| 4.5 superb |
| After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde |
| Music from the fairyland with enthralling atmospheres - Alcest reaches untouched levels with his debut. |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster |
| Another fan-favourite, and for a reason. From the Radiohead-esque introduction, through the magnificent titletrack, this is Anathema at its finest. And gloomiest. |
| Anathema A Fine Day to Exit |
| This is probably my favourite Anathema release of their 'darker' days, even more than the critical acclaimed 'A Natural Disaster'. The gloomy yet poppy mood of this disc is unrepeated in their discography and truly stands out. |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here |
| The best comeback disc of all times? Anathema open up a new shining chapter of their twenty years career with yet another successful metamorphosis. |
| Anathema Weather Systems |
| Anathema is a relentless factory of brilliance. This album is no exception: the vibe is amazingly different from their past efforts, the progression this guys have is clear, and it's the progression of every human-being who went from darkness to light. Will be remembered as one their greatest efforts in years to come. |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks |
| A perfect companion to the eerie and dark atmospheres of the madness that is Twin Peaks. And a damn fine album (semi-quote) too! |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| If you're in an instrumental band only and your first album was a genre-bending experience and you manage not only to not make a bad release but practically top it at your third disc then it means you're a genius, a damn genius. |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| What - a - hit. Containing their best bits and way before they got lost in self-indulgence. The best these guys have ever been. |
| Ayreon 01011001 |
| Yeah some songs are over-the-top cheese but so what? The end of the Ayreon story is tight and the cast is stellar. Some of the best music Lucassen ever wrote. |
| Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso Io sono nato libero |
One of the hidden gems of music. First and last songs are two of the most touching anthems against
war that I have ever read, go figure listened to. Borderline poetic lyricism (which, I agree, may
be lost in translation) and some of the best 70s prog ever recorded, an Italian masterpiece. |
| Birds in Row We Already Lost the World |
| Camel The Snow Goose |
| Cea Serin Where Memories Combine |
| This album is just a unique (and hidden) gem of progressive metal. Amazing work on the atmospheres. |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Pandora's Pinata |
| More direct, more focused, same craziness. "Pandora.." is one of the highlights of 2012, blown away by it. |
| dredg El Cielo |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion |
| Elio e le Storie Tese Italyan, Rum Casusu Çikti |
| Every Time I Die Radical |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True |
| For Those I Love For Those I Love |
| Fragile Vastness Tribute to Life |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son |
| Judas Priest Painkiller |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment 2 |
| Some of the best musicians of the planet at the top of their creative game. |
| Low Roar 0 |
| Lunatic Soul Lunatic Soul |
| Mechanical Poet Woodland Prattlers |
| A7X blatantly ripped off these (relatively unknown) russian one-hit wonders' style on 'A Little Piece of Heaven'. An amazing disc that stands in a category of its own. |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away |
| Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) |
| Pain of Salvation Be |
| Pain of Salvation The Perfect Element, Part 1 |
| Pain of Salvation Panther |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Rage against the goddamn radio rock. And Tom Morello at its finest. And a MJK cameo, and some of the most iconic songs of all time. |
| Redemption The Fullness of Time |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth |
| 2014 has been a bleak year - Rishloo luckily play the role of prog saviours and some damn fine intricate and meaningful music too. |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name |
| Riverside Second Life Syndrome |
| Polish prog at its best - 70s tinged all over the place yet sounds great, fresh and inspired - concept was great too. What do you want more? |
| Riverside Anno Domini High Definition |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur |
| TesseracT One |
| TesseracT Altered State |
| stuffsputnikdidntappreciateasmuchastheworlddid. Oh well.. Apparently it's one of those albums you either love or hate. |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| Best TMV. bangersssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| It's so f*****g massive is barely unexplainable. They did an awesome job, atmospherically wonderful. |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic |
| The Reign of Kindo Rhythm, Chord & Melody |
| Tigran Hamasyan Mockroot |
| Who knew even jazz pianists listen to pleb djent. Could this be AOTY?rTruly magnificent, entered the list of my favourite discs in a few months. |
| Tool Ænima |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Tool become human and write relatable lyrics? Love, loss, depravity.. and LSD trips? Well that's pretty cool. |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| TTNG Animals |
| Uneven Structure Februus |
| A sonic mayhem - the sum up of amazing musicianship, inspired lyrics, a visionary writing style (check the videos..). One of the best metal debut discs of all time. |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 22 Flux |
| 22 You Are Creating: Limb2 |
| 65daysofstatic The Destruction of Small Ideas |
| 65daysofstatic Escape From New York |
| A Backward Glance on a Travel Road A Backward Glance on a Travel Road |
| These guys deliver. Met them, saw them live.. Everything they do has top quality: funniest thing is.. They don't like metal. :D |
| A kew's tag Hephioz |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant |
| Adjy June Songs Vol. 1 |
| After the Burial Dig Deep |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Agalloch The White |
| Agent Fresco A Long Time Listening |
Let me say this: A Long Time Listening is an amazing album, with a lot of influences, a lot
of innovation and really a fresh air for modern rock. There is just something that holds me
from giving a "superb" rating (which, trust me, would be deserved): the record it's too long
and therefore dispersive. There was enough material for an EP and a LP. But that's what
happens nowadays, the debut has always an enormous amount of songs because it usually
comprises all the precedent efforts of a band. Aside from this Support these guys, as they
are great guys and they have a unique style, both on record and live.. ;) |
| Agent Fresco Destrier |
| Emotional rock at its (almost) finest. Solid record by one of the best bands in the scene. |
| Agnes Obel Myopia |
| Aiming For Enrike Music For Working Out |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave |
| I don't what these dudes have that works on anyone, any hipster I meet just goes bonkers for these guys. They have something, maybe it's the dumb lyrics that work so good, who knows? |
| American Football American Football (LP3) |
| Amorphis Eclipse |
| A solid poppish metal record that stands out in their discography as the most accessible. Not all strong tunes but what works, works great. |
| Anathema Alternative 4 |
| The disc where it all started. Its strongest characteristic is its consistence; all tracks are pretty much spot on and it doesn't suffer of a quality drop as its successor. |
| Anathema Hindsight |
| Their best acoustic remake and my second Anathema disc. Such a great way to revisit some of their best tracks. |
| Anathema Distant Satellites |
| A good release, albeit a little bit too static in its on-disc form. The album breathes a completely different life in the live settings, where some of the tracks become the most aggressive Anathema have been in a decade. |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me |
| Unsettling, way more unsettling than the original soundtrack which says everything. Haunting and visionary, as anything regarding Twin Peaks. |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders |
| Opened a whole new sub-genre. And holy smokes Tosin how the hell can you have all this talent? |
| Arab Strap As Days Get Dark |
| Arcane Roots Blood and Chemistry |
| Arcane Roots Melancholia Hymns |
| Archive You All Look The Same To Me |
| Another super-strong release by Archive. Setting the path for 'Noise' while completely detaching from their trip-hop routes. |
| Archive Noise |
| One of my favourite discs of the band and one in which all the influences are nicely melted in a quite original Brit prog-trip-rock effort. |
| Archive Controlling Crowds |
| First half is the best thing Archive has ever done. The atmospherics and the questionable rap vocals on some of the songs bring instead the second one down. |
| Archspire Bleed the Future |
| Area Crac! |
| The most accessible Area's record, but not necessarily their best. Still contains amazing tunes, super disc. |
| Arstidir Arstidir |
| Pretty amazing debut with one of their best track ('Kill Us') on here. This band is magical. |
| Arstidir Svefns og vöku skil |
| Probably my favourite release by theirs, the album flows nicely and all the songs have a great structure. The icelandic language is also pretty spot-on on their folk and live they have a fantastic impact. Listen to these guys! |
| Art By Numbers Reticence: The Musical |
| Plus 0.5 because it's a debut, and what a debut! Catchy and with a great production, one of the surprises of 2012. |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil |
| I mean as polarising as this band has been, this is a really good recording, with ambitious tracks and a few radio-friendly tunes that made them loved by all adolescents back in those days. |
| Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso Banco del Mutuo Soccorso |
| Unusually energetic for 70s prog, Banco's debut is nothing short of excellence. |
| Ben Howard Noonday Dream |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| I have to bump this because it's where BtBaM finally nailed it. This is an absolutely monstrous Prog record. Bonkers all over the place and contains their best opus ever - 'White Walls'. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| They had already nailed here the right mix between Prog and Core. It just flows much more than their other discs, probably the only one truly enjoyable back-to-back. |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors II |
| Birds in Row You, Me, and the Violence |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| Bjork leaves the goddamn eurobeats behind and finally releases a solid disc. Just a few bumps on the road, but great atmospheres all over the place. |
| Black Country, New Road Live at Bush Hall |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| If I had to rate a Sabbath disc all above the others, it would be either this or Master of Reality. This just has got so many great tunes that have been slightly overplayed in time, but whatever. The 'other' tracks are actually the best ones. It's probably as good as early 70s music could have been |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Probably my least favourite of their early releases, but it's just too good to be a mere debut. |
| Brand New Science Fiction |
| BRUIT The Machine Is Burning... |
| Brutus (BE) Nest |
| Camel Camel |
| Car Bomb Meta |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool |
| Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She |
