| 2021 |
| Trophy Scars Astral Pariah | 4.5 |
| Split End moratorium | 4.0 |
| DJ Seinfeld Mirrors | 3.5 |
| Aristarchos Aristarchos | 4.0 |
| Drake Certified Lover Boy | 1.0 |
| Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be Introvert | 4.5 |
| Kanye West Donda | 2.0 |
| Hooded Menace The Tritonus Bell | 4.5 |
| Telethon Swim Out Past The Breakers | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors II | 4.0 |
| Qrixkuor Poison Palinopsia | 4.0 |
| Boldy James and The Alchemist Bo Jackson | 3.5 |
| Fawn Limbs Darwin Falls | 4.0 |
| Nas King's Disease II | 3.5 |
| It's like people forget It Was Written, Stillmatic, God's Son, and The Lost Tapes exists - Nas has had plenty of projects that were solid across his career. He's undeniably wavered in quality over the last 15-20 years, but with that being said, KD2 is a cut above its predecessor in nearly every way and is one of the best "late period" projects from Nas. |
| Tinashe 333 | 3.5 |
| Billie Eilish Happier Than Ever | 2.0 |
| Low Roar maybe tomorrow... | 2.5 |
| Isaiah Rashad The House Is Burning | 3.5 |
| Horsey Debonair | 3.5 |
| Alexis Marshall House of Lull. House of When | 3.5 |
| Darkside Spiral | 3.0 |
| Ophidian I Desolate | 4.5 |
| Vince Staples Vince Staples | 1.5 |
| Insanely bland in every way. I had hoped for a return to form after the poor outing on "FM!" but this is just terrible. |
| ZelooperZ Van Gogh's Left Ear | 3.0 |
| Diabolizer Khalkedonian Death | 3.5 |
| Year of No Light Consolamentum | 3.0 |
| Turnstile Turnstile Love Connection | 3.5 |
| Lightning Bug A Color of the Sky | 4.0 |
| Thy Catafalque Vadak | 4.0 |
| Amenra De Doorn | 4.0 |
| Hiatus Kaiyote Mood Valiant | 4.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost | 4.5 |
| Spellling The Turning Wheel | 4.0 |
| I didn't find this all that special on first listen, but it's since gotten better with every listen for me - already bumped from a 3.5 to a 4, I could see this maybe going higher in time. There are some really great moments across this album. |
| MIKE Disco! | 3.0 |
| Backxwash I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES | 4.0 |
| Witch Vomit Abhorrent Rapture | 4.5 |
| Excellent little EP, Witch Vomit continue to be one of the best OSDM revival acts around. |
| Skyzoo All The Brilliant Things | 4.0 |
| Your Old Droog TIME | 4.0 |
| Why is YOD so slept on here? Easily one of the MC's of the last decade and his releases get crickets. |
| Japanese Breakfast Jubilee | 3.5 |
| Wolf Alice Blue Weekend | 2.5 |
| The Raging Nathans Waste My Heart | 3.5 |
| King Buffalo The Burden of Restlessness | 4.0 |
| Better than it's getting credit for around here, solid spacey psych-rock stuff. |
| Dead Heat World At War | 3.5 |
| Ancient Wisdom A Celebration in Honor of Death | 4.0 |
| This is not a comeback I expected, HYPE |
| Polars Collide Grotesque | 4.0 |
| Black Midi Cavalcade | 5.0 |
| Blood Cultures LUNO | 3.0 |
| Sweet Trip A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals | 4.5 |
| Perturbator Lustful Sacraments | 4.0 |
| Mental Cruelty A Hill to Die Upon | 4.0 |
| Surprisingly solid blend of symphonic/melodic black metal with some seriously nasty downtempo/deathcore vocals. |
| Portal Avow | 3.5 |
| Ghastly (FIN) Mercurial Passages | 3.5 |
| FACS Present Tense | 4.0 |
| Kaonashi Dear Lemon House, You Ruined Me: Senior Year | 2.5 |
| Some of the worst vocals I've ever heard, seriously. Musically this pretty cool, but the vocals make it damn near unlistenable. |
| Yautja The Lurch | 3.0 |
| Acausal Intrusion Nulitas | 3.5 |
| Impure Wilhelmina Antidote | 3.5 |
| Benny The Butcher and 38 Spesh Trust The Sopranos | 2.5 |
| The Griselda crew needs to just chill out and spend some real time on a record. They have so much potential but rush through like 20 projects a year. |
| Olivia Rodrigo Sour | 3.5 |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light | 3.5 |
| Iosonouncane Ira | 4.5 |
| J. Cole The Off-Season | 2.5 |
| I'm starting to accept that Cole is never going to realize his full potential |
| DorDeDuh Har | 3.5 |
| Grave Miasma Abyss of Wrathful Deities | 3.0 |
| Rhododendron Protozoan Battle Hymns | 4.5 |
Heavy, psych-drenched, (mostly) instrumental noise-rock - really killer stuff worth a
listen. |
| Dead and Dripping Miasmic Eulogies Predicating an Eternal Nocturne | 3.5 |
| CZARFACE and MF DOOM Super What? | 4.0 |
| Gonemage Mystical Extraction | 3.5 |
| headcave 2 | 3.0 |
| Fange Pantocrator | 4.0 |
| McKinley Dixon For My Mama And Anyone Who Look Like Her | 4.0 |
| Really solid jazzy hip-hop that just continues to get better as it goes along with a very strong back half. |
| Squid Bright Green Field | 4.0 |
| Bladee The Fool | 3.5 |
| Matt Sweeney and Bonnie Prince Billy Superwolves | 4.0 |
| Gojira Fortitude | 3.0 |
| Universally Estranged Reared Up In Spectral Predation | 3.0 |
| Sematary Rainbow Bridge 3 | 4.0 |
| Altarage Succumb | 3.5 |
| Their best so far, but still fairly by-the-numbers and doesn't rise to the heights of the top tier stuff like Ulcerate or Ad Nauseam in the dissonant death metal camp. |
| Tougher Than Nails Delusional Blasphemies Destroyed | 1.0 |
| The Armed Ultrapop | 4.0 |
| Suffocate For Fuck Sake Fyra | 3.0 |
| Witchrot Hollow | 4.0 |
| Phlebotomized Pain, Resistance, Suffering | 3.0 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Loss | 3.0 |
| Brockhampton Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine | 3.0 |
| Kauan Ice Fleet | 4.0 |
| Purgatory (USA-NE) Lawless To Grave | 3.5 |
| Coevality Multiple Personalities | 4.0 |
| Dohlmen Dohlmen | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! | 4.5 |
| Demi Lovato Dancing with the Devil... the Art of Starting Over | 1.5 |
| Fuoco Fatuo (ITA2) Obsidian Katabasis | 3.5 |
| Unflesh Inhumation | 3.5 |
| Rorcal and Earthflesh Witch Coven | 2.5 |
| BRUIT The Machine Is Burning... | 5.0 |
| Steel Bearing Hand Slay In Hell | 4.5 |
| Straightforward but lightning fast death-thrash with insane guitar tone and riffing. Doesn't push the envelope in any way, but with a throwback this good, who cares? |
| Moanaa Embers | 4.0 |
| The Space Huns Tales of Huns | 3.5 |
| Nihilism (GR) Cataclysme Vers l'Ascendance | 4.5 |
| Sanguisugabogg Tortured Whole | 2.5 |
| Citizen Life In Your Glass World | 3.0 |
| Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Nightmare Withdrawals | 4.0 |
| Lost Girls Menneskekollektivet | 3.5 |
| Wheel (FIN) Resident Human | 4.0 |
| Armand Hammer and The Alchemist Haram | 3.5 |
| Rapture (GR) Malevolent Demise Incarnation | 3.5 |
| Genghis Tron Dream Weapon | 3.5 |
| Tomahawk Tonic Immobility | 3.5 |
| Sugar Wounds Calico Dreams | 4.0 |
| Benny The Butcher The Plugs I Met 2 | 4.0 |
| Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm | 4.5 |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka | 3.0 |
| Asian Glow Cull Ficle | 4.0 |
| Mvltifission Decomposition in the Painful Metamorphosis | 3.0 |
| God's Hate God's Hate | 4.0 |
| Enforced Kill Grid | 4.0 |
| Bound In Fear Eternal | 4.0 |
| Dust Moth Rising // Sailing | 4.0 |
| The Crown Royal Destroyer | 3.5 |
| Stortregn Impermanence | 4.5 |
| Gizmachi Omega Kaleid | 4.0 |
| A Day To Remember You're Welcome | 1.5 |
| Arab Strap As Days Get Dark | 4.0 |
| Never expected a new one from these guys, but it delivers |
| Regional Justice Center Crime and Punishment | 4.0 |
| Brand of Sacrifice Lifeblood | 3.5 |
| Wolvennest Temple | 4.0 |
| Krallice Demonic Wealth | 2.5 |
| Old Nick A New Generation Of Vampiric Conspiracies | 1.0 |
| Lapalux Total Reality, Total Chaos | 3.5 |
| Genesis Owusu Smiling with No Teeth | 5.0 |
| Witherfall Curse Of Autumn | 3.0 |
| Baulta Another Second Chance | 3.5 |
| Arm's Reach Fuel To My Hate | 4.5 |
| Abominable Putridity Parasitic Metamorphosis Manifestation | 3.5 |
| Sunami/Gulch Split | 4.0 |
| Sunami side is hard as fuck |
| Haenesy Garabontzia | 3.5 |
| Black Sheep Wall Songs for the Enamel Queen | 4.5 |
| Five The Hierophant Through Aureate Void | 3.5 |
| Architects For Those That Wish to Exist | 2.0 |
| Paranorm Empyrean | 3.5 |
| Empyrium Über den Sternen | 4.0 |
| Blanck Mass In Ferneaux | 2.5 |
| Forhist Forhist | 3.0 |
| Julien Baker Little Oblivions | 3.5 |
| Knoll Interstice | 3.5 |
| Lost Horizons In Quiet Moments | 4.5 |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Carnage | 3.5 |
| Klexos Apocryphal Parabolam | 4.0 |
| Krane (CH) Topik | 3.5 |
| Parannoul To See the Next Part of the Dream | 4.0 |
| Mogwai As the Love Continues | 2.5 |
| Furia W Śnialni | 2.5 |
| Kanonenfieber Menschenmühle | 3.5 |
| Spire Temple of Khronos | 4.0 |
| Hyped for this one, the two singles are incredibly promising. |
| The Amenta Revelator | 4.5 |
| Cassandra Jenkins An Overview on Phenomenal Nature | 4.0 |
| Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse | 4.5 |
| Humanity's Last Breath Välde | 4.0 |
| Easily the best thing I've heard in the deathcore sphere in years - it takes a while to settle into it's sound as BlackTemplar pointed out, but it's definitely moving the needle towards something more unique in a typically stagnant genre. |
| Demon King The Final Tyranny | 4.0 |
| This is a great little EP, tons of technicality without verging into the obnoxious but also some really solid song-writing and layering of interesting elements. |
| slowthai TYRON | 3.0 |
| Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning | 4.5 |
| Cult of Luna The Raging River | 4.5 |
| Hayley Williams FLOWERS for VASES / descansos | 2.5 |
| Black Country, New Road For the first time | 4.0 |
| Dark Time Sunshine Lore | 2.5 |
| Stargazer (AUS) Psychic Secretions | 3.0 |
| Aylwin The Arch Holder | 3.0 |
| The Ruins of Beverast The Thule Grimoires | 4.5 |
| Portrayal of Guilt We Are Always Alone | 4.0 |
| Mainliner Dual Myths | 4.0 |
| Yoth Iria As The Flame Withers | 3.5 |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) Sympathetic Magic | 4.0 |
| Nervosa Perpetual Chaos | 2.0 |
| Yon order of violence | 4.0 |
| Ferriterium Calvaire | 4.0 |
| Sweet Trip Walkers Beware! We Drive Into The Sun / Stab/Slow | 4.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou The Helm of Sorrow | 3.5 |
| Lukah When the Black Hand Touches You | 4.0 |
