Xenophanes
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Last Active 12-19-22 4:20 pm
Joined 02-06-09

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Average Rating: 3.45
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5.0 classic
Bjork Vespertine
Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race
This is the best death metal album of the decade—full stop.
Boris Flood
Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker-
Cobalt Slow Forever
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Converge Jane Doe
Converge Axe to Fall
Bumping this from a 4.5 to a 5 has moved the average from 4 to 4.1...I have never felt so powerful
Daughters You Won't Get What You Want
Dammit I haven?t listened yet but I so badly want to have the top soundoff for this!
Gorguts Obscura
Jenny Hval Viscera
Kate Bush Hounds of Love
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye
Lift to Experience The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads
Slept on this for *checks calendar* 20 years.
mewithoutYou Pale Horses
Fuck it this is a 5.
Mono / World's End Girlfriend Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain
Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Illusory Walls
This is As the Roots Undo for people who shop at H&M
Thou Tyrant
Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss

4.8 classic
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise
I don't even like Circa Survive that well but this is still killer seven years later
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Panopticon Roads to the North

4.7 superb
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞
Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun
Yndi Halda Under Summer

4.6 superb
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Hop Along Painted Shut
Radiohead OK Computer
Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead

4.5 superb
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command
This is a album I have such nostalgia for that I cant even listen to it anymore
Boris Amplifier Worship
I spent a decade underrating this oh what wasted time.
Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Cynic Focus
Daughters Daughters
Alright this still fucking rules
Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust
Ethereal Shroud Trisagion
I feel very strongly about this record and it?s made me feel more things from a black metal album that I?ve felt in years. Dude is a certified talent who understands the genre in a way few do. Brilliant, evocative, unyielding?do yourself a favor and check this out when you can.
Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic
Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel...
Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate
Gorguts Colored Sands
Hop Along Get Disowned
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights
Japanese Breakfast Jubilee
This is sublime
Kayo Dot Gamma Knife
The addition of metal influences is certainly welcome, but as tradition, Kayo Dot can't make a consistent album to save their lives, even with a 32 minute runtime.
Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Am I the only one who thinks that it’s weird this is the first album of hers to have a song called “California”?
Laura Stevenson Wheel
Laura Stevenson The Mystic & the Master
Masaya Ozaki Fluid And Dreaming Of Stripes
maudlin of the Well Bath
maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West
Mono Memorie dal Futuro
Memorie dal Futuro is easily one of the best songs Mono have ever created.
Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom
Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets
Are we finally ready to admit that no other Neurosis album comes close to this one?
Olafur Arnalds ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness
Orchid Orchid
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Radiohead In Rainbows
Radiohead OKNOTOK 1997-2017
Rating this so highly because it's been almost 10 years since Radiohead released a good album so maybe I'm just hungry for them not to be bad anymore.
Saintseneca Dark Arc
This is just the best thing.
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
Sufjan Stevens Illinois
Sunn O))) and Boris Altar
The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon
The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
Trophy Scars Bad Luck
Weakling Dead as Dreams
Worm Bluenothing
26 brisk minutes of fun, beautiful, lofty death metal.

4.4 superb
Grimes Miss Anthropocene

4.3 superb
Boris Love and Evol
Saintseneca Last
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute

4.2 excellent
American Football American Football
Blood Cultures Happy Birthday
Your barber sounds cooler than you
Cormorant Diaspora
Cormorant have checked my pretentious cynicism with an album I love, full of things I typically hate. Predictably awesome and a definite contender for one of the best metal records of the year.
Deathspell Omega Paracletus
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Howls of Ebb The Marrow Veil
Howls of Ebb Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows
If you have enjoyed this band in the past (which you should, as they're one of the most fascinating death metal acts currently making music) then you'll find a lot to love here. Their second record takes the infernal psychedlia of "The Marrow Veil" and packages it in a manner more like their debut, with palatable songs and more standard structure. It's a tightened and condensed version of last years EP, albeit without the boundary pushing presentation. Still, it's an excellent slab of death metal that everyone, especially fans, should check out.
Imperial Triumphant Abyssal Gods
Kayo Dot Hubardo
By all rights a massive, sprawling modern Kayo Dot album should fail but Hubardo aims high and succeeds in every respect. An awe inspiring achievement.
Krallice Go Be Forgotten
Krallice's messiest and most flawed release to date may also be their best.
Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz
I don?t care, this is one of my favorites from the last decade.
Mono You Are There
Rebel Wizard Voluptuous Worship of Rapture and Response
Shugo Tokumaru In Focus?
This guy cannot make bad music.
Sigur Ros ( )
In regards to Sigur Ros albums, this is beyond a doubt the most over hyped. However, it is still an incredible experience nontheless.
Sigur Ros Kveikur
Of fucking course I love this.
Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve
If Anne Frank were still alive she'd probably 5 this.
Tim Hecker Virgins
It's okay I guess...

4.1 excellent
Afterbirth The Time Traveler's Dilemma
Boris Präparat
Kidcrash Jokes
This is on Spotify now and it?s still really good.

2021 update: yeah this is still great
Laura Stevenson The Big Freeze
“Baby Bones” but 30 minutes long.
Leviathan Scar Sighted
The first great Leviathan record has finally arrived.
Mogwai Mr. Beast
Mono Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined
Sigur Ros Takk...
Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP
Well fuck.

4.0 excellent
0 (Null) Entity
Icelandic BM is bland and samey but this doom heavy take with dashes of emo sorta reminds me of the Pax Cecilia in some very minor ways
A Bunny's Caravan Draining Puddles, Retrieving Treasures
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step
Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
So this Gorguts rip off band got really good.
American Football American Football (LP2)
Average for this sucks.
American Football American Football (LP3)
This could never have lived up to my hype but it is still wonderful in its own right.
Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today
Anna von Hausswolff All Thoughts Fly
Anoice Remmings
Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman
Ariana Grande Thank U, Next
Arnaut Pavle Transylvanian Glare
Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation
Artificial Brain Infrared Horizon
While there are some moments that literally seem copy/pasted from their debut, there's enough twists ("Static rShattering" could be a Krallice song) to make it interesting enough to stand on its own. It's a darker and heavier ralbum but still a lot of fun.
As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep
Ash Borer Ash Borer
At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out
bansheebeat Spiral Power
Bedsore Hypnagogic Hallucinations
Unique and pretty. Reminds me of Morbus Chron I think.
Beirut Lon Gisland
Beyonce Beyonce
Like JT's 20/20 Experience, Beyonce is a massive, excessive pop album that hits all the right notes and offers some of the catchiest and most smartly written tunes of the year.
Bjork Post
Bjork Homogenic
Bjork Biophilia
Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God
Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry
Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars
Boris Pink
Boris Soundtrack from the Film Mabuta no Ura
Boris Heavy Rocks
Boris Smile
Boris New Album
Boy do I still love this

