August Burns RedWell, you should know the rules by now, so without further introduction, this is it:
2/10 and the titles of The Worst Album of the Year and The Biggest Disappointment of the Year:
Queensrÿche – American Soldier
2.5/10:
30 Seconds to Mars – This is War
The Devil Wears Prada – With Roots Above and Branches Below
3/10:
It Prevails – Capture and Embrace
Papa Roach – Metamorphosis
3.5/10:
IXXI – Elect Darkness
The Used – Artwork
4/10:
Portal – Swarth
Rose Funeral – The Resting Sonata
Static-X – Cult of Static
The Agonist – Lullabies for the Dormant Mind
War From a Harlots Mouth – In Shoals
4.5/10:
Despised Icon – Day of Mourning
Evile – Infected Nations
Impending Doom – The Serpent Servant
5/10:
At Vance – Ride the Sky
Born of Osiris – A Higher Place
Iron Fire – To the Grave
Mothra – Dyes
Sanctification – Black Reign
5.5/10:
Beherit – Engram
Municipal Waste – Massive Aggressive
Nightrage – Wearing a Martyr’s Crown
Pestilence – Resurrection Macabre
Scale The Summit – Carving Desert Canyons
Shadows Fall – Retribution
Suffocation – Blood Oath
6/10:
Caliban – Say Hello to Tragedy
Cattle Decapitation – The Harvest Floor
Mumakil – Behold the Failure
Obscura – Cosmogenesis
Peste Noire – Ballade Cuntre lo Anemi Francor
Stream of Passion – The Flame Within
Winds of Plague – The Great Stone War
6.5/10:
Ektomorf – What Doesn’t Kill Me…
HammerFall – No Sacrifice, No Victory
Savage Circus – Of Doom & Death
Teitanblood – Seven Chalices
The Arusha Accord – The Echo Verses
The Boy Will Drown – Fetish
The Mars Volta – Octahedron
Trigger the Bloodshed – The Great Depression
Ulcerate – Everything is Fire
within the ruins – Creature
7/10:
A Plea For Purging – Depravity
Darkest Hour – The Eternal Return
DevilDriver – Pray for Villains
Echoes of Eternity – As Shadows Burn
Hatebreed – For the Lions
Indukti – Idmen
Inhale/Exhale – Bury Me Alive
Kalisia – Cybion
Killswitch Engage – Killswitch Engage
Lamb of God – Wrath
Oceana – Birtheater
Scar Symmetry – Dark Matter Dimensions
So I Scream – 6Shooter EP
Tardive Dyskinesia – The Sea of See Through Skins
The Contortionist – Apparition
7.5/10:
Abused Majesty - …And Man Created God In His Own Image
AFI – Crash Love
At War – Infidel
Blindead – Impulse EP
Blut aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars
Brutal Truth – Evolution Through Revolution
Editors – In this Light and on this Evening
Five Finger Death Punch – War is the Answer
Grave Digger – Ballads of a Hangman
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Here Comes The Kraken – Here Comes the Kraken
Job for a Cowboy – Ruination
Sepultura – A-Lex
Susperia – Attitude
The Red Chord – Fed Through The Teeth Machine
Warbringer – Waking Into Nightmares
Whiplash – Unborn Again
8/10:
A Hill To Die Upon – Infinite Titanic Immortal
Absu – Absu
Aegaeon – Exponential Transcendence EP
Amorphis – Skyforger
Armed For Apocalypse – Defeat
Baroness – Blue Record
Burnt by the Sun – Heart of Darkness
Chimaira – The Infection
Divine Heresy – Bringer of Plagues
Drudkh – Microcosmos
Eminem – Relapse
Evergreen Terrace – Almost Home
Every Time I Die – New Junk Aesthetic
Fall From Reality – Withdrawal
Fen – The Malediction Fields
Fleshgod Apocalypse – Oracles
Fukpig – Spewings from a Selfish Nation
Gama Bomb – Tales from the Grave in Space
God Dethroned – Passiondale
Graves Of Valor – Salarian Gate
Hail of Bullets – Warsaw Rising EP
Hatesphere – To the Nines
Hell United – HornoKracy
Hunter – Hellwood
Inevitable End – The Severed Inception
Infernal War – Conflagrator EP
Malefice – Dawn of Reprisal
Masachist – Death March Fury
Molotov Solution – The Harbinger
Napalm Death – Time Waits for No Slave
No Consequence – In the Shadow of Gods
Noriega – Desolo EP
Oranssi Pazuzu – Muukalainen Puhuu
Pablopavo & Ludziki – Telehon
Pathosray – Sunless Skies
