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5.0 classic
A Day To Remember Homesick (Special Deluxe Edition)
This rating is for the package, not for the actual album (which is a 4/5 for me.) Even though I don't feel great about giving Victory Records money, this release contains the original CD with two extra tracks, a DVD with live tracks, music videos and a documentary and a nice booklet to tie it all together. It's very good value if you feel like buying any music nowadays, but if you want to support the band, consider just buying the special edition of their newest album "Bad Vibrations".
Amenra Mass V
AMENRA surpass their influences/peers to truly come into their own on Mass V. For its four track, 42 minute length, they don't waste a moment, using every single second to create an omnious, brooding atmosphere towards its crushing crescendos. I was originally had gripes with the (somewhat grating at first) vocals, but after listening through this a couple of times, they've truly grown on me.

I would write a review for this, but honestly, I see no point. If you have an interest in atmospheric metal/rock, this is a must-listen. Don't waste your time reading a lengthy review, go listen to it now!
Burial Untrue
Converge Jane Doe
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind
Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway
Cult of Luna Salvation
Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance
Although Happiness would feature some of their finest songs, this is their finest album. Kurt
Travis is my favourite DGD singer precisely because he's not a "perfect" singer like Jonny and
Tilian are, and a fantastic match for the angular yet melodic style DGD are known for. Harsh
vocalist Jon's vocalists are considerably less harsh on this release, and while he'll peak as a
vocalist on Downtown Battle Mountain II, here he's a lot less obnoxious and overbearing. The
songwriting has also been stepped up considerably and is much less repetitive, with everything
blending together relatively well for the band.
Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance (Instrumental)
Dangers Anger
Danny Brown XXX
Deftones White Pony
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
mewithoutYou A to B: Life
Modern Life Is War Witness
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Opeth Blackwater Park
Almost perfect release, but would be improved with the removal of Dirge for November and The Funeral Portrait. Dirge for November is a simply boring song, whereas The Funeral Portrait feels more like Opeth going through the motions compared to the rest of the album's triumphs. There's still so many moments that are captivating on every listen, which usually come from the more melodic sections on the album (Bleak's chorus, Harvest, The Drapery Falls) but they wouldn't feel as impactful without the more punishing moments on here that still strike a balance between the brutality and the beautiful.
Opeth In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall
Radiohead OK Computer
Radiohead In Rainbows
System of a Down Toxicity
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity
A masterpiece in intricate intensity. They nailed the sound they were going for so hard that they had to switch sounds for their next album because there's no way they could have topped it.
Thrice Vheissu
Thursday Common Existence

4.5 superb
Aoria The Constant
Listened to it once; it's a lot like Katatonia, but with superior songwriting. The potential they've alluded to on their EPs has been delivered on, and it is wonderful. Shame this will be overshadowed. Definitely going to be one of the most overlooked releases in 2012.
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
August Burns Red Rescue & Restore
Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God
Bloodbath Breeding Death
Bloodbath The Wacken Carnage
Botch We Are the Romans
Burial Burial
Callisto Noir
An incredibly excellent album - the vocals are however a tad too harsh and don't really fit with the more serene, melancholic music. The song Backwoods is also mere filler.
Caninus Now The Animals Have A Voice
This is obviously a joke - I mean why would they have a track called "Studio Guy Gets Pissed" if they weren't a joke. I'm rating this 4.5 just to bump the rating up higher. R.I.P. Basil the dog
Cat Company Cat Company
Cephalic Carnage Anomalies
I put this on on a whim and accidentally wound up listening to the thing. I really underrated this album vs Lucid Interval, which I previously loved a lot. So much variety and yet it basically feels like it doesn't let up. Goddamn.
Circa Survive On Letting Go
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo
Clipse Hell Hath No Fury
Converge You Fail Me
Crisis Sigil Crisis Sigil
Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II
Dangers Messy, Isn't It?
Daughters Hell Songs
Deafheaven New Bermuda
Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Defeater Lost Ground
Defeater Travels
Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist
Depeche Mode Violator
Drowning Pool Sinner
One of the finest nu metal albums ever recorded (well, probably as good as nu metal can get anyway). They took an incredible nosedive after this release into hard rock mediocrity after this release that they have never recovered from. The songs are still incredibly memorable to this day, even if Bodies is laughable.
