| 3.5 great |
| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide |
| Agalloch The White |
| Agalloch Of Stone, Wind and Pillor |
| Akhlys The Dreaming I |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme |
| Alice in Chains Facelift |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury |
| Alter Bridge Fortress |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns |
| Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall |
| An Endless Sporadic Ameliorate |
| Ana Kefr The Burial Tree (II) |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here |
| Anathema Weather Systems |
| Anderson .Paak Ventura |
| Andy McKee Art of Motion |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many |
| Annihilator Never, Neverland |
| Aquilus Griseus |
| Arcane Known/Learned |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom |
| ASAP Rocky At.Long.Last.A$AP |
| Asian Kung-Fu Generation Sol-fa |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Atheist Elements |
| Atheist Piece of Time |
| Atoma Skylight |
| Audioslave Audioslave |
| Augury Fragmentary Evidence |
| Augury Concealed |
| Avatarium Avatarium |
| Ayreon The Human Equation |
| Ayreon Into the Electric Castle |
| Baroness Yellow and Green |
| Baroness Second |
| Baroness Gold and Grey |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Big Dumb Face Duke Lion Fights the Terror!! |
| Birds Of Tokyo Universes |
| Black Label Society The Blessed Hellride |
| Black Peaks All That Divides |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh |
| Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia |
| Blotted Science The Animation of Entomology |
| Boris Attention Please |
| Borknagar Origin |
| Borknagar Empiricism |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var |
| Caladan Brood Echoes Of Battle |
| Carcass Heartwork |
| Cathedral The Ethereal Mirror |
| Cathedral Forest of Equilibrium |
| Cephalic Carnage Anomalies |
| Chimp Spanner All Roads Lead Here |
| Chimp Spanner At the Dream's Edge |
| Chimp Spanner Imperium Vorago |
| CHON Grow |
| Circa Survive The Amulet |
| Circus of Dead Squirrels Indoor Recess |
| Cloudkicker ]]][[[ |
| Cloudkicker A New Heavenly Body |
| Cloudkicker Portmanteau |
| Cloudkicker The Map Is Not the Territory |
| Cloudkicker Subsume |
| Cloudkicker Fade |
| Cloudkicker Unending |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Corelia Nostalgia |
| Crowhurst Crowhurst |
| Cult of Luna Salvation |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Cynic Focus |
| Cynic The Portal Tapes |
| Dan Swano Moontower |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain |
| Dark Tranquillity Character |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction |
| Darkest Era Severance |
| Darkspace Dark Space III |
| Daylight Dies Lost to the Living |
| Dead Congregation Promulgation of the Fall |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Deftones Gore |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction |
| Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant |
| Dir En Grey Uroboros |
| Doctor Smoke The Witching Hour |
| Dodecahedron Dodecahedron |
| Dornenreich Flammentriebe |
| Draconian Arcane Rain Fell |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings |
This album is definitely back-heavy, and gets better and better with the last 3 songs. It also definitely cant's
be touched by the new album unfortunately. A Nightmare To Remember has some great parts such as the
middle section. They beat the introductory riff and gothic shit to death throughout the song for far too long
though, and Portnoy's vocal section always elicits a face-palm. A Rite Of Passage is the weakest and lamest
song on the album, and Wither is an okay (if not very tame and generic) ballad. The Shattered Fortress is a
retread of many of the suite's motifs and doesn't bring much that is new and interesting to the table, but I
forgive it because it is still pretty epic and succeeds in the nostalgia department. The Best Of Times is a
great song and gets points for the inherent emotional quality of the subject matter. The Count of Tuscany is
an epic end to the album, with some of the best songwriting, riffs, transitions, instrumental sections and
melodies the band has produced in a long while. I really dig the Rush and King Crimson vibes from the
second half of this album. |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons |
| Dream Theater Awake |
| Dream Theater Live at Budokan |
| Dream Theater Live Scenes From New York |
| dredg El Cielo |
| Dub Trio Exploring The Dangers Of |
| Dub Trio New Heavy |
| Dub Trio Cool Out And Coexist |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain |
| Eden Circus Marula |
| Empyrium Weiland |
| Endlesshade Wolf Will Swallow The Sun |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| Epica The Quantum Enigma |
| Esoteric Paragon of Dissonance |
| Ever Forthright Ever Forthright |
