| 2022 |
| Darko (US) Dethmask, Pt. 2 | 4.0 |
| Weeping Wound idontbelonghere. (studio gathering) | 4.0 |
| Anchorage Blue Anchorage Blue | 4.0 |
| Harakiri for the Sky Harakiri for the Sky MMXXII | 4.0 |
| Harakiri for the Sky Aokigahara MMXXII | 4.0 |
| Sold Soul I Hope We Make It Out of This Alive | 4.5 |
| OCEANS (GER) Hell Is Where The Heart Is | 3.0 |
| Abbie Falls Hell Is Other People | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Grin Suffer In Hell | 4.0 |
| He Is Legend Endless Hallway | 4.0 |
| AVOID Cult Mentality | 3.5 |
| The Gloom in The Corner Trinity | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Midnights | 1.0 |
| Architects The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit | 3.5 |
| It's a grower. Singles are bangers and everything in between makes sense. |
| Cabal Magno Interitus | 4.0 |
| Lorna Shore Pain Remains | 3.5 |
| Varials Scars for You to Remember | 4.0 |
| Birds in Row Gris Klein | 4.5 |
| Boundaries Burying Brightness | 4.5 |
| Godeater Vespera | 3.5 |
| Within Destruction Lotus | 4.0 |
| Darko (US) Oni | 4.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Color Decay | 3.0 |
| Berried Alive Our Own Light | 1.0 |
| Demon Hunter Exile | 2.5 |
| I AM Eternal Steel | 3.5 |
| Fallujah Empyrean | 4.5 |
| Stray from the Path Euthanasia | 4.5 |
| Warforged The Grove | Sundial | 4.5 |
| 156/Silence Narrative | 5.0 |
| Oceans Ate Alaska Disparity | 4.0 |
| Gold standard of 20s metalcore. First half is ridiculously aggressive, second half ties the work together and concludes fantastically. |
| Blackbraid Blackbraid I | 4.0 |
| thoughtcrimes Altered Pasts | 4.0 |
| Cyborg Octopus Between the Light and Air | 4.0 |
| Westhand Cyanide Culture | 4.0 |
| Spite Dedication To Flesh | 4.0 |
| Wow. Was not expecting this from Spite. Rips hard and some excellent lyrics/riffs. |
| Orthodox (TN) Learning to Dissolve | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me | 4.5 |
| Ithaca They Fear Us | 4.5 |
| Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition Chapter III | 1.0 |
| Anthony Green Boom. Done. | 4.0 |
| Wake Thought Form Descent | 4.5 |
| fromjoy away | 3.0 |
| ATLVS The Wound, The Blade | 4.0 |
| Broken Bonds and Synthetic Heaven were my two favourites and definitely carry this EP. |
| Left to Suffer And Dying Forever | 3.5 |
| Conjurer (UK) Pathos | 5.0 |
| Profiler Profiler | 4.5 |
| Spiritbox Rotoscope | 4.0 |
| White Ward False Light | 4.5 |
| Vexes Imagine What We Could Destroy / If Only Given Time | 4.5 |
Really fucking good. On par with Loathe and other
contemporaries. I get major Deftones, Thrice, Poison the
Well, Glassjaw, early He Is Legend vibes. Songwriting is
difficult to process on the first listen as the LP is
massive (dbl LP). Excited for future listens! |
| Dir En Grey Phalaris | 4.0 |
| Moodring Stargazer | 4.0 |
| Kardashev Liminal Rite | 4.5 |
| Thornhill Heroine | 3.0 |
| Hive (USA-IL) Exuviae | 3.5 |
| Cave In Heavy Pendulum | 4.0 |
| Static Dress Rouge Carpet Disaster | 5.0 |
| Misery Index Complete Control | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers | 4.0 |
| The Smile A Light For Attracting Attention | 4.5 |
| Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter | 4.0 |
| Windwaker Love Language | 3.5 |
| Void of Vision Chronicles II: Heaven | 4.0 |
| And Hell Followed With Quietus | 3.0 |
| Saviour Shine and Fade | 3.5 |
| Strongest effort since their first LP. Very focused on their sound. Only con is that some of the songs instrumentally feel like generic-metalcore. |
| Heriot Profound Morality | 4.0 |
| Dischordia Triptych | 4.0 |
| Downfall of Mankind Vile Birth | 4.0 |
| Oceano, god-tier gutturals with convincing and stellar instrumentals. Fucking deafening and amazing. |
| Reflections The Fantasy Effect (Redux) | 4.0 |
| Undeath It's Time...To Rise From the Grave | 3.0 |
| Northlane Obsidian | 3.5 |
| Mizmor and Thou Myopia | 3.5 |
| Bodysnatcher Bleed-Abide | 4.0 |
| Black Matter Device AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS | 4.5 |
Come on people; BMD's last few releases have been super
tight and this LP is on fire. |
| chaos.sequence the ties that bind the flesh and mind | 4.0 |
| Monuments (UK) In Stasis | 3.5 |
| Greyhaven This Bright and Beautiful World | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Immutable | 4.5 |
| SOUL GLO Diaspora Problems | 3.5 |
| Paleface Swiss Fear & Dagger | 4.5 |
| AngelMaker Sanctum | 3.5 |
| The Dialectic A Falsehood Defined | 3.5 |
| Hath All That Was Promised | 4.0 |
| Vein.fm This World Is Going to Ruin You | 4.0 |
| Gutrectomy Manifestation of Human Suffering | 4.0 |
| Foreign Hands Bleed the Dream | 4.0 |
| headcave 3 | 4.0 |
| Krosis E.V.I.L. | 3.5 |
| Vildhjarta Thousand of Evils (Forte) | 4.5 |
| OCEANS (DEU) Hell Is Where The Heart Is Vol. I: Love | 2.0 |
| Slowbleed The Blazing Sun, A Fiery Dawn | 2.0 |
| Worm Shepherd Ritual Hymns | 3.0 |
| Underoath Voyeurist | 3.5 |
| Much better than expected. Mix isn't my favourite, but overall performance and Spencer's consistent/destructive scream are always a pleasure to hear. |
| Enterprise Earth The Chosen | 3.5 |
I'm still deciding if I'm tired of all of the repetitive
deathcore tropes... those cleans definitely stood out from
the tropes, but in a really bad way.
