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5.0 classic
And Also The Trees (Listen for) the Rag and Bone Man
And Also The Trees Further from the Truth
And Also The Trees Green Is The Sea
This album feels and sounds like you are in the most wonderful dream possible and you don't want
to wake up. Sometimes it's hard to think how this album can exist. Sometimes it makes me feel as
if the songs on this album can only exist in it, but not outside that beautiful world.
It also has an atmosphere that makes me imagine I am in a big cemetery at 1pm on a sunny day with
colourful flowers everywhere between the graves.

It is more keyboard heavy than the other 4 albums of their first era.
And Also The Trees Virus Meadow
Every time I listen to Virus Meadow I feel happy I can visit the imaginary places and people which
all appear in this album again. Lyrically they're my all-time favourite band.
And Also The Trees Farewell to the Shade
Diary of Dreams Psychoma
I will never understand some of the ratings here. This is for me DoD at their finest. Whenever I
listen to this album the atmosphere always gets me. It's one of those cases, where the album cover
fits perfectly with the music. Most songs have a deep blue dreamy atmosphere and for me personally
this album is a classic. Even the worst song "Methusalem" is very good.

favourite songs:

1. TranceFormation Baby / never'Freeze
3. (ver)gift(et) / Wild / Luna(-tic)
6. You(-das) / E.-dead-Motion / Never!Land / End(Giftet) / Drop Dead
11. Methusalem / Touch
Diary of Dreams End Of Flowers
I really can't understand some ratings here. Psychoma and End Of Flowers to me are by far DoD's
best albums and deserve 4.0-4.5 ratings. I love the different atmospheres of both albums.
This is also one of the most melancholic and maybe even romantic albums they did.
This is a perfect october album.

People like this idiot Willie shouldn't rate darkwave albums. If this was an european site and not
american, DoD and others like Diorama for example would have a much higher rating. Genres like
darkwave, EBM, futurepop, ambient, british post-punk would also get much more attention on an
european site because they have much more fans everywhere in europe be it germany, serbia,
netherlands, poland, russia, italy, belgium and so on.
Echo and The Bunnymen Heaven Up Here
Entheogenic Enthymesis
So far I had their self-titled first album, Spontaneous Illumination and Dreamtime Physics. I wanted a 4th great album of them. Alas Flight Of The Urubus still has not convinced me enough. Then I checked out this album here two days ago. I was very surprised, everything sounds great and on its right place. The acoustic guitar, the voices and especially all the electronic sounds.rThis is by far their most spacey sounding album, but still psychedelic. I did not expect this to be that overwhelming but it is. Sometimes it is hard to hold the tears back because I can't believe this album exists.
Fractured Only Human Remains
It was my first EBM album ever in december 2005 (next to Matter + Form by VNV Nation) and it changed everything. It brought me away from listening only to 80s, alternative rock and nu metal. Thanks to it I discovered more and more EBM & other electro bands and albums. It was excellent back then and it still is one of my most favourite electronic albums. Every song has its own life and atmosphere. This is one of those albums that never lost anything of its magic.
And no, there's no weak song or filler on it. I love every song for what it is.
If there is something to criticize, it's the track order. I listen to them in a different order. But that is really only a small thing.
Gong You
Gong Angel's Egg
Gridlock Formless
This will forever be one of my all time favourite electronic albums. Of electronic music I like
ambient, psybient & psychill, darkwave, EBM, industrial, futurepop, IDM, trip-hop, field
recordings and a few others. Formless has a certain atmosphere that will always suck me in.
Atmosphere is one of the most important things in music for me and it lets my imagination run
wild.
Lunatic Soul Walking on a Flashlight Beam
Excellent album for november and even more for december, it's now 9 years since I discovered it and it still hasn't lost any of its magic. I just completely feel the atmosphere in every of the 9 songs. If only Stars Sellotaped was 3-4 minutes longer, it's wonderful but too short. That's the only negative thing I can say about this album.

As always I don't care about other people's opinions (I don't even look at their lists), this album is a classic in my music world. This is just a wonderful album to get lost in.

Of course it's not a perfect album, but "classic" albums don't need to be perfect to be "classic".
Meshuggah Nothing
Mystical Sun 26000
a well deserved 4.5 from me. This album is like a big adventure, a journey into a jungle. "Whirlpool" is when you get there, "Place Of Refuge" when you discover a sea in there, "Immersion" when you swim and wash yourself in there and the waterfall nearby. "Canopy" is when you discover a great view at a cliff.
Neuroticfish Antidoron
what a great discovery and this album will accompany me through my favourite season autumn / fall.
A futurepop artist who releases his best album ever in 2018, after existing for over 20 years is
very rare, and I really love Les Chansons Neurotiques (2002) and Gelb (2005) is solid.rBut the
grey november-like atmosphere on Antidoron is something I really enjoy and I love to get lost into
this album. One of my favourite discovered albums of 2019.

edit from september the 28th: Congratulations to Antidoron! It's number 4 in my new list and I
hope this album will be honoured many more times. Looking forward to late december there will be a
top discoveries list from 2019!!
Opposition Breaking The Silence
An absolute post-punk classic. Already in 1981 on this album they had a sound and a very thick november-atmosphere that The Chameleons would be known for too, 2 years later (with a classic album of their own, and similarly 1986 Strange Times).rI'm thankful and lucky to have the remastered version of Breaking The Silence, the production is incredible and makes the rainy / foggy atmosphere stand out even more.
Ozric Tentacles Jurassic Shift
Ozric Tentacles Arborescence
Sad Lovers and Giants Feeding the Flame
Skinny Puppy VIVIsectVI
sleepmakeswaves Love of Cartography
After only 5 days of listening this album has made it to "classic" and I feel it will never
change. The magic will never fade. This brings me to another planet where this album is legendary,
sold millions and the first 2 songs on it were number one singles.
The planet is more progressive, peaceful and optimistic, and the night sky always is a mix of
black, purple and dark blue, it's also roughly 24 hours a day but
there it's always cold, late autumn-like with only 6 hours of daylight
Here a song rating (only the 8 main songs):

1. Perfect Detonator 5.0
2. Traced In Constellations 5.0
3. Emergent 4.9
4. Great Northern 5.0
5. The Stars Are Stigmata 4.7
6. How We Built The Ocean 4.9
7. Something Like Avalanches 4.8
8. Your Time Will Come Again 5.0

I can't believe it myself but that's really how I rate the songs, might be one of my highest rated
albums ever (9.8 of 10). Some might come close like And Also The Trees - Virus Meadow, Ulcerate -
Everything Is Fire, Wire - 154, Sleepmakeswaves - Made Of Breath Only and a few others
sleepmakeswaves Made Of Breath Only
It's really incredible that they managed to follow up the immense Love Of Cartography with an
album like this. I tried to go into this album with as little expectation as possible, only
checked it out after more than half a year after LoC.

While LoC ruled everything in 2020 when I discovered it (And I discovered many amazing albums btw)
this year Made Of Breath Only did the same and is on first place in my 2021 list, followed by
bands like Daylight Dies (Dismantling Devotion) etc.

I love the glacial and frosty atmosphere on the album. What a journey this album is!

edit:

yes while of course it's not a perfect album by any means I had to bump it up from 4.5 to 5.0
(Love Of Cartography has the same rating since 5 days after I discovered it in 2020) because the
world it takes me to is just too immense and beautiful. I still just can't get over those 2
albums, at least in my world they're classics. Now I need to check out their 1st one at some
point.
The Chameleons Script of the Bridge
The Comsat Angels Sleep No More
Ufomammut Snailking
It's just wonderful space doom, and the perfect starting point for people new to this band. I also love the production. What I also always appreciate is the electronic sounds that add a lot to the atmosphere.
Ulcerate Everything Is Fire
VNV Nation Matter and Form
Had to change this album from 4.5 to 5.0. It IS a classic to me and in december 2005 it was one of my personal landmark albums (next to Only Human Remains by Fractured) and both album changed everything in my music world back then.rAll songs are great, the weakest song is Colours Of Rain but all other are amazing and the album never lost anything of its magic.
Wire 154

4.5 superb
65daysofstatic One Time for All Time
Absurd Minds The Focus
Absurd Minds Damn The Lie
Access to Arasaka Oppidan
Acumen Nation Anticore
I always like those heavily distorted e-guitars (which were usually used in the mid 90's by many
us-coldwave (you can also call it "machine rock") bands where Acumen Nation also came from).

This album isn't less great than The 5ifth Column, just less accessible and less catchy, also only
4 of 15 songs have the 3rd chorus, it helps keep the songs fresh.

Also I love the small little details the electronic sounds create and the way the vocalist sings.
It's industrial metal, but it sounds different from "normal" industrial metal bands.
Acumen Nation Psycho the Rapist
Aesthetic Perfection Close to Human
Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain
Agalloch The Mantle
Alva Noto Xerrox Vol. 2
Another nice ambient album. My first of this artist. I like all songs, only "Xerrox Meta Phaser"
needs to grow on me, that song is very noisy.

Often I have that feeling that I just can't discover enough great atmospheric electronic artists
and albums.rThis album takes me to a sheltered and isolated place where no one can find me.

Favourite songs:

1. Xerrox Phaser Acat 1
2. Xerrox Sora
3. Xerrox Teion & Xerrox Teion Acat
4. Xerrox Monophaser 2
5. Xerrox Soma
6. Xerrox Tek Part 1 / Xerrox Monophaser 1
8. Xerrox Monophaser 3
9. Xerrox Meta Phaser
Alva Noto Univrs
Alva Noto Unitxt
American Head Charge The War Of Art
What an amazingly well-written album for the nu metal genre. 10 of 16 songs only have 2 choruses.
Many songs have nice twists and go somewhere else after the 1st or 2nd chorus. You wouldn't
normally expect that in this genre. You can hear in most songs how much effort they put into
keeping the songs interesting.

Also the electronic sounds in the background add a lot to the atmosphere, which sometimes even
feels a bit futuristic to me (Just So You Know, Effigy 23 and some of the songs following that
one)

I guess I just have to dig deeper into the nu metal genre to find a gem like this one. Or just
keep on discovering albums of genres I like much more (doom metal, black, death, post-, djent,
metalcore etc). I still have a heart for this genre, and discovering this album today means a lot
to me.
Amon Tobin Supermodified
An Autumn Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love
And Also The Trees Born Into The Waves
And Also The Trees Hunter not the Hunted
And Also The Trees Silver Soul
Like The Klaxon and Angelfish this album is completely different from all other albums they did. Still for me this is still a very strong album. This time it has a certain atmosphere, it makes me think I'm visiting the Jones brothers (vocalist and guitarist of this band), they live in a house somewhere on the hill and it's like a time travel, they have a real Amiga 500 and other things from the 90s and a bed where I can sleep. I wish it was real.
And Also The Trees The Millpond Years
And Also The Trees The Klaxon
Favourite songs on it:

1. Wooden Leg
2. The Flatlands / The Soul Driver
4. Dialogue / Sunrise / Jonny Lexington / The Dutchman
8. Sickness Divine
9. Bullet Head
And Also The Trees The Bone Carver
And Also The Trees Mother​-​of​-​pearl Moon
Apogean Cyberstrictive
Architect (DE) Consume Adapt Create
Architrav Arctic Museum
All 11 songs are great, although I think that the first 4 and song 6 are my favourites.rThis album is on the icy cold side of ambient (even if not "arctic" ambient like Biosphere sometimes). It has an atmosphere that sends me to an isolated frozen place with no one else around. Also, because of the very cold electronic sounds it sometimes helps against hot summer days. It's unfortunate that this artist is so unknown but it makes me feel happy that I discovered this album 10 years ago.
Arcturus The Sham Mirrors
Atoma Skylight
I'm glad someone recommended me this album after I loved the icy / frosty atmosphere in "Antares"
by Sybreed. This album is even colder. Everything is coated in ice, the keyboards and synths, even
the drums and the guitar.


