| 2015 |
| John Williams Star Wars: The Force Awakens | 4.5 |
| Yellow Eyes Sick With Bloom | 4.0 |
| Kid Cudi Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven | 1.0 |
| Tombstones Vargariis | 3.5 |
| this be some dope shit fam |
| SikTh Opacities | 3.5 |
| Batushka Litourgiya | 4.0 |
| Moving Mountains/Prawn Split | 4.0 |
| Our Oceans Our Oceans | 4.0 |
| Intronaut The Direction of Last Things | 4.5 |
| Falling Up Falling Up | 4.5 |
| Oh Hiroshima In Silence We Yearn | 3.5 |
| Radical Face The Bastards: Volume Four | 4.0 |
| We.Own.The.Sky Earths Collide | 4.0 |
| solid af instrumental heavy post-rock jams. think less Russian Circles and more Toundra. |
| Radical Face The Family Tree: The Bastards | 4.5 |
| A lot of these songs are better than the songs that made the Family Tree LPs. Take that as you will. 'Nightclothes' is the best thing the man has ever written. |
| Foxing Dealer | 3.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Cocksure | 3.5 |
| All Them Witches Dying Surfer Meets His Maker | 4.0 |
| Frontierer Orange Mathematics | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris Soul Sphere | 3.5 |
| Jon Foreman The Wonderlands: Dawn | 4.0 |
| nothing,nowhere. Bummer | 3.0 |
| Kauan Sorni Nai | 3.5 |
| Abigail Williams The Accuser | 3.5 |
| Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back | 4.0 |
| Cult Leader Lightless Walk | 4.0 |
| So Hideous Laurestine | 4.0 |
| This Gift Is A Curse All Hail The Swinelord | 4.0 |
| The Oh Hellos Dear Wormwood | 4.5 |
| oh my god flannel hipster jesus duo thank you for #blessing us with this album i love you |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal | 4.5 |
| Atena Shades Of Black Won't Bring Her Back | 3.5 |
| it's not complex or anything but it slaps |
| City and Colour If I Should Go Before You | 4.0 |
| Loma Prieta Self Portrait | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Meow the Jewels | 2.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Better Nature | 4.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness | 4.0 |
| Australasia Notturno | 3.5 |
| Drake and Future What a Time to Be Alive | 3.0 |
| Empyrium The Mill | 3.5 |
| Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Exile | 4.5 |
| so dope ugh, like a less monotonous Hexis (not that Hexis aren't awesome) |
| Johann Johannsson Sicario OST | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit | 3.0 |
| The Drowned God The Ebony Void | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven | 3.5 |
| Nechochwen Heart of Akamon | 3.5 |
| Jon Foreman The Wonderlands: Darkness | 3.5 |
| Mgla Exercises in Futility | 4.0 |
| Travis Scott Rodeo | 4.5 |
| Caspian Dust and Disquiet | 5.0 |
| Soilwork The Ride Majestic | 4.0 |
| Foals What Went Down | 4.0 |
| Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster Wires/Dream\Wires | 4.5 |
| Disturbed Immortalized | 1.5 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion | 4.0 |
| Rivers of Nihil Monarchy | 4.0 |
| pretty much Fallujah without the super obnoxious production |
| ourfathers. Movements | 4.0 |
| Ragana Wash Away | 3.5 |
| Thurm Thurm | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner Positive Songs for Negative People | 4.0 |
| Enabler Fail to Feel Safe | 4.0 |
| Jesus Piece Jesus Piece | 3.5 |
| Shroud of the Heretic Unorthodox Equilibrium | 4.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Death To New Years | 3.5 |
| Hope Drone Cloak of Ash | 4.0 |
| seriously though, how dope is that artwork? |
| We Lost the Sea Departure Songs | 4.5 |
| Family and Friends XOXO | 3.0 |
| Make The Golden Veil | 3.5 |
| Jason Isbell Something More Than Free | 4.0 |
| Jon Foreman The Wonderlands: Shadows | 4.0 |
| Envy Atheist's Cornea | 4.0 |
| Rosetta Quintessential Ephemera | 3.5 |
| takes a big steaming dump on the last one |
| Vince Staples Summertime '06 | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places | 4.0 |
| Kronos Arisen New Era | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn | 3.5 |
| Gungor One Wild Life: Soul | 3.5 |
| Tempest (Can) Tempest | 4.5 |
| Iselia Lost Star | 3.0 |
| Cult Leader Useless Animal | 4.0 |
| Sorority Noise Joy, Departed | 4.0 |
| Vattnet Settler | 4.0 |
| well holy shit ain't this an improvement |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses | 4.5 |
| Tow'rs The Great Minimum | 3.0 |
| Great moments, but there's just something... off about the songwriting. Like, I enjoy it while I'm listening to it, but as soon as the album's done I have a hard time remembering much about it. Not bad, but not nearly as great as the S/T. |
| C R O W N Natron | 4.0 |
| The Hunts Those Younger Days | 4.0 |
| Fantastic indie folk jams in the vein of The Oh Hellos, The Head and the Heart, and Radical Face. Highly recommended. |
| Of Monsters and Men Beneath the Skin | 4.5 |
| Archivist Archivist | 4.0 |
| Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | 3.0 |
| Algiers Algiers | 4.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Grievances | 4.0 |
| There aren't many bands that can switch between Dillinger-esque mathcore, strings-heavy post-rock, post-hardcore, electronic, and Altar of Plagues-ish post-black without sounding awkward and unfocused as all shit. In fact, Rolo Tomassi are the *only* band I've ever heard who can pull this off. |
| Jon Foreman The Wonderlands: Sunlight | 4.5 |
| thank you based foreman |
| Feared Synder | 3.5 |
| The Nepalese Temple Ball Arbor | 4.0 |
holy fucking shit
EDIT: ok it's growing off me a bit but it's still awesome |
| Coffinfish I Am Providence | 4.0 |
| Haste the Day Coward | 4.0 |
| Will Haven Open The Mind To Discomfort | 4.0 |
| damn son them's some dank-ass riffs |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Dark Bird Is Home | 4.5 |
| Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed | 4.0 |
| Eigenlicht Sacral Regicide | 3.0 |
| Steve Von Till A Life Unto Itself | 4.0 |
| Chris Stapleton Traveller | 4.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Heirs | 4.0 |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision | 4.0 |
| Sorrow Plagues An Eternity Of Solitude | 4.0 |
| Boris Asia | 3.0 |
| Tidings Death Leaves a Bright Trail | 3.5 |
| General Grievous Oppression | 3.5 |
| Rorcal La Femme sans Tete | 4.0 |
| surprise Rorcal song/album: can I get a hell yeah |
| Braveyoung No Peace In This Mind | 4.0 |
| Antlers (DE) A Gaze Into the Abyss | 3.5 |
| We Are Oceans Woodsmoke | 4.0 |
| Phantom Winter CVLT | 4.0 |
| Think Omega Massif with vocals. I mean, that's almost literally what this band is, both with regards to their membership and their sound. Given that I love Omega Massif, then, this is a pretty easy thing for me to get pretty enthusiastic about. |
| Alabama Shakes Sound & Color | 4.0 |
| Dustin Kensrue Carry the Fire | 4.0 |
| Khors Night Falls Onto the Fronts of Ours | 3.0 |
| Drudkh A Furrow Cut Short | 3.5 |
| Kontinuum Kyrr | 3.5 |
| Irreversible Irreversible | 4.0 |
| It's sad that this is their final album, as they've been getting better with each subsequent release and this one continues that trend. It's probably the best post-metal I've heard out of 2015 so far. 'Fade' and 'Absent Help' are especially brilliant. |
| Thou Only You Deserve Conceit | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die Salem | 4.0 |
| Vidian Transgressing the Horizon | 4.0 |
| Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Yield to Despair | 4.5 |
| how the fuck did I not know about this |
| Il'Ithil Ia'Winde | 3.5 |
| Outre Ghost Chants | 4.0 |
| Bosse-de-Nage All Fours | 4.5 |
| holy fucking shit, these dudes' drummer is absolutely fantastic. the music is pretty great too, I guess |
| Akhlys The Dreaming I | 4.0 |
| In Cauda Venenum In Cauda Venenum | 3.5 |
| Botanist Hammer of Botany | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Beat the Champ | 3.5 |
| Wilderun Sleep at the Edge of the Earth | 3.5 |
| Minsk The Crash and the Draw | 4.0 |
| Lord Huron Strange Trails | 4.0 |
| Sulphur Aeon Gateway to the Antisphere | 4.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Sarabande to Nihil | 3.0 |
| Thurisaz The Pulse of Mourning | 3.5 |
| Ufomammut Ecate | 4.0 |
| Ad Nauseam Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' | 4.5 |
| we got a bunch of fucking whiners here |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 5.0 |
| Red Apollo Altruist | 3.5 |
| Abominor Opus: Decay | 3.5 |
| El Altar Del Holocausto S H ∃ | 2.5 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Stellar | 4.0 |
| truly a stellar album har de har har el oh el |
| Downfall of Nur Umbras de Barbagia | 4.5 |
| Inventions Maze Of Woods | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 5.0 |
| Ghost Bath Moonlover | 3.5 |
| Three Steps To The Ocean Migration Light | 4.0 |
| Yanos Omega | 3.5 |
| Sannhet Revisionist | 3.5 |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted | 4.5 |
| All the Empires of the World Remains | 3.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Lore | 4.0 |
| A Forest of Stars Beware the Sword You Cannot See | 3.5 |
| Glaciation Sur les Falaises de Marbre | 3.5 |
| Au-Dessus Au-Dessus | 4.0 |
| Pelican The Cliff | 3.0 |
