Young Jesus - Welcome to Conceptual Beach: Trying hard and trying too hard is a fine line. Right now, this sits on it.

Sonic's Rendezvous Band - Sonic's Rendezvous Band: Shame we never got a proper release.

Sepultura - Roots: Nu-metal touchstones on another pretty solid album.

Sepultura - Chaos A.D.: Pretty complete album experience.

Sepultura - Arise: Pretty good follow-up to a really great album.

Secret Machines - Awake in the Brain Chamber: Scratching a major itch I did not know I had.

Ho99o9 - Blurr: There is a subtlety here that I do not remember, but I like it.

High Dials - War of the Wakening Phantoms: Worth the high praise for this Beatles-indebted band.

Gulch - Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress: Pretty eclectic barrage of hardcore influences.

Guitar Fight From Cooly Fooly - Soak: I would not be disappointed if these songs came on at random.

Front Bottoms - In Sickness & In Flames: Some worthwhile songs.

Classics of Love - World of Burning Hate: Angry and I like it.

Bright Eyes - Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was: The longer it played, the more I settled into it.

Be Well - The Weight and the Cost: Melodic hardcore excellence.