| 4.5 superb |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| Ab-Soul Control System |
| Abigail Williams Becoming |
| Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark |
| Abney Park The Death of Tragedy |
| Abney Park before they jumped the shark and started milking the Steampunk movement for all it has got. This album is actually really well composed and executed. |
| Absent In Body Plague God |
| Aesop Rock Skelethon |
| Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid |
| Akercocke Choronzon |
| All India Radio Don't Leave |
| American Football American Football |
| Animal Collective Feels |
| Animal Collective Transverse Temporal Gyrus |
This EP has great spacey moments. The Deep voice midway into part two is rather chilling
with headphones. My only gripe is that some of the passages stretch on a little bit too
long. Doesn't really hurt the experience, but there will be a few moments where you will
find yourself thinking "ok, on with it". |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz |
| Animals As Leaders Parrhesia |
| Art of Noise The Seduction of Claude Debussy |
| A fantastic record that builds drum n bass music around Debussy compositions. While the narration is a bit jarring at first, it didn't take long to become acclimated to its presence. The weak point of the record is the "Dreaming in Colour" section. It doesn't feel as layered and meticulous as other tracks. |
| Azealia Banks Fantasea |
| Battles Gloss Drop |
| The sounds. The fucking sounds on this record. I have no idea what setting or pre-recorded material Ian loaded onto his keyboards, but whatever they were it sounds so fucking fantastic. Not only that, but this record has some of the most prominent and tastey sounding bass playing I have ever heard. The way the riffs groove in and out of your brain while bizarrely crunchy synth work blasts away is simply awe-inspiring. Save for a few moments that lack the extra oomph ("Futura", "Wall Street" and "Toddler"), this album is pure greatness. Favored tracks: "Ice Cream", "Inchworm", "My Machines", "Sweetie & Shag", "Rolls Bayce" and "Sundome" |
| Behemoth Evangelion |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors II |
| Beyonce Renaissance |
| Black Mare Field of the Host |
| Absolutely gorgeous and worth the time it takes to listen to this in full. Each track stands out in its own way amongst the airy, slow tempo melodies and riffs, although I would say that "Fighting Birds" is the best track on here with catchiest passage on the album. |
| Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere |
| Boston Boston |
| Braids Native Speaker |
| Brodequin Harbinger of Woe |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated |
| Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious |
| Carcass Heartwork |
| Carcass Surgical Steel |
| Caspian Waking Season |
| Castle Rat Into the Realm |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity |
| Cattle Decapitation Terrasite |
| Celtic Frost Monotheist |
| Charli XCX You're the One |
| This EP features two tracks plus remixes of both tracks that while containing simple + common melodies are rather infectious and have quite a bit of replay value. Only downside for me is that Nuclear Seasons is a bit too long for its own good. |
| Charli XCX Heartbreaks and Earthquakes Mixtape |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun |
| Coldplay Live 2003 |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light |
| Given how some people I know talk about Colin Stetson, I was not expecting to like this. I expected to be minimalistic traditional sax playing. This is full of weird sounds and the usage of his sax to make shrill, tense and threatening tones. Not to mention that several moments on here (such as "Among the Sef") are strangely accessible. Favored track: "Brute", "And in Truth", "High above a Grey Green Sea", "In Mirrors", "Among the Sef (Righteous, Pt. 2)", "To see more Light", "Part of Me Apart from You". |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Cough/Windhand Reflection of the Negative (split) |
| I don't know why nobody added this before now (especially given that it is already available on amazon). Anyway, the Cough track is pretty snazzy and the Windhand tracks are absolutely amazing. |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner |
| Dale Cooper Quartet and the Dictaphones Quatorze Pieces De Menace |
| Darkspace Dark Space III |
| David Bowie Station to Station |
| David Bowie Lodger |
| Death Symbolic |
| Death Human |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Deftones Gore |
| Devin Townsend Devlab |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient |
| Devin Townsend Christeen + 4 Demos |
| Devin Townsend Lightwork |
| Devin Townsend Nightwork |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| Devin Townsend Project Contain Us |
| Devin Townsend Project By A Thread: Live in London 2011 |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud |
| Devin Townsend Project Z2 |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence |
| Devin Townsend Project Sky Blue |
| Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia |
| Dodheimsgard 666 International |
| Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current |
| Eight Bells The Captain's Daughter |
| One of the better releases I have heard so far this year. This ladies on guitars and sir on drums trio is pretty snazzy at what they are doing. |
| Eisbrecher Eisbrecher |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Tarkus |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
| Enigma The Cross of Changes |
| Enslaved Below the Lights |
| Enslaved Isa |
| Enslaved Ruun |
| Enslaved Monumension |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| Enslaved RIITIIR |
| Enslaved In Times |
| Enslaved E |
| Enslaved Utgard |
| Enslaved Heimdal |
| Entombed Left Hand Path |
| Enya A Day Without Rain |
| Enya Paint The Sky With Stars |
| exist trace VANGUARD -of the muses- |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of Tongues |
| Fallujah Nomadic |
| I love it when I can really get into a metal band with a techy edge. :D |
| Fear Factory Obsolete |
| Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine |
| Fear Factory Mechanize |
| Fela Kuti Expensive Shit |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE |
| Fuck Buttons Slow Focus |
| Gary Numan The Pleasure Principle |
| Gary Numan Dead Son Rising |
| Geinoh Yamashirogumi Ecophony Rinne |
| Geinoh Yamashirogumi Symphonic Suite Akira |
| Genesis Foxtrot |
| Genesis Selling England by the Pound |
| Genesis Nursery Cryme |
| Genesis A Trick of the Tail |
| Genesis Wind & Wuthering |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Gojira Magma |
| Gorguts Obscura |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Grimes Visions |
| Grizzly Bear Shields |
| Grotus Brown |
| Now THIS is a underrated band. The fact that only four people, including myself, on this site have actually put forth a rating for this record and the other records is a disgrace. Get on it Sputnik. |
| Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat |
| Gustavo Santaolalla The Last of Us OST |
| Hans Zimmer Interstellar |
