| 4.0 excellent |
| A kew's tag Hephioz |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| Acrylazea A Cavalcade of Cosmic Calamity |
| Aenaon Mnemosyne |
| Aeternam Al Qassam |
| Aeternam Heir of the Rising Sun |
| Aetheria Conscientia Corrupted Pillars of Vanity |
| Aghora Entheogenic Frequencies |
| This album is excellent. One of the better instrumental metal albums to come out last year. |
| Aghora Aghora |
| Aghora Aghora (Remastered) |
| Alkaloid Numen |
| All Traps On Earth A Drop Of Light |
| Allegaeon Damnum |
| Alley Amphibious |
| Amiensus Reclamation: Part 1 |
| Amorphis Halo |
| Ancestors Suspended in Reflections |
| Animals As Leaders Parrhesia |
| Antipope Apostle Of Infinite Joy |
| Aquae Furtivae Road to Square One |
| Arise In Stability Dose Again |
| Artificial Language The Observer |
| Atlantis Chronicles Nera |
| Atomic Symphony HYBRIS |
| Atvm Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless |
| Augury Illusive Golden Age |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare |
| Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But a Dream... |
| Azure (UK) Of Brine And Angel's Beaks |
| Baroness Blue Record |
| Baroness Second |
| Be'lakor Coherence |
| Bell Witch Mirror Reaper |
| Bent Knee You Know What They Mean |
| Besna Zverstvá |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth |
| Blind Guardian The God Machine |
| Brii Corpos Transparentes |
| Brii Sem Propósito |
| Burden of Life The Makeshift Conqueror |
| Burial in the Sky The Consumed Self |
| Caligula's Horse Bloom |
| Caligula's Horse Moments from Ephemeral City |
| Caligula's Horse Charcoal Grace |
| Canvas Solaris Chromosphere |
| Car Bomb Mordial |
| Carnatia Aeipathy |
| Cattle Decapitation The Harvest Floor |
| Cattle Decapitation Death Atlas |
| Chevelle NIRATIAS |
| Christian Cosentino High Rising Times |
| Cicada the Burrower Corpseflower |
| Circus Maximus Isolated Chapters |
| Circus Maximus Nine |
| Cobra the Impaler Colossal Gods |
| Coevality Multiple Personalities |
| Contrarian Their Worm Never Dies |
| Countless Skies Glow |
| Crimson Dimension Crimson Dimension |
| Crown Compass The Drought |
| Cryptic Shift Visitations from Enceladus |
| Cryptodira The Angel of History |
| Cryptosis Bionic Swarm |
| Cyborg Octopus Between the Light and Air |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy |
| Danny Baranowsky The Binding of Isaac |
| Dark Fortress Spectres from the Old World |
| Dark Millennium Diana Read Peace |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want |
| David Maxim Micic BILO IV |
| Dawn to Come Dawn to Come |
| Dawnwalker Ages |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love |
| Death Human |
| Delta Fears |
| Dessiderium Aria |
| Dessiderium Shadow Burn |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki |
| DGM Tragic Separation |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Swagger and Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole |
| Die From Sorrow Lord of the Alien Seas |
| Dimhav The Boreal Flame |
| Dischordia Triptych |
| Disillusion Three Neuron Kings |
| Disillusion Ayam |
| Diskord Degenerations |
| Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current |
| DorDeDuh Har |
| Dreadnought The Endless |
| Dream Theater A View from the Top of the World |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka |
| Dvne Voidkind |
| East of the Wall A Neutral Second |
| Effuse Contextual Noise |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World |
| Elder (USA-MA) Omens |
| Empress Premonition |
| Enshine Singularity |
| Enslaved Utgard |
| Epica The Quantum Enigma |
| Epica The Holographic Principle |
| Epica Design Your Universe |
| Epica The Divine Conspiracy |
| Epiphanic Truth Dark Triad: Bitter Psalms to a Sordid Species |
| Epitaphe II |
| Ergo I Exist The Depths |
| ERRA ERRA |
| Evanescence Fallen |
| Evergrey A Heartless Portrait (The Orphéan Testament) |
| Exanimis Marionnettiste |
| Exist Egoiista |
| Fallujah Empyrean |
| Fates Warning Awaken the Guardian |
| Fates Warning Theories of Flight |
| Fates Warning No Exit |
| Fen The Dead Light |
| Fen The Malediction Fields |
| Fires in the Distance Echoes From Deep November |
| Fires in the Distance Air Not Meant For Us |
| First Fragment Gloire Eternelle |
| I'm very close to giving this album a 4.5. The problem is when an album is just one really long guitar solo, it starts to lack diversity and balance. I need more melody. When comparing this album to bands like Eternity's End, Obscura, or hell, even Archspire, this is very lacking in musical breaks and interludes to let you unpack the onslaught of wankery.rIt additionally needs hooks and well-written solos to complement the sheer speed and technicality of the performances. To elaborate, A well-written solo is not identical to a technical solo, even though more technical solos are more difficult to write generally. Obscura is able to pack in a ton of melody and earworms into their incredibly technical composition in a way that First Fragment are just not as experienced at yet making this a somewhat tiring listen to get through in one sitting. |
