| 5.0 classic |
| Aesmah Walking Off The Horizon |
This is one of the greatest Melodic Death Metal albums of all time. I heard Stained Souls
what seems like ages ago and ever since I've had my eye on this album. Of course I wasn't
hyping much because it could have been the best song on the album. I didn't know what to
expect, but of course had high hopes. And this easily surpassed my wildest expectations.
Every track is an epic in it's own right with the songwriting to back it up. In some ways
they are beating Insomnium and Be'lakor at their own game. Anyone with any interest in
the genre owes it to themselves to hear this because it encapsulates most of the best
aspects of the genre: expansive songwriting, explosive riffing, beautiful atmosphere, and
that emotional duality of magnificent encouragement and heartache. |
| Allegaeon Proponent for Sentience |
| Alustrium A Monument to Silence |
| Anata The Conductor's Departure |
| Aquilus Griseus |
Will always be one of my favorite albums of all time. The amount of atmosphere and
different arrangements in this is insane. Every track is as epic as the last. |
| Archspire Relentless Mutation |
| Belzebubs Pantheon of the Nightside Gods |
| Boston Boston |
| Caladan Brood Echoes Of Battle |
| Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Darkwater Human |
| De Lirium's Order Veniversum |
| Decapitated Winds of Creation |
| Decapitated Nihility |
| Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis |
| Demilich Nespithe |
| DGM The Passage |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| Dream Theater Images and Words |
| Dream Theater Awake |
| Elephant Watchtower The Church Is At Fault |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum |
| Equilibrium Sagas |
| Evergrey The Atlantic |
| Mature, tasteful, passionate, hard hitting in all the right places, delicate and soulful in all the right places. The range between the most delicate parts and the heavy riffs is impressive. The lead work is inventive and the vocals are so smooth. Softer songs like "End of Silence" and "Departure" just may be my favorites, which is surprising to me, but despite no harsh vocals aside from a scream on the final track the album brings the heaviness as well. An album in this style with less strong songwriting could run the risk of songs blending together but that isn't the case here. This is a classy release all around that creates a complete experience with zero filler and plenty of replay value. |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails |
| First Fragment Gloire Eternelle |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Veleno |
| Fractalize Immersion |
| Gloryhammer Legends From Beyond the Galactic Terror. |
| Even if you completely ignore the amazing lore and story, this is one of the most refined and consistently satisfying power metal albums out there. Coming from someone who is only mixed on their first two albums, Gloryhammer really did something remarkable here. |
| Gorguts Obscura |
| Gorguts Colored Sands |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Gru Cosmogenesis |
| Hooded Menace Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed |
| Insomnium Winter's Gate |
| Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105 |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope |
| Judas Priest Painkiller |
| Kadinja Ascendancy |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 |
| Means End The Didact |
| Moron Police Boat on the Sea |
| Yes! This is exactly the new album I am hoping to stumble upon every week. I'm glad they got an album cover worthy of the music to make me have to listen. And much like the cover suggests, this album is a colorful rainbow of beautiful noise. A hodge podge, yet perfectly sorted. How they are able to sound so goofy and at the same time so genuinely heartwarming is a marvel, along with how they move between so many different styles seamlessly and with all the elements feeling fully realized. It sounds like a joke and yet is masterful and feels sincere which makes it have a transcendent quality.There's also a lot of subtly mind blowing technicality going on all in the name of good songwriting. This album is the joy of life encapsulated. |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I |
| Necrophagist Epitaph |
| Neurotic Machinery A Loathsome Aberration |
| Nile Annihilation of the Wicked |
| Obscura Cosmogenesis |
| Obscura Omnivium |
| Omnerod The Amensal Rise |
| I'm convinced this is one of the best prog metal albums out there |
| Omnium Gatherum Beyond |
| Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Orphaned Land Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) |
| Persefone Spiritual Migration |
| Persefone Core |
| Persefone Aathma |
| Power Quest Neverworld |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Psychotic Waltz A Social Grace |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Rainbow Rising |
| Sabaton Primo Victoria |
| Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase I: Neohumanity |
| Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase II: Xenotaph |
| Stortregn Impermanence |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected? |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler |
| Theocracy Mirror of Souls |
| Tool Ænima |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Twilight Force Dawn of the Dragonstar |
Loving this. Sure you lose a little bit of the high
range from the first singer, but I'm liking the
richer and more confident tone of Conti. This album
is in no way a retread. I grew to appreciate the mix
on Heroes of Mighty Magic but it still always felt
like it held it back a bit. On this album they
managed to maintain the amazing amount of
orchestrations but not sacrifice any of the other
parts. In fact, I think this production is a
terrific example of how these parts can all be
blended to not sacrifice anything. I would certainly
say a valid criticism is that they have some
cornerstones of their composing that are somewhat
repeated in each song, but with further listens each
song brings something unique to the table. This time
there are songs set in the desert, green valleys,
festivals, the ocean, space, winter, and even one
with strong Asian influence; and all these different
settings manage to be conveyed confidently. Stand
out moments include the banger that is Thundersword,
Long Live the King's sheer joy, the beautiful
celebration that is the Winds of Wisdom instrumental
section, and the extended face melting shred in the
epic 12 minute closer. The guitar leads from Lynd
are especially unbelievable and fresh and it's worth
checking out for that alone. It sounds like the
magic beam of a wizard's staff put into musical
form. All in all this is sort of a love it or hate
it thing but if it's something you are into, here it
is. Twilight Force's first two albums do provide
their own flavor, but Dawn of Dragonstar is Twilight
Force at their most fully realized. |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still |
| Unbirth Fleshforged Columns of Deceit |
I do not understand how Sputnik isn't all over this. Shame. It's an incredibly satisfying
earworm of a technical brutal death release. May do a review on this. |
| Vanden Plas Chronicles of the Immortals: Netherworld II |
| Virvum Illuminance |
| VOLA Inmazes |
| Wilderun Veil of Imagination |
| Wormed Exodromos |
| 4.5 superb |
| Abiotic Symbiosis |
| Aenigmatum Deconsecrate |
| Aephanemer Prokopton |
| Aeternam Heir of the Rising Sun |
| Aether Realm Tarot |
| Akercocke Renaissance in Extremis |
| Alarum Circle's End |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde |
| Alkaloid Liquid Anatomy |
| Alkaloid Numen |
| Alterbeast Feast |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession |
| An Abstract Illusion Woe |
| Anata Under a Stone With No Inscription |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders |
| Anthriel Transcendence |
| Aquilus Bellum II |
| Better than Bellum I, this is an absolute masterpiece. As superb as the debut. What an entrancing journey |
| Aspherium The Embers of Eternity |
| Avantasia Ghostlights |
| Aviations Luminaria |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach |
| Be'lakor Vessels |
| Believer Dimensions |
| Berried Alive Bearies Alive |
| Bleed the Sky This Way Lies Madness |
What can I say. I really loved this. Sounds like amazing Deathcore to me. There is a
certain complex madness and order to it all that fits the title. And the production is
interesting but it adds interest if anything. |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race |
| Bloodshot Dawn Bloodshot Dawn |
| Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia |
| Borealis The Offering |
| Breaking Benjamin Saturate |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone |
| Car Bomb Meta |
| Carach Angren Death Came Through a Phantom Ship |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion: Side B |
| Carnosus Dogma of the Deceased |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity |
| Cellar Darling The Spell |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| Contrarian Their Worm Never Dies |
| Counterparts Nothing Left to Love |
| Cradle of Filth Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay |
| Cradle of Filth Midian |
| Cradle of Filth Hammer of the Witches |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery |
| Darkane Inhuman Spirits |
| Daylight Dies Dismantling Devotion |
| De Lirium's Order Diagnosis |
| De Lirium's Order Victim No. 52 |
| Decrepit Birth Axis Mundi |
| Defeated Sanity The Sanguinary Impetus |
| Defeated Sanity Passages Into Deformity |
| Deivos Endemic Divine |
| Destroyer LABYRINTHITIS |
| Dethklok Dethalbum IV |
| DGM Momentum |
| Disentomb The Decaying Light |
| Diskord Degenerations |
| Elvenking Red Silent Tides |
| I liked their latest album quite a bit (especially the first 5 tracks are awesome. I'll be honest with you, I only really liked a handful of songs from their first 5 albums. This on the other hand...well this is pure gold. What spectacular music. Mostly nothing to blow you away arrangement wise, but the execution is superb. Very beautiful and captivating all the way through. Now I am very interested to see what's in store in their next few albums. |
| Ensiferum Iron |
| Equilibrium Erdentempel |
| Eric Johnson Ah Via Musicom |
| Esoteric A Pyrrhic Existence |
| Estas Tonne Internal Flight |
| Eternity's End Embers of War |
| Evergrey A Heartless Portrait (The Orphéan Testament) |
| Exivious Liminal |
| Falaise A Place I Don't Belong To |
| Falconer From a Dying Ember |
| Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology |
| Fallujah The Harvest Wombs |
| Find Me Angels In Blue |
| First Fragment The Afterthought Ecstasy |
| Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds |
| Foredoomed Chaos and Beauty |
| Check this out if you want a concise and unique melodic death metal record with Gothic flavor that focuses on melody with a distinct style all their own. They are able to fit a lot into these 42 minutes. |
| Fractal Universe Engram Of Decline |
| Globe Faces Places |
| Gorod A Perfect Absolution |
| Gorod A Maze of Recycled Creeds |
| Gorod Leading Vision |
| Gorod Aethra |
| Grimgotts Dragons of the Ages |
| Hannes Grossmann The Crypts Of Sleep |
| Hannes Grossmann The Radial Covenant |
| Horrendous Idol |
| Humanity's Last Breath Abyssal |
I don't know how much more you could want from an
album in this particular style. Super
dark and brutal, breakdowns that feel like they are
pushing the envelope, good pacing,
and I was getting Fleshgod Apocalypse vibes at
points which is great to me. The
compositions are complex and proggy enough to make
one feel like there this is a time
skewing quality to them, with discernible patterns
but still plenty to surprise and make
the head spin. The tone of the instruments is unique
and intriguing.
