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For 1,700 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Yellow & Green
Lowest review score: 20 What The...
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,201 out of 1700
  2. Mixed: 488 out of 1700
  3. Negative: 11 out of 1700
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    American Standard
    It’s not, in fact, an exaggeration to say that there are moments on this album that almost replicate the visceral intensity of vomiting. Partly that’s due to Michael’s guttural growls, a voice that rattles and chokes on itself as it exits his mouth. Around it, though, is a brutally cacophonous swirl of sound that, especially on the title-track, is harrowing and – oddly, paradoxically, confusingly – comforting.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Diaspora Problems
    The one thing holding Diaspora Problems back, save for its disappointing lack of hooks, is that it doesn’t exploit its strengths as fully as it might.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    EndEx
    EndEx doesn’t win many points for going where no band has gone before. The album, and its creators, do deserve credit for continuing the Fear Factory tradition, as an industrial metal band preoccupied with questions of how technological advancements adversely affect our lives. If you fear the future, this is the soundtrack for you.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In Cauda Venenum
    It’s a good album, though not an Opeth classic. It occasionally meanders and feels in need of a few more truly golden moments to tie its various eccentricities together into a brilliant whole.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Last Will and Testament
    Opeth have broken new ground, entered fresh realms both oppressive and melodic – but their rapier-like determination to be different may be too much for some.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
    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]
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      • Posted Oct 25, 2010
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Southern Air
    If you can look beyond this band's inherent safe-ness, there's plenty her for fans of the sugar rush offered by Paramore, All Time Low, Simple Plan et al to enjoy. [11 Aug 2012, p.53]
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      • Posted Sep 4, 2012
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ø (Disambiguation)
    Less encouraging is that while the album is unmistakably brutal, it's also remarkably unmemorable. [2 Apr 2011, p.52]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Apr 5, 2011
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ritual
    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]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Jul 6, 2011
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Iron Balls of Steel
    Iron Balls Of Steel ultimately raises eyebrows more often than it does fists. [14 Jan 2012, p.51]
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      • Posted Feb 1, 2012
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Automata II
    The Proverbial Bellow could almost be all that this chapter comprised and not irk their faithful. The other three tracks deliver too, but were destined to always pale by comparison. [14 Jul 2018, p.55]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Jul 13, 2018
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Found in Far Away Places
    There's nothing ambitious or monumental here but a tight 50 minutes of call-to-arms rage. [27 Jun 2015, p.52]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Jun 26, 2015
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    White Silence
    Heavy and not consistently rewarding, it is nonetheless always interesting. [18 Jun 2011, p.51]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Jul 12, 2011
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Band of Joy
    An album of blues covers that's beautifully mellow and endearingly warm. [25 Sep 2010, p.52]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Spiral in a Straight Line
    There are a couple of marvellous moments – namely the shapeshifting Mezzanine and the agonising regret of Finalist – but often Spiral In A Straight Line settles into itself too much.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    No Home Record
    Eccentric in all the right ways, No Home Record is just poppy enough to be accessible, yet edgy enough to satisfy even the pickiest of old school noise-rock fans. [12 Oct 2019, p.55]
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      • Posted Oct 9, 2019
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Silver Age
    Silver Age is a fun ride, then, but it won't warrant racing back for any tine soon. [6 Oct 2012, p.53]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Oct 29, 2012
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pretty Years
    A record packed with starry-eyed guitars, almost as if they were being beamed back down from the International Space Station. [24 Sep 2016, p.53]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Sep 22, 2016
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Let All That We Imagine Be The Light
    While not quite the box of delights Garbage shook at us last time, there’s persistent allure in the mating of cavernous soundscapes with Shirley’s penetratingly icy vocals.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Viscerals
    A strange, unruly offering. The momentous, squalling dissonance of the curtain-raising Reducer seems to signpost where they’re going, but then they spin off into a twisted, eight-track labyrinth.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    City Burials
    Much of the album is minimalist in its approach, allowing Jonas Renkse’s vocals to guide the way against a kaleidoscopic soundscape of soft melodies that feel almost ethereal.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Stray
    The music itself is minimalist, but still manages to conjure an intense darkness, aided by the haunting drawl of guitarist Reid Bateh. [15 Feb 2020, p.55]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Feb 18, 2020
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    2R0I2P0
    Neither Boris nor Merzbow are particularly known for their music being concise, and of course this opus is no exception — clocking in at almost 90 minutes it takes its sweet time making its point. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as they unhurriedly pick apart their previous material it provides fresh perspective and an opportunity to rediscover.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Reverie Lagoon: Music for Escapism Only
    The dreamy Cali-sound is easy to get lost in, but Seahaven takes you somewhere you won't actually mind being stranded. [22 Mar 2014, p.53]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Apr 10, 2014
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Darker Handcraft
    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]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Mar 18, 2011
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mammoth WVH
    You can’t help but feel that some creative tension and idea-bouncing in there might have led to some more invention and exploration in the album’s midsection. Nevertheless, though, this is still an impeccably delivered slab of hard rock fun.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Absolute Dissent
    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]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Nov 19, 2010
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Corpse Flower
    Corpse Flower is an album for completists. [15 Sep 2019, p.55]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Sep 12, 2019
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Head Cage
    Finally adding a bassists to PD's ranks has robbed them of some of their personality. [8 Sep 2018, p.53]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Sep 10, 2018
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Flowers for Vases/descansos
    FLOWERS for VASES / descansos continues what Petals For Armor started in showing just how much of Hayley Williams we still have to get to know as an artist. The Paramore question mark continues to hover, but here Hayley has once again shown that there’s more to her than one band.
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