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2024
Blaze of Perdition Upharsin	3.5
Korpituli Pohjola	3.0
Big\|Brave A Chaos of Flowers	3.5
In Vain (NO) Solemn	4.0
Folterkammer (USA) Weibermacht	3.5
My Dying Bride A Mortal Binding	3.5
Selbst Despondency Chord Progressions	3.5
Antichrist Siege Machine Vengeance of Eternal Fire	3.5
Kawir Kydoimos	3.5
Atrae Bilis Aumicide	3.5
Bongripper Empty	3.5
Dvne Voidkind	3.5
Peklo Supostat	3.5
Homecoming Those We Knew	3.5
Bythos Chthonic Gates Unveiled	3.5
Srd Vragvmesiton	3.5
Haust Negative Music	3.0
Hekseblad Kaer Morhen	4.0
Vanden Plas The Empyrean Equation of the Long Lost Things	3.5
Maere ...And The Universe Keeps Silent	3.5
Tyr Battle Ballads	3.5
Benighted Ekbom	3.5
Heresiarch Edifice	3.5
Metz Up On Gravity Hill	3.5
Hawkwind Stories from Time and Space	3.0
Vnder A Crvmbling Moon II: Aging & Formless	3.0
Iron Monkey Spleen & Goad	3.5
Ingested The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams	3.5
Cistvaen At Light's Demise	4.0
Belore Eastern Tales	3.5
Horndal Head Hammer Man	3.5
Bilwis Hameln	3.5
Diabolic Oath Oracular Hexations	3.5
Gravkvade Prolog	3.5
Ildganger For Hver Tanke Mister Sjælen Atter Farve	3.5
Oddarrang Oddarrang	3.5
Aristarchos Martyr of Star and Fire	3.5
Extra Life The Sacred Vowel	3.5
Funeral Leech The Illusion of Time	3.5
Eunuchs Harbour Century	3.5
Kvadrat The Horrible Dissonance of Oblivion	3.5
Cantique Lepreux Le Bannissement	3.5
Above Aurora Myriad Woes	3.5
Offernat Where Nothing Grows	3.5
Verberis The Apophatic Wilderness	3.5
Frail Body Artificial Bouquet	4.0
Verwoed The Mother	3.5
Coffins Sinister Oath	3.5
Kollapse Ar	3.0
Sylvaine Eg Er Framand	3.5
Leaving Liminal	3.0
Dodsrit Nocturnal Will	4.0
Mastiff Deprecipice	4.0
Apparition Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil State	3.5
Hamferd Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk	3.5
Civerous Maze Envy	3.5
Severoth By the Way of Light	3.5
Aberration Refracture	4.0
Altar of Betelgeuze Echoes	3.0
Deception (NO) Daenacteh	3.5
Habitants Alma	3.5
Carpet Collision	3.5
Livgone Almost There	3.5
Ill Considered Precipice	3.5
Zombi Direct Inject	4.0
Attic Return Of The Witchfinder	3.5
Acathexis Immerse	4.0
Necrophobic In The Twilight Grey	3.5
Aborted Vault of Horrors	3.5
O ZORN! Vermillion Haze	3.5
Corpus Diavolis Elixiria Ekstasis	3.5
Grieving (UK) Everything Goes Right, All At Once	3.5
Armagh Exclamation Po!nt	4.0
Don't know what compels me to this album so much, it just feels warm and accessible enough to keep me wanting to replay. Musicianship is really seamless and even the vocals, as quiet as they are, somehow add to the experience. IT's an album that shouldn't excite me as much as it does.
Stress Angel Punished by Nemesis	3.5
Amirtha Kidambi / Elder Ones New Monuments	3.5
Iterum Nata From the Infinite Light	3.0
Slimelord Chytridiomycosis Relinquished	3.5
Isenordal Requiem for Eiréné	3.5
Merrimack Of Grace and Gravity	3.5
Cell Press Cages	3.5
Nick Johnston Child of Bliss	3.5
The Bardic Depths What We Really Like in Stories	3.5
Fathomless Ritual Hymns for the Lesser Gods	4.0
Devastator (UK) Conjurers of Cruelty	3.5
Lunar Spells Sacraments of Necromantical Empires	3.5
Lysistrata Veil	3.0
Whom Gods Destroy Insanium	3.5
Einvigi Monokroma	3.5
Replicant Infinite Mortality	4.0
Halphas Sermons Of The Black Flames	3.5
Vorga Beyond the Palest Star	3.5
Borknagar Fall	4.0
Vircolac Veneration	4.0
Toadliquor Back In The Hole	3.5
Mortem Agmen The Path to the Abyss of Evil	3.0
Hrizg Damnatio Memoriae	3.5
Keres (ITA) Homo Homini Lupus	3.5
Counting Hours The Wishing Tomb	3.5
Genital Shame Chronic Illness Wish	4.0
Wasn't sure what to make of the name of this project but I was pleasantly surprised to hear the type of experimental black metal that made Victory Over the sun's latest so damn good.
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of the Last Human Being	3.5
Blaze Bayley Circle of Stone	3.5
Job for a Cowboy Moon Healer	3.5
The Body and Dis Fig Orchards of a Futile Heaven	4.0
Psychic Lemon The Unheimlich Kingdom	3.5
Wormwitch/Sadistic Ritual Split	3.5
Farsot Life Promised Death	3.5
Darkspace Dark Space -II	3.5
Far Beyond The End of My Road	3.5
Griffon De Republica	3.5
Porcelain Porcelain	3.0
Prize Horse Under Sound	3.0
Sun of Nothing Maze	3.5
Pestilength Solar Clorex	3.0
Steve Hackett The Circus and the Nightwhale	3.5
Shades of Deep Water Cold Heart	2.5
Eternal Storm A Giant Bound to Fall	4.0
Once again Transcending Obscurity comes up trumps with a brilliant effort this year. Eternal Storm are an intriguing band considering the line-up links to Persefone, but this stands on its own front with a real promising future.
Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She	4.0
Chapel of Disease Echoes of Light	3.5
Spectral Voice Sparagmos	3.5
Hulder Verses In Oath	3.5
The Telescopes Growing Eyes Becoming String	3.0
Theophonos Ashes in the Huron River	3.5
Obsidian Tongue The Stone Heart	4.0
meth. Shame	4.0
Litosth Cesariana	3.5
Den Der Hale Pastoral Light	3.5
Vaegtlos Aftryk	3.5
Hasturian Vigil Unveiling the Brac'thal	3.5
Vennart Forgiveness and The Grain	3.5
Unaussprechlichen Kulten Häxan Sabaoth	3.5
Hail Conjurer Satanic Phenomenology	2.5
Fragment Soul Galois Paradox	3.5
Albion (UK) Lakesongs of Elbid	3.0
Blood Red Throne Nonagon	3.5
Kalt Vindur Magna Mater	3.5
Knoll As Spoken	4.0
Exocrine Legend	3.5
Madder Mortem Old Eyes, New Heart	3.5
The Pneumatic Transit Forbidden Trinkets	3.5
Kairo After Forever	3.5
Guhts Regeneration	4.0
Eye Flys Eye Flys	3.0
Dissimulator (CAN) Lower Form Resistance	4.0
I appreciate how the album cover reminds me of Tetsuo the iron man, as well as the fact that this music absolutely rips.
Drowned Procul His	3.5
Cognizance Phantazein	3.5
Caligula's Horse Charcoal Grace	3.5
Stuporous Asylum's Lament	3.5
Prognan Sjene Nad Balkanom	3.0
Vipassi Lightless	3.5
Vemod The Deepening	3.5
Resin Tomb Cerebral Purgatory	3.5
Sovereign Altered Realities	4.0
Malist Of Scorched Earth	4.0
Viva Belgrado Cancionero de los Cielos	3.5
Lord Dying Clandestine Transcendence	3.5
Mary Halvorson Cloudward	3.5
Alluvial Death Is But A Door	3.5
Mourning Dawn The Foam of Despair	3.5
Sympathy Pain Swan Dive	3.5
Bloody Head Perpetual Eden	3.0
Ellesmere (ITA) Stranger Skies	3.5
Drown In Sulphur Dark Secrets of the Soul	3.5
Saevus Finis Facilis Descensus Averno	4.0
Escuela Grind Ddeeaatthhmmeettaall	3.0
Infant Island Obsidian Wreath	4.0
Magnum Here Comes the Rain	3.5
Krvna The Rhythmus Of Death Eternal	3.5
Svdestada Candela	3.5
Birds in Row and Coilguns You and I in the Gap	3.5

2023
And. Almost Nothing	3.0
Panopticon The Rime of Memory	5.0
You know when you can truly feel an album? This is one of those albums. Absolutely glorious stuff. Makes me look forward to seeing Panopticon live again next year all the more.
Deathcode Society Unlightenment	3.5
Valdrin Throne of the Lunar Soul	4.0
Crimson Moonlight Abaddon	3.5
Helga (SWE) Wrapped in Mist	4.0
Maladie For We Are the Plague	2.5
Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 3 - A Fullmoon Madness	4.0
Cruciamentum Obsidian Refractions	4.0
TodoMal A Greater Good	3.5
Convocation No Dawn for the Caliginous Night	3.5
Korgonthurus Jumalhaaska	3.5
Gnaw Their Tongues The Cessation Of Suffering	3.5
Messier 16 Death Poems	4.0
Aeternus Philosopher	3.5
Sadus The Shadow Inside	3.5
Dyssebeia Garden of Stillborn Idols	4.0
Ceremonial Bloodbath Genesis of Malignant Entropy	3.5
MMTH Infinite Heights	3.5
San Leo Aves Raras	3.5
Psychic Temple A Universe Regards Itself	3.5
Yatsu It Can't Happen Here	3.5
Ritual Clearing Penitence	3.5
Kilter The Suspended Woman	3.5
Elitist (DK) A Mirage of Grandeur	3.5
Earthside Let The Truth Speak	3.5
Venus Obscured Until Observed	3.5
Plague Rider Intensities	3.5
Mephorash Krystl-Ah	3.5
Shylmagoghnar Convergence	4.0
Another band going from strength to strength. A little heavier on the synths here, but doesn't take away from any of the magic that made the first two Shylmagoghnar albums so memorable and cohesive.
Night Crowned Tales	3.5
Vastum Inward To Gethsemane	3.5
Aglo Build Fear	3.5
Pyrolatrous Inveterate	3.5
Horsewhip Consume and Burn	3.5
Hinayana Shatter And Fall	3.5
Sunwatchers Music Is Victory Over Time	3.5
Acid Throne Kingdom's Death	3.5
Ver Apparitions of the Past	3.5
Faidra Militant : Penitent : Triumphant	3.5
Warcrab The Howling Silence	3.5
Insomnium Songs of the Dusk	3.5
Melancholia Book of Ruination	3.5
Suffocation Hymns From the Apocrypha	4.0
Cirkeln The Primitive Covenant	3.5
Xoth Exogalactic	3.5
Morne Engraved With Pain	3.5
Strigoi Bathed in a Black Sun	3.0
Penitence Onirique Nature Morte	4.0
Below A Silent Sky Walls of Light	3.0
Totenmesse Fiktionlust	3.5
Veruta Forked Tongue of Fire	3.5
Rosa Faenskap Jeg Blir Til Deg	3.5
Sea Mosquito Igitur	3.5
Amalekim Avodah Zarah	3.5
Ch'ahom Knots of Abhorrence	4.0
Gong Unending Ascending	3.5
They've done better albums, but Gong simply never seem to stop being creative, even 50 odd years after their formation. Sure, Daevid Allen will always be the godfather of this eccentric project, but it's a legacy that continues to glide from star to star.
PoiL Ueda Yoshitsune	3.5
Tetragrammacide Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From the Arachneophidian Qur'an	3.5
Crystal Coffin The Curse of Immortality	3.5
Thragedium Lisboa Depois De Morta	3.0
Kintsukuroi About Emotions	3.5
Sepulchral Curse Abhorrent Dimensions	3.5
Wayfarer American Gothic	4.0
Nebelkrahe Ephemer	3.5
Theosophy Bleeding Wounds of the First and the Last	3.5
Ragana Desolation's Flower	3.5
Throat We Must Leave You	3.5
Malokarpatan Vertumnus Caesar	3.5
Aegrus Invoking The Abysmal Night	3.5
Autopsy Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts	3.5
Phantom Winter Her Cold Materials	3.0
Gravesend Gowanus Death Stomp	4.0
NYOS Waterfall Cave Fantasy, Forever	3.5
Rile Pessimist	3.5
Azmari Maelstrom	3.5
Iku-Turso Ikuinen Kirous	3.5
Closure in Moscow Soft Hell	3.5
Martyrdoom As Torment Prevails	3.5
Diabolic Night Beneath The Crimson Prophecy	3.0
Sylvatica Cadaver Synod	3.5
Asagraum Veil of Death, Ruptured	3.5
Baring Teeth The Path Narrows	4.0
Vertebra Atlantis A Dialogue with the Eeriest Sublime	4.0
Cirith Ungol Dark Parade	4.0
Dreamwell In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You	4.0
At no point did I feel relaxed listening to this album.r...But I guess that's the point.
Head with Wings Without Intervention	3.5
Novice (MI) Sorrow & Surrender	3.0
Stomach Parasite	3.5
Afterbirth In But Not Of	3.5
Aldaaron Majestic Heights, Melancholic Depth	3.5
Ozric Tentacles Lotus Unfolding	3.5
The Callous Daoboys God Smiles Upon the Callous Daoboys	3.5
Black Void Cult ...Even The Stars Have To Die	3.5
Krieg Ruiner	3.5
Decembre Noir Your Sunset \| My Sunrise	3.5
Laster Andermans Mijne	4.0
Probably their most accessible sounding album, and somehow all the better for it. The melodies and grooves are so memorable here but result in what is mostly a fluent album, one which certainly warrants repeated listens if only to get you dancing time and time again. Probably.
The Lion's Daughter Bath House	3.5
Fortid Narkissos	3.5
Stortregn Finitude	3.5
On Thorns I Lay On Thorns I Lay	3.5
Body Void Atrocity Machine	3.5
Sulphur Aeon Seven Crowns and Seven Seals	3.5
Aiwass The Falling	3.0
Taubra Therizo	3.5
Manbryne Interregnum: O próbie wiary i jarzmie zwątpien	3.5
Tausendstern Der Leuchtturm	3.5
The Answer Lies in the Black Void Thou Shalt	3.5
Seraphic Entombment Sickness Particles Gleam	3.5
Kaunis Kuolematon Mielenvalta	3.5
Voidescent Dust And Embers	3.5
Avenade Our Raging God Unknown to Us	3.5
A real fresh sound this is. A lot of melodic moments which give way to this powerful albeit raw atmospheric twist which sees each band member giving 100%. The mammoth centrepiece that is "Separations" is an obvious highlight but I think of the album as a more consistent piece which is fluid if not always memorable.
Furia Huta Luna	3.5
Ynkleudherhenavogyon Honan Bleydh II	3.5
The Ritual Aura Heresiarch	3.5
Telesterion Epopteia	3.5
Svalbard The Weight of the Mask	4.0
Band is going from strength to strength. Always happy to hear a new Svalbard release and this hasn't disappointed me in the slightest.
Heretoir Nightsphere	3.5
Capra Errors	3.0
Notturno Inside	3.0
October Tide The Cancer Pledge	3.5
Salacious Gods Oalevluuk	3.5
Gruzja Koniec Wakacji	3.0
Auriferous Flame Ardor for Black Mastery	3.5
The Negative Bias The Seven Seals of Saligia	3.5
Lunar Tombfields An Arrow To The Sun	3.0
Revenant Marquis All the Pleasures of Heaven	3.5
Suhnopfer Nous sommes d'hier	3.5
Gloomer Embrace the End	3.0
John Ghost Thin Air, Mirror Land	3.5
Numb.er Regressions	2.5
Morag Tong Grieve	3.0
Worn Mantle Hole	3.5
Rymden Valleys and Mountains	3.5
Virta Horros	3.0
Jordsjo Salighet	3.5
Teeth Of The Sea Hive	3.5
Elsiane E L S I A N E	3.5
Jord Tundra	3.5
Primordial Serpent Enlightenment Through Impurity	3.5
The Magus Βυσσοδομώντας	3.5
Omnivortex Circulate	3.5
Disguised Malignance Entering the Gateways	3.5
Rorcal Silence	3.5
Caged (USA-PA) From Roving About the Earth	3.5
Harm's Way (USA-IL) Common Suffering	3.5
Woe Legacies of Frailty	3.5
Iskandr Spiritus Sylvestris	3.5
Moonlight Sorcery Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle	3.5
Waldgefluster Unter Bronzenen Kronen	3.5
Dwaal Never Enough	3.5
Wells Valley Achamoth	3.5
The Hirsch Effekt Urian	3.5
Primordial How It Ends	3.5
Wolves in the Throne Room Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge	3.5
Ruin Lust Dissimulant	3.5
Steven Wilson The Harmony Codex	3.0
Just not feeling this tbh. It sounds as generic as Steven Wilson can get but the songs with Ninet Tayeb do stand out in a good way, plus there's a few moments in the album that bring me back to when I first heard LightBulb Sun.
Terra Builder Solar Temple	3.5
Blencathra II - On These Shores Where Nothing Now Stands	3.5
Besra Transitions	3.5
Tides of Sulfur Apathy Chasm	3.5
Sacrifire The Art Of Decay	3.0
Darius Jones Fluxkit Vancouver (It's Suite but Scared)	3.5
Den Saakaldte Pesten Som Tar Over	3.5
Just Before Dawn A War Too Far	3.5
Ashbringer We Came Here to Grieve	3.0
Album could be so much better if those vocals were to improve. A lot of this reminds me of the latest album from We never learned to live, but the obvious black/sludge/post-metal edges make it stand out much more musically. But yeah, vocals are a real inconsistent aspect.
Fearing Destroyer	3.0
Dark The Suns Raven and the Nightsky	3.5
Abadir Ison	3.5
Kamaal Williams Stings	3.5
Desecresy Deserted Realms	3.5
Endstille DetoNation	3.5
Rat King (USA-WA) Psychotic Reality	3.5
Flooding Silhouette Machine	3.5
Cannibal Corpse Chaos Horrific	3.5
Profanatica Crux Simplex	3.5
Thurnin Útiseta	3.5
Hexvessel Polar Veil	4.0
Grift Dolt Land	3.5
KEN mode Void	3.5
Acausal Intrusion Panpsychism	3.5
Bekor Qilish The Flesh of a New God	4.0
Oros Kau Thanatos	3.5
Anima Hereticae Descended From The Mountains	3.5
Ushangvagush Pestmo'qon	3.5
Misanthropic War Utter Human Annihilation	3.5
Grim Ravine Upon the Darkest Shores	3.5
Rostro Del Sol Blue Storm	3.5
Kings Rot At the Gates of Adversarial Darkness	3.5
Mad Honey Satellite Aphrodite	3.5
Bear Ghost Jiminy	3.5
Subsignal A Poetry Of Rain	3.5
Grails Anches En Maat	3.5
GridLink Coronet Juniper	3.5
Shade Empire Sunholy	3.5
Alkaloid Numen	3.5
Roots of the Old Oak The Devil and His Wicked Ways	2.5
Manii Innerst I Mørket	3.5
Deadly Carnage Endless Blue	3.5
Psygnosis Mercury	3.5
Tideless Eye of Water	3.5
Torpor (UK) ABSCISSION	3.5
Bolt Gun The Tower	3.5
Tar Pond Petrol	3.5
Fabricant Drudge To The Thicket	4.0
Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I	3.5
Baroness Stone	3.5
Cursetheknife There's A Place I Can Rest	3.0
Sielunvihollinen Helvetinkone	3.5
Uada Crepuscule Natura	3.5
Hiems Stranger in a Wasteland	3.0
Terminalist The Crisis as Condition	3.5
Cryptopsy As Gomorrah Burns	3.5
Fossilization Leprous Daylight	3.5
Dantalion Fatum	3.5
Moozoonsii Outward	3.5
Valravn The Awakening	3.5
Pixie Ninja Hypnagogia	3.5
Sodomisery Mazzaroth	3.5
Bushman's Revenge All the Better for Seeing You	3.0
Excarnated Entity Mass Grave Horizon	3.5
Slomatics Strontium Fields	3.0
Finsterforst Jenseits	3.5
Southern Empire Another World	4.0
Transcending Rites Trinity and Ecstasy	4.0
Demoniac (CHL) Nube Negra	3.5
Taake Et hav av avstand	3.5
Outergods A Kingdom Built Upon The Wreckage of Heaven	3.5
Imperial Crystalline Entombment Ancient Glacial Resurgence	3.5
Marduk Memento Mori	3.5
VAK (SWE) The Islands	3.5
Weald and Woe For the Good of the Realm	3.5
Empire State Bastard Rivers Of Heresy	3.5
Aviations Luminaria	3.5
Slowdive Everything is Alive	3.5
Grave Pilgrim The Bigotry of Purpose	3.5
Thorn Evergloom	3.5
Cultus Sanguine Dust Once Alive	2.5
Asphodelus Sculpting From Time	3.5
Incantation Unholy Deification	3.5
Bottomless The Banishing	3.0
Orphalis As The Ashes Settle	3.5
GraveRipper Seasons Dreaming Death	3.5
Anti-God Hand Blight Year	3.5
Nordicwinter This Mournful Dawn	3.5
Celestial Sanctuary Insatiable Thirst For Torment	3.5
Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium – Nahab	4.0
Godthrymm Distortions	3.5
Spirit Adrift Ghost At The Gallows	3.5
Horrendous Ontological Mysterium	3.5
The Circle Of Awakening	3.5
Invultation Feral Legion	3.5
Sanguine Glacialis Maladaptive Daydreaming	3.5
Lovely Little Girls Effusive Supreme	3.5
Tusmorke Hestehoven	3.0
Fiddlehead Death is Nothing to Us	2.5
Deha Averses II	3.5
Cystic Palace of Shadows	3.5
Trepidation Festering Unfaltered Hatred	3.5
Kita Tyhjiö	3.0
Cunabula The Weight Of Sleep	3.5
Claret Ash Worldtorn: Anemoia	3.5
Kataklysm Goliath	3.0
Distention Nothing Comes From Death	3.5
Dead and Dripping Blackened Cerebral Rifts	3.5
I feel that album art. So intense. Just like the music.
Urne A Feast On Sorrow	3.5
Runespell Shores of Náströnd	3.5
Bloodshed Walhalla Glory to the Sacred Land	3.0
It's ok, but I can't stop thinking of Moonsorrow with extra cheese and annoying nasal vocals.
Dymna Lotva The Land Under The Black Wings: Blood	3.5
An Autumn For Crippled Children Closure	3.5
Tumulation Haunted Funeral Creations	3.0
Aprilmist Homesick	3.5
Hallucinate From The Bowels Of The Earth	3.0
Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Oscillating Forest	3.5
Dead Neanderthals Specters	3.5
The Sun's Journey Through The Night Worldless	3.5
Porta Nigra Weltende	3.0
Fleshvessel Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed	4.0
Decoherence Order	3.5
Alghol Night Eternal	3.5
Pia Fraus Evening Colours	3.5
Bear the Mammoth Purple Haus	3.0
Eyemaster Conjuration of Flesh	3.5
Machinations of Fate Celestial Prophecies	3.5
Eave Fervor	3.5
The Fierce and the Dead News from the Invisible World	3.5
The Gorge Mechanical Fiction	3.5
Wyrgher Panspermic Warlords	3.5
Tongues Formløse Stjerner	3.5
Astralborne Across the Aeons	3.5
High Pulp Days in the Desert	3.5
Eternal Rot Moribound	3.5
Rannoch Conflagrations	4.0
Agriculture Agriculture	3.5
The Holy Family Go Zero	3.5
Sorcia Lost Season	3.0
Demons Under the Western Heel	2.5
Disimperium Grand Insurgence Upon Despotic Altars	3.5
Gateway Galgendood	3.5
Ageless Summoning Corrupting the Entempled Plane	3.5
Johnny Booth Moments Elsewhere	3.5
The Zenith Passage Datalysium	4.0
Outer Heaven Infinite Psychic Depths	3.5
Temple of Katharsis Macabre Ritual	3.0
Volus Oathsworn Vengeance	4.0
Dream the Electric Sleep American Mystic	3.5
Cinema Cinema Mjölnir	3.5
Quiet Man The Starving Lesson	3.5
Calligram Position \| Momentum	3.5
Evile The Unknown	2.5
Almost like they decided "Infected Nations" was their best album and made the riffs as monotonous as they could. A few good songs but the vocals unfortunately make everything stodgy to listen to. It's not the worst they could have come up with but this feels like a band far removed from the one I saw live several months ago.
The Devil's Trade Vidékek Vannak Idebenn	4.0
Kinda reminds me of the quieter moments from Foscor's "Les Irreals Visions" but with added depth and a beautiful voice. One of the finer non-metal releases of 2023 for sure.
Cosmicdust Sadness	3.5
Deitus Irreversible	3.5
Somniate We Have Proved Death	3.5
Temple Of Angels Endless Pursuit	3.5
Circuit Circuit Body Songs	3.5
Chepang Swatta	3.0
Blackbraid Blackbraid II	3.5
Fen Monuments to Absence	4.0
Will Haven VII	4.0
Before The Dawn Stormbringers	3.5
The River A Hollow Full of Hope	3.0
Phi-Psonics Octava	3.5
Lucifixion (USA) Trisect Joy of Pierced Hearts	3.5
Ofnus Time Held Me Grey And Dying	3.5
Serpent of Old Ensemble Under The Dark Sun	4.0
NONE Inevitable	3.5
Avdagata The Faceless One	3.5
Vengeful Spectre 殞煞二 Vengeful Spectre II	3.5
East of the Wall A Neutral Second	3.0
Gravefields Tetragrammaton	3.0
Subterranean Disposition Individuation	3.5
Miserere Luminis Ordalie	3.5
Trepas Les Ombres Malades	3.5
Swans The Beggar	3.5
Krigsgrav Fires in the Fall	3.5
Infinity The Untamed Hunger	3.5
Wooden Veins Imploding Waves	3.5
Black Eucharist Inn of the Vaticide	3.0
The Anchoret It All Began With Loneliness	4.0
Burner It All Returns To Nothing	3.5
Tsjuder Helvegr	3.5
Donny Mccaslin I Want More	4.0
Lanayah I'm Picking Lights in a Field	4.0
A strange one this. I'm seeing tags for blackgaze and post-hardcore but it's both those things and neither of things at the same time. So much going on in this release and yet there's a real charm to it throughout.
Vulture Industries Ghosts From The Past	3.5
Thy Catafalque Alföld	4.0
Varmia Nie Nas Widzę	4.0
Helleruin Devils, Death and Dark Arts	3.5
Suns of the Tundra The Only Equation	3.5
Heavenward (USA) Pyrophonics	3.5
Motorpsycho Yay!	3.5
Sigur Ros ÁTTA	3.5
Saturnus The Storm Within	3.5
Duivel Heiligschennis	3.0
Leper Colony Leper Colony	3.0
Zorya Mystic Lament	3.0
Claustrum Claustrum	3.5
Godflesh Purge	3.5
Aodon Portraits	3.5
Exnun Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death	3.0
Stellar Circuits Sight To Sound	3.5
Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase II: Xenotaph	3.5
The Mosaic Window Plight of Acceptance	3.5
Ekrom Uten Nådigst Formildelse	3.0
Minas Morgul Nebelung	3.5
Lanterns on the Lake Versions of Us	3.5
Necrofier Burning Shadows in the Southern Night	3.5
Pupil Slicer Blossom	4.0
Atlases Between The Day & I	3.5
Thantifaxath Hive Mind Narcosis	4.5
I don't know what this album is exactly, but it's blowing my mind.
This White Mountain Icons of the Melancholy	3.5
Kvad So Old	3.5
Unfurl Ascension	4.0
Hellwitch Annihilational Intercention	3.0
The Foreshadowing Forsaken Songs	3.5
Seven Impale Summit	4.0
I'm not going to hide my love for jazz fusion and prog, but this is one juicy album.
Cloak Black Flame Eternal	3.5
Kostnateni Úpal	3.5
Immortal War Against All	3.0
Nattverd I Helvetes Forakt	3.5
Mournful Congregation The Exuviae of Gods - Part II	3.5
Mesarthim Arrival	3.5
Phlebotomized Clouds of Confusion	4.0
Graverape Horrors of Life Eternal	3.0
Godsticks This Is What A Winner Looks Like	3.5
Sarvekas Woven Dark Paths	3.5
Ultramarine Send and Return	3.5
A Constant Knowledge of Death Dissecting A One-Winged Bird	3.5
Teitan In Oculus Abyss	3.0
Shy, low Babylonica	3.5
Garoted Bewitchment Of The Dark Ages	3.5
Chain Of Flowers Never Ending Space	3.5
The Intersphere Wanderer	3.0
Victory Over The Sun Dance You Monster To My Soft Song!	4.0
This is the sort of avant-garde black metal I can really get behind. Plenty of twists and turns but still cohesive enough to warrant many, many repeat listens.
Stuck Freak Frequency	3.5
Burial Hordes Ruins	3.5
The Ocean Holocene	3.5
Thulcandra Hail The Abyss	3.5
Botanist VIII: Selenotrope	3.5
Henget Beyond North Star	3.5
Vomitheist Nekrofvneral	3.5
Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Rejecting Obliteration	3.5
Chronicle Where Chaos Thrives	3.5
Yakuza Sutra	3.5
Sporae Autem Yuggoth ...However It Still Moves	3.5
Pa Vesh En Martyrs	4.0
Gumm Slogan Machine	3.5
Bend the Future Sounds so Wrong	3.5
The End (NOR) Why Do You Mourn?	3.5
Drott Troll	3.5
Nattehimmel Mourningstar	3.5
Tardigrade Inferno Arrival of a Train	3.5
Moor Heavy Heart	3.5
Moonreich Amer	3.5
Burial Clouds Last Days of a Dying World	3.0
Last Rizla Noise Without Decay	3.0
Pronostic Chaotic Upheaval	3.5
Oreida The Eternal	3.5
Sacrilegious Impalement IV - Infinite Victor	3.0
Thanatomass Hades	3.5
Cattle Decapitation Terrasite	4.0
Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean Obsession Destruction	3.5
Impetuous Ritual Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis	3.5
Omnerod The Amensal Rise	4.0
Similar in execution to The Reticent's "The Oubliette" release, but in no way a carbon copy. One of 2023's better prog metal releases so far for sure.
Non Est Deus Legacy	3.5
Esoctrilihum Astraal Constellations of the Majickal Zodiac	4.0
Grave Desecrator Immundissime Spiritus	3.5
Gonemage Astral Corridors	3.0
Esben and the Witch Hold Sacred	3.5
Ocean Districts Phantom Islands	3.5
Concilium (PT) Sky Bvrial	3.5
Death Goals A Garden of Dead Flowers	2.5
Nightmarer Deformity Adrift	3.5
Heimland Forfedrenes Taarer	3.5
Therapy? Hard Cold Fire	3.5
Venusberg Cardinal Atlas Of Dungeons	3.5
Herod Iconoclast	3.5
Zanias Chrysalis	3.5
Hotel of the Laughing Tree Faraway Friends	3.5
Spotlights Alchemy for the Dead	3.5
Hawkwind The Future Never Waits	3.5
Aton Five Aton Five	3.5
Runemagick Beyond the Cenotaph of Mankind	3.5
Fires in the Distance Air Not Meant For Us	4.0
Austere Corrosion of Hearts	4.0
Lucifuge Monoliths of Wrath	3.5
Mistral In the Throes of Losing Love	3.5
Orphans of Dusk Spleen	3.5
Helicon God Intentions	3.5
Wallowing Earth Reaper	4.0
Lunar Chamber Shambhallic Vibrations	4.0
JFDR Museum	3.5
Danava Nothing But Nothing	3.5
Nabihah Iqbal Dreamer	3.5
Belgrado Intra Apogeum	3.0
Cosmo Sheldrake Wild Wet World	3.5
Scenario. When All is Said and Done	4.0
Heretic Cult Redeemer Flagellum Universalis	3.5
Allochiria Commotion	3.5
Perdition Winds Burning Spiritual Crypts	3.5
Beach House Become	3.0
Atavistia Cosmic Warfare	3.5
Dawn of Ouroboros Velvet Incandescence	4.0
Decipher Arcane Paths of Resurrection	3.5
Sign Language (USA-OH) Madison and Floral	3.5
Mélancolia HissThroughRottenTeeth	3.5
Argenthorns The Ravening	3.5
Blodtar Det Förtegna Förflutna	3.5
Pestifer Defeat of the Nemesis	3.5
Dorthia Cottrell Death Folk Country	3.5
Smoulder Violent Creed of Vengeance	3.5
Everything But the Girl Fuse	3.0
Nebulae Come Sweet De Lumiére	3.5
Aetherius Obscuritas A Sors Szürke Pora	3.0
Welkin (SGP) Emblems of Valour	3.5
VoidCeremony Threads of Unknowing	4.0
Zeit (DE) Ohnmacht	3.0
Black Orchid Empire Tempus Veritas	3.5
Overkill Scorched	3.5
Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current	4.5
Dodheimsgard going out on a limb here. Sounds far removed from anything I heard on A Umbra Omega but with more melody and harmony, especially in the vocal prowess on "Abyss Perihelion Transition". Like with every other album, it's going to prove divisive (even amongst experimental black metal fans), but it's truly a well-earned grower. Edit: Had to push this up to a 4.5. Just had to.
Mesmur Chthonic	3.5
Vale (USA-PA) A Senseless Procession	3.5
Moribund Mantras ...Of Fathomless Depths	3.0
Penelope Trappes Heavenly Spheres	3.5
Laveda A Place You Grew Up In	3.5
Pearly Drops A Little Disaster	3.0
AthanaTheos Cross. Deny. Glorify.	3.0
Poison Ruin Harvest	3.5
Out of the Mouth of Graves Shrines to Dagon	3.5
Ossaert Offerdier	3.5
Bonjour Tristesse Against Leviathan!	3.5
Lurk Aegis	3.5
Sunrot The Unfailing Rope	3.5
Ruadh 1296	3.5
Cursebinder Drifting	3.5
American Grandma Rare Knives of Light	3.0
where mermaids drown Reminisce	3.5
Cicada the Burrower Blight Witch Regalia	3.5
Nekus Sepulchral Divination	3.5
Amoeba Split Quiet Euphoria	3.5
FACS Still Life In Decay	2.5
ISON Stars & Embers	4.0
Aisles Beyond Drama	3.5
M-Opus At the Mercy of Manannán	3.5
Blaze of Sorrow Vultus Fati	3.5
Old Forest Sutwyke	3.0
Demonstealer The Propaganda Machine	4.0
Thron Dust	3.5
Aara Triade III: Nyx	4.0
Spirit Possession Of the Sign ...	3.5
Unpure Prophecies Ablaze	3.5
Le Prochain Hiver Talvi	3.5
Hellish Form Deathless	4.0
Grieve (FIN) Wolves of the Northern Moon	3.0
Milanku A l'aube	3.5
Olde Throne In the Land of Ghosts	3.5
Neo Inferno 262 Pleonectic	3.5
Diablation Par Le Feu	3.5
Sermon Of Golden Verse	3.5
Mammal Hands Gift From the Trees	4.0
Netherlands Severance	3.5
Lamp of Murmuur Saturnian Bloodstorm	4.0
Sometimes simple is good. And this is very good. very good indeed.
Mice on Stilts I am Proud of You	3.5
Ne Obliviscaris Exul	4.0
Hanging Garden The Garden	3.5
Dawn Ray'd To Know The Light	3.5
Keep of Kalessin Katharsis	3.5
Hellcrash Demonic Assassinatiön	3.5
Mork Dypet	3.5
Cruachan The Living and the Dead	3.5
Spaceships Ruins	3.5
Aphotic (ITA) Abyssgazer	3.5
Exploring Birdsong Dancing in the Face of Danger	4.0
Reminds me of a gentler version of Oceans of Slumber but with increasingly hook-laden pop sensibilities, that don't err on the side of too much cheese. An interesting amalgam of inspirations.
Whore of Bethlehem Ritual of Homicide	3.0
Endless, Nameless Living Without	3.5
Gatekeeper (CAN) From Western Shores	3.5
August Burns Red Death Below	3.5
Spectral Lore 11 Days	3.5
Winter's Breath Stories Left Behind	3.5
Telos Delude	3.5
Entropia (PL) Total	4.0
Suotana Ounas I	3.5
Contrarian Sage of Shekhinah	3.5
Ulfud Of Existential Distortion	3.5
Kamelot The Awakening	3.5
Night Demon Outsider	3.5
Downfall of Gaia Silhouettes Of Disgust	3.5
Ikarie Arde	3.5
Verminous Serpent The Malign Covenant	3.5
Pressure Points The Island	3.5
Late Night Venture V: Bones of the Extinct	3.5
Wilt (DE) Into Nothingness	3.0
Skin Tension Celebrant	3.0
Foretoken Triumphs	4.0
Kjellvandertonbruket Fossils	3.5
Flyying Colours You Never Know	3.5
Death And Vanilla Flicker	3.5
RPWL Crime Scene	3.5
Invent Animate Heavener	3.5
Hyperdontia Deranged	3.5
Afsky Om Hundrede År	3.5
DIRGE (IN) Dirge	4.0
Unfelled Pall of Endless Perdition	3.5
Demon King Vesania	4.0
Minenwerfer Feuerwalze	4.0
Astriferous Pulsations from the Black Orb	3.5
Ignominy (CAN) Imminent Collapse	3.5
Fange Privation	3.5
Dissentient Labyrinth	3.5
Asphagor Pyrogenesis	3.5
Prediction The Unholy Flame	2.5
Qwalen Syvä Hiljaisuus	3.5
Dispirited Spirits The Redshift Blues	3.5
Ulrika Spacek Compact Trauma	3.5
Story of the Year Tear Me to Pieces	2.0
Lonnie Holley Oh Me Oh My	3.5
Isole Anesidora	3.0
Gorod The Orb	3.5
Fluisteraars De Kronieken van het Verdwenen Kasteel I: Harslo	3.5
REZN Solace	3.5
Tribe Of Pazuzu Blasphemous Prophecies	3.5
Tanukichan Gizmo	3.5
Echushkya Twilight Murmuration	3.5
PoiL Ueda PoiL Ueda	3.5
Enslaved Heimdal	3.5
Ocean Of Grief Pale Existence	3.5
Haken Fauna	3.5
Witch Ripper The Flight After The Fall	3.5
Full Of Hell and Primitive Man Suffocating Hallucination	3.0
Entheos (USA) Time Will Take Us All	3.5
At The Altar Of The Horned God Heart of Silence	2.5
Carma Ossadas	3.0
Necropanther Betrayal	3.5
Kold Intet Mere Er	3.5
Hands Up Who Wants To Die Nil All	3.5
Constant Smiles Kenneth Anger	3.5
Sea of Shit Self Titled	3.5
Gnoomes Ax Ox	3.5
Djunah Femina Furens	3.5
Can't Swim Thanks but No Thanks	3.0
Truth Cult Walk The Wheel	2.5
Radio Supernova Paratiisi	3.5
Xiu Xiu Ignore Grief	3.5
Holy hell, this may just be the most unsettling album I've heard so far this year. I love stuff like that. Bonus points for the homemade music videos too, they're a strange yet fitting accompaniment for sure.
Acres Burning Throne	3.0
Viscera (UK) Carcinogenesis	3.5
DOTGIFFROMGOD Digital Red	3.5
Dry Cleaning Swampy	3.0
Oksät Defiaent	3.5
Aortes Devouring Gloom	3.5
When Hearts Wither This Is Where It Ends	3.0
Ciemra The Tread of Darkness	3.0
Sarcoptes Prayers to Oblivion	3.5
Insomnium Anno 1696	4.0
Funeral Winds Stigmata Mali	3.0
Wanderer (MN) Indulgence of the Unreal	3.5
upcdownc Duel	3.5
Sleep Terror Railroad to Dystopia	3.0
Polinski Telex from MIDI City	3.5
Pil and Bue Special Agents	3.5
No Spill Blood Eye of Night	4.0
They Grieve To Which I Bore Witness	3.5
Naut Hunt	3.5
Anatomy of Habit Black Openings	3.5
Chasms Glimpse of Heaven	3.5
Wretched Fate Carnal Heresy	3.5
Necrovation Storm the Void / Starving Grave	3.5
The Church The Hypnogogue	3.5
Model/Actriz Dogsbody	3.0
Morwinyon Wastelands	3.5
Omega Infinity The Anticurrent	3.5
Kauan ATM Revised	3.5
Big\|Brave nature morte	3.0
Cadaver Shrine Benighted Desecration	3.5
Methchrist Pestilential Warfare of the Black Flame	3.5
Coffinborn Cadaveric Retribution	3.0
Oerheks Landschappsanachronismen	3.5
Ulthar Helionomicon	4.0
Depravation IV:Letvm	3.5
Hellripper Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags	3.5
Tithe (USA) Inverse Rapture	3.5
Ulthar Anthronomicon	4.0
Winds of Tragedy Hating Life	3.5
Enisum Forgotten Mountains	3.5
Lesath There Is A Profound Sense In Which We Are Isolated	2.5
Shrezzers SEX and SAX	3.5
Sarpa Mauta Tala	4.0
Polymoon Chrysalis	4.0
Siege of Power This Is Tomorrow	3.5
Grim (JPN) Therianthropy	3.5
See You Next Tuesday Distractions	3.5
Pile All Fiction	3.0
Jakub Zytecki Remind Me	2.5
Thumos Symposium	4.0
Ad Omega Aphelic Ascent	3.5
Iterum Nata Trench of Loneliness	3.5
Nameless Mist Lifeless	3.5
Ddent Ex Auditu	3.5
Wounds of Recollection Warm Glow of the End of Everything	4.0
Carnosus Visions of Infinihility	3.5
Maps Counter Melodies	3.5
Thin (USA-NY) Dusk	4.0
Deviser Evil Summons Evil	3.5
Frozen Dawn The Decline of the Enlightened Gods	3.5
Klone Meanwhile	4.0
Narrow Head Moments of Clarity	3.5
Flub Dream Worlds	3.5
Terrestrial Hospice Caviary to the General	3.5
The Brian Jonestown Massacre The Future Is Your Past	3.0
Haxanu Totenpass	3.5
Lotus Of Darkness Towards The Emerald Empire	3.0
Carathis The Moonstone Temple	3.5
King Slender Gold Days	3.5
A Reason To Travel Concrete Sunrise	3.0
Remote Viewing Modern Addictions	3.5
Tentacult Lacerating Pattern	3.5
Palace of Worms Cabal	4.0
Eyes (DK) Congratulations	3.5
Keep Happy In Here	3.5
Saigon Blue Rain Oko	3.5
Coffin Nail The Hanged Man	3.0
Zopp Dominion	4.0
Fvnerals Let the Earth Be Silent	3.5
Mithridatum Harrowing	3.5
Calderum Lord Cramridor	3.5
WuW L'orchaostre	3.5
Memoriam Rise to Power	3.0
Act of Impalement Infernal Ordinance	3.0
Falaise After All This Time	3.5
Vahrzaw In The Shallows Of A Starlit Lake	3.5
Serotonin Syndrome Seed of Mankind	3.5
Malice Divine Everlasting Ascendancy	3.5
Mask of Prospero Hiraeth	3.5
Malleus The Fires of Heaven	3.5
The Drin Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom	3.0
Le Temps du Loup Leteo	3.5
Seer of the Void Mantra Monolith	2.5
Hotel Lux Hands Across the Creek	3.5
...and Oceans As in Gardens, So in Tombs	3.5
Ashen Horde Antimony	4.0
Bizarrekult Den Tapte Krigen	3.5
Uriah Heep Chaos & Colour	3.5
Nephilim's Noose Blood Chants of Impiety	3.5
Caravela Escarlate III	3.5
Firienholt White Frost and Elder Blood	3.5
Bruxa Maria Build Yourself A Shrine And Pray	3.5
Pure Adult II	3.5
Anachronism Meanders	4.0
Oozing Wound We Cater To Cowards	3.0
Sightless Pit Lockstep Bloodwar	3.5
Profane Order One Nightmare unto Another	3.5
Astral Moon Into Solar Abyss	3.5
Conjureth The Parasitic Chambers	3.5
Idle Ruin The Fell Tyrant	3.5
Mizmor Prosaic	3.5
Inherits the Void The Impending Fall Of The Stars	3.5
Dryad The Abyssal Plain	3.5
Oak Pantheon The Absence	3.0
Kommandant Titan Hammer	3.5
Imperium Dekadenz Into Sorrow Evermore	3.5
Deiquisitor Apotheosis	4.0
Kostas Panagiotou Tor	3.5
Great Wide Nothing Hymns for Hungry Spirits Vol. II	3.5
Atsuko Chiba Water, It Feels Like It's Growing	3.5
Tribunal (CAN) The Weight Of Remembrance	3.5
Love Gang Meanstreak	3.0
Wothrosch Odium	3.0
Obituary Dying Of Everything	3.0
Ahab The Coral Tombs	3.5
Those first few songs are really intoxicating in their atmosphere, but I feel like the album could stop there and be a brilliant EP rather than an album 20 minutes longer than it should be. Epic for sure but some sections in the second half of the album fail to carry the initial momentum of "Prof. Arronax Descent into the vast Oceans" through to the title track.
Gra Lycaon	3.5
Death Engine Ocean	3.5
Hostsol Länge Leve Döden	4.0
KOLLAPS\E Phantom Centre	3.5
Slog Divination	3.5
Defy The Curse Horrors Of Human Sacrifice	3.0
The Wise Man's Fear Atlas Ruinica	3.5
Thy Darkened Shade Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya	3.0
Can't really get behind the high rating for this. Too long for its own good and despite some passages really gaining momentum ("Veneration for the Fireborn" in particular) it didn't really stick with me as I expect it to.
Great Cold Emptiness Immaculate Hearts Will Triumph	3.0
Sunchild Exotic Creatures and a Stolen Dream	3.5
Vosbud Heklugjá	3.5
Varmia Prolog	3.5
Young Lions Make a Rainbow and Put It in the Sky	3.0
Esoctrilihum Funeral	3.5
Drama Noir Nightfall Upon the Asylum	3.0
Jadu Heart Derealised	3.0
Moortrieder Towards The Hills Of Triumph	3.0
Vile Ritual Caverns of Occultic Hatred	3.5
Tony Tears Pains	2.5
Huronian Beyond Frozen Heights	3.0

