| Mnemonic (GER) Monokultur | 4.5 |
| Chris de Burgh Man on the Line | 4.0 |
| Suicide Commando Axis of Evil | 3.5 |
| Suicide Commando Stored Images | 4.0 |
| Apogean Cyberstrictive | 4.5 |
| Inquisition Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient | 4.5 |
| Tame Impala Lonerism | 4.5 |
| gyrofield A Faint Glow of Bravery | 4.0 |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | 4.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar | 2.0 |
| And Also The Trees Mother-of-pearl Moon | 4.5 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Burnin' | 4.5 |
| Waclaw Zimpel Train Spotter | 4.0 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Uprising | 4.0 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Survival | 4.0 |
| Gazebo Gazebo | 4.0 |
| KMFDM Let Go | 2.0 |
| Mr. Mister I Wear The Face | 4.0 |
| China Crisis Working With Fire And Steel | 4.0 |
| Deadchovsky Spiritus Sancti Bizarre | 4.0 |
| Agonoize Sieben | 4.0 |
Very good effort, didn't expect it to be honest. Assimilation Chapter One 3 years ago (2004) was a
big flop in my music world. Crappy songwriting, only few songs avoiding the 3rd chorus, lackluster
songs everywhere. On "Sieben" it's different. From song 2 to 11 there are 10 songs (!) with only 2
choruses.
Also the sound and production is very good. Typical autumnal atmosphere as well.
Lyrics sometimes well...if you are german like me and know what they sing about they can be a bit
off putting.
Of course you don't expect well thought out or clever lyrics from a typical aggrotech band now do
you?
What was it in 2007 that so many futurepop & dark electro / aggrotech artists released great
albums? It's as if they knew that their scene was beginning to die and had to put out just one
more good album. From 2008 on there were still very good albums of both genres, but they got fewer
with every year. 2007 was the last very good year for futurepop & dark electro / aggrotech. |
| Dismantled When I'm Dead | 4.0 |
| Elif Endlich Tut Es Wieder Weh | 2.0 |
| ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) Gold | 2.0 |
Much worse than their first 3 albums (which range from very good (Matte and Eight Thousand Square Feet) to wonderful (Enhancer).
Don't know what happened to them on "Gold", song structures are much lighter more pop-like, I don't like it. A shame because I like the album artwork, especially the golden half.
Well I still am thankful this is another dark electro / aggrotech band with 2 or more great albums I have. |
| Talk Talk Dum Dum Girl | 4.0 |
| Judas Iscariot To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding | 4.5 |
| SPK Leichenschrei | 4.0 |
| W.A.S.T.E. This Is What We Seek | 4.0 |
| Cesium_137 Proof Of Life | 2.0 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent II | 1.5 |
| Velvet Acid Christ Hex Angel: Utopia/Dystopia | 4.5 |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust | 4.5 |
| Periphery Periphery | 4.0 |
| 3TEETH EndEx | 2.0 |
| Radian Distorted Rooms | 4.0 |
| ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) Matte | 4.0 |
| Pain (SWE) Rebirth | 3.0 |
| Venetian Snares Detrimentalist | 4.0 |
| pizzamachine Sorry Haterz | 2.0 |
| Tor Lundvall The Mist | 4.0 |
| Tor Lundvall A Dark Place | 4.0 |
| Tor Lundvall Last Light | 4.5 |
| a-ha Hunting High and Low | 2.5 |
| Yellowcard Southern Air | 2.5 |
Too pop-like for me. Always the same predictable 3 chorus routine on every song. It would have
been much better balanced if every second song would be less predictable with more unexpected
twists thrown in.
But it seems they're doing the same over and over again. The way this album is it just gets
tedious too quickly. The lyrics can be amazing all they want, it's not enough to save it for me. |
| Al Corley Square Rooms | 4.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 2.5 |
| Taake Hordalands Doedskvad | 4.5 |
| Leviathan Tentacles of Whorror | 4.0 |
| Waclaw Zimpel Massive Oscillations | 4.0 |
| Quintessence (UK) In Blissful Company | 4.0 |
| Tor Lundvall Empty City | 4.0 |
| Tor Lundvall Yule | 4.0 |
| Boytronic The Working Model | 3.5 |
| Blancmange Mange Tout | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus | 4.5 |
| Peter Schilling Fehler Im System | 3.5 |
| Kajagoogoo Islands | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 2.0 |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind | 2.5 |
This one just doesn't do it for me. I get a lot of experimental albums after first listen (or
second) like The Drift by Scott Walker, both This Heat albums, The Art Of Walking by Pere Ubu (and
the other earlier ones) and all albums by Radian for example, and Pale Hands I Loved So Well by
Eyeless In Gaza (one of my all time favourite bands). I absolutely adore those albums I mentioned.
But I just can't give this one more than 2.5 because I just don't feel anything. Maybe Swans just
aren't my cup of tea. Only my own music world is important for me and Swans are playing only a
small role in it. |
| Neon Cage Experiment Materials And Methods | 4.0 |
| Tor Lundvall Sleeping and Hiding | 4.0 |
| Tor Lundvall The Shipyard | 4.5 |
Really a wonderful album. Lovely atmosphere. Sometimes rainy sometimes foggy but never sunny.
I really like his other album "Sleeping And Hiding" where he sings on all the songs (but without
choruses thankfully, the lyrics fit nicely) but albums like The Shipyard are nice places / worlds
to dive into and get lost in them.
Next to the 9 songs from this album I also found 2 bonus songs which are excellent as well,
especially "The Shipyard In Winter" is adorable
(they're on his bandcamp for example).
It's always great when you can visit all kinds of places and worlds without leaving your room. |
| Pere Ubu Worlds in Collision | 3.0 |
| Pere Ubu The Modern Dance | 4.0 |
| Loma Prieta Last | 4.0 |
| In Flames Colony | 4.5 |
| Valley MAYBE | 2.0 |
| Zeromancer Clone Your Lover | 2.0 |
| Laura Branigan Self Control | 3.5 |
| Tineidae Shadows | 4.5 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.5 |
| Van Halen 1984 | 4.0 |
| P. Lion Springtime | 4.0 |
| The Catch Balance On Wires | 3.5 |
| Gorgoroth Under the Sign of Hell | 4.0 |
| Bronski Beat The Age of Consent | 4.0 |
| Wang Chung Points On the Curve | 4.0 |
| Fiction Factory Throw The Warped Wheel Out | 4.0 |
| Holon Connect - Isolate | 4.0 |
| Duran Duran Seven and the Ragged Tiger | 4.0 |
| Taake Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik | 4.5 |
| Monolake Cinemascope | 4.0 |
| Judas Iscariot Thy Dying Light | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger | 4.5 |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness | 4.5 |
| Alva Noto Xerrox Vol. 4 | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 3.0 |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse | 4.5 |
| Tonikom Seeking the Lost Mind | 4.0 |
It's always a great feeling when I just discovered another nice IDM album from an artist I didn't
know until then.
Atmosphere-wise it's another futuristic subway station IDM album, like for example Subheim -
Approach, Integral - Rise, Totakeke - The Things That Disappear... and Architect - Consume Adapt
Create, I adore those.
This one by Tonikom was quite easy to get into and it's a journey of slightly over 1 hour.
Just as with those 4 mentioned albums there is not a single song on it I don't like or that I
would usually skip. I love coming back to IDM albums from time to time just to get sucked into its
atmosphere and leave reality for hours. |
| Lurker Of Chalice Lurker Of Chalice | 4.0 |
| Subheim Foray | 3.5 |
| Subheim No Land Called Home | 4.0 |
| Stendeck Can You Hear My Call? | 4.0 |
| Architect (DE) The Analysis Of Noise Trading | 4.0 |
| Architect (DE) Mine | 3.5 |
| Hecq Avenger | 3.5 |
| Hecq Steeltongued | 3.5 |
| Graphic Nature A Mind Waiting to Die | 4.0 |
| Access to Arasaka Geosynchron | 4.0 |
| Access to Arasaka METAX | 4.0 |
| Venetian Snares The Chocolate Wheelchair Album | 4.0 |
| Haujobb Polarity | 4.5 |
| Hecq A Dried Youth | 4.0 |
| Hecq Night Falls | 4.5 |
| Access to Arasaka Void(); | 4.0 |
| Proem Among Others | 4.0 |
| Stendeck Faces | 4.5 |
| The Flashbulb Kirlian Selections | 3.5 |
| Integral Sercosa | 3.5 |
| Mutiilation Black Millenium (Grimly Reborn) | 4.0 |
| Ultravox Lament | 4.0 |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Junk Culture | 4.0 |
| Real Life Heartland | 4.0 |
| Blutengel Seelnschmerz | 2.5 |
| Talk Talk It's My Life | 4.0 |
| System Syn Strangers | 2.0 |
| Novembers Doom To Welcome the Fade | 4.0 |
| Definitely much better than the overrated Novella Reservoir, which has too many 3 chorus songs which gets old and tired very quickly. To Welcome The Fade has only Not The Strong but from the 2nd song on it becomes much better. |
| Novembers Doom The Novella Reservoir | 2.5 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.0 |
| Technoir Deliberately Fragile | 4.0 |
| Staubkind Zu Weit | 2.0 |
Tried this album, no thanks. Every song follows the same tired 3 chorus routine with lazy and
lackluster songwriting. The songs sound like they could have been made within a few hours, there's
nothing interesting to be found.
Don't get how someone could call this dark wave or gothic rock, this sounds more like a poppy nu
metal album, nothing more. Kinda similar to Unheilig, ASP, Eisbrecher, Oomph and so on, can't
stand any of them because of weakly and too predictably structured songs.
this is just wannabe goth for girlies. completely dull and meaningless. |
| Leviathan The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide | 4.5 |
| Cypecore Identity | 2.0 |
| Depeche Mode Construction Time Again | 4.0 |
| Eurythmics Touch | 3.5 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 4.5 |
| Paul Young No Parlez | 4.0 |
| Icehouse Sidewalk | 3.5 |
| Nena Fragezeichen | 4.0 |
| Din a Testbild Programm 3 | 4.0 |
| Din a Testbild Programm 1 | 4.0 |
| UK Decay New Hope for the Dead | 2.0 |
| Mist of Misery Severance | 4.5 |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile | 4.0 |
| Demi Lovato Here We Go Again | 3.5 |
| Die Sektor (-)Existence(+) | 4.5 |
| Chimaira Chimaira | 2.5 |
| Raunchy Confusion Bay | 3.0 |
| Stairway Maze Hollow Spaces | 4.0 |
| Lifelover Konkurs | 4.5 |
| Coldworld Melancholie² | 4.5 |
| Integral The Past Is My Shadow | 4.5 |
This is amazing stuff! Loving their first one "Rise" for over a year and 9 months already, this
one here has a different, darker atmosphere, and an immense sound palette compared to Rise.
It's over 2 hours long, but it never gets boring, every of the 18 songs has something that makes
it stand out. It is a whole new world for me to explore, vast futuristic landscapes everywhere,
fascinating adventures I will have with this album. This is why I love discovering IDM, psybient &
ambient albums, just when you think you have heard everything, there is something new around the
corner.
Also, it's not electronic-only, some organic instruments do appear too in many songs. |
| Enter Shikari The Mindsweep | 4.0 |
| We Came As Romans To Plant a Seed | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd After Hours | 1.5 |
| And Also The Trees The Bone Carver | 4.5 |
| Totakeke eLekatota - The Other Side Of The Tracks | 4.0 |
| Gridlock Further | 4.0 |
| Proem You Shall Have Ever Been | 4.0 |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1 | 2.5 |
| Korn Follow the Leader | 2.5 |
| Holon Some Kind Of Order | 4.0 |
| Enshine Singularity | 4.5 |
| Mad Essence Transmission | 4.0 |
| Mad Essence Rehumanization | 4.0 |
| Pere Ubu Song Of The Bailing Man | 4.0 |
| Stendeck Folgor | 4.0 |
| Arcturus The Sham Mirrors | 4.5 |
| The Rasmus Dead Letters | 2.0 |
| Textures Silhouettes | 4.5 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.5 |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn | 4.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| Daylight Dies A Frail Becoming | 4.0 |
| Rapture Songs for the Withering | 4.0 |
| Destroid Loudspeaker | 4.5 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 2.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 2.0 |
| Drowning Pool Sinner | 1.5 |
| Hocico Artificial Extinction | 3.5 |
| Deathstars Synthetic Generation | 2.0 |
| T3chn0ph0b1a Grave New World | 2.0 |
| Crowbar Zero And Below | 4.5 |
| What a great return! When you get a new album of Crowbar, of course you know what you'll get. They just can't disappoint. Also, it's their first album since their deubt album from 1991 where no single song has the 3rd chorus.rNext thing I really like is the album artwork, my favourite of them so far in that aspect. |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Winter Sang | 4.0 |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Ink Horn / One Star | 4.0 |
| Avril Lavigne Love Sux | 3.0 |
| ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) Eight Thousand Square Feet | 4.0 |
This album is on a similar high level as Enhancer. Almost every song enjoyable. Most songs are
well structured, most only 2 choruses. The song with X-Fusion is really good, only disappointment
is the song with [:SITD:]. Too predictable and lazy songwriting. [:SITD:] can do much better with
their own albums.
It can be frustrating sometimes when you look for good dark electro / aggrotech albums, but after
so many years I have amassed many very good albums from this genre.
With futurepop it's a bit easier, because there are bands who don't just make music for clubs but
also songs that are more introspective. f-pop is also more melodic which means they don't have to
rely on choruses that much. |
| Xhin Sword | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Genexus | 4.5 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Kaya | 4.0 |
| Aghast View Phaseknox | 4.0 |
| Aesthesys Achromata | 4.0 |
| Aesthesys Alignments | 4.0 |
| Fred Again.. Actual Life (April 14 – December 17, 2020) | 2.5 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 4.5 |
| Rapture Silent Stage | 4.5 |
| Geomatic 64 Light Years Away | 4.5 |
Really great stuff! I'm thankful I dug out this artist after 10 years, all the time I had this
album but never took the time for it.