| Utterly fantastic in every way. When I went to see Interstellar, I was not expecting to be struck by the music so hard, but it is appropriately ominous, melancholic and colossal. The organ adds that extra kick that only a big budget can have (even if blockbuster films often fail in this department). The only downside is that the full version of the "Spinning dock" score is not included on any version of the OST, although it has been confirmed it will be released for free in the future. |
| hide (JPN) Ja, Zoo |
| Hirokazu Tanaka Metroid Soundtrack |
| How to Destroy Angels How To Destroy Angels |
| Ihsahn Ihsahn |
| Immolation Close to a World Below |
| Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury |
| Ishome Confession |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick |
| Julianna Barwick Pacing |
| Karnivool Themata |
| Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano Metroid: Zero Mission |
| King Crimson Discipline |
| King Crimson Red |
| Led Zeppelin Untitled |
| Leprous Coal |
| Lingua Ignota Caligula |
| Lord Mantis Death Mask |
| Lozen Para Vida |
| Lush Spooky |
| Marillion Brave |
| Marriages Kitsune |
| Martin O'Donnell Halo Original Soundtrack |
| Mastodon Remission |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Matchbox Twenty Mad Season |
| Mayhem Chimera |
| Mayhem Grand Declaration of War |
| Mercyful Fate Melissa |
| Meshuggah I |
| Meshuggah None |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Mnemic Mnemesis |
| Moonspell Memorial |
| Mr. 3 Uranus -A Prelude to the Gymnopedist- |
| Another great EP that I somehow didn't take the time to listen to until now. |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| Neurosis Through Silver In Blood |
| Newsted Metal |
| A pretty cool way to start off the year. I am glad this has been getting a lot of press. Newsted has been largely ignored since he and Metallica split ways 9 years ago. "Godsnake" is a bit on the weak side, but the other tracks are total jamz. If a full length comes out later this year, hopefully it will carry on the momentum of this release. |
| Nile In Their Darkened Shrines |
| Nile Annihilation Of The Wicked |
| Nile Black Seeds of Vengeance |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Nine Inch Nails Still |
| Nine Inch Nails Quake |
| Nine Inch Nails Fixed |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy X: Original Soundtrack |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VI: Original Soundtrack |
| Northlane Mirror's Edge |
| Nubilum Tsantsa |
| This gives me hope that there will be more stuff that I will really get into this year. |
| Obscure Sphinx Void Mother |
| Olive Extra Virgin |
| An absolutely lovely mid 90's record that seems to have been forgotten by time. |
| Oliver Mechanical |
| I am honestly surprised that I wound up liking this as much as I did. Generally when Fantano gives a glowing review of something, I find myself indifferent and bored. There is a lot of throwback to 80s and 90s synths on here. |
| Om Advaitic Songs |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Opeth Watershed |
| OU II: Frailty |
| Pacifika Amor Planeta |
| Wow, wasn't expecting to find something that sites like amazon categorize under "latin music", but this is truly fantastic-one of the few albums I have heard in recent memory that is immediately amazing upon the beginning of the first track and remains so throughout its run time. |
| Palehound Bent Nail |
| Panda Bear Tomboy |
| Pelican City of Echoes |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis |
| Periphery Periphery V: Djent is Not a Genre |
| Peter Gabriel Melt |
| Pharmakon Abandon |
| Pharmakon Bestial Burden |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pitch Black Forecast Burning In Water... Drowning In Flame |
| Okay, so I am on the first track and hearing Devin Townsend in the background of Jason Popson's voice. That is a very pleasant surprise. In fact, I think I am going to like this more than I was expecting to. Mushroomhead meets Devy meets A7X. Brilliant. |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Portal Vexovoid |
| Primal Scream Screamadelica |
| Psychostick We Couldn't Think of a Title |
| Psychostick Sandwich |
| Pyrrhon Exhaust |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Rammstein Rosenrot |
| Rammstein Zeit |
| Ricky Martin Ricky Martin |
| Roxy Music Country Life |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 |
| Sanguisugabogg Homicidal Ecstasy |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy Coup de Grâce |
| Sevendust Sevendust |
| Shpongle Are You Shpongled? |
| Shpongle Museum of Consciousness |
| Slander Magnets b/w Ghosts |
| Sleep Dopesmoker |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum In Glorious Times |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror |
| Sleigh Bells Bitter Rivals |
| Slift Ilion |
| Slowdive Souvlaki |
| Smohalla/Omega Centauri Tellur / Epitome |
| Soundtrack (Disney) The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent |
| I am not so sure this will end up being my AOTY just yet, but holy hell it is even better than I thought it would be (based on "Birth in Reverse" and "Digital Witness"). Gaga, this is what people really think of when the term Artpop is used. |
| Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad |
| Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity |
| Swans The Great Annihilator |
| Swans To Be Kind |
| Swans The Glowing Man |
| Swans The Beggar |
| Sylver Tongue Something Big |
| Another "holy fuck I love this". XD I really hope this catches on in some way. A lot of thought went into constructing "Something Big" and "Creatures", I can see. |
| Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music |
| Talking Heads Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites |
| TesseracT War of Being |
| The Delgados Hate |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Hurd Ensemble Strange Lands |
| It is only a 6 minute, two track release, but it is very nicely textured. It has a very menacing and mischievious sound. |
| The Machine Calmer Than You Are |
| The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation Roadburn |
| The Police Synchronicity |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs |
| Tom Waits Blue Valentine |
| Tomahawk Tomahawk |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas Eve and Other Stories |
| Triptykon Eparistera Daimones |
| tUnE-yArDs Nikki Nack |
| I have been waiting for something to blow my mind this year. Super surprised that not only this is it, but at the fact I haven't really checked their stuff before now. |
| Type O Negative Bloody Kisses |
| Type O Negative Dead Again |
| Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X |
| Van der Graaf Generator Pawn Hearts |
| Various Artists Hi-Fi Rush (Original Game Soundtrack) |
| Versailles Noble |
| Vitriol (USA) Suffer & Become |
| Wolf Alice Blue Weekend |
| worC The Sequel |
| Xibalba Hasta La Muerte |
| Yes Close to the Edge |
| Yes The Yes Album |
| Zeal and Ardor Zeal and Ardor |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 200 Stab Wounds Manual Manic Procedures |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe |
| Aborted Vault of Horrors |
| Acid Bath Paegan Terrorism Tactics |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues |
| Ahab The Giant |
| Ahab The Coral Tombs |
