| 4.5 superb |
| 200 Stab Wounds Manual Manic Procedures |
| I think people are mistaking unconventional death metal songwriting for lack of talent. This is obviously super punk influenced and honestly I like that they make more room for the unfathomable amount of sick riffs on this sucker. |
| Aara Eiger |
| Abduction (UK) Existentialismus |
| If this is the flavor of forward-thinking black metal in 2025 then sign me up for the buffet |
| Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse |
| Andrew Bird Break It Yourself |
| Arabrot Norwegian Gothic |
| Ashenspire Hostile Architecture |
| Baan Neumann |
| shoegaze but not sucks. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Blue Nowhere |
| Billy Woods Aethiopes |
| This is so good it makes it difficult to listen to other rap. |
| Billy Woods and Kenny Segal Maps |
| I think it is physically impossible for Billy Woods to miss, and he?s at his best with Segal. Slightly less dark and more ?traditional? than last year?s records, but equally poignant and potent. |
| Black Curse Burning in Celestial Poison |
| Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere |
| Bongzilla Weedsconsin |
| Catharsis (USA-NC) Hope against Hope |
| Comparing this to the new Deadguy feels like a fever. That album is excellent but it's definitely curtailed slightly by age and rust. For last being active around the same time, this sounds like a fresh young band. It's ferocious and nothing feels recycled, Brian's vocals are liquid fire, and the riffs and textures here are thick with grit. |
| Cave Sermon Divine Laughter |
| Celtic Frost To Mega Therion |
| Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood |
| Coevality Multiple Personalities |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Convulsing Perdurance |
| Crowbar Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form |
| How have I gone THIS LONG without knowing this is the best Crowbar album???? This blows the self-titled and Odd Fellows Rest out of the damn water |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition |
| DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMNNNN DANIEL.rlike really doe like really doe |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance |
| Dead and Dripping Nefarious Scintillations |
| Like Gorguts had ascendant tantric sex with Demilich, and all the esoteric technical death gurgling that entails. |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Deafheaven Lonely People With Power |
| Deafheaven once again changing the face of black metal for the better. Not the glowing pink spire that is Sunbather, but richly darkened with the gloomgaze they showcased on Infinite Granite to be a perfect amalgamation of what the band's always been trying to make: cityscape metal with both fresh and nostalgic bents. |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Dijon Baby |
| This is wildly underrated here. I have never been into R&B but this is just such exceptionally GOOD music that it should appeal to anyone with a pulse. A stunning record. |
| Dozer Drifting In The Endless Void |
| Dying Fetus Make Them Beg for Death |
| Emma Goldman all you are is we |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full |
| For such a gnarled, powerhouse sound they have on their own, Thou are ridiculously talented at tempering themselves to the different styles of their collaborators. Emma?s no slouch, and her presence is heavy throughout the sadly short record. Her desert-drone and haunting alto mixed with Thou?s murk shaved to a fine edge...potential AOTY, shoe-in for the top of the list. |
| Equilibrium Erdentempel |
| Equilibrium have not a shred of kvlt cred and their music is soaked in folk metal cliches like hurdy-gurdy and flute solos, but when it comes to consistently PRISTINE songwriting, hooks and melodies galore, all while being a ton of fun and quite frankly I could give a hoot less if they take themselves seriously, this album is a masterwork and "Uns'rer Floten Klang" is just...happiness in a tune. |
| Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter |
| Everything Everything A Fever Dream |
| Everything Everything Mountainhead |
| Exhumed Gore Metal |
This is extremely underrated!! Riffs superbly hard all over the place and has some of the most entertaining vocals in DM.
A near-perfect meeting point between pure goregrind and straight death metal. |
| Fall Out Boy So Much (For) Stardust |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... |
| Fiona Apple Fetch The Bolt Cutters |
| Foxing Foxing |
| Frigoris Wind |
| Funebrarum The Sleep of Morbid Dreams |
| Gatecreeper Dark Superstition |
| Geordie Greep The New Sound |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! |
| With the world social and political climate as it is, you figure GY!BE is gonna come out of their Montreal bunker for an album. The title is absolutely silly, but not surprising at all. What IS surprising is that this is easily their best since Allelujah, possibly better than that even. |
| GridLink Coronet Juniper |
| GridLink Perfect Amber |
| This is incredible. The amount of additional flavor and depth added with the additional tracking is exactly what you'd want from restructuring (a pair of) already excellent records. |
| Grinning Death's Head Golden Dawn |
| fuzZZzzZZDktdssdhhhhsrjrreadhhvSHRRRRIIIIRJJGAAAKKAAHHGfrrrbrrrrzzz |
| High on Fire Cometh The Storm |
| Hop Along Get Disowned |
| Horda Form |
| Iron Monkey Spleen & Goad |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant |
| Jessie Ware That! Feels Good! |
| This is one of my most-listened records of the year and it's still absolutely fabulous. I've always loved Jessie but she's never made an entire album that's so delicious from top to bottom, dripping with ear candy and the classiest of innuendo. |
| Judas Priest Invincible Shield |
| Julie Christmas Ridiculous and Full of Blood |
| I waited literally 14 years for this album like some kind of Tool fan except I wasn?t disappointed |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music III |
| Klysma Death |
| I'm not even kidding, this is the best slam I've heard in a long time. An absolutely ridiculous feature list, bottomless riffs and gurgles, hysterical samples before the breakdowns...it's got everything. Top-to-bottom fun as fuck. |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel |
| Can this just leak so I can listen to it and be super happy? |
| Leeched To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse |
| Liturgy H.A.Q.Q. |
| Well that came out of nowhere and rocketed up my AOTY list real quick. |
| Machismo Severe Disconnect |
| I traded Sutcliffe Jugend for this and I?m not even sorryrI also bought a replacement copy for dirt cheap so it?s kinda cheatingrThis is one of the best power electronics releases I?ve ever heard why do the nasty die fasty |
| Magic Circle Journey Blind |
| What ever happened to this band? Three great records and then pfft? |
| Mamaleek Come and See |
| Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Melvins Tarantula Heart |
| Merzbow Dust of Dreams |
| Genius-grade sound manipulation. Japanoise is best |
| Mount Eerie Night Palace |
