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2024
Lurcher Breathe3.0
Don't pass up Breathe Out. Frontrunner for SOTY. Holy $#!%.
Monkey3 Welcome to the Machine3.0
Grin Hush3.0
Eye Flys Eye Flys2.5
Royal Graves Amen3.5

2023
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets Fronzoli2.5
Saver From Ember and Rust3.5
Restless Spirit Afterimage3.0
The Heavy Minds Beyond Gloom3.5
Red (USA) Rated R3.0
Cursetheknife There's A Place I Can Rest2.5
lowheaven collapse3.5
Acid Magus Hope Is Heavy3.0
The Gorge Mechanical Fiction3.0
Johnny Booth Moments Elsewhere3.0
Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But a Dream...2.5
Gozu Remedy2.5
Duskwood The Last Voyage3.0
Herod Iconoclast3.0
Spotlights Alchemy for the Dead2.5
I hate giving this a 2.5, especially after L&D, but that's what we're left with. Spotlights are drawing from a palette that clearly has so much potential, and yet the final product rarely hits home.
Nebulae Come Sweet De Lumiére3.0
Faerie Ring Weary Traveler3.5
DIRGE (IN) Dirge3.0
Slumbering Sun The Ever-Living Fire3.0
Khan (AUS) Creatures3.5
Hail the Void Memento Mori2.5
Ypres Solypso3.5
The first half has its own thing going on, but the second half unapologetically borrows from Wavering Radiant. And wouldn't you know it, the second half sounds better.
Jaggu Rites for the Damned3.0
Daevar Delirious Rites3.0
Dread Witch Tower of the Severed Serpent3.0
Death Engine Ocean2.5

2022
Gavran Indistinct Beacon3.0
Elder (USA-MA) Innate Passage3.5
Johnny Booth Storyteller2.5
Chrome Ghost House of Falling Ash3.0
Earthrise Until We Rest Beneath the Winter Way3.5
Grief Circle Weightless3.0
Mountains (UK) Tides End3.5
Irist Gloria2.5
Endonomos Endonomos3.0
Russian Circles Gnosis2.5
Conan Evidence of Immortality3.0
Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me3.0
I think it's abundantly clear now that this band really misses Jeff Hickey. Idk how you put this up against their last few and think it's in the same realm. 2.8/5
Ire Wolves Heritage2.5
Roseneath Shine3.0
Conjurer (UK) Pathos3.0
Existence Dysphoria Minus Negative3.0
Spiritbox Rotoscope3.0
The Swell Fellas Novaturia3.0
Museum of Light Horizon3.0
Magnatar Crushed2.5
Sasquatch Fever Fantasy3.5
orphantwin Future Classic3.5
Besvarjelsen Atlas3.0
BOG Remission3.0
Ufomammut Fenice3.0
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets Night Gnomes3.0
PPC are at their best when they're bursting at the seams with energy, a la the garage rock exuberance found in Shyga. Only a couple tracks here manage to capture that vibe. Some of NG's songs to manage to be up-tempo but they're lacking in hooks.
Seum Blueberry Cash3.0
The t/t might have the riff of the year. . .
Meshuggah Immutable2.5
Gloson The Rift3.5
Humanotone A Flourishing Fall in a Grain of Sand3.5
Tuskar Matriarch2.5
Deathbell A Nocturnal Crossing3.0
It's alright but I gotta say I prefer the doomier style of their first album. Hard to pick a comparison for this, maybe King Buffalo?
Mountaineer Giving Up the Ghost3.0
Naxatras IV2.5
Norna Star is Way Way is Eye2.5
Fostermother The Ocean3.0
Arcem An Amalgamation of Loss, Defeat, and Renewal3.0
Kurokuma Born of Obsidian3.0
Fat Grass Shadows3.5
SOM The Shape of Everything2.5
Toundra Hex3.0
Aequorea Dim3.0

