| 5.0 classic |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| I think there's no album that needed longer to grow on me, but the wait was incredibly rewarding. Jane Doe is incredibly agressive, technically mindblowing and -propably above all- truly emotional |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness |
| This may be the greatest post-depression album ever. It is for me, anyway |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| This is just too good, I can't even complain about it not being full-lenght. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| Post metal at its absoulute peak. There are few albums as atmospheric yet at the same time crushingly heavy as Panopticon. |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| Jeff Rosenstock WORRY. |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley |
| Oh what a hell of a ride this album is- clearly the best in its genre. |
| Modern Life Is War Witness |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| One of the best straight up rock record ever -this album just doesn't get boring, no matter how often i listen to it. |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| The best Punk album ever! The influence this record had not only on hardcore, but on music in general can't be overvalued. |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb |
| Everything on EWN is at least one level above all I've heard in the genre, be it the infectious and creative songwriting, the super complex horn- and relentless rhythm section or the witty yet often surprisingly dark lyrics. One of my favorite albums of all times. |
| Television Marquee Moon |
| The Clash London Calling |
| One of the most important albums in music history, London Calling essentially shows that punk rock can be so much more than fast played, three chord based Rock'n'Roll with angry lyrics. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) White Lighter |
| Wire Pink Flag |
| 4.5 superb |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| The best album the Seattle Grunge explosion brought with it. The combination of Staleys vocals and Cantrells guitar playing is simply stellar. |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Astronautalis This Is Our Science |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Beach House 7 |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On |
| Burial Untrue |
| Burial Kindred |
| Can Tago Mago |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled |
| Captain We're Sinking release an almost flawless punk rock record. |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo |
| One of the most challenging and unique things I have heard;Perfectly imperfect like a storm |
| Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge Jane Live |
Amazing live version of one of my absolute favorites. The mastering is amazing, as one would
expect from a project Kurt Ballou is involved in. Especially Jake Bannon sounds like a
fucking beast. Contrasting Jane Live with the original album actually gives great insight
into the evolution of Ballou as a producer. In the first half, the guitar parts may not be
quite as tight as hoped for, but from Phoenix In Flight, when Stephen Brodsky joins in,
onwards, everything is just completely mindblowing. |
| Converge The Dusk in Us |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology |
| Dangers Anger |
| 23 minutes of some the purest, angriest hardcore I've ever heard. |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Almost White Pony level and in my opinion even better than Diamond Eyes. Rosemary blew my mind mind from the first listen and continues to do so. |
| Dinosaur Jr. Farm |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Everything Everything Get to Heaven |
| Fall of Efrafa Inle |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear |
| FKA Twigs LP1 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Foals Total Life Forever |
| Forest Swords Compassion |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song |
| On his masterpiece Frank Turner, probably punk rocks greatest poet, churns out anthem after anthem. The music is amazingly diverse and fun but it is the lyrics- sometimes upbeat, sometimes melancholy, always quotably- that truly make this album a classic. |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones |
| Fugazi Repeater |
| Fugazi The Argument |
| Gallows (UK) Grey Britain |
| Gang of Youths The Positions |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius |
| Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog |
| Hot Water Music Caution |
| Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade |
| IDLES Brutalism |
| Immolation Close to a World Below |
| Intronaut The Direction of Last Things |
| Jay Reatard Blood Visions |
| Jeff Rosenstock We Cool? |
| Joy Division Closer |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver |
| Madvillain Madvillainy |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| This is exactly how progressive metal should sound. And I'm really no fan of the genre. |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| One of the most exhausting albums of all times, this bleak tale of downfall and depression shows Trent Reznor at his absolute best as a songwriter. |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Portishead Dummy |
