or maybe just surprisingly unknown). She hasn't had the best luck with the bands she's hooked up with. This is probably the best album she has been a part of and her upcoming band The Dark Side of the Moon looks to be pretty good too, so maybe things are finally looking up for her.r
Adimiron Et Liber Eris
Adimiron made their name by releasing a couple of relentless progressive metal/technical death metal albums. They were both pretty damn good, but they suffered a bit from a homogeneous sound that simply bludgeoned the listener for a majority of their runtimes. Et Liber Eris fixes the homogeny issue by infusing just a little more melody and picking up some welcome Tool and Opeth influences that never veer into straight-up emulation. Don?t get me wrong, though, their style change isn?t nearly as drastic as Toothgrinder?s was, but it still there and definitely apparent. In fact, the first really drastic change doesn?t even come until the fourth track, ?The Coldwalker? which is probably the most melodic thing they?ve ever done. Mostly, Et Liber Eris is the same technical death metal/progressive metal as before but with enough variation, melody and clean singing to give the songs some memorable moments and much needed variation. Overall, Et Liber Eris is really good and definitely a step above their past releases, but they need to move just a step further to truly be great.
Aeternam Moongod
Aeternam Ruins of Empires
Agalloch The Mantle
Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain
Age of Silence Acceleration
Age of Silence Complications - Trilogy of Intricacy
Agent Fresco A Long Time Listening
Aghora Aghora
Aghora Formless
Aghora Aghora (Remastered)
Agua de Annique In Your Room
Airlock Drystar
Alanis Morissette Flavors of Entanglement
Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme
Alcest Shelter
Very chill and melodic shoegaze album that could easily appeal to fans of Anathema's last few releases. The black metal influences are completely gone now, but when the music is this good... who cares?
Alex Parks Introduction
Alice in Chains Greatest Hits
Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue
Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
Allegaeon Damnum
Altar of Plagues White Tomb
Altar of Plagues Mammal
Amaya Laucirica Early Summer
Amber Asylum The Natural Philosophy of Love
Amelia Arsenic Queen of Risk
Amia Venera Landscape Amia Venera Landscape
Amogh Symphony Abolishing the Obsolete System
Amon Tobin Bricolage
Amon Tobin Permutation
Amon Tobin Supermodified
Amon Tobin Out From Out Where
Amorphis Tales from the Thousand Lakes
Amorphis Eclipse
Amorphis The Karelian Isthmus
Amorphis Magic & Mayhem
Amorphous Androgynous Tales of Ephidrina
Amy Shark Love Monster
An Abstract Illusion Woe
Anaal Nathrakh Total Fucking Necro
Anacondas Gracer
Anaconda?s previous release kind of reminded me of what Fugazi might sound like if they decided to release a sludgy post metal album. It wasn?t bad, but it was kind of conventional; except with vocals that set it apart from the post metal masses. Gracer and Disgracer follow that same basic formula of sludgy post metal with a fugazi-style kick, but it expands on the formula greatly. First, this album is absolutely crushing in its dirty bottom end-heavy riffs, and the melodic portion, while still very gritty, has been expanded on, as well. While their previous release was kind of a one-trick pony, this double album is surprisingly diverse. Throughout the two discs, there?s occasional black metal influences and even rhythmic djent-style sections. The vocals, too, have diversified beyond the Ian McKay style of the previous release to include a multitude of different shouts and singing styles. Anaconda?s Gracer/Disgracer releases are an ambitious undertaking (both for the band and the listener), but they succeeded in totally outdoing themselves.
Anacondas Disgracer
Anaconda?s previous release kind of reminded me of what Fugazi might sound like if they decided to release a sludgy post metal album. It wasn?t bad, but it was kind of conventional; except with vocals that set it apart from the post metal masses. Gracer and Disgracer follow that same basic formula of sludgy post metal with a fugazi-style kick, but it expands on the formula greatly. First, this album is absolutely crushing in its dirty bottom end-heavy riffs, and the melodic portion, while still very gritty, has been expanded on, as well. While their previous release was kind of a one-trick pony, this double album is surprisingly diverse. Throughout the two discs, there?s occasional black metal influences and even rhythmic djent-style sections. The vocals, too, have diversified beyond the Ian McKay style of the previous release to include a multitude of different shouts and singing styles. Anaconda?s Gracer/Disgracer releases are an ambitious undertaking (both for the band and the listener), but they succeeded in totally outdoing themselves.
Anacrusis Annihilation Complete: The Early Years Anthology
Anacrusis Hindsight Vol 1: Suffering Hour Revisited
Anathema A Natural Disaster
Anathema A Fine Day to Exit
Anathema Resonance
Anathema Distant Satellites
Album number 3 of the same basic formula starts to feel a bit stale (by Anathema standards). It's still really good, but I can't say I'm a fan of the electronic portion of the album. Antimatter (which featured a member of Anathema) integrated the electronics much better.
Anathema Pentecost III + The Crestfallen EP
Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal
Anberlin Lost Songs
Anberlin Vital
Can these guys do anything wrong? It’s another dose of similar indie/alt. rock, but it’s really well done. Every album they seem to alter their formula just the slightest bit and this time they’ve managed to churn out their best release since Never Take Friendship Personal.
Anberlin Best of Anberlin
It's some of the best songs that Anberlin have ever done. Of course it's great.
Ancestral Blood Forgotten Myths and Legends - Chapter 1
Ancient The Cainian Chronicle
And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar
Angels and Airwaves Love
Angels and Airwaves The Dream Walker
Angels and Airwaves ...Of Nightmares
Ani DiFranco Living in Clip
Animals As Leaders Weightless
Annakin The Light Before Love Disappears
Anneke van Giersbergen Everything Is Changing
Anneke van Giersbergen has four releases under the Agua de Annique moniker, a live album with Danny Cavanagh and guest appearances with such diverse artists as Moonspell, Devin Townsend and Anathema. Considering everything she has done over the past two decades, it might be a bit surprising to discover that Everything is Changing is Anneke's first true solo offering. What shouldn't be surprising, though, is that Anneke's first solo output is everything that her fans should expect -- proggy alt. rock, slick melodies, diverse moods and her special vocal delivery.
Anneke van Giersbergen Drive
Anneke van Giersbergen The Darkest Skies Are The Brightest
Anneke van Giersbergen With Kamerata Zuid Let The Light In
Anomalie Integra
Anorexia Nervosa Redemption Process
Anthrax Spreading the Disease
Anthrax Among the Living
Anthrax State of Euphoria
Anthrax Attack of the Killer B's
Anthrax Alive 2
Anthrax Worship Music
Anthrax Kings Among Scotland
Antimatter Alternative Matter
Antimatter A Profusion of Thought
Antoine Fafard Solus Operandi
Antonamasia Keeping Nothing
Anubis 230503
Anubis Different Stories
Aoria The Constant
Aphex Twin Drukqs
Aphrodite Aftershock
Arch Enemy The Root of All Evil
Arch Enemy As the Stages Burn!
Arcturus La Masquerade Infernale
Arcturus Aspera Hiems Symfonia/Constellation/My Angel
Arcturus Arcturian
The best thing they've done since their debut. Mixes the best of the first three albums while smartly ignoring the fourth.
Argus (USA-PA) Beyond The Martyrs
Arkan Salam
Arkona (RUS) Kob'
Epic and melodic black metal from Russia featuring hints of post black metal and prog. They also have a female vocalist, but I couldn't tell. She just sounds like another capable black metal vocalist. Lots of dynamic shifts within each song, as well as a decent amount of different sounds and moods help keep this album moving along pretty well.
Arsis A Diamond for Disease
Art By Numbers Reticence: The Musical
Astrid Williamson Pulse
Astronoid Astronoid
The criticism I’ve seen of this album is that the everything starts to sound the same by the mid-point of the album, and that despite the tempos, double bass, and black metal influences, Astronoid’s second release has no balls. The first issue I don’t agree with, but the second one I do. Astronoid is absolutely the most neutered post black metal release I’ve ever heard, which is kind of crazy because it also has plenty of black metal/metal influences floating around. It’s also one of the big reasons I like it. The shoegazey ethereal vocals floating over galloping drum beats and black metal-ish leads are an awesome contrast, and it doesn’t matter that somehow they’ve managed to remove any hint of aggression from the music. It’s actually kind of impressive that they did.
Astronoid Radiant Bloom
If you go into Radiant Bloom expecting to hear the 'black' part of black gaze, you're going to be disappointed. As other people have already mentioned, the album has no balls. What it lacks in edge and aggression, though, it makes up for with some of the sweetest upbeat melodies and atmospheres you've heard. It's the only metal album I've ever listened to that could be described as floating through the clouds. So, yes, Radiant Bloom sounds less like blackgaze and more like a heavier Angels and Airwaves, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing, IMO.
At the Gates Purgatory Unleashed: Live At Wacken
At The Soundawn Red Square: We Come in Waves
Atheist Elements
Audioslave Audioslave
Audrey Fall Mitau
Augury Concealed
Augury Fragmentary Evidence
August Burns Red Messengers
August Burns Red Constellations
August Burns Red Leveler
August Burns Red Phantom Anthem
August Burns Red Winter Wilderness
Aurora (NOR) Running with the Wolves
Aurora (NOR) All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend
Now this is the kind of indie pop that I really like. It’s chill and kind of quirky with a female vocalist, memorable melodies and a strong electronic influence. The lyrical topics range from your strange acid trip inspired songs such as ‘Running With the Wolves’ to more serious topics such as the first person narrative about receiving assisted suicide. If you watch her videos, it is kind of clear that maybe she’s trying a little too hard to be strange or whatever, but the album is pretty awesome, so she gets a pass. Similar to stuff like Kerli, Bjork, Florence + The Machine, Ladytron, etc.
Aurora (NOR) Infections of a Different Kind - Step 1
Autechre Tri Repetae
Autechre Chiastic Slide
Autechre Anvil Vapre
Autumn's Grey Solace Eifelian
Autumn's Grey Solace Divinian
Autumn's Grey Solace Monajjfyllen
AVKRVST The Approbation
Minor songwriting criticisms aside, The Approbation is a great debut album that should appeal to anyone missing that modern Porcupine Tree sound or to a lesser extent, the classic Opeth style. The shorter tracks demonstrate enough depth and intrigue to capture your attention, but the longer tracks suffer from a duration-vs-substance problem (not unlike Opeth, really). Nonetheless, Avkrvst's potential shines through, and with further refinement, they have the ability to create a compelling musical identity beyond mere homage. In the meantime, The Approbation is well worth a listen for anyone looking for some lush prog rock with an edge.
Avslut Deceptis
Most black metal bands that try to emulate the classic 90s style fail miserably. I don't really know why, but they do. On the same token, Avslut do the classic 90s style flawlessly, but I can't really point to tangible reasons. I do know Deceptis features just the right amount of clean-vs-raw production, just the right amount of melody, just the right amount of cold atmosphere, and just the right amount of bottom end. Is it ground breaking? Definitely not... But is it an excellent homage to the classic black metal sound? Absolutely.
Aythis Doppelganger
Aythis Glacia
BABYMETAL Metal Galaxy
Babymetal were supposed to fade away as quickly as they arrived on the scene. Their blend of J-pop, electronics, thrash, death metal, and power metal was never meant to last. Once the novelty wore off, the band were supposed to be through. Instead, Babymetal have toured the world and sold out stadiums everywhere they've gone, and they're also on their third release, Metal Galaxy. If their debut was a hodge-podge of different sounds and ideas without any clear direction, and their second release was the band playing it safe and homogenous, Metal Galaxy is Babymetal doing whatever the hell they want with confidence. There's djent, power metal, hip-hop, J-pop, salsa, and even shitty pirate metal… and it all sounds like it belongs on the same album. Metal Galaxy is easily the band's most diverse and confident release so far. I personally can't wait to see what comes next.
Bad Astronaut Acrophobe
Bad Religion All Ages
Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction
Bad Religion The New America
Bad Religion True North
Bad Religion Christmas Songs
It's pretty funny to hear Greg sing these religious tracks. It's basically the same concept as Me First and the Gimmie Gimmie's (or 99% of punk cover songs) -- the original melody sped up to punk rock standards. Decent. Will be good for a play or two in December.
Baroness Yellow and Green
Bastille (USA-CA) Electric Animation
Bat For Lashes iTunes Festival: London 2009
Bat For Lashes Lost Girls
Bat For Lashes' lush, chill, electronic pop has always caught my attention. Of course, the star of the show is Natasha Khan and her breathy expressive vocals. It feels like this time she has really stepped up the lush atmospheres while dialing down the tempos and placing more emphasis on memorable choruses. On the other hand, it feels like each song is a little more ‘musical' than in the past. It's kind of strange, and I'm not really too sure how to explain it… I only know it's really good.
BATS Red In Tooth and Claw
Bauda Sporelights
Chill, lush and melodic progressive rock. For fans of Porcupine Tree, Riverside and other prog rock bands that stick to the mellower side of the house.
Be'lakor Stone's Reach
Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone
Beach House Bloom
Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique
Beastie Boys Ill Communication
Before The Dawn Deathstar Rising
Before The Dawn Rise of the Phoenix
Before the Rain Frail
Behemoth Evangelion
Behemoth The Satanist
They brought back some black metal influences. They added a ton more dynamics. They made the bass audible. Somehow they also made the songs very catchy and memorable despite it being black/death metal. The overuse of blast beats has been fixed and just about every tracks has its own identity that finally makes a Behemoth album listenable from start to finish.
Believer Dimensions
Believer 1 of 5
Believer have always had a pretty recognizable sound, in no small part due to the unique rasp of vocalist Kurt Bachman. That technical thrash sound and raspy vocal style ran its course with the release of Gabriel in 2009. The subsequent release, Transhuman, saw the band experimenting with more pure progressive parts and a cleaner vocal style and it definitely worked. This EP is a continuation of that process, shedding even more thrash elements in favor of an angular (yet melodic) mid-era Voivod kind of sound that is almost kind of chill in its delivery. The vocals, too, have shed the last remaining thrash elements and are now completely clean. It's ambitious and they succeeded. Will definitely take a few listens to truly set in.
Bell Witch Mirror Reaper
Funeral Doom has a high cost of entry. One does not simply walk into a funeral doom album unprepared. The music?s lethargic pace coupled with riffs and melodies that can take minutes to come together, and death growls that sound more like a continuous abstract groan than actual words or syllables ? these are the hurdles that one most overcome in order to enjoy most funeral doom. That doesn?t even begin to get into the genre?s propensity to write songs that are ten-to-twenty minutes (or even longer). Mirror Reaper is all of those things, except taken to a one-hour and twenty-four minute runtime. It?s also really good and a rewarding listen for anyone that has the time and patience. Despite the extended runtime, the melodies are fairly instant and memorable and the death growls are broken up by the occasion clean vocals. Would this be the album I recommend to someone just getting into the genre; probably not. Is it something those already into the genre absolutely should check out? Definitely.
Belphegor Blood Magick Necromance
Best Coast California Nights
Between the Buried and Me Colors
Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues
Between the Buried and Me Best Of
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence
Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic
I've never been a fan of their music, but this is much better. My main problem with these guys is the same one I've always had? they seem to lack any kind of direction or cohesiveness. Songs just go until they stop.
Between the Buried and Me Automata II
Big Grams Big Grams
Binary Number Binary Codes With Lines
Birdy Live in London
Bitcrush Collapse
Bjork Post
Bjork Debut
Bjork Biophilia Live
Black Fast Starving Out the Light
Black Math Horseman Wyllt
Black Sun Aeon Darkness Walks Beside Me
Bleeding Through The Great Fire
Metalcore with a bit of a black metal influence in the keyboards. Powerful vocals, decent breakdowns, cool keyboard parts. Good shit.
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
blink-182 Dude Ranch
blink-182 Neighborhoods
blink-182 One More Time...
Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta I - Fathers Of The Icy Ages
Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars
Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World!
Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band
Bomb the Music Industry! Get Warmer
Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles
Boreworm Entomophobia
Borknagar Urd
Born of Osiris The Discovery
Born of Osiris Soul Sphere
Bosse-de-Nage III
Bosse-de-Nage All Fours
Post black metal/screamo/punk whatever. They have an excellent drummer, too.
Bran Van 3000 Glee
Broken Little Sister Memories Violet and Demons
BT Movement In Still Life
Buck-O-Nine Water In My Head
Buck-O-Nine On a Mission
Bush The Science of Things
Cake Like Delicious
Caliban Gravity
I’ve always had a soft spot for Caliban’s music despite the fact there’s nothing extraordinary about them. The most unique thing about Caliban is their excellent use of electronics in order to create some awesome melodic elements within the chugging. They’re also really good at churning out memorable choruses even if they sometimes get in the way of the overall pace of the song. Other than that, the best thing that could be said about Gravity is that it is another step above their previous releases with some cool vocal variety and a flawless representation of the metalcore genre. Gravity made an excellent addition to my gym playlist.
Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant
In Contact hooked me immediately. I loved every aspect of that album, and definitely looked forward to this release when I heard about it. That anticipation combined with just how much I love their previous release are probably two reasons this one didn't grab me as much. There is more to that, though. Rise Radiant is a heavier, more guitar-driven, album that isn't nearly as catchy and melodic. I really like this album, but I miss the catchy and melodic elements. This album kind of reminds me of Tesseract if they knew how to write interesting songs.
Cami Bradley Anomalous
Candiria What Doesn't Kill You...
Candiria Kiss The Lie
Cannibal Corpse Live Cannibalism
Cannibal Corpse Kill
Cannibal Corpse Global Evisceration
Carcass Wake Up and Smell the Carcass
Carnivore Retaliation
Caspian The Four Trees
Caspian Tertia
Caspian Waking Season
Cavalera Conspiracy Psychosis
This one probably needs a little explanation. How does a Cavalera Conspiracy album end up on a ?best of? list? My personal lists are based on two things: how much did I enjoy it and how often did I come back to it. It doesn?t have to be ground breaking or feature mind-fucking musicianship; it doesn?t even have to be a genre essential. This is a good thing, because that basically sums up Psychosis. Psychosis attacks with a thrashy ferocity that is singular in its focus, and relentless in its pursuit of the almighty riff. Just about every song launches at a breakneck pace, and rarely lets up from there ? except for the occasional slower sections (relatively speaking) that are basically thrashy breakdowns. Psychosis isn?t ground breaking or even all that original, and it certainly won?t win any musicianship awards, but the conviction and unrelenting focus makes this an album that I?ll continue to come back to.
Celeste Infidele(s)
Celeste specialize in moderately paced, 90s-era black metal, with occasional bouts of energy, but with a larger focus on heavy riffs. Their style is probably most similar to Malsain, Abbath, and maybe even Satyricon?s classic style. What sets Infidele(s) apart from a lot of the more recent black metal releases is how well it is done. The production is clear and powerful, and allows the abundant collection of riffs to simply drive each song forward. Also, despite there being very little melody (in the traditional sense of the word), the songs all get stuck in your head after only a few listens. This is in large part due to how well the riffs were written. Anyone looking for a well-done black metal release that eschews the frantic pace of its peers in favor of a deliberate, riff-filled, black metal album need look no further than Infidele(s). One last thing, they also don?t do the keyboard drenched symphonic thing either, so there?s that.
Celestial Season The Secret Teachings
There was a time around the release of Solar Lovers in 1995 that Celestial Season seemed like they were going to start to be mentioned along the lines of such doom greats as Paradise Lost, Anathema, and My Dying Bride. They had two violin players, and made better use of them than My Dying Bride. They had the melancholic atmospheres and crushing riffs of Serenades-era Anathema. They also had the raw grit and punchiness of Shades of God-era Paradise Lost. Granted, Solar Lovers was still a little rough around the edges, but they were on the cusp. Instead, they moved into the kind of stoner doom dominated by bands like Cathedral and Trouble, and eventually faded away. Twenty-five years after the release of Solar Lovers, and Celestial Season is back with everything that made them great. Classic 90s-era doom.
Celldweller Live Upon a Blackstar
Charlotte Sometimes Waves And The Both Of Us
Chaser Dreamers
It's No Use For A Name reincarnated. Nothing wrong with that.
Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun
There was a 90s record label called Projekt Records that specialized in lush, etheral, albums that trended towards breathy female vocals, lush, yet minimal, instrumentation, and an abundance of atmosphere. I imagine if one of those bands ever decided to do a doomy/post metal-ish release it would sound exactly like this. Despite the use of guitars, drums, and bass, the music itself leans towards an almost abstract and ethereal sound that just so happens to revel in a gritty/heavy space that is entirely unexpected. It?s unexpected because Chelsea Wolfe?s vocals are so? how do you even describe her voice? They?re soft, yet sinister. They kind of drift over the music, but are still the focal point. They?re sweet sounding, but dark as hell.
Chemlab Burnout at the Hydrogen Bar
Cherri Bomb This Is the End of Control
Children of Bodom Tokyo Warhearts
Chroma Key Dead Air For Radios
Circle of Dust Circle of Dust
Circle of Dust Brainchild
Circle of Dust Metamorphisis (Remastered)
Cloves Nightmare on Elmfield Road
Clubroot II - MMX
Coeur de Pirate Coeur de Pirate
Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow
Collide Counting to Zero
Colosseum (Fin) Chapter I: Delirium
Combichrist Today We Are All Demons
Conjure One Exilarch
Conjurer (UK) I
A very good mix of doom, death, black metal and post metal that doesn't sound disjointed at all. Excellent pacing, cool melodies, and pretty damn heavy.
Convocation Ashes Coalesce
Even for fans of the genre, doom/death can quickly become a mind-numbing chore when it's not done really well. The droning riffs combined with two-dimensional death vocals all moving at the speed of snot is enough to drive someone nuts if not done right. Ashes Coalesce is doom/death done right. Yes, the tempos are lethargic and the death vocals are almost abstract in their growl, but the riffs are crushing, the keyboards create a dark oppressive atmosphere, and there are enough tempo changes to keep things from turning into a slog. Also, this album is heavy as hell.
Correatown Spark. Burn. Fade.
Courtney Farren Nothing Like It
Cradle of Filth Lovecraft & Witch Hearts
Cranes Loved
Cranes Self-Non-Self
Cranes Cranes
Crematory Believe
Cruel Black Dove The Myth and the Sum
Crystal Castles Amnesty (I)
I’m not a Crystal Castles fan. I’ve never thought they sucked, but they’ve never really kept my attention either. From what I can remember, their previous albums were just a little too noisy for me (or I could be remembering completely wrong). Either way, this one is very atmospheric and warm with some great melodies, creative beats, and an excellent use of samples and occasional vocals. There’s still the prerequisite noise that I vaguely remember from their previous releases, but it seems more well done this time around.
Cult of Luna Salvation
Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway
Cult of Luna Vertikal
Currents The Way It Ends
There isn't anything really special about these guys as far as innovation or crazy musicianship or whatever, but they do play with a level of conviction that is second to none. The Way it Ends is semi-aggressive metalcore that incorporates electronics, a fair level of atmosphere, and a decent amount of clean vocals. Again, that's nothing out of the ordinary for this spectrum of metalcore, but it is definitely very well done. Almost the perfect blend of heaviness, catchiness, and atmosphere within the metalcore genre.
Cyanotic The After Effect
Cynic Demo 1991
Cynic ReFocus
Cynic’s sound was so ahead of its time that they never even stood a chance. While Focus has since gained widespread recognition as the landmark release it always was, and its influence can be heard in the sound of countless bands that have followed, it somehow never received a full modernization before now. Unfortunately, while ReFocus had the potential to bring a modern sound to a ‘dated’ production, it ultimately missed the mark. Despite widespread auditory improvements across the board, the new riff sound is simply too flat. That doesn’t mean ReFocus isn’t worth listening to, though. The new expanded production reveals sounds that have been buried for nearly thirty years while allowing the rhythm section to shine. Ultimately, the sound of ReFocus is going to be very jarring for the first few moments, but eventually you should lose yourself in the songs and (mostly) forget what they did to the metal riffs.
D Creation Silent Echoes
Daemonarch Hermeticum
Dagoba What Hell Is About
Dagoba Poseidon
Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech
Dark Tranquillity Skydancer/Of Chaos And Eternal Night
Dark Tranquillity The Gallery
Dark Tranquillity Of Chaos and Eternal Night
Dark Tranquillity Zero Distance
Darkseed Diving into Darkness
Darkstar Marching Into Oblivion
Darling Parade Battle Scars and Broken Hearts
Daylight Dies Dismantling Devotion
Daylight Dies A Frail Becoming
To me, it always seemed like Daylight Dies was trying to make the ‘black album’ of doom. Much like Metallica’s release did with metal, this band seems to be trying to boil doom down to its best elements and deliver them in short, easy to consume bursts. Paradise Lost has had some success with the formula and My Dying Bride gave it a shot with Like Gods of the Sun, but Daylight Dies had never really hit that level of quality — until now.
Dead When I Found Her Rag Doll Blues
Deadlock Wolves
Deadlock Manifesto
Deadlock The Re-Arrival
To me, this doesn't sound all that different from the originals -- but I'm also not a big fan of theirs and couldn't even tell you which songs on here are the new ones. It's good, though.
Death Symbolic
Death Tyrant Opus De Tyranis
Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
Defecto Excluded
This is one album that definitely flew under the radar, and would probably have a tough time appealing to a large demographic anyway. Defecto takes Kamelot’s version of power/progressive metal and blends it with a Practice What You Preach era Testament sound, but pushes the whole thing through a Kings-X/Galactic Cowboys filter. The order of the day is huge, riffy, proggy songs with blazing solos and in-your-face infectious choruses. The vocalist even reminds me of 80s-era Chuck Billy (Testament) with maybe a bit more melody in places. There’s even some death metal vocals in places to accentuate various sections. Approach with an open mind because the array of genres means that there’s something to put off just about anybody if you let it.
Deftones Diamond Eyes
Deftones Gore
I’m not sure why every new Deftones release brings so much negativity. It could have something to do with their loose attachment to the nu metal movement, even though that has been null and void since the release of their sophomore album. More likely, it’s all the kids that used to like the band that have ‘grown up’, and now have to prove to everyone that they’re too mature for a band like this. Kind of like when you see an ex that you really used to like and you have to immediately start talking shit to prove that you’re over her… but you’re fucking not. Get over it. Deftones are still the same Deftones that you used to love, but unlike your ex, they’re still willing to take you back.
Deicide The Stench of Redemption
Deicide Legion
Deicide To Hell With God
I expected this to suck and it didn't. I can't really say that I'm all that familiar with the band, but I seem to remember that the death vocals used to be an unintelligible gurgle and the pace of the songs ruined any cool riffs that might exist.... that's not the case this time. The growls are clear and powerful and there are actual dynamics (and awesome riffs, by extention).
Delain April Rain
Delerium Chimera
Delerium Karma
Delerium Semantic Spaces
Delerium Spheres II
Delerium Spheres I
Delerium Voice (An Acoustic Collection)
Deluge Ægo Templo
It seems like every year I kind of fall into one genre more than any of the others. This year was post black metal. I really got into the juxtaposition between the dark and aggressive versus the mellow and beautiful. I also appreciated how a lot of the songs in the genre seemed to flow from one idea to the next without ever becoming too repetitious. Hailing from France, Deluge do those things too, but they've added a fair amount of hardcore to the mix. The vocals are more shouts than your typical black metal rasp, the clean singing also takes more from hardcore than the mellow croon of some of their contemporaries. Criminally unknown post black metal with quite a bit of balls.
Depeche Mode Enjoy the Silence
Depeche Mode Touring the Angel: Live in Milan
Device Device
Devin Townsend Devolution Series #1 - Acoustically Inclined, Live
Devin Townsend Project By A Thread: Live in London 2011
Devin Townsend Project Epiclouder
Dia Frampton Red
Dido Safe Trip Home
Die Krupps The Final Remixes
Die Krupps I (Remastered)
Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Dink Dink
Dinosaur Jr. Green Mind
Disarmonia Mundi The Isolation Game
Disharmonic Orchestra Expositionsprophylaxe
Disillusion Alea
Dissection Live Legacy
Distant Landscape Insights
After Night is the New Day Katatonia decided to take their compact little sound and expand it with progressive and atmospheric elements. For everyone that thought that it was a good idea, but hated the actual execution, there is Distant Landscape. This was the sound I had in mind when I was reading about Katatonia taking their sound in a more atmospheric/progressive kind of direction. Highly recommended.
Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists
Disturbed The Sickness: 10th Anniversary Edition
DJ Rap Learning Curve
DJ Spooky Of Water and Ice
Doom VS Dead Words Speak
Doom VS Earthless
No-frills doom. These guys are finally starting to get in a groove. This album is heavy, melodic (in places), dark and slow-as-fuck.
Doomed Our Ruin Silhouettes
Crushingly oppressive funeral doom that still manages to have enough dynamics that it won't just force you into a coma.
Download The Eyes of Stanley Pain
Download Sidewinder
Draconian Arcane Rain Fell
Draconian A Rose for the Apocalypse
This is definitely a more diverse and dynamic version of Draconian. The melodies aren't as simple & repetitive and the songs aren't nearly as riffy as previous albums. Also, the female vocals have stepped away from much of the 'goth' influence which actually provides even more contrast with the death vocals. It's definitely the first Draconian album that's going to make listeners pay attention and listen a few times before it really clicks.
Drain STH Freaks Of Nature
Dreadnought Emergence
Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite
Dream Theater Systematic Chaos
Dream Theater Greatest Hit
Dream Theater Live Scenes From New York
Dream Theater Breaking the Fourth Wall
Dream Theater LIVE AT BUDOKAN (DVD/BD)
Dream Theater Distant Memories
Driving Mrs. Satan Popscotch
Dropkick Murphys The Warrior's Code
Dropkick Murphys Live on St. Patrick's Day from Boston
Dropkick Murphys Blackout
Dropkick Murphys The Singles Collection, Volume 2
Dropkick Murphys The Meanest of Times
Dropkick Murphys Live on Lansdowne, Boston MA
Dropkick Murphys Going Out In Style
Drudkh Blood In Our Wells
Drudkh Estrangement
Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel
E.M.I.T.R Colours
Econoline Crush The Devil You Know
Eisley Like the Actors E.P.
Ellie Herring Kite Day
Emarosa Relativity
Emarosa Emarosa
Emiliana Torrini Love In the Time of Science
Emiliana Torrini Me and Armini
Emilie Simon La Marche De L'Empereur
Emilie Simon March of the Empress
Eminem The Slim Shady LP
Eminem The Eminem Show
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2
Emme Packer Joy. The Machine.
Emperor Live Inferno
Emperor Live at Wacken Open Air 2006 (DVD)
End of the Dream All I Am
This is just well done gothic/symphonic metal with excellent female vocals. Is there anything special or unique about this album? Not really, but it's well done without taking the symphonic element too far and the female vocals aren't annoyingly high pitched.
Engine Engine
Enigma Love Sensuality Devotion: The Greatest Hits
Enslaved Ruun
Enya A Day Without Rain
Enya Shepherd Moons
Enya The Memory of Trees
Enya Paint The Sky With Stars
Enya The Very Best Of Enya
Epica Design Your Universe
Epica The Quantum Enigma
This is probably the best that Epica have ever done. It's heavy, catchy and contains some of the best song writing of their career... of course it's still Epica, so there's the big 'cheese' factor as well.
Epica Live at Paradiso
Era for a Moment When Earth Meets Sky
Erin Martin Kinder Than Silence
ERRA Neon
Esoteric The Maniacal Vale
Esoteric Paragon of Dissonance
Esthero Breath from Another
Eternal Deformity The Beauty of Chaos
At this point these guys are more progressive metal than black metal, but it is not entirely missing. The dark atmospheres, keyboard style and growls still play a pretty large part of each song, but the clean vocals and progressive melodies are much more prominent. This album also improves the actual songwriting and doesn't have a tendency to drag-ass like the previous one did.
Eternal Deformity No Way Out
The Eternal Deformity that I’m used to is that of the Beauty of Chaos/Frozen Circus era. A band known for classic Depeche Mode covers and quirky progressive black metal. I’d imagine, though, that Eternal Deformity’s earliest material was more of a pure black metal style. If I’m right, then I’d be able to call No Way Out a ‘back-to-roots’ album because it is definitely way more black metal than weird prog. It still has it’s share of clean singing and keyboard melodies, but they’re more along the lines of what you could expect from a normal black metal release. It also has much more of a riffy thrash influence than their previous two releases. Don’t get me wrong, there are still plenty of melodic progressive elements, but they’re not prominent and definitely not strange. The two best songs are easily the two 10-minute tracks. Overall, No Way Out is still a really good release, it’s just a different sound for this band.
Ethersens Your Wandering Ghost
This is a strange hybrid. It's kind of progressive metal, kind of post metal, kind of post punk... it's definitely very rhythmic and atmospheric. Whatever it is, I like it.
Everclear Songs From An American Movie, Vol. 1
Evereve Regret
Evergrey Hymns for the Broken
Evergrey The Storm Within
At its core, The Storm Within is just another typical traditional progressive metal release that shares plenty with song-oriented bands such as Queensryche and Fates Warning. There’s the obviously excellent musicianship, powerful choruses, classy solos, and soaring vocals that make up any good progressive metal album, but there’s also a bit more. The Storm Within takes most of the good parts of traditional prog and mixes them with a subtle djent/modern prog edge. Admittedly, I don’t really keep up with Evergrey, but I’m pretty sure the modern elements are new for them. Whether or not they are, the band pulls off their sound really well.
Evergrey Escape of the Phoenix
Everline Popcorn Movies
Evoken A Caress of the Void
Evoken Atra Mors
Dark, depressing funeral doom. These guys are one of the best of the genre and they’ve released another dose of slow-as-fuck doom full of dark atmospheres and guttural death growls.
Exivious Liminal
Exodus Shovel Headed Tour Machine
Exxasens Polaris
Exxasens Satellites
Eyefear The Unseen
Eyes Set to Kill Broken Frames
Eyes Set to Kill Masks
Faith No More Live at the Brixton Academy
Falloch Where Distant Spirits Remain
Far Water & Solutions
Fatboy Slim You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Fates Warning The Spectre Within
Fates Warning FWX
Fates Warning Live at the Dynamo
Fates Warning Long Day Good Night
To be honest, Long Day Good Night sounds like what I assumed Ray's solo album was going to be -- a vocal-driven album that contained hints of Fates Warning, but that was otherwise more metal, modern, and streamlined. Despite the streamlined feel of the songs, and the lack of a unified direction, Fates Warning have still delivered an enjoyable album... and possibly even threw their fans a curveball due to the abundance of musical diversity. Just about every Fates Warning album has had a way to differentiate itself from the rest of the catalog, Long Day Good Night will be known as the modern, sleek, Fates Warning album that dropped most the tangents, did away with all the moodiness, and just rocked.
Fauxliage Fauxliage
Fear Factory Fear Is the Mindkiller
Fear Factory Remanufacture
Fear Factory The Industrialist (Re-Industrialized)
Feed Her to the Sharks Fortitude
Chugging metalcore. Everyone seems to be bitching about how generic this album is and how it isn't 2006 anymore... who fucking cares? It's good and the only real problem is that a lot of the choruses sound similar.
Fei-Fei Pretty Girls Don't Hallucinate
Felix Martin Mechanical Nations
I can see how some people might find this unlistenable. First of all, instrumental rock/metal music has a limited fanbase to begin with, and Mechanical Nations can?t even fit comfortably into either of those genres. Felix Martin is a self-taught child prodigy from Venezuela. He eventually managed to go to Berklee College of Music, and eventually launched a solo career. His angle, if you want to call it that, is that he plays custom 13-, 14-, and 16-string guitars, and he plays them more like a bass guitar. A lot of the sounds that come from this album sound like a more melodic, more energetic version of what Les Claypool does on Primus songs. Basically, this guy plays all sorts of funky looking guitars and delivers some of the coolest instrumental music I?ve ever heard. It?s not metal by any stretch of the imagination, but it definitely has an edge. It?s like progressive rock/jazz/metal/unique shit. The twitchy rhythmic nature of the songs and the out of left field melodies just appeal to me.
Fen/Sleepwalker Call of Ashes II/Stone and Sea
Filter Title Of Record
Filter Crazy Eyes
Filter have never been an industrial band. They've always featured electronics in their music, but they're basically alt. metal. Having said that, this is definitely a good alt. metal album that features a decent use of electronics.
Finch Say Hello to Sunshine
Finch Epilogue
Finch What It Is to Burn X
Fireflight Now
Flesh Field Belief Control
Floor Jansen Live In Amsterdam
Flotsam and Jetsam Doomsday for the Deceiver
Flotsam and Jetsam My God
Flotsam and Jetsam Drift
Flotsam and Jetsam No Place for Disgrace - 2014
So what makes this worth it? A nice, clear guitar tone that makes the riffs more recognizable and heavier. Somed solos rand extras. More powerful drum sound. An overall fuller sound for the entire album. Last, Eric's voice has aged like fine rwine. He sings the songs with the grittier vocal delivery that he started using on Cuatro while still hitting the high notes.rWhat's questionable? Mostly, the fact that they slowed down the tempo in a few places (Most noticeable in the title rtrack, but also in a few other spots). Those that love the classic 80s thrash sound will definitely be upset by the modern rproduction.
Flotsam and Jetsam Flotsam and Jetsam
With the constant personnel rotations, it’s always a bit of a surprise when it comes to a new Flotsam and Jetsam release. Sometimes it’s a good surprise and sometimes it’s a little bit of a disappointment. Flotsam and Jetsam’s new self-titled release is definitely a good surprise. It brings back the 80s thrash vibe in a way that even the band’s No Place for Disgrace re-recording couldn’t pull off, and it blends it with the modern moody aggression of The Cold. This blend easily places it in the top 5 of Flotsam and Jetsam’s discography, led by the standout track ‘Verge of Tragedy’. If Ugly Noise made it seem like Flotsam and Jetsam were kind of going through the motions and lacking direction, their self-titled release with returning member Michael Spencer and fresh blood Jason Bittner completely make up for it while proving that sometimes a little member churn can be a good thing.
Flotsam and Jetsam The End of Chaos
I'm not going to lie, my favorite Flotsam releases are When the Storm Comes Down, Cuatro, Drift, and The Cold. I've never thought their thrash stuff was all that great, but when they cut the fat and move into a more mainstream metal sound I generally love it. Having said that, this album definitely isn't bad even though they've gone back to a straight-ahead thrash sound. The production on The End of Chaos is impeccable and the riffs, solos, and drums are much better than almost anything else they've done on one of their thrash-oriented releases. Eric A.K.'s vocals are still the coolest thing about this release, as is the case on most Flotsam releases -- and, yes, the album cover is terrible
Flowing Tears Thy Kingdom Gone
For All Eternity Metanoia
Melodic metalcore. The heavy parts are pretty cool and the melodic musical parts are cool too. The clean vocals leave a little to be desired, though.
Forsaken After the Fall
Front 242 Re-Boot: Live '98
Front 242 Moments 1
Front Line Assembly Artificial Soldier
Front Line Assembly Caustic Grip
Front Line Assembly Millennium (Single)
Front Line Assembly Warmech
Frozen Silence Frozen Silence
Frozen Silence Heart of Winter
Fudge Tunnel The Complicated Futility of Ignorance
Fugazi 13 Songs
Fugazi First Demo
Funeral From These Wounds
Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation
Funeral for a Friend Hours
Funeral for a Friend The Great Wide Open
Funeral for a Friend Your History is Mine: 2002–2009
Funeral for a Friend The Young And Defenseless
Funeral for a Friend See You All In Hell
This is the most aggressive and 'metal' thing they've ever released. Not bad at all.
Further Seems Forever Hope This Finds You Well
Gaerea Mirage
Super solid (almost) no-frills black metal. The guitar melodies are second to none, and the aggression is non-stop. One of the best black metal albums of the year, for sure.
Galactic Cowboys Machine Fish
Galactic Cowboys Long Way Back To The Moon
After 17 years, the Galactic Cowboys came out of nowhere with the announcement of their seventh album Long Way Back To The Moon, and only the third release to feature the original line-up. For those that have heard them before, Long Way Back To The Moon reminds me of a cross between the prog(ish) metal of their debut and the grungier, dirtier, more linear direction they started on Machine Fish. The thing is, Long Way Back To The Moon is better than either of those releases (and their whole discography, really). Whereas previous releases always had some sort of issue that detracted from the album?s overall quality, this one takes everything from their past including the chunky metal riffs, alternative rock and grunge influences, and the huge harmonized choruses and delivers them in a near-perfect package. If their are issues it?s that the abundance of harmonized vocals have a tendency to sound fairly cheesy and make the songs sound more similar than they really are. Also, their vocalist has the same nasally delivery as Voivod?s Denis ?Snake? Blanger during their Angel Rat era, which could be off-putting to some? but not to me.
Gamma Ray No World Order
Gamma Ray Skeletons in the Closet
Gamma Ray Hell Yeah!!! The Awesome Foursome
Gamma Ray Heading for the East
Garbage Absolute Garbage
Gates (USA-NJ) You Are All You Have Left to Fear
Geist Galeere
Genghis Tron Dream Weapon
Glasser Ring
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute
Glassjaw Coloring Book
Glassjaw Material Control
I would have preferred something that continued from where Coloring Book left off. Of all their albums, that one is easily my favorite? but Material Control is definitely no let down. Whereas Coloring Book was a grooving, Deftones-inspired release, Material Control is a rhythmic monster of noise, feedback, and formless waves of distortion that somehow comes together to make songs. The best way describe almost every aspect of this album is abstract. Save a few conventional riffs, most of the music, beats, and rhythms almost feel? well, abstract and formless.
Gnostic Engineering the Rule
God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut
God Lives Underwater Empty
Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl
Goo Goo Dolls Live in Buffalo July 4th 2004
Goo Goo Dolls Gutterflower
Goo Goo Dolls A Boy Named Goo
Good Charlotte The Chronicles of Life and Death
Gorefest False
Gorguts Pleiades' Dust
Gorguts are one of the definitive old-school technical death metal bands. This 33-minute song only goes to prove it.
Grace Valhalla Wire [works in regress]
Grace Valhalla Psychopathethic
Grace Valhalla Valhalla Rising
Graveworm Scourge of Malice
Graveworm Diabolical Figures
Green Day Dookie
Green Day Kerplunk
Green Day ¡UNO!
A lot of people hate this album, but I don’t. Why? Because I don’t live with Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and Jesus — I live in reality and I understand that they really only know how to make simple pop punk. Yes, they tried to expand their sound and the masses flocked to it because the extended song lengths made them feel less musically retarded, but it was a fluke. This is what they do and they generally do it pretty well.
Grieved Samaritans
Grimes Miss Anthropocene
Weird atmospheric electronic music that straddles the line between ambient, dream pop, and electro-pop. I love the layers of vocals and synths, as well as all the twisted effects that are added to everything. The whole thing is anchored by creative, yet chill, beats and just enough pop influence to keep everything memorable.
Habitants Alma
Hanging Garden Inherit the Eden
Hatebreed Hatebreed
Haujobb Vertical Theory
Haujobb Matrix
Haujobb Freeze Frame Reality
Hayley Westenra River of Dreams - Very Best of
Hayley Westenra Odyssey
Hayley Westenra Pure
Heaven Shall Burn Antigone
Heaven Shall Burn Deaf to Our Prayers
Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 2: Bildersturm)
Heaven Shall Burn Of Truth and Sacrifice
Heaven Shall Burn have always felt like they were capable of so much more than they actually did, and Of Truth and Sacrifice goes further towards realizing that potential. The riffs and aggression are top notch, the melodic parts are really well-crafted, and the throat shredding vocals are excellent. The thing that keeps this double album moving is the little bit of diversity it features. One day these guys might actually surprise, but with the level of conviction and the excellent songs they continue to churn out, this is still pretty damn good.
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy
Helloween Better Than Raw
Helloween Helloween
Helmet Unsung: The Best of Helmet 1991-1997
Helmet Strap It On
Helstar The King of Hell
Helstar A Distant Thunder
Helstar Rising From The Grave
HESS & FRANZEN {CLOSEDLOCKEDSEALED}
Hilltop Hoods State of the Art
Hocico Signos de Aberracion
Hocico Memorias Atras
Hocico Bite Me!
Hocico Blood On The Red Square
Hocico Tora! Tora! Tora!
Hocico Blasphemies in the Holy Land
Hocico Hate Never Dies Vol. 1
Hocico Disidencia Inquebrantable
Holly Brook Like Blood Like Honey
Honour Crest Metrics
Electro-metalcore with a bit of Djent and post hardcore thrown in for good measure. Excellent screaming vocals, good clean singing and the electronics are integrated perfectly.
Honour Crest Spilled Ink
Hoobastank The Reason
Hooverphonic The Magnificent Tree
Hooverphonic No More Sweet Music
Hooverphonic Sit Down and Listen To
Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane
Hooverphonic With Orchestra
Hope For The Dying Dissimulation
Hope For The Dying Aletheia
Hungry Lucy Glo
Hungry Lucy Before We Stand ... We Crawl
Hyborian I
Hybrid (UK) Re_Mixed
Hypno5e Acid Mist Tomorrow
Tesseract without the tunnel vision? The heavy parts are rhythmic, with lots of bottom end and just a bit of Djent influence (without making it the driving force like a lot of these bands). The quieter parts are where these guys really shine, though. The clean, harmonized vocals are great and the melodies are some of the best I?ve heard. Dark, heavy and diverse. There are just a few too many spoken word sections, but not enough to take away from the quality.
Hypno5e A Distant (Dark) Source
Hypno5e are frustrating for a few different reasons. Their brand of epic, atmospheric, post metal/djent/prog is so damn good as well as pretty unique, but they've been doing the same thing for multiple albums with little change. Rather than make any kind of huge musical leap, Hypno5e are content to just keep making minor incremental changes, which makes every one of their albums simply sound like upgrades to the previous ones. Worse, the few things they should drop (such as all the spoken word sections) just keep getting dragged back into every new release. Having said that, A Distant (Dark) Source is definitely their best release. Its production is better, the songs are more memorable, the melodies are better crafted, the effects are more tastefully done, and the spoken word sections have been drawn down a little. On its own, A Distant (Dark) Source is an excellent release… I only wish they'd start to diversify a little more.
I Am Spoonbender Shown Actual Size
I Am Spoonbender Teletwin
I:Scintilla Optics
Iced Earth Something Wicked This Way Comes
Iced Earth Alive in Athens
Ihsahn Eremita
If After showed Ihsahn finally finding his own sound and not relying on the past and blatant influence-worship, then this is him fine-tuning that sound. It’s probably his least aggressive album, but there are still plenty of high speed sections and black metal vocals but they’re mixed with a much larger prog influence as well as more clean vocals and even some sax.
Ikuinen Kaamos The Forlorn
Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness
Impaled Nazarene Death Comes in 26 Carefully Selected Pieces: Live
Impaled Nazarene All That You Fear
Impaled Nazarene Rapture
Impaled Nazarene Nihil
Impaled Nazarene Road to the Octagon
Imperative Reaction Imperative Reaction
In Every Breath Awakening
In Mourning The Weight of Oceans
In Search of Sun Virgin Funk Mother
First off... ignore the first track. I don't know why the lead off with literally the worst track on the album, but every song
after is awesome. In Search of Sun sound like a cross between Dance Gavin Dance and Tesseract. In more broad terms,
Virgin Funk Mother is a funky, melodic alt. prog band that occasionally delves into short bouts of heaviness and
specializes in huge choruses and catchy riffs.
In The Nursery Groundloop
In Vain (NO) Mantra
Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself
Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View
Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Incubus (USA-CA) Monuments and Melodies
Incubus (USA-CA) The Essential Incubus
Informatik Arena
Interlock Crisis//Reinvention
Interloper A Revenant Legacy
Intruder A Higher Form of Killing
Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time
Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Iron Maiden Live at Donington
Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death
Iron Maiden The Final Frontier
Iron Maiden From Fear To Eternity
Iron Maiden En Vivo!
Iron Maiden The Book of Souls
It's a good Iron Maiden release. I'm just not their biggest fan.
Jael Shuffle The Cards
Jael Sinfonia
Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual
Jane's Addiction Strays
Jeff Loomis Zero Order Phase
Jeff Loomis Plains of Oblivion
Jess Mills Vultures
Jess Mills Live For What I'd Die For
Jimmie's Chicken Shack Bring Your Own Stereo
Joe Satriani Flying in a Blue Dream
Joe Satriani Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards
Joe Satriani Live in Paris: I Just Wanna Rock
Joey Cape and Tony Sly Acoustic
Joey Cape and Tony Sly Acoustic 2
Journey The Essential Journey
Journey Greatest Hits Live
Juno Reactor Bible Of Dreams
K. Flay I Stopped Caring In '96
K. Flay Eyes Shut
K. Flay K.Flay
Kalmah 12 Gauge
Kalmah Kalmah
To me, these guys take everything Children of Bodom kind of pioneered and make it better. They start with the same Power metal meets extreme metal foundation as CoB, the same blazing solo style, the same guitar melody-driven song craft, and the same bouncy, upbeat, feel... but they do a few things different and.or better. What I like more about these guys, and this albun, is the deeper growls, the fatter riffs, and the more subdued keyboard usage. My favorite Kalmah release since 12 Gauge.
Kamelot The Fourth Legacy
Kari Band Nimaime
Katatonia Live Consternation
Katatonia Sanctitude
Kate Earl Fate Is The Hunter
Kate Earl Kate Earl
Katharos Of Lineages Long Forgotten
I have to admit there's nothing "special" about Of Lineages Once Forgotten. Katharos play the kind of epic keyboard-accentuated melodic black metal that has been around for decades, but they're also really good at it. The main draw is the well crafted guitar melodies, and that classic black metal atmosphere.
Katy McAllister Take Me Away
Keep of Kalessin Armada
Kerli Love Is Dead
Khors Wisdom of Centuries
Look at the band photo and take a guess as to the type of music these guys play. Did you say melodic black metal? If so, who are you talking to? You’re right, but you might be crazy too. This is definitely melodic black metal with extended song lengths, tempo changes, musical transitions, keyboards and… arm spikes. Note to potential fans… don’t let the bald guy hug you because he might smash your juice box.
Khors Where the Word Acquires Eternity
Coming off like a more versatile Behemoth, Where the Word Acquires Eternity is huge. It's basically a clinic in everything blackened death metal should have. It has the melancholic black metal atmospheres, leads, and melodies. It has the guttural death vocals and huge riffs. It also has a ton of dynamics. One of my favorites from the black metal or death metal genre this year (clearly).
Killing Joke Night Time
Killing Joke Outside The Gate
Killing Joke Absolute Dissent
Killing Joke The Singles Collection 1979-2012
Killing Joke Laugh I Nearly Bought One
Killing Joke Wilful Days
Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage
Kito and Reija Lee Sweet Talk
Klank Still Suffering
KMFDM Symbols
KMFDM WTF?!
KMFDM Live in the USSA
Korn Korn
Korn Follow the Leader
Korn Greatest Hits Vol. 1
KUKL Holidays in Europe
Kylesa Time Will Fuse Its Worth
Lacuna Coil Halflife
Lacuna Coil Unleashed Memories
Lacuna Coil Lacuna Coil
Lacuna Coil The EPs
Lacuna Coil Dark Adrenaline
Lacuna Coil Broken Crown Halo
It's Lacuna Coil still working their mainstream/nu-metal-ish sound. Everything their modern sound is good at is still in place (the occasional catchy chorus, Cristina's vocals, some decent riffs) and everything that still bad is in place (bland songwriting, the crappy male vocals, nu-metal).
Ladyhawke Wild Things
I’m not really familiar with her earlier albums, but apparently this is the weakest in the bunch. I’m kind of skeptical about that because this is really good. Wild Things is a catchy, lush, electro-pop release that is huge on hooks. The cool thing is that the album isn’t just a slave to almighty chorus. It’s obvious from the well done electronics that back every song that this wasn’t just some cookie cutter pop release. On the other hand, if that’s your thing, the hooks will more than keep you coming back.
Ladytron Witching Hour
Ladytron Gravity the Seducer
Last Chance to Reason Level 2
Last view Hell in Reverse
Laura Veirs Carbon Glacier
Leah Kings & Queens
Leaves' Eyes Vinland Saga
Leaves' Eyes Njord
Leddra Chapman A Trick Or Two
Left Spine Down Caution
Leftfield Rhythm And Stealth
Leigh Nash Blue on Blue
Lene Marlin Lost In A Moment
Leprous Coal
Leprous Aphelion
I am definitely more of a fan of the modern Leprous sound than their older stuff. My problem is Aphelion feels more like B-Sides from their last release than a new album. Everything feels a little less polished, a little less exciting, and a little less unique than what I am used to from them. Having said that, it is Leprous and the album is still great... it just feels like they didn't try as hard this time.
Lily Allen Alright, Still
Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You
Limp Bizkit The Unquestionable Truth - Part I
Lindsey Pavao Say Ah
Liquid Trio Experiment When The Keyboard Breaks: Live In Chicago
Lisa Donnelly We Had a Thing
Lissie Catching a Tiger
Lissie Covered Up With Flowers
Lodz Moons and Hideaways
Lorna Shore ...And I Return to Nothingness
Lotte Woran Haltst Du Dich Fest, Wenn Alles Ze
Lotte's name is on the album. If you're listening to this, you're listening for the voice of Lotte. Her soft, breathy, delivery is what makes every one of these songs. That's not to say the music isn't enjoyable, it's just that I stay for the sound of her voice. As for the music, Woran Haltst... is an eclectic album featuring everything from Paramore style poppy punk of "Fuck Baby I'm in Love" to the electro-dance of "Was Machst Du" and even lush ambient electronic ballads like "Dunkelrot Zu Schwarz". Her singing is enjoyable enough and the music catchy enough that I can enjoy this even though I don't speak a word of German.
Love and Death Between Here And Lost
Love Spirals Downwards Flux
Lunascape Mindstalking
Lunik Ahead
Lunik Small Lights in the Dark
Lunik What Is Next
These guys are really beginning to perfect their brand of folky indie-pop. The electronics of their past are long gone, but they’ve still got Jael, and as long as she remains their singer their albums should be pretty damn good. This one is no exception.
Lunik Encore
Machines of Loving Grace Gilt
Madder Mortem Red In Tooth And Claw
I’ve never been a huge fan of Madder Mortem. It has been years since the last time I checked out one of their albums, but I remember not really liking them… although I can’t recall why. I also didn’t know that it had been nearly seven years since the release of their last album. Is this a comeback album or do they just subscribe to Metallica’s album release schedule? Again, I don’t know. What I do know is that despite whatever shortcomings they used to have, they got it right on Red in Tooth and Claw. Madder Mortem’s defining characteristic is the powerful (and forceful) female vocals of Agnete M. Kirkevaag that buck convention by eschewing the operatic vocals the metal genre is known for. Instead she simply busts out the melodies. Red in Tooth and Claw is a moody, riffy, dark progressive metal album with a powerful female vocalist.
Make Them Suffer How to Survive a Funeral
I'm not too familiar with Make Them Suffer's discography, so I'm not really sure why people think this album wastes the band's potential. I can assume these guys dropped some of the more extreme elements in favor of a more streamlined, radio-friendly, direction. Based on the few other songs I've heard, that would be my guess. Either way, I don't care. This is an excellent metalcore release that features just enough keyboards to give it an atmospheric feel, and I love the occasional female vocals. The dude that screams is also one of the better ones I've heard. Also, the songs are all pretty catchy no matter how heavy that get.
Malpractice Turning Tides
It kind of reminds me of a Modern-era Fates Warning meets modern-era Porcupine Tree with a touch more wankey prog thrown in for good measure.
Maria Mena White Turns Blue
Maria Mena Apparently Unaffected
Maria Mena Cause and Effect
Maria Mena Another Phase
Maria Mena Mellow
Maria Mena Viktoria
Maria Mena Weapon In Mind
Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals
Marissa Nadler Songs III: Bird on the Water
Martha Tilston till i reach the sea
Marthyrium Through The Spheres of Darkness
Marty Friedman Inferno
Excellent (mostly) instrumental album from Marty Friedman. The songs with vocals definitely stand out as the best, but even the instrumental songs are memorable.
Massive Attack 100th Window
Massive Attack Protection
Mastodon Remission
Mastodon Crack the Skye
Mastodon Live at the Aragon
Mastodon The Hunter
Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun
Mastodon streamline their current sound. The result is something that's no better or worse than their previous few.
Mastodon Cold Dark Place
Maybeshewill Not For Want Of Trying
Mayhem Chimera
Mayhem European Legions
Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Alive
McCafferty Thanks. Sorry. Sure.
Sloppy, poppy, post hardcore/pop punk with overly angsty lyrics. It's really good, though.
McCafferty Yarn
The first time I ever heard McCafferty was on their EP 'Thanks. Sorry. Sure.". I liked the twisted humor and snotty, foul-mouthed vocals. I also liked the abrasive pop punk sound they had going. The whole thing was just good, sloppy, fun... "Yarn" picks up right where the EP left off. You're not in for any surprises, but it will be a fun ride.
Meat Beat Manifesto Armed Audio Warfare
Meat Beat Manifesto Original Fire
Meat Beat Manifesto Storm The Studio
Mechina The Assembly of Tyrants
Mechina Tyrannical Resurrection
Mechina Conqueror
Mechina Empyrean
When it first starts it seems like it's going to be a masterpiece... but by the halfway point, it's all too redundant.
Mechina Xenon
These guys have definitely perfected their formula. What is that formula? Symphonic Industrial Death Metal. Even though the songs are maybe a little too similar, the album still ends up being pretty great.
Mechina Acheron
Mechina are nothing if not consistent. They've got the symphonic industrial death metal thing down... it's just too bad that, despite improvement with each album, it just feels like more of the same at this point.
Medeia Iconoclastic
Meg and Dia Something Real
Meg and Dia Our Home is Gone
Meg and Dia It's Always Stormy in Tillamook
Meg and Dia Cocoon
Meg and Dia drop the slick pop rock of their previous album and go back to what has always worked for them... cute, stripped down indie pop. It's streaming on their bandcamp page....
Meg and Dia Be Careful, I Love You, Stay in Touch
Meg Myers Take Me To The Disco
It?s no secret that people seemed to dislike this album when compared to her debut. I don?t get where all the hate is coming from. Maybe it?s because this album isn?t nearly as energetic or overtly pop as her previous release? Personally, I like the fact this album is more of a quiet, moody, release that kind of trades a bit of sass for introspection. If her debut felt like an angry, confident, break-up, then this feels like the morning after when doubt has started to creep in. Take Me to the Disco is a chill, pop album full of lush melodies, powerful hooks, and rhythmic beats. What it?s not is the overt girl-power pop of the previous release (which is also really good, by the way). Take Me to the Disco proves that Meg Myers is human too, and doesn?t always have to put on a brave face.
Meg Myers I'd Like 2 Go Home Now
Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!
Megadeth That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires
Megadeth Rust in Peace Live
Megadeth Countdown to Extinction Live
Meiko The Bright Side
Mekong Delta Visions Fugitives
Menagerie In Moderation
Meniscus Absence of I
Meniscus War of Currents
Mental Cruelty A Hill to Die Upon
Mephisto Walz Terra Regina
Merriment Sway
Meshuggah None
Meshuggah Alive
Meshuggah Best Of Meshuggah
People bitching about missing tracks and this being a cash grab and whatever else bitches bitch about... It's a greatest hits album, it's best for people that have a passing interest in the band and want to hear some sort of comprehensive collection. I agree that 'Alive' would work too, unless you're searching specifically for studio versions of songs.
Metallica S&M
Mike Hale Lives Like Mine
Ministry Rio Grande Blood
Ministry In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up
Ministry Every Day is Halloween: Greatest Tricks
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice
Minus the Bear Infinity Overhead
Miranda Sex Garden Fairytales of Slavery
Mirrorthrone Gangrene
Moonspell Memorial
Moonspell Lusitanian Metal
Morbid Angel Domination
Morbid Angel Gateways to Annihilation
Mors Principium Est ...And Death Said Live
Mors Principium Est Dawn of the 5th Era
Motley Crue Decade of Decadence
Mournful Gust The Frankness Eve
Mourning Beloveth Dust
Mr. Bungle Disco Volante
Muchuu Adventure We Go
It's so damn cute and upbeat and fucking happy... I want to hate it, I really do.
Muchuu On Beyond
Murder Inc. Corpuscle
My Dying Bride The Angel and the Dark River
My Dying Bride Songs of Darkness, Words of Light
My Dying Bride Like Gods of the Sun
My Dying Bride The Light at the End of the World
My Dying Bride The Barghest o’ Whitby
My Dying Bride A Map of All Our Failures
Let’s face it, they’re never going to make another Turn Loose the Swans again. It’s just not going to happen. On the other hand, the extended doom/death stuff that they’ve been doing lately is still really good. Probably their best release since returning to the doom sound.
My Fictions Stranger Songs
Myrkskog Superior Massacre
Naglfar Diabolical
Naglfar Pariah
Naglfar Harvest
Naglfar Teras
This is the only album that I’ve heard by these guys, but it’s pretty damn good. It’s just your standard melodic black metal, but it’s really well done and worth repeated listens.
Napalm Death The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code
Napalm Death Order of the Leech
Napalm Death Time Waits for No Slave
Natalie Walker With You
Ne Obliviscaris Exul
I've never been the biggest fan of the clean vocalist, and his nasally delivery still isn't my favorite, but overall this is another great Ne Obliviscaris release. It feels like they're finally starting to get some sense of direction instead a collection of meandering parts that happen to fall under the same song title. They also improved the overall atmosphere of the songs. Musically, their brand of epic progressive death metal is one of the best out there.
Nemesea In Control
Nervecell Psychogenocide
Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets
Neurosis The Word as Law
Neurosis Given to the Rising
Neurosis and Jarboe Neurosis and Jarboe
Nevermore Nevermore
New Found Glory Sticks and Stones
New Found Glory Catalyst
New Found Glory From the Screen to Your Stereo
New Found Glory New Found Glory
New Found Glory Tip Of The Iceberg EP and Takin' It Ova!
New Found Glory Radiosurgery
New Model Army History: The Best of New Model Army
New Years Day Victim to Villain
Nicole Dollanganger Married in Mount Airy
There's something really endearing and compelling about the sweet melancholy that runs through Married in Mount Airy. There's also no doubt Nicole Dollanganger's voice is the vehicle that drives this whole thing. The music is a cross between ethereal goth and indie pop, and excels at creating dark dreary soundscapes.
Nicole Marxen Tether
Night Verses Lift Your Existence
Nightwish Century Child
Nightwish Dark Passion Play
Nightwish Decades: Live In Buenos Aires
Nightwish HUMAN. :II: NATURE.
I know why even some longtime fans had a problem with this. The instantly familiar power metal riffs and head-bobbing beats are gone. The instantaneously catchy choruses are also missing. Instead, the band have taken the Nightwish sound in a much more ?artistic' and experimental direction. Human. :II: Nature. is definitely way more artsy and folky than anything the band has done before. It's even a little bit proggy with its dense collection of ideas, harmonies, and abstract structures. The second album of instrumental stuff is what drags this down. For everyone else, you just have to give this one a few listens because it's nowhere near as catchy and instant as their previous releases.
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails Broken
Nine Inch Nails Still
No Use for a Name Keep Them Confused
No Use for a Name The Feel Good Record of the Year
Nocturnal Rites Shadowland
NOFX 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough
NOFX Ribbed
NOFX Punk in Drublic
NOFX So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes
NOFX The Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us)
NOFX I Heard They Suck Live!!
NOFX They've Actually Gotten Worse Live
NOFX Coaster
NOFX The Longest EP
NOFX Self Entitled
It’s a NoFx album. It’s funny, sarcastic, fun punk rock. What else do you expect? Does anyone really expect them to release variations of The Decline? I bet that even if they did, people would still bitch all the time. It’s NoFx doing NoFx and I love it.
NOFX Ribbed - Live In A Dive
NOFX The Decline - Live at Red Rocks
Noise Unit Drill
Non-Fiction In the Know
Non-Fiction Preface
Northern State Dying In Stereo
Northern State All City
Novembre Classica
Now, Now Dead Oaks EP
Now, Now Every Children Cars
O'Brother Disillusion
Oasis Be Here Now
Obscura Cosmogenesis
Obscura Omnivium
Obsidian Kingdom Mantiis
Post rock, post metal, black metal, doom, progressive… pretty good stuff. The album seems to be one song that is broken up into separate tracks. If nothing else, they all seem to fade into each other. There’s catchy sections, mellow sections and heavy sections and they all work really well together.
Oceans of Sadness Mirror Palace
October Falls A Collapse of Faith
ohGr unDeveloped
Old Man's Child Vermin
Old Man's Child Slaves of the World
Omega Lithium Dreams In Formaline
Opera Diabolicus 1614
1994-era Nevermore (complete with a Warrel Dane sound-alike on male vocals) decide to hire a female vocalist and make a traditional doom album with progressive/thrash elements.
Opeth Deliverance
Opeth Lamentations
Opeth The Candlelight Years
Oranssi Pazuzu Farmokologinen
Orbital Orbital 2
Orbital Snivilisation
OSI Free
Ovid's Withering Scryers of the Ibis
P.O.D. Greatest Hits: The Atlantic Years
P.O.D. Murdered Love
Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane
Pain of Salvation The Perfect Element, Part 1
Panopticon Revisions of the Past
I've never heard the original versions of the two remastered albums on this release, but they sound pretty damn good here. Excellent black metal.
Paper Aeroplanes We Are Ghosts
Paradise Lost Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost Host
Paradise Lost Believe In Nothing
Paradise Lost Tragic Idol
Paradise Lost have finally completed their transition away from the electro-rock influences and have also embraced a bit of their past. This should definitely appeal to those people that still wish for another “Icon” or “Draconian Times”. It’s heavy, doomy, metal.
Paradise Lost Believe In Nothing (Remixed/Remastered)
Paradise Lost Obsidian
I wasn't a fan of Medusa and its two-dimensional back-to-roots sound. Even classics like Icon and Draconian Times had more diversity than that album did. It seemed like Obsidian was going to be an album that went in a similar back-to-roots direction, and it has, but they've managed to bring back a little bit of diversity of sound. There are a lot more melodic elements and clean singing on this release, and the overall songwriting seems to have improved drastically, as well. I don't know what happened between Medusa and here, but the changes were definitely for the better.
Paramore Riot!
Paramore Brand New Eyes
PassCode Clarity
Patty Moon Clouds Inside
Paul Van Dyk Out There and Back
Pearl Jam Vs.
Peeping Tom Peeping Tom
Pennywise Land Of The Free?
Pennywise The Fuse
Pennywise Pennywise
Pennywise From The Ashes
Periphery Periphery
Persefone Aathma
When I think of a conventional progressive death metal, I think of death metal bands that add some melody, some technical chops, and maybe an increased emphasis on hooks, but that are otherwise still death metal. Persefone don?t fall into that stereotype at all. In the broadest terms, Aathema is like a 50/50 split of modern prog and progressive death metal, but without the excesses of either genre. Don?t get me wrong, though, the technical ability is definitely on display wherever you look. The moments where the guitar and keyboard merge to create one seamless solo scream of Dream Theater influence (but, again, without the excess), as do the abrupt rhythm changes, but the band know when to use them and when to return to the song. The clean singing and death vocals are also both well done, and complement the atmospheric undercurrent of every track (while the guitars and rhythm section continuously show of without becoming too much). Aathma is very well done and surprisingly melodic while still being pretty damn riffy.
Pestilence Testimony of the Ancients
pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You!
Pierce the Veil Collide with the Sky
Pieta Brown One and All
Pine Pine
Pine remind me of a mixture of classic Slowdive mixed with a little bit of The Cure and a modern alternative rock edge. The music itself runs between riffy alt. rock and mellow ethereal melodies and features the capable vocals of Darlene Deschamps. It almost reminds me of what modern Tonight Alive might sound like with an ethereal edge, and more of a morose outlook on life.
Pitchblend The Lines Of Unreason
Pitchshifter www.pitchshifter.com
Pitchshifter PSI
PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey Dry
PJ Harvey Uh Huh Her
PJ Harvey Is This Desire?
PJ Harvey and John Parish A Woman a Man Walked By
Poema Remembering You
Poison Look What The Cat Dragged In
Pop Will Eat Itself New Noise Designed By A Sadist
Pord Wild
Very abrasive, noisy album. It's kind of a noise rock and math rock mix with an awesome rhythm section. I love the dirty bass sound on this.
Pretty Lights Passing By Behind Your Eyes
Primal Fear Metal Is Forever - The Very Best Of Primal Fear
Primordial Storm Before Calm
Primordial Redemption at the Puritan's Hand
I had given up on Primoridal after "Storm Before Calm", but I had been reading good things about this album and Amazon had it for $5.99 so I figured "what the hell" and bought it. I'm glad I did. This album is more exciting, less two-dimensional, and has a bit of that "Storm..." flair that I had been missing.
Primus Tales from the Punchbowl
Primus The Brown Album
Primus Antipop
Princess Chelsea The Great Cybernetic Depression
Strange, spacey, indie pop full of lush melodies. --- 50 Characters---
Project Pitchfork Daimonion
Project Pitchfork Quantum Mechanics
Project Pitchfork First Anthology
Project Pitchfork Akkretion
Prong Cleansing
Prong Rude Awakening
Prong Carved Into Stone
Prong State Of Emergency
Protest the Hero Fortress
Protest the Hero Volition
Better than their other three albums? Yes, I'd say so. Fortress is the only PtH release that I ever really listened to consistently, but after three or four songs it would start to sound like a one-trick album. This one isn't as catchy as Fortress was, but it's definitely much more diverse and I think it will have more lasting appeal than its predecessors. It doesn't hurt that this one is also so damn riffy compared to the other three.
Protest the Hero Pacific Myth
Psychotic Waltz Into the Everflow
Psyclon Nine Divine Infekt
Psycroptic Divine Council
Pulley Matters
Pulley The Golden Life
Puracane Things You Should Leave Alone
Pure Reason Revolution Amor Vincit Omnia
PVRIS All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell
I honestly don?t know anything about this band. I?ve never heard their other releases, so I don?t know how they compare. I only know All We Know of Heaven? is an awesome blend of alternative rock and electronic pop, and they have a great female vocalist. The percussion is powerful, the synths are lush and wash over everything, the melodies and hooks are infectious, and Lyndsey Gunnulfsen?s vocals are the glue that tie everything together. Kind of reminds me of what The Jezabels? Synthia album could have been if they had decided to go all in on the more electronic/pop elements of their sound.
Pyogenesis Twinaleblood
Queensryche The Warning
Queensryche Queensryche EP
Queensryche Greatest Hits
Queensryche The Art of Live
Queensryche Sign Of The Times
Queensryche Queensryche
Queensryche Live in Tokyo
Queensryche Digital Noise Alliance
For those that have been waiting for an actual legitimate return to Queensryche's classic sound (and not just a surface level throwback), Digital Noise Alliance is it. It delivers everything their 2013 self-titled release did, but it also includes a lot of elements that were missing such as the sophisticated nuance in the songwriting. Digital Noise Alliance isn't just a homage to the past, though, because it also takes the best elements from Condition Human and The Verdict, such as the metallic edge and progressive slant. Altogether, Digital Noise Alliance is probably the closest modern Queensryche has ever been to recapturing their classic sound, but it's still decidedly contemporary with its use of the more metallic and progressive elements first introduced with Todd La Torre.
Quo Vadis Defiant Imagination
Rabbit Junk This Life Is Where You Get Fucked
Rabbit Junk Project Nonagon
It's more like the last The Shizit album than past Rabbit Junk releases, but it's still awesome. The only thing I miss is the female vocals and a bit of that intangible fun factor.
Rabbit Junk Beast
Rabbit Junk Singles from the Lost Years 2011-2013
Rabbit Junk Ghetto Blasphemer II - From the Stars
Rabbit Junk Consolidate
Rabbit Junk Modified Mortality
Rabbit Junk Reveal
Rachael Yamagata Happenstance
Rachael Yamagata Chesapeake
Rachael Yamagata EP
Radius System Escape/Restart
Raventale Mortal Aspirations
Red (USA) Until We Have Faces
Red Moon Architect Concealed Silence
Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn
Redemption The Fullness of Time
Redemption Live From The Pit
Excellent song choices, excellent sound and the performances are tight. If you like the albums, buying this is a pretty safe bet.
Regina Spektor Far
Reid Speed Resonance
Revocation Empire of the Obscene
Rie Sinclair Glow
Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture
Rise Against The Unraveling
Riverside Out of Myself
Riverside O2 Panic Room
Rosetta The Galilean Satellites
Rotting Christ Lucifer Over Athens
Royksopp The Understanding
Rush Rush in Rio
Rush Snakes & Arrows
Rush Snakes & Arrows Live
Rush Working Men
Rush Grace Under Pressure Tour
Rush Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland
Rush Moving Pictures: Live 2011
Russian Circles Enter
Sacred Reich Surf Nicaragua
Sacred Reich The American Way
Sacred Reich Still Ignorant
Sad Day For Puppets Just Like A Ghost EP
Sad Day For Puppets Pale Silver And Shiny Gold
Like a cross between The Cure and Dinosaur Jr. but with a female vocalist. Fuck yeah.
Sad Day For Puppets Come Closer
Sad Night Dynamite Sad Night Dynamite
Sadistik The Balancing Act
Sadistik Flowers for My Father
Sadistik Ultraviolet
No surprise -- another great, chill, atmospheric hip hop album. Awesome.
Samael Rebellion
Samael Exodus
Samael Hegemony
It?s hard to talk about Hegemony without constant comparisons to Passage because the two albums are firmly rooted in the same formula. They both feature an industrialized percussive rhythm, fat power chords, vicious growls and the spirit of black metal (if not occasionally the sound). Within the framework of Samael?s discography, Hegemony is the natural progression of everything that made Passage a classic with only minor nods to anything that happened between the two releases. As it is, 15 years late, Hegemony is a great release that finally embraces the nostalgia of the band?s long-time fans. If Samael truly want to experience a musical renaissance, though, they need to do more than simply rehash a sound they should have kept nearly two decades ago. I believe they still have the talent to do so, and Hegemony proves they still have the drive.
Samael Passage - Live
Sara Bareilles Little Voice
Sara Bareilles Brave Enough Live at the Variety
Sarah Fimm Cocooned
This is a noisy, gritty and kind of strange album... totally unexpected.
Sarah Fimm A Perfect Dream
Sarah Fimm The Vanishing Sessions (B-Sides Part I)
Sarah Fimm Karma Phala
Sarah Fimm Barn Sessions
Sarah McLachlan Afterglow
Satanic Surfers Going Nowhere Fast
Satanic Surfers 666 Motor Inn
Scarleth The Silver Lining
Scarve The Undercurrent
Scarve Irradiant
Senses Fail From the Depths of Dreams
Senses Fail Let It Enfold You
Senses Fail If There Is Light, It Will Find You
Senses Fail return to the poppy post hardcore of their first few albums. If you're one of those that preferred their early sound over the more abrasive later albums, this is the album you've been looking for. Yes, the lyrics are still occasionally stupid and/or cringe-worthy and the Senses Fail whine has made a comeback, but it's still too good to be brought down too much by those things.
Sentenced Story - A Recollection
Sevendust Time Travelers and Bonfires
Sevendust are definitely consistent. They never make anything super awesome, but they never release shit either. This compiliation is definitely more mellow than most of their other releases, but it's also probably near the top of their discography. I like what they've done here.
Shade Empire Omega Arcane
Excellent symphonic death/black metal that doesn't rely on the symphonic elements to cover up a general lack of talent. Good stuff.
Shadows Fall Threads of Life
ShamRain Goodbye to All That
Shannon Hurley Sunrise
Shannon Hurley Ready to Wake Up
Shape of Despair Shades Of...
Shotgun Messiah Violent New Breed
Sick of It All Blood,Sweat, & No Tears
Sick of It All Scratch the Surface
Sick of It All Just Look Around
Sick of It All Built to Last
Sick/Sea Moral Compass
Silent Planet The Night God Slept (Redux)
Simone White Silver Silver
Sixx:A.M. Heroin Diaries Soundtrack
Skid Row Slave to the Grind
Skinny Puppy Bites
Skinny Puppy Mythmaker
Skinny Puppy Ain't It Dead Yet?
Skinny Puppy hanDover
Skraeckoedlan Appeltradet
Skylar Grey Natural Causes
There’s no Sputnik reviews (or even soundoffs) for a mainstream pop album. That isn’t really surprising. It is a shame, though, because Natural Causes really seems to have more in common with trip hop or electro pop than it does any faceless mass-produced top 40 pop album. I know there’s a (small?) audience for that kind of music here, and I don’t know if they’ve bothered with this… but they should. There’s definitely an electro-ambient feel to Natural Causes that is way less pop and much more down-tempo electro that almost borders on trip hop.
Slayer Reign in Blood
Slayer God Hates Us All
Slayer Soundtrack to the Apocalypse
sleepmakeswaves In Today Already Walks Tomorrow
Sleigh Bells Bitter Rivals
Very similar to their other albums, but that means it's really good. I really like To Hell With You.
Sleigh Bells Texis
Slipknot All Hope Is Gone
Slugdge Gastronomicon
Slumber Fallout
SMP Crimes Of The Future
SMP Stalemate
SMP The Treatment
Soen Cognitive
Imagine Tool without Maynard’s bitch-boy attitude, without the extended atmospheric parts and without the random throw-away tracks littered throughout (almost) every album. Now imagine Tool with Martin Lopez (ex-Opeth) on drums and Steve DiGiorgio (Testament, Death) on bass. Add to that a greater willingness to get heavy and with a more solid metal foundation and that is this album in a nutshell.
Soilwork Natural Born Chaos
Soilwork The Panic Broadcast
Solefald Pills Against The Ageless Ills
Solitude Aeturnus Through the Darkest Hour
Solitude Aeturnus Alone
Something Corporate Leaving Through The Window
Sophie Ellis-Bextor Make A Scene
Sophie Ellis-Bextor Wanderlust
This is well-done electronic indie pop. The melodies, lyrics, etc never get overly poppy or upbeat and the album still manages to be memorable and hooky. Makes for a nice chill listen.
Soundgarden Live on I-5
Source Return to Nothing
This band was one of those surprises you can find when you use the ‘recommended’ section of one of those streaming services. It should be noted that despite the quality of their music, they definitely don’t have an original sound at this point. Source are kind of a mix of Tool/Soen and Rapid Eye Movement-era Riverside… but mostly Tool and Soen. There are even moments where I can hear classic Opeth in the melodies and riffs. Despite the blatant influences, Return to Nothing is a really great album that features a pretty cool rhythm section. Also, this album is definitely one of those growers. Let it grow, and hopefully they’ll pull out something a little more original next time.
Spawn of Possession Cabinet
Spineshank Self Destructive Pattern
Spiritbox Singles Collection
States Line 'Em Up
States Room To Run
States Paradigm
Static-X Machine
Static-X Cannibal
Static-X Project Regeneration Vol. 1
As far as I'm concerned, Static-X were never nu-metal. They've always followed a mainstream industrial metal/rock formula that was really no different than Stabbing Westward, Drown, Ministry, or any number of other 90s-era industrial rock/metal bands trying to follow in Nine Inch Nails' footsteps. Yes, Static-X was heavier than any of those bands and clearly was a product of their time… but nu metal? Nope. Having said that, Project Regeneration feels like it took everything that made their first two albums the awesome industrial metal they were, and just continues along that path. It's everything the band should have always done (IMO) instead of watering down their sound on later releases.
Steve Vai Where The Wild Things Are (DVD)
Steve Vai The Story of Light
Still Remains Of Love and Lunacy
Still Remains Ceasing to Breathe
Stone Sour Stone Sour
Stortregn Finitude
Finitude picks up where Impermanence left off... that means more blackened melodic tech death. Whereas the previous album was melodic and catchy with techy instances thrown in from time to time, this album seems to have taken those proggy sections and turned them into an entire album. That means there's less melody, and it takes longer to truly be able to appreciate the songwriting and musicianship. Also, because the whole album seems to be push the prog angle, the musicianship actually stands out less because the technical parts don't sound as unique. Having said that, this is still a great album, but I think they lost focus on the melodeath part of their sound.
Story of the Year In The Wake Of Determination
Strapping Young Lad The New Black
Strapping Young Lad No Sleep 'till Bedtime
Strapping Young Lad For Those Aboot to Rock (DVD)
Strung Out Transmission.Alpha.Delta
Sublime Greatest Hits
Subsignal Beautiful & Monstrous
Sucre A Minor Bird
Sucre Loner
Really good stuff. It's like Eisley goes electro pop. Super catchy melodies, super sweet melodies, super cool beats and sounds. The whole thing is super, thanks for asking.
Suicidal Tendencies The Art of Rebellion
Suicidal Tendencies Still Cyco After All These Years
Suicidal Tendencies Prime Cuts
Sum 41 Does This Look Infected?
Sum 41 Chuck
Sunlight Ascending You Don't Belong Here
Susperia Unlimited
Susperia Devil May Care
Sven Vath An Accident in Paradise
Swallow the Sun Ghosts of Loss
Swallow the Sun Plague of Butterflies
Swandive Intuition
System Divide The Conscious Sedation
System of a Down System of a Down
System of a Down Steal This Album!
t.A.T.u. Waste Management
Not much better than the Russian version of this album, but enough has changed musically to make it listenable, at least.
t.A.T.u. The Best
Tara MacLean Passenger
Te Therefore, the illusion of density...
Tearwave Tearwave
Tech N9ne Everready (The Religion)
Tech N9ne Sickology 101
Tech N9ne E.B.A.H.
Tech N9ne Boiling Point
Tech N9ne Seepage
Tesla Into The Now
Testament The New Order
Testament Live at the Fillmore
Testament Signs of Chaos
Testament Return to the Apocalyptic City
Testament First Strike Still Deadly
Testament Live at Eindhoven '87
Textures Drawing Circles
Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail
Alt Prog with jazz influences, to include all kinds of brass instrumentation. As should be expected with that kind of description, the price of admission is pretty high. I expect that there are just as many people that hate this as like it. To me, it kind of remind me of Coheed and Cambria meets Art By Numbers meets Fair to Midland. Yes, you have to be in the right mood for this or the horns and nasally vocals will drive you crazy, but when the mood is right, Stranger Heads Prevail is excellent and definitely delivers a unique listening experience.
The Anchoret It All Began With Loneliness
If Opeth had integrated their 70s prog influences into their classic progressive death metal sound instead of abandoning them completely, I imagine it might have sounded something like this (musically). Vocally, this guy does the layered soft vocals of the Porcupine Tree / Katatonia variety with occasional gruff/gritty vocals not normally associated with a more traditional prog sound, as well. There's more to this album than that, though. There's an abundance of psychedelic influences as well as sax solos and other quirky nuances that make these guys more than just a soundalike.
The Anix Revenge
At their core, The Anix are an industrial rock band in the same vein as Stabbing Westward, Machines of Loving Grace, and God Lives Underwater but they take the genre in a different direction. Instead of angsty industrial, Revenge revel in chill atmospherics, ambient waves of synth, and melancholy to augment the alternative rock portion of their sound. It's a nice change from the stereotypical industrial blueprint, and is done very well.
The Apex Theory Lightpost
The Apex Theory Topsy-Turvy
The Archaic Epidemic Carnivorous Diadem (Deluxe Edition)
The Beatles A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles With the Beatles
The Big Pink A Brief History of Love
The Birthday Massacre Nothing and Nowhere
The Birthday Massacre Looking Glass
The Birthday Massacre Hide and Seek
I think this happens to every band that slowly transitions their sound away from their initial release. Each album moves further away from what the longtime fans (and, usually, the most vocal fans too) are used to so the band tries to make a concession by integrating the old with the new. The result is usually a ‘jack of all trades, master of none’ kind of vibe and that is what we have here. Not as slick and catchy as their previous album because they tried to re-intigrate some of the darker elements back in — mission accomplished, but it’s not as good as any of the previous stuff. Then why is it number five? It’s The Birthday Massacre and their misstep would be another band’s masterpiece.
The Birthday Massacre Under Your Spell
Ever since Walking With Strangers, The Birthday Massacre have been straddling the line between catchy synth pop and their gothy/industrial roots; leaning more to one side or the other depending on which album you?re listening to. Regardless of direction, though, every album so far had managed to be fairly instant, catchy, and easily digestible. That has changed with Under Your Spell. Under Your Spell is easily The Birthday Massacre?s most subdued album, trading in huge hooks for subdued atmosphere, and cute lyrics with morbid undertones for moody introspection. Due to these changes, Under Your Spell takes more than a few listens to truly start getting into. Those extra listens might require a little dedication, because at first everything seems to blend together with the same tempo and vocal delivery. In the end, though, Under Your Spell is definitely worth the extra ?work? because the breakthrough is definitely rewarding.
The Chant New Haven
Chill progressive rock. Easily could appeal to fans of Katatonia, Porcupine Tree and Anathema.
The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole
The Chicks Fly
The Cinema My Blood is Full of Airplanes
The Cranberries No Need to Argue
The Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
The Cranberries To the Faithful Departed
The Cranberries Bury the Hatchet
The Cranberries Treasure Box – The Complete Sessions: 1991–1999
The Cranberries Something Else
The Crystal Method Tweekend
The Cure Paris
The Cure The Head on the Door
The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
The Cure Wish
The Cure Staring at the Sea
The Cure Galore
The Cure Mixed Up
The Cure 4:13 Dream
The Cure Join the Dots
The Cure Acoustic Hits
The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine
The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury
The Dreaming Puppet
The Elijah A Son : A Disease
The Fall of Every Season Amends
The Felix Culpa Sever Your Roots
The Future Sound of London The Isness
The Future Sound of London Environment Five
Kind of a darker version of Lifeforms. Nothing will ever touch that album, but this is pretty good.
The Gathering Nighttime Birds
The Gathering Souvenirs
The Gathering Always
The Gathering Accessories: Rarities and B-Sides
The Gathering Superheat
The God Machine One Last Laugh in a Place of Dying...
Due to the fact that their bass player died during the recording of this album and the band immediately stopped work on it and just released it as it was, there are some weaker moments and throw-away songs on here. Also the production is not nearly as good as the first album. What there is here, is dark melancholic music with a metallic/alternative edge to it. If you're going to make an effort to find an album by these guys, I'd suggest their first album as the starting point though.
The Haunted Warning Shots
The Honey Trees Wake the Earth
The Human Abstract Digital Veil
The Hundred in the Hands The Hundred in the Hands
The Hunger Devil Thumbs a Ride
The Hunger Cinematic Superthug
The Jezabels She's So Hard
The Jezabels Live At The Hordern Pavilion
The Kovenant Nexus Polaris
The Letter Black Hanging On By A Thread
The Lights Streaming Through the Sounds Sunrise EP
The Lillingtons The Too Late Show
The Luna Sequence Underneath
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Let's Face It
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Ska-Core, The Devil, and More
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Live From the Middle East
The Moaning Blood From Stone
The Monolith Deathcult Versus I
What the hell did I just listen to? Versus I begins with a short snippet that sounds like it came from The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits; one of those creepy black-and-white mystery shows with the occult/alien undertones. As near as I can tell, this one has something to do with Nazi?s trying to raise some sort of monster or something and they?re called The Monolith Deathcult? it?s strange. The story is delivered through a myriad of death, doom, industrial, and symphonic elements; to name just a few. The thing is, all these different elements blend pretty seamlessly and collectively deliver a very cool soundtrack-ish experience over the course of the album. Some of the different spoken word samples are pretty damn funny, too.
The Negative Bias Lamentation of the Chaos Omega
Dark, callous, cold melodic blackened death metal that excels in the kind of icy atmospheres that only the best seem capable of creating. Much like the cover presnets, Lamentations of the Chaos Omega definitely feels like it could be the soundtrack to a space-themed horror movie; think Event Horizon. Almost every song runs between six to nine minutes long as it builds on an aggressive collection of riffs and tremelo-picked leads and melodies, pounding percussion, and the raspy death growl synonymous with black and death metal. At the end of the day, it might not being anything ground breaking but it?s definitely some really well done melodic blackened death metal.
The Ocean Pelagial (Instrumental)
The Orb The Dream
The Orb Orblivion
The Orb Live 93
The Orb The Orbserver In The Star House
The Panic Division Songs from the Glasshouse
The Postmarks Memoirs At The End Of The World
The Presets Pacifica
The Prodigy Music for the Jilted Generation
The Project Hate MCMXCIX The Lustrate Process
The Rue The Rue
Mellow, acoustic indie featuring Chris Degarmo (ex-Queensryche) and his daughter.
The Saddest Landscape After The Lights
There is just something about the way these guys put together their songs, and the intensity of the vocals and just the total package. The sputnik page says this is Emo, but it’s not the whiny shit that you might expect. The vocalist’s unique way of singing (it’s like a weird wavering thing) really sets these guys apart.
The Secret Meeting Ultrashiver
The Sorrow Blessings From a Blackened Sky
The Sorrow The Sorrow
The Sugarcubes Stick Around for Joy
The Sundays Blind
The Used The Used
The Voynich Code Aqua Vitae
Theatre Of Tragedy Assembly
Theatre Of Tragedy A Rose for the Dead
Thera The Aftermath
Thera From the North
Therapy? A Brief Crack of Light
Therapy? We're Here To The End
Therion Theli
Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie
Thought Industry Outer Space Is Just a Martini Away
Thrice Red Sky
Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere
I haven’t really been a fan of Thrice since Vheissu back in 2005, and the last album of theirs that I totally enjoyed was Artist in the Ambulance in 2003. Around the time of The Alchemy Index their ambition and desire to move on from their roots just totally lost me. Based on the hype, they were definitely onto something, but I had missed the boat. Of course, they’ll never go back to their roots or even the hybrid-sound that was Vheissu, but at least To Be Everywhere is better than the Alchemy albums or anything that came after them. At this point, Thrice have settled comfortably into a chill, adult-oriented alternative rock that isn’t exactly ground breaking, but they’re doing it really well.
Thrice Palms
Thursday Common Existence
Tiger Baby Lost In You
Todtgelichter Apnoe
Todtgelichter Schemen
Tonic Sugar
Tonic Lemon Parade
Tonight Alive Consider This
Tonight Alive What Are You So Scared Of?
Tori Amos From the Choirgirl Hotel
Tosca Suzuki
Touchstone Discordant Dreams
Trespassers William Having
Tricky Pre-Millenium Tension
Trivium Shogun
I didn't know what this whole album sounded like for the longest time because I kept repeating the opening song. Now that I've finally let the album play through a few times it's sitting between a 3.5 and a 4. Sometimes the songs seem a bit "sterile" and "planned" (I can't explain it) but overall they're still really good. One problem is that some of the choruses seem to come from nowhere and kind of lower the overall quality of a song a little bit.

