|
Alice In Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
Capitol Records Inc.
Grunge/Hard Rock
|
87 / 100
|
|
|
Amorphis - Circle
Nuclear Blast
Melodic Metal with Doom/Folk influences
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Volbeat - Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies
Vertigo / Universal
Western-infused Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
The Atlas Moth - An Ache For The Distance
Profound Lore Records
Atmospheric Sludge/Doom Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Tiamat - The Scarred People
Napalm Records
Gothic Metal
|
70 / 100
|
|
|
Down - Down IV Part I - The Purple EP
Down Records
Sludge/Stoner Metal
|
no quote
|
|
|
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Reprise Records
Alternative/Experimental Metal
|
87 / 100
|
|
|
Bereft - Leichenhaus
The End Records
Sludge/Doom Metal
|
81 / 100
|
|
|
Witchcraft - Legend
Nuclear Blast
Traditional Heavy Metal/Hard Rock
|
91 / 100
|
|
|
Heikousen - Parallels
Translation Loss Records
Metalcore/Sludgecore/Experimental
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Words Of Farewell - Immersion
AFM Records
Melodic Death Metal
|
82 / 100
|
|
|
Colosso - Abrasive Peace
Self-released
Death Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
Roadrunner Records
Groove/Sludge Metal
|
86 / 100
|
|
|
Zonaria - Arrival Of The Red Sun
Century Media
Melodic Death Metal
|
68 / 100
|
|
|
Old Man Gloom - No
Hydra Head
Sludge/Post-Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Epica - Requiem for the Indifferent
Nuclear Blast
Symphonic Metal
|
86 / 100
|
|
|
Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
Century Media
Doomy Gothic Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Borknagar - Urd
Century Media
Symphonic/Folk Metal with Black Metal influences
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Aborted - Global Flatline
Century Media
Death Metal
|
70 / 100
|
|
|
Woods of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
Earache Records
Gothic Metal
|
30 / 100
|
|
|
Plöw - Bicentennial Picnic EP
Self-released
Sludge/Doom
|
no quote
|
|
|
Black Tusk - Set The Dial
Relapse Records
Sludge/Stoner Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest and the Blackbird
Spinefarm Records
Doom Metal with Death Influences
|
73 / 100
|
|
|
Autumn - Cold Comfort
Metal Blade
Melodic Gothic Metal
|
69 / 100
|
|
|
Dirty Rotten Liars - Dirty Rotten Liars
Soundmine MusicWorks
Hard Rock/Alternative
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Black Skies - On The Wings Of Time
Self-released
Sludge Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Amoral - Beneath
Imperial Cassette
Power/Heavy Metal
|
79 / 100
|
|
|
Insomnium - One For Sorrow
Century Media
Melodic Death Metal
|
86 / 100
|
|
|
Eternal Gray - Your Gods, My Enemies
Season Of Mist
Death Metal
|
74 / 100
|
|
|
Nemesea - The Quiet Resistance
Napalm Records
Alternative Gothic Rock
|
25 / 100
|
|
|
Giant Squid - Cenotes
Translation Loss Records
Sludgy Prog Metal
|
86 / 100
|
|
|
Lonely Kamel - Dust Devil
Napalm Records
Stoner Metal/Rock with Doom influences
|
67 / 100
|
|
|
The Cleansing - Feeding The Inevitable
Deepsend Records
Death Metal
|
68 / 100
|
|
|
Nightrage - Insidious
Lifeforce Records
Melodic Death Metal
|
88 / 100
|
|
|
Totimoshi - Avenger
Volcom
Bluesy Alternative Rock with Stoner influences
|
65 / 100
|
|
|
Rwake - Rest
Relapse
Experimental Sludge Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Superchief - Corporate Dynamite
Self-released
Stoner Metal/Hard Rock
|
84 / 100
|
|
|
Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
Nothing / Interscope Records
Alternative Metal with Industrial influences
|
79 / 100
|
|
|
Communic - The Bottom Deep
Nuclear Blast
Power/Prog Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Ouroboros - Glorification Of A Myth
Self-released
Technical Death Metal/Thrash
|
84 / 100
|
|
|
