| Porter Ricks Biokinetics | 3.5 |
| Ski Mask The Slump God Stokeley | 3.5 |
| D'Angelo Black Messiah | 3.5 |
| While She Sleeps Brainwashed | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 4.0 |
| Gas Pop | 3.0 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Sunset Mission | 4.5 |
| In Vain (NO) Solemn | 4.0 |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme | 4.0 |
| Alcest Shelter | 3.5 |
| Tenhi Valkama | 4.0 |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy The Correlation Between Entrance And Exit Wounds | 3.5 |
| Benighted Ekbom | 4.0 |
| Coldworld Melancholie² | 4.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Ys | 4.0 |
| Underneath From the Gut of Gaia | 4.0 |
| Frail Body Artificial Bouquet | 4.0 |
| Liturgy H.A.Q.Q. | 3.0 |
| Witch Vomit Funeral Sanctum | 3.5 |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Converge The Poacher Diaries | 4.0 |
| Hour of Penance The Vile Conception | 4.0 |
| Hour of Penance Devotion | 3.0 |
| Hour of Penance Sedition | 3.5 |
| Hour of Penance Paradogma | 4.0 |
| Brodequin Harbinger of Woe | 4.0 |
| Andrea von Kampen Sister Moon | 3.5 |
| Ultha The Inextricable Wandering | 4.0 |
| Venetian Snares Songs About My Cats | 2.5 |
| Acathexis Immerse | 4.0 |
| Ultha All That Has Never Been True | 4.0 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Veleno | 4.0 |
| Aborted Vault of Horrors | 4.0 |
| Hideous Divinity Unextinct | 4.0 |
| Boundaries Death Is Little More | 4.0 |
| Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse | 4.5 |
| Adramelech Psychostasia | 4.0 |
| Saosin Along the Shadow | 4.0 |
| Saosin Saosin | 3.5 |
| Hideous Divinity Adveniens | 4.0 |
| Spectral Wound A Diabolic Thirst | 4.0 |
| Amenra Mass V | 4.0 |
| Kero Kero Bonito Time 'n' Place | 3.0 |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part II | 4.0 |
| Kero Kero Bonito Bonito Generation | 3.5 |
| Amenra Mass VI | 4.5 |
| Borknagar Fall | 3.5 |
| Borknagar Winter Thrice | 4.0 |
| Shallow Waters All Colours Blur To One | 2.5 |
| Borknagar True North | 4.0 |
| Borknagar The Olden Domain | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 4.0 |
| Job for a Cowboy Doom | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway | 4.5 |
| Convulsing Perdurance | 4.0 |
| Birch Book Vol. I - Birch Book | 3.5 |
| Sangre de Muerdago Xuntas | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear | 4.5 |
| Ihsahn Ihsahn | 3.5 |
| Darkest Hour Perpetual | Terminal | 4.0 |
| Job for a Cowboy Moon Healer | 4.5 |
| Eternal Storm Come the Tide | 4.5 |
| Rota Fortunae Solstice | 4.0 |
| Sangre de Muerdago O Vento que Lambe as miñas Feridas | 4.0 |
| Sangre de Muerdago Noite | 4.0 |
| Eternal Storm A Giant Bound to Fall | 4.0 |
| IDLES TANGK | 3.0 |
| Genghis Tron Board Up the House | 4.0 |
| Svalbard It's Hard to Have Hope | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She | 4.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me | 4.0 |
| Carnosus Dogma of the Deceased | 3.5 |
| Gorod Aethra | 4.0 |
| meth. Shame | 4.0 |
| Rhun (USA-ME) Conveyance In Death | 4.0 |
| Vitriol (USA) Suffer & Become | 4.0 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Fire of Unknown Origin | 4.0 |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? | 3.5 |
| Svalbard The Weight of the Mask | 4.0 |
| Coalesce 0:12 Revolution in Just Listening | 4.0 |
| Coalesce OX | 4.0 |
| Coalesce Functioning on Impatience | 4.0 |
| It Prevails Capture & Embrace | 3.5 |
| It Prevails The Inspiration | 4.0 |
| Admiral Angry A Fire To Burn Down The World | 3.5 |
| Admiral Angry Buster | 4.0 |
| Empyrium Über den Sternen | 4.5 |
| Empyrium Weiland | 4.0 |
| Slowdive Slowdive (LP) | 4.0 |
| Knower Knower Forever | 4.0 |
| Jex Thoth Jex Thoth | 4.0 |
| Hexvessel When We Are Death | 3.5 |
| Hexvessel Polar Veil | 4.0 |
| Can't Swim Death Deserves a Name | 3.5 |
| More Than Life Love Let Me Go | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.0 |
| Full of Hell and Nothing When No Birds Sang | 4.0 |
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| Nothing Guilty of Everything | 4.0 |
| Panopticon The Rime of Memory | 4.5 |
| Grave Miasma Odori Sepulcrorum | 4.0 |
| Concrete Winds Primitive Force | 4.0 |
| Methwitch Indwell | 4.0 |
| CunninLynguists A Piece Of Strange | 4.0 |
| Humanity's Last Breath Välde | 3.5 |
| Humanity's Last Breath Ashen | 3.5 |
| Dream Evil Dragon Slayer | 3.5 |
| State Faults Clairvoyant | 4.5 |
| Shpongle Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland | 4.5 |
| Exgenesis Solve et Coagula | 4.0 |
| HORSE the band A Natural Death | 3.5 |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living | 4.5 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 4.0 |
| Fuming Mouth Last Day of Sun | 3.5 |
| Silent Planet Superbloom | 3.5 |
| Fuming Mouth The Grand Descent | 3.5 |
| Dying Wish Symptoms of Survival | 4.0 |
| Suffocation Hymns From the Apocrypha | 4.0 |
| Mooncitadel Night's Scarlet Symphonies | 4.0 |
| Silent Planet Iridescent | 4.0 |
| There Will Be Fireworks Summer Moon | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North | 2.5 |
| Family Dynamics Service | 3.5 |
| Reign Supreme Testing The Limits Of Infinite | 3.0 |
| Wayfarer American Gothic | 4.0 |
| END (USA-NJ) The Sin of Human Frailty | 4.5 |
| Glen Hansard All That Was East Is West Of Me Now | 3.0 |
| Tigers Jaw Tigers Jaw | 4.0 |
| Odraza Rzeczom | 4.0 |
| Faceless Burial At The Foothills Of Deliration | 4.0 |
| Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter | 4.0 |
| Sulphur Aeon Seven Crowns and Seven Seals | 4.5 |
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| Slice the Cake Odyssey to the West | 4.0 |
| Final Fight Under Attack | 4.0 |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You | 3.5 |
| Saosin Translating the Name | 4.5 |
| Senses Fail Still Searching | 4.0 |
| Moonlight Sorcery Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle | 4.5 |
| Primordial How It Ends | 4.0 |
| Colony Collapse You Miss Everything | 3.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 4.0 |
| Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance | 4.0 |
| Baroness Stone | 4.0 |
| thrown Extended Pain | 3.5 |
| Polaris The Mortal Coil | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
| Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit | 4.0 |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile | 4.0 |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I | 4.5 |
| Knocked Loose Upon Loss Singles | 4.5 |
| Cryptopsy As Gomorrah Burns | 3.0 |
| Polaris Fatalism | 4.0 |
| Ophelia's Dream Not A Second Time | 4.0 |
| Empyrium Songs of Moors and Misty Fields | 4.0 |
| Empyrium Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays | 4.0 |
| Rota Fortunae Hinterland | 4.0 |
| Echoes of the Moon Esoteric | 4.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 4.5 |
| Hath All That Was Promised | 4.0 |
| In Gowan Ring Hazel Steps Through A Weathered Home | 4.0 |
| Horrendous Anareta | 4.0 |
| Shiner Lula Divinia | 4.0 |
| Exulansis Sequestered Sympathy | 4.0 |
| Horrendous Idol | 4.0 |
| Horrendous Ontological Mysterium | 4.0 |
| The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist | 4.0 |
| Night Verses Lift Your Existence | 4.5 |
| The Monolith Deathcult Trivmvirate | 4.0 |
| Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep | 5.0 |
| Anathema The Silent Enigma | 4.0 |
| Anathema A Fine Day to Exit | 4.0 |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here | 3.5 |
| Shai Hulud Hearts Once Nourished With Hope... | 3.5 |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 4.0 |
| Shai Hulud That Within Blood Ill-Tempered | 4.0 |
| Kublai Khan TX Nomad | 3.5 |
| Silent Island Rapa nui EP | 3.5 |
| Vali Skogslandskap | 4.0 |
| Vali Forlatt | 4.0 |
| Musk Ox Inheritance | 4.5 |
| Musk Ox Woodfall | 5.0 |
| Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape | 4.0 |
| Fleshwater We're Not Here To Be Loved | 4.0 |
| Fen Carrion Skies | 4.0 |
| Kittie Spit | 3.5 |
| Johnny Booth Moments Elsewhere | 4.5 |
| Fen Monuments to Absence | 4.0 |
| Stormkeep Tales of Othertime | 4.0 |
| Counterpunch Bruises | 3.5 |
| Fen Winter | 4.0 |
| Havukruunu Kuu Erkylän Yllä | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean Redeemer | 4.0 |
| Blackbraid Blackbraid I | 4.0 |
| Blackbraid Blackbraid II | 4.5 |
| Worthwhile Carry On Kid | 4.0 |
| Stepson Echoes in an Empty Room | 3.5 |
| Superheaven Jar | 4.0 |
| Nothing The Great Dismal | 4.0 |
| Whirr/Nothing Split | 3.5 |
| Loma Prieta Last | 4.0 |
| A Wake in Providence Eternity | 3.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant | 3.5 |
| Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden | 2.0 |
| Burner It All Returns To Nothing | 4.5 |
| Mental Cruelty Zwielicht | 4.0 |
| Rings of Saturn Dingir | 3.0 |
| Goreshit wish i was here (or how things went wrong) | 4.0 |
| Purity Filter Purity Filter | 3.5 |
| Mayo. Premonition | 3.5 |
| Goreshit Semantics: The Benzo Chronicles | 4.5 |
| xanopticon Liminal Space | 4.0 |
| Purity Filter Immortal Spirit | 4.0 |
| Venetian Snares Traditional Synthesizer Music | 3.5 |
| Age of Panic Blades Drawn | 4.0 |
| Sithu Aye Set Course for Andromeda | 4.0 |
| Lagwagon Let's Talk About Feelings | 4.0 |
| Folly Insanity Later | 4.0 |
| Incendiary Change The Way You Think About Pain | 4.0 |
| Wormrot Dirge | 4.0 |
| The Front Bottoms The Front Bottoms | 3.0 |
| Japanese Breakfast Jubilee | 4.0 |
| Japanese Breakfast Psychopomp | 3.5 |
| Turnstile Glow On | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim | 4.0 |
| DevilDriver The Last Kind Words | 4.0 |
| Fires in the Distance Air Not Meant For Us | 4.0 |
| Brutal Truth Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses | 4.0 |
| VoidCeremony Threads of Unknowing | 3.5 |
| Ulthar Providence | 3.5 |
| Warmoon Lord Burning Banners of the Funereal War | 4.0 |
| Dodheimsgard 666 International | 3.5 |
| Wardruna Runaljod - Yggdrasil | 4.0 |
| Belzebubs Pantheon of the Nightside Gods | 4.0 |
| Jesus Piece ...So Unknown | 3.5 |
| Tribulation Hamartia | 4.0 |
| Tribulation The Children of the Night | 4.0 |
| Soen Lotus | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Death Below | 4.0 |
| Soen Tellurian | 3.5 |
| Soen Cognitive | 4.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.5 |
| Typical Cats Typical Cats | 4.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Exul | 4.5 |
| Sage Francis Personal Journals | 4.0 |
| Mac Miller GO:OD AM | 4.0 |
| Invent Animate The Sun Sleeps, As If It Never Was | 4.5 |
| Invent Animate Heavener | 4.0 |
| 100 Gecs 1000 gecs | 3.0 |
| 100 Gecs 10,000 gecs | 3.5 |
| Revolting Monolith of Madness | 4.0 |
| Krypts Unending Degradation | 3.5 |
| Hyperdontia Nexus of Teeth | 4.0 |
| Mac Miller Watching Movies With The Sound Off | 3.5 |
| Majesties Vast Reaches Unclaimed | 4.5 |
| Mac Miller Circles | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Anno 1696 | 4.0 |
| KEN mode Entrench | 4.0 |
| KEN mode Null | 4.0 |
| To The Grave Director’s Cuts | 3.5 |
| KEN mode Loved | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes | 4.0 |
| Viscera (UK) Carcinogenesis | 4.0 |
| Viscera (UK) Obsidian | 4.0 |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine | 4.0 |
| The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery | 4.5 |
| Gaerea Mirage | 4.0 |
| Inferi (USA) Vile Genesis | 4.0 |
| Gaerea Limbo | 4.0 |
| END/Cult Leader Gather and Mourn | 4.5 |
| Berried Alive Fools Gold | 4.0 |
| Reflections The Fantasy Effect | 3.0 |
| Reflections The Color Clear | 3.5 |
| Darko (US) Oni | 3.5 |
| Mugshot Empty Heaven | 3.5 |
| Burner A Vision of The End | 4.0 |
| A Wake in Providence The Blvck Sun || The Blood Moon | 4.0 |
| Underneath Nothing Here is Held Sacred | 4.0 |
| Woods of Ypres Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light | 4.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Color Decay | 3.0 |
| Katatonia Sky Void of Stars | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues | 3.5 |
| Sarpanitum Blessed Be My Brothers | 4.5 |
| This...could very well be one of my favorite dm albums of all time. It's packed to the brim with energy, both guttural and fierce and gorgeous and climactic. There exists a plane where both beautiful melodeath and visceral brutal death metal can coexist, and on that plane is "Blessed Be My Brothers" |
| Inherits the Void The Impending Fall Of The Stars | 4.0 |
| Dryad The Abyssal Plain | 3.5 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Violent by Design | 4.0 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell | 4.5 |
| Ahab The Coral Tombs | 4.0 |
| God Complex To Decay In A Deathless World | 4.0 |
| Kardashev Peripety | 4.0 |
| Job for a Cowboy Sun Eater | 4.0 |
| Kardashev The Baring of Shadows | 4.5 |
| Kardashev Liminal Rite | 4.5 |
| Mental Cruelty A Hill to Die Upon | 3.5 |
| Ling Tosite Sigure Just a Moment | 4.0 |
| Casino Madrid For Kings and Queens | 3.5 |
| Jamie's Elsewhere They Said a Storm Was Coming | 4.0 |
| Bad Omens The Death of Peace of Mind | 2.5 |
| Misthyrming Með hamri | 3.5 |
| Misthyrming Söngvar elds og óreiðu | 4.0 |
| This album comes as a concoction of black metal riffing savagery and isolated, icy atmospheric that makes you feel like you have been left to freeze to death in an unforgiving, unyielding cavern. It's creative and interesting, with a constant barrage of new riffs and drum patterns. Top this off with some hella cavernous and beastly growls/shouts and you have a record that is both "fun" and abrasive. |
| Ninkharsag The Dread March Of Solemn Gods | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Genexus | 3.5 |
| Les Discrets Ariettes Oubliees... | 4.0 |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 4.5 |
| Powerwolf The Sacrament of Sin | 3.5 |
| Paleface Swiss Chapter 3: The Last Selection | 3.0 |
| Powerwolf Blood of the Saints | 4.0 |
| Dying Wish Fragments of a Bitter Memory | 4.0 |
| White Ward False Light | 4.0 |
| White Ward Futility Report | 4.0 |
| White Ward Love Exchange Failure | 4.5 |
| Silent Planet Everything Was Sound | 3.5 |
| Zao The Funeral of God | 4.0 |
| Zao The Crimson Corridor | 4.0 |
| He Is Legend Endless Hallway | 3.5 |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood | 4.0 |
| Brand of Sacrifice Interstice | 4.0 |
| Downfall of Nur Umbras de Barbagia | 4.0 |
| Johnny Booth Storyteller | 4.5 |
| Psychonaut Unfold the God Man | 4.0 |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy Songs for the Firing Squad | 3.5 |
| Fightstar One Day Son This Will All Be Yours | 4.0 |
| Static Dress Rouge Carpet Disaster | 4.0 |
| Sworn to the Sword The Calling | 3.5 |
| Boundaries Burying Brightness | 4.0 |
| Ghost Chant Left to Drown | 4.0 |
| Ghost Chant Ghost Chant | 4.0 |
| Ghost Chant Nothing Worth Keeping | 4.5 |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 4.0 |
| Varials In Darkness | 3.5 |
| Lorna Shore Pain Remains | 4.0 |
| Silent Planet The Night God Slept | 4.0 |
| The Plot In You Wife Beater | 3.0 |
| Dealer (AUS) Soul Burn | 4.0 |
| Incendiary Thousand Mile Stare | 4.5 |
| Counterparts A Eulogy for Those Still Here | 5.0 |
| Earth Caller Degenerate | 3.5 |
| City of Caterpillar Mystic Sisters | 4.0 |
| One Step Closer This Place You Know | 4.0 |
| Brand of Sacrifice Lifeblood | 4.0 |
| An Abstract Illusion Woe | 4.0 |
| Armor For Sleep What To Do When You Are Dead | 4.0 |
| Veilburner The Three Lightbearers | 4.0 |
| Veilburner A Sire to the Ghouls of Lunacy | 4.5 |
| Revocation Netherheaven | 3.5 |
| Fallujah Empyrean | 4.0 |
| Sigh Heir to Despair | 4.0 |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett | 4.5 |
| Portal Outre | 3.0 |
| Sigh Shiki | 4.0 |
| Minenwerfer Alpenpässe | 4.5 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Drift | 2.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.0 |
| Lord Mantis Pervertor | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me | 4.0 |
| Kamelot Karma | 4.5 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Symphony of Enchanted Lands II | 4.0 |
| Mushroomhead XIII | 3.5 |
| Thaurorod Coast of Gold | 4.0 |
| Dark Moor The Hall of the Olden Dreams | 4.0 |
