| Demersal Demersal | 3.5 |
| Downcross White Tower | 3.5 |
| Markgraf Hohenbaden | 3.5 |
| Funeral Storm Chthonic Invocations | 3.5 |
| Dodsferd Wrath | 3.5 |
| Kamasi Washington Fearless Movement | 3.5 |
| Willow Smith Empathogen | 4.0 |
| Effluence Necrobiology | 3.5 |
| Doom Beach Burden | 3.0 |
| Black Pyramid The Paths of Time Are Vast | 3.5 |
| Kavus Torabi The Banishing | 3.5 |
| My Silent Wake Lost in Memories, Lost in Grief | 3.5 |
| Ba'al Soft Eyes | 3.5 |
| Hasslig Apex Predator | 3.5 |
| Aquilus Bellum II | 3.5 |
| Naxen Descending Into A Deeper Darkness | 3.5 |
| Horn Daudswiärk | 3.5 |
| Agriculture Living is Easy | 3.5 |
| Mons Veneris Ascent Into Draconian Abyss | 3.5 |
| Darkflight Entropy | 3.5 |
| Pentagram (CL) Eternal Life of Madness | 3.5 |
| Disbelief Killing Karma | 3.5 |
| Black Tusk The Way Forward | 3.5 |
| Maruja Connla's Well | 3.5 |
| Morgul Blade Heavy Metal Wraiths | 3.5 |
| Draugnim Verum Malum | 3.5 |
| Malevich Trembling and Dowsed | 3.0 |
| Baron (FIN) Beneath the Blazing Abyss | 3.5 |
| Srefa Solstice | 4.0 |
| Lust Hag Lust Hag | 4.0 |
| Lo-fi with plenty of atmosphere a damn good bass tone. Awesome job. |
| Darkthrone It Beckons Us All | 3.5 |
| Oberst Toil | 3.5 |
| Full of Hell Coagulated Bliss | 3.5 |
| OU II: Frailty | 3.5 |
| Inter Arma New Heaven | 4.0 |
| Glassing From the Other Side of the Mirror | 4.0 |
| Ard Untouched By Fire | 4.0 |
| Happy to say this band's grown on me quite a lot, especially having seen them live last year. This album feels more fluid and cohesive than the debut effort, but the basics of the band's sound remains intact. |
| Night Shall Drape Us Lunatic Choir | 3.5 |
| Amiensus Reclamation: Part 1 | 4.5 |
| This was one tasty album. So much going in but it's a thrilling listen from start to finish. |
| Vesperian Sorrow Awaken the Greylight | 3.0 |
| Walg IV | 3.5 |
| Fractal Gates One with Dawn | 3.5 |
| Intig Vilsen | 3.0 |
| High on Fire Cometh the Storm | 3.5 |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy Coup de Grâce | 3.5 |
| Couch Slut You Could Do It Tonight | 3.5 |
| Vanden Plas The Empyrean Equation of the Long Lost Things | 3.5 |
| Maere ...And The Universe Keeps Silent | 3.5 |
| Hekseblad Kaer Morhen | 4.0 |
| Haust Negative Music | 3.0 |
| Korpituli Pohjola | 3.0 |
| Srd Vragvmesiton | 3.5 |
| Bythos Chthonic Gates Unveiled | 3.5 |
| Homecoming Those We Knew | 3.5 |
| Peklo Supostat | 3.5 |
| Blaze of Perdition Upharsin | 3.5 |
| Dvne Voidkind | 3.5 |
| Bongripper Empty | 3.5 |
| Atrae Bilis Aumicide | 3.5 |
| Kawir Kydoimos | 3.5 |
| Antichrist Siege Machine Vengeance of Eternal Fire | 3.5 |
| Selbst Despondency Chord Progressions | 3.5 |
| My Dying Bride A Mortal Binding | 3.5 |
| Folterkammer (USA) Weibermacht | 3.5 |
| In Vain (NO) Solemn | 4.0 |
| Big|Brave A Chaos of Flowers | 3.5 |
| Metz Up On Gravity Hill | 3.5 |
| Heresiarch Edifice | 3.5 |
| Benighted Ekbom | 3.5 |
| Tyr Battle Ballads | 3.5 |
| Replicant Infinite Mortality | 4.0 |
| Hawkwind Stories from Time and Space | 3.0 |
| Lungtoucher Sin Eater | 2.5 |
| Eunuchs Harbour Century | 3.5 |
| Funeral Leech The Illusion of Time | 3.5 |
| Extra Life The Sacred Vowel | 3.5 |
| Aristarchos Martyr of Star and Fire | 3.5 |
| Oddarrang Oddarrang | 3.5 |
| Ildganger For Hver Tanke Mister Sjælen Atter Farve | 3.5 |
| Gravkvade Prolog | 3.5 |
| Vnder A Crvmbling Moon II: Aging & Formless | 3.0 |
| Diabolic Oath Oracular Hexations | 3.5 |
| Bilwis Hameln | 3.5 |
| Horndal Head Hammer Man | 3.5 |
| Iron Monkey Spleen & Goad | 3.5 |
| Belore Eastern Tales | 3.5 |
| Cistvaen At Light's Demise | 4.0 |
| Attic Return Of The Witchfinder | 3.5 |
| Ingested The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams | 3.5 |
| Kvadrat The Horrible Dissonance of Oblivion | 3.5 |
| Coffins Sinister Oath | 3.5 |
| Verwoed The Mother | 3.5 |
| Frail Body Artificial Bouquet | 4.0 |
| Verberis The Apophatic Wilderness | 3.5 |
| Offernat Where Nothing Grows | 3.5 |
| Above Aurora Myriad Woes | 3.5 |
| Cantique Lepreux Le Bannissement | 3.5 |
| Vorga Beyond the Palest Star | 3.5 |
| Leaving Liminal | 3.0 |
| Zombi Direct Inject | 4.0 |
| Wormwitch/Sadistic Ritual Split | 3.5 |
| Ill Considered Precipice | 3.5 |
| Livgone Almost There | 3.5 |
| Carpet Collision | 3.5 |
| Habitants Alma | 3.5 |
| Deception (NO) Daenacteh | 3.5 |
| Altar of Betelgeuze Echoes | 3.0 |
| Aberration Refracture | 4.0 |
| Severoth By the Way of Light | 3.5 |
| Civerous Maze Envy | 3.5 |
| Hamferd Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk | 3.5 |
| Apparition Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil State | 3.5 |
| Sylvaine Eg Er Framand | 3.5 |
| Mastiff Deprecipice | 4.0 |
| Dodsrit Nocturnal Will | 4.0 |
| In the Woods... Diversum | 3.5 |
| In the Woods... Strange in Stereo | 4.5 |
| In the Woods... Omnio | 4.0 |
| In the Woods... Heart of the Ages | 3.5 |
| Acathexis Immerse | 4.0 |
| Einvigi Monokroma | 3.5 |
| Iterum Nata From the Infinite Light | 3.0 |
| Whom Gods Destroy Insanium | 3.5 |
| Amirtha Kidambi / Elder Ones New Monuments | 3.5 |
| Stress Angel Punished by Nemesis | 3.5 |
| Armagh Exclamation Po!nt | 4.0 |
| Don't know what compels me to this album so much, it just feels warm and accessible enough to keep me wanting to replay. Musicianship is really seamless and even the vocals, as quiet as they are, somehow add to the experience. IT's an album that shouldn't excite me as much as it does. |
| Grieving (UK) Everything Goes Right, All At Once | 3.5 |
| Corpus Diavolis Elixiria Ekstasis | 3.5 |
| O ZORN! Vermillion Haze | 3.5 |
| Aborted Vault of Horrors | 3.5 |
| Necrophobic In the Twilight Grey | 3.5 |
| Nick Johnston Child of Bliss | 3.5 |
| Cell Press Cages | 3.5 |
| Slimelord Chytridiomycosis Relinquished | 3.5 |
| Kollapse Ar | 3.0 |
| Isenordal Requiem for Eiréné | 3.5 |
| Merrimack Of Grace and Gravity | 3.5 |
| The Bardic Depths What We Really Like in Stories | 3.5 |
| Lysistrata Veil | 3.0 |
| Fathomless Ritual Hymns for the Lesser Gods | 4.0 |
| Lunar Spells Sacraments of Necromantical Empires | 3.5 |
| Devastator (UK) Conjurers of Cruelty | 3.5 |
| Halphas Sermons Of The Black Flames | 3.5 |
| Lilla Veneda Lilla Veneda | 3.5 |
| Psychic Lemon The Unheimlich Kingdom | 3.5 |
| Fragment Soul Galois Paradox | 3.5 |
| The Body and Dis Fig Orchards of a Futile Heaven | 4.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Moon Healer | 3.5 |
| Blaze Bayley Circle of Stone | 3.5 |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of the Last Human Being | 3.5 |
| Toadliquor Back In The Hole | 3.5 |
| Genital Shame Chronic Illness Wish | 4.0 |
| Wasn't sure what to make of the name of this project but I was pleasantly surprised to hear the type of experimental black metal that made Victory Over the sun's latest so damn good. |
| Counting Hours The Wishing Tomb | 3.5 |
| Keres (ITA) Homo Homini Lupus | 3.5 |
| Hrizg Damnatio Memoriae | 3.5 |
| Mortem Agmen The Path to the Abyss of Evil | 3.0 |
| Vircolac Veneration | 4.0 |
| Borknagar Fall | 4.0 |
| Steve Hackett The Circus and the Nightwhale | 3.5 |
| Pestilength Solar Clorex | 3.0 |
| Sun of Nothing Maze | 3.5 |
| Prize Horse Under Sound | 3.0 |
| And. Almost Nothing | 3.0 |
| Porcelain Porcelain | 3.0 |
| Griffon De Republica | 3.5 |
| Far Beyond The End of My Road | 3.5 |
| Darkspace Dark Space -II | 3.5 |
| Farsot Life Promised Death | 3.5 |
| Eternal Storm A Giant Bound to Fall | 4.0 |
| Once again Transcending Obscurity comes up trumps with a brilliant effort this year. Eternal Storm are an intriguing band considering the line-up links to Persefone, but this stands on its own front with a real promising future. |
| Shades of Deep Water Cold Heart | 2.5 |
| Theophonos Ashes in the Huron River | 3.5 |
| The Telescopes Growing Eyes Becoming String | 3.0 |
| Hulder Verses In Oath | 3.5 |
| Spectral Voice Sparagmos | 3.5 |
| Chapel of Disease Echoes of Light | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She | 4.0 |
| Unaussprechlichen Kulten Häxan Sabaoth | 3.5 |
| Birds in Row and Coilguns You and I in the Gap | 3.5 |
| Vennart Forgiveness and The Grain | 3.5 |
| Hasturian Vigil Unveiling the Brac'thal | 3.5 |
| Vaegtlos Aftryk | 3.5 |
| Den Der Hale Pastoral Light | 3.5 |
| Litosth Cesariana | 3.5 |
| Transit Method The Madness | 3.5 |
| meth. Shame | 4.0 |
| Obsidian Tongue The Stone Heart | 4.0 |
| Hail Conjurer Satanic Phenomenology | 2.5 |
| Albion (UK) Lakesongs of Elbid | 3.0 |
| Caligula's Horse Charcoal Grace | 3.5 |
| Vipassi Lightless | 3.5 |
| Cognizance Phantazein | 3.5 |
| Drowned Procul His | 3.5 |
| Dissimulator (CAN) Lower Form Resistance | 4.0 |
| I appreciate how the album cover reminds me of Tetsuo the iron man, as well as the fact that this music absolutely rips. |
| Eye Flys Eye Flys | 3.0 |
| Guhts Regeneration | 4.0 |
| Kairo After Forever | 3.5 |
| The Pneumatic Transit Forbidden Trinkets | 3.5 |
| Madder Mortem Old Eyes, New Heart | 3.5 |
| Exocrine Legend | 3.5 |
| Knoll As Spoken | 4.0 |
| Kalt Vindur Magna Mater | 3.5 |
| Blood Red Throne Nonagon | 3.5 |
| Prognan Sjene Nad Balkanom | 3.0 |
| Stuporous Asylum's Lament | 3.5 |
| Mary Halvorson Cloudward | 3.5 |
| Lord Dying Clandestine Transcendence | 3.5 |
| Viva Belgrado Cancionero de los Cielos | 3.5 |
| Malist Of Scorched Earth | 4.0 |
| Sovereign Altered Realities | 4.0 |
| Resin Tomb Cerebral Purgatory | 3.5 |
| Vemod The Deepening | 3.5 |
| Magnum Here Comes the Rain | 3.5 |
| Infant Island Obsidian Wreath | 4.0 |
| Escuela Grind Ddeeaatthhmmeettaall | 3.0 |
| Saevus Finis Facilis Descensus Averno | 4.0 |
| Drown In Sulphur Dark Secrets of the Soul | 3.5 |
| Ellesmere (ITA) Stranger Skies | 3.5 |
| Bloody Head Perpetual Eden | 3.0 |
| Sympathy Pain Swan Dive | 3.5 |
| Mourning Dawn The Foam of Despair | 3.5 |
| Alluvial Death Is But A Door | 3.5 |
| Krvna The Rhythmus Of Death Eternal | 3.5 |
| Svdestada Candela | 3.5 |
| Messier 16 iota | 4.0 |
| Messier 16 Death Poems | 4.0 |
| Panopticon The Rime of Memory | 5.0 |
| You know when you can truly feel an album? This is one of those albums. Absolutely glorious stuff. Makes me look forward to seeing Panopticon live again next year all the more. |
| Korgonthurus Jumalhaaska | 3.5 |
| Convocation No Dawn for the Caliginous Night | 3.5 |
| TodoMal A Greater Good | 3.5 |
| Valdrin Throne of the Lunar Soul | 4.0 |
| Crimson Moonlight Abaddon | 3.5 |
| Helga (SWE) Wrapped in Mist | 4.0 |
| Maladie For We Are the Plague | 2.5 |
| Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 3 - A Fullmoon Madness | 4.0 |
| Gnaw Their Tongues The Cessation Of Suffering | 3.5 |
| Cruciamentum Obsidian Refractions | 4.0 |
| Deathcode Society Unlightenment | 3.5 |
| Earthside Let The Truth Speak | 3.5 |
| Elitist (DK) A Mirage of Grandeur | 3.5 |
| Kilter The Suspended Woman | 3.5 |
| Ritual Clearing Penitence | 3.5 |
| Yatsu It Can't Happen Here | 3.5 |
| Psychic Temple A Universe Regards Itself | 3.5 |
| San Leo Aves Raras | 3.5 |
| MMTH Infinite Heights | 3.5 |
| Ceremonial Bloodbath Genesis of Malignant Entropy | 3.5 |
| Dyssebeia Garden of Stillborn Idols | 4.0 |
| Sadus The Shadow Inside | 3.5 |
| Aeternus Philosopher | 3.5 |
| Venus Obscured Until Observed | 3.5 |
| Sunwatchers Music Is Victory Over Time | 3.5 |
| Hinayana Shatter And Fall | 3.5 |