edit: *passive aggressive intensifies* |
| Aethereus Leiden | 3.5 |
| Job for A Cowboy meets Hath meets Horrendous. Solid effort. |
| Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds | 4.0 |
| Wiegedood There's Always Blood at the End of the Road | 4.0 |
| Shadow Of Intent Elegy | 4.5 |
| Infected Rain Ecdysis | 1.5 |
| Not my cup of tea. Love Moldova, but can live without this. |
| Wilderun Epigone | 4.0 |
| Big Townsend and the Contortionist energy here. Definitely not as folky as I remember in previous releases. Still an excellent work and is littered with breathtaking moments. |
| Descent Order of Chaos | 3.0 |
| Electromancy Technopagan | 3.0 |
| Trenches Reckoner | 4.0 |
| 2021 |
| Mire (USA-CO) A New Found Rain | 3.0 |
| Atlas (FIN) Ukko | 4.0 |
| Vulgarity Shaking Walls & Breaking Ground | 4.0 |
| Static Dress Prologue... | 4.0 |
| Imminence Heaven in Hiding | 3.0 |
| Monochromatic Black Vicissitude | 3.5 |
| Volumes Happier? | 3.0 |
| Converge Bloodmoon: I | 4.0 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Noktvrn | 4.5 |
| Phenomenal. The melodies, variation, and atmosphere put this one above Finisterre for me. |
| Queen Kona LUCID | 4.0 |
| Portrayal of Guilt Christfucker | 2.5 |
| Impending Doom Hellbent | 3.5 |
| First Fragment Gloire Eternelle | 4.5 |
| Bam-bam-bomda-boom-pop-bamdam-bap-pop-bamdambamdabam. |
| Whitechapel Kin | 4.5 |
| Circa Survive A Dream About Love | 3.5 |
| Sentinels (US) Collapse by Design | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Radical | 4.5 |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden Under Vatten | 4.5 |
| Filth (NC) The Ignorance | 4.0 |
| Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life | 4.5 |
| Trivium In the Court of the Dragon | 3.0 |
| FRCTRD Somehow // Somewhere | 4.0 |
| Mirrors (AUS) The Ego's Weight | 4.0 |
| Found my Thornhill replacement. Haha, kidding, but the composition and vocals are absolutely fantastic (unlike those new Thornhill singles, lmao). |
| God Complex To Decay In A Deathless World | 3.5 |
| What Lies Below Destinations | 3.5 |
| Dying Wish Fragments of a Bitter Memory | 4.0 |
| Strong AF second half. Feels like an early 00s throwback with elements that remind me of Oathbreaker, Divitus, and some Rolo. |
| Frontierer Oxidized | 4.0 |
As cloakanddagger notes, the songwriting has vastly improved and each song really
contributes to a brilliant work. Opaque horizon is ridiculous. That being said, I think the
years of heavy music have finally eroded my hesitancy to enjoy the ridiculous. Good work. |
| Rivers of Nihil The Work | 2.5 |
| Production is alright, but everything feels really overtired and the run time (64 mins) doesn't mitigate the feeling. I appreciated their last LP (first time I had given them a listen), but I'm not overly invested as a fan. |
| Signs Of The Swarm Absolvere | 3.5 |
| Invent Animate The Sun Sleeps, As If It Never Was | 3.0 |
| Vulvodynia Praenuntius Infiniti | 1.0 |
| Employed To Serve Conquering | 3.0 |
| Thrice Horizons/East | 3.0 |
| Carcass Torn Arteries | 3.5 |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue | 5.0 |
| Aborted ManiaCult | 4.0 |
| Antediluvian The Divine Punishment | 2.5 |
| Jinjer Wallflowers | 3.0 |
| Turnstile Glow On | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Infinite Granite | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors II | 4.0 |
| Indistinct Reign of Silence | 3.5 |
| Slaughter To Prevail Kostolom | 1.0 |
| Lorna Shore ...And I Return to Nothingness | 3.0 |
| Carcosa Anthology | 3.5 |
| Burial in the Sky The Consumed Self | 4.0 |
| Ingrown Gun | 4.0 |
| Desolate (USA-NY) The fate of destruction is the joy of rebirth | 4.0 |
| Spirit Breaker Cura Nata | 4.5 |
| Moodring Showmetherealyou | 3.5 |
| Sleep Waker Alias | 2.5 |
| Erdve Savigaila | 3.5 |
| A Night in Texas The Divine Dichotomy - Chapter I | 3.0 |
| fromjoy it lingers | 4.0 |
| VCTMS Vol. IV: Numb The Ache | 2.5 |
| Structures None of the Above | 3.0 |
| Little samey and feels like its blending Northlane/Counterparts-END/BMTH (nothing new/fresh). Good messaging, though it's quite obvious, which might come with the sense of urgency there is around climate change/biocultural diversity loss. I'll probably listen a few times. |
| Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost | 3.5 |
| Fear Factory Aggression Continuum | 3.5 |
| Alustrium A Monument to Silence | 4.5 |
| Death Goals The Horrible and The Miserable | 3.5 |
| Basterds A Place to Call Hell | 3.5 |
| Mental Cruelty A Hill to Die Upon | 4.0 |
| Alluvial Sarcoma | 4.5 |
| Kaonashi Dear Lemon House, You Ruined Me: Senior Year | 3.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada ZII | 3.5 |
| VEXED (UK) Culling Culture | 4.0 |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light | 4.0 |
| Osiah Loss | 4.0 |
| Darko (US) Darko | 4.5 |