2021
Restless Spirit Blood of the Old Gods3.0
Most of the title track is just okay but if you want one of the best outros of 2021, listen to the end of the song. No, not the acoustic outro. The heavy one.
Spaceslug Memorial3.5
Madmess Rebirth3.5
Kadavar and Elder Eldovar - A Story of Darkness & Light2.5
Khemmis Deceiver2.5
Apostle of Solitude When The Darkness Goes2.5
Headless Monarch Titan Slug3.0
Sheev Mind Conductor2.5
Truth be told, this album is so close to being great. Maybe it needs better songwriting, maybe the riffs should go harder. Whatever it is, it needs something but I can tell they're close.
Bummer (USA-MO) Dead Horse4.0
The best album to be released in the genre since Whores.' Gold.
A Pale Horse Named Death Infernum In Terra2.5
LLNN Unmaker3.0
Spiritbox Eternal Blue3.0
Don Broco Amazing Things3.0
Green Lung Black Harvest3.0
Terminus (USA-AR) The Silent Bell Toll3.5
Lantlos Wildhund3.0
Torn From Earth Self3.5
Bossk Migration3.0
Delving Hirschbrunnen3.0
The title track is dripping with Elder blood. The rest is decent. A slight step up from Gold and Silver.
Seum Winterized3.0
King Buffalo The Burden of Restlessness3.0
Boss Keloid Family the Smiling Thrush3.0
This isn't as much as a departure from Melted on the Inch as MotI was from Herb Your Enthusiasm, but this album does delve deeper into a proggy foundation. The quirkiness is stronger too. It's a case of Boss Keloid being unable to get out of their own way, leading to . . . mixed results.
Shun Shun3.0
Somnuri Nefarious Wave3.5
Alastor (SWE) Onwards and Downwards3.0
Cursetheknife Thank You For Being Here3.0
Psychonaut & Saver Emerald2.5
Malammar Mazza3.0
BLACKSHAPE BLACKSHAPE3.0
Devil Sold His Soul Loss2.5
Wormsand Shapeless Mass3.0
Dvne Etemen Ænka3.5
Pupil Slicer Mirrors3.0
A Winged Victory for the Sullen Invisible Cities2.5
Powder for Pigeons Crackin Shells3.5
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets Shyga! The Sunlight Mound3.5
Sarin (CAN) You Can’t Go Back3.5
Crystal Canyon Yours With Affection and Sorrow2.5
This one really lays on the syrup; too much so for my tastes. They did manage to gift us with Crush You though.
Evergreen (USA-AZ) Fables of Mercury3.5

2020
Yashira Fail To Be3.0
Can't help but come away thinking they're trying to balance a few too many sounds at once. It's not bad but they'd be complimenting themselves so much more by focusing the direction a touch (the standout Impasse being an example).
Palm Reader Sleepless3.0
Novarupta Marine Snow2.5
Dvne Omega Severer4.0
Pallbearer Forgotten Days2.5
The writing was on the wall after Heartless, but still. Man. RIP Pallbearer.
Fuzz III3.5
Neander Eremit3.5
SUMAC May You Be Held3.0
Continuing the trend of each SUMAC record being weaker than the last, only this time there's a more significant drop-off.
The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic3.0
Jupiterian Protosapien3.0
Cloudkicker Solitude3.5
The Body / Bummer (USA-MO) Split 7"3.5
The Atomic Bitchwax Scorpio3.5
Hymn Breach Us3.5
Nug Alter Ego3.0
Mascara (FR) Cameo Blue Estate3.5
Boris NO3.5
Hum Inlet3.5
As Real Marveless3.0
Hail the Void Hail the Void3.0
Bush The Kingdom3.0
Saavik Saavik3.0
O'Brother You and I2.5
Occlith Gates, Doorways, And Endings3.0
Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still3.0
I'm really not a dm guy, but even this one let me inside a little bit. Doom and post fans will like the middle section.
Elder (USA-MA) Omens3.5
Red (USA) Declaration3.0
Irist Order Of The Mind3.0
Spotlights We Are All Atomic3.0
Psychonaut Unfold the God Man3.0
Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions3.0
Ritual King Ritual King3.0
Postvorta Porrima3.0
Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything3.0
Garganjua Toward the Sun3.5
Asian Death Crustacean Baikal3.5

