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5.0 classic
Amon Amarth Fate of Norns
Any Given Day Everlasting
Arch Enemy War Eternal
Beyond Twilight The Devil's Hall of Fame
A true masterpiece of Prog Metal, Jorn Lande's best performance ever and not less than a true classic. A flawless 5.0!
Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell
Brainstorm Metus Mortis
Bring Me The Horizon Sempiternal
Bury Tomorrow Cannibal
Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll
Dark Tranquillity Character
For sure, the best Dark Tranquillity album of all time. Couldn't be better, it's just a masterpiece.
Eluveitie Slania
Folk Metal with Melodic Death Metal, combined in perfect form. My first song by Eluvieite I ever listened to has been "Omnos", a big mistake, cause I thought for a quite long time "What the hell, what is this? This is supposed to be Metal??". But luckily, I finally discovered this album, and yes, a perfect symbiosis. Heavy, melodic, emotional, perfect! Still a reference.
Epica The Divine Conspiracy
Epica Design Your Universe
Epica Omega Alive
In Flames Come Clarity
Judas Priest Painkiller
Katatonia Night Is the New Day
Katatonia Dead End Kings
Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang
Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park Meteora
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (20th Anniversary Edition)
Masterplan Masterplan
Mutiny Within Mutiny Within
Nightwish Once
Nightwish Oceanborn
Nightwish End Of An Era
Pagan's Mind Celestial Entrance
Soilwork A Predator's Portrait
Soilwork Natural Born Chaos
Solution .45 For Aeons Past
Volbeat The Strength/The Sound/The Songs
Volbeat Rock The Rebel/Metal The Devil
While She Sleeps You Are We

4.5 superb
Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side
Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God
Amon Amarth Surtur Rising
Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods
Amorphis Halo
Andy James Arrival
Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together
As I Lay Dying Awakened
Before The Dawn Deadlight
Black Sabbath Sabotage
Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Black Sabbath Master of Reality
Black Sun Aeon Darkness Walks Beside Me
Black Sun Aeon Blacklight Deliverance
Bloodred Hourglass Godsend
Borealis The Offering
Brainstorm Soul Temptation
Brainstorm Midnight Ghost
Brainstorm Memorial Roots (Re-Rooted)
"Memorial Roots" is perhaps the most controversial album of Brainstorm, mostly because of its rather weak production. Perhaps even Brainstorm themselves recognized this and re-released it as "Memorial Roots (Re-Rooted)". And yes, the production is far better and on top, there are 4 bonus tracks which all have a real high quality level (and are not just some average fillers). All in all, this makes "Memorial Roots" suddenly to one of Brainstorm's best releases ever. Definitely a good decision to re-release this!
Bury Tomorrow Runes
Bury Tomorrow Earthbound
Children of Bodom Hatebreeder
Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper
Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?
Children of Bodom Tokyo Warhearts
Dark Tranquillity Fiction
Dark Tranquillity Lost to Apathy
Darkwater Human
"Human", the first album for 9 long years by Darkwater and the first since "Where Stories
End" does many things right. It sounds much more grown up and much more varied than its
predecessor. It would be far too much to go into details here, but it's a great melodic prog
album, definetely worth listening to it.
Deals Death Point Zero Solution
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Dream Theater Train of Thought
Dream Theater Distance Over Time
This is as good as I have never expected it - especially not after 'The Astonishing'. Yes, this is great! And finally can be called Metal again!
Edguy Vain Glory Opera
Eluveitie Everything Remains As It Never Was
Eluveitie The Early Years
Epica The Holographic Principle
Evergrey The Storm Within
Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream
In Flames Colony
In Flames Clayman
Insomnium One for Sorrow
Insomnium Winter's Gate
Kamelot The Black Halo
Kamelot One Cold Winter's Night
Katatonia The Great Cold Distance
Katatonia The Fall of Hearts
Katatonia Sky Void of Stars
Lamb of God Sacrament
Mercenary Through Our Darkest Days
Miss May I Curse of Existence
Mors Principium Est The Unborn
Mutiny Within Synchronicity
Nightwish Showtime, Storytime
Nightwish Decades: Live In Buenos Aires
Nightwish Wishmaster
Nightwish Decades
Paradise Lost Tragic Idol
Persefone Spiritual Migration
Phil Collins No Jacket Required
Phil Collins Serious Hits… Live!