| This is crazy slept on and under-appreciated - better than any Giselda project people have been going crazy over for the last few years. |
| Gatecreeper An Unexpected Reality | 3.5 |
| Frozen Soul Crypt Of Ice | 3.0 |
| Wardruna Kvitravn | 3.0 |
| 2020 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music III | 4.0 |
| Akhlys Melinoe | 4.5 |
| Yashira Fail To Be | 3.5 |
| The Avalanches We Will Always Love You | 3.0 |
| Black Wing No Moon | 3.0 |
| Deeds of Flesh Nucleus | 4.5 |
| Sooooo, is it the job of every contributor/staff writer to constantly underrate albums or...? |
| Boris With Merzbow 2R0I2P0 | 2.0 |
| Moor Mother and Billy Woods Brass | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Evermore | 3.5 |
| Science of Sound Kaleidoscope Phonetics | 4.0 |
| A lost classic from 1995 that has finally been given a real release. It's got features and production from the likes of Phife Dawg (RIP) from A Tribe Called Quest, Melle Mel and Godfather Don. |
| Every Time I Die A Colossal Wreck // Desperate Pleasures | 4.0 |
| Abigor Totschläger (A Saintslayer's Songbook) | 4.0 |
| Abigor's best since Supreme Immortal Art, really great stuff. |
| Growth (AUS) The Smothering Arms Of Mercy | 4.5 |
| Green Druid At the Maw of Ruin | 4.0 |
| Respire Black Line | 4.0 |
| Depravity (AUS) Grand Malevolence | 4.0 |
| One of the best bands going in death metal right now. Ultra tight, brutal, and riffs by the dozen on every track here. |
| Ichiko Aoba Adan no Kaze | 4.0 |
| Azarath Saint Desecration | 3.5 |
| Palm Reader Sleepless | 2.5 |
| Ondskapt Grimoire Ordo Devus | 4.5 |
| Doesn't quite reach the heights of Dodens..., but it comes damn close. Incredible return from one of the genre's best kept secrets. |
| Dark Tranquillity Moment | 3.0 |
| pg.lost Oscillate | 4.0 |
| Weathered Everything All at Once | 4.0 |
| Tombs Under Sullen Skies | 3.5 |
| Tired Lion Breakfast for Pathetics | 4.0 |
| Severoth Vsesvit | 3.5 |
| Great sense of melody and atmosphere, but missing the variation that would've made this exceptional. |
| Aesop Rock Spirit World Field Guide | 4.0 |
| Dark Buddha Rising Mathreyata | 3.0 |
| Kruder and Dorfmeister 1995 | 4.5 |
| Everything I hoped it would be, and a nice surprise to cap off a terrible year, thanks K&D. |
| Dvne Omega Severer | 3.5 |
| Deluge Ægo Templo | 3.5 |
| Countless Skies Glow | 3.0 |
| Sangre de Muerdago Xuntas | 4.0 |
| The Casket Lottery Short Songs For End Times | 3.5 |
| Darkenhold Arcanes & sortilèges | 4.0 |
| Light Dweller Apparition | 3.5 |
| Vennart In The Dead, Dead Wood | 3.5 |
| Anteros ...y en paz la oscuridad | 3.5 |
| Miasmatic Necrosis Apex Profane | 4.0 |
| Mr. Bungle The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny | 3.5 |
| Cool to hear these tracks with much better production many years later, but it doesn't quite reach the heights of their classic material even with the all-star line-up they assembled for this one. |
| Nothing The Great Dismal | 4.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Magic Oneohtrix Point Never | 2.5 |
| Draconian Under a Godless Veil | 4.0 |
| Busta Rhymes Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God | 2.5 |
| Salem (US) Fires in Heaven | 2.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full | 3.5 |
| Chamber (USA) Cost of Sacrifice | 3.5 |
| clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned | 4.0 |
| Black Thought Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane and Abel | 3.5 |
| Undeath Lesions of a Different Kind | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez | 2.5 |
| Sam Amidon Sam Amidon | 4.0 |
| USA Nails Character Stop | 4.5 |
| Wobbler Dwellers of the Deep | 3.0 |
| Wake Confluence | 2.5 |
| Molassess Through the Hollow | 3.5 |
| Everything in Slow Motion Influence | 4.0 |
| Throane Une Balle Dans Le Pied | 4.0 |
| Benny The Butcher Burden Of Proof | 3.0 |
| Weakest Benny project in years, the much lighter/brighter production does him no favors whatsoever and he's at his most generic lyrically. Definitely let down by this one. |
| Wayfarer A Romance with Violence | 4.0 |
| Neander Eremit | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore Lament | 4.5 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Ellengaest | 4.0 |
| Bloodbather Silence | 2.5 |
| Inferi (USA) Of Sunless Realms | 3.5 |
| Metz Atlas Vending | 3.5 |
| Get Dead Dancing with the Curse | 2.5 |
| 156/Silence Irrational Pull | 3.0 |
| Sordid Pink Sordid Pink | 2.5 |
| Enslaved Utgard | 2.5 |
| Greg Puciato Child Soldier: Creator of God | 4.0 |
| REZN Chaotic Divine | 4.0 |
| Skaphe Skáphe³ | 4.0 |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? | 4.0 |
| Deftones Ohms | 3.5 |
| Dropdead Dropdead 2020 | 3.0 |
| Elzhi Seven Times Down Eight Times Up | 4.0 |
| Public Enemy What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down | 1.0 |
| IDLES Ultra Mono | 4.5 |
| Obsidian Kingdom Meat Machine | 4.0 |
| The Reticent The Oubliette | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic | 4.0 |
| Movements No Good Left to Give | 3.5 |
| Khors Where the Word Acquires Eternity | 4.0 |
| One of the most consistent, and consistently slept on black metal bands in the game - this is yet another solid entry into their discography. |
| Skeletal Remains The Entombment of Chaos | 4.5 |
These dudes continue leading the pack of OSDM revival/worship acts and beat out modern
genre favorites like Blood Incarnation and Tomb Mold with ease. Suffocation and
Pestilence fans would be wise to check this one out. |
| Jupiterian Protosapien | 2.0 |
| Everything Everything RE-ANIMATOR | 3.0 |
| Conway the Machine From King To A God | 4.0 |
| Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition - Chapter II | 3.5 |
| Pig Destroyer The Octagonal Stairway | 2.5 |
| Two People Second Body | 3.0 |
| Necrot Mortal | 3.5 |
| Luna's Call Void | 3.5 |
| Motorpsycho The All Is One | 3.0 |
| Ulver Flowers of Evil | 3.0 |
| Cytotoxin Nuklearth | 4.0 |
Zero innovation, but it riffs like mad and it's the best that a tech-death project has
sounded all year. Also, the title is just Mike Tyson saying Nucleus, so that's pretty
great. |
| Incantation Sect of Vile Divinities | 3.0 |
| Nas King’s Disease | 3.0 |
| Atramentus Stygian | 4.0 |
| Westelaken The Golden Days are Hard | 4.0 |
| Bully Sugaregg | 4.0 |
| Nubya Garcia SOURCE | 4.5 |
| Be Well The Weight And The Cost | 3.5 |
| Dikembe Muck | 3.0 |
| Havukruunu Uinuos Syömein Sota | 4.0 |
| Ingested Where Only Gods May Tread | 3.5 |
| Decoherence Unitarity | 4.5 |
| Tired Radio Patterns | 3.0 |
| Primitive Man Immersion | 3.5 |
| Pharmacist Medical Renditions of Grinding Decomposition | 4.0 |
| Selbst Relatos de Angustia | 4.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Mukiltearth | 4.0 |
| Jaye Jayle Prisyn | 4.5 |
| Video Age Pleasure Line | 2.5 |
| Orbit Culture Nija | 3.0 |
| Black Crown Initiate Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape | 3.5 |
| Year of the Knife Internal Incarceration | 3.5 |
| Terminal Nation Holocene Extinction | 2.5 |
| The Microphones Microphones in 2020 | 5.0 |
| Tkay Maidza Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2 | 3.0 |
| Molested Divinity Unearthing The Void | 4.0 |
| Imperial Triumphant Alphaville | 4.5 |
| Fontaines D.C. A Hero's Death | 4.0 |
| Rival Consoles Articulation | 3.5 |
| Disavowed Revocation of the Fallen | 4.0 |
| Colour in the Clouds Inosculation | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Folklore | 4.5 |
| Haken Virus | 3.5 |
| Bedsore Hypnagogic Hallucinations | 3.5 |
| Gulch Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress | 4.0 |
| Defeated Sanity The Sanguinary Impetus | 4.0 |
| Gaerea Limbo | 3.5 |
| Strike Anywhere Nightmares of the West | 4.0 |
| Lianne La Havas Lianne La Havas | 4.0 |
| Mystras Castles Conquered And Reclaimed | 2.5 |
| Protomartyr Ultimate Success Today | 3.0 |
| Khthoniik Cerviiks Æequiizoiikum | 3.0 |
| Illuminati Hotties FREE I.H: This Is Not the One... | 4.0 |
| Blu and Exile Miles | 3.5 |
| Xythlia Immortality Through Quantum Suicide | 3.5 |
| 100 Gecs 1000 Gecs and the Tree of Clues | 1.0 |
| Aseitas False Peace | 4.0 |
| Ok, this actually sounds about as fresh and new as anything I've heard in the death metal world in a while. Really promising stuff. |
| The Midnight Monsters | 2.5 |
| Moribund Mantras Golden Void | 4.0 |
| Jesu Never | 2.0 |
| Boris NO | 3.5 |
| Pop Smoke Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon | 2.0 |
| Under Old Trees Kelo | 4.0 |
| Phoxjaw Royal Swan | 4.0 |
| Question Reflections of the Void | 3.0 |
| Pottery Welcome to Bobby's Motel | 4.0 |
| Pyrrhon Abscess Time | 3.0 |
| Descend The Deviant | 4.0 |
| Bell Witch and Aerial Ruin Stygian Bough Volume 1 | 4.0 |
| Neptunian Maximalism Eons | 4.5 |
| VoidCeremony Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional... | 4.0 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Im Wald | 4.0 |
| Thaetas Shrines to Absurdity | 4.0 |
| Hum Inlet | 4.5 |
| Counterparts N.L.T.L. B-Sides | 2.5 |
| Hail Spirit Noir Eden In Reverse | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest | 2.0 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher | 3.0 |
| Owen The Avalanche | 2.5 |
| Nuvolascura As We Suffer From Memory and Imagination | 4.0 |
| As Real Marveless | 3.5 |
| clipping. Chapter 319 | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways | 2.5 |
| Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure? | 4.0 |
| The Koreatown Oddity Little Dominques Nosebleed | 4.5 |
| Prison of Mirrors (ITA) De Ritualibus et Sacrificiis ad Serviendum Abysso | 3.5 |
| Clap! Clap! Liquid Portraits | 4.0 |
| Valdrin Effigy Of Nightmares | 3.5 |
| Justice For The Damned Pain Is Power | 3.5 |
| The album cover is your your spirit leaving your slumped body after being being moshed into the afterlife during "Final Cataclysm" |
| Material Girl Tangram | 1.5 |
| A big nothing-burger of background music |
| Ulthar Providence | 3.5 |
| A Light In The Dark Insomnia | 3.0 |
| Ebonivory The Long Dream I | 2.5 |
| Cheesy djent-prog |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face | 3.5 |
| Death Courier Necrotic Verses | 3.5 |
| Very solid but standard OSDM revival - nothing you haven't heard before 100 times over, but it riffs hard and the production is good |
