| '68 Midnight | 3.0 |
| '68 In Humor and Sadness | 4.5 |
| '68 Two Parts Viper | 4.5 |
| ((Navtilvs)) Polaris* | 3.0 |
| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow | 4.0 |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo | 4.5 |
| ...And The Earth Swarmed With Them The Fading Voice of the Old Era Speaks to Us, But | 3.5 |
| 10 Years The Autumn Effect | 3.5 |
| 10 Years Division | 3.5 |
| 12 Stones Potter's Field | 2.5 |
| 12 Stones The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday | 2.5 |
| 12 Stones Anthem For The Underdog | 3.5 |
| 40 Watt Sun The Inside Room | 4.0 |
| 6 Degrees II | 3.0 |
| 65daysofstatic Wild Light | 3.5 |
| 65daysofstatic No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite... | 3.5 |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math | 4.0 |
| 65daysofstatic One Time for All Time | 4.5 |
| 7 Horns 7 Eyes 7 Horns 7 Eyes | 2.5 |
| 7 Horns 7 Eyes Throes Of Absolution | 3.5 |
| A Bunny's Caravan Draining Puddles, Retrieving Treasures | 4.0 |
| A City Sorrow Built Songs | 3.0 |
| A City Sorrow Built Motions | 3.5 |
| This is a big improvement over Songs. |
| A Forest of Stars A Shadowplay for Yesterdays | 3.5 |
| A Forest of Stars Beware the Sword You Cannot See | 3.5 |
| A Hill To Die Upon Infinite Titanic Immortal | 3.5 |
| A Lot Like Birds No Place | 4.0 |
| A Place of Owls Inviere | 3.5 |
| A Storm Of Light As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us... | 2.5 |
| A Swarm of the Sun Zenith | 3.5 |
| A Swarm of the Sun The Woods | 3.5 |
| A Swarm of the Sun The Rifts | 4.0 |
| A Thousand Times Repent Virtue Has Few Friends | 4.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory | 4.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service | 4.5 |
| Aaron Lewis The Road | 1.5 |
| Abigail Williams Becoming | 3.5 |
| 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. |
| Abigail Williams The Accuser | 3.5 |
| Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark | 4.0 |
| Abominor Opus: Decay | 3.5 |
| Abraham The Serpent, the Prophet and the Whore | 3.5 |
| Absent In Body Plague God | 3.5 |
| Absu Abzu | 4.0 |
| Abyssal (UK) Denouement | 4.0 |
| Acres Acres | 3.0 |
| Across Waters More Light Is Never Ending | 4.0 |
| Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse | 3.5 |
| Ad Nauseam Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est | 4.0 |
| Adai Felo De Se | 4.0 |
| This is better than you. |
| Addaura Addaura | 3.0 |
| Addaura Burning for the Ancient | 3.5 |
| 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 | 3.5 |
| 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). |
| Admiral Angry Buster | 4.0 |
| Admiral Fallow Boots Met My Face | 3.5 |
| Adramelech Spring of Recovery | 4.0 |
| Adrift Black Heart Bleeds Black | 4.0 |
| And you thought post-metal with balls ended with Times of Grace... |
| Adrift for Days Come Midnight... | 4.0 |
| 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 Remove the Earth | 3.0 |
| Advent Pain & Suffering | 3.5 |
| Advent Naked and Cold | 4.0 |
| Aequorea Dim | 3.5 |
| Aeternam Moongod | 4.0 |
| Aethyrvorous Demo | 3.0 |
| After the Burial Rareform | 3.0 |
| After the Burial In Dreams | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Wolves Within | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) | 4.0 |
| After the Burial Dig Deep | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes | 4.0 |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere | 4.0 |
| Well, I have no fucking clue what album you guys have been listening to. |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 4.5 |
| Agriculture Agriculture | 3.0 |
| Ahamkara The Embers Of The Stars | 4.0 |
| Akhlys The Dreaming I | 4.0 |
| Alabama Shakes Sound & Color | 4.0 |
| Alaskan Adversity; Woe | 3.5 |
| Alaskan Despair, Erosion, Loss | 3.5 |
| Alcest Le Secret (2011 Version) | 3.5 |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme | 3.5 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 4.0 |
| Alcest Shelter | 4.0 |
| Alcest Kodama | 4.5 |
| Alda Alda | 3.0 |
| Alda Tahoma | 4.0 |
| Aldo Raine Welthass | 3.5 |
| Aldrlag Demo | 3.0 |
| Aletheian Dying Vine | 2.0 |
| Alexi Murdoch Time Without Consequence | 4.0 |
| Algiers Algiers | 4.0 |
| Algiers The Underside of Power | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 4.5 |
| All Shall Perish This Is Where It Ends | 3.5 |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence | 4.0 |
| All the Empires of the World Remains | 3.0 |
| All the Empires of the World ...Will Be Laid To Waste | 3.5 |
| All the Empires of the World Last Rites | 3.5 |
| All the Empires of the World CVRSVS | 3.5 |
| All the Empires of the World Black Hand Meditation | 3.5 |
I've never really appreciated how great of a guitarist the guy in this band is, but if I could one day play
the acoustic half as well as he does on this EP I'll be ecstatic. |
| All the Empires of the World Sunscraper | 3.5 |
| All the Empires of the World Blessings | 4.0 |
| All the Empires of the World Old Gods, Old Worlds, Old Wounds | 4.0 |
| 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 Return | 4.5 |
| 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. |
| All The Luck In The World A Blind Arcade | 4.0 |
| All Them Witches Sleeping Through the War | 3.0 |
| All Them Witches Effervescent | 3.5 |
| All Them Witches ATW | 3.5 |
| All Them Witches Dying Surfer Meets His Maker | 4.0 |
| All Them Witches Nothing as the Ideal | 4.0 |
| All Them Witches Lightning at the Door | 4.5 |
| Alpinist LICHTLAERM | 3.5 |
| Alpinist/Masakari Split | 4.5 |
| it's not even funny how awesome this split is |
| Alraune The Process Of Self-Immolation | 3.5 |
| alt-J Relaxer | 3.0 |
| alt-J This Is All Yours | 3.5 |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave | 4.0 |
| Altar of Plagues Tides | 3.5 |
| Altar of Plagues White Tomb | 4.0 |
| Altar of Plagues Mammal | 4.0 |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury | 5.0 |
| Altar of Plagues/Year of No Light Split | 4.0 |
| Alter Bridge One Day Remains | 2.5 |
| Alter Bridge AB III | 4.0 |
| Alter Bridge Fortress | 4.0 |
| I think you mean MYLES ahead of ABIII |
| Alter Bridge Blackbird | 4.5 |
| Amber Amber | 4.0 |
| Amenra Mass I: Prayer I - VI | 3.0 |
| Amenra Mass II: Sermons | 3.5 |
| Amenra Afterlife | 3.5 |
| Amenra Mass IIII | 4.0 |
| Amenra Mass III | 4.0 |
| 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 III-II + IIII | 4.0 |
| Amenra Mass VI | 4.0 |
| Amenra De Doorn | 4.0 |
| Amenra Mass V | 4.5 |
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. |
| Amenra/Hessian Split | 3.5 |
| Amenra/Hitch Split | 3.0 |
| Amenra are as excellent as ever, but Hitch are painfully boring. |
| Amenra/Hive Destruction Split | 4.0 |
| 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. |
| Amesoeurs Amesoeurs | 3.0 |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 4.5 |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods | 3.0 |
| does this m/ |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth Jomsviking | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side | 4.0 |
| Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today | 3.5 |
| Ampere Like Shadows | 4.0 |
| Ampere/Daitro Split | 4.5 |
| Ampere/Funeral Diner Split | 4.0 |
| 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 Everything | 2.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Lost | 3.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Hearts Of Light/Blossoms | 3.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children The Long Goodbye | 3.5 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Only The Ocean Knows | 4.0 |
| It isn't even funny how much better in every single way imaginable this is than their previous efforts. |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love | 4.0 |
| An Isle Ate Her Phrenia | 4.0 |
| Anathema The Optimist | 3.0 |
| Anathema Weather Systems | 3.5 |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here | 4.0 |
| Anathema Distant Satellites | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Cities | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Vital | 4.0 |
| Ancients (UK) Star Showers On The Euphrates | 3.5 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures | 3.5 |
| 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. |
| And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar | 4.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Gangs | 4.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Heirs | 4.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar The Endless Shimmering | 4.0 |
| this slap |
| Anderson .Paak Ventura | 3.5 |
| Anderson .Paak Malibu | 4.0 |
| Angelo De Augustine Swim Inside the Moon | 3.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 3.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 3.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many | 4.0 |
| Annorkoth The Last Days | 4.0 |
| Antarctic Antarctic | 3.5 |
| Antestor The Forsaken | 3.0 |
| Antestor Omen | 3.0 |
| Very solid melodic/progressive/idk black metal from a band with a very long and very interesting history. Also, I really, really want that artwork on vinyl. |
| Anthrax Worship Music | 3.0 |
| Antlers (DE) A Gaze Into the Abyss | 3.5 |
| Apator Masturbate in Praise of Black Satan | 1.0 |
| Appollonia Crimson Shades | 3.5 |
| Arbor The Plutonian Shore | 2.5 |
| This album irritates me. One moment it's a barrage of stellar riffs, screeching vocals, and progressive flourishes, and the next moment they're breaking out these godawful cleans and trying way too hard to be progressive and the whole thing just goes to shit. |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 2.5 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.0 |
| Arcane Known/Learned | 4.5 |
| Architects For Those That Wish to Exist | 2.5 |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us | 3.5 |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together | 4.0 |
| Archives Decline | 4.5 |
| Archivist Triumvirate | 3.5 |
| Archivist Archivist | 4.0 |
| Archivist Construct | 4.0 |
| Arctique Circles Golden Gloom | 3.5 |
| Arms of Ra Arms of Ra | 4.0 |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger Total Body Workout | 1.0 |
| Arrows In Her Leaving. | 4.0 |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Listen to the Color | 3.0 |
| ARTS Vault of Heaven | 4.0 |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep | 3.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Beneath the Encasing of Ashes | 2.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying A Long March: The First Recordings | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise | 3.5 |
| ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP | 4.0 |
| Ash Borer The Irrepassable Gate | 3.0 |
| Ash Borer 2009 Demo | 4.0 |
| Ash Borer Tour Rehearsal Demo | 4.0 |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages | 4.0 |
| /fanboy |
| Ash Borer Bloodlands | 4.0 |
| 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 Ash Borer | 4.5 |
| Ash Borer and Fell Voices Split | 4.0 |
| Ashenspire Hostile Architecture | 4.5 |
| Ashes and Iron Silens | 4.5 |
| Ashes Forever Love, Leave, Forget, Repeat. | 2.5 |
| Askival Eternity | 2.5 |
| Astronoid November | 3.5 |
| Astronoid Stargazer | 4.0 |
| At All Times The Writhing Sea | 3.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.5 |
| At the Gates At War with Reality | 4.0 |
| At The Soundawn Shifting | 2.5 |
| Atena Shades Of Black Won't Bring Her Back | 3.5 |
| it's not complex or anything but it slaps |
| Atena Possessed | 3.5 |
This is really generic djenty breakdown-obsessed chugcore, but the atmosphere is sick, it's
consistently catchy as fuck, and I love the production. Like, I could see bumping this to a 4. I'd
liken it to a (really well-written and performed) brocore version of Vildhjarta. |
| Atheist Jupiter | 4.0 |
| Athletics Who You Are Is Not Enough | 4.0 |
| Atoma Skylight | 3.5 |
| Atrium Carceri Phrenitis | 3.0 |
| Atticus Ross The Book Of Eli OST | 4.0 |
| Au-Dessus Au-Dessus | 4.0 |
| Au-Dessus End of Chapter | 4.0 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red August Burns Red | 2.0 |
| August Burns Red Messengers | 2.5 |
| August Burns Red Looks Fragile After All | 2.5 |
| August Burns Red Guardians | 2.5 |
| August Burns Red Lost Messengers: The Outtakes | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Home | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Leveler | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places | 4.0 |
| Aural Method When I Drifted I Heard a Faint Melody | 4.0 |
| Austere To Lay Like Old Ashes | 3.5 |
| Australasia Notturno | 3.5 |
| Austrian Death Machine A Very Brutal Christmas | 3.0 |
| Autumn's Kingdom Autumn's Kingdom | 3.5 |
| Avatar Hail the Apocalypse | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 2.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 2.5 |
| Awake In Sleep Awake In Sleep | 3.0 |
| Awake In Sleep Heights | 3.0 |
| Axis of Light By the Hands of the Consuming Fire | 4.0 |
| Axis of Light L'appel du vide | 4.0 |
| Ayr Nothing Left to Give | 4.0 |
| B.M. Sharp Music is Tight | 4.0 |
| Balance and Composure I Just Want To Be Pure | 3.0 |
| Balmorhea Clear Language | 3.0 |
| Band of Horses Everything All the Time | 4.0 |
| Banner Pilot Heart Beats Pacific | 4.0 |
| Barrow Being Without | 4.0 |
| Barrow Though I'm Alone | 4.0 |
| Battle Of Mice A Day of Nights | 2.5 |
| Battlefields Thresholds Of Imbalance | 3.0 |
| Battlefields Entourage of the Archaic | 3.0 |
| Battlefields Agassiz | 4.0 |
| Batushka Litourgiya | 4.0 |
| Batushka Panihida | 4.0 |
| Baulta Deeply Sorry to Interrupt Your Megalomania | 4.0 |
| 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 | 4.0 |
| Be'lakor Vessels | 4.5 |
| Beach House 7 | 4.0 |
| Beau Navire Lumens | 4.0 |
| Beauty of Sirin Taina Tsvetka | 3.0 |
| Becoming The Archetype I Am | 2.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype The Physics of Fire | 3.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Dichotomy | 3.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Celestial Completion | 3.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation | 4.0 |
| Behemoth Xiadz | 3.0 |
| Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest | 3.5 |
| Behemoth The Satanist | 4.5 |
| Behold... The Arctopus Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning EP | 3.0 |
| Behold... The Arctopus Skullgrid | 3.0 |
| Behold... The Arctopus Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning | 3.0 |
| Being as an Ocean Dear G-d | 2.5 |
| Beirut The Rip Tide | 4.0 |
| Ben Howard Noonday Dream | 3.5 |
| Ben Howard Every Kingdom | 4.0 |
| be sure to also get the bonus tracks: one of them, "Under the Same Sun", is probably the best on the album. |
| Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were | 4.5 |
| Benea Reach Possession | 3.5 |
| Benjamin Francis Leftwich Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm | 3.5 |
| Benjamin Francis Leftwich After the Rain | 3.5 |
| Bereft (USA-WI) Lands | 4.0 |
| Betrayal At Bespin Diary of a Dead Man Walking | 4.0 |
| Betrayal At Bespin Rains | 4.0 |
| Totally different from the debut, but still totally awesome. Lots of sax here. |
| Better Days Songs About Drinking | 3.0 |
| Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.5 |
| Beyonce Lemonade | 4.5 |
| Beyond Creation The Aura | 4.0 |
| Beyond Creation Earthborn Evolution | 4.0 |
| Yeah, the vocals aren't the greatest (they're not bad by any means, but they aren't great either), and the bassist/the production of the bass can get a tiny bit annoying at points, but these guys still remain one of the only tech death bands that I feel can actually write a coherent song. There's a huge amount of talent between all the members, and the riffs are spectacular. |
| Beyond Terror Beyond Grace Nadir | 3.0 |
| Bien A Toi Diriger, Séduire, Convaincre | 4.0 |
| I'm not even sure what to call this, but it absolutely slays. |
| Big K.R.I.T. 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time | 4.5 |
| Big Red Machine Big Red Machine | 3.5 |
| Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You | 4.0 |
| Billy Bragg Life's a Riot With Spy vs. Spy | 3.0 |
| Birds in Row You, Me, and the Violence | 4.0 |
| Birds in Row We Already Lost The World | 4.0 |
| Black Breath Sentenced To Life | 3.5 |
| Black Clouds Everything Is Not Going To Be OK | 4.0 |
| Black Country, New Road For the first time | 3.5 |
| Black Country, New Road Ants From Up There | 4.5 |
| Black Math Horseman Wyllt | 3.5 |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club B.R.M.C. | 4.0 |
| Black Sea Somethings Cannot Be Mirrored | 3.5 |
| Black Sea It's All About Our Silence | 3.5 |
| Black Shape Of Nexus Negative Black | 3.5 |
| Black Sheep Wall No Matter Where It Ends | 3.0 |
| Black Sheep Wall It Begins Again | 3.5 |
| After the wholly unspectacular No Matter Where it Ends, BSW show us that they have still fucking got it with this wonderful, skull-crushing EP. |
| Black Sheep Wall Songs for the Enamel Queen | 3.5 |
| Black Sheep Wall I Am God Songs | 4.0 |
| Black Ships Omens | 4.0 |
| Black Table Sentinel | 3.0 |
| Black Tongue Falsifier | 3.5 |
| hevy |
| Black Tongue Nadir | 4.5 |
| the one good deathcore album. like there's actually an artistic vision here |
| Black Veil Brides Rebels | 1.5 |
| Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God | 3.5 |
| Blacklisted When People Grow, People Go | 3.5 |
| Blindead Absence | 3.0 |
| Blindead Ascension | 3.0 |
| Blindead Affliction XXIX II MCMXCVI | 4.5 |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn | 3.5 |
| Blueneck King Nine | 3.0 |
| Blueneck The Outpost | 3.5 |
| Blueneck The Fallen Host | 4.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Sect(s) | 3.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - The Desanctification | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord What Once Was... Liber II | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God | 4.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord What Once Was... Liber I | 4.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited | 5.0 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.5 |
| Boris New Album | 2.5 |
| Boris Asia | 3.0 |
| Born of Osiris A Higher Place | 2.0 |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery | 3.5 |
| Born of Osiris Soul Sphere | 3.5 |
| Bosse-de-Nage III | 4.0 |
| whoa |
| Bosse-de-Nage All Fours | 4.5 |
| holy fucking shit, these dudes' drummer is absolutely fantastic. the music is pretty great too, I guess |
| Bossk Migration | 2.5 |
| Bossk .2 | 4.0 |
| Bossk .3 | 4.0 |
| Bossk Pick Up Artist/Albatross | 4.0 |
| Bossk .1 | 4.5 |
| Bossk Audio Noir | 4.5 |
| Bossk/Rinoa Split | 4.0 |
| Botanist Hammer of Botany | 4.0 |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends | 5.0 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 5.0 |
| BOY Mutual Friends | 4.0 |
| Boygenius boygenius | 4.0 |
| Brain Drill Quantum Catastrophe | 1.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 4.5 |
| Braveyoung Bloom | 3.5 |
| Braveyoung We Are Lonely Animals | 4.0 |
| Braveyoung Will The Dust Praise You | 4.0 |
| Braveyoung No Peace In This Mind | 4.0 |
| Braveyoung Misery and Pride | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony | 2.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 3.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn | 3.5 |
| Brett Dennen So Much More | 3.0 |
| Brian Fallon Sleepwalkers | 3.5 |
| Brian Fallon Painkillers | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit | 3.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Post Human: Survival Horror | 4.5 |
| Brockhampton SATURATION II | 3.5 |
| Brockhampton SATURATION III | 4.0 |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene | 3.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Hug of Thunder | 3.5 |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 4.0 |
| brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It! | 1.0 |
| brokeNCYDE Will Never Die | 1.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen The Rising | 3.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run | 4.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska | 4.5 |
| Brutus (BE) Nest | 4.5 |
| Burial Untrue | 4.5 |
| Burial Kindred | 4.5 |
| Buried at Sea Ghost | 3.5 |
| Buried Inside Chronoclast | 5.0 |
| Burzum Daudi Baldrs | 1.0 |
| Burzum Hlidskjalf | 2.0 |
| Burzum Fallen | 2.5 |
| Burzum Belus | 3.0 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 3.5 |
| C R O W N The One | 3.5 |
| C R O W N Natron | 4.0 |
| Caina Temporary Antennae | 2.5 |
| Caladan Brood Echoes Of Battle | 4.0 |
| Caleb McAlpine Science Fiction | 4.0 |
| Caleb McAlpine All Things New | 4.0 |
| Callisto Providence | 3.0 |
| Callisto True Nature Unfolds | 3.5 |
| Callisto Ordeal Of The Century | 3.5 |
| Callisto Noir | 4.0 |
| Callisto Secret Youth | 4.0 |
| Calvaiire Rigorisme | 4.0 |
| Can't Fake Nature High Tide/Low Tide | 3.0 |
| Capacities The Unexamined Life | 3.5 |
| Capacities There Is No Neutral | 3.5 |
| Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) | 4.5 |
