| 4.5 superb |
| ...and Oceans Cosmic World Mother |
'Musical equivalent of a flamethrower', seemed unmemorable in the beginning but grew well
over time. |
| Akhlys Melinoe |
| Amorphis Borderland |
| Amorphis go full pop, excel at that, and win. Perhaps their most accessible and entertaining record, exceptionally catchy. |
| An Abstract Illusion Woe |
| Anathema Judgement |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks |
| Angizia Das Schachbrett des Trommelbuben Zacharias |
| Perfectly balanced for once, full of piano and violin swirling along in a wild-eyed dance. Fantastic bittersweet melodies, both joyful and having a touch of drama. Screams are gone for good and storytelling is at its peak. A classic of 'circus metal' even if there's not a lot of metal left, but who cares. |
| Anthesteria Beyond Nimbostratus |
| Anthesteria Eis |
| Apocryphos/Kammarheit/Atrium Carceri Onyx |
| Apoptose Die Zukunft |
| Apoptose Ana Liil |
| More 'timelapse pop' than previously characteristic 'glacial ambient', still a superb, deeply haunting record. |
| Apoptose Bannwald |
| Apoptose Die Zeit und die Dunkelheit |
| The darker side of Berliner schule, timelapse glacier pop with a larger dose of ambient. "An album for those who hear the forest breathe." |
| Aran Pimeyttä Vasten |
| Moody autumnal black metal in Cascadian vein with a touch of dungeon synth, bleak as a day in November. "Two hunters from the thousand lakes" as somebody named it, perfect late autumn mood captured in long WITTR-style compositions. And while some of us do enjoy raw and messy burzumish production, perhaps this is the biggest improvement point on this one. As strong as Veden Varjoista debut, a very talented work in every other aspect, top-notch in conjuring the atmosphere. |
| Aran Veden Varjoista |
| Aran Maahan Laskettu |
| As always with Aran, perfect music for October/November. |
| Arcana Coelestia Le Mirage de L’idéal |
| Arcturus Arcturian |
| Arcturus Sideshow Symphonies |
| Arvo Part Tabula Rasa |
| Arvo Part Miserere |
| Arvo Part De Profundis |
| Arvo Part Da pacem |
| Arvo Part Spiegel im Spiegel |
| Ascending Divers My Garden |
| Top notch symphonic ambient with a ghostly touch of HOEDh and some echoing trumpets of Deaf Center. |
| Asphyxia Sense Of Decay |
| Bad Sector Dolmen Factory |
| Bad Sector Kosmodrom |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall In Middle-Earth |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Caladan Brood Echoes Of Battle |
| Canaan A Calling To Weakness |
| CeDigest Walking in the Flesh |
| Circular (GER) Ghostwhite |
| Coil Moon's Milk (In Four Phases) |
| Coil Spring Equinox |
| Coil Summer Solstice |
| Coil Winter Solstice |
| Coil Autumn Equinox |
| Coldworld Autumn |
| Coldworld Interludium |
| Simple but really haunting ambient pieces with a drop of black metal, very atmospheric. |
| Comaduster Hollow Worlds |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast - Re-Mistressed |
| Cradle of Filth Vempire, Dark Faerytales in Phallustein |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway |
| Current 93 Sleep Has His House |
| Current 93 Soft Black Stars |
| Current 93 Thunder Perfect Mind |
| Current 93 The Seahorse Rears To Oblivion |
| While being merely 4 versions of one song, this is among C93's best. My absolute favorite from Tibet, actually. |
| Dark Tranquillity Projector |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction |
| Dark Tranquillity Character |
| Dark Tranquillity Haven |
| Darkspace Dark Space III |
| David Darling Cello |
| Dead Can Dance Anastasis |
| Dead Can Dance Aion |
| Dead Can Dance The Serpent's Egg |
| Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun |
| Death in June Ostenbraun |
| Death in June / Les Joyaux de la Princesse Ostenbraun |
| Desiderii Marginis Departed |
| Die Sektor (-)Existence(+) |
| Perhaps the peak of Die sektor's discog - violent, chaotic, intricate, varied and catchy at times. |
| Die Sektor Applied Structure In A Void |
| Die Sektor make their first huge step in the direction which defines them as a truly unique, outstanding stuff. |
| Diorama A Substitute For Light |
| Yet once again a fantastic galore of darkwave/futurepop hymns, stark and mature this time around. |
| Diorama Her Liquid Arms |
| Diorama The Art Of Creating Confusing Spirits |
| Diorama Zero Soldier Army |
| Diorama Synthesize Me |
| Diorama A Different Life |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane |
| Drawn A New World? |
| Fans of (early) In The Woods... must check this little jewel out. Christer-Andre Cederberg is the lead in this band. [2] |
| Dreadful Shadows Buried Again |
| Dreadful Shadows Beyond the Maze |
| Duskmourn Fallen Kings and Rusted Crowns |
| Genuinely surprised that this is not number 1 epic melodeath band in charts, this record is head and shoulders above the competitors, catchy as hell. |
| Duskmourn Of Shadow and Flame |
| Duskmourn Legends |
| Outstanding debut, showcasing that you can do great without inventing anything, yet "if you just do things right it's enough". To the Land Beyond sounds like "our version of Tristania is better than the original Tristania". |
| Elend Winds Devouring Men |
| Elend Lecons de Tenebres |
| Enshine Elevation |
One of Lindholm's highs, a very enjoyable travel through space. My favorite Enshine, on
Slumber level, amazing stuff. |
| Ethereal Shroud They Became the Falling Ash |
| Evoking Winds Your Rivers |
| A big step up in consistency and maturity, continuing the path of Bald mountain and surpassing the predecessor in every way. Somewhat reminding Graveworm formula of mixing death, black and symphonic but with quite different sound and mood, overall a top quality epic/folk BM record. |
| Finntroll Midnattens Widunder |
| Finntroll Jaktens Tid |
| Fires in the Distance Air Not Meant For Us |
| Excellent by-the-book melo-doom-death, no re-inventing the wheel but very harmonious and highly enjoyable. Almost as great as Slumber's classic Fallout. |
| Gernotshagen Ode Naturae |
| Much in vein of their Thuringian neighbors Menhir, German nature/folk metal at its best. For fans of Saor, Cain Bardd, Falkenbach etc. |
| Gernotshagen Weltenbrand |
| Graveworm As The Angels Reach The Beauty |
| Graveworm Scourge of Malice |
| A bit of a step down from the grandeur symphonies of As Angels Reach The Beauty but still very solid and highly engaging melodic trademark Graveworm black-death metal. Waltz of In Vengeance Of Our Wrath is just beautiful. |
| Gridlock (USA-SF) Formless |
| Haggard And Thou Shalt Trust the Seer |
| Haggard Tales of Ithiria |
| Haggard Awaking the Centuries |
| Havukruunu Uinuos Syömein Sota |
| Heavenwood Diva |
| How to Disappear Completely Mer de Revs III |
| How to Disappear Completely Mer de Revs II |
| How to Disappear Completely Mer de Revs I |
| Hypocrisy Abducted |
| Hypocrisy The Final Chapter |
| IAMX Metanoia |
| Ice Ages Coma |
Surprisingly enough, somehow this upbeat and 'dance-able' Ice Ages is even more appealing
than old aggressive/mechanical one. Probably my favorite, epic melodies. |
| Ice Ages Parasiting Dreams |
| Keeps getting more melodic, dynamic and spacious, Richard keeps up. |
| Imbaru Trukur |
| In the Woods... Strange In Stereo |
| In the Woods... Heart Of The Ages |
| In the Woods... Three Times Seven On A Pilgrimage |
| Check Stille Oppror if you need more of this melancholy. |
| Iszoloscope All is immensity and chaos |
| Harsh techno-based IDM blending into rhythm'n'noise with elements of dark ambience, aggressive yet melodic, the strongest Iszoloscope to date. |
| Iszoloscope False Vacuum |
| Julee Cruise Floating into the Night |
| Kirlian Camera Nightglory |
| Lake of Tears The Neonai |
| Lake of Tears A Crimson Cosmos |
| LEAK The old teahouse |
| Les Joyaux de la Princesse Ostenbraun |
| Les Joyaux de la Princesse In Memoriam |
| Les Joyaux de la Princesse Die Weisse Rose (with Regard Extreme) |
| Letum The Entrance to Salvation |
Excellent CMI-style dark ambient, on par with the best from Raison d'etre and Desiderii
Marginis. |
| Limbonic Art In Abhorrence Dementia |
| Loreena McKennitt The Visit |
| Maeror Tri Yearning for the Secret of Nature |
| Maeror Tri Sensuum Mendacia / Somnia |
| Mari Boine Gávcci jahkejuogu - Eight Seasons |
| Mari Boine Alva |
| One of the Mari's very best, a pure gem of neofolk fusion. |
| Marianne Faithfull A Secret Life |
| Music written and arranged by Angelo Badalamenti on this LP. |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals |
| Menhir Hildebrandslied |
| Menhir Ziuwari |
| Metatron Omega Sanctum |
| Michael Nyman The Piano |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind |
| Moonlight Sorcery Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle |
| 'Stormkeep meets early Children of Bodom', a power/black metal hurricane, nearly a perfect album. Metal AOTY so far. |
| Moonlight Sorcery Piercing Through the Frozen Eternity |
| Overall excellent EP, additional +0.5 goes for Wolven Hour which is just perfect. |
| Moonsorrow Jumalten Aika |
| Moonsorrow Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa |
| Moonsorrow Verisäkeet |
| Moonsorrow Suden Uni |
| Moonspell Extinct |
| Moonspell Irreligious |
| Morgul The Horror Grandeur |
| Morgul Sketch Of Supposed Murderer |
| Mount Shrine Secluded Loops |
| While formally being a "compilation that features some tracks created around the same time as the ones from Winter Restlessness", this sounds like a solid album, minimal and beautiful. |
| Mount Shrine Southeast Limits |
| Mount Shrine The Mount Hibiki Tapes |
| Nature and Organisation Death in a Snow Leopard Winter |
| Neronoia Un Mondo In Me |
| Neronoia Il Rumore delle Cose |
| Neronoia Sapore di Luce e di Pietra |
| Nest (FIN) Woodsmoke |
| Nest (FIN) Trail of the Unwary |
| Neuroticfish A Sign Of Life |
| Neuroticfish Les Chansons Neurotiques |
| Neuroticfish Gelb |
| Niklas Sundin Wattudragaren |
| Peaceful, soothing and rich soundscapes from DT's guitarist, top quality ambient. |
| nolongerhuman Marionette |
| Very distinct flavor of rather straightforward kind of harsh electro, and a favorite electronic album of 2023. |
| Old Sorcery The Escapist |
| A psychedelic fairytale with vast lush mountains, goblins, mushrooms, magicians and alchemy. Top-notch dungeon synth and beyond. |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi |
| Paradise Lost Draconian Times MMXI |
| Paradise Lost Icon |
| Penitence Onirique Nature Morte |
| Top notch meloblack with a character, intense and elegant, great melodies and songwriting. |
| Philip Glass Glassworks |
| Psychonaut 4 Beautyfall |
| Raison D'Etre Alchymeia |
| Raison D'Etre In Sadness, Silence and Solitude |
| Raison D'Etre Mise en Abyme |
One of the darkest works of Raison d'etre incarnation of Peter Andersson, starting heavy and
gloomy, getting lighter in the second half. |
| Rome Masse Mensch Material |
| Rotersand Random is Resistance |
| Rotersand Welcome to Goodbye |
| Rotersand Waiting To Be Born |
| Saor Roots |
| Saor Aura |
| Saor Guardians |
| Saturnus The Storm Within |
In the realm of Saturnus it's still 1997, a perfect time machine transporting me to my
teens. Solo finalizing Chasing Ghosts is just beautiful.
