| 4.5 superb |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide |
| Aesop Rock Spirit World Field Guide |
| Aesop Rock Integrated Tech Solutions |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Beth Gibbons Lives Outgrown |
| This is exactly what you'd expect from a Beth Gibbons release: Vocals saturated with vulnerability over lush, engulfing instrumentation that finds just the right ways to be artistically daring. This'll scratch that itch if you've been waiting for new Portishead for the past 16 years. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Bjork Post |
| Black Flag My War |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Exodus |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends |
| Botch American Nervoso |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Charles Mingus Me Myself An Eye |
| Charles Mingus The Clown |
| Chat Pile Cool World |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper |
| Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason |
| clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood |
| Clipse Hell Hath No Fury |
| Company Flow Funcrusher Plus |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition |
| Danny Brown XXX |
| De La Soul De La Soul Is Dead |
| De La Soul Buhloone Mindstate |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables |
| Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Death Symbolic |
| Devin Townsend Terria |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| Disembodied Tyrant/Synestia The Poetic Edda |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| The sex scene in "Home" makes me so f*cking horny. And then there's murder at the end? This is some Shakespeare shit. |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Dream Theater Images And Words |
| This one's got cheese, but goddamn, does it have some classics. The 2nd half of this album is like an artifact that belongs in a prog museum. The light tracks blend better with the track flow than on later albums where there're obvious radio ballads that are easy to skip. This is easily a landmark release for prog metal. |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo I Have Made My Bed in Darkness |
| Eyedea and Abilities First Born |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture |
| Future of the Left Curses |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| Gojira Magma |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius |
| Gojira The Flesh Alive |
| GZA Liquid Swords |
| Haken Vector |
| IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| Injury Reserve Live From The Dentist Office |
| James Blake Overgrown |
| JPEGMAFIA I Lay Down My Life For You |
| JPEGMAFIA LP! |
| JPEGMAFIA Veteran |
| Kamasi Washington Fearless Movement |
| Kamasi Washington The Epic |
| Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts |
| King Missile Mystical Shit |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party |
| Little Simz No Thank You |
| This one was a grower, for sure. I like it more than SIMBI. A lot of parts on this album have a stealthy way of getting stuck in my head, like ideas that get planted, waiting for their correlating blossoming. Def one of my favorites from her. |
| Little Simz Grey Area |
| Machine Girl MG Ultra |
| Machine Head Bloodstone And Diamonds |
| Madvillain Madvillainy |
| Mahogany Connectivity! |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| mclusky McLusky Do Dallas |
| Melt-Banana Fetch |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep of Reason |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Meshuggah Alive |
| Meshuggah The Ophidian Trek |
| Meshuggah obZen (15th Anniversary Remastered Edition) |
| Meshuggah Re-Nothing |
| Metallica Ride The Lightning |
| Metallica ...And Justice For All |
| Morbid Angel Covenant |
| Mr. Bungle Disco Volante |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle |
| Necrophagist Epitaph |
| Neil Young After the Gold Rush |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar |
| Ol' Dirty Bastard Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version |
| Operation Ivy Energy |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Opeth In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall |
| Opeth Deliverance & Damnation Remixed |
| Opeth Lamentations |
| Origami Angel Somewhere City |
| OutKast Stankonia |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Portishead Third |
| Portishead Roseland NYC Live |
| Primus Frizzle Fry |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Ramones Ramones |
| Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild |
| Slayer South Of Heaven |
| slowthai UGLY |
| Sonic Youth Evol |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien |
| Strapping Young Lad City |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between |
| Swampborn Beyond Ratio |
| Symphony X The Odyssey |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| The Cure Songs of a Lost World |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
