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2024
Suldusk Anthesis3.5
Steve Hackett The Circus and the Nightwhale3.0

2023
Abstract Void Forever3.5
Gorod The Orb3.5
Enslaved Heimdal3.0

2022
Falls of Rauros Key to a Vanishing Future4.0
False Horizon Nowhere Near4.5
Luscious, smooth, and engagingly beautiful. I'm so glad it's seventy-seven minutes long.
Shape of Despair Return to the Void4.0
Voivod Synchro Anarchy4.0
Amorphis Halo3.5
Violet Cold Səni Uzaq Kainatlarda Axtarıram3.0
This is a step back in the right direction, but other than the final track still doesn't really stand up to his previous material.
Wilderun Epigone4.5
Sivyj Yar Золотые Нити / Golden Threads3.5

2021
Anfel The Ghosts of Lonely Destinies4.0
Gothic symphonic post-doom metal, quite melodic and energetic in nature. I have the instrumental edition, which would make a wonderful cinematic soundtrack. There are two other versions of the album, "piano" and "sympho & piano". The piano is quite dominant on the version I have. Composer/multi-instrumentalist Denis Lobotorov has an impressive discography. I'll add other albums as I acquire them.
Arctic Plateau Songs of Shame4.0
After a nine year hiatus Gianluca Divirgilio finally produced his third LP. With smoother production and much less dreamy melancholy, this album still brims with all the passion heard on his second record 'The Enemy Inside'.
Devin Townsend The Puzzle2.5
Aquilus Bellum I4.0
In Mourning The Bleeding Veil3.0
Belore Artefacts4.0
Can Bardd Devoured by the Oak4.0
Kauan Sorni Nai Live4.5
Abstract Void Wishdream3.0
Carcass Torn Arteries2.5
Insomnium Argent Moon2.5
Iron Maiden Senjutsu4.0
Ramihrdus The Sorrow of the Evergreens3.5
Galneryus Union Gives Strength3.5
Not quite as fired up and inspiring as their previous six albums, but 20 years into their career still surprisingly high quality. "See the Light of Freedom"...Hell yeah!
Sojourner Perennial3.5
Violet Cold Empire of Love2.5
The first time Emin has disappointed me. It all sounds nice, but it lacks the hooks (so far) of his other albums. Hopefully this will grow on me.
When Waves Collide Chasm4.0
Instrumental, alternative, post-metal from Paris. A quote from their bandcamp page: "Chasm is the story of a civilization at the edge of collapsing. Human void or geologic fault, one falls into it all hoping for a sign. We follow their journey through the songs, falling with them, surviving cataclysms, praying for some help, interpreting the omens until we strand at the end of the path."
Kauan Ice Fleet4.0
ISON Aurora4.5
I miss Heike's voice, but each of the ladies on here did an outstanding job. Sylvain may be my favorite, as I'm a big fan of her own project.
Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 2 - The Golden Orb2.5
I wouldn't say it sucks, but it lacks the power, drama and beauty of Biolume Part I and Shards of Silver. His melodic singing here is nice, but meh... I actually like those two preceding synth-based "ambient" albums a little more.
Neurotech Solace4.5
Jari Lindholm Trajectories4.0

2020
Medenera Argento4.0
Show Me A Dinosaur Plantgazer3.5
Dark Tranquillity Moment3.0
Light Field Reverie Another World4.0
The otherworldly Heike Langhans and two of the dudes from Sojourner? I knew this would be great. And it is.
Katatonia Dead Air3.0
Countless Skies Glow3.5
Fates Warning Long Day Good Night3.0
Sepulchre by the Sea Conqueror Worm3.0
Wytch Hazel III: Pentecost4.0
Carcass Despicable2.5
Draconian Under a Godless Veil4.0
Anything Heike touches turns to gold. And Draconian was a rock solid doom band before she joined.
Mr. Bungle The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny3.5
Midnight Odyssey Ashes From a Terrestrial Fall3.0
Wobbler Dwellers of the Deep4.0
Red Moon Architect Emptiness Weighs the Most4.0
beabadoobee Fake It Flowers2.5
Chaos Divine Legacies3.0
Neander Eremit4.0
Blue Oyster Cult The Symbol Remains3.5
Rise to the Sky Death Will Not Keep Us Apart3.5
I Am Waiting for You Last Summer Self-Defense3.5
Enslaved Utgard3.0
Amiensus Abreaction3.0
Deftones Ohms3.5
Hit me pretty hard initially... Losing its luster unfortunately.
Dwarrowdelf Evenstar3.5
Lethian Dreams A Shadow of Memories4.0
Aurora Borealis (BE) Cinematic Mediations3.5
Finntroll Vredesvävd4.0
Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism3.5
Khors Where the Word Acquires Eternity4.0
Raventale Planetarium II4.0
Ascend Towards The Moon At The Heart Of All Beauty Lies Something Inhuman3.5
Cloudkicker Solitude4.0
Ulver Flowers of Evil2.5
Unleash The Archers Abyss3.5
Svaltvinter Hädangången2.0
This band jumped from releasing tight little EPs (their most recent one from 2018 absolutely kills) to an hour+ sprawling monstrosity of a debut LP with dodgy results. They work best with 2-4 minute long ragers. Half the album is taken up with unengaging, 8+minute, ugly atmo-black attacks. Fans of old-school 2nd wave stuff will probably like it, though.
Zombi 20203.5
Aleah Aleah4.0
Fellwarden Wreathed in Mourncloud4.0
Firelink Firelink3.5
Valdrin Effigy Of Nightmares4.0
A Light In The Dark Insomnia3.5
Exgenesis Solve et Coagula4.0
Paradise Lost Obsidian3.0
Winterfylleth The Reckoning Dawn4.0
Sojourner Premonitions3.0
Not bad, they retain that epic atmosphere I like, but these songs don't impact me the way their first two albums do. That said, Chloe's vocals have improved a bit.
Forest of Frost Forest of Frost4.5
Powerful, sweeping, passionate, majestic...and very moving. Easily among my Top 5 albums of the year. I sincerely hope this won't be a one-off project as its creator suggests.rhttps://forestovfrost.bandcamp.com/album/forest-of-frost
King Witch Body of Light3.5
Katatonia City Burials3.0
Midnight Odyssey Ruins of a Celestial Fire3.0
I Am Waiting for You Last Summer Turn Off The Lights for the Next 20 Minutes3.5
Azusa Loop of Yesterdays3.0
Ellis Born Again4.0
Maserati Enter the Mirror3.5
Vredehammer Viperous3.5
Violet Cold Noir Kid4.0
Listened 4x already today. Sounds like VC, but with some added surprises. Mr. Guliyev had added some of his early experiments to the mix, with wonderful results. My rating may go higher with time...
Fluisteraars Bloem3.5
Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man3.0
On Thorns I Lay Threnos3.5
Skyforest A New Dawn3.5
No individual record by B.M. has blown me away, but I have yet to be disappointed by a Skyforest album. If you like this band, check out B.M.'s other projects: A Light in the Dark (post-rock/atmo-black), Hiki (light-hearted instro-indie rock with electronic flourishes), and Blurry Lights (ambient neo-classical-tinged piano works).
Dzo-nga Thunder In the Mountains4.0
Arbrynth A Place of Buried Light4.0
Butcher 666 Goats Carry My Chariot4.0
Stomb From Nihil4.0
Doesn't have the film noir feel of their previous full length that I really dig, but ALL the irresistible heavy grooves are there, as well as the unpredictable structures and guitar leads. Not the least bit disappointing.
Sivyj Yar Горе4.0
Belore Journey Through Mountains and Valleys3.5
Vengeful Spectre Vengeful Spectre3.5

2019
Medenera OrO4.0
Widek The Garden Of Existence3.0
Perihelion (HU) Agg4.0
Powder! Go Away Lost Happiness3.5
Obsequiae The Palms of Sorrowed Kings4.5
Avatarium The Fire I Long For3.5
Vesperith Vesperith4.0
Exxasens Revolution3.0
Hammock Silencia3.0
Constellatia The Language of Limbs4.5
Necropanther The Doomed City3.5
She Her Her Hers location3.0
Slow (BE) VI – Dantalion4.0
Forest of Tygers I Will Die of Violence4.0
Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 1 - In Tartarean Chains4.5
Definitely not for everyone, but WOW... Dis Peter did it again, even more so.
Voyager Colours in the Sun3.0
Nothing particularly wrong with this album, but it doesn't have the variety I've come to expect from them. It all sounds kinda safe and samey.
Wilderun Veil of Imagination4.5
Anton Belov Piano Works II3.0
Alcest Spiritual Instinct3.5
Cirith Ungol I'm Alive4.0
Dawn Ray'd Behold Sedition Plainsong3.5
Galneryus Into the Purgatory4.0
The Great Old Ones Cosmicism4.0
Vinsta Drei Deita4.0
Xoth Interdimensional Invocations3.5
Arx Atrata THE PATH UNTRAVELLED4.0
Insomnium Heart Like a Grave5.0
Over the last four years this album has grown and grown in impact. It's safe for me to state it's been my favorite of theirs for over a year now. Yeah, I would prefer if it had more melodic vocals, but the singing that's there doesn't lack emotion or passion. Monumental.
Borknagar True North4.0
Pencey Sloe Don't Believe, Watch Out3.0
Dark and enchanting dream pop with a dash of post-rock. Singer Diane Pellotieri has a soothing sweetness about her voice. The guitars are all shimmery. None of the individual tracks floor me, but it's all quite pleasant. It may be a grower.
Opeth In Cauda Venenum3.0
Cynic Traced In Air Remixed3.5
Ereb Altor Järtecken 3.5
White Ward Love Exchange Failure4.0
Klone Le Grand Voyage4.0
Arctos Beyond the Grasp of Mortal Hands4.0
Atlantean Kodex The Course of Empire4.0
Raventale Morphine Dead Gardens3.5
ISON Inner - Space3.5
Eternal Storm Come the Tide3.5
Cloudkicker Unending3.0
Suicidal Angels Years of Aggression2.5
Grima Will of the Primordial3.5
Sabaton The Great War3.5
Death Angel Humanicide3.5
Misthyrming Algleymi4.0
Dreadnought Emergence4.0
Arch/Matheos Winter Ethereal4.0
Firelink The Inveterate Fire3.5
Amon Amarth Berserker2.5
Belzebubs Pantheon of the Nightside Gods4.0
Vaura Sables3.0
Otoboke Beaver Itekoma Hits4.0
Stvannyr Valley of Shadows4.0
Suldusk Lunar Falls4.5
Numenorean Adore4.0
Xaon Solipsis3.5
Red Moon Architect Kuura3.0
Devin Townsend Empath3.0
Frozen Crown Crowned in Frost3.5
Skylord Frostcraft4.0
Killer riffs, energetic melodies...I have the instrumental version. Haven't heard the vocals yet.
Fallujah Undying Light2.0
Enisum Moth's Illusion3.0
Silent Island Rapa nui EP4.0
Tyr Hel3.5
Sinmara Hvísl Stjarnanna4.0
Thormesis The Sixth3.5
Can Bardd The Last Rain3.5
Lucidity Oceanum4.5
The comment below is spot-on. . . . . . . . . Nuff said.
El Altar Del Holocausto I T4.0
Saor Forgotten Paths4.5
This would be a blazing 5.0 if it weren't 20 minutes shorter than Guardians.
Violet Cold kOsmik5.0
My only beef with this record is the same as I have with Saor's new one: it seems a track or two short
of completion, and masterpiece-ity....A year has passed and I've come to the conclusion I was dead
wrong.
Be Forest Knocturne3.0
Soen Lotus3.0
Not bad, but I like their music with Marcus Jindell on guitar best. He gave it some soul.
Astronoid Astronoid3.5
Deadspace Dirge3.5
Swallow the Sun When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light4.0
Another rock solid album. I was wanting to sing along with several of the tracks from the very first listen.
Steve Hackett At the Edge of Light3.5
Lemuria (BE) The Hysterical Hunt3.0
Musmahh Reign of the Odious4.0
Huge, foreboding, vicious death-metal-infused blackness with a hint of atmospheric tendencies.
Soilwork Verkligheten3.5
Arsa Pagan Legend3.5