Amazing sound design, interesting atmospheres, and the tribal elements are still there. Often a
spacey feeling, sometimes futuristic, mixed with middle eastern elements.
Genres: dark ambient, tribal industrial, IDM & glitch (although quite a bit different from most
IDM artists). |
| Seabound Speak In Storms | 4.0 |
| Ruby Haunt Watching the Grass Grow | 4.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 4.0 |
| Rag'n'Bone Man Human | 2.0 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 1.5 |
| David Sylvian Brilliant Trees | 4.0 |
| Accessory More Than Machinery | 1.5 |
| Lapsed Twilight | 4.0 |
| Theatre Of Tragedy Velvet Darkness They Fear | 4.5 |
| xanopticon Liminal Space | 4.5 |
| qebrus ⊶⊑∷⌊∴⊹∵⌉∷⊒⊷ | 4.0 |
| Architect (DE) Consume Adapt Create | 4.5 |
| Fear Factory Mechanize | 2.5 |
| Dismantled Dismantled | 4.5 |
I just can't get enough of those futuristic atmospheres...Many albums in genres like electro-
industrial, futurepop and aggrotech / dark electro have them, same with other wonderful genres
like IDM & glitch (especially those) and some metal (not only industrial metal like Cyanotic,
Acumen Nation and Fear Factory, even Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion at least to me has it).
It is always great to get lost in this kind of atmosphere. Watching sci-fi movies and then
imagining Dismantled or VNV Nation or IDM songs in them, it's fascinating.
The songs on this album here are also wonderfully structured, always avoiding normal 3 chorus
routines (Extirpation being the exception but even that song is great). |
| Bruno Pernadas Private Reasons | 4.0 |
| The Kings Of Frog Island II | 2.0 |
| Katatonia For Funerals to Come... | 4.0 |
| Controlled Collapse Injection | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Brave Murder Day | 4.5 |
| Assemblage 23 Meta | 3.5 |
| Rotersand Capitalism TM | 2.0 |
It started good with the first 2 songs, then of course all went downhill with the songs after it
which are too predictable for Rotersand's standards. This was the first album in 7 years after the
great Random Is Resistance (the 3 before were also amazing) and I wasn't mentally able to get
through this piece of garbage.
It's the same as it was with VNV Nation - Noire, both began very well but the following songs
destroy everything. I will always love Rotersand's first 4 albums but this one here, I will never
listen to it again. |
| Decoded Feedback Shockwave | 2.0 |
Much too repetitive even by electro-industrial standards. Other rather obscure bands like Run
Level Zero, Dementia Simplex and Flesh Field are doing this much better.
I like the sound and atmosphere but it means nothing if the songs have no development. It's
absolutely unacceptable for me. They have 0 songwriting ability and are, in every song, chorus-
whoring. |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.5 |
| Absurd Minds Deception | 4.0 |
| Absurd Minds Sapta | 4.0 |
| Daylight Dies Dismantling Devotion | 4.5 |
Amazing discovery. I really feel the atmosphere and the guitar melodies and riffs add a lot to it.
Atmosphere wise the album feels different from other doom metal albums.
It has a mystic and futuristic touch that brings me to the positive and
progressive sleepmakeswaves planet.
Also all 8 songs are very nicely structured with interesting twists thrown in. |
| Saturnus Martyre | 3.5 |
| Jonathan Fitoussi Plein Soleil | 4.0 |
| Love Is Colder Than Death Teignmouth | 4.0 |
| Ahab The Call of the Wretched Sea | 4.0 |
| The Foreshadowing Days of Nothing | 4.0 |
| Promethean Misery Tied Up With Strings | 4.0 |
| Hanging Garden Inherit the Eden | 4.0 |
| My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours | 4.5 |
| Draconian Arcane Rain Fell | 4.5 |
| Acylum Mental Disorder | 4.0 |
I'm thankful this album proved as a grower, now I really like 9 or maybe 10 songs on it (and maybe
the last
song Fatal Conclusion, but it's more like an outro).
And most songs with vocals only have 2 choruses, only the song "Rape" is a bit too repetitive,
they could have cut off a minute and the song would be absolutely fine.
I like the dark and hopeless atmosphere, I like it a bit more than the album
The Enemy.
I wanted to like this album because it is released in 2007 and that was a great year for futurepop
and dark electro / aggrotech. From 2008 on there were less and less great albums coming out of
those 2 genres (with some exceptions). |
| Pulse State With A Single Step | 4.0 |
| Subheim Approach | 4.0 |
| Totakeke The Things That Disappear When I Close My Eyes | 4.0 |
| Das Ich Lava | 4.0 |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 4.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves Made Of Breath Only | 5.0 |
It's really incredible that they managed to follow up the immense Love Of Cartography with an
album like this. I tried to go into this album with as little expectation as possible, only
checked it out after more than half a year after LoC.
While LoC ruled everything in 2020 when I discovered it (And I discovered many amazing albums btw)
this year Made Of Breath Only did the same and is on first place in my 2021 list, followed by
bands like Daylight Dies (Dismantling Devotion) etc.
I love the glacial and frosty atmosphere on the album. What a journey this album is!
edit:
yes while of course it's not a perfect album by any means I had to bump it up from 4.5 to 5.0
(Love Of Cartography has the same rating since 5 days after I discovered it in 2020) because the
world it takes me to is just too immense and beautiful. I still just can't get over those 2
albums, at least in my world they're classics. Now I need to check out their 1st one at some
point. |
| Integral Rise | 4.5 |
| Rahsaan Roland Kirk Domino | 4.0 |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) All Under the Leaves, the Leaves of Life | 4.5 |
| Pere Ubu The Art Of Walking | 4.5 |
Finally got time to check this album out after years of only having Dub Housing and New Picnic
Time (both amazing, NPT even one of my top 10 all time favourite post-punk albums).
This one here is even more strange and experimental. And I'm glad Allan Ravenstine (synths) gets
even more spotlight on The Art Of Walking. After some listens the album unfolds more and more.
Song ratings:
1. Go (4.1)
2. Rhapsody In Pink (4.3)
3. Arabia (4.2)
4. Young Miles In The Basement (4.0)
5. Misery Goats (4.7)
6. Loop (4.4)
7. Rounder (3.9)
8. Birdies (4.7)
9. Lost In Art (4.6)
10. Horses (3.9)
11. Crush This Horn (4.3)
Rating: 4.28. I still rate the album 4.5 because I love to listen the whole album, it brings me to
nice colourful and weird places in my mind (also the sound and atmosphere reminds me somehow of
the graphics in James Pond 2 Robocod, an Amiga 500 game).
I also found the song Arabian Knights, it's very similar to Arabia, just with David's vocals.
(4.2) |
| Mindless Faith Medication For The Misinformed | 4.0 |
| SMP Terminal | 4.0 |
Discovered it today. Only knew Stalemate, listened to that years ago.
Terminal is a nice hybrid of industrial, rock and hip-hop, many songs are nicely crafted and often
avoid normal 3 chorus routines.
I also like how the vocals sound, reminds me of good old us-coldwave days.
Discovered some very nice industrial albums lately, this one here and Flesh Field - Strain. |
| Out Out Nisus | 3.5 |
| Out Out Finched | 4.0 |
| Flesh Field Strain | 4.0 |
| ASP Zaubererbruder - Der Krabat-Liederzyklus | 3.5 |
| Re:Legion 13 Seconds | 4.0 |
I didn't know or expect this band was already on here. Was preparing to add them to the database.
Today I finally dug out this album after more than 10 years. Bought it in 2007 but only listened
to few songs then. Another nice futurepop album with almost all songs avoiding the standard 3
chorus routine. |
| Jesu Terminus | 4.5 |
| Alva Noto Unieqav | 4.0 |
| Cyndi Lauper She's So Unusual | 4.0 |
| Diorama Tiny Missing Fragments | 4.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 2.5 |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living | 4.5 |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone | 4.0 |
| Dismantled Standard Issue | 4.0 |
| Lee Morgan Tom Cat | 4.0 |
| Bitcrush Epilogue in Waves | 4.0 |
| I really dislike music haters like this Trey / Willie, I wish he would give albums more than just one listen, many albums only unfold after a while.rAt least I always try to be positive as possible about newly discovered albums. |
| This Heat Deceit | 4.5 |
| Deftones Ohms | 4.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love | 4.5 |
| Nurzery (Rhymes) Thorns | 4.0 |
| Psyclon Nine Divine Infekt | 4.0 |
| Dioxyde Social Phobia | 3.5 |
| Acylum The Enemy | 3.5 |
| Die Sektor To Be Fed Upon | 4.5 |
Great discovery for me! Only knew Applied Structure In A Void from them, which is very different,
with many great small little details and nice atmospheres.
This one here has very nice structured songs, almost always avoid the 3rd chorus and the shortest
vocal song is 5:37, all others are over 6 minutes and one almost 6 minutes.
It's typical dark electro / aggrotech but I still love the autumnal atmosphere, and as often the
trance influences are important there.
I also really like the 3 instrumental songs, they fit nice with the overall atmosphere. Should
have discovered this album years ago. Never grow tired of dark electro or others like futurepop
and EBM.
Favourite songs:
1. Follow The Screams
2. Through Glass / The Beating Of Broken Wings
4. Deathkill / Mother Hunger / In The Arms Of Eternity
7. When Porcelain Bleeds / To Be Fed Upon / Revelation None
10. Prey To The Razor / All Turns White
All 11 songs are of course great! |
| Life Cried Banished Psalms | 4.0 |
| Aphorism (idm) Surge | 4.0 |
| Displacer Moon_Phase | 4.5 |
I'm extremely thankful I found another 2 amazing idm & glitch albums!! Aphorism (idm) - Surge and
this one.
The atmosphere takes me to an abandoned spaceship where I am with few other people I know from
work, many things are broken but the ship is very big and there are many wonderful places and
rooms on it! It's a coincidence that both albums have very similar atmosphere fitting for this
adventure.
Also A coincidence: a week ago I downloaded the game System Shock 2 (1999) from steam, a game
playing on a spaceship.
There are no bad songs on Moon_Phase, it's great to listen to all songs in a row, all the small
details that suddenly appear are fascinating and once again I can get lost in an album like this
very easy (I have over 100 great atmospheric electronic albums (I mean those without permanent
vocals, still loving others like EBM, industrial, futurepop, trip-hop with vocals etc) I listen to
from time to time. Especially at work, but also at home when I'm just browsing
pictures on google for example. |
| Guru Guru UFO | 3.0 |
| Quantum Fantay Kaleidothrope | 4.0 |
| SND Atavism | 3.5 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate How It Feels To Be Something On | 4.5 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana | 3.5 |
| edIT Certified Air Raid Material | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins | 4.0 |
| Project Pitchfork Dream, Tiresias! | 4.0 |
| Hecq 0000 | 4.0 |
| Frost* Milliontown | 4.0 |
| Project Pitchfork Inferno | 4.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Head Over Heels | 3.0 |
| Soft Cell Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves Love of Cartography | 5.0 |
After only 5 days of listening this album has made it to "classic" and I feel it will never
change. The magic will never fade. This brings me to another planet where this album is legendary,
sold millions and the first 2 songs on it were number one singles.
The planet is more progressive, peaceful and optimistic, and the night sky always is a mix of
black, purple and dark blue, it's also roughly 24 hours a day but
there it's always cold, late autumn-like with only 6 hours of daylight
Here a song rating (only the 8 main songs):
1. Perfect Detonator 5.0
2. Traced In Constellations 5.0
3. Emergent 4.9
4. Great Northern 5.0
5. The Stars Are Stigmata 4.7
6. How We Built The Ocean 4.9
7. Something Like Avalanches 4.8
8. Your Time Will Come Again 5.0
I can't believe it myself but that's really how I rate the songs, might be one of my highest rated
albums ever (9.8 of 10) |
| Trisomie 21 Passions divisees | 4.0 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 4.5 |
| Static-X Shadow Zone | 2.0 |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine | 4.0 |
| VNV Nation Noire | 2.0 |
This album started very promising with nice song structures, but what happened from Immersed on
really got me extremely angry. All songs from that song on suddenly got weaker and weaker, as if
Ronan just didn't care anymore and he throws everything that had potential away.
Predictable as hell with a lame and tired 3 chorus routine.
I want this album to get out of my face. There are at least around 40 futurepop albums that are
much better structured than this. Matter + Form, Futureperfect and Empires will always be the big
3 of VNV to me. Especially the first two mentioned are still among the best of the genre. |
| The Band Stage Fright | 4.0 |
| Zevious Passing Through The Wall | 4.0 |
| Crowbar The Serpent Only Lies | 4.0 |
| Zeller Turbulences | 4.0 |
| Access to Arasaka Oppidan | 4.5 |
| Xela For Frosty Mornings and Summer Nights | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Sever The Wicked Hand | 4.0 |
| Xotox Psi | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Obedience Thru Suffering | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Equilibrium | 4.0 |
| Paradise Lost Tragic Idol | 4.0 |
| Pride and Fall Of Lust And Desire | 4.0 |
| Paradise Lost Obsidian | 3.0 |
| Emery The Question | 4.0 |
| Paradise Lost Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us | 4.0 |
| Stendeck Scintilla | 4.5 |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math | 4.0 |
| Alva Noto Unitxt | 4.5 |
| Detritus (Wales) Everyday Explanations | 4.0 |
| Kick Bong Flower Power | 4.5 |
| Assemblage 23 Defiance | 2.5 |
| Syrian Alien Nation | 2.0 |
| Frozen Plasma Monumentum | 4.0 |
| Fictional Fictitious | 3.5 |
| Oresund Space Collective Kybalion | 4.0 |
| The Cure Charlotte Sometimes (Single) | 4.0 |
| Autechre Amber | 4.0 |
| Kangding Ray Automne Fold | 4.0 |
| Frank Bretschneider Rhythm | 4.0 |
| Unter Null The Failure Epiphany | 4.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Garlands | 2.0 |
| IWR Ground Zero | 4.0 |
| Nik Kershaw You've Got to Laugh | 3.5 |
| mind.in.a.box Crossroads | 4.0 |
| New Mind Fractured | 4.0 |
| New Mind Forge | 3.5 |
| The Clay People The Clay People | 2.0 |
| The Clay People Firetribe | 3.5 |
| Iron Lung Corporation Ditch the Attitude, Pally | 3.5 |
| Iron Lung Corporation Big Shiny Spears | 4.0 |
| Radian & Howe Gelb Radian verses Howe Gelb | 4.0 |
| Dry Cell Dry Cell | 3.0 |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 | 4.5 |
| Jan Jelinek Kosmischer Pitch | 3.0 |
Much too repetitive and it doesn't do it for me. Boring and annoying, when I really tried to get
into an album but it won't ever happen it can get very frustrating.