I can never get enough of icy cold music, no matter which genre (ambient, some early 80's post-
punk and new wave or metal). For over 14 days already does this album rule my music world together
with Sybreed - Antares. This is why I love discovering bands and albums.
August Burns Red Rescue & Restore
Autistici Amplified Presence
Autumn's Grey Solace Within the Depths of a Darkened Forest
Bark Psychosis Hex
Bauhaus In The Flat Field
Bauhaus Mask
Bauhaus Bela Lugosi's Dead
Benton Falls Fighting Starlight
Biosphere Substrata
Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Black Sabbath Master Of Reality
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Bob Marley and The Wailers Natty Dread
Bob Marley and The Wailers Burnin'
Buckethead Population Override
Carbon Based Lifeforms World Of Sleepers
This is like Water Ambient for me. All the songs are excellent and I usually listen to the first 10 of them in a row. Whenever something gets too much for me to bear this album is perfect to listen to as it helps me to calm down and feel better again. Most songs sound like as if you're underwater and I love the atmosphere. This is one of my most favourite ambient albums.

And yes, the album artwork fits perfectly, as if the artists were thinking the same as me, it makes you feel as if you were underwater.
Carbon Based Lifeforms Hydroponic Garden
Clan of Xymox Medusa
Coldworld Melancholie²
Colour Haze CO2
Covenant Europa
Cross My Heart Temporary Contemporary
Crowbar Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form
Crowbar Odd Fellows Rest
Crowbar Zero And Below
What a great return! When you get a new album of Crowbar, of course you know what you'll get. They just can't disappoint. Also, it's their first album since their deubt album from 1991 where no single song has the 3rd chorus.rNext thing I really like is the album artwork, my favourite of them so far in that aspect.
Cyanotic Transhuman 2.0
Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger
David Bowie Low
Daylight Dies Dismantling Devotion
Amazing discovery. I really feel the atmosphere and the guitar melodies and riffs add a lot to it.
Atmosphere wise the album feels different from other doom metal albums.
It has a mystic and futuristic touch that brings me to the positive and
progressive sleepmakeswaves planet.

Also all 8 songs are very nicely structured with interesting twists thrown in.
Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Death Human
Deathspell Omega Paracletus
Deftones Koi No Yokan
Deftones White Pony
Deftones Ohms
Destroid Loudspeaker
Diary of Dreams Cholymelan
Diary of Dreams Elegies in Darkness
Die Sektor To Be Fed Upon
Great discovery for me! Only knew Applied Structure In A Void from them, which is very different,
with many great small little details and nice atmospheres.

This one here has very nice structured songs, almost always avoid the 3rd chorus and the shortest
vocal song is 5:37, all others are over 6 minutes and one almost 6 minutes.
It's typical dark electro / aggrotech but I still love the autumnal atmosphere, and as often the
trance influences are important there.

I also really like the 3 instrumental songs, they fit nice with the overall atmosphere. Should
have discovered this album years ago. Never grow tired of dark electro or others like futurepop
and EBM.

Favourite songs:

1. Follow The Screams
2. Through Glass / The Beating Of Broken Wings
4. Deathkill / Mother Hunger / In The Arms Of Eternity
7. When Porcelain Bleeds / To Be Fed Upon / Revelation None
10. Prey To The Razor / All Turns White

All 11 songs are of course great!
Die Sektor (-)Existence(+)
Die Verbannten Kinder Evas Die Verbannten Kinder Evas
While neoclassical darkwave isn't normally one of my favourite kinds of darkwave, there are
exceptions. Especially Dead Can Dance, Arcana and this band.
It's always great to get lost into this album, and I love it that it's a very long one.


It's always a nice feeling when I dig this album out again once or twice in a few months. I'm
thankful that mp3 files can't break so the sound quality can't suddenly decrease even after 14
years.rMusic is like a miracle to me and I'm glad everything'S still there after I wake up the
next day.
Diorama Amaroid
Diorama A Different Life
My #3 all time favourite band. I always loved their darkwave / synthpop hybrid. Nice dreamy sounds
and atmosphere and Torben Wendt is a great vocalist and lyricist especially when compared to other
darkwave, futurepop and EBM bands.rThis album grew on me over the years and now it's up there with
their best albums.
Also, as great as Synthesize Me is, there are even stronger songs on the album like 10.000 Meter
Waves and Blessed and some on the same high level like Colder, Kein Mord, No Tears, Sands. The
rest is very good too.
Diorama Cubed
Diorama Her Liquid Arms
Diorama The Art Of Creating Confusing Spirits
Diorama Tiny Missing Fragments
Dismantled PostNuclear
Dismantled Dismantled
I just can't get enough of those futuristic atmospheres...Many albums in genres like electro-
industrial, futurepop and aggrotech / dark electro have them, same with other wonderful genres
like IDM & glitch (especially those) and some metal (not only industrial metal like Cyanotic,
Acumen Nation and Fear Factory, even Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion at least to me has it).

It is always great to get lost in this kind of atmosphere. Watching sci-fi movies and then
imagining Dismantled or VNV Nation or IDM songs in them, it's fascinating.
The songs on this album here are also wonderfully structured, always avoiding normal 3 chorus
routines (Extirpation being the exception but even that song is great).
Displacer Moon_Phase
I'm extremely thankful I found another 2 amazing idm & glitch albums!! Aphorism (idm) - Surge and
this one.
The atmosphere takes me to an abandoned spaceship where I am with few other people I know from
work, many things are broken but the ship is very big and there are many wonderful places and
rooms on it! It's a coincidence that both albums have very similar atmosphere fitting for this
adventure.

Also A coincidence: a week ago I downloaded the game System Shock 2 (1999) from steam, a game
playing on a spaceship.

There are no bad songs on Moon_Phase, it's great to listen to all songs in a row, all the small
details that suddenly appear are fascinating and once again I can get lost in an album like this
very easy (I have over 100 great atmospheric electronic albums (I mean those without permanent
vocals, still loving others like EBM, industrial, futurepop, trip-hop with vocals etc) I listen to
from time to time. Especially at work, but also at home when I'm just browsing
pictures on google for example.
Draconian Arcane Rain Fell
Draconian Where Lovers Mourn
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Electric Orange Morbus
Electric Wizard Dopethrone
Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail
Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse
Enshine Singularity
Entheogenic Entheogenic
Entheogenic Spontaneous Illumination
Entombed Left Hand Path
Entombed Clandestine
ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) Enhancer
Even after over 10 years this album this holds up well, and it's different from many other harsh
electro albums, it has more a spring-like atmosphere than an autumnal one.
And the yellow album artwork looks great and fits perfect with the sounds on the album. More
melodic than other albums of the genre most songs also have nice twists to avoid standard 3 chorus
routines.

Favourite songs:

1. Waste Of Ammo
2. Needle Catwalk / Architecture / Alpha Male
5. Deathtrap Circus / Despise / Heartware 2.0 / 0.26 Bladefucked
9. Attention Whore / Wrong Way / Totes Licht / Reptile
Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Pale Hands I Loved So Well
Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Rust Red September
This is one of 9 albums I have of this amazing band.
When I listen to this album, I can smell the colourful leaves when they fall to the ground,
because it's a nice early autumn album. They have a pleasant scent.

They might have been called a post-punk band, but same as And Also The Trees, both never really
were close to typical bands of that genre, and also didn't care about that, both have their own
unique sound and somehow it felt like both were in their own musical world. It's incredible both
are still active and releasing amazing albums! The Trees started in 1979, EiG in early 1980.
Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Song Of The Beautiful Wanton
This is one of their best since they came back in the mid 90's. I'm thankful I have 9 albums of
them now, they're my #4 band of all time.rFavourite songs:
1. Sorrow Loves Yr Laughter
2. Staring
3. Dearsong
4. Old And Cold And Full Of Ghosts
5. One Light Then
6. Lullay My Liking
7. Mysterious Traffic
8. Less Sky, The Lovely Wanton
10. Among The Blue Flower And The Yellow
Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Sun Blues
I'm really glad I downloaded this album for 9,99 euro on amazon after I thought about it for a few
days. Eyeless In Gaza are one of my all time top 4 bands and so far I had 8 albums of them. After
the second listen Sun Blues exploded, suddenly I love all the songs on it.


All the small details like the electronic sounds, the bass guitar, the sax which in one song
sounds like a seagull, add to the atmosphere that I really feel.


The first releases were in 1980, this is 36 years later and this album can easily hold its own
against their best albums. I didn't expect that, and it proves that good albums are worth much
more than 9 euro (I'm from germany) because they can stay with you for the rest of your life.
Eyeless In Gaza (UK) All Under the Leaves, the Leaves of Life
Farflung A Wound In Eternity
Fear Factory Genexus
Fractured Beneath The Ashes
Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation
Gel-Sol Unifactor
This album is like as if the artist had an epic and very long dream at night about visiting a
strange but wonderful world where everything is colourful, with weird inhabitants (like orange
scissor people or cube goblins for example) of that world
and highly imaginative places and stuff to visit and use everywhere. Telekinesis, levitation and
other things are possibe there too.

And after waking up he was able to put this dream into sound and made a whole album of it. Of
course I only imagine it but the album indeed has a wonderful atmosphere which makes me visit that
world for the duration of the album.

I'm glad I dug this album out after many years. It's december now, it feels much more like a sunny
spring / summer album.
Geomatic 64 Light Years Away
Really great stuff! I'm thankful I dug out this artist after 10 years, all the time I had this
album but never took the time for it.

Amazing sound design, interesting atmospheres, and the tribal elements are still there. Often a
spacey feeling, sometimes futuristic, mixed with middle eastern elements.

Genres: dark ambient, tribal industrial, IDM & glitch (although quite a bit different from most
IDM artists).
Godflesh Streetcleaner
Godflesh Godflesh
Gojira From Mars to Sirius
Gojira The Way of All Flesh
Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage
Gong Gazeuse! (Expresso)
Gong Camembert Electrique
Grizzly Bear Yellow House
Haloblack Throb
Hammock Kenotic
Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo
Hank Mobley Roll Call
Haujobb Polarity
Hecq Scatterheart
Great to listen to when it's still dark and early at work.

Favourite songs:

1. Coup De Lune
2. Suck
3. Trivia / Iso
5. Fdk
6. Field / Doraccle
8. Holler
9. Flood Me / Road North
11. Midnight Generator
Hecq Night Falls
Hocico Memorias Atras
Hocico Tiempos De Furia
I should have checked out this album many years ago. Loving Memorias Atras and Wrack And Ruin for
many years now but instead of trying out this one here I went for other albums which have weaker
songs too.

Tiempos De Furia on the other hand is really well done and quite consistent. Excellently
structured songs, only one 3 chorus song. That is one aspect I love about the average dark electro
/ aggrotech (but futurepop too) album.

There is no weak song on it, no song that I would skip every time.
There are also great atmospheres to be found. Sound and production very good. Most songs are also
quite powerful.

Also I think this album / band (or the genre in general) could also be liked / loved by metalheads
(like black or death metal lovers for example).
HORSE the band Desperate Living
Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness
Immortal Pure Holocaust
In Flames Colony
In Strict Confidence Love Kills!
I am always fascinated by music with icy cold sounds and atmosphere. Songs like "Heaven Is The Place To Be" are perfect examples of that. I can never get enough of frosty electronic stuff.
In Strict Confidence Exile Paradise
In Strict Confidence Face the Fear
In Strict Confidence Zauberschloss
Inquisition Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient
Integral Rise
Integral The Past Is My Shadow
This is amazing stuff! Loving their first one "Rise" for over a year and 9 months already, this
one here has a different, darker atmosphere, and an immense sound palette compared to Rise.

It's over 2 hours long, but it never gets boring, every of the 18 songs has something that makes
it stand out. It is a whole new world for me to explore, vast futuristic landscapes everywhere,
fascinating adventures I will have with this album. This is why I love discovering IDM, psybient &
ambient albums, just when you think you have heard everything, there is something new around the
corner.

