| 4.0 excellent |
| (hed) p.e. (hed) p.e. |
| 7 Angels 7 Plagues Jhazmyne's Lullaby |
| 808 State Ninety |
| 8Ball and MJG On Top Of The World |
| A Tribe Called Quest We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service |
| A.A.L. (Against All Logic) 2012-2017 |
| Abominable Putridity The Anomalies of Artificial Origin |
| Abominable Putridity In the End of Human Existence |
| Aborted Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage... |
| Aborted RetroGore |
| Acid Bath Paegan Terrorism Tactics |
| Acme ...To Reduce the Choir to One Soloist |
| Adramelech Psychostasia |
| AES Dana Season 5 |
| Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid |
| Aesop Rock Skelethon |
| Aesop Rock Spirit World Field Guide |
| Afterbirth Four Dimensional Flesh |
| On Four Dimensional Flesh, Afterbirth create an interesting mix of death metal in the brutal or slam kind of vein, and other styles of rock music, namely progressive metal with psychedelic rock and post-rock tendencies, and the result is trippy to say the least. None of this to me feels as something thats gimmicky or style-over-substance, as this record is full of these guttural, twisted death metal passages that show that this band doesn't just want to make something that's overloaded in technical wankery, but actually have an ear for making eccentric metal music. This record has a nice organic sound and prominent bass too, steering away from the more sterile and overproduced type of production that has always been a huge turnoff on a lot of modern progressive metal releases for me personally. This type of death metal definitely warrants a certain kind of acquired taste, but anyone who has the appreciation and the patience should definitely be listening to this. I wish the band indulged a bit more in some of those genuinely beautiful atmospheric passages they tend to work into the tracklist at times, but other than that this is easily one of my favourite metal records of 2020. |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Often heralded as Agalloch's greatest musical achievement among many people, fans and critics alike, with which I unfortunately don't exactly share the same passion. The Mantle has a great recording and a pretty ambitious length with tracks that are generally very neo-folk focused with flashes of their metal influence popping up here and there providing a bit of contrast. Despite a lot of beautiful passages making their way on this record, I find that a bit too often the songs get a bit tedious and lose my interest after a while. I think the music would've benefitted from a more prominent black metal influence for some extra dynamics, because one long winded, similarly greyish folky song after the other just gets me a bit of ear fatigue after a while. Above that, I generally find the vocals to be a bit on the flat side, and some of the more melodramatic whispered spoken word bits don't do a lot for me either, which was also a problem for me on their debut as well. Still, a fairly enjoyable record, but to my ears just pretty inconsistent in terms of execution. |
| Air Moon Safari |
| Alcest Le Secret (2011 Version) |
| Alice Coltrane Journey in Satchidananda |
| All Out War For Those Who Were Crucified |
| American Football American Football |
| American Head Charge The War Of Art |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black |
| Anaal Nathrakh The Codex Necro |
| Andrea Ritorno |
| Even though I'm aware of the Ilian Tape label through Skee Mask's work, this debut album of Italian producer Andrea (who has also been releasing a string of EP's on the label since 2012) nearly flew under my radar, and I'm glad it didn't. Sonically this record follows a pretty similar blueprint of ambient techno that Skee Mask does, but there is a heavier lean towards atmospheric drum and bass and breakbeat, with some dubby influences here and there as well. If you're familiar enough with 90's IDM releases like those on Warp Records or just ambient techno and atmospheric drum and bass in general, this album won't blow you away necessarily as it is by no means unique in the way Andrea executes these tracks. However, not unique does not mean that they aren't tasteful or don't come from a passionate place, as it's very clear to me Andrea is quite the student of the styles of electronic music that he incorporates in his work. If you're obsessed with the kind of music from the era this record draws so heavily from or just in general want to hear an electronic record that has a very relaxing, melancholic atmosphere with lots of detailed, driving and danceable rhythms, than this is definitely worth checking out. My complaints generally towards this release is that I think some tracks tend to meander a little bit longer then they need to be, and some do pale in comparison to others in terms of being as colorfully produced or memorable. Still, a solid record with very little in the way of an actual dud in its tracklisting. |
| Animosity Animal |
| Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic |
| Anubi Kai pilnaties akis uzmerks Mirtis |
| Aphex Twin Windowlicker |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Appalling Spawn Freedom, Hope And Fury |
| Arizmenda Within the Vacuum of Infinity... |
| Arizmenda Stillbirth in the Temple of Venus |
| Arkangel Dead Man Walking |
| Arkangel Prayers Upon Deaf Ears |
| Arkangel Hope You Die By Overdose |
| Art Blakey Moanin' |
| Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation |
| Assuck Misery Index |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out |
| Autechre Chiastic Slide |
| Autechre Exai |
| Autechre Confield |
| Autopsy Mental Funeral |
| AZ Doe or Die |
| B12 Time Tourist |
| B12 Electro-soma |
| Bad Company UK Inside The Machine |
| Barkmarket Gimmick |
| Batushka Litourgiya |
| Beastie Boys Hello Nasty |
| Beastie Boys Ill Communication |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique |
| Beatrik Requiem of December |
| Bell Witch Longing |
| Ben Frost Steel Wound |
| Ben Frost Theory of Machines |
| Bethlehem S.U.I.Z.I.D |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors II |
| Big L Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous |
| Biosphere Cirque |
| Biosphere Microgravity |
| Biosphere Dropsonde |
| Bjork Vespertine |
| Bjork Debut |
| Bjork Post |
| Black Eyes Black Eyes |
| Black Midi Schlagenheim |
| Black Moon Enta Da Stage |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Black Star Black Star |
| Blackalicious Blazing Arrow |
| Blanck Mass World Eater |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race |
| Bloodbath Unblessing the Purity |
| Blunt Force Trauma (JPN) Vengeance for Nothing |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta I - Fathers Of The Icy Ages |
| Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God |
| Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses |
| Boards of Canada In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Dolores |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Black Earth |
| Bonobo Animal Magic |
| Bonobo Dial 'M' For Monkey |
| Booba Temps Mort |
| Boris Flood |
| Boris Pink |
| Boris Heavy Rocks |
| Boris Amplifier Worship |
| Botanist VI: Flora |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends |
| Bound and Gagged Fornicate the Gutted |
| Bowery Electric Lushlife |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Breach It's Me God |
| Brian Eno Ambient 4: On Land |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Brutus (BE) Nest |
| BT This Binary Universe |
| Buckethead Electric Tears |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On |
| Burial Truant/Rough Sleeper |
| Burial Street Halo |
| Burial Burial |
| Burnt By the Sun Soundtrack to the Personal Revolution |
| Burzum Burzum |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var |
| Busta Rhymes The Coming |
| Can Tago Mago |
| Candiria 300 Percent Density |
| Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding |
| Cannibal Corpse Kill |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated |
| Cannibal Corpse Bloodthirst |
| Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein |
| Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology |
| Capone-N-Noreaga The War Report |
| Car Bomb Centralia |
| Car Bomb Meta |
| Car Bomb w^w^^w^w |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms World Of Sleepers |
| Carcass Symphonies of Sickness |
| Carnifex Dead in My Arms |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity |
| Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction |
| Cattle Decapitation Karma.Bloody.Karma |
| Cattle Decapitation The Harvest Floor |
| Cave In Until Your Heart Stops |
| Charles Bronson Youth Attack! |
| Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis |
| Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood |
| Clipse We Got It 4 Cheap Volume 2 |
| Clipse Lord Willin' |
| Clutch Blast Tyrant |
| Coalesce Give Them Rope, She Said |
| Coalesce 0:12 Revolution in Just Listening |
| Cocteau Twins Four-Calendar Cafe |
| Cocteau Twins Head Over Heels |
| Coil The New Backwards |
| Coil The Ape Of Naples |
| Coldplay Brothers & Sisters |
| Coldplay The Blue Room |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Coldworld Melancholie² |
| Common Be |
| Common Like Water for Chocolate |
| Converge The Dusk in Us |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Courtney Barnett The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas |
| Craniotomy Supply of Flesh Came Just in Time |
| Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal |
| Cult of Luna The Beyond |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear |
| CunninLynguists A Piece Of Strange |
| Curl Up and Die Unfortunately We're Not Robots |
| Cursive Domestica |
| Curve Doppelganger |
| Cynic Focus |
| Cypress Hill IV |
| Cypress Hill Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom |
| Cypress Hill Cypress Hill |
| D'Angelo Black Messiah |
| D'Angelo Voodoo |
| Daft Punk Homework |
| Dalek Negro Necro Nekros |
| Dalek Abandoned Language |
| DangerDoom The Mouse And The Mask |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition |
| Danny Brown XXX |
| Danny Brown The Hybrid |
| Dark Fortress Tales from Eternal Dusk |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon |
| Daughters Daughters |
| Day Of Suffering The Eternal Jihad |
| Dazzling Killmen Face of Collapse |
| De La Soul De La Soul Is Dead |
| De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables |
| Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters |
| Dead Kennedys In God We Trust, Inc. |
| Deadguy Fixation on a Coworker |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda |
| Death Human |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns |
| Death Symbolic |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Death Grips Bottomless Pit |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Deathspell Omega Drought |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum |
| Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia |
| Decapitated Nihility |
| Decapitated The Negation |
| Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis |
| December The Lament Configuration |
| Deeds of Flesh Path of the Weakening |
| Deep Puddle Dynamics The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel? |
| Defeated Sanity Chapters of Repugnance |
| Defeated Sanity Passages Into Deformity |
| Defeated Sanity The Sanguinary Impetus |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Deftones Ohms |
| Dehumanized Prophecies Foretold |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien No Need For Alarm |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien I Wish My Brother George Was Here |
| Delusional Parasitosis Ingurgitating Intestinal Rot |
| Demigod Slumber of Sullen Eyes |
| Demilich The Four Instructive Tales... of Decomposition |
| Demilich The Echo |
| Depeche Mode Violator |
| Deprecated Deriding His Creation |
| Despised Icon The Healing Process |
| Devourment Obscene Majesty |
| Devourment Molesting the Decapitated |
| Devourment 1.3.8. |
| Digested Flesh The Answer to Infection |
| Dinosaur Jr. Farm |
| Dinosaur Jr. Where You Been |
| Dinosaur Jr. Bug |
| Diphenylchloroarsine Post Apocalyptic Human Annihilation |
| Disconformity Depravation of Stigma |
| diSEMBOWELMENT Transcendence into the Peripheral |
| Disgorge Consume the Forsaken |
| Disgorge (Mex) Necrholocaust |
| Disgorge (Mex) Forensick |
| Disma Towards the Megalith |
| Dissecting Table Life |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane |
| Dizzee Rascal Maths and English |
| DJ Magic No Hats No Hoods Edition 1 |
| DJ Muggs Vs GZA Grandmasters |
| DJ Spooky Songs Of A Dead Dreamer |
| DJ Sprinkles Queerifications & Ruins |
| DJ Sprinkles Where Dancefloors Stand Still |
| DMX It's Dark and Hell Is Hot |
| Do Make Say Think Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead |
| Dodheimsgard 666 International |
| Dog Fashion Disco Anarchists of Good Taste |
| Don Ellis Soaring |
| Double Hill Wanna Get EP |
| Down NOLA |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic |
| Dragged Into Sunlight Hatred For Mankind |
| Drexciya Neptune's Lair |
| Dripping Bring the Suffering |
| Dropdead 2nd LP |
| Drudkh Forgotten Legends |
| Drudkh Blood In Our Wells |
| Drudkh Estrangement |
| Dub War Wrong Side of Beautiful |
| Dub War Pain |
| Duck Duck Goose Noise, Noise and More Noise |
| Duster Stratosphere |
| Dying Fetus Killing on Adrenaline |
| Dying Fetus Wrong One To Fuck With |
| Dying Fetus Reign Supreme |
| Dying Fetus Stop at Nothing |
| Dystopia Human = Garbage |
| Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs |
| Earth Crisis Destroy the Machines |
| Earth Crisis Gomorrah's Season Ends |
| Earth Crisis Firestorm |
| Ed Rush and Optical Wormhole |
| Edenic Past Red Amarcord |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson |
| Eels Beautiful Freak |
| Eighteen Visions Yesterday Is Time Killed |
| Eighteen Visions XVIII |
| El-P Fantastic Damage |
| Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics... |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Embodyment Embrace the Eternal |
| Eminem The Slim Shady EP |
| Eminem Infinite |
| Emperor Emperor |
| Enmity Vomit Forth Intestinal Excrement |
| Enslaved Frost |
| Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi |
| Entombed Clandestine |
| Entombed Left Hand Path |
| Envy The Fallen Crimson |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story |
| Epicardiectomy Putreseminal Morphodysplastic Virulency |
| Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full |
| Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh |
| Eternal Suffering Drowning In Tragedy |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives |
| Everything But the Girl Walking Wounded |
| Extermination Dismemberment Serial Urbicide |
| Extince Binnenlandse Funk |
| Failure Magnified |
| Fall Silent Superstructure |
| Fantomas The Director's Cut |
| Far Tin Cans with Strings to You |
| Fear Factory Obsolete |
| Fennesz Venice |
| Fiona Apple When the Pawn... |
| Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The LSO Promises |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Pinata |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Bandana |
| From the Dying Sky Truth’s Last Horizon |
| Fugazi Repeater |
| Fugazi In on the Kill Taker |
| Fugazi Red Medicine |
| Full of Hell and Merzbow Full of Hell and Merzbow |
| Gang Starr Hard to Earn |
| Gang Starr Moment of Truth |
| Gangsta Boo Both Worlds *69 |
| Garbage Disposal Union Carbide |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering |
| Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele |
| Ghostface Killah Ironman |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey |
| Glass Casket We Are Gathered Here Today... |
| Glassjaw Material Control |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence |
| Glassjaw El Mark |
| Godflesh Songs of Love and Hate |
| Godflesh Selfless |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Goemagot Eradication of Insignificant Beings |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius |
| Gojira Terra Incognita |
| Gorevent Abnormal Exaggeration |
| Gorgoroth Under the Sign of Hell |
| Gorguts Colored Sands |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Gouge Away Burnt Sugar |
| Green Day Insomniac |
| Grief Come to Grief |
| Grimes Art Angels |
| Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée... |
| Guru Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 |
| Guttural Secrete Reek Of Pubescent Despoilment |
| Guttural Secrete Nourishing the Spoil |
| H.U.V.A. Network Distances |
| H.U.V.A. Network Ephemeris |
| Harold Budd and Brian Eno Ambient 2 - The Plateaux of Mirror |
| Harold Budd and Brian Eno The Pearl |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World |
| Have Heart Songs to Scream at the Sun |
| Hella Hold Your Horse Is |
| Hieroglyphics 3rd Eye Vision |
| High on Fire Blessed Black Wings |
| His Hero Is Gone Monuments to Thieves |
| Hooverphonic A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular |
| Hopesfall The Frailty of Words |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years |
| Human Remains Using Sickness as a Hero |
| I:Cube Picnic Attack |
| I:Cube Adore |
| Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted |
| Ice Cube The Predator |
| Ice-T O.G. Original Gangster |
| Immolation Failures for Gods |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust |
| Immortal Battles in the North |
| Imperial Triumphant Alphaville |
| Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| In Flames Whoracle |
| Incantation Onward to Golgotha |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself |
| Indian From All Purity |
| Infernal Revulsion Devastate Under Hallucination |
| Infest No Man's Slave |
| Infest Slave |
| Infester To the Depths... In Degradation |
| Inquisition Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical... |
| Insect Warfare World Extermination |
| Internal Bleeding Voracious Contempt |
| Internal Bleeding The Extinction of Benevolence |
| Internal Bleeding Invocation of Evil |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Intestine Baalism An Anatomy of the Beast |
| Ion Dissonance Breathing Is Irrelevant |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| J Dilla Donuts |
| Jaga Jazzist A Livingroom Hush |
| James Morrison Undiscovered |
| Jamiroquai Emergency on Planet Earth |
| Jamiroquai Travelling Without Moving |
| Jan Jelinek Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records |
| Janet Jackson The Velvet Rope |
| Jean-Michel Jarre Zoolook |
| Jenovavirus Demo 1 |
| Jeromes Dream Seeing Means More Than Safety |
| Jeru the Damaja The Sun Rises in the East |
| Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure? |