Music of Loscil and Monolake can be very repetitive too but they're much more interesting to me
atmosphere-wise and more clever, with small changes throughout each song.
Also I love futuristic soundscapes and atmospheres like the albums Cinemascope and Momentum by
Monolake for example. |
| New Model Army Thunder and Consolation | 4.0 |
| In Search Of Beauty The Arise | 4.0 |
| Black Heaven Dystopia | 3.5 |
| Explizit Einsam Erben Des Vergessens | 3.0 |
| Goethes Erben Der Traum An Die Erinnerung | 3.5 |
| Run Level Zero Swaerm | 3.5 |
| Mass (UK) Labour of Love | 4.0 |
| Vladislav Delay Kuopio | 4.0 |
| New Order Movement | 4.5 |
| Synnack V2 | 3.5 |
| Autoclav1.1 Love No Longer Lives Here | 4.0 |
| Androcell Efflorescence | 4.0 |
| Androcell Entheomythic | 2.5 |
| Desert Dwellers Muladhara Yoga Dub | 4.0 |
| Younger Brother A Flock of Bleeps | 4.0 |
| Kuba Through a Lense | 4.0 |
Another psybient & psydub gem I checked out today morning at work after Kick Bong - Flower Power.
Both are amazing, once more I'm happy that there are still countless great psybient albums I
didn't know yet.
The album songs of both albums are considerably shorter than on the average psybient album but
they're dynamic, don't need too much time to develop or to start and once again it's a great
adventure to listen to them.
In psybient music it is irrelevant to me how original or innovative an album is, many artists can
sound similar yet they still all sound different, it's a different adventure every time I discover
another album of this genre and
it always helps me feel more positive. |
| Mystical Sun Overview Effect | 3.5 |
| AudioVent Dirty Sexy Knights in Paris | 3.5 |
| Trapt Someone in Control | 3.5 |
| Hudson Mohawke Butter | 3.5 |
| Cold Sun Dark Shadows | 4.0 |
| Absurd Minds Tempus Fugit | 3.5 |
| Monolake Ghosts | 4.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.5 |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light | 4.0 |
| Kangding Ray Stabil | 4.0 |
Favourite songs:
1. Status+Light
2. Sub.Res
3. Stabil
4. NN/Peaks / Mai
6. Cyan
7. Isoline / Interrompu Court
9. Nine
10. Wellen |
| Emptyset Recur | 4.0 |
| Senking Capsize Recovery | 4.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.0 |
| Grendel (NL) Harsh Generation | 2.5 |
Apart from B.A.A.L. (Deliver Me) Grendel (NL) is known by me as the 3-chorus-man. This is a very
lightweight harsh electro album, meaning never longer than 4 minute songs, almost always a 3
chorus routine that gets old very fast.rAt least it's not a boring album, there are some solid
songs, but there are at least 16 other "aggrotech" artists that are much better. |
| Agonoize Assimilation: Chapter One | 2.5 |
| Suicide Commando Bind, Torture, Kill | 4.0 |
| Lena Andersson Söder Mälarstrand | 4.0 |
| Dementia Simplex Olfactory Nerve | 3.5 |
| Dementia Simplex Prediction | 4.0 |
An obscure band and I'm thankful I have both albums. The songs are surprisingly well structured
for a band of this genre (electro-industrial rock).
I know many obscure bands and albums and it's like a miracle to me that I found them and still
love them after 10 or more years. Means it is irrelevant how popular they are out there, when in
my music world they're important.
1. First Things (3.6)
2. Trauma (4.0)
3. Die Down (4.4)
4. Beast Within (4.4)
5. Eaten Alive (4.1)
6. Hell On Earth (4.2)
7. Tortured Animal (4.4)
8. Candlelight (4.1)
9. Cinderchild (4.1)
10. Xenophobia (3.9)
11. Mentally Disturbed (4.0)
12. Last Things (3.9)
4.09 rating |
| Dementia Simplex Yeah, I Killed My Mama... | 4.0 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 4.5 |
| [distatix] Medication | 4.0 |
| 10 Years The Autumn Effect | 2.5 |
| Ozric Tentacles The Yumyum Tree | 4.0 |
The Ozrics over the years became my second most favourite band (after And Also The Trees and
before Diorama, Eyeless In Gaza, Radian, Gong, The Chameleons, Shpongle etc.).
From 1988 to 2000 I found 11 amazing albums. Tried many albums from after 2000 but they're
frustrating to listen to because the magic seems to be gone.
Then I checked out The Yum Yum Tree days ago. Maybe THIS is the 12th great album of the Ozrics I
was looking for for years. The songs have more imagination, nice sounds and atmosphere. |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.5 |
| Tactical Sekt Burn Process | 4.0 |
| Tactical Sekt Syncope | 4.0 |
| Deadjump Scare Mix | 3.5 |
| Byetone Symeta | 4.0 |
Will definitely check this out. I love Alva Noto and Robert Lippok's Redsuperstructure. Both were
from the raster noton label which doesn't exist anymore, but the website still does and I'm
looking through the releases right now. Neuschnee and Helix sound promising so far!
edit:
Favourite songs:
1. Neuschnee
2. Helix
3. Golden Elegy
4. Black Peace
5. Opal
6. Topas
7. Telegramm |
| Wuthering Heights The Shadow Cabinet | 4.0 |
I really like the album cover, my favourite album cover of this band so it's no surprise I chose
this album be my first of them. Sounds very nice, normally I'm not a fan of power metal but it's
very good! I also like the year 2006 (same with 2005 and 2007) so I had to check it out. |
| Alva Noto Univrs | 4.5 |
| Asphyxia Sense Of Decay | 4.0 |
| Suzi Quatro Suzi Quatro | 3.0 |
| Bluetech Sines And Singularities | 3.5 |
| Life Cried Drawn and Quartered | 4.5 |
Very nice album, nice sounds and atmosphere! Having another harsh / dark electro phase right now,
reminds me of 2007 and 2008 where that and futrepop were two of my main genres on last.fm.
Favourite songs:
1. Guardian
2. Sacrilege
3. Living Hell
4. Rage (Dying Existence)
5. Hallowed Be Thy Name
6. As We Decay, Stale, Darkest Eyes
9. Burnt To Ashes
10. Waiting For An End |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree | 4.5 |
| Distorted Memory Burning Heaven | 4.0 |
| song-structure wise it's one of the better harsh electro albums, because all songs always avoid the sometimes dreaded 3rd chorus.rI wish every harsh electro album has good song structures but some luckily have more atmosphere, so it's not that bad. |
| The Coffinshakers The Coffinshakers | 3.5 |
| Dawn Of Ashes In The Acts of Violence | 3.5 |
Well at least this album has nice autumnal atmosphere. The song structures aren't very clever but
I can deal with it, it's still enjoyable because some of the songs are very long.rFavourite songs:
1. Nightmare
2. Abyss
3. In The Acts Of Violence
4. Diagnosis
5. Dark Reality
6. Killer Instinct |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 4.0 |
| Saves the Day Through Being Cool | 4.0 |
| Reverend Glasseye Black River Falls | 3.0 |
| My Dad Is Dead The Taller You Are, the Shorter You Get | 4.0 |
| Reverend Glasseye Our Lady of the Broken Spine | 2.0 |
| Proem Socially Inept | 4.5 |
| Scott Walker Bish Bosch | 4.0 |
| Namnambulu Distances | 3.5 |
The songs themselves are good. The lyrics often weak, too often he sings about love, to get
someone back. The vocals are technically good, but often the singer is over-singing. Futurepop
doesn't need to be extremely emotional vocals-wise, it doesn't really fit. I know maybe 20
futurepop artists I like more, but the album will grow, at least many of the songs.
Favourite songs: Pause (I like how he sings on that song), Deception |
| Pride and Fall Elements of Silence | 4.0 |
| Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo | 4.5 |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness | 3.5 |
| Strapping Young Lad City | 4.5 |
| 65daysofstatic One Time for All Time | 4.5 |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear | 2.0 |
| Procol Harum Procol Harum | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Salvation | 2.0 |
| Cult of Luna The Beyond | 2.0 |
| Neuroticfish Antidoron | 5.0 |
what a great discovery and this album will accompany me through my favourite season autumn / fall.
A futurepop artist who releases his best album ever in 2018, after existing for over 20 years is
very rare, and I really love Les Chansons Neurotiques (2002) and Gelb (2005) is solid.rBut the
grey november-like atmosphere on Antidoron is something I really enjoy and I love to get lost into
this album. One of my favourite discovered albums of 2019.
edit from september the 28th: Congratulations to Antidoron! It's number 4 in my new list and I
hope this album will be honoured many more times. Looking forward to late december there will be a
top discoveries list from 2019!! |
| Swamp Terrorists Wreck | 3.5 |
| Swamp Terrorists Combat Shock | 3.5 |
| Swamp Terrorists Grow-Speed-Injection | 4.0 |
| Swamp Terrorists Grim - Stroke - Disease | 4.0 |
| And Also The Trees Malvern Demos (1980-1981) | 3.5 |
| Clan of Xymox Breaking Point | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks | 3.0 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven | 3.5 |
| Joy Division Love Will Tear Us Apart | 4.0 |
| Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 4.5 |
| Jordan Rudess Feeding the Wheel | 4.5 |
I'm thankful I discovered that he releases solo albums, Feeding The Wheel is my first of him and I
love all the electronic sounds on it. I always like keyboard & synthesizer in rock & metal music.
Of course John Petrucci is in 4 songs but that's a great thing.
Favourite songs:
1. Ucan Icon
2. Crack The Meter
3. Quantum Soup
4. Revolving Door, Dreaming In Titanium
6. Feed The Wheel
7. Interstices, Shifting Sands
9. Headspace |
| The Essence Purity | 3.5 |
| Monolake Gravity | 4.0 |
I never can enough of icy cold and frosty electronic stuff as thankfully plenty of albums have to
offer like this one. This album will never get boring and old even after multiple listens.
Song ratings:
1. Mobile (4.3)
2. Ice (4.6)
3. Frost (4.1)
4. Static (4.3)
5. Zero Gravity (4.4)
6. Fragile (4.1)
7. Aviation (4.4)
8. Nucleus (4.0) |
| Rosalie Cunningham Rosalie Cunningham | 3.0 |
| Pneumatic Detach [re·vis·cer·a] | 3.5 |
| Pneumatic Detach Irreversible | 4.0 |
| Pneumatic Detach [pa·re·ses] | 3.5 |
| Pneumatic Detach [vis·cer·a] | 4.0 |
Very good industrial noise album. More experimental than for example SAM, Soman, Xotox, Noisuf-X
etc. Also with some breakcore influences and some complex rhythm sections not far from idm &
glitch.
I love the album cover it fits nicely with the meaty, industrial sounds on the album. Next to
S.K.E.T. - Baikonur this is a rhythmic noise album I love to come back to from time to time (even
if I also like SAM, Soman and Xotox).
Favourite songs:
1. Patternerase
2. Domination (Short Mix) / Putrescence
4. Holowh / Sona / Embers
7. Separator / Relentless / Dischordant
10. Mindless Brutal Apparatus / Moment Of Comprehension |
| S.K.E.T. Baikonur | 4.0 |
| Monolake Momentum | 4.0 |
| Muslimgauze Flajelata | 4.0 |
| Farflung A Wound In Eternity | 4.5 |
| The Cosmic Jokers The Cosmic Jokers | 4.0 |
| Yendri Malfunction | 4.0 |
| Yendri Broken World | 4.0 |
| Augustus Pablo King David's Melody | 4.0 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Catch A Fire | 4.0 |
| Udo Lindenberg Stark Wie Zwei | 3.5 |
| Udo Lindenberg Götterhämmerung | 4.0 |
| Alva Noto Xerrox Vol. 2 | 4.5 |
Another nice ambient album. My first of this artist. I like all songs, only "Xerrox Meta Phaser"
needs to grow on me, that song is very noisy.
Often I have that feeling that I just can't discover enough great atmospheric electronic artists
and albums.rThis album takes me to a sheltered and isolated place where no one can find me.
Favourite songs:
1. Xerrox Phaser Acat 1
2. Xerrox Sora
3. Xerrox Teion & Xerrox Teion Acat
4. Xerrox Monophaser 2
5. Xerrox Soma
6. Xerrox Tek Part 1 / Xerrox Monophaser 1
8. Xerrox Monophaser 3
9. Xerrox Meta Phaser |
| Gene Loves Jezebel Immigrant | 2.0 |
| Schaft Switchblade | 2.5 |
| SMP Stalemate | 3.5 |
| Front Line Assembly Tactical Neural Implant | 3.0 |
| [:SITD:] Stunde X | 4.5 |
[:SITD:] are back to great form with this album after the mediocre last album.
