The overall impression is that the Bizkit remain as annoying, entertaining and incorrigibly obnoxious as they ever were. [25 Jun 2011, p.50]

Heavy and not consistently rewarding, it is nonetheless always interesting. [18 Jun 2011, p.51]

Over the course of their 10-year career, The Black Dahlia Murder have struck rigorously to their melodic death signature sound while delivering engaging albums, and Ritual maintains this standard. [25 Jun 2011, p.51]

While the Exeter band stick with the same formula throughout, they do successfully shackle the principle of less is more--if you're tiring of tone of the songs, another will come charging in to replace it before you can hit skip. [30 Apr 2011, p.51]

Sounding better than most of their studio-recorded output, Sugar Daddy's dark riffs are so sludgy you'll have to wash them before allowing them home. [18 Jun 2011, p.52]

It may not be rocket science, but there is an art to doing this right and Simple Plan have once again pulled it off. [18 Jun 2011, p.52]

The overall result being that Dananananaykroyd have finally made actual songs rather than the exercises in unpredictability they have in the past. [11 Jun 2011, p.51]

There may not dispense with metalcore's regular musical motifs, then, yet the ire throughout is genuine enough that you can feel flecks of venom melting vocalist Matty Mullins' microphone. [4 Jun 2011, p.53]

While this is as trying and testing as it is unique, it's certainly not without its charms. [4 Jun 2011, p.51]

It's just that Dirty work is merely a good album, when it should be a great one. [4 Jun 2011, p.51]

As much of Go Now And Live proves, these days they've embraced a more mainstream, hook-fuelled sensibility. It's one that works well, but there are problems. [23 Apr 2011, p.50]

It's another diverse and engaging album from a band proudly aging like a fine malt whiskey. [28 May 2011, p.51]

Unfortunately, not everything works quite as well [as the opening and final tracks]. [21 May 2011, p.51]

It won't be to all tastes, but those that care will cherish Simple Maths dearly. [7 May 2011, p.52]

It might not always offer its charms up easily, but Crisis Works is an auspicious debut. [7 May 2011, p.52]

Friends Chicks Guitars does prove that BFS can still write stonking rock 'n' roll, frat-party anthems, but generally the band make a bigger impact here when they're taking themselves more seriously. [23 Apr 2011, p.52]

In Silverstein's hands--a decade and five albums deep now--these very same, well-worn tricks work surprisingly well and it speaks volumes for the Ontario five-piece that this, their Hopeless records debut, fizzles with life and vitality from start to finish. [23 Apr 2011, p.51]

Anthemic opener Lords Of Abbadon, Indian Summer and the gutter-sleaze of Cocaine are the crowd-pleaser, but the main thing is that Loaded sound like a proper band now. [16 Apr 2011, p.51]

This is a largely unimpressive album. [9 Apr 2011, p.50]

Some of the more rap-heavy moments are terrible, but when they throw in huge, guitar-laden choruses such as on Been To Hell and Hear Me Now, they hit the same anthemic heights as Linkin Park. [2 Apr 2011, p.51]

While lyrically there's nothing explicitly offensive, there are enough risque lines here to raise a few eyebrows, and enough good songs to prick a few ears. [28 Aug 2010, p.54]

On the whole, though, while this is flawless and expertly crafted, it's also pretty unsatisfying. [26 Mar 2011, p.52]

While they're not without their spark and charm in places, PTH still frustrates as a band who struggle under the weight of their own ideas. [2 Apr 2011, p.52]

Less encouraging is that while the album is unmistakably brutal, it's also remarkably unmemorable. [2 Apr 2011, p.52]

Sadly, Sum 41 spread the good stuff far too thin over an ambitious but not always successful 15 songs, and, to paraphrase an old title of theirs, there's too much filler and not enough killer material to truly convince. [26 Mar 2011, p.52]

With Vice & Virtues Panic At The Disco sound like the kind of people your grandparents would like. That doesn't mean that they are people who make bad music, but it does mean that they are creators of an album that does not rock. [26 Mar 2011, p.50]

Where it fails as a cohesive piece of art is the lack of continuity, save for Travis' own considerable drumming. [26 Mar 2011, p.51]

The vocals are hopelessly submerged in the mixing. Thankfully, the DVD provides brilliant (and necessary) distraction from the deflated vocal mix. [19 Mar 2011, p.52]

Live On I5 is a visceral, honest live album with little if any studio trickery, but it's clearly not Soundgarden at its finest. [19 Mar 2011, p.52]

This is an album that works best when at its most obscure. [19 Mar 2011, p.50

They're at their best when they're at their harshest, with the grindcore attacks of Saintpeelers and Sovereign Through The Pines proving as exciting as this stuff gets. [12 Mar 2011, p.52]