| Horsewhip Consume and Burn | 3.5 |
| Pyrolatrous Inveterate | 3.5 |
| Aglo Build Fear | 3.5 |
| Vastum Inward To Gethsemane | 3.5 |
| Night Crowned Tales | 3.5 |
| Shylmagoghnar Convergence | 4.0 |
| Another band going from strength to strength. A little heavier on the synths here, but doesn't take away from any of the magic that made the first two Shylmagoghnar albums so memorable and cohesive. |
| Mephorash Krystl-Ah | 3.5 |
| Plague Rider Intensities | 3.5 |
| The Ritual Aura Heresiarch | 3.5 |
| Acid Throne Kingdom's Death | 3.5 |
| Ver Apparitions of the Past | 3.5 |
| PoiL Ueda Yoshitsune | 3.5 |
| Gong Unending Ascending | 3.5 |
| They've done better albums, but Gong simply never seem to stop being creative, even 50 odd years after their formation. Sure, Daevid Allen will always be the godfather of this eccentric project, but it's a legacy that continues to glide from star to star. |
| Ch'ahom Knots of Abhorrence | 4.0 |
| Amalekim Avodah Zarah | 3.5 |
| Sea Mosquito Igitur | 3.5 |
| Rosa Faenskap Jeg Blir Til Deg | 3.5 |
| Thragedium Lisboa Depois De Morta | 3.0 |
| Veruta Forked Tongue of Fire | 3.5 |
| Totenmesse Fiktionlust | 3.5 |
| Below A Silent Sky Walls of Light | 3.0 |
| Penitence Onirique Nature Morte | 4.0 |
| Strigoi Bathed in a Black Sun | 3.0 |
| Morne Engraved With Pain | 3.5 |
| Xoth Exogalactic | 3.5 |
| Cirkeln The Primitive Covenant | 3.5 |
| Suffocation Hymns From the Apocrypha | 4.0 |
| Melancholia Book of Ruination | 3.5 |
| Tetragrammacide Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From the Arachneophidian Qur'an | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Songs of the Dusk | 3.5 |
| Warcrab The Howling Silence | 3.5 |
| Jord Tundra | 3.5 |
| Faidra Militant : Penitent : Triumphant | 3.5 |
| The Magus Βυσσοδομώντας | 3.5 |
| Primordial Serpent Enlightenment Through Impurity | 3.5 |
| Crystal Coffin The Curse of Immortality | 3.5 |
| Kintsukuroi About Emotions | 3.5 |
| Iku-Turso Ikuinen Kirous | 3.5 |
| Closure in Moscow Soft Hell | 3.5 |
| Azmari Maelstrom | 3.5 |
| NYOS Waterfall Cave Fantasy, Forever | 3.5 |
| Rile Pessimist | 3.5 |
| Gravesend Gowanus Death Stomp | 4.0 |
| Phantom Winter Her Cold Materials | 3.0 |
| Autopsy Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts | 3.5 |
| Aegrus Invoking The Abysmal Night | 3.5 |
| Malokarpatan Vertumnus Caesar | 3.5 |
| Throat We Must Leave You | 3.5 |
| Ragana Desolation's Flower | 3.5 |
| Theosophy Bleeding Wounds of the First and the Last | 3.5 |
| Nebelkrahe Ephemer | 3.5 |
| Wayfarer American Gothic | 4.0 |
| Sepulchral Curse Abhorrent Dimensions | 3.5 |
| Martyrdoom As Torment Prevails | 3.5 |
| The Callous Daoboys God Smiles Upon the Callous Daoboys | 3.5 |
| Ozric Tentacles Lotus Unfolding | 3.5 |
| Aldaaron Majestic Heights, Melancholic Depth | 3.5 |
| Afterbirth In But Not Of | 3.5 |
| Stomach Parasite | 3.5 |
| Novice (MI) Sorrow & Surrender | 3.0 |
| Head with Wings Without Intervention | 3.5 |
| Dreamwell In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You | 4.0 |
| At no point did I feel relaxed listening to this album.r...But I guess that's the point. |
| Cirith Ungol Dark Parade | 4.0 |
| Vertebra Atlantis A Dialogue with the Eeriest Sublime | 4.0 |
| Baring Teeth The Path Narrows | 4.0 |
| Asagraum Veil of Death, Ruptured | 3.5 |
| Sylvatica Cadaver Synod | 3.5 |
| Diabolic Night Beneath The Crimson Prophecy | 3.0 |
| Black Void Cult ...Even The Stars Have To Die | 3.5 |
| Krieg Ruiner | 3.5 |
| Avenade Our Raging God Unknown to Us | 3.5 |
| A real fresh sound this is. A lot of melodic moments which give way to this powerful albeit raw atmospheric twist which sees each band member giving 100%. The mammoth centrepiece that is "Separations" is an obvious highlight but I think of the album as a more consistent piece which is fluid if not always memorable. |
| Voidescent Dust And Embers | 3.5 |
| Kaunis Kuolematon Mielenvalta | 3.5 |
| Seraphic Entombment Sickness Particles Gleam | 3.5 |
| The Answer Lies in the Black Void Thou Shalt | 3.5 |
| Tausendstern Der Leuchtturm | 3.5 |
| Manbryne Interregnum: O próbie wiary i jarzmie zwątpien | 3.5 |
| Taubra Therizo | 3.5 |
| Aiwass The Falling | 3.0 |
| Sulphur Aeon Seven Crowns and Seven Seals | 3.5 |
| Body Void Atrocity Machine | 3.5 |
| On Thorns I Lay On Thorns I Lay | 3.5 |
| Stortregn Finitude | 3.5 |
| Decembre Noir Your Sunset | My Sunrise | 3.5 |
| Fortid Narkissos | 3.5 |
| The Lion's Daughter Bath House | 3.5 |
| Laster Andermans Mijne | 4.0 |
| Probably their most accessible sounding album, and somehow all the better for it. The melodies and grooves are so memorable here but result in what is mostly a fluent album, one which certainly warrants repeated listens if only to get you dancing time and time again. Probably. |
| Ynkleudherhenavogyon Honan Bleydh II | 3.5 |
| Furia Huta Luna | 3.5 |
| Telesterion Epopteia | 3.5 |
| Teeth Of The Sea Hive | 3.5 |
| Jordsjo Salighet | 3.5 |
| Virta Horros | 3.0 |
| Rymden Valleys and Mountains | 3.5 |
| Worn Mantle Hole | 3.5 |
| Morag Tong Grieve | 3.0 |
| Numb.er Regressions | 2.5 |
| John Ghost Thin Air, Mirror Land | 3.5 |
| Gloomer Embrace the End | 3.0 |
| Suhnopfer Nous sommes d'hier | 3.5 |
| Revenant Marquis All the Pleasures of Heaven | 3.5 |
| Lunar Tombfields An Arrow To The Sun | 3.0 |
| The Negative Bias The Seven Seals of Saligia | 3.5 |
| Auriferous Flame Ardor for Black Mastery | 3.5 |
| Gruzja Koniec Wakacji | 3.0 |
| Salacious Gods Oalevluuk | 3.5 |
| October Tide The Cancer Pledge | 3.5 |
| Notturno Inside | 3.0 |
| Capra Errors | 3.0 |
| Heretoir Nightsphere | 3.5 |
| Svalbard The Weight of the Mask | 4.0 |
| Band is going from strength to strength. Always happy to hear a new Svalbard release and this hasn't disappointed me in the slightest. |
| Elsiane E L S I A N E | 3.5 |
| Crow Black Sky Sidereal Light: Volume One | 3.5 |
| Dark The Suns Raven and the Nightsky | 3.5 |
| Flooding Silhouette Machine | 3.5 |
| Fearing Destroyer | 3.0 |
| Ashbringer We Came Here to Grieve | 3.0 |
| Album could be so much better if those vocals were to improve. A lot of this reminds me of the latest album from We never learned to live, but the obvious black/sludge/post-metal edges make it stand out much more musically. But yeah, vocals are a real inconsistent aspect. |
| Just Before Dawn A War Too Far | 3.5 |
| Den Saakaldte Pesten Som Tar Over | 3.5 |
| Darius Jones Fluxkit Vancouver (It's Suite but Scared) | 3.5 |
| Sacrifire The Art Of Decay | 3.0 |
| Tides of Sulfur Apathy Chasm | 3.5 |
| Besra Transitions | 3.5 |
| Rat King (USA-WA) Psychotic Reality | 3.5 |
| Blencathra II - On These Shores Where Nothing Now Stands | 3.5 |
| Terra Builder Solar Temple | 3.5 |
| Steven Wilson The Harmony Codex | 3.0 |
| Just not feeling this tbh. It sounds as generic as Steven Wilson can get but the songs with Ninet Tayeb do stand out in a good way, plus there's a few moments in the album that bring me back to when I first heard LightBulb Sun. |
| Ruin Lust Dissimulant | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge | 3.5 |
| Primordial How It Ends | 3.5 |
| The Hirsch Effekt Urian | 3.5 |
| Wells Valley Achamoth | 3.5 |
| Dwaal Never Enough | 3.5 |
| Waldgefluster Unter Bronzenen Kronen | 3.5 |
| Moonlight Sorcery Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle | 3.5 |
| Iskandr Spiritus Sylvestris | 3.5 |
| Woe Legacies of Frailty | 3.5 |
| Harm's Way (USA-IL) Common Suffering | 3.5 |
| Caged (USA-PA) From Roving About the Earth | 3.5 |
| Rorcal Silence | 3.5 |
| Disguised Malignance Entering the Gateways | 3.5 |
| Omnivortex Circulate | 3.5 |
| Abadir Ison | 3.5 |
| Kamaal Williams Stings | 3.5 |
| Desecresy Deserted Realms | 3.5 |
| Grails Anches En Maat | 3.5 |
| Subsignal A Poetry Of Rain | 3.5 |
| Bear Ghost Jiminy | 3.5 |
| Mad Honey Satellite Aphrodite | 3.5 |
| Kings Rot At the Gates of Adversarial Darkness | 3.5 |
| Rostro Del Sol Blue Storm | 3.5 |
| Grim Ravine Upon the Darkest Shores | 3.5 |
| Misanthropic War Utter Human Annihilation | 3.5 |
| Ushangvagush Pestmo'qon | 3.5 |
| Anima Hereticae Descended From The Mountains | 3.5 |
| Oros Kau Thanatos | 3.5 |
| Bekor Qilish The Flesh of a New God | 4.0 |
| Acausal Intrusion Panpsychism | 3.5 |
| KEN mode Void | 3.5 |
| Grift Dolt Land | 3.5 |
| Hexvessel Polar Veil | 4.0 |
| Thurnin Útiseta | 3.5 |
| Profanatica Crux Simplex | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Chaos Horrific | 3.5 |
| Baroness Stone | 3.5 |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I | 3.5 |
| Fabricant Drudge To The Thicket | 4.0 |
| Tar Pond Petrol | 3.5 |
| Bolt Gun The Tower | 3.5 |
| Huronian Beyond Frozen Heights | 3.0 |
| Torpor (UK) ABSCISSION | 3.5 |
| Tideless Eye of Water | 3.5 |
| Psygnosis Mercury | 3.5 |
| Deadly Carnage Endless Blue | 3.5 |
| GridLink Coronet Juniper | 3.5 |
| Manii Innerst I Mørket | 3.5 |
| Roots of the Old Oak The Devil and His Wicked Ways | 2.5 |
| Alkaloid Numen | 3.5 |
| Thorn Evergloom | 3.5 |
| Shade Empire Sunholy | 3.5 |
| Cursetheknife There's A Place I Can Rest | 3.0 |
| Finsterforst Jenseits | 3.5 |
| Slomatics Strontium Fields | 3.0 |
| Excarnated Entity Mass Grave Horizon | 3.5 |
| Bushman's Revenge All the Better for Seeing You | 3.0 |
| Sodomisery Mazzaroth | 3.5 |
| Pixie Ninja Hypnagogia | 3.5 |
| Valravn The Awakening | 3.5 |
| Moozoonsii Outward | 3.5 |
| Dantalion Fatum | 3.5 |
| Fossilization Leprous Daylight | 3.5 |
| Sielunvihollinen Helvetinkone | 3.5 |
| Cryptopsy As Gomorrah Burns | 3.5 |
| Terminalist The Crisis as Condition | 3.5 |
| Hiems Stranger in a Wasteland | 3.0 |
| Uada Crepuscule Natura | 3.5 |
| Southern Empire Another World | 4.0 |
| Transcending Rites Trinity and Ecstasy | 4.0 |
| Grave Pilgrim The Bigotry of Purpose | 3.5 |
| Slowdive Everything is Alive | 3.5 |
| Aviations Luminaria | 3.5 |
| Abhorrency Climax of Disgusting Impurities | 3.5 |
| Empire State Bastard Rivers Of Heresy | 3.5 |
| Cultus Sanguine Dust Once Alive | 2.5 |
| Weald and Woe For the Good of the Realm | 3.5 |
| VAK (SWE) The Islands | 3.5 |
| Marduk Memento Mori | 3.5 |
| Demoniac (CHL) Nube Negra | 3.5 |
| Imperial Crystalline Entombment Ancient Glacial Resurgence | 3.5 |
| Outergods A Kingdom Built Upon The Wreckage of Heaven | 3.5 |
| Taake Et hav av avstand | 3.5 |
| Celestial Sanctuary Insatiable Thirst For Torment | 3.5 |
| Endstille DetoNation | 3.5 |
| Nordicwinter This Mournful Dawn | 3.5 |
| Anti-God Hand Blight Year | 3.5 |
| GraveRipper Seasons Dreaming Death | 3.5 |
| Orphalis As The Ashes Settle | 3.5 |
| Bottomless The Banishing | 3.0 |
| Incantation Unholy Deification | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium – Nahab | 4.0 |
| Asphodelus Sculpting From Time | 3.5 |
| Fiddlehead Death is Nothing to Us | 2.5 |
| Tusmorke Hestehoven | 3.0 |
| Lovely Little Girls Effusive Supreme | 3.5 |
| Sanguine Glacialis Maladaptive Daydreaming | 3.5 |
| Invultation Feral Legion | 3.5 |
| Godthrymm Distortions | 3.5 |
| The Circle Of Awakening | 3.5 |
| Horrendous Ontological Mysterium | 3.5 |
| Spirit Adrift Ghost At The Gallows | 3.5 |
| Somniate We Have Proved Death | 3.5 |
| Deha Averses II | 3.5 |
| Runespell Shores of Náströnd | 3.5 |
| Cystic Palace of Shadows | 3.5 |
| Claret Ash Worldtorn: Anemoia | 3.5 |