Also the Jordan Peterson feature on "Being" was
pretty amazing. I'm glad Peterson has
decided to go metal. |
| Humanity's Last Breath Välde |
| I Am Abomination Passion Of The Heist II |
| Illyria The Carpathian Summit |
| Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy |
| In Mourning Garden of Storms |
| In Vain (NO) Solemn |
| Inanimate Existence Clockwork |
| Infant Annihilator The Battle of Yaldabaoth |
| Inferi (USA) The End of an Era | Rebirth |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun |
| Insomnium Across the Dark |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down |
| Intervals In Time |
| Iotunn Access All Worlds |
| Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater |
| Job For A Cowboy Moon Healer |
| Journey Escape |
| Judas Priest Firepower |
| Kalisia Cybion |
| Karfagen Echoes From Within Dragon Island |
| Kiko Loureiro Open Source |
| Kiko Loureiro No Gravity |
| Klexos Apocryphal Parabolam |
| Kronos Arisen New Era |
| Labyrinth Welcome to the Absurd Circus |
| Leprous Bilateral |
| Lost Horizon Awakening the World |
| Lost Soul Immerse in Infinity |
| Lychgate Also Sprach Futura |
| Majestica A Christmas Carol |
| Majesties Vast Reaches Unclaimed |
These two bands coming together is exactly what they needed. It has the increased intensity
and riffiness of Inexorum and the increased beauty and atmosphere of Obsequiae |
| Manticora To Kill to Live to Kill |
| I saw these guys live with Persefone. This is a top level band. The songwriting, the stage presence, the interesting and varied song structures and melodies, the unique tone, these guys possess it all. These are seasoned veterans that don't get enough credit but have been providing excellent "power metal", so to speak, that is more aggressive and progressive than what the genre is known for. The tone and composition is blended nicely between the unconventional and the practical and makes for satisfying and fresh music. To me it evokes feelings of military conquest, which interestingly, the singer said he was not going for. Nonetheless, this band is a treat to see live and has enough amazing guitar work and melody and impressive overall composition and accessibility for any metal fan. |
| Marco Sfogli There's Hope |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason |
| Micawber Beyond the Reach of Flame |
| Moonsorrow Viides luku - Hävitetty |
| Native Construct Quiet World |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn |
| New Found Glory New Found Glory |
| Nile Vile Nilotic Rites |
| Nile Black Seeds of Vengeance |
| Northlane Alien |
| Noumena Anima |
| Novembre Ursa |
| Novembre Classica |
| Novembre Novembrine Waltz |
| Novembre The Blue |
| Obscura Diluvium |
| Obscura A Valediction |
| Every single track is a banger. And something about the production makes them sound more savage than ever. Especially the vocals. |
| Omnium Gatherum The Redshift |
| Omnium Gatherum The Burning Cold |
| Pandemonium Insomnia |
| Pangaea (USA) Vespr |
| Pat Metheny Group Pat Metheny Group |
| Pathology Reborn to Kill |
| Paul Wardingham The Human Affliction |
| Pentakill II: Grasp of The Undying |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan |
| Persefone Truth Inside the Shades |
| Persefone Metanoia |
| Phlebotomized Pain, Resistance, Suffering |
| Psycroptic As The Kingdom Drowns |
| Psycroptic The Scepter of the Ancients |
| Psykosonik Psykosonik |
| Pyramaze Epitaph |
| Pyrrhon Abscess Time |
| Rannoch Reflections Upon Darkness |
Get on this people. Killer progressive death
metal with something unique to say. Honestly
large portions of this feel like they should
come off as fairly ordinary, but something
about the aesthetic, execution, and production
elevates this way beyond the surface. |
| Reaping Asmodeia Darkened Infinity |
| Reflections The Color Clear |
| Rhadamanthys Midnight Skies |
| Ryujin Black Bride |
| Ryujin Northern Hell Song |
| Saor Roots |
| Saor Aura |
| Saor Guardians |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress |
| Schaliach Sonrise |
| Seventh Wonder The Great Escape |
| Seventh Wonder The Testament |
| Signs Of The Swarm Amongst The Low And Empty |
| Silverchair Diorama |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Slugdge Esoteric Malacology |
| Soreption Engineering The Void |
| Soreption Jord |
| Spawn of Possession Incurso |
| Spiritual Deception Semitae Mentis |
| Still Falling The Three Suns |
| Stormlord Mare Nostrum |
| Stormlord The Gorgon Cult |
| Stortregn Finitude |
| Swallow the Sun The Morning Never Came |
| Sympuls-e Destroying The Barriers |
| Teramaze Are We Soldiers |
| Thaetas Shrines to Absurdity |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet (Redux) |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality |
| The Faceless Akeldama |
| The Francesco Artusato Project Chaos And The Primordial |
| The Menzingers After the Party |
| The Ritual Aura Laniakea |
| Thrailkill Everything That Is You |
| Tribulation Where the Gloom Becomes Sound |
| Trivium Shogun |
| Trivium In the Court of the Dragon |
| Seriously makes a strong case for their best album. They don't take their foot off the gas the whole time. And the vocal melodies, guitar solos, energy...its all at a higher level than these guys are usually able to consistently display. This is actually a fairly brutal album. |
| Ulvesang Ulvesang |
| Unbirth Deracinated Celestial Oligarchy |
| Unflesh Savior |
| Vallendusk Fortress of Primal Grace |
| VOLA Witness |
| Warforged The Grove | Sundial |
| Weeping Sores False Confession |
| Weezer Weezer |
| Wide Eyes Oneironaut |
| Wilderun Olden Tales and Deathly Trails |
| Wilderun Sleep at the Edge of the Earth |
| Winger Winger |
| Words of Farewell The Black Wild Yonder |
| Xerath III |
| Xoth Exogalactic |
| Yearning Evershade |
| Yuka Tsujiyoko Paper Mario GMS (Disc 1 and 2) |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 3TEETH shutdown.exe |
| A Sense of Gravity Travail |
| A Sense of Gravity Atrament |
This album cements the idea that this is a standout band. Rather than keeping the jazz
elements to certain instrumental melodies or passages, jazz is completely a part of the
band's identity. From the softest sections to the most crushing, everything feels done
with a master hand. Although not every experimentation is fully satisfying, listening
through the entire album certainly is, and adds value to what came before. Don't let the
somewhat generic cover art fool you, this is anything but. One of the best prog metal
albums of 2016. |
| A Will Away Bliss |
| A Will Away Here Again |
| Aara En Ergô Einai |
| Abhoria Abhoria |
| Abiotic Casuistry |
| Abnormality Contaminating the Hive Mind |
| Abstract Void Back to Reality |
| Abysmal Dawn Obsolescence |
| Acumen Nation The 5ifth Column |
| Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse |
| Aenaon Hypnosophy |
| Aenaon Mnemosyne |
| Aenimus Dreamcatcher |
This is some great progressive deathcore right here. It reminds me of heavy Contortionist level quality, but less spacey, and
with more riffs and tasty shredding. |
| Aeon Aeons Black |
| Aepoch Awakening Inception |
| Aethereus Leiden |
| Afterbirth Four Dimensional Flesh |
| I expected a little more out of the final 7 minutes. Turns out there is some serious post rock influence on here (in a good way) Overall, super fresh and cool album with jaw dropping vocals and atmosphere. This proves the music doesn't have to be played extremely fast to be slick, thought provoking, and brutal. There are no dull bits. |
| Afterbirth In But Not Of |
| Aftermath Eyes of Tomorrow |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| Allegaeon Damnum |
| Allegaeon Apoptosis |
| Allegaeon Fragments of Form and Function |
| Alluvial Sarcoma |
| Almah Fragile Equality |
| Almah Unfold |
| Alterbeast Immortal |
| Alustrium A Tunnel to Eden |
| Amberian Dawn Darkness Of Eternity |
Never heard this band before but this must be an exciting album for them. This album is
really melodic and energetic. The vocals really shine in a way I want to hear more from
power metal and instrumentals are classy. Sky is Falling, Golden Coins, and
Ghostwoman are especially satisfying. |
| Amethystium Transience |
| Amogh Symphony The Quantum Hack Code |
| Anachronism Orogeny |
| Anachronism Meanders |
| Anata The Infernal Depths of Hatred |
| Ancient Bards Soulless Child |
| Andy James Arrival |
| Angel Vivaldi Away With Words - Part I |
| Angels and Airwaves Lifeforms |
| Angra Ømni |
I've never heard Angra before but this album is amazing. Those vocals, that guitar
work, the composition, the stylistic depth, it all has that technically proficient
edge. It has that sweet blend of virtuosity and high quality songwriting to the point
that the songwriting is actually one of the most impressive parts. Every song has
something different to offer, the album is crafted in a satisfying way, the choruses
are all excellent and ear catching. The progressive flourishes add an impressive depth.
The mind bending guitar work and choruses make the replay value high. A showcase of an
album.
|
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many |
| Anomalous Ohmnivalent |
| Anthem Nucleus |
| Apogean Cyberstrictive |
| Apogean Into Madness |
| Arch Echo Arch Echo |
| Architects Holy Hell |
| Ard Take Up My Bones |
| Aristeia Era Of The Omnipotent |
| Aristeia Aristeia |
| Aristeia Demoralization Of The Luminary |
| Arkaik Lucid Dawn |
| Arkaik Metamorphignition |
| Arkaik Labyrinth of Hungry Ghosts |
| Arkona (RUS) Yav |
| Aronious Perspicacity |
I've been needing something to thoroughly open my third eye. Thank you Aronious. It's
essentially a single hour long tech death epic and its glorious. The tracks flow into each
other, some with transitions smooth enough you likely won't catch them. The fade out and
fade in between An Assembled Reality and Modernity is the only conventional break. This is
a great one to really dive into. |
| Aronious Irkalla |
| Artificial Brain Infrared Horizon |
| Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation |
| Ascariasis Ocean of Colour |
| Aspherium The Fall of Therenia |
| Asystole (USA-NY) Siren To Blight |
| Ataraxy Where All Hope Fades |
| Atlas Pain Tales of a Pathfinder |
| Augury Fragmentary Evidence |
| Augury Illusive Golden Age |
| Auras Binary Garden |
| Avatar Hail the Apocalypse |
| Avatar Feathers and Flesh |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil |
| Azusa Heavy Yoke |
| Baest Justitia |
| Bal-Sagoth The Power Cosmic |
| Barishi Old Smoke |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone |
| Beast In Black Dark Connection |
| Before I Turn Lovelorn: Moon |
| Bell Witch Mirror Reaper |
| Beyond Creation The Aura |
| Big Thief U.F.O.F. |
| Black Crown Initiate Song of the Crippled Bull |
| Blackwater Burial The Prison of Belief |
| Blade of Horus Monumental Massacre |
| Bleeding Utopia Where the Light Comes to Die |
| Blind Guardian The God Machine |
| Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Rejecting Obliteration |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State |
| Blood Red Throne Fit to Kill |
| Bloodbark Bonebranches |
| Bloodshot Dawn Demons |
| Blotted Science The Animation of Entomology |
| Borealis Illusions |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign |
| Bowling for Soup The Great Burrito Extortion Case |
| Breaking Benjamin Ember |
| Their best album. Definitely their heaviest and maybe their catchiest at the same time. rThis is the album I always knew they could make. Nearly every song on this album brings ra new look for the band, meaning, yea it still sounds very much like Breaking Benjamin, rbut while some of their other material could fairly be labeled as weaker versions of rsome of their better songs, Ember stands well on it's own. I was really a big fan of rthe first two albums. Where Dark Before Dawn felt somewhat stale, this rejuvenates my rlove for the band. So stoked this turned out as well as I could imagine Breaking rBenjamin in 2018. |
| Brymir Slayer of Gods |
| Brymir Breathe Fire to the Sun |
| Brymir Voices in the Sky |
| Burial in the Sky Persistence Of Thought |
| Burial Invocation Abiogenesis |
| Burned In Effigy Rex Mortem |
| By the Thousands Visions of Inner Depth |
| By the Thousands Dead Matter |
| It gets a little redundant in the second half. It doesn't help that there is a strange lack of guitar leads in the second half as well. But the first half of this album is some of the best flowing prog metalcore I've heard. Toxic Earth and Cold Spots are bangers for sure. There are lots of memorable moments on this album. It reminds me how good prog metalcore can be when done right. |
| Byzantine To Release Is to Resolve |
| This album is incredible and I believe it is some of the best metal to come out in years. The restraint and clarity of composition is terrific. Each song is varied and melodic. rThere is a fair bit a clean vocals on this. Only a couple of the tracks go for a straight heavy vox approach. None of the clean vox feel forced; they have very unique arrangements and elevate the music, making the crushing sections hit even harder. rThe track list is perfected as well giving the album great pacing. rIf you are a fan of quality music, do yourself a favor and listen to this. r |
| Car Bomb Mordial |
| Carach Angren Where the Corpses Sink Forever |
| Carach Angren This Is No Fairytale |
| Carcass Torn Arteries |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Kiss |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Tug of War |
| Carnifex World War X |
| Carnosus Visions of Infinihility |
| Carpenter Brut Trilogy |
| Catamenia Chaos Born |
| Cathedral The Last Spire |
| Chaos Catharsis Extase Dans La Violence |
| Chaos Echoes Mouvement |
| Charli XCX Charli |
| Charlie Griffiths Tiktaalika |
| Charmer ivy |
| Children of Bodom Hexed |
| Chimp Spanner All Roads Lead Here |
| Chimp Spanner At the Dream's Edge |
| Choria Black Secret Beyond of Nature |
| Chris Poland Return to Metalopolis |
| Christian Muenzner Beyond the Wall of Sleep |
| Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule |
| Circle of Contempt Entwine the Threads |
| Circus Maximus Nine |
| Clan of Xymox Medusa |
| Cleric Retrocausal |
| Cognizance Upheaval |
| Continuum Designed Obsolescence |
| Continuum The Hypothesis |
| Cormorant Diaspora |
| Corpsessed Succumb to Rot |
| Cosmic Putrefaction The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers |
| Cradle of Filth Existence Is Futile |
| Creeping Death Boundless Domain |
| Crematory Act Seven |
| Crematory Believe |
| Crepuscle Heavenly Skies |
| Crypta Shades of Sorrow |
| Cryptopsy The Book of Suffering - Tome 1 |
| Cryptopsy The Book of Suffering - Tome II |
| Cynthesis DeEvolution |
| Dalriada Nyárutó |
| Dalriada Áldás |
| Dance Gavin Dance Mothership |
| Dark Forest (UK) Beyond the Veil |
| Dark Tranquillity Atoma |
| Dark Tranquillity Moment |
| Darkenhold Castellum |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us |
| David Maxim Micic BILO IV |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love |
| Death Angel Humanicide |
| Decapitated The Negation |
| Decembre Noir The Renaissance Of Hope |
| Decembre Noir Your Sunset | My Sunrise |
| Defeated Sanity Disposal Of The Dead // Dharmata |
| Deinos Right Ascension |
| dEMOTIONAL Scandinavian Aftermath |
| Depravity (AUS) Grand Malevolence |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Finisterre |
| Derdian New Era Pt. 1 |
| Descend The Deviant |
| Desecravity Orphic Signs |
| Desecravity Implicit Obedience |
| Desecravity Anathema |
| Destrage Are You Kidding Me? No. |
| Deviant Process Paroxysm |
A great debut. The songwriting focus could be stronger but some of the modal leads and the
duel guitar work throughout is enough for any tech-head to check out. |
| Deviant Process Nurture |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient |
| Diamond Construct Diamond Construct |
| Disarmonia Mundi Cold Inferno |
| Disbelief The Ground Collapses |
| Dischordia Triptych |
| Disentomb Misery |
| Disillusion Alea |
| Disma Towards the Megalith |
| Disperse Living Mirrors |
| Disrupted (MEX) The Procrastination of Being |
| Disturbed Indestructible |
| Dopelord Children of the Haze |
| DragonForce The Power Within |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage |
| DragonForce Valley of the Damned |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dream Theater A View from the Top of the World |
| Dream Unending Tide Turns Eternal |
| Dreamshade What Silence Hides |
| Dreamshade The Gift of Life |
| Dreamshade A Pale Blue Dot |
| Dreamtale Beyond Reality |
| Drowning Pool Sinner |
| Duskmourn Of Shadow and Flame |
| Duskmourn Fallen Kings and Rusted Crowns |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka |
| DVSR D.V.S.R |
| Dying Fetus Make Them Beg for Death |
| Dying Wish Symptoms of Survival |
| Dyscarnate With All Their Might |
| Dyscordia Words In Ruin |
| Dyssidia Costly Signals |
| High quality prog. Sometimes reminds me of old school Leprous, and how I wish they sounded more like today. Especially songs like the first three and closer are killer. Prog fans shouldn't miss this. |
| Dystopia Na! Dweller on the Threshold |
| Eagles Hotel California |
| Earthless From the Ages |
| Echoes of Eternity Ageless |
| Echushkya The Lanterne |
| Edan Beauty and the Beat |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World |
| Ellende Todbringer |
| Elvenking Reader of the Runes – Divination |
Great. Check that closing track. A masterpiece if I
ever heard one. This album came out of nowhere for
me and punched me right in the face. Somehow doesn't
ease up whatsoever on the power metal grandeur but
feels less cheesy than a typical power metal
release. There is a lot to unpack here but I'm
loving it. What a year for power metal. |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse |
| Empyrium Über den Sternen |
| Enchant The Great Divide |
| Eneferens The Bleakness Of Our Constant |
| Enshine Singularity |
| Ensiferum Victory Songs |
| Enterprise Earth Luciferous |
| Enthean Priests of Annihilation |
The mix of symphonic,
tech, black, and melodic metal is cool.
