| 2015 |
| Baroness Purple | 3.5 |
| Holy Fawn Realms | 4.0 |
| Yellow Eyes Sick With Bloom | 4.0 |
| Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard Noeth ac Noeth | 4.0 |
| Enisum Arpitanian Lands | 4.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Paper Mache Dream Balloon | 4.0 |
| Anna von Hausswolff The Miraculous | 4.0 |
| Grimes Art Angels | 4.5 |
| Horn Feldpost | 3.0 |
| Slobber Pup Pole Axe | 4.0 |
| The St Pierre Snake Invasion A Hundred Years A Day | 4.5 |
| Draconian Sovran | 3.5 |
| Hooded Menace Darkness Drips Forth | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Cocksure | 3.5 |
| Demi Lovato Confident | 3.0 |
| Vanessa Carlton Liberman | 4.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Divers | 4.5 |
| Vhol Deeper than Sky | 4.0 |
| Marianas Trench Astoria | 1.5 |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle | 3.0 |
| Drowning Horse Sheltering Sky | 3.5 |
| Kauan Sorni Nai | 4.5 |
| Enshine Singularity | 3.5 |
| Blacklisters Adult | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun | 3.5 |
| Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back | 4.0 |
| Shining (NOR) International Blackjazz Society | 3.5 |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal | 4.5 |
| Protomartyr The Agent Intellect | 4.0 |
| Kowloon Walled City Grievances | 4.0 |
| Jono El Grande Melody Of A Muddled Mason | 2.0 |
| Dog Fashion Disco Ad Nauseam | 4.0 |
| Clutch Psychic Warfare | 4.5 |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda | 3.0 |
| Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness | 5.0 |
| Run the Jewels Meow the Jewels | 1.0 |
| Svalbard One Day All This Will End | 3.5 |
| Skepticism Ordeal | 4.5 |
| My Dying Bride Feel the Misery | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls | 4.0 |
| Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz | 1.0 |
| Ahab The Boats of the Glen Carrig | 4.0 |
| Down I Go You're Lucky God, That I Cannot Reach You | 4.0 |
| Fuck the Facts Desire Will Rot | 4.0 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion | 4.5 |
| Gentlebeast coming in with his "everything is a 5 or a 1" rating system, fucking up Carly Rae's fucking well deserved 4. Explain yourself. |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora | 4.5 |
| The White Buffalo Love & The Death of Damnation | 3.5 |
| Looming Nailbiter | 4.5 |
| Advent Sorrow As All Light Leaves Her | 4.0 |
| Blood Of The Black Owl WARmth | 3.5 |
| Frank Turner Positive Songs for Negative People | 2.5 |
| Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction | 3.0 |
| Eszter Balint Airless Midnight | 4.0 |
| Abandoned Places The Funereal Call | 4.0 |
| Krallice Ygg Huur | 2.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Most Lamentable Tragedy | 4.5 |
| Gunship Gunship | 4.0 |
| Locrian Infinite Dissolution | 4.0 |
| We Lost the Sea Departure Songs | 5.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic | 2.0 |
| Refused Freedom | 3.5 |
| It's a fun album. Not much more and nothing less. But seriously, Refused, shouting "God is dead!" stopped being edgy around 1882. |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses | 4.5 |
| Amigo the Devil Decompositions | 3.5 |
| Hilary Duff Breathe In. Breathe Out. | 1.5 |
| Mischief Brew This Is Not For Children | 4.0 |
| Jenny Hval Apocalypse, girl | 4.5 |
| Sun Kil Moon Universal Themes | 3.5 |
| Rolo Tomassi Grievances | 4.0 |
| Leprous The Congregation | 3.5 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Quarters | 3.5 |
| Tau Cross Tau Cross | 4.5 |
| Jim O'Rourke Simple Songs | 4.0 |
| Twenty One Pilots Blurryface | 1.0 |
| William Fitzsimmons Pittsburgh | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Dark Bird Is Home | 4.5 |
| Prurient Frozen Niagara Falls | 4.5 |
| Dent Eyeballs | 4.0 |
| Chris Stapleton Traveller | 3.0 |
| Hop Along Painted Shut | 5.0 |
| Torres Sprinter | 4.0 |
| Kamasi Washington The Epic | 3.5 |
| Hiatus Kaiyote Choose Your Weapon | 4.5 |
| Metz Metz II | 4.0 |
| Boris Urban Dance | 4.0 |
| Boris Asia | 3.5 |
| ostraca deathless | 4.0 |
| Weedpecker II | 3.5 |
| Bell Witch Four Phantoms | 4.0 |
| Drudkh A Furrow Cut Short | 3.0 |
Don't get the recent Drudkh hate. Definitely not at the same level as they were towards the
start
of their career, but these tracks still do some alright melancholy even with the
atmosphere more diminished. |
| Bosse-de-Nage All Fours | 4.5 |
| Acid King Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere | 3.0 |
| Botanist Hammer of Botany | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Beat the Champ | 3.5 |
| Marriages Salome | 4.5 |
| Minsk The Crash and the Draw | 4.0 |
| Billy Woods Today, I Wrote Nothing | 4.0 |
| Therapy? Disquiet | 3.0 |
| Gotsu Totsu Kotsu Retributive Justice | 3.5 |
| Tricot AND | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.0 |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death | 4.0 |
| Dodheimsgard A Umbra Omega | 4.5 |
| Karyn Crisis' Gospel of the Witches Salem's Wounds | 3.5 |
| Enslaved In Times | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase. | 4.0 |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted | 3.5 |
| Jeff Rosenstock We Cool? | 4.0 |
| Pile You're Better Than This | 3.5 |
| Black Howling O Sangue e a Terra | 4.5 |
| Wand Golem | 3.5 |
| Carach Angren This Is No Fairytale | 2.0 |
| Ethereal Shroud They Became the Falling Ash | 4.5 |
| Utstott Hjorungavagr | 3.5 |
| Mastery Valis | 4.0 |
| Drowning the Light From the Abyss | 3.5 |
| Misthyrming Söngvar elds og óreiðu | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie Sauna | 4.5 |
| SUMAC The Deal | 4.0 |
| Iwan Rheon Dinard | 4.0 |
| Black Sheep Wall I'm Going to Kill Myself | 2.5 |
| Jessica Pratt On Your Own Love Again | 3.5 |
| Lightning Bug Floaters | 3.5 |
| The Smith Street Band Wipe That Shit-Eating Grin Off Your Punchable Face | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World | 4.5 |
| Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo and Youth | 4.0 |
| Preoccupations Viet Cong | 4.0 |
| Bjork Vulnicura | 4.5 |
| Addaura ...And The Lamps Expire | 3.5 |
| Orden Ogan Ravenhead | 3.5 |
| Really solid power metal. Also, really fucking disappointing after To the End, which is top 3 power metal all time. |
| Mechina Acheron | 1.5 |
| Sterile as fuck. Nothing interesting going on here, and it's so clean that it even washes away any real power behind the heaviness. |
| Oaks of Bethel Movements of Fire and Shadow I-III | 4.0 |
| 2014 |
| Iona Grove Breathe | 4.5 |
| D'Angelo Black Messiah | 3.5 |
| Nicki Minaj The Pinkprint | 3.0 |
| SOUL GLO " " | 3.5 |
| Dir En Grey Arche | 4.0 |
| Macaroom Homephone TE | 4.0 |
| Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth | 4.5 |