| Trepidation Festering Unfaltered Hatred | 3.5 |
| Kita Tyhjiö | 3.0 |
| Kataklysm Goliath | 3.0 |
| Cunabula The Weight Of Sleep | 3.5 |
| Urne A Feast On Sorrow | 3.5 |
| Dead and Dripping Blackened Cerebral Rifts | 3.5 |
| I feel that album art. So intense. Just like the music. |
| Distention Nothing Comes From Death | 3.5 |
| Bloodshed Walhalla Glory to the Sacred Land | 3.0 |
| It's ok, but I can't stop thinking of Moonsorrow with extra cheese and annoying nasal vocals. |
| Dead Neanderthals Specters | 3.5 |
| Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Oscillating Forest | 3.5 |
| Temple of Katharsis Macabre Ritual | 3.0 |
| Hallucinate From The Bowels Of The Earth | 3.0 |
| Aprilmist Homesick | 3.5 |
| Tumulation Haunted Funeral Creations | 3.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Closure | 3.5 |
| Dymna Lotva The Land Under The Black Wings: Blood | 3.5 |
| High Pulp Days in the Desert | 3.5 |
| Astralborne Across the Aeons | 3.5 |
| Tongues Formløse Stjerner | 3.5 |
| Wyrgher Panspermic Warlords | 3.5 |
| The Gorge Mechanical Fiction | 3.5 |
| The Fierce and the Dead News from the Invisible World | 3.5 |
| Eave Fervor | 3.5 |
| Machinations of Fate Celestial Prophecies | 3.5 |
| Eyemaster Conjuration of Flesh | 3.5 |
| Bear the Mammoth Purple Haus | 3.0 |
| Pia Fraus Evening Colours | 3.5 |
| Alghol Night Eternal | 3.5 |
| Decoherence Order | 3.5 |
| Fleshvessel Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed | 4.0 |
| Porta Nigra Weltende | 3.0 |
| The Sun's Journey Through The Night Worldless | 3.5 |
| Eternal Rot Moribound | 3.5 |
| Outer Heaven Infinite Psychic Depths | 3.5 |
| The Zenith Passage Datalysium | 4.0 |
| Johnny Booth Moments Elsewhere | 3.5 |
| Ageless Summoning Corrupting the Entempled Plane | 3.5 |
| Gateway Galgendood | 3.5 |
| Disimperium Grand Insurgence Upon Despotic Altars | 3.5 |
| Demons Under the Western Heel | 2.5 |
| Sorcia Lost Season | 3.0 |
| The Holy Family Go Zero | 3.5 |
| Agriculture Agriculture | 3.5 |
| Mizmor Prosaic | 3.5 |
| Rannoch Conflagrations | 4.0 |
| Volus Oathsworn Vengeance | 4.0 |
| Deitus Irreversible | 3.5 |
| Cosmicdust Sadness | 3.5 |
| Temple Of Angels Endless Pursuit | 3.5 |
| The Devil's Trade Vidékek Vannak Idebenn | 4.0 |
| Kinda reminds me of the quieter moments from Foscor's "Les Irreals Visions" but with added depth and a beautiful voice. One of the finer non-metal releases of 2023 for sure. |
| Dream the Electric Sleep American Mystic | 3.5 |
| Cinema Cinema Mjölnir | 3.5 |
| Quiet Man The Starving Lesson | 3.5 |
| Evile The Unknown | 2.5 |
| Almost like they decided "Infected Nations" was their best album and made the riffs as monotonous as they could. A few good songs but the vocals unfortunately make everything stodgy to listen to. It's not the worst they could have come up with but this feels like a band far removed from the one I saw live several months ago. |
| Calligram Position | Momentum | 3.5 |
| Fen Monuments to Absence | 4.0 |
| Will Haven VII | 4.0 |
| Blackbraid Blackbraid II | 3.5 |
| Chepang Swatta | 3.0 |
| Circuit Circuit Body Songs | 3.5 |
| Before The Dawn Stormbringers | 3.5 |
| Phi-Psonics Octava | 3.5 |
| Lucifixion (USA) Trisect Joy of Pierced Hearts | 3.5 |
| The River A Hollow Full of Hope | 3.0 |
| Ofnus Time Held Me Grey And Dying | 3.5 |
| East of the Wall A Neutral Second | 3.0 |
| Vengeful Spectre 殞煞 二 Vengeful Spectre II | 3.5 |
| Avdagata The Faceless One | 3.5 |
| NONE Inevitable | 3.5 |
| Serpent of Old Ensemble Under The Dark Sun | 4.0 |
| Gravefields Tetragrammaton | 3.0 |
| Tsjuder Helvegr | 3.5 |
| Trepas Les Ombres Malades | 3.5 |
| Miserere Luminis Ordalie | 3.5 |
| Subterranean Disposition Individuation | 3.5 |
| Burner It All Returns To Nothing | 3.5 |
| The Anchoret It All Began With Loneliness | 4.0 |
| Black Eucharist Inn of the Vaticide | 3.0 |
| Wooden Veins Imploding Waves | 3.5 |
| Infinity The Untamed Hunger | 3.5 |
| Krigsgrav Fires in the Fall | 3.5 |
| Swans The Beggar | 3.5 |
| Saturnus The Storm Within | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros ÁTTA | 3.5 |
| Motorpsycho Yay! | 3.5 |
| Vile Ritual Caverns of Occultic Hatred | 3.5 |
| Donny Mccaslin I Want More | 4.0 |
| Lanayah I'm Picking Lights in a Field | 4.0 |
| A strange one this. I'm seeing tags for blackgaze and post-hardcore but it's both those things and neither of things at the same time. So much going on in this release and yet there's a real charm to it throughout. |
| Roseneath Shine | 3.5 |
| Heavenward (USA) Pyrophonics | 3.5 |
| Suns of the Tundra The Only Equation | 3.5 |
| The Mosaic Window Plight of Acceptance | 3.5 |
| Helleruin Devils, Death and Dark Arts | 3.5 |
| Varmia Nie Nas Widzę | 4.0 |
| Thy Catafalque Alföld | 4.0 |
| Vulture Industries Ghosts From The Past | 3.5 |
| Duivel Heiligschennis | 3.0 |
| Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase II: Xenotaph | 3.5 |
| Zorya Mystic Lament | 3.0 |
| Stellar Circuits Sight To Sound | 3.5 |
| Claustrum Claustrum | 3.5 |
| Tony Tears Pains | 2.5 |
| Exnun Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death | 3.0 |
| Aodon Portraits | 3.5 |
| Burial Hordes Ruins | 3.5 |
| Godflesh Purge | 3.5 |
| Ekrom Uten Nådigst Formildelse | 3.0 |
| Hellwitch Annihilational Intercention | 3.0 |
| Lanterns on the Lake Versions of Us | 3.5 |
| Unfurl Ascension | 4.0 |
| Kvad So Old | 3.5 |
| This White Mountain Icons of the Melancholy | 3.5 |
| Thantifaxath Hive Mind Narcosis | 4.5 |
| I don't know what this album is exactly, but it's blowing my mind. |
| Minas Morgul Nebelung | 3.5 |
| Moral Collapse Moral Collapse | 3.0 |
| Atlases Between The Day & I | 3.5 |
| Pupil Slicer Blossom | 4.0 |
| Necrofier Burning Shadows in the Southern Night | 3.5 |
| Venusberg Cardinal Atlas Of Dungeons | 3.5 |
| The Foreshadowing Forsaken Songs | 3.5 |
| Stuck Freak Frequency | 3.5 |
| Victory Over The Sun Dance You Monster To My Soft Song! | 4.0 |
| This is the sort of avant-garde black metal I can really get behind. Plenty of twists and turns but still cohesive enough to warrant many, many repeat listens. |
| Seven Impale Summit | 4.0 |
| I'm not going to hide my love for jazz fusion and prog, but this is one juicy album. |
| The Intersphere Wanderer | 3.0 |
| Chain Of Flowers Never Ending Space | 3.5 |
| Garoted Bewitchment Of The Dark Ages | 3.5 |
| Shy, low Babylonica | 3.5 |
| Teitan In Oculus Abyss | 3.0 |
| A Constant Knowledge of Death Dissecting A One-Winged Bird | 3.5 |
| Ultramarine Send and Return | 3.5 |
| Sarvekas Woven Dark Paths | 3.5 |
| Godsticks This Is What A Winner Looks Like | 3.5 |
| Graverape Horrors of Life Eternal | 3.0 |
| Phlebotomized Clouds of Confusion | 4.0 |
| Mesarthim Arrival | 3.5 |
| Mournful Congregation The Exuviae of Gods - Part II | 3.5 |
| Nattverd I Helvetes Forakt | 3.5 |
| Immortal War Against All | 3.0 |
| Kostnateni Úpal | 3.5 |
| Cloak Black Flame Eternal | 3.5 |
| Nattehimmel Mourningstar | 3.5 |
| Drott Troll | 3.5 |
| The End (NOR) Why Do You Mourn? | 3.5 |
| Bend the Future Sounds so Wrong | 3.5 |
| Gumm Slogan Machine | 3.5 |
| Pa Vesh En Martyrs | 4.0 |
| Sporae Autem Yuggoth ...However It Still Moves | 3.5 |
| Yakuza Sutra | 3.5 |
| Chronicle Where Chaos Thrives | 3.5 |
| Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Rejecting Obliteration | 3.5 |
| Vomitheist Nekrofvneral | 3.5 |
| Henget Beyond North Star | 3.5 |
| Botanist VIII: Selenotrope | 3.5 |
| Thulcandra Hail The Abyss | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Holocene | 3.5 |
| Moor Heavy Heart | 3.5 |
| Tardigrade Inferno Arrival of a Train | 3.5 |
| Esben and the Witch Hold Sacred | 3.5 |
| Thanatomass Hades | 3.5 |
| Oreida The Eternal | 3.5 |
| Sacrilegious Impalement IV - Infinite Victor | 3.0 |
| Pronostic Chaotic Upheaval | 3.5 |
| Last Rizla Noise Without Decay | 3.0 |
| Burial Clouds Last Days of a Dying World | 3.0 |
| Moonreich Amer | 3.5 |
| Gonemage Astral Corridors | 3.0 |
| Grave Desecrator Immundissime Spiritus | 3.5 |
| Esoctrilihum Astraal Constellations of the Majickal Zodiac | 4.0 |
| Non Est Deus Legacy | 3.5 |
| Omnerod The Amensal Rise | 4.0 |
| Similar in execution to The Reticent's "The Oubliette" release, but in no way a carbon copy. One of 2023's better prog metal releases so far for sure. |
| Impetuous Ritual Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis | 3.5 |
| Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean Obsession Destruction | 3.5 |
| Cattle Decapitation Terrasite | 4.0 |
| Ocean Districts Phantom Islands | 3.5 |
| Therapy? Hard Cold Fire | 3.5 |
| Heimland Forfedrenes Taarer | 3.5 |
| Concilium (PT) Sky Bvrial | 3.5 |
| Death Goals A Garden of Dead Flowers | 2.5 |
| Nightmarer Deformity Adrift | 3.5 |
| Herod Iconoclast | 3.5 |
| Drama Noir Nightfall Upon the Asylum | 3.0 |
| Zanias Chrysalis | 3.5 |
| Spotlights Alchemy for the Dead | 3.5 |
| Hawkwind The Future Never Waits | 3.5 |
| Beach House Become | 3.0 |
| Belgrado Intra Apogeum | 3.0 |
| Nabihah Iqbal Dreamer | 3.5 |
| Danava Nothing But Nothing | 3.5 |
| JFDR Museum | 3.5 |
| Lunar Chamber Shambhallic Vibrations | 4.0 |
| Wallowing Earth Reaper | 4.0 |
| Helicon God Intentions | 3.5 |
| Aton Five Aton Five | 3.5 |
| Orphans of Dusk Spleen | 3.5 |
| Hotel of the Laughing Tree Faraway Friends | 3.5 |
| Mistral In the Throes of Losing Love | 3.5 |
| Lucifuge Monoliths of Wrath | 3.5 |
| Austere Corrosion of Hearts | 4.0 |
| Fires in the Distance Air Not Meant For Us | 4.0 |
| Runemagick Beyond the Cenotaph of Mankind | 3.5 |
| Cosmo Sheldrake Wild Wet World | 3.5 |
| Scenario. When All is Said and Done | 4.0 |
| Allochiria Commotion | 3.5 |
| Perdition Winds Burning Spiritual Crypts | 3.5 |
| Everything But the Girl Fuse | 3.0 |
| Smoulder Violent Creed of Vengeance | 3.5 |
| Dorthia Cottrell Death Folk Country | 3.5 |
| Pestifer Defeat of the Nemesis | 3.5 |
| Blodtar Det Förtegna Förflutna | 3.5 |
| Moortrieder Towards The Hills Of Triumph | 3.0 |
| Argenthorns The Ravening | 3.5 |
| Mélancolia HissThroughRottenTeeth | 3.5 |
| Sign Language (USA-OH) Madison and Floral | 3.5 |
| Heretic Cult Redeemer Flagellum Universalis | 3.5 |
| Decipher Arcane Paths of Resurrection | 3.5 |
| Dawn of Ouroboros Velvet Incandescence | 4.0 |
| Atavistia Cosmic Warfare | 3.5 |
| Nebulae Come Sweet De Lumiére | 3.5 |
| Welkin (SGP) Emblems of Valour | 3.5 |
| Aetherius Obscuritas A Sors Szürke Pora | 3.0 |
| Black Orchid Empire Tempus Veritas | 3.5 |
| Poison Ruin Harvest | 3.5 |
| AthanaTheos Cross. Deny. Glorify. | 3.0 |
| Pearly Drops A Little Disaster | 3.0 |
| Laveda A Place You Grew Up In | 3.5 |
| Penelope Trappes Heavenly Spheres | 3.5 |
| Moribund Mantras ...Of Fathomless Depths | 3.0 |
| Vale (USA-PA) A Senseless Procession | 3.5 |
| Zeit (DE) Ohnmacht | 3.0 |
| VoidCeremony Threads of Unknowing | 4.0 |
| Mesmur Chthonic | 3.5 |
| Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current | 4.5 |
Dodheimsgard going out on a limb here. Sounds far removed from anything I heard on A Umbra
Omega but with more melody and harmony, especially in the vocal prowess on "Abyss Perihelion
Transition". Like with every other album, it's going to prove divisive (even amongst
experimental black metal fans), but it's truly a well-earned grower.