| Album is thick, dense, heavy; it is a nightmare filled with hooks and breakdowns. Really well done, regardless of what the LP's average sits at. I agree with opinions that believe this fits within a subgenre-paradigm shift. Really good use of electronic/synths that develop both atmosphere and leading/rhythmic parts. Tom's vocals, in my opinion, surpass his work with Chelsea Grin and Lorna Shore. Some parallels with vocal performance and formula between Darko and Lorna Shore, but I think Darko is much more listenable, current, and to the point. |
| headcave 2 | 4.5 |
| Crown Magnetar The Codex of Flesh | 3.5 |
| The Undertaking! Funeral Psalms | 4.0 |
| Left to Suffer ON DEATH | 4.0 |
| Dead World Reclamation Aura of Iniquity | 4.0 |
| Monasteries Silence | 4.0 |
| ARTERIES (AUS) Outdoor Claustrophobic | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Violence Unimagined | 3.5 |
| The Armed Ultrapop | 4.0 |
| Zao The Crimson Corridor | 4.5 |
| That mid-breakdown on the title track fucking slays. Really solid effort by Zao. Desolate and heavy, this album's atmosphere is suffocating. |
| As Everything Unfolds Within Each Lies The Other | 3.0 |
| Eternal Void Serenity in the Black | 3.5 |
| Genghis Tron Dream Weapon | 4.0 |
| Cryptosis Bionic Swarm | 4.0 |
| Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Nightmare Withdrawals | 4.0 |
| ERRA ERRA | 3.5 |
| Disfiguring the Goddess Blood Animal | 3.5 |
| Super weird mixing brutal death/grindcore with lo-fi samples (and other electronic genres), but I guess all kinds of core have been messing with saxophones. Album art aside, pretty good. |
| Brand of Sacrifice Lifeblood | 4.0 |
| Second listen made me go 3 to 4. Has elements from Interstice that I loved and definitely pushes beyond the last release. Great release within deathcore. |
| Void of Vision Hyperdaze (Redux) | 4.5 |
| Architects For Those That Wish to Exist | 3.5 |
| Doesn't flow too well as an LP, though it does have some decent singles (they carry the album). I think the change is good, just not well executed overall and in certain songs. |
| Summoning the Lich United in Chaos | 4.0 |
| Black Sheep Wall Songs for the Enamel Queen | 4.5 |
| Harakiri for the Sky Maere | 3.5 |
| Wah wah wah, too long. Wah wah wah. Wah wah wah. Wah. |
| chaos.sequence kingdom of bones | 4.0 |
| Humanity's Last Breath Välde | 4.0 |
| Serenity in Murder Reborn | 4.0 |
| Loathe The Things They Believe | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna The Raging River | 4.0 |
| To Kill Achilles Something to Remember Me By | 4.0 |
| The Ruins of Beverast The Thule Grimoires | 4.5 |
| Oh mein Gott. Oh mein Gott. Oh mein Gott. Oh mein Gott. Oh mein Gott.r |
| Weezer OK Human | 1.0 |
| Portrayal of Guilt We Are Always Alone | 4.0 |
| Debut was epic, but some of these bangers are so memorable and horrifying. |
| Need Norchestrion: Α Song For The End | 2.5 |
| Frozen Soul Crypt Of Ice | 4.0 |
| 2020 |
| Akhlys Melinoe | 4.5 |
| Yashira Fail To Be | 4.5 |
| Taylor Swift Evermore | 1.0 |
| Every Time I Die A Colossal Wreck // Desperate Pleasures | 4.5 |
| Frostbitt Frostbitt | 4.0 |
| Krosis Solem Vatem Redux | 3.5 |
| Palm Reader Sleepless | 4.0 |
| Wow. Chills from start to finish. This is such a versatile album and will make my AotY without a doubt. Beautiful album to finish off such a shit year. |
| Megan Thee Stallion Good News | 3.0 |
| Aviations Retrospect | 3.5 |
| Outliers is a pretty sick song. Will have to look at more of their catalog. Reminds me of Devin Townsend, the Contortionist, Tesseract, and Gojira. |
| Crowning Survival/Sickness | 4.0 |
| Ghostkid GHOSTKID | 3.0 |
| Boundaries Your Receding Warmth | 4.0 |
| Blood From The Soul DSM-5 | 4.0 |
| I personally prefer this over Bannon's work on this year's Umbra Vitae record. Instrumentally fresh and different from the perspective of a long-time Converge listener. Bannon's vocals are perfect on the record, and the concepts/lyrics are great. Could have been more interesting on the front of arrangement and instrumentation; some song structures are a little predictable, but overall it's pretty great. |
| Fuming Mouth Beyond The Tomb | 4.0 |
| Unseen Faith Evoke | 4.0 |
| A Crowd of Rebellion Zealot City | 4.0 |
| AVOID The Burner | 4.0 |
| REVIVAL OF THE ERA Nephthys | 4.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Post Human: Survival Horror | 3.5 |
| DETHRXNER OVERTHRXWN | 3.5 |
| Psychonaut 4 Beautyfall | 4.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full | 4.5 |
| Paleface Swiss Chapter 3: The Last Selection | 4.5 |
| Undeath Lesions of a Different Kind | 2.5 |
| Sevendust Blood and Stone | 3.5 |
| Fox Lake Silence & Violence | 4.0 |
| Chamber (USA) Cost of Sacrifice | 4.5 |
| Kingdom of Giants Passenger | 3.0 |
| 156/Silence Irrational Pull | 4.0 |
| Tallah Matriphagy | 3.0 |
| Gorephilia In The Eye Of Nothing | 4.0 |
| Greg Puciato Child Soldier: Creator of God | 3.0 |
| Great stuff, won't be more than great for me though. The context of Dillinger sticks with me too closely, which was emotively exhausting (in the best way possible). |
| Alpha Wolf A Quiet Place to Die | 3.0 |
| Deftones Ohms | 3.0 |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic | 5.0 |
