| 4.5 superb |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury |
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| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many |
| Aquilus Griseus |
| Architects Hollow Crown |
| Artificial Brain Infrared Horizon |
| ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP. |
| Audrey Fall Mitau |
| August Burns Red Leveler |
| Banks Goddess |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot |
| Big K.R.I.T. ReturnOf4eva |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise |
| Circa Survive Violent Waves |
| City and Colour Little Hell |
| Cloudkicker Beacons |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us |
| Counterparts The Difference Between Hell and Home |
| Counterparts Tragedy Will Find Us |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology |
| Currensy Covert Coup |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy |
| Dance Gavin Dance Mothership |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done |
| Darkest Hour Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Death Vivus! |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Downfall of Gaia Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| Equilibrium Sagas |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic |
| Fallujah The Harvest Wombs |
| Finsterforst Rastlos |
| Finsterforst Mach Dich Frei |
| Finsterforst proving yet again that they are one of the best folk metal bands in the land |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE |
| Galneryus Angel of Salvation |
| Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage |
| Hail Spirit Noir Pneuma |
| Haken Visions |
| Hammock Everything and Nothing |
| How to Dress Well What Is This Heart? |
| Ifing Against This Weald |
| Ihsahn Arktis. |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down |
| Inter Arma Paradise Gallows |
| Intervals A Voice Within |
| J. Cole Friday Night Lights |
| James Blake James Blake |
| James Blake The Colour in Anything |
| Janus Nox Aeris |
| Jens Lekman I Know What Love Isn't |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. |
| Khemmis Hunted |
| King Creosote and Jon Hopkins Diamond Mine |
| Kno Death Is Silent |
| Kokomo Kokomo |
| Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein Stranger Things, Volume One |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Marissa Nadler July |
| this album hits me right in the feels |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Metallica Ride The Lightning |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon |
| Nas Life Is Good |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I |
| Neck Deep Life's Not Out To Get You |
| Novembre Ursa |
| Olafur Arnalds Living Room Songs |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Planet Asia Black Belt Theatre |
| Pomegranate Tiger Entities |
| Power Trip Manifest Decimation |
| Rorcal Creon |
| Saor Roots |
| Saor Guardians |
| Scale the Summit The Migration |
| Shade Empire Omega Arcane |
| Shearwater Animal Joy |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
| Skyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos |
| Incredible band/album. Fans of Djent will love this. |
| sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything |
| State Faults Resonate/Desperate |
| Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour |
| Swarms Old Raves End |
| Sylosis Edge of the Earth |
| Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail |
| The Atlas Moth An Ache for the Distance |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Fall of Every Season Amends |
| The Flashbulb Arboreal |
| The Morningside TreeLogia (The Album As it is Not) |
| The Omega Experiment The Omega Experiment |
| Amazing progressive metal. Some Devin Townsend and Dream Theater influences. For a self-released album, and a band that's not even signed, it's incredible material. |
| The Pirate Ship Quintet Rope for No-Hopers |
| haunting, melancholic, raw and completely beautiful. each instrument is played with such great timing and virtuosity. one of the albums of the year and one of the best post-rock records you will ever hear. |
| The Roots undun |
| The Safety Fire Grind the Ocean |
| SO. MUCH. WIN. |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now |
| The Waters Deep Here Sunden |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Thursday No Devolucion |
| Thy Light No Morrow Shall Dawn |
| so much sadness man |
| Torchbearer Death Meditations |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis |
| Uneven Structure Februus |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden |
| Wild Nothing Nocturne |
| Winterfylleth The Threnody Of Triumph |
| Wintersun Wintersun |
| Wolves at the Gate Captors |
| Xanthochroid Blessed He With Boils |
