Your 10/10s?

I would also agree with him on an 8/10 rating for that album, which was a bit higher than at first listen.

For me, a 10/10 doesn't have to literally be perfect, but more so perfect in achieving the best possible album in regards to my particular tastes. Few have done it, but I don't think its impossible. There are even a few albums I would score 100/100.

So while I don't mind a band like Children of Bodom, I can honestly say in my lifetime I will never give an album of theirs a 10/10.

 

There aren't any flaws per se... it's actually a very consistent album. But there isn't anything on it that is really great either. I.E. there are no tracks of the magnitude of say "Spellbound", "In Death's Embrace", "Reptile", "The Insight & the Catharsis", etc. Just a very good and solid album. Not breathtaking.

 

Excellent album but I found their next 3 releases to be better releases.

 

I really don't Know if Paradise Lost - Gothic is a perfect 10, but this album brings me back a lot of good memories from the late 80's early 90's.

 

Soilwork - The Chainheart Machine
Soilwork - Figure Number Five
Magnitude Nine - Reality in Focus
Cannibal Corpse - The Wretched Spawn
Amon Amarth - Fate Of Norns
Dream Theater - Images and Words
And Oceans - Dynamic Gallery Of Thoughts
Dark Funeral - Attera Totus Sanctus
Symphony X - Divine Wings Of Tragedy
Racer X - Second Heat

 

Right now my 10/10s go to

Amon Amarth - The Crusher
Amon Amarth - Avenger
Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
Amon Amarth - Versus The World
Sonata Arctica - Silence (my favorite album currently)
Shadow Gallery - Tyranny
Pig Destroyer - Prowler In The Yard
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera
Kreator - Coma Of Souls
Novembre - Materia
Negura Bunget - OM
Weakling - Dead As Dreams
Moonspell - Sin/Pecado
Metal Church - Metal Church
and Dissection - The Somberlain

 

Says Thorth Amon....

 

... and Thoth-Amon is always right knave! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

while i will agree that it isn't breathtaking it is an exellent album, and in my book it does make a 10 of 10. i dunno...maybe i'm just easy to get a good rating from. or maybe i just like their style.

antother album i'd like to take a liitle to to talk about is Six Feet Under's latest, Commandment. although i have been throughly enjoying it, i felt it really left something to be desired. may of the guitar lines felt oversimplfyed, just not like the past albums. i'd probably rate it around about a 6.5 or 7, decent heavy album, just doesn't live up to something like 13 or true carnage.

 

Dimmu - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
Nile - Black Seeds of Vengence / In Their Darkened Shrines
Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse / Still Life / Blackwater Park
Carcass - Heartwork / Reek of Putrefecation
Agalloch - The Mantle
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Moonspell - The Antidote
Kalmah - Swamplord
Between the Buried and Me - Silent Circus
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia / Signify / Deadwing
Isis - In the Absence of Truth / Celestial
Tool - Everything
Tiamat - The Astral Sleep
Symphony X - Divine Wings of Tragedy / The Odyssey

 

Personally I love everything about their first album. The raw-ish production, atmosphere, the hideously awesome vocals, the beautiful instrumentals, and my personal favourite the keyboards/organ. It has a great night-time feel to it, and a sincere quality in it. A Dream of Wolves in the Snow, Of Mist and Midnight Skies are some of their best songs in my opinion.

 

slayer- hell awaits
slayer- reign in blood
dark angel- darkness descends
morbid saint- specrtum of death
demilich- nespithe
morbid angel- alters of madness
atheist- piece of time
suffocation- pieced from within
corpsefucking art- war of the toilet gear
corpsefucking art- splatter deluxe
massacra- enjoy the violence
massacre- from beyond
Lord gore- the autophagus orgy
Lord Gore- resickened
intestine baalism- banquet in the darkness
bathory- the return
possessed- 7 churches
death- scream bloody gore
death- leprosy
Ratt- out of the cellar
sepultura- arise

 

forgot that one "Roger I had a dream last night"

 

???

