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2024
Adam Wiltzie Eleven Fugues For Sodium Pentothal	3.0
Vampire Weekend Only God Was Above Us	4.0
Frail Body Artificial Bouquet	3.5
Adrianne Lenker Bright Future	4.0
Violent Magic Orchestra Death Rave	3.0
Friko Where We've Been, Where We Go from Here	3.5
IDLES TANGK	3.0
Spectral Voice Sparagmos	3.5
Tapir! The Pilgrim, Their God and The King Of My Decrepit Mountain	4.0
The Smile Wall of Eyes	3.5
Cave Sermon Divine Laughter	3.5

2023
Sigur Ros ÁTTA	3.5
Jeromes Dream The Gray In Between	4.0
Black Country, New Road Live at Bush Hall	3.5

2022
Chat Pile God's Country	4.0
Black Midi Hellfire	3.5
The Smile A Light For Attracting Attention	3.5
Meshuggah Immutable	3.5
I love the way the album title is basically them saying "Yeah, it's another fucking Meshuggah album, what are you going to do about it?"
Placebo Never Let Me Go	3.5
Dream Widow Dream Widow	3.5
Deathspell Omega The Long Defeat	3.5
Converge The Poacher Diaries Redux	4.0
Shape of Despair Return to the Void	3.5
Beach House Once Twice Melody	3.5
Immolation Acts of God	3.5
Cult of Luna The Long Road North	3.5
Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You	3.5
Animal Collective Time Skiffs	3.5
Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory	3.5
Black Country, New Road Ants From Up There	4.5
Raum Daughter	3.5
Beach House Once Twice Melody: Chapter Three	3.5
Underoath Voyeurist	2.5
Burial ANTIDAWN EP	3.0
mydreamfever Rough and Beautiful Place	3.5

2021
Ethereal Shroud Trisagion	3.5
Beach House Once Twice Melody: Chapter Two	3.5
Devin Townsend Snuggles	2.5
Gas Der Lange Marsch	3.5
So Hideous None But a Pure Heart Can Sing	4.0
Devin Townsend The Puzzle	3.0
Cynic Ascension Codes	3.5
Converge Bloodmoon: I	4.0
The Antlers Losing Light	2.5
Silk Sonic An Evening with Silk Sonic	3.5
Taylor Swift Red (Taylor’s Version)	3.0
Beach House Once Twice Melody: Chapter One	4.0
Limp Bizkit Still Sucks	2.5
Kayo Dot Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike	4.0
Mastodon Hushed and Grim	3.5
Be'lakor Coherence	3.5
Every Time I Die Radical	4.0
Grouper Shade	3.5
Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life	4.0
Lil Ugly Mane Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern	4.0
Havukruunu Kuu Erkylän Yllä	3.5
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Illusory Walls	3.5
Trivium In the Court of the Dragon	3.5
Magdalena Bay Mercurial World	4.0
aespa Savage	2.0
Full of Hell Garden of Burning Apparitions	3.5
Frontierer Oxidized	3.5
Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine A Beginner's Mind	4.0
Angels and Airwaves Lifeforms	3.5
Skepticism Companion	3.5
Mono Pilgrimage Of The Soul	3.5
Injury Reserve By The Time I Get To Phoenix	4.0
Low Hey What	4.0
Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be Introvert	4.0
Serpent Column Katartisis	3.5
Turnstile Glow On	3.5
Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana	4.0
Between the Buried and Me Colors II	3.5
Deafheaven Infinite Granite	3.5
Lorna Shore ...And I Return to Nothingness	3.5
Foxing Draw Down the Moon	3.0
Lingua Ignota SINNER GET READY	4.0
Big Big Train Common Ground	3.0
Alexis Marshall House of Lull. House of When	3.5
Xasthur Victims of the Times	1.0
Musk Ox Inheritance	3.0
Chihei Hatakeyama Late Spring	3.0
Loona [&]	3.0
Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost	3.5
Amenra De Doorn	3.5
Papangu Holoceno	3.5
Backxwash I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES	3.5
Witch Vomit Abhorrent Rapture	3.5
Rebecca Black Rebecca Black Was Here	3.5
Thy Light Thy Light	3.5
Rota Fortunae Hinterland	3.5
Japanese Breakfast Jubilee	3.5
Natalia Lafourcade Un Canto por México‚ Vol․ 2	3.5
Sweet Trip A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals	4.0
Jaubi Nafs at Peace	3.5
Black Midi Cavalcade	4.0
Portal Avow	3.5
Circuit Circuit Circuit Circuit - EP	3.5
Nadja Luminous Rot	3.0
The Devil Wears Prada ZII	3.5
Olivia Rodrigo Sour	3.0
Panopticon ...And Again into the Light	4.0
Iosonouncane Ira	3.5
Squid Bright Green Field	4.0
Weezer Van Weezer	2.0
Skee Mask Pool	3.5
Doss 4 New Hit Songs	3.5
Gojira Fortitude	3.0
Sematary Rainbow Bridge 3	3.5
S280F 28	3.5
Spectral Lore Ετερόφωτος	3.5
Arooj Aftab Vulture Prince	3.5
Porter Robinson Nurture	3.5
Paysage d'Hiver Geister	3.0
Neptunian Maximalism Solar Drone Ceremony	3.5
Kero Kero Bonito Civilisation II	3.5
Bongzilla Weedsconsin	3.5
The Armed Ultrapop	3.5
Kekht Arakh Pale Swordsman	3.0
Kauan Ice Fleet	3.5
Zao The Crimson Corridor	3.5
Devil Sold His Soul Loss	3.5
Claire Rousay A Softer Focus	3.5
Taylor Swift Fearless (Taylor’s Version)	2.5
Yukika Timeabout,	3.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!	4.0
Iglooghost Lei Line Eon	3.0
BRUIT The Machine Is Burning...	4.0
Cosmic Girls Unnatural	3.5
WJSN (Cosmic Girls) Unnatural	3.5
Nils Frahm Graz	3.5
The Antlers Green to Gold	3.0
Ben Howard Collections from the Whiteout	3.5
Genghis Tron Dream Weapon	3.0
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The LSO Promises	4.0
Death From Above 1979 Is 4 Lovers	3.0
Armand Hammer and The Alchemist Haram	3.5
Lana Del Rey Chemtrails Over The Country Club	3.0
Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm	3.5
Asian Glow Cull Ficle	3.5
Feu! Chatterton Palais d'Argile	3.5
Shpongle Carnival of Peculiarities	3.5
Chevelle NIRATIAS	3.5
Genesis Owusu Smiling with No Teeth	4.0
Arab Strap As Days Get Dark	3.5
Burial Chemz/Dolphinz	3.5
Blanck Mass In Ferneaux	3.0
A Winged Victory for the Sullen Invisible Cities	3.0
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Carnage	4.0
Knoll Interstice	3.5
Black Sheep Wall Songs for the Enamel Queen	3.0
Slant (KOR) 1집	3.0
Merzbow / Prurient Black Crows Cyborg	3.0
Parannoul To See the Next Part of the Dream	3.5
Otay:onii Ming Ming	4.0
Mogwai As the Love Continues	3.5
Lake of Tears Ominous	3.0
God Is an Astronaut Ghost Tapes #10	3.0
Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse	4.0
for your health In Spite Of	3.0
slowthai TYRON	3.0
Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning	3.0
Loathe The Things They Believe	2.0
Naked Days My Head Hz	3.0
Black Country, New Road For the first time	4.0
This will be one of the albums of the year for sure
Foo Fighters Medicine at Midnight	2.5
Cult of Luna The Raging River	3.5
Octo Octa She's Calling	3.0
The Weather Station Ignorance	3.0
The KLF Come Down Dawn	3.0
The Ruins of Beverast The Thule Grimoires	3.5
Steven Wilson The Future Bites	2.5
The Body I’ve Seen All I Need To See	3.5
Soen Imperial	3.0
Chihei Hatakeyama Void XXII	2.5
Chihei Hatakeyama, M. Grig and Stephen Vitiello Earth Awhile	3.0
Portrayal of Guilt We Are Always Alone	3.5
Weezer OK Human	3.5
Madlib Sound Ancestors	3.0
Lexie Liu Gone Gold	3.0
Naked Flames Binc Rinse Repeat	3.5
Ellende Triebe	3.0
Grima Rotten Garden	3.5
Typhoon (USA-OR) Sympathetic Magic	3.0
Miho Hatori Between Isekai and Slice of Life	3.0
Biosphere Angel's Flight	3.0
Asphyx Necroceros	3.0
Shame (UK) Drunk Tank Pink	3.5
Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou The Helm of Sorrow	3.5
Kharace Dakhalè	2.0
Gatecreeper An Unexpected Reality	3.5
Pom Poko Cheater	3.0
Black Swan (USA-NY) Repetition Hymns	3.5
Frozen Soul Crypt Of Ice	3.0
Holy Figures Luck of the Draw	3.0
Katia Krow I've Called Off The Search, I Know Exactly Where Y	3.0
Svrm Розпад	2.5
Chris Zabriskie Abandon Babylon	3.0
Begotten (CAN) Nothing Worth Remembering	3.5
Wardruna Kvitravn	3.0