2022
Sorry... Innocence.Love.Sadness	3.5
Askeregn Brennende Åkres Grøde	3.5
Moonlight Sorcery Nightwind: The Conqueror From The Stars	3.5
In the Woods... Diversum	3.5
Djevel Naa Skrider Natten Sort	3.5
Iohannes Jacob's Ladder	3.5
Lower Automation Strobe Light Shadow Play	3.5
Squint Wash Away	3.5
16 Into Dust	3.0
Gaupa Myriad	3.5
Feed Me To The Waves Apart	3.5
Avandra Prodigal	3.0
Speglas Time, Futility & Death	3.5
Foehammer Monumentum	3.0
Collider Excessively Worthwhile	3.5
Astrosaur Portals	3.5
Soft Blue Shimmer Love Lives in the Body	3.0
Gatherers " ( mutilator. ) "	3.5
Threshold Dividing Lines	3.5
Ultar At the Gates of Dusk	3.5
Cryptae Capsule	3.0
Valve Thermoclines	3.5
Akraia Mistress	3.0
Dirt Forge Interspheral	3.0
Fell Ruin Cast in Oil the Dressed Wrought	3.5
Doomocracy Unorthodox	3.5
Dysgnostic Scar Echoes	4.0
Vananidr Beneath the Mold	3.5
Black Spell Season Of The Damned	3.5
Aldaaron Arcane Mountain Cult	3.5
Sarathy Korwar KALAK	3.5
Constellatia Magisterial Romance	4.0
Haavard Haavard	3.5
Soul Blind Feel It All Around	3.5
Drowse Wane into It	3.0
Dream Unending Song of Salvation	4.0
Malist As I Become Darkness	3.5
Spider God Fly In The Trap	3.5
Kampfar Til Klovers Takt	3.5
Epica The Alchemy Project	3.0
Drudkh All Belong To The Night	3.5
Remina Strata	3.5
Onsegen Ensemble Realms	3.5
Envy Seimei	3.0
Turnover Myself in the Way	3.5
Menace Ruine Nekyia	3.5
Disillusion Ayam	3.5
Ef We Salute You, You and You	3.5
Mist of Misery Severance	3.5
Strychnos A Mother's Curse	3.5
Ueldes Foreverer	3.5
Gleb Kolyadin The Outland	3.5
Xentrix Seven Words	3.5
Ingested Ashes Lie Still	3.5
Ninth Realm A Fate Unbroken	3.5
Black Anvil Regenesis	3.5
Wyrmwoods No Sun nor Moon	4.0
The Offering Seeing the Elephant	3.0
Horse Lords Comradely Objects	3.5
MindAhead 6119 Part 1	3.5
Froglord Army of Frogs	3.5
Grave Pilgrim Molten Hands Reach West	3.5
The Sound That Ends Creation Unicorn Laser Bubblegum City	2.5
Fleshwater We're Not Here To Be Loved	3.5
Second To Sun Nocturnal Philosophy	3.5
Funeral Harvest Redemptio	3.5
Soft Kill Canary Yellow	3.0
Nothing Is Real The End Is Near	3.5
Backxwash HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST...	3.5
I didn't get as much raw emotion from this album as I did the other Backxwash releases, but it still feels like game-changing stuff which can't really be pigeonholed into one meaningless sub-genre.
Rapture Star Dark Cosmic Web	3.5
Nordicwinter Beneath the Fleeting Light	3.5
Secret Shame Autonomy	3.5
Psychonaut Violate Consensus Reality	3.5
Noctem Credo Certe Ne Cras	3.5
Theotoxin Fragment: Totenruhe	3.5
Forlesen Black Terrain	3.5
Jordfast Av Stoft	3.5
Therion Leviathan II	3.5
Abyssic Brought Forth in Iniquity	3.5
Darkthrone Astral Fortress	3.5
Necromutilator Oath Of Abhorrence	3.5
Brusque BOÎTE NOIRE	3.5
Bill Laurance Affinity	3.5
Arm's Length Never Before Seen, Never Again Found	3.0
Guranfoe Gumbo Gumbo	3.5
Mysteria Mystica Aeterna The Temple of Eosphoros	3.5
Timor Et Tremor Realm of Ashes	3.5
Shit and Shine New Confusion	3.5
Anima Morte Serpents in the Field of Sleep	3.5
Skinshape Nostalgia	3.5
Chrome Ghost House of Falling Ash	3.5
Obsidious Iconic	3.5
Nostromo (CHE) Bucephale	3.5
Universally Estranged Dimension of Deviant Clusters	3.5
Moin Paste	3.0
Sugar Horse Waterloo Teeth	3.5
Royal Hunt Dystopia, Pt. 2	3.0
Polyphia Remember That You Will Die	2.5
Golgotha (ESP) Mors Diligentis	3.0
Morbific Squirm Beyond The Mortal Realm	3.5
Ketha Wendigo	3.0
Exhumed To The Dead	3.5
The Otolith Folium Limina	3.5
I'm getting the same vibes with this album that I did with the latest releases from Volur and Eight Bells. And that's a good thing.
God Alone (IRE) ETC	3.5
Lore Liege Dreams of a Forgotten Curse	3.0
Battalions King of a Dead World	3.0
Mountainscape Atoms Unfurling	4.0
Freedom of Fear Carpathia	3.5
Coathanger Abortion Plan C	3.5
Submotile One Final Summit Before the Fall	3.5
84 Tigers Time In The Lighthouse	2.5
Lost in Kiev Rupture	3.5
Ahleuchatistas Expansion	3.5
Archers of Loaf Reason In Decline	2.5
Black Royal Earthbound	3.5
Knifeplay Animal Drowning	4.0
Gevurah Gehinnom	3.5
Birds in Row Gris Klein	3.5
Mother of Graves Where the Shadows Adorn	3.5
SednA Last Sun	3.5
Stormruler Sacred Rites & Black Magick	3.5
Red Usurper Abandon	3.5
Grin Phantom Knocks	3.0
Earthrise Until We Rest Beneath the Winter Way	3.5
Girih Ikigai	3.5
Vacuous Dreams of Dysphoria	3.5
Imprecation In Nomine Diaobli	3.5
Sympuls-e Immensity	3.0
Embrace Of Thorns Entropy Dynamics	3.5
Au Clair de Lune Mysticism of Ecstatic Communion	3.5
A.A. Williams As The Moon Rests	3.5
Blodhemn Sverger Hemn	3.5
Odium Humani Generis Zarzewie	3.5
Asgrauw Façade	3.5
Monovoth Monovoth	3.5
Dead Neanderthals Metal	3.5
Thundering Hooves Radiance	3.5
Terror Cell Caustic Light	3.5
Parius The Signal Heard Throughout Space	3.5
Gillian Carter Salvation Through Misery	3.5
Trip back to the early 00's metalcore/post-hardcore/screamo/whateveryouwanttocallitcore scene, and for me, a really enjoyable listen.
Fucked Up Oberon	3.5
Aenaon Mnemosyne	4.0
Aara Phthonos	3.5
Vessel of Iniquity The Path Unseen	3.5
Illyria Take Me Somewhere Beautiful	3.0
De Profundis The Corruption of Virtue	3.5
Languish Feeding The Flames Of Annihilation	3.5
Goatwhore Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven	3.5
Faceless Burial At The Foothills Of Deliration	3.5
Cloud Rat Threshold	4.0
From The Vastland Taurvi	3.5
Homeskin Itch Ecstasy	3.5
Chest Rockwell Mentis Oculi	3.5
Teramaze Flight of The Wounded	3.5
Knekelput Teloorgang	3.5
Acid Witch Rot Among Us	2.5
Elminster Palantíri	3.5
Twin Drugs In Now Less Than Ever	3.5
Decembre Noir Pale Serenades	3.0
Aura Mortis Aion Teleos	3.5
Soul Dissolution SORA	3.5
Ellende Ellenbogengesellschaft	3.5
Coldworld Isolation	3.5
Pestlegion Sathanas Grand Victoria	3.0
Autopsy Morbidity Triumphant	3.5
Graceless Chants from Purgatory	3.5
City of Caterpillar Mystic Sisters	3.5
Givre Destin Messianique	3.5
Doedsvangr Koinonia	3.5
The Beremy Jets Devastation	3.5
Eternal Helcaraxe Drown in Ash	3.5
Voak Verdrängung	3.0
Sacrilegia Sold Under Sin	3.5
Cainan Dawn Lagu	3.5
Godeater Vespera	3.5
Everest Queen Murmurations	3.5
Hussar All-Consuming Hunger	3.5
The Bad Plus The Bad Plus (2022)	3.5
Strigoi Viscera	3.0
Mamaleek Diner Coffee	3.0
Bjork Fossora	3.5
Sinister Downfall The Last Witness	3.5
Crone Gotta Light?	3.5
Gaerea Mirage	3.5
Mo'ynoq A Place for Ash	3.5
Live Burial Curse of the Forlorn	3.5
Abhor (ITA) Sex Sex Sex (Ceremonia Daemonis Anticristi)	3.0
KEN mode Null	3.5
Nordjevel Gnavhòl	3.5
Kings of Mercia Kings of Mercia	3.0
Celestial Grave Vitriolic Atonement	3.5
Hail Conjurer Earth Penetration	3.0
Comedy of Errors Time Machine	3.5
Lungtoucher The Ninth Incantation	3.5
OvO Ignoto	3.0
Kathaaria To Be Shunned By All … As Centres Of Pestilence	3.5
Gutvoid Durance of Lightless Horizons	3.5
Thou Art Lord Daemoniorum	3.0
Algebra Chiroptera	3.5
Altars Ablaze Life Desecration	3.5
Reliqa I Don't Know What I Am	3.5
No Devotion No Oblivion	3.0
Sumerlands Dreamkiller	3.5
Irist Gloria	3.5
Mortuous Upon Desolation	3.0
Hetroertzen Phosphorus Vol I	3.0
The Necromancers Where The Void Rose	3.0
Wolfheart King of the North	3.5
Medieval Demon Black Coven	3.0
Innumerable Forms Philosophical Collapse	3.5
Gnipahalan I Nordisk Vredeslusta	3.5
Hegemone Voyance	3.5
Hasn't quite got the edge of its fantastic predecessor, but listening to this at the right time of day can still be quite the experience.
James Norbert Ivanyi The Sine Imitation	3.5
Dead Void Volatile Forms	3.5
Phew Phew Names	3.5
Mons Veneris Inversados d'Um Abismo de Podridão	3.5
Second To Sun Voices of Obscurantism	3.5
Bocc Dolça Mort en els Llims del Rec Comtal	3.5
Toughness The Prophetic Dawn	3.5
Eat Your Heart Out Can't Stay Forever	3.0
Bill Baird Eternal Space Bar	3.5
Netherlands Kali Corvette	3.5
Blood Chalice The Blasphemous Psalms of Cannibalism	3.5
Cosmograf Heroic Materials	3.0
Katie Kim Hour of the Ox	3.5
Greber Fright Without	3.5
Lunar Spells Demise of Heaven	3.0
Toehider I Have Little to No Memory of These Memories	3.5
An Abstract Illusion Woe	4.0
The Afghan Whigs How Do You Burn?	3.5
Holy Fawn Dimensional Bleed	3.5
Misha Sultan Translucence	3.5
Toadeater Bexadde	4.0
Valborg Der Alte	3.0
Warforged The Grove \| Sundial	3.5
Bloodbath Survival of the Sickest	3.5
Revocation Netherheaven	4.0
Fallujah Empyrean	3.5
Abrams In The Dark	3.5
Cosmicdust Tachyon	3.5
the hatch shape of raw to come	3.0
Vermilia Ruska	3.5
The Arrival Note Vol. 2	3.5
Silurian (MN) End of Ordovocia	3.5
Heads For The Dead The Great Conjuration	3.0
The Veldt Entropy is the Mainline to God	3.5
Living Hour Someday is Today	3.5
King's X Three Sides of One	3.0
Vermin Womb Retaliation	3.5
Might just be the most chaotic thing I've listened to this year.
The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist	4.0
And Now The Owls Are Smiling Epitaph	3.5
Aeternam Heir of the Rising Sun	3.5
Megadeth The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead!	3.0
Blind Guardian The God Machine	3.5
Milly Eternal Ring	3.5
Diamanda Galas Broken Gargoyles	4.0
Parts of this LP are absolutely terrifying, but I guess that's the point.
Hexis Aeternum	3.0
Sigh Shiki	3.5
Dreadnought The Endless	3.5
Patriarchy The Unself	3.0
Tiny Blue Ghost Between the Botanicals	3.5
Cyborg Octopus Between the Light and Air	3.5
Jonathan Personne Jonathan Personne	3.5
thoughtcrimes Altered Pasts	3.5
Becoming The Archetype Children of the Great Extinction	3.5
Tad Morose March of the Obsequious	3.5
Gravecrusher Resurrection of Deathly Visions	3.5
Krimh The Eternal Return	3.5
Uzumaki (USA) Examination Linguistics	3.0
Doldrey Celestial Deconstruction	3.5
Morbid Evils Supernaturals	3.5
Russian Circles Gnosis	3.5
Dawnwalker House of Sand	4.0
This album is a breath of fresh air within post-metal AND progressive metal. A well-realized concept fulfilled through vibrant and versatile musicianship.
Ferum Asunder/Erode	3.0
Lucius Fox Solastalgia	3.5
Telenova Stained Glass Love	3.5
Esthesis Watching Worlds Collide	3.5
Nurez Nachtlied	4.0
Regal Worm Worm!	3.5
Why Bonnie 90 In November	3.0
Motorpsycho Ancient Astronauts	3.5
BlackLab In a Bizarre Dream	3.5
Heilung Drif	4.0
Silversun Pickups Physical Thrills	3.5
Nadja Labyrinthine	3.0
Mimorium Route of Haeresis	3.5
Floating in Space Liftoff	3.5
Alpha Wolf/Holding Absence The Lost & the Longing	3.0
Boris Heavy Rocks (2022)	3.5
Locrian New Catastrophism	3.0
Locrian Ghost Frontiers	2.5
Hakanai Decreation	3.0
Aronious Irkalla	4.0
Royal Coda To Only a Few at First	3.5
Pale Waves Unwanted	2.5
Osees A Foul Form	3.0
Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me	3.5
Vredensdal Resurrecting the Wolf	3.5
Russ Lossing Folks	3.5
Kokoroko Could We Be More	3.5
Coscradh Nahanagan Stadial	3.5
Liminal Shroud All Virtues Ablaze	3.5
Abaddon Incarnate The Wretched Sermon	3.5
Hot Milk The King and Queen of Gasoline	2.5
Staraya Derevnya Boulder Blues	3.0
Early Moods Early Moods	3.5
Ether Coven The Relationship Between the Hammer and the Nail	3.5
Soulfly Totem	3.5
Amon Amarth The Great Heathen Army	3.0
Deadly Circus Fire Extinction	3.0
DeathSlaughter Passing Through the Valley of the Sodomites	3.5
SRSQ Ever Crashing	3.5
Grima Frostbitten	3.5
Belphegor The Devils	3.0
Krisiun Mortem Solis	3.5
Haunted Horses The Worst has Finally Happened	3.5
Wilder Maker Male Models	3.5
Me You Us Them Sound Confirms	3.5
Contemplator Morphose	4.0
Chaosbay 2222	3.0
Wombo Fairy Rust	3.5
Death Bells Between Here and Everywhere	3.0
Tallies Patina	3.5
Black Magnet Body Prophecy	3.0
Reeking Aura Blood And Bonemeal	4.0
My Sleeping Karma Atma	3.5
Dance Gavin Dance Jackpot Juicer	3.5
Chat Pile God's Country	4.0
Barbarian Viperface	3.0
Auriferous Flame The Great Mist Within	3.5
Apocryphos Phantoms Received	3.0
Sleestak Harbinger	3.0
Shroud of Bereavement A Beautiful Winter	3.5
Wake Thought Form Descent	4.0
Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition Chapter III	3.5
Northless A Path Beyond Grief	3.0
Teethgrinder Dystopia	3.5
Crestfallen Dusk Crestfallen Dusk	4.0
Gates to the Morning Walk Between Worlds	3.0
Ceremonial Worship Seven Gateways to Eternal Misanthropy	2.5
Ernia How To Deal With Life And Fail	3.5
False Gods Neurotopia	3.0
Fight the Fade APOPHYSITIS	2.0
Cheem Guilty Pleasure	3.0
Moonshade As We Set the Skies Ablaze	3.5
Abadir Mutate	4.0
Pool Kids Pool Kids	4.0
Rafael Anton Irisarri Agitas Al Sol	3.5
Wailin Storms The Silver Snake Unfolds	3.5
Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy	4.0
Ashenspire Hostile Architecture	4.0
Garden of Worm Endless Garden	3.5
Birth (USA-CA) Born	3.5
Begrime Exemious Rotting in the Aftermath	3.5
Antigama Whiteout	3.5
Hissing Hypervirulence Architecture	4.0
Xenoglyph Spiritfraud	4.0
Mantar Pain Is Forever and This Is the End	3.0
Kekal Envisaged	4.0
Patria Hexerei	3.0
Odyrmos Odyrmos	3.0
A Lily Nocturne Thunder	3.5
Nightlands Moonshine	3.0
Minami Deutsch Fortune Goodies	3.5
Scarcity Aveilut	3.5
Steve Lacy (USA-CA) Gemini Rights	3.0
Superorganism World Wide Pop	2.5
Interpol The Other Side of Make-Believe	3.0
The Ever Living Artificial Devices	3.5
Neurotic Machinery A Loathsome Aberration	3.5
Roseneath Shine	3.5
Atomic Symphony HYBRIS	3.5
Altars (AUS) Ascetic Reflection	3.5
Uzlaga The Might of Waves	3.5
Pestilent Hex The Ashen Abhorrence	3.5
Defect Designer Neanderthal	3.5
Laura Veirs Found Light	3.5
Caterina Barbieri Spirit Exit	3.5
Bad Breeding Human Capital	3.0
Ill Tidings Hymns to Demise	3.5
Golgata Ur Eld Och Aska	3.5
Written In Torment Black Command	3.5
Thumos The Course of Empire	3.0
In Slumber While We Sleep	3.0
Vidres A La Sang Fragments de L'Esdevenir	2.5
The Dear Hunter Antimai	4.0
Hulder The Eternal Fanfare	3.5
Conjurer (UK) Pathos	4.0
Black Cilice Esoteric Atavism	3.5
Greg Puciato Mirrorcell	3.5
Stiu Nu Stiu New Sun	3.5
Abhorrency Climax of Disgusting Impurities	3.5
Tuscoma Gu-cci	3.5
Satyr Totem	3.5
Khold Svartsyn	3.5
Saor Origins	3.5
Perdition Temple Merciless Upheaval	3.0
Volcandra Border World	3.5
Hermit Knight Once	3.0
Vile Haint Sacrificial Baptism in Murky Waters	3.5
Calderum Mystical Fortress of Iberian Lands	3.5
Stealing Sheep Wow Machine	3.5
Dumb Waiter Gauche Gists	3.5
Bipolar Architecture Depressionland	3.0
Veter Daemonaz Muse of the Damned	3.5
Serpents Oath Ascension	3.0
Liber Null For Whom is the Night	3.0
Arthur Brown Long Long Road	3.5
Hatis Noit Aura	3.5
Perpetual Night Aconitum	3.5
Axioma Sepsis	3.0
Alexandra Spence Blue Waves, Green Waves	3.0
Blind Seagull Personal Decay	3.0
Paganizer Beyond The Macabre	3.5
Automatic Excess	3.0
Zola Jesus Arkhon	4.0
Orthodox (ESP) Proceed	2.5
Nubivagant The Wheel and the Universe	3.0
Collapse Black Sheep is Still Dreaming	3.5
Light Dweller Lucid Offering	4.0
STABSCOTCH Prison Jar	3.5
Orgg Dimonios	3.5
Executioner's Mask Winterlong	3.5
White Ward False Light	3.5
Inexorum Equinox Vigil	3.5
Alexandra Grimal Refuge	3.0
Robocobra Quartet Living Isn't Easy	3.5
Merihem Incendiary Darkness	3.5
Hazel English Summer Nights	3.5
Denouncement Pyre Forever Burning	3.0
Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows Destroy Rebuild	3.0
Anteloper Pink Dolphins	3.5
Bekor Qilish Throes of Death From The Dreamed Nihilism	3.5
TV Priest My Other People	3.0
Sound of Ceres Emerald Sea	3.5
Ataraxy The Last Mirror	3.5
Esoctrilihum Consecration of the Spiritus Flesh	4.0
Ashley Paul I am Fog	3.0
Funeral Oppression The Eternal Revival	3.5
Deathwhite Grey Everlasting	3.0
Monasterium Cold are the Graves	2.5
Almamegretta Senghe	3.5
Sacrimonia Anthems of Eclipse	3.0
Panda Riot Extra Cosmic	3.5
Berator Elysian Inferno	3.5
Dragged Under Upright Animals	3.0
Silent Drive Fairhaven	3.5
Moodring Stargazer	3.0
Magna Carta Cartel The Dying Option	4.0
Inanimate Existence The Masquerade	3.5
Kardashev Liminal Rite	4.0
Svart Crown Les Terres Brûlées	3.5
Yoo Doo Right A Murmur, Boundless to the East	3.5
Hilde Mistral Perdant	3.5
Revenant Marquis Milk Teeth	3.0
Seabreather Impermanence in Light	3.5
Gravespawn Scourge of the Realm	3.5
Baazlvaat An Old Forgotten Text	3.0
Silent Runners Statues & Ornaments	2.5
Sergeant Thunderhoof This Sceptred Veil	3.5
Natalie Evans Movements	3.0
I Built the Sky The Quiet Place Away	3.5
Daedric Chamber Reverence of the Gods	3.0
X.Y.R. Aquarealm	3.5
Leaving Time II	3.5
Sacrilegious Crown Forbidden Vestiges of Veneration	3.0
Antoine Berjeaut Chromesthesia	3.5
INVSN Let the Night Love You	3.0
Aaron Turner To Speak	2.5
Polica Madness	3.5
Thornhill Heroine	3.5
Temple of Void Summoning the Slayer	3.5
Astronoid Radiant Bloom	3.5
Licht- Und Schattensaiten Wetterleuchten	2.5
Neocortex Am Ende Des Feuers	3.0
Marbin Dirty Horse	3.5
Lunar Chalice Transcendentia: The Shadow Pilgrimage	3.5
Hellevaerder In de Nevel van Afgunst	3.0
Nihil Invocation The Chaos of Our Lost and Evil Souls	3.0
Thrall Schisms	3.0
Gjendod I Utakt Med Verden	3.0
Just Mustard Heart Under	3.5
Abythic Eden of the Doomed	3.0
Doldrum The Knocking, Or The Story of…	3.5
Trolldom Av Gudars Ätt...	3.5
Trolldom I Nattens Sken	3.5
Sisyphean Colours of Faith	3.5
Nat Birchall Afro Trane	3.5
Mournful Congregation The Exuviae of Gods - Part I	3.5
Lord Belial Rapture	3.5
Morrigan Anwynn	3.0
Katharos XIII Chthonian Transmissions	3.5
Luminous Vault Animate The Emptiness	2.5
Wampyrinacht Night of the Desecration	3.5
Tess Parks And Those Who Were Seen Dancing	3.5
Brandon Seabrook In the Swarm	3.5
Aparthiva Raktadhara Adyapeeth Maranasamhita	3.5
Aidan Baker Gauge Amber Tones	3.0
Hyrgal Hyrgal	3.5
Clairvoyance Threshold of Nothingness	3.5
Septicflesh Modern Primitive	3.5
Come to Grief When the World Dies	3.0
Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses	4.0
Cave In Heavy Pendulum	3.5
Assumption Hadean Tides	3.5
Bess of Bedlam Dance until the Crimes End	4.0
Mai Mai Mai Rimorso	4.0
ojeRum Music for a Lonely Moon	3.5
Mortal Thrall A Path To Fire	3.5
Ophe Somnium Nocte Mendaciis	3.0
Mutually Assured Destruction Ascension	3.0
Horn Verzet	3.5
DunkelNacht Sombre Nuit	3.5
Church of the Cosmic Skull There Is No Time	3.5
Morgue Supplier Inevitability	4.0
Cavernlight As I Cast Ruin Upon...	3.0
Misery Index Complete Control	3.0
Famyne II: The Ground Below	3.5
Nechochwen Kanawha Black	3.5
Scitalis Doomed Before Time	3.5
Aara Triade II: Hemera	4.0
Norilsk Beyond the Mountains	3.0
Finsmoonth Affliction	4.0
Void Wraith II	3.5
Patricia Wolf See-Through	3.5
Unendlich Misanthrope Divine	3.5
Misanthropic Rage Hallucinatory Phenomena	4.0
Ante-Inferno Antediluvian Dreamscapes	3.5
Sigillum S Coalescence of Time: Other Conjectures on Future	3.5
RLYR RLYR	3.5
Post Animal Love Gibberish	3.0
Woorms Fatalismo	2.5
Katharos (SWE) Of Lineages Once Forgotten	3.5
Corpus Christii The Bitter End of Old	3.5
White Flowers Are You	3.5
Blasphematory The Lower Catacombs	3.5
David Knudson The Only Thing You Have to Change is Everything	3.5
Moon Tooth Phototroph	3.5
Mary Halvorson Amaryllis/Belladonna	4.0
Gospel The Loser	3.5
In Twilight's Embrace Lifeblood	3.5
Primitive Man Insurmountable	3.0
Emma Ruth Rundle EG2: Dowsing Voice	3.0
Mary Halvorson Belladonna	4.0
Mary Halvorson Amaryllis	4.0
Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter	3.5
Arms and Sleepers Former Kingdoms	3.0
Dimphonic Horriplex	3.0
IJdelheid Unholy	3.5
Tableau Mort VIsio In Somniis	3.0
Depressed Mode Decade of Silence	3.5
I Am The Night While The Gods Are Sleeping	3.5
Kikagaku Moyo Kumoyo Island	3.5
Rise to the Sky Every Day, A Funeral	3.0
Malthusian/Suffering Hour Time's Withering Shadow	3.5
Haunter (USA-TX) Discarnate Ails	4.0
Cosmic Putrefaction Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones	4.0
Ibaraki Rashomon	3.5
Jo Quail The Cartographer	3.5
Astodan Évora	3.5
Iluiteq The Light Inside, The Dark Outside	3.5
Feral Lord Vires in Absoluto	3.5
Patristic Apologetica	3.5
Misha Sultan Roots	4.0
Ravenwiek Barren Grounds	3.5
Kungens Man Kungens Ljud & Bild	3.5
Djevelkult Drep Alle Guder	3.5
Iku-Turso Into Dawnless Realms	3.5
Mother of Millions Orbit	3.5
De Arma Nightcall	3.5
Vital Spirit Still as the Night, Cold as the Wind	4.0
Red Snapper Everybody is Somebody	4.0
Tzompantli Tlazcaltiliztli	3.5
Joyfultalk Familiar Science	3.5
Elegeion Plight of the Heretic	2.5
Valac Howls of Infinite Horror	2.5
Yves Jarvis The Zug	3.5
Drudensang Tuiflsrijtt	3.5
Negative Plane The Pact	4.0
The Gathering Beautiful Distortion	3.5
Al-Namrood Worship the Degenerate	3.5
Dischordia Triptych	4.0
Devil Master Ecstasies of Never Ending Night	3.5
Rammstein Zeit	3.5
Helms Alee Keep This Be the Way	4.0
Celestial Season Mysterium I	3.0
Vanum Legend	3.0
Static Abyss Labyrinth of Veins	4.0
Mosaic (DE) Heimatspuk	3.0
Feral Light Psychic Contortions	4.0
Viande L'Abime Dévore les Âmes	3.5
Abstracted Atma Conflux	3.5
Incandescence Le Coeur de l'Homme	3.5
Semblant Vermilion Eclipse	3.0
Alunah Strange Machine	3.5
Darkher The Buried Storm	3.5
Dreariness Before We Vanish	3.5
Marrasmieli Martaiden mailta	3.5
Terzij de Horde In One Of These, I Am Your Enemy	3.5
Epitaphe II	3.5
Meshuggah Immutable	4.0
Satan Earth Infernal	3.5
Bhleg Fäghring	3.5
Golgothan Remains Adorned in Ruin	3.5
Black Death Cult Diaspora	3.5
Spider God Ett främmande språk	3.5
The Spirit Of Clarity and Galactic Structures	3.5
Falls of Rauros Key to a Vanishing Future	4.0
Nite Voices of the Kronian Moon	3.5
Kvaen The Great Below	3.5
Animals As Leaders Parrhesia	3.5
Ba'a Egrégore	3.0
The Hirsch Effekt Solitaer	3.5
Licho Ciuciubabka	3.5
Aeviterne The Ailing Facade	4.0
Dark Funeral We Are the Apocalypse	3.5
Gloson The Rift	3.5
Hellbore Panopticon	3.5
Agathodaimon The Seven	3.5
Hell Militia Hollow Void	3.5
Without Waves Comedian	4.0
Black Fucking Cancer Procreate Inverse	3.0
Night Crowned Rebirth of the Old	3.5
Acherontas Malocchio - The Seven Tongues Of Δαημων	3.5
Messa Close	3.5
Haunted Shores Void	3.5
Pestilength Basom Gryphos	3.5
E-L-R Vexier	3.5
Oddland Vermilion	3.0
Konvent Call Down The Sun	3.5
Ghost (SWE) Impera	3.5
In Aphelion Moribund	3.5
Vehemence (FRA) Ordalies	3.5
Crowbar Zero And Below	3.5
The Flower Kings By Royal Decree	3.0
Kuolemanlaakso Kuusumu	3.5
Sylvaine Nova	3.5
Non Est Deus Impious	3.0
Vein.fm This World Is Going to Ruin You	4.0
Midnight Let There Be Witchery	3.5
Oh Hiroshima Myriad	3.5
Sanhedrin (USA-NY) Lights On	3.5
Vio-Lence Let the World Burn	3.0
Izthmi Leaving This World, Leaving It All Behind	3.5
Eric Wagner In The Lonely Light Of Mourning	3.5
Tuskar Matriarch	3.0
Mountaineer Giving Up the Ghost	3.5
Shape of Despair Return to the Void	4.0
Eight Bells Legacy Of Ruin	4.0
Abraham Débris De Mondes Perdus	3.5
Inner Missing Dead Language	3.0
Blood Incantation Timewave Zero	3.0
Brood of Hatred The Golden Age	3.5
Rosalie Cunningham Two Piece Puzzle	4.0
Deathbell A Nocturnal Crossing	3.5
Hebosagil Yössä	3.0
KYOTY Isolation	3.0
Black Map Melodoria	3.5
Seeds Of Contemplation Contemplations on Hidden Meanings	3.0
Allegaeon Damnum	3.5
Naxatras IV	3.5
Ard Take Up My Bones	3.5
Pure Wrath Hymn To The Woeful Hearts	4.0
Immolation Acts of God	4.0
Archvile King À La Ruine	3.0
Schizophrenia (BE) Recollections of the Insane	3.5
Tersivel To the Orphic Void	3.5
Near Death Condition Ascent From the Mundane	3.0
Zeal and Ardor Zeal and Ardor	3.5
Feels like this is the album where Manuel Gagneux finally realizes his vision, the other two albums to me were a little off the mark but still ambitious. This latest effort is a real humdinger, every song has its own little charm. One of the year's more unique releases for sure.
Cult of Luna The Long Road North	4.0
Voivod Synchro Anarchy	4.0
Author and Punisher Kruller	3.5
Hangman's Chair A Loner	3.5
Ysyry Mollvun Ysyry Mollvün	3.5
Amorphis Halo	3.5
Creeping Flesh ...And Then the Bombs Came	3.0
Napalm Death Resentment is Always Seismic...	3.5
Once Human Scar Weaver	3.5
Inhuman Nature Under the Boot	3.5
Venom Prison Erebos	3.5
Silent Skies Nectar	3.5
Abhoria Abhoria	3.0
Mossgiver The Song Among Branches	3.5
Obsidian Sea Pathos	3.5
Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory	4.0
Seremonia Neonlusifer	3.5
Vorga Striving Toward Oblivion	3.5
Kurokuma Born of Obsidian	4.0
Korn Requiem	3.5
Persefone Metanoia	4.0
Wovenhand Silver Sash	3.0
Dawn of Solace Flames of Perdition	3.5
Jethro Tull The Zealot Gene	3.5
Earthless Night Parade of One Hundred Demons	3.5
Celeste Assassine(s)	3.5
The Mist From the Mountains Monumental - The Temple of Twilight	3.5
Det Eviga Leendet Reverence	3.5
Negativa (ESP) 04	3.5
Cloakroom Dissolution Wave	3.0
Grivo Omit	2.5
Slugcrust Slugcrust	3.5
Silhouette (FRA) Les Retranchements	3.5
SOM The Shape of Everything	3.5
Hanging Garden Neither Moth nor Rust	3.5
40 Watt Sun Perfect Light	3.5
Pensees Nocturnes Douce Fange	3.0
Lalu Paint the Sky	3.5
Boris W	3.0
Druid Lord Relics of the Dead	3.5
Nightrage Abyss Rising	3.5
Slowbleed The Blazing Sun, A Fiery Dawn	3.0
Wiegedood There's Always Blood at the End of the Road	4.0
Ereb Altor Vargtimman	3.5
Mizmor Wit's End	3.0
Enterprise Earth The Chosen	3.5
Tony Martin Thorns	3.5
Wolfbastard Hammer the Bastards	3.5
Party Cannon Volumes of Vomit	3.5
Toundra Hex	3.5
Worm Shepherd Ritual Hymns	3.0
Infected Rain Ecdysis	2.5
Dark Millennium Acid River	4.0
Needless The Cosmic Cauldron	3.5
Riverwood (EG) Shadows And Flames	3.5
Necrophagous In Chaos Ascend	3.5
OAR The Blood You Crave	3.0
Wilderun Epigone	4.0
Digir Gidim The Celestial Macrocosmic Scale and the Shimmering	3.5
Sacred Son The Foul Deth Of Engelond	3.5
Sacral Night Le Diadéme D'argent	3.0
Triumvir Foul Onslaught to Seraphim	3.5
Spectrum Mortis Bit Meseri - The Incantation	3.0
Devenial Verdict Ash Blind	3.5

