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5.0 classic
Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury
I may be pulling the trigger here a touch early, but this is your AOTY. It swirls, transcends, grabs, pulls, grows and takes a hold on the darkest parts of your emotions. It's a change from previous releases in more than a couple of ways. Track length suits a better all rounded sense and they have dropped the black metal intensity opting for a smoother post/experimental sound.
B.B. King Lucille
Cynic Focus
Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Deafheaven Sunbather
...life's short - five everything...rAll Hail! Pink adorned black metal albums for everyone!
Eye of Solitude Cenotaph
Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology
Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast
Opeth Blackwater Park
Paysage d'Hiver Im Wald
Skin Tension Omni

4.9 classic
Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana

4.8 classic
Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Rejecting Obliteration
Ne Obliviscaris Exul

4.7 superb
Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
Some days I just absently scroll through the site's database, dropping 3's as I go but every so often I find an album that just begs the question: Jac 4.8/5 review when?
Agalloch The Mantle
Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race
Esoctrilihum Astraal Constellations of the Majickal Zodiac
Harry Fucking Potter and the Astraal Constellations of the Majickal Zodiac
Lack the Low God-Carrier
Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still
It's unfathomable, Ulcerate's consistently better than great performances over the years. Stare Into Death... is quickly becoming a top 3 Ulcerate experience. If you thought the closer was good, having the context of the rest of the record in front of it makes it all the more alimentary.

4.6 superb
Acausal Intrusion Nulitas
Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain

4.5 superb
Advent Sorrow Kali Yuga Crown
Anaal Nathrakh The Codex Necro
Anna von Hausswolff All Thoughts Fly
Ataraxie L'être et la Nausée
Bonny Light Horseman Bonny Light Horseman
Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Caelestra Black Widow Nebula
Chernaa Empyrean Fire
Clouds (INT) Doliu
Crippled Black Phoenix Ellengaest
Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear
Well this is magnificent. The Silent Man is but a tease boys and girls.
Cult of Luna The Raging River
Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger
Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon
Death Human
Death Symbolic
Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia
Demilich Nespithe
Earthside A Dream In Static
Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse
Esoctrilihum Consecration of the Spiritus Flesh
Esoteric A Pyrrhic Existence
2019 is quickly turning into one of those years where we question if those years to follow will ever live up to it. Esoteric have delivered on another doom masterstroke and in a year where Eye Of Solitude call it quits, 'A Pyrrhic Existence' stands tall - reaffirming the genre's vitality.
Eye of Solitude Dear Insanity
Eye of Solitude Canto III
Falls of Rauros Key to a Vanishing Future
Frigoris Wind
Gorguts Colored Sands
Gorguts Obscura
Helm (AU) Vol 3… Panthalassa
Iron Maiden Powerslave
Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Karnivool Asymmetry
Kauan Kaiho
Locktender Kafka
Marsh Dweller Wanderer
Mastodon Hushed and Grim
"Was looking forward to this album. Shame I can't hear most of it properly."

This sounds like a "you" problem no?
Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Mercyful Fate Melissa
Metallica Ride the Lightning
mewithoutYou [Untitled]
Morbus Chron Sweven
Mournful Congregation The Incubus of Karma
Obscura Akróasis
Oceans of Slumber The Banished Heart
2018 needs to stop it with the great albums already.
Opeth Still Life
Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...)
Panopticon The Rime of Memory
Primordial The Gathering Wilderness
Profetus The Sadness Of Time Passing
Psychonaut Unfold the God Man
Rainbow Long Live Rock 'n' Roll
Saor Aura
Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad
Sul ad Astral Oasis
Talisman Stone LoveCraftopolis
The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
The Ocean Precambrian
Trvth Black Horse Plague
An opus of a record, moving from free flowing prog, to the dankest of black metal growls. Yes, the run time is huge, but how could you not grace such a massive record without the time needed to allow for full expression? Trvth is a modern take at 70s inspired movements shaped with precision and crafted down to the "tee". The album is beauty rolled, twisted transcending the norm. rfree download - http://trvth.bandcamp.com/album/black-horse-plague
Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis
Usurpress Interregnum
Vale (USA-CA-2) Burden of Sight
We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth
We Lost the Sea Departure Songs
Wilderun Veil of Imagination

4.4 superb
Conjurer (UK) Pathos
Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy
Krallice Demonic Wealth
Sunless Ylem
Swallow the Sun Moonflowers

4.3 superb
Acausal Intrusion Seeping Evocation
Acausal Intrusion Panpsychism
Amorphis Halo
As much as I'm against calling out early album of the year candidates this early, Halo sets the bar high. I'm going to sit here and enjoy the hype.
Archspire Bleed the Future
Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Nightmare Withdrawals
Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current
Ethereal Shroud Trisagion
You guys better get a new set of trousers ready; because you're about to mess the ones your
currently wearing.
Krallice Psychagogue
White Ward False Light

4.2 excellent
Ahab The Coral Tombs
Artificial Brain Artificial Brain
Cult of Luna The Long Road North
Darkthrone Eternal Hails
Esoctrilihum Dy'th Requiem for the Serpent Telepath
King Woman Celestial Blues
Krallice Crystalline Exhaustion
Mesarthim Arrival
Omnerod The Amensal Rise
Damn boys and girls. Where?s the review for this and who is going to step up and do it?
Paysage d'Hiver Geister
Primeval Well Talkin' in Tongues with Mountain Spirits
Ulcerate Everything Is Fire

4.1 excellent
Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses
Chepang Swatta
Cryptosis Bionic Swarm
Diskord Degenerations
Dvne Etemen Ænka
Entheos (USA) Time Will Take Us All
Ethereal Shroud Lanterns
Halsey If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
Nechochwen Kanawha Black
Obscura A Valediction
Ophidian I Desolate
She Said Destroy Succession
Spiritbox Eternal Blue
Stargazer (AUS) Psychic Secretions
Thy Catafalque Vadak
Tropical Fuck Storm Deep States
Turris Eburnea Turris Eburnea

4.0 excellent
Aeonian Sorrow Into The Eternity A Moment We Are
Dammit Joe, stop downrating great doom albums man : [
A Novelist Folie
A Swarm of the Sun The Woods
Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark
Abstracter Wound Empire
Abyssal (UK) Antikatastaseis
Abyssal (UK) A Beacon In The Husk
Early tracks tell me this is going to be a right royal jam.
Adrift for Days Come Midnight...
Advent Sorrow As All Light Leaves Her
Aequorea Dim
Aevangelist Omen Ex Simulacra
Aeviterne The Ailing Facade
Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit
Agalloch Pale Folklore
Agnes Obel Myopia
Agrimonia Awaken
Akhlys Melinoe
Alarmist Sequesterer
Alkaloid Liquid Anatomy
A definite shift in sound from these tyrants of death. The progressive elements are pushing to the fore-front hard. Liquid Anatomy is as lucid and clear as it can be while staying true to their swirling brand of death metal. Production is top-notch and clear without robbing the record of atmosphere. The Cthulhu still runs strong for this HP Lovecraft loving band.
Allegaeon Apoptosis
Allelic À Contre Vent
Altarage The Approaching Roar
Amenra Mass VI
Amon Amarth Jomsviking
Amorphis Queen of Time
Amorphis Under the Red Cloud
Anaal Nathrakh Vanitas
Anathema We're Here Because We're Here
Anciients Heart of Oak
Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion
Antediluvian λόγος
Anthrax Worship Music
Appalachian Winter I Become The Frozen Land
Appalachian Winter Ghosts of the Mountains
Appalachian Winter Silence Before the Great Mountain Wind
Arcana Coelestia Le Mirage de L’idéal
Album is a tital wave, before gently bobbing waters. It's majestic and eerie. Top of the genre without having a fifty minute track.
Arch/Matheos Winter Ethereal
Arkan Sofia
Arkan Salam
Arkona (RUS) Khram
Aronious Irkalla
Artificial Brain Infrared Horizon
Ash Borer Cold of Ages
Ashbringer Yūgen
Ashbringer Absolution
Astral Tomb Soulgazer
Ataraxie Résignés
Ataraxy Where All Hope Fades
Autopsy Severed Survival
Autopsy Mental Funeral
Avantasia The Mystery Of Time
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil
Axioma Crown
Bathory Bathory
Bathory Hammerheart
Bathory Blood Fire Death
Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Be'lakor Stone's Reach
Behemoth Demigod
Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest
Black Crown Initiate Selves We Cannot Forgive
Black Curse Endless Wound
Black Wreath A Pyre Of Lost Dreams
Passages are strong to match the output of the best of the genre, however match doesn't outrank the other staples of the doom genre. Promising, may grow over time.
Blood Red Throne Blood Red Throne
Blood Red Throne Fit to Kill
Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh
Blues Pills Blues Pills
Blurr Thrower Les Voûtes
Bog Wraith Omen
Bong Stoner Rock
Borknagar True North
Botanist IV: Mandragora
Botanist VI: Flora
Brume (USA-CA) Rabbits
Burial (ITA) Inner Gateways To The Slumbering...
I concur, I also believe this is deserving of a four. Although that might exactly be my opinion and definitely not science.
Burzum Det Som Engang Var
Burzum Filosofem
Burzum Burzum
Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant
They know that is not actually a horse right? It's got antlers and shit...
Can Bardd Nature Stays Silent
Can Bardd The Last Rain
Cannibal Corpse Torture
Cannibal Corpse Kill
Carcass Surgical Steel
Carnosus Visions of Infinihility
Caspian On Circles
Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity
Cattle Decapitation Death Atlas
'Death Atlas' is as enjoyable as a primal wagyu rib-eye, wrapped in prosciutto, pre-born veal and basted in duck fat. Probably with a side of baby's tears.
Cellar Darling The Spell
Celtic Frost Morbid Tales
Cerebral Rot Excretion Of Mortality
Chaos Echoes Mouvement
Death/Doom pulsating in a mechanical (dare I say) quasi-Portal style. The production only builds on the tensile riffing and spiraling instrumentation.
Chaos Echoes Ecstasy With the Nonexistents
Chat Pile God's Country
Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason
Clouds (INT) Dor
Code Error Code Error
Slays for days... or ten minutes depending on how you look at it.
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures
Coilguns Watchwinders
Cosmic Putrefaction The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers
Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace
Craven Idol Forked Tongues
Crosses Crosses
Cryptic Shift Visitations from Enceladus
Cult of Luna Vertikal
Cynic Traced in Air
Dan Swano Moontower
Darkthrone The Underground Resistance
Who could fault Darkthone for doing what they do? Certainly there is nothing surprising going on here, but that's okay we don't need surprises. Darkthrone write the music they want to write.
Darkthrone Arctic Thunder
Darkthrone Old Star
Dead Congregation Promulgation of the Fall
Death The Sound of Perseverance
Death Individual Thought Patterns
Death Angel Humanicide
Deathspell Omega Paracletus
Deathspell Omega The Synarchy of Molten Bones
Defeated Sanity Disposal Of The Dead // Dharmata
Defeated Sanity The Sanguinary Impetus
Deicide Deicide
Deicide Legion
DevilDriver Pray for Villains
Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Dir En Grey Arche
Dirge (FR) Lost Empyrean
diSEMBOWELMENT Transcendence into the Peripheral
Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane
Doom VS Earthless
Doomsword The Eternal Battle
Dormant Ordeal The Grand Scheme of Things
Downfall of Gaia Ethic of Radical Finitude
Dream Theater Images and Words
Dream Theater Systematic Chaos
Drudkh They Often See Dreams About The Spring
Drudkh Estrangement
Dumbsaint Panorama, In Ten Pieces
Dwaal Gospel Of The Vile
Earth Primitive and Deadly
Earth and Pillars Earth II
Earthless Night Parade of One Hundred Demons
Eden Circus Marula
Eluveitie Helvetios
Eluveitie Origins
With more staying power than the previous releases it's clear that Eluveitie have a lot more to offer until their pool of talent runs dry. Origins picks up where Helvetios left off, bombastic rhthms and constant melodies interplay with the group's harsh growls. It's catchy, it's infectious - - a ride from start to finish. If there are any flaws to be found, it's in the band's ability to be completely comfortable with their sound.
Elysian Blaze Blood Geometry
Elysian Blaze's 2012 record resonates with some of the better acts of the genre. Rung out chords and a raw-'er' mix puch through well. Pick up for some Aust. doom along the lines of Noctis etc.
Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full
Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou The Helm of Sorrow
Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire...
Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Empyrium Über den Sternen
Encircling Sea Hearken
Encoffination III - Hear Me, O' Death (Sing Thou Wretched Choirs
rThis is dethin' doomin' sex wrapped in skull bones. Sing Thou Wretched Choirs,
Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini
Enslaved RIITIIR
Enslaved Vertebrae
Enslaved Below the Lights
Enslaved Heimdal
Entropia (PL) Vesper
Entropia (PL) Ufonaut
Entropia (PL) Vacuum
Entropia continues to do no wrong. This is one Vacuum I don?t mind getting stuck into.
Entropia (PL) Total
Envy The Fallen Crimson
Equilibrium Erdentempel
Erdve Vaitojimas
Eremit Bearer of Many Names
Esoctrilihum The Telluric Ashes of the Ö Vrth Immemorial Gods
Esoctrilihum Eternity Of Shaog
Esoteric Paragon of Dissonance
Esoteric The Maniacal Vale
Esoteric Metamorphogenesis
Evoken Antithesis of Light
Evoken Atra Mors
Evoken Embrace the Emptiness
Evoken Hypnagogia
Execration (NOR) Morbid Dimensions
Eye of Solitude Slaves To Solitude
Falls of Rauros The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood
Falls of Rauros Vigilance Perennial
False Portent
Fear Factory Demanufacture
Fell Voices Fell Voices
Feminazgul No Dawn for Men
Finsterforst Rastlos
Finsterforst Mach Dich Frei
First Fragment Gloire Eternelle
First Fragment: we are going to play everything mmmmkay?

