| 5.0 classic |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| Between the Buried and Me Future Sequence: Live at the Fidelitorium |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Blackbraid Blackbraid II |
| What at first sounds like a relatively standard riff forward bm album unfolds into probably the best album of 2023. Twilight hymn of ancient blood invokes black metal?s thrashing roots, moss covered bones on the altar of the moon is a pitch perfect representation of and logical next step for this brand of melodic and cascadian-adjacent black metal. The spirit returns is the only song I?ve seen a black metal play live and a pit started for. I?ll say less, listen to it. |
| Cave In Final Transmission |
| Fuck all of you indeed, this album is a tribute to Caleb and his last writings. Sorry he didn?t have time to flesh the ideas out before he died. RIP Caleb. |
| Cobalt Slow Forever |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Converge's masterpiece, every track will leave a lasting impression and the album as a whole is simply spectacular. |
| Convulsing Perdurance |
| Ulcerate is great and all but this is the first dissodeath album that appeals to me as a whole and not as an esoteric niche that I?m only rarely in the mood for. The musicality here is next level. An avalanche of riffs to the fucking skull is about right. |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ |
| This album came out of nowhere and completely captivated me upon first lesson. After spending some time delving into Cursive's discography, this album stands as their crowning achievement to date. Songs like the opening barrage of "Some Red Handed Sleight of Hand" and "Art is Hard," as well as late album highlight "A Gentleman Caller", show Tim Kasher's frenzied and frenetic post-hardcore guitar acrobatics, while slower, more pensive cuts like "The Recluse" and "Driftwood" take a more refelctive side with great lyrics and a twinkly style of guitar delivery more common in emo bands. No two songs sound the same, and the whole album's overarching theme (NOT concept, this isn't a concept album,) make it a really special listen. Musically engaging post-hardcore frenzies with desperate vocals and impeccably penned lyrics all lined with the dramatics of instrumentation gleaned from cellos and organs give The Ugly Organ a depth that I've absolutely loved diving into lately. Check out this year's remastered and expanded version for the extra tracks, but I gotta say I prefer the mix on this original master to the new one. I could take or leave most of the rest of their discography, but fuck, this album is amazing. |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| David Bowie Low |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Devin Townsend Empath |
| Duster Capsule Losing Contact |
| Three hours isn?t long enough for this compilation |
| Eels Meet the Eels: Essential Eels, Vol. 1 (1996–2006) |
| Electric Callboy TEKKNO |
| Attack attack fuckin wishes they ever made anything as good as HURRIKAN |
| Elton John Madman Across the Water |
| I challenge you to find an overall better album. Perfection. |
| Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road |
| Funeral For A Friend is as epic as any Godspeed You! Black Emperor song. Except its fucking GAY. |
| Emery We Do What We Want |
| Sure the vocal harmonies are gone, but i love the heavier direction. Is this a 5? Nah, its a solid 4, BUT I DO WHAT I FUCKING WANT. |
| Every Time I Die Radical |
| Floor Floor |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones |
| I bought a really expensive bottle of whiskey for when this shit leaks. EDIT... im drunk. EDIT #2... This is a fucking classic. |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song |
| He writes about shit we've all heard before, but he does it with real pretty words. And a british accent. |
| Frank Turner Last Minutes and Lost Evenings |
| Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| what is this shit deleting my soundoffs? foul play. ep is still all kinds of amazing. still didnt even listen to it. |
| Glassjaw 20+ Year Anniversaries Collection |
| Cry more that you couldn?t afford one. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| I knew nothing, about anything, until the moment this EP ended. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor All Lights Fucked On the Hairy Amp Drooling |
| The real thing is out there in the wild, finally. It?s irrelevant what it sounds like at this point. A myth has become reality. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Green Day Dookie |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| Album proverbially "clicked" with me today. If songs like New Storms For Older Lovers, Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again, and The Last Lost Continent dont evoke some sort of emotional response, you're obviously heartless. |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| I'm 50 seconds in. Indisputable classic. |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| fuck to it. |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Mogwai My Father My King |
| Probably the best Mogwai there is, 20 minutes of ebbing and flowing post rock with heavy, noisy climaxes and crescendos back down to tranquility only to reemerge from the woodwork a few minutes later with even more intensity.rAnd now we get fucking Rave Tapes. |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| This is one of the most beautiful things ive ever heard, the sheer emotion and raw power here is unrivaled. Sorry Justin Vernon. Jeff Mangum just shat on you. |
| Neutral Milk Hotel Neutral Milk Hotel Box Set |
| A beautifully packaged collector's item. The posters are nice and the foldout Holland 1945 slip is awesome. The Ferris Wheel on Fire EP makes the whole thing worth it with some of the best recordings that were never released. "My Dream Girl Don't Exist" is heart wrenching. |
| nouns While of Unsound Mind |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe |
| Opeth Still Life |
| ostraca Disaster |
| I like city of caterpillar and all. But years ago when someone described their sound to me for the first time, what I wish I heard was this album. |
| Panopticon Cedar Skeletons |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Redbone Wovoka |
| All people must dance. Pretty much sums it up. Keep on dancing. |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| Rush Moving Pictures |
| Rush 2112 |
| Rush Rush in Rio |
| Saidan Onryo II: Her Spirit Eternal |
| These riffs fuck / deafheaven who? / ghost bath, but not terrible / summery black metal with amazing melodies |
| Strapping Young Lad City |
| Swans To Be Kind |
| Swans Swans Are Dead |
| The Beatles The Beatles: Stereo Box Set |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Beatles The Beatles In Mono |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation |
| Holy fucking hell... never ones to be content with doing anything but pushing their sound to illogical extremes on each and every album, Dillinger are going out with a massive bang here. The sound is an amalgamation of their career as a band and each album shows it's influence. Their trademark technicely freakouts are laced with jazzy breaks of dissonant guitar and a heaping of tracks reach a new level of scope with the addition of strings and brass orchestra backing. This album is weird, this album is over the top, this album is absolute insanity, but most importantly this album is unabashedly and unequivocally The Dillinger Escape Plan in peak form, leaving us with a seething love letter of an album as their farewell. |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| Dont listen to austin, album roolz. |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Wild Gods |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language |
| This is perfection incarnate when it comes to music in my opinion. Far surpassing the likes of Traced In Air, Jane Doe, The Holy Bible, Blackwater Park, or any other Sputnik-Appointed classics, I find myself entranced every single time i listen to Trophy Scars' breakthrough EP. Jerry is a god. |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead |
| These motherfuckers just do not know how to make a bad album. Not a 2. |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants |
Holy Vacants may be the greatest musical achievement of my lifetime thus far. The album continuously
dishes out moments that illicit everything from shivers to damn near tears. Qeres goes balls to the wall
and sees the return of Jerry Jones' Converge-esque screaming freak outs, Gutted and Chicago
Typewriter just drip with tangible resentment and bitterness, and Hagiophobia still rocks the fuck out
even after more or less staying on repeat since February for me. Archangel and Burning Mirror embody
everything that Trophy Scars is and have been working towards since Darts to the Sea and Hospital
Music first fucked my ear drums into submission years ago. And then there's Everything Disappearing.
Jfc. This is the easiest 5 I've ever given, and it somehow not only met, but exceeded every expectation
and bit of hype I had built up for this release. |
| Trophy Scars Astral Pariah |
Trophy Scars is incapable of making a bad album. A focused shot of adrenaline and absolutely fucking filthy
western riffs with a vocal performance that makes Tom waits sound like Anthony green |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal |
| Underoath Anthology: 1999-2013 |
| This is a 5 because high school me would not have survived without this band. |
| Underoath Define the Great Line |
| Vaura The Missing |
| tits |
| Wingnut DishwashersUnion Burn the Earth, Leave it Behind |
| Should have been AOTY last year. Seriously the greatest thing to ever happen to the folk punk scene since Andrew Jackson Jihad. |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| 4.5 superb |
| AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People |
| AJJ Candy Cigarettes, Capguns, Issue Problems and Such |
| AJJ Knife Man |
| Andrew Jackson Jihad continue to improve while alienating their annoying hipster fan-base by going even more electric. If you dislike this and their last album cause it's too electric... A) You don't deserve to like them anyway, and B) ...Fuck you. Just, fuck you, man. |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct |
| Alcest Shelter |
| Alcest abandons the black metal and is all the better for it. Shelter is the duo's most fully realized album. Impeccable production coupled with tight songwriting that climaxes and crescendos with beauty. The first great release of 2014. |
| Alcest Kodama |
| Alesana On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax |
| Sentimentality. That is all. |
| All Human Teenagers, You Don't Have to Die |
| Holy fucking shit. This makes the fact that trophy scars isn?t a thing anymore bearable. |
| Amenra Mass VI |
| Unnerving, morbid, and just all around bleak in the best way possible |
| An Albatross London:Live |
| An Isolated Mind I'm Losing Myself |
| Anaal Nathrakh The Codex Necro |
| Anthony Green Boom. Done. |
| Arctic Monkeys Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino |
| Holy fuck, it?s like AM took the sexy, slow moments from their past catalogue and expanded them into an entire album complete with absolutely unique synthesizer and pipe organ integration. The album needs time to sink in, but this is everything I ever wanted from this band since hearing ?She?s Thunderstorms?, ?No. 1 Party Anthem,? and ?Mad Sounds.? |
| As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water |
| Bayside Acoustic |
| Bayside Interrobang |
| Beach House Teen Dream |
| I think that only me and everyone else at Merriweather Post Pavilion on 9/11/10 have experienced Beach House as they are meant to be... on the lawn, starry night, laying back, enjoying the sounds. Tell me that doesn't sound perfect. Animal Collective my ass. |
| Beach House Bloom |
| Holy fuck is this great. Beach House refines everything that made them awesome and add some post rock influence. Hello, Summer Album of 2012. |
| Beach House 7 |
| Beck Stereopathetic Soulmanure |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| because colors is way better. |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks |
| Kristian Mattheson wasn't even ALIVE when this shit came out. |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited |
| Boris Noise |
| Handily destroys Praparat and any of the Year of Boris trilogy. A distinctively "Boris" sound permeates the album, their heavy rock sound refined to a pinpoint and drenched in shoegazey effects and delightful passages of crushing sludge and ethereal post rock crescendos in equal measure. Shades of all the different sounds of the band make an appearance, and the album is all the more dynamic and pleasing for it. Trails only behind Holy Vacants for album of 2014 easily at this point in time. |
| Boris Live At Third Man Records |
| Boris Dear |
| this fucker is heavier than a bomb, that other guy is talking out of his ass, album totally deserves a 4 avg at least |
| Boris NO |
| This is so god damn excellent. This is the album that should?ve been Heavy Rocks 2011. And I love HR2011. |
| Boris With Merzbow Gensho |
| This is a thoroughly weird exercise in noise, and it delivers on all fronts. Boris masterfully drone their way through some of their older "hits" reworked into lumbering beasts bearing more resemblance to Sunn O))) than their more recent pop tinged outings. Merzbow's companion piece of oftentimes obnoxious harsh noise is meant to be payed side by side with the Boris album, and creates a hellish soundscape that fans of this style will relish. It's good to hear this ridiculous heaviness from Boris again, complete with Atsuo's much improved screams working their way into some of the cuts. |
| Boston Greatest Hits |
| Boston Boston |
| Boston Don't Look Back |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion |
| Caspian On Circles |
| Cave In White Silence |
| Choking Victim No Gods, No Managers |
| Church of Misery Thy Kingdom Scum |
| Out Sabbaths the new Sabbath album without even trying. |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo |
| Cloudkicker Live with Intronaut |
| This is so god damn good that if it wasn't a live album it would be a shoe in for my AOTY list. |
| Cloudkicker Subsume |
| Cory Hanson Western Cum |
| This thing Fucking riffs and the second track sounds like hunt the buffalo by cobalt, which is insane when you think about it |
| Counting Crows August And Everything After |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech 2.0 |
| The last great DGD album. All it needed was a remaster to bring the guitars forward. God damn I wish this band would come out of the rut they?re in. |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Death Symbolic |
| Death Vivus! |
| Death of Lovers The Acrobat |
| Defeater Travels |
| Defeater Lost Ground |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
I listened to this very thoroughly before deciding to rate this and have decided that a 5 is the only appropriate rating.
