| 4.5 superb |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Alkaloid The Malkuth Grimoire |
The greatest tech death album ever released? Potentially. Unlike rivals Obscura, the music here is
much greater than the sum talent of its musicians. |
| Allegaeon Formshifter |
| Allegaeon Fragments of Form and Function |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Arcturus Arcturian |
| Ascariasis Ocean of Colour |
| Aspid Extravasation |
| Astral Blood Astral Blood |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul |
| Atheist Elements |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places |
| Ayreon The Human Equation |
| Bathory Twilight of the Gods |
| Battlecross War of Will |
| Not falling into a sophomore slump, Battlecross maintain their signature style of thrash/melodic death metal while adding enough variation and surprises to keep War of Will interesting. |
| Battlecross Pursuit of Honor |
| A refreshingly good debut album, Battlecross take the best of thrash and death metal and have created a fun, energizing, yet relentless album. This is a must-listen for any fan of extreme metal. |
| Behemoth Demigod |
| Behemoth The Apostasy |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
As much black metal as it is death metal, The Satanist is Nergal's proof that nearly
dying only strengthened his resolve and ability to create truly brutal music.
ANEGLUS SATANI! |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| I used to think Colors was better, but this grew on me. A much more mature release overall. |
| Beyond Creation The Aura |
| Beyond Creation Earthborn Evolution |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn |
| Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Camel Camel |
| Camel Moonmadness |
| Carcass Surgical Steel |
| Carcass Heartwork |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild |
| Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Crow Black Sky Pantheion |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile |
| Cynic Focus |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Danny Elfman The Nightmare Before Christmas |
| Dark Funeral Teach Children to Worship Satan |
| Dark Funeral Diabolis Interium |
| Darkspace Dark Space III I |
| Dark 4.20: Cosmic Blazing |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns |
| Death Human |
| The 2011 re-release has made this album a true masterpiece. All the instruments sound perfect, and the stellar bass performance given by Steve DiGiorgio is now audible. |
| Death Symbolic |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum |
| Deathspell Omega Drought |
| Decapitated Nihility |
| Decrepit Birth Diminishing Between Worlds |
| Decrepit Birth Polarity |
| Deep Purple Machine Head |
| Demolition Hammer Epidemic of Violence |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech |
| Devin Townsend Terria |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient |
| Devin Townsend Project European Tour |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| Devin Townsend Project Contain Us |
The first disc consists of great bonus tracks that are similar to one of each of the four DTP
albums, while the second disc is a bunch of demos from each album. There are also a few
silly tracks including what I perceived as Devy's attempt at hardcore punk and a hip-hop
track done by Devin and Deconstruction drummer Dirk Verbeuren. |
| Devin Townsend Project By A Thread: Live in London 2011 |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud |
| Epicloud is just simply epic. HevyDevy returns with a masterpiece that could easily go down as the best album of 2012. Combining his signature metal elements with new musical theatrics, Devin Townsend has presented us with yet another mindblowing album. |
| Dissection The Somberlain |
| Dodheimsgard A Umbra Omega |
| Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| Dream Theater Images and Words |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
| Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire... |
| Emperor Live Inferno |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum |
| Enslaved The Sleeping Gods |
| Enslaved Vertebrae |
| Enslaved Ruun |
| Enslaved Isa |
| Enslaved Hordanes Land |
| Enslaved Frost |
| Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi |
| Enslaved Below the Lights |
| Enslaved E |
| Enslaved: "how many levels of GOOD 70s prog worship are you on" Opeth: "idk like 3 or 4" Enslaved: "you are like little baby, watch this" |
| Enslaved Utgard |
| Enslaved Heimdal |
| Fallujah The Harvest Wombs |
| Fallujah Nomadic |
| Finntroll Nifelvind |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Labyrinth |
| Fleurety Min Tid Skal Komme |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats |
| Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Sol Niger Within V3.33 |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Gorguts Obscura |
| Gorguts Colored Sands |
| Haken Aquarius |
| Haken Visions |
| Hoth Oathbreaker |
| Ihsahn angL |
Ihsahn's second solo offering declines in quality slightly from The Adversary, but is still
and exceptional album. |
| Ihsahn The Adversary |
| Eclectic mix of prog metal, black metal, classic metal, and symphonic metal, with some thrash and death metal influences as well. The heaviest of Ihsahn's first three albums. |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness |
| Intervals In Time |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time |
| Ivar Bjornson and Einar Selvik Skuggsja: A Piece for Mind & Mirror |
| Ivar Bjornson and Einar Selvik Hugsjá |
Rather than the pretty even split between Enslaved and Wardruna that was Skuggsja, this second
collaboration from the Norwegian duo is much more akin to the latter band (albeit with a drum kit,
acoustic guitar, and some electric guitar as well).