guitar leads. The music perfectly conveys the sweet album cover. The production is top
notch. This is highly recommended to fans of the genre. |
| Entheos (USA) Time Will Take Us All |
| Envy The Fallen Crimson |
| Epica The Quantum Enigma |
| ERRA Augment |
| Esoctrilihum The Telluric Ashes of the Ö Vrth Immemorial Gods |
| Essence of Datum Event Horizon |
| Estatic Fear Somnium Obmutum |
| Eternal Storm A Giant Bound to Fall |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow A Virgin and a Whore |
| Eternity's End Unyielding |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens |
| Exanimis Marionnettiste |
| Excalion Dream Alive |
| Exocrine Legend |
| Extol Extol |
| Extreme Extreme II: Pornograffitti |
| Fabricant Drudge To The Thicket |
| Failure In The Future Your Body Will Be The Furthest Thing From Your Mind |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree |
| Fallujah Nomadic |
| Fallujah Empyrean |
| Faun Von den Elben |
| Fear Factory Mechanize |
| Fear Factory Genexus |
| Fear Factory Obsolete |
| Fear Factory Archetype |
| Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas Hypertoughness |
| Fickle Friends Velvet (EP) |
| Fifth Angel The Third Secret |
| Finntroll Jaktens Tid |
| Finsterforst Rastlos |
| Fires in the Distance Air Not Meant For Us |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse King |
| Fleshvessel Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed |
| Foredoomed Ordeal |
| Four Year Strong Rise Or Die Trying |
| Four Year Strong Brain Pain |
| Fractal Universe Rhizomes of Insanity |
| Fractal Universe The Impassable Horizon |
| Freedom of Fear Carpathia |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight |
| From Autumn to Ashes Too Bad You're Beautiful |
| Front Line Assembly Echogenetic |
| Frontierer Unloved |
| Funkadelic Standing on the Verge of Getting It On |
| Gallowbraid Ashen Eidolon |
| Galneryus Angel of Salvation |
| Ghastly (FIN) Death Velour |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Ghost Ship Octavius Delirium |
| Ghosts of Atlantis 3.6.2.4 |
| Gin Blossoms New Miserable Experience |
| Gladenfold When Gods Descend |
| Gladenfold From Dusk to Eternity |
| Goasia Dancing With The Blue Spirit |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate |
| Gorguts Considered Dead |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity |
| Gorod Neurotripsicks |
| Gorod The Orb |
| I feel like this might be the most accessible Gorod album and it's really good for it!rAbsolutely great album |
| Gravemind Conduit |
| Green Carnation Leaves Of Yesteryear |
| I've never heard this band before. This is an excellent album. The first two songs are masterpieces and Solitude is one of the most gorgeous things I've ever heard. I need to spend more time with the longer tracks as they didn't hit me as immediately, but this is a wonderful sincere listen. |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Green Day Insomniac |
| Green Day Nimrod |
| Greylotus Dawnfall |
| Gutvoid Durance of Lightless Horizons |
| Gwynbleidd Nostalgia |
| Hacktivist Hyperdialect |
| Hadean On Fading |
| Haken Aquarius |
| Haken Restoration |
| Haken Virus |
| Haliphron Prey |
| Hannes Grossmann To Where The Light Retreats |
| Hatchie Keepsake |
| Hate Awakening the Liar |
| Heart Attack Man Fake Blood |
| Heptaedium How Long Shall I Suffer Here? |
| HIM Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice |
| Hit the Lights Summer Bones |
| Holy Fawn Death Spells |
| Hooded Menace The Tritonus Bell |
| Horrendous Anareta |
| Horrified (UK) Allure of the Fallen |
| Horrified (UK) Sentinel |
| Horror God Cursed Seeds |
| Hot Mulligan You'll Be Fine |
| Hot Water Music Feel the Void |
| Huey Lewis and the News Sports |
| Hyperdontia Nexus of Teeth |
| Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood |
| Idolatrous Sorrow on Midgard |
| Immolation Acts of God |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans |
| In Vain (NO) Currents |
| Inanimate Existence A Never-Ending Cycle of Atonement |
| Inanimate Existence Liberation Through Hearing |
| Indepth Ancient Architects |
| Infant Annihilator The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch |
| Infected Mushroom Head of NASA and the 2 Amish Boys |
| Inferi (USA) The Path of Apotheosis |
| Inferi (USA) Revenant |
| Infestum Monuments of Exalted |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World |
| Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting |
| Insomnium Songs of the Dusk |
| Intervals The Space Between |
| Intervals The Shape of Colour |
| Intervals Circadian |
| Intronaut The Direction of Last Things |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms |
| Ithaca The Language of Injury |
| Jakub Zytecki Wishful Lotus Proof |
| Jakub Zytecki Ladder Head |
| James LaBrie Elements Of Persuasion |
| Jason Richardson II |
| Jeremy Soule The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Soundtrack |
| Jimmy Eat World Surviving |
| Jon Hopkins Singularity |
| Journey Look Into the Future |
| Jurre Timmer Fragmented |
| Kaddisfly Set Sail The Prairie |
| Kadinja Kadinja |
| Kalmah Kalmah |
| Kamelot Haven |
| Kardashev Peripety |
| Kardashev The Almanac |
| Karfagen Spektra |
| Kari Band Kari Ongen |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye |
| Keane Hopes & Fears |
| Khemmis Hunted |
| King Crimson Red |
| Kishi Bashi 151a |
| Krallice Prelapsarian |
| Kreator Gods of Violence |
| Lantlos Melting Sun |
| Lee McKinney Infinite Mind |
| Leprous Aphelion |
| Lettuce Elevate |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Lit A Place In The Sun |
| Lorna Shore Flesh Coffin |
| Lorna Shore Pain Remains |
| Lost in Thought Renascence |
| Lucid Planet II |
| Lunarsea Earthling/Terrestre |
| Lychgate An Antidote for the Glass Pill |
| Lychgate The Contagion in Nine Steps |
| Magic Pie The Suffering Joy |
| Make Them Suffer Worlds Apart |
| Malfet The Way to Avalon |
| Man Must Die Peace Was Never An Option |
| Manimal Armageddon |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mefitis Emberdawn |
| Megadeth Youthanasia |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction |
| Mental Cruelty Zwielicht |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Mick Gordon Doom OST |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Mistur In Memoriam |
| Mithotyn Gathered Around the Oaken Table |
| Mithotyn In the Sign of the Ravens |
| Mol Diorama |
| Monstrosity The Passage of Existence |
| Moonlight Sorcery Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle |
| Moonshade Sun Dethroned |
| Moron Police Defenders of the Small Yard |
| Moron Police The Propaganda Machine |
| Mors Principium Est Dawn of the 5th Era |
| Mors Principium Est Embers of a Dying World |
| Mors Principium Est Seven |
| Mortiferum Disgorged from Psychotic Depths |
| Motion City Soundtrack Commit This to Memory |
| Motley Crue Dr. Feelgood |
| Mr. Mister Welcome to the Real World |
| Mr. Mister The Best of Mr. Mister |
| MUNA Saves The World |
| MUNA About U |
| My Dying Bride Feel the Misery |
| My Dying Bride Songs of Darkness, Words of Light |
| Myrath Shehili |
| Myrkur Folkesange |
| Nachtterror Judgement |
| Naeramarth The Innumerable Stars |
| Ne Obliviscaris Exul |
| This is the most cohesive thing they've done. Masterpiece |
| Neuraxis Asylon |
| Nevermore This Godless Endeavor |
| New Found Glory Sticks and Stones |
| New Found Glory Not Without a Fight |
| Nightmarer Deformity Adrift |
| Nile In Their Darkened Shrines |
| Nile At The Gate of Sethu |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| Nocturnal Rites Phoenix |
| Nodachi Beyond Death Beyond Reason |
| Noise Trail Immersion Symbology of Shelter |
| Novembre Dreams D'Azur |
| Novembre Materia |
| Nucleus (USA-IL) Entity |
| Nyn Entropy: Of Chaos and Salt |
| Oak Pantheon In Pieces |
| Obsequiae Aria of Vernal Tombs |
| Obsequiae The Palms of Sorrowed Kings |
| Ocean Of Grief Nightfall's Lament |
| Ocean Of Grief Pale Existence |
| Oceans of Slumber The Banished Heart |
| Oceans of Slumber Oceans of Slumber |
| Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal |
| Ominous Ruin Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone |
| Omnium Gatherum Spirits And August Light |
| Omnium Gatherum Grey Heavens |
| It's a cool melodic death metal album and a lot of fun to listen to. "Foundation", r"Majesty rand Silence" and "Frontiers" are welcomed as some more fantastic tracks from this band. The repic feel and cohesive story of the last two albums is completely gone though. This feels rmore like just a collection of tracks, which isn't really a big criticism, but does make it rfail to reach the grandiose of "Beyond" and "New World Shadows". While most of the band's rother material was structured but still had plenty of surprises as the music went on, here rthe song structures are so basic that you can predict what is coming most every time. The rtracks are very nicely polished and practical in their writing, giving you just enough for a rnice memorable jam. "Majesty and Silence" is the only track that strays from the rpredictable approach. It's just a little flatter in general. All that said, this is still a rreally fun listen and highly raccessible. The motivational lyrics and great melodic feels of Omnium rGatherum still come rthrough. The band also maintains its great catchy quality on Grey Heavens. As a MASSIVE fan rof the band I know they can do better seeing as their last three albums are melodeath rmasterpieces in my opinion. In the end, there is a lot of fun to be had on Grey Heavens rdespite somewhat less depth than we may have come to expect from Omnium Gatherum. |
| Omnium Gatherum Origin |
| Omnium Gatherum Slasher |
| Omnivortex Diagrams of Consciousness |
| Omophagia 646965 |
| On Thorns I Lay Aegean Sorrow |
| Opera Diabolicus Death on a Pale Horse |
This is easily one of the best highly
theatrical albums I've heard. The way they
weave all the parts and the deceptively complex
riff work make this a master class. |
| Opera Magna Del amor y otros demonios |
| Ordinance (USA) The Ides Of March |
Wow cool. But I shouldn't be surprised given the lineup. They are great musicians.