2021
Archgoat Worship the Eternal Darkness	3.0
Godhead Machinery Monotheistic Enslavement	3.0
Negura Bunget Zău	4.0
Imperialist Zenith	3.5
Hypocrisy Worship	3.0
Cynic Ascension Codes	3.5
Opera Diabolicus Death on a Pale Horse	3.0
Monosphere The Puppeteer	3.0
In Mourning The Bleeding Veil	3.5
Exodus Persona Non Grata	3.5
Khemmis Deceiver	4.0
Theatres Des Vampires In Nomine Sanguinis	3.0
Thank You Scientist Plague Accommodations	3.5
Dakhma (SUI) Blessings of Amurdad	3.5
Stormkeep Tales of Othertime	3.5
Converge Bloodmoon: I	4.0
Plebeian Grandstand Rien ne suffit	3.5
Apostle of Solitude When The Darkness Goes	3.0
Der Weg Einer Freiheit Noktvrn	4.0
This band just keeps getting better and better. That final song is gorgeous.
Dold Vorde Ens Navn Mørkere	3.0
Darkwoods My Betrothed Angel Of Carnage Unleashed	3.5
Vertebra Atlantis Lustral Purge in Cerulean Bliss	4.0
Ars Magna Umbrae Throne Between Worlds	3.5
Creatvre Eloge de l'ombre	3.5
Belore Artefacts	3.5
Can Bardd Devoured by the Oak	3.5
Astrophobos Corpus	3.0
Dauthuz Vom Schwarzen Schmied	3.5
Fornhem Stämman Från Berget	3.0
Omnium Gatherum Origin	3.5
Mortiferum Preserved in Torment	3.5
Autokrator Persecution	3.5
Ivar Bjornson and Einar Selvik Hardanger	3.5
Portrayal of Guilt Christfucker	3.5
Emma Ruth Rundle Engine of Hell	3.5
Gaahls Wyrd The Humming Mountain	3.0
Mystras Empires Vanquished And Dismantled	3.0
Abysmal Grief Funeral Cult of Personality	3.0
Ghost Bath Self Loather	3.5
Helheim Woduridar	3.5
Kayo Dot Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike	4.0
Be'lakor Coherence	3.5
Ophis Spew Forth Odium	3.5
Cult of Eibon Black Flame Dominion	3.0
Mastodon Hushed and Grim	3.5
Thulcandra A Dying Wish	3.5
Cradle of Filth Existence Is Futile	4.0
Necrofier Prophecies of Eternal Darkness	3.5
Massacre Resurgence	3.5
Worm Foreverglade	4.0
1914 Where Fear and Weapons Meet	3.5
Blackwater Holylight Silence/Motion	3.5
Deity's Muse Ennui (EP)	3.5
Dream Theater A View from the Top of the World	3.5
Livlos And Then There Were None	3.5
Slow Crush Hush	3.5
Vildhjarta Måsstaden Under Vatten	3.5
Necromantia To the Depths We Descend...	3.5
Extreme Cold Winter World Exit	3.0
Hate Rugia	3.5
Aeon God Ends Here	3.5
The Agonist Days Before The World Wept	3.5
Illudium Ash of the Womb	3.5
Misanthur Ephemeris	3.0
She Said Destroy Succession	3.5
The Silver (US) Ward of Roses	3.5
Black Sites Untrue	3.5
Hegemon Sidereus Nuncius	3.5
Untamed Land Like Creatures Seeking Their Own Forms	3.5
Alda A Distant Fire	3.5
Kowloon Walled City Piecework	2.5
Havukruunu Kuu Erkylän Yllä	3.5
The Breathing Process Labyrinthian	3.0
Mercury Circle Killing Moons	3.0
The Omnific Escapades	3.5
Lungtoucher Sin Eater	2.5
Four Stroke Baron Classics	3.5
Full of Hell Garden of Burning Apparitions	4.0
Gloosh Sylvan Coven	3.5
The Body and Big\|Brave Leaving None But Small Birds	3.5
Bummer (USA-MO) Dead Horse	3.0
Venefixion A Sigh from Below	3.5
Enslaved Caravans to the Outer Worlds	3.5
Katavasia Invoking the Spirit of Doom	3.5
Light of the Morning Star Charnel Noir	3.5
Abstracter Abominion	4.0
Anima Hereticae Ov Behest	3.5
Cataleptic The Tragedy	3.5
Grab Zeitlang	3.5
Xenosis Paralleled Existence	3.5
Alkuharmonian Kantaja Shadowy Peripherals	3.0
Order The Gospel	3.5
Iskandr Vergezicht	3.5
Malignament Hypocrisis Absolution	3.5
LLNN Unmaker	3.0
Waldgefluster Dahoam	3.5
Dead Summer Society Decades	3.0
Aorlhac Pierres Brûlées	3.0
Veilburner Lurkers in the Capsule of Skull	4.0
Rivers of Nihil The Work	3.5
Succumb XXI	3.5
Wraith (USA-IN) Undo The Chains	3.5
Aeon Zen Transversal	3.5
Cognizance Upheaval	3.5
Drott Orcus	3.5
Sleep Token This Place Will Become Your Tomb	3.0
Unto Others Strength	3.5
Orbit Culture Shaman	3.0
Skepticism Companion	3.5
Carcass Torn Arteries	3.5
Insomnium Argent Moon	3.5
Mono Pilgrimage Of The Soul	3.5
Spiritbox Eternal Blue	3.5
Criminal Sacrificio	3.5
Kadabra Ultra	3.5
Hail Spirit Noir Mannequins	3.0
Pa Vesh En Maniac Manifest	4.0
Chrome Waves The Rain Will Cleanse	3.5
Inferi (USA) Vile Genesis	3.5
Dawn Fades Ode	3.5
Lvcifyre The Broken Seal	3.5
Mastiff Leave Me The Ashes Of The Earth	3.5
Replicant Malignant Reality	3.5
Trna Istok	3.0
Beyond Grace Our Kingdom Undone	3.5
Bloodphemy Blood Sacrifice	3.0
Portrait (SWE) At One with None	3.5
Rise to the Sky Per Aspera Ad Astra	3.0
Green Lung Black Harvest	3.5
Sugar Horse The Live Long After	3.5
Osi and the Jupiter Stave	3.5
Utopia (UK) Stalker	3.0
Fluisteraars Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking	3.0
Nunslaughter Red Is The Color Of Ripping Death	3.5
Wormwitch Wolf Hex	3.5
White Stones Dancing Into Oblivion	3.5
Our Place of Worship is Silence Disavowed, and Left Hopeless	3.5
Hooded Menace The Tritonus Bell	4.0
Thyrfing Vanagandr	3.5
Wormwood Arkivet	3.5
Jinjer Wallflowers	3.0
Jinjer is an example of a band I have tried so hard to get into, but each successive release just brings about a cloud of disappointment. The best thing I have to say about this album is that it's a tad more coherent than Macro, but the album really dwindles in terms of excitement after the first four songs.
Ex Deo The Thirteen Years of Nero	3.0
Filth is Eternal Love Is A Lie, Filth Is Eternal	3.5
Golden Ashes (NL) A Lightless Christ Shuns The Crown Of Divinity	3.5
Necronautical Slain In The Spirit	3.5
Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana	4.0
Bonehunter Dark Blood Reincarnation System	3.5
One with the Riverbed Absence	3.0
The Slow Death Siege	3.5
Gloop Crayon Sun	3.0
Diskord Degenerations	3.0
Aenigmatum Deconsecrate	3.5
Fawn Limbs Darwin Falls	3.5
Quicksand Distant Populations	3.5
Unreqvited Beautiful Ghosts	4.0
Alchemy of Flesh Ageless Abominations	3.0
Lingua Ignota SINNER GET READY	3.5
Vessel of Iniquity The Doorway	3.5
Dantalion Time to Pass Away	3.0
Groza The Redemptive End	4.0
Lantlos Wildhund	3.5
Netherbird Arete	3.5
King Woman Celestial Blues	3.0
Eastern High Halo	3.5
Underdark (UK) Our Bodies Burned Bright On Re-Entry	3.0
Agrypnie Metamorphosis	3.5
Krossfyre Rites of Extermination	3.5
Erdve Savigaila	3.5
Craven Idol Forked Tongues	4.0
Temple of Dread Hades Unleashed	3.5
Vouna Atropos	4.0
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy A Cult That Worships A God Of Death	3.5
Mulla جن	3.5
Wizardthrone Hypercube Necrodimensions	3.5
Silly, bombastic, but also very fun to listen to. Hearing this live should be an absolute blast.
Ulvik Cascades	3.5
Mayhem Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando	3.5
Domination Campaign Onward To Glory	3.0
Ruadh Eternal	3.5
Enshine Transcending Fire	3.5
Mannveira Vitahringur	3.5
Bizarrekult Vi Overlevde	3.5
Felled The Intimate Earth	4.0
Godhead Machinery Masquerade Among Gods	3.0
Year of No Light Consolamentum	3.5
Friisk …Un Torügg Bleev Blot Sand	3.5
At the Gates The Nightmare of Being	3.5
Noctambulist The Barren Form	3.5
Papangu Holoceno	3.5
Thy Catafalque Vadak	4.0
White Ward Debemur Morti	3.5
Pestilence Exitivm	3.5
Scale the Summit Subjects	3.0
Darkthrone Eternal Hails	3.5
Urne Serpent and Spirit	3.0
Withered Verloren	3.5
Crescent (EGY) Carving the Fires of Akhet	3.5
Backxwash I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES	4.0
Alustrium A Monument to Silence	3.5
Helloween Helloween	3.5
Korgonthurus XX	3.5
Fear Factory Aggression Continuum	3.5
Decayed Old Ghosts and Primeval Demons	3.5
Heavy Temple Lupi Amoris	3.5
Sundrowned Become Ethereal	3.5
Gnosis (USA-FL) Omens from the Dead Realm	3.5
Crypta Echoes Of The Soul	3.0
Sepiroth Condemned to Suffer	3.5
Dornenreich Du Wilde Liebe Sei	3.0
Eremit Bearer of Many Names	3.5
Boss Keloid Family the Smiling Thrush	3.5
Flotsam and Jetsam Blood in the Water	3.5
Code Flyblown Prince	3.5
Ancient Wisdom A Celebration in Honor of Death	3.0
Somnuri Nefarious Wave	3.5
Seputus Phantom Indigo	3.5
Hannes Grossmann To Where The Light Retreats	3.5
Cross Vault As Strangers We Depart	3.0
Alluvial Sarcoma	3.5
Messier 16 iota	4.0
Portal Avow	4.0
Khandra All Occupied by Sole Death	3.5
The Flight of Sleipnir Eventide	3.5
Cirith Ungol Half Past Human	3.5
King of Asgard Svartrviðr	3.5
Perturbator Lustful Sacraments	3.5
White Moth Black Butterfly The Cost Of Dreaming	3.5
Noctule Wretched Abyss	4.0
Sabhankra Death to Traitors	3.5
Yautja The Lurch	3.5
Borgne Temps Morts	3.5
Nadja Luminous Rot	2.5
Esoctrilihum Dy'th Requiem for the Serpent Telepath	4.0
So many brilliant black metal albums released this year, so little time to listen to them.rScrew that, I have ALL the time in the world.
Impure Wilhelmina Antidote	3.5
Jess And The Ancient Ones Vertigo	3.5
An Autumn For Crippled Children As The Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes	3.5
Epiphanic Truth Dark Triad: Bitter Psalms to a Sordid Species	3.5
Hanging Garden Skeleton Lake	3.5
The Devil Wears Prada ZII	2.5
VOLA Witness	3.5
Yoo Doo Right Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose	4.0
Panopticon ...And Again into the Light	4.5
Canvas Solaris Chromosphere	3.5
DorDeDuh Har	4.5
Grave Miasma Abyss of Wrathful Deities	3.5
Zombi Liquid Crystal	3.5
Djevel Tanker som rir natten	4.0
The Ember, The Ash Fixation	3.0
The Monolith Deathcult V3 - Vernedering: Connect the Goddamn Dots	3.0
Askog Varþnaþer	3.5
Teramaze Sorella Minore	3.5
Grey Aura Zwart vierkant	3.5
Artillery X	3.5
Feed Them Death Negative	3.0
Wormlight Nightmother	3.5
Inferno (CZ) PARADEIGMA (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity)	4.0
Seth La Morsure du Christ	4.0
Ereb Altor Eldens Boning	3.5
Ghost Iris Comatose	3.5
Vokonis Odyssey	4.0
Kataan Kataan	3.5
Palus Somni Monarch of Dark Matter	4.0
Lucifuge Infernal Power	3.5
Nekromantheon Visions of Trismegistos	3.5
Tetrarch Unstable	3.0
Evile Hell Unleashed	3.5
Plasmodium Towers of Silence	3.0
uhhhhh....yeah. This is certainly an album. A very left of field album.
Ophiuchi Shibboleth	3.0
Ageless Oblivion Suspended Between Earth and Sky	3.5
Domkraft Seeds	3.5
Ninkharsag The Dread March Of Solemn Gods	3.5
Fyrnask VII - Kenoma	3.5
Spectral Lore Ετερόφωτος	3.5
Body Void Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth	3.5
Big\|Brave Vital	3.0
Cold Cell The Greater Evil	3.0
Omega (ITA) Nebra	4.0
Paysage d'Hiver Geister	4.0
Altarage Succumb	3.5
Noeta Elm	3.5
Bongzilla Weedsconsin	3.5
Superlynx Electric Temple	3.0
Cannibal Corpse Violence Unimagined	3.5
C R O W N The End of All Things	3.5
Ildaruni Beyond Unseen Gateways	3.5
Spectral Wound A Diabolic Thirst	4.0
Intonate Severed Within	3.5
Vallendusk Heralds of Strife	3.5
Endseeker Mount Carcass	3.5
Suffocate For Fuck Sake Fyra	3.5
Staurophagia Spaceforming	3.5
Hiraki Stumbling Through The Walls	3.5
Niht Arcanum	3.0
Kauan Ice Fleet	4.0
Dark The Suns Suru raivosi sydämeni pimeydessä	3.5
Wolfchant Omega : Bestia	3.0
Saille V	3.5
Arabrot Norwegian Gothic	3.5
Blaze Bayley War Within Me	3.5
Devil Sold His Soul Loss	3.5
The Lion's Daughter Skin Show	3.5
Phreneticum Der Stille Zerfall	3.5
Wode Burn in Many Mirrors	3.5
Crust (RUS) Stoic	3.5
Rorcal and Earthflesh Witch Coven	3.5
The Black Mysteries ...And the Opening of the Shadowy Sepulchre...	3.5
Blue Ox Holy Vore	3.5
Fuoco Fatuo (ITA2) Obsidian Katabasis	4.0
Los Disidentes Del Sucio Motel Polaris	3.5
ISON Aurora	4.0
Beautifully haunting. Considering the guest musicians and vocalists here, the album is full of life and has this energetic presence which listeners absorb from the very first song.
Moral Collapse Moral Collapse	3.0
Decline of the I Johannes	3.5
Odd Dimension The Blue Dawn	3.5
Ghosts of Atlantis 3.6.2.4	3.5
Tomahawk Tonic Immobility	3.5
Aara Triade I: Eos	4.0
Celestial Sanctuary Soul Diminished	3.5
Genghis Tron Dream Weapon	3.5
Grorr Ddulden's Last Flight	2.5
Perennial Isolation Portraits	3.5
Sanguisugabogg Tortured Whole	2.5
Draken Draken	3.0
Nine Treasures Awakening from Dukkha	3.5
Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm	4.0
Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 2 - The Golden Orb	4.0
Fuath II	3.5
Dvne Etemen Ænka	3.5
Miasmata Unlight: Songs of Earth and Atrophy	3.0
Malist Karst Relict	3.5
Varmia Bal Lada	3.5
Autarkh Form in Motion	4.0
Stortregn Impermanence	3.5
The Crown Royal Destroyer	3.5
Pupil Slicer Mirrors	4.0
White Void (NO) Anti	3.5
Horndal Lake Drinker	3.5
Demiser Through the Gate Eternal	3.5
Lovebites Glory, Glory, to the World	3.5
Wolvennest Temple	4.0
:Nodfyr: Eigenheid	3.5
Baest Necro Sapiens	3.5
Mork Katedralen	3.5
Nightfall At Night We Prey	3.5
The Hyena Kill A Disconnect	3.5
Reaper (SWE) The Atonality Of Flesh	3.0
Thirdface Do It With A Smile	3.0
Wolf King Path of Wrath	3.5
Epica Omega	3.5
Forhist Forhist	3.5
Empyrium Über den Sternen	3.5
Vulgaris Asundre	3.5
Earthshine My Bones Shall Rest Upon The Mountain	3.5
Five The Hierophant Through Aureate Void	3.5
Paranorm Empyrean	3.5
Culted Nous	2.5
Moonspell Hermitage	3.5
Black Sheep Wall Songs for the Enamel Queen	3.5
Anneke van Giersbergen The Darkest Skies Are The Brightest	3.0
Ominous Ruin Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone	3.0
Spelljammer Abyssal Trip	3.5
A.C.T. Heatwave	3.0
The Amenta Revelator	3.5
Senyawa Alkisah	3.5
Thron Pilgrim	3.0
Spire Temple of Khronos	3.5
Lake of Tears Ominous	3.5
In Tormentata Quiete Krononota	3.5
Harakiri for the Sky Maere	3.5
Aborym Hostile	2.5
Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse	3.5
Sur Austru Obârşie	3.5
God Is an Astronaut Ghost Tapes #10	3.5
Emptiness Vide	3.0
Vestindien Null	3.0
Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning	4.0
Keys of Orthanc Of The Lineage Of Kings	3.5
Alkerdeel Slonk	4.0
Cult of Luna The Raging River	4.0
DSKNT Vacuum γ-Noise Transition	4.0
Omination NGR	3.0
Korpiklaani Jylhä	3.0
Misotheist For the Glory of Your Redeemer	3.5
The Ruins of Beverast The Thule Grimoires	4.5
The Body I’ve Seen All I Need To See	4.0
Demon Head Viscera	2.5
And Now The Owls Are Smiling Dirges	3.5
Yoth Iria As The Flame Withers	4.0
Altered Dead Returned to Life	3.5
Here Lies Man Ritual Divination	3.5
Therion Leviathan	3.0
Ellende Triebe	3.5
Bloodletter Funeral Hymns	3.0
Hulder Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry	3.5
Memoriam To the End	3.5
Endezzma The Archer, Fjord and the Thunder	3.0
Bhleg Ödhin	3.0
Bloody Hammers Songs Of Unspeakable Terror	3.0
Dread Sovereign Alchemical Warfare	3.0
Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou The Helm of Sorrow	3.5
Last Year's Tragedy Amongst Lions	2.5
Need Norchestrion: Α Song For The End	3.5
Kultika Capricorn Wolves	3.5
Frozen Soul Crypt Of Ice	3.0
Malakhim Theion	3.5
Gates Of Doom Aquileia Mater Aeterna	3.5
Celestial Swarm Gateways to the Necroverse	3.5
Transilvania Of Sleep And Death	3.5
Soothsayer (IRE) Echoes Of The Earth	3.5

2020
Hate Forest Hour Of The Centaur	3.5
Old Growth (DE) Mossweaver	3.5
Akhlys Melinoe	4.0
Golgata Tempel	3.5
Psycroptic The Watcher of All	3.5
Avandra Skylighting	3.5
Tombs Under Sullen Skies	3.5
Lunatic Soul Through Shaded Woods	4.5
Nibiru (ITA) Panspermia	3.0
Dark Buddha Rising Mathreyata	3.5
Volur Death Cult	4.0
Decembre Noir The Renaissance Of Hope	3.5
Katla Allt þetta Helvítis Myrkur	3.5
Solstafir Endless Twilight of Codependent Love	3.5
Shattered Hope Vespers	3.5
Fates Warning Long Day Good Night	3.5
Deluge Ægo Templo	3.5
Shaidar Logoth Chapter III: The Void God	3.5
Stormruler Under the Burning Eclipse	3.0
Summon (PT) Helios	4.0
Audn Vökudraumsins fangi	3.5
Draconian Under a Godless Veil	3.5
Carcass Despicable	3.5
Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full	3.5
Wytch Hazel III: Pentecost	3.5
Holy Death (USA-NV) Deus Mortis	2.5
Stalker Black Majik Terror	3.5
Occult Burial Burning Eerie Lore	3.5
Svartsyn Requiem	3.5
Yaotl Mictlan Sagrada Tierra del Jaguar	3.5
Drew McDowall Agalma	3.5
Epitimia Allusion	3.0
Atlases Woe Portrait	3.5
Defecto Duality	2.5
Weald and Woe The Fate of Kings and Men	3.5
Zeal and Ardor Wake of a Nation	3.0
White Walls Grandeur	3.5
Armored Saint Punching the Sky	3.5
Chamber (USA) Cost of Sacrifice	3.5
Pallbearer Forgotten Days	3.5
Mork Gryning Hinsides vrede	3.5
Ricinn Nereid	3.5
Void Paradigm Ultime Pulsation \| Demain Brûle	3.5
Korpsesoturi Korpskrist	3.5
GHOSTEMANE Anti-Icon	3.5
Celestial Season The Secret Teachings	3.0
Maladie The Grand Aversion	3.0
Chaos Divine Legacies	3.5
Aphonic Threnody The Great Hatred	3.5
Benediction Scriptures	3.5
Infera Bruo Rites of the Nameless	3.0
Molassess Through the Hollow	3.5
Mr. Bison Seaward	3.5
Spirit Adrift Enlightened In Eternity	3.5
Wayfarer A Romance with Violence	4.0
Yatra All Is Lost	3.0
DGM Tragic Separation	3.5
In Cauda Venenum G.O.H.E.	3.5
Inferi (USA) Of Sunless Realms	3.5
Teramaze I Wonder	3.5
Necrophobic Dawn of the Damned	3.5
Dysylumn Cosmogonie	3.5
Bloodbather Silence	3.5
La Fin The Endless Inertia	4.0
156/Silence Irrational Pull	3.5
Enslaved Utgard	3.5
Amiensus Abreaction	4.0
Sarcoptes Plague Hymns	3.5
Nachtblut Vanitas	3.0
Gorephilia In The Eye Of Nothing	3.5
Toadeater Bit to ewigen daogen	3.5
Lamp of Murmuur Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism	3.5
Cryptae Nightmare Traversal	3.5
Anaal Nathrakh Endarkenment	3.0
Trident (SWE) North	3.5
Briqueville Quelle	3.5
Frailty Tumši Ūdeņi	3.5
DevilDriver Dealing With Demons I	3.0
Ixion L'adieu aux étoiles	3.5
Coexistence Collateral Dimension	3.5
The Erkonauts I Want It To End	3.5
Greg Puciato Child Soldier: Creator of God	3.5
Nubivagant Roaring Eye	3.5
Second To Sun Leviathan	4.0
Anna von Hausswolff All Thoughts Fly	4.0
Lik Misanthropic Breed	3.5
Dwarrowdelf Evenstar	3.5
Crépuscule d'Hiver Par-Delà Noireglaces et Brumes-Sinistres	3.5
Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better?	4.0
AOTY contender for sure. The lyrics here are bitter and honest about society's many issues, but fused with some of the strongest and most aspiring songwriting this band has ever written. Svalbard have been looming in my "curious" band section for a while now ever since I saw them live, but on this album surely they prove to be one of the frontrunners for the UK metal scene.
Emyn Muil Afar Angathfark	3.5
Vous Autres Sel de Pierre	3.5
The Reticent The Oubliette	4.5
One of the greatest prog metal concept albums I've heard recently. It's an emotional conceptual journey through the life (and eventual death) of a Dementia patient and lyrically really hits home to those who have known someone to suffer from the disease. It's constructed and performed impeccably well, but it goes without saying you should pay as much attention to the lyrics as the music in order to get the full experience.
Lethian Dreams A Shadow of Memories	3.5
Morwinyon Pristine	4.0
Marche Funebre Einderlicht	3.5
Morta Skuld Suffer for Nothing	3.5
Deftones Ohms	3.5
Ayreon Transitus	3.0
Obsidian Kingdom Meat Machine	3.0
Uada Djinn	3.0
Dropdead Dropdead 2020	3.5
Proscription Conduit	3.5
The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic \| Cenozoic	3.5
Empress Premonition	3.5
The Infernal Sea Negotium Crucis	3.5
Finntroll Vredesvävd	3.5
The White Swan Nocturnal Transmission	3.5
Melted Bodies Enjoy Yourself	3.5
Fawn Limbs Sleeper Vessels	3.5
Gazpacho Fireworker	3.5
Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism	3.5
Raven Throne Viartańnie (Chroniki Źmiainaj Ciemry)	3.5
Derek Sherinian The Phoenix	3.5
Evoke (NO) Seeds of Death	3.5
ANCST Summits of Despondency	3.5
Sunken Livslede	4.0
Ottone Pesante DoomooD	3.5
Plague Years Circle of Darkness	3.5
Raven Metal City	3.5
Khors Where the Word Acquires Eternity	3.5
Xalpen Sawken Xo'on	3.5
Frowning Death Requiem	3.0
Jupiterian Protosapien	3.5
Putrid Offal Sicknesses Obsessions	3.5
Skeletal Remains The Entombment of Chaos	3.5
Tomorrow's Rain Hollow	3.5
Uniform Shame	3.5
Dephosphorus Sublimation	3.0
Ordinance (FIN) In Purge There Is No Remission	3.5
Void Rot Descending Pillars	3.0
Darkened Kingdom Of Decay	3.5
Night High Tides - Distant Skies	3.5
Korgull the Exterminator Sharpen Your Spikes	3.5
Raventale Planetarium II	3.5
Chrome Waves Where We Live	3.5
Idolatria Tetrabestiarchy	3.5
Cult of Lilith Mara	3.5
Katavasia Magnus Venator	3.5
Serpent Omega II	3.5
Noumena Anima	3.0
Persekutor Permanent Winter	2.5
Cloudkicker Solitude	3.5
All Them Witches Nothing as the Ideal	3.0
Odoacer There the Vultures Will Gather	4.0
Thurisaz Re-Incentive	4.5
Hymn Breach Us	3.5
Exist Egoiista	3.0
Tulkas The Beginning of the End	3.5
Luna's Call Void	4.0
Necrot Mortal	4.0
Venomous Concept Politics Versus The Erection	3.5
Pig Destroyer The Octagonal Stairway	3.0
Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition - Chapter II	3.5
Wills Dissolve Echoes	3.5
Narrow Head 12th House Rock	3.5
Pain of Salvation Panther	3.0
Spook the Horses Empty Body	3.5
Ulver Flowers of Evil	3.5
John Petrucci Terminal Velocity	3.5
Black Moon Mother Illusions Under the Sun	3.5
Ars Magna Umbrae Apotheosis	3.5
Incantation Sect of Vile Divinities	3.5
Atramentus Stygian	3.5
Black Elephant Seven Swords	3.5
Blues Pills Holy Moly!	3.5
Brimstone Coven The Woes of a Mortal Earth	3.0
Humavoid Lidless	4.0
What was missing from both Ithaca's latest release and most of Jinjer's discography, is basically on this album, amplified by some frenzied vocal work which strangely reminds me of Ram-Zet in their prime, and all finished off with manic keyboard/synth work. A lot of ideas dancing about, and if you don't like djenty riffs then at least part of this album will irritate you to no end...but this is still a brilliantly fresh debut in my mind.
Unleash The Archers Abyss	3.5
ADAM SUN	3.0
Self Hypnosis Contagion of Despair	3.5
Surut Surut	3.5
Decoherence Unitarity	4.0
Atrae Bilis Divinihility	3.5
Primitive Man Immersion	3.5
Deathcave Smoking Mountain	3.5
Mercury Circle The Dawn of Vitriol	3.5
Titan to Tachyons Cactides	3.5
Onslaught Generation Antichrist	3.5
Texas Murder Crew Everyone's Last Breath	3.0
Misery Signals Ultraviolet	3.5
Selbst Relatos de Angustia	3.5
Steve Von Till No Wilderness Deep Enough	3.5
Year of the Knife Internal Incarceration	3.5
Nyktophobia What Lasts Forever	3.5
Vassafor To the Death	3.5
Concrete (USA-NY) Free Us From Existence	2.5
Faceless Burial Speciation	3.5
Orbit Culture Nija	3.5
Nug Alter Ego	3.5
Fall of Messiah Senicarne	3.5
Katalepsy Terra Mortuus Est	3.5
Gaerea Limbo	3.5
Spirit Possession Spirit Possession	3.5
Bedsore Hypnagogic Hallucinations	3.0
Valkyrie (USA-VA) Fear	3.5
Khthoniik Cerviiks Æequiizoiikum	3.5
Zombi 2020	3.5
Eremit Desert of Ghouls	3.0
Mystras Castles Conquered And Reclaimed	3.5
Entry Detriment	3.0
Julianna Barwick Healing Is a Miracle	4.0
Maggot Heart Mercy Machine	3.5
Why yes, I do like to boogie to these tunes. The part of me that likes early Killing Joke is in love with some of these songs, but others do tend to get a bit ropey.
Ensiferum Thalassic	3.5
Battle Dagorath Abyss Horizons	3.5
Judicator Let There Be Nothing	3.5
Sharptooth Transitional Forms	3.5
Convocation Ashes Coalesce	3.5
Phoxjaw Royal Swan	3.5
A.A. Williams Forever Blue	4.0
Transit Method The Madness	3.5
VoidCeremony Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional...	4.0
Irae (PT) Lurking in the Depths	3.5
Fellwarden Wreathed in Mourncloud	4.0
A truly refreshing album. The production is ideal-seemingly shrouded in this hazy, cloudy sound but which vividly brings to mind a slow, graceful stroll alongside a foggy coastline (or alongside the lake district, apparently a direct source of songwriting inspiration for the album). It may be simplistic and straightforward in its approach, but it does everything just right and offers one of the calmest albeit seamless atmospheric black metal albums of the year so far.
Thecodontion Supercontinent	3.5
Bass?rBass indeed.rDrums too. rAnd one interesting concept to tie the songwriting together.
Fordomth Is, Qui Mortem Audit	3.5
Acherontas Psychic Death - The Shattering of Perceptions	3.5
OHHMS Close	3.5
Exocrine Maelstrom	4.0
I don't know what it is about Exocrine, but they make this sub-genre so fun to listen to. And yes, I did enjoy those sax solos.
Bell Witch and Aerial Ruin Stygian Bough Volume 1	3.5
Inexorum Moonlit Navigation	3.5
Magick Touch Heads Have Got to Rock n' Roll	3.5
Paysage d'Hiver Im Wald	4.0
Stygian Crown Stygian Crown	3.0
Wino Forever Gone	3.5
Lantern (FIN) Dimensions	3.5
Purtenance Buried Incarnation	3.0
Ofermod Pentagrammaton	3.5
Heathen Beast The Revolution Will Not Be Televised...	2.5
Nexion (IS) Seven Oracles	3.5
Bishop Of Hexen The Death Masquerade	2.5
Them Moose Rush Dancing Maze	3.5
Protest the Hero Palimpsest	3.5
Kall Brand	3.5
This album can get a bit all over the place at times, and the vocals a little ropey, but generally it seems expansive and forward-thinking enough to carry the lengthier songs to a fine ending. That's without mentioning the often interesting and charming saxophone sections, which really come into their own whenever performed. This album is not without flaws, but also not without its charms either.
Aversio Humanitatis Behold The Silent Dwellers	3.5
Cro-Mags In the Beginning	3.5
The Moon and the Nightspirit Aether	4.0
Shadowflag In Asylum Requiem	3.5
Hail Spirit Noir Eden In Reverse	4.0
Vile Creature Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!	3.5
Last two songs are absolutely fantastic. The first three songs of the album are a confusing mess, trying to take the best bits of Thou and The Body but never quite coming to the stunning result the duo intended. If the musicianship makes you feel as sick as the album cover does, Vile Creature have delivered here.
Atavist III: Absolution	3.5
Eye of Nix Ligeia	4.0
Prophecy Productions keep putting out unique releases this year, and Eye of Nix's latest another one. Alluring vocals and really adventurous songwriting coupled with one of the cleanest albeit vicious rhythm sections I've heard in a black metal-related release all year, and yet the album still takes a few listens to truly get your head around. In a way it reminds me of what The Third and the Mortal were doing in the mid-90s but with more menace and heaviness to boot.
Ulthar Providence	3.5
Aversions Crown Hell Will Come For Us All	3.5
Lightworker Fury by Failure	3.0
Orgone (FRA) Mos/Fet	3.5
Above Aurora The Shrine of Deterioration	3.5
Naxen Towards the Tomb of Times	3.5
Exhumed/Gruesome Twisted Horror	3.5
Death Courier Necrotic Verses	3.5
16 Dream Squasher	3.5
Hanging Garden Against the Dying of the Light	3.0
Currents The Way It Ends	3.5
END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face	3.5
The Funeral Orchestra Negative Evocation Rites	3.0
Descend Into Despair Opium	3.5
October Falls A Fall of an Epoch	3.5
Antethic Mythographer	3.5
Centinex Death in Pieces	3.5
Bleed from Within Fracture	3.5
Sorcerer Lamenting of the Innocent	3.5
Xibalba Años En Infierno	3.0
The Ruins Of Beverast / Almyrkvi Almyrkvi / The Ruins Of Beverast (Split)	4.0
Backxwash God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of I	4.0
Rannoch Reflections Upon Darkness	4.0
Fires in the Distance Echoes From Deep November	3.5
Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant	3.5
Astral Sleep Astral Doom Musick	3.0
Bait Revelation of the Pure	3.5
Arstidir Lifsins Saga á tveim tungum II: Eigi fjǫll né firðir	4.0
Esoctrilihum Eternity Of Shaog	4.0
Barren Womb Lizard Lounge	3.5
Revenge (CAN) Strike.Smother.Dehumanize	3.5
Wolftooth Valhalla	3.5
Dynfari Myrkurs Er Þörf	3.5
Paradise Lost Obsidian	4.0
Shrapnel (UK) Palace for the Insane	3.0
In the Company of Serpents Lux	3.0
Horn Mohngang	3.5
ACxDC Satan Is King	3.5
Exgenesis Solve et Coagula	3.5
Ashtar Kaikuja	3.0
Okkultokrati La Ilden Lyse	3.5
Afsky Ofte Jeg Drømmer Mig Død	3.5
Green Carnation Leaves Of Yesteryear	4.0
Vuur & Zijde / Impavida Vuur & Zijde / Impavida	4.0
Haunting, unique, and thoroughly entrancing as every single song on this split between two forward-thinking black metal bands compels you to listen with no outside distraction. Songs by Vuur & Zijde are mostly psychedelic, beautifully ambitious pieces of work, the masterpiece that is "Zonnestorm" providing atmospheric vocal leads to enhance the sound. The Impavida songs on the other hand are not quite as charming but certainly engulfing. The sheer menace of "Gram" provides a chaotic listening experience whereas the monumental closer "Wahn & Stille" builds to a beautiful albeit crushing crescendo. A fine split by Prophecy Productions.
Forgotten Tomb Nihilistic Estrangement	3.5
Secrets of the Moon Black House	4.0
Leagues better than the last album, and whilst the band may have alienated a few impatient fans, the musical evolution and progression is clearly well inspired and the end product is a fluent album which gives 100% without unnecessary cheese. "He is Here" has a beautifully aspiring chorus and "Earth Hour" is probably one of the catchiest songs the band have ever written.
Odraza Rzeczom	3.5
Drought (ITA) Trimurti	3.0
...and Oceans Cosmic World Mother	4.0
Sojourner Premonitions	4.0
Bear Propaganda	3.5
The Hirsch Effekt Kollaps	3.5
Winterfylleth The Reckoning Dawn	4.0
Cryptic Shift Visitations from Enceladus	4.0
The best bits of Skaldic Curse, the avant-garde mannerisms of mid-era Gorguts and the rabid acceleration of Vektor? Oh yes please.
Hyems Anatomie des Scheiterns	3.0
Black Pestilence Hail the Flesh	3.5
Irdorath The Final Sin	3.5
Vader Solitude in Madness	2.5
Thrawsunblat Insula	3.0
Sinisthra The Broad And Beaten Way	3.5
Cosmic Putrefaction The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers	4.0
Keverra Keverra	3.0
Shatter Brain Pitchfork Justice	3.5
Umbra Vitae Shadow of Life	3.0
Golden Ashes (NL) In The Lugubrious Silence Of Eternal Night	3.0
From The Vastland The Haft Khan	3.0
Cloven Hoof Age of Steel	3.5
Warbringer Weapons of Tomorrow	3.5
Lustre (SWE) The Ashes of Light	2.0
Fange Pudeur	3.5
Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still	4.0
Can the drummer in this album please stop being so inhumanly brilliant?rThanks.
Blaze of Sorrow Absentia	3.5
Dark Forest (UK) Oak, Ash & Thorn	3.0
The closest thing to a British Elvenking we'll ever get.
Barishi Old Smoke	4.0
Savage, unrelenting, yet also hypnotic and draws you in with real menace. The final track is a damn good example of this band at its collective instrumental peak.
Elder (USA-MA) Omens	4.0
Malist To Mantle the Rising Sun	3.5
Together to the Stars As We Wither	3.0
Ba'a Deus Qui Non Mentitur	3.5
Cirith Ungol Forever Black	3.5
I Am Destruction Nascency	3.5
King Witch Body of Light	3.5
Nyrst Orsök	3.5
Werewolves The Dead Are Screaming	3.0
Witchskull A Driftwood Cross	3.5
Wolves Den Miserere	3.0
Two Face Sinner Spiritual Nemesis	3.0
With the End in Mind Tides of Fire	3.5
Goden (US) Beyond Darkness	3.5
Old Forest Back into the Old Forest	3.5
Titaan Itima	4.0
Hexvessel Kindred	4.0
The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous	3.5
Ocean Chief Den Tredje Dagen	3.5
Aborted La Grande Mascarade	3.5
The Ditch and the Delta The Ditch and the Delta	3.0
Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi	4.0
Khora Timaeus	3.5
Abysmal Dawn Phylogenesis	3.0
Ignea The Realms of Fire and Death	3.5
Calligram The Eye Is the First Circle	3.5
Azusa Loop of Yesterdays	3.5
Wolfheart Wolves of Karelia	3.5
Nightwish HUMAN. :II: NATURE.	3.5
Benighted Obscene Repressed	3.5
Dool Summerland	3.5
Rotting Out Ronin	3.5
Pure Reason Revolution Eupnea	3.5
Skam Sounds of a Disease	3.5
Endless Forms Most Gruesome Endless Forms Most Gruesome	3.5
Aara En Ergô Einai	4.0
Duivel Tirades Uit De Hel	3.5
Ad Infinitum Chapter I: Monarchy	3.5
Revulsion Enough To Bleed	3.5
WVRM Colony Collapse	3.5
Testament Titans of Creation	3.0
Loviatar Lightless	3.5
Ritual Dictates Give In To Despair	3.0
Clouds (INT) Durere	3.5
Velnias Scion of Aether	3.5
Amnutseba Emanatism	4.0
The Birthday Massacre Diamonds	3.5
Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion	3.5
Vinnum Sabbathi Of Dimensions and Theories	3.5
Temple of Void The World That Was	3.5
Aeternam Al Qassam	3.5
Omega Infinity Solar Spectre	4.0
Irist Order Of The Mind	3.5
Wake Devouring Ruin	4.0
Nothing much to say about this, apart from the fact it rips. And then some.
Nekrovault Totenzug: Festering Peregrination	3.5
Telepathy Burn Embrace	3.5
WuW Rétablir L'eternité	3.5
Malokarpatan Krupinské Ohne	3.5
Medico Peste ב :The Black Bile	3.5
Tethra Empire of the Void	3.5
Grift Budet	3.0
Myrkur Folkesange	3.5
Master Boot Record Floppy Disk Overdrive	3.5
Sweven (SWE) The Eternal Resonance	3.0
It's not death metal, it's not conventional, but it also seems to be missing a lot of substance as well. I tried to get into many of the songs here but there's a sheer lack of oomph charging most of these songs which, aside from the obviously unique musical ideas at work here, lets the album down quite a bit. Maybe I am missing a trick, but it certainly doesn't feel like it for now.
Thanatos Violent Death Rituals	3.5
Burzum Thulêan Mysteries	3.5
Redwood Hill Ender	3.5
Khost Buried Steel	3.0
Haggard Cat Common Sense Holiday	3.5
Jonathan Hulten Chants from Another Place	4.0
Really pleasant surprise for me this was. I was already a fan of Tribulation but didn't quite catch on to what Hulten was doing in his spare time, and the result is this: A beautiful, atmospheric acoustic voyage through several different musical styles which ensures no song ever oversteps its mark. Short but definitely sweet, this is one of the more unique non-metal albums I've come across since 2020 started.
Huntsmen Mandala of Fear	4.0
Sublime stuff, and yet it's also very laidback, fluent, and manages to make a gargantuan 80-minute runtime seem to fly by for all the intrinsic musicianship and progression happening here. Many songs aspire to truly great crescendos, often uplifting and warming but never in a way which overeggs the proverbial pudding, instead, the band rely on their individual talents and that well-honed songwriting to produce some damn fine post/sludge metal. One of the more unique releases of its kind this year.
Lychgate Also Sprach Futura	4.0
This band continues to go from strength to strength, but I still didn't expect a Lychgate EP to come so soon after arguably the finest Esoteric release yet. Chandler really doesn't settle down does he?
White Stones Kuarahy	3.5
Video Nasties Dominion	3.0
Sign Of Evil Psychodelic Horror	3.5
Ahna Crimson Dawn	3.5
Azure Emote The Third Perspective	3.5
Dwaal Gospel Of The Vile	4.0
Borgne Y	3.5
Scarab Martyrs Of The Storm	3.5
NAAT Fallen Oracles	3.5
Earth Rot Black Tides of Obscurity	3.5
My Dying Bride The Ghost of Orion	3.5
Vredehammer Viperous	4.0
On the surface this is pretty simplistic stuff, but it's also a wholly solid and consistent collection of rattling death metal riffs and pulsating industrial explosions which bring to mind Samael at their best. Goes hard and then some.
An Evening With Knives Sense Of Gravity	3.0
Psychonaut Unfold the God Man	3.5
Hornwood Fell Cursed Thoughts - Part II	4.0
Hornwood Fell Cursed Thoughts - Part I	4.0
Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions	3.5
Dark Fortress Spectres from the Old World	4.0
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Ascension	3.5
Drown (US) Subaqueous	4.0
Fluisteraars Bloem	3.5
Insect Ark The Vanishing	3.0
Night Crowned Impius Viam	3.5
Tombs Monarchy of Shadows	3.5
Toundra Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari	3.5
Disbelief The Ground Collapses	3.5
Glaciation Ultime Éclat	3.5
Sightless Pit Grave of a Dog	3.5
Raspberry Bulbs Before The Age Of Mirrors	3.0
Invocation (CL) Attunement to Death	3.5
Binary Code Memento Mori	3.5
Saturnalia Temple Gravity	2.5
Skyforest A New Dawn	3.5
Blaze of Perdition The Harrowing of Hearts	3.5
Frayle 1692	3.5
Godthrymm Reflections	3.5
Necrowretch The Ones From Hell	3.5
Mariana Semkina Sleepwalking	3.5
Angellore Rien ne Devait Mourir	3.5
Dzo-nga Thunder In the Mountains	3.5
Svart Crown Wolves Among The Ashes	3.5
God Dethroned Illuminati	3.5
Delain Apocalypse & Chill	3.5
Giver Sculpture Of Violence	4.0
Karg Traktat	3.5
Shaam Larein Sculpture	3.5
Sepultura Quadra	3.5
Sylosis Cycle of Suffering	3.5
Summon Helios	3.5
Panopticon/Aerial Ruin Panopticon / Aerial Ruin	3.5
Lorna Shore Immortal	3.0
Yuri Gagarin The Outskirts of Reality	3.5
Panopticon/Nechochwen Panopticon / Nechochwen	3.5
Moloken Unveilance Of Dark Matter	3.0
Leeched To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse	3.5
Obsidian Tongue Volume III	4.0
Big Scenic Nowhere Visions Beyond Horizon	3.5
Goats Of Doom Tie on Hänen Omilleen	3.5
Thy Catafalque Naiv	4.0
Midnight Rebirth by Blasphemy	3.5
T.O.M.B. Thin the Veil	3.0
Grey Skies Fallen Cold Dead Lands	3.0
It's an interesting find this. A lot of it reminds me of Pallbearer (the melodic doom parts obviously) but later on the album takes on a braver progressive style, one which utilizes the more extreme components of the band's sound and twists otherwise traditional styles into more adventurous soundscapes-not unlike what Cormorant have been doing since they formed pretty much. As Trey said before, the clean vocals probably stand out as the worst aspect here, but the musicianship is unique enough to keep things fresh and enticing at least in my opinion.
Death. Void. Terror. To the Great Monolith II	4.0
Murkiest release of the year so far. Yes, we're only into the second month so such a statement seems daft, but it'll be hard to discover many albums that reach this level of menace. Takes a while to get used to and it's definitely an album to hear with earphones. Outside distraction will simply deviate your attention too easily.
Annihilator Ballistic, Sadistic	3.0
Nero di Marte Immoto	3.5
Kirk Windstein Dream In Motion	3.5
Blasphemer The Sixth Hour	3.0
Dominia The Withering Of The Rose	3.5
Kaoteon Kaoteon	3.5
Garganjua Toward the Sun	4.0
Ryte Ryte	3.5
British Lion The Burning	3.0
Horned Almighty To Fathom The Master's Grand Design	3.0
Porta Nigra Schöpfungswut	3.0
Catalepsia Inheritance	3.5
Magnum The Serpent Rings	3.5
Kassad London Orbital	3.5
Lotus Thief Oresteia	3.5
Kawir Adrasteia	3.5
VVilderness Dark Waters	3.5
Unreqvited Mosaic II: la déteste et la détresse	3.5
Sylvaine / Unreqvited Time Without End	3.0
OCEANS (DEU) The Sun and the Cold	3.5
Vaeok Vaeok	3.5
Svrm Занепад	3.5
Novae Militiae Topheth	3.5

