| 4.5 superb |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow |
| This Celluloid Dream, Girl's Not Grey, and The Leaving Song Part 2 are my favorites on this CD. It's pretty much AFI at their finest: not too punk or scream laden, and before they were mainstream. Classic listen |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence |
| Self-explanatory rating. Amazing vocals, a great variety of brutal and melodic songs, and awesome drumming (great because I'm a drummer). ASP got it right with this one. |
| Animosity Animal |
| Such a creative deathcore CD. Great drumming, awesome shredding and riffing, and rapid fire shrieks from Leo. Pure awesome. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
| Another CD that really influenced me to start getting into heavier music. I first heard Chapter 4 on Madden 2004 and from that point on I was hooked. This is A7X at their prime, and even though they may suck now, there's no denying that this is a very influential and classic metalcore release. |
| Call Us Forgotten A Hope Remains EP |
| Dashboard Confessional The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most |
| Probably my favorite CD by Dashboard/acoustic band. Got me through a lot and has stood the test of time (my ever changing music tastes, that is) |
| Dashboard Confessional So Impossible |
| Awesome story that accompanies the 4 songs. Ends with the epic "Hands Down" and leaves me very content and fulfilled at the end. I think this is a tie with The Places as my favorite DC CD. |
| Despised Icon The Ills Of Modern Man |
| A few years since it's been out, hands down one of the only deathcore releases I come back to all of the time. I just love the dual vocal work and the songs stand out a lot from one another. Love it. |
| Endwell Consequences |
| My favorite hardcore CD of all time. Cool dudes, good album that really shows Sean portraying himself in a relatable and sorrowful way. Favorite tracks are "Avoidant," "Living Through The Losses," and "The Bridge." Awesome lyrics too that are often a play on words. |
| It Dies Today The Caitiff Choir |
| My Promise, Our Disintegration, and A Freak Gasoline Fight Accident rule. Nick's vocals are great on this CD. One of metalcore's finest |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel |
| Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront |
| Underoath Define the Great Line |
| 4.0 excellent |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart (Reissue) |
| A Skylit Drive She Watched the Sky |
| Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns |
| So awesome. Keys are prominent on this CD, the drumming is memorable and very fast, the screaming is varied and high pitched, and the songs don't seem too long or boring. Such a great black metal CD |
| Abominable Putridity The Anomalies of Artificial Origin |
| Aborted Coronary Reconstruction |
| AHHHHHHHH CORONARY RECONSTRUCTION. Awesome EP with a sick Entombed cover. I love this band. |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| And Hell Followed With Proprioception |
| Animosity Empires |
| The Black Page, Manhunt, and Life Advocate are all rated 5 stars on my ipod. I don't have 3 five's on one album on any other album. Great stuff. |
| Architects Hollow Crown |
| Great metalcore CD that shows the more frenzied and chaotic side of Architects in "Dethroned" and "Borrowed Time" and a more melodic side in "In Elegance" and "Left With A Last Minute." Sam shines throughout the album, combining a solid but boring yell mixed with awesome clean vocals. The good production is also a plus. |
| Architects Daybreaker |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security |
| Atreyu The Curse |
| One of the first bands to get me into heavier music. This CD is nothing more than a nostalgic listen nowadays, but at the time it definitely was in my rotation constantly. |
| Beneath the Massacre Dystopia |
| "No Future," "Procreating The Infection," and "Our Common Grave" all mix a ton of technicality with some simpler, dumbed down breakdowns to create an awesome mix of creative, but bland-at-the-same-time death metal. Elliot's vocals definitely improved from previous releases, as did the overall mix and production quality. |
| Beneath The Sky In Loving Memory |
| Joey mixes cat-like hisses and death growls with melodic guitar playing and above-average singing choruses. During the choruses, you may be reminded of Killswitch Engage, but have no fear: In Loving Memory blows them out of the water. The definitive Beneath The Sky CD. |
| Betrayal Abandonment |
| Bleeding Through Declaration |
| Bleeding Through at their best. Marta is WAY more prominent on this CD than any other BT release, in part by the production skill of Devin Townsend. "Declaration," "Sister Charlatan," and "There Was A Flood" are awesome blast-beat infused tracks. If only they continued this trend with their self-titled... |