Mike Semesky is building quite a discography. |
| Organectomy Existential Disconnect |
| Origin Chaosmos |
| Orion's Reign Scores of War |
| Oubliette (USA-TN) Apparitions |
| Ouroboros Emanations |
| Ovid's Withering Terraphage |
| Owane yeah whatever |
| Ozric Tentacles The Yumyum Tree |
| Paladin (USA) Ascension |
| Pandemonium Monuments of Tragedy |
| Melodic Death Metal by far on the brutal side of the spectrum. Tons of energy and interesting songs. Interesting and intrusive synths (in the best way possible). This sounds avant-garde in a way but still provides the massive amount of riffs and feel you can expect from melodic death metal. A lot of great stuff to chew on here. |
| Paradise Lost Obsidian |
| Paralydium The Paralydium Project |
| Paranorm Empyrean |
| Ripping album. If you can get past some sameness in some riffs and rhythms every track on here has something great to offer. It reminds me of a more accessible Vektor. Love the production. The guitars are so clear while still sounding organic. |
| Parting Ways Meant Well |
| Patrons Of The Rotting Gate Bathed In Ash |
| Paul Wardingham Assimilate Regenerate |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Omega |
| Persefone Shin-Ken |
| Persefone In Lak'Ech |
| Perturbator The Uncanny Valley |
| Plini Trilogy |
| Polaris The Mortal Coil |
| Polyphia New Levels New Devils |
| Powerman 5000 Tonight the Stars Revolt |
| Profanity Fragments of Solace |
| Pronostic Chaotic Upheaval |
| Protest the Hero Volition |
| Psychotic Waltz Mosquito |
| Psychotic Waltz Into the Everflow |
| Pyramid Theorem Pyramid Theorem |
| Queensryche The Verdict |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Raintime Flies and Lies |
| Rannoch Conflagrations |
| Redemption Long Night's Journey Into Day |
| Redemptor Arthaneum |
| Remnants of the Fallen All The Wounded And Broken |
| Replacire Do Not Deviate |
| Replicant Malignant Reality |
| Resurgence Besieged |
| Return to Forever Romantic Warrior |
| Revocation Netherheaven |
| Rhapsody of Fire The Eighth Mountain |
| Riddlin' Kids Hurry Up And Wait |
| Rings of Saturn Dingir |
| Rings of Saturn Lugal Ki En |
| Rings of Saturn Ultu Ulla |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name |
| Rotting Kingdom A Deeper Shade of Sorrow |
| Runemagick Evoked From Abysmal Sleep |
| Runemagick Into Desolate Realms |
| Ruston Kelly Dying Star |
| RXYZYXR LMNTS |
| Sacrificed Alliance Withdrawn |
| Sacrilege GBG The Fifth Season |
| SafetySuit Life Left To Go |
| Saga (CAN) The Security Of Illusion |
| Saga (CAN) Full Circle |
| Saga (CAN) Symmetry |
| Saor Forgotten Paths |
| Sarcasm (SWE) Esoteric Tales of the Unserene |
| Sarpanitum Blessed Be My Brothers |
| Saturnus Veronika Decides to Die |
| Scar Symmetry Symmetric in Design |
| Schammasch Triangle |
| Schizogen Spawn of Almighty Essence |
| Secret Sphere The Nature of Time |
| Secrets of the Moon Black House |
| Sectu Gerra |
| Senses Fail Still Searching |
| Sentenced The Cold White Light |
| Serocs The Phobos / Deimos Suite |
| Serpent Of Gnosis As I Drink from the Infinite Well of Inebriation |
| Seven Interdimensional Act II - Set Fire To Saturn |
| Seven Interdimensional Act I - A Ghost In Cepheus |
| Seven Spires Emerald Seas |
| Seven Spires Solveig |
| Seven Spires Gods Of Debauchery |
| Shade Empire Poetry of the Ill-Minded |
| Shade Empire Sunholy |
| Shadecrown Riven |
| Shadecrown Solitarian |
| Shadow Gallery Digital Ghosts |
| She Must Burn Umbra Mortis |
| Shinda Saibo No Katamari Saibogu |
| Shokran Ethereal |
| Shrezzers Relationships |
| Shrezzers SEX and SAX |
| Shylmagoghnar Transience |
| Sielunvihollinen Ruhonkantaja |
| Sigh Heir to Despair |
| Signs Of The Swarm Vital Deprivation |
| Signum Regis Undivided |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur |
| SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes? |
| Silence Lies Fear Shadows of the Wasteland |
| Sinistro Sangue Cassia |
| Sister Hazel Somewhere More Familiar |
| Sithu Aye Pulse |
| Sithu Aye Cassini |
| Sithu Aye Set Course for Andromeda |
| Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light |
| Skrew Universal Immolation |
| Skrew Burning in Water, Drowning In Flame |
| Slave One Omega Disciples |
| Listen to Shapers of the Inconsistent Horizon and Dissident Flesh is nothing else. Those tracks are immense. |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind |
| Slumber Fallout |
| Snot Get Some |
| Soften the Glare Making Faces |
| Soften the Glare Glint |
| Solipsist The Human Equation |
| Sorathian Dawn Sun of the Deep |
| Sorcerer Lamenting of the Innocent |
| Soreption Monument of the End |
| Soreption Deterioration of Minds |
| Soreption Illuminate the Excessive |
| Sorrow Plagues Sorrow Plagues |
| Sorrow Plagues Homecoming |
| Sort Vokter Folkloric Necro Metal |
| Spanish Love Songs Brave Faces Everyone |
| Spectrum of Delusion Esoteric Entity |
| Spheron A Clockwork Universe |
| Stand Atlantic Skinny Dipping |
| standards Fruit Town |
| Steve Vai Modern Primitive |
| Steve Vai The Story of Light |
| Stormlord Hesperia |
| Stormlord Far |
| Stortregn Emptiness Fills the Void |
| Striker Striker |
| Striker Play To Win |
| Sugar Ray Sugar Ray |
| Sulphur Aeon The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos |
| Sum 41 Chuck |
| Sum 41 Half Hour Of Power |
| Summoning Old Mornings Dawn |
| Sunless Urraca |
| Sunless Ylem |
| Suspyre When Time Fades |
| Svavelvinter Mörkrets Tid |
| Swallow the Sun Ghosts of Loss |
| Swallow the Sun Plague of Butterflies |
| Sweet Trip Velocity : Design : Comfort |
| Sylvaine Wistful |
| Symbyosis On the Wings of Phoenix |
| Sympuls-e Solarstorm |
| Sympuls-e Immensity |
| Tantara Sum of Forces |
| Target (BE) Master Project Genesis |
| Tchornobog Tchornobog |
| Temperance (IT) Temperance |
| Temple of Void The World That Was |
| Ten Babylon |
| Tenhi Maaaet |
| Tenhi Kauan |
| Teramaze Esoteric Symbolism |
| Teramaze Her Halo |
| Tersivel To the Orphic Void |
| Tetrafusion Dreaming Of Sleep |
| Thanatos Angelic Encounters |
| The 1975 The 1975 |
| The Afterimage Lumière |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand |
| The Antichrist Imperium Volume II Every Tongue Shall Praise Satan |
| The Birthday Massacre Pins and Needles |
| The Cars The Cars |
| The Chasm Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic |
| Looks like there is quite a divide about this album, but to me this is an ambitious and remarkable achievement. Any shortcomings reflect our limits in human existence, being symbolic of some of the themes of the album. |
| The Contortionist Language |
| The Dali Thundering Concept Savages |
| The Dark Element The Dark Element |
| the GazettE Ninth |
| The Ghost Inside The Ghost Inside |
| The Helix Nebula Meridian |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil |
| The Hyacinth Act My Specialty |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 |
| The Neal Morse Band Innocence & Danger |
| The Northern Solstice |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Wild Gods |
| The Odious Vesica Piscis |
| The Offering Home |
| The Offspring Ixnay on the Hombre |
| The Rolling Stones Hackney Diamonds |
| The Ruins of Beverast The Thule Grimoires |
| The Sleeper Apparatus |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever |
| Theocracy Mosaic |
| Theory In Practice Evolving Transhumanism |
| Therion Theli |
| Threshold Dividing Lines |
| Thy Catafalque Meta |
| Thy Disease Transhumanism |
| Great stuff in the vein of Meshuggah, but much more industrial and more groovy. I'm confident this is their best release. |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man |
| Toxik Dis Morta |
| Trapt Someone in Control |
| Trapt Trapt |
| Trees of Eternity Hour of the Nightingale |
| Trivium Ascendancy |
| Twilight Force Heroes of Mighty Magic |
It's really good but when the guitar isn't doing one of those insane guitar leads you can
barley hear it, meaning nothing in the way of "riffs". It's like an orchestral album that
happens to have guitar and drum accompaniment, not the other way around. Nonetheless, it
is a great lengthy album with every song bringing something unique to the table. The mix
isn't preferable and the music is sometimes hard to follow but that doesn't stop this
from surely being some of the best power metal to be released this year. |
| Tyr By the Light of the Northern Star |
| Tyr Hel |
| Uaral Sounds Of Pain... |
| Ulthar Providence |
| Undergang Aldrig i livet |
| Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire |
| Unholy (FIN) The Second Ring of Power |
| Unleash The Archers Apex |
| Unleash The Archers Phantoma |
| Unprocessed Covenant |
| Vali Skogslandskap |
| Vali Forlatt |
| Vallendusk Black Clouds Gathering |
| Vallendusk Homeward Path |
| Valleyheart Heal My Head |
| Vanaheim Een Verloren Verhaal |
| Vanden Plas The Ghost Xperiment - Illumination |
| Vanden Plas The Empyrean Equation of the Long Lost Things |
| Varathron Patriarchs of Evil |
| Vastum Orificial Purge |
| Vasudeva Generator |
| Vasudeva No Clearance |
| Ved Buens Ende Written In Waters |
| Veil of Maya Matriarch |
| Vektor Terminal Redux |
| Veld Daemonic: The Art Of Dantalian |
| Vertebra Atlantis Lustral Purge in Cerulean Bliss |
| Vials of Wrath Seeking Refuge |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden |
| Vindland Hanter Savet |
| Vintersea Illuminated |
| Violet Cold Sommermorgen (Pt. I) - Innocence |
| Violet Cold Sommermorgen (Pt. II) - Joy |
| Virus (NO) The Black Flux |
| Visceral Disgorge Slithering Evisceration |
| Visceral Throne Omnipotent Asperity |
| Vitalism Causa |
| It's just four instrumental songs but its among the top tier in the Djent Prog genre and encompasses many of the genres best features. |
| Vitriol (USA) To Bathe from the Throat of Cowardice |
| Vitriol (USA) Suffer & Become |
| If you don't want death metal this chaotic there are endless other albums out there. This is amazing at what it does and stands out in the genre. In ways, it feels like a next evolution for death metal. The way this stuff can fractalize out in a kaleidoscope of melodic brutality is enthralling. |
| Void Prayer Stillbirth from the Psychotic Void |
| VoidCeremony Threads of Unknowing |
| Voivod Synchro Anarchy |
| VOLA Applause of a Distant Crowd |
| VOLA Homesick Machinery |
| VOLA Monsters |
| Volumes Happier? |
| VVilderness Devour the Sun |
| Waken Eyes Exodus |
| Warbringer Woe to the Vanquished |
| Warforged Essence Of The Land |
| Warforged I: Voice |
| Warrior Path The Mad King |
| Watain The Agony and Ecstasy of Watain |
| Watchtower Concepts of Math: Book One |
| Weather Report Heavy Weather |
| Weird Al Yankovic Straight Outta Lynwood |
| Wheel (FIN) Charismatic Leaders |
| Whimsical Melt |
| Whimsical Bright Smiles and Broken Hearts |
| Whispered Metsutan - Songs of the Void |
| Windfaerer Breaths of Elder Dawns |
| Winger In The Heart Of The Young |
| Winterfylleth The Hallowing of Heirdom |
| Winterhorde Maestro |
| Wintersun Time I |
| With the End in Mind Unraveling; Arising |
| Witherscape The Inheritance |
| Within the Ruins Phenomena |
| Wizardthrone Hypercube Necrodimensions |
| Wodensthrone Curse |
| Woljager Van't Liewen un Stiawen |
| Words of Farewell Inner Universe |
| Words of Farewell A Quiet World |
A few relatively less interesting tracks on here but this is mostly incredible. Gallows
Frame and This Shadow My Likeness are especially unbelievably good. I also love Gaia Demise
and Zero Temperance. The way he makes the guitar burst and sing is beautiful. |
| Work of Art In Progress |
| Wormed Krighsu |
| Wormed Planisphaerium |
| Wormed Metaportal |
| Wormhole Almost Human |
| Wormwood Ghostlands - Wounds From A Bleeding Earth |
| Worship Dooom |
| Wounds (USA-IL) Light Eater |
| Wythersake Antiquity |
| Xandria The Wonders Still Awaiting |
| Xanthochroid Of Erthe and Axen: Act I |
| Xanthochroid Of Erthe and Axen: Act II |
| Xenosis Paralleled Existence |
| Xoth Interdimensional Invocations |
| Yawning Man The Revolt Against Tired Noises |
| Year of No Light Consolamentum |
| Yearning With Tragedies Adorned |
| Yearning Merging into Landscapes |
| YOB Our Raw Heart |
| Young the Giant Young the Giant |
| Zebrahead Waste of Mind |
| Zebrahead MFZB |
| Zebrahead Playmate of the Year |
| Zephyr (UK) An Odyssey for the Living |
| 3.5 great |
| .38 Special Special Delivery |
| .38 Special Special Forces |
| 3TEETH Metawar |
| A Flourishing Scourge A Flourishing Scourge |
| A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant |
| A-Z A-Z |
| Aara So Fallen Alle Tempel |
| Abhorrent Decimation The Pardoner |
| Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark |
| Abnormality Mechanisms of Omniscience |
| Abnormality Sociopathic Constructs |
| Abominable Putridity The Anomalies of Artificial Origin |
| Abysmal Dawn Phylogenesis |
Nice blend of new and old school death metal. Such a tumultuous whirlwind of riffs is
created at points it is something to behold. Tracks like The Path of the Totalitarian,
Coerced Evolution, and Soul-Sick Nation are undeniable goodness. There are still some
slight chinks in these death-metaller's armour, but this and Obsolescence are their best
imo. Obsolescence had a much crisper, clean production and possibly more substance and
tighter execution, but this is may be their most concise album. |
| Abysmal Torment The Misanthrope |
| Abysmal Torment Omnicide |
| Accept Too Mean to Die |
| Acranius Reign of Terror |
| Adimiron Et Liber Eris |
| Aephanemer A Dream Of Wilderness |
| Aeternam Ruins of Empires |
| Aeternam Al Qassam |
| After the Burial Rareform |
| After the Burial Wolves Within |
| After the Burial Evergreen |
| Ahtme Sewer Born |
| Alien Ant Farm ANThology |
| Alkaloid The Malkuth Grimoire |
| All That Remains Overcome |
| All That Remains For We Are Many |
| All Time Low Don't Panic |
| Allen/Olzon Army Of Dreamers |
| Almah E.V.O |
| Altarage Endinghent |
| Alter Bridge One Day Remains |
| Amber Run For a Moment, I Was Lost |
| Amberian Dawn River Of Touni |
| Amberian Dawn The Clouds of Northland Thunder |
| Amberian Dawn Looking For You |
| Amiensus Ascension |
| A unique black metal, prog metal album. |
| Amorphis Halo |
| An Abstract Illusion Illuminate the Path |
| Angellore Rien ne Devait Mourir |