There is very little in the way of "Metallica Rip-Off" on this album and they sure as hell don't have any relation to Bullet for My Valentine (they're horrible). Matt does use all his different vocal styles, but they've become stronger than on previous albums, but really it is just going to depend on whether you liked his vocals before or not...
although the thrash vocals aren't really emulating James Hetfield anymore so that is nice. I do seem to hear a little bit of Nevermore influence though, especially in the solo sections, but it's tasteful and enjoyable.
Tryad Public Domain
Tsunami Bomb Definitive Act
Type O Negative October Rust
Type O Negative The Best of Type O Negative
u-Ziq Lunatic Harness
Ugly Kid Joe As Ugly as They Wanna Be
Ugly Kid Joe Menace To Sobriety
Ulcerate Vermis
Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis
With Shrine of Paralysis, Ulcerate serve up another batch of dark, chaotic, technical death metal. I’m sure there are subtle differences that people ultra-familiar with the band’s discography can point out, but I’m not one of those people. I hear basically the same chaos, tones, riffs, and growls I’ve heard on every other one of their albums. Before it sounds like I’m complaining, I’m not. This is still really good, but if it wasn’t for the subtle differences in production, I wouldn’t have any clue what album any Ulcerate song came from… and since we’re being honest, even the different productions wouldn’t really help.
Ulver Live at Roadburn
Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation
Underoath Ø (Disambiguation)
Underoath Anthology: 1999-2013
Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman
Underworld Beaucoup Fish
Underworld A Hundred Days Off
Underworld Barking
Uneven Structure 8 (Re-release)
Unisonic Unisonic
Universum Mortuus Machina
Unter Null Sick Fuck
Unter Null Moving On
If this is Erica Dunham's final release under the Unter Null moniker, she is definitely going out in style. Definitely her most accomplished work so far (that I've heard, anyway).
Unwritten Law Elva
Unwritten Law Unwritten Law
Unwritten Law The Hit list
Unwritten Law Blue Room
Unwritten Law Live and Lawless
Van Halen Van Halen
Various Artists (Industrial) Industrial Music To Cure Cancer
Various Artists (Industrial) Metamorphosis Remixes
Vicious Rumors Digital Dictator
Vicious Rumors Live You to Death 2 - American Punishment
An awesome career-spanning live album from one of the originators of American traditional/power metal.
Vinterbris Solace
Very good melodic black metal. Fast tempos, cool melodic parts and dynamic pacing.
Vital Remains Dechristianize
Vital Remains Forever Underground
Vital Remains Dawn of the Apocalypse
Voices From The Human Forest Create A Fugue Of Imaginary
Voices London
Void Of Sleep Tales Between Reality And Madness
Voivod Nothingface
Voivod The Outer Limits
Voivod Negatron
Voivod Infini
Voivod Live at Roadburn 2011
Voivod Synchro Anarchy
Votum Harvest Moon
Walking With Strangers Terra
Kind of a dark metalcore sound with a lot of that Djent sound. No clean singing and very powerful shouts.
Warlock Burning the Witches
Warrant Cherry Pie
Warrant Dog Eat Dog
Warrel Dane Shadow Work
Warrior Soul Drugs, God and the New Republic
Weevil Drunk On Light
While Heaven Wept Vast Oceans Lachrymose
White Lion Big Game
White Zombie Astro Creep: 2000
Whitesnake Live: In the Shadow of the Blues
Whitesnake Live at Donington 1990
Wings Denied Voyager
Winterfylleth The Mercian Sphere
Winterfylleth The Divination Of Antiquity
Winterfylleth make a good comeback after a less-than-great previous release. Great black metal album.
Within Temptation The Heart of Everything
Within Temptation An Acoustic Night at the Theatre
Within Temptation Mother Earth Tour
Wodensthrone Loss
Wodensthrone Curse
Wolfheart Shadow World
Epic melodic black metal. It's really well done, even if there's really not much to help it stand out.
Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars
Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters
Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain
Wumpscut Dried Blood of Gomorrha
Wumpscut Fuckit
Yael Meyer Heartbeat EP
Yael Meyer Everything Will Be Alright
Yellowcard Lights and Sounds
Yellowcard Paper Walls
Yellowcard When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes
Zero Hour A Fragile Mind
Zyklon World ov Worms

3.4 great
10 Years From Birth to Burial
A Wake in Providence Eternity
I've never heard these guys before this album, so I can't tell you how this compares to their previous stuff. I only know that it's good. If I had to describe this (and I kind of do), I would call it atmospheric chug with frequent high-speed breaks. I like how this album swaps between symphonic and ambient styles so that things never feel too two-dimensional. If there is one nit-pick, it's that I'm not the biggest fan of the clean vocals, they're not a deal breaker though? just not the best part of the album.
A7IE Occidere Mundi
Abigail Williams Becoming
Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark
Act of Denial Negative
Aenimus Dreamcatcher
This is a shredfest from the first notes of ?Before The Eons? to the final moments of moments of Dreamcatcher. Despite the chaotic riffs and rhythms, Dreamcatcher stands out for being super memorable thanks to some well-done dynamic shifts as well as variety well-crafted melodies. The bass player is worth mentioning on this, as well.
Aeon Spoke Aeon Spoke
Aeon Spoke Above the Buried Cry
AFI AFI (The Blood Album)
I?ve never been a fan of AFI. Their snotty brand of punk was musically decent, but those high pitched vocals were terrible. Eventually the morphed into a gothy post hardcore band, and again, the music wasn?t terrible, but the vocals sounded like an angry chipmunk. On Burials, AFI made another stylistic change, but it was still very much a transitional album ? AFI (The Blood Album) is the results of that transition and it?s the first AFI album I?ve truly enjoyed. The band have fully embraced an alt rock-leaning version of post punk that reminds me of bands such as New Model Army or some of the more rock-oriented The Cure stuff. For the first time, too, I appreciate and even enjoy the vocals. Gone are the angry pitchy vocals of the past, and in their place are a fuller, deeper, more melodic style that fits perfectly. A lot of their longtime fans seem to dislike this album, but it?s definitely a welcome direction, as fas as I am concerned.
Against The Current In Our Bones
Agrona Realm of the Fallen
At its core "Realm of the Damned" is another blackened melodic death metal band with a subtle undercurrent of keyboards. The main thing that sets them apart is the thrashy riffs that dominate just about every song. The beats and tempos are pretty much balls out from start to finish and are definitely more black metal than death metal. So, while not entirely original, it's still really good.
Agrypnie Aetas Cineris
Alex The Astronaut How to Grow a Sunflower Underwater
I learned about Alex the Astronaut purely on accident. I was looking for artists similar to Amy Shark, and someone recommended this album. I have to say, other than the fact that they're both from Australia, they actually have nothing in common. Happy accident, though, because I really like How to Grow a Sunflower. Alex The Astronaut is kind of hard for me to describe. It's like happy upbeat indie pop / indie rock music, over which Alex tells stories in a kind of folky delivery with a unique spoken-word delivery. It's really hard to describe this since this isn't a style I usually listen to. Unfortunately, no one else reviewed it or even left a soundoff... so, you'll just need to check it out.
Alice in Chains Dirt
Alice in Chains Facelift
Allegaeon Apoptosis
That fucking bass player. His performance is probably one of my favorite things about this album, but he isn't on his own here. Allegaeon deliver a relentless collection of riffs, shredding solos, and guttural growls that also have just enough melody and groove to stick in your head, even on first listen. This is what technical death metal should sound like.
Alluvial Sarcoma
Ally Rhodes Conversations With a Ghost
Anaal Nathrakh Endarkenment
Pure unadulterated intensity sums this up pretty well. We'll have to agree to disagree on the ?why'. I'm not saying I don't understand that kind of reaction, though. Anaal Nathrakh have always been on the cusp of being unlistenable. They're just so damn noisy and unrelenting that a lot of times I just can't listen to them. It's only the times that they kind of throttle back that I can really get into them ? Endarkenment is one of those times. Keep in mind, ?throttle back' is a relative term here. This album is still an intense, over the top exercise in extreme metal that will almost certainly leave you exhausted, but there's also just enough random melody and occasional hooks that I actually really enjoy this.
Anciients Heart of Oak
Anette Olzon Strong
Angela Martyr The November Harvest
This is one tough album to crack. The entire 47-minute duration feels like one droning, lethargic trip. During that runtime is an album comprised of a blend of atmospheric doom, grunge, and even shoegaze. The vocals are fairly two-dimensional while still providing just the slightest bit of melody. The beats are all programed which gives The November Harvest a unique feel. So, what’s the draw? After repeated listens everything just starts to click and you’ll find yourself wanting to come back. The November Harvest is definitely one of those albums that works better as a whole and with repeated listens. Definitely worth the time and repetition.
Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many
Annisokay The Lucid Dream[er]
Who can’t look at this band name and have a pretty good idea of what they’re all about? Metalcore? Yep. Post Hardcore? Yep. Electronic influences? Yep. Fucking cool? Yep, that too.
Annisokay Devil May Care
There really isn’t much to say about this album besides the fact that it really is just solid metalcore. The screams/growls are powerful. The clean singing is good and catchy. The music is really well done with a metalcore-meets-djent feel that also features just a little bit keyboard ambience around the edges. Each one of the band’s albums have incrementally improved upon its predecessor and Devil May Care is no different. There’s no out-of-left-field changes, no unique elements, no drastic improvements, but there’s also nothing wrong with that.
Annisokay Abyss Pt I
Anomalie Between the Light
Very atmospheric and melodic post black metal. It is like 70% black metal and 30% post rock. It almost always has some sort of cyclical melodic refrain and never really falls into the trap of silence or mellow sections just for the sake of it. Surprisingly, it's also a very emotional/vulnerable album too (just listen to 'Not Like Others'). The album starts off really strong and every song is really good, but the problem is that they all kind of blend together by the end because there isn't a lot of variation.
Anthrax Stomp 442
Antimatter Fear Of A Unique Identity
Initially this band was a collaboration between the bald dude that’s in the picture and one of the guys from Anathema, and it featured guest female vocalists and a gothy, acoustic, trip hop hybrid that was really cool. Eventually, the Anathema dude left and the albums lost a bit of their diversity. With the release of Fear of a Unique Identity that diversity has finally returned. That doesn’t mean the electronics have fully returned (there are some, though), but there are guest vocalists again (in addition to his excellent voice, of course) and the songs are much more varied… and, of course, the whole thing is still wrapped in a very depressing atmosphere.
Anubis Gate Andromeda Unchained
Aodon Portraits
Featuring the cold guitar-driven atmospheres of those early nineties black metal bands. These guys make great use of droning cyclical guitar leads to augment the black metal riffs, which pretty much cements the nineties nostalgia for me. Also, the tempos are more of a blackened doom kind of pace. Not too fast and not too slow, but definitely kind of a doom feel in the tones and slower (not slow) tempos.
Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do
Aphex Twin Classics
Arch Echo Final Pitch
I've never heard their other albums, so I can't compare this to those. I do know that this is pretty damn enjoyable (mostly)-instrumental prog. It has enough shredding and enough melody to really carry every song without ever really feeling monotonous or aimless. I will say I'm not a fan of the guest vocalist on Final Pitch, so that was a rare miss on this album.
Art School Girlfriend Soft Landing
I love this combination of lush dream pop with electronic dance elements, as well as the soothing vocals of Polly Mackey.
As Everything Unfolds Ultraviolet
This hits harder than their debut, but it isn't as instantly catchy. The riffs are heavier, there's more harsh vocals, and the overall sound is fatter. However it is missing a few endearing qualities the debut wasn't. The choruses and songwriting feel like they were overlooked a little in favor of an edgier sound. Also, there was an emotive feel to the debut that isn't here at all. Overall, I'd say this is great sophomore release that is a step in the right direction from the more generic (but still better) debut, but next time don't forget the hooks and emotional connection when hitting that heavier sound. Also, the second half is better than the first half as they step back from the edgier sound and settle into a groove so don't give up on this too soon.
Ascension of the Watchers Apocrypha
I'm not going to lie, I never listened to this band before Apocrypha because Burton Bell (ex-Fear Factory) isn't that great of a vocalist. It took being stuck inside for months for me to finally check them out, and they're actually pretty good. Yes, Burton Bell still isn't a great vocalist and his deep, nasally, delivery is probably one of the worst things about the album -- but an album full of his clean singing isn't as bad as I imagined it to be. The spacey, atmospheric, music is where Apocrypha really shines, though. Oh, and I'd say the drums are just a tad loud in the mix, but not so much that it takes away from my enjoyment.
August Burns Red Guardians
Autechre Amber
Authority Zero Persona Non Grata
Avatarium Death, Where Is Your Sting
I've never really appreciated Avatarium's earlier albums, and I didn't expect to like this either. So, color me surprised. This is easily the best thing they've ever done. They dropped some of the doom elements that were clearly holding them back and replaced them with more psychedelic rock influences. These changes have made for songs that are catchier, more dynamic, and with more individual character than anything they've done before.
BABYMETAL The Other One
So, Babymetal isn’t immature fun anymore. With the members and longtime fans ten years older than when Babymetal first hit the scene, an obvious decision to mature the music, lyrics, and image was made. The end result is The Other One, and it may shock those that stayed away from the pre-release songs. Gone are most the Babymetal staples; the call-and-response, the slick J-Pop melodies and choruses, the crazy metal/pop juxtaposition, the chaotic energy… you get the point. Instead, The Other One takes its metal/pop influences and fuses them into a seamless sound that trades Kawaii for seriousness and atmosphere. While it might be initially disappointing to lose a decade of Babymetal influences, it was probably time and the more mature and serious Babymetal sound is still as captivating as always.
Bat For Lashes The Bride
There's something about the mellow, atmospheric side of Bat for Lashes' music. This album is full of that side and is easily my favorite of the discography.
BATS Alter Nature
I'm a huge fan of BATS and their quirky alt. prog sound. To me they've always reminded me of what Voivod could have done if they had retained their balls after Nothingface instead of releasing the streamlined and neutered Angel Rat. Alter Nature seems to pick up where The Sleep of Reason left off except it is even more abrasive and less catchy. Granted, that means Alter Nature is going to take longer to finally click, but it is well worth the effort. Underneath all the angular rhythms, screamed vocals, and abrasive sounds is another excellent BATS release.
Be'lakor Vessels
This is a very lush and atmospheric version of melodic death metal. Yes, there is double bass and death growls but I hesitate to use the word 'aggression' to describe any part of this. It's still good, but very non-confrontational.
Be'lakor Coherence
Berried Alive Fuego (Instrumental)
Between the Buried and Me Colors II
Black Crown Initiate Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape
Blackbriar The Cause of Shipwreck
Blaze of Perdition Conscious Darkness
It seems like good black metal bands are so hard to find these days. They either play it so close to the originals that you might as well listen to the originals, or they?re just terrible? mostly they seem to be terrible. Blaze of Perdition is different. They took that classic 90s black metal sound, extended the songs, added some dynamics and made them just a little heavier. They?re really minor changes, but it works and leads to Conscious Darkness being the first really good black metal album (from a newer artist) in a while. Bleak, heavy, melodic, diverse, atmospheric and epic. Everything a good black metal album with extended songs should be. This album also has a really good drummer.
Blaze of Perdition The Harrowing of Hearts
This is some great epic melodic death metal. Blaze Of Perdition have released an album that is more melodic, more dynamic, and more diverse than anything they've done before. The songs feel more like well-crafted songs than winding journeys this time around, too, which makes them much more accessible despite still sitting firmly in black metal territory. Pretty much a step up in every aspect of their sound.
blink-182 Nine
Bloodshot Dawn Reanimation
Super technical, yet melodic, death metal. The thing I like about this album, that a lot of other tech death bands can't pull off, is that no matter what they're doing, the songs are still catchy. Also, despite the melody and technical nature, "Reanimation" definitely doesn't skimp on the heaviness. No one needs neutered technical death metal.
Blut Aus Nord Odinist: The Destruction of Reason by Illumination
Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen
Born of Osiris The Simulation
Born of Osiris Angel or Alien
Just about every song sits somewhere around a 4. Even in small doses I feel like this album could be somewhere around a 4. Unfortunately, 55 minutes of the same basic ideas is just too much.
BT The Lost Art of Longing
There's nothing special about The Lost Art of Longing. It's an album full of extended techno trance songs, most of which feature some sort of poppy vocal over the top. It's a throwback to the classic sound of the 90s electronic era. I personally love the 90s electronic sound, and this scratches an itch I didn't even know I still had.
Bullet for My Valentine Bullet For My Valentine
Bush The Art Of Survival
Caligula's Horse The Tide, the Thief and River's End
Callisto Secret Youth
Melodic and atmospheric post metal. Almost feels like the album has an alt. rock feel, too.
Can Bardd Devoured by the Oak
Cannibal Corpse Red Before Black
A Skeletal Domain was my favorite release. I really liked the sharp production, increased technical prowess, and diversity of both the songs and the tempos. I really had hopes that Red Before Black would be a continuation of that release, but it is anything but that. After a few disappointed listens, I did grow to appreciate it for what it is, instead of what I hoped it could be. What Red Before Black is, is a more old school-sytle death metal release that is ferocious from start to finish. It?s really good, but I have a hard time knowing what song is playing at any given time? that all kind of blend together.
Cannibal Corpse Chaos Horrific
Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
Caspian On Circles
I have a very low tolerance for post rock (and post metal, to a similar extent). The amount of quiet moments versus the amount of actual interesting parts combined with extended song lengths usually leaves me skipping tracks and eventually skipping the entire release. That's why this works. Short songs that get right to the point. They make their mark with great melodies and then get the fuck out before they've worn their welcome. Also, this has a little more edge than your average post rock album. Short post rock songs with strong melodies and a bit of balls? Yes please.
Caustic Window Compilation
Celestial North Otherworld
Chelsea Grin Suffer In Hell
I agree with most of YellowVoid's opinion. This album does throw every deathcore trope at
you. I also blame Lorna Shore for the surge in interest in deathcore, and in a lot of
deathcore bands doing what they think they have to in order to get noticed. On, Suffer In
Hell I definitely noticed. The difference between my opinion and YellowVoid's is I think
there are plenty of things that stick. Most of them are the cyclical keyboard melodies, but
those melodies combined with a hell of a lot of chug are pretty damn great.
Circa Survive The Amulet
Clubroot Clubroot
Conjurer (UK) Pathos
Cradle of Filth Bitter Suites to Succubi
Cradle of Filth The Manticore and Other Horrors
Cradle of Filth Existence Is Futile
Cult of Luna The Raging River
Cult of Luna The Long Road North
Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner
Post metal with a female vocalist? Well, it definitely relieves some of the monotony I commonly associate with your average lumbering post metal release. Pretty good stuff.
Currents The Place I Feel Safest
Huge djenty breakdowns, chugging riffs aplenty, technical leads and rhythms, creative melodies, shouted vocals accentuated by death growls and clean singing? Yeah, there?s nothing that really sets these guys apart from all the similar bands, but the level of conviction and talent is definitely up there. Well worth a listen for those into the style.
Cursebinder Drifting
Cyanotic Tech Noir
I’m a big fan of Cyanotic’s brand of industrial metal. A lot of industrial bands that feature guitar riffs tend to get real lazy with the programming and electronics, but Cyanotic never have. I guess that’s why they can pull off an album like Tech Noir. Tech Noir drops almost all of the guitar parts in favor of a synth/electronics laden album that still features the gravel-throated vocals and powerful beats the band have always been known for. After two excellent, but similar, industrial metal releases and a questionable third release, Tech Noir is a breath of fresh air and a welcome return for the band.
CygnosiC Fallen
D Creation Moderate Album
These guys really kicked up the aggression on this album. Almost all of the cheesy elements of the previous album are gone, but so are the really catchy choruses and melodic prog parts. There's still clean singing and progressive sections, but they're buried under a wall of sound. Don't get me wrong, this is obviously a progression for the band (and the clean singing is much better) but I miss the 'instant' feel of the previous release too. For those that don't know, this is really well-done progressive melodic death metal. They go through a lot of different sounds and styles and it's well worth checking out.
Dark Tranquillity Atoma
In case you didn’t know, Dark Tranquillity lost one of their main songwriters during the writing of this album. If you didn’t know, it becomes fairly obvious after listening to Atoma. Atoma is basically Construct without any of the cool melodic layering, hooks or diversity. Basically, it’s a stripped down version of Construct. Don’t get me wrong, there are still cool melodies, growls and clean singing… but something is just a little off. Losing Martin Henriksson definitely left a huge hole in Dark Tranquillity’s sound, but despite its shortcomings, Atoma is still pretty great.
Dawn Of Ashes Theophany
Industrial black metal is almost always a train wreck. It’s either the sound of a black metal band with their first drum machine or an industrial band with terrible keyboard parts and even worse vocals. Dawn of Ashes have always been able to avoid those pitfalls, and they’re even better on Theophany. Dawn of Ashes seamlessly meld industrial beats with metallic influence, death/black vocals, electronics, and symphonic portions into a cold, black metal inspired sound that should have been what Samael morphed into after Passage. Excellent industrial groove combined with relentless double bass, powerful vocals, and heavy synth/riff combos.
Deafheaven Infinite Granite
Decapitated Anticult
I've been listening to Decapitated since "Organic Hallucinosis" and they've always just kind of done the extreme Fear Factory sound without much variation. "Anticult" finally sees them diversifying a little bit. The Fear Factory influence is still blatanatly apparent, but there's also a more melodic edge that kind of reminds me of modern Soilwork. The vocals, too, have softened just a little bit. These are all good things, because I don't know if I could have handled "Organic Hallucinosis" Part 4.
Deftones Ohms
When I don't like a Deftones song, the problem is almost always because of the vocals of Chino. The music has to be really good in order for me to accept his pitchy vocal style -- generally that doesn't happen. The sole exceptions have been Around the Fur and White Pony. Having said that, Ohms feels like it takes quite a bit of influence from the moody atmospheres of White Pony while introducing a more guitar-driven sound not really heard since their early days. With Ohms I finally have a third Deftones album I can listen to from start to finish.
Delerium Mythologie
Basically an even blend of pop and ethereal/new age electro. Reminds me of a mellower version of their album 'Chimera'. If you like that one, you'll like this one.
Der Weg Einer Freiheit Noktvrn
Desultory Counting Our Scars
Devin Townsend Empath
Dido Still on My Mind
Die Krupps III - Odyssey of the Mind
Dimmu Borgir Eonian
Eonian is a new era for the band (or maybe a final goodbye with as long as it takes for them to release albums). The guys behind Dimmu Borgir are married with families, and have definitely mellowed out. This isn't the balls-out black metal of their peak. Instead Eonian is a very nmelodic style album that shares more than a little bit of influences with bands such as Epica... including an abundance of choirs. That's not to say there's isn't a black metal undercurrent (and black metal vocals) running throughout the album, because the black metal is definitely there but it shares time with a huge amount of melody, choirs, and different tempos.
Disillusion The Liberation
Disturbed The Sickness
Dodsrit Nocturnal Will
Draconian Under a Godless Veil
Most bands don't recover after losing the vocalist that defined their sound, so it didn't surprise me when Draconian stumbled on their first release without Lisa Johansson (Sovran). It wasn't that their new vocalist, Heike Langhans, wasn't up to the task, it was just that it didn't sound like Draconian -- something was missing. Well, whatever was missing is definitely all over Under a Godless Veil. This album is easily one of the best male/female, beauty and the beast, whatever you want to call it death/doom releases in a long time. If nothing else, I'd say Under a Godless Veil is easily the best album in Draconian's discography.
Dream Theater A View from the Top of the World
Drown In Sulphur Dark Secrets of the Soul
Earthside Let The Truth Speak
Edge of Sanity The Spectral Sorrows
Eisley Currents
Emilie Simon Mue
I'm pleasantly surprised. She has kind of returned to what made her good in the first place -- quirky french pop. Fuck yeah.
Engine Superholic
Enslaved RIITIIR
By now, everyone probably knows what to expect from these guys. They’re epic, classy, black metal complete with mellow sections, clean singing and quicker black metal parts. The biggest thing that these guys have going for them is that they do it better than most and their songs seem to have a lot more direction without resorting to being weird.
Enslaved E
I'm not a fan of Enslaved. I've always thought the black metal vocals were too 'throaty' and mixed too high on pretty much every release. I also wasn't a fan of the early viking phase. I was a bigger fan of their 70s prog stuff, but again with the black metal vocals. On this release, everything just seems to fall into place. This is finally the Enslaved album I can get totally behind.
Enslaved Utgard
Much like Borknagar a few years back, Enslaved always seemed like a band I should be able to like but could never actually appreciate. Musically, they mix Norwegian folk elements, progressive metal, and second-wave black metal, but the thin sound of their albums and the dry throaty black metal vocals were always a deterrent. Both those elements are still on Utgard, but for some reason I can finally appreciate an Enslaved album. I think part of it is because they're just becoming better song writers, and the prog parts are starting to really dominate their sound. Whatever the reason, Utgard is one of the few times I've found myself enjoying an entire Enslaved release.
Enslaved Heimdal
My main issue with this band has always been the dry, throaty, rasp of the vocalist. My enjoyment of each album seems to hinge on how high he's mixed and how often he growls. That hasn't changed here, but I do like this one quite a bit. The music is your typical progressive meets black metal Enslaved sound, but the vocal melodies are still improving and the music is more memorable.
Epica The Holographic Principle
What will ultimately decide whether you like The Holographic Principle is whether or not you like over-the-top bombast or not. Personally, I’m kind of a fan of lack-of-substance bombast… it’s a guilty pleasure. Besides, Epica are easily the best of the symphonic metal bunch. They aren’t cheesy (very often), they know how to play their instruments (in symphonic metal that’s actually an issue), their songs are pretty damn riffy, they have great death growls and female vocals… and Simone Simons is hot.
Epica Omega
Evadne The Shortest Way
Evadne A Mother Named Death
Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
Fallujah The Harvest Wombs
Fallujah Undying Light
Fear Factory Transgression
Fear Factory The Industrialist
It’s Fear Factory with a drum machine. Too bad most people couldn’t tell the difference anyway. This album brings back the industrial and is also very diverse (for a FF album). Everyone was firing on all cylinders for this recording.
Fear Factory Aggression Continuum
Fear Factory Recoded
Feared Furor Incarnatus
Felix Martin The Gathering
Fixation (NOR) More Subtle Than Death
Flamorn Intersection
Flaw Endangered Species
Fleshgod Apocalypse King
Epic symphonic death metal with growls and clean singing. It's really good in the moment, but it all kinds of blends together by the end.
Flotsam and Jetsam No Place for Disgrace
Flotsam and Jetsam Blood in the Water
Funeral In Fields of Pestilent Grief
Funeral Praesentialis in Aeternum
Funky DL Autonomy: The 4th Quarter 2
I'm not a Hip-hop expert or fan, but every once in awhile I'll hear an album that catches my attention. Guess I'll need to check out the rest of his discography.r
Future Static Liminality
Ghost Key If I Don't Make It
Really well done melodic hardcore. The coolest part of this is that the melodic parts aren't just your normal standard melodic lead. They're more of a post rock/reverb-drenched kind of thing that gives this release a unique edge.
Ghost Toast Out of This World
Very good post rock with a progressive edge. It is also very melodic and catchy without being repetitive. Another thing this album has going for it is that the songs feel like they're focused and not just a meandering jam like a lot of post rock.
Ghosts of Atlantis Riddles of the Sycophants
God Is an Astronaut Ghost Tapes #10
Gravity Noir
Female-fronted progressive metalcore that does more than what you might expect from the combination of genres. It?s just a little more musical, a little more diverse, and a little more memorable than your average proggy metalcore band. Gravity still have a little ways to go if they want to make a truly excellent album, but Noir is definitely an great beginning.
Grima Rotten Garden
Gruntruck Push
Haken Fauna
Modern prog meets traditional prog. I wish there were more memorable melodies and stronger choruses, but the sheer amount of musical tangents and chaos kind of makes it hard. If nothing else, Haken have evolved their own little sound and it works -- even if somewhere earlier in their discography was the best blend of the traditional with the modern, and the quirky with the serious.
Hanging Garden At Every Door
Hanging Garden Skeleton Lake
Hanging Garden The Garden
This is some well-done doom. It's dynamic, catchy, melodic, heavy... it has some good death metal vocals and competent clean singing from both male and female vocalists. It also never falls into the meandering, plodding, territory so many doom bands can get into. Probably one of the best doom albums of the year so far.
Hatchie Keepsake
On Keepsake, Hatchie delivers a nice hybrid of indie pop and dream pop, but with enough energy to keep her listeners from falling asleep. Also, the choruses on Keepsake are super catchy and capably delivered in a layered, harmonized, way making them sound bigger than they actually are. I hear a lot of Chapterhouse's breakout release Blood Music on this album despite Chapterhouse being fronted by a dude. They both dabble with danceable beats and energetic tempos while still maintaining a nice dream pop undercurrent.
Heaven Shall Burn Wanderer
I don’t think anyone has even accused Heaven Shall Burn of being original. They started out stealing the sound of Carcass’ Heartwork and mixing it with the modern Gothenburg melodic death metal sound. Eventually they had a large enough discography (one or two albums) to begin ripping themselves off and here we are. Wanderer is maybe a little more aggressive and riffy than they’ve been in awhile, but it’s basically another cookie-cutter Heaven Shall Burn release. They should be capable of more, but this is still pretty good.
Helstar Vampiro
Personally, I wasn’t a huge fan of their 80s and 90s output, including their ‘classic’ Nosferatu. The vocals were kind of annoying, the productions were questionable at best, and they just weren’t my thing. Starting with their reformation in 2008, though, they started to catch my attention. Their music became more aggressive, riff-oriented, and dark. Also, the vocals improved (although they’re still the weak link). Vampiro is simply a continuation of their previous 2000s releases, and it is pretty damn good.
Holy Fawn Dimensional Bleed
Horseburner The Thief
Host IX
For a variety of reasons, Paradise Lost’s foray into full-fledged electronic music was faltering and brief. The band did the best they could with the technology and experience they had, but the results were homogenous and uneven. If we’re being honest, though, even if Nick Holmes and company had released the best electronic rock album of the nineties, most their fans would have hated it. That’s where Host (the band) comes in. Over twenty years after Paradise Lost’s foray into electronic rock, people are generally more open minded about artistic exploration, the technology is infinitely better, and both Nick Holmes and Greg Mackintosh have grown as songwriters. For those reasons, now was the perfect chance for them to revisit a passion they were forced to abandon decades ago. The result is Host and their debut album IX. While the original Host album was linear in sound and wore its influences on its sleeves, IX is an eclectic blend of 80s goth tones and melodies, electro-rock hooks, and a classic Paradise Lost doom aura that puts an interesting twist on a classic formula.
Hypno5e Alba - Les Hombres Errantes
How many albums have they done now? You'd think it would be enough to realize the extended spoken word parts are a no-go. Unfortunately, they're still here and they're still the worst part of every Hypno5e release. "Alba" does make some changes, though. The music is all acoustic and the vocals are all of the 'clean' variety which is definitely two big changes for the band... but the whole thing is actually really well done. Hypno5e have really outdone themselves by releasing an entire album of acoustic tracks that still kind of adheres to their core sound and is also interesting from start to finish.
Hypocrisy Virus
Hypocrisy End of Disclosure
Imminence Turn the Light On
Imminent Sonic Destruction Triumphia
Imminent Sonic Destruction’s debut came from out of nowhere. It was an excellent blend of traditional prog and Devin Townsend, but with a tendency to break into dirty, riffy, sections that kept the songs from ever overstaying their welcomes. Triumphia improves on their traditional prog influences and makes use of the Devin Townsend sound in a much less blatant way, but they lost the unpredictable heavy sections which is what really set this album apart. Triumphia is a great album, but is just a little too safe.
Immortal At the Heart of Winter
Imperialist Cipher
The tones, the leads/melodies, the overall feel ? this reminds me a lot of Emperor?s In the Nightside Eclipse without any keyboards, but blended with a bit of Dissection and maybe the more aggressive riffs of Old Man?s Child/Dimmu Borgir (without the symphonic cheese). Whatever it reminds you of, Cipher is definitely a well done homage to the 90s classic black metal sound full of sharp leads, treble-based riffs, inhuman growls? oh, and sci-fi lyrics (as far as I can tell). There?s surprisingly very little information on the band and what there is is limited, but it?s worth the effort to seek them out.
Imperium Dekadenz Procella Vadens
Imperium Dekadenz Meadows of Nostalgia
Imperium Dekadenz When We Are Forgotten
In Flames Reroute to Remain
In Flames Foregone
On Foregone In Flames have injected their modern sound with the visceral heaviness and majestic melodies that have been lacking for years, and even Anders Frieden has stepped up his clean singing while also returning to a harsher vocal style. With the release of Foregone, In Flames have shown they do still have the same fire that made their classics so good, and they have done so without totally abandoning the sound they've been cultivating over the last few decades.
In The Nursery Anatomy of a Poet
In The Nursery 1961
In The Nursery have been around since the early 80s and have gone through a number of style changes without ever losing sight of their original formula. That formula is basically percussion-laden classically-influenced music. 1961 is significant because it marks yet another stylistic adjustment, and it might just be their biggest yet. This time In The Nursery have added rock elements to their classical sound, and it basically makes the album sound like a very symphonic post rock album with occasional vocals. In the Nursery have never really released a bad album, and this one isn?t bad either. Every change they?ve ever made has been great and the rock influence on 1961 is no different.
In the Woods... Pure
One of the new breed of dark, mellow progressive rock bands. This is the only album I’ve heard from In The Woods so I can’t be sure, but it definitely sounds like they probably started out as some sort of doom/black metal band. It’s obvious in the riffs that pop up under the progressive elements. It’s clear in the monotone vocal melodies, and subtle growls; and the doom/black metal influence is all over the atmosphere of the songs. So, while it’s not quite as accomplished as some of the other bands that have made the transition, it somehow ends ups just a little bit better because there’s still a dark undercurrent in the keyboard melodies, vocals, and riffs.
In Vain (NO) Currents
In Vain's last album was appealing to me because it had good songwriting and direction. It blended the prog and death metal seamlessly and was even pretty damn catchy. Currents seems to be lacking just a little bit of that. It feels like there was just a little less effort put in this time. The clean vocals sometimes feel out of place and the melodies are occasionally awkward. There are really cool parts too, though, like the chorus of "Soul Adventurer" for example.
Inexorum Lore of the Lakes
Infected Rain Endorphin
These guys get a lot of hate on this site. I'm not going to lie and say I don't see where it comes from, but I will say I don't agree with it. Infected Rain plays a kind of metalcore that borrows liberally from Nu Metal (although not so much on this release), featuring angsty lyrics, and raspy female shouts that really are an acquired taste (along with excellent clean singing). The thing is, if you can get past the raspy vocals (it did take me awhile) and just accept the lyrics for what they are, Endorphin is actually pretty damn good; even if it's nothing original or special. Lena's clean singing is powerful and makes from some really catchy choruses, and the band's use of electronics and keyboards help to set them apart from bands like The Agonist or Jinjer.
Insomnium Heart Like a Grave
Insomnium Anno 1696
Listening to this feels like they took the overall vibe of "Pale Morning Star" from the previous release and made a whole album from it. The melodies are more in your face and the riffs are kind of in the background, and just about each song feels like its own little mini-epic. The guest vocals on White Christ are not good at all, but the guest vocals on Godforsaken are excellent. Favorite song is either Lilian or The Rapids.
IOEarth IOEarth
Iotunn Access All Worlds
Iron Maiden Senjutsu
Joe Satriani Engines of Creation
John Petrucci Terminal Velocity
Kadinja Ascendancy
This reminds me of a more accessible and mainstream version of Vildhjarta. The tones and the groove are very Vildhjarta-like.
Kalmah Palo
I loved "12 Gauge". It was the balls-out heavy death metal version of Children of Bodom. Unfortunately, that is the only album in the band's discography to do it that well, and "Palo" doesn't change that. That doesn't mean it's bad, though. It's still a fairly aggressive romp through the band's power metal/death metal hybrid, and is easily the second best album in Kalmah's discography.
Kamikaze Girls Seafoam
Grungy, abrasive female fronted post punk/alt. rock. I like it. Throughout the album I hear The God Machine, Hum, Nirvana, The Pixies, Mephisto Walz, and The Cure but it?s all wrapped up in a more abrasive sound and washed in shoegaze feedback. Seafoam features forceful, gritty, female vocals over music that is a cool blend of alt. rock and post punk.
KANGA You And I Will Never Die
Killing Joke Pylon
Killswitch Engage Incarnate
I'm not a Killswitch Engage fan. I'm a fan of 'Alive or Just Breathing' and 'Disarm the Descent' because of Jesse's vocals and the heavier musical direction. Their crooning, melodic stuff with the other guy bores me to death. Musically, that's basically what they've gone back to except with Jesse on vocals. He helps make this listenable, but not nearly as good as the other two releases that he has sang on.
Killswitch Engage Atonement
I've always been a fan of Jesse Leech-fronted Killswitch Engage. What people seem to forget is that Alive or Just Breathing was pretty ground breaking when it came out way back in 2002. Granted, the band have evolved very little since those initial steps, but they've always been excellent (With Jesse, at least). To me, Atonement almost reminds me of a collection of metalcore power ballads. Every song is dominated by clean vocals, epic choruses, and melodic guitar leads which makes the album feel more accessible and tame than it actually is. There are still guttural growls and piercing shrieks as well as fast-paced tempos and shredding riffs, but at the end of the day the most memorable thing is all the melody and clean singing. While not exactly a new direction for the band, they're actually doing it better than ever before.
Klone Black Days
Klone The Dreamer's Hideaway
Klone Here Comes The Sun
Atmospheric prog. Kind of like a cross between Porcupine Tree and latter-day Katatonia. Not as psychedelic as PT but not as doom & gloom as Katatonia.
KMFDM Tohuvabohu
KMFDM Strum & Drang Tour 2002
KMFDM Let Go
Lacuna Coil Delirium
After a few missteps, Lacuna Coil have finally regained their composure. This album takes the best elements of Comalies and mixes it with a stripped down version of what bands like Tesseract and Textures play. The best thing is that the male vocalist doesn't sing anymore. He growls and shouts through most of his parts, which is a much better role for him.
Lacuna Coil Black Anima
I'm a big fan of Lacuna Coil, but there's no denying the fact that they've always seemed to chase the trends, and they've always been just a little late to the party. This time, though, it feels like they're almost on time. This time the trend Lacuna Coil are following is djent-influenced metal with their own twist. The male vocals are almost entirely growled, the riffs are easily some of the heaviest of the band's career, and the rhythm section is dominating. Of course, the main draw is still the vocals of Cristina Scabbia, which are excellent as usual. If there's a drawback to Black Anima it's that the band are pretty much a one-trick pony which causes the album to sound pretty damn similar from start to finish.
Lacuna Coil Comalies XX
Lapetus The Long Road Home
Late Night Alumni Of Birds, Bees, Butterflies, Etc.
Latitudes Part Island
Linkin Park Meteora
Linkin Park Living Things
Linkin Park The Hunting Party
I've never disliked a Linkin Park album (although Minutes to Midnight came close), but my favorite was the electronics-filled 'A Thousand Suns'. Having said that, I'm not overly impressed with this but it's not bad. I guess they needed to return to a rock sound, but they could have kept some of the electronic stuff.
Liquorworks Nonsense
Liquorworks Moist Computer
Lola Blanc The Magic
Lunik Preparing to Leave
Lutharo Wings of Agony
Marissa Nadler For My Crimes
Marty Friedman Exhibit A: Live in Europe
Mayhem Daemon
My favorite Mayhem album is Grand Declaration of War and my favorite Mayhem guitarist was Blasphemer. He always seemed to throw at least a little bit of a curveball into Mayhem's ?true' black metal sound.Teloch and Ghul seem more inclined to play no-frills old school black metal, but if Daemon is any indication, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Daemon is almost entirely no-frills black metal, but the atmosphere that's created along with the few bits of outside-the-box ideas are enough to keep this interesting from beginning to end, even after multiple listens.
Mechina As Embers Turn To Dust
I'm sorry. Enough is enough. This is the same fucking thing as before and before and before. Is it good? Yeah, it's good. Is it in any way a deviation or even a continuation of their sound? No.... it's the exact same album they keep releasing. It's time to seriously sit down and figure out how to think outside of their tired (albeit good) formula.
Meg Myers Daughter In The Choir
Meg Myers Sorry
Mekong Delta Tales of a Future Past
Mephisto Walz Thalia
Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct
ThroughoutHardwired? To Self-Destruct?s extended runtime, it becomes pretty clear that this is the sound the band is comfortable with. With few exceptions, that sound seems to be one that uses the riffs and song structure blueprint ofJustice, the crunch and tempo of the black album, and the hooks and songwriting fromLoad. To be honest, that mix works pretty well and leads to Metallica?s best release since the early 90s.There?s no attempt to recapture their classic sound, no blatant radio single, and not even an attempt at performing more than what they?re comfortable with. If you?ve followed Metallica beyond the black album, you?ll find a very good, honest, release inHardwired? To Self-Destruct.
Metallica 72 Seasons
There's no reason to deny it, the average modern Metallica release would not make nearly the same impact if it wasn't for nostalgia and legacy (not to mention name recognition) -- but who cares? There are clearly millions of fans around the world that still anticipate any new Metallica release because they can still make us feel a certain way. 72 Seasons delivers that feeling. There's the iconic voice of James Hetfield and his even more iconic rhythm playing, there's the simplistic self-taught style of Lars' percussion, the wah-wah goodness of Kirk's solos, and the solid (audible) bottom end of Robert's bass. There's more to it than that, though. For better or worse, Metallica have never been one to stagnate, and they haven't started now. With a smattering of new influences combined with the homage to their own past, Metallica's 72 Seasons is another solid release in their discography. It's an album that feels more consistent and original than anything they've done since the Load releases from forever ago.
Mindcage Our Own Devices
Misery Signals Ultraviolet
I know I've heard these guys before, but only because I have all their other albums rated, not because I remember anything about them. Ultraviolet, for whatever reason, caught my attention though. Ultraviolet starts out as a fairly standard brutal, yet melodic, metalcore album but by the third track a bit more melody and some stronger songwriting starts to seep in. Is that enough to make my top 50? In 2020 it is. Besides, I've never minded standard metalcore as long as it's melodic and hooky.
Mitochondrial Sun Sju Pulsarer
One of my favorite things about the modern Dark Tranquillity sound has been the electronics and the solid melodic elements, and Niklas still brings those elements here. Despite the similar nature of every song due to the very basic drum patterns and lack of vocals, the juxtaposition between the chaotic black metal and electro-ambient elements combined with the finely crafted melodies and atmospheres makes Sju Pulsarer well worth hearing.
Monosphere Sentience
Monuments (UK) In Stasis
Mors Principium Est Embers of a Dying World
Really solid melodic death metal with a strong keyboard presence and occasional black metal influences. Unfortunately, with few exceptions, it is largely by-the-numbers stuff.
Motley Crue Dr. Feelgood
My Dying Bride The Ghost of Orion
My Dying Bride have returned with one of the best sounding albums of their career, accompanied by one of the most accomplished vocal performances. The guitar-driven melodies, too, are excellent and remind me of The Angel and the Dark River. If there is a problem with the album, though, it's that everything is just a little too similar in tone and tempo, and it takes more than a few listens for individual songs and elements to start clicking. Despite this, The Ghost of Orion is My Dying Bride's best sounding album from a production standpoint, featuring some of Aaron's most accomplished vocals, and guitar melodies that harken back to the days of The Angel and the Dark River, and it is a welcome addition to the My Dying Bride discography.
Nachtmystium The World We Left Behind
Kind of a post black metal, atmospheric black metal kind of album. Rarely gets into really fast parts -- prefers to stick with a mid-paced kind of delivery. Pretty good.
Ne Obliviscaris Urn
Necromancing the Stone Jewel of the Vile
In case it wasn’t obvious from the cover, band name, and album name… this is totally cheesy power/traditional metal. Despite what should be a laughably terrible output, the band manages to deliver a pretty damn good album. The reason Jewel of the Vile avoids burning in its own terrible cheese is that there is a prominent occult/black metal sound that really sets it apart and makes it a pretty great release. This is accentuated by some cool guitar solos and a solid percussive backing. The vocalist, too, avoids the high-pitched pitfalls of many of his peers by sticking to a slightly lower register accentuated by occasional death growls, but in the end he is still a power metal vocalist; for better or worse.
Necrophobic Mark of the Necrogram
Sporting a solid, if not conventional, blend of black metal and melodic death metal, "Mark of the Necrogram" is really well done. I've never heard Necrophobic's other releases, but I can say that this brings the classic blackened melodeath sound back in a big way.
Ned's Atomic Dustbin God Fodder
I always assumed this was just another shitty, faceless, second-rate alternative rock band -- I was wrong. Most the songs share very little in common with the standard alt rock song. To me, this is more a blend of punk and post punk with maybe some small alternative rock influences. Well worth checking out, even 32 years late.
Nero di Marte Nero di Marte
Neurosis Fires Within Fires
I really liked them more in their earlier days when they were still using violins and horns, and the tempos were more diverse. Having said that, it's still Neurosis and it's still really good.
New Model Army No Rest For The Wicked
New Model Army Vengeance
New Model Army From Here
Raise your hand if you only know who New Model Army are because of Anacrusis' cover of their song “I Love the World”. Now raise your hand if you don't know who either of those bands are. If you are in that boat, I'll save Anacrusis for another time, but we'll hit up New Model Army now. New Model Army have always reminded me of a nice hybrid of Wish-era The Cure and the self titled 1980 Killing Joke release. Ever since New Model Army started in 1984, the band have delivered rhythmic protest anthems that are driven by cyclical bass guitar rhythms and folky, almost spoken-word, vocals. The problem is they kind of lost their way somewhere around the late 90s. That's what makes From Here so special, because the band have come from out of nowhere with their best release since Thunder and Consolation in 1989. The bass guitar-driven songs are back and better than ever, and the accompanying music is the best it's been in a decade or more. The vocals are more urgent and memorable than they've been in a long time, too.
New Years Day Malevolence
Night in Gales Dawnlight Garden
What would it sound like if In Flames had stuck to the sound of their breakout release, The Jester Race? I imagine it would sound like a vast majority of Night In Gales' releases. Unlike the straight-up homage of their previous release, though, Under a Godless Veil actually steps out into its own with a huge dose of speed and aggression to go with its obvious In Flames worship. If you ever missed the sound of The Jester Race, look no further than Under a Godless Veil (and their previous release).
Night in Gales The Black Stream
Remember "Whoracle" and "With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness"? Night In Gales does.
Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I
No Use for a Name Hard Rock Bottom
NOFX Wolves in Wolves' Clothing
NOFX First Ditch Effort
It's NoFX doing what NoFX does, and when NoFx does what they're supposed to do it's always great.
Nospun Opus
Numb Blood Meridian
Numb Mortal Geometry
Numenorean Adore
Obscura Akróasis
There's some awesome musicianship on here and it's probably their most diverse album, but they're still basically a one-trick pony.
Obsidian Skies Saturnian
Of Divinity A Cold Sense of Clarity
Operation: Mindcrime The New Reality
Ov Sulfur The Burden Ov Faith
Solid Blackened Deathcore. It's like a perfect blend of both styles without overdoing either element. It's almost like Killswitch Engage meets Dimmu Borgir meets Shadow of Intent... powerful riffs, clean and growled vocals, catchy vocals hooks, and excellent blackened melodies. Also, they don't ruin their songs (too often) with tacked-on breakdowns.
Pain of Salvation Panther
It seems to be a theme for me this year? bands I'm not really all that into releasing albums that have surprised me in the best possible way. Pain of Salvation is another one of those bands that I've enjoyed in bits and pieces, but overall I'm not a huge fan. I don't know if PANTHER will change my overall opinion of the band, but there's no denying the quality found here. I love the twitchy rhythms and riffs, and the keyboards are definitely unique within the prog genre. The poignant lyrics are also a huge draw for this band. My biggest hurdle is always the vocals. This particular go-around, I'm on board.
Pantera Cowboys from Hell
Pati Yang Silent Treatment
Persefone Spiritual Migration
Philter The Campfire Tales
Pomegranate Tiger All Input Is Error
Most instrumental metal is boring. It's all showmanship and no substance, but this is an exception. This is equal musicianship and songwriting. Instead of showing off for the sake of showing off, each song is like a story that just so happens to show off too. They are definitely rhythmically insane, as the Bro above has mentioned.
Power Trip Nightmare Logic
Old school thrash with some really cool riffs. The vocals could be better and all the songs are roughly similar, but it's still really good.
Psalm Zero Stranger To Violence
The main draw of this album is its unique feel. It has a sound that kind of borders on Bauhaus-style goth and New Model Army-style post punk, but with a melodic undercurrent courtesy of some electro-industrial influences. The vocalist sits in that deep, emotive style you’d expect from the genre descriptions but he is surprisingly still able to deliver some pretty memorable vocal melodies (and even uses the occasional hoarse shout in places). The music, too, is almost instantly memorable and pretty damn entertaining. Stranger to Violence‘s sound definitely comes out of left field, but is well worth the effort.
Psychotic Waltz A Social Grace
Pure Wrath Hymn To The Woeful Hearts
PVRIS Use Me
This happened with the second Meg Myers release, too. For reasons unknown to me, people that loved her debut had all sorts of issues with her second album. The same thing is happening here, too. All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell was pretty well received, but for reasons unknown to me, Use Me has received a fair amount of backlash. Is it a little more poppy? Yes. Have a lot of the edges been sanded down? I guess. Is it still super catchy with excellent vocals, and an enjoyable experience from start to finish? I think so.
Queensryche Tribe
Queensryche Condition Human
Rain City Drive Through Art We Are All Equals
If you're familiar with any of his other projects, then you basically know what to expect here. Maybe a little more 'experimental' or whatever, but basically the same.
Ray Alder What The Water Wants
Ray Alder II
Ray Alder stands as one of the most prolific vocalists in the realm of progressive metal. His ability to combine technical prowess, emotional depth, and versatility makes him a true force to be reckoned with. While II might be a little more conventional than his previous solo release, Ray?s voice is still able to carry every song and make the listening experience worthwhile. Whether you're a fan of Fates Warning, Redemption, or simply a lover of catchy performances, exploring Ray Alder's II should be a must. Hopefully, though, when his third solo release comes out, he opts to play things a little less safe.
Relief in Sleep Godspeed
This is basically alt. rock with post hardcore tendencies. The music is really well done. The band really kind of reminds me of Thera with the male/female vocals, piano, subtle electronics and very emotive angle.
Restless Oblivion Sands of Time
Rhi The Pale Queen
Rivers of Nihil The Work
Roni Size Take Kontrol
I haven't really liked a Roni Size album since 'New Forms' in 1997. This one reminds me a lot of that one, and with 17 years between that release and this one, it's sounding fresh and enjoyable.
Rosetta The Anaesthete
RPWL Crime Scene
If Pink Floyd decided to try to make a Porcupine Tree album. I really don't know a better way to describe this. This is chill, smooth, melodic progressive rock with harmonized vocals and a ton of atmosphere.
Russian Circles Blood Year
I've never really bothered with Russian Circles before. I mean, I've definitely listened to their previous albums a few times, but I've never come back to them like I have this one. That means, the complaints about these guys being on autopilot or whatever don't really affect me because I don't really have anything to compare this to. What I do know is these guys make memorable post rock that really is more metal than rock and they definitely bring some black metal influence too. The thing is, despite Blood Year being entirely instrumental, it still manages to be memorable and entertaining, something most post rock does not do for me.
Sacred Reich Awakening
Sadistik Salo Sessions
I really like this release. It's dark with a lot of atmosphere. I'm not a hip hop fan, but I'm a Sadistik fan.
Samael Lux Mundi
Saor Forgotten Paths
Scarve Luminiferous
Second To Sun Nocturnal Philosophy
What does black metal and hardcore sound like? I don't know if I can tell you because, despite the genre list attached to this band, this sounds just like regular 90s-era black metal to me. There's the high tempo percussion, the recognizable black metal riff style,
tremolo picked leads, and the typical higher pitched rasps. What sets it apart and makes it worth listening to is the moods it creates with the guitar leads and riffs. Also, there's just the slightest bit of ambient influence in these songs which breaks up the black metal onslaught.
See You Soon See You Soon
Senses Fail The Fire
Septicflesh Codex Omega
Serpentine Dominion Serpentine Dominion
The collaboration between Killswitch Engage’s guitar player, Cannibal Corpse’s vocalist and ex-The Black Dahlia’s drummer. So what does it sound like? The heaviest fucking Killswitch Engage album ever. There’s definitely a prominent death metal influence, but with Killswitch’s guitarist composing all the songs and their vocalist writing all the vocals, it can’t help but sound like a crushingly heavy Killswitch album; complete with more than the occasional clean vocal. As the soundoff above stated, the songs definitely benefit from their brevity with only one even breaking the four minute mark. This makes for what is essentially, short bursts of highly aggressive melodic death metal.
Sevendust Alpha
Shores of Null The Loss of Beauty
Sounds like equal parts melodic death metal and melodic doom with Vintersorg (ex-Borknagar) doing clean singing as well as your typical death metal vocals. The guitar melodies are really good, the clean vocals are decent, and the music itself is really well written.
Slayer Divine Intervention
Sleepwalker and Fen Call of Ashes II: Stone and Sea
Sleigh Bells Jessica Rabbit
That soundoff pretty much sums up any criticism I’ve seen of this album. In fact, the only soundoffs currently on this site are negative. I have to disagree, though. I think it’s good noise music and good pop music. I can see where the criticism comes from, though. This album definitely doesn’t try to blend the genres as well as the previous releases, and even within individual tracks there is a disjointed feel. I like it. I think it’s an enduring quirk that sets this album apart from its predecessors. At the end of the day, Jessica Rabbit is an album that makes the melodies, noise, and abrasive structures all more prominent without making any effort at integration; this leaves them battling for top billing. You’ll either love or hate the struggle.
Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter
Remember in my introduction when I said that my only criteria for this list is how much I enjoyed listening to the album? Well, I enjoyed the shit out of this album. If people don’t see that this is probably one of the more diverse and varied releases to come out of the mainstream metal world in a long time, then they’re just not listening. The band are finally close to actually utilizing the members that don’t play guitars or drums, and it has made for some great songs. The samples and additional sounds are really what gives the songs an additional edge and it doesn’t hurt that they decided to mix the best of Iowa with the best of All Hope is Gone. This is definitely the first Slipknot release without any filler and the diversity makes it something that can be enjoyed from start to finish. Again, for a mainstream release this has a lot going for it. Great riffs, diverse influences, strong choruses and it’s definitely heavy. If you can’t hear Corey Taylor belt out a line like “I know why Judas wept, Motherfucker” and not just chuckle and move on, then you take your music too serious.
SMP Death of the Format
Soilwork Figure Number Five
Soilwork Death Resonance
I know this isn't an official all-new album, but that almost makes it more crazy because all the songs are really good. Soilwork is on a roll.
Sole Remedy Apoptosis
Definitely has an old school Riverside vibe (but with much heavier parts). Good stuff.
Soundgarden Badmotorfinger
Spire Temple of Khronos
Squarepusher Be Up a Hello
I'm a sucker for Drum&Bass and Jungle. I like the chaotic beats and the high energy. Squarepusher is probably one of my favorites from those genres. I love the chaotic beats that drive (mostly) melodic synth. Yes, it can all start to sound the same after awhile due to the lack of vocals and hooks, but I always enjoy it. Great driving music.
Stabbing Westward Stabbing Westward
Stabbing Westward Chasing Ghosts
Chasing Ghosts is a dark, dreary album full of pulsating synths, pounding rhythmic percussion, and aggressive yet accessible riffs, all rounded out by the strong vocals of Christopher Hall. It is the seamless follow-up to Stabbing Westward's seminal peak, Darkest
Days. When Stabbing Westward hit the scene the first time, they quickly drowned in a sea of genre saturation combined with high label expectations that quickly turned to indifference, but they don't have to worry about those things anymore. Hopefully this second era won't end up with the same footnote, -- Wrong Place, Wrong Time -- because Chasing Ghosts is absolutely the right release... hopefully it's finally the right time.
Staind Break The Cycle
Strapping Young Lad Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing
Strung Out Exile In Oblivion
Strung Out Black Out The Sky
So, a punk band was going to try their hand at an all-acoustic album. I honestly assumed this would suck, but they actually did a really good job of mixing just a bit of punk with some really good acoustic tracks.
Suite Clarity Duality
Susie Suh Invisible Love
Svart Crown Wolves Among The Ashes
Swallow the Sun The Morning Never Came
Swallow the Sun New Moon
Swallow the Sun Moonflowers
Sweet Oblivion Relentless
Sybreed God Is an Automaton
Soilwork go industrial… Good, now that I’ve lost everybody I can just be left alone with my thoughts and this excellent release. In their defense, they’ve introduced a guttural death vocal that kicks things up a notch and the raspy growl has more power behind it than it ever has in the past.
Syko Friend The Code
This is a tough one to describe. At most times, the music is literally a single guitar playing a cyclical ethereal/ambient melody with Sophie Well kind of doing hybrid singing/speaking over the top. The atmosphere that's created by this simplistic formula is infectious. I love to just put this on and chill. The Code is great for late night listening when nothing else is going on and there isn't any other sounds in the house.
Tad Morose Matters of the Dark
Tad Morose St. Demonius
Teramaze Sorella Minore
The Birthday Massacre Fascination
At this point, it seems pretty obvious that the sinister, guitar-driven version of The Birthday Massacre is gone. In its place is a mellow 80s electro-pop meets post punk style that is still very good, it just takes more time to endear itself. After multiple albums of trying to get that style right, they continue to get closer to succeeding. The songs are catchy, the electronics continue to get better in the absence of guitars, and Chibi's vocal melodies continue to mature.
The Circle Of Awakening
The Crystal Method Legion Of Boom
The Cure Faith
The Design Abstract Technotheism
The Erkonauts I Shall Forgive
The Future Sound of London Yage 2019
The original song, Yage, was a part of The Future Sound of London's breakout release Dead Cities. It was a near-perfect soundscape that told part of a larger story throughout the album's runtime. While I don't know what prompted the guys to craft an entire album around the twenty-three year old song, I'm glad they did. The album takes everything that was good about Dead Cities and creates a near-perfect sequel. The feeling of traveling desolate, almost haunted, alien landscapes has returned for the new millennium making Yage 2019 the best thing the band have done in decades.
The Gathering Beautiful Distortion
I honestly thought The Gathering were over. It had been so long since their last actual release that it felt like they had finally given up... but then came Beautiful Distortion. This album shares more with The West Pole than Disclosure. It's catchier and less experimental and quirky. It also shares a little bit with some of The Gathering's Anneke releases such as the gothy electronics of "Weightless" which would fit comfortably on Souvenirs or the alt doom of "We Rise" which sounds like something from How to Measure a Planet.
The Haunted One Kill Wonder
The Haunted Exit Wounds
The Haunted switch back to their other singer and go back to their roots. Consistent album without any filler. Great for
the gym.
The Haunted Strength in Numbers
The Jezabels Synthia
I'm a big fan of this band, but I've liked each new release a little less than the one before it. This one is still pretty great, but it is a little too streamlined for my taste. I liked the bigger risks on the first two releases.
The Lion's Daughter Future Cult
The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
The Pineapple Thief Dissolution
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Illusory Walls
Therapy? Infernal Love
Todtgelichter Rooms
If the lack of ratings, soundoffs, and reviews are anything to go by, Todtgelichter is a tough band to get into. It’s not really surprising, though. They take the cold, abrasive sound of black metal (including the throat-shredding vocals) and push it through a morose form of progressive rock. The female singing, too, is tough to get into because her vocals occupy a semi-nassally niche that lacks emotion in order to maintain the dark, cold, atmosphere that dominates the album. The thing is, though, it’s all worth it. Buried behind that ‘price of admission’ are great progressive rock songs with a very unique sound.
Tonight Alive Underworld
I was not a fan of the ultra-poppy "Limitless". I think it lost a lot of what made the pop-punk of their other albums entertaining and enjoyable. Thanks to "Underworld" we can forget about the misstep that was "Limitless". "Underworld" is the sound of Tonight Alive getting back on track while not totally abandoning the electro pop of the previous release. "Underworld" is an awesome blend of electro-pop, indie pop, and hard hitting alt rock. The thing that ties everything together is the powerful vocals of Jenna McDougall.
Tool Fear Inoculum
Toothgrinder Nocturnal Masquerade
Nocturnal Masquerade has kind of a djent, tech metal, metalcore sound. It definitely sits more on the tech/prog side of things, though. Initially, Nocturnal Masquerade took a lot of listens to really click. There are a lot of twitchy rhythms, break-neck tangents, and abrasive shouts that just didn’t click on the first two listens. The smattering of catchy choruses and memorable melodic moments kept me coming back, though, and eventually everything fell into place. Just be prepared to give it a handful of listens.
Toothgrinder Phantom Amour
This is going to shock longtime fans. Toothgrinder started out as one of those modern prog bands specializing in chaos, noise, and aggression with occasional moments of clean singing and melody. On Phantom Amour the chaos and noise has been replaced by lush atmosphere, and most the aggression has been replaced by the clean singing and melody. The most similar sonic shift that comes to mind is the change between Gabriel and Transhuman (both by Believer). In fact, this and Transhuman have a lot in common. Throughout its runtime, Phantom Amour delivers a moody, melodic blend of modern prog, alternative rock, and even a little psychedelia.
Trna Istok
Tuesday The Sky The Blurred Horizon
Ulver Flowers of Evil
Until now, it never felt like Ulver had created the same album twice. On Flowers of Evil, though, they pick up right where The Assassination of Julius Caesar left off, except with less experimentation and no real surprises. Having said that, I've always liked Ulver more when they use vocals and I'm also a big Depeche Mode fan. This album is 90s-era Depeche Mode with a bit of an Ulver twist.
Underoath Erase Me
Defintiely a more melodic, diverse, and accessible version of the band I knew. Granted, I only really bothered with their last two albums, but this sounds nothing like them. The music is really good, mixing melody, electronics, and post hardcore, but the clean vocals don't always do it for me. Still, a pretty great return even if it's not nearly as intense as their previous two releases.
Unto Others Strength
Vanessa Carlton Rabbits on the Run
Vestascension Breaching the Sound
Vintersea Illuminated
At its core, Illuminated is a mixture of black metal and melodic death metal featuring the beautiful Avienne in vocals (seriously, go check her out), but it's also more than that. Interspersed through out the death and black metal are elements of progressive metal, post metal, and post black metal, to name a few. Avienne capably handles every genre shift with black metal rasps, death metal growls, and even ethereal clean singing. Illuminated also benefits from a collection of songs that never really start to feel familiar, with each kind of having its own personality. Definitely worth a listen.
Violet Cold Desperate Dreams
Violet Cold kOsmik
Violet Cold Multiverse
VOLA Witness
Voyage In Solitude The Isle of Death and Rebirth
Voyager Colours in the Sun
Vuur In This Moment We Are Free - Cities
We Are The Empty THE DESERT
We Butter The Bread With Butter Das Album
We Came As Romans To Plant a Seed
White Ward False Light
Willoos Begeerte
Winds of Tragedy Hating Life
This is some well done blackened melodic death metal. The melodies are melodic and catchy without being cheesy. The growls are powerful and clear. The songs themselves are heavy and energetic. This is the kind of melodic death metal I haven't heard in a while as all these other bands race to be as epic and accessible as possible, these guys remembered to include the death metal (and black metal).
Winterfylleth The Dark Hereafter
First, I have to say I enjoyed the Ulver cover. Yes, it’s completely faithful to the original but I really liked the original so it was a nice surprise the first time I heard it here. Much like the band’s decision to do a no-frills cover song, though, the rest of the album is basically a no-frills approach to their folky black metal sound. I appreciate that direction, because when these folk-inspired bands start really laying on the cheese, I lose interest quick. These guys are still basically melodic black metal with a folk influence that accentuates instead of ruins the songs. The Dark Hereafter is another great release from these melodic/folk black metallers. The fact that they end with an Ulver cover just seals the deal.
Within Temptation Mother Earth
Within Temptation Bleed Out
Within the Ruins Black Heart
I'm not the biggest fan of this band so I could be wrong, but as far as I can tell, Within The Ruins has been making the same album since their debut. Their formula is basically super-twitchy djent meets metalcore with some death metal influences and some pretty cool lead work and melodies. I can't really say if this album is better than any of their others because they all kind of blend together. What I can say, is that I've enjoyed everything they've released.
Wizardthrone Hypercube Necrodimensions
Wolfheart Constellation of the Black Light
Wolfheart Wolves of Karelia
This is some fairly standard melodic death metal, but it's also very well done. There's just enough aggression to keep it from sounding weak, there's a subtle layer of keyboards that never overwhelms the music, and the pace is fairly quick throughout. Combine that with some aggressive growls and a wide array of melodies that never end up sounding cheesy, and you have a pretty awesome (yet unremarkable) melodic death metal album.
Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven
Xaon The Lethean
This is some classy, well-written symphonic melodic death metal. First, the symphonic elements aren't used to just create bombast (although there are parts like that too), they definitely have a soundtrack feel to them. The riffs aren't anything to brag about, but they're chuggy enough and a great augmentation for the symphonic parts. Also, great death growls and good clean singing. As far as this genre of music is concerned, it's definitely near the top. Also, the production is crisp, clear, and powerful.
Youth Code Commitment to Complications
This reminds me of 'Addiction'-era Skinny Puppy goes digital hardcore. Musically it is really good, which shouldn't be a surprise since Rhys Fulber (Front Line Assembly, Fear Factory) produced it. The stickler is the monotone shouted vocals. They're not bad, but they need to diversify the vocal delivery.

