| 5 classic |
| Alcest Souvenirs d'un autre Monde |
| Amesoeurs Ruines Humaines |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death |
| Burzum Burzum/Aske |
| Cydonia Cydonia |
| Darkthrone A Blaze In the Northern Sky |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum |
| Die Verbannten Kinder Evas Dusk And Void Became Alive |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse |
| Enslaved Isa |
| Evoken Antithesis of Light |
| Godflesh Streetcleaner |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F# A# ∞ |
| Hypocrisy Hypocrisy |
| By far one of the best melodic death metal records ever released, Hypocrisy is a pure ballistic assault of punishing riffs, wicked guitar solos, beautiful keyboard melodies, perfectly executed vocals, a great variety of accessible tracks, and all around perfect musicianship at its best. With music and vocals that shine in influences of symphonic black metal, thrash, and brutal death metal, the album can easily be listened too by anyone who can stand harsh vocals and is highly recommended for fans of Soilwork, (old) Dimmu Borgir, (Clayman days) In Flames, Bloodbath, Opeth, and Dark Tranquility. Another thing to note about the band is their extremely controversial lyrics. Hypocrisy are definitely original in both their music and lyrical content, and have yet to release an album that hasnt displeased me in the least. |
| In Flames Whoracle |
| In The Woods... Omnio |
| Isis Oceanic |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Kamelot Epica |
| Lurker Of Chalice Lurker Of Chalice |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood |
| Nevermore Dreaming Neon Black |
| Nokturnal Mortum Goat Horns |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) |
| With this album, every single song streams with perfection as the riffs, bass lines, arabic chants, tribal drums, lyrics (regarding the story of Noahs Ark), and vocals (both male and female) in both English and Islamic dominate the album. I also consider this the best concept album I have ever heard, along with the best death metal releases of 2004. Even the filler tracks are worth listening too on the album, along with each separate track as they go through the story of Noah and his ark, finally ending with powerful epic track The Storm Still Rages Inside, which is then followed by a calm closer ending one of the best musical experiences I have ever heard. |
| Paysage d'Hiver Paysage d'Hiver |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime |
| Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| Solefald Neonism |
| Sonic Youth Sonic Youth |
| Summoning Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame |
| Tenhi Kauan |
| Theatre Of Tragedy Velvet Darkness They Fear |
| Ulver Bergtatt |
| Urfaust Verräterischer, Nichtswürdiger Geist |
| 4.5 superb |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| A Perfect Circle aMOTION |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Ahab Call Of The Wretched Sea |
| Ani DiFranco Dilate |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence |
| Basilisk A Joyless March Through The Cold-Lands |
| Bathory Hammerheart |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh |
| Botch We Are The Romans |
| BoySetsFire The Misery Index: Notes from the plague years |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Children Of Bodom Follow the Reaper |
| Chimaira Impossiblity of Reason |
| Chumbawumba Tubthumper |
| City Of Caterpillar City Of Caterpillar |
| Converge Petitioning The Empty Sky |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast |
| Cradle of Filth Midian |
| Dark Tranquillity Exposures: In Retrospect And Denial |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs |
| David Bowie The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust... |
| Deathspell Omega Kenose |
| Demon Hunter The Triptych |
| diSEMBOWELMENT diSEMBOWELMENT |
| Dissection The Somberlain |
| dredg El Cielo |
| Elend Les Tenebres du Dehors |
| Eluveitie Ven |
| Eluveitie Spirit |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
| Emperor Scattered Ashes: Decade of Emperial Wrath |
| Evoken Quietus |
| Faith No More King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime |
| Garbage Garbage |
| Godflesh Selfless |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To |
| Gojira From Mars To Sirius |
| Grey Skies Fallen The Fate Of Angels |
| Grey Skies Fallen Tomorrow's In Doubt |
| Hypocrisy Virus |
| In Flames Clayman |
| Isis Panopticon |
| Jack's Mannequin Everything In Transit |
| Jesu Jesu |
| Katatonia Brave Yester Days |
| Katatonia Last Fair Deal Gone Down |
| Kidcrash Jokes |
| Korn Follow The Leader |
| Lacuna Coil In A Reverie |
| Lacuna Coil Half-Life EP |
| Leviathan Tentacles of Whorror |
| Leviathan Howl Mockery At The Cross |
