| Arnaut Pavle Transylvanian Glare | 4.0 |
| Worm Bluenothing | 4.5 |
| 26 brisk minutes of fun, beautiful, lofty death metal. |
| Conan Evidence of Immortality | 4.0 |
| Wtf why is this so good??? |
| Urushiol Pools of Green Fire | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind | 2.0 |
| Holy shit. |
| Krallice Crystalline Exhaustion | 4.0 |
| Krallice Psychagogue | 4.0 |
| Rotten Tomb Visions of Dismal Fate | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love | 5.0 |
| Sadistic Ritual The Enigma, Boundless | 3.0 |
| Pharmacist Flourishing Extremities On Unspoiled Mental Ground | 3.5 |
| sonhos tomam conta maladaptive daydreaming | 3.5 |
| Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter | 3.5 |
| Gospel The Loser | 3.5 |
| Falls of Rauros Key to a Vanishing Future | 4.0 |
| Might be the best example of this sort of sugary, lofty, and heavily produced black metal I?ve heard in a decade. |
| Deathspell Omega The Long Defeat | 1.0 |
Re-post: Just a friendly reminder this band is very open about their support of right wing extremism, anti-semitisim, and
nazism. |
| Yeule Glitch Princess | 4.0 |
| Arca KICK ii | 3.5 |
| Cynic Ascension Codes | 3.5 |
| Converge Bloodmoon: I | 3.5 |
| 2012 Sputnik would be losing its mind. |
| Limp Bizkit Still Sucks | 2.0 |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand | 2.5 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 2.5 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 2.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 3.0 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim | 3.5 |
90 minutes of the best Mastodon material in ten years only for the focus to be on the iffy production is the most
basic metal-elitist-in-training Sputnik take I’ve ever seen |
| Every Time I Die Radical | 4.0 |
| There is an alarming amount of bangers on this. |
| Coldplay Music of the Spheres | 2.5 |
| Me: Maybe going emeritus was a mistake?r*Music of the Spheres? BNM*rMe: ah, ok |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden Under Vatten | 3.0 |
| If you?re a fan of shitting your pants, you?re gonna love track 8. |
| Ethereal Shroud Trisagion | 4.5 |
| I feel very strongly about this record and it?s made me feel more things from a black metal album that I?ve felt in years. Dude is a certified talent who understands the genre in a way few do. Brilliant, evocative, unyielding?do yourself a favor and check this out when you can. |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Illusory Walls | 5.0 |
| This is As the Roots Undo for people who shop at H&M |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Long Live Happy Birthday | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Formlessness [2016] | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness | 4.0 |
| Samia The Baby | 3.5 |
| Samia Scout | 3.5 |
| Full of Hell Garden of Burning Apparitions | 4.0 |
| This is gonna be the best 3.8 of the year. |
| Carcass Torn Arteries | 3.0 |
| So we’re just supposed to accept that album cover? |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 3.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 2.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 3.5 |
| Thrice Beggars | 3.5 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 3.5 |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere | 2.0 |
| Thrice Horizons/East | 3.0 |
| It?s like the last decade of Thrice never happened, and that?s a very good thing. |
| Anoice Ghost in the Clocks | 3.5 |
| Anoice Into the Shadows | 3.5 |
| Mono Pilgrimage Of The Soul | 3.0 |
| Maybe it?s because Mono have been so dull for so long, but this kinda slaps. |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You | 4.0 |
| Black Country, New Road For the first time | 3.5 |
| Replicant Malignant Reality | 3.5 |
| There are moments where I swear Luc Lemay is in this band. |
| Turnstile Glow On | 3.5 |
| “I HaTe wHen BanDs ReLeAsE hAlF oF thE aLbUms as sInGLes “. |
| Adjy The Idyll Opus (I-VI) | 3.0 |
| I do not care for this very much but I love seeing people excited about things |
| Aborted ManiaCult | 3.5 |
| Low Hey What | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Astral Pariah | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars be like “I had sex with a samurai-cowgirl’s ghost who looked like my Mom whoa whoooooaaaaa” |
| Kacey Musgraves Star-Crossed | 3.5 |
| Straight people are fuckin’ dramatic. |
| Sigil (CAN) Nether | 3.5 |
| Love Forever Changes | 4.0 |
| Indigo De Souza Any Shape You Take | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Senjutsu | 3.5 |
| Wtf this is so good. |
| Serpent Column Katartisis | 3.5 |
| This hit so good |
| Deftones White Pony | 3.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 3.0 |
| Maybe not album of the year material, but still a damn decent listen |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 2.5 |
| Deftones released a slightly above average hard rock album and way too many fucks were given. |
| Kanye West Donda | 1.0 |
How would one listen to this? Because I want to make sure that doesn?t happen.
Edit: I listened to it and holy shit |
| Halsey If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power | 3.5 |
| Trent Reznor is the vehicle to finally make Halsey good. |
| Big Red Machine How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? | 3.5 |
| Really pretty but it just makes me want a Taylor/Justin collab real bad. |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage | 3.0 |
| Dale Kerrigan noise bitch | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana | 4.0 |
| Feels so good to jam an occult-sounding black metal album with comfort in knowing it isnt fashy |
| Lorde Solar Power | 2.0 |
| Instantly iconic album cover aside, this is awful. |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal | 3.5 |
| Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit | 3.0 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 3.5 |
| Ghost Bath Moonlover | 2.5 |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Infinite Granite | 4.0 |
| Y’all took Deafheaven’s metal side for granite, now you get this. |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors II | 2.5 |
| Welcome to the worst sound off page of 2021. |
| Ophidian I Desolate | 3.5 |
| At a brisk 38 minutes, Desolate really checked my tech-jaded sensibilities with a really joyful and fun slab of goofy shit. |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 3.5 |
| THIS ALBUM IS CONDUCIVE TO WRITING LYRICAL ONE LINERS IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 4.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Laura Stevenson | 4.0 |
| I wanna bliss out to this so hard but I dont want to miss the FedEx delivery person ringing my doorbell again ;_; |
| A Great Big Pile of Leaves Pono | 3.5 |
| Bounces between obnoxious perkiness and childlike, endearing soulfulness. It melts my icy heart. |
| The Killers Pressure Machine | 3.5 |
| Diskord Degenerations | 3.5 |
| Doja Cat Planet Her | 3.5 |
| Not loving how several of these songs will be on my ?most played? list in Spotify at the end of the year |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Always Foreign | 4.0 |
| Infinite Steve is like my favorite song of the decade. |
| Laura Stevenson The Mystic & the Master | 4.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Cocksure | 4.0 |
| Full of Hell Weeping Choir | 4.0 |
| King Woman Celestial Blues | 4.0 |
P sweet.
