| Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department | 1.5 |
| High on Fire Cometh the Storm | 4.5 |
| Melvins Tarantula Heart | 4.5 |
| Dvne Voidkind | 4.0 |
| Big|Brave A Chaos of Flowers | 4.0 |
| Tyr Battle Ballads | 2.5 |
| Eidola Eviscerate | 3.0 |
| Necrot Lifeless Birth | 4.5 |
| Einsturzende Neubauten Rampen | 4.0 |
| Benighted Ekbom | 3.5 |
| Absolutely did not expect this to bang this hard but alrighty |
| Iron Monkey Spleen & Goad | 4.5 |
| Ingested The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams | 2.5 |
| Diabolic Oath Oracular Hexations | 3.5 |
| Witch Vomit Funeral Sanctum | 3.0 |
| Bayside There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Only God Was Above Us | 5.0 |
| Oxbow Serenade In Red | 5.0 |
| Frail Body Artificial Bouquet | 4.0 |
| Brodequin Harbinger of Woe | 4.0 |
| Monkey3 Welcome to the Machine | 4.0 |
| Hideous Divinity Unextinct | 3.5 |
| Aborted Vault of Horrors | 4.0 |
| Skeletal Remains Fragments of the Ageless | 3.5 |
| ScHoolboy Q Blue Lips | 3.5 |
| Upon Stone Dead Mother Moon | 3.5 |
| Waxahatchee Tigers Blood | 4.5 |
| Everything Everything Mountainhead | 4.5 |
| Bidirna Dhamani Brihot Buru | 4.0 |
| Esoteric 2-piece brutal death metal from India, with bits of eastern influence in the drums and structure. Super super cool, looking forward to more material from these guys. |
| Cognizance Phantazein | 3.5 |
| Kim Gordon The Collective | 4.0 |
| Cannot believe Kim Gordon made a better Gazelle Twin album than Gazelle Twin |
| Judas Priest Invincible Shield | 4.5 |
| Lilla Veneda Primordial Movements | 4.0 |
| Convulsing Perdurance | 4.5 |
| Hauntologist Hollow | 4.0 |
| Infant Island Obsidian Wreath | 3.5 |
| Spectral Voice Sparagmos | 3.5 |
| Eternal Storm A Giant Bound to Fall | 4.0 |
| Ministry HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES | 3.0 |
| Album is ok but Goddamn White Trash is one of the best Ministry songs ever |
| Enterprise Earth Death: An Anthology | 4.0 |
| Whaaaaat I did not expect this to be good after The Chosen was total butt but this is really really solid |
| Cabinet Hydrolysated Ordination | 3.5 |
| Cheers to whoever typed out this tracklist into the database |
| Toadliquor Back In The Hole | 4.0 |
| Departure Chandelier Satan Soldier Of Fortune | 3.5 |
| Cave Sermon Divine Laughter | 4.5 |
| Slift Ilion | 4.5 |
| IDLES TANGK | 2.0 |
| meth. Shame | 4.0 |
| Chapel of Disease Echoes of Light | 3.0 |
| Necrowretch Swords of Dajjal | 4.0 |
| Ihsahn Ihsahn | 3.0 |
| Borknagar Fall | 3.5 |
| The Body and Dis Fig Orchards of a Futile Heaven | 4.0 |
| Darkspace Dark Space -II | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis | 4.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty | 3.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence | 3.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She | 4.0 |
| Chainsword Born Triumphant | 3.5 |
| Darkest Hour Perpetual | Terminal | 4.0 |
| Morta Skuld Creation Undone | 3.0 |
| Job for a Cowboy Moon Healer | 4.0 |
| The Obsessed Gilded Sorrow | 3.5 |
| Dissimulator (CAN) Lower Form Resistance | 4.0 |
| This is fantastic! The proggy parts and especially the vocoder reminds me a bit of Focus-era Cynic |
| Klysma Death | 4.5 |
| I'm not even kidding, this is the best slam I've heard in a long time. An absolutely ridiculous feature list, bottomless riffs and gurgles, hysterical samples before the breakdowns...it's got everything. Top-to-bottom fun as fuck. |
| Oxbow King of the Jews | 4.5 |
| Oxbow An Evil Heat | 4.5 |
| Oxbow Thin Black Duke | 4.0 |
| Oxbow Love's Holiday | 4.0 |
| Green Day Saviors | 3.5 |
| That brick was not easy to pass |
| Hoplites Παραμαινομένη | 4.0 |
| The Vaccines Pick-Up Full of Carnations | 3.0 |
| I've never been more confused by a band's trajectory...after two pretty great first records they released the dumpster fire of English Graffiti, then return with Combat Sports which I think is on par with their best. Then another pile of overproduced garbage with Back In Love City, before again falling back on their reverb-laden Britrock here. rDefinitely plays it safe, but we've seen what these guys consider "pushing the envelope" and it's not good. |
| Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You | 4.0 |
| Everything Everything RE-ANIMATOR | 3.0 |
| Everything Everything A Fever Dream | 4.0 |
| Everything Everything Get to Heaven | 4.5 |
| Horda Form | 4.5 |
| Madlib, Meyhem Lauren and DJ Muggs Champagne For Breakfast | 4.0 |
| Suffocation Hymns From the Apocrypha | 4.0 |
| Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Rejecting Obliteration | 4.0 |
| Cattle Decapitation Terrasite | 3.0 |
| Clot Grief Tethers | 3.5 |
| Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely XV | 1.0 |
| The horror of remembering this is 17 years old was nothing compared to realizing they had the gall to rerecord it. This is disgraceful. |
| Panopticon The Rime of Memory | 4.5 |
| I hate to just reiterate Coma but yeah, this feels like a culmination of everything Austin's done as Panopticon chiseled to a fine precision. Nothing against the last two records, but this definitely feels the most directed since Autumn Eternal. Better than Collapse? We'll see if nostalgia wins. |