Taking from all of their previous releases... the heaviness of Adrenaline and Around The Fur, the atmosphere of White
Pony, the catchiness of the Self Titled, and the diversity of Saturday Night Wrist, Deftones have crafted their magnum
opus. And i'm on board with the whole Diamond Eyes/Owl thing being a nod to Chi... it makes sense, and definitely
gives the whole affair a personal feel. |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Deftones Gore |
| Devin Townsend Lightwork |
Vastly exceeded all expectations, which were already high. The singles weren?t bad but they?re the weaker points on the
track list. Impeccably paced and even more uplifting than empath, utilizing all the dynamics and subtlety that album
threw out the window. |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction |
| da fuck is this for real? EDIT: holy shit it is |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| this is real pretty... |
| Dir En Grey Arche |
| Earth Primitive and Deadly |
| It does indeed sound like the cover art. A primitive and deadly slab of sludgey metal with monolithic riffs. |
| Eels Electro-Shock Blues |
| Eels Royal Albert Hall |
| Eels Extreme Witchcraft |
| The best eels album in years, e revisiting his souljacker era was a good idea |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone |
| Electric Wizard Time to Die |
| After sacrificing some heaviness to more rock-oriented song structures on Black Masses, The Wizard are back in top form and ready to fucking murder your face with heaviness and slow, doomy, dirges with topics varying from getting stoned and murdering people to... Getting stoned and performing satanic rituals. "Incense for the Damned" is absolutely monolithic in both studio and live format, and is sure to be a staple of their setlists for the foreseeable future, along with "Time to Die," which it effortlessly melts into after it's murky, downtuned conclusion. Shorter cuts like "Sadiowitch" hearken back to the more concise, riff-laden, mid-paced rock songs from Black Masses in the best ways possible. The whole album shows the best of the Wizard spectrum, and is a welcome return to their doom roots after the last album. |
| Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics... |
| Elton John Rocket Man: The Definitive Hits |
| Elton John Elton John |
| Elton John Honky Chateau |
| Elton John Tumbleweed Connection |
| Enter Shikari The Spark |
| This is absolutely criminally underrated and one of their best albums, The Spark takes Enter Shikari to their illogical extremes as a full blown pop band. Centered around Rou?s vintage synthesizer and ever improving singing, once you embrace the sound the band has chosen this go-around, the album unfolds into an overblown, melodramatic, haphazardly assembled odyssey that shouldn?t work on any level, but in the end it somehow does, and hasn?t that been their MO since the start? |
| Enter Shikari Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown |
| This album is somehow better than Ex-Lives in every single way. Melts faces, tears assholes, etc. |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Fires in the Distance Air Not Meant For Us |
| Foxing Nearer My God |
| Foxygen We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors... |
| Frail Body Artificial Bouquet |
| Do you miss state faults? Do you wish deafheaven had stayed on the sunbather road? Boy do I have an album for you. |
| Frank Turner Take to the Road |
| Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart |
| Tentative 4... Needs to sink in. Immediate standouts include recovery, tell tale signs, four simple words, and the bonus track tattoos. |
| Frank Turner Songbook |
| Frank Turner Live in Newcastle |
| Frank Turner Campfire Punkrock |
| Frontierer Oxidized |
| This is Fucking filthy and it makes me want to fight bears |
| Fucked Up Dose Your Dreams |
Sprawling, progressive, weird, and trippy as fuck. The main issue I had with Fucked Up was that having high
concept stories shouted at me in the same punk yell for an hour wore thin, and Dose Your Dreams rectifies this
problem by adding 20 minutes more of music and letting their freak flag fly high... and somehow, it works
wonderfully. Saxophone, acid rock, Pink Floyd style guitar passages, hardcore and punk outbursts, shoegaze, a
smattering of guest vocals, disco and techno breaks... Fucked Up throw it all at the wall here and it makes the
albums bloated runtime a non object- you?ll just be excited to see what rabbit they pull out of the hat for the next
track. Highly entertaining, doubly so if you?re high as a kite, if it weren?t for The Armed, this would be the single
weirdest thing to happen to heavy music in 2018.r |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Bloom and Breathe |
| Glassing From the Other Side of the Mirror |
| A new peak for Glassing. Having comfortably stepped into the void left by deafheaven?s foray into pure shoegaze, they add enough of their own spin so as to not come off as trend chasing mimicry. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Guess what? I saw Mladic live. And it blew my fucking mind. This album is near perfection. Welcome back, godspeed. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' |
I had the privelege of seeing GYBE a few years ago, so I am vaguely familiar with their monster of a track referred to as
"Behemoth," so my excitement was somewhat dampened. But let's be honest, that show was a long time ago and I smoke a lot of
weed so fuck if I remembered that shit. The studio version and new album from GYBE is a massive behemoth indeed, with biting
guitars building to a classic god'spee climax in the opener followed by two tracks of visceral, pounding, monolithic drone. Stupid
title aside, "Piss Crowns are Trebled" stands as the band's single heaviest moment and possibly their best song since the Slow Riot
days. Holy fuck, I cannot overstate the last track's power. Forget what you think you know from the bootlegs. Listen to this album. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ [Vinyl] |
| Gospel The Loser |
| Great Falls Objects Without Pain |
Comparing this behemoth the sprain’s pseudo avant garde overindulgence where they just aped post punk cliches and
modern swans is disrespectful |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Hammock Everything and Nothing |
An easy contender for post rock album of the year, Everything and Nothing is Hammock honing in on their most
direct and accessible sound in years. The ambient soundscapes that have dominated their recent albums are in
full effect, but here they're aided by more soaring post rock strings, guitars, and driving percussion than have
ever been present in their sound. Hearkening back to the instrumentals of Kenotic and Raising Your Voice... With
the brilliant atmospherics of Departure Songs, adding in a heaping of ethereal vocals on a handful of tracks
makes Everything and Nothing not only the band's most realized and full sounding album to date, but also
arguably their best. In a discography as expansive and consistently good as Hammock's, that's no small feat. |
| Hammock Love in the Void |
| Beyond excited to hear the energy from everything and nothing making a return. Gods becoming memories and the title track are absolutely stunningly beautiful |
| Haste the Day Best of the Best |
| Pretty much checks all the notches off on the best HTD songs throughout their career. A nice little compilation for those new to the band to gear up for the release of Coward. The lack of Substance from their debut EP/Burning Bridges is a bit saddening through. |
| Haste the Day Coward |
| This shit goes fucking hard. I knew I was right to be excited by the duo of Jimmy and Stephen, and Coward is led by an absolutely monstrous harsh vocal setup courtesy of the two veterans. The riffs come hard and fast, at times sludgy and at others breakneck, delving away from the band?s metalcore roots for a more post metal oriented approach. They even dabble in shoe gaze during ?Shadow,? which currently sticks out as my favorite. Seriously looking forward to getting to know this new treading of a high school staple. |
| Hath Of Rot And Ruin |
| Hath Hive |
| Hawthorne Heights Midwesterners: The Hits |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor |
| Holy Fawn Death Spells |
| Horrendous Ontological Mysterium |
| Hot Cross Cryonics |
| Hum Inlet |
Heavy as balls, absolutely crushing shoegaze with massive, impeccable production. I always wondered what a
grown up version of Hum would sound like and got damn am I here for this. |
| Ihsahn Ihsahn |
| rIt?s been clear since the debut single that this album was going to be something special, and the final product stands as one of Ihsahn?s finest solo works. Buuuuut it?s not a shitty post punk revival so it?ll naturally wind up criminally underrated here |
| Immolation Close to a World Below |
| Dear Immolation, during the listening to your album "close to a world below" i ruined my pants numerous times due to my bbw fetish and this album's consistently heavy nature. I want a new pair of pants, asap. Thank you. |
| Infinity Knives and Brian Ennals King Cobra |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| Jimmy Buffett Songs You Know By Heart |
| Job For A Cowboy Moon Healer |
| Shocking that a certain user has a predictably shitty take lmao can you imagine having a life where your biggest satisfaction comes from trolling on the worst music site? |
| Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains Love Songs For The Apocalypse |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I |
| Kayo Dot Coffins on Io |
Good god this is an amazing album, easily top 5 of the year. The only gripe I have is i
feel like they missed an opportunity not including harsh vocals in the Assassination of
Adam. |
| Knoll Metempiric |
| The meeting point of full of hell and portal with a vocalist rivaling the sawtooth grin. This is good good stuff. |
| Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley |
| Lakota De Kai Smoke Signals |
| Why does this have such a low average? For a debut ep this is just stupid good. Every Time I Die meets The Chariot with some La Dispute thrown in for a nice ebb and flow of heavy hitting parts with slow twinkly stuff with emotive vocals. |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Lorde Melodrama |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster Maylene and the Sons of Disaster |
| Listen to Dangerous Curves Ahead without punching your wife and then tell me youre brutal. |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster II |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] |
| Mingle Harde Mongol Horde |
Frank Turner playing heavy shit in 2014. A little hardcore, a little punk, a dash of sludge, and a whole lot of
attitude. It's as awesome as I knew it was going to be the second it was announced. Takes a lot of cues from
Refused in the best ways. |
| Mogwai Central Belters |
| More Than Life Love Let Me Go |
| SAETIA WITH BALLS. |
| Municipal Waste Waste 'Em All |
| My Chemical Romance May Death Never Stop You |
| Napoleon Newborn Mind |
THIS SHIT. This shit is sick, it's like scale the summit with awesome vocals. The technicality is
impressive and tasteful. A really impressive debut from these guys. Reminds me of Iona Grove,
who I'm also quite fond of. Whatever took em four years to release this muhfuckler was worth it |
| Neutral Milk Hotel Ferris Wheel on Fire |
| the feeling of dropping a needle onto the only "new" music NMH has put out in over a decade is one not easily rivaled in emotional awesomeness. |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar |
| Polar Similar sees Norma Jean going into uncharted territory with their heaviest and most experimental release to date, the end result of which is a wholly satisfying journey through a space/humanity on earth and beyond theme. The album is an eclectic bag of sounds that uses the best elements of a mature metalcore sound with newfound levels of heaviness via dabbling in post metal and dirty, sludgy, towering riffs juxtaposed with the ever present brief hardcore freak outs that are Norma Jean's bread and butter. The two ends of the spectrum transition back and forth between (and often in) tracks and makes for a smooth and engaging listen. |
| Nothing Downward Years to Come |
| Oceana Birth.Eater |
| Out of Service The Ground Beneath Me |
| Got damn. Spring coming through with the good albums. All you need is this, saidan, and gospel |
| Panopticon The Rime of Memory |
An entirely new level for panopticon. This is the album Lunn has been capable of the entire time. Puts everything since
autumn eternal to shame and even gives collapse a run for best album in his discography |
| pg.99 Document #8 |
| Pinegrove Marigold |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| Portal Vexovoid |
| Like staring into satan's eyes and not being able to divert your gaze for 34 minutes |
| Portrayal of Guilt Let Pain Be Your Guide |
| Full of Hell meets Rolo Tomassi meets pageninetynine, and my only complaint is that it?s not longer. |
| Portugal. The Man The Satanic Satanist |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Refused Refused Are Fucking Dead |
| An awesome DVD that chronicles the demise of one of the douchiest bands in music. Was included in the vinyl package I got when I saw them. So good. |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It |
| Rush The Spirit of Radio: Greatest Hits |
| Rush Clockwork Angels |
| Saosin Translating the Name |
| Saosin Along the Shadow |
| Sounds like TTN with better vocals. I dig it. |
| Scale the Summit The Collective |
| The first "5" of 2011. This is AOTY material right here, and at the very least SOTY in "Whales." So much variance and diversity, and one of the only instrumental metal albums i've heard that so perfectly conveys emotion. |
| Scale the Summit V |
| It is so nice to hear Scale the Summit get back in touch with their more chill side after the fantastic but scattershot "The Migration." V finds the band showing restraint when necessary and cutting loose with the shredding when appropriately badass instead of barreling headfirst into a breakneck pace that rarely lets up. The songs ebb and flow and have gorgeous dynamics. The production is fantastic, lending a crisp and clean sheen to everything but the lead guitar, which squeals and roars with a raw ferocity intentionally absent from the rest of the band's mix. All in all, this album's fucking goooood. |
| Senses Fail Pull the Thorns from Your Heart |
Holy balls... The new Senses Fail has arrived in full fucking force with Pull the Thorns From Your Heart. The
album rips and tears its way through the track list with a newly energized Buddy Nielsen heading the charge with his most