| Musk Ox Woodfall |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| Excellent excellent pop-punk emo-whatever. I had no idea it would be this amazing, but I find it hard to hear imperfections in this. |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (Deluxe) |
| Yet another example of perfection in refurbishing a classic record with more-modern mixing. When it's done wrong it's almost criminal, but when it's done correctly and with such clear love and understanding of the record like this...MMMMWAH. Chef's kiss. |
| Nadja Touched |
| Nadja Radiance of Shadows |
| Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism |
| Ok we are all admitting this squeaked then? Good.rThis slams. The riffs and songwriting are consistently delicious and just as visceral as a younger ND. There?s definitely even some experimentation with slower and more programmatic sounds which I think they pull off FANTASTICALLY well, and I was surprised. rHell of an album, shoe-in for the AOTY list |
| Ne Obliviscaris Exul |
| Neurosis Through Silver In Blood |
| Obsidian Kingdom Mantiis |
| Old Man Gloom Seminar IX: Darkness of Being |
| Geezus can?t wait for the prequel if this slams this hard, one time fake-out album is cool but twice is god-tier insanity |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Past all the hate, Opeth are really damn good. This album blew my mind with how far you can stretch the definition of "metal". |
| Opeth Watershed |
| just not as good as BWP when I really listen close...still, The Lotus Eater is probably my favorite 'Peth song |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi |
| Orgone (USA-PA) Pleroma |
| I just got my copy of this along with a handwritten note and some stickers in a thick black envelope, wax-sealed. Damn y?all. |
| Oxbow An Evil Heat |
| Oxbow The Narcotic Story |
| Oxbow King of the Jews |
| Oxbow Let Me Be A Woman |
| Panopticon Panopticon |
| Panopticon The Rime of Memory |
| I hate to just reiterate Coma but yeah, this feels like a culmination of everything Austin's done as Panopticon chiseled to a fine precision. Nothing against the last two records, but this definitely feels the most directed since Autumn Eternal. Better than Collapse? We'll see if nostalgia wins. |
| Pillars of Cacophony Paralipomena |
| Rorcal Vilagvege |
| Rosalia Lux |
| Shellac To All Trains |
| Skin Tension Inaugurate Renaissance |
| "There is no 'free' playing on this album. Muscle memory informs everything." Jesus. |
| Slift Ilion |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| First metal anything I ever heard was "Pulse of the Maggots", so fuck you, this is staying a 4.5. |
| Snooze I Know How You Will Die |
| Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine |
| Sulphur Aeon Seven Crowns and Seven Seals |
| SUMAC The Healer |
| Swans The Great Annihilator |
| Swans Children of God |
| SWARRRM こわれはじめる |
| Swarrrm?s always been pretty raucous and fun but this has no business being this pumpin? good, ?metal? AOTY so far (...until I finish the new Panopticon) |
| Teitanblood From the Visceral Abyss |
| The Armed Untitled |
| The Callous Daoboys I Don't Want to See You in Heaven |
| The Drones I See Seaweed |
| The Gaslight Anthem American Slang |
| The Menzingers After the Party |
| hoping this boosts the average over Brand New'srAOTY |
| The Offering Home |
| Was NOT expecting this to riff and smash the whole way through, and definitely not as hard as this goes. Catchy and heavy in all the right places, equal bits tech-death and ?progressive? metal and the vocalist(s) are genuinely talented and display it on a wide yet cohesive spectrum. rJust an incredibly awesome record on the whole, actual rating like a 4.2-3 |
| Thy Catafalque Naiv |
| Tyler, the Creator Igor |
| Ulcerate Cutting the Throat of God |
| No idea what people can hear in this that warrants a 2.5 or lower. I get the band is SUPER hyped up but objectively I cannot see the justification. On just the first full listen this might be better than Stare. |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City |
| Veilburner Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy |
| This is ridiculous. Was that last amazing album just a precursor to this madness? What a shining example of what metal can put forth going into 2026. This bypasses all subgenre tags and should appeal to literally anyone who enjoys heavy music. Shifting shades of smoggy esoterica that are just fantastic throughout. |
| Viagra Boys Viagr Aboys |
| Waxahatchee Tigers Blood |
| Wintersun Time I |
| Xiu Xiu Oh No |
| Ok, not the only one who got the preorder early then haharThis is so utterly fantastic. You?d expect a full album of duets to falter by diminishing either the band or the collaborators, but this is so brilliantly composed on the part of all parties involved. Equally a wonderful Xiu Xiu record and a showcase of them playing beautifully with the influence of others. |
| Zao Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest |
| Zao The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here |
| Genius Jesuscore crammed full of hooks. Every time I feel this doesn't deserve such a high rating, I fall in love with it again. |
| Zao The Crimson Corridor |
| Have not had an album I already loved grow on me this much in a long time. So much so I felt I needed to up my rating. |
| 4.0 excellent |
| ...and Oceans Cosmic World Mother |
| Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties We Don't Have Each Other |
| Aborted Vault of Horrors |
| Abysmal Descent Dismal Thoughts |
| Aesop Rock Black Hole Superette |
| Aesop Rock I Heard It's A Mess There Too |
| Afsky Ofte Jeg Drømmer Mig Død |
| Afsky-sky muddafugga, Afsky-sky gaht damn (gotdamn) |
| Afterbirth Four Dimensional Flesh |
| Air Review Low Wishes |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct |
| Allegaeon The Ossuary Lens |
| Altarage Succumb |
| Amenra Mass V |
| Amorphis Borderland |
THE WEASEL SLIPS INTO THE STUMP
No but really, that single is addicting with the marching chorus. This is easily the band's most entertaining album in a long time, possibly even since Skyforger. Huge melodies and just enough growls to keep the grit. Excellent. |
| Ancient Death Ego Dissolution |
| Archspire Bleed the Future |
| Arm's Length There's A Whole World Out There |
| Armand Hammer We Buy Diabetic Test Strips |
| Artificial Brain Artificial Brain |
| ASAP Ferg Floor Seats II |
| WhaaaaaaatrI?ve always liked Ferg?s voice and flow, but this has NO RIGHT going as hard as it does. No filler tracks, a killer feature list, and I keep coming back to bump this again and again. rFire. |
| Ashenspire Speak Not of the Laudanum Quandary |
| Astral Tomb Soulgazer |
| Atvm Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless |
| Autopsy Morbidity Triumphant |
| Backxwash Only Dust Remains |
| Barren Path Grieving |
| Bat For Lashes The Haunted Man |
| Bayside Interrobang |
| Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation |
| Bell Witch Future's Shadow I: The Clandestine Gate |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors II |
| Bidirna Dhamani Brihot Buru |
| Esoteric 2-piece brutal death metal from India, with bits of eastern influence in the drums and structure. Super super cool, looking forward to more material from these guys. |
| Big|Brave Vital |
| Big|Brave nature morte |
| Big|Brave A Chaos of Flowers |
