| 4.5 superb |
| Alcest Kodama |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct |
| This is incredible. A dozen listens in and not only am I not burning out on it, I'm loving it more with each spin. This thing is instrumentally packed but still breathes. It's powerful and aggressive, but still reflective and strikingly beautiful at times. Firmly rooted in their signature sound and style, but does just enough with introducing new song structures and sonic elements so as to be unique within their discography. And it's easily their most grand-sounding and epic-feeling album to date. Supremely listenable start to finish, I never have any desire to skip a single track or moment. Just amazing. I can't get enough of it. |
| Altars Of Grief Iris |
| Artificial Brain Infrared Horizon |
| Band-Maid World Domination |
| Bell Witch Mirror Reaper |
| Black Drop Effect Injecting Pain |
| Coldworld Melancholie² |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction |
| Darkflight Perfectly Calm |
| Darkspace Dark Space III |
| Darkspace Dark Space III I |
| Daylight Dies A Frail Becoming |
| Death Symbolic |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Stellar |
Not sure where the complaints are coming from on this, I feel the opposite of all of them. The
short songs are nice, but they're in and out too quick. The longer songs have more room to breathe
and more time to build (and back-build), lending a greater impact and leaving a more lasting
impression (especially Eiswanderer). The vocals are great. Vicious and clear without being
overwhelming, they're present, toned down, and intensified at the right times and blend well with
the atmosphere created here (which is pleasantly subtle compared to the almost forced
atmospherics many bands are attempting these days).
At it's heart this is a very well written, extremely well executed album that brings an almost
perfect blend of quiet (eis)wandering, methodical instrumentation (with some fantastic base work
that's actually audible, somewhat of a rarity in bm), and blazing cold riffage that rips and tears
as much as it soars. |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Innern |
| Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current |
| Dodsrit Nocturnal Will |
| Dvne Asheran |
| Dvne Omega Severer |
DVNE is back and better than ever.
Refining the fantastic soundscape and
atmospheric presence from their debut
LP, they somehow managed to shove
nearly an entire full length album's
worth of seething riffs, thrilling
drum fills, powerful vocals, engaging
song structures, and killer change ups
into a tightly packed, 17 minute,
emotionally striking tour de force. I
simply cannot wait to see what these
guys do next. |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka |
| Echoes of the Moon Entropy |
| Edge of Sanity When All Is Said |
| Enshine Origin |
Gorgeous, unique soundscapes that are as
effective at conjuring images
of speeding across the cosmos as they
are at letting your mind wander
to anywhere from the farthest stars to
an empty abyss and everything
in between. rCleverly employed cleans
accent a very light and airy
feeling carried by most tracks, and the
fantastic guitar work becomes
the focus pulling along a nearly perfect
medly of coalescing bass, piano and
drums. Seething with genuine atmosphere
and brimming with hope and
passion, this album provides a journey
seldom travled and, even more
uncommonly, appreciated. |
| Enshine Singularity |
| Estatic Fear A Sombre Dance |
| Falls of Rauros Hail Wind and Hewn Oak |
| Frigoris ...in Stille |
| Green Carnation A Dark Poem Part I: The Shores of Melancholia |
| Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée... |
| Hath All That Was Promised |
| home is in your arms _ (EP2) |
How? How does this man do it? At least 4
different projects going on at once
(that I know of, Sadness, Trha, Life,
and this) plus he's in some other band
now (Barbelith) plus the splits and
collabs. And yet somehow, the guy can't
miss. All of his material across all of
his projects is at least decent, none of
it is straight up @$$, most of it is
great/excellent and some of it, like
this, is incredible, truly special. This
is like a more methodical and heavier
Sadness, but with an uplifting overtone,
sick tempo changeups, and, as usual, a
crap ton of emotion that really
translates packed in. I'm in love all
over again. |
| Inanna Converging Ages |
| Inanna Transfigured in a Thousand Delusions |
| Inanna Void of Unending Depths |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow |
| Janvs Vega |
| Jesu Jesu |
| Job For A Cowboy Moon Healer |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day |
| KYPCK Черно (Black) |
| KYPCK Ниже (Below) |
| Lunarsea Route Code Selector |
| Lunarsea Hundred Light Years |
| Following a logical and fervent progression from their previous work, Lunarsea hit the melodic nail on the death metal head, and infuse some truly well executed black metal madness for good measure. The songs are as technical as they are fluid and combine a seemingly endless supply of complex and inventive riffs, precise and emotive solos, delightful spacey breaks (most often perfectly timed), powerful harsh and uplifting clean vocals, and punishing blasts of rage with poise and tenacity. Modern melodeath simply does not get any better than this. |
| Lunarsea Earthling/Terrestre |
| Lunarsea do it again. Possibly the most criminally underrated/underappreciated melodeath band in history. Taking all the best elements from their last two offerings, smoothing things out, and tightening things up. Increased technicality, improved songwriting, killer riffs, interesting song structures. Only issue here is that there isn't a clear standout utterly perfect track like Ianus or Subspace Transition. But overall probably their most solid, consistent, and highest quality offering to date. |
| Mesarthim Isolate |
| Mesarthim Ghost Condensate |
| Moonsorrow Verisäkeet |
| Nahemah The Second Philosophy |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel |
| **Insert extremely biased and gigantically fanboyish spoogefest here**rrSeriously though, there isn't anything remotely objective I can say about this band, or this ralbum. Like the grandest of Blackwater Park obsessed metalheads that worship Opeth and think reverything Mikael does is gold, I am completely and utterly enamored with Neo, to the point where rany imperfections that may exist, just like they might in ANY work of art, are lost to me. All I see is beauty, all I feel is passion, all I hear is everything I want to hear from the music that rI love. I could throw a thousand million adjectives at this and never do my feelings for it rjustice. So I will end this mostly pointless rant with thank you Neo. Thank you for everything. |
| Nhor Within the Darkness Between the Starlight |
This will surround you with an enveloping atmosphere that is both powerful and unique, and prove
as smothering at is is freeing and fulfilling. Featuring a vast array of moods and emotions that
change gradually over the course of the album, culminating in an absolutely massive and visionary
final 10 or so minutes, this is atmospheric metal executed to perfection. As if that weren't
enough, some truly inspired and incredibly vicious riffs backed by simple but effective drumming
and bass work, both of which slowly gaining more and more of your focus as the albums progresses,
serve to hold your attention even if the projected mood isn't quite grabbing you.
Throw in some pretty bone chilling vocals, a variety of styles and song structures (though nothing
very far outside the realm of bm) and you have one of the most intricate, compelling, and
emotional black metal albums in years. A true masterpiece, the only thing keeping this from
classic status is that it sticks a little to closely to genre conventions and it's reluctance to
step outside itself even just a little, to reach for some true originality causes the only
disappointment I can think of with this.
