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
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There is nuance in the songwriting that, in discovery, has helped Slaves write good album, not just a collection of good songs. [16 May 2015, p.52]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Twenty One Pilots prove you don't always need guitars to have a good time. [16 May 2015, p.54]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It may not appeal beyond their current fanbase, but it cements The Story So Far's position near the front of the pop-punk pack. [16 May 2015, p.53]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's no pushing at the boundaries, but this nevertheless shows Silverstein can still turn some of the things they touch to gold. [16 May 2015, p.54]
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's a distinctly mixed bag. [2 May 2015, p.52
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A dirgey treat. [2 May 2015, p.53]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The best songwriting of their rollercoaster career. [9 May 2015, p.53]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's claustrophobic and uneasy. [9 May 2015, p.53]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Weird, arty, heavy excellence, thy name is (still) Therapy?. [9 May 2015, p.53]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This is not a time-weathered, diluted imitation of Faith No More. This, ladies and gents, is still "The Real Thing." [9 May 2015, p.52]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Like the sonic equivalent of a Rorschach test, each track is riddled with vast soundscapes begging to be explored and made sense of. [2 May 2015, p.54]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    II
    It's all proves Metz are poppy and punky, but they're also so squealing and Bleach-era Nirvana-heavy that you still need a sturdy ear to handle them. [2 May 2015, p.53]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The only thing you can be sure of with Two Hands is to expect the unexpected. [11 Apr 2015, p.53]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's up there with the best albums they've ever made. [11 Apr 2015, p.53]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If you love pop-punk in its most unadulterated, carefree form, you'll heart this. [28 Mar 2015, p.52]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    As a way of rehabilitating his reputation, this is certainly a solid start. [28 Mar 2015, p.54]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While they haven't exactly stretched the boundaries of three chords, these Wyoming punks have crafted another 14 tracks of fearless fun here. [28 Mar 2015, p.54]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There are grooves within grooves, epic 10-minute jams, and they're able to create a feeling of genuine disquiet simply by shifting a drumbeat. Absolutely mammut. [28 Mar 2015, p.54]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Day Is My Enemy is the most exciting--and most angrily British--album of the year. [21 Mar 2015, p.52]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their best record yet. [21 Mar 2015, p.54]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Just Like You is a good album, in that it contains many more good songs than bad ones. [21 Feb 2015, p.52]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    When they're good, they are astounding, and almost impossible to adequately describe. When they miss the mark, though, this lot grate. [7 Mar 2015, p.54]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Run
    Most of it's the aural equivalent of a shoulder rub, but when it's good, it's very good indeed. [21 Mar 2015, p.54]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nate and his crew are charming, more often than not. [7 Mar 2015, p.54]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Behind every good DIY punk outfit, there's some smart songwriting in place. Boston;s Pile prove this and more here on their fourth full-length. [7 Mar 2015, p.53]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is the record that brands SWS as a very big deal indeed. [7 Mar 2015, p.52]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's nothing on the album that's going to suddenly turn them into queen bees again, but Alien Ant Farm here prove themselves to be an enterprise running on more than just the fumes of nostalgia. [14 Mar 2015, p.53]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If you want to hear what will inevitable be one of the metal albums of the year, look no further than In Times. [14 Mar 2015, p.54]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This most powerful of trios churn up tumultuous fury not unlike tribal-metallers Neurosis. [14 Feb 2015, p.54]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Too countrified for you r average black metal fan, Blackberry Smoke are nevertheless as warming as rock gets. [7 Feb 2015, p.54]
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