| 4.5 superb |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me From You |
| I don't know what it is; perhaps the way they integrated an all time low type pop punk sound (that didn't suck) and heavier sections with overall more personality (particularly because of vocalist jeremy mckinnon's INCREDIBLY improved screams) and definite shift from their previous metalcore styled breakdowns to straight hardcore breakdowns, but ehhh I'm listening to to album A LOOOOOOOOOOOT! Ahhh, i'm so gay for liking this. |
| All That Remains For We Are Many |
| Regaining their senses after the mediocre Overcome, on ...For We Are Many All That Remains not only thankfully reintroduces melodeath back into the fold, but metalcore producer extraordinaire Adam D. also makes the welcome return back as producer. Almost like the jump from This Darkened Heart to The Fall of Ideals, compared to Overcome the band has definitely made large strides of improvement; although still inferior to The Fall of Ideals, ...For We Are many is easily the band's next best effort and the true follow-up to their best album. Once again boosting a perfectly clear production, All That Remains once again seems alive; Labonte has discarded the overly processed, robotic vocal approach of the last album opting for a more organic effort that not only suits him, but the band better overall. "Some of the People, All of the Time" represents not only a great performance by him (where he shows great variety in his screamed vocals and comes up with a great chorus melody) but the rest of the band also once again seems lively. Bringing back a guitar style that more strongly follows The Fall of Ideals aesthetic, Herbert and Martin great some ridiculously heavy guitar lines as well as stirringly melodic ones. Herbert's trademark solo style is more intact here as well, with the solos in songs such as "Faithless" and "The Waiting One" easily holding up amongst his classic solos of old. Hopefully this is a trend that will follow ATR until their next album, where they may regain their titles as kings of modern metalcore. ...For We Are Many has gotten my hopes up, now lets hope they deliver. |
| Anagnorisis Overton Trees |
| Arch Enemy Burning Japan Live 1999 |
| ARTS Vault of Heaven |
| Modern raw black metal done right. Apocalyptic, misanthropic, this shit is about as true as it gets. |
| Ash Borer and Fell Voices Split |
| Avenger Shadows of the Damned |
| Azarath Diabolic Impious Evil |
| Chaotic and brutal Immolation inspired death metal from these amazing Polish blasphemers. |
| Bestial Warlust Vengeance War Til Death |
| Bestial Warlust Blood & Valour |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants and Jacket |
| Bluetile Lounge Lowercase |
| I must say my first experience with slowcore has been a pleasant one thanks to Bluetile Lounge; Lowercase easily deserves its title as a quintessential album for the genre. Slow, minimalistic compositions that still manage to carry a whopping amount of emotion, Lowercase is a phenomenal album that is recommended to anyone. |
| Brides Of Destruction Here Come The Brides |
| Buckethead Population Override |
| Buckethead Colma |
| Buckethead Electric Tears |
| Buckethead The Dragons Of Eden |
| Buckethead Shadows Between The Sky |
| A definite comeback from his last two releases, Shadows Between The Sky sees Buckethead delve into his most melodic territory since Electric Tears. Great melodies, quality playing and song-writing that slays for days |
| Burzum Burzum/Aske |
| Burzum Burzum |
| Cara Neir Sublimation Therapy |
| 2012 is the year of Cara Neir; after an awesome split with the blackened crust unit Ramlord, these crazy Texans return with an EP that is easily one of the best to come out in extreme metal each year. Although most of the tracks barely scrape past the one minute mark, it totally works in the band's favor. It's actually quite remarkable to see how they can do so much in such a short amount of time. So fucking good. |
| Carcass Swansong |
| Charles Bronson Complete Discocrappy |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| Circle of Ouroborus Armon Keitaalla |
| Clandestine Blaze Falling Monuments |
| Along with Paracletus, Mikko Aspa has had his hands in two of 2010 best black metal albums. Cold, unrelenting yet containing enough melody to ensnare the attention of both black metal veterans and newcomers, Falling Monuments is not a black metal record that breaks any new ground but is just a black metal record that kicks copious amounts of ass. |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Cradle of Filth Midian |
| Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace |
| Cradle of Filth Vempire or Dark Fairytales in Phallustei |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon |
| Deceased Fearless Undead Machines |
| The culmination of the changes started on The Blueprints for Madness, the sci-fi themed classic Fearless Undead Machines displays Deceased fully embracing their thrash and progressive influences, dropping all elements of death metal vocally and implementing a sound that many would call their best. Replacing aggression for dynamics, Fearless Undead Machine is nowhere near as angry as the band's earlier albums but with incorporation of more melody as well as their obviously heightened songwriting skills, Deceased more than make up for the largely diminished trait of old. An album to check out if you are looking for something other than your run of the mill standard death metal. |
| Dephosphorus Night Sky Transform |
Holy fuck. I've really never enjoyed Dephosporus until
now; Night Sky Transform changed my opinion on the
band within its first thirty seconds. This record is just
massive, a superb juxtaposition of black metal
coldness and punk attitude. With that combination of
personalities, sonically the album ranges from
astoundingly fast to awesomely groovy allowing the
band's grindier side to take precedence with elements
of black metal resonating within its distant cousin.
Dephosphorus go about playing blackened grind on
their own terms, a bold move that has seemed to have
paid off in dividends here. |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane |
| Eighteen Visions The Best of Eighteen Visions |
| A collection of re-recorded songs from Lifeless, ]Time Is Yesterday Killed, and No Time For Love, The Best of Eighteen Visions is a shining example of why Eighteen Visions were one of the best metalcore bands of the early 2000's. With an improved production and the same unwavering enthusiasm, 18v relentless rips through 11 tracks of devastating metalcore that emphasize mosh-worthy riffage, whirlwind drumming and psychotic vocals. |
| Electrocution Inside the Unreal |
| Electrocution played technical death metal before it was really called technical death metal; instead of all the gravity blasting, sweep abusing shit that comes out now, Inside the Unreal was old-school death metal with an extra technical edge. Still full of great, thick riffage, Electrocution literally played circles around everyone else but never come off as over the top; the balance between standard death metal elements and added instrumental ability here is perfect, allowing for this album to be remembered in the classic status it so rightfully deserves. |
| Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi |
| Enslaved Mardraum - Beyond the Within |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| Axioma Ethica Odini is without a doubt the ultimate culmination of Enslaved's previous efforts; retaining the progressing rock elements of their last three albums while boosting the black metal elements that remained strangely absent, Axioma Ethica Odini is undoubtedly Enslaved's masterpiece album. |
| Fall Out Boy Take This To Your Grave |
| Fell Voices 2010 Tour CD-R |
| Fell Voices Untitled |
| Four Year Strong Rise Or Die Trying |
| Ghosts and Vodka Addicts and Drunks |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| Hadez Aquelarre |
| Horribly underrated early black/death album that like most extreme metal from South America has very noticeable thrash influences as well. With a sense of minimalism that carries on from the riffs to the suitably dry production, Aquelarre's bare-bones approach is always effective, whether the band be performing their high-speed tremolo picked riffs or delving into the depths of doom with simple yet crushing chords and a funeral crawl pace. Also packed full of leads that range from absolute whammy-bar shred to creepier, more atmospheric lines, the lack of atmosphere from the production is more than made up for with a myriad of different yet equally terrifying guitar textures. To complete this near perfect package are the vocals, a great mash-up of hoarse gutturals and raspy high pitched screeches. Overall an album that is highly developed despite its simplistic presentation, Aquelarre to this day, still deserves to be a more recognized album within death and black metal's formative years. |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood |
| Heinali And Matt Finney Town Line EP |
| Heinali And Matt Finney Lemonade |
| Heinali And Matt Finney Conjoined |
| WTF TOO MUCH GOOD MUSIC. Conjoined is better than it's predecessors and they are already both in my top 25 of the year! |
| HIM Venus Doom |
| Immolation Here in After |
| Iron Maiden Killers |
| Kathaaria The Complex Void of Negativity |
| Killswitch Engage Set This: World Ablaze [DVD] |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies |
| L.A. Guns Tales From The Strip |
| Last Days These Places Are Now Ruins |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Misery Signals Mirrors |
| Motley Crue Red, White, & Crue |
| Muse Absolution |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge |
| Nocturnal Blood Devastated Graves... |
| Odz Manouk Odz Manouk |
| Order From Chaos Stillbirth Machine |
| Pathologist Putrefactive and Cadaverous Odes About Necroticism |
| Plainwords Overgrow to Overthrow |
| Portal Outre |
| Portal Swarth |
| Reel Big Fish Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live |
| Rhinocervs RH02 |
| Roadrunner United The All-Star Sessions |
| RVIVR The Beauty Between |
| holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit |
| Sacrmentary Abolishment The Distracting Stone |
| Seether Disclaimer II |
| Seether Karma and Effect |
