| 4.0 excellent |
| 1914 Viribus Unitis |
| 1914 The Blind Leading the Blind |
| 1914 Where Fear and Weapons Meet |
| Absent In Body Plague God |
| Aequorea Dim |
| Agriculture The Spiritual Sound |
| Alcest Les Chants de L'Aurore |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| Altar of Plagues Mammal |
| Amenra Mass III |
| Amenra Alive |
| Amenra Mass VI Live |
| Its good, the background noise of the crickets and fire crackling adds a nice little bit. |
| Amenra De Doorn |
| Amenra With Fang and Claw |
| An Abstract Illusion The Sleeping City |
| Anathema A Fine Day to Exit |
| Anathema The Optimist |
| Architects Daybreaker |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together |
| Archivist Archivist |
| Archivist Construct |
| Archivist Triumvirate |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone |
| Birds in Row You, Me, and the Violence |
| Black Crown Initiate Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape |
| Blackbraid Blackbraid II |
| Blackwater Holylight Not Here Not Gone |
| Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Rejecting Obliteration |
| Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere |
| Brutus (BE) Unison Life |
| Caligula's Horse Bloom |
| Caligula's Horse The Tide, the Thief and River's End |
| Caligula's Horse Charcoal Grace |
| Cave Sermon Divine Laughter |
| Chapel of Disease Echoes of Light |
| Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She |
| Coilguns Odd Love |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Counting Hours The Wishing Tomb |
| Cradle of Filth Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay |
| Cradle of Filth The Screaming of the Valkyries |
| Cradle of Filth Hammer of the Witches |
| Cross Bringer Healismus Aeternus |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal |
| Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North |
| Darkher Realms |
| Dawn of Ouroboros Bioluminescence |
| Dawnwalker Ages |
| Dawnwalker House of Sand |
| Surburban concept post/prog metal album? This is kinda weird much like the neighbours |
| Dawnwalker The Unknowing |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Innern |
| Devin Townsend Lightwork |
| Downfall of Gaia Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka |
| Dvne Voidkind |
| Einar Solberg The Congregation Acoustic |
| A live and stripped down rendition of The Congregation. Which is an already fantastic record in its own right, doesnt suffer or lose anything in this rework by Einar. I wish more artists would do stripped down versions of their albums or songs as Eps or albums |
| Eleanora Mere |
| Eluveitie Ànv |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou The Helm of Sorrow |
| Ethereal Shroud Trisagion |
| Every Time I Die Radical |
| Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology |
| Fen Carrion Skies |
| Fog Warning Perils Below |
| GGGOLDDD This Shame Should Not Be Mine |
| Gouge Away Deep Sage |
| Green Druid At the Maw of Ruin |
| Greg Puciato Mirrorcell |
| Its been great to see Greg grow and carve out his own path post Dillinger. Mirror Cell is a more focused and streamlined experience and is a perfect length in comparison to Child Soldier's 15 tracks |
| Greyhaven This Bright and Beautiful World |
| Greyhaven Keep It Quiet |
| Grima Nightside |
| Hail Spirit Noir Fossil Gardens |
| Harakiri for the Sky Scorched Earth |
| Hippotraktor Stasis |
| Hypno5e Sheol |
| i Haxa i Häxa |
| Idle Heirs Life Is Violence |
| In Mourning The Immortal |
| Julie Christmas Ridiculous and Full of Blood |
| Daaaaaamn this is fun and energetic also kinda varied |
| Kardashev Alunea |
| Katatonia Sky Void of Stars |
| King Woman Celestial Blues |
| La Dispute No One Was Driving the Car |
| La dispute return with renewed anger, fury and pain. One could say its rmore of the same melodramatic stuff and they have stagnated. However rthat would be wrong, La dispute is aging like wine becoming finer and rfiner as the years go by. No one was driving the car showcases that rflair of the dramatic found in earlier records combined with a more rmature and human view and tone. rThis could easily become the Album of the year, but as always with a rband like La dispute this album will be something that either clicks rjust right or you hate it with a passion |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House |
| La Dispute Panorama |
| Leprous Aphelion |
| Someone let them near an orchestra again and Einar screams at one point here. I may be gay for this mans voice |
| Leprous The Congregation |
| Leprous Pitfalls |
| Liminal Shroud All Virtues Ablaze |
| Make Them Suffer Old Souls |
| Make Them Suffer Neverbloom |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] |
| Miasme Keep Them at a Distance |
| Misery Signals Controller |
| My Dying Bride A Mortal Binding |
| My Dying Bride Feel the Misery |