| Marilyn Manson Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death) |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible |
| Moonsorrow V: Havitetty |
| Mortifera Vastiia Tenebrd Mortifera |
| Mushroomhead XIII |
| Nachtmystium Instinct: Decay |
| Nasum Human 2.0 |
| Neurosis Times of Grace |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising |
| Nevermore This Godless Endeavor |
| Nile Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka |
| Nokturnal Mortum Lunar Poetry |
| Old Man's Child Vermin |
| Peste Noire La Sanie des siecles - Panegyrique de la |
| Pitchshifter Industrial |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Queensryche Empire |
| Ruumisvaunut Kuollut |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress |
| Sigh Infidel Art |
| Sigh Hangman's Hymn |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| Soilwork Natural Born Chaos |
| Solefald The Linear Scaffold |
| Solefald Pills Against The Ageless Ills |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation |
| Summoning Dol Guldur |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Tenhi Maaaet |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| Probably one of my favorite albums released in 2004, The Dillinger Escape Plan have created a near perfect masterpiece with their new album Miss Machine. Being the most pure definition of the popularly argued sub genre of grind and metalcore, mathcore, that I could find, the album proves that learning math in school can really be beneficial to a musician. With constant and ever changing riffs, time signatures, psychotic screeching, hardly decipherable lyrics, and pure chaos all around, this album is not for the typical listener. The only downside I could find in this album was the lack of variety amongst a lot of the heavy parts and the fact that it is rather short. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Distillers The Distillers |
| The Lust I Seek Serpent Scripts |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel |
| The Third and the Mortal Tears Laid In Earth |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Urfaust Geist Ist Teufel |
| Weakling Dead as Dreams |
| Windir 1184 |
| Wintersun Wintersun |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars |
| 4 excellent |
| 1000 Funerals Portrait Of A Dream |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Alcest Le Secret EP |
| All Shall Perish The Price Of Existence |
| Ani DiFranco Evolve |
| At the Drive-In This Station is Non-Operational |
| Atheist Piece of Time |
| Basilisk Blackened Royalty |
| Behemoth Demigod |
Behemoth, along with Nile, Bloodbath, and Hate Eternal, are my all time favorite brutal death metal bands. Having
started as a mediocre black metal band, Behemoth burst into the death metal scene, leaving a permanent mark on
the genre. Demigod is a perfect example of true brutal brutal brutal death. Every song is a nonstop onslaught
of vicious riffs with only some melodic breakdowns, and brutal, demonic roars from guitarist/ vocalist Nergal. The
only downsides to the album are the vocals in the fact that it is nearly impossible to understand anything Nergal
says even to the growl trained ear. Also, the enhanced CD music video for Conquer All came to me as a
disappointment because it is bluntly obvious that Nergal is lip sinking (which I hate when its done poorly). Aside
from those minor issues, Behemoth have an amazing album that is essential to any death metal collection. |
| Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends |
| Botch American Nervoso |
| BoySetsFire The Day The Sun Went Out |
| Burzum Filosofem |
| Burzum Hliðskjálf |
| Children Of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| The irony in me owning and complementing a Children Of Bodom album lies in the fact that I used to stereotype them for bad music because of their admittingly cheesy lyrics and rather unoriginal reaper album covers. The guitar work it beyond amazing, the drumming/ blast beats fit perfectly with the music. The vocals took a bit to grow on to me, cause the idea of power metal with black metal style vocals at first sounded absurd, but actually fit quite well when you get the concept. This band truly is a symbol of near perfection for any fan of power metal, good forms of metalcore, certain forms of black metal, and certain forms of melodic death metal. |
| Chimaira Chimaira |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine |
| Cradle of Filth Thornography |
| Cradle of Filth The Principle of Evil Made Flesh |
| Cynic Focus |
| Deathspell Omega Si Monumentum Requires Circumspice |
| Demon Hunter Summer Of Darkness |
| Dreams Of Dying Stars Stardance |
