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Mar 24
Mastodon
Crack The Skye
81
critic score
(25)
86
user score
(654)
Oct 20
Converge
Axe To Fall
81
critic score
(13)
85
user score
(453)
May 26
Sunn O)))
Monoliths and Dimensions
85
critic score
(17)
81
user score
(402)
Sep 29
Alice in Chains
Black Gives Way to Blue
69
critic score
(14)
71
user score
(309)
Oct 16
Rammstein
Liebe ist für alle da
70
critic score
(6)
74
user score
(279)
Oct 13
Baroness
Blue Record
87
critic score
(9)
79
user score
(223)
Sep 15
Asking Alexandria
Stand Up and Scream
60
critic score
(1)
59
user score
(193)
Sep 9
Megadeth
Endgame
79
critic score
(8)
69
user score
(190)
Aug 25
Skillet
Awake
60
critic score
(1)
53
user score
(188)
Sep 29
Breaking Benjamin
Dear Agony
39
critic score
(3)
71
user score
(187)
Jun 23
Dream Theater
Black Clouds & Silver Linings
74
critic score
(6)
73
user score
(179)
Nov 3
Slayer
World Painted Blood
77
critic score
(13)
67
user score
(173)
Sep 25
Dragged Into Sunlight
Hatred for Mankind
75
critic score
(2)
83
user score
(169)
Nov 17
Vektor
Black Future
80
critic score
(2)
83
user score
(149)
Oct 27
Between the Buried and Me
The Great Misdirect
70
critic score
(4)
82
user score
(140)
Apr 28
Animals As Leaders
Animals as Leaders
70
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(133)
Aug 7
Behemoth
Evangelion
70
critic score
(3)
78
user score
(115)
Sep 22
Five Finger Death Punch
War Is the Answer
75
critic score
(2)
56
user score
(111)
May 8
Liturgy
Renihilation
75
critic score
(4)
75
user score
(109)
May 5
ISIS
Wavering Radiant
79
critic score
(22)
80
user score
(109)
Jul 14
August Burns Red
Constellations
70
critic score
(3)
80
user score
(104)
Jan 26
Architects
Hollow Crown
55
critic score
(2)
77
user score
(99)
May 5
The Devil Wears Prada
With Roots Above and Branches Below
70
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(94)
Jun 5
Karnivool
Sound Awake
80
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(94)
Aug 31
Chevelle
Sci-Fi Crimes
70
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(92)
Feb 23
Lamb of God
Wrath
74
critic score
(12)
76
user score
(90)
Jun 30
Suicide Silence
No Time to Bleed
64
critic score
(4)
77
user score
(87)
Apr 7
Ulcerate
Everything Is Fire
90
critic score
(2)
82
user score
(76)
Jun 23
Killswitch Engage
Killswitch Engage
62
critic score
(10)
64
user score
(74)
May 5
Leprous
Tall Poppy Syndrome
70
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(64)
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Feb 2
Cannibal Corpse
Evisceration Plague
78
critic score
(7)
73
user score
(64)
Nov 17
Devin Townsend Project
Addicted
80
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(62)
Sep 18
Planning For Burial
Leaving
75
user score
(59)
Oct 9
Lifelover
Dekadens
80
user score
(57)
Jun 29
Anaal Nathrakh
In the Constellation of the Black Widow
80
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(55)
Mar 11
If These Trees Could Talk
Above the Earth, Below the Sky
76
user score
(51)
Mar 10
Amesoeurs
Amesoeurs
65
critic score
(2)
69
user score
(51)
Apr 17
Altar of Plagues
White Tomb
90
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(50)
Sep 15
Every Time I Die
New Junk Aesthetic
75
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(49)
Sep 29
OM
God Is Good
63
critic score
(8)
75
user score
(48)
Oct 9
IKD-SJ
World’s End Fruit Basket
85
user score
(47)
Nov 2
Katatonia
Night Is the New Day
78
critic score
(5)
76
user score
(47)
Oct 16
Epica
Design Your Universe
70
critic score
(2)
82
user score
(45)
Mar 24
Papa Roach
Metamorphosis
45
critic score
(6)
49
user score
(45)
Sep 8
Thousand Foot Krutch
Welcome to the Masquerade
90
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(44)
Nov 10
Flyleaf
Memento Mori
68
critic score
(3)
77
user score
(44)
Apr 28
Heaven & Hell
The Devil You Know
67
critic score
(9)
66
user score
(43)
Mar 17
Kylesa
Static Tensions
77
critic score
(5)
78
user score
(43)
Jun 15
Riverside
Anno Domini High Definition
73
critic score
(3)
75
user score
(43)
Mar 31
Wolves in the Throne Room
Black Cascade
73
critic score
(7)
76
user score
(43)
Feb 5
Be'lakor
Stone's Reach
90
critic score
(1)
84
user score
(40)
Feb 10
Red
Innocence and Instinct
80
critic score
(2)
71
user score
(39)
Jan 23
Sepultura
A-Lex
68
critic score
(4)
57
user score
(39)
Dec 8
Rishloo
Feathergun
79
user score
(38)
Sep 25
Immortal
All Shall Fall
72
critic score
(5)
68
user score
(37)
Sep 15
The Black Dahlia Murder
Deflorate
75
critic score
(3)
78
user score
(36)
Feb 17
Obscura
Cosmogenesis
83
critic score
(3)
81
user score
(36)
Dec 21
Mudvayne
Mudvayne
51
critic score
(3)
51
user score
(36)
May 27
Alestorm
Black Sails at Midnight
70
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(35)
Mar 17
Static-X
Cult of Static
47
critic score
(3)
54
user score
(35)
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