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| Memento's Top 200 Albums, Part 9: 39-20
Summer holidays have rolled around, whence I had time to significantly revise my ratings and assemble this provisional top 200. This will be the ninth 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 takes to the edge of 5.0 territory. | | 20 |  | Deathspell Omega
Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
39.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, dissonant black metal.
Overall rating: ~4.5. | | 19 |  | Blotted Science
The Machinations of Dementia
38.
Genre(s): technical death metal, progressive death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.5. | | 18 |  | Crimson Massacre
The Luster of Pandemonium
37.
Genre(s): technical death metal, avant-garde metal.
Overall rating: ~4.5. | | 17 |  | Atheist
Unquestionable Presence
36.
Genre(s): progressive metal, technical death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.5. | | 16 |  | Demilich
Nespithe
35.
Genre(s): technical death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.5. | | 15 |  | Coma Cluster Void
Mind Cemeteries
34.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, dissonant death metal, brutal death metal, progressive death metal, mathcore.
Overall rating: ~4.5. | | 14 |  | Growth (AUS)
The Smothering Arms of Mercy
33.
Genre(s): technical death metal, dissonant death metal, progressive death metal, mathcore.
Overall rating: ~4.5. | | 13 |  | Defeated Sanity
The Sanguinary Impetus
32.
Genre(s): brutal death metal, technical death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.5. | | 12 |  | Immolation
Close to a World Below
31.
Genre(s): dissonant death metal, technical death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.5. | | 11 |  | Neurosis
Times of Grace
30.
Genre(s): post metal, atmospheric sludge metal.
Overall rating: ~4.6. | | 10 |  | John Zorn
Spy vs. Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman
29.
Genre(s): avant-garde jazz, free jazz.
Overall rating: ~4.6. | | 9 |  | Pyrrhon
What Passes for Survival
28.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, dissonant death metal, technical death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.6. | | 8 |  | Koenji Hyakkei
Angherr Shisspa
27.
Genre(s): zeuhl, jazz rock, jazz fusion, brutal prog.
Overall rating: ~4.6. | | 7 |  | John Zorn
The Circle Maker
26.
Genre(s): chamber jazz, klezmer, avant-garde jazz, chamber music.
Overall rating: ~4.6. | | 6 |  | The Flying Luttenbachers
Incarceration By Abstraction
25.
Genre(s): brutal prog, math rock, noise rock, avant prog.
Overall rating: ~4.7. | | 5 |  | Gorguts
Colored Sands
24.
Genre(s): technical death metal, dissonant death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.7. | | 4 |  | Cecil Taylor
3 Phasis
23.
Genre(s): avant-garde jazz, free jazz, third stream, modern creative.
Overall rating: ~4.7. | | 3 |  | Opeth
Ghost Reveries
22.
Genre(s): progressive metal, progressive death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.7 | | 2 |  | Ulcerate
Cutting the Throat of God
21.
Genre(s): technical death metal, dissonant death metal, post metal.
Overall rating: ~4.7. | | 1 |  | Ulcerate
Stare Into Death and Be Still
20.
Genre(s): technical death metal, dissonant death metal, post metal.
Overall rating: ~4.7. | |
Veldin
07.23.26 | Wow, banger after banger here. Props for the Circle Maker | MementoMori
07.23.26 | @Veldin:yes, bangers, I agree. Circle Maker probably my current favourite Zorn record though not much separates it from Spy vs. Spy for me. |
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