Hard Rock Album reviews - Page 2

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Shangri-La Dee Da

Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots - Shangri-La Dee Da 7.5

Album review

Alternative Rock
Hard Rock
Rock
Shangri-La Dee Da has enough good melodies to make its occasional uncertainty frustrating. Stone Temple Pilots can still move…

OK, I'm Sick

Badflower

Badflower - OK, I'm Sick 8.0

Album review

Alternative Rock
Hard Rock
Rock
OK, I'm Sick makes discomfort difficult to ignore. Badflower bring anxiety, abuse and self-destructive thoughts into songs with…

Mister Asylum

Highly Suspect

Highly Suspect - Mister Asylum 8.3

Album review

Alternative Rock
Hard Rock
Rock
“Lydia” gives Mister Asylum a strong emotional center. Its verses have a firm groove, but Johnny Stevens makes the chorus sound as…

Make Some Noise

The Dead Daisies

The Dead Daisies - Make Some Noise 7.0

Album review

Hard Rock
Rock
Make Some Noise is easiest to enjoy when The Dead Daisies stop asking the songs to represent anything larger than a good hard-rock…

Royal Blood

Royal Blood

Royal Blood - Royal Blood 8.6

Album review

Garage Rock
Hard Rock
Rock
The first riff on Royal Blood's debut is enough to explain the appeal. “Out of the Black” has a heavy, distorted pull, and Ben…

Audioslave

Audioslave

Audioslave - Audioslave 8.5

Album review

Alternative Rock
Hard Rock
Rock
Chris Cornell singing over the musicians from Rage Against the Machine was always going to attract attention. The useful question…

Into the Wild Life

Halestorm

Halestorm - Into the Wild Life 7.6

Album review

Hard Rock
Metal
Rock
“What Sober Couldn't Say” is an important test of Into the Wild Life. Halestorm can make an immediate impression with a shouted…

Contraband

Velvet Revolver

Velvet Revolver - Contraband 7.9

Album review

Alternative Rock
Hard Rock
Rock
The bass entrance to Slither is one of Contraband's smartest decisions. It gives the song somewhere to go before the full guitar…

The Colour and the Shape

Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape 9.1

Album review

Alternative Rock
Hard Rock
Rock
Everlong is a very good reason to make an album. Fortunately, The Colour and the Shape has plenty of other reasons too. Foo…

All I Was

Tremonti

Tremonti - All I Was 7.5

Album review

Hard Rock
Thrash Metal
All I Was brings Mark Tremonti's heavier guitar ideas into a melodic hard rock setting. The riffs have plenty of weight, and the…

No. 4

Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots - No. 4 8.0

Album review

Alternative Rock
Hard Rock
Rock
Down leaves very little doubt about Stone Temple Pilots' intentions on No. 4. The guitar is thick, the rhythm is blunt and Scott…

The End

Mammoth

Mammoth - The End 8.2

Album review

Hard Rock
Metal
Rock
Wolfgang Van Halen does a lot on The End. He writes the songs, sings and plays the instruments, including the drums. The…

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