Memento's Top 200 Albums, Part 5: 121-100
Summer holidays have rolled around, whence I had time to significantly revise my ratings and assemble this provisional top 200. This will be the fifth 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 takes us halfway. |
| 20 |  | Thoren
Gwarth II
120.
Genre(s): technical death metal, dissonant death metal, mathcore.
Overall rating: ~4.1. |
| 19 |  | Cynic
Focus
119.
Genre(s): progressive metal, technical death metal, jazz fusion.
Overall rating: ~4.1. |
| 18 |  | Sarmat
Determined To Strike
118.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, technical death metal, avant-garde jazz, brutal prog.
Overall rating: ~4.1. |
| 17 |  | Deathspell Omega
Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum
117.
Genre(s): dissonant black metal, avant-garde metal.
Overall rating: ~4.1. |
| 16 |  | Dodecahedron
Dodecahedron
116.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, dissonant black metal.
Overall rating: ~4.1. |
| 15 |  | Dodecahedron
Kwintessens
115.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, dissonant black metal.
Overall rating: ~4.1. |
| 14 |  | Present
Le Poison Qui Rend Fou
114.
Genre(s): avant prog, zeuhl.
Overall rating: ~4.1. |
| 13 |  | Thantifaxath
Sacred White Noise
113.
Genre(s): dissonant black metal.
Overall rating: ~4.1. |
| 12 |  | Deathspell Omega
The Synarchy of Molten Bones
112.
Genre(s): dissonant black metal, avant-garde metal.
Overall rating: ~4.1. |
| 11 |  | Hoplites
Παραμαινομένη
111.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, dissonant black metal, mathcore, dissonant death metal, technical thrash metal.
Overall rating: ~4.1. |
| 10 |  | Imperial Triumphant
Abyssal Gods
110.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, dissonant black metal, dissonant death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.1. |
| 9 |  | Wormed
Krighsu
108.
Genre(s): technical death metal, brutal death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.1. |
| 8 |  | Ingurgitating Oblivion
Vision Wallows in Symphonies of Light
107.
Genre(s): dissonant death metal, technical death metal, avant-garde metal.
Overall rating: ~4.1. |
| 7 |  | Flourishing
The Sum of All Fossils
106.
Genre(s): dissonant death metal, technical death metal, avant-garde metal.
Overall rating: ~4.1. |
| 6 |  | Ni
Les insurgés de Romilly
105.
Genre(s): math rock, avant prog, brutal prog, avant-garde metal.
Overall rating: ~4.1. |
| 5 |  | Gigan
Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus
104.
Genre(s): technical death metal, dissonant death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.1. |
| 4 |  | Artificial Brain
Artificial Brain
103.
Genre(s): technical death metal, dissonant death metal, brutal death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.1. |
| 3 |  | Defeated Sanity
Chapters of Repugnance
102.
Genre(s): technical death metal, brutal death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.1. |
| 2 |  | Normal Love
2007
101.
Genre(s): avant prog, brutal prog, math rock, chamber music.
Overall rating: ~4.1. |
| 1 |  | Koenji Hyakkei
Nivraym
100.
Genre(s): zeuhl, brutal prog, jazz rock, jazz fusion.
Overall rating: ~4.1. |
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