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Most of my collection is comprised of CDs, but I've been buying mostly vinyl nowadays.

Now that my review catalogue is growing, I guess it's time to make a review scale:

100 - An album that I deem perfect. You might notice that I throw this score out more than some reviewers, but I only award it to albums that truly deserve it. Not every song has to be absolutely perfect, but the album as a whole has to create an atmosphere that I can immerse myself in during its entirety.

90 to 99 - An outstanding album that is either its own entity, or pushes its genre to the limit.

80 to 89 - A great album with perhaps a few dull moments or minor production issues. Nothing terribly wrong here.

70 to 79 - A good album with either a few bad moments or is generally a bit inconsistent. Perhaps it has a few great songs that save it from mediocrity or is a solid album that doesn't offer as much replay value as it should.

60 to 69 - An album with potential, but is nevertheless flawed. The album may be a bit bland as a whole or wildly inconsistent, with songs ranging from excellent to awful.

50 to 59 - An album with a few bright moments among some big problems. Not very good as a whole, but one or two songs may be worth checking out.

40 to 49 - An album that is either very boring but not awful, or too inconsistent to enjoy.

30 to 39 - An album that is virtually worthless which I would not recommend to anyone.

20 to 29 - An album with so much wrong with it that it becomes irritating to listen to or take seriously.

10 to 19 - A completely awful album that you shouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.

0 to 9 - An album that goes beyond being displeasing to listen to and becomes something that is literally painful to experience. Avoid like a sickness.

Some metal bands I've seen live, just to keep track:

1349 (x2), The Absence, Agalloch, Altered Dead (x4), Amorphis (x5), Amon Amarth (x3), Anvil (x2), Arkona, Behemoth (x3), Belphagor, Black Sabbath (x2), Black Wizard (x3), Blind Guardian (x2), Blood Incantation, Borknagar (x2), Candlemass, Carpathian Forest, Cathedral, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass (x2), Children of Bodom (x2), Coffins, Danzig, Dark Tranquillity, Decrepit Birth, Deep Purple, Demilich, Desaster, The Devil's Blood (x2), Dying Fetus, Dynfari, Einherjer, Endstille, Enslaved, Ensiferum (x3), Entombed, Fejd (x2), Fields of the Nephilim, Finsterforst, Funeral Circle, Gojira, I'll Eat Your Face, Immortal, In Flames (x3), Goatwhore, Grave Digger, Heaven and Hell, Heidevolk, Hooded Menace, Hoopsnake (x5), Human Agony (x3), In Solitude, Iron Maiden (x2), Iskra (x9), Judas Priest, Kampfar, Kataklysm, Korpiklaani, Mayhem, Megadeth (x2), Meshuggah, Melvins, Mendozza (x10), Mitochondrion (x2), Motorhead (x2), Napalm Death (x2), Nattefrost, Negura Bunget, Nevermore, Novembers Doom, Obituary, Om, Onkel Tom, Opeth, Oranssi Pazuzu, PHILM, Phrenelith, Primordial (x2), Rammstein, Rotten Sound, Running Wild, Rush (x3), Sarke, Satan, Scimitar, Sepultura, Slayer (x3), Sleep, Solstice, Suffocation, System of a Down, Testament (x3), Triptykon, Tyr, Turisas (x2), Vader, Voivod, Vreid (x2), Watain, Wintersun, Whiplash