3.3 great
...and Oceans Cypher
...and Oceans A.M.G.O.D.
10 Years Violent Allies
3TEETH Metawar
40 Below Summer The Mourning After
A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart
A Day To Remember Bad Vibrations
A heavier version of what they've always done. It's a very conistent album, though. Something that should appeal to their fans, for sure.
A-Z A-Z
A7IE The Shattering
Aara Triade II: Hemera
Abbath Abbath
Riffy black metal from the frontman of Immortal. It's nothing extraordinary, but it's definitely a solid and consistent album.
Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns
Abigail Williams The Accuser
Aburden The Last Goodbye
Acrid (NL) Wonderland
Wonderland is a decent blend of technical death metal and progressive death metal (there is a difference between the two) with a throaty death growl that kind of reminds me of old school Pestilence. I think these guys could be much better with a more diverse vocalist, but it's still pretty good because the music is pretty cool.
Actor | Observer Songs For The Newly Reclusive
Acylum Karzinom
Acylum Kampf Dem Verderb
Definitely a step up from the last two. Less abrasive and way more dark and menacing. Still nowhere close to The Enemy, though.
Ad Infinitum Chapter I: Monarchy
Adimiron K2
Aeon God Ends Here
Aera (USA-MO) Schattenfall
Aeternam Disciples of the Unseen
Aeternam Al Qassam
Aeternam Heir of the Rising Sun
Aethereus Absentia
Aethereus Leiden
AFI Burials
After Evolution War of the Worlds
If Evanescence embraced their metal side it might sound something like this. The vocalist sounds so much like Amy Lee, if nothing else.
Agrypnie Metamorphosis
Ahamkara The Embers Of The Stars
Epic melodic black metal with extended song times and an excellent use of atmosphere.
Akilla The Gods Have Spoken
Melodic death metal that is both guitar and keyboard driven. A lot of the leads and melodies remind me of classic Insomnium, but these guys also bring a lot of riffs and don't do clean singing. This is a great debut.
Alanis Morissette So-Called Chaos
Alcest Écailles De Lune
Alcest Kodama
Alcest’s previous release, Shelter, dove straight in to the mellow atmospheric parts of post rock and Anathema worship. Kodama feels like a direct reaction to that release. It is grittier and noisier and features a return of the black metal vocals (in addition to the clean singing). The production, too, is more raw than its predecessor. If Kodama has an Achilles Heel it is that it lacks the focus of the previous release. There are too many times during this album where it feels like the songs just kind of meander around without much direction or differentiation.
Alcest Spiritual Instinct
Alestorm Sunset on the Golden Age
Alestorm No Grave But the Sea
Alexa Borden Speck in the Universe
Alice in Chains Rainier Fog
Alkaloid Liquid Anatomy
Alkaloid are finally starting to use some of that potential they only hinted at on previous releases. At this point they're basically 60% death metal and 40% progressive metal/rock, so they're definitely moving further away from the progressive death metal thing they started with and more towards an equal blend. The better (and increased) use of progressive metal is what really lets this album step up the quality. It's also much more focused than its predecessor.
Amaranthe The Nexus
The worst parts of Soilwork meet the worst parts of Nightwish -- with a smoking hot female vocalist. Lifeless metalcore meets cheese-filled power metal. If there's something nice to say about this album it's that it 'almost' does enough to be good, and it's definitely better than their last release. Edit: Somehow I've had to up my rating to 3.3 -- it is infectious.
Amaranthe Helix
Amaranthe Manifest
Cheesy Techno + Cheesy Power Metal + Cheesy Metalcore = A Enjoyably Cheesy Listening Experience
Amaya Laucirica Rituals
Amberian Dawn River Of Touni
Amesoeurs Amesoeurs
Amiensus Abreaction
Amon Amarth The Avenger
Amon Tobin ISAM
Amorphis Halo
An Autumn For Crippled Children The Light of September
Anaal Nathrakh A New Kind of Horror
This is probably the most catchy and melodic thing they've ever done. Having said that, Anaal Nathrakh's music is still too noisy and exhausting for me to enjoy for more than a few songs at a time. On their own, though, just about every song is awesome.
Anacondas Sub Contra Blues
This is like Fugazi doing a post metal album. Good stuff.
Anathema Pentecost III
Anette Olzon Rapture
Angels and Airwaves Chasing Shadows
The guy might be a total nutjob at this point, but this band still puts out decent, semi-experimental alt. pop.
Anna Nalick At Now
Anna Of The North Crazy Life
Annakin Stand Your Ground
Annakin The End of Eternity
Anne Marie Almedal Blue Sky Blue
Annisokay Enigmatic Smile
More Djenty metalcore. The songs seem more fleshed out than on the debut, but I still prefer that one.
Annisokay Arms
Annisokay Aurora
Antimatter The Judas Table
Antimatter Live Between The Earth & Clouds
Antoine Fafard Occultus Tramitis
Anubis A Tower Of Silence
Anubis Gate The Detached
Aorlhac Pierres Brûlées
Aphex Twin Windowlicker
Aphex Twin On
Aphex Twin Donkey Rhubarb
Aphex Twin Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt 2
It's Richard D. James doing what he does best... mind-fucking you. This time just a little more subdued than usual.
Arcada Projections
Arcane Roots Blood and Chemistry
Arcane Roots Heaven and Earth
Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion
Arch Enemy Wages of Sin
Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant
Arch Enemy War Eternal
New Vocalist, same made-for-the-masses melodic death metal sound. This one is a bit better than most their discography, for whatever that's worth.
Arch Enemy Deceivers
Architects Daybreaker
Ariel Abshire Exclamation Love
Arkan Lila H
Artifex Pereo Am I Invisible
Artificial Sky Artificial Sky
As December Falls Happier.
Ashes of Ares Ashes of Ares
Asking Alexandria The Black
This is solid metalcore with a great vocalist. I never heard their previous albums, so I have no idea how this compares.
Astrakhan Reward in Purpose
Kind of reminds me of a Life of Agony meets Isole sound. Slightly doomy, slightly progressive, with some of that alt. metal sound, too.
Astrakhan Without New Growth, Process is Bloodshed
Astral Blood Astral Blood
Astralborne Across the Aeons
At the Gates At War with Reality
Atena Possessed
Atlantean Kodex The Course of Empire
Atlases Woe Portrait
Atlases Between The Day & I
Atrocity Okkult III
Old school thrash meets old school death metal. The vocals are delivered with a nice throaty rasp that augments the music perfectly. The riffs are heavy and chugging, and there's cool little leads and harmonies as well. Well-done no-frills death metal.
Auras Binary Garden
Autechre Incunabula
Autechre Exai
Autrest Follow the Cold Path
The ideas used throughout this album are really well done. Waves of ambience and synth wash over all of the black metal elements, making it both soothing and brooding at the same time. If there is one issue, it's that these elements, as good as they are, shouldn't be used for five to nine minutes at a time. The songs should either be shortened or there needs to be more going on to justify the lengths.
Autumn's Grey Solace Shades of Grey
Avatarium Moonhorse
Aviations Luminaria
Ayleen Valentine Little Rainbows After Death
BABYMETAL Metal Resistance
It's basically a less fun, but more focused version of their debut. Probably won't change any minds, but I don't think that was the point of this album. I don't like it as much as their debut, because it's too serious now. I liked the random stupid shit that was scattered throughout their debut.
Bad Omens The Death of Peace of Mind
Bad Religion Age of Unreason
Bat For Lashes Two Suns
Bathsheba Servus
70s inspired, female-fronted doom. It's basically the same thing a few other female-fronted doom bands are doing with the same grungy guitar-fuzz sound, but theses guys are better. Their female vocalist is better and even does some occasional raspy growls. Their music is better because it doesn't just plod along for 60 minutes with the same slow-chug guitar riff. This album has actual dynamics which is what really sets it apart... and you can't ignore the saxaphone solo, that's for sure.
Beach House Once Twice Melody
Beastie Boys To the 5 Boroughs
Before The Dawn Soundscape Of Silence
Before the Rain One Day Less
Believer 3 of 5
Beneath The Silence Black Lights
Berried Alive BERRIED TREASURE
Between the Buried and Me Automata I
This album suffers from the same problem that all BTBAM albums suffer from. Individual parts are cool sounding, but the songs lack focus and/or direction, and by the end of the album there is absolutely nothing that stays with you.
Beyond Creation Algorythm
Birdy Fire Within
Black Fast Spectre of Ruin
Black Map In Droves
Basically this is slightly heavy alt. rock with a kind of post rock style melody attached to it. Not bad, but it kind of blends together by the mid-point.
Blackbriar We'd Rather Burn
Blackbriar Our Mortal Remains
Bleeding Gods Dodekathlon
High energy, aggressive death metal with extensive (but tasteful) keyboard usage. I would probably classify this as melodic death metal simply because of all the keyboard melodies, but there are almost no actual guitar melodies, so it doesn't really fit. On the other hand Dodekathlon doesn't ever reach traditional death metal levels of aggression, speed, or heaviness, so it kind of sits in it's own little nitch between melodic death metal and traditional death metal.
Bloc Party Silent Alarm
Bloc Party A Weekend in the City
Blue October Consent to Treatment
Blue Stahli Obsidian
Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God
Blut Aus Nord The Mystical Beast of Rebellion
Boreworm Black Path
Borknagar Epic
Borknagar Fall
Born In Exile Transcendence
Born of Osiris The New Reign
Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive
Born of Osiris The Eternal Reign
Bronswick Entre mes insomnies
Bush The Kingdom
Cabal (DK) Mark Of Rot
When I first heard this album, it jumped out at me in a big way. I really liked the blend of djent and death metal with that little bit of black metal atmosphere in the keyboards, but it quickly grew off of me. When they're on, they're really on, but they're kind of a one-trick pony sticking to the twitchy djent far too often. The songs that really shine like "Nothingness" and "Rah'Ru" are the ones that can seamlessly blend the djent with different tempos and dark keyboard atmospherics.
Cabal (DK) Drag Me Down
Caliban Ghost Empire
I've heard these guys before, but I don't really remember them. This album, though, is pretty cool. It's kind of a metalcore/djent hybrid with some cool effects and occasional industrial parts. To be honest, it kind of reminds me of the latest album by Still Remains.
Caligula's Horse Charcoal Grace
Cannibal Corpse Gore Obsessed
Carcass Torn Arteries
Carnifex Necromanteum
Catamenia Eternal Winter's Prophecy
Celestial Annihilator Annihilation for Esoteric Nascency
Celestial Season Mysterium I
cEvin Key Resonance
Charlot Darker Than the Moon
Charlotte Wessels Tales from Six Feet Under, Vol. II
Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll
Children of Bodom Chaos Ridden Years - Stockholm Knockout
Children of Bodom Hexed
Circle of Dust alt_Machines
Claire Voyant Love Is Blind
Claire Voyant Time and the Maiden
Cloudkicker Solitude
Coevality Multiple Personalities
Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow
Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures
Conjure One Holoscenic
Conjure One Innovation Zero
Conjurer (UK) Mire
"Mire" is a nice blend of atmospheric doom, technical-ish death metal (like a modern Ulcerate sound), and even occasionally black metal and clean singing. The thing that keeps "Mire" from being rated higher is that it is kind of frustrating. When the band is on, they're really on, but when they're kind of losing focus, the drive and intensity drops away quickly. Fortunately they're on way more than they're off.
Constellatia Magisterial Romance
Contrarian To Perceive Is To Suffer
Musically, it kind of reminds me of Zero Hour and Spiral Architect but with a black metal edge. It's the black metal vocals that kind of gives this album its own sound. It's also what kind of brings it down, though. I'm just not a fan of that dry raspy black metal vocal style mixed so high.
Contrarian Their Worm Never Dies
Contrarian Only Time Will Tell
Conveyer No Future
Really well done melodic hardcore. Kind of reminds me of the last two Senses Fail releases, but much more 'musical'.
Corrosion of Conformity Deliverance
Cradle of Filth The Principle of Evil Made Flesh
Cranial Dark Towers, Bright Lights
Creed Weathered
Crimfall Amain
Folky, symphonic, melodic death metal. It's a pretty damn good album that kind of reminds me of a variation of what Arkan used to do on their earlier stuff. There's just enough pomp and cheese to drag down the rating, though.
Crooked Royals Quarter Life Daydream
Crown the Empire The Fallout
Cryptosis Bionic Swarm
CygnosiC A Deity In Pain
Cynic Uroboric Forms
Definitely a good remaster. The best part of it is that the sound isn't so muddy anymore, and also the tape hiss is gone which clears up everything else. It is still a demo though, so don't get too excited.
D-A-D No Fuel Left For The Pilgrims
D.R.I. Crossover
D.R.I. Dirty Rotten
Dagoba Black Nova
A cool blend of thrash, death metal, and metalcore with the occassional industrial element thrown in. My trouble with these guys is that when they're on, they're awesome, but those awesome bits are always surrounded by merely good parts that kind of blend together. There's no doubt they've got better with each release, though, and kind of expanded their sound a little.
Damnations Day A World Awakens
Dance Gavin Dance Artificial Selection
Easily Dance Gavin Dance's most diverse release. I llike the blend of all their different styles and eras, it makes for an album where every song has its own identity.
Darkane Inhuman Spirits
Darzamat Solfernus' Path
Dave Lombardo Rites Of Percussion
This is essentially the kind of weird ambient stuff you'd expect from an electronic artist, but instead it's those same kind of minimalist / found sounds and atmospheres with a live drummer creating infinitely more interesting beats and rhythms. This came out way better than I expect.
David Judson Clemmons Lights For the Living
Dawn Of Ashes Anathema
Dawn Of Ashes The Antinomian
Dawn of Ouroboros The Art of Morphology
Daylight Dies Lost to the Living
Dayshell Nexus
Dead Girls Academy Alchemy
This is basically just heavy rock with kind of a Chemical Romance/The Used-style twist, but it's super catchy and has just enough of an edge to keep my attention. Another good description is Story of the Year with more balls.
Dead Letter Circus Next In Line
Dead Letter Circus Aesthesis
Dead When I Found Her Eyes On Backwards
Dead When I Found Her have never been 100% original, but they had their own little niche. This time they're just doing straight-up old school Skinny Puppy emulation. It's good, but not compared to their older albums.
Deadlock Hybris
Deadlock drop the pop-leanings of their last few albums and get back into Manifesto/Wolves territory (without any of the techno/hip-hop tangents). Featuring what is basically an entirely new line-up, the band has returned to what attracted fans in the first place.r
DeadVectors The Gray
Chuggy, djenty, and atmospheric, which I love... a little repetitious and homogeneous, though.
Deathwhite Grave Image
Decent blend of doom, dark rock, and a little bit of prog. Could definitely see fans of Katatonia's Tonight's Decision/Discouraged Ones era getting into this. The music is really good, but just like the two albums I mentioned, the vocals need to be a little more expressive and dynamic.
Decapitated Blood Mantra
Deceptic Continuum Unknown
Deep Sea Diver Secrets
Cute Indie Pop with lush melodies. It's good, but probably too 'safe' for me to come back to.
Defecto Nemesis
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist
Delacey Black Coffee
Delacey The Girl Has A Dream
Demi Lovato Holy Fvck
Departe Failure, Subside
Failure, Subside was a tough album to appreciate. There’s just so many parts where there isn’t really anything ‘happening’ if you’re just passively listening. That passively listening ruined this for me the first few times. If you were to focus your attention on nothing but the music, though, you’d hear that the great use of atmospheric noise coupled with excellent riffs and melodies that slowly end up building towards a chaotic crescendo full of throat-shredding growls and relentless double bass. You’d figure out that each song kind of takes you on a journey through different movements that almost require those more subtle moments so that you’re not just beat over the head for 50 minutes. Going back and forth between atmospheric post metal and chaotic Ulcerate-inspired technical death metal, this is one hell of an album.
Depeche Mode Violator
Dessiderium Shadow Burn
Desultory Into Eternity
Devil in the Details The Hell You Wanted
Devil Sold His Soul Empire of Light
Devil Sold His Soul Belong/Betray
Devin Townsend Infinity
Diary of Dreams Grau im Licht
Diary of Dreams Panik Manifesto
Die Krupps The Machinists Of Joy
Die Krupps have never been a phenomenal band, but this is probably about as good as they've ever been.
Dimmu Borgir Godless Savage Garden
Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor
Disillusion Gloria
Disillusion Ayam
Distant Heritage
Super chunky deathcore. What keeps me coming back is the sinister ambience they channel through the massive amount of chugs. It gives it a feel that I totally enjoy. Also, Argent Justice is a total clusterfuck and gets skipped more often than not.
Disturbed Asylum
Disturbed Divisive
Diviner Realms of Time
Divinity The Immortalist
Dodecahedron Kwintessens
Chaotic technical death metal with minor industrial influences. It veers a little too far into the dissonant for me to totally enjoy, but in short bursts it is pretty damn good.
Doomed Wrath Monolith
Doomed 6 Anti-Odes to Life
Download Lingam
Drawn Into Descent The Endless Endeavour
Dreadnought The Endless
Dream Theater Falling into Infinity
Dream Theater Octavarium
Dream Theater Once in a LIVEtime
Drowners On Desire
Drudkh Forgotten Legends
Drudkh Microcosmos
Drudkh A Few Lines in Archaic Ukrainian
Dusks Embrace Reawakening
Dust In Mind From Ashes to Flames
Dvne Etemen Ænka
E-Force Evil Forces
Earthists. Dreamscape
East of the Wall A Neutral Second
Echosmith Talking Dreams
Echosmith Acoustic Dreams
Apparently this album is just acoustic remakes of a few of their songs. I don't know how they normally sound because this is my first introduction to the band. I like it, though. Kind of upbeat indie pop with male/female harmonized vocals.
Edge of Sanity Crimson II
Eerie (US) Eerie
Like Led Zeppelin goes black metal. Not bad at all.
Eisley Combinations
Eitrin Eitrin
Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World
Elder (USA-MA) Innate Passage
Elderblood Messiah
Kind of a cross between Behemoth and Dimmu Borgir, sitting just a bit more on the Dimmu Borgir side. Riffy, symphonic death/black metal. Good stuff.
Elderwind The Colder The Night
Elita Dysania
Twisted, macabre, and raunchy dream pop. I've never really heard anything similar to this. It's pretty good. Just take a listen to "She Bangs Like a Fairy on Acid" and "Mentally Not Here" to hear what I'm talking about.
Emme Packer 15 Songs
Employed To Serve Eternal Forward Motion
End of the Dream Until You Break
These guys take everything that makes Evanescence good and pump it through a heavier, more bombastic sound.
Definitely for fans of Evanescence and modern Within Temptation and Nemesea.
Enshine Singularity
Entheos (USA) The Infinite Nothing
Quirky and aggressive technical death metal. I like all the little effects that run throughout portions of the songs.
Entheos (USA) Dark Future
Entheos (USA) Time Will Take Us All
Another solid Entheos release, but this one finds them expanding their sound a little bit (as far as I remember anyway). It's still atmospheric and twitchy technical death metal, but there also seems to be more melodies as well as a more diverse array of tempos. Also, there's just the smallest bit of clean vocals spread around (which is the part I can't remember being on the older albums). As before, the bass player is the star of this show.
Epica The Divine Conspiracy
Equilibrium Renegades
ERRA ERRA
Eternal Tears of Sorrow Before the Bleeding Sun
Eumeria Rebel Mind
Everdawn Cleopatra
Evereve Enetics
Evergrey Glorious Collision
Evergrey The Atlantic
Evoken Hypnagogia
Exodus Let There Be Blood
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
Explosions in the Sky The Wilderness
This is some post rock I can get behind. Short, melodic and to-the-point songs without all of the useless silence.
Eyes of Fire Ashes to Embers
Eyes Set to Kill White Lotus
Eyes Set to Kill Eyes Set to Kill
Let's start with the worst part of the album... the first four tracks. They should have never been included on the album, and having them start the album and all in a row almost caused me to quit listening because I assumed the whole thng was terrible. Given, the opening track is simply a short intro it could be ignored if the next three songs didn't suck. The second song, "Die Trying", is a terrible emulation of Linkin Park's most generic alt metal and is absolutlely horrible. The next track, "Not Sorry", trades the shitty Linkin Park influence for shitty Nickelback influence. It's at this point I thought about turnning off the album thinking the whole thing was going to be second-rate emulation of terrible bands (okay, I like Linkin Park). Boldly I pressed on and was met with "Break". Trading shitty Nickelback for shitty In This Moment, "Break" is probably the straw that broke the camel's back and made people quit on the album. It's a shame because there's nine more songs of top-notch Eyes Set to Kill songs on the album that are gritty, heavy(ish), and catchy. Even better, they totally dropped the always-terrible male vocals that ruined just about every Eyes Set to Kill song they've ever been a part of. Maybe the next release will be better, but this one isn't bad... just delete the first four tracks and make yourself a solid EP.
Fall of Messiah Senicarne
Fates Warning Disconnected
Fear Factory Obsolete
Feared Vinter
Fears Affinity
Fen Monuments to Absence
Fiends Insolent Noise
Filter The Amalgamut
Filter The Trouble With Angels
Filter The Algorithm
Final Coil Persistence of Memory
I hear a mixture of southern rock, progressive rock and doom in the music. Vocally, this sounds like a more melodious version of Opeth's clean vocals. My only issue with this is it's all still a little too two dimensional, but it's just their debut. I forsee even better things in their future.
Finch Back to Oblivion
There has been some discussion about how this album would sound in relation to the two previous releases. The general consensus has been that it will be closer to WIITB than SHTTS, because SHTTS was just something they had to get out of their systems -- well, they were technically right. 55% WIITB / 45% SHTTS; 100% awesome.
Fireflight For Those Who Wait
First Fragment Gloire Eternelle
Fit for a King The Path
Fit for a King The Hell We Create
Flaw Divided We Fall
This is nu-metal and they don't try to hide it. This is their first album in 12 years and it sounds like no time has past. Flaw were always one of the best nu metal bands out there and this album maintains that standard.
Flesh Field Voice Of The Echo Chamber
Fleshgod Apocalypse Veleno
Fleshwater We're Not Here To Be Loved
Foreclosure Of A Dream Ogden
Forhist Forhist
Foscor Les Irreals Visions
Definitely reminds me of Novembre around the time of "The Blue." This is a little more expansive, atmospheric, and melancholy, but essentially this and "The Blue" are cut from the same cloth.
Frameworks Smother
Kind of a post-punk meets post hardcore kind of sound. I like all of the dissonant melodies that come from the vocals and the guitars.
Freedom of Fear Carpathia
Front 242 Front By Front
Front Line Assembly Hard Wired
Front Line Assembly Fallout
Frostbitt Machine Destroy
It's like classic Mudvayne and classic System of a Down got together and had a nu-prog baby with a djent hobo. I'm here for that.
Frou Frou Details
Future Palace Run
Fvnerals Let the Earth Be Silent
Female fronted doom with a huge amount of macabre ambience. It's dark, heavy, atmospheric, with some great ominous vocals.
Galactic Cowboys At The End Of The Day
Gamma Ray Somewhere Out in Space
Gamma Ray Insanity and Genius
Gates (USA-NJ) Bloom and Breathe
The music definitely pulls the best of what post rock has to offer. It’s melodic, catchy, atmospheric and it makes you feel like you’re moving forward with the song. What it doesn’t have are the lame-ass extended build-ups that lead to a brief few moments of actual quality. This post rock sound is mixed with the style that Thrice had evolved towards right before their breakup. That on its own would probably be good enough, but the vocals (yes, there are vocals) are also well done and also kind of remind me of Thrice. Hence my ‘Thrice goes post rock’ description.
Gideon Cold
Maybe a liitle more melodic and musically adept, but this is basically Hatebreed with occasional clean vocals. In case it isn't clear, that means it's pretty damn cool.
Giraffe Tongue Orchestra Broken Lines
Glades This Is What It's Like
Godflesh Streetcleaner
Godflesh Slavestate
Godflesh Pure
Godflesh Decline and Fall
I don't follow these guys regularly anymore, but it feels like they kind of went back to their heavier, grittier roots. Rhythmic post metal kind of 'Streetcleaner'-ish.
Gods of Gaia As Daylight Dies
Melodic and epic symphonic death metal that is also surprisingly accessible. It's heavy without being chaotic, symphonic without veering into the cheese, and catchy despite the lack of vocal hooks or clean singing.
Gojira Magma
Almost reminds me of what Cynic could have become if they had kept any of their metal roots intact. Good, very chill and atmospheric, semi-progressive rock/metal.
Gojira Fortitude
Good Tiger A Head Full of Moonlight
Good Tiger We Will All be Gone
Alt prog that's played with a lot of flair, but it all starts to sound the same so damn quick. They need just a little more differentiation between the songs. Despite this, though, the album is definitely still great. It just needs time to grow on you.
Gorod Aethra
Gorod The Orb
I'm not really a fan of Gorod. Their last release was the first one I actually enjoyed. This one is kind of similar to that one, but it's even more mainstream and accessible without losing their technicality and death metal roots. This is probably the most melodic and catchy Gorod have ever been. There are plenty of rhythms and leads that you can latch onto, even on first listen. The songs as a whole just feel more structured and less chaotic.
Graveworm Ascending Hate
Graveworm's first few albums were pretty damn good, but starting with 'Engraved in Black' they kind of had an identity crisis. It seems that after five albums of varying quality, they have finally worked out their new sound. It's melodic death/black metal with subtle and tasteful keyboard sections that aren't trying to be metalcore or Dimmu Borgir.
Graveworm Killing Innocence
I believe Graveworm could have been one of the classic nineties black metal bands, but their sound took a turn for the generic. Each release after As Angels Reach the Beauty seemed to struggle with finding an identity, and that hasn’t changed with Killing Innocence. What has changed is that Graveworm is delivering their formula with more conviction and energy than they have in a long time. Despite the songs still lacking any unique features, they’re all solid, well-written, and well performed. Additionally, Killing Innocence features one of the band’s best productions, hitting with meaty riffs, pounding percussion, and a subtle layer of synths. Even with an eight-year gap, Graveworm fans should know exactly what to expect – no-frills death / black metal that is capably done, but nothing groundbreaking. If this is your first foray into the sound of Graveworm, it’s not a bad place to start as it is easily as good as just about anything else they’ve released.
Grieved Grieved
So, they call this dark hardcore. I kind of thought it sounded like a hardcore band influenced by old school Paradise Lost, so I guess that works.
Grima Frostbitten
Hail the Sun Divine Inner Tension
Halocene Vita Nova
Halou Wholeness and Separation
Halsey If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
Hammock Love in the Void
This is some very chill and ambient-style post rock. I love the serene atmosphere it creates, and the lush melodies are excellent. I just don't know how often I would really throw this on. I love it when I'm in the mood, but otherwise this is music for a very specific time.
Hanging Garden I Am Become
Harakiri for the Sky III: Trauma
Very epic and well put-together post black metal that doesn't suffer from getting bogged down in forced ambience.
Harakiri for the Sky Arson
Very catchy and melodic post black metal that's surprisingly energetic for the genre. Even the vocals, despite the rasp, are almost easy to listen to. The challenging part of this album are the song lengths. Every one of these songs could have been improved with 2 or more minutes shaved off each one. As they are, it's easy to kind of zone out after the first few minutes and not realize it until the sound suddently stops.
Harakiri for the Sky Maere
Harm October Fire
Great old school thrash with a strong Slayer influence.
Hatchie Sugar and Spice
Hatchie Giving the World Away
Haunted (IT) Dayburner
Reverb-drenched female-fronted doom metal. The whole thing is really good, but at this point it all sounds too similar. Basically, every song is really cool on its own, but as an album it all starts to blend together.
Haxkapell Eldhymner
Heaven Shall Burn Whatever It May Take
Heavydeath In Circles We Die
Hecate Enthroned Embrace of the Godless Aeon
Heliotropes A Constant Sea
Helloween The Time of the Oath
Helloween 7 Sinners
Helloween Straight Out of Hell
Helmet Betty
Helstar Sins of the Past
Hemina As We Know It
Her Own World Tales From Another Life
Female fronted industrial rock that features an abundance of lush electronics and keyboards. The songs themselves were produced really well and while they probably should be catchier for this kind of music, they're still really good.
Heretoir Nightsphere
High Priest Invocation
Hollie Kenniff We All Have Places That We Miss
There's strange electronic-based ambient like The Orb and FSOL, and there's lush new age-based ambient like this. I like both kinds, but this is one of the more well done new age-based ambient albums I've heard in a long time.
Hope Drone Cloak of Ash
Long, droning, post black metal with doom elements.
Hope For The Dying Legacy
Another dose of well-done progressive death metal/metalcore. It's basically the same thing they've been doing since the beginning and maybe it's just starting to get a bit old, because I can't really hear any reason to like this less than their last two releases, but I do anyway.
Humanity's Last Breath Välde
Hypocrisy Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy A Taste of Extreme Divinity
I Built the Sky The Zenith Rise
Ice Nine Kills Every Trick in the Book
If I Were You Life After Death
Immolation Acts of God
In Flames Whoracle
In Mourning Monolith
In Mourning Garden of Storms
In The Nursery Lingua
Inanimate Existence Calling from a Dream
There are some really cool progressive death metal songs on this album, but there are also parts that just kind of drag. I've never heard the previous releases, but maybe they'll come through 100% next time.r
Inanimate Existence Underneath a Melting Sky
Inanimate Existence Clockwork
Inanimate Existence The Masquerade
Incubus (USA-CA) HQ Live
Insense Soothing Torture
Insomnium Across the Dark
Intohimo Northern Lights
Invent Animate Greyview
Ion Dissonance Cast the First Stone
Iravu A Fate Worse than Home
In the first few minutes of this album, I assumed I was in for another no-frills 90-era black metal release -- but there's more to this than that. For one, there is a very prominent ambient quality that runs through these songs. Whether it is the way the keyboard parts are delivered or the exceptional guitar leads that augment the riffs or even the quieter sections that pop up from time to time, there is an abundance of 'atmosphere' on this. There's also a virtuosic element that runs through this due to some of the guitar parts and well done guitar solos (especially for black metal). If you're looking for a black metal album with its foundation based on the classic 90s era sound, but with enough unique nuances to stand on its own, you can't really go wrong with this.
Irist Order Of The Mind
Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying
Iron Maiden Live After Death (DVD)
Jael Nothing to Hide
Jael Midlife
Joe Satriani Time Machine
Joe Satriani Live In San Fransisco
Jose Vanders Blue Notes
Journey Generations
Judas Priest Turbo
Julianna Barwick The Magic Place
K. Flay What If It Is
K. Flay Life As A Dog
Not a big hip hop fan, but I like this. Probably because her rap/singing style kind of reminds me of an upbeat Trip Hop album.
K. Flay Solutions
Kadinja Super 90'
Kamelot Ghost Opera
KANGA Under Glass
Karg Traktat
Karma Violens Skin Of Existence
Modern Extreme Metal. Also known as death metal with a slick production and some metalcore influence.
Kate Brunotts Womb
Kattah Lapis Lazuli
Some great progressive metal. They have a great atmosphere, great music and a pretty decent vocalist. It mixes progressive metal with Arabian, Eastern European, Brazilian and many other musical styles, atmospheres and rhythms.
Katy McAllister Take Me Away (Instrumentals)
Keep of Kalessin Reptilian
Keep of Kalessin Epistemology
Slickly produced melodic black metal with a ton of clean vocals. Overall it's pretty good but the clean vocals do have a tendency to diminish instead of enhance the songs.
Kerli Utopia
Kerli Shadow Works
Kevorkian Death Cycle God Am I
Kiko Loureiro Open Source
Kivimetsan Druidi Shadowheart
Klone Le Grand Voyage
KMFDM Nihil
Korn The Nothing
Kroy Scavenger
Kylesa Kylesa
Kylesa Ultraviolet
Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun
Lacey Sturm Life Screams
Ladytron Velocifero
Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn
Lamb of God Killadelphia
Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang
It's Lamb of God, but slightly better than in the past. I'm more interested to hear their drummer on the new Megadeth album.
Laments of Silence System Failure
Last Chance to Reason Level 3
Latitudes Old Sunlight
Atmospheric and progressive post metal. There are a lot of instrumental sections on this album, but where there are vocals they are actual singing and not your typical raspy shout.
Leah Of Earth & Angels
Leddra Chapman Telling Tales
Legion of Wolves Bringers Of The Dark Sleep
Despite the total lack of melodic leads, I get a real Amon Amarth vibe from this thing. Legion of Wolves is probably a little heavier than Amon Amarth, though.
Leprous Bilateral
Let's Eat Grandma Two Ribbons
Lethian Dreams A Shadow of Memories
I know it's doom, but damn I wish there was a little more dynamics. The atmospheres and female vocals are nice, though.
Light Bringer Genesis
Lijie Roam
Like Moths to Flames No Eternity in Gold
Liquid Sky Identity
Liquorworks Parasitus Apparatus
This is instrumental progressive metal, but it's not the mindless noodling kind. The songs feel almost like an overarching soundtrack or maybe individual stories. They also integrate a lot of metal subgenres into their sound as well as keyboards and electronics in places.
Lisa Loeb Tails
Lo-Pan Colossus
Lodz Time Doesn't Heal Anything
This is basically post metal, but there is a lot of post rock and doom thrown in as well. That makes the music pretty damn good. My problem is that the clean singing needs to make a bigger impact. These guys definitely have potential.
Long Beard Means To Me
Lorde Pure Heroine
Lorna Shore Flesh Coffin
Lorna Shore Immortal
Lostprophets The Betrayed
Lotus Thief Gramarye
The music is like a very melodic post black metal sound, but the vocals are more influenced by dream pop and are done by a female. It's good stuff.
Lunascape Reflecting Seyelence
Lycus Tempest
Machine Head Bloodstone And Diamonds
Madder Mortem Marrow
Magenta Metamorphosis
Magenta Harvest ...And Then Came The Dust
Make Them Suffer Old Souls
Make Them Suffer Worlds Apart
Manticora To Live to Kill to Live
Mariah McManus Nice To Meet You
Marianas Rest Ruins
Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar
Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque
Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor
Not nearly the same band from the 90s. This is mostly mellow and catchy rock with a slightly dark atmosphere and a bit of a rhythmic delivery. Probably his best album since Mechanical Animals.
Marissa Nadler July
Marissa Nadler has some of the most hauntingly beautiful vocals that I’ve ever heard, and her moody music compliments them perfectly. Granted, she has been doing the exact same album for years with only slight variations, but it’s so good. Plus, I really like the increased use of those atmospheric parts that add to the overall ambiance of each song. I think it was the thing that was missing from a lot of her older albums.
Marty Friedman Wall of Sound
Mastodon Emperor of Sand
These guys are good, but I've never been able to get into them like some people do. That being said, this release is probably my favorite from them.
Mazzy Star Still
McCafferty BeachBoy
Meat Beat Manifesto Opaque Couché
Mechanical God Creation The New Chapter
Mechina Telesterion
Mechina Siege
Mechina Cenotaph
Mechina are basically a one trick pony that somehow found enough nuance in their sound to drop some of it (the death metal vocals and overt industrial influences) to become even more two-dimensional. Somehow, though, this singular vision the band continues to execute is still entertaining and enjoyable (it also doesn't hurt that there really isn't anyone else doing this sound). As is generally the case, Mechina have kind of improved on their sound while not really doing anything different -- but I do find myself enjoying this one more than their last few. The riffs are better, the vocal melodies are a little more memorable, the songs are just slightly more diverse... and there's really not much more to say about Mechina's brand of Atmospheric Djent / Symphonic Metal. Mechina may be a one-trick pony, but it's a trick that they've totally mastered.
Medeia Manning the Helm
The modern extreme metal sound is starting to dominate the semi-technical death metal of the past. Still not bad, though.
Meg Myers TZIA
TZIA is a mess. It’s a hodgepodge of ideas, sounds, and styles that seems to lack much cohesion, even within individual tracks. It’s the chaotic soundtrack of someone in the middle of finding themselves, left alone to document that experience however they see fit. In hindsight, it shouldn’t be a surprise to learn that someone doesn’t simply go from a quirky indie pop artist to a mainstream icon to an independent ethereal 5-D rock goddess TZIA gracefully – and this is the auditory story of that transition. TZIA is an eclectic collection of ideas and sounds, seeming to move from one element to the next with only the slightest indications of an actual plan. It’s an eccentric collection of alternative, indie, pop, and electronic over which Meg Myers approaches each song with an unfettered enthusiasm and ‘anything goes’ attitude. Like standing next to a dumpster fire of potpourri, incense, and hallucinogens; listening to TZIA is going to be an experience that isn’t 100% pleasant, and things are definitely bound to get a little strange, but if you stick with it, you may just find yourself enjoying the experience.
Megadeth Dystopia
It's not as good as the classics or even Endgame, but it is definitely better than anything else they've done. Also, one of the more consistently good Megadeth albums ever released. I like Dave's deeper growl on this album.
Mekong Delta Intersections
Mental Cruelty Zwielicht
Another excellent blackened deathcore band that would probably be even better if they were a blackened death metal band instead. As is the case with a lot of similar bands, far too often the breakdowns are momentum killers and bring nothing substantial to the songs. Regardless, this is still a great album that really does bring to mind a less melodramatic and technical Lorna Shore.
Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason
Meshuggah have made another Meshuggah album. They've basically painted themselves into a corner with their sound, and how little they're willing to deviate from their core formula. So, this one is subtly different from the last one, but it still sounds very familiar even on first listen. Still a great release, though.
Mindrot Dawning
Mirrors Of Obsidian From One Form
Mist of Misery Severance
Mithridatum Harrowing
Reminds me of a black metal Ulcerate. Maybe not as chaotic or finely tuned as them, but within the same realm. There are some parts that drag a little, but overall a very good release. It's expansive, dark, oppressive, and atmospheric with some of that atonal prog style that Ulcerate likes to utilize.
Mnemic Mechanical Spin Phenomena
Monolithe Zeta Reticuli
3 songs and 45 minutes long. This is some really good and diverse doom. I haven't enjoyed a doom album in a long time, but this one is done right. It has its super slow moments, but also adjusts tempo enough to keep things interesting and the melodies/riffs are actually memorable. Vocal styles are diverse too. Good stuff
Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis
Melodic, progressive Djent. Great vocals but everything blends together very fast. This is an album that's probably better in small doses before the repetition kills it.
Moonsorrow Voimasta ja kunniasta
Moonspell The Antidote
Mors Subita Origin of Fire
Mortem Obscuram The Wretched Divinity
Motley Crue Shout at the Devil
Motley Crue Motley Crue
Mournful Congregation Concrescence of the Sophia
Lethargic, heavy, melodic funeral doom. 20 minutes for a song. Everything it should be.
Mourning Beloveth Rust & Bone
These guys used to be one of the more entertaining doom bands. Almost like a more modern My Dying Bride with a better vocalist. This one drags, though, because only two of the songs are any good.
My Diligence The Matter, Form and Power
My Dying Bride For Lies I Sire
My Dying Bride Macabre Cabaret
myGRAIN Planetary Breathing
MYR Habits
Myrkur Mareridt
Nachtmystium Assassins: Black Meddle Pt.1
Nachtmystium Worldfall
Napalm Death Leaders Not Followers: Part 2
Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I
Okay, this album definitely suffers from some growing pains but overall it is really good. It’s basically progressive death metal similar to Opeth but much more proggy. They just need to make the songs flow a little better.
Necro Deathmort Music Of Bleak Origin
Nelly Furtado Folklore
Nemesea Mana
Nemesea The Quiet Resistance
Nero di Marte Immoto
Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm
Nevermore Dead Heart in a Dead World
Nevermore The Obsidian Conspiracy
New Found Glory Not Without a Fight
New Found Glory Resurrection
New Found Glory Makes Me Sick
What do you do when you're an aging pop punk band? Make adult oriented pop punk for those that never grew out of the genre, I guess. Well done, guys.
New Found Glory Forever + Ever x Infinity
This is a solid NFG release. Upbeat, catchy, pop punk. I loved these guys back in the day,
and it still sounds the same as 'back in the day', but I can only manage a 3.3 feeling from
these guys, despite the nostalia.
New Years Day My Dear
New Years Day The Mechanical Heart
New Years Day Epidemic
New Years Day Diary of a Creep
An excellent new song, a few really cool covers and two decent ones.
Nightwish Once
Nile Those Whom the Gods Detest
Ninth Moon Black Amaranthine
Sitting on the heavier side of post rock, these guys deliver a melodic and heavy style that never lulls you to sleep... unlike
so many of their peers.
Nirvana Incesticide
Nocturna (IT) Daughters of the Night
Nocturnal Rites Afterlife
Norma Jean Polar Similar
I'm not a big fan of Norma Jean. This album, though, is awesome. I'm not sure when they switched vocal styles, but I much prefer this to the throatier style I've heard on previous albums. The music too, while heavier, is less chaotic.
Norma Jean All Hail
Northlane Alien
Northlane Obsidian
Novelists C'est La Vie
Novembre Wish I Could Dream It Again...
Novembre Ursa
The kings of moody doom/prog have returned and pick up right where they left off. The music and black metal vocals are still really good, but the clean singing is still way too monotone to allow these songs to get to the next level.
Noveria Forsaken
A nice blend of traditional metal, power metal, and modern metalcore. Definitely has more balls than your average 'power metal' album, and infinitely less cheese.
Nowen Essence of Fear
Numb Language of Silence
Numenorean Home
Another excellent epic post black metal album that is big on the aggressive moments. Awesome melodies too.
O'Brother Endless Light
Oathbreaker Rheia
Imagine the sound a cat makes when it isn't completely run over, and then put that to an aggressive post black metal soundtrack. It's surprisingly entertaining.
Obscura Diluvium
Ocean Of Grief Pale Existence
If classic Insomnium had decided to release a doom album, I'd imagine it would sound something like this. Great atmosphere and excellent selection of melodic guitar leads.
OCEANS (DEU) The Sun and the Cold
Oceans of Slumber Blue
October File The Application of Loneliness, Ignorance...
What would it have sounded like if Neurosis decided to keep the hardcore influences after the release of 'The Word as Law' while still pushing into the post metal realm? The answer is this band. This is some in-your-face post metal. No build-ups, no extended silence or atmospheric parts. Just kick ass, punky, post metal
October Tide Winged Waltz
Melodic doom/death from two Katatonia members. It's really solid doom/death metal with excellent atmosphere, but it is still lacking... something.
Opeth Damnation
Our Hollow, Our Home In Moment // In Memory
Our Mirage Lifeline
Ov Hollowness The World Ends
P.O.D. Fundamental Elements of Southtown
Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
Love the black metal album, not a fan of the second one.
Panopticon The Rime of Memory
Panopticon / Waldgefluster Panopticon / Waldgeflüster
Paper Aeroplanes The Day We Ran Into the Sea
Paper Aeroplanes Lifelight EP
Paper Aeroplanes Joy
-----Solid female-fronted indie pop. Chill and catchy.-----
Paramore This Is Why
Easily my favorite Paramore album. The first half is just fun bouncy alternative/pop, and the second half reminds me a lot of Eisley (a band I love).
Paul Oakenfold Bunkka
Paul Oakenfold Ibiza
Pennywise Never Gonna Die
It's Pennywise doing what Pennywise has always done. It's good, but nothing that makes me excited to listen to this album ever again.
Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty
I don't think it's as good as their previous two releases, but it's still good. These guys have a ton of potential, but it's becoming obvious that they're happy just kind of being prog metal slackers.
Periphery Periphery V: Djent is Not a Genre
It's Periphery doing what Periphery does. The meat of just about every song is awesome, but everything overstays its welcome. Also, Silhouette, Dying Star, and Thanks Nobuo could have been left off the album completely because they're pretty damn boring. It would have helped with album pacing and length.
Persefone Metanoia
Pestilence Exitivm
pg.lost Versus
Philter The Queen of Crows
Phinehas The Last Word Is Yours to Speak
Phinehas Dark Flag
Polar No Cure No Saviour
What would happen if Hatebreed had some talent, a solid creative streak and a slightly more versatile vocalist? I think it would sound something like this album.
Polarheart Polarheart
Dreamy female fronted electro-pop. Very lush melodies and layered vocals. I can't resist this shit.
Polaris Fatalism
Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream
Porcupine Tree Deadwing
Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun
Porcupine Tree The Incident
Porcupine Tree Closure/Continuation
Poverty's No Crime Spiral of Fear
Really well-done progressive metal. Kind of sounds like a Dream Theater/modern Fates Warning hybrid. The vocalist sounds a lot like the dude from Fates Warning. r
Primal Fear Primal Fear
Primal Fear Black Sun
Primal Fear 16.6: (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead)
Primal Fear Unbreakable
Primal Fear Live in the USA
Primordial Exile Amongst the Ruins
Primordial continue their musical trek away from their black metal roots and towards a more epic metal kind of feel. This album is definitely less dark and more rock-inspired than anything else I've heard from them, but it's still really good. I'm a huge fan of "To Hell or the Hangman" which reminds me of early Iron Maiden if they suddenly went post punk. The album is definitely a grower and has been slowly moving up my list since the first time I heard it.
Primordial How It Ends
Prong 100% Live
Pronostic Chaotic Upheaval
Queensryche Live Evolution
Queensryche American Soldier
Rabbit Junk Invasion
Rabbit Junk is incapable of making a bad album. More industrial metal (or Digital Hardcore) that hops genres from metal to hip hop.
Rabbit Junk Rabbit Junk Will Die
I'm a big Rabbit Junk fan, but I haven't been really into the more electro style of all the Eps. Unfortunately, Rabbit Junk Will Die kind of continues that electro vibe. It's definitely not bad, and it's a little more abrasive than the EPs, but overall I still wish for something more in line with the first three or four releases.
Rage of Light Imploder
Raventale Planetarium
Raventale Morphine Dead Gardens
Red (USA) End of Silence - 10th Anniversary Edition
If you liked RED's Linkin Park goes symphonic Alt. Metal debut, but never bought the album then this might interest you. Otherwise, it sounds exactly the same as the original release and the extra songs aren't worth the re-purchase. It is a good album, though, and worth checking out for newcomers.
Red (USA) Gone
Red (USA) Declaration
Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute
Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You
Red Moon Architect Return of the Black Butterflies
Ultra slow and melodic funeral doom that has death and female vocals. Kind of reminds me of the doomier Swallow the Sun stuff.
Red Queen Star Blood
Redemption I Am The Storm
I'd love to write a review for this, but I don't think it would be fair to the band. The music is so damn good. All the musicianship of Dream Theater, but with the heaviness of a thrash band… this should be a top-tier prog release, but I can't get past the vocals. The Evergrey vocalist just sounds so bored and uninterested through the whole thing.He drags down the energy levels of every song.
Regina Spektor Remember Us To Life
Remina Strata
Rise to Fall End vs. Beginning
Melodic metalcore that kind of reminds me of a cross between Still Remains and Disarmonia Mundi.
Riverside Wasteland
Riverside ID.Entity
For me, Riverside will never be better than their first three releases. That was the sound that brought me to the band, and the sound I still enjoy. Having said that, this is at least a step back in the right direction. It's nothing spectacular and the lyrics are a little one-dimensional, but at least it is enjoyable and I've been able to come back to it again and again. Opening track is easily my favorite.
Rocketmann! Rocketmann!
Romy Mid Air
Rosetta Quintessential Ephemera
Very atmospheric and chill post metal with occasional bits that sound more like traditional post metal aggression.
Rotting Christ Theogonia
ROVO and System 7 Phoenix Rising
RPWL World Through My Eyes
RPWL Beyond Man and Time
Sad Day For Puppets Unknown Colours
Sadistik & Kristoff Krane Prey for Paralysis
Samael Solar Soul
Samael Reign Of Light
Samael Above
Sannhet So Numb
Sarah Fimm Planting Oblivion
Satanic Surfers Back From Hell
Some people will immediately recognize the Satanic Surfers vocalist from his time as metallic punk band Atlas Losing Grip's frontman... but Satanic Surfers is where it all started. This band's debut was one of my favorite 'skate punk' albums growing up. It was high energy, kind of sloppy with equal parts humor and seriousness, and they had a cool vocalist. The subsequent albums kind of lost something for me, but after a short break Satanic Surfers have come back with an album that reminds me of why I loved their debut so much. Welcome back guys.
Scale the Summit The Migration
Scarling. So Long, Scarecrow
Schammasch Triangle
This is some epic, atmospheric black metal. It starts out really good, but as it reaches the middle/end of the album, it kind of moves into a totally ambient style that I didn't appreciate as much.
Scorn Ellipsis
Senses Fail Still Searching
Sentenced The Cold White Light
Sentenced Love & Death
Sepultura Chaos A.D.
Sepultura Under A Pale Grey Sky
Sepultura Quadra
At its base, this is still a thrash album but it is pretty proggy and diverse for a Sepultura album. The percussion, in particular, is pretty damn good. The thing that keeps my rating lower than the music really deserves is the two-dimensional vocals.
Serianna Inheritors
Sevendust Animosity
Sevendust Southside Double-Wide: Acoustic Live
Shade Empire Poetry of the Ill-Minded
Shadow Of Intent Elegy
Shadowflag In Asylum Requiem
Shadows Fall Seeking the Way: Greatest Hits
Shadows Fall Fire From the Sky
Shape of Despair Return to the Void
Shattered Sun The Evolution of Anger
Shishamo SHISHAMO 3
Shokran Ethereal
Shores of Null Black Drapes For Tomorrow
A nice blend of doom, post metal, metal and even a small bit of prog. The vocals are a little monotonous but not too bad.
Shylmagoghnar Transience
SikTh Opacities
SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes?
Silence The Messenger The Proclamation
Well done, but two-dimensional, death metal/metalcore. Good for working out to, but probably not for constant active listening.
Silent Planet When the End Began
Silversun Pickups Physical Thrills
Sinistro Semente
This is a hard one to describe. Take the female-fronted darkwave/goth stuff of bands like Love Spirals Downwards, and mix it with a soulful, gentle, atmospheric, version of post metal combined with the darkness of the early Cranes sound and you're in the ballpark.
Sinistro Sangue Cassia
Doomy, gothy, dark metal with feamle vocals. Definitely creates an eerie and unique atmosphere. The only thing that stops this from being better is the songs are a little too long for the amount of ideas present. Still well worth checking out.
Skinny Puppy VIVIsectVI
Skinny Puppy Cleanse Fold and Manipulate
Skinny Puppy Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
Skylar Grey Don't Look Down
Skylar Grey Skylar Grey
Slayer Repentless
Slipknot The End, So Far
Slow (BE) VI – Dantalion
SMP Ultimatum
Soilwork Stabbing the Drama
Soilwork The Chainheart Machine
Soilwork Verkligheten
Sonus Mortis Hold This Mortal Coil
Sorcerer Lamenting of the Innocent
Soul Debt Ascendant
Soulfly Soulfly
Spawn of Possession Noctambulant
Spawn of Possession Incurso
Spell [BC] Opulent Decay
Stabbing Westward Ungod
Step in Fluid Back in Business
Stitched Up Heart To The Wolves
Story of the Year The Constant
Straylight Run Straylight Run
Suldusk Lunar Falls
Sulphur Aeon Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
SundaySong Signals
Super Water Sympathy Hydrogen Child
Svalbard The Weight of the Mask
Sven Vath Catharsis
Sylosis Cycle of Suffering
Sylvaine Nova
Symphony X Underworld
This is the first Symphony X album I've bothered with in a while. Kind of reminds me of a cross between Nevermore and Dream Theater. Not bad.
Tad Morose Undead
Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be
Tantal Expectancy
This is some good proggy metalcore-ish stuff. Kind of reminds me of latter-day Deadlock with more than a little To-Mera (the good album) thrown in. The harsh vocals are the main thing dragging this down. They need a stronger male vocalist.
Tara MacLean Wake
Tech N9ne Something Else
Tempel (USA-AZ) The Moon Lit Our Path
Instrumental metal that doesn't include any shredding. Instead they kind of riff their way from beginning to end utilizing a mix of post metal and black metal.
Teramaze Her Halo
Teramaze Are We Soldiers
Tesla Mechanical Resonance
TesseracT One
TesseracT Polaris
Very mellow progressive rock. It's not bad when I'm in the mood for it.
Testament Low
Testament Live at Eindhoven
Textures Phenotype
Proggy, Djent with some traditional metal influences. Not bad, but kind of two-dimensional.
Thank You Scientist Terraformer
The Absence Riders of the Plague
The Absence Coffinized
The Acacia Strain Slow Decay
The Agonist Orphans
The Agonist Days Before The World Wept
The Anix Nightvision
So, the band decided to bring a 90s grunge/alt rock sound to their industrial rock brand. I definitely hear some 90s influences in the guitar tones and riffs, and the album is more guitar driven than their last one, but it's still The Anix.
The Beautiful Monument I'm The Reaper
The Brave Aura
The Bunny The Bear A Liar Wrote This
Kind of a poppy, electro-post hardcore sound with male/female vocals. People don't like it. I like it more every time I listen to it.
The Bunny The Bear The Way We Rust
The Cranberries In the End
The Cure Seventeen Seconds
The Dark Element The Dark Element
The Design Abstract Transhuman Ascendant
This is very similar to the previous double album release. This is progressive death metal with a sci-fi angle. While there's nothing mind blowing about it, the sound itself is fairly unique which makes it worth checking out. I like the electronic influences scattered throughout the album.
The Devils of Loudun Escaping Eternity
The Dreaming Etched in Blood
The Elijah A Son : A Disease (Orchestral)
The Elijah Live At The Underworld
The Erkonauts I Did Something Bad
Post-Punk meets Industrial. Kind of reminds me of a cross between New Model Army and Ministry with a bit of Lights, Camera, Revolution-era Suicidal thrown in. The song titles are dumb, but the music is pretty cool.
The Erkonauts I Want It To End
The Future Sound of London Cascade
The Honey Trees Bright Fire
Another solid indie pop release from these guys. Another band that reminds me alot of Eisley... which is a good thing.
The Lillingtons Death by Television
The Lillingtons The Backchannel Broadcast
The Nearly Deads The Nearly Deads
The Negative Bias The Seven Seals of Saligia
The Offspring Days Go By
The Orb Moonbuilding 2703 Ad
The Project Hate MCMXCIX Bleeding The New Apocalypse
The Quiet Room Reconceive
The Shizit Soundtrack For The Revolution
The Spirit Cosmic Terror
The Summoned Sessions
Technical death metal that is all over the place. Defintely takes a lot of listens to start to really get into it, but worth the effort.
The Tumor Called Marla Trance
Lacuna Coil meets TesseracT. It's pretty damn cool.
Theatre Of Tragedy Musique
Theatre Of Tragedy Last Curtain Call
The new female vocalist can't really do Liv's vocal parts on the older songs, but the production and overall sound is much better than those early recordings, so kind of a trade-off.
Theotoxin Fragment : Erhabenheit
Therapy? Troublegum
Therion Lemuria
Therion Sirius B
Thought Industry Black Umbrella
Throes of Dawn Our Voices Shall Remain
Pink Floyd meets Tiamat's 'Deeper Kind of Slumber' release. Not as catchy as Throes of Dawn's last album, and nothing really stands out. This might just be a very long grower.
Through Lucid Eyes Transient
Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man
Touche Amore Lament
Trioscapes Separate Realities
Trioscapes Digital Dream Sequence
Another bout of crazy, random instrumental Bungle-ish jazz/rock/whatever.
Trivium What the Dead Men Say
Trivium In the Court of the Dragon
Troi Irons Lost Angels
Troi Irons flowers, the album
Tryad Listen
Tuesday The Sky Drift
Just about everything Jim Matheos touches is gold (or close). Fates Warning, his solo work, Chroma Key,
Arch/Martheos...it's all great and they all have their own sound, too. So, does Jim's latest project live up to his potential? It
really does. This time around he's doing the post rock thing, but there's more to it than that. It's Post Rock with bits of
dream pop, alt. rock, and even hints of modern Fates Warning in places. He's backed up by the solid percussion of God Is
An Astronaut's drummer and the occasional vocal augmentation of Lotte Kestner of Trespassers William.
u-Ziq Hello
Uada Djinn
Ultar Kadath
An interesting blend of post rock and 90s-era melodic black metal. Instead of integrating the two styles together, generally this band likes to do a pure black metal thing and transition to a pure post rock thing... and it works.
Underoath Voyeurist
Uneven Structure La Partition
Unfathomable Ruination Misshapen Congenital Entropy
Unleash The Archers Apex
Unwritten Law Oz Factor
Vanessa Carlton Blue Pool EP
Vanishing Point Dead Elysium
Veil of Maya False Idol
Vexes Imagine What We Could Destroy / If Only Given Time
Vildhjarta Måsstaden Under Vatten
Violet Cold Empire of Love
Viral Millennium Vomitosis
There isn't anything out of the ordinary about this band, but they do play some pretty solid industrial metal with a melodic undercurrent.
Virus (NO) Memento Collider
This album has a very dark proggy post punk sound. It's the kind of dark, quirky, prog that only Norway seems capable of producing.
Viscera (UK) Carcinogenesis
Nothing really original here, but it is done with an abundance of talent and conviction. Kind of reminds me of melodic metalcore meets proggy deathcore with maybe a little bit of melodic death metal.
Viza Aria
This is the perfect cross between latter-day System of a Down and The Apex Theory. Some of the melodies and vocals sound like they were lifted straight from those bands. Minor originality issues aside, this isn't bad. At the end of the day, this is still catchy, well-played, quirky alt. rock -- it just sounds vaguely familiar.
Voices Frightened
Maybe it's because Akercocke are back together, and so they don't need this band to output their twisted progressive death metal anymore, but "Frightened" sounds nothing like its two predecessors. "Frightened" is a much more subdued, progressive, and experimental release that only occasionally delves into any kind of conventionally harsh territory. The best way to describe this is to say it's a blend of "Tonight's Music"-era Katatonia, "La Masquerade Infernale"-era Arcturus, and "Thunder and Consolation"-era New Model Army with occasional nods to "Nothingface"-era Voivod. "Frightened" is an album that takes a few listens to even start getting into, and even then, the twisted nature of the vocals and and music will take a few more listens to really sink in. I can see this as one of those albums that grows on you all year long.
Voivod Katorz
Voivod Post Society
Voivod have finally released the first new material of their career without their founding guitarist. So how is it? It's great. The first four tracks sound like classic Killing Technology/Dimension Hatross-era tunes, while the final track could have been lifted directly from Angel Rat with a slightly more progressive edge. We'll all miss Piggy, but it appears Voivod aren't going anywhere.
Volumes No Sleep
Vorga Striving Toward Oblivion
Voyager Fearless in Love
Wage War Manic
Waldgefluster Dahoam
Warbringer Weapons of Tomorrow
Watain The Agony and Ecstasy of Watain
Wayfarer Old Souls
Kind of a cross between Black Metal, Doom and Post Metal. Very long, expansive songs. It's very good, but will definitely require multiple listens.
Wayfarer World's Blood
Wayfarer A Romance with Violence
Wayfarer American Gothic
We Came As Romans Cold Like War
Whitesnake Whitesnake
Whitesnake Slip of the Tongue
Why We Run Holograms
Wild Belle Dreamland
Psychedelic pop sound with grooves based on reggae and ska. Also, kind of an indie/world music vibe, too. It's pretty good.
Wilderun Veil of Imagination
Windhand Soma
Windswept The Great Cold Steppe
By-the-numbers 90s melodic black metal... hell yeah. Features Roman Sayenko of Drudkh.
Winter Soul Reactor
Winterfylleth The Reckoning Dawn
Witherscape The Northern Sanctuary
Within Temptation Hydra
Yes, this is painfully generic gothic rock/metal with all the required keyboards, female vocals and anonymous riffs -- but it is also really well-executed and extrememly catchy.
Within Temptation The Purge
Based on all the advertising leading up to this two-song release, I figured it would be shit... it's not. It's definitely not the same Within Temptation that did Mother Earth or even The Silent Force. This is super catchy Radio Metal, but it's actually pretty good.
Within the Ruins Invade
Within the Ruins Phenomena
Proggy dejenty metalcore with some cool little effects. Nothing too out the ordinary, but pretty well done.
Wolfheart Winterborn
Wolfheart Tyhjyys
Wolves Scream Vestiges
Wren (UK) Auburn Rule
Wumpscut Bunkertor 7
Xandria The Wonders Still Awaiting
After multiple albums, these guys are finally good. The music is like a blend of 80s rock, mainstream metal, symphonic metal, and just a little bit of pop. This is the first Xandria album I've heard that didn't feel totally bland. The new singer is pretty good, too.
Xenobiotic Mordrake
Xenoglyph Spiritfraud
Yellowcard Yellowcard
It starts out pretty great, with the second song being one of my favorites from this band, but it feels like the second half is just back-to-back-to-back ballads. Not a bad album to end their career with, though.
Zaius Of Adoration
Zero Hour The Towers of Avarice
Zhrine Unortheta
Progressive/Atmospheric death metal that kind of reminds me of Ulcerate without being as chaotic.r
Zornheym The Zornheim Sleep Experiment
Zyklon Disintegrate