Dystopia Human = Garbage
Gaza He Is Never Coming Back
Glass Bones Seasons
Glass Bones The Hope In Forgiving & Giving Up Hope
Godflesh A World Lit Only by Fire
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
IDYLLS Amps For God/Plague Hell
IDYLLS Farewell All Joy
Ill Nino Revolution/Revolucion
ISIS Panopticon
ISIS Wavering Radiant
ISIS Celestial
Joyce Manor Joyce Manor
Juneva A Cambiata
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West The College Dropout
Kanye West Late Registration
Katatonia Viva Emptiness (10th Anniversary Version)
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly
Linkin Park Meteora
mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister
Mr. Bungle California
Muse Origin of Symmetry
Ne Obliviscaris Citadel
Neurosis Through Silver In Blood
Opeth Damnation
Opeth Ghost Reveries
Opeth Deliverance
Opeth Still Life
Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse
Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes
Opeth The Candlelight Years
Rage Against the Machine Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium (DVD)
Reel Big Fish Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live
Reel Big Fish Favourite Noise
Has most of the best songs from Turn the Radio Off and Why Do They Rock So Hard?, but you're better off getting them individually - this release lacks such great songs like Join the Club, Skatanic, All I Want is More, Say "Ten", Alternative Baby, Brand New Song, Thank You For Not Moshing, Everything is Cool, Scott's a Dork and Down in Flames. Why the hell is Snoop Dog, Baby here but those songs aren't?
Rosetta A Determinism of Morality
Russian Circles Empros
Russian Circles Geneva
Safe Hands Montenegro
Saosin Translating the Name
SeeYouSpaceCowboy/secondgradeknifefight SYSC​/​/​SGKF Split
Set Your Goals Mutiny!
Shoji Meguro Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne OST
Sophie Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
Spineshank The Height of Callousness
Suffocate For Fuck Sake Blazing Fires and Helicopters...
The Acacia Strain Continent
Their best album - which is unfortunately paired with muddy production. Not album ruining, and you
can get past it but if only this had the production job of The Dead Walk.
The Acacia Strain Money For Nothing
Despite this clearly being a cashgrab - this is quite a good collection of songs. "Money for Nothing" is a fun The Dead Walks B-side, "Global Warming" and "Stay Puft" are great Continent B-sides and the versions of "The Hills Have Eyes" and "Terminated" are superior to the ones that came out on Wormwood due to having a lot more energy - I kinda wish the rest of that album was closer to these versions. Of course, the band never consented to this release, so just torrent this shit instead of paying for it.
The Acacia Strain The Most Known Unknown
A great collection of live songs taken from the best era of The Acacia Strain (2004 - 2008), including some songs from 3750 that they rarely play live anymore.
The Angelic Process We All Die Laughing
The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand
The Chariot One Wing
The Cure Disintegration
The Dear Hunter Indigo
The Dear Hunter Black
The Dear Hunter Red
The Dear Hunter Blue
The Dear Hunter Violet
The Dear Hunter White
The Dear Hunter Yellow
The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection)
The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors
The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II
Thursday Full Collapse
Thursday War All the Time
Trap Them Darker Handcraft
Ulver Nattens Madrigal
The biggest joke Ulver ever played on us was crafting an album of masterful black metal, and just
pairing it with a notoriously deliberately awful production job. If this had decent production, it
would still be considered a masterpiece even sans its current reputation. Thankfully there was a
remaster released recently that's still not exactly hi-fi, but nonetheless it's no longer ear-
splitting after too long. This score is for that version. The original gets a 3.5 - similar
reasons for my score on Kayo Dot's Gamma Knife.
Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler
Ulver Perdition City
United Nations United Nations
Waking The Cadaver Demo
EVERYTHING SOUNDS SO MUCH MORE BROOTAL ON THIS RELEASE, Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler fucked up the sound. They are incompetent musicians to be sure at this point in time, but that's part of the fun.

