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For 1,714 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 1.9 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: 1,209 out of 1714
  2. Mixed: 494 out of 1714
  3. Negative: 11 out of 1714
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Beautiful Thing: Idles Live at Le Bataclan
    They’ve emerged as one of the most vital punk-fuelled bands of the age, and their live show is a huge part of that. Check this out to see why. [7 Dec 2019, p.54]
    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hidden History of the Human Race
    Blood Incantation have created a contender for death metal album of the year here.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    1979 [Box Set]
    It's intoxicating stuff. [2 Nov 2019, p.54]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Nov 21, 2019
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Get the Money
    Get The Money might not set the world ablaze like the rock bands to which it is clearly indebted, but it sounds like Taylor burning one while rocking on. Which means there’s still plenty here to put a smile on your face.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Daemon
    While Daemon is not without its evil edge, there's a bounciness to it that makes it an interesting and, oddly, occasionally fun listen. [2 Nov 2019, p.55]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Nov 5, 2019
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Desert Sessions, Vols. 11 & 12
    It crucially all gels properly into something all of its own, rather than disparate parts that won't mix no matter how hard they're shaken. [26 Oct 2019, p.54]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Oct 28, 2019
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Spiritual Instinct
    What’s emerged is an exploration: of the heavenly and the primal, the savage and the beautiful, the ultimate mystery of what it actually is to be human.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You Deserve Love
    This is hook-laden power-pop with one eye on the world's arenas. [4 Oct 2019, p.55]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Oct 22, 2019
    • 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
    • 49 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Screamer
    Woeful radio-rock mess. ... On-point production work prevents Screamer from being an unmitigated disaster, but songwise it's as deep as a puddle. [19 Oct 2019, p.55]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Oct 16, 2019
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Surviving
    The band's most accessible release for a long time, with two or three songs that could muscle in on a Greatest Hits. [5 Oct 2019, p.54]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Oct 16, 2019
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Metal Galaxy
    Everything fizzes and bursts and explodes with neon delight that sounds, genuinely, like nothing else on earth, but has a delight to it that's oh so familiar. [5 Oct 2019, p.53]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Oct 10, 2019
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Somebody's Knocking
    Somebody's Knocking is undoubtedly a labour of love for its creator, and a joy for everybody else. [12 Oct 2019, p.55]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Oct 9, 2019
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A Pill for Loneliness
    It's a pleasant enough record, but not one that will rouse or inspire beyond Dallas' already charmed following. [12 Oct 2019, p.55]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Oct 9, 2019
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Easter is Cancelled
    For those who like their rock adventurous, Easter may be cancelled, but Christmas has come early. [12 Oct 2019, p.55]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Oct 9, 2019
    • 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]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Oct 9, 2019
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hello Exile
    Here, nine of the 12 songs are Greg’s, and much of the album revels in his wistful romanticism as a result. ... Not that Hello Exile sits around navel-gazing. The Tom-led Last To Know is a seething rocker, and the just-audible off-mic yell before the guitar solo showcases a band as exuberant as ever, even as Joe Godino’s beats hammer down like a hangover.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Welcome Home
    Welcome Home is definitively a wonderful time, and a fitting farewell to an irreplaceable metal hero. [5 Oct 2019, p.55]
    • 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.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nine
    On Nine it feels like the band are finding a new lease of life in the dark days of 2019. [4 Sep 2019, p.53]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Sep 19, 2019
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Breathe
    Truthfulness and honesty [are] inherent throughout this fantastic record. [14 Sep 2019, p.55]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Sep 18, 2019
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Nothing
    It is more a showcase of Korn's strengths when hard times do come along; harnessing their ability to inspire and energise even in the darkest and most difficult of circumstances. [14 Sep 2019, p.53]
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Corpse Flower
    Corpse Flower is an album for completists. [15 Sep 2019, p.55]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Sep 12, 2019
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Another State of Grace
    As good as Heavy Fire? Nope, but it's another superb shot of classic-spirited heavy rock from masters of their craft. [7 Sep 2019, p.55]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Sep 11, 2019
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beneath the Eyrie
    This is another modern classic from a classic band. [14 Sep 2019, p.55]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Sep 11, 2019
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Birth of Violence
    This is the work of a brilliant artist who is singular in both talent and vision. [14 Sep 2019, p.54]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Sep 11, 2019
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Awakening
    Sounds as powerful as ever. A welcome return from a much-missed thrash battalion.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In the Spirit World Now
    What's undeniable is that Ceremony's sixth album is packed with more memorable tunes than many bands can manage in a whole six albums. [31 Aug 2019, p.54]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Aug 28, 2019
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beyond the Door
    It's hard to imagine a more enchanting soundtrack to the summer. [24 Aug 2019, p.55]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Aug 21, 2019
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Fear Inoculum
    This is the most intricate and densely-layered album Tool have yet made, but to use the word like "complex" to describe the counting-in-prime-numbers time signatures of Invincible or digital-only track Legion Inoculant would be lazy in the extreme. ... An album that pushes and challenges its creators and its audiences in new ways, the finer details of which will probably take another 13 years to fully unwrap and appreciate. [24 Aug 2019, p.53]
    • Kerrang!
      • Posted Aug 21, 2019
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