2019
Kokomo Totem Youth2.5
Kokomo are capable of much more than this. Perhaps that's why this was released with little fanfare.
A Winged Victory for the Sullen The Undivided Five3.5
Norma Jean All Hail3.5
Noorvik Omission3.0
Rosetta Terra Sola3.0
Ghosts of Glaciers The Greatest Burden3.5
PSOTY Sunless3.5
Swan Valley Heights The Heavy Seed3.0
Cloudkicker Unending2.5
Cranial Alternate Endings3.5
Russian Circles Blood Year3.0
Elder (USA-MA) The Gold and Silver Sessions2.5
I definitely get the appeal but chill Elder isn't for me.
Beastwars IV3.0
Comrades For We Are Not Yet, We Are Only Becoming3.0
Pelican Nighttime Stories3.5
Chat Pile This Dungeon Earth3.0
Workin on my ABS
Aseethe Throes2.5
Lo-Pan Subtle3.5
Palehorse/Palerider Fire Gone Out/Haxan2.5
Novarupta Disillusioned Fire3.0
Spotlights Love and Decay4.0
Ire Wolves Bleeding Aparte3.5
Latitudes Part Island3.0
Johnny Booth Firsthand Accounts3.5
Saver They Came with Sunlight3.5
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard Yn Ol I Annwn3.0
The Moth Gatherer Esoteric Oppression3.0
Herod Sombre Dessein4.0
Rosetta Sower of Wind2.5

2018
Dirge (FR) Lost Empyrean3.0
Kerretta Exiscens3.0
The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic3.5
The Cartoons Death and Relaxation3.0
Set and Setting Tabula Rasa2.5
Un Sentiment3.0
Gouge Away Burnt Sugar3.0
SUMAC Love In Shadow3.5
Future Usses The Existential Haunting2.5
Forn Rites of Despair3.5
KEN mode Loved3.0
Netherlands Black Gaia3.5
Spaceslug Eye the Tide2.5
Secret Cutter Quantum Eraser3.5
Quantum Eraser is the record LLNN wishes they had made.
Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep3.0
Khemmis Desolation3.0
Khemmis pull a Pallbearer by venturing into a more streamlined metal style and become less interesting in the process.
YOB Our Raw Heart3.5
Dopethrone Transcanadian Anger4.0
Some of this is EW worship (no surprise given the band name) but it's done very well.
Fister No Spirit Within3.0
Hegemone We Disappear3.0
Garganjua Through the Void3.5
LLNN Deads3.0
Boss Keloid Melted on the Inch3.5
Boss Keloid's style of sludge on their previous album was incredibly addictive, so it is a bit disappointing that it takes a back seat here. This is a proggier direction but occasionally still hits the spot.
Toundra Vortex4.0
Gozu Equilibrium2.5
Yashira Shrine3.0
Turbowolf The Free Life3.0
I like distorted riffs as much as the next guy. But this album relies on them a bit too much.
Teenage Wrist Chrome Neon Jesus3.5
Conjurer (UK) Mire3.0
Deathbell With The Beyond3.5
Erdve Vaitojimas3.0
Fu Manchu Clone of the Universe4.0

2017
YLVA M E T A2.5
Lento Fourth3.0
Wand Plum3.0
Ufomammut 83.0
Antarktis Ildlaante3.0
Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun3.5
Rosetta Utopioid3.5
Well one thing's for sure, this isn't post-metal anymore. Utopioid is a logical progression in their discography and they have really carved out a sound that is all their own. Problem is, it is lacking in memorable elements. This feels flat at times, leading to a low 3.5.
Hundred Suns The Prestaliis3.0
Dvne Asheran3.5
Sarin (CAN) Darker Lakes3.0
Sasquatch Maneuvers4.0
Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World4.5
Fat Box Wasp3.5
Coltsblood Ascending Into Shimmering Darkness3.0
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets High Visceral Pt. 23.0
Antethic Ghost Shirt Society3.5
Bereft (USA-WI) Lands3.0
The first track is fantastic. It's unfortunate that the rest of the record isn't as strong.
Pallbearer Heartless3.0
Ire Wolves Heirs4.0
Menagerie (USA-KY) Menagerie4.0
Siberian (SWE) Through Ages of Sleep3.5
Hymn Perish3.5
Cranial Dark Towers, Bright Lights4.0
Palehorse/Palerider Burial Songs3.0
Pijn Floodlit2.5
Hmm. Don't really see myself returning to this.
Glare Of The Sun Soil3.0
Bing and Ruth No Home of the Mind3.0
Garganjua A Voyage in Solitude3.0
Lo-Pan In Tensions3.5