| While Disclaimer was more natural in the band's raw mongrel rock, its follow-up Karma and Effect takes the unexpected route in being MUCH heavier than its predecessor. Impressively forsaking an attempt to go more mainstream, Seether's second effort is heavily influenced by metal and benefits greatly from it. For a "mainstream" rock band, these guys sure can write some motherfucking riffs. Great shit. |
| Senses Fail Renacer |
| Album should have been called "Yes, We Lift" |
| Shadows Fall The War Within |
| When Shadows Fall released The War Within, it was just another album, albeit a great one but there was nothing overtly special about it; it didn't make any crazy cultural impact, it wasn't the most original album and it wasn't even the best album of the year... but it will forever remain a life-changing release for me. You see, this is the first record I bought with screamed vocals, a decision that changed my musical life. From this point on there were no more boundaries, no more caps to what I could listen to. This album opened my mind to world of extreme metal and will forever and always remain a milestone in my musical development. |
| Shataan War Cry Lament |
| Underrated so hard. Musically this is a fantastic combination of psychedelic, dark folk, and black that easily sets the band apart. The vocals get some take some getting used to but Damn when it finally hits you, it really hits you |
| Sista Sekunden Aldras Med Stil |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Solstice (USA-FL) Solstice |
| FUCKING EXCELLENT RECORD. It's beyond me how these guys didn't up blow up with the rest of Floridian death metal scene in the early 90's, Solstice's first self-titled effort easily holds its ground against any classic produced from that time period. This album is basically just the complete package; absolutely crushing guitar riffs, killer solos, (two guest solos from the famous James Murphy!) along with great, technical drumming and some vocals that actually manage to stand out from the pack. Highly recommended! |
| Someplace To Hide Shouting, "Saintly Not Ghostly!" |
| Spite Extreme Wing Vltra |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost |
| The Electric Boa Candy Coated Cyanide |
| The hard rock hometown heroes of Philadelphia, The Electric Boa's debut album, Candy Coated Cyanide is easily one of the best and unique straight up rock albums to come out in the last decade. With The Rolling Stones swagger, The Black Crowes unabashed love for the blues and the modern edge of Buckcherry (without the suck!) The Electric Boa is simply put, one of kind. As if all those factors wasn't enough, when you add lead songwriter and crooner John "Higgsy" Higginbottom and all his eccentricities, you get an album that that is truly memorable and instantly enjoyable. Super highly recommended, this is definitely an album that deserves to be heard by ANYONE. |
| The Push Kings Far Places |
| The Toll (USA) The Toll |
| The Wallflowers Bringing Down The Horse |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons |
| The Word Alive The Word Alive |
| Thorngoth Leere |
| Hell yeah had to bump rating up! Album fucking rules face and is a great example of a modern take on traditional black metal. EPIC AS SHIT. In my top ten of the year. |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead |
| Tukaaria Raw to the Rapine |
| Ulver Bergtatt |
| Uncanny Splenium For Nyktophobia |
| Underoath The Changing of Times |
| Verwustung When Light Broke the Stars, Humanity Rejected Us |
| Viggo Mortensen Pandemoniumfromamerica |
| Violent Dirge Craving |
| For those of you who love Cynic but wish that they were heavier, Violent Dirge's second album, Craving is the perfect album for you; still achieving that uber technical jazziness while also having a foundation more firmly placed in the death metal camp, Craving is the answer to all of you who have asked themselves "What if?". |
| Vlad Tepes/Belketre March To The Black Holocaust |
| While the Black Legions had some good material,this split remains to be one of the best albums released from the group. |
| Woe Quietly, Undramatically |
| 4.0 excellent |
| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow |
| 1349 Hellfire |
| A Pregnant Light The Feast of Clipped Wings |
| Raw and punked up black metal from Colloquial Sound Recordings that gets better with every listen. |
| A Static Lullaby Rattlesnake! |
| Aakon Keetreh Dans La Foret |
| Excellent dark ambient from the ex-Belketre frontman Lord Aakon Keetreh. A dark melancholic atmosphere supplemented by eerie chants, moody guitar and LLN style production. |
| Absum/Odz Manouk Rotting Esophagus |
| Accidental Suicide Deceased |
| Acephalix Deathless Master |
| Addaura Addaura |
| Another band coming from the Cascadian black metal scene, Addaura's debut demo is a masterful exercise is slightly folk tinged black metal. Featuring the excellent shriek of female vocalist Chantal, amazing atmospheres and non-traditional black metal lyrical fare, this is a release that is not only worth your time but leaving you hungry for more. |
| Addaura Burning for the Ancient |
| Addaura's first full-length album is a more than worthy effort; Burning for the Ancient is a bit more "Wolves In The Throne Room" than the material on the band's 2010 demo, but the group also greatly explores (and expands on) some of the more distinguished moments present on their previous release, intelligently using the awesome range of new vocalist Ryan to lead the charge. Sometimes the songs do drag just a bit, but overall the band manages to keep the songs interesting throughout their average thirteen and a half minute runtimes. This isn't quite as good as I think Addaura are really capable of creating, but on its own merit Burning for the Ancient is still a very good release. |
| Aeon Spoke Aeon Spoke |
| Aeon Spoke Above the Buried Cry |
| Aethyrvorous Demo |
| Against Me! White Crosses |
| Agressor Neverending Destiny |
| Aguynguerran Perverting the Nazarene Cult |
| Aguynguerran's first full-length is not one to be underestimated; combining black metal with elements of melodic death metal, Perverting the Nazarene Cult features awesome riffs, great solos and some surprisingly catchy moments. Great record for both hardcore and newer fans of the black metal. |
| Aksumite Tormented By Blessings Abundant |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising |
| Babyss - 5 Classic :Dark Tranquility - Skydancer/Of Chaos and Eternal Light, Dark Tranquility - The Gallery, Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant, Keep of Kalessin - Kolossus,Ordo Draconis - Camera Obscura Pt. 1 ,Radiohead - OK Computer, Rhapsody of Fire - Symphony of Enchanted Lands, Septic Flesh - The Ophidian Wheel, Septic Flesh - Mystic Places Of Dawn, Septic Flesh - Esoptron, Septic Flesh - A Fallen Temple, Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild, Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night |
| Anal Vomit Demonic Flagellations |
| It's fairly obvious that whoever rated this album 1 only did so based on the bands ridiculous name --yes while Anal Vomit is truly an awful name, the band plays black/death metal so well they deserve to get away with it. |
| Angelcorpse Hammer of Gods |
| After spending the better part of his youth in the legendary Order From Chaos, in 1995 Peter Helmkamp formed what would become his most recognized project and arguably one of the greatest blackened death metal bands of all time, Angelcorpse. With Helmkamp performing bass and vocals, guitarists Bill Taylor and Gene Palubicki and John Longstreth on drums, the group's first album Hammer of Gods was not the best this band would craft but set them on a path that would see them achieve great heights in years to come. Combining Morbid Angel's unorthodox guitar madness with black metal's unrelenting speed and Helmkamp's clever wordplay, Hammer of Gods put Angelcorpse on the map, securing a place in the annals of hell for this truly blaspheming band. |
| Antediluvian Under Wing of Asael |
| Filthy blackened death metal from Canada; these guys combine the occult atmosphere of band's like Portal with some older school sensibilities to create a truly terrifying album with Under Wing of Asael. |
| Antediluvian Through the Cervix of Hawaah |
| I had the highest hopes for this album and needless to say, it fully delivered |
| Anti Toxin Demo |
| Combining elements of punk, hardcore and thrash, Anti Toxin played fast and fun crossover that slays for days. |
| Anti Toxin The Tower |
| Aqualung Magnetic North |
| Arch Enemy Burning Bridges |
| Arizmenda Within the Vacuum of Infinity... |
| Arizmenda Without Circumference Nor Center |
| Stylistically very similar to Within the Vacuum of Infinity, Without Circumference Nor Center continues to follow Arizmenda in creating disturbingly dark atmospheric black metal. With the shortest song clocking in at a lengthy seven minutes, the highly engaging sonic beating the band delivers definitely justifies such long pieces; from the amount of riffs, to the tempo changes, to even the ever so subtle psychedelic influences, the bands unwavering technique ensnares your attention, only releasing its grip in the albums dying moments. While structurally dissonance is the very foundation the album was built upon, its the melody that really separates Arzimenda from their peers with guitarist Juan Cabello imbuing fierce tremolo picked lines with haunting melodies and absolutely thriving during the albums cleaner sections.rHonestly, this is an album with an infinite amount of admirable qualities, but for the sake of this not turning into a full review and giving you the chance to read the other albums I have on the list Ill just close with this statement: Without Circumference Nor Center is definitely a challenging listen, but youll find that if you give it the time it deserves, the feeling once finishing it is immensely gratifying and fulfilling hence why it deserves not only the accolades it has received here, but almost everywhere else on the internet.r |
| Arnaut Pavle Demo Tape MMXIII |
| Riffy riffy black metally goodnessy |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise |
| Ash Borer Tour Rehearsal Demo |
| Ashdautas Where the Sun is Silent... |
| Aspid Extravasation |
| Assorted Heap Mindwaves |
| Mindwaves by Assorted Heap is quite the thrash album; beefing up their sound to incorporate more elements from the then newly found death metal scene, Assorted Heap played a form of highly technical death/thrash that really emphasized the latter. Great riffs, great drumming, songs like "Mindwaves" display the band at their heaviest while tracks like "Holy Ground" reveal the band's keen sense of melody, an often hidden element that does wonders when revealed. Overall, Mindwaves is an incredibly solid piece of extreme metal, a must have for all fans. |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
