| 5.0 classic |
| Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow |
| Autechre Tri Repetae |
| Ayreon Into the Electric Castle |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| Bjork Vespertine |
| Black Dog Productions Bytes |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall In Middle-Earth |
| Blind Guardian Imaginations From The Other Side |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi |
| Bolt Thrower The IVth Crusade |
| Burial Untrue |
| Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus |
| Candlemass Nightfall |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb Of The Mutilated |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| Claude Debussy Nocturnes, L. 91 |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| Daft Punk Alive 2007 |
| Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun |
| Deafheaven Lonely People With Power |
| I thought Sunbather was great. This, however, is next level. A beautiful journey. |
| Deeds of Flesh Reduced to Ashes |
| Defeated Sanity Chronicles of Lunacy |
| not only my AOTY for 2024 but this singlehandedly rekindled my teenage obsession with brutal death metal. this is bdm that emphasizes composition above all else, demonstrating the legitimacy of the genre while fundamentally rejecting the dream theaterisms of necrophagist and obscura. |
| Depeche Mode Violator |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Finisterre |
| Devin Townsend Terria |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech |
| Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson (Remix) |
it really is like listening to it for the first time all over again, it sounds a lot more
expansive and detailed. maybe the deep fried sound of the original is part of its charm but
this sounds a lot more dynamic. those drums! |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone |
| Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics... |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
| Esoteric The Maniacal Vale |
| Failure Fantastic Planet |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
| Godflesh Streetcleaner |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Gorguts Obscura |
| Gorguts Colored Sands |
| Igor Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| Kamasi Washington The Epic |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye |
| Keiichi Okabe Nier Automata OST |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| King Crimson Red |
| Kobaryo Mixpeed Action |
| Korn Korn |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven "Pastoral" Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| Megadeth Rust In Peace |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Meshuggah Re-Nothing |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Moonsorrow Verisäkeet |
| Moonsorrow Viides Luku - Hävitetty |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| Naked City Naked City |
| Natural Snow Buildings Daughter of Darkness |
| Nevermore This Godless Endeavor |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Orbital In Sides |
| Orbital Orbital 2 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Rainbow Rising |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Slayer Reign In Blood |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Spectral Lore III |
| Steve Roach Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces |
| Strapping Young Lad City |
| Suffocation Pierced From Within |
| Tangerine Dream Phaedra |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Black Dog Spanners |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum Live |
| The Dear Hunter Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional |
| The Gathering How to Measure a Planet? |
| Toby Fox Undertale OST |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire |
| Weakling Dead as Dreams |
On the surface this is excellent black metal, but dig a little deeper and it's a horrifying
symphony of dread and misery. Riffs repeat for interminably long stretches, mournful laments
turn into cosmic horror, the vocals are frightening howls. It's genuinely beautiful at times
and hideous in others. Like death itself, it can manifest in poetic sorrow or an animalistic
fight or flight fear response. |
| Wilderun Veil of Imagination |
| Wilderun Epigone |
| Gorgeous album obviously, but there's something pretty sinister about it too. |
| X Japan Art of Life |
| Yes Relayer |
| Yes Close to the Edge |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 3 (USA) The Ghost You Gave To Me |
| Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde |
| Amiensus Ascension |
| Excellent progressive metal/black metal hybrid with great arrangements, instrumentation and vocals. Songwriting is badass too. |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns |
| This and Versus the World are the band's peak. I separate their discog into the more primitive, rough-around-the-edges early work and the "festival headliner" later material, these two albums being the sweet spot imo. |
| Anaal Nathrakh The Codex Necro |
| Anaal Nathrakh Domine Non Es Dignus |