| Still hoping that one day people stop comparing Rishloo to Tool. At this point, they're fucking hugely different bands. |
| Primordial Where Greater Men Have Fallen | 4.5 |
| Kitty FROSTBITE | 4.0 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Belong/Betray | 4.5 |
| Job for a Cowboy Sun Eater | 3.0 |
| Nightingale Retribution | 4.5 |
| Dan Swano yet again turns 80s inspired cheese into a fucking art form. |
| Pain of Salvation Falling Home | 4.0 |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God II | 4.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel | 3.5 |
| Einsturzende Neubauten Lament | 4.5 |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God I | 3.5 |
| Mark Kozelek Sings Christmas Carols | 2.5 |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Pandemonium | 2.0 |
| There's a guitar, and it plays the notes, and the drums are like TSS-BOOM-CRASH-BUDDABUDDABUDDABLAM, and wow, Cavalera Conspiracy really turned vibrations into notes on this one, game changer, holy cow. |
| Soen Tellurian | 3.5 |
| The Xcerts There Is Only You | 4.5 |
| Falls of Rauros Believe in No Coming Shore | 3.5 |
| Meth Drinker OIL | 4.0 |
| The Smith Street Band Throw Me in the River | 4.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard I'm In Your Mind Fuzz | 4.0 |
| Chief Keef Back From The Dead 2 | 3.0 |
| Obituary Inked in Blood | 2.5 |
| Pretty weak and standard, but it isn't offensively bad or anything, either. |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 | 4.0 |
| Dawnbringer Night Of The Hammer | 3.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Desideratum | 3.5 |
| Horrendous Ecdysis | 4.0 |
| Haken Restoration | 2.5 |
| First Haken release I'm not too enamored with. Very few of the melodies stick with me, and it's starting to sound scarily close to a pure wank band... |
| Devin Townsend Project Z2 | 2.5 |
| Sky Blue is 4.5. Dark Matters somewhere between 3/3.5. |
| Taylor Swift 1989 | 3.5 |
| Einherjer Av Oss, For Oss | 3.0 |
| The Twilight Sad Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave | 4.0 |
| Kiasmos Kiasmos | 3.5 |
| Wrekmeister Harmonies Then It All Came Down | 4.5 |
| Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Coffins on Io | 4.5 |
| KMFDM Our Time Will Come | 2.0 |
| This album is like swimming in a pool full of a cum. It originated in something energetic and fun, but as time went on it started to grow more thin and insubstantial until here we are, trying to not get swimmer's ear from all the watery hours-old jizm. |
| Today Is the Day Animal Mother | 4.0 |
| Menace Ruine Venus Armata | 4.0 |
| Couch Slut My Life as a Woman | 4.0 |
| Arizmenda Stillbirth in the Temple of Venus | 4.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry | 3.5 |
| Winterfylleth The Divination Of Antiquity | 4.5 |
| Godflesh A World Lit Only by Fire | 3.0 |
| Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket Den sorgligaste musiken i varlden | 4.5 |
| Iceage Plowing into the Field of Love | 4.5 |
| Volahn Aq' Ab' Al’ | 4.0 |
| Tove Lo Queen of the Clouds | 4.0 |
| Electric Wizard Time to Die | 3.0 |
| Lights Little Machines | 4.5 |
| Jenn Champion Cool Choices | 4.5 |
| Poets of the Fall Jealous Gods | 4.5 |
Got really drunk one night and had just a massive emotional reactions I've ever had to an
album to this record, tears and all. Thanks, alcohol! Thanks, Poets! |
| Ingurgitating Oblivion Continuum Of Absence | 3.0 |
| Xerath III | 3.0 |
| It still sounds sterile as shit, but at least the vocals are much improved, and the music doesn't send me into a lifeless stupor nearly every second. |
| Vance Joy Dream Your Life Away | 1.5 |
| Irreversible Surface | 4.5 |
| Krieg Transient | 4.0 |
| Solstafir Otta | 4.5 |
| Opeth Pale Communion | 3.5 |
| The Wytches Annabel Dream Reader | 3.5 |
| Trioscapes Digital Dream Sequence | 3.0 |
| Midnight No Mercy for Mayhem | 4.0 |
| Kairon IRSE! Ujubasajuba | 4.5 |
| Biffy Clyro Similarities | 4.5 |
| Panopticon Roads to the North | 4.0 |
| Dog Fashion Disco Sweet Nothings | 4.5 |
| It ain't Adultery, but how could anyone reasonably follow that? It's fucking great in its own right. And so great to see these guys haven't lost their touch. |
| Street Sects Gentrification II: Broken Windows, Sunken Ceilings | 3.5 |
| Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties We Don't Have Each Other | 4.5 |
| '68 In Humor and Sadness | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown | 4.5 |
| Allegaeon Elements of the Infinite | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 2.5 |
| Mournful Congregation Concrescence of the Sophia | 4.0 |
| A Sunny Day in Glasgow Sea When Absent | 4.0 |
| Cannabis Corpse From Wisdom to Baked | 3.0 |
| Musk Ox Woodfall | 4.5 |
| Boris Noise | 4.0 |
| White Lung Deep Fantasy | 4.0 |
| Keaton Henson Romantic Works | 4.0 |
| Incantation Dirges of Elysium | 4.0 |
| Mayhem Esoteric Warfare | 3.5 |
| Trap Them Blissfucker | 4.0 |
| Question Doomed Passages | 4.0 |
| Glass Animals Zaba | 4.0 |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part I: Niggas on the Moon | 4.5 |
| Saor Aura | 4.5 |
| Burzum The Ways of Yore | 3.0 |
| Mingle Harde Mongol Horde | 4.0 |
| Renounced The Melancholy We Ache | 3.0 |
| Lankum Cold Old Fire | 4.0 |
| Kae Tempest Everybody Down | 3.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Some Heavy Ocean | 4.5 |
| Roselit Bone Blacken & Curl | 4.0 |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool | 4.5 |
| Epica The Quantum Enigma | 4.5 |
| Swans To Be Kind | 5.0 |
| Closure in Moscow Pink Lemonade | 3.5 |
| Noneuclid Metatheosis | 3.0 |
| AJJ Christmas Island | 3.5 |
| Dead Congregation Promulgation of the Fall | 3.5 |
| Spectral Lore III | 4.5 |
| Lord Mantis Death Mask | 4.0 |
| Schammasch Contradiction | 4.5 |
| Dopelord Black Arts, Riff Worship & Weed Cult | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants | 5.0 |
| The Menzingers Rented World | 3.5 |
| Xiu Xiu Unclouded Sky | 4.0 |
| The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li | 3.5 |
| Thantifaxath Sacred White Noise | 4.0 |
| Woods With Light And With Love | 4.5 |
| Viper the Rapper Kill Urself My Man | 3.5 |
| Protomartyr Under Color of Official Right | 4.0 |
| Foxy Shazam Gonzo | 2.5 |
| Chevelle La Gárgola | 4.0 |
| Woman Is The Earth Depths | 3.5 |
| The Sad Bastard Book Club The Crow Nose Quartet's "Carrion, My Wayward Son | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 2.5 |
| The Joy of Motion, or Tosin Abasi writes another wank album without a trace of emotion and hopes soulless technical playing and an occasional groove will get him by, Pt. III |
| Yvette Young Acoustics | 4.0 |
| Future Islands Singles | 4.5 |
| Twilight III: Beneath Trident's Tomb | 2.5 |