| Aves Aves |
| An instrumental post-rock/punk band with black metal influences, Aves first rarely delves deep into the latter genre, leaving way for wondrous jangly guitar riffs, feel good basslines and programmed drumming actually that doesn't take an ounce out of the record's overall enjoyability. There is some truly beautiful work to be had on this. |
| Axis of Advance Strike |
| Axis of Advance The List |
| Axis of Advance Obey |
| Axis of Light By the Hands of the Consuming Fire |
| Combining epic, sweeping raw black metal with hardcore undertones, Axis of Light's debut album By The Hands of Consuming Fire is a very powerful 2012 release |
| Azarath Blasphemers' Maledictions |
| After a few weeks of thorough and intense listening, Azarath's Blasphemer's Malediction has so far definitely has earned the top stop in my top albums of the year without a second thought or question. In a super aggressive blackened death metal style somewhat comparable to a band like Weapon, Azarath (who have been around since 1998) have really created a special album with Blasphemer's Malediction. With a certain emphasis definitely placed on the more deathy side of Azarath's playing, Blasphemer's Malediction is a goldmine of crushing headbang inducing riffery. There still is some pretty obvious black metal vibes though with a lot of melancholy-filled atmospheric chord formations and tremolo picked sections. Despite all positive aspects of the guitar's rhythm side, where guitarist BartBomiej "Bart" Szudek (ex-Cenotaph) really shines is in his lead playing; going for both intense shred licks ("Supreme Reign of Tiamat") and even some melodic, more atmospheric formations ("Under the Will of the Lord") his playing is both diverse, tasteful and a huge element to what makes this album enjoyable.rThe vocals (courtesy of also bassist/singer Necrosodom) are harsh and phglemy, taking a middle stance inbetween black metal's screeches and death metal's gutturals. Drummer Inferno (of Behemoth) is pretty incredible, pulling of some truly speedy and militant blast beats while also slowing it up nicely at times to complement the more atmospheric sections ("The Abjection"). Overall this album just fucking rapes faces and is highly recommended. |
| Azoic Gateways |
| Labyrinth like blackened death metal that takes cues from Ulcerate and Deathspell Omega. Frightening atmospheric and disappointingly underrated. |
| Bacchus Bacchus |
| Bad Dream Demonstration |
| Bad Meets Evil Hell: The Sequel |
| Although I'm not really much of a rap fan, Bad Meets Evil is an album that I'm attracted to a lot of the time because of it's sheer intensity; while "intensity" may see like a strange word to use, there is an aggression here that really transcends music and is I think the reason as to why I enjoy the album so much. |
| Baring Teeth Atrophy |
| A great combination of technical prowess and atmosphere. |
| Battlemaster Warthirsting & Winterbound |
| Blackened death metal with an emphasis on technical instrumentation, Battlemaster may come off as a bit cheesy at times, but at the end of the day these guys are a tight unit with some good songs. |
| Begrime Exemious Impending Funeral of Man |
| Beheaded Perpetual Mockery |
| Although generally only labelled as "brutal death metal" Beheaded on Perpetual Mockery are actually so much more than then that; incorporating a whopping amount of technical prowess into what is more aggressive than average death metal, Beheaded succeeds in being both unrelentingly heavy and appropriately melodic. Definitely a great start to what would prove to be a fruitful career. |
| Belketre Ambre Zuetki Vuordrevartre |
| Bhang Khang 2011 Demo |
| Birthplace Ameliorate |
| Black Breath Sentenced To Life |
| Dark and sinister hardcore with touches of Swedish death metal and crust. All around awesome |
| Black Everest/Captain, Your Ship is Sink Split |
| Black Freighter Graves And Monuments |
| Holy shit, how was this not heard before? Fucking AMAZING blackened sludge. Tons of great riffs, great vocals and most importantly great fucking songs, Graves and Monuments is a hidden gem of 2010 that definitely deserves an unearthing. |
| Black Mass Of First and Last Things |
| Bleeding Through The Truth |
| Bleeding Through Declaration |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch |
| blink-182 The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods |
| Blood Revolt Indoctrine |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Sect(s) |
| The Paracletus of 2011. Don't get me wrong, this is in no way a carbon copy of DsO's last album; 777 is black metal at its most haunting, combining eerie atmospheres with labyrinths of dissonant riffage and somber melodies to create a nightmarish album of epic proportions. Unorthodox in about every way possible, 777 doesn't make sense at all, but it's the album's unpredictability along with its genius crafting that will make it one of the better black metal albums of this year. |
| Boreal The Battle of Vosad |
| Combining low-fi atmospheric black metal with elements of folk and ambient The Battle of Vosad may initially be a a rough listen, but over time the soothing melodies and droning song nature is appreciated. |
| Breaking Benjamin Saturate |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia |
| Buckethead The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell |
| Buckethead Giant Robot |
| Buckethead The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock |
| Buckethead Pepper's Ghost |
| Buckethead Bucketheadland 2 |
| Buckethead Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot |
| Buckethead Chicken Noodles |
| Buckethead Chicken Noodles II |
| Bullets And Octane Bullets And Octane |
| Burden of a Day Blessed Be Our Ever After |
| Burn Down Rome Devotion |
| Burzum Belus |
| Cabal Midian |
| Cadence Fox Metaphors for the Decline of Humanity |
| Capharnaum Reality Only Fantasized |
| Capital Lights This Is An Outrage! |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Animals Are Out |
| Cara Neir Stagnant Perceptions |
| This album is awesome. If you disagree you are entitled but prepare for a shunning. |
| Cara Neir/Ramlord Split |
| I haven't listened to the Ramlord side of this yet but the Cara Neir side is fucking phenomenal. By far their most post-rock/screamo set of songs to date, it's amazing how well they can pull off black metal with all these difference nuances |
| Carcass Heartwork |
| Carcass Reek of Putrefaction |
| Cauteror They Fell |
| Cease Upon the Capitol Untitled |
| Charts and Maps Dead Horse |
| Jazzy post-rock woooooooooooooooooooooooooo omg orgasm |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild |
| Children of Bodom Tokyo Warhearts |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? |
| Chronaexus Algedonic Awakening |
| Church Whip Psychedelic Nightmare |
| Clandestine Blaze Fist of the Northern Destroyer |
| Clandestine Blaze Night Of The Unholy Flame |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| i bet half of you didn't even listen to this and rated 5 |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Cradle of Filth The Principle of Evil Made Flesh |
| Cradle of Filth Lovecraft & Witch Hearts |
| Crazy Lixx Loud Minority |
| Crooked Necks Alright Is Exactly What It Isn't |
| This is an album I've been waiting a long time for - I've been a fan of this band since their days as Frail, and even though the majority of the bands black metal influence has been thrown to the wayside, they've definitely proven themselves here as a solid post-punk/shoegaze project. Glistening melodies coupled with jubilant bass-lines, Crooked Necks creates music that sticks with you, crafting melodies that will speak to your soul and raise spirits even in their darkest hours. The music is truly beautiful, and the raw production edge (one of the few black metal remnants the band contains) only adds to the amazing atmosphere. Like I said, I've been waiting a long time for this -- I'm glad I wasn't disappointed. |
| Cruentus In Myself |
| Cruentus were an odd beast; I'd be hesitant to call them full blown progressive death metal yet at the same time their sound was far more expansive than most other death metal groups during the 90's. When it comes to the band's more "straightforward" death metal sections I can't help but think early Morbid Angel; the group just has a certain way of writing and arranging riffs in ways that seem scattered but together create totally enthralling passages. They also have a strong ear for melody but they don't let it dominate their work, letting the parts that should be heavy stay that way and unveiling the more harmonic moments during the sections where they let their progressive influences reign free. I guess another point of interest would be that the band includes a fair share of clean vocals and while that may turn some people off it actually works quite well in the band's favor as their lead singer has a great voice. Overall I'd say that Cruentus were easily one of the more original and most underrated bands to come from the great death boom on the 90's and should certainly be remembered and celebrated for their unique approach to the genre. |
| Cynic Focus |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| D.R.I. Dealing With It |
| Damian Valles Bow Echoes |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us |
| Darkest Hour So Sedated, So Secure (Re-Issue) |
| Darkseid The Three Mothers |
| Obscure death metal from France, Darkseid was a great little band that only put out The Three Mothers concept demo in 1996 before completely dropping off the face of the Earth. Pretty different from anything that was going on in the United States or any other country for that matter, Darkseid played a catchy yet heavy form of death metal with some interesting experimental tendencies. Unlike most other death metal, Darkseid's standard tuned guitar may have sacrificed them some of the sheer heaviness of their peers, but it certainly helped when it came to creating some of the unorthodox guitar lines the album is centered on. The gutturals are also pretty great, containing a nice hoarseness that helps the singer from being just another death metal vocalist. Overall a great, interesting listen. |
| Darkthrone The Cult Is Alive |
