| 4.5 superb |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| This maight be the coolest album ever conceived.rThe inspired songwriting shows no flaws, the way it sounds is just the perfect balance between classic and modern and the musicians are simply beyond any possible criticism: a bold and solid band like only few others. Mer de Noms couldn't be more genuine, true and better done. They had something to say and did it grand. |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Agent Fresco Lightbulb Universe |
| Anathema Weather Systems |
| Angra Angels Cry |
| Quite sure, the best debut album in Power Metal. A band of overflowing talent that, with a top level producion, delivered 10 incredible songs that could each be the hit track of as many albums!rAngels Cry is exactly what every fan of this genre has ever wanted. It simply has it all and relese it the most powerful and brilliant way. |
| Angra Holy Land |
| Devine, fits perfectly Holy Land. This album will never be topped in elegance and refinement by no band. Maybe not imperfectible, just because its aims were the highest the Heavy music has ever experienced.rFrom songwriting to the last arrangement Angra, and their entourage, raised the ambition of every metal musician for perfection and sophistication to an unpresedented level. The concept itself about Colonialism in South America and Forgiveness on which these amazing songs are superbly crafted, just redefines the standards of Metal. |
| Arcturus The Sham Mirrors |
| Bent Knee Shiny Eyed Babies |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool |
| Dark Tranquillity Projector |
| Deep Purple Machine Head |
| Dream Theater Images and Words |
| Dream Theater Awake |
| By far the best DT album, including Scenes From A Memory. Before they've lost their "soul"(Moore) and then their "heart" (Portnoy), and becoming Liquid Tension Experiment with voice. This amazing band released a one of a kind Prog Metal album, where song writing and execution set the benchmark of the genre.rTheir music will never be again so inspired, mature and resolved, resulting in a unique, unreachable record.rEverything works perfectly on Awake, from meaningful lyrics to an unreapatable balance found within the member's intruments. Each song, taken alone, is memorable and together shape a whole that will last forever. |
| Dust Hard Attack |
| Fates Warning A Pleasant Shade of Gray |
| HIM Razorblade Romance |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left |
| O.R.k. Inflamed Rides |
This album releases a terrific audio experience through its scarce hour of playing. Songs have no regards of listener expectations and require maximum attention all along while shifting coherently from some kind of Tool-ish unorthodox songwriting down to a proper sound decostruction that could remind some stuff from Mike Patton.
Inflamed Rides never ceases to depict an unconfortable and substantially hostile scenario to biwilder and solidly intrigue.
It's borderline music, moving unafraid where genres meet in a no man's land. |
| O.R.k. Soul of an Octopus |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Ours Distorted Lullabies |
| Pain of Salvation Be |
| Paradise Lost Draconian Times |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun |
| Santana Abraxas |
| Savatage Streets: A Rock Opera |
| Spock's Beard The Kindness Of Strangers |
| Steven Wilson Insurgentes |
| Tesla The Great Radio Controversy |
| Tesla Bust A Nut |
| One the most underrated album in my experience. A bold missing link between Hard Rock and Metal. Every song is inspired and kicks ass as it has to, except maybe for a couple of tracks. But some of the good ones are nothing less than great music! And you can tell by the fact that I keep on listening to this album every now and then since it was published. Though it detaches from previous releases from Tesla and their most acclaimed stuff, it shows off how very good musicians can move a step forward outside their comfort zone and make it grand anyway. Quite evident too, audience most of the times will hardly follow what doesn't meet their expectations. |
| Thank You Scientist Terraformer |
| The 3rd and the Mortal In This Room |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Gathering How to Measure a Planet? |
