| 2023 |
| Xibalba Aztlán | 4.0 |
| The Place of Fear is fuckin crazy man. This may be the best this band has ever sounded. |
| Panopticon The Rime of Memory | 4.5 |
| Danny Brown Quaranta | 4.0 |
| Wayfarer American Gothic | 4.0 |
| Westside Gunn And Then You Pray for Me | 3.5 |
Would’ve been better as two separate projects, varies in quality between amazing conductor beats and killer features to
the most boring trap beats I’ve heard in years with the most phoned in features. |
| Armand Hammer We Buy Diabetic Test Strips | 4.5 |
| MIKE, Wiki, and The Alchemist Faith Is A Rock | 4.0 |
| Mayors a cop is in the running for hip hop SOTY, the rest ain?t too shabby either |
| Baroness Stone | 4.0 |
| GridLink Coronet Juniper | 4.0 |
| TesseracT War of Being | 4.0 |
| Blood Incantation Luminescent Bridge | 4.0 |
| Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy As Gomorrah Burns | 2.5 |
| Slowdive Everything is Alive | 4.0 |
| Sprain The Lamb As Effigy | 4.0 |
| The Armed Perfect Saviors | 3.5 |
| Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist Voir Dire | 3.5 |
| Genesis Owusu Struggler | 3.5 |
| Lacking the dynamics and the experimentation of SWNT but loving the live band feel of it. Could see this being a grower for sure. |
| Mick Jenkins The Patience | 4.0 |
| Travis Scott Utopia | 3.0 |
| Outer Heaven Infinite Psychic Depths | 4.0 |
| Blackbraid Blackbraid II | 3.5 |
| Chepang Swatta | 4.0 |
| Ebony Pendant Ebony Pendant | 4.0 |
| Killer Mike Michael | 3.0 |
| Sigur Ros ÁTTA | 4.0 |
| Protomartyr Formal Growth in the Desert | 4.0 |
| Spy Satisfaction | 4.0 |
| Thantifaxath Hive Mind Narcosis | 4.5 |
| Saya Gray QWERTY | 3.5 |
| Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden | 1.5 |
| The Ocean Holocene | 3.5 |
| Frozen Soul Glacial Domination | 3.5 |
| The Acacia Strain Step Into The Light | 3.5 |
| The Acacia Strain Failure Will Follow | 4.0 |
| Conway the Machine Won't He Do It | 3.5 |
| Billy Woods and Kenny Segal Maps | 4.0 |
| Predatory Void Seven Keys To The Discomfort of Being | 4.0 |
| Lamp of Murmuur Saturnian Bloodstorm | 3.5 |
| ICECOLDBISHOP GENERATIONAL CURSE | 4.0 |
| Can?t properly describe what a surprise this record was. Dynamic delivery, fun (sometimes absolutely GRIMY) beats, some hard ass bars. Can?t wait to see what this dude does next. |
| JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown Scaring the Hoes | 4.5 |
| 100 Gecs 10,000 gecs | 1.0 |
| Yves Tumor Praise a Lord Who Chews, But Does Not Consume... | 4.0 |
| MSPAINT Post-American | 3.5 |
| Majesties Vast Reaches Unclaimed | 3.0 |
| Rome Streetz Wasn't Built in a Day | 4.0 |
| Zulu A New Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| Code Orange What Is Really Underneath? | 1.0 |
| Ulthar Anthronomicon | 4.5 |
| Ulthar Helionomicon | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance (Revisited) | 4.0 |
Oh man this was a nostalgia voyage. New production is cleaner and you can really hear what the individual
instruments are doing, which is sick, but it definitely lacks the raw bite that made it hit so hard in the first place.
Most of the vocal changes are basically what you’ve heard dude do live on these songs for the last 12 or so
years, for better or for worse.
Love all the little ambient additions in the mix. Drums are 10/10, Riley completely kills it, especially considering
he played basically the same punk beat on every song on the first 3 LPs. Lot of cool shit going on with the bass
as well, which you couldn’t really pick out in the OG mix, aside from maybe the bass line in stare at the sun.