Raven – Walk Through Fire
Saxon – Into the Labirynth
Starring Janet Leigh – Spectrum
The Chariot – Wars and Rumors of Wars
The Crimson Armada – Guardians
The Dead Weather – Horehound
The Sorrow – Origin of the Storm
This Ending – Dead Harvest
White Lies – To Lose My Life
8.5/10:
Alastor – Spaaazm
Amesoeurs – Amesoeurs
Anaal Nathrakh – In the Constellation of the Black Widow
Antigama – Warning
Armia – Der Prozess
Asphyx – Death… The Brutal Way
Chainsaw – Evilution
DÅÅTH – The Concealers
Dark Moor – Autumnal
dredg – The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
Eluveitie – Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion
Eternal Tears of Sorrow – Children of the Dark Waters
Funebrarum – The Sleep of Morbid Dreams
Funeral Mist – Maranatha
Gallows – Grey Britain
Hatebreed – Hatebreed
Hey – Miłość! Uwaga! Ratunku! Pomocy!
iwrestledabearonce – It’s All Happening
Kylesa – Static Tensions
Lion’s Share – Dark Hours
Manimal – The Darkest Room
Neaera – Omnicide-Creation Unleashed
O.S.T.R – O.C.B
Porcupine Tree – The Incident
Primal Fear – 16.6 (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead)
Rammstein – Liebe ist für Alle da
Redemption – Snowfall on Judgment Day
Saint Deamon – Pandeamonium
Seneca – Reflections
Slough Feg – Ape Uprising
Svarttjern – Misanthropic Path of Madness
The Psyke Project – Dead Storm
Turbo – Strażnik Światła
Vader – Necropolis
9/10, which means awesome:
Alice in Chains – Black Gives Way to Blue
Arckanum – ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
Behemoth – Evangelion
Between the Buried and Me – The Great Misdirect
Black River – Black N’ Roll
Cobalt – Gin
Converge – Axe to Fall
Crescent Shield – The Stars of Never Seen
Dream Theater – Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Ensiferum – From Afar
God Forbid – Earthsblood
Hammerforce – Dice
Heaven and Hell – The Devil You Know
Impious – Death Domination
Katatonia – Night is the New Day
Kreator – Hordes of Chaos
Lost Soul – Immerse in Infinity
Marduk – Wormwood
Mastodon – Crack the Skye
My Own Grave – Necrology
Nile – Those Whom the Gods Detest
Sacrifice – The Ones I Condemn
Slayer – World Painted Blood
Vomitory – Carnage Euphoria
Wolfmother – Cosmic Egg
9.5/10, which means almost perfect:
Architects – Hollow Crown
Artillery – When Death Comes
Mystic Prophecy – Fireangel
Paramore – brand new eyes
Riverside – Anno Domini High Definition
The Eyes Of A Traitor – A Clear Perception
10/10, godlike:
August Burns Red – Constellations
Yeah, it's metalcore album. So what? It's so damn powerful and catchy at the same time that I just can't imagine how metalcore could get any better (although competition this year was surprisingly strong - Architects and The Eyes of a Traitor are not far behind).
Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
Take a look at my charts and you'll know everything - I just love this band. They always fail to disappoint and to release three 10/10 albums in a row is really something. Probably the most catchy thing since... Well, since their last album!
667/10 and the title of The Album of the Year:
Rootwater – Visionism
Wow. They topped the magnificent "Limbic System" even if it seemed mission almost impossible. They're really original, so I would probably fail at describing their music - just do yourself a favor and listen to this.
I didn't have time to listen to those closely enough to rate them:
Anubis Gate - The Detached
Azarath - Praise the Beast
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
Coalesce - Ox
Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone
Murder Therapy - Symmetry in Delirium
The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
Good year for music it was (oh well, I would probably find any year as good for music ;)), but why not hope for even better 2010?