4.0 excellent
A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You
A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart
A Day To Remember Homesick
A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart (Reissue)
Adema Adema
Agalloch The Mantle
Agoraphobic Nosebleed Altered States of America
Agoraphobic Nosebleed Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope
Akercocke Antichrist
Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken...
Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today
Aoria I Know You Came Here to Erase Me
This band needs to make a full album sometime, and they definitely need to be more well-known than they are.
Aoria If I Slow Down Everything Will Disappear
Arcade Fire Funeral
Architects Nightmares
As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest
Battle Of Mice A Day of Nights
Battles Gloss Drop
Behold... The Arctopus Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning EP
Between the Buried and Me Colors
Between the Buried and Me Alaska
blink-182 Enema Of The State
Bloc Party Silent Alarm
Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage
Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh
Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery
Bloodbath Unblessing the Purity
Bones (USA-CA) DEADBOY
Due to its short length and huge variety, "DEADBOY" manages to be the best Bones release. Solid songs across the board that take advantage of the excellent atmosphere. Lyrically it's nothing special, but if you're drawn in by the aforementioned atmosphere they can be ignored somewhat.
Borknagar The Olden Domain
Botch American Nervoso
Bring Me The Horizon Sempiternal
Callisto True Nature Unfolds
Has some good ideas, but overall the band seems like they are in a rush. They have yet to learn how to build atmosphere effectively through repetition and transitions. However, they get it more or less right on their next album, Noir.
Callisto Ordeal Of The Century
Very different from their later material - this is more of a straight-forward early 2000s metalcore release than the post-metal sound that they would later lean on. Whereas the harsh vocals in the next two albums don't fit so well, on this album on they blend together great with the aggressive instrumentals. The final track is probably the only track that features any post-metal elements, but it's still a lot heavier than any of their later material. Worth a check out if you're a fan of the band and want to see where they came from, or if you're a fan of bands such as Converge, Botch and early Cave In.
Chimaira Coming Alive
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise
Converge Axe to Fall
Converge No Heroes
Cult of Luna The Beyond
Cult of Luna Cult of Luna
Not the sound Cult of Luna features today, but still excellent in its own way.
Dance Gavin Dance Happiness
A sublime first half let down by an inconsistent second. If this album ended at the title track, it would be a full, hard 5.
Daughters Daughters
Deafheaven Sunbather
Deafheaven Roads to Judah
Deftones Deftones
Deftones Diamond Eyes
Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour
Entombed Left Hand Path
This is killer when you combine with the old Doom games. Took awhile for the vocals to grow on me since I'm used to newer, deeper death growls but now I love them. Clandestine suffers as a result with the lack of vocals from L.G. Petrov.
Explosions in the Sky The Rescue
Falls of Rauros Into the Archaic (Demo)
Farrah Abraham My Teenage Dream Ended
Baffling and yet surprisingly engaging. Unironically an accidental avant-pop masterwork. The best part of it is that she recorded her vocals to a click track and the beats were made after the fact - but it doesn't even seem they made beats that even matched up with what she was singing. I wouldn't have it any other way - her 2014 single Blowin' is much more conventional, with a beat that actually matches her vocals and as a result the charm is completely lost. Fans of 100 gecs should seek this out.
Four Year Strong Rise Or Die Trying
Full of Hell Weeping Choir
Full of Hell and Merzbow Full of Hell and Merzbow
Gaza I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die
Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous
Glass Cloud The Royal Thousand
God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers
Hand of Mercy The Fallout
If These Trees Could Talk If These Trees Could Talk
Ill Nino One Nation Underground
Their second greatest album, behind "Revolution Revolucion", and their heaviest until "Epidemia". A good mix of the heavy side of nu metal and metalcore with pop rock sensibility leads to success here, as opposed as a lot of the dreadful tracks on "Confession". "This is War", "My Resurrection" and "Violent Saint" exemplify their heavier side, whereas "What You Deserve" and "All I Ask For" embody the pop rock side.
Ill Nino Epidemia
I'm pleasantly surprised by this release; I didn't like Dead New World as much as everybody else seemed to, but this one is a true step up from that. It retains certain similarities except it's actually heavy, yet feels organic in comparison to that. And no awful unnecessary covers of Smashing Pumpkins this time, which is always a plus.
