| 5.0 classic |
| Against Me! Against Me! |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Bleak, beautifully haunting, and ultimately redemptive, the texture of human mortality. Love it. |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Buried Inside Chronoclast |
| A triumphant, inspirational, tightly-knit concept album throughout every dimension -- melodically, lyrically, emotionally, technically, structurally, intellectually, philosophically, you name it. Just totally uncompromising in its own self-referential world of heavy, groovy, gritty, erudite, time-related awesomeness. |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo |
| When I first heard this it was so fresh & overwhelming & profound that I had to lay down on my back to confront the nausea. I remember exactly where I was, how everything looked, and what the weather was like. It's totally frozen in time. |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Nothing left to say about this album that hasn't already been said, except to reconfirm that it's really the real deal. So raw and personal and angular in its precision. A beautifully intense work of confrontational art taking itself as seriously as possible. |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| Ictus Imperivm |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| Locktender Kafka |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| NOFX The Decline |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| Spanish Love Songs Schmaltz |
| Swans The Seer |
| Swans To Be Kind |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Clash London Calling |
| The Doors The Doors |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
| Weakling Dead as Dreams |
| 3.0 good |
| A Place to Bury Strangers Worship |
| A Skylit Drive Wires...and the Concept of Breathing |
| Adversarial Death, Endless Nothing and the Black Knife of... |
| Against Me! Shape Shift With Me |
| Algernon Cadwallader Fun |
| Alice Cooper Paranormal |
| Amenra Mass I: Prayer I - VI |
| Amenra Alive |
| American Football American Football (LP2) |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods |
| Ampere Like Shadows |
| Ann Beretta Old Scars, New Blood |
| Arca Arca |
| Architects Holy Hell |
| Bad Astronaut Houston: We Have a Drinking Problem |
| Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms |
| Baptists Baptists |
| Battlefields Thresholds Of Imbalance |
| Batushka Hospodi |
| Black Wing ...Is Doomed |
| Blackbird Raum Swidden |
| Not as catchy, to my ear, as it was built up to be. |
| Bleeding Through The Truth |
| blink-182 California |
| blink-182 Nine |
| Blonde Redhead 23 |
| Bongripper Hippie Killer |
| Botanist Photosynthesis |
| Boygenius the record |
| Burnman Notes For A Catalogue For An Exhibition |
| Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Mirror to Mirror) |
| Caspian You Are The Conductor |
| Chokebore A Taste For Bitters |
| Christian Mistress To Your Death |
| Cinemechanica Cinemechanica |
| Cobra Khan Adversities |
| Code Orange Forever |
| Codes In The Clouds As the Spirit Wanes |
| Coffinworm IV.I.VIII |
| Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol. 1 |
| Comeback Kid Die Knowing |
| Conor Oberst Ruminations |
| Crippled Black Phoenix White Light Generator |
| Dead Neanderthals Womb of God |
| Defeater Abandoned |
| Dimmu Borgir Abrahadabra |
| Dinosaur Jr. Without a Sound |
| Donnie Brasco Drag the Blues |
| Donnie Trumpet and The Social Experiment Surf |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage |
| Drug Church Hit Your Head |
| Dustin Kensrue Carry the Fire |
| Ehnahre The Marrow |
| Eminem Recovery |
| Eternity Forever Fantasy |
| Face to Face Face to Face |
| Falls of Rauros Believe in No Coming Shore |
| Feed The Rhino The Sorrow And The Sound |
| Foxy Shazam The Church of Rock and Roll |
| Frameworks Every Day Is The Same |
| Frenzal Rhomb Meet the Family |
| From Autumn to Ashes The Fiction We Live |
| From Monument To Masses On Little Known Frequencies |
| Fucked Up Year of the Hare |
| Gatherer Caught Between a Rock and a Sad Place |
| Harm's Way (USA-IL) Rust |
| Head Wound City A New Wave of Violence |
| Hollywood Undead Swan Songs |
| Horn Turm am Hang |
| Doesn't hold a candle to 'Naturkraft' -- feels like a less mature, less interesting, less cool younger sibling of that album who really should lay off the Bathory a bit. |
| Horn Mohngang |
| If Hope Dies Life In Ruin |
| Ihsahn Pharos |
| Into It. Over It. Twelve Towns |
| Into It. Over It. Standards |
| Japandroids Near To The Wild Heart Of Life |
| Jesu Pale Sketches |
| Jesuit Discography |
| Job For A Cowboy Doom |
| Julien Baker Little Oblivions |
| Jute Gyte Oviri |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana |
| King Woman Created in the Image of Suffering |