| Darkthrone Panzerfaust |
| Das Oath Das Oath |
| Das Plague Das Plague |
| David Tagg Pentecost |
| Death Human |
| Decapitated Winds of Creation |
| Decapitated Nihility |
| Deceased Luck of the Corpse |
| Before mostly abandoning death metal on subsequent releases, Deceased first album Luck of the Corpse is an early death/thrash classic. Capitalizing on King Fowley's excellent gutturals and creative drum patterns as well as the beefed up thrash inspired guitar riffs, Luck of the Corpse is truly a standout release within death metal's formative years. |
| Deceased The Blueprint For Madness |
| Generally seen as a weaker album in Deceased's early discography, The Blueprint For Madness is very much the interim album between the band's two best known releases. However that in no way means The Blueprint for Madness doesn't contain quite a bit of excellent material itself; introducing the progressive elements the band would later capitalize on, here is where Deceased started showing their true ingenuity, fusing the raw direction of their past with more melodic qualities, such as tuneful solos and even some really awesome Maiden inspired harmonies. At the end of the day, The Blueprint For Madness is an underrated album within the Deceased catalog. |
| Deceased Surreal Overdose |
| Decrepitaph Profane Doctrines Unburied |
| Defaced Creation Serenity in Chaos |
| Swedish death metal with an extra technical edge to it making for a very successful album |
| Deicide The Stench of Redemption |
| Demon Hunter Storm The Gates Of Hell |
| Demonic Sacrifice Enter the Realm of Pure Darkness |
| DernierMartyr/LifelessSorrow/AllTheCold The Plague of Our Lands |
| Desolate Shrine Tenebrous Towers |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand |
| Dir Yassin Discography |
| Dissection The Somberlain |
| Dissection Reinkaos |
| Dissection Live Rebirth |
| Dodsengel Mirium Occultum |
| a new take on classic norweigan black metal that for the most part, works well |
| Donovan Wolfington Stop Breathing |
| HEY THIS IS CATCHY |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage |
| Drastus Serpent's Chalice - Materia Prima |
| Drowning The Light The Fading Rays Of The Sun |
| Drowning The Light The Serpents Reign |
| Drowning The Light The Blood Of The Ancients |
| Drowning The Light Oceans of Eternity |
| Despite being one of the most inconsistent black metal musicians in previous years, Azgorh has since become a fairly strong force within the genre; the quality of the music has improved greatly, and in turn, Drowning The Light's popularity has deservedly soared. This is some top-notch atmospheric black metal, complete with all the recently great melodic choices that have made the past few DTL releases worthwhile. |
| Drowning The Light/Acherontas Drowning the Light / Acherontas |
| Hailing from Australia (Drowning The Light) and Greece (Acherontas) respectfully, both bands play a raw, majestic form of atmospheric black metal. Acherontas provides a more harsh yet melodic approach while Drowning the Light adds the perfect amount of keyboard atmospherics to match their almost equally as scathing approach. Although only 2 songs long, this is split recommended to anyone. |
| Drowning The Light/Circle of Ouroborus Moonflares |
| Drowning The Virgin Silence Beneath The Sulfur Sky |
| Dystopia Na! Syklus |
| Eighteen Visions Yesterday Is Time Killed |
| Eithel Sirion Misanthropic Spheres of Damnation |
| Engraved Before The Tales |
| Unlike much of modern melodeath which comes of as generic and uninspired, Engraved's demo 1995 is a true marriage of original death metal stylings and epic melodies. Backed by a truly fitting muddy production, this demo features some great, downtuned riffs, excellent guttural vocals and great, classic metal inspired melodies. |
| Enslaved Frost |
| Enslaved Below the Lights |
| Enslaved Eld |
| Enslaved Monumension |
| Enslaved Vertebrae |
| Epheles Je Suis Autrefois |
| These french black metal veterans just don't know how to make a bad album |
| Eructation 1992 Demo |
| Escalator Demo |
| Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion |
| Exalted Eyes Rolled Back |
| Excellent punk influenced black metal EP. Fast, chaotic yet still extremely catchy and lots of fun. Although it is truly a shame this is EP is so short (only two songs), one thing it does for sure is make you want to check out the band's back catalog as well as get you excited for future material. Awesome. |
| Execration Odes of the Occult |
| Exoto Carnival of Souls |
| Face the Rail Face the Rail |
| Failures Failures |
| Fallen Christ Abduction Ritual |
| Father Befouled Revulsion of Seraphic Grace |
| Fell Voices Fell Voices |
| Fire In The Cave Fire In the Cave |
| Firebird No. 3 |
| Forest Mysticism Forest Mysticism |
| Four Year Strong It's Our Time |
| Frameworks Small Victories |
| Frontier Demo |
| Hailing from Massachusetts, Frontier plays a form of modern black metal with slight "post" influences. Everything from the instrumentals to the vocals are top notch. Definitely a band to look out for. |
| Funebre Children of the Scorn |
| Furdidurke November 2005 Rehearsal |
| Gaunt Demo |
| Glossolalia Gold in the Throat |
| God Forbid IV: Constitution of Treason |
| God Macabre The Winterlong |
| Grand Mood Final Urge To March |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Guidelines Rules of the Sife |
| Hallow Hallow |
| An album based upon paintings by Mark McCoy, it is a great combination of black metal and noise |
| Happy Particles Under Sleeping Waves |
| Hate Eternal Phoenix Amongst The Ashes |
| Haust Ride The Relapse |
| He Is Legend 91025 |
| He Is Legend Suck Out The Poison |
| Heart on My Sleeve Blood Is Not Thicker Than Wine |
| Great dynamic screamo EP from this year; catchy, fun and played with tons of emotion, this simple yet striking EP would be a great listen to for anyone |
| Heart on My Sleeve Stand by, We're Going In For Life |
| Heinali And Matt Finney Aint No Night |
| Hellacaust Disgust |
| Hellacaust put thrash, death and black metal into a blender, spice it up with some punk attitude and serve it cold. Riffs, voKILLS and blasphemy, this album has it all. |
| Heretoir Existenz |
| Hexis XI |
| Grim and hateful hardcore with strong as balls black metal influences |
| HIM Love Metal |
| Horrid Cross Demo II |
| I Have Dreams Three Days 'til Christmas EP |
| I See Stars Digital Renegade |
| Idylls Farewell All Joy |
| Immolation Failures for Gods |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust |
| Immortal Battles in the North |
| Immortal Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism |
| Immortalis Indicium De Mortuis |
| Impetigo Horror Of The Zombies |
| Imynvokad Tongues of Death |
| Extra melancholic raw black metal that constantly straddles between clean picked sections of pure dissonance and coldly melodic yet churning tremolo picked riffs of epic proportions. Either way, win. |
| In This Moment The Dream |
| Incursus Incursus |
| Deeply inspired by early Norwegian black metal, Incursus' debut EP is two songs of raw, hateful black metal. Backed by a fitting murky production, this USBM knows how to bring the kvlt. |
| Innards I've Lost Everything |
| Into Eternity The Scattering of Ashes |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind |
| Irrwisch Irrwisch |
| Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier Tropical Malady |
| Jesse Barrera Love In Technicolor |
| Kallathon Before Drifting into the Abyss |
| Kerasphorus Cloven Hooves at the Holocaust Dawn |
| Cloven Hooves At The Holocaust Dawn maybe the more polished alternative to the likes of Diocletian or Father Befouled, but Kerasphorus are still every bit as aggressive as their fellow black death/bands as their first and only release displays really enjoyable, if not standard blackened death metal with some awesome riffs at times. |
| Kerasphorus Necronaut |
| Krabathor Cool Mortification |
| Old school death metal from the Czech Republic with experimental and thrash influences aka FUCKING OWNS. |
| Krypts Open the Crypt |
| Excellent old-school styled death metal from Finland. Well produced, well-written this band has a great future ahead of them. |
| L.A. Guns LA Guns |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River... |
| Laika The Brother, The Solace, The Pariah, The Father |
| lastletters From Her to Here |
| What first drew me to lastletters. was the album cover for From Her to Here and what kept me coming back was the music. The melodies here resonate strongly and thanks to the more straightforward structuring of the songs (akin to melodic hardcore) they are super effective. Vocally, the screams here are typical of the genre but amazing nonetheless; literally cracking with passion, when lyrics like "We?ll always be a part of something greater than this, something real, and I can feel it now" , not only do you pay attention, you relate, something that just makes the EP all the more enjoyable. lastletters. have made a super enjoyable release with From Her to Here and are definitely a band to keep an eye on |
| Le Kraken Exalt |
| Leper End Progress |
| While black metal/crust punk and ska seem like genre's that would never mesh together well, Leper does a great job of successfully integrating these influences into burst of intense, great music. Diverse and fun, this album deserves more attention. |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Lugubrum Albino de Congo |
| Machine Head The Blackening |
| Machinemade God Masked |
| Mahumodo Waves |
| ManBearPig Ruined Emo |
| Martire Martire |
| Released in 1991 by Dominator Records, the Martire EP was the first official release from this unknown Australian horde. While the earlier songs on the EP definitely accentuate the band's love for black metal, as the record progresses the band begins to reveal their knack for creating sick and twisted death metal, with tons of awesome riffs and great, technical instrumentation intertwined with black metal's ferocity. The vocals in particular really stood out to me with vocalist/guitarist Vince Feleppa providing screeches suitably spawned from hell. Overall a great EP that definitely comes recommended!rFun Fact: This band also features members of Mournful Congregation and Portal, and while Martire definitely has (well had) a sound of their own, this should reassure you that the quality is nothing less than exceptional. |
| Mayhem Chimera |
| Me and Mark Me and Mark |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed |
| The System Has Failed is the perfect interim Megadeth album; somewhere in between their more commercial oriented route and the overtly technical thrash they began with, The System Has Failed does not only hints at once was and will be, but in itself is a great addition to the Megadeth discography. |
| Metallica Live Shit: Binge And Purge |
| Metallica Garage, Inc |
| Miserere Luminis Miserere Luminis |
| Misfits American Psycho |
| Mister Heavenly Out of Love |
| Monomakh MMXII |
| Monvment I |
| Morbid Angel Formulas Fatal to the Flesh |
| Morbid Angel Domination |
| Morbid Angel Gateways to Annihilation |
| Morgue Eroded Thoughts |
| Motley Crue Dr. Feelgood |
| Motley Crue New Tattoo |
| Motley Crue Theatre Of Pain |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| Nameless Coyote Devoured by the Swirling Night |
| Naphobia Of Hell |
| More overlooked Floridian death metal, Of Hell Naphobia's only full-length album is played in the style of most United States based OSDM bands, meaning there are few things you can automatically guess about whats in store you when listening to this record; uber technical instrumentation, a pace almost too fast to follow, and great production values. Naphobia didn't stray from any formulas but rather just put their heart into perfecting one, making for a great performance by all the group's members. Of Hell is plain and simple incredibly solid from start to finish, and if you can't take my word for it, take it from Chuck Schuldiner and Gene Hoglan two death metal luminaries that wouldn't ever waste their precious time guesting on an album that didn't offer anything but the best. |
| Nembrionic Psycho One Hundred |
| Death/grind that focuses much more on the death aspects of the music, Nembrionic delivers both deliciously crunchy riffs and enjoyably primal grind riffs along with an overall great instrumental delivery. Featuring a great production that no doubt helped the band give a more dense, well-structured performance, Psycho One Hundred is another fantastic slice of Dutch death metal heaven. |
| Neon Trees Habits |
| Nocturnal Blood True Spirit of Old |
| SATANS HARDS |
| Nokturnel Nothing But Hatred |
| Order From Chaos An Ending In Fire |
| Orrery Nine Odes to Oblivion |
| Orth Ano Kato |
| Burping voKILLZ in addition to some prime old school tech death metal goodness |
| Panopticon Panopticon |
| Panopticon Collapse |
| Panopticon On the Subject of Mortality |
| Panopticon's already well established awesomeness + shoegaze influences = EVEN MORE AWESOMENESS |
| Panopticon/Wheels Within Wheels II |
| Haven't heard Wheels Within Wheels side yet but Panopticon's side was so fucking impressive, WWW could literally have recorded themselves taking wet shits and I still would still rate this a 4.5. |
| Pantheon I Worlds I Create |
| Paramore Riot! |
| Peaking Lights Imaginary Falcons |
| Pensees Nocturnes Vacuum |
| Pensees Nocturnes Grotesque |
| Generally 'sophisticated" and "black metal" are never mentioned in the same sentence, yet with Pensees Nocturne's Grotesque the band brings a certain level of refinement that the genre overall could use. |
| Pestilence Consuming Impulse |
| Idk, probably one of the best death metal albums ever |
| Planks The Darkest of Grays |
| Planks Funeral Mouth |
| Portal Seepia |
| Although easily the band's most "conventional" release, Portal's first demented album, Seepia is still a sick and twisted listening experience. Performed in filth ridden production, Seepia shows Portal playing more riff oriented blackened death while still beginning to exhibit some of the claustrophobic and dense atmospheres that would take precedence on later albums. They might have not have found their feet yet, but Seepia is still an incredible album and "Glumurphonel" is still one of the group's best songs to date. |
| Profanatica Sickened By Holy Host |
| It's good to see that after twenty two years the original black metal band is still playing by the rules they themselves set so long ago - Profanatica doesn't play to please the fans, they don't play to please the critics, they play because they genuinely love to create some of the most crude and simplistic black metal racket to ever exist. Sickened By Holy Host is one of the band's best releases yet. |
| Prosanctus Inferi Sacreligious Desecration In Excelsis |
| Although most days I prefer their full-length, Prosanctus Inferi's first demo is absolute descent into hell; spawning riffs of pure malevolence, choking with its conjuration of a thick, stifling and ever so tangible atmosphere and battering with an assaulting percussive performance, Sacrilegious Desecration In Excelsis is more than just music, it's a ritualistic satanic journey from which there may be no return. Listen at your own risk. |
| Prosanctus Inferi Pandemonic Ululations of Vesperic... |
| Probably the best black/death metal release from last year |
| Rational Animals Bock Rock Parade |
| Reel Big Fish Why Do They Rock So Hard? |
| Reel Big Fish Turn the Radio Off |
| Reflux The Illusion Of Democracy |
| Rehashed Rehashed Demo |
| Hardcore and thrash metal combo that maintains a contain stream of unbridled aggression. Great riffs, awesome vokillz and overall just good vibes this album is fun as it is dangerous. |
| Reka I |
| Reka II |
| Revenant (US) Prophecies Of A Dying World |
| Revenge (CAN) Infiltration.Downfall.Death |
| Revenge (CAN) Triumph.Genocide.Antichrist |
| Revenge (CAN) Victory.Intolerance.Mastery |
| Revenge (CAN) Scum.Collapse.Eradication |
| Hailing from the same lineage as famed blackened blasphemers such as Angelcorpse and Order From Chaos, Revenge has always been one of the best blackened death metal groups around; fourth full-length album Scum.Collapse.Eradication solidifies this as the band continues to purvey some of the most vile and wretched music to grace this earth. |
| Rhinocervs RH01 |
| Rhinocervs RH-12 |
| Rhinocervs RH-13 |
| Rites of Thy Degringolade The Caryatid |
| Rites of Thy Degringolade Totality |
| Rites of Thy Degringolade An Ode To Sin |
| Ritual Necromancy Oath of the Abyss |
| Rose Kemp Golden Shroud |
| Salvation Mortality Interactions |
| Salvation's second full-length is a definite step-up from their already impressive debut, containing more even more aggression, more demonic shrieks courtesy of vocalist Adis and even more buzzed out hardcore riffs. Raw but still catchy as fuck, Mortality Interactions is a fantastic and unique hardcore gem from last year. |
| Sanctum On The Horizon |
| Scraps Aaargh! |
| French hardcore styled after Japanese hardcore that rules |
| Sectioned Purulent Reality |
| Sen Deni No More |
| Another great example of post-rock infused screamo, Belarus's own Sen Deni create very captivating songs with overflowing amounts of emotion. From faster paced sections with bright and blissful powerchord assaults to beautiful clean interludes, Sen Deni isn't reinventing the wheel whatsoever but they rule just the same. |
| Sen Deni письма |
| Senses Fail From The Depths Of Dreams |
| Senses Fail The Fire |
| Sepsism Distorting the Mortal Visage |
| Seven Sisters of Sleep Seven Sisters of Sleep |
| Shadows Fall The Art of Balance |
| Shikari 1999 - 2003 |
| Shining (SWE) I - Within Deep Dark Chambers |
| Shining (SWE) IV - The Eerie Cold |
| Shining (SWE) II - Livets Andhallplats |
| Shinki Chen Shinki Chen and his Friends |
| Sickening Gore Destructive Reality |
| Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape |
| Sigh Scorn Defeat |
| Six Brew Bantha Six Brew Bantha |
| Skid Row Slave To The Grind |
| Slayer Hell Awaits |
| Sleepwalker Sleepwalker |
| Sleepwalker 2010 Tour CD-R |
| Sleepwalker follow up their excellent first demo with something a bit more experimental this time around, throwing in dashes of drone into their already slick combination of black metal, post-rock and shoegaze. |
| Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Slipknot Disasterpieces [DVD] |
| Slipknot Iowa (10th Anniversary Edition) |
| Soilwork Stabbing the Drama |
| Spite Extreme Wing Non dvcor, dvco |
| Sport Colors |
| SQRM Rodeo |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected |
| Sum 41 Chuck |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler |
| Summoning Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame |
| Sump Autumn Blood |
| Sump Taken Dead |
| Talvihorros Let Us Be Thankful We Have Commerce |
| Tau Tau Eyelids |
| Holy shit i don't like this electro bullshit pop shit generally but this is really good |
| Tawny Peaks Tawny Peaks |
| Tenebrae in Perpetuum L'Eterno Maligno Silenzio |
| In essence Tenebrae in Perpetuum is the manifestation of true black metal; high pitched shrieked vocals, repetitive, tremolo picked guitar chords and quite the sinister atmosphere are all staples of the band's sound and of course the genre yet Tenebrae In Perpetuum seems to add just the perfect amount of odds and ends to raise this album above a good portion of the genres other practitioners |
| Terzij de Horde A Rage of Rapture Against the Dying of Light |
| The Bad Form No More Neo No Wave |
| The Cancer Kids The Possible Dream |
| Thrashcore that doesn't pull any punches. Violent, spastic chaotic, The Cancer Kids play one of hardcore's most visceral sub-genres a brimming energy that is nothing less than awe-inspiring |
| The Chronicles Of Israfel Starborn, Tome I |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord |
| The Devil's Blood The Time Of No Time Evermore |
| Fucking awesome occult rock that sounds like it come out in 1969 |
| The Mausoleums Blackened Fawns Cleanse the Earth With Fire |
| The Offspring The Offspring |
| The Offspring Americana |
| GIVE IT TO ME BABY, UN HUNH UN HUNH! GIVE IT TO ME BABY, UN HUNH UN HUNH! |
| The Offspring Greatest Hits |
| The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace |
| In reality, Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace isn't too different from The Offspring's past releases; sure, there some minor kinks to their same patented formula, what would you expect from this twenty some odd year old punk band? The same damn catchy albums they have producing throughout their career. |
| The Speed of Sound in Seawater Blue Version |
| The Speed of Sound in Seawater Underwater Tell Each Other Secrets |
| Following up the superb Red Version, Underwater Tell Each Other Secrets is stylistically a return to the math-rock oriented approach of their debut Blue Version while keeping the sugary sweet vocal harmonies of Red Version. Just like everything this band has done, this album rules fucking hard and is highly recommended to the world. |