| Movements No Good Left to Give | 3.0 |
| Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism | 3.5 |
| Skeletal Remains The Entombment of Chaos | 3.0 |
| Mammal Hands Captured Spirits | 4.5 |
| Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition - Chapter II | 1.0 |
| Graupel (JPN) Fade Away | 3.5 |
| Cytotoxin Nuklearth | 4.0 |
| Indistinct Violent Ends | 3.0 |
| Within Destruction Yōkai | 3.0 |
| Gutrectomy Slaughter the Innocent | 3.0 |
| Black Crown Initiate Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape | 3.5 |
| Orbit Culture Nija | 4.0 |
| Good Tiger Raised in a Doomsday Cult | 4.0 |
| Crystal Lake The Voyages | 4.0 |
| Really good. Love that they did this. And it rips harder than a good chunk of their more recent stuff. |
| Taylor Swift Folklore | 1.0 |
| Haken Virus | 2.0 |
| Gulch Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress | 4.0 |
| Mortality Rate Sleep Deprivation (Remastered) | 4.0 |
| The Acacia Strain Slow Decay | 4.5 |
| Bury Tomorrow Cannibal | 3.5 |
| Left to Suffer A Year of Suffering | 3.5 |
| Hjärna Waves Infinite | 3.0 |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest | 3.0 |
| Nuvolascura As We Suffer From Memory and Imagination | 4.0 |
| Aversions Crown Hell Will Come For Us All | 3.5 |
| Darko (US) Dethmask, Pt. 1 | 4.0 |
| Currents The Way It Ends | 2.5 |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face | 4.5 |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 | 4.5 |
| Bleed from Within Fracture | 3.5 |
| The Ruins Of Beverast / Almyrkvi Almyrkvi / The Ruins Of Beverast (Split) | 4.0 |
| Hell, this is fucking magical. Was my first exposure with Almyrkvi, and I'm impressed. Classic Beverast doing whatever the hell it wants. |
| Harkla Ruktur | 3.0 |
| Kardashev The Baring of Shadows | 4.0 |
| Winterfylleth The Reckoning Dawn | 3.5 |
| Degrader The Wolf and the Serpent | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still | 3.5 |
| Tom Misch and Yussef Dayes What Kinda Music | 4.0 |
| Before I Turn Lovelorn: Moon | 2.5 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi | 4.0 |
| Methwitch Indwell | 4.0 |
| Aeternam Al Qassam | 4.0 |
| Wake Devouring Ruin | 4.5 |
| Childish Gambino 03.15.20 | 3.0 |
| Neck of the Woods The Annex of Ire | 4.0 |
| Mount Shrine Shortwave Ruins | 4.5 |
| Invent Animate Greyview | 4.0 |
| Wolfpack (FR) A.D. | 3.0 |
| Kruelty A Dying Truth | 3.5 |
| Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions | 3.0 |
| Saviour A Lunar Rose | 3.0 |
| Beneath the Massacre Fearmonger | 4.0 |
| The Motion Mosaic Avant-Garbage | 4.0 |
| Xenobiotic Mordrake | 4.0 |
| Omerta Hyperviolence | 3.0 |
| Reflections Willow | 3.5 |
| Sylosis Cycle of Suffering | 3.5 |
| Orthodox (TN) Let It Take Its Course | 3.5 |
| Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything | 4.0 |
| Krosis A Memoir of Free Will | 4.0 |
| Lorna Shore Immortal | 3.0 |
| Atena Drowning Regret & Lungs Filled with Water | 3.5 |
| Broadmoor Old Hurt//New Pain | 2.5 |
| Earthshatter 1135 | 2.5 |
| 2019 |
| headcave 1 | 4.0 |
| The Acacia Strain It Comes in Waves | 4.0 |
| Disfiguring the Goddess Katapillar | 2.0 |
| Kaytranada Bubba | 3.5 |
| Falling Asleep Dear Death | 4.0 |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race | 4.0 |
| Dead/Awake Dead/Awake | 4.0 |
| Lone Survivors Ground Zero | 4.0 |
| Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark | 4.5 |
| Hideous Divinity Simulacrum | 4.0 |
| Doja Cat Hot Pink | 3.0 |
| To The Grave Global Warning | 3.5 |
| Voyager Colours in the Sun | 1.0 |
| Stray from the Path Internal Atomics | 3.5 |
| Counterparts Nothing Left to Love | 4.5 |
| Wilderun Veil of Imagination | 4.5 |
| Shrine Of Malice Sheol | 2.0 |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean All Hail | 4.0 |
| Jinjer Macro | 4.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts | 4.5 |
| Stiu Nu Stiu Sick Sad Love | 4.5 |
| Thornhill The Dark Pool | 5.0 |
| The Great Old Ones Cosmicism | 4.0 |
| Xoth Interdimensional Invocations | 2.0 |
| Prison Still Alive | 3.0 |
| Uneven Structure Paragon | 4.0 |
Great album; I don't get the hate. Atmosphere is a little
smaller than previous releases, but songs each have more
punch/go a lot harder. Lots of memorable moments across --
some of my favourites are Hero, Innocent, Outlaw, and
Jester. The drum performances on this album alone are
amazing. |
| UnityTx MADBOY | 3.5 |
| Thousand Below Gone in Your Wake | 2.0 |
| Singularity (USA-AZ) Place of Chains | 3.0 |
| Signs Of The Swarm Vital Deprivation | 3.5 |
| Varials In Darkness | 4.0 |
| Gideon Out of Control | 4.0 |
| Seizures Reverie of the Revolving Diamond | 4.5 |
| Vukari Aevum | 3.5 |
| Car Bomb Mordial | 3.0 |
| Dayseeker Sleeptalk | 3.0 |
| Above, Below The Lotus Chapters | 3.5 |
| Godeater All Flesh Is Grass | 3.5 |
| John Coltrane Blue World | 4.5 |
| Codeine King Negative Space | 3.0 |
| Pangaea (USA) Vespr | 4.0 |
| White Ward Love Exchange Failure | 4.5 |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear | 4.5 |