| Carbonized For the Security | 4.0 |
| The more you listen to this, the more awesome it becomes. |
| Carbonscape Artistry of Exhaustion II | 4.0 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion | 4.0 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated | 4.0 |
| Casey Love Is Not Enough | 4.0 |
| Caspian You Are The Conductor | 3.0 |
| Caspian The Four Trees | 3.5 |
| Caspian Tertia | 3.5 |
| Caspian Live At Old South Church | 4.0 |
| Caspian Waking Season | 4.0 |
| Caspian Hymn For The Greatest Generation | 4.0 |
| Caspian Castles High, Marble Bright | 4.0 |
| Caspian On Circles | 4.0 |
| Caspian Dust and Disquiet | 5.0 |
| Castevet Mounds of Ash | 4.0 |
| Cathedraal Voix Blanches | 3.0 |
| Cathedraal/Rings of Rhea/Schematics for Cathedraal/Rings of Rhea/Schematics for Gravity | 3.5 |
| Cave In Jupiter | 3.5 |
| Cave In Until Your Heart Stops | 4.0 |
| Cave In White Silence | 4.0 |
| Cave In Final Transmission | 4.0 |
| Celephais Tir n'a n'Og | 3.5 |
| Celeste Infidele(s) | 3.0 |
| Celeste Animale(s) | 4.0 |
| Cerebrate Soul's Abyss | 4.0 |
| m/ filthy dm m/ |
| Cerna Restoring Life | 4.0 |
| Just some absolutely gorgeous instrumental black metal with some post-metal flourishes. Get it. |
| Chance the Rapper The Big Day | 2.5 |
| Chance the Rapper Coloring Book | 4.0 |
| Chat Pile God's Country | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hypnos / Flame | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun | 4.0 |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes | 3.5 |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | 4.0 |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull | 4.0 |
| Chevelle La Gárgola | 4.0 |
| Chevelle The North Corridor | 4.5 |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" | 4.0 |
| Children of God We Set Fire to the Sky | 4.0 |
| Chotto Ghetto Walk is Godlike | 4.0 |
| Chris Stapleton Traveller | 4.0 |
| Chris Stapleton From A Room: Volume 1 | 4.0 |
| Chrome Waves Chrome Waves | 4.0 |
| It may be kind of generic, but what can I say: I'm a sucker for post-rocky, emotional black metal. |
| Chronos Appalachia | 3.5 |
| Chronos The Grips of Winter | 4.0 |
| Chuter Coma | 3.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One | 4.0 |
| Citizen As You Please | 4.0 |
| City and Colour Bring Me Your Love | 4.0 |
| City and Colour Little Hell | 4.0 |
| City and Colour If I Should Go Before You | 4.0 |
| Clint Mansell and Kronos Quartet Noah | 4.0 |
| Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain | 5.0 |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood | 4.5 |
| clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned | 5.0 |
| Cloaca Lassitude | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker The Discovery | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Portmanteau | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Loop | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Little Histories | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker The Map Is Not the Territory | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker ]]][[[ | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker A New Heavenly Body | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Fade | 4.0 |
| bm sharp is my favorite person ever |
| Cloudkicker Subsume | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Beacons | 4.5 |
| Cloudkicker Solitude | 4.5 |
| Clouds (INT) Doliu | 3.5 |
| Coastlines Life in Shifts | 3.5 |
| Cobalt Gin | 4.0 |
| Cobalt Eater of Birds | 4.0 |
| Cobalt Slow Forever | 4.0 |
| Code Orange Forever | 3.0 |
| Code Orange Underneath | 4.0 |
| Coffinfish I Am Providence | 4.0 |
| Cogs and Sprockets Arms for the Poor | 3.0 |
| Cogs and Sprockets The Black Friday EP | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 3.0 |
| This is an irritating release for me: I absolutely adore a couple tracks on here, but there are an equal number of songs that bug the shit out of me. |
| Cold Body Radiation Deer Twillight | 3.0 |
| Cold Body Radiation The Great White Emptiness | 4.0 |
| Coldworld Melancholie² | 3.5 |
| Coldworld Autumn | 4.0 |
| Colour Haze Colour Haze | 4.5 |
| Comity The Journey is Over Now | 4.0 |
| Common Yet Forbidden The Struggle | 2.5 |
| Conan Horseback Battle Hammer | 3.5 |
| Conan Blood Eagle | 3.5 |
| Conan Revengeance | 4.0 |
| Conjurer (UK) Mire | 3.5 |
| Consciousness Removal Project Tacit | 3.0 |
| Consciousness Removal Project The Last Season | 3.5 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 3.5 |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing | 4.0 |
| Converge No Heroes | 4.0 |
| Converge I Can Tell You About Pain | 4.0 |
| Converge Beautiful Ruin | 4.0 |
| Converge Bloodmoon: I | 4.0 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.5 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.5 |
| Converge Jane Live | 4.5 |
| Converge The Dusk in Us | 4.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| Converge You Fail Me Redux | 5.0 |
| Copeland Blushing | 3.5 |
| Coprophagia Shitty Life | 1.0 |
| Corelia Nostalgia | 3.0 |
| Corrupted Se Hace Por Los Suenos Asesinos | 3.5 |
| Corrupted Garten Der Unbewusstheit | 4.0 |
| Counterparts Prophets | 3.5 |
| Counterparts The Difference Between Hell and Home | 3.5 |
| As someone who gets annoyed every time a bunch of snobby assholes label something as overrated just because a bunch of users are really digging it, holy *shit*, are you people ever overrating this. |
| Counterparts You're Not You Anymore | 4.0 |
| Counterparts Nothing Left to Love | 4.5 |
| Cranial Dark Towers, Bright Lights | 4.0 |
| Creed Human Clay | 2.0 |
| Creed Weathered | 2.0 |
| Creed My Own Prison | 2.5 |
| Creed Full Circle | 2.5 |
| Crimson Moonlight Veil of Remembrance | 4.0 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Ellengaest | 3.0 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix (Mankind) The Crafty Ape | 3.5 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix I, Vigilante | 4.0 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix No Sadness Or Farewell | 4.0 |
| Cripta Oculta ...Do Passado | 3.0 |
| Crosses EP II | 3.5 |
| Crosses EP | 4.0 |
| Crosses Crosses | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Sever The Wicked Hand | 3.5 |
| Cryptic Forest Dawn of the Eclipse | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy The Unspoken King | 1.0 |
| Cryptopsy Cryptopsy | 2.5 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 4.5 |
| Crystal Lake Helix | 3.5 |
| Csejthe Reminiscence | 4.0 |
| Cult Leader Nothing for Us Here | 4.0 |
| Cult Leader Useless Animal | 4.0 |
| Cult Leader Lightless Walk | 4.0 |
| Cult Leader A Patient Man | 4.0 |
| Cult Of Fire Ascetic Meditation Of Death | 4.0 |
| Cult Of Fire Čtvrtá symfonie ohně | 4.0 |
| Cult Of Fire Life, Sex and Death | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Cult of Luna (EP) | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna Eternal Music | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna Cult of Luna | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna The Raging River | 3.5 |
| yep, it's a Cult of Luna album alright |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal II | 4.0 |
| Combine Vertikal (including The Flow Reversed) and Vertikal II into the single album they were meant to act as, bookended with the acoustic version of Passing Through, and you have yourself Cult of Luna's best album since SatH. |
| Cult of Luna The Beyond | 4.5 |
| Cult of Luna Salvation | 4.5 |
| Cult of Luna Fire Was Born | 4.5 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 4.5 |
| 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. |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway | 5.0 |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear | 5.0 |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner | 4.5 |
| Cult of Occult Cult of Occult | 4.0 |
| Cyclopian Cyclopian | 3.0 |
| Czar (USA-IL) Vertical Mass Grave | 3.5 |
| Damascus Salutations, Distant Satellite! | 3.0 |
| Damascus Heights | 3.5 |
| Damascus Of Whom I Always Think | 4.0 |
| Damascus When Last We Met | 4.5 |
| Damien Rice O | 3.0 |
| dangerkids collapse | 3.5 |
| Dangers Anger | 4.5 |
| Daniel Rossen Silent Hour/Golden Mile | 4.0 |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition | 4.0 |
| Dark Captain Dead Legs & Alibis | 4.0 |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us | 4.0 |
| Darkest Hour Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora | 4.0 |
| Darkestrah Epos | 4.0 |
| Darkspace Dark Space III | 4.5 |
| Darkspace Dark Space III I | 4.5 |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon | 3.5 |
| Daughter His Young Heart | 3.5 |
| Daughter If You Leave | 3.5 |
| Daughter The Wild Youth | 4.0 |
| Daughter Not to Disappear | 4.0 |
| David Bowie No Plan | 3.0 |
| David Crowder Band A Collision Or (3 + 4 = 7) | 3.5 |
| DDM Lucidity | 2.5 |
| Dead Congregation Promulgation of the Fall | 4.5 |
| Dead End Alaska/Ostrov Family and Friends Vol. II | 3.5 |
| Dead Poetic New Medicines | 3.5 |
| Dead Poetic Vices | 4.0 |
| Dead To A Dying World Elegy | 2.5 |
| Deadwood Picturing a Sense of Loss | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Demo | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Infinite Granite | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.5 |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love | 4.5 |
| Deafheaven/Bosse-de-Nage Split | 4.5 |
| 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. |
| Dealer (AUS) Soul Burn | 3.5 |
| Dealer (AUS) Saint | 3.5 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 4.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Drought | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus | 4.5 |
| Decyfer Down Crash | 3.0 |
| Decyfer Down End of Grey | 3.5 |
| Defeater Dear Father | 2.5 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 3.0 |
| Defeater Travels | 4.0 |
| Defeater Lost Ground | 5.0 |
| Deftones Back to School (Mini Maggit) | 2.5 |
| Deftones Gore | 3.5 |
| Deftones Ohms | 3.5 |
| Deftones Deftones | 4.0 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.5 |
| Everyone who has rated this already needs to die. rEDIT: Well, holy shit. |
| Demilich Nespithe | 4.0 |
| Demon Hunter 45 Days | 2.5 |
| Demon Hunter The World Is a Thorn | 2.5 |
| Demon Hunter Demon Hunter | 3.0 |
| Demon Hunter True Defiance | 3.0 |
| This is way better than The World Is a Thorn, but they still have yet to rediscover their Triptych mojo. |
| Demon Hunter Storm the Gates of Hell | 3.5 |
| Demon Hunter Extremist | 3.5 |
| Demon Hunter Summer of Darkness | 4.0 |
| Demon Hunter The Triptych | 4.0 |
| Denzel Curry Zuu | 4.0 |
| slaps |
| Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future | 4.0 |
| Denzel Curry TA13OO | 4.5 |
| Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked | 3.5 |
| Departe Failure, Subside | 4.5 |
| Departures Death Touches Us, From The Moment We Begin To Love | 3.0 |
| Departures Escaping | 3.5 |
| Departures When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted | 4.0 |
| Departures Green Turns To Red, Then Turns To Gold | 4.0 |
| Departures Teenage Haze | 4.0 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Unstille | 4.0 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Stellar | 4.0 |
| truly a stellar album har de har har el oh el |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Noktvrn | 4.0 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Finisterre | 4.5 |
| Desiigner New English | 2.5 |
| Desolate Oasis When Dreams Become Reality | 3.0 |
| Desolate Shrine Tenebrous Towers | 4.0 |
| Desolate Shrine The Sanctum of Human Darkness | 4.0 |
| Deterior Primitive Circuitry | 2.5 |
| Detritivore Pakt | 3.5 |
| Deuce The Two Thousand Eight EP | 1.0 |
| Deuce Call Me Big Deuce | 1.0 |
| Deuce Nine Lives | 1.0 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Empire of Light | 3.5 |
| 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. |
| Devil Sold His Soul A Fragile Hope | 4.0 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Belong/Betray | 4.0 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Blessed & Cursed | 4.5 |
| DevilDriver Beast | 3.5 |
| DIIV Deceiver | 4.0 |
| Diocletian Gesundrian | 4.0 |
| Direwolves Me From Myself, To Banish | 4.0 |
| Direwolves Aegri Somnia | 4.0 |
| Direwolves The Great Year | 4.0 |
| a Direwolves release is, in fact, very good. surprise! |
| Dirge (FR) Elysian Magnetic Fields | 3.5 |
| Dirge (FR) Hyperion | 4.0 |
| Dirty Three Toward The Low Sun | 3.5 |
| 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. |
| Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing | 4.0 |
| Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless | 4.0 |
| Disembodied If God Only Knew The Rest Were Dead | 4.0 |
| Disfear Live the Storm | 4.0 |
| Dismember Like an Ever Flowing Stream | 4.5 |
| Dispatch Bang Bang | 4.5 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 1.5 |
| Disturbed Immortalized | 1.5 |
| Disturbed Believe | 2.5 |
| Disturbed Asylum | 2.5 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 3.0 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 3.0 |
| Division of Mind Division Of Mind | 3.5 |
| DJ Khaled Major Key | 3.5 |
| Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet | 3.5 |
| Do Make Say Think Other Truths | 3.5 |
| Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn | 4.0 |
| Do Make Say Think Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead | 4.0 |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust | 4.5 |
| Do Make Say Think Stubborn Persistent Illusions | 4.5 |
| Dodecahedron Dodecahedron | 4.0 |
| Dodecahedron Kwintessens | 4.0 |
| DoomThrone Skeleton Veiled in Flesh | 1.0 |
| Dopamine Dying Away In The Deep Fall | 4.0 |
| DorDeDuh Dar De Duh | 4.5 |
| 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 | 4.5 |
| Downfall of Gaia Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay | 4.5 |
| I'm definitely fanboying a bit here, but this is just as awesome as their debut, if a lot less crusty and a lot more blackened. |
| Downfall of Nur Umbras de Barbagia | 4.5 |
| Drain the Sky Haunted By Rivers | 3.5 |
| Drake Nothing Was the Same | 3.5 |
| Drake If You're Reading This It's Too Late | 4.0 |
| Drake and Future What a Time to Be Alive | 3.0 |
| Drapsnatt Skelepht | 4.0 |
| Draugnim Vulturine | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity | 2.0 |
| Dream Theater Wither | 2.0 |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 2.5 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 4.5 |
| dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy | 1.5 |
| dredg El Cielo | 4.5 |
| Drom Hectop | 3.5 |
| Drowning Horse Drowning Horse | 4.0 |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora | 3.5 |
| Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel | 3.5 |
| Drudkh A Furrow Cut Short | 3.5 |
| Drudkh Estrangement | 4.0 |
| Drudkh/Hades Almighty One Who Walks.../Pyre Era, Black! | 4.0 |
| Dustin Kensrue This Good Night Is Still Everywhere | 3.5 |
| Dustin Kensrue The Water and the Blood | 3.5 |
| If you (understandably) can't deal with overtly Christian lyrics, you probably will not enjoy this. If you grew up with CCM-ish music, however - even if you despise the never ending pit of stagnancy, sterility, and inoffensiveness that is the worship music scene - you are in for what is the best worship album since the David Crowder Band's "A Collision," and this may even be better than that. |
| Dustin Kensrue Please Come Home | 4.0 |
| Dustin Kensrue Carry the Fire | 4.0 |
| Dustin Kensrue Thoughts That Float on a Different Blood | 4.0 |
| Dvne Asheran | 4.0 |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka | 4.0 |
| Dweller On The Threshold Dweller On The Threshold | 3.0 |
| Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs | 4.0 |
| Earth Hex: Or Printing In the Infernal Method | 3.5 |
| Earth Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars Live | 3.5 |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II | 3.5 |
| yessss |
| Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull | 4.0 |
| Earth Extra-Capsular Extraction | 4.0 |
| Earth A Bureaucratic Desire for... | 4.0 |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I | 4.0 |
| Earth Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version | 4.5 |
| Earth from Above Numbered With The Transgressors | 3.0 |
| Earthmass Lunar Dawn (Keep, Relic, and Ritual) | 4.0 |
| Earthmass Earthmass | 4.0 |
| Earthmass Collapse | 4.5 |
| Earthrise Eras Lost | 4.0 |
| East of the Wall Redaction Artifacts | 3.5 |
| East of the Wall Split | 4.0 |
| Echoes (UK) With an Eye on the Shoreline and a Hand to the Sea | 3.5 |
| Echotide as our floodlights gave way to dawn | 3.0 |
| Eddie Vedder Into the Wild | 4.0 |
| Eden Circus Marula | 4.5 |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson II | 4.5 |
| Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros PersonA | 3.0 |
| Ef Give Me Beauty... Or Give Me Death! | 3.5 |
| Ef Delusions of Grandeur | 4.0 |
| Ef Ceremonies | 4.0 |
| this is absolutely fantastic |
| Eigenlicht Sacral Regicide | 3.0 |
| El Altar Del Holocausto S H ∃ | 2.5 |
| Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid | 3.5 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Dead Roots Stirring | 3.5 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Lore | 4.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Omens | 4.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Innate Passage | 4.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World | 4.5 |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone | 4.5 |
| Elephant Tree Habits | 4.0 |
| ElisaRay For the Creator of music... | 3.5 |
| ElisaRay ...on our stringed instruments | 3.5 |
| ElisaRay All Creatures | 4.0 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 3.0 |
| Embers Shadows | 3.5 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle On Dark Horses | 3.5 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death | 4.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou The Helm of Sorrow | 3.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full | 4.0 |
| Employed To Serve The Warmth Of A Dying Sun | 4.0 |
| Empyrium Weiland | 3.5 |
| Empyrium The Mill | 3.5 |
| Enabler La Fin Absolue Du Monde | 3.5 |
| Enabler All Hail the Void | 4.0 |
| Enabler Fail to Feel Safe | 4.0 |
| Encircling Sea I | 3.0 |
| Encircling Sea A Forgotten Land | 3.5 |
| END (USA-NJ) From the Unforgiving Arms of God | 4.0 |
| wow so this fucking rips. I did not know that the Counterparts guy could do that with his voice. |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face | 4.5 |
| expectations met and exceeded. absolutely fucking slaps from front to back. |
| END (USA-NJ) The Sin of Human Frailty | 4.5 |
| Enemies Embark Embrace | 3.5 |
| Enemy Noise No Control, No Parade | 3.5 |
| Enmerkar Starlit Passage | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini | 2.0 |
| Entropia (PL) Vesper | 4.0 |
| 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. |
| Entropia (PL) Ufonaut | 4.0 |
| Entropia (PL) Vacuum | 4.0 |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story | 4.0 |
| Envy Insomniac Doze | 4.0 |
| Envy Atheist's Cornea | 4.0 |
| Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead | 4.5 |
| Equilibrium Erdentempel | 3.5 |
| Erdve Vaitojimas | 4.0 |
| Erik Mongrain Fates | 4.0 |
| ERRA Moments of Clarity | 3.5 |
| Eryn Non Dae. Hydra Lernaia | 4.0 |
| Eryn Non Dae. Meliora | 4.5 |
| Esoteric Paragon of Dissonance | 4.0 |
| Ethereal Shroud They Became the Falling Ash | 4.5 |
| Ethereal Shroud Trisagion | 5.0 |
| Etienne Sin The Art of Stealing Hearts | 1.0 |
| Evening Hymns Spectral Dusk | 4.0 |
| Event Horizon 2011 Demo | 4.0 |
| Ever Forthright Ever Forthright | 3.0 |
| Evergreen Refuge Weminuchia | 2.5 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Salem | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens | 4.5 |
| Every Time I Die Radical | 4.5 |
| Everything in Slow Motion Red | 4.0 |
| Everything in Slow Motion Phoenix | 4.0 |
| Everything in Slow Motion Laid Low | 4.0 |
| Exgenesis Aphotic Veil | 3.5 |
| Exoskeleton Plutonian Herd | 1.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky Lone Survivor OST | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Wilderness | 4.0 |
| They finally did something different. |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... | 4.5 |
| Falkenbach Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty | 4.0 |
| Falkenbach Asa | 4.0 |
| Fall of Efrafa Inle | 4.0 |
| Fall of Efrafa Elil | 4.5 |
| Falling Up Falling Up | 4.5 |
| Falloch Where Distant Spirits Remain | 2.5 |
| Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology | 3.0 |
| Falls of Rauros Believe in No Coming Shore | 3.5 |
| Falls of Rauros The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood | 4.0 |
| Falls of Rauros Vigilance Perennial | 4.0 |
| Falls of Rauros/Panopticon Split | 4.0 |
| Fallujah Nomadic | 3.5 |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails | 3.5 |
"It's really a shame this passes for prog in this day and age."