Edit: 10 years later this is still such a fucking banger.
Boris Heavy Rocks (2011)
Boris Noise
Boris NO
Did Boris make a PUNK ALBUM?
Boris With Michio Kurihara Rainbow
Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports
Chapel of Disease ...And as We Have Seen the Storm
DM AOTY IMO.
Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule
This is what everyone convinced themselves that the lame Charnal Passages was.
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo
City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar
Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain
Cobalt Gin
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade
Colin Self Siblings
Conan Evidence of Immortality
Wtf why is this so good???
Converge You Fail Me
Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind
Nothing lost and nothing gained, All We Love We Leave Behind is Converge playing Converge and it's everything we could have asked for.
Couch Slut My Life as a Woman
Cryptopsy None So Vile
Darkspace Dark Space III I
New Paysage is great but like where is Darkspace III II?
Daughters Hell Songs
Dead To A Dying World Elegy
Predictably lovely.
Deafheaven Infinite Granite
Y’all took Deafheaven’s metal side for granite, now you get this.
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism
Death Cab for Cutie Plans
Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia
Destroyer Kaputt
Took a long time for this to click but ooh boy.
Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane
Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet
Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
Do Make Say Think Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead
Do Make Say Think Other Truths
Drudkh Autumn Aurora
Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel
this is an album that makes me think of things pertaining to stuff and feel emotions about particular events.
Dvne Etemen Ænka
I really get off shitting on prog metal albums y?all love but this is actually great
Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full
Might be my second favorite Thou :O
Ethereal Shroud Lanterns
Absolute best Sputnik member project from one of the best users
Every Time I Die Radical
There is an alarming amount of bangers on this.
Falls of Rauros Key to a Vanishing Future
Might be the best example of this sort of sugary, lofty, and heavily produced black metal I?ve heard in a decade.
Fell Voices Fell Voices
Feminazgul No Dawn for Men
FKA Twigs Magdalene
File under ?albums I would predict Ali give a 4.5?.
Flying Lotus You're Dead!
My life has now become "listening to You're Dead" and "wishing I was listening to You're Dead"
Foxing The Albatross
Friendzone DX
Full of Hell Weeping Choir
Full of Hell Garden of Burning Apparitions
This is gonna be the best 3.8 of the year.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
Wtf is “widescreen post rock”?
Gorguts Considered Dead
Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World
Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
Grouper A I A
Grouper Ruins
Hacksaw to the Throat Wastelands
Hammock Oblivion Hymns
Haunter (USA-TX) Thrinodía (Remixed & Remastered 2020)
Love this band so much and their first album is made all the better with this release
Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World
Hooded Menace Effigies of Evil
Hooded Menace Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed
Best death/doom band in existence releases their best album nbd
Ichiko Aoba Adan no Kaze
Immolation Here in After
Imperial Triumphant Alphaville
Im still listening to folklore tbh.
Incantation Onward to Golgotha
Inquisition Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar...
basal simplicity belies a startlingly atmospheric and compulsively listenable metal album
Ironomi niji
ISIS Panopticon
ISIS Wavering Radiant
Joanna Newsom Have One on Me
After nearly a decade I just noticed in that photo there?s a human an not just a pile of junk.
Julia Holter Loud City Song
Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music III
Wait how the fuck did I not know about this?
Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
Kayo Dot Coffins on Io
King Woman Celestial Blues
P sweet.
Edit: okay, V sweet
Kinoko Teikoku Uzu Ni Naru
Kishi Bashi Lighght
I wish I could still give decimal ratings because this is as solid a 4.2 as they come.
Kishi Bashi Omoiyari
Could listen to Penny Rabbit and Summer Bear for forever
Krallice Krallice
Krallice Prelapsarian
How I learned to stop worrrying and love Krallice.
Krallice Demonic Wealth
I really overrated that last album hard, but this slower, quirkier dungeon synth take on Krallice has me living.
Krallice Crystalline Exhaustion
Krallice Psychagogue
Kyle Bobby Dunn Kyle Bobby Dunn and The Infinite Sadness
Lamp of Murmuur Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism
Laura Stevenson Holy Ghost!
Laura Stevenson Cocksure
Laura Stevenson Laura Stevenson
I wanna bliss out to this so hard but I dont want to miss the FedEx delivery person ringing my doorbell again ;_;
Lie in Ruins Towards Divine Death
Liturgy Origin of the Alimonies
The more ridiculous Litrugy becomes, the more I begin to embrace them.

Edit: idgaf how stuffy and silly this is I love it so much
Love Forever Changes
Lucy Dacus Historian
Make a Change...Kill Yourself Fri
Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing
Mastodon Leviathan
Mastodon The Hunter
maudlin of the Well Part the Second
mewithoutYou A to B: Life
mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes
mewithoutYou Ten Stories
If you've ever like a mewithoutYou record then this should be right up your alley.
Mithras On Strange Loops
August 2016: "proggy death whatever? Avoid."rNovember 2016: "well shit."r
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica
Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
Mogwai Young Team
Mono One Step More and You Die
Mount Eerie No Flashlight
Mount Eerie Dawn
Mount Eerie Wind's Poem
Mount Eerie Clear Moon
I wish that I had a more clever or interesting sound-off, but really, all that needs said is that Clear Moon is another wonderful release by one of modern musics finest assets. Mount Eerie has come into its own, and its glorious.
Mount Eerie Ocean Roar
Mount Eerie Pre-Human Ideas
Murg Varg and Björn
Muse Origin of Symmetry
Lol wtf this actually really holds up.
My Bloody Valentine m b v
Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm
Neurosis Through Silver in Blood
Neurosis Times of Grace
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails The Fragile
Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV
Oado Life Era
Off Minor Innominate
Off Minor Some Blood
Olafur Arnalds Eulogy for Evolution
Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven
Opeth Blackwater Park
Opeth Ghost Reveries
Orchid Chaos is Me
Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow!
Owen The Avalanche
“I can’t have my cake and fuck it too.”
Palehorse Looking Wet In Public
Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
Black metal does not deserve Austin Lunn.
Panopticon .​.​.​And Again into the Light
This is a Panopticon album alright
Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor
Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon...
100th rating! Overall a pretty generic post-rock/metal album.
Pity Sex Feast of Love
Portal Avow
Idk man this is some wonky, doofusy death metal but in the right mindset it feels indescribably revelatory
Protest the Hero Kezia
Radiohead The Bends
Radiohead Kid A
Rotten Tomb Visions of Dismal Fate
Saetia A Retrospective
Saor Aura
serpentwithfeet Deacon
Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun
When the userbase gets ahold of this they're going to lose their shit.
Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape
Sigh Scenes from Hell
Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust
The more I listen to this, the closer it inches towards the top of my favorite Sigur Ros' albums.
Slowdive Slowdive (LP)
V good.
Sonic Youth Dirty
Spectral Lore III
Suffocation Pierced from Within
Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz
Swans To Be Kind
Swans The Glowing Man
Takahiro Kido Fleursy Music
Taylor Swift Folklore
“Mouth fuck”.
Temple of Void Lords Of Death
A hidden gem of 2017, just as their debut was for 2014.
The Armed Ultrapop
“Untitled had some incredible moments. At this point, I could see the band revealing that rtheir past two albums
were just a joke mocking the way people can fall for any rexperimental bullshit they concoct as long as they just
have the agency to follow through rwith it. Its unlikely, but thats my hope, because it sounds like confused horse
noises. rpast two albums”
The Chemical Mind Beneath the Shadow It Casts
The Cure Disintegration
The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North
The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death
The Fall of Troy Doppelganger
The Mars Volta Octahedron
Was unsure at first, but it really hooked me. Best since Frances
The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds
The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Always Foreign
Infinite Steve is like my favorite song of the decade.
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward
Thou Summit
Thou Heathen
Thou Magus
I wish Gameofmetal would post his review already so I can talk about this
Thou Rhea Sylvia
Toby Driver They Are the Shield
I love nothing more than shitting on Tony Driver. For years we have had to deal with the stuffy and ostentatious ruination of Kayo Dot, as well as the adandonment motW and it really gets me going to point all of this out. HOWEVER, this album is just lovely. It?s beautiful and evocative while being surprisingly understated (in a way we are not accustomed from Driver). Best yet, it takes everything he?s done right in the last several years while getting rid of everything he has not.
Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language
Trophy Scars Goodnight Alchemy
Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell
TTNG Adventure, Stamina and Anger
Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler
Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You
Vali Skogslandskap
Weeping Sores False Confession
Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters
Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana
Feels so good to jam an occult-sounding black metal album with comfort in knowing it isnt fashy
Yasushi Yoshida Little Grace
Yasushi Yoshida Grateful Goodbye
Yellow Eyes Immersion Trench Reverie
Yeule Glitch Princess
Yusuke Tsutsumi A Grave by the Sea

