| 5.0 classic |
| Abbey Lincoln That's Him |
| Vocal Jazz, Standards // 1957 // Best: "My Man" |
| Ahmad Jamal Cross Country Tour: 1958-1961 |
| Cool Jazz // 1998 // Best: "Surry with the Fringe on Top" |
| Albert Ayler Spiritual Unity |
| Free Jazz // 1965 // Best: "Ghosts: First Variation" |
| Alfonso X El Sabio Cantigas de Santa Maria |
| Medieval Classical Music // ~1221-1284 // Best: "Cantiga No. 10, 'Rose Des Rosas': Por nos de dula tirar (CSM 18)" |
| Amarcord The Book of Madrigals |
| Madrigal, Renaissance Music // ~1576-1623 // Best: "Since Robin Hood" |
| Andrew Hill Smoke Stack |
| Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz // 1966 // Best: "Wailing Wall" |
| Anthony Braxton For Alto |
| Free Improvisation, Modern Creative, Free Jazz // 1970 // Best: "To Composer John Cage" |
| Anthony Braxton Willisau (Quartet) 1991 |
| Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative // 1992 // Best: "No. 40B" |
| Antonin Dvorak String Quartet No.12, Op.96, B.179 |
| Romanticism, Chamber Music // 1893 // Best: "String Quartet No.12, Op.96, B.179" |
| Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons |
| Baroque Music, Concerto // 1723 // Best: "Winter in F Minor" |
| Archie Shepp Four For Trane |
| Avant-Garde Jazz // 1964 // Best: "Rufus (Swung His Face at Last to the Wind, Then His Neck Snapped)" |
| Arnold Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 |
| Expressionism // 1912 // Best: "Part 1 - II: Colombine" |
| Art Blakey Moanin' |
| Hard Bop, Jazz // 1959 // Best: "Are You Real" |
| Art Tatum The Complete Pablo Solo Masterpieces |
| Stride, Bebop, Cool Jazz // 1953-1956 // Best: "Too Marvelous for Words" |
| Ashenspire Hostile Architecture |
| Avant-Garde Metal, Progressive Metal // 2022 // Best: "Cable Street Again" |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death |
| Black Metal, Thrash Metal // 1988 // Best: "A Fine Day to Die" |
| Bela Bartok Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116 |
| Modern Classical, Orchestral // 1943 // Best: "Game of the Pairs" |
| Benny Carter 3, 4, 5, The Verve Small Group Sessions |
| Jazz, Swing // 1955 // Best: "Jeepers Creepers" |
| Benny Goodman Live at Carnegie Hall (1938) |
| Big Band, Swing // 1938 // Best: "Dizzy Spells" |
| Bessie Smith The Complete Recordings Vol. 1 |
| Vaudeville Blues // 1923-1924 // Best: "'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do" |
| Betty Carter The Modern Sound of Betty Carter |
| Vocal Jazz, Big Band, Standards // 1960 // Best: "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" |
| Bill Charlap Live at the Village Vanguard |
| Post-Bop, Standards // 2007 // Best: "Rocker" |
| Bill Evans The Complete Live at the Village Vanguard 1961 |
| Cool Jazz, Modal Jazz // 1961 // Best: "Gloria's Step" |
| Bill Evans You Must Believe In Spring |
| Cool Jazz // 1981 (recorded 1977) // Best: "Gary's Theme" |
| Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues |
| Vocal Jazz, Standards // 1956 // Best: "Strange Fruit" |
| Bix Beiderbecke The Bix Beiderbecke Story: Volume 1 |
| Jazz, Dixieland // 1950 // Best: "Singin' the Blues" |
| Bjork Vespertine |
| Art Pop, Electronic // 2001 // Best: "Pagan Poetry" |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| Art Pop, Electronic // 1997 // Best: "Bachelorette" |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Heavy Metal, Hard Rock // 1970 // Best: "War Pigs" |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Heavy Metal // 1971 // Best: "Children of the Grave" |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Heavy Metal, Hard Rock // 1970 // Best: "Black Sabbath" |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks |
| Singer/Songwriter, Folk Rock // 1975 // Best: "Tangled Up in Blue" |
| Buckethead Electric Tears |
| Progressive Rock, Ambient // 2002 // Best: "Padmasana" |
| Bud Powell The Amazing Bud Powell |
| Bebop, Stride, Cool Jazz // 1949-1951 // Best: "Bouncin' with Bud" |
| Burzum Filosofem |
| Atmospheric Black Metal // 1996 // Best: "Jesus' Tod" |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Atmospheric Black Metal // 1994 // Best: "Det som en gang var" |
| Cannonball Adderley Somethin' Else |
| Hard Bop, Cool Jazz // 1958 // Best: "Autumn Leaves" |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica |
| Experimental Rock // 1969 // Best: "Frownland" |
| Cassandra Wilson Traveling Miles |
| Vocal Jazz, Soul Jazz // 1999 // Best: "Right Here, Right Now" |
| Cecil Taylor Conquistador! |
| Free Jazz // 1968 (recorded 1966) // Best: "Conquistador" |
| Charles Ives The Unanswered Question, for orchestra |
| Modern Classical, Orchestral // 1908 // Best: "The Unanswered Question" |
| Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um |
| Post-Bop // 1959 // Best: "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" |
| Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady |
| Avant-Garde Jazz, Third Stream // 1963 // Best: "Solo Dancer (Stop! Look! And Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney!)" |
| Charles Mingus Mingus at the Bohemia |
| Post-Bop, Chamber Jazz, Hard Bop // 1956 // Best: "Jump Monk" |
| Charlie Christian The Genius of the Electric Guitar |
| Swing // 1939-1941 // Best: "Waiting for Benny" |
| Charlie Haden and Hank Jones Come Sunday |
| Jazz, Chamber Jazz // 2012 // Best: "Going Home" |
| Charlie Parker The Complete Savoy and Dial Master Takes |
| Bebop // 1944-1948 // Best: "Scrapple from the Apple" |
| Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie Bird & Diz |
| Bebop, Jazz // 1949-1950 // Best: "Bloomdido" |
| Chick Corea Return to Forever |
| Jazz Fusion // 1972 // Best: "Sometime Ago - La fiesta" |
| Claude Debussy Préludes, Book I, L. 117 |
| Impressionism // 1909-1910 // Best: "Voiles" |
| Claudio Monteverdi L'Orfeo |
| Opera, Baroque Music // 1607 // Best: "Act 2: 'Tu se' morta, mia vita" |
| Clifford Brown and Max Roach Clifford Brown and Max Roach |
| Hard Bop // 1954 // Best: "Parisian Thoroughfare" |
