| 4.5 superb |
| A Secret Revealed The Bleakness |
| Acathexis Acathexis |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Ahamkara The Embers Of The Stars |
| Ainulindale Nevrast |
| Akhlys The Dreaming I |
| Akhlys Melinoe |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune |
| Almyrkvi Pupil of the Searing Maelstrom |
| Amenra Mass VI |
| Amenra De Doorn |
| The Thorn is the emotional equivalent of an sledgehammer battering to the face |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession |
| Anopheli The Ache of Want |
| Audrey Fall Mitau |
| BRUIT The Machine Is Burning... |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Burzum Filosofem |
| Cataya sukzession |
| Chaos Moon Resurrection Extract |
| Chaos Moon Eschaton Mémoire |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear |
| Cultes Des Ghoules Henbane |
| Cultes Des Ghoules Coven |
| Cynic Focus |
| Darkspace Dark Space III I |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Deathspell Omega The Synarchy of Molten Bones |
| Depths Above Ex Nihilo |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Stellar |
| Downfall of Nur Umbras de Barbagia |
| Dzo-nga The Sachem's Tales |
| Earth and Pillars Earth I |
| Eosphoros Eosphoros |
| Now this is the BM album I was craving for this year. |
| Erdve Vaitojimas |
| The album lulls you in with the enticing dark atmosphere, gives you a false sense of security with the cleans passages, and cracks your skull at the climaxes. Atraja might just be best song of the year. |
| Esoteric A Pyrrhic Existence |
| Ethereal Shroud They Became the Falling Ash |
| Ethereal Shroud Trisagion |
| FareWell Poetry Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite |
| Giant Song |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Gorguts Colored Sands |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| Greyhaven Empty Black |
| Grown Below The Other Sight |
| Hammock Oblivion Hymns |
| Hammock Everything and Nothing |
| Heretoir The Circle |
| iamthemorning ~ |
| iamthemorning Ocean Sounds |
| iamthemorning The Bell |
| In Cauda Venenum In Cauda Venenum |
| ISON Aurora |
| Izah Sistere |
| Jakob Solace |
| Jakob Cale:Drew |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo |
| ((Coyote - the suck) + (Gamma Knife + better production) + Bath) x 10 = Hubardo |
| Kokomo Monochrome Noise Love |
| Mgla Exercises in Futility |
| Monarch (FRA) Omens |
| Monolithe Monolithe III |
| NAMI Fragile Alignments |
| A great release by an unknown band. Very atmospheric and great song writing. Mix Cynic up with BTBAM and the result would be NAMI. |
| NAMI The Eternal Light of the Unconscious Mind |
| Nest (FIN) Trail of the Unwary |
| Nux Vomica Asleep in the Ashes |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor |
| Paysage d'Hiver Schnee |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It |
| Rorcal Heliogabalus |
| Sangre de Muerdago Noite |
| Saor Aura |
| This album has thought me to not judge a person on a singular work. Who would have thought that Andy Marshall, the mastermind behind the abomination of Falloch, would eventually release this beauty? I most certainly hadn't, and I'm certainly not the only one. |
| Seeds in Barren Fields Let the Earth be Silent After Ye |
| Selbst Selbst |
| Serpents Lair Circumambulating the Stillborn |
| Shedfromthebody A Dead and Aimless Hum |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Skaphe Skáphe |
| Skaphe Skáphe² |
| Sombres Forets La Mort du Soleil |
| Sorcier Des Glaces North |
| Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine |
| Svartidaudi Flesh Cathedral |
| Svartidaudi The Synthesis of Whore and Beast |
| Tchornobog Tchornobog |
| The Angelic Process Coma Waering |
| The Clearing Path Abyss Constellation |
| The Evpatoria Report Golevka |
| The Great Old Ones Cosmicism |
| I judge a album by its cover, and the cover is a 5. Part III |
| The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li |