| Coffinworm IV.I.VIII | 3.5 |
| Heavy! |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Oddments | 1.5 |
| Intervals A Voice Within | 2.5 |
| Mount Salem Endless | 4.0 |
| Morbus Chron Sweven | 4.5 |
| Conan Blood Eagle | 3.5 |
| Destrage Are You Kidding Me? No. | 3.5 |
| Flaming Row Mirage - A Portrayal of Figures | 2.5 |
| BABYMETAL BABYMETAL | 2.0 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 4.5 |
| GridLink Longhena | 4.0 |
| William Fitzsimmons Lions | 4.5 |
| Slough Feg Digital Resistance | 3.5 |
| Slothrust Of Course You Do | 4.0 |
| Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire for No Witness | 4.5 |
| Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation | 3.5 |
| Woods of Desolation As the Stars | 4.5 |
| Sun Worship Elder Giants | 4.0 |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji | 4.0 |
| Hurray For The Riff Raff Small Town Heroes | 4.0 |
| Current 93 I Am The Last Of All The Field That Fell | 4.0 |
| Behemoth The Satanist | 4.5 |
| Atomic Ape Swarm | 3.0 |
| Street Sects The Morning After the Night We Raped Death | 3.0 |
| Xiu Xiu Angel Guts: Red Classroom | 4.0 |
| Sunn O))) and Ulver Terrestrials | 3.5 |
| Steven Wilson Cover Version | 4.5 |
| Grand Magus Triumph and Power | 3.0 |
| The Lawrence Arms Metropole | 4.0 |
| Major Parkinson Twilight Cinema | 4.5 |
| Alcest Shelter | 4.0 |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues | 4.5 |
| Hail Spirit Noir Oi Magoi | 3.5 |
| Abandoned Places Strider of Dead Suns | 4.0 |
| Indian From All Purity | 4.5 |
| Anomaly in Effigy Holy Mother, Sacred Whore | 4.0 |
| Iced Earth Plagues of Babylon | 2.5 |
| Moon Clavicula Nox | 3.0 |
| Stern Entitlement | 4.0 |
| Annot Rhül Leviathan | 2.5 |
| 2013 |
| El-Ahrairah Unreleased | 4.5 |
| Alghazanth The Three-faced Pilgrim | 4.0 |
| Seiko Oomori Zettai Shoujo | 4.0 |
| Sea Power From The Sea To The Land Beyond | 4.5 |
| Beastmilk Climax | 4.0 |
| Deicide In the Minds of Evil | 3.0 |
| There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright | 5.0 |
| Kauan Pirut | 3.0 |
| Death Grips Government Plates | 4.0 |
| The Lion's Daughter and Indian Blanket A Black Sea | 4.5 |
| Obliteration Black Death Horizon | 4.0 |
| Lady Gaga Artpop | 2.5 |
| Jamie Lenman Muscle Memory | 4.5 |
| Abandoned Places Giantlands | 3.5 |
| Falkenbach Asa | 3.0 |
| A Lot Like Birds No Place | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Volition | 3.5 |
| Sky Ferreira Night Time, My Time | 3.0 |
| Matt Elliott Only Myocardial Infarction Can Break Your Heart | 5.0 |
| ERRA Augment | 2.0 |
| Whores. Clean | 3.5 |
| After they release a couple more albums and all the hipsters start talking about how they used to be so much better, one must wonder, is it really a bad thing for Whores. to sell out? |
| Vaura The Missing | 4.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Float Along. Fill Your Lungs | 4.0 |
| Inquisition Obscure Verses for the Multiverse | 4.0 |
| Ichiko Aoba 0 | 4.5 |
| Katy Perry Prism | 2.0 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Valonielu | 2.0 |
| Red Fang Whales and Leeches | 3.0 |
| Chief Keef Almighty So | 4.0 |
| Melt-Banana Fetch | 3.0 |
| Darkside Psychic | 3.0 |
| Conducting from the Grave Conducting from the Grave | 1.5 |
| Tricot The | 4.5 |
| The All Seeing Hand Mechatronics | 4.0 |
| In Solitude Sister | 4.0 |
| Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita Clychau Dibon | 5.0 |
| Beketh Nexehmu De Svarta Riterna | 3.5 |
| Scar the Martyr Scar the Martyr | 1.0 |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe | 4.5 |
| Preterite From the Wells | 4.5 |
| Windhand Soma | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Origins | 2.5 |
| This album is basically the ramen noodles of post rock. |
| De Staat I_CON | 4.0 |
| The White Buffalo Shadows, Greys & Evil Ways | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys AM | 1.5 |
| The Necks Open | 4.0 |
| Preoccupations Cassette | 3.5 |
| The Safety Fire Mouth of Swords | 3.5 |
| Neko Case The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight... | 4.0 |
| The Julie Ruin Run Fast | 3.5 |
| Haken The Mountain | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo | 4.5 |
| The Jungle Giants Learn To Exist | 2.0 |
| Blackfield Blackfield IV | 3.0 |
| Days N Daze Rogue Taxidermy | 4.5 |
| Watain The Wild Hunt | 3.0 |
| Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X | 4.5 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Labyrinth | 2.5 |
| Quiet Hollers I Am the Morning | 4.0 |
| The Smith Street Band Don't Fuck With Our Dreams | 4.0 |
| Witherscape The Inheritance | 4.5 |
| Revocation Revocation | 4.0 |
| Karnivool Asymmetry | 3.0 |
| The Civil Wars The Civil Wars | 3.0 |
| Mitski Retired from Sad, New Career in Business | 2.5 |
| Julia Holter Loud City Song | 4.5 |
| Black Cilice Summoning the Night | 4.0 |
| Yellow Eyes Hammer of Night | 3.0 |
| Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée... | 4.0 |
| Wow, this seems even Grisier than their last album. |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful | 3.0 |
| Billy Woods Dour Candy | 3.5 |
| Sithu Aye 26 | 4.0 |
| Locrian Return To Annihilation | 3.5 |
| Okkyung Lee Ghil | 4.0 |
| Abandoned Places Elderhills | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit The Migration | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Halo of Blood | 2.5 |
| Wrekmeister Harmonies You've Always Meant So Much To Me | 4.5 |
| Jason Isbell Southeastern | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath 13 | 2.5 |
| These New Puritans Field of Reeds | 5.0 |
| Dark Buddha Rising Dakhmandal | 3.5 |
| Portugal. The Man Evil Friends | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 3.5 |
| Bruce Soord with Jonas Renkse Wisdom of Crowds | 3.5 |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity | 3.5 |
| Full of Hell Rudiments of Mutilation | 4.0 |
| Shining (NOR) One One One | 3.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Construct | 4.0 |
| Burzum Sol austan, Mani vestan | 3.5 |
| Blood Ceremony The Eldritch Dark | 4.5 |
| Svart Crown Profane | 4.0 |
| The Front Bottoms Talon of the Hawk | 4.5 |
| Leprous Coal | 3.5 |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 4.5 |
| The Cat Empire Steal the Light | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.5 |
| Mindless Self Indulgence How I Learned to Stop Giving A Shit and Love MSI | 1.5 |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation | 4.5 |
| The Monolith Deathcult Tetragrammaton | 3.5 |
| Polkadot Cadaver Last Call in Jonestown | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City | 3.0 |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled | 4.5 |
