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2015
Dustin Kensrue Carry the Fire3.5

2014
Needtobreathe Rivers In The Wasteland4.0
Noah Gundersen Ledges4.0

2013
Dustin Kensrue The Water and the Blood4.0

2012
Thrice Anthology4.5
Showbread Cancer4.0
mewithoutYou Other Stories4.5
mewithoutYou Ten Stories4.0

2011
Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal4.0
Thrice Major/Minor4.0
Noah Gundersen Family4.5
Burlap to Cashmere Burlap to Cashmere4.0

2010
Showbread Who Can Know It?4.0
Ludo Prepare the Preparations4.0
The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird4.0
Tenth Avenue North The Light Meets The Dark3.5
The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt4.0
Sanctus Real Pieces of a Real Heart4.0

2009
Thrice Beggars4.0
Noah Gundersen Saints & Liars4.5
Paramore Brand New Eyes4.0
Rubik Dada Bandits4.0
Needtobreathe The Outsiders4.0
Showbread The Fear of God4.0
mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright!4.0

2008
Dustin Kensrue This Good Night Is Still Everywhere3.0
Soundtrack (Television) Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog4.0
Norma Jean The Anti Mother2.5
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends3.5
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. IV: Earth4.0
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. III: Air3.5
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV4.5
Ashes Divide Keep Telling Myself It's Alright4.0
The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave4.0
Ludo You're Awful, I Love You4.0
Sanctus Real We Need Each Other3.0
Protest the Hero Fortress4.0
Protest the Hero Fortress (Instrumental)4.0

2007
Demon Hunter Storm the Gates of Hell3.5
Seether Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces3.5
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. II: Water4.0
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II4.0
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. I: Fire4.0
New Found Glory From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II1.5
Between the Buried and Me Colors4.5
Elvenking The Scythe4.5
Frankly, I just can't find the right words to express my love for this album. It's got everything that a catchy lyric-crazed power metal listener could want, and more. A very radio-friendly metal album to say the least, but that doesn't make this any less enjoyable. Everything is done well, and while no instrument sticks out in particular, they all fit together in such a way that the final product is amazing.

All that being said, I can completely understand why one would dislike this album. For one, it's a bit too radio-friendly, to the point where the catchiness and sheer lack of originality and technicality could possibly be its downfall. This is most likely not for br00tal metal fans, and from what I've heard from others, this is a bit of a change from past Elvenking releases.

Bottom line, this is an overall great album that is at least worth looking into for any (lighter) metal fans.

Review Rating: 4
Personal Rating: 4.5
Check These Out: The Scythe, Lost Hill Of Memories, Poison Tears, The Divided Heart, Dominhate.
Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor3.0
Emanuel Black Earth Tiger3.0
Needtobreathe The Heat3.5
Mae Singularity3.0
Drop Dead, Gorgeous Worse Than A Fairy Tale3.0
Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde3.5
Twain Harte A Sunny Place for Shady People3.5
Paramore Riot!4.5
Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True4.5
Deadlock Wolves4.0
Ensiferum Victory Songs3.5
Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing3.5
Blacklisted Peace On Earth, War On Stage3.0
Chevelle Vena Sera3.0
Haste the Day Pressure the Hinges3.5
Enter Shikari Take to the Skies4.0
Dir En Grey The Marrow of a Bone3.0
Fall Out Boy Infinity on High3.5
Tenth Avenue North Over and Underneath4.0