2018
Medenera Medenir3.5
Sulphur Aeon The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos4.0
Seer's Fire Whispers in the fire4.0
Jason Becker Triumphant Hearts4.0
Anton Belov Piano Works I3.5
Abstract Void Abstract Void Instrumental3.5
Nelecc The Stars3.0
Necropanther Oppression3.5
Azusa Heavy Yoke3.5
1914 The Blind Leading the Blind4.0
Vouna Vouna4.0
Sylvaine Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone4.0
Abstract Void Back to Reality3.5
Quite engaging. Once again proving how smoothly metal music can be blended with almost anything.
Bloodbath The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn3.0
Mr Holmes sounds more integrated into the group this time around. I still like Nightmares the best.
Eneferens The Bleakness Of Our Constant4.0
Elderwind The Colder The Night4.0
Gorod Aethra4.0
Thrawsunblat Great Brunswick Forest3.0
Stvannyr Secrets of the Runes3.5
Valdrin Two Carrion Talismans3.5
Voivod The Wake4.5
My initial impression was -Whoa-. The strongest Voivod album since Nothingface. I might be pushing this up a half notch in the coming weeks.
Ghost Ship Octavius Delirium3.5
Madder Mortem Marrow3.5
An Autumn For Crippled Children The Light of September3.5
Clutch Book of Bad Decisions3.0
Silent Island Stormvalley3.0
Omnium Gatherum The Burning Cold3.5
Soreption Monument of the End3.5
Skyforest Harmony3.5
Parius The Eldritch Realm4.0
Obscura Diluvium4.0
Yup, I think this is their best record yet as well. Technicality is there but not the feature element. Many of the songs are even catchy!
Oubliette (USA-TN) The Passage4.0
Wytch Hazel II: Sojourn3.0
Svaltvinter Att ode vara3.5
Kontinuum No Need to Reason3.0
Immortal Northern Chaos Gods4.0
Shylmagoghnar Transience5.0
Time passed and this album hits me even harder. The level of passion is incredible.
Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep3.5
Khemmis Desolation3.5
Hoth Astral Necromancy3.5
Widek Dream Reflection4.0
Spurv Myra4.0
Amorphis Queen of Time3.5
Alkaloid Liquid Anatomy3.5
Violet Cold Sommermorgen (Pt. III) - Nostalgia3.5
Over time it's paled to Joy (Part II), but as stated earlier, I still think it's wonderful.
Violet Cold Sommermorgen (Pt. II) - Joy4.5
The best of the three. This one even has a few stand out tracks: Time to Tango, Altitude, and Penguins Commit Suicide.
Violet Cold Sommermorgen (Pt. I) - Innocence3.5
Fractal Gates The Light That Shines2.5
Beach House 73.5
Ihsahn Amr3.0
Dwarrowdelf The Sons of Fëanor3.0
Toundra Vortex4.0
Janelle Monae Dirty Computer4.0
King Goat Debt Of Aeons3.5
Kauan Live 134.5
Mol JORD3.5
Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness4.0
Barren Earth A Complex of Cages3.5
Vallendusk Fortress of Primal Grace4.0
Convocation Scars Across4.0
Big fan of Desolate Shrine. This doesn't disappoint at all.
Can Bardd Nature Stays Silent2.5
Napalm Death Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs3.5
Sojourner The Shadowed Road4.5
King Witch Under the Mountain3.5
On Thorns I Lay Aegean Sorrow4.0
Judas Priest Firepower3.0
Pestilence Hadeon2.0
Afsky Sorg3.0
Nord Frost Forever Lost​.​.​. Forever Alone​.​.​.3.5
Necropanther Eyes of Blue Light4.0
Paara Riitti4.0
Frozen Crown The Fallen King3.5
ISON Andromeda Skyline4.0
Ocean Of Grief Nightfall's Lament3.0
Definitely good, but it lacks that urgency that Slumber and Rapture nailed. I will however be keeping my eye (and ear) on them.
Crow Black Sky Sidereal Light: Volume One4.0
Simultaneously beautiful and terrifying. Can't wait for their next one. The side project Constellatia is a
good holdover.
Sinistro Sangue Cassia3.5
Bloodbark Bonebranches3.0
I like the vibe and feeling, but the lack of much variation bogs the record down. Still, looking forward to another release.
Blurry Lights Our New World3.5

2017
Jarun Sporysz4.0
Suldusk To A Vestige of Purest Light3.0
Iron Maiden The Book of Souls: Live Chapter4.0
Godflesh Post Self3.0
Deadspace The Liquid Sky3.5
Perihelion (HU) Örvény4.0
Black Kirin Nanking Massacre4.0
Cannibal Corpse Red Before Black2.5
Enslaved E4.0
Raventale Planetarium4.5
Discovered this band only a few weeks ago and I'm just blown away by their (his?) rock solid discography of over a decade.
Dawn Ray'd The Unlawful Assembly3.5
Galneryus Ultimate Sacrifice4.0
Kauan Kaiho4.5
Fleshkiller Awaken4.5
Stomb Duality3.5
Just as grim and groovy as 'The Grey', just not as expansive.
Atrox Monocle2.5
Silent Island Eclipse3.5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark The Punishment Of Luxury3.0
Paradise Lost Medusa3.0
Leprous Malina2.5
Vinsta Vinsta Wiads4.0
Hammock Mysterium2.5
Widek Hidden Dimensions3.0
It's definitely good, but not particularly special.
Steven Wilson To the Bone3.0
Cormorant Diaspora4.0
Lor In Forgotten Sleep4.0
Ereb Altor Ulfven3.5
Eneferens Eventide3.5
Slow (BE) V - Oceans4.0
Decapitated Anticult3.0
Abstract Void Into the Blue3.0
A Light In The Dark A Long Journey Home3.5
Arctos A Spire Silent4.0
The Superions The Vertical Mind3.0
Suffocation …Of the Dark Light2.5
Mutoid Man War Moans3.0
Unleash The Archers Apex4.0
Avatarium Hurricanes And Halos3.5
Enslaved Roadburn Live3.0
Red Moon Architect Return of the Black Butterflies3.5
Voyager Ghost Mile5.0
White Ward Futility Report3.0
Avandra Tymora3.5
Midnight Odyssey Silhouettes of Stars3.0
Fates Warning Awaken the Guardian Live4.5
Enisum Seasons Of Desolation3.0
Les Discrets Prédateurs3.5
Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar3.5
Asira Efference3.0
Gorod Kiss The Freak3.5
Mastodon Emperor of Sand3.5
BackWordz Veracity4.0
Silent Island Fall of Oceans3.5
Steve Hackett The Night Siren4.0
Venenum Trance of Death4.0
Obituary Obituary3.0
Violet Cold Anomie4.5
Sanctuary Inception3.5
Silent Island Re-quator3.5
Blackfield Blackfield V3.0
Hiki Closer3.5
Soen Lykaia4.5
Another one of those albums that has only grown in impact and stature over time. Guitarist Marcus Jidell gave them something their other (not bad) albums lack.
Kreator Gods of Violence3.0
The Great Old Ones EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy4.0

2016
Shape of Despair Alone in the Mist (demo)3.5
Klimt 1918 Jugend3.0
Klimt 1918 Sentimentale3.0
Eneferens In The Hours Beneath4.0
Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct2.5
Solstafir Tilberi3.0
Saor Guardians4.5
This record is sure to land in my Top 5 of the decade. It stirs my emotions in a very real way. And I'm only about 1/50 Scottish.
Scandroid Scandroid4.0
Xoth Invasion of the Tentacube4.0
Silent Island Equator3.5
Dark Tranquillity Atoma4.0
Testament Brotherhood of the Snake3.5
Madder Mortem Red In Tooth And Claw3.0
Mithras On Strange Loops4.0
Fantastic start to finish. Wish the mastering job wasn't so crushed though. Gets kinda painful after a while.
Watchtower Concepts of Math: Book One4.0
Alcest Kodama3.0
Opeth Sorceress3.0
A Light In The Dark Vanished4.0
Insomnium Winter's Gate4.0
Kansas The Prelude Implicit3.0
Mare Cognitum Luminiferous Aether3.5
Sumerlands Sumerlands3.5
Deadspace Gravity4.0
Arx Atrata Spiritus In Terra3.5
Oddland Origin3.0
Devin Townsend Project Transcendence3.5
Sabaton The Last Stand3.0
Necropanther Necropanther4.0
Eneferens The Inward Cold4.0
Panopticon Revisions of the Past4.0
'Social Disservices' clearly improved, sounds so good and terrifying.
Hammers Of Misfortune Dead Revolution3.5
Numenorean Home4.0
Fates Warning Theories of Flight4.0
Kayo Dot Plastic House on Base of Sky2.5
Countless Skies New Dawn3.5
Gojira Magma3.5
Thrawsunblat Metachthonia3.5
Very enjoyable album. Solid melodies, solid riffs, epic tracks.
Black Kirin XiaoShao4.0
Astronoid Air4.5
After two years, this record has yet to slip from weekly play. And it packs a stronger emotional punch.
Candlemass Death Thy Lover2.5
Death Angel The Evil Divide4.0
Mistur In Memoriam4.0
Suicidal Angels Division Of Blood3.5
Sojourner Empires of Ash4.0
Katatonia The Fall of Hearts4.0
Perihelion (HU) Hold3.0
In Mourning Afterglow3.5
Gorguts Pleiades' Dust4.0
Sylvaine Wistful4.0
Fallujah Dreamless3.0
Skyforest Unity3.5
Lush Blind Spot3.5
Sinistro Semente3.5
Novembre Ursa4.0
Hammock Everything and Nothing3.5
Amon Amarth Jomsviking2.5
Vredehammer Violator4.0
Meteor Parallel Lives3.5
Otoboke Beaver おこしやす!! おとぼけビ〜バ〜3.5
Show Me A Dinosaur Show Me A Dinosaur3.5
Hiki Stargaze4.0
Ihsahn Arktis.4.0
Sabaton Heroes on Tour3.5
Anthrax For All Kings4.0
Ereb Altor Blot · Ilt · Taut3.5
Omnium Gatherum Grey Heavens2.5
Ocean Of Grief Fortress of My Dark Self4.0
Violet Cold Magic Night4.5
As nearly all his music does, this album touches me much more deeply now than it did six years ago.
The Howling Void The Triumph of Ruin3.0
Borknagar Winter Thrice3.0
Aythis The Illusion and the Twin4.0
Eternal Champion The Armor of Ire3.5

2015
The Clearing Path Abyss Constellation4.0
Black Kirin National Trauma3.5
Galneryus Under the Force of Courage4.0
Rush R40 Live4.0
Enisum Arpitanian Lands3.5
Neurotech Evasive3.5
Swallow the Sun Songs from the North I, II & III3.5
King Witch Shoulders of Giants4.0
Draconian Sovran4.0
Cloudkicker Woum2.5
Killing Joke Pylon4.5
This album has only grown in stature for me over last 2 years. Yeah, it's a little too long, but holy crap, the songs rock so effin hard.
Avatarium The Girl With The Raven Mask4.0
Kauan Sorni Nai4.5
Perihelion (HU) Zeng3.5
Enshine Singularity4.0
Gorod A Maze of Recycled Creeds4.0
Zombi Shape Shift4.5
Raventale Dark Substance Of Dharma3.5
Clutch Psychic Warfare4.0
Queensryche Condition Human3.5
David Gilmour Rattle That Lock3.0
Exxasens Back to Earth3.5
Amorphis Under the Red Cloud4.0
Iron Maiden The Book of Souls3.5
Nechochwen Heart of Akamon4.0
A Light In The Dark A Light in the Dark3.0
Pentagram Curious Volume3.5
Ahab The Boats of the Glen Carrig3.0
Amiensus Ascension3.5
Unleash The Archers Time Stands Still3.0
Shape of Despair Monotony Fields4.5
Midnight Odyssey Shards of Silver Fade4.5
The silver shards aren't fading. They're only becoming brighter and brighter.
ISON Cosmic Drone3.0
Vallendusk Homeward Path3.5
Paradise Lost The Plague Within3.0
Cold Insight Various Tracks3.0
Leprous The Congregation3.0
Jarun Pod niebem utkanym z popiołu3.5
Faith No More Sol Invictus2.5
Paara Yön olevainen puoli3.5
Vesperith Esoteros3.0
Obsequiae Aria of Vernal Tombs4.0
Ozric Tentacles Technicians of the Sacred3.0
Arcturus Arcturian3.5
Ereb Altor Nattramn3.5
Kontinuum Kyrr3.5
Khors Night Falls Onto the Fronts of Ours3.5
Violet Cold Desperate Dreams3.0
Widek Journey to the Stars4.0
Wilderun Sleep at the Edge of the Earth4.0
Steve Hackett Wolflight4.0
Morgoth Ungod2.5
Sulphur Aeon Gateway to the Antisphere4.0
Katatonia Sanctitude4.5
Hiki Brighter Days3.5
El Altar Del Holocausto S H ∃3.5
Ghost Ship Octavius Ghost Ship Octavius3.5
Galar De Gjenlevende4.0
Klone Here Comes The Sun4.0
Enslaved In Times4.5
Red Moon Architect Fall3.0
Lucidity The Oblivion Circle4.0
Chaos Divine Colliding Skies3.5
Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase.4.5
An Autumn For Crippled Children The Long Goodbye3.0
Napalm Death Apex Predator - Easy Meat4.0
Stomb The Grey4.5
Absolutely incredible. Clearly informed by djent, doom, and progressive metal, the songs are varied and differentiated yet have a focused sound. There is a strong cinematic quality to the album, sounding like a soundtrack for some very dystopic sci-fi. There are no vocals or guitar solos, but plenty of enormous riffs and melodies that range from spooky to horrific to bludgeoning. Excellent production also.
Toundra IV3.5
Exgenesis Aphotic Veil4.0
Lanterna Backyards4.0
Anthropia Non-Euclidean Spaces4.0