Edit: okay, V sweet |
| At the Gates The Nightmare of Being | 3.0 |
| 3.0 instead of 3.5 because they threw a saxophone in there. |
| Erdve Savigaila | 3.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 5.0 |
| Bumping this from a 4.5 to a 5 has moved the average from 4 to 4.1...I have never felt so powerful |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.0 |
| Nothing lost and nothing gained, All We Love We Leave Behind is Converge playing Converge and it's everything we could have asked for. |
| Converge No Heroes | 2.5 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 4.0 |
| Boris tears e.p | 3.5 |
| Atvm Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless | 3.5 |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep | 4.0 |
| Fucked Up Year of the Horse | 3.5 |
| Easily the most impactful Fucked Up release in a decade |
| Japanese Breakfast Jubilee | 4.5 |
| This is sublime |
| Blood Cultures LUNO | 3.5 |
| Portal Avow | 4.0 |
| Idk man this is some wonky, doofusy death metal but in the right mindset it feels indescribably revelatory |
| Nadja Luminous Rot | 2.5 |
| Nadja, for a time, played soundtracks for a lot of lonely nights, but they haven?t hit the same way in years |
| Hooded Menace Effigies of Evil | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada ZII | 2.0 |
| Honestly one of the best Christian metalcore releases I?ve heard in well over a decade |
| Hooded Menace Darkness Drips Forth | 3.5 |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light | 4.0 |
| This is a Panopticon album alright |
| Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God | 2.0 |
| Holy shit this is boring. |
| The Armed Ultrapop | 4.0 |
“Untitled had some incredible moments. At this point, I could see the band revealing that rtheir past two albums
were just a joke mocking the way people can fall for any rexperimental bullshit they concoct as long as they just
have the agency to follow through rwith it. Its unlikely, but thats my hope, because it sounds like confused horse
noises. rpast two albums” |
| Zao The Crimson Corridor | 3.5 |
| Had zero intention of listening to this but some of those singles bop hard |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! | 4.0 |
| Wtf is “widescreen post rock”? |
| serpentwithfeet Deacon | 4.0 |
| serpentwithfeet blisters | 3.5 |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka | 4.0 |
| I really get off shitting on prog metal albums y?all love but this is actually great |
| Lana Del Rey Chemtrails Over The Country Club | 3.5 |
| ?Not All Who Wander Are Lost? is the most white-girl-basic song title I?ve ever heard...but this album is pretty great idc |
| Ethereal Shroud Lanterns | 4.0 |
| Absolute best Sputnik member project from one of the best users |
| Boris Akuma no Uta | 3.5 |
| Going through the entire discography and this has aged much worse than anything before it. |
| Lift to Experience The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads | 5.0 |
| Slept on this for *checks calendar* 20 years. |
| Boris Soundtrack from the Film Mabuta no Ura | 4.0 |
| Boris Noise | 4.0 |
| Boris Dear | 3.5 |
| Claims of revolutionism aside, it is very nice to hear Boris drone again. |
| Boris NO | 4.0 |
| Did Boris make a PUNK ALBUM? |
| Boris The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked | 2.5 |
| Krallice Demonic Wealth | 4.0 |
| I really overrated that last album hard, but this slower, quirkier dungeon synth take on Krallice has me living. |
| Spectral Lore Ετερόφωτος | 3.5 |
| This would have been a slam dunk were it not for the 20 minutes of nothing at the end (3.7) |
| Interpol El Pintor | 3.5 |
| Everything is Wrong is my hands down favorite Interpol song and I dont care how basic that sounds |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.5 |
| Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 2 - The Golden Orb | 3.5 |
| Similar in a lot of ways to the rest of his discog (long ass bm songs) but there?s a definite move towards expanding his traditional proggy bm sound |
| Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse | 4.0 |
| So this Gorguts rip off band got really good. |
| Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm | 3.5 |
| Cool stuff as always. |
| Thaetas Shrines to Absurdity | 3.0 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music III | 4.0 |
| Wait how the fuck did I not know about this? |
| Nevoa Towards Belief | 3.5 |
| Yovel Forthcoming Humanity | 2.5 |
| Imha Tarikat Sternenberster | 3.5 |
| Darkspace Dark Space III I | 4.0 |
| New Paysage is great but like where is Darkspace III II? |
| Ichiko Aoba Adan no Kaze | 4.0 |
| Seiko Oomori Kintsugi | 3.0 |
| The songs that don?t sound like an anime montage are pretty great. |
| Lamp of Murmuur Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism | 4.0 |
| The Chemical Mind Beneath the Shadow It Casts | 4.0 |
| Sundr Solar Ships | 2.5 |
| There is a time in my life where I probably would have really dug this. That time has since passed. |
| Pyre (USA-FL) Come Home | 3.5 |
| This is really wholesome and fun : ). |
| Bedsore Hypnagogic Hallucinations | 4.0 |
| Unique and pretty. Reminds me of Morbus Chron I think. |
| Liturgy Origin of the Alimonies | 4.0 |
The more ridiculous Litrugy becomes, the more I begin to embrace them.
Edit: idgaf how stuffy and silly this is I love it so much |
| Ulthar Providence | 3.5 |
| Toadeater Bit to ewigen daogen | 3.5 |
| Good stuff. |
| Mitochondrial Sun Mitochondrial Sun | 3.5 |
| This is some stuffy, cheeseball instra-metal-tronica that I am absolutely here for |
| Dynfari Myrkurs Er Þörf | 3.0 |
| Uada Djinn | 3.0 |
| This is fucking goofy. |
| 0 (Null) Entity | 4.0 |
| Icelandic BM is bland and samey but this doom heavy take with dashes of emo sorta reminds me of the Pax Cecilia in some very minor ways |
| Silver Knife Unyielding/Unseeing | 3.5 |
| Haunter (USA-TX) Thrinodía (Remixed & Remastered 2020) | 4.0 |
| Love this band so much and their first album is made all the better with this release |
| Vital Spirit In The Faith That Looks Through Death | 2.5 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full | 4.0 |
| Might be my second favorite Thou :O |
| Carcass Despicable | 3.0 |
| This is pretty fun, but “Under the Scalpel Blade” is unforgivably bad. |
| Ariana Grande positions | 2.5 |
| I hate how boring I find this because the title track is so damn goooooood |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? | 3.5 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 4.0 |
| Lol wtf this actually really holds up. |
| Anna von Hausswolff All Thoughts Fly | 4.0 |
| Deftones Ohms | 3.5 |
“Waiting for Xenophanes to compare this to a wanked-in shirt?”
Wait, did I say this? |
| Sufjan Stevens The Ascension | 2.5 |
| Yikes. |
| Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism | 3.5 |
| Cytotoxin Nuklearth | 3.0 |
This looks really stupid for being the highest trending album here. I will judge how much I trust this site going
forward based on my listen.
Edit: Okay |
| Krallice Mass Cathexis | 3.5 |
| I overrated this one hard, sorry guys. |
| Honorary Astronaut EP001 | 0.5 |
| I have never hated anything more than I hate this song. |
| Imperial Triumphant Alphaville | 4.0 |
| Im still listening to folklore tbh. |
| Valdrin Effigy Of Nightmares | 3.5 |
| Firelink Firelink | 3.5 |
| Defeated Sanity The Sanguinary Impetus | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift Folklore | 4.0 |
| “Mouth fuck”. |
| Owen The Avalanche | 4.0 |
| “I can’t have my cake and fuck it too.” |
| Evening Hymns Spectral Dusk | 3.5 |
| Welcome to my top 25, Spectral Dusk. |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest | 3.9 |
| Are we really gonna take this shit from a bunch of CANADIANS?? |
| Thou Tyrant | 5.0 |
| Toby Driver and Nick Hudson Black Feather Under Your Tongue | 0.5 |
| There was a time when I used to pretend to sorta get into this kind of thing but ugh. Awful. |
| Cirith Ungol Forever Black | 3.4 |
| Everything about this: the production, song structure, lyrical content, album cover, etc. is so old school in the most feel-good way. |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous | 2.5 |
| Like, who tf cares anymore? |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still | 3.9 |
| The first Ulcerate album I don?t need to say “I enjoy it, but...” |
| Feminazgul No Dawn for Men | 4.0 |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal | 3.5 |
| Grimes Miss Anthropocene | 4.4 |
| Panopticon/Aerial Ruin Panopticon / Aerial Ruin | 1.5 |
| Holy shit ?North Dakota? is awful. |
| Beau Navire Hours | 3.5 |
| Holy Fawn Death Spells | 3.9 |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear | 3.0 |
| Fine and unremarkable. |
| Liturgy H.A.Q.Q. | 3.8 |
| FWIW I am still laughing about transcendental black metal. |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race | 5.0 |
| This is the best death metal album of the decade—full stop. |
| FKA Twigs Magdalene | 4.0 |
| File under ?albums I would predict Ali give a 4.5?. |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me | 4.0 |
| After nearly a decade I just noticed in that photo there?s a human an not just a pile of junk. |
| Swans Leaving Meaning | 2.5 |
| In 2017 we were left with the tantalizing prospect of ?Swans 3.0.? Leaving Meaning, though, feels very ?2010s Swans? albeit with less teeth. Songs like ?What is this?? are some of the most beautiful in their discography, but the more plodding and languid stretches of post-post-punk freak-folk hypnosis had me reaching for the skip button. |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 4.0 |
| Jonsi and Alex Lost and Found | 2.3 |
| Weeping Sores False Confession | 4.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Wild Gods | 3.6 |
| Pijn and Conjurer Curse These Metal Hands | 3.8 |
| ?High Spirits? reaffirms my belief in metal. |
| Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen | 3.5 |
MV3 is my favorite black metal album of all time (I know, right?) so hearing a bit of a return of it is, er, music to my
ears. Too bad the album art and name are so on the nose. |
| Insomnium Heart Like a Grave | 3.0 |
| ?Pale Morning Star? is sick. |
| Boris Love and Evol | 4.3 |
| Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! | 4.5 |
| Am I the only one who thinks that it’s weird this is the first album of hers to have a song called “California”? |
| Taylor Swift Lover | 2.4 |
| I have been happily listening to every Taylor Swift album since ?Red? and this is far and away the worse that I have yet to hear. |
| Kayo Dot Blasphemy | 2.5 |
| With each release, Kayo Dot inch away from being a great band with a few bad albums to a bad band with a few great albums. |
| Wear Your Wounds Rust on the Gates of Heaven | 3.2 |
| This is fine. |
| Yellow Eyes Rare Field Ceiling | 3.8 |
| State Faults Clairvoyant | 3.8 |
Me: “I haven’t listened to skramz since 2013 and Sputnik and its taste is terrible now so let’s shit on this.”