Favourite songs:
1. Grenzenlos
2. Greater Heights / Miscreed
4. Sturmlicht / Benediction
6. Revelation / Olymp
8. Orbiter
9. Symptom / Drowning In The Flame
11. God's Blessing |
| Stendeck Sonnambula | 4.5 |
| Just another electronic gem (there are hundreds of them), great atmosphere kind of cold, perfect for october. it starts on an amazing way with the first 2 songs.rlike I often said there are many great electronic genres it's great to get lost in them. In electronic music everything is possible. |
| Taproot Blue-Sky Research | 3.5 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Interloper | 4.0 |
| Venetian Snares Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding | 4.0 |
| Hocico Memorias Atras | 4.5 |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Sun Blues | 4.5 |
I'm really glad I downloaded this album for 9,99 euro on amazon after I thought about it for a few
days. Eyeless In Gaza are one of my all time top 4 bands and so far I had 8 albums of them. After
the second listen Sun Blues exploded, suddenly I love all the songs on it.
All the small details like the electronic sounds, the bass guitar, the sax which in one song
sounds like a seagull, add to the atmosphere that I really feel.
The first releases were in 1980, this is 36 years later and this album can easily hold its own
against their best albums. I didn't expect that, and it proves that good albums are worth much
more than 9 euro (I'm from germany) because they can stay with you for the rest of your life. |
| Hocico Wrack and Ruin | 4.0 |
| A nice album which has an interesting atmosphere. The genre they're in is usually aggressive and trying to be dark, but somehow the whole album has a slightly dreamy feeling as well. It's different from Memorias Atras for example which's also amazing but is less atmospheric in my opinion.rI will always have a heart for genres like harsh electro, electro-industrial and futurepop. There are times when I need this kind of music. |
| Atoma Skylight | 4.5 |
I'm glad someone recommended me this album after I loved the icy / frosty atmosphere in "Antares"
by Sybreed. This album is even colder. Everything is coated in ice, the keyboards and synths, even
the drums and the guitar.
I can never get enough of icy cold music, no matter which genre (ambient, some early 80's post-
punk and new wave or metal). For over 14 days already does this album rule my music world together
with Sybreed - Antares. This is why I love discovering bands and albums. |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress | 2.0 |
| Sybreed Antares | 4.5 |
| Alex Skolnick Trio Transformation | 4.0 |
| Billy Cobham Total Eclipse | 4.0 |
| Die Warzau Big Electric Metal Bass Face | 3.5 |
| Penal Colony Multicoloured Shades | 3.5 |
| Penal Colony Unfinished Business | 4.0 |
| Penal Colony Put Your Hands Down | 4.0 |
| Die Sektor Applied Structure In A Void | 4.0 |
| My first album of them. Had to check it out because I love the album cover. I like how every song has many small little details and sounds, sometimes even glitch influenced. In some of the more introverted sounding songs the atmosphere can be even dreamy and melancholic. Finally another great harsh electro album (my last one, Maldire by Velvet Acid Christ is an almost-classic to me). |
| Mothboy Deviance | 3.5 |
| Celldweller End of an Empire - Chapter 02: Love | 4.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles Floating Seeds | 3.5 |
| Modern English After the Snow | 2.0 |
| And Also The Trees Nailed | 4.0 |
| Mechanical Moth The Sad Machina | 3.0 |
| Aesthetic Perfection A Violent Emotion | 3.5 |
| The Azoic Illuminate | 3.5 |
| Cue to Recall Mainland | 3.5 |
| Cue to Recall Polarity | 4.0 |
This album really has some great songs on it that takes me back to autumn 2007 (An Endless Case,
Consuming Hearts, In Affect, Strip The Light, Pure Addiction and Pieces). I loved to listen to
them (and other futurepop & dark electro albums) when I got home after 4pm when it already got
dark outside. I love that melancholic feeling.
The cold vocals strongly remind me of Covenant, they're very similar. |
| Coma Alliance Weapon Of Choice | 4.0 |
| The Peaking Goddess Collective Organika | 4.5 |
| Globular A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | 4.0 |
| Globular Colours Of The Brainbow | 4.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland | 4.0 |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Bitter Apples | 4.0 |
| The Flashbulb These Open Fields | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror | 4.5 |
| Tortoise TNT | 2.0 |
| Five or Six Polar Exposure | 4.0 |
| I'm really glad someone helped me getting this album. Searched it for years, needed it because I love post-punk and the year 1981 where there were many great albums of that genre.rFive Or Six mixes post-punk music with ambient music, nice, cold and atmospheric. |
| Babyland You Suck Crap | 4.0 |
| mind.in.a.box Dreamweb | 4.0 |
| Destroid Future Prophecies | 4.0 |
| Paralysed Age Christened Child | 3.5 |
| In Mitra Medusa Inri Long Forgotten World | 4.0 |
| [:SITD:] Trauma: Ritual | 3.5 |
| Necessary Response Blood Spills Not Far From the Wound | 4.0 |
| Aesthetic Perfection Close to Human | 4.5 |
| Billy Cobham Spectrum | 4.0 |
| Niacin High Bias | 3.5 |
| Decrepit Birth Diminishing Between Worlds | 3.0 |
| Venom Black Metal | 2.5 |
| Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage | 4.0 |
| Hypocrisy Hypocrisy | 4.0 |
| Wolfsheim No Happy View | 4.0 |
| Allelic The Smoke of Atavistic Fires | 2.5 |
| Chandeen Shaded By The Leaves | 4.0 |
It's a very nice, sometimes melancholic darkwave album. In the early to mid 90's germany was
darkwave's mainland. I'm glad I also have the bonus track Mysterious Clouds.rThe songs usually
have nice song structures, songs like Scottish Hills always makes me cry. I'm thankful I found
this album and other hidden gems of the darkwave genre.
Favourite songs:
1. Scottish Hills
2. Red Letter Days
3. Recall Me
4. Darkness
5. Journey To The Land Of Wisdom
6. Silent Gods Part II
7. Mysterious Clouds
8. Lumis
9. The Loss Of Summer |
| Alphaville Forever Young | 4.0 |
| Duran Duran Rio | 4.0 |
| Kim Wilde Select | 4.5 |
I'm glad I checked this album out, as all 10 songs are very enjoyable after first listen. I like
the sound more than on the first album, it's much more electronic (but still has that new wave
feeling that I love), and everything sounds icy and frosty, the atmosphere, the sound, the
instruments, even Kim's voice often sounds chilly. It feels almost like as if it's snowing in my
earphones.
That's what I love about this album and at least 4 songs don't even have the 3rd chorus and I also
like the very fast songs that are on it. Also as always it's great that the bass guitar is usually
audible. |
| A Flock of Seagulls Listen | 4.0 |
| Tears for Fears The Hurting | 4.0 |
| Pink Turns Blue Aerdt | 4.0 |
I'm thankful I have this hard to find album. Songs like Seven Years, Andy, Aerdt, Genuine and Dec.
24 are so dreamy, perfect for watching the stars and moon at night, also perfect for cold autumn
days.
Must be great when you have to get up after 6am, but you wake up at 1am deciding to enjoy the look
out of the window while listening to this album. |
| Pink Turns Blue If Two Worlds Kiss | 3.0 |
| Pink Turns Blue Meta | 4.0 |
| [:SITD:] Richtfest | 3.5 |
| Parade Ground Moan On The Sly | 4.0 |
| Play Dead (ENG) The First Flower | 3.0 |
| Play Dead (ENG) From The Promised Land | 3.5 |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame | 4.5 |
| Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape | 4.5 |
| Steve Hauschildt Strands | 3.0 |
| Maps and Diagrams Antennas And Signals | 4.5 |
I'm really glad and thankful that I found this album. Didn't know the artist before. This is
one
of those cases, where the album cover fits perfectly with the music and the atmosphere in it.
It's very dreamy and peaceful. The songs tend to sound similar but still, every song has
something
that keeps it interesting. It's perfect to listen to while watching stars at night or with the
pale moonlight coming into the room.
This album makes me think of Monkey Island 1, especially Meathook's house and his bed on the
second floor directly under and next to the window.
I love it when an idm album is ambient-like so that it's rich on atmosphere.
Favourite songs:
1. Man In The Moon & People Of The Valley (listened in a row)
2. We All Felt Seasick
3. Suisai
4. Lumen Landscapes
5. Just Beyond Träskmossen
6. The Same Day, Yesterday
7. Footprints And Secrets
8. The Machine That Changed The World
9. Meet Me At Slussen
10. Fiberbundles |
| Portishead Dummy | 3.0 |
| Saltillo Ganglion | 4.0 |
| Saltillo Monocyte | 4.0 |
| Worrytrain Sleeping Through The Endtimes | 3.5 |
| Jakob Cale:Drew | 4.0 |
| Pain of Salvation The Perfect Element, Part 1 | 4.5 |
| Gridlock Trace | 4.0 |
| Joy Division Still | 3.5 |
I don't get how someone could call "Glass" boring or uninspired. It's in my top 10 songs of the
compilation "Substance". And Ice Age is strong too. But about the other songs I agree, Substance
is much stronger as a compilation. |
| Kenny Burrell Blues - The Common Ground | 3.5 |
| Kenny Burrell Guitar Forms | 3.5 |
| Kenny Burrell Midnight Blue | 4.0 |
| The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out | 4.0 |
| Dive Vs. Diskonnekted Frozen | 3.5 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight | 3.0 |
| Heimataerde Kadavergehorsam | 4.0 |
| Heimataerde Gotteskrieger | 4.0 |
| Project Pitchfork Corps D'amour | 4.0 |
| Project Pitchfork Alpha Omega | 4.0 |
| ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) Enhancer | 4.5 |
Even after over 10 years this album this holds up well, and it's different from many other harsh
electro albums, it has more a spring-like atmosphere than an autumnal one.
And the yellow album artwork looks great and fits perfect with the sounds on the album. More
melodic than other albums of the genre most songs also have nice twists to avoid standard 3 chorus
routines.
Favourite songs:
1. Waste Of Ammo
2. Needle Catwalk / Architecture / Alpha Male
5. Deathtrap Circus / Despise / Heartware 2.0 / 0.26 Bladefucked
9. Attention Whore / Wrong Way / Totes Licht / Reptile |
| cEvin Key Music for Cats | 4.0 |
A very crazy and abstract album, with many very juicy sounds. This album demands multiple listens
because it's hard to understand it after few listens, with all the things going on and the small
little details everywhere.
Favourite songs:
1. Herbalist Rule / Greenhouse Gasses
3. Blotter / Inside Jam World / Grah Statikcat (Electrodes)
6. Full Circle / Go Go Boots
8. Meteorite / Beauty Is The Enemy
10. Have You Ever Felt Like This / Wind On Small Paws |
| Download Furnace | 3.5 |
| Architect (DE) Lower Lip Interface | 4.0 |
| Stone The Crow (GER) Fitting The Pieces | 3.5 |
| Stone The Crow (GER) Daylight | 3.0 |
| Stone The Crow (GER) Year Of The Crow | 4.0 |
| Stone The Crow (GER) Reduce To The Max | 4.0 |
| Christian Death Catastrophe Ballet | 3.5 |
| Alien Sex Fiend Acid Bath | 3.5 |
| The Mission God's Own Medicine | 3.5 |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Butterfly Attitude | 3.5 |
| Neuroticfish Gelb | 3.5 |
songwriting-wise much much weaker than Antidoron and also Les Chansons Neurotiques. Too many songs
do follow the same tired and predictable 3 chorus routine, which makes the listening experience
very frustrating to me. Most songs are good, but this is what holds them back.
