Kerrang!'s Scores

  • Music
For 1,583 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Yellow & Green
Lowest review score: 20 What The...
Score distribution:
1583 music reviews
    • 98 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The 16 songs that comprise these two albums [Led Zeppelin IV and Houses Of The Holy] remaining blinding and deafening examples of strident, courageous music. [18 Oct 2014, p.54]
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    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The 16 songs that comprise these two albums [Led Zeppelin IV and Houses Of The Holy] remaining blinding and deafening examples of strident, courageous music. [18 Oct 2014, p.54]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Les Voyages De L'Ame will surely stand unchallenged as the most ineffably beautiful record of 2012. [21 Jan 2012, p.54]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Nails have delivered one of the most savage and head-spinning albums of the year so far. [6 Apr 2013, p.53]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A wonderful rewarding journey. [15 Apr 2017, p.50]
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    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    On the evidence of their third full-length, this Scranton four-piece posses not one, but two examples [of good lyricists]. [19 Feb 2012, p.50]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Don't call it a comeback. Call it a rebirth. [15 Aug 2015, p.51]
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    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This remastered package in all its various formats is worth buying for the absolute bonanza of extra stuff include wit it. ... At the cene of it all still sit 12 of the most charged, arrogant, piss-and-vinegar songs ever written, perfectly captured, and played by a gang of reprobates genuinely out to take on the entire world. [23 Jun 2108, p.54]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's initially odd that the songs lack the immediacy the band are known for, but once the new-found intricacies reveal themselves and the lengthier structures click, the pay-off is huge. [8 Oct 2016, p.52]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The 12 songs that comprise the svelte but satiating Revolution Radio are among the finest to which Green Day Have put their name. [1 Oct 2016, p.50]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Bad Magic is proof that Motorhead remain the greatest rock'n'roll band on God's scorched Earth. [29 Aug 2015, p.50]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's not nice, but Electric Wizard prove here that sometimes to achieve perfection, all you need is hate. [20 Sep 2014, p.53]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Through all this existential and unremitting bleakness, the music is vital and vibrant, using a broader palette and brighter colours than they’ve ever used before.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's the essential elegy of everything that was and a moving reminder of all that could have been. [26 Nov 2016, p.53]
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    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's an often staggering record, by a great band, defying odds, on a hell of a run of first-lass creative form. [4 May 2013, p.52]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    All We Love We Leave Behind will sit alongside the very best. [6 Oct 2012, p.53]
    • Kerrang!
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    While Unto The Locust has much within it that will appeal to unreconstructed customers, parts of this work showcase a unit whose creative appetites are still restless and free.
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    By channeling everyone from Sonic Youth to Alice In Chains, Milk Teeth's debut hits with the power of a dozen brilliant bands at once. [23 Jan 2016, p.51]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This is not a time-weathered, diluted imitation of Faith No More. This, ladies and gents, is still "The Real Thing." [9 May 2015, p.52]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These are great songs. And this doesn't sound like a band with no road left to walk down. [26 Aug 2017, p.50]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Impressive act of defiance or not, when the dust has settled, this will also be rightly remembered as simply a great album. [19 Oct 2013, p.52]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It’s a return to rock with a capital 'R'. In fact, make that three capital 'R's.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Villains makes for a compelling lane change, finding the impetus to bring an interesting makeover. [12 Aug 2017, p.50]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sixteen years in, and it's clear Soilwork still have fertile imaginations. [9 Mar 2013, p.51]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Some of the year's catchiest most accessible alt. pop tunes of the year speaks volumes of the level upon which they're operating here. [13 Oct 2018, p.54]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a record that ignores its own decade-long mystique to work on being important on its own merit, through dazzling songcraft and the band's unrivaled ability to pull brightness from the most freakish and inharmonious junctures. [9 Dec 2017, p.51]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For all the existential dread contained therein, G_d’s Pee… also includes moments of elegiac beauty, as on shorter tracks Fire At Static Valley and the exquisite OUR SIDE HAS TO WIN (for D.H.).
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A very impressive album. [26 Nov 2016, p.51]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Brilliantly delirious or deliriously brilliant, International Blackjazz Society is the mark of a band that are losing their minds in the best possible way. [7 Nov 2015, p.52]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It’s a fun-packed, good-time brew, and if you’re looking to beat the January blues, Hurry Up And Wait’s party-starting fever is perfect.