Sputnik music: Shut up and take my money!
Fleshgod Apocalypse King
Fleshgod Apocalypse Veleno
Fleshvessel Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed
Fluisteraars Bloem
Forever Never Forever Never
Frigoris ...in Stille
Full of Hell Weeping Choir
Funebrarum The Sleep of Morbid Dreams
Funeral Praesentialis in Aeternum
Gaerea Limbo
Gatecreeper An Unexpected Reality
Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous
Ghosts of Glaciers The Greatest Burden
Glassing Spotted Horse
Glen Hansard This Wild Willing
Gnaw Their Tongues An Eternity Of Suffering, An Eternity Of Pain
God Is an Astronaut Helios/Erebus
God Is an Astronaut Epitaph
Gojira Magma
Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage
Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity
Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate
Gorod Aethra
I can get behind this.... or rather, I?ll let this get behind me.
Grand Magus The Hunt
Grave Miasma Odori Sepulcrorum
This is one of those records that will swing an ax into your groin, take heed, but don't forget to come back to it.
Grave Miasma Endless Pilgrimage
"so if you like to the point cavernous death it's perfectly dank."r
GridLink Coronet Juniper
Hashshashin nihsahshsaH (adj​.​)
This is a new level of quality for this Sydney based group bringing so many elements together in the best possible way. https://hashshashin.bandcamp.com/album/nihsahshsah-adj
Hashshashin Badakhshan
Haunter (USA-TX) Sacramental Death Qualia
Heaven Shall Burn Of Truth and Sacrifice
Heaven Shall Burn Veto
Hela Broken Cross
Hexis Abalam
Hideous Divinity Simulacrum
Hooded Menace Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed
Hope Drone Hope Drone
Australia's Hope Drone marks an excellent entry into the world of hybrid post-black metal. It's gritty, clean transcending the typical "pretty" sounds peppered in the genre. It's not for light listening, these four tracks were made with intent, and intent is surely given.
Hope Drone Void Lustre
Horizon Ablaze The Weight Of A Thousand Suns
Horrendous Idol
Horrendous Ontological Mysterium
Howls of Ebb Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows
Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion
Ihsahn Eremita
Ihsahn Arktis.
Ihsahn Amr
Ill Nino Epidemia
Imperial Triumphant Alphaville
Impetuous Ritual Unholy Congregation of Hypocritical Ambivalence
Impure Wilhelmina Black Honey
In Tormentata Quiete Krononota
Incantation Vanquish in Vengeance
Inter Arma Sulphur English
Into Eternity Buried in Oblivion
Inverloch Distance | Collapsed
Iosonouncane Ira
Iotunn Access All Worlds
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden Killers
Iron Maiden Brave New World
Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time
Joan of Arc 1984
Judas Priest Firepower
Kagrenak Black Vertical Shadows
Kairon IRSE! Polysomn
Kamelot Silverthorn
Kamelot The Black Halo
Kamelot Epica
Kampfar Ofidians manifest
Karfagen Birds of Passage
Karmanjakah A Book About Itself
Katatonia Night Is the New Day
Kauan Pirut
Kauan Sorni Nai
Kayo Dot Hubardo
Khemmis Hunted
Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache
King Diamond Abigail
King Diamond Conspiracy
Kosmogyr Eviternity
Krallice Krallice
Krallice Porous Resonance Abyss
Krieg Transient
Kristian Harting The Fumes
Krypts Unending Degradation
Krypts Cadaver Circulation
Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake
Lamb of God Hourglass: Anthology Collection
A box set of Lamb Of Gods more well known songs starting from their Burn The Priest days, It has better tracks from Sacrament, Wrath, etc. it also contains bonus tracks and never before heard recordings. A quality edition for Lamb Of God Fans.
Leprous Pitfalls
Les Discrets Ariettes Oubliees...
Locktender Friedrich
Locktender Rodin
Lord Mantis Death Mask
Lorna Shore Pain Remains
Lunar Aurora Andacht
Lustmord [ O T H E R ]
Machine Head Unto the Locust
Machine Head The Blackening
Machine Head Burn My Eyes
Mahr Antelux
Malfet Alban Arthan
Mamaleek He Never Spoke a Mumblin Word
Mamaleek Diner Coffee
Manes Be All End All
Mastodon Crack the Skye
An excellent example of a band mixing many features into a quality and enjoyable listen. Featuring psychadelic, progressive and metal features, with technical guitar riffs and melodic leads its a reccomend for metal enthusiasts everywhere.
Mastodon Blood Mountain
Max Richter Recomposed: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Megadeth Countdown to Extinction
Mercyful Fate Don't Break the Oath
Mercyful Fate In the Shadows
Merda Mundi Hatred
Meshuggah Koloss
Metallica ...And Justice for All
Metallica Master of Puppets
A defining movement in both Thrash and Metal, a highly influential band makes a highly influential album and creates a huge fan base over their now highlighted career.
Metallica S&M
Miley Cyrus Plastic Hearts
Miley's 2020 album includes an excellent 80's throwback feel. Some of the influence appears too much on the nose - - but that doesn't take away from the fact that this somehow bops way more than it should.
Mizmor Cairn
Monolithe Monolithe III
Monolithe Monolithe Zero
Monolithe OKTA KHORA
Moonshade Sun Dethroned
Sun Dethroned manages to Amon Amarth hard. Infectiously catchy and misses most of the cheesiness that would otherwise plague an album like this.
Moonsorrow Jumalten aika
Moonsorrow Viides luku - Hävitetty
Moonspell Night Eternal
Mortiferum Disgorged from Psychotic Depths
Mourir Animal Bouffe Animal
Mouth Of The Architect Quietly
Mouth Of The Architect Path of Eight
Path Of Eight continues to surprise on each track. This album is quickly becoming one of my favourites for the year.
Mutiny Within Mutiny Within
Mutiny Within Synchronicity
After a three year wait, this does not dissapoint. The album is a complete package, and comes together the strongest the band has produced so far.
Myrkur Folkesange
Nails Abandon All Life
Got seventeen minutes? Of course you do. Abandon All Life is the sultry hard-hitting sonic onslaught of oppressive heaviness. Keep in mind that short was never meant to be ?sweet? on Nail?s sophomore ?full-length?. From top to bottom (no matter how short that may be) Abandon All Life ensures the utmost of intensity highlighting the gift of Todd Jones behind the microphone. A fury rarely seen and upheld over the course of ear-splitting riffs and semi-thundering drum patterns gives life to a release over before it can be fully processed. See ?In Exodus? for proof that ?heavy metal? is real and relatable in today?s music industry. There?s no remorse, no guilt, no waiting period or white flag signalling the retreat. Nails have come to place their boot on the neck of the hardcore genre, tying in some truly ferocious chops along the way.
Nails You Will Never Be One of Us
Naive Altra
Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I
Ne Obliviscaris Citadel
Negativa (ESP) 04
Negura Bunget OM
Negura Bunget Zău
Nekrogoblikon Welcome to Bonkers
Neurosis Fires Within Fires
Never See Tomorrow To The Depths
Nile Those Whom the Gods Detest
Noltem Illusions In The Wake
NONE Damp Chill of Life
Novelists C'est La Vie
Nucleus (USA-IL) Entity
Numenorean Adore
Oak (PT) Lone
Oathbreaker Rheia
Obituary The End Complete
Obscura Cosmogenesis
Obsidian Tongue A Nest of Ravens in the Throat of Time
Oceans of Slumber Oceans of Slumber
Of Solitude and Solemn Starlight's Guide
Of Solitude and Solemn Of Solitude and Solemn
On Thorns I Lay Aegean Sorrow
Opeth Watershed
Orphaned Land Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs
Ovid's Withering Terraphage
You know what's chunky in 2020? Well, this is chunky in 2020.
Pallbearer Heartless
Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
Paradise Lost Obsidian
Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile
Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor
A perfect mood setter for days dry and windy. The mood is bleak but somehow the setting provides a stark beauty in a barren wasteland. It's times like this when you can fully understand why the bands of this genre spend so much time focusing on what others usually miss.
Paysage d'Hiver Im Traum
Paysage d'Hiver Winterkälte
Paysage d'Hiver Kristall und Isa
Paysage d'Hiver Paysage d'Hiver
Paysage d'Hiver Das Gletschertor/Das schwarze Metall-Eisen
Paysage d'Hiver Schnee
Pelican Nighttime Stories
Polaris The Death of Me
Porta Nigra Schöpfungswut
Portal Swarth
Portal Vexovoid
Portal ION
Portal Avow
Primordial Redemption at the Puritan's Hand
Primordial Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Profetus Coronation of the Black Sun
Profetus As All Seasons Die
Pyrrhon The Mother of Virtues
Qrixkuor Poison Palinopsia
Red Moon Architect Kuura
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Regarde les Hommes Tomber
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Exile
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Ascension
This is as good as anything else they've released in their career. That's enough said honestly.
Revocation Deathless
Revocation Chaos of Forms
Riverside Love, Fear and the Time Machine
Riverside Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
Roadrunner United The All-Star Sessions
Rob Zombie The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy
Rodrigo y Gabriela Rodrigo y Gabriela
Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory
Rorcal Vilagvege
Rorcal Creon
Rorcal Muladona
Rush Signals
Sacriphyx The Western Front
Sallow Moth The Larval Hope
Sanctity Road to Bloodshed
Sangre de Muerdago Xuntas
Saor Roots
Saor Guardians
Falls just short of his last release but Andy Marshall sure has his finger on the very pulse of what Saor is. Guardians adds to a sure legacy being built from record to record. Falling just short of an hour's run time it's easy to get swept away in these compositions.
Saor Forgotten Paths
Saver They Came with Sunlight
Schammasch Triangle
Secrets of the Moon Antithesis
A display of a black metal band that simply knows how to do the simple things well, one the best of the genre, even though not widely heard.
Secrets of the Moon Seven Bells
Septa Destroyer
Septa Bitten by the Serpent of the Kingdom of the Spirit
Sepultura Roots
Sepultura Chaos A.D.
Serious Beak Huxwhukw
Serious Beak Ankaa
Serocs The Phobos / Deimos Suite
Sevendust Blood and Stone
Shabaka and the Ancestors We Are Sent Here By History
Shape of Despair Angels of Distress
Shape of Despair Monotony Fields
Shining (SWE) IV - The Eerie Cold
Sidious Revealed in Profane Splendour
Sigh Heir to Despair
Sinistro Sangue Cassia
Sinmara Hvísl Stjarnanna
Sivyj Yar Горе
Skepticism Lead and Aether
Skin Tension Celebrant
Skyblood Skyblood
Skyforest A New Dawn
Slayer Reign in Blood
Slayer Seasons in the Abyss
Slipknot Iowa
Slipknot Iowa: 10th Anniversary Edition
Slipknot Slipknot: 10th Anniversary Edition
Slow (BE) III - Gaïa
Slow (BE) V - Oceans
Slow (BE) VI – Dantalion
Dantalion is compelling, captivating, emotional and even renewing -- essential suffocating funeral doom for the downcast and dejected-- Presskit isn't exactly wrong on this.r
Slugdge Esoteric Malacology
They told me I could be anything, so I became Slug worship
So Hideous To Clasp a Fallen Wish With Broken Fingers
So Hideous None But a Pure Heart Can Sing
Soen Lotus
Soilwork The Ride Majestic
Soilwork Verkligheten
Sojourner The Shadowed Road
I?m somewhere between listening to an atmospheric black metal album and sitting in a Tolkien novel. This is nice.
Soulfly Ritual
The most Soulfly album Soulfly has made in years...
Spawn of Annihilation Illusory Orbit of Ominous Anomalies
Spawn of Possession Incurso
Spectral Lore III
Spectral Voice Eroded Corridors of Unbeing
Steve Von Till No Wilderness Deep Enough
Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
Still Remains Ceasing to Breathe
Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 2
Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten
Summoning Old Mornings Dawn
Sunless Urraca
Svart Crown Profane
Svart Crown Wolves Among The Ashes
Sweven (SWE) The Eternal Resonance
I think there's a few regular sput users missing a trick here....
System of a Down Toxicity
System of a Down System of a Down
Taylor Swift Folklore
Can't say that I'm not not hyped for Swift's black metal/Agalloch worship album.
Teeth (USA-CA) The Curse of Entropy
Tentacult Lacerating Pattern
Teramaze I Wonder
The Amenta Flesh Is Heir
The Atlas Moth The Old Believer
The Atlas Moth Coma Noir
The Body I have fought against it, But I can’t any longer
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer
The Fall of Every Season Amends
The Flower Kings Desolation Rose
The Flower Kings Banks of Eden
The Gloaming The Gloaming 3
The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li
The Great Old Ones Cosmicism
The Lumberjack Feedback Mere Mortals
The Ocean Aeolian
The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic
this is an album that goes something something rawr rawr something rawr!
The Ruins of Beverast The Thule Grimoires
The World Is Quiet Here Zon
Thou Tyrant
Thou Peasant
Thou Heathen
Thou Magus
Thou Blessings of the Highest Order
Thy Catafalque Geometria
Thy Catafalque Roka Hasa Radio
Thy Catafalque Naiv
Thy Catafalque prove again to be the masters of whimsical experimental nuance disguised as metal.
Thy Catafalque Alföld
Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man
A quality but not so different approach for one time and current members of KsE, Songs are crafted with a high sense of song-writing skill. This album may however be a bit hard for some listeners to digest as songs and musical ideas blend together, and tempo and timing may feel un-conventional. Overall its worth a listen even if once is all you will be able to get through it.
Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance
Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit
Tool Lateralus
Trvth Process of Adaptation
Ulcerate Vermis
Ulcerate The Destroyers of All
Ulthar Providence
Uluru Acrophilia
Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X
Un Sentiment
Undeath Lesions of a Different Kind
Unfurl The Waking Void
Unhappy Despair
Unhappy Dear God, Thanks for the Suicide Option
Unreqvited Mosaic II: la déteste et la détresse
My god this is borderline gorgeous. Lush, lacey tones of gazey haunting melancholia. I want to lay it that atmosphere.
Unreqvited Empathica
Until Death Overtakes Me Symphony III: Monolith
Until Death Overtakes Me Flow Of Infinity
Until Death Overtakes Me Herald of Sorrow
Usurpress Trenches of the Netherworld
Vader Welcome to the Morbid Reich
Vader The Ultimate Incantation
Vaiya Remnant Light
Valborg Zentrum
Veilburner Lurkers in the Capsule of Skull
Venom Prison Samsara
Vile Haint Ol' Hatchie Haint
Vin De Mia Trix Once Hidden from Sight
Void Of Silence The Sky Over
The Sky Over is a beautiful album, albeit with a few minor hiccups.
Voivod Synchro Anarchy
VOLA Applause of a Distant Crowd
Vous Autres Champ du Sang
Wardruna Kvitravn
We All Die (Laughing) Thoughtscanning
Wedrujacy Wiatr Tam, Gdzie Miesiac Oplakuje Swit
Weeping Sores False Confession
Whelm A Gaze Blank and Pitiless as The Sun
Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed
Wiegedood There's Always Blood at the End of the Road
Windir Likferd
Windir Arntor
Windir Soknardalr
Windir 1184
Winterfylleth The Hallowing of Heirdom
Winterfylleth The Reckoning Dawn
Wishfield Wishfield
Witch Mountain Cauldron Of The Wild
Within Temptation The Silent Force
Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars
Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage / Malevolent Grain
Worm Foreverglade
Worship Dooom
WRVTH No Rising Sun
Yashira Fail To Be
Year of No Light Consolamentum
Yellow Eyes Immersion Trench Reverie
Yellow Eyes Rare Field Ceiling
Yeule Glitch Princess
rTo answer your question Jesp: Yes, yes I did. I especially vibe with the two week ambient track at the end of the record.
Yhdarl Loss
Yhdarl Ave Maria
YOB Our Raw Heart

3.9 excellent
Abraham Débris De Mondes Perdus
Amber Mark Three Dimensions Deep
Bell Witch Future's Shadow I: The Clandestine Gate
"fuck me"
This is what consent looks like ladies and gentlemen.
Cattle Decapitation Terrasite
Cognizant Inexorable Nature of Adversity
Cynic Ascension Codes
I really like these interludes, they provide such a great pacing.
Deafheaven Infinite Granite
Earthside Let The Truth Speak
Erdve Savigaila
Fawn Limbs Darwin Falls
Fell Ruin Cast in Oil the Dressed Wrought
Holding Absence The Noble Art of Self-Destruction
Isgherurd Morth Hellrduk
Kardashev Liminal Rite
Katatonia Sky Void of Stars
Kauan Ice Fleet
Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm
Musk Ox Inheritance
Noah Cyrus The Hardest Part
Nothingness Supraliminal
Phrenelith Chimaera
Replicant Negative Life
Thantifaxath Hive Mind Narcosis
Vermin Womb Retaliation
Visionary Cybergenerated
Vorga Striving Toward Oblivion

3.8 excellent
Abscession Rot of Ages
Aenigmatum Deconsecrate
Altarage Succumb
Antediluvian The Divine Punishment
Ars Magna Umbrae Throne Between Worlds
Ashenspire Hostile Architecture
Battle Beast Circus of Doom
This is a blast. Big eighties feels, AOR vibes. If I didn?t know any better this would all I?d be listening to this year.
Battle Beast Battle Beast
Be'lakor Coherence
Benothing Temporal Bliss Surrealms
Birds in Row Gris Klein
Can Bardd Devoured by the Oak
Candy (USA) Heaven Is Here
Code Flyblown Prince
Cradle of Filth Existence Is Futile
Crippled Black Phoenix Banefyre
Dreamwell In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You
Dryad The Abyssal Plain
Ereb Altor Vargtimman
Esoctrilihum Urionhsol (Seven Demons)
Esoctrilihum Saopth's
Faceless Burial At The Foothills Of Deliration
Freja Tides
Hanging Garden The Garden
Haunter (USA-TX) Discarnate Ails
Intonate Severed Within
Jimmy Barnes Flesh and Blood
Kamelot The Awakening
Lamp of Murmuur Submission and Slavery
Lifesick Misanthropy
Liminal Shroud All Virtues Ablaze
Minneriket Gjennom Meg Går Ingen Til Hvile
Myrkur Spine
Noise Trail Immersion Symbology of Shelter
Oublieth À l'Ombre du Royaume en Cendres
Papangu Holoceno
Sangre de Muerdago O Vento que Lambe as miñas Feridas
Seputus Phantom Indigo
Shape of Despair Return to the Void
Signs Of The Swarm Amongst The Low And Empty
Sons of Alpha Centauri Push
Stormkeep Tales of Othertime
The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist
The HIRS Collective We're Still Here
The Temple (NZ) The Temple
Triumvir Foul Onslaught to Seraphim
Trivium In the Court of the Dragon
Unfurl Ascension
Venom Prison Erebos
Verberis Adumbration of the Veiled Logos
Vertebra Atlantis Lustral Purge in Cerulean Bliss
Vevaki F​ó​rnspeki
VoidCeremony Threads of Unknowing
Wormrot Hiss
This album art looks like something Johnny would review.
Ysyry Mollvun Ysyry Mollvün

3.7 great
Abyssus Death Revival
Adele 30
Allegaeon Damnum
Alpha Wolf Half Living Things
I don?t care what era this is from, what nu-wave it does or doesn?t represent. This kinda rips.
Archgoat Worship the Eternal Darkness
Ataraxy The Last Mirror
Author and Punisher Kruller
Cognizance Upheaval
Conan Evidence of Immortality
Conjureth Majestic Dissolve
Conjureth The Parasitic Chambers
Crosses permanent.radiant
Darkthrone Astral Fortress
Desolate Shrine Fires of the Dying World
Dischordia Triptych
Drudkh All Belong To The Night
Esoctrilihum Funeral
Feral Lord Purity of Corruption
Full of Hell Garden of Burning Apparitions
Ghost (SWE) Prequelle
Grave Miasma Abyss of Wrathful Deities
Greylotus Dawnfall
Hath All That Was Promised
You Hath to hear this. This is pretty impressive. Already liking it more than the debut.
Helloween Helloween
Horn Verzet
Hyperdontia Deranged
Impetuous Ritual Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis
Julia Michaels Not In Chronological Order
Kennebec Without Star or Compass
Konvent Call Down The Sun
Lamp of Murmuur Punishment and Devotion
Logistic Slaughter Lower Forms of Life
Lorna Shore ...And I Return to Nothingness
Malignant Altar Realms of Exquisite Morbidity
Man Must Die The Pain Behind It All
Meshuggah None
Midwife (USA) Luminol
This Xeno, this is heaven metal?well, according to that Bandcamp website anyway.
Miscreance Convergence
Moon Tooth Phototroph
Near Death Condition Ascent From the Mundane
Nite Voices of the Kronian Moon
OAR The Blood You Crave
Oxbow Love's Holiday
This is kind of low key, high key amazing and needs some more love.
Pensees Nocturnes Douce Fange
Phreneticis Maze of Time
Polaris Fatalism
Reeking Aura Blood And Bonemeal
Ringare Thrall of Winter's Majesty
Ruin Spread Plague Death
Skin Tension Machinic Impulses Of The Hyperreal
Spiritbox The Fear of Fear
Stortregn Impermanence
Terminalist The Great Acceleration
Ulver Hexahedron
Warforged The Grove | Sundial
Yautja The Lurch
YRRE Luhlae x The Witch

3.6 great
Alkaloid Numen
Amenra De Doorn
They went and gone and run out of Roman numerals on this one didn?t they.
Cannibal Corpse Violence Unimagined
Cognos Cognos
Dark Millennium Acid River
Domestic Terminal All The Stories Left To Tell
Father Befouled Crowned in Veneficum
Firienholt By the Waters of Awakening
Hellripper Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags
Not going to lie. This is kind of fire. I do wish for something a little more progressive but damn, this works.
Ibaraki Rashomon
Inanimate Existence The Masquerade
Kacey Musgraves Star-Crossed
Killsong He Is Risen
Kvaen The Great Below
Lunar Chamber Shambhallic Vibrations
Mortiferum Preserved in Torment
Parasite Inc. Cyan Night Dreams
Perilaxe Occlusion Raytraces of Death
Psychonaut Violate Consensus Reality
Pyrithe Monuments to Impermanence
Ramihrdus The Sorrow of the Evergreens
Ripped to Shreds 劇變 (Jubian)
Sanguisugabogg Homicidal Ecstasy
Sigh Shiki
Skald (FRA) Huldufólk
Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind
Soilwork Overgivenheten
SOM The Shape of Everything
Soreption Jord
The Zenith Passage Datalysium

