| 4.5 superb |
| Alan Silvestri Avengers: Infinity War |
| An Abstract Illusion Woe |
| Batushka Litourgiya |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Black Crown Initiate Song of the Crippled Bull |
| Black Midi Hellfire |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage |
| Camel Mirage |
| Charlie Griffiths Tiktaalika |
It might just be the best side-project to come from one of the Haken guys so far. Epic stuff.
"Dead in the Water" and "In Alluvium" are highlights. |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| D'Angelo Black Messiah |
| D'Virgilio/Morse/Jennings Troika |
| A delightful stripped down record from a "Troika" of prog titans. |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Death Grips Bottomless Pit |
| Death Grips Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix) |
| Deftones Ohms |
| Devin Townsend The Retinal Circus |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid Live at the Royal Albert Hall |
| Devin Townsend Lightwork |
| It doesn't commit to being a relaxed "accessible" album as much as I would've liked, but there's no denying this is one excellent batch of tracks. Nightwork is also the most complete bonus disc to date. It might as well be its own album. |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud |
| Devin Townsend Project Ocean Machine: Live in Plovdiv |
| Dio The Last in Line |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Dream Theater Awake |
| Dream Theater Distant Memories |
Probably their best live offering since Score. Fantastic performances (LaBrie is great), and the
audio mix is miles better than Breaking the Fourth Wall and Luna Park. |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear |
| Fleet Foxes Sun Giant |
| Fleet Foxes Crack-Up |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! |
| George Clanton Slide |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Ghost (SWE) Popestar |
| Haken Aquarius |
| Haken Affinity |
| The Mountain was a fantastic turning point for these guys, and this album only solidifies that rnotion. A BRILLIANT record, especially "The Architect," and "Earthrise." The instrumental bonus rdisc was also a nice addition. |
| Haken L-1ve |
| Haken Virus |
| Haken Fauna |
| I had to sit with this one a while as it was very dense, a lot to unpack. The more I came back to it, the more it started revealing itself. It may just be one of the best records they've released. |
| Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch Blade Runner 2049 |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity |
| Kamasi Washington The Epic |
| Kamasi Washington Harmony of Difference |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard I'm In Your Mind Fuzz |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Chunky Shrapnel |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Live in Asheville '19 |
| The performance of This Thing on here absolutely rocks. |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard K.G. |
| They really went and made a microtonal electronic funk song, the absolute mad lads |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Live In San Francisco ‘16 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Butterfly 3000 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Omnium Gatherum |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of... |
| Pretty much the perfect cocktail of Infest the Rats' Nest and Ice Death. This album absolutely RIPS. |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy |
| Leprous The Congregation |
| Metallica S&M |
| Muse Absolution |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken |
| Nospun Opus |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe |
| Oasis The Masterplan |
| With songs as good as Acquiesce, Talk Tonight, Going Nowhere, Rockin' Chair, and Half the World Away? Better than Definitely Maybe. |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Opeth Pale Communion |
| Opeth Deliverance & Damnation Remixed |
This set is a testament to how essential a mix can be in the opinion of an album;
Deliverance has been given new life in my eyes. The original mix always felt a bit weak,
considering how the album was supposed to be their heaviest. With this new mix, it shot
up on my list of favorite Opeth albums. Amazing. And Damnation, one of their best, is
made even better. A set definitely worthwhile for Opeth fans, though I'd go for the
2CD/2DVD set. The vinyl packaging is extremely bare-bones. Not worth the price at all,
even if the sound quality is absolutely impeccable. |
| Pallbearer Heartless |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal |
| Persefone Aathma |
| Plini Handmade Cities |
Plini really is in a league of his own. "Handmade Cities" is even better than the trilogy. AOTY
material here. |
| Porcupine Tree Signify |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream |
| The album could have been a 5/5, if it didn't end on such a weak note with Tinto Brass and Stop Swimming. |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun |
| Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Roland Orzabal Tomcats Screaming Outside |
| The best Tear for Fears album since The Seeds of Love. |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 |
| Rush Permanent Waves |
| Rush Signals |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Slice the Cake Odyssey to the West |
| Who are these guys, and how is this so fucking good? |
| Soilwork The Ride Majestic |