Still, in time and with enough listens, I may prove myself wrong. My AOTY for 2013. Can't wait to
see what this artist creates next. |
| Omega (ITA) Nebra |
Absolutely massive sound coupled with thick atmosphere, engaging songwriting, and riffs that
would make Darkspace double-take. Full review incoming. |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Paysage d'Hiver Winterkälte |
| Profane The Day We Scorched The Sky |
| Rammstein Sehnsucht |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory |
| Rorcal Vilagvege |
| Rotting Christ Theogonia |
| Sadness The Rain That Falls Alone |
| Sadness april sunset |
| Sadness Your Perfect Hands and My Repeated Words |
| Saor Roots |
| Saor Aura |
| Saor Guardians |
| Saor Forgotten Paths |
| Slow (BE) VI – Dantalion |
| Spite Extreme Wing Vltra |
| Where has this been all my life HOLY FUCK. rAbsolutely glorious. |
| Swampborn Beyond Ratio |
| Blast beats. Shred. Dueling melodies. Saxophones and trumpets. Double-bass. Piano. Harsh and clean vocals. Riffs. Violins. Groovy bass. Synth a-plenty. Spoken word. Chugs. Atmospherics. Solos.rIf this sounds like it would be one big giant mess to you, Swampborn beg to differ. One of the most eclectic, engaging, exiting, expertly-crafted pieces of metal-based experimental badassery I've ever heard. Truly unique and incredible stuff. |
| Symbyosis On the Wings of Phoenix |
| The Morningside The Wind, The Trees And The Shadows... |
| Thou Umbilical |
| Thy Catafalque Vadak |
| Tool Ænima |
| Trha nêbamΩejn |
| Trha lact'eben |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire |
| Unleash The Archers Abyss |
| Rocks the fucking house. Love the overall shorter track lengths and better use of synth. Riffs and solos are better, songwriting more engaging. And of course Brittany Slays. Their best album to date and a new standard for modern power metal. r4.3 |
| Vektor Outer Isolation |
| Violet Cold Sommermorgen (Pt. II) - Joy |
| Violet Cold Anomie |
| Violet Cold Sommermorgen (Pt. I) - Innocence |
| Violet Cold Sommermorgen (Pt. III) - Nostalgia |
| Walknut Graveforests and Their Shadows |
| Windir Arntor |
| Windir 1184 |
| Windir Likferd |
| Wintersun Wintersun |
| 4.0 excellent |
| ...and Oceans As in Gardens, So in Tombs |
| A Light In The Dark A Long Journey Home |
| A Light In The Dark Insomnia |
| Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark |
| Abstract Void Back to Reality |
| Absu Tara |
| Aeviterne The Ailing Facade |
| Slaps harder than big floppy donkey dick. Sounds better too. |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| Aghora Formless |
| Ahab The Call of the Wretched Sea |
| Ahab The Divinity of Oceans |
| Akhlys Melinoe |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury |
| Amorphis Silent Waters |
| Ana Kefr The Burial Tree (II) |
| Animosity Animal |
| Archspire Bleed The Future |
| Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation |
| Artificial Brain Artificial Brain |
| Aspid кровоизлияние (Extravasation) |
| Aurora Black And The Skies Dream Infinite Sorrow |
| Band-Maid Unseen World |
| Not quite as good as Domination but much more interesting/exciting than Conqueror. I know quite a few people prefer their softer stuff but the fact of the matter is, they're better when they go hard and this album re-solidifies that.rBlack Hole is absolutely insane. |
| Batushka Litourgiya |
| Be'lakor The Frail Tide |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach |
| Belenos Chants De Bataille |
| Bell Witch Four Phantoms |
| Bersaerk Jernbyrd |
| Black Hate Through The Darkness |
| Black Monolith Passenger |
What really sells me on this is how atmospheric it is, without relying on synths or
incredibly long tracks. Much like Gorgut's brilliant Colored Sands, it achieves a
striking presence simply through the tenacity of its instrumentation, the intelligence
of it's song writing, and a penchant for creating sounds, mostly with the guitars, that
are just a little bit different than anything you've heard before. The punky elements
add a bit of dare I say fun to an otherwise dark and smothering sound, and some of
the post-metal tones feel like they should be out of place, but aren't at all. Eris is a
shining example of a band that knows itself really well and wants you to take time to
get to know them. |
| Blindead Affliction XXIX II MCMXCVI |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History Of The Human Race |
| Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere |
| Brodequin Harbinger of Woe |
| Burst Origo |
| Burst Lazarus Bird |
| Celeste Assassine(s) |
| Mesmerizing and relentless, Celeste have hit the sweet spot between their vicious aggression and their haunting atmosphere, producing the best album of their career. |
| Celeste Epilogue(s) |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| Chthonic 武徳 Bu-Tik |
| Civerous Maze Envy |
| Stanky McStanksalot. rViscerally impacts the loins. |
| Coldworld Autumn |
| Colosus Blestem |
| Communic Waves Of Visual Decay |
| Communic Payment of Existance |
| Cosmic Forest My Eyes Cold As The Darkest Winter Nights |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile |
| Cyclamen (JPN) Ashura |
| Dark Empire Humanity Dethroned |
| Dark Empire From Refuge to Ruin |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery |
| Darkest Era The Journey Through Damnation |
| Darkest Era The Last Caress Of Light |
| Darkest Era Severance |
Band finally became what they needed to from day 1: concise. The shortened songs
markedly increase the impact of...well everything. The vocals ring truer, the riffs are
tighter and smarter, but still fluid and progressive. Drums are more interesting, bass
is more prevalent, and the songwriting and the structure of the album as a whole creates
a smooth cohesive package with great replay value and solid longevity. A strong
improvement all around. Love this band. |
| Darkflight Under The Shadow Of Fear |
| Darkspace Dark Space II |
| Daylight Dies Lost To The Living |
| Deadly Carnage Endless Blue |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia |
| Deha A Fleur de Peau - III - A Fire That Does Not Burn |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Unstille |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Agonie |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Noktvrn |
| Dissection The Somberlain |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane |
| Dormant Ordeal Tooth and Nail |
| Dvne Voidkind |
| Earth and Pillars Earth II |
| Earth Rot Black Tides of Obscurity |
| Edenfall To Gaze Longer at the Earth |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson II |
| Elderwind The Magic of Nature |
| Elderwind Fires |
| Eluveitie Slania |
| Empyrium Weiland |
| Eneferens The Bleakness Of Our Constant |
| Enisum Arpitanian Lands |
| Enisum Seasons Of Desolation |
| Enslaved Vertebrae |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| Epica The Quantum Enigma |
| Equilibrium Sagas |
| Erdling Mana |
| Esoteric Paragon of Dissonance |
| Esoteric A Pyrrhic Existence |
| Estatic Fear Somnium Obmutum |
| Euphoreon Ends of the Earth |
| Evoken A Caress of the Void |
| Evoken Atra Mors |
| Eye of Solitude Canto III |
| Falls of Rauros The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture |
| Fear Factory Genexus |
| Fen Winter |
| Fen Dustwalker |
This...is amazing. The perfect blend of the
best parts of their soaring atmospheric black
metal rage, and their lulling expansive post
metal soundscapes, the contrast is perfectly
balanced across the entire album, and quite
effectively takes you to another place. It
will take some patience to absorb but multiple
listens will reveal poise and tenacity,
restraint and force in nearly equal parts, all
combining to create a truly memorable
experience. |
| Fen Carrion Skies |
| Forest Stream Tears of Mortal Solitude |
| Fractal Gates The Light That Shines |
| Frail Body Artificial Bouquet |
| Gorath Misotheism |
| Gorath MXCII |
| Gorath The Chronicles of Khiliasmos |
| Gorguts Colored Sands |
| Gorod Leading Vision |
| Grima Frostbitten |
| Hacksaw to the Throat Wastelands |
| Haenesy Garabontzia |
| Hanging Garden Inherit the Eden |
| Hath Of Rot And Ruin |
| Havukruunu Uinuos Syömein Sota |
| Hoth Oathbreaker |
| Human Serpent Inhumane Minimalism |
| Hyperdontia Hideous Entity |
| Hyperdontia Harvest of Malevolence |
| Ikuinen Kaamos The Forlorn |
| Ikuinen Kaamos Closure |
| Illyria The Carpathian Summit |
| Imber Luminis Contrasts |
| Immensity The Isolation Splendour |
| In Vain (NO) Aenigma |
| INFINITE DENSITY Recollapse of the Universe |
| Inquisition Obscure Verses for the Multiverse |
| Inquisition Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar... |
| Satan m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/m/ |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun |
| Iron Thrones Visions of Light |
| Iron Thrones The Wretched Sun |
| Isole Bliss Of Solitude |
| Judicator The Last Emperor |
| Kardashev The Almanac |
| Kardashev Liminal Rite |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance |
| Katatonia The Black Sessions |
| Khemmis Absolution |
| Khemmis Hunted |
| Korn Korn |
| Korn Issues |
| Kronos Colossal Titan Strife |
| Kronos The Hellenic Terror |
| Kronos Arisen New Era |
Yuuuuuuus motherfucking Kronos is back UUUUUUURRRRR!!!
Seriously though, this shit will skullfuck you 666 ways from Sunday. |
| KYPCK 3epo (Zero) |
| La Torture des Tenebres Civilization Is the Tomb of Our Noble Gods |
| Labyrinthus Stellarum Rift in Reality |
| Lantlos Lantlos |
| Lantlos Melting Sun |
| Lascar Saudada |
| Les Discrets Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted |
| Light This City Terminal Bloom |
| Lovebites Electric Pentagram |
| Luces Lejanas Partida |
| Mare Cognitum An Extraconscious Lucidity |
| Mesarthim Pillars |
| Mesarthim .- -... ... . -. -.-. . |
| Mesarthim TYPE III |
| Mesarthim Arrival |
Killer release. An inspiring cross-section
of this artist's entire discog, cutting
the fat and leaving almost nothing but the
very best aspects of his signature style
and approach to spacey dance-bm. Not as
face-meltingly rip-roaring as Ghost
Condensate (his best work IMO) but
staunchly better than everything after it.
Edit: Arrival, Pt. 5 might be the single
best track from Mesarthim. Pretty close
between it and the two from Ghost. |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep of Reason |
| Meshuggah Immutable |
| Misery Signals Controller |
| Mistur Attende |
| Mistur In Memoriam |
| Mol JORD |
| Mol Diorama |
| Moonlight Sorcery Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle |
| Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja |
| Mors Principium Est ...And Death Said Live |
| Mors Principium Est Darkness Invisible |
| Mors Principium Est Seven |
| Motanka Motanka |
| Mouth Of The Architect Quietly |
| Mylingar Döda Drömmar |
| Mylingar Döda Själar |
| Ne Obliviscaris The Aurora Veil |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn |
| Ne Obliviscaris Exul |
| Nebula Orionis Sorrow |
| Nemus Stein - Mensch |
| Nervosa Agony |
Big step up from their debut. Mean
riffs, meaner vocals, a truly
sinister vibe, and
pretty solid songwriting with a few
flashes of something special. Very
samey, and hardly
original, but the talent and the
passion is there. If these fierce
fem fatales ever
decide to step outside their comfort
zone it could be really bad or
really amazing. They
give us a little taste of that with
the bonus track and the results are
promising. I for
one will be sticking around to see
what happens next.
Edit: Had to bump this up. Can't get
sick of it. Multiple standout
tracks. Closer is epic. Excellent
release.