| Fitz and the Tantrums More Than Just A Dream | 2.0 |
| Retox YPLL | 4.0 |
| Cerekloth In the Midst of Life We Are In Death | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve | 3.5 |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury | 3.5 |
| Purson The Circle and the Blue Door | 4.0 |
| The Veils Time Stays, We Go | 3.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 4.5 |
| Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Save Rock and Roll | 1.0 |
| Vhol Vhol | 4.0 |
| Osees Floating Coffin | 4.5 |
| Ninja Sex Party Strawberries and Cream | 3.5 |
| Csejthe Reminiscence | 4.0 |
| Wormlust The Feral Wisdom | 4.5 |
| Bambara Dreamviolence | 4.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam | 4.0 |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual | 4.5 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.0 |
| Ash Borer Bloodlands | 3.5 |
| Amaranthe The Nexus | 4.0 |
This is fast food right here. I know the quality may be questionable, but god damn it, it tastes so I good and I
can't stop eating it. It's Amaranthe's fault I'm obese. |
| Senses Fail Renacer | 3.5 |
| Kvelertak Meir | 3.5 |
| Clutch Earth Rocker | 3.5 |
| Kacey Musgraves Same Trailer Different Park | 4.5 |
| Inter Arma Sky Burial | 2.5 |
| Woodkid The Golden Age | 2.0 |
| Phosphorescent Muchacho | 4.5 |
| Gotsu Totsu Kotsu Legend of Shadow | 3.0 |
| Boris Präparat | 4.0 |
| Jute Gyte Discontinuities | 4.5 |
| Big Big Train English Electric Part 2 | 4.0 |
| Tribulation The Formulas of Death | 4.5 |
| Wolfchant Embraced By Fire | 3.0 |
| The Drones I See Seaweed | 5.0 |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) | 4.5 |
| Aoty 2013. I waited to December to confirm it. Not that I didn't already have a pretty good idea back in January. |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance | 3.5 |
| Omnium Gatherum Beyond | 4.5 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor | 4.0 |
| Devourment Conceived in Sewage | 2.0 |
| Krypts Unending Degradation | 4.0 |
| Iceage You're Nothing | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away | 5.0 |
| The Fall of Every Season Amends | 4.5 |
| Botanist IV: Mandragora | 3.5 |
| Julia Brown to be close to you | 3.0 |
| Rings of Saturn Dingir | 1.5 |
| Silverstein This Is How the Wind Shifts | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 4.5 |
| Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse | 4.0 |
| Primitive Man Scorn | 3.0 |
| Biffy Clyro Opposites | 4.0 |
| Cultes Des Ghoules Henbane | 4.0 |
| Arbouretum Coming Out Of The Fog | 4.5 |
| Riverside Shrine Of New Generation Slaves | 4.5 |
| Skagos Anarchic | 4.0 |
| Amigo the Devil Diggers | 4.0 |
| Tiny Moving Parts This Couch Is Long & Full of Friendship | 3.0 |
| Twenty One Pilots Vessel | 2.0 |
| Syzygy A Glorious Disturbance | 3.5 |
| Roselit Bone Not Very Blue At All | 4.0 |
| Dusty |
| 2011 |
| Intervals The Space Between | 2.5 |
| Whores. Ruiner | 4.0 |
| There Will Be Fireworks Because, Because | 4.5 |
| Emilie Simon Franky Knight | 4.0 |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull | 3.5 |
| The Black Keys El Camino | 1.5 |
| Cormorant Dwellings | 3.5 |
| Drowning the Light Oceans of Eternity | 4.0 |
| Nightwish Imaginaerum | 1.5 |
| The Man-Eating Tree Harvest | 4.5 |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden | 2.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - The Desanctification | 4.0 |
| Ulver The Norwegian National Opera | 4.0 |
| Forteresse Crepuscule d'Octobre | 3.5 |
| Darkside Darkside | 2.5 |
| Doomsday Student A Jumper's Handbook | 4.0 |
| Esoteric Paragon of Dissonance | 4.0 |
| Thy Catafalque Rengeteg | 3.5 |
| My Dying Bride The Barghest o’ Whitby | 4.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 1.5 |
| Panopticon Social Disservices | 4.0 |
| Mournful Congregation The Book of Kings | 4.5 |
| The Field Looping State of Mind | 4.0 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Kosmonument | 2.5 |
| Haken Visions | 4.0 |
| Tom Waits Bad As Me | 4.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Willoughby's Beach | 3.5 |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow | 4.5 |
| Evile Five Serpent's Teeth | 2.0 |
| Iced Earth Dystopia | 2.5 |
| Solstafir Svartir Sandar | 4.5 |
| Pain of Salvation Road Salt Two | 4.0 |
| Fuck the Facts Die Miserable | 4.0 |
| Bjork Biophilia | 4.0 |
| Lights Siberia | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Wildlife | 4.0 |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Wolfroy Goes To Town | 4.0 |
| Ben Howard Every Kingdom | 3.0 |
| Warbringer Worlds Torn Asunder | 3.0 |
| Rhinocervs RH-07 | 4.5 |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning | 5.0 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.5 |
| Sithu Aye Cassini | 3.0 |
| Amebix Sonic Mass | 4.5 |
| AJJ Knife Man | 4.0 |
| Fyrnask Bluostar | 2.5 |
| Opeth Heritage | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 3.0 |
| Anthrax Worship Music | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage | 3.0 |
| A Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory for the Sullen | 4.0 |
| Unison Unison | 4.0 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 3.5 |
| The Front Bottoms The Front Bottoms | 4.0 |
| Full of Hell Roots Of Earth Are Consuming My Home | 4.0 |
| Midnight Odyssey Funerals from the Astral Sphere | 3.5 |
| Julia Holter Tragedy | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You | 1.0 |
| The Agonist The Escape | 2.0 |
| Antichrist (Canada) Sacrament of Blood | 3.5 |
| Leprous Bilateral | 5.0 |
| Revocation Chaos of Forms | 3.5 |
| Blue October Any Man in America | 3.5 |
| YOB Atma | 4.0 |
| Today Is the Day Pain Is a Warning | 4.0 |
| Main Attrakionz 808s and Dark Grapes II | 4.5 |
| The Weather Station All of It Was Mine | 4.0 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony | 3.0 |
| Vale of Pnath The Prodigal Empire | 2.5 |
| Dir En Grey Dum Spiro Spero | 4.5 |
| Flourishing The Sum of All Fossils | 4.5 |
| Death Toll 80k Harsh Realities | 4.0 |
| Njiqahdda ...And One by One Crept Silently to Rest | 4.0 |
| Vanessa Carlton Rabbits on the Run | 4.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation | 4.5 |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead | 3.5 |
| Disma Towards the Megalith | 3.0 |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors | 4.5 |
| Grimoire À La Lumière des Cendres | 3.0 |
| The Smith Street Band No One Gets Lost Anymore | 4.0 |
| Botanist I: The Suicide Tree / II: A Rose From the Dead | 3.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction | 2.5 |
| Symphony X Iconoclast | 2.0 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) | 3.5 |
| Arch Enemy Khaos Legions | 1.5 |
| Origin Entity | 3.5 |