DAE le wrong generation??!? |
| Fallujah Dreamless | 4.0 |
| Family and Friends XOXO | 3.0 |
| Family and Friends Love You Mean It | 3.5 |
| Father John Misty Fear Fun | 4.0 |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear | 4.5 |
| Fauna Rain | 3.5 |
| Fauna The Hunt | 3.5 |
| Fauna Avifauna | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Mechanize | 3.0 |
| Feared Synder | 3.5 |
| Fell Voices Fell Voices | 3.5 |
| Fell Voices 2010 Tour CD-R | 4.0 |
| Fell Voices Untitled | 4.0 |
| Fell Voices 08 Demo | 4.0 |
| Fellsilent The Hidden Words | 3.5 |
| Fen Winter | 3.0 |
| maybe it's because i listened to this in my car on the way to campus over three mornings but i don't really see a whole lot that's special here |
| Fen Epoch | 3.5 |
| Fen Carrion Skies | 4.0 |
god damn, have they ever improved
EDIT: the deluxe edition has 38 minutes of extra music |
| Fences Fences | 3.5 |
| Fever Ray Fever Ray | 4.0 |
| Fields of Locust Subtopia | 4.0 |
| Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back | 4.0 |
| Fine Before You Came Sfortuna | 4.0 |
| Fink Hard Believer | 3.5 |
| Finster Existenz | 3.5 |
| Finsterforst Mach Dich Frei | 3.5 |
| Finsterforst Rastlos | 4.5 |
| Fire In The Cave Fire In the Cave | 4.0 |
| Fire Walk With Us Carriers | 4.0 |
| Fireflight The Healing of Harms | 3.0 |
| First Aid Kit The Lion's Roar | 3.5 |
| Fit for a King Dark Skies | 3.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Hell on Earth | 3.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds | 3.5 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Crack-Up | 3.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Shore | 3.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 4.5 |
| Fleshworld Like we're all equal again | 4.0 |
| Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | 3.0 |
| Florence and the Machine High as Hope | 3.0 |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials | 3.5 |
| Flourishing Intersubjectivity | 3.5 |
| Flourishing The Sum of All Fossils | 4.0 |
| Flyleaf Memento Mori | 2.0 |
| Flyleaf Remember to Live | 2.5 |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf | 3.0 |
| Flyleaf Much Like Falling | 3.5 |
| Foals What Went Down | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 3.5 |
| For Today Portraits | 2.5 |
| For Today Breaker | 3.0 |
| Forest In the Flame of Glory | 1.5 |
| Forest As a Song in the Harvest of Grief | 4.0 |
| Forest Like a Blaze Above the Ashes | 4.0 |
| Forge of Clouds Forge of Clouds | 4.0 |
| Former Thieves The Language That We Speak | 3.0 |
| Fort Atlantic Shadow Shaker, Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| Fort Atlantic Fort Atlantic | 4.0 |
| This album is LEGEN - wait for it... DARY! Let Your Heart Hold Fast is an incredible track. |
| Foxes and Iselia Split | 3.5 |
| Foxing Dealer | 3.0 |
| Foxing Draw Down the Moon | 3.5 |
| Foxing Nearer My God | 4.5 |
| Ok so this wasn?t on my radar at all, but this might actually be kinda big |
| Frail Body Artificial Bouquet | 4.5 |
| Frank Ocean Blonde | 3.5 |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner Be More Kind | 2.5 |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner Positive Songs for Negative People | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song | 4.5 |
| Freddie Gibbs Freddie | 4.0 |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Bandana | 4.5 |
| Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist Alfredo | 4.0 |
| Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Sol Niger Within | 3.0 |
| Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Sol Niger Within V3.33 | 3.5 |
| Friends In America What It Is To Be | 3.5 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Winter of Mixed Drinks | 3.5 |
| Frightened Rabbit Recorded Songs | 3.5 |
| Frightened Rabbit State Hospital | 4.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse | 4.0 |
| if I had .1-increment privileges this would be a 4.2 |
| Frightened Rabbit Painting of a Panic Attack | 4.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight | 5.0 |
| From Indian Lakes Everything Feels Better Now | 3.5 |
| From Indian Lakes Able Bodies | 4.0 |
| From Indian Lakes Absent Sounds | 4.0 |
| From Oceans To Autumn The Flood/The Fall | 4.0 |
| From Oceans To Autumn Oath Of Eternals | 4.0 |
| this album is so god damn pretty |
| Frontier Demo | 4.0 |
| Frontierer Orange Mathematics | 4.0 |
| Frontierer Unloved | 4.0 |
| Frostseele Praekosmium | 3.5 |
| Fuath I | 3.5 |
| Fugazi Red Medicine | 3.5 |
| Fugazi The Argument | 4.5 |
| Full of Hell Rudiments of Mutilation | 3.5 |
| Full of Hell Garden of Burning Apparitions | 3.5 |
| Full of Hell Roots Of Earth Are Consuming My Home | 4.0 |
| Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy | 4.0 |
| Full of Hell Weeping Choir | 4.5 |
| Angels Gather Here is so fucking good ughhhhh |
| Full Of Hell and Primitive Man Suffocating Hallucination | 3.5 |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark | 5.0 |
| Funeral Diner/Raein Split | 3.5 |
| Fyrnask Eldir Nótt | 4.0 |
| Gallowbraid Ashen Eidolon | 3.5 |
| Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness | 3.5 |
| Ganon As Above, So Below | 3.5 |
| Gates (USA-NJ) You Are All You Have Left to Fear | 4.0 |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Parallel Lives | 4.0 |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Bloom and Breathe | 4.5 |
| Gaunt Demo | 3.0 |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering | 4.5 |
| General Grievous Oppression | 3.5 |
| General Lee Roads | 3.0 |
| General Lee Raiders of the Evil Eye | 4.0 |
| 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 | 4.0 |
| Generation of Vipers Coffin Wisdom | 4.0 |
| TSiB-era Neurosis meets Amenra, except they're both way angrier than normal |
| Geology North | 4.0 |
| Germ Loss | 4.0 |
| this is super weird. it's also super good. that is all. |
| Ghost Atlas All Is in Sync... | 3.5 |
| Ghost Bath Starmourner | 2.5 |
| Not awful, but not amazing either. Brandon's soundoff is pretty on point: great moments screwed over by weirdly disjointed songwriting. |
| Ghost Bath Moonlover | 3.5 |
| Ghost Brigade Isolation Songs | 4.0 |
| Ghost Brigade IV - One with the Storm | 4.5 |
| Ghost Ship Golden Girls | 3.5 |
| Ghostlimb Infrastructure | 3.0 |
| Giant Song | 4.5 |
| Giant Squid Minoans | 4.0 |
| Gifts From Enola Gifts From Enola | 3.5 |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey | 4.0 |
| Glaciation Sur les Falaises de Marbre | 3.5 |
| Glass Bones The Same Stories That Never Get Old | 3.0 |
| Glass Cloud The Royal Thousand | 3.0 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.0 |
| God Harvest Demo 2011 | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut The End of the Beginning | 3.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun | 3.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Far from Refuge | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut Origins | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut Epitaph | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut A Moment of Stillness | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut | 4.0 |
| God Mode Demo | 3.0 |
| God's Own Prototype Fall apart, every time you feel like... | 3.5 |
| Godflesh Streetcleaner | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor aMAZEzine! | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ [Vinyl] | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.5 |
| 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. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' | 4.5 |
| we got a bunch of fucking whiners here |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 5.0 |
| Golgatha Strength of the World | 3.5 |
| yeah fr33. also i can honestly tell you that, having heard a preliminary demo of their next EP, these dudes are going places |
| Golgatha Somnium Attacca | 3.5 |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust | 4.0 |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 4.5 |
| Gorguts Obscura | 5.0 |
| Gorod A Perfect Absolution | 3.0 |
| Gospel The Loser | 4.5 |
| Grace Cathedral Park In The Evenings Of Regret | 3.5 |
| 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 Deep Politics | 3.0 |
| their earlier stuff is better |
| Grails Red Light | 3.5 |
| Grails Doomsdayer's Holiday | 3.5 |
| Grails The Burden of Hope | 3.5 |
| Grails Burning Off Impurities | 4.0 |
| Grails Chalice Hymnal | 4.0 |
| Graveland/Nokturnal Mortum The Spirit Never Dies | 2.5 |
| Grayceon All We Destroy | 2.5 |
| Great Falls Objects Without Pain | 4.5 |
| Greet Death New Hell | 4.0 |
| Greg Puciato Child Soldier: Creator of God | 4.0 |
| Gregory Alan Isakov Evening Machines | 4.0 |
| Gregory Alan Isakov This Empty Northern Hemisphere | 4.5 |
| Gregory Alan Isakov That Sea, The Gambler | 4.5 |
| Gregory Alan Isakov The Weatherman | 4.5 |
| Gregory Alan Isakov ...with the Colorado Symphony | 4.5 |
| Grey Waters Below The Ever Setting Sun | 3.5 |
| Greytomb A Perpetual Descent | 4.0 |
| Grieved Grieved | 3.5 |
| Grieved Samaritans | 4.0 |
I wish this were longer.
That's what she said. |
| Gris Il Était Une Forêt... | 4.0 |
| Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée... | 5.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 3.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Shields | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins | 4.0 |
| Grouper Grid of Points | 2.0 |
| Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat | 3.5 |
| Grouper Ruins | 4.0 |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 4.5 |
| Grown Below The Long Now | 3.5 |
| 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". |
| Grown Below The Other Sight | 4.0 |
| Grumblecunt I Piss Shit | 1.0 |
| Gungor One Wild Life: Soul | 3.5 |
| Gungor Beautiful Things | 4.0 |
| Haethen Shaped By Aeolian Winds | 3.5 |
| Geologist reporting in to tell you all that the album's title is dumb: it's basically like calling this "Shaped by Windy Winds." |
| Haken Virus | 2.5 |
| Hamburger Helper Watch the Stove | 3.5 |
| Hammock Departure Songs | 4.0 |
| Hammock Everything and Nothing | 4.0 |
| Hands (US-ND) Give Me Rest | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | 3.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Sherlock Holmes | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Man of Steel | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Black Hawk Down | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer The Last Samurai | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer The Simpsons Movie: The Music | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Inception | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer The Dark Knight Rises | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Crimson Tide | 4.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Gladiator: Music from the Motion Picture | 4.5 |
| Haste the Day Pressure the Hinges | 3.0 |
| Haste the Day Dreamer | 3.0 |
| Haste the Day Attack of the Wolf King | 3.5 |
| Haste the Day Coward | 4.0 |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World | 3.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 4.0 |
| Heaven In Her Arms White Halo | 4.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Invictus (Iconoclast III) | 2.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) | 3.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Wanderer | 3.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Veto | 4.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Of Truth and Sacrifice | 4.0 |
| Hedvika The Evidence of Absence | 3.5 |
| Hell (USA) I | 4.0 |
| Hell (USA) II | 4.0 |
| songs are way longer than last time around and there's some cascadian bm shit in here. it rules hard |
| Hell (USA) III | 4.0 |
| 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. |
| Hell (USA) Hell | 4.0 |
| Hella Hold Your Horse Is | 3.5 |
| Heller Mason The Mess I've Made | 4.0 |
| 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 |
| Here Lies a Warning Frontiers | 3.0 |
| Heresiarch Waelwulf | 4.0 |
| Heretoir Heretoir | 2.5 |
| Heretoir The Circle | 4.0 |
| Tremendous improvement over the self titled. Good stuff. |
| Hesitation Wounds (LA) Awake For Everything | 3.0 |
| Hessian Hessian | 3.5 |
| Dark and gritty hardcore that's crustier than sonic's mom. Recommended. |
| Hexis Abalam | 4.0 |
| Hexis/As We Draw/Euglena Split | 3.5 |
| Hey Rosetta! Into Your Lungs (And Around in Your Heart and on | 4.0 |
| Hey Rosetta! A Cup Of Kindness Yet | 4.0 |
| Hey Rosetta! Second Sight | 4.0 |
| Hey Rosetta! Seeds | 4.5 |
| Hierophant (IT) Great Mother: Holy Monster | 3.5 |
| Hierophant (IT) Mass Grave | 3.5 |
| Hierophant (IT) Peste | 4.0 |
| this is the nastiest, filthiest shit I've heard all year. god damn son |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis | 4.5 |
| Hildur Gudnadottir Chernobyl (Music from the Original TV Series) | 4.5 |
| His Hero Is Gone Monuments To Thieves | 5.0 |
| Hive Destruction Secretvm Veritas | 3.5 |
| Hive Destruction Hive Destruction | 4.0 |
| Through the Dark, Brown Deserts goes so fucking hard people, I mean damn son |
| Hollow Wood Wallflower | 3.5 |
| Hollow Wood Seasons | 4.0 |
| Hop Along Get Disowned | 4.0 |
| Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog | 4.0 |
| Hope Drone Hope Drone | 3.5 |
| Hope Drone Husk | 3.5 |
| Hope Drone Cloak of Ash | 4.0 |
| seriously though, how dope is that artwork? |
| Horde Hellig Usvart | 3.5 |
| Horseback Half Blood | 3.0 |
| Horus Attis | 4.5 |
| https://soundcloud.com/andy-patterson-3/horus-attis --- Full album coming in 2015. |
| House of Low Culture Edward's Lament | 4.0 |
| Howard Shore The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey | 4.0 |
| "On par with LotR, just like the movie."rson you say all you want about the scores but you need help if you think the movie is even close to the original trilogy |
| Howard Shore The Lord of the Rings: Complete Trilogy | 5.0 |
| Howls of Ebb Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows | 3.5 |
| Hozier Hozier | 4.0 |
| Hozier Nina Cried Power | 4.0 |
| Huldra Signals From the Void | 4.0 |
| Huldra Monuments, Monoliths | 4.0 |
| 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 | 4.0 |
| Hundred Waters Currency | 3.5 |
| Hundred Waters Communicating | 3.5 |
| Hungry For Hands I Was Hungry For Hands | 4.0 |
| Hurry Up, Brothers All is Beautiful. I'm Okay to be Alive.. | 2.5 |
| Hurt Vol. II | 4.0 |
| Hypno5e Shores of the Abstract Line | 4.0 |
| Hypomanie A City In Mono | 3.5 |
| Hypomanie Calm Down, You Weren't Set On Fire | 3.5 |
listen to the new Liam album. it's like this except way better.
