| 3.5 great |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side |
| Ayreon The Human Equation |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Breaking Benjamin Saturate |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| Dethklok Dethalbum III |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud |
| Most logical direction for him to take, career-wise. It's a combination of his two most rpopular and well-received albums, Addicted and Deconstruction. It has a soul, and isn't such ra pretentious offering as Ghost was. |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events |
| The depature of Mike Portnoy leaves something missing in the drums for this album, but it seems the "Dramatic Turn of Events" mentioned in the album title has sobered the other members. Here you will find a renewed vigor in musicality, vs. technicality, resembling their earlier material. Most likely their best since Six Degrees. |
| Eminem Relapse |
| Halestorm The Strange Case Of... |
| James LaBrie Static Impulse |
| Jordan Rudess Notes on a Dream |
| He's one of the best pianists I have ever heard, but the noodliness detracts from some of the songs, unfortunately. |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane |
| Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long |
| Martin O'Donnell Halo 2, Vol. 2 OST |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Megadeth Youthanasia |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Meshuggah I |
| Meshuggah The True Human Design |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Opeth The Candlelight Years |
| I don't really like these albums, wish they had included BWP/Damnation/Ghost, but the box is gorgeous and looks mysterious and edgy on my shelf. |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Steve Jablonsky Gears of War 3 - The Soundtrack |
| Can't give a very high rating to a soundtrack that plays on motifs that were only original back in 2005, but I thoroughly enjoyed my play through Gears 3, and the music fit.rThis guy did the music for Transformers? Ugh. |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny |
| The Dear Hunter Orange |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| Thomas Giles Pulse |