Also, it's not electronic-only, some organic instruments do appear too in many songs.
ISIS Oceanic
ISIS Panopticon
ISIS Wavering Radiant
Jesu Terminus
Jordan Rudess Feeding the Wheel
I'm thankful I discovered that he releases solo albums, Feeding The Wheel is my first of him and I
love all the electronic sounds on it. I always like keyboard & synthesizer in rock & metal music.
Of course John Petrucci is in 4 songs but that's a great thing.

Favourite songs:

1. Ucan Icon
2. Crack The Meter
3. Quantum Soup
4. Revolving Door, Dreaming In Titanium
6. Feed The Wheel
7. Interstices, Shifting Sands
9. Headspace
Joy Division Substance
Joy Division Closer
Judas Iscariot To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding
Damn this album is highly addictive. And when I start the first song, I could never skip a single song until I'm through. All 9 amazing in their own way. Loving the riffs. Simple but very effective. Last song is absolutely nuts!
Katatonia Brave Murder Day
Kick Bong Flower Power
Killing Joke What's THIS For...!
Kim Wilde Select
I'm glad I checked this album out, as all 10 songs are very enjoyable after first listen. I like
the sound more than on the first album, it's much more electronic (but still has that new wave
feeling that I love), and everything sounds icy and frosty, the atmosphere, the sound, the
instruments, even Kim's voice often sounds chilly. It feels almost like as if it's snowing in my
earphones.
That's what I love about this album and at least 4 songs don't even have the 3rd chorus and I also
like the very fast songs that are on it. Also as always it's great that the bass guitar is usually
audible.
Leviathan The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide
Leviathan Tentacles of Whorror
Life Cried Drawn and Quartered
Very nice album, nice sounds and atmosphere! Having another harsh / dark electro phase right now,
reminds me of 2007 and 2008 where that and futrepop were two of my main genres on last.fm.
Favourite songs:

1. Guardian
2. Sacrilege
3. Living Hell
4. Rage (Dying Existence)
5. Hallowed Be Thy Name
6. As We Decay, Stale, Darkest Eyes
9. Burnt To Ashes
10. Waiting For An End
Lifelover Konkurs
Loscil Endless Falls
just another great ambient album. There are too many amazing atmospheric electronic albums I know. This one takes me far away. While I'm listening to this album nothing can harm or touch me, In my mind I'm in a different place, wonderful and isolated, no one can find me there.rI like that in every song there are sounds that are with me for the whole song, I don't want them to leave me. I wish I could get the vinyl only songs Graupel and Kinematics.
Lycia A Day in the Stark Corner
Lycia Cold
Lycia Quiet Moments
Great atmosphere, takes me to a barren wasteland where it is always foggy and no one can reach me
there.

I wish I can visit that place whenever I want.
Lycia Estrella
Magazine No Thyself
This deserves a better rating than 3.3. Maybe 3.8 or 3.9 would be more fair. This album isn't less
great than their first two albums. I still love the clever song structures in most songs.

For me it is better than "The Correct Use Of Soap" because that album was too light for me
sometimes, but it still had great lyrics.
Magazine Secondhand Daylight
Magazine Real Life
Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame
Maps and Diagrams Antennas And Signals
I'm really glad and thankful that I found this album. Didn't know the artist before. This is
one
of those cases, where the album cover fits perfectly with the music and the atmosphere in it.


It's very dreamy and peaceful. The songs tend to sound similar but still, every song has
something
that keeps it interesting. It's perfect to listen to while watching stars at night or with the
pale moonlight coming into the room.
This album makes me think of Monkey Island 1, especially Meathook's house and his bed on the
second floor directly under and next to the window.

I love it when an idm album is ambient-like so that it's rich on atmosphere.

Favourite songs:

1. Man In The Moon & People Of The Valley (listened in a row)
2. We All Felt Seasick
3. Suisai
4. Lumen Landscapes
5. Just Beyond Träskmossen
6. The Same Day, Yesterday
7. Footprints And Secrets
8. The Machine That Changed The World
9. Meet Me At Slussen
10. Fiberbundles
Meshuggah obZen
Meshuggah Koloss
Miles Davis Kind of Blue
Mist of Misery Severance
Mnemonic (GER) Monokultur
Monolake Ghosts
My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours
Mystical Sun Energy Mind Consciousness
New Order Movement
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
Nik Kershaw Human Racing
He will always be one of my mainstream-80's heroes. His face and voice somehow remind me of Gadget
of Chip & Dale rescue rangers (the female mouse), I don't know why. His first 2 albums (both from
1984) are really good, all 20 songs very listenable and the lyrics are really clever sometimes
compared to other mainstream artists of the mid 80's. I wish I try his later albums some day.
Also I like his name, "Nik Kershaw" is a perfect name for the year 1984.
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral
Oresund Space Collective The Black Tomato
What an amazing psychedelic album and adventure!
And I am glad both songs before Viking Cleaner are cut into 5 and 3 parts, it's easier for me to
listen to the whole album that way.

I'm extremely thankful I discovered many great psychedelic bands & artists (rock and electronic
like psybient & psydub). Many are hard to find but the ones I have will stay with me for the rest
of my life.
Ott Skylon
Ozric Tentacles Erpland
Ozric Tentacles Strangeitude
Ozric Tentacles Become the Other
Favourite songs ranking:

1. Vibuthi
2. Wob Glass / Plurnstyle / Ahu Belahu
5. Neurochasm / Cat DNA
7. Ghedengi / Become The Other

But as with every album of them from 1989 to 2000 there is no weak song, I always love every song
on every album from that timeline.
Ozric Tentacles Waterfall Cities
Ozric Tentacles The Hidden Step
Pain of Salvation The Perfect Element, Part 1
Pere Ubu The Art Of Walking
Finally got time to check this album out after years of only having Dub Housing and New Picnic
Time (both amazing, NPT even one of my top 10 all time favourite post-punk albums).
This one here is even more strange and experimental. And I'm glad Allan Ravenstine (synths) gets
even more spotlight on The Art Of Walking. After some listens the album unfolds more and more.

Song ratings:

1. Go (4.1)
2. Rhapsody In Pink (4.3)
3. Arabia (4.2)
4. Young Miles In The Basement (4.0)
5. Misery Goats (4.7)
6. Loop (4.4)
7. Rounder (3.9)
8. Birdies (4.7)
9. Lost In Art (4.6)
10. Horses (3.9)
11. Crush This Horn (4.3)

Rating: 4.28. I still rate the album 4.5 because I love to listen the whole album, it brings me to
nice colourful and weird places in my mind (also the sound and atmosphere reminds me somehow of
the graphics in James Pond 2 Robocod, an Amiga 500 game).

I also found the song Arabian Knights, it's very similar to Arabia, just with David's vocals.
(4.2)
Pere Ubu New Picnic Time
Can't someone make a review about this album? Well I can't believe New Picnic Time now is one of my most played albums. Was hard to get into it but now that I love all 10 songs it's almost easy listening for me. I love every single sound and everything about how David sings no matter how weird he does it. The synthesizer and guitar are also very well used together. It even entered my all time top 10 post-punk albums list on sputnikmusic and there's no end in sight!
PIG Praise The Lard
A wonderful album perfect for spring (like Revolting Cocks - Beers Steers & Queers for example).
You can clearly hear the influences of J. G. Thirlwell (Foetus), especially the lyrics but also
the sound. I really like the clever lyrics here and the song structures.
It doesn't matter who does what better, just stop comparing you idiots and just enjoy the albums
for what they are or you will end up only liking maybe 50-60 albums instead of 900 albums like me.
Pink Floyd Meddle
Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pride and Fall In My Time of Dying
Proem Socially Inept
Project Pitchfork IO
Project Pitchfork Inferno
Public Image Ltd. Metal Box
Quantum Fantay Ugisiunsi
I am absolutely thankful this exists and that I have it. Not many people seem to have it so it's great I can listen to it whenever I need it.rI am thankful in general about every psychedelic band and album that exists (both rock & electronic).
Radian Chimeric
Radian Juxtaposition
Radian On Dark Silent Off
Like all the releases before this album Radian once more proved they're worthy to be one of my top
6 all time favourite bands. Their mix of post-rock & IDM is amazing and all 48 songs I have of
them so far are great.
I like that they have their own unique way of how they make music. It's great to get lost into
their albums.
Radiohead Kid A
Radiohead In Rainbows
Radiohead OK Computer
Rapture Silent Stage
Rotersand Welcome to Goodbye
Roxy Music For Your Pleasure
Run Level Zero Walk The Psycho[Path]
Sad Lovers and Giants The Mirror Test
Scott Walker The Drift
Seabound Double-Crosser
Seabound No Sleep Demon V2.0
a very fine futurepop album, this time with a vocal version of Avalost, which's much better than the instrumental one.rI know what futurepop is about, too many people on this site always want highly emotional music, this is NOT what futurepop (or EBM, industrial etc) is about.rMany futurepop albums are perfect for autumn, some good for spring and summer.rI like the atmosphere in songs like Point Break, Avalost, Smoke and Travelling. Many electronic genres are good for me to use my imagination and let it run wild.
Shakti A Handful of Beauty
Shpongle Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland
Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible
Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape
Skinny Puppy Too Dark Park
Slackbaba And The Beat Goes Om
Slayer Reign in Blood
Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain
Solar Fields Blue Moon Station
Solar Fields Leaving Home
Stellardrone Invent the Universe
Stendeck Sonnambula
Just another electronic gem (there are hundreds of them), great atmosphere kind of cold, perfect for october. it starts on an amazing way with the first 2 songs.rlike I often said there are many great electronic genres it's great to get lost in them. In electronic music everything is possible.
Stendeck Scintilla
Strapping Young Lad City
Suffocation Pierced From Within
Sunny Day Real Estate How It Feels To Be Something On
Swallow the Sun The Morning Never Came
Sybreed Antares
Taake Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik
Taake Hordalands Doedskvad
Talk Talk It's My Life
Tame Impala Lonerism
Textures Silhouettes
The Associates The Affectionate Punch
The Chameleons Strange Times
The Cosmic Jokers Galactic Supermarket
This album deserves a rating above 4. Kinder Des Alls is a great song, and then Galactic
Supermarket. It really takes me to a real galactic supermarket somewhere in the exosphere of the
earth (far above the ISS).


It's a wonderful place where you can buy everything you ever dreamed of.rWith glowing yellow tiles
(and blue-red lines between them) you walk on. Why the hell does that place not exist in reality.
The Cure Pornography
The Cure Faith
The Cure Disintegration
The Fall Hex Enduction Hour
The Flaming Lips The Terror
The Frozen Autumn Pale Awakening
What a wonderful darkwave-album. Perfect for autumn. The sound is often icy cold, but the vocalist's voice is very warm.rTypical melancholic stuff but all 10 songs are very enjoyable.
The Infinity Project Mystical Experiences
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble From the Stairwell
The Peaking Goddess Collective Organika
Theatre Of Tragedy Velvet Darkness They Fear
This Ascension Light And Shade
This Ascension Tears In Rain
This Ascension Walk Softly, A Dream Lies Here
This Heat This Heat
This Heat Deceit
Threat Signal Under Reprisal
Thursday Full Collapse
Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972
Tineidae Shadows
Tool Lateralus
Tool Fear Inoculum
Tor Lundvall Ice
Tor Lundvall The Shipyard
Really a wonderful album. Lovely atmosphere. Sometimes rainy sometimes foggy but never sunny.
I really like his other album "Sleeping And Hiding" where he sings on all the songs (but without
choruses thankfully, the lyrics fit nicely) but albums like The Shipyard are nice places / worlds
to dive into and get lost in them.

Next to the 9 songs from this album I also found 2 bonus songs which are excellent as well,
especially "The Shipyard In Winter" is adorable
(they're on his bandcamp for example).