| This record is kinda like Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia, but more taylor made to fit my personal tastes. Both records obviously draw from similar places sonically, but where Dua Lipa favours to lean towards contemporary and commercial pop aesthetics, Jessie goes deeper down the road of dancier instrumentals and soulful vocals, for a sound that feels less modern and more nostalgic and intoxicating. Where that album ended up losing me, What's Your Pleasure? keeps winning me over even further with its funky and seductive grooves, lavish production and sensual melodies. And don't get it twisted, this is not just another record that cheaply indulges into some retro pastiche purely for the gimmick of it or to seem more sophisticated then it really is, this is very tastefully written, performed, produced, just put together in general. Except for a few tracks that maybe pale a little bit in comparison for me to others like Adore You and Save A Kiss (and even these are not all that bad), this is a really consistently enjoyable record and pretty much the pop highlight of 2020 for me without a doubt. |
| Jesus Piece Only Self |
| JME Famous? |
| Job for a Cowboy Doom |
| Job for a Cowboy Sun Eater |
| John Abercrombie Timeless |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| JPEGMAFIA LP! (offline) |
| Judas Iscariot To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding |
| Julia Holter Loud City Song |
| Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness |
| Jute Gyte Vast Chains |
| Jute Gyte Young Eagle |
| Jute Gyte Birefringence |
| Jute Gyte Ressentiment |
| Jute Gyte Perdurance |
| Jute Gyte Ship of Theseus |
| Jute Gyte Discontinuities |
| Jute Gyte Verstiegenheit |
| Jute Gyte Senescence |
| Jute Gyte Impermanence |
| Jute Gyte Isolation |
| Jute Gyte Mitrealität |
| Kamasi Washington The Epic |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Kapitan Korsakov Well Hunger |
| Kastrated Surge of Festering Spasticity |
| Kataklysm The Mystical Gate of Reincarnation |
| Kate Bush Never for Ever |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue |
| Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue can be seen as a sort of more heavy sounding nephew record to Choirs Of The Eye, in that it still plays a lot with those prog metal aesthetics that Toby explored so brilliantly on his maudlin of the Well project, but approaches it from a different, more downtrodden and patient angle. This record opens up with very slow and brooding black and death metal inspired passages that feature some of Toby Driver's most manic vocal performances yet which later in the tracklist is balanced out with very melancholic, jazzy and more atmospheric, post rock-y passages as well. Dowsing sounds at times bitter and unhinged like on Gemini Become The Tripod, other times very pondering and exhausted like on the very post-metal sounding On Limpid Form, and sometimes equally pondering but also beautifully sad like on Immortelle And Paper Caravelle. This album does require a bit of a more attentive ear as there is almost nothing immediate or instantly gratifying about it like some Kayo Dot records actually are, for me personally at least. The last two tracks can meander maybe a little too long with its 18 and 14 minute runtime, but even considering that it is a definite highlight in their discograpy and one that you should check out if you're only interested in checking a few albums from Kayo Dot's lengthy catalogue. |
| Kayo Dot Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 |
| Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts |
| Kind of Like Spitting Nothing Makes Sense Without It |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard I'm In Your Mind Fuzz |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity |
| Kingpin Skinny Pimp King Of Da Playaz Ball |
| Kiss It Goodbye She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not |
| Kiss It Goodbye Choke |
| KMD Bl_ck B_st_rds |
| Koen Holtkamp Field Rituals |
| Kool Keith Black Elvis/Lost in Space |
| Korn Issues |
| Korn Follow the Leader |
| Krallice Diotima |
| Krallice Hyperion |
| Krallice Mass Cathexis |
| After releasing a string of great, progressive and technically proficient black metal records in the late 2000's and early 2010's, the polarizing New York quartet have been steadily venturing away from their established sound for something that is less tension building and more nimble and riff-oriented, to mixed but overall interesting results. Their first transition certainly was a bit of a surprising change, with 2015's pretty enjoyable Ygg Huur seeing the band going for a very Gorguts-y tech death sound, especially reminiscent of their comeback record Colored Sands for which Colin Marston also played bass and did production for. 2017's Go Be Forgotten saw them embracing a more purist ambient infused black metal aesthetic, as if they were almost jokingly trying to turn their hipster-metal-hating naysayers around, which to me was a cool idea but messy and inconsistent in its execution despite having its moments. With Mass Cathexis however, I feel like the band pulled off its best balance of the angular sound introduced on Ygg Huur and the more spacious direction of their most beloved output, with again incorporating synths and more overall atmosphere in their technical death metal sound. Combining their usual virtuosity again with passages that don't feel as densely packed and also genuinely beautiful at times has resulted in what I feel like is a dynamic 40-minute record where Krallice sound like they're actually back in their element. I may still not prefer it over their first four albums, but this is still their best release since Years Past Matter in my opinion. |
| Krallice Go Be Forgotten |
| Krallice Crystalline Exhaustion |
| Krallice Psychagogue |
| Kreator Pleasure to Kill |
| Kronos Colossal Titan Strife |
| KRS-One Return Of The Boom Bap |
| Ksiezyc Ksiezyc |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| Kylie Minogue Impossible Princess |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| Laurent Garnier Unreasonable Behaviour |
| Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver |
| LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem |
| Leftfield Leftism |
| Letters In Binary Pretty and Perpendicular |
| Leviathan Verräter |
| Leviathan Tentacles of Whorror |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted |
| Leviathan The Blind Wound |
| Leviathan Howl Mockery At The Cross |
| Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow |
| Lil Ugly Mane Mista Thug Isolation |
| Lil Wayne Dedication 2 |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter |
| Lingua Ignota SINNER GET READY |
| Little Brother The Minstrel Show |
| Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be Introvert |
| Liturgy As The Blood Of God Bursts The Veins Of Time |
| Liturgy Aesthethica |
| Living Sacrifice The Hammering Process |
| Living Sacrifice Conceived In Fire |
| Local H Pack Up the Cats |
| Loma Prieta I.V. |
| Low I Could Live in Hope |
| Luke Vibert Big Soup |
| Lustmord The Place Where The Black Stars Hang |
| M.I.A. Arular |
| Madlib Shades of Blue |
| Madonna Ray of Light |
| Madonna Erotica |
| Magrudergrind Magrudergrind |
| Malignancy Intrauterine Cannibalism |
| Malignancy Motivated By Hunger |
| Mamaleek Come and See |
| Manes Under Ein Blodraud Maane |
| Manes Vilosophe |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar |
| Marsen Jules Les Fleurs |
| Maserati Inventions for the New Season |
| Massacre From Beyond |
| Mastery Valis |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Mattafix Signs Of A Struggle |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second |
| Mayhem Ordo ad Chao |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| MC Solaar Prose Combat |
| mclusky The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire |
| mclusky McLusky Do Dallas |
| Meg Myers Sorry |
| Melvins Stoner Witch |
| Melvins Houdini |
| Melvins Stag |
| Melvins Bullhead |
| Merzbow Ikebukuro Dada |
| Merzbow Merzbird |
| Merzbow Door Open at 8 am |
| Merzbow Magnesia Nova |
| Merzbow Venereology |
| Merzbow Hybrid Noisebloom |
| Merzbow Amlux |
| Merzbow Noisembryo |
| Merzbow Pulse Demon |
| Meshell Ndegeocello Peace Beyond Passion |
| Meshuggah I |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Method Man Tical |
| MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday |
| MF DOOM Born Like This |
| Mgla Exercises in Futility |
| Miles Davis On the Corner |
| Milo Who Told You To Think??!!?!?!?! |
| Milo So The Flies Don't Come |
| Mineral The Power of Failing |
| Ministry The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste |
| Ministry Filth Pig |
| Ministry The Land of Rape and Honey |
| Minor Threat Minor Threat |
| Minor Threat Out of Step |
| Mitochondrion Archaeaeon |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young |
| Mogwai Young Team |
| Moloko Statues |
| Mono Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined |
| Monolake Momentum |
| Morning Again Martyr |
| Morrissey Vauxhall and I |
| Morrissey Viva Hate |
| Morrissey You Are the Quarry |
| Morser Two Hours To Doom |
| Motorbass Pansoul |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon |
| Mount Eerie Wind's Poem |
| Mount Eerie Dawn |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle |
| Mr. Bungle Disco Volante |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v |
| N.E.R.D. In Search Of |
| Nachtmystium Silencing Machine |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us |
| Nails Unsilent Death |
| Napalm Death Apex Predator - Easy Meat |
| Napalm Death Time Waits for No Slave |
| Napalm Death Enemy of the Music Business |
| Napalm Death Smear Campaign |
| Nara Leao Dez Anos Depois |
| Nastrond Toteslaut |
| Nasum Helvete |
| Natalia Lafourcade Musas Vol. 2 |
| Negura Bunget OM |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun |
| Neurosis Souls at Zero |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis White Lunar |
| Nick Drake Bryter Layter |
| Nightmares On Wax Carboot Soul |
| Nile In Their Darkened Shrines |
| Nile Annihilation of the Wicked |
| Nine Inch Nails Bad Witch |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| Nirvana Bleach |
| Nostromo (CHE) Ecce Lex |
| Nujabes Modal Soul |
| O.G.C. Da Storm |
| Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros |
| Of Feather and Bone Sulfuric Disintegration |
| Maybe the heaviest band I've heard so far in this newer wave of very cavernous, guttural and pummeling death metal bands that are getting traction in the underground right now. And with so many death metal records shooting for this really clean, robotic sound where everything sounds very edited and digital, this is an absolute blessing for someone like me who really can't stand this type of production and prefers a majority of his music within this genre very ugly and bloodcaked. The production and playing on this record feels very organic but also visceral and hits you like a steamroller with crushingly dense riffs which are engulfed in a thick, smokey atmosphere. The band also goes full throttle, with track after track of monstrously sized ragers that do not let up for a single tangible moment, with the closest to a breather being the really slow, ten tonner of a breakdown in the middle of Noctemnania, or the small bit of ambience at the end of Sulfuric Sodomy. Now, I will say that this torture chamber-like approach threads on being almost to a fault, as listening to this record from front to back can get slightly tiresome and make listening to the music seem like trying to run a marathon with most of these songs being around 5 minutes in length. Luckily, this gets a little dampened by the fact that the record overall is just around half an hour long and doesn't overstay its welcome. Other than that, this is pretty much a solid metal record to my ears and one that I enjoy thoroughly every time I revisit it. |
| of Montreal Cherry Peel |
| of Montreal The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy |
| Ol' Dirty Bastard Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version |
| On Broken Wings Some Of Us May Never See The World |
| Onyx Bacdafucup |
| Onyx All We Got Iz Us |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Muukalainen Puhuu |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Kosmonument |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi |
| Orbital Orbital 2 |
| Orbital In Sides |
| Orchid Chaos is Me |
| Orchidectomy A Prelate's Attrition |
| Oxmo Puccino Opera Puccino |
| Pan.Thy.Monium Khaooohs |
| Pan.Thy.Monium Khaooohs And Kon-Fus-Ion |
| Pan.Thy.Monium Dawn of Dreams |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal |
| On Autumn Eternal, Austin starts incorporating the folk elements that we came to know most prominently on Kentucky and Roads To The North in a much more suddle way, delivering a record that on the surface seems to go for a heavier, more straightforward black metal sound. This is however not a jab at the actual compositions, as this record at times goes from roaringly aggressive but still melodious to stunningly melancholic and almost cinematic without falling in the usual stereotypical sound pallets that a lot of his american collegues (still) seemed to fall into so easily. The music on this record not only retains its earth-like quality but stays multi-faceted and dynamic throughout, giving it a lot of replay value. Apart from the stunning 4-minute opener, this record is pretty excempt from folky interludes and breaks, but the very winding song structures and progressions that these songs go through are always engaging and interestingly rich, and other things like for example the beautiful synthesizers and bells towards the end of Into The North Woods as well as the sporadic but effective field recordings and post rock influences help to enhance Panopticon's usual emotionally laden roots-y aesthetic even further. As made clear with the title, Autumn Eternal is Austin's ode to autumn's early october atmosphere, and its definitely up there with some of Drudkh's best work in terms of conveying that. Autumn Eternal stands as one of the best not only under the Panopticon name but of metal albums in the 2010's for me as well. |
| Panopticon Social Disservices |
| Arguably the bleakest and most DSBM-style album in the Panopticon catalogue, Social Disservices as the album title as well as the names of the songs themselves so obviously imply serves as Austin's critique on the foster system and other social services (by his definition from the more corrupt, christian strain), which I understand he himself worked in for six years. While to me most of Panopticon's records have a very kind of soaring, beautiful nature-esque theme, this record is definitely a bit of a detour with its very cocophonous, depressing and hopeless atmosphere enhanced by the production as well as its incorporation of violins, dramatic, sad lead guitars and beautiful, haunting background vocals. Its definitely not the best produced album from Panopticon and Austin did eventually end up remastering this entire record for his Revisions Of The Past project, citing lack of experience with equipment and as a producer to be a detriment to the sound of the final project. While I'm not going to argue about how well or not the record ended up in its original version with the man who birthed it himself, I personally don't mind it too much as I still find Social Disservices to be a very evocative and moody black metal record with a lot emotional potency which to me is enough to make up for whatever shortcomings it might have on a technical level, and I honestly find the raw, more lo-fi production to work pretty well. I know this record isn't very popular among fans, but its one of my personal favourite Panopticon LP's, and surely one that is a solid addition to the Austin Lunn canon. |
| Panopticon Roads to the North |
| Roads To The North sees Austin refining this newfound artistic evolution he found himself in with Kentucky and releases a record that treats the listeners to a way more refined take on his bluegrass meets black metal formula. While Kentucky had some really cocophonous production where to me all the different influences really clashed more often than they worked, this album has all its instrumentation in the right place and features a pretty seamless blend of afformentioned bluegrass and post rock influenced black metal, but also sees the newer incorporation of melodic death metal as well. The folk music, along with some of the progressive rock and post rock passages that makes its way on here is performed to an absolute T and serves as a really beautiful, sweet and melodic counterpart to the heavier black metal instrumentation. This album is arguably the highest watermark for Panopticon, as it perfectly serves itself as a mission statement of what his music is about, and as a result is pretty much the album to check out for anyone who just wants to casually dip their toes in Austin's discography. Roads To The North is a really well performed and dynamically written album with lots of things to like for metal fans of different strains, and its not a surprise to me that its the most popular release to come out of this project so far. |
| Panopticon Collapse |
| Paramore After Laughter |
| Paramore This Is Why |
| Parasitic Ejaculation Echoes of Depravity |
| Parasitic Ejaculation Rationing the Sacred Human Remains |
| Parasitic Ejaculation Isolation |
| Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls |
| Paul Wall The Peoples Champ |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted |
| Paysage d'Hiver Kristall und Isa |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor |
| Peste Noire L'Ordure a l'etat Pur |
| Peste Noire Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor |
| Petrol Girls Baby |
| pg.99 Document #5 |
| pg.99 Document #7 |
| Pharoah Sanders Karma |
| Pharoahe Monch Internal Affairs |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb |
| Pinback Summer in Abaddon |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Pixies Come On Pilgrim |
| Pixies Bossanova |
| PJ Harvey White Chalk |
| PJ Harvey Dry |
| PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love |
| Placebo Sleeping with Ghosts |
| Polvo Today's Active Lifestyles |
| Porcupine Tree Signify |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream |
| Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways |
| Portal Outre |
| Portal's music for me is the sonic equivalency of being slowly sucked into a tar pit underneath a storming sky. It's like an old book of satanic incantations decaying in an attic of an abandoned cabin in the middle of the woods with a beam of single hot orange sunlight peeking through the front window, highlighting all the dust particles flying in its path. It's gloomy, it's occultish, its hard to decipher or even stomach for most. |
| Portal Swarth |
| Portal ION |
| Portishead Portishead |
| Power Trip Manifest Decimation |
| Power Trip Nightmare Logic |
| Powerman 5000 The Blood Splat Rating System |
| Primus Green Naugahyde |
| Primus Pork Soda |
| Prophet Posse Body Parts |
| Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet |
| Pustulated Pathognomonic Purulency |
| Putridity Ignominious Atonement |
| Pyrexia Sermon of Mockery |
| Quasimoto The Further Adventures of Lord Quas |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| Quelle Chris, Chris Keys Innocent Country 2 |
| R.A.P. Ferreira purple moonlight pages |