| Children of Nova The Complexity of Light |
| Circus Maximus The 1st Chapter |
| Circus Maximus Isolate |
| clipping. CLPPNG |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood |
| clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned |
| Clown Core van |
| Code Orange Forever |
| Copeland Blushing |
| Cult of Luna The Raging River |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| David Maxim Micic Bilo 3.0 |
| David Maxim Micic BILO IV |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Death Grips Bottomless Pit |
| Deftones Ohms |
| Delta Sleep Ghost City |
| Delta Sleep Spring Island |
| Destrage The King Is Fat'n'Old |
| Destrage Are You Kidding Me? No. |
| It just goes up. Some tracks aside, it's pure gold. Iamsorrythatiamsorry |
| Destrage So much. Too much. |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious |
| Disperse Living Mirrors |
| Excellent stuff (as usual) from Poland: their prog has a distinctive mark, felt in every release coming from that country. Disperse excels in atmospheres (my personal favourites are "Dancing..", "Message.." and "Touching..") and lack a bit in.. Well making, a better ending song, as AUM is the only thing I'm not in love with the release. It is great material nonetheless and an album that will be in many "best of..." at the end of the year. |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons |
| Dream Theater Awake |
| dredg Leitmotif |
| dredg Catch Without Arms |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka |
| Elio e le Storie Tese Eat the phikis |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Elliott Smith XO |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence |
| Faith No More The Real Thing |
| The Real Thing is all the Red Hot Chili Peppers wanted to do with their lives in their first four discs and had neither the skills nor the right drugs to do so. Hooking and quite addictive, this is the best and hardest FNM has ever been. |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails |
| Fallujah Dreamless |
| Fine Before You Came Come fare a non tornare |
| Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters |
| Foxing Nearer My God |
| Foxing Draw Down the Moon |
| Frost* Milliontown |
| Frost* Experiments in Mass Appeal |
| Frost* The Philadelphia Experiment |
| Genghis Tron Dream Weapon |
| Goblin Roller |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| I do think this is pretentious just because people have overrated the damn fuck out of this band. If you cover your eyes and focus on what the ensemble plays, it's still an incredibly enjoyable experience. But not the best thing ever released, let's be serious. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| I was always over-critical with this: may it be for its length, may it be for its general overratedness. Yet, when content is somewhat lacking and atmospheres reign supreme, you may read in it anything you want: from utter boredom to fucking enlightenment. As it happens most times, the truth stands in the middle. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| People tend to adore this due to its relative short length, but it mostly suffers due to this - atmospheres distinguishing their LPs are somewhat lacking making what should have been on paper a more enjoyable experience a kind of vapid interlude between their two first efforts. |
| Good Tiger A Head Full of Moonlight |
| Green Carnation Light of Day, Day of Darkness |
| Gregor Samsa 55:12 |
| Gregor Samsa Rest |
| Greyhaven This Bright and Beautiful World |
| Haken The Mountain |
| Haken Restoration |
| Halsey If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power |
| Hammock Love in the Void |
| Hath Of Rot And Ruin |
| Head Control System Murder Nature |
| HEALTH Death Magic |
| HEALTH VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR |
| HEALTH DISCO4 :: Part II |
| Heart of a Coward Deliverance |
| Honey Harper Starmaker |
| Howard James Kenny Shelter Songs |
| This album is awesome, really: emotionally intensive, yet being minimalistic: a little gem. |
| Hypno5e Acid Mist Tomorrow |
| Blows every other extreme metal release of 2012 for innovation and progression. Their previous effort was way too dispersive, with too much noise/ambient part that I felt unnecessary. With this, though, they just went straight to the core: six songs, no fillers.. Gehenne's progression is devastating.. Amazing. |
| iamthemorning ~ |
| This is proggy yet accessible, tradional yet fresh.. Dispersive but addictive. Really love most of the arrangements, "Touching II" is the highlight of the disc, but there are a lot of awesome pieces to begin with ("I b.too", "Circles", "Scotland"). What's more, is free.rhttp://iamthemorningband.bandcamp.com/ |
| Il Teatro degli Orrori Dell'impero delle tenebre |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| Indukti Idmen |
| Iosonouncane Ira |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| Iron Maiden Killers |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls |
| Jakub Zytecki Nothing Lasts, Nothing's Lost |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| Jeff Rosenstock NO DREAM |
| John Petrucci An Evening With John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess |
| Jolly The Audio Guide to Happiness (Part 2) |
| Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith |
| Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny |
| Kaddisfly Set Sail The Prairie |
| Karnivool Themata |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love |
| Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow |
| Kauan Kaiho |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Omnium Gatherum |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of... |
| La Quiete La fine non è la fine |
| Leprous Pitfalls |
| Linea 77 Horror Vacui |
| Little Tybee For Distant Viewing |
| Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything |
| Low Roar Low Roar |
| Mac Miller Circles |
| Machinae Supremacy Overworld |
| Manchester Orchestra The Valley of Vision |
| Manowar Battle Hymns |
| Martin Grech Hush Mortal Core |
| Maximum the Hormone Bu-ikikaesu |
| Maximum the Hormone Yoshu Fukushu |
| Bumped because word dat who cares about the fillers when the singles are that good |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace |
| Melt Yourself Down Pray for Me I Don't Fit In |
| Meshuggah I |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| I wouldn't say this is the most original 'Shuggah, nor one with their highest peaks - yet, it's their most refined and thoroughly enjoyable from start to finish. Relentless |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Mew Frengers |
| Mew No More Stories |
| Mindflow Mind Over Body |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young |
| Mogwai Young Team |
| Mol JORD |
| Monuments (UK) Gnosis |
| Hard to remove from my stereo, pure energy! Brilliant debut by a highly talented band. |
| Motorpsycho The Death Defying Unicorn |
| Mouse On The Keys The Flowers of Romance |
| Nero di Marte Nero di Marte |
| It's an extremely enjoyable modern metal record. Nero di Marte is a wonderful and skilled band, go see them live if you can. |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds No More Shall We Part |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part II |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me |
| Novembre Materia |
| Ojne Prima Che Tutto Bruci |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Origami Angel Gami Gang |
| OSI Office of Strategic Influence |
| Pain of Salvation Entropia |
| Pain of Salvation 12:5 |
| Pain of Salvation In the Passing Light of Day |
| Palm Reader Braille |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Phoxjaw notverynicecream |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| San Tropez and Seamus = 70s moodkillers. Get rid of them and you have one of the finest Floyd's discs. |
| Pink Floyd Pulse — The Film |
| Polaris The Mortal Coil |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Port Noir Neon |
| Port Noir The New Routine |
| Premiata Forneria Marconi Per un amico |
| Proghma-C Bar-do-Travel |
| Psychonaut Unfold the God Man |
| Psychonaut Violate Consensus Reality |
| Pure Reason Revolution The Dark Third |
| Pure Reason Revolution Amor Vincit Omnia |
| Pure Reason Revolution Eupnea |
| Queen Sheer Heart Attack |
| Queen find the ideal compromise between their operatic pop tendencies and their love for rock. |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
| Rishloo Eidolon |
| Great disc, albeit too long - Demanding yet ultimately delivering. |
| Rishloo Feathergun |
| Riverside Out of Myself |
| Riverside Rapid Eye Movement |
| Rolo Tomassi Grievances |
| Rush Moving Pictures |
| Rush A Farewell to Kings |
| Rush Hemispheres |
| Self Isolation Family Self Isolation Family |
| Shining (NOR) One One One |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day |
| SikTh Opacities |
| They did it again! Short but intense as hell, Sikth is back and hopefully here to stay. |
| Skyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos |
| "Illusion" is a gem of modern prog-metal. Chug-inspired, yet sounds fresh, with an amazing sound and performances from the members of the band. Daniel's voice really fits the songs, but what shines here is the musicianship of the two guitarists. "Chaos", unfortunately, is not that good and it's the reason why I was tempted to give this a 3.5. |
| Sleep Token Two |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| So Hideous None But a Pure Heart Can Sing |
| Sophie Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides |
| Spanish Love Songs Schmaltz |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) |
| Strawberry Girls French Ghetto |
| Strawberry Girls American Graffiti |
| Strawberry Girls Italian Ghosts (Re-Recorded) |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
| Sufjan Stevens Javelin |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? |
| Sweet Trip A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals |
| Takeharu Ishimoto The World Ends With You OST |
| Always had fun listening to the tunes of the game. Gives a musical idea of the disparate range of peeps and music you may end up meeting while walking down Shibuya. fo'rrreal |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden |
| Textures Phenotype |
| The Algorithm Polymorphic Code |
| Bwwwwub Bwwwwub.. Love my share of IDM, this debut is really good, yet he could improve his songwriting (and the production) in the years to come. |
| The Algorithm Octopus4 |
| The American Dollar A Memory Stream |
| My favourite disc by them and one of my favourite post-rock/muzak ever. |
| The American Dollar Ambient One |
| I tend to prefer their 'Ambient' releases which are practically their discs without drumbeats. Perfect chillout music |
| The American Dollar Ambient Two |
| The Chronicles of Israfel Starborn, Tome I |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death |
| The Dear Hunter Random EP #2 |
| The Gathering Souvenirs |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| Take your criticism list you made for Amputechture and apply it to this one - yet, the high peeks on Bedlam are probably the best(and the spazziest!) TMV have ever been. |
| The Microphones Microphones in 2020 |
| The Ocean Holocene |
| The Postman Syndrome Terraforming |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Tangent Le Sacre du Travail |
| This and SW's are the only stuff one should listen if he misses old school prog |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Tigran Hamasyan A Fable |
| His most intimate record, with a lot of amazingly heartfelt piano tunes. Now, if he had put a strain on his jazz improvisation (which tend to go for longer than we wished) it would have been a truly memorable disc. But.. |