3.9 excellent
Demilich Nespithe
Eluvium Nightmare Ending
Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O.
Gorguts Pleiades' Dust
Haven't heard it yet but oh ho ho I certainly will!
Holy Fawn Death Spells
Julianna Barwick Nepenthe
La Dispute Panorama
“Can I still get into heaven if I like an album by a band that I absolutely hate?”
Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People
Protest the Hero Palimpsest
Are we really gonna take this shit from a bunch of CANADIANS??
Quadrupede Quadrupede
Sigh Heir to Despair
Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our
Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still
The first Ulcerate album I don?t need to say “I enjoy it, but...”
Waste of Space Orchestra Syntheosis

3.8 excellent
Alraune The Process Of Self​-​Immolation
A lot better than its cheesy, Hard Rock Cafe album art would lead you to believe.
Ash Borer Bloodlands
CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe
Deafheaven Sunbather
Do Make Say Think Stubborn Persistent Illusions
Immolation Atonement
Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury
James Blake Overgrown
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience
On The 20/20 Experience Justin Timberlake is so charismatic and classy that I would not care if he absconded with my daughter in his Spaceship Coupe and raw dogged her on the moon.
Liturgy H.A.Q.Q.
FWIW I am still laughing about transcendental black metal.
Miley Cyrus She Is Coming
My best friend Leslie says “Oh she’s just bein’ 2013 Miley”
Oxbow Thin Black Duke
Pijn and Conjurer Curse These Metal Hands
?High Spirits? reaffirms my belief in metal.
Sleep The Sciences
Checking my cynicism at the door because this is good.
State Faults Clairvoyant
Me: “I haven’t listened to skramz since 2013 and Sputnik and its taste is terrible now so let’s shit on this.”
rAlso me: “Well I’ll be...”
Taylor Swift Reputation
Vanum Ageless Fire
Yellow Eyes Rare Field Ceiling

3.7 great
Cannabis Corpse Left Hand Pass
Chapel of Disease The Mysterious Ways of Repetitive Art
Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World
Typically the cynic when it comes to trendy metal like this but this is great.
Horrendous Anareta
It's like "Ecdysis" but a little more melodic and flashy.
Insomnium Winter's Gate
Never cared too much for Insomnium (or melodeath in general) but this was a hell of a great listening experience. rI've always scoffed at the great heights of their albums and passed them off as typical Finnish melodrama. But rhere there is a lot of intelligent restraint and admirable maturity. It's a 40 minute nonstop track but there's an rimmense amount of content that spans a lot of styles. It's really theatrical and dramatic death metal that's often rtimes staggeringly beautiful.r3.7
Mount Eerie Black Wooden Ceiling Opening
Robyn Honey
The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading

3.6 great
Bosse-de-Nage All Fours
Cult Leader A Patient Man
Inverloch Distance | Collapsed
Marriages Salome
Mogwai Come On Die Young
Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks
A super hot wife, two successful musical projects, and an Oscar later, it's nice to see Trent Reznor no longer acting pissed off.
Sivyj Yar From the Dead Villages' Darkness
SUMAC Love In Shadow
While a lot of content could have been trimmed (that last 10 minutes of The Task for example), Sumac have done
a 180 and made an unexpectedly nuanced record. Compared to the oppressive density of “What One Becomes”
or the never-ending-noise that was their collab with Keiji Haino, “Love in Shadow” comes off as a light, and
almost melodious affair.
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Wild Gods