| Wisconsin nerd emcee Rory Ferreira has been quite the prolific artist in the very wordy, alternative indierap scene of the 2010's along with other notable peers such as Open Mike Eagle, Ka and Quelle Chris, most prominently under his Milo moniker, and his newest alias R.A.P. Ferreira stands out for putting Rory's heady and poetic verses and (usually) very relaxed delivery over an instrumental pallette of dynamic and jazzy instrumentals. California producer trio The Jefferson Park Boys pretty consistently keep these tracks sonically engaging and interesting, with organic drums, lush vibrophones, mellow keys, strings and righteous horn lines among other things. There is a sort of inviting intimacy throughout the entire record that I find pretty endearing, as well as a tangeable melancholic atmosphere thanks to the beautiful and nocturnal quality of the instrumentals that set the tone for these performances quite well. Despite this record not having much in terms of hooks (with some exceptions), I do think the way a lot of these instrumentals groove along with the little memorable parts worked within them like certain keyboard melodies, horn lines and vocal samples make them quite memorable and replayable, even if the esoteric lyricism of these tracks can be hard to chew on. In fact, I'd say that Rory has a knack for delivering these lyrics in a non-flashy but charismatic way which makes them appear easier to digest than they may be once you go to read further into them. |
| Racebannon In the Grips of the Light |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs: From the Basement |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Rahsaan Roland Kirk The Inflated Tear |
| Rammstein Herzeleid |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise |
| Ras Kass Soul on Ice |
| RATKING So It Goes |
| RBX The RBX Files |
| Reagenz Reagenz |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Refused Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent |
| Regurgitation Tales of Necrophilia |
| Reprisal Where Heavy Gloom Dominate |
| Repugnant Epitome of Darkness |
| Rest in Gore Culinary Buffet of Hacked Innards |
| Return to Forever Romantic Warrior |
| Robert Rich & B. Lustmord Stalker |
| Robinson The Great City |
| Rodan Rusty |
| Roisin Murphy Overpowered |
| Rotten Sound Exit |
| Rottrevore Iniquitous |
| Ruin Plague Transmissions (Vol.1) |
| Ruin Plague Transmissions (Vol.2) |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 |
| Sade Lovers Rock |
| Sade Stronger Than Pride |
| Samael Ceremony Of Opposites |
| Sanction (NY) The Infringement Of God's Plan |
| Sanguisugabogg Tortured Whole |
| Sausage Riddles Are Abound Tonight |
| Scattered Remnants Destined to Fail |
| Scientist (JAM) Scientist Meets the Space Invaders |
| Scorn Evanescence |
| Sect of Execration Baptized Through Blasphemy |
| Sepultura Roots |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up |
| Shellac 1000 Hurts |
| Shift (NY) Spacesuit |
| Shinichi Atobe Ship-Scope |
| Shining (SWE) III - Angst, Självdestruktivitetens Emissarie |
| Shining (SWE) IX: Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, ends. |
| Shining (SWE) IV - The Eerie Cold |
| Sigh In Somniphobia |
| Sigh Hail Horror Hail |
| Sigh Shiki |
| Sintury Disgorging the Dead |
| Skalpel Skalpel |
| Skee Mask Compro |
| Skee Mask Pool |
| Skinless Progression Towards Evil |
| Skinless Foreshadowing our Demise |
| Skycamefalling To Forever Embrace The Sun |
| Slayer Reign in Blood |
| Sleater-Kinney The Woods |
| Sleep Dopesmoker |
| Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain |
| Sleepsculptor Entry: Dispersal |
| Slick Rick The Great Adventures of Slick Rick |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| slowthai Nothing Great About Britain |
| Smif-N-Wessun Dah Shinin' |
| Snapcase End Transmission |
| Snoop Dogg Doggystyle |
| Solar Fields Leaving Home |
| Sole Bottle Of Humans |
| Solstafir Köld |
| Solstafir Masterpiece of Bitterness |
| Sombres Forets La Mort du Soleil |
| Sombres Forets Royaume De Glace |
| Sombres Forets Quintessence |
| Sortsind Sår |
| Soulfly Dark Ages |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Sparklehorse Good Morning Spider |
| Spinvis Spinvis |
| Squarepusher Feed Me Weird Things |
| Squarepusher Ultravisitor |
| Stake The Hutch |
| Stake All Is Chaos |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip |
| Static-X Project Regeneration Vol. 1 |
| As someone who used to listen to his fair share of nu-metal in his earlier high school days and who still sees Static-X's debut as a record worth remembering from that era, I was truly surprised in terms of how well this album captured their earlier, rawer sound and overall aesthetic. This first installment of Project Regeneration sounds like it came straight out of 2001, so much so that listening to it keeps me only a couple inches away from throwing on a Follow The Leader tee and booting up my Xbox for an afternoon of Halo CE. Sure, it's by no means perfect and certain elements can come off as a bit gaudy and dated as well as some tracks paling in comparison to others, but a majority of this record is a nice solid dose of stomping industrial alt-metal ragers with the late Wayne Static's throaty expressive vocals gracing the forefront in their prime state. A fantastic way to remember one of the most memorable frontmen in the whole late 90's and early 2000's alternative metal scene. |
| Static-X Machine |
| Stereo MCs Connected |
| Sticky Fingaz Blacktrash: The Autobiography of Kirk Jones |
| Strapping Young Lad Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing |
| Strife In This Defiance |
| Strongarm The Advent of a Miracle |
| Suffocation Pierced from Within |
| Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing |
| Sun Ra Space is the Place |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions |
| Sunn O))) White2 |
| Sunn O))) Metta, Benevolence BBC 6Music... |
| Supreme NTM Supreme NTM |
| Swain Howl |
| Swans Filth |
| Swans The Great Annihilator |
| Sweet Trip A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals |
| Sweet Trip You Will Never Know Why |
| Sweet Trip Halica: Bliss Out v.11 |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Systral Black Smoker |
| TAD Inhaler |
| Taeko Onuki Mignonne |
| Taeko Onuki Sunshower |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light |
| Techno Animal The Brotherhood of the Bomb |
| Tentacle Centipede Keichitsu |
| Terminally Your Aborted Ghost Inanimately Soundless |
| Tetsu Inoue World Receiver |
| The Black Eyed Peas Behind the Front |
| The Black Heart Procession 2 |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn |
| The Blood Brothers March On Electric Children |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes |
| The Body and Full Of Hell One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache |
| The Books Thought For Food |
| The Cardigans Gran Turismo |
| The Cardigans First Band on the Moon |
| The Chariot Everything Is Alive, Everything Is... |
| The Chariot The Fiancee |
| The Cinematic Orchestra Every Day |
| The Coup Steal This Album |
| The Cure Faith |
| The Cure Pornography |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds |
| The Cure Bloodflowers |
| The Cure Wish |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I |
| The End (CAN) Transfer Trachea Reverberations from Point: False Omniscient |
| The Field Looping State of Mind |
| The Great Redneck Hope Behold The Fuck Thunder |
| The Jesus Lizard Goat |
| The Knife Deep Cuts |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die |
| The Orb Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land |
| The Psycho Realm The Psycho Realm |
| The Red Chord Clients |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine |
| The Roots undun |
| The Roots Game Theory |
| The Roots Do You Want More?!!!??! |
| The Roots Rising Down |
| The Roots How I Got Over |
| The Sawtooth Grin Good. |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Machina/The Machines of God |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish |
| The Streets Original Pirate Material |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| The Sundays Reading, Writing and Arithmetic |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| The White Stripes De Stijl |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells |
| The White Stripes Elephant |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward |
| Thievery Corporation The Richest Man in Babylon |
| Thievery Corporation The Mirror Conspiracy |
| Thorns Thorns |
| Three 6 Mafia Smoked Out, Loced Out |
| Three 6 Mafia Chapter 2: World Domination |
| Thursday Full Collapse |
| Tim Buckley Starsailor |
| Tim Hecker An Imaginary Country |
| Tim Hecker Mirages |
| Toby Driver In the L..L..Library Loft |
| Todd Edwards Prima Edizione |
| Tommy Wright III Runnin'n Gunnin |
| Tommy Wright III Ashes 2 Ashes, Dust 2 Dust |
| Tommy Wright III Feel Me Before They Kill Me |
| Tool Opiate |
| Tori Amos Boys for Pele |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die |
| Tortoise TNT |
| Training for Utopia Plastic Soul Impalement |
| Traumaside Force Fed |
| Trentemoller The Last Resort |
| Tricky Maxinquaye |
| Turnstile Glow On |
| Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy |
| Tyler, the Creator IGOR |
| Type O Negative Bloody Kisses |
| Uboa The Origin Of My Depression |
| UGK Ridin' Dirty |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
| Ulver Blood Inside |
| Unbroken Life. Love. Regret. |
| Union Of Uranus To This Bearer Of Truth |
| Unruh Setting Fire to Sinking Ships |
| Unsane Scattered, Smothered & Covered |
| Unsane Visqueen |
| Unwound Challenge For a Civilized Society |
| Ved Buens Ende Those who Caress the Pale |
| Vein.fm Errorzone |
| Vektor Terminal Redux |
| Venom Prison Samsara |
| Venom Prison Primeval |
| A very solid collection of re-recordings of the early Defy The Tyrant and The Primal Chaos EP's, which are frankly such an improvement I would have virtually no reason at this point to ever revisit the originals anymore. Larissa Stupar's vocals are of course still pretty monstrous, but they also go in a pretty well-executed, maniacal and sour clean vocal style at certain points throughout the two new songs at the end, which at times are very reminiscent of the vocals Travis Ryan started doing on the later Cattle Decapitation releases. Honestly, Primeval sounds like a real proper full length album rather than just a compilation, thanks to the heavier production and sonic idenitity which makes all of it come together very consistently. These tracks may not be reinventing any wheels or anything, but they're still very ferocious and just plain fun. If you heard 2019's Samsara and already hungered for more, then really look no further than this record right here, because this is some of the best stuff they've done up until this far. |
| Viktor Vaughn Vaudeville Villain |
| Vision of Disorder Vision of Disorder |
| Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil |
| Weakling Dead as Dreams |
| Weather Report Sweetnighter |
| Ween The Mollusk |
| Weezer Weezer |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Weezer The White Album |
| Wiley Godfather |
| Will Haven El Diablo |
| Will Haven Carpe Diem |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars |
| Wormed Planisphaerium |
| Wormed Exodromos |
| Wormrot Dirge |
| Wormrot Voices |
| Wormrot Hiss |
| Wrench (US) Queen Anne's Revenge |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| Xasthur To Violate the Oblivious |
| Xasthur The Funeral of Being |
| Xasthur A Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors |
| Xasthur/Leviathan Xasthur/Leviathan |
| Xazraug Unsympathetic Empyrean |
| Yes Close to the Edge |
| Youngsta Dubstep Allstars Vol.2 |
| Zao Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest |
| Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit |
| 3.5 great |
| 't Hof Van Commerce Rocky 7 |
| 't Hof Van Commerce En In Izzegem… |
| 't Hof Van Commerce Ezoa En Niet Anders |
| ...and Oceans A.M.G.O.D. |
| 200 Stab Wounds Piles of Festering Decomposition |
| 200 Stab Wounds Slave to the Scalpel |
| 50 Caliber Internal Bleeding |
| 7 H. Target 0.00 Apocalypse |
| 7 H. Target Psy Slam Damage |
| 7 H. Target Fast-Slow Demolition |
| 7 H. Target Japan Body Hammer |
| 808 State Don Solaris |
| A Life Once Lost Hunter |
| A.A.L. (Against All Logic) 2017-2019 |
| Less soulful and deep-house influenced than the debut, leaning more towards a minimalistic, colder and more industrial aesthetic instead. The first two tracks might give the impression that 2017-2019 is a continuation of the warmer, more welcoming sounds we've come to know from the Against All Logic project with their catchy and accessible vocal samples, but later tracks like With An Addict and Alarm make abundantly clear that Nicolas Jaar is in a different artistic headspace this time around. 2017-2019's sound palette is emphasized with metallic samples, minimal grooves and a dronier ambience, not too unlike the sounds you might hear on an Autechre record, only less mechanical and more accessible and dancefloor oriented. Despite my comparison to the previous record, the music on 2017-2019 still holds a certain identity that feels like a logical sonic progression from the debut, thanks in part to some of the more lighter and more uplifting elements that get introduced later in the tracklist on the song Penny and the fragmented vocal samples on You (Forever). I don't like this record quite as much as the debut, but I still think this is another great addition to the Against All Logic canon. |
| Abigor Nachthymnen (From The Twilight Kingdom) |
| Aborted The Necrotic Manifesto |
| Aborted The Archaic Abattoir |
| Aborted Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture |
| Aborted Engineering the Dead |
| Aborted Global Flatline |
| Aborted TerrorVision |
| Aborted Fetus Goresoaked Clinical Accidents |
| Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse |
| Aesop Rock Float |
| Aesop Rock Bazooka Tooth |
| Aesop Rock x Blockhead Garbology |
| Afterbirth Psychopathic Embryotomy |
| Agalloch The White |
| Agalloch Of Stone, Wind and Pillor |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes |
| Akhlys The Dreaming I |
| Alcest Le Secret |
| Alcest Kodama |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct |
| Algiers Algiers |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Alicia Keys Songs in A Minor |
| Alicia Keys The Diary of Alicia Keys |
| Alienation Mental Ball Spouter |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury |
| Amenra Mass VI |
| Amenra Mass III |
| Amenra De Doorn |
| Amenra Mass V |
| Amenra Mass IIII |
| American Head Charge The Feeding |
| Amesoeurs Ruines Humaines |
| Amy Winehouse Frank |
| An Albatross Blessphemy (Of The Peace-Beast Feastgive |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love |
| Anaal Nathrakh Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Her |
| Anaal Nathrakh When Fire Rains Down From the Sky... |
| Anderson .Paak Malibu |
| Anderson .Paak Oxnard |
| Andy Stott Luxury Problems |
| Andy Stott Faith in Strangers |
| Animosity Shut It Down |
| Animosity Empires |
| Anna von Hausswolff All Thoughts Fly |
| 2 years after Dead Magic, which is widely considered to be Anna's most creatively successful record, she makes the bold and daring artistic choice to not recreate or build upon the sound that shaped her newfound audience but rather strip things back completely for a very serene and atmospheric neo-classical ambient record. No vocals or any additional instrumentation, just her creating these songs entirely from the ground up with the single most prominent asset of her entire career, the pipe organ, which has Anna playing these rising and cascading sonic landscapes that are very beautiful and cinematic and less tense and dramatic than some of her earlier records have been at times. For an album with a sound of this scope it is kind of on the shorter side of things, and I also find that the first two tracks, while still very pretty, end a little abruptly and lack the progression and buildup of the tracks following them, which to me is really where the record becomes its most vivid and entrancing. As a result I think this album doesn't quite reach the potential for me that it could have, but it's still a very captivating effort that apart from a slow start blossoms and ends quite stunningly. |
| Anomalistic Human Decimation |
| Antigama Discomfort |
| Aphex Twin Syro |
| Apoptosis Gutrectomy Eugenics Of Terrestrial Existence |
| Arckanum ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Hits From the Bow |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls The Game Of Life |
| Artificial Brain Artificial Brain |
| Artificial Brain Infrared Horizon |
| As the Sun Sets 7744 |
| ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP. |
| Ashlar (BEL) Enthroned In A So Called Heaven |
| At the Drive-In Vaya |
| At the Gates Gardens of Grief |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul |
| Atari Teenage Riot 60 Second Wipeout |
| Atmosphere God Loves Ugly |
| Atmosphere You Can't Imagine How Much Fun... |
| Aurora (NOR) A Different Kind of Human - Step 2 |
| Aurora (NOR) The Gods We Can Touch |
| Autechre Amber |
| Autechre Envane |
| Autechre Garbage |
| Autopsy The Headless Ritual |
| Autopsy Morbidity Triumphant |
| Baalsebub The Sickness of the Holy Inquisition |
| Backxwash God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of I |
| Backxwash I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES |
| Bad Brains Bad Brains |
| Bad Brains I Against I |
| BADBADNOTGOOD III |
| BADBADNOTGOOD Talk Memory |
| Baphomet (NY) The Dead Shall Inherit |
| Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death |
| Bathory Hammerheart |
| Batushka Panihida |
| Beastie Boys Check Your Head |
| Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part Two |
| Beatrik Journey Trough the End of Life |
| Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation |
| Behemoth Evangelion |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond) |
| Behemoth Demigod |
| Behemoth The Apostasy |
| Behemoth Thelema.6 |
| Behemoth Satanica |
| Beherit Drawing Down the Moon |
| Behold... The Arctopus Skullgrid |
| Behold... The Arctopus Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning |
| Bell Witch Four Phantoms |
| Belphegor Lucifer Incestus |
| Belphegor Pestapokalypse VI |
| Bender Jehovah's Hitlist |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata II |
| Beyonce Renaissance |
| Big Black Atomizer |
| Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? |