| Red (USA) Of Beauty and Rage | 4.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children The Long Goodbye | 3.5 |
| Trna Pattern Of Infinity | 3.5 |
| Ahamkara The Embers Of The Stars | 4.0 |
| Izah Sistere | 4.0 |
| Ethereal Shroud They Became the Falling Ash | 4.5 |
| Owl Cries Eyes of Paraffin Wax | 3.5 |
| Drake If You're Reading This It's Too Late | 4.0 |
| Tides Last Rites | 3.5 |
| Blacklisted When People Grow, People Go | 3.5 |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear | 4.5 |
| Shakey Graves Nobody's Fool | 3.0 |
| Misthyrming Söngvar elds og óreiðu | 4.5 |
| Haethen Shaped By Aeolian Winds | 3.5 |
| Geologist reporting in to tell you all that the album's title is dumb: it's basically like calling this "Shaped by Windy Winds." |
| Axis of Light L'appel du vide | 4.0 |
| SUMAC The Deal | 4.0 |
| Awake In Sleep Heights | 3.0 |
| Spook the Horses Rainmaker | 4.0 |
| Earthmass Collapse | 4.5 |
| Vanessa Van Basten Disintegration | 3.5 |
| Callisto Secret Youth | 4.0 |
| A Swarm of the Sun The Rifts | 4.0 |
| Witchrist Vritra | 3.5 |
| Kalpa (GR) Sequences* | 4.0 |
| Hollow Wood Wallflower | 3.5 |
| The Body and Thou You, Whom I Have Always Hated | 4.5 |
| Toundra IV | 4.0 |
| Exgenesis Aphotic Veil | 3.5 |
| Finsterforst Mach Dich Frei | 3.5 |
| I, Valiance The Reject of Humanity | 3.5 |
| Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo and Youth | 3.5 |
| Joey Badass B4.DA.$$ | 4.0 |
| Arcane Known/Learned | 4.5 |
| Sarin (CAN) Burial Dream | 3.5 |
| This is literally Isis. The opening track is literally So Did We. The harsh vocals are literally Aaron Turner. rNot to say it isn't a good album, though. |
| Tesa G H O S T | 4.0 |
| Hive Destruction Hive Destruction | 4.0 |
| Through the Dark, Brown Deserts goes so fucking hard people, I mean damn son |
| Mechina Acheron | 4.0 |
| The Devil and the Almighty Blues The Devil and the Almighty Blues | 4.0 |
| 2013 |
| Grown Below The Other Sight | 4.0 |
| Fleshworld Like we're all equal again | 4.0 |
| After the Burial Wolves Within | 3.5 |
| My Epic Behold | 4.0 |
| Everything in Slow Motion Phoenix | 4.0 |
| The Oh Hellos The Oh Hellos' Family Christmas Album | 5.0 |
| without a doubt the best piece of Christmas music I've ever heard. good enough to jam out of season. |
| Cult Of Fire Ascetic Meditation Of Death | 4.0 |
| Year of No Light Tocsin | 4.0 |
| I was pretty lukewarm on this at first tbh, but it really gets better with time. I just came back to it for the first time in months, and it's really blowing me away. I fucking love the atmosphere that the dual-drummer setup lends the music. |
| Bossk Pick Up Artist/Albatross | 4.0 |
| Lumbar The First And Last Days Of Unwelcome | 4.5 |
| There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright | 5.0 |
| Celeste Animale(s) | 4.0 |
| Horus Attis | 4.5 |
| https://soundcloud.com/andy-patterson-3/horus-attis --- Full album coming in 2015. |
| Obscure Sphinx Void Mother | 4.0 |
| State Faults Resonate/Desperate | 4.5 |
| Caspian Hymn For The Greatest Generation | 4.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love | 4.0 |
| Impending Doom Death Will Reign | 3.5 |
| this is straight up nasty |
| All Them Witches Lightning at the Door | 4.5 |
| Falkenbach Asa | 4.0 |
| East of the Wall Redaction Artifacts | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Volition | 4.0 |
| A Lot Like Birds No Place | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Memorial | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 2.5 |
| Blindead Absence | 3.0 |
| Radical Face The Family Tree: The Branches | 3.5 |
| Pelican Forever Becoming | 3.5 |
| well ain't this a pleasant god damned surprise |
| Alter Bridge Fortress | 4.0 |
| I think you mean MYLES ahead of ABIII |
| Radical Face The Bastards: Volume Two | 4.0 |
| PUP PUP | 4.0 |
| Dustin Kensrue The Water and the Blood | 3.5 |
| If you (understandably) can't deal with overtly Christian lyrics, you probably will not enjoy this. If you grew up with CCM-ish music, however - even if you despise the never ending pit of stagnancy, sterility, and inoffensiveness that is the worship music scene - you are in for what is the best worship album since the David Crowder Band's "A Collision," and this may even be better than that. |
| Pray For Teeth From The Dry Edge Of The Shore | 3.5 |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 3.5 |
| Drake Nothing Was the Same | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By | 4.0 |
| Fyrnask Eldir Nótt | 4.0 |
| dangerkids collapse | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal II | 4.0 |
| Combine Vertikal (including The Flow Reversed) and Vertikal II into the single album they were meant to act as, bookended with the acoustic version of Passing Through, and you have yourself Cult of Luna's best album since SatH. |
| Ulcerate Vermis | 4.5 |
| 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 5.0 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.0 |
| SubRosa (US) More Constant Than The Gods | 4.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut Origins | 3.5 |
| 65daysofstatic Wild Light | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Subsume | 4.0 |
| Patrons Of The Rotting Gate The Rose Coil | 4.0 |
| Moving Mountains Moving Mountains | 4.0 |
| Ef Ceremonies | 4.0 |
| this is absolutely fantastic |
| Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty | 3.5 |
| Vattnet Sky Swallower | 3.5 |
| Volcano Choir Repave | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Fever Hunting | 4.0 |
| Mitochondrion Antinumerology | 4.0 |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 4.5 |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo | 4.5 |
| http://grahamkozak.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/whoa-neo01.jpg |
| Vali Skogslandskap | 4.5 |
| O'Brother Disillusion | 4.0 |
| Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros | 4.0 |
| This behemoth is, without a doubt, *the* hardcore album of 2013. |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) White Lighter | 4.0 |
| Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X | 4.0 |
| Rosetta The Anaesthete | 2.5 |
| god damn it I am not cool with this. |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers | 4.0 |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Listen to the Color | 3.0 |
| Sed Non Satiata Mappo | 4.0 |
| Geology North | 4.0 |
| Locktender Kafka | 4.0 |
| Counterparts The Difference Between Hell and Home | 3.5 |
| As someone who gets annoyed every time a bunch of snobby assholes label something as overrated just because a bunch of users are really digging it, holy *shit*, are you people ever overrating this. |
| Misery Signals Absent Light | 4.0 |
| A Glimmer of Hope would have been their best song if they'd extended it. |
| Puig Destroyer Puig Destroyer EP | 4.0 |
| Yellow Eyes Hammer of Night | 3.5 |
| Damascus Heights | 3.5 |
| Gregory Alan Isakov The Weatherman | 4.5 |
| Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée... | 5.0 |
| Sannhet Known Flood | 3.5 |
| Lustmord The Word As Power | 4.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper The Titan | 4.0 |
| the last two tracks are really fucking awesome |
| Astronoid Stargazer | 4.0 |
| Friends In America What It Is To Be | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 4.0 |
| Palms Palms | 2.5 |
| this is straight up sexy rEDIT: and really disappointing |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods | 3.0 |
| does this m/ |
| Mouth Of The Architect Dawning | 3.5 |
| Sun Devoured Earth A Static Life | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 4.0 |
| Strike to Survive Yesterday's News | 4.0 |
| Night Verses Lift Your Existence | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 4.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 4.0 |
| All the Empires of the World Black Hand Meditation | 3.5 |
I've never really appreciated how great of a guitarist the guy in this band is, but if I could one day play
the acoustic half as well as he does on this EP I'll be ecstatic. |
| Hans Zimmer Man of Steel | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit The Migration | 4.0 |
| Sturgill Simpson High Top Mountain | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.5 |
| Jason Isbell Southeastern | 4.5 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 3.5 |
| Summoning Old Mornings Dawn | 3.0 |
| I don't get it |
| Rogue Wave Nightingale Floors | 3.0 |
| Wedrujacy Wiatr Tam, Gdzie Miesiac Oplakuje Swit | 4.0 |
| Full of Hell Rudiments of Mutilation | 3.5 |
| Panopticon/Vestiges Split | 3.5 |
| Black Sheep Wall It Begins Again | 3.5 |
| After the wholly unspectacular No Matter Where it Ends, BSW show us that they have still fucking got it with this wonderful, skull-crushing EP. |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 3.5 |
| Lo-Pro Disintegration Effect | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation | 4.5 |
| Enemies Embark Embrace | 3.5 |
| Black Tongue Falsifier | 3.5 |
| hevy |
| Nosound Afterthoughts | 4.0 |
| The Body Master, We Perish | 3.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Veto | 4.0 |
| Over The Ocean Be Given to the Soil | 4.0 |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury | 5.0 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 4.0 |
