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
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Essential? For completists. Worth hearing? Absolutely. [7 Nov 2015, p.50]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's a collection of suitably mixed results, but Fall Out Boy should be applauded for continuing to do whatever the hell they feel like. [7 Nov 2015, p.52]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Obviously, we'd much prefer to have a new Tool album, but in the interim, Money Shot won't leave you feeling short-changed. [31 Oct 2015, p.54]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Brilliantly delirious or deliriously brilliant, International Blackjazz Society is the mark of a band that are losing their minds in the best possible way. [7 Nov 2015, p.52]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    From the meandering opener, Weave, it's a record that's entirely absorbing. [31 Oct 2015, p.54]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They continue to blast out their post-punk hymns to the end of the world with a wild-eyed mania that's genuinely scary. [31 Oct 2015, p.54]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Too late to be the sound of the summer, Beach Slang will instead warm your hearts all winter--and far beyond. [31 Oct 2015, p.54]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    5 Seconds To Summer are clearly at their best when drummer Ashton is let loose behind his kit and the band are powering through huge, catchy choruses. [17 Oct 2015, p.52]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Back On Top never loses sight of something very important: trying something new. [24 Oct 2015, p.52]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's a maturity--or at least a noticeable growth--in the band's sound and abilities. [10 Oct 2015, p.50]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's all formula though, and fresh ingredients are few and far between. [3 Oct 2015, p.52]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A surprisingly coherent batch of soured psychedelia. [3 Oct 2015, p.52]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a hell of a return, better than you might have expected. [17 Oct 2015, p.52]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A surprisingly concise, but still collates the quartet's strengths into a mostly satisfying whole. [10 Oct 2015, p.52]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's nothing we've not heard before from Clutch, but it remains superbly head-crushing. [10 Oct 2015, p.52]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It is music that asks for patience n an impatient age. [10 Oct 2015, p.52]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They've managed to serve up complexity in a deceptively digestible manner. [10 Oct 2015, p.52]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Boasting darker, braver, more thrillingly complex compositions. [10 Oct 2015, p.52]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
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    Fidlar can still party; they just know they can't do it every night now. [3 Oct 2015, p.53]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jesse Hughes and Queens Of The Stone Age main man Josh Homme's capacity for throwing out sexy grooves has only improved with age. [3 Oct 2015, p.52]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Permanence is a brave, bold step into a new beginning. [19 Sep 2015, p.51]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    "Misfits" is a bit of a bland closer musically, but it's a sentiment that fits the album--and Shinedown--perfectly. [26 Sep 2015, p.51]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This may be the year's most melodically ambitious release. [26 Sep 2015, p.52]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Like a poison ice cream, MCS are once again delicious, but deadly. [26 Sep 2015, p.52]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Not only is it moving, it's arguably one if the best records Chris has made in the last 15 years. [26 Sep 2015, p.53]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Jack White is a man you can depend on for a dirty groove and a greasy riff. Which he serves up amply here. [26 Sep 2015, p.53]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The rock'n'roll spirit is just as potent as the kind you get from a bottle in a sleazy LA watering hole. [19 Sep 2015, p.52]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    By stabbing in the dark and boldly going where they've never gone before, they've made something genuinely great. [12 Sep 2015, p.48]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is pure Slayer through and through. [12 Sep 2015, p.51]
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    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Here, The Wonder Years have grown into the rarest of bands: one whose meanings accumulate between songs.... There's so, so much to hear this time around. [22 Aug 2015, p.50]
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