Edit: Had to push this up to a 4.5. Just had to. |
| Overkill Scorched | 3.5 |
| Out of the Mouth of Graves Shrines to Dagon | 3.5 |
| ISON Stars & Embers | 4.0 |
| FACS Still Life In Decay | 2.5 |
| Amoeba Split Quiet Euphoria | 3.5 |
| Nekus Sepulchral Divination | 3.5 |
| Cicada the Burrower Blight Witch Regalia | 3.5 |
| where mermaids drown Reminisce | 3.5 |
| American Grandma Rare Knives of Light | 3.0 |
| Cursebinder Drifting | 3.5 |
| Ruadh 1296 | 3.5 |
| Bonjour Tristesse Against Leviathan! | 3.5 |
| Ossaert Offerdier | 3.5 |
| Sunrot The Unfailing Rope | 3.5 |
| Lurk Aegis | 3.5 |
| Aisles Beyond Drama | 3.5 |
| M-Opus At the Mercy of Manannán | 3.5 |
| Netherlands Severance | 3.5 |
| Mammal Hands Gift From the Trees | 4.0 |
| Sermon Of Golden Verse | 3.5 |
| Diablation Par Le Feu | 3.5 |
| Neo Inferno 262 Pleonectic | 3.5 |
| Olde Throne In the Land of Ghosts | 3.5 |
| Milanku A l'aube | 3.5 |
| Grieve (FIN) Wolves of the Northern Moon | 3.0 |
| Hellish Form Deathless | 4.0 |
| Le Prochain Hiver Talvi | 3.5 |
| Unpure Prophecies Ablaze | 3.5 |
| Spirit Possession Of the Sign ... | 3.5 |
| Aara Triade III: Nyx | 4.0 |
| Thron Dust | 3.5 |
| Demonstealer The Propaganda Machine | 4.0 |
| Old Forest Sutwyke | 3.0 |
| Blaze of Sorrow Vultus Fati | 3.5 |
| Lamp of Murmuur Saturnian Bloodstorm | 4.0 |
| Sometimes simple is good. And this is very good. very good indeed. |
| Mice on Stilts I am Proud of You | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Death Below | 3.5 |
| Gatekeeper (CAN) From Western Shores | 3.5 |
| Endless, Nameless Living Without | 3.5 |
| Whore of Bethlehem Ritual of Homicide | 3.0 |
| Exploring Birdsong Dancing in the Face of Danger | 4.0 |
| Reminds me of a gentler version of Oceans of Slumber but with increasingly hook-laden pop sensibilities, that don't err on the side of too much cheese. An interesting amalgam of inspirations. |
| Aphotic (ITA) Abyssgazer | 3.5 |
| Spaceships Ruins | 3.5 |
| Cruachan The Living and the Dead | 3.5 |
| Mork Dypet | 3.5 |
| Hellcrash Demonic Assassinatiön | 3.5 |
| Keep of Kalessin Katharsis | 3.5 |
| Dawn Ray'd To Know The Light | 3.5 |
| Hanging Garden The Garden | 3.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Exul | 4.0 |
| Spectral Lore 11 Days | 3.5 |
| Telos Delude | 3.5 |
| Fluisteraars De Kronieken van het Verdwenen Kasteel I: Harslo | 3.5 |
| Invent Animate Heavener | 3.5 |
| RPWL Crime Scene | 3.5 |
| Death And Vanilla Flicker | 3.5 |
| Flyying Colours You Never Know | 3.5 |
| Kjellvandertonbruket Fossils | 3.5 |
| Foretoken Triumphs | 4.0 |
| Skin Tension Celebrant | 3.0 |
| Wilt (DE) Into Nothingness | 3.0 |
| Late Night Venture V: Bones of the Extinct | 3.5 |
| Pressure Points The Island | 3.5 |
| Verminous Serpent The Malign Covenant | 3.5 |
| Nordic Frost Ov Blasphemy and Other Rites | 3.0 |
| Ikarie Arde | 3.5 |
| Downfall of Gaia Silhouettes Of Disgust | 3.5 |
| Night Demon Outsider | 3.5 |
| Kamelot The Awakening | 3.5 |
| Ulfud Of Existential Distortion | 3.5 |
| Contrarian Sage of Shekhinah | 3.5 |
| Suotana Ounas I | 3.5 |
| Entropia (PL) Total | 4.0 |
| Afsky Om Hundrede År | 3.5 |
| Hyperdontia Deranged | 3.5 |
| Gorod The Orb | 3.5 |
| Isole Anesidora | 3.0 |
| Lonnie Holley Oh Me Oh My | 3.5 |
| Story of the Year Tear Me to Pieces | 2.0 |
| Ulrika Spacek Compact Trauma | 3.5 |
| Dispirited Spirits The Redshift Blues | 3.5 |
| Qwalen Syvä Hiljaisuus | 3.5 |
| DIRGE (IN) Dirge | 4.0 |
| Prediction The Unholy Flame | 2.5 |
| Asphagor Pyrogenesis | 3.5 |
| Dissentient Labyrinth | 3.5 |
| Winter's Breath Stories Left Behind | 3.5 |
| Fange Privation | 3.5 |
| Ignominy (CAN) Imminent Collapse | 3.5 |
| Astriferous Pulsations from the Black Orb | 3.5 |
| Minenwerfer Feuerwalze | 4.0 |
| Demon King Vesania | 4.0 |
| Unfelled Pall of Endless Perdition | 3.5 |
| REZN Solace | 3.5 |
| Tribe Of Pazuzu Blasphemous Prophecies | 3.5 |
| DOTGIFFROMGOD Digital Red | 3.5 |
| Viscera (UK) Carcinogenesis | 3.5 |
| Acres Burning Throne | 3.0 |
| Xiu Xiu Ignore Grief | 3.5 |
| Holy hell, this may just be the most unsettling album I've heard so far this year. I love stuff like that. Bonus points for the homemade music videos too, they're a strange yet fitting accompaniment for sure. |
| Tanukichan Gizmo | 3.5 |
| PoiL Ueda PoiL Ueda | 3.5 |
| Radio Supernova Paratiisi | 3.5 |
| Djunah Femina Furens | 3.5 |
| Truth Cult Walk The Wheel | 2.5 |
| Can't Swim Thanks but No Thanks | 3.0 |
| Gnoomes Ax Ox | 3.5 |
| Sea of Shit Self Titled | 3.5 |
| Constant Smiles Kenneth Anger | 3.5 |
| Hands Up Who Wants To Die Nil All | 3.5 |
| A.C.T. Heatwave | 3.0 |
| Kold Intet Mere Er | 3.5 |
| Necropanther Betrayal | 3.5 |
| Carma Ossadas | 3.0 |
| Echushkya Twilight Murmuration | 3.5 |
| At The Altar Of The Horned God Heart of Silence | 2.5 |
| Entheos (USA) Time Will Take Us All | 3.5 |
| Full Of Hell and Primitive Man Suffocating Hallucination | 3.0 |
| Witch Ripper The Flight After The Fall | 3.5 |
| Haken Fauna | 3.5 |
| Ocean Of Grief Pale Existence | 3.5 |
| Enslaved Heimdal | 3.5 |
| Dry Cleaning Swampy | 3.0 |
| Profane Order One Nightmare unto Another | 3.5 |
| Sorry... Innocence.Love.Sadness | 3.5 |
| Aortes Devouring Gloom | 3.5 |
| Oksät Defiaent | 3.5 |
| Ciemra The Tread of Darkness | 3.0 |
| When Hearts Wither This Is Where It Ends | 3.0 |
| Big|Brave nature morte | 3.0 |
| Kauan ATM Revised | 3.5 |
| Omega Infinity The Anticurrent | 3.5 |
| Morwinyon Wastelands | 3.5 |
| Model/Actriz Dogsbody | 3.0 |
| The Church The Hypnogogue | 3.5 |
| Necrovation Storm the Void / Starving Grave | 3.5 |
| Wretched Fate Carnal Heresy | 3.5 |
| Chasms Glimpse of Heaven | 3.5 |
| Anatomy of Habit Black Openings | 3.5 |
| Naut Hunt | 3.5 |
| They Grieve To Which I Bore Witness | 3.5 |
| No Spill Blood Eye of Night | 4.0 |
| Pil and Bue Special Agents | 3.5 |
| Polinski Telex from MIDI City | 3.5 |
| Sleep Terror Railroad to Dystopia | 3.0 |
| upcdownc Duel | 3.5 |
| Wanderer (MN) Indulgence of the Unreal | 3.5 |
| Funeral Winds Stigmata Mali | 3.0 |
| Sarcoptes Prayers to Oblivion | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Anno 1696 | 4.0 |
| Coffinborn Cadaveric Retribution | 3.0 |
| Methchrist Pestilential Warfare of the Black Flame | 3.5 |
| Oerheks Landschappsanachronismen | 3.5 |
| Jakub Zytecki Remind Me | 2.5 |
| Pile All Fiction | 3.0 |
| See You Next Tuesday Distractions | 3.5 |
| Grim (JPN) Therianthropy | 3.5 |
| Siege of Power This Is Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| Polymoon Chrysalis | 4.0 |
| Sarpa Mauta Tala | 4.0 |
| Shrezzers SEX and SAX | 3.5 |
| Lesath There Is A Profound Sense In Which We Are Isolated | 2.5 |
| Enisum Forgotten Mountains | 3.5 |
| Winds of Tragedy Hating Life | 3.5 |
| Ulthar Helionomicon | 4.0 |
| Ulthar Anthronomicon | 4.0 |
| Tithe (USA) Inverse Rapture | 3.5 |
| Hellripper Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags | 3.5 |
| Depravation IV:Letvm | 3.5 |
| Thumos Symposium | 4.0 |
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre The Future Is Your Past | 3.0 |
| Terrestrial Hospice Caviary to the General | 3.5 |
| Flub Dream Worlds | 3.5 |
| Narrow Head Moments of Clarity | 3.5 |
| Klone Meanwhile | 4.0 |
| Frozen Dawn The Decline of the Enlightened Gods | 3.5 |
| Cadaver Shrine Benighted Desecration | 3.5 |
| Deviser Evil Summons Evil | 3.5 |
| Thin (USA-NY) Dusk | 4.0 |
| Maps Counter Melodies | 3.5 |
| Carnosus Visions of Infinihility | 3.5 |
| Wounds of Recollection Warm Glow of the End of Everything | 4.0 |
| Ddent Ex Auditu | 3.5 |
| Nameless Mist Lifeless | 3.5 |
| Iterum Nata Trench of Loneliness | 3.5 |
| Ad Omega Aphelic Ascent | 3.5 |
| Haxanu Totenpass | 3.5 |
| Lotus Of Darkness Towards The Emerald Empire | 3.0 |
| Memoriam Rise to Power | 3.0 |
| WuW L'orchaostre | 3.5 |
| Calderum Lord Cramridor | 3.5 |
| Mithridatum Harrowing | 3.5 |
| Fvnerals Let the Earth Be Silent | 3.5 |
| Zopp Dominion | 4.0 |
| Coffin Nail The Hanged Man | 3.0 |
| Saigon Blue Rain Oko | 3.5 |
| Keep Happy In Here | 3.5 |
| Eyes (DK) Congratulations | 3.5 |
| Palace of Worms Cabal | 4.0 |
| Tentacult Lacerating Pattern | 3.5 |
| A Reason To Travel Concrete Sunrise | 3.0 |
| Remote Viewing Modern Addictions | 3.5 |
| Carathis The Moonstone Temple | 3.5 |
| King Slender Gold Days | 3.5 |
| Act of Impalement Infernal Ordinance | 3.0 |
| Falaise After All This Time | 3.5 |
| Vahrzaw In The Shallows Of A Starlit Lake | 3.5 |
| Sightless Pit Lockstep Bloodwar | 3.5 |
| Oozing Wound We Cater To Cowards | 3.0 |
| Anachronism Meanders | 4.0 |
| Pure Adult II | 3.5 |
| Bruxa Maria Build Yourself A Shrine And Pray | 3.5 |
| Firienholt White Frost and Elder Blood | 3.5 |
| Caravela Escarlate III | 3.5 |
| Love Gang Meanstreak | 3.0 |
| Malleus The Fires of Heaven | 3.5 |
| The Drin Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom | 3.0 |
| Hotel Lux Hands Across the Creek | 3.5 |
| Malice Divine Everlasting Ascendancy | 3.5 |
| Mask of Prospero Hiraeth | 3.5 |
| Le Temps du Loup Leteo | 3.5 |
| Seer of the Void Mantra Monolith | 2.5 |
| Serotonin Syndrome Seed of Mankind | 3.5 |
| Nephilim's Noose Blood Chants of Impiety | 3.5 |
| Uriah Heep Chaos & Colour | 3.5 |
| Bizarrekult Den Tapte Krigen | 3.5 |
| Ashen Horde Antimony | 4.0 |
| ...and Oceans As in Gardens, So in Tombs | 3.5 |
| Astral Moon Into Solar Abyss | 3.5 |
| Conjureth The Parasitic Chambers | 3.5 |
| Idle Ruin The Fell Tyrant | 3.5 |
| Tribunal (CAN) The Weight Of Remembrance | 3.5 |
| Atsuko Chiba Water, It Feels Like It's Growing | 3.5 |
| Jadu Heart Derealised | 3.0 |
| Great Wide Nothing Hymns for Hungry Spirits Vol. II | 3.5 |
| Kostas Panagiotou Tor | 3.5 |
| Deiquisitor Apotheosis | 4.0 |
| Imperium Dekadenz Into Sorrow Evermore | 3.5 |
| Kommandant Titan Hammer | 3.5 |
| Oak Pantheon The Absence | 3.0 |
| Dryad The Abyssal Plain | 3.5 |
| Inherits the Void The Impending Fall Of The Stars | 3.5 |
| Leper Colony Leper Colony | 3.0 |
| Draken Draken | 3.0 |
| The Wise Man's Fear Atlas Ruinica | 3.5 |
| Defy The Curse Horrors Of Human Sacrifice | 3.0 |
| Slog Divination | 3.5 |
| KOLLAPS\E Phantom Centre | 3.5 |
| Hostsol Länge Leve Döden | 4.0 |
| Death Engine Ocean | 3.5 |
| Moonlight Sorcery Nightwind: The Conqueror From The Stars | 3.5 |
| Gra Lycaon | 3.5 |
| Ahab The Coral Tombs | 3.5 |
| Those first few songs are really intoxicating in their atmosphere, but I feel like the album could stop there and be a brilliant EP rather than an album 20 minutes longer than it should be. Epic for sure but some sections in the second half of the album fail to carry the initial momentum of "Prof. Arronax Descent into the vast Oceans" through to the title track. |
| Obituary Dying Of Everything | 3.0 |
| Wothrosch Odium | 3.0 |
| Thy Darkened Shade Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya | 3.0 |
| Can't really get behind the high rating for this. Too long for its own good and despite some passages really gaining momentum ("Veneration for the Fireborn" in particular) it didn't really stick with me as I expect it to. |
| Sunchild Exotic Creatures and a Stolen Dream | 3.5 |
| Great Cold Emptiness Immaculate Hearts Will Triumph | 3.0 |
| Vosbud Heklugjá | 3.5 |
| Esoctrilihum Funeral | 3.5 |
| Varmia Prolog | 3.5 |
| Young Lions Make a Rainbow and Put It in the Sky | 3.0 |
| Askeregn Brennende Åkres Grøde | 3.5 |
| Djevel Naa Skrider Natten Sort | 3.5 |
| Lower Automation Strobe Light Shadow Play | 3.5 |
| Iohannes Jacob's Ladder | 3.5 |
| Ultar At the Gates of Dusk | 3.5 |
| Second To Sun Nocturnal Philosophy | 3.5 |
| Threshold Dividing Lines | 3.5 |
| Gatherers " ( mutilator. ) " | 3.5 |
| Soft Blue Shimmer Love Lives in the Body | 3.0 |
| Astrosaur Portals | 3.5 |
| Feed Me To The Waves Apart | 3.5 |
| Speglas Time, Futility & Death | 3.5 |
| Squint Wash Away | 3.5 |
| Cryptae Capsule | 3.0 |
| 16 Into Dust | 3.0 |
| Avandra Prodigal | 3.0 |
| Digir Gidim The Celestial Macrocosmic Scale and the Shimmering | 3.5 |
| Foehammer Monumentum | 3.0 |
| Gaupa Myriad | 3.5 |
| Collider Excessively Worthwhile | 3.5 |
| Valve Thermoclines | 3.5 |
| Remina Strata | 3.5 |
| Drudkh All Belong To The Night | 3.5 |
| Epica The Alchemy Project | 3.0 |
| Kampfar Til Klovers Takt | 3.5 |
| Spider God Fly In The Trap | 3.5 |
| Malist As I Become Darkness | 3.5 |
| Dream Unending Song of Salvation | 4.0 |
| Drowse Wane into It | 3.0 |
| Soul Blind Feel It All Around | 3.5 |
| Haavard Haavard | 3.5 |
| Constellatia Magisterial Romance | 4.0 |