| The Appleseed Cast Illumination Ritual | 3.5 |
| Woe Withdrawal | 3.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 4.5 |
| Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart | 4.0 |
| Vallendusk Black Clouds Gathering | 3.5 |
| Saor Roots | 4.5 |
| The Haxan Cloak Excavation | 4.0 |
| Csejthe Reminiscence | 4.0 |
| All the Empires of the World CVRSVS | 3.5 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 4.0 |
| Fallujah Nomadic | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent | 4.0 |
| Zozobra Savage Masters | 4.0 |
| Wardruna Runaljod - Yggdrasil | 4.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 3.5 |
| Ash Borer Bloodlands | 4.0 |
| The improved songwriting and atmosphere of Cold of Ages without the slightly annoying production. This could stack up to be the best thing Ash Borer have put out to date. |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.0 |
| holy god in heaven, this rips |
| Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Regarde les Hommes Tomber | 3.5 |
| Kokomo Kokomo | 4.0 |
| Hierophant (IT) Great Mother: Holy Monster | 3.5 |
| Barrow Though I'm Alone | 4.0 |
| Kvelertak Meir | 4.0 |
| Leucosis Leucosis | 4.0 |
| Benea Reach Possession | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Brennisteinn | 3.5 |
| Evergreen Refuge Weminuchia | 2.5 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures | 3.5 |
| This one is a bit less structured than the other two: it just sounds like a bunch of dudes jamming in a room and having a fucking awesome time with it. |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations | 3.5 |
| Inter Arma Sky Burial | 4.0 |
| Daughter If You Leave | 3.5 |
| Old Gray An Autobiography | 4.0 |
| holy fucking shit this is like the best thing ever |
| Jurassic Penguin Home | 3.0 |
| Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Failed by Man and Machine | 4.0 |
| Entropia (PL) Vesper | 4.0 |
| It isn't often that anyone gets the atmospheric black metal/post-metal/post-rock/shoegaze combo right but on the rare occasion that it does hapen it is truly beautiful to behold. Imagine a spacier Altar of Plagues with the occasional dropped-B sludge groove. It works: trust me. |
| Rorcal Vilagvege | 4.5 |
| Basically, this is the polar opposite of Heliogabulus in terms of speed, conciseness, and aggression. It's also the most obscenely dark, crushing, and apocalyptic album of 2013 so far, and it's the most bleak thing I've heard in years. I mean, seriously: I don't know what the band were going through when they wrote this but I'm assuming it was some hella nasty shit. |
| Of Solitude and Solemn Of Solitude and Solemn | 4.0 |
| BOY Mutual Friends | 4.0 |
| Omnium Gatherum Beyond | 3.5 |
| Terra Tenebrosa The Purging | 3.5 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor | 4.0 |
| First impressions: this is kind of like a bridge between Paysage d'HIver's previous black metal demos and the crunchier, spacier work of Wintherr's other project, Darkspace. Offenbarung is one of the best songs of the man's career, and represents the first time I've ever had my foot tapping during a Paysage song. Ewig leuchten die Sterne is a slower, more atmospheric number, while Macht des Schicksals really, really sounds like Darkspace (good thing) and Schlüssel is closer to Paysage's earlier work, although it spend its second half on wind sounds. Overall, this is a god damned excellent demo/album/whatever and is, in my book, second only to Winterkaelte and the s/t. Time may see it raise above those. BY THE WAY I NOW HAVE RED LETTERS NEXT TO MY USERNAME AS SUCH I AM NOW A MAN OF AUTHORITY HERE ON SPUTNIK LISTEN TO MY OPINION YOU GOD DAMNED FOOLS no i am only slightly drunk like a 5.5/10 or some shit idk bro fukc i need to write a new review soon god damn it |
| The Little Explorer Siderali | 3.5 |
| Portal Vexovoid | 3.5 |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 4.0 |
| Capacities There Is No Neutral | 3.5 |
| Caladan Brood Echoes Of Battle | 4.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Hearts Of Light/Blossoms | 3.0 |
| Light Bearer Silver Tongue | 3.0 |
I fully expect to enjoy this, but I highly, highly doubt that it will deserve a 4.9 average.
EDIT: Holy shit, is this ever bloated. |
| Red (USA) Release the Panic | 2.5 |
| I've heard worse things in my days, but considering that Innocence & Instinct is one of my favorite alt rock albums of all time this is kind of depressing. That's not to say it's all bad: Red are still some of the best in the business at mid-tempo rockers with super catchy choruses (see "Glass House"), but the difference here is that the heavy tracks are utter shit. We know that Red can make awesome heavy songs (Feed the Machine, Out from Under, etc), but this is just sad. Also, there are not enough strings here. Howard Benson is a fucking bastard. |
| Kongh Sole Creation | 3.5 |
| A City Sorrow Built Motions | 3.5 |
| This is a big improvement over Songs. |
| Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat | 3.5 |
| Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse | 4.0 |
| if I had .1-increment privileges this would be a 4.2 |
| Pomegranate Tiger Entities | 3.0 |
| There are some great ideas at work here, but this album is both far too long and far too samey - always a bad combination - to warrant anything above a 3 in my book. |
| We.Own.The.Sky Glass/Nails | 3.5 |
| Pretty generic heavy post-rock, but the production is excellent and we.own.the.sky can actually create some really beautiful music. A halfway point between sleepmakeswaves and If These Trees Could Talk, with a sprinkling of Jakob-ish melodies. |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 4.5 |
| This is their best album after SatH. Also, the userbase at RYM can kindly fuck themselves: I mean, they're worse than us with their troll 1s. |
| Hedvika The Evidence of Absence | 3.5 |
| Hope Drone Hope Drone | 3.5 |
| The Black Heart Rebellion Har Nevo | 4.5 |
| This fucking rules and everyone should jam this. Now. |
| nic Demo | 3.5 |
| The worst name for a post black/blackgaze band since "..." |
| ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP | 4.0 |
| Huldra Monuments, Monoliths | 4.0 |
| It certainly drags a bit and could do with better production and a tempo change now and again, but Huldra remain one of my favorite underground post-metal acts and this album only continues their streak of ripping off Isis and making it sound damn good. 3.5/4 |
| Manii Kollaps | 2.5 |
| Touche Amore/Pianos Become the Teeth Split | 4.0 |
| Children of God We Set Fire to the Sky | 4.0 |
| Lil B Tears 4 God | 2.0 |
| ambient swag 100 trillion |
| Consciousness Removal Project Tacit | 3.0 |
| Ragana Unbecoming | 3.0 |
| Our Ceasing Voice That Day Last November | 2.5 |
| Encircling Sea A Forgotten Land | 3.5 |
| Autumn's Kingdom Autumn's Kingdom | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky Lone Survivor OST | 3.5 |
| Annorkoth The Last Days | 4.0 |
| 2012 |
| Sunlight Ascending Leaving My Waiting Room | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One | 4.0 |
| Slice the Cake Other Slices | 4.0 |
| Baulta That's My House You're Living In | 4.0 |
| Black Table Sentinel | 3.0 |
| Mean Knowing | 3.5 |
| Fauna Avifauna | 4.0 |
| Howard Shore The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey | 4.0 |
| "On par with LotR, just like the movie."rson you say all you want about the scores but you need help if you think the movie is even close to the original trilogy |
| Desolate Shrine The Sanctum of Human Darkness | 4.0 |
| Mors Principium Est ...And Death Said Live | 4.0 |
| Make a Change...Kill Yourself Fri | 3.5 |
| Finster Existenz | 3.5 |
| Dead End Alaska/Ostrov Family and Friends Vol. II | 3.5 |
| Aural Method When I Drifted I Heard a Faint Melody | 4.0 |
| Rhone Inter Sidera | 3.5 |
| Kowloon Walled City Container Ships | 4.0 |
| VYGR/At Our Heels/Griever Split | 4.0 |
| VYGR puts out some pretty good sludge/post-metal, while At Our Heels and Griever contribute some pretty fucking awesome hardcore tracks. |
| Recreant Recreant | 3.5 |
| We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth | 4.0 |
| whoa, this rules. potential 4.5 |
| Antestor Omen | 3.0 |
| Very solid melodic/progressive/idk black metal from a band with a very long and very interesting history. Also, I really, really want that artwork on vinyl. |
| Jarhead Beautiful Delusion | 4.0 |
| riffs |
| Departures Teenage Haze | 4.0 |
| Amenra Mass V | 4.5 |
So a poor quality rip surfaced (160 kbps), and naturally, as I have no self control, I caved and listened to it. Surprise: it's the best album they've put out so far and probably the best post-metal release of the year. Yes, better than the most recent output of a certain little band on whose label Amenra were signed to in the past year. For the record, I did not expect that to happen, but hey. Also, this can only get better once A: a better quality leak surfaces, and B: once I buy the vinyl and hear the album's 5th track. And yes, this is all hyperbolic first impression bullcrap that you have every right to ignore and/or make fun of.