Antidoron for example only has few 3 chorus songs, but those are very fun to listen to and have
amazing atmosphere in them (Fluchtreflex, Hysteria and the slightly repetitive Fail To Disagree). |
| Neuroticfish Les Chansons Neurotiques | 4.0 |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker | 4.0 |
| Skrape New Killer America | 2.5 |
| Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full | 4.0 |
| Scars (SCO) Author! Author! | 4.0 |
| Tripswitch Circuit Breaker | 4.0 |
| Ott Skylon | 4.5 |
| The Fair Sex Bite Release Bite | 4.0 |
| Kick Bong A Cup Of Tea? | 3.5 |
| London After Midnight Psycho Magnet | 3.5 |
| London After Midnight Selected Scenes from the End of the World | 4.0 |
| Just another very nice 90's goth album. I love the darkwave feeling on it, it's still one of my favourite genres although most of the great darkwave bands are from germany and other european countries.rSongs like Spider And The Fly, Your Best Nightmare, The Black Cat and Sacrifice are just wonderful. |
| edIT Crying Over Pros For No Reason | 3.5 |
| L'Ame Immortelle Wenn Der Letzte Schatten Fällt | 3.5 |
| Love Like Blood An Irony of Fate | 3.5 |
| The Fair Sex Demented Forms | 4.0 |
| Grade 8 Grade 8 | 3.0 |
| Girls Under Glass Darius | 4.0 |
| The Crooked Fiddle Band Moving Pieces Of The Sea | 4.0 |
| The Crooked Fiddle Band Overgrown Tales | 3.5 |
| The Crooked Fiddle Band Rise | 3.5 |
| The Crooked Fiddle Band The Crooked Fiddle Band | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.5 |
| Christ Analogue In Radiant Decay | 3.5 |
| Haloblack >Raw Tension< | 3.5 |
| Haloblack Throb | 4.5 |
| Haloblack Funkyhell | 3.5 |
| Haloblack >Tension Filter< | 4.0 |
| Christ Analogue The Texture Ov Despise | 3.5 |
| Crowbar Crowbar | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Symmetry in Black | 4.0 |
| Eyehategod Take as Needed for Pain | 2.0 |
| Deadline Paranoia Parakromantie | 4.0 |
| Bong-Ra Stereohype Heroin Hooker | 3.5 |
| Bong-Ra Full Metal Racket | 4.0 |
| Deine Lakaien Deine Lakaien | 4.0 |
| Sodom Persecution Mania | 2.5 |
| Lost Area Dare To Dream | 4.0 |
| Amon Tobin Permutation | 2.0 |
| I love Bricolage and especially Supermodified but I can't get into this album. The jazz drums are great as always but so far the songs don't give me anything. This album makes me tired. |
| Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Talk About the Weather | 3.5 |
| Vendemmian Treacherous | 4.0 |
| Absurd Minds The Cycle | 4.0 |
| Angels and Agony Avatar | 4.0 |
| Angels and Agony Unison | 4.0 |
| John Foxx Metamatic | 3.5 |
| Absurd Minds Damn The Lie | 4.5 |
| Absurd Minds Serve or Suffer | 4.0 |
| Absurd Minds Noumenon | 4.0 |
| Absurd Minds The Focus | 4.5 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 4.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles Sliding Gliding Worlds | 4.0 |
| Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost | 4.0 |
| White Rose Movement Kick | 3.5 |
| I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness | 4.0 |
| I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness Fear Is on Our Side | 4.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles Technicians of the Sacred | 2.0 |
| The Electric Hellfire Club Electronomicon | 3.5 |
| Tinfed Synaptic Hardware | 4.0 |
| Tinfed Hypersonic Hyperphonic | 4.0 |
| Tinfed Tried + True | 1.5 |
| Sad Lovers and Giants Headland | 3.0 |
| The Wake Harmony | 3.5 |
| Silverstein A Shipwreck in the Sand | 3.5 |
| Entheogenic Enthymesis | 5.0 |
| So far I had their self-titled first album, Spontaneous Illumination and Dreamtime Physics. I wanted a 4th great album of them. Alas Flight Of The Urubus still has not convinced me enough. Then I checked out this album here two days ago. I was very surprised, everything sounds great and on its right place. The acoustic guitar, the voices and especially all the electronic sounds.rThis is by far their most spacey sounding album, but still psychedelic. I did not expect this to be that overwhelming but it is. Sometimes it is hard to hold the tears back because I can't believe this album exists. |
| Tiamat A Deeper Kind of Slumber | 3.5 |
| Hidden Orchestra Night Walks | 3.5 |
| Portico Quartet Isla | 4.0 |
| Kaminanda Gateways Of Consciousness | 4.0 |
| Flooting Grooves Upsyde Downe | 4.0 |
| Entheogenic Flight of the Urubus | 3.5 |
| A Thorn For Every Heart Things Aren't So Beautiful Now | 4.0 |
| John Petrucci Suspended Animation | 4.0 |
| Joe Satriani Crystal Planet | 3.5 |
| Joe Satriani Engines of Creation | 4.0 |
| Black Pyramid II | 3.5 |
| Skinny Puppy Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse | 4.0 |
| Velvet Acid Christ Maldire | 4.5 |
| Scary Kids Scaring Kids The City Sleeps In Flames | 3.5 |
| New Model Army No Rest For The Wicked | 3.5 |
| New Model Army Vengeance | 3.5 |
| Hidden In Plain View Life in Dreaming | 4.0 |
| Antic Clay Hilarious Death Blues | 4.0 |
| Myssouri War/Love Blues | 3.0 |
| Myssouri Malamerica | 4.0 |
| Seabound No Sleep Demon V2.0 | 4.5 |
| a very fine futurepop album, this time with a vocal version of Avalost, which's much better than the instrumental one.rI know what futurepop is about, too many people on this site always want highly emotional music, this is NOT what futurepop (or EBM, industrial etc) is about.rMany futurepop albums are perfect for autumn, some good for spring and summer.rI like the atmosphere in songs like Point Break, Avalost, Smoke and Travelling. Many electronic genres are good for me to use my imagination and let it run wild. |
| Seabound Double-Crosser | 4.5 |
| Asylum Party Borderline | 4.0 |
| Das Ich Egodram | 4.0 |
| Exivious Exivious | 3.5 |
| Lycia Estrella | 4.5 |
| Vibravoid Gravity Zero | 4.0 |
| Vibravoid 2001 Love Is Freedom | 4.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles Spirals in Hyperspace | 2.5 |
| Saosin Saosin | 3.0 |
| Alesana On Frail Wings Of Vanity And Wax Re-issue | 3.0 |
| Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion | 3.5 |
| Black Uhuru Red | 3.5 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Rastaman Vibration | 4.0 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Exodus | 4.0 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Natty Dread | 4.5 |
| Skeletal Family Futile Combat | 3.5 |
| Skeletal Family Burning Oil | 4.0 |
| And Also The Trees The Klaxon | 4.5 |
Favourite songs on it:
1. Wooden Leg
2. The Flatlands / The Soul Driver
4. Dialogue / Sunrise / Jonny Lexington / The Dutchman
8. Sickness Divine
9. Bullet Head |
| The Chameleons Strange Times | 4.5 |
| Das Ich Cabaret | 4.0 |
| Das Ich Staub | 4.0 |
| Santa Hates You You're On The Naughty List | 4.0 |
| Das Ich Anti'christ | 4.0 |
| Das Ich Die Propheten | 4.0 |
| Das Ich Satanische Verse | 4.0 |
| The Comsat Angels Fiction | 4.0 |
favourite songs are clearly What Else!? and Not A Word, those even belong to my all time favourite
Comsat Angels songs, are up there with the best on Sleep No More (a post-punk classic). Birdman,
Now I Know and Zinger are also very good, others are decent to average. Still a nice post-punk
album, on a good 34th rank in my post-punk albums list.
Once more Andy Peake shows why he is one of my personal keyboard heroes of post-punk (next to
others like Dave Formula of Magazine). |
| Fennesz Venice | 4.0 |
| Déclassé Silos | 4.0 |
| Killing Joke Night Time | 3.5 |
| Killing Joke Killing Joke | 3.5 |
| Killing Joke What's THIS For...! | 4.5 |
| Loscil Submers | 4.0 |
| Great underwater ambient. Other underwater ambient album I know is "World Of Sleepers" by Carbon Based Lifeforms but "Submers" is a little bit darker and dark blue, not light blue and psychedelic like WoS. Great atmospheres. |
| Armor For Sleep What To Do When You Are Dead | 4.0 |
| Threat Signal Under Reprisal | 4.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 4.0 |
| Shpongle Museum of Consciousness | 3.5 |
| Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon | 3.5 |
| [:SITD:] Dunkelziffer | 4.0 |
| [:SITD:] Odyssey: 13 | 4.0 |
| Powerman 5000 Tonight the Stars Revolt | 3.5 |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You | 3.5 |
| Kevorkian Death Cycle Collection For Injection | 3.5 |
| Type O Negative Bloody Kisses | 4.0 |
| Type O Negative October Rust | 4.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles Pyramidion | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Awake | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 3.5 |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets | 4.0 |
| Plaid Rest Proof Clockwork | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 4.0 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 4.5 |
| Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation | 4.5 |
| Chronos (RUS) Steps To The Great Knowledge | 4.0 |
| Solar Fields Leaving Home | 4.5 |
| Run Level Zero And Thus We Walked | 4.0 |
| Run Level Zero Symbol Of Submission | 3.5 |
| Run Level Zero Arctic Noise | 4.0 |
| Run Level Zero Walk The Psycho[Path] | 4.5 |
| Boysetsfire The Misery Index: Notes From The Plague | 3.5 |
| Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront | 4.0 |
| A Static Lullaby A Static Lullaby | 4.0 |
| Trance To The Sun Ghost Forest | 4.0 |
| A Static Lullaby ...And Don't Forget to Breathe | 4.0 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 4.0 |
| Dead Poetic Four Wall Blackmail | 3.5 |
| Shpongle Are You Shpongled? | 4.0 |
| Ufomammut 8 | 4.0 |
| Dismantled PostNuclear | 4.5 |
| Dismantled The War Inside Me | 3.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.0 |
| Tool Undertow | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Desire | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' | 4.0 |
| Twisted Method Escape From Cape Coma | 3.0 |
| Quantic Apricot Morning | 3.5 |
| Slackbaba Perverting Mankind | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 4.5 |
| Tricky Pre-Millenium Tension | 4.0 |
| UNKLE Psyence Fiction | 4.0 |
| UNKLE Never, Never, Land | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Firstborn Is Dead | 4.0 |
| Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull | 4.0 |
| Phil Collins ...But Seriously | 4.0 |
| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow | 4.0 |
| Sabrepulse Famicom Connection | 3.5 |
| Editors The Back Room | 3.5 |
| Editors An End Has A Start | 4.0 |
| Editors In This Light and On This Evening | 3.5 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Hydroponic Garden | 4.5 |
| Doctor Flake Paradis Dirtyficiels | 4.0 |
| Gel-Sol Unifactor | 4.5 |
This album is like as if the artist had an epic and very long dream at night about visiting a
strange but wonderful world where everything is colourful, with weird inhabitants (like orange
scissor people or cube goblins for example) of that world
and highly imaginative places and stuff to visit and use everywhere. Telekinesis, levitation and
other things are possibe there too.
And after waking up he was able to put this dream into sound and made a whole album of it. Of
course I only imagine it but the album indeed has a wonderful atmosphere which makes me visit that
world for the duration of the album.
I'm glad I dug this album out after many years. It's december now, it feels much more like a sunny
spring / summer album. |
| Allan Holdsworth Wardenclyffe Tower | 4.0 |
| Allan Holdsworth Metal Fatigue | 4.0 |
| Allan Holdsworth Sand | 4.0 |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Song Of The Beautiful Wanton | 4.5 |
This is one of their best since they came back in the mid 90's. I'm thankful I have 9 albums of
them now, they're my #4 band of all time.rFavourite songs:
1. Sorrow Loves Yr Laughter
2. Staring
3. Dearsong
4. Old And Cold And Full Of Ghosts
5. One Light Then
6. Lullay My Liking
7. Mysterious Traffic
8. Less Sky, The Lovely Wanton
10. Among The Blue Flower And The Yellow |
| Morgion Cloaked By Ages, Crowned In Earth | 3.5 |
| Morgion Solinari | 4.0 |
| Swallow the Sun The Morning Never Came | 4.5 |
| Novembers Doom The Pale Haunt Departure | 3.5 |
| Testament The New Order | 4.0 |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis | 3.5 |
| Pelican City of Echoes | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Further Down the Spiral (US) | 4.0 |
| Noise Therapy Tension | 4.0 |
Whenever I listen to this it takes me back to nov & dec 2005.
Favourite songs:
1. In My World
2. Star 69 (Wait For Nothing)
3. Inside / Far Away
5. Ride / Monkeys / Yesterday
8. G-Hole
9. Standing In The Dark
10. Get Up |
| Crowbar Odd Fellows Rest | 4.5 |
| Buckethead A Real Diamond In The Rough | 3.5 |
| Buckethead Population Override | 4.5 |
| Buckethead Electric Tears | 4.0 |
| Buckethead Thank you Ohlinger's | 4.0 |
| Buckethead Cycle | 4.0 |
| I like to listen to this when I play the ice world in Sonic 3 (with the sega emulator), it fits very well. |
| The Fall Dragnet | 3.5 |
| John McLaughlin Electric Guitarist | 4.0 |
| John McLaughlin My Goal's Beyond | 3.5 |
| John McLaughlin Devotion | 4.0 |
| John McLaughlin Extrapolation | 3.5 |
| Shakti A Handful of Beauty | 4.5 |
| Project Pitchfork View From A Throne | 4.0 |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky | 3.5 |
| Swans Filth | 4.0 |
| Swans Cop | 4.0 |
| Savage Republic Tragic Figures | 4.0 |
| Savage Republic Ceremonial | 3.5 |
| Deadstar Assembly Coat Of Arms | 3.5 |
| Deadstar Assembly Unsaved | 4.0 |
| Deadstar Assembly Deadstar Assembly | 3.5 |
| In Strict Confidence Zauberschloss | 4.5 |
| Pere Ubu New Picnic Time | 4.5 |
| Can't someone make a review about this album? Well I can't believe New Picnic Time now is one of my most played albums. Was hard to get into it but now that I love all 10 songs it's almost easy listening for me. I love every single sound and everything about how David sings no matter how weird he does it. The synthesizer and guitar are also very well used together. It even entered my all time top 10 post-punk albums list on sputnikmusic and there's no end in sight! |
| Uriah Letters In Blood | 3.0 |
| Saturate Soul Element | 4.0 |
| Saturate The Point of No Return | 4.0 |
| Mystical Sun Deeperworlds | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker The Discovery | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Fade | 4.0 |
| Entheogenic Dreamtime Physics | 4.0 |
| Christian Death Only Theatre of Pain | 4.0 |
| Hallucinogen Twisted | 3.5 |
| Tricky Maxinquaye | 4.0 |
| Paradise Lost Draconian Times | 3.0 |
| Nothingface Violence | 4.0 |
| The Cosmic Jokers Galactic Supermarket | 4.5 |
This album deserves a rating above 4. Kinder Des Alls is a great song, and then Galactic
Supermarket. It really takes me to a real galactic supermarket somewhere in the exosphere of the
earth (far above the ISS).
It's a wonderful place where you can buy everything you ever dreamed of.rWith glowing yellow tiles
(and blue-red lines between them) you walk on. Why the hell does that place not exist in reality. |
| SPK Auto Da Fé | 3.5 |
| SPK Information Overload Unit | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Far from Refuge | 3.5 |
| In Strict Confidence Mistrust the Angels | 4.0 |
| Switched Ghosts in the Machine | 3.5 |
| Switched Subject to Change | 4.0 |
| Etched In Red Dylate | 4.0 |
| 23 Skidoo Urban Gamelan | 3.5 |
| 23 Skidoo Seven Songs | 4.0 |
| Entheogenic Spontaneous Illumination | 4.5 |
| PIG A Poke in the Eye... With a Sharp Stick | 3.5 |
| PIG The Swining | 3.5 |
| PIG Praise The Lard | 4.5 |
A wonderful album perfect for spring (like Revolting Cocks - Beers Steers & Queers for example).
