The first proper KISS album that most people can agree is absolutely terrible. Up to this point, each KISS album had their fans, even if they are still just as hated by the majority of people as an album like this one is. But even fans find it difficult to justify Unmasked's existence. If Dynasty was their main sell-out album of the '70s (ignoring the fact that their entire discography is full of nothing but sell-out records), then Unmasked is the album where they completely lost any and all ... read more

Good As I Been To You, but much darker and much better.

World Gone Wrong changes absolutely nothing in terms of sound or concept from the previous album, and so we get another completely solo, one man, one acoustic guitar, one harmonica, and a batch of traditional folk songs for him to perform album. However, World Gone Wrong is still miles ahead of Good As I Been To You solely for the fact that Dylan actually sounds like he wants to make the album and, y'know, the album actually sounds decent ... read more

This is the album where any fan of the band after that solo project fiasco completely lost all faith and respect for the group. Dynasty shows KISS going full disco, and the results are probably just as bad as that Peter Criss solo album, but this at least has Ace Frehley there to pick up the pieces.

Dynasty is seen as the last classic album the band ever made, but it only has that status due to the one hit song off this album still being one of their most well known (and ironically being one ... read more

Paysage d'Hiver's debut demo album is perhaps one of the more underwhelming entries into his catalog. While it's certainly an admirable beginning, it ends up being a bit too lackluster to really stick out in the discography of the guy who would later go on to make some of the best records atmospheric black metal has to offer.

Steineiche is the first release from Paysage d'Hiver, and it definitely feels that way listening to it. It feels a lot more primitive than his later releases, coming off ... read more

Dylan goes back to the basics, making a one man, one guitar, one harmonica, and a bunch of folk songs album for the first time since 1964's Another Side Of Bob Dylan. On paper, this seems like it would be a brilliant idea, a great return-to-form and a good way to bring back the fans who would have given up on him after the disastrous '80s. Only issue is that Dylan himself doesn't feel comfortable performing this way.

Obviously in thirty years people grow, and Dylan did too. You can even tell ... read more

Kristall und Isa, to me, feels less like its own stand-alone project and more like a bridge between Paysage d'Hiver's two masterpieces. It feels like it was made more to fill up the gap between his two most acclaimed albums while also furthering his sound even if it is only slightly. But while this album may not be the most impactful or effective album in his discography, it's still a damn fine album nonetheless.

By this point, you should know the formula by now. Cold, wintry atmosphere, a ... read more

Code Orange's first full-length LP is certainly something that will appease many post-hardcore and metalcore fans. With it being such a chaotic, abrasive, and in-your-face record, you're more than likely going to find some enjoyment out of it than some of their more polished albums, even if it is solely due to the amateurish performances being laughable at times.

Love Is Love // Return To Dust manages to bring the animalistic brutality of their EPs over to a full-length album setting ... read more

Well, who could have guessed the best KISS album EVER would be hidden within the solo albums, in perhaps the most overlooked member of the group, Ace Frehley?

In his 1978 solo album, Ace made something that's miles ahead of what Paul and Gene would have ever wished to make even with Ace helping them. It just goes to show that Ace was the sole member of the group who actually had the talent to make genuinely good music, but ended up wasting his potential by going with a band as shitty as KISS, ... read more

Well, I have to admit, as much as I hate the guy, I gotta at least respect this album. Out of the four solo albums, Gene Simmons was the one to take the most advantage out of the situation, realizing that he can do more than just make a KISS album on his own or completely change up his own sound. Instead, he experimented, something that no other KISS member did. Bringing in a choir and adding a more symphonic and proggy sound to his usual hard rock, it's certainly one of the most refreshing ... read more

Well, here it is. The dreaded Peter Criss solo album. The album that performed the worst out of the four solo albums, the one that's the most despised, and, surprisingly enough, is also seen as the WORST album in KISS's discography. Not ONE of the worst, but THE worst. And... uh...

