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40 Watt Sun Wider than the Sky3.0
A Forest of Stars Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes4.0
A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece4.0
A Lot Like Birds No Place4.0
A Lot Like Birds DIVISI3.0
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step4.0
A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant3.0
A Winged Victory for the Sullen The Undivided Five4.0
Abstract Void Into the Blue3.0
Abyssal (UK) Antikatastaseis3.5
Adrenaline Mob Omerta2.0
This Disturbed Theory Of A Stonesour had a few solid tracks and some interesting guitar solos, but that's hardly enough make up for the un-listenable slog they're attached to.
Aesop Rock Skelethon3.5
Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere3.0
Agalloch The Mantle4.5
Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain4.5
Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit3.0
Agalloch Pale Folklore4.5
Agalloch The White3.0
Ahab The Boats of the Glen Carrig3.0
Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme3.5
Alcest Shelter3.0
Alcest Écailles De Lune4.0
Alcest Kodama4.5
Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde3.5
Alcest Spiritual Instinct3.5
Allochiria Omonoia4.0
An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love3.5
An Autumn For Crippled Children The Long Goodbye3.0
An Isolated Mind I'm Losing Myself4.5
An Ocean Of Void The Great Escape3.5
Anciients Voice of the Void2.5
Andavald Undir Skyggðarhaldi4.0
Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion3.0
Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many3.0
Archivist Archivist3.0
Archspire Relentless Mutation3.5
Arctic Sleep Kindred Spirits3.5
Arcturus Arcturian4.0
Astronoid Air4.0
Au-Dessus End of Chapter4.0
August Burns Red Leveler2.5
August Burns Red Rescue & Restore3.5
August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places3.5
Autumn Creatures Funeral Garden4.0
Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare2.5
Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King2.0
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold3.0
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil3.5
Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen3.0
Ayreon The Theory of Everything3.0
B. Dolan The Failure5.0
BABYMETAL BABYMETAL3.5
Baroness Yellow and Green3.5
BARST The Western Lands4.0
Bauda Sporelights3.0
Be'lakor Stone's Reach4.0
Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone3.5
Be'lakor Vessels3.0
Beast Modulus BEING3.0
Bedowyn Blood of the Fall3.0
Behemoth The Satanist4.0
Being as an Ocean Being As An Ocean3.5
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence3.5
Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic3.0
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect3.5
Between the Buried and Me Colors3.5
Between the Buried and Me Colors II4.0
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues3.0
Big Data 2.02.5
Birds in Row You, Me, and the Violence3.5
Bjork Vulnicura3.5
Bloc Party Silent Alarm4.5
Bloc Party A Weekend in the City3.0
Bloc Party Intimacy3.0
Blood Incantation Starspawn4.0
Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race4.0
Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun3.0
Boris Noise4.0
Bosse-de-Nage All Fours3.0
Bosse-de-Nage Further Still3.0
Boucle Infinie 直線移動3.5
Brandon Burkhalter Flourish2.5
BRUIT The Machine Is Burning...5.0
Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss4.0
Car Bomb Mordial3.5
Chelsea Wolfe Abyss3.0
Children of Nova Impossible Landscape3.0
Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule3.5
Circa Survive The Amulet3.0
Circa Survive Juturna3.0
Circa Survive On Letting Go3.0
clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood3.5
Cloudkicker Little Histories3.0
Cobalt Slow Forever3.5
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension3.5
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension3.0