| Genesis Owusu Struggler | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 5.0 |
| Loathe (AUS) Null and Void | 3.5 |
| Yet another band just named Loathe, but they play a riff-heavy rendition of deathgrind that reminds me of one of my favorites, Mumakil (RIP) |
| Taproot SC\SSRS | 3.5 |
| I am unironically digging this a lot. Definitely not what I was expecting, this almost reminds me of a scruffier PtH, some Deftones influences. |
| Nightmarer Deformity Adrift | 3.5 |
| Church of Misery Born Under A Mad Sign | 4.0 |
| Dozer Drifting in the Endless Void | 4.5 |
| Johnny Booth Moments Elsewhere | 4.0 |
| Armand Hammer We Buy Diabetic Test Strips | 4.0 |
| Carnifex Necromanteum | 3.5 |
| Prong State Of Emergency | 3.0 |
| Afterbirth In But Not Of | 3.5 |
| MIKE Burning Desire | 4.0 |
| Sulphur Aeon Seven Crowns and Seven Seals | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.0 |
| Peeling Flesh Slamaholics, Vol. 2 | 4.0 |
| Otep The God Slayer | 1.0 |
| There is no excuse for being this deep in your career and releasing music that is this outright awful. Somebody tell Otep that the croaky toad voice works for quick snippets, not entire verses. And why bother covering a song if you have to change the chorus because of a lawsuit?? And then also make it dull as cat litter.. |
| Incantation Unholy Deification | 4.0 |
| Horrendous Ontological Mysterium | 4.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Godlike | 3.5 |
| Cryptopsy As Gomorrah Burns | 3.5 |
| 3TEETH EndEx | 3.5 |
| Blood Incantation Luminescent Bridge | 3.0 |
| Wormhole Almost Human | 3.5 |
| Dying Fetus Make Them Beg for Death | 4.5 |
| Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit | 4.0 |
| GridLink Coronet Juniper | 4.5 |
| Fossilization Leprous Daylight | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Chaos Horrific | 4.0 |
| This is surprisingly great considering the boots it had to fill. It might even have a bit more staying power than Violence Unimagined, but time will tell. |
| Korgull the Exterminator Built to Kill | 4.0 |
| Maybe I'm a little generous with my 4s but this absolutely rips. If you like speed metal or blackthrash or just fast riffs get on this immediately. |
| Jute Gyte Unus Mundus Patet | 4.0 |
| Adam's best and most accessible black metal record in years. I always look forward to new BM Jute Gyte and this was a particularly happy surprise. If y'all Pitchfork black metallers are worshiping Liturgy's "sacred number" shit just know Jute Gyte did it first and better. |
| Prof Horse | 4.0 |
| The most fun hip-hop album of the year so far, featuring both Redman AND Mr. Meth, and I had to add it to the database. SAD. |
| Exsanguination Burial Rites | 4.0 |
| Swans The Beggar | 4.0 |
| Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase II: Xenotaph | 3.5 |
| Godflesh Purge | 3.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman... | 3.0 |
| This sounds so boring and tired?a 3 purely for benefit of the doubt after one listen, but probably more like a 2.5 honestly. Josh Homme used to be such a riff god and this is almost devoid of them. |
| Billy Woods and Kenny Segal Maps | 4.5 |
| I think it is physically impossible for Billy Woods to miss, and he?s at his best with Segal. Slightly less dark and more ?traditional? than last year?s records, but equally poignant and potent. |
| Jessie Ware That! Feels Good! | 4.5 |
| This is one of my most-listened records of the year and it's still absolutely fabulous. I've always loved Jessie but she's never made an entire album that's so delicious from top to bottom, dripping with ear candy and the classiest of innuendo. |
| Metallica 72 Seasons | 3.0 |
| Brand of Sacrifice Between Death and Dreams | 3.0 |
| Distant Heritage | 2.0 |
| Scalp Black Tar | 3.5 |
| Rotten Sound Apocalypse | 3.0 |
| To The Grave Director’s Cuts | 3.5 |
| Sanguisugabogg Homicidal Ecstasy | 3.0 |
| Lamp of Murmuur Saturnian Bloodstorm | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Death Below | 2.5 |
| Big|Brave nature morte | 4.0 |
| Yves Tumor Praise a Lord Who Chews, But Does Not Consume... | 4.0 |
| Gorod The Orb | 3.5 |
| Haken Fauna | 3.5 |
| ...and Oceans As in Gardens, So in Tombs | 3.5 |
| Liturgy 93696 | 3.5 |
| Ulthar Anthronomicon | 3.5 |
| Ulthar Helionomicon | 3.5 |
| Tim Hecker No Highs | 3.5 |
| Enslaved Heimdal | 3.5 |
| Entropia (PL) Total | 3.0 |
| Bell Witch Future's Shadow I: The Clandestine Gate | 4.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Exul | 4.5 |
| JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown Scaring the Hoes | 4.0 |
| Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current | 4.0 |
| Fall Out Boy So Much (For) Stardust | 4.5 |
| Conjureth The Parasitic Chambers | 3.5 |
| Obituary Dying Of Everything | 3.0 |
| Astral Tomb Soulgazer | 4.0 |
| Funebrarum The Sleep of Morbid Dreams | 4.5 |
| Lamb of God Omens | 2.5 |
| Mizmor and Thou Myopia | 4.0 |
| Immolation Acts of God | 3.5 |
| Wormrot Hiss | 3.5 |
| Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North | 3.5 |
| Chat Pile God's Country | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me | 4.0 |
