| 4.5 superb |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| All the Empires of the World Return |
| better than the debut, and Blessings was an excellent album. the vocals are a very nice addition. it's too bad that i found out about this so late: it might have had a pretty high spot on my 2011 list. |
| Alpinist/Masakari Split |
| it's not even funny how awesome this split is |
| Alter Bridge Blackbird |
| Amenra Mass V |
So a poor quality rip surfaced (160 kbps), and naturally, as I have no self control, I caved and listened to it. Surprise: it's the best album they've put out so far and probably the best post-metal release of the year. Yes, better than the most recent output of a certain little band on whose label Amenra were signed to in the past year. For the record, I did not expect that to happen, but hey. Also, this can only get better once A: a better quality leak surfaces, and B: once I buy the vinyl and hear the album's 5th track. And yes, this is all hyperbolic first impression bullcrap that you have every right to ignore and/or make fun of.
Also, @Nikkolae, thiz isn't the wrong art. It's the vinyl art, and the CD art is different. Also, fuck it. 5'd. |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession |
| Ampere / Daitro Split |
| Archives Decline |
| Ash Borer Ash Borer |
| Ashes and Iron Silens |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Blindead Affliction XXIX II MCMXCVI |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver |
| Bossk .1 |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Burial Kindred |
| Cave In White Silence |
| Cloudkicker Beacons |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile |
| Cult of Luna Fire Was Born |
| Cult of Luna Salvation |
| Cult of Luna The Beyond |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal |
| This is their best album after SatH. Also, the userbase at RYM can kindly fuck themselves: I mean, they're worse than us with their troll 1s. |
| Dangers Anger |
| Darkspace Dark Space III |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Deafheaven/Bosse-de-Nage Split |
| I shouldn't love this as much as I do, but I do. Both sides are spectacular. Deafheaven put out one of the best covers I've ever heard and Bosse-de-Nage have a ridiculously talented drummer. |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Devil Sold His Soul Blessed & Cursed |
| Dismember Like an Everflowing Stream |
| DorDeDuh Dar De Duh |
| It really is incredible that this album didn't get more attention around here, as it's easily the best black metal album of 2012. |
| Downfall of Gaia Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| dredg El Cielo |
| Earth Earth 2 |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson II |
| Finsterforst Rastlos |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark |
| Gaza No Absolutes In Human Suffering |
| Godflesh Streetcleaner |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas... |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F#A#(Infinity) [Vinyl] |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Yes, this does feel a bit incomplete, but the two songs are absolutely incredible. also, let's not forget that they are writing (and have been playing) completely new material - the two songs on here aren't "new" in the strictest sense of the word. This leads me to believe that they felt that these songs couldn't fit on an album with whatever they're creating now, but they wanted to get them out as studio recordings so they put this absolutely stellar release out. I believe that we can expect a "full length" 5th album within a year or two. Get psyched, bitches, but in the meantime, you can enjoy an absolutely brilliant record that stands strong with everything else this band has written. |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill |
| Hans Zimmer Gladiator (Soundtrack) |
| Hans Zimmer Crimson Tide |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis |
| Immolation Close to a World Below |
| Irrwisch Irrwisch |
| this is pretty awesome. |
| Isis Oceanic |
| Isis Wavering Radiant |
| Isis Live 6 (11/16/2007) |
| Jakob Cale:Drew |
| Jakob are the best active non-Godspeed post-rock band in existence and anyone who denies this is the antichrist. |
| Jesu Silver |
| Jon Foreman Fall and Winter |
| Kehlvin The Orchard of Forking Paths |
| Kerouac Cold and Distant, Not Loving |
| La Quiete La Fine Non È La Fine |
| Leech If We Get There One Day... |
| Best post-rock of 2012? It's entirely possible. |
| Living Sacrifice Death Machine |
| Death Machine is one of their best songs and gets me going like no fucking other |
| Mesa Verde The Old Road |
| I don't know exactly where green tables play into this but I can say that this album is really, really good. |
| Meshuggah Alive |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Mitochondrion Parasignosis |
| Mortification Scrolls of the Megilloth |
| Mouth of the Architect The Ties That Blind |
| Mouth of the Architect Quietly |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I |
| I came into this expecting to be disappointed because of my usual lack of affinity for most things prog, yet here I am eating my words cooked medium rare with a heavy shitcream sauce and a side of shit nuggets. |
| Negura Bunget OM |
| Neurosis Times of Grace |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun |
| Neurosis Souls at Zero |
| Not to Reason Why The Book of Hours |
| this is absolutely beautiful. |
| Old Man Gloom Seminar III: Zozobra |
| Omega Massif Karpatia |
| Look at your Pelican album. Now look at Omega Massif's Karpatia. Now back to your Pelican... Now back to Karpatia. Sadly, that recent Pelican album isn't Karpatia, but if they got an interesting drummer and amped up the desolation they could *sound* like Omega Massif. Look down. Back up again. Where are you? You're in a MOSH, jamming to the music that Pelican could sound like. What's in your hand? Back to me. I have it. It's a hollow slab of volcanic rock, emanating music that's brimming with riffs and dark atmosphere. Look again. The rock is now Karpatia! Anything's possible when your instrumental post-metal crushes as hard as Karpatia and isn't lame like recent Pelican. I'm in a MOSH. |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Overmars Affliction, Endocrine...Vertigo |
| Owen At Home With Owen |
| so much melancholy |
| Paysage d'Hiver Paysage d'Hiver |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After |
| Radical Face The Family Tree: The Roots |
| Red Innocence and Instinct |
| Right Away, Great Captain! The Church of the Good Thief |
| Rorcal Vilagvege |
| Basically, this is the polar opposite of Heliogabulus in terms of speed, conciseness, and aggression. It's also the most obscenely dark, crushing, and apocalyptic album of 2013 so far, and it's the most bleak thing I've heard in years. I mean, seriously: I don't know what the band were going through when they wrote this but I'm assuming it was some hella nasty shit. |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality |
| Rosetta Wake/Lift |
| Russian Circles Empros |
| Rwake Voices of Omens |
| Scale The Summit The Collective |
| Sed Non Satiata Sed Non Satiata |
| Spook the Horses Brighter |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline |
| Suis La Lune Heir |
| I've been on a mad European screamo binge recently and this EP tops most, if not all, of the stuff I've listened to. |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls with Sand |
| The Black Heart Rebellion Har Nevo |
| This fucking rules and everyone should jam this. Now. |
| The Body/Braveyoung Nothing Passes |
| Even if you don't like either band on their own, you will love this. I promise that it rules hard and that you need to get it. Now. Do it. Get it now. |
| The Classic Crime Phoenix |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The National Boxer |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine |
| The Secret Solve Et Coagula |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now |
| Thou Summit |
| The work ethic of Thou never ceases to amaze me: in a mere 4 years as a band, they've put out 21 splits, EPs, and albums, not a single of which is bad. Their 3rd full-length is no exception: the most experimental and unique record of Thou's extensive discography, Summit is the summit (yee) of the band's work thus far. Here's to many more years of constantly pumping out consistently awesome sludge. |
| Thou/Salome Our Enemy Civilization |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Time To Burn Is.Land |
| Trenches The Tide Will Swallow Us Whole |
| Twilight Monument To Time End |
| U2 The Joshua Tree |
| Underoath Disambiguation |
| Vali Forlatt |
| Various Artists Whom The Moon A Nightsong Sings |
| Fucking hell, this is the best various artists compilation I have ever heard. Absolutely beautiful. |
| Vektor Outer Isolation |
| Warning Watching from a Distance |
| Warning Bridges |
| Weakling Dead as Dreams |
| Weekend Nachos Worthless |
| Windir Likferd |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason |
| Zao Liberate Te Ex Inferis |
| 4.0 excellent |
| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow |
| 40 Watt Sun The Inside Room |
| A Bunny's Caravan Draining Puddles, Retrieving Treasures |
| A Thousand Times Repent Virtue Has Few Friends |
| Absu Abzu |
| Abyssal Denouement |
| Across Waters More Light Is Never Ending |
| Adai Felo De Se |
| This is better than you. |
| Admiral Angry Buster |
| Adramelech Spring Of Recovery |
| Adrift Black Heart Bleeds Black |
| And you thought post-metal with balls ended with Times of Grace... |
| Adrift for Days Come Midnight... |
| A well-executed mix of build-heavy atmosludge and stoner rock/metal makes for a compelling, if slightly bloated, listen. The vocals and atmospheres on this are excellent. Highly recommended. |
| Advent Naked And Cold |
| Aeternam Moongod |
| Agalloch Ashes Against The Grain |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes |
| Alcest Ecailles De Lune |
| Alda :Tahoma: |
| Alexi Murdoch Time Without Consequence |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| All Shall Perish The Price Of Existence |
| All the Empires of the World Blessings |
| All the Empires of the World Old Gods, Old Worlds, Old Wounds |
| There's much more ambient noodling on here than there was on Return (which is arguably the better album), but Old Gods is still an absolutely wonderful surprise for what has been a fairly dull February. Strangely enough, out of the album's 7 tracks, only 2 of them ("The Lion" and "St. Peter," the former of which has some pretty damned awesome Jesu-esque singing and the latter of which once again brings into play the tortured shrieks of Return) are full-on post-metaltastic songs of the type displayed on Return and Blessings. The others are post-rocky tracks and ambient interludes that are a lot less boring than you might think. |
| All the Empires of the World CRVSVS |
| Altar of Plagues White Tomb |
| Altar of Plagues Mammal |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury |
| I wasn't big on this at first, but holy shit is this album growing on me hard. rEDIT: I know that I'm a bit of a 4.5 whore, but god damn this rules. On each of their previous albums, there were one or two tracks that blew me right the fuck away, while the rest of the album ranged from good to boring (they could have been easy 4.5s or 5s if they had, respectively, both achieved the level of greatness of As a Womb and Neptune is Dead throughout their entire runtimes). However, with TGaI, AoP have managed to create the first album of theirs that manages to wow me throughout its entire duration. Tracks 5 and 6 in particular are mind-blowingly good. |
| Altar of Plagues/Year of no Light Split |
| Alter Bridge AB III |
| Amber Amber |
| Amenra Mass III |
| It is absolutely hilarious to listen to the robot voice on my iPod's voiceover thingy say, "The Pain. It Is Shapeless. We Are Your Shapeless Pain - AmEEnruh" |
| Amenra Mass IIII |
| Amenra/Hive Destruction Split |
| Both of Amenra's tracks appear, respectively, on Mass IIII and Mass III and needless to say, they're pretty awesome. Hive Destruction absolutely crushes. I need to get more from these guys. |
| Amon Amarth With Oden On Our Side |
| Ampere Like Shadows |
| Ampere/Funeral Diner Split 9 Inch Vinyl |
| Ampere's side is good. Funeral Diner's side is one of the best screamo tracks I've ever heard. |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Only the Ocean Knows |
| It isn't even funny how much better in every single way imaginable this is than their previous efforts. |
| Anberlin Cities |
| Anberlin Vital |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Gangs |
| Animals as Leaders Animals as Leaders |
| Annorkoth The Last Days |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Arms of Ra Arms of Ra |
| Arrows In Her Leaving. |
| ARTS Vault of Heaven |
| Ash Borer 2009 Demo |
| Ash Borer Tour Rehearsal Demo |
| Ash Borer Bloodlands |
| The improved songwriting and atmosphere of Cold of Ages without the slightly annoying production. This could stack up to be the best thing Ash Borer have put out to date. |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages |
| /fanboy |
| Ash Borer and Fell Voices Split |
| Atheist Jupiter |
| Athletics Who You Are Is Not Enough |
| August Burns Red Leveler |
| August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill |
| Axis of Light By the Hands of the Consuming Fire |
| Ayr Nothing Left to Give |
| B.M. Sharp Music is Tight |
| Banner Pilot Heart Beats Pacific |
| Barrow Being Without |
| Barrow Though I'm Alone |
| Battlefields Agassiz |
| Baulta Deeply Sorry to Interrupt Your Megalomania |
