Kerrang!'s Scores

  • Music
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:
1700 music reviews
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Welcome back, Four Year Strong. [6 Jun 2014, p.51]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Should be regarded as perhaps their finest album yet. [14 Jan 2017, p.51]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It could slot into the soundtrack of anyone’s life, it has that sort of everyman, indie movie quality. But it’s for him first, and it’s an incredibly pure distillation of who Finn is when he’s not on camera.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is a record just as colourful as its creator’s hair (which is handy). And while rapping about Bill Gates, Elon Musk, The Office’s Michael Scott and members of One Direction in closer See You In The Future might prove one step too far for some, for everyone else it’s all just a part of the ride. Indeed, this is very weird shit. But it rules.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Ghost Inside still smack like a wrecking ball. [16 Jun 2012, p.53]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sometimes angry, regularly ferocious, occasionally beautiful. [8 Oct 2016, p.53]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    That first album wasn't a one-off, and here The Temperance Movement have once again proved themselves masters of their craft. [2 Jan 2016, p.52]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Senjutsu is simultaneously more diverse than its predecessor but somehow manages to concentrate its punches. It’s the sound of a band that continues to strive when it’s already honed its craft to perfection.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It beautifully illustrates that bigness isn't always about loudness. [9 Mar 2013, p.52]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Confidently delivered and teeming with ideas, it flies by as much because of its urgency as its cohesion.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    PRUDE is an album whose life-affirming spirit is unrelenting throughout its 10 tracks, which fly by in sub-30-minute blast of punk fury. Whether you’re on the lookout for heart-on-sleeve punk, hectic hardcore mayhem or just some pure sonic fun, Drug Church’s latest offering is a real must-hear.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    (Nasty) business as usual, then, from Anaal Nathrakh. [13 Oct 2012, p.54]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The result is jaw-dropping. [12 Jan 2013, p.52]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Murderous fantasy-fulfillment, it may be. But nobody does it better. [25 Mar 2017, p.50]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Uninterested in taking over the airwaves or lighting up the charts, it is art at its unapologetically visceral peak. More than that, it’s vitriolic fresh proof that absolutely no band is more vital, and that maybe we really would be better burning it all to the ground.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Despite the album name, there's not a not or part lacking with From Indian Lakes. [4 Oct 2014, p.53]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is still a challenging listen that churns and rages exactly where it needs to. [30 May 2015, p.52]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stories unfurl with an infectious nerdiness that undulates between giddy Boys’ Own exuberance and a museum curator’s painstaking attention to detail. [20 Jul 2019, p.57]
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It’s testament to how thrilling Rivers Of Heresy is that by the time you reach at closing track The Looming, released, somewhat boldly, as the first single from the album, that its impact hasn’t been lessened.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The pairing makes more and more sense everytime you listen to it, perfectly rounding off 37 minutes of bubbling, stoned fuzz. [3 Feb 2018, p.52]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You'd listen to their brilliant third album and realise that they've beaten you to it (making a classic rock record). [21 Aug 2010, p.51]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The solos are absolutely enormous and are some of the most interesting song writing that they’ve produced to date.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dear has generated a resurrection, or at least a strengthening of their life force; its creation inspired Boris to continue, turning what was supposed to be a goodbye into a forceful restating of this remarkable band's existence. [1 Jul 2017, p.50]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Grown men revisiting their youthful hijinks should be a terrible idea or, to borrow an FNM title, a midlife crisis. Instead, this record is an absolute rager, testament to both the original material and the present-day dedication of its lunatic creators.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Too late to be the sound of the summer, Beach Slang will instead warm your hearts all winter--and far beyond. [31 Oct 2015, p.54]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Depth, emotion and spirit seem to infuse everything. [20 Oct 2012, p.52]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Swirling, heady and claustrophobic at times, this is well worth further investigation. [21 Aug 2010, p.51]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Truly, so confident and perfectly measured are Royal Blood here that, while definitely focused on the stars, they sound like they never noticed the gutter was there in the first place. It’s rock’n’roll lit up by a disco ball.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their rebellious spirit is intertwined with a sense of total, inspiring self-love and in creating that feeling of empowerment, Humble As The Sun feels revolutionary in a fresh new way.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Deficiencies are rare. When Never Let Me Go calls time on its 13 songs with the exquisitely constructed Fix Yourself, it does so in a manner befitting an album that is overwhelmingly a success.