While the progression through the bracing cinematic drama of Sleep Shake, the gorgeous neo-ballad Scared, the heads down industrial charge of Medic and the hauntingly climatic Hypoxia require a few listens to really gel in the listener's mind there is some truly stunning stuff here. [5 Feb 2011, p.51]

Your appreciation of the album will depend much on whether you happen to like the way Adam writes: if you do, then this is a belter. If, however, you've grown tired of the same old songs, look elsewhere. [22 Jan 2011, p.50]

This is a collection of good and sometimes very good songs from a band hacking their way towards their 40th birthday. [15 Jan 2011, p.51]

The rest of these songs weren't good enough to make it onto 2005's Make believe or 2008's Weezer (The Red Album), which says it all really. [6 Nov 2010, p.51]

A Beatles-inspired quirkiness cannot save this collection of acoustic jingles, almost all of which are limp enough to make All Time Low sound like Slayer. [20 Nov 2010, p.52]

With its emphasis on freedom, this is the kind of stuff beloved of American who are heavily armed, piss-drunk,or both. The rest of the world need not apply, however. [13 Nov 2010, p.52]

Silliness and fun are very much the order of the day here so, if you want some depth to your music you'll be found wanting. [23 Oct 2010, p.51]

Dark Is The Way sees the Winter Haven five-piece get it right, returning to form with a combination of heartfelt bombast, big choruses and bona fide hooks. [20 Nov 2010, p.52]

Thirty years on from the release of their earth-jolting, trouble-divining self-titled debut, Killing Joke show no signs of either mellowing or cracking a smile. [Sept. 25, 2010, p. 51]

All the usual COF ingredients--the abrasive vocals, the dexterous buzzsaw riffage, the furiously prop propulsive drumming--are present and correct, but here they're channeled into more streamlined songs while the more melodic elements are often pushed to the fore. [23 Oct 2010, p.50]

It's an album that draws on blues and gospel alongside atmospheric art-rock to end up somewhere intriguing, unnerving and frequently overwhelming. [16 Oct 2010, p.52]

Songs For Singles has a throwaway feel, albeit one with a lot of juddering, earth-shaking weight behind it. [25 Sep 2010, p.52]

If you want hits, there's already a better Best Of available--1997's A-Sides--while if you want a rarities album, this isn't it. [2 Oct 2010, p.51]

It's an easier to admire than to love. [18 Sep 2010, p.58]

By their own ridiculously lofty standards, it's not quite good enough. Again. [11 Sep 2010, p.51]

An album of blues covers that's beautifully mellow and endearingly warm. [25 Sep 2010, p.52]

However much it lacks the crunch and thrust of classic Helmet albums like Meantime or Betty, though, Seeing Eye Dog is still a fine addition to the band's catalogue. [4 Sep 2010, p.52]

While its range is, on the one hand, impressive, on the other it means that Audio Secrecy lacks something in focus, even perhaps authority. [4 Sep 2010, p.50]

If you never liked them, this album probably won't change your mind. But, for anyone already "down with the sickness" Asylum is quite possibly their best record to date. [21 Aug 2010, p.50]

So while it's a typically polished affair, it is by no means lacking in genuine emotion. [4 Sep 2010, p.51]

On Women And Children Last, the Murderdolls retain the same sense of big, dumb fun they had before, but this time around the more knowingly vicious elements makes it an even more invigorating ride. [14 Aug 2010, p.48]

The instrumental epics remain compelling, but, as a complete work, this is too enveloped in its diverse attempts to please everyone to truly wow anybody from start to finish. [21 Aug 2010 ,p.51]

Order Of The Black will keep diehard Black Label Society fans happy, but it's still some way from being a truly classic release. [28 Aug 2010, p.53]

These days, you sense, they'd rather have cheese and wine than kegs, coke and skipful of strippers. There are still some fine moments here, however. [31 Jul 2010, p.50]

Not for those new to the band; interesting for those already acquainted. [31 Jul 2010, p.51]

A compelling return from the godfather of goth-punk. [3 Jul 2010, p.51]

It has one or two fine songs, A Song For A Son is probably Billy's best since Adore in 1998 but , decent though it is, it's not a Smashing Pumpkins record. [5 Jun 2010, p.50]

While Dave's guitars are still engaging, their spirit is undone by a lack of soul underneath. [28 Aug 2010, p.54]

The Oracle sounds like it was written on autopilot, with the band ticking off the ingredients that made previous albums sell with out injecting any fire or imagination. [3 Jul 2010, p.51]