Dustin ranges from absolutely immense to utterly cringe inducing within the album. The most egregious being the
slightly slower “Thrice plays worship music” rendition of the already a little too poppy for my taste title track. I
barely made it through the beginning of that one, but figured i would see the whole record through.
The guest spots are a really cool idea and the selections are very respectable and exciting, but they are limited to
a handful of vocal lines a song; sometimes even only in the background along with Dustin and that seems like a
completely wasted opportunity. Overall, though, this is a very fun trip down memory lane for a very formative
album from my early teens. At the very least check out the new cut of Paper Tigers, it is absolutely insane. |
| Lil Yachty Let's Start Here. | 3.0 |
| The shape of trap to come. Completely left field while simultaneously being exactly what you?d expect from the sum of its parts. Can?t help but think about how much better this would?ve been with a more capable artist on these crazy instrumentals |
| 2018 |
| Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs | 2.5 |
| JID DiCaprio 2 | 4.0 |
| The only downside to having crossover appeal is getting soundoff critiques from people who don?t understand or listen to rap |
| Black Thought Streams Of Thought, Vol. 2 | 4.5 |
| Zapruder Zapruder | 3.5 |
| Benny The Butcher Tana Talk 3 | 4.0 |
| Anderson .Paak Oxnard | 3.0 |
Overall disappointing but that’s probably because I set my expectations so high. Still has some absolute bangers,
but has a lot more straight debaucherous straight rap tracks than I thought he would ever do. Which is fine, but
not really the direction I was hoping he would take. |
| Azusa Heavy Yoke | 3.5 |
| Portrayal of Guilt Let Pain Be Your Guide | 3.5 |
| Mindforce Excalibur | 4.0 |
| King Nine Death Rattle | 4.0 |
| Funeral Chic Superstition | 4.0 |
| Muse Simulation Theory | 2.0 |
| Old Wounds Glow | 2.5 |
| if I had heard this when I was 17 or 18 this would be my favorite thing but I just don?t really vibe with this style anymore. It?s not bad at all, it?s just kind of unremarkable. But maaaaaad props for the Division of Mind guest spot. |
| Emery Eve | 3.0 |
| Cult Leader A Patient Man | 4.0 |
| Ulthar Cosmovore | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic | 3.5 |
| Noise Trail Immersion Symbology of Shelter | 4.0 |
| Vince Staples FM! | 3.5 |
| Black Tongue Nadir | 2.5 |
| Currensy, Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist Fetti | 4.0 |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want | 4.0 |
| Kriegsmaschine Apocalypticists | 4.5 |
| Greta Van Fleet Anthem of the Peaceful Army | 1.0 |
| Erosion (CAN) Maximum Suffering | 4.0 |
| Racetraitor 2042 | 3.5 |
| Outer Heaven Realms of Eternal Decay | 4.0 |
| GHOSTEMANE N/O/I/S/E | 2.0 |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] | 4.0 |
| Cursive Vitriola | 4.5 |
| Joy (NC) No Light Below | 3.5 |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter V | 3.0 |
| Scorched (USA-DE) Ecliptic Butchery | 3.5 |
| Gouge Away Burnt Sugar | 4.0 |
| The bass tone on this record is B U T T E R son |
| Dodsrit Spirit Crusher | 4.0 |
| Candy (USA) Good To Feel | 4.5 |
| SUMAC Love In Shadow | 4.0 |
| Jocko Expression | 3.5 |
| Holy Fawn Death Spells | 4.0 |
| Pig Destroyer Head Cage | 2.5 |
| Eminem Kamikaze | 2.5 |
| The Secret Lux Tenebris | 3.5 |
| Thou Magus | 4.0 |
| KEN mode Loved | 4.0 |
| Palm (JPN) To Live Is to Die, To Die Is to Live | 4.0 |
| Cursed/Converge/Coalesce worship from Japan with straight Hatebreed breakdowns yeah alright I?m in |
| Jesus Piece Only Self | 3.0 |
