Alternative Metal Album reviews - Page 4

GenresAlternative Metal

Fear Inoculum

Tool

Tool - Fear Inoculum 8.8

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Fear Inoculum leaves the instruments a great deal of room to speak. Maynard James Keenan often steps back after establishing a…

Koi No Yokan

Deftones

Deftones - Koi No Yokan 9.0

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Rock
Shoegaze
The transition from the quiet opening of Leathers into its full guitar attack is one of the strongest moments on Koi No Yokan…

Black Gives Way to Blue

Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue 8.3

Album review

Alternative Metal
Grunge
Metal
Rock
The bend in the guitar riff on Check My Brain is a small detail with a big job. It makes the song sound familiar and slightly…

The Surface Seems So Far

Seether

Seether - The Surface Seems So Far 7.9

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Post-Grunge
Rock
Seether haven't lost their taste for a heavy guitar and an unhappy thought. The Surface Seems So Far keeps that combination at the…

Toxicity

System of a Down

System of a Down - Toxicity 9.5

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Nu Metal
Rock
Toxicity can change direction several times inside a short song and still leave you with a tune to remember. That balance is its…

Superunknown

Soundgarden

Soundgarden - Superunknown 9.4

Album review

Alternative Metal
Grunge
Metal
Rock
Black Hole Sun is an odd song to become a huge hit. The tune is inviting, the mood is deeply wrong, and Chris Cornell sounds…

In Verses

Karnivool

Karnivool - In Verses 8.1

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Rock
Karnivool have taken thirteen years to follow up Asymmetry. That's a serious amount of waiting for ten songs. In Verses gives you…

AB III

Alter Bridge

Alter Bridge - AB III 8.5

Album review

Alternative Metal
Hard Rock
Metal
Rock
Slip to the Void begins with room to spare. Myles Kennedy sings quietly over an uneasy setting, then the heavier instruments…

Eternal Blue

Spiritbox

Spiritbox - Eternal Blue 8.8

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Metalcore
Rock
Courtney LaPlante's voice gives Eternal Blue its widest range, but the arrangements make that range useful. Spiritbox can move…

Phobia

Breaking Benjamin

Breaking Benjamin - Phobia 8.2

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Post-Grunge
Rock
The drums make a strong first impression on Phobia. Once the short introduction gives way to The Diary of Jane, Breaking…

The Autumn Effect

10 Years

10 Years - The Autumn Effect 8.6

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Post-Grunge
Rock
The Autumn Effect makes a strong case for atmosphere inside a fairly direct rock song. 10 Years have the heavy guitars and large…

Bright as Blasphemy

Chevelle

Chevelle - Bright as Blasphemy 7.1

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Post-Grunge
Rock
Chevelle are good at making a song feel as though something is about to happen. Bright as Blasphemy is full of tense guitar parts…

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