| The Fall of Troy Ghostship Demos |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Offspring Smash |
| The Offspring Ixnay on the Hombre |
| The Prodigy The Fat Of The Land |
| The Roots Do You Want More?!!!??! |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Tkay Maidza Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2 |
| Turnstile Never Enough |
| Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost |
| Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy |
| Tyler, the Creator Chromakopia |
| Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium |
| Unexpect _We, Invaders |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You |
| Unwound Repetition |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Alatt Született |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Wintersun Wintersun |
| Yes Fragile |
| ZelooperZ Van Gogh's Left Ear |
| 4.0 excellent |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| A Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths of Rhythm |
| A Wilhelm Scream Ruiner |
| Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid |
| Aesop Rock I Heard It's A Mess There Too |
| Agitation Free 2nd |
| Al Di Meola Elegant Gypsy |
| Alustrium A Tunnel to Eden |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Anthrax Among The Living |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Aphex Twin Windowlicker |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II |
| Atmosphere Jestures |
| Okay, this album was straight-up fucking with me on the drive home from seeing Turnstile last night. Dude kept telling me to keep my eyes on the road every time tiredness creeped in, and hinting at how I should be acting vs how I've been acting. It's uncanny and beautiful to me. Felt like a dream, and really shows that the mental level these dudes are occupying is what artistry is meant to lead to. But hey, that's just my experience, and this is all subjective. |
| AZ Doe or Die |
| Babbletron Mechanical Royalty |
| Beck Odelay |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Bikini Kill Pussy Whipped |
| Billy Woods Aethiopes |
| Billy Woods and Kenny Segal Maps |
| Billy Woods and Kenny Segal Hiding Places |
| Black Flag Damaged |
| Black Flag Slip It In |
| Black Sheep A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing |
| Blotted Science The Animation of Entomology |
| Brainiac Hissing Prigs in Static Couture |
| Brockhampton SATURATION II |
| Brockhampton WILDFIRE, TRUMAN, DIANA |
| Brockhampton SATURATION III |
| Buckethead Colma |
| Buckethead Electric Tears |
| Buckethead The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell |
| Cannibal Corpse The Wretched Spawn |
| Cannibal Corpse Chaos Horrific |
| Carsie Blanton Buck Up |
| Castevet Obsian |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Psychosis |
| Cee Lo Green Cee-Lo Green & His Perfect Imperfections |
| Cee Lo Green Cee-Lo Green Is The Soul Machine |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| Chimaira Resurrection |
| Chimaira Chimaira |
| Chimaira Crown of Phantoms |
| City Morgue HELL OR HIGH WATER VOL. 1 |
| clipping. CLPPNG |
| clipping. Dead Channel Sky |
| Clipse Let God Sort Em Out |
| Code Orange Forever |
| A handful of tracks slay; the others either disrupt the flow or are super basic and it doesn't land. There's potential here. |
| Conjurer Pathos |
| Currents The Place I Feel Safest |
| Daath The Concealers |
| Dalek Negro Necro Nekros |
| Danny Brown uknowhatimsayin¿ |
| Danny Brown Old |
| Danny Brown Quaranta |
| De La Soul 3 Feet High And Rising |
| Dead Kennedys Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death |
| Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis |
| Decapitated The Negation |
| Decapitated Carnival Is Forever |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 |
| Denzel Curry TA13OO |
| Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future(The Extended Edition) |
| Denzel Curry King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2 |
| Destrage Are You Kidding Me? No. |
| Devin Townsend Infinity |
| Devin Townsend Lightwork |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence |
| Dionaea Still |
| Dr. Dre 2001 |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| I just realized that when he says "your light shines on my soul while a thousand candles burn" in Endless Sacrifice, he's talking about all the cuties holding up lighters during their ballads at concerts that he'd bang if he wasn't married. 8/10, would fuck this album and keep it as a FWB, but also not get TOO involved. I mean... DON'T CROSS THE CROOKED STEP. |
| Dream Theater A Change Of Seasons |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings |
| Drive Like Jehu Drive Like Jehu |
| Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs |
| Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside |
| Earl Sweatshirt Doris |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure |
| El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead |
| El-P Fantastic Damage |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| Every Time I Die Radical |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of Tongues |