| I like many others had a lot of initial annoyance towards Billie due to all the extensive PR promotion that I had to run into since last year, and even though I got over it, I can't blame anyone who still hasn't at this point. Listening and returning to this record though, I found myself being impressed to an extent that I would never have seen myself be with an artist of Billie's caliber. From the beat switch on Bad Guy, the beautiful vocal lines all over Xanny, the trebly bass riffing on All The Good Girls Go To Hell, the sweet and sticky hook of Wish You Were Gay, the sad, warbled pre-chorus on ilomilo and the mournful balladry of Listen Before I Go, Billie and her brother Finneas serve the listener with some lowkey but still well groomed production and songwriting. I do find Billie's tendency to use her almost whisper-quiet vocal delivery as a crutch to be somewhat grating, and even though she definitely makes attempts throughout to make her vocals a bit more dynamic, I wish she would do it way more often. The lyrics can run a little edgy, but I don't find them anywhere close to the melodramatic, tear stained diary-level poetry that I was expecting to get, and actually think there are moments where they're kinda clever and witty. I unfortunately, despite the commendable consistency of the music, find some parts to be less memorable and maybe a bit bland, like the choruses of You should See Me In A Crown and Bury A Friend which got old for me way too quickly. Overall, I do walk away liking this album, and I see Billie as an artist who has taken a pretty big step into coming more into her own. |
| Black Breath Sentenced To Life |
| Black Breath Razor To Oblivion |
| Black Country, New Road For the first time |
| Black Midi Cavalcade |
| Black Star No Fear of Time |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh |
| Bloodbath Breeding Death |
| Bloodbath Grand Morbid Funeral |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery |
| Bloodlet Entheogen |
| Blur Blur |
| Blur Parklife |
| Blur The Magic Whip |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Sect(s) |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - The Desanctification |
| Blut Aus Nord Ultima Thulee |
| Boa (UK) The Race of a Thousand Camels |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest |
| Bodies In The Gears Of The Apparatus/Despised Icon Split |
| Bodybox Through The Bongfire |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Geisterfaust |
| Bongripper Satan Worshipping Doom |
| Boris Absolutego |
| Boris Akuma no Uta |
| Bosse-de-Nage All Fours |
| Botanist III: Doom in Bloom / Allies |
| Botanist IV: Mandragora |
| Botanist Hammer of Botany |
| Botanist Collective: The Shape of He to Come |
| Botanist Ecosystem |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Britney Spears Blackout |
| Brockhampton SATURATION |
| Brodequin Methods of Execution |
| Broken Hope Loathing |
| Broken Note Exit the Void |
| Brutal Truth Need to Control |
| Brutus (BE) Burst |
| Burial South London Boroughs |
| Burial Ghost Hardware |
| Burn the Priest Burn the Priest |
| Burning The Masses Mind Control |
| Burnt By the Sun The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good |
| Burzum Fallen |
| Burzum Belus |
| Burzum Aske |
| Busta Rhymes When Disaster Strikes... |
| Busta Rhymes Extinction Level Event |
| Busta Rhymes Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God |
| ByoNoiseGenerator Turbulent Biogenesis |
| ByoNoiseGenerator Neuromechanica |
| Cadaver ...In Pains |
| Cage (USA-NY) Hell's Winter |
| Calvaiire Forceps |
| Cam'ron Purple Haze |
| Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career |
| Candiria Process of Self-Development |
| Candiria Surrealistic Madness |
| Candiria Beyond Reasonable Doubt |
| Cannabis Corpse Tube of the Resinated |
| Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain |
| Cannibal Corpse Torture |
| Cannibal Corpse Gallery of Suicide |
| Cannibal Corpse Butchered at Birth |
| Cannibal Corpse Violence Unimagined |
| Cannibal Corpse Vile |
| Cannibalistic Infancy Dominant Inhumanity |
| Canvas (UK) Canvas |
| Captain Murphy Duality |
| Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial |
| Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Hydroponic Garden |
| Carcass Heartwork |
| Carnal Disfigurement Inhuman Devoured Content From Cranial Cavity |
| Carnifex Love Lies in Ashes |
| Cattle Decapitation Humanure |
| Cave In Jupiter |
| Cee Lo Green Cee-Lo Green & His Perfect Imperfections |
| Cenotaph Reincarnation in Gorextasy |
| Cenotaph Precognition to Eradicate |
| Cephalotripsy Promo 2011 |
| Cephalotripsy Demo 2006 |
| Cephalotripsy Promo 2007 |
| Cerebral Bore Maniacal Miscreation |
| Cerebral Hemorrhage (NY) Exempting Reality |
| Cerebral Incubation Gonorrhea Nodule Mastication |
| Cerebral Incubation Bifurcation Of Promordial Slamateurs |
| Cerebral Incubation Asphyxiating on Excrement |
| Cerebral Rot Excretion Of Mortality |
| Chamber (US) Ripping/Pulling/Tearing |
| Charles Manson Lie |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next |
| Circa Survive Juturna |
| Clawfinger Use Your Brain |
| clipping. CLPPNG |
| Clouded (BE) Inheritance |
| Coalesce 002: A Safe Place |
| Coalesce OX |
| Cock and Ball Torture Sadochismo |
| Cocteau Twins Milk and Kisses |
| Cocteau Twins Garlands |
| Code Orange Forever |
| Coldplay X&Y |
| Coldworld Autumn |
| Colonel Claypool's Bucket Of Bernie Brains The Big Eyeball In The Sky |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Converge Bloodmoon: I |
| Coprobaptized Cunthunter Failure Prosthesis |
| Coroner Grin |
| Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel |
| Courtney Barnett sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit |
| Cragataska Utanç |
| Cranial Incisored Rebuild: The Unfinished Interpretation of Irration |
| Cranial Osteotomy Victim of Wicked Sickness |
| Crawlspace Dont Get Mad... Get Even! |
| Cryptopsy Ungentle Exhumation |
| Cryptopsy Whisper Supremacy |
| Cult of Luna Cult of Luna |
| Currensy Pilot Talk |
| Currensy Pilot Talk II |
| Cursed II |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| Dalek Gutter Tactics |
| Danny Brown uknowhatimsayin¿ |
| Danzig Danzig |
| Dark Fortress Ylem |
| Dark Funeral In The Sign... |
| Darkside Psychic |
| Darkthrone Panzerfaust |
| Darkthrone Soulside Journey |
| Darkthrone Hate Them |
| Darkthrone Old Star |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want |
| Dawn of Orion For the Lust of Prophecies Undone |
| Dawn of Orion On Broken Wings |
| Dead in the Dirt The Blind Hole |
| Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah |
| Death Leprosy |
| Death Spiritual Healing |
| Death Grips Year of the Snitch |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part I: Niggas on the Moon |
| Death Grips Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix) |
| Declaime Andsoitisaid |
| Defeated Sanity Prelude to the Tragedy |
| Deformity Misanthrope |
| Deformity Murder Within Sin |
| Deftones B-Sides and Rarities |
| Dehumanized Terminal Punishment (Demo) |
| Deicide Deicide |
| Delusional Parasitosis / Ecchymosis / Dissevered / Bleeding Scaphism 4-Way Split |
| Denzel Curry TA13OO |
| Denzel Curry Zuu |
| Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion |
| Depraved Murder Manifestation |
| Depressive Silence Depressive Silence II |
| Descendents Milo Goes to College |
| Despised Icon Day Of Mourning |
| Despised Icon The Ills Of Modern Man |
| Despised Icon Consumed By Your Poison |
| Destroyer Kaputt |
| Devour The Unborn Meconium Pestilent Abomination |
| Devour The Unborn Liturgy of Irreverent Oblation |
| Devourment Conceived in Sewage |
| Dido Life For Rent |
| Die Antwoord $O$ |
| Dim Mak The Emergence of Reptilian Altars |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant |
| Dinosaur Jr. I Bet on Sky |
| Dinosaur Jr. Green Mind |
| Diphenylchloroarsine Subterranean Existential Warfare |
| Disembodied The Confession |
| Disembodied Diablerie |
| Disgorge Cognitive Lust of Mutilation |
| Disgorge Cranial Impalement |
| Disgorge Parallels of Infinite Torture |
| Dismember Like an Ever Flowing Stream |
| Dizzee Rascal Showtime |
| DJ Bailey Intelligent Drum Bass |
| DJ Boring Winona |
| DJ Krush Strictly Turntablized |
| DJ Screw 3 'N The Mornin' (Part Two) |
| DMX Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood |
| Double Hill Double Hill & Jerome C - I Need Love |
| Dr. Dre Compton |
| Dr. Dre 2001 |
| Drowningman Busy Signal At The Suicide Hotline |
| Drowningman Rock And Roll Killing Machine |
| Drums Are For Parades Master |
| Duck Duck Goose Off Yourself |
| Dying Fetus War of Attrition |
| Dying Fetus Descend Into Depravity |
| Dying Fetus Grotesque Impalement |
| Dying Fetus Bathe in Entrails (Demo) |
| Dyskinesia Micturating Deposits... |
| Dystopia The Aftermath... |
| Eagles Of Death Metal Peace Love Death Metal |
| Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside |
| Earl Sweatshirt Sick! |
| Earth Hex: Or Printing In the Infernal Method |
| Earth Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions |
| Earth/Sunn O))) Angel Coma |
| Ecchymosis Ritualistic Intercourse Within Abject Surrealism |
| Ecchymosis Aberrant Amusement in Cadaveric Vomitplay |
| Effluence Psychocephalic Spawning |
| Eighteen Visions Inferno |
| Ever since reuniting Eighteen Visions have been starting to throw it back to the heavier metalcore roots of their early days in the late 90's and early 2000's, when they were dropping very respected albums with Yesterday Is Time Killed and Until The Ink Runs Out, which contrast quite heavily with the hardrock and alternative metal stylings of their "fashioncore" days. In 2020, they have turned in with a vengeance once again with a pretty enjoyable EP of metalcore ragers. The final track The Perils Of Sin ties this EP up pretty nicely by incorporating these doomy, brooding acoustic passages and angsty, softly sung vocals in the verses which totally remind me of something late 90's When Forever Comes Crashing-era Converge would do. |
| Eighteen Visions Lifeless |
| Eighteen Visions No Time For Love |
| Eighteen Visions 1996 |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure |
| Electric Wizard Electric Wizard |
| Electric Wizard Witchcult Today |
| Electric Wizard Black Masses |
| Electric Wizard Supercoven |
| Eminem The Eminem Show |
| Emit The Dark Bleeding |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
| Employed To Serve Greyer than You Remember |
| Employed To Serve The Warmth Of A Dying Sun |
| Enduser Comparing Paths |
| Enmity Emotionless Addiction to Butchery |
| Enthroned Towards the Skullthrone of Satan |
| Entombed Wolverine Blues |
| Epicardiectomy Grotesque Monument of Paraperversive Transfixion |
| Epicardiectomy Relics From Malodorous Pile |
| Erykah Badu Worldwide Underground |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty |
| Every Time I Die Radical |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens |
| Example We Didn't Invent The Remix |
| Example What We Made |
| Example (US) Impulses |
| Extince Toch? |
| Eyehategod Eyehategod |
| Facedown Beyond All Horizons |
| Failure In The Future Your Body Will Be The Furthest Thing From Your Mind |
| Failure Wild Type Droid |
| Faith No More Sol Invictus |
| Faithless Sunday 8PM |
| Fall Silent Nineteenhundredninetyseven |
| Fall Silent Drunken Violence |
| Falls of Rauros Vigilance Perennial |
| Fatboy Slim You've Come a Long Way, Baby |
| Fear Before Odd How People Shake |
| Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine |
| Feist The Reminder |
| Fever Ray Fever Ray |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... |
| Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine |
| Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters |
| Fluisteraars Bloem |
| Fluisteraars third album Bloem is a very spring-themed and beautiful black metal record laced with anthemic and melodically rich chord progressions, as well as a meriad of extra instrumentation like trumpets, trombone, tambourine, strings, piano among other things creating a very beautiful sound pallette. Being someone from belgium I did have to get used to hearing wretched vocals screaming dutch lyrics with that unmistakably recognizable dutch accent, but apart from that I was pretty much enamored with this thing right from the start. It might not be the most experimental or unique black metal around the block by any means, but what it sets out to do it does pretty well in my opinion. |
| Fluisteraars Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking |
| Flying Lotus 1983 |
| Foals Antidotes |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters |
| Found Hanging Spilled Forth Despoiled Remnants |
| Frank T Frank Attack |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats |
| From Autumn to Ashes Too Bad You're Beautiful |
| Frontierer Unloved |
| Frontierer Orange Mathematics |
| Frontierer Oxidized |
| Fu Manchu Daredevil |
| Fuel Sunburn |
| Full of Hell Rudiments of Mutilation |
| Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy |
| Full of Hell Music From The Dial |
| Full of Hell Roots Of Earth Are Consuming My Home |
| Full of Hell Weeping Choir |
| Full of Hell Garden of Burning Apparitions |
| Funeral Goat Mass Ov Perversion |
| Future of the Left How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident |
| Gangsta Pat Deadly Verses |
| Gas Narkopop |
| Gas Rausch |
| Gas Der Lange Marsch |
| Gatecreeper Sonoran Depravation |
| Gatecreeper Deserted |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back |
| Gaza East |
| Geggy Tah Sacred Cow |
| Gehenna (USA) The War Of The Sons Of Light And The Sun |
| Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth |
| Genghis Tron Board Up the House |
| George Clanton Slide |
| Ghetto 2000 & Life |
| Ghetto Freedom Of Speech |
| Ghoul Transmission Zero |
| Glossectomy Impediments from Dysplasia |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere |
| Goatwhore Blood For The Master |
| Gojira The Link |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Graal Sigullum Naturae |
| Graveland Following the Voice of Blood |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Grief Depression |
| Grimes Miss Anthropocene |
| Grimes long awaited album, coming in hot after what is easily the most hectic and controversial period of her career, has simultaneously pleased and dissapointed me. On one hand I think there are a handful of standout cuts which to me are some of her best to date like Forever, My Name Is Dark (whose unapologetically edgy lyrics admittedly are a bit hard to take serious in places), 4AM and New Gods, but the tracklist sadly is not excempt from noticeably weaker cuts as well like You'll Miss Me When I'm Not Around and Violence. Stylistically Miss Anthropocene has the tendency to go all over the place, more so than any other Grimes album, jumping from gothed out, soaring alt metal and breakbeats to folk or ambient infused pop and synthesizer balladry, making for a record that is as ambitious as it is inconsistent. Conceptually I can't help but feel like the whole "global warming/end of the world" theme has been greatly oversold by Grimes on her social media, as apart from making some allusions to it like on New Gods this album just kinda reads more like a sadder, more personal record, largely inspired by the events of the preceding years in her career and personal life. I frankly don't think this record was worth all the drama that it created in that regard. Still, I'll say that with Miss Anthropocene Grimes has delivered a pop record that is pretty enjoyable overall, as none of the songs here to me read as truly awful, and at 10 tracks it doesn't overstay its welcome too long either. |
| Gris Neurasthénie |
| Gulch Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress |
| Gutfed The Reign Of Pure Madness And Contagious Perversio |
| Guttural Disease Periodical Torment |
| Guttural Slug Megalodon |
| Haemophagia From Sickness to Cult |
| Hanuman Demo 2021 |
| Harvest Transitions |
| Harvest Living With A God Complex |
| Hatebreed Perseverance |
| Hatebreed Rise of Brutality |
| Havohej Dethrone the Son of God |
| Havohej The Black Mist |
| Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) |
| Heaven Shall Burn Deaf to Our Prayers |
| Hellhammer Satanic Rites |
| Hellvetron Death Scroll of Seven Hells... |
| Helmet Meantime |
| Helmet Strap It On |
| Heltah Skeltah Magnum Force |
| Hiatus Kaiyote Mood Valiant |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis |
| High on Fire Luminiferous |
| HIM Razorblade Romance |
| His Hero Is Gone Fifteen Counts of Arson |
| Holly Herndon Platform |
| Hooverphonic Blue Wonder Power Milk |
| HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand |
| HORSE the band R. Borlax |
| Hot Water Music Caution |
| Hum Inlet |
| I am the person that added this album to the database, imagine how I feel |
| Hysterorrhexis Maggots Infest The Limb |
| IAM L' Ecole du Micro D'Argent |
| Ichiko Aoba 0 |
| Iglooghost Neo Wax Bloom |
| Igorrr Savage Sinusoid |
| Immortal Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter |
| Impaled Nazarene Ugra-Karma |
| In Flames Colony |
| In Flames Lunar Strain |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus |
| Infected Malignity The Malignity Born from Despair |
| Infest (FR) Moshroom |
| Injury Reserve By The Time I Get To Phoenix |
| Insect Warfare At War With Grindcore |
| Integrity To Die For |
| Integrity Those Who Fear Tomorrow |
| Integrity Howling, For the Nightmare Shall Consume |
| Internal Bleeding Driven to Conquer |
| Internal Bleeding Perpetual Degradation |
| Internal Bleeding Corrupting Influence |
| Interpol Antics |
| Iwrestledabearonce Hail Mary |
| James Blake James Blake |
| James Ferraro Terminus |
| Jane (GER) A Doorway to Elsewhere |
| Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation 1814 |
| Janet Jackson Janet. |
| Japanese Breakfast Jubilee |
| Jawbox Novelty |
| Jay-Z Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life |
| Jay-Z American Gangster |
| Jerome S/T Demo |
| Jesus Piece Jesus Piece |
| Jimmy Chamberlin Complex Life Begins Again |
| Jimmy Eat World Static Prevails |
| Joaquin Sabina Yo, Mi, Me, Contigo |
| Job for a Cowboy Ruination |
| Job for a Cowboy Demonocracy |
| Job for a Cowboy Demo 2004 |
| Joey Badass 1999 |
| John Coltrane Blue Train |
| John Frum A Stirring In The Noos |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity |
| Jonwayne Rap Album Two |
| Jotgrimm Gramessteig |
| JPEGMAFIA Veteran |
| Judas Iscariot Distant In Solitary Night |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds |
| Jute Gyte Ghost Sickness |
| Jute Gyte The Rib |
| Jute Gyte Laocoön |
| Juvenile 400 Degreez |
| Kahn Dread/Late Night Blues |
| Kairon IRSE! Ujubasajuba |
| Kaliber 44 W 63 Minuty Dookoła Świata |
| Kanye West Graduation |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak |
| Kataklysm Sorcery |
| Katatonia Brave Murder Day |
| Kayo Dot Coyote |
| Kayo Dot Gamma Knife |
| Kazumoto Endo While You Were Out |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. |
| Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. |
| Kero Kero Bonito Time 'n' Place |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day |
| Kid Koala Carpel Tunnel Syndrome |
| Killing Joke Killing Joke (2003) |
| King Geedorah Take Me to Your Leader |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Gumboot Soup |
| Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life |
| Korn The Nothing |
| Korn Neidermeyers Mind |
| Korn Untouchables |
| Korn Life Is Peachy |
| Kosheen Resist |
| Krallice Ygg Huur |
| Krallice Prelapsarian |
| Krallice Demonic Wealth |
| Krallice Orphan of Sickness |
| Krisiun The Great Execution |
| Kvelertak Meir |