| Akron/Family Sub Verses |
| While it doesn't hold my attention the whole way through, I really appreciate the mood shifts on this record. It starts out with a distinctly indie folk vibe and singsong vocal delivery if a bit negative lyrically. Then on track 5 after "Sand Talk" increases the tempo and bears some similarity to Battles' Gloss Drop (that crunchy beat and guitar melodies), the music gets more menacing with the vocal centric "Sometimes I" and then heavier with screeching guitars, thundering drums and shouted vocals on "Holy Boredom" (maybe leftovers from their recent collaboration with Swans?). "Sand Time" sees a similar vocal melody to the first track and shimmering synths. The tail end of the album lightens things up for a nostalgic ballad and then get meditative with "Samurai". I only have listened to so much of Akron/Family's backlog, but this record shows me that I should probably check out more. Favored tracks: "No Room", "Sand Talk", "Sometimes I", "Holy Boredom", "Sand Time". |
| All India Radio Red Shadow Landing |
| Amanda Palmer Theatre Is Evil |
| American Head Charge The War Of Art |
| Amiensus Restoration |
| Andre 3000 New Blue Sun |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs |
| Animal Collective Campfire Songs |
| I am in a very sour, forlorn mood tonight, This record seems to complement that emotional track well. |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Animal Collective Honeycomb/Gotham |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin |
| Archspire Bleed the Future |
| Arcturus Arcturian |
| Art of Noise (Who's Afraid Of?) The Art Of Noise! |
| Ash Little Infinity EP |
| Atheist Piece Of Time |
| Attack Attack! This Means War |
| Audioslave Audioslave |
| Audioslave Revelations |
| Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But A Dream... |
| Barn Owl V |
| Bat For Lashes The Haunted Man |
| While there aren't any moments that live up to the captivating "Siren Song", "Travelling Woman", "Moon and Moon" or "Sleep Alone" from her last LP, this one is pretty well done as a whole. The two singles are the best tracks, but they get the job done. |
| Bathe Alone I Don't Do Humidity |
| Bear McCreary Defiance (Original Television Soundtrack) |
| Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest |
| Beneath the Massacre Incongruous |
| Beyonce Cowboy Carter |
| Black Alice (CA) Nirrti |
| Black Alice (CA) Akka |
| Black Alice (CA) Ileana (Your Laugh) |
| 4'in this because even though it is a bit inconsistent musically-the bookends are pretty far away quality wise from tracks like "Fragment Forest" and "Antenna Life 2.0"-I get the emotions driving the EP and "Joan of Hark" grooves hard. "Uh uh huh ooh oh" |
| Black Alice (CA) Untroubled / Forgotten Kids |
| This summer remix ep by Black Alice (which I have been sitting on for almost an entire year) is a chilly blast of beach brutality. The original (Cremation Mountain) mixes of the title tracks are pumping meditations on heartache that seamlessly switch gears from bleeding to brooding. Bishop Usire's remix of "Forgotten State Stringer" winds it down to a broken traffic light in an intersection and Reverend Desaad's touch on "How Cylic" imbues the base pattern with playful terror. And finally, Soluna's take on "Rose Voyager" is a swim through a dark aural lake. The weak point is the final track which, while having an intriguing beat, doesn't do enough with it in its run time. |
| Black Light Burns The Moment You Realize You're Going To Fall |
| Blue Hawaii Untogether |
| Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium – Nahab |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Piano Nights |
| Boris New Album |
| Boris Präparat |
| Boris Noise |
| Bosnian Rainbows Bosnian Rainbows |
| Bring Me The Horizon Sempiternal |
| Burial Rival Dealer |
| Call Me No One Last Parade |
| Camel The Snow Goose |
| Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding |
| Cannibal Corpse Vile |
| Car Bomb w^w^^w^w |
| Carla Kihlstedt & Matthias Bossi Rabbit Rabbit Radio - Vol. 1 |
| Carla Kihlstedt & Matthias Bossi Niagara Falling: Tales for the Stage, III |
| In contrast to last year's Tales for the Stage part II, Niagara falling is very much a minimalist mood-piece. The 1st and 3rd tracks are short piano and mellotron interludes. The 2nd and 4th lengthy tracks contains audio samples of interviews about a street/town near the American side of the Niagara and how unspecified forces have caused it to lose its former glory. The music itself is melancholic and fairly beautifully constructed. |
| Caspian Hymn For The Greatest Generation |
| Cat Power Sun |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Schizophrenia |
| Charli XCX Super Ultra Mixtape |
| Pretty good mixtape, but not as good as her previous one this year. Also, apparently this wasn't written in two days. It is evident that she was pulling from a lot of contemporary pop sources on this, especially on "Cloud Aura" and "Glow". |
| Chastity Belt Time To Go Home |
| Ché Aimee Dorval Volume One |
| Chelsea Grin Evolve |
| Chelsea Wolfe Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs |
| Cibo Matto Hotel Valentine |
| Just shy of a 4.5 for me. If more of the record was like "10th Floor Ghost Girl", it would have pushed it over the line. |
| Circuit Des Yeux Overdue |
| Clap! Clap! Gwidingwi Dema |
| Claude Debussy Suite bergamasque, L. 75 |
| Clint Mansell Stoker |
| Close (UK) Getting Closer |
| Closet Witch Chiaroscuro |
| Coffins Sinister Oath |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
| Coldplay X&Y |
| Cradle of Filth Midian |
| Cradle of Filth The Principle of Evil Made Flesh |
| Cradle of Filth Hammer of the Witches |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast - Re-Mistressed |
| Cumshot Cumshot |
| Dark New Day Twelve Year Silence |
| Darkspace Dark Space I |
| Darkspace Dark Space II |
| Darkspace Dark Space III I |
| David Bowie Space Oddity |
| David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane |
| David Bowie Young Americans |
| David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) |
| David Byrne and St. Vincent Love This Giant |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning |
| Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Deftones Ohms |
| Deicide Deicide |
| Deicide Legion |
| Despise (US) Desolate Single |
| A band from Minneapolis doing crusty shit and being generally batshit. What isn't there to like? |
| Destiny Potato Lun |
| Dev Booty Bounce |
| Devin Townsend Dark Matters |
| Devin Townsend Project Epiclouder |
| Dido Girl Who Got Away |
Only one rating so far? Ouch. It is shame that this album might come and go without anyone
really noticing. It is one of the better pop albums of the last few years. Her voice may
instantly bring me back to the late 90s, but this doesn't sound dated to that time. The
collaboration with Kendrick Lamar is surreal and really good and there are some great tracks
on here ("End of Night", "Love to Blame" and "Go Dreaming") that are fairly energetic and
varied in their instrumentation. The lead single, "No Freedom" may not have been the best
choice, though... |
| Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon |
| Dismember Like An Ever Flowing Stream |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists |
| Dodheimsgard Satanic Art |
| Dorian Electra Fanfare |
| Doth Datura Wrightii |
| Duran Duran Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) |
| Eisbrecher Antikörper |
| Elton John Madman Across the Water |
| Emilie Autumn Opheliac |
| Emilie Autumn Fight Like A Girl |
| Emily and the Orgasm Addicts Animator |
| Enigma Love Sensuality Devotion: The Greatest Hits |
| Enigma Voyageur |
| Enslaved Vertebrae |
| Entombed Clandestine |
| ERRA Neon |
| Evan Brewer Your Itinerary |
| Kinda surprised that this lost so much steam in the second half. The first track wow'd me right away and it just seems that the song writing just couldn't maintain that quality level. Still a strong album. |
| Evanescence The Open Door |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives |
| Exivious Liminal |
| f(x) Electric Shock |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors |
| Faith No More Sol Invictus |
| Fallujah Empyrean |
| Fear Factory The Industrialist |
| Filter Title Of Record |
| Filter Short Bus |
| FIS Preparations |
| Fleetwood Mac Heroes Are Hard to Find |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes |
| Folterkammer (USA) Weibermacht |
| Foster the People Supermodel |
| Fuck the Facts Amer |
| Funkadelic Maggot Brain |
| Damn, I never knew that "Rill Rill" by Sleigh Bells was sampled, but now that I have heard "Can You Get to that" I can see why they did. |
| Future Bible Heroes Partygoing |
| Garbage Not Your Kind of People |
| Gary Numan Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind) |
| Gary Numan Intruder |
| Genesis Duke |
| Genesis Genesis |
| Genesis Invisible Touch |
| Glass Cloud The Royal Thousand |
| Gnaw Their Tongues Eschatological Scatology |
| Godflesh A World Lit Only by Fire |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Gojira Terra Incognita |
| Gojira Fortitude |
| Gold Panda Trust |
| Grouper Ruins |
| Hail Spirit Noir Oi Magoi |
| Halsey If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World |
| Heart Dreamboat Annie |
| Hell (USA) III |
| This is a really atmospheric and engaging droney black metal release. It does stretch a bit long, especially if you are focusing on it and not doing anything else. However, it is really good for background noise while you work. |
| Helms Alee Sleepwalking Sailors |
| Hexis Abalam |
| Hideous Divinity Unextinct |
| High on Fire Cometh the Storm |
| Horrendous Ontological Mysterium |
| How to Destroy Angels An Omen |
| I the Mighty Karma Never Sleeps |
| Ihsahn Eremita |
| In This Moment The Dream |
| In This Moment Blood |
| Incantation Mortal Throne of Nazarene |
| Indian Jewelry Peel It |
| Inter Arma Sky Burial |
| IO Echo Ministry of Love |
| Isaiah Rashad Cilvia Demo |
| Jawbox For Your Own Special Sweetheart |
| A gem of the '90s I wasn't aware until recently. Favored tracks: "Savory", "Breathe", "Motorist", "LS/MFT", "U-Trau" |
| Jens Lekman I Know What Love Isn't |
| Jeremy Soule The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Soundtrack |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung |
| JG/BC Sorath |
| Jinjer King of Everything |
| Job For A Cowboy Moon Healer |
| John Zorn Mount Analogue |
| John Zorn The Mysteries |
| Julianna Barwick The Magic Place |
| Started out strong, but drug on and could have been better. Then again, I have a strong affinity for the way Enya does things so my perspective may be different than others. Favored tracks: "Envelope" and "The Magic Place" |
| Julianna Barwick Nepenthe |
| Kate Bush The Dreaming |
| Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo |
| Kayo Dot Coffins on Io |
| Kelly Bailey Half-Life 2 |
| Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers |
| Kesha Warrior |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| King Crimson Lizard |
| King Crimson Starless and Bible Black |
| Kittie Fire |
| KLoNDyKE Diggin' for Gold |
| Knife Party Rage Valley |
| Knoll As Spoken |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time OST |
| KOPPS Fuck Jams |
| Labyrinthus Stellarum Vortex of the Worlds |
| Laurel Halo Chance of Rain |
| Lil' Kim Hard Core |
| Lil' Kim Notorious K.I.M. |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns |
| Lord Snow Solitude |
| Lorne Balfe with Hans Zimmer Beyond: Two Souls OST |
| Lou Reed Transformer |
| Lush Split |
| Malodorous Augury of the Aborted |
| Mannequin Pussy I Got Heaven |
| Martin O'Donnell Halo 2, Vol. 2 OST |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| This album has a few faults, but overall it is a solid record whose pop moments work well with the heavier rock moments. |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You |
| Matchbox Twenty More Than You Think You Are |
| Matmos The Marriage of True Minds |
| Megan Thee Stallion Megan |
| Meshuggah Nothing |
| Mike Patton The Place Beyond the Pines |
| Mike Patton's orchestrations sound like a mix of Tomahawk's debut and King for a Day.... Fool for a Lifetime as inspired by Ennio Morricone (which, depending on how you look at it, could seem a bit redundant to say). I have been bouncing back and forth in my mindset as to whether to see this film or not, but given that the score is actually very engaging I may have to choose to despite my reservations over it being a mobstery movie. |
| Mister Bare Uncle Feces Inuchan |
| Starts out a bit off, but the majority of "Inuchan" is a really hypnotic arrangement of noises. |
| Mnemic Passenger |
| Monkey3 The 5th Sun |
| Moonspell Night Eternal |
| Morbid Angel Formulas Fatal to the Flesh |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness |
| Morbid Angel Covenant |
| Morbid Angel Gateways to Annihilation |
| Mors Principium Est Liberation = Termination |
| Mr. Bungle Disco Volante |
| Mushroomhead XX |
| Mushroomhead Savior Sorrow |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v |
| My Dying Bride The Angel and the Dark River |
| NAILS Every Bridge Burning |
| Neil Davidge Halo 4 Original Soundtrack |
| Pacing could be much better, but this is pretty entertaining. |
| Neurosis and Jarboe Neurosis and Jarboe |
| Nicki Minaj Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded |
| Nicole Atkins Slow Phaser |
| I wasn't expecting to enjoy this as much as I did. I am not that familiar with her previous work, but I do know that it didn't really grab my attention. This is pretty attention grabbing throughout its duration. |
| Nine Inch Nails And All That Could Have Been |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks |
| Northlane Obsidian |
| Northumbria Helluland |
| Oceano Living Chaos |
| Octopus Into the Void of Fear |
| Whoa?! A heavily Meshuggah influenced progressive metal band release that is only 26 minutes across 8 tracks? And gets right to the point rather than stretch songs out with fluff? Brevity is the soul of wit and I dig what these clowns are cookin'. Jun fuckin jun |
| of Montreal Paralytic Stalks |
| Oingo Boingo Only a Lad |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opul Personnel |
| While this release has its shakey moments, it has a nice progression to it and the songs at least in parts are quite memorable. |
| Overkill The Electric Age |
| Panda Bear Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper |
| Panopticon The Rime of Memory |
| Papa Roach Infest |
| Paradise Lost Draconian Times |