| Angels and Airwaves I-Empire |
| Angels and Airwaves Love |
| Angelus Apatrida Cabaret de la Guillotine |
| Animals As Leaders Parrhesia |
| Antestor The Forsaken |
| Anthriel The Pathway |
| Antigone's Fate Insomnia |
| Apotheon Mechanically Consumed |
| Arch Echo You Won't Believe What Happens Next! |
| Arch Echo Final Pitch |
| Arch Enemy Deceivers |
| Architects of Evolution Global |
| Ariana Grande Thank U, Next |
| Arkaik Nemethia |
| Arkheron Thodol Thaw |
| Arkona (RUS) Khram |
| Artificial Language The Observer |
| Artificial Language Now We Sleep |
| As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire |
| Ascariasis Kintsukuroi |
| At the Gates The Nightmare of Being |
| Ataraxy Revelations of the Ethereal |
| Atena Possessed |
| Atlas Pain What the Oak Left |
| Avandra Descender |
| Avandra Prodigal |
| Avantasia Moonglow |
| Avantasia A Paranormal Evening With the Moonflower Society |
| Avatar Hunter Gatherer |
| Avatar Dance Devil Dance |
| This is a ton of fun. Heavy, sometimes silly, groovy, catchy. Just good metal. Their best since Feathers and Flesh and maybe their 2nd best overall. Maybe their most digestible. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare |
| Ayreon The Source |
| BABYMETAL Metal Galaxy |
| Baest Necro Sapiens |
| Bakos Attila Aranyhajnal |
| bansheebeat Techo Deluxe |
| Barren Earth A Complex of Cages |
| Battle Beast Circus of Doom |
| Be'lakor The Frail Tide |
| Be'lakor Coherence |
| Before I Turn Claustrophobic |
| Beheaded Only Death Can Save You |
| Belmont Aftermath |
| Beneath the Massacre Fearmonger |
| Benighted Obscene Repressed |
| Better Luck Next Time Third Time's A Charm |
| Beyond Creation Algorythm |
| Bibio Ribbons |
| Biff Byford School Of Hard Knocks |
| Binary Code Memento Mori |
| Black Crown Initiate The Wreckage of Stars |
| Black Crown Initiate Selves We Cannot Forgive |
| Black Veil Brides The Phantom Tomorrow |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch |
| Blood Stain Child Amateras |
| Blood Stain Child Metalia |
| Bluetech Prima Materia |
| Bodom After Midnight Paint the Sky With Blood |
| Bombay Bicycle Club Everything Else Has Gone Wrong |
| Borknagar Fall |
| Born of Osiris Soul Sphere |
| Bowling for Soup Lunch. Drunk. Love. |
| Bowling for Soup A Hangover You Don't Deserve |
| Bowling for Soup Drunk Enough To Dance |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia |
| Broken Hope Mutilated And Assimilated |
| Brothers Of Metal Prophecy of Ragnarök |
| Bryan Adams Reckless |
| Brymir Wings of Fire |
| Burden of Life The Makeshift Conqueror |
| Buried Realm The Ichor Carcinoma |
| Bury Tomorrow Black Flame |
| Byzantine Black Sea Codex |
| Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant |
| Caligula's Horse Charcoal Grace |
| Can Bardd The Last Rain |
| Cannabis Corpse Nug So Vile |
| Carach Angren Ethereal Veiled Existence |
| Carach Angren Franckensteina Strataemontanus |
| Carcass Surgical Steel |
| Carnifex Slow Death |
| Carnivorous Voracity The Impious Doctrine |
| Carousel Kings Charm City |
| Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction |
| Cattle Decapitation Terrasite |
| Cauldron New Gods |
| Cerebric Turmoil Neural Net Meltdown |
| Older Wormed and Gorod had a baby. Yes it's a hideous little fucker. |
| Cerebrum Iridium |
| Chaos Inception The Abrogation |
| Charly Bliss Young Enough |
| Chimp Spanner Imperium Vorago |
| CHON CHON |
| Churchburn None Shall Live... The Hymns of Misery |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye |
| Clavicus Vile The Nightspirit's Call |
| Cloven Hoof Age of Steel |
| Cognitive Malevolent Thoughts of a Hastened Extinction |
| Cognizance Malignant Dominion |
| Overall it's great. Particularly, Unforeseen Consequences is one of the best songs of the year. |
| Cognizance Phantazein |
| Cold Year Of The Spider |
| Cold The Things We Can't Stop |
| Coldrain Through Clarity |
| Coma Cluster Void Mind Cemeteries |
| Coma Cluster Void Thoughts From A Stone |
| Communic Hiding from the World |
| Contrarian To Perceive Is To Suffer |
| Corpsegrinder Corpsegrinder |
| Countless Skies Glow |
| Craft White Noise and Black Metal |
| Creeping Death Wretched Illusions |
| Crematory awake |
| Crematory Das Deutsche Album |
| Cruciamentum Charnel Passages |
| Cyborg Octopus Learning To Breathe |
| Cytotoxin Nuklearth |
| Dagon (USA-MI) Back To The Sea |
| Damned Spring Fragrantia Divergences |
| Dance Gavin Dance Jackpot Juicer |
| Dance with the Dead Loved to Death |
| Dare Sacred Ground |
| Dark Forest (UK) Oak, Ash & Thorn |
| Dark Fortress Spectres from the Old World |
| Dark Matter Secret Perfect World Creation |
| Dark Oath Ages of Man |
| Dark The Suns Suru raivosi sydämeni pimeydessä |
| Darkher Realms |
| Daughtry Daughtry |
| Daughtry Break the Spell |
| David Maxim Micic EGO |
| David Maxim Micic Who Bit the Moon |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore |
| Death Human |
| Decapitated Cancer Culture |
| Deeds of Flesh Nucleus |
| Deep Blue Something Home |
| Defacement Deviant |
| Defecto Nemesis |
| Delice Sillage |
| Demon Hunter War |
| Despised Icon Beast |
| Destiny Potato Lun |
| Destrage The Chosen One |
| Devin Townsend Lightwork |
| Devin Townsend Project Z2 |
| DGM Life |
| Diablo Silvër Horizon |
| Diablo Eternium |
| Dimmu Borgir Eonian |
| Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon |
| Disciples of the Void Disciples of the Void |
| Disperse Foreword |
| Display of Decay Art in Mutilation |
| Dissentient Labyrinth |
| Dissonance The Intricacies of Nothingness |
| Distant Aeons of Oblivion |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists |
| Disturbed Believe |
| Disturbed The Sickness |
| Dope No Regrets |
| Dope Group Therapy |
| DragonForce Reaching into Infinity |
| DragonForce Ultra Beatdown |
| Dragony Viribus Unitis |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time |
| Wow! Dream Theater comes in and drops a modern prog masterpiece! It really hold up with rtheir best work. Amazingly, the first three songs/first three singles are not the best rsongs here, in fact, I like everything afterward even more. They really hit the mark with rthis one and strengthened their legacy. |
| Dream Unending Song of Salvation |
| Dreariness Fragments |
| Drexciya Neptune's Lair |
| Drottnar Monolith |
| Dryjacket Going Out of Business |
| Dryjacket For Posterity |
| Duskmourn Legends |
| Dysylumn Occultation |
| Dzo-nga Thunder In the Mountains |
| Earthists. Lifebinder |
| Earthside A Dream In Static |
| Ebonivory The Long Dream I |
| Eclipse (SWE) Paradigm |
| Edenbridge Dynamind |
| Elder Brother Stay Inside |
| Elderwind The Magic of Nature |
| Element Eighty Element Eighty |
| Elvellon Until Dawn |
| Elvenking Reader of the Runes - Rapture |
| Embodiment Palingenesis |
| Encephalon The Transhuman Condition |
| Eneferens The Inward Cold |
There is plenty of variety in this melodic post metal/black metal/folk metal album. It
strikes a balance between the genres that feels real and natural. Very cohesive,
immediate and dreamy, conjuring up parallel feelings of contentment, sorrow, and
perseverance that fans of the genres know a quality release can provide. Simply pure
clean vox, deep growls, simple soaring guitar melodies
and soft passages all flow nicely with a keen sense of overall song dynamics. This is one
that shouldn't be missed by any fan of any of the three genres, and one I will keep
coming back to. |
| Eneferens In The Hours Beneath |
| Enigmatic Entrance Becoming Daylight |
| Ensiferum Unsung Heroes |
| Ensiferum Thalassic |
| Ensnared Dysangelium |
| Entheos (USA) Primal |
| Entheos (USA) The Infinite Nothing |
| Entheos (USA) Dark Future |
| Entrails (SWE) An Eternal Time Of Decay |
| Ephilexia Melancholia |
| Equilibrium Rekreatur |
| Equipoise Demiurgus |
| ERRA Neon |
| ERRA ERRA |
| Eternal Storm Come the Tide |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Chaotic Beauty |
| Evans Blue The Pursuit Begins When This Portrayal of Life Ends |
| Evans Blue The Melody and the Energetic Nature of Volume |
| Everdawn Venera |
| Evergrey The Storm Within |
| Evergrey Escape of the Phoenix |
| Excalion High Time |
| Execration (NOR) Return to the Void |
| Exgenesis Aphotic Veil |
| Exhorder Mourn the Southern Skies |
| Existem Mantle |
| Facelift Deformation Cybernetic Organism Atrocities |
| Fake Heroes Clouds |
| Upbeat clean sung prog pop. I don't hear many bands trying to do this style and when I do I expect it to be inconsistent. But with this album the great riffs and melodies just keep coming! |
| Fallensun The Wake Of The Fall |
| Fallujah Dreamless |
They have progressed their sound, but done so in a conservative way. The music comes across
as a full on explosion of transcendent emotion, but due to the narrow amount of arrangements
used and the monotone vocals it can lose context. The album can lose one's attention easily
and it can all start to blend together, but some of this is a side effect of the general
tone the band is going for and not exactly an outright flaw. It is best enjoyed with
completely undivided attention. Nonetheless, on the next album I would like to see the
songwriting improve.
"Abandon" is skippable and its use of the same rhythmic riff slightly devalues the far
superior "Scar Queen". The same riff is basically used again near the end of "Dreamless" but
is a somewhat interesting callback. It also feels like the best of the album is over after
"Amber Gaze". This is still a very unique and interesting experience, hence the 3.5/5, and
this is a great release for this point in Fallujah's career. But they will certainly need to
do something different for the next release. Using the darker side to a greater and more
effective extent could see this band create their best album yet. The very brief moments
that the band takes on a darker death metal sound without the atmospherics become some of
the most memorable moments on the album, and exploring this side more could give the songs
more memorable flow and make moments hit harder, whether it be a brutal section, or the
explosions of melodicism that have made the band so special. |
| Fatal FE Music of the Spheres |
| Fatso Jetson Idle Hands |
| Finger Eleven Them vs. You vs. Me |
| Fires in the Distance Echoes From Deep November |
| Firespawn Abominate |
| Firewind Firewind |
| First Fragment Dasein |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts |
| Fjorsvartnir Mzoraxc' Forbandelse |
Surprised this wasn't already on the site. Really solid straight black metal that IMO isn't
as tedious as some of what the genre has to offer. Mix of dark and heavy with a little
majestic. Clear production. |
| Fleshkiller Awaken |
| Flying Colors Third Degree |
| Flying Colors Second Nature |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! |
| Fractal Generator Macrocosmos |
| Fragments of Unbecoming Perdition Portal |
| Fragments of Unbecoming Skywards: A Sylphe's Ascension |
| Frantic Bleep The Sense Apparatus |
| Freedom Call Silver Romance |
| Freedom of Fear Nocturnal Gates |
| Freternia The Final Stand |
| Frightened Rabbit Painting of a Panic Attack |
| Gabrielle Aplin Dear Happy |
| Galactic Empire Galactic Empire |
| Galactic Empire Episode II |
| Galderia Return of the Cosmic Men |
| Genocide Pact Order Of Torment |
| Gideon Out of Control |
| Gigan Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescence |
| Gloryhammer Tales from the Kingdom of Fife |
| Gloryhammer Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards |
| Gloryhammer Return to the Kingdom of Fife |
| Gorod Process of a New Decline |
| Gortuary Divine Indigenous Sacrament |
| Grayscale Nella Vita |
| Greywind Afterthoughts |
| HAIM Days Are Gone |
| Haken Affinity |
| I haven't listened to the band much but I liked Restoration. Initiate and Red Giant are skippable, but the rest is great. 1985, The Architect, and The Endless Knot are particularly awesome. The group gets a little too ambient for my taste. I think they could benefit from being bombastic more often because that is when they are at their best IMO. rGreat record that may not fully please metal fans but should be heard by all prog fans. |
| Haken Vector |
| Hamferd Támsins likam |
| Hanging Garden Into that Good Night |
| Hannes Grossmann Apophenia |
| Happy Valley Happy Valley |
| Harakiri for the Sky III: Trauma |
| Hasse Froberg and the Musical Companion Parallel Life |
| Hatchie Giving the World Away |
| Hate Eternal Upon Desolate Sands |
| Hath All That Was Promised |
| Haunted Shores Viscera |
| Havok V |
| Heptaedium Underground Business |
| Hideous Divinity Simulacrum |
| Higher Power 27 Miles Underwater |
| Hoobastank Hoobastank |
| Hot Chelle Rae Whatever |
| Humality Now Here |
| Human Enslavement The Apocalypse of Hate |
| Human Mincer Degradation Paradox |
| Humanity's Last Breath Ashen |
| Hyperdontia Hideous Entity |
| Hyperion (SWE) Seraphical Euphony |
| I See Stars 3D |
| I, Valiance III |
| Immanifest Macrobial |
| Immorior Herbstmär |
| Imperium Titanomachy |
| Imperium Dekadenz When We Are Forgotten |
| In Flames Foregone |
| In Mourning Afterglow |
| In Mourning Monolith |
| In Reverence The Selected Breed |
| In The Burial Lamentations: Of Deceit & Redemption |
| In the Woods... Pure |
| Inanimate Existence Underneath a Melting Sky |
| Inanimate Existence The Masquerade |
| Inexorum Equinox Vigil |
| Infant Annihilator The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution |
| Infected Rain Ecdysis |
| Inferi (USA) Vile Genesis |
| Inhuman Condition Fearsick |
| Iniquity Serenadium |
| Innumerable Forms Punishment in Flesh |
| Insomnium Heart Like a Grave |
| Insomnium Anno 1696 |
| Intervals A Voice Within |
| Into Eternity The Sirens |
| Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions |
| Jakub Zytecki Feather Bed |
| Jakub Zytecki Nothing Lasts, Nothing's Lost |
| James LaBrie Impermanent Resonance |
| Journey Infinity |
| Journey Journey |
| Journey Next |
| Journey Evolution |
| Journey Eclipse |
| Journey Trial By Fire |
| Judas Priest Invincible Shield |
| Judas Priest Jugulator |
| Judas Priest Turbo |
| Kalmah Palo |
| Kamelot The Black Halo |
| Kamijo Sang |
| Kardashev The Baring of Shadows |
| Kardashev Liminal Rite |
| Karfagen 7 |
