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5.0 classic
7 Angels 7 Plagues Jhazmyne's Lullaby
Alexisonfire Watch Out!
Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession
Bello and Shem Trapped in a Pocket Dimension
Black Moth Super Rainbow Falling Through a Field
Circa Survive On Letting Go
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise
Circa Survive The Amulet
City and Colour Bring Me Your Love
Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs
Elevator To Hell Parts 1-3
Fall of Efrafa Owsla
Fugazi End Hits
Fugazi Repeater
Fugazi Red Medicine
Heatmiser Mic City Sons
Hoover The Lurid Traversal of Route 7
Hop Along Painted Shut
Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut
Inclination Unaltered Perspective
Iron Age The Sleeping Eye
Kidcrash Jokes
Kow Otani Shadow of the Colossus OST
Leeway Born to Expire
Lync These Are Not Fall Colors
Marching Church Telling It Like It Is
Mobb Deep The Infamous
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Neurosis The Eye Of Every Storm
O'Brother Garden Window
Oceana Clean Head
Purple Mountains Purple Mountains
Pygmy Lush Bitter River
Relient K Mmhmm
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness
Senses Fail Let It Enfold You
Silver Jews American Water
The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand
The Gun Club Fire of Love
Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie
Thursday Full Collapse
Thursday No Devolucion
Title Fight Shed
Touche Amore Is Survived By
Touche Amore Is Survived By: Revived (Remixed / Remastered)
Vince Guaraldi Trio A Charlie Brown Christmas
Waxahatchee Tigers Blood

4.5 superb
Aborted Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage...
Alexisonfire Crisis
Amber Daybreak Sentinels
absolutely criminal how overlooked this album is. Belgian skramz masterpiece
Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation
Artificial Brain Infrared Horizon
Artificial Brain Artificial Brain
Ash Borer Ash Borer
Aviations Luminaria
Barrow Being Without
Brodequin Harbinger of Woe
Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now
Circa Survive Descensus
Condominium Warm Home
Crack Cloud Red Mile
Currents I Let the Devil In
Currents The Death We Seek
Deadguy Fixation on a Coworker
Devil Sold His Soul A Fragile Hope
Dora Jar No Way To Relax When You Are On Fire
Dream Unending Song of Salvation
Dying Wish Symptoms of Survival
Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
Effluence Psychocephalic Spawning
Emma Goldman all you are is we
ERRA ERRA
Flourishing The Sum of All Fossils
Foreign Hands What's Left Unsaid
lovin how relatively unprocessed this record sounds. plug your guitar into your amp and play some god damn riffs.
Fugazi The Argument
Gorguts Obscura
Gorguts Colored Sands
Greyhaven This Bright and Beautiful World
Hail the Sun Divine Inner Tension
Hopesfall The Satellite Years
Integrity Those Who Fear Tomorrow
Interpersonal The Long Bright Dark
JJ Doll JJ Doll
Job For A Cowboy Moon Healer
Kidcrash Naps
Kind of Like Spitting Nothing Makes Sense Without It
Knut Challenger
lagrimas A Life Of Destruction
Like Moths to Flames No Eternity in Gold
Loathe (UK) The Cold Sun
Loathe (UK) I Let It In And It Took Everything
Mahria Mahria
Mammoth Grinder Underworlds
Martyrdod In Extremis
Maruja Knocknarea
Mental Cruelty Zwielicht
Mind Eraser Conscious Unconscious
Moss Icon Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly
Moss Icon It Disappears
Moss Icon Hate in Me
Neurosis Times Of Grace
Opeth Still Life
Opeth Watershed
pageninetynine Document #8
pageninetynine Document #5
Panopticon The Rime of Memory
Paramore All We Know Is Falling
Phoebe Bridgers Punisher
PM Today In Medias Res
Poison the Well You Come Before You
Poppy Negative Spaces
Pygmy Lush Mount Hope
Pygmy Lush Old Friends
Regulator Watts The Aesthetics of No Drag
SeeYouSpaceCowboy Coup de Grâce
Senses Fail Life Is Not a Waiting Room
Silkworm Firewater
Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront
Skitsystem Stigmata
Souls of Mischief 93 'til Infinity
Spook Houses Trying
Stolas Allomaternal
Straw Man Army Earthworks
Very melodic post/art/anarcho whatever punk that feels heavily indebted to bands like Crass and Rudimentary Peni, but with a melodious and free flowing vocal delivery that actually reminds me more of bands like Moss Icon and The Van Pelt. Very unique sound with some amazing lyricism as well. I can tell this album is only gonna keep getting better the more I listen to it.
Sweet Pill Where the Heart Is
as if Algernon Cadwallader and PM Today had a baby
Tenue Arcos, b​ó​vedas, p​ó​rticos
love when a random spotify rec ends up being this incredible. super heavy blend of metal and atmospheric screamo from Spain. definitely deserves more attention!!!
