| 4.5 superb |
| Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse |
| Andrew Bird Break It Yourself |
| Arabrot Norwegian Gothic |
| 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. |
| Bongzilla Weedsconsin |
| 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 |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition |
| DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMNNNN DANIEL.rlike really doe like really doe |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Dozer Drifting in the Endless Void |
| Dying Fetus Make Them Beg for Death |
| 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 Get to Heaven |
| Everything Everything Mountainhead |
| Fall Out Boy So Much (For) Stardust |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... |
| Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters |
| Frigoris Wind |
| Funebrarum The Sleep of Morbid Dreams |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Musk Ox Woodfall |
| 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 |
| Necrot Lifeless Birth |
| 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 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi |
| Oxbow An Evil Heat |
| Oxbow King of the Jews |
| 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. |
| Rorcal Vilagvege |
| 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. |
| Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine |
| Sulphur Aeon Seven Crowns and Seven Seals |
| 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) |
| The Drones I See Seaweed |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Altarage Succumb |
| Amenra Mass V |
| Archspire Bleed the Future |
| 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. |
| Astral Tomb Soulgazer |
| Atvm Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless |
| Autopsy Morbidity Triumphant |
| 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 |
| Blanck Mass Animated Violence Mild |
| Screw you PO)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))t$y |
| Blaze of Perdition The Harrowing of Hearts |
| Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Rejecting Obliteration |
| Blood From The Soul DSM-5 |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Cave In Heavy Pendulum |
| Celtic Frost Monotheist |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge The Dusk in Us |
| Cryptosis Bionic Swarm |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear |
| CZARFACE and MF DOOM Super What? |
| Darkest Hour Perpetual | Terminal |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon |
| Darkthrone Soulside Journey |
| Darkthrone Arctic Thunder |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
IM GONNA TAKE IT AROUND FOR A BIT AND I DONT CARE IF YOU GIVE A SHIT... PUUUNK!!!...
BIIIIIYAAAATCHHH!!!!! |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Every Time I Die Radical |
| Everything Everything A Fever Dream |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Gospel The Loser |
| Grave Miasma Abyss of Wrathful Deities |
| Gulch Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress |
| Hauntologist Hollow |
| He Is Legend White Bat |
| Hooded Menace The Tritonus Bell |
| Hoplites Παραμαινομένη |
| Horrendous Ontological Mysterium |
| Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion |
| Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy |
| 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 and Danny Brown Scaring the Hoes |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mayhem Daemon |
| Melvins Working with God |
| meth. Shame |
| Metharoma Pipe Dreams (Through The Alley) |
| MIKE Burning Desire |
| Miscreance Convergence |
| Misthyrming Algleymi |
| Mizmor and Thou Myopia |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Occultum Apokatastasis |
| Om Advaitic Songs |
| 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 |
| Peeling Flesh Slamaholics, Vol. 2 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 |
| 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. |
| Shezmu À Travers Les Lambeaux |
| Sightless Pit Grave of a Dog |
| 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 |
| Static Dress Rouge Carpet Disaster |
| Steel Train Steel Train |
| Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning |
| Suffocation Hymns From the Apocrypha |
| 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. |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind |
| Swans The Beggar |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| Toadliquor Back In The Hole |
| Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard |
| Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) Sympathetic Magic |
| Undeath Lesions of a Different Kind |
| At the very least, 2020 has been a damn decent year for music. As expected, this rips. |
| Vit The Dry Season |
| White Lung Sorry |
| Whitechapel Kin |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana |
| Worm Shepherd Ritual Hymns |
| 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 |
| ...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 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Lost |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages |
| Stop sounding off early you're getting my hopes up that it leaked. |
| Author and Punisher Kruller |
| 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 |
| Boris Präparat |
| Borknagar Fall |
| 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 |
| Clot Grief Tethers |
| Cognizance Phantazein |
| Conjureth The Parasitic Chambers |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| 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 |
| Cryptopsy As Gomorrah Burns |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North |
| Darkspace Dark Space -II |
| Darkthrone Panzerfaust |
| Darkthrone Old Star |
| Darkthrone Eternal Hails |
| Defeated Sanity The Sanguinary Impetus |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Earl Sweatshirt Sick! |
| Enslaved Heimdal |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Humanity's Last Breath Välde |
| Immolation Acts of God |
| Impaled Nazarene Eight Headed Serpent |
| 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 |
| Krallice Demonic Wealth |
| Lantlos Wildhund |
| Liturgy 93696 |
| Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything |
| 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) |
| Manic Street Preachers The Ultra Vivid Lament |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Midnight Rebirth by Blasphemy |
| 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 |
| Orville Peck Bronco |
| Panopticon On the Subject of Mortality |
| Panopticon Social Disservices |
| Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness |
| Pig Destroyer Head Cage |
| 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 |
| Sanguisugabogg Tortured Whole |
| Scalp Black Tar |
| Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase II: Xenotaph |
| ScHoolboy Q Blue Lips |
| Septicflesh Modern Primitive |
| Shadow Of Intent Elegy |
| Skeletal Remains Fragments of the Ageless |
| Slift Ummon |
| Slipknot The End, So Far |
| Spectral Voice Sparagmos |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve |
| 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 |
| The Armed Ultrapop |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Killers Battle Born |
| The Obsessed Gilded Sorrow |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Vredehammer Viperous |
| White Stones Dancing Into Oblivion |
| Wilderun Veil of Imagination |
| Wormhole Almost Human |
| Wormrot Hiss |
| You Slut! Medium Bastard |
| 3.0 good |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Everything |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Only The Ocean Knows |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children The Light of September |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children As The Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes |
| AngelMaker Sanctum |
| 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. |
| Blanck Mass In Ferneaux |
| Blood Incantation Luminescent Bridge |
| Brand of Sacrifice Between Death and Dreams |
| Cattle Decapitation Terrasite |
| Chapel of Disease Echoes of Light |
| Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty |
| Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence |
| 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 |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Cult of Luna The Raging River |
| 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 |
| Desolate Shrine Fires of the Dying World |
| Eidola Eviscerate |
| Entropia (PL) Total |
| Everything Everything RE-ANIMATOR |
| Godflesh Purge |
| Gojira Fortitude |
| 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. |
| Ihsahn Telemark |
| Ihsahn Ihsahn |
| ISIS Celestial |
| Jamie Lenman Devolver |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo |
| Kanye West Donda |
| Kvelertak Splid |
| Lamp of Murmuur Saturnian Bloodstorm |
| 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. |
| Metallica 72 Seasons |
| Ministry Moral Hygiene |
| Ministry HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES |
| Album is ok but Goddamn White Trash is one of the best Ministry songs ever |
| 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? |
| Obituary Dying Of Everything |
| Panopticon Kentucky |
| Prong State Of Emergency |
| 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 |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Vader Solitude in Madness |
| Witch Vomit Funeral Sanctum |
| Zao (Self-Titled) |
| Zao The Splinter Shards the Birth of Separation |
| Zao Awake? |
| Zeal and Ardor Zeal and Ardor |