| Black Midi Hellfire | 3.5 |
| Chat Pile God's Country | 4.5 |
| This will slap. It will whip. It will own. rIt will do these all simultaneously and separately anx you will enjoy it. |
| Fear Factory Obsolete | 4.0 |
| Zao The Well-Intentioned Virus | 4.0 |
| The Chariot One Wing | 4.0 |
| The Chariot Long Live | 4.5 |
| The Chariot is the most furious assault that I've ever heard. They make me feel as if my entire body is collapsing, as if the walls surrounding me are quaking and crumbling. The Chariot is fucking pissed, and they want you to know it. |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic | 4.0 |
| Polyphia New Levels New Devils | 3.5 |
| Zao Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest | 4.5 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Loss | 3.5 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar The Endless Shimmering | 4.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Gangs | 4.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar | 4.0 |
| Frameworks Loom | 4.0 |
| Nonpoint To the Pain | 4.0 |
| PUP The Unraveling of PUPTheBand | 3.5 |
| Sole Selling Live Water | 4.5 |
| Gravediggaz 6 Feet Deep | 4.0 |
| Wormrot Hiss | 4.0 |
| Portrayal of Guilt We Are Always Alone | 3.5 |
| Portrayal of Guilt/Chat Pile Split | 4.0 |
| O.G.C. Da Storm | 4.0 |
| Sadistik Altars | 2.5 |
| Sole Bottle Of Humans | 4.0 |
| Invent Animate Greyview | 3.5 |
| Inanimate Existence The Masquerade | 3.5 |
| Verberis Adumbration of the Veiled Logos | 4.0 |
| Alexisonfire Otherness | 4.0 |
| Tomarum Ash in Realms of Stone Icons | 4.0 |
| Soilwork Verkligheten | 3.0 |
| Omnium Gatherum Origin | 3.5 |
| Saor Origins | 3.5 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion | 4.0 |
| Dir En Grey Uroboros | 4.0 |
| Dir En Grey Phalaris | 4.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory | 4.0 |
| Artificial Brain Artificial Brain | 5.0 |
| Saidan Onryo II: Her Spirit Eternal | 4.5 |
| Sunless Ylem | 4.0 |
| Immortal Bird Thrive On Neglect | 4.0 |
| Macaroom Homephone TE | 4.0 |
| Deicide Legion | 4.0 |
| Sectioned Annihilated | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.0 |
| OutKast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik | 4.0 |
| Manilla Road Open the Gates | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness | 4.0 |
| Orville Peck Bronco | 4.5 |
| Anathema Eternity | 4.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas | 4.0 |
| Anathema Alternative 4 | 4.0 |
| Anathema Judgement | 4.5 |
| Have Heart Songs to Scream at the Sun | 4.0 |
| SOUL GLO Diaspora Problems | 4.0 |
| Metal Church Metal Church | 4.0 |
| Falls of Rauros Key to a Vanishing Future | 4.5 |
| Visit Kalvhaga hardcore ambient | 3.0 |
| Temple of Void The World That Was | 4.0 |
| Imperial Triumphant Alphaville | 4.5 |
| Headphones-on. Penis-erect.rGod bless Imperial Triumphant and god bless u all. |
| Revocation Chaos of Forms | 3.5 |
| Deathspell Omega The Long Defeat | 3.0 |
| Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game | 4.0 |
| Hot Water Music A Flight and a Crash | 4.0 |
| Converge The Poacher Diaries Redux | 4.0 |
| Bent Life Never Asked For Heaven | 3.0 |
| Johnny Booth Firsthand Accounts | 4.5 |
| Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life | 4.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Impera | 3.0 |
| Nocturnal Rites New World Messiah | 3.5 |
| AngelMaker Sanctum | 4.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora | 3.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) If You Have Ghost | 4.0 |
| The Casket Lottery Survival Is For Cowards | 4.5 |
| Vein.fm This World Is Going to Ruin You | 3.5 |
| Jawbox For Your Own Special Sweetheart | 4.0 |
| Birds in Row We Already Lost The World | 4.5 |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese | 4.0 |
| Allegaeon Damnum | 4.0 |
| Bane It All Comes Down to This | 4.0 |
| Birds in Row You, Me, and the Violence | 4.5 |
| Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket Det Onda. Det Goda. Det Vackra. Det Fula. | 4.5 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 4.0 |
| HEALTH Death Magic | 3.5 |
| Reeking Aura Beneath the Canopy of Compost | 4.0 |
| Immolation Acts of God | 4.0 |
| If there is a god then it is Immolation. |
| Venom Prison Erebos | 4.0 |
| Primus Frizzle Fry | 4.0 |
| Primus Pork Soda | 4.0 |
| WRVTH No Rising Sun | 4.0 |
| Icon For Hire Scripted | 3.5 |
| Rolo Tomassi Grievances | 4.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 4.0 |
| Rotting Christ Kata Ton Demona Eaftou | 4.0 |
| Wedrujacy Wiatr Zorzysta Staje Ocma | 4.0 |
| Dark Matter (MEX) Infinite Loneliness | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 4.5 |
| The Wonder Years Sister Cities | 4.0 |
| SOM The Shape of Everything | 4.0 |
| Cloakroom Time Well | 3.5 |
| Cloakroom Dissolution Wave | 4.0 |
| Fallujah Undying Light | 3.0 |
| Abiotic Symbiosis | 2.5 |
| Abiotic Ikigai | 3.0 |
| Invent Animate Everchanger | 4.0 |
| Invent Animate Stillworld | 3.5 |
| Angelcorpse Exterminate | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 3.5 |
| Angelcorpse The Inexorable | 4.0 |
| 40 Watt Sun Perfect Light | 4.0 |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence | 4.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds | 4.5 |
| Wilderun Olden Tales and Deathly Trails | 4.5 |
| Wilderun Epigone | 4.0 |
| Shadow Of Intent Elegy | 4.0 |
| The Hope Conspiracy Death Knows Your Name | 4.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 4.0 |
| Lorna Shore Immortal | 3.5 |
| Born of Osiris Angel or Alien | 3.0 |
| Lorna Shore Flesh Coffin | 3.5 |
| Resonant Filth Depraved State | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.5 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.5 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II | 4.0 |
| Dark Matter (MEX) Dystopian | 3.5 |
| IDLES Brutalism | 4.0 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Der Weg Einer Freiheit | 4.0 |
| HEALTH DISCO4 :: Part I | 4.0 |
| Car Bomb w^w^^w^w | 3.5 |
| HEALTH VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR | 4.0 |
| Poppy EAT (NXT Soundtrack) | 4.0 |
| Olivia Rodrigo Sour | 3.0 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Noktvrn | 4.0 |
| IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance | 4.0 |
| Altarage Succumb | 3.5 |
| The Temple (NZ) The Temple | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! | 4.0 |
| Converge Bloodmoon: I | 4.0 |
| Manilla Road The Deluge | 4.0 |
| Manilla Road Mystification | 4.5 |
| Enter Shikari The Mindsweep | 3.5 |
| Manilla Road Crystal Logic | 4.0 |
| Enter Shikari Take to the Skies | 3.5 |
| Mutoid Man Helium Head | 4.0 |
| Mutoid Man War Moans | 4.0 |
| Sermon of Flames I Have Seen the Light, and It Was Repulsive | 3.5 |
| Visigoth Conqueror's Oath | 3.5 |
| Visigoth The Revenant King | 3.5 |
| Sadistik Flowers for My Father | 4.0 |
| Sadistik Ultraviolet | 4.0 |
| 1914 Where Fear and Weapons Meet | 4.0 |
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| Obscura A Valediction | 4.0 |
| Hazael Thor | 3.5 |
| Lost Horizon Awakening the World | 3.5 |
| Lost Horizon A Flame to the Ground Beneath | 4.0 |
| Swallow the Sun Moonflowers | 4.0 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 5.0 |
| Goodie Mob Soul Food | 4.5 |
| CunninLynguists Will Rap For Food | 4.5 |
| Atmosphere God Loves Ugly | 4.0 |
| OutKast ATLiens | 4.5 |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart | 4.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars | 4.0 |
| Braison Cyrus Javelina | 4.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen | 4.0 |
| Gojira Terra Incognita | 3.5 |
| Gojira The Link | 3.0 |
| Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes Blossom | 4.0 |
| Be'lakor Coherence | 4.5 |
| Not only will it slap, but it will also whip. Maybe even rule. |
| Archspire Bleed the Future | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Radical | 4.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Existence Is Futile | 4.0 |
| Ling Tosite Sigure I'mperfect | 4.0 |
| Ling Tosite Sigure Inspiration Is Dead | 4.5 |
| OutKast Aquemini | 4.0 |
| OutKast Stankonia | 4.5 |
| Trivium In the Court of the Dragon | 4.5 |
| Cognizance Upheaval | 4.0 |
| Testament The Ritual | 2.5 |
| Loreena McKennitt The Mask and Mirror | 4.0 |
| Testament Brotherhood of the Snake | 3.5 |
| Testament The Legacy | 4.0 |
| Baroness Red Album | 4.5 |
| Rivers of Nihil The Work | 2.5 |
| Ihsahn The Adversary | 3.5 |
| Pain of Salvation In the Passing Light of Day | 2.5 |
| Sum 41 Chuck | 3.5 |
| Type O Negative Bloody Kisses | 4.0 |
| Type O Negative October Rust | 4.5 |
| Dead Can Dance Dead Can Dance | 4.0 |
| Gregory Alan Isakov This Empty Northern Hemisphere | 3.0 |
| Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun | 4.5 |
| Dead Can Dance Aion | 4.0 |
| Social Distortion Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll | 3.5 |
| Leviathan Tentacles of Whorror | 4.0 |
| Despised Icon Day Of Mourning | 3.0 |
| Despised Icon The Ills Of Modern Man | 2.5 |
| Carnifex Dead in My Arms | 3.5 |
| Carnifex Graveside Confessions | 3.5 |
| Aara En Ergô Einai | 4.0 |
| Groza Unified In Void | 3.5 |
| Lord Huron Strange Trails | 3.0 |
| Groza The Redemptive End | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana | 4.0 |
| Lorna Shore ...And I Return to Nothingness | 4.0 |
| Harakiri for the Sky Aokigahara | 4.0 |
| Andrea von Kampen That Spell | 3.5 |
| Andrea von Kampen Old Country | 4.0 |
| Obie Trice Cheers | 4.0 |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man | 4.5 |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Below the Lights | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone Eternal Hails | 3.5 |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct | 4.0 |
| Rippikoulu Musta Seremonia | 3.5 |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light | 4.5 |
| Sleeping With Sirens With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear | 4.0 |
| 1914 Eschatology of War | 4.0 |
| Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning | 4.0 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Empire of Light | 4.0 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.5 |
| Trigger the Bloodshed The Great Depression | 3.0 |
| Gojira Fortitude | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Post Human: Survival Horror | 3.0 |
| David Maxim Micic Bilo 3.0 | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.0 |
| Anamanaguchi Endless Fantasy | 4.0 |
| Ween White Pepper | 2.5 |
| Ween Chocolate and Cheese | 3.0 |
| Ween The Mollusk | 3.5 |
| Havukruunu Rautaa ja Tulta | 4.0 |
| Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around | 4.0 |
| Akhlys Melinoe | 4.0 |
| While She Sleeps Sleeps Society | 2.5 |
| Craft White Noise and Black Metal | 3.5 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 4.0 |
| Wayfarer A Romance with Violence | 4.5 |
| Devil Sold His Soul A Fragile Hope | 4.0 |
| Dark Watcher Hymns Of A Godless Land | 4.0 |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled | 4.5 |
| Gatecreeper An Unexpected Reality | 4.0 |
| Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Nightmare Withdrawals | 3.5 |
| ERRA ERRA | 4.0 |
| Dread Sovereign All Hell's Martyrs | 4.0 |
| Dread Sovereign Alchemical Warfare | 3.5 |
| 1914 The Blind Leading the Blind | 4.5 |
| God's Hate God's Hate | 3.5 |
| Mork Katedralen | 4.0 |
| Julien Baker Little Oblivions | 3.5 |
| Swallow the Sun New Moon | 4.0 |
| Voivod Target Earth | 3.5 |
| Blindead Affliction XXIX II MCMXCVI | 4.5 |
| Evergrey Escape of the Phoenix | 4.0 |
| Moonspell Irreligious | 3.5 |
| Tribulation The Horror | 4.0 |
| Nokturnal Hellstorm Dominance and Persecution | 3.5 |
| Moonspell Hermitage | 3.5 |
| This or the Apocalypse Dead Years | 4.5 |
| This or the Apocalypse Haunt What's Left | 4.0 |
| Antagonist An Envy of Innocence | 3.5 |
| Uada Djinn | 3.5 |
| Rome Flowers From Exile | 4.5 |
| Rome A Passage to Rhodesia | 4.0 |
| Tribulation Where the Gloom Becomes Sound | 4.0 |
| My Dying Bride The Ghost of Orion | 3.0 |
| The Callous Daoboys Die on Mars | 4.0 |
| Acid Bath When the Kite String Pops | 4.5 |
| Mineral The Power of Failing | 4.0 |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter | 4.0 |
| The Secret Luce | 4.0 |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness | 4.0 |
| Rammstein Untitled | 4.0 |
| Palm Reader Sleepless | 4.0 |
| The Ghost of a Thousand This Is Where The Fight Begins | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Victory Lap | 4.0 |
| Dio Holy Diver | 3.5 |
| Tribulation Down Below | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death | 3.5 |
| Helcaraxe The Last Battle | 4.0 |
| Helcaraxe Red Dragon | 4.5 |
| sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything | 4.0 |
| Departures Teenage Haze | 4.0 |
| Serpent Column Kathodos | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Lament | 4.0 |
| PUP The Dream Is Over | 4.5 |
| All Them Witches Nothing as the Ideal | 4.0 |
| Cytotoxin Nuklearth | 4.0 |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 4.0 |
| Deadguy Fixation on a Coworker | 4.0 |
| Portishead Dummy | 4.5 |
| Incantation Sect of Vile Divinities | 3.5 |
| Orville Peck Pony | 4.0 |
| Departures Death Touches Us, From The Moment We Begin To Love | 5.0 |
| The Secret Lux Tenebris | 3.5 |
| Plebeian Grandstand Lowgazers | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet | 3.5 |
| Myrkgrav Trollskau, Skromt og Kolabrenning | 4.0 |
| Garden of Shadows Oracle Moon | 4.5 |
| The Meads of Asphodel The Excommunication of Christ | 3.5 |
| Defeated Sanity The Sanguinary Impetus | 3.5 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core | 3.5 |
| Helgafell The Voice of Withered Stone | 3.0 |
| Havukruunu Uinuos Syömein Sota | 5.0 |
| Havukruunu Kelle Surut Soi | 4.5 |
| Weakling Dead as Dreams | 4.0 |
| Blood Red Throne Altered Genesis | 3.0 |
| Gallows (UK) Grey Britain | 4.0 |
| Turnpike Troubadours Diamonds and Gasoline | 4.0 |
| Unwound Fake Train | 3.0 |
| Casey Where I Go When I Am Sleeping | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Black Brick | 4.5 |
| Make Them Suffer How to Survive a Funeral | 2.0 |
| Turnover Magnolia | 3.5 |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision | 3.5 |
| Caspian Waking Season | 4.0 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 4.0 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 3.0 |
| Hoth Oathbreaker | 3.5 |
| Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule | 4.0 |
| The Ghost Inside The Ghost Inside | 3.5 |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face | 4.0 |
| The moment I hear the first djun on this album I will pee my goddamn pants |
| Cosmic Putrefaction The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits | 4.5 |
| Days N Daze Show Me The Blueprints. | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 5.0 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 4.0 |
| Winterfylleth The Reckoning Dawn | 4.0 |
| Katatonia City Burials | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 3.5 |
| Danimal Cannon Lunaria | 4.0 |
| Strawberry Hospital Grave Chimera | 3.5 |
| All Them Witches Dying Surfer Meets His Maker | 4.0 |
| Sempiternal Dusk Cenotaph Of Defectuous Creation | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still | 4.5 |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God I | 4.0 |
| Bad Books III | 3.5 |
| Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror | 3.0 |
| Old Man Gloom NO | 3.5 |
| Old Man Gloom Christmas | 3.5 |
| Black Peaks All That Divides | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Guardians | 3.0 |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine | 3.0 |
| Nahemah The Second Philosophy | 4.0 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Still Nothing Moves You | 4.0 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Violence Violence | 3.5 |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? | 4.0 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.0 |
| Panopticon/Nechochwen Panopticon / Nechochwen | 4.5 |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis | 4.0 |