3.8/5 |
| Nevoa The Absence of Void |
| Noctule Wretched Abyss |
| I mean it's Skyrim metal, what more do you want? |
| Nortt Galgenfrist |
| Numenorean Home |
| Numenorean Adore |
| Nyktalgia Peisithanatos |
| Obliteration Black Death Horizon |
| Obscura Diluvium |
| Obsequiae Aria of Vernal Tombs |
| Obsidian Kingdom Mantiis |
| Oceans of Sadness The Arrogance Of Ignorance |
| Odious Mirror of Vibrations |
| Odious Skin Age |
| Old Graves Long Shadows |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum |
| Opeth The Last Will and Testament |
| Oubliette (USA-TN) Eternity Whispers |
| Oxxo Xoox Namidae |
| Oxygen Destroyer Sinister Monstrosities Spawned... |
| Had to bump this up. Keep coming back to it. Definite improvement over the debut. Absolutely smacks. Riffs are killer. |
| Oxygen Destroyer Guardian of the Universe |
Not quite as good as their previous, but
better than the debut. Noticeably fewer
tasty riffs but they leaned into a more
overall aggressive and intense output
and it kicks the atmosphere up a notch.
Vocals are mostly the same as before but
improved within their limited range, and
the production job here is their best
yet. A solid closer to their trilogy. |
| Panopticon Panopticon |
| Pantheist Journey Through Lands Unknown |
| Parius The Eldritch Realm |
| Paysage d'Hiver Paysage d'Hiver |
| Paysage d'Hiver Kristall und Isa |
| Paysage d'Hiver Schnee |
| Paysage d'Hiver Die Berge |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Psyclon Nine [Order of the Shadow: Act I] |
| Quo Vadis Defiant Imagination |
| Rammstein Mutter |
| Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da |
| Rammstein Live Aus Berlin |
| Replacire Do Not Deviate |
| Rhun (USA-ME) Conveyance In Death |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It |
| Rorcal Creon |
| Rotting Christ Aealo |
| Ruadh The Rock of the Clyde |
| Russian Circles Empros |
| Russian Circles Guidance |
| Russian Circles Blood Year |
| Sadness ...And Longing are the Endless Waves |
| Sadness Somewhere Along Our Memory |
| Sadness Circle of Veins |
| Sadness I Want to Make Something as Beautiful as You |
| Saidan Onryo II: Her Spirit Eternal |
| Saidan Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity |
| Saor Amidst the Ruins |
| Sea Witch The Blackened Sea |
| Sepultura Arise |
| Seth The Howling Spirit |
| ShEver Ocean of Illusions |
| Show Me A Dinosaur Show Me A Dinosaur |
| Some of the best post black metal in existence. Fuck Deafhaven, this is how it's done. |
| Show Me A Dinosaur Plantgazer |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day |
| SikTh Opacities |
| Singularity (USA-AZ) Place of Chains |
| Skeletal Remains The Entombment Of Chaos |
| Skeletal Remains Fragments Of The Ageless |
| Skeletonwitch Beyond the Permafrost |
| Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light |
| Skyforest Unity |
| I want the cheese!rYOU CAN'T HANDLE THE CHEESE!! |
| Skyforest A New Dawn |
| Skyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Slow (BE) V - Oceans |
| Slugdge Esoteric Malacology |
| Sombres Forets Royaume De Glace |
| Son of Aurelius Under a Western Sun |
| Sorcier Des Glaces Sorcier Des Glaces |
| Spaceslug Memorial |
| I know these guys have been ostensibly kicking ass for a while now, but despite my best listening efforts, their sound never really clicked with me. Somehow, and for whatever reason I can't figure out right now, this has changed that. Time to go back. r#thegrooveisreal |
| Spaceslug Out of Water |
| Spectral Lore III |
| SubRosa (US) More Constant Than The Gods |
| Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten |
| Sworn Bastards and Conquerors |
| Sylvaine Nova |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost |
| The Arcane Order In The Wake of Collisions |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers |
| The Fall of Every Season Amends |
| The Lost Sun Spectral Voice from Newborn Star |
| The Sword Gods Of The Earth |
| Thurisaz Circadian Rhythm |
| Thy Catafalque Rengeteg |
| Thy Catafalque Alföld |
| Thy Light No Morrow Shall Dawn |
| Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit |
| Tombstoner Victims of Vile Torture |
| Ugh, how the f did I miss this. Absolutely crushes. |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| Trha mã Héshiva õn dahh Khata trhândlha vand... |
| Trha Im Ëmat Gan Líeshtam Namvajno |
| Trha nêbamducel cánsë ulan da gunej |
| Trha enΩëcunna edëno£sa qud'lhëlh |
| Trha ∫um'ad∂ejja cavvaj |
| Trha monta ana also |
| Trha ∫um'ad∂ejja ∫ervaj |
| Trha ducel ëf ∂acet'asde§ den alëcaáhabna ë∫ igatenamëc |
| Ueldes Storm Borrower |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis |
| Ulthar Anthronomicon |
| Ulthar Helionomicon |
| Unearth Watchers of Rule |
| Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire |
| Unleash The Archers Apex |
| Unreqvited Disquiet |
| Sweeping melodies, powerful riffs, and an roverwhelming sense of passion. This is all-rout nuclear war on my feels right now. |
| Until Death Overtakes Me Symphony III: Monolith |
| Vauruva Mar da Deriva |
| Vektor Black Future |
| Violet Cold Magic Night |
| Like a black metal lullaby, Magic Night is surreal. A dreamscape of soothing sounds with riffs that can still whip up a storm. Though it may seem fleeting at first, the right time and the right mood will bring this to life in your ears and captivate you. About as easy-listening as black metal can get, this is not meant to be picked apart and analyzed to discern what makes it tick. Don't think too hard. Just listen. And let Violet Cold into your dreams, for a little while. |
| Violet Cold kOsmik |
| Void Omnia dying light |
| Vukari Omnes Nihil |
| Warfield With The Old Breed |
| Warp Chamber Implements of Excruciation |
| We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth |
| Widek Journey to the Stars |
| Widek Hidden Dimensions |
| Wildernessking Mystical Future |
| Windfaerer Breaths of Elder Dawns |
| Windir Soknardalr |
| With the End in Mind Tides of Fire |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven |
| Worship Last Tape Before Doomsday |
| Worship Dooom |
| Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit |
| 3.5 great |
| A Forest of Stars Beware the Sword You Cannot See |
| A Light In The Dark A Light in the Dark |
| Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns |
| Ablaze In Hatred The Quietude Plains |
| Abstract Void Wishdream |
| Abstract Void Forever |
| Abysmal Dawn Phylogenesis |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Aghora Aghora |
| Ahab The Giant |
| Ahab The Coral Tombs |
| Akhlys The Dreaming I |
| Alaskan Despair, Erosion, Loss |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde |
| Alien Weaponry Tangaroa |
| Guess what? They're getting better m/ m/ m/rObvious step up from Tu. |
| Alkaloid Liquid Anatomy |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| Alraune The Process Of Self-Immolation |
| Alter Bridge Blackbird |
| Amesoeurs Amesoeurs |
| Amiensus Restoration |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side |
| Amorphis Under the Red Cloud |
| Anata The Conductor's Departure |
| Animosity Empires |
| Aquilus Griseus |
Such an amazing, and mostly unique sound, thick as fog atmosphere, epic as hell but UGH
sooooo muuuuuch syyyyyyynth it hurts my balls. Rating is subject to change. |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant |
| Architects Ruin |
| Architects Hollow Crown |
| Archivist Archivist |
| Archivist Construct |
| Archivist Triumvirate |
| Archspire All Shall Align |
| Archspire Relentless Mutation |
| Arizmenda Within the Vacuum of Infinity... |
| Arkona (RUS) Goi, Rode, Goi! |
| Arkona (RUS) Yav |
| Artefact Ruins |
| Ashbringer Yūgen |
| Astronoid Air |
| Astronoid Stargod |
| Ataraxie Slow Transcending Agony |
| Atoma Skylight |
| Au-Dessus Au-Dessus |
| BABYMETAL Metal Resistance |
| Band-Maid New Beginning |
| Band-Maid Unleash |
| Band-Maid Brand New Maid |
| Band-Maid Just Bring It |
| Baroness Red Album |
| Battle Dagorath I - Dark Dragons of the Cosmos |
| Battle Dagorath II - Frozen Light of Eternal Darkness |
| Battle Dagorath Abyss Horizons |
| He's nothing if not consistent. Very similar to his last couple of albums but less aggressive and more dreamscapish. Effective but still feels like it's missing something. |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone |
| Be'lakor Vessels |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Belenos Spicilege |
| Belenos Chemins de Souffrance |
| Belenos Yen Sonn Gardis |
