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2024
Deicide Banished By Sin3.5
Darkthrone It Beckons Us All3.5
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Challengers OST3.5
Blue Oyster Cult Ghost Stories3.5
I am always happy to hear another BOC album, and though I honestly would have preferred to hear a modern
follow-up to 2020s fantastic The Symbol Remains, this is an interesting time-capsule with a few genuine
highlights. Since this is just a collection of unreleased material from their middle period, Ghost Stories ends up
sounding like the missing link between Mirrors and Cultosaurus Erectus, and probably stacks up slightly better
than the former. The cover songs scattered throughout are live show staples and vary in quality. Kick Out The
Jams sounds pretty good, but We Gotta Get Out Of This Place and If I Fell, though fairly inoffensive, are probably
the least interesting tracks here. On the other hand, So Supernatural, Don’t Come Running To Me, and The Only
Thing are quite excellent, and everything else is pretty good. This is far from essential listening, but I think fans of
the band generally will be quite satisfied even with what the band left on the cutting room floor, and pleasantly
surprised to get a classic sounding BOC album in 2024.
Ariana Grande Eternal Sunshine4.5
Darkspace Dark Space -II2.5

2023
Marduk Memento Mori3.5
Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman...3.5
Ghost (SWE) Phantomime3.5
Blood Ceremony The Old Ways Remain4.5

2022
Nickelback Get Rollin'3.0
Disturbed Divisive3.5
Louis Tomlinson Faith In The Future2.5
Behemoth Opvs Contra Natvram4.0
Lil Mabu Double M’s3.5
Soundtrack (Film) Top Gun: Maverick (Music from the Motion Picture)3.0
Harry Styles Harry's House3.5
Ghost (SWE) Impera4.0

2021
mrgirl Boundaries4.0
Ulver Scary Muzak3.0
Old Tower The Old King of Witches3.3
Doja Cat Planet Her3.0

2020
Ariana Grande positions4.5
Blue Oyster Cult The Symbol Remains4.5
Orville Peck Show Pony3.5
Run the Jewels RTJ44.5
Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia3.5
Burzum Thulêan Mysteries3.0
Mortiis Spirit of Rebellion3.5

2019
Lindemann F and M4.0
Doja Cat Hot Pink3.7
Steel Panther Heavy Metal Rules3.0
Ghost (SWE) Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic4.0
Boris S.G Vega Neon Light4.3
Rucka Rucka Ali Fried Chicken EP4.0
Darkthrone Old Star3.5
Inje Demo3.0
Rammstein Untitled3.7
Russkaja No One Is Illegal4.0
Orville Peck Pony4.5
Tyr Hel4.5
Ariana Grande Thank U, Next4.5
Boris S.G Summer Days of the Berlin School3.0
Warmoon Lord Burning Banners of the Funereal War4.0
City Girl Somnolent Nova3.5
Krallice Wolf2.0
Forests Spending Eternity In A Japanese Convenience Store3.5

2018
Kobold (IT) The valley of the forgotten secrets3.5
Tyrannus Greener Pastures3.0
Forgotten Kingdoms A Kingdom in Ruin3.0
Los Unidades Global Citizen EP 12.0
Fief IV2.5
Marxthrone A Blaze In The Western Sky2.0
1Kbyte Dungeon Avventura nel castello2.5
Disturbed Evolution2.5
Natsukashii Driving East3.5
Old Tower Drachenblut2.5
I quite liked Stellary Wisdom, even that release garnered a pretty mixed reception. To me it brought back Mortiis' amateur-sounding flow between motifs and so I didn't mind it being stilted. This release leans more towards dark ambient, which I would be okay with because I enjoy that style and I don't mind a switch, but this release just feels kinda thrown together and not very interesting. Perhaps the latter tracks will grow on me but I'm really not a fan of the opener.
Friedrich Astral Realms4.3
Dekagram May Flights Of Devils Guide4.0
Offermose Mørkt Forår4.0
Pumpkin Witch In the Frightful Gaze of the Pumpkin Witch2.5
City Girl Celestial Angel3.0
Carpe Noctem Vitrun3.7
Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest4.5
Black Flame (IT) Demo3.0
Dissociate: Kairi Kyōka Suigetsu2.5
Kero Kero Bonito Time 'n' Place4.0
Isegrimm Der Herr von Verona3.3
Korpiklaani Kulkija3.5
The Nietzsche Finals.4.0
Rowen Ashen Spirit4.0
grum~pe A Re-enactment of Eternity4.5
Ninja Sex Party Cool Patrol3.5
Ariana Grande Sweetener4.0
Orqestria The Hanging Gardens of Babylon0.5
Boris S.G Space Freeze4.5
Acheulean Forests Of Faerie2.7
Caoranach Dòigh Nàdair3.0
Alder Deep Chapter 3: Deepest Darkness1.5
Marduk Viktoria3.5
Kanye West ye3.5
Ghost (SWE) Prequelle4.5
Morketsvind Saga of Blood Lands4.0
Vaelastrasz Return to the Plaguelands4.5
Jonathan Davis Black Labyrinth2.0
Majesty of Silence Zu Dunkel Für Das Licht4.5
Boris S.G System 20194.5
Hekate Totentanz3.0
Lautreamont Silence of the Deceased4.3
Torkel T Hänger und Abgehängte3.5
Wallfahrer Anthologie der Abkehr3.5
Laked God and Yak Ganja Gaiden3.0
Smoulder The Sword Woman3.3
Ornatorpet Vid Ett Berg Uti En Dal3.5
Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness3.5
Dschinghis Khan Moskau3.7
Milhouse Out of Bed and Full of Beans3.5
Mausolei Horizont3.5
WuW Rien ne nous sera épargné2.5
The Key in Nowhere Dark Elves3.5
Sergey NSD Where You (Lost in the Ice)3.7
Ungfell Mythen, Mären, Pestilenz4.3
Et Moriemur Epigrammata3.5
Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name2.5
Necrocapsula Far Stars4.0
Runeshard Dreaming Spire3.3
Drudkh They Often See Dreams About The Spring4.3
Matterhorn (CHE) Crass Cleansing3.3
Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It3.3
Slugdge Esoteric Malacology4.5
Sequestered Keep The Vale of Ruined Towers3.0
Gnoll The Citadel of Evil3.5
Destroyer 666 Call of the Wild3.5
Usurpress Interregnum4.0
Megaherz Komet4.0
Kaoteon Damnatio Memoriae4.0
Thy Dying Light Forgotten By Time3.5
Mahr Antelux3.5
Balrog [FRA] Night Settles on the Mountain4.0
Mausolei Vorposten4.0
Ghost Veil Sleeping Garden3.5
Old Tower Stellary Wisdom3.5
Visigoth Conqueror's Oath3.7
Absurd (GER) Das Neue Blutgericht4.0
Dream Troll The Witch's Curse4.3
Necrocapsula EXPEDITION n. D34D5P4C33.7
Basic Dungeon Tunnels & Treasures3.0
Dryads Ethereal Majesty2.5
Arkona (RUS) Khram3.7
Sunsunmoon Demons in Medieval Times3.5
At first glance this album is overlong and a little underwhelming, but in time you begin to appreciate the delicacy with which this demo operates. It won't be for everyone and as my rating suggests I still have some issues with it, however there's a lot to appreciate here for those that enjoy subtle atmospheric black metal with a touch of dungeon synth.
Thangorodrim Akallabêth3.5
Atrium Carceri and Herbst9 Ur Djupan Dal3.7
City Girl Neon Impasse3.7

