| 4.0 excellent |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece |
| Alcest Shelter |
| Anamanaguchi Dawn Metropolis |
| Anamanaguchi Airbrushed |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place |
| Anberlin Vital |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Heirs |
| Antemasque Antemasque |
| Anup Sastry Ghost |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Big Giant Circles The Glory Days |
| Big Giant Circles Impostor Nostalgia |
| Breathe Carolina Hello Fascination |
| Breathe Carolina Hell Is What You Make It |
| Broadway Kingdoms |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes |
| CHON Grow |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe |
| Circa Survive Violent Waves |
| Circa Survive Descensus |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension |
| Com Truise Galactic Melt |
| Com Truise Cyanide Sisters |
| Com Truise Wave 1 |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Counterparts Prophets |
| Crosses Crosses |
| Cult Leader Nothing for Us Here |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech |
| Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification |
| Death From Above 1979 The Physical World |
| Death Grips Government Plates |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part I: Niggas on the Moon |
| I mean...it's fucking Death Grips. You know where you stand by now. |
| Destrage Are You Kidding Me? No. |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events |
| East of the Wall Redaction Artifacts |
| Elder Brother Heavy Head |
| Elitist Reshape Reason |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree |
| Fear Factory Mechanize |
| Fei Comodo Behind The Bright Lights |
| Fellsilent The Hidden Words |
| Finch What It Is to Burn |
| Four Year Strong Four Year Strong |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Half Hearted Hero Whatever |
| I Am Abomination The Passion Of The Heist |
| I the Mighty Connector |
| I really didn't like this as much as Satori at first. And I still don't. But I can definitely appreciate this as it's own thing and a continuation of the sound they've worked to forge. It's addicting and catchy and it's a hell of a grower. |
| Into It. Over It. Intersections |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant |
| Jamie's Elsewhere They Said a Storm Was Coming |
| Jesu Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came |
| KEN mode Entrench |
| Kurt Travis Everything Is Beautiful |
| Life on Repeat Blacklisted |
| Lower Than Atlantis World Record |
| Lower Than Atlantis Changing Tune |
| Lusine A Certain Distance |
| Lusine The Waiting Room |
| Beautiful buildups, extremely smart layering of hooks, and just generally really fun to listen to. |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree |
| Mindless Self Indulgence You'll Rebel To Anything |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates |
| Misery Signals Absent Light |
| Monuments (UK) Gnosis |
| Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| Night Verses Out of the Sky |
| Night Verses Lift Your Existence |
| Novallo Novallo |
| Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros |
| Pelican Forever Becoming |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Periphery Clear |
| Plini Sweet Nothings |
| Plini The End of Everything |
| Plini/Sithu Aye I |
| Polyphia Muse |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Revocation Teratogenesis |
| Revocation Revocation |
| Rings of Saturn Dingir |
| The songs sound like actual songs now? Count me in. |
| Rise Against Endgame |
| Save Us From The Archon How Terrible, The Undergrowths Jaws That Tangle. |
| Save Us From The Archon Thereafter |
| Say Anything Say Anything |
| Say Anything Hebrews |
| Secret Band Secret Band |
| Separatist Closure |
| Violent, insane, and well-written to boot. The only woe here is the production, and even that can be overlooked given the bedroom nature of the project. |
| Silverstein This Is How the Wind Shifts |
| Silverstein I Am Alive In Everything I Touch |
| Sithu Aye Pulse |
Memorable wank with awesome riffs that you should check out if that's your thing
Also jazz |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite |
| Soilwork The Ride Majestic |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent |
| Sum 41 Chuck |
| Symphony X Iconoclast |
| TesseracT Perspective |
| The Algorithm Polymorphic Code |
| The Algorithm Octopus4 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic |
| The Contortionist Language |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Faceless Autotheism |
| The Helix Nebula Meridian |
| Tasty, dense, well-produced instrumental progressive metal. Nothing you haven't seen before, but maybe you haven't seen it done quite this well. |
| The Killers Sam's Town |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| The Story So Far What You Don't See |
| Their / They're / There Their / They're / There |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me |
| Tycho Dive |
| Tycho Awake |
| Vildhjarta Thousands Of Evils |
| Visions Demur |
| Weatherbox Flies In All Directions |
| Yellowcard Lift a Sail |
| 3.5 great |
| A Day To Remember Common Courtesy |
| Anamanaguchi Power Supply |
| And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures |
| Anup Sastry Lion |
| Architects The Here and Now |
| Architects Daybreaker |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare |
| BABYMETAL BABYMETAL |
| Bad Religion Christmas Songs |
Quick, imagine what Bad Religion sounds like! Next, imagine what they would sound like playing various Christmas standards! If you have heard both of these categories of music before, then you have heard this in your mind already. You could probably perfectly recreate it mentally with no problem, irony intact.
