| Wretched (USA-NC) The Exodus of Autonomy | 4.0 |
| The Faceless Akeldama | 4.0 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 4.5 |
| Baulta Any Fool Can Regret Yesterday | 4.5 |
| Baulta That's My House You're Living In | 4.5 |
| Baulta Deeply Sorry to Interrupt Your Megalomania | 4.5 |
| Sleep Maps We Die For Truth | 3.5 |
| Yuri Gagarin At The Center Of All Infinity | 4.5 |
| Otehi Dead Chants and Forbidden Melodies | 4.5 |
| Otehi Noisy Spirit | 4.5 |
| SUMAC The Deal | 4.5 |
| Mastery Valis | 3.0 |
| Huldra Monuments, Monoliths | 4.0 |
| Domo Domo | 4.5 |
| As We Draw Mirages | 4.5 |
| YOB The Great Cessation | 4.0 |
| YOB Atma | 4.5 |
| YOB Clearing The Path To Ascend | 4.0 |
| Tetragrammaton Descendere | 4.0 |
| Gaza I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die | 4.0 |
| Buckaduzz The Big Slow | 4.5 |
| Counterfist Vertical Mile | 4.0 |
| Lord Mantis Death Mask | 4.5 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Dead Roots Stirring | 5.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 3.5 |
| Conquering Dystopia Conquering Dystopia | 4.5 |
| Sorgeldom ...From Outer Intelligences | 4.5 |
| Sounds average at first, but close listening will reveal what sets this band apart. |
| Kongh Counting Heartbeats | 4.0 |
| Kongh Shadows of the Shapeless | 5.0 |
| Greymachine Disconnected | 4.0 |
| Blindead Affliction XXIX II MCMXCVI | 4.5 |
| Damascus Heights | 4.5 |
| Palms Palms | 4.0 |
| Obsidian Kingdom Matter | 4.0 |
| Obsidian Kingdom 3:11 | 4.5 |
| Obsidian Kingdom Mantiis | 4.0 |
| Sleep Volume Two | 4.0 |
| Sleep Volume One | 4.0 |
| Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain | 4.0 |
| Sleep Dopesmoker | 4.0 |
| Sleep Jerusalem | 4.5 |
| Superheaven Jar | 4.0 |
| Fallujah The Harvest Wombs | 4.5 |
| Fallujah Nomadic | 4.5 |
| Tool Undertow | 4.0 |
| Solterra Soul, Earth, Sun | 4.5 |
| Solterra Umbra | 4.0 |
| Consider the Source Are You Watching Closely? | 4.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home | 4.0 |
| Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them? | 5.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Quietly | 4.5 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 4.5 |
| Soen Cognitive | 4.5 |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Salvation | 5.0 |
| Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom | 5.0 |
| Cult of Luna Cult of Luna | 5.0 |
| Cult of Luna The Beyond | 3.5 |
| Giant Squid Monster in the Creek | 4.5 |
| Giant Squid Metridium Fields | 4.5 |
| Giant Squid Cenotes | 4.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| Fleshwrought Dementia/Dyslexia | 4.5 |
| Astra The Weirding | 4.0 |
| Blindead Autoscopia: Murder In Phazes | 4.5 |
| Blindead Impulse | 4.5 |
| Vulgaari Vulgaari | 4.5 |
| Rosetta Wake/Lift | 4.5 |
| Trigger the Bloodshed Degenerate | 4.5 |
| The Crinn Dreaming Saturn | 4.5 |
| Lord Mantis Pervertor | 4.5 |
| Gigan Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes | 4.5 |
| Barrows Imprecari Island | 4.5 |
Super-legit stirring instrumental metalish post-rock jams. Think if russian circles and
explosions in the sky/and so i watch you from afar... melded together. |
| Gigan The Order of the False Eye | 4.5 |
| Meniscus Absence of I | 4.5 |
| Meniscus War of Currents | 4.0 |
| Reka III | 4.5 |
| Reka II | 4.0 |
| Reka I | 4.5 |
| Glass Bones Seasons | 4.5 |
| Kataklysm Victims of This Fallen World | 3.5 |
| Kataklysm Sorcery | 4.0 |
| Demisery Hive of Mutation | 4.0 |
| Amogh Symphony Abolishing the Obsolete System | 4.0 |
| Amogh Symphony The Quantum Hack Code | 4.5 |
| Ignominious Incarceration Of Winter Born | 4.0 |
| Neuraxis Asylon | 4.0 |
| Son of Aurelius The Farthest Reaches | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 2.0 |
| Sons of Aurelius The Farthest Reaches | 4.0 |
| A Loathing Requiem Psalms of Misanthropy | 5.0 |
| Iron And Wine Kiss Each Other Clean | 3.0 |
| Iron And Wine The Creek Drank the Cradle | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | 2.0 |
| Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog | 4.5 |
| Indricothere Indricothere | 5.0 |
| Younger Brother A Flock of Bleeps | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 3.0 |
| Conducting from the Grave Revenants | 3.0 |