2019
Cianide Unhumanized	3.5
Null (USA) Lore of a Sleeping Forest	3.5
Fen The Dead Light	3.5
Oxxo Xoox Ÿ	3.5
Plateau Sigma Symbols - The Sleeping Harmony of the World Below	3.5
Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race	3.5
Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark	4.5
The Deathtrip Demon Solar Totem	3.5
Schammasch Hearts of No Light	3.5
Caina Gentle Illness	3.5
Esoteric A Pyrrhic Existence	4.0
Bask III	3.5
Angel Witch Angel of Light	3.5
Cannabis Corpse Nug So Vile	3.0
Sarke Gastwerso	3.5
Nile Vile Nilotic Rites	3.5
Impiety Versus All Gods	3.0
Nordic Frost Ov Blasphemy and Other Rites	3.0
Minenwerfer Alpenpässe	3.5
Alcest Spiritual Instinct	4.0
Alunah Violet Hour	3.5
Dawn Ray'd Behold Sedition Plainsong	3.5
Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts	3.5
Botanist Ecosystem	4.0
Coilguns Watchwinders	3.0
Jinjer Macro	3.0
Sunn O))) Pyroclasts	3.5
Swans Leaving Meaning	3.5
The Great Old Ones Cosmicism	4.0
Runemagick Into Desolate Realms	3.0
Unaussprechlichen Kulten Teufelsbücher	3.0
Negator Vnitas Pvritas Existentia	3.5
Rimfrost Expedition: Darkness	2.5
Uneven Structure Paragon	3.5
Alter Bridge Walk The Sky	3.5
1349 The Infernal Pathway	3.5
Sarcasm (SWE) Esoteric Tales of the Unserene	3.5
Profetus The Sadness Of Time Passing	3.5
Aegrus In Manus Satanas	3.5
Profanatica Rotting Incarnation of God	3.5
Mortiferum Disgorged from Psychotic Depths	3.5
Lacuna Coil Black Anima	3.5
Blackwater Holylight Veils of Winter	3.5
Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen	4.0
Municipal Waste The Last Rager	3.5
Arx Atrata THE PATH UNTRAVELLED	3.5
Sammath Across The Rhine Is Only Death	3.0
Boris Love and Evol	3.0
In Mourning Garden of Storms	3.5
Exhumed Horror	3.5
Toxic Holocaust Primal Future: 2019	3.0
Maieutiste Veritas	4.0
Reminds me a lot of Cormorant but with more emphasis on melancholy, the violin work particularly providing a nice classical backdrop for the extreme metal work to flow onto. "Vocat" is a sprawling centrepiece but this album from start to finish is some of the most accessible black metal work I've heard in recent times.
Insomnium Heart Like a Grave	3.5
Gatecreeper Deserted	3.5
Scarlxrd IMMXRTALISATIXN	3.5
Sibiir Ropes	3.5
We Lost the Sea Triumph and Disaster	3.5
Nordkvade Visdom and Makt	3.0
Firebreather Under a Blood Moon	3.0
DOTGIFFROMGOD approximation_of_a_human	3.5
High Command Beyond the Wall of Desolation	3.0
Implore Alienated Despair	3.5
Mars Red Sky The Task Eternal	3.5
Mortem (NOR) Ravnsvart	3.5
Renounced Beauty Is A Destructive Angel	4.0
Another excellent find from Holy Roar records. Yes this is essentially a nostalgia trip to two decades ago when metalcore was making waves in the music industry, but you cannot deny the brilliant songwriting and memorable melodies at work here make for a well-rounded release. These guys should be bigger in the near future.
Opeth In Cauda Venenum	4.0
DragonForce Extreme Power Metal	3.0
Netherbird Into The Vast Uncharted	3.5
Car Bomb Mordial	3.5
Bhleg Äril	3.0
Vorna Sateet palata saavat	3.5
Heaven's Club Here There And Nowhere	3.0
E-L-R Mænad	3.5
Goatess Blood and Wine	2.5
Howling Giant The Space Between Worlds	3.5
SeeYouSpaceCowboy The Correlation Between Entrance And Exit Wounds	4.0
Creeping Death Wretched Illusions	3.5
Ereb Altor Järtecken	3.5
Belenos Argoat	3.5
Monolord No Comfort	4.0
Graveyard (ESP) Hold Back the Dawn	3.5
As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire	3.0
Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear	3.5
Urn Iron Will of Power	3.0
The Agonist Orphans	3.0
Ecstatic Vision For The Masses	3.0
Kadavar (DE) For the Dead Travel Fast	3.5
Coffins Beyond the Circular Demise	3.5
Villagers of Ioannina City Age of Aquarius	4.0
Asagraum Dawn of Infinite Fire	4.0
Noekk Waltzing in Obscurity	3.5
Nightfell A Sanity Deranged	3.5
SednA The Man Behind The Sun	3.0
Haunter (USA-TX) Sacramental Death Qualia	4.0
Atlantean Kodex The Course of Empire	4.0
Crypt Sermon The Ruins of Fading Light	3.5
Visceral Disgorge Slithering Evisceration	3.5
(EchO) Below the Cover of Clouds	4.0
Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence	3.5
Betraying the Martyrs Rapture	3.5
Brutality Will Prevail Misery Sequence	3.0
Blood Red Throne Fit to Kill	3.0
Endseeker The Harvest	3.0
Harborlights Isolation Ritual	3.0
RAM The Throne Within	3.5
Cloud Rat Pollinator	3.5
Warish Down in Flames	3.0
Phobophilic Undimensioned Identities	3.5
Sur Austru Meteahna Timpurilor	3.5
Foscor Els Sepulcres Blancs	3.5
Mizmor Cairn	3.0
Cognizance Malignant Dominion	4.0
Disillusion The Liberation	3.0
Copperhead Gazing in the Dark	3.0
Vitriol (USA) To Bathe from the Throat of Cowardice	3.5
The New Death Cult The New Death Cult	3.5
An interesting mix of modern day Wildhearts and early (debut particularly) Foo Fighters, with extra added melody in almost every aspect of the sound. Nice but the album feels quite short.
Raventale Morphine Dead Gardens	4.0
The last track is lush. Whole album in general is very fluent and is a seamless combination of atmospheric black metal at its doomiest and funeral doom at its most beautiful.
Essence of Datum Spellcrying Machine	3.5
Hesitation Wounds (LA) Chicanery	3.5
Imperium Dekadenz When We Are Forgotten	3.0
Tarja Turunen In The Raw	3.5
Visions Of Atlantis Wanderers	3.0
Hope Drone Void Lustre	3.5
Culted Vespertina Synaxis...	3.0
Crimson Moon Mors Vincit Omnia	3.5
Pharmakon Devour	3.5
Elvenking Reader of the Runes – Divination	3.5
Toadeater Codex	3.5
Isole Dystopia	3.5
Sacred Reich Awakening	3.5
Agenda Apocalyptic Wasteland Blues	3.5
Crobot Motherbrain	2.5
Domination Inc. Memoir 414	3.5
WRVTH No Rising Sun	3.5
Necronomicon (CAN) Unus	3.5
Dead Feathers All is Lost	3.0
Anticosm The Call of the Void	3.5
Devourment Obscene Majesty	3.5
Killswitch Engage Atonement	3.0
HammerFall Dominion	3.0
Here Lies Man No Ground To Walk Upon	3.5
Pijn and Conjurer Curse These Metal Hands	4.0
One of the best collaborations I can think of in recent times. The musicianship here is brilliant and even at its heaviest moments the mood is strangely uplifting and each song leaves you feeling refreshed. Please don't let this project be a flash in the pan.
Uniform and The Body Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back	3.5
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Infest the Rats' Nest	3.5
Phobia Generation Coward	3.5
Suicidal Angels Years of Aggression	3.5
Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind	3.0
Unprocessed Artificial Void	3.5
Bleak Flesh ... And Save Us From Silence	3.5
Grima Will of the Primordial	3.5
Northlane Alien	3.0
iamthemorning The Bell	3.5
Finsterforst Zerfall	4.0
This album reminds me of Moonsorrow in all the right ways. Plus, one of the songs are 32 minutes long and it really doesn't feel like 32 minutes.
Russian Circles Blood Year	3.0
Humanity's Last Breath Abyssal	3.5
desert Fortune Favors the Brave	3.5
Zed Volume	3.5
Wormwood Nattarvet	3.5
Throes (USA) In The Hands Of An Angry God	3.5
Surya (UK) Solastalgia	3.5
Rosalie Cunningham Rosalie Cunningham	4.0
Lacrimas Profundere Bleeding the Stars	3.5
The Negative Bias Narcissus Rising	3.5
All Out War Crawl Among the Filth	3.5
Sanction (NY) Broken In Refraction	3.5
Scott Stapp The Space Between The Shadows	3.5
Valis Ablaze Render	3.0
Lingua Ignota Caligula	4.0
Wormed Metaportal	3.5
Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance	4.0
Crown the Empire Sudden Sky	3.0
Batushka Hospodi	3.0
I mean this isn't awful. And I also couldn't care less about which version of Batushka this is. But yeah, let's all focus on everybody's day in court rather than which musical direction both parties have taken.
Arctic Sleep Kindred Spirits	3.0
I liked the first few songs, if only because of their warmth and expansive soundscapes...but then the rest of the album unfolded in the same way, and there's only so many similar versions of opener "Meadows" that I can listen to before it gets really repetitive. There are golden moments, but it's often music fit for slumber rather than wonder.
Torche Admission	3.5
Disentomb The Decaying Light	3.0
Wear Your Wounds Rust on the Gates of Heaven	3.5
So much better than anything off WYW's first two albums.
Turilli / Lione Rhapsody Zero Gravity (Rebirth and Evolution)	4.0
Abbath Outstrider	3.0
Immortal Bird Thrive On Neglect	4.0
Enjoyably consistent and solid mix of black metal-esque vocals, energetic instrumentation and just really nice progression from one song to the next. I'd never heard of this band before today, so it was a real nice surprise.
False Portent	3.5
Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology	4.0
Vulvodynia Mob Justice	2.5
Mirror (CYP) Pyramid of Terror	3.5
Nocturnal Breed We Only Came for the Violence	3.0
Yellow Eyes Rare Field Ceiling	4.0
Stille Volk Milharis	3.5
Heilung Futha	4.0
Beastwars IV	3.5
TheNightTimeProject Pale Season	3.0
Victims The Horse and Sparrow Theory	3.5
Ashbringer Absolution	3.0
This album has a consistently warm, alluring charm to it, using nice organic, acoustic instrumentation to balance the (not so heavy) atmospheric black metal parts which wear their influences on their sleeves. That said, I feel this album has a very thin sound and for that reason feels mostly incomplete, despite the dwindling melodies offering quite an inviting sensation. It's nice to sit and hum along to whilst daydreaming, but that's pretty much it.
Bloodred Hourglass Godsend	3.5
Bloody Hammers The Summoning	3.5
Kryptos Afterburner	3.0
Kapala (IND) Termination Apex	3.5
The St Pierre Snake Invasion CAPRICE ENCHANTÉ	3.5
Ars Veneficium / Ulvdalir In Death's Cold Embrace	3.5
Eskapism Ancient Songs of The Wind	3.5
Abyssal (UK) A Beacon In The Husk	4.0
Bokassa Crimson Riders	3.5
Howling Sycamore Seven Pathways To Annihilation	3.0
Organectomy Existential Disconnect	3.5
Memoriam Requiem for Mankind	3.5
Bad Breeding Exiled	3.5
Gorilla Treecreeper	3.0
Nucleus (USA-IL) Entity	3.5
Ingested Call of the Void	3.5
Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition - Chapter I: War, Horrid War	3.5
This Gift Is A Curse A Throne of Ash	3.5
Crom Dubh Firebrands And Ashes	3.5
Hate Auric Gates of Veles	3.5
Burning Gloom Amygdala	3.5
Slough Feg New Organon	3.5
Pinkish Black Concept Unification	4.0
Serpent Of Gnosis As I Drink from the Infinite Well of Inebriation	3.5
Stonefield Bent	3.5
Nebula Holy Shit	3.0
Vulture (DE) Ghastly Waves & Battered Graves	4.0
So much fun. Yes, the OTT vocals and 80s-obsessed production won't be for everybody, but an album like this is surely designed for entertainment and the band are a very self-aware collective, so they know EXACTLY who's going to like this and who isn't. That said, this is a gleeful 40+ minutes of unapologetic cheese and I personally wouldn't have it any other way.
Enthroned Cold Black Suns	3.5
Mol I/II	4.0
Pelican Nighttime Stories	3.5
Firespawn Abominate	3.5
Chernaa Empyrean Fire	3.5
Majestica Above the Sky	3.5
The first half is an impeccable mix of Freedom Call and mid-era (90s) Helloween/Gamma Ray. The second half overdoes the cheese.
Motanka Motanka	4.0
I really enjoyed this. It's a real fresh sound, innovative thanks to the use of those Ukrainian folk instruments and the obvious prog metal influence, but I'm hearing subtle influences from post-rock and post-metal which really help the band in expanding their sound on this debut. One of the finest debuts of the year that's for sure.
Jambinai ONDA	4.0
Skaphe and Wormlust Kosmískur Hryllingur	3.5
Xentrix Bury The Pain	3.5
Death Angel Humanicide	3.5
Gaahls Wyrd GastiR - Ghosts Invited	3.5
Nekroí Theoí Dead Gods	4.0
I admit the vocals will prove divisive depending on how you like your death metal, but damn this is still invigorating stuff. There's a wide range of influences-some obvious, some not so-but to me it's a pretty fresh take on a sub-genre that has over the last few years been riddled with a severe lack of motivation. Ones to watch, and definitely one of the most thrilling extreme metal debuts of the year.
Verwoed De Val	3.5
Earth Full Upon Her Burning Lips	3.0
Kull Exile	3.0
Look, I know this project features members past and present of Bal-Sagoth, but that doesn't stop me from thinking of this release as little more than a second-rate Cradle of filth. It's decent but honestly unremarkable.
Rendezvous Point Universal Chaos	3.5
Abrahma In Time For The Last Rays Of Light	3.5
Lvcifyre Sacrament	3.5
Valley of the Sun Old Gods	3.0
Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia	3.5
Misthyrming Algleymi	4.0
Father Befouled Holy Rotten Blood	4.0
Valborg Zentrum	4.0
Full of Hell Weeping Choir	4.0
Bethlehem Lebe Dich Leer	3.0
October Tide In Splendor Below	3.5
Encoffination We Proclaim Your Death O' Lord	3.0
Saint Vitus Saint Vitus (2019)	3.0
Aseethe Throes	3.5
Sabbath Assembly A Letter of Red	3.5
Amulet The Inevitable War	3.5
Abnormality Sociopathic Constructs	3.5
Arch/Matheos Winter Ethereal	4.0
A progressive metal album that doesn't try too hard? I'll take it.
Big\|Brave A Gaze Among Them	3.0
Suspiral Chasm	3.5
Warforged I: Voice	3.5
The last few songs are incredible. The middle section of the album is where all songwriting sense flies out the window and you're left with a mess of multiple ideas-interesting though they may be-which don't culminate in something engaging or at least sensible, for want of a better word. I get this will be in many end-of-year album lists, but for me, it's missing some sort of glue to hold everything together. An inconsistent 75 minutes could have been narrowed down to a monumental 45 minutes here.
Methadone Skies Different Layers of Fear	3.5
Bewitcher Under the Witching Cross	3.5
Dreadnought Emergence	3.5
Handful of Hate Adversus	3.0
Nibiru (ITA) Salbrox	3.0
Call of the Void Buried in Light	3.0
Mental Cruelty Inferis	3.0
Spirit Adrift Divided by Darkness	3.5
Extrema Headbanging Forever	3.0
Unto Others Mana	3.5
We Never Learned To Live The Sleepwalk Transmissions	4.0
Nyss Dépayser	3.5
Kampfar Ofidians manifest	3.0
Time Lurker/Cepheide Lucide	3.5
Stellar Master Elite Hologram Temple	3.0
Lord Vicar The Black Powder	3.5
Amon Amarth Berserker	3.5
Ringworm Death Becomes My Voice	3.5
Skaldic Curse Devourer	4.0
The comparisons to Vektor are inevitable, but by god this is still a face-melting album with enough moments of forward-thinking progression to make it stand out in the crowd. The Apocalyptic Witchcraft record label is becoming more and more interesting these days.
Advent Sorrow Kali Yuga Crown	3.5
Vortex of End Ardens Fvror	3.5
Deiphago I, The Devil	3.0
The Well Death and Consolation	3.5
Arstidir Lifsins Saga á tveim tungum I: Vápn ok viðr	4.0
Murg Strävan	3.5
Hypoxia Abhorrent Disease	3.0
Belzebubs Pantheon of the Nightside Gods	3.5
Lord Dying Mysterium Tremendum	3.5
Helheim Rignir	3.0
Whiskey Ritual Black Metal Ultras	3.5
Manegarm Fornaldarsagor	3.5
Helms Alee Noctiluca	3.5
Danko Jones A Rock Supreme	3.0
Sunn O))) Life Metal	4.0
Ironically this sounds like the very opposite of life, but I don't believe I've ever listened to an album by Sunn O))) that ended up being so satisfying.
Spotlights Love and Decay	3.5
Allegaeon Apoptosis	4.0
One of the best progressive metal albums of the year. In a lot of ways this reminds me of Persephone's latest full-length but with more engaging musicianship and some riffs to lick your lips to. This may be the band's best.
After the Burial Evergreen	3.5
Fractal Universe Rhizomes of Insanity	3.5
Alpha Wolf Fault	3.0
Mephorash Shem Ha Mephorash	3.0
I'm going to get called hypocritical for making this point, but every single song on this album feels twice as long as they should be. Nonetheless, epic atmosphere and sinister musicianship is the order of the day, even if there's not much to get stuck into for fans of more "challenging" black metal.
Neoandertals Neanderthal Parallax	2.5
Numenorean Adore	4.0
Waldgefluster Mondscheinsonaten	3.5
Theories Vessel	3.5
Inferi (USA) The End of an Era \| Rebirth	3.5
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult Mardom	3.5
Ketzer Cloud Collider	3.5
Inter Arma Sulphur English	4.5
Wormwitch Heaven that Dwells Within	3.5
GGGOLDDD Why Aren't You Laughing?	3.0
Waste of Space Orchestra Syntheosis	3.5
Latitudes Part Island	3.5
Exumer Hostile Defiance	3.0
Antropomorphia Merciless Savagery	4.0
Suffering Hour Dwell	4.0
Laster Het wassen oog	3.5
Blindead Niewiosna	3.0
Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan	3.5
Cirith Gorgor Sovereign	3.0
Mord'A'Stigmata Dreams of Quiet Places	3.5
Dwarrowdelf Of Dying Lights	3.5
Whitechapel The Valley	3.5
Ultar Pantheon MMXIX	3.5
Magic Circle Departed Souls	3.5
Vltimas Something Wicked Marches In	3.5
Ellende Lebensnehmer	3.5
Nordjevel Necrogenesis	3.5
Triumvir Foul Urine of Abomination	3.5
Brutus (BE) Nest	3.5
Hell Fire Mania	3.5
Raised By Owls Dreadful	3.0
Lee McKinney Infinite Mind	3.5
Truth Corroded Bloodlands	3.0
Obsidian Sea Strangers	3.5
Ashen Horde Fallen Cathedrals	3.5
Aoratos Gods Without Name	3.5
Sermon Birth Of The Marvellous	3.0
Tempel (NO) Tempel	3.5
Cellar Darling The Spell	4.0
This band has come on leaps and bounds since the fairly lackluster debut. Consistent songwriting, progressive musicianship, beautiful inclusion of folk instrumentation (the brilliance of that mid-section during "Death", for example) and Anna Murphy's vocal delivery is spot on. The band also kill it live, as proven by their support slot to Katatonia earlier this year.
Green Lung Woodland Rites	3.0
Contrarian Their Worm Never Dies	3.5
Oozing Wound High Anxiety	3.5
Heaume Mortal Solstices	3.5
Hannes Grossmann Apophenia	4.0
It's like a less frenzied version of last year's impeccable "Liquid Anatomy" album, but with just as much of a "there's a party going on in my ears" impression.rI mean, it rules.
Equipoise Demiurgus	3.5
Tyr Hel	4.0
Mystifier Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia	3.5
Sinmara Hvísl Stjarnanna	4.0
The Raven Age Conspiracy	3.0
Bergraven Det Framlidna Minnet	3.5
Ataraxie Résignés	3.5
Misery Index Rituals of Power	4.0
Children of Bodom Hexed	3.5
Kings Destroy Fantasma Nera	3.5
Saver They Came with Sunlight	3.0
Black Vulpine Veil Nebula	3.5
Cartographs Wilt and Blossom	3.5
Devil Master Satan Spits On Children Of Light	3.5
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard Yn Ol I Annwn	3.5
Usurper Lords Of The Permafrost	3.5
Chrome Waves A Grief Observed	3.5
In Flames I, the Mask	2.5
Phobonoid La Caduta Di Phobos	3.5
Rhapsody of Fire The Eighth Mountain	3.5
Minors Abject Bodies	4.0
Candlemass The Door To Doom	3.5
The Moth Gatherer Esoteric Oppression	3.0
King Apathy Wounds	3.5
Ghost Iris Apple of Discord	3.0
Dream Theater Distance Over Time	3.5
Unpopular opinion time....rI enjoyed The Astonishing as much as I did this effort, but Distance Over Time feels more like a musical comeback for the band.
Nasheim Jord Och Aska	4.0
Abyssic High The Memory	3.5
Bellrope You Must Relax	3.5
Wheel (FIN) Moving Backwards	3.5
Can Bardd The Last Rain	3.5
Primitive Man / Hell (USA) Split	3.5
Diabolical Eclipse	4.0
Kaleikr Heart of Lead	4.0
Rotting Christ The Heretics	3.5
Vanum Ageless Fire	3.5
Saor Forgotten Paths	4.5
Herod Sombre Dessein	3.0
Un and Coltsblood Coltsblood / Un	3.5
The Elysian Fields New World Misanthropia	3.0
Our Survival Depends On Us Melting the Ice in the Hearts of Men	4.0
Introspective doom with vocals that are perhaps too dramatic for some, but reaches for musical inspiration from many different sources. All in all a very interesting full-length effort from the same record label that gave us The Ruins of Beverast.
Seer Vol. 6	3.5
Downfall of Gaia Ethic of Radical Finitude	4.0
Labirinto Divino Afflante Spiritu	3.5
Windswept The Onlooker	3.5
Yeruselem The Sublime	3.5
Deserted Fear Drowned by Humanity	3.0
Ithaca The Language of Injury	3.5
Astronoid Astronoid	4.0
Thronum Vrondor Ichor (The Rebellion)	3.5
Pensees Nocturnes Grand Guignol Orchestra	3.0
Mastiff Plague	4.0
Soen Lotus	3.5
Panopticon The Crescendo of Dusk	3.5
Swallow the Sun When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light	4.0
Hecate Enthroned Embrace of the Godless Aeon	3.5
Carnal Forge Gun To Mouth Salvation	3.0
Evergrey The Atlantic	4.0
The Sabbathian Latum Alterum	3.5
The Drowned God I'll Always Be The Same	3.5
Helevorn Aamamata	3.5
Zohamah Spread My Ashes	3.0
Flotsam and Jetsam The End of Chaos	3.5
Dust Bolt Trapped in Chaos	3.0
Phlebotomized Deformation of Humanity	3.5
Malevolent Creation The 13th Beast	2.5
Lahmia Resilience	3.5
A Pale Horse Named Death When The World Becomes Undone	2.5
So, so uninspired and uninteresting. The band didn't even try this time. At least the album's book-ended by two of APHND's strongest songs (title track and "Dreams of the End") but that's not enough to raise the album out of such stagnation. Consistency? Here there be none.
Kadinja Super 90'	3.0
OOMPH! Ritual	3.0
Trollfest Norwegian Fairytales	3.5
Woorms Slake	3.0
Hermodr Forest Sky	3.5
Wolfhorde Hounds of Perdition	3.0
Soilwork Verkligheten	3.5
Mo'ynoq Dreaming in a Dead Language	3.5
Black Cilice Transfixion of Spirits	3.0
Rosetta Sower of Wind	3.5
Festerday Iihtallan	3.5
Legion of the Damned Slaves of the Shadow Realm	3.0

2018
Nekrofilth Worm Ritual	4.0
Acathexis Acathexis	4.0
Tar Pit Tomb Of Doom	3.5
Helfro Helfro	3.5
Crystal Lake Helix	2.5
In the Woods... Cease the Day	3.5
SuidAkrA Cimbric Yarns	2.5
Baring Teeth Transitive Savagery	3.0
Azusa Heavy Yoke	3.5
Lucifer's Child The Order	3.0
Third Storm The Grand Manifestation	3.5
Evoken Hypnagogia	3.5
Einherjer Norrøne Spor	3.0
Cult Leader A Patient Man	3.5
Psycroptic As The Kingdom Drowns	3.0
Anomalie Integra	3.0
Architects Holy Hell	3.5
Four Stroke Baron Planet Silver Screen	3.5
OHHMS Exist	3.0
Ayahuasca (DE) Beneath the Mind	4.0
I feel like this is what Sepultura should have sounded like post-Roots era. rOn a more serious note, what a barnstormer of a late 2018 release this is. I only found out about it a few weeks ago but damn, those Subterranean grooves are infectious and the whole hour-long piece is effectively monstrous in its delivery. I could care less for the brief deathcore flourishes here and there, but it's a generally well-written debut effort full of vigour and menace. This band is one to watch in the near future, that's for sure.
Sylvaine Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone	3.5
Selvans Faunalia	3.0
Sounds far removed from what this band did on the split with Downfall of Nur. With that in mind, this is pretty bizarre stuff and most of the time sounds like a cheesy, folksy version of mid-to-late 90s Cradle of Filth, with some unconvincing transitions from epic black metal riff sections to atmospheric, pagan-infiltrated musicianship. Still decent, but a bit hodge-podge too.
The Algorithm Compiler Optimization Techniques	3.5
The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic	3.5
Cancer Shadow Gripped	3.5
Silent Planet When the End Began	3.0
Perversor Umbravorous	3.5
Leonov Wake	3.5
Haken Vector	3.5
Warrel Dane Shadow Work	3.5
Bloodbath The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn	3.5
Pijn Loss	3.5
Hate Eternal Upon Desolate Sands	3.5
Avast Mother Culture	3.5
Languish Unworthy	3.5
Nothgard Malady X	3.5
Erosion (CAN) Maximum Suffering	3.5
Internal Bleeding Corrupting Influence	3.5
Satan's Satyrs The Lucky Ones	3.5
Crimson Throne Of Void & Solitude	3.5
Disturbed Evolution	1.5
I mean, is there any surprise that this is my lowest rated album of 2018?rProbably not.
LANDMVRKS Fantasy	3.5
Vanhelgd Deimos Sanktuarium	3.5
Terrorizer Caustic Attack	3.0
Set and Setting Tabula Rasa	3.5
Aeternus Heathen	3.5
Beyond Creation Algorythm	3.0
Gama Bomb Speed Between The Lines	3.0
Polyphia New Levels New Devils	3.0
Skalmold Sorgir	3.5
Outer Heaven Realms of Eternal Decay	3.5
Rodent Epoch Rodentlord	3.0
Akitsa Credo	3.0
One Tail, One Head Worlds Open, Worlds Collide	2.5
Windhand Eternal Return	3.0
Infestus Thrypsis	3.5
Author and Punisher Beastland	3.5
Carpe Noctem Vitrun	3.5
High on Fire Electric Messiah	3.0
Orkan Element	3.5
Earth Ship Resonant Sun	3.0
A Storm Of Light Anthroscene	3.0
Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream	2.5
I'm sometimes a very serious, boring person when it comes to music, and I think my rating of this album reflects that.rI mean, yeah, I didn't get anything out of this other than a gimmicky experience.
House of Atreus From the Madness of Ixion	3.5
Vreid Lifehunger	3.5
Slow Crush Aurora	3.5
Revocation The Outer Ones	3.5
Electric Citizen Helltown	3.0
The Black Queen Infinite Games	3.5
Horrendous Idol	3.5
Dodsrit Spirit Crusher	3.5
Anaal Nathrakh A New Kind of Horror	3.0
A Forest of Stars Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes	4.0
Bloodtruth Martyrium	3.5
Beartooth Disease	3.0
Gouge Away Burnt Sugar	3.0
Binah Phobiate	4.0
Bonehunter Children of the Atom	3.5
Gevurah Sulphur Soul	3.5
Helrunar Vanitas Vanitatvm	3.5
Fluisteraars/Turia De Oord	4.0
Mirrors for Psychic Warfare I See What I Became	3.5
Un Sentiment	3.5
Wolfheart Constellation of the Black Light	3.5
Wang Wen Invisible City	3.5
Voivod The Wake	3.5
Oh Voivod, when will you stop being so damn awesome?
Toby Driver They Are the Shield	3.5
Aborted TerrorVision	3.5
Madder Mortem Marrow	3.5
These guys should be bigger in the progressive metal realm than they actually are. Everything just...fits so nicely. Undeniably heavy albeit smooth grooves, a vocal range proving so much more versatile and eccentric than you'd expect, melodies that haunt you for minutes on end...these aspects and more make Madder Mortem's latest full-length stand out in a year of already great prog metal-related records. A few "slower" songs stopped me from rating this higher in all honesty (I'm looking at you, "Stumble On"), but generally this is Madder Mortem pulling out all the stops once again.rStop listening to Oceans of Slumber guys, seriously get on this instead.
SUMAC Love In Shadow	3.5
Dysylumn Occultation	3.5
Bosse-de-Nage Further Still	3.0
Grave Digger The Living Dead	2.5
It's woefully average, but hey, at least we can all enjoy "Zombie Dance" for what it is, right?r...Right?
Irreversible Mechanism Immersion	3.5
Archgoat The Luciferian Crown	3.5
Deicide Overtures of Blasphemy	3.5
Pantheist Seeking Infinity	3.0
Conan Existential Void Guardian	3.5
Brant Bjork Mankind Woman	2.5
Emma Ruth Rundle On Dark Horses	3.5
Morne To the Night Unknown	3.5
Krisiun Scourge of the Enthroned	3.5
Arabrot Who Do You Love	4.0
Stoned Jesus Pilgrims	3.0
Cauldron New Gods	3.0
Monstrosity The Passage of Existence	3.5
Infera Bruo Cerement	3.0
Satan Cruel Magic	4.0
Malthusian Across Deaths	4.0
Owl Nights in Distortion	4.0
I was pleasantly surprised with Owl's previous release, the "Orion Fenix" EP which consisted of one experimental doom 20-minute mammoth of a track. The dreamy melodies, seamless transitions and heart-stopping voyages into psychedelic darkness of that particular song are well-rehearsed on this latest full-length, but naturally attracts more conflicting dynamics whilst still trying out new ideas. One of this year's finest and most unique doom metal releases.
Forn Rites of Despair	3.5
The Skull The Endless Road Turns Dark	3.5
The Crotals Horde	3.5
Attan End Of	3.5
Besra Anhedonia	3.0
Pig Destroyer Head Cage	3.5
Siege of Power Warning Blast	3.0
Death SS Rock 'n' Roll Armageddon	3.0
Endon Boy Meets Girl	3.0
KEN mode Loved	3.5
Omnium Gatherum The Burning Cold	3.5
Thou Magus	4.0
Stillbirth Annihilation of Mankind	2.5
Cloak of Altering Zero Devil	4.0
Leeched You Took The Sun When You Left	3.5
Jesus Piece Only Self	3.5
Manes Slow Motion Death Sequence	3.0
Born to Murder the World The Infinite Mirror Of Millennial Narcissism	3.5
Mantar The Modern Art of Setting Ablaze	3.5
Mare (NO) Ebony Tower	3.5
Exocrine Molten Giant	4.0
The Five Hundred Bleed Red	3.5
Black Tusk TCBT	3.5
Annisokay Arms	2.5
Carnation (BE) Chapel of Abhorrence	3.5
Innumerable Forms Punishment in Flesh	3.5
Trappist Ancient Brewing Tactics	3.5
GIMME A BEERrGIMME A BEERrGIMME A BEERrGIMME A BEERretc, etc.
Forming the Void Rift	3.5
Rebel Wizard Voluptuous Worship of Rapture and Response	3.0
Crippled Black Phoenix Great Escape	3.5
Haunt (USA-CA) Burst into Flame	3.5
Soreption Monument of the End	3.5
Integrity/Krieg Split	3.5
Hadal Maw Charlatan	3.5
Time, The Valuator How Fleeting, How Fragile	3.5
Talons We All Know	3.5
Redemption Long Night's Journey Into Day	3.5
Decline of the I Escape	3.5
Motorowl Atlas	3.5
Axis of Despair Contempt for Man	3.5
Iron Void Excalibur	3.5
Atavisma The Chthonic Rituals	3.5
Thou Rhea Sylvia	4.0
Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light	4.0
Epica Epica vs Attack on Titan Songs	3.5
Scars on Broadway Dictator	2.5
The Agony Scene Tormentor	3.5
Consistently powerful and punchy in its delivery, with sometimes added atmosphere to make songs such as "Hand of the Divine" all the more visceral. It's almost like the Gothenburg scene of the early 00s but with a modernized thrust up the proverbial hole.
Finnr's Cane Elegy	4.0
Mutilation Rites Chasm	3.5
Khorada Salt	3.5
Runemagick Evoked From Abysmal Sleep	3.5
The Lion's Daughter Future Cult	3.5
I'm getting strong Septicflesh vibes (Revolution DNA and Sumerian Daemons era mainly), but this latest album has more of an abrasive edge, particularly regarding the metal parts. Another intriguing album from Season of Mist.
Existem Mantle	3.5
Jungle Rot Jungle Rot	3.0
There's A Light A Long Lost Silence	3.5
Distorted Harmony A Way Out	3.5
Maggot Heart Dusk to Dusk	3.5
Birds in Row We Already Lost The World	3.5
Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury	3.5
Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love	3.5
Black Fast Spectre of Ruin	3.5
Firtan Okeanos	3.5
Obscura Diluvium	4.0
Between the Buried and Me Automata II	3.5
Oubliette (USA-TN) The Passage	3.5
Axegrinder Satori	3.0
Kontinuum No Need to Reason	3.5
Immortal Northern Chaos Gods	3.5
Lucifer (DE) Lucifer II	3.5
Bongripper Terminal	3.5
Ancient Lights Ancient Lights	3.0
Shylmagoghnar Transience	4.0
Vanhelga Fredagsmys	3.5
The Antichrist Imperium Volume II Every Tongue Shall Praise Satan	4.0
Lilla Veneda Lilla Veneda	3.5
Marduk Viktoria	2.5
Vein.fm Errorzone	4.0
Street Dogs Stand For Something Or Die For Nothing	2.5
Embrace Of Thorns Scorn Aesthetics	3.5
Nine Inch Nails Bad Witch	3.5
Craft White Noise and Black Metal	3.5
Impending Doom The Sin and Doom Vol. II	3.0
Drug Cult Drug Cult	3.5
Amarok (USA-CA) Devoured	3.0
Here Lies Man You Will Know Nothing	3.0
Lizzy Borden My Midnight Things	3.5
Cor Scorpii Ruin	3.5
Moonreich Fugue	3.0
Hoth Astral Necromancy	3.5
Void Of Silence The Sky Over	3.0
Progenie Terrestre Pura starCross	3.0
Lesser Glow Ruined	3.5
YOB Our Raw Heart	4.0
Exmortus The Sound of Steel	3.5
Abstracter Cinereous Incarnate	3.5
ASG Survive Sunrise	3.5
Uniform and The Body Mental Wounds Not Healing	3.5
Taphos Come Ethereal Somberness	3.5
Urarv Argentum	3.5
Ghost (SWE) Prequelle	3.5
Nervosa Downfall Of Mankind	3.0
Gruesome Twisted Prayers	3.0
Witchskull Coven's Will	3.5
Fukpig Bastards	3.5
Black Crucifixion Lightless Violent Chaos	3.0
Candlemass House Of Doom	2.5
Bleeding Through Love Will Kill All	3.5
Svalbard It's Hard to Have Hope	4.0
Uada Cult of a Dying Sun	3.5
Wayfarer World's Blood	3.5
Baptists Beacon of Faith	3.0
Jonathan Davis Black Labyrinth	3.0
Micawber Beyond the Reach of Flame	3.5
Split Cranium I'm The Devil and I'm OK	3.5
Witchsorrow Hexenhammer	3.5
Dopethrone Transcanadian Anger	3.0
Witch Mountain Witch Mountain	3.5
Alkaloid Liquid Anatomy	4.0
Grayceon IV	3.5
Gazpacho Soyuz	3.5
Acherontas Faustian Ethos	3.5
Necros Christos Domedon Doxomedon	3.0
Violet Cold Sommermorgen (Pt. III) - Nostalgia	3.5
Kekal Deeper Underground	3.0
The Body I have fought against it, But I can’t any longer	4.0
Aborted Fetus The Ancient Spirits of Decay	2.5
Hegemone We Disappear	4.0
Skinless Savagery	3.5
Abraham Look, Here Comes The Dark!	3.0
Bad Wolves Disobey	3.0
Thy Catafalque Geometria	4.0
Bong Thought and Existence	3.5
Ihsahn Amr	3.0
Angelus Apatrida Cabaret de la Guillotine	3.5
At the Gates To Drink from the Night Itself	3.5
Lik Carnage	3.5
Trautonist Ember	4.0
This is exactly the sort of album that marks the wide divide between those who love blackgaze and those who despise it. There's a certain je ne sais quoi to this release however, which sees the enigmatic duo channel a distinctive charm aesthetic straight from the heart of bands such as Laster and An Autumn for Crippled Children, whilst at the same time representing a neat fusion of blackened energy and soaring pop melodies. Not for everyone, but to be fair, this IS blackgaze.
Galactic Empire Episode II	3.0
Raven Throne I Miortvym Snicca Zolak	3.5
Purgatory (USA-NE) Cold Side Of Reality	3.5
Sear Bliss Letters From The Edge	3.5
Borknagar with Trombones is the best description I can come up with. That aside, "Abandoned Peaks" is one of the most unique black metal songs I've heard in 2018. Rest of the album plods a little but is generally soothing and consistent in its delivery.
Petyr Smolyk	3.5
Varathron Patriarchs of Evil	3.5
Ingested The Level Above Human	4.0
TotalSelfHatred Solitude	3.0
God Is an Astronaut Epitaph	3.5
Blood Tsunami Grave Condition	3.5
Boss Keloid Melted on the Inch	3.5
LLNN Deads	3.5
Riot V Armor of Light	3.5
Aura Noir Aura Noire	3.5
Chrch Light Will Consume Us All	3.0
Sectioned Annihilated	4.0
Dylan Carlson Conquistador	3.0
Hundred Year Old Man Breaching	3.5
Inferi (USA) Revenant	3.5
Master Boot Record Direct Memory Access	3.5
Melvins Pinkus Abortion Technician	2.0
King Goat Debt Of Aeons	3.5
Cancer Bats The Spark That Moves	3.0
Shields Life In Exile	3.0
Ivar Bjornson and Einar Selvik Hugsjá	4.0
Summon (PT) Parazv Il Zilittv	3.5
Altar of Perversion Intra Naos	3.0
Mol JORD	4.0
Skeletal Remains Devouring Mortality	3.5
Crone (DE) Godspeed	3.5
The Dali Thundering Concept Savages	3.5
Gozu Equilibrium	3.5
Hollywood Burns Invaders	3.5
Wrong (USA-FL) Feel Great	3.0
Autokrator Hammer Of The Heretics	3.0
Kalmah Palo	3.5
Messa Feast for Water	3.5
Winterfylleth The Hallowing of Heirdom	3.5
Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness	4.0
Caliban Elements	3.0
Underoath Erase Me	2.5
Hands Of Despair Well of the Disquieted	3.5
Valis Ablaze Boundless	3.5
Blackwater Holylight Blackwater Holylight	3.5
Lychgate The Contagion in Nine Steps	4.0
Augury Illusive Golden Age	4.0
Ascension Under Ether	3.5
Primordial Exile Amongst the Ruins	3.5
Barren Earth A Complex of Cages	3.5
Eagle Twin The Thundering Heard (Songs of Hoof and Horn)	3.5
WuW Rien ne nous sera épargné	2.5
Soul Dissolution Stardust	3.5
Crisix Against the Odds	3.5
Axel Rudi Pell Knights Call	3.0
Demonical Chaos Manifesto	3.5
The Absence A Gift for the Obsessed	3.5
Mournful Congregation The Incubus of Karma	3.5
Memoriam The Silent Vigil	3.0
Willetts has now got the Chris Reifert effect. Musically, this sophomore effort is pretty inconsistent. Some songs are such a hard slog through tried-and-tested riffs that you'll be likely wondering why the band even bothered releasing this so soon after the debut's release in the first place. When the album gets good however, as with the album's last four songs, they demonstrate a clear source of inspiration. Oh well.
GosT Possessor	3.5
Chaostar The Undivided Light	3.5
Will Haven Muerte	3.5
Nightmarer Cacophony of Terror	3.0
Dark Buddha Rising II	3.5
Owl Orion Fenix	4.5
Jeremy Irons and the Ratgang Malibus Surge Ex Monumentis	3.0
Susperia The Lyricist	3.0
Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name	3.5
Gravehill The Unchaste, the Profane, & the Wicked	3.0
The Crown Cobra Speed Venom	3.5
Veiled (USA-PA) Black Celestial Orbs	3.5
Twitching Tongues Gaining Purpose Through Passionate Hatred	3.0
Dautha Brethren of the Black Soil	3.5
Monotheist Scourge	4.0
Rites of Thy Degringolade The Blade Philosophical	3.5
Grave Upheaval (untitled)	3.5
Myrkraverk Nær Døden	3.0
Ondt Blod Natur	3.0
Judas Priest Firepower	3.5
Drudkh They Often See Dreams About The Spring	4.0
Horn Retrograd	4.0
Pestilence Hadeon	3.0
Between the Buried and Me Automata I	4.0
Balmog Vacvvm	3.0
Rongeur An Asphyxiating Embrace	3.5
Hemelbestormer A Ring Of Blue Light	3.0
Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It	4.0
Andrew W.K. You're Not Alone	3.0
Slugdge Esoteric Malacology	3.5
Phantom Winter Into Dark Science	3.5
Ilsa Corpse Fortress	3.5
Blaze Bayley The Redemption of William Black...	3.0
Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic	4.5
Knelt Rote Alterity	3.5
Huntsmen American Scrap	3.5
Armored Dawn Barbarians in Black	2.5
Vexes Ancient Geometry	3.0
Destroyer 666 Call of the Wild	3.5
Apostle of Solitude From Gold to Ash	3.0
Usurpress Interregnum	3.0
Scumpulse Rotten	3.5
Maladie ...of Harm and Salvation	3.0
Black Moth Anatomical Venus	3.5
The Osiris Club The Wine-Dark Sea	3.5
Turnstile Time and Space	3.5
Thy Antichrist Wrath of the Beast	3.5
Conjurer (UK) Mire	4.0
Solstice (UK) White Horse Hill	3.5
Ataraxy Where All Hope Fades	3.5
Harakiri for the Sky Arson	3.5
Visions Of Atlantis The Deep & The Dark	3.0
My Silent Wake There Was Death	3.0
Angra Ømni	3.5
Windhand/Satan's Satyrs Split	3.5
American Nightmare American Nightmare	3.0
Atomwinter Catacombs	3.0
The Ugly Thanatology	3.5
Harm's Way (USA-IL) Posthuman	3.5
The Atlas Moth Coma Noir	3.5
Legend of the Seagullmen Legend of the Seagullmen	2.0
Crucifyre Post Vulcanic Black	3.0
Visigoth Conqueror's Oath	3.5
Crescent (EGY) The Order of Amenti	3.0
Erdve Vaitojimas	4.0
Good Tiger We Will All be Gone	3.5
Long Distance Calling Boundless	3.5
Perpetrator Altered Beast	3.5
Human Serpent For I, The Misanthropist	3.5
Orphaned Land Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs	3.5
Portal ION	3.5
Agrimonia Awaken	3.5
Interesting mix of blackened sludge, post-metal and an altogether crusty production value. Sort of reminds me of the more melodic side of Bolzer and Black Anvil's latter day material, though the more lengthy compositions here stand out as a different aspect compared to those two bands. Perhaps not gripping enough for me to warrant a higher rating, but certainly provides music for thought.
In Vain (NO) Currents	3.5
Primal Rite Dirge Of Escapism	2.5
Mammoth Grinder Cosmic Crypt	3.5
Faal Desolate Grief	3.5
Hooded Menace Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed	4.0
Monolithe Nebula Septem	3.0
Tribulation Down Below	4.0
Accuser The Mastery	3.5
Philip H. Anselmo and The Illegals Choosing Mental Illness As A Virtue	3.0
Howling Sycamore Howling Sycamore	3.5
Giver Where the Cycle Breaks	3.5
Wombripper From The Depths Of Flesh	3.5
Apophys Devoratis	3.5
Rapture (GR) Paroxysm of Hatred	3.5
Spectral Lore/Jute Gyte Helian	4.0
Of Mice and Men Defy	3.0
Cane Hill Too Far Gone	3.0
Arkona (RUS) Khram	4.0
Yhdarl Loss	3.5
Black Label Society Grimmest Hits	3.5
Crow Black Sky Sidereal Light: Volume One	3.5
Abysmal Grief Blasphema Secta	3.0
Bloodshot Dawn Reanimation	3.5
Hamferd Támsins likam	3.5
Heidevolk Vuur Van Verzet	3.5
La Cachette Antiphonary For Songful Ghosts	3.5
Sinistro Sangue Cassia	4.5
Shining (SWE) X - Varg Utan Flock	3.0
The second song is terrible on this album, but then both covers at the end as well as "Jag Ar din Fiende" and "Mot Aokigahara" are really good, well-written in my opinion. Overall, it's an album that fares just above average weighing the inconcistency of it all.
Watain Trident Wolf Eclipse	3.0
Bloodbark Bonebranches	3.5
Inquinamentum 8342	3.5
Deathwhite For a Black Tomorrow	3.0
Cognitive Matricide	3.0