| My Dying Bride Like Gods of the Sun |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn |
| Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros |
| Omnerod The Amensal Rise |
| Belgians are just built different arent they? Seriously what are they drinking over there. |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes |
| Opeth The Last Will and Testament |
| Mikaels raging hard on for 70s prog rock has given the death rmetal ex a second chance after the divorce. This time they have rboth grown and changed as time has passed, he is a bit wankier rand bolder and she is a bit rusty but still has her teeth. Their rchild the last will and rtestament displays qualities of both of rtheir growth and their time apart. Could it be called Progressive rdeath rock? The prog rock spunk that made it? |
| Opia I Welcome Thee, Eternal Sleep |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Muuntautuja |
| Panopticon ...Scars II (the basics) |
| I havent listened to scars 1 or much Panopticon but holy crap this is lovely. |
| Paradise Lost Draconian Times |
| Instrumentals are amazing but vocally im indifferent to this and maybe i need to spend more time with Nick's vocal style for this era of Paradise Lost |
| Paradise Lost Medusa |
| Parkway Drive Horizons |
| Parkway Drive Killing With A Smile |
| Persefone Metanoia |
| Placebo Never Let Me Go |
| Pothamus Abur |
| Predatory Void Atoned In Metamorposis |
A shortened tracklist and new influences lets Predatory shine. Their last record felt a
bit samey as it went on but this album respects your time and keeps it short and sweet.
Yes this is a lp apparently it is an EP my bad |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest |
| Psychedelic Porn Crumpets Shyga! The Sunlight Mound |
| Psychonaut Violate Consensus Reality |
| On first few listens this doesnt reach the heights of Unfold the god man for me. Either way Belgium continues to give us quality material. |
| Rolo Tomassi Grievances |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory |
| Rwake The Return Of Magik |
| Saidan Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity |
| Saor Forgotten Paths |
| Saver From Ember and Rust |
| Schammasch The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean |
| Shadow Of Intent Melancholy |
| Static Dress Rouge Carpet Disaster |
| Sugar Horse The Grand Scheme of Things |
| This is really cool and lush for me at the moment. Perhaps its because Ive never tried the band before but this is lovely. Also feel its flying under the radar a lot for people |
| Suldusk Lunar Falls |
| SUMAC What One Becomes |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? |
| Svalbard One Day All This Will End |
| Swallow the Sun The Morning Never Came |
| Sylvaine Nova |
| The Amity Affliction Let the Ocean Take Me |
| Bumping for the sheer fact that this record kinda helped in a shitty period of my life. Doubt ill ever revisit it fully for a long time. |
| The Black Heart Rebellion Har Nevo |
| Wild, aninalistic, ritualistic and primal. I live the atmosphere it creates luring into the woods and running from a beast |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant |
| The Contortionist Language |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Flight of Sleipnir Eventide |
| The HIRS Collective We're Still Here |
| The Hirsch Effekt Urian |
| The Moth Gatherer Esoteric Oppression |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric |
| The Ocean Holocene |
| The Ruins of Beverast Tempelschlaf |
| The Wonder Years Sister Cities |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven |
| The Wonder Years Burst & Decay Volume 3 |
| The Wonder Years Burst & Decay |
| The Wonder Years Burst & Decay (Volume II) |
| Thou Umbilical |
| Umbilical sees Thou shift gears into a different approach to rtheir sound. Rather than the slower longer brand of sludge they rhave cultivated over the years. The Baton rouge band focuses on a rmore raw aggresive version of sludge with Punk tinges.rTldr: Its Thou what do you think? its fucking amazing |
| Thy Catafalque Alföld |
| Thy Catafalque XII: A Gyönyörü Álmok Ezután Jönnek |
| Hmmm im unsure atm i think Alfold is a lot better, this is kinda fun though |
| Unfurl Ascension |
| Urne Setting Fire To The Sky |
An incredibly solid album and a good follow up to their last record A feast on Sorrow. Its
also got groooooove |
| Winterfylleth The Imperious Horizon |
| 3.5 great |
| Aephanemer Utopie |
| Amenra Afterlife |
| Amenra De Toorn |
| Amon Amarth Jomsviking |
| An Abstract Illusion Woe |
| Anathema Distant Satellites |
| Anciients Beyond the Reach of the Sun |
| Architects Hollow Crown |
| Architects The Here and Now |
| Avkrvst The Approbation |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors II |
| Blackbraid Blackbraid III |
| Borknagar Fall |
| Bullet For My Valentine The Poison |