You can clearly hear the influences of J. G. Thirlwell (Foetus), especially the lyrics but also
the sound. I really like the clever lyrics here and the song structures.
It doesn't matter who does what better, just stop comparing you idiots and just enjoy the albums
for what they are or you will end up only liking maybe 50-60 albums instead of 900 albums like me. |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 4.5 |
| Electric Orange Electric Orange | 4.0 |
| Celtic Frost Monotheist | 4.0 |
| Kammarheit Asleep and Well Hidden | 3.0 |
| Waterdown All Riot | 3.5 |
| For Against Echelons | 3.5 |
| The Names Swimming | 3.5 |
| Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow | 4.0 |
| Hammock Kenotic | 4.5 |
| Ulaan Khol La Catacomb | 3.0 |
| Ulaan Khol I | 4.0 |
| Overkill The Years of Decay | 4.0 |
| Overkill Horrorscope | 4.0 |
| Josef K The Only Fun in Town | 4.0 |
| Family Fodder Monkey Banana Kitchen | 4.0 |
| I am thankful I discovered this album years ago. I love post-punk and now have over 100 albums of that genre. I love the weird songs on this album. |
| Theatre of Hate Westworld | 4.0 |
| Project Pitchfork Lam-'bras | 4.0 |
| Project Pitchfork IO | 4.5 |
| Project Pitchfork Eon:Eon | 3.5 |
| Project Pitchfork Daimonion | 4.0 |
| Project Pitchfork Kaskade | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 4.5 |
| Celldweller Celldweller | 3.5 |
| Celldweller Wish Upon a Blackstar | 4.0 |
| Celldweller End of an Empire | 4.0 |
| Der Blaue Reiter Le paradise funebre, l'envers du tristesse | 3.5 |
| Oresund Space Collective Oresund Space Collective | 3.5 |
| Ben Woods Liaise In Silence EP | 4.0 |
| Ben Woods Nymh: Realms of Detachment | 3.5 |
| Ben Woods Moments | 3.5 |
| Donovan Sunshine Superman | 4.0 |
| X-Fusion Beyond The Pale | 3.0 |
| X-Fusion Rotten To The Core | 3.5 |
| X-Fusion Ultima Ratio | 3.5 |
| X-Fusion Demons Of Hate | 4.0 |
| Sad Lovers and Giants Treehouse Poetry | 4.0 |
I wish there is a review of this album, it's almost unknown compared to their first 3 albums. One
of my all time favourite post-punk bands. Years ago I even had to add this album because it wasn't
on sputnikmusic.
This album is perfect for early september days when it still can be sunny and warm but you realize
summer will not stay too long. It's a very easy album, easy to like and get lost into it. |
| Michael Jackson Thriller | 4.0 |
| Michael Jackson Bad | 4.0 |
| Michael Jackson Dangerous | 4.0 |
| Autistici Beneath Peaks | 4.0 |
| This album deserves a 4.0 rating because it makes you use your imagination and every song has something different to offer. Some songs are perfect to listen to on sunny and warm summer days like Asleep Beneath Nests, Edge Over Millstone View and Peveril's Open Door. Like the other 3 albums it just needs time to unfold, it's hard to love it after only one listen. |
| Autistici Amplified Presence | 4.5 |
| Autistici Volume Objects | 3.5 |
| Autistici Complex Tone Test | 4.0 |
| Orange Goblin Frequencies from Planet Ten | 3.5 |
| Orange Goblin Time Travelling Blues | 4.0 |
| Stellardrone On A Beam Of Light | 3.0 |
| Diorama RePale | 4.0 |
Favourite songs: Pale (Above The Arctic Circle Version), even better than the original song from
their 1st album. Dreamy, very atmospheric, nicely structured. Also great are most of the original
songs on this EP, especially Exploitation, Drowned, World Of Ice, and also Handoutdrugs has many
fine moments.
Only song I'm having problems with is The Rich Are All Perverted.
There are some nice remixes on this as well. |
| Diorama Synthesize Me | 4.0 |
| Diorama Even The Devil Doesn't Care | 4.0 |
| Diorama Pale | 4.0 |
| Diorama The Art Of Creating Confusing Spirits | 4.5 |
| Diorama Her Liquid Arms | 4.5 |
| Diorama Zero Soldier Army | 4.0 |
| Jean-Michel Jarre Zoolook | 4.0 |
| Kool Keith Black Elvis/Lost in Space | 4.0 |
| Blue Sky Black Death A Heap Of Broken Images | 3.5 |
| Chemlab Suture | 3.5 |
| Architrav Arctic Museum | 4.5 |
| All 11 songs are great, although I think that the first 4 and song 6 are my favourites.rThis album is on the icy cold side of ambient (even if not "arctic" ambient like Biosphere sometimes). It has an atmosphere that sends me to an isolated frozen place with no one else around. Also, because of the very cold electronic sounds it sometimes helps against hot summer days. It's unfortunate that this artist is so unknown but it makes me feel happy that I discovered this album 10 years ago. |
| Gel-Sol 1104 | 4.0 |
| Skinny Puppy Rabies | 2.5 |
| Clan of Xymox Creatures | 3.5 |
| Clan of Xymox Clan of Xymox | 4.0 |
| Clan of Xymox Medusa | 4.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun | 3.5 |
| Autumn's Grey Solace Within the Depths of a Darkened Forest | 4.5 |
| Muslimgauze Vote Hezbollah | 4.0 |
| Muslimgauze Buddhist on Fire | 4.0 |
| The Flashbulb Arboreal | 4.0 |
| Augustus Pablo East of the Nile River | 4.0 |
| Augustus Pablo King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown | 4.0 |
| Tor Lundvall Ice | 4.5 |
| Wynardtage The Grey Line | 4.0 |
| Wynardtage Evil Mind | 4.0 |
| Wynardtage Praise The Fallen | 4.5 |
| Wynardtage A Flicker Of Hope | 4.5 |
A really underrated album by Wyn. Deserves a 4.0 from me because there are many enjoyable songs on
it. A Flicker Of Hope, White Frost, We Can Carry A Lot and the haunting Closer are up there with
his best songs he ever did.
Some harsh electro artists will always play an important role in my music world, for example
Fractured, Wynardtage, earlier Aesthetic Perfection, IWR, Some X-Fusion, Hocico, Die Sektor, ESC
(Eden Synthetic Corps), First 3 Heimataerde albums and Velvet Acid Christ, also Tactical Sekt,
Life Cried, Asphyxia, Distatix, Unter Null, Distorted Memory, Dawn Of Ashes, Suicide Commando,
Deadjump
Favourite songs on this album:
1. White Frost / Closer
3. We Can Carry A Lot / A Flicker Of Hope
5. Solitude
6. The Fall (feat. Unter Null)
7. Deep Red (feat. Damian Dior) / Taste This Rush
9. Blindfold (feat. Mel) / Alive / Slow The Tide
No Hurricane Age because that song was always on Praise The Fallen album (2007) but it's a great
song there. |
| The Monochrome Set Love Zombies | 4.0 |
| Amon Tobin Supermodified | 4.5 |
| Amon Tobin Bricolage | 4.0 |
| Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs | 4.0 |
I am glad I dug this album out after years. Most songs have an ethereal feeling, a nice album to
draw something while sitting next to a window, or to listen to while daydreaming. It's an album
that might need multiple listens so that one song after another can unfold itself.
That other user calling this elevator music just has no imagination left in him. I love to let my
imagination run wild while listening to atmospheric electronic albums.r |
| Emancipator Soon It Will Be Cold Enough | 4.0 |
| Secede Tryshasla | 3.5 |
| Crowbar Time Heals Nothing | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Broken Glass | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Life's Blood For The Downtrodden | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form | 4.5 |
| Loscil Endless Falls | 4.5 |
| just another great ambient album. There are too many amazing atmospheric electronic albums I know. This one takes me far away. While I'm listening to this album nothing can harm or touch me, In my mind I'm in a different place, wonderful and isolated, no one can find me there.rI like that in every song there are sounds that are with me for the whole song, I don't want them to leave me. I wish I could get the vinyl only songs Graupel and Kinematics. |
| Burzum Hlidskjalf | 3.0 |
| Burzum Daudi Baldrs | 3.0 |
| Xasthur A Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Xasthur Nocturnal Poisoning | 3.5 |
| Xasthur Telepathic With The Deceased | 3.5 |
| Worrytrain Fog Dance, My Moth Kingdom | 3.5 |
| This is good but I love the self-titled album much more. The s-t has a wonderful dreamy atmosphere that makes me wish I am Guybrush Threepwood in Monkey Island 1, there are many amazing night landscapes with stars, or I wish I am Meathook who lives reclusive, and has his bed directly under a window. good for star watching while listenign to the self-titled Worrytrain album. |
| Worrytrain Worrytrain | 4.5 |
What an excellent ambient album, it's great to get lost into it, especially songs 2, 3, 4 (look in
the tracklist to see which ones I mean) have a great atmosphere that takes me far away from this
world into another. Songs 8 and 9 also belong to my favourites. I like all 10 songs, even the few
weaker ones are enjoyable. It's mostly beatless ambient with a cold, sometimes droney sound. It is
a real "hidden" gem that not many know about, and I listen to it very regularly.
Favourite songs:
1. Today I Saw An Angel..Today I Saw A Satellite
2. Cold Sleepwarm Sound
3. London's Fog & Burning / Flying High On Wounded Wings
5. Heaven's Ice Spread Downward / Goodbye Northern Lights
7. Via Madoline Ralley
8. Waking Up In The Marsh
9. Terminal Sunlight / Downism |
| Hawkwind Doremi Fasol Latido | 3.5 |
| Hawkwind In Search of Space | 3.5 |
| Scott Walker Tilt | 4.0 |
| Scott Walker The Drift | 4.5 |
| The Frozen Autumn Fragments of Memories | 3.5 |
| The Frozen Autumn Chirality | 3.5 |
| The Frozen Autumn Pale Awakening | 4.5 |
| What a wonderful darkwave-album. Perfect for autumn. The sound is often icy cold, but the vocalist's voice is very warm.rTypical melancholic stuff but all 10 songs are very enjoyable. |
| The Cruxshadows ...Night Crawls In | 4.0 |
| The Cruxshadows Ethernaut | 4.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Victorialand | 4.0 |
| Lowlife Rain | 3.5 |
| Lowlife Diminuendo | 4.0 |
| Lowlife Godhead | 3.5 |
| Lowlife Permanent Sleep | 3.5 |
| The Teardrop Explodes Wilder | 4.0 |
| Gene Loves Jezebel Promise | 4.0 |
| The Wolfgang Press Standing Up Straight | 4.0 |
| The Wolfgang Press The Burden of Mules | 3.0 |
| Tuxedomoon Desire | 4.0 |
| Tuxedomoon Half-Mute | 2.5 |
| I loved the album "Desire" from the first listen but I never got into this album. Sounded unfinished and uninteresting sometimes. Some songs on it could have been much longer with more time to unfold. |
| UK Decay For Madmen Only | 4.0 |
| UK Decay Rising From the Dread | 4.0 |
| This deserves 4.0 for the song Werewolf alone. The other 3 songs are solid and still quite listenable but never come close to the quality that Werewolf has. |
| Ausgang Manipulate | 4.0 |
| The Lucy Show ...Undone | 3.5 |
| Crispy Ambulance The Plateau Phase | 3.5 |
| Section 25 Always Now | 3.0 |
| Virgin Prunes ...If I Die, I Die | 4.0 |
| Numb Death on the Installment Plan | 4.0 |
| In Strict Confidence Seven Lives | 3.5 |
| In Strict Confidence Holy | 4.0 |
Much less atmosphere than Love Kills (icy, frosty masterpiece) and Exile Paradise (warm, fruity
like a passion fruit and nice sounds in the background).
edit: But this album did finally grow after I gave it another chance. Nice atmospheres as always
with this band.
Favourite songs on Holy:
1. Heal Me / Eye Of Heaven / Sleepless / Emergency
5. Alpha Centauri
6. The Darkest Corridors / Closing Eyes
8. Babylon / Seven Lives / Another Night / No Love Will Heal |
| Jonn Serrie And the Stars Go with You | 4.0 |
| Stellardrone Invent the Universe | 4.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.0 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.5 |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss | 4.0 |
| Seether Karma And Effect | 3.5 |
| Wire The Drill | 4.5 |
For me this is a perfect album for december and when I'm playing Sonic 3 with the Sega emulator.
Then I can listen to all 9 songs in a row and they're all enjoyable to me. Still this is a very
strange album for a band like Wire. But I'm thankful that I discovered it years ago. They're all
remixes of one song and it's a positive surprise that no song sounds like the other.
Also people who give a bad rating just don't have imagination, that's what you need when you
listen to this album. |
| Radian Radian | 4.0 |
| Robert Lippok Redsuperstructure | 4.0 |
| 16Volt FullBlackHabit | 3.5 |
| 16Volt LetDownCrush | 3.0 |
| 16Volt SuperCoolNothing | 2.5 |
| 16Volt Wisdom | 3.5 |
| 16Volt Skin | 3.0 |
| Cyanotic Worst Case Scenario Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| Cyanotic The Medication Generation | 4.0 |
| Cyanotic Prehab 25mg-EP | 4.0 |
| Cyanotic MedPack Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Cyanotic Transhuman 2.0 | 4.5 |
| Acumen Nation Lord of the Cynics | 2.5 |
| Acumen Nation The 5ifth Column | 3.5 |
| Acumen Nation Anticore | 4.5 |
I always like those heavily distorted e-guitars (which were usually used in the mid 90's by many
us-coldwave (you can also call it "machine rock") bands where Acumen Nation also came from).
This album isn't less great than The 5ifth Column, just less accessible and less catchy, also only
4 of 15 songs have the 3rd chorus, it helps keep the songs fresh.
Also I love the small little details the electronic sounds create and the way the vocalist sings.
