| 5.0 classic |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Anglagard Hybris |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile |
| The frantic riffing. The schizophrenic drumming. The ungodly vocals. One of the heaviest albums ever made. |
| Dawn Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy) |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Dissection The Somberlain |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane |
| Haunting melodies, heavy riffs, catchy choruses.rMelodic Black Metal doesn't get better. |
| Dystopia Human = Garbage |
| Fall of Efrafa Elil |
| Cloying at our arms, eyes wet with tears. But we will not cry for you. We will not cry for you. |
| Fall of Efrafa Inle |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
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| Judas Priest Painkiller |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Murmuure Murmuure |
| Peste Noire La Sanie des Siècles |
| PN's magnum opus, but unfortunately the best came first. |
| Phil Ochs Rehearsals for Retirement |
| Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard |
| This is disgusting, it's pornography. No, no, no. This is beautiful. This is art. |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer |
There's always something cathartic about the release of anger, something so human, so relatable, and yet still so foreign. We've all been angry, we've all felt its effects. It's dissociative, it's illogical, it's the break of rationality. Negative feelings seep in all the time, and drip, drip away into the trashbin we call self control, normally emptied out with will power so as to not cause issue. Maybe sometimes it spills, but it's never too much to clean up. But when depression, obsession, and desperation make you forget to take out the trash, those feelings can pile up, and pile up, and pile up. Cramming them down, kicking them apart, and crushing them into bits to stay bottled inside only works for so long. It begins to stink, and rot, and fester with worms, coated by the vomit of nights drinking alone to numb the pain. Tonight you have to throw away more of the demented feelings in the back of your head, and there simply isn't any room left.
This is the sound of rage personified. |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Slint Spiderland |
| The Ruins of Beverast Rain Upon the Impure |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Horses in the Sky |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
| Vektor Black Future |
| One of the finest pieces of both thrash and progressive metal of the last decade. |
| Vektor Outer Isolation |
| Vektor Terminal Redux |
| Weakling Dead as Dreams |
| Weezer Weezer |
| 4.5 superb |
| Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People |
| Amenra Mass VI |
| Amorphis Tales from the Thousand Lakes |
| Archspire Relentless Mutation |
| Ashenspire Hostile Architecture |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn |
| Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God |
| Bosse-de-Nage All Fours |
| Brockhampton SATURATION II |
| Chick goes illegally fucking hard. Gonna give myself lockjaw from how long it gave me stank face. |
| Chat Pile God's Country |
| Cirith Gorgor Onwards to the Spectral Defile |
Criminally underrated band and especially album. Amazing triumphant sounds, beautiful melodic soundscapes, and riffs for fucking days.
Listen from about 2:57 into Winter Embraces Lands Beyond to the end of the song, and tell me you don't want to air blast-beat your hands through your god damn desk at least once. |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood |
| clipping. CLPPNG |
| clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned |
| Cobalt Eater of Birds |
| David Kauffman and Eric Caboor Songs From Suicide Bridge |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum |
| Deathspell Omega Kenose |
| Deathspell Omega Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum |
| Deathspell Omega Drought |
| Dismember Like an Ever Flowing Stream |
| Dystopia The Aftermath... |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson |
| Esoctrilihum Inhüma |
| Exuma Exuma |
| Fall of Efrafa Owsla |
| Falls of Rauros The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood |
| Glen Hansard This Wild Willing |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor John Peel Sessions |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ [Vinyl] |
| His Hero Is Gone Monuments To Thieves |
| Horrendous Ecdysis |
| Horrendous Anareta |
| I Shalt Become Wanderings |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
| Kvist For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vike |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| Lamp of Murmuur The Burning Spears Of Crimson Agony |
| Leviathan A Silhouette in Splinters |
| One of Jef's most criminally underrated works. Yes this isn't black metal, but it damn sure is some of the most compelling dark ambient to come from a black metal angle. I feel as if anyone were to give a solid shake to a full album listening in a dark room they would be the better for it. |