| Black Curse Endless Wound |
| Blanck Mass Animated Violence Mild |
| Screw you PO)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))t$y |
| Blaze of Perdition The Harrowing of Hearts |
| Bleed Bleed |
| Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Rejecting Obliteration |
| Blindfolded and Led to the Woods The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One… |
| I feel like these guys are overhyped a little. This and their last two are excellent but the praises were heaped on so heavy that they somewhat cant hold up. |
| Blood From The Soul DSM-5 |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History Of The Human Race |
| Bloodtied Dismantling Neuroanatomy |
| This is the best slam and/or BDM in recent months and unlike a lot of NSE releases it actually has some length |
| Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen |
| Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Boris NO |
| Borknagar True North |
| Brand of Sacrifice Lifeblood |
| I have no idea how to rate this, because on one hand completely obnoxious deathcore, but on the other hand ALSO completely deliciously obnoxious deathcore |
| Brodequin Harbinger of Woe |
| ByoNoiseGenerator Subnormal Dives |
| Candy (USA) It's Inside You |
| Candy (USA) Flipping |
| Cannibal Corpse Violence Unimagined |
| Cannibal Corpse Chaos Horrific |
| This is surprisingly great considering the boots it had to fill. It might even have a bit more staying power than Violence Unimagined, but time will tell. |
| Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You |
| Caustic Wound Grinding Mechanism of Torment |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Schizophrenia |
lol I get being mad at the concept but at least listen to it first. Re-recordings are notorious for being disgracefully bad,
but I mean.. Max was 17 when he wrote this. I suppose experience won over old age this time because this is an utter
improvement on the original in almost every way. |
| Cave In Heavy Pendulum |
| Celtic Frost Monotheist |
| Cemetery Frost Frozen In Death |
| Chat Pile Cool World |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun |
| Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She |
| Church of Misery Born Under A Mad Sign |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye |
| Cindy Lee Diamond Jubilee |
| clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned |
| I would be amazed if this wasn?t mostly taken from the cutting room floor of TEAATB, but it?s so easy to ignore that when this is so damn solid and beautifully arranged. Don?t call it a B-sides. |
| Clipse Let God Sort Em Out |
| This is clearly the result of like minds who have been in the game winning for a long time. The production is pristine and the feature list is penthouse classy. |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis III: The Father of Make Believe |
| Compulsed Amalgamated Anguish |
| Conan Violence Dimension |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Converge The Dusk in Us |
| Coroner Dissonance Theory |
| This is about what you hope for from a veteran band returning after three decades. A powerhouse record full of sick riffs and pretty fun structures, but ultimately falls a little short of the sheer excellence of their back catalog. No shame in it at all, this is fantastic and a worthy addition to the discography. |
| Cradle of Filth The Screaming of the Valkyries |
| Crippling Alcoholism Camgirl |
| Cryptosis Bionic Swarm |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear |
| CZARFACE and MF DOOM Super What? |
| Danny Brown XXX |
| Danny Brown Old |
| Darkest Hour Perpetual | Terminal |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon |
| Darkthrone Soulside Journey |
| Darkthrone Arctic Thunder |
| David Byrne Who Is The Sky? |
| This is so bright and fun and it really did my soul well to hear it. I love DB dearly. |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
IM GONNA TAKE IT AROUND FOR A BIT AND I DONT CARE IF YOU GIVE A SHIT... PUUUNK!!!...
BIIIIIYAAAATCHHH!!!!! |
| Decryptal Simulacre |
| Defeated Sanity Chronicles of Lunacy |
| Deftones Ohms |
| Ah, another Sputnik study in ?What?s worse?: Worshipping a band no matter their quality of output, or being a whiny dick just because a band has that kind of clout?? |
| Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future |
| Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Innern |
| This is technically excellent and clearly emotionally charged but damn, I just cannot find anything about them that's that "special". It's just really, really good melodic black metal by the book. Nothing wrong with that but it definitely has a sort of...ceiling, for me. |
| Desolate Shrine Deliverance from the Godless Void |
| I know it's just the Greek name for those weird triplets that share an eye in the Disney Hercules movie, but I can NOT stop reading "The Graeae" as "The Grease" and it really ruins this whole album for me |
| Destiny Bond The Love |
| Discordant Meditation Tragic Creature |
| This rips, people should pay attention to this band |
| Dissimulator (CAN) Lower Form Resistance |
| This is fantastic! The proggy parts and especially the vocoder reminds me a bit of Focus-era Cynic |
| Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current |
| Dormant Ordeal Tooth and Nail |
| Drudkh Shadow Play |
| Dvne Voidkind |
| Einsturzende Neubauten Rampen |
| Eluvium Copia |
| The soundtrack to falling in love and dancing away in eternal slow circles. |
| Eluvium Nightmare Ending |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face |
| Enterprise Earth Death: An Anthology |
| Whaaaaat I did not expect this to be good after The Chosen was total butt but this is really really solid |
| Eternal Storm A Giant Bound To Fall |
| Ethel Cain Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You |
| Every Time I Die Radical |
| Everything Everything Raw Data Feel |
I will happily say this is their best since Get To Heaven, the songs seem to have stronger identities. Shark Week is an
absolute banger. |
| Exsanguination Burial Rites |
| Fermented Mess Fermented Mess |
| Floating Hesitating Lights |
| Flotsam and Jetsam Blood in the Water |
| Fluisteraars Bloem |
| Forest of Tygers I Will Die of Violence |
| Fossilization Leprous Daylight |
| Frail Body Artificial Bouquet |
| Full of Hell Garden of Burning Apparitions |
| Full of Hell Coagulated Bliss |
| Gazpacho Magic 8-Ball |
| Genesis Owusu Smiling with No Teeth |
| Genesis Owusu Struggler |
| Genocide Organ Remember |
| I'm wearing Adam Thomas' old band's shirt and I'm 4'ing GO while playing a l337 noisehead. I have never been banned and to date no one has physically fought me |
| Gigan Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus |
| Godot Fever Songs |
| Thick, sludgy gutter hardcore. Changed my mind, this is utterly excellent. |
| Gospel The Loser |
| Grave Miasma Abyss of Wrathful Deities |
| Greyhaven Keep It Quiet |
| Grudge Ring Ground Zero |
| I was debating between a 3.5 and a 4.0 but then the vocalist screamed WAHOO like Mario and I was sold solid |
| Gulch Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress |
| Habak Mil Orquideas En Medio Del Desierto |
| Haunted Horses Dweller |
| Hauntologist Hollow |