| The Stalin Stop Jap |
| The Tidal Sleep The Tidal Sleep |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia: I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing |
| Thranenkind Eine Momentaufnahme - Der Rest ist nur Einsamkeit |
| Threnos By Blood and By Earth |
| The often uncredited beginners of the Cascadian black metal scene, Threnos was around long enough only to put out one release but it really fucking ruled. |
| Timeghoul Panaramic Twilight |
| Timeghoul Tumultuous Travelings |
| Timeghoul Complete Discography |
| I don't remember which label decided to do this, but whoever it was obviously pays keen attention to metal blogs -- this band's two demos have been posted quite a few times in the past few months. Really unique and individual death metal, this awesome release offers the chance for people to own a physical copy of previously rare material. |
| Tiny Hawks Fingers Become Bridges |
| Tiny Hawks People Without End |
| Tiny Moving Parts This Couch Is Long & Full of Friendship |
| Torture Chain Mountains of Hate |
| Trivium Ascendancy |
| Trivium Shogun |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal |
| Undead Creep The Ever-Burning Torch |
| Underoath Cries of the Past |
| Underoath Define the Great Line |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm |
| Unfun Caroline |
| Unsacred Where The Light Dims |
| As blackened hardcore/crust becomes a more prevalent trend in music more and more bands continue to show just how far and how interesting this newfound genre can be taken. |
| Utumno Across the Horizon |
| Valkyrie Valkyrie |
| An amazing folk album a truly elusive American group; epic yet serene the band's keen sense of melody and dynamics makes this relatively short demo a real pleasure. |
| Various Artists Odour of Dust and Rot |
| Vegas Martyrs Harlot Widow |
| Veins Veins |
| Verwustung Beyond The Watercolor Sunset, We Feel New Life |
| amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing |
| Violent Ends Black Moon |
| Volahn Dimensiones del Trance Kosmico |
| Vortex of End In Satan and Plutonium We Trust |
| Vreid V |
| I can't really say I was ever a particularly huge fan of Vreid before, but with the excellence of V, the Norwegian based black metal band has definitely sparked my interest. 9 tracks, of scathing yet melodic black metal composed with a refined edge that never fails to impress, V is an extremely dynamic record that will hold your interest till the end. Harboring a welcome display of modest technical ability, Vreid's amazing instrumentation varies in all sorts of things, tempo, aggression etc... but one thing that remains consistent throughout all the music's various incarnations is the fact that Vreid has crafted a black metal album that will both please the fans of old and gain the band many legions of basement dwelling trolls anew. |
| War Hungry War Hungry |
| There's no denying that this Wilkes-Barre based hardcore unit has a lot going on for them; from crushing hardcore riffs, balls to the wall thrash breakdowns and just an overall great sense of songwriting, War Hungry's debut album is pretty spectacular. Imagine a more intense Corrosion of Conformity and you're halfway to what these guys sound like. |
| Weak Teeth What a Plague You Are |
| Weakling Dead as Dreams |
| Weapon From The Devil's Tomb |
| There must of have been something in the water during 2010 because the amount of black/death releases that ruled seemed to raise exponentially during that time, which of course, was when Weapon released From The Devil's Tomb; more heavily emphasizing their death metal upbringing's, From The Devil's Tomb has awesome riffs, devilish vocals and ridiculously shredding solos, just about everything a black/death fan would need. |
| White Wolves Kommando Black Metal Resistance |
| White Wolves Kommando Our Empire of Shadows |
| Winter Dust Existence |
| Witch In Her Tomb Witch In Her Tomb |
| Witch Ripper Witch Ripper |
| Witchcraft (Hun) Carpathian Fire |
| Witchcraft play a formed of traditional second wave black metal and they do it right; buzzing guitars, necro vocals and a filthy production the band could easily be confused for any of the original Norwegian black metal bands during their prime. Mixing the typical Darkthrone-esque droning guitar lines with little specks of melody, Carpathian Fire is a straight up great black metal album. |
| Woe A Spell For The Death Of Man |
| Yellow Swans At All Ends |
| Yellow Swans Going Places |
| 3.5 great |
| A Day To Remember And Their Name Was Treason |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart |
| A Day To Remember Homesick |
| Abhorrence Vulgar Necrolatry |
| Abominable Putridity The Anomalies of Artificial Origin |
| Okay so this is a lot better than I initially gave it credit for. |
| Absence of Dawn And the Sun is Fading... |
| When one is listening to Absence of Dawn's sole demo release, And The Sun Is Fading... a feeling of lost potential cannot help but to be had; while the band certainly portrays a fair amount of talent, whether it be in their harmonized guitar lines or the sporadically used keyboard embellishments, it always seems like they are capable of more. Perhaps better vocals and a cleaner production (the one heard is thin, stale and lifeless) could of made this a classic release. |
| Absum Purgatoire 2007-2009 |
| Absurd Existence Silence |
| Acephalix Interminable Night |
| Adversarial All Idols Fall Before the Hammer |
| Agatus Dawn of Martyrdom |
| Much like the other bands in Hellenic black metal's first wave Agatus does not carry the rawness that was common in most 90's black metal; instead the band concentrates on a mid-tempo pace and elegant keyboard arrangements. Not as fierce as their Norwegian counterparts yet still a great album and worth checking out, especially if new to the genre. |
| Aguynguerran Horde Of The Antichrist |
| Delving much further into the roots of black metal then their 2009 full-length, Hordes of the Antichrist is still an above average black metal demo |
| Airs Adore |
| Discarding almost all traces of their 'blackgaze' past, Airs new shoegaze/indie rock direction actually makes them a band worth mention. Richly atmospheric, Airs dreamy soundscapes are absolutely beautiful, punctuated by at times intense drumming and soothing vocals. Some black metal elements remain but perfectly fit into the new aesthetic the band has created for themselves. Yeah, you want this. |
| Alioth Channeling Unclean Spirits |
| All That Remains A War You Cannot Win |
| Anchor Recovery |
| Angelcorpse Exterminate |
| Antediluvian Revelations in Excrement |
| Antediluvian λόγος |
| Anthrax Spreading The Disease |
| Anthrax Among The Living |
| Anthrax State Of Euphoria |
| Antichrist [Canada] Sacrament of Blood |
| Anubi Kai pilnaties akis uzmerks Mirtis |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion |
| Archgoat The Light-Devouring Darkness |
| On a first listen this is good if not standard blackened death. As per usual the faster moments are a bit monotonous but the slower sections are groovy and great. |
| Ares Kingdom Return to Dust |
| Death/thrash from former members of legendary blackened death band Order From Chaos - as expected it's not as good as the fellows past endeavors but it's still pretty good. |
| Arktika Symmetry |
| Arktika's second full-length is hit or miss - while some melodies really break through, there are times where this becomes a bit stale and lifeless. However, it is definitely more good than bad and the second half is inarguably solid. |
| Arms Like Yours .Architect. |
| Ashdautas Shadow Plays of Grief and Pain |
| Aspbergers/1984 Split |
| Assault Assault Demo |
| An amazing gem from the Japanese hardcore scene. Crossover influenced hardcore with an extra metal edge, Assault skillfully cross speedy hardcore with breakneck thrash influenced guitars and traditional Japanese style hardcore vocals. While this already makes for a great album, Assault don't stop there; adding elements of emo to the formula, the Assault demo carries a certain sense of melody and dynamics that is sure to captivate all who listen. |
| Atreyu A Deathgrip On Yesterday |
| Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly |
| Attack Attack! Attack Attack! (Deluxe Reissue) |
| Auspicium Here Is No Heaven |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil |
| Avulsed Eminence in Putresence |
| Axeman Arrive |
| Bael Deathly Pale |
| Banished Deliver Me Unto Pain |
| The more I listen to this the more it grows on me - great old school styled death metal with flourishes of the classic New York slamming. Definitely a great and overlooked album and definitely something that grows on you. |
| Baptists Baptists |
| Baptists Bushcraft |
| Before Their Eyes Before Their Eyes |
| Although not an overtly distinctive band, Before Their Eyes' first album is nonetheless a very enjoyable modern post-hardcore release; the vocals may be a bit iffy at times (mostly the screams) but overall the band can write a good hook and does have some pretty interesting guitar-work. Nothing too spectacular, Before Their Eyes is a fun listen and easily the band's best work. |
| Birkabein Land der ewigen Nacht |
| The sole demo from members of Old Pagan and Grausamkeit, Land Der Ewigen Nacht is a low-fi atmospheric black metal gem. Packed with raw and hateful guitars mixed with majestic keyboard embellishments this demo will make you wish the project stayed together. |
| Blasphemy Fallen Angel of Doom |
| blink-182 Cheshire Cat |
| blink-182 Buddha |
| Blue Hummingbird On The Left Bloodflower |
| One of the Black Twilight Circle's newest acquisitions, Blue Hummingbird onn the Left forsakes the often atmospheric playing of their fellow inductees, playing a rawer form of black metal with crust and thrash influences. With lyrical themes centered upon Mexican Nationalism and Huitzilopochtli War Culture, Blue Hummingbird on the Left is certainly a fun, quick listen to energetic raw black metal. Oh and did I mention the flute playing? |
| Breaking Benjamin So Cold EP |
| Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony |
| Bring Me The Horizon This Is What The Edge Of Your Seat Was Made For |
| Bring Me The Horizon Count Your Blessings |
| Brutality Screams of Anguish |
| Buckethead Inbred Mountain |
| Buckethead Bucketheadland |
| Buckethead Kaleidoscalp |
| Buckethead Bermuda Triangle |
| Buckethead Crime Slunk Scene |
| Buckethead Monsters & Robots |