| Eyedea and Abilities E&A |
| Faith No More The Real Thing |
| Faith No More Sol Invictus |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth |
| Fear Factory Mechanize |
| Fear Factory Obsolete |
| Fleshwater We're Not Here To Be Loved |
| Future of the Left How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident |
| Genesis Owusu Smiling with No Teeth |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Gojira Sea Shepherd |
| Surely, some of these performances must be worth redoing. |
| GoldLink Diaspora |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Greylotus Dawnfall |
| Hail the Sun Divine Inner Tension |
| Heaving Earth Darkness of God |
| Hiatus Kaiyote Choose Your Weapon |
| Hiatus Kaiyote Tawk Tomahawk |
| Ho99o9 Skin |
| IDLES Brutalism |
| Igorrr Savage Sinusoid |
| Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion |
| Igorrr Nostril |
| In Flames Clayman |
| Incantation Onward to Golgotha |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Enjoy Incubus |
| Injury Reserve Injury Reserve |
| Injury Reserve Drive It Like It's Stolen! |
| Injury Reserve Floss |
| Integrity Those Who Fear Tomorrow |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms |
| Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions |
| Invalids Fulfillment EP |
| Jack Off Jill Clear Hearts Grey Flowers |
| Jackal Twins Cuzco |
| James Blake Playing Robots Into Heaven |
| James Blake James Blake |
| Jeff Rosenstock We Cool? |
| Jeff Rosenstock HELLMODE |
| Jeromes Dream The Gray In Between |
| JID The Forever Story |
| JID DiCaprio 2 |
| JID The Never Story |
| Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater |
| John Petrucci Suspended Animation |
| Johnny Booth Moments Elsewhere |
| JPEGMAFIA LP! (online) |
| JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs |
| JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown SCARING THE HOES: DLC PACK |
| Juggaknots Re:Release |
| Julia Holter Loud City Song |
| Kamasi Washington Heaven and Earth |
| Kamasi Washington The Choice |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Karnivool Themata |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. |
| "Loyalty" and "Love" are the only tracks on here that really bring it down for me (for the production and the melody, respectively). Aside from that, I gotta say that him going for "what people want from him" still ended up being really experimental, and feels saturated with interesting and affective angles. |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 |
| Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. |
| Kendrick Lamar GNX |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music |
| King Missile They |
| Lamb Lamb |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn |
| Leprous Bilateral |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory EP |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment 2 |
| Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be Introvert |
| Little Simz E.D.G.E. |
| Look What I Did Minuteman For The Moment |
| Look What I Did Atlas Drugged |
| Mac Miller Swimming |
| Machine Girl WLFGRL |
| Machine Girl ...BECAUSE I'M YOUNG ARROGANT AND HATE EVERYTHING |
| Machine Girl The Ugly Art |
| Machine Girl Neon White OST 1 - The Wicked Heart |
| Machine Girl RePorpoised Phantasies |
| Machine Head Unto The Locust |
| Machine Head The Blackening |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Maximum the Hormone Bu-ikikaesu |
| McKinley Dixon Magic, Alive! |
| mclusky The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire |
| mclusky The World is Still Here and So are We |
| Melt-Banana Cell-Scape |
| Melt-Banana Charlie |
| Mereba Room for Living |
| Mereba The Jungle Is The Only Way Out |
| Meshuggah Nothing |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Meshuggah None |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica Metallica |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food |
| Midori Aratame Hajime Mashite Midori Desu |
| Mindforce New Lords |
| Mnemic Mechanical Spin Phenomena |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come |
| Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction |
| Nekrogoblikon Power |
| Nevermore This Godless Endeavor |
| Nevermore Dreaming Neon Black |
| Nevermore Enemies of Reality |
| Nevermore The Politics of Ecstasy |
| Nevermore Dead Heart in a Dead World |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Norma Jean All Hail |
| Opeth Orchid |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes |
| OutKast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik |
| P.O.S Never Better |
| Painted in Exile Revitalized |
| Panzerballett Breaking Brain |
| Phoxjaw notverynicecream |
| Pile Dripping |
| Pitchshifter www.pitchshifter.com |
| Pitchshifter Infotainment? |
| Pitchshifter Desensitized |
| Pool Kids Pool Kids |
| Pusha T DAYTONA |
| Queens of the Stone Age Over the Years and Through the Woods |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Rage Against the Machine Live & Rare |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| RiTchie Triple Digits (112) |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name |
