| 4.0 excellent |
| 2Pac All Eyez on Me |
| 40 Watt Sun The Inside Room |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| Addaura Burning for the Ancient |
| Aeroc Viscous Solid |
| AES Dana Memory Shell |
| AFX Hangable Auto Bulb EP |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes |
| Agrypnie F51.4 |
| Airs Rainclouds over the Remains of Hope |
This album is unarguably interesting. The black metal/shoegaze wave that has been sweeping over the scene may have found an emergent voice in Airs. The atmosphere is unmistakably black metal, yet the guitar's shimmering and the ethereal vocals bring to mind Slowdive or the Catherine Wheel. The songs are lengthy and show some post rock influence. The only drawback is a lack of consistency. Track two seems as if the beginning was chopped off during production, and track eight doesn't belong on this album at all. Despite those flaws, this is a very nice listen and this could be one of the better acts in its genre with a little more cohesiveness.
edit: I just listened to Gloomlights, and it looks like Airs has decided to change directions. Their music has no black metal influence at all, and reminded me of Blink182. Very disappointing. |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune |
| Alda Tahoma |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies |
| Alice in Chains Sap |
| Alice in Chains Facelift |
| Altar of Plagues Sol |
| Altar of Plagues Mammal |
| Ametsub Linear Cryptics |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Only The Ocean Knows |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Hearts Of Light/Blossoms |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love |
| Annorkoth The Last Days |
| Holy shit! It's the black metal m83! |
| Annorkoth Annorkoth |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II |
| Appalachian Winter Winter Eternal |
| Appalachian Winter Ghosts of the Mountains |
| This is a really unique black metal venture. AW borrows alot of civil war era musical technique... from the way certain passages are chanted to flutes and fiddles. Eastcoast USBM at it's finest. It's very epic in some places where the folk metal almost transcends to viking metal. I can't explain exactly what happens in Patriarchs, but it's one of the strangest black metal songs I've ever heard. Any fan of black, folk, or even viking metal should definitely check this. |
| Appalachian Winter Appalachian Winter |
| Arovane Tides |
| Arovane Lilies |
| Arovane Atol Scrap |
| Arovane Ve Palor |
| Asura Code Eternity |
| Asura Life2 |
| Ataraxie Anhedonie |
| Aurore Rien Telesthesia |
| Austere To Lay Like Old Ashes |
| Autechre LP5 |
| Autechre Incunabula |
| Autechre Draft 7.30 |
| Autechre Chiastic Slide |
| Autechre Oversteps |
| Autechre Garbage |
| Autechre Anvil Vapre |
| Autechre Cichlisuite |
| Autechre Exai |
| Time to commit seppuku, MisterTornado. The album's really good, so at least you'll have something nice to listen to on your way out |
| Bal-Sagoth Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne |
| Baroness Red Album |
| Baroness Blue Record |
| Bathory The Return of the Darkness and Evil |
| Bathory Twilight of the Gods |
| Battle Of Mice A Day of Nights |
| Be'lakor The Frail Tide |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach |
| Behemoth Demigod |
| Behemoth Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic) |
| Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond) |
| Belong October Language |
| Belong Colorloss Record |
| Biosphere Substrata |
| Biosphere Cirque |
| Biosphere Dropsonde |
| Bitcrush Of Embers |
| Fans of Lights Out Asia, Hammock, and m83 should check this out. |
| Bitcrush Epilogue in Waves |
| Black Dog Productions Bytes |
| Blindead Autoscopia: Murder In Phazes |
| Blindead Affliction XXIX II MCMXCVI |
| Blindead Absence |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase |
| Boards of Canada Hi Scores |
| Boards of Canada A Few Old Tunes |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest |
| Bola Soup |
| Bonobo The North Borders |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
| Bright Eyes Letting Off the Happiness |
| Bruce Dickinson Accident of Birth |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var |