EDIT: This gets better the more you listen to it. |
| I Built The Cross Bridging the Gap Between Heart and Mind | 1.5 |
| I Built The Cross Banish the Disconnect | 2.5 |
On one hand, it's kind of uncool that IBtC, on their Facebook page, told all their fans to
rate this EP on Sputnik. As we all know, this strategy was used by Deuce, and while I don't
think the dudes in this band come even remotely close to that guy's level of douchebag, it's
still not a cool strategy. On the other hand, even though I hold the same opinion of the
debut that I did when I wrote my review, these guys *do* have a ton of talent, so I'll
happily give this a chance. r*btw, guys: a 0.0 is NOT a real rating.
EDIT:
Well, I listened to it and my hats off to IBtC: it's nowhere near the level of terribleness
that was present on the debut, namely because of better production. Also, they can still
play the hell out of their instruments. However, song structures are still more or less
nonexistent, and this EP also receives very few points for originality. There are other
bands who do grindy death metal/deathcore much better. And finally, it was still uncool to
whore out the EP's Sputnik page on your Facebook. |
| I Create Complete Medley | 3.5 |
| I, Valiance The Reject of Humanity | 3.5 |
| Icarus the Owl Love Always, Leviathan | 3.0 |
| Ictus Imperivm | 4.0 |
| IDLES Brutalism | 4.0 |
| Idol and the Whip Heavy Sleeper | 3.5 |
| If These Trees Could Talk Above the Earth, Below the Sky | 3.5 |
| If These Trees Could Talk Red Forest | 4.0 |
| Ignivomous Death Transmutation | 3.0 |
| Il Velo Di Maya Horizons and Gravity | 3.5 |
| Il'Ithil Ia'Winde | 3.5 |
| Immolation Providence | 3.5 |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay | 4.0 |
| Immolation Close to a World Below | 4.5 |
| Immortal Souls Wintereich | 3.0 |
| Impending Doom Nailed. Dead. Risen. | 2.0 |
| Impending Doom The Serpent Servant | 3.0 |
| Impending Doom There Will Be Violence | 3.0 |
| Impending Doom Hellbent | 3.0 |
| Impending Doom Death Will Reign | 3.5 |
| this is straight up nasty |
| Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury | 4.0 |
| Imperial Triumphant Alphaville | 4.5 |
| Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy | 4.5 |
| Impetuous Ritual Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence | 4.0 |
| In Cauda Venenum In Cauda Venenum | 3.5 |
| In It None of That Matters | 4.0 |
| In Mourning Monolith | 3.5 |
| In Mourning Afterglow | 4.0 |
| In Trenches Sol Obscura | 4.0 |
| holy fucking fuck, it's like Trenches meets Amia Venera Landscape meets Alpinistrfuck this rules |
| Inanimate Existence A Never-Ending Cycle of Atonement | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) If Not Now, When? | 2.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 4.0 |
| Indwelling And My Eye Shall Weep | 3.5 |
| Infest No Man's Slave | 4.0 |
| Infester To the Depths... In Degradation | 3.5 |
| Ingurgitating Oblivion Vision Wallows In Symphonies Of Light | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Across the Dark | 3.5 |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 4.5 |
| Insomnium Winter's Gate | 4.5 |
| Integrity Howling, For the Nightmare Shall Consume | 3.0 |
| Inter Arma Sky Burial | 4.0 |
| Inter Arma Paradise Gallows | 4.5 |
| Intervals A Voice Within | 3.5 |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations | 3.5 |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms | 4.0 |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke | 4.0 |
| Intronaut The Direction of Last Things | 4.5 |
| Invent Animate The Sun Sleeps, As If It Never Was | 3.5 |
| Inventions Inventions | 3.0 |
| Inventions Maze Of Woods | 3.5 |
| Irepress Shaolin Knights (Single) | 3.5 |
| Irepress Sol Eye Sea I | 4.0 |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days | 4.0 |
| Iron And Wine The Creek Drank the Cradle | 4.0 |
| Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog | 4.0 |
| Iron Throne Demo 2012 | 2.5 |
| Irreversible Light | 2.5 |
| Irreversible Ashes | 3.5 |
| Irreversible Surface | 4.0 |
| A lot of people seemed to love 'Ashes,' but I had a few big gripes with it: namely, the songwriting seemed inconsistent, the blending of the myriad genre influences was really choppy at points, and the production was rough. 'Surface' fixes all three problems. |
| Irreversible Irreversible | 4.0 |
| It's sad that this is their final album, as they've been getting better with each subsequent release and this one continues that trend. It's probably the best post-metal I've heard out of 2015 so far. 'Fade' and 'Absent Help' are especially brilliant. |
| Irrwisch Irrwisch | 4.5 |
| this is pretty awesome. |
| Isaiah Rashad The Sun's Tirade | 4.0 |
| Iselia Lost Star | 3.0 |
| Iselia Life From Dead Limbs | 4.0 |
| ISIS Sawblade | 3.0 |
| ISIS Temporal | 3.5 |
| 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 The Red Sea | 4.0 |
| ISIS Mosquito Control | 4.0 |
| ISIS SGNL>05 | 4.0 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.5 |
| ISIS Celestial | 4.5 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 4.5 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.5 |
| ISIS Live 6 (11/16/2007) | 4.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 5.0 |
| Isis and Aereogramme In The Fishtank 14 | 3.5 |
| Isis/Melvins Isis/Melvins Split | 3.5 |
| Iskra Iskra | 4.0 |
| Islands (AUS) Islands | 4.0 |
| 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 |
| Ivar Bjornson and Einar Selvik Skuggsja: A Piece for Mind & Mirror | 4.0 |
| this is awesome. it's basically Wardruna but metal. |
| Izah Sistere | 4.0 |
| J. Cole 4 Your Eyez Only | 3.0 |
| J. Cole K.O.D. | 3.0 |
| This is okay. It's not as good as 2014FHD, which I unabashedly love, but it's a big step up from 4YEO. It absolutely doesn't deserve a sub-2.5 average, though. |
| J. Cole 2014 Forest Hills Drive | 4.0 |
| Jackson C. Frank Jackson C. Frank | 4.0 |
| Jaden Smith Syre | 3.5 |
| wait why this is actually kinda lit |
| Jakob Subsets of Sets | 4.0 |
| Jakob Jakob | 4.0 |
| Jakob Sines | 4.5 |
| this is going to be the best album ever |
| Jakob Solace | 5.0 |
| Jakob Cale:Drew | 5.0 |
| Jakob are the best active non-Godspeed post-rock band in existence and anyone who denies this is the antichrist. |
| Jakob Dominion | 5.0 |
| Jambinai Différance | 4.0 |
| Jambinai A Hermitage | 4.0 |
| Jambinai ONDA | 4.0 |
| Jambinai Apparition | 4.0 |
| James Blackshaw Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death | 4.0 |
| 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 |
| James Blake Assume Form | 3.5 |
| James Blake Before | 3.5 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 4.0 |
| James Blake The Colour in Anything | 4.0 |
| James Vincent McMorrow Early In The Morning | 3.5 |
| Jamestown Revival The Education of a Wandering Man | 4.0 |
| Jamestown Revival Utah | 4.5 |
| Janus Nox Aeris | 3.5 |
| Japandroids Near To The Wild Heart Of Life | 3.5 |
| Jarhead Beautiful Delusion | 4.0 |
| riffs |
| Jason Isbell The Nashville Sound | 3.5 |
| Jason Isbell Here We Rest | 4.0 |
| Jason Isbell Something More Than Free | 4.0 |
| Jason Isbell Southeastern | 4.5 |
| Jay-Z The Black Album | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z 4:44 | 3.5 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 4.5 |
| Jesu Why Are We Not Perfect? | 2.5 |
| Jesu Infinity | 3.0 |
| Jesu Christmas | 3.5 |
| Jesu Ascension | 3.5 |
| Jesu Silver | 4.5 |
| Jesuit Discography | 3.5 |
| Jesus Piece Jesus Piece | 3.5 |
| Jesus Piece Only Self | 3.5 |
| JJ72 JJ72 | 4.0 |
| awesome vocals |
| Job for a Cowboy Doom | 2.5 |
| Job for a Cowboy Gloom | 2.5 |
| Job for a Cowboy Sun Eater | 4.0 |
| Jodis Black Curtain | 4.0 |
| Aaron Turner is the man. |
| Joey Badass B4.DA.$$ | 4.0 |
| Joey Badass ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$ | 4.0 |
| Johann Johannsson Sicario OST | 3.5 |
| Johann Johannsson Arrival OST | 4.5 |
| John Williams Star Wars: The Force Awakens | 4.5 |
| Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around | 4.5 |
| Jon Foreman The Wonderlands: Darkness | 3.5 |
| Jon Foreman Spring and Summer | 4.0 |
| Jon Foreman The Wonderlands: Shadows | 4.0 |
| Jon Foreman The Wonderlands: Dawn | 4.0 |
| Jon Foreman Fall and Winter | 4.5 |
| Jon Foreman The Wonderlands: Sunlight | 4.5 |
| thank you based foreman |
| Jose Gonzalez In Our Nature | 4.0 |
| Joseph Arthur Junkyard Hearts, Vol. I | 3.0 |
| Joseph Arthur Junkyard Hearts, Vol. III | 3.0 |
| Joseph Arthur Come To Where I'm From | 3.5 |
| Joseph Arthur Junkyard Hearts, Vol. IV | 3.5 |
| Joseph Arthur Redemption's Son | 4.0 |
| Joseph Arthur Our Shadows Will Remain | 4.0 |
| Joseph Arthur Junkyard Hearts, Vol. II | 4.0 |
| Josh Garrels The Light Came Down | 4.0 |
| Josh Garrels Love and War and The Sea In Between | 4.5 |
| Joy Wants Eternity The Fog is Rising | 3.0 |
| JPEGMAFIA Veteran | 4.0 |
| JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs | 4.0 |
| Judges Demo | 3.5 |
| Julien Baker Little Oblivions | 3.5 |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights | 4.0 |
| Junius The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist | 3.5 |
| Junius Eternal Rituals For The Accretion of Light | 3.5 |
| Junius Reports From The Threshold of Death | 4.0 |
| Junius Days of the Fallen Sun | 4.0 |
| The Time of Perfect Virtue is pretty much the best thing ever. |
| Jurassic Penguin Home | 3.0 |
| Just Die! A Momentary Lapse In Positive Thinking | 4.0 |
| Justin Bieber Under the Mistletoe | 1.0 |
| Justin Bieber My World | 1.5 |
| Justin Bieber My World 2.0 | 1.5 |
| Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour | 3.5 |
| Kalpa (GR) Sequences* | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.5 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 4.0 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 4.0 |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo | 4.0 |
| Kanye West ye | 4.0 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 5.0 |
| Kasper Rosa First Breath. First Blood. | 3.5 |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love | 5.0 |
| Kauan Aava Tuulen Maa | 3.5 |
| Kauan Sorni Nai | 3.5 |
| Kauan Kaiho | 4.0 |
| Kausal In Dead Cities | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Gamma Knife | 3.0 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo | 4.5 |
| http://grahamkozak.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/whoa-neo01.jpg |
| Keep It Like A Secret Not With A Bang But A Whimper | 3.0 |
| Kehlvin The Mountain Daylight Time | 4.0 |
| Kehlvin Holy Cancer | 4.0 |
| These guys are brilliant: I can't wait for the new album. |
| Kehlvin The Orchard of Forking Paths | 4.5 |
| Kekal Audible Minority | 2.5 |
| Kekal 1000 Thoughts of Violence | 3.5 |
| KEN mode Loved | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. | 4.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers | 4.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 5.0 |
| Kenoma The Tides Will Prevail | 3.0 |
| Kerouac Cold and Distant, Not Loving | 4.5 |
| Kerouac/The Long Haul Split | 4.0 |
| Kerretta Pirohia | 3.5 |
| Khanate Clean Hands Go Foul | 2.0 |
| Khoma The Second Wave | 3.5 |
| Khors Night Falls Onto the Fronts of Ours | 3.0 |
| Kid Cudi Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven | 1.0 |
| Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts | 4.5 |
| Kids. Kids | 4.0 |
| Killing The Dream Lucky Me | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent | 4.0 |
| King Apathy King Apathy | 4.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity | 3.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland | 3.5 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana | 4.0 |
| Kishi Bashi Omoiyari | 4.0 |
| Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks | 3.5 |
| Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue | 4.0 |
| Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life | 5.0 |
| brb, crowdkilling my Zoom call |
| Knut Challenger | 4.5 |
| Kokomo Monochrome Noise Love | 3.5 |
| Kokomo If Wolves | 4.0 |
| Kokomo Kokomo | 4.0 |
| Koloss End of the Chayot | 3.5 |
| Kongh Sole Creation | 3.5 |
| Kontinuum Kyrr | 3.5 |
| Korn The Path of Totality | 1.0 |
| Kowloon Walled City Container Ships | 4.0 |
| Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough | 3.0 |
| Krieg The Isolationist | 4.0 |
| Kronos Arisen New Era | 4.0 |
| Krypts Krypts | 3.5 |
| This is some really prime material that would be that much better if it were expanded into a full album. |
| Krypts Open the Crypt | 4.0 |
| Kublai Khan TX Absolute | 3.5 |
| Kublai Khan TX Nomad | 4.0 |
| Kurouma 3 | 3.0 |
| Kutless To Know That You're Alive | 2.0 |
| Kutless Strong Tower | 2.5 |
| Kutless It Is Well | 2.5 |
| Kutless Hearts of the Innocent | 3.0 |
| Kutless Sea of Faces | 3.0 |
| Kutless Kutless | 3.5 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 3.5 |
| Kvelertak Meir | 4.0 |
| Kwoon When The Flowers Were Singing... | 4.0 |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow | 4.0 |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley | 5.0 |
| L'elan Vital The Wink and the Gun | 3.0 |
| La Dispute Untitled | 3.0 |
| La Mar La Mar | 3.5 |
| La Quiete La fine non è la fine | 4.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! | 3.5 |
| Landing Landing | 2.5 |
| Lands Subtitles | 3.0 |
| Lands Emperor | 3.5 |
| Lantlos Wildhund | 3.0 |
| Lantlos .neon | 4.0 |
| Lantlos Agape | 4.0 |
| Lantlos Melting Sun | 4.0 |
| Latitudes Agonist | 3.5 |
| Latitudes Individuation | 4.0 |
| Some of the best post-metal riffs I've heard since Supercontinent's "Vaalbara." This is a big step up from Agonist: highly recommended. |
| Latterman Turn Up The Punk, We'll Be Singing | 3.5 |
| Latterman No Matter Where We Go...! | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Cocksure | 3.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 4.5 |
| Lead Hands Lead Hands | 3.5 |
| Leech If We Get There One Day... | 4.5 |
| Best post-rock of 2012? It's entirely possible. |
| Leech [US] Ten Black Hymns | 4.0 |
| Lento Anxiety Despair Languish | 2.5 |
| There are a few standout tracks - namely "My Utmost For His Highest" and "Questions and Answers" - but for the most part, this is pretty average instrumental post-metal. Low 3. |
| Lento Icon | 3.5 |
| Leprous Malina | 4.0 |
| Leucosis Leucosis | 4.0 |
| Leviathan True Traitor, True Whore | 2.5 |
| Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life | 4.0 |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted | 4.5 |
| Liam My Journey to the Sky | 2.5 |
| Liam Journey... Two Years and a Fragment | 3.0 |
| Liam Two Years and a Fragment | 3.0 |
| Liam MMIX | 4.0 |
| Life in Your Way Kingdom of Darkness | 3.5 |
| Life in Your Way Kingdom of God | 4.0 |
| Life in Your Way Kingdom of Man | 4.0 |
| Life in Your Way Kingdoms | 4.0 |
| Light Bearer Silver Tongue | 3.0 |
I fully expect to enjoy this, but I highly, highly doubt that it will deserve a 4.9 average.