| He Is Legend White Bat |
| Hedonist Scapulimancy |
| Wow, a lot of yall are really unimpressed by STELLAR RIFFS |
| Hooded Menace The Tritonus Bell |
| Hooded Menace Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration |
| This is so grandiose and full of movement for a band technically in the doom realm. The riffs are huge and they go into some distinctly 70s-80s metal tones at several points. My only complaint is the whole back half of the 10-minute closer drops the album off with plodding and bad cleans and it left me really baffled. |
| Hoplites Παραμαινομένη |
| Horrendous Ontological Mysterium |
| Hyperdontia Harvest of Malevolence |
| This is fantastic. I randomly found Nexus of Teeth used the other week and it lived in my car stereo for a good minute. |
| Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion |
| Immortal Bird Sin Querencia |
| Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy |
| Imperial Triumphant Goldstar |
| In Mourning The Immortal |
| Incantation Unholy Deification |
| Incapacitants Default Standard |
| One of the better Incapacitants releases, (the lower end the better with these two IMO) marking it high among the annals of Japanoise itself. Severely underrated here, apparently. |
| Insane (SWE) Victims |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth |
| James Blake Overgrown |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock |
| drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drudkh |
| Job For A Cowboy Moon Healer |
| Johnny Booth Moments Elsewhere |
| JPEGMAFIA I Lay Down My Life For You |
| JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown Scaring the Hoes |
| Julia Wolf PRESSURE |
| I like to play a game called "how many albums can be better than Brat and go way underrated" At least this one! |
| Jute Gyte Unus Mundus Patet |
| Adam's best and most accessible black metal record in years. I always look forward to new BM Jute Gyte and this was a particularly happy surprise. If y'all Pitchfork black metallers are worshiping Liturgy's "sacred number" shit just know Jute Gyte did it first and better. |
| Kanye West Yeezus |
| Kardashev Alunea |
| Kayo Dot Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason |
| It feels like the people who rate this low only appreciate Kayo Dot at their most accessible. Blue Lambency Downward and Coyote are similarly textural and their respective rating averages reflect that (I'm old, I actually remember all the WIDELY split discourse on Coyote, which is excellent). This isn't an entirely new timbre for them at all, it's literally the same unit as Choirs, but it is exceptionally slow and stripped. It's an album focused on broad atmosphere that you have to sit with, and I think that makes it that much more potent when it comes together. This is my favorite release of theirs since Hubardo. |
| Killer Be Killed Reluctant Hero |
| This rating may change but I?m giving it the benefit of the doubt because it?s fun as heck |
| Kim Gordon The Collective |
| Cannot believe Kim Gordon made a better Gazelle Twin album than Gazelle Twin |
| Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue |
| Korgull the Exterminator Built to Kill |
| Maybe I'm a little generous with my 4s but this absolutely rips. If you like speed metal or blackthrash or just fast riffs get on this immediately. |
| L.S. Dunes Violet |
| La Dispute No One Was Driving the Car |
| Labyrinthine Heirs Labyrinthine Heirs |
| Lady Gaga Mayhem |
| Lamp of Murmuur The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy |
| Oh I was not expecting to be impressed by this (Saturnian Bloodstorm was borderline butt) but it's actually quite excellent black metal. It exudes royalty with its synths and melodies, but everything feels so tasteful and there are LOADS of delicious riffs in here. |
| Last Retch Abject Cruelty |
| Leprous Pitfalls |
| Lilla Veneda Primordial Movements |
| Lingua Ignota Sinner Get Ready |
| Macabre Demise Awakening |
| Gotta love death metal that?s crushing and satisfyingly old-school gory while still having a strong thread of neck-snapping groove.rFans of death metal are sleeping on this for 2020 |
| Madlib, Meyhem Lauren and DJ Muggs Champagne For Breakfast |
| Malakhim And in Our Hearts the Devil Sings |
| Malthusian The Summoning Bell |
| Martrod Draumsýnir Eldsins |
Fantastic multinational BM supergroup to end the year with. Also, I have always held that 37 minutes is the ideal length
for a record and I stand by that. |
| Maruja Tir na nÓg |
| This is fantastic and considering it was entirely improvised is absolutely bonkers. THIS is how you use a saxophone, not just ornamental or crammed where it shouldnt be. |
| Maruja Pain to Power |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mayhem Daemon |
| Melvins Working with God |
| Meshuggah Immutable - The Indelible Edition (2025) |
| Messa The Spin |
| Metaphobic Deranged Excruciations |
| meth. Shame |
| Metharoma Pipe Dreams (Through The Alley) |
| MIKE Burning Desire |
| Misanthropy The Ever-Crushing Weight of Stagnance |
| Miscreance Convergence |
| Misthyrming Algleymi |
| Mizmor and Thou Myopia |
| Model/Actriz Pirouette |
| Monkey3 Welcome To The Machine |
| Mono For My Parents |
| Nadja Skin Turns To Glass |
| Nadja Desire in Uneasiness |
| Neck of the Woods The Annex of Ire |
| Necromantic Forces Under The Threshold Of Consciousness |
| Necrot Lifeless Birth |
| Necrowretch Swords of Dajjal |
| Neurosis Given To The Rising |
| Neurosis Honor Found In Decay |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Carnage |
| This is MILES better than Ghosteen. Honestly we all know we?re probably not getting the punk-ish Blixa Cave anymore, and as far as his work with Warren this is a fantastic entry. |
| Norma Jean All Hail |
| Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me |
| Nuvolascura How This All Ends |
| Occultum Apokatastasis |
| Om Advaitic Songs |
| Omnicidal Instinct Catharsis in Blight |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Orville Peck Bronco |
| Ossuary Abhorrent Worship |
| Oxbow Fuckfest |
| Oxbow Thin Black Duke |
| Oxbow Love's Holiday |
| Panopticon Roads to the North |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light |
| I appreciate the idea of having a black metal ?side? and an acoustic folk ?side? for a record, but it?s clear that Panopticon flourishes most when Lunn focuses on songcraft and not which of his influences is at the forefront. |
| Pathology Reborn To Kill |
| Lol I?ve always enjoyed Pathology as a gem in a dungheap of slam, but this actually genuinely rips |
| PeelingFlesh Slamaholics, Vol. 2 |
| PeelingFlesh The G Code |
| Pensees Nocturnes Douce Fange |
| Pestilectomy From Vulnerable To Funeral |
| I may be a sucker for slam, but this is surprisingly solid and already one of my favorite records for 2022.rStreaming: https://youtu.be/w7bhWmx3ydsr |
| Phrenelith Ashen Womb |
| Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Death Hilarious |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4qNFSkOa6o
This performance alone shifted this straight from a 3.5 to a 4.0. Slickest, sweatiest, sexiest slapper of a sludge jam I've witnessed in a long while. Dudes are chock full of groove and tighter than a bike lane. |
| Poppy Negative Spaces |