| Pretty sick album that shows a lot of potential. Chris Baretto is an insanely talented vocalist and is the source of most of the album's enjoyability. A number of songs are longer than they ought to be, and as a result the album is too long as a whole. Many songs have their creative and memorable moments but then stagnate too much in less interesting metalcor-ish breakdowns or dent riffage. If they duplicated the overall quality this effort and cut the fat, they would have something truly great. |
| Everything Everything Arc |
| Exivious Liminal |
| Failure The Heart Is a Monster |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters |
| Forgotten Tomb Negative Megalomania |
| Forgotten Tomb Love's Burial Ground |
| Forgotten Tomb Springtime Depression |
| Forgotten Tomb Songs to Leave |
| Gamma Ray No World Order |
| Gaytheist Hold Me... But Not So Tight |
| Gojira The Link Alive |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage |
| Gojira Magma |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Graviton Massless |
| Guided by Voices Alien Lanes |
| Hacksaw to the Throat Wastelands |
| Hacride Lazarus |
| Haken The Mountain |
| Haken Aquarius |
| Haken Visions |
| Hooded Menace Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed |
| Horrendous Idol |
| HRVRD The Inevitable And I |
| Humanfly Awesome Science |
| Hypocrisy Hypocrisy |
| Hypocrisy Virus |
| I Am Abomination Let The Future Tell The Truth |
| Ihsahn After |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter |
| In Vain (NO) Aenigma |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down |
| Interpol Antics |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth |
| Jakub Zytecki Wishful Lotus Proof |
| Jakub Zytecki Ladder Head |
| Jakub Zytecki Feather Bed |
| Jambinai ONDA |
| Jeff Loomis Plains of Oblivion |
| Jeff Rosenstock POST- |
| Jethro Tull The Jethro Tull Christmas Album |
| Jethro Tull Roots to Branches |
| John Frusciante The Empyrean |
| Kamelot Ghost Opera |
| Kamelot Epica |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance |
| Katatonia Brave Murder Day |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music |
| Kowloon Walled City Container Ships |
| Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo |
| Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| L'arc-en-Ciel Smile |
| L'arc-en-Ciel Real |
| L'arc-en-Ciel Ark |
| Latitudes Old Sunlight |
| Leprous Bilateral |
| Leprous Malina |
| Les Discrets/Alcest Split |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment |
| Lost Horizon Awakening the World |
| Ludicra Another Great Love Song |
| Lykathea Aflame Elvenefris |
| Martriden Martriden EP |
| Maserati Maserati VII |
| Maserati Inventions for the New Season |
| Maserati The Language Of Cities |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand |
| Memory Garden Tides |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Meshuggah Nothing |
| Meshuggah I |
| Mingle Harde Mongol Horde |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Mirrorthrone Carriers of Dust |
| Misery Signals Controller |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Mors Principium Est The Unborn |
| Mother Mother O My Heart |
| Mourning Beloveth The Sullen Sulcus |
| Mouth Of The Architect Quietly |
| Mouth Of The Architect Dawning |
| Muse Showbiz |
| My Dying Bride Songs of Darkness, Words of Light |
| My Dying Bride The Light at the End of the World |
| My Dying Bride The Angel and the Dark River |
| My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans |
| My Dying Bride A Map of All Our Failures |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I |
| Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction |
| Nickel Creek Nickel Creek |
| Nightwish Oceanborn |
| Nightwish Once |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Nirvana Bleach |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom |
| No Doubt Return of Saturn |
| O'Brother The Death of Day |
| Obliteration Black Death Horizon |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes |
| Orion Where Whales Go To Die |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) |
| Outcast Awaken The Reason |
| Ovid's Withering Scryers of the Ibis |
| Ozzy Osbourne Ozzmosis |
| Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon |
| Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz |
| Pagan's Mind God's Equation |
| Pagan's Mind Heavenly Ecstasy |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal |
| Pearl Jam Pearl Jam |
| Pearl Jam Lost Dogs |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... |
| Pelican Australasia |
| Pelican Nighttime Stories |
| Pinback Autumn of the Seraphs |
| Pomegranate Tiger Entities |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Portal (Cynic) Portal |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Probot Probot |
| Propagandhi Failed States |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
One of the key things that allowed me to warm up to the sometimes abrasive/annoying vocals of Rody
Walker were all the damn catchy and memorable vocal lines and the frequency with which new and fresh
sing-alongable melodies were presented.