| The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist | 4.0 |
| Slipknot The End, So Far | 3.5 |
| Autopsy Morbidity Triumphant | 4.0 |
| Miscreance Convergence | 4.0 |
| Demon Hunter Exile | 2.0 |
| YUNGBLUD YUNGBLUD | 1.0 |
| Becoming The Archetype Children of the Great Extinction | 3.0 |
| I will call this disappointingly decent. One or two tracks stand out but none are truly fantastic, and there?s a lot here that feels under-executed. Lots of trios sound massive but here you can really feel the absence of a fourth or fifth member. |
| Black Country, New Road Ants From Up There | 1.5 |
| Honestly, what is so good about this? The songwriting is insanely boring, the songs are long but go nowhere, the singer is grossly off-key and completely absent of power or presence. I was gonna give this a 2.0 but nah it's worse than that. Absolute garbage. |
| Orville Peck Bronco | 3.5 |
| Undeath It's Time...To Rise From the Grave | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers | 2.5 |
| Septicflesh Modern Primitive | 3.5 |
| Decapitated Cancer Culture | 2.0 |
| Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future | 4.0 |
| Gospel The Loser | 4.0 |
| Artificial Brain Artificial Brain | 4.0 |
| Red Handed Denial I'd Rather Be Asleep | 3.0 |
| I get the PtH influence for sure, but for some reason I think this is what I wish Silverstein would sound likerSolid mix of metalcore and big melodies |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In | 5.0 |
| Author and Punisher Kruller | 3.5 |
| PUP The Unraveling of PUPTheBand | 2.5 |
| Desolate Shrine Fires of the Dying World | 3.0 |
| AngelMaker Sanctum | 3.0 |
| Zeal and Ardor Zeal and Ardor | 3.0 |
| Cave In Heavy Pendulum | 4.0 |
| Static Dress Rouge Carpet Disaster | 4.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses | 4.0 |
| Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter | 4.5 |
| Everything Everything Raw Data Feel | 4.0 |
I will happily say this is their best since Get To Heaven, the songs seem to have stronger identities. Shark Week is an
absolute banger. |
| Billy Woods Aethiopes | 4.5 |
| This is so good it makes it difficult to listen to other rap. |
| Pensees Nocturnes Douce Fange | 4.0 |
| Vaura Vista of Deviant Anatomies | 2.5 |
| Pestilectomy From Vulnerable To Funeral | 4.0 |
| I may be a sucker for slam, but this is surprisingly solid and already one of my favorite records for 2022.rStreaming: https://youtu.be/w7bhWmx3ydsr |
| Shadow Of Intent Elegy | 3.5 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds | 3.5 |
| Not really amazing by many means?definitely has some riffs but ultimately seems like it?s not soaring above the new wave of deathcore, only barely scraping the top. |
| Enterprise Earth The Chosen | 2.0 |
| This has some particularly good moments, but also yeesh does it drag on for an unnecessary 70 minutes when it should?ve been 40. |
| Earl Sweatshirt Sick! | 3.5 |
| Worm Shepherd Ritual Hymns | 4.0 |
| Underoath Voyeurist | 3.0 |
| Boris W | 2.5 |
| Great American Ghost Torture World | 3.0 |
| Vocals are A) irritatingly cheap metalcore style, B) super monotonous after awhile. Not to entirely crap all over this, but that definitely takes away a LOT from the overall effect. |
| Metharoma Pipe Dreams (Through The Alley) | 4.0 |
| Atvm Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless | 4.0 |
| Adele 30 | 3.5 |
| Agreed that this is easily her strongest record, and wow there are some SERIOUSLY good songs on here. rTo Be Loved is her ultimate slow-smolder masterpiece, for real. |
| Archspire Bleed the Future | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Radical | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike | 3.5 |
| Whitechapel Kin | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim | 3.0 |
| Doesn?t drag so much as fall off at about the 1/3 mark. The singles, especially Sickle and Peace, are the clear highlights. Might be a bit of a grower, but this mostly blurs together. |
| The Breathing Process Labyrinthian | 4.0 |
| Trivium In the Court of the Dragon | 3.5 |
| Full of Hell Garden of Burning Apparitions | 4.0 |
| Ministry Moral Hygiene | 3.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers The Ultra Vivid Lament | 3.5 |
| White Stones Dancing Into Oblivion | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Jesus Is King | 1.5 |
| Kanye West ye | 2.0 |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo | 3.0 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.5 |
| Kanye West Donda | 3.0 |
| Hooded Menace The Tritonus Bell | 4.0 |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe | 3.5 |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye | 4.0 |
| CHVRCHES Screen Violence | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors II | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana | 4.0 |
| Lingua Ignota SINNER GET READY | 4.0 |
| Lantlos Wildhund | 3.5 |
| Celtic Frost Vanity/Nemesis | 2.0 |
| Celtic Frost Monotheist | 4.0 |
| Celtic Frost To Mega Therion | 4.5 |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky | 4.5 |
| Darkthrone Panzerfaust | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone Circle the Wagons | 3.0 |