 

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Scorpions - Lovedrive
Angel Witch - Angel Witch
Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
Iron Maiden - 7th Son of a 7th Son
Judas Priest - Stained Class
Legend - Legend
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Pagan Altar - Volume 1
Venom - Welcome to Hell
Accept - Restless and Wild
Conception - Parallel Minds
Bruce Dickinso - The Chemical Wedding
Dio - Holy Diver
Savatage - Streets
Extreme - III Sides to Every Story
Guns 'n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
Skid Row - Subhuman Race
Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
Van Halen - Fair Warning
Danzig - Danzig III
The Gathering - If Then Else
Moonspell - The Antidote
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Ministry - In the Land of Rape and Honey
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Fishbone - The Reality of My Surroundings
Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Candlemass - Nightfall
The Hidden Hand - Mother Teacher Destroyer
November's Doom - Welcome to the Fade
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Solitude Aeturnus - Beyond the Crimson Horizon
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
St. Vitus - Born Too Late
Trouble - Psalm9
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
Masters of Reality - Sunrise on the Sufferubs
The Melvins - Honeybucket
Monster Magnet - Spine of God
Trouble - Manic Frustration
Dream Theater - Awake
Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
King Crimson - Red
King's X - Gretchen Goes to Nebraska
Pain of Salvation - Be
Queensryche - Promised Land
Skyclad - A Burnt Offering for the Bone Idol
Tool - Aenima
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly
Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops
Corrosion of Conformity - Wiseblood
Eyehategod - Dopesick
Carnivore - Retaliation
Corrosion of Conformity - Blind
Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
Galactic Cowboys - Space in Your Face
Suicidal Tendencies - How Can I Laugh at Tomorrow?
Anthrax - Persistance of Time
Bathory - Under the Sign
Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium
Coroner - Mental Vortex
Hades - Resisting Success
Kreator - Extreme Aggression
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
Obliveon - Cybervoid
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Prong - Cleansing
Sabbat - History of a Time to Come
Sacred Reich - American Way
Sadus - Illusions
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Sodom - Persecution Mania
Voivod - Nothingface
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Cancer - Death Shall Rise
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Cynic - Focus
Dark Tranquility - The Gallery
Decapitation - Winds of Creation
Death - Symbolic
Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
Edge of Sanity - Crimson II
Entombed - Wolverine Blues
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Gorguts - Obscura
In Flames - The Jester Race
Kataklysm - Shadows & Dust
Morbid Angel - The Covenant
Opeth - Still Life
Possessed - Seven Churches
Quo Vaids - Defiant Imagination
Suffocation - Pierced from Within
Assuck - Anticapital
Brutal Truth - Need to Control
Carcass - Heartwork
Cephalic Carnage - Exploiting Dysfunction
Napalm Death - Scum
Nasum - Helvete
Nausea - Extinction
Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Behemoth - Demigod
Darkthrone - Transylvnian Hunger
Emperor - iX Equilibrium
Enslaved - Frost
Hollenthon - With Vilest Of Worms To Dwell
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Old Man's Child - In Defiance of Existence
Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract
Satyricon - Rebel Extravaganza
Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
Therion - Theli
Ulver - Nattens Madrigal
Vintersong - Visions from the Spiral Generator
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Codes
Converge - Jane Doe
Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Red Roses for a Blue Lady - The Return to Melancholy
The Deftones - White Pony
Korn - Korn
System of a Down - Toxicity

 

Same here. The only thing about Children of Bodom that I've ever found appealing is Alexei Leiho's guitar playing. Their keyboard melodies are silly, the drumming is uninventive, the bass is almost in audible, and the lyrics are beyond silly. I won't deny his talent, but it would be best put to use by someone with taste.

 

Virgin Black-Elegant...and Dying
Alcest-Souviners D'un Autre Monde
Isis-Panopticon
Anathema-Alternative 4
Opeth-My Arms, Your Hearse (maybe)
Possibly Agalloch's the Mantle

 

It was a qoute from some movie they used at the begining of a track on resickened

 

Nasum - Helvete
Opeth - Orchid
In Flames - The Jester Race
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
Radiohead - The Bends
Spite Extreme Wing - Magnificat
Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire
Negură Bunget - Om
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Enslaved - Ruun
Ann'Sannat - Welcome Into The Morning
Converge - Jane Doe

 

I've only ever seen one such album and thats Monotheist by Celtic Frost.