Kerrang!'s Scores

  • Music
For 1,584 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:
1584 music reviews
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    With its obvious choruses and routine abrasive sections,, the more discerning ear will recognize that this band wield far more force than they do finesse. [29 Oct 2011, p.52]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Forever Abomination will appeal to fans of metal, whichever camp they're in. [8 Oct 2011, p.51]
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    • 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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    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    In truth this is pale goth rock crap. [5 Nov 2011, p.52]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Megadeth are simply a little bit mid-paced, even monochromatic. [5 Nov 2011, p.51]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    As far as comebacks go, sadly, this is not a good one. [29 Oct 2011, p.52]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A triumph. [29 Oct 2011, p.52]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    At his worst it feels more like a parody than a tribute. [29 Oct 2011, p.51]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It will probably prove overly sweet for some tastes but when they hit top form, they're an absolute joy. [29 Oct 2011, p.51]
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    LuLu is an album that will require many plays before the music contained within beings to make sense. [29 Oct 2011, p.50]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's very difficult to dislike music this unashamedly cheery. [8 Oct 2011, p.52]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Wonder years have not only delivered a genuinely great pop-punk record but a genuinely great record, period. [8 Oct 2011, p.50]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Major/Minor is an unusually conventional and yet glorious statement from a band characterised by fearless experimentation and exquisite music. [24 Sep 2011, p.53]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Hunter is an album in which to lose yourself. [24 Sep 2011, p.52]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Neighborhoods might never quite land a knockout blow, but it certainly does enough to earn them a rematch int he future. [24 Sep 2011, p.50]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With late Love, Oslo's Wolves like is have delivered a catchy, heartfelt racket driven by throbbing grooves and drenched in ringing guitars. [18 Jun 2011, p.52]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There are dramatic dynamic shifts and a defter blend of melody and muscle, making this by far the best album the Ohio outfit have yet produced. [10 Sep 2011, p.51]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Madina Lake sound not only more organic but also more alive. [1 Oct 2011, p.51]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What Radiosurgery proves beyond any doubt is that New Found Glory are as fired up now in 2011 as they were when they first emerged in 1997. [1 Oct 2011, p.53]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is the best album You Me At Six have made. [1 Oct 2011, p.50]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a great thrash record, not the jokey novelty of the genre's boom, as stainless, hard-edged. aggressive metal album that would be just as deadly were it from 2011, or 1986. [24 Sep 2011, p.51]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Whereas Puscifer's early output exercised his funny bone, the rather brilliant Conditions Of My Parole exorcises it. [15 Oct 2011, p.52]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [The] band's strange brew is as striking as ever it was, and is no less potent for being restrained by both taste and age. [15 Oct 2011, p.51]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Where the joke on Feel The Steel has yet to feel old, the laughs on Balls Out grow stale. It's fortunate then that, once again, the music holds up. [15 Oct 2011, p.50]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is both an unpredictable, risk-taking venture and the truest hearted Alice Cooper album in many years. [10 Sep 2011, p.52]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    As ever, they do a fine job here juggling endless solos among intricate vocal passages and harmonies. [Sep 2011, p.51]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This blend of grace and discord never feels jarring, combining to produce an immersive, transcendental whole which reveals the true breadth of this duo's impressive artistry. [Sep 2011, p.51]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    They are creative and explorative, restless and even daring. For the most part, though, these days they're also not that good. [Sep 2011, p.50]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nu-Metal stars release a solid effort. [Sep 2011, p.52]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If your taste in music runs to bands that are very much one of a kind then this odd and oddly loveable album might well be to your liking. [Sep 2011, p.52]
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