Saw them live the other day, highly recommend. |
| Saturnus Veronika Decides To Die |
| Saturnus Saturn In Ascension |
| Sephiroth Draconian Poetry |
| Sephiroth Cathedron |
| Shrine Celestial Fire |
Quite intense, almost abrasive 'power ambient' while remaining harmonious and sullen,
excellent 'pre-apocalyptic' stuff. |
| Shrine Quintessence |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Slumber Fallout |
| Sonic Area Music for Ghosts |
| Fantastic swirling, glitchy, theatrical, textured infernal street-organ of rhythmic industrial. One of the best ant-zen releases. |
| Sopor Aeternus and The Ensemble of Shadows Dead Lovers Sarabande (Face One) |
| Sopor Aeternus and The Ensemble of Shadows Dead Lovers Sarabande (Face Two) |
| Stendeck Scintilla |
| Stille Opprör S.o2 |
| Stille Oppror S.o2 |
| A virtually unknown melancholic rock of In the woods' member Christer Andr Cederberg, ethereal, cozy and overwhelmingly sad. A personal 5, on par with Three times seven on a pilgrimage. |
| Stormkeep Tales of Othertime |
| Summoning Minas Morgul |
| Summoning Nightshade Forests |
| Sun of the Blind Skullreader |
| Hazy smudged psychedelic shoegaze, doom and black metal in equal parts, very darkspacey, brooding, menacing while cold and still, huge songwriting talent. Highly memorable, fantastic atmospheres. |
| Tactical Sekt Syncope |
| Tenhi Kauan |
| Tenhi Maaaet |
| Tenhi Folk Aesthetic 1996-2006 |
| The Angelic Process We All Die Laughing |
| The Angelic Process Sigh |
| The Legendary Pink Dots Hallway of the Gods |
| The Legendary Pink Dots Any Day Now |
| The Legendary Pink Dots So Lonely In Heaven |
| My most favorite album of all late LPD which had a number of bright moments already (Angel in the detail, Pages of Aquarius), as in the golden glorious days. Edward turns 72 this year and still creates such poignant poetic fairy tales, hats off. |
| The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus Mirror |
| The Void Wanderer Life is Exhausting |
| Clearly inspired by Mount Shrine's work (with the first track name hinting on that) yet maintaining his own style, soothing mellow drones with some rains in the back. Exceptionally crafted comforting ambient, a refuge for troubled times. |
| The Void Wanderer Silent Streets |
| More of excellent foggy ambient in vein of Mount Shrine, perfect for rainy days. |
| Therion Theli |
| Tiamat Gaia |
| Tineidae Exo |
| One of the best electronic ambient records I'm aware of, with a nod to Vangelis' Blade Runner OST and Berlin school. A journey into the vast space with great storytelling. The only flaw is noisy beginning of 'Metal claws', which does not really fit. |
| Tineidae & Sole Massif Remnants of War |
| As outstanding as Tineidae's Exo, fantastic cinematic space ambient. |
| Tristania Widow's Weeds |
| Tristania Beyond The Veil |
| Troum Tjukurrpa (Part Two: Drones) |
| Troum Sigqan |
| Troum Tjukurrpa (Part Three: Rhythms And Pulsations) |
| Troum EmphasYs |
| Somewhat minimalist in technique, with only single one instrument used per track, unfolds in drone symphonies Troum have once pioneered. Solemn, dramatic and peaceful harmonies, one of Troum's pinnacles. |
| Troum and Yen Pox Mnemonic Induction |
| Ulf Söderberg Tidvatten |
| Ulf Söderberg Nattljus |
| Ulf Söderberg Vindarnas Hus |
| Ulf Söderberg Inland |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun |
| Uruk-Hai A Night In the Forest |
| Dungeon synth and ambient in equal parts, an enchanting journey through fantasy landscapes. |
| Velvet Acid Christ Fun With Knives |
| Vorgashore turn towards Pechora |
| Vorgashore farewell to Pechora |
| Windir Arntor |
| Winter Soul Reactor |
| Wodensthrone Curse |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage |
| Wonders Of Nature Kola Peninsula |
| Wumpscut Embryodead |
| Wumpscut Boeses Junges Fleisch |
| Xentrifuge Light Extinguished |
| Xentrifuge Converting Infinity |
| Year of No Light Ausserwelt |
| Yearning Evershade |
| Yen Pox Between The Horizon And The Abyss |
| [:SITD:] Odyssey: 13 |
| 4.0 excellent |
| ...and Oceans As in Gardens, So in Tombs |
| Maybe just one tiny bit less exciting than Cosmic World Mother, still excellent. |
| ...and Oceans The Regeneration Itinerary |
| Okay I give up, after several jams I admit it's great and highlights are real high. Even though I still enjoy it less than the previous two which is a tad sad. |
| A7IE Occidere Mundi |
| A7IE Tabula Rasa |
| Absurd Minds Damn The Lie |
| Absurd Minds The Focus |
| Great German EBM synthpop for fans of Re:Legion, [:SITD:] and (of course) Project Pitchfork. |
| Access to Arasaka Orbitus |
| Access to Arasaka Geosynchron |
| Ah Cama-Sotz Dead Cities |
| Dark tribal industrial-tinged techno with a good dose of ambient, some moody chorals and even some dub. |
| Akhlys The Dreaming I |
| Aldaaron Par-Delà Les Cimes |
| A very nice wintry French meloblack for fans of Penitence Onirique and Wodensthrone. |
| Alessandro Cortini Forse 3 |
| Alio Die Horas Tibi Serenas |
| Alio Die Aura Seminalis |
| Alio Die Deconsecrated and Pure |
| Allseits Dedalus |
| Altar of Plagues White Tomb |
| Amanda Palmer I Can Spin a Rainbow |
| Amber Tears Ключ к декабрю |
| Practically unknown, surprisingly a top-ranking doom metal stuff deserving more attention and recognition. |
| Amorphis Queen of Time |
| Amorphis Elegy |
| Amorphis Tuonela |
| Amorphis Tales From The Thousand Lakes |
| Amorphis Eclipse |
| Amorphis Under the Red Cloud |
| Amorphis Skyforger |
| Amorphis Silent Waters |
| Amorphis Circle |
| An Abstract Illusion Illuminate the Path |
| An Abstract Illusion The Sleeping City |
| A little less consistent and a bit more meandering than Woe but still pretty solid and well-varied, great songwriting as always. Sounds somewhat crammed in production and clean singing in Frost Flower is plain bad, not many more complaints. |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here |
| Angizia Das Tagebuch der Hanna Anikin |
| Sophomore album from German avant-garde wandering circus sees the same unbridled piano-driven cabaret with some metal ornamentation and even trumpets added to the mix, more macabre singing and less black metal screams which is a clear improvement. |
| Angizia Die Kemenaten scharlachroter Lichter |
| Outstanding debut which sounded like nothing else, full of haunting waltzy piano arpeggios and violins, dance macabre theatrics with some rather uninspired black metal screams. This unique sound would peak a couple of years later, but this writing venture is very enjoyable even today. |
| Anthesteria Nebesnaya |
| Antigone's Fate Zum Horizont... |
| Aodon Portraits |
| Usually not into French BM here but this one is outstanding, on par with the best from Blut Aus Nord. |
| Aoratos Gods Without Name |
| Apocryphos Against Civilization |
| Apocryphos/Kammarheit/Atrium Carceri Echo |
| Apoptose Maria durch ein Dornwald ging |
| Apoptose Schattenmädchen |
| Arcana Cantar De Procella |
| Arcana ...The Last Embrace |
| Arcana Dark Age of Reason |
| Arcana Inner Pale Sun |
| Arcana Coelestia Ubi Secreta Colunt |
| Arcana Coelestia Nomas |
| Arcturus Shipwrecked in Oslo |
| Arvo Part Kanon Pokajanen |
| Arvo Part Lamentate |
| Arvo Part Arbos |
| Askeesi The Roots Of A Sacred Tree |
| Askeesi & Kalmankantaja Return To Nothingness |
| Askeesi's Anhedonia is outstanding, one of the best black/doom metal songs I've ever heard. |
| Assemblage 23 Storm |
| Atrium Carceri Metropolis |
| Autumn (USA) The Hating Tree |
| Autumn (USA) Return to the breath |
| Bad Sector Plasma |
| Bann Aeschatologia |
| Gloomy theatrical metal drenched in "medieval" spirit, much in vein of classical 90's Angizia but less piano-driven. Might sound a bit nerdy and poorly produced but excellent dance macabre atmospheres and melodies. Finale of Carmina Necrologia is epic. |
| Belore Artefacts |
| Belore Journey Through Mountains and Valleys |
| Belore Eastern Tales |
| Blast Radius Define, Redefine |
| Darker melodic IDM with nice buildups tightly wrapped in soft layers of high-frequency noise. |
| Blind Guardian Imaginations From The Other Side |
| Blind Guardian Somewhere Far Beyond |
| Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere |
| Blut Aus Nord Ethereal Horizons |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Sunset Mission |
| Borknagar True North |
| BRUIT The Machine Is Burning... |
| Burzum Filosofem |
| While it's maybe sort of genre-defining, Filosofem didn't age that well. The first half remains a very raw and immersive music for "when the sun goes down and chill arises from the soil", the second half is rather bland and uninteresting. Distortion on vox sounds great though. |
| Can Bardd Devoured by the Oak |
| Canaan Il Giorno Dei Campanelli |
| Canaan Images From A Broken Self |
| Canaan Blue Fire |
| Canaan Walk Into My Open Womb |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Hydroponic Garden |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Interloper |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Derelicts |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Seeker |
| Chaostar Chaostar |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper |
| Clannad Landmarks |
| Code 64 Departure |
| Coil The Ape Of Naples |
| Cold Body Radiation The Great White Emptiness |
| Cold In May Gone away with the memories |
| Colosseum (Fin) Chapter I: Delirium |
| Comaduster Solace |
| Comaduster Darker Matter |
| Comaduster Memory Echoes |
| As layered and intricate as it is melodic and emotional, high complexity IDM with a touch of dubstep, industrial and even synth-pop, Comaduster ventures further into vast, ever-expanding spaces, as intense as ever. Following the steps of Gridlock and Stendeck, still sounding like nobody else. |
| Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace |
| Cradle of Filth Dusk and Her Embrace - The Original Sin |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner |
| Current 93 All the Pretty Little Horses |
| Current 93 Where The Long Shadows Fall: Beforetheinmostlight |
| Current 93 Judas As Black Moth |
| CygnosiC Fallen |
| Dahlia's Tear Through the Nightfall Grandeur |
| Dahlia's Tear Adrift on the Edge of Infinity |
| Dahlia's Tear Across the Shifting Abyss |
| Dahlia's Tear Descendants of the Moon |
| Dargaard In Nomine Aeternitatis |
| Dark Tranquillity Atoma |
| Dark Tranquillity Moment |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done |
| Dark Tranquillity The Mind's I |
| Today, 26 years since I first heard this in 97, it's still wildly dynamic and overall exciting journey. |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery |
| Darkseed Diving Into Darkness |
| Darkseed Ultimate Darkness |
| Darkspace Dark Space III I |
| Darkspace Dark Space II |
| Daturah Reverie |
| Daturah Daturah |
| David Darling Cello Blue |
| David Darling Eight String Religion |
| David Galas The Cataclysm |
| David Galas The Happiest Days of My Life |
| David Galas The Ghosts of California |
| David Galas A Long Hard Road To Nowhere |
| David Galas Rituals Of The Dead |
| David goes ambient with occasional sparks of noise rock, different but excellent. |
| David Galas October Rising |
| Adding this one to the database failed, this is it https://davidgalas.bandcamp.com/album/october-rising |
| David Galas A Dark Place To Hide |
| Deaf Center Pale Ravine |
| Death Symbolic |
| Death in June Take Care and Control |
| Death in June Operation Hummingbird |
| Death in June Rose Clouds of Holocaust |
| Desiderii Marginis Hypnosis |
| Desiderii Marginis Procession |
| Desiderii Marginis Songs Over Ruins |
| Desiderii Marginis Deadbeat |
| Desiderii Marginis Seven Sorrows |
| Desiderii Marginis Bathe In Black Light |
| Deutsch Nepal Deflagration of Hell |
| Deutsch Nepal Benevolence |
| Diaphane Lifeforms |
| Brooding, deep, intense glitch IDM bordering dubstep, one more highlight from ant-zen. |
| Die Sektor To Be Fed Upon |
| While I very much like the debut, it's a lot more classical dark electro/aggrotech than later weird-glitch-dubstep works which make Die Sektor really stand out. Very enjoyable aggressive dance-able electronics still. |
| Die Sektor The final electro solution |
| Die Verbannten Kinder Evas Come Heavy Sleep |
| Die Verbannten Kinder Evas In Darkness Let Me Dwell |
| Die Verbannten Kinder Evas Dusk And Void Became Alive |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant |
| Dimmu Borgir Spiritual Black Dimensions |
| Din Brad Dor |
| A free dive into the darker side of Romanian folk music, mournful and deep. Sometimes reminding of the best moments of Goran Bregovic's 'Dom za vesanje' soundtrack. |
| Diorama Tiny Missing Fragments |
| Diorama Amaroid |
| Diorama Cubed |
| Dismantled PostNuclear |
| Dismantled Dismantled |
| Dispar Autumn Ends |
| Dissection The Somberlain |
| Drawn Bow Visions |
| Druadan Forest The Lost Dimension |
| Looks like a Summoning worship at a glance, but has quite more to offer from doom metal solos to extra emphasis on dungeon synth. Maybe a bit incoherent at times but quite epic and overall very pleasant, excellent melodies and progressions. |
| Duskmourn Duskmourn |
| E-L-R Vexier |
| Edward Ka-Spel Tales From The Trenches |
| Edward Ka-Spel Alien Subspace (with Motion Kapture) |
| Less glitchy and abrasive than The Tear Garden, more 80s space electronics, one of the best of Edward's later works. |
| Edward Ka-Spel A Monument to Wasted Tears |
| Elend Sunwar The Dead |
| Elend A World in Their Screams |
| Elend Weeping Nights |
| Eluveitie Slania |
| Eluveitie Ànv |
| Emancipator Dusk to Dawn |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
| Emyn Muil Elenion Ancalima |
| Great Summoning worship with an extra pinch of musical ideas, not quite on the level but well worth it. |
| Emyn Muil Afar Angathfark |
| Enshine Origin |
| Nice but unfortunately not really on Slumber's Fallout level. |
| Enshine Singularity |
| Ereb Altor Vargtimman |
| One of their best releases, the singing might be a bit awkward as usual but the melodies and atmospheres are excellent. |
| Ereb Altor Nattramn |
| Estatic Fear A Sombre Dance |
| Evoking Winds Echoes |
| Fathomage Autumn's Dawn, Winter's Darkness |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture |
| Feindflug Sterbehilfe |
| Feindflug Feindflug |
| Feindflug Hirnschlacht |
| Fever Ray Fever Ray |
| Fever Ray Stranger Than Kindness/Here Before |
| Finntroll Vredesvävd |
| Finntroll Trollhammaren |
| Finntroll Visor Om Slutet |
| Finntroll Nattfödd |
| Finntroll Natten Med de Levande Finntroll |
| Fog Warning Perils Below |
| Forest of Shadows Departure |
| Forest of Shadows The Silent Cry |
| Forgotten Woods The Curse of Mankind |
| Forlorat Bury Me in Winter |
| Forlorn Citadel An Oath Undone |
| Excellent Summoning worship with a nostalgic 90s feel, no ground broken but it's like straight from good old times, good songwriting and great atmospheres. |
| Forlorn Citadel Ashen Dirge of Kingslain |
| Francisco Lopez Wind [Patagonia] |
| Front Line Assembly Improvised Electronic Device |
| Frozen Plasma Monumentum |
| Gary Numan Savage (Songs from a Broken World) |
| Gernotshagen Mare aus Waldernen Hallen |
| Ghoest The Majestic End |
| Goran Bregovic Dom za vesanje |
| Grab Zeitlang |
| Grab Kremess |
| Sinister atmospheres and great melodies throughout, head and shoulders above average atmoblack. |
| Graveworm Engraved In Black |
| Haavard Haavard |
| Haggard Eppur si muove |
| Havayoth His Creation Reversed |
Very nice soft romantic rock with Vintersorg's vox, solos and piano, memorable and nostalgic.