| High on Fire Art of Self-Defense | 3.5 |
| Revocation Deathless | 3.5 |
| There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright | 5.0 |
| There Will Be Fireworks There Will Be Fireworks | 4.0 |
| Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine | 4.0 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Finisterre | 4.5 |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty | 4.0 |
| Thornhill The Dark Pool | 3.5 |
| Northlane Alien | 2.5 |
| Culling the Weak Culling the Weak | 4.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 4.0 |
| Logistic Slaughter Corrosive Ethics | 4.0 |
| Satyricon Nemesis Divina | 4.0 |
| Satyricon Deep Calleth Upon Deep | 3.0 |
| Dzo-nga Thunder In the Mountains | 3.5 |
| Kvelertak Splid | 3.5 |
| My Dying Bride A Line of Deathless Kings | 4.0 |
| Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything | 3.0 |
| In Vain (NO) Aenigma | 4.5 |
| In Vain (NO) Currents | 4.0 |
| Sylosis Conclusion of an Age | 4.0 |
| Unleashed Shadows in the Deep | 4.0 |
| Gatecreeper Sonoran Depravation | 3.5 |
| Gatecreeper Deserted | 4.0 |
| Unleashed Where No Life Dwells | 4.0 |
| The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed | 4.0 |
| Wedrujacy Wiatr O Turniach, Jeziorach I Nocnych Szlakach | 4.5 |
| It astounds me how much of a hidden gem this album is. The blend of icy, black metal riffs, lo-fi production and glistening folk instrumentation piece together to form a majestic dreamscape unlike that of which I have ever heard. Perhaps it is it's ability to sound so down to earth and pure, seemingly untainted by the tendrils of a corrupting earth. This is black metal from the heavens. |
| Lord Mantis Death Mask | 3.5 |
| Cobalt Eater of Birds | 4.5 |
| Primordial Storm Before Calm | 3.5 |
| Big K.R.I.T. 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time | 4.0 |
| Dark Watcher Dark Watcher | 4.0 |
| Vitriol (USA) To Bathe from the Throat of Cowardice | 4.0 |
| High on Fire Electric Messiah | 4.0 |
| The Acacia Strain It Comes in Waves | 3.5 |
| Hate Eternal Upon Desolate Sands | 3.5 |
| Hate Eternal I, Monarch | 4.0 |
| Noumena Anatomy of Life | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World | 4.5 |
| Obsequiae The Palms of Sorrowed Kings | 4.5 |
| Amon Amarth The Avenger | 4.0 |
| Being as an Ocean How We Both Wondrously Perish | 2.0 |
| Casey Love Is Not Enough | 4.5 |
| Mayhem Daemon | 3.5 |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race | 4.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love | 3.0 |
| Bethlehem S.U.I.Z.I.D | 4.0 |
| Panopticon On the Subject of Mortality | 4.0 |
| Scarlxrd Chaxsthexry | 3.5 |
| Cattle Decapitation Death Atlas | 3.5 |
| Malum Night of the Luciferian Light | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown | 4.5 |
| Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark | 4.0 |
| Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? | 3.5 |
| Taake Stridens hus | 3.0 |
| Taake Noregs Vaapen | 4.0 |
| Taake Taake | 3.5 |
| Taake Hordalands Doedskvad | 4.0 |
| Taake Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik | 4.5 |
| Taake Nattestid Ser Porten Vid | 5.0 |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back | 4.0 |
| END (USA-NJ) From the Unforgiving Arms of God | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean All Hail | 4.5 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts | 3.5 |
| Counterparts Nothing Left to Love | 5.0 |
| Bro steak dude I love you man we all gay n shit yanno |
| Shade Empire Poetry of the Ill-Minded | 4.0 |
| This was a fantastic record that nearly meets the level of grandeur and bombast that Omega Arcane had set. It also utilizes experimentation seen off of albums like Zero Nexus, and while it's definitely a ballsy and respectable move to let some fiery sax solos slip in there, they don't exactly mesh well with symphonic metal. I also feel like this shows some pretty big high points and low points, high points being the gorgeous tracks that are among the best in the bands career (Lecter/Welcome and Anti-Life Saviour) and some of there most disappointing (Treasure/In Liquid Dreams). This album would be extremely close to Omega Arcane quality if not for these small kinks. |
| Shade Empire Omega Arcane | 5.0 |
| Shade Empire Zero Nexus | 3.5 |
| This album had some pretty standout badass moments, like the unexpected cathartic saxophone solo at the end of the record. It also had a number of rather jarring moments, and one or two times where the vocals where downright terrible. Still enjoyable for a huge fan of Shade Empire however. |
| Shade Empire Intoxicate O.S. | 3.0 |
| Shade Empire Sinthetic | 4.0 |
| Wilderun Veil of Imagination | 3.5 |
| Novembre Materia | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 4.0 |
| Whispered Metsutan - Songs of the Void | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean Meridional | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar | 4.5 |
| Tomb Mold Manor of Infinite Forms | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Heart Like a Grave | 3.5 |
| Coffinworm When All Became None | 4.0 |
| Monolord No Comfort | 3.5 |
| Slumber Fallout | 4.5 |
| Obsequiae Aria of Vernal Tombs | 4.5 |
| Obsequiae Suspended in the Brume of Eos | 4.0 |
| Red Fang Murder the Mountains | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay | 3.0 |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising | 3.5 |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm | 4.0 |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets | 4.5 |
| Neurosis Times of Grace | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun | 4.0 |
| Stellar basswork. Freaky yells. Tribal drumming that makes up the entirety of a 15 minute track. War samples. What the fuck. |
| Neurosis Souls at Zero | 4.0 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 4.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles | 4.0 |
| King Dude Songs Of Flesh & Blood - In The Key Of Light | 4.0 |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II | 3.5 |
| Dalek From Filthy Tongue Of Gods And Griots | 4.5 |
| Dalek Absence | 4.5 |
| I love how dark and malicious this sounds-like being trapped underneath a sewage grate with a stab wound in your chest left by the cannibalistic tribe that lurks beneath. |
| Dalek Gutter Tactics | 3.0 |
| Dalek Asphalt For Eden | 3.5 |
| Dalek Endangered Philosophies | 3.0 |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum | 3.0 |
| Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue | 4.0 |
| Mizmor Yodh | 4.0 |
| Mgla Further Down the Nest | 3.5 |
| Mgla Age of Excuse | 4.0 |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes | 4.0 |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 4.0 |
| Darkest Hour Darkest Hour | 3.0 |
| While She Sleeps You Are We | 3.5 |
| Shadow Of Intent Melancholy | 4.0 |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind | 3.5 |
| Vein.fm Errorzone | 5.0 |
| While She Sleeps This Is the Six | 4.5 |
| Bloodred Hourglass Godsend | 4.0 |
| False Portent | 4.0 |
| Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology | 4.5 |
| Supercell Today is a Beautiful Day | 4.0 |
| Inter Arma Sulphur English | 3.5 |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion | 4.5 |
| High on Fire Blessed Black Wings | 4.5 |
| King Dude Sex | 3.5 |
| Shinedown Leave a Whisper | 3.0 |
| King Dude Burning Daylight | 4.0 |
| Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water | 4.0 |
| Down Down III: Over the Under | 4.0 |
| Zealotry At the Nexus of All Stillborn Worlds | 3.5 |
| Zealotry The Last Witness | 3.5 |
| Primordial Exile Amongst the Ruins | 4.0 |
| Primordial Where Greater Men Have Fallen | 4.0 |
| Primordial Redemption at the Puritan's Hand | 4.0 |
| Primordial The Gathering Wilderness | 4.5 |
| Primordial To the Nameless Dead | 5.0 |
| Primordial Spirit the Earth Aflame | 4.0 |
| Primordial A Journey's End | 4.0 |
| The Story So Far Proper Dose | 4.0 |
| Motionless in White Disguise | 3.0 |
| Undead Ahead 2-rHoly fucking blackcraft calm down Motionless in White |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling | 4.0 |
| Paramore Riot! | 5.0 |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes | 4.0 |
| Paramore Paramore | 3.0 |
| Paramore After Laughter | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth Berserker | 2.5 |
| GARDSGHASTR Slit Throat Requiem | 4.0 |
| Akasha Canticles of the Sepulchral Deity | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Witness | 4.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy | 4.0 |
| Full of Hell Weeping Choir | 4.0 |
| Defeater Defeater | 3.5 |
| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow | 4.0 |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo | 4.5 |
| Warforged I: Voice | 2.5 |
| Heathen Victims of Deception | 3.5 |
| Staleworth Covalence | 3.5 |
| Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation | 4.0 |
| Hath Of Rot And Ruin | 4.0 |
| Hath strikes a beautiful balance between monstrous density and spacy, airy melodies. There are earth shattering chugs and blast beats and gnarly growls that transition nearly symphonic metal-like cleans and arpeggios that all feel uniquely Hath. If anything, Hath sounds like a band that takes from anything and everything in a way to paint their own vivid image of scoured desert landscapes and full scale hellish warfare. This rules. |
| After the Burial Evergreen | 3.0 |
| Allegaeon Apoptosis | 4.0 |
| GHOSTEMANE N/O/I/S/E | 3.0 |
| His Hero Is Gone Monuments To Thieves | 4.0 |
| Spite (USA-NY) Antimoshiach | 4.0 |
| Mastodon 9 Song Demo | 3.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Veto | 4.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) | 4.0 |
| Unearth Darkness in the Light | 4.0 |
| Human Remains Using Sickness as a Hero | 3.5 |
| Dyscarnate With All Their Might | 4.5 |
| Dyscarnate And So It Came To Pass | 4.0 |
| Dyscarnate Enduring the Massacre | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 2.0 |
| Some dude going 0-0-0-0-0-0-0 suddenly dive bombing like a kamikaze pilot into degenerate soloing for fifty minutes over fairly decent coarse shouts and "incredibly technical" drum patterns. |
| Waka Flocka Flame Flockaveli | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 4.0 |
| Venom Prison Samsara | 3.5 |
| The Tragically Hip Road Apples | 2.5 |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora | 4.0 |
| Thantifaxath Sacred White Noise | 4.0 |
| Drudkh Forgotten Legends | 4.0 |
| Earthside A Dream In Static | 4.0 |
| Panopticon The Crescendo of Dusk | 4.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse | 4.0 |
| The Story So Far The Story So Far | 3.0 |
| The Story So Far What You Don't See | 4.0 |
| The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt | 4.5 |
| As Blood Runs Black Allegiance | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens | 4.5 |
| Masked Intruder Masked Intruder | 3.5 |
| Yugen Blakrok Anima Mysterium | 3.5 |
| ERRA Neon | 3.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 3.5 |
| Slowdive Souvlaki | 4.5 |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side | 4.0 |
| Septicflesh The Great Mass | 3.5 |
| Rotting Christ The Heretics | 3.0 |
| Nokturnal Mortum Goat Horns | 4.0 |
| Nokturnal Mortum The Voice of Steel | 5.0 |
| Nokturnal Mortum Verity | 3.5 |
| Inquisition Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient | 3.5 |
| Inquisition Nefarious Dismal Orations | 3.5 |
| Inquisition Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical... | 4.5 |
| Inquisition Obscure Verses for the Multiverse | 4.5 |
| Inquisition Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar... | 4.5 |
| The Secret Agnus Dei | 4.0 |
| Varathron His Majesty at the Swamp | 3.5 |
| Varathron Patriarchs of Evil | 4.0 |
| Macabre Omen The Ancient Returns | 4.0 |
| Macabre Omen Gods Of War - At War | 4.5 |
| The Secret Solve Et Coagula | 4.5 |
| Imperial Triumphant Abyssal Gods | 4.0 |
| Terminally Your Aborted Ghost Slowly Peeling Flesh From Inside Of A Folded Hand | 1.5 |
| Can Bardd Nature Stays Silent | 4.0 |
| Persefone Truth Inside the Shades | 4.0 |
| Naglfar Pariah | 2.5 |
| Whoredom Rife Whoredom Rife | 3.5 |
| Whoredom Rife Dommedagskvad | 3.5 |
| Persefone Spiritual Migration | 3.0 |
| Persefone Core | 2.5 |
| Samsara Blues Experiment Long Distance Trip | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.0 |
| Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury | 4.5 |
| Nokturnal Funeral Lye x Love Cuts | 4.0 |
| Nokturnal Funeral Creatures of the Night | 3.5 |
| Nokturnal Funeral Pale Love | 3.0 |
| Saor Forgotten Paths | 4.0 |
| Nodachi Beyond Death Beyond Reason | 4.0 |
| This is so damn superb. Their is a blistering level of finesse and vibrancy off this record and overall incredible technical talent combined with beauty of unfeasible magnitudes. Only a small number of bands can truly strike such a balance, and none with the aura of uniqueness that Nodachi presents. They are unabashed in their odd choice of instruments, which creates this weird, mystical vibe through the whole record. This is the only album i've heard out there like it. |
| Lethian Dreams Red Silence Lodge | 3.5 |
| Lethian Dreams Bleak Silver Streams | 3.0 |
| Liturgy Aesthethica | 1.0 |
| August Burns Red Home | 3.0 |
| Make Them Suffer Neverbloom | 5.0 |
| Make Them Suffer Old Souls | 4.5 |
| Make Them Suffer Worlds Apart | 4.0 |
| Revocation The Outer Ones | 3.0 |
| Swallow the Sun When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light | 3.5 |
| Watain Sworn to The Dark | 3.5 |
| Watain Lawless Darkness | 3.5 |
| Watain The Wild Hunt | 3.0 |
| Watain Trident Wolf Eclipse | 2.5 |
Watain is NOT poser black metal >:[[[[
Edit- yeah stop being a big dumb tool mr.snox |
| Whispered Shogunate Macabre | 4.0 |
| Novembre The Blue | 4.5 |
| Enshine Singularity | 4.5 |
| Enshine Origin | 4.5 |
| Sulphur Aeon The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos | 4.5 |
| If the single is even a remote signal of what's to come then this is gonna ream our collective asses to shreds. |
| Sulphur Aeon Gateway to the Antisphere | 4.0 |
| Sulphur Aeon Swallowed by the Ocean's Tide | 3.5 |
| House of Atreus From the Madness of Ixion | 4.0 |
| House of Atreus The Spear and the Ichor That Follows | 2.5 |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom | 4.0 |
| Arghoslent Incorrigible Bigotry | 4.5 |
| Arghoslent Galloping Through the Battle Ruins | 3.5 |
| Slugdge Esoteric Malacology | 4.0 |
| Chapel of Disease ...And as We Have Seen the Storm | 4.0 |
| Solstice (UK) White Horse Hill | 4.5 |
| The Ruins of Beverast Takitum Tootem! | 3.5 |
| The Ruins of Beverast Unlock the Shrine | 4.5 |
| The Ruins of Beverast Rain Upon the Impure | 5.0 |
| I feel like a fool for putting off finishing this record for so long. It's so dark and harrowing and it does such a great job swapping between trudging riffs and evil chants and murky-ass super sonic tremolos. Also the vocalist isn't human, with his perfect rasps and growls and howls and sounds that aren't describable. So yeah, this rules. |
| The Ruins of Beverast Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite | 4.0 |
| The Ruins of Beverast Blood Vaults - The Blazing Gospels of Heinrich... | 3.5 |
| The Ruins of Beverast Exuvia | 4.5 |
| Amazing dark, spacey Black metal with a very prominent tribal theme by Ruins of Beverast. It feels like i'm being sucked into some sacrificial ritual with soot-covered tribal people hovering around me chanting, donning wooden masks and spears. |
| Demon Hunter Outlive | 3.0 |
| Generic rock vocals/ballads with sweet as fuck riffs and topped off with a pretty chill inducing closer. Some points become a bit to bland to care much about and their isn't exactly a high level of diversity but the passion and hooks are mostly there. |
| Ghost Atlas All Is in Sync... | 4.0 |
| Ghost Atlas Gold Soul Coma | 4.5 |
| Ellende Todbringer | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Dusk and Her Embrace - The Original Sin | 4.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Thornography | 2.5 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 3.0 |