| Lifelover Dekadens |
| Low Things We Lost in the Fire |
| Lykathea Aflame Elvenefris |
| Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavalle Perils from the Sea |
| Matt Elliott Drinking Songs |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| Mizmor Yodh |
| Morbus Chron Sweven |
| As good as it gets for prog-death. Lot more classical sound, (a la Death) as opposed to modern technical death metal. |
| Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me |
| Musk Ox Inheritance |
| Musk Ox Woodfall |
| Mutiilation Vampires of Black Imperial Blood |
| Necrophobic The Nocturnal Silence |
| Necrophobic Darkside |
| Old Nick Curse Of The Lock Master/Witch Of The Northern Vil |
| Organized Konfusion Stress: The Extinction Agenda |
| Peste Noire Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor |
| Peste Noire Phalenes et pestilence-salvatrice averse |
| Phil Ochs Pleasures of the Harbor |
| Phil Ochs I Ain't Marching Anymore |
| Polvo Today's Active Lifestyles |
| Primordial To the Nameless Dead |
| Rhinocervs RH-07 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| One of the rare instances where every last song is a shiner. |
| Rotting Christ Triarchy of The Lost Lovers |
| Sacramentum Far Away from the Sun |
| Sarpanitum Blessed Be My Brothers |
| Silencer (SWE) Death - Pierce Me |
| Spawn of Possession Incurso |
| Spectral Lore III |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway |
| Sun Kil Moon April |
| Tamas Katai Erika Szobája |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| le sad cancer love man. Seriously though, amazing album. |
| The Black Twilight Circle Desert Dances and Serpent Sermons |
| The Moaning Blood From Stone |
| The Ocean Precambrian |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward |
| Thy Catafalque Meta |
| Tomb Mold Manor of Infinite Forms |
| Album makes me want to slaughter the gods and eat the dark souls of man. |
| Tragedy Vengeance |
| Tribulation The Formulas of Death |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All |
| Ulver Perdition City |
| Ungfell Mythen, Mären, Pestilenz |
| Vali Forlatt |
| Vilkacis Beyond the Mortal Gate |
| Absolutely incredible. All the intensity you can expect from a Mike Rekevics project, but with an astonishing attention to melody and texture. Some of the most mournfully triumphant riffs you'll find anywhere in Black Metal with great vocals, fantastic songwriting, and all the bite you want in a project of this type. |
| Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter |
| Warning Watching from a Distance |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Wormrot Hiss |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss |
| 4.0 excellent |
| $uicideboy$ High Tide In The Snake's Nest |
| Abominable Putridity The Anomalies of Artificial Origin |
| Aborted Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage... |
| ACxDC Antichrist Demoncore |
| Agalloch The White |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| AJJ Knife Man |
| AJJ Can't Maintain |
| Akhlys The Dreaming I |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune |
| Alpinist Minus.Mensch |
| Amenra Mass IIII |
| Amenra Mass V |
| Amenra Mass III |
| Ancient Svartalvheim |
| Antigama The Insolent |
| Arckanum ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ |
| Arckanum Kampen |
| Arckanum Fenris Kindir |
| Arizmenda Within the Vacuum of Infinity... |
| Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation |
| Ash Borer Ash Borer |
| Batushka Litourgiya |
| Beyond Creation The Aura |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race |
| Blood of Kingu De Occulta Philosophia |
| Bloody Keep Bloody Keep |
| Blotted Science The Animation of Entomology |
| Bone Awl Meaningless Leaning Mess |
| Bones (USA-CA) PaidProgramming |
| Braveyoung We Are Lonely Animals |
| Braveyoung Will The Dust Praise You |
| Brockhampton SATURATION |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity |
| Cattle Decapitation The Harvest Floor |
| Cattle Decapitation Karma.Bloody.Karma |
| Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire Songs of Ill Hope and Desperation |
| Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire Omega Drunk on the Blood of Alpha |
| clipping. Splendor and Misery |
| Cobalt Slow Forever |
| Corbin Mourn |
| Critical Defiance Misconception |
| This album fucking rips. Although it does feature very good technical guitar work, it's not the most complex album, but it damn sure is flawless in its execution. It's everything you want in a jam album, dizzying solos, punishing riffs, and great transitions. |
| Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh |
| Crywank James Is Going To Die Soon |
| Cwealm Odes to No Hereafter |
| Cytotoxin Radiophobia |
A shining spotlight for Brutal Death Metal. These fellows perfectly mesh the
brutality of Slam, with the sweeping virtuosity of tech-death, in a controlled and calculated
way.