| Sarathy Korwar KALAK | 3.5 |
| Aldaaron Arcane Mountain Cult | 3.5 |
| Black Spell Season Of The Damned | 3.5 |
| Vananidr Beneath the Mold | 3.5 |
| Dysgnostic Scar Echoes | 4.0 |
| Doomocracy Unorthodox | 3.5 |
| Fell Ruin Cast in Oil the Dressed Wrought | 3.5 |
| Dirt Forge Interspheral | 3.0 |
| Akraia Mistress | 3.0 |
| Onsegen Ensemble Realms | 3.5 |
| Envy Seimei | 3.0 |
| Strychnos A Mother's Curse | 3.5 |
| Ueldes Foreverer | 3.5 |
| The Offering Seeing the Elephant | 3.0 |
| Xentrix Seven Words | 3.5 |
| Ingested Ashes Lie Still | 3.5 |
| Black Anvil Regenesis | 3.5 |
| Horse Lords Comradely Objects | 3.5 |
| Fleshwater We're Not Here To Be Loved | 3.5 |
| Disillusion Ayam | 3.5 |
| Turnover Myself in the Way | 3.5 |
| Menace Ruine Nekyia | 3.5 |
| Ef We Salute You, You and You | 3.5 |
| Gleb Kolyadin The Outland | 3.5 |
| Ninth Realm A Fate Unbroken | 3.5 |
| Wyrmwoods No Sun nor Moon | 4.0 |
| Mist of Misery Severance | 3.5 |
| Grave Pilgrim Molten Hands Reach West | 3.5 |
| Froglord Army of Frogs | 3.5 |
| The Sound That Ends Creation Unicorn Laser Bubblegum City | 2.5 |
| Backxwash HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST... | 3.5 |
| I didn't get as much raw emotion from this album as I did the other Backxwash releases, but it still feels like game-changing stuff which can't really be pigeonholed into one meaningless sub-genre. |
| Acid Witch Rot Among Us | 2.5 |
| Soft Kill Canary Yellow | 3.0 |
| Funeral Harvest Redemptio | 3.5 |
| Nothing Is Real The End Is Near | 3.5 |
| Rapture Star Dark Cosmic Web | 3.5 |
| Nordicwinter Beneath the Fleeting Light | 3.5 |
| Polyphia Remember That You Will Die | 2.5 |
| Royal Hunt Dystopia, Pt. 2 | 3.0 |
| Sugar Horse Waterloo Teeth | 3.5 |
| Moin Paste | 3.0 |
| Universally Estranged Dimension of Deviant Clusters | 3.5 |
| Nostromo (CHE) Bucephale | 3.5 |
| Obsidious Iconic | 3.5 |
| Devenial Verdict Ash Blind | 3.5 |
| Chrome Ghost House of Falling Ash | 3.5 |
| Skinshape Nostalgia | 3.5 |
| Anima Morte Serpents in the Field of Sleep | 3.5 |
| Shit and Shine New Confusion | 3.5 |
| Timor Et Tremor Realm of Ashes | 3.5 |
| Secret Shame Autonomy | 3.5 |
| Mysteria Mystica Aeterna The Temple of Eosphoros | 3.5 |
| Guranfoe Gumbo Gumbo | 3.5 |
| Arm's Length Never Before Seen, Never Again Found | 3.0 |
| MindAhead 6119 Part 1 | 3.5 |
| Bill Laurance Affinity | 3.5 |
| Brusque BOÎTE NOIRE | 3.5 |
| Necromutilator Oath Of Abhorrence | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Astral Fortress | 3.5 |
| Abyssic Brought Forth in Iniquity | 3.5 |
| Therion Leviathan II | 3.5 |
| Jordfast Av Stoft | 3.5 |
| Forlesen Black Terrain | 3.5 |
| Theotoxin Fragment: Totenruhe | 3.5 |
| Noctem Credo Certe Ne Cras | 3.5 |
| Psychonaut Violate Consensus Reality | 3.5 |
| Knekelput Teloorgang | 3.5 |
| Golgotha (ESP) Mors Diligentis | 3.0 |
| Morbific Squirm Beyond The Mortal Realm | 3.5 |
| Ketha Wendigo | 3.0 |
| Exhumed To The Dead | 3.5 |
| Black Royal Earthbound | 3.5 |
| Archers of Loaf Reason In Decline | 2.5 |
| Ahleuchatistas Expansion | 3.5 |
| Lost in Kiev Rupture | 3.5 |
| 84 Tigers Time In The Lighthouse | 2.5 |
| Submotile One Final Summit Before the Fall | 3.5 |
| Coathanger Abortion Plan C | 3.5 |
| Freedom of Fear Carpathia | 3.5 |
| Mountainscape Atoms Unfurling | 4.0 |
| Battalions King of a Dead World | 3.0 |
| Lore Liege Dreams of a Forgotten Curse | 3.0 |
| God Alone (IRE) ETC | 3.5 |
| The Otolith Folium Limina | 3.5 |
| I'm getting the same vibes with this album that I did with the latest releases from Volur and Eight Bells. And that's a good thing. |
| Knifeplay Animal Drowning | 4.0 |
| Gevurah Gehinnom | 3.5 |
| Imprecation In Nomine Diaobli | 3.5 |
| Vacuous Dreams of Dysphoria | 3.5 |
| Girih Ikigai | 3.5 |
| Earthrise Until We Rest Beneath the Winter Way | 3.5 |
| Grin Phantom Knocks | 3.0 |
| Red Usurper Abandon | 3.5 |
| Stormruler Sacred Rites & Black Magick | 3.5 |
| SednA Last Sun | 3.5 |
| Mother of Graves Where the Shadows Adorn | 3.5 |
| Birds in Row Gris Klein | 3.5 |
| Embrace Of Thorns Entropy Dynamics | 3.5 |
| Sympuls-e Immensity | 3.0 |
| Au Clair de Lune Mysticism of Ecstatic Communion | 3.5 |
| From The Vastland Taurvi | 3.5 |
| Cloud Rat Threshold | 4.0 |
| Faceless Burial At The Foothills Of Deliration | 3.5 |
| A.A. Williams As The Moon Rests | 3.5 |
| Goatwhore Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven | 3.5 |
| Languish Feeding The Flames Of Annihilation | 3.5 |
| De Profundis The Corruption of Virtue | 3.5 |
| Illyria Take Me Somewhere Beautiful | 3.0 |
| Vessel of Iniquity The Path Unseen | 3.5 |
| Aara Phthonos | 3.5 |
| Aenaon Mnemosyne | 4.0 |
| Fucked Up Oberon | 3.5 |
| Gillian Carter Salvation Through Misery | 3.5 |
| Trip back to the early 00's metalcore/post-hardcore/screamo/whateveryouwanttocallitcore scene, and for me, a really enjoyable listen. |
| Parius The Signal Heard Throughout Space | 3.5 |
| Terror Cell Caustic Light | 3.5 |
| Thundering Hooves Radiance | 3.5 |
| Dead Neanderthals Metal | 3.5 |
| Monovoth Monovoth | 3.5 |
| Asgrauw Façade | 3.5 |
| Odium Humani Generis Zarzewie | 3.5 |
| Blodhemn Sverger Hemn | 3.5 |
| Teramaze Flight of The Wounded | 3.5 |
| Chest Rockwell Mentis Oculi | 3.5 |
| Homeskin Itch Ecstasy | 3.5 |
| Twin Drugs In Now Less Than Ever | 3.5 |
| Elminster Palantíri | 3.5 |
| Bjork Fossora | 3.5 |
| Mamaleek Diner Coffee | 3.0 |
| Strigoi Viscera | 3.0 |
| The Bad Plus The Bad Plus (2022) | 3.5 |
| Hussar All-Consuming Hunger | 3.5 |
| Everest Queen Murmurations | 3.5 |
| Godeater Vespera | 3.5 |
| Cainan Dawn Lagu | 3.5 |
| Sacrilegia Sold Under Sin | 3.5 |
| Voak Verdrängung | 3.0 |
| Eternal Helcaraxe Drown in Ash | 3.5 |
| Milly Eternal Ring | 3.5 |
| Aura Mortis Aion Teleos | 3.5 |
| The Beremy Jets Devastation | 3.5 |
| Doedsvangr Koinonia | 3.5 |
| Givre Destin Messianique | 3.5 |
| City of Caterpillar Mystic Sisters | 3.5 |
| Spectrum Mortis Bit Meseri - The Incantation | 3.0 |
| Graceless Chants from Purgatory | 3.5 |
| Autopsy Morbidity Triumphant | 3.5 |
| Pestlegion Sathanas Grand Victoria | 3.0 |
| Coldworld Isolation | 3.5 |
| Soul Dissolution SORA | 3.5 |
| Ellende Ellenbogengesellschaft | 3.5 |
| Decembre Noir Pale Serenades | 3.0 |
| Crone Gotta Light? | 3.5 |
| Sinister Downfall The Last Witness | 3.5 |
| Gutvoid Durance of Lightless Horizons | 3.5 |
| Kathaaria To Be Shunned By All … As Centres Of Pestilence | 3.5 |
| OvO Ignoto | 3.0 |
| Lungtoucher The Ninth Incantation | 3.5 |
| Comedy of Errors Time Machine | 3.5 |
| Hail Conjurer Earth Penetration | 3.0 |
| Celestial Grave Vitriolic Atonement | 3.5 |
| Kings of Mercia Kings of Mercia | 3.0 |
| Nordjevel Gnavhòl | 3.5 |
| KEN mode Null | 3.5 |
| Abhor (ITA) Sex Sex Sex (Ceremonia Daemonis Anticristi) | 3.0 |
| Live Burial Curse of the Forlorn | 3.5 |
| Mo'ynoq A Place for Ash | 3.5 |
| Mo'ynoq Dreaming in a Dead Language | 3.5 |
| Gaerea Mirage | 3.5 |
| Thou Art Lord Daemoniorum | 3.0 |
| Algebra Chiroptera | 3.5 |
| Mortuous Upon Desolation | 3.0 |
| Sumerlands Dreamkiller | 3.5 |
| No Devotion No Oblivion | 3.0 |
| Altars Ablaze Life Desecration | 3.5 |
| Reliqa I Don't Know What I Am | 3.5 |
| Irist Gloria | 3.5 |
| Innumerable Forms Philosophical Collapse | 3.5 |
| Medieval Demon Black Coven | 3.0 |
| Wolfheart King of the North | 3.5 |
| The Necromancers Where The Void Rose | 3.0 |
| Hetroertzen Phosphorus Vol I | 3.0 |
| Dead Void Volatile Forms | 3.5 |
| James Norbert Ivanyi The Sine Imitation | 3.5 |
| Hegemone Voyance | 3.5 |
| Hasn't quite got the edge of its fantastic predecessor, but listening to this at the right time of day can still be quite the experience. |
| Gnipahalan I Nordisk Vredeslusta | 3.5 |
| Mons Veneris Inversados d'Um Abismo de Podridão | 3.5 |
| Phew Phew Names | 3.5 |
| Second To Sun Voices of Obscurantism | 3.5 |
| Abrams In The Dark | 3.5 |
| Fallujah Empyrean | 3.5 |
| Revocation Netherheaven | 4.0 |
| Bloodbath Survival of the Sickest | 3.5 |
| Warforged The Grove | Sundial | 3.5 |
| Valborg Der Alte | 3.0 |
| Toadeater Bexadde | 4.0 |
| Vermilia Ruska | 3.5 |
| Misha Sultan Translucence | 3.5 |
| Holy Fawn Dimensional Bleed | 3.5 |
| The Afghan Whigs How Do You Burn? | 3.5 |
| An Abstract Illusion Woe | 4.0 |
| Toehider I Have Little to No Memory of These Memories | 3.5 |
| Lunar Spells Demise of Heaven | 3.0 |
| Greber Fright Without | 3.5 |
| Katie Kim Hour of the Ox | 3.5 |
| Cosmograf Heroic Materials | 3.0 |
| Bocc Dolça Mort en els Llims del Rec Comtal | 3.5 |
| Blood Chalice The Blasphemous Psalms of Cannibalism | 3.5 |
| Toughness The Prophetic Dawn | 3.5 |
| Netherlands Kali Corvette | 3.5 |
| Slugcrust Slugcrust | 3.5 |
| Bill Baird Eternal Space Bar | 3.5 |
| Eat Your Heart Out Can't Stay Forever | 3.0 |
| Cosmicdust Tachyon | 3.5 |
| the hatch shape of raw to come | 3.0 |
| Nadja Labyrinthine | 3.0 |
| Megadeth The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead! | 3.0 |
| Blind Guardian The God Machine | 3.5 |
| Aeternam Heir of the Rising Sun | 3.5 |
| And Now The Owls Are Smiling Epitaph | 3.5 |
| The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist | 4.0 |
| Vermin Womb Retaliation | 3.5 |
| Might just be the most chaotic thing I've listened to this year. |
| King's X Three Sides of One | 3.0 |
| Living Hour Someday is Today | 3.5 |
| The Veldt Entropy is the Mainline to God | 3.5 |
| Heads For The Dead The Great Conjuration | 3.0 |
| Silurian (MN) End of Ordovocia | 3.5 |
| The Arrival Note Vol. 2 | 3.5 |
| Auriferous Flame The Great Mist Within | 3.5 |
| The Hirsch Effekt Solitaer | 3.5 |
| Tad Morose March of the Obsequious | 3.5 |
| Diamanda Galas Broken Gargoyles | 4.0 |
| Parts of this LP are absolutely terrifying, but I guess that's the point. |
| Becoming The Archetype Children of the Great Extinction | 3.5 |
| thoughtcrimes Altered Pasts | 3.5 |
| Jonathan Personne Jonathan Personne | 3.5 |
| Cyborg Octopus Between the Light and Air | 3.5 |
| Tiny Blue Ghost Between the Botanicals | 3.5 |
| Patriarchy The Unself | 3.0 |
| Dreadnought The Endless | 3.5 |
| Sigh Shiki | 3.5 |
| Hexis Aeternum | 3.0 |
| Gravecrusher Resurrection of Deathly Visions | 3.5 |
| Uzumaki (USA) Examination Linguistics | 3.0 |
| Krimh The Eternal Return | 3.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Physical Thrills | 3.5 |
| Heilung Drif | 4.0 |
| BlackLab In a Bizarre Dream | 3.5 |
| Motorpsycho Ancient Astronauts | 3.5 |
| SRSQ Ever Crashing | 3.5 |
| Why Bonnie 90 In November | 3.0 |
| Doldrey Celestial Deconstruction | 3.5 |
| Regal Worm Worm! | 3.5 |
| Nurez Nachtlied | 4.0 |
| Esthesis Watching Worlds Collide | 3.5 |
| Telenova Stained Glass Love | 3.5 |
| Lucius Fox Solastalgia | 3.5 |
| Ferum Asunder/Erode | 3.0 |
| Dawnwalker House of Sand | 4.0 |
| This album is a breath of fresh air within post-metal AND progressive metal. A well-realized concept fulfilled through vibrant and versatile musicianship. |
| Russian Circles Gnosis | 3.5 |
| Morbid Evils Supernaturals | 3.5 |
| Floating in Space Liftoff | 3.5 |
| Mimorium Route of Haeresis | 3.5 |
| Alpha Wolf/Holding Absence The Lost & the Longing | 3.0 |
| Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me | 3.5 |
| Osees A Foul Form | 3.0 |
| Pale Waves Unwanted | 2.5 |
| Royal Coda To Only a Few at First | 3.5 |
| Aronious Irkalla | 4.0 |
| Hakanai Decreation | 3.0 |
| Locrian Ghost Frontiers | 2.5 |
| Locrian New Catastrophism | 3.0 |
| Boris Heavy Rocks (2022) | 3.5 |
| Esoctrilihum Consecration of the Spiritus Flesh | 4.0 |
| Barbarian Viperface | 3.0 |
| In Mourning The Bleeding Veil | 3.5 |
| Vredensdal Resurrecting the Wolf | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth The Great Heathen Army | 3.0 |
| Soulfly Totem | 3.5 |
| Ether Coven The Relationship Between the Hammer and the Nail | 3.5 |
| Kokoroko Could We Be More | 3.5 |
| Coscradh Nahanagan Stadial | 3.5 |
| Liminal Shroud All Virtues Ablaze | 3.5 |
| Abaddon Incarnate The Wretched Sermon | 3.5 |
| Hot Milk The King and Queen of Gasoline | 2.5 |
| Early Moods Early Moods | 3.5 |
| Russ Lossing Folks | 3.5 |
| Staraya Derevnya Boulder Blues | 3.0 |
| DeathSlaughter Passing Through the Valley of the Sodomites | 3.5 |
| Deadly Circus Fire Extinction | 3.0 |
| Grima Frostbitten | 3.5 |
| Chat Pile God's Country | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Jackpot Juicer | 3.5 |
| My Sleeping Karma Atma | 3.5 |
| Reeking Aura Blood And Bonemeal | 4.0 |
| Black Magnet Body Prophecy | 3.0 |