| Saints Never Surrender Brutus | 4.5 |
| Sacrilege (UK1) Behind the Realms of Madness | 3.0 |
| Sacrilege GBG The Fifth Season | 4.0 |
| Sabbat The Dwelling | 4.0 |
| Ruinous Graves Of Ceaseless Death | 3.5 |
| This is pretty damn solid. Very murky and eerie with an extremely versatile vocalist who has ranges from nearly pterodactyl-like shrieks to demonic groans and gutturals. Theirs members from Incantation on this. It's gotta be good. |
| Rudimentary Peni Archaic | 2.5 |
| Rudimentary Peni Death Church | 2.5 |
| Rilo Kiley More Adventurous | 3.5 |
| Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things | 4.0 |
| Ramesses We Will Lead You To Glorious Times | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.5 |
| Quo Vadis Day Into Night | 4.0 |
| Quo Vadis Defiant Imagination | 4.0 |
The vox have a perfect amount of crunch, there
is bass galore, and guitar notes the tech
death gods came from their erect penises to
bless us with dweedles. That is good. |
| La Quiete La fine non è la fine | 3.5 |
| Q and Not U No Kill No Beep Beep | 4.0 |
| Pulp Different Class | 2.5 |
| Psycroptic Psycroptic | 2.5 |
| Psycroptic The Scepter of the Ancients | 4.0 |
| Psycroptic The Isle of Disenchantment | 3.5 |
| Procession (CL) To Reap Heavens Apart | 4.0 |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years | 2.5 |
| Hopesfall No Wings To Speak Of | 3.0 |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot | 4.0 |
| Poison the Well You Come Before You | 4.5 |
| Poison the Well Tear From the Red | 3.5 |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 4.5 |
| Plaga Magia gwiezdnej entropii | 4.0 |
| Pink Guy Pink Season | 3.0 |
| Pillorian Obsidian Arc | 4.0 |
| This sounds like Serpent and the Sphere but better. |
| Pillorian A Stygian Pyre | 4.0 |
| Pierce the Veil Collide with the Sky | 4.5 |
| Pierce the Veil Selfish Machines | 4.0 |
| Pierce the Veil A Flair for the Dramatic | 3.5 |
| Pentakill Smite and Ignite | 2.5 |
| Parkway Drive Atlas | 3.0 |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive Horizons | 4.0 |
| Paradise Lost Draconian Times | 4.0 |
| Paradise Lost Medusa | 4.0 |
| Papa Roach Old Friends From Young Years | 1.0 |
| Paganizer Dead Unburied | 2.5 |
| Overkill Ironbound | 3.5 |
| Overkill Horrorscope | 4.0 |
| Overkill The Years of Decay | 4.0 |
| Organized Konfusion Stress: The Extinction Agenda | 3.5 |
| Operation Ivy Energy | 4.5 |
| UNITY, LIKE ONE WE STAND TOGETHER, UNITY, EVOLUTION GONNA COME |
| Obsidian Gate The Nightspectral Voyage | 4.0 |
| Cenotaph (MX) The Gloomy Reflection of Our Hidden Sorrows | 3.5 |
| Eldamar A Dark Forgotten Past | 2.5 |
| Eldamar didn't really change much on this album, however the addition of blast beats to prevent this from becoming too monotonous are welcome. Overall, this is fine, I guess. |
| Eldamar The Force of the Ancient Land | 2.5 |
| Sargeist Unbound | 4.0 |
| Obliteration Perpetual Decay | 4.0 |
| Obliteration Nekropsalms | 4.0 |
| Obliteration Black Death Horizon | 4.5 |
| Obliteration Cenotaph Obscure | 4.5 |
| Diskord Doomscapes | 2.5 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 4.0 |
| Mutiny Within Origins | 3.0 |
| Aside from some moderately awkward keyboard solos which are largely a personal issue, this album rocked. Really good riffs and beastly drumming, as well as vocals that are similar to hybrid between Scar Symmetry and more accessible rock music. |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 4.0 |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle | 4.0 |
| This album is delightfully wonky, as one would expect from the works of Mike Patton. There's some jazz, some funky beats, some cacophonous terror noise type of shit, this album encompasses so many genres while unifying it into one fun, albeit wild, ride. Would be a 5 if not for that 30 seconds of diarrhea sounds but I mean you can't have everything in life. |
| Morpheus Descends Chronicles of the Shadowed Ones | 4.0 |
| Horn of the Rhino Weight of Coronation | 4.5 |
| Horn of the Rhino Breed the Chosen One (as Rhino) | 4.0 |
| Monolord Vænir | 4.0 |
| Mono Requiem For Hell | 2.5 |
| I mean this was good and all but the whole time I was listening to this I couldn't help but wonder why I wasn't listening to "Hymns To the Immortal Wind". |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 4.5 |
| Have you ever felt the feeling of a crushing burden that you wear unknowingly for years suddenly listen off your shoulders? This is what this feels like. Thank you, mono. |
| Mono You Are There | 3.5 |
| Tiamat The Astral Sleep | 3.0 |
| Nicki Minaj The Pinkprint | 2.0 |
| Milo So The Flies Don't Come | 3.5 |
| Milo Who Told You To Think??!!?!?!?! | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie White Stag | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Wind's Poem | 4.5 |
| Mount Eerie Dawn | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie No Flashlight | 4.0 |
| The Microphones It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water | 4.0 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 | 4.5 |
| The Microphones Mount Eerie | 3.0 |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food | 4.0 |
| MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday | 4.0 |
| The Menzingers A Lesson in the Abuse of Information Technology | 3.5 |
| The Menzingers Chamberlain Waits | 4.0 |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past | 5.0 |
| The Menzingers Rented World | 4.0 |
| The Menzingers After the Party | 4.0 |
| Master On the Seventh Day God Created.... Master | 3.5 |
| Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum Sol | 4.5 |
| Mare Cognitum The Sea Which Has Become Known | 4.0 |
| Mare Cognitum An Extraconscious Lucidity | 4.0 |
| Mare Cognitum Phobos Monolith | 4.5 |
| Mare Cognitum Luminiferous Aether | 4.0 |
| Marduk Frontschwein | 3.0 |
| Marduk Viktoria | 3.0 |
| Lil Ugly Mane Uneven Compromise | 4.5 |
| Lil Ugly Mane Oblivion Access | 4.0 |
| Lil Ugly Mane Mista Thug Isolation | 3.5 |
| Leichengott Cyrograf | 4.0 |
| Latyrx The Album | 4.0 |
| Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks | 3.5 |
| Keep of Kalessin Armada | 3.5 |
| Keep of Kalessin Through Times Of War | 3.5 |
| Judas Priest Firepower | 2.5 |
| Judas Priest Painkiller | 4.5 |
| Judas Priest Ram It Down | 2.5 |
| Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance | 3.0 |
| Judas Priest British Steel | 2.5 |
| Judas Priest Killing Machine | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Stained Class | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Sin After Sin | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny | 4.5 |
| Wingnut DishwashersUnion Burn the Earth, Leave it Behind | 4.5 |
| Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains Love Songs For The Apocalypse | 4.0 |
| Jakob Solace | 4.0 |
| Issues Headspace | 2.0 |
| Issues Issues | 3.5 |
| Isengard Vinterskugge | 2.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 4.0 |
| In Trenches (US) Signals | 2.5 |
| Interpol The Black EP | 3.0 |
| While I enjoy the hazy, walking-through-a-Seattle-downpour vibe of this record, I can't help but feel there is a lack on anything interesting actually going on here. It's droning in a way that is both hypnotic and somewhat boring, make the whole album album somewhat conflicting. This could, however, be because this is far from my usual forte of music. |
| Novembre Ursa | 4.0 |
| Novembre Novembrine Waltz | 4.0 |
| Novembre Classica | 4.0 |
| Ghost Brigade Until Fear No Longer Defines Us | 3.5 |
| Ghost Brigade Isolation Songs | 4.0 |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans | 4.0 |
| In Mourning Monolith | 3.5 |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine | 4.0 |
| Infant Annihilator The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch | 3.0 |
| Infant Annihilator The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution | 3.0 |
| Impure Wilhelmina Radiation | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic | 4.0 |
| Full of Hell Roots Of Earth Are Consuming My Home | 4.0 |
| Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy | 3.0 |
| I pray for the day rapture comes and kills us all-actual words of Dylan Walker. |
| Frosttide Awakening | 3.5 |
| Fractal Gates Beyond The Self | 3.0 |
| Fractal Gates Altered State Of Consciousness | 3.0 |
| Foxing Dealer | 3.0 |
| Foxing The Albatross | 4.0 |
| Nile Festivals Of Atonement | 2.5 |
| Nile Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka | 3.5 |
| Nile Black Seeds of Vengeance | 3.5 |
| Nile In Their Darkened Shrines | 4.0 |
| Nile Annihilation of the Wicked | 4.5 |
| Nile Ithyphallic | 3.5 |
| Nile Those Whom the Gods Detest | 4.5 |
| Nile At The Gate of Sethu | 3.0 |
| Nile What Should Not Be Unearthed | 3.5 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Mafia | 4.0 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles | 3.0 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony | 3.0 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Labyrinth | 2.5 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse King | 2.0 |
| The Agony Scene The Darkest Red | 3.0 |
| The Twilight Sad No One Can Ever Know | 3.5 |
| The Twilight Sad Forget The Night Ahead | 4.0 |
| The Twilight Sad Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters | 4.0 |
| Vektor Black Future | 5.0 |
| Vektor Outer Isolation | 4.5 |
| Vektor Terminal Redux | 4.5 |
| Impending Doom Death Will Reign | 3.5 |
| Architects Hollow Crown | 3.5 |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us | 3.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island | 3.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.0 |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) | 4.0 |
| Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor | 4.0 |
| Grand Belial's Key Mocking the Philanthropist | 4.0 |
| Grand Belial's Key Judeobeast Assassination | 4.5 |
| Grand Belial's Key Kosherat | 4.0 |
| Diocletian Doom Cult | 3.5 |
| Diocletian Gesundrian | 3.5 |
| Imagined getting punched in the face. Ok now imagine that fist is plastered with reinforced titanium and that it is worn by a super mutant. Or just listen to the album and stop reading this dumb soundoff you fucking twat. |
| Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows D.R.U.G.S. | 3.5 |
| Destroyer 666 Unchain The Wolves | 4.0 |
| Destroyer 666 Wildfire | 4.0 |
| Depeche Mode Black Celebration | 4.0 |
| Depeche Mode Violator | 4.5 |
| Departe Failure, Subside | 3.5 |
| Death in June The Wall of Sacrifice | 4.0 |
| Death in June Rose Clouds of Holocaust | 3.5 |
| Death in June But, What Ends When the Symbols Shatter? | 4.5 |
| Dangers Anger | 4.5 |
| Trivium Ember to Inferno | 3.0 |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence | 4.0 |
| Incantation Diabolical Conquest | 4.0 |
| Incantation Mortal Throne of Nazarene | 4.5 |
| Incantation Onward to Golgotha | 4.0 |
| Incantation Dirges of Elysium | 3.5 |
| Incantation Profane Nexus | 2.5 |
| Dead Congregation Graves of the Archangels | 4.0 |
| Dead Congregation Promulgation of the Fall | 4.0 |
| A Day To Remember Bad Vibrations | 2.5 |
| A Day To Remember Common Courtesy | 3.0 |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You | 3.5 |
| A Day To Remember Homesick | 3.5 |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart | 4.0 |
| Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back | 4.0 |
| Fightstar Be Human | 4.0 |
| Fightstar Never Change [EP] | 4.0 |
| Fightstar Grand Unification | 4.0 |
| Dayseeker What It Means to Be Defeated | 3.5 |
| Dayseeker Origin | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Panzerfaust | 3.0 |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger | 4.0 |
| I'll never truly understand the hype around this. There's a bunch of great riffs here but otherwise absolutely nothing here stands out. It's average BM plastered with amazing riffs then taken down a notch with annoyingly bad production. I get it's the "aesthetic" but eh |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone Ravishing Grimness | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone Arctic Thunder | 3.0 |
| Dawn Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy) | 4.0 |
| Dawn Nær Solen Gar Nider For Evogher | 3.5 |
| Sacramentum Far Away from the Sun | 4.5 |
| Hyperion (SWE) Seraphical Euphony | 4.0 |
| Dark Oath When Fire Engulfs the Earth | 3.0 |
| Darkest Hour The Mark of the Judas | 3.5 |
| Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin | 4.0 |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us | 4.0 |
| Darkest Hour The Human Romance | 3.5 |
| Darkest Hour Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora | 3.5 |
| Howls of Ebb The Marrow Veil | 4.0 |
| Howls of Ebb Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows | 4.0 |
| Septicflesh A Fallen Temple | 3.5 |
| Septicflesh The Ophidian Wheel | 4.0 |
| Septicflesh Esoptron | 4.0 |
| Septicflesh Mystic Places of Dawn | 4.0 |
| Rotting Christ A Dead Poem | 4.0 |
| Rotting Christ Triarchy of The Lost Lovers | 4.0 |
| Rotting Christ Theogonia | 4.5 |
| Rotting Christ Aealo | 4.0 |
| I See Stars 3D | 3.5 |
| I See Stars The End of the World Party | 3.0 |
| I See Stars Digital Renegade | 2.5 |
| I See Stars New Demons | 3.5 |
| I See Stars Treehouse | 3.0 |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want | 5.0 |
| Of Machines As If Everything Was Held In Place | 4.5 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 4.5 |
| Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas PHASE 2 | 3.5 |
| Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas Feeling of Unity | 4.0 |
| Falling in Reverse Coming Home | 2.5 |
| Holy fuck this wasn't terrible. In fact it honestly had some pretty solid catchy pop punk hooks. The lyrics are abysmal sometimes but it's definitely a step up for this band. |
| Falling in Reverse The Drug in Me Is You | 2.0 |
| This has a total of like three pretty solid tracks otherwise its Ronnie Radke ejaculating ego on everyone with his cocky attitude and autotuned as fuck pop vocals |
| Faith No More Sol Invictus | 2.5 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 4.5 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 2.0 |
| Down Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow | 4.0 |
| Down NOLA | 4.5 |
| Eyehategod Dopesick | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... | 4.0 |
| Desolate Shrine Tenebrous Towers | 3.5 |
| Desolate Shrine The Sanctum of Human Darkness | 4.0 |
| Desolate Shrine The Heart of the Netherworld | 4.0 |
| Desolate Shrine Deliverance from the Godless Void | 4.0 |
| Execration (NOR) Morbid Dimensions | 4.0 |
| Execration (NOR) Return to the Void | 3.5 |
| Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion | 3.5 |
| The Great Old Ones Al Azif | 3.5 |
| The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li | 4.0 |
| The Great Old Ones EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy | 4.0 |
| Cobalt Gin | 5.0 |
| Cobalt Slow Forever | 4.5 |
| Rings of Saturn Ultu Ulla | 3.5 |
| Archspire The Lucid Collective | 3.5 |
| Archspire Relentless Mutation | 4.0 |
| First Fragment Dasein | 3.5 |
| Inferi (USA) The Path of Apotheosis | 4.0 |
| Inferi (USA) Revenant | 4.0 |
| Enfold Darkness Adversary Omnipotent | 2.5 |
| Ovid's Withering Scryers of the Ibis | 2.5 |
| Shadow Of Intent Primordial | 4.0 |
| Shadow Of Intent Reclaimer | 4.0 |
| Cruz Culto Abismal | 3.5 |
| Riffs hard as hell, really gnarled crusty black metal overall.only real downside to this album is the lack of anything interesting in the drum department tbh. |
| Cruciamentum Paradise Envenomed | 3.5 |
| Cruciamentum Convocation of Crawling Chaos | 4.0 |
| Cruciamentum Charnel Passages | 4.0 |
| The Crimson Armada Guardians | 4.0 |
| Coroner Mental Vortex | 4.0 |
| Coroner Grin | 4.0 |
| Coroner R.I.P. | 4.0 |
| Convulsing Errata | 4.0 |
| Comeback Kid Turn It Around | 3.5 |
| Comeback Kid Die Knowing | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 2.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 2.5 |
| Cnoc An Tursa The Giants Of Auld | 4.0 |