2/10 and the titles of The Worst Album of the Year and The Biggest Disappointment of the Year:
Queensrÿche – American Soldier
2.5/10:
30 Seconds to Mars – This is War
The Devil Wears Prada – With Roots Above and Branches Below
3/10:
It Prevails – Capture and Embrace
Papa Roach – Metamorphosis
3.5/10:
IXXI – Elect Darkness
The Used – Artwork
4/10:
Portal – Swarth
Rose Funeral – The Resting Sonata
Static-X – Cult of Static
The Agonist – Lullabies for the Dormant Mind
War From a Harlots Mouth – In Shoals
4.5/10:
Despised Icon – Day of Mourning
Evile – Infected Nations
Impending Doom – The Serpent Servant
5/10:
At Vance – Ride the Sky
Born of Osiris – A Higher Place
Iron Fire – To the Grave
Mothra – Dyes
Sanctification – Black Reign
5.5/10:
Beherit – Engram
Municipal Waste – Massive Aggressive
Nightrage – Wearing a Martyr’s Crown
Pestilence – Resurrection Macabre
Scale The Summit – Carving Desert Canyons
Shadows Fall – Retribution
Suffocation – Blood Oath
6/10:
Caliban – Say Hello to Tragedy
Cattle Decapitation – The Harvest Floor
Mumakil – Behold the Failure
Obscura – Cosmogenesis
Peste Noire – Ballade Cuntre lo Anemi Francor
Stream of Passion – The Flame Within
Winds of Plague – The Great Stone War
6.5/10:
Ektomorf – What Doesn’t Kill Me…
HammerFall – No Sacrifice, No Victory
Savage Circus – Of Doom & Death
Teitanblood – Seven Chalices
The Arusha Accord – The Echo Verses
The Boy Will Drown – Fetish
The Mars Volta – Octahedron
Trigger the Bloodshed – The Great Depression
Ulcerate – Everything is Fire
within the ruins – Creature
7/10:
A Plea For Purging – Depravity
Darkest Hour – The Eternal Return
DevilDriver – Pray for Villains
Echoes of Eternity – As Shadows Burn
Hatebreed – For the Lions
Indukti – Idmen
Inhale/Exhale – Bury Me Alive
Kalisia – Cybion
Killswitch Engage – Killswitch Engage
Lamb of God – Wrath
Oceana – Birtheater
Scar Symmetry – Dark Matter Dimensions
So I Scream – 6Shooter EP
Tardive Dyskinesia – The Sea of See Through Skins
The Contortionist – Apparition
7.5/10:
Abused Majesty - …And Man Created God In His Own Image
AFI – Crash Love
At War – Infidel
Blindead – Impulse EP
Blut aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars
Brutal Truth – Evolution Through Revolution
Editors – In this Light and on this Evening
Five Finger Death Punch – War is the Answer
Grave Digger – Ballads of a Hangman
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Here Comes The Kraken – Here Comes the Kraken
Job for a Cowboy – Ruination
Sepultura – A-Lex
Susperia – Attitude
The Red Chord – Fed Through The Teeth Machine
Warbringer – Waking Into Nightmares
Whiplash – Unborn Again
8/10:
A Hill To Die Upon – Infinite Titanic Immortal
Absu – Absu
Aegaeon – Exponential Transcendence EP
Amorphis – Skyforger
Armed For Apocalypse – Defeat
Baroness – Blue Record
Burnt by the Sun – Heart of Darkness
Chimaira – The Infection
Divine Heresy – Bringer of Plagues
Drudkh – Microcosmos
Eminem – Relapse
Evergreen Terrace – Almost Home
Every Time I Die – New Junk Aesthetic
Fall From Reality – Withdrawal
Fen – The Malediction Fields
Fleshgod Apocalypse – Oracles
Fukpig – Spewings from a Selfish Nation
Gama Bomb – Tales from the Grave in Space
God Dethroned – Passiondale
Graves Of Valor – Salarian Gate
Hail of Bullets – Warsaw Rising EP
Hatesphere – To the Nines
Hell United – HornoKracy
Hunter – Hellwood
Inevitable End – The Severed Inception
Infernal War – Conflagrator EP
Malefice – Dawn of Reprisal
Masachist – Death March Fury
Molotov Solution – The Harbinger
Napalm Death – Time Waits for No Slave
No Consequence – In the Shadow of Gods
Noriega – Desolo EP
Oranssi Pazuzu – Muukalainen Puhuu
Pablopavo & Ludziki – Telehon
Pathosray – Sunless Skies
Raven – Walk Through Fire
Saxon – Into the Labirynth
Starring Janet Leigh – Spectrum