2006
The Tallest Man on Earth The Tallest Man on Earth4.0
Winger IV2.5
Daughtry Daughtry3.5
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade3.5
Sparta Threes3.5
Trivium The Crusade2.5
Senses Fail Still Searching4.0
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister5.0
New Found Glory Coming Home2.0
Jars Of Clay Good Monsters3.5
Crossfade Falling Away2.5
Gatsby's American Dream Gatsby's American Dream3.5
Showbread Age of Reptiles4.0
Firewind Allegiance4.0
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It4.0
Muse Black Holes & Revelations4.0
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness4.5
Lostprophets Liberation Transmission4.5
Three Days Grace One-X4.5
AFI Decemberunderground3.5
Decyfer Down End of Grey4.5
Tool 10,000 Days3.0
Taking Back Sunday Louder Now3.5
Godsmack IV4.0
Dio Holy Diver - Live3.0
Thrice Red Sky4.0
Poison The Best Of Poison: 20 Years Of Rock4.5
Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday3.5
Machinae Supremacy Redeemer (Underground Edition)4.0
Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes4.0
Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely2.0
Yellowcard Lights and Sounds3.5
DragonForce Inhuman Rampage3.5
DragonForce, known for their cheesy lyrics, lightning-fast guitar solos, mindblowing keyboard solos, and heart pounding drum beats. They prove they're the best at what they do, in only 8 songs. Just one downside, half of these songs sound about the same. Don't get me wrong, Inhuman Rampage is a great album, full of ZP's great lyrics, Sam and Herman's amazing dual-solos, Dave's speedy drumming, Vadim's beautiful keyboarding (shown in 'Trail of Broken Hearts', and even Frederic shows some bass talents in 'Body Breakdown'. If you think this is one of those albums that you will be hooked on from the beginning, you may be wrong. This could turn out to be one of those albums that takes awhile for you to get hooked on, but will hold its place in your heart for a long time.
Firefly Summer The Classic EP3.5

2005
Korn See You on the Other Side3.0
Scott Stapp The Great Divide2.0
Green Day Bullet In A Bible4.0
Element Eighty The Bear4.0
Deathchain Deathrash Assault3.5
Falling Up Dawn Escapes3.0
Demon Hunter The Triptych4.5
Thrice Vheissu4.5
Beautiful album, although highly deceiving to those who first heard about this album through the single 'Image of the Invisible'. The first song starts out leading you to believe the majority of the album is purely hardcore, when in truth, it is more of a calm-verse and slightly hardcore-chorus type album. I'd recommend 'The Earth Will Shake', 'Music Box', and 'Red Sky' as they are a few of my personal favorites. Awesome album, well worth the $10-15 if you're into the slower stuff.
Gamma Ray Majestic3.5
Shinedown Us and Them3.5
Nickelback All the Right Reasons3.5
Flyleaf Flyleaf3.0
HIM Dark Light3.0
Hinder Extreme Behavior3.0
Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out4.0
Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists4.0
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness4.5
Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?2.5
Switchfoot Nothing is Sound3.0
Trapt Someone in Control3.0
Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie3.0
Protest the Hero Kezia4.0
Ludo Broken Bride EP5.0
The Fall of Troy Doppelganger4.0
Staind Chapter V3.0
Paramore All We Know Is Falling4.0
Nevermore This Godless Endeavor3.5
The All-American Rejects Move Along3.0
Various Artists Tooth & Nail vs. Solid State3.5
Haste the Day When Everything Falls3.5
Stutterfly And We Are Bled Of Color3.0
The Offspring Greatest Hits4.5
Finch Say Hello to Sunshine4.0
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil4.5
Seether Karma And Effect3.0
Gorillaz Demon Days3.0
System of a Down Mezmerize4.5
Weezer Make Believe3.0
Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree4.0
Russell Allen Atomic Soul3.5
Will Smith Lost and Found4.0
Thrice If We Could Only See Us Now4.5
Kamelot The Black Halo4.0
3 Doors Down Seventeen Days3.0
Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath2.5
Armor For Sleep What To Do When You Are Dead4.0
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute4.0
KISS Gold3.0
The Flatliners Destroy To Create4.0