Needs a cover picture update. |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Havukruunu Kelle Surut Soi |
| Havukruunu Tavastland |
| Moonsorrow-level stuff with their own attitude, as great as it gets. |
| Heartwire Heartwork |
| Heavenwood The Tarot Of The Bohemians |
| Heid (SWE) Pilgrim Of The Sublunary World |
| A disturbing and equally beautiful soundscape, not an album but a compilation of pieces recorded between 1997 and 1999. |
| Heimataerde Gotteskrieger |
| 2021 remaster of this classic sounds so crisp clear. |
| Heimataerde Kadavergehorsam |
| Heimataerde Leben Geben Leben Nehmen |
| Heimataerde Unwesen |
| Broken mellow harsh electro synth-pop at its best, the last top-notch album, a little more dancey than previous but still unique blend of medieval melodies and harsh electornics. Guitars are present but the sound is not yet oversimplified. Stille is an amazing instrumental, Malitia Angelica is a hit. |
| How to Disappear Completely The Quietus |
| Hyperion (SWE) Seraphical Euphony |
| Hypocrisy Virus |
| Hypocrisy The Arrival |
| IAMX Volatile Times |
| IAMX The Unified Field |
| IAMX Kingdom of Welcome Addiction |
| Ice Ages This Killing Emptiness |
| Imbaru El Cerro Y La Penumbra |
| Imbaru Las Cadenas Del Epitafio |
| Imbaru De la Tierra a la Aurora |
| In Extremo Weckt Die Toten! |
| In Extremo Verehrt Und Angespien |
| In Flames Whoracle |
| In Gowan Ring Hazel Steps Through A Weathered Home |
| In Gowan Ring Abend the Knurled Stitch O'er the Glinting Spade |
| In Gowan Ring Twin Trees |
| In Gowan Ring The Serpent And The Dove |
| In Slaughter Natives In Slaughter Natives |
| In Slaughter Natives Enter Now The World |
| In Slaughter Natives Resurrection |
| In Slaughter Natives Purgate My Stain |
| Album year and the cover picture are not correct here, it was released in 1996 https://www.discogs.com/release/175537-In-Slaughter-Natives-Purgate-My-Stain |
| In Slaughter Natives Skända Din Nästa |
| In The Nursery L'esprit |
| In The Nursery Duality |
| In The Nursery Blind Sound |
| In The Nursery Era |
| Inade The Incarnation of the Solar Architects |
| Inade The Crackling of the Anonymous |
| Inade Aldebaran |
| Inade The Nine Colours of the Threshold |
| Inade Samadhi State |
| Inade + Troum TO PAN EON |
| Inade's rework of Troum, called The Inner Sun from Transformation Tapes was fantastic, this collaboration is almost as exciting. Cold otherworldly ambient meets warm organic drones. |
| Inade and Circular The Saturnine Broadcasting |
| Insomnium Winter's Gate |
| Insomnium Songs of the Dusk |
| Irezumi Endurance |
| Iszoloscope The Edge of Certainty |
| Jaaportit Kauan koskematon |
| Jari Lindholm Trajectories |
| Jari Lindholm The Surface Above / Odyssean |
| 2 new instrumentals, top notch as always from Jari. |
| Julee Cruise The Voice of Love |
| Kammarheit The Starwheel |
| Kammarheit The Nest |
| Katatonia Sky Void of Stars |
| Fits gloomy rainy Swedish autumn so perfectly it's a bit too much, almost a perfect record otherwise. |
| Katatonia Last Fair Deal Gone Down |
| Katatonia Tonight's Decision |
| Katatonia The Black Sessions |
| Kirlian Camera Radio Signals For The Dying |
| Kirlian Camera Cold Pills (Scarlet Gate of Toxic Daybreak) |
| Korpiklaani Tales Along This Road |
| KTU Quiver |
| KTU 8 Armed Monkey |
| Kveldstimer The Cursed Oak |
| The cover and the band name make you think that it might be a 90s-worship melodic black metal in vein of early Emperor, and it certainly is, relentless and drenched in icy synths. We've heard that many times but wailing guitar leads and clearly audible bass make this snowstorm of an album stand out. Music for blizzard walks. |
| Laibach Laibach Revisited |
| Laibach Volk |
| Lake of Tears Moons And Mushrooms |
| Lake of Tears Ominous |
| Lake of Tears Black Brick Road |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die |
| Les Joyaux de la Princesse Exposition Internationale |
| "Exposition Internationale - Arts Et Techniques - Paris 1937" was released in 1998, needs correction. |
| Les Joyaux de la Princesse Aux petits enfants de France |
| Les Joyaux de la Princesse Aux Volontaires Croix de Sang |
| Les Joyaux de la Princesse Die Kapitulation: L'Allemagne Annee Zero |
| Les Joyaux de la Princesse Douce France |
| Les Joyaux de la Princesse Wolf Rune (with Freya Aswynn) |
| Les Joyaux de la Princesse Croix De Bois - Croix De Feu |
| Lesa Listvy Unheard of |
| Excellent cyberpunk atmosphere on this one, one of the best records Cryo Chamber has released lately. |
| Letum The Face of Life and Death |
| Letum Distant Dead Stars |
| Limbonic Art Moon In The Scorpio |
| Lord Belial Enter the Moonlight Gate |
| Loreena McKennitt The Mask and Mirror |
| Loreena McKennitt The Book of Secrets |
| Loreena McKennitt Parallel Dreams |
| Loreena McKennitt An Ancient Muse |
| Love Forever Changes |
| Lunar Womb The Sleeping Green |
| One of dungeon synth pinnacles, the one you would expect from Henri "Trollhorn" Sorvali of Moonsorrow and Finntroll. |
| Lustre (SWE) A Glimpse of Glory |
| Lustre (SWE) Welcome Winter |
| Lycia Cold |
| Maeror Tri The Singles |
| Maeror Tri Mort aux vaches |
| Maeror Tri Meditamentum II |
| Maeror Tri Emotional Engramm |
| Maeror Tri The Wheel |
| Maeror Tri Venenum |
| Maeror Tri Mind Reversal |
| Maeror Tri Sensuum Mendacia |
| Maeror Tri Rare & Old Recordings / Fragilitas |
| Magyar Posse Random Avenger |
| Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm |
| Mari Boine Leahkastin (Unfolding) |
| Mari Boine Goaskinviellja (Eagle Brother) |
| Mari Boine Gula Gula (Hør stammødrenes stemme) |
| Mari Boine Band Bálvvoslatjna (Room of Worship) |
| Marilyn Manson We Are Chaos |
| Mark Morgan Fallout Soundtrack |
| Mark Morgan Fallout 2 Soundtrack |
| Mark Morgan Vault Archives |
Fun fact: here's a list of inspiration for this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orAnm1yM_ZIr
Still great regardless of the games though, the OST is its own musical composition. |
| Max Corbacho Ars Lucis |
| Meadow Grove Nyctophilia |
| Really good and very Finnish dungeon synth in vein of Jaaportit and Nest. |
| Melanchoholics Solar Cafe |
| Absolutely beautiful guitar-driven ambient with ghostly melodies, sad and comforting at the same time. Some echoing guitar passages reminding of Canaan both in sound and comfortable detachment, some bleak abstract soundscapes and some violent noisy textures. The sound of being happily desolated. |
| Menhir Thuringia |
| Menhir Buchonia |
| Menhir Die Ewigen Steine |
| Mental Discipline Constellation |
| Metatron Omega ISIH |
| Michael Nyman A Zed & Two Noughts |
| Michael Nyman The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Love |
| mind.in.a.box Memories |
| mind.in.a.box Broken Legacies |
| mind.in.a.box Black and White |
| On of the most original and experimental synthpop acts still keeping the high mark. Stellar vocal performance. |
| mind.in.a.box Crossroads |
| Mist of Misery Severance |
| Some very pleasant symphonic 90s feel on this one. |
| Moby Future Quiet |
| Quiet, soothing, piano-driven side of Moby, a beautiful melancholy for "world is absurd". |
| Moby Destroyed |
| Moby Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt |
| Moljebka Pvlse The Leaves of Their Songs |
| Monasterium Imperi Trichurch of Katehon |
| Moon Far Away Belovodie |
| Moonlight Sorcery Nightwind: The Conqueror From The Stars |
| Moonspell Lisboa Under The Spell |
| Moonspell The Antidote |
| Mount Shrine Homeless Rooms |
| Mur (IS) Múr |
| Some top-notch post-metal in vein of Cult of Luna and The Ocean with a very distinct character. Windswept, barren, tidal, massive and delicate at the same time. Second the amazing vocals throughout. Hard to believe it's a debut, amazingly well crafted work. Saw them live warming up for Dark Tranquillity and they've surpassed the headliner. |
| Nachtreich Sturmgang |
| Nachtreich Von Dornen und Selbstmord (demo) |
| Nadja Sonnborner |
| Nadja Thaumogenesis |
| Natura Est Natura Est |
| Natura Est Second |
| Natura Est Real Seasons |
| Natura Est The Folly of Mars |
| Nature and Organisation Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude |
| Nature and Organisation A Dozen Summers Against the World |
| Nenia C'Alladhan Nenia C'Alladhan |
| Nest (FIN) Mietteitä |
| Nest (FIN) Hidden Stream |
| Nest (FIN) Fabled Lore |
| Neuronium The Visitor |
| Neuroticfish No Instruments |
| Neuroticfish The Demystification Of The Human Heart |
| Neutral Дни самозабвения |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen |
| nolongerhuman Antipathy |
| nolongerhuman Depersonalization |
| nolongerhuman Withdrawal |
| Uploading this one to the database failed, this is it https://nolongerhuman.bandcamp.com/album/withdrawal |
| NON God & Beast |
| Nordgeist Frostwinter |
| Northumbria Vinland |
| Of the Wand and the Moon The Lone Descent |
| Of the Wand and the Moon Your Love Can't Hold This Wreath Of Sorrow |
| Old Sorcery Dragon Citadel Elegies |
| Olhava Frozen Bloom |
| Olhava Reborn |
Simplicity is a great thing if taken the proper way, and this is the case here. Intense, yet
as dreamy and ethereal as black metal could get. One of the best blackgaze albums out there. |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Muuntautuja |
| Ornatorpet Fordomdags |
| Sylvan dungeon synth of highest probe, wonderful sound and atmosphere. |
| Pain (SWE) Nothing Remains the Same |
| Pain (SWE) Rebirth |
| Pain (SWE) Dancing with the Dead |
| Pain (SWE) Psalms of Extinction |
| Pan Sonic Kesto (234:48:4) |
| Paradise Lost Icon 30 |
| Paradise Lost Obsidian |
| Paradise Lost Seals The Sense |
| Paradise Lost Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us |
| Paradise Lost Paradise Lost |
| Paradise Lost Ascension |
| Surprisingly massive continuation of Obsidian, even if a little dragging sometimes, pretty solid, a better PL record. |
| Parallel Worlds Tonal Paintings |
| Patrick Q. Wright / Edward Ka-Spel The Scarlet Trail Of Stinging Tears |
| Patrick, the violin player of LPD in 80s, joins Edward once again to tell us some tender twisted fairy tales wrapped in warm strings. |
| Paysage d'Hiver Im Wald |
| Penitence Onirique Vestige |
| Not exactly on the level of Nature Morte but still way above average, melo-atmoblack with a character. |
| Peter Bjargo Structures And Downfall |
| Peter Bjargo The Architecture Of Melancholy |
| Phelios At the Mountains of Madness |
| Phelios Spirits of Rhea |
| Piknik Египтянин |
| Popol Vuh In den Garten Pharaos |
| Possession of the Polar Shaman Possession of the Polar Shaman |
| PreEmptive Strike 0.1 Epos V |
| Primordial The Gathering Wilderness |
| Prurient Frozen Niagara Falls |
| Psychonaut 4 ...Of Mourning |
| Still like nobody else, but a bit of a hit and miss this time. Superb in some parts (Fiqrebi Mtsukhrisa, Vai Me), less exciting in others. |
| RAAN The Nacrasti |
| Raison D'Etre Daemonum |
| Raison D'Etre Prospectus I |
| Raison D'Etre Enthralled by the Wind of Loneliness |
| Raison D'Etre Within the Depths of Silence and Phormations |
| Raison D'Etre Lost fragments 2CD |
| Raison D'Etre Collective archives 2CD |
| Re:Legion 11.11.11 |
| Re:Legion State of Mind |
| Re:Legion 13 Seconds |
| Remember ルートバックホーム |
| A very nice electronic ambient, sad and soothing.r"Sounds like: a computer experiencing a heartbreak for the first time." /EphemeralEternity |
| Rod Modell Northern Michigan Snowstorms |
| Rome The Hyperion Machine |
| The last really good of Jerome's releases, 'Celine in Jerusalem' is just great. |
| Rome A Passage to Rhodesia |
| Rome To Die Among Strangers |
| Rome Nera |
| Rome Confessions D'Un Voleur D'Ames |
| Rotersand Truth is Fanatic |
| Rotersand War On Error |
| Royksopp The Inevitable End |
| Ruinizer Mechanical Exhumation Of The Antichrist |
| Samael Eternal |
