| 4.5 superb |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| After the Burial Dig Deep |
| AJJ Knife Man |
| Alex G House Of Sugar |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together |
| Archspire Bleed the Future |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore |
| Being as an Ocean Being As An Ocean |
| Black Sheep Wall Songs for the Enamel Queen |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million |
| Feeling a 4.5 right now, may even bump it up to a 5. Idk what it is, but I absolutely love the direction he went in with this. The effects on the vocals along with the downtempo electronic stuff just work for me. I agree with ciregno tho, the second half is more reminiscent of his old stuff, which I dig for sure. |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Converge The Dusk in Us |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| Daft Punk Homework |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Deftones Ohms |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic |
| Fawn Limbs Sleeper Vessels |
| Fit for an Autopsy Hellbound |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse |
| Four Year Strong Enemy of the World |
| Foxing Nearer My God |
| Frontierer Oxidized |
| Full of Hell Weeping Choir |
| This might be my favorite by them. So many new influences, while retaining that core heavy as FUCK sound. Everything is amped up to 10 on this thing. Dylan sounds absolutely demented, the riffs are much more on point, and the drumming is insane as per usual. |
| Glass Cloud The Royal Thousand |
| Glassjaw Material Control |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Greyhaven This Bright and Beautiful World |
| Hands Like Houses Unimagine |
| Haunted Shores Viscera |
| Heriot Profound Morality |
| This is pretty much exactly what I want out of metallic hardcore. Shit is obscenely heavy, but has enough interesting creative elements (industrial/dark ambient flourishes and interludes) to keep it fresh throughout the course of its short runtime. Very stoked for the future of this band. |
| Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life |
ADSOB was a huge letdown for me (I know I'm in the minority on that one lol). This is a MASSIVE
step up in quality from that album. Love how raw and noisy these songs are. Fuck yeah dude. |
| Leeched To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis |
| Norma Jean All Hail |
| Parkway Drive Horizons |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Omega |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Reflections The Color Clear |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Secret Band LP2 |
| Silverstein This Is How the Wind Shifts |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep |
| The Acacia Strain Wormwood |
| The Acacia Strain It Comes in Waves |
Heads and shoulders above their back catalog. There were glimpses of this new sound on the last couple
albums, but it’s great to see them dive headfirst into it on this release. Their recent output has been very
uninspired and, frankly, boring, so it’s good to see them trying, and succeeding, at a new sound. It’s funny, I’ve
already seen a lot of people dogging this release because it did away with the breakdowns and two steps. I can’t
fathom breakdowns and two steps being the only criteria for judging the quality of a heavy album. |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant |
| The Devil Wears Prada 8:18 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Ghost Inside Returners |
| Easily my favorite album of 2010. Love every song. |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Wild Gods |
Really solid comeback. Lots of variety and their signature blend of spastic mathcore/grind and jazzy parts is as
good as it’s ever been. As always, the instrumental aspect is top notch and Jesse holds things down as the lone
vocalist on this release. Some songs admittedly overstay their welcome and drag on a bit too long and feel more
like a showcase in wankery rather than songwriting, but that’s really my only gripe. Might 4.5 this after more
listens. You should definitely check it out! |
| The Story So Far What You Don't See |
| The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Tool Ænima |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Vein.fm Errorzone |
| Volumes Via |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption |
| Wolves at the Gate VxV |
| 3.5 great |
| A Day To Remember Common Courtesy |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Chelsea Grin Ashes To Ashes |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| Deftones Gore |
| Definitely took several listens for everything to settle in for me. By the third time through, I was hooked. Of the three post-Chi Cheng albums, this is easily the hardest to digest and it's brimming with sludgy guitars, excellent vocals, and a much less optimistic atmosphere. Also, the last two (maybe three, haven't decided if "Gore" is amazing or just good) tracks are PHENOMENAL. |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! |
| Four Year Strong Four Year Strong |
| Picked this album up from their merch table on tour as well, and it absolutely slays. On par with or better than Enemy of the World. |
| Ice Nine Kills Safe Is Just a Shadow |
| meth. Mother of Red Light |
| The shorter songs are pretty great, and Inbred is one of my favorite tracks from 2019. Lots of influence from Canada Songs and Hell Songs-era Daughters, which I really appreciate. However, the longer tracks (Psalm of Life and The Walls, They Whisper) really made the latter half of the album a trudge to get through for me and I struggled to make it through those songs on subsequent listens. |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| Northlane Alien |
| Parkway Drive Atlas |
| The Acacia Strain Death Is the Only Mortal |
| The Story So Far The Story So Far |
| Veil of Maya Eclipse |
| 2.0 poor |
| Architects For Those That Wish to Exist |
| Attila About That Life |
| blink-182 California |
| Code Orange Underneath |
| Reba?s singing voice is NOT good enough to be the center of attention on so many songs. The annoying synth/electronic bits don?t help a lot of the songs either. |
| Emmure Hindsight |
What the hell, man. Seemed like these guys were finally on an upward trajectory with Look At Yourself.
Nevermind. Some of the songs on this are offensively bad. |
| Kublai Khan TX Absolute |
| Miss May I Rise of the Lion |
| This band really went down the shitter after their first album. Just finished listening to the leak and was not impressed at all. Generic as all get out. The vocals are boring, the lyrics are completely uninspiring, and the instrumentals aren't anything special. |
| Reflections Willow |
| Echoing Necro on this one. rTheir back catalog is very near and dear to me. This is such a far cry from that. Nothing but 40 minutes of uninspired breakdowns with the guitars tuned as low as possible, and Jake sticking to basically one style of vocals (lows with this weird pitch shifted effect thrown on intermittently that does not sound good). The mathy sections, crazy leads, and solos are all gone in favor of being as ?heavy? as possible. Talk about a total disappointment. |
| Whitechapel Our Endless War |
| Picked up the album early at one of their shows. The album should please Whitechapel fans, but I'm not sure if it will really appeal to any non-fans or newcomers. I would say the album is better than self-titled as a whole, but there are less memorable tracks than self-titled. The instrumental aspect of the album is pretty great, but Phil is really lacking lyrically on this release. The album definitely took a couple listens through to grow on me. |