| Steven Wilson To the Bone |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien |
| Tears for Fears The Hurting |
| The Black Queen Fever Daydream |
| The Contortionist Language |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream |
| The War On Drugs Live Drugs |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Triptykon Melana Chasmata |
| Vangelis Chariots Of Fire |
| Vektor Terminal Redux |
| VOLA Witness |
| Wintersun Wintersun |
| Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans |
| 4.0 excellent |
| Algiers Algiers |
| Angel Vivaldi Away With Words - Part I |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor |
| Arcane Known/Learned |
| Bad Salad Puzzled |
| Behemoth Xiadz |
| Black Crown Initiate The Wreckage of Stars |
| Black Midi Cavalcade |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath |
| Blood Orange Freetown Sound |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million |
| Bring Me the Horizon Post Human: Survival Horror |
| Caligula's Horse In Contact |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated Side B |
| Christian Scott Stretch Music |
| Cloudkicker Subsume |
| Coldplay Parachutes |
| Coldplay Prospekt's March |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories |
| Corelia Nostalgia |
| D'Virgilio/Morse/Jennings Sophomore |
| A great follow-up record that manages to keep things fresh by having some diversity of sounds. "Right Where You Should Be" and "The Weary One" are big highlights. |
| Dave Kerzner New World (Deluxe Edition) |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Depeche Mode Memento Mori |
| Devin Townsend Terria |
| Devin Townsend Infinity |
| Devin Townsend Nightwork |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| Devin Townsend Project Epiclouder |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence |
| Dio Dream Evil |
| Donnie Trumpet and The Social Experiment Surf |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Dream Theater Live at Luna Park |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time |
| Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia |
| Einar Solberg 16 |
| Unfortunately, Einar will never beat the "Leprous is a solo project" allegations. |
| Father John Misty Pure Comedy |
| Father John Misty God's Favorite Customer |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes |
| Foo Fighters Sonic Highways |
| Frost Children SPEED RUN |
| Genesis A Trick of the Tail |
| George Clanton 100% Electronica |
| Ghost (SWE) Impera |
| Disappointed this thing isn't called "Sequelle." Get your shit together Tobias, smh. |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust |
| Haken Visions |
| Haken Restoration |
| Insomnium Where the Last Wave Broke EP |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls |
This album sounds like it was taken straight out of the 80s, and I mean that in the absolutely
BEST way possible. By far the best Maiden album since Dickinson rejoined the band. The soloing on
this album is absolutely incredible. |
| Iron Maiden Senjutsu |
| It might as well just be The Book of Souls 2, but that really isn't a bad thing, is it? |
| Jack White Fear of the Dawn |
| After the polarized response to Boarding House Reach, I was afraid Jack White would scale back on keeping things weird. I am very happy to be wrong! |
| Jamie N Commons Rumble and Sway |
| John Mayer Sob Rock |
| Junkie XL Mad Max: Fury Road |
| A fun score, that can be a bit boring at times. But when it reaches its highs, it absolutely soars! This has got me extremely excited for what he will bring to Batman for BvS. |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. |
A decent collection of demos from TPAB, even if it is a bit forgettable. The only tracks really
worth checking out here is untitled 3, 5, 6, and 8. |
| Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Float Along. Fill Your Lungs |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Quarters |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Murder Of The Universe |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Changes |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard The Silver Cord |
A part of me wishes they had struck a happy medium between the two versions of the record. For
example, Extinction kind of feels like a limp and incomplete conclusion to the album, but the
extended mix is so much better. Even still, this is a great project. Swan Song (either version)
goes incredibly hard. The title track is one of the best thing's they've ever recorded. |
| Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein Stranger Things, Volume One |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening |
| Leprous Coal |
| Leprous Malina |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment 3 |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| MGMT Metanoia |
| Milo So The Flies Don't Come |
| Misthyrming Söngvar elds og óreiðu |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Muse Hullabaloo Soundtrack |
| Muse HAARP |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I |
| Ne Obliviscaris Hiraeth |
| Considering that this was to be a release of pre-demo material, I wasn't expecting much of worth to be found. I've been pleasantly suprised though, as this EP is significantly better than NeO's other crownfunded EP, "Sarabande To Nihil." A definite recommendation to NeO fans. |
| Ne Obliviscaris Exul |
| Urn was a disappointment to me, so that they're back and just as good as they once were rocks. I just wish it didn't take so long! |