| Samael Passage |
| Saor Forgotten Paths |
| Saturnus Martyre |
| Saturnus Paradise Belongs To You |
| Satyricon Nemesis Divina |
| Scald Will of the Gods is Great Power |
| Scream Silence Aphelia |
| Secret Stairways Turning Point |
| Shape of Despair Shades Of... |
| Shape of Despair Angels Of Distress |
| Shape of Despair Monotony Fields |
| Shinkiro (JPN) The Birth Of The Gods |
| Shrine Ordeal 26.04.86 |
| Shrine (BUL) Celestial Fire |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur |
| Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim |
| Sigur Ros Brennisteinn |
| Sirenia At Sixes And Sevens |
| Skogen (SWE) Vittra |
| Slowdive Just for a Day |
| Slowdive Souvlaki |
| Sofia Reta Quiet's Helm |
| Soilwork Overgivenheten |
| Solar Fake Broken Grid |
| Sophia (Swe) The Age Of The Narcissist |
| Sphaere Sechs Beta Pictoris |
| Spiritual Front Black Hearts in Black Suits |
| Melancholy on a summer day, a sensual piano-driven pop with a touch of minimalism like a nod to Michael Nyman's classics in second half of I Just Can't Have Nothing. A "theatrical drama" of an album, very different from Armageddon Giggolo but great in its sad way. |
| Steve Roach Dreamtime Return |
| Stoa VIII |
| Strange New Dawn New Nights Of Euphoria |
| While Botteri brothers do their wonderfully weird guitar In-the-woods magic here and there, overall the album is lacking some consistency. Hoarse vocal delivery in Primordial style does not always seems to fit. Needs more spins. |
| Strapping Young Lad City |
| Suicide Commando Bind, Torture, Kill |
| Suicide Commando Implements of Hell |
| Suicide Commando When Evil Speaks |
| Suicide Commando Critical Stage |
| Summoning Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame |
| Summoning Old Mornings Dawn |
| Sun of the Sleepless Tausend kalte Winter |
| Sun of the Sleepless Poems to the Wretches Hearts |
| Sun of the Sleepless I (split with Nachtmahr) |
| Susanne Sundfor Ten Love Songs |
| Swans The Great Annihilator |
| Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity |
| Syrian Alien Nation |
| Sysselmann The Northern Chronicles |
| Syven Aikaintaite |
| Syven Corpus Christi |
| t.A.T.u. 200 km/H In The Wrong Lane |
| Tactical Sekt Geneticide |
| Tactical Sekt Burn Process |
| Tenhi Saivo |
| Tenhi Vare |
| Tenhi Valkama |
| The Evpatoria Report Golevka |
| The Evpatoria Report Maar |
| The Gathering Souvenirs |
| The Gathering The West Pole |
| The Gathering Home |
| The Kovenant Animatronic |
| The Legendary Pink Dots Angel In The Detail |
| The Legendary Pink Dots Plutonium Blonde |
| The Legendary Pink Dots Island of Jewels |
| The Legendary Pink Dots The Golden Age |
| The Legendary Pink Dots Pages Of Aquarius |
| The Legendary Pink Dots All the King's Horses |
| The Legendary Pink Dots Nemesis Online |
| The Legendary Pink Dots A Perfect Mystery |
| The Mist From the Mountains Portal: The Gathering of Storms |
| A clear step up in diversity and maturity, the debut was a bit generic but this one has character. Very enjoyable listen with replay value. |
| The Monks of the Dip Tse Chok Ling Monastery Sacred Ceremonies 2 - Tantric Hymns |
| Great recording of authentic Tibet ritual music, thanks @Elynna for mentioning it here! |
| The Sins of Thy Beloved Lake of Sorrow |
| The Tear Garden The Brown Acid Caveat |
| The Tear Garden The Last Man to Fly |
| The Tear Garden Astral Elevator |
| Loses its pace in several spots but overall an excellent one, romantic kaleidoscope of psychedelic electronics. |
| The Threshold HouseBoys Choir Form Grows Rampant |
| Dark minimal phychedelia, similar to Coil but different, sad yet somehow romantic. |
| The Void Wanderer Empty World |
| Therion Secret Of The Runes |
| Therion Sirius B |
| Took me years to fully discover it (or perhaps just stop expecting a new Vovin) but it's varied, adventurous, bold, cinematic, all at once. Like it slightly better than Lemuria but both are excellent. |
| Therion Lemuria |
| This Will Destroy You Tunnel Blanket |
| This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You |
| This Will Destroy You Live in Reykjavik, Iceland |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain |
| Tiamat Prey |
| Tiamat Clouds |
| Time Machines Time Machines |
| Tineidae Shadows |
| Tineidae Mothership |
| Not as outstanding as Exo, still quite excellent Blade-runnerish soundtrack-like ambient. |
| Tori Amos In Times of Dragons |
| Haven't heard anything from her since mid 90s but this one is real good, has some Portishead and Twin Peaks moods at times and reminds a bit of Marianne Faithfull's A Secret Life co-written with Angelo Badalamenti. A few poor songs (Provincetown, Fanny Faudrey) and less-than-elegant lyrics unfortunately spoil the overall excellent material. |
| Triarii Muse in Arms |
| Trna Istok |
| Vocals on 'Shining' seemed unpleasantly dissonant to me, great soundscapes otherwise. |
| Troum Mare Morphosis |
| Troum Mare Idiophonika |
| Troum AIWS |
| A bit of hit and miss but the highs are real high. |
| Troum Syzygie |
| Troum Symballein |
| Troum Ryna |
| Troum Ljubimaya / Daur |
| Ufomammut Eve |
| Ufomammut Hidden |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
| Ulver Svidd Neger OST |
| Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X |
| Ulvtharm 7 Uthras |
| Urdol Ur Seven Portals To The Arcane Realms |
| Urna Iter Ad Lucem |
| The only good Urna album, gloomy and convoluted, in vein of Arcana Coelestia. |
| Vali Forlatt |
| Vali Skogslandskap |
| Vananidr Beneath the Mold |
| Vananidr In Silence Descent |
| Nothing groundbreaking here, just a very good Swedish melancholic BM with Dissection'esque atmospheres which work great. Bumped the original 3.5 to 4 after a dozen of spins. |
| Velvet Acid Christ Calling Ov the Dead |
| Velvet Acid Christ Lust For Blood |
| Velvet Acid Christ Twisted Thought Generator |
| Velvet Acid Christ Church of Acid |
| Vinterriket Horizontmelancholie |
| Vinterriket Landschaften Ewiger Einsamkeit |
| Visions (FR) Temples |
| VNV Nation Futureperfect |
| VNV Nation Electric Sun |
| Void Stasis Ruins |
| Vorgashore from taiga to tundra |
| Vorgashore Zapolyarny |
| Wilds Forlorn The Great Loss |
| Windir 1184 |
| Windir Likferd |
| Winterfylleth The Imperious Horizon |
| Ferocious, solid and epic once again, great stuff for the upcoming season. |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge |
| The only downside is that it's so short, excellent otherwise. |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars |
| Displays a lot of potential, however this first attempt is not that exciting compared to the later, far superior works. |
| Wormlust The Feral Wisdom |
| Going more plain black metal where Oranssi Pazuzu lean towards psychedelic noise rock but with similar amounts of twisted eerie moods, dead astronaut adventure trips and outer space atmospheres, obviously powdered with some Icelandic volcanic ash. Music for black sand deserts. |
| Wumpscut Bunkertor 7 |
| Wumpscut Music for a Slaughtering Tribe |
| Wumpscut Blutkind |
| Wumpscut Dried Blood of Gomorrha |
| Wumpscut Gomorra |
| Wynardtage Praise The Fallen |
| First great one with a distinctive style, a beautiful mix of cold EMB with goth/darkwave melodies. |
| Wynardtage Sleepless In Heaven |
| Wynardtage Desperation |
| Wynardtage Walk With The Shadows |
| Wynardtage The Grey Line |
| Wynardtage A Flicker Of Hope |
| Xentrifuge Desensitized Parallels |
| Yearning With Tragedies Adorned |
| Yearning Plaintive Scenes |
| Yearning Merging Into Landscapes |
| Yearning Frore Meadow |
| Yen Pox New Dark Age |
| Yen Pox Blood Music |
| [:SITD:] Stronghold |
| [:SITD:] Bestie:Mensch |
| [:SITD:] Coded Message: 12 |
| [:SITD:] Stunde X |
| Trademark blend of futurepop and EBM-tinged darkwave reaching new heights, dramatic and catchy, one of [:SITD:]'s best. |
| [:SITD:] Dunkelziffer |
| 3.5 great |
| a-ha Lifelines |
| A7IE The Shattering |
| A7IE Distress |
| Absurd Minds Noumenon |
| Absurd Minds Sapta |
| Access to Arasaka Void(); |
| Acylum Mental Disorder |
| Addaura Burning for the Ancient |
| Aegaeon Age |
| Ajattara Kuolema |
| Ajattara Itse |
| Alien Vampires Harshlizer |
| Alien Vampires Drag You To Hell |
| Allseits Chimäre |
| Allseits Hel |
| Alrakis Alpha Eri |
| Altar of Plagues Mammal |
| Altar of Plagues Sol |
| Amber Tears When No Trails |
| Ammanas An Evening in Silent Peace |
| Nice fantasy/epic BM in vein of Summoning and Belore, the music is great but the vocals ruin it, screams are dead monotonous and lacking any variety and cleans are pretty weak. |
| Anathema A Fine Day to Exit |
| Anathema Weather Systems |
| Angelo Badalamenti The Straight Story |
| Angizia 39 Jahre für den Leierkastenmann |
| How much of a parody is too much? Angizia had crossed the line here and there on this one, which feels like a step down, not enough subtly troubling drama for my tastes. Metal is practically gone so the music now is a spectacle of spoken word, overtures and interludes, still great but not my favorite Angizia. Accordion pieces are great though. |
| Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic |
| Antigone's Fate Insomnia |
| Apocalypse Orchestra The End is Nigh |
| Apocalypse Orchestra A Plague Upon Thee |
| Makes me want to download some of those old fantasy PC games from decades ago and slay some goblins. |
| Apocryphos Stone Speak |
| Apoptose Blutopfer |
Noisier, percussion dominated and even more ritualistic than Nordland, this one maintains
characteristic Apoptose sound. Remastered version is highly recommended https://apoptose-
rofficial.bandcamp.com/album/blutopfer-remastered-album-bonus |
| Arcana Raspail |
| Arcana As Bright as a Thousand Suns |
| Arcturus Aspera Hiems Symfonia |
| Argine Luctamina in Rebus |
| Arvo Part Fratres |
| Arvo Part Alina |
| Arvo Part Passio |
| Atooishinju The Death Imprint |
| Atrium Carceri The Old City (OST) |
| Atrium Carceri, Cities Last Broadcast, God Body Disconnect Miles to Midnight |
| Aun Black Pyramid |
| Autrest Follow the Cold Path |
| Autrest Burning Embers, Forgotten Wolves |
| Backworld Anthems From The Pleasure Park |
| Basarabian Hills Groping In A Misty Spread |
| Beth Gibbons Lives Outgrown |
| Bethlehem Mein Weg |
| Blind Guardian The God Machine |
| The only heavy/power metal album I've truly enjoyed in last 2 decades. |
| Blind Guardian Tales From The Twilight World |
| Blood Abscission I |
| Blood Axis Blót: Sacrifice in Sweden |
| Blood Axis The Gospel of Inhumanity |
| Blood Incantation Timewave Zero |
| Record Label: "How many synthesizers are you gonna need for this?" B.I.: "Yes" |
| Blush Response Reshaper |
| Blush Response Infinite Density |
| Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Midnight Radio |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Black Earth |
| Borknagar Winter Thrice |
| Borknagar The Olden Domain |
| Borknagar The Archaic Course |
| Borknagar Fall |
| Boyd Rice and Friends Music, Martinis and Misanthropy |
| Misanthropy presented relaxed and almost cute. We need a gardner, a brutal gardner! |
| Brendan Perry Ark |
| Brendan Perry Eye of the Hunter |
| Brighter Death Now Innerwar |
| Bron Ànrach |
| Caligula's Horse Bloom |
| Canaan Of Prisoners, Wandering Souls And Cruel Fears |
Something very different this time, with a lot of female vocals and doom metal added to the
classical isolationist Canaan darkwave/ambient rock. Took a long while to appreciate, it's
still hit and miss but great. |
| Canaan Ai Margini |
| Bleak and minimalistic more than ever, to the point of becoming almost autistic. No guitars or rock elements, it's pure ambient darkwave with some abrasive noise strokes. Has quite a few great moments but requires full attention to enjoy them. |
| Caspian Tertia |
| Catamenia Chaos Born |
| Chaostar Threnody |