| Cloud Rat Do Not Let Me off the Cliff | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence | 4.0 |
| Cloud Rat Pollinator | 4.0 |
| Void of Vision Hyperdaze | 4.5 |
| Infant Annihilator The Battle of Yaldabaoth | 3.5 |
| EarthGang Mirrorland | 4.5 |
| This probably should be more of a 3.7-3.9 mean. I reaaaaally enjoy it, would be at least a 4.0 in my own books. |
| Taylor Swift Lover | 1.0 |
| Aviana Epicenter | 3.0 |
| WRVTH No Rising Sun | 4.0 |
| Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue | 4.5 |
| Shadow Of Intent Melancholy | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Our Bones | 3.5 |
| Unprocessed Artificial Void | 4.0 |
| Yeah. This is exactly what I was looking for. Can?t wait to read through the lyrics, but wow. Blown away by how each song progresses the LP as a whole further and further. Takes me away to another place. |
| Touche Amore Dead Horse X | 4.5 |
| Humanity's Last Breath Abyssal | 3.0 |
| Russian Circles Blood Year | 3.5 |
| Weeping Wound Pain | 3.5 |
| Northlane Alien | 4.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Human Target | 3.0 |
| Sanction (NY) Broken In Refraction | 4.0 |
| Queen Kona Acropolis | 4.5 |
| Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance | 3.0 |
| Gravemind Conduit | 4.0 |
| Valis Ablaze Render | 4.0 |
| Our Common Collapse No Longer Human or Known | 3.5 |
| Oh, Sleeper Bloodied/Unbowed | 3.5 |
| Wear Your Wounds Rust on the Gates of Heaven | 4.0 |
| Brand of Sacrifice God Hand | 3.0 |
| Vulvodynia Mob Justice | 1.0 |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Bandana | 1.5 |
| Love Madlib, but I can't get behind Gibbs' homophobia. Just my personal feelings around it; rubs me the wrong way and I can't waste my time listening to it/pretending it isn't there. |
| He Is Legend White Bat | 4.5 |
| Huge record. Finally a throwback to looser song structure and variety. Returns to some of the best parts of I Am Hollywood (in atmosphere, structure, and tone) with the maintained heavier aspects of It Hates You. This is record I?ve been waiting a decade for, and I am stoked it has arrived! |
| Thom Yorke Anima | 4.0 |
| Fuming Mouth The Grand Descent | 3.0 |
| State Faults Clairvoyant | 4.5 |
| Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition - Chapter I: War, Horrid War | 1.0 |
| ATLVS Memoir | 3.0 |
| Flub Flub | 3.0 |
| As Cities Burn Scream Through the Walls | 3.0 |
| Pelican Nighttime Stories | 4.0 |
| Kinkajous Hidden Lines | 4.5 |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy World Of Sludge | 1.0 |
| AngelMaker AngelMaker | 3.0 |
| Denzel Curry Zuu | 3.5 |
| Deity's Muse Lungs Full | 3.5 |
| Really enjoyed this on a random listen when looking for South African metal. The mix is nice and overall sound gives me some The Ocean vibes with a little Circa Survive, which I can totally get behind. |
| The Gloom in The Corner Flesh & Bones | 4.0 |
| So much fun, so much bounce, so much wankery, too much, but just enough. |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Veleno | 3.5 |
| Beast Coast Escape From New York | 3.5 |
| Extortionist Extortionist | 3.5 |
| Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia | 4.0 |
| Verwoed De Val | 4.0 |
| Misthyrming Algleymi | 4.0 |
| Daybreak Godfather | 3.0 |
| Paleface Swiss Chapter 2: Witch King | 3.5 |
| Vulvodynia Anthropophagus | 1.0 |
| Vale of Pnath Accursed | 3.5 |
| Full of Hell Weeping Choir | 4.0 |
| Kurt Travis There's a Place I Want to Take You | 4.0 |
| While Hometown might not be the strongest song on this record, it?s not as bad as some might claim. |
| Diamond Construct Diamond Construct | 4.0 |
| Defeater Defeater | 3.5 |
| Mirrors (AUS) Cold Sanctuary | 3.5 |
| Warforged I: Voice | 4.5 |
Was super surprised to see the mean sitting at
3.6. I am floored I slept on this one. Brilliant
album. The chugs are absolutely evil and the
atmosphere is magical. The mix is absolutely
fucked in the best way. I love how the vocals sit
in low mid and slightly back. Fucks with me every
time. |
| Snotty Nose Rez Kids TRAPLINE | 4.5 |
| Osiah Kingdom of Lies | 4.0 |
| Monochromatic Black Pneuma | 4.0 |
| Illyria The Carpathian Summit | 3.5 |
| Mortality Rate You Were the Gasoline | 3.5 |
| Spiritbox Singles Collection | 4.0 |
| Dead To A Dying World Elegy | 3.0 |
| Allegaeon Apoptosis | 4.5 |
| Inter Arma Sulphur English | 3.5 |
| Numenorean Adore | 4.0 |
| Anderson .Paak Ventura | 4.0 |
| Vast improvement from Oxnard. Much more refined, though I might be going a little high with a 4; it's somewhere between 3.5-4. |
| Hath Of Rot And Ruin | 4.5 |
| Wow. This absolutely blew me away. 5ing for now. Definitely somewhere in that realm. |
| Beyond Deviation Dark Passenger | 4.0 |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan | 1.0 |
| Enterprise Earth Luciferous | 3.0 |
| Latitudes Part Island | 3.5 |
| Town Portal Of Violence | 4.5 |
| Whitechapel The Valley | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend Empath | 4.0 |