| Armand Hammer Shrines | 3.5 |
| One of the better hip-hop releases of the year so far, but still not living up to the potential I see from this project |
| Sonic Boom All Things Being Equal | 2.0 |
| Covet technicolor | 3.0 |
| Sunami Sunami EP | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 | 4.5 |
| Keleketla! Keleketla! | 4.5 |
| Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist Alfredo | 4.0 |
| Died Less Life | 4.5 |
| Heads. PUSH | 4.0 |
| Aesthesys Alignments | 4.0 |
| Rannoch Reflections Upon Darkness | 4.5 |
| Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant | 4.0 |
| Mountaineer Bloodletting | 4.0 |
| Jeff Rosenstock NO DREAM | 4.5 |
| $ilkmoney Attack of the Future Shocked, Flesh Covered, Meatb | 4.0 |
| Exgenesis Solve et Coagula | 4.5 |
| Exgenesis really builds on the promising sound established on their EP a few years ago and delivers what is probably the best death/doom album I've heard in years. |
| Infant Island Beneath | 4.0 |
| Devangelic Ersetu | 3.5 |
| Paradise Lost Obsidian | 3.5 |
| Wailin Storms Rattle | 4.5 |
| ...and Oceans Cosmic World Mother | 4.0 |
| Winterfylleth The Reckoning Dawn | 3.5 |
| Gleemer Down Through | 4.5 |
| Green Carnation Leaves Of Yesteryear | 3.5 |
| Shiner Schadenfreude | 4.0 |
| Forgotten Tomb Nihilistic Estrangement | 4.0 |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor | 2.0 |
| Cryptic Shift Visitations from Enceladus | 3.5 |
| O'Brother You and I | 4.0 |
| Umbra Vitae Shadow of Life | 3.0 |
| Cosmic Putrefaction The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers | 4.0 |
| Ka Descendants Of Cain | 3.0 |
| Frustrating - great lyricism paired with monotonous delivery and beats too skeletal for their own good - if he started delivering some of these bars with real energy and urgency he'd be a top tier MC in 2020. |
| Karmacipher Introspectrum | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still | 4.5 |
| Barishi Old Smoke | 3.5 |
| Black Curse Endless Wound | 4.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Afterburner | 2.0 |
| Unmerciful Wrath Encompassed | 4.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Omens | 3.5 |
| Malevolence The Other Side | 4.0 |
| Katatonia City Burials | 2.5 |
| Elephant Tree Habits | 3.5 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi | 4.5 |
| Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters | 3.5 |
| Ripped to Shreds 亂 (Luan) | 3.5 |
| Nord (FRA) The Only Way To Reach The Surface | 3.0 |
| R.A. The Rugged Man All My Heroes Are Dead | 4.0 |
| Drain (USA-CA) California Cursed | 4.0 |
| Like Rats Death Monolith | 3.5 |
| Vasudeva Generator | 2.5 |
| Inoffensive background music for Youtube tutorials |
| Calligram The Eye Is the First Circle | 3.0 |
| Fearing Shadow | 3.5 |
| 200 Stab Wounds Piles of Festering Decomposition | 3.0 |
| The Strokes The New Abnormal | 2.5 |
| Ellis Born Again | 4.0 |
| Thundercat It Is What It Is | 3.0 |
| Pure Reason Revolution Eupnea | 3.5 |
| Peace'd Out Feelings Blade | 2.5 |
| Astodan Bathala | 4.0 |
| Methwitch Indwell | 4.5 |
| Imagine if Fronteirer and Sectioned were even more insane and abrasive and had a ton of experimental electronics and industrial sounds thrown in. Total lunacy. |
| Martin Grech Hush Mortal Core | 4.0 |
| Wake Devouring Ruin | 3.0 |
| Warp Chamber Implements of Excruciation | 4.0 |
| Temple of Void The World That Was | 4.0 |
| Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion | 3.0 |
| Joyner Lucas ADHD | 1.5 |
| Nox Formulae Drakon Darshan Satan | 3.0 |
| Three Knee Deep Three Knee Deep | 4.5 |
| Mad ignant, who cares about anything else |
| Telepathy Burn Embrace | 3.5 |
| Nicolas Jaar Cenizas | 2.5 |
| Godfather Don Osmosis | 4.5 |
| GFD hasn't lost a single step and wastes zero bars throughout this project. This is an incredible comeback, and the jazzy, noir beats from Parental really compliment his style well. |
| Lamp of Murmuur The Burning Spears Of Crimson Agony | 2.5 |
| Childish Gambino 03.15.20 | 2.0 |
| Olhava Ladoga | 4.0 |
| Eye Flys Tub Of Lard | 4.5 |
| March Set Loose | 3.0 |
| Sweven (SWE) The Eternal Resonance | 3.5 |
| wthAura GROCERY | 4.5 |
| Ian William Craig Red Sun Through Smoke | 3.5 |
| King Buffalo Dead Star | 4.0 |
| A 50 minute album ain't an EP. Also, this rules. |
| Adagio! New York To Philly | 4.0 |
| Burden of Life The Makeshift Conqueror | 4.0 |
| Dogleg Melee | 4.5 |
| Jay Electronica A Written Testimony | 2.5 |
| Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine | 4.0 |
| White Stones Kuarahy | 3.5 |
| Shabaka and the Ancestors We Are Sent Here By History | 3.5 |
| Lychgate Also Sprach Futura | 4.5 |
| Horse Lords The Common Task | 2.0 |
| Afterbirth Four Dimensional Flesh | 4.0 |
| Four Tet Sixteen Oceans | 3.5 |
| No Note if this is the future then I'm in the dark | 4.0 |
| Dopelord Sign Of The Devil | 4.5 |
| Vredehammer Viperous | 3.0 |
| Psychonaut Unfold the God Man | 3.5 |
| Earth Rot Black Tides of Obscurity | 3.0 |
| PEARS Pears | 4.0 |
| Disembowel (USA-OR) Echoes of Terror | 2.5 |
| Ikarass Relapse into Desolation | 4.5 |
| R.A.P. Ferreira purple moonlight pages | 3.5 |
| Viscera (UK) Obsidian | 3.5 |
| Slift Ummon | 5.0 |
| Fluisteraars Bloem | 2.5 |
| Beneath the Massacre Fearmonger | 4.0 |
| Internal Rot Grieving Birth | 4.0 |
| This shit bangs. |
| Drown (US) Subaqueous | 4.0 |
| Disbelief The Ground Collapses | 2.5 |
| Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Ascension | 3.0 |
| Lowrider Refractions | 3.5 |
| Psychotic Waltz The God-Shaped Void | 3.5 |
| Bambara Stray | 4.5 |
| Envy The Fallen Crimson | 4.0 |
| Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything | 3.5 |
| Green Day Father of All Motherfuckers | 1.5 |
| Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked | 3.5 |
| Spanish Love Songs Brave Faces Everyone | 4.0 |
| Gorevent Fate | 2.5 |
| Boldy James and The Alchemist The Price Of Tea In China | 4.0 |
| The Necks Three | 3.5 |
| Leeched To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse | 4.0 |
| Butcher 666 Goats Carry My Chariot | 4.0 |
| Nero di Marte Immoto | 4.0 |
| Thy Catafalque Naiv | 3.0 |
| Caspian On Circles | 3.5 |
| AJJ Good Luck Everybody | 3.0 |
| Eminem Music to Be Murdered By | 1.5 |
| Garganjua Toward the Sun | 3.5 |
| Madlib and Oh No The Professionals | 2.5 |
| Anti-Flag 20/20 Vision | 2.0 |
| Algiers There Is No Year | 2.5 |
| Sallow Moth The Larval Hope | 3.0 |
| Ether Coven Everything Is Temporary Except Suffering | 2.5 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Patchouli Blue | 3.0 |
| 2019 |
| The Acacia Strain It Comes in Waves | 2.5 |
| Oak (PT) Lone | 5.0 |
| The best death/doom album I've heard all year, incredible stuff. |
| XXXTENTACION Bad Vibes Forever | 1.0 |
| Fen The Dead Light | 3.0 |
| Carcariass Planet Chaos | 3.5 |
While this doesn't top Killing Process or some of their earlier works, Carcariass is still one of the
more unique and inventive bands in the tech-death sphere, worth a listen. |
| IDLES A Beautiful Thing: Idles Live At Le Bataclan | 4.5 |
| Griselda WWCD | 4.0 |
| Cattle Decapitation Death Atlas | 3.5 |
| Leonard Cohen Thanks For The Dance | 4.0 |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race | 4.5 |
| Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket Det Onda. Det Goda. Det Vackra. Det Fula. | 4.5 |
| Obsequiae The Palms of Sorrowed Kings | 4.0 |
| Septa Bitten by the Serpent of the Kingdom of the Spirit | 3.0 |
| Sleep Token Sundowning | 3.0 |
| Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark | 3.5 |
| Constellatia The Language of Limbs | 4.5 |
| Left Behind No One Goes To Heaven | 4.0 |
| Origami Angel Somewhere City | 4.5 |
| Chat Pile Remove Your Skin Please | 4.5 |
| Medhane Own Pace | 4.0 |
| Liturgy H.A.Q.Q. | 2.5 |
| Iapetus The Body Cosmic | 4.0 |
| Zeta (VEN) Mochima | 3.5 |
| Moor Mother Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes | 2.5 |
| Rorcal Muladona | 4.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Sea of Worry | 4.5 |
| Esoteric A Pyrrhic Existence | 4.0 |
| Lapalux Amnioverse | 3.5 |
| FKA Twigs Magdalene | 2.5 |
| Nile Vile Nilotic Rites | 4.0 |
| Wilderun Veil of Imagination | 4.5 |
| Frail Body A Brief Memoriam | 4.5 |
| Michael Kiwanuka Kiwanuka | 4.0 |
| Counterparts Nothing Left to Love | 3.0 |
| Paint by numbers metalcore |
| Asphodele Jours Pâles | 4.0 |
| Apollo Brown Sincerely, Detroit | 3.5 |
| Solid and consistent all the way through, but there are no true standouts and the album is really bloated at nearly 80 minutes long with 21 tracks and a crazy amount of features. |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct | 4.0 |
| Mayhem Daemon | 3.0 |
| Leprous Pitfalls | 2.5 |
| Swans Leaving Meaning | 3.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts | 3.0 |
| Kanye West Jesus Is King | 2.0 |
| Anamanaguchi [USA] | 4.0 |
| Great Grandpa Four of Arrows | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean All Hail | 3.5 |
| Thornhill The Dark Pool | 3.0 |
| The Great Old Ones Cosmicism | 3.5 |
| Merda Mundi Hatred | 4.5 |
| Jeff Rosenstock Thanks, Sorry! | 4.5 |
| Xoth Interdimensional Invocations | 4.0 |
| From Indian Lakes Dimly Lit | 2.5 |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood | 4.5 |
| Teitanblood The Baneful Choir | 2.5 |
| Guerilla Toss What Would the Odd Do? | 4.0 |
| Sarcasm (SWE) Esoteric Tales of the Unserene | 4.0 |
| Yazz Ahmed Polyhymnia | 4.0 |
| Fleshworld The Essence Has Changed, but the Details Remain | 3.5 |
| Profanatica Rotting Incarnation of God | 2.5 |
| Lightning Bolt Sonic Citadel | 4.0 |
| Profetus The Sadness Of Time Passing | 4.5 |
| Mavi let the sun talk | 4.0 |
| I've been seeing a lot of people complaining that this is too Earl influenced...but to be honest it's better than anything Earl's ever dropped. |
| Seizures Reverie of the Revolving Diamond | 4.5 |
| In Mourning Garden of Storms | 3.5 |
| Lagwagon Railer | 4.0 |
| L'Orange and Jeremiah Jae Complicate Your Life with Violence | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen | 3.5 |
| Gatecreeper Deserted | 3.5 |
| We Lost the Sea Triumph and Disaster | 3.0 |
| Split End Deep Love | 4.0 |
| Rosetta Terra Sola | 4.0 |