| Cave In Heavy Pendulum |
| Chat Pile Cool World |
| Conjurer Unself |
| Converge Love Is Not Enough |
Clean up of Sputnik and hardcore bros semen on aisle 2
Actual sound off: Hey modern metal/hardcore class is in session and dads home with the
milk so listen
up and be reminded of what your genre is at its heart. Converge delivers a return to
basics and shredding furniture destroying tracks. Make me forget you is the highlight and
masterclass of Converge |
| Converge The Dusk in Us |
| Counterparts Nothing Left to Love |
| Counterparts You're Not You Anymore |
| Cowardice (USA-NJ) Atavist |
| Deafheaven Lonely People With Power |
| Drudkh Shadow Play |
| Eluveitie Ategnatos |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse |
| Enter Shikari A Kiss For The Whole World |
| Fen Monuments to Absence |
| Full of Hell Coagulated Bliss |
| Gaerea Coma |
| Pretty cool, however it feels bloated and samey. The samey feel makes this album feel way longer than it is. Albums got good bones and the bands got potential to be something very exciting if they can trim the fat, let things breathe and concentrate. |
| Ghostsmoker Inertia Cult |
| Gojira Fortitude |
| Haken Fauna |
| Holy Fawn The Black Moon |
| Candy is gorgeuous the whole sound of this lovely. Ill have to give this a few more spins |
| In Vain (NO) Solemn |
| Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions |
| Kardashev Liminal Rite |
| Katatonia City Burials |
| Leprous Malina |
| Leprous Melodies Of Atonement |
| This is bizzare but when it hits it hits and you really get into the groove of it. rI am still not confident in this rating, this is wonderfully strange and hard to kind of process for me |
| LLNN Unmaker |
| Lorem Ipsum Vivre encore |
| lowheaven Ritual Decay |
| Make Them Suffer Worlds Apart |
| Make Them Suffer Lord of Woe |
| Mol Dreamcrush |
| Mourning Dawn The Foam of Despair |
| My Dying Bride For Lies I Sire |
| Low rung My Dying bride but after having it on repeat for most of the day its actually quite great. However its caught between two great records and is the awkward middle child. All that aside i can see why some dont like it |
| My Dying Bride The Ghost of Orion |
| Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me |
| Novembers Doom Major Arcana |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Opeth Sorceress |
| Owls Woods Graves Strix |
| Paradise Lost Tragic Idol |
| Parkway Drive Atlas |
| Poppy Negative Spaces |
| Predatory Void Seven Keys To The Discomfort of Being |
| Bit samey here and there, but its still pretty darn great. Have to give it some more time. Also its fucking unreasonable how hard it was to get a digital copy of this |
| Stake Love , Death and Decay |
| Saw it was missing from the site, so added. Its good, I need more time to work out specifically how i rate it |
| SUMAC The Healer |
| Its good overall but meandering sections here and there. For me personally needs more focus rather than the improv. |
| Svalbard It's Hard to Have Hope |
| The Amity Affliction Severed Ties |
| The Amity Affliction Youngbloods |
| The Amity Affliction Not Without My Ghosts |
| The Armed Ultrapop |
| The Callous Daoboys God Smiles Upon the Callous Daoboys |
| The Wonder Years The Hum Goes on Forever |
| This Gift Is A Curse Heir |
| Its really good, but feels a little too long for its own good. |
| Tomarum Beyond Obsidian Euphoria |
| Trenches Reckoner |
| Tzompantli Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force |
| Ulcerate Cutting the Throat of God |
| While this is still good death metal, I find it exhausting and that it blends together into a samey soup. Theres no doubting this band is talented and very good at what they do. i just do not understand the hype behind these guys, its not for me i guess |
| VOLA Witness |
| Witch Piss Witch Piss |
| Zao The Crimson Corridor |
| 2.5 average |
| Better Lovers God Made Me an Animal |
| On paper this should be amazing right? For some reason it falls short. This project could have a lot of potential but for its first outing this ep falls flat for me and I have no idea why, whether its gregs vocals not fitting with the ETID style |
| Counterparts A Eulogy for Those Still Here |
| Ghost Atlas Dust of the Human Shape |
| High Parasite Forever We Burn |
| Infant Island Obsidian Wreath |
| Theres room to grow for this band, i feel if they leaned more into longer atmospheric tracks and more varied vocals they would be onto something. The short tracks just feel aimless and are akin to filler |
| Katatonia Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State |
| Katatonia by numbers and on auto piolet. Jonas's nightmares must be of grey paint |
| Motionless In White Scoring the End of the World |
| Rivers of Nihil The Work |
Its alright, i think it will be a grower. One of the
issues is that this is a follow up to a very good album.