| This album is beautiful. Packed with 20 minute epics of psychedelic, ambient melodies that can lull a person into a state meloncholy equillibrium... or it can bring upon an atmosphere of devastating pressure and depression. The songs have very drug out feelings that actually do not get old one bit. The only downside to any thing on this CD is the unnessecary static used in Drowning In The Sun. Not for fans with little attention or lack of appreciation for depressingly slow progression. |
| dredg Catch Without Arms |
| Emiliana Torrini Fisherman's Woman |
| Emperor Wrath of the Tyrant |
| Enslaved Below the Lights |
| Evanescence Anywhere But Home |
| Furze UTD |
| Godflesh Pure |
| Godsmack Faceless |
| Grey Skies Fallen Two Way Mirror |
| Hypocrisy Abducted |
| Hypocrisy The Final Chapter |
| Hypocrisy The Arrival |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain |
| If you ask me, all the abuse this album gets by In Flames fans is bull-crap. The album is superb in dark melody while still delivering some fast and brutal death metal riffs. Sure they made a dramatic change after Clayman, but that does not mean that they no longer make good music. If you ask me, this album is actually a lot better then some of their previous album due to it's great variety in music and song structure. There are some songs I can understand death-heads to really hate (such as Metaphor and Dawn Of A New Day), but those songs just show In Flames developing a brooder style of music in which makes them always increasingly an amazing band. ONE WORD PEOPLE, DIFFERENTUALITY. |
| In Flames Come Clarity |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast |
| Isis In the Absence of Truth |
| Jack Off Jill Sexless Demons and Scars |
| Jesu Silver |
| Jesu Conqueror |
| Kamelot The Black Halo |
| Katatonia Tonight's Decision |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness |
| Kidcrash New Ruins |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing |
| Korn Greatest Hits Vol. 1 |
| Korn Korn |
| Korn Deuce DVD |
| Lacuna Coil Lacuna Coil EP |
| Lacuna Coil Unleashed Memories |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
| Leviathan The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide |
| Leviathan The Blind Wound |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| Mayhem Ordo Ab Chao |
| Mechina The Assembly of Tyrants |
| Mnemic Mechanical Spin Phenomena |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 |
| Mushroomhead XX |
| Nachtmystium Demise |
| Negura Bunget 'N Crugu Bradului |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun |
| Nevermore Dead Heart In A Dead World |
| Nile Annihilation of the Wicked |
| Nokturnal Mortum Weltanschauung |
| Nokturnal Mortum To the Gates of Blasphemous Fire |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Paysage d'Hiver Kerker |
| Peste Noire Lorraine Rehearsal LP |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Rob Zombie Past, Present & Future |
| Samael Reign Of Light |
| Samael Era One & Lesson In Magic #1 |
| Saosin Translating The Name (Death Do Us Part) |
| Scar Symmetry Symmetric In Design |
| Sigur Ros Ágætis Byrjun |
| Six Feet Under 13 |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Grand Opening and Closing |
| Slowdive Souvlaki |
| Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot |
| Soilwork A Predator's Portrait |
| Solefald In Harmonia Universali |
| Stolen Babies There Be Squabbles Ahead |
| A most unique album for the most unique of metal heads. These poppy, strange, and brilliant musicians managed to create an album of pure neurotic psychosis! Imagine Neonism era Solefald fronted by a fiesty female vocalist and playing occasional evil circus music. Stolen Babies is much like their fellow The End bands Unexpect and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, only 3x better at songwriting. Every song has powerful oddball instrument dynamics and carry unique, thick atmospheres that personally scared me at first. The frontwoman has a very powerful, scrachy scream but backs it up with an equally powerful, beautiful singing voice. This album will surely leave a mark on all who listen to it with an open mind (or not). |
| Strapping Young Lad City |
| Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad |
| Summoning Oath Bound |
| Sunn O))) Black One |
| Swans Filth |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| The Absence From Your Grave |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is A Dead Scene |
| The Distillers Sing, Sing Death House |
| The Lust I Seek Ancient [EP] |
| Tool Aenima |
| Torchbearer Warnaments |
| Twilight Twilight |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal |
| Until Death Overtakes Me Symphony II: Absence Of Life |
| This album is DARK. Set aside the fact that a lot of it is droneing death doom ambience, the album has a very dynamic and captivating feature to it, it's very moody and depressing as hell. The only downside is the song In The Mist, which is literally 16 minutes of white noise with some strange sampling. The true stand out on this album is This Dark Day, which opens us into Until Death Overtakes Me's dark world. |
| Vinterriket Winterschatten |
| Vinterriket Landschaftsmalerische Klangwelten synthe |
| Watain Sworn to The Dark |
| Xasthur Xasthur/Leviathan Split |
| 3.5 great |
| Amorphis Far From The Sun |
| Ani DiFranco Reprieve |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine |
| Between The Buried And Me Alaska |
| Bif Naked Superbeautifulmonster |
| BoySetsFire Tomorrow come today |
| Children Of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| Coal Chamber Coal Chamber |
| Coheed and Cambria Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV... |
| Cradle of Filth Vempire/ Dark Faerytales in Phallustein |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
| Demon Hunter Demon Hunter |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand |
| This is something that has left me very confused. How could an album like this be consider anything below maybe a 3.5? It has great guitar riffs, strong bass lines, great drumming and blast beats, and overall not so bad vocals. The atmosphere of the whole album has a very unique feel aswell. It is in my opinion that anyone who truly dislikes this album has not even heard it, or has and was just unable to accept the fact that this band can actually be worth a damn. Regarding my statement long past about this band being death metal was rather dumb and off, but not entirely true. Is it as good as real melodic death metal? Certainly not, but that doesnt mean the band is bad in anyway. |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Songs to Learn and Sing |
| Emperor As the Shadows Rise EP |
| Evanescence The Open Door |
| Evanescence Fallen |
| Feist The Reminder |
| God Forbid IV: Constitution of Treason |
| Godsmack IV |
| Godsmack Awake |
| Havohej Dethrone the Son of God |
| Hypocrisy Into The Abyss |
| Hypocrisy Catch 22 |
| Catch 22 is a departure from Hypocrisys normal death metal style and takes on an almost nu-metal outfit. But dont let that make you sell this album short. Although the lyrics and song structure derive from the nu-metal genre, Hypocrisy still manage to keep their unique sound. The album was originally made for he soul purpose of releasing the band members inner anger. The album has some very catchy tunes, and is more in the lines of Soilworks form of melodic death metal then the dark, symphonic, and black metalish music style that Hypocrisy originally established a name for with their s/t classic 6th album. |
| I Shalt Become Wanderings |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness |
Black metal lost one of its greatest players when Immortal broke up not long after their 2003 release Sons Of
Northern Darkness. Immortal, though not the most purest of black metal, deliver some punishing riffs and dark
verses in their near perfect masterpiece farewell album. With some outstanding guitar riffs, amazing drum work,
and above par vocals, the only downside to the album is the guitar tone, which gets rather repetitive after awhile. I
have yet to hear any more of Immortal, but after listening to this album, I am anxious to get another one. |
| In Flames Colony |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death |
| Isis Celestial |
| Isis Oceanic: Remixes And Reinterpretations |
| Jack Off Jill Clear Hearts Grey Flowers |
| Kamelot Ghost Opera |
| Kataklysm In The Arms Of Devastation |
| Kidneythieves Zerospace |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage: Remastered Bonus Tracks |
| Korn Take A Look in the Mirror |
| Korn Untouchables |
| Lacuna Coil Comalies |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar |
| Marilyn Manson The Golden Age Of Grotesque |
| Mastodon Remission |
| Mnemic The Audio Injected Soul |
| Mushroomhead Savior Sorrow |
| Nachtmystium Reign of the Malicious |
| Neun Welten Valg EP |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets |
| Nevermore In Memory |
| Nevermore Enemies Of Reality |
| Novembers Doom The Novella Reservoir |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Paysage d'Hiver Nacht |
| Pixies Bossanova |
| Porcupine Tree Warszawa |
| Porcupine Tree Fear Of A Blank Planet |
| Scarling. So Long, Scarecrow |
| Shadows Fall The War Within |
| Sigur Ros Takk |
| Soilwork Stabbing the Drama |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black |
| The Distillers Coral Fang |
| The Haunted The Haunted |
| The Meads of Asphodel Exhuming the Grave of Yeshua |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosey Red Glasses |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Torchbearer Yersinia Pestis |
| Tristania Ashes |
| Until Death Overtakes Me Symphony I: Deep Dark Red |
| Vader The Art of War |
| Vader Black to the Blind |
