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2010
Unfathoms Rogue	5.0
Will get a link for this soon - for now you all will have to gawk at my musical self-importance. Concept: A whirlwind take on confusion, regret, and whimsy - amounting to the realization of how complicated the human mind is, through tropical, world-inspired "avant-garde" noise (pop). Genres: Noise (pop), world (pop), electronic. Special thanks to Enrique (bailar11, to be more specific) for listening to demos and to anyone else on sputnik who let me know of what was and was not a mistake on my part - you know who you are.
Black Veil Brides We Stitch These Wounds	1.0
Unfathoms Da Lowd NOIZ Demo	5.0
Celeste Morte(s) Nee(s)	2.5
The Hold Steady Heaven Is Whenever	2.0
Minus the Bear Omni	3.0
Bullet for My Valentine Fever	1.0
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II	4.5
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise	2.5
Dark Time Sunshine Vessel	4.0
Caribou Swim	4.5
Kayo Dot Coyote	4.5
fun. Live At Fingerprints	3.0
Bleeding Through Bleeding Through	1.5
MGMT Congratulations	2.0
Harlan T. Bobo Sucker	4.5
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim Here Lies Love	2.5
We Are The World Clay Stones	2.5
Barren Earth Curse of the Red River	3.0
Ikonika Contact, Love, Want, Have	3.5
Red Sparowes The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein...	4.5
Coffinworm When All Became None	3.5
Jonsi Go	4.5
Paper Tongues Paper Tongues	1.5
Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh	4.0
Alcest Écailles De Lune	3.0
Ecailles De Lune, successor to the crtically acclaimed Souvenirs Dun Autre Monde may be a promising take on post-black metal at first, but it has little lasting value and can easily be seen as a tedium. Alcest may just need to go back to stargaze.
Justin Bieber My World 2.0	1.0
Vex'd Cloud Seed	3.5
Balthazar (BE) Applause	4.0
From First to Last Throne to the Wolves	2.0
Neon Trees Habits	3.0
Delorean Subiza	3.0
Isles and Glaciers The Hearts of Lonely People	1.0
Daughters Daughters	2.5
SOOOOOOOOOOOOO BOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGG....
Gorillaz Plastic Beach	3.0
True Still Life	3.5
John Zorn In Search of the Miraculous	4.5
Autechre Oversteps	4.5
Story of the Year The Constant	1.0
Wrath and Rapture Wrath and Rapture	4.0
Yeasayer Odd Blood	3.0
Yukon Blonde Yukon Blonde	2.0
The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year	2.0
Never Shout Never What Is Love?	1.0
Chicago Underground Duo Boca Negra	4.5
Orphaned Land The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR	1.5
Jaga Jazzist One-Armed Bandit	3.5
Shining (NOR) Blackjazz	4.5
Sigh Scenes from Hell	2.0
I was disappointed that there was no disco on this album....
Spoon Transference	4.0
Lindstrom and Christabelle Real Life Is No Cool	4.5
One of the architects behind retro-futurism destroys the very idea, as Lindstrom has officially attacked his new age, disco sound (without straying too far from home of course).
Various Artists (Electronic) Pop Ambient 2010	3.0
Alesana The Emptiness	1.5
Alesana have most definitely improved on The Emptiness, but they are still pretty fucking terrible. Granted, the high pitched voice is somewhat apt on the verses of "The Thespian", and the musicianship contains more depth and technicality.m However, the tracks are still boring as all hell; the growled vocals are absolutely terrible, terrible, terrible; and there's no artistic merit on this album. Also it's pretentious (yes Alesana can do that.)
Vampire Weekend Contra	3.0
Her Demise My Rise The Takeover	1.0
Wold Working Together For Our Privacy	2.0
Dangers Messy, Isn't It?	3.5
Imperium Dekadenz Procella Vadens	4.0