| Sophicide The Art of Atrocity | 4.5 |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit Monument | 4.0 |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 4.0 |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons | 5.0 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 4.0 |
| The Red Shore The Avarice Of Man | 4.0 |
| Psycroptic Symbols of Failure | 4.5 |
| Psycroptic Ob(Servant) | 4.5 |
| Psycroptic The Scepter of the Ancients | 5.0 |
| Psycroptic The Isle of Disenchantment | 4.5 |
| Origin Origin | 4.0 |
| Origin Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas | 4.0 |
| Origin Antithesis | 4.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Time and Withering | 4.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect The Ties That Blind | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait OST | 3.0 |
| Mogwai My Father My King | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Bat Cat | 4.5 |
| Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling | 3.0 |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will | 2.5 |
| Misery Index Retaliate | 5.0 |
| Misery Index Dissent EP | 4.5 |
| Misery Index Discordia | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah The True Human Design | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Selfcaged | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Rare Trax | 2.0 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Nothing | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 4.0 |
| Kronos Titan's Awakening | 4.0 |
| Kronos The Hellenic Terror | 4.5 |
| Kronos Colossal Titan Strife | 4.5 |
| Keith Merrow Awaken the Stone King | 4.0 |
| Kataklysm Heaven's Venom | 3.5 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.5 |
| ISIS SGNL>05 | 4.0 |
| ISIS Sawblade | 3.0 |
| ISIS The Red Sea | 3.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.0 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.0 |
| ISIS Mosquito Control | 4.5 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 4.0 |
| ISIS Celestial | 3.5 |
| Hour of Penance The Vile Conception | 4.5 |
| Hour of Penance Pageantry For Martyrs | 4.0 |
| The Haunted The Dead Eye | 2.0 |
| Gorod Neurotripsicks | 4.0 |
| Gorod Process of a New Decline | 4.0 |
| Gorod Leading Vision | 3.5 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.5 |
| Gojira Terra Incognita | 3.5 |
| Gojira The Link | 4.0 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 4.5 |
| The Funeral Pyre Vultures At Dawn | 4.0 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Mafia | 4.5 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles | 4.5 |
| The Flashbulb Love As A Dark Hallway | 3.5 |
| The Flashbulb Binedump | 3.5 |
| The Flashbulb Réunion | 3.5 |
| The Flashbulb Resent And The April Sunshine Shed | 4.0 |
| The Flashbulb Red Extensions of Me | 4.5 |
| The Flashbulb Kirlian Selections | 4.0 |
| The Flashbulb These Open Fields | 3.0 |
| The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life | 3.0 |
| The Flashbulb M³ (Daily Assortment Of Sound) | 4.0 |
| The Flashbulb Lawn Funeral | 5.0 |
| The Flashbulb Girls.Suck.But.YOU.Don't | 3.5 |
| The Flashbulb Fly! | 4.5 |
| The Flashbulb Flexing Habitual | 4.0 |
| The Flashbulb Arboreal | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Manifestations 2002 | 3.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Kenose | 3.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum | 3.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Disciples of the Ultimate Void | 4.0 |
| Cream Abdul Babar The Catalyst To Ruins | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker The Map Is Not the Territory | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker The Discovery | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Beacons | 4.0 |
| Chimp Spanner At the Dream's Edge | 3.5 |
| Canvas Solaris Irradiance | 4.5 |
| Brain Drill Quantum Catastrophe | 4.0 |
| The Boy Will Drown Fetish | 4.5 |
| The Boy Will Drown The Boy Will Drown (EP) | 4.0 |
| Beneath the Massacre Marée Noire | 4.5 |
| Belphegor Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn | 3.5 |
| Belphegor Pestapokalypse VI | 4.0 |
| Belphegor Necrodaemon Terrorsathan | 3.0 |
| Belphegor Lucifer Incestus | 4.0 |
| Belphegor The Last Supper | 2.5 |
| Belphegor Goatreich-Fleshcult | 3.5 |
| Belphegor Bondage Goat Zombie | 4.0 |
| Belphegor Blutsabbath | 4.0 |
