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.
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
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
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
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