These stick-in-your-head moments permeate nearly every song of Kezia and Fortress, and are devastatingly
absent in Scurrilous, which leaves their third effort with little redeeming value for me. |
| Protest the Hero Volition |
| Psycroptic The Scepter of the Ancients |
| Pusha T DAYTONA |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People |
| R.E.M. Murmur |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| I hope to have a change of heart after listening to this much more... but at this point I can't foresee this being any better than a "good" album. I'd say, at best, it's got 5 good songs and 3 okay songs. I just don't see how they will ever rise above that for me. *crosses fingers that a revelation is had soon* |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Off the Map |
| Revocation Great Is Our Sin |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It |
| Rosetta Quintessential Ephemera |
| Rotting Christ Theogonia |
| Rozwell Kid Too Shabby |
| Rush Snakes & Arrows |
| Rush Signals |
| Rush Clockwork Angels |
| Rush Fly by Night |
| Rush Caress of Steel |
| Russian Circles Empros |
| Saor Roots |
| Savages Silence Yourself |
| Scale the Summit The Migration |
| Secret Band LP2 |
| Shade Empire Omega Arcane |
| Sithu Aye Isles |
| Sithu Aye Cassini |
| Sithu Aye Invent the Universe |
| SKATERS Manhattan |
| Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love |
| Sleater-Kinney One Beat |
| Sleep Dopesmoker |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Slugdge Dim and Slimeridden Kingdoms |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside |
| Stone Temple Pilots Shangri-La-Dee-Da |
| Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music... Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple |
| Stone Temple Pilots Thank You |
| STRFKR Starfucker |
| SubRosa (US) More Constant Than The Gods |
| Substructure Monolith |
| Supercar Highvision |
| Swallow the Sun The Morning Never Came |
| Sybreed Slave Design |
| Sylosis Conclusion of an Age |
| Symphony X The Odyssey |
| Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| Tame Impala Currents |
| Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog |
| Terrorizer World Downfall |
| Thank You Scientist Terraformer |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet |
| The Dear Hunter Blue |
| The Dear Hunter Violet |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife |
| The Decemberists The Tain |
| The Decemberists Picaresque |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality |
| The Fall of Every Season From Below |
| I can tell this album will grow on me with time. The clean vocal delivery is shaky and timid, which is kind of disappointing to me at the moment. I find the more comfortable-range growls and higher shrieks to be the most palatable here. The deep growls (such as those used in the opening vocals of the title track) don't do it for me because they don't feel as genuine in the midst of such genuine music. One of the things I really like is the layout of the album, with the three dense and long songs separated by the two short, soft pieces! It makes a lot of sense and helps the cohesiveness of the album. |
| The Gathering Nighttime Birds |
| The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad |
| The National High Violet |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| The Ocean Precambrian |
| The Pillows Happy Bivouac |
| The Pillows Runners High |
| The Pillows Little Busters |
| The Project Hate MCMXCIX Cybersonic Superchrist |
| The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse |
| The Replacements Let It Be |
| The Safety Fire Grind the Ocean |
| The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt |
| The Story So Far What You Don't See |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth |
| The Vines Highly Evolved |
| The Vines Winning Days |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream |
| The Wounded Kings In the Chapel of the Black Hand |
| Theatre Of Tragedy Velvet Darkness They Fear |
| Therion Secret of the Runes |
| Therion Theli |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind |
| The first half of the record (not just the obvious singles) is wonderful. The second half (7-12) kind of drops off for me as it drags on a bit before picking up again with the last two tracks. |