2014
Ethir Anduin I magen av svart kaos2.0
Another all-instrumental post-black release, though with a bit more doom laced throughout. Guitars are much more dominant than on the previous release, but the music still isn't fully engaging. There are some cool sections here and there, though nothing particularly exciting. I think this guy would benefit from collaborating with another musician.
Angels and Airwaves The Dream Walker3.5
The Fin. Days With Uncertainty4.0
Isole The Calm Hunter4.0
Sylvaine Silent Chamber, Noisy Heart3.0
Carcass Surgical Remission/Surplus Steel3.5
Triosphere The Heart of the Matter5.0
Kauan Muistumia4.0
Trees on Mars The Sapling3.5
Soen Tellurian3.0
Mare Cognitum Phobos Monolith4.5
Obituary Inked in Blood3.0
At the Gates At War with Reality2.5
Neurotech Infra Versus Ultra4.0
While Heaven Wept Suspended at Aphelion3.5
Devin Townsend Project Z23.0
Forgotten Deity Return to the Silent Forest3.5
Sanctuary The Year the Sun Died3.5
Godflesh A World Lit Only by Fire3.0
Sinmara Aphotic Womb4.0
Decapitated Blood Mantra3.5
Forgotten Deity Magic of Winter3.5
Galneryus Vetelgyus4.5
Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain3.0
Xerath III3.5
Skyforest Aftermath3.5
Solstafir Otta4.0
Opeth Pale Communion4.5
Vinsta Vinsta3.0
Accept Blind Rage3.5
Xoth Hostile Terraforming3.0
The Life and Times Lost Bees4.0
Fallujah The Flesh Prevails4.0
Oubliette (USA-TN) Apparitions4.0
Judas Priest Redeemer of Souls2.5
Perihelion (HU) Perihelion3.0
Musk Ox Woodfall4.0
Anathema Distant Satellites3.0
Saor Aura4.0
Peter Murphy Lion4.0
I'm not familiar with all of Murphy's solo oeurvre, but I am a fan of a number of his recordings (both solo and with Bauhaus). Consequently I evaluated this record on its own merits, rather than comparing it to previous efforts. "Lion" has dark, heavily textured songs with powerful vocal performances. Youth's production is deep and rich. A very satisfying album.
Arcturus Shipwrecked in Oslo4.0
Voyager V4.0
Widek Outside the Universe4.0
Hoth Oathbreaker4.0
Sabaton Heroes3.5
Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool4.5
Swans To Be Kind4.0
Doom VS Earthless4.0
Lethian Dreams Red Silence Lodge4.0
Forest of Tygers Bruises3.0
Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun4.5
The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li4.0
Sarah Longfield Kikiria4.0
Gamma Ray Empire of the Undead3.0
...Of Sinking Ships The Amaranthine Sea4.5
Shores of Null Quiescence3.5
She Her Her Hers Stereochrome3.0
Perihelion (HU) Nap fele néz3.5
Conquering Dystopia Conquering Dystopia3.0
Shylmagoghnar Emergence3.5
Powder! Go Away Closer to Cold3.5
Soreption Engineering The Void3.5
Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us3.0
Tides of Man Young and Courageous3.5
Be Forest Earthbeat4.0
Steven Wilson Cover Version3.0
Alcest Shelter4.0
Recently revisited this fine record after several years of it just sitting in the library staring at me. It now strikes a nerve it didn't used to, like a beam of sunlight breaking through heavy clouds.
Suicidal Angels Divide And Conquer2.5
Patterns Waking Lines3.0
Vredehammer Vinteroffer3.5
Enisum Samoht Nara3.0

2013
Arx Atrata Oblivion3.5
The Fin. Glowing Red on the Shore4.0
Hammock Oblivion Hymns3.0
Kauan Pirut4.0
Insomnium Ephemeral3.0
Pestilence Obsideo3.0
An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love4.0
Avatarium Avatarium3.5
Hail of Bullets III: The Rommel Chronicles3.5
Vaura The Missing4.0
Exxasens Satellites4.0
Camel The Snow Goose 20134.0
Ihsahn Das Seelenbrechen3.5
Death Angel The Dream Calls for Blood3.5
Melt-Banana Fetch4.5
Atlantean Kodex The White Goddess (A Grammar Of Poetic Myth)3.5
Fates Warning Darkness in a Different Light3.5
Devin Townsend The Retinal Circus4.0
Cloudkicker Subsume4.5
Carcass Surgical Steel3.5
Tyr Valkyrja3.5
Janelle Monae The Electric Lady4.0
Galneryus The IronHearted Flag, Vol. 2: Reformation Side4.0
Gorguts Colored Sands5.0
Blackfield Blackfield IV2.5
Ereb Altor Fire Meets Ice4.0
El Altar Del Holocausto H E3.5
Darkane The Sinister Supremacy2.5
Not nearly as catchy or engaging as "Expanding Senses" or "Layers of Lies."
Extol Extol4.5
Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods3.0
Queensryche Queensryche3.5
Neurotech The Decipher Volumes4.0
Katatonia Last Fair Day Gone Night4.0
Black Sabbath 133.0
Megadeth Super Collider1.5
Bruce Soord with Jonas Renkse Wisdom of Crowds4.0
Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here3.0
Dark Tranquillity Construct3.0
Galneryus The IronHearted Flag, Vol. 1: Regeneration Side4.0
Leprous Coal4.5
Enshine Origin4.0
Amorphis Circle4.0
Cathedral The Last Spire3.0
Queensryche Frequency Unknown (Tate's Queensryche)1.0
Hacride Back To Where You've Never Been3.0
Everything Is Made In China Amber3.0
Stomb Fragment2.5
Vallendusk Black Clouds Gathering3.5
Noumena Death Walks With Me2.5
Cannibal Corpse Torturing and Eviscerating4.0
Saor Roots3.5
Glories Mother Reverb4.5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark English Electric4.0
Clutch Earth Rocker4.5
Anthrax Anthems3.0
Thrawsunblat Wanderer on the Continent of Saplings4.0
The Howling Void Runa3.5
Soilwork The Living Infinite3.5
Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)4.5
Omnium Gatherum Beyond4.0
Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam3.0
Fractal Gates Beyond The Self2.5
Valdrin Beyond the Forest3.5
Caladan Brood Echoes Of Battle4.5
My Bloody Valentine m b v3.0
A Light In The Dark A Light In The Dark3.0
Hanging Garden At Every Door3.0
Ethir Anduin Dreams of Black Moon2.5
Instrumental, slightly progressive post-black that doesn't go for that foggy, ambient sound. It won't knock your socks off, but it utilizes a variety of textures and evokes a spooky atmosphere.
Voivod Target Earth3.5
Blurry Lights Constellations3.0
Sulphur Aeon Swallowed by the Ocean's Tide3.5
Rush Clockwork Angels Tour4.0
Cold Insight Further Nowhere3.5
This is my rating of the instrumental mix of the album (available on the bandcamp page). The vocals bring it down half a point.
Annorkoth The Past3.5
Anfel Heart of the Black Queen4.0
Some of Denis Lobotorov's heaviest material. Still post-melodeath, though with an even darker and doomier feel than his other works.

2012
Codec Horizontime3.5
Elderwind The Magic of Nature4.0
Mars Module Odyssey3.0
A little metal riffage with shimmery electronics. Not all stellar, but when it it's on, it's really on. Mastering is way too hot.
Hoth Infinite Darkness3.0
Blurry Lights Timeless2.0
Steve Hackett Genesis Revisited II3.5
My Dying Bride A Map of All Our Failures3.0
Red Moon Architect Concealed Silence3.5
Galneryus Angel of Salvation4.0
Daylight Dies A Frail Becoming3.0
Klone The Dreamer's Hideaway3.5
Maserati Maserati VII3.5
Hammock Departure Songs4.0
Raventale Transcendence3.5
Enslaved RIITIIR4.0
An Autumn For Crippled Children Only The Ocean Knows4.0
Across The Waves War Ends, Misery Stays3.0
Wilderun Olden Tales and Deathly Trails3.5
Devin Townsend Project Epicloud4.0
Khors Wisdom of Centuries3.5
Katatonia Dead End Kings3.0
Swans The Seer4.0
Toundra III3.5
Zonaria Arrival Of The Red Sun3.5
Kontinuum Earth Blood Magic3.5
Cloudkicker Fade4.0
Gojira The Flesh Alive4.5
Testament Dark Roots of Earth2.5
Bauda Euphoria3.5
Sinistro Sinistro3.5
Ereb Altor Gastrike4.0
Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage3.5
Ihsahn Eremita3.5
Rush Clockwork Angels4.5
Kreator Phantom Antichrist4.0
Ulver Childhood's End4.0
Sabaton Carolus Rex3.5
Sabaton Carolus Rex (Swedish Version)4.0
Ahab The Giant3.5
El-P Cancer 4 Cure3.5
Oddland The Treachery of Senses4.0
The Great Old Ones Al Azif4.0
Paradise Lost Tragic Idol3.5
When Nothing Remains As All Torn Asunder4.0
In Mourning The Weight of Oceans4.0
Anathema Weather Systems3.5
Hmm, my opinions shift over time. They totally abandoned the doom metal elements I really liked about them. Didn't sit well with me at the time, but now I don't mind. This is actually a very pretty record.
Accept Stalingrad: Brothers In Death3.5
Atoma Skylight4.5
Killing Joke MMXII4.0
The Best Pessimist Love Is...4.0
Meshuggah Koloss3.5
Borknagar Urd4.0
Anacrusis Silver4.0
Desultor Masters of Hate4.0
Spawn of Possession Incurso4.5
Cannibal Corpse Torture3.0
Gorod A Perfect Absolution4.5
Vaura Selenelion3.5
Asphyx Deathhammer3.5
Napalm Death Utilitarian3.5
Arctic Plateau The Enemy Inside4.0
Soen Cognitive2.5
Les Discrets Ariettes Oubliees...3.5
Swallow the Sun Emerald Forest and the Blackbird3.0
Suicidal Angels Bloodbath3.5
Powder! Go Away we don't know when it has begun...3.5
The Life and Times No One Loves You Like I Do3.5
Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme4.0
Ethir Anduin Entombed in the Depths of the Frozen Forests2.0
All instrumental post-black meanderings with a cinematic quality. This album has many cool moments, and even a solid track or two, but at 65 minutes its creators bit off more than they could chew.
Annorkoth Annorkoth3.5
Anfel Fragments of Memories3.5
Grandiose majestic cinematic instrumental post-melodeath. Imagine an orchestra during the endtitles of a Tolkien-esque film with metal guitar and drums.

