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
    • 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]
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    • 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]
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    • 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]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A record that's powered in equal parts by defiance and ambition. [18 Mar 2017, p.52]
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    • 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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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Snarling, furious, smart, more please, Boss Hog. More. [1 Apr 2017, p.53]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A mature, provocative and at times genuinely beautiful piece of work. [1 Apr 2017, p.50]
    • Kerrang!
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a record with an electric crackle, a halogen glow. [25 Feb 2017, p.52]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If You're looking for something with ambition, swagger and feel-good power, Different Creatures is your beast. [25 Mar 2017, p.52]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    They're never going to be the heaviest band in the world, but Minus The bear are at their strongest when they threaten to get their claws out. [25 Mar 2017, p.52]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    [A] glorious masterpiece. [11 Mar 2017, p.50]
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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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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Some of the best songs [Obituary] have penned, nearly 33 years after their inception. [18 Mar 2017, p.52]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The haze delivers both sleazy rock'n'roll and sugary glam-pop, with the band putting equal dedication into their myriad components to create a joyous whole. [18 Mar 2017, p.53]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a beautiful, bruised patchwork: all fragile optimism and ebbing regret. [18 Mar 2017, p.53]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It is by turns beautiful and brash, driven and divine. [18 Mar 2017, p.50]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Danko Jones has plainly not lost his mojo. [11 Mar 2017, p.52]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While the album does lose focus at times, loosening its initial invigorating grip, the jovial bounce of Let's All Go To Hades is a surefire live hit when you've had a few pints. [11 Feb 2017, p.52]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Impressions is thrumming with big ideas, bigger choruses and is imbued with the pearly wisdom learned from rolling with life's punches. [4 Mar 2017, p.53]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All Them Witches have conjured fresh landmarks all their own. [18 Feb 2017, p.52]
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