3.2 good
16 Lifespan of a Moth
65daysofstatic No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite...
6:33 Feary Tales for Strange Lullabies: The Dome
A Burial At Sea (UK) Close to Home
A Call To Sincerity Foundations
A Day To Remember Old Record
A Flourishing Scourge A Flourishing Scourge
Some well done melodic/progressive death metal that is just a ilttle too unfocused and unrefined to be great.
A Lot Like Birds DIVISI
A Storm Of Light Nations to Flames
A.A. Williams As The Moon Rests
A.O. Gerber Meet Me at the Gloaming
A7IE Distress
A7IE Tabula Rasa
Abbath Outstrider
Abbath Dread Reaver
Abel (NY) Lesser Men
Abigail's Ghost d_letion
Abigail's Ghost Black Plastic Sun
The album started out strong, and they've definitely found their own sound but it's just too mellow for me.
Abigail's Ghost Nombre Trente Deux
This album was never meant to be purchased. It's ten songs that are 32-seconds long each. The reason is that Spotify wouldn't pay artists for streams that were less than 30-seconds, and were barely paying for tracks that did fit the criteria. The idea is that fans find this album on Spotify and set it to repeat indefinitely. The band gets paid for the songs, and the fan gets to feel helpful. The music itself isn't bad, though. It sounds like snippets of something that might have come from Aphex Twin's 'Selected Ambient Works' album. So, not the progressive rock some might expect, but still not bad.
Abnormal Thought Patterns Abnormal Thought Patterns
Abnormal Thought Patterns Manipulation Under Anesthesia
Abnormal Thought Patterns Altered States of Consciousness
Techy, instrumental metal. Really good musicianship, but nothing that really sticks.
Aborted Vault of Horrors
Acrid Death Abominable Presence of Blight
Ad Infinitum Chapter II - Legacy
Adagio Life
Adarrak Ex Oriente Lux
Aenaon Mnemosyne
Aeolian Echoes of the Future
Aetheria Conscientia Tales From Hydhradh
Aeviterne The Ailing Facade
After Forever After Forever
Against The Current Gravity
Against The Current Fever
Agalloch Pale Folklore
Agathodaimon The Seven
Ages (SWE) Uncrown
Aghora Entheogenic Frequencies
Ahab The Call of the Wretched Sea
Ahab The Boats of the Glen Carrig
They've definitely diversified their sound, and I really like their brand of doom. The death vocals are still kind of one-dimensional (to be expected), and the new clean vocals give it a new angle, but they're not all that good.
Akercocke Choronzon
Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken...
Akercocke Renaissance in Extremis
Alanis Morissette Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Aldious Unlimited Diffusion
Alex Winston King Con
Alexia Avina A Little Older
Alkaline Trio Crimson
Alkaline Trio Is This Thing Cursed?
Alkaloid The Malkuth Grimoire
Alkaloid Numen
All Life Ends Miscreation
All That Remains This Darkened Heart
All That Remains Victim of the New Disease
Allegaeon Fragments of Form and Function
Allegaeon Formshifter
Allegaeon Elements of the Infinite
Thrashy, melodic semi-technical death metal. I can't compare it to their older albums because I haven't heard them, but this one is definitely solid.
Allegaeon Proponent for Sentience
Allison Ponthier Shaking Hands with Elvis
Ally Rhodes Illuminated
Almah Motion
Almah Within the Last Eleven Lines
Almyrkvi Pupil of the Searing Maelstrom
Altarage Endinghent
Alukah Descending
Amaranthe Massive Addictive
Amaranthe The Catalyst
Amaya Laucirica Sway
Amaya has added much more pop to her subdued indie pop sound. It's not as good as her previous albums because I just can't get into the poppier sound.
Amber Arcades Barefoot On Diamond Road
I don't remember her previous releases, but based on my ratings, I was not too impressed. This one still isn't mind blowing, but it's good. It's an electronic-edged dream pop album that is enjoyable, but nothing special. Having said that, the final two songs are actually really good. It's just too bad the entire album isn't like them. Recommend checking out "I'm Not There" at least.
Amberian Dawn The Clouds of Northland Thunder
Amenra Mass VI
Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God
Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods
Amon Tobin Foley Room
Amon Tobin Fear In A Handful Of Dust
Amon Tobin Long Stories
Amorphis Am Universum
Amorphis Skyforger
Amorphis The Beginning of Times
Amy Kress Secret Music
An Autumn For Crippled Children Only The Ocean Knows
This band really did grow in leaps and bounds. It's even more surprising considering the fact that their second album was terrible.
An Autumn For Crippled Children The Long Goodbye
An Autumn For Crippled Children As The Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes
Anaal Nathrakh Eschaton
Anaal Nathrakh Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Her
Anberlin Cities
Anberlin New Surrender
And Now The Owls Are Smiling Dirges
A solid, if bit repetitive, atmospheric post black metal album that sits more on the black metal side than the post side.
And So I Watch You From Afar The Endless Shimmering
Anette Olzon Shine
Poppy mainstream rock that's actually very slick and well done. This is miles-away better than the pop crap that Liv Kirstine (Leaves' Eyes) keeps putting out on her solo albums. If you liked her voice on Nightwish, I think there's enough here to enjoy this, too.
Angel Snow Magnetic
Angel Snow Angel Snow
Angels and Airwaves I-Empire
Angels and Airwaves Love - Part II
Angelus Apatrida Aftermath
Angra Ømni
Angra Cycles Of Pain
Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion
Instrumental rock/metal is a very hit-or-miss thing. What works for someone will totally bore another. Unfortunately, this album fades into the background about as often as it actually catches my attention. Fluid, instrumental prog that is mostly pretty mellow (but energetic at the same time... weird).
Animals As Leaders Parrhesia
Annakin Falling Into Place
Annakin Torch Songs
Anneke Van Giersbergen and Arstidir Verloren Verleden
Annie Anniemal
Annie Don't Stop
Anomalie Refugium
Anorexia Nervosa The September
Antarktis Ildlaante
Antigama Meteor
Antimatter Lights Out
Antimatter Saviour
Antoine Fafard Ad Perpetuum
Anubis Hitchhiking to Byzantium
Anubis Homeless
It's like Porcupine Tree meets Pink Floyd (but not exactly the sum of their parts).
Anubis Gate Covered In Black
Aphex Twin Digeridoo
Aphyxion Earth Entangled
Apneica Pulsazioni... Conversione
Post black metal in the vein of the last Todtgelichter release. Almost kind of an expansive alt. rock sound that occasionally dips into death/black metal territory.
Arab Strap The Last Romance
Arab Strap As Days Get Dark
Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine
Arch Enemy Tyrants of the Rising Sun
Arch Enemy Will to Power
On "Will To Power" Arch Enemy easily have their most talented line up. Alissa White-Gluz is defintely the best vocalist
they've had with the most potential for some vocal diversity, and Jeff Loomis can shred and riff around any former (or
current) Arch Enemy guitarist. Plus, the established band members kept talking about how this album was going to be
different; not just another standard Arch Enemy release. It seemed like the band had all the pieces in place to break from
their rut, and that they were finally willing to try. Unfortunately, nothing has changed. "Will To Power" is a slower, more-
accessible version of the previous release... and yes, Loomis is totally wasted on this album. Alyssa gets the chance to
expand her vocals in a few tracks. Unfortunately, the one she gets to shine the most on, is also the worst musically. On
paper, the ex-guitarist for Carcass paired with the lead guitarist and chief songwriter for Nevermore should result in
something awesome. Add to that the diverse vocal capabilities of Alyssa and "Will to Power" should have blown the doors
off the Melodic Death Metal genre. Instead, it's mearly a breeze.
Architects Hollow Crown
Architects The Here and Now
Architects The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit
Arctic Sleep Passage Of Gaia
They definitely have a modern Funeral sound to them. From the vocals to the morose atmosphere to a lot of the riffs. These guys might be a little more dynamic, but they're definitely similar.
Argus (USA-PA) From Fields Of Fire
Arphael Argenesis
Artifex Pereo Ailments & Antidotes
As Oceans Enough Light to Warrant the Contrast
As Oceans Still Miles To Go
ASG ASG
ASG Blood Drive
ASG Best Of ASG 2003-2009
ASG Survive Sunrise
Another solid ASG release. If you don't know who they are, they basically play an abrasive, heavy form of stoner rock.
Ash of Ashes Traces
Asphyx Necroceros
Assignment Closing the Circle
Astralborne Eternity's End
Kind of like a more raw version of classic Amorphis and Insomnium.
Astrosaur Portals
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command
At the Drive-In in•ter a•li•a
At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul
At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease
At The Soundawn Visionaries
This album kind of came in under the radar because the band have opted to handle every aspect of the release on their own. It's a shame, because this is pretty damn good. They've dropped a lot of their post metal influences in favor of a stoner rock meets alt rock meets post rock sound. There's no throaty shouts anymore, but the clean vocals can carry the album for the most part and the post metal is still there in the actual construction of the songs even though it's not really in the actual sound anymore.
At War With Self Circadian Rhythm Disorder
Instrumental mixture of Progressive Metal, Jazz, ambient, and classical. It's very good - sometimes reminding me of old Thought Industry, other times old Cynic and more modern stuff as well.
Atavistia Cosmic Warfare
Atlas (FIN) Primitive
Atlas Losing Grip State Of Unrest
Atlas Losing Grip Watching The Horizon
Atlas Losing Grip Shut The World Out
Atlas Losing Grip Currents
Great Melodic Punk featuring the vocalist from Satanic Surfers. One of the better punk releases I've heard lately.
Atlases (FIN) Between The Day & I
Atramentus Stygian
Atriarch An Unending Pathway
Creepy funeral doom that incorporates clean vocals and black metal.r
Atrophy Asylum
Au Revoir Simone The Bird of Music
Audrey Visible Forms
Audrey The Fierce and the Longing
August Burns Red Thrill Seeker
Auras Heliospectrum
Austere Beneath the Threshold
Autechre Draft 7.30
Autechre Gantz Graf
Autechre Oversteps
Autechre Move Of Ten
Autechre Quaristice.Quadrange.ep.ae
Autechre L-event
Author and Punisher Pressure Mine
Authority Zero A Passage In Time
Authority Zero Andiamo
Authority Zero The Tipping Point
Autumn's Grey Solace Ablaze
Autumn's Grey Solace Over The Ocean
Autumn's Grey Solace Riverine
Autumn's Grey Solace Within the Depths of a Darkened Forest
Avandra Descender
Avantasia A Paranormal Evening With the Moonflower Society
Aversed Impermanent
Avril Lavigne Love Sux
Avslut Tyranni
Axioma Sepsis
Azure Ray Hold On Love
Azure Ray Drawing Down the Moon
This isn't memorable, but I don't think they were shooting for making a pop album. This is mellow/chill and very atmospheric. I think that this album was more meant to create a consistent mood than to give anyone something to sing along to later.
Azure Ray As Above So Below
Azure Ray Remedy
Band-Maid Unseen World
Bangladeafy Narcopaloma
Banks London
Baroness Stone
Barren Earth Curse of the Red River
Barren Earth The Devil's Resolve
Barren Earth On Lonely Towers
Mixing 70s prog, folk and doom/death metal. I liked their previous albums and they've definitely progressed musically, but I don't like the new vocalist as much.
Battle Dagorath II - Frozen Light of Eternal Darkness
Battlelore The Return Of The Shadow
Bauda Euphoria
Beach House 7
Very chill and dreamy indie pop. Does that make it dream pop or shoeqaze. To me, it really doesn't. There's too many electronic and poppy elements, and it's not nearly abstract enough for dream pop in my opinion. Whatever it is, though, it is really enjoyable. Waaves of synth, chill beats, and sleepy vocals.
Beastie Boys Hello Nasty
Becomes Astral Paleblood Sky
Becoming The Archetype Celestial Completion
Before The Dawn Deadlight
Before The Dawn The Ghost
Behemoth Demigod
Behold! The Monolith Architects of the Void
Below the Sun Alien World
Belphegor Pestapokalypse VI
Beneath (ISL) Ephemeris
Best Coast Always Tomorrow
Betty Black Valley Low
Kind of fuzzy, electro indie pop that almost borders on dream pop. Good stuff.
Between the Buried and Me Alaska
Bhavachakra Bhavachakra
Big Deal Say Yes
Binary Code Memento Mori
Bjork Volta
Bjork Voltaic
Bjork Fossora
Bjorn Riis Forever Comes To An End
The kind of chill atmospheric progressive rock that Porcupine Tree brought into the mainstream. Not as good as PT but not bad either. What it really lacks are those hooky choruses that carry the mellow music and the strong melodies.
Black Anvil Regenesis
Black Crown Initiate Song of the Crippled Bull
Black Mare Death Magick Mother
Black Sheep Wall Songs for the Enamel Queen
Blackwater Holylight Veils of Winter
Bleeding Through Love Will Kill All
I was a big fan of Bleeding Through's black metal/hardcore/metalcore blend, but this album is like a neutered version their original formula. They're so focused on making the songs catchy that they lost almost all the viceral fire that made these guys and their one-trick pony albums worth really listening to. Having said that, this still isn't bad but it's not the comeback I was hoping for.
Blessed By A Burden Addiction
Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth
Blind Guardian A Voice In The Dark
Blind Guardian The God Machine
blink-182 California
Blood Incantation Starspawn
Blood Red Throne Union of Flesh and Machine
Bloodred Hourglass Your Highness
Blue October History for Sale
Blut Aus Nord 777 - Sect(s)
Borknagar The Archaic Course
Borknagar Universal
Boss Keloid Family the Smiling Thrush
Bosse-de-Nage Further Still
Botanist VI: Flora
Very good stuff. It kind of reminds me more of a faster paced post rock than black metal, but it's still good. I just can't stay engaged to the songs for very long... something is lacking...
Brand New Science Fiction
Breakdown of Sanity Mirrors
Bridear Helix
Bridear Expose Your Emotions
Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit
Every previous album by them has sucked or been barely passable. I don't remember what they sounded like, so I don't know what they've changed for this one, but I like it.
Brittany Bindrim Velella Velella
Broken Hope Mutilated And Assimilated
Broods Broods
Broods Evergreen
Broods Conscious
Bullet for My Valentine Venom
Conventional mainstream metal, but it's really well done.
Bury Tomorrow Cannibal
Bury Tomorrow The Seventh Sun
Very slick and melodic metalcore that features quite a bit of keyboards and clean singing. Nothing special, but really well done.
Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Burzum Belus
Bush Razorblade Suitcase
Bush Golden State
Cabal (DK) Magno Interitus
Cake Like Bruiser Queen
Caligula's Horse Moments from Ephemeral City
Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Candlemass Death Thy Lover
Cane Hill Too Far Gone
I really like the sound these guys have with the wall of guitars and prominent bass, but unfortunately there are only a few songs that actually take advantage of the crushing sound. I have a feeling their older albums are probably much heavier than this because it feels like they're taking baby steps towards trying to become mainstream.
Cannabis Corpse From Wisdom to Baked
I've never heard these guys before and was really surprised. I expected some half-assed, bland death metal that got by on its (stupid) little theme. Instead, this is some good, very thrashy, death metal. I especially liked that the bass guitar was very audible and also had some pretty good parts.
Cannabis Corpse Left Hand Pass
Capra In Transmission
Carcer City Infinite / Unknown
Carlie Hanson Tough Boy
Carnation (BE) Where Death Lies
Caroline Rose The Art of Forgetting
Cassadee Pope Rise and Shine
Catamenia Chaos Born
Cathedral The Ethereal Mirror
Cathedral The Carnival Bizarre
Cathedral Endtyme
Cattle Decapitation Terrasite
Cavalera Conspiracy Inflikted
Celestial Sanctuary Insatiable Thirst For Torment
Celestial Season Solar Lovers
Celldweller Celldweller
cEvin Key The Ghost of Each Room
Chandeen Shaded By The Leaves
Chandeen Spacerider - Love At First Sight
Channel Zero Stigmatized for Life
Channel Zero Black Fuel
Charlotte Wessels Tales From The Six Feet Under
Chat Pile God's Country
Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence
Cherri Bomb Stark
Children of Bodom Halo of Blood
Choreomanic Choreomanic
Chthonic Taiwan Victory Live
Church of Void Church of Void
Church Tongue Heart Failure
City of Caterpillar Mystic Sisters
Cloak of Altering Sheathed swords drip with poisonous honey
Cloudkicker Live with Intronaut
Cloves One Big Nothing
Cocksure Corporate Sting
Electro/Industrial featuring one guy from Acumen Nation and one guy from Revolting Cocks. I really like the beats and electronics, but the vocals leave a little to be desired.
Cocksure TVMALSV
Cognitive Malevolent Thoughts of a Hastened Extinction
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension
Coheed and Cambria Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind
Coldworld Autumn
Collide Color of Nothing
Comet Control Comet Control
Computer Magic Obscure But Visible
Cormorant Diaspora
Huge black metal tracks that twist and turn through 10-to-30 minute runtimes without ever getting boring. Well done.
Coroner No More Color
Corpsegrinder Corpsegrinder
Corrosion of Conformity Wiseblood
Cover Your Tracks Fever Dream
Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine
Crematory Revolution
Crematory Act Seven
Crippled Black Phoenix Banefyre
Cruxifiction The Coming
Cult of Lilith Mara
Currents The Death We Seek
Generic, formulaic, derivative, not their best work... all true. However, that doesn't mean it's not an enjoyable listen. It's catchy, heavy, and I enjoy the keyboard/electronic flourishes.
Cyanotic Worst Case Scenario Vol. 1
Cybertoyz Undo Exit
Instrumental metal that kind of alternates between heavy sections and smoother Satriani-style sections. Also has a cool electro-industrial undercurrent through most of the songs.
CygnosiC Fire And Forget
CygnosiC Siren
Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us
So, Cynic can still throw their fans some curveballs. This isn't nearly as instant, as metal or as catchy as their previous albums. This is the band drawing down to their prog roots and making expansive, sprawling (by Cynic standards) tracks that will require all kinds of work to finally process and retain. This one may take all year to grow.
Czar (USA-IL) No One Is Alive If No One Is Alive
Just not as catchy or as well put-together as their debut. Also, they still have the problem where Jason's vocals aren't as aggressive or 'in-your-face' as they could be -- instead they kind of just blend in with the music. Don't get me wrong, it's still good, but they've hit that 'sophomore slump'.
Dagoba Face the Colossus
Dagoba Post Mortem Nihil Est
Dalek Asphalt For Eden
Dance Gavin Dance Afterburner
Dark Matter Secret Perfect World Creation
Progressive instrumental death metal that reminds me of those modern prog/death bands that are heavily influenced by Cynic. The individual songs are awesome, but overall the sound is too uniform to last the entire album.
Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void
Dark Tranquillity Skydancer
Darkher Realms
Darkher The Buried Storm
Darkthrone Hate Them
Darkwell Moloch
Dawn Of Ashes Genocide Chapters
Dawn Of Ashes Daemonolatry Gnosis
Well done, but fairly standard, symphonic black metal with industrial elements.
Dawn Of Ashes The Crypt Injection II
Dawn of Disease Crypts of the Unrotten
Dawn of Disease Procession of Ghosts
Dawn Ray'd The Unlawful Assembly
Daydream XI The Circus Of The Tattered And Torn
Daylight Dies No Reply
De Profundis Kingdom of the Blind
It's like a blend of primitive death metal and progressive death metal. It isn't bad, but the production is too muddy for me. It's like someone is listening to it in another room and I'm hearing it through the walls.
Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire
Deadlock Earth.Revolt
Deadlock Bizarro World
Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Death Angel Act III
Death Angel The Dream Calls for Blood
Death Angel The Evil Divide
Deathspell Omega Diabolus Absconditus
Decapitated Cancer Culture
Deception (NO) Daenacteh
Decompression Love Is The Beauty Of The Soul
Decoryah Wisdom Floats
Decree Moment of Silence
Deftones Deftones
Delain We Are The Others
This one is heavier than the previous album and has (thankfully) dumped the male vocals -- besides a token guest appearance from Fear Factory's vocalist. Still nothing special, but a step in the right direction. Upbeat, heavy, female-fronted gothic metal.
Delain The Human Contradiction
I'm surprised. This album really brings some good riffs. Of course, they're layered under female vocals and keyboards, and broken up by super-poppy choruses -- but it's still a good surprise. Delain have moved in the same direction as Within Temptation's 'The Unforgiving' release. They've throttled back on the keyboard overkill, added better riffs and made the whole thing much more mainstream.
Delain A Decade of Delain: Live at Paradiso
Delain Apocalypse & Chill
Delain Dark Waters
Every member but the keyboardist is gone, but Delain doesn't miss a beat. I guess that shouldn't be a surprise since the only one left is the main songwriter. The new vocalist is pretty good too. She brings more of a pop element into the music than Charlotte did, and that took a little getting used to, but overall this is just as good as anything they've done since April Rain (which is still their peak).
Delerium Signs
Chimera was the last great Delerium release. This still has good songs, but nothing near as good as Flowers Become Screens, Silence, Wisdom, Euphoria, or After All.
Depeche Mode Playing The Angel
Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion
Depeche Mode Music for the Masses
Depeche Mode Black Celebration
Depeche Mode Some Great Reward
Depeche Mode Memento Mori
Descendents Hypercaffium Spazzinate
Descending New Death Celebrity
Destroying the Devoid Paramnesia
Desultory Forever Gone
Desultory Through Aching Aeons
Devil To Pay A Bend Through Space And Time
DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand
DevilDriver The Last Kind Words
DevilDriver Winter Kills
DevilDriver Trust No One
Devilment The Great And Secret Show
Devin Townsend Lightwork
Devin Townsend Project Addicted
Devin Townsend Project Epicloud
Let’s get one thing out of the way right now. The song “Lucky Animals” is annoying as fuck, but it doesn’t ruin the album. It’s also not the super-diverse release that it was hyped up to be. It’s like Ocean Machine for 2012 and that’s good enough for me because that album rocks. PS – Ignore Irving’s review… he knows not what he does.
DGM The Passage
Diary of Dreams Cholymelan
Diary of Dreams MenschFeind
Die Krupps Stahlwerksinfonie
Die Krupps Vision 2020 Vision
After "V - Metal Machine Music" and its unrelenting industrial metal attack, this one goes back to a more melodic and electronic sound that shares a lot in common with the Die Krupps I and II albums. I'm enjoying it, but after that near-flawless 'V' I'm still a little disappointed overall.
Die Robo Sapiens Robo Sapien Race
Die Sektor (-)Existence(+)
DIIV Deceiver
Disbelief The Ground Collapses
Disincarnate Dreams of the Carrion Kind
Dissentient Labyrinth
Disturbed Indestructible
Divided by Friday Prove It
Dizzy Dizzy
Djevel Tanker som rir natten
Doomed Anna
Doro Fight
Doro Warrior Soul
Doro Under My Skin - Fine Selection Of Doro Classics
DragonForce Warp Speed Warriors
Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events
Dream Theater Dream Theater
Dreamcar DREAMCAR
Huge poppy elctro pop/post punk. Reminds me of 1000 Suns era Killing Joke meets Kill Hannah.
Dreamshade The Gift of Life
Dreamshift Seconds
Dreamwell In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You
Drown This City Colours We Won’t Know
Drudkh They Often See Dreams About The Spring
Another post black metal band that makes songs that need to be cut down 2 or more minutes each. Having said that, in short bursts this album is really good and the melodies are really cool... for the first four or five minutes of a song, anyway.
Drudkh All Belong To The Night
Druglord New Day Dying
Dvorac On the Wings of Unknown
Earth Rot Black Tides of Obscurity
Earthside A Dream In Static
Echoes of Eternity Ageless
Econoline Crush Brand New History
Edge of Sanity Crimson
Edge of Sanity Unorthodox
Edge of Sanity Kur-Nu-Gi-A
Ego Likeness When The Wolves Return
I'm not sure what changed on this album compared to the entire rest of their discography, but the band are no longer average. Good job guys (and girl).
Eighteen Visions XVIII
Einar Solberg The Congregation Acoustic
Ekkstacy EKKSTACY
Elder (USA-MA) Lore
Eldritch Innervoid
Eleine Dancing in Hell
Elephant Tree Habits
Elyose Deviante
I've never heard their other albums, but this one is a seamless blend of Djent, progressive metal, goth metal (similar to Lacuna Coil), and industrial metal. The music is fairly unique on its own, but the female vocals kind of put this album in its own niche. It's all in French, so that might be an issue for some.
Emilie Simon The Flower Book
Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton Knives Don't Have Your Back
Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton Choir of the Mind
Emlyn loneliest b!tch in america
Encircle Into the Dreamstate
Enigma The Fall of a Rebel Angel
Enslaved Below the Lights
Enslaved Eld
Enslaved Blodhemn
Enslaved Mardraum - Beyond the Within
Enslaved Monumension
Enslaved In Times
More proggy black metal. I guess I'm just not that big of an Enslaved fan.
Enthroned Sovereigns
Very solid, if a bit unremarkable, black metal. On the other hand, it is definitely pretty diverse and dynamic for an
Enthroned album. Lots of varied tempos and vocals, and the extra sounds and effects are definitely complimentary.
Entombed Clandestine
Envy The Fallen Crimson
Epica The Solace System
Epica The Quantum Enigma B-Sides
Epoch of Chirality Nucleosynthesis
Era for a Moment Realize
ERRA Impulse
ERRA Drift
Essenger After Dark
Et Moriemur Tamashii No Yama
Eternal Storm A Giant Bound to Fall
Eucharist Mirrorworlds
Evadne Dethroned of Light
Evanescence The Bitter Truth
Everdawn Venera
Evereve E-Mania
Ex Deo The Immortal Wars
Solid, if a bit unremarkable, symphonic/melodic death metal. Kind of cheesy in places, too.
Exist So True, So Bound
The music is really good. It basically stands somewhere between Cynic's "Traced in Air" album and "Kindly Bent to Free Us" but not as well done. The problem is that the clean vocals are pretty boring and lethargic and they tend to drag down every song. The occasional growls aren't that great either, but they're a welcome change since they temporarily stop the clean vocals.
Exist Egoiista
Exit_International Our Science Is Golden
I've never heard their other album, but this is pretty damn good. Kind of reminds me of a stranger, much noisier, version of BATS. I like it. 'Fuck Yeah! Depression' is so damn catchy.
Exmortus Necrophony
Exocrine Legend
Exodus Tempo of the Damned
Exodus The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A
Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone
Explosions in the Sky All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone Remixes
Exxasens Back to Earth
Kind of a more rock oriented version of God is an Astronaut-style Post Rock.
Eyes Set to Kill Reach
Ezerath Overture: The Heir Apparent
Face Off Massive
Face to Face Big Choice
Faith No More Introduce Yourself
Faith No More Sol Invictus
The comeback album... not nearly as good as Angel Dust or as metal as The Real Thing, but it's much better than their last two albums.
Fallujah The Flesh Prevails
This has some pretty interesting ideas in spots, but in others it just seems to drag along without any real direction.
Fallujah Dreamless
This is some pretty good atmospheric/progressive death metal. Kind of run-of-the-mill, but still good.
Fallujah Empyrean
False Memories Hybrid Ego System
Far Quick
Far Beyond The End of My Road
Fat Fat
Fates Warning No Exit
Fates Warning Inside Out
Feared Refeared
Feared Synder
Good, aggressive, thrashy death metal. ---- And now I need 50 characters....
Feed Her to the Sharks Savage Seas
Feign (US) Farralone
Felix Martin Caracas
Filter The Sun Comes Out Tonight
Final Gasp Mourning Moon
Finntroll Vredesvävd
Finsterforst Mach Dich Frei
Fireflight Unbreakable
Fires in the Distance Echoes From Deep November
Fires in the Distance Air Not Meant For Us
Firtan Marter
Fit for a King Slave to Nothing
Fit for a King Deathgrip
Florence and the Machine MTV Unplugged
Flowers In Dark Celestial Vengeance
Flyleaf Memento Mori
Foretoken Triumphs
Good blackened melodic death metal with some minor symphonic elements. They're clearly great musicians, but they need just a bit more work on the melodies and maybe a bit more variation.
Forget My Silence Fall to Rise
Forn Rites of Despair
Fortid Narkissos
Foscor The Smile of the Sad Ones
Frantic Amber Burning Insight
Primitive death metal meets Arch Enemy melodies done by an all-female band. There are so many flashes of greatness, but it's dragged down by a lot of really average parts. Good enough that I can't just it.
Friedberg Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
From Ashes To New The Future
From the Depth Moments
Front 242 Backcatalogue
Front 242 Pulse
Front Line Assembly Gashed Senses & Crossfire
Front Line Assembly Angriff [Remix]
Front Line Assembly Echoes
The remix album for the band's last album. It's better than most remix albums. It actually makes a few of the songs better than the originals. I don't think FLA will ever be the same without Rhys Fulber.
Frozen Crown Call of the North
This is the best sounding album they've ever put out. Lots of great leads, great female vocals, huge choruses, lots of galloping double bass. It's still generic power metal, but they're getting better at it, at least.
Fudge Tunnel Hate Songs In E Minor
Fugazi In on the Kill Taker
Future Generations Future Generations
Garbage Not Your Kind of People
Here is the album that should have come after Version 2.0. Garbage's sophomore album built on the catchy alt. rock of their self-titled debut while adding an additional undercurrent of electronic elements and it was a pretty cool, unique blend (for the late nineties). This album picks up right where Version 2.0 left off and is a welcome return.
Garbage Strange Little Birds
Gardenian Soulburner
Gates of Ishtar At Dusk and Forever
Geese Projector
GGU:LL Dwaling
Good funeral doom with some decent riffs and occasional atmospheric moments. Too repetitive for me, though.
Ghost (SWE) Popestar
Ghost Bath Starmourner
The music is really good post rock/black metal, but the vocals are just abstract screeches and screams. The lazy vocals hold back what could have been a really good release.
Ghosts of the Mud Scalp Sermon
Reminds me of a Chelsea Grin / Distant style of deathcore. Lots of ambient synth in the background, plenty of chugs, and great leads. I think what helps these guys a little is the prevalent black metal influence.
Gideon Milestone
Gloom (USA) Solaris
God Is an Astronaut Epitaph
As the name kind of implies, Epitaph is a slighlty darker, gritter, and more subdued version of God Is An Astronaut's abriviated post rock style. It's also one of the best things they've released since the one-two punch of their debut and follow-up album.
Godflesh Messiah
Godflesh Hymns
Godflesh Selfless
Godflesh Songs of Love and Hate
Godflesh Us and Them
Godflesh A World Lit Only by Fire
Godflesh Post Self
Godthrymm Distortions
Gojira The Way of All Flesh
Goo Goo Dolls Let Love In
Goo Goo Dolls Superstar Car Wash
Goo Goo Dolls Chaos in Bloom
Gorguts Obscura
Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate
Gorod Process of a New Decline
Gozu Revival
Gozu Remedy
GRAE Permanent Maniac
Graphic Nature A Mind Waiting to Die
Graveworm (N)utopia
Green Carnation Leaves Of Yesteryear
Green Lung Black Harvest
Greenleaf Nest of Vipers
Greenleaf Trails And Passes
Greenleaf Rise Above The Meadow
70s/stoner rock with some pretty good musicanship (especially the drummer). I just have a hard time getting in to this kind of music, but this was still enjoyable.
Griffon De Republica
GroundCulture How Well Do You Really Know Yourself?
Haavard Haavard
Haint At the End
Haken The Mountain
Half Hearted Terrified
HammerFall Hammer of Dawn
Hammers Of Misfortune Dead Revolution
Hands Like Houses Dissonants
Hanging Garden TEOTWAWKI
Hanging Garden have now done for post metal what they did for doom on their debut - they've made it accessible, memorable, and easily digestible. They've accomplished this in a similar fashion to how they pulled off their debut. They took the elements of the genre (this time post metal) and injected a bit more melody and speed than is normal. The vocals have changed from a growl to a scream that could remind of anyone from Isis to Neurosis (but not Hatebreed) and fit the music just fine. Just don't approach this expecting another doom album.
Hanging Garden Into that Good Night
Hark Crystalline
The proggy sludge thing that they have going on is pretty cool in very small doses. The lack of any real hooks or variation makes it drag pretty damn quick, though.
Harm's Way (USA-IL) Common Suffering
Harvester Harmonic Ruptures
Haunt Golden Arm
Haunted Shores Void
Headspace I Am Anonymous
Heather Trost Petrichor
Heaven Shall Burn Invictus (Iconoclast III)
Hecate Enthroned Virulent Rapture
Helloween The Dark Ride
Helloween My God-Given Right
Helloween will never re-capture the magic of the 'Keeper of the Seven Keys' era and barely seem capable of pulling off the same quality as 'Better Than Raw', but at least they're not singing about Heavy Metal Hamsters anymore.
Helloween Ride The Sky: The Very Best Of The Noise Years
Hellwell Behind the Demon's Eyes
Helmet Aftertaste
Helmet Left
Helstar This Wicked Nest
Kind of a step back from 'Glory of Chaos'. That album kind of brought the band into the modern era. This album returns some of that 80s power prog. Not a terrible thing, but a little disappointing.
Herrschaft Les 12 Vertiges
Hexed Pagans Rising
Horizon Ablaze The Weight Of A Thousand Suns
Hypno5e Des Deux l'une Est l'autre
Hypocrisy The Final Chapter
I Am The Trireme Gnosis: Never Follow the Light
Epic and melodic black metal. The vocals are mixed just a bit high for my tastes, but the music more than makes up for it.
I Legion Pleiona
Metalcore/goth metal type stuff with a ton of guest vocalists.
I Was Totally Destroying It Horror Vacui
Iced Earth Horror Show
Iced Earth Live in Ancient Kourion
Icon of Sin Legends
Ihsahn Amr
The opening track is one of my favorite songs of the year. It's like a dark electro/black metal hybrid, and it's awesome. Unfortunately, the rest of the album is made up of mellower ambient/prog with occasional nods to heavier genres of metal. There's defintely a ton of Floyd influence througout the album, as well as modern prog such as rPorcupine Tree. It's not bad.
Illumishade Eclyptic: Wake of Shadows
Impaled Nazarene Vigorous And Liberating Death
This is a very clean production by Impaled Nazarene standards. The production lets you hear all the instruments, which is nice. I also hear an undercurrent of keyboards (Were they always used? Maybe I just don't remember). This album is also slightly more melodic than their previous stuff. Other than that, it's business as usual with their brand of black metal. Doesn't hold a candle to their last album, though.
Imperative Reaction Minus All
Imperial Teen Hair the TV the Baby & The Band
In Fear and Faith Voyage
In Fear and Faith Your World On Fire
In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading
In The Nursery Deco
In The Nursery L'esprit
In The Nursery Koda
In The Nursery Twins
In The Nursery Engel
In The Nursery Scatter
In The Nursery Praha 1
In the Woods... Cease the Day
In Thousand Lakes Age of Decay
Well done, but very generic, melodic death metal that shares a lot with bands like Amon Amarth. I'm not the biggest Amon Amarth fan, so maybe it's just me, but I would have assumed this was definitely Amon Amarth if I hadn't seen the cover.
Infected Rain 86
These guys (and girl) could be really fucking cool, but the screechy vocals kill every song. The music is really good and the
other vocal styles are good, but the screeches kill it... oh, and there's definitely some cheesy nu metal that needs to go.
Inferi (USA) The Path of Apotheosis
Ingrid Michaelson Everybody
Inmoria A Farewell to Nothing - The Diary Part I
Inmoria Invisible Wounds
Inner Odyssey Have a Seat
Inner Odyssey Ascension
Insania Agony - Gift of Life
Insense The Silent Epidemic
Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down
Intermix Intermix
Invocator Dying to Live
Iron Lung Corporation Ditch the Attitude, Pally
Iron Lung Corporation Big Shiny Spears
Iron Savior Firestar
ISIS Oceanic
ISIS In the Absence of Truth
Isole Anesidora
To me, this lacks some of the power and dynamics of some of the older albums. Also, the vocal melodies (the biggest draw for this band) aren't as compelling as they used to be. As others have said, this is still a good doom album in the vein of Solitude Aeturnus or Candlemass (with a less high pitched vocal delivery, but just as expressive), though.
Ithaca They Fear Us
Izegrim Congress of the Insane
Jacquie Lee Broken Ones EP
James LaBrie Impermanent Resonance
Jamie Bendell I'm Not Sorry Anymore
Jamie Bendell Blue Sky Days
Jari Lindholm Trajectories
Jesus Piece Only Self
Jillette Johnson Water In A Whale
Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater
Joe Satriani Surfing with the Alien
Joe Satriani The Extremist
Joe Satriani Not of This Earth
Joe Satriani Crystal Planet
Joey Cape Let Me Know When You Give Up
John Arch A Twist of Fate
John Wesley Disconnect
Chill progressive rock from the touring guitarist for Porcupine Tree.
John Wesley Live at the L'Olympia
Jord Tundra
Judas Priest Unleashed in the East
Julee Cruise Floating into the Night
Julianna Barwick Florine
Junction Skies Before the Flood
June 1974 Nemesi
June 1974 essentially play a version of post rock that is heavily influenced by modern prog and even occasionally the more extreme styles of metal. They also incorporate piano, violins, and saxaphone from time to time.
Junius Eternal Rituals For The Accretion of Light
Yes, the vocals are kind of monotonous and the music basically plods along, but somehow the melodies and atmosphere are enough to make it enjoyable.
Kalmah The Black Waltz
Kalmah For the Revolution
Kamelot Epica
Kamelot Poetry for the Poisoned
Kamelot Where I Reign: The Very Best of the Noise Years
Kamelot The Awakening
Kamelot have always been a little cheesy and bombastic, but my problem with the new singer is he took it so much further. It's bombastic flamboyance or Progressive Musical Theater Metal. Maybe they're finally breaking me down or maybe this is just better than the other albums with the new guy. I'm not familiar enough with his previous albums with the band to say what has changed, though...
Kamikaze Girls Sad
Karg Weltenasche
Karkaos Children of the Void
Keyboard-drenched melodic death metal that also features female vocals; which makes it come off like old school Within Temptation from time to time.
Karma To Burn Almost Heathen
Karma To Burn V
Karma Violens Serpent God
Karmakanic Who's the Boss in the Factory?
Karmakanic DOT
Karnivool Themata
Kartikeya Samudra
Katatonia Dead End Kings
Be careful what you wish for? After the release of their last album, I was hoping for them to go in a direction similar to The Cure?sDisintegration album ? something more expansive and diverse. Well, the band have slightly moved in that direction and I?ve never been able to get into it the same way I did with their last three or four releases. Don?t get me wrong, this is still really good but they should have gone a bit further.
Katatonia Live In Bulgaria With Plovdiv Orchestra
Katie Rose Everything Yesterday
Kayo Dot Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike
Keep of Kalessin Through Times Of War
Khemmis Hunted
Khors Night Falls Onto the Fronts of Ours
Killing Joke Ha
Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache
Kina Grannis Stairwells
King (AUS) Fury and Death
Kingcrow In Crescendo
Kings of Mercia Kings of Mercia
KMFDM Paradise
Kobra and the Lotus Prevail I
Kontinuum No Need to Reason
Krigsgrav Fires in the Fall
KUCKA Wrestling
Kylesa Exhausting Fire
Kylesa A 110° Heat Index
kyng Breathe In The Water
Kyterion Inferno II
Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley
Lacey Sturm Kenotic Metanoia
Lacrimas Profundere Antiadore
Lacrimas Profundere Hope Is Here
Ladyhawke Ladyhawke
Ladytron Light and Magic
Laethora The Light In Which We All Burn
Lagwagon Resolve
Lagwagon Railer
Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake
Lamentations Passion Of Depression
landless Moonflower
Last Winter The Heart and The Broken Compass
Late Night Alumni Empty Streets
Late Night Alumni Haunted
Laura Jansen Bells
Lauren Aquilina Fools
Legacy of Emptiness Over the Past
Melodic black metal with some folk/atmospheric elements. Nothing special, but well done.
Leprous Tall Poppy Syndrome
Lesser Heroes Falling Further Underground
Lexia Underground Sounds
Light The Fire Ascension
Lights Lights
Lights The Listening
Lights Saviour EP
Lights Siberia (Remixed)
Lights Little Machines
Lights iTunes Session
Liminal Shroud All Virtues Ablaze
Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Limp Bizkit Significant Other
Limp Bizkit Still Sucks
Lindsey Stirling Shatter Me
Kind of standard dubstep background music with some pretty cool violin playing over the top. Interesting concept and enjoyable while listening. I don't know how often I'd come back to something like this, though.
Liquid Rain Bright Obscurity
Lisa Loeb The Very Best of Lisa Loeb
Lissie When I'm Alone: The Piano Retrospective
Liza Anne Two
Lo Moon Lo Moon
Loathe Prepare Consume Proceed
Loathe Prepare Consume Proceed (Reissue)
Loathe The Cold Sun
Kind of a Post hardcore/metalcore blend with a bit of djent and industrial thrown in. It's a powerful and aggressive album, and the industrial parts kind of give the band their own sound but there's still just something missing. Every once in awhile something will pop up and make you say, "yep, that's what there isn't enough of."
Lockjaw Relentless
Lord Vicar Gates of Flesh
Lost In Grey Under the Surface
Lostprophets Start Something
Lovebites Clockwork Immortality
Loviatar Lightless
Luna Green Luna Green
Luna Mortis The Absence
Luna Obscura Feltia
Luna Shadows Summertime
Lunik Rumour
Lycus Chasms
Dark, atmosheric funeral doom. It's nothing extraordinary, but it's still pretty good.
Machine Head Burn My Eyes
Madball For The Cause
Madder Mortem All Flesh Is Grass
Madeline Juno Besser kann ich es nicht erklaren
Maggie Koerner Neutral Ground
Make Them Suffer Neverbloom
Man Must Die The Pain Behind It All
Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface
Manimal Trapped in the Shadows
Maps Counter Melodies
Marilyn Manson Holy Wood
Marissa Nadler Little Hells
MaryLeigh Roohan Skin and Bone
Bluesy indie rock. This girl can really sing and every song will get stuck in your head.
Maschine Naturalis
Mastodon Leviathan
Maybeshewill Fair Youth
I like their more electronic-based albums more. This is good and mellow and doesn't suffer from that post rock sickness of too long songs without enough going on.
Mayhem Esoteric Warfare
Grand Declaration of War is the only Mayhem album that I truly enjoy. The vocals are just way too much on most of the other albums. Having said that, the vocals are tolerable on this and the music is pretty good... but it's just standard stuff.
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Are We Not Men? We Are Diva!
Mechina Venator
Medeia Cult
Meg Myers Thank U 4 Taking Me 2 The Disco
Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What!
Megadeth The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead!
Meiko Live From the Hotel Cafe
Mekong Delta Mekong Delta - Live at an Exhibition
Mellow Gang Adjourn
Melt Yourself Down Melt Yourself Down
Memoirs of a Secret Empire Vertigo
Memories in Broken Glass Enigma Infinite
Mentallo and the Fixer Music from the Eather
Mesarthim The Density Parameter
Mesarthim Ghost Condensate
Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse
Meshuggah Rare Trax
Metasphaera Metasphaera
Midas Fall The Menagerie Inside
This is still good, but not nearly as good as 'Wilderness' was. I don't know what it is that's missing, but nothing sticks nearly as well as the previous album.
Mike LePond's Silent Assassins Whore of Babylon
Love the techy/thrashy music. Not so much a fan of the old school screechy vocals.
Mindrot Soul
Ministry Adios... Puta Madres
Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates
Minus the Bear This is What I Know About Being Gigantic
Miserere Luminis Ordalie
Miss FD Comfort for the Desolate
Miss FD Love Never Dies
Misstress Barbara I'm No Human
Mistur In Memoriam
Good keyboard-driven black metal with solid riffs.
Mitski bury me at makeout creek
Mitski Retired from Sad, New Career in Business
Molassess Through the Hollow
Molly (RU) Косатка в небе
Monobody Monobody
Monster Magnet Last Patrol
Moonlight Prophecy Vanquished
Moonsorrow Jumalten aika
I don't like folk metal. I find a majority of it to be very cheesy. This band has always been an exception. Another good release from the top of the folk metal pile.
Moonspell The Great Silver Eye
Moonspell Hermitage
This reminds me a lot of the Irreligious era of the band, but with more complete songs and a better overall sound. Since Irreligious is my favorite Moonspell album, that makes this one a welcome return.
Morbid Angel Covenant
Morgion Cloaked By Ages, Crowned In Earth
Mors Principium Est Seven
Mortichnia Heir to Scoria and Ash
Some excellent, dark and expansive black metal. What I can't get past are the abstract screeching vocals. I love the music though, so they're going to have to do.
Moth Endlessly In Motion
Mother of Millions Artifacts
Mournful Congregation The Exuviae of Gods - Part II
Mr. Bungle The Night They Came Home
Mree Winterwell
Mudvayne L.D. 50
Mutoid Man War Moans
Mxmtoon Dawn
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade
My Reflection Dreamland Drowning
NAAT NAAT
Nachtblut Vanitas
Nachtmystium Silencing Machine
Naglfar Vittra
Napalm Death Utopia Banished
Napalm Death Noise for Music's Sake
Napalm Death Smear Campaign
Napalm Death Death by Manipulation
Napalm Death Apex Predator - Easy Meat
Death metal infused grind. Not as riffy and awesome as the previous release, but this is still good.
Nasson Scars
Nat Jay Lights Across the Sky
Ne Obliviscaris Citadel
Nechochwen Heart of Akamon
Necrophobic Dawn of the Damned
Nervosa Jailbreak
Nessa Barrett Young Forever
Neurosis Honor Found in Decay
Neurotic Machinery A Loathsome Aberration
Nevermore Enemies of Reality
New Model Army Thunder and Consolation
New Model Army The Ghost of Cain
New Model Army Today Is a Good Day
New Model Army Winter
Nicola Hitchcock Passive Aggressive
Night Crowned Tales
Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep
Nightbringer Terra Damnata
Nile Annihilation of the Wicked
Nile Legacy Of The Catacombs
Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks
Nita Strauss The Call Of The Void
No Doubt Return of Saturn
No Use for a Name More Betterness!
Nocturnal Rites Phoenix
Nocturnus AD Paradox
Nordjevel Gnavhòl
Norma Sass Hunting For Treasures
Nostalghia (MEX) The Last Path
Nostalghia (MEX) Duelo
Nothingface Pacifier
Nova Collective The Further Side
Novelists Souvenirs
Novelists Noir
Novembers Doom Bled White
Kind of reminds me of a more death metal influenced version of Daylight Dies. Meaning it's good, but kind of no-frills doom/death.
Noveria Risen
Semi-thrashy power metal. Pretty solid stuff. Has a few modern influences as well such as the occasional death metal growl.
Nox Aurea Via Gnosis
Nox Aurea Ascending In Triumph
Nudeswirl Nudeswirl
Null (USA) Hiraeth
Numb Death on the Installment Plan
Oasis Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
Obscura Retribution
Obsidian Tide The Grand Crescendo
Obsidious Iconic EP
Obsidious Iconic
Oceans of Slumber The Banished Heart
Imagine My Dying Bride with more melody, a versatile female vocalist and occasional death growls and you basically have these guys. The Banished Heart is definitely a step up from their debut, but I still find myself wishing the songs were just a little more memorable. It just feels like the band is holding back. They have a super talented vocalist, but she only occasionally moves outside a certain range. Also, the band do really well but every once in a while something will really jump out and show you there's so much more this band could do then just conventional doom.
October File Monuments
October File Holy Armour from the Jaws of God
October Tide Tunnel of No Light
October Tide The Cancer Pledge
Oddland Origin
Odium (CAN) Burning the Bridges to Nowhere
Of Feather and Bone Sulfuric Disintegration
Ofelia K Chaos Cave
Old Man's Child Revelation 666
Olhava Frozen Bloom
Omega Infinity Solar Spectre
Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows
Omnium Gatherum Beyond
Omnium Gatherum Grey Heavens
It's safe, unconfrontational ultra-melodic death metal by the numbers. That doesn't mean it's not good.
Omnium Gatherum The Burning Cold
On Thorns I Lay On Thorns I Lay
Once Human Evolution
Great in small bursts, and the chick in the band is hot... take that for whatever it's worth.
Ontborg Following The Steps Of Damnation
It's a little raw, a little conventional, but it's also really well done.
Operation: Mindcrime Resurrection
Geoff Tates takeas the alt-Ryche of the previous album and mellows it out while adding a bit more atmosphere. It's not as diverse as the previous release, but there's also no Nu-Metal influence on this one, so... Anyway, overall, this one isn't as good as the debut album but it's still better than the last few Queensryche releases he was a part of.
Opeth Orchid
Opeth Morningrise
Opeth In Cauda Venenum
Oranssi Pazuzu Muukalainen Puhuu
Orbit Culture Nija
Orbital Optical Delusion
Orphalis The Birth Of Infinity
Orphalis As The Ashes Settle
Our Hollow, Our Home Hartsick
Ultra-melodic metalcore. My main issue is that it just feels too manufactured... screaming during the verses, singing during the choruses -- chugs followed by guitar harmonies followed by super melodic tangent back to chugs....
Our Hollow, Our Home Burn in the Flood
The heavy parts are pretty damn solid, but the super-cheese choruses and occasional nu metal parts bring down what could be a very solid album. The ballad near the end is especially terrible.Having said that, overall it's still a good release.
Our Mirage Unseen Relations
Out Came The Wolves Strange Fate
Ovid's Withering Terraphage
Pain of Salvation One Hour by the Concrete Lake
Pain of Salvation Scarsick
Pale Honey Fiction
Pandemonium Insomnia
Pandemonium Monuments of Tragedy
Panic Room Equilibrium
PassCode "Strive" For Budokan Tour 2021 At Toyosu Pit
Pati Yang Jaszczurka
Pennywise All or Nothing
Periphery Live in London
Perturbator New Model
Pestilence Consuming Impulse
Pestilence Malleus Maleficarum
Pestilence Hadeon
All of Pestilence's 'technical' riffs sound the same. It wasn't always like that, but since their reformation it almost feels like they're just going through the motions. Fortunately, the band is talented enough that even going through the motions turns out alright, at least. Basically, Hadeon is kind of a streamlined blend of Spheres and Testimony of the Ancients... except lazy.
Phantom Elite Titanium
Phinehas thegodmachine
Phiners So Was: Part 1
Phiners So Will: Part 2
Phobocosm Bringer Of Drought
This is some pretty visceral doom/death metal. Great stuff.
Phoebe Bridgers Punisher
Pierce the Veil Misadventures
Pink Floyd Animals
Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets
PJ Harvey Let England Shake
Placebo Without You I'm Nothing
Placebo Sleeping with Ghosts
Placebo Black Market Music
Placebo Placebo
Poison Open Up and Say... Ahh!
Polaris The Death of Me
Pond (AUS) 9
Portishead Roseland NYC Live
Portrayal of Guilt Audiotree Live
Primal Fear Seven Seals
Primal Fear Nuclear Fire
Princess Chelsea Lil' Golden Book
Progenie Terrestre Pura oltreLuna
Definitely an ambitious death metal band. I hear sci-fi sounds, ethnic stylings, melodic death metal, progressive tendencies, and the songs are pretty damn long. My only issue is that it feels a litle too unfocused and a little too unrefined so none of the songs really maintain their draw through their entire runtime.
Progenie Terrestre Pura starCross
Prognostication Prognostication
Prong Beg to Differ
Prong Ruining Lives
This is good, but Prong have lost the intensity that made their first handful of albums so awesome. They've dropped the industrial influences and the riffs have loosened up considerably. To me, there's almost a catchy, mainstream, punk influence in the sound. This is definitely their most instant album and their most accessible -- for whatever that may be worth.
Prong X (No Absolutes)
This is a heavier, darker, thrashier version of the Prong that most people would be used to. It's still nothing spectacular, but it's better than they've been in awhile.
Protest the Hero Scurrilous
Protest the Hero Palimpsest
Psychopomps The Best Of
Psyclon Nine [Order of the Shadow: Act I]
Psyclon Nine Icon of the Adversary
Psyclon Nine Less to Heaven
Psykosonik Unlearn
Psykosonik Psykosonik
Pupil Slicer Blossom
Pure Reason Revolution Eupnea
Pyogenesis Sweet X-Rated Nothings
Pyramids A Northern Meadow
QuietKind Unfamiliar
Rachael Yamagata Heavyweight
Rachael Yamagata Tightrope Walker
Radical Face The Family Tree: The Branches
Radical Face The Family Tree: The Leaves
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool
Rain City Drive Beautiful Death
Very soulful and R&B-influenced alternative/post hardcore. Huge hooks, slick instrumentation, and the excellent vocals that people have probably come to expect.
Raventale Bringer of Heartsore
Raventale Transcendence
Raventale After
Red (USA) Rated R
Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way
Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium
Red Moon Architect Fall
Atmospheric doom/death metal. Heavier and darker than the EP, but it seems to be missing something to really make it stand out.
Redemption Long Night's Journey Into Day
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Ascension
Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch
Regina Spektor 11:11
Reve La Marionnette
Revelations of Rain Revelations of Rain
Revelations of Rain Marble Shades of Despair
Reverorum Ib Malacht Kyrie Eleison
Revocation Netherheaven
Rie Sinclair On the 5th Floor
Rie Sinclair A Moment You Never Dreamed
Rise Against Wolves
It's defintely no Sufferer and the Witness, but it's more energetic and 'punk' than their last few and that will have to do.
Rise Against Nowhere Generation
Rise of Avernus L Appel Du Vide
Symphonic, progressive and bombastic doom. The main vocal style is death growls, but there are occasional female
vocals and clean male vocals. It's pretty damn good and one of the albums that will definitely grow through the year.
Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name
Great, creative, progressive death metal that manages to be melodic, diverse, and heavy, as well as creative yet focused. Kind of a breath of fresh air for a genre that frequently lets its cheese slide right off the cracker.
Riverside Voices In My Head
Rob Zombie Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor
Rosetta Utopioid
Rotting Christ Triarchy of The Lost Lovers
Rotting Christ A Dead Poem
Rotting Christ Khronos
Rotting Christ Genesis
RPWL Wanted
Mellow, diverse, progressive alt. rock. I could see it appealing to fans of Anathema and Porcupine Tree. It definitely has that 'Fear of a Blank Planet' feel to it. The only issue is that despite all the cool instrumentation that they use from time to time, the album itself feels a bit bland and one-dimensional a lot of the time.
Rush Moving Pictures
Rush Power Windows
Rush Test for Echo
Rush Retrospective III: 1989 - 2008
Rush Retrospective II: 1981 - 1987
Russian Circles Station
Russian Circles Guidance
Sadhak Sadhak
This is pretty good, but the vocals lower the overall quality. Who remembers a band called Decoryah? They had the same issue.
Saille Eldritch
Samantha James Rise
Sannhet Revisionist
Instrumental metal that doesn't include any shredding. Instead they kind of riff their way from beginning to end utilizing a mix of post metal and black metal. Also, more of a focus on the black metal tempos than Tempel.
Saor Origins
Sar Isatum Shurpu
Sara Bareilles Between the Lines: Live at the Fillmore
Sarcoptes Prayers to Oblivion
Sargeist Feeding the Crawling Shadows
Very raw and atmospheric black metal. I don't hate it like a lot of other people seem to, but I've also never heard their previous stuff.
Satyricon Nemesis Divina
Satyricon Rebel Extravaganza
Savatage Sirens
Saviour Let Me Leave
This really reminds me of 'A Liar Wrote This' album from A Bunny, A Bear but leaning more towards the post hardcore sound. Same male/female back-and-forth with the female vocals providing all of the hooks. I really like her voice though. Her accentuation is pretty unique. Unfortunately, the album starts to drag as it goes on.
Scale the Summit V
Scale the Summit In a World of Fear
Instrumental progressive elevator music. It's not bad, but there's zero energy to this stuff. Even the more energetic stuff such as 'Witch House' just feels so sterile.
Schammasch Hearts of No Light
Scorn Lick Forever Dog
SECRETS Fragile Figures
SECRETS Secrets
See You Soon Don't Give Up
Sentenced The Funeral Album
Sentenced North from Here
Septicflesh The Great Mass
Septicflesh Titan
Another small step forward for these symphonic death metal masters. This will definitely take a few listens to set in, but it's a pretty great release and will definitely appeal to those that liked their previous releases.
Sepulchral Curse Only Ashes Remain
Sepultura Schizophrenia
Sepultura The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart
Serene Dark Enantiodromia
SETYOURSAILS Nightfall
Seven Kingdoms The Fire Is Mine
Sevendust Seasons
Sevendust Next
Sevendust All I See Is War
Sgrow Terrors and Ecstasies
Sgrow Sgrow
Shades of Dusk Squalor
Shadows Fall The War Within
Shadows Fall Somber Eyes to the Sky
Shadows Fall Madness in Manila
Shady Bard Trials
Shady Bard From The Ground Up
Shai Hulud Misanthropy Pure
Shai Hulud A Profound Hatred Of Man
Shaman's Harvest Red Hands Black Deeds
She Was Nothing Dancing Through Shadows
Shoot The Girl First Follow the Clouds
Sick of It All Live In A Dive
Sick of It All Call to Arms
SikTh Death of a Dead Day
Silent Civilian Rebirth of the Temple
Silent Civilian Ghost Stories
Silent Planet Superbloom
Sirena The Uncertainty of Meaning
Sirenia An Elixir For Existence
Sirenia Perils of the Deep Blue
Sirenia The Seventh Life Path
Sirenia Dim Days of Dolor
Sixx:A.M. Prayers For The Damned (Vol. 1)
Really well composed alt. rock from the key songwriter of Motley Crue. They're all good musicians and their vocalist is above average for the genre.
Skald (FRA) Huldufólk
Skeletonwitch The Apothic Gloom
Skid Row Skid Row
Skinny Puppy The Greater Wrong of the Right
Skinny Puppy Weapon
Skogen (SWE) Skuggorna Kallar
Skrew Shadow of a Doubt
Skyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos
Skyharbor Sunshine Dust
Slayer South of Heaven
Slayer Diabolus in Musica
Slayer World Painted Blood
Sleep in Heads On the Air
Mellow female-fronted progressive rock that can occasionally get a little heavy. It's pretty good. The main thing that brings it down is the lack of variety when it comes to tempos and sounds.
Sleep Party People Floating
Kind of reminds me of 1980s The Cure meets Trespasser Williams.
Sleeper Agent Celabrasion
Sleigh Bells Treats
Sleigh Bells Kid Kruschev
Slipknot Slipknot
Slipknot 9.0: Live
Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind
Slowdive Slowdive (LP)
Slowdive's previous release is one of my all-time favorites, but this one just doesn't hit me the same way. It's still some solid shoegze, but the other one just had this abstract ambience that is totally lacking on this release. As odd as it is to say, these sound more like 'songs' than "Soulvaki" and it just isn't as good.
Slugdge Born of Slime
Sodom Genesis XIX
Soen Lykaia
This is a good album, but it is way too lethargic for me. I liked the energy of the second release. At least they don't sound like they're ripping off Tool anymore.
Soilwork Steelbath Suicide
Solar Fragment A Spark Of Deity
Son of Aurelius Under a Western Sun
These guys used to be death metal? Could have fooled me. This album is well-done modern progressive metal with occasional 'extreme metal' influences. The clean vocals need some work, but overall I like it.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor Read My Lips
Sophie Ellis-Bextor Shoot From The Hip
Sorcerer The Crowning of the Fire King
Sorcier Des Glaces Moonrise In Total Darkness
Soreption Monument of the End
Soul Asylum Grave Dancers Union
Soul Dissolution Stardust
Fairly standard, but enjoyable melodic, energetic, post black metal.
Soulfly Dark Ages
Soulfly Prophecy
Soulfly Totem
Souls at Zero A Taste for the Perverse
Soundgarden Superunknown
Soundgarden Louder Than Love
Spell (CAN) Opulent Decay
Spineshank The Height of Callousness
Spiritbox Spiritbox
Spock's Beard Octane
Spock's Beard Noise Floor
Spotlights Seismic
Stabbing Westward Wither Blister Burn & Peel
Step in Fluid One Step Beyond
Stephanie Mcintosh Tightrope
Sterilizer Sterilizer
Steve Vai Fire Garden
Steve Vai The Ultra Zone
Steve Vai Naked Tracks Vol. 6
Steve Vai Naked Tracks Vol. 7
Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning
Stomb Massive Disturbed Meta Art
Instrumental djenty music with a very futuristic / sci-fi atmosphere.
Stormruler Under the Burning Eclipse
Story of the Year Tear Me to Pieces
This is like In The Wake Of Determination blended with their more commercial releases. These guys have never been excellent or exciting, but they've always been solid and worth a listen from time to time. Good to see them back.
Strangers [US] Persona Non Grata
Strapping Young Lad Alien
Stream Of Passion A War of Our Own
Stripmall Architecture Feathersongs For Factory Girls (Part 1)
Strung Out Twisted By Design
Strung Out Another Day In Paradise
Strung Out Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues
Stuck Mojo Pigwalk
Subservience Upheaval
Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam
Sugar Ray Floored
Suicidal Tendencies Lights...Camera...Revolution
Sulk No Illusions
Sun of the Sleepless To The Elements
Very by-the-book 90s era melodic black metal with occasional slower parts, but it's done pretty well.
Sunpocrisy Samaroid Dioramas
Surface 10 Surface 10
Suzi Analogue Infinite Zonez
Svart Crown Abreaction
Reminds me of a less frantic Ulcerate, which is just fine with me.
Swallow the Sun Hope
Swans To Be Kind
Dark and brooding. The songs go on for too long sometimes, but it's good from time to time. What kind of music is this anyway? Probably falls into one of those 'post' genres.
Sybreed Antares
Sylosis A Sign of Things to Come
Symphony X Paradise Lost
Tad Morose A Mended Rhyme
Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends
Taking Back Sunday Louder Now
Tangerine Dream Raum
Tara MacLean If You See Me
Tarim The Philosopher King
Tech N9ne Absolute Power
Tech N9ne Therapy
Tech N9ne Asin9ne
Teenage Wrist Chrome Neon Jesus
This band reminds me of a blend of Slowdive, The Cure, and even Kill Hannah. 'Chrome Neon Jesus' is the kind of album those shoegaze bands might make if they discovered sobriety and a grunge sound.
Tegmentum Evolvement
Terranova Close the Door
Terrorkode Corrosive Audio
Terrorkode Frequency Overload
Tesla The Great Radio Controversy
TesseracT Perspective
TesseracT Sonder
The Abbey Word of Sin
The Absence Enemy Unbound
The Absence A Gift for the Obsessed
The Agonist Prisoners
It's definitely better than their last album. They're still a female-fronted metalcore band, but they're doing better at changing things up and the growls are slightly better than before. They just need to work on making everything more memorable.
The Agonist Eye of Providence
The Agony Scene Tormentor
The Anacondas The Anacondas
The Anacondas Bad Buzz - Lost in the Space Age
The Armed Untitled
The Beast of Nod Vampira: Disciple of Chaos
The Beatles Please Please Me
The Big Pink Empire Underground
Poppy electro-alternative is probably the best way to describe this. I liked their debut, but wasn't a fan of their second release. This EP puts them back on track with atmospheric poppy alternative with some good beats.
The Black Dahlia Murder Abysmal
I've never heard their other albums, but this is some decent melodic death metal. It's more aggressive then most bands that fall into that genre.
The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers
The Brave Epoch
The Burning of Rome Year of the Ox
The Chant Parallel
The Corrs In Blue
The Crown Cobra Speed Venom
Balls-out, thrashy, melodic death metal. It all kind of sounds the same by the mid-point of the album, but it's a pretty great sound.
The Crystal Method Vegas
The Crystal Method Drive: Nike + Original Run
The Crystal Method Divided By Night
The Cure Bloodflowers
The Cure The Top
The Dark Element Songs The Night Sings
The Dead Rabbitts The Emptiness
The Dear Hunter Migrant
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis
The End At The Beginning Revelations
The End At The Beginning Lightbringer
The Faceless Akeldama
The Flower Kings Desolation Rose
The Gathering Home
The Ghost Inside Fury and the Fallen Ones
The Ghost Inside Returners
The Ghost Inside The Ghost Inside
The Ghost of Helags We came from the Stars
The Gloom in The Corner Trinity
The Haunted rEVOLVEr
The Howling Void Into Darkness Ever More Profound
This is funeral doom done right. It maintains the lethargic pace of the genre, the morose atmospheres and the droning death vocals that one would expect; but it's the extras that allow it stand out. The subtle layers of melodic synth and the high quality cyclical guitar leads are what makes the songs enjoyable despite their lengths and tempos.
The Hunna 100
Definitely reminds me of the best of Anberlin's sound. Even the vocalist sounds similar.
The Interbeing Among the Amorphous
A cool blend of industrial, metal, and even a bit of Djent. Everything on here is really good, but it does all kind of blend together.
The Kennedy Veil Imperium
The Letter Black Pain
What happened to the wholesome alt. rock band that released those previous albums? They've gone the way of New Years Day by dropping the safe alternative rock for a heavier, shock-rock, kind of style. Now they remind me more of bands such as New Years Day, Korn, and In This Moment.
The Lillingtons Shit Out of Luck
The Lillingtons Project 313
The Material Tomorrow
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Question the Answers
The Monolith Deathcult Tetragrammaton
The Moth Gatherer The Comfortable Low
The Mute Gods Do Nothing till You Hear from Me
These guys remind me of Pure Reason Revolution. Kind of a electro-disco progressive kind of sound.
The Narrative The Narrative
The Negative Bias Narcissus Rising
The Nova Echo The Nova Echo
The Offspring Ixnay on the Hombre
The Order of Apollyon Moriah
The Pineapple Thief Versions of the Truth
The Prids Do I Look Like I’m In Love?
The Quiet Kind The Quiet Kind
The Raven Age Darkness Will Rise
Kind of a modern take on the doom sound made famous by Candlemass, Solitude Aeturnus, and Isole. I'm not going to lie, though, the modern influence in the music seems to take a lot from Trivium (around the Crusade/Shogun era).
The Sorrow Misery Escape
The Static Dynamic The Static Dynamic
The Twilight Singers Powder Burns
The Unguided Father Shadow
The Used Heartwork
The User Lives The User Lives
The Word Alive Empire
Theatre Of Tragedy Storm
Third Ion Biolith
It really sounds what Opeth's progressive metal albums could be if Opeth actually knew how to write good progressive metal.
Third Ion 13/8 Bit
Thirty Seconds to Mars 30 Seconds To Mars
Threat Signal Disconnect
Thrice Live At The House Of Blues
Thy Catafalque Geometria
Thyla Thyla
Tides From Nebula Aura
To Cast a Shadow All Alone
To the Rats and Wolves Dethroned
To-Mera Exile
Todtgelichter Was Bleibt
Tombs The Grand Annihilation
Tonic Tonic
Tonight Alive The Other Side
Toothgrinder Schizophrenic Jubilee
Toothgrinder I Am
Toundra Hex
Tribunal (CAN) The Weight Of Remembrance
This is some pretty decent doom that blends death growls with clean female vocals. A lot of the guitar melodies are pretty good, and there's enough tempo diversity to keep the album from getting monotonous in that regard. My issue is the songs all sound similar overall, and there's very little you'll remember after the album is over. This is most likely a grower, so I'll keep trying.
Tricky Mixed Race
Tristania Beyond the Veil
Trophy Eyes Chemical Miracle
Trouble Plastic Green Head
Trouble Simple Mind Condition
Trounce The Seven Crowns
Ufomammut 8
Ulcerate The Destroyers of All
Ultra Violent Lights Here In Filth
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety
Unlucky Morpheus Affected
Unprocessed Artificial Void
Unreqvited Empathica
Vallenfyre Fear Those Who Fear Him
Vandroya One
Vanessa Carlton Heroes and Thieves
Vanishing Point The Fourth Season
Varg (DE) Götterdämmerung
Veil of Maya Matriarch
Djent, metalcore, deathcore? what is this exactly? I was never a huge fan of their previous releases, but I like the new direction on this album. The clean vocals add a much-needed diversity.
Veil of Maya [m]other
This clearly isn't the same band that released the first four albums... or at least it doesn't sound like it. Personally, I'm not too upset about it since everything but the last one was pretty damn boring. Anyway, I don't mind the mainstream, accessible, djent/metalcore thing they have going. I like the chugs, the rhythms, the harsh vocals, the electronics... but the clean singing kind of drags down a lot of these songs.
Veio Vitruvian
Vektor Terminal Redux
Old School Voivod goes black metal, but with a much more technical edge. I really like the music, but the vocals don't really do it for me.
Vektor Outer Isolation
Vello Leaf Tonight, I'm Leaving
Velnias Scion of Aether
Verite Living
Verite Somewhere in Between
Very poppy electro/dubstep-ish music. So, basicaaly pop with a bit of actual identity.
VersaEmerge Perceptions
Versus The World Homesick/Roadsick
Kind of alt. rock-ish pop punk. A little too mellow for my liking, but still pretty good.
Vigilante The New Resistance: North American Special Edition
This is a pretty cool album. The industrial metal is energetic and heavy and the use of guest musicians on every song keeps things feeling fresh from beginning to end. Standout tracks include "The New Resistance (feat. Die Krupps)"
Vintersorg Till Fjälls Del II
Violet Cold Magic Night
Visions Of Atlantis The Deep & The Dark
They're finally not just another run-of-the-mill symphonic metal band. They're still not great, but at least they're finally good.
Viza Made In Chernobyl
Void Of Sleep Metaphora
VOLA Inmazes
Vorbid A Swan by the Edge of Mandala
The proggy thrash is great. The death vocals (like the band, not the genre) are great... my issue is things get bogged down when they get to clean singing and a more conventional progressive style.
Votum Time Must Have a Stop
VRTRA My Bones Hold a Stillness
VYGR Hypersleep
Walking With Strangers Hardships
Warbringer Worlds Torn Asunder
Warlock True As Steel
Warpaint Warpaint
A cool, mellow dream pop / post punk release. It never falls into the trap of getting too atmospheric or droning and, thankfully, the vocals are pretty good at creating some nice hooks despite the lack of actual strong choruses.
Warpaint Heads Up
Washed Out Within and Without
Wear Your Wounds WYW
Weaver At The Loom I Was Searching and I Found
Weaver At The Loom Before Now, Was Then
While Heaven Wept Triumph: Tragedy: Transcendence
White Empress Rise of the Empress
Kind of reminds me of a Moonspell meets Epica kind of vibe. It's not a totally accurate description because these guys aren't really a symphonic band and they don't use the cheese-goth vocals.... but I'm sticking to that description anyway.
White Zombie La Sexorcisto-Devil Music Vol. 1
Wild Ones Keep It Safe
Wilderun Epigone
Wills Dissolve The Heavens Are Not On Fire...
Windvent Rhema
Winterfylleth The Ghost Of Heritage
Within Temptation The Dance
Within the Ruins Elite
Without Mercy Seismic
Woe Quietly, Undramatically
Woe Legacies of Frailty
Wolves Among Us Hollow Gloom
Wolves at the Gate Eulogies
Woodes Woodes
Worm Ouroboros Come the Thaw
Wristmeetrazor Replica of a Strange Love
Wumpscut Wreath Of Barbs
Wumpscut DJ Dwarf XII
Wumpscut Bulwark Bazooka
These guys are good again. The songs are dark and gritty electro/industrial, but they're also memorable again and there's just enough atmosphere and melody to carry the entire release.
Wumpscut DJ Dwarf 14
Remix album that actually isn't bland and repetitive. Obviously, if you don't like the original album, you won't like this one either. The originals are still better, by the way.
Xandria Neverworld's End
Xandria Sacrificium
Great symphonic metal. Great female vocals and the music is light on the cheese.
Xandria Fire & Ashes
Xentrix Seven Words
Year of No Light Nord
Year of No Light Ausserwelt
Year of No Light Consolamentum
Yellowcard Southern Air
YOB Clearing The Path To Ascend
This is pretty good, but I just can't pay attention to it for too long. It all kinds of blends together into one single plodding tempo and tone.
Yoth Iria As The Flame Withers
Youth Code A Place To Stand
YukueshirezuTsurezure DarkBright
Zao (Self-Titled)
Zero Theorem The Killing I
Zero Theorem The Killing II
Zirrus Kulm
Modern progressive metal. The vocalist will take some getting used to.
Zyklon Aeon

3.1 good
40 Watt Sun The Inside Room
65daysofstatic Wild Light
A Call To Sincerity Acts
Abiotic Ikigai
Act of Defiance Old Scars, New Wounds
Featuring the world's most conventional metal drummer and an average vocalist... somehow the riffs are able to defy all of that and turn "Old Scars, New Wounds" into a mostly enjoyable modern thrash listening experience.
Aenaon Extance
Black Metal with a slight experimental edge. There's clean vocals, saxophone, mellow parts, atmospheric parts, fast-paced black metal parts -- but nothing ever really comes together like it should.
Aeternus (Nor) Philosopher
Alarum Circle's End
Alunah Solennial
Alunah Strange Machine
Amaranthe Amaranthe
Amayeta Oracion
Anavae Dimensions
Ancestors Suspended in Reflections
AngelMaker Sanctum
Anubis The Second Hand
Architects For Those That Wish to Exist
Arctic Sleep Kindred Spirits
Asking Alexandria From Death to Destiny
Atari Teenage Riot Destroy 2000 Years Of Culture
Atari Teenage Riot Sick to Death
Atari Teenage Riot Kids Are United
Atari Teenage Riot Speed
Au Revoir Simone Move in Spectrums
Austere Corrosion of Hearts
Aviana Corporation
Awaken the Empire Aurora
Baroness Gold and Grey
Bayside There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive
Behemoth Satanica
Biohazard Uncivilization
Bitcrush Epilogue in Waves
Blaakyum Line of Fear
Bokassa All Out of Dreams
Boss Keloid The Calming Influence of Teeth
Botanist Photosynthesis
Bridear Baryte
Bruce Dickinson The Mandrake Project
Bullet for My Valentine The Poison
Bullet for My Valentine Hand of Blood
By the Thousands Dead Matter
Cannibal Corpse Bloodthirst
Capsize The Angst In My Veins
Caroline Pennell The Race
Chandeen Blood Red Skies
Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever
Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex
Cinderella Night Songs
Circus of Fools Contracult
Code Orange Underneath
Conflict (RUS) Transform Into a Human
Conquer Divide Slow Burn
Conquering Dystopia Conquering Dystopia
Constructs Shapes
Coroner R.I.P.
Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder
Crematory Live...At The Out Of The Dark Festivals
Cripper Antagonist
Crippled Black Phoenix 200 Tons of Bad Luck
Cyhra The Vertigo Trigger
D.A.M. Premonitions
Dalek Endangered Philosophies
Darkthrone Total Death
Dawnwalker House of Sand
Dayseeker Sleeptalk
Death Angel Relentless Retribution
Death Hawks Sun Future Moon
Decree Fateless
Demon Lung A Dracula
Female-fronted psychedelic doom. It's just too monotonous to keep my interest, though.
Devilment Devilment II - The Mephisto Waltzes
Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction
Diary of Dreams Alive
Dido Girl Who Got Away
This is still good, but a disappointment too. She has a good voice for this kind of mellow electronic pop, but she has lost the excitement factor. Her first album was a cool mix of actual electro elements combined with a slick, mellow pop direction. This is just slick, mellow, pop.
Die Sektor Applied Structure In A Void
Dim Gray Flown
Dinosaur Jr. Bug
Dissimulator Factions
Downfall of Gaia Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay
Draconian Sovran
DragonForce The Power Within
DragonForce Maximum Overload
The riffs are definitely thrashier than the previous albums and the song tempos/styles/whatever are more diverse. It's still definitely Dragonforce (With a weaker vocalist these days), though.
Dream On Dreamer It Comes and Goes
Edge of Sanity Nothing But Death Remains
Emiliana Torrini Rarities
Emphasis (Estonia) Revival
Empress (AUS) Wait 'Til Night
Emptiness Not For Music
This is really good for a very short duration and then it just kind of starts to drag.
Enthroned Obsidium
Enya Dark Sky Island
Epica We Will Take You With Us
Etherius Thread of Life
Ethernity The Human Race Extinction
Eulen Mother Tree
Evenoire Herons
Basically an Epica clone without the death metal vocals. Not bad.
Everclear Sparkle And Fade
Execration (NOR) Return to the Void
Exocrine Maelstrom
Extinction A.D. CCCP
Face Off The Colour of Rain
Decent female-fronted metal. Slightly above average in the riffs department.
Face to Face Don't Turn Away
Final Coil The World We Left Behind For Others
Fool's Ghost Dark Woven Light
For All Eternity Beyond the Gates
Forced Entry Uncertain Future
Foscor Entrance to the Shadows' Village
Funeral To Mourn Is A Virtue
Funeral for a Friend Between Order And Model EP
Funerary Starless Aeon
Very atmospheric and abstract funeral doom. It's like the background music to hell. Pretty damn good.
Gardenian Sindustries
Gemma Ray It's A Shame About Gemma Ray
Gemma Ray Lights Out Zoltar
Godlike In Ruin Reborn
Pretty good for a new band. These guys' sound is a little more streamlined and consistent than BTBAM, but it's still a good comparison.
Gracie Abrams Good Riddance
Grave Pleasures Motherblood
Graveworm When Daylights Gone
Graveworm Collateral Defect
Halysis Cerulean
Harakiri for the Sky Aokigahara
Another melodic post black metal release that sounds good in small doses, but turns out to kind of be a one-trick pony.
Headspace All That You Fear Is Gone
Kind of equal parts modern and traditional prog. I hear pieces of Porcupine Tree, Dream Theater, and even Pain of Salvation, but there's nothing that will grab ahold of you and keep you coming back.
Hearscape Transient
Helms Alee Sleepwalking Sailors
This is some pretty good sludge metal. The vocalist kind of reminds me of a hybrid of the guy from Fugazi and the guy
from Filter. The rhythm section is what really keeps this going, though.
High Desert Queen Secrets Of The Black Moon
Hiidenhauta Noitia on Minun Sukuni
Raw, atmospheric, melodic black metal with occasional female backing vocals. Definitely has that nineties black metal vibe. Also has some subtle doom elements as well. Not bad, not bad at all.
Human Impact Human Impact
Hyperdump Syncretism
Imperialist Zenith
Implants The Olden Age
In Dying Arms Boundaries
In Flames Siren Charms
In Tormentata Quiete Finestatico
Izegrim The Ferryman’s End
Jinjer Wallflowers
Joe Satriani Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock
Journey Arrival
Kaipa Children Of The Sounds
Kamelot Haven
Is it me or does this album just feel lethargic? I really liked a few of their earlier albums, but this one seems to lack energy. Even the faster songs just feel lethargic.
Kantica Reborn in Aesthetics
Kaoteon Damnatio Memoriae
Kardashev The Baring of Shadows
Karma Violens Dormancy
Kataan Kataan
Katy McAllister Katy Mac Throwbacks EP
Kelsey Lindstrom The Reading Room
Khold Svartsyn
King Kobra We Are Warriors
KMFDM Brimborium
KMFDM Ruck Zuck
Konkhra Alpha And The Omega
Korn Requiem
Le Dimanche Colour of Shade
Lee McKinney In The Light of Knowledge
Lexi Jayde Closer to Closure
Limbonic Art Spectre Abysm
Lindi Ortega Little Red Boots
Lindi Ortega The Drifter E.P.
Lisa Loeb No Fairy Tale
Lovelorn Dolls Darker Ages
Madder Mortem Deadlands
Makthaverskan För Allting
Marduk Viktoria
Marissa Nadler The Path of the Clouds
Massacre Back from Beyond
Definitely Old school death metal. Individual songs are really good and even a handful at a time can be enjoyable, but the total focus on OSDM makes the album drag as a whole.
Megadeth Hidden Treasures
Melanie Pain My Name
Mephorash Krystl-Ah
Midnight Realm Engineering The Apocalypse
Misery Index Complete Control
MMOTHS Luneworks
Electronic soundscapes that never drop into overly quiet or repetitive territory. The 'songs' are very lush and melodic, but still feel similar to Sven Vath or Future Sound of London.
Monsterworks Earth
Monsterworks Precautionary Principle
Morning Parade Pure Adulterated Joy
Kind of an atmospheric alt. rock. Not too bad, but missing a bit more of a hook.
Mother of Millions Human
This is listed as progressive metal, but it kind of just sounds like mainstream radio metal to me, but maybe just a little heavier in places.
Motives Death Throes
Moyra Omen
Mutemath Odd Soul
My Dying Bride The Manuscript
MyChildren MyBride Vicious World
Nanochrist Erase the Sky
Napalm Death Punishment in Capitals
Narcotic Wasteland Delirium Tremens
Nattverd Styggdom
Ne Obliviscaris Hiraeth
New Model Army & Nobody Else
New Model Army Fuck Texas, Sing For Us
Non-Fiction It's a Wonderful Lie...
Novembers Doom Hamartia
O.R.k. Screamnasium
Obituary Dying Of Everything
Omophagia 646965
One Machine The Distortion of Lies and the Overdriven Truth
This could be so awesome, but I can't get past the vocals. This album has all the classic, prog/thrash riffs that you'd expect from Steve Smyth (Testament, Nevermore) and all the shredding solos, too. Unfortunately for me, it also has one of those screechy classic metal vocalists that I just don't do well with. Kind of the classic Iced Earth vocalist style.
Order Ov Riven Cathedrals The Discontinuity's Interlude
Pale Honey Pale Honey
Pennywise Live @ The Key Club
Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal
Polaris The Mortal Coil
Pooma Persuader
Portishead Dummy
Poverty's No Crime A Secret to Hide
Primordial Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Promethean Horde Ashes of the Empyrean
Well-done black metal. Nothing more, nothing less.
Psychonaut Unfold the God Man
Ravenword Transcendence
Reliever Evolve
Rest Among Ruins Fugue
Some well done melodic metalcore with a lot of clean singing. I just can't seem to get into it. I don't know why...
Ritualz Doom
Solid, gothy, electro industrial. Nothing special but better than what has been coming out lately.
Roseview The Misery In Me
RPWL The Gentle Art Of Music
Saosin Along the Shadow
Sara Noxx Equinoxx
Sarea Black at Heart
Satyricon Intermezzo II
Scarlean Silence
Scarlet Dorn Queen Of Broken Dreams
Scars of Chaos Humanitarian War Machine
Scientist (USA) 10100II00101
Secrets of the Moon Black House
Sengir Guilty Water
Sentenced Amok
Seven Spires Solveig
Sins of Omission Flesh On Your Bones
Skinny Puppy Remission
Skinny Puppy Back & Forth - Series Two
Solefald World Metal. Kosmopolis Sud
The spiritual successor to Neonism (my least favorite Solefald album). There are some really cool tracks on here, but there are also some straight up duds. Kind of a let down, especially after how good the previous release was.
Stahlmann Bastard
Staind Dysfunction
Stone Sour Hydrograd
Stone Temple Pilots Core
Sum 41 Order In Decline
Summoner's Circle Chaos Vector
Tancred Nightstand
Tapestry (AUS) The Pain You Desire, The Love You Deserve
Tech N9ne Special Effects
Another good release from the rapid-fire rapper, Tech N9ne. My favorite album is still K.O.D. and this doesn't come close to that one, but it's still good.
Thaw Grains
The Acacia Strain Failure Will Follow
The Amenta Flesh Is Heir
The Anacondas Shakin' All Over
The Atlas Moth An Ache for the Distance
The Convalescence This Is Hell
The Elephant Parallax LOAM & SKY
The Flight of Sleipnir Eventide
The Hirsch Effekt Eskapist
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Don't Know How to Party
The Sundays Static and Silence
The Twilight Singers Blackberry Belle
The White Noise AM/PM
Theatre Of Tragedy Forever Is the World
Thrice Horizons/East
Throes of Dawn Dreams of the Black Earth
Thy Catafalque Sgùrr
To-Mera Delusions
Tombs Under Sullen Skies
Trojans The Blissful Hollow
Trouble Manic Frustration
Ultar Pantheon MMXIX
Vanessa Carlton Love Is An Art
I like the more relaxed approach found here. It definitely does all kind of blend together, but still more enjoyable than her overt pop releases.
Vanhelga Fredagsmys
Viathyn Cynosure
Some pretty good, high energy power metal. The music is actually really good and the vocals aren't a drawback like they are on a lot of Power Metal.
Virvum Illuminance
VOLA Applause of a Distant Crowd
Voodoo Gods The Divinity Of Blood
We Are the Catalyst Ephemeral
Within Temptation Let Us Burn - Elements & Hydra Live In Concert
Within Temptation Resist
Wumpscut Siamese
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito
Zao The Crimson Corridor