2011
Arbrynth Arbrynth4.0
Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge3.5
Rush Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland4.0
Megadeth Th1rt3en3.0
Angels and Airwaves Love - Part II4.0
Isole Born from Shadows3.5
Hammers Of Misfortune 17th Street4.0
Insomnium One for Sorrow3.0
Solstafir Svartir Sandar3.5
Voyager The Meaning of I4.0
Ozric Tentacles Paper Monkeys3.5
Raventale Bringer of Heartsore3.5
Galneryus Phoenix Rising3.5
Blotted Science The Animation of Entomology3.5
Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning4.5
Steve Hackett Beyond the Shrouded Horizon5.0
I could rate almost everything Mr Hackett has made from 4 to 5. The man is in-freekin-credible!
Opeth Heritage3.0
Anthrax Worship Music3.5
Arch/Matheos Sympathetic Resonance4.5
Exxasens Eleven Miles4.0
Midnight Odyssey Funerals from the Astral Sphere3.5
Leprous Bilateral4.5
Pestilence Doctrine2.0
Obsequiae Suspended in the Brume of Eos3.5
Decapitated Carnival Is Forever4.0
Brian Eno Drums Between The Bells3.0
Yes Fly from Here3.0
Kauan Kuu..4.0
Devin Townsend Project Ghost4.0
Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction3.5
Amorphis The Beginning of Times3.0
Gorod Transcendence4.5
Tyr The Lay of Thrym4.5
Every time I listen to it, it gets better and hits harder.
Cave In White Silence3.5
Unleash The Archers Demons Of The AstroWaste3.0
Enslaved The Sleeping Gods3.0
Zombi Escape Velocity3.5
While Heaven Wept Fear of Infinity4.5
That first track is outstanding. The cuts in the middle maintain a very high standard. The only one that doesn't really hit me is "Saturn and Sacrifice". It doesn't suck, but it's a slight step down. The final song...Is it schmaltz or pure, true passion? I can't listen to it without tearing up. When metal breaks you down, it's monstrously powerful.
Xerath II3.5
Ulver Wars of the Roses3.0
Wolf Legions of Bastards2.5
Blackfield Welcome To My DNA2.5
Believer Transhuman2.5
Amon Amarth Surtur Rising3.0
Neurotech Antagonist4.0
Cannibal Corpse Global Evisceration4.0
Be Forest Cold3.5
Trust Company Dreaming In Black and White3.5
Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows4.0
Powder! Go Away Laika Still Wants Go Home3.5
Destruction Day of Reckoning3.0
Anfel Pain of a Thousand Tears3.5
Rock solid instrumental, post-melodeath lushly orchestrated, but still with some heavy guitar.

2010
Crow Black Sky Pantheion3.0
Killing Joke Absolute Dissent4.5
Suicidal Angels Dead Again3.0
Maserati Pyramid of the Sun4.0
Atheist Jupiter3.5
Forbidden Omega Wave3.0
Anthropia Acoustic Reactions3.5
Slough Feg The Animal Spirits3.5
The Best Pessimist Two Against All3.5
Hail of Bullets On Divine Winds4.0
Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini4.5
Halford Halford IV - Made Of Metal2.5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark History of Modern3.0
Amorphis Magic & Mayhem3.5
Cloudkicker Beacons4.0
Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up3.5
Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky3.0
Death Angel Relentless Retribution3.5
Daikaiju Phase 24.5
Accept Blood of the Nations3.5
Iron Maiden The Final Frontier3.0
Halford Live In Anaheim4.0
Ozzy Osbourne Scream2.5
Mekong Delta Wanderer on the Edge of Time4.0
Nevermore The Obsidian Conspiracy3.0
Anathema We're Here Because We're Here3.0
Toundra Toundra (II)3.5
Sabaton Coat of Arms3.5
Exodus Exhibit B: The Human Condition3.0
Cynic Re-Traced3.5
Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid4.0
Asia Omega3.0
Klone Black Days3.5
Alcest Écailles De Lune4.0
Les Discrets Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées4.5
Cathedral The Guessing Game3.0
The Bird And The Bee Interpreting the Masters Volume 1: A Tribute to Da4.0
Ereb Altor The End4.0
Galar Til Alle Heimsens Endar4.0
Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void3.0
Borknagar Universal2.5
Angels and Airwaves Love4.0
Meshuggah Alive3.5
Gamma Ray To the Metal!3.0
Ihsahn After3.5
Heathen The Evolution of Chaos3.5
Nechochwen Azimuths To the Otherworld3.5
Triosphere The Road Less Travelled3.5

2009
Napalm Death Time Waits for No Slave4.0
Kauan Aava Tuulen Maa4.0
Devin Townsend Project Addicted4.5
While Heaven Wept Vast Oceans Lachrymose4.0
Katatonia Night Is the New Day4.0
Dark Tranquillity Where Death Is Most Alive3.5
The Flaming Lips Embryonic2.5
Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue4.5
Immortal All Shall Fall4.0
Voyager I Am the reVolution3.5
Porcupine Tree The Incident3.5
Megadeth Endgame4.0
Insomnium Across the Dark3.0
Mistur Attende4.0
Exxasens Beyond the Universe3.5
Unleash The Archers Behold the Devastation2.5
Insomnium Where the Last Wave Broke EP3.0
Ahab The Divinity of Oceans4.0
Clint Mansell Moon4.0
Hail of Bullets Warsaw Rising3.5
Clutch Strange Cousins From The West3.0
Suffocation Blood Oath3.0
Obituary Darkest Day2.5
Asphyx Death... The Brutal Way3.5
Gorod Process of a New Decline4.0
Amorphis Skyforger4.0
Madder Mortem Eight Ways3.0
Voivod Infini2.5
Arctic Plateau On A Sad Sunny Day3.5
Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix3.5
Devin Townsend Project Ki3.5
maudlin of the Well Part the Second3.0
Slough Feg Ape Uprising3.5
Leprous Tall Poppy Syndrome4.0
Fairyland Score to a New Beginning4.5
Ozric Tentacles The Yumyum Tree3.0
Hacride Lazarus3.5
The Life and Times Tragic Boogie4.0
Keelhaul Keelhaul's Triumphant Return To Obscurity3.5
Queensryche American Soldier2.0
My Dying Bride For Lies I Sire3.5
Believer Gabriel3.5
Pestilence Resurrection Macabre3.0
Isole Silent Ruins3.5
Wolf Ravenous2.5
God Forbid Earthsblood3.5
Darkane Demonic Art2.5
Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague3.0
Zombi Spirit Animal4.0
Solstafir Köld3.5
Kreator Hordes of Chaos4.0
The Best Pessimist Autumn Leaves3.5
Maserati Passages3.5
Midnight Odyssey Firmament3.0
Tyr By the Light of the Northern Star4.0
Xerath I3.0
The Mermen In God We Trust3.0
Amesoeurs Amesoeurs3.0

2008
Intestine Baalism Ultimate Instinct4.0
Steven Wilson Insurgentes4.5
Jason Becker Collection4.5
Before The Dawn Soundscape Of Silence3.5
Enslaved Vertebrae3.5
Cynic Traced in Air4.0
Nevermore The Year of the Voyager4.0
Gojira The Way of All Flesh4.0
Doom VS Dead Words Speak4.0
Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God4.5
Helstar The King of Hell3.0
Omnium Gatherum The Redshift3.5
Swallow the Sun Plague of Butterflies3.5
Burst Lazarus Bird4.0
Metallica Death Magnetic1.0
Destruction D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.3.0
Cloudkicker The Discovery3.0
Klimt 1918 Just in Case We'll Never Meet Again4.0
Daylight Dies Lost to the Living3.5
Judas Priest Nostradamus2.5
Opeth Watershed3.0
Tyr Land3.5
Sabaton The Art of War3.5
Ihsahn angL3.5
Hail of Bullets ...Of Frost and War4.0
Exxasens Polaris3.5
Hammock Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow3.5
Testament The Formation of Damnation3.0
Atrox Binocular2.5
Rush Snakes & Arrows Live3.0
Asia Phoenix3.0
Paul Gilbert Silence Followed By A Deafening Roar3.5
Meshuggah obZen3.5
Ereb Altor By Honour3.5
Death Angel Killing Season3.5
Klone All Seeing Eye2.0
The Gathering A Noise Severe3.5
Isole Bliss of Solitude3.5
Neurotech Transhuman4.0
Toundra Toundra3.0
Nechochwen Algonkian Mythos3.5

2007
Gamma Ray Land of the Free II3.5
Novembre The Blue4.0
Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes4.0
Exodus The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A3.0
Soilwork Sworn to a Great Divide2.0
Ulver Shadows of the Sun4.0
Alchemist Tripsis4.5
Oceansize Frames4.5
Everything Is Made In China 42.5
Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia4.5
Amorphis Silent Waters4.0
Agent Steel Alienigma3.0
Airiel The Battle Of Sealand4.0
Obituary Xecutioner's Return2.5
Mekong Delta Lurking Fear3.5
Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde3.5
Killing Joke Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell4.0
Maserati Inventions for the New Season3.5
Katatonia Live Consternation3.5
Ozzy Osbourne Black Rain2.5
Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient3.5
Megadeth United Abominations3.5
Melt-Banana Bambi's Dilemma3.5
Rush Snakes & Arrows3.0
Dark Tranquillity Fiction3.5
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet5.0
Before The Dawn Deadlight3.5
Omnium Gatherum Stuck Here on Snakes Way3.0
Hacride Amoeba2.5
Clutch From Beale Street to Oblivion3.5
El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead4.0
Kauan Lumikuuro3.5
Blackfield Blackfield II4.0
Trans Am Sex Change4.0
Nest (FIN) Trail of the Unwary4.0
The Bird And The Bee The Bird and the Bee3.5
Sabaton Metalizer2.5

2006
Obituary Frozen Alive3.5
Fairyland The Fall of an Empire3.0
Devin Townsend The Hummer1.5
Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo4.0
Noumena Anatomy of Life3.5
Meshuggah Nothing (Re-Release)4.0
Borknagar Origin2.5
My Dying Bride A Line of Deathless Kings3.5
Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side4.5
Tyr Ragnarok3.0
Ahab The Call of the Wretched Sea4.0
Suffocation Suffocation3.5
Napalm Death Smear Campaign3.5
Wolf The Black Flame4.0
Before The Dawn The Ghost4.0
Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death3.0
Terrorizer Darker Days Ahead2.5
Gorod Leading Vision3.5
Lamb of God Sacrament2.5
Insomnium Above the Weeping World4.5
Voivod Katorz3.0
Ozric Tentacles The Floor's Too Far Away3.5
Strapping Young Lad The New Black3.0
Doom VS Aeternum Vale4.0
Rush Grace Under Pressure Tour4.0
The Spinto Band Nice And Nicely Done4.0
Camera Obscura Let's Get Out of This Country4.0
Madder Mortem Desiderata3.5
Celtic Frost Monotheist4.0
Phoenix (FRA) It's Never Been Like That3.5
Enslaved Ruun4.5
Zombi Surface to Air4.0
Ihsahn The Adversary3.5
Novembre Materia4.0
The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics2.5
Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime II2.0
Amorphis Eclipse3.0
Cannibal Corpse Kill4.0
Lanterna Desert Ocean3.5
Katatonia The Great Cold Distance3.5
Pentagram First Daze Here Too4.0
Daylight Dies Dismantling Devotion5.0
I don't think I really need to "explain my rating" change. But 15 years later, this album touches the soul even more deeply.
David Gilmour On An Island3.5
Trespassers William Having4.0
Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis4.5
In Flames Come Clarity2.5
The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra4.0
Alchemist Embryonics4.0
Raventale На хрустальных качелях3.5
Paul Gilbert Get Out of My Yard4.0
Hammers Of Misfortune The Locust Years3.5
Yyrkoon Unhealthy Opera4.5
Zyklon Disintegrate2.5
...Of Sinking Ships ...Of Sinking Ships3.0

2005
Solstafir Masterpiece of Bitterness3.0
Rush R30: 30th Anniversary Tour4.0
Cocteau Twins Lullabies to Violaine 5.0
Bolt Thrower Those Once Loyal3.5
Ozzy Osbourne Under Cover2.0
Confessor Unraveled3.5
Burst Origo4.5
Gamma Ray Majestic3.5
Exodus Shovel Headed Kill Machine3.5
Cathedral The Garden Of Unearthly Delights3.0
God Forbid IV: Constitution of Treason3.5
Oceansize Everyone Into Position4.0
Arcturus Sideshow Symphonies3.0
Hypocrisy Virus3.5
Cave In Perfect Pitch Black4.0
Opeth Ghost Reveries4.5
Destruction Inventor of Evil3.0
The Life and Times Suburban Hymns3.5
Nevermore This Godless Endeavor4.0
Ulver Blood Inside3.5
Obituary Frozen in Time3.0
Brian Eno Another Day On Earth3.5
Darkane Layers of Lies4.0
Kraftwerk Minimum-Maximum4.5
Klimt 1918 Dopoguerra4.0
Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree3.5
Defleshed Reclaim The Beat3.0
Sentenced The Funeral Album4.0
Bruce Dickinson Tyranny of Souls3.5
Extol The Blueprint Dives4.0
Porcupine Tree Deadwing3.5
Napalm Death The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code4.0
Noumena Absence4.0
Clutch Robot Hive/Exodus3.5
Strapping Young Lad Alien4.0
Trust Company True Parallels2.5
Soilwork Stabbing the Drama2.5
Paradise Lost Paradise Lost3.0
Daikaiju Daikaiju3.5
Judas Priest Angel of Retribution3.5
Blackfield Blackfield4.0
Dark Tranquillity Character3.5
Kreator Enemy of God4.0
Gojira From Mars to Sirius4.5
Rapture Silent Stage4.0
Deep Purple Rapture of the Deep3.0
Katatonia The Black Sessions4.0