2009
Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War	1.0
The Bravery Stir The Blood	1.5
Les Discrets/Alcest Split	4.0
Neun Welten Destrunken	4.0
Animal Collective Fall Be Kind	3.5
Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough	2.0
Gaza He Is Never Coming Back	2.5
Throwdown Deathless	1.5
The Almost Monster, Monster	1.5
Say Anything Say Anything	2.0
Katatonia Night Is the New Day	3.0
Shpongle Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland	4.0
Train Save Me San Francisco	1.5
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect	2.0
Minus the Bear Into the Mirror	4.0
Borgia Ecclesia	3.5
Cartel Cycles	1.0
Atlas Sound Logos	2.0
Gwen Stacy A Dialogue	2.0
Daitro Y	3.0
Do Make Say Think Other Truths	4.5
Baroness Blue Record	2.0
1997 Notes From Underground	2.5
Jodis Secret House	4.0
The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event	1.5
Blessthefall Witness	2.0
HORSE the band Desperate Living	3.5
Converge Axe to Fall	4.0
Despised Icon Day Of Mourning	1.5
Rachel Grimes Book Of Leaves	4.5
Diablo Swing Orchestra Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious	4.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate	1.0
Protest the Hero Gallop Meets the Earth	1.0
Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream	1.0
Craig Owens With Love	1.5
It Dies Today Lividity	2.0
Moneen The World I Want To Leave Behind	2.5
Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic	3.0
Muse The Resistance	1.5
Insane Clown Posse Bang! Pow! Boom!	1.0
The only reason for the rating to be above a 2 is the scene infestation.
The Used Artwork	1.0
fun. Aim and Ignite	1.5
Arctic Monkeys Humbug	3.5
Emmure Felony	1.0
As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You	3.5
After Midnight Project Let's Build Something to Break	2.5
Behemoth Evangelion	2.5
Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next	4.0
Jonny Craig A Dream Is A Question You Don't Know How To Answer	1.5
John Zorn O'o	4.5
Portugal. The Man The Satanic Satanist	1.5
The Word Alive Empire	2.0
Owl City Ocean Eyes	1.0
Arsonists Get All the Girls Portals	2.0
All Time Low Nothing Personal	1.0
Novembers Doom Into Night's Requiem Infernal	2.0
Job For A Cowboy Ruination	3.0
Shining (SWE) VI - Klagopsalmer	4.0
Suffocation Blood Oath	2.0
Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed	1.0
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster III	2.0
Dinosaur Jr. Farm	3.0
The Mars Volta Octahedron	3.0
Wold Imperator	4.5
brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It!	1.0
A Skylit Drive Adelphia	1.0
Sonic Youth The Eternal	3.5
Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca	4.0
Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening	2.0
It's All Happening shows potential from a spasmodic metalcore band, but never is it fulfilled. To Iwrestaledabearonce: you're really polystylistic... but fucking boring.
Drop Dead, Gorgeous Hot N' Heavy	2.0
Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail	3.5
Marilyn Manson The High End of Low	1.5
Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix	4.5
Green Day 21st Century Breakdown	1.0
maudlin of the Well Part the Second	4.0
Thy Catafalque Roka Hasa Radio	4.5
The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars	2.0
Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions	2.0
Loma Prieta Dark Mountain	3.0
Dot Dot Curve Til the Wheels Fall Off	1.0
Celeste Misanthrope(s)	2.5
John Zorn Alhambra Love Songs	3.5
ISIS Wavering Radiant	4.0
Oceano Depths	1.0
Arcana Coelestia Le Mirage de L’idéal	4.0
Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade	4.0
Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind	3.0
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone	3.0
Bill Laswell Invisible Design II	3.5
Austere To Lay Like Old Ashes	4.0
John Zorn Filmworks XXIII: El General	4.0
Company Of Thieves Ordinary Riches	4.0
Obscura Cosmogenesis	4.0
Thursday Common Existence	4.0
Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand	3.0
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion	1.5
When reading a review describing Animal Collectives sound as (I quote) "an amalgamation of campfire songs and LSD, I was immediately intrigued. And though intrigue may help a listener, this album fucking sucks without it. Despire many people's claims, Animal Collective is not catchy, versatile, or ingenius. "Lion In A Coma", though the album's best song, is homogenous and forgettable, as are all of the other songs on this record. The way Animal Collective toys with textures provides this effect, as the band refuses to stray from the "wall-of-sound" technique for even a minute, thus reducing its effect. And rather than accentuating this album's positive points, it forces them to drown in an undying fugue of noise. A component of this noise is the faux-exoticism that ceases to go the fuck away on this album. The sounds of "My Gurls" are ridiculous, and the trump on "Lion in a Coma" is used without much effect other than annoyance. The same applies to the constantly pulsating basslines, the poorly executed electronics, and stagnant melodies. Disparity is nonexistent. Homogeny is constant (I mean when you use 20+ instruments for each track without variation and do the same for textures, what do you expect. And none of the folk-pop "anthems" are memorable at all. Forever imprinted on my brain are the words "Avoid at all costs."
This Time We Will Not Promise and Forgive 歌詞を読まない世代へ継ぐ	3.5
Khanate Clean Hands Go Foul	4.0
Incursus Eternal Funeral Trance	4.0