2017
Nortt Endeligt	3.0
Eternal Torment Blind to Reality	3.5
Iperyt The Patchwork Gehinnom	3.0
Evilfeast Elegies of the Stellar Wind	3.5
Morbosidad Corona De Epidemia	3.5
A Night in Texas Global Slaughter	3.0
Atrocity Masters Of Darkness	3.5
Feared Svart	3.5
Thaw Grains	3.5
Diablo Swing Orchestra Pacifisticuffs	4.0
The Atomic Bitchwax Force Field	3.5
Infected Dead Archaic Malevolence	3.5
Azziard Metempsychose	3.5
Ignis Haereticum Autocognition Of Light	3.5
Inquisitor Stigmata Me, I'm in Misery	3.5
Eldamar A Dark Forgotten Past	3.0
Deinonychus Ode to Acts of Murder, Dystopia and Suicide	3.5
Intervals The Way Forward	3.5
Jess And The Ancient Ones The Horse and Other Weird Tales	3.5
The Faceless In Becoming a Ghost	3.5
Silent Descent Turn To Grey	3.0
Damned Spring Fragrantia Chasm	3.0
Taake Kong Vinter	3.5
Almyrkvi Umbra	4.0
Aetherian The Untamed Wilderness	3.5
Degial Predator Reign	4.0
Sect No Cure For Death	3.5
Sorxe Matter & Void	3.5
Sortilegia Sulphurous Temple	3.5
Aosoth V: The Inside Scriptures	4.0
Godflesh Post Self	4.0
Nullingroots Into the Grey	3.5
Ba'al In Gallows by Mass	3.5
Desolate Shrine Deliverance from the Godless Void	4.0
Threat Signal Disconnect	3.5
Quicksand Interiors	3.5
Impureza La Caída de Tonatiuh	3.5
Statues No Grave, No Burial	3.5
The Dark Element The Dark Element	3.0
Merkabah (PL) Million Miles	3.5
Entheos (USA) Dark Future	3.5
Electric Wizard Wizard Bloody Wizard	2.5
Audn Farvegir Fyrndar	3.0
Dan Terminus Automated Refrains	3.5
Toothgrinder Phantom Amour	3.0
Nekrasov The Mirror Void	3.0
The Erkonauts I Shall Forgive	3.5
Cruciamentum Paradise Envenomed	3.5
Lustre (SWE) Still Innocence	3.0
Scour Red	3.5
Friendship (JPN) Hatred	3.5
Adimiron Et Liber Eris	4.0
Kawir Exilasmos	3.5
Cold Cell Those	3.0
Cannibal Corpse Red Before Black	3.0
Blaze of Perdition Conscious Darkness	3.5
Polaris The Mortal Coil	3.5
Opium Warlords Droner	3.0
Embrace the Dawn The Effigist	3.5
Inconcessus Lux Lucis The Crowning Quietus	3.5
Acid Witch Evil Sound Screamers	2.5
All Pigs Must Die Hostage Animal	3.5
Complete Failure Crossburner	3.5
10 Years (How to Live) As Ghosts	3.0
Hallatar No Stars Upon the Bridge	3.5
Ne Obliviscaris Urn	4.0
Forgotten Tomb We Owe You Nothing	3.5
Major Parkinson Blackbox	4.0
Katla Móðurástin	3.5
Hollywood Undead Five	2.0
Gnaw Cutting Pieces	3.5
Drottnar Monolith I	3.0
War Possession Doomed To Chaos	3.5
Blut Aus Nord Deus Salutis Meae	3.5
Vuur In This Moment We Are Free - Cities	3.5
We Came As Romans Cold Like War	3.0
Trivium The Sin and the Sentence	3.5
Iron Monkey 9-13	3.5
Throane Plus une Main à Mordre	3.5
GWAR The Blood of Gods	3.0
Sorcerer The Crowning of the Fire King	3.0
Yellow Eyes Immersion Trench Reverie	4.0
Ophis The Dismal Circle	3.5
Bell Witch Mirror Reaper	3.5
Amenra Mass VI	3.5
Veil of Maya False Idol	3.0
Antiversum Cosmos Comedenti	3.5
Sons of Apollo Psychotic Symphony	3.5
Pylar A Ella Te Conduce La Sagrada Espyral	3.0
Psychedelic Witchcraft Sound of the Wind	3.0
Midnight Sweet Death and Ecstasy	3.5
The King Is Blind We Are the Parasite, We Are the Cancer	3.5
No Warning Torture Culture	3.5
Through the Eyes of the Dead Disomus	3.5
Kroh Pyres	3.0
Exhumed Death Revenge	3.5
Sarke Viige Urh	3.5
Vassafor Malediction	3.5
Altarage Endinghent	3.5
Stick to Your Guns True View	3.5
Tetragrammacide Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix	3.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers	4.0
Primitive Man Caustic	3.5
Dreadnought A Wake In Sacred Waves	3.5
Lento Fourth	3.5
Nesseria Cette érosion de nous-mêmes	3.5
August Burns Red Phantom Anthem	3.5
Marilyn Manson Heaven Upside Down	3.0
My Ticket Home Unreal	3.5
Zaius Of Adoration	3.5
Lo! Vestigial	3.5
Dawn Ray'd The Unlawful Assembly	3.0
Act of Defiance Old Scars, New Wounds	3.5
Arkaik Nemethia	3.5
Primus The Desaturating Seven	3.0
Celeste Infidele(s)	3.5
Kublai Khan TX Nomad	3.0
Monolord Rust	4.0
Radio Moscow New Beginnings	3.5
Unsane Sterilize	3.5
IDYLLS The Barn	3.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers	3.5
In Twilight's Embrace Vanitas	3.5
With the Dead Love from With the Dead	3.0
Process of Guilt Black Earth	3.0
Vulture Industries Stranger Times	3.5
Kauan Kaiho	4.0
Nibiru (ITA) Qaal Babalon	3.5
Mastodon Cold Dark Place	3.5
King Parrot Ugly Produce	3.5
Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun	3.5
Ufomammut 8	3.5
Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven	3.5
The Bronx The Bronx (V)	3.5
Acephalix Decreation	3.5
Archspire Relentless Mutation	3.0
Vacivus Temple Of The Abyss	3.5
Antarktis Ildlaante	3.5
Myrkur Mareridt	3.5
Ensiferum Two Paths	2.5
Gigan Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescence	4.0
The Contortionist Clairvoyant	3.5
Cripper Follow Me: Kill!	3.0
Dyscarnate With All Their Might	3.5
Neck of the Woods The Passenger	3.5
Nothing More The Stories We Tell Ourselves	2.5
Biblical The City That Always Sleeps	3.5
Black Mare Death Magick Mother	3.5
Malum Night of the Luciferian Light	3.5
Cannabis Corpse Left Hand Pass	3.0
Grift Arvet	3.5
Atrox Monocle	3.5
Usnea Portals Into Futility	4.0
Arch Enemy Will to Power	3.0
Helpless Debt	3.5
The Great Discord The Rabbit Hole	3.0
Perturbator New Model	3.5
Paradise Lost Medusa	4.0
Septicflesh Codex Omega	4.0
Red Mountains Slow Wander	3.5
Morbid Evils Deceases	3.5
Leprous Malina	3.5
Inanimate Existence Underneath a Melting Sky	3.0
Crimfall Amain	3.5
Der Weg Einer Freiheit Finisterre	4.0
Akercocke Renaissance in Extremis	4.0
Ruby The Hatchet Planetary Space Child	3.5
Sannhet So Numb	3.5
Triggerfinger Colossus	3.5
Portrait (SWE) Burn the World	3.5
Sacred Son Sacred Son	3.5
Pagan Altar The Room of Shadows	3.0
Corrupt Moral Altar Eunoia	3.5
Beneath (IS) Ephemeris	4.0
Attic Sanctimonious	3.5
Sons of Crom The Black Tower	3.0
The Hirsch Effekt Eskapist	3.5
Hundred Suns The Prestaliis	3.0
Pyrrhon What Passes for Survival	3.5
Cormorant Diaspora	4.0
Incantation Profane Nexus	3.0
Gravdal Kadaverin	3.5
Wage War Deadweight	3.0
Toxik Breaking Class	3.5
Marty Friedman Wall of Sound	3.5
Dead Cross Dead Cross	3.5
Bonehunter Sexual Panic Human Machine	3.5
Pentakill II: Grasp of The Undying	3.5
Abhorrent Decimation The Pardoner	3.5
Make Them Suffer Worlds Apart	3.5
Loviatar Loviatar	3.0
Ereb Altor Ulfven	3.5
Nexul Paradigm of Chaos	3.5
Prong Zero Days	3.0
Temple of Void Lords Of Death	3.5
Less Art Strangled Light	3.5
Oceans Ate Alaska Hikari	3.0
Adagio Life	3.5
Sinmara Within the Weaves of Infinity	3.5
Sun of the Sleepless To The Elements	4.0
Tau Cross A Pillar Of Fire	3.5
In This Moment Ritual	2.5
Wintersun The Forest Seasons	3.0
The Kindred Weight	3.5
Poseidon (UK) Prologue	3.5
Haunt (USA-CA) Luminous Eyes	3.5
Boris Dear	3.5
Execration (NOR) Return to the Void	3.5
Enfold Darkness Adversary Omnipotent	3.5
Obscurity Streitmacht	3.5
Ewigkeit Cosmic Man	3.5
Jute Gyte Oviri	2.5
Limbonic Art Spectre Abysm	3.5
Melvins A Walk With Love And Death	3.0
Orden Ogan Gunmen	3.0
River Black River Black	3.5
Vintersorg Till Fjälls Del II	4.0
Stone Sour Hydrograd	3.5
The Acacia Strain Gravebloom	3.0
Witch Vomit Poisoned Blood	3.5
Origin Unparalleled Universe	3.5
Shade Empire Poetry of the Ill-Minded	3.5
Circle Terminal	4.0
Father Befouled Desolate Gods	3.5
Dying Fetus Wrong One to Fuck With	3.5
Conveyer No Future	3.0
Broken Hope Mutilated And Assimilated	3.5
Sasquatch Maneuvers	3.5
Tombs The Grand Annihilation	3.5
Entrails (SWE) World Inferno	3.5
Igorrr Savage Sinusoid	3.5
Carach Angren Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten	3.0
Impetuous Ritual Blight Upon Martyred Sentience	3.5
Eoront Another Realm	3.5
Iced Earth Incorruptible	3.5
Dephosphorus Impossible Orbits	3.5
Schammasch The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite	3.5
Antichrist (SWE) Sinful Birth	4.0
Necrot Blood Offerings	3.5
Petyr Petyr	3.0
The Birthday Massacre Under Your Spell	3.5
Merrimack Omegaphilia	3.5
Foscor Les Irreals Visions	4.5
Truly a fantastic album, and certainly one of 2017's finest albums. In a way it reminds me of Novembre's excellent "Ursa" record from last year, if only because of how passionate and otherworldly the listening experience feels. That said, the uplifting vocals and unique rhythm section work here have such an alluring charm, it's hard to detach yourself from the soundscape. Every song has its own little twist, but Les Irreals Visions details a transcendent style throughout which is hard for many bands to master. Hard to pick a highlight here, but I would say that "Altars", "Encenalls de Mort" and "Espectres al Cau" are some of the best examples of what Foscor do best on this album.
Rise Against Wolves	3.0
Vokonis The Sunken Djinn	3.5
Volumes Different Animals	3.0
The Evil The Evil	3.0
Klabautamann Smaragd	3.5
Khost Governance	3.0
Eighteen Visions XVIII	2.5
Volur Ancestors	3.5
Gravetemple Impassable Fears	3.5
Witheria Infinite Recollection	3.5
Vallenfyre Fear Those Who Fear Him	3.5
A Trust Unclean Parturition	3.0
SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes?	3.5
Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World	4.0
Mutoid Man War Moans	3.5
Doyle Doyle II: As We Die	3.0
Byzantine The Cicada Tree	3.5
Face Off Massive	3.5
Tod Huetet Uebel N.A.D.A.	3.5
Acherontas Amarta (Formulas of Reptilian Unification Part II)	3.5
Progenie Terrestre Pura oltreLuna	3.5
In Reverence The Selected Breed	3.5
Below the Sun Alien World	3.5
Karkaos Children of the Void	3.5
Solstafir Berdreyminn	3.0
Emyn Muil Elenion Ancalima	3.0
In Hearts Wake Ark	3.0
Divine Element Thaurachs of Borsu	3.5
Employed To Serve The Warmth Of A Dying Sun	4.0
Scale the Summit In a World of Fear	3.0
Loss Horizonless	3.0
Dodsengel Interequinox	3.0
Au-Dessus End of Chapter	3.5
The Monolith Deathcult Versus I	3.5
Higher Power Soul Structure	3.5
Beastmaker Inside the Skull	3.5
Triumvir Foul Spiritual Bloodshed	3.5
Nargaroth Era of Threnody	3.0
Saule Saule	3.5
Samsara Blues Experiment One with the Universe	3.5
Ajattara Lupaus	3.5
Earth Electric Vol.1: Solar	3.5
John Frum A Stirring In The Noos	3.5
Voyager Ghost Mile	4.0
Sabbath Assembly Rites of Passage	3.0
Ulsect Ulsect	3.5
Motionless in White Graveyard Shift	2.5
Oxbow Thin Black Duke	3.5
Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy	3.5
The Ruins of Beverast Exuvia	4.5
Had to bump this up to a 4.5 eventually. Several isolated listens of this album whilst driving (mostly during night when traffic is virtually non-existent and the absence of light grows fonder), and I have to say it's confirmed my belief that The Ruins of Beverast has become one of my favourite black metal bands. Every song on this album is different from the rest, and whilst that's not saying too much given there's only six songs here, it's still a moot point.
Ho99o9 United States Of Horror	3.5
God Dethroned The World Ablaze	3.5
Andy James Exodus	3.5
The Voynich Code Aqua Vitae	3.0
Tengger Cavalry Die On My Ride	2.5
Kingdom of Giants All the Hell You've Got to Spare	2.5
Slaughter To Prevail Misery Sermon	3.0
Weregoat Pestilential Rites of Infernal Fornication	3.5
Firespawn The Reprobate	3.5
Wolfbrigade Run With The Hunted	3.0
Skyclad Forward into the Past	3.0
Ayreon The Source	3.5
Crypt Rot Embryonic Devils	3.5
Obelyskkh The Providence	3.5
Uneven Structure La Partition	3.5
Artificial Brain Infrared Horizon	4.0
Farsot Fail·Lure	3.5
Cloven Hoof Who Mourns for the Morning Star?	3.5
Les Discrets Prédateurs	3.5
Labyrinth Architecture of a God	2.5
Foreseen (FIN) Grave Danger	3.5
Martyr Defiled Young Gods	3.0
Craven Idol The Shackles of Mammon	3.5
Primitive Man Fear/A life of turmoil	3.0
Necrowretch Satanic Slavery	3.5
Novembers Doom Hamartia	3.5
Blood Feast The Future State Of Wicked	3.5
Nightbringer Terra Damnata	3.0
All Hell The Grave Alchemist	3.0
Dynfari The Four Doors of the Mind	3.5
Empusae Lueur	3.5
Hexis Tando Ashanti	3.0
Possession (BE) Exorkizein	3.5
The Obsessed Sacred	3.0
Azarath In Extremis	3.0
Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar	3.5
Asira Efference	3.0
Trial (SWE) Motherless	3.0
Wear Your Wounds WYW	2.5
Valborg Endstrand	4.0
Fuoco Fatuo (ITA2) Backwater	3.5
Deep Purple inFinite	3.5
Blood Youth Beyond Repair	3.0
Inferno (CZ) Gnosis Kardias (Of Transcension and Involution)	4.0
W.E.B. Tartarus	3.5
Ensnared Dysangelium	3.5
IAMFIRE From Ashes	3.5
OHHMS The Fool	3.5
The Moth Gatherer The Comfortable Low	3.0
Falls of Rauros Vigilance Perennial	3.5
White Willow Future Hopes	3.5
Mastodon Emperor of Sand	4.0
Bereft (USA-WI) Lands	3.5
Necroblood Collapse of the Human Race	3.5
Orm Orm	3.0
Creeper Eternity, In Your Arms	3.5
Pallbearer Heartless	4.0
Steve Hackett The Night Siren	4.0
Cut Up Wherever They May Rot	3.5
Northlane Mesmer	3.0
Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse	2.5
Woe Hope Attrition	3.5
Dodecahedron Kwintessens	4.0
Fen Winter	4.0
Obituary Obituary	3.0
Lantern (FIN) II: Morphosis	3.5
Anomalie Visions	3.5
Venenum Trance of Death	4.5
In the words of Varg Vikernes when he decided to cover Bathory's "War"...r'This is, huh, wow'.rNo but seriously, this is fantastic work. One of, if not the best extreme metal record of the year so far.
Fange Pourrissoir	4.0
Allochiria Throes	3.5
Alunah Solennial	3.5
The Moon and the Nightspirit Metanoia	4.0
Amiensus All Paths Lead to Death	3.5
Demonic Resurrection Dashavatar	3.5
Havok Conformicide	3.0
Pillorian Obsidian Arc	3.5
Planning for Burial Below the House	3.5
Lock Up Demonization	3.5
Evocation The Shadow Archetype	3.0
Condemned His Divine Shadow	3.5
Condor (NO) Unstoppable Power	4.0
Endon Through The Mirror	3.5
Darkest Hour Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora	4.0
Earth Rot Renascentia	3.5
Bungler The Nature Of Being New	3.0
Junius Eternal Rituals For The Accretion of Light	3.5
Wolfheart Tyhjyys	3.5
Dread Sovereign For Doom The Bell Tolls	3.0
Within the Ruins Halfway Human	3.0
Our Hollow, Our Home Hartsick	3.0
Violet Cold Anomie	3.5
Grima Tales of the Enchanted Woods	4.0
Crystal Fairy Crystal Fairy	3.5
Acres In Sickness and Health	3.5
Hark Machinations	3.0
Disperse Foreword	3.5
Unearthly Trance Stalking The Ghost	3.5
Persefone Aathma	4.0
Sinister Syncretism	3.5
Reaping Asmodeia Impuritize	3.0
Aseethe Hopes of Failure	3.5
Bathsheba Servus	3.5
Gjendod Nedstigning	3.5
Power Trip Nightmare Logic	3.0
Frowning Extinct	3.5
Mord'A'Stigmata Hope	3.5
Morta Skuld Wounds Deeper Than Time	3.5
Grails Chalice Hymnal	4.0
Gloson Grimen	3.5
Witherfall Nocturnes and Requiems	3.5
Nidingr The High Heat Licks Against Heaven	3.0
Deivos Endemic Divine	3.5
Blackfield Blackfield V	4.0
Mutiny Within Origins	3.0
Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed II	3.0
Sunlight's Bane The Blackest Volume: Like All The Earth Was Buried	3.5
Iron Reagan Crossover Ministry	3.5
Soen Lykaia	3.0
Ocean Grove The Rhapsody Tapes	3.5
Freakangel How The Ghost Became	2.5
Hostis Hostis	3.5
Horisont About Time	3.5
The Ominous Circle Appalling Ascension	3.5
The Great Old Ones EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy	4.5
Xandria Theater of Dimensions	3.5
Horn Turm am Hang	3.5
Au Champ Des Morts Dans La Joie	3.5
Eldamar/Dreams of Nature Split	3.5
Aborym Shifting.Negative	2.5
Firewind Immortals	3.5
The Flight of Sleipnir Skadi	3.5
Emptiness Not For Music	3.5
Endalok Ur Draumheimi Viourstyggor	4.0
Mors Principium Est Embers of a Dying World	3.5
Honestly, I thought the first two proper songs from this album were really bland, uninspired stuff. The cheesy symphonics didn't do much but annoy me even more, and the musicianship was too predictable to be called adventurous. Then somehow the band have a complete turnaround in terms of creativity and deliver one of the album's stand-out highlights, "Death is the Beginning". I think from this point on is where the band really show their strengths. At times I'm reminded of Karybdis in terms of musical technique and style, but this certainly turns out to be a very decent melodeath record. Pity that it starts in a boring way.
Lord Vigo Blackborne Souls	3.0
Pain of Salvation In the Passing Light of Day	3.5
Code Orange Forever	2.5
The Drip The Haunting Fear of Inevitability	3.5
Shaarimoth Temple of the Adversarial Fire	3.5
I really like the maniacal tone running throughout this album, but pretty much every song ends up being a little inconsistent, too much for me to rate it any higher. Songs like "The Hungry Omega", "Lord of Putrefaction" and "Ascension of the Blood Dragon" are great for a couple of minutes and then they seem to plod on towards the end. Then songs like "Fires of Molok" and "Faceless Queen of Bloodstained Dreams" are the flipside of this-they start out a little uninteresting, then finish on a high because of the former's beautiful outro or the latter's menacing mid-paced battery. The band do get it perfect on "Beast of Lawlessness", which for me is the stand-out highlight of the record.
Black Anvil As Was	3.5
Fides Inversa Rite of Inverse Incarnation	3.5
Wolfchant Bloodwinter	3.0
ROSK Miasma	3.5
Laster Ons Vrije Fatum	3.5
Begerith A.D.A.M.	3.5
Count to Altek A Seraphia Entwined	3.0

2016
Megosh Apostasy	3.0
Sibiir Sibiir	3.5
Circle of Dust Machines Of Our Disgrace	2.5
Gnaw Their Tongues Hymns For the Broken, Swollen and Silent	3.0
Worm Ouroboros What Graceless Dawn	3.0
Ranger Speed & Violence	3.5
Witchery In His Infernal Majesty's Service	3.5
Brutai Born	3.5
Bolzer Hero	3.5
Sister Stand Up, Forward, March!	3.5
Entrapment Through Realms Unseen	3.0
BARST The Western Lands	4.0
Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct	3.0
Ion Dissonance Cast the First Stone	3.5
Annisokay Devil May Care	3.0
Wakrat Wakrat	3.0
Trees of Eternity Hour of the Nightingale	3.5
Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many	3.5
Superjoint Caught Up in the Gears of Application	3.0
Downfall of Gaia Atrophy	3.5
Ravencult Force Of Profanation	3.5
Spiritus Mortis The Year Is One	3.5
Saor Guardians	4.0
In Flames Battles	2.5
Deathspell Omega The Synarchy of Molten Bones	4.0
Ellende Todbringer	3.5
Selvans / Downfall Of Nur Selvans / Downfall of Nur	4.0
Dark Tranquillity Atoma	3.0
Starkill Shadow Sleep	3.0
Hierophant (IT) Mass Grave	3.0
Kyy Beyond Flesh - Beyond Matter - Beyond Death	3.0
Unreqvited Disquiet	3.0
Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis	3.5
Serpentine Dominion Serpentine Dominion	3.5
Anaal Nathrakh The Whole of the Law	3.5
Crowbar The Serpent Only Lies	3.0
Madder Mortem Red In Tooth And Claw	4.0
Albez Duz Wings of Tzinacan	3.5
Urfaust Empty Space Meditation	3.5
Memphis May Fire This Light I Hold	3.0
Upon a Burning Body Straight From the Barrio	3.0
Death Fetishist Clandestine Sacrament	3.5
I like the weird, sort-of psychedelic musicianship and rough production here, they really make the songs as gritty as they are fluent. That said, I find the songwriting mostly repetitive here and wholly dependent on one singular main riff, which aren't that spectacular to begin with. Nonetheless, this album has some excellent moments, such as the notable melodic "Netherrealm" and that slightly disturbing opener "The Gifted Medium".
Tardigrada Emotionale Ödnis	3.5
Dope Blood Money, Pt. 1	2.5
Destrage A Means to No End	3.5
Korn The Serenity of Suffering	3.0
Wovenwar Honor Is Dead	2.5
Ultar Kadath	3.5
Wardruna Runaljod – Ragnarok	4.0
Mithras On Strange Loops	4.0
Planes Mistaken for Stars Prey	3.0
T.O.M.B. Fury Nocturnus	3.0
The Last Ten Seconds Of Life The Violent Sound	3.0
Seeker Loss	3.5
Sons of Balaur Tenebris Deos	3.0
Venom Prison Animus	3.0
Black Table Obelisk	3.5
Hobbs' Angel of Death Heaven Bled	3.5
Oozing Wound Whatever Forever	3.5
Hail Spirit Noir Mayhem In Blue	3.5
Dangers The Bend In The Break	3.0
Vorvan Once Love Was Lost	3.5
Red Fang Only Ghosts	3.0
Kosmokrator First Step Towards Supremacy	4.0
Take Over And Destroy Take Over and Destroy	3.5
The Devil Wears Prada Transit Blues	3.5
Dayshell Nexus	3.0
To The Wind The Brighter View	3.5
Ortega Sacred States	3.5
NAAT NAAT	3.5
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard Y Proffwyd Dwyll	3.5
Winterfylleth The Dark Hereafter	3.5
Opeth Sorceress	3.5
Giraffe Tongue Orchestra Broken Lines	3.5
Truckfighters V	3.0
Oathbreaker Rheia	3.5
Suicidal Tendencies World Gone Mad	3.5
Noctem Haeresis	3.5
Seremonia Pahuuden Net	2.5
Deathcult Beasts Of Faith	3.5
Monte Pittman Inverted Grasp of Balance	3.0
True Widow Avvolgere	3.0
Allegaeon Proponent for Sentience	3.5
Dysrhythmia The Veil Of Control	3.5
Sahg Memento Mori	4.0
Trap Them Crown Feral	3.0
Neurosis Fires Within Fires	3.5
Predatory Light Predatory Light	3.0
Usurpress The Regal Tribe	3.5
Every Time I Die Low Teens	3.5
Yith Dread	3.0
King 810 La Petite Mort or a Conversation With God	2.5
Touche Amore Stage Four	4.0
Barishi Blood from the Lion's Mouth	3.5
Carcer City Infinite / Unknown	2.5
Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks	2.5
Lordi Monstereophonic (Theaterror vs. Demonarchy)	2.5
Sumerlands Sumerlands	3.0
Ancient Back To The Land Of The Dead	3.0
In the Woods... Pure	3.5
Thy Catafalque Meta	4.5
Well now, here's an album that practically blows every other record of 2016 out of the water. Well at least it does for me. Utterly fantastic from start to finish. Full of creativity, versatility and finesse without ever confusing or frustrating its listener. I could pick any song from here and hail it as a highlight, but I think the third track (I know, too lazy to write the song titles out) and that monstrously progressive 20-minute behemoth both take the cake. I doubt I'll hear another album with the same replay value or timeless quality as this in all honesty, but that's just my opinion.
Warfather The Grey Eminence	3.0
Gong Rejoice! I’m Dead!	4.0
Lotus Thief Gramarye	4.0
Virvum Illuminance	3.5
Cerebral Fix Disaster Of Reality	3.0
Colosso Obnoxious	3.5
Cover Your Tracks Fever Dream	2.5
Tardive Dyskinesia Harmonic Confusion	3.0
Wovenhand Star Treatment	3.5
Kroh Altars	3.5
Svvamp Svvamp	2.5
A Day To Remember Bad Vibrations	3.5
Void of Vision Children of Chrome	3.0
AntimateriA Valo aikojen takaa	3.0
Sodom Decision Day	3.0
HORNSS Telepath	3.0
Delain Moonbathers	4.0
Inquisition Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar...	4.0
Imperium Dekadenz Dis Manibvs	4.5
SubRosa (US) For This We Fought the Battle of Ages	3.5
Any Given Day Everlasting	3.0
Fire from the Gods Narrative	3.0
Darkher Realms	3.5
Skeletonwitch The Apothic Gloom	3.5
Daniel Lioneye Vol. III	3.0
Blood Incantation Starspawn	3.5
Meshiaak Alliance of Thieves	3.5
Spirit Adrift Chained To Oblivion	3.5
XII Boar Beyond the Valley of The Triclops	3.5
Horseback Dead Ringers	3.0
Russian Circles Guidance	3.5
Necromancing the Stone Jewel of the Vile	3.5
Storm The Sky Sin Will Find You	3.0
Valient Thorr Old Salt	3.0
Hellions Opera Oblivia	3.0
Lacertilia We’re Already Inside Your Mind	3.5
Ringworm Snake Church	3.0
Jinjer King of Everything	3.5
Harakiri for the Sky III: Trauma	3.0
Black Crown Initiate Selves We Cannot Forgive	3.5
Capsize A Reintroduction: The Essence Of All Tha	3.5
Hammers Of Misfortune Dead Revolution	3.5
Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty	4.0
(hed) p.e. Forever!	3.0
Forevermore Integral	3.5
Baptism V: The Devil's Fire	3.5
Morphinist Giants	3.0
Scour Grey	3.5
Castle Welcome to the Graveyard	3.5
Cane Hill Smile	2.5
Necronautical The Endurance at Night	3.5
Coldworld Autumn	3.5
Big Business Command Your Weather	3.5
Night Verses Into the Vanishing Light	3.5
Defiled Towards Inevitable Ruin	1.5
Dust Bolt Mass Confusion	3.0
Monolithe Zeta Reticuli	3.5
Onirism The Well of Stars	3.5
Chelsea Grin Self Inflicted	2.5
Silent Planet Everything Was Sound	3.0
Head of the Demon Sathanas Trismegistos	3.0
Be'lakor Vessels	4.0
Forteresse Thèmes pour la Rébellion	4.0
Denner/Shermann Masters of Evil	3.0
Countless Skies New Dawn	3.5
With the End in Mind Unraveling; Arising	3.5
Terra Tenebrosa The Reverses	3.0
Grave Desecrator Dust To Lust	3.5
Gojira Magma	3.5
Deceptionist Initializing Irreversible Process	3.5
Sarabante Poisonous Legacy	3.5
SUMAC What One Becomes	3.0
Gozu Revival	3.0
Heaven's Cry Outcast	3.5
Poison Headache Poison Headache	4.0
Melvins Basses Loaded	3.0
Hellyeah Unden!able	3.0
Nervosa Agony	4.0
Cough Still They Pray	3.5
Gevurah Hallelujah!	3.5
Virus (NO) Memento Collider	3.5
Brymir Slayer of Gods	3.0
If These Trees Could Talk The Bones of a Dying World	3.5
Napoleon Newborn Mind	3.5
Mistur In Memoriam	3.5
Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us	3.0
Hesitation Wounds (LA) Awake For Everything	3.5
Behexen The Poisonous Path	4.0
This is definitely among the better black metal albums I've heard so far in 2016. Excellent sound, and some outstanding guitar work. It's not that versatile, but it sure does deliver the goods like few others.
Gutter Instinct Age Of The Frantics	3.5
Withered Grief Relic	3.5
Haast's Eagled II: For Mankind	3.5
Katalepsy Gravenous Hour	3.5
Throane Derrière-Nous, La Lumière	3.5
Vainaja Verenvalaja	3.5
Black Orchid Empire Yugen	3.5
Sojourner Empires of Ash	3.5
Brutus (NOR) Wandering Blind	3.0
Teloch Thus Darkness Spake	3.5
Katatonia The Fall of Hearts	3.5
Flotsam and Jetsam Flotsam and Jetsam	3.5
Whispered Metsutan - Songs of the Void	3.5
GGU:LL Dwaling	3.0
Fyrnask Fórn	3.5
In Mourning Afterglow	3.5
Caronte Codex Babalon	3.5
Kvelertak Nattesferd	3.5
Gorguts Pleiades' Dust	4.0
Sylvaine Wistful	3.0
Electric Citizen Higher Time	3.5
Bright Curse Before the Shore	3.5
No Sin Evades His Gaze Endless Disconnect	3.0
Planet Of Zeus Loyal to the Pack	3.5
Messa Belfry	4.0
Grave Miasma Endless Pilgrimage	4.0
Vektor Terminal Redux	4.0
Dead Register Fiber	3.5
Alaric End of Mirrors	3.5
Nullingroots Take Care	4.0
Red Spektor Red Spektor	3.0
Qrixkuor Three Devils Dance	4.0
Haken Affinity	4.0
Abhomine Larvae Offal Swine	3.0
Darkestrah Turan	3.5
Schammasch Triangle	3.5
Germ Escape	3.5
The Poisoned Glass 10 Swords	3.0
Beastwars The Death of All Things	3.5
Eths Ankaa	3.5
From Sorrow To Serenity Remnant of Humanity	2.5
Incite Oppression	2.5
Aborted RetroGore	4.0
Mortichnia Heir to Scoria and Ash	3.5
Tombstoned II	3.5
Illyria Illyria	4.0
The Fall of Troy OK	3.5
Goatess Purgatory Under New Management	3.5
Desaster The Oath of an Iron Ritual	3.0
Primitive Weapons The Future of Death	3.5
Hawkwind The Machine Stops	3.0
Astral Path An Oath to the Void	3.5
Herder Fergean	3.5
Deftones Gore	4.0
Landscapes Modern Earth	2.5
Sinistro Semente	4.0
Zhrine Unortheta	3.5
All Hail The Yeti Screams From A Black Wilderness	3.0
Filter Crazy Eyes	3.5
Ommadon Ommadon	3.0
The Algorithm Brute Force	4.0
Black Stone Cherry Kentucky	3.0
Novembre Ursa	4.0
Graves at Sea The Curse That Is	3.0
Slice the Cake Odyssey to the West	3.5
iamthemorning Lighthouse	4.0
Grinding Fortune Itch Relief	4.0
Sharp Weapons Sharp Weapons	3.0
Beastmaker Lusus Naturae	3.0
Rotten Sound Abuse to Suffer	3.5
Artillery Penalty by Perception	4.0
O'Brother Endless Light	3.0
Cobalt Slow Forever	3.5
Ragnarok Psychopathology	3.0
Rorcal Creon	3.5
Wormed Krighsu	3.5
Crisix From Blue to Black	3.0
The Body No One Deserves Happiness	3.5
Necronomicon (CAN) Advent of the Human God	2.5
Vredehammer Violator	3.0
Black Shape Of Nexus Carrier	3.5
Lihhamon Doctrine	3.5
Nadja Sv	2.5
R.I.P. In The Wind	3.5
Killswitch Engage Incarnate	3.5
Accuser The Forlorn Divide	3.5
Ivar Bjornson and Einar Selvik Skuggsja: A Piece for Mind & Mirror	4.0
Sarke Bogefod	3.0
Criminal Fear Itself	3.5
Gadget The Great Destroyer	3.5
Obsidian Kingdom A Year With No Summer	3.0
Polyphia Renaissance	3.5
Show Me A Dinosaur Show Me A Dinosaur	3.5
Ihsahn Arktis.	4.0
Mortiis The Great Deceiver	3.5
Hacktivist Outside The Box	2.5
Wolvserpent Aporia: Kala: Ananta	4.0
Inverloch Distance \| Collapsed	3.5
Church of Misery And Then There Were None	3.5
Oranssi Pazuzu Värähtelijä	3.5
Slabdragger Rise Of The Dawncrusher	4.0
Ritual Chamber Obscurations (To Feast On The Seraphim)	3.5
High Priest Of Saturn Son of Earth and Sky	3.5
Greenleaf Rise Above The Meadow	3.0
Destroyer 666 Wildfire	4.0
From Ashes To New Day One	2.0
Mondo Drag The Occultation Of Light	3.5
Irkallian Oracle Apollyon	3.0
The Great Cold The Great Cold	3.5
The Infernal Sea The Great Mortality	3.5
Monster Truck Sittin' Heavy	3.0
After the Burial Dig Deep	3.5
Hemelbestormer Aether	3.5
Hypno5e Shores of the Abstract Line	3.0
Holy Grail Times of Pride and Peril	3.5
Rotting Christ Rituals	3.0
The Erkonauts I Did Something Bad	3.5
Gehennah Too Loud to Live, Too Drunk to Die	3.5
Myrath Legacy	3.5
Beyond The Black Lost in Forever	3.0
Camel of Doom Terrestrial	3.5
Vipassi Śūnyatā	3.5
Ghostlimb Difficult Loves	3.5
Textures Phenotype	4.0
Aluk Todolo Voix	3.0
Obscura Akróasis	4.0
Seven Sisters Of Sleep Ezekiel's Hags	3.5
Fuath I	4.0
Almyrkvi Pupil of the Searing Maelstrom	4.0
Dream Theater The Astonishing	3.5
Exumer The Raging Tides	2.5
Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule	3.5
Spektr The Art To Disappear	2.5
Villainy Villainy II: Dim	3.5
The Casualties Chaos Sound	3.5
Abbath Abbath	3.0
Agoraphobic Nosebleed Arc	3.5
Mourning Beloveth Rust & Bone	4.0
Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP	3.5
Megadeth Dystopia	3.5
Borknagar Winter Thrice	3.0
Latitudes Old Sunlight	4.0
Steven Wilson 4 1/2	4.0
Ondt Blod Finnmark	3.5
Lycus Chasms	3.5
Cold Night For Alligators Course of Events	3.0
The Lion's Daughter Existence Is Horror	3.5
Karybdis Samsara	4.0
Wo Fat Midnight Cometh	3.5
Whores. Gold	3.5
Deitus Acta Non Verba	3.5

