Rock Sound's Scores

  • Music
For 497 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 67% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 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: 100 That's the Spirit
Lowest review score: 20 Bright Black Heaven
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 2 out of 497
497 music reviews
    • 57 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    This Is War is passionate, rousing and astonishingly focused.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Super producer Ross Robinson has been given the unenviable task of bottling lightning, and he's certainly earned his money this time round; from Jonathan Davis' tortured, primal yelps to the pounding drums and a bass sound that ebbs and flows violently through your extremities.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Clocking in at just under an hour across 14 songs, about 12 of which could easily be singles, Technology is engaging, fun and an early contender for album of the year, plus the album of this band’s career.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    While achingly sincere rock bands aren’t hard to come by these days, Fatherson have more than enough melodic nous to get listeners invested.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    To hear a band with such obvious and deep passion playing unencumbered and liberated rock music is an utterly captivating experience that Rock Sound would thoroughly recommend. Holding nothing back sounds exactly like this, everyone else please take note.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    So is it any good? Does it matter? Limp Bizkit are bigger than ever before so getcha groove on, stop taking things seriously.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Nothing groundbreaking, but sure to keep fans of the band happy.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    There is a welcome confidence throughout The Latest Fashion that Attack! Attack! have not previously shown and it's likely to propel this lot to great things.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Commercially-driven producers or not, though, the band have a knack for keeping their sound current and contemporary –- while still being reminiscent of their early material.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If you're checking out their fifth album to discover groundbreaking, controversial new music, you are a strange individual indeed.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Overall, If Not Now, When? is the sound of Incubus coming of age. It's not particularly experimental nor is it completely straightforward but it is concise and a risk that's paid off.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They're no longer a phenomenon; instead, Sum 41 have continued to mature into a rather good band.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    TTNY show flashes of quality that are as good as pop-punk gets.