Lord Mantis Pervertor | 4.0 |
Coil Black Antlers | 4.0 |
Coil The New Backwards | 4.0 |
Old Man Gloom NO | 4.0 |
Xibalba Hasta La Muerte | 3.5 |
Loma Prieta Life/Less | 4.0 |
Suis La Lune Riala | 4.0 |
pg.99 Document #8 | 4.5 |
Psychic TV Allegory And Self | 4.0 |
Ides of Gemini Constantinople | 4.0 |
Necro Deathmort The Colonial Script | 3.5 |
Nachtmystium Silencing Machine | 4.5 |
The Body and Braveyoung Nothing Passes | 4.0 |
Baroness Yellow and Green | 2.5 |
Swans The Seer | 5.0 |
Holy fuck. If this doesn't end up being my AOTY, then I just don't know. |
Burning Love Rotten Thing To Say | 3.5 |
Enabler All Hail the Void | 3.0 |
Horseback The Gorgon Tongue | 4.5 |
Horseback The Invisible Mountain | 4.5 |
Coil The Ape Of Naples | 4.0 |
Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme | 5.0 |
Liturgy Aesthethica | 2.0 |
Ceremony (USA-CA) Zoo | 3.5 |
Pop. 1280 The Horror | 3.5 |
Gorguts Obscura | 4.5 |
Loma Prieta I.V. | 4.5 |
Orchid Chaos is Me | 4.5 |
Orchid Orchid | 5.0 |
Anaal Nathrakh The Codex Necro | 4.5 |
Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow | 4.0 |
Portal Swarth | 4.0 |
AJJ Knife Man | 4.5 |
Ascend Ample Fire Within | 4.0 |
Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation | 4.0 |
The Riot Before Rebellion | 4.0 |
Dead to Me African Elephants | 3.5 |
Ampere Like Shadows | 3.5 |
Fugazi In on the Kill Taker | 4.5 |
Fugazi The Argument | 4.5 |
Toby Driver In the L..L..Library Loft | 4.0 |
YOB Atma | 4.5 |
Aidan Baker Still Life | 3.5 |
Enslaved The Sleeping Gods | 4.0 |
Bohren und der Club of Gore Beileid | 4.0 |
Dark Castle Surrender To All Life Beyond Form | 4.5 |
Tombs Path of Totality | 4.5 |
Grouper Way Their Crept | 4.0 |
Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 4.0 |
Grouper A I A | 4.5 |
Inca Ore Birthday Of Bless You | 4.0 |
Bark Psychosis Codename: Dustsucker | 4.5 |
Bark Psychosis Hex | 5.0 |
The Body Lovers Number One of Three | 4.0 |
Black Boned Angel The Witch Must Be Killed | 3.5 |
27 Brittle Divinity | 4.0 |
Mamiffer Mare Decendrii | 4.0 |
Buried at Sea Migration | 4.0 |
Cave In White Silence | 4.5 |
Big Business Mind the Drift | 4.0 |
Ulver Wars of the Roses | 4.0 |
Khanate Things Viral | 4.0 |
YOB The Illusion Of Motion | 4.5 |
YOB The Unreal Never Lived | 5.0 |
Bohren und der Club of Gore Black Earth | 5.0 |
The Mountain Goats All Eternals Deck | 4.5 |
Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | 4.5 |
Black Cobra Chronomega | 4.0 |
Superhumanoids Urgency | 3.5 |
Trap Them Darker Handcraft | 4.5 |
SubRosa (US) No Help for the Mighty Ones | 4.0 |
Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 | 5.0 |
PJ Harvey Let England Shake | 4.5 |
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Tao of the Dead | 2.5 |
The Body All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To... | 4.0 |
Jarboe Sacrificial Cake | 4.5 |
Ufomammut Eve | 4.5 |
Ben Frost Theory of Machines | 5.0 |
Fight Amp Hungry For Nothing | 4.0 |
Atheist Jupiter | 3.5 |
Lemuria (USA-NY) Pebble | 3.0 |
Iron Chic Not Like This | 4.0 |
Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will | 4.5 |
Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I | 4.5 |
Castevet Mounds of Ash | 4.0 |
Cave In Planets of Old | 4.0 |
Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
Caribou Swim | 4.0 |
Deathspell Omega Paracletus | 4.0 |
Tribes of Neurot Silver Blood Transmission | 3.5 |
Hinder All American Nightmare | 1.0 |
Kid Rock Devil Without a Cause | 1.5 |
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.5 |
Current 93 Baalstorm, Sing Omega | 4.0 |
Punch Push Pull | 3.5 |
Korn Issues | 1.0 |
Korn Korn III: Remember Who You Are | 1.0 |
Swans Holy Money | 4.0 |
Katatonia The Great Cold Distance | 4.5 |
Katatonia Night Is the New Day | 4.0 |
RVIVR RVIVR | 4.0 |
BATS Red In Tooth and Claw | 4.0 |
Kayo Dot Stained Glass | 4.5 |