| Windwaker Empire | 3.0 |
| Degrader Burn You; Burn We | 3.0 |
| thoughtcrimes Tap Night | 3.5 |
| Extortionist Sever the Cord | 4.0 |
| Crafting the Conspiracy The Cosmic Key, Pt. I | 3.5 |
| Fallujah Undying Light | 4.0 |
Huge disagree with this LP's reception on Sputnik. Probably
biased because I appreciate the Spencer Chamberlain
emulation (as new Underoath still blows). However, as
someone who just started Fallujah's discography very
recently, this album moves away from the monotony of
previous albums. Yes, it lacks the atmosphere of The
Harvest Wombs, but it moves beyond the blandness of
Dreamless. |
| Equipoise Demiurgus | 4.0 |
| Misery Index Rituals of Power | 4.0 |
| Vimur Triumphant Master of Fates | 3.5 |
| ORO (SWE) Djupets kall | 4.0 |
| Can Bardd The Last Rain | 3.5 |
| Aenimus Dreamcatcher | 3.5 |
| Boundaries My Body in Bloom | 4.0 |
| Black Matter Device Hostile Architecture | 4.0 |
| Plaguebringer Diabolos | 4.0 |
| Slaps like trout that is trying to get away but will not. |
| Copeland Blushing | 4.0 |
| Various Artists Count Your Blessings: an Encore | 1.0 |
| Downfall of Gaia Ethic of Radical Finitude | 4.5 |
| Ithaca The Language of Injury | 4.5 |
| Soen Lotus | 3.0 |
| Astronoid Astronoid | 3.5 |
| Yugen Blakrok Anima Mysterium | 4.0 |
| DEAD KIWIS Systematic Home Run | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Amo | 1.0 |
| All of my critiques and moments of cringe aside, instrumentally this is not terrible (guitars could be more interesting) and vocals work well. My one critique that I cannot leave out, if BMTH could figure out how to write more interesting lyrics, then I would be sold. I think BMTH's audience might not really care for that though; I am definitely coming from a PoV that listened to BMTH prior to transformation, and the lyrics were still pretty terrible, which has perpetually left me on the fence with them. |
| Together to the Stars An Oblivion Above | 4.0 |
| The Undertaking! Scavengers | 3.0 |
| Jinjer Micro | 3.5 |
| Holehearted Hivemind | 4.0 |
| Desolate (USA-NY) Oyasumi Vol. 1 | 4.5 |
| Rosetta Sower of Wind | 3.0 |
| 2018 |
| Currents I Let the Devil In | 3.0 |
| Frostbitt Solbrent | 4.0 |
| Wow. Ashes is probably the best delivery I've heard operatic singing over metal/djent. Really solid LP. |
| Svartidaudi Revelations of the Red Sword | 4.0 |
| Monasteries Pulmonary Failure | 3.5 |
| Crystal Lake Helix | 3.5 |
| Black Thought Streams Of Thought, Vol. 2 | 4.5 |
| Unearth Extinction(s) | 3.5 |
| Queen Kona Desecration of the Universe | 4.0 |
| Anderson .Paak Oxnard | 2.5 |
| Sigh Heir to Despair | 3.0 |
| Portrayal of Guilt Let Pain Be Your Guide | 4.0 |
| Muse Simulation Theory | 2.0 |
| Cult Leader A Patient Man | 3.5 |
| Stellar Circuits Ways We Haunt | 3.5 |
| Architects Holy Hell | 4.0 |
| Silent Planet When the End Began | 2.0 |
| Sylvaine Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone | 3.0 |
| I AM Hard 2 Kill | 3.5 |
| Noise Trail Immersion Symbology of Shelter | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic | 5.0 |
| Serocs The Phobos / Deimos Suite | 3.5 |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want | 4.0 |
| Shad A Short Story About A War | 4.5 |
| Gotsu Totsu Kotsu The Final Stand | 4.0 |
| Open Mike Eagle What Happens When I Try to Relax | 3.5 |
| Sever The King Outbreak (Remixed & Remastered) | 4.0 |
| Before I Turn Claustrophobic | 3.5 |
| Allelic The Smoke of Atavistic Fires | 3.0 |
| Cloud Rat Clipped Beaks | 3.0 |
| Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream | 2.5 |
| Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest | 4.0 |
| High on Fire Electric Messiah | 4.0 |
| 'Spewn From The Earth' needs a longer solo. *salty tears* |
| Carpe Noctem Vitrun | 4.0 |
| Atlas (FIN) Primitive | 4.0 |
| Horrendous Idol | 4.5 |
| Shrine Of Malice Malignance | 3.0 |
| Milo Budding Ornithologists Are Weary Of Tired Analogie | 4.0 |
| Thrice Palms | 1.5 |
| Irreversible Mechanism Immersion | 3.5 |
| Holy Fawn Death Spells | 4.0 |
| Attan End Of | 3.5 |
| VCTMS Vol. III: Halfway Happy | 3.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Is This Thing Cursed? | 3.5 |
| The Pineapple Thief Dissolution | 3.5 |
| AVOID Alone | 3.5 |
| Iskald Innhøstinga | 4.0 |
| Great production and riffs. Definitely not exclusively black metal. |
| IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance | 4.0 |
| Armand Hammer Paraffin | 4.0 |
| Thou Magus | 4.5 |
| Interpol Marauder | 2.5 |
| Jesus Piece Only Self | 3.5 |
| Sleep Waker Don't Look at the Moon | 3.0 |
| ERRA Neon | 3.0 |
| Nataanii Means Balance | 4.0 |
| Tides of Man Every Nothing | 2.5 |
My individual song average stands just above a 3, but I felt like there was a lack of
cohesiveness throughout my first listen. It could just be me. I will come back eventually;
I want to be convinced this is a new and interesting direction, but all I feel at the
moment is monotony. There are tracks on 'Young and Courageous' that I connect with more
(especially on the front half).