All Shall Perish - This Is Where It Ends
Nuclear Blast
Deathcore
|
77 / 100
|
|
|
Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors
E1 Music
Alternative Metal/Rock with Prog influences
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Gallery - Anno Exitum
Self-released
Sludge/Doom
|
82 / 100
|
|
|
In Flames - Sounds Of A Playground Fading
Century Media
Alternative Metal influenced by Melodeath
|
55 / 100
|
|
|
Autumn - My New Time
Metal Blade
Gothic Metal
|
78 / 100
|
|
|
Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times
Nuclear Blast
Melodic Metal with Folk influences
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Hugenelk - Hugenelk
Self-released
Bluesy Stoner Metal
|
78 / 100
|
|
|
Across Tundras - Sage
Neurot Recordings
Sludgy Country/Western Stoner Metal
|
75 / 100
|
|
|
Thinning The Herd - Oceans Rise
St. Mark's Records
Stoner Metal/Hard Rock
|
74 / 100
|
|
|
Ponamero Sundown - Rodeo Electrica
Transubstans Records
Stoner Metal
|
84 / 100
|
|
|
Mercenary - Metamorphosis
Prosthetic Records
Melodeath with Modern Rock influences
|
72 / 100
|
|
|
Caliber 666 - Blood Fueled Chaos
Ibex Moon Records
Death Metal
|
67 / 100
|
|
|
Weedeater - Jason...The Dragon
Southern Lord
Stoner Sludge Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Solitude Aeturnus - Adagio
Massacre Records
Doom Metal
|
93 / 100
|
|
|
Darkest Hour - The Human Romance
E1 Music
Melodic Death Metal
|
68 / 100
|
|
|
The Very End - Mercy & Misery
SPV
Melodic Death Metal
|
61 / 100
|
|
|
Meltgsnow - Black Penance
Pulverised Records
Gothic Heavy Metal
|
70 / 100
|
|
|
TotorRo - TotorRo EP
Self-released
Instrumental Metal/Rock
|
no quote
|
|
|
Place of Skulls - As A Dog Returns
Exile on Mainstream Records
Bluesy/Southern-influenced Doom Metal
|
83 / 100
|
|
|
Monster Magnet - Mastermind
Napalm Records
Stoner Metal/Rock
|
68 / 100
|
|
|
God Dethroned - Under The Sign Of The Iron Cross
Metal Blade
Aggressive Melodic Death Metal
|
82 / 100
|
|
|
Roareth - Acts I-VI
The Maple Forum
Sludge/Drone Metal
|
68 / 100
|
|
|
Dismal Lapse - Eon Fragmentation
Deepsend Records
Brutal/Tech Death Metal
|
82 / 100
|
|
|
Suidakra - Auld Lang Syne
Last Episode
Melodic Death/Folk Metal
|
86 / 100
|
|
|
Orwell - Endeavors
Zero Budget Records
Melodic Death Metal
|
76 / 100
|
|
|
Downspirit - Point Of Origin
Metalville
Modern Rock/Metal with Power Metal elements
|
35 / 100
|
|
|
King Giant - Southern Darkness
Self-released
Southern-infused Stoner Metal
|
78 / 100
|
|
|
Spiritual Beggars - Return To Zero
InsideOut Music
Stoner Metal
|
83 / 100
|
|
|
Fireball Ministry - Fireball Ministry
Restricted Release
Stoner/Hard Rock
|
75 / 100
|
|
|
Propane Propane - Propane Propane
Planetfuzz Records
Stoner/Doom Metal
|
76 / 100
|
|
|
Malevolent Creation - Invidious Dominion
Nuclear Blast
Death Metal
|
76 / 100
|
|
|
Elvenking - Red Silent Tides
AFM Records
Melodic Power Metal
|
69 / 100
|
|
|
Burial Chamber - Left To Decay
Self-released
Death Metal
|
78 / 100
|
|
|
Atrocity - After The Storm
Napalm Records
Folk Metal
|
74 / 100
|
|
|
Quest For Fire - Lights From Paradise
Tee Pee Records
Stoner/Psychedelic Rock
|
86 / 100
|
|
|
Helmet - Seeing Eye Dog
Work Song
Grungy Alternative Metal
|
72 / 100
|
|
|
Black Messiah - First War Of The World
AFM Records
Viking/Folk Metal
|
79 / 100
|
|
|
Ion Dissonance - Cursed
Century Media
Grindcore/Deathcore with Brutal Death influences
|
84 / 100
|
|
|
On Thorns I Lay - Orama
Holy Records
Doomy Epic Gothic Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
The Sorrow - Blessings From A Blackened Sky
Drakkar
Metalcore
|
66 / 100
|
|
|
Rwake - Voices Of Omens
Relapse Records
Experimental Doom/Stoner/Sludge Metal
|
86 / 100
|
|
|
Unearth - The March
Metal Blade
Melodeath inspired Metalcore
|
60 / 100
|
|
|
Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian
Metal Blade
Heavy/Power Metal
|
93 / 100
|
|
|
Down - NOLA
Elektra Entertainment Group Inc.