| Leeched You Took The Sun When You Left | 3.0 |
| Travis Scott Astroworld | 3.5 |
| Tom MacDonald Deathreats | 1.0 |
| Denzel Curry TA13OO | 4.0 |
| Pale Pale | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love | 2.0 |
| Birds in Row We Already Lost the World | 4.0 |
| Hopesfall Arbiter | 4.5 |
| NO MAN Devils Cast Long Shadows | 3.5 |
| Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep | 3.0 |
| Self Defense Family Have You Considered Punk Music | 4.0 |
| Converge Beautiful Ruin | 4.0 |
| Vein.fm Errorzone | 3.0 |
| Craft White Noise and Black Metal | 4.0 |
| Code Orange The Hurt Will Go On | 1.5 |
| Jay Rock Redemption | 3.5 |
| Nas NASIR | 3.5 |
“This man really spit some anti vax rhymes”
I don’t think you heard those lyrics right bud |
| Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts | 2.0 |
| Tomb Mold Manor of Infinite Forms | 4.0 |
| Caveman Cult Supremacia Primordial | 3.5 |
| Mil-Spec Changes | 3.5 |
| Black Thought Streams of Thought, Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Wayfarer World's Blood | 3.5 |
| Pusha T DAYTONA | 3.5 |
| Svalbard It's Hard to Have Hope | 4.0 |
| Baptists Beacon of Faith | 4.0 |
| Straight up, this is the best this band has ever sounded. Take the mid-career converge and thick his hero is gone influence and finish it off with some healthy atmospheric doom and sludge influence and even a little noise rock and you?ll have this. Nick?s drumming still showcases he?s the best in heavy music right now but the riffs are stronger and more frantic, the lyrical themes are heavier and more thought out, and the vocals sound 10x stronger and more varied than they ever have. This shit fucking rips guys. |
| Gulch Burning Desire to Draw Last Breath | 4.0 |
| Nickelus F Stuck | 4.0 |
| Sectioned Annihilated | 3.0 |
| Homewrecker Hell Is Here Now | 3.5 |
| Wolf King Loyal to the Soil | 3.5 |
| The Armed Only Love | 5.0 |
| The HIRS Collective Friends. Lovers. Favorites. | 4.0 |
| Sleep The Sciences | 4.0 |
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| Our Place of Worship is Silence With Inexorable Suffering | 3.0 |
| Mol JORD | 3.5 |
| Fiddlehead Springtime And Blind | 3.5 |
| Yashira Shrine | 4.0 |
| Underoath Erase Me | 1.5 |
| Flatbush Zombies Vacation in Hell | 3.0 |
| Garroted Of Damnation and Abyssal Terrors | 4.0 |
| Creeping Death Specter Of War | 3.0 |
| My Epic Ultraviolet | 3.5 |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name | 3.0 |
| Greyhaven Empty Black | 3.0 |
| Chuck Nasty The Tragedy of the Calvin Klein Don | 3.5 |
| Drudkh They Often See Dreams About The Spring | 4.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 4.5 |
| Conjurer (UK) Mire | 3.0 |
| Turnstile Time and Space | 3.5 |
| EarthGang Royalty | 4.0 |
| Harakiri for the Sky Arson | 2.5 |
| American Nightmare American Nightmare | 3.5 |
| Wes sounds not as strong but of course that?s to be expected, fucking great riffs and drumming, colder than death is maybe the worst AN song ever |
| Harm's Way (USA-IL) Posthuman | 3.0 |
| harms whey double down on writing music to lift weights to with the fairly boring chuggy metalcore of rust while getting a little better with trying to blend the godflesh influence and bringing back a little bit of the riffiness of isolation |
| Erdve Vaitojimas | 4.0 |
| Genocide Pact Order Of Torment | 4.0 |
| SiR November | 4.0 |
| JPEGMAFIA Veteran | 4.0 |
| Sylvan LaCue Apologies in Advance | 3.0 |
| Maxo Kream Punken | 3.5 |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy/secondgradeknifefight SYSC//SGKF Split | 1.5 |
| Summoning With Doom We Come | 3.0 |
| Mass Grave Our Due Descent | 3.5 |
| Daniel Son Pressure Cooker | 4.0 |