| Coleman Hawkins Body and Soul |
| Swing, Bebop // 1939 // Best: "Body and Soul" |
| Coleman Hawkins Selected Sessions (1943-1946) |
| Swing, Jazz // 1943-1946 // Best: "Get Happy" |
| Count Basie The Complete Decca Recordings |
| Big Band, Swing // 1937-1939 // Best: "Jumpin' at the Woodside" |
| Count Basie The Atomic Mr. Basie |
| Big Band, Swing // 1958 // Best: "The Kid from Red Bank" |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
| Black Metal // 1994 // Best: "Transilvanian Hunger" |
| Death Symbolic |
| Technical Death Metal // 1995 // Best: "Zero Tolerance" |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech |
| Progressive Metal, Alternative Metal // 1997 // Best: "The Death of Music" |
| Devin Townsend Terria |
| Progressive Metal // 2001 // Best: "Tiny Tears" |
| Dexter Gordon Our Man in Paris |
| Hard Bop // 1963 // Best: "Stairway to the Stars" |
| Diamanda Galas Plague Mass |
| Experimental, Spoken Word // 1991 // Best: "This Is the Law of the Plague" |
| Diamanda Galas The Litanies of Satan |
| Experimental, A cappella // 1982 // Best: "The Litanies of Satan" |
| Dinah Washington The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury Vol. 2 |
| Vocal Jazz // 1950-1952 // Best: "Mad About the Boy" |
| Dizzy Gillespie The Complete RCA Victor Recordings 1937-1949 |
| Bebop, Afro-Cuban Jazz // 1937-1949 // Best: "Ow!" |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Instrumental Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop, Plunderphonics // 1996 // Best: "Stem / Long Stem" |
| Django Reinhardt Djangologie |
| Jazz manouche, Swing //1928-1950 // Best: "Tiger Rag" |
| Don Cherry Eternal Rhythm |
| Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz // 1969 // Best: "Eternal Rhythm, Part One" |
| Duke Ellington Ellington at Newport 1956 (Complete) |
| Big Band, Swing // 1956 // Best: "Diminuendo in Blue" |
| Duke Ellington The Duke: The Columbia Years (1927-1962) |
| Jazz, Big Band // 1927-1962 // Best: "The Mooche" |
| Electric Masada At the Mountains of Madness |
| Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz Fusion // 2005 // Best: "Metal Tov" |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone |
| Stoner Metal, Doom Metal // 2000 // Best: "Funeralopolis" |
| Eric Dolphy Out There |
| Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz // 1961 // Best: "Sketch of Melba" |
| Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch! |
| Avant-Garde Jazz // 1964 // Best: "Hat and Beard" |
| Fats Waller Fats Waller and His Rhythm: A Handful of Keys |
| Jazz, Stride // 1957 // Best: "Handful of Keys" |
| Felix Mendelssohn Overture-Ein Sommernachtstraum, Op.21 |
| Romanticism, Orchestral // 1826 // Best: "Overture 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', Op.21" |
| Fletcher Henderson Tidal Wave |
| Big Band // 1931-1934 // Best: "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby (And My Baby's Crazy 'Bout Me)" |
| Francesco Landini Ecco la primavera |
| Ars nova, Medieval Classical Music // Best: "Echo la primavera" |
| Frank Sinatra In The Wee Small Hours |
| Standards, Vocal Jazz // 1955 // Best: "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" |
| Frank Sinatra Sinatra at the Sands |
| Vocal Jazz // 1966 // Best: "Come Fly with Me" |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats |
| Jazz-Rock, Jazz Fusion // 1969 // Best: "Peaches en Regalia" |
| Franz Schubert Lieder Erlkönig, Op.1, D.328 |
| Romanticism, Lied // 1815 // Best: "Erlkonig, Op.1, D.328" |
| Freddie Hubbard Open Sesame |
| Hard Bop, Jazz // 1960 // Best: "Open Sesame" |
| Frederic Chopin Mazurkas, Op. 7 |
| Romanticism, Mazurka // 1830-1831 // Best: "Mazurka Op.7 No. 1 in B-Flat" |
| Funkadelic Maggot Brain |
| Funk Rock, Psychedelic Rock // 1971 // Best: "Maggot Brain" |
| George Frideric Handel Water Music |
| Baroque Music, Orchestral // 1717 // Best: "Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349, II. Alla Hornpipe" |
| George Frideric Handel Messiah, HWV 56 |
| Baroque Music, Choral, Oratorio // 1741 // Best: "He That Dwelleth in Heaven" |
| Germaine Tailleferre Musique pour piano, harpe, chant |
| Modern Classical, Impressionism // 1927 // Best: "Concerto pour Harpe et Orchestra (1927): 3. Rondo" |
| Gerry Mulligan The Original Quartet With Chet Baker |
| Bebop, Cool Jazz // 1952-1953 // Best: "'S Wonderful" |
| Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Palestrina: Missa Tu es Petrus |
| Renaissance Music, Christian Liturgical Music, Polyphonic Chant // ~1525-1594 // Best: "Caro Mea" |
| Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli |
| Renaissance Music, Choral, Christian Liturgical Music // 1567 // Best: "Missa Papae Marcelli: Gloria" |
| Giuseppe Verdi La Traviata |
| Romanticism, Opera // 1853 // Best: "Follie!... Sempre Libera" |
| Godflesh Streetcleaner |
| Industrial Metal, Sludge Metal // 1989 // Best: "Christbait Rising" |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Post-Rock // 2000 // Best: "Storm" (Parts 1-4) |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Post-Rock // 1997 // Best: "East Hastings" (Parts 1-3) |
| Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five The Message |
| Disco Rap, East Coast Hip Hop // 1982 // Best: "The Message" |
| Ground Zero Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Ver. 1.28 |
| Sound Collage, Turntable Music, Plunderphonics, Musique concrete // 1996 // Best: "Red Mao Book by Sony" |
| Guillaume De Machaut Messe De Notre Dame |
| Ars nova, Christian Liturgical Music // ~1300-1365 // Best: "Le Voir Dit: Ballade 33: Nes qu'on porroit" |
| Haazz & Company Unlawful Noise |
| European Free Jazz // 1976 // Best: "Side A" |
| Hector Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique |
| Romanticism, Symphony // 1830 // Best: "IV. March to the Scaffold" |
| Henry Purcell Dido and Aeneas, Z.626 |
| Opera, Baroque Music // 1689 // Best: "Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: 'When I Am Laid in Earth'" |