2017
Isegrimm The Pathwalker - Chapter II: The Dungeons Of Hercu4.0
Aput Knife2.0
Evilfeast Elegies of the Stellar Wind4.5
Morketsvind Mysterier3.7
Ghost (SWE) Ceremony and Devotion3.5
Krampusnacht Krampusnacht2.0
Boris S.G Cocoon4.0
Kollegah/Farid Bang Jung Brutal Gutaussehend 33.5
Zao Pyrrhic Victory3.5
Ur Pale Sea Synth Ensemble3.0
One Step From the Edge Beneath the Surface3.5
Dauthuz Die Grubenmähre4.5
Rabor Хоровод3.0
Kobold (IT) The cave of the lost talisman4.0
Rattenkonig I3.0
Pumpkin Witch Hovel of the Pumpkin Witch2.5
Neverlur Op under Fjeldet toner en Lur4.0
grum~pe Expansions and Conflations4.0
Vouivre Au Gouffre3.5
Mastodon Cold Dark Place3.5
Jack Johnson All the Light Above It Too3.5
END (USA-NJ) From the Unforgiving Arms of God3.5
Celastael My Path3.0
Queens of the Stone Age Villains3.5
Drudkh/Paysage d'Hiver Somewhere Sadness Wanders/Schnee (IV)4.0
Deep Sands Intended Dream3.5
Eluveitie Evocation II: Pantheon3.5
Melodic und Katharsis Fremder3.5
Boris S.G Soft Landing3.5
Panzertank Grosse Sterben3.0
Russkaja Kosmopoliturbo4.5
Vampyric Blood Howling in Candlelight3.5
Anubis (Fr) Cradle of Civilization4.0
Wintersun The Forest Seasons2.5
Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy4.0
Wampyr Wampyr3.0
Glacial Chambers Frozen Solitude3.0
Roman Master The Basilisk3.0
Stone Sour Hydrograd3.5
Old Tower Ruination, the New Dawn Cometh3.5
Cellar Darling This Is The Sound3.7
Navier Gene Navier Gene3.5
A genuinely excellent hard/stoner rock album from Eddi Pickard of Infant Annihilator and Black Tongue fame. Seeing what he's capable of from a technical standpoint in IA, it's hard to believe how well he can tone it down here and offer such a melody-driven and catchy experience. Not only are his guitar playing and songwriting skills rmade immediately evident, but Eddi's got a really good voice for this style. The album's a little on the long side and could lose a track or two, but I'm equal parts pleasantly surprised and excited by how great this turned out.
Boris S.G Colony Planets4.3
Dzo-nga The Sachem's Tales3.5
Death Fortress Triumph Of The Undying4.0
This band has done it again! I was really impressed by last year's album and when I heard there would be something out this year too I jumped on it. Took a bit longer than the previous one to hit me properly but once it did I was hooked. The production on this thing is really cool too, gives it this kind of buzz to the riffs, and a really desolate atmosphere to their brand of death-y black metal. Not your typical "blackened death metal" though, this is like all the things you love about BM paired with a more throaty vocal performance and punchier, more distinct instrumentation. Basically it rules.
Garadrak A Questing Knight3.0
Deathbard The Old Toy Maker2.0
An Old Sad Ghost An Old Sad Ghost3.0
Heivok A Brazilian Tribute to Burzum3.5
Heivok does a great job of re-creating select ambient pieces from Burzum's history here. Where some of the originals suffered from poor tone, here they sound kinder to the ear while still retaning the original songwriting elements that made them what they are, as their are minimal compositional changes throughout.
Alestorm No Grave But the Sea3.5
8kids Denen, Die Wir Waren3.7
Ungesehen Unaussprechliches Entsetzen3.5
An Old Sad Ghost From the Tombs of Videna3.5
Hedge Wizard Local Portal3.5
RaevJager Raevult!4.0
Caina/Cara Neir Split3.0
Harry Styles Harry Styles3.5
Roman Master Roman Master3.0
Celastael The Sad Dragon3.0
Voormithadreth The Quest of Iranon4.0
Odium (RUS) Odium3.5
Rules so much, too bad it's only a 3 track EP but I am so ready for a full album of this stuff.
Ravenkeeper Ravenkeeper2.0
RaevJager/Nahadoth Unendliche3.5
Digre (SWE) The Way of a Pilgrim2.5
Mastodon Emperor of Sand4.0
ElixiR [FRA] Ruin of Old Things3.5
KEK Misty Woods of Kekistan3.5
Steel Panther Lower the Bar3.5
Rammstein Rammstein: Paris4.0
This live DVD is a lot of fun. Before watching it I was a little apprehensive about the editing style from the "trailer", but I actually really enjoyed the post-production meddling. Aside from some seldom moments of quick cuts that I'm not that into, the CGI was unexpectedly really cool, the track title graphics and stylistic additions enhanced the experience, and overall the camera angle choice was excellent. Plenty of live DVD try to make the experience as unwatchable as possible by choosing zany angles and machine-gun cuts but this was one of the most enjoyable live albums to watch and listen to. The track list was excellent, the band are on point the whole time and never let up with the on-stage excitement. Loved the venue and way it was used too, not only for the expectedly awesome pyro-technics but also the additional antics. Highly recommend for any fan of the band, I think this tops In Amerika too.
Sakristei Neverwinter3.0
Alven Memories of Mysterious Lands3.0
Bond (BR) Audumla3.0
Kalk Kalk3.5
Suicide Silence Suicide Silence1.5
Gaskammer/Xilentium/88/Totenkreuz/Vision of Elders Wir Nehmen Tod, Wir Teilen Tod Aus4.0
Bond (BR) Ascension Path3.5
Vaelastrasz The Plaguelands3.7
Faery Ring Leech and Wort3.5
NeverWhere Нигде и никогда3.0
De Magia Veterum Naked Swords Into The Womb Of The Enemy4.0
Ungfell Tôtbringære4.5
Chaucerian Myth Troilus and Criseyde3.0
Dzo-nga Upon the Shimmered Bough3.5
Sepultura Machine Messiah3.5
Well consider me shocked, this actually kinda rules and it riffs.
Turonian Skeletal Memory3.5
Fortress of Mystery La Rose de Fer4.0
Vond Aids to the People3.5
Old Tower The Rise of the Specter4.0
RaevJager/Rabor Сказки Зимней Ночи (Winternight Fairytales)4.5