| Darkthrone Eternal Hails | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Old Star | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance | 4.5 |
| Darkthrone Arctic Thunder | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone Soulside Journey | 4.0 |
| Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation | 4.0 |
| Becoming The Archetype The Physics of Fire | 3.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost | 4.0 |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.0 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 5.0 |
| Converge The Dusk in Us | 4.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.5 |
| Converge No Heroes | 3.0 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 4.5 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 3.5 |
| Zao The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here | 4.5 |
| Genius Jesuscore crammed full of hooks. Every time I feel this doesn't deserve such a high rating, I fall in love with it again. |
| Zao The Well-Intentioned Virus | 4.0 |
| Zao Awake? | 3.0 |
| Zao The Funeral of God | 4.0 |
| Zao Parade of Chaos | 4.0 |
| Zao The Splinter Shards the Birth of Separation | 3.0 |
| Zao (Self-Titled) | 3.0 |
| Zao Liberate Te Ex Inferis | 4.0 |
| Zao Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest | 4.5 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children As The Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes | 3.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet | 2.5 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children The Light of September | 3.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Eternal | 2.5 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children The Long Goodbye | 2.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love | 3.5 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Only The Ocean Knows | 3.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Everything | 3.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Lost | 3.5 |
| Seputus Man Does Not Give | 3.0 |
| Seputus Phantom Indigo | 4.0 |
| This is miles ahead of the debut, kept the creepy crusty style but with stronger songwriting, and the production is SO much less skeletal which helps a ton. |
| Flotsam and Jetsam Blood in the Water | 4.0 |
| Impaled Nazarene Eight Headed Serpent | 3.5 |
| CZARFACE and MF DOOM Super What? | 4.0 |
| Fucked Up Year of the Horse | 3.5 |
| Part Decemberists-level rock opera complete with folk interludes, back out through thrash riffs, and finally into something resembling the post-hardcore FU is known for being. Somehow it all gels remarkably well. |
| Nadja Queller | 3.5 |
| Nadja The Stone Is Not Hit By The Sun, Nor Carved With A | 3.5 |
| Nadja Sonnborner | 3.5 |
| Nadja Under The Jaguar Sun | 3.0 |
| Nadja Sky Burial | 3.5 |
| Nadja Desire in Uneasiness | 4.0 |
| Nadja Thaumogenesis | 5.0 |
| Nadja Radiance of Shadows | 4.5 |
| Nadja Truth Becomes Death | 3.5 |
| Nadja Skin Turns To Glass | 4.0 |
| Nadja Touched | 4.5 |
| Insane (SWE) Victims | 4.0 |
| Grave Miasma Abyss of Wrathful Deities | 4.0 |
| Panopticon On the Subject of Mortality | 3.5 |
| Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness | 3.5 |
| Panopticon Panopticon | 4.5 |
| Panopticon Social Disservices | 3.5 |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal | 4.0 |
| Panopticon Roads to the North | 4.0 |
| Evil (JPN) Possessed by Evil | 3.5 |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light | 4.0 |
| I appreciate the idea of having a black metal ?side? and an acoustic folk ?side? for a record, but it?s clear that Panopticon flourishes most when Lunn focuses on songcraft and not which of his influences is at the forefront. |
| Grey Aura Zwart vierkant | 3.5 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music III | 4.5 |
| Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun | 5.0 |
| ISIS Celestial | 3.0 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 4.0 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.5 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.5 |
| Neurosis Souls at Zero | 5.0 |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood | 4.5 |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 3.0 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.5 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 4.5 |
| First metal anything I ever heard was "Pulse of the Maggots", so fuck you, this is staying a 4.5. |
| Slipknot Iowa | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 4.0 |
| Great record, I still enjoy Slipknot. Eyeless, (sic), and Wait and Bleed ftw. |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 2.5 |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter | 3.0 |
| Tyler, the Creator IGOR | 4.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Cherry Bomb | 3.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Wolf | 3.0 |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin | 3.5 |
| Gojira Fortitude | 3.0 |
| Death Grips Exmilitary | 4.0 |
IM GONNA TAKE IT AROUND FOR A BIT AND I DONT CARE IF YOU GIVE A SHIT... PUUUNK!!!...