empowered and passionate performance on vocals to date. The guitars race through riff after riff and the bass and drums round
out the rhythm section with a rumbling and dynamic low end to fill out the aural assault. Sparse, but lovely bits of slower moments
with a hint of spacey shoegaze provide some breathing room at the right moments before lurching back into the breakneck pace
that dominates the album. A great release that I cant wait to dig into more thoroughly. |
| Showbread Showbread is Showdead |
| Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day |
| SikTh Opacities |
| Sleep The Sciences |
| Sleigh Bells Treats |
| should not be allowed to rate this unless listened to on capable speakers. |
| Snowmine Laminate Pet Animal |
| So Hideous Last Poem/First Light |
| So Hideous Laurestine |
| This is an incredible album. So Hideous takes the semi-standard blackgaze fare of their back catalogue and supplement it massively with the 30-piece First Light Orchestra. The orchestra was introduced on their last album but the potential not fully realized until this beauty of an release, one long running song broken up into seven tracks. The metal sections are fewer and further between on this single movement of music than usual for So Hideous, making way for spacious post rock and classical expanses that ebb, flow, climax, and crescendo with grace. The lower frequency of heavy climaxes coupled with their sheer crushing heaviness makes them all the more effective, and the post rock sections breathe new life into a genre that has been all but forgotten. A serious AOTY contender. |
| State Faults Clairvoyant |
| Absolutely floored by this. State Faults has surpassed the already admittedly high expectations I had for this album. |
| Stray from the Path Rising Sun |
| GOD THIS IS SO ANGRY I JUST WANNA SKULLFUCK SOMEONE. |
| Stumbleine Things Don't Sparkle Like They Used To |
The genes that comprise 1/3 of Swarms, it?s easy to see where their sound is rooted when listening to
Stumbleine. This EP is a fine entry point to ambient electronica with a heavily guitar based sound that leans
towards post rock even more so than Swarms at times. |
| Sun Kil Moon Universal Themes |
| As my first exposure to Kozolek and his vast catalogue, I picked a hell of a place to start. The lyrics flow out of him endlessly and effortlessly, weaving affecting tales specific to Mark's life, but with a sentiment that really is universal and relatable to anyone with an hour to spare and listen. |
| Super Snake Leap of Love |
| Holy shiiiiiit. Trophy Scars are reincarnated (basically, their frontman at least) and sound as if they've been binging on bong hits, tabs of acid, and Black Sabbath jam sessions. Leap of Love is a roaring album jam packed with over an hour of psychedelia, massive riffs, and Jerry Jones' trademark Tom Waits/pirate gargling a mouthful of marbles vocals that have been sorely missing from the music landscape since the dissolution of Trophy Scars three years ago. Easily the best thing to come out so far this year, and I don't see much changing that opinion any time soon. |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind |
| Swans The Seer |
| Swarms Old Raves End |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| Taylor Swift 1989 (Taylor’s Version) |
| Taylor Swift 1989 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 (Deluxe Edition) |
| The Armed Only Love |
| the shape of punk to come. |
| The Armed Ultrapop |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Beatles Hey Jude |
| The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 2 |
| The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist |
| When you need to have a stupid contrarian sound off so badly that you can?t even be arsed to get a single song name correct |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet (Redux) |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
| The Faceless Akeldama |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon |
| Overproduced and tampered with to the point where it pales next to the original demos, but still a damn fine collection of songs. |
| The Jonbenet Ugly/Heartless |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The National High Violet |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone |
| The Number Twelve put out their best album since "Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses" and with amazing guitar, jazzy bass, pounding drums, and Jekyll and Hyde vocalization, these guys will have you coming back for numerous listens. |
| The Sword Age of Winters |
| The War On Drugs Slave Ambient |
| This is so good what is this i dont even... |
| Thou Blessings of the Highest Order |
| Jesus fucking Christ this is awesome. That cover of where did you sleep last night is excellent. |
| Thursday No Devolucion |
| ITS PRETTY FUCKING GOOD YOU GUYS |
| Thursday Full Collapse |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor |
| Toby Driver They Are the Shield |
| Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit |
| Holy shit this band stepped their game up. I always considered them a lesser blood incantation but damn this just flipped the tables. |
| Torche Admission |
| Torche is back firing on all cylinders. If you miss Floor and Torche just hasn?t done it for you, this is your album in their catalog. |
| Touche Amore Stage Four |
| Trenches Reckoner |
| Trioscapes Separate Realities |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell |
| trophy scars gets better with every release. its pretty crazy. |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) White Lighter |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
| Vampire Weekend Contra |
| I dont get all the 3's. Sure the album's nothing revolutionary, but its damn fun and well executed. And its not overproduced... thats just Vampire Weekend being Vampire Weekend. |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City |
| Vampire Weekend shatters my (admittedly low) expectations with this album. It's not a collection of transparent pop songs this time around. The progression in their sound is admirable, and their sound has gone to a really nice, airy, upbeat place within the congested indie pop scene. Best surprise of 2013 yet. |
| Vampire Weekend Only God Was Above Us |
| Modern Vampires is probably always going to be their peak for me, but this is delightful. A great release AND it pisses off Sputnik's resident edgelord who couldn't get a real job reviewing music. Wins all around. |
| Vektor Terminal Redux |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss |
| Zapruder Zapruder |
| 4.0 excellent |
| A Day To Remember Bad Vibrations |
| A Lot Like Birds Plan B |
| Album is amazingly original and varied. Its like if The Fall of Troy fucked The Mars Volta while Circle Takes The Square fapped in the corner. |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece |
| lol staff. |
| A Lot Like Birds No Place |
| Aaron Gillespie Out of the Badlands |
| Apparently because this isn't just one sick drum solo it's lame? The stripped back underoath songs are great listens that provide a completely different vibe than when we first heard them over a decade ago, and the originals are a nice progression for Aaron's solo sound. |
| Acres In Sickness and Health |
| Acres Acres |
| Shame they never capitalized on this sound. What they wound up becoming makes me sad. |
| After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) |
| After the Burial In Dreams |
| yeah its pretty cool. really meshuggah-like. lots of juns. some cool cleans. i liked it. |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| AJJ Candy Cigarettes and Cap Guns |
| BUT SHE'S A STUPID CUNT |
| AJJ Can't Maintain |
| AJJ Only God Can Judge Me |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune |
| Alexisonfire Crisis |
| Alexisonfire Otherness |
| I thought the newest la dispute was the worst produced album ever and now this |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury |
| American Wolf My Main Sport |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow |
| Archspire Bleed the Future |
| Congrats yellowvoid, that?s the dumbest sound off I have ever read. |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Portals |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out |
| At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational |
| August Burns Red Leveler |
| Band is still nothing amazing and probably never will be, but there are subtle improvements and tweaks to their sound that make for a solid metalcore outing. EDIT: Listened to this in my car... what IS up with the mixing? Its all fucked up... |
| August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore |
| B. Dolan House of Bees Vol. 2 |
| Why is there only one rating for this? You fuckers need to check this out. |
| Bad Lamps Soultronic |
| Bambara Stray |
| Baptists Beacon of Faith |
| this is some excellent nastiness. I get some converge vibes but I get influences like full of hell and eyehategod in equal measure. To say this is run of the mill is pretty duuumb. |
| Bark Psychosis Hex |
| BATS The Sleep of Reason |
| Bayside Vacancy |
| Not many bands this late in their career are still putting out worthwhile albums, and fewer still seem to enjoy topping themselves as consistently as Bayside. Tackling the most fiercely personal topics in the band's career leads to an album with heart-on-sleeve lyrics that have nicely risen above the melodramatic emo drivel on their (still awesome) earlier albums. "Pretty Vacant" works wondrously as an anthem for anyone approaching the middle years of their adulthood and constantly pushing that ever present existential dread out of their consciousness. Clever lyrics and tight guitar work throughout make a hell of a pop punk album that leans more towards the punk side of things. |
| Bayside Bayside |
| Bayside Live at the Bayside Social Club |
| Bayside There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive |
| Apart from starting the same way as the farmers insurance jingle this album absolutely fucks |
| Bea5t Empathy Is a Gift |
| Beach House Depression Cherry |
The single makes me stupid excited for this album... it's gorgeous. Aaaaand the full album is a wholly beautiful, hazy trip through
atmosphere and melody. The run time passes by in a flash despite, or perhaps because of the album's seemingly directionless and
lackadaisical approach to dream pop. As always with a Beach House album, the best word to sum up Depression Cherry is
ethereal. A great album for these hot and hazy summer nights. |
| Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars |
| Rohypnol doesn't even HAVE flavor. So there's your problem.r |
| Beach House Once Twice Melody |
| Oh my god it does sound like free fallin. Best beach house since bloom. |
| Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part Two |
| Beck Morning Phase |
| The people calling this boring need to be filled in that Beck did more than just "Girl" |
| Beheading of a King Quasar: Preserving Legacy |
| Behemoth Demigod |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic |
| More grooves, less riffs, and Tommy's theatrics on full display. It all comes down to whether or not you find them enjoyable. |
| Black Crown Initiate The Wreckage of Stars |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Blackbraid Blackbraid I |
| The only gripe I have with this album is that it?s not twice as long. |
| Blood Incantation Luminescent Bridge |
| Bob Dylan Tempest |
| I can't believe this is good what the fucking hell i dont even |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles |
| Dynamic and amazing. The only two words i can say. |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation |
| So is this good or not fags? |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Its pretty and stuff and has lots of things and junk to listen to. |
| Bongzilla Amerijuanican |
| Boris Präparat |
| Boris Urban Dance |
| The closest thing to resembling actual songs, this album tones the drone and noise (sometimes, the opener is a harsh noise collage), and channels some more conventional Boris with maybe a capital B, but never all caps. |
| Boris Archive II |
| Boris Love and Evol |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
Absolutely shocked at how much awesomesauce they put on this tasty little sandwich, and bloc obviously
won... |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Brand New Leaked Demos 2006 |
| Brand New 3 Demos, Reworked |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal |
| I'll be damned. It's not bad. And for the first time I can actually say yeah, its good. Excellent even. Antivist blowwwws though. |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit |
I wanted so badly to hate this, everything about it from the direction they took their sound in to the oftentimes insipid lyricism is so
far removed from what I typically listen to. But earworm songs like Drown, Doomed, Blasphemy, and Throne beckoned me back
for repeat listens, maybe for amusement, and the record grew on me quickly in a big way. To be honest, being a pop band suits
BMTH way more than the pseudo-intellectual post-metal gear solid bullshit that was Sempiternal, and they were never really a
good deathcore band despite what role nostalgia plays in my opinion of their earlier releases. One of the bigger surprises of the
year and undeniably fun, but I guess how much you like it depends how much you bought into the idea of Bring Me The Horizon
being a post rock band. |
| Burden of a Day OneOneThousand |
| A lot better than their previous two. New vocalist is great. Full review later, possibly. |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool |
| Chapel of Disease Echoes of Light |
| Childish Gambino 03.15.20 |
| CHON Woohoo! |
| CHON with pristine production and some vocals thrown into the mix. It's a wholly satisfying little EP, I just hope they branch out some more on the full length. |
| CHON Grow |
CHON finally drops a full length and it's goooood. Dropping the slight bits of heaviness they retained,
these songs are chock full of lots of grooves, and are technical as all hell while remaining terminally chill
throughout the album's brief duration. They've tweaked and perfected the formula from their first three
EP's, added some flair and influence from contemporaries Polyphia (this is wayyyy better than them), and
use vocals sparingly to craft one of the best albums of the year so far. |
| Circle Takes the Square Rites of Initiation |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
I think.... Jane Doe might have real competition for the first time since... Jane Doe.