Also, @Nikkolae, thiz isn't the wrong art. It's the vinyl art, and the CD art is different. Also, fuck it. 5'd. |
| Finsterforst Rastlos | 4.5 |
| Nuclear Summer Nuclear Summer | 4.0 |
| weird post-hardcore/post-rock/screamo/happy music hybrid. they call themselves "sunshine metal." I don't care what you call this, but trust me when I say that this is more than worth a listen. it's free, as well. rhttp://nclrsmmr.bandcamp.com/ |
| Deafheaven/Bosse-de-Nage Split | 4.5 |
| I shouldn't love this as much as I do, but I do. Both sides are spectacular. Deafheaven put out one of the best covers I've ever heard and Bosse-de-Nage have a ridiculously talented drummer. |
| Hey Rosetta! A Cup Of Kindness Yet | 4.0 |
| Obsidian Kingdom Mantiis | 4.0 |
| Flourishing Intersubjectivity | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Silver & Gold | 4.0 |
| From Indian Lakes Able Bodies | 4.0 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.5 |
| Everyone who has rated this already needs to die. rEDIT: Well, holy shit. |
| Aaron Lewis The Road | 1.5 |
| One Direction Take Me Home | 1.0 |
| ISIS Temporal | 3.5 |
| Yeah, it might be a comp, but there's actually some really great stuff here, namely "Grey Divide," the Holy Tears remix, and the 20 Minutes/40 years acoustic version. |
| Radical Face Always Gold | 4.5 |
| Chronos Appalachia | 3.5 |
| Thrice Anthology | 4.5 |
| The Oh Hellos Through The Deep, Dark Valley | 5.0 |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay | 3.5 |
| Lento Anxiety Despair Languish | 2.5 |
| There are a few standout tracks - namely "My Utmost For His Highest" and "Questions and Answers" - but for the most part, this is pretty average instrumental post-metal. Low 3. |
| Being as an Ocean Dear G-d | 2.5 |
| The Secret Agnus Dei | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Red | 3.5 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix No Sadness Or Farewell | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.5 |
| Echotide as our floodlights gave way to dawn | 3.0 |
| Anberlin Vital | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs | 4.0 |
| Aeternam Moongod | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.5 |
| Yes, this does feel a bit incomplete, but the two songs are absolutely incredible. also, let's not forget that they are writing (and have been playing) completely new material - the two songs on here aren't "new" in the strictest sense of the word. This leads me to believe that they felt that these songs couldn't fit on an album with whatever they're creating now, but they wanted to get them out as studio recordings so they put this absolutely stellar release out. I believe that we can expect a "full length" 5th album within a year or two. Get psyched, bitches, but in the meantime, you can enjoy an absolutely brilliant record that stands strong with everything else this band has written. |
| Cathedraal/Rings of Rhea/Schematics for Cathedraal/Rings of Rhea/Schematics for Gravity | 3.5 |
| Direwolves Me From Myself, To Banish | 4.0 |
| Germ Loss | 4.0 |
| this is super weird. it's also super good. that is all. |
| Toluca Act I | 4.0 |
| An absolutely stellar atmospheric black metal/screamo/post-metal hybrid. It's a pity that it's only 25 minutes long, but the title suggests that these guys will put out more stuff sometime in the future so everything is ok, I guess. But seriously, this album is pretty short, it's a free download on their Bandcamp, and it's one of the most surprisingly awesome things to come out of the genre this year. You have no excuse not to get this. rhttp://toluca.bandcamp.com/album/act-i |
| Hell (USA) III | 4.0 |
| As usual, Hell do not disappoint. With each release, they also seem to be straying more toward an atmospheric black metal sound and less of the sludge style from I. |
| Side of Despondency The Main as Well That Is Not Very | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 3.0 |
| This is an irritating release for me: I absolutely adore a couple tracks on here, but there are an equal number of songs that bug the shit out of me. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill | 4.0 |
| Lord Huron Lonesome Dreams | 4.0 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.5 |
| Downfall of Gaia Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes | 4.5 |
| Eryn Non Dae. Meliora | 4.5 |
| Planks Funeral Mouth | 4.0 |
| If you dug Downfall of Gaia's latest, then this album is what you absolutely must listen to next. A fairly similar, very well-concocted blend of crust punk, black metal, and post-metal, albeit with a bit more of an emphasis on the crust side of their sound. Highly recommended. |
| Bien A Toi Diriger, Séduire, Convaincre | 4.0 |
| I'm not even sure what to call this, but it absolutely slays. |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist | 3.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth | 3.5 |
| Hammock Departure Songs | 4.0 |
| Everything in Slow Motion Red | 4.0 |
| Jodis Black Curtain | 4.0 |
| Aaron Turner is the man. |
| Tomydeepestego Nero | 4.0 |
| Ef Delusions of Grandeur | 4.0 |
| Celephais Tir n'a n'Og | 3.5 |
| Sundowning Seizures of the World | 3.0 |
| Above average post-metal that's not executed well enough to have its uninventiveness (which isn't a major issue in this kind of thing as long as the music is really good) overlooked. |
| Abraham The Serpent, the Prophet and the Whore | 3.5 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Only The Ocean Knows | 4.0 |
| It isn't even funny how much better in every single way imaginable this is than their previous efforts. |
| DorDeDuh Dar De Duh | 4.5 |
| It really is incredible that this album didn't get more attention around here, as it's easily the best black metal album of 2012. |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened | 3.0 |
| Mumford and Sons Babel | 3.5 |
| Oak Pantheon From a Whisper | 3.5 |
| Yet another case of shitty cover art on a great atmospheric black metal album. Go figure. |
| Foxes and Iselia Split | 3.5 |
| Frightened Rabbit State Hospital | 4.0 |
| When Icarus Falls Aegean | 4.0 |
| how in the hell did I miss this? |
| Manetheren Time | 3.5 |
| Caspian Waking Season | 4.0 |
| Becoming The Archetype I Am | 2.5 |
| O'Brother Basement Window | 3.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Shields | 3.5 |
| Ufomammut ORO: Opus Alter | 3.5 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Empire of Light | 3.5 |
| The album art is some of the best of the year, and the music ain't half bad either. No, it doesn't have ranything as brilliant as Drowning/Sinking or An Ocean of Lights, but it's ridiculously consistent. |
| Winterfylleth The Threnody of Triumph | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy Cryptopsy | 2.5 |
| Neil Halstead Palindrome Hunches | 3.5 |
| Arrows In Her Leaving. | 4.0 |
| Tesa IV | 3.0 |
| Mono For My Parents | 2.5 |
| The Catalyst Voyager | 3.5 |
| Nihill Verdonkermaan | 2.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar | 4.0 |
| General Lee Raiders of the Evil Eye | 4.0 |
| It might be short, but it's a massive improvement over the promising yet so-so "Roads." One of the better recent post-metal releases. |
| Betrayal At Bespin Rains | 4.0 |
| Totally different from the debut, but still totally awesome. Lots of sax here. |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings | 4.0 |
| The Chariot One Wing | 4.5 |
I really, really hope that this is as good as everyone's saying it is.