| Prof Horse |
| The most fun hip-hop album of the year so far, featuring both Redman AND Mr. Meth, and I had to add it to the database. SAD. |
| Proscription Desolate Divine |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest |
| Prurient Casablanca Flamethrower |
| Best he?s done since Frozen Niagara Falls, definitely better than the average rating it?s sitting at as of this typing. |
| PUP Morbid Stuff |
| Pupil Slicer Mirrors |
| I first found this labeled as experimental death metal which is a lol, but it definitely is a fantastic amalgam of odds and ends from hardcore/grind/metal. Probably most comparable to Converge if you want to shoehorn it, but generally pretty singular as well. |
| Pyrrhon Exhaust |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch |
| Replacire The Center That Cannot Hold |
| The sheer amount of fantastic new death metal of all subsets burgeoning over the last couple years is absolutely refreshing |
| Rothadas Töviskert... a kísértés örök érzete.. Lidércharang |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 |
| Rwake The Return Of Magik |
| Sallow Moth Deformity in Ceremony |
| Sallow Moth Blue Permutations |
To come back a few months after an excellent full-length and drop two fantastic 30-minute EPs is absolutely insane
work and I am all for it, baby. |
| Saor Amidst the Ruins |
| Ok this is actually quite excellent all the way through. It is of course exactly what you expect from Saor, but the quality is top notch. |
| Scumbag Homicide Cult |
| Sepulchre Psalms Unto Caesar |
| Seputus Phantom Indigo |
| This is miles ahead of the debut, kept the creepy crusty style but with stronger songwriting, and the production is SO much less skeletal which helps a ton. |
| Serj Tankian Elect the Dead |
| Shame (UK) Cutthroat |
| This is excellent, an easy step forward from the previous two records. |
| Shezmu À Travers Les Lambeaux |
| Sightless Pit Grave of a Dog |
| Skagos Chariot Sun Blazing |
| I'm stoked for new Skagos after 11 years, and this is absolutely excellent, but I will say it might've been more impressive had I not heard the new Aara JUST yesterday lol |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Great record, I still enjoy Slipknot. Eyeless, (sic), and Wait and Bleed ftw. |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind |
| By far the most solid album they?ve put out since Vol. 3, and if not for my overwhelming nostalgia for that record I?d say this is superior. Not a single sloppy track, plenty of ?back to basics? Knot with Corey doing some pseudo-raps actually along the lines of his self-titled flows. Whichever DJ stepped up to the plate killed this record, I?ve been saying they learned how to use Sid again but it could be Clown or Tortilla Face...? Even the ?ballads? have developed an eerie razor?s edge that finally sets them apart from Stone Sour in a distinct and appealing manner. rI?m a born Iowan so am I biased as hell? Yes. rDon?t give a fuck. Don?t ever judge me. |
| Spectral Lore Ετερόφωτος |
| lol y'all had me concerned, that ambient track isn't NEARLY as offensive as the slow fade ins/outs |
| Spectral Wound A Diabolic Thirst |
| Squid Cowards |
| Static Dress Rouge Carpet Disaster |
| Steel Train Steel Train |
| Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning |
| Suffering Hour Impelling Rebirth |
| This needs to be at least twice as long. I happen to live real close to these guys, maybe I go slap em into gear lol |
| Suffocation Hymns From the Apocrypha |
| Sulfuric Cautery Consummate Extirpation |
| SUMAC May You Be Held |
| Of course this is divisive which is why I dgaf about the sub-4 average but I shall definitely do my part to boost it. More power to them on bringing new meaning to deconstructed. The record with Keiji Haino was a little too much but this hits a delicious sweet spot. |
| Surgeon Shell~Wave |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind |
| Swans The Beggar |
| Tetragrammacide Cyber-Tantric Paradigm of Radical Sri-Vidya |
| The Acacia Strain You Are Safe From God Here |
| With a whopper of a closer at almost 14 minutes? This hits like a truck full of people who look like The Acacia Strain |
| The Armed The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be... |
| The Body I’ve Seen All I Need To See |
| The Body and Dis Fig Orchards of a Futile Heaven |
| The Breathing Process Labyrinthian |
| The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist |
| The Decemberists As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Dreams Of Being Dust |
| Ok is nobody going to even casually mention that TWIAB are suddenly a post-djentcore band? |
| Them Flying Monkeys Best Behavior |
| Oh people are sleeping on this... Reminds me a little of The Garden? Oddball thumper psych rawk and it is CATCHY AS ALL GETOUT |
| Thy Catafalque XII: A Gyönyörü Álmok Ezután Jönnek |
| Timber Timbre Hot Dreams |
| Wow, this impressed much more than expected. Many stylistic throwbacks to pre-60's music, richly textured and satisfyingly gothic without eye shadow or tears. |
| Titaan Itima |
Yeah yeah, I know its not released yet but its been streaming in full on the official Bandcamp for well over a week
now. rSuper solid. Unlike Kadingir and over a dozen tracks, now just one big mammoth. Definitely a lot more
clarity and variety throughout, and surprisingly a lot easier to get through in one sitting than Kadingir. Thick,
ominous, occultist black metal and promise of more |
| Titanic (MEX) Hagen |
| Toadliquor Back In The Hole |
| Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit |
| Tomb of Annihilation Execration Rites |
| Toughness Black Respite of Oblivion |
| Trha ducel ëf ∂acet'asde§ den alëcaáhabna ë∫ igatenamëc |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard |
| Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost |
| Tyler, the Creator Chromakopia |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) Sympathetic Magic |
| Unbirth Asomatous Besmirchment |
| Undeath Lesions of a Different Kind |
| At the very least, 2020 has been a damn decent year for music. As expected, this rips. |
| Vacuous In His Blood |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend |
| I'm not usually into Indie-rock music, but every so often I find a band who really appeals to me. Vampire Weekend did so. The songs are very catchy and I like the instrumentation, it's very...experimental. I recommend Oxford Comma and A-Punk. |
| Veilburner The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom |
| Vile Apparition Malignity |
| Vit The Dry Season |
| VoidCeremony Abditum |
| Vredehammer God Slayer |
| I fuggin love this brand of metal, Chimaira-core or whatever you wanna call it. Between this and the new Daath we?re getting treated this summer. Really enjoyed their last record and this one is another step up. |
| Vulnificus Inclination |
| White Lung Sorry |
| Whitechapel Kin |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana |
| Worm Shepherd Ritual Hymns |
| Wrathprayer Enkoimeterion |
| Cavernous and dissonant and swathed in murk, without becoming a hornet's nest mess *cough* Portal *cough*. Still full of riffs and motifs that flow and hammer and stick to the ear. This is fantastic and I can't believe I completely forgot about it. |
