Best Death Metal
![Kingdoms Disdained [Explicit]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61vK5siduXL._SS600_.jpg)
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I was one of many who wrote a scathing review of Illud on Amazon back when it came out. I stand by each and every word of that review years later. I’ve been a fan since Altars came out way back when and after an eight year wait Illud was like a kick to the head it was so bad. Well, Trey gave Vincent, Destructhor and Tim the boot. It’s got the speed, the riffs and a great lead at the end. but it’s still a straight ahead blast off to what is a great album. This song has been universally praised by just about every website and I don’t understand why. One of the longer songs but it has a ton of twists and turns that held my attention. Sludgy with insanely fast double bass. Tucker’s an accomplished bassist so it’s nice to hear more of him in this song. The Earth was supposed to sound like originally lol. Declaring New Law. The song starts out monstrous but sort of fizzles. The Fall of Idols. Tucker is on FIRE on this song. In this day and age where every underground recording has crystal clear production, Kingdom’s Disdained is VERY old school sounding. It sounds muddy but once I played around with the settings on my phone (Hint, ease up on the drums a little) it sounds awesome now. It’s raw, dirty and clear if that makes any sense. I had it turned all the way up to max on my headphones and it’s still not as painfully loud as most modern releases. Scotty on drums……finding a replacement for Pete was not easy but he’s got the power, the technique and most importantly the swing and groove Pete had. Steve….a lot of people side with Vincent since he was on the bands classic albums. Hopefully we won’t have to wait ten years for the “L” album. (Favorite Songs). Piles Of Little Arms. D.E.A.D. Righteous Voice. For No Master. Fall of Idols. Songs I didn’t care for but still aren’t bad. Kingdom’s Disdained, Raw, brutal, brilliant and a true return to form from the masters themselves."
"With the return of Steve Tucker, Morbid Angel has made a return to the pure death metal at which they've always excelled."
"Trey Azagthoth is back with some of the most evil and menacing sounding riffs and some of the most slime ridden spaced out solos from another dimension you will swear you opened up a gateway from Hp Lovecrafts Necronomicon. If you are curious if Morbid Angel are phoning it in or doing an industrial electronic dance album I'm here to inform you HELL Fu@ng No! This album will one day be mentioned with the band's greatest works and will have you banging your head and roaring with approval and celebration that the gods of extreme metal have truly returned!"
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This was a purchase based upon buyer reviews as I had never even heard of the band before."
"This is my favorite Pallbearer album and is easily one of the best albums I've bought in years."
"Thought they tried too hard on this 1."
"Patient, thoughtful, melodic, heavy, and reflective."
"Fantastic psychedelic metal!"
"I literally can't stop listening to it, its phenomenal."
"Pallbearers new album is sick!"
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The guitars are beautifully ugly, the drums are at their primitive best, the vocals are still the rawest ever in black metal, and the synths make the whole thing feel ethereal, other-worldly, and dreamlike."
"Excellent background music, this will work especially well for Halloween."
"Revolutionary act for Burzum and Black Metal, totally non commercial and awesome."
"Varg takes us into his mind through this extreme atmospheric form of black metal, by means of archaic sadness and blackened pleasure w/ this 4 song 45 minute journey. the album kicks off great w/ "Dot Som En Gang Var," which opens w/ a static-like dirty guitar in a slow rhythm, along w/ a smooth, dramatic and desolate keyboard melody giving way and repeats for about a minute over the guitar. the simple and angry chord progression kicks in and what flows next is a 14 minute track of pleasure and pain. The repetiveness of the keyboard melody hypnotizes you slowly into Varg's dark universe, and if you're open enough to go in w/o calling Varg on being non-creative (which he is, creative i mean) by repeating the same line over and over, you'll reap great benefits. Later on the song gives way to a different keyboard melody but guitars stay similar. this simple drum/guitar progression repeats for pretty much the entire song (about 9 or so minutes, i think)but soon the percussion changes beats and a second guitar is heard, underneath the first, w/ rasping melodies like a rusted razor, as well as keyboard hums beneath. the opening melody is simple and sounds like 2 keyboards playing together, the first is laying the sad atmospheric foundation while the other is expressing a certain "happiness" or "peace.""
"Great burzum album!"
