| 4.0 excellent |
| Accept Russian Roulette |
| Accept Metal Heart |
| Accept Accept |
| Accept Balls to the Wall |
| Accept Restless and Wild |
| Accept Breaker |
| Accept I'm a Rebel |
| Angra Ømni |
| Avatarium Hurricanes And Halos |
| Ayreon 01011001 |
| Ayreon The Human Equation |
| Ayreon The Dream Sequencer |
| Ayreon Into the Electric Castle |
| Blaze Bayley Infinite Entanglement |
| Blind Guardian Battalions of Fear |
| Blind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Side |
| Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull |
| Deep Purple Bananas |
| Deep Purple Purpendicular |
| Deep Purple Who Do We Think We Are |
| Deep Purple Machine Head |
| Deep Purple Fireball |
| Deep Purple Deep Purple In Rock |
| Demons and Wizards Touched by the Crimson King |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Pacifisticuffs |
| Dream Theater The Astonishing |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Dream Theater Awake |
| Dream Theater Images and Words |
| Goblin Rebirth Goblin Rebirth |
| Hawkwind Blood of the Earth |
| IQ Nomzamo |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| Iron Maiden Killers |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death |
| Korn The Serenity of Suffering |
| Legend Midnight Champion |
| Love Spit Love Love Spit Love |
| This is a project of The Psychedelic Furs members, and somehow it manages to sound even more psychedelic than the main band. In other words, if you'd care to check it out, you'll probably be very pleased. |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! |
| Megadeth Risk |
| Overkill The Wings of War |
| OK, here's my minority report: This is as good as anything they did since Ironbound. Initially I was very sceptical, prepared to disregard old guys, but this album works even better than The Electric Age and White Devil Armory for me. Oh, and it's better than just "a solid slice of thrash metal." The album is pretty diverse, catchy when it's needed, Bobby utilises full spectre of his abilities, from the harshest to more melodic singing, and they did try to expand the palette. So, maybe give it a try. |
| Pallas (UK) The Dreams of Men |
| Pendragon (UK) KowTow |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You |
| Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase. |
| Sweet Oblivion Sweet Oblivion |
| This is very nice. Geoff Tate sounds good, but its the songs that matter, and the songs are mostly fresh, devoid of perpetual dullness of Tate's solo projects. I'd take this over anything Queensryche released post 1994 and prior to La Torre arrival. If you like modern Queensryche, chances are you'll enjoy this album as well. |
| Van der Graaf Generator Trisector |
| Wolfsbane Genius |
| Wolfsbane Wolfsbane |
| 3.5 great |
| Accept Blood of the Nations |
| Accept Objection Overruled |
| Anubis Gate Covered in Colours |
| Some of these covers are great, some are competent, and a couple feels unnecesary. But yeah, it sort of works the way the band intended: everyone can pick a favourite spot. For me the most interesting renditions are clustered towards the latter haf of the album. The real rating can fluctuate between 3.3 and 3.6, depending on my mood. The main issue for me is that I'm usually lukewarm towards cover albums and would much rather prefer an album of original material from these guys. |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| Arena The Unquiet Sky |
| Ayreon The Source |
| Ayreon Actual Fantasy |
| Ayreon The Final Experiment |
| Blind Guardian Follow the Blind |
| Blind Guardian Somewhere Far Beyond |
| Bruce Soord Bruce Soord |
| So, this one is probably meant to be similar to Soord's main band, but more stripped down. Surprisingly, songs here work better exactly when their arrangements are NOT so sparse and basic. The brooding couple that opens the album is probably designed to set up the mood, while the third song serves as a more energetic respite, which would have totally worked, if we haven't heard all this done better by The Pineapple Thief. Things get more interesting on A Thousand Daggers, and then Willow Tree comes even stronger, and songs are consistently good to great afterwards. I think you'll enjoy this if you like singer-songwriter kind of music even more, than if you're an admirer of The Pineapple Thief. |
| Ché Aimee Dorval The Crowned |
| This is Che's "pop diva" album, as opposed to her usual "singer-songwriter" approach (both characteristics are very approximate). For me, the bombastic/energetic tracks presented here sound significantly more interesting and engaging than the calmer/slower ones. |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want |
| It is quirky and layered and full of subtleties and subtexts that got darker in light of recent allegations. That being said, I haven't heard any other records of the band and very rarely listen to noisy electronics, so I can't really provide some deeper analysis. This is what the album feels like out of context of both the band's discography and the genre as a whole. rP. S. That recent review was fine and did not deserve to be removed. |
| Deep Purple inFinite |
| Deep Purple Now What?! |
| Deep Purple Rapture of the Deep |
| Deep Purple Stormbringer |
| Deep Purple Burn |
| Deep Purple Shades of Deep Purple |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time |
| Giraffe Tongue Orchestra Broken Lines |
| Hawkwind The Machine Stops |
| Hawkwind Space Bandits |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark |
| Iron Maiden The X Factor |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls |
| Linkin Park One More Light |
| LP has always been a guilty pleasure to me. With this album the 'guilty' part just gained an upper hand. But the pleasure remains. Chester's vocals are terrible most of the time though. Honestly. And that horrendous squeaky voice effect is soooo irritating.The title track is great IMHO. |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! |
| Megadeth The World Needs a Hero |
| Megadeth Youthanasia |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? |
| Megadeth Cryptic Writings |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction |
| Mike Shinoda Post Traumatic |
| This, in essense, is 'One More Light', without Chester, but with all the traits of that album, both likable and irritating for me (the vocals, drowned in needless effects, for one). And yet in Sputnik's collective consciousness this album is a 3, while that one is barely above 1.5. Context's a bitch. |
| Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus |
| The non-industrial tracks are actually pretty good. |
| Pallas (UK) wearewhoweare |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age |
| Roger Waters Is This The Life We Really Want? |
| Roger Waters Amused to Death |
| SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes? |
| Steven Wilson To the Bone |
| Till The Dirt Outside The Spiral |
| I haven't listened to any of the singles prior to full album release, so I went in expecting to hear something akin to Stones of Madness, Kelly Shaefer's short-lived stoner/heavy/grunge project. What I've heard Instead is, well, some actually heavy stuff with some relatively mellow sections and relatively clean vocals thrown in between the shrieks and blastbeats for some variety. This could have used some of Atheist's sophistication, but since we're not getting an actual Atheist album any time soon, this is the next best thing. Oh, and Kelly is relentless here. My personal rating could move up to 4 eventually due to pure intensity of the record, or down to 3, because it gets tiring towards the end. |
| Uriah Heep Equator |
| Van der Graaf Generator Present |
| Vuur In This Moment We Are Free - Cities |
| A "what if Devin Townsend was less talented songwriter" kind of album. Tends to blend into one big song for me. A pleasant song still, mainly thanks to Anneke (although she varies her delivery only occasionally on this album). I don't really like jent/jenty prog. If you're into jent, you'll probably dig this more than I do. |
| Wolfsbane Live Fast, Die Fast |