| Tallies Patina | 3.5 |
| Death Bells Between Here and Everywhere | 3.0 |
| Wombo Fairy Rust | 3.5 |
| Chaosbay 2222 | 3.0 |
| Contemplator Morphose | 4.0 |
| Me You Us Them Sound Confirms | 3.5 |
| Wilder Maker Male Models | 3.5 |
| Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy | 4.0 |
| Haunted Horses The Worst has Finally Happened | 3.5 |
| Triumvir Foul Onslaught to Seraphim | 3.5 |
| Krisiun Mortem Solis | 3.5 |
| Belphegor The Devils | 3.0 |
| Sleestak Harbinger | 3.0 |
| Apocryphos Phantoms Received | 3.0 |
| Shroud of Bereavement A Beautiful Winter | 3.5 |
| Wailin Storms The Silver Snake Unfolds | 3.5 |
| Rafael Anton Irisarri Agitas Al Sol | 3.5 |
| Pool Kids Pool Kids | 4.0 |
| Abadir Mutate | 4.0 |
| Moonshade As We Set the Skies Ablaze | 3.5 |
| Cheem Guilty Pleasure | 3.0 |
| Fight the Fade APOPHYSITIS | 2.0 |
| False Gods Neurotopia | 3.0 |
| Ernia How To Deal With Life And Fail | 3.5 |
| Ceremonial Worship Seven Gateways to Eternal Misanthropy | 2.5 |
| Gates to the Morning Walk Between Worlds | 3.0 |
| Crestfallen Dusk Crestfallen Dusk | 4.0 |
| Teethgrinder Dystopia | 3.5 |
| Northless A Path Beyond Grief | 3.0 |
| Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition Chapter III | 3.5 |
| Wake Thought Form Descent | 4.0 |
| Garden of Worm Endless Garden | 3.5 |
| Ashenspire Hostile Architecture | 4.0 |
| Neurotic Machinery A Loathsome Aberration | 3.5 |
| The Ever Living Artificial Devices | 3.5 |
| Interpol The Other Side of Make-Believe | 3.0 |
| Superorganism World Wide Pop | 2.5 |
| Steve Lacy (USA-CA) Gemini Rights | 3.0 |
| Scarcity Aveilut | 3.5 |
| Minami Deutsch Fortune Goodies | 3.5 |
| Birth (USA-CA) Born | 3.5 |
| Nightlands Moonshine | 3.0 |
| A Lily Nocturne Thunder | 3.5 |
| Odyrmos Odyrmos | 3.0 |
| Patria Hexerei | 3.0 |
| Antigama Whiteout | 3.5 |
| Begrime Exemious Rotting in the Aftermath | 3.5 |
| Xenoglyph Spiritfraud | 4.0 |
| Hissing Hypervirulence Architecture | 4.0 |
| Kekal Envisaged | 4.0 |
| Mantar Pain Is Forever and This Is the End | 3.0 |
| In Mourning Afterglow | 3.5 |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans | 3.5 |
| In Mourning Monolith | 3.5 |
| Pagan's Mind Infinity Divine | 4.0 |
| Monosphere The Puppeteer | 3.0 |
| Ill Tidings Hymns to Demise | 3.5 |
| Atomic Symphony HYBRIS | 3.5 |
| Altars (AUS) Ascetic Reflection | 3.5 |
| Bad Breeding Human Capital | 3.0 |
| Caterina Barbieri Spirit Exit | 3.5 |
| Laura Veirs Found Light | 3.5 |
| Defect Designer Neanderthal | 3.5 |
| Pestilent Hex The Ashen Abhorrence | 3.5 |
| Stiu Nu Stiu New Sun | 3.5 |
| Uzlaga The Might of Waves | 3.5 |
| Golgata Ur Eld Och Aska | 3.5 |
| Thumos The Course of Empire | 3.0 |
| Written In Torment Black Command | 3.5 |
| Greg Puciato Mirrorcell | 3.5 |
| Black Cilice Esoteric Atavism | 3.5 |
| Conjurer (UK) Pathos | 4.0 |
| Hulder The Eternal Fanfare | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Antimai | 4.0 |
| Satyr Totem | 3.5 |
| Vidres A La Sang Fragments de L'Esdevenir | 2.5 |
| Sacral Night Le Diadéme D'argent | 3.0 |
| In Slumber While We Sleep | 3.0 |
| Orthodox (ESP) Proceed | 2.5 |
| Tuscoma Gu-cci | 3.5 |
| Zola Jesus Arkhon | 4.0 |
| Automatic Excess | 3.0 |
| Paganizer Beyond The Macabre | 3.5 |
| Blind Seagull Personal Decay | 3.0 |
| Alexandra Spence Blue Waves, Green Waves | 3.0 |
| Axioma Sepsis | 3.0 |
| Perpetual Night Aconitum | 3.5 |
| Hatis Noit Aura | 3.5 |
| Arthur Brown Long Long Road | 3.5 |
| Liber Null For Whom is the Night | 3.0 |
| Serpents Oath Ascension | 3.0 |
| Veter Daemonaz Muse of the Damned | 3.5 |
| Bipolar Architecture Depressionland | 3.0 |
| Dumb Waiter Gauche Gists | 3.5 |
| Stealing Sheep Wow Machine | 3.5 |
| Calderum Mystical Fortress of Iberian Lands | 3.5 |
| Vile Haint Sacrificial Baptism in Murky Waters | 3.5 |
| Hermit Knight Once | 3.0 |
| Morrigan Anwynn | 3.0 |
| Volcandra Border World | 3.5 |
| Perdition Temple Merciless Upheaval | 3.0 |
| Saor Origins | 3.5 |
| Khold Svartsyn | 3.5 |
| Collapse Black Sheep is Still Dreaming | 3.5 |
| STABSCOTCH Prison Jar | 3.5 |
| Nubivagant The Wheel and the Universe | 3.0 |
| Light Dweller Lucid Offering | 4.0 |
| Orgg Dimonios | 3.5 |
| Ataraxy The Last Mirror | 3.5 |
| Sound of Ceres Emerald Sea | 3.5 |
| TV Priest My Other People | 3.0 |
| Bekor Qilish Throes of Death From The Dreamed Nihilism | 3.5 |
| Anteloper Pink Dolphins | 3.5 |
| Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows Destroy Rebuild | 3.0 |
| Denouncement Pyre Forever Burning | 3.0 |
| Executioner's Mask Winterlong | 3.5 |
| Hazel English Summer Nights | 3.5 |
| Merihem Incendiary Darkness | 3.5 |
| Robocobra Quartet Living Isn't Easy | 3.5 |
| Alexandra Grimal Refuge | 3.0 |
| Inexorum Equinox Vigil | 3.5 |
| White Ward False Light | 3.5 |
| Mary Halvorson Amaryllis | 4.0 |
| Mary Halvorson Belladonna | 4.0 |
| Ashley Paul I am Fog | 3.0 |
| Funeral Oppression The Eternal Revival | 3.5 |
| Yoo Doo Right A Murmur, Boundless to the East | 3.5 |
| Svart Crown Les Terres Brûlées | 3.5 |
| Kardashev Liminal Rite | 4.0 |
| Inanimate Existence The Masquerade | 3.5 |
| Magna Carta Cartel The Dying Option | 4.0 |
| Moodring Stargazer | 3.0 |
| Silent Drive Fairhaven | 3.5 |
| Dragged Under Upright Animals | 3.0 |
| Berator Elysian Inferno | 3.5 |
| Panda Riot Extra Cosmic | 3.5 |
| Almamegretta Senghe | 3.5 |
| Sacrimonia Anthems of Eclipse | 3.0 |
| Monasterium Cold are the Graves | 2.5 |
| Deathwhite Grey Everlasting | 3.0 |
| Hilde Mistral Perdant | 3.5 |
| Revenant Marquis Milk Teeth | 3.0 |
| Baazlvaat An Old Forgotten Text | 3.0 |
| Seeds Of Contemplation Contemplations on Hidden Meanings | 3.0 |
| Gravespawn Scourge of the Realm | 3.5 |
| Licht- Und Schattensaiten Wetterleuchten | 2.5 |
| Astronoid Radiant Bloom | 3.5 |
| Temple of Void Summoning the Slayer | 3.5 |
| Thornhill Heroine | 3.5 |
| Polica Madness | 3.5 |
| Aaron Turner To Speak | 2.5 |
| INVSN Let the Night Love You | 3.0 |
| Antoine Berjeaut Chromesthesia | 3.5 |
| X.Y.R. Aquarealm | 3.5 |
| Sergeant Thunderhoof This Sceptred Veil | 3.5 |
| I Built the Sky The Quiet Place Away | 3.5 |
| Natalie Evans Movements | 3.0 |
| Silent Runners Statues & Ornaments | 2.5 |
| Sacrilegious Crown Forbidden Vestiges of Veneration | 3.0 |
| Leaving Time II | 3.5 |
| Seabreather Impermanence in Light | 3.5 |
| Daedric Chamber Reverence of the Gods | 3.0 |
| Neocortex Am Ende Des Feuers | 3.0 |
| Joyfultalk Familiar Science | 3.5 |
| Hellevaerder In de Nevel van Afgunst | 3.0 |
| Lunar Chalice Transcendentia: The Shadow Pilgrimage | 3.5 |
| Marbin Dirty Horse | 3.5 |
| Nihil Invocation The Chaos of Our Lost and Evil Souls | 3.0 |
| Gjendod I Utakt Med Verden | 3.0 |
| Thrall Schisms | 3.0 |
| Just Mustard Heart Under | 3.5 |
| Abythic Eden of the Doomed | 3.0 |
| Doldrum The Knocking, Or The Story of… | 3.5 |
| Trolldom Av Gudars Ätt... | 3.5 |
| Trolldom I Nattens Sken | 3.5 |
| Sisyphean Colours of Faith | 3.5 |
| Nat Birchall Afro Trane | 3.5 |
| Mournful Congregation The Exuviae of Gods - Part I | 3.5 |
| Cadaveria Silence | 2.5 |
| Lord Belial Rapture | 3.5 |
| Katharos XIII Chthonian Transmissions | 3.5 |
| Luminous Vault Animate The Emptiness | 2.5 |
| Wampyrinacht Night of the Desecration | 3.5 |
| Tess Parks And Those Who Were Seen Dancing | 3.5 |
| Brandon Seabrook In the Swarm | 3.5 |
| Aparthiva Raktadhara Adyapeeth Maranasamhita | 3.5 |
| Aidan Baker Gauge Amber Tones | 3.0 |
| Drudensang Tuiflsrijtt | 3.5 |
| Hyrgal Hyrgal | 3.5 |
| Clairvoyance Threshold of Nothingness | 3.5 |
| Ophe Somnium Nocte Mendaciis | 3.0 |
| Sign Of Evil Psychodelic Horror | 3.5 |
| Mortal Thrall A Path To Fire | 3.5 |
| ojeRum Music for a Lonely Moon | 3.5 |
| Mai Mai Mai Rimorso | 4.0 |
| Bess of Bedlam Dance until the Crimes End | 4.0 |
| Assumption Hadean Tides | 3.5 |
| Cave In Heavy Pendulum | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses | 4.0 |
| Come to Grief When the World Dies | 3.0 |
| Septicflesh Modern Primitive | 3.5 |
| Mutually Assured Destruction Ascension | 3.0 |
| DunkelNacht Sombre Nuit | 3.5 |
| Horn Verzet | 3.5 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle EG2: Dowsing Voice | 3.0 |
| Primitive Man Insurmountable | 3.0 |
| In Twilight's Embrace Lifeblood | 3.5 |
| Gospel The Loser | 3.5 |
| Yves Jarvis The Zug | 3.5 |
| Mary Halvorson Amaryllis/Belladonna | 4.0 |
| Moon Tooth Phototroph | 3.5 |
| David Knudson The Only Thing You Have to Change is Everything | 3.5 |
| Blasphematory The Lower Catacombs | 3.5 |
| White Flowers Are You | 3.5 |
| Corpus Christii The Bitter End of Old | 3.5 |
| Katharos (SWE) Of Lineages Once Forgotten | 3.5 |
| Woorms Fatalismo | 2.5 |
| Post Animal Love Gibberish | 3.0 |
| RLYR RLYR | 3.5 |
| Sigillum S Coalescence of Time: Other Conjectures on Future | 3.5 |
| Ante-Inferno Antediluvian Dreamscapes | 3.5 |
| Misanthropic Rage Hallucinatory Phenomena | 4.0 |
| Unendlich Misanthrope Divine | 3.5 |
| Patricia Wolf See-Through | 3.5 |
| Void Wraith II | 3.5 |
| Finsmoonth Affliction | 4.0 |
| Norilsk Beyond the Mountains | 3.0 |
| Aara Triade II: Hemera | 4.0 |
| Sacred Son The Foul Deth Of Engelond | 3.5 |
| Scitalis Doomed Before Time | 3.5 |
| Nechochwen Kanawha Black | 3.5 |
| Famyne II: The Ground Below | 3.5 |
| Misery Index Complete Control | 3.0 |
| Cavernlight As I Cast Ruin Upon... | 3.0 |
| Morgue Supplier Inevitability | 4.0 |
| Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter | 3.5 |
| Church of the Cosmic Skull There Is No Time | 3.5 |
| Arms and Sleepers Former Kingdoms | 3.0 |
| Dimphonic Horriplex | 3.0 |
| IJdelheid Unholy | 3.5 |
| Rise to the Sky Every Day, A Funeral | 3.0 |
| Tableau Mort VIsio In Somniis | 3.0 |
| Cosmic Putrefaction Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones | 4.0 |
| Haunter (USA-TX) Discarnate Ails | 4.0 |
| Malthusian/Suffering Hour Time's Withering Shadow | 3.5 |
| Kikagaku Moyo Kumoyo Island | 3.5 |
| Ibaraki Rashomon | 3.5 |
| I Am The Night While The Gods Are Sleeping | 3.5 |
| Depressed Mode Decade of Silence | 3.5 |
| Tzompantli Tlazcaltiliztli | 3.5 |
| Red Snapper Everybody is Somebody | 4.0 |
| Vital Spirit Still as the Night, Cold as the Wind | 4.0 |
| De Arma Nightcall | 3.5 |
| Mother of Millions Orbit | 3.5 |
| Iku-Turso Into Dawnless Realms | 3.5 |
| Djevelkult Drep Alle Guder | 3.5 |
| Kungens Man Kungens Ljud & Bild | 3.5 |
| Ravenwiek Barren Grounds | 3.5 |
| Misha Sultan Roots | 4.0 |
| Patristic Apologetica | 3.5 |
| Feral Lord Vires in Absoluto | 3.5 |
| Iluiteq The Light Inside, The Dark Outside | 3.5 |
| Astodan Évora | 3.5 |
| Jo Quail The Cartographer | 3.5 |
| Valac Howls of Infinite Horror | 2.5 |
| Elegeion Plight of the Heretic | 2.5 |
| Negative Plane The Pact | 4.0 |
| Helms Alee Keep This Be the Way | 4.0 |
| Rammstein Zeit | 3.5 |
| Devil Master Ecstasies of Never Ending Night | 3.5 |
| Dischordia Triptych | 4.0 |
| Al-Namrood Worship the Degenerate | 3.5 |
| The Gathering Beautiful Distortion | 3.5 |
| The Spirit Of Clarity and Galactic Structures | 3.5 |
| Celestial Season Mysterium I | 3.0 |
| Dreariness Before We Vanish | 3.5 |
| Mortiis The Smell Of Rain | 3.5 |
| Feral Light Psychic Contortions | 4.0 |
| Mosaic (DE) Heimatspuk | 3.0 |
| Static Abyss Labyrinth of Veins | 4.0 |
| Vanum Legend | 3.0 |
| Abstracted Atma Conflux | 3.5 |
| Semblant Vermilion Eclipse | 3.0 |
| Incandescence Le Coeur de l'Homme | 3.5 |
| Alunah Strange Machine | 3.5 |
| Darkher The Buried Storm | 3.5 |
| Viande L'Abime Dévore les Âmes | 3.5 |
| Papangu Holoceno | 3.5 |
| Epitaphe II | 3.5 |
| Marrasmieli Martaiden mailta | 3.5 |
| Terzij de Horde In One Of These, I Am Your Enemy | 3.5 |
| Grivo Omit | 2.5 |
| Spider God Ett främmande språk | 3.5 |
| Black Death Cult Diaspora | 3.5 |
| Golgothan Remains Adorned in Ruin | 3.5 |
| Bhleg Fäghring | 3.5 |
| Satan Earth Infernal | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Immutable | 4.0 |
| Ba'a Egrégore | 3.0 |
| Falls of Rauros Key to a Vanishing Future | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Parrhesia | 3.5 |
| Kvaen The Great Below | 3.5 |
| Licho Ciuciubabka | 3.5 |
| Night Crowned Rebirth of the Old | 3.5 |
| Black Fucking Cancer Procreate Inverse | 3.0 |
| Without Waves Comedian | 4.0 |
| Hell Militia Hollow Void | 3.5 |
| Agathodaimon The Seven | 3.5 |
| Wovenhand Silver Sash | 3.0 |
| Vio-Lence Let the World Burn | 3.0 |
| Sanhedrin (USA-NY) Lights On | 3.5 |
| Oh Hiroshima Myriad | 3.5 |
