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Memento's Top 200 Albums, Part 10: 20-1
Summer holidays have rolled around, whence I had time to significantly revise my ratings and assemble this provisional top 200. This will be the tenth 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.). LPs, EPs and live albums are eligible for inclusion. This is the final part: including all my current 5.0s. | | 20 |  | Ulcerate
Stare Into Death and Be Still
20.
Genre(s): technical death metal, dissonant death metal, post metal.
Overall rating: ~4.7. | | 19 |  | Ulcerate
Vermis
19.
Genre(s): technical death metal, dissonant death metal, post metal.
Overall rating: ~4.7. | | 18 |  | Imperial Triumphant
Vile Luxury
18.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, dissonant black metal, dissonant death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.7. | | 17 |  | Ulcerate
The Destroyers of All
17.
Genre(s): technical death metal, dissonant death metal, post metal.
Overall rating: ~4.7. | | 16 |  | Ad Nauseam
Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est
16.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, technical death metal, dissonant death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.7 | | 15 |  | ISIS
Panopticon
15.
Genre(s): post metal, atmospheric sludge metal.
Overall rating: ~4.8. | | 14 |  | Neurosis
Through Silver in Blood
14.
Genre(s): post metal, atmospheric sludge metal.
Overall rating: ~4.8. | | 13 |  | The Flying Luttenbachers
Cataclysm
13.
Genre(s): brutal prog, math rock, noise rock, avant prog, avant-garde metal.
Overall rating: ~4.8. | | 12 |  | Death
The Sound of Perseverance
12.
Genre(s): technical death metal, progressive death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.8. | | 11 |  | Imperial Triumphant
Alphaville
11.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, dissonant black metal, dissonant death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.8. | | 10 |  | Koenji Hyakkei
Dhorimviskha
10.
Genre(s): zeuhl, jazz rock, jazz fusion, brutal prog.
Overall rating: ~4.9. | | 9 |  | Opeth
Blackwater Park
9.
Genre(s): progressive metal, progressive death metal.
Overall rating: ~4.9. | | 8 |  | Deathspell Omega
Paracletus
8.
Genre(s): dissonant black metal, avant-garde metal.
Overall rating: ~4.9. | | 7 |  | Cecil Taylor
The Cecil Taylor Unit
7.
Genre(s): avant-garde jazz, free jazz, third stream, modern creative.
Overall rating: ~4.9. | | 6 |  | Area
Arbeit Macht Frei
6.
Genre(s): avant prog, avant-garde jazz, jazz rock, jazz fusion.
Overall rating: ~4.9. | | 5 |  | Ulcerate
Shrines of Paralysis
5.
Genre(s): avant-garde jazz, free jazz, third stream, modern creative.
Overall rating: ~4.9. | | 4 |  | John Coltrane
Ascension
4.
Genre(s): avant-garde jazz, free jazz, spiritual jazz, experimental big band.
Overall rating: ~5.0. | | 3 |  | Ulcerate
Everything Is Fire
3.
Genre(s): technical death metal, dissonant death metal, post metal.
Overall rating: ~5.0. | | 2 |  | Gorguts
Obscura
2.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, technical death metal, dissonant death metal.
Overall rating: ~5.0. | | 1 |  | Ad Nauseam
Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
1.
Genre(s): avant-garde metal, technical death metal, dissonant death metal.
Overall rating: ~5.0. | |
Hawks
07.24.26 | Hell of a top three. M//// | MementoMori
07.24.26 | @Hawks indicative of the fact that, at current, technical/disso dm seems to be my preferred genre: it's got the unrelenting intensity, the crushing heaviness, the extreme technicality, and, as those three albums indicate, a long tradition of pushing musical boundaries on top of that (BM and even prog more limited in that regard). |
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