2015
Degial Savage Mutiny	3.0
Baroness Purple	3.5
Orthodox (ESP) Axis	3.5
Kind Rocket Science	3.5
Pomegranate Tiger Boundless	3.5
Diavolos You Lived Now Die	2.5
Monolithe Epsilon Aurigae	3.5
Triumvir Foul Triumvir Foul	4.0
Lithium Dawn Tearing Back the Veil I: Ascension	3.0
Sunn O))) Kannon	3.0
Secrets of the Moon Sun	3.0
Didn't really get much out of this in the end. Opener "No more Colours" and "Dirty Black" are really well-written, but the rest of the album in my opinion seems to fall flat. That's not including the fact that the vocals for the most part irritate me somewhat. The album's whole run-time is over 50 minutes, but it could easily have been more concise had the mid-section of the album (namely "Man Behind the Sun" through to "I took the Sky Away") been shortened a little.
SikTh Opacities	4.0
Helheim rauniaR	3.0
Cloak of Altering Manifestation	3.5
Un The Tomb of All Things	3.5
Batushka Litourgiya	4.0
Sanzu Heavy Over The Home	4.0
The Iron Son Enemy	3.0
Ur Draugr With Hunger Undying	3.5
Culture Killer Throes of Mankind	3.0
Wows Aion	2.5
Manegarm Manegarm	3.0
Anomalie Refugium	3.0
Turbid North Eyes Alive	3.5
Deville Make It Belong To Us	3.0
Intronaut The Direction of Last Things	3.5
Vision of Disorder Razed To The Ground	3.5
Awe Providentia	3.5
Revenge (CAN) Behold.Total.Rejection	3.0
Swallow the Sun Songs from the North I, II & III	3.5
Costin Chioreanu The Quest For A Morning Star	4.0
Novelists Souvenirs	3.0
Vastum Hole Below	3.5
Good Tiger A Head Full of Moonlight	3.5
Nicole Saboune Miman	4.0
Extreme Noise Terror Extreme Noise Terror	3.5
Caligula's Horse Bloom	3.5
Gama Bomb Untouchable Glory	3.0
Ektomorf Aggressor	2.5
Average stuff basically. This album starts off promising enough, but gets old really quickly in my opinion. The standout highlight is "Evil By Nature" for me, every other song pretty much relies on the same monotonous chuggy groove.
Pinkish Black Bottom of the Morning	3.5
Saviours Palace of Vision	3.5
Draconian Sovran	2.5
Grave Ritual Morbid Throne	3.5
All Them Witches Dying Surfer Meets His Maker	3.5
Killing Joke Pylon	3.5
Corrections House Know How To Carry A Whip	3.5
Earthside A Dream In Static	4.0
Hades Almighty Pyre Era, Black!	3.5
Abigail Williams The Accuser	3.5
Terzij de Horde Self	3.5
Saxon Battering Ram	3.5
Counting Days Liberated Sounds	3.5
Gorod A Maze of Recycled Creeds	3.0
So Hideous Laurestine	3.5
Grave Out of Respect for the Dead	3.0
This Gift Is A Curse All Hail The Swinelord	4.0
Zombi Shape Shift	4.0
Atena Shades Of Black Won't Bring Her Back	3.0
Queensryche Condition Human	3.0
Temple of Baal Mysterium	3.5
W.A.S.P. Golgotha	3.0
Trivium Silence in the Snow	2.5
Deafheaven New Bermuda	3.5
Kylesa Exhausting Fire	3.5
Satan Atom by Atom	4.0
Fit for an Autopsy Absolute Hope Absolute Hell	3.5
New Years Day Malevolence	2.5
Make Me A Donut Bright Side	3.0
Wild Throne Harvest of Darkness	3.5
Witchskull The Vast Electric Dark	3.0
Sofy Major Waste	3.5
Dark Buddha Rising Inversum	3.5
Black Breath Slaves Beyond Death	3.5
Svalbard One Day All This Will End	3.5
Parkway Drive Ire	3.0
Lucifer's Child The Wiccan	3.0
Abhorrent Decimation Miasmic Mutation	4.0
We Hunt Buffalo Living Ghosts	3.5
VI De Praestigiis Angelorum	3.5
Horna Hengen tulet	3.5
A simplistic, raw black metal record which somehow never fails to be consistent in its delivery. The first two songs are notably the weakest, but from that point onwards the album seems to take a more maturer songwriting ethic into consideration, even improving on the vocals and general musicianship which is certainly rife in songs like "Puhdas" and "Sodan Roihu" amongst others. Whilst it does sometimes prove a little uninspired, the album should please fans of black metal if nobody else.
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Exile	3.0
Scale the Summit V	3.5
Operation: Mindcrime The Key	3.0
My Dying Bride Feel the Misery	4.0
Crossfaith Xeno	3.0
Annihilator Suicide Society	3.0
The Black Dahlia Murder Abysmal	3.5
Blessthefall To Those Left Behind	3.0
TesseracT Polaris	3.0
Christian Mistress To Your Death	3.0
Tsjuder Antiliv	3.5
Windhand Grief's Infernal Flower	3.0
Shinedown Threat to Survival	1.5
Tyranny Aeons in Tectonic Interment	3.5
Stratovarius Eternal	3.5
Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit	2.5
Speedtrap Straight Shooter	3.5
Orkan Livlaus	3.0
Amorphis Under the Red Cloud	3.5
Cruciamentum Charnel Passages	3.5
Black Tongue The Unconquerable Dark	3.0
Ramming Speed No Epitaphs	3.5
Grave Pleasures Dreamcrash	2.5
Conveyer When Given Time To Grow	3.0
Mgla Exercises in Futility	3.5
Implore Depopulation	3.5
Motorhead Bad Magic	3.0
Tad Morose St. Demonius	3.5
Defeater Abandoned	3.5
Down I Go You're Lucky God, That I Cannot Reach You	3.5
Fuck the Facts Desire Will Rot	3.5
Hate Eternal Infernus	3.5
Ghost (SWE) Meliora	4.0
Butcher Babies Take It Like a Man	2.0
The Devil Wears Prada Space	3.0
Publicist UK Forgive Yourself	4.0
Myrkur M	2.5
Scythian Hubris in Excelsis	3.5
Lychgate An Antidote for the Glass Pill	4.5
This album is thoroughly brilliant from start to finish. The swathes of Gothic keyboards, progressive song structures, menacing vocal delivery, beautiful guitar work, it's all tightly packed into this 50-minute package-the sound of which is right up my alley. Sure, that may sound fanboyish, but I genuinely love this album having heard it three times already. It simply gets better and better. Highlights of this album could be any song really, but for me personally it's "Letter XIX" and "An Acousmatic Guardian" (Had to look up the definition of "Acousmatic") that really effectively convey this band's best musical talents to the listener.
Stories (AUS) The Youth to Become	3.0
Buried in Verona Vultures Above, Lions Below	3.0
Pissgrave Suicide Euphoria	2.5
Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction	4.0
Miss May I Deathless	3.0
Krisiun Forged in Fury	3.5
Fear Factory Genexus	3.5
Deiphago Into the Eye of Satan	3.0
Gnaw Their Tongues Abyss of Longing Throats	3.5
For Giants You Are The Universe	3.5
Dead Lord Heads Held High	3.0
Sweat Lodge Talismana	3.0
Kataklysm Of Ghosts and Gods	3.5
Avoid The Light Spleen	3.0
Locrian Infinite Dissolution	3.5
Gus G. Brand New Revolution	3.0
The Bunny The Bear A Liar Wrote This	2.5
Northlane Node	3.0
Deathrite Revelation Of Chaos	3.5
Wearing Scars A Thousand Words	3.5
Counterparts Tragedy Will Find Us	3.5
We Lost the Sea Departure Songs	3.5
Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic	3.5
Envy Atheist's Cornea	3.5
Ravens Creed Ravens Krieg	3.5
Iskra Ruins	3.5
Powerwolf Blessed and Possessed	3.0
Jungle Rot Order Shall Prevail	3.0
Ecstatic Vision Sonic Praise	3.0
Author and Punisher Melk En Honing	3.5
Mutoid Man Bleeder	3.5
Refused Freedom	3.0
Thy Art Is Murder Holy War	3.5
Failure The Heart Is a Monster	3.5
Being as an Ocean Being As An Ocean	3.0
Dew-Scented Intermination	3.5
Old Wounds The Suffering Spirit	3.5
August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places	3.5
High on Fire Luminiferous	4.0
Lindemann Skills In Pills	3.5
Ol Drake Old Rake	3.5
Dagoba Tales of the Black Dawn	3.5
This album gets better as it progresses-and I mean that quite literally. I mean, the first half of the album for me is simply average stuff, going through the motions as far as the band's musical capability is concerned, but then songs like "Born Twice" and "The Loss" rip through the stereo, and you're suddenly wondering where all this fight and vigour was with songs as lame as "The Sunset Curse" went. Nonetheless, that's pretty much it. If I'm being completely honest, it's the stale vocal delivery which really annoyed me and was the main reason why I couldn't quite get into the beginning of the album, but it's made up for by the excellence of "Sorcery" and "O, Inverted World". So in that respect, a fairly disjointed, inconsistent album, but one which by the end seems to be a pleasant surprise.
Vattnet Settler	3.5
Hundredth Free	3.0
Lucifer (DE) Lucifer I	3.0
Deadly Circus Fire The Hydra’s Tailor	3.5
Iwrestledabearonce Hail Mary	2.5
The Ongoing Concept Handmade	2.5
Tempel (USA-AZ) The Moon Lit Our Path	3.5
Deathhammer Evil Power	3.0
Demon Lung A Dracula	3.5
KEN mode Success	2.5
Shape of Despair Monotony Fields	4.5
Tremonti Cauterize	3.5
Gorgoroth Instinctus Bestialis	2.0
No Consequence Vimana	3.0
Sunset In The 12th House Mozaic	4.0
Bonehunter Evil Triumphs Again	3.0
Employed To Serve Greyer than You Remember	4.0
Skinless Only The Ruthless Remain	3.5
Goatsnake Black Age Blues	3.5
Nekrogoblikon Heavy Meta	2.5
Some songs I just can't stand ("Atlantis", "Let's Get Fucked"), others I thought were really solid stuff (We've had Enough", "Bring Us More"). Basically, it's a slightly above average effort from Nekrogoblikon. I guess this won't change anyone's opinion of the band though-their gimmick seems to be growing bigger and bigger as the days roll by.
Maruta Remain Dystopian	3.5
Heilung Ofnir	4.0
This is clearly an album that is supposed to be experience, not merely listened to. The whole thing is bizarre to those who have never really heard anything related to neofolk, ambient or dark traditional Nordic music, but giving it a chance may spurn you on to those styles. That said, it's a lot harder to get into than, say, Wardruna or The Moon and the Nightspirit. Several listens needed.
Rolo Tomassi Grievances	4.0
The Darkness Last of Our Kind	3.5
Paradise Lost The Plague Within	4.0
Armored Saint Win Hands Down	3.5
Cult of Endtime In Charnel Lights	3.5
Teethgrinder Misanthropy	4.0
Leprous The Congregation	3.5
Haste the Day Coward	3.5
All Tomorrows Sol Agnates	3.5
Tau Cross Tau Cross	3.5
Galley Beggar Silence and Tears	3.5
George Kollias Invictus	4.0
Nibiru (ITA) Padmalotus	3.5
Weedeater Goliathan	2.5
Timeworn Luminescent Wake	3.5
King Parrot Dead Set	3.5
Entrails (SWE) Obliteration	3.5
Veil of Maya Matriarch	3.0
Roisin Murphy Hairless Toys	3.5
Six Feet Under Crypt of the Devil	2.5
Sigh Graveward	3.5
Venomous Maximus Firewalker	3.0
And So I Watch You From Afar Heirs	3.0
Pitbulls in the Nursery Equanimity	3.5
In Hearts Wake Skydancer	3.0
Coliseum Anxiety's Kiss	3.5
Reminds me quite a lot of 80s era Kiilling Joke (and maybe the latter era of that same band too), but in a good way and which never seems to get the point where this band are basically a copycat. There's a lot of neat little touches here and there in every song-but what particularly stood out to me was the very prominent bass work, and its solid collaboration with the sometimes gritty, sometimes melodious guitar style. To me what drags the album down a bit is how the vocals seem a little "off" at times, especially in the album opener and "Dark Life of Seduction", and "Comedown" just irritates me every time I listen to it. But this is mostly made up for by the eccentricity of songs like "Course Correction" and "Sharp Fangs, Pale Flesh".
Bell Witch Four Phantoms	3.0
Raven ExtermiNation	3.5
Undead Prophecies False Prophecies	2.5
Dawn of Azazel The Tides of Damocles	3.0
Honestly found this album a very mixed bag. Some songs I can't stand ("Vassalplasty", "The Odious Tides"), some I really enjoyed ("Irresistible Foe", "Controlled Burn") and others were just really strange to listen to "namely "Progeny of Pain" and "The Eagles Grasp"). I think the main flaw here is inconsistency, because some songs are really so much better than others, to the point where the actually stand out as being such. Nonetheless, it's decent for what it is but not much more. Some nice musical ideas thrown around, but by the end it leaves a little bit of underwhelming feeling, more so for those who expected this to be an excellent album.
Lustre (SWE) Blossom	3.5
Abiotic Casuistry	3.5
The Atomic Bitchwax Gravitron	3.5
Gift Giver Shitlife	3.0
Native Construct Quiet World	4.0
Drudkh A Furrow Cut Short	3.5
Shining (SWE) IX: Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, ends.	3.5
Gruesome Savage Land	3.5
Tribulation The Children of the Night	4.0
Forgotten Tomb Hurt Yourself and the Ones You Love	3.5
Acid King Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere	3.5
Bosse-de-Nage All Fours	3.5
Dopethrone Hochelaga	3.0
Decent head-nodding sludge/doom, no more, no less.
Akhlys The Dreaming I	4.0
In Cauda Venenum In Cauda Venenum	3.5
Marriages Salome	3.5
Morgoth Ungod	3.5
Minsk The Crash and the Draw	3.5
Royal Thunder Crooked Doors	4.0
Poison Idea Confuse & Conquer	3.5
Sworn In The Lovers / The Devil	3.0
Halestorm Into the Wild Life	2.0
Turbowolf Two Hands	4.0
Skyforger Senprūsija	3.0
Sulphur Aeon Gateway to the Antisphere	3.5
Deez Nuts Word Is Bond	3.0
Hollywood Undead Day of the Dead	2.0
Ufomammut Ecate	4.0
Death Grips The Powers That B	4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'	3.0
We Are Harlot We Are Harlot	3.0
Crom Dubh Heimweh	4.0
Antagonist A.D. Haunt Me As I Roam	3.0
Jakub Zytecki Wishful Lotus Proof	4.0
Abominor Opus: Decay	3.5
Fulgora Stratagem	3.0
Oceano Ascendants	3.0
Lightning Bolt Fantasy Empire	3.5
Der Weg Einer Freiheit Stellar	4.0
Excellent album, though it took me a while to get into it. I think it's because of the first two songs, which I thought at first were a little too long for their own good, but then the rest of the album automatically impressed me and kept me hooked. With the exception of the brilliant final song, I prefer the two shorter tracks ("Einkehr" and "Verbund") to the lengthier material, but as a whole this is simply a well-written, well-performed black metal release.
Downfall of Nur Umbras de Barbagia	3.5
Abominator Evil Proclaimed	3.5
Dodheimsgard A Umbra Omega	4.5
Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death	4.0
Alkaloid The Malkuth Grimoire	3.5
Dynfari Vegferð Tímans	3.5
A very pleasant album to listen to, especially for those who love atmospheric black metal/post-rock/ambient, but the one thing which stopped from liking it any more was the fact that most of the songs never really exploded like I expected them to. That said, the highlights of the album itself are definitely in the three-part title track at the end, combining wispy atmosphere and slight psychadelic flourishes into a half-hour opus. That's essentially as ambitious as Dynfari get here.
Moonspell Extinct	4.0
Kollwitz Dissonance	3.0
Ghost Bath Moonlover	3.0
Melechesh Enki	4.0
Psycroptic Psycroptic	3.5
Klone Here Comes The Sun	4.0
Enslaved In Times	4.0
Europe War of Kings	3.0
Leviathan Scar Sighted	4.0
Vihan Messu Liittona Pimeyteesi	3.5
Death Engine Mud	3.5
Himinbjorg Wyrd	3.5
Nullingroots Shrouds of Celeste	4.0
Elder (USA-MA) Lore	3.5
Acherontas Ma-IoN 'Formulas Of Reptilian Unification'	3.0
Like A Storm Awaken the Fire	3.0
Torche Restarter	3.5
Solefald World Metal. Kosmopolis Sud	3.5
The Agonist Eye of Providence	3.0
Falling in Reverse Just Like You	3.0
Black Star Riders The Killer Instinct	3.0
Carach Angren This Is No Fairytale	4.0
Bio-Cancer Tormenting The Innocent	3.5
Ghost Iris Anecdotes of Science & Soul	3.5
An Autumn For Crippled Children The Long Goodbye	4.0
Johansson and Speckmann Mask of the Treacherous	3.5
Macabre Omen Gods Of War - At War	4.0
Excellent album. These guys have done a stunning job both musically and conceptually here. Sure, it obviously draws many influences from the likes of Bathory (who doesn't in this sub-genre?), but the way in which atmospheric black metal is fused together with melancholic mood and flourishes of Pagan music simply collaborates for what is an hour of grandiose music. Any song here could be seen as a highlight, but my personal favourites would have to be "From Son to Father" and the epic two-part closer "Alexandros".
Ensiferum One Man Army	3.0
Utstott Hjorungavagr	4.0
Keep of Kalessin Epistemology	3.5
The Order of Apollyon The Sword And The Dagger	4.0
Hawk Eyes Everything Is Fine	4.0
Marduk Frontschwein	3.5
Great album for Marduk, though I think it would have been more beneficial to include fewer songs or shorter lengths. Highlights for me would be "Afrika" and "Doomsday Elite".
Feed Her to the Sharks Fortitude	2.5
Neal Morse The Grand Experiment	3.5
Death Karma The History of Death & Burial Rituals Part I	4.0
Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror	3.5
Kayleth Space Muffin	3.5
VOLA Inmazes	4.0
Callisto Secret Youth	3.0
Hellions Indian Summer	3.5
Archgoat The Apocalyptic Triumphator	3.0
Angelus Apatrida Hidden Evolution	4.0
Very solid, very consistent thrash metal album which will surely turn out to be one of 2015's stronger metal releases. No particular highlights here for me stand out because there's isn't one which is filler material. I do, however, think the album has a very fitting closer, even if a little long. Musicianship is solid, and vocals are nicely versatile, though they do at times remind me of Rob Jukes in his Exodus period.
Lord Dying Poisoned Altars	3.5
Winds of Genocide Usurping the Throne of Disease	3.5
Toundra IV	3.5
Very lush atmosphere, a lot of things going on here-often at the same time. I would prefer it if there were vocals on some of the tracks-particularly the first two and "Belenos"-but I guess that's just asking too much from a band who obviously focus on delivering some of the most interesting post-metal influenced they can conjure. It's just that there were moments throughout the album where I felt a good usage of vocal delivery could elevate the effectiveness of the instrumentation, so that a greater first impression would ensue. Nonetheless, there's some excellent songwriting here, and by far my favourite song of the whole album is "Viesca".
Hellish Outcast Stay of Execution	4.0
Sick Feeling Suburban Myth	3.5
Raised Fist From the North	3.5
A very solid album with some outstanding ambitious tracks and some which are by comparison much less effective. That said my main problem with the album is how the vocals half the time feel too forceful as opposed to just seeming natural...but then I guess I should have expected that walking into a hardcore album. Nonetheless, the highlights are practically obvious for me-"In Circles" and "Depression" particularly impressed me.
Enter Shikari The Mindsweep	3.5
Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor	3.5
Addaura ...And The Lamps Expire	3.5
Funeral for a Friend Chapter and Verse	2.5
Desolate Shrine The Heart of the Netherworld	3.5
Ghoulgotha The Deathmass Cloak	3.0
Ingested The Architect of Extinction	3.0
Fathoms Lives Lived	3.0
Sylosis Dormant Heart	3.5
Shattered Skies The World We Used to Know	4.0
Statues Together We're Alone	3.5
Lunar Mantra Genesis	3.5
Graveworm Ascending Hate	3.0
Debauchery Fuck Humanity	2.0

2014
Ascension The Dead of the World	3.5
Cretin Stranger	3.5
The Banner Greying	3.5
Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth	3.5
Taake Stridens hus	3.5
Earth and Pillars Earth I	3.5
Fen Carrion Skies	3.5
ZOM Flesh Assimilation	3.0
Bloodbath Grand Morbid Funeral	4.0
In This Moment Black Widow	3.0
Cadaveria Silence	2.5
Walking Dead On Broadway Aeshma	3.0
Skalmold Med Vaettum	3.5
This is a very powerful record as far as instrumentation is concerned, but the half-hearted vocals slightly ruin the experience for me. Nonetheless, most songs here feature a very sound transition between aggressive, more solid metal sounds to quieter albeit just as intense passages. Highlights for me would be "Ao Vori" and "Meo Drekum".
The Deathtrip Deep Drone Master	3.5
Decent, traditional black metal with so-so vocals. The musicianship however is spot on for this sound, and the twisted nature of "Dynamic Underworld" and "A Foot in each Hell" works very well.
Aversions Crown Tyrant	3.5
Dominanz Noxious	3.5
Devilment The Great And Secret Show	3.0
Job for a Cowboy Sun Eater	3.5
Yuth Forever Freudian Slip	2.5
Foo Fighters Sonic Highways	3.0
Krokodil (UK) Nachash	3.5
Skyharbor Guiding Lights	3.5
SSS Limp.Gasp. Collapse	3.0
Usnea Random Cosmic Violence	3.0
Gong I See You	4.0
Siriun Siriun	3.0
Old Man Gloom The Ape of God II	3.5
Ghost Brigade IV - One with the Storm	3.5
Ne Obliviscaris Citadel	4.0
Stolas Allomaternal	4.0
The Skull For Those Which Are Asleep	3.5
Mariachi El Bronx III	3.5
Schizoid Lloyd The Last Note In God's Magnum Opus	3.5
Psychostick IV: Revenge of the Vengeance	3.0
Soen Tellurian	3.5
Mare Cognitum Phobos Monolith	4.5
Machine Head Bloodstone and Diamonds	3.5
Full of Hell and Merzbow Full of Hell and Merzbow	3.5
Thy Darkened Shade Liber Lvcifer I: Khem Sedjet	3.5
Bhayanak maut Man	3.0
Anaal Nathrakh Desideratum	3.5
Necrophagia WhiteWorm Cathedral	4.0
Obituary Inked in Blood	3.0
Crobot Something Supernatural	3.5
Nero di Marte Derivae	3.5
While Heaven Wept Suspended at Aphelion	4.5
How this album has such a low rating is beyond me. It's a beautiful progressive metal album which is certainly one of the best of the year.
Einherjer Av Oss, For Oss	3.5
Devin Townsend Project Z2	3.5
Bloodshot Dawn Demons	4.0
Beyond Creation Earthborn Evolution	4.0
Liv Kristine Vervain	3.5
Amaranthe Massive Addictive	3.5
Jakob Sines	3.5
Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter	3.0
BoneHawk Albino Rhino	3.5
Occultation Silence in the Ancestral House	4.0
This album has a rich, prominent tone rooted deep in gothic music which continually reminds me of Candlemass' 80s era. For that reason I quite like it, and the way in which this tone is carried out consistently from start to finish makes songs like the brilliant 'The Place Behind the Sky' and slow but dramatic closing title track. The band's name may be pretty obvious as to what one would expect (Is "Occultation" even an actual word?), but they more than make up for this with the musicianship.r
Rings of Saturn Lugal Ki En	3.5
Revocation Deathless	4.0
Obliterations Poison Everything	4.0
Inter Arma The Cavern	3.5
Today Is the Day Animal Mother	3.5
Rosetta Flies to Flame	3.5
Execration (NOR) Morbid Dimensions	4.0
Manes Be All End All	3.0
Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry	4.0
Orange Goblin Back from the Abyss	4.0
Godflesh A World Lit Only by Fire	3.5
Capsize The Angst In My Veins	3.5
Decent melodic hardcore album with virtually the right amount of heaviness and emotional passages. Highlights for me would be "Pale" and "Tension".
Witch Mountain Mobile of Angels	3.0
Nonpoint The Return	2.5
White Empress Rise of the Empress	3.5
1349 Massive Cauldron of Chaos	4.0
Black Crown Initiate The Wreckage of Stars	4.0
Khold Til Endes	2.5
Decapitated Blood Mantra	3.5
Marmozets The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets	3.5
Threshold For The Journey	3.5
The Contortionist Language	3.5
Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain	3.5
Iron Reagan The Tyranny Of Will	3.5
Flyleaf Between the Stars	3.0
Solbrud Jaertegn	3.0
Xerath III	4.5
iamthemorning Belighted	3.5
Dioramic Supra	4.0
Crucified Barbara In The Red	3.5
In Flames Siren Charms	3.0
Earth Primitive and Deadly	3.5
Darkspace Dark Space III I	4.0
Code Orange I Am King	3.5
Empress AD Still Life Moving Fast	3.5
Krieg Transient	3.5
Dark Fortress Venereal Dawn	4.0
The Haunted Exit Wounds	3.5
Wolf Devil Seed	4.0
I expected nothing less than a heavy, solid album full of fist-pumping riffs from Wolf. Nothing new, but "Devil Seed" proves they're as strong and belligerent as ever. 'Shark Attack', 'Surgeons of Lobotomy' and 'Frozen' are my personal highlights.
Aeon Zen Ephemera	4.5
This is definitely one of the finer prog metal releases of recent times, and certainly of this year so far too. Each song more or less sounds different to the other, and the way in which instrumental performance is co-ordinated in songs like "The Entity", "Life?" and "Rebuild the Ruins" reminds me (in a good way) of Myrath's debut album.
Torch Runner Endless Nothing	3.0
Baptists Bloodmines	3.5
Striker City of Gold	4.0
Crimson Shadows Kings Among Men	4.0
Opeth Pale Communion	3.5
Bastard Sapling Instinct Is Forever	3.5
King 810 Memoirs of a Murderer	3.0
Not quite as bad as people are making out, but that doesn't change the fact that this album-and band-are over-hyped. Half of the songs are little better than a sub-par Emmure/Slipknot crossover style yet the other half are somewhat experimental and, dare I say it, unique. The dark-tinged "Take it" and "Devil don't Cry" largely eclipse the monotony of songs like "Best Nite of my Life", and closer "State of Nature" succeeds in ending the album on a relative high. A mixed album which will undoubtedly divide fanbases in the near future, but which is also sort of career-defining.
Midnight No Mercy for Mayhem	3.5
Pallbearer Foundations of Burden	4.5
Heartist Feeding Fiction	3.0
Upon a Burning Body The World Is My Enemy Now	3.5
Kairon IRSE! Ujubasajuba	4.0
Darkest Hour Darkest Hour	3.5
Godsmack 1000hp	2.5
Bolzer Soma	3.5
Alestorm Sunset on the Golden Age	3.5
Wovenwar Wovenwar	3.5
Nachtmystium The World We Left Behind	3.5
Blues Pills Blues Pills	4.0
(hed) p.e. Evolution	2.5
Fallujah The Flesh Prevails	4.0
Overkill White Devil Armory	4.0
Monarch (FRA) Sabbracadaver	4.0
King of Asgard Karg	3.5
Ill Nino Till Death, La Familia	2.5
It's average for the most part, certainly, but there are some nice moments to be found here. The solos in "Not alive in my Nightmare" and "Are we so Innocent" are pretty decent, and some songs are obviously better than others. I was expecting more of a prominent latin influence in this album (though I haven't heard any of the band's more recent work), and the monotonous metalcore style is just here to stay, it seems.
Martyrdod Elddop	3.5
Mutilation Rites Harbinger	3.5
War of Ages Supreme Chaos	3.5
Bastard Feast Osculum Infame	3.5
Corrupt Moral Altar Mechanical Tides	3.0
Betraying the Martyrs Phantom	3.0
Grave Digger Return Of The Reaper	3.0
Samoans Rescue	3.5
Wayfarer Children of the Iron Age	3.5
Wolvhammer Clawing Into Black Sun	3.5
Origin Omnipresent	3.5
Goatwhore Constricting Rage of the Merciless	3.5
sleepmakeswaves Love of Cartography	4.0
Electric Citizen Sateen	3.5
Serpent Venom Of Things Seen & Unseen	3.5
Septicflesh Titan	4.0
Corrosion of Conformity IX	3.5
Allegaeon Elements of the Infinite	4.0
Nunslaughter Angelic Dread	3.5
ACxDC Antichrist Demoncore	3.5
Axegressor Last	3.5
Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun	4.0
Cannabis Corpse From Wisdom to Baked	3.5
Radio Moscow Magical Dirt	3.5
Vanna Void	3.5
Linkin Park The Hunting Party	3.0
Wo Fat The Conjuring	4.0
Deathstars The Perfect Cult	3.0
Trap Them Blissfucker	4.0
Beartooth Disgusting	3.5
Body Count Manslaughter	3.5
Incantation Dirges of Elysium	4.0
Arch Enemy War Eternal	3.0
clipping. CLPPNG	3.5
Ume Monuments	3.5
Equilibrium Erdentempel	3.5
The Amity Affliction Let the Ocean Take Me	3.0
Burzum The Ways of Yore	2.5
Return from the Grave Gates of Nowhere	3.5
Voyager V	4.0
Opium Warlords Taste My Sword of Understanding	3.5
Vader Tibi et Igni	4.0
Rude Soul Recall	3.5
Ripper (CL) Raising the Corpse	3.5
Serpentine Path Emanations	3.0
Powerman 5000 Builders of the Future	3.0
Ratos de Porao Século Sinistro	4.0
Enabler La Fin Absolue Du Monde	3.5
Emptiness Nothing but the Whole	3.0
Godflesh Decline and Fall	4.0
Black Anvil Hail Death	4.5
Misery Index The Killing Gods	4.0
California Breed California Breed	4.0
Hoth Oathbreaker	3.5
Avatar Hail the Apocalypse	3.5
Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool	4.0
Bane Don't Wait Up	3.0
Hour of Penance Regicide	3.5
Structures Life Through a Window	3.0
Down Down IV - Part II	3.5
HORNSS No Blood, No Sympathy	3.5
Destiny Potato Lun	4.0
Elvenking The Pagan Manifesto	4.0
The album Elvenking should have made after "The Winter Wake" in my opinion. It features everything that made the band's first three albums so unique whilst still retaining a melodic yet epic atmosphere, helped to become more relevant by intricate folk musicianship. My personal highlights are the amazing "King of the Elves" and "Twilight of Magic", though near enough every song on here is just as good in their own particular way.
In Hearts Wake Earthwalker	3.0
Beneath (IS) The Barren Throne	4.0
A very consistent, powerful death metal album. Some of the riffs may sound the same towards the end, but the technical solo work and solid instrumental performance makes for an excellent all-round impression. my personal highlights are "Chalice" and "Mass Extinction Codex".
Jeremy Irons and the Ratgang Malibus Spirit Knife	3.5
Archspire The Lucid Collective	3.5
Decent enough by tech death metal standards but I feel like some of these riffs and solos are forced in rather than flowing with the rest of the instrumentation in a natural way. It's mostly impressive musicianship that's on display here, with vocals a little too hesitant but still relevant for the most part. The first half of the album seems better written than the latter half.
The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li	4.5
Polar Shadowed by Vultures	3.5
Raum Kingdom Raum Kingdom	3.0
Triptykon Melana Chasmata	4.0
Enthroned Sovereigns	3.5
Ian Anderson Homo Erraticus	3.5
Impaled Nazarene Vigorous And Liberating Death	3.0
Get Your Gun The Worrying Kind	3.0
Black Label Society Catacombs of the Black Vatican	3.5
Anette Olzon Shine	3.0
Nexilva Eschatologies	3.0
SOHN Tremors	3.5
Lost Society Terror Hungry	3.0
Sonata Arctica Pariah's Child	3.5
Pilgrim II: Void Worship	3.5
Lacuna Coil Broken Crown Halo	3.0
Sargeist Feeding the Crawling Shadows	3.0
Gamma Ray Empire of the Undead	3.5
Atari Teenage Riot Reset	3.5
Gehennah Metal Police	3.0
Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion	4.0
Coltsblood Into the Unfathomable Abyss	3.5
Dread Sovereign All Hell's Martyrs	4.0
The Socks The Socks	3.5
Nocturnal Breed Napalm Nights	2.5
Ringworm Hammer of the Witch	3.5
Ageless Oblivion Penthos	3.5
Empty Yard Experiment (E.Y.E.) Kallisti	3.5
Dirge (FR) Hyperion	3.5
Savage Messiah The Fateful Dark	3.5
Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together	3.5
Comeback Kid Die Knowing	3.5
Intervals A Voice Within	3.5
Hirax Immortal Legacy	3.0
The instrumentation here is very good, but the vocals drag the quality down a bit. They're not absolutely terrible, but for this style of metal the vocalist should adopt a different vocal delivery.
Vampire Vampire	3.5
Conan Blood Eagle	3.5
De La Tierra De La Tierra	2.0
Kuolemanlaakso Tulijoutsen	3.5
Illustrations In Vain	4.0
Acheron Kult des Hasses	4.0
Black Mare Field of the Host	3.0
The Wounded Kings Consolamentum	4.0
Cripple Bastards Nero in metastasi	3.5
I Killed the Prom Queen Beloved	3.5
Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation	4.0
Issues Issues	2.0
Kayser Read Your Enemy	3.0
Selim Lemouchi And His Enemies Earth Air Spirit Water Fire	3.0
Interesting in parts, but this album just has a 50/50 balance of good psychedelic music and boring ambient sections which frankly left me hovering over the skip button. Maybe with the band's next album they can come up with something truly unique, but the debut album is simply above average at best.
Benighted Carnivore Sublime	3.5
Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us	3.0
Crosses Crosses	4.0
Les Claypool's Duo de Twang Four Foot Shack	4.0
Behemoth The Satanist	3.5
Torrid Husk Caesious	3.0
Nightfell The Living Ever Mourn	3.5
Lies Abuse	3.5
Skindred Kill the Power	3.0
Kampfar Djevelmakt	3.5
Truckfighters Universe	3.5
Throwdown Intolerance	3.0
Nashville Pussy Up the Dosage	3.0
Alcest Shelter	3.5
Hail Spirit Noir Oi Magoi	4.0
Major Kong Doom Machine	3.5
Culted Oblique to All Paths	3.0
Ideas here are interesting but the main problem is that most of the songs are drawn out for too long. The first half of both 'Brooding Hex' and 'Illuminati' are brilliantly executed but at some point the instrumentation becomes rather stale, and though this does indeed suit the doom sub-genre rather well, there could have been a stronger emphasis on power and surprise than simple repetition. That said, 'March of the wolves' and 'Transmittal' are monolithic in atmosphere.
Iskald Nedom Og Nord	3.5
Hexis Abalam	3.0
Skull Fist Chasing the Dream	3.5
Band has obviously been listening to a lot of 80s metal for inspiration, and there's a lot of proof in each of this album's nine songs. Nothing wrong with that though because instrumentation is very solid and catchy all the way through. The vocalist for me brings the quality down a notch or two, but I think you can get past that by considering how well done the solos are in songs such as the title track and "Sign of the warrior".
The Vintage Caravan Voyage	3.5
Iced Earth Plagues of Babylon	3.0
The Sorcerer A Graveyard of fallen dreams	3.0
Limb Limb	2.5
Stream Of Passion A War of Our Own	3.5

