After a very rough couple of years, Mr. Dylan completes his return to his roots and makes one of the greatest albums in his career and easily the best break-up record of all time.

Sure, this album doesn't show any huge creative progressions on Dylan's side. It's still a very simple folk rock sound that relies heavily on the lyrical content to carry it through, but when that lyrical content is as emotional, as passionate, and as downright heartbreaking as this, and the otherwise fairly ... read more

Came for meme, stayed for a genuinely interesting Merzbow album.

Before going into this, I was preparing for the absolute worst. I mean, it's early '80s Merzbow, of course it's gonna be utter trash that's going to destroy my ears, right? Well, no. This album gave me something I really didn't expect, being more lo-fi than usual when it comes to Merzbow. Dare I say even Merzbow at his most accessible. But this album, to me, is one of his most interesting. It has this odd lo-fi industrial sound ... read more

I really didn't know what to expect going into this record, but I'm definitely glad I got around to listening to it. Although this isn't the kind of music I would usually listen to, I actually found it to be a really pleasant experience.

I think that Chaotic Mind is incredibly impressive seeing as it is a debut album that was made on GarageBand. For a first effort, there are definitely worse things out there, and Flamingooooo definitely shows their potential, especially with those ambient ... read more

I have finally returned, and I decided that the first thing I'm gonna do is remind everyone that Lou Reed was a fucking amazing musician that deserves so much more attention here. If you put aside his work with The Velvet Underground which (understandably) overshines his solo stuff in popularity, you can see that not much of his work gets the spotlight as much as they should. When you're just looking at his solo albums, you can see that the acknowledgement only goes to, what, four albums? Two ... read more

Rob Halford left to pursue a solo career that ultimately failed and was replaced with former Judas Priest tribute band frontman, Tim Owens, better known by his stage name, Ripper. The results is a fairly divisive record, with some claiming it to be just as good as Painkiller and others claiming it to be a rerun of that album with worse vocals and more uninspired instrumentals, and I'm leaning more towards the latter.

I'll be honest, I'd be the first to defend this record. There are a lot of ... read more

Budget Slayer.

Possessed's Seven Churches is known as the first death metal album ever, but honestly, while I can definitely see the influence and it's undeniable that they gave the subgenre its name with their track Death Metal, I really just don't see why this album in particular is seen as a death metal classic. All Possessed did here was make a Slayer album with less impressive instrumentals and worse recording quality. I mean, I know that Slayer were also a major influence on the ... read more

Judas Priest combine their hard and heavy performances from Ram It Down and their badass songwriting from Screaming For Vengeance and create arguably the most metal metal album in existence.

You can't dislike Painkiller. This is just one of those albums that you can't dislike. If you manage to get through this album without headbanging all throughout, there is something wrong with you. Priest went all-out here and proved to everyone why they deserve to be known as one of the greatest metal ... read more

Bob Dylan gets The Band backing him and finally returns to consistently releasing great albums.

Planet Waves marks the point where Dylan would start to get his old reputation back of being one of the best musicians in the game. With the help of The Band, he makes his first album in years which is enjoyable, memorable, and deserves to be in Dylan's discography.

I think the most obvious thing that makes this album so good is its consistency. I mean, obviously there's the fact that this is ... read more

This album is such an odd mess. It really shouldn't work at all, but it just does.

Legendary Hearts shows Lou Reed going for more of a pop/new wave approach than usual, showing that he still has that creativity in him that he showed all throughout the '70s and that The Blue Mask wasn't just a happy accident, but at the same time it just shouldn't work as well as it does. Reed mixed down Robert Quine's guitar parts, and on some tracks removed them entirely, which results in some of the tracks ... read more

Judas Priest give us their most energetic and heaviest album yet, but fail at making genuinely compelling songs that are often forgotten about when talking about the bands most iconic songs.