| Amorphis The Beginning of Times | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 4.0 |
| Alestorm Back Through Time | 1.5 |
| Departures When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted | 3.5 |
| Ramshackle Glory Live The Dream | 4.5 |
| Autopsy Macabre Eternal | 3.0 |
| Shining (SWE) VII: Fodd Forlorare | 3.5 |
| Foster the People Torches | 1.0 |
| Clearest example of the garbage fire that is modern pop trying to claim some semblance of "indie," whatever the fuck that means anymore. Completely unlistenable from start to finish. |
| Amon Tobin ISAM | 4.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Passion | 3.5 |
| Liturgy Aesthethica | 2.5 |
| I listen to this album, and an hour later have forgotten that it exists. |
| Polkadot Cadaver Sex Offender | 3.5 |
| Enslaved The Sleeping Gods | 3.0 |
| Novembers Doom Aphotic | 4.0 |
| Osees Castlemania | 2.5 |
| Matana Roberts COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres | 4.5 |
| Xerath II | 2.0 |
| The instrumentation on this album is passable. The vocals are nothing to write home about, but they don't kill the music either. Generally, combining these two elements would provide a 2.5 average rating, maybe a low 3. But the songwriting on II is just so goddamn boring, I don't remember anything about the music just played mere seconds before. This stuff could be hospital anesthetic for brain surgery. Too heavy to lull you to sleep, but it puts you in quite the stupor. |
| Arizmenda Without Circumference Nor Center | 4.5 |
| Primordial Redemption at the Puritan's Hand | 4.0 |
| Death Grips Exmilitary | 3.0 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 3.5 |
| Krallice Diotima | 3.0 |
| Altar of Plagues Mammal | 4.0 |
| Ulver Wars of the Roses | 4.0 |
| Vomitory Opus Mortis VIII | 4.5 |
| Blackfield Welcome To My DNA | 2.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Sect(s) | 3.5 |
| Septicflesh The Great Mass | 4.0 |
| Indian Guiltless | 3.5 |
| Red Fang Murder the Mountains | 3.5 |
| 1000 Funerals Butterfly Decadence | 3.5 |
| Kampfar Mare | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising | 4.0 |
| Emery We Do What We Want | 4.5 |
| Obscura Omnivium | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats All Eternals Deck | 4.0 |
| Britney Spears Femme Fatale | 3.0 |
| Wormrot Dirge | 3.0 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 4.0 |
| William Fitzsimmons Gold In The Shadow | 4.0 |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology | 4.5 |
| Supercell Today is a Beautiful Day | 4.0 |
| AWOLNATION Megalithic Symphony | 2.0 |
| Screeching Weasel First World Manifesto | 4.0 |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft | 4.5 |
| Yhdarl Ave Maria | 4.0 |
| Burzum Fallen | 4.0 |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever | 2.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II | 2.0 |
| Adalita Adalita | 4.5 |
| El-Ahrairah Rotted Roots | 4.0 |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 4.5 |
| Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows | 4.5 |
| Dropkick Murphys Going Out In Style | 4.0 |
| Blood Ceremony Living With The Ancients | 4.5 |
| Weedeater Jason the Dragon | 2.5 |
| Wolfchant Call Of The Black Winds | 4.0 |
| After the incredibly disappointing that was Determined Damnation, Wolfchant has returned, and is (almost) better than ever. Their production is better than it has ever been, the vocals are once again diverse, and even utilize more of a chanting style on certain sections that flows quite well with the harsher black metal croaks and death growls, and the melodies are the best they've been this side of Bloody Tales Of Disgraced Lands. Welcome back, Wolfchant. |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason | 4.5 |
| Moonsorrow Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa | 4.5 |
| Aaskereia Dort, wo das alte Bose ruht | 3.5 |
| Deicide To Hell With God | 2.5 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.0 |
| Fen Epoch | 4.0 |
| Dark Buddha Rising Abyssolute Transfinite | 4.0 |
| The Civil Wars Barton Hollow | 4.0 |
| The Smith Street Band South East Facing Wall | 3.5 |
| Tuck From Hell Thrashing | 1.5 |
| Adele 21 | 1.5 |
| Tartar Lamb Polyimage of Known Exits | 4.0 |
| Ichiko Aoba Origami | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead | 4.5 |
| Mitochondrion Parasignosis | 4.0 |
| Natural Snow Buildings Waves of the Random Sea | 4.5 |
| Iceage New Brigade | 3.5 |
| Drifting Icon Submerged in the Andromeda | 2.5 |
| Universum Mortuus Machina | 2.0 |
| Arbouretum The Gathering | 4.0 |
| Abner Jay Last Ole Minstrel Man | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) | 3.5 |
| Sun Caged The Lotus Effect | 4.0 |
| Belzebong Sonic Scapes and Weedy Grooves | 3.0 |
| Tropic of Cancer The End Of All Things | 3.5 |
| Abu Lahab As Chastened Angels Descend Into The Thoracic Tomb | 2.5 |
| 2010 |
| Yesterdays Colours Caffè | 2.0 |
| 4 Bonjour's Parties Okapi Horn | 3.5 |
| Seventh Wonder The Great Escape | 4.5 |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit | 4.5 |
| Locrian The Crystal World | 3.5 |
| Manowar Battle Hymns MMXI | 2.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys | 1.0 |
| Inquisition Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical... | 4.5 |
| Urfaust Der freiwillige Bettler | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric | 4.0 |
| Sargeist Let The Devil In | 3.5 |
| The Enid Journey's End | 4.0 |
| Electric Wizard Black Masses | 4.0 |
| Those Poor Bastards Satan Is Watching | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell | 5.0 |
| Exemption Public Cemetery Party | 3.5 |
| Senses Fail The Fire | 2.5 |
| Amigo the Devil Manimals | 3.0 |
| Krieg The Isolationist | 3.5 |
| Pure Reason Revolution Hammer & Anvil | 2.0 |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Song Islands Vol. 2 | 4.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous | 4.0 |
| Major Parkinson Songs From A Solitary Home | 4.5 |
| Woe Quietly, Undramatically | 4.5 |
| All That Remains ...For We Are Many | 2.0 |
| TesseracT Concealing Fate | 3.5 |
| Odz Manouk Odz Manouk | 5.0 |
| Destrage The King Is Fat'n'Old | 4.5 |
| Gareth Liddiard Strange Tourist | 5.0 |
| Pile Magic Isn't Real | 4.5 |
| Cough Ritual Abuse | 4.0 |
| Grimes Halfaxa | 4.0 |
| Women Public Strain | 3.5 |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini | 4.5 |
| Afrirampo We Are Uchu no ko | 4.0 |
| Ben Folds Lonely Avenue | 2.5 |
| The Script Science & Faith | 4.0 |
| Dawnbringer Nucleus | 3.5 |
| Drudkh Handful of Stars | 4.0 |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place | 3.5 |
| Kamelot Poetry for the Poisoned | 2.0 |
| Katy Perry Teenage Dream | 3.5 |