| some excellent instrumental post-metal from Finland. Also, the artwork rules. get it now. http://baulta.bandcamp.com/ |
| Baulta That's My House You're Living In |
| Beau Navire Lumens |
| Becoming the Archetype Terminate Damnation |
| Beirut The Rip Tide |
| Ben Howard Every Kingdom |
| be sure to also get the bonus tracks: one of them, "Under the Same Sun", is probably the best on the album. |
| Betrayal At Bespin Diary of a Dead Man Walking |
| Betrayal At Bespin Rains |
| Totally different from the debut, but still totally awesome. Lots of sax here. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Beyond Creation The Aura |
| Bien A Toi Diriger, Séduire, Convaincre |
| I'm not even sure what to call this, but it absolutely slays. |
| Birds in Row You, Me, and the Violence |
| Black Clouds Everything Is Not Going To Be OK |
| Black Sheep Wall I Am God Songs |
| Black Ships Omens |
| Blut Aus Nord What Once Was... Liber I |
| Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy |
| Bosse-de-Nage III |
| whoa |
| Bossk .3 |
| Bossk .2 |
| Bossk/Rinoa Split |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Caleb McAlpine Science Fiction |
| Callisto Noir |
| Calvaiire Rigorisme |
| Carbonized For the Security |
| The more you listen to this, the more awesome it becomes. |
| Carbonscape Artistry of Exhaustion II |
| Caspian Waking Season |
| Castevet Mounds of Ash |
| Cerebrate Soul's Abyss |
| m/ filthy dm m/ |
| Cerna Restoring Life |
| Just some absolutely gorgeous instrumental black metal with some post-metal flourishes. Get it. |
| Chelsea Wolfe Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs |
| Chevelle This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In) |
| Chevelle Hats Off to the Bull |
| Children of God We Set Fire To The Sky |
| Chotto Ghetto Walk is Godlike |
| Chrome Waves Chrome Waves |
| It may be kind of generic, but what can I say: I'm a sucker for post-rocky, emotional black metal. |
| Chronos The Grips of Winter |
| Circle Takes The Square Decompositions: Volume Number One |
| Cloaca Lassitude |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge |
| Cloudkicker ]]][[[ |
| Cloudkicker A New Heavenly Body |
| Cloudkicker Fade |
| bm sharp is my favorite person ever |
| Cloudkicker The Map Is Not The Territory |
| Cold Body Radiation The Great White Emptiness |
| Comity The Journey is Over Now |
| Corrupted Garten Der Unbewusstheit |
| Crimson Moonlight Veil of Remembrance |
| Crippled Black Phoenix No Sadness Or Farewell |
| Crippled Black Phoenix I, Vigilante |
| Cryptic Forest Dawn of the Eclipse |
| Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom |
| Cult of Occult Cult of Occult |
| Damascus Of Whom I Always Think |
| Daniel Rossen Silent Hour/Golden Mile |
| Darkestrah Epos |
| Daughter The Wild Youth |
| Dead Poetic Vices |
| Deafheaven Roads To Judah |
| Deafheaven 2010 Demo |
| Deathspell Omega Drought |
| Defeater Travels |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Everyone who has rated this already needs to die. rEDIT: Well, holy shit. |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Demilich Nespithe |
| Demon Hunter Summer Of Darkness |
| Demon Hunter The Triptych |
| Departures When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted |
| Departures Teenage Haze |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Unstille |
| Desolate Shrine Tenebrous Towers |
| Desolate Shrine The Sanctum of Human Darkness |
| Direwolves Me From Myself, To Banish |
| Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing |
| Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless |
| Disembodied If God Only Knew The Rest Were Dead |
| Disfear Live the Storm |
| Dodecahedron Dodecahedron |
| Dopamine Dying Away In The Deep Fall |
| Drapsnatt Skelepht |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Drowning Horse Drowning Horse |
| Drudkh Estrangement |
| Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel |
| Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I |
| Earth Extra-Capsular Extraction |
| Earth A Bureaucratic Desire For ExtraCapsular Extraction |
| Earthmass Lunar Dawn (Keep, Relic, and Ritual) |
| Earthrise Eras Lost |
| East of the Wall Split |
| Eddie Vedder Into The Wild [Music For The Motion Picture] |
| Ef Delusions of Grandeur |
| Enabler All Hail The Void |
| Encircling Sea A Forgotten Land |
| I'm an absolute sucker for this kind of atmospheric black metal/post-metal hybrid, so please keep in mind that I'm probably overrating this. That being said, this totally fucking slays and everyone should listen to it. |
| Enmerkar Starlit Passage |
| Entropia (PL) Vesper |
| It isn't often that anyone gets the atmospheric black metal/post-metal/post-rock/shoegaze combo right but on the rare occasion that it does hapen it is truly beautiful to behold. Imagine a spacier Altar of Plagues with the occasional dropped-B sludge groove. It works: trust me. |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story |
| Erik Mongrain Fates |
| Eryn Non Dae. Hydra Lernaia |
| Esoteric Paragon Of Dissonance |
| Evening Hymns Spectral Dusk |
| Event Horizon 2011 Demo |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives |
| Everything In Slow Motion Red |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Fall of Efrafa Inle |
| Falls of Rauros The Light That Dwells In Rotten Wood |
| Fauna Avifauna |
| Fell Voices Untitled |
| Fell Voices 2010 Tour CD-R |
| Fell Voices 08 Demo |
| Fields of Locust Subtopia |
| Fire In The Cave Fire In the Cave |
| Fire Walk With Us Carriers |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes |
| Flourishing The Sum of All Fossils |
| Forest As A Song In The Harvest Of Grief |
| Forest Like a Blaze Above the Ashes |
| Forge of Clouds Forge of Clouds |
| Fort Atlantic Fort Atlantic |
| This album is LEGEN - wait for it... DARY! Let Your Heart Hold Fast is an incredible track. |
| Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse |
| if I had .1-increment privileges this would be a 4.2 |
| From Indian Lakes Able Bodies |
| From Oceans To Autumn Oath Of Eternals |
| this album is so god damn pretty |
| From Oceans To Autumn The Flood/The Fall |
| Frontier Demo |
| Full of Hell Roots Of Earth Are Consuming My Home |
| Gates You Are All You Have Left to Fear |
| General Lee Raiders of the Evil Eye |
| It might be short, but it's a massive improvement over the promising yet so-so "Roads." One of the better recent post-metal releases. |
| Generation of Vipers Howl and Filth |
| Germ Loss |
| this is super weird. it's also super good. that is all. |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| God Harvest Demo 2011 |
| God Is An Astronaut A Moment of Stillness |
| God Is An Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright |
| God Is An Astronaut God Is an Astronaut |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O |
| Grails Burning Off Impurities |
| Grieved Samaritans |
I wish this were longer.