Conjurer (UK) Mire3.5
Conquering Dystopia Conquering Dystopia2.5
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind4.0
Converge Jane Doe4.0
Converge The Dusk in Us3.5
Cormorant Earth Diver3.0
Cormorant Dwellings3.5
Cormorant Diaspora3.0
Cranial Dark Towers, Bright Lights3.5
Crowhurst Crowhurst3.5
Cult of Luna Vertikal4.5
Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear4.0
Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner5.0
Cyanotic Tech Noir3.0
Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy3.5
Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us2.5
Dan Terminus Automated Refrains3.0
Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech3.5
Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification3.5
Dance Gavin Dance Mothership4.0
Dance Gavin Dance Artificial Selection3.5
Dance Gavin Dance Afterburner3.0
David Maxim Micic Who Bit the Moon2.5
Deafheaven Sunbather5.0
Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love4.0
Death Grips Exmilitary3.5
Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death3.5
Deftones Koi No Yokan3.5
Deftones Gore2.5
Der Weg Einer Freiheit Stellar3.5
Devin Townsend Project Transcendence3.0
Dir En Grey Arche3.0
Disperse Foreword2.5
Dodecahedron Kwintessens3.5
Downfall of Nur Umbras de Barbagia4.0
Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events3.5
Dream Theater Dream Theater4.0
Dream Theater Distance Over Time3.5
Dream Theater The Astonishing2.0
Dream Theater A View from the Top of the World3.5
Dust Moth Scale3.5
Dvne Asheran3.5
Dynfari The Four Doors of the Mind3.0
Eidola Degeneraterra3.5
Eidola To Speak, to Listen3.0
Eldamar The Force of the Ancient Land2.5
Elderwind The Magic of Nature3.5
Emilie Autumn Fight Like A Girl2.5
Emptyself Nothing Follows, Nothing Stays3.5
Introspective, emotional, trance-inducing... Emptyself has made it's long awaited return. This time around the lyrics are less religious/political and focused even more on the self.
Enmarta The Hermit3.0
Epic Beard Men This Was Supposed To Be Fun4.0
Evan Brewer Alone3.0
Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors4.0
Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True4.0
Falls of Rauros Vigilance Perennial3.5
Fallujah The Flesh Prevails4.0
I really want to like this album, but it falls short in a few areas. It could breathe more, for one. It's only 42 minutes but the album is so dense it's an exhausting listen all the way through. Another 8 minutes of ambiance or space would do it some good. I feel it's trying to tell me a story but I'm having a hard time absorbing it. As others have said, I'm not a fan of the production. It's too crowded and poorly layered. Perhaps I'll be wrong after I get a higher quality version of it. Other than that, it has some powerful moments and some pretty amazing parts that can really transport the listener to another world.
Fallujah Dreamless3.5
Fen Winter4.0
Fifth Density Dominion of the Sun3.0
Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back3.5
Fire In The Cave Fire In the Cave3.5
Flobots The Circle in the Square2.0
Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful3.0
Galar De Gjenlevende3.5
Galneryus Angel of Salvation3.5
Galneryus Vetelgyus2.0
Ghost Toast Out of This World4.0
Glassing Spotted Horse3.5
Gloryhammer Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards4.0
Gnaw Cutting Pieces3.5
Godflesh Post Self3.5
Gojira Magma3.5
GridLink Longhena3.5
Gunship Gunship4.0
Gygax Critical Hits3.0
Haken The Mountain4.0
Haken Visions3.5
Haken Restoration3.5
Haken Affinity3.5
Hanging Garden I Am Become3.5
Harakiri for the Sky III: Trauma3.5
Helms Alee Sleepwalking Sailors3.5
Helms Alee Stillicide3.5
Heretoir The Circle4.0
High on Fire Luminiferous3.0
Hive Destruction Hive Destruction4.0
Holy Fawn Death Spells4.5
Holyarrow Oath of Allegiance3.0
Hope Drone Cloak of Ash3.5
Hubris. Apocryphal Gravity3.5
Sounds like Meniscus' ex members got together again and made a new project.
