Xenophanes
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Last Active 12-19-22 4:20 pm
Joined 02-06-09

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Average Rating: 3.45
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2023
Arnaut Pavle Transylvanian Glare4.0

2022
Worm Bluenothing4.5
26 brisk minutes of fun, beautiful, lofty death metal.
Conan Evidence of Immortality4.0
Wtf why is this so good???
Coheed and Cambria Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind2.0
Holy shit.
Krallice Psychagogue4.0
Sadistic Ritual The Enigma, Boundless3.0
Gospel The Loser3.5
Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter3.5
sonhos tomam conta maladaptive daydreaming3.5
Pharmacist Flourishing Extremities On Unspoiled Mental Ground3.5
Falls of Rauros Key to a Vanishing Future4.0
Might be the best example of this sort of sugary, lofty, and heavily produced black metal I?ve heard in a decade.
Deathspell Omega The Long Defeat1.0
Re-post: Just a friendly reminder this band is very open about their support of right wing extremism, anti-semitisim, and
nazism.
Rotten Tomb Visions of Dismal Fate4.0
Urushiol Pools of Green Fire3.5
Yeule Glitch Princess4.0
Krallice Crystalline Exhaustion4.0

2021
Ethereal Shroud Trisagion4.5
I feel very strongly about this record and it?s made me feel more things from a black metal album that I?ve felt in years. Dude is a certified talent who understands the genre in a way few do. Brilliant, evocative, unyielding?do yourself a favor and check this out when you can.
Arca KICK ii3.5
Cynic Ascension Codes3.5
Converge Bloodmoon: I3.5
2012 Sputnik would be losing its mind.
Limp Bizkit Still Sucks2.0
Mastodon Hushed and Grim3.5
90 minutes of the best Mastodon material in ten years only for the focus to be on the iffy production is the most
basic metal-elitist-in-training Sputnik take I’ve ever seen
Every Time I Die Radical4.0
There is an alarming amount of bangers on this.
Coldplay Music of the Spheres2.5
Me: Maybe going emeritus was a mistake?r*Music of the Spheres? BNM*rMe: ah, ok
Vildhjarta Måsstaden Under Vatten3.0
If you?re a fan of shitting your pants, you?re gonna love track 8.
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Illusory Walls5.0
This is As the Roots Undo for people who shop at H&M
Full of Hell Garden of Burning Apparitions4.0
This is gonna be the best 3.8 of the year.
Carcass Torn Arteries3.0
So we’re just supposed to accept that album cover?
Thrice Horizons/East3.0
It?s like the last decade of Thrice never happened, and that?s a very good thing.
Mono Pilgrimage Of The Soul3.0
Maybe it?s because Mono have been so dull for so long, but this kinda slaps.
Replicant Malignant Reality3.5
There are moments where I swear Luc Lemay is in this band.
Aborted ManiaCult3.5
Low Hey What3.5
Trophy Scars Astral Pariah3.5
Trophy Scars be like “I had sex with a samurai-cowgirl’s ghost who looked like my Mom whoa whoooooaaaaa”
Kacey Musgraves Star-Crossed3.5
Straight people are fuckin’ dramatic.
Iron Maiden Senjutsu3.5
Wtf this is so good.
Kanye West Donda1.0
How would one listen to this? Because I want to make sure that doesn?t happen.

Edit: I listened to it and holy shit
Serpent Column Katartisis3.5
This hit so good
Halsey If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power3.5
Trent Reznor is the vehicle to finally make Halsey good.
Turnstile Glow On3.5
“I HaTe wHen BanDs ReLeAsE hAlF oF thE aLbUms as sInGLes “.
Big Red Machine How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?3.5
Really pretty but it just makes me want a Taylor/Justin collab real bad.
Indigo De Souza Any Shape You Take3.5
Lorde Solar Power2.0
Instantly iconic album cover aside, this is awful.
Between the Buried and Me Colors II2.5
Welcome to the worst sound off page of 2021.
Deafheaven Infinite Granite4.0
Y’all took Deafheaven’s metal side for granite, now you get this.
Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana4.0
Feels so good to jam an occult-sounding black metal album with comfort in knowing it isnt fashy
Diskord Degenerations3.5
The Killers Pressure Machine3.5
A Great Big Pile of Leaves Pono3.5
Bounces between obnoxious perkiness and childlike, endearing soulfulness. It melts my icy heart.
Laura Stevenson Laura Stevenson4.0
I wanna bliss out to this so hard but I dont want to miss the FedEx delivery person ringing my doorbell again ;_;
King Woman Celestial Blues4.0
P sweet.
Edit: okay, V sweet
Erdve Savigaila3.5
Samia Scout3.5
Ophidian I Desolate3.5
At a brisk 38 minutes, Desolate really checked my tech-jaded sensibilities with a really joyful and fun slab of goofy shit.
At the Gates The Nightmare of Being3.0
3.0 instead of 3.5 because they threw a saxophone in there.
Adjy The Idyll Opus (I-VI)3.0
I do not care for this very much but I love seeing people excited about things
Doja Cat Planet Her3.5
Not loving how several of these songs will be on my ?most played? list in Spotify at the end of the year
Dale Kerrigan noise bitch3.5
Japanese Breakfast Jubilee4.5
This is sublime
Blood Cultures LUNO3.5
Portal Avow4.0
Idk man this is some wonky, doofusy death metal but in the right mindset it feels indescribably revelatory
The Devil Wears Prada ZII2.0
Honestly one of the best Christian metalcore releases I?ve heard in well over a decade
Nadja Luminous Rot2.5
Nadja, for a time, played soundtracks for a lot of lonely nights, but they haven?t hit the same way in years
Panopticon .​.​.​And Again into the Light4.0
This is a Panopticon album alright
Sigil (CAN) Nether3.5
Fucked Up Year of the Horse3.5
Easily the most impactful Fucked Up release in a decade
Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God2.0
Holy shit this is boring.
Atvm Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless3.5
Spectral Lore Ετερόφωτος3.5
This would have been a slam dunk were it not for the 20 minutes of nothing at the end (3.7)
The Armed Ultrapop4.0
“Untitled had some incredible moments. At this point, I could see the band revealing that rtheir past two albums
were just a joke mocking the way people can fall for any rexperimental bullshit they concoct as long as they just
have the agency to follow through rwith it. Its unlikely, but thats my hope, because it sounds like confused horse
noises. rpast two albums”
Zao The Crimson Corridor3.5
Had zero intention of listening to this but some of those singles bop hard
Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!4.0
Wtf is “widescreen post rock”?
serpentwithfeet Deacon4.0
Lana Del Rey Chemtrails Over The Country Club3.5
?Not All Who Wander Are Lost? is the most white-girl-basic song title I?ve ever heard...but this album is pretty great idc
Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm3.5
Cool stuff as always.
Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 2 - The Golden Orb3.5
Similar in a lot of ways to the rest of his discog (long ass bm songs) but there?s a definite move towards expanding his traditional proggy bm sound
Dvne Etemen Ænka4.0
I really get off shitting on prog metal albums y?all love but this is actually great
Krallice Demonic Wealth4.0
I really overrated that last album hard, but this slower, quirkier dungeon synth take on Krallice has me living.
Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse4.0
So this Gorguts rip off band got really good.
Black Country, New Road For the first time3.5

2020
Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music III4.0
Wait how the fuck did I not know about this?
Seiko Oomori Kintsugi3.0
The songs that don?t sound like an anime montage are pretty great.
Ichiko Aoba Adan no Kaze4.0
Nevoa Towards Belief3.5
Liturgy Origin of the Alimonies4.0
The more ridiculous Litrugy becomes, the more I begin to embrace them.