Phinehas Till the End
Phinehas The Last Word Is Yours to Speak
Rush Rush in Rio
Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe
Sleepers' Guilt Kilesa
Soilwork The Living Infinite
Soilwork The Ride Majestic
Sonata Arctica Silence
Spiritbox The Fear of Fear
Stratovarius Survive
System of a Down Toxicity
TesseracT One
The Amity Affliction Not Without My Ghosts
Is this even the same band as before? Surprisingly heavy and straight forward. Very well done!
Thirty Seconds to Mars 30 Seconds To Mars
Trivium The Sin and the Sentence
Trivium What the Dead Men Say
While She Sleeps This Is the Six
Wintersun Wintersun
Words of Farewell Immersion
Words of Farewell Stories to Forget

4.0 excellent
After Forever After Forever
All That Remains The Fall of Ideals
Amon Amarth Jomsviking
Amon Amarth Versus the World
Amorphis Circle
Amorphis Under the Red Cloud
Any Given Day Overpower
Arch Enemy Will to Power
Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
Architects Holy Hell
Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream
August Burns Red Phantom Anthem
Beast In Black Berserker
Espacially when listening to them live, this album is a lot of fun. Fully well-deserved 4.0!
Black Sabbath Vol. 4
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath Headless Cross
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Black Sabbath 13
Black Sun Aeon Routa
Bleed from Within Uprising
Blessthefall Hollow Bodies
Bloodred Hourglass Your Highness
Borealis Purgatory
Borealis Fall From Grace
Borealis World of Silence
Borealis World of Silence MMXVII
Brainstorm Liquid Monster
Brainstorm Firesoul
Brainstorm Just Highs No Lows (12 Years Of Persistence)
Bullet For My Valentine Venom
Bury Tomorrow The Union of Crowns
Caliban The Awakening
Caliban The Undying Darkness
Children of Bodom Something Wild
Circus Maximus Isolate
Dark Tranquillity Exposures: In Retrospect And Denial
Dimmu Borgir Abrahadabra
Disarmonia Mundi The Isolation Game
Disarmonia Mundi Fragments Of D-Generation
Disarmonia Mundi Mind Tricks
Dream Theater Live at the Marquee
Dream Theater A View from the Top of the World
Ed Sheeran x
Edguy Mandrake
Edguy Monuments
Edguy The Savage Poetry
Edguy Theater of Salvation
Eluveitie Spirit
Eluveitie Helvetios
Eluveitie Ven
Eluveitie Ategnatos
Engel Raven Kings
Epica The Classical Conspiracy
Epica The Quantum Enigma
Epica Omega
Eternal Tears of Sorrow A Virgin and a Whore
Eternal Tears of Sorrow Children of the Dark Waters
Eternal Tears of Sorrow Saivon Lapsi
Evanescence Fallen
Evanescence The Open Door
Evergrey Torn
Evergrey Escape of the Phoenix
Feed Her to the Sharks Fortitude
Feed Her to the Sharks The Beauty of Falling
For Today Fight the Silence
Gus G. Fearless
In Flames Reroute to Remain
Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun
Insomnium Across the Dark
Insomnium Above the Weeping World
Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down
Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting
Kamelot The Awakening
Lamb of God Resolution
Lamb of God Wrath
Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn
Linkin Park Songs From The Underground
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory EP
Mallory Knox Asymmetry
Masterplan Aeronautics
Mercenary The Hours That Remain
Mercenary Architect of Lies
Mercenary Metamorphosis
Miss May I At Heart
Miss May I Deathless
Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis
Monuments (UK) In Stasis
This definitely slaps harder than Will Smith, more like Mike Tyson. Monuments' best album so
far!
Mors Principium Est ...And Death Said Live
Mors Principium Est Dawn of the 5th Era
Mors Principium Est Seven
Perhaps their best output yet! Much more inspired than the previous album. Well done guys, Mors Principium Est don't disappoint!