| Augury Concealed | 4.0 |
| Augury Fragmentary Evidence | 4.5 |
| Atheist Piece of Time | 4.5 |
| Atheist Jupiter | 4.0 |
| 65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway | 4.0 |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow | 3.5 |
| Decrepit Birth ...And Time Begins | 4.5 |
| Decrepit Birth Diminishing Between Worlds | 4.5 |
| Decrepit Birth Polarity | 5.0 |
| Six Reasons To Kill Another Horizon | 4.0 |
| Keith Merrow Lonestar Transcend | 4.5 |
| Keith Merrow The Arrival | 4.5 |
| While Keith Merrow purports his sound to be within Technical Metal, his music is decidedly without the senseless shredding that many associate with the genre. Combining a strong melodic story-telling approach with his none-too-lacking technicality, Merrow will be sure to bring any metal-head a much need shot of something different to their repertoire. His music can be downloaded FOR FREE on his website, and I strongly encourage any Technical fan to take 2 minutes and give him a listen. |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck | 4.0 |
| This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You | 3.0 |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain | 4.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes This Is Meant To Hurt You | 4.0 |
| Skyfire Mind Revolution | 4.0 |
| Skyfire Spectral | 4.0 |
| Salt The Wound Carnal Repercussions | 4.5 |
| Salt The Wound Ares | 1.5 |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites | 4.0 |
| Periphery Periphery | 3.5 |
| Neuraxis A Passage into Forlorn | 3.5 |
| Neuraxis Imagery | 3.5 |
| Neuraxis Truth Beyond... | 3.5 |
| Neuraxis Trilateral Progression | 4.0 |
| Neuraxis The Thin Line Between | 4.0 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 3.0 |
| Mogwai Young Team | 3.0 |
| Mogwai Rock Action | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Kicking A Dead Pig | 3.0 |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young | 3.5 |
| Kylesa Kylesa | 4.0 |
| Kataklysm Temple of Knowledge (Kataklysm Part III) | 3.5 |
| Kataklysm Shadows and Dust | 4.0 |
| Kataklysm Serenity in Fire | 3.0 |
| Kataklysm The Prophecy (Stigmata of the Immaculate | 4.0 |
| Kataklysm Prevail | 4.5 |
| Kataklysm In the Arms of Devastation | 4.5 |
| Kataklysm Epic: The Poetry of War | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down | 4.0 |
| Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting | 3.0 |
| Insomnium Across the Dark | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 3.5 |
| Immortal Souls Wintereich | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor aMAZEzine! | 3.0 |
| God Forbid Earthsblood | 3.0 |
| The Funeral Pyre The Nature of Betrayal | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 3.5 |
| Decapitated Winds of Creation | 4.5 |
| Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis | 4.0 |
| Decapitated Nihility | 4.0 |
| Decapitated The Negation | 4.0 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains | 3.5 |
| Cryptopsy Whisper Supremacy | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 4.5 |
| Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh | 4.0 |
| Brain Drill Apocalyptic Feasting | 4.5 |
| Beneath the Massacre Mechanics of Dysfunction | 3.5 |
| Beneath the Massacre Evidence Of Inequity | 4.0 |
| Beneath the Massacre Dystopia | 3.5 |
| Believer Gabriel | 3.5 |
| Behold... The Arctopus Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning | 3.0 |
| Behold... The Arctopus Skullgrid | 4.0 |
| Balmorhea Balmorhea | 3.5 |
| Balmorhea All Is Wild, All Is Silent | 3.5 |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence | 4.0 |
| Atheist Elements | 3.0 |
| Arsis Starve for the Devil | 3.0 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 3.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar | 4.5 |
| Anata The Infernal Depths of Hatred | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth The Crusher | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth The Avenger | 4.0 |
| Aeternam Disciples of the Unseen | 3.0 |
| The Absence From Your Grave | 4.0 |
| The Absence Riders of the Plague | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 4.5 |
| Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin | 3.0 |
| Darkest Hour The Eternal Return | 4.0 |
