Memento's Top 200 Albums, Part 8: 59-40
Summer holidays have rolled around, whence I had time to significantly revise my ratings and assemble this provisional top 200. This will be the sixth 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 to the 4.5s. |
| 20 |  | Krallice
Mass Cathexis
59.
Genre(s): avant-garde black metal, progressive metal, technical death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 19 |  | Charles Mingus
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
58.
Genre(s): avant-garde jazz, third stream, experimental big band.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 18 |  | Cryptopsy
None So Vile
57.
Genre(s): brutal death metal, technical death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 17 |  | Thantifaxath
Hive Mind Narcosis
56.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, dissonant black metal.
Overall rating: ~4.2. |
| 16 |  | Skin Tension
Inaugurate Renaissance
55.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, brutal prog, dissonant black metal.
Overall rating: ~4.3. |
| 15 |  | Artificial Brain
Infrared Horizon
54.
Genre(s): technical death metal, dissonant death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.3. |
| 14 |  | Jute Gyte
Perdurance
53.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, dissonant black metal, microtonal classical, electronic.
Overall rating: ~4.3. |
| 13 |  | Martyr
Feeding the Abscess
52.
Genre(s): technical death metal, technical thrash metal, progressive metal.
Overall rating: ~4.3. |
| 12 |  | Ashenspire
Hostile Architecture
51.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, progressive black metal, dissonant black metal, post metal, avant-prog.
Overall rating: ~4.3. |
| 11 |  | Meshuggah
The Violent Sleep of Reason
50.
Genre(s): djent, progressive metal.
Overall rating: ~4.3. |
| 10 |  | Imperial Triumphant
Goldstar
49.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, dissonant black metal, dissonant death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.3. |
| 9 |  | Ingurgitating Oblivion
Ontology of Nought
48.
Genre(s): technical death metal, dissonant death metal, progressive metal.
Overall rating: ~4.3. |
| 8 |  | Wayne Shorter
The All Seeing Eye
47.
Genre(s): avant-garde jazz, post bob.
Overall rating: ~4.3. |
| 7 |  | The Flying Luttenbachers
Cataclysm
46.
Genre(s): brutal prog, math rock, noise rock, avant-garde jazz.
Overall rating: ~4.3. |
| 6 |  | Opeth
Still Life
45.
Genre(s): progressive metal, progressive death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.4. |
| 5 |  | Death
Individual Thought Patterns
44.
Genre(s): technical death metal, progressive death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.4. |
| 4 |  | Death
Symbolic
43.
Genre(s): technical death metal, progressive death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.4. |
| 3 |  | Neurosis
The Eye of Every Storm
42.
Genre(s): post metal, atmospheric sludge metal.
Overall rating: ~4.4. |
| 2 |  | ISIS
Oceanic
41.
Genre(s): post metal, atmospheric sludge metal.
Overall rating: ~4.4. |
| 1 |  | Gorguts
From Wisdom to Hate
40.
Genre(s): technical death metal, dissonant death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.5. |
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