TesseracT War of Being
The Rival Mob Mob Justice
Thin Lizzy Jailbreak
Thin Lizzy Fighting
Thrice Vheissu
Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972
Touche Amore Spiral in a Straight Line
Underoath Ø (Disambiguation)
underscores boneyard aka fearmonger
Unwound Repetition
Unwound New Plastic Ideas
Veilburner The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey Compassion
Waxahatchee Out in the Storm
Waxahatchee Saint Cloud
Wednesday Rat Saw God
Wild Moth Over, Again
Zero Boys Vicious Circle

4.2 excellent
Anxious Bambi

4.0 excellent
16 Horsepower Sackcloth 'n' Ashes
40 Watt Sun Little Weight
A Mourning Star A Reminder Of The Wound Unhealed
A Winged Victory for the Sullen Invisible Cities
Abominable Putridity The Anomalies Of Artificial Origin
Amanda Anne Platt and the Honeycutters The Ones That Stay
Balance and Composure Separation
Balance and Composure Too Quick to Forgive
Balance and Composure with you in spirit
Barrow Though I'm Alone
Belong Common Era
Beloved Failure On
Benighted Icon
Birds in Row Gris Klein
Black Curse Burning in Celestial Poison
Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Rejecting Obliteration
Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere
bloodthirsty butchers kocorono
Bloom Dream It Didn't Have To Be This Way
Born of Osiris The Discovery
this album is proof that the zaza hit different in 2011
Boundaries Burying Brightness
Broadway Kingdoms
Brown Sugar Tropical Disease
Brutalism (USA) Solace in Absurdity
By A Thread Mirrored Life
26 years after their 1999 debut on Revelation Records, By A Thread has returned with Mirrored Life?the group's third full-length and follow-up to 2011's self-titled record. It would be no stretch of the imagination to claim By A Thread as one of the longest-standing post-hardcore bands in Vancouver, and their longevity can be largely attributed to the strong foundation of trust and musical chemistry between John Franco and Sean Lande, who have acted as the group's creative core ever since their formation. While the group's earlier material takes clear nods from the likes of Sunny Day Real Estate, Mirrored Life marks a magnificent and graceful evolution into a heavier sound that feels entirely their own, with more of a fine-tuned sensitivity to mood and melody. Opening track "Void" kicks the album off with a burst of rock 'n' roll energy, but you'll quickly find that Mirrored Life isn't in a rush to go anywhere fast. These songs are longer and slower than most of their prior material, but every extra minute feels vital, with a deep well of tension bubbling between every sustained chord and melancholic lyric. By A Thread has aged like fine wine, and Mirrored Life may just be their best record yet.
ByoNoiseGenerator Subnormal Dives
Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein
Capsule (US) Blue
Capsule (US) No Ghost
Caravels Lacuna
Cave In Until Your Heart Stops
Charli XCX Pop 2
Charli XCX Crash
Chat Pile Cool World
Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
Chris Eckman The Land We Knew The Best
Christopher Owens I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair
Circa Survive A Dream About Love
Cist The Frozen Casket
City and Colour If I Should Go Before You
City and Colour The Love Still Held Me Near
Clairo Sling
cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD
Code Orange Underneath
Codeine The White Birch
Concealed Blade Concealed Blade
Condition Actual Hell
Conman Demo
Counterparts Nothing Left to Love
Counterparts A Eulogy for Those Still Here
Creative Adult Dead Air
Creem Discography LP
Crime In Stereo House & Trance
man what a come back. such a huge step up from their last LP in almost every way.
Cro-Mags Best Wishes
Currents The Place I Feel Safest
Darkest Hour Perpetual | Terminal
Yo how fucking good is Mausoleum? I?m losing my shit rn
Deadguy Near-Death Travel Services
Deeds of Flesh Path of the Weakening
Defeated Sanity Disposal Of The Dead // Dharmata
Dehumanized Prophecies Foretold
Devil Sold His Soul Blessed & Cursed
Devourment Obscene Majesty
Die Kreuzen Die Kreuzen
Diphenylchloroarsine Subterranean Existential Warfare
Disavowed Perceptive Deception
Disengage (PA) Expressions
Disgorge Consume the Forsaken
Dream Unending Tide Turns Eternal
Dripping Disintegration of Thought Patterns
drive your plow over the bones of the dead Tragedy as Catharsis
Dying Fetus Reign Supreme
Elias Ronnenfelt Heavy Glory
END (USA-NJ) The Sin of Human Frailty
ERRA Cure
Exist Hijacking The Zeitgeist
Hijacking The Zeitgeist is another album that I mostly checked due to the album art, but Exist quickly caught me off guard and captured my heart with this one. Metal which is progressive and whimsical while still firmly rooted in traditions of rock n' roll is always a winning recipe for me. This album is just very focused on sick grooves and even sicker riffs. The songs are memorable and structurally familiar with just enough melodic curveballs thrown in to evoke an emotional connection that will keep you coming back.
Fear Before The Always Open Mouth
Final Gasp Mourning Moon
I'm convinced this is the best thing since sliced Danzig.