| I judge a album by its cover, and the cover is a 5. |
| The Great Old Ones EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy |
| I judge a album by its cover, and the cover is a 5.rOh wait, I already said that last time didn't I? |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil |
| The Night Watch Boundaries |
| The Ruins of Beverast Exuvia |
| Thou Magus |
| Throane Derrière-Nous, La Lumière |
| Tiamat Wildhoney |
| Titaan Kadingir |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants |
| Trophy Scars Astral Pariah |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis |
| Ultar Kadath |
| Ulvesang The Hunt |
| Unreqvited Stars Wept to the Sea |
| Vanum Realm of Sacrifice |
| Vestiges The Descent Of Man |
| Vexes Ancient Geometry |
| Vindensang Alpha |
| Wedrujacy Wiatr O Turniach, Jeziorach I Nocnych Szlakach |
| Wedrujacy Wiatr Zorzysta Staje Ocma |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss |
| Yndi Halda Under Summer |
| 4.0 excellent |
| ...Of Sinking Ships The Amaranthine Sea |
| Addaura ...And The Lamps Expire |
| Aequorea Dim |
| Aevangelist Enthrall to the Void of Bliss |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere |
| An amalgation of Agalloch's earlier, more acoustic work (Pale Folklore) and their latest work (marrow). TS&TS is an album that tries to please both older fans, as well as newer ones. The result is an album that fails to create its own identity in the bands extensive discography. Yet despite all it does wrong, it does two things right. |
| Agalloch The White |
| Agent Fresco Destrier |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct |
| Alkerdeel Morinde |
| An Autumn Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love |
| Ancients (UK) Star Showers On The Euphrates |
| Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic |
| Aquilus Bellum I |
| Arcane Roots Heaven and Earth |
| Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation |
| Ascension Deathless Light |
| Asya Sergeeva Heart of Winter |
| Ataraxie L'être et la Nausée |
| Au-Dessus Au-Dessus |
| Avoid The Light Spleen |
| Batushka Litourgiya |
| Belenos Spicilege |
| Beyond Creation Algorythm |
| Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Nightmare Withdrawals |
| Blurry Lights A Romantic Dream |
| Bosse-de-Nage All Fours |
| Boysetsfire Boysetsfire |
| Brii Sem Propósito |
| Brutality Will Prevail Misery Sequence |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool |
| Cerekloth In the Midst of Life We Are In Death |
| Coexistence Collateral Dimension |
| Crown of Asteria Sol |
| Fuck the blowing of wind in your black metal, its the sound of an owl we want from now on. |
| Csejthe Reminiscence |
| Cuckoo's Nest Everything is not as it was yesterday |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North |
| Cultes Des Ghoules Sinister |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Cynic The Portal Tapes |
| Descend Wither |
| Desolate Shrine The Heart of the Netherworld |
| Dirge (FR) Hyperion |
| Disemballerina Undertaker |
| Dornenreich Freiheit |
| Draconian Under A Godless Veil |
| dredg El Cielo |
| Earth and Pillars Towards the Pillars |
| Eissturm The Oak |
| Ellende Ellenbogengesellschaft |
| Entropia (PL) Vesper |
| Erdve Savigaila |
| Esben and the Witch Older Terrors |
| Esben and the Witch Nowhere |
| Ethereal Beauty/Shyy/Heretoir/Soliness The World Comes To An End In The End Of A Journey |
| Fall of Efrafa Owsla |
| Falls of Rauros/Panopticon Split |
| First Fragment Dasein |
| Fyrnask Fórn |
| Gevurah Hallelujah! |
| Ghost Bath Moonlover |
| God Is an Astronaut Epitaph |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust |
| Great Cold Emptiness Death Gifted a Bouquet |
| Griefloss Griefloss |
| Griefloss Ruiner |
| Black-metal tinged, Shoegaze metal. Delicately woven together by ambient landscapes. An astounding emotionally vocal delivery (Both the primal shrieks and the John Haughm-inspired clean vocals), great use of melancholy and overall atmosphere. Going to review the shit out of this gem. |