2020
Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music III	4.0
Every Time I Die A Colossal Wreck // Desperate Pleasures	4.0
Steven Wilson The B-Sides Collection	2.5
Sigur Ros Odin’s Raven Magic	3.0
Ichiko Aoba Adan no Kaze	4.5
Dark Tranquillity Moment	3.5
PVA Toner	3.5
Blood From The Soul DSM-5	3.0
Bring Me the Horizon Post Human: Survival Horror	3.5
Wang Wen 100,000 Whys	3.5
clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned	3.5
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (20th Anniversary Edition)	4.0
Jonsi Shiver	3.5
Enslaved Utgard	3.0
Sufjan Stevens The Ascension	3.5
Deftones Ohms	3.5
Fleet Foxes Shore	3.5
The Microphones Microphones in 2020	3.5
Taylor Swift Folklore	3.5
Neptunian Maximalism Eons	3.5
Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated Side B	3.5
Umbra Vitae Shadow of Life	3.0
Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still	3.5
Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi	4.0
Converge Endless Arrow	2.0
It's literally Aimless Arrow played out with Paulstretch
Afterbirth Four Dimensional Flesh	3.5
Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine	4.0
Grimes Miss Anthropocene	3.5
Dan Deacon Mystic Familiar	3.5
Ichiko Aoba amuletum bouquet	4.0
Black Country, New Road Science Fair	4.0

2019
Burial Tunes 2011 to 2019	4.5
Doon Kanda Labyrinth	3.0
First track is fantastic. The rest is nice but doesn't live up to its potential.
Esoteric A Pyrrhic Existence	4.5
Swans Leaving Meaning	3.5
Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen	3.5
Squid Town Centre	3.5
Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell!	3.5
Black Country, New Road Sunglasses	4.5
Devictus This Is Not Forever	3.5
Wear Your Wounds Rust on the Gates of Heaven	3.0
Death Grips Gmail and the Restraining Orders	2.5
Black Midi Schlagenheim	4.0
Jambinai ONDA	3.5
Sadness I want to be there	4.0
The Atlas Ghost Silent Hill	3.5
Deafheaven Black Brick	4.0
American Football American Football (LP3)	3.5
Beth Gibbons and The Polish National Radio Orchestra Gorecki Symphony No. 3: Symphony of Sorrowful Song	4.5
Black Swan (USA-NY) The Sentimental Drift	3.0
Bring Me the Horizon Amo	3.0
Old Solar SEE	3.5

2018
Daughters You Won't Get What You Want	4.5
Ichiko Aoba qp	4.0
Foxing Nearer My God	4.0
Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love	3.5
Converge Beautiful Ruin	3.5
Ben Howard Noonday Dream	3.5
Chihei Hatakeyama Butterfly's Summer and Vanished	3.5
Jon Hopkins Singularity	4.0
Devictus An Anxious Light	4.0
Rota Fortunae Solstice	4.0
Devictus When the Rest of Heaven Was Blue	3.5
Crow Black Sky Sidereal Light: Volume One	3.5

2017
Darkeater Что помнит лес	3.5
Devictus Personal Infinity	4.0
This actually might be one of my favourite ambient albums ever. No kidding. The only real blip is "Afterimage (-)" which goes on for a bit too long without anything really happening, even for the album which, as a whole, is extremely subtle. In some ways, though, it makes the album highlight "Dead Branches..." even better. Terrific effort.
Converge The Dusk in Us	4.0
Devictus Mercury Haze	3.0
Bell Witch Mirror Reaper	4.0
Staring Into Nothing Power	4.0
Giant Flying Turtles Waltz To The World	3.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers	3.0
Kauan Kaiho	4.0
Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven	3.5
Loona Odd Eye Circle Mix & Match	3.5
Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold	3.0
Brand New Science Fiction	4.0
Converge I Can Tell You About Pain	4.0
Coral the Merknight vs. Searantula It Weaves a Web of Metal	1.5
Burial Subtemple/Beachfires	2.0
Linkin Park One More Light	1.0
Jacqui L Planet Parallel 5	3.5
Toby Driver Madonnawhore	3.5
The Long Dark Road The Long Dark Road	3.5
Wear Your Wounds WYW	3.5
Audio Jane Naive	3.0
Converge Jane Live	4.0
Chihei Hatakeyama Void X	3.0
Verena von Horsten Alien Angel Super Death	4.0
Shawna Virago Heaven Sent Delinquent	3.0

