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
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Despite only clocking in at 42 minutes it feels like it drags on for ages. And the copious use of samples to remind you it’s an industrial record gets tiring.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Overall you might have to go back to 1989's The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste to find Ministry sounding quite as vital and engaged as they do here. [10 Mar 2018, p.55]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The album just needs a standout moment among Blood Red Shoes' moods to make these songs genuinely memorable. [1 Mar 2014, p.54]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As a neon-lit tonic to Drones, Simulation Theory is bang on the money. But as an exploration of a new frontier, it's a genuinely exciting musical adventure in its own right. [10 Nov 2018, p.53]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a study in twisted instrument abuse. [10 Jun 2012, p.54]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's consistently excellent, showcasing the band's trademark riffy and psychedelic sides. [13 Sep 2014, p.53]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It might well be that The Darkness' finest moments are not behind them, after all. [30 May 2015, p.54]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    blink's most musically ambitious, yet spiritually comprehensive, album to date. [2 Jul 2016, p.50]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Radkey's greatest strength is sounding urgent but never rushed. The greatest weakness is that they wear their influences like face tattoos. [22 Aug 2015, p.52]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With only the occasional chorus in English, singing along is tricky for us gaijin, but melodically these might be Rivers' catchiest songs since The Green Album. That makes this a hit in anyone's language. [25 May 2013, 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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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bar the addition of piano on a few tracks, I'm With You is not so much a fresh start as a wonderful, trouble-free return to the familiar, laid back West Coast rock terrain of their back-to-back classics, Californication and 2002's By The Way. [27 Aug 2011, p.50]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dethalbum III makes for further arse kicking. [20 Oct 2012, p.54]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The overall result being that Dananananaykroyd have finally made actual songs rather than the exercises in unpredictability they have in the past. [11 Jun 2011, p.51]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The production is big on bluster and stadium-sized punch, but, sadly all of the passion's also been squeezed out here. [19 Feb 2012, p.51]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Industrialist doesn't quite live up to the band's former glories. [[9 Jun 2012, p.53]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Greetings From California is an album that shines a light on The Madden Brothers' mature side. [13 Sep 2014, p.53]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This album's consistent quality should easily re-establish Evanescence back on the rock map in 2011. [1 Oct 2011, p.52]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A cohesive, hard-hitting and bold album. [13 Oct 2018, p.53]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is an album packed not only with exuberant and quirkily innovative songs--songs that are busy with bounce and swerve--but also come equipped with a sense of energy and defiance that suggests that their authors are not going to give up simply because the terrain underfoot has become unsteady. [Sept 17 2011, p.52]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    With its emphasis on freedom, this is the kind of stuff beloved of American who are heavily armed, piss-drunk,or both. The rest of the world need not apply, however. [13 Nov 2010, p.52]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Not Your Kind of People is a wonderful album full of something Garbage have never really possessed before: humanity. [May 2012, p.53]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While World On Fire isn't the finest thing Slash has, or will ever, put his name to, it still shows an iconic talent doing what he does very well. [6 Sep 2014, p.52]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Like the sonic equivalent of a Rorschach test, each track is riddled with vast soundscapes begging to be explored and made sense of. [2 May 2015, p.54]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    When they're good, they are astounding, and almost impossible to adequately describe. When they miss the mark, though, this lot grate. [7 Mar 2015, p.54]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    On the whole, though, while this is flawless and expertly crafted, it's also pretty unsatisfying. [26 Mar 2011, p.52]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Occasionally one song simple bleeds into another. ... On the whole, however, Underworld bears the mark of a band redefining who they are and putting themselves back on steady footing after a wobble. [6 Jan 2018, p.52]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The result is a claustrophobic classic that sharpens the focus of what is possible in the name of high-minded rock. [6 Jun 2015, p.50]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nightmare marks the point which the Huntington Beach crew put away childish things and became men. [24 Jul 2010, p.50]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Apocalyptic Love, the album, is at its best when Slash is operating within the team. [9 Jun 2012, p.52]
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