| Sturgill Simpson Sound and Fury | 3.5 |
| Car Bomb Mordial | 4.0 |
| Telefon Tel Aviv Dreams Are Not Enough | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear | 4.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Wild Gods | 4.0 |
| White Ward Love Exchange Failure | 4.5 |
| Tides From Nebula From Voodoo to Zen | 4.5 |
| No One Knows What The Dead Think No One Knows What The Dead Think | 3.0 |
| Slayyyter Slayyyter | 3.5 |
| Ameer Vann EMMANUEL | 3.5 |
| JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs | 3.0 |
| Tiny Moving Parts Breathe | 2.5 |
| Microwave Death is a Warm Blanket | 4.0 |
| PSOTY Sunless | 4.5 |
| Vitriol (USA) To Bathe from the Throat of Cowardice | 4.5 |
| Ras Kass Soul on Ice 2 | 3.5 |
| Mgla Age of Excuse | 3.0 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 2.0 |
| Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue | 2.5 |
| Taylor Swift Lover | 3.5 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) In The Spirit World Now | 2.5 |
| WRVTH No Rising Sun | 4.0 |
| Brockhampton Ginger | 2.0 |
| Devourment Obscene Majesty | 4.0 |
| Shadow Of Intent Melancholy | 3.5 |
| The Comet Is Coming Trust in the Lifeforce of Deep Mystery | 4.5 |
| Lord Gore Scalpels for Blind Surgeons | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Blood Year | 2.5 |
| Wolves at the Gate Eclipse | 2.5 |
| Chance the Rapper The Big Day | 1.5 |
| Sanction (NY) Broken In Refraction | 3.5 |
| Sanguisugabogg Pornographic Seizures | 4.0 |
| This shit is MEAN and has riffs for days, don't sleep on this demo. |
| Lingua Ignota Caligula | 1.0 |
| Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance | 3.5 |
| Enforced At The Walls | 4.0 |
| Nas The Lost Tapes II | 2.0 |
| Purple Mountains Purple Mountains | 3.5 |
| Elder (USA-MA) The Gold and Silver Sessions | 4.0 |
| Ed Sheeran No. 6 Collaborations Project | 1.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper Bloodied/Unbowed | 2.5 |
| Joliette Luz Devora | 4.0 |
| Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology | 3.5 |
| Weatherday Come In | 2.5 |
| Heilung Futha | 4.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast The Fleeting Light of Impermanence | 4.0 |
| Their best in a long while, well worth your time. |
| Prince Daddy and The Hyena Cosmic Thrill Seekers | 4.5 |
| He Is Legend White Bat | 3.5 |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Bandana | 4.0 |
| Yellow Eyes Rare Field Ceiling | 3.0 |
| Thom Yorke Anima | 2.5 |
| State Faults Clairvoyant | 5.0 |
| Abyssal (UK) A Beacon In The Husk | 4.5 |
| Hollywood Vampires Rise | 1.0 |
| Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze Offerings of Flesh and Gold | 4.5 |
| The Odious Vesica Piscis | 3.0 |
| Black Midi Schlagenheim | 4.5 |
| Benny The Butcher The Plugs I Met | 4.5 |
| Telethon Hard Pop | 3.5 |
| Nebula Holy Shit | 3.5 |
| Serpent Of Gnosis As I Drink from the Infinite Well of Inebriation | 4.0 |
| Thank You Scientist Terraformer | 3.0 |
| Crumb (USA-NY) Jinx | 4.0 |
| Cave In Final Transmission | 4.5 |
| As Cities Burn Scream Through the Walls | 4.0 |
| Pelican Nighttime Stories | 4.0 |
| Chernaa Empyrean Fire | 3.5 |
| Plague Vendor By Night | 3.0 |
| The Austerity Program Bible Songs 1 | 4.5 |
| A nasty mash-up of Daughter's "You Won't Get What You Want", NoMeansNo's "Wrong", and a bunch of Steve Albini-isms - amazing. |
| Monarque Jusqu'à la Mort | 4.0 |
| Denzel Curry Zuu | 3.5 |
| Kishi Bashi Omoiyari | 3.0 |
| Her Name Is Calla Animal Choir | 3.0 |
| Esoctrilihum The Telluric Ashes of the Ö Vrth Immemorial Gods | 3.0 |
| Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia | 4.5 |
| Fire! Orchestra Arrival | 3.0 |
| Misthyrming Algleymi | 4.5 |
| Flying Lotus Flamagra | 3.0 |
| Amyl and the Sniffers Amyl and the Sniffers | 3.5 |
| Injury Reserve Injury Reserve | 3.0 |
| Tyler, the Creator IGOR | 3.0 |
| Full of Hell Weeping Choir | 3.0 |
| Ulver Drone Activity | 2.0 |
| Warforged I: Voice | 4.5 |
| Magnitude To Whatever Fateful End | 4.0 |
| Fury (USA) Failed Entertainment | 3.5 |
| !T.O.O.H.! Komouš | 2.5 |
| Deus Mortem Kosmocide | 3.5 |
| Sunn O))) Life Metal | 2.5 |
| Spotlights Love and Decay | 4.0 |
| Vaura Sables | 2.5 |
| Vargrav (FIN) Reign In Supreme Darkness | 4.0 |
| Belzebubs Pantheon of the Nightside Gods | 4.0 |
| Helms Alee Noctiluca | 3.0 |
| Mortality Rate You Were the Gasoline | 4.5 |
| Spiritbox Singles Collection | 1.5 |
| Kevin Abstract ARIZONA BABY | 3.5 |
| Your Old Droog It Wasn't Even Close | 4.5 |
| Kayak Jones You Swear It's Getting Better Every Day | 3.0 |
| Tripsitter The Other Side of Sadness | 3.5 |
| Cosmic Putrefaction At the Threshold of the Greatest Chasm | 4.0 |
| Lizzo Cuz I Love You | 4.5 |
| Remete (AUS) Into Endless Night | 4.5 |
| Lurid Panacea The Insidious Poisons | 4.0 |
| Fontaines D.C. Dogrel | 3.5 |
| Inter Arma Sulphur English | 4.0 |
| Hath Of Rot And Ruin | 4.5 |
| Numenorean Adore | 4.0 |
| Nails I Don't Want to Know You | 4.0 |
| Glen Hansard This Wild Willing | 4.0 |
| Secret Band LP2 | 3.5 |
| Blindead Niewiosna | 4.0 |
| Kings Kaleidoscope Zeal | 3.0 |
| PUP Morbid Stuff | 4.0 |
| Departure Chandelier Antichrist Rise to Power | 2.5 |
| Weyes Blood Titanic Rising | 3.5 |
| Owel Paris | 3.5 |
| Billy Woods and Kenny Segal Hiding Places | 4.5 |
| Moon Tooth Crux | 3.0 |
| Show Me The Body Dog Whistle | 3.5 |
| Whitechapel The Valley | 2.5 |
| Epic Beard Men This Was Supposed To Be Fun | 3.5 |
| Brutus (BE) Nest | 3.0 |
| Anonymuz There Is No Threat | 3.5 |
| Jenny Lewis On The Line | 3.0 |
| 4.5 titties, 3.0 music. |
| Lambchop This (is what I wanted to tell you) | 3.0 |
| This era of Lambchop doesn't really do much for me, and this record hasn't done much to change that. |
| La Dispute Panorama | 3.0 |
| American Football American Football (LP3) | 4.0 |
| Aoratos Gods Without Name | 4.0 |
| Johnny Booth Firsthand Accounts | 3.5 |
| Asthma Castle Mount Crushmore | 4.0 |
| Chief Keef GloToven | 1.0 |
| Angel Du$t Pretty Buff | 1.5 |
| Malignant Altar Retribution of Jealous Gods | 3.5 |
| Nostromo (CHE) Narrenschiff | 4.5 |
| What a ripper this little EP is, really glad these dudes are back. |
| Mystifier Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia | 3.0 |
| Easily their weakest album, kind of a bummer honestly. |
| Ringare Under Pale Moon | 3.5 |
| Little Simz Grey Area | 4.0 |
| Degraey Reveries | 4.5 |
| As close as we're going to get to another Isis album, this thing is a monster. |
| Neander neander | 4.0 |
| Herod Sombre Dessein | 4.5 |
| Funereal Presence Achatius | 3.0 |
| Copeland Blushing | 2.0 |
| Cara Neir Part III / Part IV | 3.0 |
| Uboa The Origin Of My Depression | 4.5 |
| Shin Guard 2020 | 4.0 |
| Un and Coltsblood Coltsblood / Un | 3.5 |
| Ariana Grande Thank U, Next | 2.0 |
| break up with your producers, i'm bored |
| Xiu Xiu Girl with Basket of Fruit | 1.5 |
| Our Survival Depends On Us Melting the Ice in the Hearts of Men | 4.5 |
Gold and Silver alone is worth the price of admission, but this whole thing is a monster. Arcturus
like vocals, Heilung like image, with a really unique crafted blend of atmospheric black/doom
metal and post-metal. |
| Aesmah Walking Off The Horizon | 3.5 |
| Warmoon Lord Burning Banners of the Funereal War | 4.0 |
| Judiciary Surface Noise | 3.5 |
| Together to the Stars An Oblivion Above | 4.5 |
| Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center | 2.5 |
| Rosetta Sower of Wind | 2.5 |
| 2018 |
| Dirge (FR) Lost Empyrean | 4.5 |
| Bay Faction Florida Guilt | 2.5 |
| XXXTENTACION Skins | 1.0 |
| Zealotry At the Nexus of All Stillborn Worlds | 4.0 |
| Jason Becker Triumphant Hearts | 2.5 |
| Cosmic Atrophy The Void Engineers | 3.5 |
| Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs | 2.0 |
| Dull, sleepy beats with a bored sounding Earl, super disappointing. |
| The 1975 A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships | 1.0 |
| JID DiCaprio 2 | 2.0 |
| Damn, this is weak, expected so much more from this dude. |
| 6ix9ine DUMMY BOY | 1.0 |
| Obliteration Cenotaph Obscure | 3.5 |
| Ski Mask The Slump God Stokeley | 2.5 |
| In the Woods... Cease the Day | 3.0 |
| Wardruna Skald | 2.0 |
| Benny The Butcher Tana Talk 3 | 4.5 |
| Anderson .Paak Oxnard | 2.5 |
| Hwwauoch Hwwauoch | 4.0 |
| Spirit's Portal comparison rings true, lots of Blut Aus Nord-isms in here too. Murky, dirty, chaotic, dissonant, nightmarish black metal stuff, it rules. |
| Failure In The Future Your Body Will Be The Furthest Thing From Your Mind | 4.0 |
| Portrayal of Guilt Let Pain Be Your Guide | 4.0 |
| Evoken Hypnagogia | 3.5 |
| Overall brighter, prettier, and more melodic than their usual offerings with the atmosphere not feeling as dense and oppressive as it was on past outings - depending on your taste that could be a positive or a negative thing. It's good, but ultimately it falls fairly short of the greatness of albums like Antithesis of Light and Atra Mors. |
| Marquis Hill Modern Flows Vol 2 | 4.0 |
| Ulthar Cosmovore | 3.0 |
| Solid OSDM worship with a touch of psychedelic flair and some Portal-isms thrown in. |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic | 4.5 |
| Drug Church CHEER | 4.0 |
| Vince Staples FM! | 2.0 |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want | 5.0 |
| Current 93 The Light is Leaving Us All | 2.5 |
| Outer Heaven Realms of Eternal Decay | 4.5 |
| Four Fists 6666 | 3.0 |
| VOLA Applause of a Distant Crowd | 4.0 |
| One Tail, One Head Worlds Open, Worlds Collide | 4.0 |
| Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest | 3.0 |
| Windhand Eternal Return | 3.5 |
| Piah Mater The Wandering Daughter | 4.0 |
| I've heard a lot of bands get compared to Opeth over the years, but this is one of the few that manages to deliver on that claim. Neither the growled nor clean vocals quite live up to Akerfeldt's, but these guys are showing some real promise on this album, curious to see where they take this sound in the future. |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] | 4.5 |
| Un Sentiment | 4.5 |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter V | 1.5 |
| Wang Wen Invisible City | 4.0 |
| Candy (USA) Good To Feel | 4.5 |
| Horrendous Idol | 4.0 |
| The Black Queen Infinite Games | 3.5 |