2004
Devin Townsend Devlab1.5
Cipher System Central Tunnel Eight4.0
Fates Warning FWX3.0
Slumber Fallout4.5
Before The Dawn 4:17 AM4.0
Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake4.0
Red Harvest Internal Punishment Programs4.0
Megadeth The System Has Failed3.0
Amon Amarth Fate of Norns3.0
Borknagar Epic3.0
Meshuggah I4.0
Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down4.0
Death Angel The Art of Dying3.0
Katatonia Brave Yester Days4.0
Clutch Blast Tyrant4.0
Suffocation Souls to Deny3.5
In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape2.5
Steven Wilson Unreleased Electronic Music Vol. 13.0
Phoenix (FRA) Alphabetical4.0
Exodus Tempo of the Damned3.5
Ozric Tentacles Spirals in Hyperspace3.0
Wolf Evil Star3.5
Cannibal Corpse The Wretched Spawn4.0
God Forbid Gone Forever3.0
Hypocrisy The Arrival3.5
My Dying Bride Songs of Darkness, Words of Light4.0
Enslaved Isa4.0
Camera Obscura Underachievers Please Try Harder3.5
Decapitated The Negation4.0
Nasum Shift3.5
Yyrkoon Occult Medicine4.5
Spastic Ink Ink Compatible3.0
Zombi Cosmos3.0

2003
Cave In Antenna4.5
17 years later it delivers its rockin' emotional punch even better.
Keelhaul Subject To Change Without Notice4.0
While Heaven Wept Of Empires Forlorn3.5
Anathema A Natural Disaster3.5
Atrox Orgasm3.0
Rush Rush in Rio3.5
King Diamond The Puppet Master3.0
Oceansize Effloresce4.0
Burst Prey on Life3.0
Deep Purple Bananas3.0
Iron Maiden Dance of Death4.0
Zyklon Aeon2.5
Edge of Sanity Crimson II4.5
Extol Synergy4.5
Nevermore Enemies Of Reality3.5
Killing Joke Killing Joke (2003)4.5
Fairyland Of Wars in Osyrhia3.0
Melt-Banana Cell-Scape3.5
Tyr Eric The Red3.0
Entombed Inferno3.0
Alchemist Austral Alien4.0
Agent Steel Order of the Illuminati3.0
Metallica St. Anger1.0
Gojira The Link3.0
Amorphis Far from the Sun2.0
Anthrax We've Come for You All2.5
Soilwork Figure Number Five3.0
Opeth Damnation3.0
Katatonia Viva Emptiness3.5
Intestine Baalism Banquet in the Darkness4.0
Before The Dawn My Darkness3.5
The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution4.0
Windir Likferd4.0
King Crimson The Power to Believe4.5
Voivod Voivod2.5
Slough Feg Traveller4.0
Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad4.0
Nest (FIN) Woodsmoke3.5
Hammers Of Misfortune The August Engine4.0
Enslaved Below the Lights4.0
Klimt 1918 Undressed Momento3.0
Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn4.0
Swallow the Sun The Morning Never Came4.0
Nasum Helvete3.5

2002
Yngwie Malmsteen The Genesis2.5
Yyrkoon Dying Sun4.0
Amon Amarth Versus the World3.0
Opeth Deliverance3.5
Paradise Lost Symbol Of Life3.0
Cathedral The VIIth Coming3.5
Madder Mortem Deadlands4.0
Napalm Death Order of the Leech3.5
Cave In Tides of Tomorrow 3.5
Kansas Device - Voice - Drum2.5
Daylight Dies No Reply3.5
Trespassers William Different Stars4.5
Porcupine Tree In Absentia4.0
Dark Tranquillity Damage Done4.0
Meshuggah Nothing3.5
In Flames Reroute to Remain2.5
Trust Company The Lonely Position of Neutral2.5
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots4.5
Halford Crucible3.5
Rush Vapor Trails3.5
Trans Am TA3.5
Decapitated Nihility4.0
Atrox Terrestrials3.5
Wolf Black Wings3.5
Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting3.0
Cannibal Corpse Gore Obsessed3.5
Tyr How Far to Asgaard3.0
Arcturus The Sham Mirrors4.0
Rapture Songs for the Withering4.0
Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness4.5
Soilwork Natural Born Chaos4.0
Noumena Pride/Fall2.5
King Diamond Abigail II: The Revenge2.5
El-P Fantastic Damage4.0
Lanterna Sands4.0
Darkane Expanding Senses3.5

2001
maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map4.0
Enslaved Monumension3.0
Windir 11844.0
My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours4.0
Shiner The Egg4.0
Godflesh Hymns3.5
Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire...3.5
Ozzy Osbourne Down to Earth2.5
Anathema A Fine Day to Exit3.5
Kreator Violent Revolution4.0
Destruction The Antichrist3.5
Gamma Ray No World Order4.0
Entombed Morning Star3.5
Meshuggah Rare Trax3.0
cEvin Key The Ghost of Each Room2.5
Judas Priest Demolition2.5
maudlin of the Well Bath5.0
Devin Townsend Terria3.5
Blue Oyster Cult Curse of the Hidden Mirror2.5
Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein4.0
Amorphis Am Universum3.0
Halford Live Insurrection4.5
Clutch Pure Rock Fury3.5
Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate4.0
Darkane Insanity3.0
Diabolical Masquerade Deaths Design4.0
Opeth Blackwater Park5.0
Soilwork A Predator's Portrait3.5
Cathedral Endtyme3.5
Zyklon World ov Worms3.0
Novembre Novembrine Waltz3.0
Yes Magnification3.0
Extol Paralysis3.0
Katatonia Last Fair Deal Gone Down4.5
Borknagar Empiricism3.0
Amon Amarth The Crusher2.5
Paradise Lost Believe In Nothing2.5
Bolt Thrower Honour - Valour - Pride3.5
Madder Mortem All Flesh Is Grass4.0
Hammers Of Misfortune The Bastard3.0
Defleshed Royal Straight Flesh3.5

2000
Melt-Banana Teeny Shiny3.0
Entombed Uprising3.5
Shiner Starless4.5
Ozric Tentacles The Hidden Step3.5
Enslaved Mardraum - Beyond the Within3.0
Cannibal Corpse Live Cannibalism3.5
Halford Resurrection4.0
Phoenix (FRA) United4.0
Atrox Contentum3.5
In Flames Clayman3.5
Dark Tranquillity Haven3.5
Broke this out after seeing opinions rating it higher than Projector. IMO it isn't, but it is generally stronger than Moment (which doesn't suck, but lacks consistency).
Kansas Somewhere to Elsewhere3.0
Devin Townsend Physicist3.5
King Diamond House of God3.0
Extol Undeceived4.0
Iron Maiden Brave New World3.5
Borknagar Quintessence3.5
King Crimson The ConstruKction of Light3.5
Decapitated Winds of Creation3.5
Nasum Human 2.03.5
Red Harvest Cold Dark Matter3.0
Wolf Wolf3.5
Immortal Damned In Black3.5
Ulver Perdition City4.0
Napalm Death Enemy of the Music Business4.0
Sentenced Crimson3.5
Dixie Dregs California Screamin'4.0
The Gathering Superheat3.5
Trans Am Red Line3.0
Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun3.5
Alchemist Organasm3.5
Cave In Jupiter4.5
Daylight Dies Idle2.5
Fates Warning Disconnected3.5
Soilwork The Chainheart Machine4.0
Lamb of God New American Gospel3.0
Nevermore Dead Heart In A Dead World4.5
Ozric Tentacles Swirly Termination2.5
Yyrkoon Forgotten Past3.0
Steve Hackett Sketches of Satie3.5
Hypocrisy Into the Abyss3.0

1999
Trespassers William Anchor3.5
Extol Mesmerized3.0
Amon Amarth The Avenger2.5
Napalm Death Leaders Not Followers3.5
Camel Rajaz4.0
Opeth Still Life4.0
Ozric Tentacles Floating Seeds3.5
Darkane Rusted Angel2.5
Windir Arntor4.5
Pet Shop Boys Nightlife3.0
My Dying Bride The Light at the End of the World4.0
Megadeth Risk2.0
Katatonia Tonight's Decision3.0
Pentagram Review Your Choices3.5
Mr. Bungle California4.5
Ozric Tentacles Waterfall Cities4.5
Testament The Gathering4.5
In Flames Colony4.0
Anathema Judgement4.5
Paradise Lost Host3.0
Cave In Creative Eclipses3.5
The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin4.5
Godflesh Us and Them3.5
Clutch Jam Room3.0
Emperor IX Equilibrium3.5
Neurosis Times of Grace3.5
Amorphis Tuonela3.5
Gamma Ray Power Plant4.0
Nevermore Dreaming Neon Black4.5
maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible3.5
Yes The Ladder3.5
Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream3.0
Kreator Endorama2.0
Cannibal Corpse Bloodthirst4.0
Rapture Futile4.5
Immortal At the Heart of Winter4.5
Strapping Young Lad No Sleep 'till Bedtime4.0
Madder Mortem Mercury3.0
Agent Steel Omega Conspiracy3.0
Crimson Glory Astronomica2.5
Dark Tranquillity Projector4.5
God Forbid Reject the Sickness3.0
Defleshed Fast Forward3.5
Slough Feg Twilight of the Idols4.0
Steve Hackett Darktown3.5
Queensryche Q2K2.0
Hypocrisy Hypocrisy4.0

1998
Extol Burial3.5
Ulver Themes From William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell3.0
Cathedral Caravan Beyond Redemption4.0
Entombed Same Difference2.0
Rush Different Stages4.0
Meshuggah Chaosphere4.5
The Gathering How to Measure a Planet?3.0
Napalm Death Words from the Exit Wound2.5
Borknagar The Archaic Course3.5
Love and Rockets Lift2.5
My Dying Bride 34.788%... Complete3.0
King Diamond Voodoo3.0
Iron Maiden A Real Live Dead One2.5
Diabolical Masquerade Nightwork3.5
Death The Sound of Perseverance4.0
Bolt Thrower Who Dares Wins3.0
Bruce Dickinson The Chemical Wedding4.5
Sentenced Frozen3.5
Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse4.5
22 years later it still packs a hellova punch. The #1 album of 1998? I might need to go do a little metal archaeology on this rainy day...
Theatre Of Tragedy Aégis4.0
Solitude Aeturnus Adagio3.0
Fear Factory Obsolete3.0
Anathema Alternative 44.0
Deep Purple Abandon2.5
Cave In Until Your Heart Stops3.5
Suffocation Despise the Sun3.5
Obituary Dead3.5
Cannibal Corpse Gallery of Suicide3.0
Iron Maiden Virtual XI2.0
Trans Am Futureworld4.5
Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall2.5
Dan Swano Moontower4.0
Gorguts Obscura5.0
Katatonia Discouraged Ones3.0
Enslaved Blodhemn3.0
Blue Oyster Cult Heaven Forbid2.5
Soilwork Steelbath Suicide3.5
Bolt Thrower Mercenary3.5
Nasum Inhale/Exhale4.0
Yyrkoon Oniric Transition2.5
Circle of Dust Disengage3.0
Devin Townsend Infinity4.0

1997
Ozric Tentacles Curious Corn4.0
Yes Open Your Eyes2.0
Metallica Reload1.5
In Flames Whoracle4.5
On Thorns I Lay Orama3.5
Edge of Sanity Cryptic2.0
Riot Inishmore3.5
Judas Priest Jugulator2.5
The Flaming Lips Zaireeka3.0
Dismember Death Metal2.5
Paradise Lost One Second3.5
Gamma Ray Somewhere Out in Space4.5
Spastic Ink Ink Complete4.5
Trans Am Surrender to the Night3.0
Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech5.0
Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Sol Niger Within4.0
Alchemist Spiritech4.0
Godflesh Love and Hate in Dub4.0
The Gathering Nighttime Birds3.5
Faith No More Album of the Year3.5
In the Woods... Omnio3.5
Windir Soknardalr3.0
The 3rd and the Mortal In This Room4.0
Shiner Lula Divinia4.0
Sentenced Down4.0
Ulver Nattens Madrigal2.5
Obituary Back from the Dead2.5
Strapping Young Lad City4.5
Edge of Sanity Infernal2.5
Intestine Baalism An Anatomy of the Beast4.0
Voivod Phobos4.5
Kreator Outcast2.0
Testament Demonic3.0
Mekong Delta Pictures at an Exhibition3.5
Borknagar The Olden Domain3.5
Entombed DCLXVI: To Ride Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth4.0
Enslaved Eld3.0
Arcturus La Masquerade Infernale3.5
Fates Warning A Pleasant Shade of Gray3.5
Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk4.5
Immortal Blizzard Beasts2.5
Forbidden Green2.5
Dark Tranquillity The Mind's I3.0
Bruce Dickinson Accident of Birth3.5
Defleshed Under the Blade4.0
Diabolical Masquerade The Phantom Lodge3.0
Queensryche Hear in the Now Frontier2.0
Hypocrisy The Final Chapter4.0
Napalm Death Inside the Torn Apart2.5