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 4.0 |
Circa Survive On Letting Go | 2.5 |
The Angels of Light We Are Him | 4.0 |
The Angels of Light New Mother | 4.5 |
Magrudergrind Crusher | 3.5 |
The Scion deal is kind of odd (also not punk at all), but this is good. |
Magrudergrind Magrudergrind | 4.0 |
Swans Love of Life | 4.5 |
Darkthrone Circle the Wagons | 2.0 |
Swans Soundtracks for the Blind | 4.5 |
Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics... | 4.5 |
Electric Wizard Black Masses | 4.0 |
Earth Pentastar: In The Style Of Demons | 4.0 |
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Century of Self | 4.0 |
Zach Hill Face Tat | 3.5 |
Giant Squid The Ichthyologist | 4.0 |
Earth Hex: Or Printing In the Infernal Method | 4.0 |
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 3.5 |
M83 Saturdays=Youth | 4.0 |
dredg El Cielo | 3.5 |
Maserati Pyramid of the Sun | 4.5 |
Bat For Lashes Two Suns | 4.5 |
Cave In Perfect Pitch Black | 4.5 |
Cave In Antenna | 4.0 |
The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death | 4.0 |
Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit | 4.5 |
The Ocean Anthropocentric | 4.0 |
Julie Christmas The Bad Wife | 4.0 |
El-P Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 | 3.5 |
El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead | 4.0 |
Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.0 |
Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 4.0 |
Dead Prez Let's Get Free | 4.0 |
The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 4.5 |
How to Destroy Angels How To Destroy Angels | 4.0 |
Marissa Nadler Little Hells | 4.5 |
Sunn O))) Dømkirke | 4.5 |
Max Richter The Blue Notebooks | 5.0 |
Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God | 3.5 |
The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I | 5.0 |
Jonsi and Alex Riceboy Sleeps | 4.0 |
Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 2.0 |
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 2.5 |
Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 2.5 |
Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 1.0 |
Nickelback Dark Horse | 1.0 |
Brian Eno Small Craft on a Milk Sea | 4.0 |
Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me | 5.0 |
Russian Circles Station | 3.5 |
Sun Kil Moon Admiral Fell Promises | 3.5 |
Ufomammut Idolum | 4.0 |
Teenage Cool Kids Queer Salutations | 3.5 |
Morphine The Night | 4.5 |
Morphine Cure for Pain | 4.5 |
Sigh Scenes from Hell | 3.5 |
Frontier(s) There Will Be No Miracles Here | 4.0 |
Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... | 4.0 |
Slow Six Tomorrow Becomes You | 3.5 |
Off With Their Heads In Desolation | 4.0 |
Godflesh Messiah | 3.5 |
Godflesh Streetcleaner | 5.0 |
Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space | 4.5 |
The Promise Ring Very Emergency | 4.0 |
The Promise Ring Nothing Feels Good | 4.5 |
Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade | 3.5 |
Mastodon Jonah Hex: Revenge Gets Ugly EP | 2.0 |
This is surprisingly generic for Mastodon. Maybe it's the lack of vocals? |
Mastodon Remission | 4.0 |
Lair of the Minotaur War Metal Battle Master | 3.5 |
Lair of the Minotaur Evil Power | 3.0 |
Floor Floor | 4.0 |
Son of Aurelius The Farthest Reaches | 3.5 |
Lantlos .neon | 4.0 |
The Life and Times Suburban Hymns | 3.5 |
Jodis Secret House | 4.0 |
Melechesh The Epigenesis | 4.0 |
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Shake The Sheets | 3.5 |
Battle Of Mice A Day of Nights | 4.5 |
Scott Walker The Drift | 4.5 |
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.5 |
The Unwinding Hours The Unwinding Hours | 4.0 |
Shining (NOR) Blackjazz | 3.5 |
The Mountain Goats Satanic Messiah | 3.5 |
The Mountain Goats Zopilote Machine | 4.0 |
The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride | 3.5 |
Mission of Burma Vs. | 4.5 |
Disturbed Asylum | 1.0 |