| Tigran Hamasyan Arratha Rebirth: Red Hail |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me |
| Touche Amore Dead Horse X |
| TTNG Animals Acoustic |
| Turnstile Glow On |
| Ukandanz Awo |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar |
| Uochi Toki Libro Audio |
| Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket Det Onda. Det Goda. Det Vackra. Det Fula. |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden |
| VOLA Inmazes |
| Great - albeit, quite repetitive - debut by the danes and a shining example of the fact that prog does not necessarily have to be intricate to be musically interesting. |
| VOLA Applause of a Distant Crowd |
| Weyes Blood Titanic Rising |
| Wintergatan Wintergatan |
| Yes Fragile |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss |
| Yndi Halda Under Summer |
| Yoshihisa Hirano & Hideki Taniuchi Death Note Original Soundtrack |
| Great japanese post-rock, reminescent of Mono and other 10 thousand bands but what a brilliant soundtrack - one of the few Anime I actually enjoyed |
| Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit |
| Zeal and Ardor Live in London |
| Zeal and Ardor Zeal and Ardor |
| 3.5 great |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead XI: Bleed Here Now |
| 22 You Are Creating: Limb1 |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math |
| 65daysofstatic One Time for All Time |
| 65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway |
| They were exploding anyway - a rush of hips shaking IDM served on the typical layered post-rock scenarios to which 65DoS are famous for. |
| 65daysofstatic Silent Running |
| 65daysofstatic Wild Light |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| I don't know, but reading the review made me realize how much I didn't get it. Should read the lyrics, as the concept plays a great part in my rankings (or should play..) and lately I've overlooked way too much music with quality without giving it the attention these kind of albums deserve. |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe |
| After the Burial In Dreams |
| It's awesome but not as awesome as I tought it was before listening to Rareform. Still a great effort, though. |
| After the Burial Wolves Within |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Agalloch Of Stone, Wind and Pillor |
| Agalloch and Nest Split |
| Air Review How We Got By |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune |
| alt-J This Is All Yours |
| They "wrapped themselves inside an hour long bubble of utter self-indulgence". But it works so thumbs up for them |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession |
| It is quite overrated, at least here on Sput. The mix between atmospherics and metal is not properly balanced and this results in listening to the whole piece as a boresome experience. But some tracks slay and the potential for something great is definitely there. |
| Anathema Judgement |
| Doesn't hold the candle to its predecessor, with some tracks that should have not been there and radically drop down the enjoyment of the whole LP (Don't Look Too Far). |
| Anatomy Of The Bear Anatomy Of The Bear |
| Great music to doze with. This debut is as delicious as its cover. |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many |
| Animals As Leaders Parrhesia |
| Anthony Green Boom. Done. |
| Apocalyptica Plays Metallica by Four Cellos |
| Undeniably fun and quite original at the times of its release. |
| Apocalyptica Cult |
| Who imagined that the Metallica cello cover band could have released such a nice record? The two bonus tracks with vocals however stand out the best. Good stuff. |
| Arcane Known/Learned |
| Falling out of reach, Arcane try the concept route while missing the experience to write a coherent and clear story. |
| Architects Hollow Crown |
| The best tunes on here are truly great. But then, here it comes a second half that's a rehash of the rehash of the rehash. |
| Architects Daybreaker |
| Melancholy is not easily found in metalcore acts, but Architects delivered a good album that when it hits, goddamn it hits right. If it weren't for a few fillers and their (average) previous recording.. |
| Archive Take My Head |
| Londinium was pretty much a Massive Attack rip-off but on here they tried to find their own path and succeeded in it. Needless to say they changed style pretty much in every release. |
| Archive With Us Until You're Dead |
| I'm so happy I'm not the ex girlfriend of any of these dudes 1) because they're ugly as hell 2) because they are constantly pissed at you. I mean what the hell did you even do these peeps, jesus |
| Archive Restriction |
| I do like this as much as other releases of theirs - don't really get the low average at all. |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare |
| Hey this is actually pretty good. The guitar player finally understood that solo-ing is not his job and that he should leave the space to the better players in the band - that is, the singer and the drummer. 'Brianstorm' lifts this by itself to a solid 3.5. |
| Arcturus The Sham Mirrors |
| An amusing experience for most of the tracks, with just the opener touching the peaks most people think it achieves. |
| Arcturus Arcturian |
| This album could have been so, so, so GOOD with a fine production. But no, they had to go the kvlt way. And some fine and original metal like it were recorded in a black metal studio of the nineties. What a waste! |
| Area Maledetti |
A fascinating concept that is developed in less than 100 words - maybe too much experimentation
here and there (Caos 2, regardless the explanation, is horrendous) but hey, it's Area. What would
you expect? |
| Arstidir Hvel |
| Arstidir deliver yet another great folk disc, now with a refined production and.. Drums? Still, lacking some variety and further experimentation to stand out in their high-quality discography |
| Astronoid Astronoid |
| Audioslave Audioslave |
| Back in the days, I always wondered why 'Cochise' rocked so hard and the rest didn't. Still a solid release by some of the biggest names in Rock history. |
| August Burns Red Leveler |
| It's a monolith but I still hold it in pretty good memories considering it's their first disc I've ever jammed and probably my first Metalcore disc ever. |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore |
| Suprisingly good and a step-up in originality in comparison to its predecessor. It's consistent enough to deserve a 3.5, but lacks the great peaks that made 'Constellation' their best release ever. |
| Aurora (NOR) The Gods We Can Touch |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare |
| The loss of their comrade led to a boost in the songwriting department. Quite inspired and containing some hearthbreaking moments. |
| Avenged Sevenfold The Stage |
| Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But a Dream... |
| Ayreon The Final Experiment |
| Interesting concept but a musical realisation that it is sometimes a little bit hit and miss. The acoustic bonus disc though rules a lot. |
| Backxwash God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of I |
| Backxwash I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES |
| Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso Darwin! |
| This is my least favourite Banco of the golden years. I've never been struck that much by the concept and that's maybe why I don't hold it high with the debut and its follow-up. |
| Battles Mirrored |
| Quirky and original - the two characteristics that make this LP worth a listen. |
| Be Forest Earthbeat |
| Delicate indie rock, meddling with shoegaze influences. Nice listen and doesn't overstay its welcome. |
| Beach House Teen Dream |
| Beach House Bloom |
| Beach House Depression Cherry |
| Beach House 7 |
| Ben Howard Collections from the Whiteout |
| Benjamin Clementine At Least For Now |
| good-boy Benjamin. Pretty cool and chill soul disc |
| Benjamin Clementine And I Have Been |
| Bent Knee Shiny Eyed Babies |
| It is quite all over the place and that's why it is such an interesting listen. Hopefully the next one will take what was great about this and discard what didn't really work. |
| Better Lovers God Made Me an Animal |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Gotta be honest, they nailed a lot of things here. It's quite immature-ish but that's probably what makes it still good. |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| BtBaM's most Metalcore disc is also one of the coolest they have ever done, if taken in small doses. As a start-to-end experience, eh.. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| "Future Sequence is an uneven listen, but still a worthwhile voyage." -> Yup, agree. |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata II |
| Billy Woods Aethiopes |
| Bjork Vespertine |
| Minimalism at its finest. Suffering from a lack of variety, overall it's still the best experience Bjork's melodical voice has ever offered. |
| Black Country, New Road For the first time |
| Black Country, New Road Ants From Up There |
| Black Peaks All That Divides |
| Blind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Side |
| Bokor Vermin Soul |
| Born of Osiris The Eternal Reign |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Brian Eno Another Green World |
| Brockhampton Iridescence |
| Brutus (BE) Unison Life |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Contains all that we like from the Norsk madman's wall of sound: an atmospheric trip through layers of suprisingly good arrangements. His best was yet to come, though |
| Burzum Filosofem |
| This is actually pretty cool and immensely captivating. Not the masterpiece of kvltness that it is considered though |
| Camel Mirage |
| Camel Moonmadness |
| Camel Rain Dances |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next |
| Chevelle NIRATIAS |
| Children of Nova Impossible Landscape |
| Lost some of the sparkle the first ep had, great material nonetheless. "It's Just a Ride", just with less audacious bumps on the road than CoL. |
| Circa Survive Descensus |
| Clement Belio Contrast |
| clipping. Wriggle |
| clipping. Splendor and Misery |
| Cloudkicker Beacons |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| as the review said, "the kings of hardcore have returned to provide another brutal beatdown on all of their willing victims". More accessible than "Jane Doe", this just hits hard. |
| Corelia Nostalgia |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Ellengaest |
| Crosses Crosses |
| Crosses permanent.radiant |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal |
| While not my genre at all, they deliver a great live performance and, most of all, a good album that might appeal also to those who aren't that much into sludge (like me). |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal II |
| Cynic Re-Traced |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy |
| Damned Spring Fragrantia Divergences |
| A pretty beastly machine. Better listened when you're angry, it really gets you. ;) |
| Dance Gavin Dance Afterburner |
| Darkside Psychic |
| Darkside Spiral |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want |
| Day Without Dawn Understanding Consequences |
| Dead Letter Circus Stand Apart |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda |
| Deafheaven Infinite Granite |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web |
| Death Grips Government Plates |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death |
| Death Grips Year of the Snitch |
| Derek Sherinian Black Utopia |
| Deserta Every Moment, Everything You Need |
| Despite Exile Re-Evolve |
| Despite Exile Sentience |
| Despite Exile Relics |
| Destiny Potato Lun |
| Destrage A Means to No End |
| Destrage The Chosen One |
| Destroyer LABYRINTHITIS |
| Devil Sold His Soul Loss |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient |
| Devin Townsend Lightwork |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Pacifisticuffs |
| Digitonal Save Your Light for Darker Days |
| Dirk Geiger Connected Worlds |
| Dark ambience and glitchy atmospheres. Relaxing and sonically interesting. Don't remember how I stumbled on this guy but I'm quite happy I did. |
| Disturbed Asylum |
| Division By Zero Tyranny of Therapy |
| DragonForce Valley of the Damned |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events |
| dredg Orph |
| Dvne Asheran |
| East of the Wall Farmer's Almanac |
| East of the Wall The Apologist |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World |
| Elio e le Storie Tese Elio Samaga Hukapan Kariyana Turu |
| Elio e le Storie Tese Cicciput |
| Elio e le Storie Tese Studentessi |
| Elliott Smith Roman Candle |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Brain Salad Surgery |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Emerson, Lake & Palmer |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou The Helm of Sorrow |
| Employed To Serve Eternal Forward Motion |
| Employed To Serve Conquering |
| Ephel Duath The Painter's Palette |
| Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter |
| Evergrey The Atlantic |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care |
| Explosions in the Sky The Wilderness |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime |
| A refined and less weird take on the FNM sound Angel Dust brought. Me likey! |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| Somewhat overrated, Angel Dust is arguably the wackiest release of these guys. I have to admit, I'm not a fan of this - excessive keyboard synths and more weak tracks than people are willing to admit. Still better than a shitload of stuff, anyway. |
| Faith No More Album of the Year |
| Let Pitchfork be - album contains the same amount of good tunes you can find on their previous efforts; what may lack here is just the mere 'surprise' factor, which distinguished the first two efforts of the Patton-era. |
| Faith No More Sol Invictus |
| Catchy choruses and rampant bass lines, cool cool cool. Welcome back fellas. |
| Fantastic Negrito White Jesus Black Problems |
| Fates Warning Disconnected |
| Great stuff on here - probably the best line-up Fates Warning have ever had. |
| Fates Warning A Pleasant Shade of Gray |
| Fine Before You Came Frome complesse |
| Fireworks Higher Lonely Power |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse |
| Fleet Foxes Crack-Up |
| Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The LSO Promises |
| Florence and the Machine Dance Fever |
| Florist Florist |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape |
| Foo Fighters One by One |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Frost* Falling Satellites |
| Genesis Owusu Smiling with No Teeth |
| GHOSTEMANE Anti-Icon |
| Glass Animals Zaba |
| Surfin' the sensual vibes already touched by other similar artists (Alt-J and Chet Faker) - pop music for the good times |
| Goblin Profondo Rosso |
| God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut |
| God Is an Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun |
| God Is an Astronaut Helios/Erebus |
| It's not like their re-inventing themselves or anything, but this both hits hard and is thoroughly enjoyable as a post-rock record. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius |
| The strongest Gojira release and the one with most of their live anthems. Still longer than it should be |
| Gojira Magma |
| Good Tiger Raised in a Doomsday Cult |
| Gordian Knot Gordian Knot |
| Great Grandpa Four of Arrows |
| Green Carnation A Blessing In Disguise |
| Green Carnation Leaves Of Yesteryear |
| Grimes Miss Anthropocene |
| Guilt Machine On This Perfect Day |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction |
| Hacktivist Hacktivist |
| Sue me, I love bobbing my head to this EP. Must be my adolescence speaking.. |
| Hacride Back To Where You've Never Been |
| Hania Rani On Giacometti |
| Haru Nemuri Haru to Shura |
| He Is Legend Endless Hallway |
| HEALTH DISCO4 :: Part I |
| Heart of a Coward Hope and Hindrance |
| Heart of a Coward Severance |
| Helloween Walls of Jericho |
| Helloween Helloween EP |
| Hiatus Kaiyote Mood Valiant |
| Hypno5e Des Deux l'une Est l'autre |
| Hypno5e Shores of the Abstract Line |
| Hypno5e Sheol |
| iamthemorning MISCELLANY |
| Great appetizer to start 2014 with. Can't wait for the full release. |
| iamthemorning Belighted |
| Ichiko Aoba Adan no Kaze |
| Il Paese dei Balocchi Il paese dei balocchi |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View |
| Hey how come I like this one? Pretty good tunes and quite constant quality-wise. |
| Indukti S.U.S.A.R. |
| Injury Reserve Injury Reserve |
| Injury Reserve By The Time I Get To Phoenix |
| Intervals In Time |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| Jakub Zytecki Wishful Lotus Proof |
| 'The guide to the progressive metal trends of the 2010s' - Jakub exploring some of the sounds made rby his fellow colleagues of the modern prog scene. |
| Jakub Zytecki Feather Bed |
| Jakub Zytecki Remind Me |
| Jolly The Audio Guide to Happiness (Part 1) |
| Jon Hopkins Singularity |
| Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance |
| Judas Priest Sin After Sin |
| Karnivool Asymmetry |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. |
| Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Fishing For Fishies |
| Not the best Gizzard, but definitely the boogiest Gizzard |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Infest the Rats' Nest |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard L. W. |
| King Hannah I'm Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me |
| Kishi Bashi Omoiyari |
| Klimt 1918 Dopoguerra |
| Klimt 1918 Just in Case We'll Never Meet Again |
| Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life |
| Korn Korn |
| Korn Requiem |
| Labyrinth Labyrinth |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang |
| Leprous Bilateral |
| Super spazzy, entertaining and melodical as fuck. Really freshening considering how 'clear' the influences were on the previous disc. Great stuff. |
| Leprous The Congregation |
| A slight improvement on the foggy atmospheres of Coal. Less unnecessary instrumental parts and more focus overall |
| Leprous Aphelion |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment |
| Little Simz Grey Area |
| Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be Introvert |
| Long Distance Calling Avoid The Light |
| Long Distance Calling Long Distance Calling |
| Lorem Ipsum Vivre encore |
| Lovage Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By |
| Low Double Negative |
| Low Hey What |
| Lunatic Soul Lunatic Soul II |
| Lunatic Soul Impressions |
| Lunatic Soul Fractured |
| Machinae Supremacy Redeemer (Underground Edition) |
| Machinae Supremacy A View from the End of the World |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface |
| Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God |
| Manowar Into Glory Ride |
| Manowar Kings of Metal |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| Massive Attack Protection |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Maybeshewill Not For Want Of Trying |
| Maybeshewill Japanese Spy Transcript EP |
| Maybeshewill No Feeling Is Final |
| Mechanical Poet Handmade Essence |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? |
| It's no "Rust In Peace", but Megadeth step up their game, release a less shitty cover, an iconic title-track and some great tunes all around. |
| Melorman Out in a field |
| Memphis May Fire The Hollow |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Mew +- |
| Mindflow Destructive Device |
| Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will |
| Mogwai As the Love Continues |
| Mol Diorama |
| Mondo Grosso Big World |
| Mono The Last Dawn |
| Sounds like Death Note's soundtrack (and a lot of other post-rock) but it's still good. rBetter than the second disc which is a glorified EP with a lot of noise in the end |
| Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis |
| Moon Tooth Crux |
| Moonchild Voyager |
| Muse Absolution |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Mutemath Mutemath |
| Mutemath Armistice |
| Mutemath Odd Soul |
| Natalia Lafourcade Un Canto por México‚ Vol․ 1 |
| Native Construct Quiet World |
| As spazzy as you'd expect from a band that got the favours of BtBaM, the only criticisms I have is that the concept is not that good and the songs are, as is the case for this kind of music, quite hit and miss - but since the music takes 360? leaps every 20 seconds, is it even a problem? |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel |
| Negura Bunget OM |
| Negura Bunget Virstele Pamintului |
| Nest (FIN) Trail of the Unwary |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Carnage |
| Nick Murphy (fka Chet Faker) Thinking in Textures |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Northlane Singularity |
| Northlane Mesmer |
| Nothing But Thieves Nothing But Thieves |
| Nothing But Thieves Broken Machine |
| Novembre Novembrine Waltz |
| Probably their second best, with all the baroque-esque motives both in music and lyrics.. I mean you can hear these guys are italian from the weird way they write, but that's just adds it to the cool factor. |
| Novembre The Blue |
| Novembre Classica |
| Olafur Arnalds Living Room Songs |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Owel Paris |
| Pain of Salvation One Hour by the Concrete Lake |
| Pain of Salvation Scarsick |
| Pain of Salvation Road Salt Two |
| Pain of Salvation Falling Home |
| Scarsick reimagened songs, plus King of loss = 4rUseless two RSII songs that sound like the original versions = 2.5rOverall, a 3.5.r |
| Palm Reader Sleepless |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile |
| Great debut for the hardcore giants, taking the piss in style of all the emo bands that plagued the mid 00s. Crushing riffs and fun as hell. |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue |
| Parkway Drive Atlas |
| The disc you wouldn't expect from breakdown masters Parkway Drive. Never thought bro-core could sound mature-ish. |
| Pathosray Pathosray |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Periphery Icarus |
| Perturbator New Model |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher |
| Pinegrove Marigold |
| Pinegrove Amperland, NY |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets |
| Pink Floyd firstly introducing to the world what they do best. Featuring some outstanding tunes, a weirdly haunting title-track and the last (sad) piece of Barrett's story with the band. |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut |
| Following the anti-war motifs of their previous masterpiece, the 'Final Cut' just suffers from a few underwhelming tracks and an absence of a change of pace; however, it is also full of sheer passion, emotion and some truly memorable tunes. |
| Placebo Never Let Me Go |
| Plini Impulse Voices |
| Pomegranate Tiger Entities |
| I was tempted to give it a 3 due to its repetitive patterns, but then I thought about the great musicianship, some outstanding tracks (New Breed, Stars and the Ocean suite) and the fact that this is a debut. 3.5 for these good fellows. |
| Poppy I Disagree |
| Porcupine Tree Signify |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Porcupine Tree Up the Downstair |
| Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways |
| Porcupine Tree Nil Recurring |
| Great EP - some standout tracks and that fake Sentimental is so much better than the real one. |
| Port Noir Puls |
| Port Noir Any Way The Wind Carries |
| Premiata Forneria Marconi Storia di un minuto |
| Premiata Forneria Marconi L'isola di niente |
Although not touching the highlights of 'Per un amico', PFM's third effort is still a great disc
