| 2014 |
| Ghostface Killah 36 Seasons | 4.0 |
| PRhyme PRhyme | 4.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan A Better Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| Glass Bones Loner | 4.0 |
| Primordial Where Greater Men Have Fallen | 4.0 |
| Hail Mary Mallon Bestiary | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters Sonic Highways | 3.5 |
| Usnea Random Cosmic Violence | 3.5 |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God II | 3.5 |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God I | 4.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel | 4.5 |
| Kenn Nardi Dancing With the Past | 4.0 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)/Joie De Vivre Split | 4.0 |
| Full of Hell and Merzbow Full of Hell and Merzbow | 4.0 |
| The Smith Street Band Throw Me in the River | 3.5 |
| Mono The Last Dawn | 3.5 |
| Mono Rays of Darkness | 3.5 |
| At the Gates At War with Reality | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 | 4.0 |
| Giant Squid Minoans | 4.0 |
| Generation of Vipers Coffin Wisdom | 4.0 |
| Horrendous Ecdysis | 4.0 |
| Beyond Creation Earthborn Evolution | 3.5 |
| Primus Primus and The Chocolate Factory With The Fungi Ensemble | 3.5 |
| Oozing Wound Earth Suck | 4.0 |
| Revocation Deathless | 3.5 |
| Kittyhawk Hello, Again | 3.5 |
| Inter Arma The Cavern | 4.0 |
| Melvins Hold It In | 4.0 |
| Today Is the Day Animal Mother | 4.0 |
| Dads I’ll Be The Tornado | 3.5 |
| Single Mothers Negative Qualities | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Between Bodies | 3.5 |
| Godflesh A World Lit Only by Fire | 4.0 |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! | 4.0 |
| Orange Goblin Back from the Abyss | 4.0 |
| Vince Staples Hell Can Wait | 4.0 |
| Iceage Plowing into the Field of Love | 3.5 |
| Fuck the Facts Abandoned | 4.0 |
| Witch Mountain Mobile of Angels | 3.5 |
| Electric Wizard Time to Die | 4.0 |
| Black Crown Initiate The Wreckage of Stars | 4.0 |
| Temple of Void Of Terror And The Supernatural | 4.0 |
| NehruvianDOOM NehruvianDOOM | 3.0 |
| Free Throw Those Days Are Gone | 3.5 |
| Busdriver Perfect Hair | 4.0 |
| Death From Above 1979 The Physical World | 4.0 |
| Tiny Moving Parts Pleasant Living | 4.0 |
| YOB Clearing The Path To Ascend | 3.5 |
| Code Orange I Am King | 4.0 |
| Opeth Pale Communion | 4.0 |
| Maybeshewill Fair Youth | 3.5 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) You Will Eventually Be Forgotten | 3.5 |
| Pallbearer Foundations of Burden | 4.0 |
| Aviator Head In The Clouds, Hands In The Dirt | 4.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Get Hurt | 3.5 |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Third Album | 4.0 |
| Prawn Kingfisher | 4.0 |
| Bolzer Soma | 4.0 |
| Armand Hammer Furtive Movements | 4.0 |
| Another few months, another solid Billy Woods release. The best underground rapper around right now. |
| Secret Band Secret Band | 4.0 |
| Overkill White Devil Armory | 3.5 |
| Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again | 3.5 |
| Rx Bandits Gemini, Her Majesty | 3.5 |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails | 4.0 |
| Dog Fashion Disco Sweet Nothings | 4.0 |
| United Nations The Next Four Years | 4.0 |
| Origin Omnipresent | 3.5 |
| '68 In Humor and Sadness | 4.0 |
| Goatwhore Constricting Rage of the Merciless | 4.0 |
| Bongripper Miserable | 3.0 |
| This is so boring compared to SWD. What happened to these guys? |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown | 4.0 |
| Sadistik Ultraviolet | 4.0 |
| Me Versus I Following Feathers | 4.0 |
| Septicflesh Titan | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 4.0 |
| Hard Girls A Thousand Surfaces | 4.0 |
| Serdce Timelessness | 3.5 |
| Wo Fat The Conjuring | 4.0 |
| White Lung Deep Fantasy | 4.0 |
| Boris Noise | 4.0 |
| Tombs Savage Gold | 3.5 |
| clipping. CLPPNG | 4.0 |
| The Atlas Moth The Old Believer | 4.0 |
| Trap Them Blissfucker | 4.0 |
| Open Mike Eagle Dark Comedy | 4.0 |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part I: Niggas on the Moon | 3.5 |
| Saor Aura | 4.0 |
| Parquet Courts Sunbathing Animal | 3.5 |
| Fucked Up Glass Boys | 4.0 |
| Xibalba/Suburban Scum Split | 3.5 |