| Yellow Eyes Confusion Gate |
| Yves Tumor Praise a Lord Who Chews, But Does Not Consume... |
| Zao The Funeral of God |
| Zao Parade of Chaos |
| Zao Liberate Te Ex Inferis |
| Zao The Well-Intentioned Virus |
| 3.5 great |
| !T.O.O.H.! Po ovoci poznáte je |
| ...and Oceans As in Gardens, So in Tombs |
| 3TEETH EndEx |
| Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark |
| Abominable Putridity Parasitic Metamorphosis Manifestation |
| Adele 30 |
| Agreed that this is easily her strongest record, and wow there are some SERIOUSLY good songs on here. rTo Be Loved is her ultimate slow-smolder masterpiece, for real. |
| Afterbirth In But Not Of |
| Alcest Les Chants de L'Aurore |
| This is what post-black metal has always supposed to sound like. Somehow it still just does not blow my hair back the way Lantlos does? |
| An Autumn Lost |
| An Autumn Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love |
| Aquilus Bellum II |
| Already vastly overrated. This is fine but excessively long and SUPER monotonous. |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages |
| Stop sounding off early you're getting my hopes up that it leaked. |
| Author and Punisher Kruller |
| Barbiturate A Day Late & a Dollar Short |
| Bayside There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive |
| Becoming The Archetype The Physics of Fire |
| Benighted Ekbom |
| Absolutely did not expect this to bang this hard but alrighty |
| Bidirna Dhamani Ojash |
| Blaze of Perdition Upharsin |
| Boris Präparat |
| Borknagar Fall |
| Buried Realm The Dormant Darkness |
| Cabinet Hydrolysated Ordination |
| Cheers to whoever typed out this tracklist into the database |
| Carnifex Necromanteum |
| Chainsword Born Triumphant |
| Chat Pile God's Country |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe |
| CHVRCHES Screen Violence |
| clipping. Dead Channel Sky |
| Daveed still has insane bars and the glitchy production is just as tasty as always. It is a little expected at this point though. |
| Clot Grief Tethers |
| Cognitive Abhorrence |
| Cognizance Phantazein |
| Conjureth The Parasitic Chambers |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Conway the Machine La Maquina |
This just barely misses a 4.0, but it's still some of Conway's best material
And that Luda verse was actually some heat |
| Corpus Offal Corpus Offal |
| Cryptopsy As Gomorrah Burns |
| Cryptopsy An Insatiable Violence |
| At a certain stage it becomes hard to separate a band from their name, but this album restored a bit of my faith in bands that lose most of their original members. I think even if this album was presented by a lesser known group it would still stand out as a strong entry for a year of solid death metal. |
| Cryptosis Celestial Death |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North |
| Daath The Deceivers |
| Darkspace Dark Space -II |
| Darkthrone Panzerfaust |
| Darkthrone Old Star |
| Darkthrone Eternal Hails |
| Darkthrone It Beckons Us All |
| Dawn of Ouroboros Bioluminescence |
| Defeated Sanity The Sanguinary Impetus |
| Defigurement Endbryo |
| Deftones private music |
| I'll definitely have to listen to this again...but it did not strike me nearly as much as it did some people, apparently. It's a perfectly serviceable "Deftones record" but I can't pick out anything that's particularly spectacular. I will say that the final 3rd of the record seems to have the most bite. |
| Degraved Spectral Realm of Ruin |
| Deicide Banished By Sin |
| Departure Chandelier Satan Soldier Of Fortune |
| Despised Icon Purgatory |
| I enjoy this a lot more as I listen to tracks a few times, but it still has so much room to be better. Feels a little empty at points, but who knows what I?ll think on listen #3 |
| Despised Icon Shadow Work |
| Devourment Obscene Majesty |
| Diabolic Oath Oracular Hexations |
| Dimphonic Strangeplayer |
| Better than the new Tool, not as good as Ohms. Flicks both switches though |
| Dragged Into Sunlight Terminal Aggressor II |
| Drouth The Teeth of Time |
| Dwelling Below Wearisome Guardians |
| Earl Sweatshirt Sick! |
| Enslaved Heimdal |
| Escarnium Inexorable Entropy |
| Evil (JPN) Possessed by Evil |
| Eyehategod A History Of Nomadic Behavior |
Surprised to be the first one here. I was hesitant for about two minutes, then BOOM the grooves caught me and I
found this thoroughly enjoyable. Mike sounds fantastic and venomous, and yeah just a great record, especially
being after 7 years. |
| FACS Wish Defense |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts |
| Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds |
| Not really amazing by many means?definitely has some riffs but ultimately seems like it?s not soaring above the new wave of deathcore, only barely scraping the top. |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Nothing That Is |
| FKA Twigs Eusexua |
| Flesia Achterbahnekstase |
| Flummox Southern Progress |
| This is what Primus would sound like if they werent the worst band of all time |
| Freddie Gibbs You Only Die 1nce |
| Fucked Up Year of the Horse |
| Part Decemberists-level rock opera complete with folk interludes, back out through thrash riffs, and finally into something resembling the post-hardcore FU is known for being. Somehow it all gels remarkably well. |
| Genghis Tron Dream Weapon |
| Goo Goo Dolls Miracle Pill |
| Certainly speckled with poorly-executed attempts at something they?re...just not, but overall I?m baffled by how strong the majority of these songs are. I listened to this on a whim and I keep finding myself enjoying several tracks over and over. |
| Gorod The Orb |
| Grave Infestation Carnage Gathers |
| A solid improvement over the debut. The riffs seem to have more power here as I remember being...not disappointed but underwhelmed by their first record. |
| Green Day Saviors |
| That brick was not easy to pass |
| Greg Puciato Child Soldier: Creator of God |
| ?There?s some depth in here somewhere.?rYeah that pretty much nails my opinion. |
| Grey Aura Zwart vierkant |
| Haken Fauna |
| Have a Nice Life Sea of Worry |
| Hideous Divinity Unextinct |
| Hierarchies Hierarchies |
| Humanity's Last Breath Välde |
| Immolation Acts of God |
| Impaled Nazarene Eight Headed Serpent |
| In the Woods... Otra |
| Infant Island Obsidian Wreath |
| Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions |
| Kauan Ice Fleet |
| Kayo Dot Plastic House on Base of Sky |
| This is, I think, a more cohesive and confident version of the Kayo we got on Coffins. rAlso, has anybody else noticed the acronym is P.H.O.B.O.S.? |
| Kayo Dot Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike |
| Knocked Loose You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To |
| Kontusion Insatiable Lust For Death |
| Krallice Demonic Wealth |
| Lacuna Coil Sleepless Empire |
| Lantlos Wildhund |
| Liturgy 93696 |
| Living Gate Suffer As One |
| Lo-Pan Get Well Soon |
| Loathe (AUS) Null and Void |
| Yet another band just named Loathe, but they play a riff-heavy rendition of deathgrind that reminds me of one of my favorites, Mumakil (RIP) |
| Loathe (UK) I Let It In And It Took Everything |
| Love Is Noise To Live In A Different Way |
| Lunar (USA-CA) Tempora Mutantur |
| Malignancy ...Discontinued |