| The Gathering Souvenirs |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil |
| 3.5 great |
| A Lot Like Birds DIVISI |
| Aereogramme My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go |
| Too teary for me this sort of Emo PostRock, but overall good. |
| Altura Mercy |
| Amorphis Am Universum |
| Amorphis Silent Waters |
| Amorphis Under the Red Cloud |
| Anathema Distant Satellites |
| Anathema A Sort of Homecoming |
| Angra Temple of Shadows |
| Angra Freedom Call |
| Angra Evil Warning |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin |
| Asofy Percezione |
| Astronoid Air |
| Avishai Cohen Trio From Darkness |
| BABYMETAL BABYMETAL |
| Bent Knee Land Animal |
| Bjork Vespertine |
| Bruce Dickinson The Chemical Wedding |
| Bruce Soord with Jonas Renkse Wisdom of Crowds |
| Ché Aimee Dorval Underachiver |
| As a debut album, these bunch of songs is just nice. |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Covet Currents |
| Crash Test Dummies God Shuffled His Feet |
| Crosses Crosses |
| Daft Punk Tron Legacy: Reconfigured |
| Dagger Moth Silk Around the Marrow |
| Dark Tranquillity Haven |
| Deadboy and the Elephantmen We Are Night Sky |
| Devin Townsend Terria |
| DGM Momentum |
| May be quite mannerist and risk-proof, yet a bounch of straight kick ass songs that never fail to get to the point.rThe 11 tracks can sometime suffer a lack of variation in their mood, but the album sounds solid as it was meant to be.rGreat to see that you just can't blame DGM of any of those typical -indeed embarassing- power metal cliché, such as Sugary-Unicorn passages that both lyrically and musically makes me want to throw my too expensive hi-fi out of the window. |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Brain Salad Surgery |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors |
| Fiona Apple When the Pawn... |
| Francesca Gaza Lilac for People |
| Modern Vocal Jazz with some electro beat and a kind of pop production. A sophisticated approach to compositions enhanced by refined arrangements with an overall remarkable performance by all the musicians involved. |
| Gamma Ray Land of the Free |
| Gamma Ray Insanity and Genius |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous |
| Godsmack IV |
| iamthemorning ~ |
| Incognito Positivity |
| Jason Mraz We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things |
| Jellyfish Spilt Milk |
| Jewel Pieces of You |
| Jimmy Gnecco The Heart |
| Joan Thiele Joan Thiele |
| Somehow a perfect debut album! A tiny EP showing off the potentiality of this young artist across various genres, from soul and electro pop down to the core of her live-acoustic attitude. Such a fresh and highly enjoyable CD! |
| Jose Gonzalez Veneer |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance |
| Katatonia Tonight's Decision |
| Katatonia Last Fair Deal Gone Down |
| Katatonia Dethroned & Uncrowned |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts |
| Klimt 1918 Sentimentale |
| Klimt 1918 Jugend |
| LP Lost On You |
| Machine Head The Blackening |
| Manowar The Triumph of Steel |
| Mansun Six |
| Maximum the Hormone Bu-ikikaesu |
| Metal Allegiance Metal Allegiance |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Mission Control Mission Control |
| Mitski Puberty 2 |
| Morglbl Jazz For The Deaf |
| Nice experimental prog/fusion music from France. Give this album a try if you like to discover some original stuff. rThese guys are having quite fun playing their instruments with a surprising confidence. |
| Moron Police Boat on the Sea |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| Mutemath Mutemath |
| Noir Desir des Visages des Figures |
| Obake Draugr |
| Oceanic Origin |
| Oceansize Frames |
| OSI Fire Make Thunder |
| Ours Mercy (Dancing for the Death of an Imaginary Enemy |
| Paatos Timeloss |
| Paradise Lost One Second |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... |
| Placebo Without You I'm Nothing |
| Poison Flesh & Blood |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Power of Omens Eyes of the Oracle |
| Primus Frizzle Fry |
| Professional Murder Music Professional Murder Music |
| Purple Mountains Purple Mountains |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Rage End of All Days |
| Rhapsody of Fire Power of the Dragonflame |
| Royal Blood Royal Blood |
| Russian Circles Geneva |