| Slift La Planète Inexplorée | 4.0 |
| Brockhampton Iridescence | 3.5 |
| Low Double Negative | 2.5 |
| Not sure what y'all are hearing here, but there's really nothing to this album. |
| Conan Existential Void Guardian | 4.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle On Dark Horses | 3.0 |
| Spiritualized And Nothing Hurt | 3.0 |
| Yves Tumor Safe in the Hands of Love | 2.5 |
| Thou Magus | 4.5 |
| Alkaline Trio Is This Thing Cursed? | 4.0 |
| Eminem Kamikaze | 3.0 |
| Not bad, a definite return to form on the first half of the album, with Lucky You being a particularly good standout, but it starts devolving into the same schlock he's been serving up for the last few records around the midway point and never really recovers. |
| IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance | 4.5 |
| Dark Millennium Where Oceans Collide | 2.5 |
| Alice in Chains Rainier Fog | 3.0 |
| Ancestors Suspended in Reflections | 5.0 |
| Easily my favorite album of 2018, intensely beautiful and grand stuff. |
| Leeched You Took The Sun When You Left | 3.5 |
| Manes Slow Motion Death Sequence | 3.0 |
| Nothing Dance On The Blacktop | 2.5 |
| Convulsing Grievous | 3.5 |
| Hermit and the Recluse Orpheus vs. The Sirens | 4.0 |
| Carnation (BE) Chapel of Abhorrence | 4.0 |
| Beta Radio Ancient Transition | 4.0 |
| Tomberlin At Weddings | 3.5 |
| Dropout Kings AudioDope | 1.5 |
| Abysmal stuff, sounds like if Atilla was somehow both softer and cornier. |
| Uruk-Hai / Burzum The Fighting Uruk-Hai / Wotans Verhängnis | 1.0 |
| Moenen Of Xezbeth Ancient Spells of Darkness... | 2.5 |
| Y'all trippin' |
| Frontierer Unloved | 4.5 |
| Prepared for this to destroy everything in its path. |
| Denzel Curry TA13OO | 4.0 |
| So is Denzel a juggalo now or.....? |
| Runemagick Evoked From Abysmal Sleep | 3.5 |
| Regulate In The Promise Of Another Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| Dollar Signs This Will Haunt Me | 4.0 |
| A great middle ground between Andrew Jackson Jihad and Jeff Rosenstock. |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love | 3.0 |
| Hopesfall Arbiter | 3.5 |
| Suffers a bit from same-y songwriting and nonsense lyrics, but it's pretty. |
| Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury | 4.0 |
| Firtan Okeanos | 4.0 |
| Marlowe Marlowe | 4.0 |
| Kontinuum No Need to Reason | 3.5 |
| Shylmagoghnar Transience | 3.0 |
| Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep | 4.5 |
| Converge Beautiful Ruin | 3.5 |
| Drake Scorpion | 1.5 |
| Gorillaz The Now Now | 2.0 |
| No Problem Let God Sort Em Out | 4.0 |
| Vein.fm Errorzone | 4.0 |
| In Chasms Deep The Realm Between | 4.0 |
| Nas NASIR | 3.0 |
| Sophie Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides | 4.0 |
| Dark Thoughts At Work | 4.0 |
| This album is fun as hell, needs some more love here. |
| A Needle Under The Nail The Third Impact | 4.0 |
| One of the better metalcore EP's I've heard in recent years. Brings to mind bands like Martyr AD with chaotic, noisy riffs and big heavy breakdowns. |
| Unbirth Fleshforged Columns of Deceit | 4.5 |
| Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts | 2.0 |
| Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit | 4.0 |
| Improves in every way on the last album, their unique blend of black metal and negro spirituals actually flows and fits together on this one really well. |
| Tomb Mold Manor of Infinite Forms | 3.0 |
| Big Red Machine Big Red Machine (EP) | 2.5 |
| Kanye West ye | 1.0 |
| Spurv Myra | 4.5 |
| This is some gorgeous, epic post-rock - doesn't rely on played out tropes of the genre either, very fresh feeling stuff. |
| Pusha T DAYTONA | 3.0 |
| Bleeding Through Love Will Kill All | 4.0 |
| Majesty of Silence Zu Dunkel Für Das Licht | 3.5 |
| Parquet Courts Wide Awake | 2.5 |
| The Doppelgangaz AAAAGGGHH | 4.5 |
| Beach House 7 | 4.0 |
| Shakey Graves Can't Wake Up | 3.0 |
| At the Gates To Drink from the Night Itself | 3.5 |
| It's solid, but it'll do nothing to win new fans. |
| Jon Hopkins Singularity | 4.0 |
| Depravity (AUS) Evil Upheaval | 4.0 |
| If you're going to steal a classic death metal bands name, you better at least be good, and damn, these guys rip. |
| Sectioned Annihilated | 4.5 |
| The bastard child of Fronteirer and Car Bomb, and maybe better than both. |
| God Is an Astronaut Epitaph | 4.5 |
| This is massive, gorgeous, and expansive, easily their best since All is Violent. |
| The Armed Only Love | 4.0 |
| Post Malone beerbongs and bentleys | 2.0 |
| Red Apollo The Laurels of Serenity | 5.0 |
| Current AOTY for me, and the album I always knew they had the potential to make. |
| Inferi (USA) Revenant | 3.5 |
| Sleep The Sciences | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant | 1.5 |
| Ghastly (FIN) Death Velour | 4.5 |
| This has been on repeat for me all day, really loving this one. |
| The Reign of Kindo Happy However After | 3.5 |
| Some weird production choices and corny lyrics with too much emphasis on poppy vocals hold this back from being truly great like some of their earlier work, but it's still a worthwhile listen. |
| Skeletal Remains Devouring Mortality | 4.5 |
If this were released 25 years ago it would be considered a genre classic. This is some top-shelf
OSDM revival right here. |
| Frank Ocean Endless | 1.0 |
| Garroted Of Damnation and Abyssal Terrors | 3.0 |
| The Wonder Years Sister Cities | 3.0 |
| It's...alright? It sounds like a Wonder Years album. |
| Underoath Erase Me | 2.5 |
| Dr. Octagon Moosebumps | 2.0 |
| Palm Reader Braille | 3.5 |
| Kali Uchis Isolation | 4.0 |
| Bambara Shadow on Everything | 4.0 |
| This is very underrated here - dark post-punk with a touch of cowpunk and Cramps attitude. |
| The Garden Mirror Might Steal Your Charm | 3.5 |
| CZARFACE and MF DOOM Czarface Meets Metal Face | 4.0 |
| Augury Illusive Golden Age | 4.0 |
| Zeke Hellbender | 3.5 |
| Sons of Kemet Your Queen Is a Reptile | 3.5 |
| The Republic of Wolves shrine | 4.0 |
| Benny The Butcher Butcher on Steroids | 4.0 |
| XXXTENTACION ? | 1.0 |
| Mount Eerie Now Only | 4.0 |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name | 3.5 |
| Ministry AmeriKKKant | 1.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 4.0 |
| Slugdge Esoteric Malacology | 4.0 |
| Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic | 3.0 |
| Esoctrilihum Pandaemorthium | 3.0 |
| Vexes Ancient Geometry | 3.5 |
| Insect Ark Marrow Hymns | 3.0 |
| All The Luck In The World A Blind Arcade | 4.0 |
| The Dead Mantra Saudade Forever | 4.0 |
| Everything Everything A Deeper Sea | 2.5 |
| A.A.L. (Against All Logic) 2012-2017 | 3.5 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Wait For Love | 2.5 |
| Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) | 4.0 |
| Erdve Vaitojimas | 4.0 |
| Antigone's Fate Insomnia | 4.0 |
| Portal ION | 3.0 |
| Tiny Moving Parts Swell | 3.5 |
| Hooded Menace Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed | 4.0 |
| Ocean Of Grief Nightfall's Lament | 4.0 |
| Very reminiscent of old Slumber, Rapture, Katatonia, My Dying Bride, etc. - melodic death/doom done really well. |
| JPEGMAFIA Veteran | 3.5 |
| George Clanton Slide | 4.5 |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) Offerings | 3.5 |
| Shame (UK) Songs of Praise | 4.0 |
| Sinistro Sangue Cassia | 3.5 |
| Bloodbather Pressure | 4.0 |
| Jeff Rosenstock POST- | 3.5 |
| 2017 |
| Eminem Revival | 1.0 |
| Brockhampton SATURATION III | 3.5 |
| Vexovoid Call of the Starforger | 4.0 |
| Ojne Prima Che Tutto Bruci | 3.5 |
| Big Sean and Metro Boomin Double Or Nothing | 1.5 |
| Glassjaw Material Control | 4.5 |
| Morbid Angel Kingdoms Disdained | 3.0 |
| Charlotte Gainsbourg Rest | 4.5 |
| Death Toll 80k Step Down | 4.0 |
| Can confirm, dick was slapped. |
| Slow Meadow Costero | 4.0 |
| Ulver Sic Transit Gloria Mundi | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift Reputation | 2.0 |
| Vitriol (USA) Pain Will Define Their Death | 4.0 |
| Damn, these dudes rip, stoked to hear what they do next. |
| Converge The Dusk in Us | 4.0 |
| Hollow Prophet Hellhole | 4.0 |
| Man, I just keep coming back to this - not really a fan of deathcore 99% of the time, but this is really solid. |
| Heilung LIFA | 5.0 |
| La Torture des Tenebres IV - Memoirs of a Machine Girl | 4.5 |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights | 4.0 |
| Big K.R.I.T. 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time | 3.0 |
| Obastra Mosaic | 3.5 |
| Gnaw Cutting Pieces | 4.0 |
| Left Behind Blessed by the Burn | 4.0 |
| Bell Witch Mirror Reaper | 3.5 |
| Blattaria Blattaria | 4.0 |
| Pink Beautiful Trauma | 1.5 |
| St. Vincent Masseduction | 3.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan The Saga Continues | 2.0 |
| Citizen As You Please | 4.0 |
| Iglooghost Neo Wax Bloom | 4.0 |
| Injury Reserve Drive It Like It's Stolen! | 2.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold | 2.0 |
| The National Sleep Well Beast | 2.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem American Dream | 2.0 |
| Rosetta Utopioid | 3.0 |
| Turnover Good Nature | 2.0 |
| Brockhampton SATURATION II | 4.0 |
| Akercocke Renaissance in Extremis | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Villains | 2.5 |
| XXXTENTACION 17 | 1.0 |
| Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness | 4.5 |
| Everything Everything A Fever Dream | 4.0 |
| Cloakroom Time Well | 3.0 |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 4.5 |
| Pyrrhon What Passes for Survival | 3.0 |
| Hazzerd Misleading Evil | 4.5 |
| Maybe the best thrash album of the decade? Not saying a whole lot since it's basically a dead genre, but this ripsssssss. |
| Sanction (NY) The Infringement Of God's Plan | 4.0 |
| Converge I Can Tell You About Pain | 4.0 |
| Temple of Void Lords Of Death | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Add Violence | 2.5 |
| The sound of autopilot. |
| Neun Welten The Sea I'm Diving In | 4.0 |
| Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy | 3.5 |
| City of Caterpillar Driving Spain Up A Wall | 4.0 |
| Shabazz Palaces Quazarz: Born On A Gangster Star | 2.0 |
| Ultra dull, way beneath their previous efforts. |
| Integrity Howling, For the Nightmare Shall Consume | 3.0 |