| Buckethead Day of the Robot |
| Buckethead Funnel Weaver |
| Buckethead Albino Slug |
| Buckethead A Real Diamond In The Rough |
| Burden of a Day OneOneThousand |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var |
| Burzum Umskiptar |
| This album is actually really good, I don't know what you are being faggots about. Varg still shows he has plenty of spark left and compared to other modern black metal, this album actually stands out quite a bit. A return to grace for black metal's most controversial figure. |
| Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life |
| Capital Lights Rhythm N Moves |
| Cemetary An Evil Shade of Grey |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| Children of Bodom Trashed, Lost & Strungout |
| Children of Bodom Chaos Ridden Years - Stockholm Knockout |
| Chrome Waves Chrome Waves |
| Circle of Ouroborus/Crooked Necks Ruins of Resurrection |
| Circle Takes The Square As the Roots Undo |
| Clair Cassis Clair Cassis II |
| Clikatat Ikatowi Orchestrated and Conducted By |
| Cogs and Sprockets The Black Friday EP |
| Eleven songs, four minutes, DO THE FUCKING MATH. Grinds your face in harder then I grind your mom every night of the week. |
| Colors Palindromes |
| Conqueror War Cult Supremacy |
| Consolation Stahlplaat |
| Converge Halo in a Haystack |
| Cornigr Relics of Inner War |
| Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine |
| Cradle of Filth From the Cradle to Enslave |
| Cradle of Filth Live Bait for the Dead |
| Cradle of Filth Bitter Suites to Succubi |
| Cradle of Filth Thornography |
| Craft Total Soul Rape |
| Craven Idol Ethereal Altars |
| Crebain Nachtkrieg |
| Nachtkrieg is a great release. Some cool riffs, great ideas and decent musicianship all guarantee that. Bearing that in mind why is it only great? It seems that sole member Ancalagon The Black (lol) cannot exactly decide which form of black metal to be. DSBM one song, old school the next, there is certain inconsistency that bogs down the quality of this demo. Oh and the vocals suck. |
| Creepmime Shadows |
| Is it just me or does a lot of quality death metal come out of the Netherlands? Creepmime is yet another great Dutch act that on their first full-length, Shadows, combines murky old school death metal with lurching doom metal also throwing in some classic metal inspired melodies and some uber technical moments. |
| Dads American Radass (this is important) |
| Damezumari No Hugging, No Learning |
| Dammerfarben Im Abendrot |
| Dammerfarben do the whole melodic/folk black metal thing right for the most part -- they never get overly cheesy with folk melodies and overall I'm a big fan of the clean interludes on this album. That being said the songs often feel as they never end and theRE is a lot of similarity between the songs "heavier" sections. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II |
| Darklord Symphony Satanikka |
| Coming from the Australian underground Darklord combines brutal and intense death metal with symphonic black metal, an unlikely mixture and proves to be quite successful thanks to the great execution of the band. Aside from the heavy use of symphonic elements (which actually doesn't come across as TOO cheesy) the also makes frequent use of neoclassical elements within their songs, especially in the guitar solos. Overall a good record if you don't mind lots of keyboards. |
| Darkthrone Sardonic Wrath |
| Darkthrone Total Death |
| Darkthrone Soulside Journey |
| Darkthrone Ravishing Grimness |
| Darkthrone Hate Them |
| Darkthrone Circle the Wagons |
| Dawn Treader Post Mortem |
| Death Angel Killing Season |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis |
| Decapitated The Negation |
| Demented Ted Promises Impure |
| Demilich Nespithe |
| Demonical Death Infernal |
| This is pretty great stuff. These guys and Entrails seem to be doing a decent job at reviving the swedish sound |
| Departures When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted |
| Destruktor Nailed |
| Devil's Dung Devil's Dung |
| Another one of Mark McCoy's one-off black metal projects (this time featuring Dominick Fernow of Ash Pool, Em Dath Rir, Vegas Martyrs, etc..), Devil's Dung play a mean brand of raw black metal that is poorly produced and sloppy but enjoyable and genuine nonetheless. Black metal was never meant to be perfect and this "mess" of an album perfectly demonstrates how mistake filled black metal can still make the above average cut. |
| DevilDriver Devildriver |
| DevilDriver The Last Kind Words |
| DevilDriver Pray for Villains |
| Diocletian War of All Against All |
| Disgrace Debts of God |
| Disma Towards the Megalith |
| Disthory Perfidia y Obito |
| What happens when you mix Discharge with Bathory... DISTHORY |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists |
| Dolorvotre Dolorvotre |
| Doom Formation Definition of Evil |
| Doth Datura Wrightii |
| Drowning The Light A Pact With Madness |
| Drowning The Light An Alignment of Dead Stars |
| Drowning The Light A World Long Dead |
| Drowning The Light Through The Noose of Existence |
| Drowning The Light To The End Of Time |
| Drowning The Light Of Celtic Blood & Satanic Pride |
| Drowning The Light Catacombs of Blood |
| Eighteen Visions Obsession |
| Eighteen Visions Vanity |
| Embers Shadows |
| Encoffination O Hell, Shine In Thy Whited Sepulchres |
| Enslaved Ruun |
| Enslaved Blodhemn |
| Entrails The Tomb Awaits |
| I probably like this more than I should but there is something about Entrails no-deviation Swedish death metal sound that inspires me; everything here is run of mill, but who says that's such a bad thing? |
| Epheles Les Anges de la derniere Scene |
| Exeloume Fairytale of Perversion |
| Exhumation (GR) Seas of Eternal Silence |
| Fleshing out melodic motifs amidst more traditional death metal bestiality, Exhumation is yet another Greek entity that delves deep into mystical melodies but successfully bridges the gap between sheer heaviness and excellent composition. |
| Fail Emotions Transfornation |
| What the hell? A trance influenced post-hardcore band that actually doesn't completely suck, in fact actually rules quite a bit. Fail Emotions display a much higher level of technicality than some of their contemporaries that they manage to perfectly weave in and out in-between swathes of frisky, danceable electronica fun. The vocals are heavily autotuned but the band still pulls them off in style, juxtaposing the extremely commercial production technique against harsh screams and screeches. |
| Faith No More The Real Thing |
| Falling in Reverse The Drug In Me Is You |
| Famous Last Words Pick Your Poison |
| These guys may be doing that whole dancey metalcore stuff but hey, it's catchy. We can't be looking for serious music all the time, and during those off times when you need a little brevity, this is a fun little EP that is pretty easily enjoyable. |
| Father Befouled Morbid Destitution of Covenant |
| There is a lot of Incantation worship that goes on these days, and these guys plain and simple do it without much deviance. Good thing Incantation rules or these guys would be in trouble. |
| Forgotten Spell Desecrated, Decayed and Still Holy |
| Four Year Strong Enemy of the World |
| fun. Aim and Ignite |
| Ghost (Pol) The Lost of Mercy |
| Old school death/doom that fucking slays. RIFFS RIFFS RIFFS. |
| Gorephilia Ascend to Chaos |
| Grinning Death's Head Demo |
| Grinning Death's Head Black Sun Rising |
| Guidelines S/T_EP |
| Gyibaaw Ancestral War Hymns |
| Gyibaaw is a pretty vicious little number from Canada who like their contemporaries Mitochondrion, Portal and Antediluvian delve deep into blackened death metal. Unbashedly chaotic, Ancestral War Hynms often times feels like it's exploding into seven different directions at once, but at close inspection you can really have nothing but respect for these Canadian metallers. Overall the songwriting is much more intricate than one can tell at first glace. This is superb debut and I expect great things from this blackened death crew. |
| Hardware Hardware |
| Generally I would stick far away from industrial death metal (because most of it just plain sucks) however when it comes to Mexico's Hardware, I'll make an exception. Calling their keyboard infected brand of extremity "cyber death metal", Hardware ridiculously titled self-created genre actually does take on a life of its own in the hands of these Mexican banditos. Like most demos the production values for this release are pretty abysmal but the band kills it, blasting away squeaky tremolo picked lines and double bass rhythms while being backed by the unique keyboard atmospherics that create some pretty melancholic tones. It's not perfect and sometimes the band does seem a little less inspired as compared to other times, but overall this is an interesting release from the Mexican and 90's death metal scenes for sure. |
| Hexis/As We Draw/Euglena Split |
| A great release by three up and coming post-hardcore bands, the Hexis/As We Draw/Euglena split very much offers a look into the darker side of the aforementioned genre. While As We Draw and Euglena sprinkle in elements of post-metal to make their songs extra epic, Hexis's contributions dabble in the realm of black metal giving the album a nice sense of diversity. Although there are still some things that could be worked on, these three bands hint here that they just may have some pretty bright futures ahead of them. |
| HIM Razorblade Romance |
| HIM Dark Light |
| Hopelorn Golden Fields Black Wings |
| Huata Atavist of Mann |
| Immolation Unholy Cult |
| Immolation Harnessing Ruin |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay |
| my cat has a bruise on it's right eye. because i kicked it. oh and yeah the album rules. |
| Immortal Blizzard beasts |
| In Tormentata Quiete In Tormentata Quiete |
| Incarpathia Lost |
| I'm not a deathcore fan by any standards; even the mere mention of the genre sickens me basically. That being said, I love this album. Taking minimal doses of deathcore and combining it with melodic death metal, this US based quintet has released one of the best deathcore EPs there is; and nobody knows about it. |
| Inferno Requiem Gloomy Night Stories |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark |
| Iron Maiden The X Factor |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death |
| Istapp Blekinge |
| Jellyroll Rockheads Wake Up, Music |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent |
| "Why do you guys keep rating an album WITHOUT listening to it in it's entirety? It hasn't came out yet, it hasn't leaked, so who already rated this as "Classic", "Superb" or anything else is a moron." Yeah, okay, THEY are the morons... |
| Krieg The Isolationist |
| Although they aren't really apparent until a few listens in, there are some very fine moments on this album. One of the more underrated black metal albums of the past few years. |
| Krisiun AssasiNation |
| Although this is a bit repetitive , Krisiun make it work |
| Krypts Krypts |
| Kuxan Suum Kinich Ahau |
| Kyte Dead Waves |
| L.A. Guns Cocked & Loaded |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Leichengott Cyrograf |
| Leichengott Ostrza |
| Leper Embarrassed to Be Human |
| Les Discrets Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Lizards Have Personalities Snows of Kilimanjaro |
| Lizards Have Personalities/Book Of Caverns Split |
| Loss of Self Demo |
| Machine Head The Burning Red |
| Masachist Death March Fury |
| Mata Mata Mata Mata |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| Mayhem Grand Declaration Of War |
| Mayhem Ordo Ad Chao |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Metallica The $5.98 E.P. Garage Days Re-Revisited |
| Metallica S&M |
| Mgla With Hearts Toward None |
| Misfits Famous Monsters |
| Mitochondrion Parasignosis |
| Is it just me or does this album get a little longer each listen? |
| Motley Crue Generation Swine |
| Motley Crue Girls, Girls, Girls |
| Motley Crue Saints of Los Angeles |
| Mourning Forest Au Coeur de l'Ombre |
| Muknal CN-22 |
| One of the weaker bands to come from Crepsculo Negro but these guys are still pretty good |
| Muse Showbiz |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Muse Black Holes and Revelations |
| Mystifier The World Is So Good That Who Made It Doesn't Live |
| Napalm Death Scum |
| Narrows Painted |
| Natural Law Slump |
| Modern hardcore that still recalls the genres classic elements, Natural Law are loud, fast, dirty and they don't even give a fuck. |
| Necros Christos Doom of the Occult |
| Nekros Manteia Deus Otiosus |
| NOFX Wolves in Wolves Clothing |
| Obolus Lament |
| Of Mice & Men The Flood |
| Coming off an average debut album, the departure (and subsequent rejoining) of the ever controversial Austin Carlile, Of Mice & Men have still managed to overcome all their trials and tribulations to craft a modern post-hardcore album that is actually worth giving a damn over; more creative song-writing, better instrumentals and with Shayley Bourget's soaring vocals taking more precedence than seen before, Of Mice & Men are a band that is well on their way to some well-deserved success. |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Order From Chaos Dawn Bringer |
| Palisades I'm Not Dying Today |
| Panopticon/Lake of Blood Split |
| Pantheist Pantheist |
| Paragon Impure To Gaius |
| This shit is fucking intense. Raw as fuck, dissonant as anything, there is literally nothing accessible about this album. And I love it. |
| Parkway Drive Killing With A Smile |
| Pathology The Time of Great Purification |
| I am generally not a fan of brutal death metal at all but fuck this is really good. I think the main reason I enjoy it so much is because everything from the riffs to the vocals are extremely reminiscent of Abominable Putridity |
| Paysage d'Hiver/Lunar Aurora Split |
| Pensees Nocturnes Ceci est de la musique |
| This could very well be my black metal album of the year; retaining the strong yet tasteful use of symphonic and theatrical elements, Pensees Nocturnes 2011 release sees sole member Vaerohn not only mustering truly impressive atmospheric backdrops but also adding much more bite to the bands brand of avant-garde black metal. And while Vaerohn easily proves himself to be a truly awe-inspiring multi-instrumentalist he also conjures one hell of a hoarse wail, the perfect type of vocals to accompany an album that is just drench in melancholy. Fucking recommended. |
| Pierce the Veil Selfish Machines |
| Proclamation Nether Tombs of Abaddon |
| Profanatica Disgusting Blasphemies Against God |
| Profanatica is all about the blasphemy; decrying religion at almost every chance they get, if any devout Catholic heard a minute of their 2010 opus Disgusting Blasphemies Against God (or even just heard the title) they would probably declare some sort of Armageddon warning. Musically, the band plays a pretty raw form of black metal, yet nothing really new. Definintely more enjoyable when in a certain mood, yet for the most part this is just another average black metal release with above average lyrics of blasphemy. |
| Prosanctus Inferi Red Streams of Flesh |
| Pseudogod Deathwomb Catechesis |
| Psycroptic The Scepter of the Ancients |
| Rahu Caput Draconis |
| Ratt Out of the Cellar |
| Ravachol Great Moments in the Void |
| Raw Nerve Nervous Habits |
| A great tape by another great Youth Attack! hardcore band. I wonder how long until it's too trendy to like any YA! bands and we are all forced to ignore their consistent brilliance. |
| Reel Big Fish Everything Sucks |
| Rites of Thy Degringolade Totalitys Commad |
| Roman Cross Make Graves the Home of Men |
| Sael The Sixth Extinction |
| Salvation Of Unforgiving Wind |
| Uber aggressive buzzed out hardcore from Pennsylvania. |
| Salvation House of the Beating Hell |
| A part of the Youth Attack! music conglomerate, Philadelphia's Salvation have been releasing great and seriously moody hardcore since 2009 with the release of their debut album, Of Unforgiving Wind. Seemingly at odds with the sheer violence of their first album (and sophomore effort, Mortality Interactions) Salvation's latest EP shows the band paying more attention to detail, crafting a set of songs that may lack their previous aggression but more than makes up for it with their obviously more thoughtful compositions. House of the Beating Hell is still very much a Salvation release, but it is easily their most mature to date. |
| Sargeist/Drowning the Light Crimson Wine/As the Blood Flows On... |
| Scar Symmetry Symmetric In Design |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe |
| Seagraves Weight of the World |
| Sectioned Elme |
| Infusing elements of old school death metal with elements of thrash and even black metal, Sectioned's Elme is a competent excursion into realms of (slightly) experimental black metal. Fast riffs, excellent vocals and some pretty cool song-writing this album doesn't come highly recommended, but recommended nonetheless. |
| Seether Disclaimer |
| Senses Fail Life Is Not A Waiting Room |
| Shaolin Finger Jabb Santa Maria Powerviolence |
| No holds barred, female fronted powerviolence that absolutely rips. Also the song titles are actually pretty funny. |
| Shark Bait/Adaje Split |
| Shining (SWE) III - Angst, Självdestruktivitetens Emissarie |
| Shyy/... The Path Toward Forgetfulness |
| A release between two bands that are arguably some of the better groups from the shoegazing black metal pool, The Path Towards Forgetfulness has some pretty glaring errors but overall is an extremely enjoyable listen. Although they have received much more attention, Shyy is easily the weaker band here, creating two decent songs that have more in common with straightforward indie but definitely get their vocal style from shoegaze. ... on the other hand (yes, the name of the band is "...") create three completely entrancing pieces which if honestly had been by themselves would have made for an excellent demo/EP. The songs transition beautifully from more depressive black metal sections (which are actually wonderfully done) to clean vocal driven shoegaze dreamfests. Definitely a band to look for, if these songs are any indication, this band will do great things on future releases. |
| Sigh Gallows Gallery |
| Sigh Infidel Art |
| Sigh Ghastly Funeral Theatre |
| Silent Civilian Rebirth of the Temple |
| Sinat Hinam Sinat Hinam |
| Black metal influenced crust punk from Israel. Thick murky guitars that swap between simpler crust punk lines, tremolo picked guitar and classic metal inspired passages Sinat Hinam is heavy, pounding and passionate crust that doesn't hold anything back |
| Sixx:A.M. This Is Gonna Hurt |
| Mainstream rock that isn't embarrassing to listen to. We all knew Sixx:A.M. would make this album, an album that further propels their burgeoning mainstream sound but it's so damn catchy who cares if there's little to no substance to be found here? Great vocals, catchy melodies and surprisingly solid instrumentation This is Gonna Hurt continues Sixx:A.M.'s hot-streak of writing awesome modern rock records. |
| Skid Row Subhuman Race |
| Slipknot 9.0: Live |
| Sonne Adam Transformation |
| Static-X Start a War |
| Stone Sour Stone Sour |
| Sugartown Cabaret The First Time I Lost The Road Map |
| Sugartown Cabaret Beyond Foam |
| Suicide Nation Suicide Nation |
| Summoning Oath Bound |
| Summoning Dol Guldur |
| Summoning Minas Morgul |
| Sump Demo |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Tennis Cape Dory |
| Terrorizer World Downfall |
| Testament The Formation Of Damnation |
| The Great Old Ones Al Azif |
| The Offspring Ignition |
| The Offspring Conspiracy of One |
| The Offspring Baghdad |
| The Offspring Club Me |
| The Offspring A Piece of Americana |
| The Tidal Sleep Four Song EP |
| The Word Alive Deceiver |
band was much better with mabbitt and you're just kidding yourselfs if you think otherwise
Don't listen to Comatorium., he's putting Bring Me The Horizon on the end of his year list |
| This Gift Is A Curse This Gift Is A Curse |
| This Station of Life Antithetic |
| Titan (CAN) Burn |
| Todos Caeran After Dark |
| Torture Chain Across Great Landscapes to a Legacy of Blood |
| Trivium Ember to Inferno |
| Truppensturm Salute to the Iron Emperors |
| Ufesas Ufesas |
| Undercroft Twisted Souls |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| Underoath Act of Depression |
| Underoath Disambiguation |
| Viggo Mortensen Intelligence Failure |
| Vigrid Throne of Forest |
| Awesome folk influences black metal with some classic metal influences |
| When Bitter Spring Sleeps/Panopticon Split |
| White Wolves Kommando Dark Ages Return |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason |
| Wotanorden The Hands of Faith |
| Yellow Eyes Silence Threads the Evening's Cloth |
| Yellow Swans Being There |
| YOUWRETCH YOUWRETCH |
| Heavy as shit hardcore that also has some awesome melodic flourishes |
| YOUWRETCH Sympathy Of Wolves |