Myrath Tales of the Sands
Mystic Prophecy Ravenlord
Nightwish Vehicle of Spirit
Nightwish Over The Hills And Far Away
Nightwish Century Child
Northlane Singularity
Northlane Node
Of Mice and Men EARTHANDSKY
Of Mice and Men Timeless
Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows
Pagan's Mind Enigmatic: Calling
Paradise Lost The Plague Within
Paradise Lost Obsidian
Parasite Inc. Time Tears Down
Persefone Metanoia
Persefone Aathma
Phil Collins ...But Seriously
Phil Collins Testify
Phil Collins Face Value
Primal Fear Apocalypse
Pyramaze Disciples of the Sun
Pyramaze Contingent
Redemption Snowfall on Judgment Day
Rush Snakes & Arrows
Rush Clockwork Angels
Scar Symmetry Dark Matter Dimensions
Soilwork Beyond the Infinite
Soilwork Underworld
Sonata Arctica Unia
Sonata Arctica Reckoning Night
Sonata Arctica Winterheart's Guild
Sonata Arctica Ecliptica
Sonata Arctica Songs of Silence
Sonic Syndicate Only Inhuman
Sonic Syndicate Love and Other Disasters
Spiritbox Eternal Blue
Stratovarius Nemesis
Stratovarius Episode
Swallow the Sun Emerald Forest and the Blackbird
Swallow the Sun When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light
A dark, melancholic, sad, yet excellent album, full of majestic beauty, with so many emotions in
it, espacially when you know the background of it. Definitely an early highlight of the year.
TesseracT War of Being
The Ghost Inside Get What You Give
The Ghost Inside The Ghost Inside
The Raven Age Darkness Will Rise
The Sorrow Misery Escape
The Sorrow Blessings From a Blackened Sky
The Sorrow The Sorrow
The Unguided Hell Frost
The Unguided Father Shadow
Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie
Trail Of Tears Bloodstained Endurance
Trail Of Tears Oscillation
Trivium Vengeance Falls
Trivium In Waves
Trivium Shogun
Trivium In the Court of the Dragon
Twelve Foot Ninja Outlier
Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine
Unearth Watchers of Rule
Unprocessed Covenant
Unprocessed Artificial Void
While She Sleeps Brainwashed
Wintersun Time I
Within Temptation The Silent Force
Within Temptation The Howling
Within Temptation Shed My Skin
Within Temptation Bleed Out
Wolfheart Winterborn
Wolves at the Gate Captors
Words of Farewell A Quiet World
Words of Farewell Inner Universe
Xandria Sacrificium
Xandria The Wonders Still Awaiting

3.5 great
All That Remains Overcome
All That Remains For We Are Many
All That Remains This Darkened Heart
Amaranthe Amaranthe
Amaranthe The Nexus
Amon Amarth Berserker
Amorphis Queen of Time
Annisokay Aurora
Arch Enemy Deceivers
Architects Daybreaker
As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire
So hyped about this! Looking forward to this release!
Asking Alexandria Reckless and Relentless
Asking Alexandria From Death to Destiny
August Burns Red Death Below
Before The Dawn Soundscape Of Silence
Before The Dawn Deathstar Rising
Before The Dawn Rise of the Phoenix
Beyond Twilight Section X
Beyond Twilight For the Love of Art and the Making
Bleed from Within Era
Bleed from Within Fracture
Bloodred Hourglass Where the Oceans Burn
Bloodred Hourglass Heal
Brainstorm Unholy
Brainstorm Downburst
Brainstorm Memorial Roots
Brainstorm On the Spur of the Moment
Brainstorm Ambiguity
Brainstorm Wall of Skulls
Bring Me The Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It...
Bring Me The Horizon That's the Spirit
Bullet For My Valentine Gravity
Bury Tomorrow Black Flame
Good album, but by far not their best. Too long Outros without any further sense, some cheesy choruses and a somehow weak production prevent me from giving a higher rating.
Bury Tomorrow The Seventh Sun
Caliban Say Hello to Tragedy
Caliban Dystopia
Children of Bodom Blooddrunk
Children of Bodom I Worship Chaos
Circus Maximus Nine
Circus Maximus The 1st Chapter
Currents The Death We Seek
Dark Tranquillity Atoma
Dark Tranquillity Zero Distance
Dark Tranquillity Moment
Darkest Hour Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora
Darkest Hour The Human Romance
Darkwater Where Stories End
Death Remains Stand.Fight.Believe
Good debut of the English melodic death metal/metalcore band. Nothing exceptional or really new, but still a high-quality output.