| I never really know whether this would be a 4.5 or a 5 for me but nevertheless it is incredibly. The ending is gorgeous, and if I haven't repeated enough, why isn't this band more popular? |
| Circa Survive The Amulet | 3.0 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom I Worship Chaos | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 4.0 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.0 |
| Childish Gambino Because the Internet | 3.0 |
| Chief Keef Back From The Dead 2 | 2.5 |
| Chief Keef Thot Breaker | 2.0 |
I wanted to like this, I really did, but the
well- crafted beats were just not enough to
keep this afloat for me. Chief's rap style
does nothing to interest me, and most of the
lyrics just don't stand out to me. Honestly
this felt like a chore to get through in spite
of a few solid tracks.
Edit- I'm sorry, next time I will force myself
to enjoy this since this apparently upset a
certain someone so much. |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Henry's Dream | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Your Funeral... My Trial | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Kicking Against The Pricks | 2.5 |
| Cattle Decapitation The Harvest Floor | 3.5 |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity | 4.5 |
| Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction | 4.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto 99 Songs of Revolution: Volume I | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 5.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 4.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve | 4.0 |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights | 4.5 |
| Sleep Research Facility Deep Frieze | 4.0 |
| Caspian Dust and Disquiet | 4.5 |
| Carnifex Die Without Hope | 3.5 |
| Carnifex Slow Death | 4.0 |
| Carach Angren Death Came Through a Phantom Ship | 3.0 |
| Capsize The Angst In My Veins | 3.5 |
| Capsize A Reintroduction: The Essence Of All Tha | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Ox Blade of the Ronin | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein | 4.5 |
| Celtic Frost Cold Lake | 1.0 |
| Obituary Cause of Death | 4.0 |
| Wormed Quasineutrality | 3.5 |
| Wormed Planisphaerium | 3.0 |
| Wormed Exodromos | 3.0 |
| Wormed Krighsu | 3.5 |
| Vital Remains Let Us Pray | 3.0 |
| Vital Remains Forever Underground | 3.0 |
| Vital Remains Dechristianize | 4.5 |
| This album is amazing instrumentally but as much as I try separating the people from their talent, Glenn Benton really just annoys me as a person making an ass of satanism. Still he's a bloody fucking good vocalist and the guitar work ranges from pulverizing to gorgeous. |
| Vital Remains Icons of Evil | 4.0 |
| Deicide Deicide | 2.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Butchered at Birth | 2.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain | 3.5 |
| Cannabis Corpse Tube of the Resinated | 4.0 |
| Cannabis Corpse Beneath Grow Lights Thou Shalt Rise | 3.5 |
| This album is rather..........................................blunt. |
| Cannabis Corpse From Wisdom to Baked | 3.5 |
| Cannabis Corpse Left Hand Pass | 3.0 |
| Sojourner The Shadowed Road | 3.5 |
| This time, the castle is on the left! |
| Sojourner Empires of Ash | 4.0 |
| Solstice (UK) New Dark Age | 4.5 |
| Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus | 5.0 |
| This riffs. This riffs constantly, and every riff is perfect, and let me just tell you there are PLENTY of riffs. If you don't like riffs (then you're a fucking idiot) then I respect your disdain for them and understand you will not enjoy this album. Also, the vocals are the most operatic yet sinister thing there is, so there's that. |
| Candlemass Nightfall | 4.5 |
| Candlemass Ancient Dreams | 4.0 |
| Candlemass Tales of Creation | 4.0 |
| Candlemass Chapter VI | 2.5 |
| Candlemass Candlemass | 3.5 |
| Candlemass King of the Grey Islands | 3.5 |
| Summoning Minas Morgul | 3.5 |
| Summoning Dol Guldur | 4.0 |
| Summoning Stronghold | 4.0 |
| Summoning Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame | 4.0 |
| Summoning Oath Bound | 4.5 |
| Summoning Old Mornings Dawn | 4.5 |
| Caladan Brood Echoes Of Battle | 5.0 |
| This is the world's best album ever and don't you dare dispute it. |
| Cage (USA-NY) Movies for the Blind | 4.0 |
| Cage (USA-NY) Hell's Winter | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.0 |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On | 4.0 |
| Brotha Lynch Hung Season of da Siccness | 4.5 |
| brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It! | 1.0 |
| Brockhampton SATURATION | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone | 3.5 |
| We are not alone is probably a step up from any Breaking Ben album. Its passionate, the riffs are usually pretty powerful and are heavy for radio friendly rock, and to top it off they aren't reliant on studio improvements and are still great live. They are generic and fall flat some times and only seperate themselves from other modern bands a small amount, but they play the generic rock to the best of their abilities. |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn | 3.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Ember | 2.0 |
| Yeah ok bloon big gay dummy |
| Joshua Fit For Battle To Bring Our Own End | 4.0 |
| Orchid Chaos is Me | 4.0 |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe | 4.0 |
| Funeral Diner Three Sides Dead | 4.0 |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark | 4.5 |
| City of Caterpillar Driving Spain Up A Wall | 4.0 |
| This is a fantastic album. More restrained and composed instrumentally although the vocals dont pack the punch they once did. Understandable considering they are a bunch of adults now. |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 4.5 |
| More bands need to blend post-rock structures with emo, because this is fucking brilliant. It's energetic, it's calm, it's cathartic. The build-ups in this album are perfect, and when they finally come to a head, it's like a floodgate just broke and you are being swept away by thousands of tons of force. This also has the most powerful drumming I've heard off of an emo record (even if my emo experience is limited). |
| Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit | 3.0 |
| The Brave Little Abacus Just Got Back from the Discomfort... | 4.0 |
| TesseracT One | 3.5 |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty | 2.5 |
| I would be lying if I said the guitar work wasn't pretty impressive but these song titles and lyrics are so cringy, and the vocals are a bit grating. The album is pretty forgettable although Periphery's cheesy gaming theme is interesting enough. |
| Northlane Singularity | 3.5 |
| Northlane Discoveries | 4.0 |
| ERRA Impulse | 4.5 |
| ERRA Augment | 4.5 |
| ERRA Drift | 4.0 |
| Boreworm Black Path | 3.5 |
| Boreworm Entomophobia | 4.0 |
| Cathedral Soul Sacrifice | 2.5 |
| Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics... | 4.0 |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone | 4.5 |
| Big ole muddy riffs for days. The epitome of metal aesthetic lies within this monster of an album. |
| Electric Wizard Witchcult Today | 4.0 |
| Electric Wizard Black Masses | 3.5 |
| Electric Wizard Time to Die | 3.5 |
| Electric Wizard Wizard Bloody Wizard | 3.0 |
| Bongripper Satan Worshipping Doom | 4.5 |
| The Body and Full Of Hell Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light | 3.5 |
| Blood Urn ...Of Gory Sorcery and Death | 4.0 |
| Bloodred Hourglass Where the Oceans Burn | 3.5 |
| Spectral Voice Eroded Corridors of Unbeing | 4.0 |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn | 4.0 |
| Blaze of Perdition Near Death Revelations | 4.0 |
| Black Witchery Desecration Of The Holy Kingdom | 3.5 |
| Black Veil Brides We Stitch These Wounds | 2.5 |
| I'm not gonna lie there aren't too many standout moments and the harsh vocals sound like someone layered the dying screech of a weasel 15 times but fuck me if the there aren't a few hella catchy hooks |
| Black Sabbath 13 | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath Dehumanizer | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 4.5 |
| Big Pun Capital Punishment | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.0 |
| Belphegor Bondage Goat Zombie | 3.5 |
| I love how absolutely nonsensical and stupid this band is in its theme. It's just fun as fuck Black metal. Nice riffs, an orgasmic solo near the end (pun intended). If this band thinks they're actually edgy as fuck then they're certainly wrong but this album does shock value really well. |
| Belphegor Blood Magick Necromance | 3.5 |
| Bell Witch Longing | 4.0 |
| Bell Witch Four Phantoms | 4.0 |
| Benighted Benighted | 2.0 |
| There's some damn good solos and I think Benighted pull of a really interesting blend of brutal death and black metal here, but they really do a poor job of implementing samples in a way that enhance the music. Also the mixing on the drums suck but i'll give them slack being their first album. |
| Benighted Insane Cephalic Production | 3.5 |
| Benighted Identisick | 4.0 |
| Benighted Icon | 4.5 |
| Benighted Asylum Cave | 4.0 |
| Benighted Carnivore Sublime | 3.0 |
| Benighted Necrobreed | 3.5 |
| Give me the brees. |
| Belial Wisdom of Darkness | 3.5 |
| Behexen By the Blessing of Satan | 3.5 |
| Behexen The Poisonous Path | 4.0 |
| Beastmilk Climax | 4.5 |
| Bear vs. Shark Right Now You're in the Best of Hands | 4.0 |
| Bear vs. Shark Terrorhawk | 4.0 |
| Beartooth Disgusting | 3.0 |
| Be'lakor The Frail Tide | 4.5 |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach | 5.0 |
| Stone's Reach is bloody fucking fun and grand. There are a variety of riffs, all intriguing and simple enough to work as incredible hooks yet complex enough to impress, which is an odd balance to strike. One can say the same about the drumming, however it's really how this all comes together (as well as those well-done snarls) that make this the beast of an album it is. It starts with a fucking banger and ends with one of the most spine tingling epics in melodic death metal. |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone | 4.0 |
| Be'lakor Vessels | 4.5 |
| Battles Mirrored | 3.5 |
| Bal-Sagoth Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne | 3.5 |
| Jawbreaker Unfun | 3.5 |
| Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy | 4.0 |
| Title Fight Hyperview | 2.5 |
| Title Fight Floral Green | 4.0 |
| Title Fight Shed | 4.0 |
| Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing | 4.0 |
| Balance and Composure Separation | 4.0 |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle | 4.5 |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights | 4.5 |
| Bad Religion Recipe for Hate | 3.5 |
| Bad Religion No Control | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion Suffer | 4.0 |
| Bad Omens Bad Omens | 3.5 |
| Rivers of Nihil The Conscious Seed of Light | 3.5 |
| Rivers of Nihil Monarchy | 4.0 |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name | 3.0 |
| Black Crown Initiate Song of the Crippled Bull | 4.0 |
| Black Crown Initiate The Wreckage of Stars | 3.5 |
| Black Crown Initiate Selves We Cannot Forgive | 3.5 |
| Fallujah Nomadic | 5.0 |
| Extremely close to a 5 mostly because of Venom Upon the Blade. Honestly however, Fallujah's ethereal-style of technical death metal really peaks here, playing with dynamics beautifully and attaining levels of grandiose rarely achieved in music. |
| Fallujah The Harvest Wombs | 4.0 |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails | 5.0 |
| Fallujah Dreamless | 4.0 |
| Aversions Crown Tyrant | 3.5 |
| Aversions Crown Xenocide | 3.0 |
| Emmure Eternal Enemies | 1.0 |
| Attila Outlawed | 3.0 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 4.5 |
| This is rage entirely unrefined and unfiltered. Swirling disheveled chaos and a mix of "broken" cleans and harsh screams are resplendent here. Instrumentally it's amazing as well. Only two things that bothered me here would be the looping sample on the second to last track. And to those saying this is misogynistic-it might be, but I also think he just really fucking hates one specific woman. Perhaps a tad too much.... |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 4.5 |
| This was absolutely off the fucking wall and probably my favorite Glassjaw thus far. It ends with such an outburst of passionate rage that it just hnnnnngggg yeah this is fucking good ok. |
| Glassjaw Material Control | 4.0 |
| It's Glassjaw season babbbyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 2.5 |
| Mastodon Remission | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 3.5 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand | 4.0 |
| There are so many good riffs off this damn album, but that's not what really steals the show. It's Brett's ability to shred with such fiery passion alongside some of the best drum patterns Mastodon's ever shown that makes this incredible. Only qualm is occasionally the vocals get TO softened for my taste but otherwise this is stellar. |
| The Atlas Moth An Ache for the Distance | 3.5 |
| The Atlas Moth The Old Believer | 3.5 |
| The Atlas Moth Coma Noir | 3.0 |
| Athene Noctua I. Cugetarea mitica | 4.0 |
| Motionless in White Creatures | 3.0 |
| Motionless in White Infamous | 3.0 |
| Motionless in White Reincarnate | 3.5 |
| Motionless in White Graveyard Shift | 2.0 |
| Asking Alexandria The Black | 3.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard | 3.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer | 4.0 |
| 1)-tiddies.r2)-pulverizing, foaming at the mouth level of rage grind. |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb | 4.0 |
| Pig Destroyer Book Burner | 3.5 |
| Nails Unsilent Death | 4.0 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.0 |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us | 4.0 |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft | 4.0 |
| WVRM Swarm Sound | 4.0 |
| Antigama Discomfort | 3.5 |
| Antestor Martyrium | 4.0 |
| Antestor The Return of the Black Death | 4.0 |
| Antestor The Forsaken | 4.0 |
| Antestor Omen | 4.0 |
| Antagony See Through These Eyes | 2.5 |
| Kamelot Dominion | 2.0 |
| Kamelot Epica | 4.5 |
| Kamelot The Black Halo | 4.0 |
| Kamelot Ghost Opera | 3.5 |
| Kamelot Poetry for the Poisoned | 3.0 |
| Kamelot Silverthorn | 4.0 |
| Kamelot Haven | 4.0 |
| Kamelot The Shadow Theory | 3.0 |
| Twilight Force Heroes of Mighty Magic | 4.0 |
| Twilight Force Tales of Ancient Prophecies | 4.5 |
| Helloween Master of the Rings | 3.5 |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II | 4.0 |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I | 4.5 |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth | 2.5 |
| Angra Angels Cry | 4.0 |
| Angra Rebirth | 4.0 |
| Angra Temple of Shadows | 4.0 |
| Angra Aqua | 3.5 |
| Angra Secret Garden | 3.5 |
| Intestine Baalism An Anatomy of the Beast | 4.0 |
| Intestine Baalism Banquet in the Darkness | 4.0 |
| Intestine Baalism Ultimate Instinct | 4.0 |
| At the Gates The Red in the Sky Is Ours | 3.5 |
| At the Gates With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness | 3.0 |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 4.0 |
| At the Gates To Drink from the Night Itself | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed | 3.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma | 3.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual | 3.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack | 3.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers | 4.0 |
| Edit-i was a dumb dumb boy and this is best TBDM. r |
| AngelMaker Decay | 3.5 |
| AngelMaker Dissentient | 4.5 |
| Coldworld Autumn | 4.0 |
| Midnight Odyssey Funerals from the Astral Sphere | 4.0 |
| The Angelic Process Coma Waering | 4.5 |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand | 4.5 |
| Gaza I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die | 5.0 |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering | 4.0 |