EDIT: nahhhh |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Crosses Crosses |
Holy fuck this is really good and dreamy n shit fuck team sleep this is like beach house with balls im really
fuckin stoned |
| Currents The Death We Seek |
| Lotta cranky folks up in these soundoffs. I?ll take this over 90% of the other metalcore out there these days. |
| Cursive Vitriola |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Cynic Focus |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II |
| jonny can keep fucking his fans for all i care. this rocks. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness |
| Dance Gavin Dance have come into their own with "Happiness," leaving their first three releases behind as unrecognizable when compared to the spacey guitar riffs and airy vocals and raw screams here. Listen to this album after smoking a bowl and tell me its not amazing. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean |
| lol some of these soundoffs are really gay. oh yeah this ep is awesome. defnitely jonny's best work. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech |
| The end of Death of the Robot with Human Hair, and some questionable production choices keep this from the 4.5 that it's oh so close to. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Tree City Sessions |
| David Bowie No Plan |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love |
| A slower, more plodding and post rock centric Deafheaven. The album plays out like blackgaze by way of This Will Destroy You, and occasionally exuberantly bursts into some upbeat soloing that sounds ripped from an anime soundtrack or even a power metal album. How cool that is is largely up to the listener, but I find this new direction a welcome change of pace after the largely by the numbers slog that was New Bermuda. |
| Death Human |
| Death Live in Eindhoven |
| Death Live in L.A.: Death & Raw |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights |
| Deftones Ohms |
| Deserta Every Moment, Everything You Need |
| This album sounds like seeing a really good national park for the first time. |
| Despised Icon Beast |
| Everything I could have wanted out of this reunion. A no holds barred blast from the deathcore past complete with pig squeals and breakdowns galore, Despised Icon don't waste a single second on Beast, and the album revels in its sound. No shame turning this on and blaring it for a good old time that reminds me of high school. |
| Devil Sold His Soul Belong/Betray |
| SO good to hear this band back on their game. Acres finally has some competition in this genre. New vocalist is great, though despite being improved ten fold, I think they should just nix the clean singing |
| Devin Townsend The Puzzle |
| Leave it to Sputnik in 2021 to shit on one of Devin?s best albums for being ambient when it was marketed as? an ambient album. |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence |
| Completely massive. Plays like a sequel to Synchestra or Accelerated Evolution and masterfully blends Devin's ultra cheesy prog sensibilities with Addicted-era pop and metal. Easily the best DTP album since the original quadriollogy. |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| Dir En Grey Dum Spiro Spero |
| Am i retarded for thinking The Blossoming Beezelbub sounds like Opeth? |
| Down I Go You're Lucky God, That I Cannot Reach You |
| Down I Go Gods |
| Dr. Acula Dr. Acula |
| Earthrise Eras Lost |
| Eels Wonderful, Glorious |
| Best Eels album in a minute. Some good tracks on here with some interesting new experimentation. |
| Eels The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett |
| E is back to his depressing, meandering, lyrically wistful ways. And it's better than his last four albums by a long shot. |
| Eels Blinking Lights & Other Revelations |
| Eels Beautiful Freak |
| Mark Oliver Everett is one crazy bastard, and this album is a testament to how well those emotions go into music. |
| Eels Eels With Strings - Live At Town Hall |
| Electric Wizard We Live |
| Electric Wizard Electric Wizard |
| Electric Wizard Wizard Bloody Wizard |
| Elephant Tree Habits |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face |
| Like Nails without the tough guy bullshit and way more dynamic songwriting. 2:33 to the end of Pariah destroys planets. |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| Enslaved RIITIIR |
| Enslaved In Times |
| Enter Shikari The Mindsweep |
| Went into "The Mindsweep" with no to low expectations. I loved ES's first EPs and their first two albums but lost interest after that point. Pleasantly surprised by the mishmash of genres, influences, and amount of maturity present here. Shades of Gorillaz, Serj Tankian, Boards of Canada, Radiohead, and a heaping of refined Shikari style adds up to a great, and pretty surprising start to 2015. |
| Enter Shikari A Kiss For The Whole World |
| ERRA Moments of Clarity |
| Still don't understand why I like Erra so much, I thought I outgrew this metalcore with whiny cleans shit so long ago. |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! |
| Every Time I Die Salem |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens |
Awwewww yeah time for that bi yearly down
home southern metalcore kick in the Dick that
everyone loves. Keith is still a monster, the
riffs are still tasty n grimy as fuck, and
there are still one liners coming out the new
ass Low Teens will rip you. |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone |
| Explosions in the Sky The Wilderness |
Otherworldly and ethereal, carrying hits of dream pop, shoegaze, and some heavier moments than Explosions
ever really explored, The Wilderness sees the band finally branching out into some new and refreshing territory.
The production itself is unique and fits the atmosphere of the album perfectly. It loses momentum in some places,
but the whole affair is a much more subtle and nuanced one than the band's past works. It's nice to hear
something different out of EITS after all this time. Disintegration Anxiety and Infinite Orbit are some jams. |
| Falls of Rauros Key to a Vanishing Future |
| Pika with some of the most consistently worst takes on this site yet again |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails |
| Father John Misty God's Favorite Customer |
| Basically FJM doubling down on glitzy pop songs with his trademark lecherous personality, with proper use of all the self indulgence and pretense that was so misguided into an overblown mess on Pure Comedy. The release that should?ve followed Honeybear. |
| Fear Before Odd How People Shake |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth |
| Fen Monuments to Absence |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony |
| Floor Dove |
| Foxy Shazam The Flamingo Trigger |
| Frank Turner Poetry of the Deed |
| Has so much more weight and presence in the context of his career as it is today, seeing where he is now in terms of popularity bote stateside and in his homeland. It's comforting to know that the high life he's been writing about since "Sleep is for the Week" has come to him at last, and this was the last album where he had to just write and dream about it before it all happened. |
| Frank Turner The First Three Years |
| Worth it for the version of Worse Things Happen At Sea on here. So fucking good. So angry. Also, Heartless Bastard Motherfucker. |
| Frank Turner Sleep Is For The Week |
| Its not love ire or england but there are enough great tracks here to warrant a listen. Namely Worse Things Happen At Sea and Back In The Day. |
| Frank Turner The Second Three Years |
| Frank Turner Frank Turner Live from Wembley |
| Frank Turner Show 2000: Live At Nottingham Rock City |
| Frank Turner Positive Songs For Negative People (Acoustic) |
| Frank Turner The Third Three Years |
| Best comp album yet. The covers are hit and miss, the b sides are entertaining, and the meat of the album are the reinterpretations of the newer songs. |
| Frank Turner Positive Songs for Negative People |
| Positive Songs For Negative People embraces unbridled optimism and presents 12 tracks of uplifting, sincere, feel-good music. The sound continues to stray from Turner's acoustic folk punk roots and successfully veers into massive arena sized rock anthems about the upsides of life courtesy of backing band The Sleeping Souls. Lacks the lyrical flourishes, ambiguous metaphor, and extended prose that characterizes his finest works such as Love, Ire, and Song and England Keep My Bones, but PSFNP doesn't really call for it, anyway. Turn it up, sing along, look on the bright side of things, and enjoy. |
| Full of Hell Garden of Burning Apparitions |
| Full of Hell Coagulated Bliss |
| Coagulated bliss is somewhere between just another Full of Hell record and the absolute genius of trumpeting ecstasy. After a few listens I?m not sure exactly where on the spectrum lies, but this is a good improvement over the last two. |
| Full of Hell and Nothing When No Birds Sang |
| Full Of Hell and Primitive Man Suffocating Hallucination |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark |
| Gerard Way Hesitant Alien |
| How did this end up being so damn good? Combines britpop and shoegaze flavors with a good bit of dream pop. No Shows is an early highlight and the best songs are the mid tempo ones towards the tail end of the album like Drugstore Perfume. |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor John Peel Sessions |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity |
| Gorguts Considered Dead |
| Gospel MVDM: Magick Volumes Of Dark Madder |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| GosT Possessor |
| As someone who has never given a shit about GosT, Perturbator and the like, this album came out of nowhere and blew my damn mind. Possessor takes the genre and injects a lively blend of black metal, screamed vocals, and all manners of Satanic shit, and the result is what I feel the genre has been striving to be from the start. |
| Green Day Saviors |
| Greyhaven Stereo Grief |
| Between greyhaven and better lovers, Keith Buckley must be feeling super duper irrelevant right now. |
| GridLink Coronet Juniper |
| Hammok Look How Long Lasting Everything Is Moving Forward |
| Some serious The Armed vibes here, and after that last armed album I?m certainly not complaining. |
| Haste the Day Burning Bridges |
| Haste the Day Haste the Day VS. Haste the Day |
| Hath All That Was Promised |
| A super solid slab of death metal. Gigantic riffs, monstrous vocals, probably not as good as Of Rot and Ruin. |
| Hawthorne Heights Hate |
| A return to form, no matter how gay that form is. |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood |
| Heavenly Blue We Have The Answer |
2024 is being very generous with extra special screamo albums. Between this and frail body, we eatin gooooood. Drums
are next fucking level here |
| High on Fire Snakes for the Divine |
| Infant Island Obsidian Wreath |
| Ostraca Infant Island Chepang tour when? First great release of 2024. |
| Infinity Knives Dear, Sudan |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant |
| Izah Sistere |
| Jack White Lazaretto |
| Jack White Live At Bonnaroo 2014 |
| An excessive exercise in ?how drunk can Jack White get and still play his instrument and sing,? and the whole thing is great if you?re a fan of White's solo work or are interested in hearing some classic Stripes songs in a completely new context. |
| Jack White Entering Heaven Alive |
| I prefer this one to his other one from this year. The stripped back sound is just pleasant and familiar feeling. |
| Jaga Jazzist Starfire |
Super weird, synth heavy, irresistibly catchy without having any hooks, and way better than anything they?ve released since
What We Must. Also stands head and shoulders most contemporary post rock being churned out these days. |
| Jarrod Alonge Beating a Dead Horse |
| Only heard "Hey Jarrod, What's that Song Again?" but fuuuuck me, I laughed wayyyy too much |
| Jeff Mangum Live at Jittery Joe's |
| Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater |
| Job for a Cowboy finally make the album that they were meant to. Riffs and bass and awesome album artwork and song titles with some tasteful technical chops amount to a damn fine listen. As much as I love Doom, it is great to see them finally come into their own as a "good band." |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience |
| Kayo Dot Gamma Knife |
| Kayo Dot Blasphemy |
| God damn I hate Sputnik so much these days. |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
| King Hannah Tell Me Your Mind and I'll Tell You Mine |
| Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue |
| Knocked Loose You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To |
The album very predictably rips, slams, tears, fucks and destroys, but save for Sit and Mourn, the ambition and
branching out from the EP tracks
is nowhere to be found, and that kind of bums me out |
| Kvelertak Nattesferd |
| La Dispute Untitled |
| La Dispute Vancouver |
| Lady Gaga The Fame |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster |
| Lady Gaga Artpop |
| Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence |
| Heard a few songs from her a year or so ago and honestly can't remember a thing about a single one, so I went into this with no expectations. Ditching most of the electronics was a good move. This is some straight up reverb laden dream pop bliss. |
| Lapko A New Bohemia |
| This band?s sound is something like if you were to walk through a hallway between two rehearsal spaces, and on one side The Mars Volta are practicing and on the other Godspeed You Black Emperor are post rocking away, and you recorded the intersection of this glorious cacophony. |