Finch What It Is to Burn
Finch Say Hello to Sunshine
Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts
Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds
Frances Quinlan Likewise
From Autumn to Ashes Holding a Wolf by the Ears
Fugazi In on the Kill Taker
Fulci Duck Face Killings
Gatherers " ( mutilator. ) "
absolutely blown away by this record. just incredible from start to finish. not sure if i've ever fallen in love with an album this quickly before... closing track gave me goosebumps
Godflesh Pure
Good Luck Have Fun make way for the sun
is it nepotism for me to 4 this? idc, listen to my brothers EP! its acoustic and emo and good.
good-luck-have-fun.bandcamp.com
Gorgasm Masticate to Dominate
Gorguts Considered Dead
Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity
Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate
Gorguts Pleiades' Dust
Gray Matter Food For Thought
Great American Ghost Tragedy of the Commons
Great Grandpa Patience, Moonbeam
Greyhaven Stereo Grief
Hail the Sun New Age Filth
Haley Heynderickx Seed of a Seed
Harm's Way (USA-IL) Common Suffering
Harp Albion
Hatred Surge Deconstruct
Heavenly Blue We Have The Answer
Hereafter New Leaves feat. Overly, & Evan Partridge
High on Fire Cometh The Storm
Hopesfall Arbiter
Hot Snakes Suicide Invoice
Hounds Of Hate Hate Springs Eternal
HRVRD From the Bird's Cage
Hum Downward Is Heavenward
Humanity's Last Breath Välde
Impalers (TX) Cellar Dweller
Infant Island Obsidian Wreath
Integrity The Blackest Curse
Integrity Howling, For the Nightmare Shall Consume
Inter Arma Paradise Gallows
Inter Arma Sulphur English
Inter Arma New Heaven
Internal Suffering Awakening Of The Rebel
Ivy (NY) A Cat's Cause, No Dog's Problem
Jackal Twins Cuzco
Jimmy Eat World Bleed American
Johnny Booth Moments Elsewhere
Julia-Sophie Forgive Too Slow
Julie my anti-aircraft friend
Kidcrash I Haven't Had A Date In 4 Years EP
Kidcrash Snacks
Killing Of A Sacred Deer Killing Of A Sacred Deer
Knapsack This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now
Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue
Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life
Kronos Colossal Titan Strife
Left For Dead Splitting Heads
Like Moths to Flames The Cycles of Trying to Cope
this album should've been called The Cycles Of Being Dope
Lila Tirando a Violeta Dream of Snakes
Low I Could Live in Hope
Lupe Fiasco Samurai
Maggot Colony Vile Reincarnation
Malignancy ...Discontinued
Matsuri Endship
Mei Semones ANIMARU
Metaphobic Deranged Excruciations
MGMT Oracular Spectacular
Michael Grigoni and Pan American New World, Lonely Ride
Mind Eraser Glacial Reign
Missouri Executive Order 44 Salt Sermon
BIKE HELMET HARDCORE. of course its good, holy shit.
MJ Lenderman Manning Fireworks
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica
Moral Collapse Moral Collapse
Mount Kimbie Love What Survives
NASA Space Universe 70 AD
Nasti Big Achievements
Neurosis Through Silver In Blood
Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets
Neurosis Enemy Of The Sun
Neurosis Given To The Rising
Neurosis Sovereign
Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I
Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part II
Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...
Ninajirachi I Love My Computer
Nithing Agonal Hymns
No Cure I Hope I Die Here
No Devotion No Oblivion
nothing,nowhere. Void Eternal
nothing,nowhere. Hell Or Highwater
Nu Sensae Sundowning
Obverse Obverse
harp prog harp prog harprog progharp h ar pp r o gg
Oceana Birth.Eater
Of Machines As If Everything Was Held In Place
Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe
Oklou Choke Enough
One Step Closer Songs for the Willow
One Step Closer All You Embrace
Opeth Morningrise
Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse
Opeth Heritage
Opeth Pale Communion
Orchidectomy A Prelate's Attrition
pageninetynine Document #7
Palm Reader Sleepless
Paramore Brand New Eyes
Paramore This Is Why
PeelingFlesh The G Code
Pile Dripping
Poison the Well The Tropic Rot
Poppy I Disagree (more)
yeah wtf Khaos x4 rips so hard.
Poppy EAT (NXT Soundtrack)
Postcoital Ulceration Continuation of Defective Existence After Multiple
Pyaemia Cerebral Cereal
Pygmy Lush Totem
Pyrrhon Exhaust
Raein Forme Sommerse
Forme Sommerse, at its core, is a practice in intuition. Instead of trying to recapitulate the past, Raein opted to utilize a fresh approach that would allow them to flow seamlessly from one idea to the next without any heed to the limitations of conventional structure. That sense of freedom is fully evident in these movements. These aren't exactly post-rock songs with linear progressions after all; they are more akin to a collection of peaks and valleys, with kinetic rhythms that push and pull like a waltz through turbulent waters, and the result is nothing short of staggering. All the hallmarks that made Raein such an influential force in the first place are still front and center here?their perfect balance between bright guitar tones, sensitive melodies, passionately chanted vocals, and a rhythmic urgency that feels vital every step of the way?but the form of the album makes their music feel more alive than ever.