| Beyond Creation The Aura |
| Beyond Creation Earthborn Evolution |
| Black Crown Initiate The Wreckage of Stars |
| Black Crown Initiate Song of the Crippled Bull |
| Black Crown Initiate Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape |
| Black Curse Endless Wound |
| Black Fast Terms of Surrender |
| Blackbraid Blackbraid I |
| Blackbraid Blackbraid II |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars |
| Bullet For My Valentine Hand of Blood |
| Burden of Life The Makeshift Conqueror |
| Burial Invocation Abiogenesis |
| Burning The Masses Mind Control |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Caladan Brood Echoes Of Battle |
| Cambion Conflagrate the Celestial Refugium |
| Celeste Animale(s) |
| Cerebral Rot Excretion Of Mortality |
| Chaos Divine The Human Connection |
| Chapel of Disease ...And as We Have Seen the Storm |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? |
| Children of Bodom Halo of Blood |
| I can't in good conscience give this more than a 3.5 because they've done this sound to death (and done it better) but hell at least they're doing it well again. Bodom is back! m/ |
| Children of Bodom Hexed |
| Chimaira Chimaira |
| Chthonic Seediq Bale |
| Chthonic 政治 Battlefields of Asura |
| Coldworld The Stars Are Dead Now |
| Communic Conspiracy In Mind |
| Convulsing Perdurance |
| Cor Scorpii Monument |
| Crypta Echoes Of The Soul |
| Very solid old-school DM worship with some black metal riffs/melodies tossed in for good measure. Drumming is definitely the highlight. Vocals need work. Pretty engaging and fun. |
| Crypta Shades of Sorrow |
| Cryptic Shift Visitations from Enceladus |
| Cynic Focus |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done |
| Dark Tranquillity Character |
| Dark Tranquillity Atoma |
| Darkest Era Wither On The Vine |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us |
| Darkflight The Hereafter |
| Darkflight Entropy |
| VERY different for Darkflight, but actually still really good. I'm impressed that they were able to change up their sound this much and still make it work.rLots of (good) clean vocals, piano, softer tones, shorter songs, and a strong melodic focus. Still has that signature Darkflight riff tone that sounds like the guitars are crying in pain in a deeply emotionally satisfying way. Excited to see where this new sound goes. |
| Darkspace Dark Space I |
| Darkspace -I |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance |
| This is what happens in my brain whenever I'm listening to this: UWWW DEM RRRRRIIIIIIIIFFFFFFFFSSSSSSZZZZZAAAAAAAHHHHHWHOOHOHOHOYEAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! fuck this rules. |
| Daylight Dies Dismantling Devotion |
| Death Human |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns |
| Deathchain Deathrash Assault |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Deathspell Omega The Synarchy of Molten Bones |
| Deathspell Omega The Long Defeat |
| These soundoff exchanges are more entertaining than the album |
| Decrepit Birth Diminishing Between Worlds |
| Demolition Hammer Tortured Existence |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Der Weg Einer Freiheit |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Finisterre |
| Disturbed Believe |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists |
| Dordeduh Har |
| Dreadnought Emergence |
| Drowning the Light From the Abyss |
| Dvne Aurora Majesty |
| Echoes of the Moon Elusion |
| Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow |
| Eldamar The Force of the Ancient Land |
| Eluveitie Spirit |
| Eluveitie Origins |
| Empyrium Songs of Moors and Misty Fields |
| Empyrium Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays |
| Empyrium Über den Sternen |
| Encircling Sea A Forgotten Land |
| Eneferens The Inward Cold |
| Eneferens In The Hours Beneath |
| Enisum Samoht Nara |
| Enisum Forgotten Mountains |
| Ennoven Redemption |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum |
| Ensiferum Iron |
| Ensiferum Victory Songs |
| Enslaved Ruun |
| Enslaved In Times |
| Enslaved Heimdal |
| Epica The Divine Conspiracy |
| Epica The Holographic Principle |
| Epica Aspiral |
| Equilibrium Turis Fratyr |
| Erdling Supernova |
| Esoctrilihum Dy'th Requiem for the Serpent Telepath |
| Esoteric The Maniacal Vale |
| Eternal Deformity Frozen Circus |
| Eternal Deformity The Beauty of Chaos |
| Ethereal Shroud They Became the Falling Ash |
| Evoken Quietus |
| Evoken Hypnagogia |
| Falls of Rauros Into the Archaic (Demo) |
| Falls of Rauros Believe in No Coming Shore |
| It's really good yet I can't help but feel that the firey passion and enveloping atmosphere of Hail Wind is something this band will never quite capture again. |
| Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails |
| Fallujah Empyrean |
| Fear Factory Digimortal |
| Fear Factory Archetype |
| Fear Factory Mechanize |
| Fen Ancient Sorrow |
| Fen The Malediction Fields |
| Fen Epoch |
| Fen The Dead Light |
| Fen Monuments to Absence |
| Fen Stone and Sea |
| Feral Light Life Vapor |
| Finsterforst Rastlos |
| First Fragment Dasein |
| Forest Stream The Crown of Winter |
| Fractal Gates Beyond The Self |
| Fractal Gates One with Dawn |
| Frigoris Wind |
| Frigoris Nur Ein Moment... |
| Gallowbraid Ashen Eidolon |
| Galneryus Angel of Salvation |
| Garden of Shadows Oracle Moon |
| Ghost Bath Moonlover |
| Glass Casket Desperate Man's Diary |
| Godsmack Awake |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage |
| Gorath Apokálypsis (Unveiling the Age that is not to Come |
| Gorath The Fourth Era |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust |
| Green Carnation Leaves Of Yesteryear |
| Grima Nightside |
| Haenesy Katruzsa |
| Hath Hive |
| Havukruunu Havulinnaan |
| Havukruunu Kelle Surut Soi |
| Havukruunu Tavastland |
| Hellripper Warlocks Grim And Withered Hags |
| Hooded Menace Fulfill the Curse |
| Hoth Astral Necromancy |
| Human Serpent For I, The Misanthropist |
| Human Serpent The Gradual Immersion in Nihilism |
| Hyperdontia Nexus of Teeth |
| Illyria Take Me Somewhere Beautiful |
| Illyria Illyria |
| Immanifest Macrobial |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine |
| In Vain (NO) Mantra |
| In Vain (NO) The Latter Rain |
| Inborn Suffering Wordless Hope |
| Inexorum Lore of the Lakes |
| Inexorum Moonlit Navigation |
| Inexorum Equinox Vigil |
| Solid melodic BM with some pretty tasty riffs. Band has been slowly improving over time. Problem is the soundscape is extremely narrow and all the tracks sound the same and blend together. No real standout moments. But an enjoyable listen overall. |
| Inferi (USA) The Path of Apotheosis |
| Inferi (USA) Of Sunless Realms |
| Inferi (USA) Vile Genesis |
| Inquisition Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical... |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down |
| Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting |
| Insomnium Across the Dark |
| Insomnium Ephemeral |
| Insomnium Heart Like a Grave |
| Intestine Baalism Banquet in the Darkness |
| Intestine Baalism Ultimate Instinct |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms |
| Isole Silent Ruins |
| Janvs Fvlgvres |
| Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater |
| Judicator The Majesty of Decay |
| Kalisia Cybion |
| Kardashev The Baring of Shadows |
| Kardashev Peripety |
| Kardashev Alunea |
| Katatonia Brave Murder Day |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness |
| Khoma The Second Wave |
| Korn Follow the Leader |
| Korn The Serenity of Suffering |
| Korpiklaani Korven Kuningas |
| Krigsgrav Lux Capta Est |
| Krigsgrav Waves of Degradation |
| Krigsgrav Fires in the Fall |
| KYPCK Имена на стене (Name on the Wall) |
While still very good overall, it's definitely a step down from "Below". Without the
incredibly intriguing song structures and spectacular passion of their previous album, or
the crushing atmosphere and massive riffs of their debut, what's left is solid
songwriting, a great vocal performance, and a retread of material they've done before and
done better.rMy hope is that they will take more chances with changing up their core
sound next time around, as that might be the only thing that keeps one of my favorite
bands from sinking into mediocrity as quickly as they rose to the pinnacle of their
original inventive brand of metal music that is Tovarischam. Time will tell. |
| Labyrinthus Stellarum Tales of the Void |