EDIT: It's not quite the masterpiece some people are saying it is, and I'm not sure whether I like it more than Long Live or not, but it's still a ridiculously solid album. |
| Swans The Seer | 4.0 |
| Toundra III | 4.0 |
| Ok, so this fucking rules. |
| Birds in Row You, Me, and the Violence | 4.0 |
| Evening Hymns Spectral Dusk | 4.0 |
| The Unwinding Hours Afterlives | 3.5 |
| Drom Hectop | 3.5 |
| Solace (CAN) Call & Response | 3.5 |
| Scott Kelly and the Road Home The Forgiven Ghost In Me | 3.5 |
| Yellowcard Southern Air | 4.0 |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages | 4.0 |
| /fanboy |
| The Modern Post Grace Alone | 4.0 |
| I very much enjoyed this. It's up there with The Glorious Unseen as far as quality worship goes. |
| The Classic Crime Phoenix | 4.5 |
| Tempel (USA-AZ) On the Steps of the Temple | 3.5 |
| this is definitely one of the sexier instruMetal albums I've heard in a while |
| Cloudkicker Fade | 4.0 |
| bm sharp is my favorite person ever |
| Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson Small Changes We Hardly Notice | 4.0 |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering | 4.5 |
| Islands (AUS) Islands | 4.0 |
| Ignimbrite is always in the mood for some good, old-fashioned, 10 minute plus post-metal epics. It's also a free Bandcamp deal, so everyone should totally hit this up. rhttp://islandsaus.bandcamp.com/album/islands |
| The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten | 4.0 |
| Om Advaitic Songs | 4.0 |
| Purity Ring Shrines | 4.0 |
| A Forest of Stars A Shadowplay for Yesterdays | 3.5 |
| Ancients (UK) Star Showers On The Euphrates | 3.5 |
| Sinistro Sinistro | 3.5 |
| Verse Bitter Clarity, Uncommon Grace | 3.0 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 3.5 |
| Tremonti All I Was | 4.0 |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer The Dark Knight Rises | 4.0 |
| Here Lies a Warning Frontiers | 3.0 |
| Tenant (CAN) Planeris | 2.5 |
| Arbor The Plutonian Shore | 2.5 |
| This album irritates me. One moment it's a barrage of stellar riffs, screeching vocals, and progressive flourishes, and the next moment they're breaking out these godawful cleans and trying way too hard to be progressive and the whole thing just goes to shit. |
| Sudatsuga Blue Moon Saiyeed | 3.5 |
| Adrift for Days Come Midnight... | 4.0 |
| A well-executed mix of build-heavy atmosludge and stoner rock/metal makes for a compelling, if slightly bloated, listen. The vocals and atmospheres on this are excellent. Highly recommended. |
| P.O.D. Murdered Love | 3.0 |
| Coastlines Life in Shifts | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord What Once Was... Liber II | 3.5 |
| Sun Devoured Earth Sounds of Desolation | 3.0 |
| Really weird, experimental post-rock with sparse depressive black metal influences. It's sometimes really awesome, but there are a few really uneventful tracks that weigh it down. Nevertheless, this is still worth a listen if you're into this kind of thing. |
| Glass Cloud The Royal Thousand | 3.0 |
| Desolate Oasis When Dreams Become Reality | 3.0 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 3.5 |
| Leaps and bounds better than the debut, mostly because Spencer now sounds only 50% annoying, as opposed to 200% like last time. I'm keeping this at a 3.5 for now, but it could be bumped. |
| Chrome Waves Chrome Waves | 4.0 |
| It may be kind of generic, but what can I say: I'm a sucker for post-rocky, emotional black metal. |
| Mutiara Damansara Pearls | 2.0 |
| The Elijah I Loved I Hated I Destroyed I Created | 3.5 |
| Latitudes Individuation | 4.0 |
| Some of the best post-metal riffs I've heard since Supercontinent's "Vaalbara." This is a big step up from Agonist: highly recommended. |
| So Far As I Know Far From the Earth Beneath Your Feet | 3.5 |
| The End of the Ocean In Excelsis | 3.5 |
| Lunaire With the Same Smile as Those Days | 3.5 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Unstille | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Living Things | 3.0 |
| Athletics Who You Are Is Not Enough | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes | 4.0 |
| Bosse-de-Nage III | 4.0 |
| whoa |
| Mare Cognitum An Extraconscious Lucidity | 4.0 |
| Old Man Gloom NO | 3.5 |
| solid as hell. too many ambient bits though |
| Iron Throne Demo 2012 | 2.5 |
| Nous Etions Limbes | 3.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Drought | 4.0 |
| Icarus the Owl Love Always, Leviathan | 3.0 |
| Acres Acres | 3.0 |
| Process of Guilt Faemin | 3.5 |
| A more-or-less death/doom band try their hand at making an atmosludge album, and for the most part it works. Sure, it does indeed get repetitive (in a bad way) throughout the middle of the album, and there's nothing especially original, but it has a pretty good atmosphere and the title track is bomb as hell. |
| Enabler All Hail the Void | 4.0 |
| Earthrise Eras Lost | 4.0 |
| Amenra/Hessian Split | 3.5 |
| I Built The Cross Banish the Disconnect | 2.5 |
On one hand, it's kind of uncool that IBtC, on their Facebook page, told all their fans to
rate this EP on Sputnik. As we all know, this strategy was used by Deuce, and while I don't
think the dudes in this band come even remotely close to that guy's level of douchebag, it's
still not a cool strategy. On the other hand, even though I hold the same opinion of the
debut that I did when I wrote my review, these guys *do* have a ton of talent, so I'll
happily give this a chance. r*btw, guys: a 0.0 is NOT a real rating.
EDIT:
Well, I listened to it and my hats off to IBtC: it's nowhere near the level of terribleness
that was present on the debut, namely because of better production. Also, they can still
play the hell out of their instruments. However, song structures are still more or less
nonexistent, and this EP also receives very few points for originality. There are other
bands who do grindy death metal/deathcore much better. And finally, it was still uncool to
whore out the EP's Sputnik page on your Facebook. |
| Them Thieves The Cabin | 4.0 |
| Sore Eyelids Sore Eyelids | 4.0 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 2.5 |
| Steve Von Till/Scott Kelly/Wino Songs of Townes Van Zandt | 4.0 |
| rules |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 4.5 |
| Right Away, Great Captain! The Church of the Good Thief | 4.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 4.0 |
| I came into this expecting to be disappointed because of my usual lack of affinity for most things prog, yet here I am eating my words cooked medium rare with a heavy shitcream sauce and a side of shit nuggets. |
| Beau Navire Lumens | 4.0 |
| 6 Degrees II | 3.0 |
| Love American Disquiet | 3.0 |
| Lights Out Asia Hy-Brasil | 4.0 |
| Landing Landing | 2.5 |
| Panopticon Kentucky | 3.0 |
| Lustre (SWE) Of Strength and Solace | 3.0 |
| Enemy Noise No Control, No Parade | 3.5 |
| Can't Fake Nature High Tide/Low Tide | 3.0 |
| Gates (USA-NJ) You Are All You Have Left to Fear | 4.0 |
| Fort Atlantic Fort Atlantic | 4.0 |
| This album is LEGEN - wait for it... DARY! Let Your Heart Hold Fast is an incredible track. |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 3.5 |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave | 4.0 |
| Cerna Restoring Life | 4.0 |
| Just some absolutely gorgeous instrumental black metal with some post-metal flourishes. Get it. |
| Adrift Black Heart Bleeds Black | 4.0 |
| And you thought post-metal with balls ended with Times of Grace... |
| Ostrov Noumenal | 3.5 |
| The Pirate Ship Quintet Rope for No-Hopers | 4.0 |
| Joy Wants Eternity The Fog is Rising | 3.0 |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon | 4.0 |
| Suis La Lune Riala | 4.0 |
| Grieved Samaritans | 4.0 |
I wish this were longer.
That's what she said. |
| The Blue Letter Love Is Not Control | 4.0 |
| Huldra/Dustbloom Split | 4.0 |
| Nachtvorst Silence | 2.5 |
| Wodensthrone Curse | 3.5 |
| La Mar La Mar | 3.5 |
| Astronoid November | 3.5 |
| This Gift Is A Curse I, Gvilt Bearer | 4.0 |
| Horseback Half Blood | 3.0 |
| Black Clouds Everything Is Not Going To Be OK | 4.0 |
| Nate Hall A Great River | 3.0 |
| Sleeping Peonies s l o w l y d i s a p p e a r i n g | 3.0 |
| Rodha Raw | 3.0 |
| Hop Along Get Disowned | 4.0 |
| pg.lost Key | 3.0 |
| Verdunkeln Weder Licht noch Schatten | 3.0 |
| Meanders Promo 2012 | 3.0 |
| An above-passable post-metal quickie. It's not really anything new but for a few intriguing jazz-y solos and quiet sections, but judging by the fact that this is merely a 3-track promo these guys could easily make something awesome in the near future. |
| Echoes (UK) With an Eye on the Shoreline and a Hand to the Sea | 3.5 |
| Father John Misty Fear Fun | 4.0 |
| The March Crawl Space | 4.0 |
| Sleep Maps Fiction Makes the Future | 2.5 |
| The Great Old Ones Al Azif | 3.5 |
| It's a sludge-tinged atmospheric black metal album about the Lovecraftian mythos. How in Cthulhu's name can this be bad? |
| Deuce Nine Lives | 1.0 |
| Torche Harmonicraft | 3.5 |
| 7 Horns 7 Eyes Throes Of Absolution | 3.5 |
| James Blackshaw Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death | 4.0 |
| this dude has some mad skills. also, did anyone else notice how you can constantly hear him breathing (heavily) when you listen to this? i didn't notice it until someone pointed it out to me. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA |
| From Oceans To Autumn Oath Of Eternals | 4.0 |
| this album is so god damn pretty |
| Statuette Losing Roots | 4.0 |
| Dweller On The Threshold Dweller On The Threshold | 3.0 |
| Thou/Hell Resurrection Bay | 4.0 |
| this is undeniably the most fucking m/ split of 2012 so far. also, the packaging itself is as well-executed and pretty as the music is m/ |
| Vaiya Mudh | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Doesn't Want Me As the Dust Settles | 3.5 |
| Cyclopian Cyclopian | 3.0 |
| Aldo Raine Welthass | 3.5 |
| Kehlvin The Orchard of Forking Paths | 4.5 |
| Thou/Kowloon Walled City July | 4.0 |
| it's been at *least* 5 whole months since Thou put something out, and their first after what is basically an extended hiatus by their standards does not disappoint. sweet Low and Soundgarden covers from both bands. |
| Train California 37 | 1.0 |
| Patrick Watson Adventures in Your Own Backyard | 3.5 |
| Miroist The Pledge | 3.5 |
| God's Own Prototype Fall apart, every time you feel like... | 3.5 |
| Anathema Weather Systems | 3.5 |
| Wreck and Reference No Youth | 4.0 |
| Torture Chain Time is but a Doorway to the Incinerator | 4.0 |
| Drapsnatt Skelepht | 4.0 |
| Amber Amber | 4.0 |
| Upon a Burning Body Red. White. Green. | 2.0 |
| Demon Hunter True Defiance | 3.0 |
| This is way better than The World Is a Thorn, but they still have yet to rediscover their Triptych mojo. |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis | 3.5 |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks | 4.0 |
| Earthmass Lunar Dawn (Keep, Relic, and Ritual) | 4.0 |
| Irreversible Ashes | 3.5 |
| ElisaRay All Creatures | 4.0 |
| The Lumineers The Lumineers | 3.0 |
| Beyond Terror Beyond Grace Nadir | 3.0 |
| Atoma Skylight | 3.5 |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis | 4.5 |
| Mental Architects Celebrations | 3.5 |
| Night Hag (AUS) Confidence Man | 3.0 |
| Sky Burial Where Four Rivers Flow | 3.5 |
| Hypomanie Calm Down, You Weren't Set On Fire | 3.5 |
listen to the new Liam album. it's like this except way better.