| Peeping Tom Peeping Tom |
| Peter Gabriel So |
| Peter Gabriel i/o |
| Physical Therapy Non-Drowsy |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Poets of the Fall Rebirth: Greatest Hits (Old Gods of Asgard) |
| Polarization Chasing the Light |
| Starts out really strong, but the middle gets kinda loses me. |
| Polkadot Cadaver Purgatory Dance Party |
| Premiata Forneria Marconi Per un amico |
| Public Image Ltd. Flowers Of Romance |
| Puscifer "V" Is For Vagina |
| Puscifer C is for... |
| Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman... |
| Rachel Zeffira The Deserters |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead COM LAG (2plus2isfive) |
| Rammstein Mutter |
| Rammstein Herzeleid |
| Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da |
| Reso Tangram |
| Rodolfo Amaral Aura |
| Rotting Christ Kata Ton Demona Eaftou |
| Rush 2112 |
| Rwake Voices of Omens |
| Serebro Mama Lover |
| Sevendust Animosity |
| Sevendust Alpha |
| Sithu Aye Invent the Universe |
| Slander |
| Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Grand Opening and Closing |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of the Last Human Being |
| Soap and Skin Sugarbread |
| Soluna ((Suunae)) The Reverend.Cosmic ((Divine Polaric)) |
| A light 4, but still a lovely, droney listen with enough bizarre titles to keep you busy for a day. |
| Sophie Lemonade/Hard |
| Sound City Players Sound City: Real To Reel |
| Pretty damn good, but it is made for very specific environments, namely social (like driving around, a concert). This kind of record has to be a shared experience. Alone, it just gets kinda boring and sounds somewhat uninspired. That being said, the tracks featuring Josh Homme, "Centipede", "Mantra" and "Trick with no Sleeve" are the ones I found the most enjoyable. The Paul McCartney-Nirvana collab, "Cut me some slack", is also a highlight given how well the *ahem* old man and younguns meld together. |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess OST |
| Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine |
| Spectral Wound Songs of Blood and Mire |
| Spiritbox Singles Collection |
| Spiritbox Rotoscope |
| Stabbing Westward Ungod |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black |
| Styx Styx II |
| Sudatsuga Blue Moon Saiyeed |
| Sudatsuga Eeid Syrojh Suhn |
| Track 1 goes from Karin style vox effects to the kind of ambience Ellen Meijers (Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey/Abe's Exoddus) would create. Track 2 has a brief return of the warbling and has a stronger core melody and gorgeous accompaniments. |
| Summoning Minas Morgul |
| Sunwolf Midnight Moon |
| Not the most thrilling work you will ever hear, but it is pretty and the artwork and music fit well together. |
| Swans Filth |
| Swans Greed |
| Swans Love of Life |
| Swans The Seer |
| Swans Leaving Meaning |
| Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 |
| Taurus (USA-OR) Life |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny |
| TesseracT Altered State |
| The Agonist Prisoners |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality |
| The Faceless Autotheism |
| The Flaming Lips The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends |
| the GazettE Division |
| The Knife Silent Shout |
| The Ocean Holocene |
| The Omega Experiment The Omega Experiment |
| The Plot In You Vol. 1 |
| The Polyphonic Spree Yes, It's True |
| The opener is definitely one of the best tracks of the year. The rest of the album is disappointingly uneven with some tracks being very catchy and others coming across as quite boring (like "Battlefield"). I was really hoping this would end up being one of my favorite albums of the year. |
| The Ruins of Beverast Blood Vaults - The Blazing Gospels of Heinrich... |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie |
| Thou Umbilical |
| Through Waves Santuário |
| Till Lindemann Zunge |
| Tim Hecker Virgins |
| Timber Timbre Hot Dreams |
| Tin Machine Tin Machine |
| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Damn The Torpedoes |
| Tomahawk Oddfellows |
| Trapt Trapt |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Gone Girl OST |
| Type O Negative Slow, Deep, And Hard |
| Type O Negative The Origin Of The Feces |
| U2 The Best Of 1980-1990 |
| Ulfur White Mountain |
| Vehemence God Was Created |
| Venetian Snares Affectionate |
| Venetian Snares Fool the Detector |
| Volcanic Queen Faith In Desire |
| White Sea This Frontier |
| Wolf Alice Blush |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain |
| Yamantaka // Sonic Titan YT//ST |
| Yamantaka // Sonic Titan Uzu |
| It is very uneven. The first half, for the most part, doesn't really make much of an impression. The album really picks up at "Seasickness" and reaches its peak on "One". |
| Yes Relayer |
| Yes Going for the One |
| Yes Fragile |
| Yes Drama |
| Yes 90125 |
| Yes Big Generator |
| Young Fathers DEAD |
| 3.5 great |
| Abortion Autopsy Cellulite Fuck Fest |
| Interesting, but short. I do really dig the production on this. |
| Abortion Autopsy Deep Throat |
| Actress Ghettoville |
| Akhlys House of the Black Geminus |
| Allie X Girl With No Face |
| Angel Haze Classick |
| I appreciate the fact that it is a short mixtape, but "Cleaning Out My Closet" is the only one on here that has real replay value. |
| Animal Collective Prospect Hummer |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Aphrodite's Child 666 |
| The psychedlic music doesn't fit the subject matter at all (for me). I understand that the album is a product of its time, but when I hear stoner jams horrifying Biblical imagery isn't what comes to mind. Even so, there are a few gems on here, like the single "The Four Horseman", the chant "Seven Bowls" which I recognized due it being sampled by Enigma on their debut, the tense "Capture of the Beast" and "The Beast" which rocks a hard groove. |
| Apocalyptica Worlds Collide |
| Arch Enemy War Eternal |
| Arch Enemy Deceivers |
| Archon (USA-NY) Ouroboros Collapsing |
| As Angels Bleed As Angels Bleed |
| Atlas Sound Bedroom Databank, Vols. 1-4 |
| Atoms for Peace Amok |
| It is always strange when the lead in single that takes you forever to grow to love winds up being the best track on an album by a longshot. "Default" and "Judge, Jury, Executioner" are the only tracks that aren't distinctly average from beginning to end. Maybe "Amok" is also alright. |
| Audioslave Out of Exile |
| Barrier Dark Days |
| Batillus Concrete Sustain |
| Beck Morning Phase |
| Behemoth Opvs Contra Natvram |
| Belphegor Necrodaemon Terrorsathan |
| Belphegor Lucifer Incestus |
| Bilocate Summoning the Bygones |
| Bjork Vulnicura |
| Black Alice (CA) Kalma |
| Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Rejecting Obliteration |
| Blood on the Dance Floor Evolution |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy |
| Bonobo The North Borders |
| Boris Heavy Rocks (2011) |
| Braids Flourish // Perish |
| Had the potential to be a 4, but it really only has two tracks that really wow: "Ebben" and "In Kind". Everything else you can hear once and it will be sufficient. |
| Brendan Benson You Were Right |
| Broken Bells After The Disco |
| Butcher Babies Goliath |
| Cakes Da Killa The Eulogy |
| Caligula's Horse Charcoal Grace |
