Revolver's Scores
- Music
For 235 reviews, this publication has graded:
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56% higher than the average critic
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7% same as the average critic
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37% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.2 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: | Relentless, Reckless Forever | |
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Lowest review score: | Cattle Callin |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 185 out of 235
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Mixed: 49 out of 235
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Negative: 1 out of 235
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Stankonia lays bare the group's desire to be something greater than just rap stars. No two tracks sound alike, and they've taken time in the woodshed to pen rhymes that are even more dexterous and honest than their past work--no mean feat. [#3, p.107]- Revolver
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Unto the Locust isn't just a great album, it's an important statement that metal doesn't have to fall into trite categories or draw from pre-existing formulas to be accessible.- Revolver
- Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Five albums in to an unexpected late-career burst of greatness, grindcore pioneers Napalm Death have done it again with this awesomely titled album.- Revolver
- Posted Jan 23, 2015
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- Posted Mar 29, 2016
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Post-hardcore group Thursday's latest, No Devolución, is a grand experience, full of depth and atmospheric subtleties that show off a new side to the group.- Revolver
- Posted Apr 14, 2011
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These five tracks bridge the gap between pop punk and melodic hardcore in a way that’s so infectious that you’ll be too busy singing along to notice.- Revolver
- Posted Jul 18, 2014
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Probably the best indie drone rock since Galaxie 500 put the Velvets jangle to hypnotic use (although Low reach even greater peaks of elegant sublimity). [#4, p.106]- Revolver
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Is Survived By isn’t all pit-fodder; the cinematic-sounding “Non Fiction” showcases a mastery of dynamics that’s equally as impressive as the heavy stuff.- Revolver
- Posted Sep 26, 2013
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the Georgia-based quartet venture even further into their own by creating songs that are alternately bluesy, soulful and propulsive--and often all three. ... It’s rare to come across a band that can do so much so well.- Revolver
- Posted Apr 14, 2017
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It’s all the necessary B-adjectives–bludgeoning, brutal, burly--but it’s something else too; Bloodcurdling.- Revolver
- Posted Feb 3, 2014
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Kylesa nods toward their feral past as choruses make muscular concessions to hardcore floor-punches. But other tracks are their artiest and dreamiest yet. [Nov/Dec 2010, p.96]- Revolver
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The record is exactly as advertised, despite three new members entering the lineup. Wrong has rarely sounded so right.- Revolver
- Posted Aug 6, 2013
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This is music at a slow simmer, not a fast boil, and as such, takes time and patience to absorb. But the passion and intensity is undeniable.- Revolver
- Posted Jan 25, 2013
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TesseracT’s real strength is that they focus on the whole instead of getting bogged down with the intricacy of the parts.- Revolver
- Posted Jun 12, 2013
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This long-awaited solo project by Converge frontman Jacob Bannon is nothing like what fans would expect, and everything they could have hoped for.- Revolver
- Posted Apr 13, 2017
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Touché Amoré’s music has always been intensely autobiographical and that introspection has reached peak levels on its fourth full-length, Stage Four.- Revolver
- Posted Oct 13, 2016
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The Migration seems to wander a bit more than 2011’s focused and phenomenal The Collective, losing some steam by the last few tracks.- Revolver
- Posted Jun 27, 2013
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There's a real sense of hip-hop culture in the lyrics, and there's a sophistication in the way that the rap is made rock here-in other words, this isn't just whiney frat-boy rhymes slapped on top of generic, down-tuned riffs.- Revolver
- Posted Apr 20, 2011
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It’s weird, it’s creepy, it’s unstable, but man, there’s art here, something that few bands can boast.- Revolver
- Posted Mar 26, 2013
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The band deftly treads the fine line between revival and revision, blasting out fistfighting hard rock anthems like “Dancing with the Wrong Girl” and “Cold War Love” that synthesize Thin Lizzy’s flair for raging riffs, jazzy chords, twin-guitar harmonies, and ruggedly romantic words into something that’s both fresh-sounding and satisfyingly familiar.- Revolver
- Posted Feb 3, 2017
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While She Sleeps have delivered the best album so far about post-Brexit/post-election anxiety. You Are We is frantic and grim, preoccupied with personal and political disintegration, but it’s also huge.- Revolver
- Posted Apr 21, 2017
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If bong-rattling stoner doom is your cup of flayed meat, you won’t want to miss this demonic feast.- Revolver
- Posted Sep 25, 2014
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Rather than play into expectations and write 12 15-minute songs about H.P. Lovecraft or the Dead Sea Scrolls, Atlanta's finest created a more-than-decent metal record.- Revolver
- Posted Oct 5, 2011
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Their third album takes the stylized blur of their previous LPs, and somehow finds new room for Circle Jerskian hooks, mid-tempo suckerpunches, and one Neurotic sludge workout. p[Jul/Aug 2010, p.90]- Revolver
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Packed with epic melodies, searing solos, and medieval horror imagery, Forever Abomination totally rocks, aided by (finally for these guys!) a perfect production sound.- Revolver
- Posted Nov 21, 2011
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The lyrics are in a combination of Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic, so it’s anyone’s guess what Bruun is talking about. Luckily,the music speaks for itself.- Revolver
- Posted Sep 17, 2015
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On their fourth full-length and first on their own label, jazz-spazz-metal epileptics the Dillinger Escape Plan re-embrace the all-killer, no-filler attitude that made their earlier albums and EPs so simultaneously exhausting and exhilarating. [Mar/Apr 2010, p.88]- Revolver
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Dark Roots offers shred-heavy political statements ("True American Hate"), hook-laden power-jags ("Native Blood"), and straight-up rippers ("Man Kills Mankind"), slipping only on slower material like the title track and quasi-ballad "Cold Embrace."- Revolver
- Posted Aug 13, 2012
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The repetition of downtuned breakdowns will probably tire even deathcore superfans by album’s end. Solid–but this Witch could use a few new tricks.- Revolver
- Posted Oct 17, 2014
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Josh Homme and fellow Queens Troy Van Leeuwen, Dean Fertita, and Michael Shuman have gotten back on beam for the band’s first album in six years, apparently rediscovering the joys of creating robotic, riff-oriented hard-rock songs.- Revolver
- Posted Jun 5, 2013
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