While no Wardruna clone, Einar Selvik's haunting vocals are still the star of the record. The
world could always use more of his voice, right? |
| Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith |
| Kalisia Cybion |
| Kalmah Swamplord |
| Kalmah They Will Return |
| Kampfar Mellom Skogkledde Aaser |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
| King Diamond Abigail |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Leprous The Congregation |
| Lost Ubikyst in Apeiron Abstruse Imbeciles Nailed on Slavery |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No14 C-sharp minor,Op.27No2 |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Mercyful Fate Melissa |
| Meshuggah Alive |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Meshuggah Nothing (Re-Release) |
| Meshuggah I |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
Meshuggah attempted to create an organic album and they have succeeded. Koloss sounds like
it came from the heart of an ancient temple at the depths of a dark jungle. This album
proves that Meshuggah are an ancient alien species whose only purpose is to mindfuck the
human race. |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Moonlight Sorcery Piercing Through the Frozen Eternity |
| Morbid Angel Blessed Are the Sick |
| Morbid Saint Spectrum of Death |
| Muse Absolution |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I |
| Necrophagist Epitaph |
| Nokturnal Mortum Lunar Poetry |
| Nokturnal Mortum's second long-length demo proved that they were already ahead of the rest of the NSBM scene in terms of musical and songwriting abilities. Lunar Poetry is a symphonic black metal assault that features folk keyboard melodies, ambient elements, and guitar solos of a caliber not found in most black metal. |
| Nokturnal Mortum The Voice of Steel |
| Obliteration Nekropsalms |
| Obscura Omnivium |
| Obsequiae Aria of Vernal Tombs |
| Panopticon Kentucky |
| Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness |
| Yet another stellar album from Austin Lunn. Part I isn't too different from past black metal material, but still manages to stay fresh. Part II puts bluegrass, Americana, and post-rock in a blender to create something wholly unique, even when compared to the straight folk songs from Kentucky and Roads. |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light |
| Panopticon The Rime of Memory |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Protest the Hero Volition |
| Queen Queen II |
| Queen A Night at the Opera |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Rainbow Rising |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name |
| Rush Moving Pictures |
| Rush A Farewell to Kings |
| Rush 2112 |
| Rush Permanent Waves |
| Sabaton Carolus Rex |
| Although there is a lack of the WWII-based lyrics that Sabaton do best, this could easily qualify for Sabaton's strongest album musically. |
| Sabaton Carolus Rex (Swedish Version) |
| Saor Aura |
| Septicflesh The Great Mass |
| Shadow Of Intent Primordial |
| Singularity (USA-AZ) Singularity |
| Singularity manage to fuse technical death metal with the vocals and atmospheric keyboards of black metal, in a way that has been attempted but never executed so well before. |
| Slayer Hell Awaits |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss |
| Slugdge Esoteric Malacology |
| Sodom Agent Orange |
| Sodom M-16 |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger |
| Spawn of Possession Cabinet |
| Spawn of Possession Noctambulant |
| Stormkeep Galdrum |
| Stormkeep Tales of Othertime |
| Summoning Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame |
| Summoning Stronghold |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost |
| Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite |
| Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy |
| Taake Noregs Vaapen |
| Taake Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik |
| Taake Nattestid Ser Porten Vid |
| Tchornobog Tchornobog |
| Testament The Formation of Damnation |
| Testament Dark Roots of Earth |
| Testament return with an album surpassing even the superb The Formation of Damnation. Fast, rthrashy riffs mix with Chuck Billy's excellent mix of harsh and clean vocals to create a rnear-perfect thrash metal album. The return of Gene Hoglan on the drums makes the album even rbetter, his blast beats taking the band to the verge of being death metal. A definite rcontender for the best metal album of 2012. |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation |
| The Faceless Akeldama |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tool Ænima |
| Transcending Bizarre? The Serpent's Manifolds |
| Turisas The Varangian Way |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar |
| Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium |
| Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire |
| Ved Buens Ende Written In Waters |
| Vektor Black Future |
| Vektor Outer Isolation |
| Vektor Terminal Redux |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden |
While most bands in the djent genre are bad ripoffs of Meshuggah, Vildhjarta create
interesting atmospheres along with original and exciting riffs to make an impressive debut
album. Expect greater things from this band in the future. |
| Windir Arntor |
| Wintersun Time I |
| With this release Jari has exchanged most of the speed, ferocity, and heaviness the first ralbum had for epicness and atmosphere. It should be noted that since this is only the first rhalf of 'Time', there may be much more in store for us next year. With that being said, the ralbum is still great, "Sons of Winter and Stars" being the strongest track. While not what rmost fans were expecting and a slight disappointment, we should wait for 'Time II' before we rgive our full opinion of the album we've been waiting for. |
| Within the Ruins Phenomena |
| xSPONGEXCOREx How Tough Are Yah? |
| Yes Close to the Edge |
| 4.0 excellent |
| Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns |
| Abominable Putridity The Anomalies of Artificial Origin |
| Acid Bath When the Kite String Pops |
| Aether Realm Odin Will Provide |
| Aether Realm One Chosen By The Gods |
| An impressive debut, Aether Realm prove that the genre of folk metal is still alive and well. Technical solos and great riffs are aplenty throughout this album, and there is sure to be much more to expect from this band in the years to come. |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Al Di Meola Elegant Gypsy |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| All Shall Perish This Is Where It Ends |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising |
| Amon Amarth The Crusher |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders |
| Archspire The Lucid Collective |
| Arcturus La Masquerade Infernale |
| Arcturus Aspera Hiems Symfonia |
| Arcturus The Sham Mirrors |
| Arcturus Sideshow Symphonies |
| Artillery By Inheritance |
| Atheist Jupiter |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence |
| Atheist Piece of Time |
| Atoma Skylight |
| Audioslave Audioslave |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| Autopsy Severed Survival |
| BardSpec Hydrogen |
| Baroness Blue Record |
| Baroness Red Album |
| Bathory Bathory |
| Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death |
| Bathory Blood on Ice |
| Battlecross Rise to Power |
| Behemoth Evangelion |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Black Crown Initiate The Wreckage of Stars |
| Black Crown Initiate Song of the Crippled Bull |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath 13 |
| Blaze of Sorrow Vultus Fati |
| Blind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Side |
| Blood Incantation Interdimensional Extinction |
| Blotted Science The Animation of Entomology |
| Borknagar Borknagar |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
| Boston Boston |
| Brought By Pain The Dreamer's Will |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var |
| Camel The Snow Goose |
| Cannibal Corpse Torture |
| Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain |
| Carach Angren Lammendam |
| Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious |
| Carcass Symphonies of Sickness |
| Cattle Decapitation The Harvest Floor |
| Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction |
| Not as dynamic or hard-hitting as Monolith, but still a great release. 'Pacific Grim' is one of their best tracks to date. |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| Children of Bodom Tokyo Warhearts |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? |
| Children of Bodom Halo of Blood |
| Chris Cornell Songbook |
| Christian Muenzner Timewarp |
| Control Denied The Fragile Art of Existence |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us |
Eat your hearts out Periphery and other "progressive metal" bands. You wish you could create
music with songwriting half as good as this. EDIT: Looks like my inital soundoff was too
opinionated. My apologies djentfags. Needs another listen. |
| Dan Swano Moontower |
| Dark Angel Darkness Descends |
| Dark Funeral The Secrets of the Black Arts |