2016
Grouper Paradise Valley	4.0
Burial Young Death/Nightmarket	2.5
Rota Fortunae Vespers	3.5
Joan Torres's All is Fused Of the Musical	4.0
The Survival Code Broken Strings	3.0
Nadja The Stone Is Not Hit By The Sun, Nor Carved With A	3.0
Dark Tranquillity Atoma	3.5
Wang Wen Sweet Home, Go!	3.5
Ichiko Aoba Mahoroboshiya	4.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation	4.0
Mono Requiem For Hell	3.0
Continues Mono's downward spiral since For My Parents. It's another decent-enough offering but nothing here really stands out. The opener and title track have their moments, but the truth is Mono just aren't able to deviate from their formula enough to remain interesting. By the time Hymn to the Immortal Wind rolled around they had taken their sound as far as it could go. Despite trying to change it up by moving in a darker, heavier direction these last couple of albums, it still sounds far too familiar.
Chihei Hatakeyama Coastal Railroads in Memories	3.0
Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason	4.0
Psychonaut 4 Neurasthenia	4.0
Opeth Sorceress	3.0
Alcest Kodama	4.0
Bon Iver 22, A Million	3.5
Neurosis Fires Within Fires	3.5
The Caretaker Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage 1	3.5
Touche Amore Stage Four	4.0
Chameleon Technology Blank Canvas	3.0
Tilted Axes Music for Mobile Electric Guitars	2.5
blink-182 California	2.0
Swans The Glowing Man	3.5
Converge You Fail Me Redux	4.5
Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere	3.5
Post Death Soundtrack The Unlearning Curve	4.0
Mac Gollehon & The Hispanic Mechanics No More Drama	2.5
Gorguts Pleiades' Dust	4.0
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool	4.0
Deftones Gore	3.5
Ray LaMontagne Ouroboros	3.5
Yndi Halda Under Summer	3.5
Considering it's been 11 years since the debut, this was always going to be a disappointment on some level. Enjoy Eternal Bliss has slowly risen to become one of my favourite albums of all time but there was no way this was ever going to justify a decade long wait. rRegardless, it's an enjoyable outing with some of those familiar Yndi Halda elements rearing their heads every now and then. The highlights are "This Very Flight", which is the song most in tune with the sound of their previous outing, and "Golden Threads from the Sun" which has some gorgeous melodies. The opener is solid but nothing to really write home about and "Helena" strays after a beautiful opening few minutes. rAll in all a good effort from a band that most people had forgotten about but let's hope it won't be so long before their next one.
King Ropes Dirt	3.5
Robert Nix Once in a Blue Moon	3.0
Jane in Space Jane in Space	3.5

2015
TALIA Thugs They Look Like Angels	3.0
Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back	3.5
Cult Leader Lightless Walk	3.5
So Hideous Laurestine	3.5
Deafheaven New Bermuda	4.0
Chinese Football Chinese Football	3.5
Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit	3.0
Max Richter Sleep	3.5
Mgla Exercises in Futility	4.0
Swans The Gate	4.0
Caspian Dust and Disquiet	3.5
Fuck the Facts Desire Will Rot	3.5
Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion	3.5
Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction	3.5
CalatrilloZ Psalms of Zahyin	3.0
mewithoutYou Pale Horses	4.0
Sun Kil Moon Universal Themes	2.0
Prurient Frozen Niagara Falls	4.0
Mew +-	4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'	3.0
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell	4.5
Enter Shikari The Mindsweep	1.0
The Great Game The Great Game	3.0

2014
Angels and Airwaves The Dream Walker	3.0
The Kiss That Took a Trip Electroforest	3.5
Foo Fighters Sonic Highways	3.0
Ne Obliviscaris Citadel	4.5
Jakob Sines	3.5
Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were	4.5
Masakatsu Takagi Kagayaki	5.0
An incredible album that really transcends the sum of its parts. Individual tracks are certainly beautiful and can be easily appreciated on their own, but the experience can only truly be had by listening to this front to back. The field recordings are brilliantly placed and give a sense of narrative to the record. This is slowly becoming an all time favourite - it reminds me of the days when Sigur Ros' ( ) was the most important album in the world to me. Highly, highly recommended.
Unfathomed of Abyss Arisen Upon Oblivion	3.0
Godflesh A World Lit Only by Fire	4.0
The Society Islands The Big Sleep	3.5
Aphex Twin Syro	4.0
Opeth Pale Communion	3.0
Kairon IRSE! Ujubasajuba	4.5
Wow, okay, this album definitely needs a lot more Sputnik love. This is probably one of the best shoegaze/post-rock albums I've heard in years. It's so full of atmosphere and awesome riffs and Jonsi-inspired vocals that it's just impossible not to love. Get your act together Sputnik!
Panopticon Roads to the North	4.0
United Nations The Next Four Years	3.5
Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown	4.0
Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun	3.5
Wang Wen Eight Horses	3.5
The Antlers Familiars	3.5
I was disappointed at first, but this is really growing on me. I think it might be a little better than Burst Apart, if only because of "Palace" and "Parade".
Anathema Distant Satellites	3.5
Kyle Bobby Dunn Kyle Bobby Dunn and The Infinite Sadness	4.0
Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool	4.0
Swans To Be Kind	4.5
Michael Gira is 60 years old. He fronts the noisiest band I have ever heard. He does harsh vocals in half hour long songs. To Be Kind rules.
Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere	3.0
This is Agalloch sounding like a watered down version of Agalloch. "The Astral Dialogue" is pretty sweet and the opener is a nice return to their earlier doom influences but overall this is just a chore to sit through. Vanilla as fuck.
The Lost Poets Insubordia	4.0
So Hideous Last Poem/First Light	4.0
Godhead The Shadow Realigned	2.0
Monks of Mellonwah Turn the People	3.5
The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There	4.0
Converge Live at the BBC	3.0
Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us	3.0
The Oxford Coma Morphine	4.0
Sun Kil Moon Benji	4.0
Ichiko Aoba 0%	4.5
Alcest Shelter	3.5

2013
Mutoid Man Helium Head	3.5
Foxing The Albatross	4.0
Obliteration Black Death Horizon	4.5
Sound Strider Intrepid Travels EP	3.5
Gumshen Progtronica	4.0
Ichiko Aoba 0	4.5
Swans Not Here / Not Now	4.0
Ulcerate Vermis	3.5
Gorguts Colored Sands	4.5
Kayo Dot Hubardo	4.0
Rosetta The Anaesthete	3.5
Shpongle Museum of Consciousness	4.0
Maschine Rubidium	3.5
letlive. The Blackest Beautiful	3.5
Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée...	4.0
Sombres Forets La Mort du Soleil	4.0
Monks of Mellonwah Ghost Stories	3.0
All Pigs Must Die Nothing Violates This Nature	4.0
Palms Palms	3.5
Sigur Ros Kveikur	4.0
Chihei Hatakeyama Alone By The Sea	3.5
Deafheaven Sunbather	4.5
Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest	4.0
The National Trouble Will Find Me	3.5
Daft Punk Random Access Memories	3.5
My Dying Bride The Manuscript	3.0
EndAnd Mechanics & Energetics of Stilt-Running	3.5
Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury	4.0
Lychgate Lychgate	4.0
The Ocean Pelagial	4.0
The Gabriel Construct Interior City	4.0
Nails Abandon All Life	4.0
Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal	3.5
Kvelertak Meir	3.5
Sigur Ros Brennisteinn	4.0
Inter Arma Sky Burial	3.5
Big Big Train English Electric Part 2	4.0
Marla Mase Speak Deluxe	3.0
Olafur Arnalds For Now I Am Winter	4.0
Darkthrone The Underground Resistance	3.5
Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)	3.5
Masakatsu Takagi Omusuhi	3.5
Arc & Stones Arc & Stones	3.0
Cult of Luna Vertikal	3.5

