Bring Me The Horizon – Count Your Blessings

1. Pray For Plagues
2. Tell Slater Not To Wash His Dick
3. For Stevie Wonder’s Eyes Only (Braille)
4. A Lot Like Vegas
5. Black & Blue
6. Slow Dance
7. Liquor & Love Lost
8. (I Used To Make Out With) Medusa
9. Fifteen Fathoms, Counting
10. Off The Heezay

This album has 3 things: repetitiveness, potential and boredom. Oh wait, you’re the one who has the boredom.

Converge – Axe To Fall

1. Dark Horse
2. Reap What You Sow
3. Axe To Fall
4. Effigy
5. Worms Will Feed/Rats Will Feast
6. Wishing Well
7. Damages
8. Losing Battle
9. Dead Beat
10. Cutter
11. Slave Driver
12. Cruel Bloom
13. Wretched World

Shove over Coalesce, this is the comeback album of the year.

Paradise Lost – Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us

1. As Horizons End
2. I Remain
3. First Light
4. Frailty
5. Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us
6. The Rise of Denial
7. Living With Scars
8. Last Regret
9. Universal Dream
10. In Truth

Paradise Lost are one of a few bands known for pioneering the doom metal sound. They had a rather large stint in their career that gained them a lot of new fans (which amongst other things, involved cloning Depeche Mode) but for the first time in years, we’re reminded why they could have possibly been considered one of the pioneers of doom.

Brokencyde – I’m Not A Fan But The Kids Like It

1. Intro
2. FreaXXX
3. Skeet Skeet
4. Late Night Call
5. Booty Call
6. Get Crunk!
7. Short Yellow Bus
8. Get Up
9. Jealousy
10. Poppin’
11. 40 Oz
12. Sex Toys
13. Rockstar
14. Schitzo
15. Scene Girls
16. Tipsy
17. I’m Sorry.

I love albums like these. They reaffirm my belief in the fact that humanity is slowly, but surely, destroying itself. 17 tracks of pure fucking torture…

Arsis – A Celebration of Guilt

1. The Face of My Innocence
2. Maddening Disdain
3. Seven Whispers Fell Silent
4. Return
5. Worship Depraved
6. Carnal Ways To Recreate The Heart
7. Dust and Guilt
8. Elegant and Perverse
9. The Sadistic Motives Behind Bereavement Letters
10. Looking To Nothing
11. Wholly Night

Technical. Melodic. Kickass vocals. Amazing drums. What more could you want in a death metal album? (Unless you prefer constant face pummeling.) Every genre has a few releases  that make the listener go “oh shi-” and here we are at A Celebration of Guilt, one of the best American melodic death metal albums.

Undying – The Whispered Lies of Angels

1. Echoes
2. Tears Times Seven Salt
3. The Company of Storms
4. Fallen Grace
5. The Coming Dark Age
6. Born Again
7. A Desert In The Heart
8. Formal Absences of Precious Things
9. Of Masks and Martyrs
10. The Cry of Mankind

Epic metalcore. How many metalcore bands can you actually call epic? Over the years, whilst metalcore has risen in popularity, it’s variety and innovation has fallen drastically. The Whispered Lies of Angels is hardly a new album, having been released in 2000 but yet it’s one of the most breathtaking metalcore albums out there.