| Lead Hands Lead Hands |
| Leftover Crack Mediocre Generica |
| Leftover Crack Fuсk World Trade |
| Lights Siberia |
| THAT ALBUM COVER... bonerific. |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Lizzo Cuz I Love You |
| LLNN Unmaker |
| Locktender Rodin |
| Loma Prieta Self Portrait |
| Lord Mantis Death Mask |
| M83 Fantasy |
| Make Them Suffer Worlds Apart |
| I dunno, this sounds pretty sick to me. It's pretty unique for the genre... it's like...death.. core...twinkle....gaze. |
| Make Them Suffer How to Survive a Funeral |
| Man Mountain To Call Each Thing by its Right Name |
Post Rock that somehow maintains interest throughout three hefty songs from an unknown band. Amazingly
appropriate winter tunes. |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| I like to imagine Jason Statham kicking ass with this playing. |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster III |
| Meshuggah Nothing |
| Misery Index Heirs to Thievery |
| Misery Index definitely takes all the good out of their past albums and releases it in one focused shit fit of death metal. |
| Misery Index Discordia |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves |
| Spending some much anticipated time with this album has been great, and Strangers to Ourselves proves to be ironically titled, this is a distinct return to form for MM with numerous nods to their past discography and more upbeat atmosphere and pristine production of their latest works. They sound as comfortable and familiar with who they are as a band now more than ever. Pistol throws back to Tiny Cities Made of Ashes. Shit in your Cut echoes the vibes of Cowboy Dan. The Ground Walks, With Time in a Box unfolds deliberately and pointedly like The Stars are Projectors, but retains the irresistible groove that MM have made their trade in recent years. The whole album feels like a natural amalgamation of the old and the new, a happy balance between the ballsy moodiness of their first three album stretch and their happy go lucky indie dance rock they have introduced into their sound. |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Modest Mouse Interstate 8 |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People |
| Mogwai Young Team |
| Mol Diorama |
| I really wish this band had a better name. r |
| Mount Eerie Sauna |
| Mountains Centralia |
| Municipal Waste The Art of Partying |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v |
| My Chemical Romance Life on the Murder Scene |
| My Chemical Romance Conventional Weapons |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us |
It's 20 more minutes of pure fucking hatred in aural form and it's as awesome as it's been the last
two times around. Fuck someone in the ass with these riffs by playing it on full volume right in
front of their ugly fucking face. Fuck. |
| Nails Abandon All Life |
| On their second album, Nails add some new elements to their volatile amalgam of hardcore, grind, and sludge with some experimentation on a few- oh who am I kidding it's 20 more minutes of pure fucking hatred in aural form. |
| Nails Unsilent Death |
20 minutes of pure fucking hatred in aural form. Nails are pissed off at everyone and everything
and they're gonna let you know it by smashing your ugly fucking face with uglier riffs until you're
fucking dead. |
| Napalm Death Apex Predator - Easy Meat |
| Neutral Milk Hotel Little Birds |
| Norma Jean Redeemer |
| Norma Jean All Hail |
| Nothing Tired of Tomorrow |
| Nothing Dance On The Blacktop |
| Nux Vomica Nux Vomica |
| Holy fuck this is some impressive shit. Angry music with post rock and a decent heaping of whatever crust is. |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal |
| Parkway Drive Ire |
| Well... No one can accuse Parkway Drive of stagnation anymore, as IRE sees the band branching out in about every possible direction in the realm of rock and metal. The end result is scattershot and eclectic, and for every head scratcher moment (Writings on the Wall, Vice Grip) there comes a wholly unique and entertaining take on metalcore complete with a ripping guitar solo that sounds like it was written for a Boston song (Vicious.) IRE is certainly an entertaining listen to say the least, however it sometimes buckles under its own ambition with occasional ideas that flat out don't work. Don't let that deter you from listening to one of the more interesting releases from one of the biggest old school scene juggernauts still churning out new albums in 2015. |
| Parliament Owls A Span Is All That We Can Boast |
| Pelican Midnight and Mescaline EP |
| It has been a good long while since pelican excited me, but this has me stoked |
| Pelican Nighttime Stories |
| Bout fuckin time this band started firing on all cylinders again. Never would?ve guessed their chugging riffage could be on the same level as Russian Circles, but here we are. |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You |
| After listening to and promptly dismissing both Old Pride and TLLA, this is a big surprise |
| Pinegrove Skylight |
| Pinegrove Elsewhere 2 |
| Pink Floyd The Endless River |
| For what it is, it's the best Pink Floyd album that 2014 could've brought us. It creates a surreal and spacey undeniably Floyd atmosphere that is nice to hear one last time. |
| Pink Floyd 1965 — Their First Recordings |
| Pixies Come On Pilgrim |
| Polyenso One Big Particular Loop |
| Pomegranate Tiger Entities |
| Portugal. The Man Evil Friends |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| For when you want to stay awake and listen to Radiohead. |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory |
| Rorcal Vilagvege |
| Holy fuck this album is pure fucking evil, seriously some twisted, heavy shit. If Heliogabalus was too slow and plodding for you, Vilavege presents itself as that album's counterpart- fast, frenetic, and similarly vicious and filled with vitriol. |
| Rush Rush |
| Rush Working Men |
| Saidan Onryo: Vengeful Spirits in Eastern Night |
| Saidan Jigoku: Spiraling Chasms of Blackst Hell |
| Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside Untamed Beast |
| Saosin Saosin |
| Scale the Summit The Migration |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons |
| An amazingly fluid and beautiful album that embraces technicality when it needs to and doesnt overdo it to the point of Dream Theater overkill, a truly unique album that needs to be listened to from beginning to end. The Great Plains is song of the year material. |
| Secret Band Secret Band EP |
| Secret Band Secret Band |
| Seven Sisters Of Sleep Ezekiel's Hags |
| this is fucking filthy and riffs hard af. |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun |
| Showbread Cancer |
| Sigur Ros Inni |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Sigur Ros Brennisteinn |
| Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim |
| Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront |
| Silverstein This Is How the Wind Shifts |
| Silverstein This is How the Wind Shifts: Addendum |
| Silverstein I Am Alive In Everything I Touch |
| Awh man, the wait for this has been long and arduous but it was worth it. A friend of mine once described Silverstein as the "power metal of metalcore." And honestly, he's not too far from the truth. The band has been penning razor sharp heavy verses that give way to massive and soaring arena rock choruses for years now, well before they had the fanbase to fill out their live shows and actually create that anthemic atmosphere their polished brand of metal brings to the table. I Am Alive In Everything I Touch is Silverstein's sound streamlined to a T with some new dynamics mixed in here and there that were hinted at on their last album. The end result is incredibly gratifying, and I feel that other than the stellar This is How the Wind Shifts that this is the most inspired and sharp the band has sounded since Shipwreck in the Sand, and am loving the intensity of these songs. The singles stand as highlights along with the "Toronto' songs that bookend the album. They slow it down for a beat on tracks like "Late on 6th" and crank the heaviness on tracks like "Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory" and "In the Dark." All in all, the rating is gonna probably fluctuate, but I know I'm digging it. |
| Silverstein Dead Reflection |
| Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites |
| Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain |
| Sleep Dopesmoker |
| DROOOOOOOP OUT OFFFF LIFEEEE WITH BONGGGG IN HANNNND. FOLLOWWW THE SMOOOKE TO THE RIFF FILLED LANNNNND. |
| Sleepwave Broken Compass |
| Those lyrics in Paper Planes holy shit. Should hit right at home for people with pasts similar to Spencer's |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter |
| .5 is actually pretty damn enjoyable. It's more lolgood as opposed to the expected lolbad. Never thought I would enjoy an album from this band in 2014/as a 23 year old man. |
| Slowdive Everything is Alive |
| Snowmine Dialects |
| Why is no one talking about this? It's really good... and those string arrangements hot damn. Columbus. |
| Stake Kosmokoma |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning |
| Stray from the Path Make Your Own History |
| Soundtrack to killing old people and punching toddlers. |
| Stray from the Path Subliminal Criminals |
| Album is stupid fun and begs to be blasted loud as fuck on a good set of speakers. Stray won't be able to shake the "Hardcore Rage" comparison, but when they're nailing the sound like this, I somehow doubt they care. The lyrics are always on the border of ridiculous, but that's part of the appeal in my eyes, kind of like Leftover Crack and Johnny Hobo. |
| Stray from the Path Euthanasia |
| Look at all the bootlickers giving this album a 1 cause theyre fuckin snowflakes |
| Sun Kil Moon Tiny Cities |
| Surfer Blood Pythons |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky |
| Swans The Glowing Man |
| Swans The Beggar |
| Swarms Red Temple Rain |
| Wayyyyy better than Low Sun. Captures some of the post rocky ambience and that grungy, rainy night atmosphere that Old Rave's End perfected. |
| Swarms Black Chapel Sun |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker |
| "What The Beatles would sound like if they took EVEN MORE drugs with a dash of Led Zeppelin and Cream." ryou had me at hello. album is just wonderful. |
| Tame Impala Lonerism |
| Holy balls this is good. What the Beatles would sound like today if they did even more drugs... |
| Tame Impala Live Versions |
| What Parker does with these tunes in a live setting is really admirable. The ideas don't always translate from the amazing studio sessions to a live setting, but the album is dubbed live "versions" for a reason. These songs all stand well on their own as interpretations of what we know from TI's full-length albums. |
| Tame Impala Currents |
It took me a few spins to warm up to the new psychedelic meets disco floor sound and lack of guitars, but Currents successfully
creates a spacey, warm, and summery vibe that revels in memories of the past. Eventually is one of the band's strongest tunes to
date, with some delicious, fuzzy riffs to be found that are so sparse elsewhere and simple but effective lyrics. Lead single Let It
Happen is an 8-minute microcosm of what the bulk of Currents is about: danceable disco anthems laced with psychedelic
synthesizers and a palpable sense of nostalgia. It’s not Lonerism, but that’s not a bad thing, and they were never going to top
Innerspeaker anyway, so I’m pretty happy with this. |
| Tame Impala A Transparent Night (Unofficial) |
| Why do you care? I swear, the desire to be a junior mod in general is fuckin lame, but doubly so on a site like this. This album is pre cool. |
| Taylor Swift Red (Taylor’s Version) |
| Taylor Swift Folklore |
| Tennis System Autophobia |
| The Armed Perfect Saviors |
| The Beatles Let It Be |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night |
| The Beatles Let It Be… Naked |
| The Black Queen Infinite Games |
| The Body and Full Of Hell Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light |
| This is one nasty ass piece of music. It bears little resemblance to either of the bands? output, instead opting for a brand of weirdness that extends to the eccentric and straight up odd instead of the macabre and bleak atmospheres that are these bands? bread and butter. A big departure from their last collaboration, the best part about this album is that instead of seeming like two distinct bands at odds with each other, they come together for one of the weirdest highlights of late 2017. |
| The Body and Thou You, Whom I Have Always Hated |
| The Chariot One Wing |
| this is just a bunch of fucking riffs fuck |
| The Contortionist Language |
| Holy balls. Out-Cynics the new Cynic with flying colors. Light up a joint and listen to the Language of The Contortionist take you away. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy |
| The Fall of Troy Ghostship Demos |
| The Fall of Troy OK |
The Fall of Troy comes clawing and shredding back to life like the depraved animal they were on their first
few releases. Picking up right where Doppelgänger left off with some of the melodic sensibilities of
Manipulator thrown in, OK is an awesomely fun reunion album from one of post-hardcore's best. Production
and vocals are just fine, by the way. In fact, Erak's shiny new delivery is one of the most entertaining aspects
of the release. |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil |
hey look dev not liking something.
