| 2012 |
| Slice the Cake Other Slices | 4.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One | 3.0 |
| The Odious Joint Ventures | 3.5 |
| Infant Annihilator The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution | 3.5 |
| The Armed Spreading Joy | 4.0 |
| Circle of Contempt Entwine the Threads | 4.5 |
| Wiz Khalifa O.N.I.F.C. | 2.5 |
| Mestis Basal Ganglia | 4.0 |
| I Am Abomination Let The Future Tell The Truth | 3.5 |
| Last Call Dog Years | 3.5 |
| Modern Baseball Sports | 3.5 |
| Amenra Mass V | 3.5 |
| The Algorithm Polymorphic Code | 3.5 |
| Greeley Estates The Narrow Road | 3.5 |
| Code Orange Love Is Love // Return To Dust | 4.0 |
| Crown the Empire The Fallout | 3.0 |
| Woe, Is Me Genesi[s] | 2.0 |
| Prophets The Youth | 4.0 |
| I Kill Giants Finestkinds | 4.0 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.0 |
| Affiance The Campaign | 3.0 |
| Issues Black Diamonds | 3.0 |
| Trifonic Ninth Wave | 3.5 |
| From Indian Lakes Able Bodies | 4.0 |
| Real Friends Three Songs About the Past Year of My Life | 3.5 |
| Pentimento Pentimento | 3.5 |
| Major League Hard Feelings | 2.5 |
| War from a Harlots Mouth Voyeur | 4.0 |
| The Seeking Yours Forever | 4.0 |
| Dragged Into Sunlight WidowMaker | 3.5 |
| Rolo Tomassi Astraea | 3.0 |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine | 4.0 |
| Drag The Lake I Am Violence | 4.0 |
| Parkway Drive Atlas | 2.5 |
| Cloak of Altering Ancient Paths Through Timeless Voids | 4.5 |
| Peace'd Out Peace'd Out | 4.0 |
| Knuckle Puck Don't Come Home | 3.5 |
| Depths Revelation | 2.5 |
| Being as an Ocean Dear G-d | 3.5 |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega | 3.0 |
| Intervals In Time | 4.0 |
| Basement Colourmeinkindness | 3.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Book Burner | 3.0 |
| Abiotic Symbiosis | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 5.0 |
| Upon This Dawning To Keep Us Safe | 2.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Hate | 4.0 |
| In Fear and Faith In Fear and Faith | 3.0 |
| The Haarp Machine Disclosure | 3.0 |
| The Swellers Running Out of Places to Go | 4.0 |
| Sithu Aye Invent the Universe | 4.0 |
| Visions Demur | 4.0 |
| Wintersun Time I | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 5.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 4.5 |
| Sylosis Monolith | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill | 4.0 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.5 |
| The Acacia Strain Death Is the Only Mortal | 3.0 |
| Troubled Coast Awake and Empty | 4.5 |
| Heart To Heart Heart To Heart | 4.0 |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist | 3.5 |
| Hammock Departure Songs | 4.5 |
| Danny Brown OD | 4.0 |
| Lower Than Atlantis Changing Tune | 3.5 |
| In League Sleep And You Might Miss This | 4.0 |
| Revocation Teratogenesis | 4.0 |
| Mumford and Sons Babel | 3.0 |
| In Dying Arms Boundaries | 4.0 |
| Murder by Death Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon | 4.0 |
| This or the Apocalypse Dead Years | 4.0 |
| Elitist Reshape Reason | 4.0 |
| Outline In Color Jury of Wolves | 3.0 |
| Car Bomb w^w^^w^w | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud | 3.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype I Am | 3.0 |