rAlso me: “Well I’ll be...” |
| Kishi Bashi Omoiyari | 4.0 |
| Could listen to Penny Rabbit and Summer Bear for forever |
| Miley Cyrus She Is Coming | 3.8 |
| My best friend Leslie says “Oh she’s just bein’ 2013 Miley” |
| Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia | 4.0 |
| Masaya Ozaki Fluid And Dreaming Of Stripes | 4.5 |
| Hath Of Rot And Ruin | 2.9 |
| This kind of sounds like Ulcerate covering The Black Dahlia Murder |
| Lizzo Cuz I Love You | 2.3 |
“Body positivity” is something ugly people invented so they would have something to talk about on the Internet
other than “This Is Us” |
| Dead To A Dying World Elegy | 4.0 |
| Predictably lovely. |
| Inter Arma Sulphur English | 3.5 |
| Buckcherry Fuck | 0.5 |
| Waste of Space Orchestra Syntheosis | 3.9 |
| Vous Autres Champ du Sang | 3.5 |
| Pissgrave Posthumous Humiliation | 2.3 |
| This is...better? |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan | 0.5 |
| I listened to this for about 10 minutes and it was sort of boring but not offensively so. |
| Moon Tooth Crux | 3.5 |
| Kidcrash Jokes | 4.1 |
This is on Spotify now and it?s still really good.
2021 update: yeah this is still great |
| Destroyer Kaputt | 4.0 |
| Took a long time for this to click but ooh boy. |
| Laura Stevenson The Big Freeze | 4.1 |
| “Baby Bones” but 30 minutes long. |
| La Dispute Panorama | 3.9 |
| “Can I still get into heaven if I like an album by a band that I absolutely hate?” |
| Venom Prison Samsara | 3.5 |
| Heavy for the sake of heaviness but sometimes that?s perfectly good enough |
| American Football American Football (LP3) | 4.0 |
| This could never have lived up to my hype but it is still wonderful in its own right. |
| Contrarian Their Worm Never Dies | 2.0 |
| This isn?t really good. If you like ?crazy? metal for the sake of craziness then it may have merit, but subjectively it?s mushy, samey noodling (with an objectively stupid title) |
| Vanum Ageless Fire | 3.8 |
| Ariana Grande Thank U, Next | 4.0 |
| Beirut Gallipoli | 2.0 |
| Krallice Wolf | 3.5 |
| Ariana Grande Sweetener | 2.5 |
| The 1975 A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships | 3.0 |
| Chapel of Disease ...And as We Have Seen the Storm | 4.0 |
| DM AOTY IMO. |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom... (10th Anniversary) | 2.0 |
| God I?m getting old |
| Lucy Dacus Historian | 4.0 |
| Obliteration Cenotaph Obscure | 3.3 |
| Corpsessed Impetus of Death | 3.4 |
| Yves Tumor Safe in the Hands of Love | 3.5 |
| Dodsrit Spirit Crusher | 3.5 |
| Colin Self Siblings | 4.0 |
| Sigh Heir to Despair | 3.9 |
| URSA Abyss Between the Stars | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic | 2.0 |
| A l e x Growing Up: Volume II | 3.5 |
| Robyn Honey | 3.7 |
| Cult Leader A Patient Man | 3.6 |
| Bloodbath The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn | 3.4 |
| Daughters Hell Songs | 4.0 |
| Daughters Canada Songs | 3.5 |
| Daughters Daughters | 4.5 |
| Alright this still fucking rules |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want | 5.0 |
| Dammit I haven?t listened yet but I so badly want to have the top soundoff for this! |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures | 3.5 |
| ?Halo?? Mass Effect????? casual much????????????????????????rHe?s quoted as saying that Halo has directly influenced him which is actually v disappointing |
| Toby Driver They Are the Shield | 4.0 |
| I love nothing more than shitting on Tony Driver. For years we have had to deal with the stuffy and ostentatious ruination of Kayo Dot, as well as the adandonment motW and it really gets me going to point all of this out. HOWEVER, this album is just lovely. It?s beautiful and evocative while being surprisingly understated (in a way we are not accustomed from Driver). Best yet, it takes everything he?s done right in the last several years while getting rid of everything he has not. |
| Manes Slow Motion Death Sequence | 3.5 |
| SUMAC Love In Shadow | 3.6 |
While a lot of content could have been trimmed (that last 10 minutes of The Task for example), Sumac have done
a 180 and made an unexpectedly nuanced record. Compared to the oppressive density of “What One Becomes”
or the never-ending-noise that was their collab with Keiji Haino, “Love in Shadow” comes off as a light, and
almost melodious affair. |
| Thou Heathen | 4.0 |
| Thou Magus | 4.0 |
| I wish Gameofmetal would post his review already so I can talk about this |
| Rebel Wizard Voluptuous Worship of Rapture and Response | 4.2 |
| Thou Rhea Sylvia | 4.0 |
| Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light | 3.9 |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata II | 2.4 |
| Opeth Still Life | 3.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 3.5 |
| Opeth Heritage | 2.5 |
| Opeth Pale Communion | 2.5 |
| Opeth Sorceress | 3.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.0 |
| Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury | 3.8 |
| Split Cranium I'm The Devil and I'm OK | 3.2 |
| It?s Friday before a three-day weekend and this is feeling pretty good. Valid and lacking substance, but a good time nonetheless |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda | 3.5 |
| The Body I have fought against it, But I can’t any longer | 3.5 |
| Thou The House Primordial | 3.0 |
| Thou Summit | 4.0 |
| Voices Frightened | 3.3 |
| This sort of sounds like a middle-late era Kayo Dot album. |
| Grouper Grid of Points | 2.5 |
| "I'd rather be sleeping" |
| Sleep The Sciences | 3.8 |
| Checking my cynicism at the door because this is good. |
| Skeletal Remains Devouring Mortality | 2.7 |
Admittedly this is pretty fun but idk if I have it in me anymore to listen to ANOTHER album with a name like
“Devouring Mortality” from a band with a name like Skeletal Remains |
| Cynic Focus | 4.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant | 2.9 |
Me: You can’t make a worse cover than “The Thirteenth Step”
A Perfect Circle: Hold my beer. |
| Cardi B Invasion of Privacy | 2.0 |
| So this is what Pitchfork?s Best New Music sounds like in 2018. |
| Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog | 3.5 |
| Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness | 4.0 |
| Black metal does not deserve Austin Lunn. |
| Underoath Erase Me | 2.4 |
| I know I?ve made this joke already but this is the best Linkin Park album in some time |
| At the Gates To Drink from the Night Itself | 2.7 |
like a snake eating its tail, At the Gates’ influence on metalcore has come full circle with “To Drink from the Night
Itself” being the best album August Burns Red have ever made.