I the Mighty Where the Mind Wants to Go / Where You Let it Go3.5
Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream2.0
Igorrr Hallelujah3.5
Igorrr Poisson Soluble4.0
Igorrr Savage Sinusoid4.5
Ihsahn Arktis.4.0
IIVII Invasion3.0
Illyria Illyria3.0
Imperial Triumphant Alphaville4.5
In Mourning The Weight of Oceans3.5
In Mourning Afterglow3.0
Infected Mushroom Army Of Mushrooms3.5
Infected Mushroom Converting Vegetarians II3.5
Intronaut Habitual Levitations3.5
Intronaut Valley of Smoke4.0
Intronaut Void3.0
Intronaut Prehistoricisms4.0
Intronaut The Direction of Last Things4.0
Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions3.5
Irepress Sol Eye Sea I3.5
Iron Maiden The Book of Souls3.5
ISIS Wavering Radiant5.0
ISIS Panopticon5.0
ISIS In the Absence of Truth5.0
ISIS Oceanic4.5
ISIS Celestial4.0
Ithaca Trespassers3.5
Converge-worship done right. Great ambient sections.
Iwrestledabearonce Late for Nothing2.5
Izah Sistere4.0
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy4.5
Kassad Faces Turn Away3.5
Katatonia Night Is the New Day3.0
Katatonia Dead End Kings3.0
Katatonia The Fall of Hearts3.0
Kauan Kaiho4.0
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly4.0
Kurt Travis There's a Place I Want to Take You3.0
KYPCK 3epo (Zero)3.5
Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang2.5
Leprous The Congregation3.0
Leprous Malina3.5
Leviathan Scar Sighted4.0
Linkin Park Living Things2.5
Linkin Park A Thousand Suns2.0
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight3.0
Linkin Park Meteora4.0
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory5.0
Linkin Park Reanimation4.5
Liturgy The Ark Work3.0
Locktender Rodin3.5
Locrian Infinite Dissolution4.0
Lor In Forgotten Sleep4.0
Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu1.5
Lunatic Soul Impressions2.5
Lunatic Soul Lunatic Soul4.5
Lunatic Soul Lunatic Soul II3.5
Lychgate An Antidote for the Glass Pill3.0
Manes Vilosophe4.0
Mare Cognitum Phobos Monolith3.5
Mare Infinitum Alien Monolith God4.0
Mastodon The Hunter4.5
Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun3.5
Mastodon Leviathan4.5
Mastodon Blood Mountain3.5
Mastodon Crack the Skye4.0
Mastodon Remission3.0
Memfis Vertigo3.5
Mesarthim Isolate3.5
Mesarthim Ghost Condensate4.0
Meshuggah Koloss4.0
Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason3.0
mewithoutYou Pale Horses3.5
Mgla Exercises in Futility4.0
Midas Fall Evaporate3.5
Minsk The Crash and the Draw3.5
Moebius (ITA) Hybris3.0
Based on the theme and tone, Hybris feels like Moebius wanted to strap you into an infernal drilling machine and send
you on your way to the center of the earth. Over the course of the 50+ minute subterranean trip, you'll notice an
assemblage of familiar 2000s prog metal components holds the vessel together; dizzying labyrinths of metric
modulation/rhythmic layering, acid-drenched harsh vocals, tribal drum interludes, piston-like riffs, and a smattering of
atmospheric guitar leads for good measure. An even closer look reveals meticulous attention to detail, such as using
morse code to build long rhythmic compositions, and a truly astonishing performance by drummer Valentino Sanna.



Unfortunately, the entire run-length blurs together into what traveling underground in a drill machine is probably actually
like -- a long-winded and monochrome experience. The real weak link here is vocalist Matteo Guida's performance,
whose caustic delivery is appropriate, but woefully repetitive. Occasionally we're treated to some refreshing
instrumental virtuosity, ambient textures, or gojira-inspired vocal harmonies, but they're never more than 10 seconds
away from being snuffed out by a barrage of growls you swore you already heard 2 tracks ago.



Overall, it's perfectly fine to throw on for a couple tracks (Uranium and Coal have been on my math metal playlist for a
while) but that's about all I can stomach in one sitting.