| Code 64 Trialogue |
| Coil Musick To Play In The Dark |
| Coil Musick To Play In The Dark 2 |
| Cold Body Radiation Deer Twillight |
| Colony 5 Colonisation |
| Coma Alliance Weapon Of Choice |
| Cradle of Filth The Principle of Evil Made Flesh |
| crucifiedwhitesaviour The Ideology of A Cancer Cell |
| Cryogenic Echelon Antipode |
| Current 93 If a City is Set Upon a Hill |
| Current 93 The Light is Leaving Us All |
| CygnosiC Fire And Forget |
| CygnosiC A Deity In Pain |
| Dahlia's Tear Under Seven Skies |
| Dan Swano Moontower |
| Dargaard Rise and Fall |
| Dargaard The Dissolution of Eternity |
| Dargaard Eternity Rites |
| Dark Fortress Tales from Eternal Dusk |
| Dark Tranquillity Construct |
| Dark Tranquillity Endtime Signals |
| Darkseed Spellcraft |
| Darkspace Dark Space I |
| Das Ich Anti'christ |
| Das Ich Lava |
| David Darling Journal October |
| Somewhat inconsistent but really great in certain parts. |
| Deaf Center Owl Splinters |
| Death in June But, What Ends When the Symbols Shatter? |
| Der Blutharsch The Pleasures Received In Pain |
| Der Blutharsch The Track of the Hunted |
| Der Blutharsch When All Else Fails! |
| Desiderii Marginis Strife |
| Desiderii Marginis Vita Arkivet |
| Deutsch Nepal Amygdala |
| Deutsch Nepal Comprendido!...time Stop!...and World En |
| Deutsch Nepal Tolerance |
| Diary of Dreams Freak Perfume |
| Diary of Dreams Nigredo |
| Diary of Dreams MenschFeind |
| Die Antwoord $O$ |
| Die Antwoord Ten$ion |
| Die Verbannten Kinder Evas Die Verbannten Kinder Evas |
| Die Weisse Rose A Martyrium of White Roses |
| Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst |
| Diorama Pale |
| Diorama RePale |
| Dold Vorde Ens Navn Mørkere |
| Dornenreich Bitter ist's dem Tod zu dienen |
| Drawn Bow Visitations |
| Did not reach the heights of the debut for me, still a very good psych folk. |
| Dreadful Shadows Estrangement |
| Dreamstate Logic Era3.I |
| Druadan Forest The Loremasters Time |
| Raw and rough but engaging and diverse atmoblack with strong dungeon synth influence, much in vein of Summoning but quite original at the same time. |
| E-L-R Mænad |
| Earth and Pillars Earth II |
| Very atmospheric and very boring at the same time. Stumbling around but never getting anywhere, resulting in quite mixed impression. |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson II |
| Edward Artemiev Solaris |
| Edward Ka-Spel Anagramma (with Motion Kapture) |
| Eldamar The Force of the Ancient Land |
| Elffor The Wintery Warrior Spirit |
| Eluveitie Spirit |
| Eluveitie Origins |
| Eluveitie Ategnatos |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse |
| Empyrium A Wintersunset... |
| Empyrium Songs of Moors and Misty Fields |
| Adored this in my teens, it's nicely nature-driven atmospheric but simplistic teenage romantic didn't age well, unfortunately. |
| Ereb Altor Fire Meets Ice |
| Ereb Altor By Honour |
| Ereb Altor Hälsingemörker |
| Still a bit faltering here and there but overall a better Ereb Altor effort. |
| Ereb Altor Eldens Boning |
| ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) Matte |
| ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) Enhancer |
| Eshaton Pneumos |
| Eshaton Arheia |
| Estatic Fear Somnium Obmutum |
| Evereve Regret |
| Evoking Winds Bald Mountain |
| Evoking Winds Silent Dawn |
| Evoking Winds Memories of the Wolf |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone |
| Exxasens Polaris |
| Exxasens Beyond the Universe |
| Falkenbach ...Magni Blandinn Ok Megintiri... |
| Really great, if a bit one-dimentional, folky viking metal from pre-Moonsorrow times, excellent melodies, good singing. |
| Feindflug Volk und Armee |
| Fief V |
| Finntroll Ur Jordens Djup |
| Finntroll Nifelvind |
| Fires in the Distance Echoes From Deep November |
| Forest of Shadows Six Waves Of Woe |
| Forest of Shadows Among the Dormant Watchers |
| Forest of Shadows Under The Dying Sun |
| Forest of Shadows Where Dreams Turn to Dust EP |
| Forlorn Citadel Songs of Mourning (demo) |
| Fractured Only Human Remains |
| Pretty commonplace straightforward EBM with dark electro edge, nostalgic sound from early 2000s but not much more. |
| Front Line Assembly Echogenetic |
| Front Line Assembly Epitaph |
| Front Line Assembly Civilization |
| Frozen Plasma Emphasize |
| Fuath I |
| Funker Vogt Maschine Zeit |
| Gae Bolg Requiem |
| Gallowbraid Ashen Eidolon |
| Garmarna Vittrad |
| Garmarna Vedergallningen |
| Garmarna Förbundet |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright |
| God Module Viscera |
| Gods Tower Liar |
| Green Carnation Journey To The End Of The Night |
| With Botteri brothers and voices of Tristania and In the woods this should be amazing on paper, but appears to be a pretty inconsistent progressive doom record which drags. |
| Grendel (NL) Harsh Generation |
| Grendel (NL) Presciption: Medicide |
| Gris Il Était Une Forêt... |
| Havukruunu Kuu Erkylän Yllä |
| Heavenwood Abyss Masterpiece |
| Heavenwood Redemption |
| Hypocrisy Worship |
| Hypocrisy A Taste of Extreme Divinity |
| iamamiwhoami Blue |
| IAMX The Alternative |
| IAMX Kiss + Swallow |
| IAMX Everything Is Burning (Metanoia Addendum) |
| Ice Ages Vibe of Scorn |
| Ice Ages Buried Silence |
| Ice Ages Strike The Ground |
| Imbaru Acacia Caven |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| In Gowan Ring Love Charms |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine |
| In Slaughter Natives Still Just Only Still |
| A compilation of "heard and unheard", still a solid listen with a few unexpected dance beats. |
| In Slaughter Natives Sacrosanct Bleeds |
| In Slaughter Natives Cannula coma legio |
| In The Nursery Groundloop |
| In The Nursery Anatomy of a Poet |
| In The Nursery Hindle Wakes |
| In The Nursery Engel |
| In the Woods... Pure |
| Not nearly on the level of classical 2000s twisted magic, it's still a quite decent progressive doom record, if a bit too monotonous. Just don't consider it an In the woods album. Enjoying the melodic quotes from HEart Of The Ages and the 10 minute long instrumental Transmission KRS most though. |
| Inade and Circular Deep Space Illumination |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun |
| Insomnium Anno 1696 |
| Insomnium Heart Like a Grave |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World |
| Iotunn Kinship |
| Jaaportit Voimasuo |
| Jaaportit Uumenissa |
| Jack or Jive Kismet |
| Jarboe Sacrificial Cake |
| Julie Christmas Ridiculous and Full of Blood |
| Jurre Timmer Fragmented |
| Kalmah Swampsong |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day |
| Kauan Wayhome |
| Kirlian Camera Hologram Moon |
| Korova Dead Like an Angel |
| Korpiklaani Spirit Of The Forest |
| Lacrimas Profundere Memorandum |
| Laibach WAT |
| Lake of Tears Headstones |
| Lana Del Rey Paradise |
| Leonard Cohen Ten New Songs |
| Letum The Fifth State Of Grief |
Letum venturung in the dungeon synth domain of Mortiis, quite interesting but perhaps not
his best work. |
| Life Cried Drawn and Quartered |
| Lisa Gerrard The Black Opal |
| Lisa Gerrard The Silver Tree |
| Loreena McKennitt The Wind That Shakes The Barley |
| Loreena McKennitt To Drive the Cold Winter Away |
| Loreena McKennitt Lost Souls |
| Loreena McKennitt Elemental |
| Loreena McKennitt The Road Back Home |
| Loscil Adrift |
| Love Spirals Downwards Ardor |
| Lumnos Ancient Shadows of Saturn |
| Lunar Aurora Hoagascht |
| German flavor of Burzum with a pinch of WITTR, not really reaching the heights of their neighbors Grab but quite great. |
| Luneth Luneth |
| Lustre (SWE) Night Spirit |
| Lustre (SWE) Serenity |
| Lustre (SWE) They Awoke to the Scent of Spring |
| Lycia A Line That Connects |
| Maeror Tri Meditamentum |
| Maeror Tri Hypnotikum I |
| Maeror Tri Hypnotikum II |
| Maeror Tri Multiple Personality Disorder |
| Maeror Tri Archaic States |
| Maeror Tri Ambient Dreams |
| Magyar Posse Kings Of Time |
| Mareux Nonstop Romance |
| Marilyn Manson One Assassination Under God - Chapter 1 |
| Maybeshewill Not For Want Of Trying |
| Megaptera Beyond The Massive Darkness |
| Megaptera You Will Never Survive This Nightmare |
| Mental Destruction Straw |
| Mesarthim .- -... ... . -. -.-. . |
| Metatron Omega Evangelikon |
| Metatron Omega Illuminatio |
| Metatron Omega Gnosis Dei |
| Michael Nyman The Draughtsman's Contract |
| Midnight Odyssey Funerals from the Astral Sphere |
| mind.in.a.box Dreamweb |
| Mist of Misery Unalterable |
While unfortunately we cannot say that it fully lives up to it's rather lengthy playing
time, it doesn't become much of a drag either. Quite good depression stuff, with tragedies
adorned. |
| Mist of Misery Absence |
| Mithotyn In the Sign of the Ravens |
| Mitochondrial Sun Machine Dialectics |
| Moby Reprise |
| Moby All Visible Objects |
| Moby Long Ambients 2 |
| Moby Long Ambients 1: Calm. Sleep. |
| Moby More Fast Songs About the Apocalypse |
| Moby These Systems Are Failing |
| Monasterium Imperi The Empyrean Liturgy |
| Monasterium Imperi Voices of Ecclesianum |
| Monasterium Imperi Custodians of the Lost Exarch |
| Monasterium Imperi Mundus Sanctorium |
| Monasterium Imperi Dark Litanies of Terra |
| Monasterium Imperi The Lost World |
| Mono For My Parents |
| Mooncake Lagrange Points |
| Mooncitadel Night's Scarlet Symphonies |
| Moonlight Sorcery Burning Embrace |
| Moonsorrow Tämä Ikuinen Talvi |
| Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky |
| Moonspell Sin / Pecado |
| Moonspell Memorial |
| Moonspell Darkness And Hope |
| Moonspell Night Eternal |
| Morgul All Dead Here… |
| Morgul Parody Of The Mass |
| Nice but quite standard and somewhat repetitive mid-paced symphoblack, not even close to its horrific successors. Accordion in Ballad Of Revolt is fun. |
| Morrissey Ringleader of the Tormentors |
| Morthond This crying age |
| Motion Trio Pictures from the Street |
| Mount Shrine All Roads Lead Home |
| Released after Cesar's unfortunate passing, this one looks unfinished sadly, not reaching the level of previous works. |
| Muslimgauze Mullah Said |
| My Dying Bride Like Gods of the Sun |
| Mystic Circle Infernal Satanic Verses |
| Nachtreich Alles Still |
| Nachtreich Trugbilder |
| Nadja Touched |
| Nadja Skin Turns To Glass |
| Nattehimmel Mourningstar |
| Nostalgic 90s Norwegian black metal from Botteri brothers, very nice but lacking character somehow. |
| Negura Bunget Zău |
| Neuroticfish Antidoron |
| Least favorite of later Neuroticfish, much prefer both Sign and Demystification to this. The only real hit is Hold of me. |
| Neuroticfish Limited Behaviour |
| Neutral ...of Shadow and Its Dream |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Murder Ballads |
| Night Crowned Tales |
| Nitro/Noise Total Nihilism |
| Nitro/Noise No Cure For Apocalypse |
| Nordvargr Resignation IV |
| Nosound A Sense of Loss |
| Obsequiae Suspended in the Brume of Eos |
| Of the Wand and the Moon :Emptiness:Emptiness:Emptiness: |
| Of the Wand and the Moon Nighttime Nightrhymes |
| Of the Wand and the Moon Lucifer |
| Of the Wand and the Moon Sonnenheim |
| Officium Triste Hortus Venenum |
Great by-the-book death-doom, as if straight from late 90s which is a good thing,
outstanding production. |
| Olhava Ladoga |
| Om Advaitic Songs |
| Omnium Gatherum Grey Heavens |
| Omnium Gatherum Beyond |
| Oophoi The Spiral of Time |
| Otyg Sagovindars Boning |
| Otyg Älvefärd |
| Ozzy Osbourne Ozzmosis |
| Paavoharju Yön mustia kukkia |
| Pablo Bozzi Street Reign |
| Would say more Italo/techno than EBM but yes very enjoyable one. |
| Pain (SWE) Cynic Paradise |
| Pain (SWE) I Am |
| Pan Sonic Katodivaihe |
| Panic Lift Is This Goodbye? |
| Panopticon The Rime of Memory |