Edit: @Willie: I wish ;_; |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name | 2.5 |
Didn’t see what all the hype was about until the cleans came in at “A Home” then I remembered how basic you all
are and it made sense. |
| Mournful Congregation The Incubus of Karma | 3.5 |
| Hamferd Támsins likam | 2.5 |
| Hooded Menace Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed | 4.0 |
| Best death/doom band in existence releases their best album nbd |
| Yhdarl Loss | 3.0 |
| Tribulation Down Below | 3.5 |
| Portal ION | 2.5 |
| MGMT Little Dark Age | 2.5 |
| Cleric Retrocausal | 3.5 |
| Slugdge Esoteric Malacology | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I | 2.9 |
| The closest I have come to caring about a BTBAM album since that EP seven years ago (brevity suits this exhausting band). However, I do miss the days when the were a smart metalcore band rather than a dumb progressive one. |
| Justin Timberlake Man of the Woods | 2.0 |
| Watain Trident Wolf Eclipse | 2.5 |
| Harakiri for the Sky Arson | 2.0 |
| 2018?s first bad album comes in the form of a black metal record with sadistically long songs that sound like a never ending stream of August Burns Red hooks and choruses. |
| Pestilence Hadeon | 3.0 |
| Over-simplified songwriting belies a profound understanding of how death metal can be both fun and catchy while still convincingly heavy. |
| Chinese Football Here comes a new challenger! | 3.5 |
| Chinese Football Chinese Football | 3.5 |
| Sielunvihollinen Ruhonkantaja | 3.4 |
| Some of the deepest cutting, yet melodic, bm all year |
| Arcade Fire Everything Now | 2.3 |
| Bjork Volta | 3.5 |
| Temple of Void Lords Of Death | 4.0 |
| A hidden gem of 2017, just as their debut was for 2014. |
| Ulsect Ulsect | 3.5 |
| Swans The Glowing Man | 4.0 |
| Swans To Be Kind | 4.0 |
| Prurient Rainbow Mirror | 3.5 |
| Well that was exhausting |
| Blood Cultures Happy Birthday | 4.2 |
| Your barber sounds cooler than you |
| Bjork Utopia | 2.0 |
| Summoning With Doom We Come | 3.3 |
| Best album of 2018 so far. |
| Krallice Go Be Forgotten | 4.2 |
| Krallice's messiest and most flawed release to date may also be their best. |
| In Flames Down, Wicked and No Good | 0.5 |
| The hotter Anders gets the worse this band becomes. Not a good trade off imo. |
| Taylor Swift Reputation | 3.8 |
| Acid Witch Evil Sound Screamers | 3.3 |
| Converge The Dusk in Us | 3.5 |
| I feel like I?ve spent four years underrating this. |
| Krallice Loüm | 3.5 |
| Krallice have never sounded heavier or darker; this is the closest the band has ever come to a traditional metal aesthetic. |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn | 0.5 |
| Ya?ll act like this is so groundbreaking when people have been using violins in music for over 400 years. |
| Yellow Eyes Immersion Trench Reverie | 4.0 |
| Bell Witch Mirror Reaper | 2.9 |
| Spectral Voice Eroded Corridors of Unbeing | 3.5 |
| This is good but c?mon you guys. |
| St. Vincent Masseduction | 3.2 |
| Enslaved E | 3.5 |
| Actually really fun and I typically hate this sorta thing |
| Spirit Adrift Curse of Conception | 3.5 |
| Really surprised by this. |
| Acephalix Decreation | 3.4 |
| Fleet Foxes Crack-Up | 3.0 |
| City of Caterpillar Driving Spain Up A Wall | 3.5 |
| Miley Cyrus Younger Now | 3.0 |
| I wanted to love this more but it loses steam half way through. Once you get to "Thinkin'" the album goes from "pretty great" to "pretty dull." Oh well at least the singles are good. |
| Shadow Of Intent Reclaimer | 3.0 |
| Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay | 3.4 |
| After making fun of this band for years without every actually listening to them I have to say I had fun. Kinda silly and dramatic but a lot more fun than it has any right to be. Reminds me of Sigh I suppose. |
| Steven Wilson To the Bone | 2.0 |
| God this is so lame. |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant | 2.3 |
| Gave this an honest shot but it's sorta lame. Like, not offensively bad but just really, really, really lame in a Steven Wilson sort of "I like prog and have owned a fedora before" kind of way. |
| Monarch (FRA) Never Forever | 2.5 |
| I want to like this more than I actually like this. I just don't think I have the patience for this sort of thing anymore. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers | 3.5 |
| I was all set to hate this but after several spins it's got some of the bands most subtle and memorable moments ever |
| Archspire Relentless Mutation | 2.3 |
| There's so much about this to like: the production, the vocals, the exciting variation, etc. But I'm exhausted two songs in, much like their last album. It's an exercise in how much the listener can handle and I guess just fail. |
| Blut Aus Nord Deus Salutis Meae | 3.3 |
| Darker and weirder; more in line with the Odinist than anything else. Sounds distantly related to Deathspell Omega I guess. Basically, Saturnian Poetry this isn't. |
| Mastodon Cold Dark Place | 2.9 |
| Better than the last two albums, but even with just four songs this feels a little boring and overlong. |
| Circa Survive The Amulet | 3.4 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 4.8 |
| I don't even like Circa Survive that well but this is still killer seven years later |
| Cannabis Corpse Left Hand Pass | 3.7 |
| The National Sleep Well Beast | 2.0 |
Stunning. Jaw to the floor. Absolutely in awe of how fucking boring this band is. If I had known that a beard and a
baritone could make so many guys this wet then I probably would have had a more interesting college
experience. |
| Iron And Wine Beast Epic | 2.8 |
| In a week that sees the release of Iron and Wine and Brand new, we're witnessing a showdown for the hearts and souls of boring 30 year old white guys everywhere. |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 3.4 |
| As someone with no emotional/nostalgia attachment to this band I have to say that this is a really good rock album. |
| Incantation Profane Nexus | 3.5 |
| Unpopular opinion: Incantation are at the height of their career. This combined with their last two records represents them at their best. |
| Cormorant Diaspora | 4.2 |
| Cormorant have checked my pretentious cynicism with an album I love, full of things I typically hate. Predictably awesome and a definite contender for one of the best metal records of the year. |
| Afterbirth The Time Traveler's Dilemma | 4.1 |
| The Blight Meditations on Insignificance | 2.9 |
| Endon Through The Mirror | 3.5 |
| Melvins A Walk With Love And Death | 2.5 |
| I like to pretend I like weird noise experiments but Love makes me front the bill for my posturing. |
| Jute Gyte Oviri | 3.1 |
| It's like that moment at a buffet where you crossed the line and you're too full to finish what's on your plate. That's how I feel about Jute Gyte--after years of feasting on insane proclivity I think I am nearing my satiety. "Oviri" is different enough to be satisfying but not that satisfying. |
| Coldplay Kaleidoscope | 2.2 |
| Are we really doing this? |
| Radiohead OKNOTOK 1997-2017 | 4.5 |
| Rating this so highly because it's been almost 10 years since Radiohead released a good album so maybe I'm just hungry for them not to be bad anymore. |
| Impetuous Ritual Blight Upon Martyred Sentience | 2.3 |
| Ravishingly pumped for this, listened once, then forgot it existed until I saw a review posted if that tells you anything. |
| Decapitated Anticult | 3.3 |
| Better than it has any right to be given that the band has only released one good album (and that was like 15 years ago). Also the title, cover, and lyrical content are dumb. Still it's a good enough time. |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface | 3.3 |
I'm not a big Manchester Orchestra fan but "The Gold" was/is a 5/5 song for me and "The Alien" was
pretty cool too so I was pumped for this. Well it's mostly a snooze-fest and I should have checked
my enthusiasm. "The Wolf," "Lead, SD," "The Mistake," and "The Silence" are all really forgettable
which is too bad because ~aesthetically~ this is the most interesting and distinctive the band has
ever sounded. "The Parts" could easily be a Right Away, Great Captain! song so that's great I
suppose. |
| Katy Perry Witness | 2.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World | 3.7 |
| Typically the cynic when it comes to trendy metal like this but this is great. |
| Loss Horizonless | 3.5 |
| Last album was such a hidden gem back in 2011. Although they missed the doom bubble of the past few years, "Horizonless" is still relevant, and a total a joy. |
| Oxbow Thin Black Duke | 3.8 |
| Do Make Say Think Stubborn Persistent Illusions | 3.8 |
| Natalia Lafourcade Musas | 3.5 |
| Paramore After Laughter | 2.3 |
| C'mon you guys |
| Obituary Obituary | 3.0 |