| Callisto Noir |
| Carach Angren Lammendam |
| Carach Angren Death Came Through a Phantom Ship |
| Carach Angren Where the Corpses Sink Forever |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Interloper |
| Casino Versus Japan Whole Numbers Play the Basics |
| Ceephax Cro Magnox |
| Wow, I didn't expect this. Awesome album. |
| Cerna Restoring Life |
| Cobalt Gin |
| Cold Body Radiation The Great White Emptiness |
| Coldworld Melancholie² |
| Cradle of Filth Midian |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast |
| Cryptic Wintermoon The Age of Cataclysm |
| Csejthe Reminiscence |
| Cult of Luna The Beyond |
| Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal |
| CunninLynguists Dirty Acres |
| CunninLynguists Will Rap For Food |
| CunninLynguists Southernunderground |
| Current 93 Black Ships Ate the Sky |
| Current 93 Imperium |
| Current 93 Earth Covers Earth |
| Current 93 Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre |
| Current 93 Soft Black Stars |
| Current 93 Sleep Has His House |
| Cynic Focus |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Dammerfarben Herbstpfad |
| This album was largely ignored on sputnik this year. It is popular on certain blogs, but it appears that the name Dammerfarben has yet to make itself heard on this website. It is a shame, because they have released two fantastic albums which deserve more coverage then they've been getting. If you enjoy Wyrd, Finsterforst, or Drudkh you will enjoy this. It's available for free download, so there's no reason not to check Dammerfarben out. Highly recommended. |
| Dargaard Rise and Fall |
| Dargaard In Nomine Aeternitatis |
| Dargaard The Dissolution of Eternity |
| Daylight Dies No Reply |
| Daylight Dies Lost to the Living |
| Daylight Dies Idle |
| Daylight Dies A Frail Becoming |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah |
| Death Leprosy |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Delarosa and Asora Agony Part 1 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Der Weg Einer Freiheit |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Agonie |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Unstille |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant |
| Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst |
| Dissection The Somberlain |
| Doom VS Aeternum Vale |
| Doom VS Dead Words Speak |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic |
| Dr. Dre 2001 |
| Draconian Where Lovers Mourn |
| Draconian Turning Season Within |
| dredg Leitmotif |
| dredg Catch Without Arms |
| Drudkh Forgotten Legends |
| Drudkh Estrangement |
| Drudkh Microcosmos |
| Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel |
| Edge of Sanity The Spectral Sorrows |
| Ef I Am Responsible |
| Ef Ceremonies |
| Einherjer Norwegian Native Art |
| Eluveitie Spirit |
| Eluveitie Slania |
| Eluvium An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death |
| Elvenking Heathenreel |
| Emeralds Does It Look Like I'm Here? |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
| Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire... |
| Enabl.ed Dips33 EP |
| Encircling Sea Écru |
| Encircling Sea A Forgotten Land |
| Enshine Origin |
| Ensiferum Iron |
| Enslaved Ruun |
| Enslaved Eld |
| Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi |
| Enslaved Mardraum - Beyond the Within |
| Enslaved Monumension |
| Enslaved Vertebrae |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Chaotic Beauty |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Before the Bleeding Sun |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow A Virgin and a Whore |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Children of the Dark Waters |
| Exivious Liminal |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone |
| Falconer Falconer |
| Falconer Chapters from a Vale Forlorn |
| Falconer Northwind |
| Fall of Efrafa Elil |
| Fall of Efrafa Tharn |
| Falls of Rauros Hail Wind and Hewn Oak |
| Fallujah The Harvest Wombs |
| Fallujah Nomadic |
| Fauna Avifauna |
| Six 4s in a row. What else needs to be said? |
| Fen Dustwalker |
| Fennesz Plus Forty Seven Degrees... |
| Flourishing The Sum of All Fossils |