| And Also The Trees (Listen for) the Rag and Bone Man | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Get Lonely | 3.5 |
| AJJ Knife Man | 4.0 |
| AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People | 4.5 |
| Ajj is the sonic equivalent of a life journey. The ups and downs and all of the in betweens are present off this album, which contains both a sense of fun and a sense of nihilism. Really, it's just the most human record I've come across, and for that it is perfect. |
| AJJ Candy Cigarettes and Cap Guns | 3.5 |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing | 3.5 |
| Suicide Silence The Black Crown | 3.0 |
| Suicide Silence You Can't Stop Me | 2.5 |
| Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement | 3.5 |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile | 3.5 |
| Whitechapel Our Endless War | 3.0 |
| Whitechapel Mark of the Blade | 2.5 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Absolute Hope Absolute Hell | 3.5 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Infinite Death | 4.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Hate | 3.5 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Holy War | 3.5 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Dear Desolation | 4.0 |
| Ingested The Architect of Extinction | 2.5 |
| Analepsy Atrocities From Beyond | 3.0 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 3.5 |
| The Smiths The Smiths | 3.5 |
| The Cure The Head on the Door | 4.0 |
| The Cure Pornography | 4.0 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 5.0 |
| The Cure Bloodflowers | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Fluxion | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Aeolian | 4.5 |
| The Ocean Precambrian | 5.0 |
| The Ocean Heliocentric | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 4.0 |
| This is potentially the greatest release I've heard from The Ocean. The abrasive throat- shredding vocals are backed with gorgeous, cinematic soundscapes that are more transportive than ever. The alien closer "Benthic:The Origin Of Our Wishes" is a fantastic example of the mixed abilities this band has, ranging from creating thick mystical fogs to conjuring demonic aliens in your bedroom. |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites | 4.0 |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 4.5 |
| This is both beautiful and earth-shattering, containing some of the most intense and spastic section I've heard In an album. The vocals are like an ocean wave, coming in both calm and drawn out tides while also coming in like a fully-fledged tsunami. Really, only one word can describe this, and that is-monolithic. |
| American Football American Football EP | 4.0 |
| American Football American Football | 4.0 |
| Bolt Thrower The IVth Crusade | 4.0 |
| Bolt Thrower ...For Victory | 4.0 |
| Bolt Thrower Mercenary | 3.5 |
| Bolt Thrower Honour - Valour - Pride | 3.5 |
| Bolt Thrower Those Once Loyal | 4.5 |
| Autopsy Puncturing the Grotesque | 3.0 |
| Autopsy Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves | 3.0 |
| Autopsy Mental Funeral | 4.5 |
| Autopsy Severed Survival | 4.0 |
| Suffocation …Of the Dark Light | 3.0 |
| Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious | 4.0 |
| Carcass Heartwork | 4.5 |
| Carcass Swansong | 3.5 |
| Carcass Surgical Steel | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill | 4.0 |
| They did it. Those bastards, they did it. |
| August Burns Red Looks Fragile After All | 2.0 |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Messengers | 4.5 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 4.5 |
| August Burns Red Leveler | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 4.5 |
| This album is my baby and is THE consummate ABR album, imo. It's easily their most intriguing and personal, although perhaps it's also a great example of it being a "time and place" album from ne, uplifting me from the deepest of trenches. Overall its beautiful, and will always remain as the golden chariot of its genre to me. |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places | 4.5 |
| This is probably the most experimental release ABR has put forth. It plays with different instrumentation (including a violin) as well as different sounds thematically , including some rather western acoustic. It also has one of the most killer build- ups with those nasty shreds in "the Wake" so there's that. |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem | 4.0 |
This is the most concise album I think that
August Burns Red has put out. The balance
between shredding riffs and hefty chugs has
been perfected, and the drumming is absolutely
furious with especially interesting fills on
the track "Invisible Enemy" (which is almost
certainly an ABR classic). This is without a
doubt my 2nd favorite 2017 release and my 2nd
favorite ABR release. |
| Breakdown of Sanity The Last Sunset | 2.5 |
| Breakdown of Sanity Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Breakdown of Sanity Perception | 4.5 |
| A deathcore 5! I can't say much about this album other than it just goes that fucking hard. The intro to Crumble slams on you like a freight train and the ending just soars magnificently, which is what this album does constantly through its whole run-time. |
| Breakdown of Sanity Coexistence | 3.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Vempire or Dark Faerytales in Phalluste | 4.5 |
| Cradle of Filth The Principle of Evil Made Flesh | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Midian | 4.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa | 2.0 |
| This isn't necessarily terrible, the drumming is rampant and there's some good riffs, and Dani is fairly average, but fuck it's just tedious, it really did not need an hour and a half run time. Also, while I normally enjoy Dani's pterodactyl shrieks, sometimes he does this awkward almost guitar wail of sorts? Yeah, it's not good. Had the album been 45-50 minutes it would have been relatively good, but that really is the killing factor. |
| Cradle of Filth Hammer of the Witches | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay | 3.5 |
| This could very well be Cradle's best album yet, and if it isn't it sure as hell is close between this and Midian. Dani is as vitalized as I think he has ever been, the instrumentation is ridiculously cohesive, and the guitar solos shred as fierce as they have ever been. This one of those few albums that simply sound like the peak of Cradle's signature sound. |
| Moonspell Alpha Noir | 3.5 |
| Moonspell Extinct | 3.5 |
| Moonspell 1755 | 3.5 |
| Moonspell Wolfheart | 4.0 |
| Tiamat Wildhoney | 4.0 |
| Tiamat Clouds | 2.5 |
| My Dying Bride 34.788%... Complete | 2.0 |
| My Dying Bride The Angel and the Dark River | 4.5 |
| My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans | 4.5 |
| Hold the fuck up is this the greatest doom metal album made or what |
| My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours | 4.0 |
| My Dying Bride For Lies I Sire | 3.0 |
| My Dying Bride Feel the Misery | 3.5 |
| Draconian The Burning Halo | 3.5 |
| Draconian Sovran | 3.5 |
| Draconian A Rose for the Apocalypse | 3.0 |
| As far as I can tell this is their weakest album although i've yet to hear their debut. It's pretty solid overall but they do dip into rather generic melodic death/doom metal at points, and it doesn't help that this albums rather monolithic in length (almost 70 minutes). However it has some amazing moments that bring it from a weak 3/5 to a strong 3.5-4rEdit- izza 3. |
| Draconian Turning Season Within | 3.5 |
| Draconian Arcane Rain Fell | 4.0 |
| Draconian Where Lovers Mourn | 4.0 |
| Very close 5/5 for me. This is marvelous. Female vocals are simply euphoric and those guitar tones just melt right into the music. Sends chills down my spine. |
| Swallow the Sun The Morning Never Came | 4.5 |
| Swallow the Sun Ghosts of Loss | 3.5 |
| Swallow the Sun Hope | 4.0 |
| Swallow the Sun Emerald Forest and the Blackbird | 3.0 |
| Swallow the Sun Songs from the North I, II & III | 4.0 |
| ISIS Celestial | 4.0 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.5 |
| Really dreamy post-metal landscape that can still toss in some awesome-sludgy riffs from time to time. Yeah it's fucking good. |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 4.5 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.0 |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Incarnate | 2.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (2009) | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage | 3.5 |
| Unearth Watchers of Rule | 4.0 |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire | 4.0 |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm | 5.0 |
| As I Lay Dying This Is Who We Are | 3.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise | 4.0 |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us | 4.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 3.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 4.0 |
| All That Remains Overcome | 2.5 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 4.0 |
| Mors Principium Est Inhumanity | 3.5 |
| Mors Principium Est The Unborn | 4.0 |
| Mors Principium Est Dawn of the 5th Era | 4.0 |
| Mors Principium Est Embers of a Dying World | 3.5 |
| Allegaeon Fragments of Form and Function | 4.0 |
| Allegaeon Formshifter | 3.5 |
| Allegaeon Elements of the Infinite | 4.5 |
| Allegaeon Proponent for Sentience | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Cheshire Cat | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 4.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Alkaline Trio | 4.0 |
| Ghost Bath Moonlover | 2.5 |
| Ghost Bath Starmourner | 1.0 |
| Akhlys The Dreaming I | 4.0 |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire | 4.0 |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! | 5.0 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 4.0 |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 4.5 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.5 |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love | 4.0 |
| Lantlos Lantlos | 3.5 |
| Lantlos .neon | 4.5 |
| Lantlos Agape | 3.5 |
| Lantlos Melting Sun | 4.0 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 4.0 |
| Alcest Kodama | 4.5 |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions | 4.0 |
| Evoken Quietus | 4.0 |
| Evoken Antithesis of Light | 4.0 |
| Thergothon Stream From The Heavens | 3.5 |
| Esoteric The Maniacal Vale | 4.5 |
| Ahab The Call of the Wretched Sea | 4.5 |
| Ahab The Divinity of Oceans | 3.5 |
| Ahab The Giant | 4.0 |
| Ahab The Boats of the Glen Carrig | 4.5 |
| This album was absolutely gorgeous, especially the first track "The Isle". Their vocals has such a melancholy yet peaceful voice, which is only served to contrast with his disgusting, menacing gutturals. The album as a whole is both beastly yet beautiful and potentially the best doom metal album I have ever heard. |
| Atheist Jupiter | 3.5 |
| Atheist Elements | 3.5 |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence | 4.5 |
| Atheist Piece of Time | 4.0 |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore | 4.0 |
| Death Leprosy | 4.0 |
| Death Spiritual Healing | 3.5 |
| Death Human | 4.0 |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns | 4.0 |
| Death Symbolic | 4.5 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Formulas Fatal to the Flesh | 3.5 |
| Morbid Angel Domination | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Covenant | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Blessed Are the Sick | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus | 1.0 |
| Decapitated Carnival Is Forever | 2.0 |
| Decapitated Nihility | 2.5 |
| Decapitated Winds of Creation | 4.0 |
| Really this is just about as classic as death metal gets and the fact that it was made by 16 year olds only pumps it up more. It is brutal yet not mindlessly. Their are little intricacies that kind of weave there way through (especially those drums.) |
| Suffocation Human Waste | 4.0 |
| Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten | 4.0 |
| Suffocation Breeding the Spawn | 4.0 |
| Suffocation Pierced from Within | 4.0 |
| Suffocation Blood Oath | 3.5 |
| Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam | 3.5 |
| Immolation 88 Demo | 4.0 |
| Immolation Dawn of Possession | 4.0 |
| Immolation Here in After | 4.5 |
| Immolation Failures for Gods | 2.0 |
| Immolation Close to a World Below | 5.0 |
| Immolation Unholy Cult | 4.5 |
| Immolation Harnessing Ruin | 3.5 |
| Immolation Shadows in the Light | 4.0 |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay | 4.0 |
| Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy | 3.0 |
| Immolation Atonement | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris The Eternal Reign | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign | 3.5 |
| Born of Osiris A Higher Place | 3.5 |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery | 4.5 |
| Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive | 2.5 |
| I dont find myself hating this album like a lot of critics seem to. I actually think there is some pretty stellar synthesizer and the archepeggios are really great even if they are slightly overused. Although beyond that its can be summed up as a big djent cliche in all honesty. |
| Born of Osiris Soul Sphere | 3.0 |
| After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) | 4.0 |
| After the Burial Forging a Future Self | 3.0 |
| After the Burial Rareform | 4.0 |
| After the Burial In Dreams | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Wolves Within | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Dig Deep | 3.0 |
| The Contortionist Language | 2.5 |
| The Afterimage Lumière | 3.5 |
| Moonsorrow Metsä | 3.0 |
| Moonsorrow Tämä ikuinen talvi | 4.0 |
| Moonsorrow Suden uni | 4.0 |
| Moonsorrow Voimasta ja kunniasta | 4.0 |
| Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja | 4.0 |
| Moonsorrow Verisäkeet | 4.0 |
| Moonsorrow Viides luku - Hävitetty | 4.0 |
| Equilibrium Armageddon | 1.0 |
| Equilibrium Rekreatur | 3.0 |
| Equilibrium Sagas | 4.5 |
| This album is such a fun adventure. It drags you through swift, crashing waves upon vast briney seas, leads you on a moonlit path into lands of Tolkien legends, takes you on the back of a fucking eagle to ride the sky. It's epic and grand in every sense of the word. Goddamn. |
| Equilibrium Turis Fratyr | 4.5 |
| Basically Sagas if they toned down the bouncy folk and added more grandeur ala symphonies. Still almost as blissfull and mesmerizing tbh. |
| Eluveitie Spirit | 4.0 |
| Eluveitie Slania | 4.0 |
| Eluveitie Helvetios | 4.0 |
| Eluveitie Origins | 4.0 |
| Eluveitie Evocation II: Pantheon | 2.0 |
| Aether Realm One Chosen By The Gods | 3.5 |
| Aether Realm Tarot | 4.5 |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days | 4.5 |
| Aesop Rock None Shall Pass | 4.0 |
| Aesop Rock Skelethon | 4.0 |
| Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid | 4.0 |
| Textures Polars | 2.0 |
| Ulsect Ulsect | 3.5 |
| How is every goddamn rating a 3.5 or a 4 lolrBut yeah this is just some sludgy/crushing/dissonant Death metal. |
| Dodecahedron Kwintessens | 3.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Kenose | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Drought | 3.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Si Monvmentvm Reqvires Circvmspice | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus | 4.5 |
| Deathspell Omega The Synarchy of Molten Bones | 4.0 |
| Ad Nauseam Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est | 4.5 |
| Above This 7L7 | 2.5 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 2.0 |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 3.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Old Pride | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 4.5 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You | 3.0 |
| Touche Amore Touche Amore | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Stage Four | 4.5 |
| Defeater Lost Ground | 4.5 |
| Defeater Abandoned | 2.0 |