3.5 great
Aeonian Sorrow A Life Without
1349 Beyond the Apocalypse
1349 Hellfire
200 Stab Wounds Slave to the Scalpel
36 Crazyfists Time and Trauma
36 Crazyfists A Snow Capped Romance
A Pale Horse Named Death And Hell Will Follow Me
Aara Triade I: Eos
Abbath Outstrider
Predictably solid as should be expected from one of the pioneering faces of black metal. At its core is an essential offering of what the man has offered listeners for eons, mainstay of traditional methods. Come for the face paint, stay for the music.
Abbath Abbath
Abiotic Ikigai
Abominable Putridity Parasitic Metamorphosis Manifestation
Abraham The Serpent, the Prophet and the Whore
Absent In Body Plague God
"I really want more. I wish it was longer." That's what she said.
Abstracter Cinereous Incarnate
Acathexis Acathexis
Ade Spartacus
Adrift for Days A Sleepless Grey
Aeonian Sorrow A Life Without
Aera (GER, Black Metal) Schein
Aevangelist Writhes in the Murk
Aevangelist Enthrall to the Void of Bliss
Aevangelist Matricide in the Temple of Omega
Agalloch The White
Agalloch Faustian Echoes
Ahtme Mephitic
Alcest Kodama
Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme
Alestorm Back Through Time
Allelic The Smoke of Atavistic Fires
Altar of Plagues Mammal
Amaranthe The Nexus
Amenra Mass III
Amenra Mass V
Amenra Mass IIII
Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession
Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods
Amon Amarth Surtur Rising
Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God
Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall
Amon Amarth Versus the World
Amorphis Circle
Worth a listen but overall it's a little better than passable.
An Autumn For Crippled Children All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet
An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love
An Autumn For Crippled Children The Light of September
Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow
Anaal Nathrakh Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Her
Anaal Nathrakh Eschaton
Anaal Nathrakh Domine Non Es Dignus
Anaal Nathrakh Endarkenment
Anachronism Orogeny
Anachronism Meanders
Ancient Mastery Chapter One: Across The Mountains Of ...
Anciients Voice of the Void
AngelMaker Sanctum
Annorkoth The Last Days
Antediluvian Through the Cervix of Hawaah
Antlers (DE) Beneath.Below.Behold
Aornos The Great Scorn
Aparia Beyond The Walls Of Man
Apoxupon How the Garden Grows
Appalachian Winter Winter Eternal
A definitive progression of sound. Especially considering record to record. While not overly exciting it does provide regular listens and some enjoyment.
Arcane Known/Learned
Shits on your Periphery Juggernaunt slam-feat. The boys from Australia take the who double album theme to the next level.
Architects Hollow Crown
Architects Ruin
Archspire Relentless Mutation
Archspire The Lucid Collective
Archspire All Shall Align
Arcturus Arcturian
Arkan Kelem
Arkona (PL) Age Of Capricorn
Arsa Pagan Legend
Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation
As Dark As You As Dark As You
As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise
As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us
As We Draw Mirages
Ash Borer Ash Borer
Ashbringer Vacant
Asphyx Necroceros
Ataraxie Slow Transcending Agony
Atrae Bilis Apexapien
Atramentus Stygian
Atreyu Long Live
Atreyu The Curse
Atrum Tempestas Neant
Auroch Taman Shud
Auroch Stolen Angelic Tongues
Auroch From Forgotten Worlds
Autarkh Form in Motion
Autopsy Acts of the Unspeakable
Avantasia Moonglow
Avenged Sevenfold The Stage
Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen
Aversions Crown Tyrant
Aversions Crown Hell Will Come For Us All
Baest Venenum
Baest Necro Sapiens
Baring Teeth Transitive Savagery
Barren Earth A Complex of Cages
God dammit 2018 you dirty little prog laced nut cruncher. Stop releasing these high caliber fuck;ing albums. It
would be better however if these records could hold onto the sheer potential they offer, instead of falling short
Barshasketh Barshasketh
Basalte Vertige
Bastard Grave Diorama Of Human Suffering
Bathory The Return of the Darkness and Evil
Bathory Nordland I
Bathory Twilight of the Gods
Be'lakor Vessels
Beheaded Only Death Can Save You
Behemoth The Satanist
Bell Witch Longing
Below Red Skies Days Passing By
Belphegor Blood Magick Necromance
Beneath the Massacre Fearmonger
Benighted Asylum Cave
Bestial Invasion Monomania
Beyond Creation Algorythm
Birth (USA-CA) Born
Black Anvil Regenesis
Black Crown Initiate Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape
Black Label Society Catacombs of the Black Vatican
Black Label Society have lifted the expectations of their own music. It's not flashy in regards of toppling a genre but strong enough to bring back the band's former glory.
Black Sheep Wall Songs for the Enamel Queen
Bleed from Within Era
Bleed from Within Fracture
Bleed from Within Uprising
Bleeding Through Love Will Kill All
Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror
Blood Incantation Starspawn
Blood Incantation Timewave Zero
Blood Red Throne Souls of Damnation
Blood Red Throne Come Death
Bloodbath Grand Morbid Funeral
Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery
Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy
Blut Aus Nord Deus Salutis Meae
Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen
Bong Idle Days On The Yann
Bong We Are, We Were and We Will Have Been
Bongripper Terminal
Borknagar Winter Thrice
Bosse-de-Nage III
Bosse-de-Nage All Fours
Botanist Collective: The Shape of He to Come
Botanist Ecosystem
Brand of Sacrifice Lifeblood
Death core kids be cleaning the undersides of their desks right now...let?s be real.
Bullet for My Valentine The Poison
Burden of Life The Makeshift Conqueror
Burning Palace Hollow
Cabal (DK) Drag Me Down
Cadaverette A Farewell to Earthly Existence
Cadaveric Fumes Dimensions Obscure
Caecus A Parting Current
Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain
Cannibal Corpse Chaos Horrific
Cara Neir Part III / Part IV
Carcass Heartwork
Celeste Morte(s) Nee(s)
Celestial Swarm Gateways to the Necroverse
Celtic Frost To Mega Therion
Cerebral Rot Odious Descent Into Decay
Ceremony Of Silence Oútis
Chaos Echoes Transient
Chimaira Resurrection
Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule
Cirith Ungol Frost and Fire
Cirith Ungol Forever Black
Clouds (INT) Departe
Clouds (INT) Destin
Clouds (INT) Durere
Clouds Collide They Don't Sleep Anymore
Coast Coast
Coast Skim
More modern jazz greatness from these polyrhythmic swank noodles. Definitely worth more than the casual listen.
Coffin Rot A Monument To The Dead
Coffinworm When All Became None
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension
Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow
Coheed and Cambria Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind
Coldworld Melancholie²
Coldworld Autumn
Conjurer (UK) Mire
Conjureth Foul Formations
Constellatia The Language of Limbs
Converge The Dusk in Us
Convulsing Grievous
Convulsing Errata
Cosmic Putrefaction At the Threshold of the Greatest Chasm
Cosmic Putrefaction Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones
Cosmovore Into the Necrosphere
Cough Still They Pray
Cradle of Filth Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay
Cradle of Filth Hammer of the Witches
Cradle of Filth Midian
Craven Idol Towards Eschaton
Crone (DE) Godspeed
Cruciamentum Charnel Passages
Cruciamentum Engulfed In Desolation
Cryptodira The Devil's Despair
Cult of Luna Vertikal II
Four tracks with one remix, it's not an expansive full-length release but its merits are deserved. Play it off the end of Vertikal (1) and the atmosphere matches the first. A display of self-ness, presented by a band that didn't want it any other way.
Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom
Cult of Luna The Silent Man
Cytotoxin Nuklearth
Dark Fortress Spectres from the Old World
Dark Funeral The Secrets of the Black Arts
Dark Funeral Diabolis Interium
Dark Funeral Where Shadows Forever Reign
Dark Tranquillity Atoma
Dark Watcher Dark Watcher
Darkthrone Sempiternal Past - The Darkthrone Demos
Darkthrone Circle the Wagons
Darkthrone Panzerfaust
Darkthrone Soulside Journey
Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire
Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning
Death the Leveller II
Deathspell Omega Drought
Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
Deeds of Flesh Portals to Canaan
Deeds of Flesh Nucleus
? Sooooo, is it the job of every contributor/staff writer to constantly underrate albums or...??rDamn you got us, we?re gonna have to get a new schtick.
Defeated Sanity Passages Into Deformity
Deicide The Stench of Redemption
Dekadent Veritas
Dekadent The Nemean Ordeal
Deos Fortitude.Pain.Suffering
Masterminded by the Eye Of Solitude vocalist Daniel DEOS highlights how one man can stretch away from his flagship project and stay well within his nuances.
Der Weg Einer Freiheit Noktvrn
Desolate Shrine Deliverance from the Godless Void
Desolate Shrine The Heart of the Netherworld
Despised Icon Beast
Despised Icon Purgatory
Destroyer 666 Call of the Wild
Deus Mortem Emanations of the Black Light
Devil Master Satan Spits On Children Of Light
DevilDriver Winter Kills
DevilDriver The Last Kind Words
DevilDriver Trust No One
DevilDriver Dealing With Demons I
Devoid of Thought Outer World Graves
Dir En Grey Phalaris
Dir En Grey Dum Spiro Spero
Disentomb The Decaying Light
Disma Towards the Megalith
Dissection The Somberlain
Dodsrit Mortal Coil
Doom VS Dead Words Speak
DorDeDuh Dar De Duh
Downfall of Gaia Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay
Downfall of Gaia Atrophy
Draconian Under a Godless Veil
Dragged Into Sunlight WidowMaker
Dragged Into Sunlight Hatred For Mankind
Dragged Into Sunlight Terminal Aggressor II
Dreadnought Emergence
Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events
Dream Theater Octavarium
Dream Unending Song of Salvation
Dream Unending Tide Turns Eternal
Dreamshade The Gift of Life
Drowse Light Mirror
Drowse Cold Air
Drudkh Microcosmos
Dzo-nga Thunder In the Mountains
Ea Ea
Earth Rot Black Tides of Obscurity
Earthless Black Heaven
Edenic Past Red Amarcord
Elder (USA-MA) Lore
Elder (USA-MA) Omens
Ellende Ellenbogengesellschaft
Eluveitie Spirit
Eluveitie Slania
Eluveitie The Early Years
Eluveitie Ategnatos
Encenathrakh Thraakethraaeate Thraithraake
Encoffination O Hell, Shine In Thy Whited Sepulchres
Encoffination We Proclaim Your Death O' Lord
Enshine Origin
Enslaved In Times
Enslaved E
Enslaved Isa
Enslaved Utgard
Enthroned Sovereigns
A change up in members doesn't shake the foundations of Enthroned's music. At the same time, there's no 'real' disappointment as the new blood holds pace with the band's back catalog. 'Sovereigns' is another bombastic slab of black metal with a modern infusion. It's dynamic and shifts enough to maintain interest.
Enthroned Cold Black Suns
Epitaphe I
Erebos (AUT) Heretic
Ermengrond Men amongst wolves
Eryn Non Dae. Abandon Of The Self
Esoctrilihum Inhüma
Esoctrilihum Mystic Echo From a Funeral Dimension
Esoctrilihum Pandaemorthium
Esoctrilihum F'htansg
Eternal Storm Come the Tide
Ethereal Shroud Absolution|Emptiness
Ethereal Shroud They Became the Falling Ash
Evergrey Escape of the Phoenix
Evoken Quietus
Eximperitus... Sahrartu
Exit Ten Give Me Infinity
Exit Ten Remember The Day
Exodus Exhibit B: The Human Condition
Eye of Solitude Awoken by Crows
Eye of Solitude The Deceit
Eye of Solitude Sui Caedere
Faceless Burial Speciation
Falkenbach Asa
Falls of Rauros Believe in No Coming Shore
Fallujah Dreamless
Fallujah Empyrean
False Untitled
Fat Guy Wears Mystic Wolf Shirt Accord/Dance
Fat Guy Wears Mystic Wolf Shirt Dys/Closure
Father Befouled Holy Rotten Blood
Father Befouled Revulsion of Seraphic Grace
Father Befouled Morbid Destitution of Covenant
Fawn Limbs Sleeper Vessels
Sleeper Vessels turns it around for Fawn Limbs. A definite move in the right direction.
Fear Factory Mechanize
Fear Factory Genexus
Fear Factory Obsolete
Fen Dustwalker
Fen The Malediction Fields
Fen The Dead Light
Fen has streamlined most of their sound to great affect, but they lose some of the momentum into the more groove based/faster sections - killing the climb of their moody crescendo(s).
Ferriterium Calvaire
Finsterforst Zerfall
Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds
Five The Hierophant Through Aureate Void
Fleshgod Apocalypse Labyrinth
The technicality's still here, the pace is maintained and the symphonic is as prominent as ever. It's not perfect, this combination will always clash heads but it seems that Fleshgod Apocalypse are finally putting the two together in a manageable and interesting form. The album does what it needs to and well, but the almost fifty-five minutes of symphonic cliches tied over a melodic tech-death instrumental effort does tire the listener. It's got room to grow, just not a lot.
Fleshvessel Bile Of Man Reborn
Flourishing The Sum of All Fossils
Folian Ache Pillars
For All Eternity Metanoia
Forbidden Seasons Promise
Forest of Grey Crypsis
Forest of Tygers I Will Die of Violence
Forever Never Speak Up!
Forgjord Ilmestykset
Forhist Forhist
Forndom Daura Dura
Fragments Of Lost Memories Divagate
Freedom of Fear Nocturnal Gates
Frozen Soul Crypt Of Ice
Fuath I
Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy
Full of Hell Rudiments of Mutilation
Funeral Leech Death Meditation
Funereal Presence Achatius
Fvnerals Let the Earth Be Silent
Fyrnask Fórn
Gaerea Unsettling Whispers
Gaerea Mirage
Gatecreeper Deserted
Ghastly (FIN) Death Velour
Ghastly (FIN) Mercurial Passages
Ghost Iris Anecdotes of Science & Soul
Gire Gire
Glacial Tomb Glacial Tomb
Glorior Belli Gators Rumble, Chaos Unfurls
Goats Of Doom Tie on Hänen Omilleen
God Forbid IV: Constitution of Treason
A highlight of the God Forbid collection, A true level of metal energy is displayed on 'IV'. A spectacular listen for fans of true metal, thrash, metalcore and heavy metal. Also the guitar work should be noted for players of the instrument, both rhythm and lead work.
God Forbid Earthsblood
Gojira The Way of All Flesh
Gojira From Mars to Sirius
Goregäng Neon Graves
Gorement The Ending Quest
Gorgon (FRA1) Traditio Satanae
Gorguts Pleiades' Dust
Gorguts Considered Dead
Gorod A Maze of Recycled Creeds
Gorod A Perfect Absolution
Grand Magus Triumph and Power
Won't topple the likes of 'The Hunt' but has some chops to match any of the band's other records. Only this time around the band is more cohesive throughout.
Greber Cemetery Preston
Greyhaven Empty Black
Grift Syner
Grift Arvet
Grift Budet
Grima Will of the Primordial
Grima Rotten Garden
Grima Frostbitten
Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée...
Growth (AUS) The Smothering Arms Of Mercy
Groza The Redemptive End
Hadal Maw Oblique Order
Hail Spirit Noir Eden In Reverse
Haken Virus
Hands Of Despair Well of the Disquieted
Hanging Garden Skeleton Lake
Hannes Grossmann Apophenia
Hashshashin nihsahshsaH
Hate Auric Gates of Veles
Have a Nice Life Sea of Worry
Havok V
Havukruunu Kelle Surut Soi
Hegemone We Disappear
Heilung LIFA
Helium Horse Fly Hollowed
Helloween Gambling with the Devil
Helloween Better Than Raw
Herrschaft Le Festin Du Lion
Hexerei Ancient Evil Spirits
High on Fire Electric Messiah
Hilltop Hoods The Great Expanse
Hippotraktor Meridian
Holy Fawn Death Spells
Horna Askel Lähempänä Saatanaa
Horndal Lake Drinker
Hornwood Fell Cursed Thoughts - Part I
Horrendous Anareta
Horseback A Plague Of Knowing
Humanity's Last Breath Välde
Hyperdontia Hideous Entity
Ichiko Aoba Adan no Kaze
Ihsahn Das Seelenbrechen
Ill Nino Revolution/Revolucion
Immolation Majesty and Decay
Immolation Atonement
Immolation Unholy Cult
Immolation Acts of God
Impetuous Ritual Blight Upon Martyred Sentience
Impetuous Ritual Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence
In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading
In Hearts Wake Divination
In the Woods... Strange in Stereo
Inanimate Existence Clockwork
Incantation Dirges of Elysium
Infected Rain Ecdysis
Inferi (USA) The Path of Apotheosis
Infernal Conjuration Infernale Metallum Mortis
Ingested Stinking Cesspool Of Liquified Human Remnants
Inquisition Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
Inquisition Black Mass for a Mass Grave
Inquisition Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical...
Inquisition Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar...
Insain Enlightening the Unknown
Instrumental (adj.) Reductio ad Absurdum
Inter Arma Paradise Gallows
Intervals A Voice Within
Intronaut Habitual Levitations
Iron Maiden The Book of Souls
Iron Maiden Dance of Death
Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark
Iron Maiden Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden Senjutsu
Jasta Jasta
Jeden Kmen Mlha
Jenny Hval Classic Objects
Job for a Cowboy Sun Eater
Jordablod The Cabinet of Numinous Song
Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour
Kagrenak Part Two
Short exposures to the monolithic world of funeral doom metal, only this is the second chapter.
Kalmah Seventh Swamphony
Kampfar Djevelmakt
Kaoteon Damnatio Memoriae
I?m just sitting here trying to not give out 4?s like Oprah giving away cars.
Karmacipher Introspectrum
Karmacipher Necroracle
Karnivool Sound Awake
Kataklysm In the Arms of Devastation
Katalepsy Terra Mortuus Est
Katatonia Dead End Kings
Kawir Adrasteia
Kayo Dot Plastic House on Base of Sky
Keep of Kalessin Reptilian
Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed
Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies
Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing
King Apathy The Elk
King Goat Debt Of Aeons
Kongh Sole Creation
Krallice Go Be Forgotten
Krallice Loüm
Krallice Years Past Matter
Krallice Mass Cathexis
Krallice Prelapsarian
Krallice Diotima
Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough
Krypts Remnants of Expansion
Kvelertak Meir
L'Acephale L’Acephale
Lacus Somniorum Tideshaper
Lady Gaga Chromatica
Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang
Lamb of God Wrath
Lamb of God Sacrament
Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn
Landon Tewers Ai640 Pt. 3
Not going to lie (yep, another core record with a decent rate). "Excrete" is especially beastly in its second half.
Languish Feeding The Flames Of Annihilation
Lantern (FIN) Below
Lantlos Melting Sun
Leonard Cohen Thanks For The Dance
Leprous Coal
Leprous The Congregation
Leprous Malina
Les Chants de Nihil Le Tyran Et L'esthète
Lethe (NO) When Dreams Become Nightmares
Lidande I II III
Lifelover Erotik
Lingua Ignota Caligula
Linkin Park Meteora
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Liturgy Origin of the Alimonies
Liturgy H.A.Q.Q.
Liturgy 93696
Long Distance Calling Boundless
Lord Almighty Wither
Lord Mantis Universal Death Church
Loss Horizonless
Lotus Thief Oresteia
Lowen Unceasing Lamentations
Lunar Aurora Hoagascht
Lunar Aurora Mond
Lunar Aurora Elixir of Sorrow
Lvcifyre Svn Eater
Lychgate The Contagion in Nine Steps
Machine Head Bloodstone and Diamonds
Say what you will about Machine Head's career, the up's and down's are on a steady bell curve in a general ascent. Sure, they'll never make another The Blackening again, but neither will they return to the early days. Bloodstone and Diamonds brings back accessible track times with only a mere couple extending on the seven minute mark. Flynn's vocals aren't any surprise, nor is the new inclusion on bass. Some stand-outs include: Sail Into The Black, In Comes The Flood and Imaginal Cells.
Machine Head The More Things Change...
Maddie and Tae The Way It Feels
Mael Mordha Damned When Dead
Mael Mordha Manannán
Mael Mordha Gealtacht Mael Mórdha
Make a Change...Kill Yourself Make a Change...Kill Yourself
Make a Change...Kill Yourself IV
Mare Cognitum Luminiferous Aether
Mare Cognitum Phobos Monolith
Marrasmieli Between Land And Sky
Mastiff Leave Me The Ashes Of The Earth
Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun
Mastodon Leviathan
Mastodon Emperor of Sand
Mastodon Remission
Mastodon Cold Dark Place
Mastodon Call of the Mastodon
Mayhem Esoteric Warfare
Megadeth Endgame
Megadeth Rust in Peace
Mesarthim Isolate
Mesarthim Ghost Condensate
Mesarthim Vacuum Solution
Mesarthim The Density Parameter
Meshuggah Nothing
Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason
Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree
Mesmur Terrene
Metallica Metallica
Metallica Kill 'Em All
Metallica S&M2
Mgla Age of Excuse
Mgla Exercises in Futility
Mgla Groza
Minenwerfer Alpenpässe
Miserable Failure Hope
Misthyrming Algleymi
Mithridatum Harrowing
Mitochondrion Parasignosis
Mitochondrion Antinumerology
Moloken Rural
Monolithe Monolithe I
Monolithe Epsilon Aurigae
Monolithe Monolithe IV
Monolithe Monolithe II
Monument of Misanthropy Unterweger
Monuments (UK) Gnosis
Monuments (UK) Phronesis
Moon Machine Moon Machine
Moon Tooth Crux
Moonsorrow Verisäkeet
Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja
Moonsorrow Voimasta ja kunniasta
Moonspell Extinct
Morbus Chron A Saunter Through The Shroud
Morbus Chron Sleepers in the Rift
Mork Katedralen
Mossgiver The Song Among Branches
Mournful Congregation The Book of Kings
Mournful Congregation The Monad of Creation
Mouth Of The Architect The Ties That Blind
Mutiny Within Origins
My Dying Bride Feel the Misery
My Dying Bride A Map of All Our Failures
Myrkgrav Takk og Farvel; Tida er Blitt ei Annen
Myrkur M
Myrkur Mareridt
Nails Unsilent Death
Near Death Condition The Disembodied - In Spiritual Spheres
Necrophagous In Chaos Ascend
Necrot Mortal
Negura Bunget Virstele Pamintului
Negura Bunget Tău
Negura Bunget ZI
Neptunian Maximalism Eons
Nero di Marte Derivae
Nero di Marte Immoto
Fans of Derivae will have a lot to look forward to in Nero's latest effort. That bass presence is particularly dominant. I have some gripes with the vocals, but I'm generally getting too caught up in the instrumental work to nail down why that is.
Ni Pantophobie
Ninth Moon Black Amaranthine
Noctule Wretched Abyss
Nocturnus AD Paradox
Nogothula Gore Vortex Ascension
NONE Life Has Gone On Long Enough
Nonpoint The Return
Nonpoint To the Pain
Northlane Node
Nortt Ligfaerd
Nortt Galgenfrist
Nostromo (CHE) Bucephale
Nunslaughter Angelic Dread
Obliteration Black Death Horizon
Obliteration Nekropsalms
Obliteration Cenotaph Obscure
Obsidian Tongue Volume III
October Falls The Plague of a Coming Age
Ofermod Mysterium Iniquitatis
Officium Triste Mors Viri
Omega Massif Karpatia
Omega Massif Geisterstadt
Ominous Ruin Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone
Omnium Gatherum The Burning Cold
Omnium Gatherum Grey Heavens
Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows
Omnium Gatherum Beyond
On The Air Sleep In Heads
On the softer tracks I can hear an almost Alcest aesthetic, varied with a more punched out sound
in the album's more bombastic tracks bordering on Lacuna Coil (honestly not a bad combination).
Not a bad listen at all. Over slightly too quick.
Once Upon A Winter Pain and Other Pleasures
Opeth Heritage
Opeth Deliverance
Opeth Damnation
Opeth Lamentations
Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse
Opeth Sorceress
Opeth In Cauda Venenum
Probably one of Opeth's easier to digest albums post-Heritage era and to the same resolve their heaviest as far as their dad-meets-prog-rock journey goes. Opeth are now comfortable, completely.
Orbit Culture Nija
Origin Omnipresent
Osi and the Jupiter Stave
Ossuarium Living Tomb
Outre Hollow Earth
Ovid's Withering Scryers of the Ibis
Oxx The Skeleton is Just a Coat Hanger...
Pallbearer Foundations of Burden
Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction
Palsied Certain Death Austerities
Panopticon Roads to the North
Panopticon The Crescendo of Dusk
Panopticon Kentucky
Paradise Lost Tragic Idol
Paradise Lost The Plague Within
Parasite Inc. Time Tears Down
Parkway Drive Horizons
Paysage d'Hiver Nacht
Perihelion (HU) Agg
Periphery Juggernaut: Omega
Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha
Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan
Pestilength Eilatik
Phobophilic Enveloping Absurdity
Phrenelith Desolate Endscape
Plateau Sigma Symbols - The Sleeping Harmony of the World Below
Plebeian Grandstand Rien ne suffit
Polaris The Mortal Coil
Portal Seepia
Portal Outre
Portal (Cynic) Portal
Power Trip Manifest Decimation
Primordial To the Nameless Dead
Primordial The Burning Season
Progenie Terrestre Pura starCross
Project Mishram Meso
Psycroptic The Inherited Repression
Psycroptic Divine Council
Pulchra Morte Divina Autem et Aniles
Pyrrhon An Excellent Servant But a Terrible Master
Pyrrhon Abscess Time
Raventale Morphine Dead Gardens
Raxa Starchildren
Red Fang Whales and Leeches
Revocation Great Is Our Sin
Revocation Revocation
Revocation Existence Is Futile
Revocation Empire of the Obscene
Revolting The Shadow At The World's End
Rise To Remain City of Vultures
Rise To Remain Bridges Will Burn
Riverside Anno Domini High Definition
Rodrigo y Gabriela Mettavolution
Rorcal Heliogabalus
Rorcal Myrra, Mordvynn, Marayaa
Rosetta The Anaesthete
Rosetta Terra Sola
Rotting Christ The Apocryphal Spells, Vol. I + Vol. II
Rotting Kingdom A Deeper Shade of Sorrow
Rottrevore Iniquitous
RuYYn RüYYn
Sadness I want to be there
Sadness Circle of Veins
Sallow Moth Failure to Find
Sarin (CAN) You Can’t Go Back
Sarke Gastwerso
Scale the Summit The Migration
Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress
Scar Symmetry Symmetric in Design
Scars on Broadway Scars on Broadway
Schammasch Hearts of No Light
Secrets of the Moon Carved in Stigmata Wounds
Secrets of the Moon Privilegivm
Seizures Reverie of the Revolving Diamond
Senses Fail If There Is Light, It Will Find You
Separatist Closure
Septa The Lover
Septicflesh Titan
Sepultura Kairos
Sepultura Arise
Serocs And When the Sky Was Opened
Serocs The Next
Serpent Column Mirror In Darkness
Serpent Column Ornuthi Thalassa
Serpent Column Endless Detainment
Serpent Column Kathodos
Seth La Morsure du Christ
Sevendust Black Out the Sun
Sevendust Seasons
Sevendust Animosity
Sevendust Sevendust
Shadows Fall Fire From the Sky
Shape of Despair Illusion's Play
Shining (SWE) VI - Klagopsalmer
Shining (SWE) III - Angst, Självdestruktivitetens Emissarie
Sigh In Somniphobia
Sigur Ros Kveikur
Skaldic Curse Devourer
Skeletal Remains Devouring Mortality
Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light
Skepticism Ordeal
Skepticism Alloy
Skepticism Stormcrowfleet
Skindred Kill the Power
It has the hooks to drive its guitar laden, bombastic approach. But the overall song writing steps back from the band's previous release. Make no mistake the quasi formulaic structures are great and the rest push through.
Sleep The Sciences
Slidhr Deluge
Slipknot Slipknot
Slipknot Antennas to Hell
Slow (BE) IV - Mythologiæ
Slow (BE) II - Deeper in the Space, Higher In...
Slytherin When the Darkness Comes
So Hideous Last Poem/First Light
Soen Tellurian
Soen Imperial
What peanut thinks this is album has djent in it? Imagine being Srpskicekic and not knowing what djent is.
Soilwork The Living Infinite
Twenty tracks of joy for a band that was slowly fading off the map. Soilwork have stretched out, when they really needed to.
Soilwork A Predator's Portrait
Soilwork The Chainheart Machine
Sojourner Premonitions
Solstafir Otta
Solstafir Berdreyminn
Soulfly Soulfly
Soulfly Archangel
Sparrows Failed Gods
Spectral Lore Ετερόφωτος
Spectral Lore II
Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine
Spectral Wound Infernal Decadence
Spirit Possession Spirit Possession
Spook the Horses Rainmaker
Still Remains Of Love and Lunacy
Stomb Massive Disturbed Meta Art
Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning
Suffocation Hymns From the Apocrypha
Suldusk Lunar Falls
SUMAC May You Be Held
Summoning With Doom We Come
Sun Devoured Earth A Static Life
Sun of the Blind Skullreader
Sunn O))) Life Metal
Sunn O))) Black One
Sunn O))) LA Reh 012
Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions
Sutrah (CAN) Aletheia
Svart Crown Witnessing The Fall
Swallow the Sun When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light
Sylosis Conclusion of an Age
Sylosis Cycle of Suffering
Quite pleased how these guys have turned their sound back around. As far as faux-melo-thrash goes this is more than acceptable.
System of a Down Hypnotize
System of a Down Mezmerize
Taphos Come Ethereal Somberness
Target (CHL) Deep Water Flames
Taylor Swift Lover
Teeth (USA-CA) Finite
Teitanblood The Baneful Choir
TesseracT Altered State
Textures Phenotype
Textures Dualism
Thaw Thaw
The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual
The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal
The Contortionist Exoplanet
The Drowning The Radiant Dark
The Flower Kings Islands
The Ocean Pelagial
The Ocean Anthropocentric
The Ocean Fluxion
The Ogre Dead In The Water
The Ruins of Beverast Blood Vaults - The Blazing Gospels of Heinrich...
The Tallest Man on Earth I Love You. It's a Fever Dream.
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Illusory Walls
Thou Summit
Thou The House Primordial
Thou Inconsolable
Thou Rhea Sylvia
Threat Signal Under Reprisal
Thy Catafalque Rengeteg
Thy Catafalque Sgùrr
Thy Catafalque Meta
Toadeater Codex
Tomb Mold Manor of Infinite Forms
Tombs Monarchy of Shadows
Tool 10,000 Days
Tool Ænima
Totally Unicorn High Spirits​/​/​Low Life
Tribulation Down Below
Tribulation Where the Gloom Becomes Sound
Triptykon Melana Chasmata
Triumvir Foul Urine of Abomination
Trivium Shogun
Trivium Ab Initio
Trivium The Sin and the Sentence
Trollfest Norwegian Fairytales
Trvth A Galvanizing Derivation
Turia Degen van licht
Tyr Hel
U2 Songs of Innocence
So many with an unwillingness to understand. U2 have earned the name as a staple in music. Songs Of Innocence simply follows the formula of a band so very successful whether you understand the hype or not. Unfortunately the under 18 year old's of Sputnikmusic lack the capacity to rub brain cells together.
Uada Devoid of Light
Ulthar Cosmovore
Ulthar Helionomicon
Ulthar Anthronomicon
Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar
Ulvesang The Hunt
Unearth The March
Unearth Darkness in the Light
Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire
Uneven Structure Februus
Unfathomable Ruination Finitude
Unfathomable Ruination Decennium Ruinae
Unhappy Dark Crows
Unhappy Songs Before My Suicide
Unreqvited Stars Wept to the Sea
Unreqvited Beautiful Ghosts
Until Death Overtakes Me Prelude To Monolith
How minimal is this, how long can you sit still? And why the fuck don't people know about this band?
Until Death Overtakes Me Missing
Usurpress Ordained
Usurpress The Regal Tribe
Vader Solitude in Madness
Vale of Pnath Accursed
Vale of Pnath The Prodigal Empire
Vanum Ageless Fire
Vektor Terminal Redux
Verwoed De Val
Victims of Contagion Lamentations Of The Flesh Bound
Vile Crone Apostle
Vin De Mia Trix Palimpsests
Vinterbris Solace
Violet Cold Noir Kid
VoidCeremony Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional...
Vukari Aevum
Vuyvr Incinerated Gods
VVilderness Dark Waters
Wake Devouring Ruin
Wake Of The Blade The Flesh Ephemeral
Wandar Zyklus
Warforged I: Voice
Watain Sworn to The Dark
Watain Casus Luciferi
Waxwolf Our Love
Kaleidoscope progressive whatever the hell kind of metal you listen to through a straw. Like that time you dipped a French fry into a choc sundae and shit just worked.
Wearing Scars A Thousand Words
Wedrujacy Wiatr Zorzysta Staje Ocma
White Ward Love Exchange Failure
Whitechapel Mark of the Blade
Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed II
Winterfylleth The Dark Hereafter
Winterfylleth The Divination Of Antiquity
Winterfylleth The Threnody of Triumph
Winterfylleth The Mercian Sphere
Winterfylleth The Ghost Of Heritage
Witch Mountain Mobile of Angels
With the End in Mind Tides of Fire
Within Temptation Hydra
Within Temptation The Heart of Everything
Within the Ruins Black Heart
Wo Fat The Conjuring
Wode Burn in Many Mirrors
Wodensthrone Curse
Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage
Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven
Wombripper From The Depths Of Flesh
Woods of Desolation Sorh
Woods of Desolation As the Stars
Worship Terranean Wake
Wovenwar Wovenwar
Wreck and Reference Indifferent Rivers Romance End
Xanthochroid Of Erthe and Axen: Act II
Xenobiotic Mordrake
Year of No Light Ausserwelt
Yoth Iria As The Flame Withers
Yuri Gagarin The Outskirts of Reality
Zealotry At the Nexus of All Stillborn Worlds
Zealotry The Last Witness
Zhrine Unortheta