3.0 good
(0) SkamHan
*shels Sea of the Dying Dhow
...and Oceans The Symmetry of I - The Circle of O
070 Shake You Can't Kill Me
10 Years Killing All That Holds You
10 Years Division
10 Years (How to Live) As Ghosts
10,000 Maniacs In My Tribe
10,000 Maniacs Blind Man's Zoo
10,000 Maniacs The Wishing Chair
16Volt Skin
16Volt LetDownCrush
16Volt SuperCoolNothing
16Volt FullBlackHabit
16Volt The Negative Space
16Volt try again to make radio friendly industrial alt. rock, and succeed this time. Still not as good as their early stuff, but they're finally finding their rhythm with this new sound. If they take it much further, though, they'll basically just sound like Filter.
1914 The Blind Leading the Blind
2:54 2:54
2:54 Scarlet
36 Crazyfists Lanterns
3TEETH 3TEETH
3TEETH EndEx
40 Watt Sun Wider than the Sky
65daysofstatic The Fall of Math
65daysofstatic One Time for All Time
65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway
65daysofstatic replicr, 2019
6:33 Deadly Scenes
96 Bitter Beings Synergy Restored
A Camp A Camp
A Dark Halo Omnibus One
A Day To Remember And Their Name Was Treason
A Day To Remember Homesick
A Fine Frenzy Pines
A Forest of Stars Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
A Ghost Orchestra Blood
A Kiss Could Be Deadly Farewell
A Life Divided Echoes
A Loss For Words Before It Caves
A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece
A Lot Like Birds No Place
A Novelist Folie
A Pale Horse Named Death Infernum In Terra
A Sense of Gravity Atrament
A Sound of Thunder Time's Arrow
A Sound of Thunder Out Of The Darkness
A Sound of Thunder Metal Renaissance
A Static Lullaby Faso Latido
A Static Lullaby Rattlesnake!
A Storm Of Light Forgive Us Our Trespasses
A Storm Of Light Anthroscene
A Textbook Tragedy Intimidator
A Textbook Tragedy Rain City State of Mind - EP
A Villains Neverland Cloudscape
A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide
A Wilhelm Scream Partycrasher
A Wilhelm Scream Lose Your Delusion
A7IE Narcissick
Abaddon Incarnate The Wretched Sermon
Abandoned Pools Humanistic
Abhoria Abhoria
Abigail's Ghost Selling Insincerity
Abigail's Ghost Live_RoSFest_2009
Abiotic Symbiosis
Abiotic Casuistry
Abscission The Constellation
Absu Absu
Aburden My Old Friend
Abysmal Dawn Nightmare Frontier
Abyssal (UK) A Beacon In The Husk
Ace Frehley 10,000 Volts
Acherontas Amarta (Formulas of Reptilian Unification Part II)
Acid King Beyond Vision
Acolyte [AU] Entropy
Acumen Nation Transmissions from Eville
Acumen Nation More Human Heart
Acumen Nation Anticore
Acumen Nation Lord of the Cynics
Acumen Nation Unbound Saga Official Game Soundtrack
Acumen Nation Unkind
ACxDC Satan Is King
Acylum Your Pain
Acylum Alone
Acylum Melanom
Acylum Pest
Acylum Filthy Memories
Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
Ada Lea one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a
Adema Unstable
Adept Sleepless
I don't know how much better this is than anything they've done before, but this isn't bad. It's pretty much standard post hardcore/metalcore, but maybe a bit more melodic.
Adimiron Burning Souls
Adrenaline Mob Dearly Departed
Adrian Benegas Arcanum
Advent Sorrow Kali Yuga Crown
Advents Advents
Aeffect Theory of Mind
Aegrus The Carnal Temples
Aenimus Transcend Reality
Aephanemer Memento Mori
Aerosmith Toys in the Attic
Aerosmith Get a Grip
Aerosmith Pump
Aerosmith Permanent Vacation
Aesop Rock Integrated Tech Solutions
Aeternitas House of Usher
Aether Realm Tarot
Aether Realm Redneck Vikings From Hell
Aetherian At Storm's Edge
Aevum Multiverse
Aevum Impressions
Aevum Dischronia
AFI Sing the Sorrow
AFI Black Sails in the Sunset
AFI Crash Love
AFI The Missing Man
AFI Bodies
After All Waves Of Annihilation
After Earth The Rarity of Reason
After Forever Invisible Circles
After Forever Decipher
After Forever Remagine
After Forever Prison Of Desire
After Forever Exordium
After the Burial Evergreen
Afterbirth In But Not Of
Afterdusk FATALIZE
Aftermoon Phase One
AFX Hangable Auto Bulb
AFX Analord 01
AFX Analord 02
AFX Analord 04
AFX Analord 03
AFX Analord 05
AFX Analord 06
AFX Analord 07
AFX Analord 08
AFX Analord 09
AFX Analogue Bubblebath Vol. 3
AFX Analogue Bubblebath 4
Against Myself Unity
Against The Current Infinity
Against the Grain Cheated Death
Age Of Woe Envenom
Agnes Vein Deathcall
Agressor Neverending Destiny
Agressor Towards Beyond
Agrypnie 16[485]
Agrypnie Pavor Nocturnus
Agua de Annique Live In Europe
Ahab The Divinity of Oceans
Ahab The Coral Tombs
I was never a big fan of Ahab's previous releases. They've always been too lethargic and homogeneous for me. This one, though, has some decent clean singing and melodies, as well as crushing doom riffs, death growls, and dynamics. Also, each song has enough of its own identity that the album doesn't just slowly blend together.
Aias A La Piscina
Air 10,000 Hz Legends
Air The Virgin Suicides
Airlock Symptomatic
Akercocke Antichrist
Alana Grace With One Word
Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette The Storm Before the Calm
Alarm Clock Conspiracy Harlequin
Alarum Natural Causes
Musically this is really fucking good, but those vocals drag the whole thing down. The rasps are weak and the clean singing is decent, at best. I wish this was an instrumental album.
Alaska (FR) Subsequent
Alaska Reid Disenchanter
Alaya Thrones
Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde
Alcest Le Secret (2011 Version)
Aldious Radiant A
Aldious We Are
Aldious Evoke 2010-2020
Aldious Radiant A Live At O-East
Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge
Alestorm Black Sails at Midnight
Alestorm Back Through Time
Alex Winston By The Roots
Alfahanne V​å​r Tid Är Nu
Alice Cooper Trash
Alice in Chains Jar of Flies
Alice in Chains Alice in Chains
Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged
Alice in Chains Jar of Flies/Sap
Alice in Chains Bank Heist
Alice Jemima Alice Jemima
Alice Merton S.I.D.E.S.
Alice Phoebe Lou Shelter
Alien Weaponry Tū
Alison Moyet The Minutes
Alison Wonderland Loner
Alkaline Trio Good Mourning
Alkaline Trio From Here to Infirmary
Alkaline Trio Remains
Alkaline Trio Agony and Irony
Alkaline Trio This Addiction
Alkaline Trio My Shame Is True
Alkaline Trio Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs
Alkerdeel Slonk
All Hell The Witch's Grail
All That Remains For We Are Many
Allen/Olzon Worlds Apart
Ally Rhodes Ally Rhodes
Almah Fragile Equality
Almah Unfold
Almah E.V.O
Almyrkvi Umbra
Alpha Seed Paralyzed
Alpines Another River
alt. ABEYANCE
Altars Of Grief Iris
Alteras Grief
Alterbeast Immortal
Altered Perceptions From Rise to Ruins
AlunaGeorge I Remember
Alvvays Blue Rev
Alyson Avenue Presence of Mind
Amaranthe Maximalism
Amatorski TBC
Amaya Laucirica Sugar Lights
Amber Arcades Fading Lines
Amber Arcades Cannonball
Amber Rubarth Unfinished Art
Amberian Dawn End of Eden
Amberian Dawn Circus Black
Amenra De Doorn
Amie Miriello I Came Around
Ammanas Solitude
Amon Amarth Fate of Norns
Amon Amarth The Crusher
Amon Amarth Versus the World
Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side
Amon Amarth Surtur Rising
Amon Amarth Jomsviking
Amon Amarth Berserker
Amon Tobin Chaos Theory - Splinter Cell 3 Soundtrack
Amon Tobin Verbal Remixes And Collaborations
Amon Tobin Dark Jovian
Amoric Amoric
Amorphis Black Winter Day
Amorphis My Kantele
Amorphis An Evening with Friends at Huvila
Amorphis Live At Helsinki Ice Hall
Amos Lee Dreamland
Amputate Dawn of Annihilation
Amy Kress Fly
Amy Speace Land Like A Bird
Amy Speace Killer In Me
Amy Speace Songs For Bright Street
An Autumn For Crippled Children Lost
An Autumn For Crippled Children Everything
An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love
An Autumn For Crippled Children All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet
An Endless Sporadic Ameliorate
An Endless Sporadic Magic Machine
Anaal Nathrakh The Codex Necro
Anaal Nathrakh When Fire Rains Down From the Sky...
Anaal Nathrakh Domine Non Es Dignus
Anaal Nathrakh Vanitas
Anaal Nathrakh Desideratum
I first heard Anaal Nathrakh when they released Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here. It took a few listens to get into simply because it was so damn noisy. After awhile I got used to the industrial-tinged, noise-filled, black metal. Subsequent albums pushed the extremity too far for my tastes and I kind of wrote them off; Desideratum throttles back on enough of the extremity and noise to make me love the band again. It’s (almost) equal parts melodic black metal mixed with industrial noise and extreme metal — and the vocals are still just inhuman.
Anaal Nathrakh The Whole of the Law
AnaDies Formamentum
Anata The Conductor's Departure
Anata Under a Stone With No Inscription
Anathema Alternative 4
Anathema Resonance 2
Anathema The Optimist
In my review of their previous release, I said the first 3/4 was good but that the electronic songs that make up the back end rwere not. Unfotuntely, this entire album basically builds off the electronics songs from that release. They're definitely rbetter and more refined, but they're still not nearly as good as what was on the trilogy of releases starting with We're Here rBecause We're Here. Each song is very minimalistic and repetitive without the dynamics I've come to expect from this rband.
Anavae Storm Chaser
Anavae Parallel Dimensions
Anavae 45
Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market
Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place
Ancient Night Visit
Ancient Svartalvheim
Ancient Trolltaar
Ancient Back To The Land Of The Dead
This album would sit comfortably between Svartalvheim and The Cainian Chronicle. That means there's none of the terrible cheese that ruined every album after The Cainian Chronicle. That also means that this album is more straight-forward black metal than the more accessible Cainian Chronicle album. There's nothing that really sets this album apart from most other stereotypical black metal releases, but it's good.
And Hell Followed With Quietus
And So I Watch You From Afar The Letters
And So I Watch You From Afar Gangs
And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures
Andrew W.K. You're Not Alone
Ane Brun Changing of the Seasons
Ane Brun It All Starts With One
Anette Askvik Liberty
Angel Olsen Half Way Home
Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire for No Witness
I like me some good indie. This is some good indie. I wish I knew what makes everyone else think that it's awesome indie, though.
Angel Olsen Strange Cacti
Angel Olsen All Mirrors
Angel Olsen Big Time
Angel Snow Fortune Tellers
Angela Moyra Fickle Island
Angelic Desolation Orchestrionic Abortion
Angelica Garcia Medicine For Birds
Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper
Angelspit Hideous and Perfect
Angelspit Carbon Beauty
Angelspit Hello My Name Is
Angelus Apatrida Angelus Apatrida
Pantera Re-incarnated mixed with some old school thrash. Take it for what it's worth.
Angelzoom Angelzoom
Ani DiFranco Revelling:Reckoning
Ani DiFranco Evolve
Ani DiFranco Little Plastic Castle
Ani DiFranco Up Up Up Up Up Up
Anicon Entropy Mantra
Anna Fox Rochinski Cherry
Anna Nalick Wreck of the Day
Anna Nalick Shine EP
Anna Nalick Broken Doll and Odds & Ends
Anna Of The North The Dreamer
Anna Of The North Lovers
Anna Of The North Dream Girl
Anna Ternheim Leaving On A Mayday
Anna Ternheim The Night Visitor
Anna Ternheim Halfway to Fivepoints
Annakin Icarus Heart
Anne Marie Almedal The Siren And The Sage
Anne Marie Almedal Memory Lane
Anneke van Giersbergen Symphonized
Annihilator Set the World on Fire
Annihilator Criteria for a Black Widow
Annihilator The Best of Annihilator
Annihilator Live At Masters Of Rock
Annihilator In Command (Live 1989-1990)
Annihilator Feast
Anoraak Nightdrive With You
Anorexia Nervosa New Obscurantis Order
Anorexia Nervosa Disturbed
Another Sky Beach Day
Anthea Tales Untold
Anthrax Armed and Dangerous
Anthrax I'm the Man
Anthrax We've Come for You All
Anthrax The Greater of Two Evils
Anthrax XL (40th Anniversary Livestream Concert)
Anti-God Hand Blight Year
Antigama Warning
Antimatter Leaving Eden
Antimatter Live @ An Club
Antimatter A Dream For The Blind
Antimatter Live @ K13
Antimatter An Epitaph
Antropofagus Methods of Resurrection Through Evisceration
Antropomorphia Sermon Ov Wrath
Just your average death metal. There are the occasional cool parts, but too much of it is just generic.
Anubis Gate A Perfect Forever
Anubis Gate Anubis Gate
Anubis Gate Horizons
Anubis Gate Interference
Aosoth V: The Inside Scriptures
Aparia Beyond The Walls Of Man
Aphasia Rebirth
Aphex Twin Come to Daddy
Aphex Twin Syro
Aphex Twin Cheetah EP
Apokryphon Subterra
Apostle of Solitude When The Darkness Goes
Apparition Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil State
AqME Live(s)
Arab Strap Elephant Shoe
Arab Strap Philophobia
Arab Strap The Red Thread
Arca KiCk i
Arcaine As Life Decays
Arch Enemy Khaos Legions
Architects Nightmares
Architects Ruin
Archive Call To Arms and Angels
Archivist Triumvirate
Arctic Monkeys The Car
Arctic Plateau On A Sad Sunny Day
Arctic Plateau The Enemy Inside
Arcturus The Sham Mirrors
Argus (USA-PA) Boldly Stride The Doomed
Ariel Abshire Still So New
Ariel Abshire Unresolved
Arjen Anthony Lucassen Lost in the New Real
Arkan Hilal
Arkona (RUS) Vozrozhdenie (Re-Recorded)
Armageddon Dildos Dystopia
Armored Saint Punching the Sky
Aronious Perspicacity
Arphael Ancient
Arphael Guided By Light
Arrica Rose and the ...'s Let Alone Sea
Arsonwave Embrace Reality
Art of Deception Shattered Delusions
Art of Shock Shine Black Light
Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation
Artificial Brain Infrared Horizon
Artificial Brain Artificial Brain
Artificial Sun The Giants Collapse
Artnat The Mirror Effect
As Everything Unfolds Closure
As It Is I WENT TO HELL AND BACK
As Lions Selfish Age
Totally by-the-numbers alt rock/metal. It's not bad, but there is literally nothing here that stands out.
As Oceans Willows
As The Structure Fails In Vain
Asa (JP) Reiwa Ideology
Asagraum Veil of Death, Ruptured
ASG Feeling Good is Good Enough
ASG Amplification Of Self Gratification
ASG Win Us Over
Ashbringer Absolution
Ashe Rae
Ashenspire Hostile Architecture
Ashes of My Regrets Caricatures
Ashes Remain Red Devotion
Ashley Monroe Like a Rose
Ashrae Fax Static Crash
Asphyx The Rack
Asphyx Last One on Earth
Asphyx Death... The Brutal Way
Asphyx On The Wings of Inferno
Asphyx Deathhammer
Assemblage 23 Endure
The music is so damn good, but the vocals just don't work. They're not exactly bad, but they're definitely not good.
Assemble The Chariots The Sulphur Voids
Assignment Inside Of The Machine
Astronautalis Cut The Body Loose
At the Drive-In Vaya
At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement
At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out
At the Gates With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
At War With Self Torn Between Dimensions
At War With Self A Familiar Path
Atala Shaman's Path of the Serpent
Doomy stoner rock. It's pretty good stuff, but nothing too spectacular.
Atari Teenage Riot 1995
Atari Teenage Riot The Future Of War
Atari Teenage Riot 60 Second Wipeout
Atari Teenage Riot Is This Hyperreal?
Atari Teenage Riot Riot In Japan 2011
Atari Teenage Riot Live In Philadelphia
Atari Teenage Riot Revolution Action
Atlantean Kodex The Golden Bough
Atrae Bilis Apexapien
Atreyu In Our Wake
Atriarch Ritual of Passing
Atriarch Dead as Truth
Atrocity Okkult
Atrum Tempestas Neant
Doomy, atmospheric black metal. The songs are long and go through many movements, but nothing really seems to come together.
Attic Return Of The Witchfinder
Au Revoir Simone Still Night, Still Light
Au Revoir Simone Verses of Comfort, Assurance and Salvation
Audioslave Out of Exile
Audn Farvegir Fyrndar
Audn Vökudraumsins fangi
Audrey Audrey
August Burns Red Home
Auras Crestfallen
Auri Auri
Aurora (NOR) The Gods We Can Touch
Austrian Death Machine Quad Brutal
Autechre Peel Session 2
Autechre Confield
Autechre Quaristice
Autechre EP7
Autechre Anti
Autechre Garbage
Autechre Envane
Autechre Cichlisuite
Author and Punisher Women and Children
Author and Punisher Kruller
Authority Zero 12:34
Authority Zero Stories Of Survival
Authority Zero Rhythm and Booze
Authority Zero Less Rhythm More Booze [CD + DVD]
Automatic Loveletter Recover
Automatic Loveletter The Kids Will Take Their Monsters On
Automatic Loveletter Automatic Loveletter
Autopilot Off Make A Sound
Autopsy Mental Funeral
Autopsy Torn from the Grave
Autopsy The Tomb Within
Autopsy Macabre Eternal
Autopsy Morbidity Triumphant
Autopsy Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts
Ava Inferi The Silhouette
Ava Inferi Onyx
Ava Inferi Burdens
Avatar Black Waltz
Avatar Hunter Gatherer
Avatarium Avatarium
Avatarium The Girl With The Raven Mask
Avatarium Hurricanes And Halos
Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
Avenged Sevenfold The Stage
Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But a Dream...
The first Avenged Sevenfold album I've actually liked. They pretty much wear their influences on their sleeves, which mostly seem to be Metallica, Alice in Chains, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, and a few electronic-based bands. The thing is, it's not bad. Even the vocals are better than they usually are because they're not generally as nasally as on past releases.
Avers Omega / Whatever
Averse The Endesque Chants
Aversions Crown Tyrant
awfultune eden
Axioma Crown
Ayahausca Yin
Aythis The New Earth
Aythis The Illusion and the Twin
Azure Emote The Gravity of Impermanence
Azure Ray November
Azure Ray Burn and Shiver
Azure Ray Azure Ray
Azure Ray Don't Leave My Mind
Azusa Loop of Yesterdays
Babble The Stone
BABYMETAL Live At Wembley
Bachelors Of Science Within This Moment
Bad Astronaut Twelve Small Steps, One Giant Disappointment
Bad Omens Bad Omens
Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
Bad Religion 80-85
Bad Religion The Gray Race
Bad Religion The Dissent of Man
Bad Suns Disappear Here
Baest Necro Sapiens
Baklavaa Dane On
Really noisy alt. rock/post hardcore. It?s good, but a little too grating for me.
Bala Maleza
Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing
It's not bad and not great. Just a good solid album.
Balance Breach Abyzmal
Bangladeafy The Briefcase
Banks The Altar
Banks III
Banks Serpentina
Banshee Sirencore
Baptists Bushcraft
Baptists Beacon of Faith
Bare Infinity The Butterfly Raiser
Barishi Blood from the Lion's Mouth
Barishi Old Smoke
Barren Earth Our Twilight
Basement Jaxx Kish Kash
Basia Bulat Oh, My Darling
Basia Bulat Heart of My Own
Basterds A Place to Call Hell
Bat For Lashes Fur and Gold
Bat For Lashes iTunes Festival: London 2012
Battle Beast Circus of Doom
Battles Juice B Crypts
Be//gotten <LOVE/LOATHE/LUST3
beabadoobee Fake It Flowers
Beach House Beach House
Beach House Devotion
Beach House Teen Dream
Beach House Depression Cherry
Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars
Bear's Den Red Earth & Pouring Rain
Beartooth Aggressive
Beastie Boys Check Your Head
Beastwars The Death of All Things
Becoming Saints Oh, The Suffering
Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation
Becoming The Archetype The Physics of Fire
Becoming The Archetype Dichotomy
Becoming The Archetype I Am
This is the only album of their’s that I have heard, and I like it. Apparently, their previous releases are all better than this… I wouldn’t know. I do know that this is some pretty good metalcore with the slightest death metal hints thrown in. The leads are excellent, by the way.
Behemoth Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)
Behemoth Pandemonic Incantations
Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond)
Behemoth And the Forests Dream Eternally
Behemoth Ezkaton
Behemoth Thelema.6
Behemoth Abyssus Abyssum Invocat
Behemoth Opvs Contra Natvram
Behold! The Monolith From the Fathomless Deep
Behold... The Arctopus Horrorscension
Behold... The Arctopus Hapeleptic Overtrove
Bel Auburn Cathedrals
Bell Witch Bell Witch Demo 2011
Bell Witch Future's Shadow I: The Clandestine Gate
I'll be the guy that doesn't get it. I love funeral doom, but this is just way too long without nearly enough going on. The transitions should be more defining instead of incremental. The tempos, of course, are what they are in funeral doom, so we'll move on from that. If taken as more of an abstract ambient soundscape (something like Apex Twin or FSOL), it kind of makes it more tolerable because then it can be viewed more as background music and not something that can be actively listened to. So... perspective, I guess.
Belore Artefacts
Below the Sun Envoy
Belphegor Goatreich-Fleshcult
Belphegor Necrodaemon Terrorsathan
Belphegor Lucifer Incestus
Belphegor Totenritual
Bend the Future Without Notice
Benighted Soul Start from Scratch
Bent Knee Land Animal
Best Coast Something in the Way
Best Coast Crazy For You
Best Coast The Only Place
Best Coast Live At World Cafe
Beth Hart Leave the Light on
Beth Hart Immortal
Beth Orton Daybreaker
Beth Orton Weather Alive
Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus
Between the Now Tired of Playing the Game
Beyon-D-Lusion Intuispection
Beyond All Recognition Beyond All Recognition
Beyond Dawn Revelry
Beyond Dawn In Reverie
Beyond Terror Beyond Grace Nadir
Beyond The Black Lost in Forever
Beyond the Bridge The Old Man and The Spirit
Not a bad progressive metal album. It's kind of like Dream Theater meets modern Fates Warning, but with both male and female vocals. There are definitely elements of cheese and wank, but definitely an enjoyable album overall.
Beyond Time Through the Vastness of the Universe
Big Deal Chair EP
Big|Brave Vital
Big|Brave nature morte
Biig Piig Bubblegum
Chill blend of trance and pop. It's enjoyable and even kind of soothing, but I don't know if I'd ever put it on again. Careful if you listen to this while driving; this is go-sleepy music.
Billy Howerdel What Normal Was
Billy Idol Greatest Hits
Biohazard Kill or be Killed
Biohazard State of the World Address
Biohazard Live In San Francisco
Birds in Row Gris Klein
Birds Of Tokyo Day One
Birds Of Tokyo Universes
Birds Of Tokyo Birds Of Tokyo
Birdy Beautiful Lies
Birdy Young Heart
Birdy (NYC) Supernominal Paraphernalia
Birgitta Haukdal Ein
Bitcrush In Distance
Bitcrush from arcs to embers
Bitcrush Enarc
Bitcrush Shimmer and Fade
Bitcrush Of Embers
BitterSweet Drama
BitterSweet The Mating Game
BitterSweet The Remix Game
Bizarrekult Den Tapte Krigen
Bjork Medulla
Bjork Biophilia
Black Crown Initiate The Wreckage of Stars
Black Crown Initiate Selves We Cannot Forgive
Black Hole Whirlwind of Mad Men
Black Lava Soul Furnace
Black Light Burns Cruel Melody
Black Light Burns The Moment You Realize You're Going To Fall
Black Light Burns Lotus Island
Black Magnet Body Prophecy
Black Majesty Silent Company
Black Map Melodoria
Black Mare Field of the Host
Dark kind of alt/post punk/ goth kind of sound. Definitely a pretty unique band, except for the fact that Black Math Horseman kind of do the same thing (better) and even features a lot of the same members.
Black Moth The Killing Jar
Black Sabbath Dehumanizer
Black Sabbath 13
Black Sheep Wall No Matter Where It Ends
Black Sun Aeon Routa
Black Tape for a Blue Girl Remnants of a Deeper Purity
Black Tape for a Blue Girl A Chaos of Desire
Black Tape for a Blue Girl This Lush Garden Within
Black Tape for a Blue Girl The Collection
Black Therapy Onward
Black Tusk The Way Forward
Black Water Sunset Engraved Spectral Aeons
Blackbraid Blackbraid II
Blackbriar Fractured Fairytales
Blackout (USA-NY) The Horse
Blameshift The Black Rose
Blanket Blue Eyes
Blanket Ceremonia
Blasphemer The Sixth Hour
Bleed from Within Uprising
Bleed from Within Era
Bleed from Within Fracture
Bleed from Within Shrine
Bleeding Through This Is Love, This Is Murderous
Bleeding Through Portrait of the Goddess
Bleeding Through Declaration
Blessthefall Witness
Blessthefall To Those Left Behind
Blessthefall Hard Feelings
Blind Eye Era Blind Eye Era
Blind Guardian At the Edge of Time
Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror
I'm not the biggest power metal fan in the world, but I like the occasional band. These guys aren't one of them, though. I just don't like the choir-sounding vocals that dominate this album (despite enjoing choir-like vocals on other metal albums).
Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Rejecting Obliteration
Blindwish Good Excuses
blink-182 Buddha
blink-182 Dogs Eating Dogs
Blood Command Hand Us The Alpha Male
Blood From The Soul DSM-5
Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race
Blood Incantation Timewave Zero
Blood Red Throne Imperial Congregation
Blood Red Throne Nonagon
Bloodbath Grand Morbid Funeral
Bloodred Hourglass How's The Heart?
Bloodywood Rakshak
Bloom (AUS) Maybe in Another Life
Blue October Foiled
Blut Aus Nord Ultima Thulee
Blut Aus Nord MoRT
Blut Aus Nord 777 - The Desanctification
Blut Aus Nord Deus Salutis Meae
Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses
Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium – Nahab
Bnny Everything
Body Count Carnivore
Body Prison Until Madness
Boho Dancer Gemini
Bokassa Molotov Rocktail
Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation
Bombay Bicycle Club My Big Day
Bon Iver 22, A Million
Bon Jovi New Jersey
Bonfire Fistful of Fire
Bongzilla Weedsconsin
Bonzie Zone on Nine
Boom Bip Blue eyed in the red room
Boom Bip Seed to Sun
Borealis Illusions
Boris Dear
Boris Love and Evol
Boris W
Borknagar The Olden Domain
Borknagar Origin
Born of Osiris A Higher Place
Bornholm Apotheosis
Bosse-de-Nage II
Bossk Migration
Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends
Botch We Are the Romans
Boygenius the record
Bran Van 3000 The Garden
Brand New Your Favorite Weapon
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Brand New Daisy
Brave Monuments
Brave Lost in Retrospect
Damn, I know this is a "best of..." but they should have left the really old songs off. The album starts with the new stuff and it's really good, but as the songs get older they drop a little more and more until it's just unlistenable. One thing is for sure, it definitely shows how far the vocalist has come.
braveweather Stay Here
Breakbeat Era Ultra-Obscene
Breakdown of Sanity Coexistence
Breathe Atlantis Soulmade
Bridear Overturn the Doom
Bridear Aegis of Athena
Bridgit Mendler Nemesis
Bright Light Parade The Heart Ballet
Bright Light Parade Starlight City
Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season
Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It...
Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal
Bring Me the Horizon Live at the Royal Albert Hall
BRKN Love Black Box
broaddaylight The Bell Jar Ep
Broadway Calls Comfort/Distraction
Brodequin Harbinger of Woe
Broken Bells Into the Blue
Brokenrail Beautiful Chaos
Brooke Annibale Better By Now
Brooke Barrettsmith Brooke Barrettsmith
BT ESCM
BT Ima
Buck-O-Nine Twenty Eight Teeth
Buckethead Monsters & Robots
Budderside Budderside
Bukowski Strangers
Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire
Bullet for My Valentine Fever
Bulletbelt Warlords
Burden of Grief Destination Dystopia
Burial in the Sky Creatio et Hominus
Burn After Me Aeon
Bury Your Dead Beauty and the Breakdown
Bury Your Dead Mosh n' Roll
Burzum Filosofem
Burzum Hlidskjalf
Burzum Aske
Burzum From the Depths of Darkness
Bush Sixteen Stone
Bush Deconstructed
Bush The Sea of Memories
Bush Man on the Run
Cabin Boy Jumped Ship Sentiments
Cacophony Go Off!
Cacophony Speed Metal Symphony
Cage (USA-CA) Astrology
Cainan Dawn Lagu
Caliban Say Hello to Tragedy
Caliban I Am Nemesis
Call of the Void Buried in Light
Callisto True Nature Unfolds
Callisto Noir
Callisto Providence
Cami Bradley Seas
Candiria Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Candiria The C.O.M.A. Imprint
Candiria While They Were Sleeping
I've never heard these guys before, but this album sounds like a post hardcore band discovered the 'Spheres' album by Pestilence. It's an interesting sound.
Candlemass Candlemass
Candlemass Ancient Dreams
Candlemass King of the Grey Islands
Candlemass Death Magic Doom
I enjoy Rob Lowe's vocals on Solitude Aeturnus and I even enjoyed them on Candlemass' previous release, but there's something lacking here. His attempts at an aggressive delivery largely fall flat and he doesn't utilize his falsetto as well as he can. It's not entirely his fault, though, every song on this album seems to be a little too long with not enough riffs to fill them out. That means that the riffs that are present end up being used so often that regardless of how good they sounded when they first started you just want them to stop long before they actually do. Despite all of this, the album is still good but it's nothing worth going crazy over.
Candlemass Psalms For The Dead
Candlemass The Door To Doom
Candlemass Green Valley
Candy Cane/Oranssi Pazuzu Split
Cannabis Corpse Tube of the Resinated
Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding
Cannibal Corpse Vile
Cannibal Corpse Gallery of Suicide
Cannibal Corpse The Wretched Spawn
Cannibal Corpse Worm Infested
Cantique Lepreux Le Bannissement
Captain, We're Sinking The Animals Are Out
Caratucay Deranged Serenades
Carcass Swansong
Carcass Tools of the Trade
Carcass Choice Cuts
Carcer City The Life We Have Chosen
Carcer City The Road Journals
Carma Ossadas
Carnosus Visions of Infinihility
Carpathian Forest Black Shining Leather
Carpathian Forest Strange Old Brew
Carrion Vael Abhorrent Obsessions
Casey Weston Casey Weston
Caspian You Are The Conductor
Cassadee Pope Frame By Frame
Cassadee Pope EP
Castratii Eora
Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool
Catalyst A Different Painting for a New World
Catalyst Crime Catalyst Crime
Catamenia Winternight Tragedies
Catamenia Location:COLD
Catamenia Eskhata
Catamenia Halls Of Frozen North
Catamenia Morning Crimson
Catchlight Helios - Part One
Catharsis (RUS) Dea
Cathedral The Garden Of Unearthly Delights
Cathedral Forest of Equilibrium
Cathedral Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)
Cathedral Caravan Beyond Redemption
Cathedral Soul Sacrifice
Cathedral The VIIth Coming
Cathedral The Last Spire
Cathedral In Memorium (Demo)
Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction
I've never heard these guys before now, and I was definitely surprised. Kind of reminds me of a less chaotic version of modern Napalm Death with occasional bouts of melodic death metal influences. The clean singing is weird, but it works.
Caution: Thieves Songs from the Great Divide
Cavalera Conspiracy Blunt Force Trauma
Cavalera Conspiracy Morbid Visions
Cave In White Silence
Caveman Otero War
Celestial Season Sonic Orb
Celine Dion A New Day Has Come
Celldweller Wish Upon a Blackstar
Celldweller Celldweller - Instrumentals
It's good mainstream industrial rock, but just not the same without vocals.
Celldweller End of an Empire - Chapter 01: Time
Celldweller End of an Empire - Chapter 02: Love
Celldweller End of an Empire - Chapter 03: Dreams
Celldweller End of an Empire - Chapter 04: Death
Celtic Frost Morbid Tales
Cemetary Sweetest Tragedies
Cenfora The Progening
Ceremonial Castings Our Journey Through Forever
Ceterum Fathom
Ceterum Proportions
cEvin Key The Dragon Experience
Chamber (USA) Cost of Sacrifice
Chamber (USA) A Love to Kill For
Chandeen Light Within Time
Chandeen Bikes And Pyramids
Chandeen Echoes
Chandeen Pandora's Box
Chandeen Teenage Poetry
Channel Zero Channel Zero
Chaos Echoes Ecstasy With the Nonexistents
Chaos Magic Desert Rose
Chapterhouse Whirlpool
Chapterhouse Freefall
Charlotte Cardin 99 Nights
Charlotte Gainsbourg Stage Whisper
Charlotte Sands can we start over?
Charlotte Sometimes By Request
Some decent cover songs by a decent indie pop vocalist.
Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
Chemlab Oxidizer
Chewing On Tinfoil Get Rich Or Try Dyin'
Chewing On Tinfoil Shaving
Cheyenne Marie Mize Before Lately
Chiasm Relapse
Chiasm Reform
Chiasm Reset
Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper
Children of Bodom Hatebreeder
Children of Bodom Blooddrunk
Children of Bodom Holiday At Lake Bodom (15 Years Of Wasted Youth)
Children of Bodom I Worship Chaos
Chimes and Bells Chimes and Bells
Chimp Spanner All Roads Lead Here
Christel Alsos Closing The Distance
Christian Death Only Theatre of Pain
Christina Grimmie Find Me
Christina Grimmie With Love
Christina Grimmie All is Vanity
Christine Hoberg Ugly
Christine Hoberg World Within
Standard indie pop with a bluesy undercurrent. She's definitely a good vocalist.
Christine Hoberg Nice
Chrome Waves The Rain Will Cleanse
Chronographs Nausea
Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule
Very dark and doomy death metal release. Excellent atmosphere, but I can't get past the very guttural vocals. I like some death metal, but I don't know if I could be called a death metal fan.
Chthonic Seediq Bale
Chthonic Mirror Of Retribution
Chthonic Bu-Tik
Chthonic Battlefields of Asura
Church of Misery Born Under A Mad Sign
Cider Sky King
Cinderella Long Cold Winter
Circa Valley of the Windmill
Circa Survive A Dream About Death
Circle Terminal
What I'm hearing is traditional heavy metal with some progressive influences (and the occasional bit of black metal). It's not bad, but the songs for too long.
Circle of Dust Disengage (Remastered)
Circle of Dust Demoralize
Circle of Silence Walk Through Hell
Cirith Ungol Forever Black
Cirith Ungol Dark Parade
City and Colour The Love Still Held Me Near
Civerous Maze Envy
Civet Hell Hath No Fury
Civet Love and War
Civil War Invaders
Claire Cronin Big Dread Moon
Claire Voyant Lustre
Claire Voyant Claire Voyant
clairo Immunity
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Hysterical
Clara Hill Restless Times
Clara Hill All I Can Provide
Clara Hill Sideways
Clarion Void Deafening Sounds of Mortality
Claude a lot's gonna change
Cliffside Deeper Water
clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood
Cloakroom Time Well
Closed Room Closed Room
Cloud Rat Cloud Rat
Cloud Rat Do Not Let Me off the Cliff
Cloud Rat Do Not Let Me Off The Cliff (Deluxe Edition)
Cloud Rat Threshold
Clouds Taste Satanic 79 A.E.
Cloudy Raincloud
CloverSeeds The Opening
Clubroot III - MMXII
A lot of people are creaming over stuff like this, and with good reason. This is some excellent electro-ambient music in the vein of The Orb, William Orbit and Aphex Twin’s ambient works releases. Chill, atmospheric and very well done.
Clutch Sunrise On Slaughter Beach
Cobalt Slow Forever
Cogitations Relinquished
Cognizance Phantazein
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun
Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun: Deconstructed
Colbie Caillat Coco
Colbie Caillat Breakthrough
Colbie Caillat All of You
Coldcut Let Us Replay!
Coldworld Isolation
Collide Some Kind of Strange
Collide Live at the El Rey
Collide Bent And Broken
Colosseum (Fin) Chapter 2: Numquam
Colosso Obnoxious
Combichrist Everybody Hates You
Combichrist What The Fuck Is Wrong With You People?
Combichrist The Joy Of Gunz
Combichrist Heat EP: All Pain Is Beat
Combichrist We Love You
Abrasive, punky/hardcore electro-industrial. It's definitely a solid release, but it lacks replay value. I miss their older
style. Although 'The Evil in Me' is pretty cool.
Combichrist One Fire
Come to Grief When the World Dies
Comeback Kid Outsider
Communic Where Echoes Gather
Communic Hiding from the World
Concepts Misguided
Condemned Daemonium
Confession Cancer
Confession The Long Way Home
Confessions of a Traitor Punishing Myself Before God Does
Conjure One Extraordinary Ways
Conquer Divide Conquer Divide
Construct of Lethe Exiler
Contracult Collective A Cult Of Opposition
Contrarian Predestined
Contrarian Polemic
Contrarian Sage of Shekhinah
Control Denied The Fragile Art of Existence
Converge You Fail Me
Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky
Converge Jane Doe
Converge When Forever Comes Crashing
Converge You Fail Me Redux
Converge The Poacher Diaries Redux
Convictions I Will Become
Coronatus Lux Noctis
Coronatus Porta Obscura
Coronatus Fabula Magna
Coronatus Terra Incognita
Coronatus Best Of
Coronatus Best of 2007-2011
Coroner Grin
Coroner Mental Vortex
Coroner Punishment for Decadence
Corrosion of Conformity In the Arms of God
Corrosion of Conformity No Cross No Crown
Corrupted Melody Inner I
Cosmonaut Cosmonaut
Cough Still They Pray
Counterparts Nothing Left to Love
Counterparts A Eulogy for Those Still Here
Countless Skies Glow
Courage My Love Becoming EP
Courtney Jones Awake and Dreaming
Courtney Jones The One
Courtships The Feral Sound
Covet technicolor
Cradle of Filth Damnation and a Day
Cradle of Filth Live Bait for the Dead
Cradle of Filth Eleven Burial Masses
Craft White Noise and Black Metal
Cranes Forever
Cranes La Tragedie d'Oreste et Electre
Craven Idol The Shackles of Mammon
Creak Depth Perception
Creed My Own Prison
Creed Human Clay
Creed Full Circle
Creeping Death Boundless Domain
Creinium Project Utopia
Basically a death metal/black metal hybrid that is very similar to Graveworm's latter albums (these guys focus a bit more on the death metal, though). Some elements of melodic death metal, as well. A few really cool moments, but mostly just good, non-original stuff.
Crematory Pray
Crematory awake
Crematory Illusions
Crematory ...Just Dreaming
Crematory Black Pearls
Crematory Klagebilder
Crematory Oblivion
Crescent (EGY) Carving the Fires of Akhet
Crimson Glory Astronomica
Crimson Glory Transcendence
Crimson Glory Crimson Glory
Cripper Hyena
Cripper Follow Me: Kill!
Crippled Black Phoenix (Mankind) The Crafty Ape
CrossChains Deathgrip
Crosses Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.
Crossfade We All Bleed
Crown the Empire Retrograde
Cruciamentum Obsidian Refractions
Cruel Black Dove Full Powers
Cruel Hand Your World Won't Listen
Cruskin Secrets in a Box
Crypt Sermon Out of the Garden
A solid recreation of traditional doom metallers Solitude Aeturnus' early sound, but not as interesting.
Cryptopsy None So Vile
Cryptopsy And Then You'll Beg
Cryptopsy Whisper Supremacy
Cryptopsy Once Was Not
Cryptopsy The Unspoken King
Cryptopsy None So Live
Cryptopsy As Gomorrah Burns
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles III
Crystal Fairy Crystal Fairy
Crystal Lake True North
Crystal Lake Helix
Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom
Cults Cults
Cunabula The Weight Of Sleep
Curses (USA) Chapter II: Bloom
Cyanotic MedPack Vol. 1
Cyberaktif eNdgame
Cybertoyz Chaos Theory [Remastered]
Cydemind The Descent
CygnosiC Risen
CygnosiC CygnosiC
Cyhra No Halos In Hell
Cymbals Eat Guitars Pretty Years
Cynic Re-Traced
Cynic The Portal Tapes
Cynthesis DeEvolution
Cyntia Live 2013
Cytotoxin Gammageddon
Czar (USA-IL) Czar
D.A.R.K. Science Agrees
Dream/Indie Pop featuring the bass player from The Smiths, the singer from The Cranberries and a songwriter/producer/DJ. It's kind of bland, but isn't bad.
D.R.I. 4 of a Kind
D.R.I. Definition
D.R.I. Full Speed Ahead
Daath The Hinderers
Daath The Concealers
Daath Daath
Daeva (USA-PA) Through Sheer Will And Black Magic…
Dagoba Dagoba
Dakhma (SUI) Blessings of Amurdad
Dalek From Filthy Tongue Of Gods And Griots
Dalek Abandoned Language
Dalek Absence
Dalek Gutter Tactics
Dalek Precipice
Damn the Machine Day One
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain
Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance
Dance Gavin Dance Happiness
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II
Dance Gavin Dance Mothership
Dance Gavin Dance Jackpot Juicer
Dangers Messy, Isn't It?
Daniel's Delusion Peace, Love & Harmony in the Midst of Chaos
Dark Divine Deadly Fun
Dark Fortress Spectres from the Old World
Dark Funeral We Are the Apocalypse
Dark Millennium Where Oceans Collide
Dark Tranquillity Live Damage
Darkane Layers of Lies
Darkane Expanding Senses
Darkane Demonic Art
Darkane The Sinister Supremacy
Darkane Layers of Live
Darkest Era Wither On The Vine
Darkest Hour Perpetual | Terminal
Darkseed Ultimate Darkness
Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger
Darkthrone Sardonic Wrath
Darkthrone Panzerfaust
Darkthrone Ravishing Grimness
Darkthrone Sempiternal Past - The Darkthrone Demos
Darkthrone Preparing for War
Darkthrone Arctic Thunder
Darkthrone Old Star
Darkwell Suspiria
Darkwoods My Betrothed Angel Of Carnage Unleashed
Darling Parade Darling Parade
Darling Parade Until We Say It's Over
Darling Parade What You Want
Darwin and the Dinosaur A Thousand Ships
Darzamat In the Flames of Black Art
Darzamat In The Opium Of Black Veil
Dashboard Confessional A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
Dashboard Confessional Dusk and Summer
Daughter Music From Before the Storm
Dave Rowntree Radio Songs
Chill electronic music with some very soothing vocals courtesy of (I'm guessing) Dave Rowntree. Has a very electro/ambient feel to the music with just a little bit of indie pop thrown in.
David Bowie Earthling
David Bowie Heathen
David Bowie Blackstar
David Maxim Micic ECO
Dawn Of Ashes The Crypt Injection
Dawn Of Ashes In The Acts of Violence
Dawn of Disease Worship the Grave
Dawn of Ouroboros Velvet Incandescence
Days of the New Days of the New
Dayseeker What It Means to Be Defeated (Deluxe)
Dayseeker Origin (Deluxe)
Dayseeker Dark Sun
De Profundis The Corruption of Virtue
Dead Kosmonaut Gravitas
Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning
Dead Letter Circus Dead Letter Circus (2018)
Dead on Mars Arrival
Really good music, but it needs some fucking vocals ;) I'm not looking for the extreme metal version of post rock, which is essentially what this is.
Dead Quiet IV
Dead Sara Dead Sara
Dead Sara Pleasure to Meet You
Dead To A Dying World Elegy
Dead/Awake Insurrectionist
Dead/Awake Melancholia
Deadborn Stigma Eternal
Deadlock The Arrival
Deadships The Darkness That Divides Us
Deafheaven New Bermuda
Deafheaven 10 Years Gone
Death Scream Bloody Gore
Death The Sound of Perseverance
Death Spiritual Healing
Death Leprosy
Death Angel Frolic Through the Park
Death Angel The Ultra-Violence
Death Angel The Art of Dying
Death Angel Killing Season
Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album
Death Cab for Cutie Asphalt Meadows
Death Design Vicious World
Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Death Grips Year of the Snitch
Death In Vegas Scorpio Rising
Death In Vegas Dead Elvis
Death In Vegas The Contino Sessions
Death In Vegas Satan's Circus
Death Perception Ashes
Death Therapy The Storm Before The Calm
death's dynamic shroud After Angel
DeathCollector Death's Toll
Deathevokation The Chalice Of Ages
Deathless Legacy Rituals of Black Magic
Deathrow (IT) Eerie Sound of the Slow Awakening
Some good, raw, old school black metal. Nothing really out of the ordinary, but it is well done.
Deathspell Omega Kenose
Deathspell Omega Si Monvmentvm Reqvires Circvmspice
Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia
Deathspell Omega The Long Defeat
Deathwhite Grey Everlasting
Decapitated Winds of Creation
Decapitated Nihility
Decapitated The Negation
Decline of the I Escape
Decline of the I Johannes
Decoherence Order
Deconstruction Deconstruction
Decree Wake Of Devastation
Dee Snider For The Love Of Metal
Deer Leap/The World Is A Beautiful Place... Are Here To Help You
Def Leppard High 'N' Dry
Def Leppard Adrenalize
Def Leppard Slang
Defamed Blackblood
Defeated Sanity Passages Into Deformity
Defeated Sanity Disposal Of The Dead // Dharmata
Defecto Duality
Deftones Adrenaline
Deha Averses
Deicide Scars of the Crucifix
Deicide Once Upon the Cross
Deitus Irreversible
Dekad Sin_Lab
Delain Lunar Prelude
This is Delain doing what they've always done. Mainstream female-fronted metal with a symphonic element. If you've liked them before you'll like them now... and the opposite is true, too.
Delain Moonbathers
Delerium Archives, Vol. 1
Delerium Archives, Vol. 2
Delerium Reflections II
Delerium Reflections I
Delerium Remixed: The Definitive Collection
Delerium Music Box Opera
Delight Breaking Ground
Demon Hunter Outlive
Demon Hunter Exile
Demon Lung The Hundredth Name
Demon Lung Pareidolia
Demonoid Riders of the Apocalypse
Dens Taming Tongues
Depeche Mode Exciter
Depeche Mode A Broken Frame
Depeche Mode Construction Time Again
Depeche Mode Catching Up with Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode Remixes 2: 81-11
Depeche Mode Delta Machine
Depeche Mode Policy of Truth
Depeche Mode Spirit
Descending Enter Annihilation
Design the Void Ebon Soul
Desolated The End
Kind of a more dynamic version of Hatebreed... but not much more dynamic.
Despite Synergy
Dessa Parts of Speech
Destrage Are You Kidding Me? No.
This is some strange, noisy, technical metal. The music is all over the place, but never seems to veer out of control. The biggest hurdle to enjoying the album is the vocals. The death metal vocals are fine, the Devin Townsend-ish metal vocals are fine -- but those screeches make it hard for me to ever come back to this.
Destrage A Means to No End
Destrage So much. Too much.
Destruction The Antichrist
Destruction Inventor of Evil
Destruction Diabolical
Destry Waiting On An Island
Destry It Goes On
Desultory Bitterness
Detroit Diesel Terre Humaine
Detroit Diesel Coup d'Etat
Devastating Enemy The Gods Of Reason
Devastator (UK) Conjurers of Cruelty
Devil Master Ecstasies of Never Ending Night
Devil Sold His Soul A Fragile Hope
DevilDriver DevilDriver
DevilDriver Pray for Villains
DevilDriver Beast
DevilDriver Dealing With Demons I
Devin Townsend Physicist
Devin Townsend Order of Magnitude - Empath Live Volume 1
Devin Townsend Devolution #2: Galactic Quarantine
Devin Townsend Project Ki
Devin Townsend Project Ghost
Devin Townsend Project Z2
DGM FrAme
DGM Momentum
DGM Tragic Separation
Diabolical Eclipse
Diabulus in Musica Argia
Solid symphonic metal -- very similar to old school Epica. Symphonic elements, choirs, death vocals, female vocals, folky sections, power metal sections. Nothing wrong with this at all.
Diabulus in Musica Euphonic Entropy
Diary of Dreams Freak Perfume
Diary of Dreams Nigredo
Diary of Dreams Moments Of Bloom
Diary of Dreams The Anatomy Of Silence
Diary of Dreams Elegies in Darkness
Dido Life For Rent
Die Krupps II - The Final Option
Die Krupps Rings of Steel
Die Krupps Paradise Now
Die Krupps Too Much History (The Electro Years)
Die Krupps Too Much History (The Metal Years)
Die Sektor To Be Fed Upon
Die Sektor The final electro solution
Dieselboy The Sixth Session
Dimmu Borgir For All Tid
Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst
Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst MMV
Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli
Dimmu Borgir Forces of the Northern Night
Dinosaur Jr. Where You Been
Dinosaur Jr. Without a Sound
Dinosaur Jr. I Bet on Sky
Dinosaur Jr. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not
Dinosaur Jr. Sweep It Into Space
Dir En Grey Phalaris
Direct Hit! Wasted Mind
Dirty Heads Dirty Heads
Dirty Wolves Creation & Chaos
Disarmonia Mundi Fragments Of D-Generation
Disarmonia Mundi Mind Tricks
Disarmonia Mundi Nebularium
Disarmonia Mundi Nebularium + The Restless Memoirs EP
Disharmonic Orchestra Not to be Undimensional Conscious
Dismantled The Hero
Dismember Like an Ever Flowing Stream
Dismember Death Metal
Dismember Hate Campaign
Dismember Dismember
Dismyth Forest Of The Sorrow
Disperse Journey Through The Hidden Gardens
Disperse Living Mirrors
Disperse Foreword
Dissection The Somberlain
Dissimulator (CAN) Lower Form Resistance
Distant Aeons of Oblivion
Distention Nothing Comes From Death
Distinguisher What's Left of Us
Distorted Memorial
Disturbed Believe
Disturbed The Lost Children
Disturbed Live at Red Rocks
Divided Multitude Feed On Your Misery
Divided Multitude Falling To Pieces
Divine Ascension As The Truth Appears
Divine Heresy Bringer of Plagues
Divinity Compromised A World Torn
DJ Ferret Noir: Smooth Female Trip Hop
DJ Shadow Scale It Back
DJ Spooky Songs Of A Dead Dreamer
DJ Spooky Optometry
DJ Spooky The Secret Song
DJ Spooky The Wind Up
Dodecahedron Dodecahedron
Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current
Dogstar Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees
Doll Skin Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Dolores Haze The Haze Is Forever
Domina Noctis Second Rose
Domination Campaign A Storm Of Steel
Don't Sleep Promise Made
Dool Summerland
Doom VS Aeternum Vale
DorDeDuh Har
Doro Force Majeure
Doro Fear No Evil
Doro 25 Years in Rock
Doro Classic Diamonds
Doro Raise Your Fist
Doro Powerful Passionate Favorites
It's solid 80s rock. Decent selection of songs.
DOROTHY ROCKISDEAD
Dorthia Cottrell Dorthia Cottrell
Downfall of Gaia Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes
Downfall of Gaia Ethic of Radical Finitude
Downfall of Gaia Silhouettes Of Disgust
Download Effector
Download III
Download Furnace
Download Microscopic
Download Furnace Re:Dux
Draconian Where Lovers Mourn
Draconian The Burning Halo
Dragoncorpse The Drakketh Saga
Dragonette Royal Blues
DragonForce Valley of the Damned
DragonForce Sonic Firestorm
DragonForce Inhuman Rampage
Dragonland The Power of the Nightstar
Dragonlord Rapture
Drautran Throne of the Depths
Dream Evil SIX
Dream On Dreamer What If I Told You It Doesn't Get Better
Dream Theater A Change of Seasons
Dream Theater Live at the Marquee
Dream Theater Awake Demos
Dream Theater Images and Words: Live in Tokyo
Dream Theater Images & Words: Live in Japan - 2017
Dream Unending Tide Turns Eternal
Dream Unending Song of Salvation
Dreamcatcher (KR) Dystopia : Road to Utopia
Dreamcatcher (KR) Apocalypse : Save Us
Dreamgrave Presentiment
Symphonic death metal with Male/female vocals and a prominent Dream Theater influence. Not as good (or just as horrible, depending on your mood) as that might sound.
Dropkick Murphys Do or Die
Dropkick Murphys Sing Loud, Sing Proud!
Dropkick Murphys The Gang's All Here
Dropkick Murphys The Singles Collection, Vol. 1
Drott Troll
Drown Product Of A Two Faced World
Drowse Wane into It
Drudkh Autumn Aurora
Drudkh The Swan Road
Dry The River Shallow Bed
Dryad The Abyssal Plain
Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia
Duran Duran Danse Macabre
Dust Bolt Sound & Fury
Dust In Mind CTRL
Dust Moth Scale
Dwell (NC) Innate
Dying Wish Fragments of a Bitter Memory
Dying Wish Symptoms of Survival
Dysrhythmia The Veil Of Control
Dysylumn Occultation
E-Force The Curse
A very punky, gritty, thrash album from Voivod's 'other' vocalist. The vocals on this album kind of remind me of Chuck Schuldiner. Now that I think of it, there's definitely a little of that Spiritual Healing vibe too.
E-Force Demonikhol
Featuring the dude that filled-in for the dudes that had left Voivod. Good, no-frills thrash.
Earth Crisis Destroy the Machines
Earth Crisis To the Death
Earth Crisis Neutralize the Threat
Earth Groans The Body
Earth Science In arcadia
Earth Ship Hollowed
Earthless Night Parade of One Hundred Demons
Echoes of Eternity As Shadows Burn
This was a surprise. Their first album was boring and kind of bland. The vocals were mixed too high and the riffs sucked. Now they're suddenly writing decent and chunky riffs and have even thrown some aggression into the later tracks. The female vocals also don't dominate the music anymore. This is one of the better gothic metal albums I've heard this year... could eventually be a 3.5
Echosmith Lonely Generation
Echosmith Echosmith
Edenbridge The Bonding
Edenbridge The Great Momentum
Another average symphonic metal album from this band. It's as good as every other Edenbridge release... take that for whatever it's worth.
Edenbridge The Chronicles Of Eden - Part 2
Edge Of Paradise Universe
Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow
Edge of Sanity When All Is Said
Edge of Sanity Until Eternity Ends
Edge of Sanity Kur-Nu-Gi-A 2012
Edguy Monuments
Editors The Back Room
Ego Likeness Compass EPs
Eigenstate Zero Sensory Deception
Ein Lethargic Breakthrough
Einherjer North Star
Eisige Venen Ghosts of Yesterday
Eisley Fire Kite EP
Eisley Head Against the Sky
Eisley Deep Space
Eivor Live
Elane Lore Of Nén
Elder (USA-MA) Dead Roots Stirring
Elder (USA-MA) Elder
Elder (USA-MA) Omens
Electric Callboy Bury Me in Fucking Vegas
Electric Callboy We Are the Mess
Electric Callboy The Scene
They've become too serious and formulaic. I know a lot of people disliked their previous album but I was a big fan of their mindless frat boy, directionless metalcore/pop. This one isn't nearly as good because it lacks the energy and aggression and humor.
Eleine We Shall Remain
Elemental Transcendence From Within the Earth
Elenika Shot Again!
Elenowen Pulling Back the Veil
Elenowen Elenowen
Elettra Storm Powerlords
Elevate: I am The Ghost Eclipse Sessions
Elis Catharsis
Ellende Ellenbogengesellschaft
Ellie Goulding Live At Amoeba
Ellie Goulding Halcyon
Ellie Goulding Higher Than Heaven
Ellise Chaotic (Live)
Eloa Vadaath Dead End Proclama
Elohim Journey to the Center of Myself, Vol. 4
Elysion Silent Scream
Elysion Bring Out Your Dead
EMA Exile In The Outer Ring
Emarosa This Is Your Way Out
Emarosa Versus
Emarosa Versus (Reimagined)
Emarosa 131
Embryonic Autopsy Prophecies of the Conjoined
Emigrate The Persistence of Memory
Emika Drop The Other
Emika Count Backwards
Emika Pretend/Professional Loving
Emiliana Torrini Fisherman's Woman
Emilie Simon Emilie Simon
Emilie Simon Vegetal
Emilie Simon L'Olympia [LIVE]
Emilie Simon Franky Knight
Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton What Is Free To A Good Home?
Emily Hearn Red Balloon
Emily Wells Promise
I really like the music and the vocals. It's some good trip hop-style stuff, but it all sounds the same by the end.
Eminem Encore
Eminem Recovery
Eminem Kamikaze
Eminence Dark Echoes
Eminentia Tenebris Rise of a New Kingdom
Emma Hewitt Colours
Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death
Emperor Reverence
Empires Orphan
Empress Reminiscence
Empress Premonition
Empress AD Still Life Moving Fast
The band kind of have a proggy post metal/hardcore thing going on, but seemed to have left the best elements of all three genres on the cutting room floor. Still not bad, but nothing too exciting.
Empress Of For Your Consideration
Empyreal My Own Living Hell
Empyrium Über den Sternen
Encephalon The Transhuman Condition
Encephalon Psychogenesis
Electro-industrial with one foot planted in the club scene. Good stuff.
Encephalon Surfacer
END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face
END (USA-NJ) The Sin of Human Frailty
End Amen Your Last Orison
End of Green Void Estate
Endless Cycle Into The Opaque
Enfold Darkness Adversary Omnipotent
Enigma The Screen Behind the Mirror
Enslaved Frost
Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi
Enslaved Hordanes Land
Enslaved Vertebrae
Enslaved The Sleeping Gods – Thorn
Enslaved Roadburn Live
Enter Shikari Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
Entering Polaris Godseed
Kind of a blend of metalcore, progressive metal, and traditional heavy metal. All the genres work well except for the pitchy prog vocals. They don't entire destroy the songs, but they definitely diminish the quality.
Enterprise Earth Embodiment
Enterprise Earth The Chosen
Enterprise Earth Death: An Anthology
Enthean Priests of Annihilation
Decent black metal band. They're pretty much going at it by the numbers, but they're good at following a blueprint.
Enthroned Tetra Karcist
Enthroned Prophecies of Pagan Fire
Entombed Left Hand Path
Entombed Serpent Saints: The Ten Amendments
Entombed Wolverine Blues
Entombed When in Sodom
Entropia (PL) Total
Envinya Inner Silence
Enya Amarantine
Enya And Winter Came...
Epica The Phantom Agony
Epica The Classical Conspiracy
Epica The Score: An Epic Journey
Equilibrium Turis Fratyr
Equilibrium Sagas
Equilibrium Demo 2003
Eradikated Descendants
Erdve Vaitojimas
Erdve Savigaila
Erebos (POL) Pesta kommer
Erika Spring EP
Erin Martin Marianne EP
Esben and the Witch Hold Sacred
Escape From Wonderland Pieces
Eshtadur From the Abyss
Esoctrilihum Consecration of the Spiritus Flesh
Esoctrilihum Funeral
Esoctrilihum Astraal Constellations of the Majickal Zodiac
Esoteric Subconscious Dissolution Into the...
Esoteric Esoteric Emotions - The Death of Ignorance
Esoteric A Pyrrhic Existence
Essence of Mind Try and Fail
Esthero Wikked Lil Grrrls
Eternal Deformity Frozen Circus
Eternal Deformity The Serpent Design
Eternal Deformity In the Abyss of Dreams ... Furious Memories
Eternal Lies Burning the Nest
Eternal Tears of Sorrow Saivon Lapsi
Eternal Void Catharsis (Reissue)
Ether Aura Crash
Ether Coven The Relationship Between the Hammer and the Nail
Etherius Chaos. Order. Renewal.
Etta Marcus The Death Of Summer And Other Promises
Euclid Revilement
Eux Autres Broken Bow
Eux Autres Cold City
Evanescence Fallen
Evanescence Anywhere But Home
Evanescence The Open Door
Evanescence Evanescence
Evanescence Lost Whispers
Evereve Tried and Failed
Evergrey Live: Before the Aftermath
Evergrey A Heartless Portrait (The Orphéan Testament)
Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon
Every Time I Die Hot Damn!
Every Time I Die The Big Dirty
Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic
Every Time I Die Radical
Everybody Loves Irene The Very First Thing You Must Learn About Flying..
Everything But the Girl Fuse
Evils Toy Morbid Mind
Evoken Shades of Night Descending
Evolett For Your Consideration
Ex Deo Romulus
Ex Deo Caligvla
Ex Libris Amygdala
Execution Day HEAL
Exhorder Mourn the Southern Skies
Exhorder Defectum Omnium
Exit Eden Rhapsodies In Black
Exit Ten Remember The Day
Exit Ten Give Me Infinity
Exivious Exivious
Exocrine The Hybrid Suns
Exodus Live at the DNA 2004
Exodus Persona Non Grata
Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...
Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence
Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Extreme Extreme II: Pornograffitti
Extreme III Sides to Every Story
Extreme Extreme
Extreme Six
Extreme Cold Winter World Exit
Exxasens Revolution
Eye Empire Moment of Impact
Eye of Purgatory The Lighthouse
Eyefear A World Full of Grey
Face to Face Face to Face
Face to Face Ignorance Is Bliss
Face to Face Reactionary
Face to Face How to Ruin Everything
Face to Face Laugh Now, Laugh Later
Face to Face Protection
I'm not overly familiar with this band, but their new album is basically just well-played modern punk rock.
Face to Face No Way Out But Through
Faceless Burial At The Foothills Of Deliration
Factory Of Dreams Melotronical
Fair to Midland The Carbon Copy Silver Lining
Faith No More This Is It: The Best of Faith No More
Faithful Darkness In Shadows Lies Utopia
Fall Out Boy So Much (For) Stardust
Fallcie Bad Blood
Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology
Falls of Rauros Key to a Vanishing Future
False Memories The Last Night Of Fall
Famous Last Words The Incubus
Fange Pantocrator
Fantomas The Director's Cut
Fantomas Fantômas
Fantomas Suspended Animation
Fantomas The Director's Cut Live: A New Year's Revolution
Far Listening Game
Far Beyond Frail A girl, almost
Fatboy Slim Better Living Through Chemistry
Fates Warning Night on Brocken
Fates Warning's debut album written long before Frank Aresti, Mark Zonder or Ray Alder were in the band. It is a rough representation of what they would become by the release of "Awaken the Guardian". This has its proggy moments but is more entrenched in the metal of the time. Its a good album if you're looking for old school metal, and the song "Damnation" is almost worth getting the album for all by itself.
Fates Warning A Pleasant Shade of Gray
Fates Warning The View from Here
Fates Warning Still Life
Fates Warning Chasing Time
Father Befouled Desolate Gods
Fathomless Ritual Hymns for the Lesser Gods
Fauna Twin The Hydra EP
Fear Factory Hatefiles
Fear Me December Between Violence and Silence
Fear of God Within the Veil
Fear of Men Fall Forever
Feared Feared
Feared Rejects
Fei-Fei All Day I Dream
Feist Metals
Felled The Intimate Earth
Fellwarden Wreathed in Mourncloud
Fen The Malediction Fields
Fen Epoch
Fen Dustwalker
Feral Season Rotting Body in the Range of Light
Fever Ray Fever Ray
FFE You Met Me a Strange Time
Field Mouse Hold Still Life
Field Mouse Meaning
Fierce Atmospheres The Speed of Dreams
Fifth Angel When Angels Kill
Figures Operating In Unsafe Mode
Filter Short Bus
Final Coil The World We Inherited
Final Void Visions of Fear
Finch Finch
Finnr's Cane Elegy
Finntroll Blodsvept
Finsterforst Zum Tode Hin
Finsterforst Zerfall
Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Firewind Stand United
First Aid Kit The Big Black & the Blue
First Aid Kit Stay Gold
Melodic indie pop with a bit of a folky twinge. It's enjoyable when I'm looking for something in the vein. The two sisters can definitely sing.
First Aid Kit Palomino
Firtan Okeanos
Fit for a King Creation | Destruction
Fit for a King Descendants (Redux)
Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds
Fjoergyn Lucifer Es
Flaming Wrekage Cathedral Of Bones
Fleurie Supertropicali
Floating Me Floating Me
Flock of Dimes Head of Roses: Phantom Limb
Floor Jansen Paragon
I'm a fan of Floor Jansen the vocalist, but not Floor Jansen the studio artist. That includes After Forever, Revamp, Nightwish, and now this. I just can't get into her studio outputs, but love her voice and most her live stuff. Anyway, this is AOR (adult oriented rock) for the Beste Zangers / Sing Meinen Song crowd. It's not bad, and she's great as always but I just can't get into it. Not bad, though.
Florence and the Machine Lungs
Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
This is still good, but I'm definitely a bigger fan of the electronic stuff.
Florence and the Machine Songs From Final Fantasy XV
Florence and the Machine High as Hope
Flotsam and Jetsam High
Flotsam and Jetsam Once in a Deathtime
Flowing Tears Jade
Fluke Puppy
Fluke Six Wheels On My Wagon
Fluke Oto
FlyKKiller Experiments In Violent Light
Flyleaf Remember to Live
Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 2
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape
Foo Fighters In Your Honor
Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose
Foo Fighters One by One
Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Foo Fighters Wasting Light
Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold
For All Eternity For All Eternity
For Today Breaker
Forbidden Forbidden Evil
Forbidden Twisted into Form
Forbidden Omega Wave
Foreboding Ether Dunamis
Forever Still Tied Down
Forgetting The Memories Vemod
Forlesen Black Terrain
Forlorn Path Man's Last Portrait
Interesting debut. An entertaining blend of black metal and doom, but it lacking the flair needed to take it to the next level.
Forndom Faþir
Forsaken Dominaeon
Foscor Groans to the Guilty
Foscor Those Horrors Wither
Four Stroke Baron Classics
Fractal Gates Beyond The Self
Fractal Mirror Beyond Borders
Fractal Universe Rhizomes of Insanity
Fractal Universe The Impassable Horizon
Frail Body Artificial Bouquet
Frames In Via
Frayle 1692
FRCTRD Somehow // Somewhere
French Teen Idol Four Three Three
Front 242 Geography
Front 242 Live Code
Front 242 No Comment
Front 242 Official Version
Front 242 Headhunter 2000
Front Line Assembly FLAvour of the Weak
Front Line Assembly Epitaph
Front Line Assembly Implode
Front Line Assembly Civilization
Front Line Assembly Re-Wind
Front Line Assembly AirMech
Front Line Assembly Echogenetic
Front Line Assembly Live
Front Line Assembly Circuitry
Front Line Assembly Plasticity
Front Line Assembly Prophecy
Front Line Assembly Wake Up the Coma
Frost Giant The Harlot Star
Frozen Soul Crypt Of Ice
Fu Manchu Clone of the Universe
Fudge Tunnel Creep Diets
Fuel Something Like Human
Fuel Natural Selection
Fugazi End Hits
Fugazi The Argument
Fugazi Steady Diet of Nothing
Fugazi Red Medicine
Full Devil Jacket Full Devil Jacket
Funeral Tragedies
Funeral As The Light Does The Shadow
Funeral Oratorium
Funeral Club Waves & Waves
Funeral for a Friend Final Hours at Hammersmith
Funeral for a Friend Memory and Humanity
Funeral for a Friend Chapter and Verse
This band has really changed their sound since 'Hours'. They've moved in a much more hardcore style of music. It's not bad but it definitely isn't as good as their earlier releases... and the vocals are definitely worse these days.r
Furor Gallico Future to come
Further Seems Forever How to Start a Fire
Further Seems Forever Penny Black
I thought I’d hate this release. I hate Dashboard Confessional’s incessant whining, and I don’t particularly like this band’s debut album either (which also featured this vocalist… in case you can’t connect the dots). I also loved their last album with their previous vocalist, and the slick alternative sound that they were using. Well, it turns out that I had nothing to worry about. Slick alt. rock with a vocalist that somehow managed to keep his tears off the microphone.
Gaahls Wyrd GastiR - Ghosts Invited
Gabrielle Aplin Home
Gabrielle Aplin Light Up The Dark
Gabrielle Aplin Miss You
Gabrielle Aplin phosphorescent
Not as generic, soulless, and over-produced as Dear Happy or Light Up the Dark, but it is still in the same vein. If there's one thing to be said, it's that this album at least almost feels like the same singer that released those endearing EPs all those years ago.
Gama Bomb Bats
Gamma Ray Majestic
Gamma Ray Power Plant
Gamma Ray Land of the Free II
Gamma Ray Master of Confusion
Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness
Garbage Garbage
Garbage Bleed Like Me
Garden of Shadows Oracle Moon
Gary Numan Savage (Songs from a Broken World)
Gates (USA-NJ) The Sun Will Rise and Lead Me Home
Gates (USA-NJ) Parallel Lives
Gates of Ishtar The Dawn of Flames
Gates to the Morning Return To Earth
Gatherers We Are Alive Beyond Repair
Gemini Syndrome Memento Mori
Gemini Syndrome 3rd Degree - The Raising
Gemma Ray The Leader
Gemma Ray The Exodus Suite
GENA Slow Day
Generation Kill MKUltra
Genius Hired Guns Dutch Mafia
Gentle Knife Gentle Knife
Gentle Knife Clock Unwound - Gentle Knife II
Gevurah Hallelujah!
Gevurah Gehinnom
GGU:LL Ex Est
Ghost (SWE) Meliora
I've never bothered with these guys before and they definitely don't sound like I expected. Kind of proggy, 70s rock with a bit of Angel Rat Voivod thrown in. I like it.r
Ghost Atlas Gold Soul Coma
Ghost Atlas All Is in Sync...
Ghost Bath Moonlover
Ghost Brigade Guided By Fire
Ghost Brigade Isolation Songs
Ghost Iris Comatose
Ghost Key The Things I Am Not
Ghost Toast Shape Without Form
Ghoul Dungeon Bastards
Ghum Bitter
Gideon Costs
Gideon Calloused
Gigan Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescence
Gin Wigmore Blood To Bone
Gin Wigmore iTunes Session
Gladenfold Nemesis
Glae Deception
Glascow Coma Scale Apophenia
Electronic-based post rock. Very smooth, melodic,upbeat and easy to get into.
Glass Animals How To Be A Human Being
Glasser Interiors
Glassing Twin Dream
Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles)
Gloria Morti Lifestream Corrosion
Gloria Morti Lateral Constraint
Gloson The Rift
Gloves Off Life...And Everything After
Goatess Goatess
God Complex To Decay In A Deathless World
God Dethroned Lair of the White Worm
God Dethroned Into The Lungs Of Hell
God Dethroned Passiondale
God Dethroned Bloody Blasphemy
God Dethroned The World Ablaze
God Dethroned Illuminati
God Is an Astronaut A Moment of Stillness
God Is an Astronaut Far from Refuge
God Is an Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun
God Is an Astronaut Origins
God Is an Astronaut Helios/Erebus
These guys haven't done anything really different or new since their second album. Not bad, but no different than anything else they've done since 2007.
God Lives Underwater Up Off the Floor
Godflesh Godflesh
Godflesh Cold World
Godflesh Love and Hate in Dub
Godflesh Purge
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers
Gojira The Link Alive
Gold Motel Summer House
Goldie Goldie.co.uk
Gonemage Astral Corridors
Goo Goo Dolls Goo Goo Dolls
Goo Goo Dolls Something for the Rest of Us
Goo Goo Dolls Magnetic
Good Charlotte The Young And The Hopeless
Good Charlotte Youth Authority
Good Tiger Raised in a Doomsday Cult
Gordian Knot Gordian Knot
Gorefest Mindloss
Gorefest Rise To Ruin
Gorguts Considered Dead
Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity
Gorod Leading Vision
Gospelheim Gospelheim
Gossip A Joyful Noise
Grace Valhalla summerCamp
Grace Valhalla PEAK
GRAE Whiplash
Grave Digger Let Your Heads Roll: The Very Best Of The Noise
Graveworm Underneath the Crescent Moon
Graveyard Club Moonflower
GraVil No More Forgiveness
Gravity Kills superstarved
Grayscale Nella Vita
Great American Ghost Power Through Terror
Green Day International Superhits
Green Day Nimrod
Green Day Insomniac
Green Day American Idiot
Green Day 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours
Green Day Shenanigans
Green Day 39/Smooth
Green Day Revolution Radio
Green Magnet School Blood Music
Greenleaf Agents of Ahriman
Greenleaf Secret Alphabets
Greenleaf Revolution Rock
Greenleaf Echoes From a Mass
Greg Dulli Amber Headlights
Grendel (NL) Chemicals + Circuitry
Grendel (NL) Timewave Zero
Grey Skies Fallen The Many Sides of Truth
At its core, The Many Sides of Truth is one of those atmospheric metal albums similar to Atoma or Mar De Grises. It spends a lot of its time using lethargic tempos and droning vocals, but there are other facets as well. There is just the slightest hints of black and progressive metal littered throughout the songs’ extended run times to keep things from bogging down and the listener from tuning out. Some of the clean vocals take some getting used to, but otherwise the album is excellent.
Greyhaven Empty Black
Greyhaven This Bright and Beautiful World
Greylotus Dawnfall
GridLink Coronet Juniper
Grin Translucent Blades
Grip Inc. Incorporated
Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée...
Groove Armada Love Box
Gruntruck Gruntruck
Gus G. Quantum Leap
Haar Ouroboros
Haemorrhage We Are the Gore
Hail Spirit Noir Eden In Reverse
Haken Aquarius
Haken Visions
Haken Affinity
Djenty Dream Theater with a bit of a modern prog sound. The vocals are really what keeps me from really appreciating the album; they just don't have any energy. I like the instrumental disc 2 version of the album much more.
Haley Bonar Impossible Dream
Half Waif The Caretaker
Hallas Isle of Wisdom
Hallatar No Stars Upon the Bridge
Hallig 13 Keys to Lunacy
Halou Sawtooth
Halou Halou
Halou Wiser
Hana Hana
Hands Like Houses Ground Dweller
Handsome Ghost The Brilliant Glow
Hangman's Chair A Loner
Hannah Diamond Perfect Picture
Hanne Hukkelberg Birthmark
Happy Sometimes Video Tapes
Hark Machinations
Harmed From Day One
Hate Morphosis
Hatebreed Perseverance
Hatebreed Rise of Brutality
Hatebreed The Concrete Confessional
Hatebreed Weight of the False Self
Hateform Origins of Plague
Haujobb Polarity
Haujobb Solutions for a Small Planet
Haujobb New World March
Haujobb Ninetynine
Haunted Horses The Worst has Finally Happened
Haushetaere Syndicate
Havok Conformicide
Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely
Hayley Mary The Piss, The Perfume
Hayley Westenra Hayley Westenra
Hayvanlar Alemi Psychedelia in Times of Turbulence
He Is Legend White Bat
He Is Legend Endless Hallway
Head Control System Murder Nature
Headspace I Am
Heart Healer The Metal Opera by Magnus Karlsson
Heathen Victims of Deception
Heathen The Evolution of Chaos
Heaven Shall Burn In Battle There Is No Law
Heaven Shall Burn Asunder
Heaven's Cry Outcast
Heavy Gus Notions
Heidevolk Wederkeer
Heights Dead Ends
Heilung Drif
Helen Money Become Zero
Helen Money Atomic
Helfro Helfro
Heliotropes Over There That Way
Helloween Walls of Jericho
Helloween Master of the Rings
Helloween Pink Bubbles Go Ape
Helloween Treasure Chest
Hellyeah Blood for Blood
Never bothered with these guys before. This is some good no-frills metal.
Helmet Size Matters
Helmet Dead To The World
Helmet Live and Rare
Helms Alee Keep This Be the Way
Helstar Nosferatu
Helstar Remnants of War
Helstar 30 Years of Hel
Hemelbestormer & Vanessa Van Basten Hemelbestormer & Vanessa Van Basten
Hemina Synthetic
Hemina Romancing the Ether
Herod Iconoclast
Hexvessel When We Are Death
Finnish psychedelic folk rock. It's good, but not really my thing.
Hexvessel Kindred
Hexvessel Polar Veil
High Spirits Safe on the Other Side
Highway Sniper The Great Satan
Hikes Lilt
Hinds The Prettiest Curse
Hocico Sangre Hirviente
Hocico Aquí Y Ahora En El Silencio
Hocico El Dia de la Ira
Hocico Hate Never Dies Vol. 2
Hocico Hate Never Dies Vol. 3
Holding Absence The Noble Art of Self-Destruction
Hollow Earth Dead Planet
Holly Henry The Immigrant
Indie pop from a contestant on The Voice. It's good, but nothing special.
Holly Humberstone The Walls Are Way Too Thin
Holly McNarland Chin Up Buttercup
Holly McNarland Stuff
Holly McNarland Run Body Run
Holly Miranda Mutual Horse
Holy Moses Terminal Terror
Holy Moses Reborn Dogs
Holy Serpent Endless
Hoobastank Hoobastank
Hoobastank For(N)ever
Hoobastank Fight or Flight
It's another Hoobastank album -- no better and no worse than anything else they've ever done.
Hooverphonic The Night Before
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions Bavarian Fruit Bread
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions Until The Hunter
Hopeless Youth Disgust
Kind of a modern metal/ post hardcore kind of sound. It's good but nothing special.
Hopesfall Arbiter
Horrendous Ontological Mysterium
Horseneck Heavy Trip
Hour of Lead Hour Of Lead
Hour of Penance Misotheism
Howling Giant Glass Future
Hukutus Oksitosiini
Hum Inlet
Humanity's Last Breath Ashen
Hundred Reasons Kill Your Own
Hungry Lucy To Kill a King
Hunter Valentine Impatient Romantic
Huntsmen American Scrap
Huntsmen Mandala of Fear
Huracan We Are Very Happy
Hyborian Volume II
Hybrid (UK) Morning Sci-Fi
Hybrid (UK) Y4K
Hydria Mirror of Tears
Hyperdump Rational Pain
Hypno5e Manuscrit cote ms408
Hypocrisy The Arrival
Hypocrisy Into the Abyss
I Break Horses Hearts
I Was Totally Destroying It Vexations
I Was Totally Destroying It Preludes
I Was Totally Destroying It The Beached Margin/Done Waiting
I, The Lion Run
I:Scintilla Havestar EP
I:Scintilla The Approach
I:Scintilla Prey On You EP
I:Scintilla Dying and Falling
iamthemorning ~
iamthemorning MISCELLANY
iamthemorning Belighted
iamthemorning Lighthouse
iamthemorning From the House of Arts
Ibaraki Rashomon
Ibeyi Spell 31
Icarus Witch No Devil Lived On
Ice Nine Kills Safe Is Just a Shadow
Ice Nine Kills The Predator
Ice Nine Kills The Predator Becomes the Prey
Ice Nine Kills Safe Is Just a Shadow (Rerecorded)
Iceburn Asclepius
Iced Earth Night of the Stormrider
Iced Earth The Dark Saga
Iced Earth Days of Purgatory
Iced Earth The Blessed and the Damned
Iced Earth The Crucible of Man
Not terrible. At least it was slightly different (for Iced Earth).
Iced Earth The Melancholy EP
Iced Earth Festivals of the Wicked
Iced Earth Dystopia
Iced Earth Incorruptible
It's Iced Earth doing what Iced Earth has always done. It's never bad, but it's definitely not exciting anymore.
IDLES Crawler
If These Trees Could Talk The Bones of a Dying World
Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion
Ihsahn angL
Ihsahn Das Seelenbrechen
I've never been a huge fan of his solo stuff, but I've never disliked any of his stuff either. This one is too proggy and abstract for me.
Ihsahn Arktis.
Ikuinen Kaamos The Lands Of The Plague
This is one excellent black metal release. I can't believe that this is only a demo. The music is flawless and fast as hell. It also has a raw sound, but a good production (if that makes any sense). Despite being old and a demo, the musicianship this band is known for is still on display all over the place. I can't find this for sale anywhere and it's not even mentioned on the band's website so find this any way you can... and someone write a review for it ;)
Ikuinen Kaamos Fall of Icons
Illdisposed Grey Sky Over Black Town
Illenium Illenium
Illusion Suite Iron Cemetery
Imminent Sonic Destruction The Sun Will Always Set
Immolation Atonement
Immortal Pure Holocaust
Immortal Battles in the North
Immortal Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism
Impaled Nazarene Absence of War Does Not Mean Peace
Impaled Nazarene Pro Patria Finlandia
Impaled Nazarene Latex Cult
Impaled Nazarene Eight Headed Serpent
Imperative Reaction As We Fall
Imperial Crystalline Entombment Ancient Glacial Resurgence
Imperial Teen Feel the Sound
Imperial Teen On
Imperium Titanomachy
Imperium Dekadenz Dis Manibvs
Very solid, ultra-melodic death/black metal, but it's totally by the numbers. I have enough of this floating around my computer without adding another variation of the same melody.
Impetuous Ritual Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis
In Fear and Faith Imperial
In Fear and Faith In Fear and Faith
In Flames Lunar Strain
In Flames Subterranean
In Flames I, the Mask
In Flames Clayman (20th Anniversary Edition)
In Hearts Wake Ark
In Mourning Afterglow
These guys have always kind of bored me. They like to try out different sounds (Opeth) and styles (Post Metal-ish) depending on the album, but they never get very interesting.
In Strict Confidence La Parade Monstrueuse
In The Burial Lamentations: Of Deceit & Redemption
In The Nursery Praxis
In The Nursery Cause and Effect
In The Nursery Man With a Movie Camera
In The Nursery Asphalt
In The Nursery Stormhorse
In The Nursery The Cabinet Of Doctor Caligari
In The Nursery The Passion of Joan of Arc
In The Nursery Live at Camden Palace 1990
In the Woods... Diversum
In This Moment The Dream
In This Moment A Star-Crossed Wasteland
In This Moment Blood
In This Moment Black Widow
In White Heredity
In-Quest Made Out of Negative Matter
Incantation Dirges of Elysium
Another predictable, but well-done, doom/death release from Incantation. Vallenfyre just did the same thing, but better.
Incantation Profane Nexus
Incendiary Crusade
Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder...
Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus
Incubus (USA-CA) Live in Japan 2004
Incubus (USA-CA) Live in Sweden 2004
Incubus (USA-CA) Live in Malaysia 2004
Inculter Morbid Origin
Indigo Sparke Hysteria
Induction The Power of Power
Inexorum Moonlit Navigation
Infected Rain Ecdysis
Infectious Grooves The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move
Inferi (USA) Of Sunless Realms
Informatik Beyond
Ingested Ashes Lie Still
Inglorious II
Ingrid Michaelson Girls And Boys
Ingrid Michaelson Be OK
Ingurgitating Oblivion Vision Wallows In Symphonies Of Light
InMe Herald Moth
InMe Phoenix: The Best of InMe
InMe The Pride
Insect Ark The Vanishing
Insense Burn in Beautiful Fire
Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting
Insomnium Where the Last Wave Broke EP
Integrity Howling, For the Nightmare Shall Consume
Inter Arma Sky Burial
Inter Arma Paradise Gallows
Intestine Baalism Banquet in the Darkness
Into Eternity The Sirens
Intohimo Us, the Hollows
Intronaut Valley of Smoke
Intronaut Habitual Levitations
Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions
Inverloch Distance | Collapsed
Dark, heavy funeral doom with bouts of death metal. A little too two-dimensional for me to sit though, though.
InVisions Deadlock
Invoking the Abstract Aural Kaliedoscopes
Invultation Feral Legion
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden Killers
Iron Maiden Death on the Road
Iron Maiden A Real Live Dead One
Iron Maiden A Real Live One
Irreversible Mechanism Immersion
Isa Chimera
Isadora Eden Forget What Makes It Glow
ISIS Panopticon
ISIS The Red Sea
ISIS Celestial
ISIS SGNL>05
ISIS Live 5
ISIS Live 4
ISIS Live 3
ISIS Live 2
ISIS Live 6 (11/16/2007)
Isole Born from Shadows
Isole Dystopia
IWR Cold Asylum
Izegrim Code of Consequences
Jack's Mannequin People and Things
Jackie Oates Hyperboreans
Jackie Oates Saturnine
Jacquie Lee The Complete Season 5 Collection
Jaded Heart Heart Attack
Jag Panzer The Hallowed
Jakalope It Dreams
Jakalope Born 4
James LaBrie Prime Cuts
Jamila Woods Water Made Us
Jane's Addiction Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction Kettle Whistle
Jane's Addiction The Great Escape Artist
Jasmine Thompson Bundle of Tantrums
Jasmine Thompson Another Bundle of Tantrums
Jason Bieler and the Baron Von Bielski Orchestra Heathens
Jasta Jasta
Jawbox Novelty
Jayda G Guy
Jenifer Mclaren Night Light
Jenna Lynne Understand
Jennifer Terran Live From Painted Cave
Jennifer Terran The Musician
Jenny Lewis The Voyager
It's not bad. I don't really hear anything special in this. Basically, it's just pop/pop rock without any defining characteristics.
JENX Enuma Elish
Jernlov Resurrection
Jess Williamson Native State
The best thing this has going for it is that at first glance that album cover totally looks like something else is going on. Otherwise, this is just good, mellow, indie folk.
Jessica Harp A Woman Needs
Jessica Simpson Do You Know
Jessy Lanza Pull My Hair Back
Jessy Lanza Oh No
Jimmie's Chicken Shack Re.present
Jimmy Eat World Surviving
Jinjer Alive In Melbourne
Joe Satriani Is There Love In Space?
Joe Satriani Strange Beautiful Music
Joe Satriani Super Colossal
Joe Satriani Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani Dreaming #11
Joe Satriani Playlist: The Very Best Of Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani Shockwave Supernova
It's another Joe Satriani album. No surprises but still good.
Joey Cape Bridge
Joey Cape Stitch Puppy
Joey Cape Doesn't Play Well With Others
John Wesley Shiver
John Wesley Chasing Monsters
John Wesley The Closing Of Pale Blue Eyes
John Wesley Under The Red And White Sky
John Wesley The Emperor Falls
John Wesley The Lilypad Suite
John Wesley Live at Katie Fitzgerald's
John Wesley a way you'll never be
John Wesley Oxford
John-Allison Weiss Say What You Mean
Jojo Effect Not With Me
Jordfast Hädanefter
Jorja Smith Project 11
Jose Vanders Literature Lovers
Joseph I'm Alone, No You're Not
Journey Trial By Fire
Journey Infinity
Journey Journey
Journey Next
Journey Greatest Hits
Journey Frontiers
Journey Captured
Journey Time³
Joviac Here And Now
Judas Priest Stained Class
Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith
Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance
Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny
Judas Priest Sin After Sin
Judas Priest Ram It Down
Judas Priest Live in London
Judas Priest Metal Works '73-'93
Judas Priest The Single Cuts (Standard Edition)
Judas Priest Redeemer of Souls
It's a Judas Priest metal album. I've never really been a fan of anything other than Painkiller, so...
Judas Priest Firepower
Judicator Let There Be Nothing
Julee Cruise The Voice of Love
Jules Larson A Lot Like You
Jules Larson Let's Stay Young
Julia Stone Sixty Summers
Julien Baker Sprained Ankle
Juno Reactor Transmissions
Jupiter Zeus On Earth
Catchy psychedelic rock. Musically it is really good. I just wish the vocalist was a little more diverse.
K-X-P III Part 2
Lo-fi electronic post punk. I like the music, but only in short bursts because it's a bit too minimalistic and repetitive for me.
K. Flay Every Where Is Some Where
K. Flay Inside Voices / Outside Voices
Kaleikr Heart of Lead
Kalmah Seventh Swamphony
Kambrium Synthetic ERA
Kamelot The Black Halo
Kamelot Silverthorn
Kamelot The Shadow Theory
Kamelot I Am the Empire: Live from the 013
Kampfar Ofidians manifest
Kampfar Til Klovers Takt
Kap Bambino Zero Life, Night Vision
Kap Bambino Blacklist
Karma To Burn Karma to Burn
Karma To Burn Appalachian Incantation
Karma To Burn Live in Brussel
Karma To Burn Slight Reprise
Karma To Burn Mountain Czar
It's cool instrumental stoner rock. It's just not enough without vocals (and the vocals on the 4th track are too little too late).
Karmakanic In a Perfect World
Karmakanic Live in the US
Karnivool Sound Awake
Kataklysm Of Ghosts and Gods
Kataklysm Meditations
Kataklysm Goliath
Katatonia Discouraged Ones
Katatonia Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Katatonia Deliberation
Katatonia My Twin
Katatonia July
Katatonia Last Fair Day Gone Night
Katatonia The Fall of Hearts
Katatonia finally went and did it. Ever since the huge transitionthat took place between Tonight?sDecisionandViva Emptiness, Katatonia have been threatening to just take their music to its atmospheric progressive metal conclusion.
Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow
Katy B On A Mission
Katy McAllister Katy McAllister
Kauan Ice Fleet
Kaunis Kuolematon Mielenvalta
Kayleigh Goldsworthy Learning to be Happy
Kayo Dot Hubardo
Kayo Dot Blasphemy
Kee Avil Crease
Keep of Kalessin Kolossus
Keep of Kalessin Agnen: A Journey Through The Dark
Keep of Kalessin Reclaim
Keep of Kalessin Katharsis
Keiji Haino and Sumac American Dollar Bill
Kells Gaia
Kells Anachromie
The band have moved away from the blatant Evanescence worship and replaced it with a blatant metalcore vibe. The female vocals are still a little 'over-emotive' and in French but they're getting better. On the other hand, the newly-introduced growls/rasps are pretty terrible and ruin every part they're on. Musically, the metalcore vibe has given them a much-needed edge.
KEN mode Entrench
KEN mode Null
KEN mode Void
Kenelis Fake
Kenelis Remember How It Felt
Kerli Kerli
Kero Kero Bonito Civilisation
Kerretta Vilayer
Kerretta Antient
Kerretta Saansilo
Ketzer Starless
It's black and roll that doesn't suck. That in itself is surprising.
Kevorkian Death Cycle A+0(M)
Khonsu The Xun Protectorate
Khragkh ΓVΛΩ
Kidneythieves Zerospace
Kidneythieves TryptOfanatic
Kidneythieves The Invisible Plan
Kill Devil Hill Seas Of Oblivion
Kill the Kong Dead Spirit
Kill the Lights The Sinner
Killer Be Killed Reluctant Hero
Killing Joke Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell
Killing Joke Killing Joke
Killing Joke What's THIS For...!
Killing Joke Revelations
Killing Joke Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions
Killing Joke Pandemonium
Killing Joke Democracy
Killing Joke BBC In Concert (22nd August 1986)
Killing the Messenger Fuel to the Fire
Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies
Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (2009)
Killswitch Engage Live at the Palladium
Kimbra Vows
Kimbra Primal Heart
Kina Grannis Sincerely Me
Kina Grannis In Memory of the Singing Bridge
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Omnium Gatherum
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of...
King Woman Created in the Image of Suffering
King Woman Celestial Blues
King's X Three Sides of One
Kingdom (NYC) Neurofire
Kingdom of Giants Passenger
Kingsmen Bones Don't Lie
Kirsty Hawkshaw Meta-Message
Kita Tyhjiö
Kito Blossom
Klank Urban Warfare
Klank Downside
KMFDM Attak
KMFDM Naïve
KMFDM Money
KMFDM XTORT
KMFDM Adios
KMFDM WWIII
KMFDM Hau Ruck
KMFDM Blitz
KMFDM Krieg
KMFDM Extra Vol.2
KMFDM Extra Vol.3
KMFDM Our Time Will Come
KMFDM Salvation
------KMFDM doing it again... nothing new here.------
KMFDM Yeah!
KMFDM Hell Yeah
Kobra and the Lotus High Priestess
Konami Kode Level One
Kontrust Second Hand Wonderland
Like Lacuna Coil meets Mr. Bungle but with occasional death metal and dance-pop sections too. Not bad, but just a little too obnoxious for me.
Kontrust Explositive
Kontrust madworld
Korn Take a Look in the Mirror
Korn Life Is Peachy
Korn The Paradigm Shift
Kowai Dissonance
Kowloon Walled City Piecework
Kreator Gods of Violence
Great music, but the vocals kind of get on my nerves.
Kreator Hate Über Alles
Krezip Sweet Goodbye
Krisiun Mortem Solis
Kroh Altars
Krosis A Memoir of Free Will
Krypts Unending Degradation
Kuedo Infinite Window
KUKL The Eye
Featuring a lot of the same people that would end up being in The Sugarcubes (including Bjork), this is definitely a challenging album to get into. Equal parts post punk and avant garde weirdness.
Kuolemanlaakso Tulijoutsen
Solid run-of-the-mill doom with occasional shining moments.
Kval Laho
Kvelertak Meir
Kvelertak Splid
Kvelertak Endling
Kylesa To Walk A Middle Course
Kyuss Wretch
Kyuss Muchas Gracias: The Best of Kyuss
La Femme Mystère
Labyrinth Welcome to the Absurd Circus
Labyrinth Entrance Monumental Bitterness
Lacuna Coil Shallow Life
Lady Lamb Mammoth Swoon
Ladyhawke Anxiety
Ladylike Lily Get Your Soul Washed
Ladylike Lily On My Own
Ladytron 604
Ladytron Witching Hour (Remixed & Rare)
Ladytron Best Of Remixes
Ladytron Ladytron
Ladytron Time's Arrow
Laethora March Of The Parasite
Lagwagon Hoss
Lagwagon Double Plaidinum
Lagwagon Let's Talk About Leftovers
Lagwagon I Think My Older Brother Used To Listen
Lagwagon Hoss (Remastered)
Lahannya Welcome to the Underground
Lahannya Defiance
Lake of Tears Black Brick Road
Lake of Tears Moons and Mushrooms
Lake of Tears By the Black Sea
Lake of Violet The Startling Testimony of Plumb Lines
Very droning and atmospheric. It's almost like lethargic, feedback-filled, 70s rock meets post metal and post punk on sleeping pills. Hard to describe.
Lalu Paint the Sky
Lamb Between Darkness And Wonder
Lamb of God Sacrament
Lamb of God Wrath
Lamb of God Hourglass: Anthology Collection
Lamori Neo Noir
Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence
The album started and I really liked that kind of mellow vibe she had going on. And then it went to the next track and the next and the next with almost no variation...
Lana Del Rey Honeymoon
Lana Del Rey Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
Lancer Tempest
Landforge Servitude to Earth
Lantern (FIN) II: Morphosis
Lanterns on the Lake Gracious Tide, Take Me Home
Lanterns on the Lake Versions of Us
Reminds me of a less alt rock version of The Jezabels.
Lapsley Through Water
Lapsley Cautionary Tales of Youth
Last Winter Under the Silver of Machines
Laughing Stock Zero, Acts 3&4
Laura Marling Once I Was an Eagle
Laura Marling Semper Femina
Laura Marling Song For Our Daughter
Laura Stevenson Sit Resist
Laura Veirs Year Of Meteors
Laura Veirs July Flame
Lauren Aquilina Sinners
Lauren Aquilina Liars
Lauren Aquilina Ocean
Lawrence and Leigh Odyssey Vol. III: Hills and Masts
Le Tigre This Island
Leadlight Rose Sweet Obsesion
Leah Otherworld
Leah Turner Leah Turner
Another decent country pop album. Nothing special, but when is country ever special?
LEAV/E/ARTH A Perfect Disarray
Leaves' Eyes Lovelorn
Leaves' Eyes Legend Land
Leaves' Eyes Elegy
Leaves' Eyes The Last Viking
Leeched To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse
Left Spine Down Fighting For Voltage
Leftfield Leftism
Legend of the Seagullmen Legend of the Seagullmen
Lenka Lenka
Lenka Two
Lennon 5:30 Saturday Morning
Lennon Damaged Goods
Lennon Just One
Lennon I Am
Lennon Career Suicide
Lennon Before The So Called
Lennon Lost And Found
Les Discrets Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées
Lesbian Forestelevision
Lesbian Hallucinogenesis
Letters From The Colony Vignette
Lie in Ruins Floating in Timeless Streams
Life Cried Drawn and Quartered
Life Cried if i don't wake up
Synth-dominated industrial. It's not bad, but it's lacking the atmosphere and melody that made 'Banished Psalms' such a good album.
Life of Agony A Place Where There's No More Pain
Life of Agony The Sound Of Scars
Light The Fire Compassion in Unlikely Places
Light This City Terminal Bloom
Lightbreaker The Annihilation of the Annealids
Lightning Bolt Sonic Citadel
Lights Acoustic
Lights Siberia
Lights Siberia Acoustic
Like Rats Death Monolith
Lily Allen Sheezus
If you like the old albums, why wouldn't you like this? It's a good listen. Same formula as before...
Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all
Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra
Lindsey Stirling Lindsey Stirling
Lindsey Stirling Brave Enough
Lindsey Stirling Artemis
Linear Sphere Manvantara
Linkin Park Reanimation
Linkin Park Road to Revolution
Linkin Park A Thousand Suns: Puerta De Alcala
Linkin Park Recharged
Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment 3
Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke Duality
Lisa Loeb Firecracker
Lisa Loeb The Purple Tape
Lissie My Wild West
Run of the mill indie pop. It's good, but with no identity of its own.
Lissie Castles
Listener Whispermoon
Little Dragon Slugs of Love
Little Scream The Golden Record
Liturgy 93696
Liv Kristine Deus Ex Machina
Living Corpse And Everything Slips Away
Livlos And Then There Were None
Liza Anne Fine But Dying
Quirky indie pop done just the way I like it. Expressive female vocals, just enough rock and just enough pop, quircky rhythms and lyrics, and catchy choruses.
Liza Anne The Colder Months
LizZard Eroded
Lizzy Borden My Midnight Things
Lo-Fi Scorpio Mission Creep
Lo-Fi Scorpio Lo-Fi Scorpio
Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything
Loathe (AUS) Null and Void
Loch Lomond Paper The Walls
Loch Lomond Night Bats
Loch Lomond When We Were Mountains
Loch Lomond Lament for Children
Loma Prieta I.V.
Loma Prieta Last
London Grammar If You Wait
London Grammar Truth is a Beautiful Thing
London Grammar Californian Soil
Lonely Robot The Big Dream
Lonely Star The Ritualist
Lonely Star Love & Loss
Long Distance Calling How Do We Want To Live?
Lord of War Suffer
Lorde Melodrama
Lorna Shore Psalms
Losing Scarlet Learning To Bleed
Lost Brethren Dimensional Rift
Love Spirals Downwards Ever
Lovebites Awakening From Abyss
Lovebites Electric Pentagram
Lovebites Judgement Day
Lovesliescrushing Glissceule
Lovesliescrushing Voirshn
Lovesliescrushing Avianium (Microphona Magnetica)
Lovesliescrushing Ghost Colored Halo
LoveSpirals Windblown Kiss
LoveSpirals Long Way From Home
Lowen Unceasing Lamentations
Lowen A Crypt in the Stars
Lower Dens Twin-Hand Movement
Lowrider Refractions
LTJ Bukem Journey Inwards
Lucid Fly The Escape Stage
Lucifer's Hammer (CL) Beyond the Omens
Lucy Hale Road Between
Catchy country pop. What more could you expect from the genre?
Luna Green Swedish Strawberries
Luna Shadows Digital Pacific
Lunar Shadow Far from Light
Lunar Tombfields The Eternal Harvest
LunariaN Burn The Beauty
Lunatic Calm Breaking Point
Lunatic Soul Lunatic Soul
Lunatic Soul Lunatic Soul II
Lunatic Soul Impressions
Lunatic Soul Walking on a Flashlight Beam
Lunatica Edge of Infinity
Lunatica New Shores
Lunic Lovethief
Lunik Lonely Letters
Lurk (USA-IL) Around The Sun
Lustre (SWE) A Thirst for Summer Rain
Luttenberger Klug Madchen im Regen
Lux Incerta Dark Odyssey
Lykke Li Youth Novels
Lykke Li So Sad So Sexy
Lyon Falling Up
M.O.D. Busted, Broke & American
Machine Head Through The Ashes Of Empires
Machine Head The More Things Change...
Machine Head The Blackening
Machine Head Unto The Locust
Machine Head Of Kingdom And Crown
Madder Mortem Desiderata
Maddi Jane Unreleased
Maestrick Unpuzzle
Magana Golden Tongue
Magdalena Bay A Little Rhythm and a Wicked Feeling
Magenta Art And Accidents
Magion Close to Eternity
Magneta Lane The Constant Lover
Magneta Lane Dancing With Daggers
Magneta Lane Gambling With God
Maisie Peters The Good Witch
Majesties Vast Reaches Unclaimed
Musically this does it for me. It's some great classic melodic death metal. The vocals are an issue, though.
Major Parkinson Major Parkinson
Major Parkinson Songs From A Solitary Home
Major Parkinson Twilight Cinema
Major Parkinson Blackbox
Make Them Suffer Lord of Woe
Male Gaze Miss Taken
Maleficent Demize
Malokarpatan Vertumnus Caesar
Malsain They Never Die
Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God
Manchester Orchestra The Valley of Vision
Mandalay Solace
Mandalay Instinct
Mandragora [d​]​Æscend
Manegarm Manegarm
Manes Slow Motion Death Sequence
Manic Street Preachers Gold Against The Soul
Manic Street Preachers Know Your Enemy
Manic Street Preachers Lifeblood
Manic Street Preachers This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Manic Street Preachers Journal For Plague Lovers
Mantar The Modern Art of Setting Ablaze
Mantar Pain Is Forever and This Is the End
Manu Grace No Room for Error
Many Voices Speak Gestures
Marduk Serpent Sermon
Marduk Frontschwein
------No-frills black metal. Good stuff.------ 50 CHARACTERS
Margaret Glaspy Emotions And Math
Maria BC Hyaline
Maria Timm The Plan
Marianas Rest Fata Morgana
Marilyn Manson The Last Tour on Earth
Marilyn Manson We Are Chaos
Marissa Nadler Ballads of Living and Dying
Marissa Nadler Strangers
Marissa Nadler Instead of Dreaming
Marit Bergman Baby Dry Your Eye
Marit Larsen Under the Surface
Marriages Kitsune
Martha Tilston Of Milkmaids and Architects
Martha Tilston Bimbling
Marty Friedman Music for Speeding
Marty Friedman Dragon's Kiss
Marty Friedman Scenes
Mary at Midnight Alpha
Marybell Katastrophy You Are The Two
Marybeth D'Amico Light Inside
Masquer Cover My Face As The Animals Cry
Massacre From Beyond
Massacre Inhuman Condition
Massive Attack Ritual Spirit
Massive Attack return with another streamlined trip hop album. I prefer the dense sound of their earlier stuff.
Master Boot Record Floppy Disk Overdrive
Master Musicians of Bukkake Far West
Mastodon Call of the Mastodon
Mastodon Blood Mountain
Mastodon Oblivion EP
Masvidal Mythical
Matt Skiba and the Sekrets Babylon
Maudlin A Sign Of Time
Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Mayhem Mediolanum Capta Est
Mayhem Live in Marseille 2000
Mazzy Star Among My Swan
Mazzy Star Seasons of Your Day
Me And That Man Songs of Love and Death
Me And That Man New Man, New Songs, Same Shit Vol. 1
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Take a Break
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Blow in the Wind
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Are a Drag
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Love Their Country
Meadows (USA) In Those Days and Also After
Meaghan Smith The Cricket's Orchestra
Meat Beat Manifesto At the Center
Medeia Medeia
Meek Is Murder Was
Mefitis Offscourings
Meg and Dia Hurley Live Sessions 2009
Meg and Dia If You're Poor, Find Something to Sue Somebody For
Meg Myers Make A Shadow
Mega Bog End of Everything
Megadeth Youthanasia
Megadeth The System Has Failed
Megadeth Still, Alive...And Well?
Megadeth United Abominations
Megadeth Th1rt3en
Megadeth Deep Cuts
Meiko Meiko
Mekong Delta The Principle of Doubt
Mekong Delta Wanderer on the Edge of Time
Mekong Delta Classics
MellowToy Lies
Melody's Echo Chamber Melody's Echo Chamber
Melody's Echo Chamber Emotional Eternal
Melt Yourself Down Live At The New Empowering Church
Melvins Basses Loaded
Memoriam To the End
Memory Driven Animus
Memoryhouse The Slideshow Effect
Menagerie Cages
Mentallo and the Fixer Where Angels Fear to Tread
Mentallo and the Fixer Enlightenment Through A Chemical Catalyst
Mentallo and the Fixer Arrange The Molecule
Mentallo and the Fixer Return to Grimpen Ward
Mercury Circle Killing Moons
Mesarthim The Degenerate Era
Meshuggah Nothing
Meshuggah Selfcaged
Mesmur S
Metal Allegiance Metal Allegiance
Metal Church XI
Metallica Kill 'Em All
Metallica Garage Inc.
Metallica Death Magnetic
Metallica Through the Never
mewithoutYou Ten Stories
mewithoutYou Pale Horses
I like the post rock/alt. rock thing with the quirky vocals. This is the first time hearing the band, but not bad.
Micatone Nomad Songs
Micatone Sonar Kollektiv Best Of Three
Michelle Branch Hotel Paper
Michelle Branch Broken Bracelet
Midnattsol The Metamorphosis Melody
Midnight Sweet Death and Ecstasy
Midnight Rebirth by Blasphemy
Midnight Let There Be Witchery
Mild Orange Looking For Space
Mimorium Route of Haeresis
Minas Morgul Nebelung
MindAhead 6119 Part 1
Mindcage Chrononaut
Mindforce New Lords
MindMaze Resolve
Mindrot Forlorn
MindSplit Charmed Human Art of Significance
The music is pretty cool, but the vocals kind of ruin it.
Miniature Tigers I Dreamt I Was a Cowboy
Ministry The Last Sucker
Ministry Sphinctour
Ministry Box
Ministry Relapse
Minus the Bear Menos El Oso
Minus the Bear They Make Beer Commercials Like This
Minus the Bear VOIDS
Minushuman Bloodthrone
Mira Craig Ghetto Fairytale
Miriam Bryant I Am Dragon
Miriodor Signal 9
Misanthur Ephemeris
Misery Index The Killing Gods
Good death metal. Nothing out of the ordinary. All the songs kind of blend together.
Misery Index Rituals of Power
Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart
Misery Signals Mirrors
Misery Signals Controller
Misery Signals Absent Light
Miss FD Monsters In the Industry
Miss Grit Follow the Cyborg
Miss May I Shadows Inside
Mister M Rezolution
Mitski LUSH
Mizmor Cairn
Mnemic Mnemesis
Moaning Uneasy Laughter
Moby Resound NYC
modernsextrash penumbra
modernsextrash Varia
Mogwai Every Country's Sun
Mol Diorama
Moloken Unveilance Of Dark Matter
Mommy Hurt My Head Mommy Hurt My Head
Mono Requiem For Hell
Mono Pilgrimage Of The Soul
Mono (UK) Formica Blues
Monolith Wielder Monolith Wielder
Monolord Rust
Monte Pittman Inverted Grasp of Balance
Montibus Communitas The Pilgrim to the Absolute
Reminds me of the 'Lifeforms' album from Future Sound of London, but not as fleshed out and interesting.
Monument of Misanthropy Unterweger
Monuments (UK) Gnosis
Moodie Black Sana Sana
Moodring Stargazer
Moon Coven Moon Coven
Moonlight Yaishi
Moonlight Kalpa Taru
Moonlight Flos (EP)
Moonlight Floe
Moonlight Candra
Moonlight Haze Animus
Moonreich Fugue
Moonsorrow Suden uni
Moonspell Wolfheart
Moonspell Sin/Pecado
Moonspell Under Satanae
Moonspell Under the Moonspell
This could be one of their best releases if they only had a better production. Now that Moonspell have re-recorded this EP and released it as "Under Satanae" this EP isn't worth the trouble it would be to find it. The basic descripton for this CD would be Metal with equal parts Doom and Black Metal influence, which uses a wide variety of Middle Eastern musical influences. Once again, the music is great, but the production fails it and is the main reason for the score.
Moonspell Alpha Noir
This is Moonspell stripped down to their core. There’s no gothic overtones, no keyboard cheese, no female vocals and the vocalist’s deep goth vocals probably make up no more than 30 seconds of the entire album. Instead the band deliver a blackened thrash version of their former selves, full of heavy riffs and death/black growls. Definitely recommended for those into the blackened metal style (notice I didn’t say black metal), even if you’ve hated everything else this band has ever done.
Morbid Angel Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
Morbid Angel Altars of Madness
Morbid Angel Blessed Are the Sick
Morbus Chron Sweven
Musically this is really good. There are a diverse range of styles over the course of the album. I hear black metal, post metal, prog, etc. The vocals kill it for me though. No matter how many times I've tried, the throaty high pitched shout/growl/whatever is just too much.
Mord'A'Stigmata Like Ants and Snakes
More Than Life Love Let Me Go
Morgion Among Majestic Ruin
Morgoth Cursed
Morgoth Odium
Morgoth Ungod
Morian Ashen Empire
Mork Det Svarte Juv
Mork Katedralen
Mork Den Svevende Festning
Mork Dypet
Morne Engraved With Pain
Morta Skuld Suffer for Nothing
Mortiis The Grudge
Mortiis Perfectly Defect
Mortiis The Great Corrupter
Motanka Motanka
Mother Feather Mother Feather
Pretty standard indie rock. It's good, but there's no real reason to come back to this.
Mother of All Age of the Solipsist
Motionless in White Reincarnate
Motley Crue Girls, Girls, Girls
Motley Crue Saints of Los Angeles
Motorjesus Hellbreaker
Motorpsycho Behind the Sun
Musically it Kind of reminds me of pre-Opeth Porcupine Tree. Pretty damn good.
Mouchette Glimmer
Mouchette Orchids To Ashes
Mouth Of The Architect Dawning
Mouth Of The Architect Path of Eight
Mree Grow
Ms. No One The Leaving Room
Mudvayne The New Game
Mudvayne Mudvayne
MUNA Muna
Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?
Murder by Death Red Of Tooth And Claw
Murder by Death Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon
Murderdolls Beyond The Valley of the Murderdolls
Muscle and Marrow Love
Mushroomhead XIII
Mushroomhead Superbuick
Mushroomhead M3
Mutemath Mutemath
Mutemath Armistice
Mutemath Flesh and Bones Electric Fun DVD
Mutemath Armistice Live
My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
My Dying Bride As the Flower Withers
My Dying Bride An Ode to Woe
It has a weak track list that doesn't take enough from older albums, and picks questionable songs from the newer ones. The sound is great and gives most songs a whole lot more power than their studio counterparts, but that is slightly negated by keyboards playing the violin parts on older songs. If you want this get the DVD because the CD isn't really worth your time despite it being really good for what it is.
My Dying Bride Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium
My Dying Bride The Thrash of Naked Limbs
My Dying Bride I Am the Bloody Earth
My Dying Bride Trinity
My Dying Bride Meisterwerk I
My Dying Bride Meisterwerk II
My Dying Bride Feel the Misery
My Regime Dogmas
This is straight up classic Slayer worship right here. They do a damn good job at it, so it's definitely not a bad release.
My Ticket Home Unreal
myGRAIN Orbit Dance
Myrkskog Deathmachine
Myrkur Mausoleum
Myrkur Folkesange
Mythosphere Pathological
Nachtlieder Lynx
Nachtmystium Instinct: Decay
Nachtmystium Doomsday Derelicts
Nachtmystium Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. 2
Naglfar Cerecloth
Nailed To Obscurity Red Script
Nailed To Obscurity Black Frost
Nails Abandon All Life
Nails You Will Never Be One of Us
Nanochrist Dead Fiction
Napalm Death From Enslavement to Obliteration
Napalm Death Fear, Emptiness, Despair
Napoleon Newborn Mind
Naraka In Tenebris
Narrow Head Moments of Clarity
Natalie Walker Strange Bird
Natalie Walker started out as the vocalist for Trip hop artists Daughter Darling. She eventually moved into a low-key pop kind of solo sound. That is what she continues with here, but it's not as good as her earlier stuff.
Native Construct Quiet World
Weird progressive metal. Shares more than a little in common with Between the Buried...
Natt Natt
Natural Disorder Corrosion and Passion
Ne Obliviscaris The Aurora Veil
Neaera Neaera
Neberu Point Zero
Necro Facility The Room
Necrodemon In the Ecstasy of Fire
Necrofier Burning Shadows in the Southern Night
Needle Fall
Neige Morte IIII
Neikka RPM Chain Letters
Neko Case Middle Cyclone
Neko Case Hell-On
Neko Case Wild Creatures
Nelly Furtado Whoa, Nelly!
Nemesea Pure: Live @ P3
Nemesea Uprise
Neon Synthesis Alchemy Of Rebirth
NeraNature Disorders
It has been awhile since her debut album. That one was a streamlined, semi-proggy, gothic rock-ish album. It had some pretty good, very catchy songs on it. This one is basically the same description except the songs aren't nearly as immediate due to being a little more atmospheric and expanded.
Nervecell Preaching Venom
Nervecell Past, Present...Torture
Nervosa Victim of Yourself
Raw, old-school thrash. High energy, semi-sloppy and enjoyable.
Nervosa Agony
Nervosa Downfall Of Mankind
Nervosa Perpetual Chaos
Netherbird Into The Vast Uncharted
Netherbird Arete
Netherlands Zombie Techno
Netherlands Kali Corvette
Nevalra Conjure the Storm
Never Back to the Front
Never Obey Again The End Of An Era
NeverDream Souls 26-April 1986
Neverland Ophidia
Neverland Night Shadows
New Found Glory From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II
New Found Glory Mania
New Model Army Impurity
New Model Army The Love of Hopeless Causes
New Model Army Strange Brotherhood
New Model Army Eight
New Model Army Carnival
New Model Army Between Dog And Wolf
New Model Army BD3
New Model Army BBC Radio One Live in Concert
New Radicals Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
New Years Day Unbreakable
Nexion (IS) Seven Oracles
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
So... it's some dude with a Casio singing his high school poetry assignments. Got it.
Nicole Eitner Vampires
Nidingr Wolf Father
Nidingr Sorrow Infinite and Darkness
Nidingr The High Heat Licks Against Heaven
Good melodic black metal that does nothing extraordinarily well.
Night Demon Darkness Remains
Night Verses Out of the Sky
Night Verses Into the Vanishing Light
Nightingale The Closing Chronicles
Nightingale The Breathing Shadow
Nightingale Nightfall Overture
Nightingale White Darkness
Nightrage Abyss Rising
Nightwish Imaginaerum
Nile In Their Darkened Shrines
Nile Ithyphallic
Nile What Should Not Be Unearthed
Nina Nesbitt The Sun Will Come Up, the Seasons Will Change
Nina Storey 24 Off The Board
Nine Inch Nails The Fragile
Nine Inch Nails Further Down the Spiral (UK)
Nine Inch Nails Further Down the Spiral (US)
Nine Inch Nails Year Zero
Nine Inch Nails The Perfect Drug
Nine Inch Nails And All That Could've Been [DVD]
Nine Inch Nails Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D
Nine Inch Nails The Slip
Nine Inch Nails Fixed
Nine Inch Nails Closer to God
Nine Inch Nails Every Day Is Exactly the Same
Nine Inch Nails Down in It
Nine Inch Nails Head Like a Hole
Nine Inch Nails Sin
Nine Inch Nails Add Violence
Nine Inch Nails Ghosts V: Together
Nine Inch Nails Ghosts VI: Locusts
Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York
No Doubt Tragic Kingdom
No Home Hell Is All Around Us
No Return The Curse Within
Noctambulist The Barren Form
Noctis Silent Atonement
Nocturnal Habits New Skin for Old Children
Nocturnal Rites The 8th Sin
Nocturnal Rites Grand Illusion
Nocturnal Rites New World Messiah
Nocturnus The Key
Nocturnus Ethereal Tomb
NOFX The Longest Line
NOFX Cokie the Clown
NOFX Single Album
Noise Unit Decoder
Noise Unit Strategy of Violence
Noise Unit Cheeba City Blues
Noltem Illusions In The Wake
NONE Inevitable
Nordjevel Fenriir
Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me
Norska Too Many Winters
Northern Crown The Others
Northern Picture Library Postscript
Northern Picture Library Alaska
Northern State Can I Keep This Pen?
Northlane Mesmer
Nothing But Thieves Broken Machine
Nothingface Nothingface [Re-release]
Novembers Doom Aphotic
Novembers Doom Nephilim Grove
Novembre Novembrine Waltz
Novembre Dreams D'Azur
Noveria The Gates Of The Underworld
Now, Now Saved
Now, Now Every Children In The City EP
Now, Now Every Children Not One, But Two EP
Nucleus (USA-IL) Sentient
A little too primitive for me, but overall, I really like the raw technical death metal. Kind of reminds me of the earliest Medeia release, but definitely more death metal influenced.
Nyrst Orsök
Nyrst V​ö​ld
O+S You Were Once the Sun, Now You're the Moon
Oak (PT) Disintegrate
This band is way too hard to find in our database. Fuck... at least I had 45 minutes with nothing better to do. Good album, but I'll never come back to it again.
Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Oasis Definitely Maybe
Obituary Obituary
Oblivion Machine Starfield
Oblivion Machine Zero-Gravity
Obscene (USA-IN) .​.​.​From Dead Horizon to Dead Horizon
Obsidian Kingdom A Year With No Summer
Oceans Ate Alaska Hikari
Oceans Ate Alaska Disparity
Oceans of Slumber Winter
Oceans of Slumber’s female vocalist, Cammie Gilbert, carries this band. Of that, there is no doubt. Musically, the band blend death/black metal, doom, post metal, and even a bit of prog. The music can literally go from morose doom to high-tempo death/black metal without any warning, which is also a double edged sword. Oceans of Slumber’s music lacks just the slightest bit of direction and focus, and the songs themselves never get a chance to truly build. Having said that, there are definitely some really good songs on here, but they leave a little potential on the floor. I see good things for this band.
Oceanwake Earthen
October Ends Zodiac
October Ends PHASES
October Falls The Plague of a Coming Age
October Falls A Fall of an Epoch
October File A Long Walk On a Short Pier
October File How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
October Sky Hell Isn't My Home
October Thorns Circle Game
October Tide Rain Without End
October Tide Grey Dawn
October Tide In Splendor Below
Odem Timeless Past Above
Odradek Room Bardo. Relative Reality
Of Mice and Men EARTHANDSKY
of Montreal White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood
Of Verona The White Apple
Off Road Minivan May This Keep You Safe From Harm
ohGr SunnyPsyOp
OHHMS Rot
Okkultokrati La Ilden Lyse
Old Man Gloom Seminar IX: Darkness of Being
Old Man's Child In Defiance of Existence
Old Man's Child The Pagan Prosperity
Old Man's Child Ill Natured Spiritual Invasion
Omega Infinity The Anticurrent
I love the blackened sci fi death metal idea. I can hear some really cool things in these songs, but the production is just not complimentary to the music and ideas.
Omega Lithium Colossus
Omit Repose
Omit Medusa Truth - Part 1
Omnium Gatherum Spirits And August Light
Omnium Gatherum The Redshift
Omnium Gatherum Steal the Light
Once Human The Life I Remember
Once Human Stage Of Evolution
Once Human Scar Weaver
One Without Numbers
Oni (CAN) Loathing Light
Only Fate Remains Breathe
Operation: Mindcrime The Key
When Geoff Tate took on the name Operation: Mindcrime and started spouting off about a prog rock trilogy that would allow him to break new musical ground, I just rolled my eyes. It turns out, though, that he was pretty much able to pull it off. rThe story itself isn't nearly as compelling as either Mindcrime album, but the album is still pretty damn good. Despite the band name, it turns out that The Key isn't rtrying to cash in on Mindcrime's sound and direction. What we get with The Key is a chill, atmospheric, prog rock album that should appeal to fans content with rthe mellower side of bands such as Riverside, Porcupine Tree and, yes, even Queensryche.
Opeth Heritage
Opeth Pale Communion
It's better than the previous release, but that one was a train wreck of ideas. At no point did I ever think this album was terrible, but there was a never a 'holy shit, that's cool' moment either. The album just lacks substance... it kind of just floats by.
Opiate for the Masses The Spore
Opposite Earth Blame
Oracles (BE) Miserycorde
This is the band System Divide with a less talented female vocalist, and lower quality music. If you think this is any good at all, check out their album under the System Divide band name.
Oranssi Pazuzu Valonielu
Oranssi Pazuzu Värähtelijä
Another post black metal band that makes music that is far too monotonous and two-dimensional. These guys are at least on the high side of the genre, but the good parts are drowned by the monotony of it all.
Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi
Orbit Culture Shaman
Orbit Culture Descent
Orbital Orbital
Orbital The Middle of Nowhere
Orbs Past Life Regression
Order of Orias Ablaze
Organectomy Nail Below Nail
Orgy Talk Sick
Origin Entity
Origin Omnipresent
This is pretty damn cool in very short doses. After the initial few minutes, though, it all just blurs together in one linear wall of noise.
Orm Orm
Orphanage Driven
OSI Blood
OSI Office of Strategic Influence
Osiah Loss
Osiah Kairos
Otep Sevas Tra
Our Broken Garden When Your Blackening Shows
Our Place of Worship is Silence Disavowed, and Left Hopeless
Outre Tranquility
Ov Hollowness Drawn to Descend
Oval Romantiq
Overkill Horrorscope
Overkill Under the Influence
Overkill W.F.O.
Overkill From the Underground and Below
Overkill Immortalis
Overmono Good Lies
Pain (SWE) Nothing Remains the Same
Pain of Salvation Be
Pain of Salvation Entropia
Pain of Salvation 12:5
Pain of Salvation Ending Themes
Painted Wives New Medusa
Pallbearer Heartless
Palm (USA-PA) Nicks and Grazes
Pandemonium ...To Apeiron
Panic Room Satellite
Panic Room Skin
Panopticon Social Disservices
Panopticon .​.​.​And Again into the Light
Pantera Far Beyond Driven
Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill
Pantera Reinventing the Steel
Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition Chapter III
Paper Aeroplanes Little Letters
Parade Of Lights Feeling Electric
Paradise Lost Gothic
Paradise Lost Shades of God
Paradise Lost One Second
Paradise Lost Gothic EP
Paradise Lost Medusa
I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I think Paradise Lost have moved too far back towards their roots. The band were always at their best when they were doing something other than straight-up doom. Whether it was the metal infused doom of Icon and Draconian Times, or the elctronic tinged works starting with Symbol of Life. To me, this is just too bland compared to what they've proven they can do.
Paradox Heresy II - End of a Legend
Paramore All We Know Is Falling
Parannoul After The Magic
Path of Destiny The Seed of All Evil
Pathways Dies Irae
Djenty metalcore. These guys have some potential, but right now there's nothing on this particular album that helps them to stand out.
Pati Yang Faith, Hope + Fury
Patrons The Momentary Effects of Sunlight
Patty Moon Dream Up
Paul Oakenfold Fluoro
Paul Van Dyk Vorsprung Dyk Technik: Paul Van Dyke Remixes 92-98
Pearl Jam Gigaton
PEARS Go to Prison
Peau Premiere Mue
Pelican Forever Becoming
Pelican Nighttime Stories
Pennywise Straight Ahead
Pennywise Wild Card
Pennywise Wild Card/A Word from the Wise
Pensees Nocturnes Douce Fange
Pentagram Review Your Choices
Perish The Decline
Perpetual Etude Now Is The Time
Persefone Core
Persona Elusive Reflections
This is good, but generic, female-fronted metal. The singer is hot and with a good voice, so they'll probably do okay.
Perspectives NY Coalescence
Persuader Necromancy
Pestilence Resurrection Macabre
Petal Magic Gone
Phantogram Three
Phazm Scornful of Icons
Phinehas The Bridge Between
Phinehas Phinehas
Phinehas The Fire Itself
Phish Fuego
Phish release a jam rock album... yep. No surprises.
Phlebotomized Pain, Resistance, Suffering
Phlebotomized Clouds of Confusion
Phobocosm Foreordained
Phrenelith Desolate Endscape
Picture Me Broken Wide Awake
Pieta Brown Mercury
Pieta Brown Remember the Sun
Pillory Scourge upon Humanity
Pinegrove 11:11
Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd Meddle
Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother
Pink Floyd The Final Cut
Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds
Pink Floyd More
Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Pink Floyd The Endless River
Pitchshifter Industrial
Pitchshifter Submit
Pitchshifter Deviant
Pitchshifter Infotainment?
Pitchshifter Desensitized
Pixies Doolittle
Pixies Indie Cindy
Pixies cover Pixies. It's not a bad album, but it's like a collection of all the previous albums' most average tracks.
Pixies Beneath the Eyrie
Pixies Doggerel
PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love
PJ Harvey Rid of Me
Placebo Life's What You Make It
Placebo A Place for Us to Dream
Plains I Walked With You A Ways
Planes Mistaken for Stars Prey
Playgrounded The Death of Death
Pleasureburn Temporary Infinity
Plini Handmade Cities
Plumb Beautiful Lumps of Coal
Plumb Beautiful History (A Hits Collection)
Poema Sing It Now
Poema Once A Year
Poema Pretty Speeches
Very mainstream pop sound on this album. I liked the indie pop stuff more.
Poema Arcanvs Timeline Symmetry
Poison Flesh & Blood
Poison Headache Poison Headache
Polar Everywhere, Everything
Polyphia Remember That You Will Die
Pomegranate Tiger Entities
Pond (AUS) The Weather
Poppy I Disagree
Porcupine Tree Signify
Porcupine Tree Up the Downstair
Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways
Porcupine Tree Warszawa
Porcupine Tree Metanoia
Porcupine Tree Octane Twisted
Porta Nigra Schöpfungswut
Portal Seepia
Portishead Portishead
Portishead Third
Portrait (SWE) At One with None
Power From Hell Shadows Devouring Light
Praise The Sun (PL) The Proffer of Light
Preoccupations Preoccupations
Pressive Odium
Pretty Lights Filling Up The City Skies
Pretty Lights Taking Up Your Precious Time
Pretty Lights Making Up A Changing Mind
Pretty Lights Spilling Over Every Side
Pretty Lights Glowing in the Darkest Night
Pridelands Light Bends
Primal Fear Jaws of Death
Primal Fear Delivering the Black
The Gamma Ray albums with Ralf Scheepers on vocals are the only really good ones, so I had high hopes for this band. It turns out that this is band is just kind of a conventional metal/power metal band. Not bad music, but nothing I could listen to all of the time.
Primal Fear Rulebreaker
This is straight-up no-frills heavy metal/power metal, but it is still kind of addicting. It's great music to just have playing in the background.
Primal Fear Metal Commando
Primordial Imrama
Primus Suck on This
Primus They Can't All Be Zingers
Primus Green Naugahyde
Progenie Terrestre Pura U.M.A.
Program 2 Robotix
Project Pitchfork Kaskade
Project Pitchfork Eon:Eon
Project Pitchfork Inferno
Project Pitchfork Ch'i
Project Pitchfork Corps D'amour
Project Pitchfork Entities
Project Pitchfork Lam-'bras
Project Pitchfork Souls/Island
Prong Songs from the Black Hole
Prong Zero Days
Propagandhi Victory Lap
Prospective Reasons to Leave
Protest the Hero Kezia
Protomartyr Relatives in Descent
Protomartyr Consolation
Protomartyr Formal Growth in the Desert
Pryde Psychocentesis
Psalm Zero Sparta
Psychonaut Violate Consensus Reality
Psyclon Nine INRI
Psyclon Nine Crwn Thy Frnicatr
Psycroptic The Scepter of the Ancients
Psycroptic As The Kingdom Drowns
Psykup Hello Karma!
Public Enemy New Whirl Odor
Public Enemy Revolverlution
Public Service Broadcasting Bright Magic
Pulley Together Again For The First Time
Pulley @#!*
Pulley Esteem Driven Engine
Pulley 60 Cycle Hum
Pulley Time-Insensitive Material
Pulo Reve e
Pure Reason Revolution Above Cirrus
Purple Eve NuEve
Purple Eve SadoMazo
Purson The Circle and the Blue Door
Pyogenesis Ignis Creatio
Pyogenesis Waves of Erotasia
Pyogenesis A Kingdom to Disappear
Pyogenesis A Silent Soul Screams Loud
Pyramaze Contingent
Pyramid Mass Monolith
Pyrrhon The Mother of Virtues
This is like Gorguts meets Behold the Arctopus. Crazy technical death metal with a good bit of atmosphere and a tendency to slide straight into dissonant chaos.
Pyrrhon Growth Without End
Pyrrhon What Passes for Survival
Pyrrhon Abscess Time
Pyrroline Behind the Horizon
Qaalm Resilience & Despair
Quartz Fear No Evil
Quasarborn Novo Oružje Protiv Bola
Queensryche Q2K
Quo Vadis Day Into Night
Quo Vadis Forever...
Rabbit Junk Live 2014
Rabbit Junk Like the Flesh Does the Knife
Rachel Diggs Center Of The Earth
Rachel McGoye Ghetto Gloss
Rachel Zeffira The Deserters
Radiation City Synesthetica
Chill and lush indie pop. I wouldn't call it dream pop or whatever, but it's definitely close.
Radical Face Ghost
Radical Face Touch the sky EP
Radical Face Always Gold
Radical Face The Family Tree: The Bastards
Radiohead Amnesiac
Radiohead Kid A
Radiohead Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Radius System Work In Progress
Radius System Changes
Raglaia Promises
Rainroom And The Other That Was A Machine
Rami (JPN) Aspiration
Rami (JPN) Reloaded
Rammstein Zeit
Rancid Tomorrow Never Comes
Raum Kingdom Raum Kingdom
Standard post metal... maybe a little more doom-influenced than a lot of the post metal bands. Good stuff, but nothing out of the ordinary.
Rave The Reqviem EX-EDEN
Raveena Asha's Awakening
Ravencult Force Of Profanation
Raventale Of Days Long Past
Reacta Refraction
This is some decent, mellow, prog with a strong electronic influence. The problem is that the songs don't seem to go anywhere and they're not very memorable.
Reality Grey Beneath This Crown
Rebecca Loebe The Brooklyn Series
Rebecca Loebe Hey, It's a Lonely World
Rebecca Loebe Mystery Prize
Rebekka Karijord The Noble Art of Letting Go
Rebekka Karijord We Become Ourselves
Rebuke Wouldworks
Red (USA) Release the Panic: Recalibrated
Re-doing the album with more symphonic elements didn't make it any better. They sound like an after thought (kind of like Metallica's S&M album).
Red Handed Denial Eyes and Liquid Skies
Red Handed Denial I'd Rather Be Asleep
Red Helen Trading Past For Pathways
Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk
Red Sparowes The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein...
Red Velvet Chill Kill
Redemption Redemption
Redemption Alive in Color
Reeper The Butterfly Effect
Regina Spektor Begin To Hope
Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats
Regina Spektor Home, Before and After
Regional Justice Center Crime and Punishment
Remorseful Our Law, Grace
Replicant Malignant Reality
Restless Spirit Afterimage
Return to Mono Framebreaker
Reve (CAN) Saturn Return
Revision the Dream Transparency
Revocation Deathless
Revocation Great Is Our Sin
Revocation The Outer Ones
Revulsion (FIN) Revulsion
REZN and Vinnum Sabbathi Silent Future
Rhythm Of Fear Fatal Horizons
Ringworm Snake Church
Rise Against Appeal to Reason
Rise Against The Black Market
Rise Against by the numbers. Kind of generic, but not bad.
Rise to Fall Into Zero
Risking it All Man Made Disaster
Ritual Dictates Give In To Despair
Ritual Dictates No Great Loss
Rivals Sad Looks Pretty On Me
River Cult Chilling Effect
Riverside Schizophrenic Prayer EP
Riverside Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
Riverside Love, Fear and the Time Machine
This is some good prog rock, but it's just way too mellow and abstract for me to keep coming back to.
Riverside Lost 'n' Found - Live in Tilburg
Rob Zombie American Made Music to Strip By
Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe 2
Roni Size Return to V
Rose Chronicles Happily Ever After
Rose Elinor Dougall Without Why
Rosie June Listening Post
Rotting Christ Kata Ton Demona Eaftou
Rotting Christ Rituals
This really isn't a bad album. There are definitely some things that just don't work (some of the vocals, all of the chanting parts), but it's not terrible. The music is basically the same standard mid-paced black metal that the band have been doing for a majority of their career. What were people expecting?
Rotting Christ The Heretics
Royal Thunder WICK
Royksopp Profound Mysteries
Royksopp Profound Mysteries II
RPWL Stock
RPWL The RPWL Experience
RPWL God Has Failed
RPWL Trying To Kiss The Sun
RPWL Start the Fire Live
RPWL Tales From Outer Space
Ruby The Hatchet Planetary Space Child
Ruby The Hatchet Fear is a Cruel Master
Rush 2112
Rush Signals
Rush Rush
Rush Hemispheres
Rush Hold Your Fire
Rush Counterparts
Rush Exit...Stage Left
Rush Grace Under Pressure
Rush Roll the Bones
Rush Retrospective I: 1974 - 1980
Rush All the World's a Stage
Rush Gold
Rush Presto
Rush Different Stages
Rush A Show of Hands
Russian Circles Gnosis
Ruut The Steinway Sessions
Saber Tiger Paragraph V
Sacramentum The Coming of Chaos
Sacramentum Finis Malorum
Sacred Dawn Dismal Swamp
Sacred Reich Ignorance
Sacred Reich Independent
Sad13 Slugger
Sadness april sunset
Sadus The Shadow Inside
Saidan Onryo II: Her Spirit Eternal
Saille Irreversible decay
Saille Ritu
Salem Burning Immortalia Et Imperium Mortis
Samael Worship Him
Samael Blood Ritual
Samael Eternal
Samael Antigod
Samantha James Subconscious
Sanctuary Refuge Denied
Sanctuary The Year the Sun Died
Sanctuary Inception
Sangre Eterna Asphyxia
Sanguine Glacialis Maladaptive Daydreaming
Saor Guardians
Sara Bareilles Careful Confessions
Sara Bareilles Kaleidoscope Heart
Sara Bareilles Once Upon Another Time
Sara Haze Things Better Left Unsaid
Sara Jackson-Holman Didn't Go to the Party
Sarah Fimm Given Never Offered
Sarah Fimm There Thy Beauty Lies
Sarah Jaffe Suburban Nature
Sarah McLachlan Touch
Sarah McLachlan Solace
Sarah McLachlan Remixed
Sarah McLachlan Bloom
Sarah McLachlan Shine On
This just doesn't feel the same as older albums by Sarah McLachlan. This just feels like a going-through-the-motions album. The huge emotional element seems to be missing completely.
Sarah Shannon City Morning Song
Sarea Alive
Sarea This Is Not Goodbye
Saturnalia Temple Gravity
Saturnian Mist Shamatanic
Saturnus The Storm Within
Satyricon Megiddo - Mother North in the Dawn
Satyricon Dark Medieval Times
Satyricon Now, Diabolical
Save The Clock Tower The Familiar // The Decay
Savn Savn
Saxon Carpe Diem
Scandroid Scandroid
The dude from Celldweller/Circle of Dust releases a full-on electro-pop album. It's a solid release, but it isn't anything special.
Scar Symmetry Symmetric in Design
Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress
Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase II: Xenotaph
Scardust Strangers
Scarleth Vortex
Scarnival The Hell Within
Scarred Scarred
Scattered Trees Sympathy
Schammasch The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite
Schattenkinder Weisser Regen
Schattenkinder Vision of Nightfall
Schemata Theory Unity In Time
School of Seven Bells Alpinisms
School of Seven Bells Disconnect From Desire
Schoolyard Heroes Abominations
Scorn Gyral
Scorn Zander
Scorn Anamnesis: Rarities 1994-1997
Scorn Colossus
Scorn Greetings from Birmingham
Scorn Deliverance
Scorn White Irises Blind
Scorn Governor
Scorpion Child Acid Roulette
Searching Serenity Retribution
Second To Sun Based On A True Story
Second To Sun The First Chapter
Secret Sphere Blackened Heartbeat
Secrets of the Moon Sun
Self-Hatred Hlubiny
Senses Fail Life Is Not a Waiting Room
Senses Fail Pull the Thorns from Your Heart
Sent By Ravens Sent By Ravens
Sent By Ravens Mean What You Say
Sentenced Shadows of the Past
Sentenced Buried Alive
Septicflesh Communion
Septicflesh Sumerian Daemons
Sepulchral Curse Abhorrent Dimensions
Sepultura Dante XXI
Sepultura Nation
Sepultura Against
Sepultura Machine Messiah
Chaos A.D. was Sepultura's last really good album, and this doesn't change that. At least, though, this is fairly entertaining and kind of experimental by Sep standards.
Seputus Phantom Indigo
Serdce The Alchemy Of Harmony
Serebro Opiumroz
Serenade (IT) Onirica
Serenity War of Ages
Serenity Lionheart
Serianna Define Me
Serpent Column Ornuthi Thalassa
Serum 114 Die Nacht mein Freund
Setanera Spettralia
Settle The Sky Now That We're Waiting
Seven Impale Contrapasso
Seven Kingdoms Seven Kingdoms
Seven Spires Gods Of Debauchery
Sevendust Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow
Sevendust Cold Day Memory
Sevendust Black Out the Sun
It's classic Sevendust... Good enough to be listenable and enjoyable.
Sevendust Best Of (Chapter One 1997-2004)
Sevendust Kill the Flaw
Shade Empire Sinthetic
Shades of Dusk Caress The Despair
Shadow Of Intent Reclaimer
Shadows Fall The Art of Balance
Shadows Fall Of One Blood
Shadows Fall Fallout From The War
Shadows Fall Retribution
Shadowside Inner Monster Out
Shai Hulud That Within Blood Ill-Tempered
Shai Hulud Hearts Once Nourished With Hope...
Shannon Curtis Boomerangs and Seesaws
Shannon Curtis Why Don't You Stay
Shannon Curtis Paris Can't Have You
Shannon Curtis I play the piano and sing love songs
Shannon Hurley California
Shannon Hurley Second Light: the Ready to Wake Up Remixes
Shannon LaBrie Shannon LaBrie
Shape of Despair Alone in the Mist (demo)
Shaping the Legacy Colors of Infinity
Sharks No Gods
She and Him Volume One
She and Him Volume Two
She Must Burn Grimoire
Shelly Fraley Hush (The Secrets Project)
Shelly Fraley Into the Sun
Shinedown Amaryllis
Shining (NOR) One One One
Shining (SWE) X - Varg Utan Flock
Shining Black Shining Black
Shishamo Debut Album
Shishamo Shishamo 2
Shishamo SHISHAMO 6
Shivaree Breach
Shivaree Who's Got Trouble
Shores of Null Quiescence
Skirting the line between gothic rock and melodic death metal, with slight progressive moments. They're pretty solid, but they need a stronger hook or something to help them stand out more.
Shrapnel (UK) The Virus Conspires
It's like a raw version of Slayer with a few modern tendencies, but with a weaker vocalist.
Shura Nothing's Real
Sicarius God of Dead Roots
Sick of It All Yours Truly
Sick of It All Life on the Ropes
Sick of It All When the Smoke Clears
Sigh In Somniphobia
Signs Of The Swarm Amongst The Low And Empty
Sigur Ros ÁTTA
SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild
Silence The Messenger Achilles
Silenmara Collection of Conscience
Silent Line Shattered Shores
Silent Planet Everything Was Sound
Silent Siren mix10th
Silver Bullet (FIN) Shadowfall
Silver Knife Unyielding/Unseeing
Silver Swans Realize The Ghost
Simmer Paper Prisms
Dream Pop meets alt. rock. It's not bad, but it doesn't have the draw that either genre might have on its own.
Sinamore Seven Sins a Second
Sins of Omission The Creation
Sirenia The 13th Floor
Siri Nilsen Alle snakker sant
Siri Nilsen Vi Som Ser I Mørket
Siri Svegler Silent Viewer
Siri Svegler Their Wine
Sister Shotgun Fragments
Six Price of Faith
Six Between the Warning and the War
Sixx:A.M. Prayers For The Blessed (Vol. 2)
Skaldir Ritual, Sex & Blood
Skee Mask Shred
Skepticism Companion
Skinny Puppy Rabies
Skinny Puppy Remix Dystemper
Skinny Puppy B-Sides Collection
Skinny Puppy Brap (Back & Forth Vol. 3 & 4)
Skinny Puppy Inquisition
Skinny Puppy Spasmolytic
Skinny Puppy Tin Omen
Skinny Puppy Tormentor
Skinny Puppy Worlock
Skold Suck
Skold Anomie
Skrew Dusted
Skrillex Quest for Fire
Sky Architect A Billion Years Of Solitude
Slayer Show No Mercy
Slayer Haunting the Chapel
Slayer Undisputed Attitude
Slayer Live Undead
Slayyyter Starfucker
Sleep The Sciences
Sleep of Monsters Produces Reason
Sleep Party People Sleep Party People
Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden
Sleeping Patterns A Little Blood Never Hurt Anyone
Sleeping Romance Alba
Slipknot Day of the Gusano
Corey's voice is shot, and the drummer isn't nearly as good as Joey. Also, I'm not the biggest fan of anything past Iowa, so there's a lot of songs I don't really enjoy. Disasterpieces was near perfect and is probably the only Slipknot live album you'll ever need.
Slow Crush Hush
Slow Fall Obsidian Waves
Slow Season Westing
Slowdive Just for a Day
Slowdive Pygmalion
Smile Empty Soul 3's
Smoke Fairies Through Low Light And Trees
Smoke Fairies Ghosts - A Compilation of A-sides, B-sides and an
SMP Hacked
SMP Pissing On the Legacy
So Below So Below
Soap and Skin Lovetune for Vacuum
Soap and Skin Narrow
Soccer Mommy Clean
Soccer Mommy Color Theory
Society's Plague The Mercy Untold
Sodom Decision Day
Sofia Karlsson Levande
Sofia Karlsson Norr Om Eden
Sofia Karlsson Soder Om Karleken
Sofia Karlsson Svarta Ballader
Sofia Karlsson Visor Fran Vinden
Sofia Kourtesis Madres
Soften the Glare Making Faces
Soilwork A Predator's Portrait
Soilwork Sworn to a Great Divide
Soilwork Live in the Heart of Helsinki
Live album from these guys. It's not bad, but the vocals are much better with some studio magic.
Soilwork A Whisp of the Atlantic
Solefald Neonism
Solefald Red For Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 1
Solefald Black For Death: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 2
Solefald Norrønasongen Kosmopolis Nord
Soley Theater Island
Soliloquium An Empty Frame
Solitude Aeturnus Downfall
Solothus Realm Of Ash And Blood
Solstafir Svartir Sandar
Solstafir Otta
Something Corporate North
Son, Ambulance Key
Sonic Pulsar Out of Place
Sonic Syndicate Eden Fire
Sonic Syndicate Love and Other Disasters
Sophie Ellis-Bextor Trip The Light Fantastic
Sorcerer Reign of the Reaper
Soul Asylum Let Your Dim Light Shine
Soul Asylum And the Horse They Rode In On
Soul Asylum Candy from a Stranger
Soul Asylum After the Flood: Live from the Grand Forks Prom
Soul Asylum Hurry Up and Wait
Soulburn Earthless Pagan Spirit
Soulburn Noa’s D'ark
Soulfly 3
Soulfly Primitive
Soulfly Conquer
Soulfly Omen
Soulfly Enslaved
Soulfly Savages
Soulfly Archangel
Soulfly Ritual
Souls at Zero Souls at Zero
Soulsavers The Light The Dead See
Soundgarden Down on the Upside
Soundgarden Ultramega OK
Soundgarden Screaming Life/Fopp
Soundgarden Telephantasm
Soundgarden King Animal
Source Totality
Space Witch Arcanum
Spangle call Lilli line Ampersand
Spanish Love Songs No Joy
Sparzanza Announcing The End
Spectral Lore Ετερόφωτος
Spellcaster Night Hides the World
Spelling SPELLLING & the Mystery School
Spelljammer Ancient Of Days
Spirit Adrift Curse of Conception
Spiritual Beggars Sunrise to Sundown
Spock's Beard X
Spock's Beard Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep
Spock's Beard Live
Spock's Beard X Tour: Live
Spock's Beard Live in 2005: Gluttons for Punishment
Spock's Beard The Oblivion Particle
I don't like the vocals and the music is a little too mellow and 70s-inspired, but it's still good.
Spotlights Alchemy for the Dead
St. Vincent Strange Mercy
St. Vincent MassEducation
Stabbing Westward Dead & Gone
Staind The Singles: 1996-2006
Staind Staind
Starcrawler Starcrawler
Starset Horizons
Stateside Naïve
Fairly standard female-fronted alternative rock, but it is well executed and catchy, if nothing else.
Static-X Start A War
Static-X Beneath... Between... Beyond
Stay the Night Against The Tides
Stealing Axion Moments
Stealing Axion Aeons
Stefanie Heinzmann Masterplan
Steve Vai Real Illusions: Reflections
Steve Vai Live at the Astoria London (DVD)
Steve Vai Sex and Religion
Steve Vai Alive In An Ultra World
Steve Vai Sound Theories Vol. I and II
Steve Vai Naked Tracks Vol. 5
Steve Vai Naked Tracks Vol. 3
Steve Vai Vai / Nash
Steve Von Till A Deep Voiceless Wilderness
Steven Wilson Insurgentes
Steven Wilson 4 1/2
Steven Wilson To the Bone
Steven Wilson The Harmony Codex
Stick Men Prog Noir
Stimming Alpe Lusia
Stinking Lizaveta Journey to the Underworld
Stone Healer He Who Rides Immolated Horses
Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1
Stortregn Emptiness Fills the Void
Story of the Year Page Avenue
Story of the Year The Black Swan
Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad
Stratovarius Nemesis
Stratovarius Eternal
Stray Devalued and Discarded
Straylight Run Prepare To Be Wrong
Stream Of Passion Live in the Real World
Strigoi Viscera
Stripmall Architecture We Were Flying Kites
Stripmall Architecture Albino Peacock
Stripmall Architecture Feathersongs For Factory Girls (Part 2)
Strung Out Live in a Dive
Strung Out An American Paradox
Strung Out The Element of Sonic Defiance
Strung Out Prototypes and Painkillers
Strychnos A Mother's Curse
Stuck Mojo Violate This
Stuck Mojo Rising
Stygian Crown Stygian Crown
Sub Urban Hive
Sublime Robbin' the Hood
SubRosa (US) For This We Fought the Battle of Ages
Subsignal Touchstones
Succumb XXI
Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning
Suffocation Hymns From the Apocrypha
Sugar Ray Sugar Ray
Sugar Ray 14:59
Sugar Ray Little Yachty
Sugarplum Fairies The Images We Get
Sugarplum Fairies Chinese Leftovers
Sugarplum Fairies country international records
Suicidal Tendencies How Will I Laugh Tomorrow If I Can't Even Smile Today?
Suicidal Tendencies 13
Suicidal Tendencies World Gone Mad
Sum 41 All Killer No Filler
Sum 41 Half Hour Of Power
Sum 41 Screaming Bloody Murder
SUMAC What One Becomes
SUMAC Love In Shadow
Summer Fiction Summer Fiction
Summer People Good Problems
Summer People Teamwork
Sumptus Ignis The Kindred Dark
Sunken Livslede
SunStare Ziusudra
Super Snake Leap of Love
Surma The Light Within
Susperia Cut From Stone
Susperia Predominance
Svartelder Pyres
Svartsyn In Death
Svarttjern Dødsskrik
Svarttjern Shame Is Just A Word
Svederna Härd
Svvamp Svvamp
Swallow the Sun Emerald Forest and the Blackbird
Swallow the Sun Songs from the North I, II & III
Swallow the Sun 20 Years of Gloom, Beauty and Despair
Swans The Glowing Man
Swans The Beggar
Swansong Awakening
Swarms Old Raves End
Switchblade Symphony Serpentine Gallery
Switchblade Symphony The Three Calamities
Switchblade Symphony Bread and Jam for Frances
Sworn In All Smiles
Sybreed The Pulse of Awakening
The one-time industrial metal band are now simply another groove metal act except with a bit more electronics thrown in. Most of the aggression has been replaced by slick and catchy riffs that aren't really bad or good. This is a decent listen but nothing anyone will be upset that they missed. Again, don't listen to this expecting Fear Factory or Samael because their influence won't be found here. If you want a band comparison it's this: This is basically latter-day Soilwork with an electronic influence.
Sydney Sprague maybe i will see you at the end of the world
Sylosis Edge of the Earth
Sylvaine Wistful
Sylvan Esso What Now
Symbiotic Growth Symbiotic Growth
Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Symphony X The Odyssey
Symphony X Twilight in Olympus
Symphony X The Damnation Game
Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite
Symphony X Iconoclast
Synthetic Breed Perpetual Motion Machine
Excellent clean vocals and cool music. Suffers from a thin drum sound and sub-par harsh vocals.
Syrebris Aetheric Dynamics
System Divide The Collapse
T.O.M.B. Thin the Veil
Tad Morose Leaving the Past Behind
Tad Morose Sender of Thoughts
Take Over And Destroy Take Over and Destroy
Taken By Trees Open Field
Taking Back Sunday Tidal Wave
Tamaryn The Waves
Tame Impala Innerspeaker
Tame Impala Lonerism
Tancred Out of the Garden
Standard female-fronted indie pop rock. It's good, but there's nothing special about it.
Tankard Pavlov's Dawgs
Tara MacLean Signs Of Life
Tarja Turunen Act I
Tarja Turunen Act II
Tears for Fears The Tipping Point
Tears of a fallen hero Save us from ourselves
Decent alternative punk. Kind of has a stripped down Yellowcard feel.
Tearwave Different Shade of Beauty
Tech N9ne The Calm Before The Storm
Tech N9ne The Worst
Tech N9ne Anghellic
Tech N9ne Celcius
Tech N9ne The Lost Scripts of K.O.D.
Tech N9ne The Gates Mixed Plate
Tech N9ne Klusterfuk
Teenage Fanclub Here
Teenage Wrist Dazed
Tegan and Sara So Jealous
Tele Novella House of Souls
TEMIC Terror Management Theory
Tempel (USA-AZ) On the Steps of the Temple
Temperance (IT) Temperance
If you're a fan of Amaranthe's upbeat, female-fronted power metal then you'll most likely be a fan of this too. Not so much of a metalcore infuence as Amaranthe and that makes this even more upbeat and poppy.
Temple of Void Lords Of Death
Temple of Void The World That Was
Teramaze Anhedonia
Teramaze Flight of The Wounded
Terminalist The Great Acceleration
Terra Naomi You For Me
Terra Naomi To Know I'm Ok
Terra Naomi Under The Influence
Terraform (UK) Adrift
Tesla Psychotic Supper
Tesla Bust A Nut
TesseracT Concealing Fate
TesseracT Altered State
TesseracT War of Being
Testament The Legacy
Testament Souls of Black
Tetrafusion Altered State
Textures Polars
Thantifaxath Hive Mind Narcosis
The Absence From Your Grave
The Acacia Strain Gravebloom
The Acacia Strain Step Into The Light
The Aces When My Heart Felt Volcanic
The Aces I've Loved You For So Long
The Advent Equation Remnants of Oblivion
The Afghan Whigs Black Love
The Afterimage Lumière
The Agonist Once Only Imagined
The Agonist Lullabies for the Dormant Mind
The Agonist Five
The Album Leaf Between Waves
The Almost Southern Weather
The Almost Monster Monster EP
The Almost Fear Caller
The Amenta n0n
The Amenta Revelator
The Amenta Plague of Locus
The Amity Affliction Youngbloods
The Amity Affliction Chasing Ghosts
The Amity Affliction Let the Ocean Take Me
The Amity Affliction This Could Be Heartbreak
The Amity Affliction Everyone Loves You... Once You Leave Them
The Anix An Illusion Of Time
The Apprehended At Arms Length
The Armed These Are Lights
The Armed Common Enemies
The Armed Young & Beautiful
The Armed Only Love
The Armed Perfect Saviors
The Artifact Eternal Dreams and What Could Be
The Artificials The Artificials
The Attraction The Sleepless
The Avalanches Since I Left You
The Band Perry Pioneer
The Bareth Sessions Gelatin World
The Beaches (ON) Blame My Ex
The Beatles Let It Be
The Beatles The Beatles
The Beatles Help!
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beths Expert in a Dying Field
The Birthday Massacre Show And Tell
The Birthday Massacre Imaginary Monsters
The Birthday Massacre Imagica (Remaster)
The Bitter Season Embrace of the Sea
The Black Lips Apocalypse Love
The Black Pacific The Black Pacific
The Blight Meditations on Insignificance
The Boo Radleys Eight
The Bridges Limits Of The Sky
The Browning Isolation
The Bunny The Bear Food Chain
The Burial In The Taking Of Flesh
The Burning of Rome With Us
The Callen Sisters The Callen Sisters
The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist
The Chant Ghostlines
The Charm The Fury A Shade of My Former Self
The Charm The Fury The Sick, Dumb & Happy
The Chemical Brothers Come with Us
The Chemical Brothers Surrender
The Chemical Brothers Exit Planet Dust
The Chemical Brothers Hanna OST
The Chemical Brothers For That Beautiful Feeling
The Clay People The Clay People
The Colourist The Colourist
Upbeat indie pop. Not bad not great. There's just no defining characteristic to this band.
The Contortionist Language
The Contortionist Clairvoyant
The Corrs Talk on Corners
The Corrs Borrowed Heaven
The Corrs Home
The Cranberries Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
The Cranberries Roses
The Creatures Anima Animus
The Crown Deathrace King
The Crown Crowned in Terror
The Crown Royal Destroyer
The Crystal Method Keep Hope Alive
The Crystalline Effect Identity
The Cult Under The Midnight Sun
The Cure Pornography
The Cure Boys Don't Cry
The Cure Bestival Live 2011
The Custodian Necessary Wasted Time
The Dangerous Summer War Paint
The Dark Side of the Moon Metamorphosis
The biggest thing this has going for it is the vocals of Melissa Bonny. If not for her, it probably wouldn't even be on most people's radar. The music is decently done modern metal / symphonic metal with some fantasy / folk elements. Essentially, if her Ad Infinitum band was heavier yet cheesier, you would have this. Features a ton of guest vocalists, most don't make the songs any better... Fabienne Erni and Charlotte Wessels are the exceptions.
The Dead Milkmen Death Rides a Pale Cow (The Ultimate Collection)
The Dear Hunter The Indigo Child
The Dear Hunter Antimai
The Deep North The Deep North
The Deep North Sound and Light
The Demon Haunted World That Which Lies Unseen
The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below
The Devil Wears Prada Zombie
The Devil Wears Prada Transit Blues
The Devil's Trade Vidékek Vannak Idebenn
The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra
The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution
The Difference Between Old Ghosts
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity
The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation
The Dismemberment Plan Uncanney Valley
The Dyatlov Incident Blueprints EP
The Echoing Green Music From The Ocean Picture
The Echoing Green In Scarlet And Vile
The Echoing Green The Evergreen Collection
The Ethnographers the ethnographers
The Flaming Lips The Terror
The Flower Kings Look At You Now
The Funeral Portrait A Moment Of Silence
The Future Sound of London Accelerator
The Future Sound of London ISDN
The Gathering Sleepy Buildings:A Semi-Acoustic Evening
The Gathering Black Light District
The Gathering Blueprints
The Ghost Inside Get What You Give
The Ghost Inside Dear Youth
The Grandmaster Skywards
The Grates Teeth Lost, Hearts Won
The Great Discord The Rabbit Hole
The Haunted The Dead Eye
The Haunted Versus
The Haunted Road Kill
The Haunting Survivor's Guilt
The Heavy Heavy Life and Life Only
The Heavy Hours The Heavy Hours
The Hirsch Effekt Holon: Anamnesis
The Hirsch Effekt Holon: Agnosie
The Hirsch Effekt Urian
The Horrors Strange House
The Horrors Primary Colours
The Horrors Skying
The Human Abstract Nocturne
The Hunger Finding Who We Are
The Hush Sound Goodbye Blues
The Inflorescence Remember What I Look Like
The Jezabels The Man Is Dead
The Keening Little Bird
The Knife Deep Cuts
The Kovenant In Times Before the Light
The Kovenant In Times Before the Light (Re-Recording)
The Kryptik A Journey to the Darkest Kingdom
The Last Felony Too Many Humans
The Last Ten Seconds Of Life The Violent Sound
The Letter Black Breaking The Silence EP
The Letter Black Rebuild
The Letter Black Hanging on By a Remix
The Lion's Daughter Skin Show
The Living The Living
The Lotus Throne Occvlt
The LoveCrave Soul Saliva
The Lurking Fear Out Of The Voiceless Grave
The Lurking Fear Death, Madness, Horror, Decay
The Mars Volta Noctourniquet
The Matador (AU) Descent Into the Maelstrom
The Materia Darklander
The Material To Weather The Storm
The Material What We Are
The Menzingers On the Impossible Past
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones A Jackknife To A Swan
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Pay Attention
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Pin Points and Gin Joints
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones The Magic of Youth
The Mist From the Mountains Monumental - The Temple of Twilight
The Monolith Deathcult Trivmvirate
The Monolith Deathcult V3 - Vernedering: Connect the Goddamn Dots
The Moth Gatherer Esoteric Oppression
The Movielife Cities In Search Of A Heart
The Murder Capital Gigi's Recovery
The Mute Gods Tardigrades Will Inherit The Earth
The Mynabirds Generals
The Mystical Hot Chocolate Endeavors A Clock Without A Craftsman
The Narrative Just Say Yes
The National First Two Pages of Frankenstein
The New Low Continuance
The Night Flight Orchestra Sometimes The World Ain't Enough
The Night Flight Orchestra Aeromantic
The Night Flight Orchestra Aeromantic II
The Obsessed Sacred
The Occult Necropolis
The Ocean Precambrian
The Ocean Heliocentric
The Ocean Phanerozoic Live
The Ocean Holocene
The Offering Home
The Offspring Splinter
The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
The Omega Experiment The Omega Experiment
The Ongoing Concept Places
The Orb Pomme Fritz
The Orb Orbscure Trax
The Orb Cydonia
The Orb Bicycles and Tricycles
The Orb Orbserving the Star House in Dub
The Orb Moonbuilding 2703 Ad Remixes / Sin in Space, Pt. 1
The Orb COW / Chill Out, World!
The Orb Abolition of the Royal Familia
The Orb Prism
The Ossuary Oltretomba
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Days of Abandon
Mellow, poppy, dream pop. It's good in small doses but doesn't really go anywhere and is entirely unmemorable.
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Echo of Pleasure
the peggies Anemone EP
The Pineapple Thief Your Wilderness
The Postmarks The Postmarks
The Postmarks By The Numbers
The Prodigy Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
The Project Hate MCMXCIX Armageddon March Eternal
The Project Hate MCMXCIX Abominations of the Ageless
The Prophecy Salvation
The Radio Dept. Running Out of Love
The Range Potential
The Razor Skyline Journal of Trauma
The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors
The Ritual Aura Heresiarch
The Royal Origins
The Ruins of Beverast The Thule Grimoires
The Safety Fire Grind the Ocean
The Scalar Process Coagulative Matter
The Schoenberg Automaton Apus
The Sea Within The Sea Within
The Shizit Live At Club Spirit
The Shizit Script Kiddie
The Shizit Evil Inside
Drum&Bass, Gaber, swirling electronics, heavy guitar riffs, speed and aggression, and even a little bit of nu-metal (it was 1999, after all). The Shizits first demo release for mp3.com back in the late nineties is surprisingly good. On this release the electronics and beats are definitely in the forefront with the riffs buried beneath, but it works. Also, the vocals include screaming, whispering, spoken word and actual singing. Of course, there are a few things that dont work but they dont detract very much from the songs. The biggest issue here is the muddy production. It robs the songs of a lot of their power, but in no way makes this unlistenable.
The Shys You'll Never Understand this Band...
The Soft Pink Truth Is It Going to Get Any Deeper Than This?
The Soundbyte Solitary IV
The Starting Line Direction
The Starting Line Anyways
It's good, so that's a step up for this band. I really liked their debut, but they lost me after that. This is a step in the right direction.
The Story So Far What You Don't See
The Strokes Is This It
The Sugarcubes Life's Too Good
The Sugarcubes Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!
The Thermals Desperate Ground
The Troops Of Doom Anthichrist Reborn
The Twilight Singers She Loves You
The Twilight Singers A Stitch In Time
The Used The Canyon
The Verve Urban Hymns
The Wakedead Gathering Parallaxiom
The Watchers Black Abyss
The White Stripes Elephant
The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation
The Wonder Years The Hum Goes on Forever
The Word Alive Deceiver
The Word Alive Real.
The Word Alive Dark Matter
The Word Alive Monomania
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Always Foreign
Theatre Of Tragedy Addenda
Theatre Of Tragedy Closure: Live
Theocracy Ghost Ship
Theocracy Mosaic
Thera For Someone, Somewhere
Therapy? Semi-Detached
Therapy? Nurse
Therapy? Crooked Timber
Therapy? Disquiet
Therion Vovin
Therion Secret of the Runes
Therion Leviathan
Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind
Third Eye Blind Blue
Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War
This Ending Garden of Death
Thomas Azier Love, Disorderly
Thormenthor Abstract Divinity
Thorn Evergloom
Thou Magus
thoughtcrimes Altered Pasts
Thragedium Lisboa Depois De Morta
Threat Signal Under Reprisal
Threat Signal Threat Signal
Thrice Identity Crisis
Thrice Beggars
Thrice Major/Minor
Thrice Anthology
Throes of Dawn Quicksilver Clouds
Throes of Dawn Binding of the Spirit
Thron Pilgrim
Thulcandra Hail The Abyss
Thursday Full Collapse
Thursday No Devolucion
Thy Art Is Murder Dear Desolation
Thy Art Is Murder Godlike
Thy Catafalque Naiv
Thy Catafalque Alföld
Tiamat The Sleeping Beauty - Live in Israel
Tides From Nebula Earthshine
Tides From Nebula Eternal Movement
Tides From Nebula Safeheaven
Tigers Jaw Charmer
Run-of-the-mill indie rock. It's hard to listen to it and find anything particularly wrong with it. It's just as hard to find any reason to replay it after it's over.
To Cast a Shadow In Memory Of
To Destroy A City To Destroy A City
To Paint the Sky The Ghost
To Speak Of Wolves Dead in the Shadow
Tomahawk Mit Gas
Tomahawk Anonymous
Tomahawk Oddfellows
Tombs Monarchy of Shadows
Tomorrow's Rain Hollow
Tonight Alive Limitless
These guys (and girl) definitely aren't the pop-punk band that we knew on previous albums. They're now a slick pop band with occasional flirtations with alt rock. It works, though.
Tons Filthy Flowers of Doom
Tony Martin Thorns
Toothgrinder Turning Of The Tides
Toothgrinder Vibration/Color/Frequency
Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk
Tori Amos Little Earthquakes
Tori Amos Strange Little Girls
Tori Amos Under the Pink
Tori Amos Boys for Pele
Tori Amos To Venus and Back
Torrential Rain Digital Dreams
Tortorum Katabasis
It's another black metal album. Not great but not bad. Nothing really helps it to stand out.
Totengeflster Im Nebel der Vergänglichkeit
Touche Amore Stage Four
Touchstone Mad Hatters
Touchstone Wintercoast
Touchstone Oceans of Time
Tower Shock to the System
Toxicon Be the Fire & Wish for the Wind
Toxik Think This
Transcending Bizarre? The Serpent's Manifolds
Transcending Bizarre? The Four Scissors
Trap Them Crown Feral
Travis The Invisible Band
Trespassers William Anchor
Trespassers William The Natural Order of Things
Trespassers William Noble House
Trespassers William Cast
Trespassers William Love You More (Live At KCRW)
Tribe After Tribe Enchanted Entrance
Tribes of Cain Essence of Fire
Tricky Blowback
Tricky False Idols
Tricky ununiform
Triptides Afterglow
Tristania World of Glass
Tristania Illumination
Tristania Widow's Weeds
Trivium In Waves
Trivium The Sin and the Sentence
Troldhaugen Obzkure Anekdotez For Maniakal Massez
Trouble Trouble
Trouble The Skull
Trouble Trouble/Psalm 9
Truth Club Running From the Chase
Tsjuder Antiliv
Tsjuder Helvegr
TT LoveLaws
Tungsten (SWE) Bliss
Twelve Foot Ninja Outlier
Twilight Force At the Heart of Wintervale
Twisted Into Form Then Comes Affliction to Awaken the Dreamer
Twitch of the Death Nerve Beset by False Prophets
Twitching Tongues Gaining Purpose Through Passionate Hatred
Tycho Epoch
Tying Tiffany Dark Days, White Nights
Type O Negative World Coming Down
Type O Negative Slow, Deep, and Hard
Type O Negative The Origin of the Feces
Type O Negative Life Is Killing Me
Tyrant (USA) Hereafter
Uada Cult of a Dying Sun
Uada Crepuscule Natura
Ufomammut Fenice
Ugly Kid Joe Neighbor
Ugly Kid Joe Everything About You
Ugly Kid Joe Rad Wings Of Destiny
This isn't the Hate Everything About You UKJ. It's not even Menace To Sobriety. It's like an AC/DC, GnR, gritty rock version. Maybe they reinvented themselves before this, but I haven't bothered with them in awhile.
Ulcerate Everything Is Fire
Ulthar Anthronomicon
Ulthar Helionomicon
Ultima Grace Ultima Grace
Ulvedharr Total War
Ulver Kveldssanger
Ulver Blood Inside
Ulver A Quick Fix of Melancholy
Ulver Metamorphosis
Ulver Teachings In Silence
Ulver Silence Teaches You How to Sing EP
Ulver Silencing the Singing
Ulver Wars of the Roses
Ulver Childhood's End
Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X
Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP
There was a 4-album span (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell through War of the Roses) that I really liked these guys, but they've just gone too far into the abstract for me.
Uncaved Dogmatorraistes
Underoath The Changing of Times
Underworld Oblivion with Bells
Underworld Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future
Une Misére Sermon
Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire
Unearth Our Days of Eulogy
Unearth The March
Uneven Structure 8
Uneven Structure Februus
Unfurl Ascension
Unisonic Light of Dawn
Unisonic For the Kingdom
Decent new songs. Excellent live songs. The two best members of Helloween still have it.
Universe 217 Universe217
Universe 217 Never
Universe 217 Change
Universum Leto Destinatus
Unleash The Archers Behold the Devastation
Unleash The Archers Demons Of The AstroWaste
Unleash The Archers Time Stands Still
Unleash The Archers Abyss
Untamed Land Like Creatures Seeking Their Own Forms
Unter Null Sacrament EP
Unter Null Absolution EP
Until I Wake Inside My Head
Until Sunrise Until Sunrise
Until The Uprising Out of Time
Until We Are Ghosts Detach Me From You
Unwritten Law Music In High Places
Unwritten Law Swan
Unwritten Law Acoustic
Uriah Heep Chaos & Colour
Urne A Feast On Sorrow
Vader De Profundis
Vader Solitude in Madness
Vainaja Verenvalaja
Atmospheric funeral doom. It's pretty good, but funeral doom has to be really good in order to stick.
Valdrin Beyond the Forest
Vale Burden of Sight
Vale of Pnath Vale of Pnath
Vale of Pnath The Prodigal Empire
Vale of Pnath II
Valery Gore Avalanche to Wandering Bear
Vales Clarity
Valgrind Blackest Horizon
Vali Skogslandskap
Vallenfyre Splinters
Old school doom/death. Much better than their debut album.
Vampire Rodents Lullaby Land
Vampire Rodents Clockseed
Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City
Van Halen Van Halen II
Van Halen Diver Down
Vanessa Carlton Harmonium
Vanessa Carlton Best Of Vanessa Carlton
Vanessa Van Basten La Stanza di Swedenborg
Vanessa Van Basten Closer to the Small Dark Door
Vanhelgd Relics of Sulphur Salvation
Vanhelgd Temple of Phobos
The production is really good, and the songwriting is 'whatever', but on the good side of whatever.
Vanishing Life Surveillance
Vanishing Point Embrace The Silence
Vanishing Point In Thought
Vanum Ageless Fire
Varg (DE) Ewige Wacht
Varia Awakened by the Setting Sun
Various Artists (Metal) Grind Madness at the BBC
Varmia Nie Nas Widzę
VASA Colours
Vatican Ultra
Vattnet Vattnet
Vaughan Penn Solitary Girl
Vedera Stages
Vedera The Weight Of An Empty Room
Vehemence Helping the World to See
Vehemence God Was Created
Vehemence Forward Without Motion
Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse
Veil of Maya [id]
Veil of Maya Eclipse
Vektor Black Future
Velaraas Pantheon
Velvet Acid Christ The Art of Breaking Apart
Veni Domine IIII - The Album of Labour
Veni Domine Light
Queensryche-style prog. Kind of reminds me of Rage for Order-era stuff, but mellower. Maybe a little bit of Pain of Salvation too, because this is kind of odd. The main issue is the vocals. There are some terrible fucking vocals in places.
Venice Is Sinking Sand & Lines
Venke Knutson Places I Have Been
Venke Knutson Scared
Venom Prison Erebos
Verderbnis Paria
Verite Sentiment
Verite new skin
Veronica Falls Veronica Falls
VersaEmerge VersaEmerge
VersaEmerge Fixed at Zero
Versus The World Drink. Sing. Live. Love.
Versus The World Versus the World
Vertigo steps The Melancholy Hour
Veruca Salt Ghost Notes
Vesania Deus Ex Machina
Vespera A Fragile Seed
Vestals Metaphysical
Via Obscura Gedanken
Vicious Blossom You Breathe Inside Of Me
Vicious Rumors Warball
Vicious Rumors Soldiers Of The Night
Vicious Rumors Cyberchrist
Vicious Rumors Live You to Death
Vicious Rumors Electric Punishment
Vicious Rumors Celebration Decay
Victoria K Essentia
Victoria K Kore
Vildhjarta Thousands Of Evils
Vinterbris Vinterbris
Vio-Lence Eternal Nightmare
Violet Cold Lilu
Violet Cold Anomie
Violet Cold I Am Isolation
Virtual Symmetry (IT) Message from Eternity
Visigoth Conqueror's Oath
Visions Of Atlantis Pirates
Vital Spirit In The Faith That Looks Through Death
Vitriol Suffer & Become
Vitruvius Vitruvius 1
Vittra Blasphemy Blues
Viza Carnivalia
Void Chapter humAnIty
Void Of Silence Criteria ov 666
Voidhaven Lithic
Voivod Angel Rat
Voivod Lives
Voivod RRRÖÖÖAAARRR
Voivod War and Pain
Voivod The End Of Dormancy
VOLA Monsters
VOLA Homesick Machinery
Volbeat Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie
Volcandra The Way of Ancients
Volumes The Concept of Dreaming
Volumes Via
Vorna Aamunkoi
Vortech Posthumanism
Vortech Wasteland
Votum Metafiction
Vreid Lifehunger
Vulvodynia Praenuntius Infiniti
VYGR Vygr
Wagon Christ Throbbing Pouch
WAIT The End of Noise
Waldgefluster Mondscheinsonaten
Walking With Strangers Buried, Dead & Done
Waltari Global Rock
Wanderer (MN) Liberation from a Brutalist Existence
War of Ages Alpha
War of Ages Dominion
Wardruna Kvitravn
Wardruna Kvitravn - First Flight of the White Raven
Wares Survival
Warforged The Grove | Sundial
Warlock Triumph and Agony
Warlock Hellbound
Warlust Unearthing Shattered Philosophies
Warmen Here for None
Warning Watching from a Distance
Warpaint Exquisite Corpse
Warrant Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
Warrior Soul Chill Pill
Watain The Wild Hunt
Watain Trident Wolf Eclipse
Watchtower Energetic Disassembly
We Are Scientists With Love and Squalor
We Are Scientists Lobes
We Are Temporary Crossing Over
We Are The In Crowd Best Intentions
We Are The In Crowd Weird Kids
We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth
We Lost the Sea Crimea
We Lost the Sea Triumph and Disaster
Weight of Emptiness Conquering the Deep Cycle
Werewolves The Dead Are Screaming
Werewolves My Enemies Look And Sound Like Me
West Indian Girl West Indian Girl
Weyes Blood Front Row Seat to Earth
Weyes Blood And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
When Nothing Remains As All Torn Asunder
When We Land Introvert's Plight
While Heaven Wept Of Empires Forlorn
White Lion Mane Attraction
White Lion Return of the Pride
Whitechapel The Valley
Whitechapel Kin
Whitesnake Saints and Sinners
Whitesnake Slide It In
Whitesnake Whitesnake's Greatest Hits
Whitesnake Come An' Get It
Whitesnake Live... In the Heart of the City
Whitesnake Here I Go Again: The Whitesnake Collection
Who Is She? Goddess Energy
Whom Gods Destroy Insanium
Widowspeak Plum
Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed II
Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed III
Wiegedood There's Always Blood at the End of the Road
Wild Belle Isles
Wild Ones You're a Winner
Wild Pink ILYSM
William Orbit Pieces in a Modern Style
William Shatner Ponder the Mystery
Not the joke that you might expect. Pink Floyd-ish prog rock with William Shatner's spoken word lyrics over the top. Great for parties ;)
Wills Dissolve Echoes
Wilt (CAN) Moving Monoliths
Wilt (CAN) Ruin
Windhand Windhand
Windhand Grief's Infernal Flower
Windrunner MAI
Winds of Plague Blood of My Enemy
Windswept The Onlooker
Windwaker Love Language
Winter (USA-CA) Endless Space (Between You & I)
Winterborn Cold Reality
Winterfylleth The Threnody of Triumph
Winterhorde Neptunian
Winterhymn Blood & Shadow
Winterus In Carbon Mysticism
Witchbreed Heretic Rapture
Witchcryer Cry Witch
Witchskull A Driftwood Cross
With Daggers Drawn Heart of the Universe
Withem The Unforgiving Road
Withered Memento Mori
Withered Folie Circulaire
Withered Dualitas
Withered Grief Relic
Withered Verloren
Withered Bones In Search of Self-Evidence
Witherfall Nocturnes and Requiems
Witherfall Curse Of Autumn
Withering Surface Meet Your Maker
Within Temptation Enter
Within the Ruins Empires
Within the Ruins Creature
Without Waves Comedian
WL Hold
Woe Hope Attrition
Wolfheart Skull Soldiers
Wolfheart (CAN) Subtle Bodies
Wolves at the Gate Types & Shadows
Wooden Shjips Back To Land
Worker Bees Worker Bees
Wormed Krighsu
Wormrot Voices
Wormrot Hiss
Wormwitch Wolf Hex
Wovenwar Honor Is Dead
WOWOD Yarost’ I Proshchenie
Wratheon Becoming Nil
Wreck and Reference Indifferent Rivers Romance End
Wrekmeister Harmonies Light Falls
Wrong (USA-FL) Wrong
Wumpscut Body Census
Wumpscut Bunkertor 7 (Re-Sample Edition)
Wumpscut Cannibal Anthem
Wumpscut Women and Satan First
Wumpscut Wüterich
WVRM Colony Collapse
Wyldest Feed the Flowers Nightmares
Xandria Ravenheart
Xeper Ad Numen Satanae
Xerath I
Xerath II
Xerath III
Xibalba Años En Infierno
Xion Between Shadows And Gods
Xordia Neolux
Yael Meyer Common Ground
Yagon Beyond
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool It Down
Year of No Light Tocsin
Yellowcard When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes Acoustic
Yeule Serotonin II
Yeule Glitch Princess
Yo La Tengo This Stupid World
YOB The Great Cessation
YOB Our Raw Heart
Young American Primitive Young American Primitive
Young Legionnaire Crisis Works
Young Legionnaire Zero Worship
Young Summer You Would Have Loved It Here
Youth Code An Overture
Zao The Funeral of God
Zao Parade of Chaos
Zao Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest
Zao Liberate Te Ex Inferis
Zao Legendary
Zao The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here
Zao Awake?
Zao The 2nd Era
Zao The Well-Intentioned Virus
Zeal and Ardor Zeal and Ardor
Zed Trouble In Eden
Zella Day Where Does The Devil Hide
Zella Day Sunday In Heaven
Zero 7 Simple Things
Zero Hour Specs of Pictures Burnt Beyond
Zero Hour Metamorphosis
Zero Theorem Ataraxis
Zirakzigil Worldbuilder
ZOMBIESHARK! Die Laughing.
Zonder/Wehrkamp If It's Real
Zwielicht The Aphotic Embrace