Delain April Rain
Delain Lucidity
Delain Hunter's Moon
Delain Apocalypse & Chill
It's a good release, quite heavy, espacially the last song, "Combustion", which is an instrumental, kicks asses, nice!
Disturbed The Sickness
Divine Disorder Garden Of Dystopia
Diviner Realms of Time
Dream Theater Octavarium
Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events
Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Ed Sheeran ÷
Edguy Hellfire Club
Eluveitie Origins
Eluveitie Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion
Epica Consign to Oblivion
Epica The Solace System
Epysode Fantasmagoria
Eternal Tears of Sorrow Chaotic Beauty
Eternal Tears of Sorrow Before the Bleeding Sun
Evanescence Anywhere But Home
Fit for a King Dark Skies
Fit for a King The Hell We Create
Heart of a Coward Deliverance
Imminence Heaven in Hiding
Imminence The Black
In Flames Whoracle
In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape
In Flames The Mirror's Truth
In Flames Foregone
Easily the best In Flames album in 15 years. Nice one!
In Hearts Wake Earthwalker
Insomnium Ephemeral
Insomnium Heart Like a Grave
James LaBrie Impermanent Resonance
Kalmah Palo
Kamelot The Shadow Theory
Kamelot Haven
Kamelot Silverthorn
Kamelot Poetry for the Poisoned
Katatonia Viva Emptiness
Katatonia Kocytean
Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent
Killswitch Engage Incarnate
Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache
Lacuna Coil Dark Adrenaline
Lamb of God Omens
Lamb of God The Duke
Lamb of God Lamb of God
I don't know what's everyone's problem with this rone. Sure, it's not LOG's very best output, but it's rstill heavy, full of power, enjoyable and, most rimportant of all, 100% Lamb Of God. I like it.rRecommended listening: 'Memento Mori', 'Gears', r'Reality Bath', 'Resurrection Man'
Like Moths to Flames Dark Divine
Like Moths to Flames Pure Like Porcelain
Linkin Park The Hunting Party
Linkin Park Underground 9
Make Them Suffer Worlds Apart
Mallory Knox Signals
Masterplan Time to Be King
Mercenary Soundtrack for the End Times
Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct
Miss May I Shadows Inside
Monuments (UK) Phronesis
Mors Principium Est Inhumanity
Mors Principium Est Embers of a Dying World
Mutiny Within Origins
Mystic Prophecy Fireangel
Nightwish The Islander
Nightwish Bless the Child: The Rarities
Nightwish Storytime
Nightwish Endless Forms Most Beautiful EP
Nightwish Dark Passion Play
Northlane Mesmer
Of Mice and Men Defy
Omnium Gatherum Grey Heavens
Omnium Gatherum The Burning Cold
Omnium Gatherum Beyond
Omnium Gatherum Origin
Orpheus Omega Partum Vita Mortem
Our Hollow, Our Home //Redefine
Our Hollow, Our Home Hartsick
Pagan's Mind Heavenly Ecstasy
Pagan's Mind Infinity Divine
Paradise Lost Medusa
Paradise Lost In Requiem
Parasite Inc. Cyan Night Dreams
Phil Collins Dance Into the Light
Phil Collins Hello, I Must Be Going!
Phil Collins Hits
Phinehas Dark Flag
Phinehas thegodmachine
Primal Fear Nuclear Fire
Pyramaze Epitaph
Pyramaze Bloodlines
Recode the Subliminal The Cost of Every Man
Redemption Long Night's Journey Into Day
Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress
Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase I: Neohumanity
Shade Empire Omega Arcane
Sirenia The 13th Floor
Soilwork Stabbing the Drama
Soilwork Figure Number Five
Soilwork Death Resonance
Soilwork Verkligheten
Soilwork Overgivenheten
Stratovarius Eternal
Swallow the Sun Moonflowers
Sylosis Cycle of Suffering
Sylosis Dormant Heart
Sylosis A Sign of Things to Come
TesseracT Altered State
TesseracT Polaris
TesseracT Errai
The Amity Affliction Let the Ocean Take Me
The Amity Affliction Somewhere Beyond the Blue
The Hypothesis Origin
The Sorrow Origin of the Storm
The Unguided Fragile Immortality
The Unguided Lust and Loathing
Thy Art Is Murder Godlike
Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man
Trail Of Tears Existenia
Tristania Darkest White
Unearth Extinction(s)
Volbeat Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood
Volbeat Beyond Hell/Above Heaven
We Came As Romans To Plant a Seed
We Came As Romans Understanding What We've Grown to Be
We Came As Romans Cold Like War
While She Sleeps So What?
