Albums I've been jamming

I am just going to use a simple out of 5 rating system:

1 worst album ever

2 a dud but one or two good ones

3 completely average

4 great tunage

5 classic album

Metallica - Death Magnetic 4/5

Slipknot - All Hope is Gone 4/5

Craig David - Trust Me 3/5

Katsumoto - Burn em Down Wipe em Out 3/5

Mitch Hedberg - Do You Believe in Gosh? 4/5

I Hate Kate - Embrace The Curse 3/5

Taproot - Our Long Road Home 4/5

Amon Amarth - Twilight of The Thunder God 3/5

Nick Swardson - Party! 3/5

That is what I have bought and listened as of lately or over the last two months. All of the albums were enjoyable, but like you can tell there were are few that I was more impressed with. The new Slipknot disc was really heavy and the song were more standard than their previosuly written stuff. Metallica's Death Magnetic is a perfect mix of the old school albums like And ustice For All and Ride The Lightning mix with their newer ones such as Load and Reload. Great disc to listen to when needing to get pumped up. Taproots new album came out this past Tuesday and I must say that it is enjoyable. Closer to the lines of their last album Blue Sky Research that was a more commercial rock type with well written and lovely heartfelt songs. This means it is night and day from their first release, Gift. Which was easily one of the heaviest albums I have ever heard. The thing I love about new Taproot is that they are not that typical metal band that has lyrical content that is all violent and negative. That trend seems to be dying out of the genre all together though which is nice to see. There are more songs being written about politics, life, and positive moments. As for Taproot the lyrical content is mostly about life in general. Mitch Hedbergs newly released album is by far his funniest one to be released and it is a shame that the guy had such a major drug problem and passed on from it. He was a comedic gold.