2012
Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One	4.0
Alcest BBC Live Session	2.0
Scott Walker Bish Bosch	4.0
Amenra Mass V	3.5
Deafheaven/Bosse-de-Nage Split	4.0
Deftones Koi No Yokan	3.5
Neurosis Honor Found in Decay	3.5
Shining (SWE) Redefining Darkness	3.0
Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1	3.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!	4.0
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind	4.5
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence	4.0
I'm not sure whether I should be taking these guys seriously or not. This album is the most fun thing I've heard all year (especially "Bloom") but it's ridiculously excessive. It sounds overambitious and the Dream Theater-esque wankery is a bit much at times - but if you take BTBAM with a pinch of salt and just enjoy the progressions and fun elements of the album it's pretty fucking great.
Tame Impala Lonerism	4.0
Death Grips No Love Deep Web	3.5
Enslaved RIITIIR	4.0
Devin Townsend Project Epicloud	3.5
Deer Leap Here. Home.	3.5
Big Big Train English Electric	4.0
Farrah Abraham My Teenage Dream Ended	2.5
The staff review for this album is incredible. Absolutely spot on, I couldn't give this a proper rating if I tried.
Katatonia Dead End Kings	3.5
Swans The Seer	4.5
Converge/Napalm Death Split	3.0
Evoken Atra Mors	4.0
The Antlers Undersea	3.5
Latitudes Individuation	3.5
Agalloch Faustian Echoes	3.5
Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage	4.0
Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I	4.0
Japandroids Celebration Rock	3.5
Black Swan (USA-NY) Heaven	3.0
Sigur Ros Valtari	4.0
I couldn't have asked for a better album. Sigur Ros know exactly what perfection is and they hit that almost every single time. Completely different to their last album, Valtari takes you on a musical journey; and Var?? is hands down the best song they've ever done.
Diablo Swing Orchestra Pandora's Pinata	4.0
Death Grips The Money Store	4.0
Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion	4.0
Anathema Weather Systems	4.0
Black Swan (USA-NY) Aeterna	4.0
Meshuggah Koloss	3.5
The Shins Port of Morrow	2.5
Burial Kindred	4.5
Grimes Visions	3.5
Loma Prieta I.V.	4.0
Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme	3.5
Kayo Dot Gamma Knife	3.0
Trencadis Odelagt	3.0
Wear Your Wounds/Revelator Split	4.0

2011
Nujabes Spiritual State	3.5
Sigur Ros Inni	4.5
Esoteric Paragon of Dissonance	4.5
Jeremy Soule The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Soundtrack	4.5
Ben Howard Every Kingdom	4.0
Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning	4.5
Opeth Heritage	3.0
Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events	3.0
Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage	4.0
The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne	2.0
A Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory for the Sullen	4.0
Thrice Major/Minor	3.5
Alrakis Alpha Eri	4.0
Design the Skyline Nevaeh	1.5
In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading	2.5
Converge/Dropdead Split	3.5
Devin Townsend Project Ghost	4.0
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver	4.0
Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction	4.0
Alcest Le Secret (2011 Version)	3.5
Tyler, the Creator Goblin	2.5
The Antlers Burst Apart	3.5
This Will Destroy You Tunnel Blanket	3.5
Deafheaven Roads to Judah	3.5
Foo Fighters Wasting Light	3.5
Thursday No Devolucion	4.0
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues	4.0
Black Swan (USA-NY) The Quiet Divide	4.0
Light Bearer Lapsus	4.0
Radiohead The King of Limbs	3.5
Ichiko Aoba Origami	3.5
Hostsonaten Summereve	3.5
I've changed my mind, this album is truly beautiful.

2010
Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession	4.0
Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit	4.0
Blindead Affliction XXIX II MCMXCVI	4.0
Life In the Dark The Sunya Is Rising	4.0
Underoath Ø (Disambiguation)	3.5
brokeNCYDE Will Never Die	1.0
Yes I did actually listen to this. Well, that's 54 minutes of my life I'll never get back
Deathspell Omega Paracletus	4.5
Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It...	3.5
Could have been a pretty good album were it not for the poor second half and the horrible lyrics and vocals. Respect for the experimentation though
Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini	4.0
Opeth In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall	4.5
Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky	3.5
Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up	4.0
The Devil Wears Prada Zombie	3.5
I enjoy this way more than I should...
Arcade Fire The Suburbs	4.0
Deep Mountains Deep Mountains	3.5
Haste the Day Attack of the Wolf King	3.5
Kvelertak Kvelertak	4.0
Foals Total Life Forever	4.0
(The) Slowest Runner (In All The World) We, Burning Giraffes	4.5
Anathema We're Here Because We're Here	4.0
Rosetta A Determinism of Morality	4.0
The National High Violet	4.5
Olafur Arnalds ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness	4.5
Tonic Tonic	3.0
Deftones Diamond Eyes	4.0
Year of No Light Ausserwelt	4.0
Periphery Periphery	3.0
Bison Dark Ages	4.0
The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt	4.0
Jonsi Go	3.0
I'm a Sigur Ros fanboy but this does absolutely nothing for me.
Alcest Écailles De Lune	4.5
Les Discrets Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées	4.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis	4.0
Daughters Daughters	4.0
Pausal Lapses	3.5
Chelsea Grin Desolation Of Eden	1.5
Meshuggah Alive	4.0
Throats Throats	3.5
Shining (NOR) Blackjazz	4.0
Ichiko Aoba Kamisori Otome	3.5
Supermachiner Rust	4.0

2009
Devin Townsend Project Addicted	4.0
Vektor Black Future	4.0
Shpongle Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland	3.5
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect	3.5
Planning for Burial Leaving	3.5
Lifelover Dekadens	4.0
Converge Axe to Fall	4.5
Dragged Into Sunlight Hatred For Mankind	4.0
Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream	2.0
Third Eye Blind Ursa Major	3.0
Persefone Shin-Ken	2.0
August Burns Red Constellations	3.5
Be'lakor Stone's Reach	4.0
brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It!	1.0
dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion	3.5
maudlin of the Well Part the Second	4.0
ISIS Wavering Radiant	4.0
Mastodon Crack the Skye	4.0
Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind	4.0
The Antlers Hospice	5.0
Fuck it, I'm 5'ing this...
Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain	3.5
Bon Iver Blood Bank	3.5
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion	4.0
Fall of Efrafa Inle	4.0
Amesoeurs Amesoeurs	3.5