| Labyrinthus Stellarum Vortex of the Worlds |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Lantlos .neon |
| Lascar Absence |
| Lascar Wildlife |
| Lascar Cryptospores |
| Lascar Depths |
| Les Discrets Ariettes Oubliees... |
| Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Lorna Shore ...And I Return to Nothingness |
| Lorna Shore Pain Remains |
| Lovebites Awakening From Abyss |
| Lovebites Battle Against Damnation |
| Lovebites Judgement Day |
| Lunarsea Hydrodynamic Wave |
| Made Out of Babies The Ruiner |
| Mar De Grises Draining The Waterheart |
| Mare Cognitum The Sea Which Has Become Known |
| Mare Cognitum Phobos Monolith |
| Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm |
| Best Mare since Lucidity, feeling the passion on this one. |
| Martriden The Unsettling Dark |
| Martriden Martriden EP |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Melechesh Emissaries |
| Mental Cruelty Zwielicht |
| Mesarthim Spire |
| Mesarthim The Great Filter |
| Mesarthim CLG J02182–05102 |
| Meshuggah Nothing |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree |
| Metallica Master Of Puppets |
| Metallica Ride The Lightning |
| Mirrorthrone Gangrene |
| Miseration Your Demons ~ Their Angels |
| Miserere Luminis Miserere Luminis |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart |
| Mithridatic Miserable Miracle |
| Moonsorrow Suden Uni |
| Moonsorrow Voimasta ja Kunniasta |
| Moonsorrow Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa |
| Mors Principium Est Liberation = Termination |
| Mors Principium Est The Unborn |
| Mors Principium Est Dawn of the 5th Era |
| Mournful Congregation The Monad Of Creation |
| Mourning Beloveth The Sullen Sulcus |
| Mourning Beloveth A Disease For The Ages |
| Mouth Of The Architect The Ties That Blind |
| Mouth Of The Architect The Violence Beneath |
| Mouth Of The Architect Dawning |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 |
| Mylingar Doda Vagar |
| Myrkur Mareridt |
| Nadra Allir vegir til glötunar |
| Nahemah Chrysalis |
| Ne Obliviscaris Hiraeth |
| NECRONOMIDOL Nemesis |
| Um,okay so yeah, this is....like...tripped the fuck out... |
| Nel Buio Nel Buio |
| Nemus See - Mensch |
| Nervosa Downfall Of Mankind |
| Nervosa Perpetual Chaos |
| Nhor Whisperers to this Archaic Growth |
| Nifrost Motvind |
| Nightwish Once |
| Nokturnal Mortum The Voice of Steel |
| Oathbreaker Rheia |
| Obliteration Cenotaph Obscure |
| Obliteration Nekropsalms |
| Obsequiae Suspended in the Brume of Eos |
| Obsequiae The Palms of Sorrowed Kings |
| Oceans of Sadness Mirror Palace |
| Oceans of Slumber Winter |
| Old Graves This Ruin Beneath Snowfall |
| Onirism The Well of Stars |
| Opeth Orchid |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes |
| Opeth Pale Communion |
| There's a reason that even in the extremely opinionated world of sputnik this still has a 3.8 average. It's really good. |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Värähtelijä |
| Otep The_Ascension |
| Oxygen Destroyer Bestial Manifestations of Malevolence and Death |
Basically a 3.2 but I'm bumping it up
because...c'mon. Godzilla. |
| Pallbearer Foundations of Burden |
| Panopticon Roads to the North |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven |
| Panzerchrist Battalion Beast |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Gletschertor/Das schwarze Metall-Eisen |
| Paysage d'Hiver Geister |
| Percht Dawnshrine |
| Phobocosm Foreordained |
| Pitchshifter www.pitchshifter.com |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Portal Swarth |
| Portal Avow |
| Powerman 5000 Tonight the Stars Revolt |
| Primordial The Gathering Wilderness |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Protest the Hero Fortress (Instrumental) |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest |
| Raintime Flies And Lies |
| Rammstein Herzeleid |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise |
| Rammstein Völkerball |
| Rammstein Zeit |
| Remembrance Silencing The Moments |
| Replacire The Human Burden |
| Replacire The Center That Cannot Hold |
| Rivers of Nihil Monarchy |
| Rorcal Heliogabalus |
| Rorcal Myrra, Mordvynn, Marayaa |
| Rorcal Silence |
Agree with Aspie, this is basically
Vilagvege with slightly more pronounced
riffs but considerably less
intimidating/terrifying. Solid stuff but I
think falling back into an older
style/sound wasn't the right direction. |
| Rotting Christ Kata Ton Demona Eaftou |
| Ruadh Eternal |
| Ruadh Sovereign |
| Russian Circles Memorial |
| Russian Circles Gnosis |
| Sadness Close |
| Sadness Acjétêc |
| Sadness Rose / Lavender |
| Sadness Rain |
| Sadness I Want to Be There |
| Sadness Alluring the distant eye |
| Sadness _____ |
| Sadness tortuga |
| Sadness Demo 11 |
| Sadness Our Time Is Here |
| Sadness I Love You |
| Saidan Jigoku: Spiraling Chasms of Blackst Hell |
| Saille Ritu |
| Saille Eldritch |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe |
| Seltar Declaración MMXV |
| Sepultura Chaos A.D. |
| Sepultura Beneath The Remains |
| Serpentcult Weight of Light |
| Serpentcult Raised by Wolves |
| Sertraline These Mills Are Oceans |
| Shape of Despair Angels Of Distress |
| Shape of Despair Monotony Fields |
| Shores of Null Quiescence |
| Show Me A Dinosaur Dust |
| SIG:AR:TYR Citadel of Stars |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild |
| Skeletal Remains Devouring Mortality |
| Skeletonwitch Serpents Unleashed |
| Skyfire Spectral |
| Skyforest Aftermath |
| Slimelord Chytridiomycosis Relinquished |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Slow (BE) IV - Mythologiæ |
| Slow (BE) II - Deeper in the Space, Higher In... |
| Slow (BE) III - Gaïa |
| Slugdge Gastronomicon |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite |
| Sojourner Empires of Ash |
| Solefald Norron Livskunst |
| Solefald The Linear Scaffold |
| Solefald World Metal. Kosmopolis Sud |
| Goddman this is some weird shit. It's also really good. |
| Solstafir Köld |
| Sombres Forets La Mort du Soleil |
| Sorcier Des Glaces Un Monde de Glace et de Sang |
| Spaceslug Eye the Tide |
| Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum Sol |
| Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine |
| Spectral Voice Sparagmos |
| Spires (MAN-UK) The Whisperer |
| Stake The Hutch |
| Starkill Fires of Life |
| Starkill Virus of the Mind |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion |
| SubRosa (US) No Help for the Mighty Ones |
| SubRosa (US) For This We Fought the Battle of Ages |
| Swampborn Alleged Escape |
| Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy |
| Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| Thanatos Emerging from the Netherworlds |
| The Agonist Prisoners |
| The Arcane Order The Machinery of Oblivion |
| The Faceless Akeldama |
| The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li |
| The Great Old Ones EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy |
| The Haunted The Dead Eye |
| The Morningside Yellow |
| So much better than their last two albums. The Morningside is back on their game. |
| The Sword Age Of Winters |
| The Sword Warp Riders |
| Thrawsunblat Metachthonia |
| Thurisaz Scent of a Dream |
| Thurisaz The Cimmerian Years |
| Thurisaz The Pulse of Mourning |
| Thy Catafalque Sgùrr |
| Thy Catafalque Tuno Ido Tarlat |
| Thy Catafalque Roka Hasa Radio |
| Thy Catafalque Zápor |
| Thy Light Suici.De.pression |
| Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance |
| Tomb Mold Manor of Infinite Forms |
| Tombstoner Descent to Madness |
This is what Waking the Crapdaver wishes
they sounded like. 3.6/5 |
| Tool Opiate |
| Tool Undertow |
| Transcending Bizarre? The Serpent's Manifolds |
| Traveler (CAN) Traveler |
| Traveler (CAN) Termination Shock |
| Traveler (CAN) Prequel to Madness |
| Trha §ºanωë Aglivajsamë Cá Nëlh¶iha |
| Trha av◊ëlajnt◊ë£ hinnem nihre |
| Trha Nvenlanëg |
| Trha novej qalhnjënno |
| Trha Vat Gëlénva!!! |
| Trha lhum'ad'sejja |
| Trha faj den EnΩëtonëghappan nvona Tóvarba |
| Trha ∫um'ad∂ejja mºoravaj |
| Trha di nido jad - ◊untwan law¶ur dëhajt◊ejn - a∫ëtana |
| Tribulation The Horror |
| Trna Earthcult |
| Uada Cult of a Dying Sun |
| Ulcerate Vermis |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire |
| Ulcerate Cutting the Throat of God |
| Ulthar Cosmovore |
| Ulthar Providence |
| Ulvik Cascades |
| Underoath Lost In The Sound Of Separation |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm |
| Uneven Structure Februus |
| Unleash The Archers Time Stands Still |
| Unleash The Archers Phantoma |
