| 4.0 excellent |
| Aephanemer Prokopton |
| Aephanemer A Dream Of Wilderness |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World |
| Amorphis Tuonela |
| Amorphis Circle |
| Amorphis Elegy |
| Amorphis Queen of Time |
| Angel Vivaldi Universal Language |
| Angel Vivaldi Away With Words - Part I |
| Angel Vivaldi Revelations |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin |
| Band of Skulls Sweet Sour |
| Band of Skulls Himalayan |
| Be'lakor The Frail Tide |
| Before The Dawn The Ghost |
| Before The Dawn Deadlight |
| Big Wreck The Pleasure and the Greed |
| Billy Joel The Nylon Curtain |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Dark Tranquillity Haven |
| Dark Tranquillity Construct |
| A fine achievement. An eclectic blend of styles that comes together in a creative and atmospheric tornado that places the listener in the in the center of the storm, at peace within the chaos. |
| Dark Tranquillity Projector |
| Dark Tranquillity Zero Distance |
| Dark Tranquillity Moment |
| Dark Tranquillity A Memory Construct |
| Dark Tranquillity The Mind's I |
| Deathwhite Solitary Martyr |
| Depeche Mode Playing The Angel |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Crocodiles |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson II |
| Eluveitie Origins |
| Eluveitie Slania |
| Enshine Singularity |
| Enshine Origin |
| Eternal Storm Come the Tide |
| Evergrey The Atlantic |
| Evergrey Hymns for the Broken |
| Fates Warning Theories of Flight |
| Fates Warning Perfect Symmetry |
| Ihsahn Arktis. |
| In Flames Foregone |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself |
| Insomnium Across the Dark |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun |
| Insomnium Winter's Gate |
| Jinjer King of Everything |
| Kalmah Swampsong |
| Kamelot Haven |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day |
| Katatonia Dethroned & Uncrowned |
| Katatonia City Burials |
| Khemmis Hunted |
| Khemmis Desolation |
| Killing Joke Night Time |
| Killing Joke MMXII |
| Killing Joke Pylon |
| King's X Dogman |
| King's X King's X |
| King's X Gretchen Goes to Nebraska |
| Lacuna Coil Comalies |
| Lacuna Coil Unleashed Memories |
| Lacuna Coil Black Anima |
| Lights The Listening |
| Lights Siberia Acoustic |
| I have a soft spot for this lil lady. Another great release. |
| Lights iTunes Session |
| Lights Skin and Earth |
| A couple of tracks are DOA, but there are also a few tracks I can't seem to take of repeat. Magnetic Field is galactic spaciness at its catchy best with an asteroid belt of melancholy expanding within. Almost had me is vintage Lights through and through. This chick has a gift for melody. |
| Lissie Catching a Tiger |
| Loudness Lightning Strikes |
| Loudness Thunder In The East |
| Magna Carta Cartel Goodmorning Restrained |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand |
| Megadeth Youthanasia |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Moonsorrow Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa |
| Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja |
| Moonsorrow Voimasta ja kunniasta |
| Moonsorrow Suden uni |
| Moonspell Extinct |
| Norther Mirror of Madness |
| Novembre Ursa |
| Obscura A Valediction |
| Omnium Gatherum Beyond |
| Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows |
| Omnium Gatherum The Burning Cold |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth Pale Communion |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Perturbator I Am The Night |
| Finally some decent trance(y) music. Shades of the ol rave days from the mid-late 90s mixed with 80s John Carpenter horror flick vibe. |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| PVRIS White Noise |
| PVRIS Acoustic |
| Queensryche Promised Land |
| Queensryche Operation: Livecrime |
| Queensryche Queensryche |
| Queensryche Digital Noise Alliance |
| Riverside Out of Myself |
| Riverside Second Life Syndrome |
| Rush Presto |
| Rush Counterparts |
| Rush Roll the Bones |
| Rush Snakes & Arrows |
| Rush Vapor Trails |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe |
| Scar Symmetry Symmetric in Design |
| Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase I: Neohumanity |
| Scardust Strangers |
| Soen Tellurian |
| Soilwork Natural Born Chaos |
| Soilwork The Ride Majestic |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside |
| Spacehog Resident Alien |
| Testament Titans of Creation |
| The Agonist Prisoners |
| The Cult Sonic Temple |
| The Halo Effect Days of the Lost |
| The Naked and Famous Passive Me, Aggressive You |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic |
| The Pretty Reckless Light Me Up |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| Tool Undertow |
| Tribulation Down Below |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar |
| Unleash The Archers Abyss |
| Unleash The Archers Phantoma |
| While not reaching the heights of its predecessors, this record maintains its focus on a retro-futuristic, Blade Runner inspired story of sentient AI breaking out of its technological restraints to explore humanity, not finding what it expected. The band explores a more synth-driven sound, with really only a couple of minor missteps. Obviously, the theme is right up my alley, and I am digging the music. As usual, Slayes is in top form here. |
| Van Halen Van Halen II |
| W.A.S.P. The Crimson Idol |
| W.A.S.P. ReIdolized (The Soundtrack to the Crimson Idol) |
| Wintersun Time I |
| Wolfheart Winterborn |
| 3.5 great |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods |
| Amon Amarth Jomsviking |
| Amorphis Halo |
| An Abstract Illusion Illuminate the Path |
| Angel Vivaldi The Speed of Dark |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion |
| Arch Enemy Deceivers |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone |
| Before The Dawn Deathstar Rising |
| Before The Dawn My Darkness |
| Black Sabbath Headless Cross |
| Children of Bodom Hexed |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient |
| Devin Townsend Project Z2 |
| Eluveitie Helvetios |
| Evergrey The Storm Within |
| Evergrey A Heartless Portrait (The Orphéan Testament) |
| Haken Affinity |
| In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading |
| In Flames Subterranean |
| In Flames Black-Ash Inheritance |
| In This Moment The Dream |
| In This Moment Mother |
| In This Moment Rise of the Blood Legion Greatest Hits (Chapter 1) |
| Kamelot Ghost Opera |
| King's X Ear Candy |
| Lights Acoustic |
| Lights Lights |
| Lights PEP |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Megadeth Dystopia |
| Norther Till Death Unites Us |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun |
| Queensryche The Warning |
| Queensryche Condition Human |
| Hitting this with a 4.5 for now, simply because it is such a vast improvement over almost everything they have done since Promised Land. I did like the 2013 release, but it was short, and the band sort of played it safe there, so that got rated a tick lower, even though it was also a big improvement. |
| Queensryche The Verdict |
| Rush Fly by Night |
| Rush Hold Your Fire |
| Rush Test for Echo |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress |
| Shores of Null Quiescence |
| An odd blend of oh...Amorphis, Alice in Chains, and Woods of Ypres. Works for the most part, but I am curious to see what they can put out with a bit more writing experience under their collective belt, as there are some dips in quality here and there. Kings of Null slays, though. |
| Soilwork Stabbing the Drama |
| Soilwork Figure Number Five |
| Spacehog The Chinese Album |
| The Agonist Orphans |
| Best thing they have done since Prisoners. Still a couple of dead tracks in the mix, but overall, a step up from the past couple of records. |
| The Naked and Famous In Rolling Waves |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| Tristania Illumination |
| Van Halen Fair Warning |
