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Last Active 12-14-21 2:56 pm
Joined 10-12-09
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| 2023: Top 50
Pretty meh year. Many good records, not much that blew me away. | | 50 |  | Celestaphone
Paper Cut From the Obit
3.5/5 (3.5)
Abstract Hip Hop, Jazz Rap, Experimental Hip Hop
Best: "Small World", "Nay", "Babies" | | 49 |  | Posset
There are so many lights in the sky I don't know..
3.5/5 (3.6)
Sound Collage, Musique concrète
Best: "There are so many lights in the sky I don't know what's UFO any more" | | 48 |  | Metaroom
Oxidized Archive
3.5/5 (3.6)
Hardcore Breaks, Footwork, IDM
Best: "Choise Noise", "EMMAROOT", "EMBRYOGLYPH" | | 47 |  | TDK
Неместа
3.5/5 (3.6)
Avant-Prog
Best: "Fiasko (Alo, policiyata li e?)", "Tekstachetoha" | | 46 |  | Shame (UK)
Food For Worms
3.5/5 (3.6)
Indie Rock, Art Punk
Best: "Six-Pack", "Alibis", "Different Person" | | 45 |  | Fireworks
Higher Lonely Power
3.5/5 (3.7)
Alternative Rock
Best: "God Approved Insurance Plan", "Blood in the Milk", "How Did It Use to Be So Easy?" | | 44 |  | Enslaved
Heimdal
3.5/5 (3.7)
Progressive Metal
Best: "Behind the Mirror", "Caravans to Outer Worlds", "Heimdal" | | 43 |  | Hail the Sun
Divine Inner Tension
4/5 (4.0)
Swancore
Best: "Mind Rider", "Maladapted", "Tithe" | | 42 |  | Depeche Mode
Memento Mori
3.5/5 (3.7)
Synthpop
Best: "My Cosmos Is Mine", "Ghosts Again", "Don't Say You Love Me" | | 41 |  | Klone
Meanwhile
3.5/5 (3.7)
Alternative Metal
Best: "Bystander", "Apnea", "The Unknown" | | 40 |  | CYSTGURGLE
Exquisite Macerated Tissue Slippage...
3.5/5 (3.8)
Goregrind, Gorenoise
Best: Track 15, Track 20 | | 39 |  | John Zorn
444
3.5/5 (3.8)
Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz Fusion
Best: "Retort", "In Sulphur and in Flame" | | 38 |  | Turpitude
Une interprétation de la dissolution glaciale en
3.5/5 (3.8)
Black Metal
Best: "Mvt. I Vivace", "Mvt. IV Andante" | | 37 |  | Demoniac (CHL)
Nube Negra
3.5/5 (3.8)
Technical Thrash Metal
Best: "Nube negra", "Ácaro", "El final" | | 36 |  | Hellripper
Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags
3.5/5 (3.8)
Speed Metal, Black Metal
Best: "The Nuckelavee", "Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags", "Mester Stoor Worm" | | 35 |  | Memorrhage
Memorrhage
3.5/5 (3.8)
Nu Metal, Metalcore
Best: "Reek", "Finesse", "Lunge" | | 34 |  | Boris and Uniform
Bright New Disease
3.5/5 (3.9)
Sludge Metal, Noise Rock
Best: "You Are the Beginning", "Narcotic Shadow", "Endless Death Agony" | | 33 |  | Autopsy
Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts
3.5/5 (3.9)
Death Metal
Best: "No Mortal Left Alive", "Well of Entrails", "Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts" | | 32 |  | Agriculture
Agriculture
3.5/5 (3.9)
Blackgaze
Best: "The Glory of the Ocean", "Look, Pt. 1", "Relier" | | 31 |  | Wednesday
Rat Saw God
3.5/5 (3.9)
Indie Rock, Noise Rock, Alt-Country
Best: "Bull Believer", "Chosen to Deserve", "Bath County" | | 30 |  | Cicada (Taiwan)
Seeking the Sources of Streams
3.5/5 (3.9)
Chamber Music, Neoclassical New Age
Best: "On the Way to the Glacial Cirque", "Foggy Rain", "Remains of Ancient Trees" | | 29 |  | Gezan with Million Wish Collective
Anochi
4/5 (4.0)
Art Rock, Experimental Rock, Noise Rock
Best: "Death Penalty Dog:", "We Were the World", "JUST LOVE" | | 28 |  | Dodheimsgard
Black Medium Current
4/5 (4.0)
Avant-Garde Metal, Progressive Metal
Best: "Et Smelter", "Interstellar Nexus", "Requiem Aeternum" | | 27 |  | Trha
Rhejde Qhaominvac Tla Aglhaonamëc
4/5 (4.1)
Atmospheric Black Metal
Best: "Helënahappa" | | 26 |  | Liturgy
93696
4/5 (4.1)
Avant-Garde Metal, Black Metal
Best: "Djenarration", "Ceala", "93696" | | 25 |  | Incapacitants
Oxen Man's Uneasiness
4/5 (4.1)
Noise
Best: "Oily Oily Oxen Free", "Real Thrill of Bulky Thrash" | | 24 |  | The Canyon Observer
Figura
4/5 (4.1)
Avant-Garde Metal
Best: "Dih", "Koža", "Križ" | | 23 |  | Young Fathers
Heavy Heavy
4/5 (4.1)
Neo-Psychedelia, Art Pop, Neo-Soul
Best: "I Saw", "Drum", "Shoot Me Down" | | 22 |  | Mitski
The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
4/5 (4.2)
Singer-Songwriter, Indie Folk
Best: "The Frost", "I Love Me After You" | | 21 |  | Blindfolded and Led to the Woods
Rejecting Obliteration
4/5 (4.2)
Dissonant Death Metal, Technical Death Metal
Best: "Methlehem", "Hallucinative Terror", "Cicada" | | 20 |  | Thantifaxath
Hive Mind Narcosis
4/5 (4.2)
Black Metal
Best: "Solar Witch", "Burning Kingdom of Now", "Sub Lilith Tunnels" | | 19 |  | Godflesh
Purge
4/5 (4.2)
Industrial Metal
Best: "Nero", "Army of Non", "You Are the Judge, the Jury, and the Executioner" | | 18 |  | Horrendous
Ontological Mysterium
4/5 (4.2)
Progressive Metal, Death Metal, Technical Thrash Metal
Best: "Neon Leviathan", "Ontological Mysterium", "The Death Knell Ringeth" | | 17 |  | Tujiko Noriko
Crépuscule I & II
4/5 (4.3)
Ambient, Electroacoustic
Best: "Fossil Words", "A Meeting at the Space Station", "Roaming Over Land, Sea and Air" | | 16 |  | Geese
3D Country
4/5 (4.3)
Indie Rock, Art Punk
Best: "2122", "3D Country", "I See Myself" | | 15 |  | Dreamwell
In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You
4/5 (4.3)
Screamo, Post-Hardcore
Best: "Good Reasons to Freeze to Death", "Lord Have MRSA on My Soul", "Obelisk of Hands" | | 14 |  | Jeromes Dream
The Gray In Between
4/5 (4.3)
Screamo, Noise Rock
Best: "South by Isolation", "Pines on the Hill (with Guests)", "On Holiday with Infinity" | | 13 |  | betcover!!