plays out a lot like nocturne. the epic muse cleans work for them i think. guitar is cool as shit. its
undoubtedly the human abstract... this is the album that should have followed nocturne. |
| The Jonbenet The Plot Thickens |
| The Jonbenet Substances |
| The Killers Rebel Diamonds |
| No west hills is a travesty but otherwise yeah it?s great |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| The most easily accessible of the Volta's albums, "The Bedlam In Goliath" doesn't fuck around. Its just 12 awesome prog songs. |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet |
| The National Laugh Track |
| I truly hate this site these days. Anyway, best national album in a decade. |
| The National Boxer |
| The National Alligator |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear. |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You An Inch of Gold for An Inch of Time |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine |
| The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird |
| An unexpected treat, just a fantastic collection of folk ditties from an average height swedish dude. |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Dark Bird Is Home |
I thought I had outgrown all this folky bullshit, but Dark Bird Is Home shows me I still a soft spot for a nice
album like this. The word lush best applies to this, and I never expected to enjoy The Tallest Man on Earth
with a full backing band and a luxury studio treatment, let alone enjoy it this much. But god damn if this
isn't a massively pleasant listen. Is that the other side of the house from The Devil & God? |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega |
| Nothing in this band's discography did it for me before, but damn if this isn't a fine metalcore record. |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything |
| Godspee's other half finally hits the mark with the most realized version of their sound. A concise slab of punky post rock with vocals that fall somewhere between Roger Waters and Win Butler. |
| Thomas Giles Modern Noise |
| An awesome, accessible rock album with some BTBAM vibes. The opening track is gorgeous, Siphon the Bad Blood is infectiously catchy and features some new screaming techniques from Rogers. Other highlights include I Appear Disappear, Wander Drug, and the t/t. |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere |
| Thursday Common Existence |
| Thursday Kill the House Lights |
| Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance |
| Toothgrinder Nocturnal Masquerade |
| The first metal album in a while that's gotten me excited. This is some solid stuff. |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me |
| hot damn is this good. the short songs help keep your attention. id say fuck you dev, but yeah. |
| Trophy Scars Goodnight Alchemy |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck |
| Twin Temple Twin Temple (Bring You Their Signature Sound.... |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) Offerings |
| Ufomammut Fenice |
| Ulver Perdition City |
| Ulver Kveldssanger |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| Underoath Survive Kaleidoscope |
| Underoath Erase Me |
| Underoath Voyeurist |
| Vampire Weekend Father Of The Bride |
| Vein.fm This World Is Going to Ruin You |
| Well on my 2022 bingo card I definitely didn?t have vein sheds 90% of nu metal influence and releases best converge album since all we love we leave behind |
| Venom Prison Erebos |
The ability of various Sputnik users to have subjective opinions that are so objectively fuckin wrong its hilarious, is
almost impressive. |
| Vitriol (USA) Suffer & Become |
| Smok and jotw really make me wish Sputnik had a downvote feature |
| Weedeater Goliathan |
| Album put a big, stupid grin on my face, especially with unexpected twists like the opener and "Battered and Fried," or maybe its just the sixteen tons of weed i've smoked. Either way, fuck yeah Weedeater! |
| whenskiesaregray We Built Walls So Our Hearts Couldn't Cross |
| This is really fucking good and the vocalist is a beast yup. |
| Whirr Feels Like You |
| Whores. War |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge |
| Yellowcard Lift a Sail |
| Zeal and Ardor Zeal and Ardor |
| Can we get a whole album of this dude exploring the sound in Emersion please? |
| Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit |
| 3.5 great |
| '68 In Humor and Sadness |
| '68 Yes, and... |
| Shocking that pika hates something good yet again. |
| A Skylit Drive Identity on Fire |
| I mean its pretty gay. but its a good step for the band. |
| A Skylit Drive Wires...and the Concept of Breathing |
| Acres Solace |
| After the Burial Wolves Within |
| After the Burial Evergreen |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| AJJ Operation Stackola |
| AJJ Issue Problems |
| Alesana Confessions |
| Something's fucky here. Alesana's new album is actually pretty good. I mean, its still melodramatic bullshit about Edgar Allen Poe, but that's a pretty cool concept. The high cleans no longer sound like a teenager wailing, the screams are pretty good, and the instrumentation is entertaining throughout. |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals |
| All Shall Perish This Is Where It Ends |
| Keep it in your pants everyone. Its solid deathcore, nothing more, nothing less. |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence |
| Anaal Nathrakh Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Her |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Motherland |
| I fucking knew this would be awesome. AGATG is now the undisputed leader of their genre (the competition rsucks so take that as you will) |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Listen to the Color |
This album is fucking lethal. And weird as fuck. The dual vocal attack is what AGATG has been lacking all these
years and the quirky electronic and jazz breaks are in full disjointed force here, which for this album is a
compliment of the highest order. |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep |
| Atheist Jupiter |
| Atheist Elements |
| Atheist Piece of Time |
| Bayside Cult |
| Bayside Killing Time |
| Bayside The Walking Wounded |
| Bayside Sirens & Condolences |
| Beach House Devotion |
| Beach House Beach House |
| Before Their Eyes The Dawn of My Death |
| Best Coast California Nights |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me |
| Beyond Creation Earthborn Evolution |
| Blessthefall Witness |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race |
| Boris Heavy Rocks (2011) |
| Boris Pink |
| Boris Warpath |
| A thoroughly heavy exercise in drone, all about subtle textures carving out palpably tense atmospheres. Voo-Vah sees boris performing their best SUNN O))) impression, and as a whole the album lives up to it?s name of being a destructive and heavy force, though not in the BORIS in all caps way I was hoping would show some influence here. |
| Botch American Nervoso |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings |
| Bring Me the Horizon This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For |
| BRUIT The Machine Is Burning... |
| Salright. The first track is good and the rest kinda fizzle without going anywhere meaningful. |
| Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated Side B |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated |
| Caspian Dust and Disquiet |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One |
| Cloudkicker Little Histories |
| Cloudkicker Portmanteau |
| Cloudkicker Fade |
| Cloudkicker Beacons |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Converge Beautiful Ruin |
| Cryptopsy The Best of Us Bleed |
| Cursive Domestica |
| Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen |
| Cursive I Am Gemini |
| Damascus When Last We Met |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns |
| Death Spiritual Healing |
| Death Leprosy |
| Defeater Dear Father |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| Eels Souljacker |
| Eels Daisies Of The Galaxy |
| Elder (USA-MA) Innate Passage |
| Electric Wizard Legalise Drugs & Murder |
| Electric Wizard Witchcult Today |
| Enter Shikari Common Dreads |
| had to grow on me. i love all but one or two songs on here. |
| Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion |
| Escape the Fate There's No Sympathy for the Dead |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... |
| Fear Before Art Damage |
| Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes Blossom |
| Frank Turner Rock & Roll |
| From First to Last Dead Trees |
Decided to rewrite my two cents after a few more spins. This album is stupid fun, and while it's definitely
dominated by Spencer's vocals, the performance is dynamic and way less fucking annoying or grating than
anything he's done with Periphery. The lyrics are all alright when I consider what I ask for out of a band like
From First to Last, and that certainly isn't lyrical genius. I don't know whats left of the original lineup, but
the album is an above average metalcore romp and the bonus tracks are a good addition.
Also... Really? You never thought you'd say that? I say that at least twice during any given Periphery
song... |
| From First to Last Throne to the Wolves |
| From First to Last Heroine |
| Full of Hell Weeping Choir |
| fun. Before Shane Went to Bangkok: Fun. Live in the USA |
| fun. Some Nights |
| fun. Aim and Ignite |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence |
| Godflesh A World Lit Only by Fire |
| Gorguts Colored Sands |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate |
| Gorguts Obscura |
| Green Day Nimrod |
| Haste the Day Pressure the Hinges |
| Haste the Day That They May Know You |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World |
| Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White |
| Hawthorne Heights Hurt |
| The closest thing to a respectable album HH has released to date. There's nothing revolutionary or particularly special here, but the increased emphasis on screaming along with JT's pleasant clean singing and catchy melodies add the necessary punch for "Hurt" to stand on its own as a good release, not just a nostalgia trip back to high school. |
| He Is Legend Suck Out the Poison |
| Heavy Heavy Low Low Everything's Watched, Everyone's Watchin |
| Heavy Heavy Low Low Heavy Heavy Low Low |
| Holy Fawn The Black Moon |
| Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening |
| Featuring some truly memorable instrumentation and a female vocalist who screams better than most men, IWABO is a band you have to listen to. |
| Jack White Blunderbuss |
| Jeff Bridges Sleeping Tapes |
| This, plus a few bowls, plus a nice comfortable bed, equals pure bliss courtesy of the dude. |
| Jonsi Go |
| Seriously, Jonsi shits rainbows and his farts smell like sunshine. This is fucking ridiculous, people. |
| Joshua Fit For Battle To Bring Our Own End |
| Kamasi Washington The Epic |
| Kanye West Yeezus |
| Lakota De Kai Big Dad Wolf |
LDK finally hits full force with an album that features production that does their sound justice and has been
lacking from their releases until now. The spoken word stuff gets old but luckily only appears towards the tail end
of the album. Aside from that, Big Dad Wolf is brimming with dynamic riffs and vocals that are chaotic but
refined. They still sound like La Dispute with bigger balls. |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted |
| Lorna Shore Pain Remains |
| It?s great but entirely too long, no one needs 64 minutes of this straight. Should?ve taken to the hellfire, the opener and the title tracks here and made a sick ass mini album |
| Make Them Suffer Old Souls |
| I listened to the stream and with the intro track expected some cheesy awfulness to ensue. What I got, while certainly complete with a layer of cheese, is a pretty great modern deathcore album. Nothing earth shattering or virtuosic, but a fun listen. |
| Manchester Orchestra Cope |
| Marriages Salome |
| Maybeshewill Fair Youth |
Album is gorgeous and lush, a natural progression of the sound on "I Was Here For A
Moment..." thankfully without too much heavy emphasis on the electronics. Get that
fuckin 2 from three weeks ago outta here. |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Modest Mouse Baron von Bullshit Rides Again |
| Morbus Chron Sweven |
| Municipal Waste Hazardous Mutation |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I |
| Neutral Milk Hotel Everything Is |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child |
| Oceana The Tide |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Paradise Lost The Plague Within |
| Pixies EP1 |
It's a new pixies ep. Is it Doolittle or Surfer Rosa? No, but it's still Pixies and it rules. Fuck them for not releasing
songs that sound like shitty b-sides from the 90's, right? |
| Pixies Trompe Le Monde |
| Pixies Bossanova |
| Pixies Indie Cindy |
whatever its not the worst thing ever and there are even a few jams. Bagboy is still awesome, Andro Queen is
decently dreamy, What Goes Boom and Blue Eyed Hexe have riffs that melt faces, and while songs like Greens
and Blues are forgettable, nothing here is straight up bad material. EDIT: The new tracklisting does these
songs a big favor, for whatever reason. This flows really well. I may write a review at some point. |
| Polar Bear Club Clash Battle Guilt Pride |
