| 4.0 excellent |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Amorphis Circle |
| Annihilator King of the Kill |
| Anthrax Spreading the Disease |
| Atrophy Violent by Nature |
| Audioslave Revelations |
| Bishop Gunn Natchez |
| Black Sabbath Greatest Hits 1970–1978 |
| Blind Guardian Somewhere Far Beyond |
| Blind Guardian A Night at the Opera |
| Blindead Absence |
| Body Count Body Count |
| Body Count Manslaughter |
| Coroner Grin |
| Dark Empire From Refuge to Ruin |
| With many different musical styles such as power metal, thrash, and progressive elements all present, this album offers a volatile mix of styles that will keep you interested and listening for hours. Truly a satisfying piece of work. |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore |
| Death Spiritual Healing |
| Death Angel The Ultra-Violence |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Destruction Release from Agony |
| Enslaved Below the Lights |
| Enslaved Isa |
| Enslaved Ruun |
| Enslaved Vertebrae |
| Exodus Bonded by Blood |
| Extol Extol |
| Forbidden Forbidden Evil |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Hell (UK) Curse and Chapter |
| Never heard of these guys until recently from another review site. Their rocky history aside, this album is quite possibly one of the finest examples of a classic heavy metal sound mixed with power metal. Imagine Savatage combined with the thrash/power metal sound of Iced Earth. The vocalist does a really fine job too. A must listen for metal heads of all sub-genres. |
| Ihsahn After |
| Ihsahn Arktis. |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun |
| Korn Korn |
| Korn Issues |
| Korn Untouchables |
| Kreator Phantom Antichrist |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar |
| Marilyn Manson Holy Wood |
| Meg Myers Sorry |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! |
| Megadeth United Abominations |
| Metal Church Metal Church |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Metric Fantasies |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness |
| Nightmare (FRA) The Burden of God |
| Kind of your standard power metal act, but this band really knows how to make an album. A rtruly decent effort with some pretty good songs. Traditional power metal with slight rsymphonic elements to boot. Shame this is going unnoticed around here. |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Nuclear Assault Handle with Care |
| Obscura Akróasis |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Orden Ogan To The End |
| Overkill Horrorscope |
| Overkill Under the Influence |
| Overkill Feel the Fire |
| Phantogram Voices |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Primal Fear Unbreakable |
| Primus They Can't All Be Zingers |
| Rage 21 |
| There is some really Strong material here, tracks like "Twenty One", "Forever Dead", "Serial Killer", and even the slow closer "Eternally" are all excellent tracks that really impressed me. |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Razor Executioner's Song |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Rick James Street Songs |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Ryn Weaver The Fool |
| Sacred Reich Ignorance |
| Sacred Reich Surf Nicaragua |
| Sacred Reich Heal |
| Savatage Hall of the Mountain King |
| Savatage Gutter Ballet |
| ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron |
| Sepultura Beneath the Remains |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Sodom Agent Orange |
| Soen Lykaia |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| Testament Practice What You Preach |
| Testament Dark Roots of Earth |
| This album surely stands as one of the finest thrash offerings of 2012. Its Certainly not reinventing the genre, instead it pleases old school standards while still appealing to a new and younger fan base. |
| Threshold March of Progress |
| Reminds me of power metal and yet sometimes more traditional styles, but remains starkly rdifferent than almost everything I have heard up to this point in 2012. Audible bass, good rguitar tone, and the vocalist is very talented. This is definitely going on my 2012 best of rlist. |
| Tool Ænima |
| Ulver Perdition City |
| Ulver Kveldssanger |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal |
| Ulver Sic Transit Gloria Mundi |
| Vince Staples Summertime '06 |
| Vince Staples Big Fish Theory |
| Whiplash Power and Pain |
| White Skull Under This Flag |
| Surprisingly good album. Female fronted power metal in the vain of Primal Fear or even Rage. Highly recommended. |
| Witherscape The Inheritance |
| YG Still Brazy |
| 3.0 good |
| 3 Inches of Blood Long Live Heavy Metal |
| The vocals can be a bit rough due to the singer's high pitched delivery, but the rest of the rband is solid. There is certainly some memorable material to be found here given enough rlistens. |
| Alice in Chains Facelift |
| Anacrusis Suffering Hour |
| Anvil Juggernaut Of Justice |
| Atrophy Socialized Hate |
| Audioslave Audioslave |
| Audioslave Out of Exile |
| Blind Guardian Follow the Blind |
| Blind Guardian Battalions of Fear |
| Cripper Antagonist |
| Damnations Day Invisible, The Dead |
| Death Angel The Dream Calls for Blood |
| Desaster The Arts of Destruction |
| Destruction Spiritual Genocide |
| Dew-Scented Icarus |
Pretty heavy and aggressive sounding Thrash/Death metal. Album is decent, but lacks
variation, as the band's aggressive musical assault tends to become a bit boring a few songs
in. Typical death metal vocals, coupled with fast drumming and a wall of heavy guitar riffs.