Intronaut Void
Jeromes Dream Completed
Katatonia Viva Emptiness
Katatonia Live Consternation
Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
Kendrick Lamar Overly Dedicated
Kendrick Lamar Section.80
Korn Follow the Leader
Korn Korn
Korn Issues
Mansun Attack of the Grey Lantern
Massive Attack Mezzanine
Massive Attack Protection
Mastodon Leviathan
Mastodon Blood Mountain
Mastodon Crack the Skye
Muse Absolution
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
NAILS Unsilent Death
NAILS Abandon All Life
Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I
NOFX Coaster
Northlane Node
Northlane (mostly) break from their metalcore trappings and stereotypes to deliver a fulfilling release. Hopefully they will continue to tear away, as the experimentation and melodic elements on this album are its biggest accomplishments, making Northlane likely one of the most adventurous bands in the scene at the moment. While they're losing their "heaviness", it isn't necessarily for pop accessibility a la modern BMTH, they seem interested in crafting some interesting music. Soma, Obelisk, Leech and Animate come through as the best songs on the album, while Impulse falls short with generic lyrics about how we're all too connected to the digital world at the moment. Very insightful, grandpa.
Novembre Classica
Opeth Watershed
Opeth Morningrise
Opeth Lamentations
Parkway Drive Horizons
Pendulum Immersion
Pendulum In Silico
Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon
Radiohead Amnesiac
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Radiohead Kid A
Radiohead The King of Limbs
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine
Reel Big Fish Turn the Radio Off
Reel Big Fish Why Do They Rock So Hard?
Scarred by Beauty We Swim
Secret Band Secret Band EP
Senses Fail If There Is Light, It Will Find You
Septicflesh Communion
Shoji Meguro Persona 3 OST
Sigur Ros Takk...
Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit
Spineshank Self Destructive Pattern
Static-X Machine
Static-X Start A War
Sugar Wounds Sugar Wounds
System of a Down System of a Down
Tame Impala Innerspeaker
The Acacia Strain 3750
The Acacia Strain The Dead Walk
The Acacia Strain It Comes in Waves
Damn, they had this in them? Incredible. It reminds me of the atmospheric moments on Death is the Only Mortal and their song Observer. Cool to see Vincent have a bit more range besides his usual deep growl (and rare high scream) too. I hope they make another album like this someday, because the Coma Witch style is getting old. Their best work as a whole since Continent. Also, they should keep self-producing their albums - because the production is on this is MUCH better than the last two.
The Acacia Strain D
The Body and Full Of Hell One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
The Contortionist Intrinsic
The Dear Hunter Green
The Dear Hunter Orange
The Devil Wears Prada 8:18
The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne
The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board
The Faceless Planetary Duality
The Red Chord Clients
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety
Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler
Awful and yet strangely enjoyable. Misogynistic and abhorrent lyrics for sure, but thankfully they're unintelligble. It's honestly better to imagine that he's talking about shredded wheat or some shit.
Weezer Pinkerton
When Knives Go Skyward A Thousand Miles of Rope
Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza's guitarist Joshua Travis and Frontier's vocalist Chad Kapper were in a band back in the day, just found out.rThis is a mathcore match made in heaven. However, upon second listen it's not quite as incredible as previously thought - doesn't come quite as close to Frontierer. Still, worth checking out
Wormed Exodromos

3.5 great
Adema Unstable
At first I was disappointed that most of the songs weren't nu metal like their last album. However - the lighter songs grew on me quite a lot. They feel incredibly honest and while Mark's voice is usually quite similar to his half-brother Jonathan Davis, it's a lot sweeter in songs like these and fits the music very well. "Unstable" is a better nu metal song than anything from their debut, "Rip the Heart Out of Me" is decent but pretty repetitive, "Needles" is easily their heaviest song by far with Marky's vicious screams all throughout the song and "Stand Up", which features the same themes of domestic violence as The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus's "Face Down" has lyrics so on-the-nose that it makes that song seem like absolute poetry.
Agalloch From Which of This Oak
ASAP Ferg Trap Lord
Attack Attack! Attack Attack!
Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus
Borknagar The Archaic Course
Bring Me The Horizon Suicide Season
Chimaira Pass Out of Existence
Chimaira Resurrection
Chimaira The Infection
Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One
Blends together too much that it's an incredibly overwhelming listen. You really have to listen to this one in sessions. I appreciate their newer sludgey heavy sound, but there isn't quite as much variety as there was on Roots.
Cult of Luna Vertikal
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain
Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification
Danny Brown Old
Deftones Adrenaline
Deftones Around the Fur
Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Dream Theater Train of Thought
Emmure Goodbye To The Gallows
Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree
Fear Factory Demanufacture
First Signs Of Frost Atlantic
Flatbush Zombies BetterOffDEAD
God Is an Astronaut A Moment of Stillness
Godflesh Streetcleaner
Hands Like Houses Dissonants
Ill Nino Enigma
In Flames Clayman
In Mourning Shrouded Divine
Infant Annihilator The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch
Joyce Manor Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired
While their debut embodies youthful energy, this release (with the exception of their fast-paced cover of "Video Killed the Radio Star") is an expression of feeling so tired, so tired that they couldn't be bothered to record an album beyond 13 minutes long. If you compare it to their self-titled (as most people naturally will do), it falls short but on its own it's a very emotional interesting indie rock release, even if it doesn't feel quite as fleshed out as it should. The first four tracks flow incredibly well together but the tracks after don't quite mesh together the same. It's hard to dislike an album with a song as relatable as "I'm Always Tired".
Kayo Dot Gamma Knife
I don't know how I was able to put up with the production quality of the metal tracks on here.
There's so many interesting ideas on here and this music is so dense that it DEMANDS higher
fidelity. It frustrates me in the same way Ulver's Nattens Madgrial does - any sense of atmosphere
gained by an oppressive, unclean recording is overshadowed by a feeling that these incredibly
interesting songs just aren't been served by their recording quality. Considering the financial
cost of recording music as dense and detailed as Kayo Dot's, it's understandable why they went
with this route but thank god they crowdfunded for Hubardo.
Korn Deuce DVD
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight
Mansun Six
Massive Attack vs. Burial Four Walls/Paradise Circus
Mastodon Remission
maudlin of the Well Bath
maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map
maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible
Muse Black Holes & Revelations
My Dying Bride An Ode to Woe
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral
North What You Were
Novembre Novembrine Waltz
Opeth Orchid
Opeth Apostle in Triumph
Pantera Vulgar Display of Power
Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile
Parkway Drive Atlas
Porcupine Tree In Absentia
Radiohead The Bends
Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles
Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire
Reel Big Fish Cheer Up!
Reel Big Fish We're Not Happy 'Till You're Not Happy
Lacks a lot of the fun from their previous albums. I mean, sure, it still is, but their bitterness is palpable and seeps through all of the music. Still pretty good though, and beats all the stuff they released after this.
Robinson The Great City
ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron
Shoji Meguro Persona 4 OST
Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
Spineshank Strictly Diesel
Could have done with trimming, particularly near the end of the album and some of the songs sound kinda similar. Still pretty great though. They definitely improved a lot later.
Static-X Shadow Zone
System of a Down Mezmerize
The Acacia Strain Wormwood
The Acacia Strain Coma Witch
Superior songwriting to the last full-length, but the production isn't as heavy as it should be. It sounds incredibly muddy, which is a shame as the excellent production of their previous album was its biggest strengths. Despite being 33% longer than "Death Is the Only Mortal", it actually feels a lot shorter. Highlights are mainly around the first half of the album, but the second half is no slouch either, with the 27-minute experimental final track working surprisingly well for them. Their sound is starting to lose its potency however, so here's hoping they'll come back with some killer stuff on their next one.
The Acacia Strain Above/Below
The Amity Affliction Chasing Ghosts
The Aquabats The Fury of the Aquabats!
The Aquabats . . . Vs. the Floating Eye of Death!
The Aquabats Charge!!
The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below
Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement

3.0 good
A Day To Remember Old Record
A Day To Remember Bad Vibrations
Akercocke The Goat of Mendes
ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP
ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP.
Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me
Bring Me The Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It...