3.5 great
A Great Big Pile of Leaves Pono
Bounces between obnoxious perkiness and childlike, endearing soulfulness. It melts my icy heart.
A l e x Growing Up: Volume II
A Lot Like Birds No Place
Abigail Williams The Accuser
Abigor Leytmotif Luzifer
Aborted ManiaCult
Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Agalloch The Mantle
Amenra Mass V
Ampere Like Shadows
Anoice Into the Shadows
Anoice Ghost in the Clocks
Arca KICK ii
Ash Borer Cold of Ages
Atvm Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless
Bad Religion True North
Bastard Sapling Instinct Is Forever
Beau Navire Hours
Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect
Big Red Machine How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?
Really pretty but it just makes me want a Taylor/Justin collab real bad.
Bjork Volta
Black Country, New Road For the first time
Blood Cultures LUNO
Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy
Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen
MV3 is my favorite black metal album of all time (I know, right?) so hearing a bit of a return of it is, er, music to my
ears. Too bad the album art and name are so on the nose.
Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children
Boards of Canada Geogaddi
Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest
Bon Iver 22, A Million
Boris Akuma no Uta
Going through the entire discography and this has aged much worse than anything before it.
Boris Dronevil -Final-
Boris Dear
Claims of revolutionism aside, it is very nice to hear Boris drone again.
Boris tears e.p
Brand New Deja Entendu
Bucket Full Of Teeth IV
Burial Untrue
Chairlift Moth
Chinese Football Chinese Football
Chinese Football Here comes a new challenger!
Circle Takes the Square Rites of Initiation
Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One
City of Caterpillar Driving Spain Up A Wall
Cleric Retrocausal
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension
This is a good album.
Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures
?Halo?? Mass Effect????? casual much????????????????????????rHe?s quoted as saying that Halo has directly influenced him which is actually v disappointing
Coldplay Parachutes
Coldworld Autumn
Listening to a ColdWorld album called "Autumn" during the 90 degree dog days of Summer is less than ideal but
I'll still fuck with it
Converge The Dusk in Us
I feel like I?ve spent four years underrating this.
Converge Bloodmoon: I
2012 Sputnik would be losing its mind.
Convulsing Errata
Quite something
Cult of Luna Salvation
Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway
Cynic Ascension Codes
Dale Kerrigan noise bitch
Daughters Canada Songs
Dead Congregation Sombre Doom
I wasn't huge of Dead Congregation's last album because I'm not that huge on Dead Congregation in general. The homogenous pummeling take on dm grows tiring pretty quickly. But their doom-y foray here is really nice. Wrapped into a great 13-minute package, the EP is just enough DC without it overstaying it's welcome. [3.3]
Deafheaven Roads to Judah
Deafheaven New Bermuda
Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Deer Leap Here. Home.
Defeated Sanity The Sanguinary Impetus
Deftones Ohms
“Waiting for Xenophanes to compare this to a wanked-in shirt?”

Wait, did I say this?
Diocletian Gesundrian
Diskord Degenerations
Do Make Say Think Do Make Say Think
Dodsrit Spirit Crusher
Doja Cat Planet Her
Not loving how several of these songs will be on my ?most played? list in Spotify at the end of the year
Earth Primitive and Deadly
Endon Through The Mirror
Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini
Enslaved E
Actually really fun and I typically hate this sorta thing
Erdve Savigaila
Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter
Evening Hymns Spectral Dusk
Welcome to my top 25, Spectral Dusk.
Every Time I Die Ex Lives
THIS ALBUM IS CONDUCIVE TO WRITING LYRICAL ONE LINERS IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.
Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...
Eyehategod Eyehategod
Fell Voices Untitled
Fell Voices Regnum Saturni
Firelink Firelink
Fucked Up Year of the Horse
Easily the most impactful Fucked Up release in a decade
Gnod Mirror
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers
I was all set to hate this but after several spins it's got some of the bands most subtle and memorable moments ever
Gospel The Loser
Halsey If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
Trent Reznor is the vehicle to finally make Halsey good.
Hooded Menace Darkness Drips Forth
Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Horrendous Ecdysis
Hot Cross Cryonics
Hot Cross Risk Revival
Imha Tarikat Sternenberster
Immolation Majesty and Decay
Incantation Profane Nexus
Unpopular opinion: Incantation are at the height of their career. This combined with their last two records represents them at their best.
Indigo De Souza Any Shape You Take
Inter Arma Sulphur English
Interpol El Pintor
Everything is Wrong is my hands down favorite Interpol song and I dont care how basic that sounds
Iron Maiden Senjutsu
Wtf this is so good.
ISIS Oceanic
Jambinai A Hermitage
Jenny Hval Innocence Is Kinky
Jenny Hval Blood Bitch
Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness
Julianna Barwick Will
Jute Gyte Perdurance
Kacey Musgraves Star-Crossed
Straight people are fuckin’ dramatic.
Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward
Kayo Dot Stained Glass
Khemmis Hunted
Krallice Ygg Huur
Hurr durr.
Krallice Hyperion
Krallice Loüm
Krallice have never sounded heavier or darker; this is the closest the band has ever come to a traditional metal aesthetic.
Krallice Wolf
Krallice Mass Cathexis
I overrated this one hard, sorry guys.
Kristoffer Lo The Black Meat
Lana Del Rey Chemtrails Over The Country Club
?Not All Who Wander Are Lost? is the most white-girl-basic song title I?ve ever heard...but this album is pretty great idc
Laster De Verste Verte Is Hier
Laura Stevenson Sit Resist
Locrian Infinite Dissolution
Loss Horizonless
Last album was such a hidden gem back in 2011. Although they missed the doom bubble of the past few years, "Horizonless" is still relevant, and a total a joy.
Low Hey What
Macintosh Plus Floral Shoppe
This is actually pretty neat and unlike just about everything I have in my collection. Haters gon' hate.
Make a Change...Kill Yourself II
Manchester Orchestra Simple Math
Manchester Orchestra Cope
Manes Slow Motion Death Sequence
Mare Cognitum Luminiferous Aether
I've come to hate "atmospheric black metal" since it's all made of the same husk but with different padding. Mare Cognitum always impresses with a great understanding of what makes the subgenre work. He's always showing a surprising amount of restraint that--even when a song is stretching past the 12-minute mark--makes the piece feel like a logical whole made up of necessary parts. Luminiferous Aether is solid, modern atmospheric black metal from one hell of a savvy musician.
Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm
Cool stuff as always.
Mastodon Hushed and Grim
90 minutes of the best Mastodon material in ten years only for the focus to be on the iffy production is the most
basic metal-elitist-in-training Sputnik take I’ve ever seen
mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright!
Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 2 - The Golden Orb
Similar in a lot of ways to the rest of his discog (long ass bm songs) but there?s a definite move towards expanding his traditional proggy bm sound
Mitochondrial Sun Mitochondrial Sun
This is some stuffy, cheeseball instra-metal-tronica that I am absolutely here for
Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
Mogwai Earth Division
Mogwai Les Revenants OST
Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Moon Tooth Crux
More Than Life Love Let Me Go
Mournful Congregation The Incubus of Karma
mum Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK
Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?
Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
Natalia Lafourcade Musas
Neurosis Souls at Zero
Neurosis Enemy of the Sun
Neurosis Given to the Rising
Nevoa Towards Belief
Nine Inch Nails Year Zero
Opeth Still Life
Opeth Watershed
Ophidian I Desolate
At a brisk 38 minutes, Desolate really checked my tech-jaded sensibilities with a really joyful and fun slab of goofy shit.
Oranssi Pazuzu Värähtelijä
P gr8.
Panopticon Autumn Eternal
Panopticon Revisions of the Past
Most important one man black metal artist around (which is surprisingly a big field) drops music for the third year in a row. Great teamsters of his most looked over albums. Yadda yadda get it.
pg.99 Document #8
pg.99 Document #5
pg.99 / Majority Rule Document #12
Pharmacist Flourishing Extremities On Unspoiled Mental Ground
Propagandhi Supporting Caste
Protest the Hero Fortress
Prurient Rainbow Mirror
Well that was exhausting
Psalm Zero The Drain
Really digging the weird post punk, industrial, OSDM vibe that this gives off. One of a kind record that's worth a a spin.
Puce Mary The Spiral
Pyre (USA-FL) Come Home
This is really wholesome and fun : ).
Radical Face The Family Tree: The Leaves
Raein Il n'y a pas de orchestre
Replicant Malignant Reality
There are moments where I swear Luc Lemay is in this band.
Saint Pepsi Hit Vibes
Saintseneca Such Things
Samia The Baby
Samia Scout
Sarpanitum Blessed Be My Brothers
Serpent Column Katartisis
This hit so good
serpentwithfeet blisters
Sewercide Immortalized In Suffering
What a nifty throwback.
Sigil (CAN) Nether
Silver Knife Unyielding/Unseeing
Slugdge Esoteric Malacology
sonhos tomam conta maladaptive daydreaming
Spectral Lore Ετερόφωτος
This would have been a slam dunk were it not for the 20 minutes of nothing at the end (3.7)
Spectral Voice Eroded Corridors of Unbeing
This is good but c?mon you guys.
Spirit Adrift Curse of Conception
Really surprised by this.
Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb
Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between
Sufjan Stevens Michigan
Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell
Summoning Old Mornings Dawn
Sunn O))) and Ulver Terrestrials
Susanna Triangle
Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better?
Swallowed Lunarterial
Swans The Seer
I keep waiting for something interesting to happen but it hasn't and probably won't....
Takahiro Kido A Short Happy Life
Takahiro Kido Fairy Tale
Take Over And Destroy Vacant Face
Tartar Lamb Sixty Metonymies
Tartar Lamb Polyimage of Known Exits
Yes......yes it is.
Temple of Void Of Terror And The Supernatural
The Album Leaf Into The Blue Again
The Body I have fought against it, But I can’t any longer
The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works
The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy
The Killers Pressure Machine
The Mars Volta Amputechture
The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath
The Mars Volta Noctourniquet
Sure they've made some questionable choices in the past, but The Mars Volta are always able to make something fresh and interesting. While many will argue how this ranks among their discography, in the end it won't matter because as always, it's unlike any other album in their fucking discography.
The Microphones Mount Eerie
The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Formlessness
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Long Live Happy Birthday
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Formlessness [2016]
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV
Thrice Beggars
Thrice Major/Minor
Toadeater Bit to ewigen daogen
Good stuff.
Toby Driver In the L..L..Library Loft
Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse
Tribulation Down Below
Trophy Scars Holy Vacants
"Archangel" and "Everything Disappearing" are everything I wanted and more from a band that absolutely cannot disappoint.
Trophy Scars Astral Pariah
Trophy Scars be like “I had sex with a samurai-cowgirl’s ghost who looked like my Mom whoa whoooooaaaaa”
TTNG Animals
Turnstile Glow On
“I HaTe wHen BanDs ReLeAsE hAlF oF thE aLbUms as sInGLes “.
Twilight Monument To Time End
Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis
If you don't mind listening to "Everything Is Fire" v.1.4 then you're going to enjoy another slab of atmospheric death metal from the best in the game.
Ulsect Ulsect
Ulthar Providence
Ulver Nattens Madrigal
Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X
United Nations Illegal UN
URSA Abyss Between the Stars
Urushiol Pools of Green Fire
Valdrin Effigy Of Nightmares
Vallenfyre Splinters
Venom Prison Samsara
Heavy for the sake of heaviness but sometimes that?s perfectly good enough
Vous Autres Champ du Sang
Yves Tumor Safe in the Hands of Love
Zao The Crimson Corridor
Had zero intention of listening to this but some of those singles bop hard

