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For 235 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 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: 100 Relentless, Reckless Forever
Lowest review score: 30 Cattle Callin
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 185 out of 235
  2. Mixed: 49 out of 235
  3. Negative: 1 out of 235
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Surtur Rising
    The heshers who crave this Viking death-march death-metal will have it, and those who aren't inspired by what they stream on the internet won't. Even with a lesser work, Amon Amarth have done their job.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fortress
    Somehow, though, every song eventually leads to Myles Kennedy keening dramatically over guitar sturm und drang, and while that nicely showcase the band’s songwriting and instrumental skills, after a while it becomes predictable and monotonous.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It, There is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret
    By-the-numbers breakdowns, tired metalcore riffing, and cliched lyrics are still very much part of the group's formula. It's too bad since the band has plenty of energy and ambition. [Nov/Dec 2010, p.94]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Sun Comes Out Tonight
    A 12-song set that went through a couple of permutations but still bristles with industrial-strength angst.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Shelter
    With Shelter, Alcest have abandoned bracing storm bursts, leaving a too monotonous calm.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Pale Communion
    A prog-intensive album that often sounds closer to soggy Jethro Tull outtakes than anything in his band’s mighty back catalog.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Live In New York City
    Despite some high points, this is hardly the definitive live Springsteen album. [May/June 2001, p.116]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Darkness in the Light
    While the album will please the band's fans, it doesn't stand out from similar releases in the subgenre today. [Jul/Aug 2011, p.92]
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      • Posted Jul 6, 2011
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Serpentine Path
    Meandering and dirge-like, the eight songs here live up to the band's moniker, weaving slow and snaky through the album's 42 minutes and what we can only presume is a veritable wall of amplification. Tune in and nod out.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pressure & Time
    Pressure & Time can bog down in its own retro pretensions, but singer Jay Buchanan is an undeniable vocal force.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Parallax II: Future Sequence
    A 72-minute concept album that includes some of its freshest material yet, but also some of its dullest.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dum Spiro Spero
    These ominous minor-key workouts routinely change direction on a dime, not unlike a tornado or a hurricane.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Atlas
    Too bad that, even at its best, this Atlas maps well-trodden ground.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Broken Compass
    Despite Chamberlain’s strong pipes and pedigree, Broken Compass lacks the umph and innovation to be something truly exceptional.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Home
    OWTH aren’t covering ground that Against Me! or the Bouncing Souls haven’t already tread in the past, but there’s a palpable passion in frontman Ryan Young’s voice that keeps these songs sounding inspired for the duration of the record.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    From the Vaults, Vol. 1
    The best odds and sods collected here are those on which they stray from relentless shouting.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Scurrilous
    For all of its ferocity and force, though, Scurrilous is a surprisingly pleasant listen, in part due to frontman Rody Walker's high-pitched melodic vocals which belie the aggressiveness of the blistering guitars. Recommended, definitely. Diverse and innovative, definitely not.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Trouble with Angels
    In resurrecting their original sound, Filter get caught up in the same monotonous industrial atmosphere that kept Short Bus from being an essential album. [Sep/Oct 2010, p.92]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pulse
    While the sound may flirt with alt-rock and electronica, the underlying sensibility is prog like BTBAM, in its melodic complexity and lyrical depth. Mar/Apr 2011, p.92]
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      • Posted Mar 18, 2011
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rescue
    For all its polish and sonic approachability, this is no sell-out record. Rescue may go down easy, but at the album's core, it's still an appealingly bitter pill.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Oblique to All Paths
    Like their spiritual and sonic forefathers in Khanate, Asunder, and Buried at Sea, their music is bleak, crushing, and decidedly off-kilter.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Know Hope
    The Color Morale never strays too far from the tried-and-true tropes of their subgenre on full-length No. 3, but still manages to craft tunes that are passionate and memorable.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Great Fire
    While this will probably please Bleeding Through's fans, sticking with the path most traveled doesn't result in a particularly memorable record.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Apocalyze
    While the formula may sound intriguing, lackluster songwriting makes much of the record sound repetitive and uninspired.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Seeing Eye Dog
    Interesting, but hardly the band that made Meantime. [Sep/Oct 2010, p.90]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In Waves
    An inconsistent record with flashes of brilliance, In Waves should keep diehard Trivium fans happy.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Halo of Blood
    The tracks on Halo of Blood sound more like computerized vessels for showing off their considerable skills than songs played by actual human beings.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    We Do What We Want
    The bottom line: Emery may have done what they wanted, but that doesn't mean that listeners will want the result-at least, not all of it.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Constant
    The Constant is best when going fast and loud, keeping your heart racing (and your mind off the subpar lyrics), but it loses momentum with cookie cutter ballad "holding On To You and a track, "Remember A Time," that oddly sounds more like Weezer than Warped Tour. [Mar/Apr 2010, p.92]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    III: Beneath Trident's Tomb
    From the lumbering “Lungs” to doomy, dynamically intense epics such as “On Wretched Son,” “Swarming Funeral Mass,” and “See No Shelter Fevered Ones,” the relentless sturm and drang is not for the faith of heart, and there’s always a sneaking sense that Twilight is making this stuff up as it goes along.
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