| PUP The Dream Is Over |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| QOTSA show whole new unexpected qualities with their latest album,and I absolutely love it. |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Rites of Spring Rites of Spring |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Absolutely amazing and the next step from RTJ 1, everything on here has improved, from El's production to the lyrics and delivery. Jaime and Mikey prove why they are the biggest thing in underground Hip Hop these days. |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve |
| The Clash The Clash |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I |
| The Doors The Doors |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There |
| The opener is one of the best tracks of the year. The rest of the album sadly can't quite live up to it as it mostly sticks to the tried pop punk formula. But that it does really well, resulting in an emotionally draining, introspective piece of music. |
| The Menzingers After the Party |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 |
| The National Boxer |
| The National High Violet |
| The Smith Street Band Throw Me in the River |
| The Smith Street Band is one of these bands you immediately fall in love with through their heart on sleeve lyrics and emotional delivery. TMitR is no exception to this. |
| The Smith Street Band No One Gets Lost Anymore |
| The Stooges Fun House |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything |
| This Heat Deceit |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Well, TOOL, one of the biggest acts in recent memory and this is their Magnum Opus. Many people call this album the peak of pretentiousness, I will just stay with genius. |
| Tool Ænima |
| Touche Amore Stage Four |
| Trophy Eyes Chemical Miracle |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You |
| We Lost the Sea Departure Songs |
| We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth |
| Wipers Is This Real? |
| Wipers Youth of America |
| Wire Chairs Missing |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math |
| A Wilhelm Scream Partycrasher |
| A Wilhelm Scream Ruiner |
| A Wilhelm Scream Mute Print |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days |
| Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues |
| AJJ Knife Man |
| Algiers Algiers |
| Alice in Chains Facelift |
| Alkaline Trio Maybe I'll Catch Fire |
| American Nightmare We're Down Til We're Underground |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Arca Arca |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| Astronautalis Pomegranate |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out |
| Bad Astronaut Houston: We Have a Drinking Problem |
| Bad Brains Bad Brains |
| Bad Religion Against the Grain |
| Baroness Blue Record |
| Battles Mirrored |
| Bear vs. Shark Right Now You're in the Best of Hands |
| Bear vs. Shark Terrorhawk |
| Beck Odelay |
| Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were |
| Bilderbuch Magic Life |
| Black Flag Damaged |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Brant Bjork Jalamanta |
| Brockhampton SATURATION II |
| Broken Social Scene Hug of Thunder |
| Burial Truant/Rough Sleeper |
| Car Bomb Meta |
| Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial |
| Carcass Heartwork |
| Casper XOXO |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights |
| Not quite the classic that Streetlights debut is but still an amazing Ska album and the first milestone in Tomas Kalnokys great carrer. |
| Causa Sui Euporie Tide |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss |
| Chromatics Kill for Love |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Cult Leader Lightless Walk |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner |
| Danny Brown Old |
| Danny Brown XXX |
| Dark Tranquillity Character |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables |
| Dead Meadow Dead Meadow |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda |
| Death Symbolic |
| Death Human |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death |
| On part 2 of The Powers That B, Death Grips unique approach to Hip Hop is taken to new levels through loads of noisy guitars and some surprisingly introspective lyrics (eg. On GP). It seems like DG finally realized their immense potential. |
| Defeater Lost Ground |
| Condensed to a six song EP, the formula of passionate melodic hardcore with an underlying story that Defeater already used on their debut, works even better since the only real flaw on Travels was in my opinion a lack of diversity. |
| Defeater Travels |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 |
| Earthless From the Ages |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure |
| Elder (USA-MA) Lore |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Fall of Efrafa Owsla |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails |
| Father John Misty Pure Comedy |
| Fen Winter |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... |
| FKA Twigs M3LL155X |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes |
| Fleet Foxes Crack-Up |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles |
| Foals Antidotes |
| Forest Swords Engravings |
| Full of Hell Roots Of Earth Are Consuming My Home |
| Gang of Four Entertainment! |
| Giraffes? Giraffes! Pink Magick |
| Giraffes? Giraffes! More Skin With Milk-Mouth |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers |
| Gojira Magma |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage |
| Gojira Les Enfants Sauvages |
| Gorilla Biscuits Start Today |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World |