| Anamanaguchi Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game - Soundtrack | 2.0 |
| White Lung It's The Evil | 3.5 |
| ARTS Vault of Heaven | 3.0 |
| Accept Blood of the Nations | 4.0 |
| On second thought, I can definitely see what the hype's about. |
| Orbs Asleep Next to Science | 2.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier | 4.5 |
| The Hoosiers The Illusion Of Safety | 2.5 |
| Macaroom room-103 | 3.5 |
| Bongripper Satan Worshipping Doom | 4.0 |
| Mass of the Fermenting Dregs Zero Comma, Irotoridori no Sekai | 3.0 |
| Demiurg Slakthus Gamleby | 3.5 |
| Blind Guardian At the Edge of Time | 4.0 |
| Jesca Hoop Hunting My Dress | 4.5 |
| Darkseed Poison Awaits | 2.5 |
| Blood Revolt Indoctrine | 3.5 |
| Allegaeon Fragments of Form and Function | 4.0 |
| Winterfylleth The Mercian Sphere | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Inception | 2.0 |
| Sun Kil Moon Admiral Fell Promises | 3.0 |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza III: Series of Unfortunate Events | 2.0 |
| United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures | 4.5 |
| Early Graves Goner | 3.5 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 4.0 |
| Yakuza Of Seismic Consequence | 3.5 |
| The Pineapple Thief Someone Here Is Missing | 3.5 |
| Argast i stan Den Intellektuella Härdsmältan | 3.5 |
| The Like Release Me | 4.0 |
| Grave Burial Ground | 4.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Invictus (Iconoclast III) | 4.0 |
| Circle of Dead Children Psalm Of The Grand Destroyer | 2.5 |
| Against Me! White Crosses | 4.0 |
| Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire Songs of Ill Hope and Desperation | 3.5 |
| Nachtmystium Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. 2 | 4.5 |
| Watain Lawless Darkness | 3.5 |
| El-Ahrairah The Blessing | 3.5 |
| Hawthorne Heights Skeletons | 2.0 |
| A Forest of Stars Opportunistic Thieves of Spring | 4.0 |
| Melvins The Bride Screamed Murder | 3.5 |
| The Howling Void Shadows Over The Cosmos | 3.5 |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here | 4.0 |
| Celeste Morte(s) Nee(s) | 4.5 |
| Horn Distanz | 3.0 |
| The Black Keys Brothers | 2.0 |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening | 3.0 |
| Pain of Salvation Road Salt One | 4.5 |
| If you ask me, this is one of their best albums. Pretty radical change in sound, definitely, but they're no the worse off for it. The songs are sometimes wonderfully aggressive, others intensely emotional, always memorable. Great album, from start to finish. |
| Rings of Saturn Embryonic Anomaly | 1.0 |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning | 3.5 |
| Brain Drill Quantum Catastrophe | 2.0 |
| Take a bunch of instruments, and throw them in a blender. Now mash those suckers up into an un-discernible mush, while recording the sound that results. Go ahead, I'll wait. rRight, you're back. Congratulations, you have just created your own home-made Brain Drill album, without any 10 dollar purchase price! (Note: Homemade replication of any other questionable substances may result in police interference in your hidden laboratory.) |
| The National High Violet | 3.5 |
| Phosphorescent Here's To Taking It Easy | 4.0 |
| Osees Warm Slime | 3.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Treats | 2.5 |
| Menace Ruine Union of Irreconcilables | 3.5 |
| Anna von Hausswolff Singing from the Grave | 4.5 |
| Minus the Bear Omni | 3.5 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 2.5 |
| Twilight Monument To Time End | 4.0 |
| 65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway | 2.5 |
| Kayo Dot Coyote | 4.5 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 4.5 |
| Periphery Periphery | 2.5 |
| The Ocean Heliocentric | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 3.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.5 |
| Woe Of Tyrants Threnody | 2.5 |
| Foxy Shazam Foxy Shazam | 4.5 |
| letlive. Fake History | 4.0 |
| Bison Dark Ages | 3.0 |
| Jenn Champion I'm Not As Good At It As You | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone Circle the Wagons | 3.5 |
| The Howling Wind Into The Cryosphere | 4.0 |
| Hour of Penance Paradogma | 2.5 |
| Black Tambourine Black Tambourine | 4.0 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 4.5 |
| Haken Aquarius | 4.5 |
| The Flight of Sleipnir Lore | 4.5 |
| Satanicpornocultshop Arkhaiomelisidonophunikheratos | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.5 |
| Natural Snow Buildings The Centauri Agent | 4.5 |
| Poets of the Fall Twilight Theater | 4.5 |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay | 4.0 |
| Daughters Daughters | 4.5 |
| Burzum Belus | 4.0 |
| It isn't Filosofem (probably my favorite Burzum, although Hvis Lyset tar oss could give it a run for its money), but Belus is really quite excellent, one of the best black metal albums since the turn of the century. And something interesting - I find I like the music even more when I stare at the album cover. The image suits the music absolutely perfectly and seems to even enhance its effect. |
| Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History | 3.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Winter of Mixed Drinks | 4.5 |
| Blood Of The Black Owl A Banishing Ritual | 4.0 |
| Carach Angren Death Came Through a Phantom Ship | 3.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void | 3.5 |
| Borknagar Universal | 2.0 |
| Ash Borer 2009 Demo | 3.5 |
| Nails Unsilent Death | 3.5 |
| Brother Dege Folk Songs of the American Longhair | 4.0 |
| Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats Vol. 1 | 4.5 |
| Xiu Xiu Dear God, I Hate Myself | 4.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!! | 4.5 |
| FACT In the Blink of an Eye | 3.5 |
| Yellow Swans Going Places | 4.0 |
| I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism... iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook | 4.5 |
| Overkill Ironbound | 3.0 |
| The Wonder Years The Upsides | 4.0 |
| The Magnetic Fields Realism | 3.0 |
| Shining (NOR) Blackjazz | 4.5 |
| Ihsahn After | 4.5 |
| Ichiko Aoba Kamisori Otome | 3.0 |
| Sigh Scenes from Hell | 2.5 |
| These New Puritans Hidden | 4.0 |
| Motorpsycho Heavy Metal Fruit | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 1.5 |
| Macklemore The Unplanned Mixtape | 4.0 |
| Kesha Animal | 3.5 |
| Frogg Cafe Bateless Edge | 3.0 |
| Wingnut DishwashersUnion Burn the Earth, Leave it Behind | 4.0 |
| Alex G RACE | 4.0 |
| Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water | 4.0 |
| Nite Jewel Am I Real? | 4.0 |
| Abu Lahab Conversi ad Dominum | 3.0 |
| 2009 |
| From Indian Lakes The Man With Wooden Legs | 3.0 |
