Breaking Benjamin follows up their rousing return to the music world with what is probably their worst and least inspired album.
Best Tracks: Feed the Wolf, Tourniquet, Down, Close Your Eyes
Worst Tracks: Lyra, Red Cold River, Save Yourself
Score: 4/10, painfully mediocre
After a very extended hiatus, TOOL makes a resurgence that comes out more of a whimper than a roar.
Best Tracks: Fear Inocculum, Pneuma, Descending, Chocolate Chip Trip, 7empest
Worst Tracks: Culling Voices, Mockingbeat
Score: 5/10, meh
Slipknot returned to the music world with a lot to say in an explosive way, albeit suffering some small shortcomings in terms of interludes and track time.
Best Tracks: Unsainted, Nero Forte, A Liar's Funeral, Red Flag, Spiders, Orphan, Solway Firth
Worst Tracks: What's Next, Not Long For This World
Score: 8.5/10, great experience
Post Malone has many different ideas that sound great on paper, but bad in post production.
Best Tracks: Enemies, Circles, Take What You Want, Sunflower
Worst Tracks: Hollywood's Bleeding, Allergic, On the Road, Internet
Score: 4/10, not good
Alter Bridge continues to pull their punches in terms of originality, but they still come out with catchy tunes and some playful sound on this album.
Best Tracks: In the Deep, Godspeed, Native Son, Take the Crown
Worst Tracks: Wouldn't You Rather, Indoctrination
Score: 7/10, pretty damn good
Poppy's aggressive fusion of pop, rock and metal elements makes for one of the best metal albums of 2020.
Best Tracks: I Disagree, BLOODMONEY, Anything Like Me, Fill the Crown, Nothing I Need, Sit/Stay, Sick of the Sun
Worst Tracks: Concrete
Score: 9/10 - Outstanding
If pop-punk wasn't dead, Green Day just launched a ballistic missile at it.
Best Tracks: lmao
Worst Tracks: Father of All..., Oh Yeah!, Meet Me on the Roof, Stab You In the Heart
Score: 1.5/10 - Actual waste of time
Imagine waiting 5 years for this.
Best Tracks: N/A
Worst Tracks: Intentions ft. Quavo, Yummy, Running Over ft. Lil Dicky, Second Emotion ft. Travis Scott
Score: 1/10 - Actual waste of time
While instrumentally the album is a let down, Ozzy's "goodbye" tone to his songs is saddening and haunting.
Best Tracks: Ordinary Man, Under the Graveyard, It's a Raid
Worst Tracks: Today Is the End
Score: 6.5/10, mixed bag
The overall summary of this album is basically every Twitch E-girl with cat ear headphones saying "you'll never find another girl like me".
Best Tracks: Dance Again, Lose You to Love Me, Let Me Get Me, A Sweeter Place
Worst Tracks: Rare, Ring
Score: 4/10 - Painfully Mediocre
As much as the band gases themselves up with the idea of innovation, they still continue to make pretty much the same repetitive and surface level bro-metal music they did last decade.
Best Tracks: Inside Out, Full Circle, Brighter Side of Grey
Worst Tracks: Living the Dream, A Little Bit Off, Bottom of the Top, Mother May I (Tic Toc)
Score: 3/10, trash