| Have Heart The Things We Carry |
| Have Heart Songs to Scream at the Sun |
| Hella Hold Your Horse Is |
| Helmet Meantime |
| Hop Along Painted Shut |
| Hop Along Get Disowned |
| Husker Du New Day Rising |
| Iceage Plowing into the Field of Love |
| Injury Reserve Floss |
| Inside Out No Spiritual Surrender |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy |
| Jeff Rosenstock POST- |
| Jogger This Great Pressure |
| Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains Love Songs For The Apocalypse |
| Joyce Manor Joyce Manor |
| Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again |
| Katatonia Brave Murder Day |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana |
| Knut Challenger |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening |
| Liars Drum's Not Dead |
| Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow |
| Lorde Melodrama |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Mew Frengers |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food |
| Million Dead A Song to Ruin |
| Minor Threat Complete Discography |
| Essential for every hardcore fan although I have to say that Minor Threats music didn'T age as well as other HC albums from this period. |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Mogwai Young Team |
| Mutoid Man Bleeder |
| Mutoid Man Helium Head |
| Higly entertaining 13 minutes: Catchy vocals, great memorable riffs and an amazing pace are all speaking of the EPs quality, though Ben Koller steals the show here with some mindblowing drum action. |
| Mutoid Man War Moans |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Murder Ballads |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros |
| Oathbreaker Rheia |
| Om Conference of the Birds |
| Operation Ivy Energy |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Owen At Home With Owen |
| P.O.S Never Better |
| Pallbearer Heartless |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| pg.99 Document #8 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December |
| Power Trip Nightmare Logic |
| Preoccupations Preoccupations |
| Preoccupations Viet Cong |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste |
| Protomartyr Relatives in Descent |
| PUP PUP |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age |
| Quicksand Slip |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| Sampha Process |
| Scale the Summit The Collective |
| Scale the Summit The Migration |
| Signals Midwest Latitudes & Longitudes |
| Sinjin Hawke First Opus |
| Slayer Reign in Blood |
| Sleep Dopesmoker |
| Sorority Noise You're Not As ____ As You Think |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Hotline Miami Official Soundtrack |
| Sparklehorse It's a Wonderful Life |
| Streetlight Manifesto Keasbey Nights |
| Strung Out Exile In Oblivion |
| Strung Out Twisted By Design |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary |
| Tame Impala Currents |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Black Queen Fever Daydream |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Exploding Hearts Guitar Romantic |
| The Front Bottoms The Front Bottoms |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound |
| The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim |
| The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America |
| The Hotelier Goodness |
| The Jezabels Dark Storm |
| The Jezabels Prisoner |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual |
| The Knife Silent Shout |
| The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta! |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Menzingers Chamberlain Waits |
| The Menzingers Rented World |
| The Menzingers Hold on, Dodge |
| The Middle East The Recordings of the Middle East |
| The Mountain Goats Goths |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me |
| The National Alligator |
| The National Sleep Well Beast |
| The Postal Service Give Up |
| The Replacements Let It Be |
| The Smith Street Band More Scared of You Than You Are of Me |
| The Smith Street Band Sunshine and Technology |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The Stooges Raw Power |
| The Swellers Ups and Downsizing |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave |
| The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine |
| The Underachievers Evermore: The Art of Duality |
| The Walkmen Bows + Arrows |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever |
| Therapy? Troublegum |
| Tim Hecker Virgins |
| Title Fight Floral Green |
| Titus Andronicus The Most Lamentable Tragedy |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Tool Salival |
| Totem Skin Weltschmerz |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants |
| Unique is the first that comes to mind after hearing this album. Definitely needed time for me to appreciate and has the potential to grow even more on me. |
| Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) Offerings |
| U.S. Girls In A Poem Unlimited |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire |
| Unbroken Life. Love. Regret. |
| Unwound Repetition |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett |
| Vince Staples Big Fish Theory |
| Violent Femmes Violent Femmes |
| Warning Watching from a Distance |
| Weezer Weezer |
| Weezer The White Album |
| White Lung Paradise |
| Why? Alopecia |
| Wipers Over the Edge |
| Wire 154 |
| Women Public Strain |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One |
| Zugezogen Maskulin Alles Brennt |