3.4 great
Animals As Leaders Parrhesia
Atvm Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless
Sometimes this is a shonky mess, other times it's sounds very much on point. In the very least, this drummer is an actual beast.
Blind Guardian The God Machine
Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder
Dead and Dripping Miasmic Eulogies Predicating an Eternal Nocturne
Deafheaven Roads to Judah
Drawn and Quartered Congregation Pestilence
Estuarine Nyarlathotep
Exocrine The Hybrid Suns
Fractal Universe The Impassable Horizon
Fuath II
Funebrarum Beneath the Columns of Abandoned Gods
Fustilarian All This Promiscuous Decadence
Hooded Menace The Tritonus Bell
Imperialist Zenith
Inoculation Celestial Putridity
Keiji Haino and Sumac Into This Juvenile Apocalypse Our Golden Blood...
Mizmor Wit's End
Noise Trail Immersion Curia
Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition Chapter III
Phinehas The Fire Itself
Replicant Malignant Reality
Revocation Netherheaven
Sakis Tolis Among the Fires of Hell
Sarmat Determined To Strike
Seventh Wonder The Testament
Soulfly Totem
Superterrestrial The Fathomless Decay
Sylvaine Nova
The Dear Hunter Antimai
The Flight of Sleipnir Eventide
The Mist From the Mountains Monumental - The Temple of Twilight
Thurnin Menhir
Vimur Transcendental Violence
Wilderun Epigone
Wizardthrone Hypercube Necrodimensions
Xenobiotic Prometheus

3.3 great
1914 Where Fear and Weapons Meet
Aetherian At Storm's Edge
Alluvial Sarcoma
Altered Dead Returned to Life
Alustrium A Monument to Silence
Amon Amarth The Great Heathen Army
An Abstract Illusion Woe
Ancient Burials Shepherd of the Dead
Arkona (RUS) Kob'
Ascended Dead Evenfall of the Apocalypse
Avatar Dance Devil Dance
Becoming The Archetype Children of the Great Extinction
Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond)
Belore Artefacts
Burial Hordes Ruins
Cadaveric Fumes Echoing Chambers Of Soul
Carcass Torn Arteries
Charnel Grounds Molecular Entropy Examined in the Bowels of a Grea
Claustrum Claustrum
Deathfuckingcunt Decadent Perversity
Deathless Void Deathless Void
Deimos Those Who Built the Sky
Drifter (USA-GA) Drifter
Comes for the riffs, stay for the riffs, riff for the riffs. Be the riff.
Eidola The Architect
Falaise After All This Time
Felled The Intimate Earth
Foo Fighters But Here We Are
Godless Truth Godless Truth
Golgothan Remains Adorned in Ruin
Gonemage Handheld Demise
Gorod The Orb
Halestorm The Strange Case Of...
Havukruunu Kuu Erkylän Yllä
Helms Alee Keep This Be the Way
Humanity's Last Breath Ashen
Idle Ruin The Fell Tyrant
Ithaca They Fear Us
If we judge the upcoming record by the singles alone, this album is going to be a bop and a half.
Kayo Dot Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike
Keep of Kalessin Katharsis
Kreator Hate Über Alles
Lamp of Murmuur Saturnian Bloodstorm
Maul Seraphic Punishment
Morbific Ominous Seep of Putridity
Necrogod In Extremis
Nihility Beyond Human Concepts
Noctambulist The Barren Form
nothing,nowhere. Void Eternal
Null (USA) Origin
Obsolete Animate//Isolate
Oceans of Slumber Starlight and Ash
Omnium Gatherum Origin
Once Human Scar Weaver
Oni (CAN) Loathing Light
Opera Diabolicus Death on a Pale Horse
Overkill Scorched
Panopticon .​.​.​And Again into the Light
Persefone Metanoia
Portal Hagbulbia
Praying Mantis Katharsis
Pronostic Chaotic Upheaval
Sallow Moth Stasis Cocoon
Saor Origins
Sentinels (US) Collapse by Design
Septicflesh Modern Primitive
Spectral Wound A Diabolic Thirst
Spirit Possession Of the Sign ...
Strigoi Viscera
Sunflo'er All These Darlings and Now Me
Swelling Repulsion The Severed Path
System of a Down Protect The Land/Genocidal Humanoidz
Taylor Swift Evermore
The Acacia Strain Failure Will Follow
The Acacia Strain Step Into The Light
The Crown Royal Destroyer
The Scalar Process Coagulative Matter
Toughness The Prophetic Dawn
Traumatomy Extirpation Paradigms
Vaticinal Rites Vaticinal Rites
Withered Verloren
Within Destruction Lotus
Yith Passage