EDIT: Holy shit, is this ever bloated. |
| Light Bearer Lapsus | 3.5 |
| Light Bearer Beyond the Infinite: The Assembly of God | 4.0 |
| Lights Out Asia In The Days Of Jupiter | 3.0 |
| Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide | 3.5 |
| Lights Out Asia Hy-Brasil | 4.0 |
| Lil B Tears 4 God | 2.0 |
| ambient swag 100 trillion |
| Lil Pump Lil Pump | 3.5 |
| Lingua Ignota Caligula | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park One More Light | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Living Things | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory EP | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 4.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (20th Anniversary Edition) | 4.5 |
| Little Chief Lion's Den | 4.0 |
| Liturgy Aesthethica | 2.0 |
| Living Sacrifice Conceived In Fire | 4.0 |
| Living Sacrifice In Memoriam | 4.0 |
| Living Sacrifice The Infinite Order | 4.0 |
| Living Sacrifice Death Machine | 4.5 |
| Death Machine is one of their best songs and gets me going like no fucking other |
| Lizzo Cuz I Love You | 4.0 |
| LLNN Deads | 3.5 |
Peters out a bit in the second half and they could stand to rely a bit less on the :chug-octave
chords-more chugging" formula, but when this is at its best it's fucking pummeling. Armada,
Despots, and Deplete are standouts. |
| LLNN Unmaker | 4.0 |
| Lmfao Sorry For Party Rocking | 1.0 |
| Lmfao Party Rock | 1.5 |
| Lo-Pro Disintegration Effect | 3.5 |
| Lo-Ruhamah Lo-Ruhamah | 3.5 |
| Lo-Ruhamah The Glory of God | 4.0 |
| Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything | 3.5 |
| Locktender Kafka | 4.0 |
| Locktender Friedrich | 4.0 |
| Locktender Rodin | 4.5 |
| Locrian and Mamiffer Bless Them That Curse You | 4.0 |
| Ok, so this is pretty awesome |
| Loma Prieta Self Portrait | 4.0 |
| Loma Prieta Last | 4.0 |
| Loma Prieta I.V. | 5.0 |
| Long Distance Calling Long Distance Calling | 3.0 |
| Lord Huron Vide Noir | 2.5 |
| Lord Huron Mighty EP | 3.5 |
| Lord Huron Into the Sun | 3.5 |
| Lord Huron Lonesome Dreams | 4.0 |
| Lord Huron Strange Trails | 4.0 |
| Lord Mantis Death Mask | 4.0 |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 3.5 |
| Lorde Melodrama | 4.0 |
| Lorelei Lore of Lies | 3.5 |
| Lorna Shore Immortal | 3.5 |
| Lorna Shore Pain Remains | 3.5 |
| Lorna Shore ...And I Return to Nothingness | 4.0 |
| Loss Despond | 3.5 |
| Loss of Self Demo | 3.5 |
| Lost in the Riots Move On, Make Trails | 4.0 |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu | 1.0 |
| Love American Disquiet | 3.0 |
| Love American Love American | 3.5 |
| Low Roar Low Roar | 3.5 |
| Low Roar Once in a Long, Long While... | 4.0 |
| Low Roar 0 | 4.5 |
| Low Threat Profile Product #2 | 4.0 |
| Lowercase Noises Carry Us All Away | 3.5 |
| Ludicra The Tenant | 3.5 |
| Ludwig Goransson Black Panther (Original Score) | 4.5 |
| The KDot OST is getting a lot of attention (rightfully so, it's a great album) but man, people are sleeping on the movie score. One of the most surprisingly great scores I've heard in a pretty long time. Easily the best MCU score front-to-back (although that's not a really high bar to clear), it's exciting, diverse, and unique. Killonger's theme (especially the one from 'Burn It All') is a serious highlight - I can't remember ever hearing trap incorporated so seamlessly into a film score. Other standouts include 'Wakanda,' 'Ancestral Plane,' 'Waterfall Fight,' 'The Great Mound Battle,' and 'A King's Sunset.' |
| Lumbar The First And Last Days Of Unwelcome | 4.5 |
| Lunaire With the Same Smile as Those Days | 3.5 |
| Lunar Aurora Hoagascht | 3.5 |
| Lunar Aurora Andacht | 4.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo and Youth | 3.5 |
| Lupe Fiasco DROGAS Wave | 4.0 |
| Lurker Of Chalice Lurker Of Chalice | 3.5 |
| Lustmord The Word As Power | 4.0 |
| Lustre (SWE) Of Strength and Solace | 3.0 |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist | 3.0 |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis VS. | 3.5 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 4.0 |
| Mahumodo Waves | 4.0 |
| Make The Golden Veil | 3.5 |
| Make a Change...Kill Yourself Fri | 3.5 |
| Make Them Suffer Worlds Apart | 3.0 |
| Mammon Demiurge | 3.5 |
| ManBearPig Ruined Emo | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Cope | 3.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God | 3.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Nobody Sings Anymore | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Hope | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 5.0 |
| Manetheren The End | 3.0 |
| Manetheren Time | 3.5 |
| Manii Kollaps | 2.5 |
| Manners Apparitions | 3.5 |
| Mar De Grises Streams Inwards | 3.0 |
| Mare Mare | 4.5 |
| Mare Cognitum The Sea Which Has Become Known | 4.0 |
| Mare Cognitum An Extraconscious Lucidity | 4.0 |
| Mare Cognitum Phobos Monolith | 4.0 |
| Marissa Nadler July | 4.0 |
| Masakari The Prophet Feeds | 4.0 |
| Mastersystem Dance Music | 4.0 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Cold Dark Place | 3.5 |
| Matt Elliott The Broken Man | 3.0 |
| Matt Evans Senseless | 3.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 4.0 |
| Max Richter The Blue Notebooks | 4.0 |
| Maybeshewill Not For Want Of Trying | 3.0 |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony | 3.5 |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone | 4.0 |
| Maybeshewill Fair Youth | 4.0 |
| Maybeshewill To The Skies From A Hillside | 4.5 |
| This rating is more to recognize how beautiful a track the title track is more than it is for anything else. |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | 4.0 |
| Mean Knowing | 3.5 |
| Meanders Promo 2012 | 3.0 |
| An above-passable post-metal quickie. It's not really anything new but for a few intriguing jazz-y solos and quiet sections, but judging by the fact that this is merely a 3-track promo these guys could easily make something awesome in the near future. |
| Mechina Acheron | 4.0 |
| Meg Mac Low Blows | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 4.0 |
| Melankoli Wind | 3.0 |
| Memoria Death Calls the Islands | 4.0 |
| Mental Architects Celebrations | 3.5 |
| Merkaba Bones of the Sacred Forest | 3.0 |
| Mesa Verde The Old Road | 4.5 |
| I don't know exactly where green tables play into this but I can say that this album is really, really good. |
| Meshuggah Nothing | 2.5 |
| Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah Nothing (Re-Release) | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah Psykisk Testbild | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah The True Human Design | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Selfcaged | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Rare Trax | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah None | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 4.0 |
| To quote some guy on last.fm... "This album sounds like Godzilla taking an explosive shit all over Periphery." |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah Alive | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah I | 5.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 1.5 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.0 |
| Metallica Load | 2.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.0 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 3.5 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 3.5 |
| Metallica Beyond Magnetic | 3.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.5 |
| Metro Boomin Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (soundtrack) | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 5.0 |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food | 3.5 |
| Mgla With Hearts Toward None | 3.5 |
| Mgla Exercises in Futility | 4.0 |
| Microwave Death is a Warm Blanket | 4.0 |
| Midas Fall Cold Waves Divide Us | 4.0 |
| Midnight Odyssey Funerals from the Astral Sphere | 3.5 |
| Mike Shinoda Post Traumatic | 3.5 |
| Mike Shinoda Post Traumatic EP | 4.0 |
| Mingle Harde Mongol Horde | 4.0 |
| Minor Empires Minor Empires | 3.0 |
| Minsk The Crash and the Draw | 4.0 |
| Miroist The Pledge | 3.5 |
| Mirror of Dead Faces Lamentation | 3.0 |
| Misery Chastain Awaiting the End | 3.0 |
| Misery Signals Mirrors | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart | 4.0 |
| Misery Signals Absent Light | 4.0 |
| A Glimmer of Hope would have been their best song if they'd extended it. |
| Misery Signals Controller | 5.0 |
| Misthyrming Söngvar elds og óreiðu | 4.5 |
| Mitochondrion Antinumerology | 4.0 |
| Mitochondrion Archaeaeon | 4.5 |
| Mitochondrion Parasignosis | 4.5 |
| Mizmor and Thou Myopia | 4.0 |
| MNMNTS The Good Life | 4.0 |
| Moanaa Moanaa | 3.0 |
| Moanaa Descent | 3.5 |
| Modern Life Is War Tribulation Worksongs Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Tribulation Worksongs Vol. 2 | 3.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Fever Hunting | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Witness | 5.0 |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People | 3.0 |
| Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling | 3.0 |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Earth Division | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Atomic | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Young Team | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Every Country's Sun | 4.0 |
| Mol JORD | 4.0 |
| Mondrian Oak Aeon | 3.0 |
| This is better than most of the other instrumental post-metal startups you're gonna find out there, but it does suffer from a serious case of only-one-goddamn-tempo-itis. Weak 3.5/strong 3. |
| Mono For My Parents | 2.5 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 3.5 |
| Mono Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined | 4.0 |
| Mono You Are There | 4.0 |
| Mono / World's End Girlfriend Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain | 3.5 |
| Monogrim Realm | 3.5 |
| Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis | 4.0 |
| Monvment I | 3.5 |
| Moonsorrow Jumalten aika | 4.5 |
| Moradin Ancient Stone and Mystic Woods | 3.0 |
| Morbid December Moon | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus | 1.0 |
| Morbus Chron Sweven | 4.0 |
| Morning Teleportation Expanding Anyway | 4.0 |
| this rules hard, you should get it |
| Mors Principium Est ...And Death Said Live | 4.0 |
| Mors Principium Est Dawn of the 5th Era | 4.0 |
| Mortal Treason A Call To The Martyrs | 3.5 |
| Mortal Treason Sunrise Over A Sea Of Blood | 4.0 |
| Mortichnia Heir to Scoria and Ash | 4.0 |
| Mortification Scrolls of the Megilloth | 4.5 |
| Mount Eerie Now Only | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Wind's Poem | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me | 4.0 |
| Mournful Congregation The Monad of Creation | 3.5 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Dawning | 3.5 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Path of Eight | 3.5 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Quietly | 4.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect The Violence Beneath | 4.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect The Ties That Blind | 4.5 |
| Movements No Good Left to Give | 3.0 |
| Moving Mountains Waves | 3.5 |
| Moving Mountains Foreword | 4.0 |
| Moving Mountains Moving Mountains | 4.0 |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma | 4.5 |
| Moving Mountains/Prawn Split | 4.0 |
| Mumford and Sons Babel | 3.5 |
| Musk Ox Woodfall | 4.5 |
| Musk Ox Inheritance | 4.5 |
| Mustard Gas and Roses Becoming | 4.0 |
| Musth Padjelanta | 3.5 |
| The album art may blow chunks, but rest assured that the music does not. |
| Mutiara Damansara Pearls | 2.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 4.0 |
| My Epic Ultraviolet | 3.0 |
| My Epic Broken Voice | 4.0 |
| My Epic Behold | 4.0 |
| My Epic Viscera | 4.0 |
| My Epic Yet | 4.5 |
| My Latest Novel Deaths And Entrances | 4.0 |
| MyChildren MyBride Lost Boy | 1.0 |
| MyChildren MyBride Unbreakable | 1.5 |
| a half point for the Halo song |
| Nachtvorst Silence | 2.5 |
| Nader Sadek In the Flesh | 3.5 |
| Nadra Allir vegir til glötunar | 4.0 |
| Nahrayan The Beginning of the End/The End of the Beginning | 3.5 |
| 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 | 4.0 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.0 |
| holy god in heaven, this rips |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us | 4.0 |
| Nameless Coyote Devoured by the Swirling Night | 4.0 |
| Napalm Death Utilitarian | 3.5 |
| Nas NASIR | 2.5 |
| Nate Hall A Great River | 3.0 |
| Natural Snow Buildings The Dance of the Moon and the Sun | 4.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Sarabande to Nihil | 3.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn | 3.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 4.0 |
| 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. |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel | 4.0 |
| Nechochwen Heart of Akamon | 3.5 |
| Negura Bunget 'N Crugu Bradului | 3.5 |
| Negura Bunget OM | 4.5 |
| Neil Halstead Palindrome Hunches | 3.5 |
| Nembrionic Psycho One Hundred | 3.0 |
| Nero di Marte Derivae | 4.0 |
| Nero di Marte Immoto | 4.0 |
| Nesseria Nesseria | 4.0 |
| Nest (FIN) Trail of the Unwary | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Pain of Mind | 3.0 |
| Neurosis The Word as Law | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires | 3.5 |
| Neurosis The Word As Law (Remastered) | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Locust Star | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Sovereign | 4.0 |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm | 4.5 |
| Neurosis Souls at Zero | 4.5 |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets | 4.5 |
| Neurosis Times of Grace | 4.5 |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun | 4.5 |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood | 5.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.0 |
| NewVillager NewVillager | 3.5 |
| nic Demo | 3.5 |
| The worst name for a post black/blackgaze band since "..." |
| nic and Old Soul Split | 4.0 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 5.0 |
| Night Hag (AUS) Confidence Man | 3.0 |
| Night Verses Into the Vanishing Light | 4.0 |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I | 4.0 |
| Night Verses Lift Your Existence | 4.5 |
| Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep | 4.5 |
| Nihill Verdonkermaan | 2.5 |
| Nile Annihilation of the Wicked | 3.5 |
| Nile Those Whom the Gods Detest | 3.5 |
| Nina Simone Nina Simone Sings the Blues | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.5 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.0 |
| Noisear Subvert the Dominant Paradigm | 4.0 |
| Noname Room 25 | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean Meridional | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar | 4.5 |
| Norma Jean All Hail | 4.5 |
| Nosound Afterthoughts | 4.0 |
| Not to Reason Why The Book of Hours | 4.5 |
| this is absolutely beautiful. |
| nothing,nowhere. Who Are You? | 3.0 |
so this is like a really weird mix of emo and R&B and I'm like 70% sure that I like it... like,
American Football with trap beats and then there's this white dude who's rapping sometimes. yeah
it's kinda weird |
| nothing,nowhere. Bummer | 3.0 |
| Nous Etions Limbes | 3.5 |
| Nuclear Summer Nuclear Summer | 4.0 |
| 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/ |
| Nux Vomica Nux Vomica | 4.0 |
| A must-listen for anyone who's a fan of the Buried Inside/Downfall of Gaia/Children of God school of crusty, blackened, atmospheric sludge stuff. |
| O'Brother Basement Window | 3.0 |
| O'Brother The Death of Day | 3.5 |
| O'Brother Disillusion | 4.0 |
| O'Brother Endless Light | 4.0 |
| O'Brother Garden Window | 5.0 |
| Oak Pantheon From a Whisper | 3.5 |
| Yet another case of shitty cover art on a great atmospheric black metal album. Go figure. |
| Oak Pantheon In Pieces | 4.0 |
| Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros | 4.0 |
| This behemoth is, without a doubt, *the* hardcore album of 2013. |
| Oathbreaker Rheia | 4.5 |
| Obscure Sphinx Anaesthetic Inhalation Ritual | 3.5 |
| Obscure Sphinx Void Mother | 4.0 |
| Obsidian Kingdom Mantiis | 4.0 |
| Obsidian Kingdom A Year With No Summer | 4.0 |
| Ocoai The Electric Hand | 3.5 |
| October Falls A Collapse of Faith | 3.5 |
| Ode and Elegy Ode and Elegy | 4.5 |
| Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal | 4.0 |
| Of Monsters and Men Beneath the Skin | 4.5 |
| Of Solitude and Solemn Of Solitude and Solemn | 4.0 |
| Oh Hiroshima Myriad | 3.0 |
| Oh Hiroshima In Silence We Yearn | 3.5 |
| Oh, Sleeper Bloodied/Unbowed | 3.0 |
| It?s fun I guess. I like the production, especially on the guitars. Very punchy. Also, bands like these guys and Slant Plant would be so so so so much fucking better if they laid off, if not ditched entirely, the poppy clean choruses. |
| Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning | 3.5 |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire | 3.5 |
| Oh, Sleeper When I Am God | 4.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper The Titan | 4.0 |
| the last two tracks are really fucking awesome |
| Olafur Arnalds ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness | 3.5 |
| Olafur Arnalds Eulogy for Evolution | 4.0 |
| Old Gray An Autobiography | 4.0 |
| holy fucking shit this is like the best thing ever |
| Old Man Gloom NO | 3.5 |
| solid as hell. too many ambient bits though |
| Old Man Gloom Christmas | 4.0 |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God I | 4.0 |
| Old Man Gloom Seminar III: Zozobra | 4.5 |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God II | 4.5 |
| "The hijinks and shenanigans that took place during the release of this record hopefully provided their audience with a tiny glimpse into the misery I experience when working with these idiots." - Kurt Ballou on producing The Ape of God |
| Old Man Gloom Seminar IX: Darkness of Being | 4.5 |
| Old Man Markley Guts N' Teeth | 3.5 |
| Old Silver Key Tales of Wanderings | 2.0 |
| Olivia Rodrigo Sour | 4.0 |
| Olivia Rodrigo Guts | 4.0 |
| Om Advaitic Songs | 4.0 |
| Omega Massif Geisterstadt | 4.0 |
| Omega Massif Karpatia | 4.5 |
Look at your Pelican album. Now look at Omega Massif's Karpatia. Now back to your Pelican album... 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 crushing 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 lazy and sterile like recent Pelican. I'm in a MOSH. |