| Dark Funeral Vobiscum Satanas |
| Darkspace Dark Space III |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon |
| Darkthrone Soulside Journey |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance |
| If you shared my opinion of being unimpressed by this album upon hearing it the first time, this is definitely a grower. A very solid album, I expect to like it even more with repeated listens. |
| Dead in the Manger Cessation |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda |
| Death Live in L.A.: Death & Raw |
| Death Spiritual Healing |
| Death Leprosy |
| Death Angel The Ultra-Violence |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part I: Niggas on the Moon |
| Deathspell Omega Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum |
| Deathspell Omega Mass Grave Aesthetics |
| Deathspell Omega Si Monvmentvm Reqvires Circvmspice |
| Deathspell Omega Kenose |
| Decapitated Winds of Creation |
| Decapitated Carnival Is Forever |
| Decrepit Birth ...And Time Begins |
| Demolition Hammer Tortured Existence |
| Destroyer 666 Cold Steel...for an Iron Age |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II |
| Dethklok The Doomstar Requiem |
| Devin Townsend Physicist |
| Devin Townsend Infinity |
| Devin Townsend Unplugged |
| Devin Townsend Project Z2 |
| Devin Townsend Project Epiclouder |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence |
| Diamond Head Lightning to the Nations |
| Diskreet Engage the Mechanicality |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone |
| Eluveitie Slania |
| Emperor Reverence |
| Emperor Emperor |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium |
| Ensiferum Victory Songs |
| Ensiferum Iron |
| Ensiferum From Afar |
| Enslaved Thorn |
| Enslaved Eld |
| Although it pales in comparison to most of the Enslaved albums that came before and after it, Eld is still an impressive work of black/viking metal that foreshadowed the full-on progressive route Enslaved would take in the future. |
| Enslaved Blodhemn |
| Enslaved Mardraum - Beyond the Within |
| Enslaved Monumension |
| Enslaved Yggdrasil |
| Despite having some of the worst production of early Norwegian black metal, this demo clearly shows that Enslaved were already ahead of their peers in terms of experimentation and songwriting ability. Considering that main composer Ivar Bjornson was only 15 at the time of recording makes this an even more impressive feat. |
| Enslaved The Sleeping Gods – Thorn |
| Enslaved Roadburn Live |
| Enslaved Caravans to the Outer Worlds |
| Epica The Divine Conspiracy |
| Epica The Phantom Agony |
| Epica Design Your Universe |
| Epica Requiem for the Indifferent |
| Epica The Quantum Enigma |
| Ereb Altor By Honour |
| Falls of Rauros The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood |
| Finntroll Ur Jordens Djup |
| Finntroll Trollhammaren |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Mafia |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony |
| Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Sol Niger Within |
| Full of Hell and Merzbow Full of Hell and Merzbow |
| Garry Schyman Bioshock Score |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam |
| Ghost return with a fantastic album fitting for the rise of the Antichrist. The band has experimented more, adding choirs and a more liberal use of the keyboard. Standout tracks are Infestissumam/Per Aspera Ad Inferi, Secular Haze, Ghuleh/Zombie Queen, Year Zero, and Monstrance Clock. |
| Ghost (SWE) If You Have Ghost |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage |
| While not as impressive as it's preceding album, L'Enfant Sauvage proves that the French metal titans are still at the top of their game. This is definitely a 2012 album worth listening to. |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity |
| Gorguts Considered Dead |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate |
| Green Carnation Light of Day, Day of Darkness |
| Gustav Holst The Planets, Op. 32 |
| Hannes Grossmann The Radial Covenant |
| Hawkwind Warrior on the Edge of Time |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know |
| Herrschaft Tesla |
| Holy Grail Crisis In Utopia |
| I Between Two Worlds |
| Iced Earth The Blessed and the Damned |
| Iced Earth Something Wicked This Way Comes |
| Ihsahn Eremita |
| While this album isn't as great as Ihsahn's previous effort "After," he has still crafted a unique and diverse album with "Eremita." The overall style is extreme progressive metal, yet the black metal and jazz elements seen in his previous works are still present. If you enjoy Ihsahn's prior solo work then you should definitely give this a listen. |