3.2 good
Arkheth Clarity Came With A Cool Summer's Breeze
Avantasia A Paranormal Evening With the Moonflower Society
Bloodbath Survival of the Sickest
Body Asphyxiation Science Gravitational Blood Art
Culak Holy Tempest
Descent Order of Chaos
Disfiguring the Goddess Karnival
DOTGIFFROMGOD Digital Red
Firtan Marter
Fluisteraars Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking
Gaahls Wyrd The Humming Mountain
Ghost (SWE) Impera
Ignominy (CAN) Imminent Collapse
Knoll As Spoken
Lantlos Wildhund
Malevolence Malicious Intent
As straight-forward and unyieldingly consistent this is I'm quite impressed. Mid year metal stocking filler for sure.
Monuments (UK) In Stasis
Moral Collapse Moral Collapse
Northlane Obsidian
Orla Gartland Woman on the Internet
Plasmodium Towers of Silence
Pure Wrath Hymn To The Woeful Hearts
Queen Of The Meadow Survival of the Unfittest
Skepticism Companion
The Flower Kings By Royal Decree
The Ocean Holocene
VOLA Witness
Wombbath Agma
Worm Bluenothing
Yumi Zouma Present Tense

3.1 good
Aborted ManiaCult
"Yeah, can we start wiping ratings of people who just 1.5 random albums to obviously chase robjectivity scores"r"Unpaid contrarian staff moving the goalposts, as per usual"rOr we could stop giving away 4's like we're Oprah? Salty user being salty about other people rhaving a different opinion as per usual.
Bad Omens The Death of Peace of Mind
Bleed from Within Shrine
Dreamshade A Pale Blue Dot
A Pale Blue Dot is the best In Flames album since 2011.
Druid Lord Relics of the Dead
Frayle Skin & Sorrow
Kekht Arakh Pale Swordsman
Khemmis Deceiver
Repeated listens brings this down a bit. Some of these tracks begin to drag and feel about twenty minutes long.
Light the Torch You Will Be the Death of Me
Meshuggah obZen
Meshuggah Immutable
Moongates Guardian The Wind Over Dale
Universally Estranged Dimension of Deviant Clusters
Veil of Maya [m]other