2016
Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct3.5
Khemmis Hunted3.5
Comrades Lone/Grey3.5
Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason4.0
Norma Jean Polar Similar4.0
King Buffalo Orion3.0
Russian Circles Guidance3.5
This one escapes as a low 4, but at this point, I'd like to see Russian Circles take some more risks. There is a lot to like here; if only it sounded a little more fresh. EDIT: Yeah, it's a 3.7 now. Juuuuust a bit too phoned-in at times.
Narrow Head Satisfaction3.0
Netherlands Audubon3.5
Gozu Revival3.0
SUMAC What One Becomes3.5
A very dense listen. This takes longer to digest than The Deal but it doesn't quite live up to its predecessor.
Vektor Terminal Redux3.0
Death Grips Bottomless Pit3.0
Pyramido Vatten2.5
Art Of Burning Water Between Life and Nowhere3.5
For fans of Secret Cutter and Bummer. Best to listen to it all the way through.
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity2.5
Wrong (USA-FL) Wrong3.5
Fister/Teeth Fister/Teeth3.5
Beastwars The Death of All Things3.5
Boss Keloid Herb Your Enthusiasm4.0
Arapahoes Blood Moon4.0
Bossk Audio Noir4.0
O'Brother Endless Light3.5
The Great Cold The Great Cold3.0
Gouge Away , Dies3.0
Kokomo Monochrome Noise Love3.5
Starts off very strong, but falters some in the second half. Still, this is Kokomo's best record so far.
Latitudes Old Sunlight3.5
Whores. Gold4.0

2015
Forn Weltschmerz3.5
Intronaut The Direction of Last Things4.0
Fuzz Fuzz II3.0
Stake Kosmokoma3.0
Soilwork The Ride Majestic3.5
Heron and Crane Drat4.0
Bummer (USA-MO) Spank3.5
Massive RIP to this band. At least they went out on top. Do yourself a favor and listen to Dead Horse.
Rosetta Quintessential Ephemera3.5
Slightly more consistent than ADOM, but then, ADOM had a standout song in its title track. Nothing is on that level here. Eric Jernigan's vocals aren't the best fit but everything else seems naturally Rosetta (perhaps cleaner).
Baryon Inauguration2.5
Torn From Earth Loss3.5
Monolithian The Finest Day I Ever Lived...3.0
Teenage Wrist Dazed2.5
Alabama Shakes Sound & Color3.5
Dopethrone Hochelaga3.0
Ufomammut Ecate4.0
Watchtower (AUS) Radiant Moon3.5
Shepherd Stereolithic Riffalocalypse2.5
Buffalo Rodeo 123 Water3.0
Wand Golem4.0
Elder (USA-MA) Lore4.0
Red (USA) Of Beauty and Rage3.5
I'd like to give this a 4 but it lies at a 3.7 (correct rating, Ponton). While it would have been
easy for Red to re-hash their older material to make up to their fans after RtP, they did more
than that. I commend Red for carving deeper into their original sound, and not being afraid to try
longer song lengths and new musical structures.
Izah Sistere3.5
Abstracter Wound Empire3.5
SUMAC The Deal4.0
Earthmass Collapse3.0
Kalpa (GR) Sequences*3.5
Doomtree All Hands3.0
Toundra IV3.5
Sarin (CAN) Burial Dream3.5
Most of this is a massive ripoff of Isis. You feel like you've heard this before, but Sarin adds a slight touch of their own to make it interesting. It's worship, but it's not bad.
Hive Destruction Hive Destruction2.5
Rosetta Audio/Visual3.5
Seriously, listen to the opener and closer. Beautiful stuff. Most of this is nothing
groundbreaking because, after all, it is a soundtrack, but the music and textures are very solid.