That's what she said. |
| Hammock Departure Songs |
| Hans Zimmer Inception |
| Hans Zimmer The Simpsons Movie: The Music |
| Hans Zimmer Black Hawk Down |
| Hans Zimmer The Dark Knight Rises |
| Have A Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Hell (USA) Hell II |
| songs are way longer than last time around and there's some cascadian bm shit in here. it rules hard |
| Hell (USA) I |
| Hell (USA) III |
| As usual, Hell do not disappoint. With each release, they also seem to be straying more toward an atmospheric black metal sound and less of the sludge style from I. |
| Heller Mason The Mess I've Made |
| feel-food acoustic folk. nothing original, but it's late and i'm tired and i'm writing a stupid essay about 'the role of context when considering war as a subjectively immoral entity' and this album makes me marginally more cheerful so i give not a single fuck about who this rips off as long as it's done well |
| Hop Along Get Disowned |
| House of Low Culture Edward's Lament |
| House Of Usher On The Very Verge |
| Huldra Signals From the Void |
| Huldra Monuments, Monoliths |
| It certainly drags a bit and could do with better production and a tempo change now and again, but Huldra remain one of my favorite underground post-metal acts and this album only continues their streak of ripping off Isis and making it sound damn good. 3.5/4 |
| Huldra/Dustbloom Split |
| Hungry For Hands I Was Hungry For Hands |
| Hurt Vol. II |
| Ictus Imperivm |
| If These Trees Could Talk Red Forest |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay |
| Impetuous Ritual Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence |
| In It None of That Matters |
| In Trenches Sol Obscura |
| holy fucking fuck, it's like Trenches meets Amia Venera Landscape meets Alpinistrfuck this rules |
| Incubus Make Yourself |
| Infest No Man's Slave |
| Inter Arma Sky Burial |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke |
| Irepress Sol Eye Sea I |
| Iron & Wine The Creek Drank the Cradle |
| Iselia Life From Dead Limbs |
| Isis The Mosquito Control EP |
| Isis The Red Sea |
| Isis SGNL>05 |
| Iskra Iskra |
| Islands (AUS) Islands |
| Ignimbrite is always in the mood for some good, old-fashioned, 10 minute plus post-metal epics. It's also a free Bandcamp deal, so everyone should totally hit this up. rhttp://islandsaus.bandcamp.com/album/islands |
| Jakob Jakob |
| Jakob Subsets of Sets |
| Jakob Dominion |
| James Blackshaw Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death |
| this dude has some mad skills. also, did anyone else notice how you can constantly hear him breathing (heavily) when you listen to this? i didn't notice it until someone pointed it out to me. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA |
| Jarhead Beautiful Delusion |
| riffs |
| JJ72 JJ72 |
| awesome vocals |
| Jodis Black Curtain |
| Aaron Turner is the man. |
| Jon Foreman Spring and Summer |
| Junius Reports From The Threshold of Death |
| Just Die! A Momentary Lapse In Positive Thinking |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings |
| Kausal In Dead Cities |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye |
| Kehlvin The Mountain Daylight Time |
| Kehlvin Holy Cancer |
| These guys are brilliant: I can't wait for the new album. |
| Kerouac/The Long Haul Split |
| Kids. Kids |
| Knut Challenger |
| Kokomo If Wolves |
| Kowloon Walled City Container Ships |
| Krieg The Isolationist |
| Krypts Open the Crypt |
| Kvelertak Meir |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow |
| Lantlos Agape |
| Lantlos .neon |
| Latitudes Individuation |
| Some of the best post-metal riffs I've heard since Supercontinent's "Vaalbara." This is a big step up from Agonist: highly recommended. |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist |
| Leech [US] Ten Black Hymns |
| Leucosis Leucosis |
| Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life |
| Liam MMIX |
| Life in Your Way Kingdoms |
| Life in Your Way Kingdom Of Man |
| Life in Your Way Kingdom Of God |
| Light Bearer Beyond the Infinite: The Assembly of God |
| Lights Out Asia Hy-Brasil |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Living Sacrifice Conceived In Fire |
| Living Sacrifice The Infinite Order |
| Living Sacrifice In Memoriam |
| Lo-Ruhamah The Glory of God |
| Locrian and Mamiffer Bless Them That Curse You |
| Ok, so this is pretty awesome |
| Loma Prieta I.V. |
| Low Threat Profile Product #2 |
| Lunar Aurora Andacht |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The VS. EP |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist |
| Mahumodo Waves |
| Mare Mare |
| Mare Cognitum The Sea Which Has Become Known |
| Mare Cognitum An Extraconscious Lucidity |
| Mark Tremonti All I Was |
| Masakari The Prophet Feeds |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Memoria Death Calls the Islands |
| Meshuggah None |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| To quote some guy on last.fm... "This album sounds like Godzilla taking an explosive shit all over Periphery." |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| MNMNTS The Good Life |
| Mogwai Young Team |
| Mono Walking Cloud And Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered.... |
| Morbid December Moon |
| Morning Teleportation Expanding Anyway |
| this rules hard, you should get it |
| Mortal Treason Sunrise Over A Sea Of Blood |
| Mount Eerie Wind's Poem |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar |
| Mouth of the Architect The Violence Beneath |
| Moving Mountains Foreword EP |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| Nahrayan The Beginning of the End/The End of the Beginning |
| Darker, heavy-hitting post-metal with a slightly faster feel than similar bands. The general song structures are best compared to Cult of Luna and the overall atmosphere to Amenra, but for a genre so infamous for having so many of its bands merely ripping off each other and the work of better groups, Nahrayan do some abnormally strong work to separate themselves from the crowd. The blackened, Zao-esque vocals are an especially nice touch to a surprisingly awesome little Bandcamp discovery that could easily end up being one of 2012's better post-metal records. rFor a good summary of the album's sound, check opener "Demons Without Face." - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jFRWPoEpmA |
| Nails Unsilent Death |
| Nails Abandon All Life |
| holy god in heaven, this rips |
| Nameless Coyote Devoured by the Swirling Night |
| Natural Snow Buildings The Dance of the Moon and the Sun |
| Nesseria Nesseria |
| Neurosis Locust Star |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising |
| Neurosis Sovereign |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay |
In true Neurosis fashion, "Honor Found In Decay is both purely Neurosis and a completely unique
chapter to their discography. "My Heart For Deliverance" may be one of the best songs of the year.
and Noctus, o u :[ |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Noisear Subvert the Dominant Paradigm |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child |
| Norma Jean Meridional |
| Nuclear Summer Nuclear Summer |
| weird post-hardcore/post-rock/screamo/happy music hybrid. they call themselves "sunshine metal." I don't care what you call this, but trust me when I say that this is more than worth a listen. it's free, as well. rhttp://nclrsmmr.bandcamp.com/ |
| Obsidian Kingdom Mantiis |
| Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal |
| Of Solitude and Solemn Of Solitude and Solemn |
| Oh, Sleeper When I Am God |
| Old Gray An Autobiography |