| Karfagen Messages From Afar: First Contact |
| Katalepsy Terra Mortuus Est |
| Katatonia Sky Void of Stars |
| Kauan Ice Fleet |
| Kayo Dot Plastic House on Base of Sky |
| Khonsu The Xun Protectorate |
| Killswitch Engage Atonement |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache |
| Killswitch Engage Atonement II B-Sides for Charity |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard I'm In Your Mind Fuzz |
| Klone Meanwhile |
| Korn The Serenity of Suffering |
| Korn The Nothing |
| Best Korn I ever heard. This year just keeps on giving. |
| Korn Requiem |
| Kreator Phantom Antichrist |
| Kreator Hordes of Chaos |
| Kreator Enemy of God |
| Krosis A Memoir of Free Will |
| Kylie Minogue Tension |
| Lacuna Coil Delirium |
| Lauv ~how i'm feeling~ |
| Less Than Jake In with the Out Crowd |
| Less Than Jake Anthem |
| Letters From The Colony Vignette |
| Life of Agony The Sound Of Scars |
| Lit Atomic |
| Living Colour Vivid |
| Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything |
| Loch Vostok Opus Ferox - The Great Escape |
| Luciferion The Apostate |
| Lunarsea Hundred Light Years |
| Lunarsea Route Code Selector |
| Lycus Chasms |
| Machine Head Of Kingdom And Crown |
| Madder Mortem Eight Ways |
| Magnum Sacred Blood "Divine" Lies |
| Magnum Princess Alice and the Broken Arrow |
| Malthusian Across Deaths |
| Mammoth Deviations |
| Manegarm Fornaldarsagor |
| Mare Cognitum Luminiferous Aether |
| Marianas Trench Masterpiece Theatre |
| Marty Friedman Wall of Sound |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Mastodon Cold Dark Place |
| Meadows End The Grand Antiquation |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Mental Cruelty A Hill to Die Upon |
| Meshuggah Immutable |
| Michael Romeo War of the Worlds / Pt. 2 |
| MIKE Tears of Joy |
| Miracle Flair Synchronism |
| Miseration Black Miracles And Dark Wonders |
| Misery Index Rituals of Power |
| Mizmor Yodh |
| Modern Day Babylon Travelers |
| Modern Day Babylon Coma |
Timelapse is an excellent profound melodic standout. Otherside and Waves are pretty nice
too, making for a good stretch of the album. The rest is solid but nothing to be blown
away by. Good album nonetheless. |
| Monasterium Church Of Bones |
| Monotheist Scourge |
| Monuments (UK) Phronesis |
| Monuments (UK) In Stasis |
| Moonshade As We Set the Skies Ablaze |
| Moonsorrow Jumalten aika |
| Morbid Angel Kingdoms Disdained |
| Motion City Soundtrack I Am the Movie |
| Munarheim Willens & Frei |
| MxPx MxPx |
| MxPx Find A Way Home |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| Neck Deep Life's Not Out To Get You |
| Necronomicon (CAN) Advent of the Human God |
| Negura Bunget OM |
| Negura Bunget Tău |
| Nerija Blume |
| New Found Glory Resurrection |
| New Found Glory Forever + Ever x Infinity |
| Newmoon Nothing Hurts Forever |
| Nickelback Feed the Machine |
| Night Crowned Impius Viam |
| Night Crowned Hädanfärd |
| Night Demon Darkness Remains |
| Nightland Umbra Astra Luna |
| Nightrage Wolf to Man |
| Nightrage Abyss Rising |
| Nile Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
Yo bro, I think it was only bumped so much because that soundoff is obviously a complete joke
parodying haters of the album with its false statements and idiotic comparisons. I mean, he
literally said that MCR is better because they tell kids who aren't worth living to kill
themselves... |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| No Return The Curse Within |
| No Return Fearless Walk to Rise |
| Nocturnus AD Paradox |
| Northwind Wolves Mountains and Darkness |
| Novelists Souvenirs |
| Novembers Doom Nephilim Grove |
| Novembers Doom Hamartia |
| Novena Eleventh Hour |
| Now, Now Saved |
| Numenorean Home |
| Oak Pantheon The Absence |
| Obscenity Summoning the Circle |
| Obscura Akróasis |
| Obscure Infinity Into the Vortex of Obscurity |
| Oceano Revelation |
| OCEANS (DEU) The Sun and the Cold |
| Oceans Ate Alaska Hikari |
| Oceans Ate Alaska Disparity |
| October Tide In Splendor Below |
| Odd Dimension The Blue Dawn |
| Odious Mortem Synesthesia |
| Odraza Rzeczom |
| Of Monsters and Men Fever Dream |
| Old Sorcery Realms of Magickal Sorrow |
| Om Advaitic Songs |
| Omnium Gatherum Steal the Light |
| On Thorns I Lay On Thorns I Lay |
| Once Human Evolution |
| Operus Score of Nightmares |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Orden Ogan Final Days |
| If only somehow the rest of the album managed to be as amazing as the first two songs. |
| Origin Unparalleled Universe |
| Orphaned Land All Is One |
| Orpheus Omega Wear Your Sins |
| Outer Heaven Realms of Eternal Decay |
| Ov Lustra Tempestas |
| Overkill Scorched |
| Painted in Exile The Ordeal |
| Pandiscordian Necrogenesis Outer Supernal |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal |
| Paralydium Worlds Beyond |
| Paramore Riot! |
| Pathology The Everlasting Plague |
| Pathways Harlot |
| Pathways Dies Irae |
| Pendulum Hold Your Colour |
| Pensees Nocturnes Grand Guignol Orchestra |
| Pentakill III: Lost Chapter |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal |
| Periphery Periphery V: Djent is Not a Genre |
| Pestilence Hadeon |
| Pestilence Exitivm |
| Petroglyphs Ascension |
| Phantogram Voices |
| Phantom Elite Titanium |
| Phyllomedusa Fijian Fantasies |
| Pillorian Obsidian Arc |
| Pineapple Express Uplift |
| Pitts Minnemann Project The Psychic Planetarium |
| Plaguestorm Mother of Plagues |
| Plaid Polymer |
| Plini Handmade Cities |
| Plini Impulse Voices |
| Plini Mirage |
| Poison Open Up and Say... Ahh! |
| Poison Look What The Cat Dragged In |
| Polaris The Death of Me |
| Polars Collide Grotesque |
| Polyphia Muse |
| Powerman 5000 Anyone For Doomsday? |
| Powerwolf The Sacrament of Sin |
| Primal Fear Apocalypse |
| Prophets Of Yahweh Oronodromozro |
| Protosequence A Blunt Description of Something Obscene |
| This is a really fucking good prog death EP. Dynamic music. Check it out |
| Psygnosis Human Be[ing] |
| Pulchra Morte Divina Autem et Aniles |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Ratt Tell the World: The Very Best of Ratt |
| Ratt Detonator |
| Real Friends Composure |
| Recode the Subliminal The Cost of Every Man |
| Red Moon Architect Return of the Black Butterflies |
| Reeking Aura Blood And Bonemeal |
| Relics of Humanity Obscuration |
| Renounced Beauty Is A Destructive Angel |
| Replicant Negative Life |
| Revocation Great Is Our Sin |
| Rhapsody of Fire Into The Legend |
| Rivers of Nihil Monarchy |
| Rob Zombie The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy |
| Robyn Honey |
| Ruadh The Rock of the Clyde |
| Runeshard Dreaming Spire |
| Running Wild Blood on Blood |
| RXYZYXR II of V |
| Ryujin Asian Chaos |
| Sacramental Blood Ternion Demonarchy |
| Saga (CAN) The Human Condition |
| Saga (CAN) The Beginners Guide To Throwing Shapes |
| Saint Deamon Ghost |
| Samael Hegemony |
| Sanctuary The Year the Sun Died |
| Scale the Summit Subjects |
| Scar Symmetry Dark Matter Dimensions |
| Scar Symmetry The Unseen Empire |
| Scarleth The Silver Lining |
| Senses Fail Life Is Not a Waiting Room |
| Senses Fail If There Is Light, It Will Find You |
| Sentinel (AUS) The Primordial Ruin |
| Kind of amateurish vocals, but that is the only weakness. Has the same slightly eclectic vibe rthat most metalcore has. If you like that then this is likely one of the best releases of the year rfor you. Beautiful sections kind of Dreamshade-like. Atmospheric layers abound. Interesting rsongwriting. Super brutal bouncy riffs. Super great and clear production. All packed into a nice rcohesive package. |
| Septicflesh Codex Omega |
| Septicflesh Modern Primitive |
| Serenity The Last Knight |
| Serenity Nemesis AD |
| Serenity in Murder The Eclipse |
| Serenity in Murder Reborn |
| Serpentine Dominion Serpentine Dominion |
| Seth La Morsure du Christ |
| Seven Kingdoms Decennium |
| Sevendust Cold Day Memory |
| Seventh Wonder Tiara |
| Shade Empire Omega Arcane |
| Shadow Of Intent Melancholy |
| Shattered Sun The Evolution of Anger |
| Shinedown The Sound of Madness |
| Shpongle Museum of Consciousness |
| Shpongle Codex VI |
| Signs Of The Swarm Absolvere |
| Simple Plan No Pads, No Helmets... Just Balls |
| Singularity (USA-AZ) Place of Chains |
| Sithu Aye Invent the Universe |
| Sithu Aye Homebound |
| Skillet Collide |
| Skillet Comatose |
| Skindred Babylon |
| Skyfire Liberation in Death |
| Skyforest Unity |
| Skyforest A New Dawn |
| Skyler Pia And Yet |
| It's great for what it is!!rI like the vulnerable tone and the production was the right choice! |
| Sleep Token Sundowning |
| sleepmakeswaves Love of Cartography |
| Slimelord Chytridiomycosis Relinquished |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Slowly Slowly Race Car Blues |
| So Hideous Laurestine |
| Soilwork The Ride Majestic |
| Soilwork Verkligheten |
| Sojourner Empires of Ash |
| Sojourner The Shadowed Road |
| Sonata Arctica Pariah's Child |
| Sons of Apollo MMXX |
| Sophie Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides |
| Sorrow Plagues An Eternity Of Solitude |
| Source Return to Nothing |
| Spectrum of Delusion Neoconception |
| Spiritualized And Nothing Hurt |
| Splendorius From the Ashes |
| Staind Dysfunction |
| Starkill Virus of the Mind |
| Starkill Gravity |
| StarSystems Trigger Fish |
| Steel Panther On the Prowl |
| Stella Donnelly Beware of the Dogs |
| Steve Vai Inviolate |
Pretty sweet album. No filler. Avalancha and
Little Pretty are absolutely siiick. But it's
all great |
| Stratovarius Eternal |
| Stratovarius Survive |
| Structural Metacognition |
| Sturgill Simpson Sound and Fury |
| Suldusk Lunar Falls |
| Sum 41 Heaven :x: Hell |
| Suotana Frostrealm |
| Suotana Land of the Ending Time |
| Suotana Ounas I |
| Sybreed God Is an Automaton |
| Sylosis Cycle of Suffering |
| Sylvaine Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone |
| Sylvaine Nova |
| Taphos Come Ethereal Somberness |
| Target (CHL) Deep Water Flames |
| TEMIC Terror Management Theory |
| Temperance (IT) Limitless |
| Temperance (IT) Viridian |
The title track is one of the best things they have ever done. That one seriously rips.
For me, I Am the Fire, My Demons Can't Sleep, t/t, Scent of Dye, and Catch the Dream are
standouts in the discography. I can take or leave the rest. This just might be their most
polished album.
|
| Temple of Demigod Onslaught of the Ancient Gods |
| Temple of the Demigod Onslaught of the Ancient Gods |
| Ten Stormwarning |
| Teramaze Anhedonia |
| Textures Phenotype |
| The 1975 Being Funny In A Foreign Language |
| The Absence Coffinized |
| The Afterimage Formless |
| The Algorithm Brute Force |
| The Algorithm Compiler Optimization Techniques |
| The Atlas Moth Coma Noir |
| The Birthday Massacre Under Your Spell |
| The Birthday Massacre Walking With Strangers |
| The Birthday Massacre Diamonds |
| The Birthday Massacre Superstition |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous |
| The Breathing Process Samsara |
| The Browning End of Existence |
| The Contortionist Our Bones |
| The Crown Royal Destroyer |
| The Dali Thundering Concept All Mighty Men - Drifting Through a Prosthetic Era |
| The Dangerous Summer Mother Nature |
| The Dark Element Songs The Night Sings |
| The Drowning The Radiant Dark |
| The Haarp Machine Disclosure |
| The Halo Effect Days of the Lost |
| The Interbeing Among the Amorphous |
| The Killers Pressure Machine |
| The Monolith Deathcult V3 - Vernedering: Connect the Goddamn Dots |
| The Ritual Aura Taether |
| The Ritual Aura Velothi |
| The Ritual Aura Heresiarch |
| The Scalar Process Coagulative Matter |
| The Unguided Father Shadow |
| The Who Who |
| The Wise Man's Fear Valley of Kings |
| The Zenith Passage Cosmic Dissonance |
| The Zenith Passage Solipsist |
| The Zenith Passage Datalysium |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace |
| Threshold Legends of the Shires |
| Thy Disease Costumes of Technocracy |
| Tilian The Skeptic |
| Trapt No Apologies |
| Tribal Seeds Representing |
| Tribulation Down Below |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say |
| Trivium In Waves |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence |
| Tungsten (SWE) We Will Rise |
| Twilight Force At the Heart of Wintervale |
| Two Door Cinema Club False Alarm |
| Tyr Valkyrja |
| Uneven Structure Paragon |
| Unflesh Inhumation |
| Universal Mind Project The Jaguar Priest |
| Unleash The Archers Abyss |
| Unleashed As Yggdrasil Trembles |
| Unleashed The Hunt For White Christ |
| Unprocessed Artificial Void |
| Wow this band is evolving at a startling rate. With this pleasingly introspective release they rival the big names in the genre. There is aggression and technicality but the tone of the album prioritizes satisfying the mind intellectually and making you think, which is why I got into this genre in the first place. Genuinely intriguing rhythms and arrangements come at regular rates and each track offers a largely different experience. The album is also definitely a grower. On first listen the pacing of the album was unexpected and I was hoping for some more heaviness. But on repeated listens it was easier to grasp the pacing and almost every track has its moments where it goes in hard with the aggression. Unprocessed has an impressive variety of arrangements, from the more groovy bits, to the atmospheric and thought provoking, to the ear catching melodies, and the ability to go in heavy at the right times. This album is an exceptional example of many of the best aspects of the genre. |
| Unreqvited Disquiet |
| Unreqvited Stars Wept to the Sea |
| Unreqvited Mosaic I: l'amour et l'ardeur |
| Unto Others Don't Waste Your Time |
| Urfaust Empty Space Meditation |
| Utumno Across the Horizon |
| Vader Solitude in Madness |
| Vale of Pnath The Prodigal Empire |
| Vale of Pnath II |
| Vale of Pnath Accursed |
| Vanishing Point Dead Elysium |
| Veil of Maya [m]other |
| Venom Prison Erebos |
| VI De Praestigiis Angelorum |
| Victorius (DE) Dinosaur Warfare - Legend of the Power Saurus |
| Victorius (DE) Dreamchaser |
| Victorius (DE) Space Ninjas From Hell |
It's pretty damn good, better than the singles made me believe. I'm satisfied with how
this worked out. It's their best album.
