Kerrang!'s Scores

  • Music
For 803 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Time to Die
Lowest review score: 20 Aesthethica
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 8 out of 803
803 music reviews
    • 75 Metascore
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    With its warm production and perfect pacing The Dissent Of Man is a fitting way to celebrate this band's 30th birthday, and their continued, even elevated, relevance. [18 Sep 2010, p.56]
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    • 80 Metascore
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    While bleakness is certainly prominent throughout, this album has many different shades and it is these contrasts that make it so vital. It's an album that bursts with ambition, and that Bring Me The Horizon pull it off so powerfully further confirms their greatness. [25 Sep 2010, p.50]
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    • 100 Metascore
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    Pinkerton still stands tall as a modern rock classic. [6 Nov 2010, p.51]
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    • 70 Metascore
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    Rock'n'roll used to be about greatness, about escape and heroes. Once, you could get lost in an album, entangled in its world. It's been a long time since that has been the case. Danger Days...will change that.[13 Nov 2010, p.50]
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    • 83 Metascore
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    The Hunter is an album in which to lose yourself. [24 Sep 2011, p.52]
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    • 63 Metascore
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    This album's consistent quality should easily re-establish Evanescence back on the rock map in 2011. [1 Oct 2011, p.52]
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    • 87 Metascore
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    The Wonder years have not only delivered a genuinely great pop-punk record but a genuinely great record, period. [8 Oct 2011, p.50]
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    • 91 Metascore
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    While Unto The Locust has much within it that will appeal to unreconstructed customers, parts of this work showcase a unit whose creative appetites are still restless and free.
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    • 96 Metascore
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    A genuinely life-changing record. [3 Dec 2011, p.50]
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    • 82 Metascore
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    Les Voyages De L'Ame will surely stand unchallenged as the most ineffably beautiful record of 2012. [21 Jan 2012, p.54]
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    • 93 Metascore
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    On the evidence of their third full-length, this Scranton four-piece posses not one, but two examples [of good lyricists]. [19 Feb 2012, p.50]
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    • 78 Metascore
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    Ex Lives should help them join the big boy's table. [3 Mar 2012, p.52]
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    • 68 Metascore
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    The time when even twitter goes quiet and the world belongs to the insomniacs, the troubled and the drunk, all of who will find solace in the Thurlows' urber-moody noisepop. [2 Jun 2012, p.53]
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    • 95 Metascore
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    It's an utterly loveable album which truly says more in those 13 minutes than some bands manage in entire careers. [19 May 2012, p.54]
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    • 76 Metascore
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    It's every bit the momentous record it needed to be. [28 Apr 2012, p.53]
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    • 82 Metascore
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    They deliver 18 tracks of timeless, gimmick-free and inventive rock. [14 Jul 2012, p.52]
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    • 88 Metascore
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    All We Love We Leave Behind will sit alongside the very best. [6 Oct 2012, p.53]
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    • 94 Metascore
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    This is a weird, unconventional and utterly thrilling classic. [29 Sep 2012, p.53]
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    • 81 Metascore
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    Honor Found In Decay is another milestone in a catalogue which consists of nothing but milestones. [3 Nov 2012, p.53]
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    • 86 Metascore
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    They still deliver their challenging music with effortless ease. [[10 Nov 2012, p.54]
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    • 85 Metascore
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    This is a wonderful document of a great show. [24 Nov 2012, p.52]
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    • 85 Metascore
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    Put simply, Vertikal is truly breathtaking. [26 Jan 2013, p.55]
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    • 80 Metascore
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    Album number two towers over its predecessor.... There's beauty within these snapshots of frenzy where there was once just void. [16 Feb 2013, p.52]
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    • 73 Metascore
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    Welcome Oblivion confirms that the music world needs a band like How To Destroy Angels, too. [2 Mar 2013, p.50]
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    • 81 Metascore
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    Sempiternal sounds like a record that wants the world--that's all of it, not just the bits where longhairs dwell--which is refreshing for a metal record in 2013. [30 Mar 2013, p.52]
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    • 80 Metascore
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    Nails have delivered one of the most savage and head-spinning albums of the year so far. [6 Apr 2013, p.53]
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    • 72 Metascore
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    It marks their perfection of the swooning pop stuff they've been churning out since 2006. [30 Mar 2013, p.54]
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    • 96 Metascore
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    It's an often staggering record, by a great band, defying odds, on a hell of a run of first-lass creative form. [4 May 2013, p.52]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
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    In its eight track, Ozzy, Tony, and bassist Geezer Butler have managed to once again capture that special essence which makes them so magical. And it's bloody fantastic. [1 Jun 2013, p.52]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It helps the record sounds amazing. [6 Jul 2013, p.52]
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