3.4 great
Acephalix Decreation
Bloodbath The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn
Brand New Science Fiction
As someone with no emotional/nostalgia attachment to this band I have to say that this is a really good rock album.
Circa Survive The Amulet
Cirith Ungol Forever Black
Everything about this: the production, song structure, lyrical content, album cover, etc. is so old school in the most feel-good way.
Corpsessed Impetus of Death
Cradle of Filth Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay
After making fun of this band for years without every actually listening to them I have to say I had fun. Kinda silly and dramatic but a lot more fun than it has any right to be. Reminds me of Sigh I suppose.
Eternal Valley Ascend To The Unknown
I usually avoid anything tagged "atmospheric black metal" because it's the same regurgitated shit over and over again. This isn't really any different, but it hits a real sweet spot sounding decidedly modern yet steeped in retro synths and production. Worth checking out.
Phrenelith Desolate Endscape
Pilgrim II: Void Worship
Sielunvihollinen Ruhonkantaja
Some of the deepest cutting, yet melodic, bm all year
Triumvir Foul Triumvir Foul

3.3 great
Acid Witch Evil Sound Screamers
Aenaon Extance
Between the Buried and Me Colors
So idk this hasnt aged too poorly or maybe I?m just feeling nostalgia
Blut Aus Nord Deus Salutis Meae
Darker and weirder; more in line with the Odinist than anything else. Sounds distantly related to Deathspell Omega I guess. Basically, Saturnian Poetry this isn't.
Decapitated Anticult
Better than it has any right to be given that the band has only released one good album (and that was like 15 years ago). Also the title, cover, and lyrical content are dumb. Still it's a good enough time.
Ingurgitating Oblivion Continuum Of Absence
Janelle Monae The Electric Lady
ROBOT LOVE IS QUEER
Lubbert Das Deluge
Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface
I'm not a big Manchester Orchestra fan but "The Gold" was/is a 5/5 song for me and "The Alien" was
pretty cool too so I was pumped for this. Well it's mostly a snooze-fest and I should have checked
my enthusiasm. "The Wolf," "Lead, SD," "The Mistake," and "The Silence" are all really forgettable
which is too bad because ~aesthetically~ this is the most interesting and distinctive the band has
ever sounded. "The Parts" could easily be a Right Away, Great Captain! song so that's great I
suppose.
Mogwai Rock Action
Neurosis Fires Within Fires
Classic, by the numbers Neurosis but not in the way that made "Honor Found in Decay" so lame.
Obliteration Cenotaph Obscure
Summoning With Doom We Come
Best album of 2018 so far.
The Body I Shall Die Here
Voices Frightened
This sort of sounds like a middle-late era Kayo Dot album.
Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars

3.2 good
Secret Plot To Destroy The Entire Universe I Only Miss You When I Want To
Split Cranium I'm The Devil and I'm OK
It?s Friday before a three-day weekend and this is feeling pretty good. Valid and lacking substance, but a good time nonetheless
St. Vincent Masseduction
Wear Your Wounds Rust on the Gates of Heaven
This is fine.