| The first half is undoubtedly great, if a bit messy, but starting with Autumn storm this begins to lose focus, and by the time an mediocre post-rock kicks in later on this becomes almost boring. Cedar skeletons on masterpiece level, the rest on average, with stupid quotes on top. |
| Paradise Lost One Second |
| Paths Of The Eternal Quest For The Sacred Blade |
| Paysage d'Hiver Die Berge |
| Penitence Onirique V.I.T.R.I.O.L |
| Showing great potential of a beast Penitence Onirique will become on following albums, a very pleasant listen. |
| Perturbator The Uncanny Valley |
| Peter Bjargo A Wave of Bitterness |
| Peter Murphy Lion |
| Philip Glass Koyaanisqatsi |
| Pieter Nooten and Michael Brook Sleeps with the Fishes |
| Piknik В Руках Великана |
| Popol Vuh Nosferatu OST |
| Popol Vuh Aguirre |
| PreEmptive Strike 0.1 The Kosmokrator |
| Pride and Fall In My Time of Dying |
| Prurient Through the Window |
| Raison D'Etre Cambium |
| Technically a live recording, more of the same Peter Andersson's classical soundscapes, a very safe but enjoyable one. Starts gloomy and suffocated but then soars and shines, the second half is great. |
| Raison D'Etre Requiem for Abandoned Souls |
| Quite boring compared to The Empty Hollow Unfolds but still not bad. |
| Rammstein Sehnsucht |
| Rammstein Herzeleid |
| Reverb on Repeat Live |
| Riger Hamingja |
| German viking symphoblack classic from good old days, very solid. |
| Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe |
| Robert Rich & B. Lustmord Stalker |
| Rome Berlin |
| Rome L'Assassin |
| Rome Hate Us and See If We Mind |
| Rome The Hierophant |
| The best album of the past decade, really listenable and even enjoyable. |
| Rotersand I Cry |
| Rotersand Don't Become The Thing You Hated |
| A really great one, possibly their best since Random Is Resistance which is very nice after a couple of failures in between. |
| Royksopp Profound Mysteries |
| Royksopp and Robyn Do It Again |
| Ruinizer Decimation in H.D. |
| Sabled Sun 2149 |
| Samael Reign Of Light |
| Sangre de Muerdago Noite |
| Saturnus For The Loveless Lonely Nights |
| Satyricon The Shadowthrone |
| Scald Ancient Doom Metal |
| Scream Silence Seven Tears |
| Scream Silence Elegy |
| Scream Silence Apathology |
| Secret Stairways Enchantment of the Ring |
| Seth La Morsure du Christ |
| Sevenday Curse After the Storm |
| Early In flames stuff with a pinch of punk which works great, with nostalgic sound from 90s as a nice bonus. |
| Sgaile Traverse the Bealach |
| Shaman (FIN) Shamániac |
| Shape of Despair Return To The Void |
| Shape of Despair Illusion's Play |
| Shedfromthebody Whisper and Wane |
| Shinjuku Thief The Witch Hunter |
| Synthesized orchestral loops, minimal melodies, dark medieval moods. Outstanding for 90s, not so much today. |
| Shire Oak Sempervirens |
| Show Me A Dinosaur Plantgazer |
| Nice sense of humor, pretty good post-rocky blackgaze. |
| Shrine Sentinel |
| More rhythm and melody on this one, but I much prefer heavier and more atmospheric Celestial Fire and Quintessence to the later Shrine work. |
| Shrine Somnia |
| Good work, showcasing the Shrine's potential which will be fully realized in excellent following albums like Celestial Fire and Quintessence. |
| Sigur Ros Von |
| Sigur Ros ÁTTA |
| Sirenia An Elixir For Existence |
| Slowdive Everything is Alive |
| Soilwork Verkligheten |
| Sojourner Premonitions |
| Sol Invictus In the Rain |
| Solar Fake Frontiers |
| Solar Fake Don't Push This Button! |
| SolNegre The Spiral Labyrinth |
| SolNegre Anthems For The Grand Collapse |
| Powerful and dynamic death doom, great solos, nice bass, clean vox could use some improvement. |
| Sophia (Swe) Herbstwerk |
| Sopor Aeternus and The Ensemble of Shadows Voyager - The Jugglers Of Jusa |
| Sopor Aeternus and The Ensemble of Shadows The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller |
| Sopor Aeternus and The Ensemble of Shadows Songs From The Inverted Womb |
| Sopor Aeternus and The Ensemble of Shadows Todeswunsch (Sous Le Soleil De Saturne) |
| SpiRitual Pulse |
| Spiritual Front Armageddon Gigolo |
| Stendeck Folgor |
| Very much prefer Scintilla to this one but it's good too. |
| Steve Roach The Magnificent Void |
| Stoa Urthona |
| Stormkeep Galdrum |
| Suicide Commando Axis of Evil |
| Summoning With Doom We Come |
| Sun of the Sleepless To The Elements |
| Unfortunately doesn't reach the heights of the EPs, still not bad. |
| Sunn O))) and Ulver Terrestrials |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky |
| Swans Love of Life |
| Swartalf The Golden Section |
| Sworn A Journey Told Through Fire |
| Straightforward by-the-book melodic BM without being boring. |
| t.A.T.u. Dangerous and Moving |
| Tenhi Airut : Ciwi |
| The Angelic Process ...And Your Blood Is Full Of Honey |
| The Ascent of Everest From This Vantage |
| The Berzerker The Berzerker |
| The Berzerker Dissimulate |
| The Exploited Beat the Bastards |
| The Gathering if_then_else |
| The Great Old Ones Kadath |
| The Halo Effect Days of the Lost |
| The Halo Effect March of the Unheard |
| It should've been released in late 90s, now it scratches the familiar itch but does not excite as it could. |
| The Knife Deep Cuts |
| The Kovenant Nexus Polaris |
| Everything which worked great on Animatronic looks to be present here but feels somehow bland in symphoblack genre. Skipped this one back then years ago, and now it's not more than a pleasant yet forgettable listen. |
| The Legendary Pink Dots The Gethsemane Option |
| The Legendary Pink Dots The Museum of Human Happiness |
| The Legendary Pink Dots Shadow Weaver |
| Zero zero is one of all-time LPD favorites but the rest is largely nothing really happening but low effort improvisations, resulting in waiting for it to end looking at the clock. |
| The Legendary Pink Dots The Lovers |
| The Legendary Pink Dots The Whispering Wall |
| The Legendary Pink Dots Asylum |
| The Legendary Pink Dots Seconds Late for the Brighton Line |
| The Legendary Pink Dots The Tower |
| The Legendary Pink Dots From Here You'll Watch the World Go By |
| The Mist From the Mountains Monumental - The Temple of Twilight |
| The Ocean Holocene |
| The Pirate Ship Quintet The Pirate Ship Quintet EP |
| The Protagonist Songs of Experience |
| The Stargazer's Assistant Fire Worshipper |
| The Tear Garden To Be an Angel Blind, the Crippled Soul Divide |
| Therion Deggial |
| Therion Leviathan III |
| Therion Leviathan II |
| Perhaps the first really good Therion in over a couple of decades, a shadow of the days of Vovin glory but quite consistent and enjoyable symphonies throughout. |
| Thief Bleed, Memory |
| Good textured IDM with vocals, a bit dark and even noisy with metal elements scattered around. Vocal delivery is too emo which is annoying. |
| This Morn' Omina Le serpent blanc ~ Le serpent rouge |
| This Will Destroy You Another Language |
| Thyrfing Valdr Galga |
| Thyrfing Vansinnesvisor |
| Tiamat The Scarred People |
| Tiamat Skeleton Skeletron |
| Tineidae Lights |
| Tor Lundvall The Mist |
| Tor Lundvall and Tony Wakeford Autumn Calls |
| Triarii Exile |
| Troum Victoria / River |
| Troum Seeing-Ear Gods |
| Troum Symbiosis |
| Troum Darve Sh / Ajin |
| Turmion Katilot Reset |
| Ufomammut Lucifer Songs |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar |
| Ulver Kveldssanger |
| Ulver Perdition City |
| Vananidr Damnation |
| Vananidr Vananidr |
| Vananidr Road North |
| Vehemence (FRA) Par le sang versé |
| Vehemence (FRA) Ordalies |
| Velvet Acid Christ Hex Angel: Utopia/Dystopia |
| Velvet Acid Christ Maldire |
| Velvet Acid Christ Ora Oblivionis |
| Velvet Acid Christ The Art of Breaking Apart |
| Velvet Acid Christ Subconscious Landscapes |
| Velvet Acid Christ Between the Eyes, Vol. 1 |
| Vemod (NO) The Deepening |
| Too much post-rock and hipster agallochy singing but overall great balanced atmospheric fog-above-the-woods music, if a bit bland. |
| Vinterriket Winterschatten |
| Vintersorg Till Fjälls Del II |
| Vintersorg Till fjälls |
| VNV Nation Of Faith, Power and Glory |
| VNV Nation Construct |
| Some mid-tempo romantics - The Spaces Between is just beautiful - some upbeat and straightforward dancefloor hits, a few synth symphonics, Ronan still doing VNV things great. A better later VNV album. |
| Void Stasis Viral Incubation |
| Waldgefluster Unter Bronzenen Kronen |
| Warmoon Lord Sacrosanct Demonopathy |
| Suddenly I'm transported back to 1997 and teenage me is headbanging hard! |
| White Zombie Astro Creep: 2000 |
| Windir Soknardalr |
| Surprisingly mature and overall really great for a debut, very talented. |
| Winterfylleth The Reckoning Dawn |
| Witan Alchemy |
| Despite the cover hinting on some dungeon synth it's more of ethereal electronic ambient in vein of Vidna Obmana or Alio Die with a touch of fantasy. Surprisingly great listen. |
| Wodensthrone Loss |
| Wooden Throne Under the Moon They Wander Until Fading Away |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason |
| Wumpscut Giftkeks |
| Wumpscut Wreath Of Barbs |
| Wumpscut Cannibal Anthem |
| Wumpscut Fuckit |
| Wumpscut Preferential legacy - Music for a German tribe |
| Wumpscut The Mesner Tracks |
| Wumpscut Dried Blood |
| Xentrifuge In A Shattered Mirror |
| Somewhat watered-down compared to first two but still great - old school harsh electro on the verge of rhythm'n'noise, with a bit more emphasis on noise structures and rather simplistic rhythms which is not an advantage. |
| Xperiment Visions of Destruction |
| Yuri Gagarin At The Center Of All Infinity |
| Yuri Gagarin The Outskirts Of Reality |
| Zeraphine Blind Camera |
| Zeraphine Still |
| ZOMBIESHARK! I Will Destroy You, Myself, And Everything I've Ev |
| Aural panic attack of an album, where The Berzerker meets Cryogenic Echelon in a surprisingly appealing way. |
| [:SITD:] Icon:Koru |
| 3.0 good |
| ...and Oceans Cypher |
| ...and Oceans A.M.G.O.D. |
| a-ha Analogue |
| a-ha Foot of the Mountain |
| A7IE Narcissick, Vol. 2 |
| Aara Eiger |
| Absurd Minds Gravitas |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Agathodaimon Blacken The Angel |
| Agathodaimon Higher Art Of Rebellion |
| Agonoize Hexakosioihexekontahexa |
| Alatyr (SVK) Do Zeme Zabudnutia |
| Alcest Les Chants de L'Aurore |
| Aldheorte Where Gods Have Eyes To See |
| Alien Vampires No One Here Gets Out Alive |
| Altar of Plagues Tides |
| Amorphis Far from the Sun |
| Amorphis Am Universum |
| Amorphis Halo |
| Amorphis The Beginning of Times |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster |
| Anathema Distant Satellites |
| Anathema Alternative 4 |
| Angizia Des Winters finsterer Gesell |
| A whole lot of emphasis on storytelling and vocals which take over and fully dominate the whole album, and it does not work well. Great instrumentation which Angizia is famous for is still here with piano, violin and accordion, but the music is mostly kept minimal, progressions and songwriting are simplified and don't have many memorable moments. Don't see myself going back to this often, if ever. |
| Arcana Le Serpent Rouge |
| Arkhtinn 最初の災害 |
| Arktau Eos Ai Ma Ra |
| Askeesi Genetic Grief |
| Atrium Carceri Forgotten Gods |
| Autumnblaze DämmerElbenTragödie |
| Autumnblaze Mute Boy Sad Girl |
| Bann Antiochia |
| Basarabian Hills The Path Of Hope |
| Bethlehem Schatten aus der Alexander Welt |
| Bitcrush Collapse |
| Blind Guardian A Night At The Opera |
| Blood Axis Born again |
| Bloodbark Sacred Sound of Solitude |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry |
| Bocksholm The Sound of Black Cloggs |
| Borknagar Urd |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var |
| Chaostar The Scarlet Queen |
| Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex |
| Clannad Lore |
| Code 64 Storm |
| Control Blood Will Rain |
| Coph Nia The Dark Illuminati (Celestial Tragedy in 2 acts) |