| Ihsahn Das Seelenbrechen |
| Ihsahn has returned with a an album that is heavily experimental, yet is also an interesting listen. Although the first few tracks on the album stand out far more than the closing tracks, the album is a whole is an impressive effort that stands out more than last year's Eremita. |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay |
| Immortal Blizzard Beasts |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust |
| Immortal Damned In Black |
| Immortal All Shall Fall |
| Immortal The Seventh Date of Blashyrkh |
| Immortal Northern Chaos Gods |
| Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury |
| Intervals The Space Between |
| Intervals A Voice Within |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung |
| Job for a Cowboy Demonocracy |
| John Petrucci Suspended Animation |
| Judas Priest Nostradamus |
| Judas Priest Angel of Retribution |
| Judas Priest Stained Class |
| Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny |
| Kalmah Swampsong |
| Kampfar Norse |
| Kampfar Fra Underverdenen |
| Kampfar Mare |
| This release cements Kampfar's well-deserved place in black metal, with an album chock full of riffs that hearken back to the heyday of Norwegian black metal skillfully combined with crushingly heavy modern production. |
| Kampfar Djevelmakt |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| King of Asgard Fi'mbulvinter |
| King of Asgard ...to North |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| Lady Gaga Born This Way |
| Lamb of God Resolution |
| Lamb of God's first studio album in three years proves that they are still titans of modern metal. While the songs contained provide little deviation from anything heard on Ashes of the Wake onward, the riffs and songwriting are the closest in quality to their 2004 magnum opus. A perfect way to start off metal in 2012. |
| Lamb of God Wrath |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Les Discrets Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées |
| Magma Live |
| Majesties Vast Reaches Unclaimed |
| Master's Hammer Ritual |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Mayhem Live in Leipzig |
| Mayhem Wolf's Lair Abyss |
| Mayhem Chimera |
| Mayhem Deathcrush |
| Mayhem Out from the Dark |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed |
| Megadeth Youthanasia |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction |
| Megadeth United Abominations |
| Mercyful Fate Don't Break the Oath |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree |
| Meshuggah Nothing |
| Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse |
| Meshuggah None |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica Live Shit: Binge & Purge |
| Misthyrming Söngvar elds og óreiðu |
| Moonlight Sorcery Nightwind: The Conqueror From The Stars |
| Moonlight Sorcery Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle |
| Morbid Angel Covenant |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness |
| Murder Construct Results |
| A great modern deathgrind record that proves that Travis Ryan is one of the best vocalists in the genre. A lot of the record is similar, but that is definitely not a bad thing. The experimental closer "Resultados" ends the album on a high note and puts this this album up with Cattle Decapitation's 'Monolith of Inhumanity' as one of the best deathgrind albums of the past few years. |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| Muse Showbiz |
| Nails Abandon All Life |
| Native Construct Quiet World |
| Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction |
| Negura Bunget OM |
| Nokturnal Mortum Goat Horns |
| Nokturnal Mortum Twilightfall |
| Nokturnal Mortum Verity |
| Obituary Cause of Death |
| Obliteration Perpetual Decay |
| Obscura Cosmogenesis |
| Obscura Akróasis |
| Obsequiae Suspended in the Brume of Eos |
| Old Man's Child In Defiance of Existence |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth Lamentations |
| Panopticon / Waldgefluster Panopticon / Waldgeflüster |
| Pathology The Time of Great Purification |
| Slam death metal (if it is even a real genre) done right. Groovy syncopated riffs typical of the genre yet there are technical riffs and solos throughout. |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Possessed Seven Churches |
| Powerwolf Preachers of the Night |
| Primus Frizzle Fry |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Psychostick We Couldn't Think of a Title |