3.1 good
Ancient Ascendant Echoes and Cinder
Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction
Jute Gyte Oviri
It's like that moment at a buffet where you crossed the line and you're too full to finish what's on your plate. That's how I feel about Jute Gyte--after years of feasting on insane proclivity I think I am nearing my satiety. "Oviri" is different enough to be satisfying but not that satisfying.
Sigh Graveward
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra The West Will Rise Again

3.0 good
Adjy The Idyll Opus (I-VI)
I do not care for this very much but I love seeing people excited about things
Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit
Altarage Nihl
Idk it's okay I guess.
Antemasque Antemasque
At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement
At the Drive-In in•ter a•li•a
At the Gates The Nightmare of Being
3.0 instead of 3.5 because they threw a saxophone in there.
Auroch Mute Books
Beach House Depression Cherry
Behemoth The Satanist
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues
Bongripper Miserable
Boris Attention Please
Car Bomb Meta
Carcass Despicable
This is pretty fun, but “Under the Scalpel Blade” is unforgivably bad.
Carcass Torn Arteries
So we’re just supposed to accept that album cover?
Circa Survive Descensus
Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow
Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow
People need to stop saying Chris Pennie is this band's saving grace. It's ridiculous. The drumming is noticeably better, no more, no less. It takes away from the band and all of their accomplishments stop being tools.

Solid album, very accessible. Really didn't care for NMFT but this is really great.
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension
okay this isn't that good.
Coldplay Ghost Stories
Cryptopsy Cryptopsy
Cult of Luna Vertikal
Like every Cult of Luna record we get a slightly above avergae post metal album with shit tons of filler to make it seem more interesting than it is.
Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear
Fine and unremarkable.
Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner
Cytotoxin Nuklearth
This looks really stupid for being the highest trending album here. I will judge how much I trust this site going
forward based on my listen.

Edit: Okay
Dead Congregation Graves of the Archangels
Dead Congregation Promulgation of the Fall
Deftones White Pony
Deftones Diamond Eyes
Maybe not album of the year material, but still a damn decent listen
Dynfari Myrkurs Er Þörf
Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown
As someone who has enjoyed the recent outings of this band, this album is really not clicking at all.
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
This album destroyed post-rock. rnot really but fuck you EITS
Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone
Falls of Rauros Believe in No Coming Shore
Fleet Foxes Crack-Up
Ghoul Dungeon Bastards
I'll probably never listen to this again but my experience was still fun and enjoyable nonetheless
Immolation Shadows in the Light
Insomnium Heart Like a Grave
?Pale Morning Star? is sick.
ISIS In the Absence of Truth
Jenny Hval Apocalypse, girl
Jesca Hoop Memories Are Now
"Pegasi" is a 10/10 song but the rest is all over the place.
Kayo Dot Coyote
Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough
Kronos Arisen New Era
Lantlos Melting Sun
This was nice I guess
Make a Change...Kill Yourself Make a Change...Kill Yourself
Mastodon Blood Mountain
mewithoutYou [Untitled]
Miley Cyrus Younger Now
I wanted to love this more but it loses steam half way through. Once you get to "Thinkin'" the album goes from "pretty great" to "pretty dull." Oh well at least the singles are good.
Mono For My Parents
If I had to pick one band that is doing the least in progressing the genre, it would be a close race between rExplosions in the Sky and Mono. But what Mono lacks in originality (this is the exact same album they've rreleased over and over again) they make up for with their dramatic and emotive delivery. Bland, uninspired, rand derivative, "For My Parents" isn't going to change anyone's opinions on this band, but am I a sucker for rdem climaxes.
Mono Pilgrimage Of The Soul
Maybe it?s because Mono have been so dull for so long, but this kinda slaps.
Mors Principium Est Dawn of the 5th Era
Neurosis Honor Found in Decay
To no one's surprise, Neurosis make a damn great record. While not quite to the level of their last several "classics," Honor Found in Decay sits proudly within their discography as a truly solid piece of work.
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine
Nine Inch Nails With Teeth
Obituary Obituary
The best Obituary album since the early 90s but to be honest that's a low bar to clear.
Obscura Akróasis
Not a fan of hyper clean tech death but for some reason this is fun to throw on in the background. Okay stuff.
Opeth Sorceress
Pelican Ephemeral
Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis
Pelican pretty much needed this not to suck, and thankfully it doesn't
Pestilence Hadeon
Over-simplified songwriting belies a profound understanding of how death metal can be both fun and catchy while still convincingly heavy.
Profetus As All Seasons Die
Radiohead Amnesiac
Radiohead Pablo Honey
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Revocation Deathless
Russian Circles Guidance
I should dislike this more than I do but the time I've spent with it has been lovely
Sadistic Ritual The Enigma, Boundless
Sammath Godless Arrogance
Sargeist Feeding the Crawling Shadows
Seiko Oomori Kintsugi
The songs that don?t sound like an anime montage are pretty great.
Sentient Horror Ungodly forms
Retro Swedish death by way of American armatures in 2016. Well done and pretty endearing but I'm sure I won't remember it come next month
Shadow Of Intent Reclaimer
Sigur Ros Von
Sigur Ros Valtari
Largely feels like 80 minutes of filler....which is weird because the album isn't even that long.
Sunless Urraca
Prolly would have been more impressive five years ago before this style became so overharvested. Still it's uncommonly good for a generic bandcamp release.
Svart Crown Abreaction
100% agree with Willie.
Taake Stridens hus
Thaetas Shrines to Absurdity
The 1975 A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships
The Dear Hunter Migrant
Follows the color spectrum in the steady decline of this band.
The Fall of Troy Manipulator
The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There
It's like if ten years ago a band got into a car accident and fell into a coma only to wake up thinking that it was still 2005.
Thou The House Primordial
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance
Thrice Horizons/East
It?s like the last decade of Thrice never happened, and that?s a very good thing.
Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me
It's more melodic and easily more poetic, but it lacks the overall energy that was so palpable on their 2009 effort. Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me is a great record that plays up the band's strengths, but after awhile it all begins to feel a bit 'samey,' and regretfully uninspired.
Uada Djinn
This is fucking goofy.
Vanhelgd Temple of Phobos
This is p good.
Vermin Womb Decline
Loud and fast music with a grimy production. Would be cool if you hadn't heard 1000 incarnations of this band already.
Vildhjarta Måsstaden Under Vatten
If you?re a fan of shitting your pants, you?re gonna love track 8.
Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage
Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite
Woman Is The Earth Torch of Our Final Night
World's End Girlfriend Last Waltz
Xasthur Nocturnal Poisoning
Yhdarl Loss
Zhrine Unortheta
This year's most derivative metal record is also the most instantly gratifying. Pretty easy to spin and enjoy in any mood or scenario.