| Defeater Letters Home | 3.0 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 4.0 |
| Defeater Travels | 4.5 |
| Counterparts Prophets | 4.0 |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us | 4.0 |
| Counterparts The Difference Between Hell and Home | 4.5 |
| Brendan Murphy is a goddamn poet. This album resonates with me almost too personally. It helped me get through the worst of my depression even. My favorite song by band will always be "Decay". |
| Counterparts Tragedy Will Find Us | 4.0 |
| Counterparts You're Not You Anymore | 5.0 |
| ri cant think of a fucking soundoff fuckrEdit-Riffs. Crushing, ravenous riffs. Melodic, pure melodious riffs. Technical, complex riffs. rchug riffs.For real though, while the personal attachment I have to their prior albums isn't quite rthere because i'm in a much happier state than I once was, i'm stilled impressed by the ability to rexpand upon prior sounds Counterpart has. Every facet of their music only keeps getting better. rThe drums are more varied and powerful, Brendans screams much more visceral, use of clean vocals rmuch more tasteful, and entire song structure are simply crafted better than before. Every ounce rof this short album has a purpose, making this -possibly- their best release. |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart | 4.5 |
| Misery Signals Mirrors | 3.5 |
| Awesome album, apparently I didn't know how to make reviews when I first joined this site because the whole fucking thing was posted here. |
| Misery Signals Controller | 4.5 |
| Misery Signals Absent Light | 4.0 |
| Pallbearer Foundations of Burden | 4.0 |
| Pallbearer Heartless | 4.0 |
| Warning The Strength to Dream | 3.0 |
| Warning Watching from a Distance | 5.0 |
| The honesty is immense, the sadness drips forth like water from crack in a rotting sewer staining soil...honestly, I was taken completely aback by this album, because my expectations were high, and this absolutely crushed them. It exceeds with flying colors, or should I say gray colors, by utilizing the power that grief can have when it's portrayed for what it is or can be. Grief that brought me nearly to tears. |
| 40 Watt Sun The Inside Room | 4.5 |
| 40 Watt Sun Wider than the Sky | 3.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris The Aurora Veil | 4.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Sarabande to Nihil | 4.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Hiraeth | 4.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 4.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel | 4.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn | 4.0 |
I am ready for da violins. Give me da good violins.
Edit- This is basically Ne Obliviscaris dabbling
in tech death which is quite an interesting road
for them to take (one full of great melodies and
constant bombast, aka the feeling they have always
conveyed). The new bassist has a lot of flair and
definitely proved himself off this record. |
| Xanthochroid Of Erthe and Axen: Act II | 4.0 |
| Xanthochroid Of Erthe and Axen: Act I | 3.5 |
| Xanthochroid Incultus | 4.0 |
| Xanthochroid Blessed He With Boils | 4.0 |
| Yugen Blakrok Return of the Astro-Goth | 4.0 |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise | 4.0 |
| Rammstein Mutter | 4.5 |
| Rammstein Sehnsucht | 3.5 |
| Rammstein Herzeleid | 3.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar | 4.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals | 4.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Holy Wood | 4.0 |
| Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor | 4.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Heaven Upside Down | 2.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 5.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Bad Witch | 4.0 |
| The Armed Only Love | 4.0 |
| The Armed Untitled | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene | 4.0 |
| Mike Patton is on this.rThat's all you need to know. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.0 |
| Visceral, chaotic, creative, and filled to the fucking brim with lunacy. Dillinger injects a double dose of rage with a single dose of weird and makes something that swells like a nuclear explosion. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.5 |
| This is the album where Dillinger finds a perfect balance between beauty and madness. There are wild guitar riffs and thunderous drumming (topped with the usual earth shattering shrieks), but there are also jazzy breaks with gorgeous, sweeping piano and heartwrenching croons (looking at you Widower). Anger and passion come together in equal parts to form something that will both make you want to punch babies and kiss kittens. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 3.5 |
| This is a damn good album that continues on the signature sound of Dillinger Escape Plan (which I don't think needs much explaining). There does however seem to be a bigger incorporation of different genres and band influences which are very hit or miss. "Milk Lizard" is zany and off-the-wall with its sort of McLusky impression and is overall fun as hell, but then there are duds like Black Bubblegum that come across as slightly-grating pop metal. There is also a lack of any truly signature moments, which makes this record sound like Dillinger with less steam. That is still quiet good, but it's definitely nice to know that the band pushed their capabilities off their next record instead of making another "Ire Works". |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 3.5 |
| This is incredibly destructive as most of this bands releases seem to be. Whizzing guitar work accompanies equally whizzing drum patterns that sound like the repetitious firing of a cannon. Then, there are the vocals. These could honestly be my favorite hardcore/metalcore/mathcore vocals. They have an unparalleled crunch but can offer some respite when needed, which only enhances the power of the aforementioned harsh vocals. Seriously, get fucking pumped, listen to this, and then go out and stab a man. rOk maybe don't do that last part. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 4.0 |
| Coalesce Give Them Rope | 4.0 |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends | 4.0 |
| Botch American Nervoso | 4.0 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.5 |
| Converge I Can Tell You About Pain | 4.0 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 4.5 |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| On "Jane Doe" Converge creates an album that feels like a harpoon piercing your flesh. The drums blast away like a frantic pulse, the guitar riffs so like constant unrestrained havok akin to star going supernova, and the vocals sound like with each enraged shriek blood will spew forth as the vocalist shreds his throat. It's the anger of the universe in a compact disc, ready to be spilled out unto the listener. |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.0 |
| A very worthy follow up to Jane Doe if there ever were one. The rage is toned down slightly but it only shows how well Converge can play around with different tempos while still retaining their core sound. Only downside to this album is that the last track doesn't feel like a proper closing track (the s/t would be a better closer imo), but otherwise this is flawless. |
| Converge No Heroes | 3.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.5 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.5 |
| Converge The Dusk in Us | 4.0 |
| New Converge=hours upon hours of front to back discography jamming. |
| Zaga Zaga Zaga Zaga | 2.5 |
| Zapruder Fall In Line | 3.0 |
| Deeds of Flesh Portals to Canaan | 3.0 |
| Arkaik Lucid Dawn | 3.0 |
| Spawn of Possession Cabinet | 3.5 |
| Spawn of Possession Noctambulant | 3.5 |
| Spawn of Possession Incurso | 3.5 |
| Obscura Diluvium | 3.5 |
| Obscura Akróasis | 3.5 |
| Obscura Omnivium | 3.0 |
| Obscura Cosmogenesis | 4.0 |
| Obscura Retribution | 2.0 |
| Gorgonea Prima Black Coal Depression | 3.0 |
| Rinoa An Age Among Them | 4.0 |
| Sybreed Slave Design | 3.5 |
| Disarmonia Mundi Mind Tricks | 2.5 |
| Disarmonia Mundi Fragments Of D-Generation | 3.0 |
| Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase I: Neohumanity | 3.5 |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe | 4.5 |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress | 4.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Symmetric in Design | 4.0 |
| Soilwork Natural Born Chaos | 4.0 |
| Soilwork A Predator's Portrait | 4.0 |
| Soilwork The Chainheart Machine | 4.0 |
| Soilwork Steelbath Suicide | 3.5 |
| Bjork Medulla | 2.5 |
| Bjork Vespertine | 4.0 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 3.5 |
| Bjork Post | 4.5 |
| Aorlhac A la croisée des vents | 4.0 |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 2.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.0 |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere | 3.0 |
| O'Brother Garden Window | 4.0 |
| O'Brother Disillusion | 4.0 |
| O'Brother Endless Light | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child | 4.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface | 3.5 |
| Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini | 4.0 |
| Enslaved RIITIIR | 4.0 |
| Enslaved In Times | 4.0 |
| Enslaved E | 3.5 |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | 5.0 |
| This album is something I both love and respect. It is essentially what kick started it's brand of folk black metal, and is one of the earliest black metal albums to show the untapped potential of its genre. The album transports you, taking the listener into the farthest reaches of the Nordic woods into a land of beauty unknown by any other man. It is an album of both unfamiliarity and comfort, alienness and warmth. |
| Ulver Kveldssanger | 4.0 |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal | 4.0 |
| Ulver Themes From William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell | 3.0 |
| Ulver Perdition City | 4.0 |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar | 3.5 |
| October Falls Marras | 4.0 |
| October Falls The Womb of Primordial Nature | 4.0 |
| October Falls A Collapse of Faith | 4.0 |
| October Falls The Plague of a Coming Age | 3.5 |
| Agalloch From Which of This Oak | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Of Stone, Wind and Pillor | 4.0 |
| Agalloch The White | 5.0 |
| "The White" ep is essentially The Mantle if they stripped down the black metal influences and stuck entirely with the folk aspect of it, and it's truly gorgeous, The acoustic bit at the end of "The Isle of Summer" will warm the most languid of souls, as will all of the sparkling melodies off this album. |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 4.5 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 5.0 |
| This took awhile for me to truly get into, but bloody hell it's gorgeous. It's sweet, somber, yet warm and embraceable all at the same time. It only encompasses peace the farther you get into it. Furthermore it's all done so in a way that's not truly describable. |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 4.5 |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit | 4.0 |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere | 3.5 |
| Falls of Rauros Hail Wind and Hewn Oak | 4.0 |
| Falls of Rauros The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood | 5.0 |
| Falls of Rauros Believe in No Coming Shore | 3.5 |
| Falls of Rauros Vigilance Perennial | 4.5 |
This is their crowning achievement. It's almost as if all they had wrote before this was a series
of pillars that would eventually form the structure of this albums foundation. This purges all
worry and stress from your mind. In my opinion this is up there with Atmospheric metal greats like
"The Mantle" and "Aura". |
| Panopticon Panopticon | 4.5 |
| Panopticon Collapse | 4.5 |
| Panopticon Social Disservices | 3.0 |
| Panopticon Kentucky | 3.5 |
| Panopticon Roads to the North | 5.0 |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal | 5.0 |
| Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness | 4.0 |
| Saor Roots | 5.0 |
| Saor Aura | 5.0 |
| Saor Guardians | 4.5 |
| This album was amazing, and was a certainly more melodic affair then previous albums. The riffs shine through and the melodious beauty is just as present if not more than on Aura, HOWEVER Austin Lunn's drumming off of Aura was certainly my favorite. |
| Winterfylleth The Ghost Of Heritage | 3.5 |
| Winterfylleth The Mercian Sphere | 4.0 |
| Winterfylleth The Threnody of Triumph | 4.0 |
| Winterfylleth The Divination Of Antiquity | 3.5 |
| Winterfylleth The Dark Hereafter | 3.5 |
| Winterfylleth The Hallowing of Heirdom | 4.0 |
| Dawn Ray'd The Unlawful Assembly | 4.0 |
| God Dethroned Under the Sign of the Iron Cross | 4.0 |
| Camel Moonmadness | 4.0 |
| Camel Mirage | 4.0 |
| This dabbles in so many moods ranging from a slight melancholy to completely unrestrained jazziness. It can be slow and brooding or crazy and chaotic, and it pushes these moods with such power and conviction all the while remaining ridiculously eclectic, making this an absolute beauty and an essential prog rock album. |
| Rush Permanent Waves | 4.0 |
| Rush Signals | 3.0 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 4.0 |
| Rush Hemispheres | 4.0 |
| Rush 2112 | 4.0 |
| Rush Rush | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 2.0 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 2.0 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 2.0 |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Of Natural History | 1.0 |
| Wovenhand The Laughing Stalk | 3.5 |
| Wovenhand Mosaic | 4.0 |
| Wovenhand Blush Music | 4.5 |
| 16 Horsepower Sackcloth 'n' Ashes | 4.0 |
| Revenge (CAN) Behold.Total.Rejection | 2.5 |
| Blasphemy Fallen Angel of Doom | 2.5 |
| Caligula's Horse In Contact | 1.0 |
| Opeth Apostle in Triumph | 2.5 |
| Opeth Orchid | 4.0 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 4.5 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 4.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 4.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 4.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.0 |
| Opeth Heritage | 3.0 |
| Opeth Pale Communion | 3.0 |
| Novembers Doom The Novella Reservoir | 3.5 |
| Novembers Doom The Pale Haunt Departure | 4.0 |
| Novembers Doom Aphotic | 3.5 |
| Novembers Doom Hamartia | 3.5 |
| This is like a Death metal inspired Katatonia and it's fucking amazing. |
| Katatonia Dance of December Souls | 2.5 |
| Katatonia Brave Murder Day | 4.5 |
| Katatonia Discouraged Ones | 3.5 |
| Katatonia Tonight's Decision | 3.5 |
| Katatonia Last Fair Deal Gone Down | 5.0 |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness | 5.0 |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance | 4.5 |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings | 4.0 |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts | 4.5 |
| Triptykon Melana Chasmata | 4.0 |
| Celtic Frost Monotheist | 4.0 |
| Celtic Frost To Mega Therion | 3.0 |
| Bathory Nordland II | 3.5 |
| Bathory Nordland I | 4.0 |
| Bathory Hammerheart | 3.5 |
| Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark | 2.5 |
| Bathory Bathory | 2.5 |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death | 4.0 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 3.5 |
| Burzum Filosofem | 4.0 |
| Leviathan The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide | 4.0 |
| Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life | 4.0 |
| Leviathan True Traitor, True Whore | 3.5 |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted | 4.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven | 3.5 |
| The first track is really promising and treads slightly different ground for Wolves. Let's hope this kicks the past two albums in the dirt because Wolves has definitely been in a bit of a slump. rEdit-this was a beauty. It doesn't quite touch albums like Diadem or Two Hunters, but the creative ambition has been revived and Wolves does a perfect job balancing soft, soothing ambience with good ole' icy cold black metal. I'd also like to mention that the drumming is probably the most vigorous and "busy" that WITTR has ever done. |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 4.5 |