Raspberry Bulbs Deformed Worship
Replicant Infinite Mortality
Ripped to Shreds Sanshi
honestly the perfect kind of death metal for me. some good hardcore influenced Mammoth Grinder type riffs but also some crazy dueling melodic solos that (almost) give TBDM a run for their money. Truly the best of both worlds.
Ritchot Textiles i
Rites of Spring Rites of Spring
Roni Size and Reprazent New Forms
Sam Gendel blueblue
Saya Gray Saya
Secret And Whisper Teenage Fantasy
Sectioned Annihilated
SeeYouSpaceCowboy The Romance of Affliction
Shai Hulud That Within Blood Ill-Tempered
Shipping News Flies The Fields
Silent Planet Everything Was Sound
Silverstein When Broken Is Easily Fixed
Silverstein This Is How the Wind Shifts
Skinless Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead
Skullcrusher Quiet the Room
Snapcase Progression Through Unlearning
Snapcase End Transmission
Spiritbox The Fear of Fear
Stabbing Extirpated Mortal Process
Stand Still Steps Ascending
State Faults Children of the Moon
Stick Together Surviving The Times
Sufferer Sufferer
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary
Sweet Pill Unraveled
Sweet Pill revisits some choice cuts from their last EP and their 2022 debut LP. This EP is far from a lazy collection of "stripped down" acoustic songs to fulfill label contracts (although I'm kind of suspicious of how much Hopeless is pushing them to release content). No, Sweet Pill really sat down, fully deconstructed these songs, expanded upon and created new stretches of space in the arrangements, and then pieced them back together into something wholly revitalized. Sweet Pill used this EP as an opportunity to flex their chemistry and venture into new territory that would be really cool to see applied to new material. Bravo.
Swirlies Blonder Tongue Audio Baton
Teeth (USA-CA) The Will of Hate
The Black Dahlia Murder Servitude
The Blood Mountain Black Metal Choir Folklore (Demo I)
The Contortionist Clairvoyant
The Flex Wild Stabs in the Dark
The Republic of Wolves Why Would Anyone Want To Live This Long?
The Story So Far Proper Dose
The Story So Far I Want to Disappear
The Van Pelt Stealing From Our Favorite Thieves
Thrice The Illusion of Safety
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance
Thursday War All the Time
Thursday A City By the Light Divided
Thus Spoke Zarathustra I’m Done With Self Care, It’s Time For...
Holy fuck this rips so hard.
Tides of Man Dreamhouse
Title Fight Floral Green
Title Fight Spring Songs
Tombstone Poetry How Could I Be So In Debt?
Totalitar Sin egen motståndare
Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me
Tunic A Harmony of Loss Has Been Sung
Undeath Sentient Autolysis
Undeath It's Time...To Rise From the Grave
Underneath From the Gut of Gaia
how did this fly under my radar for the past 3 months? bruh.
Underoath Define The Great Line
Underoath Lost In The Sound Of Separation
Unearth The Oncoming Storm
United Nations United Nations
Uttertomb Nebulas Of Self​-​Desecration
Vacuous In His Blood
Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith Defiant Life
Vildhjarta Måsstaden
Volumes Happier?
Vomit Remnants Supreme Entity
Warthog Prison
Waxahatchee American Weekend
Whitechapel Hymns in Dissonance
Wire Pink Flag
Wolves and Machines Since Before Our Time
Zero Boys History Of

3.9 excellent
Julia Wolf PRESSURE

3.8 excellent
Steve Von Till Alone In A World Of Wounds

3.5 great
...and Oceans As in Gardens, So in Tombs
156/Silence People Watching
200 Stab Wounds Manual Manic Procedures
A Static Lullaby Rattlesnake!
A.G. Cook 7G
Addison Rae Addison
rips m/
Adrianne Lenker Bright Future
Aesop Rock Integrated Tech Solutions
Afterbirth Psychopathic Embryotomy
Ajax Ajax II
Anthony Green Would You Still Be With Strings
Anxious Little Green House
Artifex Pereo Ailments & Antidotes
Artificial Language Now We Sleep
Artificial Language Distant Glow
As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire
Athousandangelsandseven Athousandangelsandseven
Baalsebub The Sickness of the Holy Inquisition
Baan Neumann
Balmora With Thorns of Glass and Petals of Grief
Bee Hive Ski Race Unlimited Violence Apologia
Beneath a Steel Sky Cleave
Bladee x Yung Lean Psykos
Blanket Modern Escapism
Blanket Ceremonia
Blaze Inside Pure Potenciality
Blazing Eye Blazing Eye
Bleeding Through NINE
Blessthefall Witness
Blind Girls The Weight of Everything
Boundaries Death Is Little More
Bucket Full Of Teeth I, II, III
bulletsbetweentongues Fragility
metalcore with a blackened sludge aesthetic. good shit.