You're probably asking yourself "What makes this Peter Criss solo album so bad? How can it possibly be the worst thing in the discography of the group who gave us Unmasked, Animalize, Asylum, Crazy Nights, Hot ... read more

The first of KISS's 1978 solo albums. For those unaware, in 1978, when the band had "ran out of ideas" (or, more realistically, got tired of making the same album over and over again with varying levels of quality and hoping nobody noticed), they decided that all of the members would make an album without the help of any other member of the band to see who would get the most sales, who would get the most critical acclaim, and overall just for them to experiment a bit and possibly ... read more

Great job, man! This is a definite improvement on the underwhelming debut.

The singles definitely got me looking forward to your next full project, but I was also quite nervous to see if this would have been a case of the singles being the only good songs, but thankfully that isn't the case. This EP is filled with six tracks, all of which are at the very least enjoyable. Even though there are some tracks that are more forgettable or generic or just too repetitive for their own good, all of ... read more

"Wiggle wiggle wiggle like a bowl of soup"
What the fuck happened here, Bob? If it wasn't for God Knows and the title track, this album would be a bigger waste of time than Down In The Groove.

Under The Red Sky is one of the more easily forgotten Bob Dylan albums, and it should certainly stay that way. This album is filled with so many of Dylan's worst written lyrics and at times sounds like he's just making nursery rhymes, and it's even gotten to the point where people have ... read more

What's with Gene Simmons writing so many songs about sixteen-year-old girls?

Love Gun is the first KISS album to really show them going in the right direction. Obviously they never continued down this path, but if they did then maybe the following few decades of their career wouldn't be seen as complete embarrassments to the entirety of rock music.

Love Gun, while it isn't my personal favourite KISS album (if I can even call my personal favourite a "personal favourite"), is probably ... read more

Is there even an album as successful in its wintry atmosphere as Paysage d'Hiver's aptly titled Winterkälte (Winter Cold)?

This is where I feel Tobias Möckl really perfected everything he was going for. The six demos preceding this were nothing more than him testing the waters, seeing if they were just icy enough for him to go all out. And when he found that his self-titled and Kristall Und Isa were just right, he decided to gives us his his masterpiece, and the funny thing is, it ... read more

Who woulda thought the rush-job made just to cash in on the success of their previous album would actually surpass the main event in terms of quality?

After the overproduced, overhyped mess that was Destroyer, I half expected Rock And Roll Over to be just as bad, if not worse. It's known that this album is nothing more than a quick cash-grab made because of the success of that album, so it should be an absolute failure. Only thing is, while I don't love this album by any means, it certainly ... read more

If there was going to be any KISS album that I liked, I was expecting it to be Destroyer. The album is seen as an undeniable classic in their panned discography, after all, and a turning point in their career where they changed for the better, even if it was only for a short few years. But clearly that didn't happen, and now I'm somehow stuck with having Dressed To Kill being my favourite KISS album, at least for now.

Destroyer is often cited as being one of, if not the only studio album ... read more

It's amazing how this album is considered either Dylan's most underrated and overrated album depending on who you ask.

Oh Mercy really is a breath of fresh air. After a decade of nothing but disappointments, with the only worthwhile album in his '80s output being a weird reggae-style pop rock album fused with folk, Dylan finally gives us the album we've been waiting for. The true successor to 1976's Desire. An album that shows his return to his roots, with much more emphasis on the lyrical ... read more

Paysage d'Hiver's fourth demo, Kerker, is often seen as one of his weakest releases, and all I have to say to that is: if this is the worst Tobias has to offer, then I'm in for one hell of a journey.

While Kerker isn't a bad album in the slightest, it has gained a reputation as being one of Paysage d'Hiver's worst. But is that even saying much? Paysage d'Hiver is easily one of the best atmospheric black metal acts to ever exist, and Kerker is only a minor blemish on an otherwise great ... read more

If you told me before I started going through KISS's discography that I would be rating one of their studio albums positively, then I probably would have laughed. And I probably still would, but Dressed To Kill definitely left me impressed at the very least.

So, this was very unexpected. A KISS album that I actually kinda like? Granted, it isn't an amazing album, I wasn't left particularly thrilled, and I can't see myself returning to the album outside of a handful of tracks, but I never once ... read more