It's always great when you can visit all kinds of places and worlds without leaving your room.
Tor Lundvall Last Light
Tuxedomoon No Tears
Ufomammut Idolum
Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still
This album is like as if you're walking through a big and dark maze-like enchanted forest with
strange magic creatures everywhere. Some of them radiate brightly as they float through the sky.

Somewhere in there is an abandoned wizard's cabin where you are safe. Behind the cabin is a large
and slightly misty sea with a breathtaking view. Will the lost wizard ever return?
That's what I imagine while listening to this album.
Ulcerate The Destroyers of All
Ulver Shadows of the Sun
Velvet Acid Christ Maldire
Velvet Acid Christ Hex Angel: Utopia/Dystopia
VNV Nation Futureperfect
Wire The Drill
For me this is a perfect album for december and when I'm playing Sonic 3 with the Sega emulator.
Then I can listen to all 9 songs in a row and they're all enjoyable to me. Still this is a very
strange album for a band like Wire. But I'm thankful that I discovered it years ago. They're all
remixes of one song and it's a positive surprise that no song sounds like the other.

Also people who give a bad rating just don't have imagination, that's what you need when you
listen to this album.
Worrytrain Worrytrain
What an excellent ambient album, it's great to get lost into it, especially songs 2, 3, 4 (look in
the tracklist to see which ones I mean) have a great atmosphere that takes me far away from this
world into another. Songs 8 and 9 also belong to my favourites. I like all 10 songs, even the few
weaker ones are enjoyable. It's mostly beatless ambient with a cold, sometimes droney sound. It is
a real "hidden" gem that not many know about, and I listen to it very regularly.

Favourite songs:

1. Today I Saw An Angel..Today I Saw A Satellite
2. Cold Sleepwarm Sound
3. London's Fog & Burning / Flying High On Wounded Wings
5. Heaven's Ice Spread Downward / Goodbye Northern Lights
7. Via Madoline Ralley
8. Waking Up In The Marsh
9. Terminal Sunlight / Downism
Wynardtage Praise The Fallen
Wynardtage A Flicker Of Hope
A really underrated album by Wyn. Deserves a 4.0 from me because there are many enjoyable songs on
it. A Flicker Of Hope, White Frost, We Can Carry A Lot and the haunting Closer are up there with
his best songs he ever did.


Some harsh electro artists will always play an important role in my music world, for example
Fractured, Wynardtage, earlier Aesthetic Perfection, IWR, Some X-Fusion, Hocico, Die Sektor, ESC
(Eden Synthetic Corps), First 3 Heimataerde albums and Velvet Acid Christ, also Tactical Sekt,
Life Cried, Asphyxia, Distatix, Unter Null, Distorted Memory, Dawn Of Ashes, Suicide Commando,
Deadjump

Favourite songs on this album:

1. White Frost / Closer
3. We Can Carry A Lot / A Flicker Of Hope
5. Solitude
6. The Fall (feat. Unter Null)
7. Deep Red (feat. Damian Dior) / Taste This Rush
9. Blindfold (feat. Mel) / Alive / Slow The Tide

No Hurricane Age because that song was always on Praise The Fallen album (2007) but it's a great
song there.
xanopticon Liminal Space
Xentrifuge Light Extinguished
[:SITD:] Coded Message: 12
[:SITD:] Stunde X
[:SITD:] are back to great form with this album after the mediocre last album.

Favourite songs:

1. Grenzenlos
2. Greater Heights / Miscreed
4. Sturmlicht / Benediction
6. Revelation / Olymp
8. Orbiter
9. Symptom / Drowning In The Flame
11. God's Blessing

4.0 excellent
*shels Sea of the Dying Dhow
23 Skidoo Seven Songs
40 Below Summer Invitation to the Dance
65daysofstatic The Fall of Math
A Flock of Seagulls Listen
A Static Lullaby ...And Don't Forget to Breathe
A Thorn For Every Heart Things Aren't So Beautiful Now
Absurd Minds Noumenon
Absurd Minds Serve or Suffer
Absurd Minds The Cycle
Absurd Minds Sapta
Absurd Minds Deception
Access to Arasaka Void();
Access to Arasaka METAX
Access to Arasaka Geosynchron
Acylum Mental Disorder
I'm thankful this album proved as a grower, now I really like 9 or maybe 10 songs on it (and maybe
the last
song Fatal Conclusion, but it's more like an outro).

And most songs with vocals only have 2 choruses, only the song "Rape" is a bit too repetitive,
they could have cut off a minute and the song would be absolutely fine.

I like the dark and hopeless atmosphere, I like it a bit more than the album
The Enemy.

I wanted to like this album because it is released in 2007 and that was a great year for futurepop
and dark electro / aggrotech. From 2008 on there were less and less great albums coming out of
those 2 genres (with some exceptions).
Aesthesys Alignments
Aesthesys Achromata
Aghast View Phaseknox
Agitation Free Malesch
Agitation Free 2nd
Agonoize Sieben
Very good effort, didn't expect it to be honest. Assimilation Chapter One 3 years ago (2004) was a
big flop in my music world. Crappy songwriting, only few songs avoiding the 3rd chorus, lackluster
songs everywhere. On "Sieben" it's different. From song 2 to 11 there are 10 songs (!) with only 2
choruses.
Also the sound and production is very good. Typical autumnal atmosphere as well.
Lyrics sometimes well...if you are german like me and know what they sing about they can be a bit
off putting.

Of course you don't expect well thought out or clever lyrics from a typical aggrotech band now do
you?
What was it in 2007 that so many futurepop & dark electro / aggrotech artists released great
albums? It's as if they knew that their scene was beginning to die and had to put out just one
more good album. From 2008 on there were still very good albums of both genres, but they got fewer
with every year. 2007 was the last very good year for futurepop & dark electro / aggrotech.
Ahab The Call Of The Wretched Sea
Al Corley Square Rooms
Alex Skolnick Trio Transformation
Alexisonfire Watch Out!
Alexisonfire Crisis
Allan Holdsworth Sand
Allan Holdsworth Metal Fatigue
Allan Holdsworth Wardenclyffe Tower
Alphaville Forever Young
Alva Noto Unieqav
Alva Noto Xerrox Vol. 4
Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto Insen
Amon Duul II Wolf City
Amon Duul II Phallus Dei
Amon Tobin Bricolage
And Also The Trees Angelfish
And Also The Trees And Also the Trees
And Also The Trees Nailed
Androcell Emotivision
Androcell Efflorescence
Angels and Agony Unison
Angels and Agony Avatar
Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders
Antic Clay Hilarious Death Blues
Aphorism (idm) Surge
Arc Gotic Decadent
Arcana Inner Pale Sun
Architect (DE) Lower Lip Interface
Architect (DE) The Analysis Of Noise Trading
Armor For Sleep What To Do When You Are Dead
Arnaut Pavle Transylvanian Glare
Arnaut Pavle Arnaut Pavle
As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security
Asphyxia Sense Of Decay
Asylum Party Borderline
Augustus Pablo King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
Augustus Pablo East of the Nile River
Augustus Pablo King David's Melody
Ausgang Manipulate
Autechre Amber
Autistici Complex Tone Test
Autistici Beneath Peaks
This album deserves a 4.0 rating because it makes you use your imagination and every song has something different to offer. Some songs are perfect to listen to on sunny and warm summer days like Asleep Beneath Nests, Edge Over Millstone View and Peveril's Open Door. Like the other 3 albums it just needs time to unfold, it's hard to love it after only one listen.
Autoclav1.1 Love No Longer Lives Here
Autoclav1.1 Where Once Were Exit Wounds
Babyland You Suck Crap
Bauhaus The Sky's Gone Out
Bauhaus Lagartija Nick
Ben Woods Liaise In Silence EP
Billy Cobham Spectrum
Billy Cobham Total Eclipse
Biosphere Patashnik
Bitcrush Epilogue in Waves
I really dislike music haters like this Trey / Willie, I wish he would give albums more than just one listen, many albums only unfold after a while.rAt least I always try to be positive as possible about newly discovered albums.
Blancmange Mange Tout
Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage
Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin'
Bob Dylan Desire
Bob Marley and The Wailers Exodus
Bob Marley and The Wailers Rastaman Vibration
Bob Marley and The Wailers Catch A Fire
Bob Marley and The Wailers Kaya
Bob Marley and The Wailers Survival
Bob Marley and The Wailers Uprising
Bong-Ra Full Metal Racket
Bronski Beat The Age of Consent
Bruno Pernadas Private Reasons
Buckethead Cycle
I like to listen to this when I play the ice world in Sonic 3 (with the sega emulator), it fits very well.
Buckethead Thank you Ohlinger's
Buckethead Electric Tears
Byetone Symeta
Will definitely check this out. I love Alva Noto and Robert Lippok's Redsuperstructure. Both were
from the raster noton label which doesn't exist anymore, but the website still does and I'm
looking through the releases right now. Neuschnee and Helix sound promising so far!

edit:

Favourite songs:

1. Neuschnee
2. Helix
3. Golden Elegy
4. Black Peace
5. Opal
6. Topas
7. Telegramm
Cameo She's Strange
Carbon Based Lifeforms Interloper
Celldweller End of an Empire
Celldweller Wish Upon a Blackstar
Celldweller End of an Empire - Chapter 02: Love
Celtic Frost Monotheist
cEvin Key Music for Cats
A very crazy and abstract album, with many very juicy sounds. This album demands multiple listens
because it's hard to understand it after few listens, with all the things going on and the small
little details everywhere.

Favourite songs:

1. Herbalist Rule / Greenhouse Gasses
3. Blotter / Inside Jam World / Grah Statikcat (Electrodes)
6. Full Circle / Go Go Boots
8. Meteorite / Beauty Is The Enemy
10. Have You Ever Felt Like This / Wind On Small Paws
Chandeen Shaded By The Leaves
It's a very nice, sometimes melancholic darkwave album. In the early to mid 90's germany was
darkwave's mainland. I'm glad I also have the bonus track Mysterious Clouds.rThe songs usually
have nice song structures, songs like Scottish Hills always makes me cry. I'm thankful I found
this album and other hidden gems of the darkwave genre.

Favourite songs:

1. Scottish Hills
2. Red Letter Days
3. Recall Me
4. Darkness
5. Journey To The Land Of Wisdom
6. Silent Gods Part II
7. Mysterious Clouds
8. Lumis
9. The Loss Of Summer
Chemlab Oxidizer
Chemlab Burnout at the Hydrogen Bar
Chemlab East Side Militia
China Crisis Working With Fire And Steel
Christian Death Only Theatre of Pain
Chronos (RUS) Steps To The Great Knowledge
Clan of Xymox Clan of Xymox
Clan of Xymox Creatures
Cloudkicker Fade
Cocteau Twins Victorialand
Cold Sun Dark Shadows
Colour Haze In Her Garden
Colour Haze Periscope
Coma Alliance Weapon Of Choice
Controlled Collapse Injection
Covenant Dreams Of A Cryotank
This is too underrated on here. What's not to like? The most songs have clever song structures, take Shipwreck for example, when you expect the 2nd chorus to come, the song just goes somewhere else for a whole minute before the 2nd chorus appears. Or Hardware Requiem, it builds and builds, gets really tense until the chorus finally appears.rAnd of course the 25 minute Cryotank Expansion, I love the icy cold ambient sounds, it never gets boring to me.
Covenant Skyshaper
Craft Total Soul Rape
Crowbar Life's Blood For The Downtrodden
Crowbar Broken Glass
Crowbar Time Heals Nothing
Crowbar Symmetry in Black
Crowbar Crowbar
Crowbar Equilibrium
Crowbar Obedience Thru Suffering
Crowbar Sever The Wicked Hand
Crowbar The Serpent Only Lies
Cue to Recall Polarity
This album really has some great songs on it that takes me back to autumn 2007 (An Endless Case,
Consuming Hearts, In Affect, Strip The Light, Pure Addiction and Pieces). I loved to listen to
them (and other futurepop & dark electro albums) when I got home after 4pm when it already got
dark outside. I love that melancholic feeling.