EDIT: This gets better the more you listen to it. |
| Black Shape Of Nexus Negative Black | 3.5 |
| Ufomammut ORO: Opus Primum | 4.0 |
| Tempest (Can) Solace | 4.0 |
| ok, so this is legit as fuck. best 9.8 minutes I've spent in a very long time. |
| Year of No Light/thisquietarmy Split | 4.0 |
| Black Breath Sentenced To Life | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 4.0 |
| To quote some guy on last.fm... "This album sounds like Godzilla taking an explosive shit all over Periphery." |
| Janus Nox Aeris | 3.5 |
| Liam MMIX | 4.0 |
| Black Sheep Wall No Matter Where It Ends | 3.0 |
| Split Cranium Split Cranium | 3.5 |
| it's not the most original thing in the world, but this is still a satisfyingly intense collection of mildly old-school hardcore. also, it's nice to hear Aaron Turner at work again. Retrace the Circle is awesome. |
| If These Trees Could Talk Red Forest | 4.0 |
| Daniel Rossen Silent Hour/Golden Mile | 4.0 |
| Altar of Plagues/Year of No Light Split | 4.0 |
| Capacities The Unexamined Life | 3.5 |
| Reka Renaissance | 3.0 |
| Sinatra/I Kill Giants Split | 3.5 |
| Taste the Void Sun's Heat | 4.0 |
| yet another band that's basically Amenra-style dark post-metal with a Converge fetish. however, I honestly could not care less about how many bands like this exist because they all tend to make awesome music, and Taste the Void are no exception. Also, "Between Walls" has the best breakdown of 2012. |
| This Patch of Sky Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine | 4.0 |
| Leech If We Get There One Day... | 4.5 |
| Best post-rock of 2012? It's entirely possible. |
| What The Blood Revealed Harbour of Devils | 2.5 |
| Gorod A Perfect Absolution | 3.0 |
| C R O W N The One | 3.5 |
| The Mire/Chronos Split | 4.0 |
| Rise and Fall Faith | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 4.0 |
| Locrian and Mamiffer Bless Them That Curse You | 4.0 |
| Ok, so this is pretty awesome |
| Lunar Aurora Hoagascht | 3.5 |
| In Trenches Sol Obscura | 4.0 |
| holy fucking fuck, it's like Trenches meets Amia Venera Landscape meets Alpinistrfuck this rules |
| Cathedraal Voix Blanches | 3.0 |
| The End Of Six Thousand Years Perpetuum | 3.5 |
| Gothenburg meets metalcore meets post-metal. The only really weak point here for me is that I'm not always a huge fan of the vocals (only at certain registers, though: they're usually good). |
| Vattnet Vattnet Viskar | 3.5 |
| Rahu The Quest for the Vajra of Shadows | 3.5 |
| Three Steps To The Ocean Scents | 4.0 |
| Vaura Selenelion | 3.0 |
| Dirty Three Toward The Low Sun | 3.5 |
| This is my first experience with Dirty Three and it's giving me a bit of a GY!BE + post-Hex era Earth vibe. Good stuff. |
| Mgla With Hearts Toward None | 3.5 |
| Frostseele Praekosmium | 3.5 |
| Mondrian Oak Aeon | 3.0 |
| This is better than most of the other instrumental post-metal startups you're gonna find out there, but it does suffer from a serious case of only-one-goddamn-tempo-itis. Weak 3.5/strong 3. |
| Napalm Death Utilitarian | 3.5 |
| Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel | 3.5 |
| All the Empires of the World Old Gods, Old Worlds, Old Wounds | 4.0 |
| There's much more ambient noodling on here than there was on Return (which is arguably the better album), but Old Gods is still an absolutely wonderful surprise for what has been a fairly dull February. Strangely enough, out of the album's 7 tracks, only 2 of them ("The Lion" and "St. Peter," the former of which has some pretty damned awesome Jesu-esque singing and the latter of which once again brings into play the tortured shrieks of Return) are full-on post-metaltastic songs of the type displayed on Return and Blessings. The others are post-rocky tracks and ambient interludes that are a lot less boring than you might think. |
| Appollonia Crimson Shades | 3.5 |
| Addaura Burning for the Ancient | 3.5 |
| It's a genuinely good album slightly let down by the fact that its production lacks a lot of punch (idk exactly how to describe it: "punch" was the closest I could come up with): badsically, the whole thing could be a bit more aggressive. But it's still a step up from the s/t, and I can see this being bumped to a 4 in time. |
| Sunpocrisy Samaroid Dioramas | 3.0 |
| Calvaiire Rigorisme | 4.0 |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II | 3.5 |
| yessss |
| Burial Kindred | 4.5 |
| ISIS Live 6 (11/16/2007) | 4.5 |
| Young Magic Melt | 3.5 |
| Departures Green Turns To Red, Then Turns To Gold | 4.0 |
| Jambinai Différance | 4.0 |
| Gaunt Demo | 3.0 |
| Ashes Forever Love, Leave, Forget, Repeat. | 2.5 |
| Swallow the Sun Emerald Forest and the Blackbird | 3.0 |
| Rituals Rituals | 4.0 |
| bleak, atmospheric, slightly blackened post-metal that immediately brings to mind contemporaries like Year of no Light, Cult of Luna, and Amenra. it ain't unique, but I'll be damned if these guys aren't incredibly fucking good at making awesome post-metal. |
| Axis of Light By the Hands of the Consuming Fire | 4.0 |
| Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster Exegesis | 4.0 |
| in a year during which heavyweights like Neurosis and Cult of Luna are due to drop records, it's nice to be reminded that some of the genre's most enjoyable stuff can come straight out of left field. |
| Vales Clarity | 3.0 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix (Mankind) The Crafty Ape | 3.5 |
| Signals From the Void Demos | 2.5 |
| Crosses EP II | 3.5 |
| Abigail Williams Becoming | 3.5 |
| this rules hard, wtf just happened to this band. yeah, it's WitTR worship, but given that this is probably better than CL and that WitTR have hinted at abandoning black metal for good, i think we can make an allowance. |
| First Aid Kit The Lion's Roar | 3.5 |
| Wildernessking The Writing of Gods in the Sand | 4.0 |
| A City Sorrow Built Songs | 3.0 |
| Dodecahedron Dodecahedron | 4.0 |
| Matt Elliott The Broken Man | 3.0 |
| Loma Prieta I.V. | 5.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves sleepmakeswaves (US) | 4.0 |
| there's more bass here, especially on "i will write peace." it makes an already awesome sound even better. |
| Shyy/... The Path Toward Forgetfulness | 3.5 |
| Shyy's side is okay if a bit forgettable, but ... rule pretty hard on here, contributing a winning combination of depressive bm, shoegaze, and awesome cleans. |
| Caspian Live At Old South Church | 4.0 |
| Ghost Ship Golden Girls | 3.5 |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Gamma Knife | 3.0 |
| Cerebrate Soul's Abyss | 4.0 |
| m/ filthy dm m/ |
| Abyssal (UK) Denouement | 4.0 |
| White Ward Illusions | 3.0 |
| Beauty of Sirin Taina Tsvetka | 3.0 |
| Melankoli Wind | 3.0 |
| Nahrayan The Beginning of the End/The End of the Beginning | 3.5 |
| Darker, heavy-hitting post-metal with a slightly faster feel than similar bands. The general song structures are best compared to Cult of Luna and the overall atmosphere to Amenra, but for a genre so infamous for having so many of its bands merely ripping off each other and the work of better groups, Nahrayan do some abnormally strong work to separate themselves from the crowd. The blackened, Zao-esque vocals are an especially nice touch to a surprisingly awesome little Bandcamp discovery that could easily end up being one of 2012's better post-metal records. rFor a good summary of the album's sound, check opener "Demons Without Face." - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jFRWPoEpmA |
| Loss of Self Demo | 3.5 |
| Wound Upon Wound Wound Upon Wound | 3.5 |
| An unholy mix of atmospheric black metal, death metal, doom metal, and post-metal. And riffs. So many riffs. |
| Re1ikt Rivers Broke Through the Ice | 3.5 |
| Progressive metal with vague black and sludge metal flourishes. I normally hate the vocals on this kind of thing, but these are surprisingly good, and the riffs are killer as well. |
| Fire In The Cave Fire In the Cave | 4.0 |
| Drowning Horse Drowning Horse | 4.0 |
| Braveyoung Will The Dust Praise You | 4.0 |
| 2011 |
| At All Times The Writhing Sea | 3.0 |
| Steady Hands The Earth Will Eat Today | 3.5 |
| Schematics For Gravity Schematics For Gravity | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence | 4.5 |