2.9 good
10 Years Minus the Machine
40 Below Summer Transmission Infrared
A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You
Abigail Williams Legend
Acelsia Don't Go Where I Can't Follow
Act of Defiance Birth and the Burial
Kind of like Testament meets Nevermore with a singer that kind of reminds me of a more aggressive take on early Trivium vocals. There's a few parts that scream Megadeth, but mostly it's obvious why none of this would work with the previous band. Shawn Drover is as boring (yet solid) as always.
Agharti Change
Agrypnie Asche
Althea The Art of Trees
Amber Sea Infantile Vision
Ana Alcaide Como La Luna Y El Sol
Anavae Into The Aether
Angelspit The Product
"Hello My Name Is" and "Carbon Beauty" were such good albums. The band had finally started to expand on their bare-bones beats/noise/punky vocals formula and it was working. This is a step back. Bummer.
Angelus Apatrida Hidden Evolution
Anna Ternheim Anna Ternheim
Anneke van Giersbergen & Danny Cavanagh In Parallel
As excellent as the names attached to this imply... take that statement for what it's worth. Acoustic renditions of both Agua de Annique and Anathema songs as well as a few choice cover songs (including Massive Attack).
Antigama Resonance
Arch Enemy Burning Bridges
This is it.... this is the moment Arch Enemy found their sound, and nearly 20 years later it hasn't changed much at all. Maybe more keyboards, maybe cheesier melodic leads, and definitely better vocalists... but this is still the blueprint to every album they've released since. At least this is the last time we'd hear their original vocalist.
As Paradise Falls Digital Ritual
Astral Display Prometheus
Atena Subway Anthem
Biohazard Urban Discipline
Biohazard No Holds Barred: Live In Europe
Body Count Manslaughter
It's Ice-T, bitches! Rockin' like it's 1995 -- more hardcore/metal than nu-metal, and tolerable cause it's Ice-T. Anyone new did this album and it would have never made it off its Bandcamp page. The cover of Suicidal Tendencies' 'Institutionalized' is definitely worth listening to.
Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper
Celtic Frost Parched With Thirst Am I and Dying
Chemlab Suture
Children of Bodom Trashed, Lost & Strungout
Circles The Last One
Coram Lethe Heterodox
Coronatus Cantus Lucidus
Coronatus Raben im Herz
Corrosion of Conformity IX
Cryptodira The Angel of History
Dark Doom Dust
Dark Tranquillity The Mind's I
Denouncement Pyre Black Sun Unbound
Diamonds to Dust Amidst the Hallowed and the Vanquished
Dianthus Realms
Dimmu Borgir Abrahadabra
Dream Theater Wither
Dying Empire Samsara
Earth Crisis Gomorrah's Season Ends
Earth Crisis Salvation of Innocents
It's hardcore with a metal edge. I didn't really hear anything special, though.
Elyne Alibi
Empyrios Zion
It's good, but nothing special. Djent, progressive, whatever.
Evarose Creation Divide
Flotsam and Jetsam Dreams of Death
For Today Wake
Forever Orion Passion. Love. Harmony.
Fortress Under Siege Envy
Freedoms Reign Freedoms Reign
Kind of reminds me of a stripped-down, old school Fates Warning album mixed with a bit of classic Ozzy. It's good.
Gardenian Two Feet Stand
Gengahr Where Wildness Grows
Graveworm Fragments of Death
Hatebreed Satisfaction Is The Death Of Desire
Havamal The Shadow Chapter
I Prevail TRAUMA
If I Were You End of an Era
Insane Vesper Layil
Invisius The Spawn of Condemnation
Jessie Frye Obsidian
Run-of-the-mill electro pop. Nothing special but not terrible.
Killing Joke Fire Dances
Kjeld Ôfstân
Kreator Love Us or Hate Us: The Very Best of the Noise
Kryoburn Three Years Eclipsed
Kyuss ...And the Circus Leaves Town
La-Ventura White Crow
Leaves' Eyes King Of Kings
Lenore S. Fingers Inner Tales
I love doom, goth and all that kind of stuff -- but, my god, this just seems to drag. There's some cool ideas, decent melodies and the tempos vary enough to keep things going, but the female vocals are so damn bland.
Lifeforms Synthetic
Linkin Park Live In Texas
Lufeh Luggage Falling Down
Magica Hereafter
Malevolent Creation Dead Man's Path
Manticora To Kill to Live to Kill
MindAhead Reflections
Ministry The Last Dubber
Motionless in White Infamous
Muddles Mind Muddling
Mushroomhead Mushroomhead
My Elysian My Elysian
Napalm Death Scum
Neikka RPM Rise Of The 13th Serpent
Netherbird The Grander Voyage
Nexus (AU) Eve of Destruction
Night in Gales Five Scars
Nile Worship the Animal (1994 the Lost Recordings)
Niobeth Silvery Moonbeams
Oblivion Called to Rise
Orbs Asleep Next to Science
P.O.D. Testify
Paradise Lost Tragic Illusion 25
Project Theory Blood And Loyalty
Psychothermia Fall To The Rising Sun
These guys have some serious potential, but as of right now they don't equal the sum of their parts. There are some awesome ideas and riffs and they're definitely ambitious, but it just doesn't come together in any interesting way. Maybe next time.
Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime II
Quo Vadis (POL) Born to Die
Reachback Wake Up
Sacramento Weight of Sin
Satyricon The Shadowthrone
Silenmara A Darkened Visionary
Sirenia At Sixes And Sevens
Sleep Party People We Were Drifting On A Sad Song
Slytract Existing Unreal
Snow Burial Painting the Streets With Our Blood
Soulspell A Legacy Of Honor
Spider Island Morals of a Dead Wave
Faceless alt. prog without anything to really make it stand out. Even the vocals are just kind of there. How do you make prog that does nothing and goes nowhere?
Tartufi These Factory Days
The Artificials Heart
The Last Void State Of Mind
To the Rats and Wolves Cheap Love
Tool Opiate
Vigilante The Heroes Code
Viscera (UK) Obsidian
VRSTY Welcome Home
Wild Hunt Before The Plane Of Angles
Wine From Tears Through the Eyes of a Mad
Xandria India
Xenia Trash Of Gold