For fans of: Meshuggah, Tool, and Gojira (in that order)
Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis3.5
Moonsorrow Jumalten aika3.5
Moonspell Extinct3.0
Mother of Millions Sigma3.5
Mountaineer Sirens & Slumber3.0
Mouth Of The Architect Path of Eight3.5
Mouth Of The Architect Dawning3.0
Mouth Of The Architect Quietly3.5
Muscle and Marrow Love3.5
Mutoid Man War Moans3.0
Mutoid Man Bleeder3.5
Myrkur M3.5
Nails You Will Never Be One of Us4.0
Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I4.5
Ne Obliviscaris Citadel4.5
Ne Obliviscaris Sarabande to Nihil3.0
Ne Obliviscaris Urn4.0
Nechochwen Heart of Akamon4.0
Neckbeard Deathcamp White Nationalism is for Basement Dwelling Losers3.5
Neurosis Honor Found in Decay4.0
Neurosis Given to the Rising3.5
Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets4.5
Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm4.0
Neurosis Fires Within Fires3.5
Night Verses Copper Wasp3.5
Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep4.0
Nightwish Imaginaerum2.5
Nightwish Endless Forms Most Beautiful3.0
Nightwish HUMAN. :II: NATURE.2.5
Nile What Should Not Be Unearthed2.5
Nostalgia Critic The Wall1.0
Novembers Doom Hamartia2.5
Numenorean Home3.5
Numenorean Adore4.0
Oathbreaker Rheia4.0
Obscure Sphinx Void Mother3.5
Obscure Sphinx Epitaphs3.5
Oceans of Slumber Oceans of Slumber3.5
Maybe I need to give it some more listens but the lyrics just do nothing for me. For
every sick line ("I pray for fire") there are twenty more that sound like they were
randomly plucked from dollar store fantasy novels. I think if they get some stronger
lyrics and emphasize the vox more with their instrumentation then their next album will
be hard to ignore.
Oceans of Slumber Winter3.5
October Tide Winged Waltz3.0
Old Gray Slow Burn3.5
Opeth Heritage4.0
Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse4.0
Opeth Still Life4.0
Opeth Blackwater Park3.5
Opeth Ghost Reveries3.5
Opeth Watershed3.5
Opeth Damnation3.0
Opeth Deliverance3.0
Opeth Pale Communion3.0
Opeth Sorceress2.5
Ophiuchi Bifurcaria Bifurcata4.0
Oranssi Pazuzu Värähtelijä3.5
Oranssi Pazuzu Farmokologinen4.0
Palms Palms3.0
Panopticon Roads to the North3.5
Panopticon Autumn Eternal4.5
Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness4.0
Panopticon The Rime of Memory4.5
Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal4.0
Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty3.0
Periphery Clear3.0
Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha3.5
Periphery Juggernaut: Omega3.5
Periphery Periphery2.5
Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan3.5
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here4.5
Porcupine Tree The Incident2.5
Porcupine Tree Arriving Somewhere...4.0
Porcupine Tree Deadwing4.0
Protest the Hero Volition2.5
Prurient Frozen Niagara Falls3.5
Pyramids A Northern Meadow3.0
Rishloo Eidolon5.0
Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth4.5
Rishloo Feathergun4.0
Rivers of Nihil Monarchy3.5
Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It4.5
Rosetta A Determinism of Morality4.5
Rosetta Wake/Lift4.5
Rosetta The Galilean Satellites4.0
Rosetta The Anaesthete4.0
Rosetta Flies to Flame3.5
Rosetta Quintessential Ephemera4.0
Rosetta Utopioid4.0
Rosetta Terra Sola3.5
Royal Thunder Crooked Doors2.5
Rwake Rest3.0
Sage Francis Copper Gone3.5
Sannhet Revisionist3.0
Saor Aura5.0
Saor Guardians4.0
Scale the Summit V3.0
Schammasch Triangle4.0
Seeming Emptiness Conversion3.5
Septicflesh The Great Mass3.5
Septicflesh Titan3.0
Shade Empire Poetry of the Ill-Minded3.5
Shape of Despair Monotony Fields3.5
Show Me A Dinosaur Show Me A Dinosaur3.0
Shroud Ritual Five Suns4.0
Killer instrumental metal from a variety of different genres.