2004
Creed Greatest Hits3.5
Soundtrack (Film) The Spongebob Squarepants Movie - Music3.0
Relient K Mmhmm3.0
Ludo Ludo3.0
Showbread No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical4.0
mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes4.5
Korn Greatest Hits Vol. 13.5
Good Charlotte The Chronicles of Life and Death3.0
Green Day American Idiot4.0
Bowling for Soup A Hangover You Don't Deserve3.5
Papa Roach Getting Away With Murder4.0
Overflow A Better Place3.0
Skindred Babylon3.5
Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture4.0
Dream Evil The Book of Heavy Metal5.0
Atreyu The Curse3.5
Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone3.5
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety3.0
Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White2.5
The Calling Two3.0
Velvet Revolver Contraband3.5
Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses3.5
Avril Lavigne Under My Skin3.5
New Found Glory Catalyst3.5
Demon Hunter Summer of Darkness4.5
Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News4.0
Guns N' Roses Greatest Hits3.5
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand3.5
Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any...3.0
Hootie and The Blowfish The Best of Hootie & The Blowfish (1993-2003)3.5
Falling Up Crashings4.0
Lostprophets Start Something4.0
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo4.5
Beatallica Beatallica3.0
Scorpions Unbreakable3.0
Jeremy Camp Restored3.0
Fair to Midland Inter.Funda.Stifle4.0
Machinae Supremacy Deus Ex Machinae5.0
DragonForce, eat your hearts out.
These guys truly know how to rock the synths, incorporating a special sound module called the Sid Station. The Sid Station is based off of the SID synthesizer chip used in the Commodore 64 computer. What all this means is that Machinae Supremacy can provide the videogame-ish sound that DragonForce themselves have become known for.
MaSu's talent, however, does not end there. Robert Stjarnstrom has a unique voice (at least to me), that is different from the high-pitched power metal vocalists that I've heard in DragonForce and Dream Evil. Quite possibly my favorite member of the band, Jonas Rorling the lead guitarist, shows he can write amazing riffs and solos on tracks like 'Insidious' and 'Player One', sometimes rivaling the speed and sound of Herman Li and Sam Totman from DragonForce. Andreas, Johan, and Tomas, on keyboards, bass, and drums, respectively, while are talented, do not showcase their skills much in this album.
Overall, this is an essential power metal album for those who like the genre.
Recommended Tracks: Insidious, Dreadnaught, Flagcarrier, Player One, Deus Ex Machinae... Never mind, just get the entire album.
NOTE: There being only 2,000 copies of this album made, there isn't much of a chance you'll find this in stores, but you can download the first 14 songs off of MaSu's Last.FM page, and the 15th song off of their official website, www.machinaesupremacy.com
4.8/5
Crossfade Crossfade4.0

2003
Fefe Dobson Fefe Dobson2.5
Puddle of Mudd Life On Display4.0
Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits3.5
blink-182 Blink-1824.5
Stone Temple Pilots Thank You4.0
Steve Vai Infinite Steve Vai: An Anthology3.0
Element Eighty Element Eighty4.5
Jet Get Born3.0
Nickelback The Long Road3.0
Story of the Year Page Avenue3.5
Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen4.5
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance4.5
Three Days Grace Three Days Grace4.0
As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse3.0
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium4.0
Finger Eleven Finger Eleven3.0
Shinedown Leave a Whisper4.5
Cold Year Of The Spider3.5
Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market3.0
Tad Morose Modus Vivendi4.0
Godsmack Faceless4.0
Linkin Park Meteora3.5
Carbon Based Lifeforms Hydroponic Garden3.5
AFI Sing the Sorrow3.0
Evanescence Fallen3.0
Third Day Offerings II: All I Have To Give3.0
Ozzy Osbourne The Essential Ozzy Osbourne3.5
Dream Evil Evilized3.5
Kamelot Epica3.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed3.0
The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk3.0
Firewind Burning Earth3.0
Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown3.5
Daitro Des Cendres, Je Me Consume4.0
Yellowcard Ocean Avenue4.5

2002
Matchbox Twenty More Than You Think You Are4.0
3 Doors Down Away from the Sun3.0
Trapt Trapt3.5
Alexisonfire Alexisonfire3.0
Nirvana Nirvana4.0
Demon Hunter Demon Hunter3.5
The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects2.5
Disturbed Believe3.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene3.0
Sparta Wiretap Scars4.0
Maroon 5 Songs About Jane3.0
mewithoutYou A to B: Life4.0
Avril Lavigne Let Go3.5
Tad Morose Matters of the Dark3.5
Led Zeppelin Early Days/Latter Days3.5
Thrice The Illusion of Safety4.5
Good Charlotte The Young And The Hopeless3.5
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade4.0