| Neal Morse Innocence & Danger |
| That cover of Bridge Over Troubled Water is absolute aces. |
| New Order Complete Music |
| Nine Inch Nails Not the Actual Events |
| Oasis Be Here Now |
| I feel like this album is unfairly maligned. It's definitely not the quality of the first two records, but still really great in its own right. |
| Obscura Akróasis |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Panopticon Roads to the North |
| Pearl Jam Lightning Bolt |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Omega |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty |
| Porcupine Tree Recordings |
| Preoccupations Preoccupations |
| Purity Ring Another Eternity |
| Radiohead The Daily Mail/Staircase |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Richard Henshall The Cocoon |
| Ross Jennings A Shadow of My Future Self |
| Royal Blood Out of the Black |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 |
| Rush Vapor Trails Remixed |
| Sanhedrin (UK) And On Into The Eternal Nether... |
| Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase I: Neohumanity |
| Sioux Falls Rot Forever |
| Slice the Cake Odyssey to the Gallows |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite |
| Sons of Apollo Psychotic Symphony |
| Great stuff. Better than most anything Dream Theater has done in nearly a decade. |
| Spock's Beard V |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) |
| Steven Wilson 4 1/2 |
Considering how the majority of these tracks are leftovers from the HCE and Raven sessions, this
mini-album flows incredibly well. Though "Year of the Plague" and "Sunday Rain Sets In" act as
merely interludes, the rest of the release is fantastic. "Vermillioncore" is perhaps some of the
best Metal Steven has ever written, and the new recording of "Don't Hate Me" is superb. A definite
recommendation, especially if you're a big fan of Hand Cannot Erase (as I am). This might have
been a 4.5, if only it was a bit longer. It might have been a good idea to include that new
recording of Lazarus on this, but oh well. |
| Steven Wilson The Future Bites |
| guitar man make blip bloops now oh noooooooooooooooooo |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1 |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion |
| Strapping Young Lad No Sleep 'till Bedtime |
| Sunn O))) Kannon |
| Swain Howl |
| Tears for Fears Elemental |
| Tears for Fears The Tipping Point |
More than just a legacy act putting out a record for the sake of putting out a new record. "Rivers
of Mercy" might be one of the best songs they've done since The Seeds of Love. |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet (Redux) |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| The Virginmarys King of Conflict |
| The Virginmarys King of Conflict (Stripped) |
| The Voidz Tyranny |
| The Weeknd After Hours |
| The Weeknd Dawn FM |
| The Wytches Annabel Dream Reader |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thundercat The Golden Age Of Apocalypse |
| Tool Opiate |
| Transatlantic The Final Flight: Live At L'Olympia |
| Trivium In the Court of the Dragon |
| U2 War |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar |
| Voyager Fearless in Love |
I discovered these guys a month or two on bandcamp, and this record feels like such a unique blend
of prog metal and synth-pop. Some tracks' influences are pretty obvious (Submarine might as well
be a lost Devin Townsend track), but the record is really great, and wonderfully concise. |
| Young and in the Way When Life Comes to Death |
| 3.5 great |
| Arch Echo Final Pitch |
| The best songs on here are Aluminosity and Final Pitch, that feel like something new for them and are memorable. The rest are pretty standard for what they've been doing, as good as they are at doing that. |
| Ariana Grande Thank U, Next |
| AVKRVST The Approbation |
| They certainly wear their influences on their sleeve, but I found this to be a pretty enjoyable slice of prog rock. "Arcane Clouds" is a gorgeous highlight. |
| AWOLNATION Megalithic Symphony |
| Bad Salad Uncivilized |
| Black Crown Initiate Selves We Cannot Forgive |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated |
| Chris Stapleton From A Room: Volume 1 |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto |
| Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams |
| Deftones Gore |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient |
| Dio Sacred Heart |
| Dream Theater Live at Budokan |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater |
| Dream Theater Happy Holidays |
| Einar Solberg The Congregation Acoustic |
| It's a testament to how good the songs on The Congregation are that this works as well as it does with just Einar and a piano. |
| Emperors Sam |
| Exes For Eyes Tongues Like Figure Eights |
| Fleet Foxes Shore |
| Gemini Syndrome Lux |
| Ghost (SWE) Prequelle |
| Gojira Magma |
| Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice |
| Harry Styles Harry Styles |
| Heaven's Basement Filthy Empire |
| Hey Marseilles To Travels and Trunks |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time |
| Iron Maiden Killers |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark |
| Iron Maiden The X Factor |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death |
| Jack White Entering Heaven Alive |
| John Carpenter Lost Themes |