2016
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 34.0
Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Alive5.0
Possibly my favorite version of this album, all the tracks sound absolutely phenomenal here. For a live album it's incredibly well balanced and recorded, and as much as I enjoy the original, it's a classic black metal album after all, I think this slightly rougher and more organic sound does wonders for the material.
Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!"4.0
Skarpseian Den første Gnister i Mørket5.0
Dark Tranquillity Atoma2.5
Lunar Womb The Sleeping Green3.5
Vader The Empire4.0
Axis of Light Northern Ascendancy4.0
Some of the best black metal of the year, if only this was a bit longer.
Blood Tower A Night of Fine Wine and Hideous Voices2.0
Rabor За Тридевять Земель4.0
Deranged Struck By a Murderous Siege3.5
Korn The Serenity of Suffering4.0
Kero Kero Bonito Bonito Generation3.3
Darkthrone Arctic Thunder4.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation4.5
Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason4.0
Opeth Sorceress3.5
Usurpress The Regal Tribe4.0
Hatred for Mankind All Shall Burn0.5
TesseracT Errai2.5
Ehhh, it's kinda 'nice' sounding, but it's completley missing anything interesting or important. The entire EP
maintains a continuous atmosphere of subdued sorrow, and meanders on with little electronic flourishes, solemn
vocal lines and subtle piano. It's just missing some much needed variety, the actual material isn't strong enough
to keep up 18 minutes of essentially the same thing over and over.
Ghost (SWE) Popestar3.5
Band can do no wrong, a rockin' covers EP opened by a fantastic Ghost orginal
Boggart's Field Sidhe Folk2.0
Ull Silence Sous-Homme1.0
Utter trash. Two short "black metal" tracks, two long "ambient tracks". The quotes are there because the tracks offered up here are examples of some of the laziest songwriting I've ever witnessed. Awful, grating guitars try to force their aimless noise to resemble a riff, but instead they sound like shopping carts rollinf around in a sewage pipe. The vocals are horrendous, sounds like the guy is dying and I kinda hope that's the case. Garbage. As for the 2 attempts at ambient. Hahahaha. Inflating the run time of terrible EPs with even worse/more boring, totally aimless voids where occasionally some electronically induced note will fly overhead is the worst trend in modern music. Not everyone can write ambient music, but that doesn't stop every moron with a keyboard from trying to bulk up their boneless EP with 10 minutes of silence, whispers, and dissonant intervals. Avoid.
Morketsvind Wandering to Nether World4.5
Apothecarium Demo II3.0
Gentle Fish Mumbling All the Kingdoms3.5
Mayhem Live in Zeitz3.5
grum~pe Images of Europa4.0
Chevelle The North Corridor3.7
ScHoolboy Q Blank Face LP4.0
Corey Feldman Angelic 2 The Core1.0
G.L.O.S.S. Trans Day Of Revenge3.5
Voormithadreth Zothique3.5
Volbeat Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie3.5
The Lonely Island Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping4.5
Garroted In the Court of Nyarlathotep3.5
Six Feet Under Graveyard Classics IV: The Number Of The Priest1.5
Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere3.7
Headless Beserkers Bastards Must Die1.5
Poorly recorded (not in the good way either), guitar tone is pretty atrocious throughout, vocals are varying degrees of ridiculous/bearable. At least the drumming is consistent, but nothing special either. Really nothing much on offer here but it is short and listenable, and there's a handful of cool musical ideas here, so I wouldn't call it an awful experience or anything. Just very amatueurish.
Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman4.3
Thangorodrim Taur​-​nu​-​Fuin4.5
Oak Pantheon In Pieces3.5
Grand Magus Sword Songs4.0
Cambrian Explosion The Moon3.5
Fallujah Dreamless2.5
The Fall of Troy OK3.5
Skyforest Unity3.0
Nadra Form3.7
Unfurl Deathbed3.3
Wode Wode3.5
rThis is really cool. The riffs are quite interesting because while they're atmostpheric, they're also catchy enough to keep you interested. The vocals are a bit dull but not bad, just nothing special, and otherwise this is a great performance with engaging songwriting and proficient musicians.
Morrow (UK) Covenant of Teeth3.5
Arapahoes Blood Moon3.5
Negative Voice Cold Redrafted4.3
Dark Funeral Where Shadows Forever Reign3.0
BABYMETAL Metal Resistance3.5
Moonsorrow Jumalten aika4.0
Amon Amarth Jomsviking2.7
Joe Bonamassa Blues of Desperation3.7
Unru Als Tier ist der Mensch Nichts3.5
Flores music for cats3.5
Castel Jaloux Confident des étoiles3.0
Ripper (CL) Experiment of Existence3.7
Thrash metal in the vein of early (Schizophrenia years) Sepultura. Primitive sounding but still tight, this album recalls the younger years of thrash metal and holds onto the main ethos of the genre, never sounding too polished or derivitive despite it's modernity.
Steel Panther Live From Lexxi's Mom's Garage3.5
The Infernal Sea The Great Mortality4.5
Every time I return to this I like it more and more. I'm not sure what it is exactly about this band but they just hit the right spot for me.
Thangorodrim Towers of the Teeth3.5
Kanye West The Life of Pablo4.0
Hyperion (SWE) Seraphical Euphony4.3
Voormithadreth Sign of Mung4.0
Arms (FL) Blackout3.5
Just straight up rules, weird sounding riffs and experimentation throughout, songwriting is great. Mix is a little bit off here and there but not enough to matter.
Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule3.5
Hexvessel When We Are Death3.7
Skarpseian Fragmenter Av Trolldom4.0
Really good, gloomy dungeon synth. I get a sense of dark mountains, mist filled forests, and cloudy skies. The
more open production I think lends itself to images of nature rather than the inside of claustrophobic buildings. Of
course the album art influenced that feeling more than a little bit, but it's definitely a reflection of the sound.
Anyway, really enjoy this, and it comes with a neat fridge magnet too so what can I say?
Various Artists (Metal) WOTANJUGEND4.0
Mystic Towers Caverns of Crystal3.5
Chairlift Moth3.0
Abbath Abbath3.5
Borknagar Winter Thrice4.5
Vulture (DE) Victim to the Blade4.0
Rabor Сказка на Ночь3.5