| Fleshvessel Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed |
| Flummox Rephlummoxed |
| Fractal Universe The Impassable Horizon |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats |
| Galneryus Into the Purgatory |
| Gargoyl Gargoyl |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous |
| Gojira Terra Incognita |
| Gojira The Link |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage |
| Gojira Fortitude |
| Gojira Magma |
| Gorod Aethra |
| Hail Spirit Noir Eden In Reverse |
| Haken Fauna |
| Hallas Conundrum |
| Hammerhedd Grand Currents |
| Hammerhedd Nonetheless |
| Hands Of Despair Well of the Disquieted |
| Hannes Grossmann To Where The Light Retreats |
| Haralabos Stafylakis Calibrating Friction |
| Hath Of Rot And Ruin |
| Hath All That Was Promised |
| Heaving Earth Darkness of God |
| Heavy Meta Mana Regmata |
| Hippotraktor Meridian |
| Hoplites Παραμαινομένη |
| Horrendous Idol |
| Horrendous Ontological Mysterium |
| Humanotone A Flourishing Fall in a Grain of Sand |
| IER 妖怪 |
| Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter |
| Imperial Circus Dead Decadence MOGARI - Shi E Fukeru Omoi Wa Rikujoku Sura Kurai |
| Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury |
| In Flames Whoracle |
| In Mourning The Bleeding Veil |
| In Vain (NO) Solemn |
| Indepth Ancient Architects |
| Wow, this is very good Obscura-esque melodic tech death. Honestly, this is much better of an album than it looks to be from judging the book by its cover. I'm glad I gave this a try. That fretless bass, and that melody? Mmmmmm. Very satisfying. |
| Insomnium Heart Like a Grave |
| Inter Arma The Cavern |
| Intervals Circadian |
| This album is great and definitely an improvement from "The Way Forward", which means the title of the last album was not lying to us. This album is packed full of great riffs and incredibly killer guitar solos. Aaron Marshall may be in the top echelon of guitarists in the genre that has some of the most rigorous guitarists. |
| Iotunn Access All Worlds |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind |
| Jakub Tirco Alaska |
| Jarod Fedele A Collection of Color |
| Job For A Cowboy Moon Healer |
| Keor Petrichor |
| Khorada Salt |
| King Diamond ''Them'' |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of... |
| Lamentari Missa Pro Defunctis |
| Leprous Pitfalls |
| Leprous Malina |
| Linus Klausenitzer Tulpa |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment 3 |
| Liturgy 93696 |
| Lor Edge of Eternity |
| Lost in Thought Renascence |
| Lunar (USA-CA) Eidolon |
| This is a very respectable release that exemplifies what traditional progressive metal has to offer. This album takes you on a journey through life and death, space and time, killer riffs and technical instrumental solos. They are able to do all this without getting lost a whirlwind of wankery. Overall, solid release for fans of Opeth, old Dream Theater and Psychotic Waltz with guest instrumentalists from familiar bands such as Haken, Leprous, Caligula's Horse, Thank You Scientist and Fallujah. |
| Lunar (USA-CA) The Illusionist |
| Lunar Chamber Shambhallic Vibrations |
| Maestrick Espresso Della Vita: Solare |
| Manticora To Live to Kill to Live |
| Manticora Mycelium |
| Maraton Meta |
| Massen Contraesthetic |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Mastodon Cold Dark Place |
| Mendel Equilibrium |
| Mental Fracture Disaccord |
| Meshuggah Nothing |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Meshuggah Immutable |
| Moozoonsii Inward |
| Moral Collapse Moral Collapse |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Need Norchestrion: Α Song For The End |
| Nevborn Alkaios · Part I · The Eagle |
| Nuclear Power Trio Wet Ass Plutonium |
| Numenorean Adore |
| Obscura A Valediction |
| Obsidious Iconic |
| Octavision Coexist |
| Omnerod The Amensal Rise |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Opeth Pale Communion |
| Ophidian I Desolate |
| Organic Reaction Mysteries of the Lost World |
| OSI Blood |
| OSI Fire Make Thunder |
| OSI Office of Strategic Influence |
| Others By No One Book I: Dr. Breacher |
| OU One |
| Overtoun This Darkness Feels Alive |
| Pain of Salvation One Hour by the Concrete Lake |
| Pain of Salvation Entropia |
| Pain of Salvation Be |
| I strongly stand behind the artistic message and theme of this album, however, the actual music as a progressive metal album is not the best. It heavily lacks memorable riffs and vocal melodies and one can easily get lost listening to it. Like always the musicianship is in point. Overall though, this is album is less enjoyable to listen to than the first 4 albums. |
