| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse | 4.5 |
| Low C'Mon | 4.0 |
| Low Drums and Guns | 4.0 |
| Low Things We Lost in the Fire | 5.0 |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind | 5.0 |
| Swans The Great Annihilator | 5.0 |
| Swans Swans Are Dead | 5.0 |
| Loss Life Without Hope... Death Without Reason | 4.0 |
| Loss Despond | 4.5 |
| Jesu Opiate Sun | 4.0 |
| Jesu Conqueror | 4.5 |
| Jesu Jesu | 5.0 |
| Jesu Heart Ache | 4.5 |
| Jesu Ascension | 3.0 |
| Godflesh Messiah | 4.0 |
| Godflesh Selfless | 4.0 |
| Godflesh Us and Them | 3.5 |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey | 4.5 |
| How is there not a review of this album on Sputnik yet? This is IMMENSE. |
| Godflesh Hymns | 4.5 |
| Godflesh Songs of Love and Hate | 5.0 |
| Godflesh Streetcleaner | 5.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 2.5 |
| Dragons Here Are the Roses | 3.5 |
| Wreck and Reference Black Cassette | 5.0 |
| Lonesummer Satisfaction Feels Like A Tomb | 5.0 |
| Genre-bending diversions make this black metal release stand leagues above most anything else I've heard this year. Unforgettable experience. |
| Thursday Kill the House Lights | 4.0 |
| Thursday War All the Time | 4.0 |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided | 4.0 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 4.5 |
| Thursday Five Stories Falling | 4.0 |
| Thursday Waiting | 4.0 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 5.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... | 4.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.0 |
| Thou Tyrant | 5.0 |
| Thou Peasant | 5.0 |
| Thorr's Hammer Dommedagsnatt | 4.0 |
| Sunn O))) Flight of the Behemoth | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.5 |
| Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain | 4.5 |
| Sleep Dopesmoker | 5.0 |
| Skepticism Alloy | 4.5 |
| Otesanek/Loss/Orthodox/Mournful Cong. Four Burials | 4.5 |
| Orthodox (ESP) Gran Poder | 4.0 |
| Om Variations on a Theme | 4.0 |
| Om Pilgrimage | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| Moss Tombs of the Blind Drugged | 4.0 |
| Moss Sub Templum | 4.5 |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion | 4.5 |
| Graves at Sea Documents of Grief | 4.0 |
| Esoteric The Maniacal Vale | 4.5 |
| Corrupted Paso Inferior | 5.0 |
| Corrupted Se Hace Por Los Suenos Asesinos | 5.0 |
| Corrupted El Mundo Frio | 5.0 |
| Church of Misery Houses of the Unholy | 3.5 |
| Buried at Sea Migration | 4.5 |
| Boris Akuma no Uta | 4.0 |
| Graves at Sea/Asunder Split | 4.0 |
| diSEMBOWELMENT diSEMBOWELMENT | 5.0 |
| Evoken Quietus | 5.0 |
| Shape of Despair Shades Of... | 4.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Si Monvmentvm Reqvires Circvmspice | 4.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Kenose | 4.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum | 4.5 |
| Twilight Monument To Time End | 4.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything | 4.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
| Amesoeurs Amesoeurs | 4.5 |
| Amesoeurs Ruines Humaines | 4.5 |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 4.5 |
| Caina Mourner | 4.0 |
| Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life | 4.5 |
| Velvet Cacoon Northsuite | 4.0 |
| Velvet Cacoon Genevieve | 4.5 |
| Velvet Cacoon P aa Opal Poere Pr. 33 | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars | 4.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 5.0 |
| Year of No Light Nord | 4.0 |
| Sinking Steps...Rising Eyes Majestic Blue | 4.0 |
| City of Caterpillar Demo + Live Recording | 4.0 |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 5.0 |
| Celeste Nihiliste(s) | 4.0 |
| Amenra Mass III-II + IIII | 4.5 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix The Resurrectionists / Night Raider | 4.5 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix A Love of Shared Disasters | 4.0 |
| Grails Black Tar Prophecies, Vols. I, II & III | 4.0 |
| Grails The Burden of Hope | 4.0 |
| Grails Red Light | 4.0 |
| Grails Burning Off Impurities | 4.0 |
| Grails Take Refuge In Clean Living | 4.5 |
| Grails Doomsdayer's Holiday | 4.5 |
| Shora Malval | 4.5 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 5.0 |
| ASVA What You Don't Know Is Frontier | 4.5 |
| Nahvalr Nahvalr | 4.5 |
| Afterlives A Ticking Clock I Couldn't Stop | 4.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Voids | 4.0 |
| Have a Nice Life Time of Land | 4.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 5.0 |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.5 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 4.5 |
| Mono Gone | 4.0 |
| Mono Holy Ground: NYC Live | 4.5 |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math | 4.0 |
| 65daysofstatic One Time for All Time | 4.5 |
| 65daysofstatic The Destruction of Small Ideas | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut A Moment of Stillness | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 4.5 |
| Planning for Burial Leaving | 5.0 |
| This seems so spacious, yet grounded in the organic, if that makes any sense whatsoever. One of those albums that seems to slow down time while you listen at night... |
| ISIS SGNL>05 | 4.5 |
| ISIS Mosquito Control | 5.0 |
| ISIS Celestial | 4.5 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 5.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.5 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 3.0 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.0 |
| Pelican March Into the Sea | 4.5 |
| Pelican Ephemeral | 3.5 |
| Pelican Australasia | 4.5 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 4.5 |
| Pelican City of Echoes | 3.0 |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need | 4.0 |