| holy fucking shit this is like the best thing ever |
| Old Man Gloom Christmas |
| Om Advaitic Songs |
| Omega Massif Geisterstadt |
| Omnium Gatherum Beyond |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Ophis Withered Shades |
| Over The Ocean Paper House |
| Overmars Born Again |
| P.O.D. Satellite |
| Panopticon Collapse |
| Panopticon Social Disservices |
| Paper Route Are We All Forgotten |
| Pariso/Kerouac Split |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor |
| First impressions: this is kind of like a bridge between Paysage d'HIver's previous black metal demos and the crunchier, spacier work of Wintherr's other project, Darkspace. Offenbarung is one of the best songs of the man's career, and represents the first time I've ever had my foot tapping during a Paysage song. Ewig leuchten die Sterne is a slower, more atmospheric number, while Macht des Schicksals really, really sounds like Darkspace (good thing) and Schlüssel is closer to Paysage's earlier work, although it spend its second half on wind sounds. Overall, this is a god damned excellent demo/album/whatever and is, in my book, second only to Winterkaelte and the s/t. Time may see it raise above those. BY THE WAY I NOW HAVE RED LETTERS NEXT TO MY USERNAME AS SUCH I AM NOW A MAN OF AUTHORITY HERE ON SPUTNIK LISTEN TO MY OPINION YOU GOD DAMNED FOOLS no i am only slightly drunk like a 5.5/10 or some shit idk bro fukc i need to write a new review soon god damn it |
| Paysage d'Hiver Nacht |
| Paysage d'Hiver/Lunar Aurora Split |
| The two Paysage tracks are good (if typical and slightly unexceptional, but still good) fare for the project, with cold, wintery atmospheres and some of the best vocals in modern black metal. The Lunar Aurora track, on the other hand, is easily one of the best black metal tracks I have had the pleasure of hearing in an extremely long time. It's difficult to describe exactly why this 20-minute behemoth is so awesome, so just give it a listen and find out for yourself. |
| Pelican Pelican |
| Pelican March Into the Sea |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... |
| Pelican Australasia |
| Pensees Nocturnes Ceci est de la musique |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal |
| Leaps and bounds better than the debut, mostly because Spencer now sounds only 50% annoying, as opposed to 200% like last time. I'm keeping this at a 3.5 for now, but it could be bumped. |
| Petrychor Effigies and Epitaphs |
| Petrychor Dryad |
| pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You! |
| Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| Planks Funeral Mouth |
| If you dug Downfall of Gaia's latest, then this album is what you absolutely must listen to next. A fairly similar, very well-concocted blend of crust punk, black metal, and post-metal, albeit with a bit more of an emphasis on the crust side of their sound. Highly recommended. |
| Primordial Redemption At The Puritan's Hand |
| Primordial To The Nameless Dead |
| Radical Face Ghost |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Raein Nati da Altri Padri |
| Reka I |
| Rinoa An Age Among Them |
| Rise And Fall Faith |
| Rishloo Feathergun |
| Rishloo Eidolon |
| Rituals Rituals |
| bleak, atmospheric, slightly blackened post-metal that immediately brings to mind contemporaries like Year of no Light, Cult of Luna, and Amenra. it ain't unique, but I'll be damned if these guys aren't incredibly fucking good at making awesome post-metal. |
| Rorcal Heliogabalus |
| Rorcal/Kehlvin Ascension |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites |
| Rosetta/Balboa Project Mercury |
| Rosetta/Junius Split |
| Russian Circles Geneva |
| Russian Circles Enter |
| Rwake Rest |
| Sed Non Satiata Le Ciel De Notre Enfance |
| Selenites Animaltar |
| Seven Sisters of Sleep Seven Sisters of Sleep |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day |
| Sinat Hinam Sinat Hinam |
| Skillet Collide |
| Sleeping Peonies Ghosts, and Other Things |
| Sleepingdog With Our Heads in the Clouds... |
| Sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything |
| Sleepmakeswaves sleepmakeswaves (US) |
| there's more bass here, especially on "i will write peace." it makes an already awesome sound even better. |
| Sleepwalker 2010 Tour CD-R |
| So Hideous To Clasp a Fallen Wish With Broken Fingers |
| Solstafir Svartir Sandar |
| Some Mistakes Glamorous Thoughts |
| Sore Eyelids Sore Eyelids |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks |
| Statuette Losing Roots |
| Steve Von Till A Grave Is a Grim Horse |
| Steve Von Till/Scott Kelly/Wino Songs of Townes Van Zandt |
| rules |
| Strike to Survive Sore Losers |
| Suis La Lune Riala |
| Sun of Nothing The Guilt Of Feeling Alive |
| Sun of the Blind Skullreader |
| Sunn O))) Black One |
| Supercontinent Vaalbara |
| Swallow The Sun Hope |
| Swans The Seer |
| Switchfoot Eastern Hymns For Western Shores |
| Switchfoot Hello Hurricane |
| Switchfoot Nothing is Sound |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster Exegesis |
| in a year during which heavyweights like Neurosis and Cult of Luna are due to drop records, it's nice to be reminded that some of the genre's most enjoyable stuff can come straight out of left field. |
| Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Deaden The Fields |
| Taproot Blue-Sky Research |
| Taste the Void Sun's Heat |
| yet another band that's basically Amenra-style dark post-metal with a Converge fetish. however, I honestly could not care less about how many bands like this exist because they all tend to make awesome music, and Taste the Void are no exception. Also, "Between Walls" has the best breakdown of 2012. |
| Tempest (Can) Solace |
| ok, so this is legit as fuck. best 9.8 minutes I've spent in a very long time. |
| Temple (USA) On the Steps of the Temple |
| this is definitely one of the sexier instruMetal albums I've heard in a while |
| Tenhi Kauan |
| Terra Tenebrosa The Tunnels |
| TesseracT One |
| TesseracT Concealing Fate |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Vol. 2 |
| The Ascent of Everest How Lonely Sits the City |
| The Bear Romantic Firewood |
| The Blue Letter Love Is Not Control |
| The Body All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To... |
| The Carrier No Love Can Save Me |
| The Chariot Long Live |
| The Chariot One Wing |
I really, really hope that this is as good as everyone's saying it is.
EDIT: It's not quite the masterpiece some people are saying it is, and I'm not sure whether I like it more than Long Live or not, but it's still a ridiculously solid album. |
| The Classic Crime The Silver Cord |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet |
| The Dear Hunter Red |
| The Dear Hunter Orange |
| The Dear Hunter White |
| The Dear Hunter Green |
| The Dear Hunter Violet |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie |
| The Evpatoria Report Golevka |
| The Fall Of Boss Koala Reference Points |
| The Ghost Inside Returners |
| The Head And The Heart The Head And The Heart |
| The March Crawl Space |
| The Middle East The Recordings of the Middle East |
| The Mire Volume: II |
| The Mire/Chronos Split |
| The Modern Post Grace Alone |
| I very much enjoyed this. It's up there with The Glorious Unseen as far as quality worship goes. |
| The National High Violet |
| The Odious That Night a Forest Grew |
| The Pirate Ship Quintet Rope for No-Hopers |
| The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors |
| The Republic of Wolves Varuna |
| The Secret Agnus Dei |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The Waters Deep Here Sunden |
| Them Thieves The Cabin |
| Third Day Time |
| This Gift Is A Curse I, Gvilt Bearer |
