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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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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    ULTRAPOP
    That’s not say it’s unlistenable, far from it. In fact, it’s addictive to see where the record goes next. While most hardcore bands are adamant about getting heavier, The Armed are going poppier and, ultimately, weirder, often in the space of one verse. ... Sure, it’s not something you’re going to dip in and out of on a whim, but when you’re in, you won’t want to leave.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones
    While Wretched And Divine might not be a game changer, for many people it could--and it should--be an opinion changer. [5 Jan 2013, p.54]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Feb 5, 2013
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Birds of Satan
    It sounds like a band making music for the sheer love of it, but Taylor and his hard-rocking amigos also bring some top-notch songwriting. [12 Apr 2014, p.53]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Apr 30, 2014
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pale Horses
    Aaron and mewithoutYou have authored what's possibly their best album. [25 Jul 2015, p.52]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Jul 23, 2015
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Normal Isn't
    Normal Isn’t is a more subtle beast than Existential Reckoning, a cohesive collection of electro-goth tunes that runs deeper, darker, and in Bad Wolf and ImpetuoUs, hookier than its predecessor.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mania
    They're strutting along a tightrope without a downward glance here. [27 Jan 2018, p.50]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Jan 24, 2018
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Brave Faces Everyone
    It’s okay to not be okay, and Spanish Love Songs celebrate that with no small amount of knowing grouchiness here. The result is an album that’s not perfect – but those who get it will fall in love with it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Millport
    Millport is a welcome postcard from a busman's holiday taken by a fine songwriter. [11 Mar 2017, p.52]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Mar 17, 2017
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Signed and Sealed in Blood
    Signed And Sealed In Blood finds Boston's finest as raucous, rowdy and riotous as ever, without sounding hoary or hackneyed. [5 Jan 2013, p.55]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Feb 5, 2013
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hold On To Your Heart
    Fantastic album. [27 Jan 2018, p.51]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Jan 24, 2018
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Invincible Shield
    Ultimately, though, this is a record with the kind of undeniable quality that will captivate fresh-faced newcomers just as much as weathered veterans.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No One Was Driving The Car
    The soft strummed title-track is saturated with heartbreak and rage. By the time the downbeat End Times Sermon dissolves into its ponderous parting sample, it’s hard not to feel drained and dejected, but also utterly connected to the chaos of the world falling apart around us.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Halo of Blood
    This is a bloody good CoB album. [8 Jun 2013, p.54]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Jun 26, 2013
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Berlin
    Making massive noise for a three-piece, buzzsaw rough guitar noise is expertly managed, combing Sabbath-inspired heaviness with some of Kyuss' spaced-out-ness. [29 Aug 2015, p.52]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Sep 3, 2015
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    War Music
    Impassioned and intense, packed with killer riffs, compressed, barely-controlled energy and a driving sense of momentum. [19 Oct 2019, p.53]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Oct 18, 2019
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gnarwolves
    It's not wholly original, but there's plenty here to keep the (Gnar)wolf from the door. [20 Sep 2014, p.54]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Sep 30, 2014
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    From Death to Destiny
    We didn't expect Asking Alexandria to raise the bar this high. [3 Aug 2013, p.52]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Aug 20, 2013
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tracing Back Roots
    Their most accessible album to date. [20 Jul 2013, p.54]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Aug 21, 2013
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Colored Sands
    Luc remains an expert in experimental extremity, with Forgotten Arrows, reminding us that Gorguts were trawling prog-death waters long before Gojira. [17 Aug 2013, p.54]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Sep 5, 2013
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chasing Ghosts
    The Amity Affliction have polished their beauty-and-the-beast sound and frankly, it couldn't be better. [29 Sep 2012, p.54]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Oct 23, 2012
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Bureaucratic Desire for Extra-Capsular Extraction
    This quality archive release is a timely reminder of the strange beauty and hypnotic potency of mainman Dylan Carlson's vision.[13 Nov 2010, p.51]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Dec 14, 2010
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Weird Kids
    This is We Are The in Crowd--without apology, pulling no punches and making good on the promise they've been threatening to trade in on for years. [15 Feb 2014, p.52]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Mar 18, 2014
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    ...Like Clockwork
    Like Clockwork may have been wrought from turmoil, what it delivers is the sound of Queens Of The Stone Age back at the top of their game. [15 Jun 2013, p.54]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Jun 26, 2013
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Phantom Anthem
    A riveting convergence point for 14 years of expert graft. [7 Oct 2017, p.52]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Oct 6, 2017
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    COLD 2 THE TOUCH
    This may be a much more conventional form of hardcore than their alumni have been doing recently, but here Angel Du$t are truly flexing their muscles.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Welcome 2 My Nightmare
    This is both an unpredictable, risk-taking venture and the truest hearted Alice Cooper album in many years. [10 Sep 2011, p.52]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Oct 28, 2011
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Our Raw Heart
    The cloud of heaviness that hangs over the whole thing is matched only by the emotion on display, and the momements of beauty once again reveal YOB to be not just another doom outfit, but one of the finest heavy bands on earth. [9 Jun 2018, p.55
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Jun 7, 2018
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nothing Violates This Nature
    Just because you can't see what's about to hit you, it doesn't mean it can't knock you off your feet, and that's exactly what All Pigs Must Die do here. Repeatedly. [3 Aug 2013, p.54]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Aug 20, 2013
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Rat
    Their gloriously off-kilter approach is compelling and then some. [30 Aug 2014, p.52]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Sep 30, 2014
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Post Pop Depression
    It's been a hell of a ride, one where the journey is just as much fun as reaching the journey. [12 Mar 2016, p.51]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Mar 9, 2016
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