It is their weakest output. No question. But still a good one, in my opinion. There are some good songs and some mediocre ones. The production lacks a bit of punch and espacially, more neck-breaking parts like the ending of 'Back of My Mind' are surely missing. I like the message of the album, though, and again, it's not a bad Metalcore album (a bad Metalcore album is BMTH's latest....thing, whatever :D ). So nothing ground-breaking, definitely worse than 'You Are We', but still quite enjoyable. But far aways from a classic, too.
Within Temptation The Heart of Everything
Within Temptation Paradise (What About Us?)
Within Temptation Black Symphony
Within Temptation Wireless
Wolfheart Shadow World
Wolfheart Tyhjyys
Wolfheart Constellation of the Black Light
Wolves at the Gate Eulogies
Wolves at the Gate Eclipse
A good album, makes fun. Yeah, a bit mainstream, but still enjoyable.
Words of Farewell The Black Wild Yonder
Xandria Neverworld's End

3.0 good
All That Remains A War You Cannot Win
All That Remains Victim of the New Disease
Amaranthe The Catalyst
Amon Amarth The Great Heathen Army
Amon Amarth The Avenger
Amon Amarth The Crusher
Annisokay Enigmatic Smile
Annisokay Devil May Care
Any Given Day Limitless
Architects Hollow Crown
Architects Ruin
Architects For Those That Wish to Exist
At the Gates At War with Reality
At the Gates To Drink from the Night Itself
Avantasia Moonglow
Baest Necro Sapiens
Beast In Black From Hell With Love
Not as good as "Berseker", still a solid album, but sometimes a bit too cheesy. More songs like "Repentless", "This Is War" or "No Surrender" would have helped. Nevertheless, the album is fun listening to!
Beast In Black Dark Connection
Before The Dawn Stormbringers
Beyond The Black Songs Of Love And Death
Bleed from Within Shrine
Blessthefall Hard Feelings
Blessthefall To Those Left Behind
Blessthefall Witness
Bodom After Midnight Paint the Sky With Blood
Born of Osiris Angel or Alien
A really heavy and high quality piece of music, which is highly enjoyable. Only problem: the songs sound too similar.
Born of Osiris Soul Sphere
Brainstorm Scary Creatures
Breathe Atlantis Overdrive
Bring Me The Horizon Suicide Season
Bring Me The Horizon POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR
Brymir Wings of Fire
Being something between Norther, Wintersun and Kalmah, this offers definitely an enjoyable piece
of Symphonic (Death) Metal. But in my opinion, something special is missing. All in all, it's a
good, solid album and worth listening to it.
Brymir Voices in the Sky
Bullet For My Valentine Fever
Bullet For My Valentine Scream Aim Fire
Bullet For My Valentine Bullet For My Valentine
Buried in Verona Vultures Above, Lions Below
Caliban Gravity
Caliban Ghost Empire
Caliban I Am Nemesis
Cellar Darling This Is The Sound
Children of Bodom Halo of Blood
Children of Bodom Hexed
This is what has to be expected by COB: a good, solid album, definitely. But all in all, COB used to do these things already better in the past.
Counterparts Nothing Left to Love
Crystal Lake Helix
Currents The Place I Feel Safest
Currents The Way It Ends
Dark Tranquillity Construct
Darkest Hour Darkest Hour
Dawn of Solace Waves
Dawn of Solace Flames of Perdition
Delain Dark Waters
Destinity In Continuum
Destinity Resolve in Crimson
Dimmu Borgir Eonian
Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli
Disturbed Asylum
Dream Theater Dream Theater
Ed Sheeran =
Edguy Rocket Ride
Elvellon Until Dawn
Better than expected! Cause, I expteced nothing. But this one is some nice, and sometimes even very heavy Symphonic Metal. Nice guitars, good female singer, rich in variety. Nice one, surprisingly good work! For fans of Nightwish, Epica and Xandria!