| Camel Mirage |
| Cannibal Corpse Chaos Horrific |
| Charli XCX True Romance |
| All of the best material from this record was released last year. I still love "You're the One" as much as I did when it debuted, but most of the rest of this is only slightly above average. |
| Chelsea Light Moving Chelsea Light Moving |
| Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty |
| Cherri Bomb This Is the End of Control |
| Chevelle La Gárgola |
| Clint Lowery's Hello Demons... Meet Skeletons Choices |
| Cloudkicker Fade |
| Clutch Earth Rocker |
| CocoRosie Tales of a Grass Widow |
| Code Orange Love Is Love // Return To Dust |
| Collective Soul 7even Year Itch |
| Colleen Green Sock It To Me |
| Crosses Crosses |
| Well, the material off their first EP is still the best stuff they have done so far. |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North |
| Dark New Day New Tradition |
| Dark Tranquillity Endtime Signals |
| Darkspace Dark Space -II |
| David Bowie Pin Ups |
| David Bowie Let's Dance |
| David Bowie Tonight |
| David Bowie The Next Day |
| This is about a 3.8. It falls short on several levels, although there are five really good songs. |
| David Bowie Baal |
| Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire |
| Deathspell Omega Drought |
| Deerhunter Fading Frontier |
| Despise (US) 2012 Recording |
| Dethklok Dethalbum III |
| Devin Townsend Snuggles |
| Devin Townsend Tests of Manhood |
| Dilute The Gypsy Valentine Curve |
| Disclosure Settle |
| Disturbed The Sickness |
| Disturbed Believe |
| Doldrums (CAN) Lesser Evil |
| This is one of those albums I will always feel conflicted on. There are some moments where I really love where it is going, but tracks like "Anomaly" and "Lesser Evil" really shit the bed for me. "Egypt", too, has its strong moments in the repeated verses but the non vocal sections just kinda wander. "Lost in Everyone" is a prime example of what this album can achieve at its best and what holds it back. There are some very interesting micro melodies on the track, but it is hurt by its seemingly aimless approach. |
| Down Down IV - Part I |
| Drones for Queens Whitewashed Afterlife |
| While it is fairly average, there are moments that suggest a lot of potential for growth into a damn decent band. |
| Ducky Boys Club |
| Dum Dum Girls End of Daze |
| Dum Dum Girls Too True |
| Dying Fetus Reign Supreme |
| Eisbrecher Die Hölle Muss Warten |
| Emigrate Emigrate |
| Encircling Sea A Forgotten Land |
| Enigma MCMXC a.D. |
| Enigma Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi! |
| Enigma A posteriori |
| EPROM Metahuman |
| ERRA ERRA |
| ERRA Cure |
| Esperanza Spalding Radio Music Society |
| Eths III |
| exist trace Virgin |
| Feared Furor Incarnatus |
| I really wanted to love this. That album cover is my favorite of the last few years. |
| Fever Ray Radical Romantics |
| Fires in the Distance Air Not Meant For Us |
| Foot Village Make Memories |
| A 3.9. If the opener didn't drag so long in its tail end, this would be a 4. They are a very interesting band with their 4 drummer/shouty vocals dynamic. |
| Free Dominguez Volcano+The Sea |
| Freelance Whales Diluvia |
| Gatecreeper Dark Superstition |
| Gazelle Amber Valentine Devil's Tower I |
| Genesis From Genesis to Revelation |
| Genesis ...And Then There Were Three... |
| GFOTY Secret Mix |
| Glass Cloud Perfect War Forever |
| The sheer awfulness of this EP is overhyped (a common thing in music nowadays), but the release is indeed weak in comparison to The Royal Thousand. There is far too much pandering to the young and violent crowd. Standout: "How to Survive Suicide" |
| Gnaw Their Tongues & Alkerdeel Dyodyo Asema |
| Grace Potter and The Nocturnals The Lion The Beast The Beat |
| Hail Spirit Noir Fossil Gardens |
| Hellyeah Hellyeah |
| How to Destroy Angels Welcome Oblivion |
| I am starting to become quite nostalgic of SIGIL02 (HTDA) due to how An Omen_ and Welcome Oblivion have turned out. For all HTDA did wrong, it actually did sound fairly distinct in its own way. Welcome Oblivion strikes me as an attempt to make the project less solely Reznor under a different moniker, an appeal to the indie crowd with tracks like "Ice Age" and utilize rejected material from the Year Zero sessions. It is also showing that the best material on this record is the work that was on the An Omen_ EP. And that single, "How Long", is still an utterly wretched piece of pseudo gospel garbage.rIt is hard to tell if Reznor's glory days are over or if this release just falls short for me. If he follows through on his intent to do more NIN, I shall see which is true then. Until that point in time comes, I am just going to not bother with this record again. |
| I'd Fuck Gia Paloma |
| Surprisingly good for a 5 minute grind release. The musician/s sound like they actually know what they are doing. Of course, there isn't a ton of novelty here. |
| In Flames Lunar Strain |
| Insomnium Anno 1696 |
| Inter Arma New Heaven |
| Intervals In Time |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations |
| Inverloch Dusk|Subside |
| James Blake Overgrown |
| Janelle Monae The Age of Pleasure |
| Jenny Hval Innocence Is Kinky |
| Jessie Ware Devotion |
| John Carpenter Lost Themes |
| I have always had a mild interest in Carpenter's themes (In the Mouth of the Madness is one of the few I listen to regularly) so I was sure this would be an enjoyable listen. It is, but it isn't much beyond that. Carpenter and his crew create evocative soundscapes, but they have a tendency to evoke ideas he has already touched on in his well recognized catalogue. |
| Jucifer за волгой для нас земли нет |
| Julia Holter Loud City Song |
| Junius Days of the Fallen Sun |
| Jupiter (JPN) Last Moment |
| Justin Bieber Believe |
| K-X-P II |
| Kali Uchis Orquídeas |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings |
| I kinda feel meh after this album. The closer is amazing with its odd melodies, but most of the stuff that comes before it just isn't that engaging. |
| Kate Bush The Kick Inside |
| Kate Bush Lionheart |
| Kettlespider Avadante |
| Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed |
| Kinoteki Faith and the Vessel |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony |
| Kylesa Ultraviolet |
| It has its moments ("Vulture's Landing" and "Quicksand") and I really love Laura Pleasants voice and presence as a band leader, but too much of the album is just ok. |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die |
| Lana Del Rey Paradise |
| Holy fuck, could she have made a more jingoistic record?! But musically it is really pretty. Well kinda. Actually, this is actually bad, worse than Born to Die. |
| Le1f Fly Zone |
| Liam MMIX |
| Lily Allen Sheezus |
| Linda Killerbee Congo Cunt Crasher |
| Linkin Park Living Things |
| Little BB Bare To My Bones |
| Locktender Kafka |
| Long Distance Calling The Flood Inside |
| Just shy of a 4. There are just too many missteps in decisions over the course of the album for me to dig it. |
| Lorna Dune Miamisphere |
| Lower Dens Escape from Evil |
| Lykke Li I Never Learn |
| Malevolent Creation Retribution |
| Manowar The Lord Of Steel |
| Mas Ysa Worth |
| Mastodon Lifesblood |
| Mastodon Call of the Mastodon |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand |
| Matchbox Twenty North |
| Melt-Banana Fetch |
| Memfis Silva |
| Metric Synthetica |
| Mgla Exercises in Futility |
| Mission of Burma Unsound |
| Mister Bare Uncle Feces Purity Cum |
| Interesting enough trashy drone music. I would have liked a better balance between the porn theme and the noise, though. |
| Mogwai Rave Tapes |
| Morality Crisis Boats |
| Morbid Angel Blessed Are the Sick |
| Morbid Angel Domination |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar |
| Mushroomhead XIII |
| There are several strong tracks on the album, but the overall vibe is a bit lacking and I find my self skipping back and forth on this album. |
| Myrkur Spine |
| Nachtmystium Silencing Machine |
| NAILS Abandon All Life |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel |
| Necrot Lifeless Birth |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away |
| Night Owls Wounds Again |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Northern Faces Southern Places |
| Old Wounds From Where We Came Is Where We'll Rest |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Opeth Pale Communion |
| Opul The Assailant |
| Doesn't have the catchiness of January's EP, but is an interesting enough listen. The associated artwork is gorgeous, though. Best track: "The Entire Fleet" |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark English Electric |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below |
| Paradise Lost Icon |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Pelican The Cliff |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal |
| Periphery Clear |
| Peter Gabriel Scratch My Back |
| Peter Gabriel And I'll Scratch Yours |
| Pig Destroyer Mass & Volume |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Potty Mouth Hell Bent |
| Primus Primus and The Chocolate Factory With The Fungi Ensemble |
| Punky Bruster Cooked on Phonics |
| Queen Sheer Heart Attack |
| Rammstein Sehnsucht |
| ReVamp Wild Card |
| Rob Thomas ...Something to Be |
| Rob Zombie Past, Present & Future |
| Rorcal Vilagvege |
| Rotten Sound Species At War |
| Rush Clockwork Angels |
| Russian Circles Memorial |
| Sander van Doorn Eleve11 |
| Savages Silence Yourself |
| Sear Bliss Heavenly Down |
| Serj Tankian Harakiri |
| Sevendust Seasons |
| Sevendust Next |
| Sevendust Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow |
| Severe Torture Torn from the Jaws of Death |
| Skagos Anarchic |
| Skeme Ingleworld |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter |
| Steve Vai The Story of Light |
| Stolen Babies Naught |
| Has some strong moments, but a lot of it feels bland. |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core |
| Stone Temple Pilots No. 4 |
| Styx The Grand Illusion |
| Styx Pieces Of Eight |
| SubRosa (US) No Help for the Mighty Ones |
| Sudatsuga Hain-Ba Sun Hex |
| Personally, I don't like it as much as Blue Moon Saiyeed. Some of the voice effects on track 7 and elsewhere get to be too grating and this release definitely meanders more than the previous. Still, it remains the pretty instrumentation and infectious beat construction. |
| Svart Crown Profane |
| You know, usually albums with covers like this are boring as shit. This is actually pretty good (High end of a 3.5). There may be areas where the thoroughly headbangable riffs lose me due to stretching out an idea for too long or slowing down the tempo too much, but this record's engaging bits stick out a bit more to me than those. Favored tracks: "Manifestatio Symptoms", "Until the Last Breath", "Genesis Architect", "The Therapy of Flesh", "Venomous Ritual". |
| Svffer Lies We Live |
| Swans Cop |
| Sylosis Monolith |
| There are some really pretty moments on here that flourish into something beautiful (the opener and hidden track), but for the most part the "let's start out with thrashy heavy and incorporate some keyboards later on during the bridge" shtick that they make literally every track conform to gets old quick. |
| Tegan and Sara Heartthrob |
| TesseracT One |
| The Algorithm Polymorphic Code |
| The Antichrist Imperium Volume III: Satan In His Original Glory |
| The Birthday Massacre Pins and Needles |
| The Birthday Massacre Hide and Seek |
| The Bronx The Bronx (IV) |
| The Chariot One Wing |
| The Darkness Hot Cakes |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| I like the lyrical aesthetic here more than past release (which seems to be ranting of a reluctant/apologetic murderer). However, it is a bit more Monochrome than Ire Works and Option Paralysis. It may deliberate on their part, but the emotional palette feels more gray and the riffing gets dull a bit faster. The energy of past releases is certainly here, but it strikes more impersonally than earlier work. Still, it is fun to rock out to, just not as great as it is being made out to be. |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror |
| The Impossible Girl The Sky is Calling |
| The Moth Gatherer A Bright Celestial Light |
| There are gorgeous moments hidden amongst the lull and drone.The downside is that when it isn't beautiful, it doesn't have very many interesting things going on and I found myself zoning out and forgetting that I was listening to music. |
| The Plot In You Vol. 2 |
| Theatre Of Tragedy Velvet Darkness They Fear |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars 30 Seconds To Mars |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War |
| Timber Timbre Timber Timbre |
| Torche Harmonicraft |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb |
| Umbra Vitae Light of Death |
| Unru Demo MMXIII |
| Vaura The Missing |
| Veil of Maya [m]other |
| Vorga Beyond the Palest Star |
| Wax Idols Discipline & Desire |
| Wildernessking The Devil Within |
| Windhand Soma |
| Wormed Omegon |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito |
| Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans |
| Yes Time and a Word |
| Yeule Glitch Princess |
| 3.0 good |
| ABGOHARD Blowjobs N Bacon |
| I really dig hearing his orgasm sounds on the fifth track (I really like hearing people moan for some reason), but when he tries to sing....holy shit. It almost hurts to hear. That and he sounds blazed the whole way through. |
| ABGOHARD 4o |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Alcest Shelter |
| Alcest Les Chants de L'Aurore |
| Alkaloid Numen |
| Prog death is one of my fave genres, so I was hoping to love this. Oh, well. |
| Alluvial Death Is But A Door |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury |
| Anastacia It's a Man's World |
| Angel Haze Reservation |
| Animal Collective Time Skiffs |
| Animal Collective Isn’t It Now? |
| Animal Ghosts Swell |
| Autarkh Emergent |
| Bardo Pond Peace On Venus |
| Better Lovers God Made Me an Animal |
| Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? |
| Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard and Soft |
| Black Table Sentinel |
| Blut Aus Nord Debemur MoRTi |
| Borknagar Fall |
| Botanist IV: Mandragora |
| Braid/Balance and Composure Split |
| Braids Deep In The Iris |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia |
| Brendon Small Galaktikon |
| Cara Neir Portals to a Better, Dead World |
| Chat Pile God's Country |
| Circus Maximus Nine |
| It is pretty decent. I am definitely not within the target audience, though, as pretty much every aspect is not really gripping me. |