| Jon Hopkins Asleep Versions |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Willoughby's Beach |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Paper Mache Dream Balloon |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Gumboot Soup |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Fishing For Fishies |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Demos Vol. 1 + Vol. 2 |
| As far as demo albums go, this one is pretty cool. |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard L. W. |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Butterfly 3001 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Made in Timeland |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Laminated Denim |
| Krokus Headhunter |
| Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang |
| Leprous Bilateral |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Linkin Park Living Things |
| Linkin Park One More Light |
| Linkin Park One More Light Live |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason |
| Muse Showbiz |
| Muse The Resistance |
| Newsted Metal |
| Nils Frahm Spaces |
| No Devotion Stay/Eyeshadow |
| Northlane Obsidian |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha |
| The rather pointless interludes, and Psychosphere keeps it from being as good as Omega. It's still a pretty good album though. |
| Porcupine Tree Futile |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident |
| Porcupine Tree Closure/Continuation |
| Purity Ring Womb |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Radiohead In Rainbows Disk 2 |
| Run the Jewels Blockbuster Night - Part II |
| Run the Jewels Meow the Jewels |
| Rush Fly by Night |
| Shinedown Leave a Whisper |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning |
| Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black |
| Tame Impala Currents |
| TEMIC Terror Management Theory |
| One of the rare debut prog records where they actually did save the best stuff for the record. "Skeletons" and "Friendly Fire" are awesome. There's nothing groundbreaking here, but it's a really great slice of prog metal. |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra |
| The Stone Foxes The Stone Foxes |
| The Stone Foxes Small Fires |
| The album isn't exactly the most groundbreaking album ever, but when taken at face-value, Small Fires is an incredibly fun, well done Blues Rock record. |
| The Virginmarys The Virginmarys |
| Thom Yorke Tomorrow's Modern Boxes |
| Thundercat The Beyond/Where The Giants Roam |
| Tool Undertow |
| Turbulence Binary Dream |
| U2 Songs of Innocence |
| Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP |
| Weezer Van Weezer |
| This is a fun record, y'all are just mean, dorks. |
| Wintersun Time I |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite |
| Xibalba Tierra y Libertad |
| 3.0 good |
| Ariana Grande Sweetener |
| Coldplay X&Y |
| Daft Punk Homework |
| Devin Townsend Physicist |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki |
| Devin Townsend Project Z2 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events |
| Frank Ocean Blonde |
| Frost Children Hearth Room |
| Conceptually, I like the idea of them stripping away the electronic hyperpop excess of SPEED RUN to do something more live, but in execution it's more boring than it is engaging. "Bernadette' and "Frost Park" were standouts. |
| Insomnium Ephemeral |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2 |
| Karnivool Asymmetry |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard 12 Bar Bruise |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Sketches of Brunswick East (w/ Mild High Club) |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Teenage Gizzard |
| Krokus The Blitz |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party |
| Muse The 2nd Law |
| Ne Obliviscaris Sarabande to Nihil |
A fun EP, though it is understandable why these were cut from Portal of I. The songs seem a bit
directionless at times, and lack memorability. But nevertheless, more NeO is always a good thing. |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn |
| Nero Between II Worlds |
| Opeth Orchid |
It's not a bad album by any means, but it lacks a cohesive quality that makes their latter
material so enjoyable. Dynamic changes in songs feel less like logical progressions, and more like
a bunch of ideas stiched together, with little thought put into their flow. Despite this, In The
Mist She Was Standing and Under The Weeping Moon are definite highlights. |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Opeth Sorceress |
| Pink Floyd The Endless River |
If one's going to do a almost purely instrumental album, it needs to be less boring than what this
is. The album lacks any kind of emotional crescendo or highpoint to make the listen truly
rewarding and worthwhile. However, it creates a immersive, and truely Pink Floyd-esque atmosphere
that only they could make. |
| Shinedown The Sound of Madness |
| Shinedown The Sound of Madness (Deluxe Edition) |
| Stone Sour Stone Sour |
| Strapping Young Lad Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing |
| Swain Heavy Dancing |
| Tears for Fears Raoul and the Kings of Spain |
| Testament Titans of Creation |
| It's fine enough, but it just all sounds the same. And at being almost an hour long, it becomes a bit of a slog. |
| The Roots ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin |
| The Weeknd Starboy |
| Album would be a lot better if they had cut about half of the tracks there. Album is way too long. |