2013
After the Burial Wolves Within	3.5
Smothered The Inevitable End	4.0
SlavEATgod Skyline Fission	3.5
Hell Poemer Arcane Mysteries of Dead Ancestors	4.0
Cult Of Fire Ascetic Meditation Of Death	4.5
One thing that made made fall instantly in love with this album is its very spiritual energy flowing throughout. You can feel the amount of effort being put into the production of the album and it's simply almost too good to be true. The mixture of evocative, sometimes atmospheric black metal and beautifully integrated eastern influences feels like the perfect musical combination. To be honest, the band's harsher side reminds me of both Borknagar and Burzum, whilst the eastern influences give the band freedom to roam in their own musical world. One of 2013's best extreme metal albums? For me, definitely.
Evangelist (USA) Omen Ex Simulacra	3.5
This album really surprised me, though I didn't quite know what to expect before pressing play. For me the real problem here is how clouded everything sounds, but once you listen to the album a few times I guess you can get used to it. Musically it's pretty full on as far as the extreme metal part of the musicianship is concerned, and the background noises such as screeching violins, tinkling keyboards or orgasmic (?) female moans and wails add extra effect. I only wish the production could be a bit clearer to truly emphasize these little sounds.
Deicide In the Minds of Evil	3.0
Vortice Host	3.5
Feared Vinter	3.5
Celeste Animale(s)	4.0
Hell (UK) Curse and Chapter	4.0
Tad Morose Revenant	3.5
Pretty good album, even if every song pretty much follows the same formula. It's essentially an album full of punchy powerful songs and soaring vocals, just like consistent power metal should be. Not sure why it's labelled here as "progressive" power metal (I myself can't see where the progressive part comes in), but it'd definitely consistent as a power metal album. A few weak tracks on here such as 'Follow', 'Ares' and 'Absence of light' disappointed me a little, but that's probably only because they're overshadowed by stronger songs such as excellent opener 'beneath a veil of crying souls' and 'Within a dream'.
Code Augur Nox	3.5
Pretty good album indeed. I think sometimes the band sound a little too similar to Talanas or Enslaved for my liking, but for the most part they are doing the job just right. Clean vocals are very effective against a constant barrage of progressive black metal structures and sometimes epic atmospheres, though the cleans can be surpassed by the intensity of the growls.
An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love	4.0
Beautiful album, very atmospheric, and epic in all the right places. It's certainly lifted my spirits that's for sure, although that's probably not what the band intended when making this album. Definitely one of the better albums I've listened to from this genre for a long, long while.
Endstille Kapitulation 2013	3.0
Decent, solid black metal for me but just way too repetitive to be enjoyed.
Exivious Liminal	4.5
Impending Doom Death Will Reign	3.0
Avatarium Avatarium	4.5
NAMI The Eternal Light of the Unconscious Mind	3.5
Magoa Topsy Turvydom	3.0
Glorior Belli Gators Rumble, Chaos Unfurls	4.0
Nice album. I particularly like the harshness of the vocals and the musicianship here often accompanies those vocals in the right sort of way. The mixture of blackened riffs and a southern rock tone throughout makes for an interesting sound, though at times this can wear a little thin if played on a repetitive basis. That said, the album is generally very consistent and in my opinion never quite lets up.
Protest the Hero Volition	4.0
Close Your Eyes Line in the Sand	3.5
East of the Wall Redaction Artifacts	3.0
Good, but this album is essentially a mixed bag. Some songs are instrumentally brilliant, whereas others simply get lost in themselves far too quickly and as a result have no sense of direction. The vocals are okay, sometimes even brilliant, but too often seem to take away from the focus on the musicianship. It also suffers from the fact that the vocals appear a little too low in the mix, so what you're really hearing is an unbalanced sound. That said, the songwriting here is very consistent and near enough every song manages to regain its excellent musical quality because of that. My personal favourite song would be the instrumental 'A negligible senescence', though only because it focuses on instrumentation.
Toxic Holocaust Chemistry of Consciousness	3.5
"Simply Thrashtastic! Vol.1".rBut yeah, seriously, this is nice, solid, blackened thrash, and nothing else.
Seeker Unloved	3.0
Russian Circles Memorial	3.5
Sahg Delusions of Grandeur	4.0
Inquisition Obscure Verses for the Multiverse	4.0
Invincible Force Satan Rebellion Metal	3.0
Black Trip Goin' Under	4.0
AFI Burials	3.5
Sepultura The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart	2.5
Ihsahn Das Seelenbrechen	4.0
Reflections exi(s)t	3.5
A lot of promise on show here, especially in regards to the way in which melody and brutal technical musicianship is intertwined. "Lost Pages" has a wonderful ambient section and the solos throughout "Stories through the storms" and "My Cancer" are well executed. I think the main problem here is the band's lack of focus sometimes as structures becomes too clogged up with unnecessary additional dynamics or electronic interludes.
Monolithe Monolithe IV	4.0
Red Fang Whales and Leeches	4.0
Trivium Vengeance Falls	3.0
Monster Magnet Last Patrol	4.0
Death Angel The Dream Calls for Blood	4.0
Pearl Jam Lightning Bolt	3.5
Circles Infinitas	3.0
Wolfheart Winterborn	3.5
Soulfly Savages	4.0
Alter Bridge Fortress	4.0
Korn The Paradigm Shift	3.5
Stone Temple Pilots High Rise	3.0
Earthless From the Ages	4.5
A Day To Remember Common Courtesy	3.5
Bear Noumenon	3.5
Asomvel Knuckle Duster	3.5
Argus (USA-PA) Beyond The Martyrs	3.5
Bloody Hammers Spiritual Relics	4.0
Very solid album, and particularly raises all the good points of a genre at risk of sounding outdated. The keyboards make songs such as 'At the well of the Nazareth' and 'The source' all the more exciting and evil-sounding to listen to, whereas the bass-heavy 'The transit begins' and 'Shiver' obviously favour heavy guitar sounds a la Pentagram (in the 80s), making for a rather unique sound.
The Browning Hypernova	2.5
Atlantean Kodex The White Goddess (A Grammar Of Poetic Myth)	3.5
Very interesting album, which is naturally controlled by epic, ambitious atmospheres and a rhythm section which very rarely becomes dull and bland. The vocals however really don't seem to match the quality of the instrumentation, and thus it sounds a little mixed at times. As on 'Sol Invictus' and 'Twelve stars and an azure down', the guitar work is beautiful and the drum/bass work flows very well indeed, but shoddy vocals which prove considerably weaker unfortunately lower the quality a bit. This is however more than made up for with the brilliance of songs such as 'Hersiarch' and excellent closer 'White goddess unveiled', both of which written from the heart and soul.
Fuzz Fuzz	3.5
Scar the Martyr Scar the Martyr	3.0
Broken Hope Omen of Disease	4.0
Excellent album. Some very brutal and sometimes technical death metal here, though you have to try hard to find variation in some aspects of the band's sound. The vocals and drum rhythms are more or less the same all the way through, but the guitar and bass work is extremely well-executed, specifically on 'Ghastly', the title track and 'The docking dead'. I didn't realize this band were around for as long as they have been either.
Jesu Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came	3.5
Touche Amore Is Survived By	3.5
Dream Theater Dream Theater	3.0
Shining (SWE) 8 ½ - Feberdrömmar i vaket tillstånd	3.5
Onslaught VI	3.5
Demonical Darkness Unbound	3.5
Scar the Martyr Revolver	3.5
Eyes Set to Kill Masks	3.0
Decent enough by Metalcore standards, but the vocals here really distract me from the (sometimes) brilliant heaviness on tracks such as 'Killing in your name' and 'Surface'. At least it's an improvement over the last few rubbish Metalcore albums I've had the pain of listening to.
Cult of Luna Vertikal II	4.0
A Storm Of Light Nations to Flames	3.0
Stray from the Path Anonymous	4.0
Windhand Soma	4.0
A nice slice of sludgy, hypnotic doom. 'Evergreen' is beautiful and 'Woodbine' is powerfully heavy. I really like how the vocals sound so mesmerizing at times too, as on the album opener 'Orchard'.
GWAR Battle Maximus	3.5
Cloudkicker Subsume	3.5
Carcass Surgical Steel	4.5
Fit for an Autopsy Hellbound	3.0
Satyricon Satyricon	2.5
Pentagram (CL) The Malefice	4.0
Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks	4.0
Gorguts Colored Sands	4.0
The Safety Fire Mouth of Swords	3.0
Bl'ast! Blood!	3.5
Oceano Incisions	3.5
The Ruins of Beverast Blood Vaults - The Blazing Gospels of Heinrich...	4.0
This is about the most blackened piece of music I've heard all year. It sometimes reminds me of early Candlemass and other times of very early MDB, but with a unique and original twist thanks to those well-orchestrated parts throughout. 'Malefica', 'A failed exorcism' and 'Ordeal' alone made me want to check these guys out more. The closer is a little underwhelming for me, but even then there's a sense of grandiosity and epic overtones.
Nekrogoblikon Power	3.5
Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King	2.0
Oathbreaker Eros\|Anteros	3.5
Diamond Plate Pulse	3.0
Fleshgod Apocalypse Labyrinth	3.5
Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire	3.0
Rosetta The Anaesthete	3.5
Iwrestledabearonce Late for Nothing	3.0
Revocation Revocation	4.0
James LaBrie Impermanent Resonance	4.0
Norma Jean Wrongdoers	4.0
The Defiled Daggers	3.5
Chimaira Crown of Phantoms	3.5
Thy Light No Morrow Shall Dawn	3.5
Sirenia Perils of the Deep Blue	2.5
Butcher Babies Goliath	2.5
Autopsy The Headless Ritual	4.0
Just heard 'Arch cadaver'...sounds pretty solid as always.
Huntress Starbound Beast	3.0
Havok Unnatural Selection	3.0
Probably the closest to average Havok will get. A lot of this is decent but unremarkable, especially when you compare to the previous two releases.
Blackmore's Night Dancer And The Moon	2.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack	4.0
Children of Bodom Halo of Blood	4.0
Deafheaven Sunbather	4.0
Black Sabbath 13	4.0
Megadeth Super Collider	2.5
Wedrujacy Wiatr Tam, Gdzie Miesiac Oplakuje Swit	3.5
Evile Skull	3.0
TesseracT Altered State	4.0
Burzum Sol austan, Mani vestan	2.5
Reptilian Death The Dawn Of Consummation And Emergence	3.0
Decent album here with solid instrumentation, but there is very little variety and a lack of truly memorable moments. The band used to be parodic, yet on this album seem to attempt a more serious take on Technical/Brutal death metal.
Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy	4.0
Rotting Out The Wrong Way	3.5
Gama Bomb The Terror Tapes	3.0
The vocalist had surgery before this album's production, so I guess the sub-par vocal delivery shouldn't be much of a shock. As it is though, the album is average albeit sometimes very decent thrash, a few songs for excellent listening.
Cathedral The Last Spire	4.5
Purson The Circle and the Blue Door	4.0
Deep Purple Now What?!	4.0
Sodom Epitome of Torture	3.0
The Ocean Pelagial	3.5
Negator Gates to the Pantheon	4.0
Vallendusk Black Clouds Gathering	3.5
Csejthe Reminiscence	4.0
No Omega Shame	3.5
Volbeat Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies	4.0
Gloryhammer Tales from the Kingdom of Fife	3.5
Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam	3.5
Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal	4.0
A very different sound compared to what we've heard from BMTH in the not too distant past. In particular the production seems a lot more atmospheric and Sykes' vocals seem to have more of a range than usual. There are a lot of songs on here that I could say are the band's best: 'The house of wolves', 'Empire (let them sing)','Shadow Moses' and 'Crooked young', the latter of which making for a very nice sound using symphonic sounds and consequently giving off a classical feel. If this is the direction the band are heading in, I have no doubt that I will become a bigger fan than ever before.
Nails Abandon All Life	4.0
White Widows Pact White Widows Pact	4.0
Suicidal Tendencies 13	4.0
Comedy of Errors Fanfare & Fantasy	3.0
Northlane Singularity	2.5
Hypocrisy End of Disclosure	3.5
Clutch Earth Rocker	4.0
And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures	4.0
Imperium Dekadenz Meadows of Nostalgia	3.5
Voices From The Human Forest Create A Fugue Of Imaginary	3.5
Soilwork The Living Infinite	4.0
Rotting Christ Kata Ton Demona Eaftou	4.0
Within the Ruins Elite	3.5
Darkthrone The Underground Resistance	4.0
Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)	4.5
Genuinely thought that this was a novel when I saw the title, but later found out that it was a new album by Steven wilson. I've no idea what my expectations for this are, because every album he's ever been involved in is interesting in some way. I think he was talking about doing a new PT album too, so this year he's being a busy, busy bee. Like every year.
Stratovarius Nemesis	4.0
Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam	4.0
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away	3.5
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension	4.0
Nachtlieder Nachtlieder	2.5
Cult of Luna Vertikal	4.5
Funeral for a Friend Conduit	2.5
Voivod Target Earth	4.0
Helloween Straight Out of Hell	3.5

2012
Svartidaudi Flesh Cathedral	3.5
Elderwind The Magic of Nature	3.5
Destruction Spiritual Genocide	3.5
Aeon Aeons Black	3.5
Obsidian Kingdom Mantiis	3.5
Deftones Koi No Yokan	4.5
Focus X	3.5
Cradle of Filth The Manticore and Other Horrors	3.0
Just had a look at the album's wikipedia page, and it seems that the album is only 50 minutes long. So its not going to be as dreadfully long as Cradle's last two albums. It might still suck though...
Parkway Drive Atlas	3.5
Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1	4.0
Thy Art Is Murder Hate	4.0
Dethklok Dethalbum III	3.5
My Dying Bride A Map of All Our Failures	4.0
Anaal Nathrakh Vanitas	4.0
Sithu Aye Invent the Universe	4.0
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence	4.0
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension	4.0
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind	4.5
Hammock Departure Songs	3.5
Annisokay The Lucid Dream[er]	3.0
Hidden Orchestra Archipelago	3.5
Enslaved RIITIIR	4.5
currently writing a review for this album. I'm literally drunk with excitement.
DorDeDuh Dar De Duh	4.0
The Gathering Disclosure	4.0
Devin Townsend Project Epicloud	4.0
Down Down IV - Part I	3.5
Winterfylleth The Threnody of Triumph	3.5
Elvenking Era	3.5
Cryptopsy Cryptopsy	4.0
Grave Digger Clash of the Gods	2.5
Skunk Anansie Black Traffic	2.5
Grave Endless Procession of Souls	3.5
Ensiferum Unsung Heroes	2.5
'In my Sword I trust' is one of the worst Ensiferum songs I've ever heard, so time will tell if this album justifies the hype it seems to be getting.
Blackberry Smoke The Whippoorwill	4.0
Baroness Yellow and Green	4.0
Torch Runner Committed To The Ground	3.5
Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage	4.0
Dying Fetus Reign Supreme	4.5
Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel...	3.5
Ihsahn Eremita	4.0
The Agonist Prisoners	4.0
In the Silence A Fair Dream Gone Mad	3.0
Architects Daybreaker	4.0
Fear Factory The Industrialist	4.0
Sigur Ros Valtari	3.5
Sabaton Carolus Rex (Swedish Version)	4.0
The Cult Choice of Weapon	4.0
Firewind Few Against Many	3.0
Golden Earring Tits 'n Ass	3.0
Diablo Swing Orchestra Pandora's Pinata	3.5
Burzum Umskiptar	2.5
Garbage Not Your Kind of People	4.0
Hawkwind Onward	3.5
Huntress Spell Eater	3.5
Moonspell Alpha Noir	3.5
Paradise Lost Tragic Idol	4.0
Cancer Bats Dead Set on Living	3.0
Death Grips The Money Store	3.5
Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion	3.5
Why are people even rating this album yet? To my knowledge there hasn't been a leak for this album...besides, i've pre-ordered it. It deserves that at least.
In Mourning The Weight of Oceans	3.5
Anathema Weather Systems	4.5
Woods of Ypres Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light	4.0
DragonForce The Power Within	3.5
Exumer Fire and Damnation	3.5
Halestorm The Strange Case Of...	3.5
Accept Stalingrad: Brothers In Death	4.0
Killing Joke MMXII	4.0
Overkill The Electric Age	4.0
Cynic The Portal Tapes	4.0
Borknagar Urd	3.5
Enthroned Obsidium	3.5
Soulfly Enslaved	4.0
Strange, I thought somebody reviewed this a few months ago?
Cannibal Corpse Torture	4.0
Epica Requiem for the Indifferent	4.0
Angel Witch As Above, So Below	3.5
Purson Rocking Horse	3.5
Corrosion of Conformity Corrosion of Conformity	3.5
Napalm Death Utilitarian	4.0
Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel	3.0
Freedom Call Land of the Crimson Dawn	3.0
Autopsy All Tomorrow's Funerals	4.0
Eluveitie Helvetios	4.0
Addaura Burning for the Ancient	3.0
The Cranberries Roses	3.5
Goatwhore Blood For The Master	3.5
Abigail Williams Becoming	3.0
Aborted Global Flatline	3.5
Biohazard Reborn In Defiance	1.5
Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme	3.5
Aves Feathers	3.0
Melankoli Wind	3.5
Xibalba Hasta La Muerte	2.5

2011
Aquilus Griseus	3.5
Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy	4.5
My Dying Bride The Barghest o’ Whitby	4.0
Animals As Leaders Weightless	4.0
Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu	1.0
Graveworm Fragments of Death	3.5
Evile Five Serpent's Teeth	3.0
Even though Evile's core faults are still evident in this album (too close to the overall thrash movement) there is some classic material here, as on the acoustic 'In Memoriam'. A brilliant album for 2011.
Iced Earth Dystopia	3.5
Lunatic Soul Impressions	4.0
Absu Abzu	4.0
Evanescence Evanescence	3.5
blink-182 Neighborhoods	3.0
Machine Head Unto the Locust	4.0
Anthrax Worship Music	4.0
Alice Cooper Welcome 2 My Nightmare	2.5
Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events	3.0
Arkona (RUS) Slovo	3.5
Leprous Bilateral	4.0
Chimaira The Age of Hell	4.0
Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony	4.0
Annotations Of An Autopsy Dark Days	1.5
Decapitated Carnival Is Forever	3.5
Mare Cognitum The Sea Which Has Become Known	3.5
Grimoire À La Lumière des Cendres	4.0
Chthonic Takasago Army	3.5
Draconian A Rose for the Apocalypse	3.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual	4.0
Devin Townsend Project Ghost	4.5
Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction	4.0
Arch Enemy Khaos Legions	2.5
Autopsy Macabre Eternal	3.5
Black Stone Cherry Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea	3.5
Anaal Nathrakh Passion	3.5
Hell (UK) Human Remains	4.0
Anvil Juggernaut Of Justice	3.5
Talanas The Waspkeeper	4.0
Vallendusk Vallendusk	3.5
Skindred Union Black	3.5
Gallhammer The End	2.5
Blackfield Welcome To My DNA	3.5
Cruachan Blood on the Black Robe	4.0
Foo Fighters Wasting Light	4.0
Beyond Creation The Aura	4.0
Cavalera Conspiracy Blunt Force Trauma	4.0
Amon Amarth Surtur Rising	4.0
Havok Time Is Up	3.5
Another very strong thrash record. Production is more audible than on the band's debut but the formula is much the same, maybe a couple of songs demonstrate more complex musicianship but the rest is no-frills thrash pretty much. Highlights: "No Amnesty" and "D.O.A.".
TesseracT One	3.5
Ygg Ygg	4.0
Artillery My Blood	4.0
Ravencult Morbid Blood	3.5
Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon	4.0
Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever	3.0
Burzum Fallen	4.0
Blood Ceremony Living With The Ancients	4.5
Destruction Day of Reckoning	3.5
Lamentations of the Ashen EKIMMV	2.5
Radiohead The King of Limbs	3.5
Deicide To Hell With God	3.5
Crowbar Sever The Wicked Hand	4.0
Black Spiders Sons of the North	4.0
Kaevum Natur	3.5
Galdr Galdr	3.5
Falkenbach Tiurida	4.0
Pallas (UK) XXV	4.0
Architects The Here and Now	2.5
Blackmore's Night Autumn Sky	2.5
Belphegor Blood Magick Necromance	4.0
Skaur Skaur	3.5
Orne The Tree Of Life	3.5

2010
Motorhead The World Is Yours	3.5
Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit	4.0
Impaled Nazarene Road to the Octagon	3.5
A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You	4.0
Cradle of Filth Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa	3.5
GWAR Bloody Pit of Horror	3.0
Atheist Jupiter	4.5
Electric Wizard Black Masses	4.0
Helloween 7 Sinners	3.5
Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous	3.0
Buckethead Captain Eo's Voyage	3.0
Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It...	3.0
Grave Digger The Clans Will Rise Again	3.0
Angra Aqua	3.5
Abigail Williams In the Absence of Light	3.5
Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini	4.5
Halford Halford IV - Made Of Metal	3.0
Dimmu Borgir Abrahadabra	2.5
Drudkh Handful of Stars	3.5
Autopsy The Tomb Within	4.0
In Lingua Mortua Salon Des Refuses	3.5
Murderdolls Women and Children Last	3.5
Disturbed Asylum	2.5
Cephalic Carnage Misled by Certainty	4.0
Accept Blood of the Nations	4.0
Black Label Society Order Of The Black	4.0
Talanas Reason & Abstract	4.0
Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare	3.5
Hawkwind Blood of the Earth	3.0
Danzig Deth Red Sabaoth	4.0
Grave Burial Ground	3.5
Die So Fluid The World Is Too Big For One Lifetime	4.0
Exodus Exhibit B: The Human Condition	4.0
Fleshgod Apocalypse Mafia	4.0
Annihilator Annihilator	3.5
Deftones Diamond Eyes	4.0
Impureza La Iglesia Del Odio	3.0
Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow	3.5
Darkthrone Circle the Wagons	3.5
Negura Bunget Virstele Pamintului	4.5
Alcest Écailles De Lune	4.5
Haken Aquarius	4.0
Cathedral The Guessing Game	4.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis	4.0
Kaipa In the Wake of Evolution	4.0
Immolation Majesty and Decay	3.5
Burzum Belus	4.0
Ikuinen Kaamos Fall of Icons	3.5
Murmuure Murmuure	3.0
Alkaline Trio This Addiction	3.5
Eluveitie Everything Remains As It Never Was	4.0
Finntroll Nifelvind	4.0
In Mourning Monolith	3.5
Fear Factory Mechanize	4.5
Dream Evil In The Night	3.5
Annotations Of An Autopsy II: The Reign of Darkness	3.0
Imperium Dekadenz Procella Vadens	4.0

2009
Napalm Death Time Waits for No Slave	4.5
Devin Townsend Project Addicted	4.5
Gorgoroth Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt	2.5
Gama Bomb Tales From the Grave in Space	3.5
To me this is the band's best album by far, and that's probably because I think it's more concise than Gama Bomb's other albums. Just short enough to be enjoyed, and it doesn't overstay its welcome. Nothing out of the ordinary for this style of thrash either, but then that's exactly what Gama Bomb intended. Maybe.
Nile Those Whom the Gods Detest	4.5
Slayer World Painted Blood	3.5
Arkona (RUS) Goi, Rode, Goi!	4.5
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect	4.0
Transatlantic The Whirlwind	3.5
Epica Design Your Universe	4.5
Baroness Blue Record	4.0
Rise of Caligula Parading From Heaven's Descent	3.5
Belphegor Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn	3.5
Converge Axe to Fall	4.5
Dethklok Dethalbum II	4.0
Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue	4.5
Immortal All Shall Fall	4.0
Evile Infected Nations	3.5
Skindred Shark Bites And Dog Fights	2.5
Gong 2032	3.5
Dying Fetus Descend into Depravity	4.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate	3.0
Muse The Resistance	3.0
Ensiferum From Afar	4.0
GWAR Lust in Space	3.5
Behemoth Evangelion	4.0
Chthonic Mirror Of Retribution	3.5
Divine Heresy Bringer of Plagues	3.5
Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow	4.0
DevilDriver Pray for Villains	4.0
Clutch Strange Cousins From The West	3.5
Artillery When Death Comes	4.0
Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings	4.0
Goatwhore Carving Out The Eyes Of God	3.5
Be'lakor Stone's Reach	4.0
Panopticon Collapse	3.5
UFO The Visitor	3.5
Havok Burn	3.5
A great, solid thrash debut done with real conviction and prowess. Reminds me at times of early Death Angel, in a good way of course. Best songs for me would be "Identity Theft" and "Category of the Dead".
Devin Townsend Project Ki	4.0
The Gathering The West Pole	3.0
Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders	4.5
Halestorm Halestorm	3.5
Ozric Tentacles The Yumyum Tree	3.5
Oranssi Pazuzu Muukalainen Puhuu	4.0
Altar of Plagues White Tomb	4.0
Eluveitie Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion	3.0
Archive Controlling Crowds	4.0
Peste Noire Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor	3.5
Agathodaimon Phoenix	3.5
The Antlers Hospice	3.5
Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles	4.5
Lamb of God Wrath	4.0
The Agonist Lullabies for the Dormant Mind	4.0
Absu Absu	4.0
A Day To Remember Homesick	3.5
Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague	3.5
Deathstars Night Electric Night	4.0
Architects Hollow Crown	4.0
Grave Digger Ballads of a Hangman	3.5
Amesoeurs Amesoeurs	3.0

2008
Baroness First & Second	4.0
Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy	3.0
Cynic Traced in Air	4.5
Enslaved Vertebrae	3.5
Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns	4.0
Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder	3.5
Darkthrone Dark Thrones and Black Flags	2.5
The Haunted Versus	3.0
Perhaps more aggressive and straightforward than its predecessor, but Versus is still The Haunted going through their own motions. Solid and sometimes great as the music is here, it shares the same flaws with much of the band's discography in that the experience gets tiresome too quickly, resulting in a mixed bag of an effort once again. Songs do stand out-notably "Pieces" and "Trenches"-but they don't make up for an otherwise fairly average effort.
Gojira The Way of All Flesh	4.5
Funeral for a Friend Memory and Humanity	3.5
Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery	4.0
Prevalent Resistance Eternal Return	3.5
Jeff Loomis Zero Order Phase	4.0
Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God	4.5
Bleeding Through Declaration	4.0
Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season	3.5
Benediction Killing Music	4.0
Gary Moore Bad For You Baby	3.5
Destruction D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.	3.0
DragonForce Ultra Beatdown	2.5
Blood Ceremony Blood Ceremony	4.0
Black Stone Cherry Folklore and Superstition	4.0
Alice Cooper Along Came a Spider	3.0
Arkona (RUS) Ot Serdtsa K Nebu	4.0
Aborted Strychnine.213	3.5
Gama Bomb Citizen Brain	3.0
Opeth Watershed	4.5
Grave Dominion VIII	3.0
Ufomammut Idolum	4.0
Panopticon Panopticon	3.5
Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky	4.0
Portishead Third	3.5
Deicide Till Death Do Us Part	3.5
Children of Bodom Blooddrunk	3.0
Belphegor Bondage Goat Zombie	3.5
Cavalera Conspiracy Inflikted	4.0
Firewind The Premonition	3.5
Bloodbath Unblessing the Purity	4.0
Draconian Turning Season Within	4.0
Bauhaus Go Away White	3.5
Death Angel Killing Season	3.0
Dismember Dismember	4.0
Eluveitie Slania	4.0
Fish 13th Star	4.0
Protest the Hero Fortress	4.0
Annotations Of An Autopsy Before the Throne of Infection	2.0
Iced Earth The Crucible of Man	2.5

2007
Zuriaake Afterimage of Autumn	4.0
Primordial To the Nameless Dead	4.5
Electric Wizard Witchcult Today	4.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works	4.0
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold	2.5
Anaal Nathrakh Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Her	4.0
Exodus The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A	3.5
Impaled Nazarene Manifest	3.5
Skindred Roots Rock Riot	3.5
Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow	4.0
Behold... The Arctopus Skullgrid	3.0
Prevalent Resistance To Live Again and Dominate	3.0
Radiohead In Rainbows	3.0
Gallhammer Ill Innocence	3.0
Parkway Drive Horizons	4.0
Darkthrone F.O.A.D.	2.5
Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace	3.0
Dethklok The Dethalbum	3.5
Down Down III: Over the Under	4.0
Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant	3.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal	4.5
Between the Buried and Me Colors	4.0
Elvenking The Scythe	3.0
Baroness Red Album	4.0
Epica The Divine Conspiracy	4.5
The Agonist Once Only Imagined	3.5
Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde	4.0
Great White Back to the Rhythm	3.0
Turisas The Varangian Way	4.0
In Lingua Mortua Bellowing Sea - Racked by Tempest	3.5
Evile Enter the Grave	4.0
Behemoth The Apostasy	4.0
Imperium Dekadenz Dammerung der Szenarien	3.5
Architects Ruin	3.5
Candlemass King of the Grey Islands	4.0
Grabak Agash Daeva	3.5
Graveworm Collateral Defect	3.0
Dream Theater Systematic Chaos	3.0
Cephalic Carnage Xenosapien	3.0
Akercocke Antichrist	4.5
Arkhon Infaustus Orthodoxyn	3.5
Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient	4.0
Gary Moore Close As You Get	3.5
Funeral for a Friend Tales Don't Tell Themselves	3.0
Immolation Shadows in the Light	3.5
Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli	3.5
Cruachan The Morrigan's Call	4.0
The Wildhearts The Wildhearts	4.0
Ensiferum Victory Songs	4.5
Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad	3.5
Annihilator Metal	3.0
Static-X Cannibal	3.5
Finntroll Ur Jordens Djup	3.5
Chimaira Resurrection	3.5
Dying Fetus War of Attrition	4.0
Die So Fluid Not Everybody Gets A Happy Ending	3.5
Blackfield Blackfield II	4.0
Aborted Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture	4.0
A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart	4.0
Divine Heresy Bleed the Fifth	3.5
Annotations Of An Autopsy Welcome To Sludge City	1.0
If this band was toilet paper, I'd wipe my arse for eternity with it.
Walknut Graveforests And Their Shadows	4.0
Iced Earth Framing Armageddon	3.0

2006
Devin Townsend The Hummer	3.0
Angra Aurora Consurgens	4.0
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist	4.0
Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings	3.0
The Haunted The Dead Eye	3.0
I think a lot of focus on trying to attempt an overall "different" sound made this album feel like a mixed bag in the end. I mean, it's certainly promising most of the time and is as adventurous as The Haunted's previous two records, but it simply grows weary after the first few tracks have unfolded their fury. Not saying this is boring material, but it does require a few listens if you're looking to get something out of it. The only two songs which really stand out-and do so because they're excellently well-written-are "The Drowning" and "The Reflection" in my opinion. Everything else seems solid but largely unmoving.
Belphegor Pestapokalypse VI	4.0
Converge No Heroes	4.0
Cradle of Filth Thornography	2.5
Anaal Nathrakh Eschaton	4.0
Draconian The Burning Halo	4.5
Amesoeurs Ruines Humaines	3.5
Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side	4.0
Evanescence The Open Door	3.0
Chthonic Seediq Bale	4.0
Dream Evil United	3.5
Black Label Society Shot to Hell	3.0
The Mars Volta Amputechture	4.0
Goatwhore A Haunting Curse	3.0
GWAR Beyond Hell	3.5
Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain	4.0
Ikuinen Kaamos The Forlorn	3.5
Pure Reason Revolution The Dark Third	4.0
Grave As Rapture Comes	3.5
Landmine Marathon Wounded	3.0
Black Stone Cherry Black Stone Cherry	4.0
Muse Black Holes & Revelations	3.0
Deicide The Stench of Redemption	4.5
SikTh Death of a Dead Day	4.0
Dracena Infernal Damnation	3.5
Celtic Frost Monotheist	4.5
George Thorogood and the Destroyers The Hard Stuff	3.5
Dissection Reinkaos	3.5
Enslaved Ruun	4.5
Architects Nightmares	3.0
The Gathering Home	4.0
Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway	4.0
Impaled Nazarene Pro Patria Finlandia	3.5
Ihsahn The Adversary	4.0
Blackmore's Night The Village Lanterne	3.5
Cannibal Corpse Kill	4.0
Dismember The God That Never Was	4.0
Darkthrone The Cult Is Alive	3.5
Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis	4.5
Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst MMV	1.5
Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars	3.5
In Flames Come Clarity	3.5
The Sword Age of Winters	4.0
Imperium Dekadenz ...Und Die Welt Ward Kalt Und Leer	3.0
The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra	4.0
Mgla Presence	3.5
Elvenking The Winter Wake	3.5
Deathstars Termination Bliss	4.0
Bleeding Through The Truth	4.0
DragonForce Inhuman Rampage	3.0
Eluveitie Spirit	4.5
Gama Bomb Survival of the Fastest	3.0
Fall of Efrafa Owsla	3.5

2005
Fields of the Nephilim Mourning Sun	4.5
Shining (SWE) IV - The Eerie Cold	3.5
Bolt Thrower Those Once Loyal	4.5
Riverside Second Life Syndrome	4.0
Dragonlord Black Wings Of Destiny	3.5
Cryptopsy Once Was Not	2.5
Gamma Ray Majestic	4.0
Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken...	5.0
Exodus Shovel Headed Kill Machine	4.0
Mew And the Glass Handed Kites	3.5
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness	4.5
Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?	2.5
Baroness Second	4.0
Hawkwind Take Me to Your Leader	3.0
Deceased As the Weird Travel On	4.0
Between the Buried and Me Alaska	4.5
Arkona (RUS) Vo Slavu Velikim!	4.0
Biohazard Means to an End	3.5
Fear Factory Transgression	3.5
Destruction Inventor of Evil	4.0
Chimaira Chimaira	4.0
Nevermore This Godless Endeavor	4.5
Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine	4.0
The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma	3.0
Prevalent Resistance Dynamics of Creation	3.0
Alice Cooper Dirty Diamonds	3.5
DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand	4.0
Lurker Of Chalice Lurker Of Chalice	4.0
Static-X Start A War	3.5
Foo Fighters In Your Honor	4.0
Funeral for a Friend Hours	4.0
Dream Theater Octavarium	3.0
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil	4.0
Alkaline Trio Crimson	3.5
Bruce Dickinson Tyranny of Souls	4.0
Candlemass Candlemass	4.0
Hate Forest Sorrow	4.0
Aborted The Archaic Abattoir	3.5
Garbage Bleed Like Me	3.0
Wednesday 13 Transylvania 90210	3.0
Epica Consign to Oblivion	3.0
couple of weak songs,but other than that this album is epic!
Corrosion of Conformity In the Arms of God	3.5
Clutch Robot Hive/Exodus	4.0
Strapping Young Lad Alien	4.0
Cephalic Carnage Anomalies	3.0
Black Label Society Mafia	4.0
Immolation Harnessing Ruin	3.5
Belphegor Goatreich-Fleshcult	3.5
Blood Red Throne Altered Genesis	4.0
Blackfield Blackfield	4.5
Crowbar Life's Blood For The Downtrodden	4.0
Falkenbach Heralding - The Fireblade	3.5
Draconian Arcane Rain Fell	4.0
Macabre Omen The Ancient Returns	3.0
Gojira From Mars to Sirius	5.0
Deep Purple Rapture of the Deep	4.0
Graveworm (N)utopia	2.5

2004
Arkona (RUS) Lepta	3.5
Gallhammer Gloomy Lights	3.0
Enthroned XES Haereticum	4.0
I was initially introduced to Enthroned's music via "Carnage in Worlds beyond", so it's fairly unsurprising that this album is musically similar. That's not a bad thing at all however, given how aggressive and powerful the musicianship is. Not only that, but the more complex likes of "Vortex of Confusion" and "Seven Plagues, Seven Wraths" really impressed me. The vocals for me are still weak in comparison but nonetheless suitable for this musical style.
GWAR War Party	3.5
Behemoth Demigod	4.5
Wintersun Wintersun	4.5
The Haunted rEVOLVEr	3.0
Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh	4.5
Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine	3.5
Converge You Fail Me	4.0
Green Day American Idiot	4.0
Colonel Claypool's Bucket Of Bernie Brains The Big Eyeball In The Sky	4.0
Amon Amarth Fate of Norns	4.0
Anaal Nathrakh Domine Non Es Dignus	4.0
Drudkh Autumn Aurora	4.5
Nyktalgia Nyktalgia	4.0
Bjork Medulla	3.5
Dio Master of the Moon	3.5
Grave Fiendish Regression	3.0
Skindred Babylon	3.5
Borknagar Epic	4.0
Die So Fluid Spawn Of Dysfunction	4.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine	4.0
Dream Evil The Book of Heavy Metal	4.0
The Amenta Occasus	4.0
Electric Wizard We Live	4.0
Gary Moore Power of the Blues	3.5
Heart Jupiter's Darling	3.5
Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses	4.0
Deathstars Synthetic Generation	4.0
edIT Crying Over Pros For No Reason	3.0
Death Angel The Art of Dying	4.0
Clutch Blast Tyrant	4.0
Arkona (RUS) Vozrozhdenie	4.0
Fear Factory Archetype	3.5
Elvenking Wyrd	4.0
Ensiferum Iron	4.0
Satyricon Volcano	4.0
Orange Goblin Thieving from the House of God	4.0
In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape	2.5
Cruachan Pagan	3.5
Gong Acid Motherhood	4.0
Exodus Tempo of the Damned	4.0
Cannibal Corpse The Wretched Spawn	3.5
Hypocrisy The Arrival	4.0
Deicide Scars of the Crucifix	3.5
Enslaved Isa	4.5
Draconian Where Lovers Mourn	4.0
Danzig Circle of Snakes	3.5
Decapitated The Negation	4.0
Baroness First	4.0
Angra Temple of Shadows	4.5
Finntroll Nattfodd	4.0
Darkthrone Sardonic Wrath	3.5
DragonForce Sonic Firestorm	3.5
Threnos By Blood and By Earth	3.5
Iced Earth The Glorious Burden	3.5

2003
Machine Head Through the Ashes of Empires	4.0
Belphegor Lucifer Incestus	4.0
Dream Theater Train of Thought	4.0
Falkenbach Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty	4.5
Anathema A Natural Disaster	4.0
Impaled Nazarene All That You Fear	3.5
Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus	4.0
The Distillers Coral Fang	3.5
Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation	4.0
The Exploited Fuck the System	3.5
Static-X Shadow Zone	3.5
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3	4.0
Muse Absolution	4.0
Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll	4.0
Hate Forest Battlefields	4.0
Bleeding Through This Is Love, This Is Murderous	3.5
Alice Cooper The Eyes Of Alice Cooper	2.5
Destruction Metal Discharge	3.0
Deep Purple Bananas	4.0
Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon	3.5
Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion	3.5
Ian Anderson Rupi's Dance	3.5
The Wildhearts The Wildhearts Must Be Destroyed	3.5
The Gathering Souvenirs	4.0
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium	4.0
Gojira The Link	3.5
Epica The Phantom Agony	4.5
Bob Catley When Empires Burn	4.0
Deftones Deftones	4.0
Cult of Luna The Beyond	4.0
Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason	4.0
Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja	4.0
Anthrax We've Come for You All	3.5
Aborted Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage...	4.0
Black Label Society The Blessed Hellride	4.0
Fleetwood Mac Say You Will	3.5
Katatonia Viva Emptiness	4.5
Finntroll Visor Om Slutet	3.5
Bathory Nordland II	3.5
The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution	4.5
Cradle of Filth Damnation and a Day	3.5
Biohazard Kill or be Killed	3.5
Darkthrone Hate Them	3.5
Evanescence Fallen	3.5
The Haunted One Kill Wonder	3.5
Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad	3.5
Dream Evil Evilized	3.5
DragonForce Valley of the Damned	3.5
Hate Forest Purity	4.0
Enslaved Below the Lights	4.0
Akercocke Choronzon	4.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed	4.0
Blackmore's Night Ghost of a Rose	4.0
Dying Fetus Stop at Nothing	4.0
Blood Red Throne Affiliated With the Suffering	4.0
Firewind Burning Earth	3.5
Grave Digger Rheingold	3.5

2002
Amon Amarth Versus the World	4.5
Bathory Nordland I	4.0
Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage	4.0
Foo Fighters One by One	3.5
Cathedral The VIIth Coming	3.5
Weedeater Sixteen Tons	3.5
Fields of the Nephilim Fallen	2.0
Cephalic Carnage Lucid Interval	4.5
Gary Moore Scars	3.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene	4.5
In Flames Reroute to Remain	3.0
Firewind Between Heaven And Hell	4.0
Camel A Nod and a Wink	4.0
Discharge Discharge	2.5
Dream Evil Dragon Slayer	4.0
Halford Crucible	4.0
The Distillers Sing, Sing Death House	4.0
Dio Killing the Dragon	3.5
Black Label Society 1919 Eternal	4.0
Bleeding Through Portrait of the Goddess	4.0
Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me	4.0
Down Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow	3.5
Electric Wizard Let Us Prey	3.0
Decapitated Nihility	4.5
Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond)	4.0
Bad Religion The Process of Belief	3.5
Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence	4.0
Green Carnation Light of Day, Day of Darkness	4.5
Cannibal Corpse Gore Obsessed	3.5
Cruachan Folklore	3.5
Danzig 7:77 - I Luciferi	3.5
Chthonic Relentless Recurrence	4.0
The Gathering Black Light District	4.0
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade	3.0
Freedom Call Eternity	3.5
HammerFall Crimson Thunder	3.5
Immolation Unholy Cult	4.5
Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness	4.0
Hypocrisy Catch 22	3.0

2001
Obtest Auka Seniems Dievams	3.5
Mostly Autumn Music Inspired by The Lord of the Rings	3.0
Enslaved Monumension	4.0
Katatonia Tonight's Music	3.5
GWAR Violence Has Arrived	3.5
Agathodaimon Chapter III	4.0
Benediction Organised Chaos	2.5
Godflesh Hymns	3.5
Waylander The Light, The Dark and the Endless Knot	3.5
Anaal Nathrakh The Codex Necro	4.0
Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire...	4.0
Mortiis The Smell Of Rain	3.5
Bathory Destroyer of Worlds	2.5
Anathema A Fine Day to Exit	3.5
Garbage Beautiful Garbage	3.0
Kreator Violent Revolution	4.0
Dark Funeral Diabolis Interium	4.0
Alice Cooper Dragontown	4.0
Destruction The Antichrist	4.0
Impaled Nazarene Absence of War Does Not Mean Peace	3.0
Biohazard Uncivilization	3.0
Gamma Ray No World Order	3.5
System of a Down Toxicity	4.0
Converge Jane Doe	5.0
Bjork Vespertine	4.0
Cult of Luna Cult of Luna	4.0
Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet	2.5
Dragonlord Rapture	3.0
Aborted Engineering the Dead	4.0
Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible	4.0
Cradle of Filth Bitter Suites to Succubi	3.5
Devin Townsend Terria	5.0
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket	4.0
Absu Tara	3.5
Static-X Machine	3.5
Bleeding Through Dust to Ashes	4.0
Alkaline Trio From Here to Infirmary	3.5
Arch Enemy Wages of Sin	4.0
Akercocke The Goat of Mendes	4.0
Clutch Pure Rock Fury	3.5
Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia	4.5
Gary Moore Back to the Blues	3.0
Aerosmith Just Push Play	2.5
Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate	4.0
Opeth Blackwater Park	4.5
Cathedral Endtyme	3.5
Lacuna Coil Unleashed Memories	4.0
Ensiferum Ensiferum	4.5
Blackmore's Night Fires at Midnight	4.0
Finntroll Jaktens Tid	4.0
Angra Rebirth	4.0
The Cult Beyond Good and Evil	3.5
Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 Viva Las Violence	3.0
Amon Amarth The Crusher	4.0
The Cranberries Wake Up and Smell the Coffee	3.0
Deicide In Torment in Hell	1.5
Fear Factory Digimortal	3.5
Crowbar Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form	4.5
Bolt Thrower Honour - Valour - Pride	4.0
Borknagar Empiricism	4.0
Gojira Terra Incognita	3.5
Grave Digger The Grave Digger	4.0
Graveworm Scourge of Malice	3.5
Hate Forest The Most Ancient Ones	4.0
Iced Earth Horror Show	4.0

2000
Behemoth Thelema.6	3.5
Geddy Lee My Favourite Headache	3.0
The Haunted Made Me Do It	3.0
Belphegor Necrodaemon Terrorsathan	3.0
Pagan's Mind Infinity Divine	4.0
Cradle of Filth Midian	4.5
Helloween The Dark Ride	4.0
Electric Wizard Dopethrone	4.5
Enslaved Mardraum - Beyond the Within	4.0
Radiohead Kid A	3.5
Corrosion of Conformity America's Volume Dealer	4.0
Halford Resurrection	4.0
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command	4.5
In Flames Clayman	3.5
Dying Fetus Destroy the Opposition	4.5
Deicide Insineratehymn	2.5
Devin Townsend Physicist	4.0
Deftones White Pony	4.5
Alice Cooper Brutal Planet	3.5
Decapitated Winds of Creation	4.5
Borknagar Quintessence	4.0
Nasum Human 2.0	4.0
The Distillers The Distillers	3.5
Cephalic Carnage Exploiting Dysfunction	4.0
Immortal Damned In Black	3.5
Ulver Perdition City	4.0
Dio Magica	3.5
Disturbed The Sickness	2.0
Crowbar Equilibrium	4.0
Allan Holdsworth The Sixteen Men of Tain	4.0
Deceased Supernatural Addiction	4.0
Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper	4.0
Bloodbath Breeding Death	4.0
Nightwish Wishmaster	4.5
Chthonic 9th Empyrean	4.0
Cruachan The Middle Kingdom	3.5
Cryptopsy And Then You'll Beg	4.0
Destruction All Hell Breaks Loose	4.0
The Gathering if_then_else	4.0
Gong Zero to Infinity	3.5
Immolation Close to a World Below	4.5
Impaled Nazarene Nihil	3.5
Hypocrisy Into the Abyss	3.5