| Anata Under a Stone With No Inscription | 4.0 |
| Anata Dreams of Death and Dismay | 3.5 |
| Anata The Conductor's Departure | 3.5 |
| Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport | 3.0 |
| Skyfire Timeless Departure | 4.0 |
| Sholi Sholi | 4.5 |
| The Funeral Pyre December EP | 4.5 |
| The Funeral Pyre Wounds | 3.5 |
| Arsis A Celebration of Guilt | 5.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Run Rabbit Run | 3.0 |
| Slint Tweez | 3.5 |
| Slint Spiderland | 3.5 |
| Skyfire Esoteric | 3.5 |
| Six Organs Of Admittance School of the Flower | 3.0 |
| Six Organs Of Admittance Dust & Chimes | 3.5 |
| Recommended Track: Assyria |
| Six Organs Of Admittance Dark Noontide | 2.5 |
| Six Organs Of Admittance Compathia | 3.0 |
| Recommended Tracks: Run!, Compathia |
| Persefone Shin-Ken | 3.5 |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch | 3.5 |
| Panda Bear Young Prayer | 3.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles Spirals in Hyperspace | 3.5 |
| My Recommended Track: Spirals in Hyperspace. |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 3.5 |
| Made Of Hate Bullet In Your Head | 4.5 |
| Recommended Tracks: Bullet in Your Head, Mirror of Sins, Hidden. |
| Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender | 3.5 |
| Jack's Mannequin Everything in Transit | 4.0 |
| Espers Espers | 3.0 |
| Recommended Tracks are the opener and closer: Flowery Noontide, and Travel Mountains. |
| Espers II | 3.5 |
| Emery The Weak's End | 4.0 |
| Emery The Question | 4.5 |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail | 3.5 |
| Drowning Pool Sinner | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 3.5 |
| Disturbed Believe | 4.0 |
| The Dodos Beware of the Maniacs | 3.5 |
| The best track on the album is in my opinion, "The Ball". |
| The Dodos Visiter | 3.5 |
| The Dodos Time to Die | 3.0 |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us | 4.0 |
| City and Colour Sometimes | 3.0 |
| City and Colour Bring Me Your Love | 4.0 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 4.5 |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | 4.5 |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica | 4.0 |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum | 4.0 |
| Armor For Sleep What To Do When You Are Dead | 4.0 |
| Aghora Aghora | 3.0 |
| Aghora Formless | 4.0 |
| Ugly Casanova Sharpen Your Teeth | 4.0 |
| Tool Opiate | 3.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.5 |
| Russian Circles Enter | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Station | 4.5 |
| Russian Circles Geneva | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence | 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 | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 4.5 |
| Kylesa Static Tensions | 4.5 |
| Kylesa To Walk A Middle Course | 4.0 |
| Kylesa Time Will Fuse Its Worth | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists Picaresque | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love | 4.5 |
| Cynic Focus | 3.5 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 3.5 |
| Canvas Solaris The Atomized Dream | 4.0 |
| Track #1, Binaural Beats, makes for a mind-bending and intriguing opener for an album that largely delivers. |
| Canvas Solaris Penumbra Diffuse | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 4.0 |
| Beirut March of the Zapotec/Holland | 3.0 |
| Beirut Lon Gisland | 3.0 |
| Beirut Gulag Orkestar | 3.5 |
| Beirut The Flying Club Cup | 4.0 |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math | 4.0 |
| 65daysofstatic Stumble.Stop.Repeat | 3.5 |
| 65daysofstatic One Time for All Time | 4.0 |
| 65daysofstatic The Distant and Mechanised Glow of Eastern Euro... | 3.5 |
| 65daysofstatic The Destruction of Small Ideas | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God | 4.0 |
| Adair Destruction of Everything Is the Beginning of Some | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.5 |
| By The End Of Tonight A Tribute To Tigers | 4.0 |
| By The End Of Tonight ...In A Letter To The Sandbox | 4.0 |
| Arsis We Are the Nightmare | 4.0 |
| Arsis United in Regret | 4.0 |
| Arsis A Diamond for Disease | 4.5 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 3.5 |
| Pelican Australasia | 4.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.5 |