| Boris the Blade Tides of Damnation |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison |
| Influential metalcore that really helped me get into screaming music. The drums are above average, the riffing is awesome, and the vocals are great. "4 Words" is my favorite song. |
| Call Us Forgotten A Crusade For The Broken EP |
| Awesome EP that really shows a lot of potential. Not all breakdowns, use of 3 screaming vocalists, and great lyrics. Clean vocals are lacking but other than that it's an awesome debut. |
| Carnifex Hell Chose Me |
| SO MUCH better than anything Carnifex has put out before. This CD is more death metal than deathcore. The breakdowns are a lot more sparse and the production slays. Awesome progression. |
| Catalepsy Bleed |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) |
| "The Clincher" and "Vitamin R" introduced me to Chevelle. I love Pete's vocals on this CD, and it's a little bit of a step up from Wonder What's Next. My favorite tracks are "To Return" and "Vitamin R." |
| Close Your Eyes Empty Hands and Heavy Hearts |
| Confession The Long Way Home |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain |
| A must have post-hardcore release. This shows Jonny lighting up all of the tracks with his soul-influenced voice and both guitarists riffing and noodling away in melodic fashion. All of the songs sound very different from each other, and the production sounds great (contrary to everyone's opinion). |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance |
| Kurt and DGD at their prime. Honestly think this CD is a step up from Downtown Battle Mountain. "Uneasy Hearts Weigh The Most" and "Rock Solid" are my favorite tracks, although the latter annoys the shit out of my friends. I kinda lost interest in DGD after they released Happiness, although I'm SO stoked for DBM Part 2. |
| Despised Icon Day Of Mourning |
| I love this album. Can get a little old and wasn't as memorable as The Ills but still. The drumming got even faster and they lost the pig squeals to many people's delight. |
| Doomsday Mourning The Science Of Exploitation |
| Pretty bouncy metalcore/deathcore that has a lot of off time breakdowns. Really hard to describe, but it's an awesome listen. "Seeds Of Doubt" and "Jake" are the stand out tracks IMO. |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail |
| Awesome concept CD that tells about the risk of giving your heart to someone who isn't prepared or ready to have it. The vocal harmonies define Emery and this CD is still in my rotation. |
| Emmure Goodbye To The Gallows |
| From Autumn to Ashes The Fiction We Live |
| Post-Hardcore at its finest. "The After Dinner Payback" and "Every Reason To" are awesome tracks on this CD. Ben's scream is also death-metal like, showing passionate grows to compliment Fran's whiny singing. Still a very good album. |
| Funeral for a Friend See You All In Hell |
| Further Seems Forever The Moon Is Down |
| Hands Like Glass With Unveiled Faces |
| "Believing In Words" and "Quarter Shy" are really pleasant, melodic post-hardcore tracks. Hands Like Glass switches it up and infuses some pretty cool synth and keyboard parts to accompany Mason's great singing voice. A great debut EP. |
| Harm's Way (USA-IL) Isolation |
| Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White |
| He Is Legend 91025 |
| It Dies Today Forever Scorned (Re-Recorded/Re-Brutalized) |
| Lamb of God Hourglass: Anthology Collection |
| Make Them Suffer Neverbloom |
| Misery Signals Controller |
| Molotov Solution The Harbinger |
| Motionless in White Creatures |
| My Hero Is Me The Crywolf Broadcast |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile |
| Parkway...Romance Is Dead introduced me to these guys. From then on, I was a fan. Super slick production, and the vocals are great. This was before Parkway matured a little bit and started experimenting more. Lots of swearing, angst, etc hahaha. |
| Pathology Awaken to the Suffering |
| Rooks Infinite I |
| Rose Funeral The Resting Sonata |
| This band and CD gets so much shit and I'm not really sure why...some of the breakdowns are boring chug fests but the vocals are great, the drumming on this cd is amazing, and some of the gothenburg riffing is very fast and well played |
| Rose Funeral Gates of Punishment |
| Salt The Wound Carnal Repercussions |
| Salt The Wound Kill the Crown |
| This is good stuff. A more melodic side to STW. Jake is a great guitar player, and Kevin's screams have definitely improved. |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal |
| The Ghost Inside Returners |