| Barrow Being Without | 4.0 |
| There Will Be Fireworks Because, Because | 4.0 |
| Black Veil Brides Rebels | 1.5 |
| Ever Forthright Ever Forthright | 3.0 |
| Metallica Beyond Magnetic | 3.5 |
| Strategic Silence And I Can Finally Hear The Voices | 3.5 |
| Comity The Journey is Over Now | 4.0 |
| Spook the Horses Brighter | 4.5 |
| Korn The Path of Totality | 1.0 |
| Czar (USA-IL) Vertical Mass Grave | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys El Camino | 4.0 |
| Nameless Coyote Devoured by the Swirling Night | 4.0 |
| All the Empires of the World Return | 4.5 |
| better than the debut, and Blessings was an excellent album. the vocals are a very nice addition. it's too bad that i found out about this so late: it might have had a pretty high spot on my 2011 list. |
| The Oh Hellos The Oh Hellos | 4.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - The Desanctification | 3.5 |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden | 4.0 |
| Serious Beak Huxwhukw | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Loop | 3.5 |
| Vektor Outer Isolation | 4.5 |
| Cold Body Radiation Deer Twillight | 3.0 |
| Across Waters More Light Is Never Ending | 4.0 |
| One Direction Up All Night | 1.0 |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge | 4.0 |
| Esoteric Paragon of Dissonance | 4.0 |
| Huldra Signals From the Void | 4.0 |
| Leviathan True Traitor, True Whore | 2.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 3.0 |
| Life in Your Way Kingdom of Darkness | 3.5 |
| Life in Your Way Kingdom of God | 4.0 |
| Life in Your Way Kingdom of Man | 4.0 |
| Panopticon Social Disservices | 3.5 |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu | 1.0 |
| Justin Bieber Under the Mistletoe | 1.0 |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en | 3.0 |
| Low Roar Low Roar | 3.5 |
| Cult of Occult Cult of Occult | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 4.5 |
| O'Brother Garden Window | 5.0 |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials | 3.5 |
| Uneven Structure Februus | 3.5 |
| Dark Captain Dead Legs & Alibis | 4.0 |
| Lantlos Agape | 4.0 |
| In It None of That Matters | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Empros | 4.0 |
| Junius Reports From The Threshold of Death | 4.0 |
| Banner Pilot Heart Beats Pacific | 4.0 |
| Life in Your Way Kingdoms | 4.0 |
| Lands Emperor | 3.5 |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow | 4.0 |
| Solstafir Svartir Sandar | 4.0 |
| Immolation Providence | 3.5 |
| Memoria Death Calls the Islands | 4.0 |
| Absu Abzu | 4.0 |
| Battlefields Agassiz | 4.0 |
| Fire Walk With Us Carriers | 4.0 |
| Radical Face The Family Tree: The Roots | 4.5 |
| Daughter The Wild Youth | 4.0 |
| Damascus Of Whom I Always Think | 4.0 |
| Selenites Animaltar | 4.0 |
| Ben Howard Every Kingdom | 4.0 |
| be sure to also get the bonus tracks: one of them, "Under the Same Sun", is probably the best on the album. |
| The Last Bison Quill | 2.5 |
| Switchfoot Vice Verses | 3.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire | 3.5 |
| Rwake Rest | 4.0 |
| Rosetta/Junius Split | 4.0 |
| Unfold Cosmogon | 4.0 |
| Falloch Where Distant Spirits Remain | 2.5 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.0 |
| Grown Below The Long Now | 3.5 |
| It starts out slow and it could use some tempo variation, but this is a great post-metal album with its share of "fuck yeah" moments. They just need to make more songs like "End of all Time" and fewer like "Trojan Horses". |
| An Isle Ate Her Phrenia | 4.0 |
| Textures Dualism | 2.5 |
| The Atlas Moth An Ache for the Distance | 3.5 |
| Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal | 4.0 |
| Old Silver Key Tales of Wanderings | 2.0 |
| Kasper Rosa First Breath. First Blood. | 3.5 |
| Opeth Heritage | 3.0 |
| Anthrax Worship Music | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Earth Division | 3.5 |
| TesseracT One (Instrumental) | 3.5 |
| Corelia Nostalgia | 3.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Dead Roots Stirring | 3.5 |
| The Horrible Crowes Elsie | 4.5 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.5 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Everything | 2.0 |
| Midnight Odyssey Funerals from the Astral Sphere | 3.5 |
| Full of Hell Roots Of Earth Are Consuming My Home | 4.0 |
| Omega Massif Karpatia | 4.5 |
Look at your Pelican album. Now look at Omega Massif's Karpatia. Now back to your Pelican album... Now back
to Karpatia. Sadly, that recent Pelican album isn't Karpatia, but if they got an interesting drummer and amped up
the desolation they could *sound* like Omega Massif. Look down. Back up again. Where are you? You're in a
MOSH, jamming to the music that Pelican could sound like. What's in your hand? Back to me. I have it. It's a
hollow slab of volcanic rock, emanating music that's brimming with crushing riffs and dark atmosphere. Look
again. The rock is now Karpatia! Anything's possible when your instrumental post-metal crushes as hard as
Karpatia and isn't lazy and sterile like recent Pelican. I'm in a MOSH. |
| The Body and Braveyoung Nothing Passes | 5.0 |
| [deleted stupid old soundoff]rThe apocalyptic sludge of ATWOTETTB mixed with the serene ambient/post-rock of Braveyoung's rrecent output. Of all the collaborations The Body has (have?) done over the past few years, this has rgot to be the most horrendously overlooked. |
| Corrupted Garten Der Unbewusstheit | 4.0 |
| Radical Face The Bastards: Volume One | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd Thursday | 3.5 |
| NewVillager NewVillager | 3.5 |
| The Stalactites Dark Matters | 3.0 |
| SPERO City of Tears | 3.5 |
| Beirut The Rip Tide | 4.0 |
| Alpinist/Masakari Split | 4.5 |
| it's not even funny how awesome this split is |
| Thou The Archer and the Owle | 3.5 |
| It just goes to display the awesomeness that is Thou in that even when they release a "filler" record (2 songs were on Summit, 3 are covers, and only 1 is new), it is completely awesome. |
| Crosses EP | 4.0 |
| Flourishing The Sum of All Fossils | 4.0 |
| Shroud of Distress Be Happy | 3.5 |
| Rings of Rhea 2011 | 3.5 |
| Awake In Sleep Awake In Sleep | 3.0 |
| All Shall Perish This Is Where It Ends | 3.5 |
| Hive Destruction Secretvm Veritas | 3.5 |
| Iselia Life From Dead Limbs | 4.0 |
| Generation of Vipers Howl and Filth | 4.0 |
| Falls of Rauros The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) If Not Now, When? | 2.0 |
| Suicide Silence The Black Crown | 2.0 |
| Mare Cognitum The Sea Which Has Become Known | 4.0 |
| Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Deaden The Fields | 4.0 |
| Hands (US-ND) Give Me Rest | 3.5 |
| My Epic Broken Voice | 4.0 |
| Benjamin Francis Leftwich Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 | 4.0 |
| Strike to Survive Sore Losers | 4.0 |
| Strategic Silence Contemplations | 2.5 |
| Job for a Cowboy Gloom | 2.5 |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo | 4.5 |
| The Circle Ends Here Where Time Leaves The Rest | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter White | 4.0 |
| Vaiya Wintermoon | 3.0 |
| Lmfao Sorry For Party Rocking | 1.0 |
| August Burns Red Leveler | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Violet | 4.0 |
| Thou/Cower War Is the Force That Gives Us Meaning: A Two Part | 4.0 |
| Cower's side is a pretty cool blend of progressive and sludgy hardcore, while Thou puts out some of the best songs of their career. Awesome split. |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.5 |
| sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Indigo | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Blue | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Green | 4.0 |
| Not to Reason Why The Book of Hours | 4.5 |
| this is absolutely beautiful. |
| The Dear Hunter Yellow | 3.5 |
| Reka III | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Orange | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Red | 4.0 |
| Josh Garrels Love and War and The Sea In Between | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Black | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) | 4.5 |