2.8 good
9electric The Damaged Ones
A Province Of Thay Atonement
A War Within Believe
A Wilhelm Scream Benefits of Thinking Out Loud
Abigail's Ghost Unmastered
Adema Adema
Aethere Adrift
Against Myself Odyssey to Reflexion
Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere
I've never been a big fan of these guys, and now I'm even less of one. This is aimless and without the few redeeming qualities that occasionally made them tolerable.
Akercocke The Goat of Mendes
Akraia Mistress
Akroma Apocalypse (Requiem)
The symphonic/goth black metal music is good. The female vocals are good. The death metal vocals are good. The black metal vocals are terrible.
All That Remains Behind Silence and Solitude
All That Remains Overcome
Alyson Avenue Omega II
Amanda Somerville In The Beginning There Was
Amanda Somerville Blue Nothing
An Early Fall Light the Touch Paper
It's basically average female-fronted alt. rock. Not bad, but nothing exciting.
Ananta In Media Res
Anathema Eternity
Annagram Synthetic Legion
Annihilator Alice in Hell
Annihilator Refresh The Demon
Annihilator Never, Neverland
Any Given Day Everlasting
Any Given Day Limitless
Arch Enemy Stigmata
Arch Enemy Black Earth
Musically this is so good. It is basically relentless, riffy, melodic death metal... the problem is the hoarse shouted/growled vocals suck. These guys never stood a chance as long as they kept this vocalist.
Archetypes Collide Archetypes Collide
Archillusion Desolate Dreamscape
Atari Teenage Riot Too Dead For Me
Atena Drowning Regret & Lungs Filled with Water
Another weird nu-metal/djent hybrid with a ton of creepy atmosphere that usually gets destroyed by all the nu metal parts. Not as good as their last album, but definitely a little more melodic and easier to get into. If they'd drop the nu metal, I think they could take their oppressive sound to another level.
Atombombpocketknife With Compliments (Singles + Rarities)
Atombombpocketknife Lack and Pattern
August Burns Red Lost Messengers: The Outtakes
Aura Noir Aura Noire
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil
Azgaroth Ikiunten Mailla
Barren Earth A Complex of Cages
Basia Bulat Tall Tall Shadow
Beyond The Black Songs Of Love And Death
Biblical The City That Always Sleeps
Biohazard Mata Leao
Blind Guardian Another Stranger Me
Bloodshoteye An Unrelenting Assault
Blue October Spinning the Truth Around (Part I)
Blues Pills Lady In Gold
Borderlands Voice of the Voiceless
broaddaylight anniversaries:reunions
Broods Don't Feed the Pop Monster
Burn After Me Ascent
Byzantine The Cicada Tree
Catamenia VIII - The Time Unchained
Catamenia Cavalcade
Cathedral The Guessing Game
Cavalera Conspiracy Pandemonium
Cavernous Gate Voices from a Fathomless Realm
Cellar Darling This Is The Sound
Celldweller Soundtrack for the Voices in My Head
Celldweller The Complete Cellout Vol. 01
Celldweller Soundtrack for the Voices in My Head Vol. 02
Celldweller Blackstar - Act One: Purified
Celldweller Blackstar - Act Two: Awakening
It's an instrumental soundtrack... the music isn't bad, but it isn't really up to Celldweller levels either.
Cepheide Respire
Chains over Razors Crown The Villain
Chelsea Grin Suffer In Heaven
If this was described as a compilation of songs not good enough to make it to Suffer in Hell, I would believe it. Almost none of these songs are as good as the ones on the album they just released a few months ago. The only two songs that pick up the same atmospheric deathcore sound as the previous album are "Yhorm the Giant" and "The Path to Suffering", and they're easily the best. The other good song is "Soul Slave", but it sounds more like an industrial metal song than deathcore. The rest, though, conventional deathcore from start to finish.
Chemical Vocation Chemical Vocation
Cirith Gorgor Visions Of Exalted Lucifer
Straight forward, no-frills semi-melodic black metal. Nothing wrong with it, but nothing great either.
Coexistence Collateral Dimension
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Cold Black Circles
Collide Notes From the Universe
Coma Cluster Void Thoughts From A Stone
Courage My Love Becoming
Cradle of Filth Thornography
Crematory Transmigration
Cryptodira Recursions
Curse Of Cain Curse of Cain
D Creation Pace Helvetia
D.R.I. Dealing with It!
D.R.I. Skating To Some F#*ked Up S@!t
Damnation's Hammer Into the Silent Nebula
Darkest Hour Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora
Darkstar Heart of Darkness
Darkthrone The Cult Is Alive
Deadlock The Arsonist
Deadscape Of The Deepest Shade
Def Leppard Mirror Ball: Live and More...
Defacing God The Resurrection of Lilith
Delain Interlude
Delphian Unravel
Delvoid Delve
Delvoid Serene
Desecrate (ITA) Lights Of Contradiction
Dexy Corp Fragmentation
Dexy Corp Uchronopolis
DGM Misplaced
Dictated Phobos
Disharmonic Orchestra Pleasuredome
Disharmonic Orchestra Ahead
Disturbed Immortalized
Disturbed come back with another Disturbed album. They're trying to be mainstream rock in a way they haven't tried since Believe -- but this is worse.
Divided Multitude Inner Self
DJ Shadow The Less You Know, the Better
Doro Calling the Wild
Downswing Good Intentions
Dreamshade Vibrant
Dust Bolt Mass Confusion
Dwall Gospel of the Vile
Dying Fetus Wrong One to Fuck With
Dying Fetus Make Them Beg for Death
Eighteen Visions 1996
Eldritch Underlying Issues
Elegy of Madness XI
Eleventyseven And The Land of Fake Believe
Emancipation Syndicate Framstalla
Featuring Thought Industry's guitarist (for the first three albums) -- how can you go wrong? The vocalist... that's how. He's kind of bad. The music is cool though, and they cover 'Third Eye' from the Thought Industry debut album.
Emigrate A Million Degrees
Encephalon Drowner
Enter Shikari The Mindsweep
Enthroned Carnage In World's Beyond
Enthroned XES Haereticum
Enthroned Towards the Skullthrone of Satan
Epica Consign to Oblivion
Equilibrium Rekreatur
Equilibrium Waldschrein
Eral Vessel
Every Time I Die Last Night in Town
Everyone Dies In Utah Everyone Dies In Utah
Ewigkeit Cosmic Man
Exalt The Shape You Took Before The Ache
Exist Immortal Darkness Of An Age
Eye of Solitude X
Fall Out Boy Save Rock and Roll
Fate Unburied Logos
Feared Svart
Feign (BR) False Hope
Fervor Open Heart Surgery
Field Mouse Episodic
Flotsam and Jetsam Ugly Noise
I've only listened once so far, but it's definitely a continuation of where 'Cuatro' and 'Drift' left off all those ryears ago. More to come...r... After a few more listens, it definitely grows on you. It's like 'Cuatro' and 'Drift' but the riffing isn't as rigid; rthe riffs definitely have more of that 'When the Storm Comes Down' vibe. It definitely lacks the energy, rmoodiness and heaviness of 'The Cold', but considering the fact that the guy who wrote that entire album left rthe band, it's to be expected.
Fractal Gates Altered State Of Consciousness
Front Line Assembly State of Mind
Gacharic Spin Gold Dash
Gamma Ray Empire of the Undead
There are a few moments of brilliance, but this is mostly boring, mostly lethargic and Kai Hansen's voice still gets on my nerves. Bring back the vocalist (and energy) from the first three albums!
Gemma Ray Island Fire
Gemma Ray Runaway
Genus Ordinis Dei Glare of Deliverance
Ghost Iris Blind World
Fairly standard Djent stuff with some death metal influence in the vocals.
Glades Planetarium
Glass Houses Wellspring
Godsticks Faced With Rage
Good Charlotte Good Morning Revival
Good Charlotte Cardiology
Gorefest Erase
Gorod A Maze of Recycled Creeds
Gracepoint Echoes
Some good, semi-progressive modern metal but nothing sticks and the vocals kind of get on my nerves.
Guillen Eclipse
Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I
Hate Anaclasis: A Haunting Gospel Of Malice & Hatred
Havok V
Helalyn Flowers A Voluntary Coincidence
Heretic's Dream Floating State Of Mind
Hogwasche MBM
Honeyblood Babes Never Die
Hot Hot Heat Hot Hot Heat
Hoth Astral Necromancy
Hydria Acustico - The Acoustic Sessions
Ignea Dreams Of Lands Unseen
IIVII Colony
IIVII Invasion
Imminence This Is Goodbye
In Flames Come Clarity
In Somnia Harlequin
In Torment I Die The Unfathomable Darkness of the Fall
Indevotion Indevotion
Infected Rain Asylum
Infected Rain Embrace Eternity
Inquinok Entranced By Twilight's Gaze
InVisions Between You & Me
Isle of the Cross Excelsis
Jamie's Elsewhere Guidebook for Sinners Turned Saints
Jasmine Thompson Take Cover
Jasmine Thompson Under the Willow Tree
Jen and Abby Cannot Rearrange
Jinjer Cloud Factory
Jinjer King of Everything
Journey Evolution
Journey Departure
Kate Davis Fish Bowl
Kobra and the Lotus Evolution
Krosis Solem Vatem
Kvalvaag Malum
Lake of Tears Greatest Tears Vol. II
Lanikai Lanikai
Lennon Beyond Warped Live Music Series
Limp Bizkit Results May Vary
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory Live Around The World
Living Corpse Metaphysical Collapse
Lostprophets The Fake Sound Of Progress
LoveSpirals Future Past
Lustre (SWE) The Ashes of Light
Lykaion Swallowed By The Sea
Machines of Loving Grace Machines of Loving Grace
Madsen Lichtjahre
Magica Lightseeker
Magica Center of the Great Unknown
MAIRU SOL CULTUS
Make Me A Donut Bright Side
Maladie The Grand Aversion
Marianas Rest Auer
Marilyn Manson Portrait of an American Family
Maryze 8
MaYaN Quarterpast
Meg and Dia Happysad
Melan Selas Zephyrean Hymns
Melanie Martinez Portals
Mephistopheles In Reverence Of Forever
Metallica Load
Miles to Perdition 2084
Mindscar What's Beyond The Light
Mindset A Bullet For Cinderella
Ministry Animositisomina
Ministry The Land of Rape and Honey
Misgiver Cruelty of Life
Mortiis The Smell Of Rain
Mother Love Bone On Earth As It Is: The Complete Works
Motionless in White Creatures
Napalm Death Diatribes
Napalm Death The World Keeps Turning EP
Neck of the Woods The Passenger
Neverland in Ashes Haunted
Next To None Phases
Niagara (ITA) Otto
Nightingale I
Nina Storey Nina Storey
Niobeth The Shining Harmony of Universe
Noctem The Black Consecration
Nocturnal Rites Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Nocturnal Rites The Sacred Talisman
Novena Eleventh Hour
OHHMS Close
Orphaned Land Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs
Otep Generation Doom
Their best since their debut, but given the quality of those albums, that's not really saying much. Reminds me of In This Moment.
Overkill Taking Over
Overkill Feel the Fire
P.O.D. The Awakening
Pain (SWE) Coming Home
Palace of Worms The Forgotten
Pallbearer Fear and Fury
Pandemonium The Autumn Enigma
Panopticon Kentucky
The novelty of black&blue (grass) metal is initially pretty cool, but it loses its appeal after a few listens. Still a great album but not as cool as initial listens would have had me believe.
Persefone Truth Inside the Shades
Polar Nova
Portrayal of Guilt We Are Always Alone
Proletaryat Prawda
Psalm Zero The Drain
Psychopomps Pro-Death Ravers
Psychopomps First Blood
Purest of Pain Solipsis
Pyogenesis She Makes Me Wish I Had a Gun
Quo Vadis (POL) Novem
Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
Reject The Sickness Chains of Solitude
Relient K Air For Free
Rendezvous Point Universal Chaos
Roman Candle Oh Tall Tree In The Ear
Rotting Christ Sleep of the Angels
Sacramentum Thy Black Destiny
Sanguine Black Sheep
Pretty straight-up mainstream alt. metal with some harsher shouts. Will probably be liked by people into Flyleaf or In This Moment.
Sapiency For Those Who Never Rest
Scale the Summit Subjects
Scar the Martyr Scar the Martyr
Seconds Ago Life at the Edge of Chaos
Sent By Ravens Our Graceful Words
Serdce Timelessness
Shadows Fall Fear Will Drag You Down
Shannon Thomas Brainstorms
Shoot The Girl First I Confess
Silver Swans Forever
Silver Swans Secrets
Sirenia Nine Destinies And A Downfall
Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
Sofia Karlsson Folk Songs
Sol Negate On the Verge of Dreaming Again
Sons of Death Valley Fathers of The Free
Sonus Mortis Past Lives
Soulspell Hollow's Gathering
Soulspell Labyrinth Of Truth
Spectral Voice Eroded Corridors of Unbeing
Stamina System of Power
Star City Meltdown Beats a Stick In The Eye
Steve Vai Naked Tracks Vol. 1
Steve Vai Naked Tracks Vol. 2
Steve Vai Naked Tracks Vol. 4
Storm Force Age of Fear
Suffocation …Of the Dark Light
Surturs Lohe Seelenheim
Swallow the Sun When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light
Tantal The Beginning Of The End
Teramaze And the Beauty They Perceive
The Atlas Moth A Glorified Piece of Blue Sky
The Atlas Moth Coma Noir
The Big Pink The Love That’s Ours
The Dali Thundering Concept All Mighty Men - Drifting Through a Prosthetic Era
The Eating Cave The Miscalculation
The Enemy Within Fallen
The Haunted The Haunted
The Moth Gatherer A Bright Celestial Light
The Murder of My Sweet Bye Bye Lullaby
The Offering Seeing the Elephant
The Prodigy The Day Is My Enemy
The Razor Skyline Dark Water Oasis
The Tangent The Slow Rust Of Forgotten Machinery
The Twilight Singers Twilight As Played By The Twilight Singers
Therapy? Shameless
Tigertown Papernote
Tristania Darkest White
Truckfighters V
Two Door Cinema Club Gameshow
Unflesh Savior
Ursinne Swim with the Leviathan
Varathron Untrodden Corridors of Hades
Varathron Patriarchs of Evil
Velvet Acid Christ Subconscious Landscapes
Venues Solace
Vertigo steps Vertigo Steps
Vicious Rumors Concussion Protocol
I love their 1991 release, Welcome to the Ball, but nothing else they've done has grabbed me the same way. I keep hoping, but at this point they're not even the same band as they were in 1991.
Viza De Facto
Voragine Aquelarre
We Are The In Crowd Guaranteed To Disagree
Wendy Austyn The Sparrow EP
Whitesnake Ready An' Willing
Whitesnake Lovehunter
Within the Ruins Driven by Fear
Xandria Theater of Dimensions
Xenia Velvet Apple
XPUS In Umbra Mortis Sedent
Zao The Splinter Shards the Birth of Separation
Zero Hour Agenda 21

2.7 average
A Past Unknown Vainglory
Accuser Accuser
Agalloch Of Stone, Wind and Pillor
Agrypnie Exit
Alestorm Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum
An Early Fall Lucid Dream
Atari Teenage Riot Black Flags
Audrey Always On My Mind
Pop Rock. Female fronted pop rock. Not average, but not much above it either.
Autumn City Oh, Sweet Honesty
Beartooth Below
Beast In Black Dark Connection
Belphegor Conjuring The Dead
Blurgh, blurgh, phrawwwwww, blurgghh, blast beat, blast beat, blawwwwqqqq, blucrh, grawwww, blast beat, blast beat, burrrrrrrppppp, atmospheric semi-melodic section, greeawawawa, baaaaarrrrr!
Cage (USA-CA) Science of Annihilation
Cage (USA-CA) Hell Destroyer
Cavernlight As We Cup Our Hands and Drink from the Stream of O
Crematory Antiserum
Very bland electro/industrial gothic death metal. They've done way better and they've done worse.
Cryoshell Cryoshell
CyLeW Black Lace Prophecy
Darkyra Fool
Daydream XI The Grand Disguise
DFB Perspective
Die Antwoord Mount Ninji and Da Nice Time Kid
Enblood Cast to Exile
Expander Neuropunk Boostergang
Eyes of Fire Prisons
Florence and the Machine Lungs: The B-Sides
Flowing Tears Invanity - Live In Berlin
Front Line Assembly Total Terror II
Funeral Tristesse
Gamma Ray Sigh No More
Gamma Ray Heading for Tomorrow
Gloria Morti Kuebiko
Graveshadow Ambition's Price
Grendel (NL) Soilbleed :: Redux
Grey Skies Fallen Introspective
Hanging Doll Reason & Madness
Heathen Foray Weltenwandel
Heretic's Dream Walk the Time
Hotel Books Run Wild, Stay Alive
Hungry Hearts Born in Flames
Huszar Providencia
Hyaena Existence
I Nine Heavy Weighs the King
In Flames Battles
It's In Flames doing what they do these days. The music is still generic rock/metal and the vocalist still sucks, but somehow the end result is a decent release.
Incinerate Sacrilegivm
Inextalis Catatonic Universe
Iron Angel Emerald Eyes
JENX Drift By Lyynk
Klank In Memory Of...
KMFDM Don't Blow Your Top
KMFDM UAIOE
Korrupt Preachers and Creatures
Lotic Water
Lunic Splinter
Mandrake Innocence Weakness
Mari Chrome Here I Am EP
Motley Crue Theatre of Pain
My Ticket Home The Opportunity To Be
My Ticket Home To Create a Cure
Nevermore In Memory
Nocturnal Rites Lost in Time: the Early Years
P.O.D. Snuff the Punk
Pan (US) The Boreal Coast
Poema Arcanvs Stardust Solitude
Pygmy Children Deconstruct
ReVamp Wild Card
Running Wild Riding The Storm: The Very Best Of The Noise Years
Secret Rule The 7 Endless
Secret Rule Against
Serenity Nemesis AD
Sirenia 1977
Skold Never Is Now
Slothrust Everyone Else
Snow White Blood Hope Springs Eternal
Spelljammer Abyssal Trip
Starchitect Results
Stuck Mojo Snappin' Necks
Tankard Oldies & Goldies: The Very Best Of The Noise Years
Temperance (IT) Hermitage: Daruma's Eyes Pt. 2
The Ataris Live in Chicago 2019
The Bleeding Monokrator
The Ghost Next Door A Feast For the Sixth Sense
The Hunger Leave Me Alone
Times of Grace Songs of Loss and Separation
Tombs All Empires Fall
Totally Unicorn Dream Life
Toxik World Circus
Tristania Rubicon
Twin Limb Haplo
Unto Others Mana
Vein.fm Old Data in a New Machine, Vol. 1
Versailles Philharmonic Quintet - NOBLE -LIVE-
Viza Maktub
Viza Eros
Whitesnake Trouble
Xandria Salome - the Seventh Veil

2.6 average
Aephanemer A Dream Of Wilderness
Astral Path (IT) Ashes Dancer
Butcher Babies Goliath
Crown the Empire Sudden Sky
Dematerialize Omniscience
Demons and Wizards Demons & Wizards
Earth Crisis Slither
Golden Ashes (NL) Gold Are the Ashes of the Restorer
Gorefest La Muerte
Grey Skies Fallen Tomorrow's In Doubt
Hatebreed Under the Knife
Macabra ...to the Bone
Motionless in White Scoring the End of the World
Rotting Christ Sanctus Diavolos
Sengir Sign Of Devotion
Sirens(USA-NJ) Spore
Suns of Sorath Flowers of the Lily
Thalion Dawn of Chaos
The Mechanist Minds & Machines
Tholus Constant
Vanum Legend
Versailles Philharmonic Quintet Lyrical Sympathy -LIVE-