The cold vocals strongly remind me of Covenant, they're very similar.
Cyanotic MedPack Vol. 1
Cyanotic Prehab 25mg-EP
Cyanotic The Medication Generation
Cyndi Lauper She's So Unusual
Das Ich Anti'christ
Das Ich Cabaret
Das Ich Staub
Das Ich Satanische Verse
Das Ich Die Propheten
Das Ich Egodram
Das Ich Lava
David Bowie "Heroes"
David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
David Sylvian Brilliant Trees
Daylight Dies A Frail Becoming
Déclassé Silos
Dead Can Dance Spleen and Ideal
Dead Poetic Vices
Dead Poetic New Medicines
Deadchovsky Spiritus Sancti Bizarre
Deadline Paranoia Parakromantie
Deadstar Assembly Unsaved
Death Leprosy
Death Spiritual Healing
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist
Deine Lakaien Forest Enter Exit
Deine Lakaien Winter Fish Testosterone
Deine Lakaien Deine Lakaien
Dementia Simplex Yeah, I Killed My Mama...
Dementia Simplex Prediction
An obscure band and I'm thankful I have both albums. The songs are surprisingly well structured
for a band of this genre (electro-industrial rock).
I know many obscure bands and albums and it's like a miracle to me that I found them and still
love them after 10 or more years. Means it is irrelevant how popular they are out there, when in
my music world they're important.

1. First Things (3.6)
2. Trauma (4.0)
3. Die Down (4.4)
4. Beast Within (4.4)
5. Eaten Alive (4.1)
6. Hell On Earth (4.2)
7. Tortured Animal (4.4)
8. Candlelight (4.1)
9. Cinderchild (4.1)
10. Xenophobia (3.9)
11. Mentally Disturbed (4.0)
12. Last Things (3.9)

4.09 rating
Depeche Mode Construction Time Again
Desert Dwellers Muladhara Yoga Dub
Destroid Future Prophecies
Detritus (Wales) Everyday Explanations
Devo Freedom of Choice
Diary of Dreams Bird Without Wings
By far their longest album (but with only 10 songs) and more epic than the other albums. 4 songs over 8 minutes and two more with 7 minutes. My 4th most favourite album by them.
Diary of Dreams MenschFeind
Die Sektor Applied Structure In A Void
My first album of them. Had to check it out because I love the album cover. I like how every song has many small little details and sounds, sometimes even glitch influenced. In some of the more introverted sounding songs the atmosphere can be even dreamy and melancholic. Finally another great harsh electro album (my last one, Maldire by Velvet Acid Christ is an almost-classic to me).
Din a Testbild Programm 1
Din a Testbild Programm 3
Diorama Zero Soldier Army
Diorama Pale
Diorama Even The Devil Doesn't Care
Diorama Synthesize Me
Diorama RePale
Favourite songs: Pale (Above The Arctic Circle Version), even better than the original song from
their 1st album. Dreamy, very atmospheric, nicely structured. Also great are most of the original
songs on this EP, especially Exploitation, Drowned, World Of Ice, and also Handoutdrugs has many
fine moments.
Only song I'm having problems with is The Rich Are All Perverted.

There are some nice remixes on this as well.
Dismantled Standard Issue
Dismantled When I'm Dead
Distorted Memory Burning Heaven
song-structure wise it's one of the better harsh electro albums, because all songs always avoid the sometimes dreaded 3rd chorus.rI wish every harsh electro album has good song structures but some luckily have more atmosphere, so it's not that bad.
Doctor Flake Paradis Dirtyficiels
Donovan Sunshine Superman
Dream Theater Awake
Duran Duran Rio
Duran Duran Seven and the Ragged Tiger
Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
Eat Static Science of the Gods
Edge Of Dawn Anything That Gets You Through The Night
Editors An End Has A Start
Electric Orange Volume 10
Electric Orange Electric Orange
Electric Wizard Electric Wizard
Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs
I am glad I dug this album out after years. Most songs have an ethereal feeling, a nice album to
draw something while sitting next to a window, or to listen to while daydreaming. It's an album
that might need multiple listens so that one song after another can unfold itself.

That other user calling this elevator music just has no imagination left in him. I love to let my
imagination run wild while listening to atmospheric electronic albums.r
Emancipator Soon It Will Be Cold Enough
Emery The Question
Emptyset Recur
Enter Shikari The Mindsweep
Entheogenic Dreamtime Physics
Entombed Morning Star
Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full
ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) Eight Thousand Square Feet
This album is on a similar high level as Enhancer. Almost every song enjoyable. Most songs are
well structured, most only 2 choruses. The song with X-Fusion is really good, only disappointment
is the song with [:SITD:]. Too predictable and lazy songwriting. [:SITD:] can do much better with
their own albums.

It can be frustrating sometimes when you look for good dark electro / aggrotech albums, but after
so many years I have amassed many very good albums from this genre.

With futurepop it's a bit easier, because there are bands who don't just make music for clubs but
also songs that are more introspective. f-pop is also more melodic which means they don't have to
rely on choruses that much.
ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) Matte
Etched In Red Dylate
Eurythmics In The Garden
This album deserves a much higher rating. At least an average of 3.6 or so. I like how ethereal Annie's voice was back then and the atmosphere in general.
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Drumming the Beating Heart
Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Everyone Feels Like A Stranger
Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Bitter Apples
Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Ink Horn / One Star
Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Winter Sang
Family Fodder Monkey Banana Kitchen
I am thankful I discovered this album years ago. I love post-punk and now have over 100 albums of that genre. I love the weird songs on this album.
Fear Factory Obsolete
Fennesz Venice
Fiction Factory Throw The Warped Wheel Out
Finch Say Hello to Sunshine
Five or Six Polar Exposure
I'm really glad someone helped me getting this album. Searched it for years, needed it because I love post-punk and the year 1981 where there were many great albums of that genre.rFive Or Six mixes post-punk music with ambient music, nice, cold and atmospheric.
Fix8:Sed8 Humanophobia
Flaw Through the Eyes
Flesh Field Strain
Flooting Grooves Upsyde Downe
Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Foetus Love
Foetus Thaw
Frank Bretschneider Rhythm
From Zero One Nation Under
Frost* Milliontown
Frozen Plasma Monumentum
Gazebo Gazebo
Gel-Sol 1104
Gene Loves Jezebel Promise
Girls Under Glass Darius
Globular Colours Of The Brainbow
Globular A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut
Godflesh Selfless
Gong Zero to Infinity
Gong Expresso II
Gong Flying Teapot
Gorgoroth Under the Sign of Hell
Graphic Nature A Mind Waiting to Die
Gridlock Trace
Gridlock Further
Grizzly Bear Veckatimest
Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins
gyrofield A Faint Glow of Bravery
Haloblack >Tension Filter<
Hanging Garden Inherit the Eden
Harmonia Musik von Harmonia
Hecq Bad Karma
Hecq 0000
Hecq A Dried Youth
Heimataerde Gotteskrieger
Heimataerde Kadavergehorsam
Hidden In Plain View Life in Dreaming
Hocico Scars
I still haven't heard a Hocico song yet that is better than the song Scars and maybe Not Like You
(apestas version). Both are awesome and I like to remember summer 2006 when I discovered it.

edit: But the albums Memorias Atras and Wrack And Ruin really did grow on me, most songs on both
are amazing. They almost always avoid the 3rd chorus, means the songs often have very good song
structures.
Hocico Wrack and Ruin
A nice album which has an interesting atmosphere. The genre they're in is usually aggressive and trying to be dark, but somehow the whole album has a slightly dreamy feeling as well. It's different from Memorias Atras for example which's also amazing but is less atmospheric in my opinion.rI will always have a heart for genres like harsh electro, electro-industrial and futurepop. There are times when I need this kind of music.
Holon Some Kind Of Order
Holon Connect - Isolate
Howard Jones Human's Lib
Hypocrisy Hypocrisy
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness Fear Is on Our Side
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness
In Mitra Medusa Inri Long Forgotten World
In Search Of Beauty The Arise
In Strict Confidence Holy
Much less atmosphere than Love Kills (icy, frosty masterpiece) and Exile Paradise (warm, fruity
like a passion fruit and nice sounds in the background).

edit: But this album did finally grow after I gave it another chance. Nice atmospheres as always
with this band.
Favourite songs on Holy:

1. Heal Me / Eye Of Heaven / Sleepless / Emergency
5. Alpha Centauri
6. The Darkest Corridors / Closing Eyes
8. Babylon / Seven Lives / Another Night / No Love Will Heal
In Strict Confidence Where Sun And Moon Unite
In Strict Confidence Mistrust the Angels
Iron Lung Corporation Big Shiny Spears
IWR Ground Zero
Jakob Cale:Drew
Jean-Michel Jarre Zoolook
Joe Satriani Engines of Creation
John McLaughlin Devotion
John McLaughlin Electric Guitarist
John Petrucci Suspended Animation
Jonathan Fitoussi Plein Soleil
Jonn Serrie And the Stars Go with You
Josef K The Only Fun in Town
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division Love Will Tear Us Apart
Judas Iscariot Thy Dying Light
Kajagoogoo Islands
Kaminanda Gateways Of Consciousness
Kangding Ray Stabil
Favourite songs:

1. Status+Light
2. Sub.Res
3. Stabil
4. NN/Peaks / Mai
6. Cyan
7. Isoline / Interrompu Court
9. Nine
10. Wellen
Kangding Ray Automne Fold
Katatonia For Funerals To Come...
Kenny Burrell Midnight Blue
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland
Kool Keith Black Elvis/Lost in Space
Kuba Through a Lense
Another psybient & psydub gem I checked out today morning at work after Kick Bong - Flower Power.
Both are amazing, once more I'm happy that there are still countless great psybient albums I
didn't know yet.

The album songs of both albums are considerably shorter than on the average psybient album but
they're dynamic, don't need too much time to develop or to start and once again it's a great
adventure to listen to them.

In psybient music it is irrelevant to me how original or innovative an album is, many artists can
sound similar yet they still all sound different, it's a different adventure every time I discover
another album of this genre and
it always helps me feel more positive.
Lamb of God As The Palaces Burn
Lamb of God Ashes Of The Wake
Lapsed Twilight
Lee Morgan Tom Cat
Lena Andersson Söder Mälarstrand
Lento Earthen
Very nice album, very atmospheric, many years ago I discovered them on last.fm as similar artists
from Ufomammut, one of my all time favourite metal bands.
favourite songs:

1. Hadrons
2. Emersion of the islands
3. Currents
4. Leave
5. Need
6. Subterrestrial
7. Earth
Level Level
Life Cried Banished Psalms
Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow
London After Midnight Selected Scenes from the End of the World
Just another very nice 90's goth album. I love the darkwave feeling on it, it's still one of my favourite genres although most of the great darkwave bands are from germany and other european countries.rSongs like Spider And The Fly, Your Best Nightmare, The Black Cat and Sacrifice are just wonderful.
Loscil Submers
Great underwater ambient. Other underwater ambient album I know is "World Of Sleepers" by Carbon Based Lifeforms but "Submers" is a little bit darker and dark blue, not light blue and psychedelic like WoS. Great atmospheres.
Lost Area Dare To Dream
Love Is Colder Than Death Teignmouth
Lowlife Diminuendo
Lucidstatic TX Side Effects
Lunatic Soul Lunatic Soul
Lurker Of Chalice Lurker Of Chalice
Lycia Ionia
Mad Essence Rehumanization
Mad Essence Transmission
Mass (UK) Labour of Love
Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone
Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve
Meshuggah Chaosphere
Metallica Ride The Lightning
Michael Jackson Dangerous
Michael Jackson Bad
Michael Jackson Thriller
Mike Oldfield Discovery
Miles Davis 'Round About Midnight
mind.in.a.box Dreamweb
mind.in.a.box Crossroads
Mindless Faith Medication For The Misinformed
Ministry Psalm 69
Ministry The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
Mnemic Mechanical Spin Phenomena
Modern English Mesh & Lace
It is a good post-punk album from a great year (1981) so it should have a higher rating (maybe 3.6).
Modern Eon Fiction Tales
Monolake Momentum
Monolake Gravity
I never can enough of icy cold and frosty electronic stuff as thankfully plenty of albums have to
offer like this one. This album will never get boring and old even after multiple listens.