| Manic Street Preachers The Ultra Vivid Lament |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Midnight Rebirth by Blasphemy |
| Mirror Neuron Great Content |
| Mobb Deep Infinite |
| Nadja Truth Becomes Death |
| Nadja Sky Burial |
| Nadja Queller |
| Nadja The Stone Is Not Hit By The Sun, Nor Carved With A |
| Nadja Sonnborner |
| Neaera Neaera |
| Nero di Marte Immoto |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires |
| Nightmarer Deformity Adrift |
| Nile Vile Nilotic Rites |
| Opeth Orchid |
| Opeth The Last Will and Testament |
| Orthodox A Door Left Open |
| Panopticon On the Subject of Mortality |
| Panopticon Social Disservices |
| Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness |
| Phobocosm Gateway |
| Pig Destroyer Head Cage |
| Pissgrave Malignant Worthlessness |
| I can't decide if this is better or just on-par with their last two. I listened to Suicide Euphoria again right after and I sorta prefer it. |
| Porenut Výstup k svätej kunde |
| PSYCHO-FRAME Salvation Laughs in the Face of a Grieving Mother |
| Putrid Pile Revel In Lunacy |
| NEW PUTRID PILE EVERYONE, IT?S ALL GONNA BE OKAYrDID I SAY OKAY I MEANT GROSS |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| Redman Muddy Waters Too |
| RM sounds energized and the flows aren't terrible, but this is definitely carried by the production and seriously sick hooks in here. |
| Retromorphosis Psalmus Mortis |
| Ritual Mass Cascading Misery |
| Sadist Something to Pierce |
| Well this has some interesting aesthetics to it. Plenty of celestial yet tasteful keys, percussion, and even some choir involved. |
| Sanguisugabogg Tortured Whole |
| Saya Gray Saya |
| Scalp Black Tar |
| Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase II: Xenotaph |
| ScHoolboy Q Blue Lips |
| Septicflesh Modern Primitive |
| Seven Foot Spleen Enter Therapy |
| Hardcore-influenced, nasty, classic style sludge. No idea how this wasn't in the database, even as a one-record band. |
| Shadow Of Intent Elegy |
| Skeletal Remains Fragments Of The Ageless |
| Sleigh Bells Bunky Becky Birthday Boy |
| Slift Ummon |
| Slipknot The End, So Far |
| Spectral Voice Sparagmos |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve |
| Suffocate For Fuck Sake To Rest in the Trust, that Creates the World |
| Sumac and Moor Mother The Film |
| Svrm Розпад |
| Swampbeast Seven Evils Spawned of Seven Heads |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky |
| Sweven (SWE) The Eternal Resonance |
| Taproot SC\SSRS |
| I am unironically digging this a lot. Definitely not what I was expecting, this almost reminds me of a scruffier PtH, some Deftones influences. |
| Tegan and Sara Heartthrob |
| Tentacult Synaptic Perfidy |
| The Armed Ultrapop |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Killers Battle Born |
| The Mars Volta Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos Del Vacío |
| The Obsessed Gilded Sorrow |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Aghori Mhori Mei |
| Theophonos Ashes in the Huron River |
| This Gift Is A Curse Heir |
| Thy Art Is Murder Godlike |
| Tim Hecker No Highs |
| Tiny Moving Parts Swell |
| A savvier Silverstein with occasional finger-tapping _(?)_/ |
| To The Grave Director’s Cuts |
| Tomarum Beyond Obsidian Euphoria |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say |
| Have never cared for Trivium, not even back in my newbie days when they were first dropping albums. For some reason I checked this out and keep coming back to it though... |
| Trivium In the Court of the Dragon |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin |
| Tyler, the Creator Cherry Bomb |
| Ulthar Anthronomicon |
| Ulthar Helionomicon |
| Upon Stone Dead Mother Moon |
| Vampire Weekend Contra |
| Vampire Weekend Father of the Bride |
| Vended Vended |
| The best Slipknot album in 20 years. Before you call me reductionist, they were bound to get immediate comparisons even if they weren't their spawn or Griffin didn't sound like a clone of his father. There's a vague flavor of independence, but overall this is a page right out of the book that Knot wrote. They could absolutely have decided "We don't just wanna mimic our dads" but instead they made Iowa 2.0. . .and I'm not at all mad about it. |
| Vredehammer Viperous |
| White Stones Dancing Into Oblivion |
| Whitechapel Hymns in Dissonance |
| Super chunky old-style Whitechapel, exactly as promised. It is kind of comical and some will call it regressive to hear Phil go back to egregious Satan and murder lyrics after approaching somewhat more "mature" themes on The Valley and Kin, but as a MySpace deathcore kid it's also hard to deny this slaps. |
| Wilderun Veil of Imagination |
| Worm Shepherd Hunger |
| Wormhole Almost Human |
| Wormrot Hiss |
| You Slut! Medium Bastard |
| 3.0 good |
| An Autumn Everything |
| An Autumn Only The Ocean Knows |
| An Autumn The Light of September |
| An Autumn As The Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes |
| AngelMaker Sanctum |
| AngelMaker This Used To Be Heaven |
| Generic deathcore done with skill but no particular panache. Everything here is enjoyable but immediately forgettable. |
| Author and Punisher Nocturnal Birding |
| Baroness Yellow And Green |
| Becoming The Archetype Children of the Great Extinction |
| I will call this disappointingly decent. One or two tracks stand out but none are truly fantastic, and there?s a lot here that feels under-executed. Lots of trios sound massive but here you can really feel the absence of a fourth or fifth member. |
| Behemoth The Shit Ov God |
| This is surprisingly decent. I was honestly expecting a real hot turd and this is at worst mediocre. |
| Blanck Mass In Ferneaux |
| Blood Incantation Luminescent Bridge |
| Brand of Sacrifice Between Death and Dreams |
| Bring Me The Horizon POST HUMAN: NeX GEn |
| I don't.......hate this? Objectively it's pure sugary trash, but it really tickles that mid-2000s emocore spot. I'm a sucker for this kind of garbage because it's what I grew up on, so...grain of salt, yada yada. IF NOTHING ELSE this kicks the shit out anything Silverstein have done for the last decade. |
| Car Bomb Tiles Whisper Dreams |
| With the slight exception of straight grindcore, I have never understood making such a hullabaloo over 12 minutes of music. I get you're semi-grindy but your albums average 45 minutes. If you want to release a 12-minute EP, fine, that's cool, but.......with the amount of time and money spent on making three vinyl variants (of a single-sided 10", waste of plastic) plus a CD version plus new T-shirt designs...give us a little more actual substance. |
| Cattle Decapitation Terrasite |
| Chapel of Disease Echoes of Light |
| Charli XCX Brat |
| Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty |
| Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence |
| Chevelle Bright as Blasphemy |
When Muse outdoes Chevelle at their own game next year it is going to be hysterical. This just feels like the band doing
themselves in the least-potent way. Not to mention, Pete sounds pretty solid on the heavier parts, but then gets whiny
and pitchy in the lighter sections. |
| CHVRCHES Love Is Dead |