For Ram It Down, Priest up their performance game tremendously, with Halford going all-out and giving us the most powerful vocal performance of his entire career up to this point and the guitarists completely killing it all throughout. The problem is that the songs themselves are so damn forgettable and ... read more

Ozzy's new and final release is pretty much what you would expect from him at this late stage in his career, but that doesn't make it any less of a joy to listen to.

Ordinary Man is a very enjoyable and highly emotional album. Seeing as this may be his last ever studio effort, you can really tell that he wanted to make something special here. Realistically, he could have ended his studio output off with Scream and no one would mind, but he went the extra mile and made an album he could be ... read more

I was relistening to some of Ozzy's other albums in preparation to his new album coming out tomorrow, and I remembered that I originally didn't bother reviewing this album, so I decided to change that. But then I listened to it again, and I remembered why I didn't review this album.

Honestly, this is just an album that baffles me. As a cover album, I guess it's alright, but at the same time I really don't care about anything on here. The instrumentals are good for the most part, and Ozzy ... read more

I'm gonna fucking say it, The Blue Mask is better than Transformer.

After getting himself clean from his drug addictions, Lou Reed makes the album that Growing Up In Public should have been. This album is one of his most personal records to date, with him talking about alcoholism, paranoia, politics, and his love for women. The writing in general is great on this record, and arguably some of his best written songs in his entire career (yes, including his work with The Velvet Underground) are ... read more

Well, I was both expecting and hoping to hear Bob Dylan's first actual disaster, but all I got was a pretty underwhelming album that doesn't really need the hate it gets.

Okay, I get it, another cover album, only this time it has the added bonus of the label being complete scumbags and going behind Dylan's back and collecting scrapped recordings from his previous couple of LPs so that they could make some quick money. Honestly, if I were just talking about how disgusting this album's existence ... read more

The forgotten Bob Dylan classic.

You would think that the album that holds one of Dylan's indisputable classics, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, would be held in higher regard, but unfortunately his score for Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid is often dismissed and forgotten about. And honestly, while there isn't anything bad about this album, it is easy to understand why.

Bob Dylan is one of those artists that you just wouldn't expect to make a score for a movie. He's very much a songwriter, and ... read more

Turbo is the album that most people see as the point where Judas Priest began to fall off. With them sounding the most commercial they have ever sounded, having a heavy reliance on synths and just having a pretty generic '80s hair metal sound in general, the majority of people see this as the album where Priest proved they had run out of ideas for a few years. Even though this is easily one of their weakest releases, I do feel like this is slightly overhated.

I think it's undeniable that this ... read more

Growing Up In Public marks a very difficult and awkward point in Lou's career. The '80s in general is seen as the lowest point for Reed's music, but this album in particular shows him at a complete loss for ideas. An album like this really was predictable, seeing as the previous album also showed him losing all creativity by just making a record filled with improvised songs, so an album like this was inevitable.

This record may be Reed's most personal record to date. With songs talking about ... read more

The most Bob Dylan sounding Bob Dylan album that Bob Dylan ever made.

New Morning is mostly a return to form for Dylan. After a few country albums and changing up his vocal style, he decides to go back to his roots, return his normal nasally voice, and returns to a sound that is closer to folk than the previous two records. While there are still some elements of country in here, this is definitely him beginning to move away from that phase of his career.

This album isn't that bad, to be ... read more

Following up an album like Screaming For Vengeance is no easy task for any artist. Lots have made a record as great and as successful as that one and always struggle to come up with a good enough follow-up. Thankfully, with Judas Priest, they didn't have too much of a problem. While this album, in my opinion, isn't the greatest follow-up to such an album, they still provide a fun listen that follows the same sound and does enough to make me want to return to this over and over again.

This is ... read more

Lou Reed makes a much simpler album, consisting of very minimalistic instrumentals and improvised lyrics and stories, and it works well, but not well enough to make this one of his best efforts.

Honestly, The Bells, to me, seems like a novelty album. A record which is only interesting for the concept of Reed spontaneously coming up with ideas as he's recording and somehow working well. Sure, the lyrics work. Despite these stories and lyrics being completely made up on the spot, Lou Reed does a ... read more