2015
Various Artists (Metal) Tribute To Absurd - Soldiers of the Eternal Winter3.5
Batushka Litourgiya4.0
Toska (IS) Toska4.5
RaevJager The Tale of Axe and Torch3.5
Svffer Empathist3.5
Grimrik Die Mauern der Nacht4.0
Sithu Aye Senpai3.5
Absurd (GER) Live and Raw in the North4.0
Children of Bodom I Worship Chaos3.5
Wanted to like this more than I did. Still a great effort and a fair amount of cool riffs/lead but nowhere near the quality of Halo. More focus on a deeper, crunchier sound doesn't lend itself to COB, who are way better off with the trebly riff fest. Bass is nice and strong here though, and vocals + percussion are done pretty well too.
Bay Faction Bay Faction4.0
Rabor Боги и Герои / Gods and Heroes3.5
Slugdge Dim and Slimeridden Kingdoms4.5
Ungfell Demo(lition)4.0
Morketsvind Age of Lord4.5
Caged Grave Mortsafe3.5
Disturbed Immortalized3.0
Ghost (SWE) Meliora5.0
Ninja Sex Party Attitude City3.5
Bleed the Pigs Mind and Matter3.0
It's very good but at under 5 minutes long, even after jamming it continuously, it's impeded by its extreme brevity
Gjallarhorn (UA) The Path to Eternity3.3
Thy Art Is Murder Holy War3.3
Thallahu Akbar DJihad EP1.0
Nordloth Appearance of the Light3.5
Lindemann Skills In Pills4.0
Sure, it's not very refined but it's not trying to be. With its over-the-top lyrics, soaring, singalong choruses and rhythmic industrial intrumentation the album is a ton of fun regardless of its brash attitude.
The Isolated Vale The Story Has Begun3.0
Venereal Baptism Progenitor of all Abberations3.5
Caoranach Drùidheachd de a' Each​-​uisge3.0
Erraunt The Portent3.5
Faith No More Sol Invictus3.0
The Vintage Caravan Arrival4.0
Elvis Depressedly New Alhambra4.0
Midnight of Winter Freeze3.5
An intriguing winter synth experience that requires a little more volume than usual to properly shine. Freeze creates a subtle atmosphere with a slightly haunting feeling, built on a foundation of swishy synths and dull percussion. The album cover is a perfect representation of the isolating music within, which is neither threatening nor comforting. My one suggestion if you choose to give this a listen is to crank it up a little given the low mixing present, my first few tries left me wanting, and even though I kept returning it took some time before I figured out that the sound just needed some more power, then you start to notice some of the details that are obscured. There are more complete and enveloping winter synth albums out there but for a taste you can't go wrong with Freeze.
Blood Gemini Snow Season3.0
Enslaved In Times4.5
Marduk Frontschwein4.0
Axis of Light L'appel du vide4.5
Napalm Death Apex Predator - Easy Meat4.0
G.L.O.S.S. Demo3.5
Rucka Rucka Ali Black Man of Steal4.0
Roman Master Roman Master (Demo)3.5
Russkaja Peace, Love & Russian Roll4.0