2.5 average
10 Years Feeding the Wolves
10,000 Maniacs Hope Chest
16 Dream Squasher
16Volt American Porn Songs: Remixed
16Volt Beating Dead Horses
3TEETH 3TEETH REMIXED
40 Below Summer Sideshow Freaks
40 Below Summer Rain
40 Below Summer The Last Dance
65daysofstatic The Destruction of Small Ideas
69 Chambers War on the Inside
A Breach of Silence Secrets
Average metalcore with some alt. metal thrown in to make it even more ferociously average.
A Day To Remember Attack of the Killer B-Sides
A Fine Frenzy Bomb In A Birdcage
A Past Unknown To Those Perishing
A Place to Bury Strangers See Through You
A Scent Like Wolves Mystic Auras
A Storm Of Light As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us...
A Tragedy In Progress Going Down With The Ship
A Tragedy In Progress Mechanical Weather
A7IE Tabula Rasa Remixes
A7IE Narcissick, Vol. 2
Aara Triade III: Nyx
Abominable Putridity Parasitic Metamorphosis Manifestation
Absu Barathrum V.I.T.R.I.O.L.
Absu The Sun of Tiphareth
Absu Tara
Absu Abzu
Abysmal Dawn Phylogenesis
Acausal Intrusion Seeping Evocation
Aceldama Aceldama
Acephalix Theothanatology
Acranius Mercy Denied
Acrid (NL) Amalgamate
Across the Atlantic Works of Progress
Acumen Nation What the F**k
Acumen Nation Artifacts Vol 1 1990 - 1993
Acumen Nation Artifacts II 1989 - 1994
Acumen Nation Coming Down The Bastard Remix Album
Acumen Nation If You Were
Ad Intra Inside Us All
Adema Planets
Adema Insomniac's Dream
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell Keep It Greasy!
Adrenaline Mob We The People
There was another 'prog metal supergroup' band that tried their hand at a more conventional metal sound, and they were better then these guys. They were called Engine and featured Fates Warning and Redemption members. Unfortunately, they didn't last as long. Another average album for this vanity project...
Adrenaline Rush Soul Survivor
Aerosmith Done With Mirrors
Aevum Nova Vita
AFI The Art of Drowning
AFI Answer That and Stay Fashionable
AFI Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes
Aftermath (USA-OH) Mirror
Against Myself Sky Ashes
Against The Current Past Lives
Against the Wall Things Are Not Like They Said
Agalloch The White
Agalloch Faustian Echoes
Age of Apocalypse Grim Wisdom
Age of Nemesis Terra Incognita
Agrypnie F51.4
Air Moon Safari
Air Premiers Symptomes
Akercocke Rape of the Bastard Nazerene
Akribi Black Morning Sun
Akroasis (CHE) Ilion
Alanis Morissette Havoc and Bright Lights
Alarum Eventuality
Alaya (UK) Power at Work
ALAZKA Phoenix
Alestorm Curse of the Crystal Coconut
Aletheia Nihil Mortum
Alexisonfire Otherness
Alice Cooper Road
Alice in Chains Sap
Alien Weaponry Tangaroa
Alisa Shamrow Little Stories EP
Alisa Shamrow Isn't Love Strange?
Alkaline Trio Maybe I'll Catch Fire
Alkaline Trio Alkaline Trio
Alkaline Trio Goddamnit
Alkaline Trio I Lied My Face Off
All Get Out Nobody Likes A Quitter
All That Remains A War You Cannot Win
All That Remains Madness
All Them Witches Nothing as the Ideal
All Time Low Last Young Renegade
Allen/Olzon Army Of Dreamers
Almanac Rush Of Death
Alyson Avenue Changes
Amaarae Fountain Baby
Amanda Somerville Windows
Amaranthe Leave Everything Behind
Amartia Delicately
Amartia In a Quiet Place
Amartia Marionette
Amber Arcades European Heartbreak
Amber Rubarth A Common Case of Disappearing
Amber Rubarth New Green Lines
Amber Rubarth Something New
Amberian Dawn Re-Evolution
Amberian Dawn Magic Forest
Amberian Dawn Innuendo
Amberian Dawn Darkness Of Eternity
American Football American Football (LP2)
Amidst Dreams of Tomorrow Memories of a Wandering Soul
Amon Amarth The Great Heathen Army
Amon Tobin How Do You Live
Amorphis Far from the Sun
Amortis Gift of Tongues
An Autumn For Crippled Children Closure
An Endless Sporadic An Endless Sporadic
Ana Kefr The Burial Tree (II)
Anaal Nathrakh Passion
Anacrusis Suffering Hour
AnaDies Prevail
Anata The Infernal Depths of Hatred
Anata Dreams of Death and Dismay
Anathema The Silent Enigma
Anathema Falling Deeper
Ancient Halls of Eternity
Ancient Proxima Centauri
Ancient Det Glemte Riket
Ancient God Loves The Dead
Ancient Eerily Howling Winds - The Antediluvian Tapes
Ancient Det Glemte Riket (Compilation)
Andrew W.K. I Get Wet
Ane Trolle Honest Wall
Just another average indie pop album. Not good but not bad. I wouldn't get up to turn it off or on.
Angel Nation Antares
Angelspit Krankhaus
Angelspit Blood Death Ivory
Angelspit Nurse Grenade
Angelspit Cult of Fake
Ani DiFranco Dilate
Ani DiFranco Not a Pretty Girl
Ani DiFranco To the Teeth
Animal Collective Meeting of the Waters
Animal Collective Time Skiffs
Animal Collective Isn’t It Now?
Animosity Animal
Anita Skorgan White Magic
Anita Skorgan Anita Skorgan
Anita Skorgan Julenatt
Anita Skorgan Gull
Anna Nalick The Blackest Crow
Annakin Flowers On The Moon
Annihilator Remains
Annihilator For the Demented
Annihilator Ballistic, Sadistic
Anorexia Nervosa Sodomizing the Archedangel
Anthrax Sound of White Noise
Anthropia The Chain Reaction
Anti-Flag The General Strike
AntimateriA Valo aikojen takaa
Antisect The Rising Of The Lights
Anubis Gate Purification
Aphex Twin 26 Mixes For Cash
Aphex Twin Ventolin (Remixes)
Aphrodite Aphrodite
Apophis Excess
Apostle of Solitude Last Sunrise
AqME En l'Honneur De Jupiter
AqME Heresie
Arbor Inversa Anticipatterns
Arcade Fire WE
Arcane Roots Left Fire
Arch Enemy Dead Eyes See No Future
Archis Archis
Architects For Those That Wish to Exist at Abbey Road
Archspire All Shall Align
Archspire Relentless Mutation
Archspire Bleed the Future
Arcturus Sideshow Symphonies
Arcturus Constellation
Arcturus My Angel
Arden Kaywin The Elephant in the Room
Arion Vultures Die Alone
Arkaea Years in the Darkness
Arkive Untitled EP
Arkona (RUS) Goi, Rode, Goi!
Arkona (RUS) Slovo
Arkona (RUS) Yav
Armchair Martian Good Guys Bad Band
Armed For Apocalypse Ritual Violence
Armored Saint La Raza
Arrival of Autumn Kingdom Undone
Arsis A Celebration of Guilt
Arsis United in Regret
Arsis As Regret Becomes Guilt
Arsis We Are the Nightmare
Arsis Starve for the Devil
Arsis Unwelcome
Arsis Visitant
Art in Manila Set the Woods on Fire
Artemis Calling Machinations
As Eden Burns The Great Celestial Delusion
As It Is Okay
Totally generic pop punk. It sounds like a direct beta version of The Starting Line's debut album, but with a bit more pop.
Aseethe Hopes of Failure
It's definitely drone and doom. There's nothing really wrong with it, but it is very two dimensional stuff.
Ashen Horde Antimony
Ashentide Ashentide
Ashes Remain What I've Become
Ashes Remain Last Day Breathing
Ashley Monroe Satisfied
Ashley Monroe Rosegold
Ashtar Wandering Through Time
Asking Alexandria Reckless and Relentless
Asking Alexandria Asking Alexandria
Asking Alexandria See What's On the Inside
Asphyx God Cries
Asphyx Crush The Cenotaph
Asphyx Incoming Death
Astrid Williamson Boy for You
Atlantean Kodex The Pnakotic Demos
Atoll Inhuman Implants
Atreyu Long Live
Atriarch Forever the End
Audioslave Revelations
August Burns Red Looks Fragile After All
August Burns Red Guardians Sessions
Aurium The Second Sun
Aurora Borealis Apokalupsis
Autechre Untilted
Autograph Get Off Your Ass!
Autophagy Bacteriophage
Autopsy Severed Survival
Autopsy Acts of the Unspeakable
Autumn (NLD) Altitude
Autumn (NLD) Cold Comfort
Ava Inferi Blood of Bacchus
Ava Max Diamonds and Dancefloors
Generic pop with a capable, yet unremarkable, vocalist.
Avatar Feathers and Flesh
Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare
Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King
Avenue Six Left The Thin Line Of Life
Avril Lavigne Let Go
Avril Lavigne Goodbye Lullaby
Avril Lavigne Avril Lavigne
Avril Lavigne Head Above Water
AWOLNATION Angel Miners and the Lightning Riders
AWOLNATION My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers & Me
Ayria Hearts for Bullets
Ayria Flicker
Bad Religion No Substance
Banks Arcade Future Lovers
Basement Jaxx Rooty
bastardane Is This Rage?
Bastille Give Me the Future
Bastions Majestic Desolation
Bat For Lashes The Haunted Man
Bayside Vacancy
Be'lakor The Frail Tide
Bea Miller Not an Apology
Beach Bunny Emotional Creature
Beach Day Trip Trap Attack
Beartooth The Surface
Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
Beauty in a Plastic Bag The Breakdown
Becoming The Archetype Children of the Great Extinction
Beelzefuzz Beelzefuzz
Beelzefuzz The Righteous Bloom
Before The Dawn My Darkness
Before The Dawn 4:17 AM
Before The Dawn Stormbringers
The music is still good, but those clean vocals....
Before The Harvest Wretched Existence
Before the Murder Dharma
Behemoth Grom
Behemoth Demonica
Bella Ruse Kuhzoo
Belphegor Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn
Belphegor The Devils
Beneath My Sins I Decide
Beneath the Massacre Fearmonger
Benighted Asylum Cave
Bethany Cosentino Natural Disaster
Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me
Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of
Beyond Dawn Bygones
Beyond Grace Our Kingdom Undone
Beyond The Black Hørizøns
Beyond The Black Beyond the Black
Generic, bland, and unremarkable female-fronted rock/metal.
Big|Brave Ardor
Binary Creed A Battle Won
Binary Park Worlds Collide
Biohazard Biohazard
Biohazard Means to an End
Birds Of Tokyo This Fire
Birds Of Tokyo Anchor
Birdy Portraits
Birthmark Birth of Omni
Bjork Telegram
Black Light Burns Cover Your Heart and the Anvil Pants Odyssey
Black Lodge (NO) Covet
Black Majesty Tomorrowland
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club B.R.M.C.
Black Tape for a Blue Girl The Scavenger Bride
Black Tape for a Blue Girl Mesmerized by the Sirens
Black Tape for a Blue Girl As One Aflame Laid Bare by Desire
Black Tape for a Blue Girl 10 Neurotics
Black Tape for a Blue Girl These Fleeting Moments
Black Tongue The Unconquerable Dark
Blackwater Drowning Sonder//Satori
Blaze of Sorrow Eterno tramonto
Blaze of Sorrow Fulgida reminiscenza
Bleed from Within Empire
Blessthefall His Last Walk
Blind Illusion Wrath of the Gods
blink-182 Cheshire Cat
Blood Command Praise Armageddonism
Bloodhunter Knowledge Was The Price
Bloodphemy Blood Sacrifice
Bloody Hammers Lovely Sort Of Death
Bloody Pineapples Chains of Suspicion
Blue October Approaching Normal
Body Count Body Count
Bolzer Hero
Bombus Repeat Until Death
Gothenburg metal. Not really in the melodeath vein, not straight up heavy metal either. Just kind of there.
Bonecarver Evil
Borknagar Borknagar
Born Through Fire Purify and Refine
Botch American Nervoso
Boundaries Burying Brightness
Boundaries Death Is Little More
Bran Van 3000 Rose
Brand New Leaked Demos 2006
Brand of Sacrifice Lifeblood
Brave The Cold Scarcity
Breach The Void The Monochromatic Era
Breakdowns At Tiffany's Gravity
Breathe Atlantis Overdrive
Brighter Than A Thousand Suns The Demon Haunted World
Brighter Than A Thousand Suns Survival Machines
Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings
Bring Me the Horizon Post Human: Survival Horror
Bring Out Your Dead Bring Out Your Dead
broaddaylight Stars Out
Broods Space Island
Brujeria Pocho Aztlan
Brutality Sempiternity
Buddy Lackey The Strange Mind of Buddy Lackey
Bullet for My Valentine Gravity
Burial ANTIDAWN EP
Burn Do Or Die
Burn the Priest Legion: XX
Burning Witches The Witch of the North
Bury Your Dead Bury Your Dead
Burzum Det Som Engang Var
Burzum Draugen - Rarities
Burzum Anthology
Burzum Sol austan, Mani vestan
Caelestia Beneath Abyss
Cage (USA-CA) Darker Than Black
Caitlin Rose Own Side Now
Caitlin Rose Look Me Over
Cake Like Goodbye, So What
Calamity (US) Colorblind
Caliban Shadow Hearts
Caliban Vent
Caliban Coverfield
Caliban Elements
Caliban Zeitgeister
Caliban Dystopia
Cancer Bats Psychic Jailbreak
Candlemass House Of Doom
Candlemass Sweet Evil Sun
Cane Hill Smile
Cannabis Corpse The Weeding
Cannabis Corpse Beneath Grow Lights Thou Shalt Rise
Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life
Surprisingly, this is tolerable. Chris Barnes' vocals are more intelligible and the riffs (while primitive) definitely stick with you.
Capra Errors
Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial
Carach Angren Franckensteina Strataemontanus
Caratucay Nocturnes of the Incarcerated
Carly Rae Jepsen Kiss
Carly Rae Jepsen The Loneliest Time
Carly Rae Jepsen The Loveliest Time
Caskets Reflections
Cathedral Statik Majik
Cathexis Untethered Abyss
Cause N Effect Validation Through Suffering
Celestial Season Forever Scarlet Passion
Cellador Off the Grid
Celldweller Offworld
Celtic Frost Monotheist
Cemetary An Evil Shade of Grey
Cemetary Black Vanity
Cemetary Sundown
Cemetary Last Confessions
Centinex Doomsday Rituals
cEvin Key Music for Cats
Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean Obsession Destruction
Chains Of Love Strange Grey Days
Channel Zero Exit Humanity
Chaos Magic Emerge
Chaos Trigger Degenerate Matter
Chapel of Disease Echoes of Light
Charli XCX Crash
Charlie Benante Silver Linings
Charlotte Cardin Phoenix
Charnel Altar Abatement Of The Sun
Charred Walls of the Damned Creatures Watching Over the Dead
Chasing Cadence Destroy Something Beautiful
Cheeno 2 Face Macy
Chelsea Grin Desolation Of Eden
Chelsea Grin Self Inflicted
Chemical Vocation Write This Moment
Chemical Vocation A Misfit In Progress
Chemlab Rock Whore vs. Dance Floor
Cherry Glazerr I Don’t Want You Anymore
Chiasm Disorder
Chicks on Speed The Un-Releases
Christine and the Queens Paranoia, Angels, True Love
Chroma Key Graveyard Mountain Home
Chthonic Megaport 2021
CHVRCHES Love Is Dead
Cigarettes After Sex Cry
Cinderella Heartbreak Station
Cinderella Still Climbing
Circle of Dust Disengage
Citizen Zero State Of Mind
City of Ships Minor World
CKY The Phoenix
clairo Diary 001
Clint Lowery God Bless the Renegades
Clip Clip
Clip Epidemic
Closure in Moscow Soft Hell
CloverSeeds Innocence
Coffin Storm Arcana Rising
Coffins Sinister Oath
Cognizance Upheaval
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade
Coldworld Melancholie²
Collective Soul Vibrating
Collide Beneath The Skin
Collide Distort
Colosseum (Fin) Chapter 3: Parasomnia
Coltre To Watch With Hands... To Touch With Eyes
Coma Divine Dead End Circle
Combichrist Scarred
Combichrist Making Monsters
Combichrist This Is Where Death Begins
Confession Can't Live, Can't Breathe
Conjuring Vis Naturae
Conspiracy of Zero Ahthos Arouris
Converge No Heroes
Converge The Dusk in Us
Copeland Blushing
Corey Taylor CMF2
Corroded Defcon Zero
Corroded Bitter
Corrosion of Conformity Eye For An Eye
Cosmonaut Pipebomb Full of Nails
Courage My Love For Now
Courage My Love Synesthesia
Course of Fate Somnium
Cowboy Junkies Open
Cradle of Filth From the Cradle to Enslave
Cradle of Filth Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa
Cradle of Filth Evermore Darkly
Crematory Infinity
Crematory Das Deutsche Album
Crematory Unbroken
Crematory Inglorious Darkness
Crimson Glory Strange and Beautiful
Cripper Devil Reveals
Cripper Freak Inside
Crossfade Crossfade
Crossfade Falling Away
Crossfaith Xeno
Crossfaith Ex_Machina
Crown Magnetar Everything Bleeds
Cruachan The Living and the Dead
Cruskin It Can Hurt
Crypta Shades of Sorrow
Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh
Crystal Lake The Sign
Crystalyne Navigate
Crystalyne The Remedy
Cyclone Temple My Friend Lonely
Cyhra Letters To Myself
Cynic '90 Demo
Cytotoxin Nuklearth
D-A-D A Prayer for the Loud
D.R.I. Thrash Zone
Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification
Dark Meditation Polluted Temples
Dark Sarah The Puzzle
Dark The Suns In Darkness Comes Beauty
Dark The Suns All Ends In Silence
Dark The Suns Sleepwalking in a Nightmare
Dark The Suns Life Eternal
Dark Tranquillity Enter Suicidal Angels
Darkane Insanity
Darkest Hour Darkest Hour
I've never really found these guys to be all that special. It's another bland death/thrash album.
Darkseed Spellcraft
Darkseed Give Me Light
Darkseed Poison Awaits
Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon
Darkthrone Soulside Journey
Darkthrone Plaguewielder
Darkthrone F.O.A.D.
Darkthrone The Underground Resistance
Darkthrone Astral Fortress
Darkwell Metatron
Darkwell Conflict Of Interest
Darzamat Transkarpatia
Darzamat Semidevilish
Darzamat Oniriad
Dashboard Confessional The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
Dashboard Confessional So Impossible
Dashboard Confessional All The Truth That I Can Tell
Dave Gahan and the Soulsavers Imposter
Davey Suicide Davey Suicide
David Bowie Hours
Dawn Of Ashes Scars of the Broken
Dawn of Disease Ascension Gate
Days of the New Illusion Is Now
De La Tierra II
De Profundis The Blinding Light of Faith
Dead Cross Dead Cross
Dead Cross II
Dead Lord Surrender
Dead Moon Temple Ænigmasólvoid
Dead Quiet Truth and Ruin
Dead Sara Temporary Things Taking Up Space
DeadRisen DeadRisen
Death Angel Humanicide
Death Dealer Union Initiation
Death In Vegas Trans-Love Energies
Death In Vegas Medication
Death Ray Vision No Mercy from Electric Eyes
Debayres Tango Vivo
Decapitated The First Damned
Deceptionist Initializing Irreversible Process
Decoherence Unitarity
Deep In Thought Dreamscapes
Def Leppard On Through the Night
Def Leppard Euphoria
Def Leppard X
Def Leppard Def Leppard
Def Leppard Diamond Star Halos
Defeat The Low A Nervous Smile
Defiance (USA-CA) Product of Society
Defuntos A Eterna Danca da Morte
Dehd Blue Skies
Deicide Till Death Do Us Part
Delain Lucidity
Delerium Nuages du Monde
Delerium Odyssey - The Remix Collection
Demon King Vesania
Demons and Wizards Touched by the Crimson King
Demons and Wizards III
Depeche Mode Speak & Spell
Depeche Mode Sounds Of The Universe
Descape You Had It All But It Fell Apart
Descent Order of Chaos
Designer Disguise Elswaer
Despised Icon Beast
Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows Destroy Rebuild
Destruction Metal Discharge
Destruction All Hell Breaks Loose
Destruction D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.
Destruction Day of Reckoning
Destruction Spiritual Genocide
Destruction Under Attack
Devangelic Ersetu
Devastating Enemy The Fallen Prophet
Devenial Verdict Ash Blind
Devil Sold His Soul Darkness Prevails
Devil Sold His Soul Blessed & Cursed
Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient
DeWolff Thrust
DGM Different Shapes
DGM Hidden Place
Diablo Blvd. Zero Hour
Diary of Dreams (if)
Diary of Dreams Nekrolog 43
Diary of Dreams End Of Flowers
Diary of Dreams Bird Without Wings
Diary of Dreams Ego:X
Diary of Dreams Psychoma
Die Klute Planet Fear
Die Krupps Volle Kraft Voraus!
Die Krupps Entering the Arena
Die Krupps I
Die Krupps A Tribute to Metallica
Die Krupps Als Waren Wir Fur Immer
Die Krupps Songs From The Dark Side Of Heaven
Dieth To Hell And Back
Dimidium Passive Aggression
Dimidium Beneath the Surface
Dink Blame It on Tito
Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur
Dischordia Triptych
Diskarnate Greed
Dismember Massive Killing Capacity
Dismember Indecent & Obscene
Dismember Where Ironcrosses Grow
Distorted Voices From Within
Disturbed Evolution
Divide And Dissolve Abomination
Divided by Friday The Constant
Divine Heresy Bleed the Fifth
Diviner Avaton
Divinyls Divinyls
Divinyls What A Life!
Divulgence Future Seed
DJ Assault Off the Chain for the Y2K
DJ Shadow The Outsider
DJ Shadow I Gotta Rokk
DJ Shadow Liquid Amber
Dodie Intertwined
Dold Vorde Ens Navn Mørkere
Domination Campaign Onward To Glory
Doro Celebrate: Night of the Warlock
Doro Herzblut
Doro Anthems For The Champion
Doro Let Love Rain on Me
Doubting Thomas The Infidel
Downfall of Gaia Atrophy
Download Fixer
downset. Maintain
Downsides Phantom Pains
Dr. Colossus The Dank
Dr. Living Dead! Cosmic Conqueror
Drag Me Out Demons Away
DragonForce Ultra Beatdown
Dragonhammer Obscurity
Dragonlord Black Wings Of Destiny
Dragonlord Dominion
Draug (NOR) Arv
Drautran Unter dem Banner der Nordwinde
Dream Child Until Death Do We Meet Again
Dream State Primrose Path
Dream Theater Dark Side of the Moon
Dream Wife Dream Wife
Dreamers This Album Does Not Exist
Dreaming Dead Funeral Twilight
Dreamshade To the Edge of Reality
Dreamshade What Silence Hides
Dropkick Murphys Signed and Sealed in Blood
Dropkick Murphys This Machine Still Kills Fascists
Drown Throwing Away The Demos
Drowning Pool Sinner
Drudkh Songs of Grief and Solitude
Drudkh Handful of Stars
Dwellings Little Gardens
Dynazty The Dark Delight
Earth Crisis Breed the Killers
Earth Crisis 1991-2001: Forever True
Echobrain Echobrain
Definitely a shame that Jason felt this band was worth leaving Metallica. This band isn't even worth leaving my half-finished sandwich.
Echobrain Glean
Echoes of Eternity The Forgotten Goddess
Econoline Crush Affliction
Econoline Crush Purge
Edenbridge Shangri-La
Edge Of Paradise Hologram
Edge of Sanity Infernal
Edge of Sanity Cryptic
Edge of Sanity Evolution
Editors Violence
Effa Lente An Appropriate Mourning Period
Ego Likeness Water to the Dead
Ego Likeness Order Of The Reptile
Ego Likeness Dragonfly
Ego Likeness Breedless
Ektomorf Reborn
Elane Arcane
Eleanor Friedberger Last Summer
Eleanor Friedberger Personal Record
Electric Callboy Eskimo Callboy
Elegant Weapons Horns For A Halo
Elegy of Madness Bridge of Sighs
Eleventyseven Quota
Eleventyseven Sugarfist
Elis Griefshire
Elis Dark Clouds In A Perfect Sky
Elm Street The Great Tribulation
Eloa Vadaath A Bare Reminiscence of Infected Wonderlands
Elusion Singularity
Eluveitie Evocation II: Pantheon
Elysion Someplace Better
Poppy and generic gothic rock. They had a chance on their debut, but they've done nothing with it.
Emil Bulls Love Will Fix It
Emilie Autumn Liar / Dead Is the New Alive
Eminem Relapse
Eminem Relapse: Refill
Emma Burgess Swim
Emma Ruth Rundle Engine of Hell
Emmure Look At Yourself
Emmure Hindsight
Empire State Bastard Rivers Of Heresy
Emptiness Vide
Enchantment Cold Soul Embrace
Endezzma The Archer, Fjord and the Thunder
Endvade Ascension
Enemy Inside Seven
Enepsigos Wrath of Wraths
Enforcer Death By Fire
Enigma Voyageur
Enkelination Tears of Lust
Ensiferum Two Paths
Enthroned Pentagrammaton
Enthroned Regie Sathanas - A Tribute to Cernunnos
Entombed Crawl
Entombed Hollowman
Entombed Clandestine (Live)
Entombed A.D. Back to the Front
Entombed A.D. Dead Dawn
Kind or reminds me of a more metal-oriented mid-era Sepultura kind of sound. Nothing outstanding, but no real flaws either.
Entombed A.D. Bowels of Earth
Entwine Dieversity
EOB Earth
Equilibrium Armageddon
Erica Freas Patient Ones
Errors of Humanity Testimony
Escape the Fate I Am Human
Esthema IV
Eternal Deformity Nothing Lasts Forever
Eternal Idol Renaissance
Eternal Silence Timegate Anathema
Eternal Tears of Sorrow Sinner's Serenade
Eternal Tears of Sorrow Children of the Dark Waters
Eternity's End Embers of War
Ether Aura Before We Could Sing
Eths Autopsie
Eths III
Going from nu-metal to metalcore made their music transition from completely terrible to tolerable. Good for them.
Eths Ankaa
ETHS is like a poor man's version of The Agonist. Which is really saying something because The Agonist isn't that good either. They basically play a gothy version of female fronted metalcore, and all the vocal styles are weak. Which goes right along with the average music.
Eucharist A Velvet Creation
Eux Autres Hell Is Eux Autres
Evadne The 13th Condition
Eve's Fall From Here on
Everclear So Much For The Afterglow
Everclear Slow Motion Daydream
Everclear Welcome To The Drama Club
Everclear Black Is The New Black
Everley The Tyger and the Lamb
The music is okay for post hardcore, but the vocals just don't cut it.
Every Bridge Burned Aun Aprendo
Every Time I Die The Burial Plot Bidding War
Every Time I Die Ex Lives
Everybody Loves Irene On Second Thought, I Might Wanna Change Some Thing
Evile The Unknown
Evils Toy Angels Only
Evils Toy Silvertears
Evils Toy XTC Implant
Evils Toy Illusion
Evocation The Shadow Archetype
Executioner's Mask Winterlong
Exek The Map and the Territory
Exit Eden Femmes Fatales
Exitmusic Passage
Expire With Regret
Eye Empire Impact
Eyes Set to Kill Damna
Eyes To See Quest for Ideal
Eyes Wide Open Through Life and Death
Face to Face Three Chords and A Half Truth
Factory Of Dreams Poles
Factory Of Dreams A Strange Utopia
Faith No More Album of the Year
Faith No More We Care a Lot
Fall Out Boy Take This to Your Grave
Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree
Fall Out Boy M A N I A
Falling in Reverse The Drug in Me Is You
Falloch This Island, Our Funeral
Fame On Fire LEVELS
Far Beyond Frail Butterfly Sketches
Fatal FE RenaissanceSample this album 1 Intro / Energy of
Fateful Finality Battery
Faun Pagan
Fear Factory Concrete
Feared Reborn
Fearless Vampire Killers Militia of the Lost
Imagine My Chemical Romance around the time of '3 Cheers...' with a metal edge, but an inability to belt out
the catchy hooks.
Feign The New World Order
Feist Let It Die
Feuding Fathers Kid Tested, Father Approved
Fight the Fight Deliverance
Filter Anthems for the Damned
Fire from the Gods Narrative
Fireball Ministry Remember the Story
Fireflight The Healing of Harms
Firelink The Inveterate Fire
FireScent Passengers
First Aid Kit Drunken Trees
Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse
Fit for Rivals Steady Damage
Flaw Vol IV: Because of the Brave
Flaw Revival
Flesh Field Redemption EP
Flesh Field Viral Extinction
FLETCHER In Search Of The Antidote
Flinch (UK) Iamyouareme
Florist Florist
Flotsam and Jetsam Live In Phoenix
Flowing Tears Razorbliss
Flowing Tears Serpentine
Fluke Bullet
Fluxious Why So Serious
Fluxious Fluxious
Fluxious Nucleus Accumbens Diseases
Flyleaf New Horizons
Flyleaf Between the Stars
Follow My Lead Spit, Kick, Revolt.
Foo Fighters Sonic Highways
Foo Fighters Songs From The Laundry Room
Foo Fighters Saint Cecilia
Foo Fighters But Here We Are
For the Fallen Dreams Six
For the Fallen Dreams For the Fallen Dreams
For The Win Heavy Thoughts
For Today Ekklesia
For Today Portraits
For Today Immortal
For Today Fight the Silence
Forbidden Green
Forbidden Distortion
Forever Still Breathe in Colours
Fragarak Crypts of Dissimulation
Frameworks Every Day Is The Same
Frantic Amber Wrath Of Judgement
From Ashes To New Day One
Another electro metalcore/post-hardcore band. They're not terrible, but there's plenty that do it better.
From Hell Ascent From Hell
This has Paul Bostaph (ex-Forbidden/Slayer) on drums and Steve Smyth on guitars (ex-Nevermore) and yet it isn't all that good. It's very generic thrash with a sub-par vocalist.
Front 242 Detox Static EP
Just another bland remix album. Nothing terrible, but definitely repetitive.
Front Line Assembly Total Terror
Front Line Assembly Corroded Disorder
Front Line Assembly Reclamation
Front Line Assembly Monument
Front Line Assembly Colombian Necktie
Front Line Assembly Fatalist
Front Line Assembly Everything Must Perish
Front Line Assembly Maniacal
Front Line Assembly Vanished
Front Line Assembly Mechanical Soul
Frozen Soul Glacial Domination
Fuath II
Fuel Sunburn
Fuel Angels and Devils
Fuel Puppet Strings
Fugazi 3 Songs
Fugazi Instrument Soundtrack
Funeral Chic Roman Candle
Funeral for a Friend Seven Ways To Scream Your Name
Funeral for a Friend Tales Don't Tell Themselves
Funeral Mist Hekatomb
Fuoco Fatuo (ITA2) Obsidian Katabasis
Further Seems Forever The Moon Is Down
Gabrielle Aplin Dear Happy
Galactic Cowboys The Horse That Bud Bought
Galleons Galleons
Gamma Ray Land of the Free
Garbage Beautiful Garbage
Gatecreeper Sonoran Depravation
Gatecreeper An Unexpected Reality
Gatekeeper (CAN) From Western Shores
Gemma Ray Down Baby Down
Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam
Ghost Season Like Stars In A Neon Sky
Ghost Woman Ghost Woman
GHOSTEMANE Anti-Icon
Ghosthill Embrace of a Chasm
Ghostkid GHOSTKID
Ghostkid HOLLYWOOD SUICIDE
Gideon More Power. More Pain.
Gin Wigmore Holy Smoke
Gin Wigmore Gravel and Wine
Gin Wigmore Extended Play
Gioba Plasmatic Idol
Girlfriend House
Glass Casket Desperate Man's Diary
Glorior Belli The Apostates
God Dethroned The Toxic Touch
God Dethroned Ravenous
God Dethroned Under the Sign of the Iron Cross
God Dethroned The Grand Grimoire
God Help The Girl God Help The Girl
Godthrymm Reflections
Gojira The Link
Gojira Terra Incognita
Gojira Possessed (as Godzilla)
Gone Is Gone Gone Is Gone
Gone Is Gone Echolocation
Definitely not the sum of its parts. Nothing to see here.
Gone Is Gone If Everything Happens for a Reason...
Gorgatron Pathogenic Automation
Gorillaz Cracker Island
Gorod A Perfect Absolution
GosT Rites of Love and Reverence
GosT Prophecy
Goth Babe Lola
Gothic Tropic Fast or Feast
Gracie Gracie
Grand Magus Triumph and Power
Traditional heavy metal. Something about it just doesn't cross over to the present, though.
Gravity Kills Gravity Kills
Gravity Kills Perversion
Green Day Warning
Green Day 21st Century Breakdown
Green Day iDOS!
Green Day Saviors
Green Jelly Cereal Killer Soundtrack
Greenleaf Deep Roots
Grendel (NL) Harsh Generation
Grendel (NL) Presciption: Medicide
Grey Skies Fallen The Fate Of Angels
Grey Skies Fallen Two Way Mirror
Grey Skies Fallen Cold Dead Lands
The music is really good, but I just can't get past the clean singing.
Grey Skies Fallen Molded By Broken Hands
Gruntruck Inside Yours
Guided by Voices Motivational Jumpsuit
Lo-fi indie rock... kind of too little going on for me.
Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy
GWAR The New Dark Ages
H.E.A.T. Force Majeure
Hades Resisting Success
Hades Exist To Resist
Hades $avior$elf
Hades The Downside
Hades DamNation
Haertefall Suendenbock
Halcyon Days Keep Myself From Sinking
Halcyon Way Bloody but Unbowed
Haley Dreis Taking Time
Haley Dreis Lady With a Rocket
Halvar Ancestral Communication
Hammercult Legends Never Die
Hammerschmitt Still on Fire
Early 80s Motley Crue meets lethargic power metal meets 70s rock.... nope.
Hands (US-ND) Give Me Rest
Hanging Doll The Sacred & Profane
Hanging Garden Hereafter
Hannah Peel Broken Wave
Hannah Peel Rebox
Hannes Grossmann To Where The Light Retreats
Happy Accidents Everything But The Here And Now
Harem Scarem United
Harem Scarem Change The World
Harm's Way (USA-IL) Posthuman
Hate Awakening the Liar
Hatebreed For the Lions
Havok Unnatural Selection
Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White
Hayley Williams Petals for Armor
Hazemaze Blinded By The Wicked
Heart of a Coward This place only brings death
Heartbound Pace
Hearts Under Fire Letters
Hearts Under Fire We've Come Too Far to Live in the Past
Hearts Under Fire Outlines
Heartsounds Drifter
Heathen Breaking the Silence
Heathen Empire of the Blind
Heavenwood Abyss Masterpiece
Heirloom (USA-NC) ROMANTICIZE
Helalyn Flowers Plaestik
Helalyn Flowers Spacefloor Romance
Helalyn Flowers Stitches Of Eden
Helevorn Aamamata
Helloween Chameleon
Hellyeah Hellyeah
Hellyeah Band of Brothers
Hellyeah Unden!able
Helmet Seeing Eye Dog
Helstar Twas the Night of a Helish X-Mas
Helstar Clad in Black
This rating is based entirely on disc 1, which is just average. The second disc is their last album, "Vampiro" which is well worth hearing.
Hemina Night Echoes
Her Her Tape #1
Her Shadow The Ghost Love Chronicles
Heriot Profound Morality
Herrschaft Tesla
Hey Violet Brand New Moves
Hey Violet From the Outside
High on Fire The Art of Self-Defense (Remixed/Remastered)
High Spirits Hard to Stop
Hinds I Don't Run
Hiraes Solitary
Hocico Wrack and Ruin
Hocico Odio Bajo El Alma
Hocico Hate Never Dies (The Remix Celebration)
Holding Absence Holding Absence
Hollis Subliminal
Hollow Tower
Holly Brook Holly Brook EP
Holly McNarland The Komrade Sessions
Holly Miranda The Magician's Private Library
Hollywood Undead Five
Holy Moses Finished with the Dogs
Holy Moses The New Machine of Liechtenstein
Hoobastank Every Man for Himself
Hope For The Dying Hope For The Dying
Horrendous The Chills
Horrendous Ecdysis
Horrendous Anareta
Horrendous Idol
Horseback Dead Ringers
Hot Milk A Call to the Void
Hot Mulligan Why Would I Watch
Hum Downward Is Heavenward
Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut
Humavoid Lidless
Hundred Reasons Shatterproof is not a Challenge
Hundred Reasons Ideas Above Our Station
Hundred Reasons Quick The Word, Sharp The Action
Hungry Lucy Pulse of the Earth
Hybrid (UK) Disappear Here
Hydria Poison Paradise
Hyems Anatomie des Scheiterns
Hypocrisy The Fourth Dimension
Hypocrisy Abducted
Hypocrisy Penetralia
Hypocrisy Osculum Obscenum
Hypocrisy Catch 22 (V2.0.08)
HYVMINE Earthquake
I AM Eternal Steel
I:Scintilla Marrow 1
IAMX Fault Lines^1
Ice Nine Kills The Burning
Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream
Iced Earth The Glorious Burden
Iced Earth Plagues of Babylon
It's Iced Earth doing Iced Earth as only Iced Earth can do.
Ides of Gemini Women
If I Were You At Day's End
Ignea The Realms of Fire and Death
Images of Eden Soulrise
Imagine Dragons It's Time
Immortal Blizzard Beasts
Immortal Damned In Black
Immortal War Against All
Imonolith State Of Being
Imperative Reaction Eulogy For the Sick Child
Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury
Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy
Implore The Burden Of Existence
In Dying Arms This Is Retaliation
In Dying Arms Deprivation
In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape
In Flames Clayman
In Flames Black-Ash Inheritance
In Hearts Wake Kaliyuga Booster Pack
In Mourning Shrouded Divine
In Search For Atonement Pt.1
In The Nursery Exhibit
In The Nursery Electric Edwardians
In The Nursery A Page of Madness
Incantation Sect of Vile Divinities
Incantation Unholy Deification
Incite Wake Up Dead
Incubus (USA-CA) Enjoy Incubus
Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades
Indestructible Noise Command Bleed The Line
Indevotion Heart
Inertia Programmed to Respond
Infectious Grooves Groove Family Cyco
Infectious Grooves Mas Borracho
Inferi (USA) The End of an Era
Inferi (USA) Revenant
Infernal Doom Imminent End
Informatik Direct Memory Access
Ingested Where Only Gods May Tread
Ingrid Michaelson Lights Out
I liked her earlier stuff. This seems pretty damn average, though.
Inner Stream Stain The Sea
Innumerable Forms Philosophical Collapse
Insense Insense
Insense De:Evolution
Terrible generic modern metal with even worse vocals. WTF?
Insomnium Ephemeral
Instant Suppression Domain.Nation
Intaglio II
Inter Arma Sundown
Inter Arma Sulphur English
Intermix Future Primitives
Intestine Baalism An Anatomy of the Beast
Invisius Changes
Invocator Excursion Demise
Iron And Wine Ghost on Ghost
Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark
ISIS Oceanic: Remixes and Reinterpretations
ISIS Live 1
ISIS Temporal
Isis and Aereogramme In The Fishtank 14
It Lies Within Paramount
Chuggy metalcore with electro influences. There are much better bands doing the same thing.r
Ivory Tower Ivory Tower
Izegrim Point of No Return
Jack Off Jill Clear Hearts Grey Flowers
Jacqueline Govaert Good Life
Jag Panzer The Deviant Chord
James Blake Overgrown
James Blake Friends That Break Your Heart
Japanese Telecom Virtual Geisha
Jared Dines the grey
Jawbox My Scrapbook of Fatal Accidents
Jawbox Jawbox
Jennifer Terran Cruel
Jesus Piece ...So Unknown
Jimmie's Chicken Shack Fail On Cue
Jonathan Davis Black Labyrinth
Jordan Rudess Wired for Madness
Jorn Life on Death Road
Jorn Over the Horizon Radar
Journal Unlorja
Journey Look Into the Future
Journey Raised On Radio
Judas Priest British Steel
Judas Priest Angel of Retribution
Judas Priest Killing Machine
Judas Priest Hero, Hero
Judas Priest Priest...Live!
Judas Priest Point of Entry
Judas Priest Rocka Rolla
Judas Priest Nostradamus
Judas Priest A Touch of Evil: Live
Jules Larson Strangers
Julie Feeney Pages
Julietta Levitate
Just Surrender We're in Like Sin
Just Surrender Phoenix
K. Flay Crush Me
Kalmah Swampsong
Kalyptra Nightingale
Kandia Quaternary
Kane Roberts The New Normal
Katalepsy Gravenous Hour
Katalepsy Terra Mortuus Est
Katatonia Brave Murder Day
Katatonia Tonight's Decision
Katatonia Dance of December Souls
Katatonia For Funerals to Come...
Kate Earl Stronger
Katie Buchanan The Sold EP
Katie Rox High Standards
Katie Rox Paper Airplanes
Standard pop rock. It's okay but doesn't have any lasting appeal at all.
Katie Rox Pony Up
Kekal Envisaged
Kells Lueurs
Kelsey and the Chaos Shut Up And Deal
KEN mode Nerve
Kero Kero Bonito Bonito Generation
Khaidian Penumbra
Khora Timaeus
KHZ Reality on a Finer Scale
KHZ Disconnected
Kid Cudi Entergalactic
Kidneythieves Trickstereprocess
Kill Hannah Wake Up The Sleepers
Kimbra Settle Down
Kimbra A Reckoning
Kin Beneath Chorus Invia
King Princess Hold On Baby
Kishi Bashi Sonderlust
KISS Hot in the Shade
Kivimetsan Druidi Betrayal, Justice, Revenge
KK's Priest The Sinner Rides Again
Klank Numb...Reborn
Klank Numb
Klone All Seeing Eye
KMFDM What Do You Know, Deutschland?
KMFDM Extra Vol.1
Kobra and the Lotus Prevail II
Komatsu Rose Of Jericho
Korn See You on the Other Side
Korn The Path of Totality
Korpiklaani Noita
Kostnateni Úpal
Kraanium Scriptures of Vicennial Defilement
Kreator Cause for Conflict
Krezip Plug It in
Krista Nicole Dreams
Kvelertak Nattesferd
L'Rain I Killed Your Dog
L.S. Dunes Past Lives
Labyrinth of Stars Spectrum Xenomorph
Lacuna Coil Karmacode
Ladybaby Pelo
Ladybaby Sanpai! Goshuin Girl
Ladyhawke Time Flies
Ladytron 604 (Remixed & Rare)
Lahannya Dystopia
Lahannya Scavenger
Lahmia Resilience
Lake of Tears Headstones
Lake of Tears Ominous
Lamb of God Resolution
Lamb of God Lamb of God
Lamb of God Omens
Lambchop FLOTUS
Lanfear The Code Inherited
Laurel Halo Hour Logic
Lauren Aquilina Isn't It Strange?
She's always been on the verge of just being generic pop, and she finally fell into it...
Lauren Briant Lauren Briant
Le Tigre Le Tigre
Le Tigre Feminist Sweeptakes
Leaves' Eyes My Destiny
Leddra Chapman The Crowds and Cocktails
Leeched You Took The Sun When You Left
Left Behind Blessed by the Burn
Left Spine Down Voltage 2.3: Remixed and Revisited
Left Spine Down Smartbomb 2.3: The Underground Mixes
Legion of the Damned The Poison Chalice
Lera Lynn Something More Than Love
Les Discrets Ariettes Oubliees...
Lesath A Beautiful Dream
Leviathan (USA-CO) Mischief of Malcontent
Lifesick Misanthropy
Light and Shade The Essence of Everything
Light the Torch Revival
Light the Torch You Will Be the Death of Me
Lindsay Schoolcraft Martyr
Lindsey Stirling Violin Collections
Lines In the Sky Beacon
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight
Lions At The Gate The Excuses We Cannot Make
Lisa Loeb Cherries
Lisa Loeb Gypsies, Tramps And Thieves
Listener Return to Struggleville
Lithium Dawn AION
Liturgy Origin of the Alimonies
Liv Kristine Vervain
Liv Kristine Have Courage Dear Heart
Liv Kristine River of Diamonds
Liv Sin Follow Me
Livid Halcyon Winterlove
Livid Halcyon ae
Living Colour Shade
Livlost Symphony Of Flies
Liz Phair Liz Phair
Liz Phair Soberish
Loathe (MAL) Despondent By Design
Loch Lomond Little Me Will Start a Storm
Locusta Изувер
Logic Vinyl Days
Lord Belial Rapture
Lord Fowl Glorious Babylon
Lorde Solar Power
Losing Scarlet Left to Burn
Lost in the Mutiny Reason//Resist
Lost Society Braindead
Painfully generic and average thrash. Plenty of old and new bands doing it better than this.
Lostprophets Liberation Transmission
Lostprophets Weapons
Lotus Thief Oresteia
Love and Death Perfectly Preserved
Lovelorn Dolls Japanese Robot Invasion
Lovesliescrushing Bloweyelashwish
Lovesliescrushing Girl. Echo. Suns. Veils.
Lovesliescrushing Xuvetyn
LoveSpirals Free & Easy
Lovewillsaveus Brighter Days
Loyal Until Death Remain Defiant
Lucie Antunes Sergeï
Lucifer (DE) Lucifer III
Lucifer (DE) Lucifer IV
Luna Li Duality
Lunic The Uglylights (demos)
Lunik Life is On Our Side
Lydia Liquor
Lykaion Nothin But Death
Lyria Catharsis
Lyriel Paranoid Circus
Madder Mortem Where Dream And Day Collide
Madison Beer Silence Between Songs
Maelstrom (USA-NY) Of Gods and Men
Maggie Lindemann SuckerPunch
Maggie Rogers Heard It in a Past Life
Magica Wolves and Witches
Magica Dark Diary
Majesty (DE) Back To Attack
Maledia Your Angels Cry
Malevolence Malicious Intent
Mamaleek Diner Coffee
Mammoth Mammoth Kreuzung
Mammoth WVH Mammoth WVH
Maneskin Rush!
Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible
Manic Street Preachers Generation Terrorists
Manilla Road To Kill a King
Manimal The Darkest Room
Mankind Is Obsolete Rise
Marduk Memento Mori
Marie Digby Breathing Underwear
Marie Digby Unfold
Marilyn Manson Smells Like Children
Marilyn Manson The High End of Low
Marilyn Manson Born Villain
Marilyn Manson Heaven Upside Down
Marina (CZ) Nuclear
Marko Hietala Pyre Of The Black Heart
Marty Friedman True Obsessions
Marty Friedman Introduction
Marybeth D'Amico Heaven Hell Sin and Redemption
Masqued When Demons Call
Mass Worship Portal Tombs
Massacre Resurgence
Massive Attack Heligoland
Mayadome Near Life Experience
MaYaN Antagonise
There's nothing really bad about this. It's just kind of average death metal/metalcore/whatever with some keyboards and clean singing that sounds like the guy really wants to be Devin Townsend.
MaYaN Dhyana
Mayhem Live in Leipzig
Maze of Sothoth Extirpated Light
Mélancolia HissThroughRottenTeeth
McCafferty The House With No Doorbell
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Have a Ball
Meat Beat Manifesto Totally Together
Meat Beat Manifesto Answers Come In Dreams
Meat Beat Manifesto Impossible Star
Mechanical Moth The Sad Machina
Medicated Glasstrophobic
Medicated Ways to Make You Fall
Meg and Dia Here, Here and Here
Meg & Dia started out as just two girls. One did vocals and one played guitar (basically). That album was really good and honest (Refering to "Our Home is Gone"). This is faceless pop rock/pop punk that is so over-produced that it now sounds just like anything else that's out there. They claim that there's experimentation on this album, but really all the only new elements are the same dance-pop crap that every other over-produced band utilizes. That's not experimentation and this isn't worth anybody's time.
Megadeth Cryptic Writings
Megadeth Risk
Mekong Delta Pictures at an Exhibition
Meliorist Cascade
Melissa Polinar As Of Now
Memphis May Fire This Light I Hold
Memphis May Fire Remade in Misery
Mentalist Freedom Of Speech
Mentalist Empires Falling
Mentallo and the Fixer Commandments for the Molecular Age
Mentallo and the Fixer Revelations 23
Mentallo and the Fixer No Rest For The Wicked
Mentallo and the Fixer Continuum
Mephisto Walz Immersion
Mephisto Walz IIIrd Incarnation
Mephisto Walz New Apostles
Mephisto Walz Scoundrel
Merrimack Omegaphilia
Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree
Metal Allegiance Fallen Heroes
Metalite A Virtual World
Metallica St. Anger
Metallica Reload
Meteora …Of Shades and Colours
Metopia Wiedergeburt
Meytal The Witness
Michelle Branch Everything Comes and Goes
Michelle Branch Hopeless Romantic
Mike Patton Mondo Cane
Mike Shinoda Post Traumatic
Mina Okabe Better Days
Mini Trees Always In Motion
Ministry Filth Pig
Ministry Twitch
Ministry With Sympathy
Ministry Cover Up
Ministry Rio Grande Dub
Ministry The Very Best of Fixes and Remixes
Ministry Moral Hygiene
Minus the Bear Bands Like It When You Yell YAR at Them
Minus the Bear Interpretaciones Del Oso
Minus the Bear Acoustics
Minus the Bear Omni
Misfits The Devil's Rain
Miss Kittin and The Hacker First Album
Miss Montreal Miss Montreal
Miss Montreal So Anything Else
Misstress Barbara Effet Karna EP
Misstress Barbara Cry and Dry EP
Misstress Barbara Endless Passion EP
Misticismo Terraria
Mitski Laurel Hell
Mixtapes Maps
MMXX Sacred Cargo
Mnemic The Audio Injected Soul
Mo Lowda and the Humble Act Accordingly
Modest Mouse The Golden Casket
Monasteries Ominous
Moonlight Meren Re
Moonlight Inermis
Moonlight Audio 136
Moonloop Deeply From the Earth
Moonshade Dream | Oblivion
Moonshield The Void Squadron
Moonspell The Butterfly Effect
Moonspell Darkness and Hope
Morbid Angel Heretic
Morbus Chron Sleepers in the Rift
Mordred The Dark Parade
Mork Eremittens Dal
Mortiferum Preserved in Torment
Mortiis The Stargate
Mothernight Mothernight
Mothership High Strangeness
Mothica Blue Hour
Motionless in White When Love Met Destruction
Motionless in White Graveyard Shift
Motionless in White Disguise
Motley Crue Generation Swine
Motley Crue Too Fast for Love
Mournful Gust She's My Grief... Decade
Mourning Beloveth A Murderous Circus
Mourning Beloveth Formless
MouthBreather (USA-MA) Self-Tape
MSTRKRFT The Looks
MSTRKRFT Operator
MullMuzzler Keep It to Yourself
MullMuzzler MullMuzzler 2
MUNA Saves The World
Municipal Waste Slime and Punishment
Municipal Waste Electrified Brain
Murder by Death In Bocca Al Lupo
Murder by Death Good Morning, Magpie
Murderdolls Women and Children Last
Muse Will of the People
Mutemath Odd Soul Live In DC
Mutemath Play Dead
Mxmtoon Rising
My Indigo My Indigo
My Own Ghost Shadow People
myGRAIN Signs Of Existence
myGRAIN myGRAIN
myGRAIN V
Myrkur Spine
Nachtmystium Reign of the Malicious
Nachtmystium Demise
Nachtmystium The First Attacks 2000-2001
Nadja Luminous Rot
Nanochrist Nanochrist
Napalm Death Words from the Exit Wound
Napalm Death Greed Killing
Napalm Death Breed To Breathe
Natalie Imbruglia Firebird
Near Death Condition Ascent From the Mundane
Necrophagous In Chaos Ascend
Negative Plane The Pact
Negative Zero Sorry I Couldn't Make It
Neikka RPM The Gemini Prophecies
Neikka RPM Deceive and Destroy
Neikka RPM Here's Your Revolution
Nekrogoblikon The Fundamental Slimes and Humours
Nelly Furtado Loose
Nelly Furtado Mi Plan
Nemesea White Flag
Neosis Neosis
Neptuniam Poetry Of Creation
Nervous Dater Call in the mess
Neurosis Pain of Mind
New Model Army High
New Model Army Between Wine And Blood
New Model Army Lost Songs
Nhialic Medz Yeghern
Nicole Eitner I am You
Night Raft of the World
Night Cobra Dawn of the Serpent
Night Demon Outsider
Night in Gales Towards the Twilight
Night in Gales Thunderbeast
Nightfall At Night We Prey
Nightwish Angels Fall First
Nightwish Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Niht Arcanum
Niki And The Dove Everybody's Heart Is Broken Now
Nile Black Seeds of Vengeance
Nile Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
Nina Storey Think Twice
Nina Storey Shades
Nina Storey So Many Ways From: Me To: You
Nine Inch Nails With Teeth
Nine Inch Nails Things Falling Apart
Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV
Niobeth Dreaming
No Doubt The Beacon Street Collection
No Doubt Rock Steady
No Doubt No Doubt
No Raza Transcending Material Sins
No Use for a Name Making Friends
No Use for a Name Don't Miss the Train
Noctem Haeresis
Noctiferia Reforma - Tribute to Laibach
Nocturnal Breed Napalm Nights
This is probably about as good as Black & Roll can get -- which means that it's not terrible.
Nocturnal Graves An Outlaws Stand
Nocturnus Thresholds
NOFX Heavy Petting Zoo
NOFX Pump Up the Valuum
NOFX Never Trust a Hippy
Northern Song Dynasty Northern Song Dynasty
NorthTale Eternal Flame
Not Above Evil Always Darkest Before
Nothing But Noise Not Bleeding Red
Nothing More The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Nothing More Spirits
Nova Twins Supernova
Novelists Déjà Vu
Noveria Aequilibrium
Nullingroots Into the Grey
Numb Christmeister
NY Loose Year Of The Rat
Oasis Heathen Chemistry
Oasis Don't Believe the Truth
Oasis Dig Out Your Soul
Oberhofer Smothered
Obey the Brave Mad Seasons
Obituary Ten Thousand Ways to Die
Oblivion The Path Towards...
Ocean Grove Flip Phone Fantasy
OCEANS (DEU) WE ARE NØT OKAY
Odium (DE) As The World Turns Black
Of Mice and Men Cold World
Of Mice and Men Defy
Of Mice and Men Tether
of Montreal Innocence Reaches
Old Man's Child Born of the Flickering
Old Wounds Glow
Oliver Tree Cowboy Tears
Olivia Lane Love Thing
Olivia Rodrigo Sour
Olivia Rodrigo Guts
Omega Lithium Kinetik
Omhosten Music of the Great Beyond
Omnikinetic Descensum
Omnium Gatherum Stuck Here on Snakes Way
Omnium Gatherum Years in Waste
On Volcano New Blood
Ondt Blod Natur
One Little Plane Until
One Without Thoughts of a Secluded Mind
One Without Sweet Relief
Onesidezero Is This Room Getting Smaller?
Onesidezero Onesidezero
Onslaught Generation Antichrist
Opera Diabolicus Death on a Pale Horse
Orange Goblin The Wolf Bites Back
Orden Ogan Final Days
Ordoxe Towards Eternity
Origin Unparalleled Universe
A huge blur of sterile, repetitive perussion that sounds super fake. That's the part I focued most on. The riffs and shit aren't bad, but the drums are terrible.
Origin Abiogenesis - A Coming into Existence
Origin Chaosmos
Orthogenesis Esoteric Annihilation
Osiah Kingdom of Lies
Otep House of Secrets
Otep Atavist
Otherwise Defy
Outline In Color Coast is Clear
Overdown Ethereal
Overkill The Years of Decay
Overkill ReliXIV
Overkill Necroshine
Overkill The Killing Kind
Overkill Bloodletting
Overkill The Grinding Wheel
Ozone Mama Freedom EP
Ozone Mama Cosmos Calling
Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man
P.O.D. Payable on Death
P.O.D. Brown
Pagan Altar Lords of Hypocrisy
Pagan Altar Mythical & Magical
Pagan Altar The Room of Shadows
Pain of Salvation Linoleum
Painside Build Your Fiction
Pale Waves Who Am I?
Pallbearer Forgotten Days
Palm Reader Braille
Pantera Power Metal
Papa Roach The Connection
Papa Roach Crooked Teeth
Paradise In Flames Nahemah's Possession
Paramore After Laughter
Parasite Inc. Dead and Alive
Paris Motel Songs of Innocence
Park Hye Jin Before I Die
Parkway Drive Ire
Parkway Drive Reverence
Parkway Drive Viva the Underdogs
Parkway Drive Darker Still
Partner Look By the Book
Paul Van Dyk Evolution
Pennywise A Word from the Wise
Pennywise Yesterdays
I really like these guys, but this is the first one that really just feels lifeless and average.
Perfume Plasma
Pergana The Mirror Of Silence
Persefone Shin-Ken
Personalities Loose Ends
Phantogram Ceremony
Phantom Elite Blue Blood
Pheromone November
Philter (DE) The Dome of Clement
Philter (DE) Beyond The Perimeter
Philter (DE) Global Transmission
Phobophilic Enveloping Absurdity
Pierce the Veil The Jaws of Life
Pieta Brown Shimmer
Pink Floyd Ummagumma
Pixies Bossanova
Pixies Come On Pilgrim
Pixies Head Carrier
Planeshifter P II
Planning for Burial Below the House
Plasmodivm Paradise Under Fire
Poema Arcanvs Arcane XIII
Poema Arcanvs Iconoclast
Poema Arcanvs Telluric Manifesto
Point of Singularity Exile of the Weeping God
Poison Swallow This Live
Poison Blood Poison Blood
PONY TV Baby
Pop Will Eat Itself Box Frenzy
Porches Pool
Portal Outre
Portal Avow
Power Paladin With the Magic of Windfyre Steel
Press to Meco Affinity
Pressive Pressive
Prestige Reveal the Ravage
Primal Fear Devil's Ground
Primal Fear Code Red
Primer Incubator
Primus Rhinoplasty
Primus The Desaturating Seven
Pristine Ninja
Product of Hate You Brought This War
Project Pitchfork Dhyani
Project Pitchfork Continuum Ride
Project Pitchfork Wonderland / One Million Faces
Projected Ignite My Insanity
Promethee Promethee
Prong Scorpio Rising
Prong Force Fed
Prophets of Rage The Party's Over
Protect This City In Memory Of Nothing
Pryde Absence of Light
Psy'Aviah Lightflare
Psycroptic Ob(Servant)
Psycroptic The Inherited Repression
Public Enemy How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People..
Pulley The Long And The Short Of It
PUP The Dream Is Over
Purgatory (USA-NE) Lawless To Grave
PVRIS EVERGREEN
Pyogenesis Mono...or will it ever be the way it used to be
Pyramaze Epitaph
Pyramaze Bloodlines
Pyrithe Monuments to Impermanence
Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman...
Queensryche Mindcrime at the Moore
Queensryche Frequency Unknown (Tate's Queensryche)
Quo Vadis (POL) Infernal Chaos
Rachel McGoye What Day Is It?
Rachel Platten Be Here
Radiohead Pablo Honey
Radiohead My Iron Lung
Raspberry Bulbs Before The Age Of Mirrors
Raunchy A Discord Electric
Raven Metal City
Raven Leave 'Em Bleeding
Razor Cycle of Contempt
Reactory Heavy
Reaping Asmodeia Impuritize
Rebecca Loebe Bees and Zombies
Reborn to Ashes Everything Lies Within
Red Fang Only Ghosts
Red Hot Chili Peppers The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley
Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway
Red Moon Architect Kuura
Red Moon Architect Emptiness Weighs the Most
Red Soil Red Soil
Reeking Aura Blood And Bonemeal
Rellik (USA-IL) Heritage of Abomination
Resolve Human
ReVamp ReVamp
Epica too innovative for you? Hoping for Within Temptation with worse song writing? Not enough cheese with your Nightwish? This is the band for you.
Revocation Existence Is Futile
Revocation Chaos of Forms
Rhapsody of Fire Glory For Salvation
Rhye Home
Righteous Vendetta Cursed
Rings of Saturn Gidim
Rise of Avernus Eigengrau
Rise to Fall The Fifth Dimension
River Black River Black
River Of Souls Usurper
Riverside Memories In My Head
Rob Zombie The Sinister Urge
Rob Zombie The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy...
Rob Zombie Astro-Creep: 2000 Live – Songs of Love...
Rob Zombie The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy
ROCH Via Media
Rotten Sound Apocalypse
Rotting Christ Thy Mighty Contract
Rotting Christ Aealo
Royal Blood How Did We Get So Dark?
Royksopp Melody A.M.
Rubicks In Miniature
Rubicks The Rise of the Giddy
Runahild Astralseid
Running Wild Rapid Foray
Rush Permanent Waves
Rush Caress of Steel
Rush Fly by Night
Rush The Spirit of Radio: Greatest Hits
Rush Chronicles
Ruut Ruut EP
Ryn Weaver The Fool
Sabaton The War To End All Wars
Sacred Reich Heal
Sacrilege (UK1) Turn Back Trilobite
Sad Alice Said Clock Of Eternity
Sadistik Forest Sadistik Forest
Safe To Say Down in The Dark
Saffire Taming the Hurricane
Saint Asonia Flawed Design
Saint Etienne I've Been Trying To Tell You
Saint Motel saintmotelevision
Samia Honey
Sara Haze My Personal Sky
Sara Haze The Ladder
Sarah Jaffe The Way Sound Leaves A Room
Sarah Jaffe Even Born Again
Sarah Nixey Brave Tin Soldiers
Satyricon The Age Of Nero
Satyricon Satyricon
Savage Messiah Hands of Fate
Scar of the Sun Inertia
Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe
Scar Symmetry Dark Matter Dimensions
Scar Symmetry The Unseen Empire
Scarlet Box And The Rest Of Us Die Out
Scarlett Rabe Scarlett
Scars Divide Scars Divide
If I remember correctly, this was produced by Christian (ex-Fear Factory) and kind of has that vibe to it -- that mainstream modern metal kind of thing going, kind of like Arkaea. Admittedly, this is a bit more technical but it gives you the general idea.
Scheer ...and Finally
Scorn Logghi Barogghi
Scorn Plan B
Scorn Stealth
Scorn Imaginaria Award EP
Scorn Refuse; Start Fires
Scorpion Child Scorpion Child
Screamer (SWE) Hell Machine
Searching The Architect Plague Diaries
Season of the Crow Let It Fly
Seasons After Manifesto
Sebastian Bach Kicking and Screaming
Secret Sphere Portrait of a Dying Heart
Secret Sphere Lifeblood
SECRETS The Ascent
SECRETS The Collapse
Seeing Seven Flow Like Water
Semblant Lunar Manifesto
Semblant Obscura
Senses Fail In Your Absence
Senses Fail Hell Is in Your Head
Sentenced Crimson
Sentenced Frozen
September Mourning Volume II
Septicflesh Revolution DNA
Septicflesh Mystic Places of Dawn
Sepultura Morbid Visions
Sepultura Roorback
Sepultura A-Lex
Sepultura Kairos
Serenity The Last Knight
Set On End The Dark Beyond
Set The Sun At War
Sevendust Sevendust
Sevendust Home
Sevendust Blood and Stone
Sevendust Truth Killer
Shade Empire Sunholy
Shady Bard First, The Winter
Shaed Just Wanna See
Shai Hulud A Comprehensive Retrospective
Shakra Invincible
ShamRain Isolation
She Can't Breathe When the Way Is Forgotten
She Makes War Live At the Islington
She Makes War Rattlesnake Live
She Makes War Disarm
Shine Bright Baby The Heart and Its Hope
Shining (SWE) Shining
Shivaree I Oughtta Give You A Shot In The Head For Making..
Shoot The Girl First They Have Clocks, We Have Time
Shun Shun
Shygirl Nymph
Sick/Sea Oh Ship
Signs Of The Swarm Absolvere
Silence The Messenger Buried
Silenmara Methods
Silent Descent Mind Games
Simus Vox Vult
SinHeresY The Spiders and the Butterfly
SinHeresY Event Horizon
Sink The Ship Persevere
Sinsaenum Echoes of the Tortured
Sinsaenum Repulsion for Humanity
Sirena The Past That Haunts You
Sirenia The Enigma Of Life
Sirens and Sailors Rising Moon : Setting Sun
Siva Addiction Artifice
Skalmold Ýdalir
Skaphe Skáphe³
Skid Row Subhuman Race
Skold The Undoing
When Tim Skold released an industrial album with his band Shotgun Messiah, it was energetic and fresh, and rivaled Ministry for the industrial metal crown. When he joined Maryln Manson, he made them less crappy. For some reason, though, he can't find the same magic with any of his solo releases. The music isn't bad, but it's nothing interesting either... and his vocals lack any kind of drive or emotion.
Skold Seven Heads
Skrillex Bangarang
Skrillex Don’t Get Too Close
Slaughter To Prevail Misery Sermon
Slayer Hell Awaits
Slayer Christ Illusion
Sleep Token This Place Will Become Your Tomb
Sleep Token Sundowning
This took a long time to to finally settle with me. It's good in short doses, but everything is roughly similar and a lot of the songs don't seem to really go anywhere. Despite that, though, there are enough good moments that I would listen to this again if it came on.
Sleep Waker Alias
Sleeping Sin Engel
Sleepthief Labyrinthine Heart
Sleepwave Broken Compass
Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
Small Leaks Sink Ships Until The World Is Happy
SMP Hacked, Vol. 2
Sneaker Pimps Becoming X
Society's Plague The Human, The Canvas
Soen Memorial
SOiL Scream: The Essentials
Solitude Aeturnus Adagio
Solstafir Berdreyminn
Solstice (UK) Lamentations
Somnuri Nefarious Wave
Son, Ambulance Someone Else's Deja Vu
Sonata Arctica The Ninth Hour
Sonic Haven Vagabond
Sonic Pulsar Playing the Universe
Sonic Syndicate Only Inhuman
Sonic Syndicate Confessions
Sons of Apollo Psychotic Symphony
Soul Asylum Made to Be Broken
Soul Asylum Hang Time
Soul Asylum While You Were Out
Soul Asylum The Silver Lining
Soul Asylum Clam Dip & Other Delights
Soul Asylum Change Of Fortune
Soul Asylum Delayed Reaction
Souls Of Diotima Maitri
Source Emergence
Souvenir's Young America Souvenir's Young America
Space Chaser Give Us Life
Space Nelson Don't Panic
Spastic Ink Ink Compatible
Spellcaster Under the Spell
Spellsword Night of the Grail
Spine Raíces
Spineshank Strictly Diesel
Spineshank Anger Denial Acceptance
I'm not going to rate it yet because I am just disappointed. These guys were an awesome mix of industrial and metal, but now... they're basically Silent Civilian (the singer's metalcore side-project) mixed with the last Slipknot album. It's not bad, it's really not, but it's nothing special.
Spirit Adrift Chained To Oblivion
Spirit Adrift Ghost At The Gallows
Spirit Possession Of the Sign ...
Spiritbox Rotoscope
Spitalfield Stop Doing Bad Things
Spock's Beard Feel Euphoria
Spock's Beard Live at High Voltage
Sponge Rotting Piñata
Staind 14 Shades of Grey
Staind Chapter V
Staind The Illusion of Progress
Staind Confessions Of The Fallen
Starkill Shadow Sleep
Starlight Ritual Sealed in Starlight
Starset Vessels
Alt metal, electro and a few aggressive parts. Nothing stands out in either a good or a bad way.
State of Deceit Stalked by Daemons
Static-X Cannibal Killers Live
Stellar Circuits Sight To Sound
Steve Vai The Elusive Light and Sound Volume 1
Stilla Synviljor
Stone Sour Audio Secrecy
Stoneside. God of the Mountain
Storm The Sky Sin Will Find You
Straight Faced Conditioned
Straylight Run Un Mas Dos
Straylight Run About Time
Straylight Run Live At The Patchogue Theatre
Streets of Laredo Wild
Striker Striker
Structures Life Through a Window
They call it progressive hardcore (or something), but it's basically the worst parts of post hardcore and the worst parts of Djent.
Strung Out Crossroads and Illusions
Strung Out Songs Of Armor And Devotion
Stryper The Final Battle
Stuck Mojo Declaration of a Headhunter
Stuck Mojo HVY1
Sublime Second Hand Smoke
Suffer (UK) The Sorrow We Sow, The Hatred We Know
Sugar Ray Lemonade And Brownies
Sugar Ray In The Pursuit Of Leisure
Sugar Ray Music for Cougars
Suicidal Tendencies Join the Army
Suicide Silence Suicide Silence
Suicide Silence Become The Hunter
Suicide Silence Remember...You Must Die
Suita De Ora Inspiration
Sum 41 Underclass Hero
Sum 41 13 Voices
Sumerlands Sumerlands
Sumerlands Dreamkiller
Sun Machines Supersonic Sons
Sunbomb Evil And Divine
Sundara Karma Loveblood
Sunflower Bean Headful Of Sugar
Susanne Sundfor Susanne Sundfor
Susperia The Lyricist
For all the talk of these guys going back to their roots with a new vocalist, I'm defintely more a fan of the Distrubed-goes-metal approach of their previous release. The music is kind of generic and their vocalist just isn't that good.
Sven Vath Fusion
Swans Leaving Meaning
Sweet Oblivion Sweet Oblivion
Switchblade Symphony Sweet Little Witches
Sylar Seasons
Synaesthesia (CA) Desideratum
Synaesthesia (CA) Embody
System of a Down Mezmerize
System of a Down Hypnotize
Taake Et hav av avstand
Taken By Trees East of Eden
Taking Back Sunday New Again
Taking Back Sunday Taking Back Sunday
Taking Back Sunday Happiness Is
Taking Back Sunday 152
Taking Balfour Dawn Of Polaris
Tame Impala Tame Impala
Tarja Turunen In The Raw
Tears To Embers Masquerade
Tech N9ne Killer
Tech N9ne Bad Season
Tech N9ne The Storm
Tech N9ne Enterfear
Tempel (NO) Tempel
Temperance (IT) Viridian
Temperance (IT) Diamanti
Temple of Void Summoning the Slayer
Ten After Two If You Don't First
Ten After Two Truth Is...
Tennis Pollen
Teramaze Dalla Volta
Terranova Hitchhiking Non-Stop With No Particular...
Terror Punk Syndicate Extended Playtime
TesseracT Errai
Testament Demonic
Tetema Necroscape
The Absence The Absence
The Acacia Strain Death Is the Only Mortal
The Aerium Song For the Dead King
The Afterimage Eve
The Alligator Wine Demons Of The Mind
The Almost Fear Inside Our Bones
The Amity Affliction Severed Ties
The Amity Affliction Misery
The Anix Play, Dance, Repeat
The Ataris Welcome the Night
The Ballroom Thieves Deadeye
The Band Perry The Band Perry
The Beatles Revolver
The Beatles Beatles for Sale
The Big Pink Future This
The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous
The Body and OAA Enemy of Love
The Breeders Title TK
The Bunny The Bear If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say...
The Bunny The Bear The Stomach for It
The C.I.A. Surgery Channel
This has kind of a lo-fi electro post punk sound with vocals that are veer between spoken word and semi-sung. It's not bad, but it doesn't really appeal to me.
The Callen Sisters No Shelter
The Chant Approacher
The Chemical Brothers Push the Button
The Chemical Brothers Born in the Echoes
The Clay People Firetribe
The Clay People Waking the Dead
Kind of like a groovier Prong, but the songs aren't as good.
The Color Morale Desolate Divine
The Corrs Forgiven, Not Forgotten
The Crown Eternal Death
The Crown Hell Is Here
The Cure The Cure
The Cure Three Imaginary Boys
The Cure Wild Mood Swings
The Cure Show
The Devil Wears Prada Plagues
The Devil Wears Prada Color Decay
The Dirty Youth Red Light Fix
The Ditch and the Delta The Ditch and the Delta
The Drones Feelin Kinda Free
The Fall of Every Season From Below
The Final Sleep Vessels of Grief
The Fright Canto V
The Grates Gravity Won't Get You High
The Haunted Made Me Do It
The Haunted Live Rounds in Tokyo
The Hellacopters Eyes Οf Oblivion
The Heretic Order III
The Human Abstract Moonlight Sonata
The Hunger Spaceman's Last Goodbye
The Japanese House In the End It Always Does
The Kovenant Animatronic
The Lumineers Brightside
The Luna Sequence Persona
The Maddigans Way to Start This
The Marías Cinema
The Mars Volta The Mars Volta
The Midnight Heroes
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Devils Night Out
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones More Noise and Other Disturbances
The Murder of My Sweet Divanity
The Mynabirds What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood
The Narrative Golden Silence
The Narrative B-Sides and Seasides
The New Collisions Invisible Embraces
The Night Flight Orchestra Amber Galactic
The Offspring The Offspring
The Ongoing Concept Again
The Orb Okie Dokie It's The Orb on Kompakt
The Orb Baghdad Batteries (Orbsessions Vol. III)
The Orb C Batter C
The Paper Kites Roses
The Plot In You Dispose
The Pretty Reckless Who You Selling For
The Pretty Reckless Other Worlds
The Prodigy Invaders Must Die
The Prodigy The Dirtchamber Sessions: Volume One
The Raven Age Blood Omen
The Shape of Chaos The Shape of Chaos
The Sixxis The Sixxis
The Sound That Ends Creation Memes, Dreams, And Flying Machines
The Strange Familiar Chasing Shadows
The Summer Set Legendary
The Used Vulnerable
The Used The Ocean Of The Sky
The Used Vulnerable (II)
The Used Imaginary Enemy
The Used Toxic Positivity
The Veils Total Depravity
The Weekend Beatbox My Heart
The Wonder Years Get Stoked on It!
The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing
The Wonder Years Sister Cities
The Word Alive Life Cycles
The Word Alive Violent Noise
The Word Alive Hard Reset
The Young Gods Heaven Deconstruction
The Youngest See It Through
The Zenith Passage Datalysium
Theatre Of Tragedy Inperspective
Theatres Des Vampires Vampyrisme
Theatres Des Vampires Anima Noir
Theatres Des Vampires Desire of Damnation
Theatres Des Vampires Suicide Vampire
Theatres Des Vampires Moonlight Waltz
Theatres Des Vampires Moonlight Waltz Tour 2011
Theatres Des Vampires Desire of Damnation - The Addiction Tour
Therapy? Suicide Pact - You First
Thergothon Stream From The Heavens
Therion Deggial
Therion Lepaca Kliffoth
Therion Of Darkness...
Therion A'arab Zaraq – Lucid Dreaming
These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home
These Arms Are Snakes Easter
These Arms Are Snakes Duct Tape and Shivering Crows
Third Eye Blind Screamer
Thirty Seconds to Mars Love Lust Faith + Dreams
This Legend It's in the Streets
Thornhill Heroine
Thousand Foot Krutch Exhale
Threat Signal Vigilance
Threshold Legends of the Shires
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV
Through Lucid Eyes Through Lucid Eyes
Through the Eyes of the Dead Disomus
Thrown into Exile Safe Inside
Thrown into Exile Illusion of Control
Thulcandra Ascension Lost
Thursday Waiting
Tiamat Skeleton Skeletron
Tiamat Judas Christ
Tiamat Prey
Tide Has Turned Seaside
Tidfall Nucleus
Tidfall Instinct Gate
To Cast a Shadow Winter's Embrace
To Paint the Sky Through the Rain
To Speak Of Wolves New Bones
Todd La Torre Rejoice In The Suffering
Tokyo Blade Unbroken
Tokyo Blade Fury
Tomahawk Tonic Immobility
Touchstone City Sleeps
Tove Lo Queen of the Clouds
Tove Lo Dirt Femme
Transplants Transplants
Trentemoller Fixion
Tribe After Tribe M.O.A.B.
Tribulation Where the Gloom Becomes Sound
Tricky Angels With Dirty Faces
Tricky Juxtapose
Tricky Fall to Pieces
Tristania Tristania
Tristania Midwinter Tears
Trivium The Crusade
Trivium Vengeance Falls
Trivium Silence in the Snow
Trophy Eyes Suicide and Sunshine
Tsunami Bomb The Ultimate Escape
Tulus Old Old Death
Turbonegro RockNRoll Machine
Twilight Hotel Bethune
Twin Temple God Is Dead
Twingiant Blood Feud
Two Voyeurs
Tygers Of Pan Tang Bloodlines
Tying Tiffany Peoples Temple
Type O Negative Dead Again
u-Ziq Brace Yourself
u-Ziq Royal Astronomy
U.S. Girls Heavy Light
Ugly Kid Joe America's Least Wanted
Ugly Kid Joe Motel California
Ulthar Providence
Ultima Bloom The Ego
Ulver Svidd Neger OST
Ulver Lyckantropen Themes OST
Uncrowned Devils and Angels
Undertow (USA-WA) Everything
Unearth The Wretched; The Ruinous
Unearthly Trance Stalking The Ghost
Uneven Structure Paragon
Ungod Circle of the Seven Infernal Pacts
Uniform Shame
Unleashed No Sign of Life
Unmerciful Ravenous Impulse
Unmerciful Wrath Encompassed
Unter Null Unter Null
Unter Null Neocide
Unwritten Law Here's to the Mourning
Upon a Burning Body Southern Hostility
Usurpress The Regal Tribe
Usurpress Interregnum
Utbyrd Varskrik
V3ctors V3ctors
Vader The Darkest Age - Live '93
Valkyrie (USA-VA) Fear
Vallenfyre A Fragile King
Vamachara No Roses On My Grave
Vampire Rodents War Music
Van Halen Fair Warning
Van Halen Women and Children First
Vanessa Carlton Be Not Nobody
Vanir Allfather
Vanity Theft The Anatomy EP
Vanity Theft Get What You Came For
Varg (DE) Das Ende aller Lügen
Folky, melodic black metal. It's not bad, but I can never get too far into most folk-influenced metal.
Various Artists Music as a Weapon II
Vaughan Penn Transcendence
Vaughan Penn Angels Fly
Veil of Maya All Things Set Aside
Veilburner Lurkers in the Capsule of Skull
Velvet Acid Christ Maldire
Venke Knutson Crush
Venom Inc. There's Only Black
Verlust Hymns To Oblivion
VersaEmerge Cities Built on Sand
VersaEmerge Live Acoustic
VEXED (UK) Negative Energy
Vice On Victory Glitter & Gold
Vicious Rumors Vicious Rumors
Vicious Rumors Razorback Killers
VINTAS SOLAR
Vintersorg Naturbal
Apparently there are some people that really like this. It's basically another average folky black metal release. No wonder he joined Borknagar, his solo stuff is bland as fuck.
Vio-Lence Oppressing the Masses
Vio-Lence Nothing to Gain
Viogression Expound and Exhort
Violet Blend Demons
Virtusira We Will Writhe
Visions Of Atlantis Trinity
Visions Of Atlantis Delta
Visions Of Atlantis Maria Magdalena
Visions Of Atlantis Ethera
Visions Of Atlantis Wanderers
Vital Remains Let Us Pray
Vital Remains Into Cold Darkness
Vital Remains Icons of Evil
Voices An Audience of Mannequins
Void Of Silence Toward the Dusk
Void Of Silence The Grave of Civilization
Void Of Silence The Sky Over
Voivod Voivod
Voivod Angel Rat Sampler
Volumes Happier?
VRSTY Levitate
Vulcano Eye in Hell
Vulcano Stone Orange
VV (FIN) Neon Noir
Walking Dead Suicide The Rise of Resistance
War Curse Confession
Warkings Revenge
Warpaint Radiate Like This
Warrant Born Again
Warrior Soul Stiff Middle Finger
Warrior Soul Out On Bail
Washed Out Life of Leisure
Watch Me Fall Worn
We Are the Catalyst Elevation
We Are The Fallen Tear The World Down
We Came As Romans Darkbloom
We Sell The Dead Heaven Doesn't Want You...
We Were Giants Article 3
Wear Your Wounds Rust on the Gates of Heaven
Weaver At The Loom White Nights
Wednesday 13 Horrifier
Weeping Silence Isles of Lore
Weezer Pacific Daydream
Wendy Wall Two Birds
When Cities Sleep What Lies Lay Between Us
When Darkness Falls Bloodstone
While Heaven Wept Sorrow of the Angels
While Heaven Wept Lovesongs of the Forsaken
While Heaven Wept Chapter One: 1989-1999
While Heaven Wept Suspended at Aphelion
While She Sleeps You Are We
While She Sleeps So What?
While She Sleeps Sleeps Society
White Widow Black Heart
White Zombie Supersexy Swingin' Sounds
White Zombie Make Them Die Slowly
White Zombie God of Thunder
Whitechapel Mark of the Blade
Whitesnake Snakebite
Whitesnake Forevermore
Whitesnake 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection
Whitesnake Made In Japan
Whitesnake Made in Britain/The World Record
Whyzdom Symphony For A Hopeless God
Widowspeak Widowspeak
Wiederganger Cult of Extinction
Wildways Anna
Will Haven VII
Wind Walkers What If I Break?
Windbruch Collision of the Worlds
Windbruch No Stars, Only Full Dark
Winter In Eden Echoes of Betrayal
Winter In Eden Awakening
Winterfylleth The Hallowing of Heirdom
Witchcraft The Alchemist
With the Dead Love from With the Dead
Withering Reign Under The Bleeding Sun
Within Destruction Lotus
Within the Ruins Omen
Wizard Metal in My Head
Wode Burn in Many Mirrors
Wolfheart (FIN) Cold Breath
Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite
Reminds me of a more focused (and slightly more orchestral) version of Aphex Twin's 'Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2' -- hey Burzum, Emperor, Samael, etc this is how it should be done.
Worm Ouroboros What Graceless Dawn
Wormhole The Weakest Among Us
Writing the Future Caught Between Heaven & Hell
Wumpscut Schrekk and Grauss
Wumpscut Madman Szpital
Wumpscut BlutSpuker Tavern
Xandria Kill the Sun
Xenia Sing You Home
Year of the Knife No Love Lost
Yellowcard One for the Kids
Yeruselem The Sublime
Yggdrasil All Shall Burn
Yndi Halda Under Summer
I like post rock, but this is boring as fuck. The fact that there's vocals doesn't help at all.
You Me At Six Take Off Your Colours
You Me At Six Hold Me Down
You Me At Six Sinners Never Sleep
You Me At Six Truth Decay
Youth Code Youth Code
Zemial Nykta
Zeromancer The Death of Romance
Zomby Dedication

2.4 average
Absinthe Junk Death in the Afternoon
All Out War Celestial Rot
And Now The Owls Are Smiling Epitaph
Archon Angel Fallen
Biohazard New World Disorder
Blind Seer Apocalypse 2.0
Really great progressive metal music with some of the worst vocals in the genre...
Butcher Babies Lilith
Cage (USA-CA) Unveiled
Celtic Frost Into the Pandemonium
Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?
Cilver Not the End of the World
Code Mut
Conformco controlled.altered.deleted
Dark Orange Oleander
Decayos The Hallowed Vertex
Devilskin Be Like the River
Disharmonic Orchestra Fear of Angst
District 97 Screens
Elane The Fire of Glenvore
Elegy of Madness Brave Dreams
Essentia The Human Condition
Fallen Sanctuary Terranova
Heretic's Dream The Unexpected Move
Hurray For The Riff Raff Life on Earth
I Promised Once Salvation
Kerion Cloudriders: Age of Cyborgs
Lamb Fear of Fours
Magica The Scroll of Stone
Marie Digby Your Love
Mezmerized Electrolyse
Mindcage Encapsulation
Mortad Pandemic Paranoia
Napalm Death Inside the Torn Apart
Nowen Nothing But Hate
Obsidian Kingdom Meat Machine
Quintron Are You Ready for an Organ Solo?
Reflections The Color Clear
Satyricon Deep Calleth Upon Deep
Seduce The Heaven Field Of Dreams
Sicocis Requiem of the World
Silent Descent Duplicity
Silverlane My Inner Demon
Siren's Cry Scattered Horizons
Solar Demise Archaic War
Spellbook Deadly Charms
Structural Metacognition
Summoning With Doom We Come
TANZEN Man of the Hour
The Divine Comedy Foreverland
The Gathering Afterwords
The Haunted Unseen
The Monarch All The World's Pain
The Used In Love and Death
Therion Leviathan II
Tricky Skilled Mechanics
Walk Through Fire Breathe
Winter Rose Winter Rose

2.3 average
A Call For Revenge Face Judgment
A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant
Acrid (NL) Prism
Age of Nemesis Psychogeist
Age of Nemesis Nemesis
Age of Nemesis Abraxas
All That Remains The Order of Things
Amberian Dawn Looking For You
Amon Amarth Heidrun
Apostolica Animae Haeretica
Appice Sinister
Arkona (RUS) Khram
Art of Anarchy Art of Anarchy
Azylya Sweet Cerebral Destruction
Berried Alive Fuego
Bleeding Through Bleeding Through
Borknagar Quintessence
Burzum Umskiptar
Captain, We're Sinking The King of No Man
The music is decent alt rock, but the vocals kind of suck.
Catch Your Breath Shame On Me
Celtic Frost Vanity/Nemesis
Chromatics In the City
Creeper Sanguivore
Cruentus (POL) Terminal Code
Cyansea 4D E
D.R.I. Greatest Hits
D.R.I. Dirty Rotten Hitz
Dark Orange Horizont
Dashboard Confessional Crooked Shadows
Dayshifter Hiraeth
Dead Lakes daydreamer
Death Koolaid Vol. 2
Dream Theater The Astonishing
There's nothing redeeming about this album. Dream Theater apparently lost the last decent writer in the band when they lost Portnoy. They also lost any semblance of creativity in the percussion department. At the very least, the last two albums had a bit of energy and diversity, but this doesn't even have those two things. It's a double-album full of ballads and semi-energetic songs that are almost certain to end up in ballad territory before ending.... newsflash: Dream Theater have always sucked at ballads.
Eleine Until the End
Empyrium The Turn of the Tides
This is the first time I've ever heard these guys and they definitely are trying for that Dead Can Dance kind of vibe -- but it kind of sucks. If you can stomach this, you should listen to Decoryah (especially the debut). It's like this, but still retains a bit more of the metal.
Enter Shikari The Spark
Eternalist Omnia
Eversin Divina Distopia
Eyes Set to Kill When Silence is Broken the Night is Torn
Faith No More We Care A Lot (Deluxe Band Edition)
Far From Oniria No Dream is Big Enough
Fear Me December Who Cares?
Flotsam and Jetsam Unnatural Selection
Fountain of Tears Fate
Front Line Assembly The Initial Command
Frozen Land Out of the Dark
Galderia Endless Horizon
Godsmack 1000hp
Average radio metal... what a surprise... I need 50 characters...
Grey Skies Fallen Along Came Life
GWAR The Blood of Gods
Hades If At First You Don't Succeed
HAIM Days Are Gone
Hayley Kiyoko Panorama
Hellyeah Stampede
Hooverphonic In Wonderland
Howls of Ebb The Marrow Veil
I Was Totally Destroying It I Was Totally Destroying It
I, The Dreamer Shadow Hearts
I:Scintilla Live On JBTV
Poor track choices and a mix that leaves the vocals way too high (it almost sounds like Karaoke).
Imminent Sonic Destruction And Go
Imperivm Holy War
In This Moment Mother
In This Moment Godmode
InAeona Force Rise the Sun
Karma To Burn Live In London And Chasing The Dragon
Lahannya Shotgun Reality
Leaves' Eyes Sign of the Dragonhead
Was it Liv that kept these guys from getting too deep into the folk-pop cheese pool? Apparently.
Lost Society If The Sky Came Down
Maleficent (US) Bleedover
Manntra Kreatura
Marilyn Manson Remix & Repent
Memory Garden Doomain
Monsterworks God Album
Monsterworks Album of Man
Mortiis The Great Deceiver
Neroargento Land Of Silence
Nightingale Alive Again
NOFX S&M Airlines
October File Renditions in Juxtaposition-Live at Bloodstock
One True Thing Finally ...
Opeth Sorceress
The worst moments of just about every Opeth album were the parts where they were trying to do prog rock. Stretching that shit over 3 albums (so far) is the worst idea ever.
Overkill Scorched
Pestilence Doctrine
Racetraitor Creation and the Timeless Order of Things
Ragana Desolation's Flower
Red (USA) Release the Panic
Secret Rule Machination
Seven Kingdoms Brothers of the Night
Silence the Aria Yanyeu​|​Farewell
Souls Of Diotima Janas
Taotopia Nightfall
The Bunny The Bear Stories
The Griswolds High Times For Low Lives
The Starting Line Based On A True Story Live At Studio 4
Theatres Des Vampires The Vampire Chronicles
Theatres Des Vampires Nightbreed of Macabria
Throes of Dawn Pakkasherra
Tomorrow's Eve Mirror Of Creation III - Project Ikaros
Trail Of Tears Oscillation
Ugly Kid Joe Stairway to Hell
Upon Wings Afterlife
Visions Of Atlantis Cast Away
Visions Of Atlantis Eternal Endless Infinity
Whyzdom Of Wonders and Wars
Wilson Tasty Nasty
Wind Rose Warfront
Zao All Else Failed (2003)

2.2 poor
A Pale Horse Named Death When The World Becomes Undone
Annihilator Suicide Society
Pure fucking cheese. 'My Revenge' is basically 'Damage Inc' but with a shitty chorus. The vocals are terrible and the music is generic 3rd-rate 80s thrash with the occasional highlight.
Bleed from Within Humanity
Convictions Hope for the Broken
CyLeW Not So Sleeping, Not So Beauty
Dark Orange The Garden of Poseidon
Dark Regards In Hell We Reside
Earth Caller Crystal Death
Earth Crisis Last of the Sane
Earth Crisis The Oath That Keeps Me Free
Elane Love can't wait
Emarosa Peach Club
Enthroned Cold Black Suns
Eyes Set to Kill The World Outside
Further Seems Forever The Final Curtain
Gothminister The Other Side
Inviolate The Insomniac's Dream
James LaBrie Beautiful Shade Of Grey
Linkin Park One More Light
I get it. They've been trying to break away from their first two albums for a long time now. They were smart enough to know
that the nu metal boat was sinking and it was time to move on. As far as nu metal bands go, they probably did the best job
of moving forward (fame/financially speaking). I also respect them for not taking the easy route and simply rehashing
variations of the formula that would gain them the most accolades and money. Whether we like it or not, at least they're
going their own route. Having said all that, this is boring and not very well executed.
Living Wreckage Living Wreckage
Lords of Ruin Life Is A War
Lauren fronted one of the coolest industrial metal band of the 90s -- Drown. For some reason he has spent his entire career since that point playing in bands that specialize in terrible-to-average alt. metal. His voice isn't suited to it, and even if it was the music is still crap.
Lovers and Reflections Swords
Mechanical Moth Fallen Into You
Mechanical Moth Rebirth
Nightingale Invisible
Petrol Girls Cut and Stitch
Solstafir Endless Twilight of Codependent Love
Spirit Adrift Enlightened In Eternity
Sumo Cyco Initiation
Svet Kant The Visage Unbiased
Terra Atlantica Age Of Steam
The Darkest Sins The Broken
The Razor Skyline The Bitter Well
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever
Theatres Des Vampires Candyland
Walking Dead On Broadway Slaves

2.1 poor
D.R.I. Live At Cbgb's 1984
Theater of the Absurd The Myth of Sisyphus

2.0 poor
10,000 Maniacs The Earth Pressed Flat
12 Rounds My Big Hero
A Camp Colonia
Absu The Third Storm of Cythraul
Across the Sun Before the Night Takes Us
Acumen Nation Strike 4
Adalita Adalita
Adalita Hot Air EP
Adema Kill the Headlights
Adrenaline Mob Omerta
Adrenaline Rush Adrenaline Rush
AFI Very Proud of Ya
AFI Decemberunderground
Aftermath Eyes of Tomorrow
Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit
Blissfully swings between ferociously average and boring as fuck
Agua de Annique Pure Air
I was going to write a full review, but I'm too lazy to think up an intro and conclusion (and this way I can just jump from point to point). First, the surface-level complaints. It feels like Anneke may finally be taking herself a little too seriously. First she leaves the band that got her started and names her new band after herself. Now she is using her name with the band name listed as an afterthought and has her face plastered on the cover (she's just not that great to look at either). Anyway, music by self-absorbed women can still be good... but this isn't.

These stripped down acoustic songs are just boring and uninspired and not even guest vocalists (including Anathema, Within Temptation and King Crimson vocalists) can help them. Anneke's voice is much better suited to a full band accompanying it, and these songs all put her weaknesses front-and-center. The lack of any compelling music combined with a weak performance from Anneke causes this album to drag very early on. To put things in perspective, this album is so bad that they managed to actually make their cover of Alanis Morisette's "Ironic" worse than the original.
Aleixa Disfigured
Alexa Dark Empty Drinks/Empty Hearts
Almah Almah
Amanda Ghost Ghost Stories
Amaranthe Breaking Point - B-Sides 2011-2015
American Grim Freakshow
Terrible, dated, Kid Rock-style shit... and I need 50 characters...
Amogh Symphony Vectorscan
There is a fine line between good instrumental metal and the bad. This is definitely on the bad side of the line. The previous two albums were really cool with some awesome ideas and a unified concept. This is just all over the place and lacks the same holding power.
Amoric Keep Up
Amorphis Privilege of Evil
Ana Kefr Volume 1
Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow
Anathema The Crestfallen
Ancient Eerily Howling Winds [Demo]
Animal Collective Painting With
I like indie pop and I'm okay with strange experimental music. This just isn't good.
Annihilator King of the Kill
Anorexia Nervosa Drudenhaus
Anorexia Nervosa Exile
Anthrax Volume 8: The Threat Is Real
Antyra Poiema: Archaiai Istoriai
Anubis Gate Covered in Colours
AqME La Fin Des Temps
Argyle Park Suspension Of Disbelief
Aristic Tig​/​Tala
Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream
Asking Alexandria Like a House on Fire
Asking Alexandria Where Do We Go from Here?
Astrid Williamson Day of the Lone Wolf
Atreyu The Moment You Find Your Flame
Autopsy Shitfun
Autopsy All Tomorrow's Funerals
Avatarium All I Want
Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing
Bad Religion Into the Unknown
Bad Wolves N.A.T.I.O.N.
Barb Wire Dolls Desperate
Battle Beast Bringer of Pain
Pure fucking cheese... powerful vocals, though.r(50 characters...)
Belphegor Bondage Goat Zombie
Benighted Benighted
Beware of Darkness Are You Real?
Biohazard Reborn In Defiance
Black Heart Sutra Zersetzung
Black Majesty In Your Honor
Black Tape for a Blue Girl Halo Star
Black Tape for a Blue Girl Ashes in the Brittle Air
Black Tape for a Blue Girl The Rope
Blessed by a Broken Heart Feel The Power
Blessthefall Awakening
Blind Channel Exit Emotions
Body Count Murder 4 Hire
Bosse-de-Nage Bosse-de-Nage
Bran Van 3000 Discosis
Bring Me the Horizon This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For
Bring Me the Horizon Amo
BT Laptop Symphony
Bury Your Dead You Had Me at Hello
Bury Your Dead It's Nothing Personal
Burzum Daudi Baldrs
Burzum Fallen
Bush Black and White Rainbows
Caliban A Small Boy and A Grey Heaven
Candiria Process of Self-Development
Cannabis Corpse Blunted at Birth
Cannibal Corpse Butchered at Birth
Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated
Cannibal Corpse Hammer Smashed Face
Carach Angren Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten
Carcass Symphonies of Sickness
Cathedral The Serpent's Gold
Cheeno The Next Step Will Be The Hardest
Chemlab East Side Militia
Chiasm Divided we fall
Circuitry Circuitry
Cirith Ungol King of the Dead
Claire Voyant Time Again - A Collection of Remixes
Code Orange The Above
Colbie Caillat Gypsy Heart Side A
Her music always danced the line between good/tolerable and straight-up bland, assembly line pop. She has crossed that line.
Collide Two Headed Monster
Collide These Eyes Before
Coronatus Recreatio Carminis
Corrosion of Conformity Corrosion of Conformity
Crown the Empire DOGMA
Cryptopsy Cryptopsy
Cyberaktif Tenebrae Vision
Cynic Reflections of a Dying World
Cyrax (IT) Experiences
Dagoba By Night
Dark Mirror ov Tragedy The Lord ov Shadows
Dark Orange Clouds, Paperships and Fallen Angels
Darke Complex Point Oblivion
I hear Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Slipknot, Eminem and even a bit of alt rock... yes, it's as bad as it sounds like it would be.
Darkseed Astral Adventures
Dead by April Worlds Collide
Death Angel Under Pressure
Decline of the I Rebellion
Def Leppard Yeah!
Defeated Sanity The Sanguinary Impetus
Deicide Insineratehymn
Dekad Monophonic
Dekad Confidential Tears
Delphian Oracle
DevilDriver Dealing With Demons Vol. II
Die Happy Red Box
Dimmu Borgir Inspiratio Profanus
Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me
Dissona Paleopneumatic
DragonForce Reaching into Infinity
Dreadful Shadows Buried Again
Dream Diary You Are the Beat
Drown Remixes From The Hollow
Drowning Pool Strike a Nerve
Dying Passion Absorb
Ektomorf Live and Raw - You Get What You Give
Elane The Silver Falls
Eleventyseven Galactic Conquest
Eleventyseven Adventures In Eville
Emilie Simon The Big Machine
Empyrios And the Rest Is Silence
Enemy Remains Two Faces Two Minds
Enthroned Black Goat Ritual (Live in thy Flesh)
Entwine Painstained
Epica Requiem for the Indifferent
Epica Epica vs Attack on Titan Songs
Equilibrium Erdentempel
Why is folk metal always so fucking cheesy. The vocals are weak and so is most of the music. There are some decent folk-influenced melodies, but not enough to save the album. The second song starts with little tweeting birds... fuck.
Eths Samantha
Evacuate the Fallen Things Might Seem Real
Evereve Emission
Eversin Tears on the Face of God
Every Time I Die Low Teens
Ex Libris Medea
Exodus Blood In, Blood Out
The music is very good. Those vocals are fucking terrible.
Fear Factory Burn EP
Fight Or Flight A Life By Design?
Fight Or Flight Too High to Come Down
Fireflight Innova
Five Finger Death Punch AfterLife
Flawed Element Breaking The Silence
Fleurety The White Death
Flinch National Champs
From Fall to Spring RISE
Gamma Ray Skeletons & Majesties
Geoff Tate Kings & Thieves
Goldie SaturnzReturn
Goldie Quick Money
Good Charlotte Good Charlotte
Good Charlotte Greatest Remixes
Gorod Neurotripsicks
Green Day iTRE!
Green Day Father of All Motherfuckers
Green Jelly 333
Grimner Vanadrottning
Guns N' Roses The Spaghetti Incident?
Harlequin Origin of Suffering
Haunt (USA-CA) Beautiful Distraction
Hecate Enthroned The Slaughter of Innocence, A Requiem for the Migh
Hecate Enthroned Redimus
Hecate Enthroned Kings of Chaos
Hell or Highwater Begin Again
Helloween Metal Jukebox
Helloween Unarmed
Helstar Burning Star
Hexx Wrath of the Reaper
Hollow Construct Hollow Construct
Hollow Haze End of a Dark Era
Holobody Riverhood
Hounds II
Hypocrisy Catch 22
I Am Destruction Nascency
I Prevail TRUE POWER
I:Scintilla Marrow 2
Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood
Iced Earth Iced Earth
Iced Earth Framing Armageddon
Icon For Hire Scripted
Icon For Hire Amorphous
Icon For Hire The Reckoning
In Dying Arms Original Sin
In Flames A Sense of Purpose
In Solitude Sister
Incubus (USA-CA) If Not Now, When?
Incubus (USA-CA) 8
InMe Overgrown Eden
InMe Caught:: White Butterfly
Inviolate Feast of Ashes
IOEarth Moments
Ion Vein Reigning Memories
Iron Maiden The X Factor
Iron Maiden Virtual XI
Isole Throne of Void
Issues Headspace
James Blake Enough Thunder
Jawbox For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Jennifer Terran Full Moon in Three
Jennifer Terran Rabbit
Judas Priest Demolition
Kamelot Siege Perilous
Kelly Clarkson Stronger
KHZ Emotronic
KHZ Cryogenic Sleep
Kirsty Hawkshaw The Ice Castle
KMFDM Hyena
Kontrust Time to Tango
Korn MTV Unplugged: Korn
Korn Untitled
La Dispute Wildlife
Lady Radiator Bounce Energy Hear Me Out
Lake of Tears Lady Rosenred
Laurel Halo Quarantine
Lea Lu Dots and Lines
Leaves' Eyes Meredead
Leigh Nash The State I'm In
letlive. The Blackest Beautiful
Liv Kristine Enter My Religion
Liv Kristine Skintight
Lord of the Lost Thornstar
Lord of the Lost Swan Songs III
Lordi Killection
Lovelorn Dolls The House Of Wonders
Lovelorn Dolls An Intense Feeling of Affection
Machine Head The Burning Red
Machine Head Supercharger
Manegarm Ynglingaättens öde
Mankind Is Obsolete Metamorph
Marilyn Manson Eat Me, Drink Me
Mayhem Ordo ad Chao
McCafferty McCafferty Forever
Meat Beat Manifesto Archive Things 1982-88
Mechanical Moth Torment
Megadeth The World Needs a Hero
Megadeth Super Collider
Megaherz Komet
Megaherz In Teufels Namen
Memoriam The Silent Vigil
Mephisto Walz Insidious
Mephisto Walz Early Recordings
Metallica Some Kind of Monster
Metallica Beyond Magnetic
Mike Patton The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Mindshift Horizon
Ministry Dark Side of the Spoon
Ministry From Beer to Eternity
Ministry AmeriKKKant
Misanthrope Les Déclinistes
Miss May I Curse of Existence
Mnemic Passenger
Mnemic Sons of the System
Moonlight Integrated in the System of Guilt
Moonlight DownWords
Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus
Morgoth Feel Sorry for the Fanatic
Mortiis Født til å Herske
Moving Units Damage With Care
Cheesy run-of-the-mill electro pop with terrible vocals and basic music.r
Mushroomhead A Wonderful Life
My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
My Dying Bride 34.788%... Complete
My Dying Bride Evinta
This has its interesting moments, and the idea even seemed okay on paper, but for the most part it is just plodding and dull. The re-imagined melodies don't really hold the kind of 'wow' factor that they could have, and the vocals are as average as ever (and the opera vocals are near-grating at most times).
My Inner Burning Eleven Scars
My Silent Wake Damnum Per Saeculorum
Myrkur M
Napalm Death Harmony Corruption
Neverstar When Dreams Come True
Night in Gales Nailwork
Nile At The Gate of Sethu
No Use for a Name Incognito
Nocturnal Graves Satan's Cross
Nocturnus The Nocturnus Demos
Nonpoint X
Nox Eternus Eternal Night
Numb Numb
Oddzar Ready the Chariot
Omen Hammer Damage
Ominous Ruin Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone
Opeth Burden
Opposite Earth Headspace
Overkill Killbox 13
Pain of Salvation Road Salt One
Pain of Salvation Road Salt Two
Pain of Salvation Falling Home
Pandemonium Twilight Symphony
Panic! at the Disco Viva Las Vengeance
Paradise Lost Lost Paradise
Pestilence Obsideo
Pixies Surfer Rosa
Plasmodivm The Post-Modern Prometheus
Portal Swarth
Portal ION
Powerwolf Call of the Wild
Project Pitchfork Chakra Red
Prologue Of A New Generation Mindtrip
Prophets of Rage Prophets of Rage
Pyogenesis Unpop
Queensryche Hear in the Now Frontier
Queensryche Take Cover
Queensryche Dedicated to Chaos
Queensryche Frequency Unknown (Deluxe Edition)
Rachel Chan Go
Rachel McGoye Beautiful Disaster
Rain City Drive To Better Days
Red Fang Arrows
Rekoma Circle of Hate
Rescuer Anxiety Answering
Cheesy emo/post hardcore crap. Lots of screaming, boring backing music. Whatever.
Rob Zombie Educated Horses
Rotting Christ Passage to Arcturo
Sabaton The Last Stand
Sacred Oath Twelve Bells
Sarah Jaffe The Body Wins
Sarke Allsighr
Satanic Surfers Taste the Poison
Satanic Surfers Unconsciously Confined
Say Anything Hebrews
Give me an instrumental version of this and I'd love it. This is musically ambitious alt. rock with all kinds of other influences. The vocalist is annoying as fuck, though.
Schoolyard Heroes The Funeral Sciences
Scorn Whine
SeeYouSpaceCowboy The Romance of Affliction
Sepia Goodbye Tristesse
Septicflesh Esoptron
Septicflesh A Fallen Temple
Sepultura Roots
Sepultura Bestial Devastation
Serenity Codex Atlanticus
Cheesy symphonic/power metal. Makes me want to pull out a big glittery dildo and slay dragons with it. This album is that soundtrack.
Sicocis Sicocis
Sifting The Infinite Loop
Silent Descent Remind Games
Silius Hell Awakening
Silverlane Above The Others
Sin Deadly Sin Fall from Heaven
Sirenia Sirenian Shores
Siva Addiction Bad Decisions
Skindred Big Tings
Skold Skold
Skrew Angel Seed XXIII
Sleeping With Sirens Gossip
SMP Coda
Solefald Jernlov [EP]
Solefald The Circular Drain
Sollertia Light
Solstafir Í Blóði og Anda
Son, Ambulance Euphemystic
Soul Asylum Say What You Will, Clarence...Karl Sold the Truck
Soulbound Addicted To Hell
Spectral Voices A Bleak Existence
Spirit Breaker Cura Nata
Static-X Cult Of Static
Steven Wilson The Future Bites
Stray from the Path Only Death Is Real
Straylight Run The Needles, The Space
Stream Of Passion The Flame Within
Stuck Mojo Violated
Suicide Silence The Cleansing
Surgical Meth Machine Surgical Meth Machine
Two-dimensional as hell. Imagine the TV II song from Psalm 69 spread across almost the entire album, but not as good.
Synastry Blind Eyes Bleed
Syrek Machine Elves
t.A.T.u. Happy Smiles
Tegan and Sara Crybaby
The 1975 Being Funny In A Foreign Language
The Almost Monster, Monster
The Birthday Massacre Imagica
The Bunny The Bear Afterglow
The Chemical Brothers We Are the Night
The Chemical Brothers Further
The Cure Japanese Whispers
The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord
The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne
The Echoing Green Defend Your Joy
The Echoing Green Songs of Innocence and Experience - Hope and Scien
The Gathering Interference
The Grandmaster Black Sun
The Human Abstract Midheaven
The Hunger Grip
The Kovenant S.E.T.I.
The Offspring Let the Bad Times Roll
The Order Of Elijah War at Heart
Generic metalcore goes Slipknot clone. Yep. Someone thought that was a good idea.r
The Plot In You Swan Song
The Project Hate MCMXCIX Hate, Dominate, Congregate, Eliminate
The Project Hate MCMXCIX Death Ritual Covenant
The Raven Age Conspiracy
The Starting Line Based on a True Story
The Wonder Years The Upsides
Theatres Des Vampires Bloody Lunatic Asylum
Therion Beyond Sanctorum
Therion Sitra Ahra
Therion Crowning of Atlantis
Therion Beloved Antichrist
These Arms Are Snakes This Is Meant To Hurt You
Thought Industry Recruited to Do Good Deeds for the Devil
Tiamat The Astral Sleep
Tiamat Clouds
Tiamat Amanethes
Tiamat The Scarred People
Titus Andronicus A Productive Cough
Transentience Paradox
Tricky Knowle West Boy
Tricky Vulnerable
Tricky Adrian Thaws
Turilli / Lione Rhapsody Zero Gravity (Rebirth and Evolution)
Twilight Hotel When The Wolves Go Blind
Ulcerate Of Fracture and Failure
Ulver Nattens Madrigal
Underoath Cries of the Past
Universally Estranged Reared Up In Spectral Predation
Until The Sky Dies Forgotten Pact
Vampire With Primeval Force
Vanna All Hell
Varathron His Majesty at the Swamp
Various Artists (Hip Hop) Eminem Presents: The Re-Up
Various Artists (Industrial) Operation Beatbox
Venom Prison Animus
Venus 5 Venus 5
Viv Albertine Flesh
Vokonis Odyssey
Volumes Different Animals
Waiting 4 Wyatt What Are You Waiting For?
Warrant Ultraphobic
Warrant Rockaholic
Warrant Louder Harder Faster
Wayne Static Pighammer
Wendy Wall The Road to Paradise
When Venus Weeps With This, I Let You In
White Willow Terminal Twilight
Winterborn Farewell to Saints
Witchbreed Queen of Storm
Wumpscut Bone Peeler
Xanthochroid Blessed He With Boils
Xentrix Shattered Existence
Yellowcard Underdog
Ygodeh Clinic of Maleficent
Yuth Forever Skeleton Youth Forever
Zeromancer It Sounds Like Love (But It Looks Like Sex)
Zygoma The Highest Court

1.5 very poor
A Crowd of Rebellion ALVA
Absinthe Junk Living Ghosts
Acelsia Quietude
Adversarial Prophetic Plain of Abyssal Revelation
Afgrund The Dystopian
Akribi E - Part Four of H.A.T.E
Approaching Skylight Hope Runs Deep
AqME Polaroids & Pornographie
Art Of Simplicity Caught in This Iless Storm
Artrosis Con Trust
Ashent Deconstructive
Asking Alexandria Life Gone Wild
At the Gates Gardens of Grief
Burzum The Ways of Yore
This guy and Mortiis should get together and write a concept album about fairies. In the liner notes they can thank their 1982 Casio keyboards for providing years of inspiration. Varg can add a little personal note about how it was his Casio that got him through years of prisoners using him for games of butt darts. Seriously, 16-Bit Castlevania games provided better soundtracks.
Cemetary Godless Beauty
Clare Maguire Light After Dark
Cynic '88 Demo
Darkthrone Goatlord
Darkthrone Circle the Wagons
Darling Violetta Parlour
Death Koolaid Vol. 1
Deicide In Torment in Hell
Desultory Swallow The Snake
Diamante American Dream
Dissection Reinkaos
Dragonspoon Dragonspoon
Electric Callboy Rehab
Elferya The Straight and Narrow
Emarosa Sting
Enchantment Dance The Marble Naked
Enthroned The Apocalypse Manifesto
Eths Teratologie
Fear of God Toxic Voodoo
Flyleaf Who We Are
Garbage No Gods No Masters
GGGOLDDD Interbellum
Girl in a Thunderbolt Seven Sisters
Heathen Recovered
Hecate Enthroned Dark Requiems and the Unsilent Massacre
Hooverphonic Reflection
Iced Earth Tribute to the Gods
Impaled Nazarene Ugra-Karma
In This Moment Beautiful Tragedy
In This Moment Ritual
Internal Suffering Cyclonic Void of Power
Intruder Psycho Savant
Jawbox Grippe
Kamelot Dominion
Kamelot Eternity
Lake of Tears The Neonai
Last Chance to Reason Lvl. 1
Life Down Here The Beginning
Liv Sin KaliYuga
Lordi Sexorcism
Machine Head Catharsis
Mankind Is Obsolete Trapped Inside
Mayhem Deathcrush
Muse The 2nd Law
My Chemical Romance Life on the Murder Scene
My Dying Bride Bring Me Victory
Napalm Death Bootlegged in Japan
Nelly Furtado The Spirit Indestructible
NeraNature MagJa
Neverland Reversing Time
New Found Glory Nothing Gold Can Stay
NOFX Liberal Animation
Nonpoint The Return
Obituary Inked in Blood
Oceans Red Hold Your Breath
Otep The_Ascension
Otep Hydra
Pantera I Am the Night
Pantera Projects in the Jungle
Psychonaut 4 Have a Nice Trip
Ravenscry One Way Out
Rebellion We Are the People
Red Hot Chili Peppers Return of the Dream Canteen
Satanic Surfers Fragments and Fractions
Schizoid (CAN) The Next Extreme: The Remixes
Sifting Not from Here
Skillet Unleashed
Snuttock Straight Jacket Life
Snuttock Carved & Sutured
Symphony X Symphony X
The Attraction [Indie] Grand Central Station
The Frozen Ocean The Frozen Ocean
The Gathering Almost a Dance
The Mountain Goats All Eternals Deck
The Prodigy Experience
Theatres Des Vampires Pleasure and Pain
Thirty Seconds to Mars America
Thirty Seconds to Mars It's the End of the World But It's a Beautiful Day
Tiamat Sumerian Cry
To-Mera Earthbound EP
Underoath Act of Depression
Unpure Coldland
White Zombie Gods on Voodoo Moon
White Zombie Pig Heaven
Within The Eddy Breaking Axioms
Wumpscut Schädling
Ye Banished Privateers First Night Back In Port
Yellowcard Where We Stand
Zirrus Garden City

1.0 awful
7 Horns 7 Eyes 7 Horns 7 Eyes
This is fucking terrible. The death growls are cheesy, the shrieks are a joke and the clean singing... definitely don't ignore the full-length just because you had the misfortune to listen to this.
A Day To Remember You're Welcome
A Textbook Tragedy A Partial Dialogue Between Ghost and Pri
Adema Topple the Giants
Adversarial All Idols Fall Before the Hammer
Ancient Mad Grandiose Bloodfiends
Anthrax Fistful of Metal
AqME Sombres Efforts
Arcturus Disguised Masters
Ashent Flaws Of Elation
At the Gates The Red in the Sky Is Ours
Bal-Sagoth Battle Magic
Blind Illusion Demon Master
Bloodshoteye Without Any Remorse
Brooke Candy Sexorcism
Caedeous Domini Tenebrarum
Carcass Reek of Putrefaction
Cemetary Phantasma
Children of Bodom Skeletons in the Closet
Cradle of Filth Total Fucking Darkness [Demo]
Dawes We're All Gonna Die
Deadlock I'll Wake You...When Spring Awakes
Death Spells Nothing Above, Nothing Below
Defiled Towards Inevitable Ruin
Deicide Deicide
Deicide Serpents of the Light
Dirty Projectors/Bjork Mount Wittenberg Orca
Dream Theater Master of Puppets
Drescher Steinfeld
Elferya Afterlife
Enferia Unsound Dimensions
Terrible heavy metal. Totally generic with a vocalist that sounds like a howling dog.
Enthroned Armoured Bestial Hell
Eternal Silence Raw Poetry
Below average music, average female vocals and terrible clean male singing. This is symphonic metal for someone that feels to need to support Italy or Symphonic metal or some weird desire to punish one's self.
Ever Since Eve A New Era. (Deluxe Edition)
Eyestral Beware the Rat King
Fallstar Sunbreather
Famous All The Wicked
Fatboy Slim Palookaville
Geoff Tate Geoff Tate
God Lives Underwater Life in the So-Called Space Age
On their previous album they made up for marginal song writing by injecting a lot of energy into the songs... not on this one. This is boring and lifeless. Worse then that is the vocalist has become the biggest whiner I've ever heard... he makes emo vocalists sound like they've actually got balls. The one redeeming song is "From Your Mouth" but it doesn't help lift this album to any status other then Poor.
Goodnight Fellows Flash Floods, Tornadoes, and Hurricanes
Gorefest Soul Survivor
Gorefest Chapter 13
Grieve (FIN) Wolves of the Northern Moon
Hacktivist Hyperdialect
Helstar Multiples of Black
Iced Earth Overture of the Wicked
Ildjarn Forest Poetry
Impaled Nazarene Tol Cormpt Norz Norz Norz
In The Nursery Aubade
Ivalys Words In Time
Katanga Darkchild
Katanga Moonchild
Korn Korn III: Remember Who You Are
Korpiklaani Jylhä
Lake of Tears Greater Art
Lake of Tears Illwill
Listener Wooden Heart
Massacre Promise
Measmata Megalomaniac
Mira Craig Tribal Dreams
Mortiis Crypt of the Wizard
Motley Crue New Tattoo
Otep Kult 45
Otep The God Slayer
Pyogenesis P...or different songs in different sounds
Sceau de l'Ange Phenomenes
Schoolyard Heroes Fantastic Wounds
Set It Off Upside Down
Shadowside Theatre of Shadows
Six Feet Under Torment
Skindred Smile
Small Leaks Sink Ships Oak Street Basement
Solitude Aeturnus In Times Of Solitude
Swans The Seer
Tarja Turunen The Shadow Self
The Bunny The Bear The Bunny The Bear
The Hirsch Effekt Holon : Hiberno
The Last Word Oblivion
The Project Hate MCMXCIX The Cadaverous Retaliation Agenda
Therion Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas
Tom Waits Mule Variations
Vampire Rodents Premonition
Van Canto To the Power of Eight
White Willow Sacrament
White Zombie Soul-Crusher
White Zombie Psycho-Head Blowout
Wumpscut Evoke

0.5
Various Artists (Metal) Thriller - A Tribute Metal To Michael Jackson
Completely fucking terrible. Not even in a good way.
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