Engel Blood of Saints
Epica Requiem for the Indifferent
Epica The Phantom Agony
Epysode Obsessions
ERRA Neon
ERRA ERRA
Sounds like every other ERRA album, so, nothing really special here.
Evergrey Hymns for the Broken
Evergrey The Atlantic
After a very first run of listening to this album, all I can say so far: It's not that easy. There are only a few "more simple" passages which rest in mind, everything else is quite progressive and does not become accessible at once. It's a beast of an album, perhaps Evergrey's most progressive approach till now. Maybe, after more runs, the music becomes more accessible. If so, I might correct my rating - to the better then.
Feed Her to the Sharks Savage Seas
I Prevail Lifelines
Impending Doom Baptized in Filth
In Flames A Sense of Purpose
In Hearts Wake Ark
In Hearts Wake Divination
Insomnium Anno 1696
Invent Animate Greyview
James LaBrie Static Impulse
Kalmah Seventh Swamphony
Kamelot Ghost Opera
Katatonia City Burials
Killswitch Engage Atonement
Lacuna Coil Shallow Life
Lacuna Coil Karmacode
Light the Torch Revival
Like Moths to Flames When We Don't Exist
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight
Linkin Park Living Things
Make Them Suffer How to Survive a Funeral
Manimal Armageddon
Masterplan MK II
MaYaN Quarterpast
MaYaN Antagonise
Mechina Siege
Memphis May Fire Remade in Misery
Mercenary 11 Dreams
Metallica St. Anger
Metallica Death Magnetic
Miss May I Rise of the Lion
Mors Principium Est Liberation = Termination
Mors Subita Into The Pitch Black
Myrath Legacy
Myrath Shehili
Nice, but still not as good as 'Tales of the Sand'.
Nailed To Obscurity Black Frost
Nightwish Angels Fall First
Nightwish Imaginaerum
Nightwish Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Novelists Noir
Novelists Souvenirs
Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men Echo
Orbit Culture Nija
Our Hollow, Our Home In Moment // In Memory
Our Mirage Lifeline
Pagan's Mind God's Equation
Parasite Inc. Dead and Alive
Phil Collins Both Sides
Phinehas The Fire Itself
Rammstein Untitled
Rammstein Zeit
Recode the Subliminal Disconnected
Redemption This Mortal Coil
ReVamp ReVamp
Scar Symmetry The Unseen Empire
Serenity Nemesis AD
Sinnrs Profound
Sirenia Arcane Astral Aeons
Sirenia Dim Days of Dolor
Sirenia Perils of the Deep Blue
Sirenia Riddles Ruins and Revelations
Soilwork Sworn to a Great Divide
Soilwork The Feverish Trinity
Solution .45 Nightmares in the Waking State, Pt. 2
Sonata Arctica The Days of Grays
Sonic Syndicate Sonic Syndicate
Spiritbox Rotoscope
Stratovarius Enigma: Intermission 2
Stratovarius Polaris
Swallow the Sun Lumina Aurea
An extremely dark, disturbing song, which needs time to grow.
System of a Down Protect The Land/Genocidal Humanoidz
TesseracT Sonder
The Five Hundred Bleed Red
The Ghost Inside Dear Youth
The Ghost Inside Searching for Solace
The Halo Effect Days of the Lost
The Unguided And The Battle Royale
Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War
Thornhill The Dark Pool
Tristania Rubicon
Twelve Foot Ninja Vengeance
Unearth The Wretched; The Ruinous
Volbeat Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies
Volbeat Servant of the Mind
Wage War Deadweight
War of Ages Dominion
War of Ages Rhema
We Came As Romans Tracing Back Roots
While She Sleeps Sleeps Society (Special Edition)
Wintersun The Forest Seasons
Within Temptation The Purge
"The Purge" is perhaps the best song Within Temptation did in the past 10 years, but it's still only cheesy radio pop metal. It's ok to listen to it one or two times, but that's it.