| Portugal. The Man Censored Colors |
| Portugal. The Man Church Mouth |
| Portugal. The Man It's Complicated Being a Wizard |
| Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman... |
| Fuck my ass and my mouth AND my tits this rocks. r |
| Rings of Saturn Lugal Ki En |
| It's damn fine tech death, possibly dethroning Fallujah as my favorite TD from 2014. Much like their last album, it rinitially sounds like a clusterfuck of wankery, but contains some of the tightest song structures yet from these rguys in a genre that seriously lacks compositional chops. Haven't decided on a rating yet, but it's a super fun rlisten. |
| Rivers of Nihil Monarchy |
| Rosetta Quintessential Ephemera |
| Rush Snakes & Arrows |
| Rush Fly by Night |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur |
| Silent Planet Superbloom |
| Silverstein A Shipwreck in the Sand |
| Silverstein Transitions |
| Silverstein Misery Made Me |
| sleepmakeswaves Love of Cartography |
| Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit |
| Son of Aurelius Under a Western Sun |
| Spanish Love Songs Brave Faces Everyone |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
| Suicide Silence You Can't Stop Me |
| Surfer Blood 1000 Palms |
I thought Frank Black was gonna come in after the drum intro of "Island" and shout "Shake your butt!" but then the fuzzy, reverb
drenched guitars started played surf-rock riffs and I remembered I was listening to the new Surfer Blood album and not "La La
Love You," and that I'm way too drunk right now to rate this properly, but I like it. And Pythons was sick, so I'm excited to dive into
this. Edit: well it’s nowhere near as immediately interesting as Pythons, nor as catchy, but the expanded instrumental
experimentation makes for a listen that I feel will grow on quality in time |
| Swans Leaving Meaning |
| Swans The Burning World |
| Taylor Swift Fearless (Taylor’s Version) |
| Taylor Swift Red |
| Tennis Cape Dory |
| The Acacia Strain Continent |
| The Beatles Help! |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale |
| The Beatles Love |
| The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 1 |
| The Chariot Long Live |
| The Devil Wears Prada Transit Blues |
| Well this came out of buttfucking nowhere. Transit Blues sees TDWP tweak their sound with some La Dispute-esque clean passages and dropping the incessant breakdowns to great effect. Mike's lyrics are still a mixed bag, but the experimention leads to a wholly enjoyable album from a band I thought had all but run out of steam. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality |
| The Grand Astoria The Mighty Few |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
| The Mars Volta Live |
| The National Sleep Well Beast |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers |
| The Sword Warp Riders |
| The Used In Love and Death |
| The Used The Used |
| The Word Alive Deceiver |
| Extremely solid debut effort from The Word Alive. The songs are all pretty original and at the least are entertaining. Telle Smith is an absolute beast with his screaming. |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain |
| This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You |
| Thou Heathen |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided |
| Thursday War All the Time |
| Title Fight Hyperview |
| "Fisher Price's My First Shoegaze Album" may be apt enough, but it's a fitting sound for a band that hasn't really made an impression yet after three albums. I at least see myself returning to this in the future. |
| Tomb Mold Manor of Infinite Forms |
| Tomb Mold Primordial Malignity |
| Tomb Mold Aperture of Body |
| Tomb Mold Cerulean Salvation |
| Trioscapes Digital Dream Sequence |
| Trophy Scars Sand in the Sea |
| Trophy Scars Darts to the Sea |
| Underoath The Changing of Times |
| Underoath Live At Koko |
| United Nations The Next Four Years |
| f#a#$ is fucking golden. rickley sounds more pissed than ever on this. |
| We Came As Romans Dreams |
| We Lost the Sea Departure Songs |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
| 3.0 good |
| After the Burial Forging a Future Self |
| AJJ Christmas Island |
| ehhhhh on repeated listens this is not super awesome |
| Alexisonfire Dog's Blood |
| Hey guise this is fu-fu-fuckin' gooooood. |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Heirs |
| Just saw these dudes open for The Fall of Troy. As ridiculous as this band is and as hard as it is to sit through one of their studio album, these songs spring to life and take on a new weight in a live setting. |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless |
| SCALE THE SUMMIT WINS 2011. |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation |
| As Blood Runs Black Allegiance |
| Asking Alexandria The Black |
Miles ahead of anything since Stand Up and Scream, though that isn't saying too much. Instead of sounding
like a bad hair/glam rock band with a dull metallic edge, AA goes back to a much more metalcore oriented
sound. It's basically what I imagine Bring Me The Horizon would sound like these days if they still used
screaming in their music. Album's a fun romp through mid-2000s scenecore and a good time if you don't
expect much out of it. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But a Dream... |
| Bayside Shudder |
| Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of |
| Black Sabbath 13 |
| Black Sabbath Never Say Die! |
| Black Sheep Wall I'm Going to Kill Myself |
Intense is an understatement. How much I enjoyed it is still up in the air. BSW are a different band than they
once were, and this album shows that they haven't quite found where they want to go. Bits of the album find
themselves meandering and aimlessly wandering at times, much like their sound since their sludgy metalcore
opus "I Am God Songs." |
| Blessthefall His Last Walk |
| Boris Attention Please |
| Boris New Album |
| Boris Smile |
| Boris Asia |
| Certainly experimental, droning boris in all lowercase letters. The first song is a massive, lumbering expanse of drone and noise. Not an album I see myself returning to often, but as with most of boris?s weird shit, I?m glad I gave it a listen. |
| Boston Third Stage |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon |
| Breathe Carolina It's Classy Not Classic |
| I dunno, this is awful, but damn do some sexy bitches listen to it |
| Breathe Carolina Hell Is What You Make It |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season |
| Chevelle La Gárgola |
| Chiodos Devil |
| Erak is so under utilized, but I guess expecting a single member addition to result in too drastic a change was foolish. There are some decent shreddy parts and Craig's vocals aren't as nasally and whiny as they once were. I just cant help but feel like this would've been was more relevant coming after "All's Well" or "Bone Palace Ballet" |
| Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet |
| Chiodos Illuminaudio |
| Converge The Dusk in Us |
| Counterparts Tragedy Will Find Us |
| this is the album that should've followed Prophets. Stupid good, and the vocals are beastly as always |
| Cult Leader Nothing for Us Here |
| Cursive Happy Hollow |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance |
| Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification |
| I unno. I might be the only one who finds this thing kind of underwhelming and risecore sounding. it just seems like they dumbed their sound down into typical v-c-v structure and it's kinda bland compared to their older works. Like.. remember Happiness and how crazy Carl Barker was? Who the fuck is Carl Barker?!rI really hope this grows on me, cause sad. |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient |
| Devin Townsend Snuggles |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud |
| I don't even know what to say. It's epic. And loud. |
| Devin Townsend Project Z2 |
| Discovery LP |
| Earth Full Upon Her Burning Lips |
| Eels Tomorrow Morning |
| Eels Hombre Lobo |
| Eels Shootenanny! |
| Electric Wizard Black Masses |
| Electric Wizard Let Us Prey |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon |
| Every Time I Die Last Night in Town |
| Explosions in the Sky Friday Night Lights |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence |
| Explosions in the Sky End |
| It?s good, it?s twinkly, it?s pretty, it?s lacking in any progression and comes across as 7 pretty okay songs that kinda sound the same. there?s no through line or cohesion linking the songs together as an album. End sits in direct contrast to The Wilderness, which was a nice advancement of their sound and an incredibly cohesive whole, this is kind of a bummer. |
| Eyehategod Eyehategod |
| Fear Before Fear Before |
| Foxy Shazam The Heart Behead You |
| Foxygen ...And Star Power |
| What the fuck did I just listen to? It's definitely overblown, bloated, pretentious with a tongue in cheek sense of self awareness, and musically it's absolutely all over the place. So I'm not exactly sure what the fuck I just listened to, but I'm fairly sure I liked it. |
| Frank Turner Ten for Ten |
| Frank Turner FTHC |
| Best frank in ten years yup. The most sincere and genuine he?s felt since positive songs. It makes me happy how good rthis turned out. Its no love ire and song or England keep my bones but it?s a fantastic step up from the last handful of rreleases. Unless of course, if you possess an ability to project hard enough to blame a rmusician you?ve never met for being old and cynical. Then I guess it?s no good lmao. |
| Frank Zappa Bongo Fury |
| From First to Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers |
| Greeley Estates Calling All The Hopeless |
| Green Day Shenanigans |
| Man, i rocked this shit back in 8th grade. Ha Ha You're Dead was gold back then... |
| Green Day ¡UNO! |
| Green Day Warning |
| GridLink Longhena |
| Grimes Miss Anthropocene |
| Haste the Day Attack of the Wolf King |
| Haste the Day Dreamer |
| Haste the Day When Everything Falls |
| Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely |
| Hawthorne Heights Hope |
| Heavy Heavy Low Low Fuck It?! |
| Check out the full review. This shit will fuck your world up. |
| Heavy Heavy Low Low Hospital Bomber |
| Hot Cross Risk Revival |
| I See Stars 3D |
| Iwrestledabearonce Iwrestledabearonce |
| Iwrestledabearonce Late for Nothing |
| Jack White Fear of the Dawn |
| Job For A Cowboy Gloom |
| Not bad by any means, but its fairly standard, and more than a little TBDM-ish. |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of... |
| Every like fifth album from these guys is a winner. This one is p cool. |
| Lantlos Melting Sun |
| Linkin Park One More Light |
| Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster IV |
| Melvins Stoner Witch |
| Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz |
| I knew Miley and Wayne Coyne being music and smoking buddies would yield something cool eventually. This album successfully got me to do something I'd never committed to before... Listening to a Miley Cyrus album. I don't regret it, this was definitely one of the most interesting and straight up weird albums of the year. |
| Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will |
| Mogwai Earth Division |
| Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade Is Dead! |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part II |
| It?s alright. Call me when a band comes close to the quality of carving desert canyons/the collective/the migration and you?ll have my undivided attention. Until then I can?t be convinced instrumental progressive metal didn?t die a slow boring death after 2013. Criminal underutilization of Anthony green here. |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath |
| Norma Jean Meridional |
| Norma Jean continues to rip off Botch, and adds Dillinger to their list of influences/plagiarisms. They also continue to do it rather well. |
| Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me |
| Northlane Alien |
| Of Mice and Men The Flood |
I must be the only one who thinks Austin becomes grating halfway through the album and that the cleans
are awful. The album is pretty fun in small doses though. But some of those breakdowns... gay as fuck. |
| Palm Reader Beside The Ones We Love |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Omega |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty |
| Such a missed opportunity not calling this album Periphery III: PeripherThree- Pure Riffery |
| Phinehas Till the End |
| Pierce the Veil Selfish Machines |
| Pierce the Veil Collide with the Sky |
| Pixies EP3 |
| Pomegranate Tiger All Input Is Error |
| The worst thing this band ever did was write new breed so early in their career |
| Portugal. The Man In The Mountain In The Cloud |
| Portugal. The Man American Ghetto |
| Portugal. The Man Waiter: ''You Vultures!'' |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| I gotta admit. This is the shit. |
| Pupil Slicer Blossom |
| I?d like this a lot more if they had their own identity instead of just being really good at copying rolo tomassi |
| Ra Ra Riot The Orchard |
| I was told this was Vampire Weekend with more strings. I was correctly informed. |
| Refused Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent |
| Refused Freedom |