These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower and Dove | 3.5 |
Gonjasufi A Sufi and a Killer | 4.0 |
Old Man Gloom Christmas | 3.5 |
Protest the Hero Kezia | 2.0 |
Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 4.0 |
Helms Alee Night Terror | 4.0 |
Hellyeah Hellyeah | 1.0 |
Laura Radio Swan is Down | 4.0 |
Kudrow Lando | 4.0 |
Nana Grizol Ruth | 4.0 |
NoMeansNo Wrong | 4.5 |
The Austerity Program Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn | 4.0 |
I like this. It sounds like NoMeansNo if they listened to Big Black. |
Master Musicians of Bukkake Totem One | 4.0 |
Joanna Newsom Have One on Me | 4.0 |
Philip Glass Koyaanisqatsi | 5.0 |
Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... | 1.5 |
Lady Gaga The Fame | 2.0 |
Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog | 4.5 |
Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss EP | 5.0 |
Echoes of Yul Echoes of Yul | 3.5 |
Monikers Wake Up | 3.5 |
The Replacements Tim | 4.5 |
Bongripper Satan Worshipping Doom | 4.0 |
The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs | 4.5 |
Rites of Spring End on End | 4.5 |
Slowdive Souvlaki | 4.5 |
Robin Guthrie Carousel | 4.0 |
Knut Terraformer | 3.5 |
Knut Wonder | 3.5 |
Sailors With Wax Wings Sailors With Wax Wings | 4.0 |
The Corin Tucker Band 1,000 Years | 4.0 |
I really like this. It's very different than Sleater-Kinney, though. In fact, this probably sounds more like Neko Case than anything. |
Big Black Songs About Fucking | 4.0 |
Shellac Terraform | 4.0 |
The Mercury Program From the Vapor of Gasoline | 3.5 |
Irepress Sol Eye Sea I | 4.0 |
Harvestman In a Dark Tongue | 3.0 |
Harvestman Trinity | 3.0 |
Cheap Girls Find Me a Drink Home | 3.5 |
Hard Girls Hello | 3.5 |
Good Luck Into Lake Griffy | 4.0 |
Hollywood Undead Swan Songs | 1.0 |
Hinder Extreme Behavior | 1.0 |
Hinder Take It to the Limit | 1.0 |
Enslaved Vertebrae | 4.0 |
Balmorhea Constellations | 3.5 |
Bob Dylan Christmas in the Heart | 2.0 |
Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home | 4.0 |
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited | 4.5 |
Belle and Sebastian Write About Love | 2.5 |
Supermachiner Rise of the Great Machine | 3.0 |
Final Reading All The Right Signals Wrong | 3.5 |
Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline | 4.5 |
Evanescence Fallen | 1.0 |
Nick Drake Pink Moon | 4.5 |
Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide | 4.0 |
Lights Out Asia In The Days Of Jupiter | 3.5 |
Hammock Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow | 4.5 |
Creed Human Clay | 1.0 |
Staind The Illusion of Progress | 1.0 |
The Angels of Light How I Loved You | 3.5 |
Torche Torche | 4.0 |
Intronaut Valley of Smoke | 4.5 |
Intronaut Prehistoricisms | 4.0 |
Intronaut Void | 3.5 |
Dr. Acula The Social Event of the Century | 1.0 |
Godsmack The Oracle | 1.0 |
Lymbyc Systym Shutter Release | 3.5 |
Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 4.0 |
Sonic Youth Goo | 4.5 |
Husker Du New Day Rising | 4.0 |
The Hold Steady Heaven Is Whenever | 2.5 |
Future of the Left Travels With Myself And Another | 4.0 |
mclusky The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire | 4.0 |
The Dead Milkmen Big Lizard in My Backyard | 4.0 |
Made Out of Babies Coward | 3.5 |
Made Out of Babies Trophy | 3.0 |
Made Out of Babies The Ruiner | 4.0 |
Madvillain Madvillainy | 5.0 |
Dalek Abandoned Language | 4.0 |
City of Ships Look What God Did To Us | 3.5 |
Built to Spill There Is No Enemy | 4.0 |
forgetters forgetters | 3.5 |
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.5 |
The Nation of Ulysses 13-Point Program To Destroy America | 4.0 |
Ghost Mice Europe | 4.0 |
Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 2.0 |
Tool 10,000 Days | 4.0 |
Meshuggah obZen | 3.5 |
Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.0 |
Gojira The Link | 3.5 |