| Vader Tibi et Igni | 3.5 |
| Eyehategod Eyehategod | 4.0 |
| Enabler La Fin Absolue Du Monde | 4.0 |
| Young and in the Way When Life Comes to Death | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Symmetry in Black | 4.0 |
| Godflesh Decline and Fall | 4.0 |
| La Armada Crisis | 4.0 |
| Ripping metallic hardcore from the Chicago underground. This group of Dominican immigrants should be way bigger. |
| The Roots ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin | 3.5 |
| Old Gray/Tiny Moving Parts Split | 4.0 |
| Only Crime Pursuance | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys Turn Blue | 4.0 |
| Bane Don't Wait Up | 4.0 |
| Hour of Penance Regicide | 4.0 |
| That snare tone is abysmal but otherwise it's what we've come to expect from Hour of Penance. High-speed heavy jams that get a bit monotonous, but are great if you're in the mood. |
| Swans To Be Kind | 4.5 |
| Closure in Moscow Pink Lemonade | 3.5 |
| Atmosphere Southsiders | 3.5 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD III | 4.0 |
| Dead Congregation Promulgation of the Fall | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Total Fucking Darkness [Remastered] | 4.0 |
| So Hideous Last Poem/First Light | 3.5 |
| Autopsy Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves | 4.0 |
| Frameworks Loom | 4.0 |
| Wovenhand Refractory Obdurate | 4.0 |
| Fu Manchu Gigantoid | 4.0 |
| I don't get what people dislike about this. Same old Fu Manchu, still groovin'. |
| Lord Mantis Death Mask | 4.0 |
| The Menzingers Rented World | 3.5 |
| Fucked Up Year of the Dragon | 4.0 |
| Cult Leader Nothing for Us Here | 4.0 |
| Triptykon Melana Chasmata | 4.0 |
| Protomartyr Under Color of Official Right | 3.5 |
| Cormorant Earth Diver | 4.0 |
| Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else | 4.0 |
| CunninLynguists Strange Journey Vol. 3 | 4.0 |
| Pyrrhon The Mother of Virtues | 4.0 |
| Plebeian Grandstand Lowgazers | 4.0 |
| The Hold Steady Teeth Dreams | 3.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 3.5 |
| Thou Heathen | 4.0 |
| Owls Two | 4.0 |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House | 4.0 |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Pinata | 4.0 |
| Iselia II: Dawn | 4.0 |
| Dangers 5 O'Clock Shadows At The Edge Of The Western World | 3.5 |
| Is it just me/Spotify or is the production really muddled? |
| The Men Tomorrow's Hits | 3.5 |
| Conan Blood Eagle | 3.5 |
| Nai Harvest Hold Open My Head | 3.5 |
| Morbus Chron Sweven | 4.0 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 4.0 |
| GridLink Longhena | 4.0 |
| Slough Feg Digital Resistance | 3.5 |
| Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation | 3.5 |
| Vales Wilt And Rise | 4.0 |
| Benighted Carnivore Sublime | 3.5 |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us | 4.0 |
| Modern Baseball You’re Gonna Miss It All | 3.5 |
| A low 3.5. I think I like my generic emo more on the noodly side than the pop-punky side. |
| Joie de Vivre/Prawn Split | 4.0 |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji | 4.0 |
| Love American Hollow Crosses | 4.0 |
| Yautja Songs of Descent | 4.0 |
| Les Claypool's Duo de Twang Four Foot Shack | 3.0 |
| Corpsessed Abysmal Thresholds | 4.0 |
| Grand Magus Triumph and Power | 2.5 |
| Adventures/Run Forever Split | 4.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything | 4.0 |
| Lvcifyre Svn Eater | 3.5 |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues | 4.0 |
| Hail Spirit Noir Oi Magoi | 4.0 |
| Ethereal Riffian Aeonian | 4.0 |
| Indian From All Purity | 4.0 |
| Backtrack Lost In Life | 3.0 |
| You Blew It! Keep Doing What You’re Doing | 3.5 |
| Self Defense Family Try Me | 3.0 |
| lovechild In Heaven, Everything is Fine | 4.0 |
| Manners Pale Blue Light | 4.0 |
| I Kill Giants No One Will Ever Leave You | 3.5 |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien Iller Than Most | 4.0 |
| lovechild Migraine Music | 4.0 |
| Stargazer (AUS) A Merging to the Boundless | 4.0 |
| I'm not really digging the production but as expected, interesting songs and fantastic bass playing. Also, what the hell? StarGazer had nothing to do with the creation of technical death metal. |
| 2013 |