2008
The Faceless Planetary Duality	3.5
La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair	4.0
Cynic Traced in Air	3.5
Lifelover Konkurs	4.0
Gojira The Way of All Flesh	4.0
Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season	3.0
The Evpatoria Report Maar	4.0
Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation	3.5
DragonForce Ultra Beatdown	2.0
I downloaded the RayStorm soundtrack the other day... it was like this, just a thousand times better
Fall of Efrafa Tharn	4.0
Chelsea Grin Chelsea Grin	1.0
Not sure how this has a better rating than "Desolation of Eden" or a 2.8 at all for that matter. They aren't as bad as say, Waking the Cadaver, but they give them a hell of a run for their money. Awful, awful album - even the breakdowns suck
Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust	4.0
pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You!	3.5
Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill	4.0
Opeth Watershed	4.0
Wang Wen lV	3.5
Esoteric The Maniacal Vale	4.5
Amenra Mass IIII	4.0
Pendulum In Silico	3.0
Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward	3.5
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV	4.0
In Flames A Sense of Purpose	2.5
Sun Kil Moon April	4.0
Coldworld Melancholie²	4.0
Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life	4.0
Meshuggah obZen	4.0
Agalloch The White	4.0
Genghis Tron Board Up the House	3.5
This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You	3.5
Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness	4.0

2007
Gris Il Était Une Forêt...	4.0
Sigur Ros Heima (DVD)	5.0
Zuriaake Afterimage of Autumn	3.5
Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler	1.0
Have yet to hear something worse than this. It's laughable most of the time, and just downright sad the rest
Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim	4.0
The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe	3.5
Burial Untrue	4.5
Trist (CZ) Zrcadlení melancholie	3.5
Olafur Arnalds Eulogy for Evolution	4.0
Worship Dooom	4.0
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II	4.0
Radiohead In Rainbows	4.5
Nadja Radiance of Shadows	3.5
Born of Osiris The New Reign	2.5
Ulver Shadows of the Sun	4.0
Oceansize Frames	4.5
Time To Burn Is.Land	4.0
Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters	4.5
Between the Buried and Me Colors	4.0
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam	4.0
Fall of Efrafa Elil	4.0
Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I	4.5
Thy Light Suici.De.pression	4.0
Definitely some of the best DSBM out there. Even though it's just a demo, there is a wonderful amount of potential here. I love the solos and the fact that there are no blast-beats, it adds to the melancholic nature of the music so well.
The Devil Wears Prada Plagues	1.5
Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde	4.5
A very consistent, dreamlike shoegaze release from a quite unexpected source (at the time) in Neige. There are very few, if any black metal (or metal in general) elements and this is a great accomplishment for Alcest. A fantastic debut that has its flaws, but makes up for them with sheer beauty and ethereal atmosphere.
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago	4.5
brokeNCYDE The Broken	1.0
Devil Sold His Soul A Fragile Hope	4.0
Dream Theater Systematic Chaos	2.0
Neurosis Given to the Rising	4.0
These guys are just so tribal! While not their best album by a long way, this is a more-than-solid effort from Neurosis and with tracks such as "To the Wind" and "Origin" (with the latter's hypnotic tribal drumming and softly resonating guitar strums leading into a vicious and dense sludge metal assualt in the final 2 and a half minutes being one of the album's biggest highlights) the band prove that they are not going anywhere anytime soon. Neurosis are here to stay
The National Boxer	4.5
Rishloo Eidolon	4.0
The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand	5.0
This is one of those albums I've never doubted giving a classic rating to. It took me a few listens to fully understand, like all good albums should, but when I finally did it blew me away. That album art says it all - this is a monumental, emotional and truly beautiful release. R.I.P. K. Angylus
The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds	4.0
The Angels of Light We Are Him	3.5
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet	4.0
Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad	4.0
Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline	5.0
Nadja Touched (2007 reissue)	3.5
Arcade Fire Neon Bible	4.5
Eluvium Copia	4.0
Blackfield Blackfield II	3.5
Minsk The Ritual Fires of Abandonment	3.5
Nest (FIN) Trail of the Unwary	3.5
This album is too long and drawn out for its own good, but if this band manages to perfect their formula and keep it more concise, they will one day make a Neofolk masterpiece.
The Shins Wincing the Night Away	4.0
Immanu El They'll Come, They Come	3.5

2006
Warning Watching from a Distance	4.0
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me	4.5
I just "got" this album. Just like I "got" Jane Doe and like I "got" Colors. Album is fantastic but I can't 5 it yet because now it needs to grow on me. Now that I understand the music I can learn to appreciate it.
Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss	5.0
Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo	4.0
Troum And All Sides Shutûn	4.0
ISIS In the Absence of Truth	4.0
Meshuggah Nothing (Re-Release)	4.0
Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings	1.5
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist	4.0
Tempted to give this a 4.5 just because it's so underrated. It deserves something in the middle probably because the highs are so damn high on this thing. "Pink Cellphone" is godawful, yes, but the other 'lows' (Rapture, Mein) are still quite enjoyable, just not quite up to the standard of the rest of the album. Actually nice to hear an album with such a strong second half for once - most albums that are inconsistent are very frontloaded. "Xerces", "Rats!Rats!Rats!", "Combat" and "Kimdracula" are all some of the album's best songs.
Converge No Heroes	3.5
The Angelic Process We All Die Laughing	4.5
The Antlers Uprooted	3.0
The title track is gorgeous - a lost diamond. Nothing else is really spectacular but there are worse ways to spend half an hour of your life.
Gaza I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die	4.0
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister	4.5
Mono / World's End Girlfriend Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain	4.5
Jakob Solace	4.0
The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord	1.5
Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain	4.5
Peste Noire La Sanie des Siècles	4.0
The vocals here are just insane. I have no idea how a man makes those sounds from just his voice. This, along with the fact that the music is interesting and progressive without getting boring makes for an excellent effort and an impressive take on the black metal genre.
Lifelover Pulver	4.0
Razorlight Razorlight	3.0
Thom Yorke The Eraser	2.5
Strapping Young Lad The New Black	3.5
Underoath Define the Great Line	4.0
Glass Casket Desperate Man's Diary	3.0
This Will Destroy You Young Mountain	4.0
Scott Walker The Drift	4.0
Tool 10,000 Days	4.0
Dolorian Voidwards	4.0
Mono You Are There	4.0
Placebo Meds	3.5
Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars	4.0
In Flames Come Clarity	3.0
The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra	4.0
The Kooks Inside In/Inside Out	3.5
Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue	4.0
The Angelic Process Sigh	4.0
The Faceless Akeldama	3.0
Drudkh Blood In Our Wells	4.0
Fall of Efrafa Owsla	4.0
Diagnose: Lebensgefahr Transformalin	3.5
A Bunny's Caravan Draining Puddles, Retrieving Treasures	4.5
Xasthur Subliminal Genocide	3.5

2005
Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss EP	4.5
Riverside Second Life Syndrome	4.0
Brian McBride When The Detail Lost Its Freedom	3.5
Toby Driver In the L..L..Library Loft	4.0
Thrice Vheissu	4.0
Rosetta The Galilean Satellites	4.5
Animal Collective Feels	4.0
Deathspell Omega Kenose	4.0
Oceansize Everyone Into Position	4.0
Sigur Ros Takk...	4.5
Between the Buried and Me Alaska	4.0
Opeth Ghost Reveries	4.5
Overmars Affliction, Endocrine...Vertigo	4.0
Sufjan Stevens Illinois	4.0
dredg Catch Without Arms	4.0
Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost	3.5
Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree	4.0
Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World	4.5
Limp Bizkit The Unquestionable Truth - Part I	1.5
I think there was like, a cool riff somewhere in here that bumped this to a 1.5 rating. I fucking hate this band, and I even have nostalgic connections to them. Can't believe I ever liked this
Amenra Mass III	4.0
Porcupine Tree Deadwing	4.0
Nadja Bodycage	3.5
The National Alligator	4.5
Strapping Young Lad Alien	4.0
Evoken Antithesis of Light	4.0
Moonsorrow Verisäkeet	4.5
The Evpatoria Report Golevka	4.5
Gojira From Mars to Sirius	4.0
Amenra Mass II: Sermons	3.0