| Omnium Gatherum Beyond | 3.5 |
| One Direction Up All Night | 1.0 |
| One Direction Take Me Home | 1.0 |
| Opeth Heritage | 3.0 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 3.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.5 |
| Ophis Withered Shades | 4.0 |
| Orrery Nine Odes to Oblivion | 3.5 |
| Oskoreien Oskoreien | 3.5 |
| Ostrov Noumenal | 3.5 |
| Our Ceasing Voice That Day Last November | 2.5 |
| Our Ceasing Voice When the Headline Hit Home | 3.5 |
| Our Oceans Our Oceans | 4.0 |
| ourfathers. Movements | 4.0 |
| Outre Ghost Chants | 4.0 |
| Outre Hollow Earth | 4.0 |
| Over The Ocean Paper House | 4.0 |
| Over The Ocean Be Given to the Soil | 4.0 |
| Overhead the Albatross Learning To Growl | 4.0 |
| Overmars Born Again | 4.0 |
| Overmars Affliction, Endocrine...Vertigo | 4.5 |
| Overmars/Icos Split | 3.5 |
| Owen The King of Whys | 3.0 |
| Owen At Home With Owen | 4.5 |
| so much melancholy |
| Owl Cries Eyes of Paraffin Wax | 3.5 |
| Owl John Owl John | 3.5 |
| P.O.D. The Warriors EP | 2.5 |
| P.O.D. When Angels and Serpents Dance | 2.5 |
| P.O.D. Payable on Death | 3.0 |
| P.O.D. The Warriors EP Vol. 2 | 3.0 |
| P.O.D. Murdered Love | 3.0 |
| P.O.D. Fundamental Elements of Southtown | 3.5 |
| P.O.D. Testify | 3.5 |
| P.O.D. Greatest Hits: The Atlantic Years | 3.5 |
| P.O.D. Satellite | 4.0 |
| Pallbearer Foundations of Burden | 4.0 |
| Pallbearer Heartless | 4.5 |
| Palms Palms | 2.5 |
| this is straight up sexy rEDIT: and really disappointing |
| Panopticon Kentucky | 3.0 |
| Panopticon The Crescendo of Dusk | 3.0 |
| Panopticon Panopticon | 3.5 |
| Panopticon On the Subject of Mortality | 3.5 |
| Panopticon Social Disservices | 3.5 |
| Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness | 3.5 |
| Panopticon Collapse | 4.0 |
| Panopticon Roads to the North | 4.0 |
| so can this guy fucking drum or what |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal | 4.5 |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light | 4.5 |
| Panopticon / Waldgefluster Panopticon / Waldgeflüster | 4.0 |
| Panopticon/Lake of Blood Split | 3.5 |
| Panopticon/Vestiges Split | 3.5 |
| Panopticon/Wheels Within Wheels Panopticon/Wheels Within Wheels | 3.5 |
| Panopticon/Wheels Within Wheels II | 3.5 |
| Papa Roach Metamorphosis | 1.5 |
| Papa Roach Infest | 2.5 |
| Paper Route Are We All Forgotten | 4.0 |
| Paramaecium Within the Ancient Forest | 3.5 |
| Paramore This Is Why | 3.5 |
| Pariso/Kerouac Split | 4.0 |
| Passenger (SWE) Passenger | 3.0 |
| Passenger (UK) Young as the Morning Old As The Sea | 4.0 |
| Patrick Watson Adventures in Your Own Backyard | 3.5 |
| Patrons Of The Rotting Gate The Rose Coil | 4.0 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Nacht | 4.0 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor | 4.0 |
| 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 Paysage d'Hiver | 4.5 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Winterkälte | 5.0 |
| Paysage d'Hiver/Lunar Aurora Split | 4.0 |
| 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. |
| Paysage d'Hiver/Vinterriket Split | 3.5 |
| Peach Pit Being So Normal | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 4.5 |
| Pelican City of Echoes | 2.5 |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need | 3.0 |
| Pelican Pink Mammoth | 3.0 |
| Pelican The Cliff | 3.0 |
| Pelican Ephemeral | 3.5 |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis | 3.5 |
| Pelican Forever Becoming | 3.5 |
| well ain't this a pleasant god damned surprise |
| Pelican Australasia | 4.0 |
| Pelican March Into the Sea | 4.0 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 4.0 |
| Pelican Pelican | 4.0 |
| Pensees Nocturnes Ceci est de la musique | 4.0 |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty | 2.5 |
| Periphery Periphery | 3.0 |
| Periphery Icarus | 3.0 |
| Periphery Periphery (Instrumental) | 3.5 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 3.5 |
| 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. |
| Peste Noire L'Ordure a l'etat Pur | 3.0 |
| Peter Gabriel Scratch My Back | 3.0 |
| Petrychor Dryad | 4.0 |
| Petrychor Effigies and Epitaphs | 4.0 |
| pg.lost Key | 3.0 |
| pg.lost In Never Out | 3.5 |
| pg.lost Versus | 3.5 |
| definitely better than Key but I think I just need to accept that these guys are never gonna make anything as good as their debut again |
| pg.lost Yes I Am EP | 4.0 |
| pg.lost Oscillate | 4.0 |
| pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You! | 4.5 |
| Phantom Winter CVLT | 4.0 |
| Think Omega Massif with vocals. I mean, that's almost literally what this band is, both with regards to their membership and their sound. Given that I love Omega Massif, then, this is a pretty easy thing for me to get pretty enthusiastic about. |
| Phobocosm Bringer Of Drought | 3.0 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps | 4.0 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher | 4.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You | 3.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Old Pride | 3.5 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Wait For Love | 3.5 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 4.5 |
| Pijn Loss | 4.0 |
| Pijn and Conjurer Curse These Metal Hands | 4.0 |
| Pile A Hairshirt of Purpose | 3.5 |
| Pillar For the Love of the Game | 2.5 |
| Pillar Fireproof | 3.0 |
| Pillar Where Do We Go from Here | 3.0 |
| Pillar The Reckoning | 3.5 |
| Pillar Confessions | 3.5 |
| Pillorian Obsidian Arc | 3.5 |
| Pitbull Rebelution | 1.0 |
| Planks Funeral Mouth | 4.0 |
| 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. |
| Planning for Burial Leaving | 3.5 |
| Planning for Burial Below the House | 3.5 |
| this is just ok overall for me except Dull Knife, Pt. II is one of the best songs I've heard this year |
| Playboi Carti Die Lit | 4.0 |
| Plebeian Grandstand Lowgazers | 3.0 |
| Plebeian Grandstand How Hate is Hard to Define | 3.5 |
| Plebeian Grandstand Rien ne suffit | 3.5 |
| Plebeian Grandstand False Highs, True Lows | 4.0 |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 3.5 |
| Polaris The Mortal Coil | 3.5 |
| Pomegranate Tiger Entities | 3.0 |
| There are some great ideas at work here, but this album is both far too long and far too samey - always a bad combination - to warrant anything above a 3 in my book. |
| Portal ION | 3.0 |
| Portal Swarth | 3.5 |
| Portal Vexovoid | 3.5 |
| Portrayal of Guilt Let Pain Be Your Guide | 3.5 |
| Portrayal of Guilt We Are Always Alone | 4.0 |
| Power Trip Nightmare Logic | 4.5 |
| Pray For Teeth From The Dry Edge Of The Shore | 3.5 |
| Primordial Where Greater Men Have Fallen | 3.5 |
| Primordial To the Nameless Dead | 4.0 |
| Primordial Redemption at the Puritan's Hand | 4.0 |
| Process of Guilt Black Earth | 2.5 |
| one of the more thoroughly average sludge albums I've heard in a while. Faemin is still GoAT |
| Process of Guilt Faemin | 3.5 |
| 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 Rival Factions | 3.0 |
| Project 86 The Kane Mutiny | 3.0 |
| Project 86 Picket Fence Cartel | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Volition | 4.0 |
| Protolith Light | 2.0 |
| PSOTY Fragments Of Uniforms | 4.5 |
| Puig Destroyer Puig Destroyer EP | 4.0 |
| Puig Destroyer Puig Destroyer | 4.0 |
| Mike Trout |
| Pulling Teeth Funerary | 3.5 |
| PUP This Place Sucks Ass | 3.5 |
| PUP Waiting/Kill Something | 3.5 |
| PUP The Unraveling of PUPTheBand | 3.5 |
| PUP PUP | 4.0 |
| PUP Morbid Stuff | 4.0 |
| PUP The Dream Is Over | 4.5 |
| Pupil Slicer Mirrors | 3.0 |
| Purity Ring Shrines | 4.0 |
| Pusha T DAYTONA | 4.0 |
| Pusha T It's Almost Dry | 4.0 |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People | 3.5 |
| Racing Glaciers Ahead Of You Forever | 4.0 |
| Racing Glaciers Don't Wait For Me | 4.0 |
| Racing Glaciers Caught in the Strange | 4.0 |
| Radical Face The Bastards: Volume One | 3.5 |
| Radical Face The Family Tree: The Branches | 3.5 |
| Radical Face Ghost | 4.0 |
| Radical Face The Bastards: Volume Two | 4.0 |
| Radical Face The Bastards: Volume Four | 4.0 |
| Radical Face The Family Tree: The Roots | 4.5 |
| Radical Face Always Gold | 4.5 |
| Radical Face The Bastards: Volume Three | 4.5 |
| Radical Face The Family Tree: The Bastards | 4.5 |
| A lot of these songs are better than the songs that made the Family Tree LPs. Take that as you will. 'Nightclothes' is the best thing the man has ever written. |
| Radiohead The Bends | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.0 |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 4.5 |
| Raein Nati da Altri Padri | 4.0 |
| Ragana Unbecoming | 3.0 |
| Ragana Wash Away | 3.5 |
| Rahu The Quest for the Vajra of Shadows | 3.5 |
| Ramin Djawadi Game of Thrones: Season 6 | 4.5 |
| Rational Animals Bock Rock Parade | 3.0 |
| Re1ikt Rivers Broke Through the Ice | 3.5 |
| 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. |
| Recreant Recreant | 3.5 |
| Red (USA) Release the Panic | 2.5 |
| I've heard worse things in my days, but considering that Innocence & Instinct is one of my favorite alt rock albums of all time this is kind of depressing. That's not to say it's all bad: Red are still some of the best in the business at mid-tempo rockers with super catchy choruses (see "Glass House"), but the difference here is that the heavy tracks are utter shit. We know that Red can make awesome heavy songs (Feed the Machine, Out from Under, etc), but this is just sad. Also, there are not enough strings here. Howard Benson is a fucking bastard. |
| Red (USA) Until We Have Faces | 3.0 |
| Red (USA) End of Silence | 3.5 |
| Red (USA) Of Beauty and Rage | 4.0 |
| Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct | 4.5 |
| Red Apollo Altruist | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 2.5 |
| Red Sparowes Aphorism | 3.0 |
| Red Sparowes The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein... | 3.0 |
| Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... | 3.5 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.5 |
| Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Regarde les Hommes Tomber | 3.5 |
| Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Ascension | 3.5 |
| Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Exile | 4.5 |
| so dope ugh, like a less monotonous Hexis (not that Hexis aren't awesome) |
| Reigning Lions Very Few and Far Between | 3.5 |
| Reka Renaissance | 3.0 |
| Reka II | 3.5 |
| Reka III | 3.5 |
| Reka I | 4.0 |
| Relient K Five Score and Seven Years Ago | 3.0 |
| Relient K Let It Snow, Baby... Let It Reindeer | 3.0 |
| Relient K Forget and Not Slow Down | 3.5 |
| Respire Black Line | 4.0 |
| Rhone Inter Sidera | 3.5 |
| Rich Brian Amen | 3.5 |
| Pretty great stuff, especially for the debut album of an 18 year old who speaks English as a second language |
| Richard and Linda Thompson Shoot Out The Lights | 3.5 |
| Right Away, Great Captain! The Eventually Home | 3.5 |
| Right Away, Great Captain! The Church of the Good Thief | 4.5 |
| Riley Armstrong Alive and Acoustic | 3.0 |
| Rings of Rhea 2011 | 3.5 |
| Rinoa An Age Among Them | 4.0 |
| Rise and Fall Our Circle Is Vicious | 3.5 |
| Rise and Fall Faith | 4.0 |
| Rishloo Feathergun | 3.5 |
| Rishloo Eidolon | 4.0 |
| Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth | 4.0 |
| Rituals Rituals | 4.0 |
| 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. |
| Rivers of Nihil Monarchy | 4.0 |
| pretty much Fallujah without the super obnoxious production |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name | 4.0 |
| Rodha Raw | 3.0 |
| Rogue Wave Nightingale Floors | 3.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Grievances | 4.0 |
| There aren't many bands that can switch between Dillinger-esque mathcore, strings-heavy post-rock, post-hardcore, electronic, and Altar of Plagues-ish post-black without sounding awkward and unfocused as all shit. In fact, Rolo Tomassi are the *only* band I've ever heard who can pull this off. |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 4.0 |
| Rorcal Monochrome | 3.0 |
| Rorcal The Way We Are, The Way We Were, The Way... | 3.5 |
| Rorcal Muladona | 3.5 |
| Rorcal Myrra, Mordvynn, Marayaa | 4.0 |
| Rorcal Heliogabalus | 4.0 |
| Rorcal La Femme sans Tete | 4.0 |
| surprise Rorcal song/album: can I get a hell yeah |
| Rorcal Creon | 4.0 |
| Rorcal Silence | 4.0 |
| Rorcal Vilagvege | 4.5 |
| 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. |
| Rorcal and Kehlvin Ascension | 4.0 |
| Rosalia El Mal Querer | 3.5 |
| Rosetta The Anaesthete | 2.5 |
| god damn it I am not cool with this. |
| Rosetta Quintessential Ephemera | 3.5 |
| takes a big steaming dump on the last one |
| Rosetta Utopioid | 3.5 |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites | 4.0 |
| Rosetta Flies to Flame | 4.0 |
| Way better than their last one. Pegasus is an incredible track. |
| Rosetta Wake/Lift | 4.5 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 4.5 |
| Rosetta/Balboa Project Mercury | 4.0 |
| Rosetta/Junius Split | 4.0 |
| Rosetta/Restorations Rosetta/Restorations Split | 3.0 |
| ROSK Miasma | 3.5 |
| Ruined Families Four Wall Freedom | 3.0 |
| Run the Jewels Meow the Jewels | 2.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 | 4.5 |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 | 4.5 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 2.5 |
| Russian Circles Blood Year | 3.0 |
| Russian Circles Station | 3.5 |
| Russian Circles Gnosis | 3.5 |
| if you like Russian Circles you'll probably like this. fortunately for me, I like Russian Circles |
| Russian Circles Enter | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Geneva | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Empros | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Guidance | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Memorial | 4.5 |
| Rwake Rest | 4.0 |
| Rwake Voices of Omens | 5.0 |
| S. Carey All We Grow | 3.5 |
| S. Carey Hundred Acres | 3.5 |
| Sacred Son Sacred Son | 3.5 |
I know that this is only really getting attention because the album art is basically a meme, but
there's actually a half hour of surprisingly solid atmospheric black metal buried beneath the
meme. |
| Sacrificium Escaping the Stupor | 2.5 |
| Sam Roberts Band We Were Born In A Flame | 3.0 |
| Sampha Process | 4.5 |
| Sanctus Real Say it Loud | 2.5 |
| Sanctus Real The Face of Love | 3.0 |
| Sannhet Known Flood | 3.5 |
| Sannhet Revisionist | 3.5 |
| Saor Forgotten Paths | 4.0 |
| Saor Roots | 4.5 |
| Saor Guardians | 4.5 |
| Saor Aura | 5.0 |
| Sarah Jarosz Undercurrent | 4.0 |
| Sarin (CAN) Burial Dream | 3.5 |
| This is literally Isis. The opening track is literally So Did We. The harsh vocals are literally Aaron Turner. rNot to say it isn't a good album, though. |
| SÂVER They Came with Sunlight | 4.0 |
| Scale the Summit In a World of Fear | 2.5 |
| Scale the Summit The Migration | 4.0 |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 4.5 |
| Schematics For Gravity Schematics For Gravity | 3.5 |
| ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron | 3.0 |
| ScHoolboy Q Blank Face LP | 3.5 |
| Scott Kelly The Wake | 3.5 |
| Scott Kelly and the Road Home The Forgiven Ghost In Me | 3.5 |
| Scott Stapp The Great Divide | 1.5 |
| Sed Non Satiata Le Ciel De Notre Enfance | 4.0 |
| Sed Non Satiata Mappo | 4.0 |
| Sed Non Satiata Sed Non Satiata | 4.5 |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy The Correlation Between Entrance And Exit Wounds | 4.0 |
| Selenites Animaltar | 4.0 |
| Selvans / Downfall Of Nur Selvans / Downfall of Nur | 4.0 |
| Septicflesh The Great Mass | 3.5 |
| Septicflesh Titan | 3.5 |
| Septicflesh Communion | 4.0 |
| Septicflesh Codex Omega | 4.0 |
| Serious Beak Huxwhukw | 3.5 |
| Serj Tankian Elect the Dead | 3.0 |
| Setentia Darkness Transcend | 4.5 |
| Settle The Sky Now That We're Waiting | 3.0 |
| Seven Sisters Of Sleep Seven Sisters of Sleep | 4.0 |
| Sevendust Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow | 3.5 |
| Shadow Of Intent Elegy | 3.5 |
| Shadows of Paragon Shadows of Paragon | 1.5 |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 4.0 |
| Shakey Graves Nobody's Fool | 3.0 |
| Shakey Graves And The War Came | 3.5 |
| Shakey Graves Can't Wake Up | 4.0 |
| Shapeshifter (JPN) Dark Ritual | 3.0 |
| Sheck Wes Mudboy | 3.5 |
| Mo Bamba confirmed hardest song of the decade |
| Shining (NOR) Blackjazz | 3.5 |
| Show Me A Dinosaur Dust | 3.5 |
| Show Me A Dinosaur Show Me A Dinosaur | 4.0 |
| holy fuck |
| Shroud of Distress Be Happy | 3.5 |
| Shroud of the Heretic Unorthodox Equilibrium | 4.0 |
| Shy, low Snake Behind The Sun | 4.0 |
| Shyy/... The Path Toward Forgetfulness | 3.5 |
| 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. |
| Side of Despondency The Main as Well That Is Not Very | 3.0 |
| Signals From the Void Demos | 2.5 |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Brennisteinn | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Route One | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Sæglópur | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 5.0 |
| SikTh Opacities | 3.5 |
| SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes? | 3.5 |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild | 4.0 |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day | 4.0 |
| Silent Planet When the End Began | 3.0 |
| Silent Planet The Night God Slept | 4.0 |
| Silent Planet Iridescent | 4.0 |
| Silent Planet Everything Was Sound | 4.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Better Nature | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 4.5 |
| Sinat Hinam Sinat Hinam | 4.0 |
| Sinatra/I Kill Giants Split | 3.5 |
| Since By Man We Sing The Body Electric | 3.5 |
| Sinistro Sinistro | 3.5 |
| Skagos Ast | 3.0 |
| Skagos/Panopticon Split | 3.0 |
| Skillet Awake | 1.5 |
| Skillet Alien Youth | 2.0 |
| Skillet Comatose | 3.5 |
| Skillet Collide | 4.0 |
| Sky Burial Where Four Rivers Flow | 3.5 |
| Slayer World Painted Blood | 2.5 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 3.5 |
| Sleep The Sciences | 3.5 |
| Sleep Maps Fiction Makes the Future | 2.5 |
| Sleep Maps We Die For Truth | 3.5 |
| Sleep Token One | 3.5 |
| despite the news article shilling that's been going down with this here I've gotta admit that this actually pretty cool |
| Sleep Token Two | 4.0 |
The gimmick is fucking annoying (like, I read an interview with these guys that read like they were trying to
mimick the voice of a Deathspell Omega interview and god damn it was dumb), but the music is great so idk.