Toundra Toundra (II) | 4.0 |
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.5 |
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 4.0 |
Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out | 4.5 |
From Monument To Masses On Little Known Frequencies | 4.0 |
Scout Niblett The Calcination of Scout Niblett | 4.0 |
Radiohead OK Computer | 3.5 |
Radiohead Kid A | 4.5 |
Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.0 |
Oxbow The Narcotic Story | 4.0 |
Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde | 5.0 |
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks | 5.0 |
Mose Giganticus Gift Horse | 3.0 |
Mogwai Mr. Beast | 4.0 |
Faith No More Angel Dust | 3.0 |
Mr. Bungle Disco Volante | 3.5 |
Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle | 3.0 |
Mr. Bungle California | 4.0 |
Mike Patton Mondo Cane | 4.0 |
Ihsahn After | 3.5 |
Opeth Damnation | 4.0 |
Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.5 |
Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.0 |
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 4.0 |
The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene | 4.0 |
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 4.0 |
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 3.5 |
Converge No Heroes | 3.5 |
Salem (US) King Night | 2.5 |
The Twilight Sad Forget The Night Ahead | 4.0 |
Eyehategod In the Name of Suffering | 4.0 |
Eyehategod Take as Needed for Pain | 3.5 |
Adebisi Shank This is the Second Album | 4.0 |
Cave In Jupiter | 4.5 |
Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 2.5 |
Young Widows Settle Down City | 4.0 |
Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 1.0 |
Papa Roach Getting Away With Murder | 1.0 |
More Than Life Love Let Me Go | 3.5 |
Neurosis Sovereign | 3.5 |
Neurosis Enemy of the Sun | 4.5 |
Neurosis Souls at Zero | 4.0 |
Neurosis Given to the Rising | 4.0 |
The Smiths Meat Is Murder | 3.5 |
Belle and Sebastian Lazy Line Painter Jane | 4.0 |
Nadja Touched | 4.0 |
Minor Threat Complete Discography | 4.5 |
Limp Bizkit Results May Vary | 1.0 |
Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.0 |
Set Fire to Flames Telegraphs in Negative/Mouths Trapped in | 4.0 |
Genghis Tron Board Up the House | 4.0 |
Nachtmystium Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. 2 | 3.5 |
Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island | 3.5 |
Converge Axe to Fall | 4.5 |
*shels Sea of the Dying Dhow | 4.0 |
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.0 |
Tomahawk Anonymous | 3.5 |
Fantomas The Director's Cut | 4.0 |
Fantomas Delìrium Còrdia | 4.5 |
Fantomas Suspended Animation | 3.5 |
Red Sparowes Aphorism | 3.5 |
Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn | 4.0 |
Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... | 3.5 |
Jakob Solace | 4.0 |
Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony | 3.5 |
65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway | 3.5 |
Five Finger Death Punch War Is The Answer | 1.0 |
Disturbed The Sickness | 1.0 |
Hellyeah Stampede | 1.5 |
brokeNCYDE BC 13 | 1.0 |
brokeNCYDE The Broken | 1.0 |
brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It! | 1.0 |
The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat | 4.5 |
Dethklok Dethalbum II | 2.5 |
maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 4.0 |
Cephalic Carnage Misled by Certainty | 3.5 |
Samsara Blues Experiment Long Distance Trip | 3.5 |
Pig Destroyer Terrifyer | 4.0 |
Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb | 4.5 |
Napalm Death Scum | 3.5 |
Napalm Death Time Waits for No Slave | 4.0 |
Nails Unsilent Death | 3.5 |
Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 2.5 |
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.5 |
Om Pilgrimage | 4.0 |
Various Artists (Punk) Punk Goes Metal | 1.5 |
John Coltrane Giant Steps | 4.5 |