recommended to all lovers of prog rock. |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Protest the Hero Volition |
| Puppy The Goat |
| Pure Reason Revolution Hammer & Anvil |
| Pure Reason Revolution Above Cirrus |
| Puscifer Conditions of My Parole |
| Puscifer Money Shot |
| PVRIS Hallucinations |
| Queen Queen II |
| The most alternative/genre-bending and musically successful Queen have ever been - along with 'Sheer Heart Attack', of course. |
| Queen A Day at the Races |
| On a similar note to the previous ANatO, but with less fillers and more memorable moments (imho). |
| Queen News of the World |
| Sitting comfortably in the 70s Queen evolution to arena rock giants, variety is its sheer strength. One may say "performers of many, masters of none", but that's a whole different point. |
| Queen Queen |
| Good memories linked to this - and a damn fine rock record too. The prelude to something better |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Welcome back guitars. Some great stuff on this, although I do agree with the band - cutting a few tracks wouldn't have been bad at all |
| Raein Sulla linea d'orizzonte tra questa mia vita e que |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Some of their best and some of their worst. Luckily the split up after this. |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan |
| Refused Freedom |
| Regina Spektor Home, Before and After |
| Respire Black Line |
| Riverside Shrine Of New Generation Slaves |
| Definitely a grower. I hated the feeling "Celebrity Touch" gave me at first, but now, after a few listens, I'm sold. Not their best, but it's a great album. Thought at first that all these 70s elements "ruined" the typical sound of Riverside, but they're all stil here.. Except now they are accompanied by a hammond. |
| Riverside Wasteland |
| Rolo Tomassi Cosmology |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 |
| Rush 2112 |
| Rush Signals |
| Russian Circles Enter |
| Russian Circles Station |
| Saint Pepsi Mannequin Challenge |
| Sharon Van Etten We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong |
| Shining (NOR) Blackjazz |
| Shining (NOR) International Blackjazz Society |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Silent Planet When the End Began |
| Silent Planet Iridescent |
| Silent Planet Superbloom |
| Skyharbor Guiding Lights |
| Too long. If they had cut some of the interludes and a few minutes here and there of boring wankery, would have been a 4 worthy disc. |
| Slayer South of Heaven |
| Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden |
| sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind |
| Snarky Puppy We Like It Here |
| Snarky Puppy at their most technical and, overall, funniest. |
| Spanish Love Songs No Joy |
| Stendeck Faces |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning |
| Stratovarius Episode |
| Stratovarius Visions |
| Stray from the Path Make Your Own History |
| Stray from the Path Subliminal Criminals |
| Stray from the Path Internal Atomics |
| Structures Divided By |
| Fun as fuck. But someone should shoot the producer |
| Subheim Approach |
| Subterranean Masquerade Temporary Psychotic State |
| Subterranean Masquerade Suspended Animation Dreams |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan |
| Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy |
| Symphony X The Odyssey |
| Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost |
| Talk Talk The Colour of Spring |
| Tash Sultana Terra Firma |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny |
| TesseracT Regrowth |
| Thank You Scientist Maps of Non-Existent Places |
| The American Dollar Atlas |
| The American Dollar Ambient Three |
| I tend to prefer their 'Ambient' releases which are practically their discs without drumbeats. Perfect chillout music |
| The American Dollar Across The Oceans |
| The Armed Ultrapop |
| The Comet Is Coming Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North |
| The Dear Hunter Branches |
| The Dear Hunter The Migrations Annex |
| The Death of Anna Karina Lacrima/Pantera |
| The Flashbulb Kirlian Selections |
| The Flashbulb Nothing Is Real |
| The Flashbulb going ambient and doing so brilliantly. Completely unexpected. |
| The Gathering Home |
| The Haarp Machine Disclosure |
| Despite the recent backlash caused by the implosion of the band, "Disclosure" is a great -core album, with a good production and great ideas.. Lyrics are the weakest part of an album that would otherwise deserve 4.0. |
| The Human Abstract Moonlight Sonata |
| The Killers Pressure Machine |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| TMV diluting their original sound with endlessly blatantly acid-influenced soundscapes that will baffle the sober as amuse the stoned. But when it hits.. |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
| The blatant example that people ask for things they actually didn't want at all - TMV wrote some songs with a structure, how dare! And yet, this is one of their best. |
| The National Sleep Well Beast |
| The National I Am Easy to Find |
| The Ocean Aeolian |
| The Ocean Precambrian |
| The Ocean Fluxion |
| This is like some great s**t coming out of a debut disc. GGWP Staps |
| The Ocean Heliocentric |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land |
| The Prodigy World's On Fire |
| The Reign of Kindo This Is What Happens |
| The Safety Fire Mouth of Swords |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Smile A Light For Attracting Attention |
| The Tangent A Spark In The Aether |
| A vivid critique to what is left of that 'spark in the aether' that was 70s prog. Old school music with witty and thoughtful lyrics. |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Illusory Walls |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere |
| Thrice Palms |
| Thy Catafalque Naiv |
| Tigran Hamasyan Shadow Theater |
| Some truly brilliant stuff, some 'eh' pieces that will just improve in his next release. |
| Tigran Hamasyan An Ancient Observer |
| Tigran Hamasyan The Call Within |
| Tim Hecker No Highs |
| Toby Driver They Are the Shield |
| Tool Undertow |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By |
| Touche Amore Stage Four |
| Touche Amore Lament |
| Turnstile Turnstile Love Connection |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine |
| Album is dispersive, but you clearly see they have a lot of (weird) ideas and they're not afraid to put them in practice. Also, they know how to write catchy choruses and make outstanding videos, which is a plus. |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Outlier |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Vengeance |
| Two People First Body |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
| Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP |
| Atmospherics that ultimately work, paired up with great production values and a musical variety that's quite uncommon even for Ulver. Great work, might not have enough substance to be worthy of a 4 though. |
| Ulver Flowers of Evil |
| Ulver Hexahedron |
| Uneven Structure 8 (Re-release) |
| Uneven Structure La Partition |
| Uneven Structure Paragon |
| Veil of Maya [id] |
| Veil of Maya Eclipse |
| Viagra Boys Welfare Jazz |
| Viagra Boys Cave World |
| VOLA Monsters |
| I actually enjoy more the EP than the LP; maybe because since it's just four songs it doesn't tire you as much as the long one - which problems mostly lie on its repetiveness - does. |
| VOLA Witness |
| Wastefall Self Exile |
| Whitechapel The Valley |
| Wolf Alice Blue Weekend |
| Wolfmother Cosmic Egg |
| X Japan Art of Life |
| Yes Relayer |
| Structured like their previous two discs, Yes continue to raise the level of wackiness and prog delirium in their proposal. |
| Yes Close to the Edge |
| Sput didn't like my first soundoff so.. here's a tl;drrTitle-track: 70s prog wankery at its extremesrsecond track: 70s prog snoozefest at its extremesrthird track: best one |
| Yes The Yes Album |
| Yeule Glitch Princess |
| Yuri Gagarin The Outskirts of Reality |
| Zeal and Ardor Wake of a Nation |
| 3.0 good |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You |
| A.A. Williams Forever Blue |
| A.A. Williams Songs from Isolation |
| Ada Rook UGLY DEATH NO REDEMPTION ANGEL CURSE I LOVE YOU |
| After the Burial Forging a Future Self |
| It's marred by an awful production but still pretty good stuff. I wish they had re-recorded all of it though, to be honest. |
| After the Burial This Life Is All We Have |
| ..This new ep appears to be a well crafted sop more than anything else, with the fans actually getting the short end of the stick. |
| After the Burial Evergreen |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere |
| Alcest Shelter |
| It's an ok disc, with a few good tunes but it doesn't touch the magic of its debut disc. Still, a sign of improvement in comparison to the previous disc. |
| Alesana On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax |
| Nostalgia factor for the frail emo-scene of the mid 00s. That's all this album can give nowadays, I think. |
| alt-J Relaxer |
| Alvvays Blue Rev |
| Amenra De Doorn |
| Amon Tobin Supermodified |
| Amorphis Silent Waters |
| Slower and doomier than its predecessor, it doesn't hold the attention of its listener as Eclipse did. |
| Amorphis Skyforger |
| It's an 'ok' disc with some good tunes and some forgettable ones. Amorphis always had this problem throughout their whole career and this ain't no exception. |
| Amplifier Amplifier |
| Amplifier The Octopus |
| Anathema Falling Deeper |
| Everwake keeps the album up from being a slight disappointment. The 'soul' of the original tracks is slightly lost and the result is not on the levels of 'Hindsight'. |
| Anberlin Silverline |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks: Music From Season 2 And More |
| Yeah well - as the season from which the soundtrack is taken, it's quite bloated and its true moments of brilliance are when it's a sort of reprise of what was said and played during the first (season). |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless |
| Oooooh cut the c**p already, Tosin, We know you like Jazz, but, you know.. You can write better than this, we know you can. |
| Anneke van Giersbergen Everything Is Changing |
| I'd say wasted talent considering it's poppy-rock from one of the best voices of the rock-world, but she made so many good things that a detour like this can still be appreciated. |
| Anthony Green Avalon |
| His voice, I gotta tell, it's damn polarising. Borderline annoying, as some of the tracks are here. But the rest is still decent enough to get your attention. |
| Anthony Green Young Legs |
| I listened to this and completely forgot any song. I'd say I'm not a huge fan of his voice and I believe on an acoustic background his pitch is even more annoying, but if I gave it a 3 there must have been a reason right? |
| Antimatter Planetary Confinement |
| The acoustic tinges make the album a nice listen, although not everything is that remarkable to make me give a 3.5 on this. Still their best disc |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together |
| Rehashing the formula that worked a charm on their previous record. Enjoyable but not groundbreaking. |
| Archive Londinium |
| It's an okay release that is dramatically influenced by the works of Massive Attack. Now, if it didn't happen three years after the Bristol based band released their first effort, this could have been rated a tad bit higher. |
| Archive Lights |
| A disc that never got to me, maybe due to its similarities with the two better predecessors. |