| City Of Ifa City of Ifa | 4.0 |
| Deicide In the Minds of Evil | 3.5 |
| Celeste Animale(s) | 3.5 |
| Death Grips Government Plates | 3.5 |
| State Faults Resonate/Desperate | 4.0 |
| Foxing The Albatross | 4.0 |
| Weekend Nachos Still | 4.0 |
| Obliteration Black Death Horizon | 4.0 |
| Melvins Tres Cabrones | 3.5 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Partycrasher | 4.0 |
| Soft Play Sugar Coated Bitter Truth | 4.0 |
| Jonwayne Rap Album One | 3.5 |
| Good but nothing really hits me the way the Marion Morrison tape does. |
| Russian Circles Memorial | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Volition | 4.0 |
| A Lot Like Birds No Place | 4.0 |
| Warbringer IV: Empires Collapse | 4.0 |
| Bars of Gold Wheels | 4.0 |
| Inquisition Obscure Verses for the Multiverse | 4.0 |
| This has all of the riffs of the year. Definitely my favorite Inquisition release. |
| Armand Hammer Race Music | 4.0 |
| Cruel Hand Born Into Debt, We All Owe A Death | 4.0 |
| Doomriders Grand Blood | 3.5 |
| Black Milk No Poison No Paradise | 3.5 |
| Pelican Forever Becoming | 4.0 |
| Oozing Wound Retrash | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Lightning Bolt | 3.5 |
| Melt-Banana Fetch | 4.0 |
| Pusha T My Name Is My Name | 3.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech | 3.5 |
| Tim Kasher Adult Film | 3.5 |
| Sounds like more recent Cursive but with less intricate musicianship. |
| Danny Brown Old | 4.0 |
| Deltron 3030 Event II | 4.0 |
| Noire Dark Reverence | 4.0 |
| Vic Mensa INNANETAPE | 3.5 |
| Jesu Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By | 4.0 |
| Into It. Over It. Intersections | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal II | 3.0 |
| Stray from the Path Anonymous | 3.5 |
| Ulcerate Vermis | 4.0 |
| Elvis Costello Wise Up Ghost | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Origins | 3.5 |
| 65daysofstatic Wild Light | 4.0 |
| Carcass Surgical Steel | 4.0 |
| Grave Miasma Odori Sepulcrorum | 4.0 |
| Best death metal album of 2013 not by a legendary band. |
| Flatbush Zombies BetterOffDEAD | 3.5 |
| Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks | 3.5 |
| Modern Life Is War Fever Hunting | 4.0 |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 4.5 |
| Haken The Mountain | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo | 4.0 |
| "The Black Stone" is everything I hate about Kayo Dot distilled into one song, but it improves massively from there. Some boring moments here and there, but overall a solid album. |
| Del Paxton Worst. Summer. Ever. | 3.5 |
| O'Brother Disillusion | 3.5 |
| ASAP Ferg Trap Lord | 3.5 |
| Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros | 4.0 |
| Native Orthodox | 4.0 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Labyrinth | 3.5 |
| !T.O.O.H.! Democratic Solution | 3.0 |
| Well they're certainly no less bizarre than when they left us eight years ago. But it's not nearly as compelling as Rad a Trest. |
| Dowsing I Don't Even Care Anymore | 3.5 |
| Rosetta The Anaesthete | 3.5 |
| The Greenery It's Looking Grim | 4.0 |
| Revocation Revocation | 3.5 |
| Witherscape The Inheritance | 3.5 |
| Sed Non Satiata Mappo | 4.0 |
| Sparrows Cold Ground | 3.5 |
| Exhumed Necrocracy | 4.0 |
| Jonwayne Cassette 3: Marion Morrison Mixtape | 4.0 |
| Gogol Bordello Pura Vida Conspiracy | 3.0 |
| Counterparts The Difference Between Hell and Home | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Absent Light | 3.5 |
| Drug Church Paul Walker | 4.0 |
| Crash of Rhinos Knots | 4.0 |
| Defeater Letters Home | 4.0 |
| Thundercat Apocalypse | 4.0 |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful | 4.0 |
| One Hundred Year Ocean Where Were You While We Were Getting High? | 4.0 |
| Autopsy The Headless Ritual | 4.0 |
| Owen L'Ami du Peuple | 4.0 |
| Billy Woods Dour Candy | 4.0 |
| Joey Badass Summer Knights | 3.5 |
| The Reptilian Low Health | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 4.5 |
El-P continues to cement his legacy as the greatest producer of the 21st century. Whereas R.A.P. Music was great in part because of how unexpected it was, Mike and El defend their 2012 "hip-hop album of the year" crown as unsurprisingly as Shaq and Kobe.
