| 5.0 classic |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Agalloch strip away alot of the folk instrumentation of the Mantle, while retaining their core of Post-Rock/Doom/Black metal riffs and even adding a noise inspired piece at the end of the record. While this may not be as grandious as the mantle it feels more compact and still makes for a great listen |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| Aphex Twins debut record is a milestone of ambient techno that creates otherwordly atmospheres with simple synths and beats |
| Burzum Filosofem |
| The definitive atmospheric black metal record. Nothing that came after has ever passed this for me. It's cold, dark and feels like you are isolated in the woods of norway as night falls over you and the forest spirits start to creep out from under the soil. Even the 27 minute ambient track doesn't get one bit boring over it's whole span it's utterly captivating and creepy, you really couldn't ask for more from a record. |
| Counterparts Tragedy Will Find Us |
| While this may not be the perfect Counterparts, it was my first and I can always return to it. I know every single guitar riff on this every melody and every lyric. I really enjoy the spoken word elements that were included in this and that are missing from other counterparts record, they give the songs time to breath and serve for amazing build ups also giving the vocals more diversity |
| Counterparts Nothing Left to Love |
| This is pretty muuch the culmination of everything that makes counterparts amazing. The record feels compact, the lyrics are beautiful and the melodies and breakdowns are well placed. The record beginning and ending on the same lyrics even gives it a sense of concept. Pretty muuch everything about this is perfect |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ [Vinyl] |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| This record is amazing in that it never really gets old or boring despite being technically a double record. Every song on here feels special and the lyrics can be analyzed for days (there even being a full fictional lore behind them). The only thing that bugs me a bit about this record is that the seriousness of the record gets mildly broken by the goofy song names that the band decided to include. This would've felt like more of a cohesive concept record without a song named after Warhammer 40k |
| Jean-Michel Jarre Equinoxe |
| 39 minutes of amazing synth ambient that will put you at ease and make you feel like you are floating in space at the same time |
| King Crimson Lizard |
| An odd record for King Crimson spanning everything from Free Jazz to Circus inspired music. And it's pretty muuch perfect, this record is extremely confusing and it may need a few listens to get into, but then it reveals it's magic. Especially the 23 minute title track feels like a fantasy epic |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| This record is pretty muuch a perfect storm of emotions, some may see it as a bit too melodramatic for their tastes but for me it pulls me into it's stories and atmosphere everytime I listened to it. Especially the lyrics and the vocal performs make this record a special listen that let's you discover something new everytime you listen to it |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| M favourite record of all time. While this may be a clich? choice for this website, I have found this record when I was 19 and it resonated with me on a deep level perfectly encapsulating the feeling life had to me at the time. I probably listened to this for atleast 3-4 months on repeat before listening to anything different and i can still return to it whenever |
| Paysage d'Hiver Paysage d'Hiver |
| Three pretty muuch perfect Black Metal tracks that all have their own feeling and special sections (like the Violin on Welt aus Eis), while still creating a great whole without feeling to seperate from each other. Definitely one of the definitive atmospheric black metal records |
| Sol Invictus In the Rain |
| This record makes you truly feel like you are standing in the rain, perhaps under some balcony watching the world around you turn grey, disgusting and being washed away. While that may not sound very enjoyable it definitely can be if you enjoy your records to represent a certain sense of lost romanticism |
| The National High Violet |
| Pretty muuch a perfect indie rock record. Every single one of the songs is perfect and does not really lack anything. They are also varied so that every song feels new and exciting while still staying in the same area so that the record feels cohesive |
| The Ruins of Beverast Rain Upon the Impure |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
| A perfect mix of the best elements of black metal, doom metal and folk. This record mixes melodic folk elements and harsh black metal elements to invoke an atmosphere that is somewhat akin to running through a forest at night sometimes finding a moonlit glade between the trees and taking a rest. |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 1914 The Blind Leading the Blind |
| A Forest of Stars Beware the Sword You Cannot See |
| Agalloch The White |
| Agalloch and Nest Split |