| Archive Call To Arms and Angels |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| Discs my ex-girlfriend loved and that my current gf hates (pt. 1). Well the solos sound like a 3 year old wrote them and some of the 'instrumental' bits guitar-wise are laughable but some tracks work and possess a distinct charm that make them at least passable. Not the saviours of anything, anyway. Not a chance, music was incredibly fine in 2006 |
| Arctic Monkeys Humbug |
| It's an ok disc, definitely influenced by its producer. But the stoner-rock influences do not really flow nicely with their roots and the disc is hit-and-miss more than it should have been. |
| Arcturus Aspera Hiems Symfonia |
| The blackest Arcturus release, but not the most interesting one. Probably one of the most enjoyable traditional black metal releases ever, which says it all on the overall quality of the scene... |
| Arcturus La Masquerade Infernale |
| The avantgarde mask doesn't hide the evident flaws in the enjoyment of the record. The equivalent of a grotesque individual in music. |
| Area Caution Radiation Area |
| Too jazzy to be a coherent LP disc. The first track stands out to the rest but doesn't make the disc shine as the other Area records did. |
| Area 1978 Gli dei se ne Vanno |
| A prophetic title - the gods are leaving, the angry ones will stay - what should have been just a mere transitional record ends up to be their last. What a shame. |
| Ark Burn the Sun |
| 00s prog-wank at its okayest. Too bad as the human material here is great, the music doesn't stand out that much though. |
| Artificial Language The Observer |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker |
| I mean not all tracks are great but some of them still work suprisingly fine and I would not mind see them on one of their live setlists. |
| August Burns Red Messengers |
| There's too much of the same on here, with just a few tracks truly standing out. |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem |
| Avantdale Bowling Club TREES |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
| Full of tracks I don't really want to hear again, with the exception of some that are quite ok. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold |
| Radio-friendly tuned up to the max on this one. 'Dear God' is one of the worst tracks ever recorded in the history of music but hey - guilty pleasures still can be worth a listen sometimes. |
| Aviations The Light Years |
| Ayreon Into the Electric Castle |
| This is so, so boring. Overrated in all aspects - bombasticly boring musically and concept wise. |
| Backxwash HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST... |
| Be Forest Cold |
| While good, it lacks some of the qualities that made their sophomore effort stand up from the crowd. |
| Beach House Once Twice Melody |
| Bear Noumenon |
| Pissed-off djent. Great music for working out, not much for anything else. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Eeeeeeeh. I mean, it's the most inconsistent release of theirs. One may be actually happy it's just an EP and not a full LP. |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I |
| Big Red Machine How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? |
| Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You |
| Billie Eilish Happier Than Ever |
| Bjork Post |
| So, it is no secret I find here to be a tad bit boring. Like some of the songs are good, some are not. This is no exception |
| Bjork Medulla |
| Well, I did define 'Vespertine' as minimalistic, but this takes the definition of minimalistic to the extreme. A lot of stuff is unbearable but when it works is as nice as a capella music disc can be. |
| Bjork Debut |
| Oh my god those eurobeats may have been ok in those days but now they're hella atrocious. ugh |
| Black Midi Schlagenheim |
| Black Midi Cavalcade |
| Black Midi Hellfire |
| Blind Guardian Follow the Blind |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
| So - f*****g - overrated. That's all there is to say. |
| Born of Osiris Soul Sphere |
| Well, I wouldn't have expected anything else from these guys but at least some tracks are fun. |
| Bring Me the Horizon Post Human: Survival Horror |
| Camel I Can See Your House From Here |
| Camel Breathless |
| Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You |
| Cea Serin The Vibrant Sound of Bliss and Decay |
| Chat Pile God's Country |
| Chimp Spanner At the Dream's Edge |
| CHON Grow |
| Chill music for spring time. Nothing extremely memorable but alas their curious mix of post-hardcore melodies and prog sensibility is, at least, interesting. |
| Cloudkicker Fade |
| Cloudkicker Subsume |
| Code Orange I Am King |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow |
| Converge Bloodmoon: I |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Banefyre |
| Crosses Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete. |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear |
| Cynic Focus |
| I can clearly hear why is it considered a classic, and I can find something that i really like, but the production is abysmal (even on the remaster), I can't bear the two voices and I'm not a huge fan of the death parts/guitar tone. Maybe I'm way too overcritical with this album, but I don't know.. It's stuff that I feel I listen to because I have to rather than because I get satisfaction from hearing it.. Much like Meshuggah. |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us |
| Cynic Ascension Codes |
| Darkwater Calling the Earth to Witness |
| David Maxim Micic EGO |
| A restrained version of its Bilo efforts. OK but nothing that he hasn't done before better |
| David Maxim Micic ECO |
| David Maxim Micic Who Bit the Moon |
| Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part I: Niggas on the Moon |
| Destrage Urban Being |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki |
| Dial Synchronized |
| Digitonal Be Still My Bleeping Heart |
| Disturbed Indestructible |
| Don Broco Amazing Things |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm |
| Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite |
| Dreamscape Revoiced |
| Dreamscape 5th Season |
| Eden Circus Marula |
| Elder (USA-MA) Innate Passage |
| Elio e le Storie Tese Craccracriccrecr |
| Elio e le Storie Tese L'Album Biango |
| Ellende Triebe |
| Agalloch worship is high on these ones. . . But again there is not much imho this genre, in this incarnation, can give. enjoyable listen though |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
| Monolithic as their first effort, a step into the right direction but a chore and without enough variety to hold the listener. The muddy trve production doesn't help either |
| Endling The Heavy Frigate |
| Eryn Non Dae. Meliora |
| Ethereal Shroud Trisagion |
| Ever Forthright Ever Forthright |
| Eyes (DK) Congratulations |
| Falloch Where Distant Spirits Remain |
| Fates Warning Parallels |
| Fleet Foxes Shore |
| Flying Colors Flying Colors |
| Hit and miss, hit and miss, hit and miss. Some good ideas, some bad ones. Overall a good listen, 3. |
| Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace |
| Ghost Bath Moonlover |
| CHINESE POST BLACK FUCK YEAHrThey seem to be super pissed, did someone steal their hongbao's? Did they record this while in a big-ass queue for the golden week? |
| Glass Cloud The Royal Thousand |
| Good ideas, but not many stand-out songs: still a decent effort, looking forward to more. |
| Goblin Suspiria |
| God Is an Astronaut Epitaph |
| God Is an Astronaut Ghost Tapes #10 |
| Gojira Terra Incognita |
| It's an experimental start for the career of Gojira, the formula is far from perfect but a lot of the characteristics that define their sound are already present here. |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Not touching the peaks of its predecessor, 'The Way..' suffers of a truly lackluster mid part that splits the album and leaves the whole playthrough as a chore |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage |
| Gojira Fortitude |
| Gordian Knot Emergent |
| Gospel The Loser |
| Green Carnation The Quiet Offspring |
| Haken Aquarius |
| I mean they obviously had a lot of ideas but saying that they're all well expressed would be a giant lie. |
| Hath All That Was Promised |
| HEALTH RAT WARS |
| Helios Eingya |
| Hiatus Kaiyote Choose Your Weapon |
| The tracks that truly shine are overwhelmed by a plethora of truly poor half-assed tracks that you can enjoy only if you're an hipster with ham in your ears. too bad since what it works, works really well |
| Hypno5e A Distant (Dark) Source |
| Iceage Seek Shelter |
| In the Woods... Omnio |
| Intervals A Voice Within |
| Intervals The Shape of Colour |
| Well played and well produced, but where's the great riffs that made his EPs so good? It's an enjoyable record but still below expectations. |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier |
| Jaga Jazzist Starfire |
| It's ok muzak. Nothing that rocked my world but it seems like it was made for travelling around on Tokyo's trains (where i am now) so it's ok I guess |
| Jeff Loomis Plains of Oblivion |
| Not my cup, shredding usually bores after two or three songs.. Saw him live, tight player, even though I've never cared that much about Nevermore. |
| Jordan Rudess The Road Home |
| Jordan Rudess Rhythm of Time |
| Judas Priest British Steel |
| Judas Priest Killing Machine |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music III |
| Katatonia Brave Murder Day |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day |
| Keith Jarrett The Köln Concert |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies |
| Kishi Bashi Emigrant |
| Korn Follow the Leader |
| Lamb of God Resolution |
| Leprous Tall Poppy Syndrome |
| Leprous Coal |
| Cohesive but excessively bloated. Too bad considering that while instrumentally not much of worthy mentioning happens, it has a unique atmosphere and good melodic choruses that may have benefited from a shortening of some of the instrumental bits. |
| Leprous Malina |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns |
| Lunatic Soul Walking on a Flashlight Beam |
| Maneskin Teatro d'ira - Vol. I |
| Marnero Il sopravvissuto |
Alternates brilliant moments to dull uninspired typically Italian alt-metal parts. Lyrically is a
hit and miss and for the genre is.. well, quite important. |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Maybeshewill Fair Youth |
| Meer Playing House |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! |
| A debut worth listening for some of the most famous cuts, despite its awful production and questionable covers. |
| Meshuggah Nothing |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Milk White Throat Milk White Throat |
| Milosh iii |
| Milosh Meme |
| Mindflow Just the Two of Us... Me and Them |
| Mindflowers IMPROgressive |
| Misery Signals Absent Light |
| Monolithic as fuck, the lack of variety ultimately hampers the value of the album as a whole. |
| Modern Day Babylon Travelers |
| Mono Rays of Darkness |
| Mono Nowhere Now Here |
| Monuments (UK) Phronesis |
| Monuments (UK) In Stasis |
| Moon Tooth Phototroph |
| Naia Izumi A Residency In The Los Angeles Area |
| Man if all the songs were like natural disaster and soft spoken, this would be a masterpiece |
| Negura Bunget Tău |
| Hit and miss release from Negru's brainchild - yet some of the ambient based tracks and the wackiness of track 5 and 6 (latter is absolutely nuts) saves it from being an average release. |
| Nero di Marte Derivae |
| Nest (FIN) Woodsmoke |
| Nick Murphy (fka Chet Faker) Built on Glass |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| No Consequence IO |
| Enjoyable and energetic, but it suffers of being way too influenced by the other UK bands of the scene. It is not a bad record though, if it had been a little less derivative it would have been an easy 3.5. |
| Nord (FRA) The Only Way To Reach The Surface |
| Northlane Discoveries |
| Nothing The Great Dismal |
| Nothing But Thieves Moral Panic |
| Nothing But Thieves Moral Panic II |