| The best Obituary album since the early 90s but to be honest that's a low bar to clear. |
| Svart Crown Abreaction | 3.0 |
| 100% agree with Willie. |
| Slowdive Slowdive (LP) | 4.0 |
| V good. |
| A Lot Like Birds DIVISI | 2.0 |
| Why did I listen to this? |
| Suffocation …Of the Dark Light | 2.3 |
| "Remember how good Pierced From Within was? Remember? Do you??" said Eli, huddled in a corner, staring a the walls. |
| At the Drive-In in•ter a•li•a | 3.0 |
| Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy | 3.9 |
| Toby Driver Madonnawhore | 2.0 |
| As if we needed another reason to stop listening to all Toby Driver affiliated projects |
| Saintseneca Such Things | 3.5 |
| Jesca Hoop Memories Are Now | 3.0 |
| "Pegasi" is a 10/10 song but the rest is all over the place. |
| Alcest Kodama | 2.5 |
| Jenny Hval Innocence Is Kinky | 3.5 |
| Jenny Hval Apocalypse, girl | 3.0 |
| Jenny Hval Blood Bitch | 3.5 |
| Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness | 3.5 |
| Julia Holter Loud City Song | 4.0 |
| Julianna Barwick Will | 3.5 |
| Radical Face The Family Tree: The Leaves | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 3.5 |
| Incantation Onward to Golgotha | 4.0 |
| Dead Congregation Graves of the Archangels | 3.0 |
| Dead Congregation Promulgation of the Fall | 3.0 |
| Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.0 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 2.5 |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 2.5 |
| It's the Radiohead album I thought I always wanted until I got it. |
| American Football American Football (LP2) | 4.0 |
| Average for this sucks. |
| Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me | 2.0 |
| Phrenelith Desolate Endscape | 3.4 |
| Artificial Brain Infrared Horizon | 4.0 |
| While there are some moments that literally seem copy/pasted from their debut, there's enough twists ("Static rShattering" could be a Krallice song) to make it interesting enough to stand on its own. It's a darker and heavier ralbum but still a lot of fun. |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar | 2.7 |
| I felt like I was listening to a post-punk playlist at a gay bar. |
| Dodecahedron Kwintessens | 2.4 |
| Loud and dark death metal with some black sensibilities. In the five years since their debut this Deathspell fellating style as proliferates the scene; an indulgent sound that's caused eye rolls amongst even the most devout fans. It's still a fine album but is it fine enough to standout amongst the bustling crowd, especially when others do it much better? Probably not. |
| Sunless Urraca | 3.0 |
| Prolly would have been more impressive five years ago before this style became so overharvested. Still it's uncommonly good for a generic bandcamp release. |
| Immolation Here in After | 4.0 |
| Immolation Atonement | 3.8 |
| Ironomi niji | 4.0 |
| Murg Gudatall | 2.4 |
| This really isn't that gud at all. |
| Car Bomb Meta | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner | 3.0 |
| Krallice Hyperion | 3.5 |
| Krallice Krallice | 4.0 |
| Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough | 3.0 |
| Krallice Years Past Matter | 2.5 |
| Krallice Prelapsarian | 4.0 |
| How I learned to stop worrrying and love Krallice. |
| Sentient Horror Ungodly forms | 3.0 |
| Retro Swedish death by way of American armatures in 2016. Well done and pretty endearing but I'm sure I won't remember it come next month |
| Murg Varg and Björn | 4.0 |
| Convulsing Errata | 3.5 |
| Quite something |
| Sewercide Immortalized In Suffering | 3.5 |
| What a nifty throwback. |
| Khemmis Hunted | 3.5 |
| Palehorse Looking Wet In Public | 4.0 |
| Chairlift Moth | 3.5 |
| World's End Girlfriend Last Waltz | 3.0 |
| Ghoul Dungeon Bastards | 3.0 |
| I'll probably never listen to this again but my experience was still fun and enjoyable nonetheless |
| Krypts Remnants of Expansion | 2.5 |
| Mithras On Strange Loops | 4.0 |
| August 2016: "proggy death whatever? Avoid."rNovember 2016: "well shit."r |
| Vermin Womb Decline | 3.0 |
| Loud and fast music with a grimy production. Would be cool if you hadn't heard 1000 incarnations of this band already. |
| Anaal Nathrakh The Whole of the Law | 2.0 |
| Annoying band. |
| Dead Congregation Sombre Doom | 3.5 |
| I wasn't huge of Dead Congregation's last album because I'm not that huge on Dead Congregation in general. The homogenous pummeling take on dm grows tiring pretty quickly. But their doom-y foray here is really nice. Wrapped into a great 13-minute package, the EP is just enough DC without it overstaying it's welcome. [3.3] |
| Auroch Mute Books | 3.0 |
| Lady Gaga Joanne | 1.5 |
| Mono Requiem For Hell | 1.5 |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis | 3.5 |
| If you don't mind listening to "Everything Is Fire" v.1.4 then you're going to enjoy another slab of atmospheric death metal from the best in the game. |
| Sonata Arctica The Ninth Hour | 1.0 |
| I'm constantly impressed by this band, which can produce such consistent 1/5 albums throughout their career |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason | 2.0 |
| It's hard defending Meshuggah half the time becuase so many of their attributes are almost objectively bad. For those who enjoy them, like me, it's easy to look past the inherent monotony of their music. There's a meditative property to their swirling madness that makes it worth it. "Koloss" traded this in for tighter songwriting whereas "Catch Thirty-three" wholly embraced it. "Obzen" blended both sides to near perfection.r"The Violent Sleep of Reason," however, is the worst parts of Meshuggah in album form. It's boring. It's homogeneous. It's uneventful. After a week of listening only "MonstroCity" stands out, and that's only because it has the dumbest song title I've ever heard.rDisappointing but not surprisingly so. Meshuggah has always been this lame but they have always made up for it with a smooth and cool sound. Here it's just not enough. |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires | 3.3 |
| Classic, by the numbers Neurosis but not in the way that made "Honor Found in Decay" so lame. |
| The Dear Hunter Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional | 2.0 |
| B sides of an average album makes for a terrible one |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Eternal | 2.0 |
| Band perpetually puts out 3's but the pretty cover art and font style make me want to check this despite knowing that I probably won't care |
| The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise | 2.5 |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar | 2.5 |
| Jute Gyte Perdurance | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Winter's Gate | 3.7 |
| Never cared too much for Insomnium (or melodeath in general) but this was a hell of a great listening experience. rI've always scoffed at the great heights of their albums and passed them off as typical Finnish melodrama. But rhere there is a lot of intelligent restraint and admirable maturity. It's a 40 minute nonstop track but there's an rimmense amount of content that spans a lot of styles. It's really theatrical and dramatic death metal that's often rtimes staggeringly beautiful.r3.7 |
| Inquisition Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar... | 4.0 |
| basal simplicity belies a startlingly atmospheric and compulsively listenable metal album |
| Mare Cognitum Luminiferous Aether | 3.5 |
| I've come to hate "atmospheric black metal" since it's all made of the same husk but with different padding. Mare Cognitum always impresses with a great understanding of what makes the subgenre work. He's always showing a surprising amount of restraint that--even when a song is stretching past the 12-minute mark--makes the piece feel like a logical whole made up of necessary parts. Luminiferous Aether is solid, modern atmospheric black metal from one hell of a savvy musician. |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Värähtelijä | 3.5 |
| P gr8. |
| Suffocation Pierced from Within | 4.0 |
| Sigh Scenes from Hell | 4.0 |
| Panopticon Revisions of the Past | 3.5 |
| Most important one man black metal artist around (which is surprisingly a big field) drops music for the third year in a row. Great teamsters of his most looked over albums. Yadda yadda get it. |
| Russian Circles Guidance | 3.0 |
| I should dislike this more than I do but the time I've spent with it has been lovely |
| Ghoulgotha To Starve the Cross | 2.5 |
| Zhrine Unortheta | 3.0 |
| This year's most derivative metal record is also the most instantly gratifying. Pretty easy to spin and enjoy in any mood or scenario. |
| Obscura Akróasis | 3.0 |
| Not a fan of hyper clean tech death but for some reason this is fun to throw on in the background. Okay stuff. |