| Eric Wagner In The Lonely Light Of Mourning | 3.5 |
| Nite Voices of the Kronian Moon | 3.5 |
| Nightrage Abyss Rising | 3.5 |
| Naxatras IV | 3.5 |
| Midnight Let There Be Witchery | 3.5 |
| KYOTY Isolation | 3.0 |
| In Aphelion Moribund | 3.5 |
| Hellbore Panopticon | 3.5 |
| Hebosagil Yössä | 3.0 |
| Gloson The Rift | 3.5 |
| Inhuman Nature Under the Boot | 3.5 |
| Deathbell A Nocturnal Crossing | 3.5 |
| Rosalie Cunningham Two Piece Puzzle | 4.0 |
| Black Map Melodoria | 3.5 |
| Dark Funeral We Are the Apocalypse | 3.5 |
| Aeviterne The Ailing Facade | 4.0 |
| Acherontas Malocchio - The Seven Tongues Of Δαημων | 3.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Impera | 3.5 |
| Konvent Call Down The Sun | 3.5 |
| Haunted Shores Void | 3.5 |
| Oddland Vermilion | 3.0 |
| E-L-R Vexier | 3.5 |
| Messa Close | 3.5 |
| Vehemence (FRA) Ordalies | 3.5 |
| Pestilength Basom Gryphos | 3.5 |
| Izthmi Leaving This World, Leaving It All Behind | 3.5 |
| Vein.fm This World Is Going to Ruin You | 4.0 |
| Non Est Deus Impious | 3.0 |
| Sylvaine Nova | 3.5 |
| Crowbar Zero And Below | 3.5 |
| Kuolemanlaakso Kuusumu | 3.5 |
| The Flower Kings By Royal Decree | 3.0 |
| Brood of Hatred The Golden Age | 3.5 |
| Blood Incantation Timewave Zero | 3.0 |
| Inner Missing Dead Language | 3.0 |
| Abraham Débris De Mondes Perdus | 3.5 |
| Eight Bells Legacy Of Ruin | 4.0 |
| Shape of Despair Return to the Void | 4.0 |
| Allegaeon Damnum | 3.5 |
| Mountaineer Giving Up the Ghost | 3.5 |
| Archvile King À La Ruine | 3.0 |
| Immolation Acts of God | 4.0 |
| Pure Wrath Hymn To The Woeful Hearts | 4.0 |
| Ard Take Up My Bones | 3.5 |
| Wolfbastard Hammer the Bastards | 3.5 |
| Wilderun Epigone | 4.0 |
| Tuskar Matriarch | 3.0 |
| Tersivel To the Orphic Void | 3.5 |
| Slowbleed The Blazing Sun, A Fiery Dawn | 3.0 |
| Venom Prison Erebos | 3.5 |
| Silhouette (FRA) Les Retranchements | 3.5 |
| Silent Skies Nectar | 3.5 |
| Schizophrenia (BE) Recollections of the Insane | 3.5 |
| Persefone Metanoia | 4.0 |
| Once Human Scar Weaver | 3.5 |
| Near Death Condition Ascent From the Mundane | 3.0 |
| Napalm Death Resentment is Always Seismic... | 3.5 |
| Creeping Flesh ...And Then the Bombs Came | 3.0 |
| Cloakroom Dissolution Wave | 3.0 |
| Amorphis Halo | 3.5 |
| Korn Requiem | 3.5 |
| Ysyry Mollvun Ysyry Mollvün | 3.5 |
| Hangman's Chair A Loner | 3.5 |
| Author and Punisher Kruller | 3.5 |
| Voivod Synchro Anarchy | 4.0 |
| Negativa (ESP) 04 | 3.5 |
| Det Eviga Leendet Reverence | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North | 4.0 |
| Zeal and Ardor Zeal and Ardor | 3.5 |
| Feels like this is the album where Manuel Gagneux finally realizes his vision, the other two albums to me were a little off the mark but still ambitious. This latest effort is a real humdinger, every song has its own little charm. One of the year's more unique releases for sure. |
| Abhoria Abhoria | 3.0 |
| Mossgiver The Song Among Branches | 3.5 |
| Obsidian Sea Pathos | 3.5 |
| Kurokuma Born of Obsidian | 4.0 |
| Vorga Striving Toward Oblivion | 3.5 |
| Seremonia Neonlusifer | 3.5 |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory | 4.0 |
| The Mist From the Mountains Monumental - The Temple of Twilight | 3.5 |
| Celeste Assassine(s) | 3.5 |
| Earthless Night Parade of One Hundred Demons | 3.5 |
| Jethro Tull The Zealot Gene | 3.5 |
| Dawn of Solace Flames of Perdition | 3.5 |
| Druid Lord Relics of the Dead | 3.5 |
| Boris W | 3.0 |
| Lalu Paint the Sky | 3.5 |
| Pensees Nocturnes Douce Fange | 3.0 |
| 40 Watt Sun Perfect Light | 3.5 |
| Hanging Garden Neither Moth nor Rust | 3.5 |
| Worm Shepherd Ritual Hymns | 3.0 |
| Toundra Hex | 3.5 |
| SOM The Shape of Everything | 3.5 |
| Party Cannon Volumes of Vomit | 3.5 |
| OAR The Blood You Crave | 3.0 |
| Necrophagous In Chaos Ascend | 3.5 |
| Tony Martin Thorns | 3.5 |
| Enterprise Earth The Chosen | 3.5 |
| Mizmor Wit's End | 3.0 |
| Ereb Altor Vargtimman | 3.5 |
| Wiegedood There's Always Blood at the End of the Road | 4.0 |
| In Lingua Mortua Salon Des Refuses | 3.5 |
| Riverwood (EG) Shadows And Flames | 3.5 |
| Needless The Cosmic Cauldron | 3.5 |
| Dark Millennium Acid River | 4.0 |
| Infected Rain Ecdysis | 2.5 |
| In Lingua Mortua Bellowing Sea - Racked by Tempest | 3.5 |
| Panopticon Collapse | 3.5 |
| Panopticon Panopticon | 3.5 |
| Collage Moonshine | 3.5 |
| Hate Forest Hour Of The Centaur | 3.5 |
| Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad | 3.5 |
| Opera Diabolicus Death on a Pale Horse | 3.0 |
| Cynic Ascension Codes | 3.5 |
| Hypocrisy Worship | 3.0 |
| Imperialist Zenith | 3.5 |
| Negura Bunget Zău | 4.0 |
| Godhead Machinery Monotheistic Enslavement | 3.0 |
| Archgoat Worship the Eternal Darkness | 3.0 |
| Dakhma (SUI) Blessings of Amurdad | 3.5 |
| Stormkeep Tales of Othertime | 3.5 |
| Thank You Scientist Plague Accommodations | 3.5 |
| Converge Bloodmoon: I | 4.0 |
| Plebeian Grandstand Rien ne suffit | 3.5 |
| Theatres Des Vampires In Nomine Sanguinis | 3.0 |
| Khemmis Deceiver | 4.0 |
| Exodus Persona Non Grata | 3.5 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Noktvrn | 4.0 |
| This band just keeps getting better and better. That final song is gorgeous. |
| Apostle of Solitude When The Darkness Goes | 3.0 |
| Dauthuz Vom Schwarzen Schmied | 3.5 |
| Astrophobos Corpus | 3.0 |
| Can Bardd Devoured by the Oak | 3.5 |
| Belore Artefacts | 3.5 |
| Creatvre Eloge de l'ombre | 3.5 |
| Ars Magna Umbrae Throne Between Worlds | 3.5 |
| Vertebra Atlantis Lustral Purge in Cerulean Bliss | 4.0 |
| Darkwoods My Betrothed Angel Of Carnage Unleashed | 3.5 |
| Dold Vorde Ens Navn Mørkere | 3.0 |
| Mystras Empires Vanquished And Dismantled | 3.0 |
| Gaahls Wyrd The Humming Mountain | 3.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Engine of Hell | 3.5 |
| Portrayal of Guilt Christfucker | 3.5 |
| Ivar Bjornson and Einar Selvik Hardanger | 3.5 |
| Autokrator Persecution | 3.5 |
| Mortiferum Preserved in Torment | 3.5 |
| Omnium Gatherum Origin | 3.5 |
| Fornhem Stämman Från Berget | 3.0 |
| Abysmal Grief Funeral Cult of Personality | 3.0 |
| Thulcandra A Dying Wish | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim | 3.5 |
| Cult of Eibon Black Flame Dominion | 3.0 |
| Ophis Spew Forth Odium | 3.5 |
| Be'lakor Coherence | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike | 4.0 |
| Slow Crush Hush | 3.5 |
| The Silver (US) Ward of Roses | 3.5 |
| She Said Destroy Succession | 3.5 |
| Order The Gospel | 3.5 |
| The Omnific Escapades | 3.5 |
| Misanthur Ephemeris | 3.0 |
| Mercury Circle Killing Moons | 3.0 |
| Mulla جن | 3.5 |
| Malignament Hypocrisis Absolution | 3.5 |
| Livlos And Then There Were None | 3.5 |
| Illudium Ash of the Womb | 3.5 |
| Helheim Woduridar | 3.5 |
| Green Lung Black Harvest | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater A View from the Top of the World | 3.5 |
| Orbit Culture Shaman | 3.0 |
| Ghost Bath Self Loather | 3.5 |
| Deity's Muse Ennui (EP) | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Existence Is Futile | 4.0 |
| The Breathing Process Labyrinthian | 3.0 |
| Blackwater Holylight Silence/Motion | 3.5 |
| 1914 Where Fear and Weapons Meet | 3.5 |
| Worm Foreverglade | 4.0 |
| Massacre Resurgence | 3.5 |
| Necrofier Prophecies of Eternal Darkness | 3.5 |
| Necromantia To the Depths We Descend... | 3.5 |
| Extreme Cold Winter World Exit | 3.0 |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden Under Vatten | 3.5 |
| The Agonist Days Before The World Wept | 3.5 |
| Aeon God Ends Here | 3.5 |
| Hate Rugia | 3.5 |
| Havukruunu Kuu Erkylän Yllä | 3.5 |
| Kowloon Walled City Piecework | 2.5 |
| Alkuharmonian Kantaja Shadowy Peripherals | 3.0 |
| Alda A Distant Fire | 3.5 |
| Untamed Land Like Creatures Seeking Their Own Forms | 3.5 |
| Hegemon Sidereus Nuncius | 3.5 |
| Black Sites Untrue | 3.5 |
| Xenosis Paralleled Existence | 3.5 |
| Grab Zeitlang | 3.5 |
| Cataleptic The Tragedy | 3.5 |
| Anima Hereticae Ov Behest | 3.5 |
| Abstracter Abominion | 4.0 |
| Light of the Morning Star Charnel Noir | 3.5 |
| Katavasia Invoking the Spirit of Doom | 3.5 |
| Enslaved Caravans to the Outer Worlds | 3.5 |
| Venefixion A Sigh from Below | 3.5 |
| Gloosh Sylvan Coven | 3.5 |
| Bummer (USA-MO) Dead Horse | 3.0 |
| The Body and Big|Brave Leaving None But Small Birds | 3.5 |
| Unto Others Strength | 3.5 |
| Sleep Token This Place Will Become Your Tomb | 3.0 |
| Replicant Malignant Reality | 3.5 |
| Mastiff Leave Me The Ashes Of The Earth | 3.5 |
| Lvcifyre The Broken Seal | 3.5 |
| Kadabra Ultra | 3.5 |
| Full of Hell Garden of Burning Apparitions | 4.0 |
| Four Stroke Baron Classics | 3.5 |
| Drott Orcus | 3.5 |
| Criminal Sacrificio | 3.5 |
| Cognizance Upheaval | 3.5 |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue | 3.5 |
| Aeon Zen Transversal | 3.5 |
| Wraith (USA-IN) Undo The Chains | 3.5 |
| Skepticism Companion | 3.5 |
| Succumb XXI | 3.5 |
| Rivers of Nihil The Work | 3.5 |
| Veilburner Lurkers in the Capsule of Skull | 4.0 |
| Iskandr Vergezicht | 3.5 |
| Aorlhac Pierres Brûlées | 3.0 |
| Dead Summer Society Decades | 3.0 |
| Waldgefluster Dahoam | 3.5 |
| LLNN Unmaker | 3.0 |
| Mono Pilgrimage Of The Soul | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Argent Moon | 3.5 |
| Carcass Torn Arteries | 3.5 |
| Phobophilic Undimensioned Identities | 3.5 |
| Hail Spirit Noir Mannequins | 3.0 |
| Pa Vesh En Maniac Manifest | 4.0 |
| Dawn Fades Ode | 3.5 |
| Inferi (USA) Vile Genesis | 3.5 |
| Chrome Waves The Rain Will Cleanse | 3.5 |
| Rise to the Sky Per Aspera Ad Astra | 3.0 |
| Portrait (SWE) At One with None | 3.5 |
| Xalpen Sawken Xo'on | 3.5 |
| Utopia (UK) Stalker | 3.0 |
| Trna Istok | 3.0 |
| Sugar Horse The Live Long After | 3.5 |
| Quicksand Distant Populations | 3.5 |
| Osi and the Jupiter Stave | 3.5 |
| One with the Riverbed Absence | 3.0 |
| Krossfyre Rites of Extermination | 3.5 |
| Golden Ashes (NL) In The Lugubrious Silence Of Eternal Night | 3.0 |
| Golden Ashes (NL) A Lightless Christ Shuns The Crown Of Divinity | 3.5 |
| Gloop Crayon Sun | 3.0 |
| Filth is Eternal Love Is A Lie, Filth Is Eternal | 3.5 |
| Ex Deo The Thirteen Years of Nero | 3.0 |
| Bloodphemy Blood Sacrifice | 3.0 |
| Beyond Grace Our Kingdom Undone | 3.5 |
| Alchemy of Flesh Ageless Abominations | 3.0 |
| Jinjer Wallflowers | 3.0 |
| Jinjer is an example of a band I have tried so hard to get into, but each successive release just brings about a cloud of disappointment. The best thing I have to say about this album is that it's a tad more coherent than Macro, but the album really dwindles in terms of excitement after the first four songs. |
| Wormwood Arkivet | 3.5 |
| Thyrfing Vanagandr | 3.5 |
| Hooded Menace The Tritonus Bell | 4.0 |
| Our Place of Worship is Silence Disavowed, and Left Hopeless | 3.5 |
| White Stones Dancing Into Oblivion | 3.5 |
| Wormwitch Wolf Hex | 3.5 |
| The Slow Death Siege | 3.5 |
| Nunslaughter Red Is The Color Of Ripping Death | 3.5 |
| Fluisteraars Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana | 4.0 |
| Bonehunter Dark Blood Reincarnation System | 3.5 |
| Necronautical Slain In The Spirit | 3.5 |
| Fawn Limbs Darwin Falls | 3.5 |
| Aenigmatum Deconsecrate | 3.5 |
| Diskord Degenerations | 3.0 |
| Unreqvited Beautiful Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Groza The Redemptive End | 4.0 |
| Vessel of Iniquity The Doorway | 3.5 |
| Agrypnie Metamorphosis | 3.5 |
| Underdark (UK) Our Bodies Burned Bright On Re-Entry | 3.0 |
| Ulvik Cascades | 3.5 |
| The Grasshopper Lies Heavy A Cult That Worships A God Of Death | 3.5 |
| Temple of Dread Hades Unleashed | 3.5 |
| Sundrowned Become Ethereal | 3.5 |
| Stormruler Under the Burning Eclipse | 3.0 |
| ISON Aurora | 4.0 |
| Beautifully haunting. Considering the guest musicians and vocalists here, the album is full of life and has this energetic presence which listeners absorb from the very first song. |
| Eastern High Halo | 3.5 |
| King Woman Celestial Blues | 3.0 |
| Craven Idol Forked Tongues | 4.0 |
| Backxwash I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES | 4.0 |
| Lingua Ignota SINNER GET READY | 3.5 |
| Gnosis (USA-FL) Omens from the Dead Realm | 3.5 |
| Dantalion Time to Pass Away | 3.0 |
| Netherbird Arete | 3.5 |
| Lantlos Wildhund | 3.5 |
| Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky | 4.0 |
| Drew McDowall Agalma | 3.5 |
| There's A Light A Long Lost Silence | 3.5 |
| Null (USA) Lore of a Sleeping Forest | 3.5 |