2014
In the Company of Serpents Merging in Light3.0
Dvne Aurora Majesty4.0
Old Man Gloom The Ape of God I3.5
Generation of Vipers Coffin Wisdom3.5
Rosetta Flies to Flame3.5
Lo-Pan Colossus3.0
A Winged Victory for the Sullen Atomos3.5
Somali Yacht Club The Sun3.5
This was impressive upon first listen but grew off me after a few spins. Some of it gets repetitive. 3.4/5
xSPONGEXCOREx How Tough Are Yah?2.5
Kerretta Pirohia3.5
YOB Clearing The Path To Ascend4.0
Wand Ganglion Reef2.5
Absolutely pales in comparison to Golem. Just skip this and listen to that one.
Broods Evergreen3.0
Pallbearer Foundations of Burden4.0
Forn The Departure of Consciousness3.5
'68 In Humor and Sadness3.0
Boris Noise3.5
Comrades Safekeeper4.0
If you have the chance to see Comrades live, seriously go do it. Their performances exceed the album.
Lantlos Melting Sun4.0
Fu Manchu Gigantoid3.5
PSOTY Fragments Of Uniforms4.0
Dirge (FR) Hyperion3.5
They were right. You really need to give this album some time. Upped to a 3.5. This album is not about the individual tracks; it's about the cohesiveness.
Secret Cutter Self Titled3.0
Allochiria Omonoia3.5

2013
Burial Rival Dealer3.0
Netherlands Silicon Vapor3.5
Russian Circles Memorial4.0
Whereas Russian Circles excelled on their last two albums in creating songs that blended beauty and darkness into one, each song on Memorial is fairly straightforward in their respective styles. The heaviness is fulfilling but the gentler pieces leave a touch to be desired (the closer being the exception). 3.8/5
Whores. Clean4.0
Pelican Forever Becoming4.0
Call it a 3.8/5. In other words, Pelican's best release.
Earthless From the Ages3.0
Fuzz Fuzz3.5
Sasquatch IV4.0
Windhand Soma3.5
O'Brother Disillusion3.5
First half is great, sans the opener. Second half is good but contains a couple tracks that
hold this album back. Interesting vocals; somewhere between Thrice and Taproot; but it suits
the gloomy atmosphere well. 3.7/5
Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X3.5
Pond (AUS) Hobo Rocket3.0
Causa Sui Euporie Tide3.0
Damascus Heights2.5
Sithu Aye 264.0
Scale the Summit The Migration2.5
Naam Vow2.5
Jon Hopkins Immunity3.0
A Pale Horse Named Death Lay My Soul To Waste3.5
An entertaining gothic metal release blended with some doom, sludge, and even a little stoner. A couple tracks are blatant AiC ripoffs, and the ballads are weak, but there is plenty to enjoy here.
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer3.5
The Ocean Pelagial (Instrumental)4.0
Stake The Hutch3.0
This started as me thinking it would be a 4, then a 3.5, but I have to settle with a 3. Every song on The Hutch has the potential to be great, but each one is missing a killing instinct. In the end, it's just "good."
Buffalo Rodeo Home Videos4.0
Beastwars Blood Becomes Fire3.5
Normally if I end up liking 7 of 10 songs on an album, I give it a 4. But though many songs here are great, they tend to run together and need more differentiation. This is a solid listen but could stand to branch out a bit. 3.7/5
The Haxan Cloak Excavation3.0
Kokomo Kokomo3.5
Purling Hiss Water On Mars2.5
Intronaut Habitual Levitations3.0
Batillus Concrete Sustain3.0
KEN mode Entrench3.5
Undead Anna Undead Anna3.5
Soilwork The Living Infinite4.0
My Bloody Valentine m b v3.5
Pomegranate Tiger Entities4.0

2012
Izah Izah/Fire Walk With Us Split4.0
Intervals In Time3.5
Bassnectar Freestyle3.0
When Icarus Falls Aegean2.5
Ufomammut ORO: Opus Alter4.0
Toundra III3.0
Latitudes Individuation3.0
Elder (USA-MA) Spires Burn/Release4.0
Elder have demonstrated even better songwriting on other releases, but it's still Elder and it's still excellent. 3.8/5.
Thousand Foot Krutch The End Is Where We Begin3.0
Meshuggah Koloss3.5
Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction3.5
Love Sex Machine Love Sex Machine3.5
In the Company of Serpents In the Company of Serpents3.0