Camila Cabello C, XOXO
Candy (USA) It's Inside You
Caribou Honey
Caroline (UK) Caroline 2
Caustic Wound Grinding Mechanism of Torment
Cave In Heavy Pendulum
Charli XCX Brat
Charmer Downpour
Clairo Charm
Clark 05-10
Cloakroom Time Well
Cloud Cafe Gift Horse
Code Orange The Above
I honestly think this is a pretty good follow up to Underneath. They are really leaning into the weirder side of their influences. This is not a concise "___ genre" album, it's more of a scrapbook of interesting ideas from different genres glued together. If you really loved Underneath I think you'll enjoy most of these songs.

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Codeine Frigid Stars
Combat Knife Extreme Combat
Conway the Machine God Don't Make Mistakes
Counterparts Tragedy Will Find Us
Counterparts Heaven Let Them Die
Crime In Stereo Crime In Stereo Is Dead
Criminal Code No Device
Crystal Lake Helix
Currents The Way It Ends
Cursetheknife There's A Place I Can Rest
Death Side Bet On The Possibility
Decrepit Birth ...And Time Begins
Disfear Everyday Slaughter
Disgorge (Mex) Forensick
Dreamdecay N V N V N V
Drop Dead, Gorgeous In Vogue
Drop Dead, Gorgeous Worse Than A Fairy Tale
Drop Dead, Gorgeous Hot N' Heavy
Dutch Interior Moneyball
Dweller On The Threshold Dweller On The Threshold
Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist Voir Dire
Effluence Pianistic Dismemberment
Emery The Weak's End
Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail
Encenathrakh Encenathrakh
END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face
Every Time I Die Radical
Exit Order Seed Of Hysteria
fantasy of a broken heart Feats of Engineering
Faye Webster I Know I'm Funny haha
Fit for an Autopsy The Nothing That Is
Fly Over States Ghosts
Fontaines D.C. Romance
For Your Health This Bitter Garden
Foreign Hands Bleed the Dream
Four Year Strong analysis paralysis
From Autumn to Ashes Too Bad You're Beautiful
Fugazi Steady Diet of Nothing
Fugitive Bubble What Will Happen If We Stop?
Full of Hell and Nothing When No Birds Sang
Fuming Mouth Last Day of Sun
Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation
Gaffed Die Already
Gaffed I Can Feel Myself Rot
GENDEMA sassy things
Ghost Atlas All Is in Sync...
Ghost Atlas Dust of the Human Shape
Glass Bones Glass Bones
Glassing From the Other Side of the Mirror
Gospel The Loser
Guttural Secrete Reek Of Pubescent Despoilment
Hail the Sun Wake
Halshug Blodets Band
Heart To Gold Free Help
Title Fight inspired emo that is quite simplistic yet carefully crafted to serve up heartfelt hooks and tasteful vocal melodies with smooth precision.
Heinous Killings Hung with Barbwire
Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Humanity's Last Breath Ashen
Idaho Hearts of Palm
If I Die First They Drew Blood
If Kansas Had Trees Where You Thought You Would Be
Illuvia Mauna Kea
In Fear and Faith Your World On Fire
In Search of Solace The Endless Ache
Incendiary Thousand Mile Stare
Incinerous Contorted Epiphany (demo)
rating bias because I have writing credits on one of these songs
Innumerable Forms Punishment in Flesh
Insect Inside The First Shining of New Genus
Institute (USA-TX) Institute
Invent Animate Greyview
Invent Animate Heavener
Iron Age Constant Struggle
Iron Lung Sexless // No Sex
Iwrestledabearonce Hail Mary
Jack White No Name
Jenovavirus Demo 1
Jimmy Eat World Clarity
John Patrick Elliott February Songs
Julie Doiron I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
Kardashev Alunea
Killing Of A Sacred Deer A Visage of a Mangled Body
Kingdom of Giants Ground Culture
Kolya Kolya
Kumo 99 HeadPlate
L.S. Dunes Violet
Last Train III
I am not familiar with this group's previous work - despite garnering the attention of acts like Muse and Placebo, they have seemingly not received much fanfare outside of Europe - but these guys clearly know when to use the right tool for the right job. This album is full of impressive dynamic sensibilities and restraint. Their third full length is haunted by a poltergeist of anger that is meticulous in when it allows itself to show, although it is almost always felt dwelling underneath the surface. There are some noise and post rock elements going on, but at its core this is a tried and true rock album. Excellent.
Lead Hands Lead Hands
Like Moths to Flames Dark Divine
Lincoln Watermark 7"
Livealie Living in the Static
Loma Prieta Last
LVL UP Return To Love
Mammoth Grinder Undying Spectral Resonance
Masakatsu Takagi Marginalia VII
Mil-Spec World House
Mil-Spec Marathon
Militarie Gun God Save The Gun
Mind Eraser Cave
Mindforce New Lords
Mirrors (AUS) The Ego's Weight
Mitski The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
MJ Lenderman Boat Songs
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West
Momma Household Name
Morgul Blade Heavy Metal Wraiths
Mura Masa Mura Masa
Navy Blue Memoirs in Armour
Neurosis Souls At Zero
Neurosis The Word As Law
Neurosis Honor Found In Decay
Nimal Nimal
No Pressure No Pressure
No Tolerance You Walk Alone
Norillag The Union of Death
Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me
Northlane Alien
Nova Charisma Metropolitan
Oberst Toil
Threw this one on not expecting anything and was caught off guard by how good it is! Very tasty post hardcore that balances melody and dissonance quite nicely. I think fans of bands like Birds In Row or Loma Prieta should give this one a go.