| Silverstein Dead Reflection | 3.0 |
| DJ Shadow The Mountain Has Fallen | 3.0 |
| Tchornobog Tchornobog | 4.5 |
| Jay-Z 4:44 | 1.5 |
| Denzel Curry 13 | 3.0 |
| Vince Staples Big Fish Theory | 3.5 |
| Suffocation …Of the Dark Light | 2.5 |
| Brockhampton SATURATION | 3.5 |
| SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes? | 2.5 |
| '68 Two Parts Viper | 3.5 |
| Lil Yachty Teenage Emotions | 1.0 |
| Do Make Say Think Stubborn Persistent Illusions | 4.5 |
| Man, this thing is a near 5. I love a good portion DMST's discography but this might be their best material yet. I've been listening to this non-stop for the last few weeks now and it's impact hasn't waned at all. |
| Linkin Park One More Light | 1.0 |
| blink-182 California (Deluxe Edition) | 1.0 |
| Paramore After Laughter | 4.0 |
| White Ward Futility Report | 4.0 |
| The Ruins of Beverast Exuvia | 4.5 |
One of the best and most unique black metal projects of the year, and competes with Rain Upon
on the Impure as my favorite material in their catalog. |
| At the Drive-In in•ter a•li•a | 3.0 |
| Flobots Noenemies | 1.5 |
| Incendiary Thousand Mile Stare | 4.0 |
| Succumb Succumb | 2.5 |
| Ho99o9 United States Of Horror | 4.0 |
| This is rad, y'all dumb Sputnik. |
| Oxbow Thin Black Duke | 3.5 |
| Forest Swords Compassion | 2.5 |
| Slowdive Slowdive (LP) | 3.0 |
| Facade Loathe | 4.0 |
| Havukruunu Kelle Surut Soi | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Humanz | 3.0 |
| Life of Agony A Place Where There's No More Pain | 1.0 |
| Sevdaliza Ison | 3.5 |
| Severoth Forestpaths | 4.0 |
| Toby Driver Madonnawhore | 3.0 |
| Les Discrets Prédateurs | 3.5 |
| Yowie Synchromysticism | 3.5 |
| Nodachi Beyond Death Beyond Reason | 4.5 |
| Saturndust RLC | 4.0 |
| Tigerwine Die With Your Tongue Out | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 4.0 |
| Necrowretch Satanic Slavery | 4.5 |
| Sachiel Human Instrumentality | 4.5 |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar | 3.5 |
| Wear Your Wounds WYW | 2.5 |
| White Reaper The World's Best American Band | 2.5 |
| Father John Misty Pure Comedy | 4.0 |
| Inferno (CZ) Gnosis Kardias (Of Transcension and Involution) | 4.5 |
| The most interesting band in black metal right now, can't get enough of these guys. |
| Telepathy Tempest | 4.5 |
| Braveyoung Misery and Pride | 4.5 |
| Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me | 5.0 |
| Pallbearer Heartless | 3.0 |
| Heaven In Her Arms White Halo | 3.5 |
| Pillorian Obsidian Arc | 3.5 |
| Your Old Droog Packs | 3.5 |
| IDLES Brutalism | 4.0 |
| Junius Eternal Rituals For The Accretion of Light | 3.5 |
| Alfa Mist Antiphon | 4.5 |
| Blanck Mass World Eater | 3.5 |
| Sunless Urraca | 3.5 |
| Persefone Aathma | 4.0 |
| Immolation Atonement | 3.5 |
| Jonwayne Rap Album Two | 3.5 |
| Sun Kil Moon Common As Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood | 2.5 |
| Dougie Poole Wideass Highway | 4.0 |
| Witherfall Nocturnes and Requiems | 4.0 |
| The Ominous Circle Appalling Ascension | 4.0 |
| Rude Remnants... | 3.0 |
| Ashenspire Speak Not of the Laudanum Quandary | 3.5 |
| Emptiness Not For Music | 3.0 |
| Dopelord Children of the Haze | 4.0 |
| Code Orange Forever | 4.0 |
| 2016 |
| Vein.fm Self-Destruct | 4.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 | 4.0 |
| Stygian Temple In the Sign of the Five Angles | 4.0 |
| Injury Reserve Floss | 4.0 |
| OH MY GAWDDDDDDD |
| Ab-Soul Do What Thou Wilt. | 3.0 |
| J. Cole 4 Your Eyez Only | 2.5 |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" | 3.5 |
| Ion Dissonance Cast the First Stone | 3.0 |
| Easily their weakest output, not sure what everyone's seeing in this one. |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct | 2.0 |
| Khonsu The Xun Protectorate | 4.0 |
| Nebulae Come Sweet It Is Not the Night That Covers You | 4.5 |
| Trees of Eternity Hour of the Nightingale | 4.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service | 4.5 |
| Deathspell Omega The Synarchy of Molten Bones | 4.0 |
| Lambchop FLOTUS | 4.5 |
| Yussef Kamaal Black Focus | 4.0 |
| Car Bomb Meta | 4.0 |
| Painted in Exile The Ordeal | 3.5 |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis | 4.5 |
| NxWorries Yes Lawd! | 3.0 |
| Mithras On Strange Loops | 4.0 |
| Meniscus Refractions | 4.5 |
| Khemmis Hunted | 4.5 |
| American Football American Football (LP2) | 2.5 |
| Pettersson Rift And Seam | 4.0 |
| Botanist/Oskoreien Green Metal/Deterministic Chaos | 2.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation | 5.0 |
| Dark Millennium Midnight In The Void | 1.0 |
| Jeff Rosenstock WORRY. | 4.5 |
| Wormrot Voices | 3.5 |
| Departe Failure, Subside | 3.5 |
| Balance and Composure Light We Made | 2.0 |
| Watchtower Concepts of Math: Book One | 4.0 |
| Gatecreeper Sonoran Depravation | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason | 2.5 |
| Green Day Revolution Radio | 1.5 |
| Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker | 4.5 |
| Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard Y Proffwyd Dwyll | 3.5 |
| Alcest Kodama | 4.5 |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition | 4.5 |
| Oathbreaker Rheia | 3.0 |
| Opeth Sorceress | 3.0 |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million | 1.5 |
| Tycho Epoch | 2.0 |
| Against Me! Shape Shift With Me | 2.0 |
| Touche Amore Stage Four | 4.5 |
| Nox Formulae The Hidden Paths to Black Ecstasy | 4.0 |
| Kool Keith Feature Magnetic | 2.5 |
| Okkervil River Away | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree | 4.0 |
| Helms Alee Stillicide | 3.5 |
| The most 3.5-y band that ever 3.5'd. |
| A Day To Remember Bad Vibrations | 3.0 |
| Eye of Solitude Cenotaph | 5.0 |
| Imperium Dekadenz Dis Manibvs | 3.0 |
| Morgan Delt Phase Zero | 4.0 |
| Mat Kerekes Luna & The Wild Blue Everything | 4.5 |
| Frank Ocean Blonde | 1.0 |
| Darkher Realms | 4.5 |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn | 4.5 |
| Hellbringer Awakened from the Abyss | 4.0 |
| One of the few modern thrash bands that feels like a genuine 80's throwback. They are basically pulling from the Slayer playbook here, but they do it really well. |
| On Broken Wings Disintegrator | 2.0 |
| AJJ The Bible 2 | 3.5 |
| Ka Honor Killed The Samurai | 4.0 |
| Mare Cognitum/Aureole Resonance: Crimson Void | 4.0 |
| Wired Anxiety The Delirium of Negation | 4.0 |
| Prosternatur Abyssus Abyssum Invocat | 4.0 |
| Baptism V: The Devil's Fire | 4.5 |
| 21 Savage Savage Mode | 1.5 |
| Night Verses Into the Vanishing Light | 4.0 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD IV | 3.5 |
| The Avalanches Wildflower | 4.5 |
| ScHoolboy Q Blank Face LP | 3.0 |
| Brain Drill Boundless Obscenity | 2.0 |
| As usual, Brain Drill prove that they're wizards of technical musicianship, but this sound has been done to death now, and even worse, it's been done better in their absence. |
| blink-182 California | 1.5 |
| Vulvodynia Psychosadistic Design | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Plastic House on Base of Sky | 3.0 |
| Whitechapel Mark of the Blade | 1.5 |
| Be'lakor Vessels | 4.0 |
| DJ Shadow The Mountain Will Fall | 2.5 |
| Hail the Sun Culture Scars | 3.0 |
| Gojira Magma | 4.0 |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us | 4.5 |
| Swans The Glowing Man | 2.0 |
| Show Me The Body Body War | 3.0 |
| letlive. If I'm the Devil... | 1.5 |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Parallel Lives | 2.5 |
| Creeping Death Sacrament of Death | 4.5 |
| Garroted In the Court of Nyarlathotep | 4.0 |
| Six Feet Under Graveyard Classics IV: The Number Of The Priest | 1.0 |
| PUP The Dream Is Over | 4.0 |
| Idris Ackamoor and The Pyramids We Be All Africans | 4.0 |
| Real Friends The Home Inside My Head | 2.0 |
| Witch Vomit A Scream from the Tomb Below | 4.0 |
| Meta Meta MM3 | 4.0 |
| Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman | 2.5 |
| First Fragment Dasein | 4.5 |
| In Mourning Afterglow | 3.0 |
| Angel Du$t Rock The Fuck On Forever | 4.0 |
| Winterhorde Maestro | 4.5 |
| Enthean Priests of Annihilation | 3.0 |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts | 3.0 |
| The Underachievers It Happened In Flatbush | 3.5 |
| Nothing Tired of Tomorrow | 2.5 |
| Modern Baseball Holy Ghost | 3.0 |
| Kvelertak Nattesferd | 3.0 |
| Benthik Zone Alienum A Daemonum Inferni Squali | 2.5 |
| God Enslavement Consuming the Divine | 2.5 |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust | 3.5 |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 3.0 |
| Perturbator The Uncanny Valley | 4.0 |
| Vektor Terminal Redux | 4.0 |
| Jesusssssssssssssss this thing shreds and/or riffs and/or both. |
| White Lung Paradise | 4.5 |
| Sacramental Blood Ternion Demonarchy | 4.0 |
| Cadaveric Fumes Dimensions Obscure | 3.5 |
| Slaughterday Laws Of The Occult | 4.0 |
| OSDM worship done very, very right. In a year packed full of awesome metal already, this is still some top-shelf stuff. |
| Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid | 4.5 |
| Beyonce Lemonade | 2.5 |
| Zealotry The Last Witness | 4.0 |
| The Poisoned Glass 10 Swords | 5.0 |
| Howls of Ebb Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows | 4.5 |
| Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide To Earth | 4.0 |
| Lil Uzi Vert Lil Uzi Vert vs. The World | 1.0 |
| Svartidaudi Hideous Silhouettes of Lynched Gods | 4.0 |
| Zhrine Unortheta | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner | 4.0 |
| Deftones Gore | 3.0 |
| The Zenith Passage Solipsist | 3.5 |
| Niechec Niechec | 4.0 |
| Weezer The White Album | 3.0 |
| Novembre Ursa | 3.5 |
| Keep of Kalessin Heaven of Sin | 2.5 |
| This band just keeps disappointing - there is so much raw ability and musicianship going on here, but the guitar tone here is so over-bright and trebly, the cymbals are super tinny, and the songwriting just doesn't have the magic they once possessed back on Armada. |
| Plague Vendor Bloodsweat | 4.5 |
| One of the best things to come out all year - basically Nick Cave meets 90's noise-rock, and it's awesome. |
| Horrified (UK) Of Despair | 3.5 |
| Pretty solid OSDM stuff out of the UK with a melodic touch. |
| O'Brother Endless Light | 4.5 |