2008
Liar Liar Cross On Fire Exposed, Barren and Often Windswept	3.0
EAT ME RAW All My Friends	1.0
John Zorn The Crucible	4.5
Nocte Obducta Sequenzen einer Wanderung	4.0
Killie Offering A Sacrifice That Presents And Indicates..	4.5
Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak	1.5
Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly	1.5
Light This City Stormchaser	2.0
La Dispute Here, Hear. II	3.0
Sleepingdog Polar Life	4.5
John Zorn Filmworks XXII: The Last Supper	3.5
My Kappa Roots Old Sentry Who Saw The Transfiguring	4.5
Fear Before Fear Before	1.5
Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns	2.0
Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder	1.0
Merzbow Anicca	4.0
Escape the Fate This War Is Ours	1.0
brokeNCYDE BC 13	1.0
Gojira The Way of All Flesh	4.5
Minus the Bear Acoustics	2.5
Sparks The Rescue Eyes to the Sun	3.0
Sparks the Rescue have everything that it takes to be successful within the absolutepunk.net scene. All the good makings of a pop-punk band (catchy choruses, some flairs of technicality, etc.), and a video that's just a little too reminiscent of one of Thursday's. Eyes To The Sun will do nothing to change that, or the state of the genre. But fuck, it's guilty pleasure material, isn't it?
John Zorn Filmworks XXI: Belle de Nature/The New Rijksmuseum	4.5
Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season	2.0
I like Suicide Season and The Sadness Will Never End, but other wise Bring Me The Horizon take a tip from The Devil Wears Prada and mash it with a Gallows Slipknot crossbreed.
Sunn O))) Dømkirke	2.5
Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation	2.5
Shugo Tokumaru Exit	3.5
The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound	4.5
Kokumaromilk 少女娼婦	4.5
Quest For Blood Quest for Blood with Yukihiro Isso	5.0
Quest For Blood, a nearly unclassifiable metal band with black metal, neoclassical, and noise roots, has released a masterpeice. Toying with density, all things vanguard, some extremely wtf flute skills and creating a new genre altogether, Quest for Blood with Yukihiro Isso is one of the best metal albums to be released in the past couple thousand decades.
Norma Jean The Anti Mother	1.0
Anthony Green Avalon	1.0
Anthony Green's overtly long album touches upon folksy pop in a rather austere way, marrying pretense and boredom in one [b]FAR TOO MOTHERFUCKING LONG[/b record.
Krallice Krallice	2.0
Sky Eats Airplane Sky Eats Airplane	1.5
Loma Prieta Last City	3.5
Emarosa Relativity	1.5
Cryptopsy The Unspoken King	1.0
Cute Is What We Aim For Rotation	1.0
Wold Stratification	4.0
Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust	4.0
October Falls The Womb of Primordial Nature	4.0
Confide Shout the Truth	1.5
Alesana Where Myth Fades to Legend	1.0
Opeth Watershed	1.5
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	2.0
Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward	2.5
Millionaires Bling Bling Bling!	1.0
Lugubrum Albino de Congo	4.0
Jaldaboath Hark the Herald	1.0
Arg mateys! Do not listen to thee disney black less thee get scurvy on thine tongue.
Lotte Kestner China Mountain	4.5
Mirrorthrone Gangrene	4.0
M83 Saturdays=Youth	4.5
Gregor Samsa Rest	4.0
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles	3.5
John Zorn The Dreamers	4.0
Bar Kokhba Lucifer: Book of Angels Volume 10	4.5
Wykked Wytch Memories of A Dying Whore	1.0
Ludo You're Awful, I Love You	3.0
Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt. One: 4th World War	4.0
Genghis Tron Board Up the House	3.5
Capsule (US) Blue	4.0
Gwen Stacy The Life I Know	1.0
Protest the Hero Fortress	1.5
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend	3.0
The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath	3.5
Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull	4.5
Chthonic Pandemonium	4.5
Foxy Shazam Introducing	2.0
John Zorn Filmworks XIX: The Rain Horse	4.5
I Shot The Duck Hunt Dog Epic Fail	1.0
Praxis Profanation (Preperation For An Upcoming Darkness)	4.0
Thy Mighty Contract Thy Mighty Contract	4.5