馬 (Uma)
4/5 (4.3)
Jazz-Rock, Art Rock, Progressive Rock
Best: Track 3, Track 4 | | 12 |  | Dying Fetus
Make Them Beg for Death
4/5 (4.3)
Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal
Best: "Compulsion for Cruelty", "Feast of Ashes", "Unbridled Fury" | | 11 |  | Tim Hecker
No Highs
4/5 (4.3)
Ambient, Electroacoustic
Best: "Monotony", "Glissalia", "Sense Suppression" | | 10 |  | Sarmat
Determined To Strike
4/5 (4.3)
Avant-Garde Metal, Technical Death Metal
Best: "Formed from Filth", "Landform" (those vocals midway through!), "Arsenal of Tyranny" | | 9 |  | IKD-SJ
死んだ雪白中毒者にキスを
4/5 (4.3)
Alternative Metal, Avant-Garde Metal, Noise Rock
Best: Track 1, Track 3, Track 6 | | 8 |  | Narrow Head
Moments of Clarity
4/5 (4.3)
Alternative Rock, Alternative Metal
Best: "Moments of Clarity", "Caroline", "Flesh & Solitude" | | 7 |  | Yves Tumor
Praise a Lord Who Chews, But Does Not Consume...
4/5 (4.3)
Neo-Psychedelia, Post-Punk
Best: "God Is a Circle", "Meteora Blues", "Ebony Eye" | | 6 |  | McKinley Dixon
Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
4/5 (4.4)
Conscious Hip Hop, Jazz Rap
Best: "Run, Run, Run", "Live! From the Kitchen Table", "The Story So Far" | | 5 |  | GridLink
Coronet Juniper
4/5 (4.4)
Grindcore
Best: "Silk Ash Cascade", "Ocean Vertigo", "Revenant Orchard" | | 4 |  | Trha
§ºanωë Aglivajsamë Cá Nëlh¶iha
4/5 (4.4)
Atmospheric Black Metal
Best: "Nëlh◊un T‡aq‡ahaj ëlh" (best black metal song of the year) | | 3 |  | Monika Roscher Bigband
Witchy Activities and the Maple Death
4/5 (4.4)
Experimental Big Band, Avant-Prog, Progressive Pop
Best: "Firebird", Witches Brew suite, "A Taste of the Apocalypse" | | 2 |  | Anohni and the Johnsons
My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
4/5 (4.4)
Soul, Singer-Songwriter
Best: "It Must Change", "Sliver of Ice", "Rest" | | 1 |  | Dealers of God
Dealer's Choice
4.5/5 (4.5)
Experimental Hip Hop, Neo-Psychedelia, Cloud Rap
Best: "Fields Are Burning", "Tingo", "To the Evening Dealer" | |
TheMonster
12.17.23 | Honourable mentions:
Behold... the Arctopus - Interstellar Overtrove
John Zorn - Nothing Is As Real As Nothing
Portrayal of Guilt - Devil Music
Telos - Delude
Ok Goodnight - The Fox and the Bird
Shade Empire - Sunholy | SlothcoreSam
12.17.23 | Sexy list, will check 1,3,5 and 9 | TheMonster
12.17.23 | Thanks! | Azazzel
12.17.23 | nice metal picks, will def dig into some of these others | mkmusic1995
12.17.23 | Awesome list! Love seeing 2 and 7 so high, both fantastic albums! | Veldin
12.17.23 | Wonderful list! Amazing albums and some I’m definitely going to check out. Cheers! | TheMonster
12.17.23 | Thanks all! | pizzamachine
12.17.23 | List! | Veldin
12.17.23 | Loving all the stuff I snagged from this list so far, thanks! Also, check out “Parrhesiastes” by John Zorn. It’s the same ensemble as “444”, but imo, even better | BlazinBlitzer
12.18.23 | 7 was a surprise standout for me. It's Yves' best imo. | TheMonster
12.18.23 | I'll check out that Zorn record, Veldin. And agreed, Blazin, 7 was real good. Not perfect, but plenty of originality and great production. | WalrusTusk
12.18.23 | Great list man! A lot of nice variety. | TheMonster
12.19.23 | Thanks, Walrus! |
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