| Thou Heathen |
| Thrawsunblat Wanderer on the Continent of Saplings |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Thy Light No Morrow Shall Dawn |
| Tiamat Wildhoney |
| Tiluland Axes of the Universe |
| Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance |
| Tool Opiate |
| Totem Skin Still Waters Run Deep |
| Tragedy Vengeance |
| Training for Utopia Plastic Soul Impalement |
| Tribulation The Children of the Night |
| Tribulation Down Below |
| Triptykon Melana Chasmata |
| TTNG 13.0.0.0.0 |
| TTNG Animals |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision |
| Turnstile Nonstop Feeling |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
| Ulver Perdition City |
| Uneven Structure Februus |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra II |
| Vektor Terminal Redux |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden |
| Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter |
| Watchtower Control and Resistance |
| We Lost the Sea Departure Songs |
| White Arms of Athena Astrodrama |
| Wintersun Time I |
| I cannot tell a lie. I still have a raging boner for this album after all this time. |
| Wishbone Ash Argus |
| Witch Mountain Cauldron Of The Wild |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason |
With this flavor of black metal, it's all about atmosphere and capturing the momentary pairings of places
and emotions. Torn Beyond Reason generously delivers in this aspect and manages to do so without boring
me to tears in the process. |
| X Japan Art of Life |
| Xanthochroid Blessed He With Boils |
| 3.0 good |
| '68 In Humor and Sadness |
| *shels Wingsfortheirsmiles |
| 7 Horns 7 Eyes Throes Of Absolution |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece |
| A Lot Like Birds No Place |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| A Perfect Circle aMOTION |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe |
| Abnormal Thought Patterns Manipulation Under Anesthesia |
| Abnormality Contaminating the Hive Mind |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| Agalloch The Grey |
| Agalloch From Which of This Oak |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| Allegaeon Fragments of Form and Function |
| Alustrium A Tunnel to Eden |
| Amogh Symphony The Quantum Hack Code |
| Amon Amarth The Avenger |
| Amon Amarth The Crusher |
| Amorphis Under the Red Cloud |
| Anata The Conductor's Departure |
| Andromeda Extension of the Wish |
| Annihilator Alice in Hell |
| Anubis Hitchhiking to Byzantium |
| Anubis Gate Anubis Gate |
| Anubis Gate A Perfect Forever |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP |
| Aspid Extravasation |
| Astralnaut Thieves, Beggars and Swine |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul |
| At The Soundawn Shifting |
| Atheist Jupiter |
| Atoms for Peace Amok |
| Austra Olympia |
| Austra Feel It Break |
| Ayreon 01011001 |
| Barren Earth Curse of the Red River |
| Bear Hands Distraction |
| Beardfish Sleeping in Traffic: Part Two |
| Beheading of a King Quasar: Preserving Legacy |
| Behemoth Demigod |
| Behold... The Arctopus Skullgrid |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me |
| Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I |
| Beyond Creation The Aura |
| Bilocate Sudden Death Syndrome |
| Birds Of Tokyo Birds Of Tokyo |
| Black Sabbath 13 |
| Bleed from Within Empire |
| Bleeding Oath Bleeding Oath |
| Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God |
| Boris Heavy Rocks (2011) |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
| I imagine that this is what Tim Burton's death metal album would sound like. |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Braid The Age of Octeen |
| Bruce Dickinson The Chemical Wedding |
| Burzum Filosofem |
| Calvin Harris Ready For The Weekend |
| Calvin Harris 18 Months |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled |
| Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious |
| Caribou Swim |
| Caribou Our Love |
| Cathedral The Last Spire |
| Cee Lo Green The Lady Killer |
| Chevelle La Gárgola |
| Chevelle The North Corridor |
| CHON Newborn Sun |
| CHON Woohoo! |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise |
| Circle of Contempt Artifacts in Motion |
| Cloudkicker The Discovery |
| Cloudkicker Loop |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Communic Waves Of Visual Decay |
| Cormorant Dwellings |
| Cormorant Metazoa |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy |
| Dark Suns Existence |
| Dark Time Sunshine ANX |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
| Daylight Dies No Reply |
| Daylight Dies A Frail Becoming |
| Deafheaven Demo |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Defeater Travels |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Demon Hunter True Defiance |
| Dethklok Dethalbum III |
| Devil Sold His Soul Blessed & Cursed |
| Devin Townsend Physicist |
| Devin Townsend Infinity |
| Devin Townsend The Hummer |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud |
| Dickkicker Somniloquent |
| Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli |
| Dir En Grey Vulgar |
| Dir En Grey Gauze |
| Dir En Grey Dum Spiro Spero |
| Dir En Grey Macabre |
| Dir En Grey Kisou |
| Disillusion Three Neuron Kings |
| Disma Towards the Megalith |
| DMX It's Dark and Hell Is Hot |
| Draconian Where Lovers Mourn |
| Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite |
| Dream Theater Chaos in Motion |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time |
| Drudkh Blood In Our Wells |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora |
| Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel |
| Dry The River Shallow Bed |
| Dying Fetus Reign Supreme |
| Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid |
| Eluveitie Slania |
| Eluvium Copia |
| Elvenking Heathenreel |
| Emancipator Soon It Will Be Cold Enough |
| Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs |
| Epica Requiem for the Indifferent |
| Epica Design Your Universe |
| Epica The Divine Conspiracy |
| Equilibrium Sagas |
| ERRA Impulse |
| Ethereal Shroud They Became the Falling Ash |
| Exivious Exivious |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo I Have Made My Bed in Darkness |
| Extol Extol |
| FACT Never Turn Out The Light To Keep Myself |
| FACT In the Blink of an Eye |
| FACT burundanga |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True |
| Fallujah The Harvest Wombs |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails |
| Finntroll Nattfodd |
| Florence and the Machine Lungs |
| Foo Fighters Sonic Highways |
| Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Forgotten Tomb Under Saturn Retrograde |
| Forgotten Tomb ...And Don't Deliver Us from Evil |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE |
| Future Islands Singles |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Bloom and Breathe |
| Gatling Beforemath |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Giant Squid Cenotes |
| Glass Bones Seasons |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Gojira Possessed (as Godzilla) |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach |
| Graveworm Engraved in Black |
| Haggard Awaking the Centuries |
| Hail the Sun Wake |
| Haken Restoration |
| Haken Vector |
| Heljareyga Heljareyga |
| Helms Alee Weatherhead |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis |
| Hope For The Dying Dissimulation |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living |
| HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand |
| Illuminati The Core |
| Imminent Sonic Destruction Recurring Themes |
| Immolation Close to a World Below |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans |
| In the Woods... Omnio |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself |
| Iniquity Serenadium |
| Interpol El Pintor |
| Into Eternity Buried in Oblivion |
| iNTRiKeT The Woods |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations |
| Ion Dissonance Breathing Is Irrelevant |
| Jeff Rosenstock We Cool? |
| Jex Thoth Blood Moon Rise |
| Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Joy Division Closer |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience |
| Kalisia Cybion |
| Kalmah Seventh Swamphony |
| Kalmah 12 Gauge |
| Katatonia Last Fair Deal Gone Down |
| Katatonia For Funerals to Come... |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness |
| Katatonia Jhva Elohim Meth |