2007
Sigur Ros Heima (DVD)	4.0
Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler	1.0
Saves the Day Under the Boards	2.0
Duck Duck Goose Noise, Noise and More Noise	3.5
Say Anything In Defense of the Genre	2.5
Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals	4.0
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza II: The Electric Boogaloo	1.5
Radiohead In Rainbows	4.0
Nadja Radiance of Shadows	4.5
MGMT Oracular Spectacular	2.5
These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower and Dove	4.0
Emery I'm Only A Man	1.5
We The Kings We The Kings	2.0
Alchemist Tripsis	3.5
The Bled Silent Treatment	1.5
Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters	4.5
Senmuth Planetary Dust	4.0
Suicide Silence The Cleansing	1.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal	2.5
Time of Orchids Namesake Caution	4.0
Te It Be The Thinking As 'the Song' Of Realistic Sound From The World Which	4.5
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam	1.5
Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet	2.0
M83 Digital Shades Vol. 1	4.0
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Underground	4.0
Portal Outre	4.5
Le Grand Guignol The Great Maddening	4.0
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice	4.5
Caribou Andorra	4.5
Yakuza Transmutations	4.5
Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde	4.0
Killie Afterall, The Opinion Of One In A Hundre	4.5
Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement	1.0
Cogito Vital EP	3.5
Portugal. The Man Church Mouth	1.5
Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum	4.5
brokeNCYDE The Broken	1.0
John Zorn From Silence to Sorcery	4.0
August Burns Red Messengers	2.0
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel	4.5
Azure Emote Chronicles of an Aging Mammal	4.5
Epic, claustrophobic and avant-garde, Azure Emote's electronicized death metal album impresses on nearly all counts. But some of the death metal sects are a tad off, awkward pig squeals and such feel haphazard. But the textural nuances are enough to make this album somewhat enjoyable, let alone the creative use of disco, acoustic, and electronic music throughout.
Circa Survive On Letting Go	1.5
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum In Glorious Times	4.5
The Used Lies for the Liars	1.0
Despised Icon The Ills Of Modern Man	1.0
Neurosis Given to the Rising	2.0
Job For A Cowboy Genesis	2.0
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain	4.0
Tartar Lamb Sixty Metonymies	4.5
Kokumaromilk こくまろみるく	4.5
Literally the most insane band ever to be good and make catchy music.
Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad	4.5
Bright Eyes Cassadaga	3.5
My Kappa Roots The House of St Colme Burnt Down	4.5
Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline	5.0
The Chariot The Fiancee	1.5
Obadiah Parker Obadiah Parker Live	3.5
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank	3.5
John Zorn Six Litanies for Heliogabalus	4.5
Hot Cross Risk Revival	3.0
Novembers Doom The Novella Reservoir	1.5
Minus the Bear Interpretaciones Del Oso	1.5
Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone	4.0
Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust	4.5
Nest (FIN) Trail of the Unwary	4.5
Shining (NOR) Grindstone	4.0
Wold Screech Owl	4.0
Loma Prieta Matrimony EP	1.5
Matrimony is four minutes of directionless howling atop inept hardcore musicianship. Apt title, eh?
Thy Art Is Murder Infinite Death	2.0
October Falls The Streams Of The End	3.0
Iwrestledabearonce Iwrestledabearonce	3.0
Unlike their full-length, this eponymous EP knows what it is: fun metalcore with a campy experimental tinge throughout. It never tries to take itself too seriously, and sometimes that's what you need.
The Crinn The Crinn EP	4.0
Pelican Pink Mammoth	4.0
Merzbow Merzbear	4.5
Suffocate For Fuck Sake Blazing Fires and Helicopters...	5.0

2006
Cloacal Kiss Easter	2.0
ISIS In the Absence of Truth	4.0
Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings	1.0
Khlyst Chaos is My Name	4.5
Comprised of excruciating lulls and claustrophobic textures, this drone album is one that is portentous of doom, but strikingly original.
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade	1.5
Converge No Heroes	3.5
Neun Welten Vergessene Pfade	4.5
Killie September Against Sexism	3.5
Cradle of Filth Thornography	1.0
John Zorn Astronome	4.5
Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet	4.5
Senses Fail Still Searching	1.5
The Blood Brothers Young Machetes	2.5
These Arms Are Snakes Easter	4.0
Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red...	4.5
Gaza I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die	3.5
Blut Aus Nord MoRT	4.5
Chthonic Seediq Bale	4.5
Negura Bunget OM	4.5
Fear Before The Always Open Mouth	3.0
Urna Sepulcrum	4.0
Norma Jean Redeemer	1.5
Mastodon Blood Mountain	2.0
The Mars Volta Amputechture	4.0
Daughters Hell Songs	4.0
Across Five Aprils Collapse	2.0
An Albatross Blessphemy (Of The Peace-Beast Feastgive	2.0
Merzbow Minazo Vol. 1	4.5
Underoath Define the Great Line	4.0
Sonic Youth Rather Ripped	3.5
Alesana On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax	1.0
AFI Decemberunderground	2.0
Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth	2.5
I Would Set Myself On Fire For You Believes In Patterns	5.0
Dangers Anger	4.0
Killie Want To Escape From The Underground...	4.5
John Zorn Moonchild	4.5
Sunn O))) La Mort Noir En Esch/Alzette	2.5
Thursday A City By the Light Divided	3.0
Architects Nightmares	2.0
Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway	4.0
The Crinn Kills Curiosity	4.0
AFX Chosen Lords	4.0
Unearthly Trance The Trident	3.0
Yakuza Samsara	3.5
Band of Horses Everything All the Time	4.5
Katatonia The Great Cold Distance	3.0
Dismember The God That Never Was	3.5
Gregor Samsa 55:12	4.5
Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes	4.0
Gantz La Chambre Des Morts	4.0
Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst MMV	4.5
Belong October Language	4.5
Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars	5.0
Merzbow Houjoue	4.0
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not	4.0
Drop Dead, Gorgeous Be Mine, Valentine	1.0
Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue	5.0
The Strokes First Impressions of Earth	3.0
wecamewithbrokenteeth We're Packing Are You?	1.0
The Faceless Akeldama	2.0
Phoenix Bodies Raise The Bullshit Flag	4.0
Kite Flying Society [FL] A Discography	4.5
The Art of Conversation is one of the best emo songs made of all time ever.