| Forest Stream Tears of Mortal Solitude |
| Four Tet Pause |
| Four Tet There is Love in You |
| Fridge The Sun |
| Fridge Eph |
| Gang Starr The Ownerz |
| Gas Zauberberg |
| Gas Königsforst |
| Gas Pop |
| Global Communication Pentamerous Metamorphosis |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright |
| God Is an Astronaut Far from Refuge |
| God Is an Astronaut The End of the Beginning |
| God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Gorgoroth Pentagram |
| Gorgoroth Under the Sign of Hell |
| Gorgoroth Antichrist |
| Gorguts Considered Dead |
| Graveland Memory and Destiny |
| Gridlock Further |
| Gridlock Trace |
| Gris Il Était Une Forêt... |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill |
| Grouper A I A |
| Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat |
| I can't believe these are B-Sides to DADDUAH. This is just as good, if not better. If 2013 ended today, this would probably be my AOTY. |
| Gwynbleidd Nostalgia |
| Hammock Stranded Under Endless Sky |
| Hammock Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow |
| Hammock Chasing After Shadows...Living with the Ghosts |
| Hammock Oblivion Hymns |
| Helios Caesura |
| Hol Baumann Human |
| Huldra Monuments, Monoliths |
| I Am Robot and Proud The Electricity in Your House Wants to Sing |
| I Am Robot and Proud Touch/Tone |
| Ihsahn The Adversary |
| Ihsahn angL |
| Ihsahn Eremita |
| Ikuinen Kaamos The Forlorn |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| In Flames Colony |
| In Flames Clayman |
| In Flames Whoracle |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans |
| In Vain (NO) The Latter Rain |
| In Vain (NO) Aenigma |
| I predict seeing this on many a year-end list. their strongest work by far. |
| Inferi (FIN) Shores of Sorrow |
| Insomnium Across the Dark |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow |
| Interpol Antics |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son |
| ISIS Celestial |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth |
| Jatun Jatun |
| Jatun Blanket Of Ash |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell |
| Jedi Mind Tricks The Psycho-Social |
| Jega Geometry |
| Jesu Jesu |
| Jesu Silver |
| Jesu Conqueror |
| Judas Iscariot Distant In Solitary Night |
| Judas Iscariot Heaven In Flames |
| Judas Iscariot Of Great Eternity |
| July Skies The English Cold |
| Kalmah Swamplord |
| Kalmah The Black Waltz |
| Kalmah Swampsong |
| Kalmah 12 Gauge |
| Kauan Lumikuuro |
| Kauan Kuu.. |
| Kauan Pirut |
| Kettel Cenny Crush |
| Kettel Through Friendly Waters |
| Kettel My Dogan |
| Kettel Myam James - Part 2 |
| Kettel Unreleased (2002-2012) |
| Kettel and u-Ziq have both released unreleased material albums this year. Hopefully RDJ is next. |
| Khoma A Final Storm |
| Khoma All Erodes |
| King Apathy The Elk |
| Klabautamann Merkur |
| Klabautamann Der Ort |
| Kona Triangle Sing a New Sapling Into Existence |
| Krallice Krallice |
| Krallice Years Past Matter |
| Lantlos Lantlos |
| Lantlos Agape |
| Last Days Sea |
| Lifelover Konkurs |
| Light Bearer Silver Tongue |
| This website is ruled by trends. The new Darkthrone release is a shining example of that. Once so many people had rated the album a 5, it became difficult for anyone to rate it negatively. Alot of people who didn't even like the album rated it a 4, or 3.5, to be conservative. It couldn't possibly be a 2, because to so many others it was flawless. It is difficult to rate something without taking everyone else's opinions into consideration. This album has fallen foul to another trend, and the trend here is to dislike the album. Give the first and last track respect, and disregard the remainder. Well, I disagree. The entire album is fantastic. There are no bookends, every track is great. Light Bearer embraces the "post-" aspect of their music, and they take time to build crescendos and develop atmosphere. To the impatient, this causes the album to appear drawn out and boring. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you haven't listened to this, I hope you will disregard the trendy negativity and listen to it with an open mind. You will not be disappointed. |
| Lights Out Asia In The Days Of Jupiter |