| Krallice Ygg Huur |
| Krallice Prelapsarian |
| Kylesa Exhausting Fire |
| Lagwagon Trashed |
| Leftover Crack Constructs of the State |
| letlive. Fake History |
| Liturgy The Ark Work |
Overwrought, interesting, absurd, self-indulgent, bizarre. Don't like the vocals and I miss the relative
grittiness of previous releases. Definitely respect this more than I like it: when all's said and done, it's still a
ballsy work of . . . ark? |
| Manowar Kings of Metal |
| Mest Wasting Time |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct |
| Misfits Famous Monsters |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves |
| Muscle and Marrow Love |
| My Dying Bride The Ghost of Orion |
| My Heart To Joy Seasons In Verse |
| Myrkur M |
| Nausea (USA-NY) The Punk Terrorist Anthology, Vol. 1 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island |
| Newmoon Space |
| NOFX Wolves in Wolves' Clothing |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother |
| Old Man Gloom NO |
| Olhava Ladoga |
| Opeth Sorceress |
| Palms Palms |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven |
| Pig Destroyer Head Cage |
| Pissgrave Suicide Euphoria |
| Planes Mistaken for Stars Planes Mistaken for Stars |
| Planes Mistaken for Stars Mercy |
| Polar Bear Club Sometimes Things Just Disappear |
| Preoccupations Viet Cong |
| Propagandhi Failed States |
| Raging Speedhorn We Will Be Dead Tomorrow |
| Rancid Tomorrow Never Comes |
| Red Sparowes Aphorism |
| Red Sparowes The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein... |
| Refused War Music |
| Rise Against Nowhere Generation |
| Ritual Chamber Obscurations (To Feast On The Seraphim) |
| Rival Schools Pedals |
| Rudimentary Peni No More Pain |
| Sarin (CAN) Burial Dream |
| Sasquatch Maneuvers |
| Savages Adore Life |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy |
| ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy The Correlation Between Entrance And Exit Wounds |
| Self Defense Family Heaven Is Earth |
| Self Defense Family Wounded Masculinity |
| Senses Fail Still Searching |
| Septicflesh Codex Omega |
| Seven Sisters Of Sleep Seven Sisters of Sleep |
| Shy, low Shy, Low |
| SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes? |
| Sky Sanctuary Insert Coin(s) |
| Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love |
| Slightly Stoopid Acoustic Roots: Live & Direct |
| Snail Mail Lush |
| Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit |
| Snowing That Time I Sat in a Pile of Chocolate |
| Soilwork Verkligheten |
| Solstafir Berdreyminn |
| Sorrow Plagues Homecoming |
| Spook the Horses Rainmaker |
| I enjoy the themes and various styles, but as a whole it just feels a little . . . unfocused? I dunno. |
| Sprain As Lost Through Collision |
| Sufjan Stevens Convocations |
| Sun Worship Pale Dawn |
| Swain The Long Dark Blue |
| Swarm of the Lotus When White Becomes Black |
| Sweet Trip You Will Never Know Why |
| Taylor Swift Folklore |
| The Airborne Toxic Event Such Hot Blood |
| The Broadways Broken Van |
| The Brokedowns Sick Of Space |
| The Crownhate Ruin Until The Eagle Grins |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues |
| The Fall of Troy Mukiltearth |
| The Front Bottoms Talon of the Hawk |
| The Gaslight Anthem Get Hurt |
| The Grand Astoria Omnipresence |
| The Hunches Exit Dreams |
| The Loved Ones (USA-PA) Keep Your Heart |
| The Loved Ones (USA-PA) The Loved Ones |
| The Menzingers Some of it Was True |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Let's Face It |
| The Mountain Goats Beat the Champ |
| The Mountain Goats Goths |
| The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi |
| The Six Parts Seven Everywhere And Right Here |
| The Strokes The New Abnormal |
| The Swan King Last So Long |
| The Wonder Years Burst & Decay |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Between Bodies |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Always Foreign |
| This Will Destroy You Another Language |
| This Will Destroy You New Others Part Two |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere |
| Tim Hecker Love Streams |
| Tombs Savage Gold |
| Torche Admission |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say |
| Turnstile Nonstop Feeling |
| U.S. Maple Long Hair in Three Stages |
| Unwritten Law Unwritten Law |
| Urfaust Empty Space Meditation |
| Meh. My hopes were high for this but the clean vocals don't do anything for me. |
| Vallenfyre Splinters |
| Veruca Salt American Thighs |
| Violet Cold Magic Night |
| Violet Cold Anomie |
| Vundabar Smell Smoke |
| We Lost the Sea Triumph and Disaster |
| Wreck and Reference No Youth |
| Yakuza Beyul |
| Youth Funeral See You When I See You |
| Zao Decoding Transmissions From The Möbius Strip |