| Pain of Salvation In the Passing Light of Day |
| Panzerballett Planet Z |
| Paralydium Worlds Beyond |
| Parius The Signal Heard Throughout Space |
| Pensees Nocturnes Douce Fange |
| Persefone Metanoia |
| Pharmacist Flourishing Extremities On Unspoiled Mental Ground |
| Phyrnna The Music of Epic Battle Fantasy III |
| Phyrnna The Music of Epic Battle Fantasy IV |
| Polars Collide Grotesque |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Pressure Points The Island |
| Project Mishram Meso |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest |
| Psychotic Waltz Bleeding |
| Psychotic Waltz The God-Shaped Void |
| Pyramid Theorem Beyond The Exosphere |
| Queensryche The Warning |
| Queensryche Queensryche EP |
| Quiet ...and so it was |
| Redemption Snowfall on Judgment Day |
| Revocation Deathless |
| Rhapsody of Fire Symphony of Enchanted Lands |
| Rivers of Nihil Monarchy |
| Rivers of Nihil The Work |
| Any album that is released after a band's most critically acclaimed work is almost bound to disappoint people. But why is this? It is because people let their contingent perception of what they think an album should be, unrealistically high, and impossibly appeasable expectations take away from their experience of an otherwise solid release. This happens time and time again. And in my opinion, people need to learn to judge albums based on what they are, not on what our subjective expectations dictate.rBut how is The Work? The Work is definitely a step in a different direction than WOKMN, they focus more on minimalism, atmospheric guitar textures, and progressive rock interludes. This is not new for the band, but the band is taking these elements to wider extremes. Which is something that can be applauded. This exceeds the standards of your average progressive technical death metal album, and shows that the band is still growing, and changing up their sound in a way that doesn't betray their core style. People in other soundoffs are saying "It's bad, it's boring.", but music can almost never force you to like it if you don't want to. I think people should give this more of a chance. |
| Riverside Love, Fear and the Time Machine |
| Riverside Rapid Eye Movement |
| Riverwood (EG) Shadows And Flames |
| Royal Hunt Dystopia |
| Sacramentum Far Away from the Sun |
| Scaphoid Absent Passages |
| Scardust Strangers |
| Sermon Of Golden Verse |
| Seven Spires Gods Of Debauchery |
| Seventh Wonder The Testament |
| Shadow Gallery Shadow Gallery |
| Shadow Gallery Carved In Stone |
| Shadow Of Intent Melancholy |
| Sigh Shiki |
| Sikasa Matter Earth |
| Silver Talon Decadence and Decay |
| SkyThala Boreal Despair |
| Sleep Terror Above Snakes |
| Slugdge Esoteric Malacology |
| Soen Tellurian |
| Solstafir Endless Twilight of Codependent Love |
| Sons of Apollo Psychotic Symphony |
| Southern Empire Civilisation |
| Stam1na Novus Ordo Mundi |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) |
| Stomb From Nihil |
| Stone Healer Conquistador |
| Stormkeep Tales of Othertime |
| Stortregn Impermanence |
| Stortregn Finitude |
| Swallow the Sun When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light |
| Swallow the Sun Emerald Forest and the Blackbird |
| Syncatto A Place to Breathe |
| Syrek Story |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Tanagra Meridiem |
| Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail |
| Thantifaxath Hive Mind Narcosis |
| The Beast of Nod Multiversal |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra |
| The Lion's Daughter Bath House |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric |
| The Ocean Fluxion |
| The Odious Vesica Piscis |
| The Offering Seeing the Elephant |
| The Omnific The Mind's Eye |
| The Resonance Project Ad Astra |
| The Reticent On the Eve of a Goodbye |
| The Stranger (Aus) Kaleidoscope |
| The World Is Quiet Here Zon |
| Thornhill The Dark Pool |
| Thrailkill Everything That Is You |
| Threshold Dividing Lines |
| Thy Catafalque Alföld |
| Tomarum Ash in Realms of Stone Icons |
| Tool Ænima |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| Tool Opiate |
| Toxik Dis Morta |
| Tribulation The Children of the Night |
| Triton Project Messenger's Quest |
| Turbulence Frontal |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Vengeance |
| Umpfel As the Waters Cover the Sea |
| Umpfel Cactus |
| Valtozash Boiling Solitude |
| Vanden Plas The Empyrean Equation of the Long Lost Things |
| Vanishing Point Dead Elysium |
| Vhol Deeper than Sky |
| Victory Over The Sun Dance You Monster To My Soft Song! |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden Under Vatten |
| Vintersea Illuminated |
| Vokonis Odyssey |
| VOLA Monsters |
| VOLA Homesick Machinery |
| Voyager Colours in the Sun |
| Voyager Fearless in Love |