2011
Schematics For Gravity Schematics For Gravity3.0
Whores. Ruiner4.0
Metallica Beyond Magnetic3.0
It's clear why these didn't make the DM cut. The tunes suffer from awkward transitions and occasionally laughable lyrics. Still, it has its moments and there's some enjoyable riffage, barely keeping Beyond Magnetic above a 2.5.
All the Empires of the World Return3.0
O'Brother Garden Window3.5
Lantlos Agape3.0
Russian Circles Empros4.0
Damascus Of Whom I Always Think3.5
Rosetta/Junius Split3.0
Sithu Aye Cassini3.5
Mikal Cronin Mikal Cronin2.5
The Atlas Moth An Ache for the Distance3.0
A Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory for the Sullen4.0
Thrice Major/Minor3.0
Elder (USA-MA) Dead Roots Stirring4.0
Omega Massif Karpatia3.0
Generation of Vipers Howl and Filth4.0
It's disgusting how good this album is at times. Sludge/hardcore that brings the force of a steamroller. The closer could be a bit more punctuating.
Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors3.5
Yet another album that I can add to my 3.7 collection. This record comes so close to being
"excellent" but its luster is somewhat immediate. I wish I could say that the musical
interludes add depth but instead come off as filler. About half of the tracks deliver the
payoff, and when FtM hits, they hit hard.
And So I Watch You From Afar Gangs2.5
Kokomo If Wolves3.0
Thursday No Devolucion2.5
KEN mode Venerable3.0
Scale the Summit The Collective3.5
Red (USA) Until We Have Faces3.5
As others have pointed out, this album is a grower. The problem is that several songs here had the potential to be great but fell just short. Having said that, UWHF is bolstered by some of Red's best music to date (see "Feed the Machine"), and after a few listens, the strengths of other songs become apparent.

2010
Blindead Affliction XXIX II MCMXCVI3.0
Intronaut Valley of Smoke3.5
Rorcal Heliogabalus3.5
Conan Horseback Battle Hammer3.0
Fields of Locust Subtopia4.0
Rosetta A Determinism of Morality3.5
Ufomammut Eve3.5
The Egocentrics Love Fear Choices And Astronauts3.5
Year of No Light Ausserwelt3.0
Sasquatch III3.5
IV seems to have aged a little better but it's still Sasquatch. They know how to do grimy, hazy, killer rock that keeps you coming back for more.
Bassnectar Timestretch3.5
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2009
All the Empires of the World Blessings3.0
Fu Manchu Signs Of Infinite Power3.5
Russian Circles Geneva4.0
Almost as good as the album that follows it. I'd put this a tick or two above the Sputnik average. The second half of the album could use some trimming.
Latitudes Agonist4.0
Three Days Grace Life Starts Now2.5
YOB The Great Cessation3.5
Kongh Shadows of the Shapeless3.0
ISIS Wavering Radiant3.5
Cloudkicker Portmanteau3.5
If These Trees Could Talk Above the Earth, Below the Sky2.5
Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons3.5
Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct3.0
The Ocean Fluxion (Remaster)3.0

2008
Cloudkicker The Map Is Not the Territory3.5
Supercontinent Vaalbara3.5
Intronaut Prehistoricisms3.5
Metallica Death Magnetic4.0
Cloudkicker The Discovery3.5
Undeniably catchy instrudjental metal, though the album becomes somewhat redundant. Sharp also toys with a few ambient songs but these serve little other than to relieve tension. 3.7/5.