Chief Keef Finally Rich
Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason
Cloudkicker Beacons
Very overrated. You'd think that instrumental music would be a little less repetitive and try to keep your attention through its constantly changing nature. Beacons doesn't do this exactly, it always seems like sections drag on for far too long.
Cult of Luna Cult of Luna (EP)
Emmure Felony
Fear Factory Archetype
God Is an Astronaut The End of the Beginning
Godsmack Godsmack
It sounds pretty good at first but gets old fast. However - Moon Baby, Whatever and Voodoo still kick immense amounts of arse.
Godsmack Awake
Hand of Mercy Thrash The Party
HEALTH Get Color
Korn Life Is Peachy
Korn Take a Look in the Mirror
Milking the Goatmachine Back From The Goats
this is like the most brutal goat-related death metal I have ever heard, it makes me horny for goats
Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come
Muse Showbiz
Nine Inch Nails The Slip
Of Mice and Men Restoring Force
Opeth Deliverance & Damnation Remixed
I'll need to listen more closely to the Damnation remaster to tell the differences but
Deliverance's bass drums are far too prominent and they nearly ruin certain songs. The biggest
example of this is on Master's Apprentices. I never personally had a huge problem with
Deliverance's mix, it may not be as pristine as Blackwater Park's but it didn't hurt the album too
much IMO, whereas this one did.
Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da
Rammstein Rosenrot
Reel Big Fish Everything Sucks
Reel Big Fish Monkeys for Nothin' and The Chimps...
Serj Tankian Elect the Dead
Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip
Suicide Silence The Black Crown
System of a Down Steal This Album!
System of a Down Hypnotize
That's Outrageous! Teenage Scream
The Acacia Strain Death Is the Only Mortal
The Acacia Strain C
well now I have no idea what it's gonna spell. probably DECAY
The Aquabats The Return of the Aquabats
The Dillinger Escape Plan The Dillinger Escape Plan
The Underachievers Indigoism
Torsofuck Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy
Torsofuck are an example of how not to use samples. I'm fairly certain that over half the album is just the samples. Shame, because I like the music within - it's just a pain to skip through the fucking samples to get to the actual songs.

2.5 average
A Day To Remember And Their Name Was Treason
A Day To Remember Common Courtesy
Too much filler to surpass their previous excellent three releases, with few standouts. Best tracks are the first 4 tracks, "Violence" and "The Document..." Too many similar acoustic tracks and "Life Lessons..." feels so obligatory so they can have a heavy track like "2nd Sucks" but... I guess the 2nd (example) sucks.
A Day To Remember Halos for Heros, Dirt for the Dead
A Day To Remember Resentment
Akercocke Choronzon
A bloated album, with pointless pompous interludes that are impossible to take seriously. However, "Praise the Name of Satan" is simply Akercocke's best song, blending their earlier extremity with their later progressive sound. "Leviathan", "Valley of the Crucified" and "Son of the Morning" are also very interesting tracks. The rest are either interludes or incredibly mediocre "heavy" tracks - four of the tracks here sound like they have the same intro for crying out loud!
Borknagar Epic
Darke Complex Point Oblivion
Disturbed Indestructible
Dope Felons And Revolutionaries
Emmure Slave To The Game
Emmure Look At Yourself
Filter Short Bus
Hand of Mercy Last Lights
BREAKDOWNS BREAKDOWNS BREAKDOWNS. There are some decent songs on it, however.
Ill Nino Confession
Ill Nino The Undercover Sessions EP
Job For A Cowboy Doom
Korn Untouchables
Korn See You on the Other Side
Linkin Park Underground 6
Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar
Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...)
Parkway Drive Deep Blue
Perspectives Blind
The lyrics really bring this whole thing down, since they're really unignorable... the repetition of the word "blind" just annoys me to no end.
Snot Get Some
Suicide Silence The Cleansing
Songs such as Unanswered, Hands of a Killer, No Pity For A Coward and Bludgeoned to Death are pretty fun, but the rest of the album doesn't vary enough from this template to remain interesting.