| You can definitely hear the VOLA influence in Prince of Fire and Promise, Devin Townsend influences on Submarine. |
| Watchtower Energetic Disassembly |
| Wax People Wax People |
| We Lost the Sea Triumph and Disaster |
| Wheel (FIN) Resident Human |
| Windfaerer Breaths of Elder Dawns |
| Wine Guardian Timescape |
| Witherfall Curse Of Autumn |
| Wyrmwoods Gamma |
| Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit |
| Zemeth Loneliness |
| 3.5 great |
| A Notion of Silence Nomad |
| A Pale December Death Panacea |
| A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant |
| Abiotic Ikigai |
| Achymer Destiny Behind the Scenes |
| Aenigmatum Deconsecrate |
| Aenimus Dreamcatcher |
| Ahab The Coral Tombs |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct |
| Allegaeon Apoptosis |
| Alluvial Sarcoma |
| Alustrium A Monument to Silence |
| Amoth The Hour of the Wolf |
| Anabasis Of Conviction |
| Anarchy (USA-MO) Breathing Necropolis |
| Andy Gillion Arcade Metal |
| Animarum The Gaian Mind |
| Antipope Rex Mundi |
| Antti Martikainen Carmina Gloria |
| Apeiron Bound Multiplicity |
| Arch Echo Story I |
| Arch/Matheos Winter Ethereal |
| Arkaik Labyrinth of Hungry Ghosts |
| Armed Cloud Torque |
| Armed Cloud Obsidian Desert |
| Artificial Language Distant Glow |
| Atomic Symphony Nemesis |
| Aural Cadence Aural Cadence |
| Ayreon The Dream Sequencer |
| Ayreon Flight of the Migrator |
| Back to R'lyeh The Break |
| Barn Habitat |
| Baroness Gold and Grey |
| Baroness Yellow and Green |
| Baroness First |
| Baroness Stone |
| Barus Drowned |
| Bekor Qilish Throes of Death From The Dreamed Nihilism |
| Beriedir AQVA |
| Beyond Martian Skies N2H4 |
| Black Orchid Empire Semaphore |
| Black Sites Untrue |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race |
| Borknagar True North |
| Borknagar Fall |
| Boss Keloid Family the Smiling Thrush |
| Brii Entre Tudo que é Visto e Oculto |
| Brutal Awakening Brutal Awakening |
| Brymir Wings of Fire |
| Bulb Moderately Fast, Adequately Furious |
| Caelestra Black Widow Nebula |
| Caratucay Nocturnes of the Incarcerated |
| Carmeria Advenae |
| Cave of Roses The Apostate |
| Cave of Swimmers Aurora |
| Caveat Alchemy |
| Cellar Darling The Spell |
| Chaos Frame Entropy |
| Chapel of Disease Echoes of Light |
| CHON CHON |
| CHON Grow |
| Circus Maximus Havoc |
| Ckraft Epic Discordant Vision |
| Clement Belio Patience |
| Cloudkicker Solitude |
| Coexistence Collateral Dimension |
| Cold Night For Alligators The Hindsight Notes |
| Communic Hiding from the World |
| Conception State of Deception |
| Consider the Source You Are Literally A Metaphor |
| Contrarian To Perceive Is To Suffer |
| Contrarian Polemic |
| Contrarian Only Time Will Tell |
| Convulse Deathstar |
| Cosmic Jaguar The Legacy of the Aztecs |
| Wow, this is really great stuff right here. Very experimental, very technical, with great riffs and an overall cohesive and thoughtful album concept. |
| Course of Fate Mindweaver |
| Crater Lake Barbarity of Creation |
| Crimson Glory Crimson Glory |
| Cult of Luna The Raging River |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us |
| Cynic Ascension Codes |
| Dark Horse White Horse Dark Horse White Horse |
| Dark Matter Secret Perfect World Creation |
| Dark Millennium Acid River |
| Dark Millennium Midnight In The Void |
| Dark Moor Beyond the Sea |
| David Maxim Micic ECO |
| Dawn of Nil Culminating Ruins |
| Dawn of Solace Waves |
| Dawnwalker House of Sand |
| Death Spiritual Healing |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore |
| Decalius Dehumanizing Loneliness |
| Demetori 瑰狂鬱嵂 |
| Denominate Isochron |
| Destination: Void The Bludgeoning Dawn |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum |
| Deviant Process Nurture |
| Devin Townsend Lightwork |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence |
| Devoid of Thought Outer World Graves |
| Dir En Grey Phalaris |
| Disillusion Alea |
| Disillusion The Porter |
| Disturbed Indestructible |
| Now, I'm an avid progressive metal fan and have been for the last 7 years. However, my metal journey started with humble beginnings: Korn, Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Helloween, Evanescence, Pantera, and In Flames were what I spent the majority of my time listening to. I especially liked Disturbed, particularly their golden era: Ten Thousand Fists through Lost Children are all incredibly solid. rTheir songwriting may be predictable and not super technical. But boy, do they know how to write catchy choruses and lead guitar melodies to contrast with their angsty demeanor and dark themes. They have their hits like "Inside the Fire" and "The night" but some of my favorites are Deceiver, The Curse, Criminal, and Torn. |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists |
| Disturbed The Lost Children |
| Divided Multitude Faceless Aggressor |