| Hildegard von Bingen Ordo Virtutum |
| Gregorian Chant, Medieval Classical Music // 1151 // Best: "Ordo Virutum, Prolog: Virtutes" |
| Horace Silver Song For My Father |
| Hard Bop // 1965 // Best: "Song for My Father" |
| Igor Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps |
| Modern Classical, Orchestral, Ballet // 1913 // Best: "Part 1: I. Adoration of the Earth" |
| Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida |
| Psychedelic Rock, Acid Rock, Heavy Psych // 1968 // Best: "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal // 1984 // Best: "Aces High" |
| Jack DeJohnette Special Edition |
| Avant-Garde Jazz // 1980 // Best: "Zoot Suite" |
| Jackie McLean A Fickle Sonance |
| Hard Bop // 1962 // Best: "A Fickle Sonance" |
| James P. Johnson The Original James P. Johnson: 1942-1945 |
| Jazz, Swing, Stride // 1942-1945 // Best: "Liza" |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| Singer/Songwriter, Alternative Rock // 1994 // Best: "Hallelujah" |
| Jelly Roll Morton Mr Jelly Lord |
| Jazz // 1923-1940 // Best: "Doctor Jazz Stomp" |
| Jimmy Smith Back At The Chicken Shack |
| Soul Jazz // 1963 // Best: "Back at the Chicken Shack" |
| Jimmy Witherspoon Singin' the Blues |
| Blues, Jazz // 1960 // Best: "When I've Been Drinkin'" |
| Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047 |
| Baroque Music, Concerto // 1718 // Best: "Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047: III. Allegro assai" |
| Johann Sebastian Bach Cantata, BWV 140; Magnificat, BWV 243 |
| Baroque Music, Choral, Cantata // 1731 // Best: "I. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" |
| Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 |
| Romanticism, Symphony // 1884-1885 // Best: "IV. Allegro energico e passionato" |
| John Cage Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano |
| Modern Classical // 1951 // Best: "Sonata II" |
| John Cage 4'33'' |
| Indeterminacy, Experimental // 1952 // Best: "4'33"" |
| John Cage Indeterminacy: New Aspect of Form in Instrumental |
| Indeterminacy, Lectures, Spoken Word // 1959 // Best: "Indeterminacy 1" |
| John Coltrane Interstellar Space |
| Free Jazz // 1974 // Best: "Mars: Fourth From the Sun; Battlefield of the Cosmic Giants" |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz // 1965 // Best: "Part III - Pursuance / Part IV - Psalm" |
| John Coltrane Ascension |
| Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz // 1966 // Best: "Ascension (Part 1)" |
| John Coltrane My Favorite Things |
| Modal Jazz, Post-Bop // 1961 // Best: "My Favorite Things" |
| John Coltrane The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings |
| Modal Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop // 1961 // Best: "Greensleeves" |
| John Kirby John Kirby & His Orchestra |
| Swing, Jazz // 1939 // Best: "Effervescent Blues" |
| John Zorn Kristallnacht |
| Avant-Garde Jazz, Klezmer // 1993 // Best: "Never Again" |
| Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 102 in B-flat Major |
| Classical Period, Symphony // 1795 // Best: "III. Menuet. Allegro - Trio" |
| Joshua Redman Spirit of the Moment, Live at the Village Vanguard |
| Jazz, Hard Bop // 1995 // Best: "Count Me Out" |
| Josquin Des Prez Musica Dei donum optimi |
| Renaissance Music, Polyphonic Chant // 1594 // Best: "El Grillo (The Cricket)" |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Post-Punk, Gothic Rock // 1979 // Best: "Disorder" |
| Judas Priest Painkiller |
| Keith Jarrett The Köln Concert |
| ECM Style Jazz, Post-Minimalism // 1975 // Best: "Part II b" |
| King Oliver The Complete Joseph King Oliver, Vol. 1 |
| Dixieland // 1923 // Best: "Canal Street Blues" |
| Lee Morgan The Sidewinder |
| Hard Bop, Soul Jazz // 1964 // Best: "The Sidewinder" |
| Lennie Tristano and Warne Marsh Intuition |
| Cool Jazz, Bebop // 1949-1956 // Best: "Wow" |
| Louis Armstrong The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings |
| Dixieland, Vocal Jazz // 1925-1929 // Best: "West End Blues" |
| Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy |
| Vocal Jazz, Dixieland // 1954 // Best: "Yellow Dog Blues" |
| Louis Armstrong This Is Jazz, Vol. 23: Louis Armstrong Sings |
| Vocal Jazz, Dixieland // 1928 // Best: "All of Me" |
| Louis Moreau Gottschalk Union Op. 48 |
| Romanticism, Concerto // 1862 // Best: "Union Op. 48" |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 |
| Romanticism, Symphony // 1808 // Best: "Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67: 5.0" |
| Max Roach, Charles Mingus, and Duke Ellington Money Jungle |
| Hard Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz // 1963 // Best: "Money Jungle" |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| Black Metal, Metal // 1994 // Best: "Pagan Fears" |
| Megadeth Rust In Peace |
| Thrash Metal, Heavy Metal // 1990 // Best: "Hangar 18" |
| Meredith Monk Dolmen Music |
| Chamber Music, Modern Classical, Post-Minimalism // 1981 // Best: "Gotham Lullaby" |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Djent, Progressive Metal // 1995 // Best: "Future Breed Machine" |
| Metallica Master Of Puppets |
| Thrash Metal // 1986 // Best: "Master of Puppets" |
| Metallica Ride The Lightning |
| Thrash Metal // 1984 // Best: "For Whom the Bell Tolls" |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Modal Jazz, Cool Jazz // 1959 // Best: "So What" |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew |
| Jazz Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz // 1970 // Best: "Bitches Brew" |
| Miles Davis Birth of the Cool |
| Cool Jazz, Bebop // 1957 // Best: "Deception" |
| Miles Davis Bag's Groove |
| Hard Bop // 1967 // Best: "Bags' Groove (Take 1)" |
| Miles Davis On the Corner |
| Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Funk // 1972 // Best: "Black Satin" |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness |
| Death Metal // 1989 // Best: "Maze of Torment" |
| Motorhead Ace Of Spades |