"This is one of the best black metal albums made in the early days of the Norwegian scene: when black metal was new, when the rules hadn't been fully codified, when it was more of a folk music or art form rather than commercial consideration, when few guys in the country played it. Hvis Lyset Tar Oss sounds raw and unpolished, and is some of the most atmospheric and emotional black metal ever made. In my opinion Burzum is one of the best and certainly the most original band of early period of Norwegian black metal and "Hvis Lyset Tar Oss" (If the Light Takes Us) is one of Burzum's best albums."
Best British Metal
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Sound wise, this lp sounds great, but not a whole lot different than the original CD."
"Great album, Sounds good!"
"It has great songs, great drums, great guitars and great vocals."
"This review is from a fan who does like the no prayer for the dying album so maybe my maiden tastes aren't quite in line with others."
"One of maiden's best."
"Very cohesive album."
"Excellent & Awesome for Iron Maiden Fans!"
Best Pop Metal
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Come on, it's KISS... No way to go wrong buying anything they've done..."
"When the set first came out I was very uneasy about purchasing it mostly b/c the members have nothing to do w/ the set at all as far as packaging, art work, remastering, etc.... track selection is great and it has a few songs that are not on the orig albums."
"Exactly what I was looking for!"
"This is an awesome set of 4 CD's."
"Song choices are subjective."
"Great career retrospective in an interesting format."
Best Alternative Metal
![The Sickness [Explicit]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51tYHEhhoFL._SS600_.jpg)
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Now what I don't like about this CD is that the songs sometimes sound too similar, it's not neccesarily a bad thing but if you have it in shuffle with other artists it wont seem repetetive."
"This is a good album to rock out to if you like hard driving music."
"I was about to go on a short trip with a lot of driving, and I love listening to Disturbed while I drive, so I bought the entire CD from Amazon so I could burn it right before the trip."
Best Thrash & Speed Metal
![The Way Of The Fist [Explicit]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61%2BNAZ13vlL._SS600_.jpg)
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Great but Edited BS!"
"The album is just great all around metal and like the concert if I had to pay money to see them, I got my money's worth with the album. Most new metal out there nowadays is a few kids still in high school screaming about problems that only impact teens and I can't relate to that crap."
"Cant go wrong with 5 Finger Death Punch!"
"The only bad thing about this disc is that I can't imagine the band ever surpassing the quality of the music herein. Bathory writes some excellent and memorable riffs, and Ivan Moody's vocals are beyond reproach. Moody lifts those other outfits, but it's his pairing with Bathory that creates the heavy metal holyland."
"I just looked into FFDP because I was looking another bands website and there was the FFDP logo and I was like well they seem pretty cool."
Best Hard Rock
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This album transitions smoothly from track to track."
"The vocals and solos blend and twist these fabulous hard edged songs into a frenzy!"
"Love the album, love the band."
"Awesome!"
"Great band (BCC - may they long live), great album."
"This supergroup continues to deliver!"
"Not the best of the four albums but c'mon, still awesome."
Best Live Albums
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is a really great album."
"One of my all-time favorite David Gilmour performances!"
"Awesome."
"Gilmour ended his On An Island Tour with this show which features the Baltic Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Zbigniew Preisner. The disc also features a making of featurette called Gdansk Diary which also covers some background on the Solidarity movement in Poland. These performances include highlights from the Island tour recorded at the Mermaid Theatre in London, The AOL Sessions in New York and Live at Abbey Road."
"I absolutely love it."
"Love Love Love David Gilmour."
Best Compilations
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Find Best Price at Amazon"but the same way I would go to see him in concert at Jones Beach and then at Radio City the following year... and probably hear the same material... it was / is certainly worth it."
"Love it very good sound and songs I never heard before."
"Never knew he sang bluegrass."
"He did covers of songs that were not on albums, so it gave the listener, some songs that the title Something, Old, New, Borrowed and Some Blues truly captured. This is a CD for Fogelberg fans and those who appreciated the LA Rock music of Jackson Browne, Eagles, Poco, Stephen Stills, etc."
"I was mesmerized by "Don't Let That Sun Go Down"--the sheer grittiness, power and bluezy quality in his voice was incredible."
"I don't think Dan has ever released a song that wasn't a hit."