| Kauan Pirut |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo |
| Kevin Gilbert The Shaming of The True |
| Kids These Days Traphouse Rock |
| Knuckle Puck The Weight That You Buried |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| Lamb of God Wrath |
| Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang |
| Lantlos .neon |
| Last Chance to Reason Level 2 |
| Lazarus A.D. The Onslaught (Re-release) |
| Leprous Coal |
| letlive. Fake History |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful |
| Lights Siberia |
| Mac DeMarco Rock and Roll Night Club |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist |
| Make Them Suffer Old Souls |
| Martriden Encounter The Monolith |
| Martyr Feeding the Abscess |
| Maserati Pyramid of the Sun |
| Mastodon Lifesblood |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| Miike Snow Miike Snow |
| Minsk With Echoes in the Movement of Stone |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso |
| Mirrorthrone Of Wind and Weeping |
| Mirrorthrone Gangrene |
| Monuments (UK) Gnosis |
| Moonsorrow Viides luku - Hävitetty |
| Mors Principium Est ...And Death Said Live |
| Mother Mother Eureka |
| Mother Mother Touch Up |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| My Dying Bride For Lies I Sire |
| My Dying Bride The Barghest o’ Whitby |
| My Dying Bride Feel the Misery |
| Myrath Tales of the Sands |
| Myrath Hope |
| Nameless Coyote Devoured by the Swirling Night |
| Nightwish Wishmaster |
| Nightwish Century Child |
| Nile Annihilation of the Wicked |
| Norther Mirror of Madness |
| Novembre Materia |
| O'Brother Disillusion |
| O'Brother Garden Window |
| Obscure Sphinx Void Mother |
| Opeth Heritage |
I just wish Mikael could have at least made an attempt to compose smooth and musical transitions between
sections. For example, "I Feel The Dark" has a ton of abrupt and awkward lurches between vastly different
sections. This kind of writing technique is common in progressive music, and has a place in Opeth's music,
but this album contains lazy amounts of crossfade transitions between unrelated musical ideas. That said,
on a first listen there is a lot to digest and there are already some identifiably solid moments. |
| Orbs Asleep Next to Science |
| Orphaned Land The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR |
| OSI Free |
| OSI Office of Strategic Influence |
| Outworld Outworld |
| Ovid's Withering The Cloud Gatherer |
| Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction |
| Paradise Lost Draconian Times |
| Paradise Lost Icon |
| Paradise Lost Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us |
| Paradise Lost Tragic Idol |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile |
| Paysage d'Hiver Paysage d'Hiver |
| Peace'd Out Peace'd Out |
| Pearl Jam Riot Act |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis |
| Pelican Forever Becoming |
| Periphery Periphery (Instrumental) |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After |
| Portugal. The Man Waiter: ''You Vultures!'' |
| Portugal. The Man Evil Friends |
| PRhyme PRhyme |
| Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits |
| Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes |
| Prototype Catalyst |
| Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute |
| Revocation Existence Is Futile |
| Revocation Deathless |
| Riverside Love, Fear and the Time Machine |
| Riverside Out of Myself |
| Rorcal Vilagvege |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Rush Vapor Trails |
| Rush Grace Under Pressure |
| Russian Circles Guidance |
| Samael Lux Mundi |
| Scale the Summit Monument |
| Scale the Summit V |
| Scale the Summit In a World of Fear |
| Senses Fail Renacer |
| Septicflesh Communion |
| Seventh Wonder Mercy Falls |
| Shadow of the Colossus Shadow of the Colossus |
| Silent Planet The Night God Slept |
| Skeletonwitch Serpents Unleashed |
| Skyclad Prince of the Poverty Line |
| Skyfire Mind Revolution |
| Skyharbor Guiding Lights |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror |
| Soen Cognitive |
| Solitude Aeturnus Through the Darkest Hour |
| Solitude Aeturnus Into the Depths of Sorrow |
| Soulfly Dark Ages |
| Soundgarden Ultramega OK |
| Soundgarden Louder Than Love |