| Heavy Metal, Hard Rock // 1980 // Best: "Ace of Spades" |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| Experimental Rock, Art Rock // 1999 // Best: "Pink Cigarette" |
| Naked City Naked City |
| Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz-Rock // 1990 // Best: "Snagglepuss" |
| Napalm Death Scum |
| Grindcore // 1987 // Best: "Caught... in a Dream" |
| Nat King Cole The Classic Singles |
| Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz // 2003 // Best: "I Realize Now" |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Indie Folk, Indie Rock // 1998 // Best: "Holland, 1945" |
| Nina Simone Little Girl Blue |
| Vocal Jazz, Standards // 1959 // Best: "Little Girl Blue" |
| Nina Simone Nina Simone Sings the Blues |
| Soul Blues, Blues // 1967 // Best: "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl" |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Progressive Metal, Death Metal // 2001 // Best: "Bleak" |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Progressive Metal, Death Metal // 1999 // Best: "The Moor" |
| Ornette Coleman Science Fiction |
| Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz // 1972 // Best: "Science Fiction" |
| Ornette Coleman Dancing In Your Head |
| Jazz Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz // 1977 // Best: "Theme From a Symphony (Variation One)" |
| Peter Brotzmann Machine Gun |
| European Free Jazz // 1968 // Best: "Machine Gun" |
| Pharoah Sanders Karma |
| Spiritual Jazz // 1969 // Best: "The Creator Has a Master Plan" |
| Philip Glass Glassworks |
| Minimalism, Post-Minimalism // 1982 // Best: "Floe" |
| Philip Glass Einstein on the Beach |
| Minimalism, Opera // 1979 // Best: "Knee Play 1" |
| Possessed Seven Churches |
| Death Metal, Thrash Metal // 1985 // Best: "The Exorcist" |
| Pyotr Tchaikovsky Swan Lake, Op. 20 |
| Romanticism, Orchestral // 1877 // Best: "Act IV: No. 29, Finale" |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Alternative Rock, Art Rock // 1997 // Best: "Let Down" |
| Richard Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen |
| Opera, Romanticism // 1869 // Best: "The Valkyrie, WWV 86b, Act III: Magic Fire Music" |
| Robert Johnson King of the Delta Blues Singers |
| Delta Blues // 1936-1937 // Best: "Terraplane Blues" |
| Robert Schumann Myrthen, Op. 25 |
| Lieder, Romanticism // 1840 // Best: "Myrthen, Op. 25: I. Dedication" |
| Ruth Crawford Seeger 9 Preludes |
| Modern Classical // ~1901-1953 // Best: "Piano Study in Mixed Accents" (1930) |
| Sarah Vaughan Sarah Vaughan |
| Vocal Jazz, Standards // 1955 // Best: "Jim" |
| Scott Joplin Maple Leaf Rag |
| Ragtime, Modern Classical // 1899 // Best: "Maple Leaf Rag" |
| Sidney Bechet Pre-War Classic Sides |
| Dixieland, Swing // 2007 // Best: "Sweet Patootie" |
| Slayer Reign In Blood |
| Thrash Metal // 1986 // Best: "Angel of Death" |
| Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus |
| Hard Bop, Jazz // 1957 // Best: "St. Thomas" |
| Sonny Rollins A Night At The Village Vanguard |
| Hard Bop // 1958 // Best: "A Night in Tunisia" |
| Sonny Rollins and Coleman Hawkins Sonny Meets Hawk! |
| Hard Bop // 1963 // Best: "All the Things You Are" |
| Sonny Sharrock Black Woman |
| Spiritual Jazz, Free Jazz // 1969 // Best: "Black Woman" |
| Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto Getz/Gilberto |
| Bossa nova, Samba-jazz // 1964 // Best: "The Girl from Ipanema" |
| Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians |
| Minimalism // 1978 // Best: "Music for 18 Musicians: Section I" |
| Strapping Young Lad City |
| Industrial Metal // 1997 // Best: "Oh My Fucking God" |
| Sun Ra Lanquidity |
| Jazz Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz // 1978 // Best: "Lanquidity" |
| Swans The Seer |
| Experimental Rock, Post-Rock // 2012 // Best: "The Seer" |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind |
| Experimental Rock, Post-Rock, Experimental // 1996 // Best: "Helpless Child" |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| Baroque Pop // 1966 // Best: "God Only Knows" |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| Pop Rock // 1969 // Best: "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| Pop Rock, Psychedelic Pop // 1966 // Best: "Eleanor Rigby" |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| Pop Rock, Psychedelic Pop // 1965 // Best: "Drive My Car" |
| The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out |
| Cool Jazz, Jazz // 1959 // Best: "Take Five" |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| Mathcore, Avant-Garde Metal // 1999 // Best: "43% Burnt" |
| The Jazz Composer's Orchestra The Jazz Composer's Orchestra |
| Experimental Big Band, Free Jazz // 1968 // Best: "Preview" |
| The Last Poets The Last Poets |
| Poetry, Conga // 1970 // Best: "Jones Comin' Down" |
| The Modern Jazz Quartet Pyramid |
| Cool Jazz, Third Stream // 1960 // Best: "Django" |
| The Mothers of Invention Freak Out! |
| Experimental Rock, Satire, Psychedelic Rock // 1966 // Best: "Who Are the Brain Police?" |
| The Stooges Raw Power |
| Proto-Punk, Garage Rock, Hard Rock // 1973 // Best: "Penetration" |
| The Sugarhill Gang Rapper's Delight |
| Disco Rap, East Coast Hip Hop // 1980 // Best: "Rapper's Delight" |
| Thelonious Monk Live at the It Club |
| Hard Bop // 1964 // Best: "Blue Monk - Live [It Club]" |
| Thelonious Monk Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1 |
| Bebop, Cool Jazz // 1947-1948 // Best: "Thelonious" |
| Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane |
| Hard Bop, Jazz, Post Bop // 1961 // Best: "Nutty" |
| Tito Puente and His Orchestra Dance Mania |
| Mambo, Guaguanco // 1957 // Best: "El cayuco" |
| Tom Waits Bone Machine |
| Singer/Songwriter, Experimental Rock // 1992 // Best: "Dirt in the Ground" |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
| Atmospheric Black Metal, Pagan Black Metal // 1995 // Best: "Capitel V: Bergtatt - Ind i fjeldkamren" |
| Venom Welcome to Hell |