| Kylie Minogue Fever |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House |
| La Dispute Vancouver |
| La The Darkman Heist Of The Century |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
| Lamb of God Wrath |
| Lard The Last Temptation of Reid |
| Lethargy (USA-NY) It's Hard to Write with a Little Hand |
| Leviathan A Silhouette in Splinters |
| Liars They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top |
| Liars Drum's Not Dead |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter II |
| Lil Wayne Da Drought 3 |
| Lil Wayne No Ceilings |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Little Simz GREY Area |
| Liturgy Renihilation |
| Liturgy The Ark Work |
| Liturgy Origin of the Alimonies |
| Liturgy (DM) Dawn of Ash |
| Locrian Infinite Dissolution |
| Lord Mantis Pervertor |
| Loscil Submers |
| Lotto Elite Feline |
| Ludacris Word Of Mouf |
| Ludacris Back For The First Time |
| Ludacris Chicken-n-Beer |
| Ludicra Fex Urbis Lex Orbis |
| Lugubrum De Vette Cuecken |
| Lugubrum De Totem |
| Lugubrum De Ware Hond |
| Lunar Aurora Elixir of Sorrow |
| Lunatic Mauvais oeil |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor |
| Luti-Kriss Throwing Myself |
| Lykathea Aflame Elvenefris |
| M.I.A. Kala |
| Machine Girl WLFGRL |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes |
| Machine Head The More Things Change... |
| Magnacite Safety In The Workplace |
| Magrudergrind Rehashed |
| Manu Chao Proxima Estacion: Esperanza |
| Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor |
| Massive Attack Protection |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| Massive Attack 100th Window |
| Masta Ace A Long Hot Summer |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Mastodon Remission |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mattafix Rhythm & Hymns |
| Matthew Dear Black City |
| Mayhem Deathcrush |
| Mayhem Esoteric Warfare |
| Mayhem Chimera |
| Mayhem Daemon |
| MC Solaar Qui seme le vent recolte le tempo |
| Megan Thee Stallion Fever |
| Melt-Banana Fetch |
| Melt-Banana Charlie |
| Merauder Master Killer |
| Merzbow Merzbeat |
| Merzbow Aqua Necromancer |
| Merzbow Tauromachine |
| Merzbow Vibractance |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep of Reason |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Method Man and Redman Blackout! |
| Mgla With Hearts Toward None |
| Mgla Age of Excuse |
| Mgla Groza |
| Mgla Further Down the Nest |
| Mgla Mdlosci |
| Mgla Presence |
| MGMT Congratulations |
| Michael Jackson Thriller |
| Mike Patton Mondo Cane |
| Milanese Extend |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Tight |
| Ministry Twitch |
| Misericordiam Unanimity and the Cessation of Hostility |
| Missy Elliott Under Construction |
| Missy Elliott Miss E… So Addictive |
| Moby Animal Rights |
| Moloko I Am Not A Doctor |
| Monolake Archaeopteryx |
| Morbid Angel Gateways to Annihilation |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness |
| Morcheeba Big Calm |
| Morning Again As Tradition Dies Slowly |
| Morphine Good |
| Morrissey Your Arsenal |
| Mortification Scrolls of the Megilloth |
| Mount Eerie Now Only |
| Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom |
| MouthBreather (USA-MA) Pig |
| mum Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK |
| Murder Construct Results |
| Murmur (CHI) Murmur |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| Muse Absolution |
| My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans |
| Myocardial Infarction Cannibalistic Gore of Grotesque |
| N.E.R.D. Seeing Sounds |
| N.O.D. Niggaz of Destruction |
| Nachtmystium Instinct: Decay |
| Naked City Naked City |
| Napalm Death Harmony Corruption |
| Napalm Death Fear, Emptiness, Despair |
| Napalm Death From Enslavement to Obliteration |
| Nas Magic |
| Natalia Lafourcade Un Canto por México‚ Vol․ 2 |
| Natalia Lafourcade Un Canto por México‚ Vol․ 1 |
| Natalia Lafourcade Natalia Lafourcade |
| Necrocide Vomit Forth Blood |
| Necroexophilia Frantic Visions of A Xenogod |
| Nelly Furtado Whoa, Nelly! |
| Neoandertals Ebu Gogo Gutting The Child |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree |
| Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise |
| Nicolas Jaar Sirens |
| Nile Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka |
| Nile Black Seeds of Vengeance |
| Nine Nine Livez |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip |
| Nine Inch Nails Still |
| Nirvana Incesticide |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom |
| Nora Loser's Intuition |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother |
| Nostromo (CHE) Eyesore |
| Nothingface An Audio Guide to Everyday Atrocity |
| Nothingface Violence |
| Oathbreaker Rheia |
| Oathbreaker Maelstrom |
| Oblivionized Abhorrent Evolution |
| Old Nick A New Generation Of Vampiric Conspiracies |
| Oliver Hart The Many Faces Of Oliver Hart |
| Om God Is Good |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Returnal |
| Onyx Shut 'Em Down |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Opeth Orchid |
| Opgezwolle Vloeistof |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Valonielu |
| Orchid Orchid |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below |
| Pale Creation Twilight Haunt |
| Palms Palms |
| Panjabi MC Beware |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes |
| Paul Desmond Take Ten |
| Pavement Watery, Domestic |
| Paysage d'Hiver Einsamkeit |
| Paysage d'Hiver Steineiche |
| Paysage d'Hiver Schattengang |
| Paysage d'Hiver Im Wald |
| Peeping Tom Peeping Tom |
| Peste Noire Lorraine Rehearsal |
| Peste Noire La Chaise-Dyable |
| Peste Noire Peste Noire |
| Peste Noire Folkfuck Folie |
| Pharmacist Medical Renditions of Grinding Decomposition |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After |
| Pig Destroyer 38 Counts of Battery |
| Pig Destroyer Book Burner |
| Pig Destroyer Natasha |
| Pig Destroyer Explosions in Ward 6 |
| Pig Destroyer Painter of Dead Girls |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother |
| Pissgrave Suicide Euphoria |
| Pissgrave Pissgrave (Demo) |
| Pissgrave Posthumous Humiliation |
| Pitchshifter Industrial |
| PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea |
| Plan B Who Needs Actions When You've Got Words |
| Playing Enemy Cesarean |
| Plug Drum n Bass for Papa |
| Poison the Well Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder |
| Poison the Well Tear From the Red |
| Poison the Well Versions |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot |
| Polyphia New Levels New Devils |
| Poppy EAT (NXT Soundtrack) |
| Poppy Seed Grinder Oppressed Reality |
| Poppy Seed Grinder Humanophobia |
| Portal Vexovoid |
| Portal Seepia |
| Portal Avow |
| Powerman 5000 True Force |
| Primal Scream Screamadelica |
| Primus Antipop |
| Primus Tales from the Punchbowl |
| Primus The Brown Album |
| Project Pat Ghetty Green |
| Prong Cleansing |
| Prurient Bermuda Drain |
| Pulkas Greed |
| Punch Punch |
| Pupil Slicer Mirrors |
| Pusha T DAYTONA |
| Pustulated 2002 Demo |
| Pyrexia Liturgy of Impurity |
| Quasimoto Astronaut EP |
| Quasimoto Yessir Whatever |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| Quicksand Manic Compression |
| R.A.P. Ferreira The Light Emitting Diamond Cutter Scriptures |
| Raketkanon RKTKN#2 |
| Raketkanon RKTKN#1 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan |
| Redman Doc's Da Name 2000 |
| Regicide Extreme Intent Fatal Effect |
| Repudilation Purging Of Impurity |
| Revenge (CAN) Behold.Total.Rejection |
| Richard Dawson and Circle Henki |
| Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things |
| Rina Sawayama RINA |
| Rina Sawayama Sawayama |
| Initially when this dropped I felt underwhelmed by a notably large portion of the tracklist, but when returning to it at the end of the year it was like my ears suddenly had warmed up more to the melodies, to quite a significant degree even I would say. Even though sonically these tracks aren't all completely my cup of tea from front to back, a lot of these choruses are actually pretty sweet and irresistible, and at times even really save some tracks from falling flat. I find the track Snakeskin a bit of an odd choice to end the record off with especially with the very anthemic ballad-heavy Chosen Family coming before it, and also thought the alternative metal influence could have been fleshed out further and spread out into other tracks on the record, but other than that, this is a pretty fine and fun pop record from one of the genres biggest trailblazers going at the moment. |
| Ringworm Justice Replaced By Revenge |
| Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe |
| Rolo Tomassi Cosmology |
| Rolo Tomassi Grievances |
| Rorschach Remain Sedate |
| Rotten Sound Cursed |
| Rotting Christ Non Serviam |
| Rotting Christ Thy Mighty Contract |
| Royksopp Melody A.M. |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto Async |
| Sabbat (JPN) The Dwelling |
| Sade Soldier Of Love |
| Sanction (NY) Broken In Refraction |
| Sanguisugabogg Pornographic Seizures |
| Sanguisugabogg Homicidal Ecstasy |
| Seal Seal II |
| Sean Paul The Trinity |
| See You Next Tuesday Intervals |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy Songs for the Firing Squad |
| The vocals can get a little hit or miss for me when they're not growling or shrieking, but I can't deny this does make me nostalgic for all the similarly spastic and grindy metalcore from the early to mid-2000's. |
| Sentence War |
| Sepultura Schizophrenia |
| Sepultura Beneath the Remains |
| Sepultura Arise |
| Setsubun Bean Unit Setsubun Bean Unit |
| Shakira Fijacion Oral Vol. 1 |
| Shellac Terraform |
| Shellac Excellent Italian Greyhound |
| Shellac Dude Incredible |
| Shelter Mantra |
| Shinda Saibo No Katamari Ostriched Existence |
| Shinda Saibo No Katamari Saibogu |
| Shiner Lula Divinia |
| Shinichi Atobe Butterfly Effect |
| Shining (NOR) Blackjazz |
| Shining (SWE) VI - Klagopsalmer |
| Shining (SWE) II - Livets Andhallplats |
| Shlohmo Vacation |
| Shlohmo Bad Vibes |
| Short Bus Pile Up Repulsive Display of Human Upholstery |
| Sigh Scorn Defeat |
| Sigh Scenes from Hell |
| Sigh Scenario IV: Dread Dreams |
| Sigh Heir to Despair |
| Silk Sonic An Evening with Silk Sonic |
| Six Brew Bantha Six Brew Bantha |
| Skee Mask Shred |
| Skepta Konnichiwa |
| Skinless Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead |
| Skream Skream! |
| Slayer Hell Awaits |
| Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Snapcase Designs for Automotion |
| Sodom Agent Orange |
| Sodom In War and Pieces |
| Soils Of Fate Crime Syndicate |
| Sons Of Abraham Termites In His Smile |
| Soupcans Altered States |
| Spawn of Possession Church of Deviance |
| Spawn of Possession Cabinet |
| Spellling The Turning Wheel |
| Spiritbox Singles Collection |
| Spoon Girls Can Tell |
| Squarepusher Hard Normal Daddy |
| Stampin' Ground Carved From Empty Words |
| State Craft To Celebrate the Forlorn Seasons |
| Static-X Start A War |
| Static-X Cannibal |
| Steve Roach Quiet Music 2 |
| Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core |
| Stormtroopers of Death Speak English or Die |
| Strife One Truth |
| Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam |
| Sugar Ray Lemonade And Brownies |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed |
| Suicide Silence Suicide Silence (EP) |
| Sunn O))) White1 |
| Sunn O))) ØØ Void |
| Sunn O))) Flight of the Behemoth |
| Sunn O))) Oracle |
| Sunn O))) and Ulver Terrestrials |
| T.I. Urban Legend |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep |
| Teebee Through The Eyes Of A Scorpion |
| Tempa T All-Star Pars |
| Terminally Your Aborted Ghost Slowly Peeling Flesh From Inside Of A Folded Hand |
| Terrorizer World Downfall |
| The Acacia Strain It Comes in Waves |
| The Architex Incision |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed |
| The Black Eyed Peas Bridging the Gap |
| The Black Heart Rebellion Har Nevo |
| The Black Keys Rubber Factory |
| The Blood Brothers This Adultery Is Ripe |
| The Body I’ve Seen All I Need To See |
| The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars |
| The Chariot One Wing |
| The Chariot Long Live |
| The Cranberries No Need to Argue |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan The Dillinger Escape Plan |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator |
| The Fall of Troy Mukiltearth |
| The Game The Documentary |
| The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About |
| The Great Redneck Hope 'Splosion |
| The Jesus Lizard Down |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| The Mars Volta Tremulant |
| The Microphones Microphones in 2020 |
| 17 years after putting The Microphones name to rest in exchange for continuing as Mount Eerie (and a mostly similar sound honestly), Phil Elverum brings this seminal and career-defining project back to put out a pretty ambitious, 44-minute autobiographical song detailing its entire origin story and career trajectory. Wether its early Microphones releases going into excruciating detail about recording and equipment, dabbling into a bit of black metal on 2009's Wind's Poem, going ambient-folk on 2012's Clear Moon and even dronier on 2015's Sauna, you can always expect Phil to accompany his esoteric and nature-themed songwriting with ambitious undertakings, and as thus this album doesn't seem that out of the ordinary. However, it does need to be noted that this album is in no way an ideal release for newcomers to Phil's work, as Microphones In 2020's ethos is so significantly embedded in his past work, that an appreciation or knowledge of those releases is needed to at least some extent to really get something out of it. If I had to describe the sound of this LP more bluntly, it's like Phil taking a great 5-minute Microphones or Mount Eerie song and stretching it out to almost 9 times its size, with lots of droning repetition and patient movement shifts throughout. I do think those same two alternating guitar chords during the first 8 minutes provide a bit of a slow and kind of patience-testing start, but as someone who has enjoyed his music myself and even holds some of it quite close to his heart, I found the journaling of these lyrical details interesting to bite into. |
| The Offspring Smash |
| The Red Chord Prey for Eyes |
| The Roots Phrenology |
| The Roots Illadelph Halflife |
| The Ruins of Beverast The Thule Grimoires |
| The Saddest Landscape Lift Your Burdens High For This is Where We Cross |
| The Secret Solve Et Coagula |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot |
| The Smashing Pumpkins The Aeroplane Flies High |
| The Sound That Ends Creation Music Designed To Give You Ideas... |
| The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free |
| The Strokes The New Abnormal |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega |
| The Underachievers Indigoism |
| The Voidz Tyranny |
| The Voidz Virtue |
| The White Stripes The White Stripes |
| Therapy? Babyteeth |
| Thievery Corporation Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thundercat The Golden Age Of Apocalypse |
| Thy Art Is Murder Infinite Death |
| Thy Art Is Murder Dear Desolation |
| Tim Hecker Anoyo |
| Timeghoul 1992-1994 Discography |
| TNGHT TNGHT |
| Tomahawk Tomahawk |
| Tomahawk Mit Gas |
| Tomb Mold Manor of Infinite Forms |
| Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Tool 72826 |
| Touche Amore Stage Four |
| Toxic Holocaust Conjure and Command |
| Tracriomy Cephalopodic Transmutual Contamination |
| Traumatomy Transcendental Evisceration of Necrogenetic Beasts |
| Travis The Man Who |
| Tribulation The Children of the Night |
| Turmoil From Bleeding Hands |
| Twista Resurrection |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard |
| Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost |
| U2 War |
| Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun |
| Ulver Kveldssanger |
| Ulver A Quick Fix of Melancholy |
| Underoath Define the Great Line |
| Underworld Beaucoup Fish |
| Unsane Unsane |
| Unsane Total Destruction |
| Unsane Occupational Hazard |
| Upheaval Downfall of the Ascendancy of Man |
| Urged Elimination of the Symbolic |
| Urosepsis Malicious Malpractice |
| Urthshroud Eternal Forecast of Sorrow |
| Us3 Hand On The Torch |
| Vader Welcome to the Morbid Reich |
| Various Artists (Hip Hop) 8 Mile OST |
| Vein.fm Self-Destruct |
| Vein.fm Terrors Realm |
| Vein.fm This World Is Going to Ruin You |
| Vektor Black Future |
| Venom Prison Animus |
| Venom Prison Defy The Tyrant |
| Venom Prison The Primal Chaos |
| Venom Prison Erebos |
| Victory Over The Sun A Tessitura of Transfiguration |
| Multi-instrumentalist Vivian Tylinska's solo project Victory Over The Sun does Kayo Dot a lot better than Kayo Dot does Kayo Dot these days, with it's emotionally charged and windingly beautiful combination of jazzy, experimental and dissonant, black metal infused brand of progressive rock music. Described by her as the result of hard studio labor and intense soul searching as an artist and trans woman, which to me only adds to the beauty of this record. Only real complaint I have is that it's criminally short for this type of music at around 30 minutes in length and kind of seems to end a little prematurely as a result. |
| Victory Over The Sun Nowherer |
| Virulence A Conflict Scenario |
| Visceral Disgorge Ingesting Putridity |
| Vision of Disorder The Cursed Remain Cursed |
| Vision of Disorder For the Bleeders |
| Vomit Remnants Indefensible Vehemence |
| Watain Lawless Darkness |
| Ween Pure Guava |
| Weezer OK Human |
| White Zombie La Sexorcisto-Devil Music Vol. 1 |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile |
| Wiegedood There's Always Blood at the End of the Road |
| Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed III |
| Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed II |
| Wiley Treddin' on Thin Ice |
| Wiley Playtime Is Over |
| Will Haven WHVN |
| Wire Pink Flag |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite |
| Women Public Strain |
| Wormrot Noise |
| Wristmeetrazor ...But the Sky Is Empty |
| X-Men Jeunes, Coupables et Libres |
| Xasthur Nocturnal Poisoning |
| Xibalba Hasta La Muerte |
| Xzibit 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz |
| Yellow Swans Going Places |
| YOB Clearing The Path To Ascend |
| Zao The Well-Intentioned Virus |
| Zao The Crimson Corridor |
| Zomby Where Were U In '92? |
| 3.0 good |
| 420 Reality |
| 5 Elementz The Album That Time Forgot |
| 50 Cent The Massacre |
| A Guy Called Gerald Black Secret Technology |
| Abominable Putridity Parasitic Metamorphosis Manifestation |