1996
Diabolical Masquerade Ravendusk in my Heart3.0
Cathedral Supernatural Birth Machine3.0
Anathema Eternity3.0
Al Di Meola Al DiMeola Plays Piazzolla4.5
Yngwie Malmsteen Inspiration3.0
Mazzy Star Among My Swan4.0
My Dying Bride Like Gods of the Sun4.0
Swans Soundtracks for the Blind4.0
King Diamond The Graveyard3.0
Morgoth Feel Sorry for the Fanatic3.5
Rush Test for Echo2.5
Pet Shop Boys Bilingual3.5
Godflesh Songs of Love and Hate4.0
Theatre Of Tragedy Velvet Darkness They Fear4.0
Solitude Aeturnus Downfall3.5
Electronic Raise The Pressure3.5
Opeth Morningrise3.5
Metallica Load1.5
Cannibal Corpse Vile3.5
Fishbone Chim Chim's Badass Revenge3.5
Amorphis Elegy4.5
Edge of Sanity Crimson4.5
Neurosis Through Silver in Blood4.0
Killing Joke Democracy3.5
Revisited this album recently and realized there are a number of excellent cuts on it. The record starts off a little weak, but 'Lanterns', 'Aeon', 'Intellect', 'Absent Friends', 'Another Bloody Election', and the related single 'Mass' energize the album substantially.
Love and Rockets Sweet F.A.3.0
Lush Lovelife3.5
Cocteau Twins Milk and Kisses4.0
In Flames The Jester Race4.5
Borknagar Borknagar3.0
Napalm Death Diatribes3.0
The 3rd and the Mortal Painting on Glass4.5
Trans Am Trans Am2.5
Porcupine Tree Signify3.0
Deep Purple Purpendicular3.0
Ulver Kveldssanger3.0
Arcturus Aspera Hiems Symfonia4.0
Jason Becker Perspective4.0
Nevermore The Politics of Ecstasy4.0
Prong Rude Awakening2.5
Bruce Dickinson Skunkworks3.0
Atrocity Willenskraft2.5
Defleshed Abrah Kadavrah3.0
Slough Feg The Lord Weird Slough Feg3.0
Katatonia Brave Murder Day3.5
Hypocrisy Abducted4.0

1995
Dark Tranquillity The Gallery3.5
Voivod Negatron2.5
Alice in Chains Alice in Chains3.5
Melt-Banana Scratch or Stitch3.5
Ozric Tentacles Become the Other4.0
Anthrax Stomp 4422.0
Ozzy Osbourne Ozzmosis2.5
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness3.5
Anathema The Silent Enigma3.0
Mr. Bungle Disco Volante4.0
Iron Maiden The X Factor2.0
Cathedral The Carnival Bizarre4.0
The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic4.0
The Gathering Mandylion3.5
Immortal Battles in the North2.5
Saxon Dogs of War3.0
Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve4.0
Black Sabbath Forbidden1.0
Carcass Swansong2.5
Big Country Why The Long Face3.5
Gamma Ray Land of the Free5.0
Opeth Orchid3.5
Paradise Lost Draconian Times4.5
The Mermen A Glorious Lethal Euphoria4.0
King Crimson THRAK3.5
Fight Small Deadly Space3.0
Strapping Young Lad Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing3.5
In the Woods... Heart of the Ages3.5
Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime4.0
Death Symbolic4.5
Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler3.5
Theatre Of Tragedy Theatre of Tragedy3.5
Sentenced Amok4.0
Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways4.5
Kreator Cause for Conflict2.5
Swans The Great Annihilator4.0
Dismember Massive Killing Capacity3.0
Kansas Freaks of Nature2.0
Suffocation Pierced from Within4.0
Coroner Coroner4.0
My Dying Bride The Angel and the Dark River3.5
Obituary World Demise3.5
Forbidden Distortion2.5
The 3rd and the Mortal Nightswan3.5
Helstar Multiples of Black2.0
At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul4.0
Fear Factory Demanufacture3.5
King Diamond The Spider's Lullabye3.5
On Thorns I Lay Sounds of Beautiful Experience3.0

1994
Mekong Delta Visions Fugitives3.5
Meshuggah None3.5
Megadeth Youthanasia2.5
Pentagram Be Forewarned4.0
The 3rd and the Mortal Tears Laid in Earth4.0
Queensryche Promised Land3.0
Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow3.0
Testament Low4.5
Love and Rockets Hot Trip to Heaven3.0
Godflesh Selfless3.0
Melt-Banana Speak Squeak Creak4.0
The 3rd and the Mortal Sorrow3.0
Napalm Death Fear, Emptiness, Despair3.5
Amorphis Tales from the Thousand Lakes4.0
Cathedral Cosmic Requiem3.5
Killing Joke Pandemonium3.5
Enslaved Frost3.5
At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease3.5
Lush Split4.5
Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse4.5
Fight Mutations3.0
Fates Warning Inside Out2.5
Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding4.0
Cathedral Statik Majik3.5
Pink Floyd The Division Bell3.0
Solitude Aeturnus Through the Darkest Hour4.0
Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi3.5
Mike Oldfield Songs Of Distant Earth4.5
Black Sabbath Cross Purposes1.5
Alice in Chains Jar of Flies3.5
Fear of God Toxic Voodoo2.5
Yes Talk2.0
Memento Mori Life, Death, and Other Morbid Tales3.5
Alchemist Lunasphere3.0
In Flames Lunar Strain3.0
Bolt Thrower ...For Victory4.0
Nevermore Nevermore3.0
Ozric Tentacles Arborescence4.0
Prong Cleansing3.0
The Mermen Food For Other Fish3.5
Atrocity Blut2.5
Jawbox For Your Own Special Sweetheart4.0
Circle of Dust Brainchild2.5
Hypocrisy The Fourth Dimension3.0

1993
Naked City Absinthe3.5
Edge of Sanity The Spectral Sorrows3.5
Cocteau Twins Four-Calendar Cafe4.5
Rush Counterparts3.0
Paradise Lost Icon4.5
Gamma Ray Insanity and Genius2.5
Pet Shop Boys Very4.5
Big Country The Buffalo Skinners3.0
Fight War Of Words3.5
Dismember Indecent & Obscene3.0
Dark Tranquillity Skydancer3.0
Voivod The Outer Limits5.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream4.5
Riot Nightbreaker3.5
Ozric Tentacles Jurassic Shift4.5
Deep Purple The Battle Rages On...2.0
Death Individual Thought Patterns4.0
Anacrusis Screams and Whispers4.0
Anthrax Sound of White Noise3.0
Fishbone Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear...4.0
Suffocation Breeding the Spawn3.0
At the Gates With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness3.5
Morgoth Odium4.0
My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans4.5
Naked City Radio4.0
Disincarnate Dreams of the Carrion Kind4.0
Iron Maiden A Real Live One3.0
Believer Dimensions4.0
Anathema Serenades3.0
Cathedral The Ethereal Mirror4.0
Neurosis Enemy of the Sun4.0
Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity3.0
Porcupine Tree Up the Downstair3.5
Katatonia Dance of December Souls2.5
Nocturnus Nocturnus2.5
Carcass Heartwork4.0
Memento Mori Rhymes of Lunacy3.0
Entombed Wolverine Blues3.0
Alchemist Jar Of Kingdom3.0
Coroner Grin4.0
Atheist Elements3.0
The Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite Heart3.5
My Dying Bride The Thrash of Naked Limbs3.5
Cynic Focus4.0
Pestilence Spheres3.5
Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See4.0
The Clash Super Black Market Clash4.0
Sentenced North from Here4.0

1992
Amorphis The Karelian Isthmus2.5
Naked City Leng Tch'e4.0
Dismember Pieces2.5
Kreator Renewal2.5
Asphyx Last One on Earth4.0
Holy Moses Reborn Dogs2.5
Alice in Chains Dirt5.0
Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated3.0
Atrocity Todessehnsucht4.0
Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine3.0
Bolt Thrower The IVth Crusade4.0
Brian Eno Nerve Net3.5
Solitude Aeturnus Beyond the Crimson Horizon4.0
Exodus Force of Habit2.0
The Flaming Lips Hit To Death In The Future Head3.0
Naked City Heretic3.5
At the Gates The Red in the Sky Is Ours3.0
Edge of Sanity Unorthodox4.0
Megadeth Countdown to Extinction3.0
Porcupine Tree On the Sunday of Life3.0
The B-52s Good Stuff2.0
Carcass Tools of the Trade3.5
Black Sabbath Dehumanizer4.5
Loudness Loudness3.0
Faith No More Angel Dust4.5
My Dying Bride As the Flower Withers3.5
Testament The Ritual2.0
Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark2.0
Jawbox Novelty3.5
XTC Nonsuch3.0
Paradise Lost Shades of God3.5
My Dying Bride Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium4.5
Celtic Frost Parched With Thirst Am I and Dying3.0
Godflesh Pure3.5
Alice in Chains Sap3.0
Lush Spooky3.5
Yngwie Malmsteen Fire & Ice2.0
Swans Love of Life3.5
Swans Omniscience3.5
Confessor Confessor3.5
Mekong Delta Kaleidoscope3.5
Nocturnus Thresholds3.5
Allan Holdsworth Wardenclyffe Tower4.0
Obituary The End Complete4.0
Flotsam and Jetsam Cuatro2.5
Ozric Tentacles Live Underslunky4.0
Ozric Tentacles Afterswish4.0
Prong Prove You Wrong3.0
Naked City Grand Guignol4.0
Neurosis Souls at Zero4.0
Circle of Dust Circle of Dust2.5
Napalm Death Utopia Banished3.5

1991
Cathedral Forest of Equilibrium3.5
Gamma Ray Sigh No More3.0
Voivod Angel Rat4.5
My Bloody Valentine Loveless5.0
Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten5.0
Death Human5.0
Confessor Condemned4.0
Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse3.0
Pestilence Testimony of the Ancients3.0
Rush Roll the Bones3.5
Big Country No Place Like Home2.5
Atheist Unquestionable Presence5.0
Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle4.0
Metallica Metallica2.5
Solitude Aeturnus Into the Depths of Sorrow4.5
Anacrusis Manic Impressions4.5
Cannibal Corpse Butchered at Birth3.0
Dismember Like an Ever Flowing Stream4.0
Suffocation Human Waste4.5
Heathen Victims of Deception3.5
Godflesh Slavestate3.5
Vicious Rumors Welcome to the Ball3.5
Gorguts Considered Dead3.0
Yes Union2.5
Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity4.5
Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious5.0
Entombed Clandestine4.5
Paradise Lost Gothic3.5
Coroner Mental Vortex4.5
Fates Warning Parallels4.0
Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears4.0
Cynic Demo 19913.5
Asphyx The Rack4.0
Bolt Thrower War Master4.5
Fishbone The Reality of My Surroundings4.0
Crimson Glory Strange and Beautiful2.0
Ozric Tentacles Strangeitude4.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Gish3.5
Treponem Pal Aggravation3.5
Fear of God Within the Veil4.5
Holy Moses Terminal Terror3.0
Morgoth Cursed3.5

1990
King Diamond The Eye3.5
Deep Purple Slaves and Masters1.5
Pet Shop Boys Behaviour3.5
Kreator Coma of Souls4.0
Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying1.5
Atrocity Hallucinations4.5
Testament Souls of Black2.5
Megadeth Rust in Peace4.5
Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas4.5
Judas Priest Painkiller5.0
Alice in Chains Facelift4.0
Anthrax Persistence of Time3.0
Black Sabbath Tyr3.0
Queensryche Empire3.5
Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life3.5
Nocturnus The Key3.5
Vicious Rumors Vicious Rumors4.0
Anacrusis Reason3.5
Entombed Left Hand Path4.0
Mazzy Star She Hangs Brightly4.0
Dio Lock up the Wolves3.0
Celtic Frost Vanity/Nemesis3.0
Death Angel Act III3.5
Gary Moore Still Got The Blues4.0
Eric Johnson Ah Via Musicom4.5
Prong Beg to Differ3.5
Riot The Privilege of Power4.0
Gamma Ray Heading for Tomorrow3.0
Death Spiritual Healing3.5
Naked City Naked City5.0
Believer Sanity Obscure3.5
Atheist Piece of Time4.0
Paradise Lost Lost Paradise2.5
Naked City Torture Garden4.0
Destruction Cracked Brain4.0
Killing Joke Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions5.0
Mekong Delta Dances of Death (and other Walking Shadows)3.5
Flotsam and Jetsam When the Storm Comes Down2.5
Cynic '90 Demo3.5
Obituary Cause of Death4.5
Devo Smooth Noodle Maps2.5
Forbidden Twisted into Form4.0
Yngwie Malmsteen Eclipse2.5
Sanctuary Into the Mirror Black4.5
Ozric Tentacles Erpland4.0
Napalm Death Harmony Corruption4.0
Neurosis The Word as Law3.5
Holy Moses World Chaos3.0
Exodus Impact Is Imminent2.5