3.0 good
...and Oceans Cosmic World Mother
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead X: The Godless Void and Other Stories
1349 Massive Cauldron of Chaos
1349 The Infernal Pathway
1349 Demonoir
A Day To Remember Common Courtesy
A Night in Texas The Divine Dichotomy - Chapter II
A Night in Texas The Divine Dichotomy - Chapter I
A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant
Fits the bill for being okay. If only it didn?t reek of pretentious, self worship.
A Secret Revealed Sacrifices
Abehrum Ineffable
Abigail Williams Becoming
Abigail Williams The Accuser
Abiotic Casuistry
Aborym Dirty
Aborym Hostile
Abraham Look, Here Comes The Dark!
Ade Rise of the Empire
Adrift for Days The Lunar Maria
Aesmah Walking Off The Horizon
Aeternam Al Qassam
Aevangelist Veneration of Profane Antiquity
Aevangelist Heralds of Nightmare Descending
Aevangelist De Masticatione Mortuorum In Tumulis
Afterbirth Four Dimensional Flesh
Agalloch Alpha Serpentis
Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere
Akrotheism Law of Seven Deaths
Aksumite Vinegar Perimeter
Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde
Alcest Shelter
Alestorm Sunset on the Golden Age
Alestorm No Grave But the Sea
Alkaloid The Malkuth Grimoire
All That Remains ...For We Are Many
All That Remains The Fall of Ideals
Alluring Alluring
Altar of Plagues White Tomb
Altars Of Grief Iris
Amaranthe Amaranthe
Amorphis The Beginning of Times
An Autumn For Crippled Children Only The Ocean Knows
An Autumn For Crippled Children Eternal
An Autumn For Crippled Children The Long Goodbye
Anaal Nathrakh Total Fucking Necro
Anaal Nathrakh The Whole of the Law
Anaal Nathrakh A New Kind of Horror
Anathema Distant Satellites
Andrew Judah Impossible Staircase
Angel Olsen Whole New Mess
AngelMaker AngelMaker
AngelMaker Dissentient
Angerot The Divine Apostate
Angra Ømni
Animals As Leaders Weightless
Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many
Anthrax For All Kings
Anthrax Sound of White Noise
Apocalyptica Cell-0
Appalachian Winter Winter Always Returns
Appalachian Winter Appalachian Winter
Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine
Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant
Arch Enemy War Eternal
Architects Holy Hell
Arcturus La Masquerade Infernale
Arkaik Labyrinth of Hungry Ghosts
Arkan Lila H
Arkona (PL) Lunaris
Aronious Perspicacity
Despite a tendency to be slightly long winded, Perspicacity is an appropriate start to The Artisan Era's 2020 exports. A few production misgivings are generally forgiven by a decent atmosphere and otherwise strong musicianship.
Arsis We Are the Nightmare
Arsis Unwelcome
As I Lay Dying Awakened
As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security
Aseitas Aseitas
ASG Survive Sunrise
Ash Borer Bloodlands
Ash Borer The Irrepassable Gate
Ashen Horde Antimony
Asphyx On The Wings of Inferno
Asphyx Death... The Brutal Way
Asphyx Deathhammer
Asphyx Incoming Death
Ataraxy Revelations of the Ethereal
Atlantean Kodex The Course of Empire
Atlas Entity Beneath the Cosmic Silence
Atrae Bilis Divinihility
Au Clair de Lune Diaphanous Deities
Au Clair de Lune Au Clair de Lune
August Burns Red Rescue & Restore
August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places
Autopsy Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves
Avathar Bûrgulu kû-ghâra
Aversions Crown Xenocide
Avslut Deceptis
Azure Emote The Third Perspective
Baring Teeth Atrophy
Baring Teeth Ghost Chorus Among Old Ruins
Bathory Nordland II
Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone
Behemoth Evangelion
Behemoth The Apostasy
Behemoth Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)
Behemoth Satanica
Behemoth Thelema.6
Bell Witch Mirror Reaper
Belphegor Totenritual
Benighted Obscene Repressed
Beorn's Hall In His Granite Realm
Beorn's Hall Estuary
Bethlehem Lebe Dich Leer
Between the Buried and Me Automata II
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence
Bill Fay Countless Branches
Bird Violence Seasonal Forests
Black Blood of the Earth Bleak Light, Fervent Dark
Perfectly acceptable background music with audible bass. Is it mind-blowing? No, it often meanders too much. However that doesn't mean it's not worth a casual listen.
Black Label Society Order Of The Black
Black Sabbath 13
Black Sites Exile
Black Tide Light From Above
Blackhelm Dark Clouds of the Inferno
Blaze of Perdition The Harrowing of Hearts
Bleak Flesh ... And Save Us From Silence
Bleakhaus Falling Apart
Bleakhaus Northwest Passage
Bliss N Eso Circus In The Sky
Blood Feast Chopped, Sliced And Diced
Blood Urn ...Of Gory Sorcery and Death
Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage
Bloodbath The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn
Bloodred Hourglass Godsend
Blosse Loin
Blut Aus Nord 777 - Sect(s)
Blut Aus Nord 777 - The Desanctification
Bong Thought and Existence
Borealis The Offering
Borknagar Urd
Born of Osiris The Discovery
Bosse-de-Nage Further Still
Brain Stem Symptoms of Annihilation - Stage 2
Here for a good time, not for a long time. This is some solid, if completely safe death metal.
Brand of Sacrifice Between Death and Dreams
Brothers Of Metal Emblas Saga
Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze Offerings of Flesh and Gold
Bullet for My Valentine Venom
Bury Tomorrow The Seventh Sun
Burzum Sol austan, Mani vestan
Burzum Fallen
Burzum Belus
Butcher 666 Goats Carry My Chariot
Cabal (DK) Mark Of Rot
Points for trying something different but this reeks of too much genericore to define itself as a whole new animal.
Cabal (DK) Magno Interitus
Cadaveric Fumes/Demonic Oath Entwined in Sepulchral Darkness
Calico Jack Calico Jack
Gonna need to find and or locate th' Rum if we're going to enjoy ourselves here. Savvy?
Calyces Impulse to Soar
Cannabis Corpse From Wisdom to Baked
Cannibal Corpse Red Before Black
Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding
Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague
Capharnaum Fractured
Cara Neir Phase Out
I really don?t know what to make of this little ditty. So much love, so much hate.
Carcass Surgical Remission/Surplus Steel
Carcass Swansong
Carnifex Die Without Hope
Carnosus Dogma of the Deceased
Cartographs Wilt and Blossom
Catacomb (SWE) Embrace Decay
Catafalque Catafalque
Cathedral The Last Spire
Cavalera Conspiracy Pandemonium
Cavalera Conspiracy Blunt Force Trauma
Cave In Final Transmission
Celeste Infidele(s)
Celeste Animale(s)
Celtic Frost Monotheist
Celtic Frost Into the Pandemonium
Cenotaphe Empyrée
Cerebrum Iridium
Chelsea Grin Suffer In Heaven
Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence
Children of Bodom Blooddrunk
Children of Bodom Hexed
Deafheavencore
Chimaira Pass Out of Existence
Chimaira Chimaira
Chimaira The Age of Hell
Chrome Waves Where We Live
Cocteau Twins Milk and Kisses
Codex Nero The Great Harvest Of Death
Coffin Curse Ceased To Be
Coffins Mortuary in Darkness
Coffins Beyond the Circular Demise
Coffins The Fleshland
Cognitive Malevolent Thoughts of a Hastened Extinction
Cognizance Malignant Dominion
Cold Driven The Wicked Side of Me
Complete Freedom Alpha
Conan Blood Eagle
Convulse Deathstar
Cough Ritual Abuse
Cough Sigillum Luciferi
Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine
Craven Idol The Shackles of Mammon
Crawl/Leviathan CRAWL/LVTHN
Creeping Death Wretched Illusions
Crest of Darkness The God of Flesh
Crest of Darkness Welcome the Dead
Critical Defiance Misconception
Crossfaith Wipeout
Crowbar Sever The Wicked Hand
Crown Magnetar The Codex of Flesh
Cruciamentum Paradise Envenomed
Crypt Sermon The Ruins of Fading Light
Cryptopsy The Book of Suffering - Tome 1
Cryptopsy The Book of Suffering - Tome II
Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway
Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner
Dagoba Post Mortem Nihil Est
Dark Fortress Venereal Dawn
Dark Funeral Angelus Exuro pro Eternus
Darkened Kingdom Of Decay
Darkthrone Dark Thrones and Black Flags
Darkthrone Total Death
Darkthrone Ravishing Grimness
Darkthrone Goatlord
Daughters You Won't Get What You Want
Dawn Ray'd The Unlawful Assembly
Dawn Ray'd Behold Sedition Plainsong
Dawn Ray'd A Thorn, A Blight
De Magia Veterum The Divine Antithesis
Dead To A Dying World Elegy
Deafheaven New Bermuda
Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Death Angel The Dream Calls for Blood
Deathbell A Nocturnal Crossing
Deathgoat Regurgitated into Existence
Deathspell Omega Diabolus Absconditus
Decapitated Carnival Is Forever
Decayos Apterous
Defiled Infinite Regress
This is solid enough, but there's still nothing setting these guys apart from the we want to a more technical "Deicide".
Deicide To Hell With God
Deicide In the Minds of Evil
Deicide Once Upon the Cross
Deicide Overtures of Blasphemy
Deicide Serpents of the Light
Demon King The Final Tyranny
Der Rote Milan Moritat
Descend The Deviant
Desecravity Anathema
Desolate Realm Desolate Realm
Devil Time to Repent
DevilDriver DevilDriver
DevilDriver Beast
DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand
Devourment Obscene Majesty
Dismember Dismember
Dismemberment Arc of Ancients
Dissection Reinkaos
Dodecahedron Dodecahedron
Dodecahedron Kwintessens
Dopethrone Transcanadian Anger
Downfall of Gaia Epos
Downfall of Gaia Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes
Dragged Into Sunlight/Gnaw Their Tongues N.V.
Drave Terroir
Drawn and Quartered Feeding Hell's Furnace
A quality release, Osdm comes at a price of mediocrity and tgankfully Drawn and Quatered sail quite over the top. Pounding riff lines and constant drum parts come together but unfortunately this album prevents itself from being the ultimate death by sticking to a typical formula. Its not really a negative but its far from a positive.
Dream Theater Train of Thought
Dream Theater Dream Theater
Dream Theater Distance Over Time
Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Drudkh Songs of Grief and Solitude
Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel
Drudkh/Winterfylleth Thousands of Moons Ago/The Gates
Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia
Duskmourn Fallen Kings and Rusted Crowns
Dying Sun Transcendence
Dzo-nga Five Treasures of Snow
Earth Full Upon Her Burning Lips
Eggs of Gomorrh Outpregnate
Elderwind The Colder The Night
Eluveitie Everything Remains As It Never Was
Eluveitie Evocation II: Pantheon
Emperor IX Equilibrium
Employed To Serve Eternal Forward Motion
Emptiness Vide
Empyreal Forest Divinations
Encircling Sea A Forgotten Land
Encoffination Ritual Ascension Beyond Flesh
Enisum Moth's Illusion
Not as well-executed as some of this year's more formidable releases but still solid folk-sy atmospheric black metal in the vein of Falls Of Rauros, Bardd et al.
Ensiferum Thalassic
Enslaved Ruun
Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour
Entrails (SWE) Raging Death
Eoront Gods Have No Home
Epica Omega
Ereb Altor Järtecken
Eremit Carrier of Weight
Essence of Datum Spellcrying Machine
Eunuchs The Castration of Gods
Evile Hell Unleashed
Evoken A Caress of the Void
Evoken Shades of Night Descending
Exhorder Mourn the Southern Skies
Exodus Blood In, Blood Out
Exsul Exsul
Extirpation A Damnation's Stairway to the Altar of Failure
Eye of Solitude The Ghost
Faceless Burial Grotesque Miscreation
Fallensun The Wake Of The Fall
Falloch Prospice
Falls of Rauros Into the Archaic (Demo)
Falls of Rauros Hail Wind and Hewn Oak
Falls of Rauros Of Stone and the Stars in the Sky
Fallujah The Flesh Prevails
Father Befouled Obscurus Nex Cultus
Father Befouled Desolate Gods
Fear Factory Archetype
Fell Voices Regnum Saturni
Fell Voices Untitled
Fen Winter
Fen Carrion Skies
Fen Epoch
Fetid Steeping Corporeal Mess
Firelink The Inveterate Fire
Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse
Fit for an Autopsy Absolute Hope Absolute Hell
Five Finger Death Punch American Capitalist (Deluxe Edition)
Five Finger Death Punch War Is The Answer
Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony
Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles
Flub Dream Worlds
Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold
Foredoomed Chaos and Beauty
Forever Never Aporia
Forever Never I Can't Believe It's Not Metal
They call me Mr Boombastic....rIf there was ever a need for a Shaggy goes metal cover this is basically it.
Forlorn Path Man's Last Portrait
Foscor Els Sepulcres Blancs
Fossilization He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten
Fractal Gates Beyond The Self
Fractal Generator Macrocosmos
Frigoris Nur Ein Moment...
Frostmoon Eclipse Worse Weather to Come
Fuming Mouth The Grand Descent
Funeral Tears The Only Way Out
Fyrnask Eldir Nótt
Gaahls Wyrd GastiR - Ghosts Invited
About the safest thing Gaahl has ever slapped his name on. Barely above average, listen to this when you run out of everything that's better.
Gallowbraid Ashen Eidolon
GARDSGHASTR Slit Throat Requiem
Gelure Into the Chesfern Wood
Gelure The Candlelight Tomes
Genetic Disease Eternal Emptiness
Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam
Album leaks and Sput's userbase goes wild. Sure enough Ghost's second release is a steady beast but it just like the Archille's heel, it doesn't have the same impact as the debut. Tracks like Secular Haze, Year Zero (the album's singles) are standouts but the band did everything they needed to on the first release. Make no mistake, the album will Satan your socks off, but it will tickle your feet as it does so.
Ghost (SWE) Meliora
Ghost (SWE) Ceremony and Devotion
Ghost (SWE) Popestar
Ghost Atlas All Is in Sync...
Ghost Spirit Hourglass
Glorior Belli The Apostates
Gnaw Their Tongues I Speak The Truth, Yet With Every Word Uttered, Thousands Die
Goblin Cock Bagged and Boarded
God Dethroned Illuminati
God Forbid Equilibrium
Gomorrah (CAN) Gomorrah
Gonemage Mystical Extraction
Gorephilia Severed Monolith
Gorezone Implexaeon
pretty sure I heard Megatron mention Hogwarts somewhere in here...
Gorgon (FRA2) Elegy
Gorgoroth Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt
Gorod Process of a New Decline
Grand Magus Grand Magus
Why we have no review for this? rYour soundoff was too short, it has to be at least 50 characters
Grand Magus Wolf God
Gravecarver Spectral Carnage
Gravesend Methods Of Human Disposal
Greg Puciato Child Soldier: Creator of God
Grift Vilsna andars boning
Grima Tales of the Enchanted Woods
Grima Devotion to Lord
Grimah Intricacies of Bowed Wisdom
Guy Sebastian T.R.U.T.H.
GWAR Battle Maximus
Haken Fauna
Hamferd Támsins likam
Harakiri for the Sky Maere
Harm's Way (USA-IL) Posthuman
Hate Disposal Legacy
Hate Eternal Fury & Flames
Hate Eternal Phoenix Amongst The Ashes
Hate Eternal Infernus
Hate Eternal Upon Desolate Sands
Hatebreed The Concrete Confessional
Hath Of Rot And Ruin
Havukruunu Havulinnaan
Haxkapell Eldhymner
Helloween 7 Sinners
Helloween Straight Out of Hell
Hexvessel Kindred
Hollow Haze Between Wild Landscapes and Deep Blue Seas
Holy Fawn The Black Moon
Hope Drone Cloak of Ash
Horna Kuoleman Kirjo
Horrendous The Chills
Horrendous Ecdysis
Horseback Half Blood
Hour of Penance Misotheism
Howling Sycamore Seven Pathways To Annihilation
Hulder Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry
Hypocrisy End of Disclosure
Hypocrisy Worship
Ihsahn Telemark
Ill Nino One Nation Underground
Immanifest Macrobial
Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy
Immolation Shadows in the Light
Immolation Harnessing Ruin
Immortal Northern Chaos Gods
Immortal All Shall Fall
Imprecation Satanae Tenebris Infinita
In Flames Siren Charms
In Hearts Wake Kaliyuga
Despite the woe-bad artwork, early singles says this will be considerably better than Ark. Thank fuck for that.
In Loving Memory (SPA) The Withering
In the Woods... Cease the Day
In the Woods... Pure
In Vain (NO) Currents
Incantation Sect of Vile Divinities
Incantation Primordial Domination
Incantation Decimate Christendom
Indian From All Purity
Inferi (USA) The End of an Era | Rebirth
Insect Ark Marrow Hymns
Insect Ark Portal/Well
Insomnium Ephemeral
Insomnium Heart Like a Grave
Inter Arma Sky Burial
Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions
this is a little 'dialled' in. new drummer has some serious chops, but there's a general intronaut vibe missing here. dunno, will give some more spins.
Invent Animate Greyview
Iron Maiden The Final Frontier
Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death
Iron Maiden Nights of the Dead: Live in Mexico City
Iskandr Vergezicht
Jesse Berezan The Vermillion
Jesu Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came
Jesu Ascension
Jesu Terminus
Job for a Cowboy Demonocracy
John Legend Bigger Love
John Petrucci Terminal Velocity
Jordablod Upon My Cremation Pyre
Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness
Kadavar (DE) For the Dead Travel Fast
Kagrenak Part One
Kalmah Palo
Kalmah Kalmah
Kamelot Haven
Kamelot The Shadow Theory
It’s another soundoff for another Kamelot album. What do you want from me?
Kamelot Ghost Opera
Karnivool Themata
Kataklysm Prevail
Kataklysm Serenity in Fire
Kataklysm Meditations
Katatonia The Fall of Hearts
Katatonia City Burials
Katie Pruitt Expectations
Kauan Aava Tuulen Maa
Kauan Kuu..
Kauan Tietäjän Laulu
Kauan Muistumia
Keep of Kalessin Armada
Keep of Kalessin Kolossus
Keys of Orthanc A Battle in the Dark Lands of the Eye​.​.​.
Khthoniik Cerviiks Æequiizoiikum
Killswitch Engage Incarnate
Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent
Killswitch Engage Atonement
Killswitch Engage Atonement II B-Sides for Charity
King (AUS) Coldest of Cold
King Diamond Give Me Your Soul...Please
King Parrot Holed Up In The Lair
Kings of Mercia Kings of Mercia
Kirk Windstein Dream In Motion
Konkhra Alpha And The Omega
Korn The Serenity of Suffering
Korpiklaani Korven Kuningas
Krallice Wolf
Krallice Ygg Huur
Krisiun Conquerors of Armageddon
Krisiun Southern Storm
Krisiun The Great Execution
Kull Exile
Kvelertak Splid
Kvelgeyst Alkahest
L'Homme Absurde Sleepless
Lacuna Coil Shallow Life
Lacuna Coil Karmacode
Lamb of God Resolution
Lamb of God New American Gospel
Lantern (FIN) Dimensions
Laster Het wassen oog
Latitudes Part Island
Leeched To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse
Lethian Dreams A Shadow of Memories
Letters From The Colony Vignette
Lie in Ruins Towards Divine Death
Lie in Ruins Floating in Timeless Streams
Lifelover Konkurs
Lifelover Pulver
Light the Torch The Beauty of Destruction(Devil You Know
Despite the ever-growing hype train from the ashes of former Killswitch Engage frontman, Howard Jones and the other various artists joining on this new moniker, The Beauty Of Destruction leaves something to be desired. Devil You Know releases 47 minutes of passable metalcore filled to the brim with the nuances that made Jones' stint with KsE so successful. The Beauty Of Destruction is formulaic, but delivers everything it was meant to. 'For The Dead And Broken' stands as a distinguishable highlight.
Lights and Motion Chronicle
Limp Bizkit Still Sucks
Lorem Ipsum Vivre encore
Loss Despond
Luna (UA) Ashes to Ashes
Lunar Aurora Ars Moriendi
Lunar Aurora Zyklus
Lychgate Also Sprach Futura
Machine Head The Burning Red
Mael Mordha Cluain Tarbh
Malakhim Theion
Mammoth Grinder Cosmic Crypt
Manalyth Blood Moon
Manegarm Nattvasen
Manegarm Legions of the North
Manegarm Fornaldarsagor
Manifesting Obscenity Mahapralaya
Mare Cognitum An Extraconscious Lucidity
Mare Cognitum The Sea Which Has Become Known
Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor
This is actually pretty, sorta, good. I mean, take it for what it is but when the guy isn't being a biker nazi on TV he can make passable music.
Marilyn Manson We Are Chaos
Mark Morton Anesthetic
Master The New Elite
Master Vindictive Miscreant
Master The Witchhunt
Mastodon The Hunter
Mastodon Oblivion EP
Mayhem Daemon
Mayhem Chimera
Mayhem Ordo ad Chao
Mazikeen The Solace of Death
Me And That Man New Man, New Songs, Same Shit Vol. 1
This is an approachable record featuring a motley crew of guest musicians and vocalists. Despite that, 'New Man...' doesn't push past a staple of compilation style soundscapes into something more. Matt Heafy's diversity is greater here than most of his later workings with Trivium and the Ihsahn featured "By The River" is remarkably fresh despite the safe bearings to which the album caters.
Mechina Xenon
Mechina Siege
Mefitis Emberdawn
Megadeth Th1rt3en
Quality song writing just took a back seat. All the basic elements are there including an incredibly unessacary amount of guitar wankery. It's Megadeth at its simplist, and bland form. It works but is far from exciting. 'Endgame' showed something of the right direction, however this strays far from that path.
Mephistopheles Sounds Of The End
Merlin The Wizard
Mesarthim CLG J02182–05102
Messa Feast for Water
Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct
Mgla With Hearts Toward None
Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 2 - The Golden Orb
Misery Index Complete Control
Mol JORD
Moloken All is Left to See
Moloken Unveilance Of Dark Matter
Monarque Jusqu'à la Mort
Mono Nowhere Now Here
Monolithe Zeta Reticuli
Monolithe Nebula Septem
Monster Magnet Dopes to Infinity
Monstrosity Spiritual Apocalypse
Monstrosity The Passage of Existence
Monument (UK) Hellhound
Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis
Moongates Guardian Cold Waters Of Anduin
Moonknight Discernment
Moonsorrow Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa
Moonsorrow Suden uni
Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky
Moonspell 1755
Moonspell Alpha Noir
Moonspell Hermitage
Morost Forged Entropy
Mors Principium Est Seven
Mournful Congregation The June Frost
Mourning Beloveth Formless
Muscle and Marrow Love
Myrkur Myrkur
Myrkur Juniper
Nails I Don't Want to Know You
Naxatras IV
Ne Obliviscaris Urn
Neck of the Woods The Annex of Ire
Necros Christos Doom of the Occult
Needless The Cosmic Cauldron
Negura Bunget 'N Crugu Bradului
Nero di Marte Nero di Marte
Nile Vile Nilotic Rites
Noctambulist Atmospheres of Desolation
NONE NONE
Nonpoint The Poison Red
Nonpoint Recoil
Noppslyde Just World
Northlane Discoveries
Northlane Singularity
Nortt Nattetale
Nortt Hedengang
Nortt Gudsforladt
Nortt Endeligt
Novarupta Disillusioned Fire
Novembers Doom Nephilim Grove
Wonder what it takes to have a taste as purely superior as BADNEW'S. Guess I better start 1ing all the album's I know nothing about.
Noxis Expanse of Hellish Black Mire
Null (USA) Hiraeth
Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros
Obituary Inked in Blood
Obituary World Demise
Obituary Frozen in Time
Obliteration Perpetual Decay
Obscura Omnivium
Obsequiae The Palms of Sorrowed Kings
Ocean Of Grief Nightfall's Lament
Of the Wand and the Moon Your Love Can't Hold This Wreath Of Sorrow
Old Man Gloom Seminar IX: Darkness of Being
Old Tower Drachenblut
Omnikinetic Descensum
One Step From the Edge Beneath the Surface
Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes
Opeth Ghost Reveries
Opeth Deliverance & Damnation Remixed
Orange Goblin The Wolf Bites Back
Organectomy Existential Disconnect
Orphalis The Approaching Darkness
Orpheus Omega Wear Your Sins
Our Place of Worship is Silence With Inexorable Suffering
Outwailed Observant
Pallbearer Forgotten Days
Panopticon Autumn Eternal
Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition - Chapter I: War, Horrid War
Paradise Lost Medusa
Parkway Drive Atlas
Parkway Drive Don't Close Your Eyes
Path of Desolation Monument For The Restless
Pathology The Everlasting Plague
Paysage d'Hiver Einsamkeit
Periphery Periphery
Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty
Peste Noire Peste Noire
Peste Noire La Chaise-Dyable
Pestilence Hadeon
Phalanx (USA-CA) Golden Horde
Pianos Become the Teeth Wait For Love
Pillory Scourge upon Humanity
Pissgrave Posthumous Humiliation
Planet Of Zeus Vigilante
Pond (AUS) Tasmania
Primitive Graven Image Traversing the Awesome Night
Primitive Man Caustic
Primordial Exile Amongst the Ruins
Expectation may have cast the stone too far out of reach but Exile Amongst The Ruins ensures a solid listen from start to finish. Primordial remain relevant, prominent and consistent moving through typical Primordial song-writing and captivating intensity while keeping sheer accessibility for the band's listeners.
Profanatica Rotting Incarnation of God
Profetus ...to Open the Passages in Dusk
Prostitute Disfigurement Prostitute Disfigurement
Psychotic Waltz The God-Shaped Void
Psycroptic As The Kingdom Drowns
Pyrexia Feast of Iniquity
Pyrrhon What Passes for Survival
Pyrrhon Growth Without End
Pyrrhon Fever Kingdoms
Rage The Devil Strikes Again
Rejecter The Vulgar Wine
Revocation The Outer Ones
Revulsion (FIN) Revulsion
Rhapsody of Fire The Eighth Mountain
Rhinocervs RH-16
Rhinocervs RH-15
Richard Cheese The Sunny Side of the Moon
Ricinn Nereid
Ringworm Death Becomes My Voice
Rise to Fall The Fifth Dimension
Ritual Necromancy Disinterred Horror
Rivers of Nihil Monarchy
Riverside Wasteland
Rob Zombie Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor
Rodrigo y Gabriela Echoes
Rodrigo y Gabriela 11:11
Rogga Johansson Entrance to the Otherwhere
Rolo Tomassi Grievances
Rotting Christ Rituals
Rotting Christ The Heretics
Ruin Lust Ruin Lust
Ruin Lust Sacrifice
Rush Caress of Steel
Sacred Reich Awakening
Samothrace Reverence to Stone
Sanguisugabogg Tortured Whole
Sargeist Unbound
Satyricon Volcano
Saxon Carpe Diem
Saxon Thunderbolt
Saxon Sacrifice
Saxon Battering Ram
Scar Symmetry The Unseen Empire
Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe
Scath Na Deithe The Dirge of Endless Mourning
Scrambled Defuncts Hackled In Gore
Secrets of the Moon The Exhibitions
Secrets of the Sky To Sail Black Waters
Seer Vol. 6
Septicflesh The Great Mass
Sepulcros Vazio
Sepultura The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart
I guess they can but there are those who need not wait for a stream to hear the album early....
Sepultura Quadra
Serocs Vore
Serpent Column Katartisis
Serpent Of Gnosis As I Drink from the Infinite Well of Inebriation
Sevendust Cold Day Memory
Sevendust Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow
Sevendust Next
Sevendust Alpha
Sevendust Home
Shadows Fall Retribution
Shadows Fall Threads of Life
Shadows Fall The Art of Balance
Shadows Fall The War Within
Shape of Despair Shades Of...
Shining (SWE) X - Varg Utan Flock
Shining (SWE) IX: Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, ends.
Shining (SWE) 8 ½ - Feberdrömmar i vaket tillstånd
Shining (SWE) VII: Fodd Forlorare
Shining (SWE) II - Livets Andhallplats
Sigh Graveward
Significant Point Into the Storm
Silent Descent Duplicity
Sirenia Perils of the Deep Blue
Skagos Anarchic
Skepticism Farmakon
Skindred Union Black
Skindred Volume
Slayer World Painted Blood
Sleep in Heads On the Air
Sleep Token Sundowning
Sleep Token This Place Will Become Your Tomb
Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
Slough Feg Digital Resistance
Slytherin A Tale We'll Tell Of What Hath Been​.​.​.
Smoulder Times of Obscene Evil and Wild Daring
Snot Get Some
So Hideous Laurestine
Sodom Out of the Frontline Trench
Soen Lykaia
Soen Cognitive
Soilwork Beyond the Infinite
Soilwork Underworld
Soilwork The Panic Broadcast
Soilwork Stabbing the Drama
Soilwork Figure Number Five
Soilwork Natural Born Chaos
Sojourner Perennial
Somali Yacht Club The Sea
Somn The All-Devouring
Sorathian Dawn Sun of the Deep
Soulfly Savages
Soulfly Enslaved
Soulfly Dark Ages
Soulfly Omen
Spawn of Possession Noctambulant
Spectral Lore Sentinel
Spectral Lore I
Spectral Lore/Jute Gyte Helian
Spell (CAN) Opulent Decay
Spirit Adrift Divided by Darkness
Spook the Horses Empty Body
Stass Songs of Flesh and Decay
Stellar Master Elite Hologram Temple
Stille Volk Milharis
Success Will Write Apocalypse Across... The Grand Partition & The Abrogation Of Idolatry
Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam
Suffocation Suffocation
SUMA The Order of Things
Sun Devoured Earth Sounds of Desolation
Sun Worship Pale Dawn
Sun Worship Elder Giants
Svart (SWE) Det Personliga Helvetets Spiral
Svart Crown Abreaction
Svrm Занепад
Sylosis Dormant Heart
You wish your stool could be this solid. Leave your shit at the door, you can pick this up and walk away.
Sylosis Edge of the Earth
Sylosis The Supreme Oppressor
Sylvaine / Unreqvited Time Without End
System of a Down Steal This Album!
Telumehtar The Well
Teramaze Are We Soldiers
TERYKY OVERCOME
TesseracT One
TesseracT Polaris
TesseracT Sonder
Testament Titans of Creation
Thangorodrim Akallabêth
The Acacia Strain It Comes in Waves
The Agonist Once Only Imagined
The Amenta Revelator
The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed
The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack
The ritual is over, and The Black Dahlia Murder have fallen on their faces. Everblack is a stagnant, going nowhere album, filled to the utmost brim with recycled mediocrity.
The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers
The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate
The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma
The Body Master, We Perish
The Contortionist Intrinsic
The Contortionist Clairvoyant
The Crown Cobra Speed Venom
The Dali Thundering Concept Savages
The Drowned God Moonbearer
The Faceless Autotheism
The Faceless Planetary Duality
The Faceless Akeldama
The Fall of Every Season From Below
The Flower Kings Waiting For Miracles
The Howling Void Nightfall
Passable at best, Nightfall continues The Howling Void's legacy. It's not impressive but it will do.
The Ocean Heliocentric
The Pineapple Thief Nothing But The Truth
The Royal Deathwatch
It feels good to be listening to 2019 metalcore that doesn't completely blow big camel ring holes.
The Ruins of Beverast/Mourning Beloveth Don't Walk on the Mass Graves
The Sword Used Future
The Zenith Passage Solipsist
Therion Leviathan
Those Darn Gnomes Calling Whitetails to a Tuned Bow
Thrawsunblat Great Brunswick Forest
Three Days Grace One-X
Throane Une Balle Dans Le Pied
Throes (USA) In The Hands Of An Angry God
Thy Art Is Murder Infinite Death
Thy Light No Morrow Shall Dawn
Together to the Stars An Oblivion Above
Tool Undertow
Tortuga Deities
Trautonist Ember
Trivium In Waves
Trivium Ascendancy
Trivium Silence in the Snow
Trivium What the Dead Men Say
Trna Earthcult
Truculency The Dome Collector
Trvth Reveal
Trvth Inordinate and Surpassing
Tyr Valkyrja
Uada Cult of a Dying Sun
Uada Djinn
Ulcerate Of Fracture and Failure
Ulver Flowers of Evil
Unfathomable Ruination Enraged & Unbound
Unprocessed Artificial Void
Unreqvited Mosaic I: l'amour et l'ardeur
Unreqvited Disquiet
Unru Als Tier ist der Mensch Nichts
Until Death Overtakes Me Symphony II: Absence Of Life
Until Death Overtakes Me Days Without Hope
This one man minimalistic funeral doom metaler culminates a bit of everything found in his past release creating a quality listen from front to back. The album has flaws in bringing it all together and for some reason that's why the other albums fair better in terms of quality.
Until Death Overtakes Me Symphony I: Deep Dark Red
Until Death Overtakes Me Interludium I: Funeral Path
Until Death Overtakes Me AnteMortem
Usnea Usnea
Usnea Portals Into Futility
Vader Revelations
Vader Necropolis
Vader Thy Messenger
Vaeok Vaeok
Vaeok's self-titled effort is a succinct, if safe display of atmospheric black metal forged from the fires of primal, raw blackened metal with many a ritualistic tendency.
Vale of Pnath II
Vassafor To the Death
Vastum Orificial Purge
Vehemence (FRA) Par le sang versé
Vektor / Cryptosis Transmissions Of Chaos
Vestals Metaphysical
VEXED (UK) Negative Energy
Vildhjarta Måsstaden Under Vatten
This album gonna nr de du lskar kommer knock yur fookin hed offf.
Vile Rites The Ageless
Vindensang Alpha
Vindland Hanter Savet
Vinnum Sabbathi Of Dimensions and Theories
Vitriol (USA) To Bathe from the Throat of Cowardice
Voarm Voarm
Voidhanger Dark Days Of The Soul
Vorna Sateet palata saavat
VVilderness Devour the Sun
Watain The Wild Hunt
Watain release something just better than acceptable. Who would've thought they would bring a little Metallica to their modern day black metal, no, I'm not talking a case of the Hetfield "Yeah's", rather the mellow ballad somehow highlights the album.
Watain Trident Wolf Eclipse
Watain The Agony and Ecstasy of Watain
Kind of feel for the guys doing PR and advertising these days. This leaked way early.
Watain Rabid Death's Curse
Wayfarer World's Blood
We Lost the Sea Crimea
We Lost the Sea Triumph and Disaster
Weedpecker III
Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed III
Wife What's Between
Windhand Soma
Wintaar Deathentrance
Winterfylleth Rising Of The Winter Full Moon
Witch Mountain Witch Mountain
Witch Vomit Buried Deep In A Bottomless Grave
Within Temptation Resist
Within Temptation The Unforgiving
Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters
Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade
Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain
Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite
No real build up on a stereotypical display of music. It might be new for them, but it's far
from fresh. Take it as you will.
Wombbath The Great Desolation
Wombbath Tales of Madness
Woods of Desolation Toward the Depths
Woorms Twitching, as Prey
Worm Shepherd Ritual Hymns
Wormed Krighsu
Worsen Cursed to Witness Life
Worship Dusk of Legion, Morning of One
Wounds (USA-IL) Light Eater
Wounds of Recollection You Were A Garden of Empyrean Light
Writhing (AUS) Eternalised In Rot
Wyrd Death of the Sun
Wyrd Kammen
Xanthochroid Blessed He With Boils
Xanthochroid Of Erthe and Axen: Act I
Xerath I
Xerath II
Xibalba Años En Infierno
Xoth Interdimensional Invocations
Year of No Light Tocsin
YIDHRa Hexed
YOB Clearing The Path To Ascend
Yoth Iria Under His Sway
Young and in the Way When Life Comes to Death