| Everything I can say about "Diadem" is just as applicable here. What makes this slightly different (perhaps even *slightly* better) is that it is more concise, and while it does manage to wander off in its own otherworldly sea, it wastes absolutely no time in getting there. Why hold back on the monolithic adventure that awaits? |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars | 4.5 |
| Wolves is one of the few bands who can make such a massive album without much distinguishable variety and still sound incredible. The overall product is ethereal and manages to sound rambunctious and pulsating while being light and fleeting at the same time. It whisks you away into autumn forests colored gorgeous shades of scarlet and auburn, a feeling that would be just as (if not more) evocative off of "Two Hunters". |
| Elderwind The Magic of Nature | 4.0 |
| Loreena McKennitt The Book of Secrets | 4.5 |
| Thou Inconsolable | 3.5 |
| Thou Heathen | 4.5 |
| Thou Tyrant | 4.0 |
| Lingua Ignota ALL BITCHES DIE | 4.0 |
| Daughters Daughters | 4.0 |
| Daughters Hell Songs | 4.5 |
| Daughters Canada Songs | 3.5 |
| Exuma Exuma | 4.0 |
| Wintersun Wintersun | 4.5 |
| Wintersun Time I | 3.5 |
| Kalmah Swamplord | 4.5 |
| Kalmah They Will Return | 4.5 |
| Kalmah Swampsong | 4.5 |
| Kalmah The Black Waltz | 4.5 |
| Kalmah For the Revolution | 4.0 |
| Kalmah 12 Gauge | 4.0 |
| Kalmah Seventh Swamphony | 4.0 |
| Kalmah Palo | 4.0 |
| In Flames Subterranean | 4.0 |
| In Flames Lunar Strain | 4.0 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 4.0 |
| In Flames Whoracle | 4.0 |
| In Flames Colony | 4.5 |
| In Flames Clayman | 4.0 |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain | 3.0 |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape | 2.5 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 4.0 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 3.0 |
| In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading | 3.0 |
| In Flames Siren Charms | 3.0 |
| In Flames Battles | 2.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Character | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Atoma | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall | 4.0 |
| Traditional vikings metal. Great riffs, and honestly the coolest style of drumming I have ever seen from Amon Amarth. I would say this is second only to maybe Jomsviking. |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth Jomsviking | 3.0 |
| Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down | 5.0 |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 5.0 |
| Jesus man, where do I even start? The album resonates beauty, passion. The amount of heart and soul poured into this is almost surreal. This album isn't genre bending, it works very strictly in melodeath, but it is the embodiment of what many melodeath bands strives to be but often can't quite achieve. Somewhere they get lost in drinking and viking lore and promoting the glorification of war in their music, which is fun and all, but in my eyes, melodic death metal can do so much more. Insomnium shows it off this album. |
| Insomnium Across the Dark | 4.5 |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Winter's Gate | 4.5 |
| Omnium Gatherum The Burning Cold | 4.0 |
| Omnium Gatherum Grey Heavens | 4.0 |
| Omnium Gatherum Beyond | 5.0 |
| Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows | 5.0 |
| Omnium Gatherum The Redshift | 3.5 |
| Omnium Gatherum Years in Waste | 2.5 |
| Omnium Gatherum Spirits And August Light | 3.5 |
| Deftones Gore | 3.0 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.0 |
| Deftones Deftones | 4.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 4.0 |
| Chevelle La Gárgola | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 4.0 |
| Darkspace Dark Space III | 2.5 |
| When the fuzz clears way some truly stellar shit shines through here, ESPECIALLY near the end with the monolithic riffs backed with very dissonant guitars and synths in the back. Alongside this, the shrieks are among some of the most powerful in black metal. Unfortunately this record came across as jumbled noise at certain points and was kind of bland during these parts. This wouldn't have been as bad if this wasn't a monster of an album at nearly 80 minutes. 2nd half is like a 4/5, first half is like a 2.5/5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow | 4.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Her | 4.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Vanitas | 4.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Desideratum | 3.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh The Whole of the Law | 4.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh A New Kind of Horror | 3.0 |
| Aborted The Archaic Abattoir | 3.5 |
| Aborted Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage... | 4.0 |
| Aborted RetroGore | 3.5 |
| Aborted TerrorVision | 4.0 |
| Azarath Blasphemers' Maledictions | 4.0 |
| Azarath In Extremis | 3.5 |
| Plenty of stellar riffs still although a slight step down from their previous record. Also while the vocalist is still abrasive and gnarly he's definitely standardized his vocals just a bit more. |
| Behemoth Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic) | 3.0 |
| Behemoth Satanica | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Thelema.6 | 3.0 |
| Behemoth Demigod | 3.5 |
| Behemoth The Apostasy | 3.0 |
| Behemoth Evangelion | 4.0 |
| Behemoth The Satanist | 4.5 |
| Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel | 3.5 |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes | 4.0 |
| Machine Head Supercharger | 2.0 |
| Machine Head Through the Ashes of Empires | 3.5 |
| Machine Head The Blackening | 4.5 |
| Machine Head Unto the Locust | 3.0 |
| Machine Head Bloodstone and Diamonds | 3.5 |
| Pantera Reinventing the Steel | 3.0 |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill | 4.0 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 3.5 |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven | 4.0 |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell | 3.0 |
| Pantera Metal Magic | 1.0 |
| Sepultura Roots | 3.5 |
| Sepultura Arise | 4.0 |
| Sepultura Beneath the Remains | 4.0 |
| Honestly there are just so many insanely powerful riffs and little shreds that make this have some of the best guitar work in thrash, as well as having an awesome diversity between drum beats. The energy is always there. The only detraction might be Matt Cavalera, however I may also just not be a fan of thrash vocals as a whole. |
| Sodom M-16 | 4.0 |
| Sodom Sodom | 3.5 |
| Sodom Agent Orange | 4.0 |
| Sodom Persecution Mania | 4.0 |
| Sodom Tapping the Vein | 3.5 |
| Sodom Obsessed by Cruelty | 3.5 |
| Sodom In the Sign of Evil | 4.0 |
| Kreator Coma of Souls | 4.0 |
| Slayer Haunting the Chapel | 4.0 |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss | 4.0 |
| Slayer South of Heaven | 4.0 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.0 |
| Slayer Hell Awaits | 4.0 |
| Slayer Show No Mercy | 4.0 |
| Skeletonwitch Serpents Unleashed | 4.0 |
| Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.5 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 2.5 |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter | 2.5 |
| Of Mice and Men The Flood | 3.5 |
| Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men | 3.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit | 2.0 |
| This album was far too complacent. It's good that on Sempiternal BMTH finally found a sound they could sit comfortably in, but this almost as insipid as some Nickelback albums. The risk is so minimal it's like this was put out just so they could get a quick cash grab. It's just so absolutely plain, like Ollie Syke doesn't even have a distinguishing voice anymore, atop that the lyrics are angsty even by BMTH standards. Throne is good because of some really cathartic drumming near the end, but that's it. 90 percent of this could've been scrapped because it leaves no impression at all. |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... | 4.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 3.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings | 3.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper | 2.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Fever | 3.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire | 3.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 3.5 |
| Ice Nine Kills The Predator Becomes the Prey | 4.0 |
| Ice Nine Kills Every Trick in the Book | 3.5 |
| Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream | 3.5 |
| The Ghost Inside Fury and the Fallen Ones | 3.5 |
| The Ghost Inside Returners | 4.0 |
| The Ghost Inside Get What You Give | 4.0 |
| The Ghost Inside Dear Youth | 3.0 |
| Rise Of The Northstar Welcame | 4.5 |
| Blessthefall Witness | 4.0 |
| Blessthefall Hollow Bodies | 4.0 |
| Entombed Wolverine Blues | 3.5 |
| Entombed Clandestine | 4.0 |
| Entombed Left Hand Path | 3.0 |
| Not quite a classic, but there are some beastly growls, amazing riffs and nice tinges of melody. It loses a slight bit of steam at certain points but otherwise awesome record. |
| Dismember Like an Ever Flowing Stream | 4.5 |
| Fantastic riffs for days, both hefty/raw and melodic. This album excels at just creating some bloody good hooks and being the fucking riff central of dm. Izza mastapiece. |
| Dismember Indecent & Obscene | 4.0 |
| Dismember Massive Killing Capacity | 3.5 |
| Dismember Hate Campaign | 3.0 |
| Dismember The God That Never Was | 4.0 |
| Demigod Slumber of Sullen Eyes | 4.0 |
| Demilich Nespithe | 2.5 |
| Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation | 4.0 |
| Artificial Brain Infrared Horizon | 4.5 |
| I don't know how many modern death metal bands write about weeby alien shit but this band sure as hell must be the best of them |
| Ulcerate Of Fracture and Failure | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire | 4.5 |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Vermis | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis | 4.0 |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust | 4.5 |
| Gorguts Considered Dead | 4.0 |
| Seems like a slightly more stripped down version of Gorguts, not nearly as wonky but still boss as fuck. Riffs hard. |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity | 4.0 |
| Might even replace Obscura as favorite Gorguts record in time. So many instruments that seep into the record that aren't present off Obscura. |
| Gorguts Obscura | 4.5 |
| This is just mind bending. Like there are wonky as hell distorted riffs, ugly gutturals, incredibly intricate but paced drumming. It's mysterious and weird but it rocks. Only neg is that artwork still frightens me heh |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate | 4.5 |
| Is Gorguts capable of making anything less then amazing? God this intro was almost as odd as the intro off Obscura. |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 4.5 |
| Augury Concealed | 4.0 |
| Augury Fragmentary Evidence | 4.0 |
| Augury Illusive Golden Age | 4.0 |
| Beyond Creation The Aura | 3.5 |
| Beyond Creation Earthborn Evolution | 3.0 |
| Beyond Creation Algorythm | 3.5 |
| Uyama Hiroto Freedom of the Son | 3.5 |
| Uyama Hiroto Freeform Jazz | 4.0 |
| Nujabes Luv(sic) Hexalogy | 5.0 |
| Nujabes Metaphorical Music | 5.0 |
| Brilliant. So calm and soothing, like watching a vanilla-crimson sun set over lapping ocean waves. Easily the most grounded and uplifting hip hop albums, if not albums as a whole, i've ever heard. In addition to the gorgeous aesthetic presented their is an incredible level of diversity between beats, giving every track it's own distinct qualities in spite of feeding into the same love-based theme. |
| Nujabes Modal Soul | 4.5 |
| Nujabes Spiritual State | 4.0 |
| Still nearly as ethereal as the two records prior, and equally rooted in the same "natural" vibe present off his past two records. It's unfortunate that his rap deliveries have been restrained and that he will no longer be creating more blissful hip hop to spread the word of peace, but still these 3 gorgeous albums will live on as Nujabes legacy. |
| Gorgoroth Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam | 3.0 |
| Gorgoroth Under the Sign of Hell | 4.0 |
| Gorgoroth Pentagram | 4.5 |
| 1349 Hellfire | 4.0 |
| Mayhem Esoteric Warfare | 4.5 |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | 4.5 |
| In terms of musicianship this isn't exactly top tier, but it essentially ushered in a whole wave of music while retaining an honesty in the image they project. Mayhem really is one of the most monumental black metal bands. This of course isn't to say their musicianship isn't solid-theirs great riffs, hellhammer is a goddamn beast of a drummer, and Attila has a very distinctive vocal style that's sinister as hell. |
| Emperor Wrath of the Tyrant | 4.0 |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse | 4.5 |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk | 4.5 |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium | 3.5 |
| Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire... | 4.0 |
| Dissection The Somberlain | 4.0 |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane | 5.0 |
| Dissection Reinkaos | 2.0 |
| Mgla Groza | 3.5 |
| Mgla With Hearts Toward None | 4.0 |
| Mgla Exercises in Futility | 4.5 |
| There's a certain blend of atmospheres surrounding "Exercise In Futility" that make it so unique and fantastic. It can be raw and thunderous, filled with vigor and grandiose, or it can be dark and lugubrious. The different moods are transitioned into each other so incredibly well that they blend into a beautiful melting pot of sound. What else is incredible about this album is the level of proficiency and accessibility there is- there is an extensive variety of riffs and drum patterns, and all of them are completely cohesive (topped with some perfect mid-range coarse shouts of course). "Exercise in Futility" is very straightforward, but it perfects what it does. |
| Uada Devoid of Light | 4.0 |
| Uada Cult of a Dying Sun | 3.0 |
| Sargeist Let The Devil In | 4.5 |
| Sargeist Satanic Black Devotion | 3.5 |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery | 3.5 |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh | 3.5 |
| Bloodbath Grand Morbid Funeral | 3.5 |
| Bloodbath The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn | 3.0 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 5.0 |
| Really, this is the way to go extensively brutal without coming across as a brainless meathead (sort of jk). This album convinces you that there is actually a disgusting monster behind it, because Lord Worms vocals are about the most ugly thing in dm (well, maybe Demilich, but those start to border hilarity for me). Then there is the balls-dropping riffs and the absolutely furious drumming. This epitomizes heavy, and is probably the most beastly album there is. |
| Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy Whisper Supremacy | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy The Book of Suffering - Tome 1 | 3.5 |
| Basically traditional Cryptopsy. Perhaps not as guttural as None So Vile or Blasphemy Made Flesh, however it has the same rapid fire drumming and catchy riffs as their best works. The growls (I think Lord Worm again?) are a bit higher but really that is forgivable when you think how the years might wear on you. |
| Cryptopsy The Book of Suffering - Tome II | 3.5 |
| Cryptopsy Once Was Not | 3.0 |
| Cryptopsy The Unspoken King | 2.0 |
| Cryptopsy Cryptopsy | 3.5 |
| Black Tongue Born Hanged | 3.5 |
| Black Tongue The Unconquerable Dark | 4.0 |
| Black Tongue Nadir | 4.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 2.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 4.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible | 4.5 |
