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Generally favorable reviews- based on 53 Ratings
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Positive: 44 out of 53
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Mixed: 1 out of 53
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Negative: 8 out of 53
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May 2, 20159/10 .................................................................................................................................................
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Jan 25, 2015This album is great, and I'm not even a metal fan. There is so much layered in the instrumentals, with interesting solos riff, and a surprising amount of variety from the vocals. Containing both deep meaningly lyrics and kick ass music, Bloodstone & Diamonds does not disappoint and makes my top album of 2014.
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Dec 21, 2014Awesome album! After all of the legal issues surrounding the band, I had all but written these guys off.. I am so glad I didn't.. The band has combined the best elements from their last two records and have made a fantastics blend of the two.
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Mar 21, 2015How the **** this album was 96 on metacritic score, if have 5 reviews, and two of them are 100, two of them 80 and one is 90.
You don't know to be a math teacher to know that the average for that is 90......
96 is bigger than Black Messiah or To Pimp A Butterfly...Please correct this metacritic. -
Jan 27, 2015You can say that the new Machine Head's Bloodstone and Diamonds is a great, good or ok album, but it is not by far the best of them, the quality of The Blackening makes this seem another metal band
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Jan 12, 2016Bloodstone & Diamonds by Machine Head. A german Review.
Was ist das denn? Nach dem überragenden The Blackening und der zumindest teilweise sehr guten Unto The Locust ist dieses Album ein Griff ins Klo.
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Oct 8, 201610/10
Every song sonunds different but still being metal.
I don't understand all the stupid head. This is just an excelent example of how to make modern metal. -
Jun 3, 2021An awesome album that can so easily transition between full paced thrash, classical tones, heavy hammered breakdowns and eloquent guitar solos. It just has everything you need as a Machine Head fan drawing elements from throughout their history whilst still managing to be an original style
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Classic Rock MagazineDec 16, 2014It's the more textured and dynamic moments that raise this Herculean slab of cutting edge heaviness into the realms of a stone cold classic. [Jan 2015, p.114]
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Kerrang!Dec 16, 2014This is a modern metal classic. [8 Nov 2014, p.52]
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Dec 16, 2014This set is a major go; it extends the qualitative trajectory of The Blackening and Unto the Locust.