| 4.0 excellent |
| 311 311 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days |
| Aesop Rock None Shall Pass |
| Aesop Rock Float |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| American Head Charge The War Of Art |
| Amorphis Tales from the Thousand Lakes |
| Amorphis Silent Waters |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin |
| Arch Enemy Burning Bridges |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Big L Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous |
| Biohazard Urban Discipline |
| Biohazard State of the World Address |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage |
| Blind Melon Blind Melon |
| Blind Melon Soup |
| Bone Thugs-N-Harmony E 1999 Eternal |
| Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Creepin On Ah Come Up |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Busta Rhymes The Coming |
| Cherubs Heroin Man |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next |
| Clutch Blast Tyrant |
| Cold 13 Ways to Bleed On Stage |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
| Cradle of Filth Midian |
| Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast |
| Crowbar Odd Fellows Rest |
| Crowbar Obedience Thru Suffering |
| Crowbar Time Heals Nothing |
| Cypress Hill Skull and Bones |
| Cypress Hill Stoned Raiders |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Dissection The Somberlain |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic |
| Dr. Dre 2001 |
| Exodus The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A |
| Exodus Exhibit B: The Human Condition |
| Faith No More The Real Thing |
| Fear Factory Obsolete |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Fugazi The Argument |
| Fugazi Red Medicine |
| Gang Starr Daily Operation |
| Gang Starr Moment of Truth |
| Glassjaw El Mark |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) |
| GZA Beneath the Surface |
| Helmet Meantime |
| Helmet Betty |
| Ice Cube The Predator |
| Ice Cube Death Certificate |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| In Flames Colony |
| In Flames Clayman |
| In Flames Whoracle |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind |
| Iron Maiden Killers |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint |
| Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith |
| Judas Priest Painkiller |
| Judas Priest Killing Machine |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies |
| Korn Follow the Leader |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn |
| letlive. Speak Like You Talk |
| The first 3 songs make this a 3.5 already. Add in Incest as a Legacy and it's a 4. Totally different than their newer material. This is a rawer Letlive. Sometimes bending the line between Post Hardcore and Metalcore. But it's still letlive. Some great hooks, some great riffs, and abundant energy from Mr. Butler. |
| Lostprophets The Fake Sound Of Progress |
| This album encompassed my childhood like the typical "Hybrid Theory" or "Iowa", but this album held something different. Lostprophets were not just more proficient at their instruments, (no seriously, Lee Gaze can play), but they felt much more sincere than the average "nu metal" band. Lee Gaze is impressive on this album, especially in the chorus of "...And She Told Me to Leave", "Kobrakai", and the ever metal "Handsome Life of Swing." Where this album fails to be a classic is the fact it holds some very forgettable songs. "Awkward" is just filler, "Still Laughing" takes too long to come to a dramatic conclusion, and "A Thousand Apologies" has too much dj scratching for my liking. But the first 6 tracks plus "For Sure" and "Ode to Summer" rule. The interludes are also entertaining. All in all, very good debut that the band followed with another very competent album. |
| Ludacris Word Of Mouf |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor |
| Machine Head Hellalive |
| Machine Head The Blackening |
| Mastodon Remission |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica Metallica |
| MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous |
| Mos Def Black on Both Sides |
| Motorhead 1916 |
| Motorhead Inferno |
| Motorhead Another Perfect Day |
| Motorhead Rock 'N' Roll |
| Mr. Bungle Disco Volante |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 |
| Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come |
| Muse Absolution |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Nas STILLmatic |
| Nas It Was Written |
| Nile In Their Darkened Shrines |
| Nile Annihilation of the Wicked |
| Nile Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka |
| Nile Those Whom the Gods Detest |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Nonpoint Statement |
| Nonpoint Development |
| Northlane Singularity |
| Nothingface Violence |
| Nothingface An Audio Guide to Everyday Atrocity |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth Watershed |
| OutKast Stankonia |
| OutKast ATLiens |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power |
| Pantera Reinventing the Steel |
| Pearl Jam Vs. |
| Primus Frizzle Fry |
| Quicksand Manic Compression |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium |
| Sepultura Beneath the Remains |
| Shadows Fall The Art of Balance |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss |
| Slayer Reign in Blood |
| Slayer South of Heaven |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Snot Strait Up |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple |
| Sublime Sublime |
| Sunny Day Real Estate How It Feels To Be Something On |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| Taproot Gift |
| Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog |
| The Beatles Let It Be |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Beatles Help! |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| The Pharcyde Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| Thursday Full Collapse |
| Tool Undertow |
| Tristania Beyond the Veil |
| Tristania Widow's Weeds |
| Type O Negative October Rust |
| Type O Negative Bloody Kisses |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| 3.0 good |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' |
| A Static Lullaby A Static Lullaby |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
| Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Thug World Order |
| Chimaira Pass Out of Existence |
| This album really didn't help Chimaira's career at all. It didn't sell shit, didn't have a decent single, and there was virtually no promotion. But, I feel as if there are a lot of good ideas displayed throughout this album. The black metal atmosphere of "Sphere" and "Let Go" along with some death metal influences from "This Present Darkness" appear on this album and make songs like "Dead Inside" and "Painting the White to Grey" sound a little less nu-metal. The main problem with this album is that the production sucks, too many samples. Rob Arnold and Jason Hagar can play faster than many Nu-metal guitarists, but their riffs are boring. Andols is the best member of the band on this album but after 8 songs it's the same double-bass pattern over and over, and Mark Hunter doesn't do anything special. Mediocre cleans, bad "poor poor me" lyrics, and screams that sound like they don't belong on this album. I recommend "Dead Inside", "Severed", "Lumps", "Painting the White to Grey", and "Sphere." Oh, and their other albums. |
| Chimaira Crown of Phantoms |
I don't know why I expected more, as Chimaira haven't really had a great album since
Resurrection. The Infection and Age of Hell were good, but never got to the level of
Impossibility of Reason, their Self Titled, or Resurrection. I thought Emil Werstler would
provide some life into the band. Maybe, just maybe, he could be what propels the band from
good to great. Well, the answer is no. Yet again we get Ok riffs, ok drumming, some cool
solos, but Mark Hunter sounds about as unenthusiastic as ever. There are some good
headbanging moments, but they are so few and far between that it looks like the band yet
again walks the tight rope of consistently good, but not great, metal. |
| Cold Cold |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists |
| Eminem Infinite |
| Hatebreed Rise of Brutality |
| Hatebreed Supremacy |
| Hellyeah Hellyeah |
| Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose |
| Jay-Z Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life |
| Kittie Spit |
| Korn Korn III: Remember Who You Are |
| Machine Head The More Things Change... |
| Nelly Country Grammar |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth |
| Sepultura Roots |
| Slayer God Hates Us All |
| SOiL Redefine |
| Spineshank The Height of Callousness |
| Spineshank Strictly Diesel |
Strictly Diesel is the debut album by Industrial/Nu-Metal band Spineshank, and it features
some of their best material and also some of their worst. The band's mix of hardcore, metal,
and industrial sounds work to their advantage on songs such as 40 Below, Grey, and Intake.
Then you have some songs like 28 and Mend which offer nothing. The former is just an overall
bland song, while the latter is just a bunch of whispering and a boring chorus. Overall not
a terrible album but the band went on to create much better material. |
| Staind Dysfunction |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip |
| Testament Low |
| Trivium Shogun |
