Rate the album you last listened to

[darkwinterbeast8]

Although I'm not finished yet listening to it, I have this to say:

Halestorm -- The Strange Case of... (5/10)

Its not really doing much for me at the moment, still on play through attempt 2 though so it still has time to grow on me. I recognized 1 song prior, glad to know who its by now though. The music sounds pretty generic, although something I'm not against listening to.

Their music is meh. Not amazing but also not an atrocious pile of fecal matter. This biggiest problem I have with Halestorm is that their name is too similar to Alestorm, a band that I actually like the music of.

[Cubecubed]

The Dear Hunter-Migrant- 9.3/10
This album is seriously incredible. TDH becomes more accessible but doesn't lose any of the qualities that make them special. Serious AOTY contender for me, right behind the second part of the recent Coheed double album, just ahead of the new Daft Punk.

Chance the Rapper- Acid Rap- 8.5/10 This is a new rapper to pay attention to. This dude reminds me a little of Danny Brown, but maybe a little less wacky. CTR is easily the star of the show, but there are some pretty good guest verses, Childish Gambino's being the exception. I like you, Gambino, but yeesh.

[coolsnoopy97]

Bathory - Blood Fire Death: 10/10

This album would already rank as one of my favorites of all time because of A Fine Day to Die and the title track, two brilliant epics that pioneered the viking metal genre, the former being the song that singularly introduced me to black metal. But the five songs sandwiched between these epics are also some of Bathory's greatest works, as unrelentingly brutal and nefarious as anything they've done before. This album has no weak point. It's nonstop intensity, and it's difficult to decide whether this, or Under the Sign of the Black Mark, is my favorite Bathory album. The latter is black metal at its finest, but Blood Fire Death is a transitional innovative album that essentially created an entire genre while never abandoning the past elements that made Bathory brilliant in its first three albums. One cannot help but respect the genius behind this album, and this entire band, one of the most criminally underrated in all of metal.