| Title Fight Floral Green | 4.0 |
| Neck Deep Rain in July | 2.5 |
| Sorrow (UK) Art Is Dead | 3.5 |
| Come Wind Grow My Roots | 4.0 |
| State Champs Overslept | 4.0 |
| The Amity Affliction Chasing Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Two Door Cinema Club Beacon | 3.5 |
| Homage Insignificant | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive Violent Waves | 4.0 |
| The Chariot One Wing | 5.0 |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings | 4.0 |
| Monuments (UK) Gnosis | 3.0 |
| The Intake of Glass Voice Of Reason | 3.5 |
| Swans The Seer | 4.5 |
| Our Last Night Age Of Ignorance | 2.5 |
| Birds in Row You, Me, and the Violence | 3.5 |
| Foxing Old Songs | 3.5 |
| The Faceless Autotheism | 3.0 |
| Solace (CAN) Call & Response | 4.0 |
| The Classic Crime Phoenix | 4.0 |
| The Afterimage Formless | 3.5 |
| Yellowcard Southern Air | 3.5 |
| Belle Epoque Disillusions of Man | 3.0 |
| Such Gold Misadventures | 4.0 |
| Don Broco Priorities | 4.0 |
| I, Of Helix Isolations | 3.5 |
| While She Sleeps This Is the Six | 4.0 |
| Climates What Means The Most | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Fade | 4.0 |
| A Bullet for Pretty Boy Symbiosis | 3.5 |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering | 4.5 |
| Absvrdist Illusory | 4.5 |
| Dark Time Sunshine ANX | 4.0 |
| Purity Ring Shrines | 3.5 |
| Forever Came Calling Contender | 3.0 |
| Aegaeon Being | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 3.0 |
| Pierce the Veil Collide with the Sky | 4.0 |
| Verse Bitter Clarity, Uncommon Grace | 3.5 |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE | 3.0 |
| Gnarwolves Cru | 4.0 |
| The Last of Our Kind A Diamond in the Rough | 2.0 |
| Dikembe Broad Shoulders | 4.0 |
| Trophywife Hold Onto Your Luck | 4.0 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 3.0 |
| The Word Alive Life Cycles | 2.5 |
| Glass Cloud The Royal Thousand | 3.0 |
| Hail the Sun Elephantitis | 5.0 |
| Wolves at the Gate Captors | 4.5 |
| Gideon Milestone | 3.5 |
| Landscapes Life Gone Wrong | 4.0 |
| Carta Immense Constantly Repeating | 3.5 |
| Jarren Benton Freebasing With Kevin Bacon | 4.0 |
| Memphis May Fire Challenger | 2.5 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 4.0 |
| Your Memorial Redirect | 3.5 |
| A Sight for Sewn Eyes Alone Together | 4.0 |
| Sleeping With Sirens If You Were a Movie, This Would Be Your Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Yashin We Created A Monster | 2.0 |
| Nemertines Izverg | 4.0 |
| Old Man Gloom NO | 3.5 |
| Safe To Say Sick To Death | 3.5 |
| Acres Acres | 4.5 |
| Chelsea Grin Evolve | 3.0 |
| The Ghost Inside Get What You Give | 4.0 |
| Make Do and Mend Everything You Ever Loved | 3.5 |
| Whitechapel Whitechapel | 3.5 |
| Skynet Skynet | 2.5 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 3.5 |
| Joey Badass 1999 | 4.5 |
| The Words We Use Morals | 3.5 |
| Metric Synthetica | 2.5 |
| Dowsing It's Still Pretty Terrible | 3.0 |
| Thank You Scientist Maps of Non-Existent Places | 4.5 |
| Numbers Numbers | 2.0 |
| Architects Daybreaker | 3.5 |
| Currensy The Stoned Immaculate | 3.5 |
| Arbiter Machinations | 2.5 |