2005
Shining (SWE) IV - The Eerie Cold	4.5
Job For A Cowboy Doom	1.0
Wold L.O.T.M.P.	4.5
Brian McBride When The Detail Lost Its Freedom	4.5
Cryptopsy Once Was Not	2.5
Sunn O))) Black One	2.5
Completely forgettable drone music that refuses to have any sort of emotional or aesthetic quality, let alone a decent attention-grabbing aspect.
Animal Collective Feels	3.5
Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase	4.5
Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene	4.5
Deathspell Omega Kenose	4.5
Sigur Ros Takk...	4.0
Earth Hex: Or Printing In the Infernal Method	4.5
From Autumn to Ashes Abandon Your Friends	1.0
Protest the Hero Kezia	2.0
Opeth Ghost Reveries	3.5
Minus the Bear Menos El Oso	2.0
Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well	1.5
Bar Kokhba 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Eleven	4.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma	2.0
Hiretsukan End States	4.0
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear.	4.5
Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost	4.5
Foxy Shazam The Flamingo Trigger	2.5
Masada Dalet	4.0
Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon...	4.5
Bucket Full Of Teeth IV	4.5
Nervous Light of Sunday 弱心光景	4.0
Gorillaz Demon Days	4.5
Alcest Le Secret	3.5
Time of Orchids Sarcast While	4.0
Napalm Death The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code	3.5
Merzbow Sphere	4.5
Nocte Obducta Nektar - Teil 2: Seen, Flüsse, Tagebücher	4.5
Circa Survive Juturna	2.0
Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today	4.0
Jaga Jazzist What We Must	4.5
Caribou The Milk Of Human Kindness	4.0
Nadja Bodycage	4.5
Combatwoundedveteran This is Not an Erect, All-Red Neon Body	3.5
Although monotonous, this powerviolence compilation is a feast of angular bliss, best devoured in its entirety.
Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy	4.5
The Bravery The Bravery	2.0
Funeral Diner The Underdark	4.0
The Decemberists Picaresque	4.0
Circa Survive The Inuit Sessions	1.5
Daft Punk Human After All	2.5
Stars Set Yourself On Fire	4.0
Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath	1.0
Armor For Sleep What To Do When You Are Dead	3.0
Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn	4.5
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute	4.5
Genghis Tron Cloak of Love	3.0
Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn	3.0
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning	4.5
M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us	4.5
Jeromes Dream Completed	4.5
Shining (NOR) In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster	4.0
Orchid Totality	3.5
Gojira From Mars to Sirius	4.0
wecamewithbrokenteeth sweet.sweet.rock	1.0
Hewhocorrupts The Discographer	3.0
October Falls Marras	4.0
Electric Masada At the Mountains of Madness	4.5
Viggo Mortensen Intelligence Failure	4.5

2004
Aarni Bathos	3.5
A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe	1.0
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Of Natural History	4.5
ISIS Panopticon	4.5
Cult of Luna Salvation	4.5
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti The Doldrums	3.5
The Blood Brothers Crimes	4.0
Bring Me the Horizon This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For	1.0
The Used In Love and Death	1.5
These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home	4.0
Age of Silence Acceleration	3.5
Arcade Fire Funeral	4.5
Unique, melodic. and artsy, Funeral touches upon many variants of indie, all of which combine resplendently into an almost-cinematic release. Basically, 1nd13 cr3d on a stick.
Senses Fail Let It Enfold You	2.0
Fear Before Art Damage	2.0
Thy Catafalque Tuno Ido Tarlat	4.0
The Libertines The Libertines	2.5
Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy	4.0
Necrophagist Epitaph	4.5
Nocte Obducta Nektar: Teil 1 - Zwölf Monde, Eine Hand voll Träum	4.5
Minus the Bear They Make Beer Commercials Like This	3.0
The Futureheads The Futureheads	4.0
La Quiete La fine non è la fine	3.5
Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm	2.5
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety	1.5
Electric Masada 50th Birthday Celebration Volume Four	4.5
Yaphet Kotto We Bury Our Dead Alive	3.0
Gojira The Link Alive	4.5
Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News	4.0
Air Talkie Walkie	4.5
Deathspell Omega Si Monvmentvm Reqvires Circvmspice	4.5
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo	2.5
Wykked Wytch Nefret	1.0
Takaru There Can Be Only None	2.0
Crotchduster Big Fat Box of Shit	2.0
Some can do the whole avant-garde/spasmodic experimentation thing, others cannot. Crotchduster cannot.
Neun Welten Valg	3.5
Gaza East	3.5
The Sawtooth Grin Pervavor	3.5
Peccatum Lost in Reverie	4.5
Sonic Youth Sonic Nurse	4.5
Suffocate For Fuck Sake Suffocate For Fuck Sake	4.5