Oceana The Tide
I was (and still am) a huge fan of Oceana's sophomore album Birth.Eater, but I always disregarded The Tide due to it's different lineup. I viewed it as essentially being from a different band, and in my mind I imagined it sounding like a completely different band too. I don't know what I was thinking. The Tide is maybe a bit heavier, and doesn't have nearly as much clean singing, but other than that, it's not that different. Sure, Brennan Taulbee brought something really magical to the band when he replaced Keith Jones on vocals, but I think at it's core, Oceana was always Jack Burns. It's Jack's heavy, moody, and atmospheric guitar playing that made the band so special. So I felt really stupid when I finally put this on and immediately realized how much I've been missing out. This album is full to the brim with crunchy melodic riffs, catchy song writing, and to top it off, Keith's vocals are honestly amazing. Brennan might be one of my favourite singers of all time, but Keith's screams are so raw and emotive that this album almost veers into early 2000s atmospheric skramz
territory at times. The Tide is a classic of it's era, and I'm happy I finally gave it a chance.
Of Eden A Chapter Worth Reading
One Step Closer This Place You Know
Opeth Orchid
Opeth Blackwater Park
Opeth Damnation
Opeth Ghost Reveries
Opeth In Cauda Venenum
Opeth The Last Will and Testament
Our Future is an Absolute Shadow LP
Pack Rat Life's A Trap
Pale Our Hearts In Your Heaven
Paramore Riot!
Paramore After Laughter
Perdition Perdition III
Phoebe Go Marmalade
PinkPantheress Heaven Knows
Place of Refuge Winter Demo
Polaris The Death of Me
Polaris Fatalism
Poppy I Disagree
Poppy Flux
Portrayal of Guilt Christfucker
Putridity Degenerating Anthropophagical Euphoria
Razel Got Her Wings Reaching Serenity
Real Friends Blue Hour
Rebecca Black SALVATION
Regional Justice Center Freedom Sweet Freedom
Rival Consoles Now Is
Saosin Saosin
Saosin Along the Shadow
Scary Kids Scaring Kids Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Schedule 1 Crucible
Secret And Whisper Great White Whale
Sentinels (US) Collapse by Design
Serration Simulations of Hell
Shida Shahabi Living Circle
Siege Column Darkside Legions
Silent Planet Iridescent
Silent Planet Superbloom
Silverstein Arrivals and Departures
Silverstein A Shipwreck in the Sand
Silverstein I Am Alive In Everything I Touch
Silverstein Redux II
Six Organs Of Admittance Dark Noontide
Sleeping With Sirens Let's Cheers to This
Smart Went Crazy Con Art
Snapcase Lookinglasself
Social Circkle City Shock
Sorcerer (FRA) Devotion
This is wild. Riffs and vocals remind me a lot of Integrity but merged with a more depressive atmosphere. Quite a refreshing mix.
Spiritbox Eternal Blue
Stateside It's What We Do
Steve Von Till As the Crow Flies
ta2reeban Sa7eb al motor yastanad 3leikon
Termina Soul Elegy
The Bled Pass the Flask
The Drowned God Pale Home
The Heist Revenge For Losers Craving Love
The Men Leave Home
The Men Buyer Beware
This album rocks so damn hard. Some serious Stooges influence here. Probably their best album since Open Your Heart.
The Republic of Wolves shrine
The Requiem A Cure to Poison the World
The Used The Used
The Van Pelt Sultans of Sentiment
Theophonos Allegheny Rains
These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home
Thursday Waiting
Thursday Common Existence
To Speak Of Wolves Find Your Worth, Come Home
Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse
Touche Amore Stage Four
Touche Amore Lament
Turnstile Nonstop Feeling
Turnstile Time and Space
Underneath Nothing Here is Held Sacred
Underneath It Exists Between Us
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety
Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You
Unwound The Future of What
Unwound Challenge For a Civilized Society
Vacant Home Can You Show Me Who I Am?
