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Memento's Top 200 Albums, Part 4: 140-121
Summer holidays have rolled around, whence I had time to significantly revise my ratings and assemble this provisional top 200. This will be the fourth 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 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 eligible for inclusion. This part breaches into the '4.1s.' | | 20 |  | Albert Ayler
Spiritual Unity
140.
Genre(s): avant-garde jazz, free jazz.
Overall rating: ~4.0. | | 19 |  | Cecil Taylor
Conquistador!
139.
Genre(s): avant-garde jazz, free jazz.
Overall rating: ~4.0. | | 18 |  | Opeth
Deliverance
138.
Genre(s): progressive metal, progressive death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.0. | | 17 |  | Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
Trout Mask Replica
137.
Genre(s): experimental rock, blues rock, avant prog, math rock.
Overall rating: ~4.0. | | 16 |  | Van der Graaf Generator
Pawn Hearts
136.
Genre(s): progressive rock, avant prog, jazz rock.
Overall rating: ~4.0. | | 15 |  | Gorguts
The Erosion of Sanity
135.
Genre(s): technical death metal, brutal death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.0. | | 14 |  | Lye By Mistake
Arrangements for Fulminating Vective
134.
Genre(s): mathcore, avant-garde metal, jazz fusion, brutal prog.
Overall rating: ~4.0. | | 13 |  | Wormed
Exodromos
133.
Genre(s): technical death metal, brutal death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.0. | | 12 |  | Psyopus
Our Puzzling Encounters Considered
132.
Genre(s): mathcore, avant-garde metal.
Overall rating: ~4.0. | | 11 |  | Ion Dissonance
Breathing Is Irrelevant
131.
Genre(s): mathcore.
Overall rating: ~4.0. | | 10 |  | SUMAC
What One Becomes
130.
Genre(s): post metal, atmospheric sludge metal.
Overall rating: ~4.1. | | 9 |  | Pyrrhon
Abscess Time
129.
Genre(s): technical death metal, dissonant death metal, avant-garde metal.
Overall rating: ~4.1. | | 8 |  | The Thing
Garage
128.
Genre(s): (European) free jazz.
Overall rating: ~4.1. | | 7 |  | The Thing
Boot!
127.
Genre(s): (European) free jazz, jazz rock.
Overall rating: ~4.1. | | 6 |  | John Zorn
The Crucible
126.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, brutal prog, avant-garde jazz, avant prog.
Overall rating: ~4.1. | | 5 |  | Vektor
Terminal Redux
125.
Genre(s): technical thrash metal, progressive metal.
Overall rating: ~4.1. | | 4 |  | The Flying Luttenbachers
Imminent Death
124.
Genre(s): brutal prog, avant-garde jazz, noise rock.
Overall rating: ~4.1. | | 3 |  | Jean Louis
Jean Louis
123.
Genre(s): avant-garde jazz, brutal prog, avant prog, jazz rock.
Overall rating: ~4.1. | | 2 |  | Blotted Science
The Animation of Entomology
122.
Genre(s): progressive metal, technical death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.1. | | 1 |  | Behold... The Arctopus
Skullgrid
121.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, brutal prog.
Overall rating: ~4.1. | |
Retter42
07.24.26 | Vektor too low! | MementoMori
07.24.26 | @Retter42: if only I was more into its core thrash aesthetic it would be higher. Still, this is very much the current pinnacle of the genre for me. |
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