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
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is a record that seethes with fury. [25 Jul 2015, p.50]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's an important, thoughtful album that will serve to unite the grief-stricken with a new-found sense of purpose to find some form of healing. [9 Jun 2018, p.53]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    They're the latest addition to an emerging new breed of post-hardcore acts that are deliberate, delicate, messy and aggressive all at once. [21 Dec 2013, p.70]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Great Divide is a tightly honed, 12-track collection. [16 Aug 2014, p.52]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They’re making bigger leaps than ever. Even their more familiar-sounding songs show signs of metamorphosis.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As they get older and wiser, when they focus their songwriting skills like they do on Saviors, they are as sharp, bright and essential as they’ve ever been. And they still know who they, and you, are.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's prime Alice In Chains, and the work of a band still managing to hit new peaks of their powers. [25 Aug 2018, p.53]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hardcore devotees can rest assured that Kreator have shed little of their original skin. [28 Jan 2017, p.52]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jesse Hughes and Queens Of The Stone Age main man Josh Homme's capacity for throwing out sexy grooves has only improved with age. [3 Oct 2015, p.52]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This infusion of punk is quite some achievement given the album is divided into movements, yet in stripping back to a four-piece they strip away pretentiousness and inject rough-hewn power. [5 Feb 2011, p.51]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Millport is a welcome postcard from a busman's holiday taken by a fine songwriter. [11 Mar 2017, p.52]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In amongst their sleeker, poppier, but still hard-hitting grooves, they're not afraid to tackle big issues, either. [26 Jan 2013, p.55]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The album sounds like Liturgy tried to make a mathcore record, put two and two together and got three. [7 May 2011, p.52]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Joy Formidable still roar. In fact, on Hitch, they sound more like themselves than ever before. [26 Mar 2016, p.52]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The fact that the real Black Sabbath are currently in the studio makes this fell more like a curtain-raiser than the real event. [10 Nov 2012, p.55]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Forming part of their 20th anniversary celebrations this year, this brilliant 18-track compilation may be missing some huge hits, but that's not to say that it doesn't hit home. Hard. [22 Jan 2011, p.51]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Silliness and fun are very much the order of the day here so, if you want some depth to your music you'll be found wanting. [23 Oct 2010, p.51]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The classy atmosphere of Hisingen Blues makes Graveyard sound timeless rather than retrogressive, and wholly relevant in 2011. [14 May 2011, p.51]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The result is one their most confident, consistent and cohesive record in 10 years. [11 Feb 2012, p.50]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    For all the whiskey-soaked swagger on offer here, there's little to distinguish these tracks from one another. [16 Mar 2013, p.53]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It marks their perfection of the swooning pop stuff they've been churning out since 2006. [30 Mar 2013, p.54]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's far from bad. Sadly, though, Everblack's also far from The Black Dahlia Murder at their best. [8 Jun 2013, p.54]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Maine sound like a band who've finally found their happy place. [8 Jun 2013, p.54]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Accomplished but a little safe, perhaps, Palms is nevertheless an intriguing project worthy of a sequel. [22 Jun 2013, p.52]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Beyond the admittedly impressive riffing, the rest of what's on offer is perfunctory. [14 Dec 2013, p.60]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It makes for an impressive debut that sees Sleepwave unapologetically aiming for the sky. [27 Sep 2014, p.54]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is a wholly disturbing listen. [6 Dec 2014, p.54]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While they haven't exactly stretched the boundaries of three chords, these Wyoming punks have crafted another 14 tracks of fearless fun here. [28 Mar 2015, p.54]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's no pushing at the boundaries, but this nevertheless shows Silverstein can still turn some of the things they touch to gold. [16 May 2015, p.54]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All Downhill From Here should have been track two, not seven because [Figure Me Out] is unbeatable. ... Skip this one [Missin' You] if you're a fan of One Direction. Guys, guitars... use them. [2 Apr 2016, p.51]
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