| Two absolutely stunning folk songs that really leave nothing more to want, the only way this could've been better is if it had been longer |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Aphex Twin Collapse |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Audio88 and Yassin Zwei Herrengedeck, bitte |
A dark brooding lo-fi hip hop record full of
dark cynical lyrics. |
| Avantasia The Metal Opera Pt. II |
| Being as an Ocean How We Both Wondrously Perish |
| Being as an Ocean Dear G-d |
| Bury Tomorrow The Union of Crowns |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var |
| A great early burzum with alot of good riffs and atmosphere. Overall this feels pretty innovative and also varied enough to not get grating as can happen with some black metal, I especially like the slower song called En Ring Til Aa Herske and the general synth work on this record. Some of the riffs feel a bit replacable tho |
| Capsize I've Been Tearing Myself Apart |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion |
| Chapel of Disease ...And as We Have Seen the Storm |
| Code Orange Underneath |
| Counterparts You're Not You Anymore |
| Counterparts The Difference Between Hell and Home |
| Counterparts N.L.T.L. B-Sides |
| Cream Disraeli Gears |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
| Denzel Curry TA13OO |
| Fief II |
| Funereal Presence Achatius |
| Heisskalt Vom Wissen und Wollen |
| Retains all the good characteristic from Vom Stehen und Fallen, feels mildly blander tho |
| Hundredth Iridescent |
| Imperial Triumphant Alphaville |
| Jambinai ONDA |
| K.I.Z. Hahnenkampf |
| Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted |
| Minor Threat Out of Step |
| Nocte Obducta Nektar - Teil 2: Seen, Flüsse, Tagebücher |
| Quiet a bit more aggressive then Part 1. While I still enjoyed this alot I felt like the aggressivness of this in comparison made it stand out less then the other record and made it feel less playful, still very good tho |
| Oathbreaker Rheia |
| Paysage d'Hiver Die Festung |
| Paysage d'Hiver Im Wald |
| While this is another great Paysage d'hiver Release with amazing atmosphere I don't think this really justifies running 2 hours. There is not muuch that is new to Wintherrs Formular here (expect for putting the Ambient tracks in between songs as a sort of Bridge which works muuch better then just putting a 20 min ambient track somewhere on the record so that is good). Overall this is solid, but nothing special and overly stretched |
| Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement Water Witches |
| Satyricon Dark Medieval Times |
| Scar the Martyr Scar the Martyr |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Sol Invictus Lex Talionis |
| An amazing dark and brooding Neofolk/Post-Punk record that creates an occult like atmosphere and is incredibly unsettling. The only problem of this record is it's length, due to alot of the songs having similiar sounds it was not really nessecary to stretch the record to over 1 hour, atleast in my estimation |
| Sol Invictus In A Garden Green |
Great Neofolk record that creates a lush yet dark atmosphere. Some songs like In a garden green
could've been cut to a shorter length tho and the industrial inspired pieces at the beginning and
end feel slightly out of place with the rest |
| Sol Invictus La Croix |
| rAn unsettling neofolk record with industrial influence. I really enjoyed the dark and brooding atmosphere especially the first track is dissonant and mostly ambient without Lyrics |
| Summoning Minas Morgul |
| Had a higher focus on the riffs then the other Summoning record i have listened to so far (Oath Bound) which made it more dynamic and enjoyable to listen to for me |
| The Districts You Know I'm Not Going Anywhere |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me |
| Another great The national record, but it could've been better if it were either shorter or offered more diversity |
| The Ruins of Beverast/Mourning Beloveth Don't Walk on the Mass Graves |
| Ulver Drone Activity |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun |
| Urfaust Ritual Music for the True Clochard |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven |
| 3.5 great |
| $uicideboy$ KILL YOUR$ELF Part XX: The Infinity Saga |
| Sweet 3 song EP, the first songs vocals are midly annoying but both Now I am up my neck with offers and The last time are just bangers that create a tight and creepy atmosphere |
| Acrania (UK) Totalitarian Dystopia |
| Agalloch The Grey |
| The lodge (dismantled) is an absolutely amazing post-rock song that is entertaining throughout the whole 13 minutes of it's runtime. Odal (nothing remix) is a weird noise/wall of sound track that doesn't really have muuch connection the the original odal. While being enjoyable this track doesn't really standout muuch. While the first song is quite enjoyable the difference in style between the two songs makes this a very incoherent release and I don't really ever listen to the songs together as a whole cause it just doesn't seem to fit. Other then that the lodge is amazing and odal is a fine listen. |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes |
| An Autumn All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet |
While being enjoyable to listen to the record
feels kind of fleeting and the songs tend to
blend in together. The title track and The
failing senses had the most standout riffs