| Grimoire L'Aorasie des Spectres Rêveurs |
| Grown Below The Long Now |
| Saw this band perform live and bought the album on a whim. They sadly only played songs from their new record (which they start recording next monday). Luckily, all of those song are at least twice as good as this album . |
| Guild Of Lore Autumn Macabre |
| Gwynbleidd Nostalgia |
| Haethen Shaped By Aeolian Winds |
| Hail Spirit Noir Oi Magoi |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World |
| Havnatt Etterlatte |
| Hemelbestormer A Ring Of Blue Light |
| Hexis Abalam |
| Hexvessel Iron Marsh |
| iamthemorning Belighted |
| iamthemorning Lighthouse |
| In Cauda Venenum G.O.H.E. |
| Jakob Subsets of Sets |
| Kauan Kaiho |
| Kreng The Summoner |
| I did not expect to hear Amenra make an appearance, but I was pleasantly surprised. As pleasant as Creepy/unsettling/Dark ambient can be.. |
| Lack the Low One Eye Closed |
| Loathe (UK) I Let It In And It Took Everything |
| Loss Horizonless |
| Lvcifyre Svn Eater |
| Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm |
| Marriages Salome |
| Mesarthim The Great Filter |
| Midas Fall Evaporate |
| Misthyrming Söngvar elds og óreiðu |
| Monarch (FRA) Sabbracadaver |
| Morowe S |
| Musk Ox Musk Ox |
| Nachtreich/Spectral Lore The Quivering Lights |
| Nebelung Palingenesis |
| Nebelung Vigil |
| netra Sørbyen |
| Neun Welten The Sea I'm Diving In |
| Nhor Wildflowers: Spring |
| Nhor Wildflowers: Summer |
| Niboowin Breathing |
| Nocternity Harps Of The Ancient Temples |
| Nux Vomica A Civilized World |
| Nux Vomica Nux Vomica |
| O'Brother Endless Light |
| Oado Life Era |
| Oathbreaker Maelstrom |
| Dark, Gloomy, heavy but above all good hardcore. This band makes me proud to be Belgium! |
| Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros |
| Oathbreaker Rheia |
| Olafur Arnalds For Now I Am Winter |
| Olhava Ladoga |
| Ophe Litteras Ad Tristia Maestrum Solitude |
| Orsartag Found Wisdom: Symphonic Tribute To Burzum |
| Panopticon Roads to the North |
| Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness |
| Paramnesia Paramnesia |
| Paysage d'Hiver Steineiche |
| Paysage d'Hiver Kristall und Isa |
| Peste Noire Peste Noire |
| Phantom Winter Into Dark Science |
| Pijn and Conjurer Curse These Metal Hands |
| Progenie Terrestre Pura starCross |
| Psicosfera Beta |
| Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn |
| Respire Black Line |
| Rival Youth Cults Emerge Harp |
| Rorcal Vilagvege |
| Sadness I Want to Be There |
| Sallow Moth The Larval Hope |
| Saor Guardians |
| Sarah McCoy Blood Siren |
| Serpent Column Ornuthi Thalassa |
| Serpent Ov Old Withering Hope |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| So Hideous To Clasp a Fallen Wish With Broken Fingers |
| So Hideous Last Poem/First Light |
| State Faults Resonate/Desperate |
| Suffocate For Fuck Sake Fyra |
| Sulphur Aeon The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos |
| Sun Worship Elder Giants |
| Svalbard It's Hard to Have Hope |
| Svartidaudi Revelations of the Red Sword |
| Sylvaine Wistful |
| Sylvaine Nova |
| Teitanblood The Baneful Choir |
| Teleport The Expansion |
| TesseracT Sonder |
| The Canyon Observer NØLL |
| The Great Old Ones Al Azif |
| Originality is Nihil, but that doesn't stops this from being one awesome mofo. Also don't listen to Noctis, he's drunk. |
| The Mire/Chronos Split |
| The Night Watch An Embarrassment of Riches |
| The Ruins of Beverast Blood Vaults - The Blazing Gospels of Heinrich... |
| The Ruins of Beverast The Thule Grimoires |
| The Ruins Of Beverast / Almyrkvi Almyrkvi / The Ruins Of Beverast (Split) |
| Thy Light No Morrow Shall Dawn |
| Together to the Stars An Oblivion Above |
| Toundra IV |
| Ulvesang Ulvesang |
| Unreqvited Disquiet |
| Unreqvited Beautiful Ghosts |
| Vaura Selenelion |
| Vaura The Missing |
| VI De Praestigiis Angelorum |
| Wayfarer Children of the Iron Age |