| Vanhelgd Temple of Phobos | 3.0 |
| This is p good. |
| Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail | 2.0 |
| Made it about 15 seconds in no fucking thanks. |
| Wildernessking Mystical Future | 2.5 |
| Post "blah" metal tbh. |
| Susanna Triangle | 3.5 |
| Kristoffer Lo The Black Meat | 3.5 |
| Jambinai A Hermitage | 3.5 |
| Puce Mary The Spiral | 3.5 |
| Gnod Mirror | 3.5 |
| Revocation Great Is Our Sin | 2.5 |
| Coldworld Autumn | 3.5 |
Listening to a ColdWorld album called "Autumn" during the 90 degree dog days of Summer is less than ideal but
I'll still fuck with it |
| Kayo Dot Plastic House on Base of Sky | 1.5 |
| This is hot, fucking garbage. |
| Temple of Void Of Terror And The Supernatural | 3.5 |
| Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman | 4.0 |
| Vektor Terminal Redux | 2.5 |
| This is a lot of fun... Until it isn't |
| Deftones Gore | 1.5 |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust | 3.9 |
| Haven't heard it yet but oh ho ho I certainly will! |
| Woman Is The Earth Torch of Our Final Night | 3.0 |
| Cobalt Slow Forever | 5.0 |
| Altarage Nihl | 3.0 |
| Idk it's okay I guess. |
| Julianna Barwick Nepenthe | 3.9 |
| Howls of Ebb Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows | 4.2 |
| If you have enjoyed this band in the past (which you should, as they're one of the most fascinating death metal acts currently making music) then you'll find a lot to love here. Their second record takes the infernal psychedlia of "The Marrow Veil" and packages it in a manner more like their debut, with palatable songs and more standard structure. It's a tightened and condensed version of last years EP, albeit without the boundary pushing presentation. Still, it's an excellent slab of death metal that everyone, especially fans, should check out. |
| Inverloch Distance | Collapsed | 3.6 |
| Yndi Halda Under Summer | 4.7 |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss | 5.0 |
| Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz | 4.2 |
| I don?t care, this is one of my favorites from the last decade. |
| Tarot (AUS) Reflections | 2.5 |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Arc | 2.0 |
| Abbath Abbath | 2.5 |
| Lycus Chasms | 2.5 |
| Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP | 4.1 |
| Well fuck. |
| Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule | 4.0 |
| This is what everyone convinced themselves that the lame Charnal Passages was. |
| Eternal Valley Ascend To The Unknown | 3.4 |
| I usually avoid anything tagged "atmospheric black metal" because it's the same regurgitated shit over and over again. This isn't really any different, but it hits a real sweet spot sounding decidedly modern yet steeped in retro synths and production. Worth checking out. |
| Lubbert Das Deluge | 3.3 |
| Triumvir Foul Triumvir Foul | 3.4 |
| Sarpanitum Blessed Be My Brothers | 3.5 |
| Sunn O))) Kannon | 2.4 |
| If you want 2015's most obvious drone-metal album then boy do I have a rec for you. |
| Abigail Williams The Accuser | 3.5 |
| Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars | 1.5 |
| This is so distractingly boring that I can't even use it as background music at work. Wretched album. |
| Ryan Adams 1989 | 1.5 |
| Horrendous Anareta | 3.7 |
| It's like "Ecdysis" but a little more melodic and flashy. |
| Beach House Depression Cherry | 3.0 |
| Myrkur M | 2.4 |
| Pissgrave Suicide Euphoria | 2.2 |
| Without the shocking name and cover art this album is an embarrassingly transparent and juvenile attempt at "raw" and "brutal" death metal. I'm sure some people will eat up the blatant perversion that the band employs but they're really just a bunch of guys trying too hard. |
| Mono / World's End Girlfriend Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain | 5.0 |
| Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction | 3.1 |
| Kronos Arisen New Era | 3.0 |
| Krallice Ygg Huur | 3.5 |
| Hurr durr. |
| Howls of Ebb The Marrow Veil | 4.2 |
| Locrian Infinite Dissolution | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses | 5.0 |
| Fuck it this is a 5. |
| Envy Atheist's Cornea | 2.2 |
| Bump if you haven't given this band the slightest thought since 2010. |
| Laura Stevenson Holy Ghost! | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist | 3.5 |
| Chapel of Disease The Mysterious Ways of Repetitive Art | 3.7 |
| Passion Pit Kindred | 2.2 |
| More like Passion "Shit" r |
| Hop Along Painted Shut | 4.6 |
| Sigh Graveward | 3.1 |
| Drudkh A Furrow Cut Short | 2.5 |
| Drudkh have definitely made an album. r |
| Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification | 2.2 |
| How did this hot garbage become BNM? ? r |
| Bosse-de-Nage All Fours | 3.6 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' | 2.5 |
| I'm sort of heartbroken that the band released this lukewarm, rehash of Behemoth. Certainly going down as their worst album to date. |
| Spectral Lore III | 4.0 |
| Marriages Salome | 3.6 |
| Marsen Jules The Empire of Silence | 2.7 |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted | 4.1 |
| The first great Leviathan record has finally arrived. |
| Imperial Triumphant Abyssal Gods | 4.2 |
| Mastery Valis | 2.0 |
| Marduk Frontschwein | 2.0 |
| Sivyj Yar From the Dead Villages' Darkness | 3.6 |
| Kyle Bobby Dunn Kyle Bobby Dunn and The Infinite Sadness | 4.0 |
| Pilgrim II: Void Worship | 3.4 |
| Sammath Godless Arrogance | 3.0 |
| Ingurgitating Oblivion Continuum Of Absence | 3.3 |
| Bongripper Miserable | 3.0 |
| Avichi Catharsis Absolute | 2.3 |
| Sargeist Feeding the Crawling Shadows | 3.0 |
| Omit Medusa Truth - Part 1 | 2.3 |
| It's like iif Evanesence wrote 20 minute songs... |
| Couch Slut My Life as a Woman | 4.0 |
| Taake Stridens hus | 3.0 |
| Ascension The Dead of the World | 2.4 |
| Belphegor Conjuring The Dead | 2.5 |
| Archspire The Lucid Collective | 2.0 |
| Anguish (SWE) Mountain | 2.6 |
| I just wasn't feeling this. |
| Ancient Ascendant Echoes and Cinder | 3.1 |
| Aenaon Extance | 3.3 |
| Alraune The Process Of Self-Immolation | 3.8 |
| A lot better than its cheesy, Hard Rock Cafe album art would lead you to believe. |
| Abigor Leytmotif Luzifer | 3.5 |
| Vallenfyre Splinters | 3.5 |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini | 3.5 |
| Falls of Rauros Believe in No Coming Shore | 3.0 |
| Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel | 4.0 |
| this is an album that makes me think of things pertaining to stuff and feel emotions about particular events. |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora | 4.0 |
| Bastard Sapling Instinct Is Forever | 3.5 |
| Behemoth The Satanist | 3.0 |
| Laster De Verste Verte Is Hier | 3.5 |
| Lie in Ruins Towards Divine Death | 4.0 |
| Mors Principium Est Dawn of the 5th Era | 3.0 |
| Beirut Lon Gisland | 4.0 |
| Vali Skogslandskap | 4.0 |
| Psalm Zero The Drain | 3.5 |
| Really digging the weird post punk, industrial, OSDM vibe that this gives off. One of a kind record that's worth a a spin. |
| At the Gates At War with Reality | 2.5 |
| If this had come out 15 years ago it would probably be seen as a masterpiece rather than a pretty good melodeath record. |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus | 4.2 |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars | 4.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy | 3.5 |
| Horrendous Ecdysis | 3.5 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 3.0 |
| It's like if ten years ago a band got into a car accident and fell into a coma only to wake up thinking that it was still 2005. |
| Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God | 4.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry | 4.0 |
| Revocation Deathless | 3.0 |
| Take Over And Destroy Vacant Face | 3.5 |
| Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation | 4.0 |
| Swans The Seer | 3.5 |
| I keep waiting for something interesting to happen but it hasn't and probably won't.... |
| Eyehategod Eyehategod | 3.5 |
| Earth Primitive and Deadly | 3.5 |
| Saor Aura | 4.0 |
| Swallowed Lunarterial | 3.5 |
| Oado Life Era | 4.0 |
| The Body I Shall Die Here | 3.3 |
| Profetus As All Seasons Die | 3.0 |
| Diocletian Gesundrian | 3.5 |
| Jenny Hval Viscera | 5.0 |
| Circa Survive Descensus | 3.0 |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream | 2.5 |
| "Beer commercial lead-guitar" is probably the most elucidating comment I have ever read about anything ever. |
| Antemasque Antemasque | 3.0 |
| Grouper Ruins | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Coffins on Io | 4.0 |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! | 4.0 |
| My life has now become "listening to You're Dead" and "wishing I was listening to You're Dead" |
| TTNG Animals | 3.5 |
| TTNG Adventure, Stamina and Anger | 4.0 |