2014
Unleashing My Demons Tran​(ce​)​scen(e​)dance1.0
Clean vocals are abysmal; the absolute worst singing performance I've heard. The harsh vocals are passable,,it seems there are two people doing harsh vocals and while one is pretty thin the deeper one is better, but in both cases they're badly placed and performed randomly, and most of the time they barely fit the music. Instrumentally the album is also terrible, there are a few cool moments here and there but the rest is utterly horrible, full of poorly executed breakdowns, mindless chugging with bad tone and stupidly placed electronic effects. Piano is used on a few tracks but it goes in a different direction to the other instruments and fails to mesh properly. The drumming is pretty good and as I previously mentioned there are a few ideas that manage to work but the rest is horrendous.
Zapomniane Bostwo Wind4.5
Morketsvind Morketsvind I3.5
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 24.5
Taylor Swift 19893.5
Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter2.5
Flower Face Funeral Kid4.0
Childish Gambino Kauai3.3
Rabor Осень-Река4.0
Catsystem Corp. Palm Mall3.5
Siliniez Final Winter3.5
Rabor Катакомбы3.5
Kraftklub In Schwarz3.5
Impaler (AUS) Demo3.5
Opeth Pale Communion3.5
Definitely takes a few listens to properly understand, although not in the same way as previous albums. Not the best Opeth album but there are some really worthwhile tracks here that present some interesting ideas nonetheless.
Ariana Grande My Everything3.5
The Mark of Man Exeunt3.5
DragonForce Maximum Overload3.7
Skarpseian Tan Gil4.5
Alestorm Sunset on the Golden Age3.5
Eluveitie Origins4.5
Oak Pantheon The Void (2014 Remaster)4.0
Bron Fogradh4.0
Hedge Wizard More True Than Time Thought3.5
Rabor Источник4.0
Bay Faction Jasper3.0
Slugdge Gastronomicon4.5
Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun4.0
Probably Mastodon's most enjoyable album so far. The songs manage to maintain the signature Mastodon sludge metal sound while also being catchy and fun in the process.
Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence3.3
Mayhem Esoteric Warfare4.0
Absurd (GER) Größer als der Tod3.5
Equilibrium Erdentempel4.0
Rabor For Rest3.0
Vader Tibi et Igni4.5
Flower Face Homesick4.0
Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed4.0
Bleed the Pigs Overcompensations for Misery3.0
A (SWE) Å3.0
Caged Grave Gutless3.5
Casey and Cora Martyrs3.7
Dungeon Lore Foundation Dungeon Beatz3.5
Svitlo У обіймах ночі3.5
Vladimir Danilov Back Into Space4.3
Nadra Eitur3.7
The first track is absolutely awesome. The long, main track is really good too but dies down a little bit in the middle section. Ndra are just a really impressive band all round and they certianly have a unique approach to black metal with their cutting high-pitch tremolos amongst a more restrained, dark atmosphere of drum clanging and anguished screams.
Steel Panther All You Can Eat4.0
Boser Wolf/Chief Bob Halbschlaf3.5
Midnight of Winter Until Snow Lay Down3.0
Green Novice Padebesi5.0
Grimrik Eisreich3.5
Panzertank Инстинкт3.0
Pazuzu (US) II3.0
Behemoth The Satanist5.0
Alexandre Desplat The Grand Budapest Hotel4.5
Moloch Verwüstung4.5
Abandoned Places Strider of Dead Suns3.0
AGERASIA Headlines3.5
Tuman The Past is Alive3.5
The Vintage Caravan Voyage4.0
Dolbushina and Pugach Ty Ne Vyklyuchayesh'3.5
Myrimin Zvier Viartajecca1.0

2013
EK001 Opus I3.5
Childish Gambino Because the Internet5.0
WVRM Despair4.0
Fantastic combination of Grind and Death metal. This EP just obliterates.
Svitlo Дух зими ( Spirit of winter )3.0
Russkaja Barada3.5
Knoblauch Klezmer Band Fruit of Life4.0
Ghost (SWE) If You Have Ghost3.5
Abandoned Places Giantlands3.0
Blank Banshee Blank Banshee 13.5
Korn The Paradigm Shift4.0
In Ketten Live at JVA Intershausen 19953.0
Siliniez Forest Emptiness3.5
Caged Grave Demo3.5
Carcass Surgical Steel5.0
Tyr Valkyrja5.0
Saint-Germain Catacombae3.5
Ranger Knights of Darkness4.0
Turisas 20133.0
Ariana Grande Yours Truly3.5
Fortress of Mystery Extinct Nobility3.5
Erdstall Caverns of Endless3.0
Darkstroll Sounds of Taiga3.5
Caoranach Damh Geal3.0
Nefaria Demo II3.5
Slugdge Born of Slime4.3
Kanye West Yeezus4.5
Abandoned Places Elderhills3.5
Ephera Ongaku4.0
Children of Bodom Halo of Blood4.5
A-Kvlt A-KVLT3.5
Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork5.0
Love and Death Between Here And Lost4.0
Skarpseian Skygge Slottet4.5
Panzertank Allzumenschliches3.5
Ranger Combat Metal3.5
Axis Of Light/Death Fortress Split4.0
Elvis Depressedly Holo Pleasures4.0
Ninja Sex Party Strawberries and Cream3.5
Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 24.0
Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam4.5
Device Device3.0
Finntroll Blodsvept4.5
Splendorius Wars of Expansion3.0
Darkthrone The Underground Resistance4.5
Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor5.0
Arnaut Pavle Arnaut Pavle (Demo)4.0
Fast and distorted the way it should be, packed full of trebly riffs.
Abandoned Places Ode to Kuranes3.3
Russkaja Energia!4.0

2012
Infant Annihilator The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution3.0
Shining (SWE) Redefining Darkness4.0
Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 14.0
Elvis Depressedly Hotter Sadness3.5
Really good, but probably one of his weakest efforts. Kinda flat at times and not as catchy/engaging as other
Depressedly albums - qualities that are largely responsible for their success.
Mystic Towers Inner Kingdom3.3
Siliniez Altar of Moss4.0
Blank Banshee Blank Banshee 04.0
Noxious And the Bood Will Run4.0
In Hearts Wake Divination4.0
Loremaster Temple of the Oracle3.5
Milhouse Thrillhouse4.0
Erdstall Temple of Ancients3.0
Abandoned Places Return to the Palace of Mirrors3.7
Zweilicht Dusk and Silence3.0
Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage4.0
Sigur Ros Valtari3.0
Burzum Umskiptar3.5
Dirtwire Dirtwire3.0
Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity4.0
Abandoned Places With the Dead, in the Language of the Dead3.5
Hello Kitty Suicide Club ^_^0.5
Napalm Death Utilitarian4.5
Axis of Light By the Hands of the Consuming Fire4.0