| After years of anticipation, delay and an unfortunate lineup change, the russian slam heavyweights finally come through with the follow-up to their widely beloved (relatively speaking) 2012 album The Anomalies Of Artificial Origin. Gone are the distinct and rhythmic vocal patterns from Matti Way which really made that particular release so special to a lot of people, but sole original member Alexander Kubiashvili of this now two-piece project has done his best to provide a worthwile replacement to try and make up for it, with Angel Ochoa of Cephalotripsy and Disgorge fame taking over vocal duties. A lineup change no less a vocal change isn't anything new for AP, but where Anomalies gave up that grimier, more mudcaked production aesthetic of the debut it made up for me with Matti's unique approach to applying groove to complement the music. As respectable as a vocalist Angel is within his own right with his very well-executed form of that low, guttural burping vocal style commonly associated with slam, he doesn't really provide that same balance for me that Matti did back when AP switched to a more digital and cleanly produced sound. Still, despite the fact that those heavily edited, sample-replaced drums definitely give me a bit of ear fatigue, I do still come away from this album enjoying it on a casual level, as I don't think it goes so deep into overproduced territory that it is devoid of any visceral qualities. And compared to a lot of the more deathcore-leaning sounds you'll come across a lot of newer popular slam releases, I certainly prefer this a lot more. |
| Aborted Strychnine.213 |
| Aborted The Purity of Perversion |
| Aesop Rock Music For Earthworms |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere |
| Agalloch From Which of This Oak |
| Agonal Breathing Pure Agony |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Honky Reduction |
| Alcest Tristesse Hivernale (Demo) |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence |
| Amenra Mass I: Prayer I - VI |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Antigama Warning |
| Aphex Twin Come to Daddy |
| Architects Nightmares |
| Architects Ruin |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| Armand Hammer and The Alchemist Haram |
| Artery Eruption Driving My Fist Through Her Chest |
| ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP |
| At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement |
| At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease |
| At the Gates The Red in the Sky Is Ours |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker |
| Autopsy Severed Survival |
| Azealia Banks 1991 |
| Baalsebub Famine |
| Bathory Bathory |
| Bathory The Return of the Darkness and Evil |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill |
| Behemoth Grom |
| Behemoth Pandemonic Incantations |
| Behemoth Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic) |
| Beneath the Massacre Evidence Of Inequity |
| Beneath the Massacre Marée Noire |
| Bethlehem Dark Metal |
| Beyond Creation The Aura |
| Biig Piig Big Fan Of The Sesh, Vol.1 |
| Biig Piig A World Without Snooze, Vol. 2 |
| Billie Eilish Happier Than Ever |
| Biohazard Urban Discipline |
| Biohazard State of the World Address |
| Black Moon Total Eclipse |
| Blanck Mass In Ferneaux |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy |
| Blut Aus Nord The Mystical Beast of Rebellion |
| Blut Aus Nord MoRT |
| Blut Aus Nord Odinist: The Destruction of Reason by Illumination |
| Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus Simian Hybrid Prototype |
| Bongzilla Stash |
| Boris Heavy Rocks (2011) |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Brand New Science Fiction |
| Bread and Circuits Bread and Circuits |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings |
| Bring Me the Horizon Amo |
| Broken Hope Omen of Disease |
| Bull Of Heaven 028: Even to the Edge of Doom |
| Burial Rival Dealer |
| Burial Distant Lights |
| Burial ANTIDAWN EP |
| Burzum Hlidskjalf |
| Busta Rhymes Anarchy |
| Cage (USA-NY) Kill the Architect |
| Canibus 2000 B.C. (Before Can-I-Bus) |
| Cannibal Corpse The Wretched Spawn |
| Cannibal Corpse Red Before Black |
| Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life |
| Cannibal Corpse Gore Obsessed |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague |
| Car Bomb Mordial |
| Carnifex The Diseased and Poisoned |
| Cattle Decapitation To Serve Man |
| Cattle Decapitation Death Atlas |
| Cerebral Incubation Fermented Cranial Inebriating Fluids |
| Charli XCX Charli |
| Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence |
| Chuck Person Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 |
| clairo Sling |
| Clawfinger Deaf Dumb Blind |
| clipping. Midcity |
| clipping. Splendor and Misery |
| Code Orange Underneath |
| In the process of induling further into their brand of experimentalism, Code Orange have also thrown away a noticeable amount of the fun factor of their last release in favour of some really questionable structuring and mixing choices. For one, the production on this record is so blaring and brickwalled that it feels like my ears going numb, which is made worse by the fact that there's a lot of very abrupt changes in volume throughout many of these tracks that only makes the sound of them even more grating whenever these pop up. There's also many, almost seemingly random bits of digital silence and glitches spread throughout the tracklist as well, which don't really add any flavour or don't sync up all that well rhythmically either with the riffs, and it just ends up taking me out of the music pretty much everytime. These things where my least favourite part about the last record, and sadly the band have further convinced themselves that aesthetically and artistically this is what represents them the best. It's a shame, because I think underneath all this self-indulgent mess and horrid production there's a fun, made-for-the-pit metalcore record somewhere. Apart from that, I do enjoy some of the more angsty, soaring choruses by half-frontwoman Reba Meyers that make it onto some of these tracks like Sulfur Surrounding and Underneath, because I generally like her vocal timbre and melodically I think these tracks are pretty captivating. |
| Code Orange Love Is Love // Return To Dust |
| Cold 13 Ways to Bleed On Stage |
| Conan Blood Eagle |
| Congress Blackened Persistance |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Crosses Crosses |
| Cryalot Icarus |
| Culture (Florida) Heteronome |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology |
| CunninLynguists Will Rap For Food |
| Cynic Ascension Codes |
| Danny Brown Old |
| Dark Fortress Profane Genocidal Creations |
| Dark Funeral Diabolis Interium |
| Dark Funeral The Secrets of the Black Arts |
| Dark Sermon In Tongues |
| Darkthrone Circle the Wagons |
| Daughters Hell Songs |
| Daughters Canada Songs |
| De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig De Machine |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web |
| Death Grips Government Plates |
| Decaying Purity Mass Extinction Of The Providential Ones |
| Turkish brutal death metal with some tech influences. At the end of the day it does come off a bit meat and potatoes and forgettable for this style, but it's still a pretty decently enjoyable record, just not one that I'm going to remember down the line. |
| Deeds of Flesh Crown of Souls |
| Deftones Gore |
| Deftones (Like) Linus |
| Deicide In the Minds of Evil |
| Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked |
| One of the best rappers and one of the best producers in the game right now squashed their little beef and came together for an EP of hardcore hiphop bangers. As an overall project it feels a bit rushed and could have definitely been fleshed out further, especially because they went through the trouble of making a little movie to go along with it, but the fun and chemistry is undeniably there. I guess for me the scantness of this project makes it not have that much replay value at the end of the day, which is a shame considering the lineup of this thing. |
| Despised Icon Beast |
| Despised Icon Purgatory |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand |
| Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur |
| Disembodied Existence in Suicide |
| Disfiguring the Goddess Deprive |
| Disfiguring the Goddess Black Earth Child |
| Dizzee Rascal E3 AF |
| Dizzee Rascal Raskit |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dripping Disintegration of Thought Patterns |
| Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia |
| This record to me is kind of like the sonic equivalent to being at a party that sort of has a nice atmosphere and some enjoyable music here and there, but still feeling kinda alienated and socially drained to the point of almost wanting to return home like an hour later. Aesthetically Future Nostalgia tippytoes constantly between sleak, catchy and funky disco-infused dance pop that reminds me a bit of some of the stuff that was on the radio in the 2000's (stuff like Kylie Minogue, Sophie-Ellis Bextor or some of Jamiroquai's poppier cuts) but modernized a little for the 2020 landscape, and very contemporary club-friendly pop music that you can catch pretty much anywhere today. I can see the appeal but personally those moments don't really speak to me and actually kind of disconnect me from really being able to get into some of the genuinely good stuff this record so obviously has to offer, because they make some of these songs sound spotty and bland at times instead of solid from front to back. The track Boys Will Be Boys is also kind of a weird baroque-pop-ish detour that lyrically comes off as a bit of a basic feminist anthem that really lacks nuance and rather just opts for the big buzzwords instead. I can totally get behind the concept of the song, but the track really is the hardest to stomach for me sonically, especially because instrumentally it doesn't fit the record with its plucked strings and dramatic, building instrumentation, even as a closer. Still, I think it's a decent pop record and I can totally get why people might be more into it then I am. |
| Duffy Rockferry |
| Dying Fetus Purification Through Violence |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL |
| Earl Sweatshirt Doris |
| Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull |
| Effluence/Blowtorch Split |
| Eighteen Visions Vanity |
| Electric Wizard Time to Die |
| Embryectomy Gluttonous Mastication Of Embryonic Remnants |
| Kinda fun and decent slam but the band relies a bit too heavy on these very slow-paced breakdowns which to me makes them lose their novelty a bit too fast and the songs boring and generic at times. Still, the production is pretty decent and it does scratch a little bit of an itch when I'm in the mood for this kind of music. |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2 |
| Employed To Serve Eternal Forward Motion |
| Enabler La Fin Absolue Du Monde |
| Entry Detriment |
| Envy From Here To Eternity |
| Envy Insomniac Doze |
| Epicardiectomy Abhorrent Stench of Posthumous Gastrorectal Desecr |
| Every Time I Die Last Night in Town |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! |
| Every Time I Die The Burial Plot Bidding War |
| Excoriation Excoriation |
| Eximperitus... Sahrartu |
| Extermination Dismemberment Butcher Basement |
| Fear Before Art Damage |
| Fear Factory Aggression Continuum |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Mafia |
| Funeral Tragedies |
| Ghost Bath Moonlover |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor All Lights Fucked On the Hairy Amp Drooling |
| Gojira Magma |
| Gojira Fortitude |
| Gorevent Worship Paganism |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach |
| Guano Apes Proud Like A God |
| Guttural Engorgement The Slow Decay of Infested Flesh |
| Hatebreed Satisfaction Is The Death Of Desire |
| Have Heart The Things We Carry |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor |
| Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams -despite past claims about never wanting to do so- delivers a moody, personal solo effort that toes the lines between art rock, art pop and new wave with her distinct soprano vocal taking a bit of a less upbeat tone this time around. Petals For Armor overall has a sometimes danceable, sometimes more subduedly poppy sound with some more prominent bass popping up here and there as well, alternating between melodic and rhythmic basslines giving a few of these tracks a bit of an extra pulse. The choruses range mostly from decent to pretty good overall and Hayley's pengame on a lot of these songs makes them worth diving further into, as this record features a lot of personal themes detailing her struggles of working through her depression and rocky past relationship with ex-husband Chad Gilbert. Although none of the songs here to me are truly bad, a majority of them I find to not go anywhere musically that I find interesting enough despite being enjoyable and pleasant sounding on the surface, and as a result this record kind of leaves me half-fulfilled every time I finish it. I'll say that for being 55 minutes in length it doesn't quite feel as long-winded as I would expect, but there just aren't enough highlights packed in here for it to truly feel like a solid record. I think if some of these tracks where a bit more daring and expressive and didn't wear their influences on their sleeves this would've definitely been a more standout pop record for me, but as is, this is still not a bad effort to start your solo trajectory with. |
| Heaven Shall Burn Antigone |
| Heaven Shall Burn Veto |
| High Tone Ekphrön |
| HIM Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666 |
| Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game |
| Igorrr Hallelujah |
| Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion |
| Gautier Serre's Igorrr project is pretty infamous because of its pretty unique and eccentric blend of different styles of metal, electronica and classical music and the intentionally gaudy way in which all of it comes together. This same unapologetic gaudyness however has often turned me off a little from Gautier's music, despite how much I respect the surgical-level eye for detail and musical talent that is needed to produce tracks like these. Gautier tends to structure his songs in a way that can come off pretty gimmicky and more style-over-substance, with genre combinations and ideas that clash sonically in a really ugly way. I do think ever since 2017's Savage Sinusoid Gautier has refined his style and made me walk away from his music relatively pleased, and this record sort of fits that description too. On one hand, we have a song like Musette Maximum which is a melting pot of upbeat accordion melodies, double bass drumming (which overall on this album sound a bit too punchy and relentlessly mechanical for my taste) and funky slap bass which I really don't enjoy, but other tracks like for example Very Noise and Camel Dancefloor are actually quite visceral. Tracks like Lost In Introspection and Overweight Poesy have some pretty captivating and sometimes beautiful arrangements, vocals and melodies worked among their breakbeat passages, which segway pretty tastefully into each other as well. Still, my gripes about Igorrr are still here to stay at the moment, and as such I can only say I found this to be a decent release at best. |
| Infant Annihilator The Battle of Yaldabaoth |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days |
| J. Cole The Warm Up |
| Jack White Boarding House Reach |
| Japanese Breakfast Soft Sounds From Another Planet |
| Japanese Breakfast Psychopomp |
| Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne |
| Job for a Cowboy Genesis |
| Job for a Cowboy Gloom |
| JoeyStarr Egomaniac |
| JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs |
| Justice † |
| Jute Gyte Old Ways |
| Kanye West ye |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| Katalepsy Musick Brings Injuries |
| Kayo Dot Coffins on Io |
| Kemba GNK |
| Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers |
| Kero Kero Bonito Bonito Generation |
| Kero Kero Bonito TOTEP |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Sketches of Brunswick East (w/ Mild High Club) |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Murder Of The Universe |
| Korn The Serenity of Suffering |
| Korn Untitled |
| Korn Requiem |
| Krallice Loüm |
| Krallice Wolf |
| Kreator Phantom Antichrist |
| Kylie Minogue Body Language |
| Kylie Minogue X |
| La Dispute Panorama |
| La Femme Psycho Tropical Berlin |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Lamb of God Resolution |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel |
| Lamb of God Lamb of God |
| To say I've never been a fan of this band would be a total lie, because at one point during my mid high-school years they used to be one of my favourites, and I pretty much enjoyed everything from 1999's Burn The Priest up until 2012's Resolution. At a certain point however, I grew out of a notable portion of my music rotation, and Lamb Of God where one of those bands as well. Because of this, I skipped over 2015's VII: Sturm Und Drang, as I was way past my point of caring and the clean vocals frontman Randy Blythe was starting to incorporate in the teaser track only steered me away even further from wanting to listen to it. With the follow up to that album, morbid curiosity and nostalgia got the best of me and I wanted to know what the boys were up to, and the answer is doing what they've always done. It's certainly not on the level of some of their better records like As The Palaces Burn or Ashes Of The Wake, but not awful either. It's just sort of average, with the expected groovy, thrashy, metalcore inspired riffage, Randy's always recognizable mid-range growl and the occasional dramatic bits of spoken word and melodic lead guitar solo thrown in on certain tracks as well. I particularly don't care for certain passages on some of these tracks, like the ones where a guest appearance is made, or where Randy does his croak-y and overacted spoken word bits or another attempt at singing. This record is decently dynamic and catchy enough to not be entirely boring, but also very unsurprising and just feels like the band playing it pretty safe two decades into their career. |
| Last Days of Humanity Horrific Compositions of Decomposition |
| Laura Marling Song For Our Daughter |
| A rustic, acoustic and intimate singer-songwriter record that explores Laura's many stories and their emotional highs and lows, which at times come off as very bittersweet and other times very overcome and collected, even a little tongue-in-cheek about the scenarios they dive into. Sonically this isn't the most unique or memorable singer-songwriter record I've ever heard, but Laura's vocal tone and lyricism keep it afloat from being a total run-of-the-mill release for the genre with a few outstanding cuts here and there as well, with Held Down and For You being my favorites here for their amazing vocal melodies. What does end up kneecapping this record a little further for me however is the overall lack of just that, as a majority of the songs don't really stick the landing in terms of a memorable hook or chord progression, even after multiple listens. |
| Lethal Bizzle Against All Oddz |
| Leviathan True Traitor, True Whore |
| Liars They Were Wrong, So We Drowned |
| Lifelover Konkurs |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter III |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter V |
| Lily Allen Alright, Still |
| Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra |
| Limp Bizkit The Unquestionable Truth - Part I |
| Lingua Ignota Caligula |