Which means expectations are high. Edit update:this is
not a grower. Its worse then i remembered |
| Spiritbox Tsunami Sea |
| Im not a big fan of this band, in fact ill admit i dont get the hype. However despite everything and anything i have said against the band in the past. This album is actually pretty decent, its good for what it is. I think the albums production choices bring it down considerably and in parts remove the albums teeth and reduce the impact some songs should have. rSo Ill happily admit I was wrong and judged the band too harshly |
| Swallow the Sun Shining |
| This is not what i want from Swallow the sun. Overall the albums okay for what it is a poppy catchy album from them. Its diet take away Swallow the sun, its a bit shit but it does the job if you have a craving and dont want to put in the effort of a full experience |
| The Amity Affliction Misery |
| This is surprisingly good not amazing but its a solid release. It has some shitty tracks D.i.E and burn alive. Also ahren doesnt sound like a robot/bored unlike this could be heartbreak |
| 2.0 poor |
| Architects For Those That Wish to Exist at Abbey Road |
| Gee this sylosis go fund me band pissed the bed here. Tldr: Sam sounds good, everything else is a muddled messrThis is not the record that should have had an orchestra or bombastic display that should have been All Our gods or maybe even Holy hell due to the emotional ties. rThis is only redeemable because of the lack of the horrible features and the fact that Sam sounds really good here, showcasing lows that should be recorded on a fucking album. The closer sounds good and is a highlight. The mix is muddy and everything gets lost, with the band mostly overshadowing the orchestra except in quieter moments, which defeats the whole purpose. The orchestra should have been incorporated more. Or not wasted on such a shit bloated record but here we are. |
| Architects The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit |
| This is a weird record. Architects wear their poppy side on their sleeve here but it sort of works. This is a step up from the previous record. Maybe its just my soft spot for the band talking though |
| Bring Me The Horizon POST HUMAN: NeX GEn |
This is edgy radio fodder music.Anything that may be good here is
buried beneath layers and layers of glitchy nonesense and chaos.
Also what is the actual mix with this ??? Its bizzare |
| Make Them Suffer How to Survive a Funeral |
| My Dying Bride 34.788%... Complete |
Holy shit this album is rough,
pro: reeks of early 2000s amd good time
warp.
Cons: Track lengths are meandering and do not do anything that
warrents them. Heroin chic is possibly the worst song ive ever heard
from a band of this caliber, its almost like a parody of horny 2000s
lyrics. Did Aaron want to be here for this? He sounds bored, lyrics are
also really bad and cringey.
Alls i can say is thankfully they didnt
stay this path but i have to give them points for trying this was a
bold move |
| Northlane Mesmer |
| Northlane Alien |
| Electronic elements end up drowning out a lot of other parts. Lyrics kind of suck. Marcus's vocals are somewhat buried behind everythiny else and that causes them to lose a lot of the effect, low screams lose their impact and the clean sections of jinn lose the lighter more beautiful parts. Its not as bad as others have made it out to be. Its just middle of the road to me |
| Poppy Empty Hands |
Its the same
Jordan fish core aka Fishstickscore. Brusied sky sounds like a recycled an architects song
from the sky and the earthrThis production and style for poppy is already exhausted and
worn out. What made negative spaces is work is Poppys fluidity to shift between genres and
styles. Here we have a worse negative spaces that feels claustrophobic and restricting
Poppy as a multi faceted artist. And girl you dont need this much vocal prod
Edit: dropped rating because i have no recollection or want to return to this |
| Rivers of Nihil Rivers of Nihil |
| Rivers of MidrThis bands lost whatever worked for them with Owls and Monarchy. Old rvocalist had a unique tone to his vocals, the new guy just doesnt work rfor me. Everything feels generic and meh. Highlights water and time and rhouse of lightrAlso Gnocchi reffering to owls as their debut would probably be in line rwith it being the bands break out album. |
| The Amity Affliction This Could Be Heartbreak |
| The Amity Affliction Everyone Loves You... Once You Leave Them |
| Ive heard it all before. Rinse and repeat rFirst four rtracks are decent, middles fucking awful and the ending ris just the same shit with another layer of paint.Born to rlose has a nice heavy riff and break down but its rrepeated all throughout the song and isnt expanded on. |