| Cradle of Filth Midian |
| Crematory Believe |
| Crematory Act Seven |
| Crematory awake |
| Current 93 Black Ships Ate the Sky |
| Current 93 Invocations Of Almost |
| Current 93 Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain |
| CygnosiC CygnosiC |
| CygnosiC Siren |
| Dahlia's Tear Apeiron |
| Dahlia's Tear Tales from a Feeble Dream |
| Dark Funeral Diabolis Interium |
| Dark Funeral We Are the Apocalypse |
| Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void |
| Darkseed Astral Adventures |
| Darkspace -I |
| Darkspace Dark Space -II |
| Death in June All Pigs Must Die |
| Desiderii Marginis That Which Is Tragic And Timeless |
| Deutsch Nepal Erotikon |
| Deutsch Nepal Erosion |
| Diary of Dreams One of 18 Angels |
| Die Sektor Death My Darling |
| While not an "average" album by any means, it doesn't feel like it's really worth the time after several attempts. It's not exactly bad, it's still Die Sektor stripped of the wild, violent insanity, leaving the impression like "not tense enough". Sad to see the most outstanding electro band taking this turn after the masterpiece-level (-)existence(+). |
| Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current |
| Draconian Arcane Rain Fell |
| Dreadful Shadows The Cycle |
| Dream Unending Tide Turns Eternal |
| Dreams Of Sanity Masquerade |
| Druadan Forest Dismal Spells from the Dragonrealm |
| Good old-school dungeon synth, solemn and sometimes minimal, a bit too long and repetitive. |
| Earth and Pillars Towards the Pillars |
| Earth and Pillars Pillars I |
| Edge Of Dawn Enjoy The Fall |
| Edge Of Dawn Anything That Gets You Through The Night |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson |
| Edward Ka-Spel Minus Touch |
| Edward Ka-Spel The Moon Cracked Over Albion |
| Eldamar A Dark Forgotten Past |
| Empyrium Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays |
| Empyrium Weiland |
| Emyn Muil Túrin Turambar Dagnir Glaurunga |
| Enshine Transcending Fire |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| Ereb Altor The End |
| ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) The Encyclopedia Of Black Sheep |
| Suddenly an EBM project starts playing some alternative metal with "industrial" elements in fashion of Marilyn Manson and Front Line Assembly but gets surprisingly good at that. Darker slower parts are great, others poppy ones like the opener Narcissus are damn radio-friendly crap though. |
| Evoking Winds Towards Homestead |
| Falls of Rauros Key to a Vanishing Future |
| Finntroll Blodsvept |
| Frozen Plasma Artificial |
| Funker Vogt Survivor |
| Gae Bolg and the Church of Fand John Barleycorn Must Die |
| Gaerea Mirage |
| Garmarna Hildegard von Bingen |
| God Body Disconnect Dredge Portals |
| God Body Disconnect Sleeper's Fate |
| God Body Disconnect The Dormancy |
| God Body Disconnect The Wanderer's Dream |
| God Is an Astronaut Far from Refuge |
| God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Goran Bregovic Ederlezi |
| A rather average collection of random tracks, but containing amazing pearls like "7/8 and 11/8" and "Death" from Arizona dream OST. |
| Graveworm (N)utopia |
| Green Carnation Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness |
| The strong feat of this turns out to be its weak one, solid to the point of becoming boring, so monotonously intense you just get tired. Short appearances of Jan Kenneth Transit's on vox are a highlight. |
| Grendel (NL) Inhumane Amusement |
| Hanging Garden The Garden |
| Haus Arafna Chidren of God |
| Head Control System Murder Nature |
| Heavenwood Swallow |
| Heimataerde Gottgleich |
| Heroin and Your Veins Dead People's Trails |
| Hocico Signos de Aberracion |
| Hocico Memorias Atras |
| Host IX |
| How to Disappear Completely Seraphim |
| Hypocrisy End of Disclosure |
| Hypocrisy Catch 22 |
| IAMX Fault Lines^2 |
| The first one after Metanoia that isn't plain bad. Quite consistent, pleasantly neurotic and dark. |
| Ice Ages Nullify |
| Ildjarn Hardangervidda (with Nidhogg) |
| Slightly above average mostly because of remaining nostalgic value, rather flat Casio sequences otherwise. |
| In Slaughter Natives Psicofonias - Las Voces Desconocidas |
| In The Nursery Lingua |
| In The Nursery Asphalt |
| In the Woods... A Return To The Isle Of Men |
| Iress Sleep Now, In Reverse |
| Isengard Høstmørke |
| Jaaportit Avarrus |
| Jarboe Dark Consort |
| Kalmah Kalmah |
| Kalmah They Will Return |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts |
| Katatonia Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State |
| Singles were good but the rest is just okay, far from being their best. |
| Korpiklaani Voice Of Wilderness |
| Korpiklaani Tervaskanto |
| Kvaen The Formless Fires |
| Laibach Laibachkunstderfuge |
| Les Joyaux de la Princesse La Voix Des Notres presente Chantez Jeunesse |
| Practically just a collection of French songs from the 30-40s, not bad but one of least interesting Eric Konofal's outputs. |
| Lesa Listvy Way Home |
| Letum Dreams and Illusions |
| Letum Broken |
| A lot more abrasive and noisy than the rest of Letum's releases, which is not always a good thing. |
| Limbonic Art Epitome Of Illusions |
| Lustre (SWE) Neath The Black Veil |
| Lustre (SWE) Blossom |
| Lykke Li Wounded Rhymes |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Maeror Tri Ambiguitas |
| Maeror Tri Subliminal Forces |
| Maeror Tri Ultimate Time |
| Maeror Tri Hypnobasia |
| Maeror Tri The A.V.E. Tapes / Live in Nevers |
| Mari Boine Cuovgga Áirras - Sterna Paradisea |
| Marilyn Manson Holy Wood |
| Martyn Bates and Troum To A Child Dancing In The Wind |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony |
| Medenera OrO |
| Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 2 - The Golden Orb |
| Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 1 - In Tartarean Chains |
| Midnight Odyssey Shards of Silver Fade |
| mind.in.a.box Lost Alone |
| Good but rather generic synthpop as mind.in.a.box make first steps to develop their style, vocals aren't anything exciting. |
| Moby Ambient 23 |
| Mono Nowhere Now Here |
| Mono Hey, You |
| Mono The Last Dawn |
| Moonspell 1755 |
| Moonspell Hermitage |
| Mortiis Keiser Av En Dimensjon Ukjent |
| Mortiis The Stargate |
| Can't listen to this without laughing out now, but back then in 1999 it sounded primitive but quite majestic. |
| Mortiis Crypt of the Wizard |
| Mortiis Ånden Som Gjorde Opprør |
| Mount Shrine & Alphaxone Dream Chambers |
| Muslimgauze Zul'm |
| Your average ambient-based Muslimgauze with tribal Middle Eastern percussion, samples and minimal melodies, not bad but not great either. |
| My Dying Bride The Light at the End of the World |
| My Dying Bride 34.788%... Complete |
| My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours |
| Naervaer Skiftninger |
| Negura Bunget OM |
| Neronoia Mi Piaceva Una Vita |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Wild God |
| Nico Camera Obscura |
| Novy Svet Venezia |
| Nurzery (Rhymes) Thorns |
| ohGr Welt |
| Olafur Arnalds Eulogy for Evolution |
| Olafur Arnalds ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness |
| Old Man's Child Born of the Flickering |
| Old Man's Child The Pagan Prosperity |
| Olhava Ladoga |
| Olhava Sacrifice |
| Will the next album be 3-4 hours of just-the-same stuff? |
| Olhava Memorial |
| No surprises, the same stuff yet again, slightly better than previous. |
| Orplid Sterbender Satyr |
| Orplid Nächtliche Jünger |
| Pain (SWE) You Only Live Twice |
| Pain of Salvation Panther |
| Panic Lift Witness To Our Collapse |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light |
| Panopticon Roads to the North |
| Panopticon Det Hjemsøkte Hjertet |
| Not many surprises, just your average Panopticon, not entirely devoid of good moments but routinely overloaded, badly produced and lacking highs. |
| Paradise Lost The Plague Within |
| Paradise Lost Host |
| Above 2.5 only because of "In all honesty" which is damn great. |
| Paradise Lost In Requiem |
| Paradise Lost Symbol Of Life |
| Paysage d'Hiver Geister |
| Pazuzu Awaken the Dragon |
| Pazuzu III - The End Of Ages |
| Perturbator Dangerous Days |
| Perturbator Age of Aquarius |
| Perturbator Lustful Sacraments |
| Pictureplane Sex Distortion |
| Does upbeat, joyful darkwave/witch-house exist? Yes. |
| PreEmptive Strike 0.1 Extinction Reprogrammed |
| Psychonaut 4 Scrapes From The Past |
| Raison D'Etre Metamorphyses |
| Raison D'Etre The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice |
| Rammstein Mutter |
| Rome Hall of Thatch |
| Rome Nos Chants Perdus |
| Rome World In Flames |
| While being somewhat silly at times, this looks to be the first Jerome's record in years which is worth listening to. The martial industrial sound resembles Nera era in a good way, guitar-driven neofolk parts are good too. |
| Rome The Tower |
| Rotersand 1023 |
| Royksopp Profound Mysteries II |
| Ruinizer The Faceless Aberration |
| Runespell Shores of Náströnd |
| Saor Amidst the Ruins |
| Everything's nice on the surface but somehow the things don't get together, ultimately failing to peak. Better than Origins but that's that, minimal replay value. |
| Sargeist Flame Within Flame |
| Just, well, your usual black metal, maybe slightly above average but lacking character. |
| Scream Silence Saviourine |
| Scream Silence Scream Silence |
| Scream Silence To Die For |
| Scream Silence The 2nd |
| Seth La France des Maudits |
| Shaman (FIN) Idja |
| Shiva in Exile Nour |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| SIRUS Apocrypha |
| Skogen (SWE) Svitjod |
| Sojourner Empires of Ash |
| Sojourner The Shadowed Road |
| Solar Fake Reasons To Kill |
| Solefald Norron Livskunst |
| Solstafir Svartir Sandar |
| Solstafir Í Blóði og Anda |
| Solstafir Otta |
| Transitioning from metal to Sigur ros-scale post-rock, unfortunately ruined by bad vocals. |
| Solstafir Köld |
| Somatic Responses Digital Darkness |
| Sonus Mortis Synapse The Hivemind |
| Starts good but blends and bores in second half, does not live up to initial impression. |
| Sopor Aeternus and The Ensemble of Shadows Es Reiten Die Toten So Schnell (Or: The Vampyre Su |
| Subheim No Land Called Home |
| Suicide Commando Forest of the Impaled |
| Sulphur Aeon Seven Crowns and Seven Seals |
| Summoning Lost Tales |
| Sunn O))) & Pan Sonic / Alan Vega / Stephen Burroughs Che |
| Sunn O))) with Pan Sonic "Che" track is great, the rest is entirely skippable. |
| Suuri Shamaani Mysteerien Maailma |
| Swans The Seer |
| Swans The Burning World |
| Swans Children of God |
| Syrian Death Of A Sun |
| Syrian De-Synchronized |
| Tenhi Airut: Aamujen |
| The Ascent of Everest How Lonely Sits the City |
| The Days of the Trumpet Call I Saw No Temple in the City |
| The Gathering Disclosure |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble |
| The Legendary Pink Dots All the King's Men |
| The warden and Brighter now are great, the rest is meandering and skippable. |
| The Legendary Pink Dots 9 Lives to Wonder |
| The Legendary Pink Dots Malachai (Shadow Weavers Part 2) |
| Even more experimental/improvisational than the first part, has a couple of nice moments but the rest is skippable. |
| The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud The Smell of Blood But Victory |
| The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation Doomjazz Future Corpses! |
| The Pirate Ship Quintet Rope for No-Hopers |
| The Protagonist A Rebours |
| The Tear Garden Have a Nice Trip |
| The Tear Garden Crystal Mass |
| Therion Crowning of Atlantis |
| Therion Leviathan |
| Straightforward, streamlined, simplified, soulless shadow of what Therion once was. Some times good, other times boring, the least interesting of the trilogy. |
| Thyrfing Vanagandr |