| Anaal Nathrakh Vanitas |
| Anaal Nathrakh Endarkenment |
| Analepsy Atrocities From Beyond |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here |
| Anathema Weather Systems |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II |
| Art By Numbers Reticence: The Musical |
| Ataraxie Slow Transcending Agony |
| Ataraxie L'être et la Nausée |
| Autechre elseq 1-5 |
| Autechre SIGN |
| More ambient than I was expecting but I think that's cool, reminds me of their old stuff. |
| Ayreon The Human Equation |
| Ayreon The Dream Sequencer |
| Behemoth Demigod |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Belzebubs Pantheon of the Nightside Gods |
| Bethlehem Dictius Te Necare |
| Bjork Debut |
| Black Crown Initiate Song of the Crippled Bull |
| Blank Banshee Blank Banshee 0 |
| Blind Guardian A Night At The Opera |
| Blind Guardian Tales From The Twilight World |
| Blind Guardian At The Edge Of Time |
| Blind Guardian The God Machine |
| The best Blind Guardian in a long time. It feels "mature" in a good way, they've toned down some of the excesses of previous albums while not feeling nostalgic for the glory days. |
| Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh |
| Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia |
| Blut Aus Nord Ethereal Horizons |
| Bolt Thrower Those Once Loyal |
| Bolt Thrower Realm of Chaos |
| Bolt Thrower ...For Victory |
| BT ESCM |
| Cannibal Corpse Bloodthirst |
| Cannibal Corpse Butchered At Birth |
| Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding |
| Cannibal Corpse Vile |
| Cannibal Corpse Kill |
| Cannibal Corpse Torture |
| Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain |
| Cannibal Corpse Violence Unimagined |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Hydroponic Garden |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity |
| Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Bestial Devastation |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Morbid Visions |
| When your original material doesn't sell so you rely on cash grab rerecordings a la Roger Waters |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Schizophrenia |
| Cephalotripsy Uterovaginal Insertion of Extirpated Anomalies |
| This album is absolutely repellent on every level. Tuneless chugging, no variety, interchangeable riffs, hideous album art and lyrics, phlegmy gutturals... and yet I am continually drawn to it. It's so committed to an aesthetic that it becomes its purest distillation. This might as well be entirely improvised or randomly generated, you are not going to remember a single moment. Slambient music. |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? |
| Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe |
| Cloudkicker The Discovery |
| Cloudkicker The Map Is Not the Territory |
| Cloudkicker Portmanteau |
| Cloudkicker Beacons |
| Corpo-Mente Corpo-Mente |
| Cryptopsy Whisper Supremacy |
| Cryptopsy The Book of Suffering - Tome 1 |
| Cryptopsy The Book of Suffering - Tome II |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns |
| Deeds of Flesh Path of the Weakening |
| Deeds of Flesh Mark of the Legion |
| Defeated Sanity Disposal Of The Dead // Dharmata |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II |
| Dethklok Dethalbum III |
| Devin Townsend Infinity |
| Devin Townsend Lightwork |
| Devin Townsend Powernerd |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| Devourment 1.3.8. |
| I love how shitty this sounds. I'm not saying that in a derogatory way, the rawness makes it sound as if the baby-eating basement sludge people described in the lyrics are the ones playing the music. |
| Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant |
| Dimmu Borgir Spiritual Black Dimensions |
| Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst MMV |
| Dodheimsgard 666 International |
| Draconian Turning Season Within |
| Drudkh Forgotten Legends |
| Eminent Death of the Pilgrim |
| Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire... |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum |
| Enslaved Heimdal |
| Entombed Left Hand Path |
| Equilibrium Turis Fratyr |
| Equilibrium Erdentempel |
| Esoteric Metamorphogenesis |
| Esoteric The Pernicious Enigma |
| Eudaemon Spiritual Anguish |
| Evergrey In Search Of Truth |
| Evilyn Mondestrunken |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture |
| Finsterforst Rastlos |
| Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Sol Niger Within |
| Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Sol Niger Within V3.33 |
| Funebrarum The Sleep of Morbid Dreams |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous |
| Glass Beach plastic death |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate |
| Guilt Machine On This Perfect Day |
| Gunship Gunship |
| Gunship Dark All Day |
| Guttural Secrete Reek Of Pubescent Despoilment |
| Hacride Amoeba |
| Healthyliving Songs of Abundance, Psalms of Grief |
| Helloween Helloween |
| Hour of Penance The Vile Conception |
| Hypocrisy Abducted |
| Hypocrisy A Taste of Extreme Divinity |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust |
| Immortal Battles in the North |
| Immortal Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism |
| In Flames Colony |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down |
| Iron Maiden The Number Of The Beast |
| Jakub Zytecki Wishful Lotus Proof |
| Jamiroquai The Return of the Space Cowboy |
| Jamiroquai Travelling Without Moving |
| Kakothanasy Metagonism |
| Katalepsy Gravenous Hour |
| They've gone full tech-death here. I kinda miss the slam sound from Autopsychosis but wow, the band's really come a long way. |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard I'm In Your Mind Fuzz |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of... |
| Korn Issues |
| Krallice Inorganic Rites |
| Krater Urere |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster |
| Lantlos Melting Sun |
| Leprous Coal |
| Lost Soul Atlantis: The New Beginning |
| Lost Ubikyst in Apeiron Abstruse Imbeciles Nailed on Slavery |
| m1dy Speedcore Dandy |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes |
| Machine Head The Blackening |
| Mandroid Echostar Mandroid Echostar |
| Mar De Grises Draining The Waterheart |
| Mare Cognitum Luminiferous Aether |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Mendel Subliminal Colors |
| Mendel Shaking Hands with the Devil |
| Meshuggah I |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep of Reason |
| Meshuggah Immutable |
| Moonlight Sorcery Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle |
| Moonsorrow Voimasta ja Kunniasta |
| Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky |
| Mortician Final Bloodbath Session |
| call me a poser but without samples this music becomes abstract slammy noise and I love it |
| Muse Absolution |
| Mylo Destroy Rock And Roll |
| Nasum Human 2.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel |
| Necrophagist Epitaph |
| Negura Bunget OM |
| Neil Cicierega Mouth Sounds |
| Neil Cicierega Mouth Silence |
| Neurotech Blue Screen Planet |
| Neurotech Antagonist |
| Neurotech The Decipher Volumes |
| Neurotech Infra Versus Ultra |
| Nevermore Dreaming Neon Black |
| Nightwish Once |
| Nightwish Oceanborn |
| Nile Annihilation Of The Wicked |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Nithing Agonal Hymns |
| Obituary Slowly We Rot |
| Obituary The End Complete |
| Obliteration Perpetual Decay |
| Obsequiae Suspended in the Brume of Eos |
| Obsequiae Aria of Vernal Tombs |
| Obsequiae The Palms of Sorrowed Kings |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth The Last Will and Testament |
| Origin Antithesis |
| Paysage d'Hiver Die Berge |
| Periphery Periphery (Instrumental) |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan |
| Plebeian Grandstand Lowgazers |
| Plebeian Grandstand False Highs, True Lows |
| Psudoku Planetarisk Sudoku |
| Pure Wrath Hymn To The Woeful Hearts |
| Rabbit Junk Invasion |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Red Harvest A Greater Darkness |
| Ricinn Lian |
| Rotting Christ Theogonia |
| Rotting Christ Kata Ton Demona Eaftou |
| Sabaton Carolus Rex |
| Sacred Outcry Towers of Gold |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe |
| Separatist Closure |
| Separatist Motionless |
| Sepultura Roots |
| Seventh Wonder Mercy Falls |
| Seventh Wonder The Great Escape |
| Shade Empire Omega Arcane |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild |
| Slayer Seasons In The Abyss |
| Slayer South Of Heaven |
| Slimelord Chytridiomycosis Relinquished |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Slugdge Born of Slime |
| Soilwork The Ride Majestic |
| Not much has changed since The Living Infinite, which isn't a bad thing by any means. Some really great songs here, but while I wouldn't describe any songs as "duds" there are some sections that feel like "Soilwork by committee". Bjorn Strid's vocals are top-notch though, as are the instrumentation and production. |
| Solterra Umbra |
| Sonata Arctica Winterheart's Guild |
| Sonic Mayhem Quake II Complete Soundtrack |
| Stratovarius Visions |
| Suffocation Breeding the Spawn |
| to be completely fair, this isn't that much muddier than the debut. it just has this nasty reverberating hiss that makes it sound amateurish. |
| Sybreed Slave Design (20th Anniversary Edition) |
| Symphony X The Odyssey |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| TesseracT One |
| Textures Silhouettes |
| The Faceless Akeldama |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality |
| The Gathering Nighttime Birds |
| The Project Hate MCMXCIX The Lustrate Process |
| The Tea Party Transmission |
| Turisas The Varangian Way |
| Turisas Stand Up and Fight |
| Venetian Snares Songs About My Cats |
| VOLA Inmazes |
| VOLA Applause of a Distant Crowd |
| Warforged I: Voice |
| Warp Records (Artificial Intelligence) |
| Wilderun Olden Tales and Deathly Trails |
| Wintersun Wintersun |
| Witherscape The Northern Sanctuary |
| Wodensthrone Curse |
| X Japan Dahlia |
| Xanthochroid Incultus |
| Xanthochroid Blessed He With Boils |
| Xanthochroid Of Erthe and Axen: Act I |
| Xanthochroid Of Erthe and Axen: Act II |