| Dol Theeta Monad |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons |
| Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite |
| Dream Unending/Worm Starpath |
| Dreamarcher The Bond |
| Dvota Antichiromantia |
| Dyssidia Of Delight and Despair |
| Eastern High Halo |
| Eater of Man Excavation of the Underworld Cosmos |
| Ebonivory The Long Dream I |
| Egor Lappo Azimuth |
| Electroqute Tanpasin |
| Electroqute Fravak |
| Elegy of Madness Invisible World |
| Empress (US) Fateweaver |
| Enslaved Caravans to the Outer Worlds |
| Epica The Alchemy Project |
| Epica The Phantom Agony |
| Epica Requiem for the Indifferent |
| Epica Consign to Oblivion |
| Equipoise Demiurgus |
| Errant Errant |
| Esoctrilihum Dy'th Requiem for the Serpent Telepath |
| Eternal Closure At The Center of it All - Chapter I |
| Evergrey Escape of the Phoenix |
| Exist So True, So Bound |
| Exist Sunlight |
| Exist Hijacking The Zeitgeist |
| Fates Warning Darkness in a Different Light |
| Fates Warning Parallels |
| Fates Warning Inside Out |
| Fates Warning FWX |
| Fen Epoch |
| Firelink Firelink |
| Flub Dream Worlds |
| For Giants There, There |
| Forgotten Silence Vemork Konstrukt |
| Fvneral Fvkk Carnal Confessions |
| Genghis Tron Dream Weapon |
| Ghost (SWE) Prequelle |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam |
| Ghost (SWE) Popestar |
| Ghost Toast Shade Without Color |
| Grace Hayhurst Existence is Temporary |
| Grayceon Mothers Weavers Vultures |
| HAH Chimaera Monstrosa |
| Haken Enter the 5th Dimension (Demo) |
| Half Heard Voices Twelve Way War |
| Hallas Excerpts From a Future Past |
| Hammerhedd Not Important |
| Hammers Of Misfortune Overtaker |
| Hands Of Despair The Crimson Boughs (And Other Short Tales) |
| Hath Hive |
| Haunted Shores Void |
| Hauntologist Hollow |
| Helstar Remnants of War |
| Herod Sombre Dessein |
| Hex A.D. Astro Tongue In The Electric Garden |
| Howling Sycamore Howling Sycamore |
| Human By Nature Eläimys |
| Humanity's Last Breath Välde |
| Hunted Deliver Us |
| Hypermass Empyrean |
| Iapetus The Body Cosmic |
| Definitely not as good as the others had made it seem. I am a fan of NeO, Wintersun, and Insomnium and it is vaguely like them but does not add up to the quality of any one of these bands. |
| IATT Magnum Opus |
| Ice Age Waves of Loss and Power |
| IER 物の怪 |
| I cannot believe IER did Korn scatting. This is unprecedented. |
| Ihsahn Telemark |
| Ihsahn Pharos |
| Imminent Sonic Destruction The Sun Will Always Set |
| Honestly, this is simply an underrated album. Notably, it has a riff on the song "The Core" that sounds too much like one on the new Psychonaut album but predates it by seven months. |
| Indistinct Reign of Silence |
| Insanium Whom Gods Destroy |
| Insomnium Anno 1696 |
| Insurgent Sentient |
| InTechnicolour Big Sleeper |
| Intervals The Way Forward |
| Intonate Severed Within |
| Intruder Incorporated Shards of Time |
| Iotunn The Wizard Falls |
| Isa Chimera |
| Isle of the Cross Excelsis |
| Izthmi The Arrows of our Ways |
| James Norbert Ivanyi Omen Faustum |
| John Petrucci Terminal Velocity |
| Karmanjakah A Book About Itself |
| Karmanjakah Ancient Skills |
| Katatonia City Burials |
| Kaupe Cognitive Dissonance |
| Kayo Dot Blasphemy |
| Kayo Dot Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike |
| Kekal Envisaged |
| Khirki Κτηνωδία |
| Kingcrow The Persistence |
| Kontinuum No Need to Reason |
| Korn Life Is Peachy |
| Korn Follow the Leader |
| Korn Issues |
| Kostnateni Úpal |
| Kreationist Dans l'Interminable |
| Lalu Paint the Sky |
| Lamentari Clavis Aurea |
| Lamentations Passion Of Depression |
| Laster Andermans Mijne |
| Lattermath Winter's Painting |
| Leprous Aphelion |
| Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything |
| Lucas De La Rosa Sunlight Highlights |
| Lucid Planet II |
| Luna's Call Void |
| I'm not sure what Darrrk0 is talking about, this band does indeed have influences of Opeth, BTBAM, Haken, Devin Townsend, etc., but what they are missing is a semblance of some originality and synthesis. This album does not bring forth anything new to the genre and reuses old tropes that are outdated by about 10 years. |
| Lunar (USA-CA) Theogony |
| Madder Mortem Old Eyes, New Heart |
| Man May Be Shadows of the Dawn |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand |
| Mechina Cenotaph |
| Mekong Delta Tales of a Future Past |
| Memories of Old The Zeramin Game |
| Mendel The Blood, The Sin and the Djinn |
| Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse |
| Mjød Invisible Forest |
| Mobius Kala |
| Mol JORD |
| Monuments (UK) In Stasis |
| Moon Machine Moon Machine |
| Moon Tooth Phototroph |
| Mother of Millions Artifacts |
| Myrath Shehili |
| Naaeta Casting Spells With Shattered Dreams |
| Nanga Parbat Downfall And Torment |
| Nimrod (LEBN) As Above So Below |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile |
| Now in Colour Now in Colour |
| Numento The Vile Entity |
| Obscura Retribution |
| Obsidian Kingdom Meat Machine |
| Obsidian Tide Pillars of Creation |
| Obsidian Tide The Grand Crescendo |
| Oceans of Slumber Oceans of Slumber |
| Oddland Vermilion |
| Oksät Epidemie |
| Ola Englund Starzinger |
| Omega District The Machine Destiny |
| Omnivortex Diagrams of Consciousness |
| Opeth Sorceress |
| Opeth Still Day Beneath The Sun |
| Orbital Soul System Eternal Voyage |
| OSI Free |
| Pain of Salvation Road Salt Two |
| Pain of Salvation Panther |
| Paranorm Empyrean |
| Parthian Desolation of a Ceaseless Dawn |
| Pathogenic Pathogenic |
| I'm super down with the lyrical themes and song titles. But the music generally gets less enjoyable as the album goes on. Overall, it is not a bad progressive deathcore release. I will be returning to this one every once in a while. |
| Phantom Spell Immortal's Requiem |
| PIXL Deformity |
| Planeswalker Tales of Magic |
| Plini Sunhead |
| Poh Hock ĀTMA |
| Poh Hock Gallimaufry |
| Polyphia New Levels New Devils |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident |
| Porcupine Tree Closure/Continuation |
| Psilocybe Strange Place |
| Psychotic Waltz Mosquito |
| Pull Down the Sun Of Valleys and Mountains |
| Pyrithe Monuments to Impermanence |
| Quasarborn Novo Oružje Protiv Bola |
| Queensryche Rage for Order |
| Queensryche Digital Noise Alliance |
| Ray Alder What The Water Wants |
| Redshift (UK-SOM) Laws of Entropy |
| Rendezvous Point Universal Chaos |
| Revocation Netherheaven |
| Ridiculon Songs in the Key of Meat |
| Ring Of Fire Gravity |
| Rivers of Nihil The Conscious Seed of Light |
| Riverside Wasteland |
| Riverside Shrine Of New Generation Slaves |
| Riverside ID.Entity |
| Riverside Memories In My Head |
| Rototypical Volume I: The Tactician |
| Royal Hunt Dystopia, Pt. 2 |
| Sangham Intangible |
| Scaphoid Echoes of the Rift |
| Scarred Scarred |
| Scythelord Earth Boiling Dystopia |
| Sedate Illusion UnGod Me |
| Sepultura Quadra |
| Sermon Birth Of The Marvellous |
| Seventh Wonder Tiara |
| Usually fairly well-developed progressive power metal, but it is ungodly long. The length can make the experience drag on as it doesn't change styles up very often. But there are a few real bangers on this album. |
| Seyr Flux |
| Sgaile Traverse the Bealach |
| She Said Destroy Succession |
| Shumaun Memories & Intuition |
| Siderean Lost on Void's Horizon |
| Silver Lake by Esa Holopainen Silver Lake by Esa Holopainen |
| Sleep Terror Abreaction |
| Sleep Terror Railroad to Dystopia |
| Soen Cognitive |
| Soen Imperial |
| Soledad XIII |
| Sons of Apollo MMXX |
| Soulsplitter Connection |
| Speaking to Stones In(Human) Error |
| Spheres Helios |
| Spheric Universe Experience Back Home |
| Spiralist Eternal Recurrence |
| Star One Revel in Time |
| Stengah Soma Sema |
| Summoner's Circle Chaos Vector |
| Sylvaine Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone |
| Tang Dynasty A Dream Returns to Tang Dynasty |
| TEMIC Terror Management Theory |
| Teramaze Flight of The Wounded |
| Teramaze I Wonder |
| Terra Odium Ne Plus Ultra |
| Tersivel To the Orphic Void |
| The Abbey Word of Sin |
| The Advent Equation Remnants of Oblivion |
| The Anchoret It All Began With Loneliness |
| The Chasm The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow |
| The Chemical Mind Beneath the Shadow It Casts |
| The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara Trust No Leaders |
| The Contortionist Our Bones |
| The Cyberiam Connected |
| The Cyberiam The Cyberiam |
| The Erkonauts I Want It To End |
| The Gorge Mechanical Fiction |
| The Last Successor The Last Successor |
| The Lion's Daughter Skin Show |
| The Lylat Continuum Ephemeral |
| The Mercury Tree Spidermilk |
| The Night Watch An Embarrassment of Riches |
| The Ocean Holocene |
| The Ocean Heliocentric |
| The Ocean Aeolian |
| The Offering The Offering |
| The Omnific Kismet |
| The Omnific Escapades |
| The Ritual Aura Heresiarch |
| The Vicious Head Society Extinction Level Event |
| The Wring Project Cipher |
| Thornhill Butterfly |
| Thy Catafalque Naiv |
| Thy Darkened Shade Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya |
| Toehider I Have Little to No Memory of These Memories |
| Tool 72826 |
| Toward the Throne Vowed to Decline |
| Tranzat Ouh La La |
| Turbulence Binary Dream |
| Unreqvited Mosaic II: la déteste et la détresse |
| Unreqvited Empathica |
| Unreqvited Beautiful Ghosts |
| Valence Sleepwalker |
| Vanden Plas The Ghost Xperiment: Awakening |
| Venus Project Lamda |
| Vinsta Vinsta Wiads |
| Vinsta Freiweitn |
| Vipassi Lightless |
| Voices Breaking the Trauma Bond |
| Voivod Angel Rat |
| Voivod War and Pain |
| Von Citizen Outliers |
| Vvon Dogma I The Kvlt of Glitch |
| WAIT (USA) The End of Noise |
| Warforged I: Voice |
| Warforged The Grove | Sundial |
