Average Rating: 3.97 Rating Variance: 1.29 Objectivity Score: 62% (Fairly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classic!T.O.O.H.! Pod Vladou BiceAeon (HR) EphemeralDracula’s favourite technical death metal band and basically the best thing ever. Akakor Human SacrificeAmogh Symphony VectorscanAsterisk* DogmaAutomatic Pilot Back From The Deadone of those vastly overlooked Post Punk oddities and the last great sigh of the genre. oh and Sit On My Face is the sexiest song ever written. BATS Red In Tooth and Clawa RELENTLESS barrage of highly stylised and dynamic riffs. this album’s got no time for inducing faux-emotion through empty atmosphere or inoffensive,, no-substance saccharine guitar twinkles. Very straight to the point and cathartic.Bill Evans You Must Believe In SpringBrainstorm (Ukr) BrainstormCandiria SubliminalCharles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner LadyCrimson Massacre The Luster of PandemoniumEstuarine Sic Erat Scriptumoverwhelming in the best way possible. but man can this album wear you off, so much so that i have to lie down everytime i finish listening to it. each track here is so dizzyingly dense and extremely meticulously composed that it’s damn near impenetrable at points. Oh and this also features some of the most fun metal riffing I’ve ever heard. potential AOTY. Extra Life Secular WorksFilthy Young Impalers Pattern Bluenon-stop dissonant positivity and UNSTOPPABLE chaos. fantastic stuff. Ghazal The RainGruesome Malady Infected with Virulent SeedHectic Patterns RandomInfamia InfamiaJonas Hellborg PersonaeJonas Hellborg Temporal Analogues of ParadiseJournal Unlorjai personally cannot relate to this review one bit lmfao. this is probably the best album of all time. seriously, the songwriting here is consistently brilliant, hyper-dense, fluid and memorable in a way thats basically unlike anything I've come across. It's like if Spiral Architect decided to actually make enjoyable music. In terms of raw technical skill, this band possibly outdoes BTBAM. the he production makes the drum tone a bit dry and buries the bass, but they interplay well with the other instruments and are as busy and diverse as you'd expect from a technical metal album. theres also basically zero chugging, which is fantastic news. and the distinct video game vibe of the melodies is another thing that draws me to this album - the quieter bits feel a lot like something out of a Final Fantasy OCRemix album. It's impressive how well they managed to nail the whole JRPG concept w/o being too overt about it, and it really does feel like an adventure through a fantasy world. theres some Bungling around once in a while with unfitting genre changes that break the ebb and flow of tension, but this massively impressed me. It's able to stay within a recognizably mathcore framework while doing something really fresh. im forever indebted to my freind for bringing this record to my attention. Lecherous Nocturne The Age of Miracles Has PassedLye By Mistake Fea JurFinally, a band that applies the extreme metal palette to free improvisation in the vein of ex. Coltrane?s Free Jazz records instead of making purposeless noise. Machine And The Synergetic Nuts Leap Second Neutralvery dynamic and absolutely manic at its peaks. not as regimented as most of the fusion that ppl are familiar with, the freakout sections get wild. Some of THE best fusion i?ve heard in a long time. super happy with this. McCoy Tyner The Real McCoyMelancolia (CAN) The Dark Reflection of Your SoulMiles Davis Bitches BrewMiles Davis In a Silent WayMiles Davis Jack JohnsonMiles Davis Live EvilMitochondrion ArchaeaeonSuch an immensly single-minded and unrelenting nature of melody-craft. Simply one of the best bands ever. Mitochondrion ParasignosisOrgone (USA-PA) Accumulatorthese guys’ brand of technical death isn’t so much "pack as many notes into one song" as its "pack as many fragmented ideas into one riff, THEN repeat a few times before moving on to the next one" so their riffs are usually long af, to the point that when they loop around, i cant remember it was the same riff in the first place. its a kind of deceptive complexity, but the bizarre riffing style, coupled with the more evocative sludge-ish (?) sections, makes for a very unique, off-kilter experiencePaavoharju Yha HamaraaPatife Band Corredor polonêsPeriphery Periphery (Instrumental)No other ’djent’ (or whatever you wanna call it) act realises the juxtaposition of ethereal electronica with detonative onslaughts of dense, electrifying riffage (while having PLENTY in the way of pathos) quite as perfectly as this album does. The crystalline chord progressions sprawling across everywhere in ’Racecar’ is some of the most unearthly shit I've ever heard. Sends chills down my spine like nothing else. And boy, does the main riff in ‘Insomnia’ absolutely explode. Anyway, this album is a work of pure fantastical, utterly futuristic elation. But at the same time it’s among some of the most (oddly?) nostalgic music I‘ve ever heard. I don't have any clue how to describe the emotions it invokes in me... Oh! and the Tron Legacy-seque neon logo on the album cover lends the music quite an immense