which made them more interesting |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together |
| Avantasia The Mystery Of Time |
| Bathory Twilight of the Gods |
| Being as an Ocean Waiting For Morning To Come |
| Ben Howard Every Kingdom |
| Bring Me The Horizon Sempiternal |
| Bring Me The Horizon POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR |
| Bury Tomorrow Runes |
| Cantique Lepreux Cendres Célestes |
| Capsize The Angst In My Veins |
| Capsize Live A Burden, Die A Curse |
| Daughter If You Leave |
| Drudkh They Often See Dreams About The Spring |
| Drudkh/Paysage d'Hiver Somewhere Sadness Wanders/Schnee (IV) |
| Eldamar A Dark Forgotten Past |
| Gallowbraid Ashen Eidolon |
| Solid atmospheric black metal record with alot of post rock and folk influence. This record is creates a good atmospheric, but it just simply feels way too muuch like less inspired agalloch to make me come back to it |
| Grand Magus Triumph And Power |
| Heaven Shall Burn Veto |
| Hundredth Somewhere Nowhere |
| Consistenly great smooth feeling, really draws you into it's world of synths and makes you feel calm. They could've cut some of the slack tho, the record is longer then it needs to be and doesn't really provide the most diversity to justify that |
| K.I.Z. Das RapDeutschlandKettensägenMassaker |
| King Dude Sex |
| Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks |
| Knocked Loose Pop Culture |
| Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! |
| Lunar Aurora Hoagascht |
| Malfet The Way to Avalon |
| Malfet The Snaking Path |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| While this record may be historically important for black metal I just think it's nothing more then simply a good record if it seen for just the music |
| Misthyrming Algleymi |
| A solid dose of melodic black metal that suffers from a lack of diversity and overdone repetition |
| Modern Baseball You’re Gonna Miss It All |
| Fun and short Pop-Punk record with teenage romance lyrics |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Northlane Mesmer |
| Northlane Node |
| Parkway Drive Horizons |
| Paysage d'Hiver Schattengang |
| While still providing the same amazing atmosphere that Wintherr creates with everyone of his releases, I feel like this feels muuch to scattered and non cohesive to give a good impression as a record. The ambient song could've been put between the two other songs connecting them in a way that makes sense and providing a bridge between them, putting it at the end of the record makes no sense to me |
| Planning for Burial Quietly |
| Psychedelic Porn Crumpets High Visceral Pt. 1 |
| Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement Fallen Leaves Camouflaged Behind Tropical Flowers |
| Rise Of The Northstar Welcame |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) |
| Pretty muuch every song on this record is great. The only thing that brings the rating to a 3.5 for me is the slightly stale production and the creeping feeling that I have heard everything presented here already on some King Crimson record from the 70s |
| Stick to Your Guns True View |
| A step up from Disobedient, this record feels more focused and tighter then it's predecessor. That said alot of the lyrics and riffs on the record feel worn out and mildly overdone at this point. It's solid but it doesn't really get to the level of diamond |
| Summoning Oath Bound |
| There is no question this creates a great atmosphere, but I couldn't help getting bored while listening to it. Maybe I just need more listens to get more immersed but 3.5 for now |
| The National Alligator |
| The Saddest Landscape Darkness Forgives |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness |
| Uada Cult of a Dying Sun |
| This record is solid melodic black metal riffs from beginning to end, but others very little in terms of innovation or change throughout the whole thing. Definitely rock solid but not muuch more |
| Ultha The Inextricable Wandering |
| Ungfell Mythen, Mären, Pestilenz |
| Urfaust Geist Ist Teufel |
| Urfaust Einsiedler |
| One amazing and one solid Urfaust song. The title track is one of the greatest Urfaust songs ever despite having a slightly overly stretched outro. Verderber is standard solid Urfaust material |
| Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed |
| Xasthur All Reflections Drained |
| Young and in the Way When Life Comes to Death |
| Great aggressive black metal record with punk influence, grim and aggressive from front to back, but just doesn't give me enough depth to rate it higher |
| 3.0 good |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us |
| This definitely contains good songs, but it lacks in any creativity or distinct feeling. The only way in which this differs from being just 11 more songs that could've been on Lost Forever//Lost Together is the slightly cleaner production |
| Being as an Ocean Being As An Ocean |
| While this record is not bad I just feel like alot of the track in the middle of the record don't really do muuch for me and I also think they should've just gone for a full concept record about richie instead of just making the first two songs about him and then going into semi-inspired religious lyrics |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent III |