Sincerely looking forward to the inevitable full length. |
| Sleep Token Sundowning | 4.0 |
| Sleeping Peonies s l o w l y d i s a p p e a r i n g | 3.0 |
| Sleeping Peonies Ghosts, and Other Things | 4.0 |
| Sleepingdog Polar Life | 3.5 |
| Sleepingdog With Our Heads in the Clouds... | 4.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves sleepmakeswaves (US) | 4.0 |
| there's more bass here, especially on "i will write peace." it makes an already awesome sound even better. |
| sleepmakeswaves Love of Cartography | 4.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves Made Of Breath Only | 4.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything | 4.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Treats | 4.0 |
| Slice the Cake Other Slices | 4.0 |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. | 2.0 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 2.0 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.5 |
| Slowdive Slowdive (LP) | 3.0 |
| So Far As I Know Far From the Earth Beneath Your Feet | 3.5 |
| So Hideous Last Poem/First Light | 3.5 |
| So Hideous To Clasp a Fallen Wish With Broken Fingers | 4.0 |
| So Hideous Laurestine | 4.0 |
| Soilwork Beyond the Infinite | 3.5 |
| Soilwork The Ride Majestic | 4.0 |
| Solace (CAN) Call & Response | 3.5 |
| Solstafir Berdreyminn | 3.5 |
| Solstafir Svartir Sandar | 4.0 |
| Solstafir Otta | 4.0 |
| SOM The Shape of Everything | 4.0 |
| Some Mistakes Glamorous Thoughts | 4.0 |
| Sonseed First Fruit | 1.5 |
| Sore Eyelids Sore Eyelids | 4.0 |
| Sorority Noise Joy, Departed | 4.0 |
| Sorority Noise You're Not As ____ As You Think | 4.0 |
| Sorrow Plagues Sorrow Plagues | 2.5 |
| Sorrow Plagues An Eternity Of Solitude | 4.0 |
| Sorrow Plagues Homecoming | 4.0 |
| wow this is, like, so much better than the self-titled. props. |
| Soundtrack (Film) Baby Driver | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Black Panther The Album | 3.5 |
| SPERO City of Tears | 3.5 |
| Split Cranium Split Cranium | 3.5 |
| 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. |
| Split Cranium I'm The Devil and I'm OK | 3.5 |
| Spokes Everyone I Ever Met | 3.5 |
| Spook the Horses Rainmaker | 4.0 |
| Spook the Horses Brighter | 4.5 |
| Stan Rogers From Fresh Water | 3.5 |
| Starfield The Saving One | 2.5 |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline | 4.5 |
| State Faults Head in the Clouds | 3.5 |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks | 4.0 |
| State Faults Resonate/Desperate | 4.5 |
| State Faults Clairvoyant | 4.5 |
| State Radio Let It Go | 3.0 |
| Statuette Losing Roots | 4.0 |
| Steady Hands The Earth Will Eat Today | 3.5 |
| Stereomud Perfect Self | 3.5 |
| Steve Von Till A Grave Is a Grim Horse | 4.0 |
| Steve Von Till A Life Unto Itself | 4.0 |
| Steve Von Till If I Should Fall to the Field | 4.5 |
| Steve Von Till/Scott Kelly/Wino Songs of Townes Van Zandt | 4.0 |
| rules |
| Stick to Your Guns True View | 3.0 |
| Storm{O} Sospesi Nel Vuoto Bruceremo In Un Attimo | 4.0 |
| Storm{O} Finis Terrae | 4.0 |
| Strategic Silence Contemplations | 2.5 |
| Strategic Silence And I Can Finally Hear The Voices | 3.5 |
| Strike to Survive Sore Losers | 4.0 |
| Strike to Survive Yesterday's News | 4.0 |
| Stronghold Cult of Remorse | 3.5 |
| Sturgill Simpson High Top Mountain | 4.0 |
| Sturgill Simpson Metamodern Sounds In Country Music | 4.5 |
| Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide To Earth | 4.5 |
| SubRosa (US) For This We Fought the Battle of Ages | 4.0 |
| SubRosa (US) More Constant Than The Gods | 4.5 |
| Sudatsuga Blue Moon Saiyeed | 3.5 |
| Sufferer Sufferer | 3.0 |
| Suffocate For Fuck Sake Suffocate For Fuck Sake | 3.5 |
| Suffocate For Fuck Sake Blazing Fires and Helicopters... | 4.0 |
| Suffocate For Fuck Sake In My Blood | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 3.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Ascension | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Songs For Christmas | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Silver & Gold | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Greatest Gift | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell Live | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Javelin | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 5.0 |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed | 1.5 |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing | 2.0 |
| Suicide Silence The Black Crown | 2.0 |
| Suis La Lune Riala | 4.0 |
| Suis La Lune Heir | 4.5 |
| 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. |
| Sulphur Aeon Gateway to the Antisphere | 4.5 |
| Sum 41 Screaming Bloody Murder | 1.5 |
| SUMA The Order of Things | 3.0 |
| SUMAC The Deal | 4.0 |
| SUMAC Love In Shadow | 4.0 |
| SUMAC What One Becomes | 4.5 |
| Summoning Old Mornings Dawn | 3.0 |
| I don't get it |
| Sun Devoured Earth Sounds of Desolation | 3.0 |
| Really weird, experimental post-rock with sparse depressive black metal influences. It's sometimes really awesome, but there are a few really uneventful tracks that weigh it down. Nevertheless, this is still worth a listen if you're into this kind of thing. |
| Sun Devoured Earth A Static Life | 3.5 |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji | 4.5 |
| Sun of Nothing The Guilt Of Feeling Alive | 4.0 |
| Sun of the Blind Skullreader | 4.0 |
| Sun Worship Elder Giants | 4.5 |
| Sunami Demonstration | 3.5 |
| 1-8-7 ON A P-I-G |
| Sunami Sunami EP | 3.5 |
| Sundowning Seizures of the World | 3.0 |
| Above average post-metal that's not executed well enough to have its uninventiveness (which isn't a major issue in this kind of thing as long as the music is really good) overlooked. |
| Sunless Urraca | 4.0 |
| Sunlight Ascending Leaving My Waiting Room | 3.5 |
| Sunlight Ascending All the Memories, All at Once | 4.0 |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions | 3.5 |
| Sunn O))) Black One | 4.0 |
| Sunpocrisy Samaroid Dioramas | 3.0 |
| Supercontinent Vaalbara | 4.0 |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? | 4.0 |
| Svart Crown Witnessing The Fall | 3.0 |
| Svedhous Despair Poetry | 1.0 |
| Swallow the Ocean Swallow the Ocean | 3.5 |
| Swallow the Sun Emerald Forest and the Blackbird | 3.0 |
| Swallow the Sun New Moon | 3.5 |
| Swallow the Sun Hope | 4.0 |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind | 3.0 |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky | 3.0 |
| Swans The Seer | 4.0 |
| Swans To Be Kind | 4.5 |
| Switchfoot Legend of Chin | 2.5 |
| Switchfoot Learning To Breathe | 3.0 |
| Switchfoot New Way to Be Human | 3.0 |
| Switchfoot Vice Verses | 3.0 |
| Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot Oh! Gravity. | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot Oh! | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot The Best Yet: Deluxe Edition | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot Fading West | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot Nothing is Sound | 4.0 |
| Switchfoot Hello Hurricane | 4.0 |
| Switchfoot Eastern Hymns For Western Shores | 4.0 |
| Sybreed Antares | 2.5 |
| Sylvan Esso What Now | 3.5 |
| Symmetry (UK) This Is Not The End, It Is The Beginning, You... | 3.0 |
| Sympathy Anagogic Tyranny | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.5 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.5 |
| SZA Z | 3.5 |
| SZA Ctrl | 3.5 |
| Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster Exegesis | 4.0 |
| 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. |
| Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster Wires/Dream\Wires | 4.5 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 4.0 |
| Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Deaden The Fields | 4.0 |
| Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Failed by Man and Machine | 4.0 |
| Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Downbeat | 4.0 |
| Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Yield to Despair | 4.5 |
| how the fuck did I not know about this |
| Taproot Our Long Road Home | 3.0 |
| Taproot Blue-Sky Research | 4.0 |
| Taste the Void Sun's Heat | 4.0 |
| 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. |
| Taylor Swift Red | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Folklore | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Evermore | 4.0 |
| Teitanblood Death | 3.5 |
| Tempel (USA-AZ) On the Steps of the Temple | 3.5 |
| this is definitely one of the sexier instruMetal albums I've heard in a while |
| Tempest (Can) Passages | 3.5 |
| Tempest (Can) Solace | 4.0 |
| ok, so this is legit as fuck. best 9.8 minutes I've spent in a very long time. |
| Tempest (Can) Tempest | 4.5 |
| Tenant (CAN) Planeris | 2.5 |
| Tenhi Kauan | 4.0 |
| Tenhi Maaaet | 5.0 |
| Tephra Tempel | 2.5 |
| Tephra A Modicum Of Truth | 3.0 |
| Terra Tenebrosa The Purging | 3.5 |
| Terra Tenebrosa The Reverses | 3.5 |
| Terra Tenebrosa The Tunnels | 4.0 |
| Tesa IV | 3.0 |
| Tesa G H O S T | 4.0 |
| TesseracT One (Instrumental) | 3.5 |
| TesseracT Concealing Fate | 4.0 |
| TesseracT One | 4.0 |
| Textures Silhouettes | 2.0 |
| Textures Dualism | 2.5 |
| Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail | 3.0 |
| The Acacia Strain It Comes in Waves | 3.5 |
| The Acacia Strain Step Into The Light | 4.0 |
| The Acacia Strain Failure Will Follow | 4.0 |
| The Afghan Whigs Black Love | 3.5 |
| The Album Leaf Between Waves | 3.5 |
| The Album Leaf Into The Blue Again | 4.0 |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand | 4.5 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 4.0 |
| The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Volume I | 3.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast Illumination Ritual | 3.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Vol. 2 | 4.0 |
| The Appleseed Cast The Fleeting Light of Impermanence | 4.0 |
| The Armed Only Love | 4.0 |
| The Ascendicate To Die As Kings | 3.5 |
| The Ascent of Everest How Lonely Sits the City | 4.0 |
| The Atlas Moth An Ache for the Distance | 3.5 |
| The Atlas Moth Coma Noir | 4.0 |
| The Avett Brothers Emotionalism | 3.5 |
| The Bear Romantic Firewood | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers | 3.5 |
| The Black Heart Rebellion Har Nevo | 4.5 |
| This fucking rules and everyone should jam this. Now. |
| The Black Keys Attack & Release | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys El Camino | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys Rubber Factory | 4.5 |
| The Black Keys Brothers | 4.5 |
| The Blue Letter Love Is Not Control | 4.0 |
| The Bob Hill Band The Golden Gate | 3.0 |
| The Body Master, We Perish | 3.5 |
| The Body I have fought against it, But I can’t any longer | 3.5 |
| The Body All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To... | 4.0 |
| The Body I Shall Die Here | 4.0 |
| The Body No One Deserves Happiness | 4.0 |
| The Body and Braveyoung Nothing Passes | 5.0 |
| [deleted stupid old soundoff]rThe apocalyptic sludge of ATWOTETTB mixed with the serene ambient/post-rock of Braveyoung's rrecent output. Of all the collaborations The Body has (have?) done over the past few years, this has rgot to be the most horrendously overlooked. |
| The Body and Full Of Hell Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light | 4.0 |
| The Body and Thou Released From Love | 4.0 |
| The Body and Thou You, Whom I Have Always Hated | 4.5 |
| The Carrier Blind To What Is Right | 3.5 |
| The Carrier No Love Can Save Me | 4.0 |
| The Catalyst Voyager | 3.5 |
| The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars | 2.5 |
| The Chariot Music Of A Grateful Heart | 2.5 |
| The Chariot Everything Is Alive, Everything Is... | 3.0 |
| The Chariot The Fiancee | 3.0 |
| The Chariot Long Live | 4.0 |
| The Chariot One Wing | 4.5 |
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 Circle Ends Here Where Time Leaves The Rest | 3.5 |
| The Classic Crime Vagabonds | 3.0 |
| The Classic Crime How to Be Human | 3.0 |
| The Classic Crime Albatross | 3.5 |
| The Classic Crime The Silver Cord | 4.0 |
| The Classic Crime What Was Done, Vol. 1: A Decade Revisited | 4.0 |
| The Classic Crime Phoenix | 4.5 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Language | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 4.5 |
| The Crimson Armada Guardians | 2.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Blue | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Black | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Indigo | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Yellow | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Green | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Red | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Orange | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Violet | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter White | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) | 4.5 |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead | 3.0 |
| The Destro Harmony of Discord | 2.0 |
| The Devil and the Almighty Blues The Devil and the Almighty Blues | 4.0 |
| The Devil and the Almighty Blues II | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below | 2.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues | 3.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada The Act | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Transit Blues | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Color Decay | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.5 |
| The Drowned God The Ebony Void | 4.0 |
| The Effort Iconoclasm | 3.5 |
| The Elijah I Loved I Hated I Destroyed I Created | 3.5 |
| The Empire Shall Fall Awaken | 3.0 |
| The End Of Six Thousand Years Perpetuum | 3.5 |
| 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 | 3.5 |
| The Evpatoria Report Golevka | 4.0 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 2.0 |
| The Fall of Boss Koala Reference Points | 4.0 |
| The Famine The Raven and the Reaping | 2.5 |
| The Fray The Fray | 3.0 |
| The Fray How to Save a Life | 3.5 |
| The Frequency We Are the Same Machine | 3.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten | 4.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Señor and the Queen | 4.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 4.5 |
| The Ghost Inside Dear Youth | 3.5 |
| The Ghost Inside Returners | 4.0 |
| The Glorious Unseen Tonight the Stars Speak | 3.5 |
| 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 Glorious Unseen The Hope That Lies In You | 3.5 |
| The Great Cold The Great Cold | 4.0 |
| The Great Old Ones Al Azif | 3.5 |
| It's a sludge-tinged atmospheric black metal album about the Lovecraftian mythos. How in Cthulhu's name can this be bad? |
| The Great Old Ones EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy | 3.5 |
| The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li | 4.0 |
| The Great Old Ones Cosmicism | 4.0 |
| The Haxan Cloak Excavation | 4.0 |
| The Head And The Heart The Head And The Heart | 4.0 |
| The Hold Steady Separation Sunday | 4.0 |
| The Hope Conspiracy Death Knows Your Name | 4.0 |
| The Horrible Crowes Elsie | 4.5 |
| The House of Usher On The Very Verge | 4.0 |
| The Hunts Those Younger Days | 4.0 |
| Fantastic indie folk jams in the vein of The Oh Hellos, The Head and the Heart, and Radical Face. Highly recommended. |
| The Killer and the Star The Killer and the Star | 1.0 |
| The Last Bison Quill | 2.5 |
| The Levellers Levelling The Land | 4.5 |
| The Little Explorer Siderali | 3.5 |
| The Lumineers The Lumineers | 3.0 |
| The Lumineers Cleopatra | 3.5 |
| The March Crawl Space | 4.0 |
| The Matador (AU) Descent Into the Maelstrom | 3.5 |
| The Middle East The Recordings of the Middle East | 4.0 |
| The Mire Volume: I | 3.5 |
| The Mire Volume: II | 4.0 |
| The Mire/Chronos Split | 4.0 |
| The Modern Post Grace Alone | 4.0 |
| I very much enjoyed this. It's up there with The Glorious Unseen as far as quality worship goes. |
| The Moth Gatherer Esoteric Oppression | 3.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Beat the Champ | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Goths | 4.0 |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 3.5 |
| The National Sleep Well Beast | 3.5 |
| The National High Violet | 4.0 |
| The National Boxer | 4.5 |
| The Nepalese Temple Ball Arbor | 4.0 |
holy fucking shit
EDIT: ok it's growing off me a bit but it's still awesome |
| The Nova Echo Voyager | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Heliocentric | 2.0 |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric | 3.0 |
| The Ocean Precambrian | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Doesn't Want Me As the Dust Settles | 3.5 |
| The Odious That Night a Forest Grew | 4.0 |
| The Oh Hellos Eurus | 4.0 |
| The Oh Hellos The Oh Hellos | 4.5 |
| The Oh Hellos Dear Wormwood | 4.5 |
| oh my god flannel hipster jesus duo thank you for #blessing us with this album i love you |
| The Oh Hellos Notos | 4.5 |
| they're just completely incapable of writing bad music |
| The Oh Hellos Through The Deep, Dark Valley | 5.0 |
| The Oh Hellos The Oh Hellos' Family Christmas Album | 5.0 |
| without a doubt the best piece of Christmas music I've ever heard. good enough to jam out of season. |
| The Other Side of the Sky Rorschach | 3.0 |
| The Otolith Folium Limina | 4.5 |
| The Parlotones Stardust Galaxies | 2.5 |
| The Parlotones Radiocontrolledrobot | 3.5 |
| The Phantom Carriage New Thing | 3.0 |
| The Pirate Ship Quintet Rope for No-Hopers | 4.0 |
| The Pirate Ship Quintet Emitter | 4.5 |
| i know this isn't exactly revolutionary or anything, but i'm in week n of quarantine and it's snowing and this is just scratching an itch i didn't even know i had for beautiful, dark, winter-y post-rock |
| The Power & The Glory Call Me Armageddon | 3.5 |
| The Red Chord Clients | 2.5 |
| The Red Chord Prey for Eyes | 3.5 |
| The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors | 4.0 |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine | 4.5 |
| The Republic of Wolves shrine | 3.5 |
| The Republic of Wolves Varuna | 4.0 |
| The Secret Agnus Dei | 4.0 |
| The Secret Solve Et Coagula | 4.5 |
| The Seven Mile Journey Notes for the Synthesis | 4.5 |
| The Showdown Temptation Come My Way | 2.0 |
| The Showdown Back Breaker | 2.5 |
| The Showdown Blood in the Gears | 3.0 |
| The Showdown A Chorus of Obliteration | 3.5 |
| The Stalactites Dark Matters | 3.0 |
| The Steeldrivers The Steeldrivers | 4.5 |
| The Story So Far Proper Dose | 3.5 |
| The Sun Came Up Upon the Left And the Dreams so Rich in Color | 3.0 |
| The Sword Warp Riders | 3.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 4.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Dark Bird Is Home | 4.5 |
| The Twilight Sad Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave | 3.5 |
| The Twilight Sad Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters | 4.0 |
| The Twilight Sad Forget The Night Ahead | 4.0 |
| The Unwinding Hours Afterlives | 3.5 |
| The Waters Deep Here Sunden | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd Thursday | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd Starboy | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd After Hours | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence | 4.5 |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years Burst & Decay | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years Sister Cities | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation | 4.5 |