2004
Mortifera (FRA) Vastiia Tenebrd Mortifera	3.0
Pearl Jam rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003)	4.5
Relient K Mmhmm	3.0
Cult of Luna Salvation	4.5
This is a dense, dark journey. There is no escape from it. All you have is the sludgy mess of an album that takes you in and never lets you go. In short, album is heavy as fuck.
ISIS Panopticon	4.0
Jimmy Eat World Futures	3.5
mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes	4.5
Pig Destroyer Terrifyer	4.0
Bring Me the Horizon This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For	2.5
Jesu Jesu	4.0
Converge You Fail Me	4.5
Arcade Fire Funeral	5.0
Masakatsu Takagi Coieda	3.5
Drudkh Autumn Aurora	4.5
Mastodon Leviathan	4.0
Necrophagist Epitaph	3.5
This probably deserves a 4 rating, but it just gets too lost in its own technicality most of the time. Vocals are those of the devil himself though!
Otep House of Secrets	2.0
Meshuggah I	4.5
Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart	3.5
Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm	4.5
Esoteric Subconscious Dissolution Into the...	3.5
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety	3.5
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge	3.0
Thin Lizzy Greatest Hits	4.0
Keane Hopes & Fears	3.5
Looked at from the perspective of a pop album, which is exactly what this is and is meant to be, this is a pretty fantastic set of songs. You can't help but sing along and admire the beauty of tracks like "This is the Last Time", "Bedshaped", "Somewhere Only We Know" and especially the heartfelt "She Has No Time". This is an excellent album that doesn't get enough love. It may not be the most musically complex or meaningful record ever made, but to look at it from that perspective defeats the point of what "Hopes and Fears" is - a beautiful pop album.
Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache	3.0
Ambulance LTD. LP	4.0
Max Richter The Blue Notebooks	4.0
My Dying Bride Songs of Darkness, Words of Light	4.0
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo	4.0
Agalloch and Nest Split	4.0
Riverside Out of Myself	4.0
Gaza East	4.0
Mono Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined	3.5
The Dead Texan The Dead Texan	4.0

2003
blink-182 Blink-182	4.0
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place	4.0
Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway	5.0
Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus	3.5
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye	4.5
The Shins Chutes Too Narrow	3.5
Neurosis and Jarboe Neurosis and Jarboe	3.5
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3	4.5
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism	4.0
Oceansize Effloresce	4.5
Opeth Lamentations	3.5
Amenra Mass I: Prayer I - VI	2.5
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance	4.0
Forgotten Tomb Springtime Depression	3.5
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium	4.5
Brand New Deja Entendu	4.0
Mew Frengers	4.0
Arcade Fire The Arcade Fire	4.0
Deftones Deftones	3.0
The Angelic Process Coma Waering	4.5
Nadja Touched	4.0
Opeth Damnation	4.5
The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution	4.5
Linkin Park Meteora	3.5
Placebo Sleeping with Ghosts	3.5
This Runs Through Until Forever Finds Me	4.0
I find this better than lots of Underoath's stuff - this is packed with emotion and Spencer gives a superb vocal performance. Well deserving of a 4 if you ask me!
Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God	4.0
The Angels of Light Everything Is Good Here/ Please Come Home	3.5
Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad	3.0
Converge Unloved and Weeded Out	3.5
The Angelic Process Solipsistic	3.0
This is a rare, unreleased album that has been circling on the net. It's definitely legit so it's worth a listen if you're a big fan of the band like I am - however, if you're expecting the same grungy, metallic shoegaze that made up albums like Weighing Souls With Sand, you will be disappointed. This is very stripped down by TAP standards and doesn't live up to the standard of their other works. However, there are many good moments here, such as the mostly acoustic title track, as well as the decidedly metal Dismembered Antonella (one of the few tracks that sounds as though it could fit into one of their later albums). Overall an interesting listen and a few really good songs, but the many average moments make it clear why this was never an official release.
Agalloch Tomorrow Will Never Come	3.5
The Evpatoria Report The Evpatoria Report	3.0
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops II	4.0

2002
Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends	4.0
Opeth Deliverance	4.0
Sigur Ros ( )	5.0
Napalm Death Order of the Leech	3.5
Porcupine Tree In Absentia	4.0
Bongzilla Gateway	3.5
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head	4.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene	4.0
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute	4.0
Carissa's Wierd Songs About Leaving	4.0
Meshuggah Nothing	4.0
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots	4.0
Orchid Orchid	3.5
mewithoutYou A to B: Life	4.0
Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing	4.0
Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends	3.5
dredg El Cielo	5.0
Underoath The Changing of Times	4.0
It's difficult for me to be objective on this album because it means so much to me. "Alone in December" is one of my favourite songs of all time and got me through an unbelievably tough period in my life. However, objectively, this is no more than a good screamo/hardcore album with outrageously cheesy synths and (on the odd occasion) lyrics. The emotion in this album is what bumps it to a 3.5 and a worthwhile listen.
Norah Jones Come Away with Me	4.0
Boards of Canada Geogaddi	4.5
Thrice The Illusion of Safety	4.0
Agalloch The Mantle	4.5
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I	4.5
ISIS Oceanic	4.0

2001
maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map	4.5
My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours	4.0
Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid	4.5
Brand New Your Favorite Weapon	3.0
Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View	4.0
Converge Jane Doe	5.0
The perfect album. Pure aggression, passion and emotion all work together to create one of the most important metal albums ever made.
System of a Down Toxicity	4.0
Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...	3.5
Radiohead Amnesiac	4.0
Meshuggah Rare Trax	2.5
Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets	4.0
Jimmy Eat World Bleed American	4.0
Muse Origin of Symmetry	4.0
This album lies somewhere between a 4 and 4.5 for me. While perhaps nothing on this album is lifechanging, it's an amazingly consistent release - weak tracks are hard to come by, and with classics such as "Citizen Erased" and "Micro Cuts" (my personal favourite), it deserves all the praise it gets.
maudlin of the Well Bath	5.0
Making some of the most original metal music I've ever heard, maudlin of the Well have created an absolute masterpiece with "Bath". This album has it all - emotional gems ("Geography", "Marid's Gift of Art"), unrelenting death metal attacks ("They Aren't All Beautiful"), acoustic pieces ("The Blue Ghost/Shedding Qliphoth", the interlude tracks), as well as those that bring them all together (highlight "Birth Pains of Astral Projection"). Perfection.
Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible	4.5
Lift to Experience The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads	4.0
Camel Lunar Sea	3.5
The Shins Oh, Inverted World	3.5
Devin Townsend Terria	4.5
pg.99 Document #8	4.0
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket	3.5
Tool Lateralus	4.5
The Angels of Light How I Loved You	4.0
Daft Punk Discovery	4.0
Opeth Blackwater Park	4.5
Evoken Quietus	3.5
A more well-rounded album than their previous efforts. Very solid, but in no way perfect. "Atrementous Journey" is probably the best song they've done though.
Graveworm Scourge of Malice	3.0
Lacrimas Profundere Burning: A Wish	4.0
The Angelic Process ...And Your Blood Is Full Of Honey	3.5
Silencer (SWE) Death - Pierce Me	4.0
Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard	4.0
Shape of Despair Angels of Distress	4.0