| Spawn of Possession Incurso |
| Spiral Architect A Sceptic's Universe |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent |
| Statues Together We're Alone |
| Steely Dan Aja |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion |
| Suede Suede |
| Swallow the Sun Emerald Forest and the Blackbird |
| Sybreed Antares |
| Sybreed God Is an Automaton |
| Sydonia Given To Destroyers |
| Sylosis Edge of the Earth |
| Sylvan Posthumous Silence |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| Tad Morose Modus Vivendi |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny |
| Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix |
| TesseracT Tesseract Demo |
| TesseracT Altered State |
| Tetrafusion Altered State |
| Tetrafusion Horizons |
| Thank You Scientist Maps of Non-Existent Places |
| Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail |
| The Agonist Lullabies for the Dormant Mind |
| The Agonist Prisoners |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand |
| The Butterfly Effect Begins Here |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic |
| The Cribs Ignore The Ignorant |
| The Cribs In the Belly of the Brazen Bull |
| The Dear Hunter Red |
| The Dear Hunter Branches |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra |
| The Faceless Akeldama |
| The Faceless Autotheism |
| The very first time I heard the Autotheist suite I went "Wait, this is Devin Townsend riffage... okay now an attempt at Devin Townsend vocals... oh shit now it's a latter Opeth mellotron interlude? Ooh that is some tasty guitar tone... Is that a Mikael Akerfeldt guest solo?rTo be honest, "Devin Townsend mixed with Opeth" would at first sound like a potential incredible thing... but not when it is so blatantly derivative and separated/exposed (here is the Devin section, and now the Opeth section etc). This album is pretty underwhelming. |
| The Fall of Every Season Amends |
| The Gathering Home |
| The Gathering Disclosure |
| The Graviators Motherload |
| The Horrors Primary Colours |
| The Horrors Skying |
| The Kindred Lore |
| The Mayan Factor In Lake 'CH |
| The National Boxer |
| The Omega Experiment The Omega Experiment |
| The Omega Experiment Karma EP |
| The Project Hate MCMXCIX The Lustrate Process |
| The Roots undun |
| The Strokes Angles |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega |
| The Vision Bleak Carpathia |
| The Visit Between Worlds |
| The Walkmen Heaven |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation |
| Thy Catafalque Rengeteg |
| Tides of Man Dreamhouse |
| Today Is the Day Temple of the Morning Star |
| Torche Harmonicraft |
| Trioscapes Separate Realities |
| Tristania Beyond the Veil |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants |
| TTNG This Town Needs Guns |
| Twilight Monument To Time End |
| Tyr Land |
| Tyr By the Light of the Northern Star |
| Tyr How Far to Asgaard |
| Tyr The Lay of Thrym |
| Tyr Valkyrja |
| Ufomammut Ecate |
| Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire |
| Universe 217 Never |
| Vektor Black Future |
| VOLA Inmazes |
| Wanzwa Wanzwa III |
| Water's Edge An Abstract Collapse |
| We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth |
| Will Haven Voir Dire |
| Winterhorde Underwatermoon |
| Witch Mountain Mobile of Angels |
| Wizard Rifle Speak Loud Say Nothing |
| Woe Of Tyrants Kingdom of Might |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars |
| Wretched (USA-NC) Son of Perdition |
| YOB Atma |
| Yyrkoon Unhealthy Opera |
| Zero Hour The Towers of Avarice |
| 2.5 average |
| Admiral Angry Buster |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising |
| Art By Numbers Reticence: The Musical |
| Audioslave Revelations |
| Audioslave Out of Exile |
| Chronographs Nausea |
| Circle of Contempt Entwine the Threads |
| Circus of Dead Squirrels The Pop Culture Massacre |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension |
| Counterparts Prophets |
| Deadlock Bizarro World |
| Deadlock Wolves |
The formula of rhythmic chuggy riffs with Johannes' growls, followed by open chords or harmonized guitars
and Sabine's clean singing (repeat) gets tiresome. I understand that isn't outside the norm for the style of
music, but it doesn't make it any less predictable or weary.
Loser's Ballet sounds like a Dimmu Borgir impersonation and doesn't much fit with the metalcore/melodic
death metal sound of the rest of the album. Lastly, I am rarely interested in lyrics but they are quite bad in
a readily apparent and consistent fashion here. "Oh how I wish that I could die, You faggot you ruined the
code of honor "... seriously come on.
Otherwise, it is a collection of decently harmless songs (with beautiful singing from Sabine of course). |
| Dimmu Borgir Abrahadabra |
| Disillusion Gloria |
| DragonForce Valley of the Damned |
| Elvenking The Scythe |
| Elvenking The Winter Wake |
| Empire Of The Sun Walking On A Dream |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! |
| Forever Never Forever Never |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence |
| Hacktivist Hacktivist |
| Hands Like Houses Ground Dweller |
| High on Fire Snakes for the Divine |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion |
| Howler America Give Up |
| ICS Vortex Storm Seeker |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay |
| Kamelot Poetry for the Poisoned |
| Kamelot Silverthorn |
| Kanye West Yeezus |
| Katatonia Tonight's Decision |
| Katatonia Discouraged Ones |
| Someday this will likely become a 3 for me, but no more. To me this is an awkward transition phase for Katatonia where they hadn't quite found their stride with the new direction. Nixing the harsh vocals left Renske having to rely on his weak clean vocal delivery. He sounds timid and unsure of himself as he struggles to hit notes quietly, which is different than sounding melancholic. rLater releases show him projecting and singingly more confidently and intensely while still being melancholic and soft. He never belts it, really, but at this point his vocal abilities weren't there yet and this album suffers for it for me.rThe songwriting and the riffs, while good, just doesn't seem the be up to the solid and memorable level of later releases. |
| L'arc-en-Ciel Kiss |
| L'arc-en-Ciel Butterfly |
| Metallica Load |
| Metallica Reload |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Mitochondrion Parasignosis |
| Muse The 2nd Law |
| I don't even want to try listening to this album. |
| My Dying Bride 34.788%... Complete |
| Nightwish Imaginaerum |
| OMG I've heard the album almost once! 5.0!!!! |
| Northlane Singularity |
| Orange Goblin Healing Through Fire |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal |
| Senses Fail The Fire |
| Shadows Fall Fire From the Sky |
| Skeletonwitch Breathing the Fire |
| Skyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos |
| Solitude Aeturnus Beyond the Crimson Horizon |
| Solitude Aeturnus Downfall |
| Solstafir Svartir Sandar |
| Stolen Babies There Be Squabbles Ahead |
| Structures Divided By |
I haven't even finished the first song so I cannot comment on the content, but my god the
production/recording quality is shit. It sounds like they botched all the guitar recordings and just tried to
cover up the unintentional clipping fuzz and distortion. |
| Swans The Seer |
| Testament Dark Roots of Earth |
| The Ghost Inside Get What You Give |
| The Odious Joint Ventures |
| Theocracy As the World Bleeds |
| This or the Apocalypse Haunt What's Left |
| This or the Apocalypse Dead Years |
| Toxic Holocaust Conjure and Command |
| Volumes The Concept of Dreaming |
At best, a few songs sound like they could cut it as a half-way decent Misery Signals tracks. The rest are
wrought with very generic breakdowns and often skirt around bro-core garbage territory. These guys
need to choose who they want their audience to be, either bro moshers or people who want 2nd-tier Misery
Signals knockoffs, and stick with it. |
| Within Temptation The Unforgiving |
| Wolvhammer Black Marketeers of World War III |
| Your Memorial Redirect |
| It's too bad the songs and songwriting is so uninteresting and mediocre, because just about everything else is really awesome. There is a lot of potential in this band and their sound if they take it in the right direction, drop some of the bullshit metalcore trope crap, and start writing better songs. |