BIIIIIYAAAATCHHH!!!!! |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 4.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God | 4.5 |
| Occultum Apokatastasis | 4.0 |
| Altarage Succumb | 4.0 |
| Coevality Multiple Personalities | 4.5 |
| The Armed Ultrapop | 3.5 |
| Big|Brave Vital | 4.0 |
| Tribulation Where the Gloom Becomes Sound | 3.0 |
| Frozen Soul Crypt Of Ice | 2.5 |
| Brand of Sacrifice Lifeblood | 4.0 |
| I have no idea how to rate this, because on one hand completely obnoxious deathcore, but on the other hand ALSO completely deliciously obnoxious deathcore |
| Kauan Ice Fleet | 3.5 |
| Spectral Lore Ετερόφωτος | 4.0 |
| lol y'all had me concerned, that ambient track isn't NEARLY as offensive as the slow fade ins/outs |
| Conway the Machine La Maquina | 3.5 |
This just barely misses a 4.0, but it's still some of Conway's best material
And that Luda verse was actually some heat |
| Cannibal Corpse Violence Unimagined | 4.0 |
| Spectral Wound A Diabolic Thirst | 4.0 |
| Bongzilla Weedsconsin | 4.5 |
| Arabrot Norwegian Gothic | 4.5 |
| Krallice Demonic Wealth | 3.5 |
| Cryptosis Bionic Swarm | 4.0 |
| Genesis Owusu Smiling with No Teeth | 4.0 |
| Zao The Crimson Corridor | 4.5 |
| Have not had an album I already loved grow on me this much in a long time. So much so I felt I needed to up my rating. |
| Melvins Working with God | 4.0 |
| Genghis Tron Dream Weapon | 3.5 |
| Blanck Mass In Ferneaux | 3.0 |
| Sanguisugabogg Tortured Whole | 3.5 |
| Abominable Putridity Parasitic Metamorphosis Manifestation | 3.5 |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! | 4.5 |
| With the world social and political climate as it is, you figure GY!BE is gonna come out of their Montreal bunker for an album. The title is absolutely silly, but not surprising at all. What IS surprising is that this is easily their best since Allelujah, possibly better than that even. |
| Xiu Xiu OH NO | 4.5 |
| Ok, not the only one who got the preorder early then haharThis is so utterly fantastic. You?d expect a full album of duets to falter by diminishing either the band or the collaborators, but this is so brilliantly composed on the part of all parties involved. Equally a wonderful Xiu Xiu record and a showcase of them playing beautifully with the influence of others. |
| Pupil Slicer Mirrors | 4.0 |
| I first found this labeled as experimental death metal which is a lol, but it definitely is a fantastic amalgam of odds and ends from hardcore/grind/metal. Probably most comparable to Converge if you want to shoehorn it, but generally pretty singular as well. |
| Eyehategod A History Of Nomadic Behavior | 3.5 |
Surprised to be the first one here. I was hesitant for about two minutes, then BOOM the grooves caught me and I
found this thoroughly enjoyable. Mike sounds fantastic and venomous, and yeah just a great record, especially
being after 7 years. |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Carnage | 4.0 |
| This is MILES better than Ghosteen. Honestly we all know we?re probably not getting the punk-ish Blixa Cave anymore, and as far as his work with Warren this is a fantastic entry. |
| Swampbeast Seven Evils Spawned of Seven Heads | 3.5 |
| Gravesend Methods Of Human Disposal | 3.0 |
| Svrm Розпад | 3.5 |
| Humanity's Last Breath Välde | 3.5 |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) Sympathetic Magic | 4.0 |
| The Body I’ve Seen All I Need To See | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna The Raging River | 3.0 |
| Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning | 4.0 |
| Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse | 4.5 |
| Dimphonic Strangeplayer | 3.5 |
| Better than the new Tool, not as good as Ohms. Flicks both switches though |
| Boris NO | 4.0 |
| Killer Be Killed Reluctant Hero | 4.0 |
| This rating may change but I?m giving it the benefit of the doubt because it?s fun as heck |
| Blood From The Soul DSM-5 | 4.0 |
| Undeath Lesions of a Different Kind | 4.0 |
| At the very least, 2020 has been a damn decent year for music. As expected, this rips. |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full | 4.5 |
| For such a gnarled, powerhouse sound they have on their own, Thou are ridiculously talented at tempering themselves to the different styles of their collaborators. Emma?s no slouch, and her presence is heavy throughout the sadly short record. Her desert-drone and haunting alto mixed with Thou?s murk shaved to a fine edge...potential AOTY, shoe-in for the top of the list. |
| SUMAC May You Be Held | 4.0 |
| Of course this is divisive which is why I dgaf about the sub-4 average but I shall definitely do my part to boost it. More power to them on bringing new meaning to deconstructed. The record with Keiji Haino was a little too much but this hits a delicious sweet spot. |
| Obsidian Kingdom A Year With No Summer | 2.0 |
| Obsidian Kingdom Mantiis | 4.5 |
| Greg Puciato Child Soldier: Creator of God | 3.5 |
| ?There?s some depth in here somewhere.?rYeah that pretty much nails my opinion. |
| clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned | 4.0 |
| I would be amazed if this wasn?t mostly taken from the cutting room floor of TEAATB, but it?s so easy to ignore that when this is so damn solid and beautifully arranged. Don?t call it a B-sides. |
| ASAP Ferg Floor Seats II | 4.0 |
| WhaaaaaaatrI?ve always liked Ferg?s voice and flow, but this has NO RIGHT going as hard as it does. No filler tracks, a killer feature list, and I keep coming back to bump this again and again. rFire. |
| Deftones Ohms | 4.0 |
| Ah, another Sputnik study in ?What?s worse?: Worshipping a band no matter their quality of output, or being a whiny dick just because a band has that kind of clout?? |
| Prurient Casablanca Flamethrower | 4.0 |
| Best he?s done since Frozen Niagara Falls, definitely better than the average rating it?s sitting at as of this typing. |
| Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism | 4.5 |
| Ok we are all admitting this squeaked then? Good.rThis slams. The riffs and songwriting are consistently delicious and just as visceral as a younger ND. There?s definitely even some experimentation with slower and more programmatic sounds which I think they pull off FANTASTICALLY well, and I was surprised. rHell of an album, shoe-in for the AOTY list |
| Gulch Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress | 4.0 |
| Shezmu À Travers Les Lambeaux | 4.0 |
| Vredehammer Viperous | 3.5 |
| Defeated Sanity The Sanguinary Impetus | 3.5 |
| Slift Ummon | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 | 4.0 |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face | 4.0 |
| Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine | 4.5 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi | 4.5 |
| ...and Oceans Cosmic World Mother | 4.0 |
| Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters | 4.5 |
| Afterbirth Four Dimensional Flesh | 4.0 |
| Vader Solitude in Madness | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous | 3.5 |
| Xenobiotic Mordrake | 2.5 |
| Umbra Vitae Shadow of Life | 3.0 |
| Putrid Pile Revel In Lunacy | 3.5 |
| NEW PUTRID PILE EVERYONE, IT?S ALL GONNA BE OKAYrDID I SAY OKAY I MEANT GROSS |
| Afsky Ofte Jeg Drømmer Mig Død | 4.0 |
| Afsky-sky muddafugga, Afsky-sky gaht damn (gotdamn) |
| Macabre Demise Awakening | 4.0 |
| Gotta love death metal that?s crushing and satisfyingly old-school gory while still having a strong thread of neck-snapping groove.rFans of death metal are sleeping on this for 2020 |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say | 3.5 |
| Have never cared for Trivium, not even back in my newbie days when they were first dropping albums. For some reason I checked this out and keep coming back to it though... |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still | 5.0 |
| This wasn?t overhyped or overinflated. After multiple listens SIDABS just became more obviously the biggest leap forward Ulcerate have made since Everything Is Fire. They?ve a cemented a new morphology of death metal with a sound and style that is pretty inarguably theirs, and this record is them finally perfecting it.rHard to find anything to complain about with this. |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 5.0 |
| Leeched To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse | 4.5 |
| Neck of the Woods The Annex of Ire | 4.0 |
| Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion | 4.0 |
| Mamaleek Come and See | 4.5 |
| Fluisteraars Bloem | 4.0 |
| Old Man Gloom Seminar IX: Darkness of Being | 4.5 |
| Geezus can?t wait for the prequel if this slams this hard, one time fake-out album is cool but twice is god-tier insanity |
| Sweven (SWE) The Eternal Resonance | 3.5 |
| Titaan Itima | 4.0 |
Yeah yeah, I know its not released yet but its been streaming in full on the official Bandcamp for well over a week
now. rSuper solid. Unlike Kadingir and over a dozen tracks, now just one big mammoth. Definitely a lot more
clarity and variety throughout, and surprisingly a lot easier to get through in one sitting than Kadingir. Thick,
ominous, occultist black metal and promise of more |
| Neaera Neaera | 3.5 |
| Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions | 3.5 |
| Kvelertak Splid | 3.0 |
| Blaze of Perdition The Harrowing of Hearts | 4.0 |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear | 4.0 |
| Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything | 3.5 |
| Thy Catafalque Naiv | 4.5 |
| Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked | 4.0 |
| Nero di Marte Immoto | 3.5 |
| Dragged Into Sunlight Terminal Aggressor II | 3.5 |
| Ihsahn Telemark | 3.0 |
| Midnight Rebirth by Blasphemy | 3.5 |
| Sightless Pit Grave of a Dog | 4.0 |
| Forest of Tygers I Will Die of Violence | 4.0 |
| Despised Icon Purgatory | 3.5 |
| I enjoy this a lot more as I listen to tracks a few times, but it still has so much room to be better. Feels a little empty at points, but who knows what I?ll think on listen #3 |
| Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark | 3.5 |
| Liturgy H.A.Q.Q. | 4.5 |
| Well that came out of nowhere and rocketed up my AOTY list real quick. |
| Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue | 4.0 |
| Mayhem Daemon | 4.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts | 3.5 |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct | 4.0 |
| Wilderun Veil of Imagination | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen | 4.0 |
| Nile Vile Nilotic Rites | 3.5 |
| Bayside Interrobang | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean All Hail | 4.0 |
| Misthyrming Algleymi | 4.0 |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood | 4.5 |
| PUP Morbid Stuff | 4.0 |
| Devourment Obscene Majesty | 3.5 |
| Borknagar True North | 4.0 |
| Leprous Pitfalls | 4.0 |
| Have a Nice Life Sea of Worry | 3.5 |
| He Is Legend White Bat | 4.0 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 3.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Miracle Pill | 3.5 |
| Certainly speckled with poorly-executed attempts at something they?re...just not, but overall I?m baffled by how strong the majority of these songs are. I listened to this on a whim and I keep finding myself enjoying several tracks over and over. |
| Blanck Mass Animated Violence Mild | 4.0 |
| Screw you PO)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))t$y |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind | 4.0 |
| By far the most solid album they?ve put out since Vol. 3, and if not for my overwhelming nostalgia for that record I?d say this is superior. Not a single sloppy track, plenty of ?back to basics? Knot with Corey doing some pseudo-raps actually along the lines of his self-titled flows. Whichever DJ stepped up to the plate killed this record, I?ve been saying they learned how to use Sid again but it could be Clown or Tortilla Face...? Even the ?ballads? have developed an eerie razor?s edge that finally sets them apart from Stone Sour in a distinct and appealing manner. rI?m a born Iowan so am I biased as hell? Yes. rDon?t give a fuck. Don?t ever judge me. |
| The Offering Home | 4.5 |
| Was NOT expecting this to riff and smash the whole way through, and definitely not as hard as this goes. Catchy and heavy in all the right places, equal bits tech-death and ?progressive? metal and the vocalist(s) are genuinely talented and display it on a wide yet cohesive spectrum. rJust an incredibly awesome record on the whole, actual rating like a 4.2-3 |
| Pathology Reborn to Kill | 4.0 |
| Lol I?ve always enjoyed Pathology as a gem in a dungheap of slam, but this actually genuinely rips |
| Pig Destroyer Head Cage | 3.5 |
| CHVRCHES Love Is Dead | 3.0 |
| If they had released this first, then followed up with ?Every Open Eye? there wouldn?t be anywhere near this level of album-trashing. Even ?Forever? isn?t terrible, it?s catchy and listenable which is sort of all you expect from dreamy synth-pop. The songwriting and electronics aren?t as mature or interesting here, fewer layers and simpler leads. It?s fine, it just seems regressive enough it probably speaks ill for future releases.rUpdate: ?Never Say Die? is trash I could make in my living room |
| Machismo Severe Disconnect | 4.5 |
| I traded Sutcliffe Jugend for this and I?m not even sorryrI also bought a replacement copy for dirt cheap so it?s kinda cheatingrThis is one of the best power electronics releases I?ve ever heard why do the nasty die fasty |
| Tiny Moving Parts Swell | 3.5 |
| A savvier Silverstein with occasional finger-tapping _(?)_/ |
| SWARRRM こわれはじめる | 4.5 |
| Swarrrm?s always been pretty raucous and fun but this has no business being this pumpin? good, ?metal? AOTY so far (...until I finish the new Panopticon) |
| They Might Be Giants Flood | 5.0 |
| Jamie Lenman Devolver | 3.0 |
| The Menzingers After the Party | 4.5 |
| hoping this boosts the average over Brand New'srAOTY |
| Desolate Shrine Deliverance from the Godless Void | 4.0 |
| I know it's just the Greek name for those weird triplets that share an eye in the Disney Hercules movie, but I can NOT stop reading "The Graeae" as "The Grease" and it really ruins this whole album for me |
| Genocide Organ Remember | 4.0 |
| I'm wearing Adam Thomas' old band's shirt and I'm 4'ing GO while playing a l337 noisehead. I have never been banned and to date no one has physically fought me |
| Merzbow Dust of Dreams | 4.5 |
| Genius-grade sound manipulation. Japanoise is best |
| Incapacitants Default Standard | 4.0 |