But that's not as fun. |
| Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Breathe Electric Emotion |
| Breathe Electric Lovestruck |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal |
| Broadway Contexture: Gods, Men & The Infinite Cosmos |
| CarboHydroM Prime Legacy |
| Will review this in a bit, but the gist is CHM beautifully translates his arrangement skills to writing original music. The piece is too dedicated to being a faux soundtrack to be really catchy throughout, but it's more diverse than most chiptune albums, and it really does sound like an amazingly authentic soundtrack to a short SMU. |
| Chevelle La Gárgola |
| CHON Woohoo! |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension |
| Com Truise In Decay |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance |
| Dark Tranquillity Construct |
| Darkest Hour Darkest Hour |
| Dayshell Dayshell |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Devin Townsend Project Z2 |
| While I'm not much into Devin Townsend, I love the Sky Blue disc on this album - it's catchy and epic. Some songs in the middle can get a little bit dull sometimes but there's nothing absolutely bad on here. Dark Matters is a wonderful listen while it's playing, but I really can't find anything that memorable about any of the melodies on it. Maybe I haven't given it enough listens, but I also don't feel like the comedy has all that much replay value, so it's kinda lame that the "Z2" portion of Z2 isn't as good in my eyes.rStill, both discs are worth checking out, even if you don't usually mess with his motherload of material. |
| Disasterpeace Level |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings |
| ERRA Moments of Clarity |
| Fall Out Boy Take This to Your Grave |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails |
| Fei Comodo The Life They Lead |
| Finch Back to Oblivion |
| GOLDHOUSE All Night Long |
| Goodthink Goodthink |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| How to Destroy Angels Welcome Oblivion |
| I Am Abomination To Our Forefathers |
| Intervals The Space Between |
| Just Like Vinyl Black Mass |
| KEN mode Venerable |
| Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful |
| Horrid production holds back what is otherwise a remarkably catchy and well written/performed affair, but you should listen anyway, because it's addicting. |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns |
| Lorde Pure Heroine |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Minus the Bear Lost Loves |
| Moonlit Sailor We Come from Exploding Stars |
| Mutiny Within Synchronicity |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge |
| My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks |
| Northlane Node |
| Of Mice and Men The Flood |
| Palms Palms |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need |
| PROTODOME BLUESHIFT |
| Rise Against The Black Market |
| Shattered Skies The World We Used to Know |
| Silverstein Rescue |
| Sleeping With Sirens Let's Cheers to This |
| Soilwork The Panic Broadcast |
| Spiralmountain Spiralmountain |
| Spiralmountain Heavenward |
| Structures Divided By |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected? |
| The Algorithm CRITICAL.ERROR |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Haarp Machine Disclosure |
| The Hell You're Listening To THE HELL |
| The Killers Day & Age |
| The Prodigy The Day Is My Enemy |
| The Story So Far The Story So Far |
| Remember those last two records that this band put out? Yeah, this sounds exactly like them; vaguely more focused but the pacing of the album isn't as dead on. It gets to the point where it's really hard to tell these songs apart (not only from each other but from the rest of the band's discography). But oddly, none of that really detracts from the listening experience. It's still addicting as ever. |
| Thom Yorke Tomorrow's Modern Boxes |
| Tycho Past is Prologue |
| Veil of Maya Matriarch |
| Victory Road Victory Road |
| You Blew It! Keep Doing What You’re Doing |