| Speed Metal, Heavy Metal, NWOBHM // 1981 // Best: "Welcome to Hell" |
| Venom Black Metal |
| Speed Metal, NWOBHM, Heavy Metal // 1982 // Best: "Black Metal" |
| Wes Montgomery Smokin' at the Half Note |
| Hard Bop, Cool Jazz // 1965 // Best: "Four on Six" |
| William Byrd The Great Service |
| Renaissance Music, Christian Liturgical Music, Polyphonic Chant // Late 16th C // Best: "Sing Joyfully" |
| William Grant Still William Grant Still |
| Modern Classical, Orchestral // 1990 // Best: "Songs of Separation: A Black Pierrot" |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488 |
| Classical Period, Concerto // 1786 // Best: "Piano Concerto, No. 23 in A major, K488: I. Allegro" |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro, K. 492 |
| Classical Period, Opera buffa // 1786 // Best: "Act 1, Scene 7: Cosa sento! Tosto andate (Conte, Basilio, Susanna)" |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 |
| Classical Period, Symphony // 1788 // Best: "First Movement: Allegro molto (Beginning)" |
| World Saxophone Quartet Plays Duke Ellington |
| Post-Bop, Jazz // 1986 // Best: "Sophisticated Lady" |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| East Coast Hip Hop, Boom Bap, Hardcore Hip Hop // 1993 // Best: "Da Mystery of Chessboxin'" |
| Wynton Marsalis Live at the Village Vanguard |
| Jazz, Post-Bop // 1999 // Best: "Buggy Ride" |
| Yasunao Tone Solo For Wounded CD |
| Glitch, Indeterminacy // 1997 // Best: "Part I" |
| 4.5 superb |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Post-Metal, Black Metal // 2006 // Best: "Not Unlike the Waves" |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Post-Metal, Folk Metal, Dark Folk // 2002 // Best: "You Were But a Ghost in My Arms" |
| Air Moon Safari |
| Downtempo, Ambient Pop // 1998 // Best: "New Star in the Sky" |
| Alexander von Schlippenbach Pakistani Pomade |
| European Free Jazz // 1973 // Best: "Sun-Luck Night-Rain" |
| Alice Coltrane Journey in Satchidananda |
| Spiritual Jazz // 1971 // Best: "Journey in Satchidananda" |
| Anathema Judgement |
| Alternative Rock, Progressive Rock // 1999 // Best: "One Last Goodbye" |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Indie Rock, Chamber Pop // 2004 // Best: "Crown of Love" |
| Archie Shepp The Magic of Ju-Ju |
| Free Jazz, Post-Bop // 1968 // Best: "The Magic of Ju-Ju" |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Post-Hardcore // 2000 // Best: "One Armed Scissor" |
| Billy Woods Aethiopes |
| Abstract Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop, East Coast Hip Hop, Conscious Hip Hop // 2022 // Best: "Asylum" |
| Bjork Biophilia |
| Art Pop, Electronic // 2011 // Best: "Cosmogony" |
| Black Country New Road For the First Time |
| Post-Rock, Experimental Rock, Post-Punk // 2021 // Best: "Science Fair" |
| Buckethead Colma |
| Acoustic Rock, New Age // 1998 // Best: "For Mom" |
| Burzum Burzum |
| Black Metal // 1992 // Best: "Black Spell Of Destruction" |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool |
| Alt-Country, Ambient Pop // 2014 // Best: "Moon" |
| Chat Pile God's Country |
| Noise Rock, Sludge Metal // 2022 // Best: "Why" |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| Art Rock, Experimental Rock // 2016 // Best: "Lazarus" |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal // 1998 // Best: "Flesh and the Power It Holds" |
| Death Human |
| Technical Death Metal, Death Metal // 1991 // Best: "Cosmic Sea" |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns |
| Technical Death Metal // 1993 // Best: "The Philosopher" |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Black Metal, Progressive Metal, Avant-Garde Metal // 2010 // Best: "Abscission" |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Alternative Metal // 2000 // Best: "Pink Maggit" |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Alternative Metal, Alternative Rock // 2006 // Best: "Cherry Waves" |
| Depeche Mode Violator |
| Synthpop // 1990 // Best: "Sweetest Perfection" |
| Devin Townsend Infinity |
| Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock // 1998 // Best: "War" |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| Alternative Metal // 2009 // Best: "Numbered!" |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction |
| Progressive Metal, Avant-Garde Metal // 2011 // Best: "Deconstruction" |
| Diamanda Galas The Divine Punishment |
| Experimental // 1986 // Best: "Deliver Me from Mine Enemies" |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| Alternative Metal, Alternative Rock // 1992 // Best: "Caffeine" |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... |
| Singer-Songwriter, Art Pop // 2012 // Best: "Every Single Night" |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Post-Hardcore // 2002 // Best: "Tip Your Bartender" |
| Godflesh Hymns |
| Industrial Metal, Sludge Metal // 2001 // Best: "Jesu" |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| Screamo, Post-Hardcore // 2005 // Best: "Golden Dawn" |
| Herbie Hancock Head Hunters |
| Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Funk // 1973 // Best: "Watermelon Man" |
| Jesu Jesu |
| Drone Metal, Shoegaze, Post-Metal // 2004 // Best: "Friends Are Evil" |
| Jesu Silver |
| Shoegaze, Post-Metal // 2006 // Best: "Star" |
| Jim McNeely & Frankfurt Radio Big Band ft Chris Potter Rituals |
| Third Stream, Progressive Big Band // 2022 // Best: "Rituals: Adoration I" |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity |
| Alternative Rock, Emo, Midwest Emo // 1999 // Best: "Just Watch the Fireworks" |
| Kayo Dot Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike |
| Avant-Garde Metal // 2021 // Best: "Void in Virgo (The Nature of Sacrifice)" |
| Manfred Schoof European Echoes |
| European Free Jazz // 1969 // Best: "European Echoes - Part 1" |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Progressive Metal // 2009 // Best: "The Czar" |
| Max Roach We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite |
| Avant-Garde Jazz // 1961 // Best: "Triptych: Prayer / Protest / Peace" |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? |
| Thrash Metal, Heavy Metal // 1986 // Best: "Peace Sells" |
| Meshuggah Re-Nothing |
| Djent, Groove Metal // 2006 // Best: "Rational Gaze" |
| Meshuggah I |
| Djent, Progressive Metal // 2004 // Best: "I" |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle |
| Experimental Rock, Avant-Garde Metal, Funk Metal // 1991 // Best: "My Ass Is on Fire" |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Progressive Metal, Death Metal, Melodic Black Metal // 1996 // Best: "Black Rose Immortal" |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Progressive Metal, Death Metal // 2005 // Best: "Isolation Years" |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Progressive Metal, Death Metal // 1998 // Best: "Demon of the Fall" |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come |
| Avant-Garde Jazz // 1959 // Best: "Lonely Woman" |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer |
| Grindcore, Deathgrind // 2004 // Best: "Towering Flesh" |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Progressive Rock // 2007 // Best: "Way Out of Here" |
| SOUL GLO Diaspora Problems |
| Hardcore Punk // 2022 // Best: "Gold Chain Punk (Whogonbeatmyass?)" |
| Sun Ra Jazz in Silhouette |
| Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz // 1959 // Best: "Enlightenment" |
| Sun Ra Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy |
| Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz // 1967 // Best: "Moon Dance" |
| Swans Filth |
| Noise Rock, No Wave, Industrial Rock // 1983 // Best: "Power for Power" |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| Alternative Metal, Nu Metal // 1998 // Best: "War?" |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| Pop Rock, Rock // 1968 // Best: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" |
| The Jesus Lizard Goat |
| Noise Rock, Post-Hardcore // 1991 // Best: "Monkey Trick" |
| The Mothers of Invention We're Only in It for the Money |
| Experimental Rock, Satire // 1968 // Best: "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?" |
| The Zombies Odessey and Oracle |
| Psychedelic Pop, Baroque Pop // 1968 // Best: "This Will Be Our Year" |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our |
| Post-Rock, Modern Classical // 2000 // Best: "13 Angels Standing Guard 'Round the Side of Your Bed" |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Post-Hardcore, Alternative Rock // 2005 // Best: "Of Dust and Nations" |
| Ulver Perdition City |
| Electronic, Trip Hop // 2000 // Best: "Porn Piece or the Scars of Cold Kisses" |
| Ulver Blood Inside |
| Electronic, Experimental, Post-Industrial // 2005 // Best: "Christmas" |
| Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil |
| Post-Bop, Modal Jazz, Hard Bop // 1966 // Best: "Infant Eyes" |
| William Shatner Has Been |
| Spoken Word, Rock // 2005 // Best: "That's Me Trying" |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 1 800 PAIN Their Money Is Your Money |
| Industrial Hip Hop, Power Noise // 2022 // Best: "BNE" |
| Aaron Goldberg Worlds |
| Post-Bop, Chamber Jazz // 2006 // Best: "OAM's Blues" |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| Atmospheric Black Metal, Post-Rock // 2010 // Best: "Black Lake Nidstang" |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Folk Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal // 1999 // Best: "As Embers Dress the Sky" |
| Aim Cold Water Music |
| Trip Hop, Instrumental Hip Hop // 1999 // Best: "Cold Water Music" |
| Al Di Meola Elegant Gypsy |
| Jazz Fusion // 1977 // Best: "Race with the Devil on Spanish Highway" |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Grunge, Alternative Metal // 1992 // Best: "Dam That River" |
| American Football American Football |
| Midwest Emo, Math Rock // 1999 // Best: "Never Meant" |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster |
| Alternative Rock, Progressive Rock // 2003 // Best: "A Natural Disaster" |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here |
| Alternative Rock, Progressive Rock // 2010 // Best: "Angels Walk Among Us" |
| Anathema Weather Systems |
| Progressive Rock // 2012 // Best: "Untouchable, Part 2" |
| Artificial Brain Artificial Brain |
| Dissonant Death Metal // 2022 // Best: "Celestial Cyst" |
| Asleep Country Helvetic Sylph |
| Sound Collage, Experimental // 2022 // Best: "SYLPHID:8 'Heat Crawl'" |
| Avantdale Bowling Club TREES |
| Jazz Rap, Conscious Hip Hop // 2022 // Best: "Still Feel Broke" |
| Baroness Purple |
| Stoner Metal, Stoner Rock // 2015 // Best: "Try to Disappear" |
| Binker and Moses Feeding the Machine |
| Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop // 2022 / Best: "Accelerometer Overdose" |
| Birds in Row Gris Klein |
| Screamo, Post-Hardcore // 2022 // Best: "Noah" |
| Bjork Post |
| Art Pop, Electronic // 1995 // Best: "Hyper-Ballad" |
| Bjork Debut |
| Art Pop, House // 1993 // Best: "Venus As a Boy" |
| Bjork Fossora |
| Art Pop, Electronic // 2022 // Best: "Fossora" |
| Black Country New Road Ants from Up There |
| Art Rock, Post-Rock, Chamber Pop, Indie Rock // 2022 // Best: "The Place Where He Inserted the Blade" |
| Blind Idiot God Blind Idiot God |
| Noise Rock, Math Rock // 1987 // Best: "Stealth Dub" |
| blink-182 Blink-182 |
| Pop Punk, Alternative Rock // 2003 // Best: "Stockholm Syndrome" |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm |
| Post-Punk Revival, Indie Rock // 2005 // Best: "Like Eating Glass" |
| Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses |
| Atmospheric Black Metal // 2022 // Best: "Chants of the Deep Ones" |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation |
| Indie Rock, Punk Rock // 2011 // Best: "Campaign for a Better Next Weekend" |
| Buckethead Giant Robot |
| Experimental Rock, Progressive Metal // 1994 // Best: "Binge and Grab (Instrumental Version)" |
| Buckethead Inbred Mountain |
