| Horrendous Idol | 4.0 |
| Horrendous Anareta | 4.5 |
| Horrendous Ontological Mysterium | 5.0 |
| The Zenith Passage Datalysium | 1.5 |
| Schammasch Triangle | 4.5 |
| Spawn of Possession Noctambulant | 5.0 |
| Aronious Irkalla | 4.5 |
| Artificial Brain Artificial Brain | 5.0 |
| someone crush the riff inglitch cannon into a fine powder so i can arrange it into a giant spiral and snort myself into a dying galaxy. |
| Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses | 4.5 |
| Jenovavirus Demo 1 | 4.5 |
| holy mother of sweet fuck in heaven. this is, without a doubt, the greatest brutal DM demo i've ever heard. this sounds like a candy-flip-fueled three-way between devourment, cryptopsy, and dying fetus. |
| Aeviterne The Ailing Facade | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega The Long Defeat | 3.0 |
| Shapeshifter (JPN) Dark Ritual | 3.5 |
| Pharaoh The Powers That Be | 4.0 |
| Ethereal Shroud Trisagion | 4.5 |
| Worm Foreverglade | 4.5 |
| Vertebra Atlantis Lustral Purge in Cerulean Bliss | 4.0 |
| Wheel (FIN) Moving Backwards | 4.0 |
| Convulsing Grievous | 5.0 |
| the sound of the ocean depths, far beneath crashing waves, where even the brightest daylight fails to reach. nothing else is comparable. this record is a chasm of immeasurable proportions; haunting, terrifying, but with an entrancing beauty that only shows itself to those who are willing to peel back the surface. |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus | 5.0 |
| Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia | 4.5 |
| Voivod Nothingface | 5.0 |
| Voivod Dimension Hatröss | 4.5 |
| Voivod The Wake | 5.0 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 5.0 |
| Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse | 5.0 |
| Schammasch Hearts of No Light | 4.5 |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis | 4.5 |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still | 5.0 |
| this record is haunting. there are no other words for it. a bleak, almost misanthropic perspective on humanity's final hour. as the sun sets on a world blown to ash and stone, take a grand, sweeping look and imagine what could have been. |
| In Flames Lunar Strain | 3.5 |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain | 3.5 |
| In Flames Clayman | 4.0 |
| In Flames Colony | 4.5 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 4.5 |
| Immolation Close to a World Below | 5.0 |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust | 4.0 |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate | 5.0 |
| amazingly, luc lemay and co. managed to take the free-jazz schizophrenia of "obscura" and warp it back into something much more clearly resembling death metal. that's not to say this is an easily digestible album; it's still just as complex, but the constraints of the genre are merely bent horrifically out of shape rather than snapped entirely. a dark, entrancing, and strangely beautiful listen. |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 4.5 |
| Gorguts Considered Dead | 4.0 |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity | 4.5 |
| Gorguts Obscura | 5.0 |
| "obscura" holds the esteemed award of 'changed the way i listen to music'. the aural equivalent of blundering through a dark forest, wisps of caustic fog burning your skin and hostile faceless creatures snarling at you from within the blackness. a perfect record. |