Sigh In Somniphobia3.5
Sigh Graveward3.0
Skyforest A New Dawn3.5
Skyharbor Guiding Lights4.0
Slowdive Slowdive (LP)3.0
Slugdge Esoteric Malacology4.0
Soen Cognitive3.5
Soen Lykaia3.0
Sorrow Plagues Homecoming4.0
Source Return to Nothing3.0
Spaceslug Lemanis3.5
Spectral Lore III3.5
Squalus The Great Fish4.0
State Faults Clairvoyant3.5
Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning3.0
Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)3.5
Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase.4.0
Steven Wilson 4 1/24.0
Steven Wilson To the Bone3.5
Svalbard It's Hard to Have Hope3.5
Tanpopo Crisis Millennium Flower3.5
Tengger Cavalry Ancient Call3.5
Teramaze Her Halo3.5
TesseracT Altered State3.5
TesseracT Polaris3.0
TesseracT One3.5
TesseracT Sonder4.0
Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail3.0
The Agonist Eye of Providence2.5
The Atlas Moth An Ache for the Distance4.0
The Body No One Deserves Happiness3.5
The Caretaker Everywhere at the End of Time3.0
The Chemical Mind Beneath the Shadow It Casts4.0
The production is hilariously bad in some places but I cant get enough of the moods and soundscapes in this. The guitar leads have a dreamy, beach vibe to them that takes me to another world.
The Contortionist Language3.5
The Contortionist Clairvoyant4.0
The Contortionist Our Bones2.5
The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne3.0
The Devil Wears Prada Dead & Alive2.0
The Devil Wears Prada 8:183.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation3.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer3.0
The Ever Living HEREPHEMINE4.0
The Faceless Autotheism3.0
The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li4.0
The Great Old Ones EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy4.0
The Mars Volta Noctourniquet3.0
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium5.0
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute4.5
The Mars Volta Octahedron2.5
The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath3.0
The Mars Volta Amputechture4.0
The Ocean Pelagial4.5
The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic4.0
The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic4.0
The Weeknd Starboy2.5
The Winery Dogs The Winery Dogs2.0
This Will Destroy You Another Language3.0
Titaan Kadingir4.0
Toby Driver They Are the Shield4.0
Toby Fox Undertale OST2.0
Tool Lateralus5.0
Tool Ænima4.5
Tool Undertow3.5
Tool 10,000 Days4.5
Tool Fear Inoculum4.0
Toothgrinder Phantom Amour3.0
Toothgrinder Nocturnal Masquerade3.5
Toundra IV3.0
Trees of Eternity Hour of the Nightingale3.5
Triptykon Melana Chasmata4.0
Turnstile Nonstop Feeling2.0
Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine4.0
Twelve Foot Ninja Outlier3.5
Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP3.5
Unprocessed Artificial Void3.0
Unprocessed Covenant2.5
Unreqvited Stars Wept to the Sea4.0
Unreqvited Mosaic I: l'amour et l'ardeur3.5
Unreqvited Mosaic II: la déteste et la détresse3.0
Veil of Maya Matriarch3.0
Vektor Terminal Redux4.0
Violet Cold Magic Night3.5
Waldgefluster Ruinen4.0
Wang Wen Invisible City3.5
White Ward Futility Report4.0
White Ward Love Exchange Failure4.0
Wintersun Time I3.0
Within Temptation Hydra2.5
Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite2.5
Wreck and Reference Want3.5
Wreck and Reference Indifferent Rivers Romance End4.0
X Japan Art of Life4.5
xSPONGEXCOREx How Tough Are Yah?3.0
Zeal and Ardor Devil is Fine3.0
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