Tale of the Sunbladers, Cosmic Space Commando Base, and especially the goddamn
magnificent Astral Assassin Shark Attack are awesome. Sure the album sounds a little
typical but it has that extra glossy punch and absurdity that is a lot of fun. The story
is even made clear on the final track. These guys have their tongue firmly in cheek and
it's a blast. Way better than the new Dragonforce which felt like it was trying to do a
similar thing. |
| Vintersea Woven Into Ashes |
| Violet Cold kOsmik |
| Virulence A Conflict Scenario |
| Vision Divine The Perfect Machine |
| Vision Divine When All the Heroes Are Dead |
| Visions Of Atlantis Wanderers |
| Voyager Ghost Mile |
| Vreid Wild North West |
| Vukari Aevum |
| Vulvodynia Psychosadistic Design |
| Vulvodynia Finis Omnium Ignorantiam |
| VVilderness Dark Waters |
| Waldgefluster Ruinen |
| Walk the Moon Talking is Hard |
| Wednesday 13 Necrophaze |
| Weezer The White Album |
| Weird Al Yankovic Alpocalypse |
| Wheel (FIN) Resident Human |
| Whitechapel The Valley |
| Whitesnake Flesh and Blood |
Ok, I'm not well versed on Whitesnake's past material, but I would not be surprised one
bit if this was their best album in a LONG LONG time. This thing just rocks from
beginning to end, with superb pacing with songs seemingly written with their place in the
album in mind. There's lots of variety, from your straight up high octane rockers, the
couple smokey and brooding tracks, the optimistic up beat pop, the power ballad, swinging
blues, and the final two tracks ending the album on an ambitious note with the acoustic
tune and the tonality shifting of the finale. It is amazing how fresh and inspired
Whitesnake sound in 2019. And yes, the riffs and lead guitar work do not disappoint. |
| Wide Eyes Paradoxica |
| Widek 2010/2011 Songs |
| Widek Journey to the Stars |
| Widek Hidden Dimensions |
| Wilderun Epigone |
| Windfaerer Tenebrosum |
Really worth a listen. If you are a fan of melodic folk black metal don't miss this.
Violin metal is cool |
| Winger Better Days Comin' |
| Winger Pull |
| Wintaar Songs of White Wilderness |
| Winterage Nekyia |
| Wintersun Wintersun |
| Witherfall Curse Of Autumn |
| Witherscape The Northern Sanctuary |
| Woebegone Obscured The Forestroamer |
| Wolfheart Tyhjyys |
| Wolfheart Constellation of the Black Light |
| Worm Foreverglade |
| Wormhole Genesis |
| Wormhole The Weakest Among Us |
| Wounds of Old Visions of the Blind Eye |
| Wvnder Precipice |
| Xasthur Telepathic With The Deceased |
| Xehanort Awaken In A Different Dimension |
| Xenobiotic Mordrake |
| Yearning Frore Meadow |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue |
| Yes Mirror to the Sky |
| Yes Talk |
| Youth Fountain Letters to Our Former Selves |
| 3.0 good |
| 3TEETH 3TEETH |
| A Loathing Requiem Acolytes Eternal |
| A Novelist Folie |
| Abhorrent Decimation Miasmic Mutation |
| Abiotic Ikigai |
| Feels like the weaker of the 3 LPs? Idk I didn't get much out of it aside from some nice moments. There are some catchy vocal parts too but most of the instrumentation wasn't that memorable. |
| Abominable Putridity Parasitic Metamorphosis Manifestation |
| Abysmal Dawn Leveling the Plane of Existence |
| Accept The Rise of Chaos |
| Acrania (UK) Tyrannical Hierarchy: Vol 1 |
| Act of Denial Negative |
| Ad Infinitum Chapter I: Monarchy |
| Ad Infinitum Chapter III - Downfall |
| Adversarial Death, Endless Nothing and the Black Knife of... |
| If you want abstract as blackened as possible death metal that is as memorable as it is abstract rhere it. Sometimes seemingly just noise. The level of artistry becomes very noticeable and often rthey may do something tech death like or lay down heavy groove sections and good melodies. Nothing rcute about this. Noise metal done right. |
| Aesmah Imeria |
| Aether Realm Redneck Vikings From Hell |
| A great album but disappointing after the unbelievably amazing Tarot. Like they should be as good as ever really but something is off. This album's title track feels like a diluted version of the Tarot title track with some humor thrown in. Lean Into the Wind is a diluted version of The Devil. She's Back is a literal retread of Swampwitch which can feel like a treat for the fans but doesn't feel as endearing as it should given my urge for something fresher as the album progresses. The super fast fade out just as the shredding gets great at the end of Slave to The Riff leaves you wanting more but in a way where you think there really should have been more, something you would expect after the lengthy instrumental sections of tarot. One Hollow Word starts well but I want some more from the second half of the track. The 11 minute instrumental doesn't get the interesting until about halfway in, but it does end strong. There is less shredding overall for sure. Perhaps they really did try to make a more accessible sound for their major label debut. All that said, the track Hunger is a phenomenal banger that is a massive highlight and shows the potential the band can reach with this new sound. And TMHC is almost Tarot quality as well. It's their best production by far. To be fair, at the end of the day, I think this is only an album that suffers when compared to some of their other material. On its own merit it is a blast. Their guitar talent remains some of the best I've heard. The unique magical vibe their music creates remains.r |
| Aethere Wave Existence |
| Aetherian The Untamed Wilderness |
| After the Burial Dig Deep |
| Agathodaimon In Darkness |
| Alcest Shelter |
| Alcest Kodama |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct |
| Alda Passage |
| Alestorm No Grave But the Sea |
| Alestorm Curse of the Crystal Coconut |
| All That Remains A War You Cannot Win |
| All That Remains Victim of the New Disease |
| All Time Low Wake Up, Sunshine |
| alt-J Relaxer |
| Altarage The Approaching Roar |
| Amaranthe Manifest |
| Amberian Dawn Innuendo |
| Amberian Dawn End of Eden |
| Amesoeurs Amesoeurs |
| Amon Amarth Jomsviking |
| Amorphis Under the Red Cloud |
| Anaal Nathrakh A New Kind of Horror |
| Andy James Exodus |
| Angel Vivaldi Synapse |
| Angra Secret Garden |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless |
| Aparia Beyond The Walls Of Man |
| Apocalypse Orchestra The End is Nigh |
| Apophis Excess |
| Apotheus The Far Star |
| Ariana Grande Sweetener |
| As It Is I WENT TO HELL AND BACK |
| Asphyx Necroceros |
| Astralium Land of Eternal Dreams |
| Astronoid Astronoid |
| Atlantean Kodex The Course of Empire |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places |
| Avenged Sevenfold The Stage |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold |
| Aviana Corporation |
| Avril Lavigne Love Sux |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go |
| AWOLNATION Megalithic Symphony |
| AWOLNATION Run |
| Azure Emote The Third Perspective |
| BABYMETAL BABYMETAL |
| BABYMETAL Metal Resistance |
Definitely not as good as the first album but it's nice that they now have a folk metal and
progressive technical metal song in their catalog, "Meta Taro" and "Tale of the Destinies",
them being two of the album's best songs. |
| Beast In Black From Hell With Love |
| Becoming The Archetype Children of the Great Extinction |
| Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest |
| Belphegor The Devils |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic |
| Interesting album and definitely a must listen at least once for prog fans. But I actually rthink that it would take many awhile to realize this was the same band if they didn't know rbefore listening. rI don't think fans of the band will just eat this up. The band has always rbeen hilarious but in a jaw dropping and extremely entertaining way. I always likened the rband to an extended and compressed nuclear explosion but that is gone (except for a couple rsections). You always had to either accept them for their brutality and cheekiness or go raway. The cheekiness is now almost all of the music instead of smaller sections or rundertones. Now with all these super odd clean vocals and drawn out mid tempo beats (some of rwhich are damn groovy) I bet it makes lots of longtime fans confused. I just don't see it rhaving as broad of an appeal. Though it isn't a face blast like their other albums so some rwho probably couldn't stand their other material will like it more for that. rAbout half the ralbum is good/great stuff. There is a lot of intricate and amazing stuff here. "Famine Wolf" r"Turn on the Darkness" and to a slightly lesser extent "The Coma Machine" and "The Ectopic rScroll". But it goes downhill big time with "Rapid Calm" and "Memory Palace". Two tracks I rdon't see myself coming back to soon. At least the last two tracks are a solid end to the ralbum.rI do think the screams on this album especially on the stronger tracks are some of the best rand most dynamic they have done. |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I |
| Big Thief Two Hands |
| Birds Of Tokyo Human Design |
| Black Crown Initiate Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape |
| Black Passage The Veil |
| Blackmore's Night Nature's Light |
| Bleed from Within Era |
| Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Nightmare Withdrawals |
| blink-182 Cheshire Cat |
| blink-182 Blink-182 |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods |
| blink-182 One More Time... |
| Blood Red Throne Nonagon |
| Blood Stain Child Cyberia |
| Blood Youth Starve |
| Bloodbound Creatures of the Dark Realm |
| Bloodred Hourglass Godsend |
| Bloodshot Dawn Reanimation |
| Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen |
| Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive |
| Born of Osiris Angel or Alien |
| Born of Osiris The Simulation |
| Boys of Fall Better Moments |
| Brand of Sacrifice God Hand |
| Brand of Sacrifice Lifeblood |
| Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn |
| Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony |
| Brothers Of Metal Emblas Saga |
| Cain's Offering Stormcrow |
Power metal. The verses often forgettable. But some of the choruses on this album are among
the best in the genre. Very solid instrumentation. Nice orchestral work. The tracklist
alternates a bit between the better and more forgettable tracks. Somewhere in the middle as
far as showiness, which works great for the album. Great production. Overall a terrific
listen for fans of the genre. |
| Carach Angren Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten |
| Carbonized Disharmonization |
| Carcariass Planet Chaos |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated Side B |
| Carly Rae Jepsen The Loneliest Time |
| Cattle Decapitation Death Atlas |
| Circle of Contempt Structures for Creation |
| Cirith Ungol Forever Black |
| Cloudkicker Unending |
| Conception My Dark Symphony |
| Contrarian Only Time Will Tell |
| Cordyceps Betrayal |
| Cryptosis Bionic Swarm |
| Currents The Way It Ends |
| Cyberaktif Tenebrae Vision |
| Cynic Focus |
| Cynic Ascension Codes |
| Dance Gavin Dance Artificial Selection |
| Dark Lunacy The Rain After the Snow |
| Dark Sermon The Oracle |
| Dark The Suns All Ends In Silence |
| Dawn of Solace Waves |
| Dayseeker Sleeptalk |
| DEADTHRONE PREMONITIONS |
| Death Spiritual Healing |
| Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia |
| Decapitated Blood Mantra |
| Decapitated Anticult |
| Decembre Noir Forsaken Earth |
| Deftones Gore |
| Delain Apocalypse & Chill |
| Devin Townsend Empath |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence |
| Diabulus in Musica Euphonic Entropy |
| Disassembled Portals to Decimation |
| Dope Life |
| DorDeDuh Har |
| DragonForce Maximum Overload |
| Dragonland The Power of the Nightstar |
| Dream Theater The Astonishing |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events |
| Dreamshade Vibrant |
| I really dig 4 or 5 of the tracks.. Newcomers to the band should listen to "The Gift of Life" album first. |
| Drowning Pool Strike a Nerve |
| Drowning Pool Desensitized |
| Drowning Pool Drowning Pool |
| Dynazty The Dark Delight |
| I should really like something like this but it's missing something. It sounds good, but it just tends to cause me to zone out due to the lack of many riffs and interest in the instrumentation and vocal melodies. It's pretty vanilla stuff. The guitar leads are amazing though. The last album was better. |
| Dynazty Final Advent |
| Dynfari The Four Doors of the Mind |
| Dysmorphic An Illusive Progress |
| Earthside Let The Truth Speak |
| Eldamar The Force of the Ancient Land |
| Elderwind The Colder The Night |
| Elettra Storm Powerlords |
| Ellie Goulding Higher Than Heaven |
| Eluveitie Evocation II: Pantheon |
| Eluveitie Ategnatos |
| Empyrium The Turn of the Tides |
| Ensiferum One Man Army |
| Entombed A.D. Bowels of Earth |
| Entrails (SWE) Rise of the Reaper |
| Ephemerald Between The Glimpses Of Hope |
| Epica The Holographic Principle |
| Equilibrium Armageddon |
| ERRA Cure |
| Evanescence The Bitter Truth |
| Evans Blue Graveyard of Empires |
| Evoken Hypnagogia |
| Explosions in the Sky The Wilderness |
| Fairyland Osyrhianta |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High |
| Fallen Sanctuary Terranova |
| Fallujah Undying Light |
| Faun Midgard |
| Fear Factory The Industrialist |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture |
| Fear Factory Aggression Continuum |
| Fickle Friends You Are Someone Else |
| Finger Eleven Finger Eleven |
| Firelink Firelink |
| Fitz and the Tantrums More Than Just A Dream |
| Fitz and the Tantrums All The Feels |
| Five Finger Death Punch War Is The Answer |
| Five Finger Death Punch The Way Of The Fist |
| Flaw Divided We Fall |
| Flaw Vol IV: Because of the Brave |
| Follow the Cipher Follow the Cipher |