| Sade Lovers Rock |
| Savatage The Wake of Magellan |
| Savatage Gutter Ballet |
| Savatage Handful of Rain |
| Slash's Snakepit Ain't Life Grand |
| Soen Tellurian |
| Spiral Architect A Sceptic's Universe |
| Spiritual Beggars Ad Astra |
| Spiritual Beggars Demons |
| Stabbing Westward Darkest Days |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning |
| Stick Men Prog Noir |
| Stratovarius Dreamspace |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| TesseracT Polaris |
| The Aristocrats The Aristocrats |
| The Comet Is Coming Trust in the Lifeforce of Deep Mystery |
| The Czars The Ugly People Vs. the Beautiful People |
| The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra |
| The Gathering Nighttime Birds |
| The Music Welcome To The North |
| The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers |
| The Reign of Kindo Happy However After |
| The Swell Season The Swell Season |
| The Zutons Who Killed The Zutons |
| Virgin Steele The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Part II |
| VOLA Inmazes |
| Wagooba Total Emotion |
| Love this album, though quite far from my usual listenings, these songs are just haunting me since I first heard Voodoo Wagon! |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother |
| 2.5 average |
| Amon Tobin Supermodified |
| Amorphis Queen of Time |
| A redo of the previous album. More polished, more glitters, more glamorous. But that's it. |
| Angra Fireworks |
| Bjorn Riis Lullabies in a Car Crash |
| Way too derivative. Some nice guitar riffs though. |
| Dark Tranquillity The Mind's I |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| Gavin Harrison Cheating The Polygraph |
| Intronaut The Direction of Last Things |
| Kee Marcello Judas Kiss |
| Masvidal Mythical |
| Nightwish Imaginaerum |
| Nordic Giants A Séance Of Dark Delusions |
| Obsidian Kingdom A Year With No Summer |
| Pain of Salvation In the Passing Light of Day |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way |
| Rhapsody of Fire Symphony of Enchanted Lands |
| Soen Cognitive |
| Steve Hackett A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| It's that kind of pointless record we all can easily do without. Apparently made only to have "something like this" in his discography, Hackett moves well inside his Comfort Zone and make no efforts whatsoever to put some originality in a faultless performance and faultless interpretation. The listening leaves me everytime quite unchanged and bored. |
| Steven Wilson To the Bone |
| It's his Falling Into Infinity, for better or worse. Surely, after so many stands against disposable music, easy listening and the posing of various mainstream wonders, to overexpose this way now and release such a pander album, it's at least controversial for his intellectual honesty. The often mentioned comparison with Stupid Dream is a stab to the heart of Porcupine Tree: that was a prog album inspired, sincere and spontaneous, with echoes of Beatles and psychedelic rock. While TTB is mostly a revised and actualized eighties synth pop, entirely assembled and chiseled to maximize the commercial potential of SW by emasculating the contents, trivializing the experimental vein and mortifying the artistic ambitions of Insurgentes and GfD. Have been truly supporting SW since Signify, still it takes the courage to admit, without being snob, that this album marks a self-reported creative drift, depressing and sometime embarrassing, no matter all several rave justifications brought to us. TTB could be a bunch of redrawn outtakes, it alternates indefensible over tidy refrains, good for the next Eurovision Festival, with sickly, sometime whining, re-chewed elements of Wilson repertoire; all in order to obtain an effect of immediacy, sadly without the quality of truly great pop songs. Giving up to any originality, the output is a denial of a career spent evolving and researching for new solutions. It all ends up to be his most harmless LP, a narcissistic attempt to monetize years gone building a success within a niche, by moving to a major label and ensuring himself a powerful promotion. |
| Stratovarius Visions |
| Tim Hecker Konoyo |
| Wilderun Veil of Imagination |
| It's like Rhapsody (of Fire) + Shadow Gallery + Opeth + Devin Townsend all of them trying hard to make a Pain Of Salvation album. |