It's industrial metal, but it sounds different from "normal" industrial metal bands. |
| Acumen Nation Psycho the Rapist | 4.5 |
| Chemlab Oxidizer | 4.0 |
| Chemlab Burnout at the Hydrogen Bar | 4.0 |
| Chemlab East Side Militia | 4.0 |
| Suffocation Suffocation | 3.5 |
| Suffocation Pierced from Within | 4.5 |
| Asphyx Asphyx | 3.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 4.0 |
| Opposition Promises | 4.0 |
| Opposition Breaking The Silence | 5.0 |
| An absolute post-punk classic. Already in 1981 on this album they had a sound and a very thick november-atmosphere that The Chameleons would be known for too, 2 years later (with a classic album of their own, and similarly 1986 Strange Times).rI'm thankful and lucky to have the remastered version of Breaking The Silence, the production is incredible and makes the rainy / foggy atmosphere stand out even more. |
| Opposition Intimacy | 4.0 |
| Modern English Mesh & Lace | 4.0 |
| It is a good post-punk album from a great year (1981) so it should have a higher rating (maybe 3.6). |
| Bark Psychosis Hex | 4.5 |
| Thompson Twins Into the Gap | 4.0 |
| Eurythmics In The Garden | 4.0 |
| This album deserves a much higher rating. At least an average of 3.6 or so. I like how ethereal Annie's voice was back then and the atmosphere in general. |
| The Stranglers Aural Sculpture | 3.5 |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Everyone Feels Like A Stranger | 4.0 |
| Dead Poetic New Medicines | 4.0 |
| Dead Poetic Vices | 4.0 |
| [:SITD:] Bestie:Mensch | 4.0 |
| [:SITD:] Icon:Koru | 4.0 |
| [:SITD:] Rot | 4.0 |
| [:SITD:] Stronghold | 4.0 |
| [:SITD:] Coded Message: 12 | 4.5 |
| Slackbaba And The Beat Goes Om | 4.5 |
| Radian TG11 | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.0 |
| SAM Brainwasher | 3.5 |
| SAM Destruction Unit | 4.0 |
| SAM SYNTHETIC ADRENALINE MUSIC | 4.0 |
Still very nice industrial-techno, nice mix of rhythmic noise and hardstyle (not normally my genre
but it sounds great here), also nice atmospheres. And the album cover fits nice.
1. Hard Technology / Compactor
3. Epic / 24 Stunden
5. Black Rubber Dance / Rorschachtest / Ascent
8. Enemy List / Sex und Gewalt
10. Time Envelope
11. Chaos and Confusion / Filter / Syntax Error
14. Synthetic Vision / Trapperfieber / Therapie
I'm glad I have all 3 albums. |
| Hocico Scars | 4.0 |
I still haven't heard a Hocico song yet that is better than the song Scars and maybe Not Like You
(apestas version). Both are awesome and I like to remember summer 2006 when I discovered it.
edit: But the albums Memorias Atras and Wrack And Ruin really did grow on me, most songs on both
are amazing. They almost always avoid the 3rd chorus, means the songs often have very good song
structures. |
| Fear Factory Obsolete | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture | 3.5 |
| From Zero From Zero (The Green Album) | 3.5 |
| From Zero One Nation Under | 4.0 |
| Dry Kill Logic Of Vengeance and Violence | 4.0 |
| Level Level | 4.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.0 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.5 |
| Pitchshifter Industrial | 3.5 |
| Pitchshifter Desensitized | 3.5 |
| Godflesh Godflesh | 4.5 |
| Godflesh Streetcleaner | 4.5 |
| Godflesh Selfless | 4.0 |
| Foetus Thaw | 4.0 |
| Foetus Hole | 3.0 |
| Foetus Love | 4.0 |
| Revolting Cocks Beers, Steers + Queers | 4.0 |
| Mystical Sun 26000 | 5.0 |
| a well deserved 4.5 from me. This album is like a big adventure, a journey into a jungle. "Whirlpool" is when you get there, "Place Of Refuge" when you discover a sea in there, "Immersion" when you swim and wash yourself in there and the waterfall nearby. "Canopy" is when you discover a great view at a cliff. |
| David Bowie "Heroes" | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Low | 4.5 |
| The Associates Sulk | 4.0 |
| The Associates The Affectionate Punch | 4.5 |
| Modern Eon Fiction Tales | 4.0 |
| Cluster Cluster II | 3.5 |
| Harmonia Musik von Harmonia | 4.0 |
| Xhol Caravan Electrip | 4.0 |
| Amon Duul II Phallus Dei | 4.0 |
| Amon Duul II Wolf City | 4.0 |
| Agitation Free 2nd | 4.0 |
| Agitation Free Malesch | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis 'Round About Midnight | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 4.5 |
| Hank Mobley Roll Call | 4.5 |
| Devo Freedom of Choice | 4.0 |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble Mutations | 3.0 |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble From the Stairwell | 4.5 |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble Here Be Dragons | 4.0 |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble | 4.0 |
| Paradise Lost In Requiem | 3.5 |
| Paradise Lost Lost Paradise | 2.0 |
| Paradise Lost Paradise Lost | 4.0 |
| Oresund Space Collective The Black Tomato | 4.5 |
What an amazing psychedelic album and adventure!
And I am glad both songs before Viking Cleaner are cut into 5 and 3 parts, it's easier for me to
listen to the whole album that way.
I'm extremely thankful I discovered many great psychedelic bands & artists (rock and electronic
like psybient & psydub). Many are hard to find but the ones I have will stay with me for the rest
of my life. |
| Quantum Fantay Ugisiunsi | 4.5 |
| I am absolutely thankful this exists and that I have it. Not many people seem to have it so it's great I can listen to it whenever I need it.rI am thankful in general about every psychedelic band and album that exists (both rock & electronic). |
| Quantum Fantay Agapanthusterra | 3.5 |
| Colour Haze Periscope | 4.0 |
| Colour Haze CO2 | 4.5 |
| Ulver Blood Inside | 4.0 |
| Ulver Perdition City | 4.0 |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun | 4.5 |
| Pride and Fall In My Time of Dying | 4.5 |
| Sero.Overdose No Time For Silence | 3.5 |
| Sero.Overdose Heading For Tomorrow | 4.0 |
The other user clearly has bad ears. There are songs I like like Tiny Snail, Wut and The Chamber.
Edit:
I'm glad I dug this album out again after years, Like the 3 mentioned songs I also really like
Tears In Rain, Lost Alone, Fire, Your Road and Two Faces. Well none of the songs on the album is
bad, they're all listenable, also: 8 of 12 songs only have 2 choruses, means it is a typical
futurepop album, I like how many albums of the genre have well structured songs. |
| Deine Lakaien Kasmodiah | 3.5 |
| Deine Lakaien Winter Fish Testosterone | 4.0 |
| Deine Lakaien April Skies | 4.0 |
| Deine Lakaien Dark Star | 3.0 |
| Deine Lakaien Forest Enter Exit | 4.0 |
| Diary of Dreams Moments Of Bloom | 3.5 |
| Diary of Dreams MenschFeind | 4.0 |
| Diary of Dreams (if) | 3.5 |
| Diary of Dreams Nekrolog 43 | 3.5 |
| Diary of Dreams Nigredo | 3.5 |
| Diary of Dreams Freak Perfume | 2.5 |
| Diary of Dreams One of 18 Angels | 2.5 |
Some good songs here but nowhere near the 4 great 90's albums they made, other albums are also
better like Nigredo, (if) and the Menschfeind EP. This album here was the beginning of making more
predictable songs. |
| Diary of Dreams Cholymelan | 4.5 |
| Diary of Dreams Bird Without Wings | 4.0 |
| By far their longest album (but with only 10 songs) and more epic than the other albums. 4 songs over 8 minutes and two more with 7 minutes. My 4th most favourite album by them. |
| Diary of Dreams End Of Flowers | 5.0 |
I really can't understand some ratings here. Psychoma and End Of Flowers to me are by far DoD's
best albums and deserve 4.0-4.5 ratings. I love the different atmospheres of both albums.
This is also one of the most melancholic and maybe even romantic albums they did.
This is a perfect october album.
People like this idiot Willie shouldn't rate darkwave albums. If this was an european site and not
american, DoD and others like Diorama for example would have a much higher rating. Genres like
darkwave, EBM, futurepop, ambient, british post-punk would also get much more attention on an
european site because they have much more fans everywhere in europe be it germany, serbia,
netherlands, poland, russia, italy, belgium and so on. |
| Diary of Dreams Psychoma | 5.0 |
I will never understand some of the ratings here. This is for me DoD at their finest. Whenever I
listen to this album the atmosphere always gets me. It's one of those cases, where the album cover
fits perfectly with the music. Most songs have a deep blue dreamy atmosphere and for me personally
this album is a classic. Even the worst song "Methusalem" is very good.
favourite songs:
1. TranceFormation Baby / never'Freeze
3. (ver)gift(et) / Wild / Luna(-tic)
6. You(-das) / E.-dead-Motion / Never!Land / End(Giftet) / Drop Dead
11. Methusalem / Touch |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 4.5 |
| Textures Drawing Circles | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah Nothing | 5.0 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve | 4.0 |
| Mnemic The Audio Injected Soul | 3.5 |
| Mnemic Mechanical Spin Phenomena | 4.0 |
| Death Human | 4.5 |
| Death Spiritual Healing | 4.0 |
| Death Leprosy | 4.0 |
| Entombed Morning Star | 4.0 |
| Entombed Wolverine Blues | 3.5 |
| Entombed Clandestine | 4.5 |
| Entombed Left Hand Path | 4.5 |
| Lunatic Soul Lunatic Soul | 4.0 |
| Lunatic Soul Impressions | 3.5 |
| I really can't understand some people. I am always one for atmosphere and this is not boring to me. Maybe some people just don't have imagination. |
| Lunatic Soul Walking on a Flashlight Beam | 5.0 |
Excellent album for november and even more for december, it's now 9 years since I discovered it and it still hasn't lost any of its magic. I just completely feel the atmosphere in every of the 9 songs. If only Stars Sellotaped was 3-4 minutes longer, it's wonderful but too short. That's the only negative thing I can say about this album.
As always I don't care about other people's opinions (I don't even look at their lists), this album is a classic in my music world. This is just a wonderful album to get lost in.
Of course it's not a perfect album, but "classic" albums don't need to be perfect to be "classic". |
| The Sisters of Mercy Floodland | 4.0 |
| The Sisters of Mercy First and Last and Always | 4.0 |
| Bauhaus Bela Lugosi's Dead | 4.5 |
| Bauhaus Lagartija Nick | 4.0 |
| Bauhaus Burning from the Inside | 3.5 |
| Bauhaus Mask | 4.5 |
| Bauhaus In the Flat Field | 4.5 |
| Bauhaus The Sky's Gone Out | 4.0 |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds | 3.5 |
| The Cure Faith | 4.5 |
| The Cure Pornography | 4.5 |
| The Cure The Top | 3.5 |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees Tinderbox | 3.5 |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees Join Hands | 2.0 |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees A Kiss in the Dreamhouse | 4.0 |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees Juju | 4.0 |
| Dead Can Dance Spleen and Ideal | 4.0 |
| Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun | 4.5 |
| Eat Static Science of the Gods | 4.0 |
| Nik Kershaw The Riddle | 4.0 |
| Nik Kershaw Human Racing | 4.5 |
He will always be one of my mainstream-80's heroes. His face and voice somehow remind me of Gadget
of Chip & Dale rescue rangers (the female mouse), I don't know why. His first 2 albums (both from
1984) are really good, all 20 songs very listenable and the lyrics are really clever sometimes
compared to other mainstream artists of the mid 80's. I wish I try his later albums some day.
Also I like his name, "Nik Kershaw" is a perfect name for the year 1984. |
| Howard Jones Dream Into Action | 3.5 |
| Howard Jones Human's Lib | 4.0 |
| Ultravox Rage In Eden | 4.0 |
| Ultravox Quartet | 3.5 |
| Roxy Music For Your Pleasure | 4.5 |
| Electric Wizard Electric Wizard | 4.0 |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone | 4.5 |
| Sleep Volume One | 3.5 |
| Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain | 4.5 |
| Lento Earthen | 4.0 |
Very nice album, very atmospheric, many years ago I discovered them on last.fm as similar artists
from Ufomammut, one of my all time favourite metal bands.
favourite songs:
1. Hadrons
2. Emersion of the islands
3. Currents
4. Leave
5. Need
6. Subterrestrial
7. Earth |
| Ufomammut Ecate | 4.0 |
| Ufomammut ORO: Opus Alter | 4.0 |
| Ufomammut ORO: Opus Primum | 3.5 |
| Ufomammut Godlike Snake | 3.0 |
| Ufomammut Eve | 4.0 |
| Ufomammut Idolum | 4.5 |
| Ufomammut Snailking | 5.0 |
| It's just wonderful space doom, and the perfect starting point for people new to this band. I also love the production. What I also always appreciate is the electronic sounds that add a lot to the atmosphere. |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 4.5 |
| Hecq Scatterheart | 4.5 |
Great to listen to when it's still dark and early at work.
Favourite songs:
1. Coup De Lune
2. Suck
3. Trivia / Iso
5. Fdk
6. Field / Doraccle
8. Holler
9. Flood Me / Road North
11. Midnight Generator |
| Hecq Bad Karma | 4.0 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Returnal | 4.0 |
Why should I care about when someone says this album doesn't sound original or Daniel uses too
many influences like sounds of Klaus Schulze for example, or that it sounds too similar to other
artists. Listening to this album again right now and after many years it's still as great as after
the first listen. Nice colours everywhere, great atmosphere to get lost in.