| Nothing More Nothing More |
| O'Brother You and I |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Orphaned Land The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR |
| OSI Blood |
| OSI Free |
| Pain of Salvation Road Salt One |
| Pantommind Shade of Fate |
| Panzerballett Tank Goodness |
| Crazy s**t is not always the best, but at least it's original. Half of the album is pretty sweet, rest is "meh". |
| Papa Roach Infest |
| Papir 7 |
| Parannoul After The Magic |
| Parkway Drive Horizons |
| Pearl Jam Vs. |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan |
| Perturbator Lustful Sacraments |
| Pinegrove 11:11 |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
| Lyrically and musically delirious, Pink Floyd's first is memorable for reasons that go beyond the actual quality of its music. |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell |
| Much more of a guilty pleasure than its predecessor - sounds better but, lightly put, it's the same old s**t. r |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother |
| Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds |
| The most direct Floyd have ever been - not necessarily bad but not even necessarily relevant. Rightfully obscured by their other 70s releases. |
| Pink Floyd Ummagumma |
| A brilliant live rendition of the best songs from their starting years. There's a second disc? What second disc? |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason |
| I can't really hate this disc, due to my lack of knowledge of 80s music - it's a mish-mash of five year old trends and Gilmour's guitar style, ok, the lyrics may not be extremely relevant but it's still an enjoyable listen. |
| Polaris The Death of Me |
| Poppy EAT (NXT Soundtrack) |
| Porcupine Tree We Lost the Skyline |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident |
| Porcupine Tree Closure/Continuation |
| Port Noir Cuts |
| Portrayal of Guilt We Are Always Alone |
| Protest the Hero Gallop Meets the Earth |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Queen A Night at the Opera |
| Containing one of the anthems of rock music, some great tunes and a overwhelming collection of average songs from a musical you're not actually sure you want to see. |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| It's probably my least favourite Radiohead but not a bad disc at all, just the others are better. |
| Radiohead In Rainbows Disk 2 |
| The closest thing to a 'eh' that Radiohead has ever put out |
| Rammstein Zeit |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You |
| Redemption The Origins of Ruin |
| Rhapsody of Fire Symphony of Enchanted Lands |
| Rhapsody of Fire Dawn of Victory |
| Rhapsody of Fire Legendary Tales |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason |
| Rise Against Endgame |
| Rivers of Nihil The Work |
| Riverside Love, Fear and the Time Machine |
| Saxon Wheels of Steel |
| Scar Symmetry The Unseen Empire |
| Shadow Gallery Legacy |
| Shattered Skies The World We Used to Know |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
| Sigur Ros ÁTTA |
| Silent Planet Everything Was Sound |
| Silk Sonic An Evening with Silk Sonic |
| Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites |
| Slayer Reign in Blood |
| Sleep Token This Place Will Become Your Tomb |
| Sleep Token Sundowning |
| sleepmakeswaves Love of Cartography |
| Snarky Puppy Ground UP |
| Well played, sounds good - but lacks a certain "substance". Jazzy beats like these have been out and about for ages now and there's not the spark of improvisation and madness that makes instead their last releases stand out from the crowd on this. |
| Snarky Puppy Family Dinner, Vol. 1 |
| Good muzak. Why did they win a Grammy with the worst song of the disc is another thing, but.. |
| Sons of Kemet Black to the Future |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Spheric Universe Experience Mental Torments |
| Spiral Architect A Sceptic's Universe |
| Squid Bright Green Field |
| Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill |
| Steven Wilson Cover Version |
| Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase. |
| When an artist states that his/her new disc is a 'concept' for me it's truly a 'make it or break it' deal - it can raise tremendously my consideration of the disc or just kill it. Guess how it went with this one. |
| Strawberry Girls Tasmanian Glow |
| Stray from the Path Anonymous |
| Symphony X Twilight in Olympus |
| Symphony X Iconoclast |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker |
| Tears for Fears The Tipping Point |
| TesseracT Perspective |
| From the outstanding cover of "Dream Brother" to the awful rendition of "Perfection" to the dumbed version of "Eden".. A good product, but we expect much more from these guys. |
| TesseracT War of Being |
| The Antlers Losing Light |
| The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist |
| The Comet Is Coming Trust in the Lifeforce of Deep Mystery |
| The Contortionist Language |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant |
| Being a "barely thought" product is indeed a good one, one can't but appreciate the heartfelt lyrics, but there's always the feeling that musically-wise is a small step backwards and that Casey writes better music when he's following a concept. I don't think this is the direction he wants to bring his music to so I'm fine with this (good) momentary deviation. |
| The Dear Hunter Antimai |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne |
| The Devil Wears Prada ZII |
| The Flashbulb Red Extensions of Me |
| The Flower Kings The Sum of No Evil |
| The Gathering if_then_else |
| The Gathering Mandylion |
| A superb debut of an amazing singer (Anneke) on top of a really average metal disc. |
| The Gathering Disclosure |
| The Gathering Beautiful Distortion |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne |
| The Korea Chariots Of The Gods |
| Worst live band ever. |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture |
| Technically mild and as diluted as 'Frances'; the 12 minutes of 'Day of the Baphomets' save the day, yet I wish they had taken the title literally and amputate half of this. |
| The Prodigy Music for the Jilted Generation |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars 30 Seconds To Mars |
| This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You |
| This Will Destroy You Another Language |
| Thom Yorke Tomorrow's Modern Boxes |
| Thomas Giles Modern Noise |
| Tool Opiate |
| Tool Salival |
| Trans-Siberian Orchestra Beethoven's Last Night |
| Tropical Fuck Storm Deep States |
| Two People Second Body |
| Ulver Perdition City |
| On this, they managed to sort some of the issues their drone/trip-hop sound debut had - less fillers, no killers. It's a good disc, yet the whole 'cinematic landscape' does not enthrall as much as it should. |
| Ulver Kveldssanger |
| Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium |
| Full unexpected wackiness. Too much wackiness, to be fair |
| Vangough Manikin Parade |
| Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse |
| Vildhjarta Thousands Of Evils |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden Under Vatten |
| Volumes Via |
| Volumes Happier? |
| Warmen Beyond Abilities |
| Warmen Unknown Soldier |
| Wastefall Meridiem |
| Weyes Blood Front Row Seat to Earth |
| Weyes Blood And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow |
| White Ward Love Exchange Failure |
| Whitechapel Kin |
| Winds Prominence and Demise |
| Within the Ruins Elite |
| Something good, something bad, something borrowed.. A mix of heavy hitters and tracks that lead nowhere and that could have been left out.. |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother |
| Wuthering Heights Far from the Madding Crowd |
| Wuthering Heights The Shadow Cabinet |
| X Japan Blue Blood |
| Just because they're japs it doesn't man it has to be good |
| Yoshihisa Hirano & Hideki Taniuchi Death Note Original Soundtrack II |
| As Light's role in the manga, the soundtrack becomes more subtle, not anymore in the foreground. Similar to the haunting landscapes of Subheim and Ulver, the bleak portrait of modern economy during the Yotsuba chapters is brought to 'music' with a more minimalistic, less instrument based, approach. |
| Young the Giant Young the Giant |
| Zelliack Noir Tone |
| 2.5 average |
| 40 Watt Sun Perfect Light |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart |
| A Day To Remember Homesick |
| A Lot Like Birds No Place |
| Aesop Rock x Blockhead Garbology |
| Agalloch The Grey |
| Age of Nemesis Terra Incognita |
| Alcest Le Secret (2011 Version) |
| The sound of the worst Alcest tracks was born here. |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme |
| Easily forgettable. Alcest's magic has withered in a few discs span, at least for me. |
| Aliases Safer Than Reality |
These guys are so boring, yet so good at wanking..  I'm a little bit sad they just can't seem to
pull off decent records. |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here |
| Boring, but I gotta be honest even after seeing them live I don't really see anything special about this band |
| Amorphis Elegy |
| Aside from 'Better Unborn' and 'My Kantele', this disc always bored me to hell. May have to pick it up again someday |
| Anathema The Optimist |
| Antimatter Leaving Eden |
| I don't know but I found it distressingly boring rather than distressingly emotional. Antimatter lost their appeal quite quickly and the music doesn't change much from their previous release to justify a better score. |
| Antimatter Saviour |
| I gotta be honest, I listened to this disc a lot of times and I really really don't remember practically any of the tracks on here. |
| Archive Controlling Crowds - Part IV |
| An unneccessary follow up that does not add anything, rather dilutes more what was already diluted in the first three parts. |
| Archive The False Foundation |
| Astronoid Radiant Bloom |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places |
| The poorest ABR release ever, there's not one song I'd say it's strongest than the other or that I'd look forward to hear it live. |
| August Burns Red Guardians |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet |
| They all still had to get how to use their instruments and yet they pretended to make a disc. |
| Ayreon Flight of the Migrator |
| Ugh what a drag, it's like when they split a book in two movies just to make some more money out of it. the Universal Migrator is a filler in the Ayreon world as it doesn't tell much that you really need to understand the way more interesting main story (2). But hey at least there's Bruce Dickinson on this and he rules |
| Ayreon The Dream Sequencer |
| Ugh what a drag, it's like when they split a book in two movies just to make some more money out of it. the Universal Migrator is a filler in the Ayreon world as it doesn't tell much that you really need to understand the way more interesting main story (1). |
| Battles La Di Da Di |
| I have not been really impressed that much by this. Even the single gets tiresome after a few listens. |
| Benjamin Clementine I Tell A Fly |
| Betraying the Martyrs Breathe In Life |
| Album would be a 3, yet their singer is a complete ******, couldn't give a f**k anymore about this band after seeing them live. |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic |
| Their worst disc ever. The cheesy operatic feel of some songs it's just too over-the-top to work. Also, it's weirdly unmemorable on way too many parts. Just a few tracks stand out and keep this from being a disaster. |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign |
Production is abysmal. It's a 2.7, as half of the tracks are skip. I usually reward debuts
but considering I heard "The Discovery" before this I just can't give this more than 2.5.