Stoner Metal
|
92 / 100
|
|
|
Borknagar - The Archaic Course
Century Media
Folk/Black Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Early Man - Death Potion
The End Records
Heavy Metal
|
74 / 100
|
|
|
Ancient Rites - Dim Carcosa
Hammerheart Records
Viking/Folk Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Ephemeral Sun - Harvest Aorta
Unsigned
Proggy Instrumental Rock
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Early Man - Closing In
Matador Records
Heavy Metal
|
69 / 100
|
|
|
Before The Dawn - The Ghost
Locomotive Music
Gothic Metal with Melodeath influences
|
79 / 100
|
|
|
Gaza - He Is Never Coming Back
Metal Blade
Groovy Death Metal with Grindcore influences
|
82 / 100
|
|
|
Laethora - The Light In Which We All Burn
The End Records
Death Metal
|
86 / 100
|
|
|
Lake of Tears - Forever Autumn
Black Mark
Melodic Doom/Gothic Metal
|
95 / 100
|
|
|
Misery Index - Heirs To Thievery
Relapse Records
Metalcore with Brutal Death elements
|
61 / 100
|
|
|
Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain
Earache Records
Stoner Metal with Doom influences
|
CLASSIC
|
|
|
Gaza - I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die
Black Market Activities
Grindcore/Metalcore
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Lake of Tears - A Crimson Cosmos
Black Mark
Melodic Doom Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Sleep - Volume One
Tupelo Records
Stoner/Doom Metal
|
86 / 100
|
|
|
Godsmack - The Oracle
Universal/Republic
Modern Rock/Heavy Metal
|
65 / 100
|
|
|
Before The Dawn - 4:17 am
Locomotive Music
Gothic Metal with Melodeath influences
|
78 / 100
|
|
|
Amorphis - Tuonela
Relapse Records
Melodic Metal with Progressive/Melodeath influences
|
89 / 100
|
|
|
Woe Of Tyrants - Threnody
Metal Blade
Melodic Death Metal
|
60 / 100
|
|
|
Year Long Disaster - Black Magic; All Mysteries Revealed
Volcom
Stoner/Hard Rock
|
87 / 100
|
|
|
Fates Warning - Night On Brocken
Metal Blade
Heavy Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
SST
Doom Metal
|
CLASSIC
|
|
|
Before The Dawn - My Darkness
Locomotive Music
|
74 / 100
|
|
|
Savatage - Gutter Ballet
Atlantic
Heavy Metal with Symphonic elements
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Reverend - World Won't Miss You
Charisma Records
Heavy Metal with Thrash influences
|
75 / 100
|
|
|
Giant Squid - Metridium Fields
The End Records
Sludge/Experimental Prog Metal
|
77 / 100
|
|
|
Crimson Glory - Strange And Beautiful
Atlantic
Heavy Metal/Hard Rock
|
70 / 100
|
|
|
Weedeater - Sixteen Tons
Crucial Blast
Sludge/Stoner Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Orange Goblin - Coup De Grace
Rise Above
Stoner Metal
|
74 / 100
|
|
|
Savatage - Fight For The Rock
Atlantic
Heavy Metal
|
68 / 100
|
|
|
Eluveitie - Everything Remains As It Never Was
Nuclear Blast
Melodeath Folk Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
...And Oceans - The Symmetry Of I - The Circle Of O
Season Of Mist
Symphonic Black Metal (disc 1) / Dark Ambient (disc 2)
|
89 / 100
|
|
|
Carcass - Necroticism – Descanting The Insalubrious
Earache Records
Death Metal with Grindcore influences
|
CLASSIC
|
|
|
Savatage - Power Of The Night
Atlantic
Heavy Metal
|
92 / 100
|
|
|
Orange Goblin - The Big Black
Rise Above
Stoner Metal
|
84 / 100
|
|
|
Engraved Disillusion - Desolate EP
Self-released
Melodic Death Metal
|
no quote
|
|
|
Savatage - The Dungeons Are Calling
Metal Blade
Heavy Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Mnemic - Sons Of The System
Nuclear Blast
Groove Metal with Melodeath elements
|
70 / 100
|
|
|
Orange Goblin - Time Travelling Blues
Rise Above
Stoner Metal
|
84 / 100
|
|
|
Savatage - Sirens
Metal Blade
Heavy Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Tenebris - Only Fearless Dreams
Morbid Noizz Productions
Symphonic Death Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Coronatus - Fabula Magna