I enjoy it for what it is, a very good atmospheric electronic album. People should stop caring
about what sounds unoriginal and just enjoy the music and using their imagination to it. |
| VNV Nation Of Faith, Power and Glory | 3.0 |
| VNV Nation Judgement | 2.5 |
| VNV Nation Empires | 4.0 |
| VNV Nation Futureperfect | 4.5 |
| VNV Nation Matter and Form | 5.0 |
| Had to change this album from 4.5 to 5.0. It IS a classic to me and in december 2005 it was one of my personal landmark albums (next to Only Human Remains by Fractured) and both album changed everything in my music world back then.rAll songs are great, the weakest song is Colours Of Rain but all other are amazing and the album never lost anything of its magic. |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials | 3.5 |
| Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | 4.0 |
| Electric Orange Volume 10 | 4.0 |
| Electric Orange Morbus | 4.5 |
| Simple Minds Reel to Real Cacophony | 4.0 |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Rust Red September | 4.5 |
This is one of 9 albums I have of this amazing band.
When I listen to this album, I can smell the colourful leaves when they fall to the ground,
because it's a nice early autumn album. They have a pleasant scent.
They might have been called a post-punk band, but same as And Also The Trees, both never really
were close to typical bands of that genre, and also didn't care about that, both have their own
unique sound and somehow it felt like both were in their own musical world. It's incredible both
are still active and releasing amazing albums! The Trees started in 1979, EiG in early 1980. |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Drumming the Beating Heart | 4.0 |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Caught in Flux | 3.5 |
| Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Pale Hands I Loved So Well | 4.5 |
| Radian On Dark Silent Off | 4.5 |
Like all the releases before this album Radian once more proved they're worthy to be one of my top
6 all time favourite bands. Their mix of post-rock & IDM is amazing and all 48 songs I have of
them so far are great.
I like that they have their own unique way of how they make music. It's great to get lost into
their albums. |
| Radian Juxtaposition | 4.5 |
| Radian Rec.Extern | 4.0 |
| Radian Chimeric | 4.5 |
| Die Verbannten Kinder Evas Die Verbannten Kinder Evas | 4.5 |
While neoclassical darkwave isn't normally one of my favourite kinds of darkwave, there are
exceptions. Especially Dead Can Dance, Arcana and this band.
It's always great to get lost into this album, and I love it that it's a very long one.
It's always a nice feeling when I dig this album out again once or twice in a few months. I'm
thankful that mp3 files can't break so the sound quality can't suddenly decrease even after 14
years.rMusic is like a miracle to me and I'm glad everything'S still there after I wake up the
next day. |
| Arcana Cantar De Procella | 3.5 |
| Arcana Inner Pale Sun | 4.0 |
| Lycia Quiet Moments | 4.5 |
Great atmosphere, takes me to a barren wasteland where it is always foggy and no one can reach me
there.
I wish I can visit that place whenever I want. |
| Lycia Cold | 4.5 |
| Lycia Ionia | 4.0 |
| Lycia A Day in the Stark Corner | 4.5 |
| This Ascension Walk Softly, A Dream Lies Here | 4.5 |
| This Ascension Tears In Rain | 4.5 |
| This Ascension Light And Shade | 4.5 |
| KMFDM Attak | 3.0 |
| KMFDM Angst | 3.5 |
| KMFDM XTORT | 2.5 |
| Ministry The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste | 4.0 |
| Ministry Psalm 69 | 4.0 |
| Ministry Filth Pig | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 2.5 |
| Skinny Puppy Last Rights | 4.0 |
| Skinny Puppy Too Dark Park | 4.5 |
| Skinny Puppy VIVIsectVI | 5.0 |
| Skinny Puppy Cleanse Fold and Manipulate | 4.0 |
| Fractured Beneath The Ashes | 4.5 |
| Fractured Only Human Remains | 5.0 |
It was my first EBM album ever in december 2005 (next to Matter + Form by VNV Nation) and it changed everything. It brought me away from listening only to 80s, alternative rock and nu metal. Thanks to it I discovered more and more EBM & other electro bands and albums. It was excellent back then and it still is one of my most favourite electronic albums. Every song has its own life and atmosphere. This is one of those albums that never lost anything of its magic.
And no, there's no weak song or filler on it. I love every song for what it is.
If there is something to criticize, it's the track order. I listen to them in a different order. But that is really only a small thing. |
| Ott Blumenkraft | 4.0 |
| Androcell Emotivision | 4.0 |
| Entheogenic Entheogenic | 4.5 |
| The Infinity Project Mystical Experiences | 4.5 |
| Gridlock Formless | 5.0 |
This will forever be one of my all time favourite electronic albums. Of electronic music I like
ambient, psybient & psychill, darkwave, EBM, industrial, futurepop, IDM, trip-hop, field
recordings and a few others. Formless has a certain atmosphere that will always suck me in.
Atmosphere is one of the most important things in music for me and it lets my imagination run
wild. |
| Gridlock The Synthetic Form | 3.5 |
| Biosphere Patashnik | 4.0 |
| Biosphere Substrata | 4.5 |
| This Heat This Heat | 4.5 |
| Pere Ubu Dub Housing | 4.0 |
| The Fall Hex Enduction Hour | 4.5 |
| The Fall The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall | 3.5 |
| The Fall Extricate | 3.0 |
| Public Image Ltd. Metal Box | 4.5 |
| Magazine Real Life | 4.5 |
| Magazine Secondhand Daylight | 4.5 |
| Magazine The Correct Use Of Soap | 3.5 |
| Magazine No Thyself | 4.5 |
This deserves a better rating than 3.3. Maybe 3.8 or 3.9 would be more fair. This album isn't less
great than their first two albums. I still love the clever song structures in most songs.
For me it is better than "The Correct Use Of Soap" because that album was too light for me
sometimes, but it still had great lyrics. |
| Wire Send | 3.0 |
| Wire A Bell Is A Cup Until It Is Struck | 2.0 |
| I listened to it years ago but most songs sound boring and repetitive. I gave it a chance but it just isn't for me. |
| Wire Change Becomes Us | 4.0 |
| Wire Chairs Missing | 4.0 |
| Wire 154 | 5.0 |
| Gang of Four Solid Gold | 3.5 |
| Gang of Four Entertainment! | 3.0 |
| A Certain Ratio Sextet | 3.5 |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 4.0 |
| Joy Division Closer | 4.5 |
| Joy Division Substance | 4.5 |
| The Chameleons Script of the Bridge | 5.0 |
| The Chameleons What Does Anything Mean? Basically | 4.0 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Porcupine | 3.0 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Heaven Up Here | 5.0 |
| The Sound All Fall Down | 4.0 |
| The Sound Shock of Daylight | 4.0 |
| The Sound Jeopardy | 3.0 |
| The Sound From The Lion's Mouth | 4.0 |
| The Comsat Angels My Mind's Eye | 3.0 |
| The Comsat Angels Waiting for a Miracle | 4.0 |
| The Comsat Angels Sleep No More | 5.0 |
| Sad Lovers and Giants Epic Garden Music | 4.0 |
| Sad Lovers and Giants Feeding the Flame | 5.0 |
| Sad Lovers and Giants The Mirror Test | 4.5 |
| Solar Fields Blue Moon Station | 4.5 |
| Solar Fields Reflective Frequencies | 4.0 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms World Of Sleepers | 4.5 |
This is like Water Ambient for me. All the songs are excellent and I usually listen to the first 10 of them in a row. Whenever something gets too much for me to bear this album is perfect to listen to as it helps me to calm down and feel better again. Most songs sound like as if you're underwater and I love the atmosphere. This is one of my most favourite ambient albums.
And yes, the album artwork fits perfectly, as if the artists were thinking the same as me, it makes you feel as if you were underwater. |
| Mystical Sun Energy Mind Consciousness | 4.5 |
| Mystical Sun Primordial Atmospheres | 4.0 |
| Gong Camembert Electrique | 4.5 |
| Gong Angel's Egg | 5.0 |
| Gong You | 5.0 |
| Gong Flying Teapot | 4.0 |
| Gong Shamal | 3.0 |
| Gong Expresso II | 4.0 |
| Gong Gazeuse! (Expresso) | 4.5 |
| Gong Zero to Infinity | 4.0 |
| Rotersand Random is Resistance | 4.0 |
| Rotersand 1023 | 4.0 |
This album did grow on me years after release. Now I understand it much better. Welcome To Goodbye
is untouchable and still one of the best futurepop albums of all time but I like how they
experiment on 1023. There's an acoustic guitar, trip-hop and ambient influences, the songs are
often slower but I like how they unfold. Songs like I Am With You have nice song structures, after
the 2nd chorus the song takes off and never returns, I love that kind of creativity. |
| Rotersand Truth is Fanatic | 3.5 |
| Rotersand Welcome to Goodbye | 4.5 |
| Solitary Experiments Mind Over Matter | 4.0 |
Atmosphere-wise it's one of the best albums with november atmosphere and one of the best of
futurepop & modern EBM. Not really perfect as an album but there are many great songs that stand
on their own and are beautiful.
Favourite songs:
1. Homesick / Downfall / Pale Candle-Light
4. Delight
5. Still Alive
6. War & Peace / Odyssey Of Mind / Apologize
9. Counterpart
10. Self-Deception |
| Covenant Dreams Of A Cryotank | 4.0 |
| This is too underrated on here. What's not to like? The most songs have clever song structures, take Shipwreck for example, when you expect the 2nd chorus to come, the song just goes somewhere else for a whole minute before the 2nd chorus appears. Or Hardware Requiem, it builds and builds, gets really tense until the chorus finally appears.rAnd of course the 25 minute Cryotank Expansion, I love the icy cold ambient sounds, it never gets boring to me. |
| Covenant Europa | 4.5 |
| Covenant Skyshaper | 4.0 |
| Informatik Syntax | 3.5 |
| Informatik Arena | 3.5 |
| Edge Of Dawn Anything That Gets You Through The Night | 4.0 |
| Edge Of Dawn Enjoy The Fall | 3.0 |
| In Strict Confidence Where Sun And Moon Unite | 4.0 |
| In Strict Confidence Cryogenix | 3.5 |
| In Strict Confidence Face the Fear | 4.5 |
| In Strict Confidence La Parade Monstrueuse | 3.5 |
| In Strict Confidence Exile Paradise | 4.5 |
| In Strict Confidence Love Kills! | 4.5 |
| I am always fascinated by music with icy cold sounds and atmosphere. Songs like "Heaven Is The Place To Be" are perfect examples of that. I can never get enough of frosty electronic stuff. |
| Diorama Cubed | 4.5 |
| Diorama A Different Life | 4.5 |
My #3 all time favourite band. I always loved their darkwave / synthpop hybrid. Nice dreamy sounds
and atmosphere and Torben Wendt is a great vocalist and lyricist especially when compared to other
darkwave, futurepop and EBM bands.rThis album grew on me over the years and now it's up there with
their best albums.
Also, as great as Synthesize Me is, there are even stronger songs on the album like 10.000 Meter
Waves and Blessed and some on the same high level like Colder, Kein Mord, No Tears, Sands. The
rest is very good too. |
| Diorama Amaroid | 4.5 |
| Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible | 4.5 |
| Shpongle Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland | 4.5 |
| Ozric Tentacles Swirly Termination | 4.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles The Hidden Step | 4.5 |
| Ozric Tentacles Waterfall Cities | 4.5 |
| Ozric Tentacles Become the Other | 4.5 |
Favourite songs ranking:
1. Vibuthi
2. Wob Glass / Plurnstyle / Ahu Belahu
5. Neurochasm / Cat DNA
7. Ghedengi / Become The Other
But as with every album of them from 1989 to 2000 there is no weak song, I always love every song
on every album from that timeline. |
| Ozric Tentacles Curious Corn | 4.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles Arborescence | 5.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles Jurassic Shift | 5.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles Strangeitude | 4.5 |
| Ozric Tentacles Erpland | 4.5 |
| Ozric Tentacles There Is Nothing | 3.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles Pungent Effulgent | 4.0 |
@GhandhiLion: What I don't like is that you and other people just can't simply enjoy certain songs
and albums for what they are, I wish you would stop comparing bands and just enjoy the music. When
someone likes / loves a band / album it shouldn't matter how original and influential a band was.
Pungent Effulgent is another gem and the 1988-2000 Ozrics era was and is incredible, they were
almost invincible back then. How great it is to get lost in space and in their music. |
| Colour Haze In Her Garden | 4.0 |
| And Also The Trees When the Rains come | 3.5 |
| And Also The Trees Farewell to the Shade | 5.0 |
| And Also The Trees The Millpond Years | 4.5 |
| And Also The Trees And Also the Trees | 4.0 |
| And Also The Trees Virus Meadow | 5.0 |
Every time I listen to Virus Meadow I feel happy I can visit the imaginary places and people which
all appear in this album again. Lyrically they're my all-time favourite band. |
| And Also The Trees Green Is The Sea | 5.0 |
This album feels and sounds like you are in the most wonderful dream possible and you don't want
to wake up. Sometimes it's hard to think how this album can exist. Sometimes it makes me feel as
if the songs on this album can only exist in it, but not outside that beautiful world.
It also has an atmosphere that makes me imagine I am in a big cemetery at 1pm on a sunny day with
colourful flowers everywhere between the graves.
It is more keyboard heavy than the other 4 albums of their first era. |
| And Also The Trees Angelfish | 4.0 |
| And Also The Trees Silver Soul | 4.5 |
| Like The Klaxon and Angelfish this album is completely different from all other albums they did. Still for me this is still a very strong album. This time it has a certain atmosphere, it makes me think I'm visiting the Jones brothers (vocalist and guitarist of this band), they live in a house somewhere on the hill and it's like a time travel, they have a real Amiga 500 and other things from the 90s and a bed where I can sleep. I wish it was real. |
| And Also The Trees Further from the Truth | 5.0 |
| And Also The Trees (Listen for) the Rag and Bone Man | 5.0 |
| And Also The Trees Hunter not the Hunted | 4.5 |
| And Also The Trees Born Into The Waves | 4.5 |