2.9 good
A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant
Me: You can’t make a worse cover than “The Thirteenth Step”

A Perfect Circle: Hold my beer.
Bell Witch Mirror Reaper
Between the Buried and Me Automata I
The closest I have come to caring about a BTBAM album since that EP seven years ago (brevity suits this exhausting band). However, I do miss the days when the were a smart metalcore band rather than a dumb progressive one.
Hath Of Rot And Ruin
This kind of sounds like Ulcerate covering The Black Dahlia Murder
Lady Gaga Artpop
Mastodon Cold Dark Place
Better than the last two albums, but even with just four songs this feels a little boring and overlong.
The Blight Meditations on Insignificance
Touche Amore Is Survived By
I was going to make a clever joke about how boring this is but really it isn't worth it

2.8 good
And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures
God Is an Astronaut Origins
Iron And Wine Beast Epic
In a week that sees the release of Iron and Wine and Brand new, we're witnessing a showdown for the hearts and souls of boring 30 year old white guys everywhere.

2.7 average
At the Gates To Drink from the Night Itself
like a snake eating its tail, At the Gates’ influence on metalcore has come full circle with “To Drink from the Night
Itself” being the best album August Burns Red have ever made.


Edit: @Willie: I wish ;_;
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
I keep waiting for the user base to not be 16 anymore and realize that this is probably the most overrated album
OF ALL TIME.

2019 Edit: Yikes is this really the top soundoff?
Marsen Jules The Empire of Silence
Skeletal Remains Devouring Mortality
Admittedly this is pretty fun but idk if I have it in me anymore to listen to ANOTHER album with a name like
“Devouring Mortality” from a band with a name like Skeletal Remains
Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar
I felt like I was listening to a post-punk playlist at a gay bar.

2.6 average
Anguish (SWE) Mountain
I just wasn't feeling this.

2.5 average
Abbath Abbath
AJJ Christmas Island
Thank god I'm not the only one tired of the AJJ shtick
Alcest Shelter
Alcest Kodama
Ariana Grande Sweetener
Ariana Grande positions
I hate how boring I find this because the title track is so damn goooooood
At the Gates At War with Reality
If this had come out 15 years ago it would probably be seen as a masterpiece rather than a pretty good melodeath record.
Belphegor Conjuring The Dead
Between the Buried and Me Alaska
Between the Buried and Me Colors II
Welcome to the worst sound off page of 2021.
Boris The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked
Coldplay Music of the Spheres
Me: Maybe going emeritus was a mistake?r*Music of the Spheres? BNM*rMe: ah, ok
Converge No Heroes
Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us
Deftones Koi No Yokan
Deftones released a slightly above average hard rock album and way too many fucks were given.
Drudkh Eastern Frontier in Flames
Drudkh A Furrow Cut Short
Drudkh have definitely made an album. r
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) You Will Eventually Be Forgotten
Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Same shit different album. A bit darker and mellow, but ultimately they haven't changed a damn thing in regards to songwriting. Got better after I let it sink in a bit, but damn EitS....
Ghost Bath Moonlover
Ghoulgotha To Starve the Cross
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'
I'm sort of heartbroken that the band released this lukewarm, rehash of Behemoth. Certainly going down as their worst album to date.
Grouper Grid of Points
"I'd rather be sleeping"
Hamferd Támsins likam
Immolation Close to a World Below
Just Like Vinyl Black Mass
Kayo Dot Blasphemy
With each release, Kayo Dot inch away from being a great band with a few bad albums to a bad band with a few great albums.
Krallice Years Past Matter
Krypts Remnants of Expansion
La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair
I wish I had something clever to say about this album. However, I do not. Simply, this is boring boring boring, which is a shame because this band really is incredible.
Lycus Chasms
Mastodon Crack the Skye
Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun
Mastodon Emperor of Sand
Melvins A Walk With Love And Death
I like to pretend I like weird noise experiments but Love makes me front the bill for my posturing.
MGMT Little Dark Age
Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling
Monarch (FRA) Never Forever
I want to like this more than I actually like this. I just don't think I have the patience for this sort of thing anymore.
Nadja Luminous Rot
Nadja, for a time, played soundtracks for a lot of lonely nights, but they haven?t hit the same way in years
Nine Inch Nails The Slip
Norma Jean Polar Similar
Olafur Arnalds Another Happy Day
Olafur Arnalds For Now I Am Winter
Opeth Heritage
Opeth Pale Communion
Pelican What We All Come to Need
Portal ION
Protest the Hero Scurrilous
Oh baby I tried,hell, I even lied to myself by giving this a higher rating. Regardless, this is not the band I fell in love with on Kezia, nor is it the mature, refined group of young men I admired on Fortress. They stripped away everything that made them such an intelligent and fun band, and instead created a vapid, uninteresting album full of terrible, terrible lyrics, and copy/pasted pieces from their other works. Scurrilous is boring, poorly thought out, and carelessly written; the definition of a disappointment.
Radiohead The King of Limbs
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool
It's the Radiohead album I thought I always wanted until I got it.
Revocation Great Is Our Sin
Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name
Didn’t see what all the hype was about until the cleans came in at “A Home” then I remembered how basic you all
are and it made sense.
Sufjan Stevens The Ascension
Yikes.
Sun Kil Moon Benji
Sundr Solar Ships
There is a time in my life where I probably would have really dug this. That time has since passed.
Swans Leaving Meaning
In 2017 we were left with the tantalizing prospect of ?Swans 3.0.? Leaving Meaning, though, feels very ?2010s Swans? albeit with less teeth. Songs like ?What is this?? are some of the most beautiful in their discography, but the more plodding and languid stretches of post-post-punk freak-folk hypnosis had me reaching for the skip button.
Tarot (AUS) Reflections
The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous
Like, who tf cares anymore?
The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise
The Decemberists The Hazards of Love
The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream
"Beer commercial lead-guitar" is probably the most elucidating comment I have ever read about anything ever.
Thrice Vheissu
Vektor Terminal Redux
This is a lot of fun... Until it isn't
Vital Spirit In The Faith That Looks Through Death
Watain Trident Wolf Eclipse
Wildernessking Mystical Future
Post "blah" metal tbh.
Yovel Forthcoming Humanity

2.4 average
Ascension The Dead of the World
Between the Buried and Me Automata II
Dodecahedron Kwintessens
Loud and dark death metal with some black sensibilities. In the five years since their debut this Deathspell fellating style as proliferates the scene; an indulgent sound that's caused eye rolls amongst even the most devout fans. It's still a fine album but is it fine enough to standout amongst the bustling crowd, especially when others do it much better? Probably not.
Murg Gudatall
This really isn't that gud at all.
Myrkur M
Sunn O))) Kannon
If you want 2015's most obvious drone-metal album then boy do I have a rec for you.
Taylor Swift Lover
I have been happily listening to every Taylor Swift album since ?Red? and this is far and away the worse that I have yet to hear.
Underoath Erase Me
I know I?ve made this joke already but this is the best Linkin Park album in some time