| Pensees Nocturnes Ceci est de la musique | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus | 1.0 |
| Tombs Path of Totality | 3.0 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 4.0 |
| City and Colour Little Hell | 4.0 |
| Ampere Like Shadows | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 4.0 |
| Thou To The Chaos Wizard Youth | 3.5 |
| if I smoked I would take fatty bong rips to Witch Cunt every day |
| Alaskan Adversity; Woe | 3.5 |
| Departures When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted | 4.0 |
| Loss Despond | 3.5 |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone | 4.0 |
| Desolate Shrine Tenebrous Towers | 4.0 |
| Cave In White Silence | 4.0 |
| Consciousness Removal Project The Last Season | 3.5 |
| Ayr Nothing Left to Give | 4.0 |
| Peste Noire L'Ordure a l'etat Pur | 3.0 |
| Moradin Ancient Stone and Mystic Woods | 3.0 |
| A Storm Of Light As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us... | 2.5 |
| Ocoai The Electric Hand | 3.5 |
| Alcest Le Secret (2011 Version) | 3.5 |
| Petrychor Effigies and Epitaphs | 4.0 |
| Carbonscape Artistry of Exhaustion II | 4.0 |
| Weekend Nachos Worthless | 4.5 |
| Nader Sadek In the Flesh | 3.5 |
| Amenra/Hive Destruction Split | 4.0 |
| Both of Amenra's tracks appear, respectively, on Mass IIII and Mass III and needless to say, they're pretty awesome. Hive Destruction absolutely crushes. I need to get more from these guys. |
| Just Die! A Momentary Lapse In Positive Thinking | 4.0 |
| Liturgy Aesthethica | 2.0 |
| This Will Destroy You Tunnel Blanket | 3.0 |
| Jesu Ascension | 3.5 |
| Moving Mountains Waves | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 4.0 |
| Merkaba Bones of the Sacred Forest | 3.0 |
| God Mode Demo | 3.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 4.5 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Gangs | 4.0 |
| Damascus Salutations, Distant Satellite! | 3.0 |
| Matt Evans Senseless | 3.0 |
| So Hideous To Clasp a Fallen Wish With Broken Fingers | 4.0 |
| William Bonney Good Vibes | 4.0 |
| From Oceans To Autumn The Flood/The Fall | 4.0 |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey | 4.0 |
| dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy | 1.5 |
| Pulling Teeth Funerary | 3.5 |
| Dirge (FR) Elysian Magnetic Fields | 3.5 |
| Vallendusk Vallendusk | 4.0 |
| Primordial Redemption at the Puritan's Hand | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist | 4.0 |
| Altar of Plagues Mammal | 4.0 |
| Sleepingdog With Our Heads in the Clouds... | 4.0 |
| Kokomo If Wolves | 4.0 |
| The Matador (AU) Descent Into the Maelstrom | 3.5 |
| Hessian Hessian | 3.5 |
| Dark and gritty hardcore that's crustier than sonic's mom. Recommended. |
| Daughter His Young Heart | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Sect(s) | 3.0 |
| Former Thieves The Language That We Speak | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | 3.0 |
| Septicflesh The Great Mass | 3.5 |
| Periphery Icarus | 3.0 |
| Obscure Sphinx Anaesthetic Inhalation Ritual | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 3.5 |
| Jesuit Discography | 3.5 |
| Beyond Creation The Aura | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 4.0 |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 4.0 |
| Jason Isbell Here We Rest | 4.0 |
| Verwustung Beyond The Watercolor Sunset, We Feel New Life | 3.0 |
| The Phantom Carriage New Thing | 3.0 |
| Years Of Rice and Salt Nothing of Cities | 4.5 |
| Ghostlimb Infrastructure | 3.0 |
| Pariso/Kerouac Split | 4.0 |
| The Odious That Night a Forest Grew | 4.0 |
| DDM Lucidity | 2.5 |
| Sum 41 Screaming Bloody Murder | 1.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Celestial Completion | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising | 3.5 |
| Braveyoung We Are Lonely Animals | 4.0 |
| Hungry For Hands I Was Hungry For Hands | 4.0 |
| Chuter Coma | 3.0 |
| Fell Voices Untitled | 4.0 |
| Light Bearer Lapsus | 3.5 |
| Embers Shadows | 3.5 |
| Krypts Krypts | 3.5 |
| This is some really prime material that would be that much better if it were expanded into a full album. |
| William Fitzsimmons Gold In The Shadow | 2.0 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 3.5 |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery | 3.5 |
| Arctique Circles Golden Gloom | 3.5 |
| TesseracT One | 4.0 |
| Ash Borer Ash Borer | 4.5 |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 4.0 |
| Light Bearer Beyond the Infinite: The Assembly of God | 4.0 |
| Boris New Album | 2.5 |
| Kurouma 3 | 3.0 |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft | 3.5 |
| VYGR Hypersleep | 4.0 |
| Manners Apparitions | 3.5 |
| Burzum Fallen | 2.5 |
| Grails Deep Politics | 3.0 |
| their earlier stuff is better |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 3.0 |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) A New Kind of House | 3.5 |
| Trust Company Dreaming In Black and White | 4.0 |
| Morning Teleportation Expanding Anyway | 4.0 |
| this rules hard, you should get it |
| Event Horizon 2011 Demo | 4.0 |
| 40 Watt Sun The Inside Room | 4.0 |
| Terra Tenebrosa The Tunnels | 4.0 |
| Golgatha Strength of the World | 3.5 |
| yeah fr33. also i can honestly tell you that, having heard a preliminary demo of their next EP, these dudes are going places |
| The Seven Mile Journey Notes for the Synthesis | 4.5 |
| The Chariot Music Of A Grateful Heart | 2.5 |
| Until Your Heart Stops Errors | 4.0 |
| Sleeping Peonies Ghosts, and Other Things | 4.0 |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 4.5 |
| Cogs and Sprockets Arms for the Poor | 3.0 |
| Long Distance Calling Long Distance Calling | 3.0 |
| Heretoir Heretoir | 2.5 |
| Wreck and Reference Black Cassette | 4.0 |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason | 4.5 |
| Svart Crown Witnessing The Fall | 3.0 |
| DevilDriver Beast | 3.5 |
| Cogs and Sprockets The Black Friday EP | 3.5 |
| Kerouac/The Long Haul Split | 4.0 |
| Our Ceasing Voice When the Headline Hit Home | 3.5 |
| Tephra Tempel | 2.5 |
| Love American Love American | 3.5 |
| Hey Rosetta! Seeds | 4.5 |
| Vreid V | 3.0 |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.0 |
| Grayceon All We Destroy | 2.5 |
| Fen Epoch | 3.5 |
| Idol and the Whip Heavy Sleeper | 3.5 |
| Defeater Dear Father | 2.5 |
| Crowbar Sever The Wicked Hand | 3.5 |
| Monogrim Realm | 3.5 |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I | 4.0 |
| Whale Fall Whale Fall | 4.0 |
| Red (USA) Until We Have Faces | 3.0 |
| Noisear Subvert the Dominant Paradigm | 4.0 |
| Windmills By the Ocean Windmills By the Ocean II | 4.0 |
| Chronos The Grips of Winter | 4.0 |
| Keep It Like A Secret Not With A Bang But A Whimper | 3.0 |
| We Made God It's Getting Colder | 3.0 |
| Hypomanie A City In Mono | 3.5 |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All | 4.5 |
| Better Days Songs About Drinking | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead | 3.0 |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man | 3.5 |
| The Carrier Blind To What Is Right | 3.5 |
| Lead Hands Lead Hands | 3.5 |
| Spokes Everyone I Ever Met | 3.5 |
| Old Man Markley Guts N' Teeth | 3.5 |
| Mitochondrion Parasignosis | 4.5 |
| YOUWRETCH YOUWRETCH | 3.5 |
| god damn this rules hard and more people need to get it etc |
| Alda Tahoma | 4.0 |
| Tortured Wasteland | 3.5 |
| With Daggers Widower | 3.5 |
| Rational Animals Bock Rock Parade | 3.0 |
| ((Navtilvs)) Polaris* | 3.0 |
| Koloss End of the Chayot | 3.5 |
| Lento Icon | 3.5 |
| Oskoreien Oskoreien | 3.5 |
| Mammon Demiurge | 3.5 |
| Panopticon/Wheels Within Wheels II | 3.5 |
| Hexis/As We Draw/Euglena Split | 3.5 |
| Thou Big City | 3.5 |
| Dopamine Dying Away In The Deep Fall | 4.0 |
| Forge of Clouds Forge of Clouds | 4.0 |
| Low Threat Profile Product #2 | 4.0 |
| Seven Sisters Of Sleep Seven Sisters of Sleep | 4.0 |
| Some Mistakes Glamorous Thoughts | 4.0 |
| Cryptic Forest Dawn of the Eclipse | 4.0 |
| God Harvest Demo 2011 | 4.0 |
| MNMNTS The Good Life | 4.0 |
| Baulta Deeply Sorry to Interrupt Your Megalomania | 4.0 |
| some excellent instrumental post-metal from Finland. Also, the artwork rules. get it now. http://baulta.bandcamp.com/ |