Song ratings:

1. Mobile (4.3)
2. Ice (4.6)
3. Frost (4.1)
4. Static (4.3)
5. Zero Gravity (4.4)
6. Fragile (4.1)
7. Aviation (4.4)
8. Nucleus (4.0)
Monolake Cinemascope
Morgion Solinari
Mr. Mister I Wear The Face
Muslimgauze Buddhist on Fire
Muslimgauze Vote Hezbollah
Muslimgauze Flajelata
Mutiilation Black Millenium (Grimly Reborn)
My Dad Is Dead The Taller You Are, the Shorter You Get
Myssouri Malamerica
Mystical Sun Deeperworlds
Mystical Sun Primordial Atmospheres
Necessary Response Blood Spills Not Far From the Wound
Nena Fragezeichen
Neon Cage Experiment Materials And Methods
Neuroticfish Les Chansons Neurotiques
New Mind Fractured
New Model Army Thunder and Consolation
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Firstborn Is Dead
Nik Kershaw The Riddle
Nine Inch Nails With Teeth
Nine Inch Nails Further Down the Spiral (US)
Noise Therapy Tension
Whenever I listen to this it takes me back to nov & dec 2005.

Favourite songs:

1. In My World
2. Star 69 (Wait For Nothing)
3. Inside / Far Away
5. Ride / Monkeys / Yesterday
8. G-Hole
9. Standing In The Dark
10. Get Up
Nothingface Violence
Novembers Doom To Welcome The Fade
Definitely much better than the overrated Novella Reservoir, which has too many 3 chorus songs which gets old and tired very quickly. To Welcome The Fade has only Not The Strong but from the 2nd song on it becomes much better.
Numb Death on the Installment Plan
Nurzery (Rhymes) Thorns
Oneohtrix Point Never Returnal
Why should I care about when someone says this album doesn't sound original or Daniel uses too
many influences like sounds of Klaus Schulze for example, or that it sounds too similar to other
artists. Listening to this album again right now and after many years it's still as great as after
the first listen. Nice colours everywhere, great atmosphere to get lost in.


I enjoy it for what it is, a very good atmospheric electronic album. People should stop caring
about what sounds unoriginal and just enjoy the music and using their imagination to it.
Opposition Intimacy
Opposition Promises
Orange Goblin Time Travelling Blues
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Junk Culture
Oresund Space Collective Kybalion
Ott Blumenkraft
Out Out Finched
Out Out Voiceprint
Overkill Horrorscope
Overkill The Years of Decay
Ozric Tentacles The Yumyum Tree
The Ozrics over the years became my second most favourite band (after And Also The Trees and
before Diorama, Eyeless In Gaza, Radian, Gong, The Chameleons, Shpongle etc.).

From 1988 to 2000 I found 11 amazing albums. Tried many albums from after 2000 but they're
frustrating to listen to because the magic seems to be gone.
Then I checked out The Yum Yum Tree days ago. Maybe THIS is the 12th great album of the Ozrics I
was looking for for years. The songs have more imagination, nice sounds and atmosphere.
Ozric Tentacles Curious Corn
Ozric Tentacles Pungent Effulgent
@GhandhiLion: What I don't like is that you and other people just can't simply enjoy certain songs
and albums for what they are, I wish you would stop comparing bands and just enjoy the music. When
someone likes / loves a band / album it shouldn't matter how original and influential a band was.

Pungent Effulgent is another gem and the 1988-2000 Ozrics era was and is incredible, they were
almost invincible back then. How great it is to get lost in space and in their music.
Ozric Tentacles Swirly Termination
Ozric Tentacles Pyramidion
Ozric Tentacles Sliding Gliding Worlds
P. Lion Springtime
Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane
Parade Ground Moan On The Sly
Paradise Lost Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us
Paradise Lost Tragic Idol
Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile
Paul Young No Parlez
Penal Colony Put Your Hands Down
Penal Colony Unfinished Business
Penfold Our First Taste of Escape
Pere Ubu Dub Housing
Pere Ubu Song Of The Bailing Man
Pere Ubu The Modern Dance
Periphery Periphery
Phil Collins ...But Seriously
Pink Floyd A Saucerful Of Secrets
Pink Turns Blue Meta
Pink Turns Blue Aerdt
I'm thankful I have this hard to find album. Songs like Seven Years, Andy, Aerdt, Genuine and Dec.
24 are so dreamy, perfect for watching the stars and moon at night, also perfect for cold autumn
days.


Must be great when you have to get up after 6am, but you wake up at 1am deciding to enjoy the look
out of the window while listening to this album.
Plaid Rest Proof Clockwork
Pneumatic Detach [vis·cer·a]
Very good industrial noise album. More experimental than for example SAM, Soman, Xotox, Noisuf-X
etc. Also with some breakcore influences and some complex rhythm sections not far from idm &
glitch.
I love the album cover it fits nicely with the meaty, industrial sounds on the album. Next to
S.K.E.T. - Baikonur this is a rhythmic noise album I love to come back to from time to time (even
if I also like SAM, Soman and Xotox).
Favourite songs:

1. Patternerase
2. Domination (Short Mix) / Putrescence
4. Holowh / Sona / Embers
7. Separator / Relentless / Dischordant
10. Mindless Brutal Apparatus / Moment Of Comprehension
Pneumatic Detach Irreversible
Poison the Well The Opposite of December
Portico Quartet Isla
Pride and Fall Elements of Silence
Pride and Fall Of Lust And Desire
Procol Harum Procol Harum
Proem You Shall Have Ever Been
Proem Among Others
Project 86 Drawing Black Lines
Project Pitchfork Kaskade
Project Pitchfork Daimonion
Project Pitchfork Lam-'bras
Project Pitchfork View From A Throne
Project Pitchfork Alpha Omega
Project Pitchfork Corps D'amour
Project Pitchfork Dream, Tiresias!
Promethean Misery Tied Up With Strings
Psyclon Nine Divine Infekt
Pulse State With A Single Step
qebrus ⊶⊑∷⌊∴⊹∵⌉∷⊒⊷
Quantum Fantay Kaleidothrope
Quintessence (UK) In Blissful Company
Radian Radian
Radian Rec.Extern
Radian TG11
Radian Distorted Rooms
Radian & Howe Gelb Radian verses Howe Gelb
Radiohead Amnesiac
Rahsaan Roland Kirk Domino
Rapture Songs For The Withering
Re:Legion 13 Seconds
I didn't know or expect this band was already on here. Was preparing to add them to the database.

Today I finally dug out this album after more than 10 years. Bought it in 2007 but only listened
to few songs then. Another nice futurepop album with almost all songs avoiding the standard 3
chorus routine.
Real Life Heartland
Revolting Cocks Beers, Steers + Queers
Robert Lippok Redsuperstructure
Rotersand 1023
This album did grow on me years after release. Now I understand it much better. Welcome To Goodbye
is untouchable and still one of the best futurepop albums of all time but I like how they
experiment on 1023. There's an acoustic guitar, trip-hop and ambient influences, the songs are
often slower but I like how they unfold. Songs like I Am With You have nice song structures, after
the 2nd chorus the song takes off and never returns, I love that kind of creativity.
Rotersand Random is Resistance
Ruby Haunt Watching the Grass Grow
Run Level Zero Arctic Noise
Run Level Zero And Thus We Walked
S.K.E.T. Baikonur
Sad Lovers and Giants Epic Garden Music
Sad Lovers and Giants Treehouse Poetry
I wish there is a review of this album, it's almost unknown compared to their first 3 albums. One
of my all time favourite post-punk bands. Years ago I even had to add this album because it wasn't
on sputnikmusic.

This album is perfect for early september days when it still can be sunny and warm but you realize
summer will not stay too long. It's a very easy album, easy to like and get lost into it.
Saltillo Monocyte
Saltillo Ganglion
SAM SYNTHETIC ADRENALINE MUSIC
Still very nice industrial-techno, nice mix of rhythmic noise and hardstyle (not normally my genre
but it sounds great here), also nice atmospheres. And the album cover fits nice.

1. Hard Technology / Compactor
3. Epic / 24 Stunden
5. Black Rubber Dance / Rorschachtest / Ascent
8. Enemy List / Sex und Gewalt
10. Time Envelope
11. Chaos and Confusion / Filter / Syntax Error
14. Synthetic Vision / Trapperfieber / Therapie

I'm glad I have all 3 albums.
SAM Destruction Unit
Santa Hates You You're On The Naughty List
Saturate The Point of No Return
Saturate Soul Element
Savage Republic Tragic Figures
Saves the Day Through Being Cool
Scars (SCO) Author! Author!
Scott Walker Tilt
Scott Walker Bish Bosch
Seabound Speak In Storms
Senking Capsize Recovery
Sero.Overdose Heading For Tomorrow
The other user clearly has bad ears. There are songs I like like Tiny Snail, Wut and The Chamber.

Edit:

I'm glad I dug this album out again after years, Like the 3 mentioned songs I also really like
Tears In Rain, Lost Alone, Fire, Your Road and Two Faces. Well none of the songs on the album is
bad, they're all listenable, also: 8 of 12 songs only have 2 choruses, means it is a typical
futurepop album, I like how many albums of the genre have well structured songs.
Shpongle Are You Shpongled?
Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost
Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront
Simple Minds Reel to Real Cacophony
Siouxsie and the Banshees Juju
Siouxsie and the Banshees A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
Skeletal Family Burning Oil
Skinny Puppy Cleanse Fold and Manipulate
Skinny Puppy Last Rights
Skinny Puppy Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
Slackbaba Perverting Mankind
Slayer Seasons in the Abyss
Slowdive Souvlaki
SMP Terminal
Discovered it today. Only knew Stalemate, listened to that years ago.
Terminal is a nice hybrid of industrial, rock and hip-hop, many songs are nicely crafted and often
avoid normal 3 chorus routines.
I also like how the vocals sound, reminds me of good old us-coldwave days.

Discovered some very nice industrial albums lately, this one here and Flesh Field - Strain.
Solar Fields Reflective Frequencies
Solitary Experiments Mind Over Matter
Atmosphere-wise it's one of the best albums with november atmosphere and one of the best of
futurepop & modern EBM. Not really perfect as an album but there are many great songs that stand
on their own and are beautiful.

Favourite songs:

1. Homesick / Downfall / Pale Candle-Light
4. Delight
5. Still Alive
6. War & Peace / Odyssey Of Mind / Apologize
9. Counterpart
10. Self-Deception
Spineshank The Height of Callousness
SPK Information Overload Unit
SPK Leichenschrei
Stairway Maze Hollow Spaces
Stendeck Folgor
Stendeck Faces
Stendeck Can You Hear My Call?
Stone The Crow (GER) Reduce To The Max
Stone The Crow (GER) Year Of The Crow
Subheim Approach
Subheim No Land Called Home
Suicide Commando Bind, Torture, Kill
Suicide Commando Stored Images
Swamp Terrorists Grim - Stroke - Disease
Swamp Terrorists Grow-Speed-Injection
Swans Cop
Swans Filth
Switched Subject to Change
Tactical Sekt Syncope
Tactical Sekt Burn Process
Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends
Talk Talk Dum Dum Girl
Talking Heads Remain in Light
Tame Impala Innerspeaker
Tears for Fears The Hurting
Technoir Deliberately Fragile
Testament The New Order
Textures Drawing Circles
The Associates Sulk
The Band Stage Fright
The Cars The Cars
The Chameleons What Does Anything Mean? Basically
The Comsat Angels Fiction
favourite songs are clearly What Else!? and Not A Word, those even belong to my all time favourite
Comsat Angels songs, are up there with the best on Sleep No More (a post-punk classic). Birdman,
Now I Know and Zinger are also very good, others are decent to average. Still a nice post-punk
album, on a good 34th rank in my post-punk albums list.