Edit: idgaf how stuffy and silly this is I love it so much
Ariana Grande positions2.5
I hate how boring I find this because the title track is so damn goooooood
Carcass Despicable3.0
This is pretty fun, but “Under the Scalpel Blade” is unforgivably bad.
Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full4.0
Might be my second favorite Thou :O
Ethereal Shroud Lanterns4.0
Absolute best Sputnik member project from one of the best users
Yovel Forthcoming Humanity2.5
Toadeater Bit to ewigen daogen3.5
Good stuff.
Lamp of Murmuur Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism4.0
Honorary Astronaut EP0010.5
I have never hated anything more than I hate this song.
Sufjan Stevens The Ascension2.5
Yikes.
Uada Djinn3.0
This is fucking goofy.
Deftones Ohms3.5
“Waiting for Xenophanes to compare this to a wanked-in shirt?”

Wait, did I say this?
Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better?3.5
Anna von Hausswolff All Thoughts Fly4.0
Sundr Solar Ships2.5
There is a time in my life where I probably would have really dug this. That time has since passed.
Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism3.5
Vital Spirit In The Faith That Looks Through Death2.5
Samia The Baby3.5
0 (Null) Entity4.0
Icelandic BM is bland and samey but this doom heavy take with dashes of emo sorta reminds me of the Pax Cecilia in some very minor ways
Cytotoxin Nuklearth3.0
This looks really stupid for being the highest trending album here. I will judge how much I trust this site going
forward based on my listen.

Edit: Okay
Silver Knife Unyielding/Unseeing3.5
Krallice Mass Cathexis3.5
I overrated this one hard, sorry guys.
Imha Tarikat Sternenberster3.5
Imperial Triumphant Alphaville4.0
Im still listening to folklore tbh.
Defeated Sanity The Sanguinary Impetus3.5
Bedsore Hypnagogic Hallucinations4.0
Unique and pretty. Reminds me of Morbus Chron I think.
Taylor Swift Folklore4.0
“Mouth fuck”.
Boris NO4.0
Did Boris make a PUNK ALBUM?
Thaetas Shrines to Absurdity3.0
Protest the Hero Palimpsest3.9
Are we really gonna take this shit from a bunch of CANADIANS??
Owen The Avalanche4.0
“I can’t have my cake and fuck it too.”
Firelink Firelink3.5
Ulthar Providence3.5
Valdrin Effigy Of Nightmares3.5
Haunter (USA-TX) Thrinodía (Remixed & Remastered 2020)4.0
Love this band so much and their first album is made all the better with this release
Dynfari Myrkurs Er Þörf3.0
Cirith Ungol Forever Black3.4
Everything about this: the production, song structure, lyrical content, album cover, etc. is so old school in the most feel-good way.
Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still3.9
The first Ulcerate album I don?t need to say “I enjoy it, but...”
The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous2.5
Like, who tf cares anymore?
Feminazgul No Dawn for Men4.0
Grimes Miss Anthropocene4.4
Toby Driver and Nick Hudson Black Feather Under Your Tongue0.5
There was a time when I used to pretend to sorta get into this kind of thing but ugh. Awful.
Mitochondrial Sun Mitochondrial Sun3.5
This is some stuffy, cheeseball instra-metal-tronica that I am absolutely here for
Panopticon/Aerial Ruin Panopticon / Aerial Ruin1.5
Holy shit ?North Dakota? is awful.
Pyre (USA-FL) Come Home3.5
This is really wholesome and fun : ).
2019
Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race5.0
This is the best death metal album of the decade—full stop.
Liturgy H.A.Q.Q.3.8
FWIW I am still laughing about transcendental black metal.
FKA Twigs Magdalene4.0
File under ?albums I would predict Ali give a 4.5?.
Swans Leaving Meaning2.5
In 2017 we were left with the tantalizing prospect of ?Swans 3.0.? Leaving Meaning, though, feels very ?2010s Swans? albeit with less teeth. Songs like ?What is this?? are some of the most beautiful in their discography, but the more plodding and languid stretches of post-post-punk freak-folk hypnosis had me reaching for the skip button.
Jonsi and Alex Lost and Found2.3
Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen3.5
MV3 is my favorite black metal album of all time (I know, right?) so hearing a bit of a return of it is, er, music to my
ears. Too bad the album art and name are so on the nose.
Insomnium Heart Like a Grave3.0
?Pale Morning Star? is sick.
Boris Love and Evol4.3
Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear3.0
Fine and unremarkable.
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Wild Gods3.6
Weeping Sores False Confession4.0
Kayo Dot Blasphemy2.5
With each release, Kayo Dot inch away from being a great band with a few bad albums to a bad band with a few great albums.
Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell!4.5
Am I the only one who thinks that it’s weird this is the first album of hers to have a song called “California”?
Taylor Swift Lover2.4
I have been happily listening to every Taylor Swift album since ?Red? and this is far and away the worse that I have yet to hear.
Pijn and Conjurer Curse These Metal Hands3.8
?High Spirits? reaffirms my belief in metal.
Anoice Ghost in the Clocks3.5
Wear Your Wounds Rust on the Gates of Heaven3.2
This is fine.
Yellow Eyes Rare Field Ceiling3.8
Boris tears e.p3.5
State Faults Clairvoyant3.8
Me: “I haven’t listened to skramz since 2013 and Sputnik and its taste is terrible now so let’s shit on this.”
rAlso me: “Well I’ll be...”
Miley Cyrus She Is Coming3.8
My best friend Leslie says “Oh she’s just bein’ 2013 Miley”
Kishi Bashi Omoiyari4.0
Could listen to Penny Rabbit and Summer Bear for forever
Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia4.0
Full of Hell Weeping Choir4.0
Lizzo Cuz I Love You2.3
“Body positivity” is something ugly people invented so they would have something to talk about on the Internet
other than “This Is Us”
Dead To A Dying World Elegy4.0
Predictably lovely.
Hath Of Rot And Ruin2.9
This kind of sounds like Ulcerate covering The Black Dahlia Murder
Inter Arma Sulphur English3.5
Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan0.5
I listened to this for about 10 minutes and it was sort of boring but not offensively so.
Waste of Space Orchestra Syntheosis3.9
Moon Tooth Crux3.5
Laura Stevenson The Big Freeze4.1
“Baby Bones” but 30 minutes long.
La Dispute Panorama3.9
“Can I still get into heaven if I like an album by a band that I absolutely hate?”
American Football American Football (LP3)4.0
This could never have lived up to my hype but it is still wonderful in its own right.
Contrarian Their Worm Never Dies2.0
This isn?t really good. If you like ?crazy? metal for the sake of craziness then it may have merit, but subjectively it?s mushy, samey noodling (with an objectively stupid title)
Venom Prison Samsara3.5
Heavy for the sake of heaviness but sometimes that?s perfectly good enough
Pissgrave Posthumous Humiliation2.3
This is...better?
Vous Autres Champ du Sang3.5
The Chemical Mind Beneath the Shadow It Casts4.0
Vanum Ageless Fire3.8
Ariana Grande Thank U, Next4.0
Beirut Gallipoli2.0
Krallice Wolf3.5

2018
Laura Stevenson The Mystic & the Master4.5
The 1975 A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships3.0
Obliteration Cenotaph Obscure3.3
Corpsessed Impetus of Death3.4
Chapel of Disease ...And as We Have Seen the Storm4.0
DM AOTY IMO.
Sigh Heir to Despair3.9
La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom... (10th Anniversary)2.0
God I?m getting old
Cult Leader A Patient Man3.6
URSA Abyss Between the Stars3.5
Colin Self Siblings4.0
Bloodbath The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn3.4
Robyn Honey3.7
Daughters You Won't Get What You Want5.0
Dammit I haven?t listened yet but I so badly want to have the top soundoff for this!
mewithoutYou [Untitled]3.0
Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures3.5
?Halo?? Mass Effect????? casual much????????????????????????rHe?s quoted as saying that Halo has directly influenced him which is actually v disappointing
Dodsrit Spirit Crusher3.5
SUMAC Love In Shadow3.6
While a lot of content could have been trimmed (that last 10 minutes of The Task for example), Sumac have done
a 180 and made an unexpectedly nuanced record. Compared to the oppressive density of “What One Becomes”
or the never-ending-noise that was their collab with Keiji Haino, “Love in Shadow” comes off as a light, and
almost melodious affair.
Toby Driver They Are the Shield4.0
I love nothing more than shitting on Tony Driver. For years we have had to deal with the stuffy and ostentatious ruination of Kayo Dot, as well as the adandonment motW and it really gets me going to point all of this out. HOWEVER, this album is just lovely. It?s beautiful and evocative while being surprisingly understated (in a way we are not accustomed from Driver). Best yet, it takes everything he?s done right in the last several years while getting rid of everything he has not.
Holy Fawn Death Spells3.9
Yves Tumor Safe in the Hands of Love3.5
Thou Magus4.0
I wish Gameofmetal would post his review already so I can talk about this
Manes Slow Motion Death Sequence3.5
Ariana Grande Sweetener2.5
Rebel Wizard Voluptuous Worship of Rapture and Response4.2
Thou Rhea Sylvia4.0
Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light3.9
Between the Buried and Me Automata II2.4
Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love3.5
Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury3.8
A l e x Growing Up: Volume II3.5
Split Cranium I'm The Devil and I'm OK3.2
It?s Friday before a three-day weekend and this is feeling pretty good. Valid and lacking substance, but a good time nonetheless
The Body I have fought against it, But I can’t any longer3.5
At the Gates To Drink from the Night Itself2.7
like a snake eating its tail, At the Gates’ influence on metalcore has come full circle with “To Drink from the Night
Itself” being the best album August Burns Red have ever made.


Edit: @Willie: I wish ;_;
Thou The House Primordial3.0
Grouper Grid of Points2.5
"I'd rather be sleeping"
Voices Frightened3.3
This sort of sounds like a middle-late era Kayo Dot album.
A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant2.9
Me: You can’t make a worse cover than “The Thirteenth Step”

A Perfect Circle: Hold my beer.
Sleep The Sciences3.8
Checking my cynicism at the door because this is good.
Skeletal Remains Devouring Mortality2.7
Admittedly this is pretty fun but idk if I have it in me anymore to listen to ANOTHER album with a name like
“Devouring Mortality” from a band with a name like Skeletal Remains
Cardi B Invasion of Privacy2.0
So this is what Pitchfork?s Best New Music sounds like in 2018.
Underoath Erase Me2.4
I know I?ve made this joke already but this is the best Linkin Park album in some time
Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog3.5
Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness4.0
Black metal does not deserve Austin Lunn.
Mournful Congregation The Incubus of Karma3.5
Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name2.5
Didn’t see what all the hype was about until the cleans came in at “A Home” then I remembered how basic you all
are and it made sense.
Between the Buried and Me Automata I2.9
The closest I have come to caring about a BTBAM album since that EP seven years ago (brevity suits this exhausting band). However, I do miss the days when the were a smart metalcore band rather than a dumb progressive one.
Pestilence Hadeon3.0
Over-simplified songwriting belies a profound understanding of how death metal can be both fun and catchy while still convincingly heavy.
Slugdge Esoteric Malacology3.5
Harakiri for the Sky Arson2.0
2018?s first bad album comes in the form of a black metal record with sadistically long songs that sound like a never ending stream of August Burns Red hooks and choruses.
MGMT Little Dark Age2.5
Justin Timberlake Man of the Woods2.0
Lucy Dacus Historian4.0
Portal ION2.5
Tribulation Down Below3.5
Hooded Menace Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed4.0
Best death/doom band in existence releases their best album nbd
Yhdarl Loss3.0
Hamferd Támsins likam2.5
Watain Trident Wolf Eclipse2.5
Summoning With Doom We Come3.3
Best album of 2018 so far.

2017
Cleric Retrocausal3.5
Prurient Rainbow Mirror3.5
Well that was exhausting
Bjork Utopia2.0
Krallice Go Be Forgotten4.2
Krallice's messiest and most flawed release to date may also be their best.
In Flames Down, Wicked and No Good0.5
The hotter Anders gets the worse this band becomes. Not a good trade off imo.
Taylor Swift Reputation3.8
Converge The Dusk in Us3.5
I feel like I?ve spent four years underrating this.
Acid Witch Evil Sound Screamers3.3
Ne Obliviscaris Urn0.5
Ya?ll act like this is so groundbreaking when people have been using violins in music for over 400 years.
Krallice Loüm3.5
Krallice have never sounded heavier or darker; this is the closest the band has ever come to a traditional metal aesthetic.
Blut Aus Nord Deus Salutis Meae3.3
Darker and weirder; more in line with the Odinist than anything else. Sounds distantly related to Deathspell Omega I guess. Basically, Saturnian Poetry this isn't.
Bell Witch Mirror Reaper2.9
Yellow Eyes Immersion Trench Reverie4.0
St. Vincent Masseduction3.2
Enslaved E3.5
Actually really fun and I typically hate this sorta thing
Spectral Voice Eroded Corridors of Unbeing3.5
This is good but c?mon you guys.
Spirit Adrift Curse of Conception3.5
Really surprised by this.
Miley Cyrus Younger Now3.0
I wanted to love this more but it loses steam half way through. Once you get to "Thinkin'" the album goes from "pretty great" to "pretty dull." Oh well at least the singles are good.
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Always Foreign4.0
Infinite Steve is like my favorite song of the decade.
Archspire Relentless Mutation2.3
There's so much about this to like: the production, the vocals, the exciting variation, etc. But I'm exhausted two songs in, much like their last album. It's an exercise in how much the listener can handle and I guess just fail.
Monarch (FRA) Never Forever2.5
I want to like this more than I actually like this. I just don't think I have the patience for this sort of thing anymore.
Mastodon Cold Dark Place2.9
Better than the last two albums, but even with just four songs this feels a little boring and overlong.
Cradle of Filth Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay3.4
After making fun of this band for years without every actually listening to them I have to say I had fun. Kinda silly and dramatic but a lot more fun than it has any right to be. Reminds me of Sigh I suppose.
Circa Survive The Amulet3.4
Acephalix Decreation3.4
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers3.5
I was all set to hate this but after several spins it's got some of the bands most subtle and memorable moments ever
The Contortionist Clairvoyant2.3
Gave this an honest shot but it's sorta lame. Like, not offensively bad but just really, really, really lame in a Steven Wilson sort of "I like prog and have owned a fedora before" kind of way.
The National Sleep Well Beast2.0
Stunning. Jaw to the floor. Absolutely in awe of how fucking boring this band is. If I had known that a beard and a
baritone could make so many guys this wet then I probably would have had a more interesting college
experience.
Cannabis Corpse Left Hand Pass3.7
Iron And Wine Beast Epic2.8
In a week that sees the release of Iron and Wine and Brand new, we're witnessing a showdown for the hearts and souls of boring 30 year old white guys everywhere.
Steven Wilson To the Bone2.0
God this is so lame.
Brand New Science Fiction3.4
As someone with no emotional/nostalgia attachment to this band I have to say that this is a really good rock album.
Incantation Profane Nexus3.5
Unpopular opinion: Incantation are at the height of their career. This combined with their last two records represents them at their best.
Cormorant Diaspora4.2
Cormorant have checked my pretentious cynicism with an album I love, full of things I typically hate. Predictably awesome and a definite contender for one of the best metal records of the year.
Arcade Fire Everything Now2.3
The Blight Meditations on Insignificance2.9
Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface3.3
I'm not a big Manchester Orchestra fan but "The Gold" was/is a 5/5 song for me and "The Alien" was
pretty cool too so I was pumped for this. Well it's mostly a snooze-fest and I should have checked
my enthusiasm. "The Wolf," "Lead, SD," "The Mistake," and "The Silence" are all really forgettable
which is too bad because ~aesthetically~ this is the most interesting and distinctive the band has
ever sounded. "The Parts" could easily be a Right Away, Great Captain! song so that's great I
suppose.
Temple of Void Lords Of Death4.0
A hidden gem of 2017, just as their debut was for 2014.
Afterbirth The Time Traveler's Dilemma4.1
City of Caterpillar Driving Spain Up A Wall3.5
Coldplay Kaleidoscope2.2
Are we really doing this?
Boris Dear3.5
Claims of revolutionism aside, it is very nice to hear Boris drone again.
Jute Gyte Oviri3.1
It's like that moment at a buffet where you crossed the line and you're too full to finish what's on your plate. That's how I feel about Jute Gyte--after years of feasting on insane proclivity I think I am nearing my satiety. "Oviri" is different enough to be satisfying but not that satisfying.
Melvins A Walk With Love And Death2.5
I like to pretend I like weird noise experiments but Love makes me front the bill for my posturing.
Decapitated Anticult3.3
Better than it has any right to be given that the band has only released one good album (and that was like 15 years ago). Also the title, cover, and lyrical content are dumb. Still it's a good enough time.
Impetuous Ritual Blight Upon Martyred Sentience2.3
Ravishingly pumped for this, listened once, then forgot it existed until I saw a review posted if that tells you anything.
Fleet Foxes Crack-Up3.0
Katy Perry Witness2.0
Suffocation …Of the Dark Light2.3
"Remember how good Pierced From Within was? Remember? Do you??" said Eli, huddled in a corner, staring a the walls.
Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World3.7
Typically the cynic when it comes to trendy metal like this but this is great.
Radiohead OKNOTOK 1997-20174.5
Rating this so highly because it's been almost 10 years since Radiohead released a good album so maybe I'm just hungry for them not to be bad anymore.
Blood Cultures Happy Birthday4.2
Your barber sounds cooler than you
Loss Horizonless3.5
Last album was such a hidden gem back in 2011. Although they missed the doom bubble of the past few years, "Horizonless" is still relevant, and a total a joy.
Do Make Say Think Stubborn Persistent Illusions3.8
Paramore After Laughter2.3
C'mon you guys
Ulsect Ulsect3.5
A Lot Like Birds DIVISI2.0
Why did I listen to this?
At the Drive-In in•ter a•li•a3.0
Natalia Lafourcade Musas3.5
Oxbow Thin Black Duke3.8
Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy3.9
Slowdive Slowdive (LP)4.0
V good.
Shadow Of Intent Reclaimer3.0
Toby Driver Madonnawhore2.0
As if we needed another reason to stop listening to all Toby Driver affiliated projects
Artificial Brain Infrared Horizon4.0
While there are some moments that literally seem copy/pasted from their debut, there's enough twists ("Static rShattering" could be a Krallice song) to make it interesting enough to stand on its own. It's a darker and heavier ralbum but still a lot of fun.
Phrenelith Desolate Endscape3.4
Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar2.7
I felt like I was listening to a post-punk playlist at a gay bar.
Sielunvihollinen Ruhonkantaja3.4
Some of the deepest cutting, yet melodic, bm all year
Mastodon Emperor of Sand2.5
Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me2.0
Dodecahedron Kwintessens2.4
Loud and dark death metal with some black sensibilities. In the five years since their debut this Deathspell fellating style as proliferates the scene; an indulgent sound that's caused eye rolls amongst even the most devout fans. It's still a fine album but is it fine enough to standout amongst the bustling crowd, especially when others do it much better? Probably not.
Obituary Obituary3.0
The best Obituary album since the early 90s but to be honest that's a low bar to clear.
Endon Through The Mirror3.5
Svart Crown Abreaction3.0
100% agree with Willie.
Chinese Football Here comes a new challenger!3.5
Sunless Urraca3.0
Prolly would have been more impressive five years ago before this style became so overharvested. Still it's uncommonly good for a generic bandcamp release.
Immolation Atonement3.8
Jesca Hoop Memories Are Now3.0
"Pegasi" is a 10/10 song but the rest is all over the place.

2016
Krallice Prelapsarian4.0
How I learned to stop worrrying and love Krallice.
Murg Gudatall2.4
This really isn't that gud at all.
Sentient Horror Ungodly forms3.0
Retro Swedish death by way of American armatures in 2016. Well done and pretty endearing but I'm sure I won't remember it come next month
World's End Girlfriend Last Waltz3.0
Convulsing Errata3.5
Quite something
Dead Congregation Sombre Doom3.5
I wasn't huge of Dead Congregation's last album because I'm not that huge on Dead Congregation in general. The homogenous pummeling take on dm grows tiring pretty quickly. But their doom-y foray here is really nice. Wrapped into a great 13-minute package, the EP is just enough DC without it overstaying it's welcome. [3.3]
Anaal Nathrakh The Whole of the Law2.0
Annoying band.
Krypts Remnants of Expansion2.5
Car Bomb Meta3.0
Vermin Womb Decline3.0
Loud and fast music with a grimy production. Would be cool if you hadn't heard 1000 incarnations of this band already.
Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis3.5
If you don't mind listening to "Everything Is Fire" v.1.4 then you're going to enjoy another slab of atmospheric death metal from the best in the game.
Lady Gaga Joanne1.5
Auroch Mute Books3.0
Khemmis Hunted3.5
American Football American Football (LP2)4.0
Average for this sucks.
Mithras On Strange Loops4.0
August 2016: "proggy death whatever? Avoid."rNovember 2016: "well shit."r
Mono Requiem For Hell1.5
Sonata Arctica The Ninth Hour1.0
I'm constantly impressed by this band, which can produce such consistent 1/5 albums throughout their career
Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason2.0
It's hard defending Meshuggah half the time becuase so many of their attributes are almost objectively bad. For those who enjoy them, like me, it's easy to look past the inherent monotony of their music. There's a meditative property to their swirling madness that makes it worth it. "Koloss" traded this in for tighter songwriting whereas "Catch Thirty-three" wholly embraced it. "Obzen" blended both sides to near perfection.r"The Violent Sleep of Reason," however, is the worst parts of Meshuggah in album form. It's boring. It's homogeneous. It's uneventful. After a week of listening only "MonstroCity" stands out, and that's only because it has the dumbest song title I've ever heard.rDisappointing but not surprisingly so. Meshuggah has always been this lame but they have always made up for it with a smooth and cool sound. Here it's just not enough.
Alcest Kodama2.5
Opeth Sorceress3.0
Jenny Hval Blood Bitch3.5
Bon Iver 22, A Million3.5
Neurosis Fires Within Fires3.3
Classic, by the numbers Neurosis but not in the way that made "Honor Found in Decay" so lame.
Insomnium Winter's Gate3.7
Never cared too much for Insomnium (or melodeath in general) but this was a hell of a great listening experience. rI've always scoffed at the great heights of their albums and passed them off as typical Finnish melodrama. But rhere there is a lot of intelligent restraint and admirable maturity. It's a 40 minute nonstop track but there's an rimmense amount of content that spans a lot of styles. It's really theatrical and dramatic death metal that's often rtimes staggeringly beautiful.r3.7
Mare Cognitum Luminiferous Aether3.5
I've come to hate "atmospheric black metal" since it's all made of the same husk but with different padding. Mare Cognitum always impresses with a great understanding of what makes the subgenre work. He's always showing a surprising amount of restraint that--even when a song is stretching past the 12-minute mark--makes the piece feel like a logical whole made up of necessary parts. Luminiferous Aether is solid, modern atmospheric black metal from one hell of a savvy musician.
The Dear Hunter Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional2.0
B sides of an average album makes for a terrible one
Norma Jean Polar Similar2.5
serpentwithfeet blisters3.5
An Autumn For Crippled Children Eternal2.0
Band perpetually puts out 3's but the pretty cover art and font style make me want to check this despite knowing that I probably won't care
Inquisition Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar...4.0
basal simplicity belies a startlingly atmospheric and compulsively listenable metal album
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Formlessness [2016]3.5
Russian Circles Guidance3.0
I should dislike this more than I do but the time I've spent with it has been lovely
Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail2.0
Made it about 15 seconds in no fucking thanks.
Ghoul Dungeon Bastards3.0
I'll probably never listen to this again but my experience was still fun and enjoyable nonetheless
Panopticon Revisions of the Past3.5
Most important one man black metal artist around (which is surprisingly a big field) drops music for the third year in a row. Great teamsters of his most looked over albums. Yadda yadda get it.
Revocation Great Is Our Sin2.5
Coldworld Autumn3.5
Listening to a ColdWorld album called "Autumn" during the 90 degree dog days of Summer is less than ideal but
I'll still fuck with it
Palehorse Looking Wet In Public4.0
Vanhelgd Temple of Phobos3.0
This is p good.
Kayo Dot Plastic House on Base of Sky1.5
This is hot, fucking garbage.
Jambinai A Hermitage3.5
Swans The Glowing Man4.0
Sewercide Immortalized In Suffering3.5
What a nifty throwback.
Ghoulgotha To Starve the Cross2.5
Jute Gyte Perdurance3.5
Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere2.0
Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman4.0
Gorguts Pleiades' Dust3.9
Haven't heard it yet but oh ho ho I certainly will!
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool2.5
It's the Radiohead album I thought I always wanted until I got it.
Vektor Terminal Redux2.5
This is a lot of fun... Until it isn't
Julianna Barwick Will3.5
Susanna Triangle3.5
Woman Is The Earth Torch of Our Final Night3.0
Howls of Ebb Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows4.2
If you have enjoyed this band in the past (which you should, as they're one of the most fascinating death metal acts currently making music) then you'll find a lot to love here. Their second record takes the infernal psychedlia of "The Marrow Veil" and packages it in a manner more like their debut, with palatable songs and more standard structure. It's a tightened and condensed version of last years EP, albeit without the boundary pushing presentation. Still, it's an excellent slab of death metal that everyone, especially fans, should check out.
Deftones Gore1.5
Zhrine Unortheta3.0
This year's most derivative metal record is also the most instantly gratifying. Pretty easy to spin and enjoy in any mood or scenario.
Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner3.0
Gnod Mirror3.5
Radical Face The Family Tree: The Leaves3.5
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Long Live Happy Birthday3.5
Puce Mary The Spiral3.5
Cobalt Slow Forever5.0
Inverloch Distance | Collapsed3.6
Altarage Nihl3.0
Idk it's okay I guess.
Oranssi Pazuzu Värähtelijä3.5
P gr8.
Kristoffer Lo The Black Meat3.5
Obscura Akróasis3.0
Not a fan of hyper clean tech death but for some reason this is fun to throw on in the background. Okay stuff.
Yndi Halda Under Summer4.7
Wildernessking Mystical Future2.5
Post "blah" metal tbh.
Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule4.0
This is what everyone convinced themselves that the lame Charnal Passages was.
Tarot (AUS) Reflections2.5
Agoraphobic Nosebleed Arc2.0
Abbath Abbath2.5
Chairlift Moth3.5
Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP4.1
Well fuck.
Lycus Chasms2.5
Krallice Hyperion3.5

2015
Ironomi niji4.0
Triumvir Foul Triumvir Foul3.4
Sunn O))) Kannon2.4
If you want 2015's most obvious drone-metal album then boy do I have a rec for you.
Lubbert Das Deluge3.3
Hooded Menace Darkness Drips Forth3.5
Laura Stevenson Cocksure4.0
Horrendous Anareta3.7
It's like "Ecdysis" but a little more melodic and flashy.
Abigail Williams The Accuser3.5
Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars1.5
This is so distractingly boring that I can't even use it as background music at work. Wretched album.
Panopticon Autumn Eternal3.5
Saintseneca Such Things3.5
Deafheaven New Bermuda3.5
Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness3.5
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness4.0
Ryan Adams 19891.5
Chinese Football Chinese Football3.5
The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise2.5
Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz4.2
I don?t care, this is one of my favorites from the last decade.
Beach House Depression Cherry3.0
Myrkur M2.4
Pissgrave Suicide Euphoria2.2
Without the shocking name and cover art this album is an embarrassingly transparent and juvenile attempt at "raw" and "brutal" death metal. I'm sure some people will eat up the blatant perversion that the band employs but they're really just a bunch of guys trying too hard.
Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction3.1
Krallice Ygg Huur3.5
Hurr durr.
Locrian Infinite Dissolution3.5
Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic2.0
Envy Atheist's Cornea2.2
Bump if you haven't given this band the slightest thought since 2010.
Kronos Arisen New Era3.0
mewithoutYou Pale Horses5.0
Fuck it this is a 5.
Jenny Hval Apocalypse, girl3.0
Howls of Ebb The Marrow Veil4.2
Sigh Graveward3.1
Hop Along Painted Shut4.6
Passion Pit Kindred2.2
More like Passion "Shit" r
Drudkh A Furrow Cut Short2.5
Drudkh have definitely made an album. r
Eternal Valley Ascend To The Unknown3.4
I usually avoid anything tagged "atmospheric black metal" because it's the same regurgitated shit over and over again. This isn't really any different, but it hits a real sweet spot sounding decidedly modern yet steeped in retro synths and production. Worth checking out.
Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification2.2
How did this hot garbage become BNM? ? r
Bosse-de-Nage All Fours3.6
Marriages Salome3.6
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'2.5
I'm sort of heartbroken that the band released this lukewarm, rehash of Behemoth. Certainly going down as their worst album to date.
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell3.5
Marsen Jules The Empire of Silence2.7
Murg Varg and Björn4.0
Ghost Bath Moonlover2.5
Leviathan Scar Sighted4.1
The first great Leviathan record has finally arrived.
Imperial Triumphant Abyssal Gods4.2
Mastery Valis2.0
Sarpanitum Blessed Be My Brothers3.5
Anoice Into the Shadows3.5
Marduk Frontschwein2.0
Masaya Ozaki Fluid And Dreaming Of Stripes4.5
Chapel of Disease The Mysterious Ways of Repetitive Art3.7

2014
Ascension The Dead of the World2.4
Taake Stridens hus3.0
Mors Principium Est Dawn of the 5th Era3.0
Omit Medusa Truth - Part 12.3
It's like iif Evanesence wrote 20 minute songs...
Circa Survive Descensus3.0
Anguish (SWE) Mountain2.6
I just wasn't feeling this.
Grouper Ruins4.0
Falls of Rauros Believe in No Coming Shore3.0
Laster De Verste Verte Is Hier3.5
At the Gates At War with Reality2.5
If this had come out 15 years ago it would probably be seen as a masterpiece rather than a pretty good melodeath record.
Horrendous Ecdysis3.5
Kayo Dot Coffins on Io4.0
Revocation Deathless3.0
Swallowed Lunarterial3.5
Couch Slut My Life as a Woman4.0
Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry4.0
Flying Lotus You're Dead!4.0
My life has now become "listening to You're Dead" and "wishing I was listening to You're Dead"
Temple of Void Of Terror And The Supernatural3.5
Oado Life Era4.0
Ingurgitating Oblivion Continuum Of Absence3.3
Interpol El Pintor3.5
Everything is Wrong is my hands down favorite Interpol song and I dont care how basic that sounds
Earth Primitive and Deadly3.5
Darkspace Dark Space III I4.0
New Paysage is great but like where is Darkspace III II?
Opeth Pale Communion2.5
Bastard Sapling Instinct Is Forever3.5
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) You Will Eventually Be Forgotten2.5
Take Over And Destroy Vacant Face3.5
Buckcherry Fuck0.5
Belphegor Conjuring The Dead2.5
Panopticon Roads to the North4.8
Abigor Leytmotif Luzifer3.5
Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite3.0
Bongripper Miserable3.0
Antemasque Antemasque3.0
Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown3.0
As someone who has enjoyed the recent outings of this band, this album is really not clicking at all.
Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun2.5
Alraune The Process Of Self​-​Immolation3.8
A lot better than its cheesy, Hard Rock Cafe album art would lead you to believe.
Boris Noise4.0
Kyle Bobby Dunn Kyle Bobby Dunn and The Infinite Sadness4.0
Saor Aura4.0
Eyehategod Eyehategod3.5
Diocletian Gesundrian3.5
Coldplay Ghost Stories3.0
Vallenfyre Splinters3.5
Swans To Be Kind4.0
Kishi Bashi Lighght4.0
I wish I could still give decimal ratings because this is as solid a 4.2 as they come.
AJJ Christmas Island2.5
Thank god I'm not the only one tired of the AJJ shtick
Dead Congregation Promulgation of the Fall3.0
Lantlos Melting Sun3.0
This was nice I guess
Spectral Lore III4.0
Archspire The Lucid Collective2.0
Trophy Scars Holy Vacants3.5
"Archangel" and "Everything Disappearing" are everything I wanted and more from a band that absolutely cannot disappoint.
The Body I Shall Die Here3.3
Pilgrim II: Void Worship3.4
Manchester Orchestra Cope3.5
Saintseneca Dark Arc4.5
This is just the best thing.
Sargeist Feeding the Crawling Shadows3.0
Thou Heathen4.0
Ancient Ascendant Echoes and Cinder3.1
The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream2.5
"Beer commercial lead-guitar" is probably the most elucidating comment I have ever read about anything ever.
Psalm Zero The Drain3.5
Really digging the weird post punk, industrial, OSDM vibe that this gives off. One of a kind record that's worth a a spin.
The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There3.0
It's like if ten years ago a band got into a car accident and fell into a coma only to wake up thinking that it was still 2005.
Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation4.0
Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us2.5
Sun Kil Moon Benji2.5
Behemoth The Satanist3.0
Sunn O))) and Ulver Terrestrials3.5
Lie in Ruins Towards Divine Death4.0
Sammath Godless Arrogance3.0
Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World4.0
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything4.5
Avichi Catharsis Absolute2.3
Alcest Shelter2.5
Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues3.5
Aenaon Extance3.3
Drudkh Eastern Frontier in Flames2.5
Profetus As All Seasons Die3.0
Sivyj Yar From the Dead Villages' Darkness3.6

2013
Beyonce Beyonce4.0
Like JT's 20/20 Experience, Beyonce is a massive, excessive pop album that hits all the right notes and offers some of the catchiest and most smartly written tunes of the year.
Hammock Oblivion Hymns4.0
Foxing The Albatross4.0
Mount Eerie Pre-Human Ideas4.0
Lady Gaga Artpop2.9
Protest the Hero Volition2.0
How many sweeps and lame lines of Rody's power metal vocals will it take for me to finally give up on this band? As the years pass the more it becomes apparent that Kezia was a fluke.
A Lot Like Birds No Place3.5
Friendzone DX4.0
Tim Hecker Virgins4.2
It's okay I guess...
Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech1.5
Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven4.0
Touche Amore Is Survived By2.9
I was going to make a clever joke about how boring this is but really it isn't worth it
CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe3.8
God Is an Astronaut Origins2.8
Janelle Monae The Electric Lady3.3
ROBOT LOVE IS QUEER
Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks3.6
A super hot wife, two successful musical projects, and an Oscar later, it's nice to see Trent Reznor no longer acting pissed off.
Gorguts Colored Sands4.5
Kayo Dot Hubardo4.2
By all rights a massive, sprawling modern Kayo Dot album should fail but Hubardo aims high and succeeds in every respect. An awe inspiring achievement.
Vali Skogslandskap4.0
Julianna Barwick Nepenthe3.9
Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X3.5
Julia Holter Loud City Song4.0
bansheebeat Spiral Power4.0
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Nandacollection0.5
Pity Sex Feast of Love4.0
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever3.5
Sigur Ros Kveikur4.2
Of fucking course I love this.
Deafheaven Sunbather3.8
Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest3.5
Summoning Old Mornings Dawn3.5
Saint Pepsi Hit Vibes3.5
Eluvium Nightmare Ending3.9
Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve4.2
If Anne Frank were still alive she'd probably 5 this.
Laura Stevenson Wheel4.5
Jenny Hval Innocence Is Kinky3.5
Fall Out Boy Save Rock and Roll1.5
Not sure how Fall Out Boy intend to save Rock & Roll when this neither rocks nor rolls.
Paramore Paramore2.0
An album so bad that Adam Downer will declare it an avant garde pop masterpiece.
James Blake Overgrown3.8
The Dear Hunter Migrant3.0
Follows the color spectrum in the steady decline of this band.
Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal2.1
This is really a 2 but .1 because I fucking can.
Ash Borer Bloodlands3.8
And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures2.8
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience3.8
On The 20/20 Experience Justin Timberlake is so charismatic and classy that I would not care if he absconded with my daughter in his Spaceship Coupe and raw dogged her on the moon.
Boris Präparat4.1
Fell Voices Regnum Saturni3.5
Olafur Arnalds For Now I Am Winter2.5
Mogwai Les Revenants OST3.5
Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor4.0
Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun4.0
When the userbase gets ahold of this they're going to lose their shit.
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension3.5
This is a good album.
My Bloody Valentine m b v4.0
Cult of Luna Vertikal3.0
Like every Cult of Luna record we get a slightly above avergae post metal album with shit tons of filler to make it seem more interesting than it is.
Bad Religion True North3.5
Shugo Tokumaru In Focus?4.2
This guy cannot make bad music.
Quadrupede Quadrupede3.9
United Nations Illegal UN3.5

2012
Secret Plot To Destroy The Entire Universe I Only Miss You When I Want To3.2
Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One3.5
Make a Change...Kill Yourself Fri4.0
Amenra Mass V3.5
Deftones Koi No Yokan2.5
Deftones released a slightly above average hard rock album and way too many fucks were given.
Neurosis Honor Found in Decay3.0
To no one's surprise, Neurosis make a damn great record. While not quite to the level of their last several "classics," Honor Found in Decay sits proudly within their discography as a truly solid piece of work.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!4.2
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence2.0
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension3.0
okay this isn't that good.
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind4.0
Nothing lost and nothing gained, All We Love We Leave Behind is Converge playing Converge and it's everything we could have asked for.
Deer Leap Here. Home.3.5
Cryptopsy Cryptopsy3.0
Hooded Menace Effigies of Evil4.0
Mono For My Parents3.0
If I had to pick one band that is doing the least in progressing the genre, it would be a close race between rExplosions in the Sky and Mono. But what Mono lacks in originality (this is the exact same album they've rreleased over and over again) they make up for with their dramatic and emotive delivery. Bland, uninspired, rand derivative, "For My Parents" isn't going to change anyone's opinions on this band, but am I a sucker for rdem climaxes.
Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy3.5
Mount Eerie Ocean Roar4.0
Just Like Vinyl Black Mass2.5
Swans The Seer3.5
I keep waiting for something interesting to happen but it hasn't and probably won't....
Krallice Years Past Matter2.5
Evening Hymns Spectral Dusk3.5
Welcome to my top 25, Spectral Dusk.
Ash Borer Cold of Ages3.5
Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel...4.5
Sigur Ros Valtari3.0
Largely feels like 80 minutes of filler....which is weird because the album isn't even that long.
Mount Eerie Clear Moon4.0
I wish that I had a more clever or interesting sound-off, but really, all that needs said is that Clear Moon is another wonderful release by one of modern musics finest assets. Mount Eerie has come into its own, and its glorious.
mewithoutYou Ten Stories4.0
If you've ever like a mewithoutYou record then this should be right up your alley.
Kinoko Teikoku Uzu Ni Naru4.0
Hop Along Get Disowned4.5
Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis3.0
Pelican pretty much needed this not to suck, and thankfully it doesn't
The Mars Volta Noctourniquet3.5
Sure they've made some questionable choices in the past, but The Mars Volta are always able to make something fresh and interesting. While many will argue how this ranks among their discography, in the end it won't matter because as always, it's unlike any other album in their fucking discography.
Every Time I Die Ex Lives3.5
THIS ALBUM IS CONDUCIVE TO WRITING LYRICAL ONE LINERS IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.
Olafur Arnalds Another Happy Day2.5
Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel4.0
this is an album that makes me think of things pertaining to stuff and feel emotions about particular events.
Kayo Dot Gamma Knife4.5
The addition of metal influences is certainly welcome, but as tradition, Kayo Dot can't make a consistent album to save their lives, even with a 32 minute runtime.
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra The West Will Rise Again3.1

2011
Macintosh Plus Floral Shoppe3.5
This is actually pretty neat and unlike just about everything I have in my collection. Haters gon' hate.
Yusuke Tsutsumi A Grave by the Sea4.0
Leviathan True Traitor, True Whore1.5
eh
Bjork Biophilia4.0
TTNG Adventure, Stamina and Anger4.0
La Dispute Wildlife1.5
If I was told that I only had an hour to live i'd spend it listening to Wildlife, because listening to it feels like an eternity.
Mastodon The Hunter4.0
Opeth Heritage2.5
Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage3.0
Mogwai Earth Division3.5
Thrice Major/Minor3.5
Circle Takes the Square Rites of Initiation3.5
Saintseneca Last4.3
Takahiro Kido Fairy Tale3.5
Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead4.6
Beau Navire Hours3.5
Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me3.0
It's more melodic and easily more poetic, but it lacks the overall energy that was so palpable on their 2009 effort. Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me is a great record that plays up the band's strengths, but after awhile it all begins to feel a bit 'samey,' and regretfully uninspired.
Ampere Like Shadows3.5
Boris Attention Please3.0
Boris Heavy Rocks (2011)4.0
Manchester Orchestra Simple Math3.5
Deafheaven Roads to Judah3.5
Laura Stevenson Sit Resist3.5
Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care2.5
Same shit different album. A bit darker and mellow, but ultimately they haven't changed a damn thing in regards to songwriting. Got better after I let it sink in a bit, but damn EitS....
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues3.0
Grouper A I A4.0
Fell Voices Untitled3.5
Protest the Hero Scurrilous2.5
Oh baby I tried,hell, I even lied to myself by giving this a higher rating. Regardless, this is not the band I fell in love with on Kezia, nor is it the mature, refined group of young men I admired on Fortress. They stripped away everything that made them such an intelligent and fun band, and instead created a vapid, uninteresting album full of terrible, terrible lyrics, and copy/pasted pieces from their other works. Scurrilous is boring, poorly thought out, and carelessly written; the definition of a disappointment.
Ash Borer Ash Borer4.0
Boris New Album4.0
Boy do I still love this

Edit: 10 years later this is still such a fucking banger.
Radiohead The King of Limbs2.5
Jenny Hval Viscera5.0
Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will3.5
Destroyer Kaputt4.0
Took a long time for this to click but ooh boy.
Tartar Lamb Polyimage of Known Exits3.5
Yes......yes it is.

2010
Yasushi Yoshida Grateful Goodbye4.0
Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit3.0
Kayo Dot Stained Glass3.5
Deathspell Omega Paracletus4.2
Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell4.0
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz4.0
Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini3.5
Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People3.5
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Formlessness3.5
Thou Summit4.0
Olafur Arnalds ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness4.5
Deftones Diamond Eyes3.0
Maybe not album of the year material, but still a damn decent listen
Twilight Monument To Time End3.5
Kayo Dot Coyote3.0
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise4.8
I don't even like Circa Survive that well but this is still killer seven years later
Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow3.0
People need to stop saying Chris Pennie is this band's saving grace. It's ridiculous. The drumming is noticeably better, no more, no less. It takes away from the band and all of their accomplishments stop being tools.

Solid album, very accessible. Really didn't care for NMFT but this is really great.
Immolation Majesty and Decay3.5
Daughters Daughters4.5
Alright this still fucking rules
Joanna Newsom Have One on Me4.0
After nearly a decade I just noticed in that photo there?s a human an not just a pile of junk.
Sigh Scenes from Hell4.0
More Than Life Love Let Me Go3.5

2009
Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough3.0
Pelican What We All Come to Need2.5
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect3.5
Do Make Say Think Other Truths4.0
Thrice Beggars3.5
The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event1.5
oh man forgot how bad this was
Converge Axe to Fall5.0
Bumping this from a 4.5 to a 5 has moved the average from 4 to 4.1...I have never felt so powerful
Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic4.5
Fell Voices Fell Voices4.0
Mount Eerie Wind's Poem4.0
Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse3.5
The Mars Volta Octahedron4.0
Was unsure at first, but it really hooked me. Best since Frances
The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death4.0
Pelican Ephemeral3.0
mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright!3.5
maudlin of the Well Part the Second4.0
ISIS Wavering Radiant4.0
Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing4.0
The Decemberists The Hazards of Love2.5
Mastodon Crack the Skye2.5
Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind3.5
Cobalt Gin4.0
Trophy Scars Bad Luck4.5
Propagandhi Supporting Caste3.5
Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars4.0
Takahiro Kido A Short Happy Life3.5
Laura Stevenson Holy Ghost!4.0

2008
The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon4.5
La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair 2.5
I wish I had something clever to say about this album. However, I do not. Simply, this is boring boring boring, which is a shame because this band really is incredible.
Mount Eerie Dawn4.0
TTNG Animals3.5
Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom4.5
Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling2.5
Krallice Krallice4.0
Cryptopsy The Unspoken King1.0
Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust4.0
The more I listen to this, the closer it inches towards the top of my favorite Sigur Ros' albums.
Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill4.0
Opeth Watershed3.5
Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward3.5
Nine Inch Nails The Slip2.5
Yasushi Yoshida Little Grace4.0
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV3.5
Boris Smile4.0
Mount Eerie Black Wooden Ceiling Opening3.7
Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV4.0
Dead Congregation Graves of the Archangels3.0
Protest the Hero Fortress3.5
The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath3.5
Off Minor Some Blood4.0
Takahiro Kido Fleursy Music4.0

2007
Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between3.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works3.5
Burial Untrue3.5
Olafur Arnalds Eulogy for Evolution4.0
Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow3.0
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II3.5
Radiohead In Rainbows4.5
Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters4.0
Between the Buried and Me Colors3.3
So idk this hasnt aged too poorly or maybe I?m just feeling nostalgia
As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep4.0
The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi3.5
Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum4.0
Hacksaw to the Throat Wastelands4.0
Kidcrash Jokes4.1
This is on Spotify now and it?s still really good.

2021 update: yeah this is still great
Neurosis Given to the Rising3.5
The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading3.7
The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds4.0
Immolation Shadows in the Light3.0
Bjork Volta3.5
Tartar Lamb Sixty Metonymies3.5
The Fall of Troy Manipulator3.0
Nine Inch Nails Year Zero3.5
Hot Cross Risk Revival3.5
Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone3.0
Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust4.5
Make a Change...Kill Yourself II3.5
Thou Tyrant5.0

2006
Boris With Michio Kurihara Rainbow4.0
Beirut Lon Gisland4.0
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me2.7
I keep waiting for the user base to not be 16 anymore and realize that this is probably the most overrated album
OF ALL TIME.

2019 Edit: Yikes is this really the top soundoff?
Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain4.0
Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss5.0
Mono Memorie dal Futuro4.5
Memorie dal Futuro is easily one of the best songs Mono have ever created.
ISIS In the Absence of Truth3.0
Sunn O))) and Boris Altar4.5
Mogwai Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait OST2.0
Converge No Heroes2.5
The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North4.0
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister4.5
Mastodon Blood Mountain3.0
The Album Leaf Into The Blue Again3.5
Mono / World's End Girlfriend Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain5.0
The Mars Volta Amputechture3.5
Boris Dronevil -Final-3.5
Daughters Hell Songs4.0
Anoice Remmings4.0
Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway3.5
Mono You Are There4.2
Mogwai Mr. Beast4.1
Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars3.3
Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue4.0
A Bunny's Caravan Draining Puddles, Retrieving Treasures4.0

2005
Boris Pink4.0
Thrice Vheissu2.5
Toby Driver In the L..L..Library Loft3.5
Mount Eerie No Flashlight4.0
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness5.0
Sigur Ros Takk...4.1
Between the Buried and Me Alaska2.5
Opeth Ghost Reveries4.0
Death Cab for Cutie Plans4.0
Protest the Hero Kezia4.0
The Fall of Troy Doppelganger4.0
Boris Soundtrack from the Film Mabuta no Ura4.0
Sufjan Stevens Illinois4.5
Make a Change...Kill Yourself Make a Change...Kill Yourself3.0
Trophy Scars Goodnight Alchemy4.0
Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon...4.0
100th rating! Overall a pretty generic post-rock/metal album.
Bucket Full Of Teeth IV3.5
Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World4.0
Nine Inch Nails With Teeth3.0
The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse4.0
Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today4.0
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute4.3

2004
Cult of Luna Salvation3.5
ISIS Panopticon4.0
mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes4.0
Converge You Fail Me4.0
Drudkh Autumn Aurora4.0
Mastodon Leviathan4.0
Off Minor Innominate4.0
Boris The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked2.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine3.5
Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm4.0
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo4.0
Mono Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined4.1
2003
Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker-5.0
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place3.0
This album destroyed post-rock. rnot really but fuck you EITS
The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy3.5
Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus3.5
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye5.0
Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?3.5
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism4.0
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 34.5
Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn4.0
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step4.0
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance3.0
Daughters Canada Songs3.5
Sufjan Stevens Michigan3.5
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium5.0
Brand New Deja Entendu3.5
Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People3.9
Radiohead Hail to the Thief3.0
Boris Akuma no Uta3.5
Going through the entire discography and this has aged much worse than anything before it.
Hot Cross Cryonics3.5
Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God4.0
The Microphones Mount Eerie3.5
Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language4.0
Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb3.5
Raein Il n'y a pas de orchestre3.5
Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe5.0

2002
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O.3.9
Sigur Ros ( )4.2
In regards to Sigur Ros albums, this is beyond a doubt the most over hyped. However, it is still an incredible experience nontheless.
Mono One Step More and You Die4.0
Xasthur Nocturnal Poisoning3.0
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights4.5
Orchid Orchid4.5
mewithoutYou A to B: Life4.0
City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar4.0
Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me2.0
pg.99 / Majority Rule Document #123.5
Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet4.0
Boards of Canada Geogaddi3.5
ISIS Oceanic3.5
Agalloch The Mantle3.5
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade4.0
Boris Heavy Rocks4.0

2001
maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map4.5
The Microphones The Glow Pt. 24.5
Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...3.5
Converge Jane Doe5.0
Radiohead Amnesiac3.0
Bjork Vespertine5.0
Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets4.5
Are we finally ready to admit that no other Neurosis album comes close to this one?
Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape4.0
Muse Origin of Symmetry4.0
Lol wtf this actually really holds up.
maudlin of the Well Bath4.5
Lift to Experience The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads5.0
Slept on this for *checks calendar* 20 years.
pg.99 Document #83.5
Saetia A Retrospective4.0
Mogwai Rock Action3.3
Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You4.0
Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate4.5
Opeth Blackwater Park4.0
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward4.0

2000
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven4.8
Radiohead Kid A4.0
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command4.5
This is a album I have such nostalgia for that I cant even listen to it anymore
Coldplay Parachutes3.5
Deftones White Pony3.0
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica4.0
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms4.5
Do Make Say Think Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead4.0
mum Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK3.5
Immolation Close to a World Below2.5
pg.99 Document #53.5
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our 3.9
Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow!4.0
Weakling Dead as Dreams4.5
Boris Flood5.0

1999
Opeth Still Life3.5
Nine Inch Nails The Fragile4.0
American Football American Football4.2
Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun4.7
Mogwai Come On Die Young3.6
Neurosis Times of Grace4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada4.6
Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret4.5
Orchid Chaos is Me4.0

1998
Do Make Say Think Do Make Say Think3.5
Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children3.5
At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out4.0
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea3.0
Boris Amplifier Worship4.5
I spent a decade underrating this oh what wasted time.
Gorguts Obscura5.0

1997
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West4.5
Bjork Homogenic4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞4.7
Radiohead OK Computer4.6
Ulver Nattens Madrigal3.5
Sigur Ros Von3.0
Mogwai Young Team4.0

1996
Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About4.0
Neurosis Through Silver in Blood4.0
Cryptopsy None So Vile4.0
At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement3.0
Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky4.0
Immolation Here in After4.0

1995
Bjork Post4.0
Radiohead The Bends4.0
Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler4.0
Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane4.0
Suffocation Pierced from Within4.0

1994
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral4.0

1993
Radiohead Pablo Honey3.0
Demilich Nespithe3.9
Neurosis Enemy of the Sun3.5
Cynic Focus4.5

1992
Sonic Youth Dirty4.0
Neurosis Souls at Zero3.5
Incantation Onward to Golgotha4.0

1991
Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten4.0
Gorguts Considered Dead4.0

1989
Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine3.0
The Cure Disintegration4.0

1988
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation4.5
1985
Kate Bush Hounds of Love5.0

1978
Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports4.0

1975
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here4.5

1967
Love Forever Changes4.0
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