| Rome Streetz Kiss the Ring |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels (Instrumentals) |
| Sacrilege (UK1) Behind the Realms of Madness |
| Sanctuary Refuge Denied |
| Sanctuary Into The Mirror Black |
| ScHoolboy Q Blue Lips |
| Septicflesh Communion |
| Septicflesh The Great Mass |
| Sepultura Chaos A.D. |
| Sepultura Machine Messiah |
| Sepultura Quadra |
| SikTh Opacities |
| Skepta Konnichiwa |
| Slayer Christ Illusion |
| Slayer Hell Awaits |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| slowthai TYRON |
| slowthai Nothing Great About Britain |
| Slugdge The Cosmic Cornucopia |
| Sonic Youth Sister |
| Speed (AUS) Gang Called Speed |
| State Faults Children of the Moon |
| Strapping Young Lad 1994–2006 Chaos Years |
| Strapping Young Lad For Those Aboot to Rock (DVD) |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! |
| Teen Mortgage Devil Ultrasonic Sound |
| Teen Mortgage TEEN MORTGAGE |
| Tera Melos Untitled |
| TesseracT One |
| The Armed Ultrapop |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| The Berzerker Dissimulate |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet |
| The Contortionist Language |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil |
| The Mothers of Invention Freak Out! |
| The Offspring Ignition |
| The Prodigy Invaders Must Die |
| The Prodigy Experience |
| The Roots Illadelph Halflife |
| The Smile A Light for Attracting Attention |
| thoughtcrimes Altered Pasts |
| Three 6 Mafia Chapter 1: The End |
| Three 6 Mafia Mystic Stylez |
| Three 6 Mafia Chapter 2: World Domination |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Tigran Hamasyan Shadow Theater |
| Tigran Hamasyan Mockroot |
| Tkay Maidza Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 |
| TLC CrazySexyCool |
| Tool Undertow |
| Tool Salival |
| Trentemoller The Last Resort |
| Trepalium Voodoo Moonshine |
| Trepalium Alchemik Clockwork of Disorder |
| Tropical Fuck Storm A Laughing Death in Meatspace |
| Turnstile Time and Space |
| Tyler, the Creator Igor |
| Unwound Challenge For a Civilized Society |
| Unwound The Future of What |
| Vansire The Modern Western World |
| Vein.fm Errorzone |
| Venetian Snares Detrimentalist |
| Vessels Dilate |
| I'm gonna be 100% honest with y'all, I just really like this album because it sounds like good background music for fucking. On Monos just sounds moist af. |
| Vessels Helioscope |
| Vince Staples Big Fish Theory |
| Vince Staples Summertime '06 |
| White Zombie Astro Creep: 2000 |
| WHOURKR Concrete |
| Wormrot Hiss |
| Wormrot Abuse |
| Yarotz Erinyes |
| Yashira Fail To Be |
| ZelooperZ Gremlin |
| ZelooperZ Valley of Life |
| ZelooperZ Dyn-O-Mite |
| Surprised this album has a lower aggregate rating than Valley of Life. They might have slightly different vibes, but you can def interchange tracks between the two albums and not really notice. |
| 3.5 great |
| AC/DC Back In Black |
| Aesop Rock Skelethon |
| Aesop Rock Black Hole Superette |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do |
| Aphex Twin Come To Daddy |
| Archspire Bleed the Future |
| Avenged Sevenfold City Of Evil |
| Better Lovers God Made Me an Animal |
| Better Lovers Highly Irresponsible |
| Between the Buried and Me The Blue Nowhere |
| Bilmuri American Motor Sports |
| Black Pumas Chronicles of a Diamond |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
| Boston Boston |
| Brockhampton SATURATION |
| Brockhampton Ginger |
| Brockhampton Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine |
| Buckethead Bucketheadland |
| Buckethead Enter the Chicken |
| Caspian Dust and Disquiet |
| Chance the Rapper Star Line |
| Charles Mingus Pithecanthropus Erectus |
| Charli XCX Brat |
| Chat Pile God's Country |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| Chimaira Pass Out of Existence |
| Cities Aviv Black Pleasure |
| City Morgue City Morgue Vol 2: As Good As Dead |
| City Morgue Vol. 3: Bottom Of The Barrel |
| clipping. Splendor and Misery |
| clipping. Midcity |
| clipping. Wriggle |
| Clipse Lord Willin' |
| Code Orange I Am King |
| Code Orange Underneath |
| Convulsing Perdurance |
| Daath The Deceivers |
| Damageplan New Found Power |
| Danger Mouse and Black Thought Cheat Codes |
| Danny Brown The Hybrid |
| Danny Brown Stardust |
| Death Spiritual Healing |
| Decapitated Nihility |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Denzel Curry Imperial |
| Denzel Curry Zuu |
| Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future |
| This is a tough one to rate because some of the tracks here are absolutely brilliant, but then a good few tracks feel kind of inaccessible to me mood-wise like "John Wayne" (though I do like the imagery painted by the lyrics). And then tracks like "X-Wing" have a catchy hook and solid delivery, but the materialism comes off shallow compared to the heavy tone set by the opener; I do see how these are natural elements to Curry's expression, but the contrasts aren't as connected as they could be. Overall, I feel like this album unifies well as an overall vibe and mindset, but there're still some bumps along the way that keep it from being as focused as it can be. |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient |
| Dilated Peoples The Platform |
| Dr. Dre Compton |
| Drake Take Care |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Duck Duck Goose Off Yourself |
| Duck Duck Goose Noise, Noise and More Noise |
| Dying Fetus Make Them Beg for Death |
| Earl Sweatshirt Sick! |
| Earl Sweatshirt Live Laugh Love |
| EarthGang Mirrorland |
| EarthGang Shallow Graves For Toys |
| EarthGang Torba |
| El-P High Water |
| Eminem The Eminem Show |
| Eternal Storm A Giant Bound To Fall |
| Ever Forthright Ever Forthright |
| Everclear Sparkle And Fade |
| Eyedea and Abilities By the Throat |
| Faith No More King For A Day... Fool For A Lifetime |
| Fear Factory Genexus |
| Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine |
| Fear Factory Archetype |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony |
| Full of Hell Roots Of Earth Are Consuming My Home |
| Future of the Left The Plot Against Common Sense |
| Genesis Owusu Struggler |
| Glass Beach plastic death |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage |
| Gojira Terra Incognita |
| Gojira The Link |
| GoldLink At What Cost |
| GoldLink And After That, We Didn't Talk |
| Greyhaven Stereo Grief |
| Harlots The Woman You Saw Is The Great City |
| Helena Deland Goodnight Summerland |
| Hot Snakes Automatic Midnight |
| IDLES Ultra Mono |
| IDLES Crawler |
| Inclination Unaltered Perspective |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus |
| Intervals The Shape of Colour |
| Jaylib Champion Sound |
| JID God Does Like Ugly |
| Jinjer Cloud Factory |
| JPEGMAFIA Black Ben Carson |
| JPEGMAFIA EP! |
| Judas Priest Invincible Shield |
| Juicy J Ravenite Social Club |
| Junglepussy Satisfaction Guaranteed |
| Junglepussy Pregnant With Success |
| Kalmah Kalmah |
| Kendrick Lamar Overly Dedicated |
| King Missile Fluting On The Hump |
| Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks |
| Korn The Serenity of Suffering |
| Kublai Khan TX Absolute |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow |
| Lil Durk 7220 |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment |
| Little Simz Drop 6 |
| Little Simz A Curious Tale Of Trials + Persons |
| Little Simz Age 101: Drop 1 |
| Mac Miller Circles |
| Mac Miller Balloonerism |
| Machine Girl Neon White OST 2 - The Burn That Cures |
| Machine Girl Gemini |
| Machine Girl Psycho Warrior (MG Ultra X) |
| Machine Girl U-Void Synthesizer |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| Master Boot Record Personal Computer |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Matt Champion Mika's Laundry |
| mclusky My Pain and Sadness Is More Sad and Painful Than Yours |
| Melt-Banana Bambi's Dilemma |
| Melt-Banana Teeny Shiny |
| Melt-Banana 3+5 |
| Meshuggah Immutable |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Moody Good Moody Good |
| Muse Absolution |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth |
| Opeth Pale Communion |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum |
| Opeth The Last Will and Testament |
| Pan.Thy.Monium Khaooohs and Kon-Fus-Ion |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven |
| Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Land of Sleeper |
| Pitchshifter Industrial |
| Portishead Portishead |
| Pusha T It's Almost Dry |
| Pusha T My Name Is My Name |
| Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman... |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age |
| Quelle Chris Being You Is Great... |
| Quelle Chris Guns |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Raekwon Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way |
| Rihanna ANTI |
| RXKNephew Till I'm Dead |
| Sasha Xpander EP |
| Septicflesh Modern Primitive |
| Sepultura The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart |
| Sewerslvt Draining Love Story |
| SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes? |
| SKECH185 He Left Nothing for the Swim Back |
| Ski Mask The Slump God 11th Dimension |
| Slayer Show No Mercy |
| Slice the Cake Odyssey to the West |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Slugdge Esoteric Malacology |
| Soulfly Dark Ages |
| Static Dress Rouge Carpet Disaster |
| Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black |
| Strapping Young Lad Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| Tera Melos Patagonian Rats |
| TesseracT War of Being |
| The Alchemist This Thing Of Ours, Vol. 2 |
| The Algorithm CRITICAL.ERROR |
| The Algorithm Polymorphic Code |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant |
| The Contortionist Our Bones |
| The Offspring The Offspring |
| The Roots undun |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Tkay Maidza Sweet Justice |
| TLC FanMail |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Tool Opiate |
| Turnstile Nonstop Feeling |
| Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire |
| I don't see this being better than In a Flesh Aquarium or We, Invaders by any metric. There are great ideas, but the structures are a bit meandering, whereas on previous releases, the spastic quality was never out of place or unfocused, and every song had previously stuck out *almost* too much, but it landed because they were going full avant-garde. What they put more emphasis on with this release is enjoyable - more symphonic - but it also wears itself out before the end. One example is that the violinist on this release sounds fantastic, with some of the best parts of the album, but a lot of their parts also fulfill the same function in different compositions (drawn out melodic passages, regardless of other instrumentation - adds an interesting element harmonically, but the expectable nature of it counters their avant-garde strength). Overall, these bands members have already proven to be powerhouses, and while that isn't lacking on this release, I just don't feel that the tracks are distinguished from each other well enough. I can see why they'd feel dissuaded from touring with straight death metal groups, as they fit a specific in-between for spastic experimental prog metal. Here, they drop the spastic feel but keep the composition moving and it feels like something is missing. Still a great album, I just wish it didn't feel like the swansong of the discography. |
| Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse |
| I'd rate the best 5 tracks between 3.7 and 4.3. I'd rate the other 5 tracks between 2.6 and 3.4. Veil of Maya has the capacity to make inspired metal tunes that really get the blood pumping and hit just the right spot so you don't think about whatever formula was utilizing to create it. Then a lot of the stuff on here relies on kind of beginner phrasings / note patterns that doesn't really evoke nearly as strong of a visceral reaction. I wouldn't say anything on here is "bad," but some of these tracks do bore me to the point of never wanting to listen to the full album. But I'll still revisit for tracks like "Crawl Back," "Pillars," or "We Bow In It's Aura." |
| Vein.fm This World Is Going to Ruin You |
| Venetian Snares Doll Doll Doll |
| Vince Staples Dark Times |
| Vince Staples FM! |
| Vince Staples Prima Donna |
| Westside Gunn and MF DOOM Westside Doom |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile |
| Windowshopping Andromeda |
| Within the Ruins Phenomena II |
| Wormrot Dirge |
| Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever |
| 3.0 good |
| Action Bronson Blue Chips 7000 |
| Akala The Thieves Banquet |
| Anacrusis Screams and Whispers |
| This is probably gonna seem harsh, but I can see why this didn't really catch on. It's not bad technically. The compositions work. The performances are executed well. But I'm just not enjoying the vast majority of it. Most of it's not really evoking any feelings for me. I skimmed through some of the tracks looking for the part that'll draw me in, which isn't a good sign. Still, has some great ideas that indicated they were "ahead of the curb," whatever purpose that entails after the fact. |
| Assemble The Chariots Unyielding Night |
| Baby Keem DIE FOR MY BITCH |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors II |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata II |
| Biohazard Mata Leao |
| Brockhampton Iridescence |
| Bruno Mars 24K Magic |
| Buckethead Crime Slunk Scene |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Inflikted |
| Chance the Rapper Coloring Book |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? |
| Chimaira The Infection |
| City Morgue My Bloody America |
| CKY Volume 1 |
| clipping. Face |
| Cradle of Filth The Screaming of the Valkyries |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles |
| Daath The Hinderers |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| DevilDriver DevilDriver |
| Devin Townsend Empath |
| Devin Townsend Physicist |
| Devin Townsend Unplugged |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud |
| Divine Heresy Bleed the Fifth |
| Drake Nothing Was the Same |
| Dream Theater A View From The Top Of The World |
| Dream Theater Awake |
| Mother Mary quite contrary / Kiss the boys and make them wary / Things are getting just a little bit scary / It's a wonder I can still breathe / Never been much of a doubting Thomas / But nothing breaks like a broken promise / You tell me 'bout your two more coming / But once is just enough for me... BADASS. DUDE, THIS IS BADASS. MAKE THOSE BOYS WARY. |
| EarthGang Ghetto Gods |
| Econoline Crush The Devil You Know |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2 |
| Faith No More Album of the Year |
| Fear Factory Aggression Continuum |
| Fear Factory Transgression |
| Fear Factory Digimortal |
| Fires in the Distance Air Not Meant For Us |
| FKA Twigs Eusexua |
| Future of the Left The Peace and Truce of |
| Ghais Guevara There Will Be No Super-Slave |
| Glassjaw Material Control |
| God Complex He Watches In Silence |
| Gojira Fortitude |