1999
Cradle of Filth From the Cradle to Enslave	2.5
Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun	4.0
Burzum Hlidskjalf	3.5
Amon Amarth The Avenger	4.0
Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose	4.0
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory	4.5
Camel Rajaz	4.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity	4.0
Type O Negative World Coming Down	4.0
Orange Goblin Time Travelling Blues	3.5
Finntroll Midnattens Widunder	3.5
Behemoth Satanica	4.0
Katatonia Tonight's Decision	4.0
Blackmore's Night Under a Violet Moon	3.5
In Flames Colony	3.5
Anathema Judgement	4.0
Muse Showbiz	3.5
Dodheimsgard 666 International	4.0
Biohazard New World Disorder	3.0
blink-182 Enema Of The State	3.5
Arch Enemy Burning Bridges	4.0
Children of Bodom Hatebreeder	4.0
Breach Venom	3.5
Godflesh Us and Them	3.5
Black Label Society Sonic Brew	4.0
Emperor IX Equilibrium	4.0
GWAR We Kill Everything	2.5
Gamma Ray Power Plant	4.0
Akercocke Rape of the Bastard Nazerene	3.5
Darkthrone Ravishing Grimness	3.5
Candlemass From the 13th Sun	2.5
Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip	4.0
Agathodaimon Higher Art of Rebellion	3.5
Artillery B.A.C.K.	3.0
Cannibal Corpse Bloodthirst	4.0
The Cranberries Bury the Hatchet	2.5
Danzig 6:66 Satan's Child	4.0
Dimmu Borgir Spiritual Black Dimensions	4.5
Fish Raingods with Zippos	4.5
Its always refreshing for me to hear a Fish album, especially as he is one of my favourite solo musicians. This album has in particular so much variety its almost impossible to note every little thing that makes his music stand out so. The last six songs (contributing to a 25 minute opus called 'Plague of Ghosts') are maybe drawn out a little too long, but not enough to take away from the core values of this promising album by Fish. I sometimes wonder whether marillion or Fish is actually better.
Bloodthorn Onwards Into Battle	3.5
Drawn A New World?	4.0
Grave Digger Excalibur	4.0
Graveworm As the Angels Reach the Beauty	3.5
Immolation Failures for Gods	4.0
Immortal At the Heart of Winter	4.0
Demoniac The Fire And The Wind	3.5
In the Woods... Strange in Stereo	4.5
Hypocrisy Hypocrisy	4.0

1998
Kekal Beyond The Glimpse of Dreams	3.5
Entombed Same Difference	2.5
The Gathering How to Measure a Planet?	4.5
Bob Catley The Tower	4.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board	4.5
Borknagar The Archaic Course	4.0
The Haunted The Haunted	2.5
King Diamond Voodoo	2.5
Cryptopsy Whisper Supremacy	4.0
Death The Sound of Perseverance	5.0
Bruce Dickinson The Chemical Wedding	4.0
Agathodaimon Blacken the Angel	3.5
Fear Factory Obsolete	4.0
Dying Fetus Killing on Adrenaline	4.0
Anthrax Volume 8: The Threat Is Real	2.5
Angra Fireworks	3.5
Crowbar Odd Fellows Rest	3.5
Iced Earth Something Wicked This Way Comes	4.0
Anathema Alternative 4	4.0
Deep Purple Abandon	3.0
Gorgoroth Destroyer	3.5
Converge When Forever Comes Crashing	4.5
Garbage Version 2.0	4.0
Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast	4.5
Impaled Nazarene Rapture	3.0
Therion Vovin	4.5
Cannibal Corpse Gallery of Suicide	3.0
Arch Enemy Stigmata	4.0
Clutch The Elephant Riders	4.0
Helloween Better Than Raw	4.0
Behemoth Pandemonic Incantations	3.5
Candlemass Dactylis Glomerata	2.5
Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall	4.0
Pearl Jam Yield	3.5
Falkenbach ...Magni Blandinn Ok Megintiri...	4.5
Air Moon Safari	4.0
Enslaved Blodhemn	3.5
Waylander Reawakening of Pride Once Lost	4.0
Cephalic Carnage Conforming To Abnormality	3.0
Hecate Enthroned Dark Requiems and the Unsilent Massacre	3.5
Boris Amplifier Worship	4.0
Gorguts Obscura	4.5
Vintersorg Till Fjälls	3.5
Dawn Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy)	3.5
Devin Townsend Infinity	4.0

1997
In Flames Whoracle	3.5
Hawkwind Distant Horizons	2.5
Deftones Around the Fur	4.5
Gorgoroth Under the Sign of Hell	3.5
Portishead Portishead	4.0
Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E.	4.0
Genesis Calling All Stations	1.5
Gamma Ray Somewhere Out in Space	4.5
Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech	5.0
Deceased Fearless Undead Machines	4.0
HammerFall Glory To The Brave	3.0
blink-182 Dude Ranch	3.0
Radiohead OK Computer	3.5
The Gathering Nighttime Birds	4.0
Faith No More Album of the Year	4.0
Gary Moore Dark Days in Paradise	2.5
In the Woods... Omnio	4.0
Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant	4.5
Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape	4.0
Children of Bodom Something Wild	4.0
Obtest Tukstantmetis	3.0
GWAR Carnival of Chaos	2.5
Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy	4.5
Ulver Nattens Madrigal	4.0
Absu The Third Storm of Cythraul	3.5
Annihilator Remains	2.5
Burzum Daudi Baldrs	1.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan The Dillinger Escape Plan	3.5
Anvil Absolutely No Alternative	2.5
Deicide Serpents of the Light	3.5
Blackmore's Night Shadow of the Moon	3.5
Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics...	4.5
Enslaved Eld	3.0
Bruce Dickinson Accident of Birth	4.0
Borknagar The Olden Domain	4.0
Aerosmith Nine Lives	2.5
Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk	5.0
Enthroned Towards the Skullthrone of Satan	3.5
Forbidden Green	2.5
Thy Grief The Frozen Tomb Of Mankind	3.5
Bloodthorn In the Shadow of Your Black Wings	3.5
Fates Warning A Pleasant Shade of Gray	3.5
Graveworm When Daylights Gone	3.0
Esoteric The Pernicious Enigma	4.5
Hypocrisy The Final Chapter	4.0
Immortal Blizzard Beasts	2.5
Arcturus La Masquerade Infernale	3.5
Arckanum Kostogher	3.5

1996
Arch Enemy Black Earth	4.0
Acid Bath Paegan Terrorism Tactics	4.5
The Nefilim Zoon	4.0
Dio Angry Machines	2.0
Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter	4.0
Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace	4.0
Godflesh Songs of Love and Hate	3.0
Corrosion of Conformity Wiseblood	4.0
Biohazard Mata Leao	4.0
Gorgoroth Antichrist	3.5
Another great Gorgoroth album which is at least on par with the band's debut, but the only thing that bothers me is the really short runtime-the album almost feels like it's about to end when in fact it's just started. "Sorg" is nice enough to end things with, but it didn't really strike me as the sort of "album closer", more like just another song to add to the rest here. So yeah, I guess you could say it's anti-climactic, but then "Gorgoroth" and "Possessed (By Satan)" seem to make up for it.
Sabbat The Dwelling	3.5
Bathory Blood on Ice	4.0
Cannibal Corpse Vile	3.5
Great White Let It Rock	3.5
Falkenbach ...En Their Medh Riki Fara...	4.0
Cradle of Filth Vempire or Dark Faerytales in Phalluste	4.0
Eyehategod Dopesick	4.0
Edge of Sanity Crimson	4.5
Grave Hating Life	3.0
Def Leppard Slang	2.5
Helloween The Time of the Oath	4.0
In Flames The Jester Race	3.5
Borknagar Borknagar	4.5
Cryptopsy None So Vile	4.5
Troll (NO) Drep de Kristne	4.0
The 3rd and the Mortal Painting on Glass	4.0
Camel Harbour of Tears	4.0
Darkthrone Total Death	3.5
Accept Predator	2.0
The Cranberries To the Faithful Departed	3.0
Grave Digger Tunes of War	3.5
UFO Walk on Water	3.5
Burzum Filosofem	4.0
Prong Rude Awakening	4.0
Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky	4.5
Deep Purple Purpendicular	3.5
Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst	3.0
Dying Fetus Purification Through Violence	3.5
The Exploited Beat the Bastards	4.0
Crowbar Broken Glass	4.0
Bruce Dickinson Skunkworks	3.0
Angra Holy Land	4.5
At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement	3.0
Setherial Nord	4.0
Iced Earth The Dark Saga	4.0
Immolation Here in After	4.5
Behemoth Grom	2.5
Hypocrisy Abducted	4.0

1995
Alice in Chains Alice in Chains	3.5
Hawkwind Alien 4	3.0
Anthrax Stomp 442	3.0
GWAR Ragnarok	4.0
Annihilator King of the Kill	4.0
Fleetwood Mac Time	2.5
Deftones Adrenaline	4.0
Cathedral The Carnival Bizarre	4.0
Down NOLA	4.0
Dream Theater A Change of Seasons	4.0
Autopsy Shitfun	3.5
The Gathering Mandylion	4.5
Immortal Battles in the North	3.5
Garbage Garbage	4.0
Krisiun Black Force Domain	4.0
Pretty awesome album. The solos here are definitely the album's highlight.
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	4.5
Black Sabbath Forbidden	2.0
Bjork Post	4.0
Carcass Swansong	4.0
Gary Moore Blues For Greeny	3.5
Gamma Ray Land of the Free	4.5
Clutch Clutch	4.0
Ian Anderson Divinities: Twelve Dances with God	3.0
Cruachan Tuatha Na Gael	3.5
King Crimson THRAK	3.5
Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill	3.5
Iced Earth Burnt Offerings	4.5
Enthroned Prophecies of Pagan Fire	4.0
In the Woods... Heart of the Ages	3.5
Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime	4.0
Death Symbolic	4.5
Summoning Lugburz	3.0
Elastica Elastica	3.5
Absu The Sun of Tiphareth	4.0
Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler	4.0
Hawkwind White Zone	2.0
Extreme Waiting for the Punchline	3.0
Anathema Pentecost III	3.5
Obituary World Demise	4.0
Darkthrone Panzerfaust	3.5
Deicide Once Upon the Cross	4.0
Electric Wizard Electric Wizard	4.0
At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul	4.0
Fear Factory Demanufacture	4.5
Crowbar Time Heals Nothing	4.0
Impaled Nazarene Latex Cult	3.5
Dismember Massive Killing Capacity	3.5
Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane	4.5
Golden Earring Love Sweat	3.0
Face Down Mindfield	3.5
Behemoth Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)	3.5

1994
Pearl Jam Vitalogy	4.0
Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman	4.0
Megadeth Youthanasia	3.5
The Black Crowes Amorica	4.0
Cinderella Still Climbing	3.5
Mercyful Fate Time	3.0
Impaled Nazarene Suomi Finland Perkele	3.5
Gorgoroth Pentagram	3.5
The Cranberries No Need to Argue	4.5
Danzig Danzig 4	3.0
Dream Theater Awake	4.5
Accept Death Row	1.5
Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow	3.5
Corrosion of Conformity Deliverance	4.0
Godflesh Selfless	3.5
Portishead Dummy	4.5
Enslaved Frost	4.0
GWAR This Toilet Earth	3.0
Alice Cooper The Last Temptation	3.0
Helloween Master of the Rings	3.5
At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease	4.0
Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger	4.5
Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse	5.0
Dark Funeral Dark Funeral	4.0
Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding	4.5
Cradle of Filth The Principle of Evil Made Flesh	4.5
Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi	4.0
Black Sabbath Cross Purposes	3.5
Therapy? Troublegum	4.0
Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss	5.0
Biohazard State of the World Address	4.0
Dimmu Borgir For All Tid	4.0
Bruce Dickinson Balls to Picasso	3.0
Acid Bath When the Kite String Pops	4.0
Bolt Thrower ...For Victory	4.5
Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh	4.0
Converge Halo in a Haystack	2.5
Fudge Tunnel The Complicated Futility of Ignorance	3.0
In Flames Lunar Strain	3.5
Collage Moonshine	3.5

1993
Impaled Nazarene Ugra-Karma	3.5
Heart Desire Walks On	2.5
Dio Strange Highways	2.5
Hawkwind It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous	2.5
Pearl Jam Vs.	4.0
Crowbar Crowbar	4.0
Immortal Pure Holocaust	4.0
Gamma Ray Insanity and Genius	3.5
Dismember Indecent & Obscene	4.0
Annihilator Set the World on Fire	3.0
Clutch Transnational Speedway League	3.5
The Divine Comedy Liberation	3.5
Burzum Det Som Engang Var	4.5
Deep Purple The Battle Rages On...	2.0
The Gathering Almost a Dance	2.5
Death Individual Thought Patterns	4.5
Diamond Head Death and Progress	2.5
Helloween Chameleon	2.5
Anthrax Sound of White Noise	4.0
At the Gates With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness	3.0
The Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?	4.5
Tool Undertow	4.0
My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans	4.5
Burzum Aske	4.5
Demilich Nespithe	4.0
Accept Objection Overruled	3.5
Cathedral The Ethereal Mirror	4.0
Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon	4.0
Coroner Grin	4.5
My Dying Bride The Thrash of Naked Limbs	4.0
Tarot To Live Forever	3.5
Porcupine Tree Up the Downstair	3.5
Absu Barathrum V.I.T.R.I.O.L.	4.0
Atheist Elements	4.5
Angra Angels Cry	4.5
Carcass Heartwork	5.0
Cynic Focus	5.0
Benediction Transcend the Rubicon	4.0
Discharge Shootin Up the World	3.0
Dissection The Somberlain	4.0
Entombed Wolverine Blues	4.0
Fudge Tunnel Creep Diets	3.5
Just as good as the band's debut, but I think this album has a few more hook-laden songs, namely on opener "Grey" and "Grit" amongst others. The band made an official video for "Grey", and it seems to match the gritty nature of the song quite well.
Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity	4.0
Hypocrisy Osculum Obscenum	3.5
Aerosmith Get a Grip	3.0

1992
Autopsy Acts of the Unspeakable	3.5
Alice in Chains Dirt	4.5
Extreme III Sides to Every Story	4.0
From start to finish, this is an undoubtedly ambitious concept album which, if not immediately successful, was for Extreme a career-defining piece of work. Split into three parts, the album explores and covers a lot of musical ground. The first part has the most in common with Extreme's earlier material (but is still very reliable given the band's hard-working musical ethic), the mid-section is experimental and proves Bettencourt is more than just a talented guitarist, and the last three songs verge on progressive rock territory. It's a big album to take in, and will require more than one listen to enhance the whole experience, but is certainly a rewarding listen by the end.
Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated	4.0
Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine	4.0
Roger Waters Amused to Death	3.5
Bolt Thrower The IVth Crusade	4.0
The Gathering Always	4.0
Exodus Force of Habit	3.0
Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky	5.0
At the Gates The Red in the Sky Is Ours	3.5
Danzig Danzig III: How The Gods Kill	4.5
Anathema The Crestfallen	4.0
Dream Theater Images and Words	5.0
Great White Psycho City	3.5
Immortal Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism	3.5
Suicidal Tendencies The Art of Rebellion	3.5
Carcass Tools of the Trade	4.0
Black Sabbath Dehumanizer	3.5
Deicide Legion	4.0
Faith No More Angel Dust	4.0
Hawkwind Electric Tepee	3.0
Gary Moore After Hours	3.5
GWAR America Must Be Destroyed	3.5
Def Leppard Adrenalize	3.5
Exhorder The Law	3.5
Burzum Burzum	4.5
Pantera Vulgar Display of Power	4.5
Godflesh Pure	4.0
Biohazard Urban Discipline	3.0
Impaled Nazarene Tol Cormpt Norz Norz Norz	3.5
Deceased Luck of the Corpse	3.5
Obituary The End Complete	4.0
Anvil Worth The Weight	2.5
Crowbar Obedience Thru Suffering	3.5
Gong Shapeshifter	3.0
Grave You'll Never See...	3.5
Anglagard Hybris	4.5
Hypocrisy Penetralia	3.5

1991
Cathedral Forest of Equilibrium	4.0
Genesis We Can't Dance	2.0
Iced Earth Night of the Stormrider	4.5
Fish Internal Exile	4.0
Death Human	5.0
Benediction The Grand Leveller	4.0
Confessor Condemned	4.0
Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II	4.0
Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I	4.0
Atheist Unquestionable Presence	4.5
Pearl Jam Ten	4.0
Solitude Aeturnus Into the Depths of Sorrow	4.0
Grave Into the Grave	3.5
Cannibal Corpse Butchered at Birth	4.5
Bathory Twilight of the Gods	4.0
Dismember Like an Ever Flowing Stream	4.5
Autopsy Mental Funeral	4.5
Helloween Pink Bubbles Go Ape	2.5
Great White Hooked	3.0
Alice Cooper Hey Stoopid	4.0
At the Gates Gardens of Grief	4.0
Gorguts Considered Dead	4.0
Desecrator Subconscious Release	4.0
Entombed Clandestine	4.0
Skyclad The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth	4.0
Camel Dust and Dreams	3.0
Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious	5.0
Coroner Mental Vortex	4.5
Darkthrone Soulside Journey	4.0
Corrosion of Conformity Blind	4.0
Bolt Thrower War Master	4.0
Cirith Ungol Paradise Lost	4.0
Fudge Tunnel Hate Songs In E Minor	3.5
Well, it's nice to discover another band from my city (Nottingham). Listening to this debut album by Fudge Tunnel, I can see a lot of similarities to Clucth's early days and Acid Bath, but this certainly brings the grit and the riff power. I believe the album really picks up during the second half, as the first few songs didn't grab my attention as much. I like the more metallic, extreme side of songs like "Soap and Water" and "Tweezers" and that cover of Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" is pretty ace. Only thing that dragged the overall quality down a bit for me was how the vocals sometimes seem a little too restrained (not as prominent as the instrumentation if I'm honest), but it's generally a really good sludgy piece of music.
The Obsessed Lunar Womb	3.5
Immolation Dawn of Possession	4.5

1990
Iced Earth Iced Earth	3.5
Deep Purple Slaves and Masters	3.0
Hawkwind Space Bandits	3.0
Annihilator Never, Neverland	4.5
Benediction Subconscious Terror	3.5
Anthrax Persistence of Time	4.0
Alice in Chains Facelift	4.0
Black Sabbath Tyr	3.5
Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life	3.5
Extreme Extreme II: Pornograffitti	4.0
GWAR Scumdogs of the Universe	3.5
Exhorder Slaughter in the Vatican	4.0
Biohazard Biohazard	3.5
The Black Crowes Shake Your Money Maker	4.0
Deicide Deicide	4.5
Entombed Left Hand Path	4.5
Danzig Danzig II: Lucifuge	4.5
Artillery By Inheritance	4.0
Dio Lock up the Wolves	3.0
Bruce Dickinson Tattooed Millionaire	3.5
Death Angel Act III	4.0
Fleetwood Mac Behind the Mask	2.5
Bathory Hammerheart	4.5
Gary Moore Still Got The Blues	4.0
Death Spiritual Healing	3.5
Atheist Piece of Time	4.5
Fields of the Nephilim Elizium	4.5
Such a hauntingly beautiful album, and it actually stays with you hours after you've stopped listening to the album itself. It's that memorable. Not just that, but McCoy's voice on here is incredible. Melodic overtones and gothic atmosphere make this one of the albums of the 90's for me.
Obituary Cause of Death	4.0
Fish Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors	4.0
The Exploited The Massacre	3.5
Winter Into Darkness	3.5
Destruction Cracked Brain	3.0
Eyehategod In the Name of Suffering	3.5
Forbidden Twisted into Form	4.0
Mekong Delta Dances of Death (and other Walking Shadows)	4.0
Exodus Impact Is Imminent	3.5

1989
Candlemass Tales of Creation	4.0
Enuff Z'Nuff Enuff Z'Nuff	3.5
D.R.I. Thrash Zone	3.5
Alice Cooper Trash	3.5
Carcass Symphonies of Sickness	4.0
Faith No More The Real Thing	4.0
Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite	3.5
Coroner No More Color	4.5
Golden Earring Keeper of the Flame	2.0
Autopsy Severed Survival	4.5
Annihilator Alice in Hell	4.5
Black Sabbath Headless Cross	3.0
The Cult Sonic Temple	4.5
Accept Eat the Heat	1.5
Exodus Fabulous Disaster	4.0
Obituary Slowly We Rot	4.0
Bolt Thrower Realm of Chaos	4.0
Repulsion Horrified	4.5
Death Angel Frolic Through the Park	4.0
Gary Moore After the War	3.5
Godflesh Streetcleaner	4.0
Great White ...Twice Shy	3.0

1988
Candlemass Ancient Dreams	4.0
Girlschool Take A Bite	2.5
The last of the 80s albums from Girlschool, which in all honesty is no better than the previous three records. Just as average, with a couple of decent, solid tunes ("Girls on Top", "Tear It Up") and the same annoying production.
Forbidden Forbidden Evil	4.0
Anthrax State of Euphoria	3.5
GWAR Hell-O	3.0
Fields of the Nephilim The Nephilim	3.5
Anvil Pound For Pound	2.5
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II	4.5
Carcass Reek of Putrefaction	3.0
Death Leprosy	4.0
Danzig Danzig	4.5
Blue Oyster Cult Imaginos	4.0
D.R.I. 4 of a Kind	4.0
Cinderella Long Cold Winter	4.0
Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime	4.0
Hawkwind The Xenon Codex	3.0
All About Eve All About Eve	4.0
Scorpions Savage Amusement	4.0
Bathory Blood Fire Death	5.0
Coroner Punishment for Decadence	4.5
Bolt Thrower In Battle There Is No Law!	3.5
Flotsam and Jetsam No Place for Disgrace	4.5

1987
Destruction Release from Agony	4.5
Black Sabbath The Eternal Idol	3.0
Candlemass Nightfall	4.5
Exodus Pleasures of the Flesh	3.5
Alice Cooper Raise Your Fist and Yell	2.5
Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan	3.0
Def Leppard Hysteria	4.0
Exumer Rising from the Sea	4.0
Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction	4.0
Great White Once Bitten....	2.5
Heart Bad Animals	2.5
Death Scream Bloody Gore	4.0
Fields of the Nephilim Dawnrazor	3.5
Death Angel The Ultra-Violence	4.5
Faith No More Introduce Yourself	3.0
The Exploited Death Before Dishonour	3.0
Fleetwood Mac Tango in the Night	3.5
The Cult Electric	4.5
Anthrax Among the Living	4.5
Gary Moore Wild Frontier	3.5
Coroner R.I.P.	4.0
D.R.I. Crossover	4.0
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I	4.5
Necrophagia Season of the Dead	4.0
Deep Purple The House of Blue Light	2.5
Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark	4.5
Artillery Terror Squad	4.0
Dio Dream Evil	3.5
English Dogs Where Legend Began	3.5
Destruction Mad Butcher	3.5
Helix Wild in the Streets	3.5
Flames of Hell Fire and Steel	3.5
Sarcofago I.N.R.I.	3.5
Grim Reaper Rock You To Hell	3.5
Swans Children of God	4.0
Celtic Frost Into the Pandemonium	4.0

1986
Dead Kennedys Bedtime for Democracy	4.5
Metal Church The Dark	4.0
Magnum Vigilante	3.0
Cinderella Night Songs	4.0
Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus	5.0
Genesis Invisible Touch	2.5
Accept Russian Roulette	2.5
Electric Light Orchestra Balance of Power	2.5
Black Sabbath Seventh Star	2.5
Alice Cooper Constrictor	3.0
Billy Idol Whiplash Smile	3.5
Exumer Possessed by Fire	3.5
Cirith Ungol One Foot in Hell	4.0
Destruction Eternal Devastation	4.0
Fates Warning Awaken the Guardian	4.0
Grave Digger War Games	3.0
Girlschool Nightmare at Maple Cross	2.5
A modest improvement over Running Wild, but like Play Dirty, still a very average album. The production is generally the one bad thing which drags this album's overall impression down for me, but there are some solid songs here-namely "Danger Sign" and "Back for More".

1985
Accept Metal Heart	4.0
Another great 80's album from Accept. They really do have a metal heart...
Helloween Walls of Jericho	4.0
Bathory The Return of the Darkness and Evil	4.0
Hawkwind The Chronicle of the Black Sword	3.5
Anthrax Spreading the Disease	4.0
Celtic Frost To Mega Therion	4.5
The Cult Love	4.0
The Clash Cut the Crap	2.0
Gary Moore Run for Cover	3.5
Dio Sacred Heart	3.5
Heart Heart	2.5
Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist	4.0
Exodus Bonded by Blood	4.0
Artillery Fear of Tomorrow	3.5
Girlschool Running Wild	2.0
It started with Play Dirty, the lack of any originality and vigour which made those first three albums so solid, but this seemed to have a full impact on Running Wild. The band at this point sounded really tired, bored with their own musical direction, and that's exactly why songs like "Do You Love Me?" (A Kiss cover but a really poor one nonetheless) and "I Want You Back", proving both lyrically and musically that the band were at a creative low. There are one or two decent tracks here-the title track and "Nowhere to Run" namely-but even they turn out to be average in the grand scheme of things. Certainly Girlschool's worst effort.
IQ The Wake	4.0
Corrosion of Conformity Animosity	3.5
Faith No More We Care a Lot	3.0
D.R.I. Dealing with It!	4.0
Destruction Infernal Overkill	4.0
Bulldozer The Day of Wrath	3.0
Aerosmith Done With Mirrors	3.5
Grim Reaper Fear No Evil	4.0

1984
Frank Zappa Thing-Fish	2.5
Deep Purple Perfect Strangers	4.0
Frank Zappa Francesco Zappa	3.0
The Cult Dreamtime	4.0
Destruction Sentence of Death	4.0
W.A.S.P. W.A.S.P.	4.5
Voivod War and Pain	3.0
Camel Stationary Traveller	3.0
Hanoi Rocks Two Steps From The Move	3.5
Helix Walkin' the Razor's Edge	3.0
Dio The Last in Line	4.0
Celtic Frost Morbid Tales	4.5
Corrosion of Conformity Eye For An Eye	3.0
Anthrax Fistful of Metal	3.0
Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith	3.5
Bathory Bathory	4.0
Billy Idol Rebel Yell	4.0
Cirith Ungol King of the Dead	4.5
Grave Digger Heavy Metal Breakdown	3.5
Golden Earring N.E.W.S.	2.5
Great White Great White	3.5

1983
Accept Balls to the Wall	4.5
Slayer Show No Mercy	4.0
Hellhammer Satanic Rites	4.0
Gary Moore Victims Of The Future	4.0
Ian Anderson Walk into Light	2.0
Alice Cooper DaDa	3.5
Blue Oyster Cult The Revölution by Night	2.5
Genesis Genesis	3.0
Girlschool Play Dirty	2.5
This is basically Girlschool at their most average, and what the band played on those first few great albums wasn't particularly special either (just really solid and well performed), so Play Dirty as a whole simply seems like a bit of a rehash of all the band's flaws. The 80s glam influence is undeniable (particular in regards to the production), but there are some good moments here, notably 'Breaking All the Rules' and the heavier riff moments of 'Burning in the Heat'. Aside from that, this represents the band going through the motions.
Heart Passionworks	3.0
Black Sabbath Born Again	1.5
Gary Moore Dirty Fingers	4.0
Twisted Sister You Can't Stop Rock 'n' Roll	4.0
Dio Holy Diver	4.5
Rudimentary Peni Death Church	4.0
Hanoi Rocks Back to Mystery City	3.5
Anvil Forged in Fire	4.0
Savatage Sirens	4.0
Frank Zappa The Man from Utopia	3.0
Def Leppard Pyromania	4.0
Bauhaus Burning from the Inside	4.0
Battleaxe Burn This Town	3.5
Suicidal Tendencies Suicidal Tendencies	4.0
D.R.I. Dirty Rotten	4.0
Bacamarte Depois Do Fim	4.0
Grim Reaper See You In Hell	3.5

1982
Hawkwind Choose Your Masques	3.0
Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters	4.5
Accept Restless and Wild	4.5
Alice Cooper Zipper Catches Skin	2.5
Diamond Head Borrowed Time	4.0
Twisted Sister Under The Blade	4.0
Gary Moore Corridors Of Power	3.5
Cocteau Twins Garlands	3.5
Aerosmith Rock in a Hard Place	2.0
Golden Earring Cut	3.0
Billy Idol Billy Idol	4.0
Fleetwood Mac Mirage	3.0
Blondie The Hunter	2.5
Heart Private Audition	3.0
Girlschool Screaming Blue Murder	3.5
By far the stand-out highlights of this album are the title track and "Hellrazor", but the album in general does seem to be a little more 'diverse'. Not so much that the band are taking a deliberate turn in the opposite musical direction, but it's somewhat easier to identify the NWOBHM-influenced songs from the punkier, rockier tunes like "Take it from Me" and "It Turns Your Head Around". I actually like the vocals here for the most part, though the nasally delivery on "Hellrazor" is pretty annoying. All in all, another solid 80s output from Girlschool.
Camel The Single Factor	2.0
Anvil Metal on Metal	4.5
Hanoi Rocks Oriental Beat	3.5
The Exploited Troops of Tomorrow	3.5
Bauhaus The Sky's Gone Out	4.5
The Clash Combat Rock	3.0
Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing	4.5
Hawkwind Church of Hawkwind	2.0

1981
Dead Kennedys In God We Trust, Inc.	4.0
Grand Funk Railroad Grand Funk Lives	3.5
Black Sabbath Mob Rules	4.0
Genesis Abacab	2.5
Alice Cooper Special Forces	3.0
Frank Zappa You Are What You Is	3.5
Def Leppard High 'N' Dry	3.5
Killing Joke What's THIS For...!	3.5
Blue Oyster Cult Fire of Unknown Origin	4.0
Anvil Hard 'n' Heavy	4.0
Hanoi Rocks Bangkok Shocks,Saigon Shakes,Hanoi Rocks	4.0
Girlschool Hit And Run	3.5
All in all on par with the band's debut, though I prefer the vocal delivery of this album and the instrumental performance of Demolition. Nonetheless, there's still some really decent hard rock/metal riffage going on here, specifically in songs like the title track and "The Hunter".
Accept Breaker	3.5
The Exploited Punks Not Dead	3.5
Bauhaus Mask	4.0
Camel Nude	4.0
Electric Light Orchestra Time	4.5
Dun (FRA1) Eros	5.0

1980
The Clash Sandinista!	3.0
Blondie Autoamerican	3.0
Hawkwind Levitation	4.5
Diamond Head Lightning to the Nations	4.5
Bauhaus In the Flat Field	4.0
Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables	4.5
Blue Oyster Cult Cultösaurus Erectus	4.0
Accept I'm a Rebel	3.0
Gary Moore G-Force	3.5
Saxon Wheels of Steel	4.0
Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell	4.0
Alice Cooper Flush The Fashion	2.5
Cirith Ungol Frost and Fire	3.5
Genesis Duke	3.0
Van Halen Women and Children First	3.5
Angel Witch Angel Witch	4.5
Heart Bebe Le Strange	3.5
Def Leppard On Through the Night	3.5
Gentle Giant Civilian	3.0
Golden Earring Prisoner of the Night	3.5
Girlschool Demolition	3.5

1979
The Clash London Calling	5.0
Pink Floyd The Wall	4.5
Aerosmith Night in the Ruts	3.0
Fleetwood Mac Tusk	3.5
Blondie Eat to the Beat	4.0
The Enid Six Pieces	4.0
Frank Zappa Joe's Garage	4.0
Bauhaus Bela Lugosi's Dead	4.0
AC/DC Highway To Hell	4.0
Hawkwind PXR5	3.0
Gong Downwind	3.5
The Enid Touch Me	3.5
Frank Zappa Sleep Dirt	3.0
Accept Accept	2.0
Golden Earring No Promises...No Debts	2.5

1978
Heart Dog & Butterfly	3.0
Hawkwind 25 Years On	3.5
Gary Moore Back On The Streets	3.5
Gentle Giant Giant for a Day	2.0
Black Sabbath Never Say Die!	2.5
Blondie Parallel Lines	4.5
Camel Breathless	4.0
Frank Zappa Studio Tan	3.0
Heart Magazine	3.0
Genesis ...And Then There Were Three...	3.5
Gong Expresso II	4.0
Van Halen Van Halen	4.5
Blondie Plastic Letters	4.0
Alice Cooper From the Inside	3.0
Boston Don't Look Back	4.0
Golden Earring Grab It for a Second	3.0
Renaissance A Song for All Seasons	4.0

1977
The Enid Aerie Faerie Nonsense	4.0
Blue Oyster Cult Spectres	4.0
Electric Light Orchestra Out of the Blue	4.0
Camel Rain Dances	4.0
Gentle Giant The Missing Piece	3.0
Hawkwind Quark, Strangeness and Charm	4.0
Heart Little Queen	3.5
Alice Cooper Lace and Whiskey	3.0
The Clash The Clash	4.0
AC/DC Let There Be Rock	4.0
Fleetwood Mac Rumours	4.0
Daevid Allen Now is the happiest time of your life	3.5
Aerosmith Draw the Line	4.0
Locanda Delle Fate Forse le Lucciole non si Amano piu	4.0
George Thorogood and the Destroyers George Thorogood and the Destroyers	4.0
Guruh Gipsy Guruh Gipsy	3.5

1976
Genesis Wind & Wuthering	3.5
Blondie Blondie	4.0
The Enid In The Region of the Summer Stars	4.5
Van der Graaf Generator World Record	4.0
Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record	4.0
Frank Zappa Zoot Allures	3.5
Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy	3.0
AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap	4.0
Boston Boston	4.0
Grand Funk Railroad Good Singin', Good Playin'	3.5
Hawkwind Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music	3.5
Not their best, but i still enjoy most of the songs here. Lighter than what they did before though if im honest.
Alice Cooper Alice Cooper Goes to Hell	3.0
Jon Anderson Olias Of Sunhillow	3.5
Golden Earring Contraband	4.0
Blue Oyster Cult Agents of Fortune	4.0
AC/DC High Voltage	4.0
Aerosmith Rocks	4.0
Gentle Giant Interview	3.5
Camel Moonmadness	5.0
Heart Dreamboat Annie	4.0
Genesis A Trick of the Tail	4.0
Return to Forever Romantic Warrior	4.5
Daevid Allen Good Morning!	4.0
Steeleye Span Rocket Cottage	3.5
Eagles Hotel California	3.5
Golden Earring To the Hilt	3.5
Gong Gazeuse! (Expresso)	4.0
Grand Funk Railroad Born To Die	3.0

1975
Mike Oldfield Ommadawn	4.0
Deep Purple Come Taste the Band	4.0
Focus Mother Focus	3.0
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here	5.0
Electric Light Orchestra Face the Music	4.0
Gentle Giant Free Hand	4.0
Black Sabbath Sabotage	3.5
Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac	4.0
Hawkwind Warrior on the Edge of Time	4.5
Aerosmith Toys in the Attic	4.5
Camel The Snow Goose	4.0
Alice Cooper Welcome To My Nightmare	4.0
Renaissance Scheherazade and Other Stories	4.0
Manfred Mann's Earth Band Nightingales & Bombers	3.5
Napoli Centrale Napoli Centrale	3.0
Steely Dan Katy Lied	3.5
Gong Shamal	4.0

1974
Deep Purple Stormbringer	3.5
Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway	5.0
Fleetwood Mac Heroes Are Hard to Find	3.0
Hawkwind Hall of the Mountain Grill	4.5
Electric Light Orchestra Eldorado	4.0
Blue Oyster Cult Secret Treaties	4.5
Focus Hamburger Concerto	4.5
Golden Earring Switch	3.5
Aerosmith Get Your Wings	4.0
Camel Mirage	5.0
Robin Trower Bridge of Sighs	3.5
Deep Purple Burn	4.0
Gong You	4.5
Brainticket Celestial Ocean	1.5
Gentle Giant The Power and the Glory	4.0
Eagles On The Border	3.5
Gryphon Red Queen To Gryphon Three	4.0

1973
Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath	4.0
Gong Angel's Egg	4.0
Alice Cooper Muscle of Love	2.5
Emerson Lake and Palmer Brain Salad Surgery	4.5
Fleetwood Mac Mystery to Me	3.5
Genesis Selling England by the Pound	4.5
Caravan For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night	4.0
Billy Cobham Spectrum	4.0
Gentle Giant In a Glass House	5.0
Electric Light Orchestra On the Third Day	4.0
ZZ Top Tres Hombres	4.0
Golden Earring Moontan	4.0
Gary Moore Grinding Stone	3.0
Fleetwood Mac Penguin	3.0
Camel Camel	4.0
Blue Oyster Cult Tyranny and Mutation	4.5
Aerosmith Aerosmith	4.0
Deep Purple Who Do We Think We Are	3.0
Free Heartbreaker	3.5
The Mothers of Invention Over-Nite Sensation	4.0
Grand Funk Railroad We're An American Band	4.0
Gong Flying Teapot	4.0
Campo Di Marte Campo Di Marte	3.5
Area Arbeit Macht Frei	4.0
Akritas Akritas	3.5

1972
Frank Zappa The Grand Wazoo	4.0
Deep Purple Machine Head	5.0
Gentle Giant Octopus	4.5
Hawkwind Doremi Fasol Latido	4.5
Focus Focus 3	4.5
The Groundhogs Hogwash	4.5
Alice Cooper School's Out	3.5
Genesis Foxtrot	4.5
Black Sabbath Vol. 4	4.0
Grand Funk Railroad Phoenix	4.0
Emerson Lake and Palmer Trilogy	4.0
Frank Zappa Waka/Jawaka	4.0
Free Free at Last	3.0
Gentle Giant Three Friends	4.0
Fleetwood Mac Bare Trees	3.5
Electric Light Orchestra The Electric Light Orchestra	4.0
The Groundhogs Who Will Save the World? The Mighty Groundhogs	4.0
Blue Oyster Cult Blue Öyster Cult	4.5
Eagles Eagles	3.5
Nektar A Tab in the Ocean	3.5
Ash Ra Tempel Schwingungen	3.5
Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick	5.0

1971
Aphrodite's Child 666	3.5
Genesis Nursery Cryme	4.0
Alice Cooper Killer	4.5
The Doors Other Voices	2.5
Focus Focus II	4.5
Fleetwood Mac Future Games	3.5
Deep Purple Fireball	3.5
Grand Funk Railroad E Pluribus Funk	4.0
Black Sabbath Master of Reality	5.0
Gentle Giant Acquiring the Taste	5.0
Emerson Lake and Palmer Tarkus	4.5
The Doors L.A. Woman	3.5
Grand Funk Railroad Survival	4.0
The Groundhogs Split	4.0
Carole King Tapestry	3.5
Yes The Yes Album	4.0
UFO UFO 2: Flying	3.0
Daevid Allen Bananamoon	3.5
ZZ Top ZZ Top's First Album	4.0
Alice Cooper Love It To Death	4.0
Golden Earring Seven Tears	3.5
Jan Dukes de Grey Mice and Rats in the Loft	3.5
Gong Camembert Electrique	3.5
Gong Continental Circus	3.0
Birth Control Operation	3.5
Hawkwind In Search of Space	4.0
Lucifer Black Mass	4.0

1970
Gentle Giant Gentle Giant	4.0
Amon Duul II Yeti	4.0
Genesis Trespass	3.5
Frank Zappa Chunga's Revenge	3.5
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III	4.0
UFO UFO 1	3.5
Emerson Lake and Palmer Emerson, Lake & Palmer	4.5
Black Sabbath Paranoid	5.0
Fleetwood Mac Kiln House	3.5
Hawkwind Hawkwind	3.5
Yes Time and a Word	3.5
Free Fire and Water	4.0
Grand Funk Railroad Closer To Home	4.0
Deep Purple Deep Purple In Rock	4.5
The Beatles Let It Be	4.0
Alice Cooper Easy Action	3.0
Miles Davis Bitches Brew	4.0
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	4.5
The Doors Morrison Hotel	4.0
The Mothers of Invention Weasels Ripped My Flesh	3.5
Gong Magick Brother	2.5
Traffic Sound Traffic Sound	3.5

1969
Grand Funk Railroad Grand Funk	4.0
Golden Earring Eight Miles High	4.0
Free Free	3.0
The Beatles Abbey Road	5.0
Fleetwood Mac Then Play On	3.5
Grand Funk Railroad On Time	4.0
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica	3.5
The Doors The Soft Parade	3.0
Deep Purple Deep Purple	4.0
Free Tons of Sobs	4.0
Genesis From Genesis to Revelation	2.5
Coven Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls	3.5
Alice Cooper Pretties For You	3.5
Frank Zappa Hot Rats	4.5
Moondog Moondog	4.5
Golden Earring On the Double	3.0

1968
Deep Purple The Book of Taliesyn	3.5
Deep Purple Shades of Deep Purple	4.0
The Doors Waiting for the Sun	3.5
Cream Wheels of Fire	4.0
Golden Earring Miracle Mirror	3.0
Jethro Tull This Was	3.5

1967
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour	4.5
The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed	4.0
The Doors Strange Days	5.0
Frank Zappa Lumpy Gravy Primordial	2.5
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	4.5
Golden Earring Winter-Harvest	2.5
The Doors The Doors	5.0
Cream Disraeli Gears	4.0

1966
Cream Fresh Cream	4.5
The Beatles Revolver	4.0

1965
The Beatles Rubber Soul	4.0
Golden Earring Just Earrings	2.5

1964
The Beatles Beatles for Sale	4.0
The Beatles A Hard Day's Night	4.0

1963
The Beatles With the Beatles	4.0
The Beatles Please Please Me	4.0

1959
Miles Davis Kind of Blue	4.0

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