2007
Lento Earthen3.0
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold3.5
A7X's self-titled album is incredibly experimental, but the crazy part is...most of it works. Albeit, it's not something they should attempt again. Auto-tune, country guitar styles, political rants, they all make appearances. Aside from the joke of a final track, this album has some tasty material.
Generation of Vipers Dead Circle3.0
Rosetta Wake/Lift4.0
This is not the kind of record that will click upon the first, second, or even third listen.
"Lift" is largely uninteresting, but the rest of the album will take you on a journey through
space itself. Raised from a 3.7/5
Bossk .23.5
Omega Massif Geisterstadt4.0
If Isis and Year of No Light had a child and sludge was the dominant gene, this would be it. 3.4/5rEDIT: Nvm, this is a 3.9.
Ramesses Misanthropic Alchemy3.5
Humanfly II4.0
Chevelle Vena Sera4.5
Almost every song here just flat-out rocks. Vena Sera showcases a tight, energetic sound as Chevelle presents their heavier side. The album loses focus in a few spots, but this is about as high as a 4 can be. (Screw that, 4.5).
Middian Age Eternal3.0

2006
ISIS In the Absence of Truth3.0
Meshuggah Nothing (Re-Release)4.0
This Will Destroy You Young Mountain3.5
If These Trees Could Talk If These Trees Could Talk3.0
Bossk .14.0

2005
Rosetta The Galilean Satellites3.0
Trapt Someone in Control2.5
YOB The Unreal Never Lived3.0
Overmars Affliction, Endocrine...Vertigo2.5
Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree4.0
Tides Resurface3.5

2004
YOB The Illusion Of Motion3.5
ISIS Panopticon4.5
Sasquatch Sasquatch3.5
Meshuggah I3.5
The Ocean Fluxion3.0

2003
Pelican Australasia3.0
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance3.0
Jakob Cale:Drew2.5

2002
Meshuggah Nothing4.0
This might be just a touch better than Catch Thirtythree. It doesn't have a stand-out like, say, Dehumanization, but it's just so solidly consistent.
Chicago The Very Best of Chicago: Only the Beginning3.5
Side A is a 4.5. Side B is a 2.5. Final rating is a 3.5.
Plus One Obvious3.0
ISIS Oceanic3.0
Maybe I've been spoiled by the grandeur of Isis's other records, but this one feels lacking. Overdone vocals and musical ideas that tend to wander without ever finding their footing. It's a good record; perhaps not a great one.
God Is an Astronaut The End of the Beginning3.0

2001
ISIS SGNL>053.0

2000
Electric Wizard Dopethrone4.5
ISIS Celestial4.0
Fu Manchu King of the Road3.0

1999
ISIS The Red Sea3.0
Fu Manchu Eatin' Dust3.5

1998
ISIS Mosquito Control4.0

1997
Karp Self Titled LP3.0
Mogwai Young Team3.0
Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics...4.0
Album is great but the second half doesn't hit quite as hard as the first. 3.9 / 5.

1996
Bush Razorblade Suitcase3.0
What a roller coaster of an album. Razorblade Suitcase ranges from truly amazing to downright boring. The sound is raw, even abrasive at times, and Gavin's lyrics are still enigmatic. Sit through all the filler and you'll find some gems.
Fu Manchu In Search Of...3.0
There are a handful of standout tracks with infectiously fuzzy grooves and chunky vibes, but for the most part, this album bleeds together too much. Only a few songs have a real identity.

1994
Meshuggah None3.0
Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley3.5

1992
Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun3.0

1991
My Bloody Valentine Loveless3.0
Clutch Pitchfork3.5

1989
Adrian Belew Mr. Music Head4.0
Adrian Belew's musical prowess is in full swing here, as he displays his versatility and writing ability.

1984
King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair3.0

1981
King Crimson Discipline3.5

1978
Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians3.5
1977
Fleetwood Mac Rumours5.0

1976
Chicago Chicago X4.0
The final installment of Chicago's rock/pop rock days. A fun and catchy album that shows off the talents of every band member and perfectly blends Chicago's distinct sound.

1936
Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings4.5

1928
George Gershwin An American in Paris4.5
As good if not better than Rhapsody in Blue, this is one of the quintessential 20th century American compositions.

1916
Gustav Holst The Planets, Op. 324.0

1905
Claude Debussy Suite bergamasque, L. 754.0

1901
Claude Debussy Pour le piano, L. 954.5
It's about time I rated something a 4.5. This is among Debussy's finest works for solo piano. Prelude and Toccata are as amusing as they are mesmerizing, and Sarabande is second only to Clair de Lune in terms of fragile beauty.

1899
Claude Debussy Nocturnes, L. 913.5

1894
Claude Debussy Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L. 864.0
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