| White Ward Futility Report |
| Wolcensmen Songs from the Fyrgen |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven |
| Worm Ouroboros Come the Thaw |
| WRVTH No Rising Sun |
| Year of No Light Ausserwelt |
| Year of No Light Consolamentum |
| Yersinia Pafageltronen |
| 3.5 great |
| A Pregnant Light Lucky All My Life |
| Adorn Grace |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme |
| Awaken The Echoes Travels LP |
| Bauluna Healand |
| Blood and Sun White Storms Fall |
| Bron Fogradh |
| Burzum Fallen |
| Burzum Belus |
| Clouds Collide All Things Shining |
| Black Metal? More like Pink metal. . |
| Converge Beautiful Ruin |
| Draugsol Volaða Land |
| Dream On Dreamer It Comes and Goes |
| Dzo-nga Five Treasures of Snow |
| E321 Id |
| Ered Wethrin All Song Ceased |
| Fearthainne Knowing |
| Fiendlord Dust on the Chamber Floor |
| Five The Hierophant Through Aureate Void |
| Fjord (RO) On Icy Shores |
| Forteresse/Chasse-Galerie/Monarque/Csejthe Légendes |
| Fuath I |
| Glaciation Sur les Falaises de Marbre |
| Gnaw Their Tongues Abyss of Longing Throats |
| Grima Rotten Garden |
| Harakiri for the Sky Aokigahara |
| Havnatt Havdøgn |
| Hope Drone Cloak of Ash |
| Hopesfall Arbiter |
| I Am Heresy Thy Will |
A great mixture of the diversity and chaos found in albums by metalcore vets Converge and
the more melodic sections of modern metalcore acts like Bury Tomorrow, couple that with the
mighty vocals from BoySetsFire's voclaist and you might start to think you found a modern
classic album. Well come and think again, as the production brings down everything the album
has going for it, leaving this album as a wolf without claws and teeth, a decent album that
could have been really fantastic. |
| iamthemorning MISCELLANY |
| Inferno (CZ) PARADEIGMA (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity) |
| Kayo Dot Gamma Knife |
| Kayo Dot Stained Glass |
| Kayo Dot Coffins on Io |
| Khorada Salt |
| Kuolemanlaakso Tulijoutsen |
| Light the Torch Revival |
| Locktender Friedrich |
| Miserere Luminis Miserere Luminis |
| Monuments Collapse Monuments Collapse |
| Nameless Mist Nameless Mist II |
| Nebelung Mistelteinn |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Valonielu |
| Paysage d'Hiver Die Festung |
| Paysage d'Hiver Kerker |
| Paysage d'Hiver Nacht |
| Peste Noire Le Retour Des Pastoureaux |
I'm going to steal a random youtube comment for my soundoff, one that perfectly describes
this album: It's like a twisted and sick black metal fairy tale, but with burps in it,
and the storyteller is drunk as fuck. What a "retour". |
| Psychonaut Unfold the God Man |
| Red Sparowes The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein... |
| Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... |
| Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Ascension |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory |
| Sadness Circle of Veins |
| Sanctuaire (CAN) Le Sang sur l'Acier |
| Sectioned Annihilated |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur |
| Skumring De Glemte Tider |
| Spiritual Front Open Wounds |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks |
| Swallowtail The Bloom / The Blossom |
| The Angelic Process ...And Your Blood Is Full Of Honey |
| The Angelic Process Sigh |
| The Angelic Process We All Die Laughing |
| The Evpatoria Report Maar |
| The Mire Glass Cathedrals |
| The Pax Cecilia Nouveau |
| TotalSelfHatred TotalSelfHatred |
| U.N.C.U.L.T Ucifrtnsmael Cantvs Adramalas Ostivm |
| Unreqvited Mosaic II: la déteste et la détresse |
| Unreqvited Empathica |
| Unreqvited Mosaic I: l'amour et l'ardeur |
| Vermilia Katkyt |
| Vowels Hooves, Leaves & the Death/As December Nightingale |
| Wearing Scars A Thousand Words |
| Wedrujacy Wiatr Tam, Gdzie Miesiac Oplakuje Swit |
| Winterfylleth The Dark Hereafter |
| With the End in Mind Tides of Fire |
| Woods of Desolation As The Stars |
| Year of No Light Tocsin |
| Year of No Light Nord |