| Wheel (FIN) Moving Backwards |
| When Nothing Remains In Memoriam |
| White Stones Dancing Into Oblivion |
| White Walls Grandeur |
| Will's Dissolve Echoes |
| Wine Guardian Onirica |
| Winteria Winteria |
| Within the Ruins Black Heart |
| Woe Unto Me Spiral-Shaped Hopewreck |
| Wyrmwoods No Sun nor Moon |
| Xaon Solipsis |
| Xaon The Lethean |
| YNK Ynk |
| Zeal and Ardor Wake of a Nation |
| 3.0 good |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| A-Z A-Z |
| Aaru SWNPL |
| Aeons Consequences |
| Aeronwen Aeronwen |
| Agora (MEX) Imperio |
| Alogia Semendria |
| Amiensus Abreaction |
| Ancient Curse The New Prophecy |
| Andromida Hellscape |
| Anti Clock Tower Tic Toc Turmoil |
| April Weeps Cataclastic |
| Arbrynth A Place of Buried Light |
| Arch Echo You Won't Believe What Happens Next! |
| Armed Cloud Master Device & Slave Machines |
| Aronious Irkalla |
| Ashes in Sapphire From Twilight to Light |
| Asian Death Crustacean Baikal |
| Assignment Assimilation |
| Astrosaur Fade In // Space Out |
| At the Gates The Nightmare of Being |
| Atomic Symphony Redemption |
| Aura (ITA) Underwater |
| Avandra Descender |
| Avandra Skylighting |
| Avandra Prodigal |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold |
| Ayreon Transitus |
| Azusa Loop of Yesterdays |
| Band from the Fog Song from the Fog |
| Barishi Old Smoke |
| Before I Turn Lovelorn |
| Behold... The Arctopus Hapeleptic Overtrove |
| Betriastellar Cosmic Fertilization |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Biledriver Let the Sun Swallow All |
| Blind Illusion Wrath of the Gods |
| Buried Realm Buried Realm |
| Catalán First Stop Station |
| Cathexis Untethered Abyss |
| Chaos Divine Legacies |
| Chaosbay Boxes |
| CHON Homey |
| Chronicles The Forest |
| Circle of Sighs Narci |
| Clayshaper Vampiric |
| Clayshaper Celestian |
| Compass Theory of Tides |
| Contrarian Predestined |
| Contrarian Sage of Shekhinah |
| Cosmic Egg Unseen Forces |
| This is very pleasant instrumental progressive metal / post rock with great musical fundamentals. I wish I could give this a higher score but it is really too simple and too short. |
| Cosmic Rain Heliopolis |
| Crusade (USA) Rising Visionary |
| Cynic The Portal Tapes |
| Dan Johansen Realm in the Sky |
From the standpoint of technical musicianship, this album is pretty much an 8/10 or higher. However, the songwriting here, while melodic and fun to listen to, is a bit samey. If we could get more variety on the aesthetic and soundscape-front, as well as on the song structure / song length front, this artist has a lot more potential.
Update: If you are an active (rather than passive) listener, this album is a slog to get through. |
| Dante Winter |
| Dark Millennium Where Oceans Collide |
| Defecto Duality |
| Descend Through the Eyes of the Burdened |
| Descend Wither |
| Device Device |
| Devin Townsend Snuggles |
| Devin Townsend Physicist |
| Devin Townsend The Puzzle |
| Devin Townsend Project Z2 |
| This is more Devin Townsend than almost anybody wanted to ask for. This is good content spread too thin, making it a hell of a chore to listen through in one sitting. |
| Diminished Empires The Dawn of Failure |
| Dir En Grey The Insulated World |
| Dirge (FR) Lost Empyrean |
| Disillusion Gloria |
| Distorted Harmony Chain Reaction |
| Distorted Harmony A Way Out |
| Disturbed Immortalized |
| Disturbed Believe |
| Disturbed Asylum |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos |
| Egor Lappo Trancevoicer |
| Egor Lappo Naturealism |
| Electroqute Caution |
| Elegy (RUS) Graveflowers |
| Elegy of Madness XI |
| Ellimist Ellimist |
| Emetropia Equinox |
| Enhalo The Great Dying |
| Entheogen (BEL) Other World |
| Erebe Aeon |
| Eternal Storm A Giant Bound to Fall |
| Evergrey The Atlantic |
| Eyes Fly Eyes Fly |
| Fates Warning Night on Brocken |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts |
| Flub Flub |
| Fragment Soul Axiom Of Choice |
| Frakhtal Plima |
| Fughu Lost Connection |
| Ghost (SWE) Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic |
| Ghost of Echoes Resonance |
| Giant Walker All in Good Time |
| Giant's Knife Oracle |
| Gracchus What's the Difference? |
| Grafting the Vine Golden Gate |
| Grafting the Vine Creator Part II |
| Green Day ¡UNO! |
| Grottberg STUM |
| Guild of Others Guild of Others |
| Hanging Garden (US-NY) The God That Made Them Bow |
| Haxprocess The Caverns Of Duat |
| I am not one to reward plagiarism. Opeth is also one of my favorite bands, if not my favorite, however, the extent to which they just copy actual riffs and compositions (aside from the general style they exclude) from Opeth is gratuitous. |
| Hellbore Panopticon |
| HESKEN Architect of Chaos |
| Hexed Pagans Rising |
| Hollow Decay The Frozen Trail |
| Horrified (UK) Sentinel |
| Horrified would be a lot better if they got a new vocalist, but the rest of the instrumentals were very good. |
