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
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is easily the best punk album of 2014. [8 Nov 2014, p.54]
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    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This is a modern metal classic. [8 Nov 2014, p.52]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A few teething problems aside, Between The Stars is a brilliant reinvention. [1 Nov 2014, p.54]
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    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The bonus material could've included more B-sides and fewer half-formed demos, but that's a niggle: the 28 tracks here still sound fantastic. [25 Oct 2014, p.54]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The buzzsaw guitars and cheese-free hooks remain largely the same, but there's a passion and depth to these songs that really rolls back the years. [1 Nov 2014, p.53]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mariachi El Bronx III is the rarest of things: an album that does not feature one bad song. [1 Nov 2014, p.54]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    You've got a positively enchanting album, from what's easily the best new band of 2014. [1 Nov 2014, p.54]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Brilliant, Melvins, brilliant. [18 Oct 2014, p.54]
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    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The 16 songs that comprise these two albums [Led Zeppelin IV and Houses Of The Holy] remaining blinding and deafening examples of strident, courageous music. [18 Oct 2014, p.54]
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    • 98 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The 16 songs that comprise these two albums [Led Zeppelin IV and Houses Of The Holy] remaining blinding and deafening examples of strident, courageous music. [18 Oct 2014, p.54]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Its bleak, grungy soundscape doesn't always hit, but when it does, Mr. Lanegan is captivating. [18 Oct 2014, p.54]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The result is an album that quietly impresses rather than ramming you abruptly in the sternum. [18 Oct 2014, p.53]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They present a skewed take on real life rather than some mystical ramblings. [27 Sep 2014, p.54]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is classic ATG with freshness and vigour to spare. [25 Oct 2014, p.54]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tiny Moving Parts have moved the latest wave of emo forward and offered it a tissue. [25 Oct 2014, p.53]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Musically, this is the most extreme Slipknot have sounded since 2001's Iowa. [25 Oct 2014, p.52]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This comeback album from industrial metal outsiders Godflesh effortlessly recaptures the visceral appeal of their early days. [11 Oct 2014, p.55]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The melodic emo guitar parts are more catchy than most of their ilk, while nostalgic pop-culture references are both comforting and sincere. [11 Oct 2014, p.53]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This album lacks that crucial edge to make it essential, but these Bots still know how to kick up a decent noise. [11 Oct 2014, p.53]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's all business as usual for Exodus, but business is still good. [11 Oct 2014, p.53]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Set It Off have created their own sub-genre in an oversubscribed pop-rock scene and absolutely nailed it. [11 Oct 2014, p.53]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Resurrection is a powerhouse of a record, the brave onward steps of New Found Glory proving that hope--like pop-punk--is not dead. [11 Oct 2014, p.52]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Every sludgy melody feels painstakingly sweated over; every battering arrangement feels scientifically measured out. [4 Oct 2014, p.54]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While there is nothing to rival the classic Step Down, it's hard to argue with the punch SOIA still pack. [4 Oct 2014, p.54]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Despite the album name, there's not a not or part lacking with From Indian Lakes. [4 Oct 2014, p.53]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This fourth LP is a nostalgia-tinted treat. [27 Sep 2014, p.54]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It makes for an impressive debut that sees Sleepwave unapologetically aiming for the sky. [27 Sep 2014, p.54]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Here Finch seem like a band unpausing rather than pressing into new territory, This is therefore a somewhat confused oblivion. [27 Sep 2014,p.53]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's just an album of bona fide, polished, often odd, perfect pop-rock. [27 Sep 2014, p.52]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    At its best, The Weird And Wonderful is as fine an articulation of the thrills, spills and general confusion of being young and different in the UK as you're likely to hear. [13 Sep 2014, p.52]
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