| Drowning the Light An Alignment of Dead Stars | 3.0 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War | 3.0 |
| Rishloo Feathergun | 4.0 |
| Chimp Spanner At the Dream's Edge | 4.0 |
| El-Ahrairah El-Ahrairah 2009 Demo | 3.5 |
| Utarm Panic Chamber | 4.0 |
| Dark Buddha Rising Entheomorphosis | 4.5 |
| Dark Funeral Angelus Exuro pro Eternus | 2.5 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted | 3.5 |
| Woods of Desolation Sorh | 2.5 |
| Woods of Ypres Woods 4: The Green Album | 3.5 |
| Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough | 4.0 |
| Biffy Clyro Only Revolutions | 3.5 |
| This album receives far too much flak from long-standing fans of Biffy Clyro, and while this (as well as their previous album, Puzzle) are great departures from what their earlier releases, taken in it's own right Only Revolutions is a fantastically well-made album on all fronts. All the instruments are handled with an almost cinematic flair, Simon Neil's vocal performance is marvelous throughout, and the songs themselves are a distinct cut above the average rock radio fare. My personal favorite track at the moment would be Whoreses, but they all so strong that I find that statement fluctuates by the day. This is album is without a doubt a departure from the Biffy Clyro of the best, but it manages to maintain the brilliance of those albums, and quite frankly, isn't that the most important way for a band to stay the same? |
| Josephine Foster Graphic As A Star | 3.5 |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day | 4.0 |
| Njiqahdda Yrg Alms | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.5 |
| Espers Espers III | 3.5 |
| Planning for Burial Leaving | 4.5 |
| Epica Design Your Universe | 4.5 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 3.5 |
| Arizmenda Within the Vacuum of Infinity... | 4.0 |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living | 3.0 |
| The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come | 3.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| Revocation Existence Is Futile | 3.5 |
| Kowloon Walled City Gambling On The Richter Scale | 4.5 |
| Mario Diaz de Leon Enter Houses Of | 4.5 |
| Immortal All Shall Fall | 2.0 |
| Despised Icon Day Of Mourning | 2.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 3.5 |
| Evile Infected Nations | 1.5 |
| The Twilight Sad Forget The Night Ahead | 4.0 |
| Cormorant Metazoa | 4.0 |
| Miranda Lambert Revolution | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident | 3.5 |
| The main, 55 minute, 14 movement title track is worth a 5 rating, easily. Unfortunately, the album's quality takes a severe dive on the second disk, which, while still an occasionally decent listen, is some of the weakest Porcupine Tree material ever recorded. Still, it's definitely a smaller portion of the record than The Incident (the song), so it doesn't bring down the album rating all that drastically. |
| Om God Is Good | 3.5 |
| AJJ Can't Maintain | 4.0 |
| Jim O'Rourke The Visitor | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner Poetry of the Deed | 3.0 |
| Insomnium Across the Dark | 4.0 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela 11:11 | 4.0 |
| The Grand Astoria I | 3.5 |
| Osees Dog Poison | 1.5 |
| Natural Snow Buildings Shadow Kingdom | 4.5 |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes | 4.5 |
| El-Creepo! El-Creepo! | 4.5 |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw | 4.5 |
| Ghost Brigade Isolation Songs | 4.0 |
| Six Organs Of Admittance Luminous Night | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Evangelion | 3.5 |
| Persefone Shin-Ken | 2.5 |
| Our Lady Peace Burn Burn | 2.0 |
| the GazettE DIM | 4.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow | 4.5 |
| The Dead Weather Horehound | 2.0 |
| YOB The Great Cessation | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie Wind's Poem | 4.5 |
| Shining (SWE) VI - Klagopsalmer | 4.5 |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot | 4.0 |
| Clutch Strange Cousins From The West | 3.5 |
| All Time Low Nothing Personal | 4.0 |
| Nebula Heavy Psych | 3.0 |
| Job for a Cowboy Ruination | 2.0 |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals | 4.0 |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed | 2.5 |
| Klabautamann Merkur | 3.5 |
| Future of the Left Travels With Myself And Another | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 4.0 |
| Causa Sui Summer Sessions Vol. 2 | 4.0 |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach | 4.0 |
| Drudkh Microcosmos | 4.5 |
| Panopticon Collapse | 4.5 |
| Ex Deo Romulus | 2.5 |
| Riverside Anno Domini High Definition | 4.5 |
| Amorphis Skyforger | 4.0 |
| Nails Obscene Humanity | 2.0 |
| Magrudergrind Magrudergrind | 3.5 |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth The Eternal | 4.0 |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 4.5 |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail | 4.5 |
| Havok Burn | 2.5 |
| Alestorm Black Sails at Midnight | 1.5 |
| Current 93 Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 3.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 5.0 |
| Thy Catafalque Roka Hasa Radio | 4.5 |
| Gnaw Their Tongues All The Dread Magnificence of Perversity | 4.5 |
| Thumpermonkey We Bake Our Bread Beneath Her Holy Fire | 4.5 |
| Vomitory Carnage Euphoria | 4.0 |
| Zao Awake? | 3.5 |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple | 3.5 |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions | 4.0 |
| Gallows (UK) Grey Britain | 4.0 |
| Leprous Tall Poppy Syndrome | 4.0 |
| Pile Jerk Routine | 4.0 |
| 88kasyo Junrei First EP | 3.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 2.5 |
| Chord Flora | 4.0 |
| Osees Help | 3.0 |
| Kevin Devine Brother's Blood | 4.5 |
| Wolfchant Determined Damnation | 2.0 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Muukalainen Puhuu | 2.5 |
| Celeste Misanthrope(s) | 4.0 |
| Altar of Plagues White Tomb | 4.5 |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Agorapocalypse | 3.5 |
| TwinSisterMoon The Hollow Mountain | 4.5 |
| Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit | 4.5 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix The Resurrectionists / Night Raider | 4.0 |
| Queensryche American Soldier | 1.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.5 |
| Blue October Approaching Normal | 3.5 |
| Some songs are among their best (Kangaroo Cry, Picking Up the Pieces), but others are near insufferable (Jump Rope). As with most Blue October releases, it's more ambitious and eclectic than your average alternative album, even if it's more uneven than they usually get. |
| The White Buffalo Hogtied Revisited | 4.0 |
| My Dying Bride For Lies I Sire | 4.5 |