| Unreqvited Stars Wept to the Sea |
| Unreqvited Empathica |
| Vallendusk Black Clouds Gathering |
| Vaura The Missing |
| Vinterbris Solace |
| Violet Cold Desperate Dreams |
| Volcandra Into the Azure |
| Vukari Aevum |
| VVilderness Devour the Sun |
| Waldgefluster Meine Fesseln |
| Waldgefluster Ruinen |
| Waning The Human Condition |
| We Lost the Sea A Single Flower |
| Really solid stuff, better than Triumph. Last track is too long for what it's trying to do. Great atmospherics, some sweet riffs, and a sensible progression towards finding a new version of their sound. rBut it's obvious at this point the the poor bastards can never top Departure Songs, that was lightning in a bottle and they'll forever exist in its shadow. |
| White Ward False Light |
| Wiegedood There's Always Blood at the End of the Road |
| Windir Det Gamle Riket |
| With the End in Mind Unraveling; Arising |
| Wode Servants of the Countercosmos |
| Wolfheart Winterborn |
| Wolfheart Shadow World |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana |
| Woman Is The Earth Dust of Forever |
| Woman Is The Earth This Place That Contains My Spirit |
| Woods of Desolation As The Stars |
| Words of Farewell Immersion |
| Wormed Exodromos |
| Wormed Krighsu |
| Wormed Metaportal |
| Wormed Omegon |
| Wyrd Kammen |
| Xanthochroid Blessed He With Boils |
| 3.0 good |
| ...and Oceans Cosmic World Mother |
| A Light In The Dark Vanished |
| Abigor Leytmotif Luzifer |
| Abstract Void Into the Blue |
| Acausal Intrusion Nulitas |
| Afar Selfless |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Ahab The Boats of the Glen Carrig |
| Alcest Shelter |
| Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge |
| Alien Weaponry Tū |
| Allegaeon Proponent for Sentience |
| Alter Bridge Fortress |
| Alter Bridge AB III |
| Amenra Mass V |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God |
| Amorphis Skyforger |
| Amorphis Circle |
| Amorphis Queen of Time |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Animosity Shut It Down |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin |
| Architects Daybreaker |
| Architects Nightmares |
| Archspire The Lucid Collective |
| Arkona (RUS) От сердца к небу |
| Arkona (RUS) Slovo |
| Arsis We Are the Nightmare |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| Ashbringer Absolution |
| Ashbringer We Came Here to Grieve |
| Have to agree with the other Soundoffs here. Some really great ideas and good deal of passion behind them but falls nearly flat on the execution. rFirst two tracks are amazing, but then the next two starkly demonstrate why the vocals and production just don't work here. Guy tries to sing like he has a better voice than he does, and the screams, while pretty solid, and mushed into the instrumentation in a very unsatisfying way. Said instrumentation is solid but perhaps a little too spastic and disparate (i.e. the band sounds like they are not meshing all that well most of the time). A valiant effort but they need to pick and chose sonic elements more carefully, and do something with their production that's?not this. |
| Asunojokei Wishes |
| Ataraxie L'être et la Nausée |
| August Burns Red Death Below |
| BABYMETAL BABYMETAL |
| Band-Maid Maid in Japan |
| Band-Maid Conqueror |
| Belenos Errances Oniriques |
| Beneath the Massacre Fearmonger |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| Bhavachakra Bhavachakra |
| Black Crown Initiate Selves We Cannot Forgive |
| Blood Incantation Interdimensional Extinction |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery |
| Bloody Panda Summon |
| Borknagar True North |
| Buried Realm The Ichor Carcinoma |
| Technical wizardry in spades but not much else. Songwriting is not terribly engaging and it just gets tiresome after a while. Still pretty good overall. |
| Buried Realm Embodiment of the Divine |
| Pretty much the same as the first album. Songwriting improved slightly and it being a little shorter helps but it's still kind of lifeless and somewhat uninteresting. Latest album (Spectral Light) is their best yet, mostly because they shortened the average track length and tightened up the songwriting so everything hits harder. |
| Cairiss Fall |
| Carach Angren Lammendam |
| Carcass Heartwork |
| Celeste Infidele(s) |
| Cerebral Rot Odious Descent Into Decay |
| Chaos Divine Colliding Skies |
| Chapel of Disease Echoes of Light |
| Children of Bodom I Worship Chaos |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild |
| Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason |
| Chthonic 高砂軍 Takasago Army |
| Coffincraft In Eerie Slumber |
| Coldworld Wolves And Sheep |
| Communic The Bottom Deep |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Corelia Nostalgia |
| Cosmic Putrefaction At the Threshold of the Greatest Chasm |
| Cosmic Putrefaction The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers |
| Cynthesis ReEvolution |
| Dark Tranquillity Haven |
| Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void |
| Dark Tranquillity Construct |
| Dark Tranquillity Skydancer |
| Dark Tranquillity The Mind's I |
| Dark Tranquillity Endtime Signals |
| Dark Tranquillity Moment |
| Darkspace Dark Space -II |
| Daylight Dies No Reply |
| Deadlock Wolves |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Deafheaven Roads To Judah |
| Deafheaven Lonely People With Power |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Detonation Emission Phase |
| DevilDriver The Last Kind Words |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Pandora's Pinata |
| Disarmonia Mundi Mind Tricks |
| Disillusion Gloria |
| Disillusion Ayam |
| Disillusion Alea |
| Disillusion The Liberation |
| Disturbed The Sickness |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage |
| Drought (ITA) Trimurti |
| Drowning Pool Sinner |
| Dvne Progenitor |
| Echoes of the Moon Absence |
| Eldamar A Dark Forgotten Past |
| Elderwind The Colder The Night |
| Ellende Ellende |
| Eluveitie Everything Remains As It Never Was |
| Eluveitie Helvetios |
| Eluveitie Ategnatos |
| Empyrium A Wintersunset... |
| Empyrium The Turn of the Tides |
| Enisum Moth's Illusion |
| Enshine Transcending Fire |
| Enslaved RIITIIR |
| Enslaved E |
| Epica Design Your Universe |
| Epica Omega |
| Equilibrium Erdentempel |
| Erdling Aus den Tiefen |
| Erdling Dämon |
| Erdling Yggdrasil |
| Esoctrilihum Consecration of the Spiritus Flesh |
| Ethereal Shroud Trisagion |
| Euphoreon Euphoreon |
| Evanescence Fallen |
| Evoken Embrace the Emptiness |
| Evoking Winds Your Rivers |
| Falls of Rauros Vigilance Perennial |
| Falls of Rauros Key to a Vanishing Future |
| I mostly agree with Pika, it's just too all over the place. Sounds less "new and spontaneous" and more like they're trying to find a logical progression from their last three albums and they're just not quite sure what to do with their sound at this point. That being said, some of the heavier parts and odd change-ups do work rather well and I find this about as enjoyable as their last three. I'm probably in the minority finding their debut to be their best work still. The raw, stripped down, genuinely emotional approach presented there, along with what I consider to be their most engaging songwriting considering the track lengths hasn't been topped (though Rotten Wood came close). They started down a different path with Shore and imo just haven't managed to nail things down since then (Patterns was close). I feel like if they took the best elements from Hail Wind/Rotten Wood and Patterns they would have the perfect album. |
| Fallujah The Harvest Wombs |
| Fallujah Nomadic |
| Fallujah Dreamless |
| Fauna Avifauna |
| Fear Factory Obsolete |
| Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine |
| Fear Factory The Industrialist |
| Fear Factory Aggression Continuum |
| Fires in the Distance Air Not Meant For Us |
| First Fragment Gloire Eternelle |
| Fractal Gates Altered State Of Consciousness |
| Fuath II |
| Ghost Brigade Isolation Songs |
| Ghost Brigade Until Fear No Longer Defines Us |
| Ghost Brigade IV - One with the Storm |
| Godsmack Godsmack |
| Gojira The Link |
| Gojira Terra Incognita |
| Gojira Fortitude |
| Hell (UK) Curse and Chapter |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion |
| Hooded Menace Darkness Drips Forth |
| Hour of Penance Sedition |
| Human Serpent Heirlooms Eternal |
| Humanity's Last Breath Ashen |
Take A: bonecrushingly heavy badass album,
super awesome.
Take B: Structureless noise, not even that
heavy, very ungood.