Vanity (NY) Don't Be Shy
Vein.fm Errorzone
Vildhjarta Måsstaden Under Vatten
Violent Reaction Marching On
Void Sessions 1981-83
Waxahatchee Cerulean Salt
Wheel (FIN) Charismatic Leaders
White Suns Dredging Heaven
Whitechapel Kin
Will Johnson Diamond City
Wisp (US) Pandora
Wolves and Machines Ailments
Worm Shepherd The Sleeping Sun
Year of the Knife No Love Lost
YHWH Nailgun 45 Pounds
Your Ghost In Glass Objects In Mirror…
Zao The Crimson Corridor

3.2 good
Scowl (USA-CA) Are We All Angels

3.0 good
A Mourning Star Necessity Has Clipped My Wings
Metalcore aficionados A Mourning Star are back with a new EP, this time with a third (!) guitar player in tow and a clear intention to push the boundaries of their sonic palette. Necessity Has Clipped My Wings not only harbors some of the group's most ambitious songwriting to date, but it also sees them exploring new tonal dimensions for a sound that more vividly reflects the dichotomy between salvation and earthly suffering that lead vocalist Elijah Robinson often imbues into the group's lyrical themes. "Emerald Forest" opens the EP with a dreamlike instrumental piece that shimmers with acoustic guitar and bird calls before "An Abundance" shatters the mirror over our heads with a swath of metallic riffs. Throughout the remaining three songs the group pirouettes between blackened tremolos, triple-layered melodeath harmonies, and juggernaut breakdowns, but the crowning achievement of the affair has to be in the song "Cherubim," where the band shifts gears from their usual fare of jagged aggression into some borderline prog territory with soaring leads and a dive bomb that lands in a splash of glassy guitars and ghostly spoken vocals. This part doesn't last long, but it's a clarion call that A Mourning Star are no longer purely concerned with revivalism; they are actively seeking ways to develop as a group, and this EP is proof that they are on a blazing path.
Abysmal Torment Epoch of Methodic Carnage
Allt From the New World
Amputated Genitals Human Meat Gluttony
Armor For Sleep What To Do When You Are Dead
Atrium of Time Atrium of Time
away with words (USA-FL) What To Think About Again
Babe Haven Nuisance
beabadoobee This Is How Tomorrow Moves
Bedhead Beheaded
Beheaded Ominous Bloodline
Belong Realistic IX
kind of hoping this grows on me more but the production and overly repetitive songs don't bode well for holding my interest
Bleed Bleed
Blotter Under Armour ‘77
Bring Me The Horizon POST HUMAN: NeX GEn
I haven't cared about this band since 2010, and I thought amo and That's The Spirit were incredibly boring, so I was not expecting this album to be so much damn fun. The mish mash of genres here just works so well for me, combining hyper pop with metalcore and grungy alt metal. It's like BMTH had a baby with underscores and Deftones. This album is 55 minutes long, but the variety keeps it so engaging. It almost feels more like listening to a playlist as opposed to a cohesive album, which I think was an intentional move to capture the attention of todays society of instant gratification induced brain death. I admit, there's some stinkers on this album. In particular I don't looove the way this band does it's Deftones rip off as it feels more like an unoriginal imitation than a fresh spin. Loathe does that type of stuff so much better. Some of the straight up pop songs were a bit lackluster as well, but when the band hits that sweet spot mixing chaotic blasts of electronic pop with metalcore, it just lights up all the right neurons in my brain. I can see why so many people despise this shit, but I think not being a BMTH fan prior, and thus having zero expectations of what they should or should not sound like really made it easy for me to get into this.
Bully Lucky For You
Bury Tomorrow Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience
Casey How to Disappear
Charli XCX Charli
Christopher Owens Chrissybaby Forever
Circa Survive Two Dreams
Clairo Immunity
Consider the Thief Signs and Wonders
Counterparts You're Not You Anymore
Crime In Stereo The Troubled Stateside
Dean Blunt and Elias Ronnenfelt Lucre
Denial Of Life No Reason
Devil Master Devil Master (demo)
DOTGIFFROMGOD approximation_of_a_human
Drug Church Hygiene
Drug Church Prude
Earl Sweatshirt Feet of Clay
Earl Sweatshirt Sick!
Eidola Eviscerate
actually shocked by how much I don?t hate this. As a certified swancore hater I was expecting some absolute dogshit like Galleons or Wolf and Bear, but this is somehow way better than both of those bands last albums.
Electric Chair Performative Justice
fallingwithscissors the death and birth of an angel
Lots of cool ideas here and a ton of potential that the band has not quite tapped into yet. The whole thing just flows awkwardly even though it's almost always enjoyable. They are clearly just throwing things against the wall right now to see what sticks, so it's hard to fault them for what feels like a necessary step in their evolution. I'm excited to see if they tighten things up for their next release.
Faye Webster Underdressed At The Symphony
Fit for a King The Hell We Create
Fleshwater We're Not Here To Be Loved
Fly Over States Anti​-​Aircraft
Foxing Foxing
From Autumn to Ashes The Fiction We Live
Fury (USA) Failed Entertainment
Gag This Punk Shit Is Cool But...
Gatecreeper Dark Superstition
Godflesh Selfless
Grave Infestation Carnage Gathers
Great American Ghost Power Through Terror
Hopesfall A Types
Hum Electra 2000
Hundredth Let Go
I Hate It Too Void Emotion
Idaho Year After Year
In Hearts Wake Incarnation
Julie Doiron I Thought of You
Kidcrash New Ruins
Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water
Koyo (US) Would You Miss It?
L.S. Dunes Past Lives
LANDMVRKS The Darkest Place I've Ever Been
Lauren Bousfield Salesforce
Lincoln Two Headed Coin 7"
Makari Wave Machine
Make Them Suffer Make Them Suffer
Mammoth Grinder Cosmic Crypt
Many Eyes The Light Age
MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday
Militarie Gun All Roads Lead To The Gun (Deluxe)
Monuments (UK) In Stasis
rating would probs be higher if the vocalist wasn't so annoying. the vocal melody on Makeshift Harmony when he sing's "white lies" makes the whole track unlistenable to me lmao
Movements Ruckus!