| Cobalt Gin | 4.5 |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck | 4.5 |
| Arbouretum Song of the Pearl | 4.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone | 2.5 |
| GuilThee Lustration | 2.5 |
| The Prodigy Invaders Must Die | 4.0 |
| U2 No Line on the Horizon | 1.5 |
| Neko Case Middle Cyclone | 4.5 |
| God Forbid Earthsblood | 2.5 |
| The Agonist Lullabies for the Dormant Mind | 2.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars | 4.0 |
| Obscura Cosmogenesis | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain | 4.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles | 4.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague | 2.5 |
| Wavves Wavvves | 1.5 |
| Drowning the Light The Blood Of The Ancients | 4.5 |
| Natural Snow Buildings Daughter of Darkness | 5.0 |
| The Howling Void Megaliths of the Abyss | 2.5 |
| Solstafir Köld | 4.0 |
| Mass of the Fermenting Dregs World Is Yours | 3.5 |
| Mournful Congregation The June Frost | 4.0 |
| Cattle Decapitation The Harvest Floor | 4.0 |
| Wardruna Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga | 2.5 |
| Fen The Malediction Fields | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 2.0 |
| Xerath I | 1.5 |
| AJJ Operation Stackola | 2.5 |
| Wormrot Abuse | 4.5 |
| Agalloch The Silence of Forgotten Landscapes | 3.0 |
| Zu Carboniferous | 3.0 |
| Abner Jay True Story of Abner Jay | 5.0 |
| The Brave Little Abacus Masked Dancers | 4.5 |
| Moss Tombs of the Blind Drugged | 4.0 |
| Abandon [Swe] The Dead End | 4.0 |
| Blood Of The Black Owl A Feral Spirit | 4.0 |
| Circle of Ouroborus Streams | 4.0 |
| Wooden Veil Wooden Veil | 4.0 |
| Present Barbaro | 4.0 |
| The Necks Silverwater | 4.0 |
| Arrington de Dionyso Malaikat dan Singa | 4.0 |
| 1999 |
| Burzum Hlidskjalf | 3.5 |
| Jim O'Rourke Halfway to a Threeway | 4.5 |
| Taake Nattestid Ser Porten Vid | 3.5 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.5 |
| Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction | 2.5 |
| Vomitory Redemption | 3.0 |
| Korn Issues | 2.0 |
| Amon Amarth The Avenger | 3.5 |
| Coil Musick To Play In The Dark | 4.5 |
| Matthew Good Band Beautiful Midnight | 4.5 |
| UA Turbo | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater has its fair share of detractors (perhaps more than its fair share), many of whom complain of rLaBrie's vocal work killing the music for them. I have always been a huge LaBrie fan, and I would like to use rScenes from a Memory as the album to support my case. LaBrie shows off impressive range and dynamics over rthe course of this winding, nearly inarguable epic. But it isn't just James who clicks on this album; every bit of rthe music works like a puzzle, perhaps at first seeming challenging, confusing. However, eventually the pieces rall fall into place to create an absolutely stunning portrait. Scenes from a Memory is a classic in every sense of rthe word. |
| Pain of Salvation One Hour by the Concrete Lake | 3.0 |
| Opeth Still Life | 4.5 |
| Darkane Rusted Angel | 3.0 |
| Pinback This Is a Pinback CD | 5.0 |
| My Dying Bride The Light at the End of the World | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 4.5 |
| Type O Negative World Coming Down | 4.5 |
| Acid King Busse Woods | 4.0 |
| Used to hang out in these woods growing up. I was like 8, though, so I did less drugs and just chilled by the elk in the random ass elk enclosure. |
| The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs | 4.5 |
| Behemoth Satanica | 2.0 |
| Melvins The Bootlicker | 3.5 |
| Nebula To The Center | 3.0 |
| Zao Liberate Te Ex Inferis | 4.0 |
| Esoteric Metamorphogenesis | 4.5 |
| Katatonia Tonight's Decision | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 3.5 |
| Mr. Bungle California | 4.5 |
| Empyrium Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays | 4.5 |
| Testament The Gathering | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 4.5 |
| Dornenreich Bitter ist's dem Tod zu dienen | 3.5 |
| Anathema Judgement | 4.5 |
| Stars of the Lid Avec Laudenum | 3.5 |
| Vertical Horizon Everything You Want | 4.0 |
| Santana Supernatural | 1.5 |
| Dodheimsgard 666 International | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 4.0 |
| In Gowan Ring Abend the Knurled Stitch O'er the Glinting Spade | 4.5 |
| Arch Enemy Burning Bridges | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder | 3.0 |
| Melvins The Maggot | 4.0 |
| Breach Venom | 4.0 |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium | 3.0 |
| Tom Waits Mule Variations | 4.5 |
| Cattle Decapitation Human Jerky | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Times of Grace | 4.0 |
| Deeds of Flesh Path of the Weakening | 2.5 |
| Amorphis Tuonela | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.5 |
| Spock's Beard Day For Night | 3.0 |
| Dropkick Murphys The Gang's All Here | 3.5 |
| Songs: Ohia Axxess and Ace | 4.0 |
| Marduk Panzer Division Marduk | 2.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity | 4.0 |
| of Montreal The Gay Parade | 3.0 |
| Jim O'Rourke Eureka | 5.0 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Paysage d'Hiver | 5.0 |
| If an alien wanted to know what winter was, first I would show them Chicago in January, and then I'd play that mothafuckin' martian a little Paysage. |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream | 5.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Bloodthirst | 3.0 |
| Darkthrone Ravishing Grimness | 4.5 |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter | 4.5 |
| Our Lady Peace Happiness... | 4.5 |
| Devourment Molesting the Decapitated | 1.0 |
| Immolation Failures for Gods | 3.5 |
| Adramelech Pure Blood Doom | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 4.0 |
| Drawn A New World? | 4.0 |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 3.5 |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy I See a Darkness | 5.0 |
| Novembre Classica | 3.5 |
| Today Is the Day In the Eyes of God | 4.0 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Kerker | 4.0 |
| Fiona Apple When the Pawn... | 5.0 |
| The Angels of Light New Mother | 4.5 |
| Aesma Daeva Here Lies One Whose Name Was Written in Water | 3.5 |
| Orchid Chaos is Me | 4.0 |
| maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible | 4.0 |
| Honeydip Portable Audio Science | 4.5 |
| Colour Haze Periscope | 4.0 |
| Corrupted Llenandose De Gusanos | 4.0 |
| Mutiilation Remains Of A Ruined, Dead, Cursed Soul | 3.5 |
| Contrastic Contrastic | 4.0 |
| Arvo Part Alina | 4.5 |
| The Necks Hanging Gardens | 3.5 |
| Fish Raingods with Zippos | 2.5 |
| Mournful Congregation Tears from a Grieving Heart | 3.0 |
| Universal Totem Orchestra Rituale Alieno | 2.5 |