2001
Smash Mouth Smash Mouth3.5
Green Day International Superhits4.0
Thursday Full Collapse3.5
Lostprophets The Fake Sound Of Progress3.5
Journey The Essential Journey4.0
Nickelback Silver Side Up3.0
SOiL Scars3.5
System of a Down Toxicity3.5
Sonata Arctica Silence3.5
NSYNC Celebrity2.0
Jimmy Eat World Bleed American3.0
Alice in Chains Greatest Hits4.0
Andromeda Extension of the Wish3.5
Sum 41 All Killer No Filler3.5
Gorillaz Gorillaz3.0
Rise Against The Unraveling4.0
Saliva Every Six Seconds3.0
Aerosmith Just Push Play3.0
Scorpions Scorpions 20th Century Masters3.5
Creed Weathered3.0
Puddle of Mudd Come Clean3.0
mewithoutYou I Never Said That I Was Brave3.5

2000
Backstreet Boys Black and Blue3.0
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory4.0
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command4.5
NSYNC No Strings Attached3.0
Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 2: Latter Days3.5
Disturbed The Sickness4.0
Deceased Supernatural Addiction3.5
Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper3.5
Godsmack Awake3.5
Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water2.0
Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence3.5
Destroyer 666 Phoenix Rising3.5
Jag Panzer Thane to the Throne3.5

1999
Third Eye Blind Blue3.0
Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 1: Early Days3.5
Will Smith Willennium3.0
Jars Of Clay If I Left The Zoo3.0
Creed Human Clay3.0
Limp Bizkit Significant Other2.5
Smash Mouth Astro Lounge3.5
blink-182 Enema Of The State3.5
Backstreet Boys Millennium3.0
Quiet Riot Super Hits3.5
Nevermore Dreaming Neon Black3.5
Lynyrd Skynyrd 20th Century Masters3.5

1998
Burlap to Cashmere Anybody Out There?3.5
Aerosmith A Little South of Sanity3.5
Nickelback The State3.0
Kid Rock Devil Without a Cause2.0
Barenaked Ladies Stunt3.5
Catch 22 Keasbey Nights3.5

1997
Will Smith Big Willie Style3.0
Green Day Nimrod4.0
Creed My Own Prison3.0
Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind3.0

1996
Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You4.0
Weezer Pinkerton2.5
Rush Test for Echo3.5
I Mother Earth Scenery & Fish3.0
Refused Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent4.5
Nickelback Curb3.0
Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island2.5

1995
Stevie Ray Vaughan Greatest Hits4.0
Seven Mary Three American Standard2.5
Collective Soul Collective Soul3.5
Goo Goo Dolls A Boy Named Goo3.0

1994
Aerosmith Big Ones3.5
Hootie and The Blowfish Cracked Rear View3.0

1993
Savatage Edge of Thorns3.5
Aerosmith Get a Grip3.0
1992
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine5.0
AC/DC Live4.5
Pantera Vulgar Display of Power3.5
1991
Metallica Metallica5.0
Van Halen For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge3.5

1990
Anthrax Persistence of Time2.5
ZZ Top Recycler3.0

1988
Dinosaur Jr. Bug4.0
Van Halen OU8123.0
Bathory Blood Fire Death3.0

1987
Savatage Hall of the Mountain King3.5
Anthrax Among the Living4.0
Dio Dream Evil3.5

1986
Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill3.0
Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet3.5
Metallica Master of Puppets4.0

1985
Anthrax Spreading the Disease3.0
Exodus Bonded by Blood3.0

1982
Van Halen Diver Down3.5
Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast4.0

1981
AC/DC For Those About To Rock We Salute You4.0
Van Halen Fair Warning2.5
Rush Moving Pictures4.0

1980
Aerosmith Greatest Hits3.5
AC/DC Back In Black4.0
Van Halen Women and Children First3.0

1979
Van Halen Van Halen II3.5

1978
Van Halen Van Halen4.0
1976
Rush 21125.0

1975
Aerosmith Toys in the Attic3.0

1973
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon2.5

1968
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Smash Hits3.5

1962
Nat King Cole The Christmas Song4.0
This was probably the first Christmas album I've ever listened to. Now I'm not a fan of jazz at all, but Nat King Cole's singing is great. He makes the songs calm and serene, which adds to the overall effect of the relaxing songs. The orchestras and chorus in the background provide an unneeded assist to Nat's singing. In the album, he covers many Christmas songs that are popular around the world. A must have for anyone who loves jazz, or just listening to Christmas songs during the holidays.

2002
Jeremy Camp Stay3.5

Unknown
Dc Talk Intermission3.5
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