If only they would have expanded their sound a bit, tried a couple new things... Still,
this album does thrash fairly hard. despite a lack of creativity. |
| Earthcry Where the Road Leads |
| Exodus Pleasures of the Flesh |
| Fear Factory Mechanize |
| Fear Factory The Industrialist |
| Forbidden Green |
This album unfortunately gets a bad rep, and lets be honest; in comparison to their first
two album this is shit. A big change in style compared to the band's early work, but not
everything is bad here. The album starts off really well with some good tracks here like
"Green" and "Phat" but the second half of the album quickly loses steam and fails to grab my
attention. More consistent than Distortion but still a 3.00 at best. |
| Freedom Call Land of the Crimson Dawn |
| Galneryus Angel of Salvation |
| Godsmack Godsmack |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage |
| Havok Unnatural Selection |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II |
| Helloween Straight Out of Hell |
| Illusion Suite Iron Cemetery |
| Kalter Ubuntu |
| Korn MTV Unplugged: Korn |
| Korn Korn III: Remember Who You Are |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted |
| Lich King Born of the Bomb |
A fun crossover thrash album with a few good moments, but this is largely predictable and
and not very creative. There is way more innovative 2012 thrash to choose from. Still, this
album was tolerable and decent enough for a listen or two, and for that it gets a 3.00/5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Madmaze Frames of Alienation |
| Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque |
| Marilyn Manson Portrait of an American Family |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en |
| Metallica Garage Inc. |
| Nirvana Bleach |
| Nirvana Incesticide |
| Nowen Essence of Fear |
The vocals are rather typical of the genre, but the instrumentals are excellently done. Some
call this death/thrash metal, but in reality this is thrash metal with death metal vocals
thrown in for good measure. A pretty good effort but nothing extraordinary to be found here. |
| Nuclear Assault Survive |
| Onslaught VI |
| Pentagram (CL) The Malefice |
| Phantogram Three |
| Pharaoh Bury the Light |
| RedMist Destruction Nobility In Death |
| A decent thrash revival band, with obvious slayer influences. Nothing groundbreaking, and nothing abysmally terrible, just a good effort. |
| Satan Life Sentence |
| Satan Atom by Atom |
| Skeletonwitch Serpents Unleashed |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Soundgarden Louder Than Love |
| Tankard A Girl Called Cerveza |
Abysmally shitty album cover and subject matter aside, Tankard displays some fairly heavy
material and occasionally a catchy song or two. Their energy driven form of thrash is quite
enjoyable, but there is really nothing special here, just some decent thrash songs. |
| Teramaze Anhedonia |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace |
| Three Days Grace One-X |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Toxic Holocaust Conjure and Command |
| Vicious Rumors Electric Punishment |
| Watchtower Control and Resistance |
| Witchtrap Vengeance Is My Name |
| Another decent thrash revival album with obvious classic thrash influences. Nothing special, but still a decent listen. |
| 2.5 average |
| After All Dawn of the Enforcer |
| The vocals are somewhat unique, as is their overall sound. However the band fails to write compelling material as this album gets old after only a listen or two. |
| Annihilator Refresh The Demon |
| Artillery Legions |
| Aura Noir Out to Die |
| Bonded by Blood The Aftermath |
Bonded by Blood do little to distinguish themselves from the rest of the pack. This is
simply thrash by numbers done well. It has its merits and certainly sounds heavy, but this
is not very creative or innovative. A decent but otherwise average effort. |
| Destruction Infernal Overkill |
| Essence (DNK) Last Night of Solace |
| Evile Skull |
| Forbidden Distortion |
There is hardly anything noteworthy or interesting here. While still talented, the band
failed to write compelling songs and seemed to have lost the technical edge that made them
great. More groove oriented and darker than their previous material, but still a boring
listen in comparison to Twisted into Form or Forbidden Evil. |
| Gamma Ray Sigh No More |
| Gamma Ray Heading for Tomorrow |
| Gamma Ray Insanity and Genius |
| Grave Digger Clash of the Gods |
| King Leoric Lingua Regis |
| Leprous The Congregation |
| Majesty (DE) Thunder Rider |
Occasionally fun, high energy cornball power metal, and it's extremely cheesy. Good for
a listen or two, but really nothing worthwhile here. This album has nothing new to offer in
terms of substance and creativity. |
| Marilyn Manson The High End of Low |
| Metallica Reload |
| Metallica Load |
| Municipal Waste The Fatal Feast |
| Seems like the album is missing something, it falls just short of being a good release. Perhaps its because this album brings absolutely nothing new to the table. The band seems content with just copying older thrash bands, rather than actually being creative. And the vocals sound way to similar to John Connely of Nuclear Assault. However this album can roccasionally thrash hard, though it provides little in creativity. 2.5/5 |
| Nekromantheon Rise, Vulcan Spectre |
| Raw sounding retro-thrash, but nothing you haven't heard before. |
| Perzonal War Captive Breeding |
Some Decent production could have helped this album a little, but this German metal band has
a lot of room for improvement. The album begins to sound quite stale only a couple songs in
and never really grabs my attention. |
| Revocation Revocation |
| Sacred Reich Independent |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Sodom Epitome of Torture |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside |
