| Katatonia Night Is the New Day | 4.5 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 2.5 |
| Mono You Are There | 3.0 |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain | 4.0 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 4.0 |
| Virus (NO) The Black Flux | 4.5 |
| Portishead Dummy | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God | 4.5 |
| Ved Buens Ende Written In Waters | 4.5 |
| Bloodbath Unblessing the Purity | 4.5 |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery | 4.0 |
| October Tide Rain Without End | 3.5 |
| Vali Forlatt | 4.5 |
| October Falls Marras | 4.5 |
| October Falls The Womb of Primordial Nature | 4.0 |
| The new full length album from October Falls is an excellent collaboration of highly atmospheric black metal and earthly like neo-folk music. Basically a more expanded version of their The Streams of The End EP. In the ever prescent folk sections no paino, strings, or flutes appear such as in Marras only layered acoustics and some nature ambience. The black metal parts are layered with two or three guitars and feature very stronge drum work supplied by M.Tarvonen from Moonsorrow, very few blastbeats which is a welcome change for this type of music. Only black metal rasps appear, they fit the music very well and the lyrics are in a league of their own talking about the loss of culture and the wrath of nature towards humanity. The album is one song broken up into four parts and plays for a little over thirty-eight minutes. If you liked releases such as Bergtatt, Two Hunters, or Pale Folklore I suggest you check this out. |
| Ulver Svidd Neger OST | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 4.5 |
| Nick Drake Bryter Layter | 3.5 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 5.0 |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left | 4.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway | 4.0 |
| Gorgoroth Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam | 4.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 5.0 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 4.5 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 5.0 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 4.5 |
| Katatonia Discouraged Ones | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Risk | 1.5 |
| Megadeth Cryptic Writings | 2.0 |
| Enslaved Isa | 4.5 |
| Immortal Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism | 5.0 |
| Novembre Materia | 4.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 3.5 |
| Tool Undertow | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Nothing | 3.5 |
| Akercocke The Goat of Mendes | 3.5 |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 4.5 |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore | 5.0 |
| Daylight Dies No Reply | 4.0 |
| This is the first Daylight Dies album, on this album there is a different vocalist (That sounds quite similar to the present one and Mr. Akerfeldt) and only one guitar player, other than than that line up is the same as on Dismantling Devotion. It sounds very similar to Dismantling Devotion just a little less developed, there are no clean vocals just a little bit of spoken vocals on the song In the Silence, and also no acoustic guitars, but plenty of clean guitar to make up for it. It has a great mix of soft heart felt moments, heavy parts as well very catchy riffs and arrangements. This is a great album and pretty much better than any other U.S. releases out there. I suggest getting this one first if getting into Daylight Dies because you'll think it's the best album ever and then you'll get Dismantling Devotion and go poo poo in your pants. It will be a good poop though that's for sure. Get this album and support one of the better U.S. bands out there! Or call me a fagot that has a horrible taste in music and then go sing along to dying in your arms and waste your money on the new As I Stand Living album, Either way I will still be enjoying this release for a very long time, and you will be missing out! |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 4.0 |
| Hellveto Prelude to Dying | 4.0 |
| Behemoth Grom | 4.0 |
| Behemoth And the Forests Dream Eternally | 4.0 |
| Nest (FIN) Woodsmoke | 4.0 |
| Behemoth The Apostasy | 4.0 |
| Mourning Beloveth A Murderous Circus | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Brave Murder Day | 4.5 |
| Jesu Silver | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.5 |
| Nest (FIN) Trail of the Unwary | 4.5 |
| Tenhi Airut: Aamujen | 4.0 |
| Tenhi Kauan | 4.0 |
| Empyrium Songs of Moors and Misty Fields | 4.0 |
| In This Moment Beautiful Tragedy | 1.0 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 1.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades | 2.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View | 3.0 |
| Shape of Despair Shades Of... | 3.0 |
| Evoken Antithesis of Light | 3.0 |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 3.0 |
| Nargaroth Black Metal Ist Krieg (A Dedication Monument) | 3.0 |
| Muse Absolution | 3.5 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 3.5 |
| Lacuna Coil Unleashed Memories | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Kill | 3.5 |
| Satyricon Nemesis Divina | 3.5 |
| Thergothon Stream From The Heavens | 3.5 |
| Empyrium A Wintersunset | 3.5 |
| Nile Ithyphallic | 3.5 |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell | 4.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.0 |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss | 4.0 |
| Nile In Their Darkened Shrines | 4.0 |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter | 4.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.0 |
| Nevermore Dead Heart in a Dead World | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness | 4.0 |
| Mayhem Live in Leipzig | 4.0 |
| Ulver Kveldssanger | 4.0 |
| Dissection The Somberlain | 4.0 |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Below the Lights | 4.0 |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | 4.0 |
| Nevermore This Godless Endeavor | 4.0 |
| Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken... | 4.0 |
| Behemoth Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic) | 4.0 |
| Death Symbolic | 4.0 |
| Death Human | 4.0 |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var | 4.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Last Fair Deal Gone Down | 4.0 |
| Burzum Filosofem | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 4.0 |
| Tenhi Vare | 4.0 |
| This album is some of the best Neo-Folk you will hear. Full of emotion and character, Tenhi are the masters of creating atmosphere and emotion. this is a very laid back listen. Highly suggested! |
| Tenhi Maaaet | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 4.5 |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger | 4.5 |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! | 4.5 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 4.5 |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane | 4.5 |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death | 4.5 |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk | 4.5 |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | 4.5 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 4.5 |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon | 4.5 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 4.5 |
| Nile Annihilation of the Wicked | 4.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.5 |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance | 4.5 |
| My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours | 4.5 |
| This is a great death/doom metal album, especially if your just getting into doom. Every song on this album is top notch, it's filled with very depaired emotion. Aaron's vocal's are quite bleak through out, from screams to cleans they always add a lot to the music. Highly suggested for all the depressed ones out there. Standouts: The Dreadful Hours, The Raven and the Rose, My Hope the Destroyer. |
| Daylight Dies Dismantling Devotion | 4.5 |
This album is very much in the same vein as Brave Murder Day by Katatonia. It's very melodic and catchy, the vocals are great and are both harsh and clean. If your looking for some good doom metal that won't bore give this a spin! Check out their video for Lies That Bind:
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGIA6QXkRC0 |
| Enslaved Eld | 4.5 |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky | 5.0 |
| Opeth Still Life | 5.0 |