| Lights Out Asia Hy-Brasil |
| Limbonic Art Ad Noctum - Dynasty Of Death |
| Limbonic Art In Abhorrence Dementia |
| Lone Lemurian |
| Loscil Submers |
| Loscil Endless Falls |
| Loscil Sketches From New Brighton |
| Lovesliescrushing Glissceule |
| Lovesliescrushing Voirshn |
| Lovesliescrushing Ghost Colored Halo |
| Lurker Of Chalice Lurker Of Chalice |
| M83 M83 |
| Mael Mordha Gealtacht Mael Mórdha |
| Manetheren Time |
| wow |
| Masta Ace Take A Look Around |
| Matmos The West |
| Matmos' best |
| Maybeshewill Not For Want Of Trying |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone |
| Melankoli Wind |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Midas Fall Wilderness |
| This album is beautiful. |
| Minsk Out of a Center Which is Neither Dead nor Alive |
| Mithotyn King of the Distant Forest |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Mono You Are There |
| Mono One Step More and You Die |
| Mono For My Parents |
| Morgion Cloaked By Ages, Crowned In Earth |
| Mournful Congregation The June Frost |
| Mournful Congregation Tears from a Grieving Heart |
| Mourning Beloveth Dust |
| Mourning Beloveth A Disease for the Ages |
| Mourning Beloveth Formless |
| the 1984 references were pretty cool. |
| Mouse on Mars Iaora Tahiti |
| Mouth Of The Architect Time and Withering |
| mum Finally We Are No One |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| Myrkgrav Trollskau, Skromt og Kolabrenning |
| Nas STILLmatic |
| Near The Parenthesis Music for the Forest Concourse |
| Near The Parenthesis Of Soft Construction |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| October Falls The Plague of a Coming Age |
| October Tide Grey Dawn |
| Odium (NOR) The Sad Realm of the Stars |
| Of the Wand and the Moon Nighttime Nightrhymes |
| Of the Wand and the Moon :Emptiness:Emptiness:Emptiness: |
| Omega Massif Karpatia |
| Omnium Gatherum The Redshift |
| Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows |
| Omnium Gatherum Beyond |
| Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven |
| ~lol~r |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Valonielu |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below |
| OutKast Stankonia |
| Oval Szenariodisk |
| Oval Ovalprocess |
| Oval Pre/Commers |
| Pallbearer Demo 2010 |
| Pan American Cloud Room, Glass Room |
| Pelican Australasia |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... |
| Pelican City of Echoes |
| Persefone Truth Inside the Shades |
| Persefone Shin-Ken |
| Persefone Spiritual Migration |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets |
| Plaid Double Figure |
| Plaid Not for Threes |
| port-royal Flares |
| port-royal Afraid to Dance |
| Portal Swarth |
| Portico Quartet Isla |
| Prefuse 73 One Word Extinguisher |
| Primordial To the Nameless Dead |
| Primordial Spirit the Earth Aflame |
| Primordial Storm Before Calm |
| Procession (CL) To Reap Heavens Apart |
| Proem Socially Inept |
| Proem A Permanent Solution |
| Proem You Shall Have Ever Been |
| Proem Among Others |
| Progenie Terrestre Pura U.M.A. |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Raison D'Etre In Sadness, Silence and Solitude |
| Raison D'Etre Within the Depths of Silence and Phormations |
| Raison D'Etre Requiem for Abandoned Souls |
| Raison D'Etre Metamorphyses |
| Rapture Futile |
| Rapture Silent Stage |
| Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn |
| Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... |
| Rhapsody of Fire Power of the Dragonflame |
| Rhapsody of Fire Symphony of Enchanted Lands |
| Russian Circles Enter |
| Russian Circles Station |
| Sadistik The Balancing Act |
| Sadistik Flowers for My Father |
| This is the best indie-hop act since Personal Journals. Or maybe since First Born. |
| Sage Francis Human The Death Dance |
| Saturnus Veronika Decides to Die |
| Saturnus Martyre |
| Saturnus Saturn in Ascension |
| Savath y Savalas Folk Songs for Trains, Trees, and Honey |
| Saxon Shore Be a Bright Blue |
| Seefeel Quique |
| Shape of Despair Angels of Distress |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur |
| Skagos Anarchic |
| Skepticism Alloy |
| Sleep Dealer The Way Home |
| Sleep Dealer Shadows Of The Past |