| Miss May I At Heart | 2.0 |
| Art By Numbers Reticence: The Musical | 3.5 |
| For Today Immortal | 3.0 |
| Gates (USA-NJ) You Are All You Have Left to Fear | 4.5 |
| David Maxim Micic Bilo 2.0 | 3.5 |
| Suis La Lune Riala | 4.0 |
| Expire Pendulum Swings | 3.5 |
| TesseracT Perspective | 3.0 |
| Wanzwa Wanzwa II | 4.5 |
| Night Verses Out of the Sky | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 4.5 |
| Real Friends Acoustic Songs | 3.5 |
| Misser Every Day I Tell Myself... | 4.0 |
| NOISIA Imperial | 3.0 |
| Ab-Soul Control System | 3.0 |
| Meridian Meridian | 3.5 |
| I Kill Giants We Can Live In The Exact Same Place | 4.5 |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of Tongues | 4.5 |
| Bermuda The Wandering | 2.5 |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity | 4.0 |
| Home Brew Home Brew | 4.0 |
| To Speak Of Wolves Find Your Worth, Come Home | 4.0 |
| Reflections The Fantasy Effect | 2.5 |
| Full of Hell/Code Orange Split | 4.0 |
| Soul Cycle Soul Cycle II | 4.0 |
| 7 Horns 7 Eyes Throes Of Absolution | 4.0 |
| You Blew It! Grow Up, Dude | 4.0 |
| Citizen/Turnover Split 7" | 4.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Demonocracy | 3.5 |
| Emmure Slave To The Game | 2.5 |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 3.0 |
| I the Mighty Karma Never Sleeps | 4.5 |
| Adestria Chapters | 3.5 |
| Stick to Your Guns Diamond | 3.5 |
| Exalt Breach False Minds | 4.0 |
| Hands Like Houses Ground Dweller | 4.0 |
| Impending Doom Baptized in Filth | 2.5 |
| Xerxes Our Home Is A Deathbed | 3.0 |
| Gorod A Perfect Absolution | 4.0 |
| Lil B God's Father | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 4.0 |
| Last Dinosaurs In A Million Years | 4.0 |
| Obscura Illegimitation | 2.0 |
| Slice the Cake The Man With No Face | 4.0 |
| Ascariasis Ocean of Colour | 4.0 |
| Pinegrove Meridian | 4.0 |
| T.R.A.M. Lingua Franca | 3.5 |
| The Safety Fire Grind the Ocean | 2.5 |
| Veil of Maya Eclipse | 3.5 |
| I, the Breather Truth and Purpose | 3.5 |
| No Trigger Tycoon | 4.0 |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past | 5.0 |
| Beneath the Massacre Incongruous | 3.5 |
| Jamie's Elsewhere Reimagined | 2.5 |
| Point Below Zero Point Below Zero | 4.0 |
| Sithu Aye Isles | 4.0 |
| Psycroptic The Inherited Repression | 3.5 |
| Palisades I'm Not Dying Today | 3.5 |
| Have Mercy (Indie) My Oldest Friend | 4.0 |
| Lil B White Flame | 4.0 |
| Tetrafusion Horizons | 4.0 |
| Aechoes The Human Condition | 2.0 |
| Real Friends Everyone That Dragged You Here | 4.0 |
| Incendiary/Xibalba Split | 3.5 |
| Birds in Row Collected | 4.0 |
| Troubled Coast I've Been Thinking About Leaving You | 3.5 |
| Attack Attack! This Means War | 2.0 |
| Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour | 2.5 |
| Loma Prieta I.V. | 4.0 |
| The Korea Chariots Of The Gods | 3.5 |
| Nemertines SCD | 4.0 |
| ScHoolboy Q Habits and Contradictions | 3.5 |
| Entities Luminosity | 3.5 |
| The Holy Guile FSU | 3.0 |
| Tharsis They Ominous Silence | 4.5 |
| Johnny Booth Connections | 4.5 |
| Depths Of Hatred Aversionist | 3.5 |
| The Overseer We Search, We Dig | 3.0 |
| The Algorithm Tr0jans | 3.5 |
| Xibalba Hasta La Muerte | 3.5 |