| Code Orange The Above |
| Coilguns Commuters |
| "Commuters Part 2" and "Earthians" are interesting, drawn out tracks that take the listener on long, chuggy treks.. I found the rest of the album sleep-inducing. |
| Coldplay Moon Music |
| Converge Bloodmoon: I |
| CSS Planta |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal |
| Cults Static |
| Cum Book Noise for Bitches |
| Cyanide Ejaculation Cyanide Ejaculation |
| It is interesting that growling in this band is actually coming from a woman. A woman growling about this subject matter is surreal. |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us |
| Daath The Deceivers |
| Darkthrone It Beckons Us All |
| David Bowie Never Let Me Down |
| Decapitated Blood Mantra |
| Device Device |
| I know how this will make me look, but I actually like Draiman's vocals. The problem is he keeps attaching himself to horrendously generic sounding music. |
| Devil Sold His Soul Loss |
| Devourment Conceived in Sewage |
| Die Mannequin Danceland |
| Overall, this as a okay to decent EP. On tracks "Candide" and "Die Snitch Die" it actually succeeds in being raucous and engaging at the same time and they are catchy enough to want to return to. The rest of it, though. It is raw. Really raw. On "Suffer" you can very easily hear vocalist Care attempt to squeak out the notes that she can't hit, whether it is because during recording she wore out her voice or they are just outside her range. The song itself is kinda bland, but those moments on vocals exemplify the negative side of this EP. And the (drunken?) attempts at singing by Tonyswar are just too awful to even be funny. |
| Dimmu Borgir For All Tid |
| Dimmu Borgir Inn I Evighetens Mørke |
| Dying Fetus Make Them Beg for Death |
| Earth, Wind and Fire Earth, Wind and Fire |
| Eisbrecher Sünde |
| Eisbrecher Schock |
| Emmure Slave To The Game |
| Emora Stars |
| END (USA-NJ) The Sin of Human Frailty |
| Enya Amarantine |
| Erel Pilo Drone |
| Faustcoven Hellfire and Funeral Bells |
| Full of Hell Rudiments of Mutilation |
| Genesis Abacab |
| Genesis We Can't Dance |
| Godflesh Purge |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage |
| Gorillaz Cracker Island |
| Grimes Art Angels |
| Hellyeah Band of Brothers |
| Howl Bloodlines |
| Icon For Hire Scripted |
| Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| In Flames Colony |
| In Flames Clayman |
| In Flames Whoracle |
| In Flames Come Clarity |
| In Flames Foregone |
| Jupiter (JPN) Classical Element |
| Manufactured as hell with very little of the flair that Hizaki displayed earlier on with his solo projects, but at least the image is still sexy. |
| Karnivool Asymmetry |
| I don't really have a quantifiable reason for not liking this record. It just falls flat for me. The entire thing. Even the tracks people are claiming are great do nothing for me. |
| Kathleen Mae Clandestine |
| Kimbra A Reckoning |
| King Woman Celestial Blues |
| KMFDM Let Go |
| Knives Out! Black Mass Hysteria |
| As I figured when I heard the single back in March, this album is really bland and makes me wonder if my love of the Polkadot Cadaver debut is nothing more than fluke. And what is with this collaboration? DFD + Nothingface/Hellyeah? |
| Knocked Loose You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To |
| Korn The Path of Totality |
| Kvelertak Meir |
| Lacuna Coil Dark Adrenaline |
| Little Dragon Slugs of Love |
| Marie Dior 7 |
| Marilyn Manson Born Villain |
| Marissa Nadler July |
| Merrimack Of Grace and Gravity |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Mister Bare Uncle Feces Flapshwölle |
| Moonspell Alpha Noir |
| Mushroomhead Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children |
| Mykki Blanco Cosmic Angel: The Illuminati Prince/ss |
| Naily L.I.E. |
| Neil Young Americana |
| Nero di Marte Nero di Marte |
| NGUZUNGUZU Skycell |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Otep Hydra |
| This album clawed its way into a 3 for its lyrical concept and some of audio concepts (such as the recurring blaring horn in the first track). This could have made for a better, possibly terrifying album if the hydra metaphor wasn't so under utilized and the metal bits weren't so straight forward. If only the execution was up to par. |
| Painted Palms Forever |
| Paradise Lost Gothic |
| Passion Pit Gossamer |
| Persephonaut de mokkel |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother |
| Pissed Jeans Honeys |
| Plini Mirage |
| Polica Shulamith |
| Pomegranate Tiger Entities |
| Pristina Hopeless Godless |
| Projected Human |
| Has some engaging moments, but overall not one of the better releases from the members of Sevendust. |
| Puscifer Donkey Punch the Night |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Rings of Saturn Dingir |
| Riverside Shrine Of New Generation Slaves |
| Rob Zombie Educated Horses |
| Roniit In The Shadows |
| I respect for being a woman in a mostly man dominated genre of music, but holy hell her music does pretty much nothing for me. In fact the fifth track really rubbed me the wrong way. |
| Rotting Christ Pro Xristou |
| Save Us From The Archon Some Things We Carry, Always |
| Serj Tankian Jazz-Iz-Christ |
| Sevendust Truth Killer |
| Shining (NOR) One One One |
| Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden |
| Slowdive Everything is Alive |
| Sockweb Bullies Are Mean |
| Spiritbox The Fear of Fear |
| Steven Wilson The Future Bites |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple |
| Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music... Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop |
| Styx Styx |
| Styx Equinox |
| Sunn O))) and Ulver Terrestrials |
| Svdestada Candela |
| Swans Swans |
| Swans Young God |
| Tessuroh For Queen |
| Just a collection of snippets of song ideas. The themes are interesting but are too brief to be compelling. |
| The Agonist Eye of Providence |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Servitude |
| The Crystal Method The Crystal Method |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual |
| "Wrap your arms around me", "Old Dreams Waiting to Be Realized", "Raging Lung" and "Fracking Fluid Injection" are worth hearing at least once. The rest of it just doesn't speak to me. |
| The Odious Joint Ventures |
| Wow, the first track made me think I would like this. Then the rest of the album happened. Really don't see what the bloggy fuss is over. The techy-prog hard rock angle while interesting isn't really that well fleshed out on this release. |
| The Robot Ate Me Bridge by Bridge |
| The Robot Ate Me Circumstance |
| "Circumstance #2" really got my attention. The rest is pretty okay, though. I guess this stuff just really isn't my thing. |
| The Stooges Ready to Die |
| It is an album for rocking and it does rock. Who doesn't love them DD's? |
| The Visit Between Worlds |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything |
| Toro Y Moi June 2009 |
| Torres Torres |
| Trapt Someone in Control |
| Trapt Reborn |
| U2 The Best Of 1990-2000 |
| Ulcerate Cutting the Throat of God |
| Waxahatchee Cerulean Salt |
| Ween White Pepper |
| Whom Gods Destroy Insanium |
| Yeule softscars |
| Yo La Tengo Fade |
| Zozobra Savage Masters |