| Panopticon Roads to the North | 4.8 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) You Will Eventually Be Forgotten | 2.5 |
| Grouper A I A | 4.0 |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite | 3.0 |
| Anoice Remmings | 4.0 |
| Takahiro Kido A Short Happy Life | 3.5 |
| Takahiro Kido Fairy Tale | 3.5 |
| Takahiro Kido Fleursy Music | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown | 3.0 |
| As someone who has enjoyed the recent outings of this band, this album is really not clicking at all. |
| Kishi Bashi Lighght | 4.0 |
| I wish I could still give decimal ratings because this is as solid a 4.2 as they come. |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories | 3.0 |
| AJJ Christmas Island | 2.5 |
| Thank god I'm not the only one tired of the AJJ shtick |
| Lantlos Melting Sun | 3.0 |
| This was nice I guess |
| Hop Along Get Disowned | 4.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.6 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Cope | 3.5 |
| Saintseneca Dark Arc | 4.5 |
| This is just the best thing. |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Goodnight Alchemy | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants | 3.5 |
| "Archangel" and "Everything Disappearing" are everything I wanted and more from a band that absolutely cannot disappoint. |
| Saint Pepsi Hit Vibes | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead | 4.6 |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck | 4.5 |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us | 2.5 |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji | 2.5 |
| Bucket Full Of Teeth IV | 3.5 |
| Kinoko Teikoku Uzu Ni Naru | 4.0 |
| Sunn O))) and Ulver Terrestrials | 3.5 |
| Olafur Arnalds Another Happy Day | 2.5 |
| Olafur Arnalds Eulogy for Evolution | 4.0 |
| Olafur Arnalds ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness | 4.5 |
| Yasushi Yoshida Grateful Goodbye | 4.0 |
| Yasushi Yoshida Little Grace | 4.0 |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World | 4.0 |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... | 4.5 |
| Amenra Mass V | 3.5 |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane | 4.0 |
| Make a Change...Kill Yourself II | 3.5 |
| Make a Change...Kill Yourself Make a Change...Kill Yourself | 3.0 |
| Make a Change...Kill Yourself Fri | 4.0 |
| United Nations Illegal UN | 3.5 |
| Drudkh Eastern Frontier in Flames | 2.5 |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues | 3.5 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 4.0 |
| Alcest Shelter | 2.5 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything | 4.5 |
| Burial Untrue | 3.5 |
| Beyonce Beyonce | 4.0 |
| Like JT's 20/20 Experience, Beyonce is a massive, excessive pop album that hits all the right notes and offers some of the catchiest and most smartly written tunes of the year. |
| Hammock Oblivion Hymns | 4.0 |
| Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie Pre-Human Ideas | 4.0 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven | 4.0 |
| Macintosh Plus Floral Shoppe | 3.5 |
| This is actually pretty neat and unlike just about everything I have in my collection. Haters gon' hate. |
| Foxing The Albatross | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 4.5 |
| Lady Gaga Artpop | 2.9 |
| A Lot Like Birds No Place | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Volition | 2.0 |
| How many sweeps and lame lines of Rody's power metal vocals will it take for me to finally give up on this band? As the years pass the more it becomes apparent that Kezia was a fluke. |
| Friendzone DX | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech | 1.5 |
| Yusuke Tsutsumi A Grave by the Sea | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By | 2.9 |
| I was going to make a clever joke about how boring this is but really it isn't worth it |
| The Cure Disintegration | 4.0 |
| Janelle Monae The Electric Lady | 3.3 |
| ROBOT LOVE IS QUEER |
| Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them? | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love | 2.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 4.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 3.0 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 | 4.5 |
| The Microphones Mount Eerie | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Black Wooden Ceiling Opening | 3.7 |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon | 4.0 |
| I wish that I had a more clever or interesting sound-off, but really, all that needs said is that Clear Moon is another wonderful release by one of modern musics finest assets. Mount Eerie has come into its own, and its glorious. |
| Mount Eerie Wind's Poem | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie Dawn | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom | 4.5 |
| Mount Eerie No Flashlight | 4.0 |
| American Football American Football | 4.2 |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe | 3.8 |
| Bad Religion True North | 3.5 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 2.5 |
| Oh baby I tried,hell, I even lied to myself by giving this a higher rating. Regardless, this is not the band I fell in love with on Kezia, nor is it the mature, refined group of young men I admired on Fortress. They stripped away everything that made them such an intelligent and fun band, and instead created a vapid, uninteresting album full of terrible, terrible lyrics, and copy/pasted pieces from their other works. Scurrilous is boring, poorly thought out, and carelessly written; the definition of a disappointment. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 2.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 3.3 |
| So idk this hasnt aged too poorly or maybe I?m just feeling nostalgia |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me | 2.0 |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.0 |
| A Bunny's Caravan Draining Puddles, Retrieving Treasures | 4.0 |
| Deer Leap Here. Home. | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Formlessness | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 4.5 |
| Sonic Youth Dirty | 4.0 |
| Immolation Shadows in the Light | 3.0 |
| Immolation Close to a World Below | 2.5 |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay | 3.5 |
| Cryptopsy The Unspoken King | 1.0 |
| Cryptopsy Cryptopsy | 3.0 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 4.0 |
| Demilich Nespithe | 3.9 |
| Gorguts Considered Dead | 4.0 |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate | 4.5 |
| Gorguts Obscura | 5.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip | 2.5 |
| Tim Hecker Virgins | 4.2 |
| It's okay I guess... |
| Cobalt Gin | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Origins | 2.8 |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo | 4.2 |
| By all rights a massive, sprawling modern Kayo Dot album should fail but Hubardo aims high and succeeds in every respect. An awe inspiring achievement. |
| Hacksaw to the Throat Wastelands | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks | 3.6 |
| A super hot wife, two successful musical projects, and an Oscar later, it's nice to see Trent Reznor no longer acting pissed off. |
| Pity Sex Feast of Love | 4.0 |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 4.5 |
| bansheebeat Spiral Power | 4.0 |
| Just Like Vinyl Black Mass | 2.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon | 4.5 |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator | 3.0 |
| The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event | 1.5 |
| oh man forgot how bad this was |
| At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement | 3.0 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.5 |
| This is a album I have such nostalgia for that I cant even listen to it anymore |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 5.0 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 4.3 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 4.0 |
| Was unsure at first, but it really hooked me. Best since Frances |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 3.5 |
| Sure they've made some questionable choices in the past, but The Mars Volta are always able to make something fresh and interesting. While many will argue how this ranks among their discography, in the end it won't matter because as always, it's unlike any other album in their fucking discography. |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 5.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 3.0 |
People need to stop saying Chris Pennie is this band's saving grace. It's ridiculous. The drumming is noticeably better, no more, no less. It takes away from the band and all of their accomplishments stop being tools.