| Sleeping Peonies Ghosts, and Other Things |
| Sol Invictus Trees in Winter |
| Sol Invictus The Hill of Crosses |
| Solar Fields Extended |
| Solar Fields Blue Moon Station |
| Solar Fields Movements |
| Solar Fields Altered - Second Movements |
| Sombres Forets Royaume De Glace |
| Sombres Forets La Mort du Soleil |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger |
| Squarepusher Go Plastic |
| Squarepusher Selection Sixteen |
| Squarepusher Big Loada |
| Squarepusher Budakhan Mindphone |
| Squarepusher Square Window |
| Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid |
| Stars of the Lid The Ballasted Orchestra |
| Summoning Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame |
| Summoning Oath Bound |
| Summoning Old Mornings Dawn |
| Susumu Yokota Sakura |
| Swallow the Sun Ghosts of Loss |
| Swallow the Sun Hope |
| Swallow the Sun Emerald Forest and the Blackbird |
| Telefon Tel Aviv Fahrenheit Fair Enough |
| Telefon Tel Aviv Map of What Is Effortless |
| Telefon Tel Aviv Immolate Yourself |
| Tenhi Airut: Aamujen |
| Tenhi Saivo |
| The Advisory Circle As The Crow Flies |
| The American Dollar A Memory Stream |
| The American Dollar The American Dollar |
| The American Dollar The Technicolour Sleep |
| The Cure The Head on the Door |
| The Cure Faith |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me |
| The Dead Texan The Dead Texan |
| The Flight of Sleipnir Algiz + Berkanan |
| The Flight of Sleipnir Saga |
| The Great Old Ones Al Azif |
| The Mire Glass Cathedrals |
| The Morningside The Wind, The Trees And The Shadows... |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death |
| The Ocean Aeolian |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| Thurisaz Circadian Rhythm |
| Thursday Full Collapse |
| Thursday Common Existence |
| Thursday No Devolucion |
| Thy Catafalque Microcosmos |
| Thy Catafalque Rengeteg |
| Thy Light No Morrow Shall Dawn |
| Thy Serpent Forests of Witchery |
| Tim Hecker Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again |
| Tim Hecker An Imaginary Country |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 |
| Tipper The Critical Path |
| Tipper The Seamless Unspeakable Something |
| Tombs Winter Hours |
| Tombs Path of Totality |
| Tortoise Standards |
| Tortoise Tortoise |
| Trespassers William Different Stars |
| Trespassers William Having |
| Tycho Dive |
| u-Ziq Lunatic Harness |
| u-Ziq Tango N' Vectif |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire |
| Ulcerate Vermis |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun |
| Vagrond Temporal |
| Vali Forlatt |
| Vallendusk Vallendusk |
| Ved Buens Ende Written In Waters |
| Vindensang Terminus: Rebirth in Eight Parts... |
| Vindensang Alpha |
| Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter |
| Vintersorg Cosmic Genesis |
| Vintersorg Orkan |
| We Lost the Sea Crimea |
| Whirr Distressor |
| Windir Soknardalr |
| Winterfylleth The Mercian Sphere |
| Winterfylleth The Threnody of Triumph |
| Wintersun Time I |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage |
| Woods of Desolation Toward the Depths |
| Woods of Desolation As the Stars |
| Woods of Ypres Pursuit of the Sun & Allure of the Earth |
| World's End Girlfriend Ending Story |
| World's End Girlfriend Farewell Kingdom |
| World's End Girlfriend Starry Starry Night Soundtrack |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever |
| Wyrd The Ghost Album |
| Wyrd Vargtimmen pt.I |
| Wyrd Heathen |
| Xela For Frosty Mornings and Summer Nights |
| Yasume Where we're from the Birds Sing a Pretty Song |
| Year of No Light Nord |
| Year of No Light Ausserwelt |
| Zodiak Sermons |
| 3.5 great |
| 1349 Beyond the Apocalypse |
| 1349 Hellfire |
| A Storm Of Light And We Wept The Black Ocean Within |
| A Storm Of Light Forgive Us Our Trespasses |
| A Storm Of Light As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us... |
| Aenaon Extance |
| Aeroc R+B=? |
| Aerosol Airborne |
| AES Dana Leylines |
| AES Dana Aftermath |
| AES Dana Perimeters |
| AES Dana Pollen |
| Akercocke Choronzon |
| Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken... |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme |
| Alda Alda |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains |
| Alrakis Alpha Eri |
| Altar of Plagues Tides |
| Amenra Mass V |
| Ametsub The Nothings Of The North |
| Ametsub All Is Silence |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Everything |
| Arovane Icol Diston |
| ASC The Astral Traveller |
| ASC Nothing Is Certain |
| ASC Out Of Sync |
| ASC Time Heals All |
| Asura Lost Eden |
| Asura 360 |
| Autechre Peel Session |
| Autechre Peel Session 2 |
| Autechre Untilted |
| Autechre Quaristice |
| Autechre Anti |
| Autechre Move Of Ten |
| Autechre Envane |
| Autechre L-event |
| Bal-Sagoth The Power Cosmic |
| Bal-Sagoth Battle Magic |
| Bal-Sagoth Atlantis Ascendant |
| Bathory Blood on Ice |
| Bathory Nordland I |
| Bathory Nordland II |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone |
| Behemoth Grom |
| Behemoth Pandemonic Incantations |
| Behemoth Satanica |
| Behemoth The Apostasy |
| Behemoth Evangelion |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Bibio Mind Bokeh |
| Biosphere Shenzhou |
| Biosphere N-Plants |
| Bitcrush In Distance |
| Bitcrush Collapse |
| Bitcrush Shimmer and Fade |
| Blindead Devouring Weakness |
| Boards of Canada Twoism |
| Boards of Canada Boc Maxima |
| Boards of Canada Closes Volume 1 |
| Bola Fyuti |
| Bright Eyes A Collection Of Songs Written And Recorded '95-'97 |
| Callisto True Nature Unfolds |
| Callisto Providence |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Hydroponic Garden |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Twentythree |
| Clad In Darkness Amidst Her Shadows |
| Cloudkicker Subsume |
| Cobalt Eater of Birds |
| Cradle of Filth Damnation and a Day |
| Cult of Luna Cult of Luna |
| Current 93 Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain |
| Dark Moor Tarot |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Talk about a hype album! This is alright, but nothing new. There's better blackgaze out there. |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore |
| Death Spiritual Healing |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum |
| Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia |
| Dimmu Borgir Spiritual Black Dimensions |
| Dornenreich Her Von Welken Nächten |
| Draconian The Burning Halo |
| Draconian A Rose for the Apocalypse |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion |
| Drudkh Songs of Grief and Solitude |
| Drudkh Handful of Stars |
| East of the Wall Redaction Artifacts |
| Edge of Sanity Unorthodox |
| Ef Mourning Golden Morning |
| Einherjer Odin Owns Ye All |
| Eluveitie Helvetios |
| Eluvium Lambent Material |
| Eluvium Static Nocturne |
| Eluvium Nightmare Ending |
| Elvenking The Winter Wake |
| Elvenking Wyrd |
| Emeralds The Overlook |
| Emeralds What Happened |
| Emeralds Emeralds |
| Emeralds' self-titled release seems to be a declaration of new identity for the project. With this release, Emeralds takes theri second tentative step into ambient tinged with progressive electronic reminiscent of Tangerine Dream. This album is comparable to Does It Look Like I'm Here? but is perhaps not as successful in capturing the sound that Emeralds achieved on their next album. This is a worthwhile listen for fans of Emeralds' later work. |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium |
| Encircling Sea I |
| Ensiferum Unsung Heroes |
| Enslaved Blodhemn |
| Entropia (PL) Vesper |
| Do you use sputnik? Want realistic album ratings? If so, subtract a half star from each album and you're in business. |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Saivon Lapsi |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care |
| Falconer Among Beggars and Thieves |
| Falconer Armod |
| Falls of Rauros Into the Archaic (Demo) |
| Fauna The Hunt |
| Fennesz Black Sea |
| Fennesz Hotel paral.lel |
| Flourishing A Momentary Sense of the Immediate World |
| Forest Stream The Crown of Winter |
| Forgotten Tomb Songs to Leave |
| Forgotten Tomb Springtime Depression |
| Four Tet Everything Ecstatic |
| Four Tet Dialogue |
| Four Tet Pink |
| Four Tet 0181 |
| Fridge Semaphore |
| Frigoris Wind |
| Frosttide Awakening |
| Gallowbraid Ashen Eidolon |
| Gas Gas |
| God Is an Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun |
| God Is an Astronaut Origins |
| Gorgoroth Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam |
| Grey Waters Below The Ever Setting Sun |
| Gris Neurasthénie |
| GZA Beneath the Surface |
| Hammock Asleep in the Downlights |
| Hecq Horror Vacui |
| Helios Ayres |
| Helios Unleft |
| Helios Moiety |
| Ikuinen Kaamos Fall of Icons |
| Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy |
| In Mourning Monolith |
| In Vain (NO) Mantra |
| Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations |
| Nothing but clean vocals? I hope this is a Damnation kind of situation. |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| Iron Maiden Killers |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Visions of Gandhi |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Violence Begets Violence |
| Jega Spectrum |
| Jega Variance |
| Jesu Ascension |
| Jesu Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came |
| Jex Thoth Blood Moon Rise |
| Judas Iscariot Thy Dying Light |
| July Skies The Weather Clock |
| July Skies Dreaming of Spires |
| Kalmah Seventh Swamphony |
| A 5 should have no stand out tracks. Every track should be of consistent quality. If just a few tracks stood out, it wouldn't be a 5. |
| Kauan Tietäjän Laulu |
| Kettel Volleyed Iron |
| Kettel Smiling Little Cow |
| Kettel Myam James - Part 1 |
| Kettel Whisper Me Wishes |
| King Apathy Eine Momentaufnahme - Der Rest ist nur Einsamkeit |
| Klabautamann Our Journey Through the Woods |
| Klabautamann The Old Chamber |
| Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough |
| Krallice Diotima |
| Last Days These Places Are Now Ruins |
| Last Days The Safety of the North |
| Limbonic Art Epitome Of Illusions |
| Loscil Triple Point |
| Loscil First Narrows |
| Loscil Plume |
| Lovesliescrushing Bloweyelashwish |
| Lovesliescrushing Girl. Echo. Suns. Veils. |
| Lovesliescrushing Tiny Shiny Stars |
| Lovesliescrushing Chorus |
| Lovesliescrushing Glinter |
| M83 Digital Shades Vol. 1 |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth |
| M83 Oblivion (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |
| Manegarm Legions of the North |
| Probably the best Viking Metal album of the year so far. |
| Matmos The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast |
| Matmos A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure |
| Matmos The Marriage of True Minds |
| This is Matmos' most experimental foray so far. Glitch often gets bogged down when musicians attempt to stay within the confines of accessibility. The Marriage of True Minds was created without such reservation - it is coarse, abrasive, and whimsical to the extreme, and that is the very philosophy of glitch. There is very little consistency to the album; the tracks are short, disparate forays into various concepts that once ended are dismissed and a new direction is taken. There are fleeting moments of brilliance that come to rapid fruition, but they then wilt just as quickly. This hasn't gotten very much play from me this year, but neither has it fallen completely out of circulation. A worthwhile listen for an old fan, but not an appropriate introduction for someone trying to get into Matmos' work. |
| Matryoshka Zatracenie |
| Matryoshka Laideronnette |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Minsk With Echoes in the Movement of Stone |
| Miserere Luminis Miserere Luminis |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Morgion Among Majestic Ruin |
| Mourning Beloveth A Murderous Circus |
| Mouse on Mars Autoditacker |
| Moving Mountains Waves |
| mum Smilewound |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Nas It Was Written |
| Near The Parenthesis L 'Eixample |
| Near The Parenthesis Japanese For Beginners |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| Nirvana Incesticide |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Noumena Anatomy of Life |
| Obscure Sphinx Void Mother |
| October Tide A Thin Shell |
| October Tide Tunnel of No Light |
| Of the Wand and the Moon Lucifer |
| Of the Wand and the Moon Shall Love Fall From View? |
| Olafur Arnalds For Now I Am Winter |
| Omega Massif Geisterstadt |
| Omega Massif Kalt |