| Before the shit storm of ridiculous low ratings begin flowing in because this isnt the The Shape of Punk rthat Came, I feel the need rto give my two cents. Album is an absolute blast from start to finish and is definitely one of the most fun rand outright weird albums to grace my rspeakers this summer. Experimentation is present in abundance and more often than not the groups age rand expertise lead to rsuccessful songs that toy with a lot of genres and ideas. The album is gonna get ripped to shreds critically, rbut then again so did rTSOPTC when it came out. Im just gonna be over here jamming the shit out of Freedom and enjoying the rfact that a new Refused ralbum exists in 2015. |
| Saintseneca Dark Arc |
| Sallow Moth The Larval Hope |
| Saosin The Grey |
| Secret Band Secret Band EP (Remastered) |
| Self Defense Family Try Me |
| I guess I just don't get it. It's cool and all but its nothing special. And what the fuck 20 minutes of talking can really kill an album's flow. |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust |
| Sigur Ros ÁTTA |
| It's beautiful but there's only really one song that goes anywhere. Otherwise it just sort of floats by. Pleasantly but uneventfully. Serious lack of percussion which I guess is to be expected considering their drummer got me too'd and fired a few years ago. |
| Silverstein Rescue |
| Silverstein doing Silverstein... if you aren't a fan already this wont change that. |
| Silverstein Short Songs |
| Silverstein When Broken Is Easily Fixed |
| Silverstein Decade: Live at the El Mocambo |
| Silverstein 18 Candles: The Early Years |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror |
Sleigh Bells have seemingly traded in their cocaine for LSD. And I thought I liked it but after a few spins i
listened to Treats... |
| Slift Ummon |
| Soundgarden King Animal |
| Surfer Blood Astro Coast |
| Taking Back Sunday Taking Back Sunday |
| Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department |
| Grown adults who can?t cope with a pop star existing and having fans lmao. Album is mid. |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) |
| Taylor Swift Midnights |
| Taylor Swift Evermore |
| Taylor Swift Lover |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now |
| Taylor Swift Fearless |
| The Acacia Strain Coma Witch |
| The jokes about this being an hour long breakdown are as hilarious as they were with the last 3 albums. Keep those unique jokes coming, you witty bastards! |
| The Beatles Yellow Submarine |
| The Beatles With the Beatles |
| The Beatles Please Please Me |
| The Beatles Long Tall Sally |
| The Chariot The Fiancee |
| The Color Morale My Devil In Your Eyes |
| The Color Morale We All Have Demons |
| The Contortionist Apparition |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Mars Volta Scab Dates |
| The Mars Volta Tremulant |
| The National I Am Easy to Find |
| The National The National |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Here at the End of All Things |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You The Number Twelve Looks Like You |
| The Ongoing Concept Handmade |
| Band did some SERIOUS growing up between their last LP and this release. The overblown honky tonk dramatics are gone, or at least toned down to less laughable and outright cheesy quantities. The vocals, whether screamed or sung, dominate the album and provide a rollercoaster ride through one of metalcore's most promising young acts. |
| The Red Chord Clients |
| The Sword Used Future |
| The Sword Apocryphon |
| The Used Lies for the Liars |
| The Used Berth |
| The Word Alive Empire |
| You have every reason to hate this: The name is a bible reference, they're metalcore, and this is riddled with breakdowns. Also, the band used to be fronted by Craig Mabbit, pretty-boy frontman of Escape the Fate and former blessthefall fame. But this is an extremely tight EP. New vocalist Telle Smith knows how to sing and scream, and the guitarists are more than capable of penning some unique riffs and fun breakdowns. Give it a shot. |
| This Will Destroy You Tunnel Blanket |
| Torche Restarter |
| Floorche. |
| Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets |
| Uada Crepuscule Natura |
This band?s days of writing bangers might be over. A perfectly serviceable melodic black metal album and unfortunately
nothing more. Better than djinn, though. |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation |
| Underoath Cries of the Past |
| United Nations United Nations |
| United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures |
| Vanna The Search Party Never Came |
| lol jiminez umadboutvannabro? |
| Vanna Void |
| Vocals are sick and are even better live. Trash mouth is still the best thing they've ever done but still some jams on this disc |
| Vattnet Settler |
| Vein.fm Errorzone |
| Volumes Via |
| Volumes doesn't make a step back in anyway, instead opting to stay firmly, stubbornly even, in the same spot at their EP, and a full length of the same old same old gets tiring very quickly. Still some of the better metalcore out there these days. And yeah, its groovy as fuck. Wormholes and Intake still rule face. |
| Wolves at the Gate VxV |
| Yndi Halda Under Summer |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss EP |
| 2.5 average |
| A Skylit Drive Adelphia |
| Far from a perfect album, but a marked improvement over Wires. |
| After the Burial Rareform |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| Initially it was completely awesome, but after more listens it becomes apparent that Agalloch just didnt do enough for this album, and its booooooringggg. |
| Alpha Wolf Half Living Things |
| Anaal Nathrakh Passion |
| Architects Holy Hell |
| Beartooth Disgusting |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Behold... The Arctopus Horrorscension |
| Too fucking much. Like Psyopus without vocals. Yeah, it's impressive, but who the fuck wants to listen to this? |
| Blessthefall Hollow Bodies |
| Bongzilla Dab City |
| I guess every band misfires at some point in their career. This kinda comes off as lazy and aimless and that?s a real shame. |
| Boris Vein (Drone Version) |
| Boris W |
| Born of Osiris Soul Sphere |
Whatever this band's obsession with ?creepy and spacey? synthesizer leads is, someone should tell them they come off as
sounding like a children?s toy keyboard mixed with some samples of winding up a Jack in the box. apparently that makes this prog
metal... |
| Boston Walk On |
| Breathe Carolina Hello Fascination |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... |
| ITS PRETTY ALRIGHT GUYZ/BRING ME THE ARCHITECTS |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season Cut Up! |
| Burden of a Day Blessed Be Our Ever After |
| Burden of a Day Pilots & Paper Planes |
| Confide Recover |
| At first i liked it. But then i just realized it was cause it was produced pretty well in comparison to Shout The Truth. Which is far superior. Still, it's aite for a spin or two. |
| Conquer Divide Conquer Divide |
| Counterparts A Eulogy for Those Still Here |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us |
| Cynic finally fizzles out and the genius well has run dry. Kindly Bent has arrived and brings with it a listening experience that is a tepid, meandering blur, a mess of ideas that tarnishes Cynic's perfect track record. |
| Cynic Re-Traced |
| Was there any reason for this? Cynic has yet to make a bad album, but this is cutting it close. Isn't this what we have Aeon Spoke for? New album please. |
| Devin Townsend Project Epiclouder |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings |
| tweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedle deeee. |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Eels End Times |
| Emery You Were Never Alone |
| We may have never been alone during their hiatus, but Emery are only men and they seem to have reverted to their boring post The Question days. Save for a few memorable moments this album is the most bland thing they've put out since I'm Only a Man. Hopefully it's a grower, but it seems pretty shallow to me. |
| Emmure Speaker Of The Dead |
| .....listenable. |
| Escape the Fate This War Is Ours |
| Get over it , Ronnie's gone. Disappointing vocal performance from Mabbit though. Step it up next album. More of Guillotine Pt. II style songs. |
| Explosions in the Sky All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone Remixes |
| Fear Before A Little Less Teeth |
| Frank Turner Be More Kind |
Frank Turner treads some new ground and kinda nails it- the album is enough of a branching out sonically without being
alienating, it?s really admirable how much he expanded his sound and how natural and effortless it came out.
Significantly more dynamic and lush than his previous output, there is some tangible Eels influence here, and the album
is all the more better for it, utilizing strings and brass for the emotional peaks and valleys and subtle electronic
flourishes everywhere between. Let?s just rejoice that Make America Great Again was a one-off fluke and that Be More
Kind sits comfortably as a more than solid addition to Frank?s endlessly solid discography.
Edit- Coming back to this in 2024 it’s sad how much this was really the beginning of the end for Frank |
| Frank Turner Undefeated |
I fucking love Frank Turner but I am out of apologies. Save for Ceasefire, there is nothing excellent here, and one or two
cuts that could be argued to be his worst ever. The fact that we are nearing 6pm on the east coast on release day and
I am the first person to rate this says a lot. I am glad we have the run from Sleep is for the Week to Positive Songs for
Negative People, cause for the time being it seems, Frank is out of things to say. |
| From First to Last From First to Last |
| From First to Last Aesthetic |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Whenever I listen to this album, I have a good time until I realize damn, I could be listening to any other GYBE album instead right now. And then I usually do that. |
| Green Day iDOS! |
| Fuck Time is a 5. I predict about an EP's worth of good material from this trilogy at this point. |
| Hawthorne Heights Zero |
| Hawthorne Heights Skeletons |
| Really not that bad at all. The re-introduction of screaming is a welcome addition, and Woodruff's singing has beyond a doubt improved ten-fold. Gravestones is a cool tune. Idk. Decide for yourself, but this is not a 1. |
| He Is Legend It Hates You |
| While at first it is an interesting listen, the novelty eventually wears off and you realize that, ultimately, this is an experimental failure in HIL's catalogue. Here's to hoping the next one doesn't stoop to even lower places. |
| He Is Legend Heavy Fruit |
| Heavy Heavy Low Low Turtle Nipple And The Toxic Shock |
| Heavy Heavy Low Low Courtside Seats… |
| Iwrestledabearonce Ruining It for Everybody |
| to balance out the idiots giving this a 1. |
| Jack White Boarding House Reach |
| Jamie's Elsewhere They Said a Storm Was Coming |
| hai guise we r jamiez elzeware n we luv attack attack! |
| Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks |
| Leprous The Congregation |
| Marmozets Knowing What You Know Now |
| Misery Index Traitors |
| Mogwai Rave Tapes |
| Municipal Waste Massive Aggressive |
| Pierce the Veil A Flair for the Dramatic |
| Pixies EP2 |
| Plini The End of Everything |
| Saya Gray 19 Masters |
| Senses Fail In Your Absence |
| Sigur Ros Von |
| Silverstein Arrivals and Departures |
| Silverstein A Beautiful Place to Drown |
| I don?t mind that they made a pop album, they?re really good at this schtick. It?s better than butt rock or nu metal. |
| Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love |
| Slift Ilion |
| More directionless noodling with songs that don?t really go anywhere and overstay their welcome by endlessly wanking into the void. Dozer does this sound so so much better. |
| Spiritbox The Fear of Fear |
| A truly average band that brings out some of the dumbest soundoffs on Sputnik |
| Tame Impala The Slow Rush |
| Taylor Swift Reputation |
| Taylor Swift Taylor Swift |
| The Acacia Strain Wormwood |
WE ALL COME FROM BROKEN HOMEZ
BROKEN ARMZ ND BROKEN BONEZZZZZ |
| The Chariot Everything Is Alive, Everything Is... |
| The Chariot Unsung |
| The Color Morale Hold On Pain Ends |
| The Color of Violence Youthanize |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board |
| The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event |
| Shaping up to be one of the weirdest surprises of 2009, definitely top 25 material here. |
| The Fall of Troy Live at The Boardwalk |
| The Front Bottoms Ann |
| Kind of glad this over dramatic brand of indie pop with awful singing has faded out of fashion |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture |
| The National First Two Pages of Frankenstein |
| It sucks how much this sucks |
| The Sword High Country |
| The Used Artwork |
| I like "Blood On My Hands" but other than that this just doesn'tdo anything for me... and shitty lyrics aside, i kinda liked Lies for the Liars. |
| The Used Maybe Memories |
| Thy Art Is Murder Godlike |
| Underoath Act of Depression |
| Veil of Maya Matriarch |
| This is subpar even by their standards. Clich?d and boring, nothing stands out beyond how cheesy and overproduced it all is, with cringe inducing vocal stutters and effects I would expect to hear from the likes of Emmure. Meh. Pass. |
| Wolfmother New Crown |
| The epitome of inoffensive, just there, not bad not good, stoner-rock lite. |