Correct take: s'aight. |
| Hyperion (SWE) Seraphical Euphony |
| Iced Earth Burnt Offerings |
| Ill Nino Confession |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans |
| In Mourning Afterglow |
| In Mourning Garden of Storms |
| In Vain (NO) Solemn |
| Inanimate Existence A Never-Ending Cycle of Atonement |
| Inborn Suffering Regression To Nothingness |
| Inferi (USA) Revenant |
| Insomnium Anno 1696 |
| Intestine Baalism An Anatomy of the Beast |
| Intronaut Void |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| Judicator Let There Be Nothing |
| Kalmah The Black Waltz |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts |
| Kauan Sorni Nai |
| Khoma A Final Storm |
| Korn Life Is Peachy |
| Korn Take a Look in the Mirror |
| Korn See You on the Other Side |
| Korn Requiem |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
| Lantlos Wildhund |
| Lascar Palynomorphs |
| Lascar Distant Imaginary Oceans |
| Le Grand Guignol The Great Maddening |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Los Males Del Mundo Descent Towards Death |
| Lovebites Clockwork Immortality |
| Lunar Chamber Shambhallic Vibrations |
| Machine Head The Blackening |
| Majesties Vast Reaches Unclaimed |
| Malignant Altar Realms of Exquisite Morbidity |
| Manetheren Time |
| Mare Cognitum Luminiferous Aether |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim |
| Mechina Conqueror |
| Megadeth United Abominations |
| Megadeth Rust In Peace |
| Melechesh Enki |
| Mesarthim Presence |
| Mesarthim Coma Wall |
| Mesarthim Vacuum Solution |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Metallica ...And Justice For All |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Meytal Alchemy |
| Mirrorthrone Carriers of Dust |
| Mirrorthrone Of Wind and Weeping |
| Miserere Luminis Ordalie |
| Misery Signals Mirrors |
| Misery Signals Absent Light |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet |
| Misery Speaks Catalogue Of Carnage |
| Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky |
| Moonspell Night Eternal |
| Mors Principium Est Inhumanity |
| Mors Principium Est Embers of a Dying World |
| Mourning Beloveth Formless |
| Mourning Beloveth Dust |
| Mouth Of The Architect Time and Withering |
| Mouth Of The Architect Path of Eight |
| Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come |
| Myrkur Myrkur |
| Myrkur M |
| Dem Cleans...rAre really the only thing good here. But man they're really good. |
| Ne Obliviscaris Sarabande to Nihil |
| Negura Bunget OM |
| Nervosa Victim of Yourself |
| Neurosis Given To The Rising |
| Neurosis Times Of Grace |
| Nevermore This Godless Endeavor |
| Nhor Nhor |
| Nhor Upon Which Was Written Within The Stars |
| Nightwish Oceanborn |
| Novembers Doom The Novella Reservoir |
| Nyktalgia Nyktalgia |
| Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros |
| Obscure Sphinx Void Mother |
| October Tide A Thin Shell |
| Olhava Frozen Bloom |
| Olhava Reborn |
| Olhava Olhava |
| Olhava Ladoga |
| Omega Infinity The Anticurrent |
| Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows |
| They definitely improved with this release, and in pretty much all areas, and but it still sounds like very generic (and not very emotionally stirring) melo-death. Will be keeping an eye on these guys though. |
| Onirism Cosmic Dream |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth Sorceress |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Valonielu |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi |
| Origin Antithesis |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) |
| Otep Sevas Tra |
| Otep House of Secrets |
| Otep Jihad |
| Oxxo Xoox Reveurt |
| Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction |
| Pallbearer Fear and Fury |
| Pallbearer Heartless |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill |
| Paradise Lost The Plague Within |
| Never did like these guys much. Unfortunately this album has not changed my mind. |
| Paysage d'Hiver Steineiche |
| Paysage d'Hiver Schattengang |
| Perennial Isolation Portraits |
| Pharaoh Be Gone |
| Pomegranate Tiger Entities |
| Fantastic technicality, these guys can really play the bejesus out of their respective instruments, but it all seems rather directionless, and lacks emotion. There's a whole lot of cool stuff going on, and some really slick change ups, but it all feels like it's going nowhere fast. Rating might go up a bit with more listens. |
| Portal Vexovoid |
| Portal ION |
| Primordial To The Nameless Dead |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Protest the Hero Volition |
| Pyramaze Immortal |
| Raintime Tales from Sadness |
| Rammstein Untitled |
| Rammstein Rosenrot |
| Rings of Saturn Dingir |
| Rivers of Nihil The Conscious Seed of Light |
| Rivers of Nihil The Work |
| Rivers of Nihil Temporality Unbound |
| Rivers of Nihil Criminals |
| Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe |
| Rorcal Muladona |
| Rotting Christ Rituals |
| Sadness Fading Days Away... |
| Sadness Greyness of a Young Despondency |
| Sadness Wounded Solitude |
| Sadness Distances... |
| Sadness Such a Short Time... |
| Sadness Mariposa |
| Sadness Rain Chamber |
| Sadness Atna |
| Sadness To Despair Of... |
| Sadness Tundra |
| Sadness To Have Ever Had |
| Sadness Split with An Open Letter |
| Sadness Otro |
| Sadness Sun into Water |
| Sadness holding |
| Saidan Onryo: Vengeful Spirits in Eastern Night |
| Saille Irreversible decay |
| Sammath Godless Arrogance |
| Saor Origins |
| Scar Symmetry The Unseen Empire |
| Secrets of the Moon Seven Bells |
| Septicflesh Communion |
| Sertraline From Both Our Hands |
| Shadows Fall The Art of Balance |
| Shylmagoghnar Transience |
| Skeletonwitch Breathing the Fire |
| Skeletonwitch Forever Abomination |
| Skepticism Alloy |
| Skullcrush Archaic Towers of Annihilation |
| Skyforest Harmony |
| Skyharbor Guiding Lights |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind |
| Slow (BE) I - Silence Lives Out/Over Whirlpool |
| Sojourner The Shadowed Road |
| Sombres Forets Quintessence |
| Stomach Earth Stomach Earth |
| Stratovarius Unbreakable |
| Summoning Oath Bound |
| Sunwolf Beholden To Nothing And No One |
| Swallow the Sun Hope |
| Sylvaine Eg Er Framand |
| Basically Sylvaine's "Shelter". So, some will absolutely love it, but most will find it kinda boring. Can't deny those gorgeous vocals though. |
| Symbolik Emergence |
| Kinda wonky, and mixed a bit too high pitched, but it'll get your blood pumping, and the symphonic elements are actually quite well done. Songwriting is rather stagnant but they keep the tracks brief and the pace quick. Not the strongest full-length debut but there's solid potential here. |
| Symphony X Twilight in Olympus |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! |
| The Arcane Order Cult Of None |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality |
| The Great Old Ones Cosmicism |
| The Great Old Ones Al Azif |
| The Morningside TreeLogia (The Album As it is Not) |
| The Sword Apocryphon |
| The Warning Queen of the Murder Scene |
| Thrawsunblat Great Brunswick Forest |
| Thrawsunblat Wanderer on the Continent of Saplings |
| Thrawsunblat Insula |
| Thurisaz Re-Incentive |
| Thy Catafalque Meta |
| Thy Catafalque Geometria |
| Thy Catafalque Microcosmos |
| Tombstoner Rot Stink Rip |
| Torchbearer Warnaments |
| Transcending Bizarre? The Misanthrope's Fable |
| Transcending Bizarre? The Four Scissors |
| Trha Endlhëtonëg |
| Trha tálcunnana dëhajma tun dejl bënatsë abcul’han dlhenisë ëlh inagat.. |
| Trha lhum jolhduc |
| Trha inagape |
| Trha endlhëdëhaj qáshmëna ëlh vim innivte |
| Trha Rhejde Qhaominvac Tla Aglhaonamëc |
| Triptykon Melana Chasmata |
| Turisas The Varangian Way |
| Tzompantli Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force |
| Uada Devoid of Light |
| Uada Djinn |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All |
| Ulcerate The Coming of Genocide (Demo Comp) |
| Ulcerate Of Fracture and Failure |
| Underoath Define The Great Line |
| Unearth Darkness in the Light |
| Unearth The Stings of Conscience |
| Unearth The Wretched; The Ruinous |
| Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium |
| Unleash The Archers Demons Of The Astrowaste |
| Unreqvited Mosaic I: l'amour et l'ardeur |
| Unreqvited Mosaic II: la déteste et la détresse |
| Unreqvited Beautiful Ghosts |
| Valdrin Throne of the Lunar Soul |
| Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter |
| Violet Cold Noir Kid |
| Violet Cold Multiverse |
| Solid, definitely better than his last two but he needs to figure out something actually interesting to do with his sound. Getting old at this point, hasn't really changed much at all since Dreams. Never gonna top the Sommermorgen trilogy. |
| Volcandra Border World |
| Volcandra The Way of Ancients |
| Vorga Beyond the Palest Star |
| Vukari Divination |
| VVilderness Dark Waters |
| VVilderness As Above, So Below |
| Warning Watching from a Distance |
| We Lost the Sea Triumph and Disaster |
| Widek Outside the Universe |
| Windfaerer Alma |
| Windir Sogneriket |
| Winterfylleth The Reckoning Dawn |
| Winterfylleth The Threnody Of Triumph |
| Winterfylleth The Imperious Horizon |
| Wintersun Time I |
| Wintersun Time II |
| With the End in Mind Thresholder |
| Withered Folie Circulaire |
| Wode Wode |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade |
| Woman Is The Earth Depths |
| Woman Is The Earth Torch of Our Final Night |
| Zao Liberate Te Ex Inferis |
| 2.5 average |
| 40 Below Summer Fire at Zero Gravity |
| Abigail Williams In the Absence of Light |
| Ahamkara The Embers Of The Stars |
| Alestorm Black Sails at Midnight |
| Alestorm Back Through Time |
| Allelic À Contre Vent |
| Alter Bridge One Day Remains |
| Amiensus Abreaction |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising |
| Amorphis The Beginning of Times |
| Arch Enemy The Root of All Evil |
| Architects The Here and Now |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom |
| Ascension of the Watchers Apocrypha |
| Ashbringer Vacant |
| Astronoid Astronoid |
| August Burns Red Messengers |
| BABYMETAL Metal Galaxy |
| Be'lakor Coherence |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Beyond Creation Algorythm |
| Bloodbath Grand Morbid Funeral |
