| 4.5 superb |
| Acid Bath When the Kite String Pops |
| Adventures Clear My Head With You |
| AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People |
| AJJ Knife Man |
| AJJ Live At The Crescent Ballroom |
| Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill |
| Alkaline Trio Maybe I'll Catch Fire |
| American Football American Football |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Archers of Loaf Icky Mettle |
| Armand Hammer and The Alchemist Haram |
| Assuck Misery Index |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence |
| Autopsy Mental Funeral |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death |
| Billy Woods and Kenny Segal Hiding Places |
| Bjork Post |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| Bjork Vulnicura |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn |
| Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave or Die in Long Island |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World! |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run |
| Bruce Springsteen The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle |
| Brutal Truth Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses |
| Calvaiire Forceps |
| Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus |
| Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein |
| Capsule (JPN) Cute Cinema Replay |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled |
A simply remarkable sophomore effort, from the likes of a band that alongside The Menzingers, Title Fight
and the late great Tiger's Jaw (R.I.P.) have served to further solidifiy the absolute dominance of Scranton/PA
scene as of late. Undoubtedly a serious contender for AOTY. |
| Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious |
| Carcass Heartwork |
| Celeste Animale(s) |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Still Nothing Moves You |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" |
| Chokehold Content With Dying |
| Clipse Let God Sort Em Out |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Converge Jane Live |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Pretty Years |
| Danger Mouse and Black Thought Cheat Codes |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition |
| Darkspace Dark Space III I |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns |
| Death Symbolic |
| Death Human |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web |
| Deathspell Omega The Synarchy of Molten Bones |
| Defeater Empty Days & Sleepless Nights |
| Descendents Milo Goes to College |
| Destroyer Kaputt |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me |
| diSEMBOWELMENT Transcendence into the Peripheral |
| Disrupt Unrest |
| Dissection The Somberlain |
| Downfall of Nur Umbras de Barbagia |
| Drain (USA-CA) California Cursed |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward |
| Endon Through The Mirror |
| Entombed Left Hand Path |
| Failure Fantastic Planet |
| Frameworks Small Victories |
| Full of Hell Roots Of Earth Are Consuming My Home |
| Full of Hell Rudiments of Mutilation |
| Full of Hell and Merzbow Full of Hell and Merzbow |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Bloom and Breathe |
| Gaza I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering |
| Godflesh Streetcleaner |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity |
| Gorguts Colored Sands |
| Gravediggaz 6 Feet Deep |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Grief Come to Grief |
| Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée... |
| Harvey Milk My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment... |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Hieroglyphics 3rd Eye Vision |
| His Hero Is Gone Monuments To Thieves |
| Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut |
| Iceage Plowing into the Field of Love |
| Immolation Dawn of Possession |
| Immolation Close to a World Below |
| In Disgust Reality Choke |
| Incantation Onward to Golgotha |
| Incantation Mortal Throne of Nazarene |
| Infest No Man's Slave |
| Insect Warfare World Extermination |
| Integrity Those Who Fear Tomorrow |
| Iron Maiden The Number Of The Beast |
| Jawbreaker Dear You |
| Jeff Rosenstock We Cool? |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| Joyce Manor Joyce Manor |
| JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown Scaring the Hoes |
| Kamasi Washington The Epic |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Keiichi Okabe Nier Automata OST |
| KEN mode Loved |
| Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein Stranger Things, Volume One |
| Lagwagon Hoss |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel |
| Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted |
| Liturgy H.A.Q.Q. |
| LLNN Loss |
| Madvillain Madvillainy |
| Magrudergrind Magrudergrind |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| Megadeth Rust In Peace |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? |
| Melvins Gluey Porch Treatments |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food |
| Mineral The Power of Failing |
| Misfits Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood |
| Misfits Walk Among Us |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness |
| Mother Brain Rise And Grind |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| NAILS Unsilent Death |
| NAILS Abandon All Life |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Obliteration Black Death Horizon |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe |
| Orchid Chaos Is Me |
| Orchid Orchid |
| Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! |
| Ozma Rock and Roll Part Three |
| pageninetynine Document #8 |
| pageninetynine Document #7 |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| Pet Symmetry Two Songs About Cars. Two Songs With Long Titles. |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer |
| Priapus Depressant |
| Propagandhi Less Talk, More Rock |
| Queen A Night at the Opera |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| Repulsion Horrified |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto Async |
| Saor Roots |
| Saor Aura |
| Secret Stairways Turning Point |
| Secret Stairways Enchantment of the Ring |
| Sepultura Beneath The Remains |
| Slowdive Souvlaki |
| Soichi Terada Sumo Jungle |
| Souls of Mischief 93 'til Infinity |
| Spectral Lore III |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space |
| Stevie Wonder Innervisions |
| Swans Children of God |
| Swans To Be Kind |
| Terrorizer World Downfall |
| The Body No One Deserves Happiness |
| The Cure Pornography |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li |
| The HIRS Collective The Second 100 Songs |
| The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The National Alligator |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The Smiths Hatful of Hollow |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site |
| Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances |
| Titus Andronicus The Most Lamentable Tragedy |
| toe The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety |
| toe For Long Tomorrow |
| Tyler, the Creator Igor |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis |
| Unwound Repetition |
| Vektor Terminal Redux |
| Whirr Around |
| Worship Dooom |
| Xibalba Hasta La Muerte |
| Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of |
| xRepentancex The Sickness of Eden |