| The Word Alive Deceiver | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Always Foreign | 3.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Death To New Years | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Illusory Walls | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever | 4.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness | 4.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward | 4.0 |
| Them Thieves The Cabin | 4.0 |
| There Will Be Fireworks There Will Be Fireworks | 3.5 |
| There Will Be Fireworks Because, Because | 4.0 |
| There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright | 5.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower and Dove | 4.0 |
| Third Day Revelation | 3.5 |
| Third Day Time | 4.0 |
| This Fires Embrace Redemption | 2.0 |
| This Fires Embrace Warrior Poets | 2.5 |
| This Gift Is A Curse I, Gvilt Bearer | 4.0 |
| This Gift Is A Curse All Hail The Swinelord | 4.0 |
| This Is Your Captain Speaking Eternal Return | 3.0 |
| This Patch of Sky Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine | 4.0 |
| This Patch of Sky These Small Spaces | 4.0 |
wavering between a 3.5 and a 4 but it's really pretty so i guess it's a 4. i'm enjoying how
tasteful it is in terms of crescendos: they're there in some songs but they're not overbearing and
annoying |
| This White Mountain A Night Of Terror Overcome | 3.0 |
| This Will Destroy You Tunnel Blanket | 3.0 |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain | 3.5 |
| This Will Destroy You New Others Part One | 3.5 |
| it's really pretty, and there are absolutely some amazing moments on here, but it's missing the something-or-another that made Another Language and the S/T such great albums. |
| This Will Destroy You Another Language | 4.0 |
| This Will Destroy You New Others Part Two | 4.0 |
significantly better than Part One (which wasn't bad, just underwhelming). 'Clubs' and 'Provoke'
are legit some of the best songs they've ever written. |
| This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You | 4.5 |
| Thou Demo | 3.0 |
| Thou Only You Deserve Conceit | 3.0 |
| Thou Baton Rouge, You Have Much to Answer For | 3.5 |
| Thou Malfeasance/Retribution | 3.5 |
| gotta groove hard gotta have sludge riffs |
| Thou To The Chaos Wizard Youth | 3.5 |
| if I smoked I would take fatty bong rips to Witch Cunt every day |
| Thou The Archer and the Owle | 3.5 |
| 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 Big City | 3.5 |
| Thou The Sacrifice | 3.5 |
| Thou Peasant | 4.0 |
| Thou The Retaliation of the Immutable Force of Nature | 4.0 |
| Thou Tyrant | 4.0 |
| Thou Through the Empires of Eternal Void | 4.0 |
| 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 To Carry A Stone | 4.0 |
| 2 songs, 11 minutes, and so much dirty Louisiana sludge riffage. Words cannot express my love for this band. |
| Thou Summit | 4.5 |
| 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 Heathen | 4.5 |
| Thou Algiers | 4.5 |
| Thou Magus | 4.5 |
| Thou Hightower | 4.5 |
| Smoke Pigs was already the greatest song of all time and now it's even more so |
| Thou/Black September Thrive & Decay [Split] | 3.5 |
| 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/Cower War Is the Force That Gives Us Meaning: A Two Part | 4.0 |
| 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 | 4.0 |
| Thou/Hell Resurrection Bay | 4.0 |
| 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 | 4.0 |
| 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 | 4.0 |
| 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 | 4.0 |
| Thou/Mohoram Atta The Degradation of Human Life | 4.0 |
| Thou/Moloch Tears that Soak a Callous Heart | 4.0 |
| Moloch's side is above average, but Thou. fucking Thou, man. |
| Thou/Salome Our Enemy Civilization | 4.5 |
| Thou/The City is the Tower Dwell in the Darkness of Thought... | 3.5 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Set It Off | 2.5 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The Art of Breaking | 3.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The Flame in All of Us | 3.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Phenomenon | 3.5 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Welcome to the Masquerade | 3.5 |
| Three Steps To The Ocean Scents | 4.0 |
| Three Steps To The Ocean Migration Light | 4.0 |
| Threnos By Blood and By Earth | 4.0 |
| Thrice Identity Crisis | 3.0 |
| Thrice Palms | 3.0 |
| tbh I don't think I would have had as much of a problem with 'Hold Up a Light' if it hadn't been haphazardly dropped right between two of the best songs on the album |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.0 |
| Thrice If We Could Only See Us Now | 4.0 |
| Thrice Red Sky | 4.0 |
| Thrice The MySpace Transmissions | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. III: Air | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. IV: Earth | 4.0 |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere | 4.0 |
| Thrice Horizons/East | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.5 |
| Thrice Live At The House Of Blues | 4.5 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.5 |
| Thrice Anthology | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. I: Fire | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. II: Water | 4.5 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 5.0 |
| Thrice Beggars | 5.0 |
| Throats Throats | 4.0 |
| Thurisaz The Pulse of Mourning | 3.5 |
| Thurm Thurm | 4.0 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 3.0 |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 4.0 |
| Tides Resurface | 3.5 |
| Tides Last Rites | 3.5 |
| Tides/Giant Split | 3.5 |
| Tidings Death Leaves a Bright Trail | 3.5 |
| Tigers on Trains Grandfather | 4.0 |
| Time To Burn Is.Land | 4.5 |
| Timer Yet Here We Stand | 3.5 |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man | 3.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 5.0 |
| Toby Driver They Are the Shield | 4.0 |
| Toluca Memoria | 3.5 |
| Toluca Act I | 4.0 |
| 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 |
| Tombs Path of Totality | 3.0 |
| Tombs Savage Gold | 3.0 |
| Tombstones Vargariis | 3.5 |
| this be some dope shit fam |
| Tomydeepestego Nero | 4.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 3.5 |
| Torche Harmonicraft | 3.5 |
| Torsofuck Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy | 1.0 |
| Torsofuck As Semen Blends with Rot | 1.5 |
| Torture Chain Across Great Landscapes to a Legacy of Blood | 4.0 |
| Torture Chain Time is but a Doorway to the Incinerator | 4.0 |
| Tortured Wasteland | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse | 3.0 |
| Touche Amore Touche Amore | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Lament | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Stage Four | 4.5 |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore/Pianos Become the Teeth Split | 4.0 |
| Toundra Hex | 3.0 |
| Toundra III | 4.0 |
| Ok, so this fucking rules. |
| Toundra IV | 4.0 |
| Tourniquet Where Moth and Rust Destroy | 2.5 |
| Tow'rs The Great Minimum | 3.0 |
| Great moments, but there's just something... off about the songwriting. Like, I enjoy it while I'm listening to it, but as soon as the album's done I have a hard time remembering much about it. Not bad, but not nearly as great as the S/T. |
| Tow'rs Grey Fidelity | 3.5 |
| The best thing these guys/gals have done is still the self-titled (specifically, 'Belly of the Deepest Love' is one of my favorite songs of all time), but this is definitely a really solid album. Definitely an improvement over The Great Minimum. |
| Tow'rs Tow'rs | 4.5 |
| Belly of the Deepest Love is breathtaking. The rest is pretty damn good as well. |
| Tragedy Vengeance | 4.5 |
| Train California 37 | 1.0 |
| Trampled By Turtles Palomino | 3.5 |
| Transmission0 Memory of a Dream | 4.0 |
| Trap Them Blissfucker | 3.0 |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft | 3.5 |
| Trap Them Seizures In Barren Praise | 4.0 |
| Trash Talk Plagues | 3.5 |
| Travis Scott Astroworld | 4.0 |
| Travis Scott Utopia | 4.0 |
| Travis Scott Rodeo | 4.5 |
| Tremonti All I Was | 4.0 |
| Trenches Reckoner | 3.5 |
| it's good but i'm not sure it's 11-years-in-the-making good. it's also a lot shorter than i would've liked. |
| Trenches The Tide Will Swallow Us Whole | 4.5 |
| Triptykon Melana Chasmata | 4.0 |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say | 3.5 |
| Trna Pattern Of Infinity | 3.5 |
| Trna Earthcult | 3.5 |
| Trophy Eyes Suicide and Sunshine | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Astral Pariah | 3.5 |
| Trust Company The Lonely Position of Neutral | 3.5 |
| Trust Company Dreaming In Black and White | 4.0 |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision | 4.0 |
| Turnstile Glow On | 4.0 |
| Twenty One Pilots Trench | 4.0 |
| Twilight Twilight | 3.0 |
| Twilight Monument To Time End | 4.5 |
| Twisted Sister A Twisted Christmas | 1.0 |
| Tyler Childers Long Violent History | 3.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy | 4.0 |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) A New Kind of House | 3.5 |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) White Lighter | 4.0 |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) Offerings | 4.0 |
| U2 No Line on the Horizon | 2.0 |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | 3.0 |
| U2 Achtung Baby | 4.0 |
| U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind | 4.0 |
| U2 The Joshua Tree | 4.5 |
| Ufomammut ORO: Opus Alter | 3.5 |
| Ufomammut ORO: Opus Primum | 4.0 |
| Ufomammut Ecate | 4.0 |
| Ufomammut 8 | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate The Coming of Genocide (Reissue) | 3.0 |
| Ulcerate The Coming of Genocide | 3.5 |
| Ulcerate Of Fracture and Failure | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All | 4.5 |
| Ulcerate Vermis | 4.5 |
| 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 5.0 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis | 4.5 |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still | 4.5 |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire | 5.0 |
| Ulsect Ulsect | 4.0 |
| Ulthar Providence | 3.0 |
| Ulver Sic Transit Gloria Mundi | 3.5 |
| Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X | 4.0 |
| Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP | 4.0 |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar | 4.0 |
| Underneath The Gun Forfeit Misfortunes | 2.0 |
| Underneath The Gun The Awakening | 2.5 |
| Underoath Act of Depression | 1.5 |
| Underoath Cries of the Past | 2.0 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 4.0 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.5 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 4.5 |
| Unearth Watchers of Rule | 4.5 |
| Uneven Structure 8 | 3.0 |
| Uneven Structure Februus | 3.5 |
| Uneven Structure La Partition | 4.0 |
| Unfold Cosmogon | 4.0 |
| Until Your Heart Stops Errors | 4.0 |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You | 3.5 |
| Upon a Burning Body Red. White. Green. | 2.0 |
| Uvikra Uvikra | 3.0 |
| Vaiya Wintermoon | 3.0 |
| Vaiya Mudh | 3.5 |
| Vales Clarity | 3.0 |
| Vali Forlatt | 4.5 |
| Vali Skogslandskap | 4.5 |
| Vallendusk Black Clouds Gathering | 3.5 |
| Vallendusk Vallendusk | 4.0 |
| Valtari Hunter's Pride | 3.5 |
| Vanessa Van Basten Disintegration | 3.5 |
| Vanguard Erek and Ivor | 2.5 |
| Vanguard Bring Hope | 3.0 |
| Various Artists Whom The Moon A Nightsong Sings | 4.5 |
| Fucking hell, this is the best various artists compilation I have ever heard. Absolutely beautiful. |
| Vattnet Vattnet Viskar | 3.5 |
| Vattnet Sky Swallower | 3.5 |
| Vattnet Settler | 4.0 |
| well holy shit ain't this an improvement |
| Vaura Selenelion | 3.0 |
| Veil (USA-MN) Sombre | 3.5 |
| Veil of Maya [id] | 2.5 |
| Vein.fm Self-Destruct | 3.5 |
| Vein.fm Errorzone | 4.0 |
| Veins Veins | 3.5 |
| Vektor Terminal Redux | 4.0 |
| Vektor Outer Isolation | 4.5 |
| Verdunkeln Weder Licht noch Schatten | 3.0 |
| Verse Bitter Clarity, Uncommon Grace | 3.0 |
| Verse Aggression | 4.0 |
| Verwustung Beyond The Watercolor Sunset, We Feel New Life | 3.0 |
| VESSL Goddess | 4.0 |
| Vestiges The Descent Of Man | 3.5 |
| Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket Den sorgligaste musiken i varlden | 3.5 |
| Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket Det Onda. Det Goda. Det Vackra. Det Fula. | 4.5 |
| Vidian Transgressing the Horizon | 4.0 |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden | 4.0 |
| Vince Staples FM! | 3.0 |
| Vince Staples Prima Donna | 3.5 |
| Vince Staples Vince Staples | 3.5 |
| Vince Staples Summertime '06 | 4.0 |
| Vince Staples Big Fish Theory | 4.0 |
| Virgin Black Requiem - Fortissimo | 3.0 |
| Volcano Choir Repave | 4.0 |
| Volumes The Concept of Dreaming | 3.5 |
| Vordr II | 4.0 |
| Vreid V | 3.0 |
| Vukari En To Pan | 3.0 |
| Vukari Divination | 3.5 |
| VYGR Hypersleep | 4.0 |
| VYGR/At Our Heels/Griever Split | 4.0 |
| VYGR puts out some pretty good sludge/post-metal, while At Our Heels and Griever contribute some pretty fucking awesome hardcore tracks. |
| Wake Misery Rites | 4.0 |
| Wake Confluence | 4.0 |
| Wake Devouring Ruin | 4.5 |
| Wake Thought Form Descent | 4.5 |
| Waking The Cadaver Demo | 1.0 |
| Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler | 1.0 |
| Waking The Cadaver Beyond Cops, Beyond God | 1.5 |
| Walknut Graveforests And Their Shadows | 4.0 |
| Wardruna Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga | 3.0 |
| Wardruna Runaljod - Yggdrasil | 4.5 |
| Wardruna Runaljod – Ragnarok | 4.5 |
| Warning Watching from a Distance | 4.5 |
| Warning Bridges | 4.5 |
| Watchmaker Kill. Fucking. Everyone. | 3.5 |
| We All Have Day Jobs The Parasite Aesthetic | 2.5 |
| We Are Oceans Woodsmoke | 4.0 |
| We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth | 4.0 |
| whoa, this rules. potential 4.5 |
| We Lost the Sea Departure Songs | 4.5 |
| We Made God It's Getting Colder | 3.0 |
| We Were Promised Jetpacks The More I Sleep The Less I Dream | 3.0 |
| We Were Promised Jetpacks These Four Walls | 4.0 |
| We Were Promised Jetpacks Unravelling | 4.0 |
| We.Own.The.Sky Glass/Nails | 3.5 |
| Pretty generic heavy post-rock, but the production is excellent and we.own.the.sky can actually create some really beautiful music. A halfway point between sleepmakeswaves and If These Trees Could Talk, with a sprinkling of Jakob-ish melodies. |
| We.Own.The.Sky Earths Collide | 4.0 |
| solid af instrumental heavy post-rock jams. think less Russian Circles and more Toundra. |
| Weakling Dead as Dreams | 5.0 |
| riffs for days and days and days |
| Wedrujacy Wiatr Tam, Gdzie Miesiac Oplakuje Swit | 4.0 |
| Weekend Nachos Torture | 4.0 |
| Weekend Nachos Worthless | 4.5 |
| Weezer Raditude | 1.5 |
| Whale Fall Whale Fall | 4.0 |
| What The Blood Revealed Harbour of Devils | 2.5 |
| What The Blood Revealed 2007 EP | 3.0 |
| What The Blood Revealed 2009 EP | 3.5 |
| Wheels Within Wheels The Shift | 3.5 |
| When Bitter Spring Sleeps When Bitter Spring Sleeps | 1.0 |
| When Bitter Spring Sleeps/Panopticon Split | 3.5 |
| When Icarus Falls Aegean | 4.0 |
| how in the hell did I miss this? |
| Whiskeytown Pneumonia | 3.5 |
| Whiskeytown Stranger's Almanac | 4.0 |
| White Guilt White Guilt | 2.0 |
| White Ward Illusions | 3.0 |
| White Ward Futility Report | 4.0 |
| whoa this is pretty dope y'all |
| White Ward Love Exchange Failure | 4.5 |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption | 2.5 |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile | 3.0 |
| Whitechapel The Valley | 3.5 |
| Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed | 4.0 |
| Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed III | 4.0 |
| Wiegedood There's Always Blood at the End of the Road | 4.0 |
| Wildernessking The Writing of Gods in the Sand | 4.0 |
| Wildernessking Mystical Future | 4.0 |
| Wilderun Sleep at the Edge of the Earth | 3.5 |
| Will Haven Open The Mind To Discomfort | 4.0 |
| damn son them's some dank-ass riffs |
| William Bonney Good Vibes | 4.0 |
| William Fitzsimmons Gold In The Shadow | 2.0 |
| William Fitzsimmons Until When We Are Ghosts | 4.0 |
| William Tyler Modern Country | 4.0 |
| Windir Likferd | 4.5 |
| Windmills By the Ocean Windmills By the Ocean II | 4.0 |
| Winds of Plague Decimate the Weak | 2.5 |
| Winterfylleth The Dark Hereafter | 3.5 |
| Winterfylleth The Hallowing of Heirdom | 3.5 |
| Winterfylleth The Threnody of Triumph | 4.0 |
| Winterhorde Underwatermoon | 2.5 |
| Wintersleep Welcome To The Night Sky | 4.0 |
| Wintersleep Untitled | 4.5 |
| Witchrist Vritra | 3.5 |
| With Blood Comes Cleansing Horror | 2.5 |
| With Daggers Widower | 3.5 |
| With Our Arms to the Sun A Far Away Wonder | 4.0 |
| Within the Ruins Invade | 3.0 |
| Wodensthrone Curse | 3.5 |
| Woe Quietly, Undramatically | 3.5 |
| Woe Withdrawal | 3.5 |
| Woe Hope Attrition | 4.0 |
| Wold Screech Owl | 1.5 |
| Wold Working Together For Our Privacy | 2.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 4.5 |
| Woman Is The Earth Depths | 4.0 |
| Woman Is The Earth Torch of Our Final Night | 4.0 |
| Broken Hands is one of the best tracks of the year so far. |
| Woods of Desolation As the Stars | 4.0 |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason | 4.5 |
| Wormed Krighsu | 3.0 |
| Wound Upon Wound Wound Upon Wound | 3.5 |
| An unholy mix of atmospheric black metal, death metal, doom metal, and post-metal. And riffs. So many riffs. |
| Wreck and Reference Black Cassette | 4.0 |
| Wreck and Reference No Youth | 4.0 |
| Wye Oak The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs | 4.0 |
| Wyrd Heathen | 3.0 |
| Wyrd Huldrafolk | 3.5 |
| X (USA) Under The Big Black Sun | 3.0 |
| Yanos Omega | 3.5 |
| Year of No Light Tocsin | 4.0 |
| I was pretty lukewarm on this at first tbh, but it really gets better with time. I just came back to it for the first time in months, and it's really blowing me away. I fucking love the atmosphere that the dual-drummer setup lends the music. |
| Year of No Light Consolamentum | 4.0 |
| Year of No Light Ausserwelt | 4.5 |
| Year of No Light/Bagarre Generale Year of No Light/Bagarre Generale | 4.0 |
| Year of No Light/thisquietarmy Split | 4.0 |
| Year of the Knife Internal Incarceration | 3.5 |
| Years Of Rice and Salt Service Bell | 4.5 |
| Years Of Rice and Salt Nothing of Cities | 4.5 |
| Yellow Eyes Hammer of Night | 3.5 |
| Yellow Eyes Immersion Trench Reverie | 3.5 |
| Yellow Eyes Sick With Bloom | 4.0 |
| Yellowcard Southern Air | 4.0 |
| Yellowcard Lift a Sail | 4.0 |
| Yellowcard Yellowcard | 4.5 |
| YG Still Brazy | 4.0 |
| Yndi Halda Under Summer | 3.5 |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss | 5.0 |
| YOB The Unreal Never Lived | 4.0 |
| YOB Clearing The Path To Ascend | 4.0 |
| Young Magic Melt | 3.5 |
| Young Magic Breathing Statues | 4.0 |
| Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson | 4.0 |
| Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson Small Changes We Hardly Notice | 4.0 |
| YOUWRETCH YOUWRETCH | 3.5 |
| god damn this rules hard and more people need to get it etc |
| Zao Awake? | 3.0 |
| Zao The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here | 3.5 |
| Zao Pyrrhic Victory | 3.5 |
| Zao Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest | 4.0 |
| Zao The Well-Intentioned Virus | 4.0 |
| Zao Liberate Te Ex Inferis | 4.5 |
| Zao The Crimson Corridor | 4.5 |
| this bangs |
| Zeal and Ardor Devil is Fine | 3.5 |
| Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit | 4.0 |
| Zeal and Ardor Wake of a Nation | 4.0 |
| Zhrine Unortheta | 3.5 |
| Zodiak Sermons | 4.0 |
| Zoroaster Matador | 2.5 |
| Zozobra Harmonic Tremors | 4.0 |
| Zozobra Bird of Prey | 4.0 |
| Zozobra Savage Masters | 4.0 |