Massacre Records
Gothic Metal with Folk elements
|
77 / 100
|
|
|
Obliteration - Nekropsalms
Fysisk Format
Doomy Death Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Woods of Ypres - Woods IV: The Green Album
Practical Art Records
Melodic Gothic Metal
|
60 / 100
|
|
|
Crimson Glory - Transcendence
Roadrunner Records
Heavy / Power Metal
|
89 / 100
|
|
|
Milking The Goatmachine - Back From The Goats
Anstalt Records
Brutal Death Metal with Grindcore influences
|
55 / 100
|
|
|
Behemoth - Satanica
Avantgarde Music
Blackened Death Metal
|
92 / 100
|
|
|
White Zombie - Astro-Creep: 2000
Geffen Records
Heavy / Groove Metal with Industrial influences
|
CLASSIC
|
|
|
Eluveitie - Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion
Nuclear Blast
Folk/Acoustic
|
83 / 100
|
|
|
White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1
Geffen Records
Heavy / Stoner Metal
|
81 / 100
|
|
|
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
Peaceville Records
Atmospheric Dark Rock/Metal
|
91 / 100
|
|
|
Tenebris - The Odious Progress
Baron Records
Doomy Death Metal
|
71 / 100
|
|
|
Priestess - Prior To The Fire
Indica
Stoner/Hard Rock
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Beyond The Sixth Seal - Earth And Sphere
Lifeforce Records
Melodic Death Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
December - The Lament Configuration
Earache Records
Metalcore
|
68 / 100
|
|
|
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
Kscope
Progressive Rock
|
94 / 100
|
|
|
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Epic Records
Rap Metal
|
96 / 100
|
|
|
Emmure - Goodbye To The Gallows
Victory Records
Metalcore
|
45 / 100
|
|
|
Karnivool - Sound Awake
Cymatic Records
Alternative Rock with Progressive tendencies
|
86 / 100
|
|
|
Karnivool - Themata
MGM Distribution
Alternative Rock/Metal
|
83 / 100
|
|
|
Helmet - Aftertaste
Interscope
Groovy Alternative Metal
|
95 / 100
|
|
|
The Beyond - Crawl
EMI
Progressive Rock
|
74 / 100
|
|
|
Solitude Aeturnus - Through The Darkest Hour
Pavement Music
Doom Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Leaves Eyes - Njord
Napalm Records
Symphonic Gothic Metal
|
87 / 100
|
|
|
Caliban - Say Hello To Tragedy
Century Media
Metalcore
|
60 / 100
|
|
|
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
Snapper Music
Progressive Rock
|
91 / 100
|
|
|
Seventh Void - Heaven Is Gone
Big Vin Records
Doomy Hard Rock / Metal
|
74 / 100
|
|
|
Amoral - Show Your Colors
Spinefarm Records
Melodic Power Metal
|
71 / 100
|
|
|
Skinless - Foreshadowing Our Demise
Relapse Records
Brutal Groovy Death Metal
|
92 / 100
|
|
|
Havayoth - His Creation Reversed
Hammerheart Records
Gothic Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Ebony Tears - Tortura Insomniae
Black Sun Records
Folky Melodic Death Metal
|
88 / 100
|
|
|
Mercenary - Architect Of Lies
Century Media
Melodic Death Metal
|
84 / 100
|
|
|
DevilDriver - Pray For Villains
Roadrunner Records
Groovy Melodic Death Metal
|
72 / 100
|
|
|
Nemesea - In Control
Self-production
Gothic / Alternative Metal
|
69 / 100
|
|
|
Nightrage - Wearing A Martyr's Crown
Lifeforce Records
Melodic Death Metal
|
87 / 100
|
|
|
Darkest Hour - The Eternal Return
Victory Records
Melodic Death Metal
|
79 / 100
|
|
|
Orange Goblin - Frequencies From Planet Ten
Rise Above
Spacey Stoner / Doom Metal
|
81 / 100
|
|
|
Nothingface - Skeletons
TVT Records
Alternative / Nu-Metal
|
88 / 100
|
|
|
Blood Red Throne - Souls Of Damnation
Earache Records
Death Metal
|
83 / 100
|
|
|
Akrea - Lebenslinie
Drakkar
Melodic Death Metal
|
72 / 100
|
|
|
Amorphis - Skyforger
Nuclear Blast
Progressive Melodic Metal
|
95 / 100
|
|
|
Ion Dissonance - Minus The Herd
Abacus Recordings
Mathcore / Groove Metal
|
82 / 100
|
|
|
Marilyn Manson - The High End Of Low
Interscope
Alternative Rock / Metal
|
63 / 100
|
|
|
Demonical - Hellsworn
Cyclone Empire