| One of the better Incapacitants releases, (the lower end the better with these two IMO) marking it high among the annals of Japanoise itself. Severely underrated here, apparently. |
| Incapacitants As Loud as Possible | 5.0 |
| Demon Hunter Outlive | 3.0 |
| Demon Hunter make their 3rd consecutive album of weak singles and bland ballads but still manage to rip some entertaining metalcore riffs, probably courtesy of the still-fresh guitarist trade-ins from a few years back |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition | 4.5 |
| DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMNNNN DANIEL.rlike really doe like really doe |
| Kayo Dot Plastic House on Base of Sky | 3.5 |
| This is, I think, a more cohesive and confident version of the Kayo we got on Coffins. rAlso, has anybody else noticed the acronym is P.H.O.B.O.S.? |
| Breach It's Me God | 5.0 |
| hoooooooooOOOOOLY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCXXKKKkkkkkkkkk!!! |
| Nadja Sv | 3.0 |
| Actual rating probably a 3.8, good to see a return to form. Aidan's always at his best building one 45-minute-long monolith and Leah needs to just be noisy as fvk. Comparable to "Thaumogenesis," but a little less organic and more...industrial? |
| Equilibrium Erdentempel | 4.5 |
| Equilibrium have not a shred of kvlt cred and their music is soaked in folk metal cliches like hurdy-gurdy and flute solos, but when it comes to consistently PRISTINE songwriting, hooks and melodies galore, all while being a ton of fun and quite frankly I could give a hoot less if they take themselves seriously, this album is a masterwork and "Uns'rer Floten Klang" is just...happiness in a tune. |
| Timber Timbre Hot Dreams | 4.0 |
| Wow, this impressed much more than expected. Many stylistic throwbacks to pre-60's music, richly textured and satisfyingly gothic without eye shadow or tears. |
| Swans Children of God | 4.5 |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky | 3.5 |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind | 4.0 |
| Swans The Great Annihilator | 4.5 |
| Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties We Don't Have Each Other | 4.0 |
| Musk Ox Woodfall | 4.5 |
| Steel Train Steel Train | 4.0 |
| Swans To Be Kind | 5.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 4.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito | 2.5 |
| Frigoris Wind | 4.5 |
| Eluvium Nightmare Ending | 4.0 |
| The Drones I See Seaweed | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.0 |
| Boris Präparat | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve | 3.5 |
| The National High Violet | 5.0 |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 4.5 |
| Can this just leak so I can listen to it and be super happy? |
| James Blake Overgrown | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.0 |
| Rorcal Vilagvege | 4.5 |
| Vit The Dry Season | 4.0 |
| Tegan and Sara Heartthrob | 3.5 |
| Air Review Low Wishes | 4.0 |
| Corrupted Garten Der Unbewusstheit | 5.0 |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 5.0 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 5.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 5.0 |
| Panopticon Collapse | 5.0 |
| Eluvium Copia | 4.0 |
| The soundtrack to falling in love and dancing away in eternal slow circles. |
| Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless | 5.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 5.0 |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm | 5.0 |
| Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats | 3.0 |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch | 4.0 |
| You Slut! Medium Bastard | 3.5 |
| Wintersun Time I | 4.5 |
| White Lung Sorry | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 5.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 4.0 |
| Swans The Seer | 5.0 |
| Sweet Jesus. |
| Panopticon Kentucky | 3.0 |
| Om Advaitic Songs | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay | 4.0 |
| Mono For My Parents | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 4.0 |
| The Killers Battle Born | 3.5 |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock | 4.0 |
| drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drudkh |
| Hop Along Get Disowned | 4.5 |
| Grinning Death's Head Golden Dawn | 4.5 |
| fuzZZzzZZDktdssdhhhhsrjrreadhhvSHRRRRIIIIRJJGAAAKKAAHHGfrrrbrrrrzzz |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... | 4.5 |
| Dragged Into Sunlight WidowMaker | 2.5 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.5 |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 3.0 |
| Bat For Lashes The Haunted Man | 4.0 |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages | 3.5 |
| Stop sounding off early you're getting my hopes up that it leaked. |
| Andrew Bird Break It Yourself | 4.5 |
| Amenra Mass V | 4.0 |