Once more Andy Peake shows why he is one of my personal keyboard heroes of post-punk (next to
others like Dave Formula of Magazine).
The Comsat Angels Waiting for a Miracle
The Cosmic Jokers The Cosmic Jokers
The Crooked Fiddle Band The Crooked Fiddle Band
The Crooked Fiddle Band Moving Pieces Of The Sea
The Cruxshadows Ethernaut
The Cruxshadows ...Night Crawls In
The Cure Charlotte Sometimes (Single)
The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out
The Fair Sex Demented Forms
The Fair Sex Bite Release Bite
The Flashbulb Arboreal
The Flashbulb These Open Fields
The Foreshadowing Days of Nothing
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble Here Be Dragons
The Monochrome Set Love Zombies
The Sisters of Mercy First And Last And Always
The Sisters of Mercy Floodland
The Sound From The Lion's Mouth
The Sound Shock of Daylight
The Sound All Fall Down
The Teardrop Explodes Wilder
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Voidz Virtue
The Wolfgang Press Standing Up Straight
Theatre of Hate Westworld
Thompson Twins Into the Gap
Thrice Vheissu
Tinfed Hypersonic Hyperphonic
Tinfed Synaptic Hardware
Tonikom Seeking the Lost Mind
It's always a great feeling when I just discovered another nice IDM album from an artist I didn't
know until then.

Atmosphere-wise it's another futuristic subway station IDM album, like for example Subheim -
Approach, Integral - Rise, Totakeke - The Things That Disappear... and Architect - Consume Adapt
Create, I adore those.

This one by Tonikom was quite easy to get into and it's a journey of slightly over 1 hour.

Just as with those 4 mentioned albums there is not a single song on it I don't like or that I
would usually skip. I love coming back to IDM albums from time to time just to get sucked into its
atmosphere and leave reality for hours.
Tool Ænima
Tool 10,000 Days
Tor Lundvall Empty City
Tor Lundvall Yule
Tor Lundvall Sleeping and Hiding
Tor Lundvall A Dark Place
Tor Lundvall The Mist
Totakeke The Things That Disappear When I Close My Eyes
Totakeke eLekatota - The Other Side Of The Tracks
Trance To The Sun Ghost Forest
Tricky Maxinquaye
Tricky Pre-Millenium Tension
Tripswitch Circuit Breaker
Trisomie 21 Passions divisees
Tuxedomoon Desire
Type O Negative October Rust
Type O Negative Bloody Kisses
Udo Lindenberg Götterhämmerung
Ufomammut Eve
Ufomammut ORO: Opus Alter
Ufomammut Ecate
Ufomammut 8
UK Decay Rising From the Dread
This deserves 4.0 for the song Werewolf alone. The other 3 songs are solid and still quite listenable but never come close to the quality that Werewolf has.
UK Decay For Madmen Only
Ulaan Khol I
Ultravox Rage In Eden
Ultravox Lament
Ulver Perdition City
Ulver Blood Inside
UNKLE Never, Never, Land
UNKLE Psyence Fiction
Unter Null The Failure Epiphany
Van Halen 1984
Vendemmian Treacherous
Venetian Snares Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding
Venetian Snares The Chocolate Wheelchair Album
Venetian Snares Detrimentalist
Vibravoid 2001 Love Is Freedom
Vibravoid Gravity Zero
Virgin Prunes ...If I Die, I Die
Vladislav Delay Kuopio
VNV Nation Empires
W.A.S.T.E. This Is What We Seek
Waclaw Zimpel Massive Oscillations
Waclaw Zimpel Train Spotter
Wang Chung Points On the Curve
Wayne Shorter Night Dreamer
We Came As Romans To Plant a Seed
Wire Chairs Missing
Wire Change Becomes Us
Wire Nocturnal Koreans
Wire Silver/Lead
Wolfsheim No Happy View
Wuthering Heights The Shadow Cabinet
I really like the album cover, my favourite album cover of this band so it's no surprise I chose
this album be my first of them. Sounds very nice, normally I'm not a fan of power metal but it's
very good! I also like the year 2006 (same with 2005 and 2007) so I had to check it out.
Wynardtage Evil Mind
Wynardtage The Grey Line
X-Fusion Demons Of Hate
Xasthur A Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors
Xela For Frosty Mornings and Summer Nights
Xhin Sword
Xhol Caravan Electrip
Xmal Deutschland Tocsin
Xotox Psi
Yendri Broken World
Yendri Malfunction
Younger Brother A Flock of Bleeps
Zeller Turbulences
Zevious Passing Through The Wall
[:SITD:] Stronghold
[:SITD:] Rot
[:SITD:] Icon:Koru
[:SITD:] Bestie:Mensch
[:SITD:] Odyssey: 13
[:SITD:] Dunkelziffer
[distatix] Medication

3.5 great
16Volt FullBlackHabit
16Volt Wisdom
23 Skidoo Urban Gamelan
3rd Strike Lost Angel
A Certain Ratio Sextet
A Static Lullaby A Static Lullaby
Absurd Minds Tempus Fugit
Acumen Nation The 5ifth Column
Acylum The Enemy
Aesthetic Perfection A Violent Emotion
Alien Sex Fiend Acid Bath
And Also The Trees When the Rains come
And Also The Trees Malvern Demos (1980-1981)
Arcana Cantar De Procella
Architect (DE) Mine
ASP Zaubererbruder - Der Krabat-Liederzyklus
Asphyx Asphyx
Assemblage 23 Meta
AudioVent Dirty Sexy Knights in Paris
Autistici Volume Objects
Bauhaus Burning From The Inside
Ben Woods Moments
Ben Woods Nymh: Realms of Detachment
Black Heaven Dystopia
Black Pyramid II
Black Uhuru Red
Blue Sky Black Death A Heap Of Broken Images
Bluetech Sines And Singularities
Bong-Ra Stereohype Heroin Hooker
Boysetsfire The Misery Index: Notes From The Plague
Boytronic The Working Model
Buckethead A Real Diamond In The Rough
Celldweller Celldweller
Chemlab Suture
Christ Analogue The Texture Ov Despise
Christ Analogue In Radiant Decay
Christian Death Catastrophe Ballet
Clan of Xymox Breaking Point
Cloudkicker The Discovery
Cluster Cluster II
Crispy Ambulance The Plateau Phase
Cue to Recall Mainland
Cyanotic Worst Case Scenario Vol. 1
Dawn Of Ashes In The Acts of Violence
Well at least this album has nice autumnal atmosphere. The song structures aren't very clever but
I can deal with it, it's still enjoyable because some of the songs are very long.rFavourite songs:

1. Nightmare
2. Abyss
3. In The Acts Of Violence
4. Diagnosis
5. Dark Reality
6. Killer Instinct
Dead Poetic Four Wall Blackmail
Deadjump Scare Mix
Deadstar Assembly Deadstar Assembly
Deadstar Assembly Coat Of Arms
Deine Lakaien April Skies
Deine Lakaien Kasmodiah
Dementia Simplex Olfactory Nerve
Demi Lovato Here We Go Again
Der Blaue Reiter Le paradise funebre, l'envers du tristesse
Diary of Dreams Nigredo
Diary of Dreams Nekrolog 43
Diary of Dreams (if)
Diary of Dreams Moments Of Bloom
Die Warzau Big Electric Metal Bass Face
Dioxyde Social Phobia
Dismantled The War Inside Me
Dive Vs. Diskonnekted Frozen
Download Furnace
Dry Kill Logic Of Vengeance and Violence
edIT Crying Over Pros For No Reason
edIT Certified Air Raid Material
Editors In This Light and On This Evening
Editors The Back Room
Entheogenic Flight of the Urubus
Entombed Wolverine Blues
Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion
Eurythmics Touch
Exivious Exivious
Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Caught in Flux
Eyeless In Gaza (UK) Butterfly Attitude
Fear Factory Demanufacture
Fictional Fictitious
Florence and the Machine Ceremonials
For Against Echelons
From Zero From Zero (The Green Album)
Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon
Gang of Four Solid Gold
God Is an Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun
God Is an Astronaut Far from Refuge
God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright
Goethes Erben Der Traum An Die Erinnerung
Gridlock The Synthetic Form
Hallucinogen Twisted
Haloblack Funkyhell
Haloblack >Raw Tension<
Hawkwind In Search of Space
Hawkwind Doremi Fasol Latido
Hecq Steeltongued
Hecq Avenger
Hidden Orchestra Night Walks
Hocico Artificial Extinction
Howard Jones Dream Into Action
Hudson Mohawke Butter
Icehouse Sidewalk
In Strict Confidence Seven Lives
In Strict Confidence La Parade Monstrueuse
In Strict Confidence Cryogenix
Informatik Arena
Informatik Syntax
Integral Sercosa
Iron Lung Corporation Ditch the Attitude, Pally
Joe Satriani Crystal Planet
John Foxx Metamatic
John McLaughlin Extrapolation
John McLaughlin My Goal's Beyond
Joy Division Still
I don't get how someone could call "Glass" boring or uninspired. It's in my top 10 songs of the
compilation "Substance". And Ice Age is strong too. But about the other songs I agree, Substance
is much stronger as a compilation.
Katatonia Viva Emptiness
Kenny Burrell Guitar Forms
Kenny Burrell Blues - The Common Ground
Kevorkian Death Cycle Collection For Injection
Kick Bong A Cup Of Tea?
Killing Joke Night Time
Killing Joke Killing Joke
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana
KMFDM Angst
L'Ame Immortelle Wenn Der Letzte Schatten Fällt
Laura Branigan Self Control
Lifer Lifer
Loma Prieta Last
London After Midnight Psycho Magnet
Love Like Blood An Irony of Fate
Lowlife Permanent Sleep
Lowlife Godhead
Lowlife Rain
Lunatic Soul Impressions
I really can't understand some people. I am always one for atmosphere and this is not boring to me. Maybe some people just don't have imagination.
Magazine The Correct Use Of Soap
Ministry Filth Pig
Mnemic The Audio Injected Soul
Morgion Cloaked By Ages, Crowned In Earth
Mothboy Deviance
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Mystical Sun Overview Effect
Namnambulu Distances
The songs themselves are good. The lyrics often weak, too often he sings about love, to get
someone back. The vocals are technically good, but often the singer is over-singing. Futurepop
doesn't need to be extremely emotional vocals-wise, it doesn't really fit. I know maybe 20
futurepop artists I like more, but the album will grow, at least many of the songs.

Favourite songs: Pause (I like how he sings on that song), Deception
Neuroticfish Gelb
songwriting-wise much much weaker than Antidoron and also Les Chansons Neurotiques. Too many songs
do follow the same tired and predictable 3 chorus routine, which makes the listening experience
very frustrating to me. Most songs are good, but this is what holds them back.