Definitely not game-changing in any way, but still a fun listen. |
| Cytotoxin Nuklearth |
| Darkspace Dark Space III I |
| Dead Congregation Promulgation of the Fall |
| Deathspell Omega Si Monvmentvm Reqvires Circvmspice |
| Decapitated Winds of Creation |
| Denzel Curry TA13OO |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Finisterre |
| Dissection Reinkaos |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Downfall of Nur Umbras de Barbagia |
| Drudkh Blood In Our Wells |
| Dynfari Vegferð Tímans |
| Dystopia Na! Dweller on the Threshold |
| Dystopia Na! Syklus |
| Ethereal Shroud They Became the Falling Ash |
| Exuma Exuma II |
| Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture |
| Fell Voices Untitled |
| Fell Voices Fell Voices |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Mafia |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' |
| Gris Il Était Une Forêt... |
| Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée... |
| Hath Of Rot And Ruin |
| Havok Time Is Up |
| Horn Die Kraft der Szenarien |
| Horrendous Sweet Blasphemies |
| Hyperdontia Nexus of Teeth |
| Album rips harder than the underside of labels when you try to pull them off. |
| IDYLLS Prayer for Terrene |
| Igorrr Savage Sinusoid |
| Ildjarn Ildjarn |
| Illdisposed 1 800 Vindication |
| In Flames Lunar Strain |
| In Flames Colony |
| In Flames Whoracle |
| Injury Reserve Floss |
| Man this goes hard as fuck.rGreat flows, great bars, great diversity, and fantastic production. |
| Insect Warfare World Extermination |
| John Carpenter Escape From New York |
| Jute Gyte Perdurance |
| Kekht Arakh Pale Swordsman |
| Kekht Arakh Night & Love |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted |
| Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life |
| Lifeless (RUS) Insider |
| Hailing from Samara, Russia, ?Lifeless? is the brainchild of composer Sviatoslav Natalevich. With its first rrelease coming in late 2014, Lifeless is a rather young project, though now at its 6th album (including 4 rLPs, 1 EP, and a Compilation), it?s been a rather productive one.rOpening with ambient weather sounds, slowly seguing into mournful synth strings, ?Nowhere? perfectlyrsets the mood for the album to come, emotional and melancholy. A fell voice echoes in the background,rrambling incoherent words, rising and falling until the track ends, and marches into the next. Much of rthe album has a videogame-esque feel to it, creating images of isolation and loneliness. To me itrconjures picture of a dark and depressing walk, on a long forgotten boardwalk in a coastal town ; therdock is empty of life, and fog rolls in from all angles, your head hung low and you listen to the wavesrslowly crashing against the rocks. The instrumentation is mostly electronic, but the composer takesrgreat variance to the sounds used, ranging from piano, to organ, to strings, to droning ambient and rfound samples. |
| Listener Return to Struggleville |
| Great backwoods feel, with deep and honest lyrics. |
| Listener Wooden Heart |
| Listener Time Is A Machine |
| Lord Belial Enter The Moonlight Gate |
| Low I Could Live in Hope |
| M.A.G.S. M.A.G.S. |
| Maquahuitl Blood of Kings and Ancestral Might |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes |
| Misthyrming Algleymi |
| Mithotyn In the Sign of the Ravens |
| Mother Brain Rise And Grind |
| Mother of Graves Where the Shadows Adorn |
| Musk Ox Musk Ox |
| Naglfar Vittra |
| Nails Abandon All Life |
| Näo Näo |
| Neuraxis A Passage into Forlorn |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires |
| Nightfall Athenian Echoes |
| Nocturnal Depression Reflections of a Sad Soul |
| Novo Amor Birthplace |
| Oathbreaker Rheia |
| Off The Beaten Tracks A New Perspective |
| Old Nick The Night Of The Ambush . . . |
| Old Nick Haunted Loom!!! |
| Old Nick Iam Vampire Castle |
| Old Nick Ghost O'Clock |
| Old Nick Crisp Winter Dawn of my Night Moon |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Muukalainen Puhuu |
| Origin Antithesis |
| Panopticon Panopticon |
| Panopticon Roads to the North |
| Panopticon The Rime of Memory |
| Peste Noire L'Ordure a l'etat Pur |
| Peste Noire Lorraine Rehearsal |
| Peste Noire Peste Noire |
| Phil Ochs All The News That's Fit to Sing |
| Polvo Exploded Drawing |
| Portal ION |
| Primitive Man Scorn |
| Primitive Man Home Is Where The Hatred Is |
| Ramshackle Glory Die The Nightmare |
| Ramshackle Glory Live The Dream |
| Rhinocervs RH-11 |
| Rise Against Revolutions per Minute |
| Rotten Sound Exit |
| You want heavy as balls grindcore? This is heavy as balls grindcore. |