2011
Korn The Path of Totality3.3
Burzum From the Depths of Darkness3.5
Childish Gambino Camp4.5
Huhnmensch Die fabelhafte Welt der Amnesie3.5
Disturbed The Lost Children3.5
Elvis Depressedly Disgraceland3.5
Abandoned Places Lost Paths Remembered in Dream3.5
Steel Panther Balls Out4.0
Elvis Depressedly goner3.5
Kamaedzitca The Man of the Planet3.5
Milhouse Everything's Coming Up...4.0
Ninja Sex Party NSFW3.5
Mastodon The Hunter4.0
Opeth Heritage3.5
Ligfaerd Med Dod For Oje4.0
Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra3.5
Kamni A.T.O.M.3.5
Tyr The Lay of Thrym4.5
Marduk Iron Dawn4.0
Korpiklaani Ukon Wacka3.0
Childish Gambino EP3.5
Bhang Khang 2011 Demo3.5

2010
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy4.5
Rucka Rucka Ali A Very Rucka Christmas3.5
Huhnmensch ..bis es hell is'3.5
Uruk-Hai In Durins Hall (Return to the Mines of Moria)3.0
Pretty "meh" release overall, saved by some great ambient moments. The dungeons synth/atmospheric material on this album is well done, but the super echoey, delay-drenched black metal stuff just isn't my style at all and imo is not handled or performed very well. On the fence with how I feel about it overall, sitting around a 2.7 but the parts I do enjoy are pretty great. Album is too long and too ambitious for what it actually delivers, the forced, repetitive BM just isn't enjoyable and ruins what could've been a really cool ambient/ds project.
Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous4.5
Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini5.0
Rucka Rucka Ali I'm Black, You're White & These Are Clearly Parodi3.5
Vomir Renonce1.0
Disturbed Asylum3.5
Thy Art Is Murder The Adversary3.5
Korn Korn III: Remember Who You Are3.3
Huhnmensch Gib dem Penner kein Geld3.5
Darkthrone Circle the Wagons4.0
Heljareyga Heljareyga3.7
Burzum Belus4.0
Psychocide [UKR] Ghost Malice of the Dark One3.5
Ash Borer 2009 Demo4.5
Eluveitie Everything Remains As It Never Was4.0
Hamnskifte Fodzlepijnan3.0
De Magia Veterum In Conspectu Divinae Majestatis3.5

2009
El-Ahrairah El-Ahrairah 2009 Demo3.5
Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da4.5
Carpe Noctem Carpe Noctem4.5
Behemoth Evangelion4.0
Korpiklaani Karkelo3.5
Steel Panther Feel the Steel4.0
Mastodon Crack the Skye5.0
Voronmrak Birds Are Returning2.5
Voronmrak Glares3.0
Tyr By the Light of the Northern Star5.0

2008
Morketsvind OST Harm Siemens 20083.5
Nickelback Dark Horse2.5
Moloch A Journey to the Vyrdin4.0
Enslaved Vertebrae4.0
Darkthrone Dark Thrones and Black Flags3.5
Hollywood Undead Swan Songs3.5
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter Licht4.0
Kapishcha Галасы мiнулага3.5
Moontower To The Dark Aeon3.5
Little EP rules hard, great straightforward bm style with gritty production and a cool military theme.
Disturbed Indestructible3.5
Opeth Watershed4.0
Tyr Land4.0
Korpiklaani Korven Kuningas3.5
Absurd (GER) Der Fünfzehnjährige Krieg4.5
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter Tobsucht3.5
Herrwulf Foret d'Hiver3.5
Russkaja Kasatchok Superstar4.0
Kamaedzitca Pyarune4.0

2007
Morketsvind Dark Mountains3.5
Tuman Loquitur Cum Alqo Sathanas4.0
Saltvind Saltvind3.0
Kanye West Graduation4.0
Korn Untitled3.0
Behemoth The Apostasy3.5
Paysage d'Hiver Einsamkeit4.0
Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad4.0
Tim McGraw Let It Go2.7
Watain Sworn to The Dark3.5
Hate Forest Temple Forest (demo)4.5
Lyapis Trubetskoy Kapital4.0

2006
Voronmrak Silver of Winter3.0
The Ruins of Beverast Rain Upon the Impure3.5
Tyr Ragnarok4.0
Mastodon Blood Mountain5.0
SubVision So Far So Noir3.5
Peste Noire La Sanie des Siècles4.5
Stone Sour Come What(ever) May3.5
Voivod Katorz3.0
Voronmrak Fire Dance3.0
Apraxia Hymns of Dark Forest4.5
Serapis Serapis4.5
Darkthrone The Cult Is Alive4.0
Drudkh Blood In Our Wells4.0
Eluveitie Spirit4.0

2005
Korn See You on the Other Side3.5
Morketsvind Forest Ride3.5
SpongeBob SquarePants The Yellow Album4.0
Rammstein Rosenrot4.0
Nickelback All the Right Reasons3.0
Deathspell Omega Kenose4.0
Bullet for My Valentine The Poison3.5
Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists3.5
Arcturus Sideshow Symphonies3.0
Opeth Ghost Reveries4.0
Kanye West Late Registration4.0
Tuman Transylvanian Dreams4.5
System of a Down Mezmerize4.0
Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today3.0
Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze4.0
Absurd (GER) Blutgericht4.0
Absurd (GER) Grimmige Volkmusik4.0

2004
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter Samurai4.0
Rammstein Reise, Reise4.0
Behemoth Demigod4.5
Mortiis The Grudge3.5
Mastodon Leviathan4.5
Meshuggah I3.5
Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses3.5
Satyricon Volcano3.3
Sachiko M Bar Sachiko0.5
The concept and questions this might inspire about what constitutes music at least give this a purpose for existing, but as an aural experience, this is painful.
Absurd (GER) Raubritter3.5
Darkthrone Sardonic Wrath4.0
Kanye West The College Dropout5.0

2003
Korn Take a Look in the Mirror3.5
Nickelback The Long Road2.5
Limp Bizkit Results May Vary3.0
Leningrad Большая энциклопедия российского рока. Т4.0
Tyr Eric The Red4.5
Opeth Damnation5.0
Windir Likferd4.3
Nachtmystium Nachtmystium3.3
Eluveitie Ven3.5
Sargeist Satanic Black Devotion4.0
Absurd (GER) Totenlieder4.0
Heldentum Waffenweihe4.0

2002
System of a Down Steal This Album!4.0
Opeth Deliverance4.0
Disturbed Believe5.0
Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf4.5
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute4.0
Darkspace Minus One3.5
Megaherz Herzwerk II4.0
Old Funeral Grim Reaping Norway3.0
Sombre Chemin/Peste Noire Mémorie Païenne3.0
The Sombre Chemin tracks are mostly forgettable, without the band name attached they'd be more easily dismissed. Just quite low quality bm, nothing special going on besides some cool bass work. The intro track on their side is a brooding synth piece which is also pretty straightforward and nothing to get excited about. The Peste Noire side on the other hand is actually pretty great, with some really cool songwriting hidden amongst the lo-fi aesthetic. They steal the show quite easily. Hardly a necessary split, but it's worth a gander.
Kristallnacht Adversary3.5
Tyr How Far to Asgaard4.0
Leningrad Point4.0
Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness4.5
Korn Untouchables4.0

2001
Steve Roden Forms of Paper2.0
Nickelback Silver Side Up2.5
Strong first half let down by a pretty flat b side.
Darkthrone Plaguewielder3.5
System of a Down Toxicity4.0
Slipknot Iowa4.0
Blue Oyster Cult Curse of the Hidden Mirror3.5
Rammstein Mutter4.5
Opeth Blackwater Park5.0
Deicide In Torment in Hell3.5
Absurd (GER) Werwolfthron3.5
Kristallnacht Legitimate Defence3.5
Cain [RUS] Notforgiven4.0
Paysage d'Hiver Winterkälte5.0

2000
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory3.0
Mudvayne L.D. 505.0
Hate Forest The Curse (demo)3.5
Deicide Insineratehymn3.3
Queens of the Stone Age Rated R4.0
Megaherz Himmelfahrt4.0
Disturbed The Sickness4.5
Kristallnacht Soldiers of Triumphant Sun3.5
Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water3.5

1999
Cain [RUS] Child of Cold4.5
Burzum Hlidskjalf4.5
Korn Issues4.5
Opeth Still Life4.5
Windir Arntor4.0
Megadeth Risk3.3
Soundtrack (Film) Top Gun Original Soundtrack3.5
Slipknot Slipknot4.0
Limp Bizkit Significant Other3.5
Emperor IX Equilibrium3.5
Kristallnacht Warspirit4.0
Marduk Panzer Division Marduk4.5
Korn All Mixed Up1.5
The remixes are fucking terrible. Jingle Balls is alright I guess, the live Twist/Chi track is good but unecessary. rThe radio mixed A.D.I.D.A.S. is useless. No reason to check this.
Paysage d'Hiver Paysage d'Hiver4.5
Essoupi Aktiv Dødshjælp3.0
Darkthrone Ravishing Grimness3.5
Mortiis The Stargate3.5
Absurd (GER) Asgardsrei3.5
Secret Stairways Turning Point3.5
Agalloch Pale Folklore4.0
Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra The Key to the Gates of the Apocalypse4.0
Leningrad Мат без электричества4.0
Immortal At the Heart of Winter4.5

1998
Sagenhaft The Legend of the Forgotten Reign4.0
Paysage d'Hiver Die Festung5.0
Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age4.0
Korn Follow the Leader4.0
Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse4.5
Megaherz Kopfschuss4.0
System of a Down System of a Down3.5
Slayer Diabolus in Musica3.5
Great album, the instrumental component is great and the album is overall very enjoyable. Vocal delivery matches the music well and is quite powerful. Some great tracks, 1 or two below average but I like this album, perfect entry level Slayer.
Paysage d'Hiver Schattengang4.0
Soulfly Soulfly3.5
Lee Kernaghan Hat Town3.0
Blue Oyster Cult Heaven Forbid3.5

1997
Deftones Around the Fur3.5
Marduk Here's No Peace3.5
Rammstein Sehnsucht4.0
Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all4.0
Snot Get Some3.5
Children of Bodom Something Wild4.0
Ulver Nattens Madrigal5.0
Coal Chamber Coal Chamber3.0
The Ranch The Ranch2.0
Kristallnacht / Morke Split3.0
Burzum Daudi Baldrs3.5
Behemoth Bewitching the Pomerania3.5
Secret Stairways Enchantment of the Ring3.5
Deicide Serpents of the Light4.0

1996
Darkthrone Goatlord3.5
Korn Life Is Peachy4.0
Tool Ænima3.3
Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace4.0
Opeth Morningrise4.0
Dissection Where Dead Angels Lie3.5
Sepultura Roots4.5
Darkthrone Total Death4.0
Nasgul Ash nazg durbatulûk​.​.​.3.5
Mortiis Crypt of the Wizard4.0
Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra Insatiable Moon4.0
Mirkwood (AUT) Demo4.0
Ulver Kveldssanger4.5
Satyricon Nemesis Divina4.5
Absurd (GER) Facta Loquuntur4.5
Burzum Filosofem5.0
Depressive Silence Depressive Silence II5.0