| Tiamat Amanethes |
| Not 'plain poor' only because of Until the hellhounds sleep again and Misantropolis, the rest is crap, unfortunately. |
| Tiamat The Astral Sleep |
| Tiamat Judas Christ |
| Tor Lundvall Under the Shadows of Trees |
| Tor Lundvall Empty City |
| Trepaneringsritualen Kainskult |
| Troum Mort aux Vaches: SEN |
| Troum Acouasme |
| Quite inconsistent and mostly uninspired, a couple of pieces are nice but I almost never come back to it. |
| Troum and Raison D'être De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu |
| With both Troum and Raison d'etre being truly outstanding dark ambient superstars, it's amazing that their magic just does not work together. The LP is quite nice when it's flowing, but once it's over I just don't remember a thing. |
| Troum and Raison D'être Xibipiio. In and Out of Experience |
| Second collaboration is just about the same as the first one, pretty low replayability unfortunately. Dreiklang aus Äther is great though. |
| Tsjuder Helvegr |
| Ulcerate Cutting the Throat of God |
| Holy throat of god their drummer is a machine. |
| Ulver Flowers of Evil |
| Ulver Drone Activity |
| Ulver Blood Inside |
| Ulver Sic Transit Gloria Mundi |
| Ulver Childhood's End |
| Urna Sepulcrum |
| Ved Buens Ende Written In Waters |
| Instrumentation often goes overly progressive or plain abstract random, but the whole thing is ruined by vocals. |
| Velvet Acid Christ Dimension 8 |
| Velvet Acid Christ Neuralblastoma |
| Velvet Acid Christ Pestilence |
| Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter |
| Raw blastbeat-driven somewhat melodic black metal, not entirely mediocre but pretty generic, also severely overrated. No standouts, riffs by like a passing train. Production leaves quite a lot to be desired even after remaster but not too bad for 90s standards. |
| Virgin Black Sombre Romantic |
| VNV Nation Noire |
| VNV Nation Transnational |
| VNV Nation Judgement |
| VNV Nation Empires |
| Von Thronstahl Imperium internum |
| Waldgefluster Knochengesänge I |
| Ween Quebec |
| Winterfylleth The Unyielding Season |
| Steamlined, monotonous and lacking highlights, overall a step down from the predecessor. |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain |
| Wongraven Fjelltronen |
| Wumpscut Evoke |
| Wynardtage Close ll Death |
| X-Fusion Ultima Ratio |
| Yasushi Yoshida Little Grace |
| Year of No Light Consolamentum |
| Not bad but not Ausserwelt in any sense. Unfortunately. |
| you, infinite you, infinite |
| Sounds like This Will Destroy You did a couple of decades ago but somehow uninspired, guess I'll never come back to this one. |
| ZOMBIESHARK! Die Laughing. |
| Zoviet France Popular Soviet Songs and Youth Music |
| [:SITD:] Trauma: Ritual |
| [:SITD:] Rot |
| 2.5 average |
| A Forest of Stars Stack Overflow In Corpse Pile Interface |
Yet another example of poor vocal choice ruining a rather interesting record, which is a shame. Now we know that if David Tibet would try to go black metal this would not end up in anything good as no amount of songwriting talent and otherwise excellent musicianship could fix the vocal issue.
Speaking of "unhinged" sounding metal this is largely inferior to Morgul's "insane" classics The Horror Grandeur and Sketch Of Supposed Murderer. Speaking of "circus metal", Angizia has performed much better either. |
| a-ha True North |
| Ad Infinitum Chapter III - Downfall |
| Good quality product for teenagers, okay background music for house chores as well. |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Agalloch's way of mixing neofolk with metal never worked for me somehow but this one is plain awkward, if having a few interesting moments. |
| Agonoize Sieben |
| Alien Vampires Return Me To Hell |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God |
| Amun Spectra and Obsession |
| Has its high moments but overly long and meandering, getting nowhere in the end. Very low to non-existent replay value, I wonder how often you come back to this if you've rated it 4+. |
| Andracca To Bare the Weight of Death |
| Anna von Hausswolff Iconoclasts |
| Unexciting angsty weird pop with wavering vocals, for teenagers. |
| Anthesteria Sublustrum |
| Serves only as a soundtrack, no idea or consistency at all. |
| Antigone's Fate Fragmente |
| Aquilus Griseus |
| Ambitious vast canvas so inconsistent it's falling apart and never gets anywhere. |
| Arvo Part Orient Occident |
| Askeesi Choice I've Never Had |
| Autumn Tears Love Poems for Dying Children... Act 2 |
| Autumnblaze Bleak |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach |
| Be'lakor Vessels |
| Bethlehem S.U.I.Z.I.D |
| Blackbraid Blackbraid I |
| Borknagar Universal |
| BRUIT The Age Of Ephemerality |
| The intoxication of power looks to be the only part standing out from the otherwise boring and pretentious background music. |
| Cain (RUS) Child of Cold |
| Can Bardd Nature Stays Silent |
| Can Bardd The Last Rain |
| Good, but a very naive one. Potential of later masterpiece "Devoured by the Oak" is present but not yet developed. |
| Cemetery Skyline Nordic Gothic |
| Good quality product, one particular pop track (When silence speaks) is even good enough to come back to more than once. Hope the release is getting commercially successful! |
| Chaostar Anomima |
| Cigarettes After Sex Cry |
| Cisfinitum Landschaft |
| Crippled Black Phoenix The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature |
| Current 93 Swastikas For Noddy |
| Dark Funeral The Secrets of the Black Arts |
| Dark Funeral Vobiscum Satanas |
| David Yow Tonight You Look Like a Spider |
| A bunch of free improvisations, some quite good but mostly not. |
| Dead Can Dance Dionysus |
| Derniere Volonte Les Blessures de l'Ombre |
| Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia |
| Dimmu Borgir Grand Serpent Rising |
| Intense, vast, complex, sometimes even trying to be grandiose but lacking memorable moments and entirely unengaging. A lot happening and no energy at all. |
| Dissection Reinkaos |
| Drudkh Shadow Play |
| Drudkh The Swan Road |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora |
| Drudkh Blood In Our Wells |
| Drudkh All Belong to the Night |
| Earth and Pillars Earth I |
| Eluvium Talk Amongst the Trees |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium |
| Enisum Forgotten Mountains |
| Enisum Arpitanian Lands |
| Ereb Altor Järtecken |
| Ereb Altor Ulfven |
| Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology |
| Falls of Rauros Vigilance Perennial |
| Falls of Rauros Believe in No Coming Shore |
| Fen Epoch |
| Fen Winter |
| Fleurety Min Tid Skal Komme |
| Some "too smart" avantgarde based on black metal sound, with genres thrown in and blended but failing to shape any pattern and staying a canvas of random disjointed particles. |
| Fuath III |
| Fuath II |
| Gaerea Coma |
| Green Carnation A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis |
| Throughout the years the vocals do not allow me to enjoy it, this guy really takes himself seriously in a funny manner. |
| Grendel (NL) Timewave Zero |
| Grift Arvet |
| Haus Arafna Butterfly |
| Heimataerde Aerdenbrand |
| Heimataerde Kaltwærts |
| Passable but with introduction of pop-metal guitars Heimataerde started to decline and lose the pace, becoming a faceless generic Rammstein/Tanzwut copy. |
| Hocico Odio Bajo El Alma |
| Holy Fawn Death Spells |
| IAMX Alive In New Light |
| Mile deep hollow is the only real good on this one, the rest is unfortunately non-memorable. |
| In Vain (NO) Solemn |
| Jarboe Mahakali |
| Julee Cruise The Art of Being a Girl |
| Kalmankantaja Kohti Valon Kuolemaa |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness |
| Kreuzweg Ost Gott mit uns |
| Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! |
| Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence |
| Leprous Melodies Of Atonement |
| Lord Belial Unholy Crusade |
| Maeror Tri Peak Experience |
| Mgla Exercises in Futility |
| Mgla Age of Excuse |
| Michael Gira Drainland |
| Minenwerfer Feuerwalze |
| Mono Rays of Darkness |
| Moonspell The Butterfly Effect |
| Mortiis The Smell Of Rain |
| Mortiis Født til å Herske |
| Muslimgauze Azzazin |
| Extremely minimal experimental noisy techno which does not really withstand a test of time, his followers Pan Sonic are far superior to the source of their inspiration. |
| My Dying Bride As the Flower Withers |
| Nadja Luminous Rot |
| Negura Bunget 'N Crugu Bradului |
| Negura Bunget ZI |
| Negura Bunget Tău |
| Northaunt The Ominous Silence |
| Primitive in a bad sense of the word, some basic piano melodies aren't really 'ambient'. |
| November Novelet From Heaven on Earth |
| Oceans of Slumber Where Gods Fear to Speak |
| Of the Wand and the Moon Behold the Trees |
| Old Man's Child Ill Natured Spiritual Invasion |
| Orplid Orplid |
| Orplid Greifenherz |
| Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness |
| Paradise Lost Tragic Idol |
| Paradise Lost Medusa |
| Paradise Lost Believe In Nothing |
| Paradise Lost Shades Of God |
| Pazuzu And All Was Silent.. |
| Psyclon Nine And Then Oblivion |
| Raison D'Etre The luminous experience |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise |
| Rapture Silent Stage |
| Didn't age well, clean vocals are naively simplistic. |
| Rome Hegemonikon |
| Rome Die Æsthetik der Herrschaftsfreiheit |
| With just three memorable songs in 3 hours of unmemorable boredom, this sounds like Jerome was forced to issue a triple album. |
| Rome Civitas Solis |
| Jerome please stop keeping the three-albums-a-year pace, this became "with a great deal of effort he could possibly achieve mediocrity". |
| Rotersand How Do You Feel Today? |
| Somewhat bland, mechanical, streamlined and club-oriented, lacking lyricism they're loved for. |
| Sickle of Dust To the Shores of Sunrise |
| SIG:AR:TYR Northen |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
| Skogen (SWE) Eld |
| Skogen (SWE) Skuggorna Kallar |
| Skogen (SWE) I Doden |
| Spiritual Front Amour Braque |
| Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid |
| Storm Nordavind |
| Susanne Sundfor Music For People In Trouble |
| Svartsinn Devouring Consciousness |
| Swallow the Sun Shining |
| Swans Birthing |
| No surprises here as with all nu-Swans albums, it could've been quite great if runtime was at least halved and had pretentiousness level reduced by 90%. I like it a bit more than predecessors but you can't escape wanting to fast-forward here and there, as for the huge part it's still meaninglessly meandering and failing to justify its mammoth frame. |
| Syrian Kosmonauta |
| The Halo Effect We Are Shadows |
| The Legendary Pink Dots Your Children Placate You from Premature Graves |
| The Legendary Pink Dots Curse |
| Therion Gothic Kabbalah |
| Therion stripped of symphonics and choirs, what could go wrong? Not plain bad but just zero replay value. |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Trepaneringsritualen Algir; eller Algir i Merkstave |
| Tristania World Of Glass |
| Troum Objectlessness |
| Uada Interwoven |
| Black metal played on acoustics the proper way - instrumentally good, but desperately needs a complete vocal part replacement. |
| Uada Cult of a Dying Sun |
| Uboa Impossible Light |
| Very average death industrial with a few somewhat nice melodic passages but that's it. |
| Ulver Scary Muzak |
| Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP |
| Ulver Liminal Animals |
| The more I kept searching and waiting for something deeper, the more superficial, averagely catchy and forgettable it sounded. |
| Urna Mors Principium Est |
| VNV Nation Automatic |
| Wilderun Epigone |
| Witte Wieven Dwaallicht |
| Wolfheart Winterborn |
| Wumpscut Body Census |
| Year of No Light Tocsin |