2000
Lifehouse No Name Face	3.5
Neurosis Sovereign	3.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven	4.5
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory	3.5
Electric Wizard Dopethrone	4.0
Radiohead Kid A	4.5
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command	4.5
Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished	3.5
Lacrimas Profundere Memorandum	4.0
Underoath Cries of the Past	4.0
This would be a 3.5 were it not for the impressive atmosphere the album manages to create. This was Underoath at their most aggressive, showcasing their abilities to combine elements of hardcore with black and death metal. In fact, there is a fairly close resemblance to Extol's 'Burial' (although not quite as professionally executed). Excellent album
Devin Townsend Physicist	3.0
Deftones White Pony	4.5
Supermachiner Rise of the Great Machine	4.0
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms	4.0
Thrice Identity Crisis	2.5
Shiina Ringo Shouso Strip	4.0
Sigur Ros Ny Batteri	4.5
Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless	4.0
The cover of the album says it all. This is the only grind album I have ever liked and for good reason; there is something about it that is both beautiful and ugly, ethereal and crushing, technical and uncompromising. Give it a good few listens and it may change your perspective on heavy music completely.
Lykathea Aflame Elvenefris	4.0
Lykathea Aflame a.k.a. Crackpeth (Opeth on crack) have created a very unique album in "Elvenefris". It may not be flawless, but it's a very interesting listen nevertheless.
Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water	2.0
Cave In Jupiter	4.5
It actually deserves a 4.2 rating but that's not possible, so I'm going to bump it up just because of 'Big Riff' which is one of the most incredibly badass songs ever
Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun	4.0
Bohren und der Club of Gore Sunset Mission	4.0
Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence	3.0
Weakling Dead as Dreams	4.0
Immolation Close to a World Below	4.5
Gas Pop	4.0
Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow!	4.0

1999
Botch We Are the Romans	4.0
Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction	3.0
Third Eye Blind Blue	4.0
Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Converge The Poacher Diaries	3.5
Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose	4.5
Opeth Still Life	4.5
Sigur Ros Svefn-g-englar	4.0
American Football American Football	4.0
The Birthday Party Live 1981-82	4.5
Estatic Fear A Sombre Dance	3.5
Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun	5.0
Anathema Judgement	4.5
Stars of the Lid Avec Laudenum	4.0
blink-182 Enema Of The State	3.5
dredg Leitmotif	4.0
Neurosis Times of Grace	4.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada	5.0
Rightfully regarded as the greatest E.P. of all time
Jimmy Eat World Clarity	4.0
Paysage d'Hiver Paysage d'Hiver	4.0
maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible	3.5
If the production wasn't so bad (even on the remaster) this would be much better. That said however, this is still a fucking solid album that is in the same vein as maudlin's two classics "Bath" and "Leaving Your Body Map". Just not quite up to the standard of those though, but a fantastic debut nevertheless and one that is sadly overlooked by many fans.
Converge Y2K	3.5
Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream	4.0
Agalloch Pale Folklore	4.5
One of the most stunning extreme metal albums I've ever heard, Agalloch has made a record that transcends genre and defies convention. The production is what seals it for me - murky, but brilliantly atmospheric. Just listen to Hallways of Enchanted Ebony or The Melancholy Spirit and you'll understand.
The Angels of Light New Mother	3.5
Arvo Part Alina	4.5
This is just unbelievably beautiful. "Spiegel im Spiegel" is like everything I've been searching for in post-rock but haven't been able to find.
Orchid Chaos is Me	4.0

1998
Extol Burial	4.0
Stars of the Lid Per Aspera Ad Astra	3.0
Meshuggah Chaosphere	4.0
Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come	4.5
Eels Electro-Shock Blues	4.0
Placebo Without You I'm Nothing	4.0
Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl	3.5
Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children	4.5
Cat Power Moon Pix	4.0
Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse	4.5
System of a Down System of a Down	4.0
Anathema Alternative 4	4.0
Cave In Until Your Heart Stops	4.0
Converge When Forever Comes Crashing	3.5
I never managed to get into this as much as Converge's other stuff... until now. It's perhaps their most angry album - "My Unsaid Everything" is utter chaos (in a good way). Definitely worth the patience
Massive Attack Mezzanine	4.0
Devin Townsend Christeen + 4 Demos	4.0
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea	5.0
Swans Swans Are Dead	4.5
Converge Caring and Killing	3.0
Evoken Embrace the Emptiness	3.0
A lot better than their debut, but still drags on without going anywhere in particular. I know, I know, this is funeral doom metal and isn't really supposed to go anywhere, but it doesn't grip me like Antithesis of Light does. Moments of brilliance, but ultimately only slightly above average.
Devin Townsend Infinity	4.0

1997
Meshuggah The True Human Design	3.0
In Flames Whoracle	4.0
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West	4.5
Deftones Around the Fur	4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞	4.5
Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech	4.5
Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Sol Niger Within	3.5
Radiohead OK Computer	4.5
Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape	4.5
This is modern mainstream rock music at its best. Along with Third Eye Blind's self-titled debut album (released in the same year), this is the best that the radio has to offer - passion, catchy hooks and not a bad song to be found. Undoubtedly the best thing the Foo Fighters ever have and ever will do.
Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind	5.0
A classic in every sense of the word. I've been listening to this album since it first came out in 1997 and I still listen to it with the same sense of awe as I did when I first heard it. It may not be the most musically, or even lyrically accomplished album, but every song is a masterpiece in its own right and this deserves to be regarded as a milestone of alternative rock.
Elliott Smith Either/Or	4.5
Strapping Young Lad City	5.0
Lacrimas Profundere La Naissance D'Un Rêve	3.0
Sigur Ros Von	3.5
dredg Orph	2.5
Esoteric The Pernicious Enigma	4.5
Mogwai Young Team	4.0

1996
Anathema Eternity	3.5
Swans Soundtracks for the Blind	4.5
This album is almost unlistenable due to how utterly terrifying it is. Just try listening to I Was a Prisoner in Your Skull or Minus Something late at night with headphones on - it is near impossible. No album has ever done that to me before and for that reason alone makes Soundtracks for the Blind a classic. But there are also amazing drone, ambient, techno, indie, and post-rock compositions on here too, all of which contribute to the album's brilliance.
Tool Ænima	4.5
Low The Curtain Hits the Cast	4.0
Opeth Morningrise	4.0
Robert Miles Dreamland	4.0
Manic Street Preachers Everything Must Go	4.0
Ash 1977	3.5
Underrated pop-punk album this is. Some great songs on here
Edge of Sanity Crimson	4.5
Neurosis Through Silver in Blood	4.5
In Flames The Jester Race	4.5
Cryptopsy None So Vile	4.5
Burzum Filosofem	4.0
Maeror Tri The Beauty of Sadness	4.5
Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky	4.0
Ulver Kveldssanger	3.5
Bethlehem Dictius Te Necare	4.0
Katatonia Brave Murder Day	4.0