aesthetic appeal. Which always helps. Psycroptic The Scepter of the AncientsRosetta The Galilean SatellitesSam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963some of the sweatiest,, passionate performances on record. simply one of the best live albums of all time. Sasha InvolverSoko ni Naru I'm NOT a pirolianStan Getz Focusabsolutely essential Third Stream Jazz. Sauter’s arrangements are lush and the fact that Getz is improvising everything he's playing over them, is crazy considering how often it takes turns being startling, haunting and downright gorgeous.Sun Ra LanquiditySun Ra Sleeping BeautySun Ra Disco 3000Tim Hecker Radio AmorTimeghoul 1992-1994 DiscographyUnhuman UnhumanWilliam Basinski The Disintegration Loops IIIWilliam Basinski The Disintegration Loops4.5 superbAlienation Mental Ball SpouterAmoral DecrowningAnsur Warring FactionsAstor Piazzolla Tango: Zero HourBrown Eyed Girls Sound GA 4.5 for Abracadabra alone. because it’s a fucking banger. the rest is meh. Cutting Pink With Knives PopuluxxeCutting Pink With Knives Oh Wow!Dawn of Midi DysnomiaElder (USA-MA) LoreFlat 122 The WavesIchiko Aoba 0Isyou Emotional FriendThe extremely corybantic gyrations of those riffs REALLY help the weird atmosphere on the album cover come through. Sadly, this release is virtually unfindable. Logistic Slaughter Corrosive EthicsMiyavi Miyaviuta -Dokusou-Monolake SilenceNokturnel Nothing But HatredParquet Courts Light Up GoldRimCat Rolling SkySentenced North From HereStraya SobereyedThe Naked Torso The Naked TorsoWilliam Basinski El Camino RealZazen Boys Zazen Boys IIjcghjcchgj THAT FUCKING BASSLINE ON THE SECOND TRACK, THOUGH. so life-affirming. omg.4.0 excellent90 Day Men To EverybodyBeaten to Death Dødsfest!Bengt Berger & Bitter Funeral Beer Band Bitter Funeral BeerCyclonus Exalted DivinityDeep Turtle There's a Vomitsprinkler in My LiverriverDeface (ESP) TearsDoll$Boxx Dolls ApartmentDripping Disintegration of Thought PatternsForeign Objects Universal Culture ShockGridlock (USA-SF) Tracevery emotionally potent glitch with a wealth of musical substance and I’m not saying this just because of the fact that this album consistently helped calm me down through my arrhythmia episodes over a year ago. I just wish the beautiful ripple of melody on the track “Fix” wasn’t so short-lived, though and was expanded upon for at least a couple more measures. Hadal Maw SeniumHellgate The Power of Mind Warps SpaceReminds me of Wormed. Similar lyrical themes albeit with more stuff abt Anunnaki and Reptilians. Also love the album cover. Very down with this. Human Remains Using Sickness as a HeroNeuma Weatherwhoa...very Meshuggah, but not a rip-off at all. I like how they use the same kinds of polyrhythms, but to completely different effect, creating a sort of crawling-paced jazz drone with very stylish, free-sounding solos zigzagging about. Awesome stuff. Orgone (USA-PA) The Goliathcan’t follow their music at all. but this level of speed and intesnitys gotta be some sort of line in the sand for the genrePurulent Jacuzzi Vanished In The Cosmic FutilityQuaere Verum Ingressgreat use of haunting pads, samples and synth accents! truly deepens the sense of looming dread. tonally this is on the lighter and "jazzier" side of mathcore but even the most obviously pretty guitar leads are draped in suspense. SICKSickening Horror OverflowThelema Fearful Symmetry3.5 greatCaecus The Funeral GardenCity Sleeps Not An AngelDismal Lapse Eon FragmentationElder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating WorldExtra Life Made FleshFractured Insanity Mass AwakelessGusGus Lies Are More FlexibleFeatherlight is so gorgeous and enveloping. feels like becoming one with the immense deep blue of the summer sky. great album.Mitochondrion Through Cosmic GazeSkip the Foreplay NightlifeThe ‘Champagne Showers’ cover has gotta be one of the best things ever. I’m being completely serious here. Captures my aesthetic predespositions so well, it’s terrifying. LOVE the menacing, autotune-drenched crooning and the electronic dazzle dominating the track. And those sensual male whispers during the breaks? Unf. Like a perfect, menacing glow of something evil in the midst of a shimmering cityscape of a metropolis ruled by a technological overlord... Needs a genre of it’s own. Electronicore doesn’t cut it. Don’t care for the rest of the album but imma give it a 3.5 for the LMFAO cover alone. Ya’ll haters boring af. Tabla Beat Science Tala MatrixTenek Tenek EP3.0 goodAhrimah Ain Soph Aurhmmm.... structurally this is great, and the bass is AMAZING. also p long by demo standards, tho that doesn't make this band's disappearance less of a shamerthe production makes it a bit hard to make out the guitar work. It feels pretty deflated and hazy - one could argue that the warm, almost psychedelic feeling is exactly the sound this album needs, but it is something that still bugs me despite several repeat listens.Atheretic Apocalyptic Nature FuryDoves (UK) Lost SoulsExcoriation ExcoriationExtra Life Dream SeedsFoals Antidotesi never find myself making it all the way to the end listening to this record for some reason but damn Cassius has got such an addictive groove hhfhjgjhfFujiya and