| The Thermals We Disappear | 3.0 |
| Domo Genesis Genesis | 3.0 |
| Violent Soho WACO | 3.5 |
| The Drones Feelin Kinda Free | 3.0 |
| Suspiral Delve into the Mysteries of Transcendence | 4.5 |
| Best black metal dropped so far in 2016, this is excellent. |
| Elzhi Lead Poison | 3.5 |
| Denzel Curry Imperial | 3.5 |
| Lil Yachty Lil Boat | 1.0 |
| Scalare At the Edge of Darkness | 2.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. | 4.0 |
| Big Ups Before a Million Universes | 4.0 |
| Inverloch Distance | Collapsed | 3.5 |
| Plebeian Grandstand False Highs, True Lows | 3.5 |
| And Also The Trees Born Into The Waves | 4.0 |
| Greenleaf Rise Above The Meadow | 4.5 |
| Irkallian Oracle Apollyon | 4.0 |
| This is the darkest sounding stuff I've heard in a long while, almost Beherit levels of evil coming though on this record. |
| Submotion Orchestra Colour Theory | 2.5 |
| This is very weak compared to their last few releases. Even when trying to remove myself from knowing they're capable of stronger material, this is pretty uninspired, tepid stuff. |
| SpaceGhostPurrp Overkill | 1.0 |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo | 1.5 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse King | 4.0 |
| Basically what you'd get if you mixed the God of War soundtrack with modern death metal. If that sounds cool it's because it is. |
| Obscura Akróasis | 3.0 |
| Textures Phenotype | 3.5 |
| Hyperion (SWE) Seraphical Euphony | 4.5 |
| Future EVOL | 1.0 |
| Arms (FL) Blackout | 4.5 |
| Total chaos - it sounds like "All We Love We Leave Behind" era Converge mixed with Nails and a bit of Dillinger Escape Plan madness thrown in for good measure. This is the real deal. |
| Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule | 3.5 |
| The Black Queen Fever Daydream | 4.0 |
| Basement Promise Everything | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater The Astonishing | 2.0 |
| Wildernessking Mystical Future | 3.0 |
| Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP | 4.5 |
| Latitudes Old Sunlight | 4.5 |
| Chairlift Moth | 4.0 |
| Abbath Abbath | 2.5 |
| Jesu/Sun Kil Moon Jesu/Sun Kil Moon | 2.0 |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 4.0 |
| Telekinetic Yeti Abominable | 4.5 |
| 2015 |
| Baroness Purple | 3.0 |
| Pusha T King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude | 4.0 |
| Lil Ugly Mane Oblivion Access | 4.0 |
| Triumvir Foul Triumvir Foul | 3.5 |
| Fifth to Infinity Omnipotent Transdimensional Soulfire | 4.0 |
| This is some really rad, melancholic, doom-paced blackened-death metal that has a bit of an "Aspera Hiems Symfonia"-era Arcturus vibe thrown in. |
| SikTh Opacities | 4.0 |
| Batushka Litourgiya | 4.5 |
| Kid Cudi Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven | 1.0 |
| Sanzu Heavy Over The Home | 4.0 |
| Yuri Gagarin At The Center Of All Infinity | 3.5 |
| Sunless Rise Unrevealed | 4.0 |
| Freddie Gibbs Shadow of a Doubt | 3.5 |
| Intronaut The Direction of Last Things | 4.5 |
| Firespawn Shadow Realms | 4.0 |
| The Mire Vice Regalia | 4.0 |
| Serpents Lair Circumambulating the Stillborn | 3.5 |
| Frontierer Orange Mathematics | 4.5 |
| Kauan Sorni Nai | 4.0 |
| Enshine Singularity | 4.0 |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal | 4.0 |
| Night Birds Mutiny At Muscle Beach | 4.5 |
| Best punk band aliveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. |
| Deacon The Villain Peace or Power | 3.5 |
| Bay Faction Bay Faction | 4.0 |
| The Underachievers Evermore: The Art of Duality | 4.5 |
| Blackalicious Imani Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Scale the Summit V | 3.5 |
| The Front Bottoms Back On Top | 4.0 |
| Jay Rock 90059 | 3.0 |
| Hadean On Fading | 4.5 |
| Beirut No No No | 2.0 |
| Cruciamentum Charnel Passages | 4.0 |
| Mgla Exercises in Futility | 4.0 |
| Wolfheart Shadow World | 3.5 |
| Stray from the Path Subliminal Criminals | 2.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss | 4.0 |
| Her best record yet, she just keeps improving. |
| Dr. Dre Compton | 2.5 |
| We Lost the Sea Departure Songs | 4.0 |
| White Reaper White Reaper Does it Again | 4.0 |
| bansheebeat Lumine | 3.5 |
| Rosetta Quintessential Ephemera | 3.0 |
| Failure The Heart Is a Monster | 4.0 |
| Fronzilla Party People's Anthem | 1.0 |
| Vince Staples Summertime '06 | 3.5 |
| High on Fire Luminiferous | 3.5 |
| Desaparecidos Payola | 4.0 |
| Citizen Everybody Is Going to Heaven | 3.5 |
| Skyzoo Music For My Friends | 4.0 |
| Everything Everything Get to Heaven | 4.5 |
| Sorority Noise Joy, Departed | 4.0 |
| Shape of Despair Monotony Fields | 4.5 |
| KEN mode Success | 3.0 |
| This band has so much potential but they just never manage land a knockout of an album, maybe next time? |
| CZARFACE Every Hero Needs a Villain | 4.5 |
| Denzel Curry 32 Zel / Planet Shrooms | 3.5 |
| Howls of Ebb The Marrow Veil | 4.5 |
| Sunset In The 12th House Mozaic | 3.5 |
| Vein.fm Terrors Realm | 4.0 |
| Megiddo The Holocaust Messiah | 2.0 |
| Super boring stuff from a band that was once pretty decent. |
| Sun Kil Moon Universal Themes | 4.0 |
| Paradise Lost The Plague Within | 3.0 |
| Pyrrhon Growth Without End | 4.5 |
| Oxxo Xoox Namidae | 4.5 |
Holy shit, this is really cool, one of the most unique records of the year. Not even sure what to
rate it yet but people should listen, seriously. They invented their own damn language for this,
it's super weird but awesome at the same time. |
| ASAP Rocky At.Long.Last.A$AP | 2.5 |
| Faith No More Sol Invictus | 3.0 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) The L-Shaped Man | 2.5 |
| The Story So Far The Story So Far | 2.5 |
| death's dynamic shroud I'll Try Living Like This | 4.0 |
| Abrahma Reflections in the Bowels of a Bird | 2.5 |
| "...and the award for worst album title of 2015 goes to...Reflections in the Bowels of a Bird". Really cool album art though I guess. |
| Haar The Wayward Ceremony | 3.5 |
| Arcturus Arcturian | 3.5 |
| Sigh Graveward | 1.5 |
| Steve Von Till A Life Unto Itself | 3.5 |
| Hop Along Painted Shut | 4.0 |
| Hiatus Kaiyote Choose Your Weapon | 4.0 |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision | 4.0 |
| Superheaven Ours Is Chrome | 3.5 |
| Monolord Vænir | 3.0 |
| The Crinn Shadowbreather | 4.0 |
| Drudkh A Furrow Cut Short | 2.0 |
| Khors Night Falls Onto the Fronts of Ours | 4.0 |
| The best black metal record no one is listening to this year. |
| Akhlys The Dreaming I | 4.5 |
| Hotel Books Run Wild, Young Beauty | 3.0 |
| Still struggling to climb out from Listener's shadow, Hotel Books put forth their best effort yet despite being a musically unimaginative crescendo driven post-rock/emo hybrid that's been done to death. |
| Minsk The Crash and the Draw | 3.5 |
| Suburban Scum Ultimate Annihilation | 3.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 4.0 |
| Runaway Brother Mother | 3.0 |
| CHON Grow | 3.5 |
| Too Close to Touch Nerve Endings | 2.0 |
| Alkaloid The Malkuth Grimoire | 2.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 5.0 |
| Oceanwake Sunless | 3.0 |
| A few truly great moments on here, but that's about it. This band has potential but they've yet to craft something that is excellent as a whole. |
| Plini The End of Everything | 3.0 |
| Psycroptic Psycroptic | 2.5 |
| Disasterpeace It Follows OST | 4.5 |
| Apocrophex Suspended from the Cosmic Altaar | 3.5 |
| Bill Seaman f (noir) | 4.0 |
| Jeff Rosenstock We Cool? | 4.5 |
| Daisyhead The Smallest Light | 2.5 |
| Purity Ring Another Eternity | 2.0 |
| Cannibal Ox Blade of the Ronin | 3.0 |
| Clarence Clarity No Now | 4.0 |
| A Forest of Stars Beware the Sword You Cannot See | 3.0 |
| Torche Restarter | 2.5 |
| Ruby The Hatchet Valley of the Snake | 3.0 |
| Make Do and Mend Don't Be Long | 2.5 |
| Keep of Kalessin Epistemology | 2.5 |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear | 3.5 |
| Misthyrming Söngvar elds og óreiðu | 4.0 |
| Haethen Shaped By Aeolian Winds | 4.5 |
| Heaving Earth Denouncing the Holy Throne | 3.5 |
| Title Fight Hyperview | 2.5 |
| SUMAC The Deal | 3.0 |
| Xibalba Tierra y Libertad | 2.5 |
| Pond (AUS) Man, It Feels like Space Again | 3.0 |
| Napalm Death Apex Predator - Easy Meat | 4.0 |
| I, Valiance The Reject of Humanity | 4.0 |
| 2814 新しい日の誕生 | 3.5 |
| Bjork Vulnicura | 4.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo and Youth | 3.5 |
| Turnstile Nonstop Feeling | 4.0 |
| Rae Sremmurd SremmLife | 1.0 |
| 2014 |
| J. Cole 2014 Forest Hills Drive | 3.5 |
| Various Artists (Hip Hop) SHADYXV | 1.5 |
| Art Of Burning Water Living Is for Giving, Dying Is for Getting | 4.0 |
| The Deathtrip Deep Drone Master | 3.5 |
| Avatarium All I Want | 3.0 |
| Hail Mary Mallon Bestiary | 4.0 |
| Usnea Random Cosmic Violence | 4.5 |
| This is basically Khanate in a sludgier, black metal driven mode. It rules. |
| Such Gold The New Sidewalk | 2.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Endless River | 2.0 |
| Artwork looks like a Christian Mingle advertisement. |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel | 4.0 |
| The Smith Street Band Throw Me in the River | 4.5 |
| Obituary Inked in Blood | 1.5 |
| Nero di Marte Derivae | 4.5 |
| At the Gates At War with Reality | 3.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 | 4.5 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You | 2.5 |
| The Twilight Sad Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 | 4.0 |
| Jakob Sines | 4.0 |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Bloom and Breathe | 3.0 |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter | 1.5 |
| The Acacia Strain Coma Witch | 1.5 |
| Occultation Silence in the Ancestral House | 3.0 |
| This is pretty cool, definite improvement from the last record. |
| KMFDM Our Time Will Come | 1.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry | 3.0 |
| Execration (NOR) Morbid Dimensions | 4.5 |
| Manes Be All End All | 3.5 |
| Shakey Graves And The War Came | 3.0 |
| Moose Blood I'll Keep You In Mind, From Time To Time | 3.0 |
| Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase I: Neohumanity | 2.5 |
| Nightbringer Ego Dominus Tuus | 4.5 |
| This is dark, unrelenting, intense, and evil - the perfect recipe for a stellar black metal record. |