Enjoyed tracks: 'Static Hymn', 'New Futures', and
'Everything is Fine, Everyone is Happy'. |
| Soreption Monument of the End | 3.0 |
| Nostrum Grocers Nostrum Grocers | 4.0 |
Initially I was listening to this record about 3-4 times a week. Every track found its way
to me in a unique/different way during each listen. It's probably settled somewhere between
a 4-4.5. |
| Mire Lore Marrow Leech | 3.5 |
| Frontierer Unloved | 3.0 |
| Denzel Curry TA13OO | 4.5 |
| Mount Shrine Winter Restlessness | 3.5 |
| Thou Rhea Sylvia | 3.5 |
| Mutilation Rites Chasm | 3.5 |
| Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light | 4.0 |
| Filth (NC) The Burden of Isolation | 3.0 |
| Chelsea Grin Eternal Nightmare | 3.0 |
| Bury Tomorrow Black Flame | 3.0 |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love | 3.5 |
| Marlowe Marlowe | 3.5 |
| Hopesfall Arbiter | 4.0 |
| Birds in Row We Already Lost the World | 4.5 |
| A Crowd of Rebellion Ill | 4.0 |
| Xavlegbmaofffassssit.... Gore 2.0 | 2.0 |
| Graupel (JPN) Bereavement | 4.0 |
| Falling Asleep My Heart Still Goes On | 4.0 |
| Converge Beautiful Ruin | 3.5 |
| Hollow Front Still Life | 4.5 |
| Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep | 5.0 |
| Impending Doom The Sin and Doom Vol. II | 3.0 |
| Vein.fm Errorzone | 4.0 |
| Grottos Тетис / Tethys | 4.0 |
| Code Orange The Hurt Will Go On | 1.0 |
| Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit | 3.5 |
| Busdriver Electricity Is on Our Side | 3.5 |
| I, Of Helix Conditions | 4.0 |
| Alien Weaponry Tū | 3.0 |
| Anthony Green Would You Still Be In Love | 3.5 |
| Robohands Green | 4.0 |
| Svalbard It's Hard to Have Hope | 3.5 |
| Brand of Sacrifice Interstice | 4.0 |
| Paleface Swiss Chapter 1: From the Gallows | 1.0 |
| The Armed Only Love | 3.0 |
| LLNN Deads | 3.5 |
| TesseracT Sonder | 3.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Ember | 1.5 |
| Unprocessed Covenant | 4.0 |
| Love Millenium, The Mirror, and Exhale. Exhale has got to be one of the strongest guest spots on a metal LP that I?ve ever heard; fuuuuuuuck. |
| Depths Endless | 4.0 |
| I love ancient world concept albums, and Depths' has the atmospheric quality to pull it off well. Brutal, Kiwi deathcore. |
| Underoath Erase Me | 2.0 |
| I've changed my mind so many times over the past year. It's not what I wanted in the progression of UO (but I've got bands who do that for me now), but I can't deny there are some big songs on this and the production is pretty excellent. Just a song here or there that could be a bit more exciting. Still better than TOCS, imo. |
| Bleed from Within Era | 4.0 |
| Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness | 4.0 |
| Winterfylleth The Hallowing of Heirdom | 4.0 |
| Orbit Culture Redfog | 4.0 |
| Palm Reader Braille | 4.5 |
| Jeremy Dutcher Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa | 5.0 |
| Brilliant. I love the original samples of Wolastoqey used throughout the LP. Needs more attention! |
| Within Destruction Deathwish | 3.5 |
| Jean Grae/Quelle Chris Everything's Fine | 4.5 |
| Nightmarer Cacophony of Terror | 3.5 |
| Casey Where I Go When I Am Sleeping | 4.0 |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name | 4.5 |
| Darkness Divided The End of It All | 3.5 |
| Krosis Solem Vatem | 3.5 |
| Eternal Void Catharsis (Reissue) | 3.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 4.0 |
| Wow, I might need to give this one at least 2-4 more listens to do it justice. I'm feeling this is in the high 3s to mid 4 range, with the potential of being a 5. Only time will tell. Every track is unique and diverse. |
| The Great Divide Linger over, Linger on | 4.0 |
| Vexes Ancient Geometry | 3.5 |
| Conjurer (UK) Mire | 4.5 |
| The Plot In You Dispose | 3.0 |
| Thornhill Butterfly | 4.0 |
| Erdve Vaitojimas | 3.5 |
| Agrimonia Awaken | 3.0 |
| Supaman Illuminatives | 4.0 |
| 2017 |
| Gutrectomy Slampocalypse | 2.5 |
| The Faceless In Becoming a Ghost | 3.0 |
| Glassjaw Material Control | 4.0 |
| Almyrkvi Umbra | 3.5 |
| Aosoth V: The Inside Scriptures | 3.5 |
| Godflesh Post Self | 4.0 |
| Cryptodira The Devil's Despair | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Reputation | 1.0 |
| Signs Of The Swarm The Disfigurement Of Existence | 3.0 |
| Converge The Dusk in Us | 4.5 |
| Winds of Plague Blood of My Enemy | 3.5 |
| Kardashev The Almanac | 4.0 |
| Mammal Hands Shadow Work | 4.5 |
| Spiritbox Spiritbox | 4.5 |
| Veil of Maya False Idol | 3.5 |
| Degrader From the Inside Out | 3.5 |
| Cursed Earth Cycles of Grief: The Complete Collection | 4.0 |