| Green Day Saviors |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View |
| J. Cole Born Sinner |
| Job For A Cowboy Moon Healer |
| John Petrucci Terminal Velocity |
| JPEGMAFIA EP2! |
| JPEGMAFIA I Lay Down My Life For You (Director's Cut) |
| Kali Uchis Orquídeas |
| Kari Faux Cry 4 Help |
| Kendrick Lamar C4 |
| Killer Mike Michael |
| Korn The Nothing |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment 3 |
| Machine Head Of Kingdom And Crown |
| Machine Head Through The Ashes Of Empires |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand |
| Meshuggah Pitch Black |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis |
| Motograter Motograter |
| Mudvayne Mudvayne |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Mushroomhead XX |
| Orion Sun Hold Space For Me |
| Pantera Reinventing the Steel |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill |
| Pantera Power Metal |
| Parius The Signal Heard Throughout Space |
| Pitchshifter PSI |
| Pitchshifter Deviant |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium |
| Sadistik x Kno Bring Me Back When the World Is Cured |
| Sepultura Roots |
| Sia Colour the Small One |
| Silent Planet Superbloom |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter |
| Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre Missionary |
| Squarepusher Ufabulum |
| State Of Mind Nil By Ear |
| Steven Seagal Songs From the Crystal Cave |
| There's something that only Steven Seagull can bring to this that somehow makes the the whole experience fall into a magical daze. Sure, some tracks on here are HOT GARBAGE, but if you don't think Mikael Akerfeldt would fit on "Dance," you need to clean your ears out, bub. |
| Stone Sour Stone Sour |
| The Acacia Strain Step Into The Light |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne |
| The Offspring Americana |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Tkay Maidza Switch Tape |
| tsosis Second Nature |
| Uneven Structure Februus |
| Veil of Maya [id] |
| Veil of Maya's 2nd album has the same strengths and weaknesses as the 1st album but pushed a little further. The strong songs are very obvious, and the weak songs continue to be kind of blatantly bland and not really evoking any particular emotion. That said, the strong songs do generally feel like accomplishments and solidify this band as a staple in their scene, it's just kind of unfortunate that their albums vary quite a bit in quality between tracks. Also, the lyrics were worse here compared to that of their previous vocalist. Recommended tracks: First 3 tracks + Mowgli into Namaste. |
| Vended Vended |
| Vildhjarta + där sjunger under evighetens granar + |
| Vince Staples Vince Staples |
| Violent Soho Hungry Ghost |
| Whitechapel The Valley |
| 2.5 average |
| 1 800 PAIN BEST HOUSE ON A BAD BLOCK |
| A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe |
| Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But A Dream... |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking The Fallen |
| Went back to this album for the first time in over a decade, and I've gotta say... I'm not the biggest fan of nostalgia. The only track I didn't just skip through to remind myself how it goes is the last song; It just doesn't feel like a valuable and engaging use of my time now that I know what music can do. It's like this album is overcome by the mentality that generic metalcore with churchy white boy R n B melodies is unironically epically cool just because they know how to harmonize guitars over basic chord progressions. It's an okay pop metalcore record, but regarding prog, the level of dramatic delivery + the lyricism suggests more teenage "you just can't understand me" emo, and the vast majority of the guitar work doesn't actually make up for it. It just doesn't mesh. I'm bored. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare |
| Behold... The Arctopus Hapeleptic Overtrove |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I |
| Beyonce Dangerously in Love |
| Beyonce Cowboy Carter |
| Boogie Down Productions Criminal Minded |
| Cee Lo Green The Lady Killer |
| Chance the Rapper Acid Rap |
| Chance the Rapper 10 Day |
| CKY Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild |
| Curse of the Golden Vampire Mass Destruction |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Deftones Ohms |
| Deftones private music |
| Denzel Curry King of the Mischievous South |
| Idk, I feel like every track added on here after Vol 2 isn't above average, and slipping it in the track list to "make it breathe" just means there's songs where I disengage. Messes up the flow of what was short and sweet. Feels like b-sides to me. On the new tracks, the choruses don't really sound like choruses to me. I'd rather revisit the other version. |
| Drake If You're Reading This It's Too Late |
| Dream Theater Falling Into Infinity |
| Eminem Kamikaze |
| Eminem Music To Be Murdered By |
| Eminem Music To Be Murdered By: Side B |
| Fear Factory The Industrialist |
| Fousheé sofCORE |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand |
No offense to anyone who enjoys this, but literally every song on here sounds like something
someone already did better at the point this album was released. |
| Future and Metro Boomin WE DON'T TRUST YOU |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades |
| J. Cole Cole World: The Sideline Story |
| Korn See You on the Other Side |
| Just listened to this album for the first time (it's 2024). Polarizing, to say the least. There are some surprisingly progressive moments on some tracks, but then other tracks just have absolute radio pop tripe from the worst inclinations of the early-to-mid 2000s. A few moments made me laugh. Nothing deep about this one. I do think the range of sonic tendencies to these styles can be pretty interesting, but then it might get undermined by a bad lyric or melody, but Jonathan Davis still does a great job on a few of these tracks. If I cut out the bad songs, this could be like a 3.3, and if I cut out the good songs, it's like a 1.9. |
| Korn Take a Look in the Mirror |
| Korn Untouchables |
| Lil B I'm Thraxx |
| Lil Durk Almost Healed |
| Love Is Noise To Live In A Different Way |
| Meshuggah Ejaculation Of Salvation |
| Metallica 72 Seasons |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy |
| Mindless Self Indulgence You'll Rebel To Anything |
| Mudvayne Lost and Found |
| PARTYNEXTDOOR PARTYNEXTDOOR FOUR |
| Gaaaahhhh it's pretty good hook-up music but it's also transparent about why music like that can be bad too |
| Periphery Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre |
| Kinda samey. The parts that aren't samey are random breaks. Song structure is only vaguely relevant. Periphery is one of those bands where I could complain to the point where it sounds like I'm talking shit, but those complaints are inherent in the strengths of their identity, so there isn't any real point in complaining. I'm not going to get subtlety, or tasteful ambience / dynamic interplay, or meaningful / significant song progressions, or any experimentation that doesn't have some level of safety to it already established in its genre, but that's okay, because Periphery has been doing this long enough for me to not have to critically analyze my expectations. Still, not bad. They can djent. They can sort of do pop. It works. It's just a lot of the same. |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Recoil Bloodline |
| Remi Wolf Big Ideas |
| Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad |
| Serj Tankian Elect the Dead |
| Siena Liggins Ms. Out Tonight |
| The Glitch Mob Drink the Sea |
| Thrice Horizons/West |
| Thrice Horizons/East |
| thrown Excessive Guilt |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| Veil of Maya Eclipse |
| Spud Nick. I don't care about this. Do you? Ugh. |
| Veil of Maya False Idol |
| Veil of Maya Matriarch |
| Veil of Maya All Things Set Aside |
| Veil of Maya [m]other |
| Wintersun Warning |
| ZelooperZ Moszel Offline |
| 2.0 poor |
| 21 Savage The Slaughter Tape |
| "I ain't no lame; I really sold cocaine!" *slow claps* |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold |
| Uggghhhhh. The lyrics are surface level to a very obvious detriment. This is actually the vocalist's best performance. Unfortunately, the instrumentation doesn't really try to go wild like it did on City of Evil, and instead becomes overly uniform for accessibility, which is odd because this is supposed to be more experimental, but it really doesn't feel like it. Can't really expect the level of awareness that establishes this band as an effective experimental prog group when they're writing "balls to the wall radio tunes" that overgeneralize anyone who doesn't think like them. A little more thought would've gone a long way. |
| Busta Rhymes Blockbusta |
| Chimaira The Age of Hell |
| Code Orange The Above |
| While I'm generally down for style shifts, this doesn't feel like the song-writing is developed enough in what they're veering towards. The Billy Corgan feature sounds like it was written in high school, which isn't awful, but it didn't really convey anything significant for me. I have no interest in revisiting like half of these tracks. Best of luck to Code Orange in the future, as I do wish for them to create music they enjoy, I just hope it feels like more than a well-produced b-sides / demo. I've always thought they have a ton of potential, and I feel that more now, but more because it feels like they're regressing a lil bit to primarily paying homage. And hey, didn't Frontierer use the phrase that holds the Drone song together? |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web |
| Deftones Gore |
| Eminem The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) |
| Incubus (USA-CA) If Not Now, When? |
| Metallica St. Anger |
| Metallica Load |
| Pitch Black Forecast As the World Burns |
| First track is pretty solid, but the rest of the album gets too basic and generic for me pretty fast. |
| Slipknot The End, So Far |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| The Algorithm The Doppler Effect |
| TiaCorine I Can't Wait |