2003
M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts	5.0
Pelican Australasia	4.0
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place	4.5
Against Me! As the Eternal Cowboy	3.5
Viggo Mortensen Pandemoniumfromamerica	4.5
The Strokes Room on Fire	4.0
Mihai Edrisch L'un Sans L'Autre	3.5
Mihai Edrisch are an emo band that tries to make their sound diverse and exciting with post-rock and acoustic bits. However, it isn't diverse or exciting. In fact it's really repetitive and at times anticlimactic.
Atrox Orgasm	4.0
Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus	1.5
Funeral for a Friend Seven Ways To Scream Your Name	2.0
Khanate Things Viral	3.0
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye	5.0
Choirs of the Eye dabbles in all things epic and unique, yet has a knack for balancing the intense with the delicate, the grand with the simple, and even contrasting genres like acoustic and electronic. Go on, walk towards those scorching fumes.
Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn	4.5
Hewhocorrupts Ten Steps To Success	4.0
Kekal 1000 Thoughts of Violence	4.5
Thursday War All the Time	3.0
Enkephalin / Phoenix Bodies Enkephalin / Phoenix Bodies	4.5
M83 Live at La Route du Rock	4.0
These Arms Are Snakes This Is Meant To Hurt You	4.0
I Would Set Myself On Fire For You I Would Set Myself On Fire For You	4.0
Daughters Canada Songs	4.0
Usurp Synapse Disinformation Fix	4.0
As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse	1.5
Every Time I Die Hot Damn!	3.0
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium	5.0
Alchemist Austral Alien	4.0
Radiohead Hail to the Thief	4.0
Neil Perry Lineage Situation	3.5
Gojira The Link	4.5
The Cinematic Orchestra Man With A Movie Camera	4.5
William Basinski Melancholia	5.0
Hot Cross Cryonics	4.0
City of Caterpillar Demo + Live Recording	3.0
Nadja Touched	4.5
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops IV	5.0
Opeth Damnation	3.5
Katatonia Viva Emptiness	3.0
John Zorn Chimeras	4.5
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops III	5.0
Caribou Up in Flames (as Manitoba)	4.5
Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God	4.5
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses	4.5
Cursive The Ugly Organ	5.0
Bucket Full Of Teeth I, II, III	4.5
Chiodos The Heartless Control Everything	1.0
The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed	1.5
An Albatross We Are The Lazer Viking	1.5
Fear Before Odd How People Shake	2.0
Raein Il n'y a pas de orchestre	3.5
John Zorn Filmworks XIV: Hiding and Seeking	3.5
The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn	4.0
Ephel Duath The Painter's Palette	4.0
October Falls Tuoni	4.0
Nocte Obducta Stille: Das nagende Schweigen	4.0
Unexpect _We, Invaders	4.5
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Worn Copy	4.5
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops II	5.0

2002
Ten Grand This Is The Way To Rule	4.0
Opeth Deliverance	3.0
Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates	3.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O.	4.0
Sigur Ros ( )	4.5
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People	5.0
Very few releases exude nostalgia, catchiness, and depth. But very few releases are You Forgot It In People.
Gantz Les jours se suivent et ne se ressemblent plus	4.5
Minus the Bear Bands Like It When You Yell YAR at Them	3.0
Carissa's Wierd Songs About Leaving	4.0
Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child	1.5
Ten Grand The Comprehensive List	4.0
Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground	4.5
Love Like... Electrocution Love Like... Electrocution	4.5
My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love	3.5
Orchid Orchid	4.5
The Used The Used	1.5
Sonic Youth Murray Street	4.5
Love Lost But Not Forgotten Upon the Right, I Saw a New Misery	3.0
The Cinematic Orchestra Every Day	4.5
Saxon Shore Be a Bright Blue	4.5
City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar	4.0
Joshua Fit For Battle To Bring Our Own End	4.0
Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet	4.5
Clinic Walking With Thee	4.0
The Mars Volta Tremulant	4.5
Underoath The Changing of Times	2.0
The Blood Brothers March On Electric Children	4.0
Boards of Canada Geogaddi	4.5
Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond)	1.5
Terrible vocals, musicianship, and songwriting amount to a terrible blackened-seath metal release that is as tedious as it is obnoxious.
Agalloch The Mantle	3.5
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti House Arrest	3.5
ISIS Oceanic	4.0
Dodewaard Heroïne maakt veel goed	4.0
Hiretsukan Invasive/Exotic	4.0
Shining (SWE) III - Angst, Självdestruktivitetens Emissarie	4.0
Merzbow Merzbeat	4.0
John Zorn I.A.O. - Music in Sacred Light	4.5
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I	5.0
This ambient album is what the earth would sound like if it was able to subdue its denizens with infinite knowledge and understanding. Each note here has been saturated in character and finesse to the point where evocation is undeniable, and each listening experience is unique. Every listen however does reveal an odd paradox: when listening to the album, a morose feeling is exuded, yet an uplifting quality is produced. Perhaps it is the fact that one can feel such sadness that makes them feel this way? Whatever is the case, it is phenomenal knowing that this minimalist collection of songs is able to produce such an effect. Though very lengthy, Basinski shows his genius with tasteful subtlely. Oftentimes utilizing bare-bones piano notes and cello arrangements, his songs are extremely lengthy, relaxing, and enjoyable. With each press of a key, a reverberating sound is sent throughout the air, oftentimes repeating its call to those who are lucky enough to hear it, and dying as it does so. Yet, I highly doubt that this album will die anytime soon, as it is the essence of life, originality, and music.