Antidoron for example only has few 3 chorus songs, but those are very fun to listen to and have
amazing atmosphere in them (Fluchtreflex, Hysteria and the slightly repetitive Fail To Disagree).
New Mind Forge
New Model Army Vengeance
New Model Army No Rest For The Wicked
Niacin High Bias
Nik Kershaw You've Got to Laugh
Novembers Doom The Pale Haunt Departure
Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven
Orange Goblin Frequencies From Planet Ten
Oresund Space Collective Oresund Space Collective
Out Out Nisus
Ozric Tentacles Floating Seeds
Papa Roach Infest
Paradise Lost In Requiem
Paralysed Age Christened Child
Pelican City of Echoes
Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis
Penal Colony Multicoloured Shades
Peter Schilling Fehler Im System
PIG The Swining
PIG A Poke in the Eye... With a Sharp Stick
Pitchshifter Desensitized
Pitchshifter Industrial
Play Dead (ENG) From The Promised Land
Pneumatic Detach [pa·re·ses]
Pneumatic Detach [re·vis·cer·a]
Powerman 5000 Tonight the Stars Revolt
Primer 55 (the) New Release
Project Pitchfork Eon:Eon
Quantic Apricot Morning
Quantum Fantay Agapanthusterra
Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium
Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Talk About the Weather
Rotersand Truth is Fanatic
Run Level Zero Symbol Of Submission
Run Level Zero Swaerm
Sabrepulse Famicom Connection
SAM Brainwasher
Saturnus Martyre
Savage Republic Ceremonial
Scary Kids Scaring Kids The City Sleeps In Flames
Secede Tryshasla
Seether Karma And Effect
Senses Fail Let It Enfold You
Sero.Overdose No Time For Silence
Sevendust Animosity
Shpongle Museum of Consciousness
Silverstein A Shipwreck in the Sand
Siouxsie and the Banshees Tinderbox
Skeletal Family Futile Combat
Skrape New Killer America
Sleep Volume One
SMP Stalemate
SND Atavism
SPK Auto Da Fé
Stone The Crow (GER) Fitting The Pieces
Subheim Foray
Suffocation Suffocation
Swamp Terrorists Combat Shock
Swamp Terrorists Wreck
Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
Switched Ghosts in the Machine
Synnack V2
Taproot Blue-Sky Research
The Azoic Illuminate
The Catch Balance On Wires
The Clay People Firetribe
The Coffinshakers The Coffinshakers
The Crooked Fiddle Band Rise
The Crooked Fiddle Band Overgrown Tales
The Cure The Top
The Cure Seventeen Seconds
The Electric Hellfire Club Electronomicon
The Essence Purity
The Fall The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall
The Fall Dragnet
The Flashbulb Kirlian Selections
The Frozen Autumn Fragments of Memories
The Lucy Show ...Undone
The Mission God's Own Medicine
The Names Swimming
The Stranglers Aural Sculpture
The Wake Harmony
Tiamat A Deeper Kind Of Slumber
Tool Undertow
Trapt Someone in Control
Udo Lindenberg Stark Wie Zwei
Ufomammut ORO: Opus Primum
Ultravox Quartet
Waterdown All Riot
White Rose Movement Kick
Worrytrain Fog Dance, My Moth Kingdom
This is good but I love the self-titled album much more. The s-t has a wonderful dreamy atmosphere that makes me wish I am Guybrush Threepwood in Monkey Island 1, there are many amazing night landscapes with stars, or I wish I am Meathook who lives reclusive, and has his bed directly under a window. good for star watching while listenign to the self-titled Worrytrain album.
Worrytrain Sleeping Through The Endtimes
X-Fusion Ultima Ratio
Xasthur Telepathic With The Deceased
Xasthur Nocturnal Poisoning
[:SITD:] Richtfest
[:SITD:] Trauma: Ritual

3.0 good
16Volt Skin
16Volt LetDownCrush
Accessory Forever and Beyond
Alesana On Frail Wings Of Vanity And Wax Re-issue
Avril Lavigne Love Sux
Brian Eno Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks
Burzum Daudi Baldrs
Burzum Hlidskjalf
Cocteau Twins Head Over Heels
Decrepit Birth Diminishing Between Worlds
Deine Lakaien Dark Star
Dry Cell Dry Cell
Echo and The Bunnymen Porcupine
Edge Of Dawn Enjoy The Fall
Explizit Einsam Erben Des Vergessens
Foetus Hole
Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight
Front Line Assembly Tactical Neural Implant
Gang of Four Entertainment!
Gong Shamal
Grade 8 Grade 8
Guru Guru UFO
Jan Jelinek Kosmischer Pitch
Much too repetitive and it doesn't do it for me. Boring and annoying, when I really tried to get
into an album but it won't ever happen it can get very frustrating.

Music of Loscil and Monolake can be very repetitive too but they're much more interesting to me
atmosphere-wise and more clever, with small changes throughout each song.

Also I love futuristic soundscapes and atmospheres like the albums Cinemascope and Momentum by
Monolake for example.
Kammarheit Asleep and Well Hidden
KMFDM Attak
Linkin Park Meteora
Mechanical Moth The Sad Machina
Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree
Myssouri War/Love Blues
Ozric Tentacles There Is Nothing
Pain (SWE) Rebirth
Paradise Lost Draconian Times
Paradise Lost Obsidian
Pere Ubu Worlds in Collision
Pink Turns Blue If Two Worlds Kiss
Play Dead (ENG) The First Flower
Portishead Dummy
Raunchy Confusion Bay
Reverend Glasseye Black River Falls
Rosalie Cunningham Rosalie Cunningham
Sad Lovers and Giants Headland
Saosin Saosin
Section 25 Always Now
Soft Cell Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Stellardrone On A Beam Of Light
Steve Hauschildt Strands
Stone The Crow (GER) Daylight
Suzi Quatro Suzi Quatro
The Comsat Angels My Mind's Eye
The Fall Extricate
The Frozen Autumn Chirality
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble Mutations
The Sound Jeopardy
The Wolfgang Press The Burden of Mules
Twisted Method Escape From Cape Coma
Ufomammut Godlike Snake
Ulaan Khol La Catacomb
Uriah Letters In Blood
VNV Nation Of Faith, Power and Glory
Wire Send
X-Fusion Beyond The Pale

2.5 average
10 Years The Autumn Effect
16Volt SuperCoolNothing
a-ha Hunting High and Low
Acumen Nation Lord of the Cynics
Agonoize Assimilation: Chapter One
Allelic The Smoke of Atavistic Fires
Androcell Entheomythic
Assemblage 23 Defiance
Blutengel Seelnschmerz
Bullet For My Valentine The Poison
Chimaira Chimaira
Diary of Dreams One of 18 Angels
Some good songs here but nowhere near the 4 great 90's albums they made, other albums are also
better like Nigredo, (if) and the Menschfeind EP. This album here was the beginning of making more
predictable songs.
Diary of Dreams Freak Perfume
Fear Factory Mechanize
Fred Again.. Actual Life (April 14 – December 17, 2020)
Grendel (NL) Harsh Generation
Apart from B.A.A.L. (Deliver Me) Grendel (NL) is known by me as the 3-chorus-man. This is a very
lightweight harsh electro album, meaning never longer than 4 minute songs, almost always a 3
chorus routine that gets old very fast.rAt least it's not a boring album, there are some solid
songs, but there are at least 30 other "aggrotech" artists that are much better.
KMFDM XTORT
Korn Follow the Leader
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine
Novembers Doom The Novella Reservoir
Ozric Tentacles Spirals in Hyperspace
Schaft Switchblade
Skinny Puppy Rabies
Sodom Persecution Mania
Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1
Swans Soundtracks for the Blind
This one just doesn't do it for me. I get a lot of experimental albums after first listen (or
second) like The Drift by Scott Walker, both This Heat albums, The Art Of Walking by Pere Ubu (and
the other earlier ones) and all albums by Radian for example, and Pale Hands I Loved So Well by
Eyeless In Gaza (one of my all time favourite bands). I absolutely adore those albums I mentioned.

But I just can't give this one more than 2.5 because I just don't feel anything. Maybe Swans just
aren't my cup of tea. Only my own music world is important for me and Swans are playing only a
small role in it.
Tuxedomoon Half-Mute
I loved the album "Desire" from the first listen but I never got into this album. Sounded unfinished and uninteresting sometimes. Some songs on it could have been much longer with more time to unfold.
Venom Black Metal
VNV Nation Judgement
X-Fusion Rotten To The Core
Yellowcard Southern Air
Too pop-like for me. Always the same predictable 3 chorus routine on every song. It would have
been much better balanced if every second song would be less predictable with more unexpected
twists thrown in.
But it seems they're doing the same over and over again. The way this album is it just gets
tedious too quickly. The lyrics can be amazing all they want, it's not enough to save it for me.

2.0 poor
3TEETH EndEx
Amon Tobin Permutation
I love Bricolage and especially Supermodified but I can't get into this album. The jazz drums are great as always but so far the songs don't give me anything. This album makes me tired.
Cesium_137 Proof Of Life
Cocteau Twins Garlands
Converge Jane Doe
Cult of Luna The Beyond
Cult of Luna Salvation
Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear
Cypecore Identity
Deathstars Synthetic Generation
Decoded Feedback Shockwave
Much too repetitive even by electro-industrial standards. Other rather obscure bands like Run
Level Zero, Dementia Simplex and Flesh Field are doing this much better.

I like the sound and atmosphere but it means nothing if the songs have no development. It's
absolutely unacceptable for me. They have 0 songwriting ability and are, in every song, chorus-
whoring.
Elif Endlich Tut Es Wieder Weh
ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) Gold
Much worse than their first 3 albums (which range from very good (Matte and Eight Thousand Square Feet) to wonderful (Enhancer).

Don't know what happened to them on "Gold", song structures are much lighter more pop-like, I don't like it. A shame because I like the album artwork, especially the golden half.

Well I still am thankful this is another dark electro / aggrotech band with 2 or more great albums I have.
Eyehategod Take as Needed for Pain
Gene Loves Jezebel Immigrant
KMFDM Let Go
Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar
Modern English After the Snow
Ozric Tentacles Technicians of the Sacred
Paradise Lost Lost Paradise
pizzamachine Sorry Haterz
Rag'n'Bone Man Human
Reverend Glasseye Our Lady of the Broken Spine
Rotersand Capitalism TM
It started good with the first 2 songs, then of course all went downhill with the songs after it
which are too predictable for Rotersand's standards. This was the first album in 7 years after the
great Random Is Resistance (the 3 before were also amazing) and I wasn't mentally able to get
through this piece of garbage.

It's the same as it was with VNV Nation - Noire, both began very well but the following songs
destroy everything. I will always love Rotersand's first 4 albums but this one here, I will never
listen to it again.
Rotting Christ Non Serviam
Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress
Siouxsie and the Banshees Join Hands
Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
Slipknot Iowa
Static-X Shadow Zone
Staubkind Zu Weit
Tried this album, no thanks. Every song follows the same tired 3 chorus routine with lazy and
lackluster songwriting. The songs sound like they could have been made within a few hours, there's
nothing interesting to be found.

Don't get how someone could call this dark wave or gothic rock, this sounds more like a poppy nu
metal album, nothing more. Kinda similar to Unheilig, ASP, Eisbrecher, Oomph and so on, can't
stand any of them because of weakly and too predictably structured songs.

this is just wannabe goth for girlies. completely dull and meaningless.
Syrian Alien Nation
System Syn Strangers
T3chn0ph0b1a Grave New World
The Clay People The Clay People
The Kings Of Frog Island II
The Rasmus Dead Letters
Tortoise TNT
UK Decay New Hope for the Dead
Valley MAYBE
VNV Nation Noire
This album started very promising with nice song structures, but what happened from Immersed on
really got me extremely angry. All songs from that song on suddenly got weaker and weaker, as if
Ronan just didn't care anymore and he throws everything that had potential away.
Predictable as hell with a lame and tired 3 chorus routine.

I want this album to get out of my face. There are at least around 40 futurepop albums that are
much better structured than this. Matter + Form, Futureperfect and Empires will always be the big
3 of VNV to me. Especially the first two mentioned are still among the best of the genre.
Zeromancer Clone Your Lover

1.5 very poor
Accessory More Than Machinery
Billy Talent Billy Talent II
Drowning Pool Sinner
Evanescence Fallen
Nonpoint Development
The Weeknd After Hours
Tinfed Tried + True
Wire A Bell Is A Cup Until It Is Struck
I listened to it years ago but most songs sound boring and repetitive. I gave it a chance but it
just isn't for me.

edit:

Just looked at the lyrics of every song. No thanks. Too many songs that even have more than 3
choruses (!). They can do much better than that. Not only on their 3 70's albums, but also on
their newer stuff as well like Change Becomes Us where most songs are structured very nicely.

Will not dig this one out again.

1.0 awful
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