Also dat keyz: insulting good taste since 2007. |
| Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season |
| Aside from the singles, the rest is totally forgettable. |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... |
| I listened to this more than I'm happy to admit, but we've got to be honest. The singles are okay, the rest is c**p. |
| Brockhampton Ginger |
| Brockhampton Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var |
| Burzum's music was not ripe enough, and the split between gloom and groove it's just not as good as it is in the following records. |
| Burzum Aske |
| A trip into the mind of a fucking bad multi-instrumentalist. And a sociopath. 'A Lost Forgotten Sad Spirit' though carries glimpses of the atmospheric qualities to be found later on in his career. |
| Caligula's Horse In Contact |
| Circle of Contempt Artifacts in Motion |
| Circus Maximus Nine |
| Reviewed in Italian for a website I used to write in. Simply put, this is too cheesy, too 80's and half of the songs are average. Five years for this? Huge disappointment. |
| Cloudkicker Woum |
| Covet technicolor |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North |
| Devin Townsend Project Z2 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings |
| I hate this mostly for that horrendous AA suite track. Holy s**t Portnoy had to go and you can see it from this. Rest averages from 'average DT' to weird lyrics and great music "The Count.." |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater |
| Dream Unending Song of Salvation |
| dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy |
| EarlyRise Colors |
| How did this even got into my iPod? New definition of average music |
| Emmure Speaker Of The Dead |
| Enter Shikari Common Dreads |
| Enter Shikari The Mindsweep |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts |
| Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds |
| Glass Cloud Perfect War Forever |
| Gojira The Link |
| Merely an 'ok' follow-up going into the right direction that will be better developed in the following discs and into some really weird s**t that they luckily dropped. |
| Good Tiger We Will All be Gone |
| Green Carnation Journey To The End Of The Night |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Hail Spirit Noir Eden In Reverse |
| Haken Virus |
| HEALTH Health |
| Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion |
| Invent Animate Heavener |
| Iron Maiden The X Factor |
| Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying |
| J. Cole The Off-Season |
| JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs |
| JPEGMAFIA LP! (offline) |
| Kanye West Donda |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Butterfly 3000 |
| Labyrinth Return to Heaven Denied |
| Limp Bizkit Still Sucks |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight |
| Machinae Supremacy Phantom Shadow |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim |
| Mechanical Poet Creepy Tales for Freaky Children |
| Mechanical Poet Eidoline: The Arrakeen Code |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! |
| Mustaine going for a more direct approach that does not bring anything new to the Deth's table. Album is quite insufferable considering what preceded (and follows) it. |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason |
| Metallica St. Anger |
| Mitski Laurel Hell |
| Nas King's Disease III |
| Navy Blue Navy's Reprise |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn |
| Neosis Neosis |
| Recorded badly, still don't get how the **** bands like to destroy their music by putting unrealistic and modified vocals. Live they are far better. |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| Noostrak Human Tragedies Every Day |
| Northlane Node |
| Oceans Ate Alaska Lost Isles |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Opeth Pale Communion |
| Orphaned Land All Is One |
| Parkway Drive Ire |
| For those soft-spoken parts this should deserve a 1.0 but some melodic tracks are pretty ok and Dying to Believe is great soooo.. |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal |
| I hate this album. I'd give a 2 if it weren't for the fact that I told myself "I'd be objective when giving ratings". A gigantic step backwards for the guys who "invented" the djent scene, so many parts that could have been avoided, so many cheesy choruses that make me shiver (in a bad way). Not even one track that stands out, just a disappointing 80 minutes monolith. Sadness. |
| Periphery Clear |
| In my prev rating I said this was better than PII - LOL. The direction is taking is utter crap. You can't even say they're selling out, they're just releasing super mediocre overproduced tunes. |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Omega |
| Polaris Fatalism |
| Porcupine Tree On the Sunday of Life |
| Porter Robinson Nurture |
| Premiata Forneria Marconi Chocolate Kings |
| Marketing strategies win, music loses. The lost 70s Genesis disc that you were not aware of - not that you should care, anyway. |
| Psychotic Waltz The God-Shaped Void |
| Puscifer "V" Is For Vagina |
| Queen Jazz |
| Yeah it's all galopping and fun inducing but few good singles aside the album as a whole just doesn't work. |
| Queen The Works |
| A rehash with a few selection of worthy singles and a plethora of bland tracks. |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Unlimited Love |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Return of the Dream Canteen |
| Riverside ID.Entity |
| Saosin Saosin |
| Schizoid Lloyd The Last Note In God's Magnum Opus |
| SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes? |
| Skrillex More Monsters and Sprites |
| Skrillex Bangarang |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| A rehash with a few selection of worthy singles and a plethora of bland tracks [2]. |
| Soen Tellurian |
| Soen Lotus |
| Soen Imperial |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue |
| Steven Wilson The Future Bites |
| Stray from the Path Only Death Is Real |
| Structures None of the Above |
| Subterranean Masquerade The Great Bazaar |
| Taylor Swift Folklore |
| The 1975 Being Funny In A Foreign Language |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic |
| You can hear some great ideas, but they are unfortunately mixed with average chugging and a bad production. |
| The Ghost Inside Returners |
| The Ghost Inside Get What You Give |
| The Ghost Inside Dear Youth |
| The Intersphere Relations in the Unseen |
| A weird of fall out boy, dredg and some random punk rock bands ultimately failing to deliver good vocal hooks and interesting songs |
| The Korea Saturnus |
| Russian band called Korea with the singer mocking Japanese bands.. I-don't-even. 2.7, kinda bland.. |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet |
| TMV hitting a landmine and imploding after this release - quite prophetic. Jokes aside, it never hits any quality peaks and contains the weirdest and worst these guys have ever been. |
| The Mars Volta The Mars Volta |
| The Postman Syndrome God Relieve Our Grief: Demos |
| The Safety Fire Grind the Ocean |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie |
| This Will Destroy You Tunnel Blanket |
| Thrice Horizons/East |
| Trophy Scars Astral Pariah |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal |
| I imagine them recording this on those multi-colored thingies with a mic I used to scream and shout in when I was a kid. so cool |
| Ulver Themes From William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell |
| An experimental piece of work that does not deliver - Based on an enlightening piece of art that is much much better to read and see than to hear |
| Unreqvited Mosaic II: la déteste et la détresse |
| Vangough Game On! |
| Only praiseworthy song is that donkey kong cover. Lussssh |
| White Ward False Light |
| Wilco Cruel Country |
| Within the Ruins Invade |
| the boring kid of Elite. god these guys just know how to do one thing |
| Within the Ruins Phenomena |
| I could have been jamming elite and I wouldn't have noticed the difference |
| 2.0 poor |
| Alesana Where Myth Fades to Legend |
| The soundtrack to a wrist-cutting trend nobody misses. |
| alt-J The Dream |
| Amorphis Under the Red Cloud |
| Every disc of theirs sound sort of the same, but this was a bummer. I may have put it up two or three times and never found the strength to do it again. |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II |
| You wish it was intelligent, you wish.. Boring and confusing background noise |
| Architects The Here and Now |
| Architects surfin' the trends - a disaster. Their worst disc ever |
| Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream |
| Stand up and scream how band is this band - junk junk junk junk |
| Author and Punisher Kruller |
| Bjork Fossora |
| Blind Guardian The God Machine |
| Born of Osiris A Higher Place |
| This band is so overrated - your typical poppy tinged deathcore, now with rap shouted sections |
| Born of Osiris The Simulation |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit |
| I was too lenient on my 2.5 rating. Honestly, aside from a few tracks that still possess shitty lyrics this is like some of the worst 2015 rock you can lend your attention to. |
| Conjurer (UK) Pathos |
| Derek Sherinian Blood of the Snake |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Swagger and Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole |
| So, the disc has obviously had a very awful creative "choice" in the mixing department. it really drags down a 3-3.5 effort from them, as I think some songs just are a bit filler. It is quite diverse, but the muddy, flat, low quality sound. . . just makes the disc impossible to listen for me. I felt very tired and honestly sad that they decided to ruin very complex arrangements (they are a band of EIGHT members). Feels like Van Gogh doing a painting and then burning it. However, they also decided to sell it this way, which is weird. Pacifisticuffs also had some of these tinges in the mix, but they were not as obvious. which, again, is sad and gives the idea the band really doesnt do itself any favours. |
| Dream Theater The Astonishing |
| Astonishing parody of a prog concept album. Oh my god the lyrics. Oh my god |
| Earl Sweatshirt Sick! |
| Who says this needs to be digested from a musical standpoint has very low standards of what complex music is |
| Enter Shikari Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible |
| Ephel Duath Through My Dog's Eyes |
| ERRA Augment |
| If you call this progressive, you don't deserve a pair of functioning ears. |
| Everything Everything Raw Data Feel |
| Failure Wild Type Droid |
| Fallujah Undying Light |
| Foo Fighters Medicine at Midnight |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown |
| AHAHAHAHAH a concept disc ahahahahahah please go back to do 2.30 mins bland poppy punk thx |
| Hacktivist Hyperdialect |
| Invent Animate Greyview |
| Iron Maiden Virtual XI |
| Iron Maiden Senjutsu |
| Kayo Dot Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike |
| Lies of Nazca Aleph |
| Linear Sphere Reality Dysfunction |
| Linkin Park Living Things |
| Memphis May Fire Challenger |
| This is not fresh, this is not great, this is average: pure and plain mainstream metalcore coming out from a Rise Records band. Where is this supposed "fantastic guitar work"? Praise to Mullins' growl? His voice is overproduced as f**k. There's a thin line between mainstream c**pcore and chorus-friendly metalcore, MMF with "Challenger" crossed it in the wrong direction. |
| Meshuggah Immutable |
| Muse Will of the People |
| Northlane Alien |
| Oceans Ate Alaska Disparity |
| Pain of Salvation Linoleum |
| I lost faith in humanity completely after this. Luckily, RSO had at least a decent concept behind |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha |
| all shit, you should be punished to even talk about it |
| Pink Floyd The Endless River |
| Complete unneccessary c-sides from a past that could have been kept hidden |
| PVRIS Use Me |
| Rina Sawayama Sawayama |
| Rosalia Motomami |
| Shining (NOR) Animal |
| Skrillex My Name Is Skrillex |
| My name is "I make one decent tune out of twenty" |
| Structures Life Through a Window |
| junk junk junk junk junk junk junk junk junk junk junk junk junk junk 2014 |
| Twenty One Pilots Blurryface |
| Recognising that a music piece is bad at a first listen is actually pretty easy. A centrifuge of all the poppiest trends out there, a singer that is Mika on one song, a bad white rapper on another, while sometimes remembering that he once was a pop-punk listener or something. I don't know man, I don't know. Substance in music is everything and this disc holds none. |
| Veil of Maya Matriarch |
From group leaders to mere followers of a trend we just wish it were dead already. Veil of Maya
sacrifice their sound for a collection of trite choruses and bad chugs. Salvageable from this mess
is just the "Teleute" single, which managed to unite old and new in a way that worked - too bad is
the exception to a boring and stale rule. |
| Venom Prison Erebos |
| Volumes No Sleep |
| We Came As Romans To Plant a Seed |
| Absolute junk. Playing is abysmal and please please please someone kill the synth player |
| Woe, Is Me Number[s] |
| junk junk junk junk junk junk junk junk junk junk junk junk junk junk |