2001
maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map	4.0
Andrew W.K. I Get Wet	1.0
Shining (NOR) Where the Ragged People Go	4.0
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Grand Opening and Closing	4.5
Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid	4.5
Khanate Khanate	4.5
Aphex Twin Drukqs	4.0
Thursday Full Collapse	4.0
The Strokes Is This It	4.5
Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...	4.0
Converge Jane Doe	4.5
Minus the Bear This is What I Know About Being Gigantic	2.5
Grade Headfirst Straight To Hell	4.0
Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape	3.0
maudlin of the Well Bath	5.0
Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible	4.5
Animal Collective Danse Manatee	1.5
For those who equate the quality of music with its difficulty, pick up this album. For those with sense, move on.
Chicago Underground Quartet Chicago Underground Quartet	4.5
Saetia A Retrospective	3.0
While those who lack indie cred jump on Saetia's bandwagon, a few thoughts come to my mind, nay, misconceptions of the misinformed, impressionable twit. For starters, Saetia did not define the genre of screamo, let alone emo (yes, the genres are different in the way that emo is less intense than screamo). Indian Summer, I Hate Myself, and many other bands played this sound in a far more exceptional manner than that of Saetia. Second, though sometimes caustic, the lyrical stylings of Saetia as well as some of the music, hit trite moments. Example A: "Roquentin" and several other tracks are just entirely placid attempts at angular dissonance. As well as impotent, these songs are contradictory to their genre. Forced emotion isn't emotion, its fucking pathetic. Third, Billy Werner was nothing new in the vocal department. Moans, squeals, and spoken word segments have been used since the mid-80's. The same goes for the balance of chaos and beauty. Sadly it is these flaws that do not allow for a phenomenal screamo album. Yet, there is immense potential. "Some Natures Catch No Plagues" is an interesting take on evocation. Similarly, "Notres Langues Nous Trompent" is an energetic track, expressing frustration adeptly. And "Venus And Bacchus" is a fun, if repetitive track. Though many other tracks are also great, there are so ver many flaws.
John Zorn The Gift	4.5
Caribou Start Breaking My Heart (as Manitoba)	4.0
Nocte Obducta Schwarzmetall - Ein primitives Zwischenspiel	4.0
Opeth Blackwater Park	2.0
Circle Takes the Square Circle Takes the Square	3.0
Alcest Tristesse Hivernale (Demo)	3.5
Jaga Jazzist A Livingroom Hush	4.0
Shining (SWE) II - Livets Andhallplats	4.0
M83 M83	4.0
Bright Eyes Don't Be Frightened Of Turning the Page	4.5
The Sawtooth Grin Cuddlemonster	4.0

2000
Grade The Embrassing Beginning	4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven	4.5
This album lacks the idiosyncrasies that Slow Riot For Zero Kanada, but there's still the ever-present climax, the tranquil strings, and the mighty evocative trumpet. Basically, though not a classic, this album still keeps up Godspeed You! Black Emperor's almighty repuation as GOz OF DUH POS ROK.
Radiohead Kid A	5.0
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command	4.5
Underoath Cries of the Past	2.0
Cursive Domestica	4.0
ISIS Celestial	3.0
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica	4.5
Combatwoundedveteran I Know A Girl Who Develops Crime Scene Photos	4.0
Sigur Ros Ny Batteri	4.0
Shining (SWE) I - Within Deep Dark Chambers	4.0
Cryptopsy And Then You'll Beg	2.5
Cave In Jupiter	3.5
Love Lost But Not Forgotten Love Lost but Not Forgotten	3.5
By taking a surprising amount of grindcore influence and combining it with several emo aspects, LLBNF creates an album of angular bliss. Yet, nothing is groundbreaking or new, a flaw that rears its ugly head more than once. But still... the drumming kicks major amounts of ass (see: Means To No End and Loathing)
Tristan Tzara Omorina Nad Evropom	3.5
While Tristan Tzara brings very little new to the table, what they accomplish with a relatively tried formula is great.
Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence	4.0
Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors	4.0
In/Humanity Violent Resignation: The Great...	4.0
The Great American Teenage Suicide is a manifestation of angular dissonance, oftentimes fitting into the "emo-violence" genre.
Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow!	4.0
Alchemist Organasm	4.0
Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless	4.5

1999
Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun	4.5
Botch We Are the Romans	3.5
Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction	4.5
Opeth Still Life	4.0
Grade Under the Radar	4.5
Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun	4.5
Stars of the Lid Avec Laudenum	4.5
Labradford E Luxo So	4.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada	5.0
Underoath Act of Depression	1.5
Unexpect Utopia	4.5
Thursday Waiting	3.0
maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible	3.5
Spazz Crush Kill Destroy	3.5
Spazz's album, Crush Kill Destroy is sonic skullfuckery at its most abrasive, yet most repetitive. In essence: a great powerviolence album.
Orchid Chaos is Me	4.0
John Zorn Taboo and Exile	4.5
In the Woods... Strange in Stereo	4.5

