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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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