1995
Dark Tranquillity The Gallery	4.5
Deftones Adrenaline	3.0
Dream Theater A Change of Seasons	3.0
Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve	4.0
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	4.0
In Flames Subterranean	3.5
Opeth Orchid	3.5
Maeror Tri Myein	4.0
Radiohead The Bends	4.0
Strapping Young Lad Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing	3.5
Red House Painters Ocean Beach	4.0
I just bumped the overall rating on this sucker to a 4. It deserves it.
Death Symbolic	4.5
Hallucinogen Twisted	4.0
Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler	4.5
Swans The Great Annihilator	4.0
Lacrimas Profundere ...And the Wings Embraced Us	2.0
Meshuggah Selfcaged	2.5
Michael Gira Drainland	3.0
A couple of brilliant tracks bookend this album, with an unfortunate amount of really average ones in between. The first and last tracks make it worth it though
At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul	4.5
Suffocation Pierced from Within	4.0
Bluetile Lounge Lowercase	4.5
Blut Aus Nord Ultima Thulee	4.0

1994
Godspeed You! Black Emperor All Lights Fucked On the Hairy Amp Drooling	3.5
Meshuggah None	2.5
Suede Dog Man Star	4.0
Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible	4.5
Portishead Dummy	4.5
Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley	4.5
Weezer Weezer	3.5
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II	4.0
Bethlehem Dark Metal	4.5
In Flames Lunar Strain	3.0
Thergothon Stream From The Heavens	3.0
Every time I listen to this album I just feel so FUCKING happy! My heart and soul is overfilled with the joy this album exudes and I can barely contain my excitement of having to get through another day in this wonderful, green world. If you too would like to experience this uplifting and spiritual awakening, this album is definitely for you!
Horde Hellig Usvart	4.0
Converge Halo in a Haystack	2.5
Evoken Shades of Night Descending	2.5
Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss	4.5
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary	4.0
Low I Could Live in Hope	4.5
Strid Strid [7'']	3.5
Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime	4.0

1993
Red House Painters Red House Painters	4.0
Radiohead Pablo Honey	3.0
Tool Undertow	3.5
Demilich Nespithe	4.0
Neurosis Enemy of the Sun	4.0
Suede Suede	3.5
Cynic Focus	4.5
diSEMBOWELMENT Transcendence into the Peripheral	4.0
Porcupine Tree Up the Downstair	3.5
Entombed Wolverine Blues	3.5

1992
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine	4.0
Red House Painters Down Colorful Hill	4.5
As much as I enjoy Lord Kill the Pain, it really doesn't fit with the rest of the album. I've slowly learnt to appreciate it over time but I still feel like it kills the vibe of the record. Nevertheless, this is close to being a 5!
Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky	4.0
Dream Theater Images and Words	4.0
Porcupine Tree On the Sunday of Life	2.0
Faith No More Angel Dust	4.0
Tool Opiate	3.5
Manic Street Preachers Generation Terrorists	3.0
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92	4.0
Neurosis Souls at Zero	4.0
Swans Love of Life	3.5

1991
Talk Talk Laughing Stock	4.0
My Bloody Valentine Loveless	4.5
Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse	3.0
Atheist Unquestionable Presence	4.0
Fugazi Steady Diet of Nothing	3.5
Dismember Like an Ever Flowing Stream	4.5
Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity	4.0
Slint Spiderland	4.5
Q Lazzarus Goodbye Horses	4.0

1990
Entombed Left Hand Path	4.0
Neurosis The Word as Law	3.0
Fugazi Repeater	4.0

1989
Fugazi Margin Walker	4.0
Morbid Angel Altars of Madness	4.0
The Cure Disintegration	4.5
Pixies Doolittle	4.5
Godflesh Streetcleaner	4.0
Swans The Burning World	3.0
Fugazi 13 Songs	4.5

1988
Fugazi Fugazi	4.5
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation	4.5
Talk Talk Spirit of Eden	4.0
Death Leprosy	4.0
Voivod Dimension Hatröss	4.0
Bathory Blood Fire Death	4.0

1987
Death Scream Bloody Gore	3.5
Neurosis Pain of Mind	3.0
Swans Children of God	4.5
The musical equivalent of 'the hell sermon' in Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." As pretentious as that sounds, it's by far the best description I can give of the music on here.

1986
Slayer Reign in Blood	4.0
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead	4.5
Swans Time Is Money (Bastard)	3.5
Swans Public Castration Is a Good Idea	4.0
Swans Holy Money	3.5

1985
Swans Greed	3.0

1984
Steve Roach Structures from Silence	4.0
Harold Budd and Brian Eno The Pearl	4.5
Swans Cop	3.5
Swans Young God	3.5
Haruomi Hosono 花に水	4.0

1983
Brian Eno Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks	4.0
Swans Filth	4.0

1982
Talk Talk The Party's Over	2.0

1980
Joy Division Closer	4.5
Harold Budd and Brian Eno Ambient 2 - The Plateaux of Mirror	4.5

1979
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures	4.5

1978
Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous	4.5
Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports	4.0

1977
Tom Waits Foreign Affairs	2.0
Peter Gabriel Car	4.0

1976
Genesis Wind & Wuthering	3.5
Camel Moonmadness	4.5
Henryk Gorecki Symphony No. 3, Op. 36	4.5
Tom Waits Small Change	3.0

1975
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here	4.5

1974
Camel Mirage	4.5
Tom Waits The Heart of Saturday Night	3.0

1973
Genesis Selling England by the Pound	5.0
Camel Camel	4.0
Tom Waits Closing Time	3.5

1972
Genesis Foxtrot	5.0
Nick Drake Pink Moon	4.5

1971
Genesis Nursery Cryme	4.5

1970
Genesis Trespass	3.5
The Stooges Fun House	4.0

1969
The Beatles Abbey Road	5.0

1968
The Beatles The Beatles	4.0

1967
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour	4.5
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	4.5

1966
The Beatles Revolver	4.5
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds	4.0

1965
The Beatles Rubber Soul	4.0
The Beach Boys Party!	2.0
The Beach Boys Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)	3.0
The Beach Boys Today!	3.5

1964
The Beatles Beatles for Sale	3.0
The Beach Boys The Beach Boys' Christmas Album	2.5
The Beach Boys All Summer Long	3.0
The Beatles A Hard Day's Night	3.5
The Beach Boys Shut Down Volume 2	3.0

1963
The Beatles With the Beatles	3.0
The Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe	2.5
The Beach Boys Surfer Girl	3.0
The Beach Boys Surfin' U.S.A.	2.5
The Beatles Please Please Me	3.5

1962
The Beach Boys Surfin' Safari	2.0

1959
Miles Davis Kind of Blue	4.5

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