The Acacia Strain E
thankful that they're giving us more, but D was better

2.0 poor
ASAP Rocky At.Long.Last.A$AP
Despised Icon Beast
This would have been mediocre in the mid 2000s and doesn't fare any better nowadays. "The Aftermath", "One Last Martini" (a re-recording of a song written 10 years ago) and the title track are highlights, but most of the songs here show their death metal-injected style of deathcore to sound terribly one note. "Bad Vibes" is absolutely awful - it makes me wonder if the people who accused them of being tough guy stereotypes after "MVP" came out were right.
Disturbed Believe
Disturbed The Sickness
Dope Life
Fear Factory Obsolete
Five Finger Death Punch War Is The Answer
Godsmack Faceless
IDYLLS Indian Circle
in comparison to how amazing Farewell All Joy was, this is just an awful change in style. Props for experimenting, but it doesn't work in this case.
Korn Untitled
Muse The Resistance
Opeth Burden
Powerman 5000 Tonight the Stars Revolt
Static-X Cannibal
The Acacia Strain Gravebloom
The songwriting's hasn't really changed much since Above/Below. maybe I'd bump this if I hadn't heard Coma Witch.rIt's strange expecting The Acacia Strain to do something different but I didn't expect them to do something that was exactly the same.rAt least the production is better this time around.rWhat's with Vincent's lyric patterns too? I think he's done this for awhile but it seems he rhymes every single word like AA/BB without fail.
The Ocean Anthropocentric

1.5 very poor
Adema Topple the Giants
Coal Chamber Coal Chamber
Disturbed Asylum
Drowning Pool Desensitized
Emmure Eternal Enemies
Hollywood Undead Swan Songs
Undead, Sell Your Soul, Young and Black Dahila are great catchy songs (despite their childish lyrics)... however, the rest of the album is just incredibly awful hip-hop, like low-tier Eminem.
Ill Nino Dead New World
Murderdolls Women and Children Last
Suicide Silence Suicide Silence
Threatin Breaking the World
Heard a bit of it - it's not the worst thing in the world but definitely below par for metal. I don't think he's a lost cause in terms of musical talent but his career (if it ever had any hope of being alive) will be tainted forever from his antics.

1.0 awful
Anal Cunt Fuckin' A
Anal Cunt 110 Song CD
Anal Cunt Defenders of the Hate
Anal Cunt The 88 Song EP
Anal Cunt It Just Gets Worse
Anal Cunt Picnic of Love
Anal Cunt I Like It When You Die
Fuck Anal Cunt and fuck Seth Putnam. I'm glad this Nazi cunt who cloaked his edgy bigotry with irony is fucking dead. Good riddance. He gave grind a bad name and literally every single other band playing this style is better. Ethan from Primitive Man agrees - https://i.imgur.com/0mysjxN.jpg
Anal Cunt Top 40 Hits
Anal Cunt 40 More Reasons To Hate Us
Anal Cunt Everyone Should Be Killed
Anal Cunt Wearing Out Our Welcome
Anal Trump To All the Broads I've Nailed Before
Attila About That Life
Their previous stuff was tolerable for what it was but this album just falls into self-parody. Absolutely awful stuff.
fail better, heal faster fail better, heal faster
Godsmack IV
Honestly doesn't live up to Awake and their S/T, and completely forgettable.
Kerser The Nebulizer
Typical generic Aussie hip-hop that doesn't have anything special going for it.
Peosphoros Pink Metal
Oh great, just what we need - the Anal Cunt of black metal.
Reel Big Fish Greatest Hit... And More
Fuck this album and fuck Jive, what a total cashgrab.
Static-X Cult Of Static
It's sad that this is the album they ended the band on. Very few redeeming qualities on this release. The lyrics are abysmal and clunky, which matches the restrictively mechanical instrumentals. We're talking mechanical in terms of a rusted, dangerous factory machine, not a well-oiled sleek machine like Meshuggah. The vocals are the most monotonous I've ever heard as well. The only decent songs on here that rise above this dreadful sludge were the ones co-written with Tony Campos (Lunatic, Z28 and Stringwray) as the rest were written solely by Wayne Static. I bought this album on release and I have no idea why I haven't just thrown it out, it's that worthless.
Tougher Than Nails Delusional Blasphemies Destroyed
Vaginal Jesus Affirmative Apartheid
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