Kerrang!'s Scores

  • Music
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:
1714 music reviews
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There are also songs that will undoubtedly kick it live, but it's not enough to prevent this from sounding merely ...nice. [10 Jun 2017, p.52]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A band finding new ways to be magnificent so far into their career. [10 Jun 2017, p.52]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This album is long. [10 Jun 2017, p.51]
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    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's a quivering blues element to the sludgy stomp of Whether Terrified Or Unafraid, while elsewhere they twist the lo-fi fuzz into jarring alt.rock shapes, as Josh continues to serve up the deliciously unexpected. [10 Jun 2017, p.52]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Holy Roller packs all the cloying jangle of a thousand mid-'00s forgotten filler tracks, while closer Palace doesn't so much dampen gunpowder as drop curtain with a watery "plop." But swagger frequently outweigh s stumble, and the band's innate sense of class shines brightly throughout. [10 Jun 2017, p.50]
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    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Already an essential document to one of rock's most exciting periods, the heartbreaking poignancy these bonus tracks add now make it even more so. [3 Jun 2017, p.52]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    You're Welcome stumbles through grating doldrums on garage-rock autopilot, with junkyard fuzz that's more crap-nasty than good-nasty. [3 Jun 2017, p.52]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    More often than not, though, Rise Against let you reach your own conclusions, and therein lies the difference between merely preaching to the choir and reaching the whole congregation. [3 Jun 2017, p.50]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's certainly an album fuelled by dissatisfaction, but it's more frantic than furious. [27 May 2017, p.52]
    • Kerrang!
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Several bold steps forward, while looking back over one shoulder. [27 May 2017, p.50]
    • Kerrang!
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's hardly a reinvention, but it all adds to the OTT party DragonForce have been throwing for so long. [20 May 2017, p.53]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Little has changed. [8 May 2017, p.69]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An uncompromising debut--hard, nasty and the perfect sonic poison for 2017. [29 Apr 2017, p.51]
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A record that's at times so flat. [13 May 2017, p.50]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The record flows effortlessly from disco to all-out rock ballad, and it ends with a stunningly atmospheric climax only they can pull off. [6 May 2017, p.52]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is an album that sounds of box-fresh offerings foma shop-worn veteran in which everything about it suits him well. [6 May 2017, p.52]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nakedly confessional or all dressed up, this is an album to cherish. [6 May 2017, p.51]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Across 11 tracks In•ter a•li•a never loses focus and never takes the easy options, offering fractured anthems for fractured times. [6 May 2017, p.50]
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    8
    8 isn't terrible, but it is boring, which is much worse. [13 May 2017, p.51]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ambitious and controversial, it's a creditable pass that's not perfect, but has flashes of brilliance. [29 Apr 2017, p.50]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Played at the correct volume, this will certainly threaten the structural stability of your house. [22 Apr 2017, p.52]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's an album that bristles with hooks, crackles with power and almost overflows with passion. [22 Apr 2017, p.50]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A wonderful rewarding journey. [15 Apr 2017, p.50]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    WYW
    A typically obdurate outing from an always captivating contributor. [15 Apr 2017, p.52]
    • Kerrang!
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Challenging, but intriguing. [15 Apr 2017, p.52]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A truly first-class record and establishing their place art the top-tier of the genre. Its choruses are huge, its lyrics are every bit as chant-able as they are poignant, its energy is relentless. [15 Apr 2017, p.52]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's an amalgamation of what they've done before but without the rapping, or hardcore, and with the pop dial turned to 11. [15 Apr 2017, p.51]
    • Kerrang!
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What saves these confessions from self-loathing is how Diet Cig dance the line between serious and funny wonderfully. [8 May 2017, p.66]
    • Kerrang!
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A record that's powered in equal parts by defiance and ambition. [18 Mar 2017, p.52]
    • Kerrang!
    • 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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