Also it's "do dope, fuck hope" not hoes you morons. |
| Palms Palms | 3.5 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Dawning | 4.0 |
| Dessa Parts of Speech | 4.0 |
| Orphaned Land All Is One | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever | 4.0 |
| Adventures Clear My Head With You | 4.0 |
| Fuck the Facts Amer | 4.0 |
| Noisem Agony Defined | 4.0 |
| Action Bronson Saaab Stories | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit The Migration | 4.0 |
| Integrity Suicide Black Snake | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.0 |
| Power Trip Manifest Decimation | 4.0 |
| The Saddest Landscape Exit Wounded | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath 13 | 4.0 |
| Church of Misery Thy Kingdom Scum | 4.0 |
| Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire Kismet | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 4.0 |
| Full of Hell Rudiments of Mutilation | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | 3.5 |
| Kylesa Ultraviolet | 4.0 |
| Lantern (FIN) Below | 4.0 |
| Death metal with an atmosphere that just sucks you in. Definitely an improvement upon Subterranean Effulgence. These guys have potential. |
| Leprous Coal | 3.0 |
| Monotheist Genesis Of Perdition | 3.5 |
| Svart Crown Profane | 4.0 |
| Satan Life Sentence | 4.0 |
| Polkadot Cadaver Last Call in Jonestown | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.0 |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled | 4.0 |
| Bolzer Aura | 4.0 |
| Enemies Embark Embrace | 3.5 |
| Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy | 4.0 |
| I Speak In Calculus Giant Ash of the Earth | 3.5 |
| The Amenta Flesh Is Heir | 4.0 |
| Palm Reader Bad Weather | 4.0 |
| Arsis Unwelcome | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve | 4.0 |
| Coliseum Sister Faith | 4.0 |
| Chance the Rapper Acid Rap | 4.0 |
| Monarque Lys Noir | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 4.0 |
| Tigers Jaw/Code Orange/Self Defense Family/TWIABP 4-Way Split | 3.0 |
| Gozu The Fury Of A Patient Man | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore/Title Fight Split | 3.5 |
| Their / They're / There Their / They're / There | 4.0 |
| Loma Prieta/Raein Split | 4.0 |
| I Kill Giants I Kill Giants | 4.0 |
| Tera Melos X'ed Out | 4.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die | 4.0 |
| Zozobra Savage Masters | 4.0 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.0 |
| Caravels Lacuna | 3.5 |
| Barrow Though I'm Alone | 4.0 |
| Kvelertak Meir | 4.0 |
| Nai Harvest Whatever | 3.5 |
| Clutch Earth Rocker | 4.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures | 3.5 |
| A step down from the previous two albums (and the Letters EP), but still an enjoyable ride. |
| KEN mode Entrench | 4.0 |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations | 4.0 |
| Inter Arma Sky Burial | 4.0 |
| Old Gray An Autobiography | 4.0 |
| David Bowie The Next Day | 4.0 |
| Boris Präparat | 3.0 |
| Enforcer Death By Fire | 3.5 |
| The Men New Moon | 3.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Mass & Volume | 3.0 |
| Tribulation The Formulas of Death | 3.5 |
| Braid/Balance and Composure Split | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) | 4.0 |
| Perspectives Blind | 4.0 |
| Krypts Unending Degradation | 3.5 |
| Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam | 4.0 |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 4.0 |
| Sadistik Flowers for My Father | 4.0 |
| Baptists Bushcraft | 4.0 |
| CZARFACE CZARFACE | 4.0 |
| Rika How to Draw a River, Step by Step | 3.5 |
| Sacriphyx The Western Front | 3.5 |
| HRVRD From the Bird's Cage | 3.5 |
| Frameworks Small Victories | 4.0 |
| Defeated Sanity Passages Into Deformity | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 3.5 |
| Old Funeral Our Condolences (1988-1992) | 3.5 |
| Pomegranate Tiger Entities | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 4.0 |
| Cultes Des Ghoules Henbane | 4.0 |
| Vorum Poisoned Void | 4.0 |
| Wartorn Iconic Nightmare | 3.5 |
| TTNG 13.0.0.0.0 | 4.0 |
| Riverside Shrine Of New Generation Slaves | 3.5 |
| Brave Bird Maybe You, No One Else Worth It | 4.0 |
| Comadre Comadre | 4.0 |
| Katalepsy Autopsychosis | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore/Pianos Become the Teeth Split | 4.0 |
| Mechina Empyrean | 3.5 |
| Antediluvian λόγος | 3.5 |