2.9 good
Amon Amarth Berserker
Autopsy Morbidity Triumphant
Breaths Though Life Has Turned Out Nothing Like I Imagined
Centralya That Which Feeds On Life
Cognizance Phantazein
Corpsegrinder Corpsegrinder
Deftones Ohms
Illvilja Endless Rivers
In Flames Foregone
This album has moments. I like moments. There are also moments I don?t like.
Kataan Kataan
Lamb of God Omens
Luminous Vault Animate The Emptiness
This album sounds just like the artwork looks. Some of it slants, some of it bleeds - but oh man there's colours too!
Machine Head Of Kingdom and Crown
Periphery Periphery V: Djent is Not a Genre
Signs Of The Swarm Absolvere
SOUL GLO Diaspora Problems
The Wonder Years The Hum Goes on Forever
Times of Grace Songs of Loss and Separation
Unearth The Wretched; The Ruinous
I bet this has guitar parts or something.
Until I Wake Inside My Head
Ushangvagush Mntu
Watain Lawless Darkness

2.8 good
Abysmal Dawn Nightmare Frontier
Arch Enemy Deceivers
As Everything Unfolds Ultraviolet
Asystole (USA-NY) Siren To Blight
Behemoth Opvs Contra Natvram
Bog Body Cryonic Crevasse Cult
Burial in the Sky The Consumed Self
Darkthrone Sardonic Wrath
Dream Theater A View from the Top of the World
Fit for a King The Hell We Create
Fleshrot (USA-TX) Unburied Corpse
Ghost Bath Self Loather
Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
Graphic Nature A Mind Waiting to Die
Obituary Dying Of Everything
Osiah Chronos
Persefone In Lak'Ech
Shadow Of Intent Melancholy
The Amity Affliction Not Without My Ghosts
Tormentor Tyrant Tormentor Tyrant
Vein.fm This World Is Going to Ruin You
Vile Ritual Vile Ritual
Yablonya Звёздный зверь

2.7 average
Astronoid Radiant Bloom
Baazlvaat The Higher Power
Gojira Fortitude
Graveslave No Center
Helslave From the Sulphur Depths
Khandra All Occupied by Sole Death
Kim Petras Slut Pop
Nordjevel Fenriir
Pestilence Exitivm
Riverside ID.Entity
Shadow Of Intent Elegy
Shinedown Planet Zero
Sion (USA) Sion
I'm glad that Howard's just making some no holds barred core, but this is pretty lacking in the creativity department. Some of these lyrics scream: unreleased Devil You Know album number three.
Slytherin Tales of Hogsmeade Village
Whitechapel Kin
Wythersake Antiquity

2.6 average
Acranius Mercy Denied
Evanescence The Bitter Truth
Hail the Sun New Age Filth
Wait, are those blast beats? Nah, wait, yeah, kinda, maybe...
Interloper Search Party
Metallica 72 Seasons
Pestilength Basom Gryphos
Zaaar Magická Džungl’a

2.5 average
1349 Liberation
36 Crazyfists The Tide and Its Takers
A Circle Of Crows A Circle Of Crows (DEMO)
Abigail Williams In the Absence of Light
Abiotic Symbiosis
Ablaze My Sorrow Among Ashes And Monoliths
Aborted TerrorVision
Abysmal Dawn Phylogenesis
I can't help but feel that Abysmal Dawn have found a middle ground to their meddlesome death metal. There's a lot here that would make a more tech-death orientated Cannibal Corpse fan happy, but there's equal measure of average bull-shit that cuddles into lazy blast beating and same same riffage.
AFI Decemberunderground
Agalloch The Grey
Airbourne Boneshaker
Alcest Spiritual Instinct
Alestorm Black Sails at Midnight
Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge
Alestorm Curse of the Crystal Coconut
All That Remains Victim of the New Disease
The real question here is why the fuck haven?t All That Remains released these songs anytime in the last decade? Apart from ?Everything?s Wrong?, ?Fuck You? and ?Wasteland? are the most All That Remains-ish songs since The Fall Of Ideals. God-damn.
All That Remains This Darkened Heart
Amaranthe Helix
Amaranthe Massive Addictive
Amon Amarth The Avenger
Anaal Nathrakh Desideratum
AngelMaker Decay
Angerot The Splendid Iniquity
Anthrax We've Come for You All
Apocynthion Sidereus Nuncius
Apostle of Solitude From Gold to Ash
Appalachian Winter The Epochs that Built the Mountains
Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
Arkan Hilal
Arsis United in Regret
Arsis Visitant
Artides The Rise and Fall of .​.​.
As I Lay Dying Beneath the Encasing of Ashes
Ashen Crown Obsolescence
At the Gates At War with Reality
Ataraxie Anhedonie
Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor
Atreyu Congregation of the Damned
Atreyu The Hope Of A Spark
Augury Illusive Golden Age
August Burns Red Leveler
August Burns Red Constellations
August Burns Red Phantom Anthem
Autokrator The Obedience to Authority
Autopsy The Headless Ritual
Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King
Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
Aversions Crown Servitude
Aviations The Light Years
Azure Emote The Gravity of Impermanence
Bagg Tussa баґґтусса
Behemoth Pandemonic Incantations
Behemoth A Forest
Belphegor Conjuring The Dead
Belphegor Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn
Benighted Carnivore Sublime
Between the Buried and Me Automata I
Between the Buried and Me Colors II
Black Crown Initiate The Wreckage of Stars
Black Label Society Doom Crew Inc.
Zakk hasn't forgotten how to use the pentatonic, he also hasn't remembered there are other notes. As a last resort this does perfectly fine - there are some decent chops here but it's about as inspired as the rest of the discog.
Black Label Society Shot to Hell
Black Label Society Grimmest Hits
Black Label Society Mafia
Black Moth Anatomical Venus
Black Passage The Veil
Black Tide Post Mortem
Blaze Bayley The Redemption of William Black...
Blaze of Perdition Towards the Blaze of Perdition
Blind Guardian Legacy of the Dark Lands
Blood Red Throne Union of Flesh and Machine
For a group with so much potential this is painfully ordinary. Sure, it's got some riffs but that doesn't redeem this album past average.
Blosse Era Noire
Blosse Nocturne
Blut Aus Nord What Once Was...Liber III
Blut Aus Nord What Once Was... Liber II
Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry
Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive
Born of Osiris A Higher Place
Born of Osiris Soul Sphere
Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn
Bullet for My Valentine Fever
Burial Rival Dealer
Burial in the Sky Creatio et Hominus
Bury Tomorrow Runes
Burzum The Ways of Yore
Burzum Thulêan Mysteries
Caliban Elements
Still beats the shit out of the new Underoath album...
Candlemass House Of Doom
Candlemass The Door To Doom
Cannabis Corpse Blunted at Birth
Cannabis Corpse Nug So Vile
Carcass Despicable
Carnifex World War X
Casey Where I Go When I Am Sleeping
Cavalera Conspiracy Inflikted
Celldweller Into the Void
Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now
Like how it's just assumed that "if you listen to metal, everything else is automatically shit". If this is you - it might be a worth a quick look at yourself. No way I'm not putting this into my Ulcerate and Winterfylleth playlists.
Charli XCX Crash
Children of Bodom Halo of Blood
Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever
Children of Bodom I Worship Chaos
Chimaira The Infection
Chimaira Crown of Phantoms
Time for Chimaira to hang up their gear. This is too streamlined, for a band that's always used hooks this is over the top almost to a commercially viable, pop/radio level. It doesn't help when the groove has less edge, less gusto, the aggression is gone for a band who really should have been able to do better than this.
Code Orange Love Is Love // Return To Dust
Code Orange I Am King
Code Orange Forever
Cold Body Radiation The Orphean Lyre
Coldworld Isolation
Coldworld Toteninsel
Coldworld Interludium
Conquering Dystopia Conquering Dystopia
Converge Jane Doe
Converge Beautiful Ruin
Cordyceps Betrayal
Corrosion of Conformity No Cross No Crown
Cradle of Filth The Manticore and Other Horrors
Cradle of Filth Thornography
Cradle of Filth Damnation and a Day
Craven Idol Ethereal Altars
Culted Oblique to All Paths
Cyclamen (JPN) Amida
Dark Funeral Vobiscum Satanas
Dark Funeral Attera Totus Sanctus
Dark Tranquillity Construct
Darkthrone Hate Them
Darkthrone Plaguewielder
Dawn of Ouroboros The Art of Morphology
Dawn of Solace Waves
Death Angel Killing Season
Deathspell Omega Infernal Battles
Deathspell Omega Inquisitors of Satan
Deicide Scars of the Crucifix
Dens Taming Tongues
Depths Of Hatred Inheritance
Descarnado Ente
Desolate (DE) Exceptionalism
Device Device
DevilDriver Head on to Heartache
Devouring Humanity Eradication of Living Human Shit
Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli
Dimmu Borgir Abrahadabra
Dimmu Borgir Eonian
Divine Heresy Bleed the Fifth
Doomsword Doomsword
Drudkh A Furrow Cut Short
Drudkh Handful of Stars
Elephant Tree Habits
Elkhsha Farther Giants
Empire of the Moon Έκλειψις
Encoffination Elegant Funerals For The Unknown Dead
Enforcer Zenith
Enter Shikari The Mindsweep
Entombed Serpent Saints: The Ten Amendments
Entrails (SWE) Obliteration
Equipoise Demiurgus
Esoteric Subconscious Dissolution Into the...
Evergreen Terrace Dead Horses
Exhumed Horror
Exocrine Maelstrom
Facade The Eternal Dance
Falkenbach Tiurida
Falloch This Island, Our Funeral
Falloch Where Distant Spirits Remain
Fawn Limbs Harm Remissions
Fear Factory The Industrialist
Festerday Iihtallan
Fields Of Elysium In Ancient Contemplation
Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts
The Sea of Tragic Beats. Not really - but I couldn't help myself.
Five Finger Death Punch The Wrong Side of Heaven and The Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1
Five Finger Death Punch American Capitalist
Foo Fighters Medicine at Midnight
Frosthelm Pyrrhic
Frosttide Awakening
Fu Manchu Clone of the Universe
Gates to the Morning Return To Earth
Gehenna WW
Genocide Pact Order Of Torment
Ghost Bath Moonlover
Ghoulgotha The Deathmass Cloak
God Dethroned The Grand Grimoire
God Dethroned Bloody Blasphemy
God Dethroned The World Ablaze
God Forbid Determination
Groblin and The Ballistics Groblin and the Ballistics
GWAR The Blood of Gods
Hacride Back To Where You've Never Been
Halestorm Vicious
Hannes Grossmann To Where The Light Retreats
Harakiri for the Sky Arson
Haste the Day Dreamer
Haunt (USA-CA) Mind Freeze
Hazing Over Pestilence
Heaven Shall Burn Wanderer
Helloween My God-Given Right
Hexis Tando Ashanti
High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis
Horcrux Loss & Grief
Horna Hengen tulet
HYVMINE Earthquake
Ill Nino Confession
Ill Nino Dead New World
Ill Nino Enigma
Ill Nino Till Death, La Familia
Imperium Dekadenz Dis Manibvs
In Flames A Sense of Purpose
In Hearts Wake Ark
In Mourning Garden of Storms
This lacks basic memorability. Stellar production, incredible musicianship - but it bleeds together into one fucking mess. This is ripe for easy over rating, but there's strictly no staying power.
In Mourning The Bleeding Veil
Incantation Profane Nexus
Infant Annihilator The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch
Infant Annihilator The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution
Inferi (USA) Revenant
Ingested Call of the Void
Inter Arma The Cavern
Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying
Iron Maiden The X Factor
Jesu Infinity
Job for a Cowboy Ruination
Junius Days of the Fallen Sun
Kamelot Poetry for the Poisoned
Kampfar Mare
Karg Traktat
Kataklysm Heaven's Venom
Katatonia Dethroned & Uncrowned
Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage
King Diamond Abigail II: The Revenge
King Parrot Dead Set
Konvent Puritan Masochism
Korn The Paradigm Shift
Korn continue to make music where listeners' collectively "sigh".
Korpiklaani Kulkija
Korpiklaani Noita
Korpiklaani Manala
Korpiklaani Ukon Wacka
Korpiklaani Karkelo
Korpiklaani Tervaskanto
Korpiklaani Tales Along This Road
Korpiklaani Voice Of Wilderness
Korpiklaani Spirit Of The Forest
Krisiun Black Force Domain
Krisiun Apocalyptic Revelation
Krisiun Ageless Venomous
Krisiun Works of Carnage
Krisiun AssasiNation
Krisiun Bloodshed
Krisiun Forged in Fury
Krisiun Scourge of the Enthroned
Lacuna Coil Broken Crown Halo
Lacuna Coil Delirium
Lacuna Coil Black Anima
Lamb of God The Duke
Lamb of God Lamb of God
Having some really mixed opinions on this. On one hand, Lamb of God's self-titled is cohesive - but it lacks all the flourishes and fluidity that made Ashes Of The Wake or As The Palaces Burn such stringent hits. The absence of Adler behind the kit is noticeable, stripping down some of the fundamental signatures that removed this band from a host of sound-hugging acts. Tracks like "Gears" and "Resurrection Man" resort to chug-a-long passages, doing away with the noodle Morton riffs. It's a shame because Blythe sounds particularly on point.
Laura Stevenson Laura Stevenson
Legend of the Seagullmen Legend of the Seagullmen
Lifelover Sjukdom
Light the Torch They Bleed Red (as Devil You Know)
Light the Torch Revival
Linkin Park The Hunting Party
Linkin Park One More Light
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight
Linkin Park A Thousand Suns
Loving If I Am Only My Thoughts
Lunatic Soul Under The Fragmented Sky
Lycus Tempest
Machine Head Catharsis
Machine Head The Black Procession
Machinemade God Masked
Madison Beer Life Support
Malevolent Creation Dead Man's Path
Manegarm Manegarm
Master The Human Machine
Master An Epiphany Of Hate
Mayhem Grand Declaration of War
Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What!
Megadeth The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead!
Metallica Death Magnetic
Metallica Reload
Metallica Load
Metallica Beyond Magnetic
Mindwork Cortex
Ministry From Beer to Eternity
Misery Signals Absent Light
Misery Signals Ultraviolet
Quite possibly the single best Unearth album in years. Or something to that extent anyways.
Mnemic Passenger
Monstrosity Rise to Power
Moongates Guardian Leave The Northern Mountains
Moongates Guardian The Last Ship
Morbid Angel Heretic
Mouth Of The Architect Dawning
Mouth Of The Architect Time and Withering
Moving Mountains Moving Mountains
My Dying Bride The Manuscript
Myrath Shehili
Mythic Sunship Upheaval
Nachtmystium The World We Left Behind
Nachtmystium Silencing Machine
Necrophobic Womb of Lilithu
Nile What Should Not Be Unearthed
Nile At The Gate of Sethu
Nile Ithyphallic
Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks
Nonpoint Miracle
Nonpoint Nonpoint
Nordjevel Necrogenesis
Norma Jean All Hail
Nortt Doden...
Nortt graven
Obituary Back from the Dead
Obituary Obituary
Obscura Retribution
Odious Mortem Synesthesia
Can't help shake off the feeling that this is completely underwhelming. Parts of this sound compressed, while others just noodle around almost aimlessly.
Of Mice and Men Defy
Officium Triste The Death of Gaia
Old Tower The Last Eidolon
Opeth Burden
Opeth Pale Communion
Choppy diluted Peth with extra "Oh". Sputnik's average rating is confusion galore.
Orgone (USA-PA) The Joyless Parson
Ovid's Withering The Cloud Gatherer
Paladin (USA) Ascension
Palms Palms
Parkway Drive Deep Blue
Something that can be listened to but does not raise any musical bars. Steady release for parkway drive- but rather unexciting
Pathology Throne of Reign
Pestilence Obsideo
Pestilence Resurrection Macabre
Phantom Elite Blue Blood
Philip H. Anselmo and The Illegals Walk Through Exits Only
Philip H. Anselmo and The Illegals Choosing Mental Illness As A Virtue
Phlebotomized Pain, Resistance, Suffering
Poppy I Disagree
Is it weird that I'm more than just on board with this?
Psycroptic Psycroptic
Pulse Aberration
Pyrrhon Running Out Of Skin
Pythia The Solace of Ancient Earth
Quell (USA-CA) The Kvlt Is Dead
Quest of Aidance Misanthropic Propaganda
Reaping Asmodeia Darkened Infinity
Repaid in Blood Reflective Duality
Rifftera Across The Acheron
Rings of Saturn Ultu Ulla
Rings of Saturn Embryonic Anomaly
Rise of Avernus Eigengrau
Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name
Rob Zombie The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy...
Rodrigo y Gabriela Area 52
Rodrigo y Gabriela re-Foc
Rodrigo y Gabriela Mettal EP
Rosetta Sower of Wind
Sarcasm (SWE) Esoteric Tales of the Unserene
Satyricon Satyricon
Satyricon The Age Of Nero
Satyricon Now, Diabolical
Saxon Inspirations
Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase I: Neohumanity
Secret Sphere Lifeblood
Secrets of the Moon Stronghold of the Inviolables
Secrets of the Moon Black House
Self Defense Family Try Me
Sepultura Against
Sepultura Machine Messiah
Sevendust Kill the Flaw
Shabti Trembling and Shorn
Shadows Fall Of One Blood
Shadows Fall Somber Eyes to the Sky
Shattered Hope Waters Of Lethe
Shining (SWE) I - Within Deep Dark Chambers
Shokran Ethereal
Sidereal Fortress Odissea
Siege of Power Warning Blast
Sielunvihollinen Tuhontuoja
Sightless Pit Grave of a Dog
Silent Planet When the End Began
Sithu Aye Pulse
Sithu Aye Senpai III
Six Feet Under Undead
Skagos Ast
Skaldic Curse World Suicide Machine
Slayyyter Troubled Paradise
Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden
Slipknot All Hope Is Gone
Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter
Finds it annoying that my original (and valid) soundoff wasd. It's hard to find thoughts that cohere on any level with Sputnik's elitism. .5 The Gray Chapter is not the album it was hyped up to be, after a six year break, but it's far from being a 'bad' release. Slipknot teeters on the same formula with new blood and the surprising "Killpop" actually highlights the new record.
Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.
Soilwork Sworn to a Great Divide
Soilwork Steelbath Suicide
Soulfly Conquer
Spirit Adrift Curse of Conception
Spirit Adrift Enlightened In Eternity
Spook the Horses People Used to Live Here
Suffocation …Of the Dark Light
Suffocation Blood Oath
Suicide Silence You Can't Stop Me
Sulphur Sun Placodermic Heraldry
Sun of the Sleepless To The Elements
Sunn O))) Kannon
Sunn O))) and Ulver Terrestrials
Svneatr Chinook
Svneatr The Howl, The Whisper, The Hunt
Sylosis Monolith
Symbolik Emergence
Tankard One Foot In The Grave
Taylor Swift Reputation
Temple Nightside Pillars of Damnation
The Agonist Eye of Providence
The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous
The Black Dahlia Murder Abysmal
The Contortionist Language
The Devil Wears Prada 8:18
The Faceless In Becoming a Ghost
The Gardnerz It All Fades
The Last of Lucy Moksha
The Ominous Circle Appalling Ascension
Thousand Foot Krutch Exhale
Threat Signal Disconnect
Three Days Grace Three Days Grace
Tides of Man Every Nothing
To The Grave Global Warning
Tool Fear Inoculum
Torche Restarter
TotalSelfHatred TotalSelfHatred
Trivium Trivium
Trivium The Crusade
Trivium Ember to Inferno
Ulver Wars of the Roses
Unearth The Oncoming Storm
Uneven Structure La Partition
Unsolicited Unsolicited
Until Death Overtakes Me Well Of Dreams
Until Death Overtakes Me Hell and Rain
Vader The Beast
Vader Impressions In Blood
Valis Ablaze Render
Vassafor Malediction
Vext Impermanence
Is neither here nor there. A group that has so much potential if only they actually had the balls to write some decent music. This Ep is lazy.
Voices Frightened
Voyager Colours in the Sun
Westfield Massacre Westfield Massacre
White Stones Kuarahy
Within the Ruins Elite
Wombbath Downfall Rising
Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason
Woorms Slake
Wormed Metaportal
Wormed Exodromos
Wormwood Nattarvet
Wyrd Kalivägi
Xanthochroid Incultus
Young and in the Way I Am Not What I Am
Zealotry The Charnel Expanse