Solid album, very accessible. Really didn't care for NMFT but this is really great. |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 3.0 |
| okay this isn't that good. |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 3.5 |
| This is a good album. |
| The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse | 4.0 |
| The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading | 3.7 |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant | 3.0 |
| Follows the color spectrum in the steady decline of this band. |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 3.5 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 4.0 |
| If you've ever like a mewithoutYou record then this should be right up your alley. |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 2.5 |
| I wish I had something clever to say about this album. However, I do not. Simply, this is boring boring boring, which is a shame because this band really is incredible. |
| La Dispute Wildlife | 1.5 |
| If I was told that I only had an hour to live i'd spend it listening to Wildlife, because listening to it feels like an eternity. |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 3.0 |
| It's more melodic and easily more poetic, but it lacks the overall energy that was so palpable on their 2009 effort. Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me is a great record that plays up the band's strengths, but after awhile it all begins to feel a bit 'samey,' and regretfully uninspired. |
| More Than Life Love Let Me Go | 3.5 |
| Raein Il n'y a pas de orchestre | 3.5 |
| Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today | 4.0 |
| Ampere Like Shadows | 3.5 |
| Orchid Chaos is Me | 4.0 |
| Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! | 4.0 |
| Orchid Orchid | 4.5 |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 4.0 |
| pg.99 / Majority Rule Document #12 | 3.5 |
| pg.99 Document #5 | 3.5 |
| pg.99 Document #8 | 3.5 |
| Hot Cross Cryonics | 3.5 |
| Hot Cross Risk Revival | 3.5 |
| Saetia A Retrospective | 4.0 |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe | 5.0 |
| Off Minor Innominate | 4.0 |
| Off Minor Some Blood | 4.0 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 4.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 4.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square Rites of Initiation | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One | 3.5 |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 4.0 |
| Tartar Lamb Sixty Metonymies | 3.5 |
| Tartar Lamb Polyimage of Known Exits | 3.5 |
| Yes......yes it is. |
| Toby Driver In the L..L..Library Loft | 3.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 4.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map | 4.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Stained Glass | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 5.0 |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Coyote | 3.0 |
| Kayo Dot Gamma Knife | 4.5 |
| The addition of metal influences is certainly welcome, but as tradition, Kayo Dot can't make a consistent album to save their lives, even with a 32 minute runtime. |
| Sunn O))) and Boris Altar | 4.5 |
| Boris With Michio Kurihara Rainbow | 4.0 |
| Boris Amplifier Worship | 4.5 |
| I spent a decade underrating this oh what wasted time. |
| Boris Flood | 5.0 |
| Boris Heavy Rocks | 4.0 |
| Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker- | 5.0 |
| Boris Pink | 4.0 |
| Boris Dronevil -Final- | 3.5 |
| Boris Smile | 4.0 |
| Boris New Album | 4.0 |
Boy do I still love this
Edit: 10 years later this is still such a fucking banger. |
| Boris Heavy Rocks (2011) | 4.0 |
| Boris Attention Please | 3.0 |
| Summoning Old Mornings Dawn | 3.5 |
| Fell Voices Untitled | 3.5 |
| Fell Voices Fell Voices | 4.0 |
| Ash Borer Ash Borer | 4.0 |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Souls at Zero | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Times of Grace | 4.0 |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm | 4.0 |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets | 4.5 |
| Are we finally ready to admit that no other Neurosis album comes close to this one? |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay | 3.0 |
| To no one's surprise, Neurosis make a damn great record. While not quite to the level of their last several "classics," Honor Found in Decay sits proudly within their discography as a truly solid piece of work. |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 3.0 |
| Like every Cult of Luna record we get a slightly above avergae post metal album with shit tons of filler to make it seem more interesting than it is. |
| Cult of Luna Salvation | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway | 3.5 |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis | 3.0 |
| Pelican pretty much needed this not to suck, and thankfully it doesn't |
| Pelican Ephemeral | 3.0 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 4.0 |
| 100th rating! Overall a pretty generic post-rock/metal album. |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need | 2.5 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 3.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.0 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 3.0 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.0 |
| Twilight Monument To Time End | 3.5 |
| Xasthur Nocturnal Poisoning | 3.0 |
| Leviathan True Traitor, True Whore | 1.5 |
| eh |
| Weakling Dead as Dreams | 4.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars | 3.3 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 3.5 |
| Mono Memorie dal Futuro | 4.5 |
| Memorie dal Futuro is easily one of the best songs Mono have ever created. |
| Mono One Step More and You Die | 4.0 |
| Mono Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined | 4.1 |
| Mono You Are There | 4.2 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 3.5 |
| Mono For My Parents | 3.0 |
| If I had to pick one band that is doing the least in progressing the genre, it would be a close race between rExplosions in the Sky and Mono. But what Mono lacks in originality (this is the exact same album they've rreleased over and over again) they make up for with their dramatic and emotive delivery. Bland, uninspired, rand derivative, "For My Parents" isn't going to change anyone's opinions on this band, but am I a sucker for rdem climaxes. |
| mum Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK | 3.5 |
| The Album Leaf Into The Blue Again | 3.5 |
| Do Make Say Think Do Make Say Think | 3.5 |
| Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet | 4.0 |
| Do Make Say Think Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead | 4.0 |
| Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn | 4.0 |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust | 4.5 |
| Do Make Say Think Other Truths | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Earth Division | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait OST | 2.0 |
| Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling | 2.5 |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Les Revenants OST | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 3.0 |
| This album destroyed post-rock. rnot really but fuck you EITS |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | 2.5 |
| Same shit different album. A bit darker and mellow, but ultimately they haven't changed a damn thing in regards to songwriting. Got better after I let it sink in a bit, but damn EitS.... |
| Sigur Ros Von | 3.0 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 4.7 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.2 |
| In regards to Sigur Ros albums, this is beyond a doubt the most over hyped. However, it is still an incredible experience nontheless. |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.1 |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust | 4.0 |
| The more I listen to this, the closer it inches towards the top of my favorite Sigur Ros' albums. |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 3.0 |
| Largely feels like 80 minutes of filler....which is weird because the album isn't even that long. |
| Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Nandacollection | 0.5 |
| Bjork Post | 4.0 |
| Bjork Vespertine | 5.0 |
| Bjork Biophilia | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 4.2 |
| Of fucking course I love this. |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 3.8 |
| Eluvium Nightmare Ending | 3.9 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 4.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve | 4.2 |
| If Anne Frank were still alive she'd probably 5 this. |
| Fell Voices Regnum Saturni | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Save Rock and Roll | 1.5 |
| Not sure how Fall Out Boy intend to save Rock & Roll when this neither rocks nor rolls. |
| Mogwai Rock Action | 3.3 |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People | 3.9 |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young | 3.6 |
| Mogwai Young Team | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast | 4.1 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 3.8 |
| Olafur Arnalds For Now I Am Winter | 2.5 |
| Paramore Paramore | 2.0 |
| An album so bad that Adam Downer will declare it an avant garde pop masterpiece. |
| Ash Borer Bloodlands | 3.8 |
| Boris Präparat | 4.1 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 3.8 |
| On The 20/20 Experience Justin Timberlake is so charismatic and classy that I would not care if he absconded with my daughter in his Spaceship Coupe and raw dogged her on the moon. |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 2.1 |
| This is really a 2 but .1 because I fucking can. |
| Saintseneca Last | 4.3 |
| Quadrupede Quadrupede | 3.9 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 2.7 |
I keep waiting for the user base to not be 16 anymore and realize that this is probably the most overrated album
OF ALL TIME.
2019 Edit: Yikes is this really the top soundoff? |
| Secret Plot To Destroy The Entire Universe I Only Miss You When I Want To | 3.2 |
| Shugo Tokumaru In Focus? | 4.2 |
| This guy cannot make bad music. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.6 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.7 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.8 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 3.9 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.2 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward | 4.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our | 3.9 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra The West Will Rise Again | 3.1 |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 4.0 |
| When the userbase gets ahold of this they're going to lose their shit. |
| And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures | 2.8 |