| Book of Black Earth Horoskopus |
| Bullet For My Valentine The Poison |
| Burzum Filosofem |
| Carach Angren Death Came Through a Phantom Ship |
| Carach Angren Where the Corpses Sink Forever |
| Castrator Defiled in Oblivion |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool |
| Chimaira Resurrection |
| Chimaira Pass Out of Existence |
| Chthonic 十殿 Mirror Of Retribution |
| Coldworld Isolation |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Cor Scorpii Ruin |
| Corelia New Wilderness |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us |
| Dark Tranquillity Projector |
| Deadlock Manifesto |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda |
| Doomsword Let Battle Commence |
| Dordeduh Dar de Duh |
| Downfall of Nur Umbras de Barbagia |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm |
| DragonForce Valley Of The Damned |
| Echoes of the Moon Presence |
| Eluveitie Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion |
| Eluveitie Evocation II: Pantheon |
| Ensiferum From Afar |
| Enslaved Utgard |
| Epica Requiem for the Indifferent |
| Equilibrium Rekreatur |
| Fires in the Distance Echoes From Deep November |
| Five Finger Death Punch The Way Of The Fist |
| Five Finger Death Punch War Is The Answer |
| Fuath I |
| Gates of Winter Lux Aeterna |
| Ghost Bath Funeral |
| Ghost Brigade Guided By Fire |
| Godsmack Faceless |
| Gojira Magma |
| Hamferd Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk |
| Helfro Helfro |
| Hooded Menace Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed |
| I Am Abomination Jaw Dropper |
| Ihsahn Ihsahn |
| Ikuinen Kaamos Fall of Icons |
| In Mourning The Bleeding Veil |
| In Vain (NO) Currents |
| Inter Arma Sky Burial |
| Intronaut Valley Of Smoke |
| Kalmah 12 Gauge |
| Kalmah Seventh Swamphony |
| Kamelot Epica |
| Kamijo Symphony of the Vampire |
| Agree with Mythodea 100%. Instrumentation is fantastic but it's all just too much, I can't X( |
| Katatonia City Burials |
| Katatonia Sky Void of Stars |
| Korn Untouchables |
| Korn The Nothing |
| Krigsgrav The Carrion Fields |
| Lamb of God Wrath |
| Lantlos Agape |
| Leviathan True Traitor, True Whore |
| Malefice Entities |
| Malefice Dawn Of Reprisal |
| Manegarm Vargstenen |
| Marsh Dweller The Weight of Sunlight |
| Mastodon Remission |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand |
| Mechina Empyrean |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Melechesh The Epigenesis |
| Mesarthim The Density Parameter |
| Mesarthim The Degenerate Era |
| Miasme perpetual.terminal |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy |
| Miseration The Mirroring Shadow |
| Miseration Tragedy Has Spoken |
| Misery Speaks Misery Speaks |
| Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis |
| Mourning Beloveth A Murderous Circus |
| Myrkur Folkesange |
| Neurosis The Eye Of Every Storm |
| Omega Infinity Solar Spectre |
| Omnium Gatherum The Redshift |
| Orphaned Land All Is One |
| Otep Smash the Control Machine |
| Otep Atavist |
| Paradise Lost Paradise Lost |
| Paradise Lost Obsidian |
| Paysage d'Hiver Nacht |
| Paysage d'Hiver Kerker |
| Paysage d'Hiver Die Festung |
| Primal Fear Delivering The Black |
| Revocation Empire of the Obscene |
| Rob Zombie The Sinister Urge |
| Rotting Christ The Heretics |
| Rotting Christ Pro Xristou |
| Sacred Outcry Towers of Gold |
| Scar Symmetry Dark Matter Dimensions |
| Septicflesh The Great Mass |
| Sepultura Roots |
| Shade Empire Omega Arcane |
| Shape of Despair Illusion's Play |
| SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes? |
| Slice the Cake Odyssey to the West |
| Honestly wish I understood what everyone is on about with this. But this cake has about 9 too many layers and none of them are particularly tasty. Lots of intricate writing that goes nowhere, and an overabundance of aggression that gets tiresome quickly. Like I said, wish I could get it but it's just not there for me : |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter |
| Sojourner Premonitions |
| Sojourner Perennial |
| Spectral Lore Ετερόφωτος |
| Spires (MAN-UK) Spiral of Ascension |
| Stratovarius Nemesis |
| SuidAkrA Caledonia |
| Symphony X The Odyssey |
| Textures Silhouettes |
| Thantifaxath Sacred White Noise |
| The Absence Riders of the Plague |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Morningside Moving Crosscurrent of Time |
| The Warning XXI Century Blood |
| Thy Catafalque Naiv |
| Undivine A Deceitful Calm |
| Unearth The March |
| Unearth Extinction(s) |
| Unleash The Archers Behold the Devastation |
| Vinterbris Vinterbris |
| Violet Cold Empire of Love |
Do I want politics shoved into my face
like this with music? No, I really
don't.rIs Violet Cold an extremely
talented artist who makes awesome
metal? Yes, he really is.rDefinitely
better that Noir Kid.
Edit: few more listens, this is
actually pretty boring. |
| Violet Cold Səni Uzaq Kainatlarda Axtarıram |
It's like he's just not quite sure
what to do with his sound at this
point. It's always been unique and
special, but he pretty much perfected
the harder side with Anomie, and the
softer side (and blending the two)
with the Sommermorgen trilogy.rThen he
tried experimenting too hard with Noir
Kid and Empire, and now he's back to
something along the lines of Magic
Night. So it's not bad by any means
but he's regressing. |
| Voivod Target Earth |
| Waning Feeding of Fragments |
| We Made God It's Getting Colder |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile |
| Winterfylleth The Divination Of Antiquity |
| Witch Vomit Funeral Sanctum |
| Withered Dualitas |
| Within Temptation The Silent Force |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage |
| 2.0 poor |
| All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers |
| Amiensus Ascension |
| Listened to this once. No desire to spin it again. Unfortuneate. |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods |
| Arch Enemy Khaos Legions |
| Arch Enemy War Eternal |
| Arghoslent Incorrigible Bigotry |
| Astronoid Radiant Bloom |
| Ataraxie Anhedonie |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking The Fallen |
| Bloody Panda Pheromone |
| Bloodywood Rakshak |
| Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia |
| Blotted Science The Animation of Entomology |
| Book of Black Earth The Cold Testament |
| Brat Social Grace |
| Brutalism (USA) Solace in Absurdity |
| Bullet For My Valentine Bullet for My Valentine |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk |
| ColdCell Age of Unreason |
| Wanted to like this more than I did. Solid atmosphere and some pretty cool drumming, but the riffs and the song structures are dull and all sound the same, which makes this drag hard. Valiant attempt at a unique vocal performance but it falls short, and the lyrics (which are actually somewhat intelligible) are a bunch of self-indulgent preachy, finger-pointing nonsense. Normally I don't care about lyrics but because the guy was going for "desperate cries" but instead ended up with "whiny wailing", they stood out (to the album's detriment). 2.2/5 |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway |
| Cynic Traced In Air Remixed |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love |
| Deafheaven Infinite Granite |
| Detonation Reprisal |
| Disturbed Indestructible |
| Dope Life |
| Dragoncorpse The Drakketh Saga |
| DragonForce The Power Within |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos |
| Ensiferum Unsung Heroes |
| Equilibrium Armageddon |
| Fallujah Undying Light |
| Fear Factory Transgression |
| Five Finger Death Punch American Capitalist |
| Ghost Bath Starmourner |
| Godsmack IV |
| Guillotine (SWE) Blood Money |
| Hanging Garden TEOTWAWKI |
| Hanging Garden Against the Dying of the Light |
| In Mourning Monolith |
| In the Woods... Heart Of The Ages |
| Inanimate Existence Calling from a Dream |
| Kalmah For the Revolution |
| Kamelot Silverthorn |
| Katatonia Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State |
| Korn The Paradigm Shift |
| Malefice Awaken The Tides |
| Metallica Load |
| Metallica Reload |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Miseration Black Miracles And Dark Wonders |
| Misery Speaks Disciples Of Doom |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness |
| Motorhead Motörizer |
| Neurosis Through Silver In Blood |
| Nightwish Dark Passion Play |
| Non Est Deus Impious |
| I chuckle every time the spoken word comes on. Which is a lot. It's just badly done and poorly placed and massively distracts from what otherwise would have been pretty decent bm. |
| Obsidian Kingdom Torn and Burnt |
| Obsidian Kingdom A Year With No Summer |
| Pantera Reinventing the Steel |
| Paradise Lost In Requiem |
| Paradise Lost Medusa |
| Paysage d'Hiver Einsamkeit |
| Primordial Exile Amongst The Ruins |
| Raintime Psychromatic |
| Rob Zombie Educated Horses |
| Saturnus Veronika Decides To Die |
| Sepultura Nation |
| Sepultura Against |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| Solefald Norrønasongen Kosmopolis Nord |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip |
| SuidAkrA Crogacht |
| Symphony X Iconoclast |
| Textures Dualism |
| The Agonist Orphans |
| The Agonist Eye Of Providence |
| The Devil Wears Prada ZII |
| The Faceless Autotheism |
| The Morningside Letters From The Empty Towns |
I want to like this. I really do. But seriously, wth are these guys on about? Their debut
was genius, beautiful and meloncholy and melodic and painful and soaring and...this is just
some weird floaty atmospheric melo-death conglomeration of poorly paced and strangely
structured songs that pools into well, a mess. So sad these guys turned out this way. Maybe
someday they'll find their true sound. I sure hope this isn't it. |
| Thy Catafalque Sublunary Tragedies |
| Trivium In the Court of the Dragon |
| Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse |
| Voidwomb Altars of Cosmic Devotion |
| Vuvr Pilgrimage |
| Wilderun Veil of Imagination |
| Don't get the Opeth comparisons. This was irritating, and a chore to get through. |
| Wilderun Epigone |
| Wildways Into the Wild |
| Wintersun The Forest Seasons |
| Woe, Is Me Number[s] |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite |
