| 2012 |
| Big Boi Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors | 2.5 |
| just really lame. |
| Mestis Basal Ganglia | 3.0 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 3.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Paradise | 3.0 |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay | 3.0 |
| Behold... The Arctopus Horrorscension | 2.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.0 |
| Aeternam Moongod | 3.5 |
| www.metal-archives.com/images/3/5/4/0/3540285080_photo.jpg?0031 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 3.5 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.0 |
| Tame Impala Lonerism | 3.5 |
| Enslaved RIITIIR | 3.5 |
| DorDeDuh Dar De Duh | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Shields | 3.5 |
| Jonny Greenwood The Master OST | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 2.5 |
| Max Richter Recomposed: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons | 4.0 |
| a stirring rendition of Vivaldi's "Reverb" |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings | 3.0 |
| Circa Survive Violent Waves | 3.0 |
| Beardfish The Void | 3.5 |
| Swans The Seer | 4.0 |
| Krallice Years Past Matter | 3.0 |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages | 3.0 |
| Dead Can Dance Anastasis | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Fade | 3.0 |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering | 3.0 |
| Om Advaitic Songs | 3.5 |
| YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 2.5 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 3.0 |
| Widly inconsistent...between the overly pussed-out BtBaM interludes and the watered-down Cynic worship lies some pleasant AaL soundscape trickery. |
| Hans Zimmer The Dark Knight Rises | 3.0 |
| Latitudes Individuation | 2.5 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 3.0 |
| A Gojira record that doesn't take four days to listen to. |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes | 3.5 |
| Kyle Bobby Dunn Bring Me The Head of Kyle Bobby Dunn | 3.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Drought | 3.0 |
| Ihsahn Eremita | 3.0 |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... | 3.5 |
| Ankhagram Thoughts | 3.5 |
| Guardians The Alignment | 3.0 |
| Future of the Left The Plot Against Common Sense | 2.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 3.5 |
| Circus Maximus Nine | 3.5 |
| Panopticon Kentucky | 3.0 |
| completely and thoroughly original, absolutely fresh and unique in a genre spilling over with stagnation and copycat sounds. r...but I wouldn't recommend listening to it. |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone | 3.5 |
| Ahab The Giant | 3.0 |
| Various Artists Moonrise Kingdom | 4.0 |
| Burzum Umskiptar | 2.0 |
| Beach House Bloom | 3.5 |
| Wodensthrone Curse | 3.0 |
| Bereft (USA-CA) Leichenhaus | 3.0 |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans | 3.0 |
| Drapsnatt Skelepht | 3.0 |
| Grouper Violet Replacement | 3.0 |
| Ancestors In Dreams And Time | 3.0 |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 3.0 |
| The Shins Port of Morrow | 2.5 |
| Dead Can Dance Live Happenings - Part IV | 4.0 |
| Hands Like Houses Ground Dweller | 2.0 |
| Melvins The Bulls and the Bees | 3.0 |
| Lord Mantis Pervertor | 2.5 |
| Dark Forest Land of the Evening Star | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 3.0 |
| Revival Mode / Drag King is killer one-two punch, and Indian Giver is a great closer. |
| Lunar Aurora Hoagascht | 3.0 |
| YGATM YGATM | 3.0 |
| akin to a groovy Scale the Summit, a unique listen. |
| Narrows Painted | 2.5 |
| T.R.A.M. Lingua Franca | 3.0 |
| The Safety Fire Grind the Ocean | 3.0 |
| Mgla With Hearts Toward None | 3.0 |
| Hail Spirit Noir Pneuma | 3.0 |
| Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel | 2.5 |
| Hellsaw Trist | 2.5 |
| All the Empires of the World Old Gods, Old Worlds, Old Wounds | 2.5 |
| Addaura Burning for the Ancient | 2.5 |
| ISIS Live 6 (11/16/2007) | 4.0 |
| Burial Kindred | 4.5 |
| Caliban I Am Nemesis | 2.5 |
| Vales Clarity | 2.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die | 2.0 |
| Lamb of God Resolution | 2.0 |
| if the whole ordeal with the manslaughter charge is a conspiracy to get lamb of god to quit, let the life sentence be given. |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory | 3.0 |
| Crosses EP II | 3.0 |
| Abigail Williams Becoming | 2.5 |
| Wildernessking The Writing of Gods in the Sand | 2.5 |
| First Aid Kit The Lion's Roar | 3.0 |
| Savage Messiah Plague of Conscience | 3.0 |
| Dodecahedron Dodecahedron | 2.5 |
| Everything Went Black Cycles of Light | 2.5 |
| Birds in Row Collected | 3.0 |
| Nekromantheon Rise, Vulcan Spectre | 2.5 |
| Burn Idols Theodicy | 1.5 |
| Verwustung I First Saw You On That Snowy Night And | 2.0 |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme | 3.0 |
| Kayo Dot Gamma Knife | 2.5 |
| Rogue Empire Rogue Empire | 2.5 |
| Entropy (USA-CA) Four Minds, Fourteen Perspectives | 3.0 |
| Ah Ciliz Led Astray | 1.5 |
| Fire In The Cave Fire In the Cave | 2.0 |
| Mindless Faith Just Defy | 2.5 |
| Wilds Forlorn We, the Damned | 2.5 |
| Nahrayan The Beginning of the End/The End of the Beginning | 2.5 |
| Rhinocervs RH-12 | 3.5 |
| 2011 |
| Intervals The Space Between | 3.0 |
| Jacaszek Glimmer | 3.0 |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden | 3.0 |
| Burzum From the Depths of Darkness | 2.0 |
| Cloudkicker Loop | 2.0 |
| Nowhere near the quality of Let Yourself Be Huge. Crossfading as Ben suggests helps substantially. |
| Vektor Outer Isolation | 4.0 |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge | 3.0 |
| Esoteric Paragon of Dissonance | 3.5 |
| Thy Catafalque Rengeteg | 4.0 |
| Jeremy Soule The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Midnight Satanic Royalty | 4.0 |
| Bastions Hospital Corners | 3.0 |
| Down I Go Gods | 3.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 3.0 |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu | 1.0 |
| Michael McCann Deus Ex: Human Revolution | 4.0 |
| The Beach Boys The Smile Sessions | 5.0 |
| Russian Circles Empros | 3.0 |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto | 2.0 |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow | 3.5 |
| a pleasant listen, but much too predictable, and the cleans feel uninspired |
| Solstafir Svartir Sandar | 3.5 |
| Skeletonwitch Forever Abomination | 3.0 |
| Will Haven Voir Dire | 3.0 |
| Absu Abzu | 3.0 |
| Blotted Science The Animation of Entomology | 4.0 |
| Rwake Rest | 3.0 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.5 |
| JUUUUST CLOSE YOUUR EYEEEEESrAND PRETEND THAT EVERYTHING'S FIIIIIIIIINE |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning | 4.0 |
| Amebix Sonic Mass | 3.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage | 3.0 |
| Mogwai Earth Division | 3.0 |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy | 3.5 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 3.0 |
| Omega Massif Karpatia | 3.5 |
| Corrupted Garten Der Unbewusstheit | 3.0 |
| Revocation Chaos of Forms | 3.5 |
| Flourishing The Sum of All Fossils | 3.0 |
| the subdued production really gives these dudes a unique sound, and the songwriting really shines when they're feeling either droney or sludgy. |
| Bayonet Bayonet | 3.0 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs: From the Basement | 4.0 |
| Toxic Holocaust Conjure and Command | 3.0 |
| Baring Teeth Atrophy | 2.5 |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors | 3.0 |
| Evan Brewer Alone | 2.5 |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo | 3.0 |
| Ancestors Invisible White | 2.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost | 3.0 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction | 3.5 |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain | 2.5 |
| Barn Burner Bangers II: Scum of the Earth | 2.0 |
| Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire | 3.0 |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone | 3.0 |
| Amon Tobin ISAM | 2.5 |
| Lycus Demo MMXI | 3.5 |
| Dark Castle Surrender To All Life Beyond Form | 2.0 |
| TOKiMONSTA Creature Dreams | 3.0 |
| A Storm Of Light As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us... | 3.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 3.5 |
| Black Pyramid Stormbringer | 3.5 |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey | 3.0 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 3.0 |
| Graviton Massless | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | 2.5 |
| Septicflesh The Great Mass | 3.5 |
| Beyond Creation The Aura | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 3.5 |
| Grouper A I A | 3.5 |
| Crash of Rhinos Distal | 3.0 |
| Obscura Omnivium | 3.0 |
| Hungry For Hands I Was Hungry For Hands | 3.5 |
| pretty unique! saxophone is a welcome surprise, and a good way to distance themselves from loads of other bands. a great debut. |
| Fell Voices Untitled | 3.5 |
| Light Bearer Lapsus | 3.0 |
| Beardfish Mammoth | 3.0 |
| The Strokes Angles | 2.5 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 3.0 |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery | 3.0 |
| TesseracT One | 3.5 |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology | 3.5 |
| Ash Borer Ash Borer | 3.0 |
| Chris Brown F.A.M.E. | 1.0 |
| Mastodon Live at the Aragon | 3.0 |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft | 3.5 |
| Sylosis Edge of the Earth | 3.0 |
| Burzum Fallen | 2.5 |
| Grails Deep Politics | 3.0 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 3.0 |
| 40 Watt Sun The Inside Room | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 3.0 |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason | 3.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.0 |
| The first half of The King of Limbs is a collection of non-essential Radiohead B sides, while the second half is a very tight and focused (while relaxed) progression from In Rainbows. Codex may be one of the band's best tracks to date. |
| Justin Bieber Never Say Never : The Remixes | 1.0 |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will | 2.5 |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 | 3.5 |
| PJ Harvey Let England Shake | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 3.5 |
| Iron And Wine Kiss Each Other Clean | 2.5 |
| Destroyer Kaputt | 3.0 |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All | 3.0 |
| Cold War Kids Mine is Yours | 2.0 |
| Adele 21 | 2.5 |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man | 2.5 |
| The Carrier Blind To What Is Right | 2.5 |
| Mitochondrion Parasignosis | 2.5 |
| Iceage New Brigade | 2.5 |
| Alda Tahoma | 3.0 |
| Universum Mortuus Machina | 2.5 |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) | 3.0 |
| Horn of the Rhino Grengus | 3.0 |
| 2010 |
| The Damned Things Ironiclast | 3.0 |
| a decent sandwich made from bread with really good crust.r"mmmmmm! this is - aw." |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 3.0 |
| Circa Survive Appendage | 2.5 |
| Blindead Affliction XXIX II MCMXCVI | 4.0 |
| After the Burial In Dreams | 2.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor Live in London | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker A New Heavenly Body | 3.0 |
| Julie Christmas The Bad Wife | 3.0 |
| Black Dub Black Dub | 3.0 |
| Electric Wizard Black Masses | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell | 3.5 |
| dB soundworks Super Meat Boy! | 4.0 |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow | 3.0 |
| Finally adopted a poppy sensibility. "Back and Forth" is so Torche-esque! |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke | 3.0 |
| blah blah blah jazz blah blah blah progcore blah blah blah Mastodon blah blah blah jazz |
| Kno Death Is Silent | 3.5 |
| Chiodos Illuminaudio | 2.5 |
| Powerglove Saturday Morning Apocalypse | 3.0 |
| The Secret Solve Et Coagula | 3.0 |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest | 4.0 |
| Torche Songs for Singles | 3.0 |
| Cloudkicker Beacons | 3.0 |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place | 2.5 |
| Funeral for a Friend The Young And Defenseless | 3.0 |
| The Word Alive Deceiver | 2.5 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 3.0 |
| Within the Ruins Invade | 3.0 |
| The Sword Warp Riders | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Special Moves | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Live from Orensanz | 2.5 |
| Sundowner We Chase the Waves | 3.0 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 3.5 |
| Menomena Mines | 3.0 |
| Called to Arms Peril and the Patient | 3.0 |
| unique, progressively minded riff-based grooves, sweeping, competent vocals, and great guitar tone. you will absolutely appreciate this more if you play guitar. |
| The Acacia Strain Wormwood | 2.0 |
| It's an addition problem. The terms are generic guitar playing, generic drum patterns and unoriginal songwriting. Impossibly, however, the sum is 'good music'.rGo figure. |
| Hans Zimmer Inception | 3.5 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Blessed & Cursed | 3.0 |
| Norma Jean Meridional | 3.0 |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot | 3.5 |
| Crafting an album nearly endlessly listenable is no easy feat. Big Boi's beats are smart and bold, and the flow of his vocal delivery is sublime. |
| Mastodon Jonah Hex: Revenge Gets Ugly EP | 2.5 |
| The new Mastodon EP is everything metalheads hate about Mastodon; it's basically Crack the Skye's pretty little sister. |
| Thou Summit | 3.5 |
| The Roots How I Got Over | 3.5 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 3.5 |
| Eminem Recovery | 2.5 |
| Tokyo Police Club Champ | 2.5 |
| Melvins The Bride Screamed Murder | 2.5 |
| Trap Them Filth Rations | 3.0 |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here | 3.5 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 3.0 |
| Dishammer Under the Sign of the D-beat Mark | 3.0 |
| Harvey Milk A Small Turn of Human Kindness | 3.0 |
| The Black Keys Brothers | 3.5 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 4.0 |
| Howl Full of Hell | 3.0 |
| suffers from repetition and over production, but vocals are very solid and songwriting is top notch. see them live! |
| The National High Violet | 4.5 |
| Bleed from Within Empire | 2.0 |
| THAT ONE RIFF in novelist is groovy as all get-out, but rest of the album is rather unforgettable. still, I'd recommend this over 99% of deathcore. |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 3.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect The Violence Beneath | 2.5 |
| The Abominable Iron Sloth The ID Will Overcome | 2.5 |
| 65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway | 2.5 |
| Admiral Angry A Fire To Burn Down The World | 3.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II | 3.0 |
| Parades Foreign Tapes | 3.0 |
| There's a couple moments that are simply stunning; lots of OK Computer in this. |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 2.5 |
| I think I might have 4'd this once. What the fuck was I thinking? |
| Bison Dark Ages | 3.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 3.5 |
| The Flatliners Cavalcade | 3.5 |
| letlive. Fake History | 3.5 |
| Red Sparowes The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein... | 2.5 |
| Structures All of the Above | 2.5 |
| Barren Earth Curse of the Red River | 3.5 |
| Jonsi Go | 3.0 |
| Brant Bjork Gods And Goddesses | 3.0 |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL | 3.0 |
| Les Discrets Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées | 3.0 |
| John Powell How to Train Your Dragon | 4.0 |
| Samsara Blues Experiment Long Distance Trip | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto 99 Songs of Revolution: Volume I | 2.5 |
| National Sunday Law The Fifth Ape | 3.0 |
| The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights | 3.5 |
| Black Breath Heavy Breathing | 3.0 |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay | 3.5 |
| Liars Sisterworld | 2.5 |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells | 2.5 |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 3.0 |
| Jimi Hendrix Valleys of Neptune | 4.0 |
| Burzum Belus | 2.5 |
| Jaguar Love Hologram Jams | 1.5 |
| a crudely-drawn dick on the tombstone of The Blood Brothers |
| Fang Island Fang Island | 2.5 |
| High on Fire Snakes for the Divine | 3.0 |
| Barn Burner Bangers | 2.5 |
| Nails Unsilent Death | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Alive | 3.5 |
| Gil Scott-Heron I'm New Here | 3.0 |
| Cloudkicker ]]][[[ | 3.0 |
| Lil Wayne Rebirth | 1.0 |
| Flaming Tusk Old, Blackened Century | 2.0 |
| Souleye PPPPPP | 4.0 |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? | 3.0 |
| More Than Life Love Let Me Go | 3.5 |
| one of the greatest endings to an album right here |
| 2009 |
| Circle of Contempt Artifacts in Motion | 3.0 |
| Not feeling this one. Subpar drums, lackluster production, and no memorable riffs warrants a 2, but the layering is solid at least. |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 3.5 |
| Tomas Dvorak Machinarium Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Jesper Kyd Assassin's Creed 2 | 4.0 |
| Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough | 2.5 |
| Swallow the Sun New Moon | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Oblivion EP | 3.0 |
Mastodon's 'Oblivion EP', which was released only in digital format November 2009, is a bit
of a cash grab. the band is currently signed to Warner Bros. Records, and this is a Reprise
release, so i imagine it's just Reprise looking to score a little dough. don't get me wrong,
the tracks are pretty solid, but it's nothing you haven't heard before (except for the
previously unreleased 'The Bit'), and it's really more of a single than an ep. still cool to
have, but mostly as a collector novelty. |
| Nile Those Whom the Gods Detest | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need | 2.5 |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine | 3.0 |
| Shrinebuilder Shrinebuilder | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.5 |
| Priestess Prior to the Fire | 2.5 |
| Russian Circles Geneva | 3.0 |
| Skeletonwitch Breathing the Fire | 3.5 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 3.5 |
| Acid Witch Witch House | 2.5 |
| The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event | 1.5 |
| Ancestors Of Sound Mind | 3.0 |
| Latitudes Agonist | 3.0 |
| Portal Swarth | 3.5 |
| It's not a great challenge to find a record that sounds evil, but Swarth towers high above them all. Describing this record as "menacing" would be a joke. |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| Doomriders Darkness Come Alive | 3.0 |
| Revocation Existence Is Futile | 3.0 |
| The Avett Brothers I and Love and You | 3.5 |
| Immortal All Shall Fall | 3.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 3.0 |
| After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) | 3.0 |
| How to produce a contemporary progressive metal album. |
| Om God Is Good | 3.5 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II | 3.5 |
| Fell Voices Fell Voices | 3.5 |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw | 3.5 |
| Not generally into screamo-esque vocals, but the songwriting here is bold and fun. |
| Burnt By the Sun Heart of Darkness | 3.0 |
| Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next | 2.5 |
| Ahab The Divinity of Oceans | 3.0 |
| Clint Mansell Moon | 4.0 |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Portals | 2.5 |
| Black Pyramid Black Pyramid | 3.0 |
| It's built off slow tempos and thick riffage, but it manages to keep things interesting by occasionally being more prog driven (in the very slightest sense). |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 3.0 |
| Job for a Cowboy Ruination | 2.0 |
| Dysrhythmia Psychic Maps | 2.5 |
| Clutch Strange Cousins From The West | 3.0 |
| Admiral Angry Buster | 3.0 |
| Vildhjarta Omnislash | 3.0 |
| Future of the Left Travels With Myself And Another | 3.0 |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach | 4.0 |
| brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It! | 1.0 |
| Street Sweeper Social Club Street Sweeper Social Club | 2.0 |
| Amorphis Skyforger | 3.5 |
| Pelican Ephemeral | 2.5 |
| Dark Castle Spirited Migration | 3.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 3.5 |
| Michael Giacchino Up | 4.0 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 3.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Angels & Demons | 2.5 |
| Exivious Exivious | 3.0 |
| St. Vincent Actor | 3.0 |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions | 3.5 |
| Dot Dot Curve Til the Wheels Fall Off | 1.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 3.0 |
| Dario Marianelli The Soloist | 2.0 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Portmanteau | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.0 |
| Gets flak for being less prog-oriented, but Crack the Skye is not a great leap from being a more exploratory Neurosis album. |
| Kylesa Static Tensions | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Wrath | 2.5 |
| K'naan Troubadour | 2.5 |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons | 2.5 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 3.5 |
| National Sunday Law La Storia Di Cannibali | 3.0 |