1995
Kyuss ...And the Circus Leaves Town3.5
The Presidents of the United States of America The Presidents of the United States of America4.0
Isengard Høstmørke4.0
Kristallnacht Black Flame of Unholy Hate3.5
Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler5.0
Depressive Silence The Darkened Empires3.5
Lamentation Fullmoon Over Faerhaaven3.5
Storm Nordavind3.7
Rammstein Herzeleid4.0
Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane4.0
Deicide Once Upon the Cross4.0
Wongraven Fjelltronen4.0
Neptune Towers Transmissions From Empire Algol4.0
Mortiis Keiser Av En Dimensjon Ukjent4.5
Darkthrone Panzerfaust5.0

1994
Vlad Tepes Celtic Poetry3.5
Korn Korn5.0
Vlad Tepes The Return of the Unweeping Moon3.5
Vlad Tepes War Funeral March3.5
Interesting style of black metal, unique sound and production. Some of the riffs are really cool and the
songwriting overall is a fresh (for the time) take on black metal. It suffers a bit from sounding homogenous,
production wise anyway, but on the whole it's quite enjoyable mid to relatively slow paced BM.
Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley5.0
Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger5.0
Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse4.5
Merzbow Venereology1.0
Absurd (GER) Out Of The Dungeon3.0
Sacrifice Slaughtered Jesus The Return of Nidhögg3.0
Vond Selvmord3.5
Die Verbannten Kinder Evas Die Verbannten Kinder Evas (Demo)3.5
I think I prefer the material here to the debut, mostly for this demo's inferior recording quality which lends the tracks a good deal of charm and also better represents the music, at least in my view. The live bonus tracks are pretty garbage though, I'm not counting them in my rating but be forewarned they're pretty flat and sound aimless, maybe as a result of how they were captured, plus they take up a lot of the overall runtime and draw the whole expereience out. The demo itself is very good, just avoid the live numbers and you'll enjoy yourself.
Behemoth And the Forests Dream Eternally4.0
Neptune Towers Caravans To Empire Algol4.0
Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas4.5
Mortiis Ånden Som Gjorde Opprør4.5
Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss5.0

1993
Beherit Drawing Down the Moon3.5
Mayhem Live in Leipzig4.0
Type O Negative Bloody Kisses4.0
Burzum Det Som Engang Var4.5
Absurd (GER) Sadness3.0
Burzum Aske3.5
Lee Kernaghan Three Chain Road3.0
Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon4.5
Absurd (GER) Death From The Forest3.5
Sepultura Chaos A.D.4.5
Mortiis The Song of a Long Forgotten Ghost4.5
Mortiis Født til å Herske5.0

1992
Manowar The Triumph of Steel3.5
Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky4.5
Dream Theater Images and Words3.7
Megadeth Countdown to Extinction3.7
Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun4.5
Deicide Legion4.0
Type O Negative The Origin of the Feces3.5
Lee Kernaghan The Outback Club3.0
Marduk Dark Endless4.0
Demolition Hammer Epidemic of Violence4.0
Absurd (GER) God's Death3.5

1991
Death Human3.5
Cannibal Corpse Butchered at Birth4.0
Type O Negative Slow, Deep, and Hard4.0
Kyuss Wretch4.0
Sepultura Arise5.0
OOMPH! OOMPH!3.0
Marduk Fuck Me Jesus3.5
Burzum Demo I3.5
Darkthrone Soulside Journey4.0

1990
Testament Souls of Black3.5
Megadeth Rust in Peace4.3
Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life4.5
Deicide Deicide4.5
Entombed Left Hand Path4.0
Merciless The Awakening4.0

1989
Testament Practice What You Preach4.0
Carcass Symphonies of Sickness3.5
Sepultura Beneath the Remains4.5
Old Funeral The Fart That Should Not Be3.5

1988
Manowar Kings of Metal4.0
N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton3.0
Testament The New Order4.0
Astaroth Demo USA3.5
Kino (Rus) Gruppa krovi4.0

1987
Mayhem Deathcrush3.5
Testament The Legacy4.5
Manowar Fighting the World4.0
Napalm Death Scum3.5
Sepultura Schizophrenia4.5

1986
Metallica Master of Puppets3.5
Sepultura Morbid Visions4.0

1985
Blue Oyster Cult Club Ninja3.0
The Highwaymen Highwayman3.5
Sepultura Bestial Devastation4.0
Astaroth The Long Loud Silence4.0

1984
Possessed Death Metal3.5
Adrenalin O.D. The Wacky Hi-Jinks Of Adrenalin O.D.4.0

1983
Hellhammer Satanic Rites4.0
Blue Oyster Cult The Revölution by Night3.5
Astaroth Speed Black Metal4.0

1982
Venom Black Metal3.5

1981
Blue Oyster Cult Fire of Unknown Origin4.5
Kraftwerk Computer World4.5

1980
Blue Oyster Cult Cultösaurus Erectus4.0

1979
Blue Oyster Cult Mirrors3.5

1978
Kraftwerk The Man-Machine4.5

1977
Blue Oyster Cult Spectres4.5
Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express4.5

1976
Blue Oyster Cult Agents of Fortune4.0
Camel Moonmadness4.5

1975
Klaus Schulze Timewind4.3
Camel The Snow Goose4.5
Tangerine Dream Rubycon4.3
Blue Oyster Cult On Your Feet or on Your Knees4.0
Kraftwerk Radio-Activity4.5

1974
Deep Purple Stormbringer3.0
Blue Oyster Cult Secret Treaties5.0
Camel Mirage5.0
Tangerine Dream Phaedra4.5
Kraftwerk Autobahn4.0

1973
Camel Camel4.0
Blue Oyster Cult Tyranny and Mutation4.5
1972
Blue Oyster Cult Blue Öyster Cult5.0

1971
Alice Cooper Killer3.5
Alice Cooper Love It To Death3.5

1970
Alice Cooper Easy Action3.5

1969
Alice Cooper Pretties For You3.3

1966
John Mayall Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton3.5

1959
Miles Davis Kind of Blue4.0

1952
John Cage 4'33''1.0

1874
Camille Saint-Saens Danse macabre, Op.404.0
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