| This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You |
| Thou The Retaliation of the Immutable Force of Nature |
| Thou To Carry A Stone |
| 2 songs, 11 minutes, and so much dirty Louisiana sludge riffage. Words cannot express my love for this band. |
| Thou Through the Empires of Eternal Void |
| In a massive world of incoherent excuses for cover albums, Thou bring the riffs in this standout Black Sabbath cover EP. Seriously, this thing riffs so hard. |
| Thou Peasant |
| Thou Tyrant |
| Thou/Cower War Is the Force That Gives Us Meaning: A Two Part |
| Cower's side is a pretty cool blend of progressive and sludgy hardcore, while Thou puts out some of the best songs of their career. Awesome split. |
| Thou/Haarp Reincarnation Prayer |
| Thou/Hell Resurrection Bay |
| this is undeniably the most fucking m/ split of 2012 so far. also, the packaging itself is as well-executed and pretty as the music is m/ |
| Thou/Human Intruder A Faire Quarrell |
| Short but sweet, the two bands contribute a single track each of crushing, monolithic, slightly blackened sludge. This is an insanely badass split. |
| Thou/Kowloon Walled City July |
| it's been at *least* 5 whole months since Thou put something out, and their first after what is basically an extended hiatus by their standards does not disappoint. sweet Low and Soundgarden covers from both bands. |
| Thou/Leech We Pass Like Night, From Land to Land |
| Thou/Mohoram Atta The Degradation of Human Life |
| Thou/Moloch Tears that Soak a Callous Heart |
| Moloch's side is above average, but Thou. fucking Thou, man. |
| Three Steps To The Ocean Scents |
| Threnos By Blood and By Earth |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Throats Throats |
| Toluca Act I |
| An absolutely stellar atmospheric black metal/screamo/post-metal hybrid. It's a pity that it's only 25 minutes long, but the title suggests that these guys will put out more stuff sometime in the future so everything is ok, I guess. But seriously, this album is pretty short, it's a free download on their Bandcamp, and it's one of the most surprisingly awesome things to come out of the genre this year. You have no excuse not to get this. rhttp://toluca.bandcamp.com/album/act-i |
| Tomydeepestego Nero |
| Torture Chain Across Great Landscapes to a Legacy of Blood |
| Torture Chain Time is but a Doorway to the Incinerator |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me |
| Touche Amore/Pianos Become the Teeth Split |
| Toundra III |
| Ok, so this fucking rules. |
| Transmission0 Memory of a Dream |
| Trap Them Seizures In Barren Praise |
| TRUSTcompany Dreaming In Black and White |
| U2 Achtung Baby |
| U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind |
| Ufomammut Opus Primum |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation |
| Unfold Cosmogon |
| Until Your Heart Stops Errors |
| Vallendusk Vallendusk |
| Verse Aggression |
| VESSL Goddess |
| Vildhjarta Masstaden |
| Vordr II |
| VYGR Hypersleep |
| VYGR/At Our Heels/Griever Split |
| VYGR puts out some pretty good sludge/post-metal, while At Our Heels and Griever contribute some pretty fucking awesome hardcore tracks. |
| Wardruna Runaljod - Yggdrasil |
| We Lost The Sea The Quietest Place on Earth |
| whoa, this rules. potential 4.5 |
| Weekend Nachos Torture |
| When Icarus Falls Aegean |
| how in the hell did I miss this? |
| Wildernessking The Writing of Gods in the Sand |
| William Bonney Good Vibes |
| William Bonney/Droughts Split |
| William Fitzsimmons Until When We Are Ghosts |
| Windmills By the Ocean Windmills By the Ocean II |
| Winterfylleth The Threnody of Triumph |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain |
| Wreck and Reference Black Cassette |
| Wreck and Reference No Youth |
| Year of No Light Ausserwelt |
| Year of no Light/thisquietarmy Split |
| Yellowcard Southern Air |
| Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson Small Changes We Hardly Notice |
| Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson |
| Zodiak Sermons |
| Zozobra Bird of Prey |
| Zozobra Harmonic Tremors |
| Zozobra Savage Masters |
| 3.5 great |
| ...And The Earth Swarmed With Them The Fading Voice of the Old Era Speaks to Us, But |
| 12 Stones Anthem For The Underdog |
| 7 Horns 7 Eyes Throes Of Absolution |
| A City Sorrow Built Motions |
| This is a big improvement over Songs. |
| A Forest of Stars A Shadowplay for Yesterdays |
| A Hill To Die Upon Infinite Titanic Immortal |
| A Place of Owls Inviere |
| Abigail Williams Becoming |
| this rules hard, wtf just happened to this band. yeah, it's WitTR worship, but given that this is probably better than CL and that WitTR have hinted at abandoning black metal for good, i think we can make an allowance. |
| Abraham The Serpent, the Prophet & the Whore |
| Addaura Burning for the Ancient |
| It's a genuinely good album slightly let down by the fact that its production lacks a lot of punch (idk exactly how to describe it: "punch" was the closest I could come up with): badsically, the whole thing could be a bit more aggressive. But it's still a step up from the s/t, and I can see this being bumped to a 4 in time. |
| Admiral Angry Albania |
| NOTE: This is a legit album, but it never got officially released for various reasons. As such, it has neither artwork nor song titles (there are 21 tracks). |
| After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) |
| After the Burial In Dreams |
| Agalloch Marrow Of The Spirit |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Alaskan Adversity; Woe |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L Ame |
| Aldo Raine Welthass |
| All Shall Perish This is Where it Ends |
| All the Empires of the World Last Rites |
| All the Empires of the World ...Will Be Laid To Waste |
| Alpinist LICHTLAERM |
| Altar of Plagues Tides |
| Amenra Afterlife |
| Amenra/Hessian Split |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising |
| Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today |
| Anberlin Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place |
| Ancients Star Showers On The Euphrates |
| And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures |
| This one is a bit less structured than the other two: it just sounds like a bunch of dudes jamming in a room and having a fucking awesome time with it. |
| Appollonia Crimson Shades |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| Arctique Circles Golden Gloom |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise |
| Astronoid November |
| Atoma Skylight |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker |
| Austere To Lay Like Old Ashes |
| Becoming the Archetype Celestial Completion |
| Becoming the Archetype Dichotomy |
| Becoming the Archetype The Physics Of Fire |
| Benjamin Francis Leftwich Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Black Breath Sentenced To Life |
| Black Math Horseman Wyllt |
| Black Sea Somethings Cannot Be Mirrored |
| Black Sea It's All About Our Silence |
| Black Shape Of Nexus Negative Black |
| Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God |
| Blut Aus Nord What Once Was... Liber II |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - The Desanctification |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
| Bring Me The Horizon Sempiternal |
| im drunk |
| Buried at Sea Ghost |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Callisto Ordeal Of The Century |
| Callisto True Nature Unfolds |
| Capacities The Unexamined Life |
| Cathedraal/Rings of Rhea/Schematics for Cathedraal/Rings of Rhea/Schematics for Gravity |
| Celephais Tir n'a n'Og |