Her Name Is Calla The Heritage | 3.5 |
Chris Cornell Scream | 1.0 |
The Faceless Planetary Duality | 3.0 |
Foetus Flow | 3.5 |
Foetus Nail | 4.0 |
Khann Tofutopia | 3.5 |
Kvelertak Kvelertak | 4.0 |
Melvins Stag | 4.0 |
Melvins A Senile Animal | 3.5 |
Tombs Winter Hours | 3.0 |
Buried Inside Spoils Of Failure | 3.5 |
Burzum Filosofem | 1.5 |
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Se Dice Bisonte, No Búfalo | 4.0 |
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Xenophanes | 3.5 |
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Despair | 1.5 |
Insane Clown Posse Bang! Pow! Boom! | 1.0 |
Audioslave Audioslave | 1.5 |
Boris BXI | 3.5 |
Korn Follow the Leader | 1.0 |
The High Confessions Turning Lead Into Gold With | 4.0 |
East of the Wall Ressentiment | 4.0 |
Cloudkicker Beacons | 3.5 |
Battlefields Thresholds Of Imbalance | 3.5 |
Battlefields Stained With the Blood of an Empire | 3.5 |
Alcest Écailles De Lune | 4.5 |
Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough | 3.0 |
Deftones Diamond Eyes | 2.0 |
Belle and Sebastian Tigermilk | 4.0 |
Torche Songs for Singles | 4.0 |
God Is an Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun | 4.0 |
God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 5.0 |
John Zorn The Crucible | 4.0 |
Benoit Pioulard Lasted | 3.5 |
Zozobra Bird of Prey | 2.5 |
Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream | 1.5 |
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Megaritual | 3.0 |
Jonsi Go | 4.5 |
James Blackshaw All Is Falling | 4.0 |
Jarboe Mahakali | 4.5 |
A Storm Of Light And We Wept The Black Ocean Within | 4.0 |
A Storm Of Light Forgive Us Our Trespasses | 3.0 |
Mouth Of The Architect The Ties That Blind | 3.5 |
Mouth Of The Architect Quietly | 4.0 |
Master Musicians of Bukkake Totem Two | 3.5 |
Middian Age Eternal | 3.5 |
Oranssi Pazuzu Muukalainen Puhuu | 3.0 |
Swans Filth | 3.5 |
Swans Children of God | 4.5 |
Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity | 4.0 |
Torche In Return | 4.0 |
Torche Meanderthal | 4.5 |
And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar | 4.0 |
Melechesh Emissaries | 4.0 |
Doomriders Darkness Come Alive | 3.0 |
Coliseum House With A Curse | 3.5 |
Moving Mountains Pneuma | 3.5 |
Constants If Tomorrow the War | 3.5 |
AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People | 4.0 |
Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | 4.0 |
Colossal Welcome the Problems | 4.0 |
Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.0 |
Mastodon Leviathan | 4.5 |
The Blood of Heroes The Blood Of Heroes | 4.0 |
Braid Frankie Welfare Boy Age Five | 4.0 |
Emeralds Does It Look Like I'm Here? | 4.0 |
The Ergs! Upstairs/Downstairs | 4.0 |
Bomb the Music Industry! Everybody That You Love | 3.5 |
Bomb the Music Industry! Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!! | 4.0 |
Fake Problems Real Ghosts Caught on Tape | 3.5 |
Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 4.0 |
The Thermals Personal Life | 3.0 |
Steve Von Till A Grave Is a Grim Horse | 3.0 |
Cheap Girls My Roaring 20s | 4.0 |
Off With Their Heads Hospitals | 3.5 |
Peter Broderick How They Are | 3.5 |
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Kollaps Tradixionales | 3.5 |
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward | 4.0 |
Rudimentary Peni Death Church | 4.0 |
Defiance, Ohio Midwestern Minutes | 4.0 |
Paul Baribeau Grand Ledge | 4.0 |
Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings The Flood | 4.5 |
Neko Case Middle Cyclone | 4.0 |
YOB The Great Cessation | 4.5 |
Zola Jesus Stridulum II | 3.5 |
Archers of Loaf All the Nation's Airports | 4.0 |
Superchunk Majesty Shredding | 4.5 |
Twilight Monument To Time End | 3.5 |
Greymachine Disconnected | 3.5 |
Sunn O))) and Boris Altar | 3.5 |
Boris Pink | 4.0 |
Godflesh Us and Them | 4.0 |
Death Human | 4.0 |
Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.0 |
Slayer World Painted Blood | 2.5 |
Ulver Shadows of the Sun | 4.0 |
Tarentel From Bone To Satellite | 4.0 |
Grails Doomsdayer's Holiday | 4.0 |
Buried at Sea Ghost | 3.5 |
The Evpatoria Report Golevka | 3.5 |
Thou Summit | 3.5 |
The Ascent of Everest From This Vantage | 4.0 |
36 Hollow | 3.0 |
Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up | 4.0 |
Aereogramme My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go | 4.5 |
Joy Wants Eternity You Who Pretend to Sleep | 4.0 |
Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet | 4.5 |
Zodiak Sermons | 4.0 |
Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life | 4.0 |
Trash Talk Eyes & Nines | 2.5 |
Ceremony (USA-CA) Violence Violence | 3.5 |
Goldmund Famous Places | 4.0 |
Eluvium Similes | 4.0 |
Max Richter Infra | 5.0 |
Olafur Arnalds Eulogy for Evolution | 4.0 |
Melvins Houdini | 4.5 |
Melvins The Bride Screamed Murder | 4.0 |
Nile Those Whom the Gods Detest | 3.5 |
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Murder Ballads | 4.0 |
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 2.5 |
Sleater-Kinney The Woods | 5.0 |
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 5.0 |
Baroness Red Album | 4.0 |
Baroness Blue Record | 4.5 |
Burst Lazarus Bird | 4.0 |
Current 93 Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain | 4.0 |
Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 4.0 |
Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 5.0 |
Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.5 |
St. Vincent Actor | 4.0 |
Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull | 4.5 |
Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions | 4.5 |
Sunn O))) Black One | 3.5 |
Khanate Clean Hands Go Foul | 4.0 |
Tusk The Resisting Dreamer | 3.5 |
Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom | 3.0 |
Pelican What We All Come to Need | 3.5 |
Pelican City of Echoes | 4.0 |
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 2.0 |
Yakuza Of Seismic Consequence | 4.0 |
Mogwai Young Team | 4.0 |
Envy Abyssal | 4.0 |
Envy Recitation | 4.5 |
Kylesa Static Tensions | 4.5 |
Kylesa Spiral Shadow | 4.5 |
Rwake Voices of Omens | 4.5 |
Mamiffer Hirror Enniffer | 4.0 |
Porcupine Tree The Incident | 4.0 |
The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas | 4.5 |
The Mountain Goats Tallahassee | 5.0 |
The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree | 4.0 |
The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come | 3.5 |
Maps and Atlases Perch Patchwork | 2.0 |
MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 1.5 |
U.S. Christmas Eat The Low Dogs | 4.0 |
U.S. Christmas Run Thick In The Night | 4.5 |
Minsk With Echoes in the Movement of Stone | 4.0 |
Minsk The Ritual Fires of Abandonment | 4.0 |
Jawbreaker Dear You | 4.0 |
Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy | 4.5 |
Tom Waits Alice | 4.5 |
Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards | 4.5 |
Tom Waits Heartattack and Vine | 3.5 |
Tom Waits Blue Valentine | 4.0 |
Tom Waits Franks Wild Years | 4.0 |
Tom Waits The Black Rider | 3.0 |
Tom Waits Bone Machine | 5.0 |
Tom Waits Rain Dogs | 5.0 |
Dinosaur Jr. Beyond | 4.0 |
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 4.0 |
My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything | 4.0 |
My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
Om God Is Good | 3.5 |
The Sword Warp Riders | 3.0 |
High on Fire Snakes For The Divine | 3.5 |
High on Fire Death Is This Communion | 4.0 |
Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini | 4.5 |
Gifts From Enola Gifts From Enola | 3.5 |
The Antlers Hospice | 5.0 |
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 4.0 |
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 4.5 |
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 3.5 |
Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology | 4.5 |
Lemuria (USA-NY) Get Better | 3.5 |
Cynic Traced in Air | 4.0 |
Converge Jane Doe | 4.5 |
The Ocean Precambrian | 4.5 |
The Ocean Heliocentric | 2.5 |
Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky | 5.0 |
Kayo Dot Coyote | 4.0 |
Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.5 |
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 4.5 |
Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo | 4.0 |
Hammock Chasing After Shadows...Living with the Ghosts | 5.0 |
Fugazi 13 Songs | 4.0 |
Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.0 |
Muse The Resistance | 1.0 |
Husker Du Zen Arcade | 4.5 |
Black Flag Damaged | 4.0 |
Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime | 5.0 |
Red Sparowes The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein... | 4.0 |
Grinderman Grinderman 2 | 4.0 |
Russian Circles Geneva | 4.5 |
Zoroaster Matador | 4.0 |
Georgia has been an interesting breeding ground for sludge metal in the past decade. Baroness, Mastodon, and Kylesa have all made it big in the scene by taking the blueprints of the genre and distorting them. With Matador, Zoroaster can finally be added to this list of rising stars.
The band's previous work is definitely competent and some of their older songs are on the border of being great. Zoroaster, however, was playing it relatively safe and locking itself in the tight confines of it's genre. On this album, the band seems to be taking more risks. The production work, courtesy of Sanford Parker, is relatively clean yet it feels intentionally distorted.
Songs like "Black Hole" and "Ancient Ones" use this warping to their advantage, creating a thick atmosphere. "Black Hole" lives up to it's namesake with it's untamed riffs.
Zoroaster has started to cut themselves loose from their genre's tradition, and their work is all the better for it. If they continue down this path, they might find themselves sharing a lot of the popularity that their contemporaries have received. |
Zoroaster The Voice of Saturn | 2.5 |
Bjork Homogenic | 5.0 |
Bjork Vespertine | 4.5 |
Rosetta Wake/Lift | 4.0 |
Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 5.0 |
Algernon Cadwallader Some Kind Of Cadwallader | 4.0 |
Jesu Why Are We Not Perfect? | 3.0 |
Jesu Silver | 4.5 |
Jesu Infinity | 3.0 |
Jesu Jesu | 3.5 |
Jesu Conqueror | 5.0 |
Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 4.5 |
Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust | 3.5 |
Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.5 |
Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 4.0 |
The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.5 |
The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 3.5 |
The Mars Volta Amputechture | 3.0 |
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.5 |
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 5.0 |
This Will Destroy You Young Mountain | 4.5 |
This Will Destroy You Moving on the Edges of Things | 2.0 |
This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You | 4.5 |
ISIS Celestial | 4.0 |
ISIS Oceanic | 5.0 |
ISIS Panopticon | 4.5 |
ISIS Wavering Radiant | 5.0 |
ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 4.0 |
Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 4.5 |
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.0 |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.0 |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 4.0 |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 5.0 |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 5.0 |
Mono Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined | 4.5 |
Mono You Are There | 4.5 |
Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 5.0 |
Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm | 5.0 |
Neurosis Through Silver in Blood | 5.0 |
Neurosis Times of Grace | 5.0 |