| 4.5 superb |
| A Lot Like Birds DIVISI |
| Artificial Language Now We Sleep |
| Uh, this is fucking incredible. Can't believe I slept on this. It's like if Stephen Christian joined a metal band. Reminiscent of a blend of The Human Abstract, Leprous, and...who knows. Short songs, constant melodies, great harmonies. Catchy beyond words. "Pulses", "Trail of Lights", and "Keep Yourself Hidden" are some SOTYs for me. Lovely. |
| Artificial Language Distant Glow |
| Black Mastiff Pyramids |
| Brutus (BE) Nest |
| Children of Nova The Complexity of Light |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis III: The Father of Make Believe |
| Corelia New Wilderness |
| Ebonivory The Long Dream I |
| Karmanjakah Ancient Skills |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of... |
| Loathe (UK) The Cold Sun |
| Loathe (UK) I Let It In And It Took Everything |
| Meshuggah Nothing |
| Meshuggah Immutable |
| Rochelle Jordan Play with the Changes |
| Rochelle Jordan 1021 |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory |
| Saosin Translating the Name |
| Sea In The Sky Everything All At Once |
| Shokran Ethereal |
| Their best yet. A tad monotonous but it sounds too good to nitpick. Very dynamic. Fresh. |
| Stargazer (USA) Tui La |
| TesseracT One |
| The Japanese House Pools To Bathe In |
| The Japanese House Swim Against the Tide |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun |
| Valis Ablaze Render |
Honestly this is the direction I hoped Tesseract was going in before we got Polaris and
Sonder. Every single song is a catchy banger. A bit samey all the way through but I love
every second. A "wow" moment or two in every single song here. Catchy beyond belief. |
| Voices from the Fuselage Odyssey: The Founder of Dreams |
| Melodic, fresh, impassioned. Their most consistent work to date. Beautiful. |
| 4.0 excellent |
| Anberlin Dancing Between the Fibers of Time |
| Anciients Voice of the Void |
| Anthony Green Boom. Done. |
| Aviations Luminaria |
| Banks Off With Her Head |
| Agreed with PistolPete, this is the most invigorated she's sounded since....well since I heard her debut 11 years ago. Normally not my jam at all, but this is just objectively good. Well produced, good pace, passionate. |
| Brutus (BE) Unison Life |
| Burial in the Sky The Consumed Self |
| infinitely more interesting than their myriad influences tbh |
| Car Bomb Meta |
| Continuum The Hypothesis |
| Continuum Designed Obsolescence |
| Entheos (USA) Dark Future |
| Entheos (USA) An End to Everything |
| Exist Egoiista |
| xenochrist wrong about the vocals though, they're great |
| FKA Twigs EP2 |
| Grayscale Season Do You Like Violence |
| Grayscale Season Feel Something New |
| Greylotus Dawnfall |
| WHAT?!?! This is the best death metal I've heard in the past year or two. Invigorating, passionate stuff. Nothing is half-assed or formulaic here. Melodic tech death with some -core flourishes and symphonic elements that don't totally take me out of the music like most do. |
| Greylotus Motherwort |
| Hail the Sun Mental Knife |
| Hail the Sun New Age Filth |
I was so wrong after presuming this to just be more of the same. I mean, it is, but it's better
than they've ever sounded. There's even a couple tracks on here with melodies and guitar that
sound like The Mars Volta. There's a real diversity to the melodies employed here, even if it just
sounds like business as usual at first glance. Only Solipsism I'm not in love with, but that's
saying something, since the rest are 9-10/10s. I'm sick to death of Swancore and even DGD bores me
these days. But this, this is refreshing. It's "that" sound, perfected, and not nearly as
obnoxious as their contemporaries. The vocal delivery is far more earnest, honest, passionate
than, say, an Eidola or a DGD. |
| HEALTH VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living |
| Indistinct Heart Prince |
| Indistinct Violent Ends |
| Interloper Search Party |
| Ions Counterintuitive |
| Jinjer Macro |
| Jinjer Wallflowers |
| Kardashev The Baring of Shadows |
| Kardashev Liminal Rite |
| I almost prefer Mark's harsh vox to his clean ones at this point but this is stunning. Almost flawless, barring the mixing, which is very trebly and whose drums could use some heft. (Read: the snares and kicks aren't that far apart sonically) |
| Karmanjakah A Book About Itself |
| Krosis A Memoir of Free Will |
| Krosis Infinite Circuitry |
| Monochromatic Black Pneuma |
| Very pleasant surprise. I had the wrong first impression from the very ___-core opening moments with pummeling kick drum. But in these few tracks they manage to cover quite a bit of ground. Blistering moments abound. Tight, powerful vocals. |
| Numenorean Adore |
| Rochelle Jordan Pressure |
| Rochelle Jordan Rojo |
| Sick Puppies Dressed Up as Life |
| Skyharbor Sunshine Dust |
| Disappointing. Instrumental complexity suffers as a result of tuning itself to Eric's nu-metal vocals. Simple songs. Forgettable. Really sad to say. |
| Sleep Token This Place Will Become Your Tomb |
| Spirit Healer Hollowform |
| Sutrah (CAN) Aletheia |
| TesseracT Polaris |
| TesseracT War of Being |
| The Japanese House Saw You In A Dream |
| The Tea Party Splendor Solis |
| Uneven Structure Paragon |
| Uneven Structure 8 (Re-release) |
| Valis Ablaze Boundless |
| Zeal and Ardor Zeal and Ardor |