Miyagi Transparent Thingsthere’s some neat bits here but the whole thing loses momentum pretty fast. i’m a bit woozy from listening to so much music today, though. so to save myself the risk of unfairly judgeing this album,, i will hold off rating it until i revisit it afresh. UPDATE: i’m able to appreciate this a lot more now. starts out very strong with it’s first few songs and also ends strong with “Reeboks In Heaven” ( which is nowhere near as long as it should’ve been btw >:[ ) the other tracks i can take or leave but they are certainly listenable. could’ve really benefited without the dreary “Cylinders”, though. worth a listen overall. Ganesh Hegde G-Ganesh HegdeThe mechanical fluttering peaking in and out through those stylish, galloping half-time beats,,, that sensual flute riff,, ripples of crystalline trance arpeggios coupled with exotic strings bouncing at you from everywhere and the distinctly nocturnal 2/4(?)-esque break in the middle... not to mention the vocal melodies! Gotta give this a 3 for ‘Main Deewana’ alone! Hybernoid The Last Day Begins?Jonghyun Poet | ArtistJulia Holter Loud City Songi got huge Barbara Lewis vibes from the very first note of the album, which, as the album progressed, i dismissed as it just being me. so you can pretty much imagine how startled i was when the cover of Hello Stranger came on halfway through. def one of the most surreal experiences i’ve ever had with music lmaoLAM (POL) LAMLAM 1 (Part Two) is such an absolutely stellar composition that it makes the rest of the album sound pale in comparison (as good as it is) Lye By Mistake Arrangements for Fulminating VectiveMaxwell Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite2.5 averageAphex Twin ...I Care Because You Doat some points Richard is, it seems, creating beauty w/o trying to (the sample-heavy groove of Alberto Balsalm being the greatest example in my opinion). other times he seems intent on creating the worst track he can put on vinyl. srsly what sort of mad arrogant manchild would think Come On You Slags! was worth putting on an album? idg why so many people think everything RDJ does is genius. He is at times awe-inspiring, but so damn inconsistent that I don't see the point in devoting too much attention to him over more consistent artists like Autechre or Clark. Between the Buried and Me Automata IClavicus Vile The Nightspirit's CallDeath SymbolicDysrhythmia Psychic MapsEphel Duath The Painter's Palettethis frustrates me because it is bursting full of creative ideas and there’s an incredible level of musical talent on display here but every listen through this album leaves me with this “well..... that was okay?” kinda sentiment. the eclecticism of this album can be too much sometimes for me. its a shame. i can definitely hear the qualities which seem to draw so many to this. but I can't help but think of it as highly flawed as best. maybe my thoughts will change. Gru Cosmogenesismy bud kept insisting today that i to listen to this record and meh. a lot of the leads bend around and cross themselves too much, at least there’s Zeta Reticuli where he seems to realize that and turns them into a gloopy rolling synthetic melody that is a total ear massage. reverything else here is elevator music tarted up with a few attempts at rhythm fuckery. indecisive and inoffensive. ok for a time but not worth much respect.Inevitable End The Severed InceptionMother Turtle Zea Micethe riffs on the last track, though. Holy fucking shit, im tempted to rate this a 4.5 for it alone. it’s a shame that nothing else here gets that kind of a rise out of me. The Contortionist Intrinsicthis is actually more listenable than the debut. Thing is, it kinda became listenable by discarding most of the ferocity, so now it's just bubbly uplifting major-scale riffs with bright resolutions, mixed around with tons of post-rock. It's just sorta inoffensive, with one or two neat bits of guitarwork here and there (which is sorta how I can describe a lot of progressive metalcore, honestly). There's some nice floaty bits I guess? Yeah, I'm still not close to on board with this band.rOh, and Sequential Vision has the dumbest incorporation of piano ever. Discarding points for thatWatchtower Control And ResistanceYoung Fathers Cocoa Sugar2.0 poorDeath The Sound of PerseverancePeriphery Periphery III: Select DifficultyRay Manzarek The Golden Scarabugh. another ‘godawful-vocals-ruin-what-is-otherwise-pretty-damn-cool-music’ album. Tony Royster JR’s brilliant drumming does NOT deserve such disrespect. 1.0 awfulAnubis Gate Anubis GateAyreon The Human EquationAyreon The Theory of EverythingRay Manzarek The Whole Thing Started with Rock & RollEveryone involved in the making of the absolutely dreadful, Perfumed Garden owes the whole universe an apology Star One Space MetalStar One Victims of the Modern AgeTTNG Disappointment IslandZierler ESCWere the lyrics on “No Chorus” crowdsourced to r/progmetal? this song is probably the most undeservedly smug self-congratulatory egotistical thing ive ever heard. Not to mention the vocalist belts out some of the most hideous tuneless vocal melodies imaginable. Jesus.
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