| Chevelle Vena Sera |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes |
| Chronos Appalachia |
| Cloudkicker Loop |
| Cloudkicker Portmanteau |
| Coastlines Life in Shifts |
| Cobalt Gin |
| Cogs and Sprockets The Black Friday EP |
| Coldworld Melancholie |
| Conan Horseback Battle Hammer |
| Consciousness Removal Project The Last Season |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Corrupted Se hace por los suenos asesinos |
| Counterparts Prophets |
| Crippled Black Phoenix (Mankind) The Crafty Ape |
| Crowbar Sever The Wicked Hand |
| Crown The One |
| Czar Vertical Mass Grave |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon |
| David Crowder Band A Collision Or (3 + 4 = 7) |
| Dead End Alaska/Ostrov Family and Friends Vol. II |
| Dead Poetic New Medicines |
| Decyfer Down End of Grey |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Demon Hunter Storm The Gates Of Hell |
| Departures Escaping |
| Detritivore Pakt |
| Devil Sold His Soul Empire Of Light |
| The album art is some of the best of the year, and the music ain't half bad either. No, it doesn't have ranything as brilliant as Drowning/Sinking or An Ocean of Lights, but it's ridiculously consistent. |
| DevilDriver Beast |
| DIRGE Elysian Magnetic Field |
| Dirty Three Toward The Low Sun |
| This is my first experience with Dirty Three and it's giving me a bit of a GY!BE + post-Hex era Earth vibe. Good stuff. |
| Do Make Say Think Other Truths |
| Drain the Sky Haunted By Rivers |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds & Silver Linings |
| Drom Hectop |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II |
| yessss |
| Earth Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars Live |
| Earth Hex: Or Printing In the Infernal Method |
| Echoes (UK) With an Eye on the Shoreline and a Hand to the Sea |
| Embers Shadows |
| Enemy Noise No Control, No Parade |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue |
| Fauna Rain |
| Fauna The Hunt |
| Fell Voices Fell Voices |
| Fellsilent The Hidden Words |
| Fen Epoch |
| Fences Fences |
| Finster Existenz |
| First Aid Kit The Lion's Roar |
| Flyleaf Much Like Falling |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Foxes and Iselia Split |
| Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Sol Niger Within, Version 3.33 |
| Frostseele Praekosmium |
| Fugazi Red Medicine |
| Full of Hell Rudiments of Mutilation |
| Funeral Diner / Raein Split |
| Gallowbraid Ashen Eidolon |
| Ganon As Above, So Below |
| Ghost Ship Golden Girls |
| God Is An Astronaut Far from Refuge |
| God's Own Prototype Fall apart, every time you feel like... |
| Golgatha Strength of the World |
| yeah fr33. also i can honestly tell you that, having heard a preliminary demo of their next EP, these dudes are going places |
| Grace Cathedral Park In The Evenings Of Regret |
| Very, very pretty and relaxing, but it drags a lot. You've really got to be in the right mood to get all the way through this, but when the mood hits there's nothing better. |
| Grails The Burden of Hope |
| Grails Doomsdayer's Holiday |
| Grey Waters Below The Ever Setting Sun |
| Grizzly Bear Shields |
| Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat |
| Grown Below The Long Now |
| It starts out slow and it could use some tempo variation, but this is a great post-metal album with its share of "fuck yeah" moments. They just need to make more songs like "End of all Time" and fewer like "Trojan Horses". |
| Hands Give Me Rest |
| Hans Zimmer Sherlock Holmes |
| Haste the Day Attack Of The Wolf King |
| Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) |
| Hedvika The Evidence of Absence |
| Hessian Hessian |
| Dark and gritty hardcore that's crustier than sonic's mom. Recommended. |
| Hexis/As We Draw/Euglena Split |
| Hierophant (IT) Great Mother: Holy Monster |
| Hive Destruction Secretvm Veritas |
| Hope Drone Hope Drone |
| Horde Hellig Usvart |
| Hypomanie Calm Down, You Weren't Set On Fire |
listen to the new Liam album. it's like this except way better.
EDIT: This gets better the more you listen to it. |
| Hypomanie A City In Mono |
| I Create Complete Medley |
| Idol and the Whip Heavy Sleeper |
| If These Trees Could Talk Above the Earth, Below the Sky |
| Il Velo Di Maya Horizons and Gravity |
| Immolation Providence |
| In Mourning Monolith |
| Indwelling And My Eye Shall Weep |
| Infester To the Depths... In Degradation |
| Irepress Shaolin Knights (Single) |
| Irreversible Ashes |
| Isis In the Absence of Truth |
| Isis Celestial |
| Isis Holy Tears |
| Isis Temporal |
| Yeah, it might be a comp, but there's actually some really great stuff here, namely "Grey Divide," the Holy Tears remix, and the 20 Minutes/40 years acoustic version. |
| Isis and Aereogramme In The Fishtank 14 |
| Isis/Melvins Isis/Melvins Split |
| Janus Nox Aeris |
| Jesu Christmas |
| Jesu Ascension |
| Jesuit Discography |
| Judges Demo |
| Junius The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist |
| Kasper Rosa First Breath. First Blood. |
| Kauan Aava Tuulen Maa |
| Kekal 1000 Thoughts of Violence |
| Khoma The Second Wave |
| Koloss End of the Chayot |
| Kongh Sole Creation |
| Krypts Krypts |
| This is some really prime material that would be that much better if it were expanded into a full album. |
| Kutless Kutless |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| La Mar La Mar |
| Lands Emperor |
| Latitudes Agonist |
| Lead Hands Decoder |
| Lento Icon |
| Life in Your Way Kingdom Of Darkness |
| Light Bearer Lapsus |
| Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide |
| Linkin Park Living Things |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory EP |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Lo-Ruhamah Lo-Ruhamah |
| Loss Despond |
| Loss of Self Demo |
| Love American Love American |
| Lowercase Noises Carry Us All Away |
| Ludicra The Tenant |
| Lunaire With the Same Smile as Those Days |
| Lunar Aurora Hoagascht |
| Make A Change...Kill Yourself Fri |
| Mammon Demiurge |
| ManBearPig Ruined Emo |
| Manners Apparitions |
| Mean Knowing |
| Meshuggah Rare Trax |
| Meshuggah The True Human Design |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Meshuggah Selfcaged |
| Metallica Beyond Magnetic |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Mgla With Hearts Toward None |
| Midnight Odyssey Funerals from the Astral Sphere |
| Miroist The Pledge |
| Mogwai Earth Division |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will |
| Mono Hymn To The Immortal Wind |
| Monogrim Realm |
| Monvment I |
| Mortal Treason A Call To The Martyrs |
| Mournful Congregation The Monad of Creation |
| Mumford and Sons Babel |
| Musth Padjelanta |
| The album art may blow chunks, but rest assured that the music does not. |
| Nader Sadek In the Flesh |
| Napalm Death Utilitarian |
| Neil Halstead Palindrome Hunches |
| Nest [FIN] Trail of the Unwary |
| Neurosis The Word as Law |
| nic Demo |
| Nile Those Whom the Gods Detest |
| Nile Annihilation of the Wicked |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother |
| Norma Jean O' God The Aftermath |
| Nous Etions Limbes |
| O'Brother The Death of Day |
| Oak Pantheon From a Whisper |
| Yet another case of shitty cover art on a great atmospheric black metal album. Go figure. |
| Obscure Sphinx Anaesthetic Inhalation Ritual |
| Ocoai The Electric Hand |
| October Falls A Collapse Of Faith |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire |
| Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning |
| Old Man Gloom NO |
| solid as hell. too many ambient bits though |
| Old Man Markley Guts N' Teeth |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Orrery Nine Odes to Oblivion |