| Feels a bit less aggressive in comparison to Billy Talent 2, does contain good and memorable songs like Saint Veronika and Devil on my Shoulder tho. My least favourite Billy Talent record but by no means horrible |
| Capsize A Reintroduction: The Essence Of All Tha |
| I like this record but the record just feels like a big step down from The angst in my veins for me. I know they were trying to go for an early From first to last sound but that's just not really my thing. The production feels muddy and alot of the clean vocals are not that greatt |
| Deez Nuts Word Is Bond |
| Entertaining hardcore record with rap elements that runs out of ideas pretty fast |
| Emperor Reverence |
| A sweet and short Emperor EP that doesn't really stand out muuch in their discography |
| Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) |
| Contains some great HSB songs but is overall not very imaginative and lacks in diversity |
| Heisskalt Idylle |
| While I can appreciate the DIY attitude behind releasing the record without a label and a proffesional production, I think this record is lacking in lyrics and a cohesive concept |
| In Hearts Wake Earthwalker |
| Solid Metalcore record but really nothing more. The clean vocals are also horrendous and at times nearly unbearable to listen to |
| Karg Traktat |
| Good Black Metal compilation that should've been cut down by atleast 20 minutes. There are true gems on here like Irgendjemand wartet immer, but this could've been made so muuch better with a little more selection |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon |
| This record is by no means bad but really some of the songs are literally copies of songs from In the court of the crimson king. I don't know what they were thinking with that |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Paper Mache Dream Balloon |
| This record is a sweet chill acoustic psychedelic record but imo lacks the diversity to be great |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom... (10th Anniversary) |
Why would you destroy a perfect record but giving it a production that robs it of all the
lifeliness it had ? While this remaster feels less blurry that is especially what makes it so
bad,everything feels like it has been seperated from a cohesive whole and now kind of exists alone
(that said still 3 out of 5 cause this is one of my favourite records) |
| Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life |
| While having great riffs and atmosphere at times, this record feels a bit overly technical and self indulged to be a great Black metal record |
| Nasty Shokka |
| Record makes me wanna punch somebody and the lyrics are also solid even if at times a bit too flat. Solid Beatdown record |
| Nasty Love |
| basically to know that a beatdown record is good and how good it is you just have to decide how muuch it makes you want to punch somebody in the face. this is a solid 6/10 |
| Rise Against Endgame |
| Solid Rise Against record but really nothing that excites me too muuch. Architects, Help is on the way and Wait for me are pretty great |
| Stick to Your Guns Disobedient |
| Clear step down after Diamond, this record feels less energetic, less urgent, more tame and alot of the songs are just not as memorable. To Whom it may concern is quite a bad attempt at a poem like melodic hardcore sound. That said the record is not terrible it contains amazing gems like Left you behind and alot of the other tracks are solid sing along hardcore songs. |
| Stick to Your Guns Better Ash Than Dust |
| Solid sweet EP with some great tracks like Better ash then Dust and The suspend. Overall is just to short to build real excitement for me I think |
| Turnover Altogether |
| I don't really mind the change of sound on this record but it suffers from the same problem that Good Nature had, the songs just all sound the same. That said I think it's still a bit better then Good Nature and if only for being shorter |
| 2.5 average |
| Architects Holy Hell |
| Architects for some reason think it's a good idea to release Lost Forever//Lost Together for a third time |
| Bury Tomorrow Earthbound |
| I feel like this band got contionously blander and more inoffensive with every record they put out. Runes was fine, this just feels replacable and unnessecary and makes me wanna listen to the of Crowns |
| DAT ADAM HYDRA 3D |
| While some of the songs on here are definitely good alot of the other tracks feel way to overproduced and electronical to be enjoyable. Especially songs like Never growing up or No worries are pretty muuch unlisenable. |
| Defeater Letters Home |
| While having phenomenal songs like Bastards and No shame, the other songs blend together in a sea of recycled hardcore riffs that don't really stand out. The story telling on most of these is rather subpar too |
| Turnover Good Nature |
| Peripheral Vision manage to retain a cohesive atmosphere while still making the songs stand out by themselves with interesting lyrics, melodies and a cohesive story that flows throughout the record. Good Natures lyrics are often trivial and the songs lack distinctive features making the record blend into one big mess of sunshine shoegaze. Still has some great tracks like Nightlight Girl and Pure devotion tho |
| Wovenwar Wovenwar |
| Extremely standard melodic metalcore that could be used to put people to sleep |
