Memento's Top 200 Albums, Part 1: 200-181.
Summer holidays have rolled around, whence I had time to significantly revise my ratings and assemble this provisional top 200. This will be the first of ten installments across which I will present this ranking on Sputnik, a convulsing website that no longer allows me to edit the favorite bands section on my page, so hopefully this top 200 will set the record straight. All the usual caveats included (this top 200 is just my opinion, consequently heavily biased toward certain styles of music, a mere snapshot in time, has a somewhat arbitrary ranking that could easily change, etc.). If you can guess any of the albums on any of the following iterations of the top 200 (without looking at my ratings, that is, of course) I will be impressed. LPs, EPs and live albums are all eligible for inclusion. This part covers the first twenty. |
| 25 |  | Florid Ekstasis
Trepanning
Honourable mention
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, technical death metal, dissonant death metal, progressive death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 24 |  | Tigran Hamasyan
Arratha Rebirth: Red Hail
Honourable mention.
Genre(s): avant-garde jazz, jazz fusion, avant prog, Armenian folk music, djent.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 23 |  | SAMO
S1
Honourable mention.
Genre(s): djent, progressive metal, post metal.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 22 |  | Don Caballero
What Burns Never Returns
Honourable mention.
Genre(s): math rock.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 21 |  | Akakor
Akakor
Honourable mention.
Genre(s): technical death metal, deathgrind, dissonant death metal, mathcore.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 20 |  | Mastodon
Crack the Skye
200.
Genre(s): progressive metal, sludge metal.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 19 |  | Between the Buried and Me
Colors
199.
Genre(s): progressive metal, metalcore.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 18 |  | Neurosis
An Undying Love for a Burning World
198.
Genre(s): post metal, atmospheric sludge metal.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 17 |  | Immolation
Here in After
197.
Genre(s): dissonant death metal, technical death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 16 |  | Hella
Hold Your Horse Is
196.
Genre(s): math rock, brutal prog, noise rock.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 15 |  | The Crinn
Shadowbreather
195.
Genre(s): mathcore.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 14 |  | PinioL
Bran Coucou
194.
Genre(s): brutal prog, avant prog, math rock.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 13 |  | Atheist
Piece Of Time
193.
Genre(s): technical death metal, technical thrash metal.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 12 |  | Necrophagist
Epitaph
192.
Genre(s): technical death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 11 |  | Panzerballett
Planet Z
191.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, progressive metal, jazz fusion, avant prog.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 10 |  | Bufihimat
I
190.
Genre(s): technical death metal, dissonant death metal, deathgrind, brutal death metal, mathcore.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 9 |  | Plague Rider
Intensities
189.
Genre(s): technical death metal, dissonant death metal, progressive death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 8 |  | Asystole (USA-NY)
Siren To Blight
189.
Genre(s): technical death metal, dissonant death metal, progressive death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 7 |  | Angles 9
Disappeared Behind the Sun
187.
Genre(s): experimental big band, free jazz.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 6 |  | The Mercury Tree
Spidermilk
186.
Genre(s): avant prog, math rock, experimental rock.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 5 |  | The Mercury Tree
Self Similar
185.
Genre(s): avant prog, math rock, experimental rock.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 4 |  | Mahavishnu Orchestra
The Inner Mounting Flame
184.
Genre(s): jazz fusion, jazz rock, progressive rock.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 3 |  | Ne Obliviscaris
Portal of I
183.
Genre(s): progressive metal, progressive death metal, progressive black metal.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 2 |  | Krokofant
Krokofant II
182.
Genre(s): avant-garde jazz, jazz rock, jazz fusion, progressive rock brutal prog.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
| 1 |  | The Flying Luttenbachers
Negative Infinity
181.
Genre(s): brutal prog, jazz punk.
Overall rating: ~4.0. |
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