Rock Sound's Scores
- Music
For 497 reviews, this publication has graded:
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67% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.4 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: | That's the Spirit | |
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Lowest review score: | Bright Black Heaven |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 435 out of 497
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Mixed: 60 out of 497
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Negative: 2 out of 497
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Partycrasher is still overflowing with singalong moments and air guitar opportunities that should remind you why A Wilhelm Scream are one of the best punk bands we’ve ever had.- Rock Sound
- Posted Dec 17, 2013
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This time around there’s more screaming and distortion a la ‘Jupiter’-era Cave In (‘The Refusal’), which somehow compliments the more melodic tracks here and only adds to what’s on offer.- Rock Sound
- Posted Dec 16, 2013
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Common Courtesy is not the end of this band. If anything, it’s their new beginning.- Rock Sound
- Posted Nov 19, 2013
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- Posted Nov 11, 2013
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A stinging reprise of ’93’s ‘American Jesus’ serves as a timely reminder that these perennial bastions of articulate dissent haven’t gone soft on us quite yet.- Rock Sound
- Posted Nov 4, 2013
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It’s not a progressive album per se, but The Finer Things is a bar-raising attempt at revolution in pop-punk.- Rock Sound
- Posted Oct 30, 2013
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Philly troubadour Dave Hause’s sophomore platter manages to stand proud while casually dipping into drive-time radio (‘Same Disease’) and blue collar balladry (‘Before’).- Rock Sound
- Posted Oct 30, 2013
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The post-hiatus band are still angry and have something to say.... Welcome back, gang.- Rock Sound
- Posted Oct 29, 2013
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Korn’s follow up to ’11’s dubstep-infused ‘The Path Of Totality’ is a completely different monster to its predecessor, and for all the right reasons.- Rock Sound
- Posted Oct 25, 2013
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Though perhaps overly mechanical, Vengeance Falls remains compelling and staggeringly textured.- Rock Sound
- Posted Oct 23, 2013
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Short of any psychotropic assistance, Wild Light is a credible substitute for nirvana, demanding you suspend your disbelief and just jump in feet first, setting yourself free from all corporeal existence.- Rock Sound
- Posted Oct 15, 2013
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his is polished, assured pop-rock custom built for massive stages and even bigger singalongs, and both are no doubt in the pipeline.- Rock Sound
- Posted Oct 10, 2013
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Crossfaith’s debut full-length, Apocalyze proves more than worthy of the hype surrounding them.- Rock Sound
- Posted Oct 9, 2013
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It’s their use of modern electronica (‘Unmade’) and metalcore crunch (‘Paper Thin’) that asserts this as bleeding-edge relevant, and there’s enough spark here to suggest they could turn into more than a nostalgia trip.- Rock Sound
- Posted Oct 8, 2013
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It’s the newfound multi-layered vocals of Mike Hranica and Jeremy DePoyster that give tracks like ‘War’ and ‘Sailor’s Prayer’ a compelling dexterity of textures and allows each track to venture into previously uncharted territory with the utmost conviction.- Rock Sound
- Posted Sep 24, 2013
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48 minutes that will go down among the very best of this year.- Rock Sound
- Posted Sep 18, 2013
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If you had ever written the band off or traded them in for a younger model, this is the record that will force you to reconsider and repent.- Rock Sound
- Posted Aug 16, 2013
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11 tracks with all the anguish that melodic hardcore thrives on, but with enough testosterone to keep it on the right side of whiney.- Rock Sound
- Posted Aug 7, 2013
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It sees the band sounding tighter and more confident than ever on the likes of ‘Reading Youtube Comments’ and probable live favourite-to-be ‘Donny’s Woods’.- Rock Sound
- Posted Aug 7, 2013
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These are songs of excruciating truth, eternally relevant and assembled with no lack of heart.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jul 30, 2013
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- Posted Jul 15, 2013
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- Posted Jun 28, 2013
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- Posted Jun 19, 2013
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TesseracT have taken the djent blueprint and, barring occasional plunges into riff soup, have re-engineered it into a living, breathing, emotive display of rousing poly-prog.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jun 12, 2013
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While A Nation Sleeps is typically impassioned, excellent stuff that marries wretched, raw aggression and political indignation with massive melodies that are just on the right side of cheesy.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jun 11, 2013
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With no reason to buck the trend, Damage very much continues the Arizonan four-piece’s reliability streak.- Rock Sound
- Posted Jun 10, 2013
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Opener ‘Sponge’ leads off the cracking first half before a handful of (even) more introspective numbers add the expected emotional weight.- Rock Sound
- Posted May 17, 2013
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TIHTWS is the sound of band who know what they are good at and are good at what they know, and there’s nothing wrong with that.- Rock Sound
- Posted May 2, 2013
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Whether it’s thrashier influences on ‘Silver Linings’ or lyrics that casually rip the piss out of their genre in ‘In Light Of Me’, it’s a refreshing listen.- Rock Sound
- Posted Apr 4, 2013
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With power chord hooks and a newfound innocence, this is a side of The Bronx you’ve yet to hear.- Rock Sound
- Posted Feb 20, 2013
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