| Experimental Rock, Progressive Metal // 2005 // Best: "Flock of Slunks" |
| Buckethead The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell |
| Experimental Rock, Progressive Metal, Avant-Garde Metal // 2004 // Best: "The Treeman" |
| Buckethead Crime Slunk Scene |
| Experimental Rock, Progressive Rock // 2006 // Best: "Soothsayer (Dedicated to Aunt Suzie)" |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var |
| Black Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal // 1993 // Best: "Key to the Gate" |
| Casiopea Casiopea |
| Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock // 1979 // Best: "Time Limit" |
| Chat Pile This Dungeon Earth |
| Noise Rock, Sludge Metal // 2019 // Best: "Rainbow Meat" |
| Chat Pile Remove Your Skin Please |
| Noise Rock, Sludge Metal // 2019 // Best: "Garbage Man" |
| Cities Aviv MAN PLAYS THE HORN |
| Experimental Hip Hop, Abstract Hip Hop, Jazz Rap, Southern Hip Hop // 2022 // Best: "EVERYTHANG WORKIN ON A NATURAL TIME" |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North |
| Atmospheric Sludge Metal // 2022 // Best: "The Long Road North" |
| Dan Swano Moontower |
| Progressive Metal // 1999 // Best: "Uncreation" |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Alternative Metal, Nu Metal // 1997 // Best: "Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)" |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Alternative Metal, Alternative Rock // 2009 // Best: "Leathers" |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Alternative Metal, Alternative Rock // 2010 // Best: "Royal" |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki |
| Progressive Rock, Ambient // 2009 // Best: "Coast" |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| New Age, Ambient, Ambient Pop // 2011 // Best: "Heart Baby" |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Pandora's Pinata |
| Avant-Garde Metal, Progressive Metal // 2012 // Best: "Justice for Saint Mary" |
| Diamanda Galas Broken Gargoyles |
| Experimental // 2022 // Best: "Broken Gargoyles II. Abiectio" |
| Diamanda Galas The Singer |
| Piano Blues // 1992 // Best: "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?" |
| Diskord Degenerations |
| Technical Death Metal, Avant-Garde Metal // 2021 // Best: "Abnegations" |
| Fievel Is Glauque God's Trashmen Sent to Right the Mess |
| Jazz Pop, Progressive Pop // 2021 // Best: "Bring Me to Silence" |
| Fiona Apple When The Pawn... |
| Singer/Songwriter, Piano Rock // 1999 // Best: "On the Bound" |
| Flacco's Bizarre Adventure SUGAR ~ SHIT ~ SILK ~ SWEAT |
| Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz // 2022 // Best: "Something for Laila" |
| Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The LSO Promises |
| Third Stream, Post-Minimalism // 2021 // Best: "Movement 6" |
| Fluisteraars Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking |
| Atmospheric Black Metal // 2021 // Best: "Verscheuring in de schemering" |
| Frank Zappa Zoot Allures |
| Jazz-Rock, Art Rock // 1976 // Best: "Zoot Allures" |
| Frontierer Oxidized |
| Mathcore // 2021 // Best: "The Damage and the Sift" |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering |
| Mathcore, Sludge Metal // 2012 // Best: "When They Beg" |
| Gezan 狂(KLUE) |
| Noise Rock, Neo-Psychedelia, Art Rock // 2020 // Best: "Soul Material" |
| Gilla Band Most Normal |
| Noise Rock, Industrial Rock, Experimental Rock, No Wave // 2022 // Best: "Backwash" |
| Godflesh Pure |
| Industrial Metal, Sludge Metal // 1992 // Best: "Mothra" |
| Godflesh Selfless |
| Industrial Metal, Sludge Metal // 1994 // Best: "Mantra" |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Post-Rock // 2002 // Best: "Motherfucker=Redeemer [part 2]" |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Post-Rock // 2012 // Best: "We Drift Like Worried Fire" |
| Gris Il Était Une Forêt... |
| Depressive Black Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal // 2007 // Best: "Le gala des gens heureux" |
| Gustav Holst The Planets, Op. 32 |
| Guthrie Govan Erotic Cakes |
| Jazz Fusion, Hard Rock // 2006 // Best: "Sevens" |
| Hath All That Was Promised |
| Death Metal, Progressive Metal // 2022 // Best: "Decollation" |
| Immanuel Wilkins The 7th Hand |
| Post-Bop // 2022 // Best: "Fugitive Ritual, Selah" |
| Immolation Acts of God |
| Death Metal // 2022 // Best: "The Age of No Light" |
| Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy |
| Avant-Garde Metal, Dissonant Death Metal // 2022 // Best: "Chump Change" |
| Jaubi Nafs at Peace |
| Spiritual Jazz, Chamber Jazz // 2021 // Best: "Raja Gujri Todi" |
| Kaonashi Dear Lemon House, You Ruined Me: Senior Year |
| Mathcore, Post-Hardcore, Metalcore // 2021 // Best: "An Evening of Moving Pictures With Scooter Corkle" |
| Katy Carr Screwing Lies |
| Contemporary Folk // 2001 // Best: "Black Widow" |
| KMRU and Aho Ssan Limen |
| Drone, Post-Industrial, Noise // 2022 // Best: "Resurgence" |
| Krokofant Fifth |
| Jazz-Rock, Avant-Prog // 2021 // Best: "Big Heavy Thing" |
| Lupe Fiasco Drill Music in Zion |
| Conscious Hip Hop, Jazz Rap, Abstract Hip Hop // 2022 // Best: "Ms. Mural" |
| Mary Halvorson Amaryllis |
| Avant-Garde Jazz, Chamber Jazz // 2022 // Best: "892 Teeth" |
| Massacre (USA-NY) Killing Time |
| No Wave, Experimental Rock, Noise Rock // 1981 // Best: "Legs" |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Progressive Metal, Sludge Metal // 2006 // Best: "Colony of Birchmen" |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim |
| Progressive Metal // 2021 // Best: "Teardrinker" |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Thrash Metal, Heavy Metal // 2009 // Best: "This Day We Fight!" |
| Megadeth Countdown To Extinction |
| Heavy Metal // 1992 // Best: "Symphony of Destruction" |
| Megadeth Youthanasia |
| Heavy Metal // 1994 // Best: "Reckoning Day" |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Djent, Technical Thrash Metal // 1998 // Best: "Concatenation" |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Djent, Progressive Metal // 2008 // Best: "Bleed" |