1989
Pestilence Consuming Impulse4.0
Rush Presto3.5
Voivod Nothingface5.0
Helstar Nosferatu4.0
King Diamond Conspiracy4.0
Testament Practice What You Preach2.5
Watchtower Control and Resistance5.0
Carcass Symphonies of Sickness4.0
The B-52s Cosmic Thing3.0
Faith No More The Real Thing3.5
Kreator Extreme Aggression4.0
Public Image Ltd. 92.5
Coroner No More Color4.5
Black Sabbath Headless Cross3.5
Yngwie Malmsteen Odyssey2.5
Believer Extraction From Mortality3.0
Love and Rockets Love and Rockets4.0
Metal Church Blessing in Disguise4.0
Ozric Tentacles Pungent Effulgent4.5
Rush A Show of Hands3.5
Swans The Burning World3.0
Mekong Delta The Principle of Doubt4.0
Exodus Fabulous Disaster4.0
Allan Holdsworth Secrets4.0
Death Angel Frolic Through the Park3.5
Fates Warning Perfect Symmetry4.0
Cynic Reflections of a Dying World3.5
Obituary Slowly We Rot4.0
Bolt Thrower Realm of Chaos3.5
Gary Moore After the War3.5
Ozric Tentacles The Bits Between The Bits3.0
Terrorizer World Downfall4.5
Godflesh Streetcleaner4.0
The Mermen Krill Slippin'3.0
Treponem Pal Treponem Pal3.0
Holy Moses The New Machine of Liechtenstein3.0

1988
Helstar A Distant Thunder3.5
Frank Zappa Broadway the Hard Way3.5
Pet Shop Boys Introspective3.5
Forbidden Forbidden Evil3.0
Ozzy Osbourne No Rest for the Wicked4.0
Anthrax State of Euphoria3.0
Cocteau Twins Blue Bell Knoll4.0
Napalm Death From Enslavement to Obliteration4.0
Fishbone Truth and Soul4.0
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II4.0
Metallica ...And Justice for All3.0
Carcass Reek of Putrefaction3.0
Death Leprosy4.0
Anacrusis Suffering Hour3.5
King Diamond ''Them''4.5
Blue Oyster Cult Imaginos4.5
Voivod Dimension Hatröss4.5
Killing Joke Outside The Gate3.0
Judas Priest Ram It Down2.0
Testament The New Order3.5
Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime5.0
Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son5.0
Thomas Dolby Aliens Ate My Buick4.0
Riot Thundersteel4.5
Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What!4.0
Big Country Peace in Our Time2.5
Holy Terror Mind Wars4.0
Mekong Delta The Music of Erich Zann4.0
Kansas In the Spirit of Things2.0
By far the most ambitious thing they'd attempted since Point of Know Return. None of it particularly engaging or memorable unfortunately.
Coroner Punishment for Decadence4.0
Celtic Frost Cold Lake2.5
Flotsam and Jetsam No Place for Disgrace3.5
My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything3.5
Cynic '88 Demo3.5
Pestilence Malleus Maleficarum3.0
Bolt Thrower In Battle There Is No Law!3.0
Devo Total Devo2.5
Jason Becker Perpetual Burn4.0
Cacophony Go Off!4.0
Apocrypha (USA-AZ) The Eyes of Time3.0
Crimson Glory Transcendence 4.0
Ozric Tentacles Sliding Gliding Worlds3.0
Prong Force Fed3.5
Godflesh Godflesh3.5
Fates Warning No Exit4.5

1987
Metallica Cliff 'Em All!3.5
Destruction Release from Agony3.5
Fishbone It's a Wonderful Life3.0
Black Sabbath The Eternal Idol3.0
Exodus Pleasures of the Flesh4.0
Kreator Terrible Certainty3.5
Public Image Ltd. Happy?3.0
Vicious Rumors Digital Dictator4.0
Love and Rockets Earth, Sun, Moon4.0
Rush Hold Your Fire4.5
Another example of how something I liked as a teenager became something I adore as a mature adult.
Pet Shop Boys Actually4.0
Metallica The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited3.5
Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason3.5
The Dukes Of Stratosphear Psonic Psunspot4.5
Cacophony Speed Metal Symphony4.0
Testament The Legacy4.5
King Diamond Abigail4.5
Ozzy Osbourne Tribute4.5
Death Scream Bloody Gore3.5
Holy Moses Finished with the Dogs4.5
Death Angel The Ultra-Violence4.0
Faith No More Introduce Yourself3.0
Voivod Killing Technology4.0
Anthrax Among the Living3.5
Gary Moore Wild Frontier4.5
The Dukes Of Stratosphear Chips from the Chocolate Fireball5.0
Coroner R.I.P.3.5
Agent Steel Unstoppable Force4.0
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I4.0
Deep Purple The House of Blue Light4.0
Yes Big Generator2.5
Swans Children of God3.0
Holy Terror Terror and Submission3.0
Mekong Delta Mekong Delta4.0
Allan Holdsworth Sand3.5
Pentagram Day of Reckoning4.0
Liege Lord Burn to My Touch3.5
Heathen Breaking the Silence4.0
Apocrypha (USA-AZ) The Forgotten Scroll3.0
Sanctuary Refuge Denied4.0
Napalm Death Scum3.5
Head of David Dustbowl4.0
Jean-Luc Ponty The Gift of Time3.5
Neurosis Pain of Mind3.0
Dio Dream Evil3.5
Celtic Frost Into the Pandemonium4.0

1986
The Damned Anything3.5
Kraftwerk Electric Cafe3.0
Fishbone In Your Face3.5
The The Infected4.0
Killing Joke Brighter Than a Thousand Suns4.0
Cheap Trick The Doctor2.0
XTC Skylarking3.0
Metal Church The Dark4.0
Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time3.0
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark The Pacific Age3.0
Love and Rockets Express4.0
The B-52s Bouncing off the Satellites3.0
Yngwie Malmsteen Trilogy2.0
Loudness Lightning Strikes3.0
Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?4.0
Big Country The Seer4.5
Accept Russian Roulette3.5
Ozzy Osbourne The Ultimate Sin3.5
Judas Priest Turbo2.5
Voivod RRRÖÖÖAAARRR3.0
Metallica Master of Puppets4.5
Rainbow Finyl Vinyl2.5
King Diamond Fatal Portrait4.0
Public Image Ltd. Album4.0
Black Sabbath Seventh Star3.0
Saxon Rock the Nations2.5
Kreator Pleasure to Kill3.5
Swans Holy Money3.0
Kansas Power2.0
With Steve Morse aboard you'd think this would've been a killer. Only the opening track rocks out, and it still fails to deliver any thrills. The rest of the record is competent and bland.
Holy Moses Queen Of Siam3.0
Allan Holdsworth Atavachron3.5
Flotsam and Jetsam Doomsday for the Deceiver3.5
Destruction Eternal Devastation3.5
Loudness Shadows of War3.5
Cocteau Twins Victorialand4.0
Fates Warning Awaken the Guardian5.0
Helstar Remnants of War3.0
Crimson Glory Crimson Glory3.5
Ozric Tentacles There Is Nothing3.0
Queensryche Rage for Order4.0
Eric Johnson Tones4.5
Frank Zappa Jazz From Hell3.5

1985
Blue Oyster Cult Club Ninja1.5
Accept Metal Heart4.0
Helloween Walls of Jericho3.5
Frank Zappa Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention3.0
Anthrax Spreading the Disease4.0
Rush Power Windows4.0
Celtic Frost To Mega Therion4.5
Iron Maiden Live After Death (DVD)5.0
Kreator Endless Pain3.0
Iron Maiden Live After Death4.5
Love and Rockets Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven4.0
Yngwie Malmsteen Marching Out4.0
Gary Moore Run for Cover3.5
The Clash Cut the Crap1.0
Asia Astra2.5
Dio Sacred Heart3.5
Cheap Trick Standing on the Edge2.5
Not the worst thing I remember from 1985, but never gets played around here.
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Crush2.5
Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!3.5
Agent Steel Skeptics Apocalypse 3.5
Vicious Rumors Soldiers Of The Night3.0
Exodus Bonded by Blood4.0
The Dukes Of Stratosphear 25 O'Clock4.5
Killing Joke Night Time3.5
Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair4.5
Watchtower Energetic Disassembly4.0
Pentagram Pentagram4.0
Loudness Thunder In The East3.0
Couch Flambeau The Day the Music Died3.5
Saxon Innocence is No Excuse2.5
Swans Greed3.0
The Damned Phantasmagoria4.0
Liege Lord Freedom's Rise3.5
Allan Holdsworth Metal Fatigue4.5
Destruction Infernal Overkill3.5
Electric Sun Beyond The Astral Skies4.0
Fates Warning The Spectre Within4.0
Fishbone Fishbone3.5
Ozric Tentacles Tantric Obstacles3.0

1984
Frank Zappa Thing-Fish2.5
Deep Purple Perfect Strangers4.5
Yngwie Malmsteen Rising Force4.0
XTC The Big Express3.5
Devo Shout2.5
Frank Zappa Them or Us2.5
Big Country Steeltown4.5
Cocteau Twins Treasure4.0
Iron Maiden Powerslave5.0
Voivod War and Pain3.5
Metallica Ride the Lightning5.0
Public Image Ltd. This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get3.5
Dio The Last in Line4.0
Celtic Frost Morbid Tales4.5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Junk Culture2.0
Gary Moore We Want Moore!4.5
Saxon Crusader3.0
Rush Grace Under Pressure3.0
King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair4.0
Scorpions Love At First Sting3.0
David Gilmour About Face4.5
Thomas Dolby The Flat Earth4.0
Anthrax Fistful of Metal3.0
Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith4.0
Swans Cop3.0
Big Country Wonderland4.0
Loudness Disillusion4.5
Put into temporal context (early 1984), it's obvious Akira and company weren't copying anybody. The blend of thrash and hard rock with some dashes of prog (see "Esper" and "Butterfly" in particular) sounded really fresh, and still kicks heaps of ass. I first heard this in '85, and it's remained in high esteem ever since.
Fates Warning Night on Brocken3.5
Metal Church Metal Church4.0
Helstar Burning Star3.0
Ozric Tentacles Erpsongs3.0
Jean-Luc Ponty Open Mind3.5
Queensryche The Warning4.5

1983
Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon4.0
Accept Balls to the Wall4.0
Gary Moore Victims Of The Future4.0
Blue Oyster Cult The Revölution by Night1.5
The The Soul Mining4.0
Cocteau Twins Head Over Heels3.5
Queensryche Queensryche EP4.0
Brian Eno Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks4.0
XTC Mummer3.5
Cheap Trick Next Position Please3.0
A few killer tracks here, but watered down with way too much tame, if listenable, ridiculously high-polished filler.
Black Sabbath Born Again3.5
Metallica Kill 'Em All4.0
Gary Moore Dirty Fingers3.5
Big Country The Crossing4.5
Killing Joke Fire Dances2.5
Kansas Drastic Measures2.5
Dio Holy Diver4.0
Iron Maiden Piece of Mind4.0
The B-52s Whammy!3.5
Saxon Power and the Glory3.5
Pink Floyd The Final Cut3.0
Tears for Fears The Hurting3.5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Dazzle Ships3.0
Thin Lizzy Thunder and Lightning3.5
Frank Zappa The Man from Utopia3.5
Styx Kilroy Was Here2.5
Loudness The Law of Devil's Land3.5
Yes 901254.0
Asia Alpha3.5
Allan Holdsworth Road Games4.5
Rainbow Bent Out of Shape2.0
The Police Synchronicity4.5
Jean-Luc Ponty Individual Choice3.5
Steve Hackett Bay of Kings4.0