1998
Soilent Green Sewn Mouth Secrets	4.0
Cryptopsy Whisper Supremacy	3.5
Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children	4.5
Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse	3.5
Gasp Drome Triler of Puzzle Zoo People	4.0
John Zorn The Circle Maker	4.5
Merzbow 1930	4.5
John Zorn The Bribe	4.5
William Basinski Shortwavemusic	5.0

1997
John Zorn Duras: Duchamp	4.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞	4.5
Radiohead OK Computer	4.0
Squarepusher Hard Normal Daddy	4.0
Stars of the Lid The Ballasted Orchestra	4.5
Assuck Misery Index	4.5
Guess what! Assuck doesn't suck, in all actuality their LP, Misery Index is an oxymoron: it's resplendent powerviolence.
Discordance Axis Jouhou	4.0
Grade Separate The Magnets	4.0
Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk	4.5

1996
Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album	4.0
Earth Pentastar: In The Style Of Demons	4.0
Opeth Morningrise	3.5
Merzbow Pulse Demon	4.5
Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About	4.5
Neurosis Through Silver in Blood	2.0
Cryptopsy None So Vile	3.0
Squarepusher Feed Me Weird Things	4.0
Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst	4.5
Bill Laswell Oscillations	4.5
Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta I - Fathers Of The Icy Ages	4.5

1995
Grade And Such Is Progress	4.0
John Zorn Redbird	4.5
Masada Hei	4.5
Opeth Orchid	1.5
In the Woods... Heart of the Ages	5.0
Masada Gimel	4.0
Masada Beit	4.0
Merzbow Pinkream	4.0
Autechre Tri Repetae	4.5
Ved Buens Ende Written In Waters	4.5
Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do	3.5
Blut Aus Nord Ultima Thulee	4.5

1994
Amorphis Tales from the Thousand Lakes	2.5
Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse	4.5
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II	4.5
Cap'n Jazz Shmap'n Shmazz	3.5
Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh	4.0
Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss	4.0
Marc Ribot Shrek	4.0
PainKiller Execution Ground	4.5
Masada Alef	4.5
Merzbow Venereology	4.5
Merzbow Noisembryo	4.5

1993
Naked City Absinthe	4.0
Autechre Incunabula	4.5
Type O Negative Bloody Kisses	4.0
Naked City Radio	4.5
Earth Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version	4.5
OLD The Musical Dimension of Sleaslak	3.5
Jonas Hellborg Octave of the Holy Innocents	4.5
John Zorn Kristallnacht	5.0

1992
Naked City Leng Tch'e	4.0
Naked City Heretic	4.0
Sonic Youth Dirty	4.0
Faith No More Angel Dust	4.5
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92	4.5
PainKiller Buried Secrets	4.0
Naked City Grand Guignol	4.5
John Zorn Elegy	4.5
Apator Masturbate in Praise of Black Satan	5.0

1991
My Bloody Valentine Loveless	4.5
Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese	4.5
AntiSchism Still Life	3.5
OLD Lo Flux Tube	4.0
Merzbow Great American Nude / Crash for Hi-Fi	4.0
PainKiller Guts of a Virgin	4.5
Merzbow Music for Bondage Performance	4.5

1990
Merzbow Rainbow Electronics	4.0
Sonic Youth Goo	4.0
Naked City Naked City	4.5
For most, John Zorn's opus Naked City will be a sort of extra-terrestrial glance into the experimental realm that is Zorn's mind; however, to those that can appreciate the irrational jazz and hostile grindcore mash that is this album, it seems like a near-masterpiece.
Naked City Torture Garden	5.0

1989
John Zorn Spy vs. Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman	4.0
Carcass Symphonies of Sickness	4.0

1988
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation	4.5

1987
John Zorn Spillane	4.5
Sonic Youth Sister	4.5

1986
Sonic Youth Evol	4.0

1984
Cocteau Twins Treasure	3.5
John Zorn The Big Gundown	4.5
Harold Budd and Brian Eno The Pearl	5.0

1982
Brian Eno Ambient 4: On Land	4.5

1978
Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports	5.0

1976
Henryk Gorecki Symphony No. 3, Op. 36	5.0

1975
Queen A Night at the Opera	4.5
Return to Forever No Mystery	4.5

1974
Return to Forever Where Have I Known You Before	4.5

1973
Return to Forever Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy	4.5
Dave Holland Conference of the Birds	5.0

1970
Miles Davis Bitches Brew	4.5

1967
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico	4.5

1959
Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come	4.0

1958
John Coltrane Blue Train	4.5

Unknown
Te Naraba, Imi kara Houkaisareta Hibiki ha "Oto" no S	4.5

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