| Nevermore Dead Heart in a Dead World |
| Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal // 2000 // Best: "We Disintegrate" |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Carnage |
| Chamber Pop, Art Pop // 2021 // Best: "White Elephant" |
| Niechec Niechec |
| Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock // 2016 // Best: "Krew" |
| Nyktalgia Nyktalgia |
| Depressive Black Metal // 2004 // Best: "Lamento Larmoyant" |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Progressive Rock // 2003 // Best: "Windowpane" |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Progressive Metal, Death Metal // 2002 // Best: "Deliverance" |
| Opeth Orchid |
| Progressive Metal, Death Metal, Melodic Black Metal // 1995 // Best: "In the Mist She Was Standing" |
| Otoboke Beaver Itekoma Hits |
| Hardcore Punk // 2019 // Best: "Love Is Short" |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light |
| Atmospheric Black Metal // 2021 // Best: "The Embers at Dawn" |
| Papangu Holoceno |
| Avant-Garde Metal, Zeuhl, Progressive Metal // 2021 // Best: "Holoceno" |
| park zero Child to Soldier to Fine Red Mist |
| Power Noise, Death Industrial // 2021 // Best: "Bullets Overture" |
| park zero Proxy |
| Power Noise, Electronic Dance Music // 2022 // Best: "Funeral Song (Goodbye Cruel Friend)" |
| Patrick Shiroishi Hidemi |
| Avant-Garde Jazz // 2021 // Best: "To Kill a Wind-Up Bird" |
| Paul Gilbert Silence Followed By A Deafening Roar |
| Hard Rock, Progressive Metal // 2008 // Best: "Eudaimonia Overture" |
| Paysage d'Hiver Geister |
| Atmospheric Black Metal, Black Metal // 2021 // Best: "Bluet" |
| Petrol Girls Baby |
| Riot Grrrl, Post-Hardcore // 2022 // Best: "Baby, I Had an Abortion" |
| Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard |
| Grindcore, Death Metal // 2001 // Best: "Hyperviolet" |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Progressive Rock, Art Rock // 2002 // Best: "Trains" |
| Prurient Creationist |
| Noise, Dark Ambient // 2022 // Best: "R*ping Plaster Busts" |
| Raum Daughter |
| Ambient, Drone, Field Recordings // 2022 // Best: "Passage" |
| Rhododendron Protozoan Battle Hymns |
| Noise Rock, Brutal Prog // 2021 // Best: "Last of the Painted Hills" |
| Rude Skott Osborn Trio The Virtue of Temperance |
| Avant-Garde Jazz // 2022 // Best: "The Blue at the Horizon" |
| Ryoji Ikeda Ultratronics |
| Glitch, Microsound // 2022 // Best: "Ultratronics 07" |
| Scarcity Aveilut |
| Atmospheric Black Metal, Avant-Garde Metal, Totalism // 2022 // Best: "II" |
| Senses Fail Pull the Thorns from Your Heart |
| Post-Hardcore, Hardcore Punk // 2015 // Best: "Wounds" |
| Septicflesh The Great Mass |
| Symphonic Metal, Death Metal // 2011 // Best: "Oceans of Grey" |
| Sirom The Liquified Throne of Simplicity |
| Avant-Folk, Free Folk // 2022 // Best: "Grazes, Wrinkles, Drifts into Sleep" |
| Sleepwalker (JPN) Noč Na Krayu Sveta |
| Avant-Garde Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal // 2021 // Best: "Redemption / Retaliation" |
| Stormtroopers of Death Speak English or Die |
| Crossover Thrash // 1985 // Best: "Speak English or Die" |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien |
| Industrial Metal // 2005 // Best: "Shitstorm" |
| Strapping Young Lad Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing |
| Industrial Metal, Groove Metal // 1995 // Best: "Critic" |
| Swans Cop |
| Noise Rock, No Wave, Industrial // 1984 // Best: "Cop" |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Alternative Metal, Nu Metal // 2001 // Best: "Chop Suey!" |
| Tanya Tagaq Tongues |
| Post-Industrial, Experimental // 2022 // Best: "Tongues" |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution |
| Progressive Metal // 2003 // Best: "Deadhead" |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| Mathcore // 2004 // Best: "Sunshine the Werewolf" |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| Mathcore, Alternative Metal // 2013 // Best: "Prancer" |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation |
| Mathcore, Alternative Metal // 2016 // Best: "Limerent Death" |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| Mathcore, Alternative Metal // 2010 // Best: "Good Neighbor" |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| Mathcore, Alternative Metal // 2007 // Best: "Milk Lizard" |
| The Mothers of Invention Absolutely Free |
| Experimental Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Jazz-Rock // 1967 // Best: "Plastic People" |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Post-Hardcore, Melodic Hardcore // 2003 // Best: "The Melting Point of Wax" |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Alternative Rock // 2011 // Best: "Anthology" |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants |
| Post-Hardcore, Blues Rock // 2014 // Best: "Everything Disappearing" |
| Uboa The Origin of My Depression |
| Dark Ambient, Death Industrial // 2019 // Best: "Please Don't Leave Me" |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All |
| Technical Death Metal, Dissonant Death Metal, Atmospheric Sludge Metal // 2011 // Best: "Burning Skies" |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun |
| Ambient, Electronic, Ambient Pop // 2007 // Best: "All the Love" |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar |
| Synthpop, Art Pop // 2017 // Best: "Rolling Stone" |
| Windir 1184 |
| Melodic Black Metal // 2001 // Best: "Journey to the End" |
| Wintersun Wintersun |
| Melodic Death Metal, Power Metal // 2004 // Best: "Death and the Healing" |
| Wormrot Hiss |
| Grindcore, Powerviolence, Deathgrind // 2022 // Best: "Glass Shards" |
| Yautja The Lurch |
| Mathcore, Sludge Metal // 2021 // Best: "The Spectacle" |
| YAYA KIM a.k.a YAYA |
| Jazz Pop, Art Pop, Art Rock // 2022 // Best: "Secret" |
| Zguba Znój |
| Drone, Dark Ambient, Ambient // 2022 // Best: "Laska" |