1982
Accept Restless and Wild4.5
Al Di Meola Tour De Force-Live4.0
Rush Signals4.5
Cocteau Twins Garlands3.0
Gary Moore Corridors Of Power3.5
Loudness Devil Soldier3.0
Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance4.5
King Crimson Beat3.0
Frank Zappa Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch3.5
Cheap Trick One on One4.5
Raucous yet polished, utterly concise, catchy as chicken pox. Can't think of anything else from 1982 that packs this kind of punch.
Blue Oyster Cult Extraterrestrial Live2.5
Scorpions Blackout3.5
Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast3.5
Asia Asia4.0
Thomas Dolby The Golden Age of Wireless4.5
XTC English Settlement3.5
The Clash Combat Rock3.5
Kansas Vinyl Confessions3.0
Side 1: [zzzzz....] / Side 2: 'Windows", "Borderline" and "Play On" are concise, if uncharacteristic, rockers, and "Crossfire" is almost worth the price of admission by itself.
Allan Holdsworth I.O.U.4.0
Rainbow Straight Between the Eyes2.5
Killing Joke Revelations4.0
Dixie Dregs Industry Standard3.5
Devo Oh, No! It's Devo3.0
Steve Hackett Highly Strung4.0

1981
Loudness The Birthday Eve3.0
Thin Lizzy Renegade3.0
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Architecture & Morality4.0
Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman4.5
Black Sabbath Mob Rules4.5
Rush Exit...Stage Left4.5
Saxon Denim and Leather3.5
The Police Ghost in the Machine4.0
Al Di Meola Electric Rendezvous4.0
King Crimson Discipline4.5
Iron Maiden Maiden Japan (Complete Concert)4.0
Devo New Traditionalists3.0
Blue Oyster Cult Fire of Unknown Origin4.5
Killing Joke What's THIS For...!3.5
Iron Maiden Live at the Rainbow4.5
Public Image Ltd. Flowers Of Romance4.0
Accept Breaker3.0
Judas Priest Point of Entry3.0
Rush Moving Pictures5.0
Iron Maiden Killers4.5
Styx Paradise Theatre3.0
Kraftwerk Computer World4.5
Camel Nude4.5
Dixie Dregs Unsung Heroes4.0
Riot Fire Down Under3.5
Electric Light Orchestra Time4.5

1980
The Clash Sandinista!3.0
Cheap Trick All Shook Up3.5
Thin Lizzy Chinatown3.0
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Organisation3.5
The Clash Black Market Clash4.0
The Police Zenyatta Mondatta4.0
The B-52s Wild Planet4.0
Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz4.5
XTC Black Sea4.5
Saxon Strong Arm of the Law3.0
Yes Drama2.5
Killing Joke Killing Joke4.5
Blue Oyster Cult Cultösaurus Erectus4.5
Accept I'm a Rebel2.5
Gary Moore G-Force3.0
Devo Freedom of Choice4.0
Al Di Meola Splendido Hotel3.5
Saxon Wheels of Steel3.0
Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell4.0
Judas Priest British Steel4.0
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden3.5
Scorpions Animal Magnetism3.5
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark3.5
The Damned The Black Album4.5
Rush Permanent Waves5.0
Kansas Audio-Visions3.0
Bruford Gradually Going Tornado3.5
Rainbow Difficult to Cure2.5
Electric Sun Fire Wind4.0
Dixie Dregs Dregs of the Earth4.0
Jean-Luc Ponty Civilized Evil3.5

1979
The Clash London Calling4.0
Pink Floyd The Wall4.0
Camel I Can See Your House From Here3.5
The Police Reggatta de Blanc4.0
Styx Cornerstone2.5
Cheap Trick Dream Police3.5
Frank Zappa Joe's Garage5.0
XTC Drums And Wires4.5
Rainbow Down To Earth2.0
The B-52s The B-52's3.5
Blue Oyster Cult Mirrors3.0
Devo Duty Now for the Future3.5
Thin Lizzy Black Rose: A Rock Legend4.5
Frank Zappa Sheik Yerbouti3.5
Dixie Dregs Night of the Living Dregs4.5
Scorpions Lovedrive3.0
Frank Zappa Sleep Dirt3.0
The Damned Machine Gun Etiquette4.0
Kansas Monolith3.0
Bruford One of a Kind4.5
Electric Sun Earthquake4.0
Jean-Luc Ponty A Taste For Passion4.0
Accept Accept3.0

1978
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Love Beach1.5
The Clash Give 'Em Enough Rope3.5
The Police Outlandos d'Amour3.5
Rush Hemispheres5.0
Judas Priest Killing Machine4.0
Heart Dog & Butterfly3.5
XTC Go 23.0
Kansas Two for the Show4.5
Gary Moore Back On The Streets3.0
Black Sabbath Never Say Die!2.5
Camel Breathless3.5
Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!3.5
10cc Bloody Tourists3.0
Blue Oyster Cult Some Enchanted Evening3.5
Styx Pieces of Eight3.5
Kraftwerk The Man-Machine5.0
Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous4.5
Rainbow Long Live Rock 'n' Roll4.0
Cheap Trick Heaven Tonight4.0
Heart Magazine3.5
Funkadelic One Nation Under a Groove3.5
Al Di Meola Casino4.5
Judas Priest Stained Class4.0
XTC White Music3.0
Yes Tormato2.0
Be-Bop Deluxe Drastic Plastic2.5
Bruford Feels Good to Me4.0
David Gilmour David Gilmour3.0
Dixie Dregs What If4.0
Jean-Luc Ponty Cosmic Messenger4.5

1977
Blue Oyster Cult Spectres3.5
Kansas Point of Know Return4.5
Difficult to find any faults with this album. A near perfect blend of arena-friendly anthems and fiery progressive assaults.
Camel Rain Dances4.0
Thin Lizzy Bad Reputation4.0
Cheap Trick In Color3.5
Rush A Farewell to Kings4.5
Rainbow On Stage3.5
Styx The Grand Illusion3.0
Al Di Meola Elegant Gypsy4.5
Heart Little Queen4.0
Judas Priest Sin After Sin4.0
The Clash The Clash5.0
Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express4.0
The Damned Damned Damned Damned3.0
Cheap Trick Cheap Trick4.5
Pink Floyd Animals4.5
10cc Deceptive Bends3.5
Brian Eno Before and After Science4.0
Yes Going for the One4.0
Be-Bop Deluxe Live! In The Air Age3.5
Dixie Dregs Freefall4.0
Jean-Luc Ponty Enigmatic Ocean4.5
Scorpions Taken by Force4.0

1976
Genesis Wind & Wuthering2.5
Kansas Leftoverture4.5
When I never get tired of listening to an album, even 40 years after first discovering it, I gotta boost the rating a little.
Funkadelic Hardcore Jollies3.0
Al Di Meola Land of the Midnight Sun4.0
Thin Lizzy Johnny the Fox4.0
Frank Zappa Zoot Allures4.0
Rush All the World's a Stage3.5
Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy2.5
Be-Bop Deluxe Modern Music4.5
Blue Oyster Cult Agents of Fortune4.0
Rainbow Rising4.5
Rush 21124.0
Camel Moonmadness4.5
Thin Lizzy Jailbreak4.0
Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny5.0
Heart Dreamboat Annie4.5
10cc How Dare You!4.0
Be-Bop Deluxe Sunburst Finish3.5
Allan Holdsworth Velvet Darkness4.0
Funkadelic Tales of Kidd Funkadelic3.0
Jean-Luc Ponty Imaginary Voyage4.5
Scorpions Virgin Killer4.0

1975
Scorpions In Trance4.0
Deep Purple Come Taste the Band3.0
Kansas Masque4.0
Lose the opening track and it shoots to a rock solid 5.
Steve Hackett Voyage of the Acolyte4.0
Rush Caress of Steel3.5
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here5.0
Thin Lizzy Fighting4.0
Brian Eno Another Green World4.0
Rainbow Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow4.0
Black Sabbath Sabotage5.0
The Mothers of Invention One Size Fits All4.5
Nazareth Hair of the Dog4.0
Camel The Snow Goose4.5
Funkadelic Let's Take It to the Stage3.5
10cc The Original Soundtrack4.5
Blue Oyster Cult On Your Feet or on Your Knees3.0
Rush Fly by Night3.5
Alice Cooper Welcome To My Nightmare4.0
Kraftwerk Radio-Activity4.0
Be-Bop Deluxe Futurama4.0
Toad Dreams2.5
Sadly not as fun and crazy as their first two LPs. There's a strong T. Rex influence, but the songs lack the spark of even Mr. Bolan's weakest material. The opening track "Keep On Movin'" is totallyworthy of Toad's earlier music, but unfortunately the rest of the album doesn't fare as well.
Jean-Luc Ponty Aurora3.5

1974
Deep Purple Stormbringer3.0
Thin Lizzy Nightlife3.0
Styx Man of Miracles2.5
Scorpions Fly to the Rainbow4.5
King Crimson Red5.0
Kansas Song for America4.0
Judas Priest Rocka Rolla3.0
Frank Zappa Apostrophe5.0
10cc Sheet Music4.0
Blue Oyster Cult Secret Treaties4.5
King Crimson Starless and Bible Black4.5
Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)4.5
Camel Mirage4.5
Rush Rush3.0
Kansas Kansas3.5
Deep Purple Burn4.0
Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets4.0
Yes Relayer4.0
Be-Bop Deluxe Axe Victim3.5
Nazareth Rampant3.0
Funkadelic Standing on the Verge of Getting It On4.0
Jean-Luc Ponty Upon the Wings of Music4.0

1973
Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans3.0
Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath5.0
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Brain Salad Surgery4.5
Nazareth Loud 'n' Proud3.5
Genesis Selling England by the Pound4.5
Thin Lizzy Vagabonds of the Western World3.5
Genesis Live4.0
10cc 10cc4.0
Gary Moore Grinding Stone3.0
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon4.5
King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic4.5
Camel Camel4.0
Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies3.5
Blue Oyster Cult Tyranny and Mutation4.5
The Mothers of Invention Over-Nite Sensation4.5
Nazareth Razamanaz3.5
Deep Purple Who Do We Think We Are2.5
Funkadelic Cosmic Slop3.5

1972
Frank Zappa The Grand Wazoo4.5
Deep Purple Machine Head4.5
Alice Cooper School's Out3.5
Genesis Foxtrot5.0
Black Sabbath Vol. 44.0
Yes Close to the Edge5.0
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Trilogy4.0
Frank Zappa Waka/Jawaka4.5
Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds4.0
Thin Lizzy Shades of a Blue Orphanage3.0
Blue Oyster Cult Blue Öyster Cult4.5
Toad Tomorrow Blue3.5
Killer, fun bluesy/proggy hard rock from Switzerland. If you've ever wondered what the lovechild of early 70's Alice Cooper and ZZ Top doing an impression of Jethro Tull sounded like, look no further.
Funkadelic America Eats Its Young3.5
Scorpions Lonesome Crow3.0

1971
King Crimson Islands3.0
Yes Fragile4.0
Genesis Nursery Cryme4.5
Pink Floyd Meddle4.5
Alice Cooper Killer3.5
Deep Purple Fireball4.0
Black Sabbath Master of Reality4.5
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Tarkus3.5
Thin Lizzy Thin Lizzy3.0
Yes The Yes Album3.5
Alice Cooper Love It To Death4.5
Toad Toad3.5
Funkadelic Maggot Brain4.0
Cat Stevens Teaser and the Firecat5.0

1970
Sir Lord Baltimore Kingdom Come4.0
King Crimson Lizard4.0
Genesis Trespass3.0
Funkadelic Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow4.0
Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother3.5
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Emerson, Lake & Palmer4.0
Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman4.0
Black Sabbath Paranoid5.0
Yes Time and a Word3.5
Deep Purple Deep Purple In Rock5.0
King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon4.0
Alice Cooper Easy Action3.0
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath4.5
The Mothers of Invention Burnt Weeny Sandwich4.0
The Mothers of Invention Weasels Ripped My Flesh4.0
Swamp Dogg Total Destruction to Your Mind4.0
Funkadelic Funkadelic3.5

1969
Pink Floyd Ummagumma3.0
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King5.0
Pink Floyd More3.5
Deep Purple Deep Purple3.0
The Mothers of Invention Uncle Meat3.5
Genesis From Genesis to Revelation3.0
Frank Zappa Hot Rats4.5
Yes Yes3.0
Alice Cooper Pretties For You3.0

1968
Deep Purple The Book of Taliesyn4.0
The Mothers of Invention Cruising with Ruben & the Jets3.0
The Mothers of Invention We're Only in It for the Money4.5
Deep Purple Shades of Deep Purple3.5
Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets4.0
Frank Zappa Lumpy Gravy3.0

1967
Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn4.0
The Mothers of Invention Absolutely Free4.5

1966
The Mothers of Invention Freak Out!4.0
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