| Oskoreien Oskoreien |
| Ostrov Noumenal |
| Overmars/Icos Split |
| P.O.D. Greatest Hits: The Atlantic Years |
| P.O.D. Fundamental Elements of Southtown |
| P.O.D. Testify |
| Panopticon On the Subject of Mortality |
| Panopticon/Lake of Blood Split |
| Panopticon/Vestiges Split |
| Panopticon/Wheels Within Wheels II |
| Panopticon/Wheels Within Wheels Panopticon/Wheels Within Wheels |
| Paramaecium Within the Ancient Forest |
| Patrick Watson Adventures in Your Own Backyard |
| Paysage d'Hiver/Vinterriket Split |
| Pelican Ephemeral |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis |
| Periphery Periphery (Instrumental) |
| pg.lost In Never Out |
| Pillar Confessions |
| Pillar The Reckoning |
| Plebeian Grandstand How Hate is Hard to Define |
| Portal Swarth |
| Portal Vexovoid |
| Process of Guilt Faemin |
| A more-or-less death/doom band try their hand at making an atmosludge album, and for the most part it works. Sure, it does indeed get repetitive (in a bad way) throughout the middle of the album, and there's nothing especially original, but it has a pretty good atmosphere and the title track is bomb as hell. |
| Project 86 Picket Fence Cartel |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Pulling Teeth Funerary |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Rahu The Quest for the Vajra of Shadows |
| Re1ikt Rivers Broke Through the Ice |
| Progressive metal with vague black and sludge metal flourishes. I normally hate the vocals on this kind of thing, but these are surprisingly good, and the riffs are killer as well. |
| Red End of Silence |
| Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... |
| Reka III |
| Reka II |
| Relient K Forget and Not Slow Down |
| Rhone Inter Sidera |
| Richard and Linda Thompson Shoot Out The Lights |
| Right Away, Great Captain! The Eventually Home |
| Rings of Rhea 2011 |
| Rise And Fall Our Circle is Vicious |
| Russian Circles Station |
| Schematics For Gravity Schematics For Gravity |
| Scott Kelly The Wake |
| Serious Beak Huxwhukw |
| Sevendust Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow |
| Shining (NOR) Blackjazz |
| Shroud of Distress Be Happy |
| Shyy/... The Path Toward Forgetfulness |
| Shyy's side is okay if a bit forgettable, but ... rule pretty hard on here, contributing a winning combination of depressive bm, shoegaze, and awesome cleans. |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
| Sigur Ros Ágætis Byrjun |
| Sigur Ros Brennisteinn |
| Sinatra/I Kill Giants Split |
| Since By Man We Sing The Body Electric |
| Sinistro Sinistro |
| Skillet Comatose |
| Sky Burial Where Four Rivers Flow |
| Slayer Reign in Blood |
| Sleepingdog Polar Life |
| Sleepwalker Sleepwalker |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) |
| So Far As I Know Far From the Earth Beneath Your Feet |
| SPERO City of Tears |
| Split Cranium Split Cranium |
| it's not the most original thing in the world, but this is still a satisfyingly intense collection of mildly old-school hardcore. also, it's nice to hear Aaron Turner at work again. Retrace the Circle is awesome. |
| Stan Rogers From Fresh Water |
| State Faults Head in the Clouds |
| Steady Hands The Earth Will Eat Today |
| Stereomud Perfect Self |
| Strategic Silence And I Can Finally Hear The Voices |
| Stronghold Cult of Remorse |
| Sudatsuga Blue Moon Saiyeed |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions |
| Swallow the Ocean Swallow the Ocean |
| Swallow The Sun New Moon |
| Switchfoot Oh! Gravity. |
| Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown |
| Switchfoot Oh! |
| Switchfoot The Best Yet: Deluxe Edition |
| Sympathy Anagogic Tyranny |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| Tempest (Can) Passages |
| Terra Tenebrosa The Purging |
| TesseracT One (Instrumental) |
| The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Volume I |
| The Appleseed Cast Illumination Ritual |
| The Ascendicate To Die As Kings |
| The Atlas Moth An Ache for the Distance |
| The Carrier Blind To What Is Right |
| The Catalyst Voyager |
| The Circle Ends Here Where Time Leaves The Rest |
| The Classic Crime Albatross |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum |
| The Dear Hunter Black |
| The Dear Hunter Indigo |
| The Dear Hunter Yellow |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne |
| The Effort Iconoclasm |
| The Elijah I Loved I Hated I Destroyed I Created |
| The End Of Six Thousand Years Perpetuum |
| Gothenburg meets metalcore meets post-metal. The only really weak point here for me is that I'm not always a huge fan of the vocals (only at certain registers, though: they're usually good). |
| The End Of The Ocean In Excelsis |
| The Fray How to Save a Life |
| The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten |
| The Glorious Unseen Tonight the Stars Speak |
| this is like worship/CCM/jesus is my friend music except that it doesn't suck. to be quite honest, it's actually pretty good. |
| The Great Old Ones Al Azif |
| It's a sludge-tinged atmospheric black metal album about the Lovecraftian mythos. How in Cthulhu's name can this be bad? |
| The Little Explorer Siderali |
| The Matador (AU) Descent Into the Maelstrom |
| The Mire Volume: I |
| The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me |
| The Nova Echo Voyager |
| The Ocean Precambrian |
| The Ocean Doesn't Want Me As the Dust Settles |
| The Power & The Glory Call Me Armageddon |
| The Red Chord Prey for Eyes |
| The Showdown A Chorus of Obliteration |
| The Word Alive Deceiver |
| Third Day Revelation |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain |
| Thou To The Chaos Wizard Youth |
| if I smoked I would take fatty bong rips to Witch Cunt every day |
| Thou The Archer and the Owle |
| It just goes to display the awesomeness that is Thou in that even when they release a "filler" record (2 songs were on Summit, 3 are covers, and only 1 is new), it is completely awesome. |
| Thou Baton Rouge, You Have Much to Answer For |
| Thou Malfeasance/Retribution |
| gotta groove hard gotta have sludge riffs |
| Thou/Black September Thrive & Decay [Split] |
| Thou put out one of the best tracks of their career, and Black September contribute a painfully average USBM song. Yay for imbalanced splits. |
| Thou/The City is the Tower Dwell in the Darkness of Thought... |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Phenomenon |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Welcome to the Masquerade |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Tides Resurface |
| Timer Yet Here We Stand |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Torche Harmonicraft |
| Tortured Wasteland |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft |
| Trash Talk Plagues |
| TRUSTcompany The Lonely Position of Neutral |
| Ufomammut Opus Alter |
| Uneven Structure Februus |
| Vaiya Mudh |
| Vallendusk Black Clouds Gathering |
| Vaura Selenelion |
| Veil Sombre |
| Veins Veins |
| Verse Bitter Clarity, Uncommon Grace |
| Vestiges The Descent Of Man |
| Volumes The Concept Of Dreaming |
| Watchmaker Kill. Fucking. Everyone. |
| What The Blood Revealed 2009 EP |
| Wheels Within Wheels The Shift |
| When Bitter Spring Sleeps/Panopticon Split |
| With Daggers Widower |
| Wodensthrone Curse |
| Woe Quietly, Undramatically |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade |
| Wound Upon Wound Wound Upon Wound |
| An unholy mix of atmospheric black metal, death metal, doom metal, and post-metal. And riffs. So many riffs. |
| YOUWRETCH YOUWRETCH |
| god damn this rules hard and more people need to get it etc |
| Zao The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here |