| Huracan We Are Very Happy |
| I Am Not I Am Not |
| I Built the Sky The Zenith Rise |
| In the Woods... Diversum |
| Interloper Search Party |
| Intruder Incorporated Mutilated Womb |
| Iravu A Fate Worse than Home |
| Irist Order Of The Mind |
| Iron Maiden Senjutsu |
| Izthmi Leaving This World, Leaving It All Behind |
| Jacob Wolfe Barky Carnation EP |
| Jakub Zytecki Nothing Lasts, Nothing's Lost |
| Jet Engine Dragons Ronin |
| Jinjer Macro |
| Katatonia Sky Void of Stars |
| Keor Hive Mind |
| Khabal The Divine Deception |
| Kirk Hammett Portals |
| Korn The Serenity of Suffering |
| Kosm Vacancies |
| Lastera From The Ashes |
| Leecher Deviant |
| Lord Dying Poisoned Altars |
| Lord Dying Clandestine Transcendence |
| Lucy in Blue In Flight |
| Lysjakt Ethereal Palace |
| Mastodon Call of the Mastodon |
| Mindpatrol Monster |
| Mindwork Cortex |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet |
| Modern Day Babylon Coma |
| Monolith Zero Monolith Zero |
| Moon Destroys Maiden Voyage |
| Moon Tooth Crux |
| Morrayglossus Earthcore |
| Mortify (CHL) Fragments at the Edge of Sorrow |
| I would have enjoyed this a lot more if there was more melody to latch onto. Otherwise, it sounds a bit like well-produced, technical death metal chaos. |
| Mothman and the Thunderbirds Into the Hollow |
| Myrkul The Wayward Path |
| Negura Bunget Zău |
| Nero di Marte Immoto |
| Neurotic Machinery A Loathsome Aberration |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| No Ostriches N.O. II |
| Not Another Prayer Viscious Circle |
| Notochord Aegis |
| Novanima Origins |
| Oak Pantheon The Absence |
| Observers The Age of the Machine Entities |
| Oceans of Slumber Starlight and Ash |
| Oceill Oceill |
| Odd Dimension The Blue Dawn |
| Pain of Salvation Road Salt One |
| Palehørse Palehørse |
| Palehørse Hunting Grounds |
| Patrons Of The Rotting Gate Bathed In Ash |
| Pelican Nighttime Stories |
| Pentral What Lies Ahead Of Us |
| Perihelion (HU) Agg |
| Perpetual Night Aconitum |
| Pharaoh The Powers That Be |
| Phase IV Phase IV |
| Phase Meridian Grow. Decay. Transform. |
| Philosophobia Philosophobia |
| Phlebotomized Pain, Resistance, Suffering |
| Phonopaths Sandwich, Ducks and Dishwasher |
| Pollen (CHE) Mutualism |
| Pollen (CHE) Uncanny Valley |
| Poppy I Disagree |
| Potmos Hetoimos Vox Medusae |
| Pryne Gargantuan |
| Råte Where the Past and the Future Collide |
| Rejuvenation Crystalline |
| Reviver (NETH) A Thousand Lives |
| Rick Massie Guided to an Imperfect Light |
| Rings of Saturn Rings of Saturn |
| Riverside Voices In My Head |
| Royal Hunt Cast in Stone |
| Sadist Firescorched |
| Progressive old school death metal stuff is quite pleasant to hear in this quality in 2022. |
| SAVE THIS UTILITY 亡失 Deprivation |
| Scale the Summit Subjects |
| Scarcity Aveilut |
| Sculptured The Liminal Phase |
| Seeking Tragedy Entropy |
| Seversun Headlong Through Blood |
| Seyr 27 Million |
| Sinverse Cosmic Poetry |
| Sithu Aye Senpai III |
| Skybound Cerebral Fountain |
| Slaegt Goddess |
| Soen Memorial |
| Soldat Hans es taut |
| Sonder (Canada) Dusk |
| Sordid Pink Sordid Pink |
| Soul Secret Blue Light Cage |
| This is a Dream Theater clone band that made a solid album by stealing most of their compositional themes from another band. All else considered, its pretty decent. |
| Spotlights Love and Decay |
| Steve Vai Inviolate |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion |
| Strawberry Girls Tasmanian Glow |
| Sunrise Equilibria |
| Syk (ITA) Pyramiden |
| Takatak Acrophase |
| The Chemical Mind That Benign Terror |
| The Conjuration The Silent Opera |
| The Conjuration Gospel |
| The Dali Thundering Concept All Mighty Men - Drifting Through a Prosthetic Era |
| The Faceless Hunter One Minute to Midnight |
| The Fae Books with Maps: Vol. I |
| The Neal Morse Band Innocence & Danger |
| The World Without Us Incarnate |
| Theo Young Tales from the Inland Sea |
| Thrailkill Detach |
| Tool Undertow |
| Unprocessed Artificial Void |
| Vampire Squid Reinventing the Eel |
| Vauruva Por Nós da Ventania |
| Vögel Kallið |
| Veil of Conspiracy Me, Us and Them |
| Vilem The Fool |
| Vinsta Drei Deita |
| Virocracy Ecophagia |
| Void Dancer Prone Burial |
| Vokyl Вторите седем |
| Voldt Vandalism |
| Without Waves Comedian |
| Xavier Boscher Skyscapes |
| Yakuza Sutra |
| This album was really nice. I very much got into the longer jam sessions and I thought the vocals and overall eerie ambiance is well done. This is on the border of a 3 and a 3.5 for me but I've rated a couple of better albums a 3, so this one is subsequently a very good 3/5. |
| Yumi Sakata The Inner Monomyth |
| Zero Hour Agenda 21 |
| I like prog metal, but this was generally fairly unenjoyable. I'm giving them extra points for being technically and sonically tight. |
| Zo Red Sky |
