| 5.0 classic |
| Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse |
| Artificial Brain Artificial Brain |
| someone crush the riff inglitch cannon into a fine powder so i can arrange it into a giant spiral and snort myself into a dying galaxy. |
| Convulsing Grievous |
| the sound of the ocean depths, far beneath crashing waves, where even the brightest daylight fails to reach. nothing else is comparable. this record is a chasm of immeasurable proportions; haunting, terrifying, but with an entrancing beauty that only shows itself to those who are willing to peel back the surface. |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Ethereal Shroud Trisagion |
| a cathartic reminder. of pain, of grief, of hate, of love, of healing, of life, of futility. violence and vulnerability in equal measure. one of the greatest artistic achievements in the realm of metal at large, and a serious, earnest contender for the greatest black metal album of all time. |
| Gorguts Obscura |
| "obscura" holds the esteemed award of 'changed the way i listen to music'. the aural equivalent of blundering through a dark forest, wisps of caustic fog burning your skin and hostile faceless creatures snarling at you from within the blackness. a perfect record. |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate |
| amazingly, luc lemay and co. managed to take the free-jazz schizophrenia of "obscura" and warp it back into something much more clearly resembling death metal. that's not to say this is an easily digestible album; it's still just as complex, but the constraints of the genre are merely bent horrifically out of shape rather than snapped entirely. a dark, entrancing, and strangely beautiful listen. |
| Horrendous Ontological Mysterium |
| Immolation Close to a World Below |
| Spawn of Possession Noctambulant |
| Voivod The Wake |
| Voivod Nothingface |