Within Temptation Mother Earth
Within Temptation Hydra
Wolfheart Wolves of Karelia
Wolves at the Gate VxV
Wovenwar Wovenwar
Wovenwar Honor Is Dead
Xandria Theater of Dimensions

2.5 average
After the Burial Evergreen
All That Remains The Order of Things
Amaranthe Massive Addictive
Amaranthe Helix
Amaranthe Manifest
Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall
Annisokay Arms
Architects The Here and Now
Architects The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit
August Burns Red Winter Wilderness
August Burns Red Phantom Sessions
August Burns Red Guardians
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold
Beyond The Black Lost in Forever
Black Peaks All That Divides
Born of Osiris The Simulation
Caliban Elements
Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever
Circus Maximus Havoc
Counterparts You're Not You Anymore
Cyhra Letters To Myself
Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void
Days Of Jupiter New Awakening
Death Remains Destroy / Rebuild
Not as good as their debut album, means not as melodic and not as rich in variety. Not completely bad as well, though, as the guys know how to use their instruments, but nothing more than average.
Edguy Age of the Joker
Eluveitie Evocation II: Pantheon
Epica This is the Time
Fit for a King Creation | Destruction
From Sorrow To Serenity Reclaim
Heart of a Coward The Disconnect
Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood
Quite generic - and by far not as good as "part one".
Impending Doom The Sin and Doom Vol. II
Impending Doom Hellbent
In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading
In Hearts Wake Skydancer
In Hearts Wake Kaliyuga
Invent Animate Everchanger
James LaBrie Elements Of Persuasion
James LaBrie I Will Not Break
Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (2009)
Lacuna Coil Black Anima
Lor Edge of Eternity
Lost in Thought Renascence
Mallory Knox Wired
Monuments (UK) Gnosis
Mors Subita Human Waste Compression
Motionless in White Disguise
My Ticket Home Unreal
Nightwish HUMAN. :II: NATURE.
Less Metal - more Nightwish....Wait, what? But yes, exactly this seems to be the case here.
In my opinion, Tuomas was always able to produce nice orchestral, symphonic arrangements, but
he was never the best to produce good metal songs. On "HUMAN. :II: NATURE", this is very
obvious. The riffs are like already heard one thousand times, the drums are mediocre at best
(although Kai Hahto is capable of so much more...). The album has indeed some nice moments
(espacially Noise, Shoemaker and Pan). I even would have rated the
"first" part of this album with a 3,5, but what is the second part supposed to be? A movie
score? Was Tuomas a bit too often outside and just recorded a tweet here and a lapping there?
This is just not interesting at all. But since this is also a part of the whole album, I
can't go higher than a 2,5 rating. This means, this is the poorest Nightwish album for
me of all time. I fear, "Once" will stay the best Nightwish album - forever. A quite big
disappointment.
Nightwish The Crow, The Owl and The Dove
Northlane Alien
Not bad, but also not a good album. Too many electrical parts, not enough metal. Still quite enjoyable. I've listened to worse albums before - but also to much better ones.
Northlane Obsidian
Of Mice and Men Tether
Oh, Sleeper Bloodied/Unbowed
Omnium Gatherum The Redshift
Polar Nova
Polaris The Death of Me
Redemption The Art of Loss
Savage Messiah Demons
Scar Symmetry Symmetric in Design
Shade Empire Poetry of the Ill-Minded
Shields Life In Exile
Shokran Supreme Truth
Sirenia Nine Destinies And A Downfall
Skindred Big Tings
Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden
Soilwork The Panic Broadcast
Soilwork A Whisp of the Atlantic
Far away from being "Melodic Death Metal". Development is ok, sure, but this sounds more like the "Night Flight Orchestra" than like Soilwork. Soilwork were on the right way with their outputs "The Living Infinite" and espacially "The Ride Majestic". "Verkligheten" was already a step back, but this EP is... just not more than average. Sorry.
Solution .45 Nightmares In The Waking State Pt. 1
Sonata Arctica Pariah's Child
Sonata Arctica Stones Grow Her Name
Stratovarius Elysium
Surroundings Glass Heart
I've been listening to something similar like this like 1,000 times - and this is nothing new. No question, there are some nice hooks and riffs, but it's nothing special about it. Quite average.
Sylar Seasons
Tarja Turunen Colours in the Dark
The Amity Affliction This Could Be Heartbreak
The Browning Geist
The Raven Age Conspiracy
Hm, not sure what I should say about it. It's worse than "Darkness Will Rise" in my opinion. Not
bad itself, but also nothing special. I might raise the rating a bit if this album convices me
more after a few rounds of listening, but so far, I would say it's quite mediocre in everything,
and it seems to be just more of the same.