| Amenra Mass VI | 4.5 |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead Disomus | 3.5 |
| In Dying Arms In Dying Arms (Remake) | 4.0 |
| Thousand Below The Love You Let Too Close | 2.5 |
| Tired scene. Sounds like a mix of Before Their Eyes, Burden of a Day, and mid-Saosin. |
| To Kill Achilles Anywhere But Here | 4.0 |
| Iglooghost Neo Wax Bloom | 4.0 |
| ARTERIES (AUS) This Will Destroy Us | 3.0 |
| Snotty Nose Rez Kids The Average Savage | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive The Amulet | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun | 4.0 |
| Counterparts You're Not You Anymore | 4.0 |
| Sufferer Sufferer | 4.5 |
| Rebecca Black RE/BL | 1.0 |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant | 4.5 |
| I love the atmosphere of this entire album. The vocals are solid and refreshing, and instrumentation is unparalleled. |
| Stray from the Path Only Death Is Real | 3.5 |
| Helpless Debt | 4.0 |
| Rosetta Utopioid | 3.0 |
| Septicflesh Codex Omega | 4.0 |
| Frank Waln The Bridge | 4.0 |
| "Back to the Beginning" definitely had me in tears. Great album. |
| Unseen Faith Waver | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Villains | 3.5 |
| Sacred Son Sacred Son | 4.0 |
| Real good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good metal. |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Finisterre | 4.5 |
| Where the fuck have you been all my life?!!?!???!?!? |
| Thy Art Is Murder Dear Desolation | 3.5 |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 3.0 |
| devthbed The Atlas | 3.0 |
| Varials Pain Again | 3.5 |
| Milo Who Told You To Think??!!?!?!?! | 4.0 |
| Sanction (NY) The Infringement Of God's Plan | 4.0 |
| Wage War Deadweight | 2.5 |
| Converge I Can Tell You About Pain | 5.0 |
| Oceans Ate Alaska Hikari | 3.5 |
| How to Disappear Completely Mer de Revs II | 4.0 |
| Daybreak Death Dreams | 4.0 |
| Weeping Wound Growth | 3.0 |
| Silverstein Dead Reflection | 2.0 |
| Northern Ghost Happy : Sad : Depressed : Suicidal | 2.5 |
| Sworn In All Smiles | 1.0 |
| Deafcult Auras | 3.0 |
| The Acacia Strain Gravebloom | 3.5 |
| Currents The Place I Feel Safest | 3.5 |
| Hundredth Rare | 3.5 |
| Volumes Different Animals | 2.5 |
| Billy Woods Known Unknowns | 3.5 |
| Boundaries Hartford County Misery | 2.5 |
| Vacant Home Reflect, Respond | 4.5 |
| A Trust Unclean Parturition | 3.0 |
| Drewsif Stalin's Musical Endeavors Anhedonia | 4.5 |
| Windwaker Fade | 2.5 |
| Progenie Terrestre Pura oltreLuna | 4.0 |
| Orthodox (TN) Sounds of Loss | 3.5 |
| Obscure Of Acacia The Biggest Lie | 2.0 |
| It?s 2019, stop violence against drum machines. Come on. |
| Oceano Revelation | 3.0 |
| Wear Your Wounds Dunedevil | 3.0 |
| Voyager Ghost Mile | 1.0 |
| Gideon Cold | 3.5 |
| White Ward Futility Report | 4.5 |
| Stillborn Knowledge. Holy fuck. I never knew brass could be implemented so well into the climax of a blackgaze song. These folks fucking shred . |
| Slaughter To Prevail Misery Sermon | 1.0 |
| At the Drive-In in•ter a•li•a | 3.0 |
| The Ruins of Beverast Exuvia | 4.5 |
| Vulfpeck Mr. Finish Line | 3.5 |
| He Is Legend few | 3.5 |
| Shadow Of Intent Reclaimer | 4.0 |
| Hideous Divinity Adveniens | 4.0 |
| Outrun the Sunlight Red Bird | 3.5 |
| Uneven Structure La Partition | 4.0 |
| How to Disappear Completely Mer de Revs I | 4.0 |
| Enterprise Earth Embodiment | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 3.5 |
| Wear Your Wounds WYW | 2.5 |
| Telepathy Tempest | 4.5 |
| Imminence This Is Goodbye | 2.5 |
| Heretoir The Circle | 4.0 |
| Northlane Mesmer | 3.5 |
| Dropped it from my initial rating(s) of 4-4.5 down to 3. Some fun tracks, but definitely leaves a lot to be desired and shows very little growth in relation to their previous releases. |
| VCTMS Vol. II: Inside the Mind | 3.5 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse | 4.5 |
| Emmure Look At Yourself | 1.5 |
| Converge Jane Live | 4.0 |
| Harkla Necrosis | 2.0 |
| Oddisee The Iceberg | 4.0 |
| Extortionist The Decline | 4.0 |
| Spirit Breaker Human Nature | 4.5 |
| The vocal variety on this LP is amazing. Really great find! |
| I AM Life Through Torment | 3.5 |
| Serenity in Murder The Eclipse | 4.0 |
| Elucid Valley of Grace | 4.0 |
| Echopraxia Candle Cove | 2.5 |
| Filth (NC) God Has a Plan | 3.5 |
| Aversions Crown Xenocide | 3.5 |
| Aviana Polarize | 4.0 |
| Code Orange Forever | 2.0 |
| Saviour Let Me Leave | 2.5 |
| Above, Below The Sowers of Discord | 4.0 |
| Snotty Nose Rez Kids Snotty Nose Rez Kids | 4.0 |
| Denzel Curry and BADBADNOTGOOD Ultimate / Sick & Tired | 4.0 |
| JID The Never Story | 4.5 |