| Lingua Ignota ALL BITCHES DIE |
| Living Sacrifice Ghost Thief |
| Loathe (UK) I Let It In And It Took Everything |
| Loathe's sophomore record has some pretty good production and a fair amount of enjoyable passages throughout, but when the band incorporates these cleaner sections I just feel like they try way too hard emulate their very obvious Deftones influence to the point where it feels really derivate, like the singer is trying his absolute hardest to sound like Chino Moreno. This on-the-sleeves kind of approach can sometimes work out (Agressive Evolution, Screaming, Is It Really You?), but also really fall flat (A Sad Cartoon), above the fact that I think the band hasn't really perfected this Car Bomb meets Deftones dynamic either, as the transitions on this album from time to time can still clash a bit sonically. Still, I'd be interested to see where the band takes this formula in the future, because while it did need to grow on me a bit at first, I do think this is a decent LP from a band that is going through the growing pains of crafting their sound. Some of these soaring alt metal choruses are actually genuinely stunning, and the band seems pretty open to experiment with their dynamics as well, as there are a few beautiful ambient sections scattered throughout the tracklist that to me nicely enhance the atmosphere of this record. The track Heavy Is The Head That Falls With The Weight Of A Thousand Thoughts opens with a pretty cool, dense black metal passage which actually does not feel out of place at all, and generally when the band breaks into these really heavy sections with those groaning djent-style guitars and throat-shredding vocals they actually pull it off quite tastefully. |
| Logic Vinyl Days |
| Lorde Melodrama |
| Ludacris The Red Light District |
| Ludacris Incognegro |
| Ludacris Release Therapy |
| Malodorous Amarathine Redolence |
| Marilyn Manson Heaven Upside Down |
| Marilyn Manson We Are Chaos |
| 2020 sees legendary shock-rocker Marilyn Manson releasing what is arguably the least shock-rock (and most alternative rock) album of his entire career along with 2007's Eat Me, Drink Me. Sure, there a few songs whose choruses go for that barn-burner kind of feel, but a notable majority of this record is quite ballad-heavy, which for Manson surely is nothing new at this point, but rarely have we seen so many of them on a single project. Even though people who aren't even really willing to properly familiarize themselves with some of his best records like Mechanical Animals and Holy Wood keep claiming that his entire artistry merely just boils down to playing a cultural boogeyman over cooky industrial rock tracks for mallgoth teens, Marilyn has had quite a knack for delivering very emotionally potent songs, some of which are also ballads. And with his blues-rocky, post-Born Villain material not at all being as bad as it became throughout the 2000's and containing some enjoyable ballads as well, this could mean a solid record for Manson perhaps. The first single however, already spoiled to me right off the bat that this was probably not going to be the case. There are a small handful of tracks like Paint You With My Love that go over well enough for me, but I think a lot of them just feel a little mushy and forgettable, albeit still fairly listenable. Manson also still has the tendency to lyrically not be consistently on point, as tracks such as Broken Needle with lyrics like "I am a needle/dig in your grooves/scratch you up/then I'll put you away" just come off as painfully melodramatic imagery. |
| Maruta Forward Into Regression |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand |
| Matthew Dear Backstroke |
| Maximize Bestiality Extraterrestrial Skolexomorphic Infestation |
| Mayhem Grand Declaration of War |
| Merzbow Senmaida |
| Merzbow Music for Bondage Performance |
| Merzbow Merzbuta |
| Merzbow/Shora Switching Rhetorics |
| Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse |
| Meshuggah Immutable |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Method Man 4:21... The Day After |
| Ministry Moral Hygiene |
| Ministry Dark Side of the Spoon |
| Moby Wait for Me |
| Moby 18 |
| Moby Moby |
| Monolake Ghosts |
| Moor Mother Black Encyclopedia of the Air |
| Morbid Angel Covenant |
| Morbid Angel Kingdoms Disdained |
| Mount Eerie Sauna |
| Mount Eerie No Flashlight |
| Mount Eerie Black Wooden Ceiling Opening |
| Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come |
| Muse Dead Star/In Your World |
| Muse Showbiz |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge |
| Myocardial Infarction Revitalization of the Perniciousness |
| Myslovitz Sun Machine |
| Naglfar Teras |
| Nameless Coyote Devoured by the Swirling Night |
| Napalm Death Diatribes |
| Napalm Death Scum |
| Nas Hip Hop Is Dead |
| Nas It Was Written |
| Nas King's Disease II |
| Nas and Damian Marley Distant Relatives |
| Necrophagist Epitaph |
| Nelly Furtado Loose |
| New End Original Thriller |
| Nonpoint Statement |
| Norma Jean Redeemer |
| Nortt Gudsforladt |
| Nothingface Pacifier |
| Nothingface Skeletons |
| Obie Trice Cheers |
| Ol' Dirty Bastard Nigga Please |
| Om Advaitic Songs |
| Orchidectomy Demo 2005 |
| Our Lady Peace Spiritual Machines |
| OutKast Idlewild |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling |
| Parkway Drive Horizons |
| Paysage d'Hiver Nacht |
| Paysage d'Hiver Kerker |
| Paysage d'Hiver Die Festung |
| Phlebotomized Immense, Intense, Suspense |
| PJ Harvey The Hope Six Demolition Project |
| Poppy I Disagree |
| I was skeptical at first to indulge myself in listening to this record as I felt like what I had heard from Poppy already in terms of her pop and metal crossovers including the single Concrete from this record felt usually a bit on the gimmicky side, like the whole appeal of it merely just came down to creating a quirky schtick by combining cutesy, sometimes childish pop music with roaring metal guitars and drums. On paper, I can totally get down with a concept like that if the songwriting is actually compelling and memorable, but that seemed lost in her music to me. Concrete had redeemable elements, but as a whole the track is a total mess with it's downtuned metalcore breakdowns, fastly strummed bits of thrash metal guitar leads and pop vocals and melodies that come straight out of a saturday morning kids commercial, which jump awkwardly from section to section without any interesting progression. However, I was sort of pleasantly surprised to hear that Poppy further into the record does not at all rely on this obvious crutch to make her music look enticing, and actually wrote some pretty enjoyable songs which range from an eclectic mix of dreamy ballads and industrially tinged rock tracks which seem to take some queues from Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails. I'm not always into all the parts and bits of progression within these songs and it all comes together a bit inconsistent, but apart from that I was pleasantly surprised and definitely think Poppy has proven herself to be a part of the brave new world of pop artists of today as well. |
| Portal Hagbulbia |
| Possessed Seven Churches |
| Powerman 5000 Tonight the Stars Revolt |
| Professor Green The Green Lectures Vol 1 |
| Protomartyr Ultimate Success Today |
| Puff Daddy No Way Out |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades |
| Rammstein Rosenrot |
| Raw Breed Lune Tunz |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley |
| Redman Malpractice |
| Redman Red Gone Wild: Thee Album |
| Reveille Bleed the Sky |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Rival Consoles Persona |
| Robert Henke Indigo_Transform |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory |
| Rotten Sound Species At War |
| Samael Passage |
| ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron |
| Sean Paul Stage One |
| Sean Paul Dutty Rock |
| See You Next Tuesday Parasite |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy The Correlation Between Entrance And Exit Wounds |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy The Romance of Affliction |
| Septicflesh Communion |
| Sepultura The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart |
| Sepultura Machine Messiah |
| Shakira Oral Fixation Vol. 2 |
| Shining (SWE) Submit to Selfdestruction |
| Shining (SWE) Redefining Darkness |
| Shining (SWE) I - Within Deep Dark Chambers |
| Sigh Hangman's Hymn |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild |
| Silencer (SWE) Death - Pierce Me |
| Sixpence None the Richer Sixpence None the Richer |
| Skeletonwitch Beyond the Permafrost |
| Skeletonwitch Breathing the Fire |
| Slayer God Hates Us All |
| Slayer Diabolus in Musica |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind |
| slowthai TYRON |
| Snoop Dogg No Limit Top Dogg |
| Snow 12 Inches of Snow |
| Sodom Epitome of Torture |
| Sophie Ellis-Bextor Read My Lips |
| Spooks SIOSOS Volume One |
| Staind Dysfunction |
| Staind Tormented |
| Stake Kosmokoma |
| Stake When the Candle Dies Out |
| Static-X Shadow Zone |
| Stella Donnelly Thrush Metal |
| Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad |
| Sugar Ray Floored |
| Suicide Silence Demo 2004 (Family Guy Demo) |
| Sunn O))) Kannon |
| Sunn O))) Pyroclasts |
| Sunn O))) Life Metal |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! |
| Taproot Gift |
| Texas The Hush |
| The Acacia Strain Coma Witch |
| The Acacia Strain Death Is the Only Mortal |
| The Acacia Strain Wormwood |
| The Acacia Strain Slow Decay |
| This band actually ended up really kind of surprising me with their 2019 record It Comes In Waves, which to me felt like a darker, doomier and more sinister take on their heavy, chugging, very breakdown-oriented brand of metalcore. It just seemed like they were really increasingly honing in on those slow, brooding and atmospheric elements of their sound that they so prominently started introducing on 2014's Coma Witch, to craft a record that was more emotionally effective as a result. I was convinced they would continue further down this path, but unfortunately it seems like the band just kind of regressed a little for this new release to get back into their comfort zone and release something more average instead. If you are really into this band, I see no reason as to why you wouldn't eat this up, but me having not been that into their music since mid-high school, I just need more than what they are serving up here. Still, the elements that I actually do appreciate about this band are very intact here as well, like their heavy, clean-but-not-too-plastic production style (especially on the drums, which in a world plagued by drumtriggers I very much appreciate), the melancholic and atmospheric guitar leads that give a bit more emotional weight to their songs as well as some of the catchier and hookier riffs they work into their tracks, stuff that will definitely make the pit go wild. |
| The Acacia Strain Gravebloom |
| The Axis of Perdition The Ichneumon Method |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous |
| The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk |
| The Black Eyed Peas Monkey Business |
| The Black Eyed Peas Masters Of The Sun Vol. 1 |
| The Body I Shall Die Here |
| The Carters Everything Is Love |
| The Cure Wild Mood Swings |
| The Devil Wears Prada ZII |
| The Doppelgangaz HARK |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality |
| The Faceless Akeldama |
| The Fall of Troy OK |
| The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event |
| The Game Doctor's Advocate |
| The KLF Chill Out |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet |
| The Modern Age Slavery Damned to Blindness |
| The National Boxer |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses |
| The Partisan Turbine Surgical Assault |
| The Roots The Tipping Point |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music |
| The Sound That Ends Creation Memes, Dreams, And Flying Machines |
| The Stone Roses The Stone Roses |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence |
| Therapy? Troublegum |
| Thirteen Bled Promises Heliopause Fleets |
| Thy Art Is Murder Hate |
| Tiamat Wildhoney |
| Tim Hecker Konoyo |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| Torche Meanderthal |
| Torche Harmonicraft |
| Training for Utopia Throwing A Wrench In The American Music |
| Tyler, the Creator Wolf |
| Ulver Themes From William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell |
| Umbra Ater |
| Underoath The Changing of Times |
| UNKLE Psyence Fiction |
| Urfaust Geist Ist Teufel |
| Vektor Outer Isolation |
| War from a Harlots Mouth Transmetropolitan |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
| Weezer Maladroit |
| Weezer The Green Album |
| Whitechapel Whitechapel |
| Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption |
| Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed |
| Wiley Anti-Systemic |
| Willow Smith Lately I Feel Everything |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana |
| Wristmeetrazor Replica of a Strange Love |
| Wristmeetrazor I Talk to God... |
| Wu-Tang Clan Iron Flag |
| Xasthur Defective Epitaph |
| Xibalba Madre Mia Gracias Por Los Dias |
| Xythlia Immortality Through Quantum Suicide |
| Zao (Self-Titled) |
| Zeal and Ardor Devil is Fine |
| Zeal and Ardor Wake of a Nation |
| 2.5 average |
| (hed) p.e. Broke |
| (hed) p.e. Blackout |
| (hed) p.e. Back 2 Base X |
| .50Cal Facial Fracture Primitive Encephalectomy |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' |
| A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant |
| A Place to Bury Strangers Worship |
| Abated Mass of Flesh Moth and Rust In the Temple of Putridity |
| Abnegation Verses Of The Bleeding |
| Aborted ManiaCult |
| Acrania (UK) Totalitarian Dystopia |
| Acrania (UK) The Beginning of the End |
| Alcest Shelter |
| All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers |
| All Shall Perish Hate. Malice. Revenge |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy II: The Reign of Darkness |
| Anthropolatri Возрадуйся, земля! |
| Arelseum III |
| Arsenik Quelques Gouttes Suffisent... |
| ASAP Rocky TESTING |
| August Burns Red Looks Fragile After All |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore |
| August Burns Red Leveler |
| August Burns Red Messengers |
| Bad Meets Evil Hell: The Sequel |
| Beneath the Massacre Mechanics of Dysfunction |
| Beneath the Massacre Dystopia |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic |
| Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of |
| Black Tongue Falsifier |
| Blink-182 blink-182 |
| Blodsrit Helveteshymner |
| Bounty Killer Ghetto Dictionary: The Mystery |
| Burial Chemz/Dolphinz |
| Burzum Umskiptar |
| Canibus Can-I-Bus |
| Carnifex Until I Feel Nothing |
| Cattle Decapitation Homovore |
| Cattle Decapitation Human Jerky |
| Chelsea Grin Chelsea Grin |
| Chimaira Pass Out of Existence |
| Cholera The Answer to Infection |
| Clawfinger Clawfinger |
| Coal Chamber Coal Chamber |
| Code Orange I Am King |
| Congress The Other Cheek |
| Converge Halo in a Haystack |
| Courtney Barnett Things Take Time, Take Time |
| D12 Devil's Night |
| Deafheaven Infinite Granite |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| Defeated Sanity Disposal Of The Dead // Dharmata |
| Deftones Back to School (Mini Maggit) |
| Demilich Regurgitation of Blood |
| DevilDriver Winter Kills |
| DevilDriver DevilDriver |
| Die Antwoord Ten$ion |
| Disentomb Misery |
| Disfiguring the Goddess Sooth |
| At first I was kind of enamored with the pretty interesting blend of ambient, edm and slam death metal this EP took, but after multiple listens the novelty of it slowly started to wear thinner and thinner and it became more apparent how relatively standard these songs where. While I definitely give kudos to Disfiguring The Goddess for being a project that is not afraid to get a little off-kilter and weird sometimes, the really claustrophobic and overly punchy production style that consistently turned me off on past records is ever so present here as well, which to me always results into some slightly grating ear fatigue. It's certainly not the worst type of production I've ever heard on a death metal record but it's not that much more preferable I have to say. Still, there's a certain brooding and dark quality about the music on here that I do like. |
| Dizzee Rascal Tongue N' Cheek |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Eighteen Visions Obsession |
| Elysia Lion of Judas |
| Elysia Masochist |
| Eminem Kamikaze |
| Eminem Music to Be Murdered By |
| Eminem's career certainly has been quite the rollercoaster, going from being hiphop's darling with The Marshall Mathers LP to being it's favorite punching bag with 2017's Revival. One could feel kind of bad for the man, especially as someone who actually at one point used to be a hardcore fan of him during his earliest teen years and kind of looked at him as a bit of a father figure not having one myself anymore. Unfortunately, the relentlessly bitter, old-man-yells-at-cloud kind of narrative that I felt like his music was really starting to get overshadowed by (on top of the general lack of good taste of a lot of his post-The Eminem Show material) was very hard to want to defend. It just felt like Eminem was too stuck in his ways and too stubborn to grow as an artist and as a person, picking fights with a majority of the newer generation of hiphop instead of adapting and being willing to be open towards the new sonic ideas that drives today's youth. Luckily, in 2020, it seems like Eminem has cooled his temper and regained a little bit of focus again, and it has resulted in a record that is certainly a lot better than Revival. Better beat selection, less dated songwriting choices and focus on venting frustrations about public opinions on his musical output considered, it seems like this record is opening the door for a new possible redemption arc for Eminem. On the flipside, a lot of my gripes like bad hooks, questionable lines, uninteresting pop features, grating staccato flows and a bloated tracklist are here to a very notable degree as well. |
| Enmity Disembowel the Meek |
| Envy Recitation |
| Faith No More Album of the Year |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails |
| Field Mob 613: Ashy to Classy |
| Fieldy Bassically |
| Fit for an Autopsy Hellbound |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Labyrinth |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony |
| Force Fed Broken Glass Demo 2007 |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous |
| Ghost (SWE) Prequelle |
| Glassjaw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang |
| Gloomy Grim Life? |
| Gorillaz The Fall |
| Grimes Visions |
| Grimes Geidi Primes |
| Grimes and d'Eon Darkbloom |
| Gulaggh Vorkuta |
| Gwen Stefani Love. Angel. Music. Baby. |
| Hayley Williams FLOWERS for VASES / descansos |
| Heaven Shall Burn Whatever It May Take |
| Heaven Shall Burn Asunder |
| Hiroshima Will Burn To The Weight Of All Things |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 1 |
| Impending Doom Nailed. Dead. Risen. |
| In Flames Come Clarity |