| Foscor Les Irreals Visions |
| Fractal Gates The Light That Shines |
| Freedom Call M.E.T.A.L. |
| Front Line Assembly Wake Up the Coma |
| Front Line Assembly Mechanical Soul |
| Frozen Soul Glacial Domination |
| Galneryus Into the Purgatory |
| Gatecreeper Deserted |
| Gates to the Morning Return To Earth |
| Ghost (SWE) Prequelle |
| Godsmack Faceless |
| Godsmack Awake |
| Godsmack IV |
| Grailknights Calling the Choir |
| Grave Digger Fields Of Blood |
| Great Master Skull and Bones |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown |
| Green Day ¡UNO! |
| Green Day Saviors |
| H.E.A.T. Address The Nation |
| H.E.A.T. H.E.A.T. II |
| Hana HANADRIEL |
| Harakiri for the Sky Arson |
| Hath Of Rot And Ruin |
| Hespera In Absence |
| HIM Tears On Tape |
| Hoobastank The Reason |
| Hoobastank Fight or Flight |
| Hour of Penance Misotheism |
| Howls of Ebb The Marrow Veil |
| Huey Lewis and the News Fore! |
| Hypocrisy Worship |
| I Am The Trireme Nomenclature |
| Iapetus The Body Cosmic |
| Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion |
| Illyria Take Me Somewhere Beautiful |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain |
| Inanimate Existence Calling from a Dream |
| Showing much more deathcore and prog influence than rprevious releases, "Calling From a rDream" shows the band taking an interesting rdirection with mixed results. The rband is at their best here when they get into a rsweet meaty groove or are consistently rthrowing aggressive and interesting riffs at your rface which doesn't happen much of this album.rThe extremelyrprevalent, not well executed female rvocals will certainly be a point of contention. The rmajority of the time they are used, rall the metal stops for more ambient soft sections rto focus on the female vocals. They rwork best when used more rhythmically and naturally rin the flow of the songs which rhappens just a few times on the album. Decentrtracks include "The Shore of Rising rShadows" and "Pulse of the Mountain's Heart". "Upon rWhirling Winds" and "Falling Into rMalice" are interesting in their rharmonic shapeshifting with the later rperhaps being my favorite track on rthe album. However, aside from the tracks I have rmentioned and the solid opener, the rother 4 tracks here are the epitome mediocre. rStill, this could be recommended to rsomeone who wants to hear something different in rtech-death. Not even close to "A rNever Ending Cycle of Atonement" though. |
| Infected Rain Time |
| Ingested The Level Above Human |
| Intervals The Way Forward |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke |
| Iron Maiden Senjutsu |
| Irreversible Mechanism Immersion |
| Isle of the Cross Excelsis |
| Issues Beautiful Oblivion |
| Seems like some might say that the album didn't turn out to be as bad as Drink About It and Flexin suggested, but I'm the opposite. I loved the singles, and I thought this might make a bigger statement then it ends up making. It's a solid album and mostly has an R&B, Pop with heavy guitars crossover thing going on, with screams only showing up in a few spots. Guitars sound punchy and defined in the best way possible for this style. I don't feel the desire to do repeated full listens like I hoped I would but about half to 2/3 of the album is great. |
| James LaBrie Static Impulse |
| Jinjer Macro |
| Johari Terra |
| Journey Frontiers |
| Journey Raised On Radio |
| Kadinja Super 90' |
| Kamelot The Shadow Theory |
| Karfagen Birds of Passage |
| Kataklysm Meditations |
| Keane Strangeland |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing |
| Korpiklaani Kulkija |
| Kreator Hate Über Alles |
| Krisiun Forged in Fury |
| Krisiun Scourge of the Enthroned |
| Kull Exile |
| Lacrimas Profundere Hope Is Here |
| Lahmia Resilience |
| Lascaille's Shroud Interval 01: Parallel Infinities, The Inner Univ |
| Leprous The Congregation |
| Leprous Malina |
| Less Than Jake Silver Linings |
| Lifehouse Who We Are |
| Like A Storm Catacombs |
| Loch Vostok Opus Ferox II – Mark of the Beast |
| Lorna Shore Immortal |
| Lovebites Glory, Glory, to the World |
| Lunar Shadow Wish to Leave |
| Lunarsea Hydrodynamic Wave |
| Maddie and Tae The Way It Feels |
| Majestica Above the Sky |
| Malist Karst Relict |
| Mary Lattimore At the Dam |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Mechina Telesterion |
| Megadeth Dystopia |
| Megadeth The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead! |
| Melanie Martinez Cry Baby |
| Merging Flare Revolt Regime |
| Meshuggah I |
| Messgram Cheers for the Failures |
| Mestis Eikasia |
| Metalite A Virtual World |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct |
| Meytal The Witness |
| Mob Rules Beast Reborn |
| Modern Day Babylon The Ocean Atlas |
| Monuments (UK) Gnosis |
| Motley Crue Saints of Los Angeles |
| Motley Crue Shout at the Devil |
| My Dying Bride As the Flower Withers |
| My Dying Bride A Mortal Binding |
| Mystifier Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia |
| Necronomicon (CAN) Rise Of The Elder Ones |
| Nekrogoblikon Heavy Meta |
| Nekrogoblikon Welcome to Bonkers |
| New Found Glory Catalyst |
| New Found Glory Radiosurgery |
| New Years Day My Dear |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up |
| Nickelback Dark Horse |
| Nine Inch Nails Not the Actual Events |
| Ninja Sex Party The Prophecy |
| Norma Jean All Hail |
| Northlane Node |
| Northlane Mesmer |
| NorthTale Welcome to Paradise |
| Novelists C'est La Vie |
| Noveria Aequilibrium |
| Noveria The Gates Of The Underworld |
| Numenorean Adore |
| Oceans of Slumber Starlight and Ash |
| October Falls Marras |
| Of Mice and Men EARTHANDSKY |
| Omnihility Dominion Of Misery |
| Omnium Gatherum Years in Waste |
| Omnium Gatherum Stuck Here on Snakes Way |
| On Thorns I Lay Threnos |
| Ossuarium Living Tomb |
| Ostura The Room |
| Oubliette (USA-TN) The Passage |
| Owane Dunno |
| Owl City Ocean Eyes |
| Owl City Cinematic |
| Papa Roach Getting Away With Murder |
| Path of Destiny The Seed of All Evil |
| Pestifer Expanding Oblivion |
| Pierce the Veil The Jaws of Life |
| Planetary Divide Origin |
| Plini Sunhead |
| Polyphia The Most Hated |
| Poppy I Disagree |
| Porcupine Tree Closure/Continuation |
| Powerman 5000 Somewhere On The Other Side Of Nowhere |
| Project Pitchfork Quantum Mechanics |
| Project Pitchfork Continuum Ride |
| Promethee Convalescence |
| Psychotic Waltz Bleeding |
| Psychotic Waltz The God-Shaped Void |
| Puddle of Mudd Come Clean |
| Puddle of Mudd Welcome to Galvania |
| Pyramaze Bloodlines |
| Quercus Heart With Bread |
| Rage Wings of Rage |
| Reflections Willow |
The Color Clear is an exceptional album that shows an impressive range of instrumentation
and tones. It's pretty shocking they went so far in the other direction with such a
linear sound here. The singles on this sounded more intriguing when I didn't know the
whole album was going to be that same sound. This is at its worst on tracks like
Isolation and Marionette which back to back basically come across as one big non-event.
Dismal, Empathy, Seven Stages, Help, and Ghost are great on here. I especially like
Dismal, which tastefully plays with its catchy repeating motif. When these guys are
actually giving me some riffing or dynamic parts it's satisfying. Their blunt lyrics are
still pretty refreshing, if maybe only for being shockingly straightforward. The
breakdowns on The Color Clear (my favorite part of that album) are better than anything
on this album though, and given that this is an album centered around them, that's too
bad. |
| Revocation The Outer Ones |
| Rhapsody of Fire Glory For Salvation |
| Riddlin' Kids Stop the World |
| Rings of Saturn Embryonic Anomaly |
| Rings of Saturn Gidim |
These guys are at their best when they are doing something melodic, creative, and some
really sick riffs/breakdowns, all while having some great songwriting flow. Unfortunately
this album has a lot more of the spastic freakout sections and not much quality
interesting songwriting. The spastic stuff is so prevalent that it prevents flow and
there aren't many good riffs to speak of. This songwriting is pretty weak compared to
what they showed before. The production is also less clear and punchy.
They sound like they are stuck in second gear for a lot of this.
Easily their worst album, but still some good tracks. Oh well. |
| Rise to Fall End vs. Beginning |
| Rise to Fall The Fifth Dimension |
| Ruadh Eternal |
| Sabaton The Great War |
| Sadness Circle of Veins |
| Sallow Moth The Larval Hope |
| Sanguisugabogg Tortured Whole |
| Saor Origins |
| Scale the Summit In a World of Fear |
| Scarab Martyrs Of The Storm |
| Scarleth Vortex |
| Secret Sphere Lifeblood |
| Senses Fail The Fire |
| Sepultura Quadra |
| Sequestered Keep The Vale of Ruined Towers |
| Sevendust Black Out the Sun |
| Sevendust Truth Killer |
| Shade Empire Sinthetic |
| Sharks In Your Mouth Sacrilegious |
| Shattered Sun Hope Within Hatred |
| Shinedown Amaryllis |
| Sick Puppies Tri-Polar |
| Sifting The Infinite Loop |
| Silenmara A Darkened Visionary |
| Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any... |
| SinHeresY Out of Connection |
| Sinsaenum Repulsion for Humanity |
| Sirenia Arcane Astral Aeons |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter |
| Solution .45 For Aeons Past |
| Solution .45 Nightmares in the Waking State, Pt. 2 |
| Sonata Arctica The Ninth Hour |
| Staind Break The Cycle |
| Staind Confessions Of The Fallen |
| Stand Atlantic F.E.A.R. |
| Starkill Shadow Sleep |
| Still Falling Free of Avidya |
| Stone Sour Hydrograd |
| Strawberry Girls Tasmanian Glow |
| Stray from the Path Subliminal Criminals |
| Sugar Ray 14:59 |
| Sugar Ray Little Yachty |
| Sum 41 Underclass Hero |
| Sum 41 Order In Decline |
| Summoning With Doom We Come |
| Swallow the Sun When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light |
| Swallow the Sun Moonflowers |
| Symbolik Emergence |
| SYQEM Reflections Of Elephants |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now |
| Tears for Fears The Tipping Point |
| Temperance (IT) The Earth Embraces Us All |
| Temperance (IT) Of Jupiter and Moons |
| Temple of Void Summoning the Slayer |
| Ten Illuminati |
| Teramaze I Wonder |
| Teramaze Sorella Minore |
| TesseracT War of Being |
| The 1975 A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships |
| The 1975 Notes on a Conditional Form |
| The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects |
| The All-American Rejects Move Along |
| The Birthday Massacre Nothing and Nowhere |
| The Birthday Massacre Hide and Seek |
| The Birthday Massacre Fascination |
| The Browning Hypernova |
| The Browning Geist |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet |
| The Devil Wears Prada The Act |
| The Ember, The Ash Fixation |
| The Faceless Autotheism |
| The Francesco Artusato Project Our Dying Sun |
| The Mercury Tree Permutations |
| The Raven Age Conspiracy |
| The Unity Pride |
| Theory In Practice Crescendo Dezign |
| Thrawsunblat Metachthonia |
| Three Days Grace Life Starts Now |
| Thulcandra Hail The Abyss |
| Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| Toothgrinder I Am |
| Transatlantic The Absolute Universe...(Extended Version) |
| Trapt Only Through the Pain |
| Tremonti A Dying Machine |
| Trivium The Crusade |
| Trivium Ember to Inferno |
| Ulvesang The Hunt |
I'm very disappointed by this. The first album is a chilling, intimate release packed
with thoughtful dynamics and ear catching melody. It had tracks full
of quiet, intimate, interesting melodies and harmonies from multiple guitars. And the
way parts blended into each other was superb. Strumming was only used in like 3-4 spots
on the album and for emphasis. It's so good I will definitely still be putting it on
from time to time for the rest of my life. With this album I'm finding very little to
hold on to. It sounds like glorified instrumental folk rock. Long periods of strumming
with not much in the way of melody, and when there is melody it is usually the simplest
of the simple: walking steadily through scale degrees. There are some brief moments of
brilliance spread about but not much sustained. So yea this is a very different album
from the first. I appreciate some of new instrumentation that comes in from time to
time but I'm having a hard time having this keep my attention. I'll give this a few
more spins past my 5, but as of now The Trial may be the only song I would add to an
Ulvesang playlist. |
| Unprocessed ...And Everything In Between |
| Unto Others Mana |
| Valtari Hunter's Pride |
| Vanden Plas The Ghost Xperiment: Awakening |
| Varathron The Crimson Temple |
| Veil of Maya False Idol |
| Verikalpa Tuoppitanssi |
| Vetur Vist |
| VHS Collection Retrofuturism |
| Vials of Wrath Days Without Names |
| Victorius (DE) Dinosaur Warfare Pt. 2 |
| Vintersorg Till Fjälls Del II |
| Violet Cold Noir Kid |
| Vision Divine Destination Set to Nowhere |
| Visions Of Atlantis Pirates |
| Visions Of Atlantis The Deep & The Dark |
| Vitalism SY |
| Vltimas Something Wicked Marches In |
| Volumes No Sleep |
| Vorna Sateet palata saavat |
| Vulvodynia Mob Justice |
| Vulvodynia Praenuntius Infiniti |
| Wage War Manic |
| Warrant The Best Of Warrant |
| Weezer OK Human |
| Weird Al Yankovic Mandatory Fun |
| Widek Outside the Universe |
| Wind Rose Wintersaga |
| Windfaerer Alma |
| Winterfylleth The Divination Of Antiquity |
| Within Destruction Lotus |
| Within the Ruins Halfway Human |
| Wolfheart Wolves of Karelia |
| Xenosis Devour and Birth |
| Xerath I |
| Yearning Plaintive Scenes |
| Yes The Quest |
| Young the Giant Mind Over Matter |
| Youth Fountain Together in Lonesome |
| Zao The Crimson Corridor |
| Zebrahead Phoenix |
| Zebrahead Broadcast To The World |
| Zebrahead Zebrahead |