Mura Masa demon time
My Ticket Home The Opportunity To Be
My Ticket Home Strangers Only
Negative Blast Echo Planet
Neurosis Pain Of Mind
Neurosis Fires Within Fires
Neurosis and Jarboe Neurosis and Jarboe
nothing,nowhere. Dark Magic
nothing,nowhere. Miserymaker
Nudes Skin
Oceano Living Chaos
Opal In Sky Dream Shift
Open City Hands In The Honey Jar
decent revolution summer type melodic punk with a dissonant edge. kinda like Rites of Spring meets Drive Like
Jehu/Hot Snakes. some mildy annoying repetition and boring riffs but it?s fun for a spin or two.
Opeth Deliverance
Opeth Sorceress
Paramore Paramore
Perpetual Gestation Excremental Uremic Fragrance
Piebald If It Weren't For Venetian Blinds It Would Be Curt
Poison Ruin Confrere
Poison the Well Versions
Polar Everywhere, Everything
Poppy Stagger
Porches Shirt
Porter Robinson SMILE! :D
Funny Monkey Takes A Piss Into His Own Mouth! CRAZY!!!
Praise All In A Dream
Rest Easy Hope You're Okay
pretty fun melodic punk in the vein of Shook Ones/Lifetime/early Title Fight. nothing new but super solid nonetheless
Rid Of Me Access To The Lonely
Saosin In Search Of Solid Ground
Saviour Shine and Fade
Silent Drive Fairhaven
Silverstein Misery Made Me
Sinema Fear of the Fall
Snob (VAN) Exploit Me
Snow Strippers April Mixtape 2
So Perfect As If...
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Staining the Twilight Black Transforming the Myth
Static Dress Rouge Carpet Disaster
Terminal How the Lonely Keep
The Acacia Strain Slow Decay
The Dreams Morbido
The Flesh Eaters A Minute to Pray a Second to Die
Turnstile Step 2 Rhythm
Turnstile Glow On
Underoath The Changing Of Times
Unprocessed ...And Everything In Between
Unwound Fake Train
Unwound Unwound
Vein.fm This World Is Going to Ruin You
Versus The Stars Are Insane
Wristmeetrazor Replica of a Strange Love
Your Ghost In Glass Drowning to Escape the Fire

2.5 average
Amyl and the Sniffers Cartoon Darkness
An Empty City a lucid dream last night
Literally Loathe from temu. The rip offs are so blatant its crazy hahaha.
Andre 3000 New Blue Sun
it?s nice I guess? but if it wasnt made by andre 3000, nobody would be listening to it
ASkySoBlack Touch Heaven
I had high hopes for this band, but this is some of the most lazy, uninspired shoegaze I've ever heard.
Better Lovers God Made Me an Animal
Bottom Bracket I’m So Afraid Of Where
pretty bland twinkly 5th wave emo/indie rock but as a cycle nerd they won me over with their name and album art. it?s
the definition of unremarkable but it’s also sweet enough for a jam or two
Captain Jazz Captain Jazz
Citizen Life In Your Glass World
Crime In Stereo Explosions and the Will to Use Them
Croatian Amor and Lust For Youth All Worlds
Danzig 6:66 Satan's Child
Dayseeker Dark Sun
Dead American New Nostalgia
Eidola The Architect
Gracie Abrams The Secret of Us
Holding Absence The Noble Art of Self-Destruction
Ithaca They Fear Us
Movements No Good Left to Give
Mura Masa R.Y.C
Mura Masa Curve 1
Northlane Mirror's Edge
Of Mice and Men Tether
Polyenso One Big Particular Loop
Secret Band LP2
Sheer Mag Playing Favorites
Silverstein A Beautiful Place to Drown
The Flex Chewing Gum For The Ears
thrown Excessive Guilt
Title Fight Hyperview
To Kill Achilles Recovery
decent enough but the lyrics bring it down a huge step
underscores fishmonger
underscores Wallsocket

2.0 poor
Anthony Green Doom. Spun.
title fight cover made me want to punch my speaker omg
Blessthefall His Last Walk
this shit is trash compared to Witness hoooly shit lol
Citizen Calling the Dogs
Galleons Violent Delights
Gold Necklace Gold Necklace
Kingdom of Giants Bleeding Star
Sunny Day Real Estate Sunny Day Real Estate
Underoath Erase Me
Volumes Mirror Touch
Wolf and Bear Bloodletter
DGD at home type vibes. Best thing I can say about this is that it's only 39 minutes long.
Yeat 2093

1.5 very poor
Dance Gavin Dance Pantheon
Windwaker Hyperviolence

1.0 awful
Benson Boone American Heart
Flummox Southern Progress
Neck Deep Rain in July
Rascal Flatts Life Is a Highway: Refueled Duets
Tom MacDonald Deathreats
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