2.4 average
Atreyu Baptize
Decapitated Cancer Culture
Doja Cat Planet Her
Exodus Persona Non Grata
This has a few nice solos - but that?s about all it?s got going for it.
Invent Animate Heavener
Machine Head Arrows in Words from the Sky
Savage Master Those Who Hunt At Night

2.3 average
Currents The Death We Seek
Honestly this is the soundtrack to dirt being warmed up.
Deathspell Omega The Long Defeat
Enterprise Earth The Chosen
Godsmack Lighting Up the Sky
Korn Requiem
Miss May I Curse of Existence
Excuse me sir. Can I have my metalcore cold and stale, as if recycled from the 2000?s? Thanks.
Rhapsody of Fire Glory For Salvation
Slipknot The End, So Far
Taylor Swift Midnights
To The Grave Epilogue
Vatican Ultra

2.2 poor
Abbath Dread Reaver
Big Dumb Face Christmas in the Cave of Dagoth
Bloodbound Creatures of the Dark Realm
Bullet for My Valentine Bullet For My Valentine
All those guys whinging about Mastodon?s production where you at? At least those drum mixings are an easy target.
Rebecca Black Rebecca Black Was Here

2.1 poor
Boston Manor Datura
Distant Dusk of Anguish
Grorr Ddulden's Last Flight
Lorde Solar Power
Rivers of Nihil The Work
So yeah, these guys had a world of potential, squandered away for cheap gimmicks, lazy song-writing and quasi PwD-esque vocals (intro track, dreaming back clockwork etc) which makes parts of this sound like lazy demos. When we couple this with a terrible attempt at cohesive writing, an over the top production and weird mixing it's no wonder Rivers of Nihil are dividing with this release.
Scale the Summit Subjects
Serj Tankian Perplex Cities
Zeal and Ardor Zeal and Ardor

2.0 poor
1349 Revelations of the Black Flame
A Wake in Providence The Blvck Sun || The Blood Moon
Accept Too Mean to Die
After the Burial Evergreen
All That Remains Overcome
All That Remains A War You Cannot Win
Amaranthe Manifest
More of the same with even less impactful hooks. Amaranthe on autopilot needs a trajectory correction.
Annihilator Ballistic, Sadistic
Jeff Waters solo album, featuring solos and honestly not much else...
Annotations Of An Autopsy II: The Reign of Darkness
Anthrax Volume 8: The Threat Is Real
Anthrax Stomp 442
Arch Enemy Khaos Legions
Arch Enemy Will to Power
Arch Enemy Covered In Blood
band disputes intellectual copyright, releases an album full of other band?s songs... These guys should stick to stealing photographs.
Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together
Architects Daybreaker
Architects For Those That Wish to Exist
Arsis Starve for the Devil
As Everything Unfolds Within Each Lies The Other
As I Lay Dying Decas
Ashes of Ares Well of Souls
Aspherium The Embers of Eternity
August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill
August Burns Red Messengers
Autokrator Hammer Of The Heretics
It might be the band?s intentions; but this is hard to sit through.
Autopsy Macabre Eternal
Autopsy Shitfun
Bad Wolves N.A.T.I.O.N.
Bad Wolves enters N.a.t.i.o.n. full Nickelback, choruses and all..............
Bathory Blood on Ice
Bathory Requiem
Beartooth Aggressive
Behemoth Grom
Behold... The Arctopus Hapeleptic Overtrove
Beneath the Massacre Incongruous
Beyond Creation Earthborn Evolution
Beyond Creation The Aura
Beyond Deviation Dark Passenger
Beyond The Black Beyond the Black
Black Tongue Born Hanged
Black Tongue The Unconquerable Dark
Black Veil Brides Vale
Bliss N Eso The Sun
Blood Stain Child Amateras
Blut Aus Nord Debemur MoRTi
Borealis Purgatory
Boris W
Born of Osiris The Simulation
Born Of Osiris? most coherent albums to date. While it?s clear they yearn for the lofty technicality they can?t quite reach the more focused, chug a long a-tonal riffage allows them to be a better than what they?ve offered previously. Too bad it?s mediocre, samey and completely forgettable.
Born of Osiris Angel or Alien
Bosque Cleansing
Breaking Benjamin Ember
Breaking Benjamin write the same song, over, and over again.
Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings
Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper
Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire
Bullet for My Valentine Gravity
Burn the Priest Legion: XX
Burzum Umskiptar
Burzum Daudi Baldrs
Burzum Hlidskjalf
Cable Take the Stairs to Hell
Cannabis Corpse The Weeding
Cannabis Corpse Left Hand Pass
Cloak The Burning Dawn
Cloak of Altering Plague Beasts
Code Orange The Hurt Will Go On
Coevality Multiple Personalities
Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun
Cold Body Radiation A Clear Path
Cradle of Filth Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa
Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us
Lifeless, formless heading in one single direction
Cynic Uroboric Forms
Dantalion Time to Pass Away
DAYUM Ghost Of Sparta
Dead Feathers All is Lost
Deathwhite For a Black Tomorrow
Deicide Till Death Do Us Part
Deicide Insineratehymn
Deicide In Torment in Hell
Dream On Dreamer It Comes and Goes
Dream Theater The Astonishing
Drowning Pool Sinner
Escape the Fate Hate Me
Evanescence Synthesis
Eyehategod A History Of Nomadic Behavior
Facing The Gallows Dead Mindset
"It doesn't matter what people think 'cause I'm living for me"rThis had so much potential to be a decent metalcore album, too bad it's filled with sub-par lyricism and terrible clean sung verses.
Falling in Reverse The Drug in Me Is You
Falloch Diabolus
Fear Factory Transgression
Fear Factory Aggression Continuum
Fit for an Autopsy Hellbound
Five Finger Death Punch Pre-Emptive Strike
Five Finger Death Punch The Wrong Side of Heaven and The Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 2
Five Finger Death Punch The Way Of The Fist
Flub Flub
For Giants There, There
Fucked Up Dose Your Dreams
Funeral for a Friend Conduit
Gehenna Unravel
Gehenna Murder
Ghost Bath Starmourner
God Dethroned The Toxic Touch
God Forbid Reject the Sickness
Good Tiger We Will All be Gone
Gorgoroth Instinctus Bestialis
Grave Digger Fields Of Blood
Grey Daze Amends
Hacktivist Outside The Box
Hacktivist Hacktivist
Hatebreed Weight of the False Self
Havok Unnatural Selection
Heathen Empire of the Blind
Helms Alee Noctiluca
Humanity's Last Breath Abyssal
Huntsmen Mandala of Fear
Iconoclast HalluciNation
Illnath 4 Shades of Me
In Flames Battles
In Hearts Wake Ark Prevails
Infant Annihilator The Battle of Yaldabaoth
Black Tongue called... they want their shitty guitar tone back.
Into Eternity The Sirens
Iron Maiden Virtual XI
Issues Beautiful Oblivion
Jinjer Macro
Judas Priest Redeemer of Souls
Keys of Orthanc Of The Lineage Of Kings
Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (2009)
Lake of Tears Ominous
Lana Del Rey Blue Banisters
LANDMVRKS Lost in the Waves
Leprous Aphelion
Linkin Park Living Things
Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything
Machine Head Supercharger
Machinemade God The Infinity Complex
Malevolent Creation Invidious Dominion
Malevolent Creation The 13th Beast
Metallica St. Anger
Ministry AmeriKKKant
Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus
Morbid Angel Kingdoms Disdained
Muse Will of the People
Mycelia Apex
Mythless Patience Hell
Nebula Orionis Starthrone
Northlane Mesmer
Obituary Xecutioner's Return
Obituary Darkest Day
Obscura Diluvium
Possibly ready to be the most underwhelming and overrated death metal release of 2018. This is such a bore fest.
Orphaned Land All Is One
Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man
Pathology Lords of Rephaim
Pearl Jam Gigaton
Perihelion (USA-MD) Infinite Decay
Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal
Periphery Clear
Plague (GR) Portraits of Mind
Planet Of Zeus Faith in Physics
Possessed Revelations of Oblivion
Pyrexia Unholy Requiem
Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork
Reflections Willow
Rings of Saturn Lugal Ki En
Rings of Saturn Dingir
Ringworm Hammer of the Witch
Rodrigo y Gabriela 9 Dead Alive
Sargeist Feeding the Crawling Shadows
Satyricon Deep Calleth Upon Deep
Scar Symmetry Dark Matter Dimensions
Secrets of the Moon Sun
Sectioned Annihilated
Sepultura A-Lex
Sevendust All I See Is War
More disappointment. Relics of a forgotten past.
Signs Of The Swarm Vital Deprivation
Six Feet Under Crypt of the Devil
Six Feet Under Unborn
SkeleToon They Never Say Die
Skindred Big Tings
Solitude Exogenesis
Soreption Monument of the End
And we find ourselves with yet more stale interpretations of technical death metal.
Soulfly Primitive
Steven Wilson The Future Bites
*puts on dramatic, strained voice* ?hand....cannot.......erase!!!?
Suicidal Angels Divide And Conquer
Tempel (USA-AZ) On the Steps of the Temple
The Afterimage Eve
The Birthday Massacre Diamonds
Thor Christmas In Valhalla
Thornhill The Dark Pool
Threat Signal Vigilance
Threat Signal Threat Signal
Three Days Grace Outsider
Tod Huetet Uebel Nomen Nescio
Today Is the Day No Good To Anyone
Trap Them Blissfucker
Trivium Vengeance Falls
Underoath Erase Me
Uneven Structure Paragon
Vengeful Spectre Vengeful Spectre
Vulvodynia Mob Justice
We Sell The Dead Heaven Doesn't Want You...
Wednesday 13 The Dixie Dead
Whitechapel Our Endless War
Will Haven Muerte
Withering Reign Under The Bleeding Sun
Wormhole The Weakest Among Us
If you want to bree-bree and wham-bam-slam all year long than this is probably for you. If you have more than 3 brain cells rubbing against each other than you'll need to look elsewhere.
Xerath III

1.5 very poor
A Pale Horse Named Death When The World Becomes Undone
Alestorm Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum
Amaranthe Maximalism
Anaal Nathrakh Passion
Annotations Of An Autopsy World Of Sludge
Annotations Of An Autopsy Welcome To Sludge City
Annotations Of An Autopsy Before the Throne of Infection
Any Given Day Everlasting
Architects The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit
Artificial Construct Lurker
As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire
Atreyu In Our Wake
August Burns Red Guardians
August Burns Red take their formula, water it down and slap a silly production on it.
Avenged Sevenfold Black Reign
Bad Wolves False Flags Volume One
Bad Wolves False Flags Volume Two
Another supposed "supergroup" happy to pick up piles of shit and massage it into their faces. How the fuck did the likes of Vext, ex-DevilDriver, ex-God Forbid etc manage to churn out mundane shit like this?
Bad Wolves Disobey
Bathory Destroyer of Worlds
Beartooth Disgusting
Black Tide Chasing Shadows
Black Tongue Nadir
Breaking Benjamin Aurora
Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal
Just saw this compared to a 2.0 version of Metallica. Threw up a little bit. Now that's all good and fine if you're willing to throw the band into the same boat. But, as far as it goes LULU looks impressive when compared to this. Changing the recipe slightly does not change the fact that cheese and chalk should never be put on the same plate.
Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit
Bring Me the Horizon Amo
Bring Me the Horizon Post Human: Survival Horror
Brutality Will Prevail Suspension of Consciousness
Bury Tomorrow Black Flame
Bury Tomorrow Cannibal
Celtic Frost Vanity/Nemesis
Celtic Frost Cold Lake
Cloudkicker Unending
Convictions Hope for the Broken
Corey Taylor CMFT
Cryptopsy The Unspoken King
Dagoba By Night
Demon Hunter War
DevilDriver Outlaws ‘til the End: Vol. 1
Disillusion The Liberation
Divine Heresy Bringer of Plagues
Drowning Pool Hellelujah
Empyrium The Turn of the Tides
Such a disappointment, would have loved a natural progression but it seems the tides never truly returned.
Enterprise Earth Luciferous
Fallujah Undying Light
Faron These Woods Which Turn Flesh to Bone
Five Finger Death Punch Got Your Six
Gaped The Murderous Inception
Hacktivist Hyperdialect
Helloween Chameleon
Hellyeah Welcome Home
Here Comes the Kraken Here Comes the Kraken
Here Comes the Kraken H.C.T.K.
Here Comes The Kraken...here comes an objectivity boost.
I Killed the Prom Queen Beloved
I Prevail TRAUMA
I Prevail TRUE POWER
In Flames Down, Wicked and No Good
In Flames I, the Mask
Inborn Suffering Regression To Nothingness
Jinjer Wallflowers
Jonathan Davis Black Labyrinth
Korpiklaani Jylhä
Legion of the Damned Slaves of the Shadow Realm
Lingua Ignota SINNER GET READY
Make Them Suffer Neverbloom
Maladie The Sick Is Dead - Long Live the Sick
Megadeth Super Collider
Mental Cruelty Inferis
Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus - The Remixes
Nemesea White Flag
Nonpoint Vengeance
Nonpoint X
Northlane Alien
Of Mice and Men Cold World
Of Virtue What Defines You
Origin Abiogenesis - A Coming into Existence
Otep Generation Doom
Parkway Drive Reverence
It seems Parkway has lost all their Drive... How does one see any Reverence?
Periphery Icarus
Peste Noire Peste Noire - Split - Peste Noire
Pestilence Doctrine
Rings of Saturn Gidim
Scars on Broadway Dictator
Sepultura Nation
Serenity The Last Knight
Sharks In Your Mouth Sacrilegious
Six Feet Under Nightmares of the Decomposed
Six Feet Under Torment
Slaughter To Prevail Kostolom
Disregard staff ratings, acquire sick riffs and blast beats
Sleep Terror Abreaction
It's a shame that this is so bipolar. Nothing here comes together. Sleep Terror has multi personality disorders that no medicine will fix no matter.
Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed
Tenacious D Post-Apocalypto
I actually came this close to putting a perfect score on this one... well, I guess this will have to do.
TesseracT Perspective
The Agonist Orphans
The Agonist Five
The Amity Affliction Misery
The Birthday Massacre Fascination
The Birthday Massacre Under Your Spell
The Defiled Daggers
The Ritual Aura Velothi
The Unguided Fragile Immortality
Therion Beloved Antichrist
Three Days Grace Human
Turisas 2013
Unearth Extinction(s)
Turns out, I must actually have a dick in my ear... rit couldn?t be the fact that this is one dimensional, bland and backwards as fuck...
Unmasked Behind the Mask
Vaura Sables
WAIT (USA) The End of Noise
Ye Banished Privateers Hostis Humani Generis

1.0 awful
Actus Reus Vengeance
It's at this point I really hope the entire of smoking roses' soundoff is complete satire. This is trash even Oscar would reject
All That Remains The Order of Things
All That Remains Madness
Annotations Of An Autopsy Dark Days
Attila Villain
Bad Wolves Dear Monsters
New Bad Wolves sounds like old Bad Wolves which is no real surprise. If no one told you they had a new vocalist since Vext went crazy or some shit, you could just assume it's business as usual.
Bathory Octagon
Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season
Bring Me the Horizon Music to Listen to...
Music to listen to...??.. boost your objectivity?
Buckcherry Warpaint
Clown Core Toilet
Code Orange Underneath
Crossfaith Ex_Machina
Disturbed Evolution
Drowning Pool Strike a Nerve
Drowning Pool Desensitized
Drowning Pool Resilience
Five Finger Death Punch And Justice for None
Five Finger Death Punch F8
...not sure the lyrics could get any worse than the two singles currently released. Feel free to not test that FFDP...

edit: I stand corrected boys and girls; this is the pinnacle of lyrical evolution and should be treated as such.
Here Comes the Kraken Hate, Greed & Death
In This Moment Mother
Korn The Path of Totality
Korn The Nothing
Apologies Northlane. It turns out Alien isn't in fact the worst mainstream metal release of 2019.
Motionless in White Disguise
Northlane 5G
Oblivion's Kiss The Swallow and the Blue Bird
Orbyssmal Execration
Otep Kult 45
Otep The God Slayer
P.O.D. Circles
Parkway Drive Darker Still
Frank, the rater of 3.5's did not in fact rate this a 3.5.
Short Stack Stack is the New Black
Short Stack This is Bat Country
Six Feet Under Graveyard Classics IV: The Number Of The Priest
Steel Panther On the Prowl
The Amity Affliction Everyone Loves You... Once You Leave Them
Thy Art Is Murder Human Target
Westfield Massacre Salvation
How did these guys not see that kicking Vext out would be a bad bad not good idea? 2018 has somehow got that little bit more disappointing. Bland musicianship, rushed uninspired lyricism with a delivery to match.

0.5
Imagine Dragons Mercury - Act 1
Rings of Saturn Rings of Saturn
Terror Universal Make Them Bleed
Tones and I Welcome to the Madhouse
Xasthur Victims of the Times
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