| Omnium Gatherum Stuck Here on Snakes Way |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Muukalainen Puhuu |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Kosmonument |
| Oval Wohnton |
| Oval Dok |
| Oval Calidostópia! |
| Markus Popp (of Oval) went to Brazil and recorded this 16 track collaboration with seven artists that he had never met before over a ten day period. Each day Popp would show up at the Goethe Institute and would be introduced to a South American singer participating in the project. They'd spend the remainder of the day recording, and Calidostopia! is the cumulative effort of those seven recording sessions. He utilized previously recorded and unreleased material in the production of this album. The album was then released for free, funded by the Goethe Institute and the Cultural Foundation of the State of Bahia. Only a producer as talented as Popp could possibly pull something like this so smoothly and naturally. The Oval aspect of the release is what primarily concerns me, however I am not disappointed that glitch takes the passenger seat here. It's not something I would normally seek out, but it's very cool for what it is. |
| Panopticon Collapse |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need |
| Pelican Forever Becoming |
| Pelican Deny the Absolute/The Truce |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut |
| Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds |
| Pink Floyd More |
| port-royal Dying in Time |
| Portal Vexovoid |
| Primordial Redemption at the Puritan's Hand |
| Procession (CL) Destroyers Of The Faith |
| Proem Burn Plate No. 1 |
| Proem Negativ |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Raison D'Etre Enthralled by the Wind of Loneliness |
| Raison D'Etre Lost fragments 2CD |
| Raison D'Etre The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium |
| Red Sparowes Aphorism |
| Red Sparowes The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein... |
| Rosetta The Anaesthete |
| Russian Circles Memorial |
| Sage Francis Li(f)e |
| Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost |
| Sigur Ros Von |
| Skagos Ast |
| Sleeping Peonies Rose Curl, Sea Swirl |
| Solar Fields EarthShine |
| Solar Fields Origin #01 |
| Solar Fields Reflective Frequencies |
| Solar Fields Origin #02 |
| Sombres Forets Quintessence |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside |
| Squarepusher Hello Everything |
| Squarepusher Just a Souvenir |
| Squarepusher Do You Know Squarepusher |
| Squarepusher Ufabulum |
| Stendeck Sonnambula |
| Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam |
| Summoning Lugburz |
| Sun of the Blind Skullreader |
| Susumu Yokota Symbol |
| Swallow the Sun New Moon |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| The American Dollar Atlas |
| The American Dollar Awake In The City |
| The American Dollar Ambient Three |
| The Cure Boys Don't Cry |
| The Cure Three Imaginary Boys |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds |
| The Cure Wish |
| The Morningside Moving Crosscurrent of Time |
| The Morningside TreeLogia (The Album As it is Not) |
| The Notwist Shrink |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric |
| Thranenkind/Heretoir Wiedersehen - Unsere Hoffnung |
| Threnos By Blood and By Earth |
| Thurisaz The Cimmerian Years |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided |
| Tipper Tip Hop |
| Tipper Holding Pattern |
| Tipper Wobble Factor |
| Tipper Broken Soul Jamboree |
| Tool Opiate |
| Tortoise A Lazarus Taxon |
| Trespassers William Cast |
| Twine :reference: |
| Tycho Sunrise Projector |
| u-Ziq In Pine Effect |
| u-Ziq Royal Astronomy |
| u-Ziq Chewed Corners |
| Ulcerate Of Fracture and Failure |
| Ulcerate The Coming of Genocide (Reissue) |
| Ulver Blood Inside |
| Ulver Svidd Neger OST |
| Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X |
| Vaura The Missing |
| Vintersorg Visions From The Spiral Generator |
| Vintersorg The Focusing Blur |
| Vintersorg Jordpuls |
| Vreid Welcome Farewell |
| Warning The Strength to Dream |
| Whirr June |
| Whirr Pipe Dreams |
| Winterfylleth The Ghost Of Heritage |
| Woods of Desolation Sorh |
| World's End Girlfriend Seven Idiots |
| Wyrd Kammen |
| Wyrd Rota |
| Year of No Light Tocsin |