| Psychotic Waltz A Social Grace |
| Queen Queen |
| Queen A Day at the Races |
| Queen News of the World |
| Queen Jazz |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Rainbow Long Live Rock 'n' Roll |
| Rainbow Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow |
| Repulsion Horrified |
| Return to Forever Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy |
| Return to Forever Romantic Warrior |
| Rush Fly by Night |
| Rush Clockwork Angels |
| Sabaton Heroes |
| Sabaton Coat of Arms |
| Sabaton The Art of War |
| Sadus Illusions |
| Sanzu Painless |
| very solid |
| Saor Roots |
| Satyricon Dark Medieval Times |
| Savatage Hall of the Mountain King |
| Scale the Summit The Collective |
| Septicflesh Communion |
| Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad |
| Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape |
| Silencer (SWE) Death - Pierce Me |
| Slayer Reign in Blood |
| Slayer Show No Mercy |
| Slayer South of Heaven |
| Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| Slugdge Dim and Slimeridden Kingdoms |
| Sodom Persecution Mania |
| Sodom In War and Pieces |
| Sonata Arctica Ecliptica |
| Sonata Arctica Reckoning Night |
| Soundgarden Louder Than Love |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside |
| Soundgarden Telephantasm |
| Soundgarden King Animal |
| Starkill Fires of Life |
| Steel Panther Feel the Steel |
| Strapping Young Lad City |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien |
| Sulphur Aeon Swallowed by the Ocean's Tide |
| Sulphur Aeon Gateway to the Antisphere |
| Summoning Minas Morgul |
| Summoning Dol Guldur |
| Summoning Nightshade Forests |
| Summoning Oath Bound |
| Summoning Old Mornings Dawn |
| Symphony X The Odyssey |
| Symphony X The Damnation Game |
| Symphony X Iconoclast |
| Taake Taake |
| Taake Stridens hus |
| Another impressive album from one of Norwegian black metal's most consistent bands. Hoest knows how to make good black metal, but it is the experimental aspects and unconventional song structures that set Taake above the rest. |
| Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog |
| Terrorizer World Downfall |
| Testament The Gathering |
| Testament The New Order |
| Testament First Strike Still Deadly |
| Testament's old songs with fantastic production and superb vocals by Chuck Billy. Great release, although the last two songs would have sounded much better without Steve Souza at the helm. |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Abysmal |
| The Black Queen Fever Daydream |
| The Contortionist Apparition |
| The Contortionist Language |
| Ebb and flow. |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board |
| The Doors The Doors |
| The Faceless Autotheism |
| Straying even further into the realm of progressive metal, The Faceless have created an album that may displease fans expecting Planetary Duality: Part II, but is a definite grower. |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne |
| The Kovenant In Times Before the Light |
| Thy Art Is Murder Hate |
| Tool Undertow |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Transcending Bizarre? The Misanthrope's Fable |
| Trinacria Travel Now Journey Infinitely |
| Trvth Black Horse Plague |
| Tsjuder Desert Northern Hell |
| Turisas Stand Up and Fight |
| Tyr Valkyrja |
| Tyr Eric The Red |
| Tyr Ragnarok |
| Ulver Kveldssanger |
| Vattnet Settler |
| Veil of Maya Eclipse |
| Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse |
| Vildhjarta Omnislash |
| Vildhjarta Thousands Of Evils |
| Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter |
| Vintersorg Till Fjälls |
| Vintersorg Hedniskhjartad |
| Vintersorg Naturbal |
| Voluspaa Åsa |
| In a genre with many generic bands, Voluspaa have crafted an impressive folk/black metal album with their debut. The violin, cello, piano, and folk vocals make for an entertaining listen when contrasted against the heavy guitars and harsh vocals. |
| Windir Soknardalr |
| Windir 1184 |
| Windir Likferd |
| Within the Ruins Elite |
| Wolfheart Winterborn |
| X Japan Art of Life |
| Xanthochroid Blessed He With Boils |
| 3.5 great |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| Abbath Abbath |
| Abiotic Casuistry |
| Abominable Putridity In the End of Human Existence |
| AC/DC Let There Be Rock |
| AC/DC High Voltage |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes |
| Agalloch From Which of This Oak |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde |
| Alice in Chains Facelift |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here |
| All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers |
| Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall |
| Amon Amarth The Avenger |
| Anaal Nathrakh Vanitas |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless |
| Aspherium The Fall of Therenia |
| August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill |
| Baroness Yellow and Green |
| Bathory The Return of the Darkness and Evil |
| Be'lakor The Frail Tide |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach |
| Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond) |
| Behemoth Grom |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Black Tongue The Unconquerable Dark |
| Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage |
| Borknagar The Olden Domain |
| Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive |
| Burzum Burzum |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated |
| Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life |
| Carach Angren Ethereal Veiled Existence |
| Carach Angren Death Came Through a Phantom Ship |
| Carach Angren Where the Corpses Sink Forever |
| Carcass Reek of Putrefaction |
| Carcass Surgical Remission/Surplus Steel |
| Cattle Decapitation Humanure |
| Cattle Decapitation Karma.Bloody.Karma |
| Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk |
| Christian Muenzner Beyond the Wall of Sleep |
| Cryptopsy Cryptopsy |
| Cynic Re-Traced |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Dark Funeral Dark Funeral |
| Darkspace Dark Space I |
| Darkspace Minus One |
| Darkspace Dark Space II |
| Darkthrone Panzerfaust |
| Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name |
| Death Live in Eindhoven |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore |
| Death Grips Government Plates |
| Death Grips Death Grips |
| Death Grips Fashion Week |
| Deathspell Omega Diabolus Absconditus |
| Deathspell Omega Infernal Battles |
| Deathspell Omega Inquisitors of Satan |
| Decapitated The Negation |
| Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis |
| Demonaz March of the Norse |
| Dethklok Dethalbum III |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum |
| Dio Holy Diver |
| Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor |
| Dissection Reinkaos |
Although it is no Storm of the Light's Bane, the final Dissection record is a fun
melodeath album fitting for the end of the band's dark reign. |
| Djevel Saa Raa Og Kald |
| Einherjer Av Oss, For Oss |
| Eluveitie Spirit |
| Eluveitie Helvetios |
| Eluveitie Origins |
| Ensiferum Unsung Heroes |
| Ensiferum One Man Army |
| Enslaved Nema |
| Entombed Left Hand Path |
| Evile Five Serpent's Teeth |
| Fallujah Dreamless |
| Finntroll Jaktens Tid |
| Finntroll Nattfodd |
| Finntroll Blodsvept (EP Version) |
| While this EP doesn't do much except generate hype for the next album, it's still a fun listen. The two tracks off of Blodsvept sound fantastic and the live tracks are fun. The Pet Shop Boys cover is interesting and pretty humorous, while the demo of "Rivfader" from the first album is a good listen as well. |
| Finntroll Visor Om Slutet |
| Finntroll Blodsvept |
| Fit for an Autopsy Absolute Hope Absolute Hell |
| Gojiracore is here, and it's pretty awesome |
| Galar De Gjenlevende |
| Ghost Bath Moonlover |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' |
| Gojira Terra Incognita |
| Gojira The Link |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction |
| Heathen Victims of Deception |
| Hoth Infinite Darkness |
| Hour of Penance Sedition |
| Iced Earth Tribute to the Gods |
| ICS Vortex Storm Seeker |
| Immolation Close to a World Below |
| Immolation Providence |
| Immortal Battles in the North |
| Immortal Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism |
| Immortal Immortal |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| Iron Maiden Killers |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls |
| Job for a Cowboy Gloom |
| Job for a Cowboy Genesis |
| Job for a Cowboy Sun Eater |
| Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance |
| Judas Priest Killing Machine |
| Judas Priest Firepower |
| Kampfar Kampfar |
Combining harsh Norwegian black metal with acoustic guitars, Norse folk vocals, and symphonic
keyboards, Kampfar create a promising debut. |
| Kampfar Heimgang |
| Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed |
| Kvelertak Meir |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster |
| Lady Gaga The Fame |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel |
| Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy |
| Les Discrets Ariettes Oubliees... |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment 2 |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment |
| Machine Head Unto the Locust |
| Magma Mekanïk Destruktïẁ Kommandöh |
| Martriden Martriden EP |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Mayhem Ordo ad Chao |
| Mayhem Dawn of the Black Hearts |
| Mayhem Esoteric Warfare |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en |
| Mekong Delta Visions Fugitives |
| Mesarthim Isolate |
| fun abm with pretty piano and nice synth/electronic textures |
| Meshuggah Psykisk Testbild |
| Meshuggah Selfcaged |
| Meshuggah The True Human Design |
| Metallica Garage Inc. |
| Muse The Resistance |
| Myrkur Myrkur |
| Nails Unsilent Death |
| Neckbeard Deathcamp White Nationalism is for Basement Dwelling Losers |
| The most topical black metal album of the decade. "BATHE YOUR BONES IN BAJA BLAST." |
| Nevermore Dreaming Neon Black |
| Nexilva Eschatologies |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Obituary Slowly We Rot |
| Obscura Retribution |
| Opeth Burden |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Opeth Orchid |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Pathology Legacy of the Ancients |
| Pathology Awaken to the Suffering |
| Periphery Periphery (Instrumental) |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Omega |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Primus Green Naugahyde |
| Punky Bruster Cooked on Phonics |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Return to Forever Return to Forever |
| Revocation Teratogenesis |
| Rings of Saturn Dingir |
| Rush Caress of Steel |
| Rush Rush |
| Russian Circles Enter |
| Sabaton Attero Dominatus |
| Sabaton Primo Victoria |
| Septicflesh Titan |
| Although a complete disappointment was to be expected based the pre-release tracks, Septicflesh only make a minor regression from The Great Mass. |
| Shining (NOR) Blackjazz |
| Shining (NOR) One One One |
| Shining (SWE) IV - The Eerie Cold |
| Slayer Haunting the Chapel |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Sodom Epitome of Torture |
| Sonata Arctica Silence |
| Sonata Arctica Winterheart's Guild |
| Soundgarden Ultramega OK |
| Soundgarden Screaming Life/Fopp |
| Soundgarden Screaming Life |
| Steel Panther Balls Out |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black |
| Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad |
| Summoning Lugburz |
| Summoning Lost Tales |
| Symphony X Twilight in Olympus |
| Taylor Swift 1989 |
| Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D |
| TesseracT Concealing Fate |
| Testament The Legacy |
| Testament Practice What You Preach |
| The Algorithm Polymorphic Code |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan The Dillinger Escape Plan |
| The Doors Strange Days |
| The Human Abstract Moonlight Sonata |
| A great take on the classic Beethoven piece, the musicianship is top notch, yet the album suffers from terrible production in the heavy parts. It's a shame the band did not attempt to remedy this problem while making the single. Would be a 4-4.5 if the production was better. However, Movement 3 is still fantastic to listen to. |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland |
| The Kovenant Nexus Polaris |
| Thulcandra Under a Frozen Sun |
| Thulcandra Fallen Angel's Dominion |
| Thulcandra Ascension Lost |
| The songwriting is a bit more focused on this album, but there are no definitive differences between this and the previous two albums. Solid band nonetheless. |
| Thy Art Is Murder Infinite Death |
| Thy Art Is Murder The Adversary |
| Thy Art Is Murder Holy War |
| Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga Cheek to Cheek |
| Toxic Holocaust Conjure and Command |
| Toxic Holocaust An Overdose of Death... |
| Toxic Holocaust Evil Never Dies |
| Toxic Holocaust Hell on Earth |
| Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas Eve and Other Stories |
| Transcending Bizarre? The Four Scissors |
| Turisas Battle Metal |
| Tyr How Far to Asgaard |
| While not a particularly innovative album in the folk metal genre, this is still an entertaining debut. |
| Utstott Hjorungavagr |
| Veil of Maya [id] |
| Wardruna Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption |
| Within the Ruins Invade |
| Xerath I |
Combining unoriginal elements (Meshuggah-like vocals and grooves, Strapping Young Lad
elements, and orchestrations) to make something new, Xerath create an enjoyable album that
will be a fun occasional listen, but nothing too special. |