Therion Leviathan
Thirty Seconds to Mars Love Lust Faith + Dreams
Thornhill Butterfly
Tristania Illumination
Unleashed The Hunt For White Christ
Wage War Manic
While Heaven Wept Fear of Infinity
While She Sleeps Sleeps Society
Witherfall A Prelude to Sorrow
Within Temptation The Unforgiving

2.0 poor
All That Remains Madness
Amaranthe Maximalism
Battle Beast No More Hollywood Endings
Heading straight towards pop - too much for me. Kabanen proves with Beast in Black that this can be done better. Though the latter also play music which is cheesy af, it somehow can be called "Metal" at least. But "No More Hollywood Endings" just sounds exactly like this - Hollywood pop which doesn't hurt anyone, and which is even cheesier.
Being as an Ocean How We Both Wondrously Perish
Being as an Ocean Waiting For Morning To Come
Beyond The Black Heart Of The Hurricane
Bring Me The Horizon Count Your Blessings
Bring Me The Horizon This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For
Cellar Darling The Spell
A good story behind and an overall dark atmosphere don't already make a good album. 'The Spell'
unfortunately, is highly weird, at least in my opinion. I still prefer 'This is the Sound' by far.
Hopefully the upcoming Eluveitie's output will be better...
Crown the Empire Sudden Sky
Dream Theater The Astonishing
Dream Theater Falling into Infinity
Engel Abandon All Hope
Well, I abandoned all hope now...Their weakest release, couldn't be called "Metal" anymore. A big disappointment.
I Prevail TRAUMA
In Flames Battles
In Flames I, the Mask
So, this album seems to contain two different parts: The first 4 songs and the rest. Whilst the
first 4 songs are really good and would deserve 3.0 or even 3.5 points (Mr. Friden is even
screaming again here), the rest quite sucks (except "Burn", which is good again), starting with
"Follow Me". The second part even offers some quite nice riffs from time to time, but at the
latest, when the chorus begins and/or Mr. Friden starts to sing (and we all know this isn't a good
sign), well, then the next song is dead again. Best example for this is "Deep Inside", which
starts groovy with a very nice riff, but the chorus destroys it completely. So, mathematically
said, 5 songs which are good (3.0 points) + 7 which are not so good (1.5) and everything devided
through 12 gives a rating of 2.0. Sorry guys, again, this is just poor.
Ithaca The Language of Injury
Jinjer King of Everything
Jinjer Cloud Factory
Jinjer Micro
Jordan Rudess Wired for Madness
Highly technical, but also brain melting and confusing. Too much for me.
MaYaN Dhyana
Too much of everything, no sound structure, too many voices; the predecessors suffered from the
same in some way, but were still better. This one is too much for me.
Memphis May Fire Broken
myGRAIN III
Nightwish Elan
Noumena Myrrys
Red (USA) Declaration
Shokran Ethereal
Shokran Exodus
Sonata Arctica The Ninth Hour
Sonata Arctica Clear Cold Beyond
Feels incredibly outdated. Poor production quality, too. They should have released it 15 years ago and not now.
Tarja Turunen My Winter Storm
The Amity Affliction Everyone Loves You... Once You Leave Them
Trivium Silence in the Snow
Volbeat Rewind, Replay, Rebound
War of Ages Void
We Came As Romans We Came As Romans
While She Sleeps Self Hell
Within Temptation Resist

1.5 very poor
Asking Alexandria The Black
Atreyu In Our Wake
Avantasia Lost in Space Part I
Beyond The Black Hørizøns
Bring Me The Horizon amo
Disturbed Evolution
Edguy Tinnitus Sanctus
Five Finger Death Punch And Justice for None
Forever Still Breathe in Colours
Humanity's Last Breath Ashen
It's mainly noise. Not even good noise. No song structure at all, no melodies, nothing. Again, just noise. Not my taste.
In Flames Siren Charms
Sonic Syndicate We Rule the Night
The Amity Affliction Misery

1.0 awful
Asking Alexandria Asking Alexandria
Bring Me The Horizon Music to Listen to...
In Flames Clayman (20th Anniversary Edition)
Linkin Park A Thousand Suns
Linkin Park One More Light
Sonic Syndicate Confessions
Thirty Seconds to Mars America
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