Groovy Death Metal
|
84 / 100
|
|
|
Ion Dissonance - Solace
Abacus Recordings
Mathcore / Grindcore
|
83 / 100
|
|
|
Misery Speaks - Disciples Of Doom
Drakkar
Doomy Melodeath
|
74 / 100
|
|
|
Black Sabbath - Forbidden
I.R.S. Records
Heavy Metal
|
65 / 100
|
|
|
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Warner Bros. Records
Heavy Metal
|
CLASSIC
|
|
|
Black Label Society - Sonic Brew
Spitfire Records
Hard Rock / Heavy Metal
|
92 / 100
|
|
|
Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
Nothing/Interscope Records
Modern Alternative Metal
|
89 / 100
|
|
|
Nothingface - Violence
TVT Records
Alternative / Nu-Metal
|
82 / 100
|
|
|
Darkness By Oath - Fear Yourself
Cyclone Empire
Melodic Death Metal
|
78 / 100
|
|
|
Dope - Felons And Revolutionaries
Epic Records
Industrialized Nu-Metal
|
20 / 100
|
|
|
Ion Dissonance - Breathing Is Irrelevant
Willowtip
Math / Grindcore
|
79 / 100
|
|
|
Goblin Cock - Come With Me If You Want To Live
Robcore Records
Stoner / Doom Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Fireball Ministry - The Second Great Awakening
Nuclear Blast
Stoner Metal / Hard Rock
|
73 / 100
|
|
|
Goblin Cock - Bagged And Boarded
Absolutely Kosher Records
Stoner/Doom Metal
|
78 / 100
|
|
|
Helmet - Monochrome
Warcon
Groovy Alternative Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Spiritual Beggars - Ad Astra
Music For Nations
Stoner Metal
|
94 / 100
|
|
|
Hybrid Viscery - Regression
Kasamata Records
Grindcore
|
70 / 100
|
|
|
Lamb of God - Wrath
Epic Records
Groovy Melodic Death Metal
|
75 / 100
|
|
|
God Forbid - Earthsblood
Century Media
Melodic Metalcore
|
65 / 100
|
|
|
Luna Mortis - The Absence
Century Media
Power / Thrash inspired Melodic Death Metal
|
82 / 100
|
|
|
Adagio - Archangels In Black
Listenable Records
Progressive Symphonic Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Spawn Of Possession - Noctambulant
Neurotic Records
Technical Death Metal
|
88 / 100
|
|
|
Helmet - Size Matters
Interscope
Groovy Alternative Metal
|
89 / 100
|
|
|
This Ending - Dead Harvest
Metal Blade
Melodic Death Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Seance - Awakening Of The Gods
Pulverised Records
Death Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Zonaria - The Cancer Empire
Century Media
Melodic Death Metal
|
65 / 100
|
|
|
Nine - Killing Angels
Deathwish Inc.
Groovy Hardcore
|
55 / 100
|
|
|
Zeraphine - Traumaworld
Drakkar
Gothic / Alternative Rock
|
78 / 100
|
|
|
Woe Of Tyrants - Kingdom Of Might
Metal Blade
Melodic Death Metal
|
92 / 100
|
|
|
Silentium - Seducia
Dynamic Arts Records
Gothic Metal
|
68 / 100
|
|
|
Callejon - Zombieactionhauptquartier
Nuclear Blast
Metalcore
|
45 / 100
|
|
|
Archons - The Consequences Of Silence
Cryogenic Records
Melodic Death Metal
|
70 / 100
|
|
|
Crowpath - One With Filth
Willowtip
Grindcore
|
79 / 100
|
|
|
Stigma - When Midnight Strikes!
Pivotal Rockordings
Grind Influenced Deathcore
|
75 / 100
|
|
|
Daath - The Hinderers
Roadrunner Records
Industrial/Death Influenced Metal
|
55 / 100
|
|
|
Bloodsimple - Red Harvest
Reprise Records
Thrashy Alternative Metal
|
70 / 100
|
|
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Tiamat - Amanethes
Nuclear Blast
Gothic Metal
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78 / 100
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Catamenia - Eskhata
Massacre Records
Melodic Black Metal
|
85 / 100
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Flowing Tears - Thy Kingdom Gone
Ascendance Records
Gothic Metal
|
88 / 100
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All Shall Perish - Awaken The Dreamers
Nuclear Blast
Melodic Deathcore
|
87 / 100
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Year Long Disaster - Year Long Disaster
Volcom
Hard Rock
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82 / 100
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