| If they had released this first, then followed up with ?Every Open Eye? there wouldn?t be anywhere near this level of album-trashing. Even ?Forever? isn?t terrible, it?s catchy and listenable which is sort of all you expect from dreamy synth-pop. The songwriting and electronics aren?t as mature or interesting here, fewer layers and simpler leads. It?s fine, it just seems regressive enough it probably speaks ill for future releases.rUpdate: ?Never Say Die? is trash I could make in my living room |
| Conjurer Unself |
| Cult of Luna The Raging River |
| Danny Brown Quaranta |
| Danny Brown Stardust |
| I really hoped for better. I was not a fan of Quaranta nor ukwis, but it seemed like this might have been the experiment to help Danny course correct. It is not. Copycats is a bumper but not what you want from this. |
| Darkthrone Circle the Wagons |
| Demon Hunter Outlive |
| Demon Hunter make their 3rd consecutive album of weak singles and bland ballads but still manage to rip some entertaining metalcore riffs, probably courtesy of the still-fresh guitarist trade-ins from a few years back |
| Demon Hunter There Was a Light Here |
| Desolate Shrine Fires of the Dying World |
| Eidola Eviscerate |
| Entropia (PL) Total |
| Everything Everything RE-ANIMATOR |
| Flotsam and Jetsam I Am the Weapon |
| Fu Manchu The Return Of Tomorrow |
| People said the repetitive chorus structure on the new Priest was bad? Yikes. There are a couple really standout tracks but otherwise this was pretty underwhelming. |
| Gaerea Coma |
| Glorious Depravity Death Never Sleeps |
| Somehow a supergroup of this pedigree can still set out to make mediocre OSDM and succeed. Occasionally a riff will echo the quality of musicianship behind this, but mostly this is as forgettable as the debut. |
| Godflesh Purge |
| Gojira Fortitude |
| Grave Infestation Persecution of the Dead |
| Gravesend Methods Of Human Disposal |
| Great American Ghost Torture World |
| Vocals are A) irritatingly cheap metalcore style, B) super monotonous after awhile. Not to entirely crap all over this, but that definitely takes away a LOT from the overall effect. |
| Gruesome Silent Echoes |
| From the bands own admission this is basically aping Death, and from the riffs and melodic motifs to the vocal delivery it?s clear that really is what they aimed for. I dont blame people for taking notes from one of the greatest bands ever and trying to continue a legacy cut tragically short is a glorious goal. The problem is that thus far no one has ever been able to match the sheer ability of Chuck, and therefore any attempt tends to fall rather flat. |
| Hell (USA) Submersus |
| Ihsahn Telemark |
| Ihsahn Ihsahn |
| Inter Arma New Heaven |
| This started promising like a sort of reined-in Portal, but then went downhill fast into weird...metal Nick Cave territory(?) I couldn't finish the last bit. I'll come back to it later but hrmm not caring for this as much as was expected. |
| Internal Bleeding Settle All Scores |
| ISIS Celestial |
| Jamie Lenman Devolver |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo |
| Kanye West Donda |
| Kvelertak Splid |
| Lamp of Murmuur Saturnian Bloodstorm |
| Linkin Park From Zero |
| This is nowhere near as offensive as people are making it out to be. For one, Emily's statement regarding Scientology was the most understandable and apologetic I've seen from anyone on anything. Secondly, you're all forgetting that LP were never the pinnacle of musical progression...only their first two records break a 3.5 average. Y'all are mad purely because your nostalgia was jimmied. rThere are a lot of catchy and fun songs on here, as well as a couple suckers. It's a perfectly serviceable album especially considering the circumstances that birthed it. The definition of a 3.0 record. |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim |
| Doesn?t drag so much as fall off at about the 1/3 mark. The singles, especially Sickle and Peace, are the clear highlights. Might be a bit of a grower, but this mostly blurs together. |
| Melancolia (AUS) random.access.misery |
| This is definitely a funky mashup of nu-metal and deathcore aesthetics, both sonically and stylistically. It has some cool moments but ultimately none of the songs feel that cohesive or have much identity. Somehow it's still more interesting than Lorna Shore and I'd rather listen to this Aussie Yungblud-looking dude than have to hear Will Ramos burp for 9 minutes again. |
| Metallica 72 Seasons |
| Ministry Moral Hygiene |
| Ministry HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES |
| Album is ok but Goddamn White Trash is one of the best Ministry songs ever |
| Mogwai The Bad Fire |
| Morta Skuld Creation Undone |
| Nadja Under The Jaguar Sun |
| Nadja Sv |
| Actual rating probably a 3.8, good to see a return to form. Aidan's always at his best building one 45-minute-long monolith and Leah needs to just be noisy as fvk. Comparable to "Thaumogenesis," but a little less organic and more...industrial? |
| Nocturnus AD Unicursal |
| I gotta say it the vocals are really awful like really really really really really awful |
| Obituary Dying Of Everything |
| Orbit Culture Death Above Life |
| Panopticon Kentucky |
| Primitive Man Observance |
| Prong State Of Emergency |
| Psyclon Nine And Then Oblivion |
| PUP Who Will Look After the Dogs? |
| Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman... |
| This sounds so boring and tired?a 3 purely for benefit of the doubt after one listen, but probably more like a 2.5 honestly. Josh Homme used to be such a riff god and this is almost devoid of them. |
| Red Handed Denial I'd Rather Be Asleep |
| I get the PtH influence for sure, but for some reason I think this is what I wish Silverstein would sound likerSolid mix of metalcore and big melodies |
| Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats |
| Rotten Sound Apocalypse |
| Sanguisugabogg Homicidal Ecstasy |
| Seputus Man Does Not Give |
| Silverstein Antibloom |
| Is this supposed to be an album...? It's 8 songs and 23 minutes long which is pretty standard EP territory for this type of music. It's fine, better than their last few but still not really good enough to make up for the lack of length. |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter |
| Tallah Primeval: Obsession // Detachment |
| Testament Para Bellum |
| The Vaccines Pick-Up Full of Carnations |
| I've never been more confused by a band's trajectory...after two pretty great first records they released the dumpster fire of English Graffiti, then return with Combat Sports which I think is on par with their best. Then another pile of overproduced garbage with Back In Love City, before again falling back on their reverb-laden Britrock here. rDefinitely plays it safe, but we've seen what these guys consider "pushing the envelope" and it's not good. |
| Thrice Horizons/West |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| Tribulation Where The Gloom Becomes Sound |
| Tyler, the Creator Wolf |
| Umbra Vitae Shadow of Life |
| Undeath It's Time...To Rise From the Grave |
| Underoath Voyeurist |
| Undersave Merged in Abstract Perdition |
| Vader Solitude in Madness |
| Vulvectomy Aberrant Vaginal Gestation |
| Witch Vomit Funeral Sanctum |
| Zao (Self-Titled) |
| Zao The Splinter Shards the Birth of Separation |
| Zao Awake? |
| Zeal and Ardor Zeal and Ardor |