| Infant Annihilator The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution |
| Insane Clown Posse The Great Milenko |
| Insolence Revolution |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening |
| Iwrestledabearonce Late for Nothing |
| J. Cole Born Sinner |
| James Morrison Songs For You, Truths For Me |
| Jay-Z Kingdom Come |
| Jay-Z In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 |
| JJ DOOM Key To The Kuffs |
| Just Jack Overtones |
| Jute Gyte Respice Finem |
| Kanye West Yeezus |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo |
| Kanye West Donda |
| Kayo Dot Plastic House on Base of Sky |
| Kayo Dot Blasphemy |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing |
| Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue |
| Korn Take a Look in the Mirror |
| Kvelertak Nattesferd |
| Kvelertak Splid |
| When this band became a fresh new face in the Norwegian metal scene with their first two albums, they were writing really catchy blends of black metal, hardcore punk and 70's hardrock like a well-oiled machine. Despite the fact that they incorporated black metal into their sound that was really melodic and hook-driven, they didn't become the subject of ridicule like their peers in Deafheaven and Liturgy who had purists foaming at the mouth. Maybe their norwegian roots had something to do with it, but these guys were far from looking like a grim and tortured metal band and could've fit snugly working as baristas in some downtown hipster vegan donut shop. The hardrock aspect didn't overshadow their ferocity but made the pummeling qualities of their sound juxtapose very nicely with something that felt light, fun and not too edgy. Unfortunately, Kvelertak started to lean more towards this hardrock sound on 2016's Nattesferd, which was apparent in the vocals as well as the music, which to me pretty much ruined the balance they had managed to create with their earlier stuff, as this resulted in something that was starting to feel a bit too cheesy and forgettable for me. This record, despite having its catchy moments and more ambitious spots with longer songs and parts that go in very black metal centric passages, is pretty much a continuation of that. The really overcompressed, claustrofobic and static-y production which makes it seem like I'm having to listen to the band through a layer of white noise, isn't helping either. |
| Last Chance to Reason Lvl. 1 |
| letlive. Fake History |
| Lights Little Machines |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party |
| Logic No Pressure |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu |
| M.I.A. Maya |
| Machine Head The Blackening |
| Mad Season Above |
| Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Matthew Dear Leave Luck To Heaven |
| Megan Thee Stallion Good News |
| Megan Thee Stallion is one of my favorite up and coming rappers going in the industry right now thanks to her enjoyable and relatively low-bs Fever mixtape she put out in 2019, which to me was a solid display of her raw talents as an MC with her unapologetic attitude and hard hitting delivery over southern-fried, Houston-style beats. Such a promising statement could only have me excited for whatever Megan was about to do next, but unfortunately, Good News has fallen into the trap that a lot of commercially released hiphop records do, and that is sounding like a bloated, focus-grouped collection of tracks instead of a solid body of work. Her charisma and talent is definitely on display here at certain points (Shots Fired, Circles, What's New, Savage Remix), but a lot of the times I feel like she's really punching under her weight with weak hooks and beats that don't play to her strengths and makes her music end up sounding generic and middle of the road. A track like Don't Rock Me To Sleep really shows the vast difference in pen game talent Megan has between writing raunchy raps and pop-oriented verses and choruses, and Intercourse is just another throwaway, atmospheric reggaeton track that everybody has to have at least one of it seems. Still crossing my fingers for her to come through somewhere in the future, but her major debut here is not the big splash that I was hoping it would have been. |
| Misery Signals Controller |
| Moderat II |
| Mr. Bungle The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny |
| Muse The Resistance |
| Nas STILLmatic |
| Nas NASIR |
| Nile Ithyphallic |
| Norah Jones Come Away with Me |
| Nortt Ligfaerd |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Orgy Candyass |
| Our Lady Peace Happiness... |
| Panopticon Panopticon |
| Paramore Riot! |
| Paramore Paramore |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile |
| Parkway Drive Atlas |
| Peste Noire Le Retour Des Pastoureaux |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher |
| This record got an incredible amount of hype from many music publications and people in general, but unfortunately it seems like I'm really not along for the ride on this one despite me persistently trying to do so. My problem with this album is not that any of the songs are particularly bad, it's just that to me the tracklist feels very homogenized and blends together in a way that makes a lot of it go in one ear and go out the other for me. It feels more like somber and moody window-dressing for the most part rather than actual, compelling songs that I feel like returning to. I do think there are key moments that do peak my ears, like the horn lines on Kyoto or the really beautiful, anthemic horns and group vocals at the end of I Know The End which makes for a pretty great closer. Savior Complex and ICU melodically stick out a little more to me than other tracks as well, but for the most part I can't help but feel like the performances are just a bit too samey for me to really get into it, even though I can respect the witty lyricism and charisma that fuels a lot of these tracks. |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You |
| Pig Destroyer Mass & Volume |
| The title track surely has a bleak atmosphere, but songwriting-wise it is just a really boring 19-minute doom metal song and below the skill level of a band that has records like Prowler In The Yard and Terrifyer under their belt. The second track Red Tar too is a pretty middle of the road sludge metal cut, and definitely not substantial enough to save this EP from falling short. I'm actually flabbergasted that a band like Pig Destroyer can manage to make these genres sound so empty and uninteresting. |
| PinkPantheress To Hell With It |
| Prayer for Cleansing Rain In Endless Fall |
| Queens of the Stone Age Villains |
| R.A. The Rugged Man Legends Never Die |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da |
| Rammstein Untitled |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Refused This is the New Deal |
| Reveille Laced |
| Rings of Saturn Lugal Ki En |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Sean Paul Imperial Blaze |
| Shining (SWE) VII: Fodd Forlorare |
| Shitkid [DETENTION] |
| Sigh Graveward |
| Sigh Infidel Art |
| Sigh Gallows Gallery |
| Signal The Firing Squad Earth Harvest |
| Skindred Babylon |
| Snapcase Lookinglasself |
| Snoop Dogg R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta) - The Masterpiece |
| Soulfly Savages |
| Soulfly Soulfly |
| Soulfly Primitive |
| Spineshank The Height of Callousness |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue |
| Sticky Fingaz Decade....But Wait It Gets Worse |
| Striborg Spiritual Catharsis |
| Suffokate Oakland |
| Suffokate No Mercy, No Forgiveness |
| Suicide Silence Death Awaits Demo 2003 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| The Acacia Strain 3750 |
| The Acacia Strain The Dead Walk |
| The Acacia Strain Continent |
| The Acacia Strain ...And Life Is Very Long |
| The Acacia Strain Above/Below |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Abysmal |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie |
| The Ghost Inside Returners |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Cyr |
| The Strokes Comedown Machine |
| The Strokes Angles |
| Thy Art Is Murder The Adversary |
| Thy Art Is Murder Holy War |
| Thy Art Is Murder Human Target |
| Thy Art Is Murder This Hole Is Not Deep Enough for the Twelve of You |
| Tim Hecker Love Streams |
| Trash Talk No Peace |
| Trash Talk's fifth studio record and last major release since disappearing pretty much completely is a pretty homogenized hardcore punk record with a lot of ferocious performances but muffled production and generic songwriting. Tracks like The Hole, Leech and S.O.S. are fairly decent tracks, but apart from that this is pretty much in one ear out the other, and the alchemist-produced hiphop interludes seem to be there more for Trash Talk to show off their musical connections rather than to reinforce the music on this record in any significant way. In a live setting these guys will pretty much completely annihilate any stage you will put them on, but their studio recordings don't do them justice whatsoever. |
| Ultraspank Progress |
| Veil of Maya [id] |
| Vein.fm Old Data in a New Machine, Vol. 1 |
| An okay-ish acoustic reindition and a bunch of re-recordings, drum and bass remixes and demos. It's interesting and there's some cool stuff here and there (like the Terror's Realm re-recordings) but generally I feel like the band could have approached this concept of repurposing older material in a more interesting way, like Venom Prison did with their Primeval record for example, which is actually what I thought it would have been more like when I first heard about this release. It's a shame because these guys are easily one of my favourite bands in today's metalcore scene, and I feel like this was really a missed opportunity for them to have put out another great project. |
| Viktor Vaughn (VV:2) Venomous Villain |
| Violet Cold Empire of Love |
| Waking the Cadaver Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler |
| Waking the Cadaver Beyond Cops, Beyond God |
| Waking the Cadaver Real-Life Death |
| Waking the Cadaver Authority Through Intimidation |
| Winter Into Darkness |
| Xasthur Portal Of Sorrow |
| Xibalba Tierra y Libertad |
| XXYYXX XXYYXX |
| Yelawolf Trunk Muzik |
| Your Demise Ignorance Never Dies |
| 2.0 poor |
| (hed) p.e. Only In Amerika |
| 1000 Plane Raid Before The Fallout |
| After the Burial Rareform |
| Alterbeast Immortal |
| AngelMaker Decay |
| Arch Enemy War Eternal |
| Archspire The Lucid Collective |
| As Blood Runs Black Allegiance |
| As You Drown Rat King |
| Ashnikko Demidevil |
| At the Gates With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness |
| Attila Fallacy |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet |
| Aversions Crown Servitude |
| Beneath the Massacre Incongruous |
| Biohazard Reborn In Defiance |
| Blanck Mass Animated Violence Mild |
| Bleed from Within Uprising |
| Blink-182 Enema of the State |
| Blink-182 Dude Ranch |
| Boris the Blade The Human Hive |
| Bound By Exile Defilement |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison |
| Carcass Torn Arteries |
| Carnifex Hell Chose Me |
| Cerebral Ballzy Cerebral Ballzy |
| clairo Diary 001 |
| clairo Immunity |
| Coal Chamber Dark Days |
| Coal Chamber Chamber Music |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories |
| Conducting from the Grave Conducting from the Grave |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast |
| Crazy Town The Gift Of Game |
| Die Antwoord Donker Mag |
| Drake Take Care |
| Dry Kill Logic The Darker Side Of Nonsense |
| Dry Kill Logic Elemental Evil |
| Ease Of Disgust Black Flame |
| Eat a Helicopter Evolution of Violence |
| Eighteen Visions Eighteen Visions |
| Eminem Recovery |
| Eminem Relapse |
| Emmure Goodbye To The Gallows |
| Employed To Serve Conquering |
| Enmity Illuminations of Vile Engorgement |
| Evanescence Fallen |
| Fear Factory Mechanize |
| Feminazgul No Dawn for Men |
| Fuck You and Die Elements Of Instability |
| Genocide of Prescription Genesis |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam |
| Grimes Halfaxa |
| Headwound The Pony Merchant of Misery |
| Heaven Shall Burn Invictus (Iconoclast III) |
| Heavy Heavy Low Low Courtside Seats… |
| Hester Prynne The Goswell Divorce |
| Hopsin Pound Syndrome |
| Hopsin Gazing At The Moonlight |
| Hopsin Raw |
| I, Valiance The Reject of Humanity |
| Ichor (DE) The Siege |
| Immortal Technique The Martyr |
| Impending Doom Death Will Reign |
| Infant Annihilator The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch |
| Insane Clown Posse Riddle Box |
| Insane Clown Posse The Wraith: Shangri-La |
| Jay-Z Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. Carter |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse |
| Jay-Z Magna Carta... Holy Grail |
| Kero Kero Bonito Intro Bonito |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon III: The Chosen |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent |
| King Conquer Decomposing Normality |
| Kittie Spit |
| Lights Skin and Earth |
| Lights Siberia |
| Limp Bizkit Still Sucks |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory EP |
| Loathe (UK) The Things They Believe |
| Machine Head The Burning Red |
| Marilyn Manson Eat Me, Drink Me |
| Maroon When Worlds Collide |
| Martyr Defiled No Hope No Morality |
| Martyr Defiled Collusion |
| Massacre Of Mothman 凋零沉落 |
| Milow Milow |
| Moby Everything is Wrong |
| Molotov Solution Insurrection |
| Muse Simulation Theory |
| Nas I Am... |
| Oceano Depths |
| Oceano Contagion |
| Opeth Pale Communion |
| Opeth Sorceress |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum |
| P.O.D. Fundamental Elements of Southtown |
| Panopticon Kentucky |
| Austin Lunn's commercial breakthrough under the Panopticon name sees a significantly more prominent incorporation of the american folk elements that were used more sparingly in the past. Although definitely one of the most ambitious records in its catalogue, I've frankly always found that its execution left a lot to be desired, as often whenever this record takes a detour into its more folky aesthetics it tends to make the music fall pretty flat. Examples of this are the really offputting flutes on the tracks Bodies Under The Falls and Killing Giants As They Sleep or the jarring bluegrass covers of old labor standards on Come All Ye Coleminers and Which Side Are You On?. There's some pretty cool moments on here as well, like the first half of Black Soot And Red Blood which is backed by some beautiful and righteous background vocals, but even that track turns tedious with the overuse of documentary samples that aren't incorporated very creatively and just get drowned out by the black metal instrumentation anyway. I also don't really care too much for the sudden hypermelodic heavy metal style guitar solos that pop up here and there as well, which to me made the music sometimes feel even more awkwardly structured. The title track, which is a melancholic sounding instrumental bluegrass piece, is maybe the only moment on the record where I think this folk influence comes through in a great way, even though by then its way too late and too little. A record I admire and I wish I liked more, but every time I revisit it I am treated with a pretty underwhelming listening experience. |
| Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness |
| Up until the release of this record, it was Roads To The North that stood as Panopticon's longest full length to date clocking in at 1 hour and 12 minutes, but with The Scars Of Man Austin takes the Panopticon project in double album territory effectively making this a 2-hour long epic, very distinctively divided into two sounds. One disc focusing on Panopticon's atmospheric black metal sound, the other one being a very americana/folk focused second half, which is of course not much new for fans, but never up until that point had the two been separated as much as they are on here. I won't lie, for me making a two-disc album that stays engaging from beginning to end is an art in and of itself, and Austin doesn't really succeed at it for me here. The black metal side sounds pretty fine, but its especially the second half that drags this album down a lot for me, with how long and repetitive a lot of those tracks feel as well as how underwhelming I find the sung vocals to be. Both discs have a lot of elements that I think on their own are pretty engaging, but they aren't exactly greater than the sum of their parts and aren't justified being dragged out as long as they are here, for me at least. I know I'm definitely in the minority here with how well this record has been received, but its genuinely how I feel and considering how much of a fan I am of Panopticon it makes it all the more frustrating. I think overall this record isn't the worst thing I've ever heard by any means, but I don't think I'll be revisiting it too much into the future, as it is my least favorite Panopticon album. |
| Papa Roach Infest |
| Paradise Lost Draconian Times |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue |
| Professor Green Alive Till I'm Dead |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Redman Redman Presents...Reggie |
| Rose Funeral Gates of Punishment |
| Sadistik Altars |
| Salt The Wound Carnal Repercussions |
| Science Of Sleep Exhaust |
| Signal The Firing Squad Abnegate |
| Skindred Roots Rock Riot |
| Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Staind Break The Cycle |
| Stalaggh Projekt Misanthropia |
| Suicide Silence You Can't Stop Me |
| Suicide Silence Become The Hunter |
| Pretty lukewarm deathcore and a very obvious attempt at an apology record to compensate for the disaster that was their fragile career in 2017. The sound, production as well as the songwriting of this thing is pretty generic, not the worst I've heard by any means, but typical enough for my ears to just slightly tune out. This record is pretty much a good reminder of why I became so tired of this genre in my late teen years for the most part, even though there are a handful of releases that I can still look back upon fairly fondly. I don't think this band will ever be as much dumb fun as they were with their first two albums in the 2000's when Mitch fronted them, when they were pretty much at the top of the myspace deathcore foodchain. |
| The Ghost Inside Get What You Give |
| The Last Ten Seconds Of Life Know Your Exits |
| The Last Ten Seconds Of Life INVIVO[EXVIVO] |
| The Red Shore Unconsecrated |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Monuments to an Elegy |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead Skepsis |
| Trivium Ascendancy |
| Twenty One Pilots Blurryface |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin |
| Tyler, the Creator Cherry Bomb |
| Underneath The Gun The Awakening |
| Various Artists (Hip Hop) Eminem Presents: The Re-Up |
| Walls of Jericho All Hail The Dead |
| We Are The End Skies Most Wanted Goodbyes |
| White Town Women In Technology |
| Whitechapel Our Endless War |
| Winds of Plague Decimate the Weak |
| Winds of Plague The Great Stone War |
| With Blood Comes Cleansing Golgotha |
| With Blood Comes Cleansing Horror |
| Within the Ruins Phenomena |
| Your Pain Is Endearing Upon A Throne Of Hate |