| Rotten Sound Murderworks |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Saligia Sic Transit Gloria Mundi |
| Saor Aura |
| Emotional, haunting, and beautiful.rA truly memorable experience. |
| Sargeist Let The Devil In |
| Sear Bliss The Haunting |
| Septicflesh The Great Mass |
| Skagos Anarchic |
| Slaegt Demo |
| Slaegt Beautiful and Damned |
| Slint Slint |
| Soen Cognitive |
| Spawn of Possession Noctambulant |
| Spectral Lore II |
| Syndrome Now And Forever |
| Syndrome Syndrome |
| Terra Deep Inamorata |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual |
| The Meads of Asphodel The Excommunication of Christ |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Kollaps Tradixionales |
| Thy Catafalque Tuno Ido Tarlat |
| One of the most original musical experiences I've heard in a while. I can guarantee you've never heard anything like this before. |
| Thy Catafalque Geometria |
| Thy Serpent Death |
| Timeghoul Panaramic Twilight |
| Tragedy Tragedy |
| Tragedy Can We Call This Life |
| Traveler (CAN) Traveler |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still |
| Unanimated Ancient God of Evil |
| Unanimated In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead |
| Undeath Lesions of a Different Kind |
| Urfaust Geist Ist Teufel |
| Ustalost The Spoor Of Vipers |
| Vermin Womb Permanence |
Ex-CTTTOAFF and Scourge Schematic members join together and make a heavy fucking EP. Like
Primitive Man if they played at about twice the tempo, which is fitting considering they have the
same guitarist/vocalist.
Absolutely vicious and demoralizing stuff. |
| Vilkacis The Fever of War |
| Vreid Kraft |
| Weeping Sores False Confession |
| Incredibly good album. A fantastic mix of disjointed and angular (but still calculated) death riffs and the plodding, earthly riffs of doom. Add in vocals that work perfectly with the mix, and a heavy dose of depressing and melodic sounds atop mournful string and violin work and this one becomes one tasty soup of beautiful, brutal agony. |
| Westelaken The Golden Days are Hard |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason |
| Woods of Desolation As the Stars |
| Wormrot Dirge |
| Wormrot Abuse |
| Xanthochroid Incultus |
| Xanthochroid Blessed He With Boils |
| Yellow Eyes Silence Threads the Evening's Cloth |
| Yellow Eyes Stillicide |
| Yellow Eyes Immersion Trench Reverie |
| Yellow Eyes Rare Field Ceiling |
| Young and in the Way I Am Not What I Am |
| Young and in the Way V. Eternal Depression |
| Young and in the Way Amen |
| 1.5 very poor |
| Abominable Putridity In the End of Human Existence |
The absolute epitome of brutality over substance, which in this case actually works to the
detriment of how heavy the result is. While it can be lauded that these Russian fellows
attempted a full balls to the wall approach, trying to create a cacophonous mix of
headbanging goodness, it falls flat in the end due to its simplicity. The heaviness of music
can only stretch so far within the confines of incredibly simplified instrumentation and an
overly banal vocal approach. Chug, chug, burp, chug, chug, burp, rinse and repeat for 26
minutes. |
| All That Remains For We Are Many |
| Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream |
| Asking Alexandria From Death to Destiny |
| Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King |
| Betraying the Martyrs Phantom |
| Blessthefall His Last Walk |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit |
| Cattle Decapitation Human Jerky |
| The first official release EP from Deathgrind kings Cattle Decapitation is sub-par at best. The songwriting is chaotic, but not in a good way, and even for grind, the songs lack cohesiveness. No standout tracks at all, as they seem to all blur together into a forgettable frenzy of buzzing guitars, blast beats, and screaming. |
| Cattle Decapitation Ten Torments of the Damned |
| Chelsea Grin My Damnation |
| Chelsea Grin Evolve |
| Cryptopsy The Unspoken King |
| Emmure Slave To The Game |
| Ghost Bath Starmourner |
| Godsmack The Oracle |
| Godsmack IV |
| Gorgoroth Under the Sign of Hell 2011 |
| Havok Conformicide |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns |
| Nickelback The State |
| Nickelback The Long Road |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons |
| Pentatonix PTX Vol. II |
| The Bunny The Bear The Stomach for It |
| The Bunny The Bear A Liar Wrote This |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord |
| Waking The Cadaver Beyond Cops, Beyond God |
| Waking The Cadaver Real-Life Death |
