| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still |
| this record is haunting. there are no other words for it. a bleak, almost misanthropic perspective on humanity's final hour. as the sun sets on a world blown to ash and stone, take a grand, sweeping look and imagine what could have been. |
| Voivod The Wake |
| Voivod Nothingface |