The Chariot – Wars and Rumors of Wars
The Crimson Armada – Guardians
The Dead Weather – Horehound
The Sorrow – Origin of the Storm
This Ending – Dead Harvest
White Lies – To Lose My Life
8.5/10:
Alastor – Spaaazm
Amesoeurs – Amesoeurs
Anaal Nathrakh – In the Constellation of the Black Widow
Antigama – Warning
Armia – Der Prozess
Asphyx – Death… The Brutal Way
Chainsaw – Evilution
DÅÅTH – The Concealers
Dark Moor – Autumnal
dredg – The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
Eluveitie – Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion
Eternal Tears of Sorrow – Children of the Dark Waters
Funebrarum – The Sleep of Morbid Dreams
Funeral Mist – Maranatha
Gallows – Grey Britain
Hatebreed – Hatebreed
Hey – Miłość! Uwaga! Ratunku! Pomocy!
iwrestledabearonce – It’s All Happening
Kylesa – Static Tensions
Lion’s Share – Dark Hours
Manimal – The Darkest Room
Neaera – Omnicide-Creation Unleashed
O.S.T.R – O.C.B
Porcupine Tree – The Incident
Primal Fear – 16.6 (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead)
Rammstein – Liebe ist für Alle da
Redemption – Snowfall on Judgment Day
Saint Deamon – Pandeamonium
Seneca – Reflections
Slough Feg – Ape Uprising
Svarttjern – Misanthropic Path of Madness
The Psyke Project – Dead Storm
Turbo – Strażnik Światła
Vader – Necropolis
9/10, which means awesome:
Alice in Chains – Black Gives Way to Blue
Arckanum – ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
Behemoth – Evangelion
Between the Buried and Me – The Great Misdirect
Black River – Black N’ Roll
Cobalt – Gin
Converge – Axe to Fall
Crescent Shield – The Stars of Never Seen
Dream Theater – Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Ensiferum – From Afar
God Forbid – Earthsblood
Hammerforce – Dice
Heaven and Hell – The Devil You Know
Impious – Death Domination
Katatonia – Night is the New Day
Kreator – Hordes of Chaos
Lost Soul – Immerse in Infinity
Marduk – Wormwood
Mastodon – Crack the Skye
My Own Grave – Necrology
Nile – Those Whom the Gods Detest
Sacrifice – The Ones I Condemn
Slayer – World Painted Blood
Vomitory – Carnage Euphoria
Wolfmother – Cosmic Egg
9.5/10, which means almost perfect:
Architects – Hollow Crown
Artillery – When Death Comes
Mystic Prophecy – Fireangel
Paramore – brand new eyes
Riverside – Anno Domini High Definition
The Eyes Of A Traitor – A Clear Perception
10/10, godlike:
August Burns Red – Constellations
Yeah, it's metalcore album. So what? It's so damn powerful and catchy at the same time that I just can't imagine how metalcore could get any better (although competition this year was surprisingly strong - Architects and The Eyes of a Traitor are not far behind).
Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
Take a look at my charts and you'll know everything - I just love this band. They always fail to disappoint and to release three 10/10 albums in a row is really something. Probably the most catchy thing since... Well, since their last album!
667/10 and the title of The Album of the Year:
Rootwater – Visionism
Wow. They topped the magnificent "Limbic System" even if it seemed mission almost impossible. They're really original, so I would probably fail at describing their music - just do yourself a favor and listen to this.
I didn't have time to listen to those closely enough to rate them:
Anubis Gate - The Detached
Azarath - Praise the Beast
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
Coalesce - Ox
Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone
Murder Therapy - Symmetry in Delirium
The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
Good year for music it was (oh well, I would probably find any year as good for music ;)), but why not hope for even better 2010?
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