| Decapitated Blood Mantra | 2.5 |
| Eden Circus Marula | 4.0 |
| Myrkur Myrkur | 2.5 |
| Tiny Moving Parts Pleasant Living | 3.5 |
| Code Orange I Am King | 4.0 |
| Lauxnos My Dead Ocean | 4.5 |
| Super under the radar post-metal gem, make sure you hear this. |
| The Helix Nebula Meridian | 3.0 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) You Will Eventually Be Forgotten | 2.5 |
| King 810 Memoirs of a Murderer | 1.0 |
| Pallbearer Foundations of Burden | 3.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Get Hurt | 2.0 |
| Diabolical Principles Manifesto of Death | 2.5 |
| Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties We Don't Have Each Other | 2.5 |
| And the most average record of the year goes to... |
| '68 In Humor and Sadness | 3.0 |
| Braid No Coast | 2.5 |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown | 3.5 |
| The Story So Far Songs Of | 2.0 |
| White Lung Deep Fantasy | 4.5 |
| Angel Du$t A.D. | 4.0 |
| clipping. CLPPNG | 4.0 |
| White Reaper White Reaper | 4.0 |
| Tigers Jaw Charmer | 2.5 |
| Serpentine Path Emanations | 2.5 |
| For a band comprised of former members of Electric Wizard, Winter, and Unearthly Trance, I expected more than this. Just painfully average death/doom from a band who had much more potential. Cool album art though I guess. |
| Artifex Pereo Time in Place | 2.5 |
| Emptiness Nothing but the Whole | 4.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Some Heavy Ocean | 4.5 |
| Sorceress Dose | 4.5 |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool | 4.0 |
| Swans To Be Kind | 5.0 |
| Electrocution Metaphysincarnation | 3.5 |
| AJJ Christmas Island | 3.0 |
| Ifing Against This Weald | 4.0 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD III | 4.5 |
| Lantlos Melting Sun | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants | 5.0 |
| Thievery Corporation Saudade | 4.0 |
| Pyrrhon The Mother of Virtues | 4.0 |
| Fireworks Oh, Common Life | 2.5 |
| Echoes (UK) The Pursuit | 4.5 |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House | 3.5 |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Pinata | 3.0 |
| Near Death Condition Evolving Towards Extinction | 4.0 |
| Teitanblood Death | 3.5 |
| Elder Brother Heavy Head | 3.0 |
| Nothing Guilty of Everything | 4.0 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 4.0 |
| ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron | 2.0 |
| Season of Arrows Season of Arrows | 4.0 |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent | 3.0 |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us | 2.0 |
| Deadwood Picturing a Sense of Loss | 4.5 |
| Morowe S | 4.0 |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji | 4.5 |
| The Glitch Mob Love Death Immortality | 2.5 |
| Yautja Songs of Descent | 2.5 |
| Whispered Shogunate Macabre | 3.5 |
| Lamp Dream / ゆめ | 4.5 |
| Behemoth The Satanist | 3.0 |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World | 4.0 |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues | 2.5 |
| Alcest Shelter | 2.5 |
| 2013 |
| Rough Justice Cold and Distant | 2.0 |
| Beastmilk Climax | 3.5 |
| Mutoid Man Helium Head | 4.0 |
| Aevangelist Omen Ex Simulacra | 4.0 |
| There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright | 4.0 |
| Essence of Datum Event Horizon | 3.5 |
| Sweepy, shreddy, tech-deathy instrumental metal that doesn't suck. They could really benefit from getting a vocalist on board though. |
| Sandrider Godhead | 4.0 |
| Killer stoner-rock with some serious balls that doesn't get boring. This probably won't get the attention it deserves, but it's a real banger. |
| State Faults Resonate/Desperate | 4.5 |
| Vastum Patricidal Lust | 3.0 |
| Valkyrja The Antagonist's Fire | 4.0 |
| The best record Keep of Kalessin never wrote, albeit a bit slower paced. |
| Exivious Liminal | 4.0 |
| Obliteration Black Death Horizon | 4.5 |
| Kicks much butt. |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2 | 2.5 |
| Black Flag What The... | 1.5 |
| Iron Chic The Constant One | 3.0 |
| All Them Witches Lightning at the Door | 3.5 |
| Avatarium Avatarium | 4.5 |
| Vaura The Missing | 4.0 |
| Noctum Final Sacrifice | 3.5 |
| White Denim Corsicana Lemonade | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 2.5 |
| Zodiac A Hiding Place | 3.0 |
| AFI Burials | 3.5 |
| Radical Face The Family Tree: The Branches | 4.5 |
| Pentimento Inside The Sea | 3.5 |
| Red Fang Whales and Leeches | 2.0 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Valonielu | 2.0 |
| Rivers of Nihil The Conscious Seed of Light | 3.0 |
| Plini Sweet Nothings | 4.5 |
| Wolfheart Winterborn | 3.5 |
| Melt-Banana Fetch | 4.0 |
| Chrome Hoof Chrome Black Gold | 4.0 |
| Danny Brown Old | 4.0 |
| PUP PUP | 4.5 |
| Darkside Psychic | 4.0 |
| Fuzz Fuzz | 4.0 |
| Deltron 3030 Event II | 3.5 |
| Inferno (CZ) Omniabsence Filled By His Greatness | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By | 4.0 |
| Better Off (I Think) I'm Leaving | 4.0 |
| Night Beats Sonic Bloom | 3.5 |
| Stray from the Path Anonymous | 3.0 |
| SubRosa (US) More Constant Than The Gods | 4.0 |
| Gnaw Horrible Chamber | 4.5 |
| Carcass Surgical Steel | 4.5 |
| Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing | 4.0 |
| Violent Soho Hungry Ghost | 4.0 |
| Altars (AUS) Paramnesia | 3.5 |
| Denzel Curry Nostalgic 64 | 4.0 |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 3.5 |
| The 1975 The 1975 | 1.0 |
| The paragon of soulless, squeaky-clean, utterly gutless post-2000 "rock". |
| Earl Sweatshirt Doris | 3.5 |
| O'Brother Disillusion | 4.0 |
| Deltron 3030 City Rising From The Ashes | 3.0 |
| Dowsing I Don't Even Care Anymore | 3.0 |
| Rosetta The Anaesthete | 2.5 |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers | 3.0 |
| Iwrestledabearonce Late for Nothing | 1.0 |
| The Reign of Kindo Play With Fire | 4.0 |
| Night Birds Born To Die In Suburbia | 4.5 |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful | 2.5 |
| Jay-Z Magna Carta... Holy Grail | 1.5 |
| Owen L'Ami du Peuple | 2.5 |
| bansheebeat Spiral Power | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 4.5 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Dawning | 2.5 |
| I didn't want to believe Wizards rating, but it's pretty accurate. This is severely overrated and truly nothing special - boring is really the best word to describe it. |
| Night Verses Lift Your Existence | 3.5 |
| Palms Palms | 2.5 |
| Less than the sum of its parts, Palms is underwhelming at best. |
| Candy Claws Ceres And Calypso In The Deep Time | 4.5 |
| Listener Time Is A Machine | 3.0 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 2.0 |
| Adventures Clear My Head With You | 3.0 |
| Zero Boys Pro-Dirt | 2.0 |
| Gatherer Caught Between a Rock and a Sad Place | 3.0 |
| Mumakil Flies Will Starve | 2.5 |
| Jex Thoth Blood Moon Rise | 4.0 |
| Scale the Summit The Migration | 4.0 |
| Citizen Youth | 5.0 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Damage | 2.5 |
| Another just average record from a band that has been just average for nearly a decade now. Uninspired, paint by numbers writing that is bland and instantly forgettable. It doesn't really do anything unforgivably wrong, but it doesn't do much right either. |
| CHON Newborn Sun | 3.0 |
| Surfer Blood Pythons | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath 13 | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 3.5 |
| The Lonely Island The Wack Album | 1.0 |
| Summoning Old Mornings Dawn | 2.0 |
| Gustavo Santaolalla The Last of Us OST | 4.5 |
| Real Friends Put Yourself Back Together | 2.5 |
| City and Colour The Hurry and the Harm | 2.0 |
| Capital Cities In A Tidal Wave of Mystery | 2.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Construct | 3.5 |
| Panabrite Xenon District | 3.0 |
| The Front Bottoms Talon of the Hawk | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation | 3.0 |
| The Offseason Pastimes | 3.0 |
| Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy | 2.5 |
| Thaw Thaw | 3.5 |
| Cerekloth In the Midst of Life We Are In Death | 4.0 |
| Superheaven Jar | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 4.0 |
| Turnover Magnolia | 3.0 |
| The Haxan Cloak Excavation | 4.5 |
| Bovine The Sun Never Sets On The British Empire | 3.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam | 3.0 |
| Rival Schools Found | 2.5 |
| I consider myself a Rival Schools fan, but this album is just bland city. This just sounds like B-sides from Pedals - which would be awesome if any of the tracks lived up to that record. |
| Keep of Kalessin Introspection | 3.0 |
| Short both in length and fresh ideas. This little EP shows that Keep of Kalessin still have the musical chops to hang with the best of them, but the atmosphere, the intricate songwriting and the production feel extremely thin and weak. The flashy guitar work on the short instrumental track "Flight of the Hatchling" is easily the most intriguing portion of this 10 minute affair. Hopefully these half-baked ideas can be further developed into another "Armada" caliber record in the near future, but I'm not sure I'm that optimistic. |
| Alkaline Trio My Shame Is True | 2.5 |
| Fallujah Nomadic | 3.0 |
| Wardruna Runaljod - Yggdrasil | 4.5 |
| Bonobo The North Borders | 4.0 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.0 |
| Senses Fail Renacer | 3.0 |
| The Story So Far What You Don't See | 3.0 |
| Incendiary Cost of Living | 3.5 |
| The Color and Sound Spring Tour | 3.5 |
| Steve Mason Monkey Minds In The Devil's Time | 3.5 |
| Alcoa Bone & Marrow | 4.0 |
| Jess And The Ancient Ones Astral Sabbat | 4.5 |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 3.0 |
| Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam | 3.0 |
| Portal Vexovoid | 4.0 |
| HRVRD From the Bird's Cage | 3.5 |
| Blind Justice Mischief | 4.0 |
| Turnstile Step 2 Rhythm | 4.5 |
| Rings of Saturn Dingir | 3.0 |
| Silverstein This Is How the Wind Shifts | 3.0 |
| Pomegranate Tiger Entities | 4.0 |
| Rotten Sound Species At War | 3.0 |
| Bad Religion True North | 3.5 |
| ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP | 3.0 |
| Neon Warship Neon Warship | 3.5 |