| I'm not going to buy into this "classic" rating business, but this album is definitely a huge step up from their boring debut. "Walk Away From The World" is a great, fast, melodic intro, and tracks 2,3,4, and 6 shine out compared to the rest. |
| The Red Shore The Avarice Of Man |
| The Word Alive Empire |
| The Word Alive Deceiver |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thy Art Is Murder Hate |
| Traces Reflections Of A Forlorn Sun |
| Lord of the Rings core. Frickin awesome listen. Gotta love the LOTR reference in "Wreathed in Flame." This band is very underrated and this EP deserves a lot of recognition. Very well done take on symphonic black metal. |
| Trivium Ascendancy |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety Special Edit |
| Warning Watching from a Distance |
| Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement |
| The epitome of brutal deathcore done right. Before Whitechapel got more experimental. This is just straight up evil. Vicer Exciser, The Somatic Defilement, and Devirgination Studies are the stand-outs. |
| 3.5 great |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart |
| Fun CD that definitely still has some replay value and is a nostalgic listen. Before they went super commercial and were a bit more experimental. |
| A Skylit Drive Wires...and the Concept of Breathing |
| Abigail Williams Agharta |
| After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) |
| Alesana On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax |
| Alesana Try This With Your Eyes Closed |
| All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy Before the Throne of Infection |
| As I Lay Dying A Long March: The First Recordings |
| Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet |
| Beneath the Massacre Marée Noire |
| Beneath the Massacre Incongruous |
| Bleeding Through The Truth |
| Bleeding Through The Great Fire |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Broadway Kingdoms |
| Bullet for My Valentine Hand of Blood |
| Carnifex The Diseased and Poisoned |
| Carnifex Until I Feel Nothing |
| Cephalic Carnage Xenosapien |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next |
| Confession Cancer |
| Crafter is back and he sounds more awesome than ever. Cancer shows some awesome potential for the Aussie band. "That Scag And His Floozie" and "Must've Cut His Heart Out" are really melodic and fast hardcore tracks that combine with pummeling breakdowns to form a great debut CD. I'm stoked on this. |
| Dashboard Confessional Summers Kiss EP |
| Dashboard Confessional The Swiss Army Romance |
| Dead To Fall The Phoenix Throne |
| Drop Dead, Gorgeous In Vogue |
| Drop Dead, Gorgeous Hot N' Heavy |
| Emarosa Relativity |
| Relativity's songs CAN run together, but with every listen I gave this CD, the more appreciative I became. Very few songs even have a chorus, and parts repeat very few times. Emarosa progressed tremendously with this release, and then proceeded to shit all over my parade with their horrible self-titled. |
| Emery The Weak's End |
| Emery The Question Re-Release |
| Emery While Broken Hearts Prevail |
| Emery We Do What We Want |
| Emmure Felony |
| Emmure Speaker Of The Dead |
| HUGE step up from The Respect Issue and a small improvement from Felony (I liked that CD). The dubstep elements are awesome, and the band seems to actually be finding a signature sound that is almost nu-metal influenced (in a good way surprisingly). I hate Joey Sturgis, but this is probably his best sounding work. "4 Poisons 3 Words" and "Last Words To Rose" are a few of the stand out tracks. |
| Endwell Punishment |
| Great follow up to Consequences. The vocals have improved quite a bit and some of the stand out tracks REALLY stand out including "Anxiety Bath," and "High Friends In Low Places." |
| Escape the Fate There's No Sympathy for the Dead |
| Evergreen Terrace Wolfbiker |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree |
| First Blood Killafornia |
| First Blood Silence Is Betrayal |
| For the Fallen Dreams Changes |
| Four Letter Lie What A Terrible Thing To Say |
| From Autumn to Ashes Holding A Wolf By The Ears |
| From the Shallows Beyond the Unknown |
| Funeral for a Friend Hours |
| Funeral for a Friend Seven Ways To Scream Your Name |
| Funeral for a Friend Four Ways to Scream Your Name |
| Funeral for a Friend The Young And Defenseless |
| Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon |
| Further Seems Forever How to Start a Fire |
| Glass Casket Desperate Man's Diary |
| An interesting an emotionally engaging deathcore CD (DID YOU THINK THAT WAS POSSIBLE). "A Cork Stops The Whining" and "Too Scared To Live" are shredding, death metal influenced tracks, while the last song on the CD is a somber look at life from the eyes of the vocalist. |
| Haste the Day When Everything Falls |
| Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely |
| I Killed the Prom Queen Music for the Recently Deceased |
| See my sound off for the deluxe version of Music For The Recently Deceased. This CD is still a very good one, but with the bonus tracks on the deluxe version, I can't give this more than a 4. |
| Impending Doom Nailed. Dead. Risen. |
| Impending Doom Baptized in Filth |
| In Fear and Faith Your World On Fire |
| In Fear and Faith Imperial |
| Ion Dissonance Minus the Herd |
| Many people were disappointed with the dumbed down, chugging style Ion went for on Minus The Herd. I disagree. There are still plenty of weird and non-existant time signatures, the production is stellar and by far the best of any Ion CD, and the songs sound VERY different from one another. "The Surge" and "Scorn Haven" are by far my favorite songs on the CD. |
| Ion Dissonance Cursed |
| Ion Dissonance returns to their roots a little bit, except this time with Kevin as their vocalist. "You People Are Messed Up" and "They'll Never Know" are really heavy tracks that do not seem bogged down by the frenzied, chaotic mess that Ion is known for. The production is a bit of a step down from Minus The Herd, but otherwise this is about a 4 from me, for very different reasons from the 4 I gave Minus The Herd. |
| It Dies Today Forever Scorned |
| Job For A Cowboy Genesis |
| Jonny Craig A Dream Is A Question You Don't Know How To Answer |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies |
| King Conquer America's Most Haunted |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Lamb of God Walk with Me in Hell |
| Like Moths to Flames Sweet Talker |
| I like Chris' vocals a lot. It's an EP that doesn't push any boundaries, but it's VERY enjoyable if you are a fan of the genre. To others who aren't, stay far away. "Real Talk" is the stand out track. |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart |
| Monsters Monsters |
| Pretty heavy debut CD that relies a lot on bouncy riffs and breakdowns with a few limp bizkit influences...it's an interesting listen |
| Motionless in White When Love Met Destruction |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 |
| Mudvayne Lost and Found |
| Oceano Depths |
| Band gets so much shit but this is so much better than Contagion. The instrumental title track is awesome too. Good production really helps these guys out. Oh yeah, it's only a debut too. |
| Parkway Drive The DVD |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue |
| Rooks Infinite II |
| Salt The Wound Ares |
| Signal The Firing Squad Abnegate |
| Silverstein A Shipwreck in the Sand |
| Silverstein Rescue |
| Sleeping With Sirens With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear |
| Structures All of the Above |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing |
| Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be |
| The Acacia Strain Continent |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Color Morale My Devil In Your Eyes |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie |
| The Faceless Akeldama |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad |
| The Red Shore Lost Verses |
| Thick As Blood Embrace |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead The Scars of Ages |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead Malice |
| Thy Art Is Murder Infinite Death |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| Underoath Survive Kaleidoscope |
| Upon a Burning Body The World Is Ours |
| Vanna The Search Party Never Came |
| Vanna Curses |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption |
| Winds of Plague The Great Stone War |
| Wretched (USA-NC) Son of Perdition |
| 3.0 good |
| A Day To Remember And Their Name Was Treason |
| A Day To Remember Old Record |
| A Day To Remember Homesick (Special Deluxe Edition) |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You |
| After the Burial Forging a Future Self |
| After the Burial Rareform |
| After the Burial In Dreams |
| Aiden Nightmare Anatomy |
| Alesana The Emptiness |
| All That Remains This Darkened Heart |
| All That Remains For We Are Many |
| American Football American Football |
| American Me Heat |
| American Me Siberian Nightmare Machine |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy II: The Reign of Darkness |
| As Blood Runs Black Allegiance |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise |
| As I Lay Dying This Is Who We Are |
| Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream |
| Very pleasant clean vocals, and a very diverse range of harsh vocals. above average drumming for their genre, mixed with a tried and true formula for songs. It's been awhile since this CD has been out and I definitely like it a lot less. Not so much a fan anymore. |
| Asking Alexandria Reckless and Relentless |
| Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses |
| Atreyu Fractures in the Facade of your Porcelain Beauty |
| Atreyu The Best of Atreyu |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil |
| Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation |
| Before Their Eyes Before Their Eyes |
| Before Their Eyes The Dawn of My Death |
| Beneath The Sky What Demons Do To Saints |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Beyond the Shore The Arctic Front |
| Bleeding Through This Is Love, This Is Murderous |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign |
| Breaking Benjamin So Cold |
| Bring Me The Horizon Count Your Blessings |
| Bring Me The Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... |
| Bullet for My Valentine Bullet For My Valentine EP |
| Bullet for My Valentine Road to Nowhere |
| Carnifex Dead in My Arms |
| Cephalic Carnage Misled by Certainty |
| Chelsea Grin Desolation Of Eden |
| Dance Gavin Dance Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance (Instrumental Demos) |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II |
| Make no mistake guys, Jon's scream is ALL studio work. Listened to him track even at Interlace, Chris Crummet and I agreed he was the worst screamer we had ever worked with. Jinny no longer belts out high notes and is content with lazily lofting through this CD. If he is no longer the high point, then what is? Sure, the guitar work is crazy, there's some rapping, but DBM 2 falls way short of the original. Not a fan. |
| Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us |
| Dashboard Confessional MTV Unplugged |
| Dashboard Confessional A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar |
| Dashboard Confessional Dusk and Summer |
| Dashboard Confessional The Shade of Poison Trees |
| Elysia Masochist |
| Elysia Lion of Judas |
| Emery The Question |
| Endwell Revenge Is A Healthy Motive |
| Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion |
| Evergreen Terrace Almost Home |
| For the Fallen Dreams Relentless |
| THIS IS WHAT I GET FOR HELPING MY FRIENDS. Dylan is a drastic improvement over Chad in the vocal department (although Chad has tremendously improved in the new Legend track), and the riffing is more creative and melodic than ever. "Smoke Signals" and "A Plethora Of" are my favorite tracks. |
| For Today Breaker |
| Four Letter Lie Let Your Body Take Over |
| From Autumn to Ashes Too Bad You're Beautiful |
| From Autumn to Ashes Abandon Your Friends |
| Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation |
| Funeral for a Friend The Great Wide Open |
| Funeral for a Friend Your History is Mine: 2002–2009 |
| Further Seems Forever Hope This Finds You Well |
| Glass Casket We Are Gathered Here Today... |
| Haste the Day Burning Bridges |
| Haste the Day Dreamer |
| Haste the Day Attack of the Wolf King |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood |
| Impending Doom The Serpent Servant |
| Impending Doom There Will Be Violence |
| In Fear and Faith Voyage |
| It Dies Today Sirens |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage: Remastered |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (2009) |
| Knights Of The Abyss Shades |
| Knights Of The Abyss The Culling of Wolves |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn |
| Lamb of God Killadelphia |
| Lamb of God Pure American Metal |
| Lamb of God Wrath |
| LGND Valediction |
| Liferuiner Sons of Straight Edge |
| Like Moths to Flames When We Don't Exist |
| Misery Signals Mirrors |
| Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come |
| Mudvayne Mudvayne |
| My Hero Is Me Helen of Troy |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child |
| Norma Jean Meridional |
| Parkway Drive Horizons |
| Saosin Saosin |
| Silverstein When Broken Is Easily Fixed |
| Silverstein Decade: Live at the El Mocambo |
| Silverstein Transitions |
| Suicide Silence Green Monster |
| Texas in July I Am |
| The Acacia Strain The Most Heard Unheard |
| The Acacia Strain The Most Known Unknown |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate |
| The Color Morale We All Have Demons |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality |
| The Faceless Nightmare Fest |
| The Ghost Inside Fury and the Fallen Ones |
| The Plot In You First Born |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine |
| The Word Alive The Word Alive |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Thrice Live At The House Of Blues |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead Skepsis |
| Trivium Ember to Inferno |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation |
| Underoath Live At Koko |
| Vanna The Honest Hearts EP |
| We Came As Romans To Plant a Seed |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile |
| Winds of Plague Decimate the Weak |