2.3 average
Arcade Fire Everything Now
Archspire Relentless Mutation
There's so much about this to like: the production, the vocals, the exciting variation, etc. But I'm exhausted two songs in, much like their last album. It's an exercise in how much the listener can handle and I guess just fail.
Avichi Catharsis Absolute
Impetuous Ritual Blight Upon Martyred Sentience
Ravishingly pumped for this, listened once, then forgot it existed until I saw a review posted if that tells you anything.
Jonsi and Alex Lost and Found
Lizzo Cuz I Love You
“Body positivity” is something ugly people invented so they would have something to talk about on the Internet
other than “This Is Us”
Omit Medusa Truth - Part 1
It's like iif Evanesence wrote 20 minute songs...
Paramore After Laughter
C'mon you guys
Pissgrave Posthumous Humiliation
This is...better?
Suffocation …Of the Dark Light
"Remember how good Pierced From Within was? Remember? Do you??" said Eli, huddled in a corner, staring a the walls.
The Contortionist Clairvoyant
Gave this an honest shot but it's sorta lame. Like, not offensively bad but just really, really, really lame in a Steven Wilson sort of "I like prog and have owned a fedora before" kind of way.

2.2 poor
Coldplay Kaleidoscope
Are we really doing this?
Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification
How did this hot garbage become BNM? ? r
Envy Atheist's Cornea
Bump if you haven't given this band the slightest thought since 2010.
Passion Pit Kindred
More like Passion "Shit" r
Pissgrave Suicide Euphoria
Without the shocking name and cover art this album is an embarrassingly transparent and juvenile attempt at "raw" and "brutal" death metal. I'm sure some people will eat up the blatant perversion that the band employs but they're really just a bunch of guys trying too hard.

2.1 poor
Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal
This is really a 2 but .1 because I fucking can.

2.0 poor
A Lot Like Birds DIVISI
Why did I listen to this?
Agoraphobic Nosebleed Arc
An Autumn For Crippled Children Eternal
Band perpetually puts out 3's but the pretty cover art and font style make me want to check this despite knowing that I probably won't care
Anaal Nathrakh The Whole of the Law
Annoying band.
Archspire The Lucid Collective
Beirut Gallipoli
Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence
Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic
Bjork Utopia
Cardi B Invasion of Privacy
So this is what Pitchfork?s Best New Music sounds like in 2018.
Coheed and Cambria Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind
Holy shit.
Contrarian Their Worm Never Dies
This isn?t really good. If you like ?crazy? metal for the sake of craziness then it may have merit, but subjectively it?s mushy, samey noodling (with an objectively stupid title)
Harakiri for the Sky Arson
2018?s first bad album comes in the form of a black metal record with sadistically long songs that sound like a never ending stream of August Burns Red hooks and choruses.
Justin Timberlake Man of the Woods
Katy Perry Witness
La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom... (10th Anniversary)
God I?m getting old
Limp Bizkit Still Sucks
Lorde Solar Power
Instantly iconic album cover aside, this is awful.
Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God
Holy shit this is boring.
Marduk Frontschwein
Mastery Valis
Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason
It's hard defending Meshuggah half the time becuase so many of their attributes are almost objectively bad. For those who enjoy them, like me, it's easy to look past the inherent monotony of their music. There's a meditative property to their swirling madness that makes it worth it. "Koloss" traded this in for tighter songwriting whereas "Catch Thirty-three" wholly embraced it. "Obzen" blended both sides to near perfection.r"The Violent Sleep of Reason," however, is the worst parts of Meshuggah in album form. It's boring. It's homogeneous. It's uneventful. After a week of listening only "MonstroCity" stands out, and that's only because it has the dumbest song title I've ever heard.rDisappointing but not surprisingly so. Meshuggah has always been this lame but they have always made up for it with a smooth and cool sound. Here it's just not enough.
Mogwai Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait OST
Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me
Paramore Paramore
An album so bad that Adam Downer will declare it an avant garde pop masterpiece.
Protest the Hero Volition
How many sweeps and lame lines of Rody's power metal vocals will it take for me to finally give up on this band? As the years pass the more it becomes apparent that Kezia was a fluke.
Steven Wilson To the Bone
God this is so lame.
Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail
Made it about 15 seconds in no fucking thanks.
The Dear Hunter Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional
B sides of an average album makes for a terrible one
The Devil Wears Prada ZII
Honestly one of the best Christian metalcore releases I?ve heard in well over a decade
The National Sleep Well Beast
Stunning. Jaw to the floor. Absolutely in awe of how fucking boring this band is. If I had known that a beard and a
baritone could make so many guys this wet then I probably would have had a more interesting college
experience.
Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere
Toby Driver Madonnawhore
As if we needed another reason to stop listening to all Toby Driver affiliated projects

1.5 very poor
Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars
This is so distractingly boring that I can't even use it as background music at work. Wretched album.
Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech
Deftones Gore
Fall Out Boy Save Rock and Roll
Not sure how Fall Out Boy intend to save Rock & Roll when this neither rocks nor rolls.
Kayo Dot Plastic House on Base of Sky
This is hot, fucking garbage.
La Dispute Wildlife
If I was told that I only had an hour to live i'd spend it listening to Wildlife, because listening to it feels like an eternity.
Lady Gaga Joanne
Leviathan True Traitor, True Whore
eh
Mono Requiem For Hell
Panopticon/Aerial Ruin Panopticon / Aerial Ruin
Holy shit ?North Dakota? is awful.
Ryan Adams 1989
The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event
oh man forgot how bad this was

1.0 awful
Cryptopsy The Unspoken King
Deathspell Omega The Long Defeat
Re-post: Just a friendly reminder this band is very open about their support of right wing extremism, anti-semitisim, and
nazism.
Kanye West Donda
How would one listen to this? Because I want to make sure that doesn?t happen.

Edit: I listened to it and holy shit
Sonata Arctica The Ninth Hour
I'm constantly impressed by this band, which can produce such consistent 1/5 albums throughout their career

0.5
Buckcherry Fuck
Honorary Astronaut EP001
I have never hated anything more than I hate this song.
In Flames Down, Wicked and No Good
The hotter Anders gets the worse this band becomes. Not a good trade off imo.
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Nandacollection
Ne Obliviscaris Urn
Ya?ll act like this is so groundbreaking when people have been using violins in music for over 400 years.
Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan
I listened to this for about 10 minutes and it was sort of boring but not offensively so.
Toby Driver and Nick Hudson Black Feather Under Your Tongue
There was a time when I used to pretend to sorta get into this kind of thing but ugh. Awful.
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