| Erdve Savigaila | 3.5 |
| Wizardthrone Hypercube Necrodimensions | 3.5 |
| Silly, bombastic, but also very fun to listen to. Hearing this live should be an absolute blast. |
| Crescent (EGY) Carving the Fires of Akhet | 3.5 |
| Vouna Atropos | 4.0 |
| Ruadh Eternal | 3.5 |
| Withered Verloren | 3.5 |
| Urne Serpent and Spirit | 3.0 |
| Sepiroth Condemned to Suffer | 3.5 |
| Palus Somni Monarch of Dark Matter | 4.0 |
| Mayhem Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando | 3.5 |
| Sabhankra Death to Traitors | 3.5 |
| Mannveira Vitahringur | 3.5 |
| Helloween Helloween | 3.5 |
| Friisk …Un Torügg Bleev Blot Sand | 3.5 |
| Flotsam and Jetsam Blood in the Water | 3.5 |
| Domination Campaign Onward To Glory | 3.0 |
| Boss Keloid Family the Smiling Thrush | 3.5 |
| At the Gates The Nightmare of Being | 3.5 |
| Crypta Echoes Of The Soul | 3.0 |
| Cross Vault As Strangers We Depart | 3.0 |
| Alustrium A Monument to Silence | 3.5 |
| Bizarrekult Vi Overlevde | 3.5 |
| Felled The Intimate Earth | 4.0 |
| Godhead Machinery Masquerade Among Gods | 3.0 |
| Year of No Light Consolamentum | 3.5 |
| Enshine Transcending Fire | 3.5 |
| Noctambulist The Barren Form | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Eternal Hails | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit Subjects | 3.0 |
| Pestilence Exitivm | 3.5 |
| White Ward Debemur Morti | 3.5 |
| Thy Catafalque Vadak | 4.0 |
| Heavy Temple Lupi Amoris | 3.5 |
| Decayed Old Ghosts and Primeval Demons | 3.5 |
| Fear Factory Aggression Continuum | 3.5 |
| Korgonthurus XX | 3.5 |
| Eremit Bearer of Many Names | 3.5 |
| Dornenreich Du Wilde Liebe Sei | 3.0 |
| Staurophagia Spaceforming | 3.5 |
| Yoo Doo Right Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose | 4.0 |
| White Moth Black Butterfly The Cost Of Dreaming | 3.5 |
| VOLA Witness | 3.5 |
| Somnuri Nefarious Wave | 3.5 |
| Seputus Phantom Indigo | 3.5 |
| Perturbator Lustful Sacraments | 3.5 |
| The Monolith Deathcult V3 - Vernedering: Connect the Goddamn Dots | 3.0 |
| Noctule Wretched Abyss | 4.0 |
| Lovebites Glory, Glory, to the World | 3.5 |
| Kataan Kataan | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada ZII | 2.5 |
| Hanging Garden Skeleton Lake | 3.5 |
| Fyrnask VII - Kenoma | 3.5 |
| Black Moon Mother Illusions Under the Sun | 3.5 |
| Epiphanic Truth Dark Triad: Bitter Psalms to a Sordid Species | 3.5 |
| The Ember, The Ash Fixation | 3.0 |
| Alluvial Sarcoma | 3.5 |
| ADAM SUN | 3.0 |
| Ancient Wisdom A Celebration in Honor of Death | 3.0 |
| Code Flyblown Prince | 3.5 |
| Hannes Grossmann To Where The Light Retreats | 3.5 |
| King of Asgard Svartrviðr | 3.5 |
| Cirith Ungol Half Past Human | 3.5 |
| The Flight of Sleipnir Eventide | 3.5 |
| Khandra All Occupied by Sole Death | 3.5 |
| Portal Avow | 4.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children As The Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes | 3.5 |
| Jess And The Ancient Ones Vertigo | 3.5 |
| Impure Wilhelmina Antidote | 3.5 |
| Esoctrilihum Dy'th Requiem for the Serpent Telepath | 4.0 |
| So many brilliant black metal albums released this year, so little time to listen to them.rScrew that, I have ALL the time in the world. |
| Nadja Luminous Rot | 2.5 |
| Borgne Temps Morts | 3.5 |
| Yautja The Lurch | 3.5 |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light | 4.5 |
| Djevel Tanker som rir natten | 4.0 |
| Canvas Solaris Chromosphere | 3.5 |
| Zombi Liquid Crystal | 3.5 |
| Vokonis Odyssey | 4.0 |
| Tetrarch Unstable | 3.0 |
| Superlynx Electric Temple | 3.0 |
| Suffocate For Fuck Sake Fyra | 3.5 |
| Noeta Elm | 3.5 |
| Ninkharsag The Dread March Of Solemn Gods | 3.5 |
| Niht Arcanum | 3.0 |
| Nekromantheon Visions of Trismegistos | 3.5 |
| Grave Miasma Abyss of Wrathful Deities | 3.5 |
| Lucifuge Infernal Power | 3.5 |
| Hiraki Stumbling Through The Walls | 3.5 |
| DorDeDuh Har | 4.5 |
| Endseeker Mount Carcass | 3.5 |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka | 3.5 |
| Domkraft Seeds | 3.5 |
| Altarage Succumb | 3.5 |
| Ageless Oblivion Suspended Between Earth and Sky | 3.5 |
| Askog Varþnaþer | 3.5 |
| Teramaze Sorella Minore | 3.5 |
| Ghost Iris Comatose | 3.5 |
| Ereb Altor Eldens Boning | 3.5 |
| Seth La Morsure du Christ | 4.0 |
| Inferno (CZ) PARADEIGMA (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity) | 4.0 |
| Wormlight Nightmother | 3.5 |
| Feed Them Death Negative | 3.0 |
| Artillery X | 3.5 |
| Grey Aura Zwart vierkant | 3.5 |
| Vallendusk Heralds of Strife | 3.5 |
| Ophiuchi Shibboleth | 3.0 |
| Plasmodium Towers of Silence | 3.0 |
| uhhhhh....yeah. This is certainly an album. A very left of field album. |
| Evile Hell Unleashed | 3.5 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Geister | 4.0 |
| Omega (ITA) Nebra | 4.0 |
| Cold Cell The Greater Evil | 3.0 |
| Big|Brave Vital | 3.0 |
| Body Void Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth | 3.5 |
| Spectral Lore Ετερόφωτος | 3.5 |
| Bongzilla Weedsconsin | 3.5 |
| Intonate Severed Within | 3.5 |
| Spectral Wound A Diabolic Thirst | 4.0 |
| Ildaruni Beyond Unseen Gateways | 3.5 |
| C R O W N The End of All Things | 3.5 |
| The Lion's Daughter Skin Show | 3.5 |
| Spelljammer Abyssal Trip | 3.5 |
| Sanguisugabogg Tortured Whole | 2.5 |
| Perennial Isolation Portraits | 3.5 |
| Los Disidentes Del Sucio Motel Polaris | 3.5 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Loss | 3.5 |
| Grorr Ddulden's Last Flight | 2.5 |
| Genghis Tron Dream Weapon | 3.5 |
| Fuoco Fatuo (ITA2) Obsidian Katabasis | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Violence Unimagined | 3.5 |
| Demiser Through the Gate Eternal | 3.5 |
| Celestial Sanctuary Soul Diminished | 3.5 |
| Blue Ox Holy Vore | 3.5 |
| Blaze Bayley War Within Me | 3.5 |
| Arabrot Norwegian Gothic | 3.5 |
| Saille V | 3.5 |
| Wolfchant Omega : Bestia | 3.0 |
| Horndal Lake Drinker | 3.5 |
| Dark The Suns Suru raivosi sydämeni pimeydessä | 3.5 |
| Soothsayer (IRE) Echoes Of The Earth | 3.5 |
| Kauan Ice Fleet | 4.0 |
| Phreneticum Der Stille Zerfall | 3.5 |
| The Black Mysteries ...And the Opening of the Shadowy Sepulchre... | 3.5 |
| Rorcal and Earthflesh Witch Coven | 3.5 |
| Crust (RUS) Stoic | 3.5 |
| Wode Burn in Many Mirrors | 3.5 |
| Aara Triade I: Eos | 4.0 |
| Tomahawk Tonic Immobility | 3.5 |
| Memoriam To the End | 3.5 |
| Ghosts of Atlantis 3.6.2.4 | 3.5 |
| Odd Dimension The Blue Dawn | 3.5 |
| Decline of the I Johannes | 3.5 |
| Fuath II | 3.5 |
| Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 2 - The Golden Orb | 4.0 |
| Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm | 4.0 |
| Wolf King Path of Wrath | 3.5 |
| White Void (NO) Anti | 3.5 |
| Vestindien Null | 3.0 |
| Thirdface Do It With A Smile | 3.0 |
| Nine Treasures Awakening from Dukkha | 3.5 |
| Last Year's Tragedy Amongst Lions | 2.5 |
| Reaper (SWE) The Atonality Of Flesh | 3.0 |
| Pupil Slicer Mirrors | 4.0 |
| The Hyena Kill A Disconnect | 3.5 |
| Ominous Ruin Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone | 3.0 |
| Nightfall At Night We Prey | 3.5 |
| Misotheist For the Glory of Your Redeemer | 3.5 |
| And Now The Owls Are Smiling Dirges | 3.5 |
| The Crown Royal Destroyer | 3.5 |
| In Flames I, the Mask | 2.5 |
| In Flames Battles | 2.5 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 3.5 |
| Miasmata Unlight: Songs of Earth and Atrophy | 3.0 |
| Stortregn Impermanence | 3.5 |
| Autarkh Form in Motion | 4.0 |
| Varmia Bal Lada | 3.5 |
| Malist Karst Relict | 3.5 |
| Mork Katedralen | 3.5 |
| Epica Omega | 3.5 |
| Baest Necro Sapiens | 3.5 |
| :Nodfyr: Eigenheid | 3.5 |
| Anneke van Giersbergen The Darkest Skies Are The Brightest | 3.0 |
| Wolvennest Temple | 4.0 |
| Black Sheep Wall Songs for the Enamel Queen | 3.5 |
| Moonspell Hermitage | 3.5 |
| Culted Nous | 2.5 |
| Paranorm Empyrean | 3.5 |
| Five The Hierophant Through Aureate Void | 3.5 |
| Earthshine My Bones Shall Rest Upon The Mountain | 3.5 |
| Vulgaris Asundre | 3.5 |
| Harakiri for the Sky Maere | 3.5 |
| Empyrium Über den Sternen | 3.5 |
| In Tormentata Quiete Krononota | 3.5 |
| Lake of Tears Ominous | 3.5 |
| Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning | 4.0 |
| Spire Temple of Khronos | 3.5 |
| Thron Pilgrim | 3.0 |
| Korpiklaani Jylhä | 3.0 |
| Senyawa Alkisah | 3.5 |
| Hulder Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry | 3.5 |
| Surut Surut | 3.5 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou The Helm of Sorrow | 3.5 |
| Forhist Forhist | 3.5 |
| Demon Head Viscera | 2.5 |
| Bloodletter Funeral Hymns | 3.0 |
| The Amenta Revelator | 3.5 |
| Altered Dead Returned to Life | 3.5 |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape | 2.5 |
| Emptiness Vide | 3.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Ghost Tapes #10 | 3.5 |
| Sur Austru Obârşie | 3.5 |
| Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse | 3.5 |
| Aborym Hostile | 2.5 |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain | 3.0 |
| In Flames Clayman | 3.5 |
| In Flames Colony | 3.5 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 3.5 |
| Omination NGR | 3.0 |
| The Ruins of Beverast The Thule Grimoires | 4.5 |
| Keys of Orthanc Of The Lineage Of Kings | 3.5 |
| Alkerdeel Slonk | 4.0 |
| DSKNT Vacuum γ-Noise Transition | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna The Raging River | 4.0 |
| In Flames Lunar Strain | 3.5 |
| The Body I’ve Seen All I Need To See | 4.0 |
| Yoth Iria As The Flame Withers | 4.0 |
| Ellende Triebe | 3.5 |
| Bhleg Ödhin | 3.0 |
| Therion Leviathan | 3.0 |
| Malakhim Theion | 3.5 |
| Here Lies Man Ritual Divination | 3.5 |
| Frozen Soul Crypt Of Ice | 3.0 |
| Endezzma The Archer, Fjord and the Thunder | 3.0 |
| Bloody Hammers Songs Of Unspeakable Terror | 3.0 |
| Akitsa Credo | 3.0 |
| Julianna Barwick Healing Is a Miracle | 4.0 |
| Old Growth (DE) Mossweaver | 3.5 |
| Svrm Занепад | 3.5 |
| Dread Sovereign Alchemical Warfare | 3.0 |
| Lucifer Black Mass | 4.0 |
| Swans Children of God | 4.0 |
| Akhlys Melinoe | 4.0 |
| Need Norchestrion: Α Song For The End | 3.5 |
| Kultika Capricorn Wolves | 3.5 |
| Amesoeurs Amesoeurs | 3.0 |
| In Cauda Venenum In Cauda Venenum | 3.5 |
| Esoteric The Pernicious Enigma | 4.5 |
| Gates Of Doom Aquileia Mater Aeterna | 3.5 |
| Amesoeurs Ruines Humaines | 3.5 |
| Minenwerfer Alpenpässe | 3.5 |
| Melted Bodies Enjoy Yourself | 3.5 |
| Celestial Swarm Gateways to the Necroverse | 3.5 |
| Afsky Ofte Jeg Drømmer Mig Død | 3.5 |
| Xibalba Hasta La Muerte | 2.5 |
| Transilvania Of Sleep And Death | 3.5 |
| Fen The Dead Light | 3.5 |
| Golgata Tempel | 3.5 |
| Psycroptic The Watcher of All | 3.5 |
| Tombs Under Sullen Skies | 3.5 |
| Avandra Skylighting | 3.5 |
| Katla Allt þetta Helvítis Myrkur | 3.5 |
| Decembre Noir The Renaissance Of Hope | 3.5 |
| Volur Death Cult | 4.0 |
| Dark Buddha Rising Mathreyata | 3.5 |
| Nibiru (ITA) Panspermia | 3.0 |
| Lunatic Soul Through Shaded Woods | 4.5 |
| Void Paradigm Ultime Pulsation | Demain Brûle | 3.5 |
| Shaidar Logoth Chapter III: The Void God | 3.5 |
| Deluge Ægo Templo | 3.5 |
| Fates Warning Long Day Good Night | 3.5 |
| Shattered Hope Vespers | 3.5 |
| Yaotl Mictlan Sagrada Tierra del Jaguar | 3.5 |
| Svartsyn Requiem | 3.5 |
| Occult Burial Burning Eerie Lore | 3.5 |
| Stalker Black Majik Terror | 3.5 |
| Holy Death (USA-NV) Deus Mortis | 2.5 |
| Wytch Hazel III: Pentecost | 3.5 |
| Ricinn Nereid | 3.5 |
| Wayfarer A Romance with Violence | 4.0 |
| Solstafir Endless Twilight of Codependent Love | 3.5 |
| Spirit Adrift Enlightened In Eternity | 3.5 |
| Greg Puciato Child Soldier: Creator of God | 3.5 |
| Odoacer There the Vultures Will Gather | 4.0 |
| Mr. Bison Seaward | 3.5 |
| Mork Gryning Hinsides vrede | 3.5 |
| Pallbearer Forgotten Days | 3.5 |
| La Fin The Endless Inertia | 4.0 |
| Molassess Through the Hollow | 3.5 |
| Infera Bruo Rites of the Nameless | 3.0 |
| GHOSTEMANE Anti-Icon | 3.5 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full | 3.5 |
| Carcass Despicable | 3.5 |
| The Erkonauts I Want It To End | 3.5 |
| Dropdead Dropdead 2020 | 3.5 |
| Draconian Under a Godless Veil | 3.5 |
| DevilDriver Dealing With Demons I | 3.0 |
| Audn Vökudraumsins fangi | 3.5 |
| Chamber (USA) Cost of Sacrifice | 3.5 |
| Bloodbather Silence | 3.5 |
| Benediction Scriptures | 3.5 |
| Armored Saint Punching the Sky | 3.5 |
| Coexistence Collateral Dimension | 3.5 |
| White Walls Grandeur | 3.5 |
| Zeal and Ardor Wake of a Nation | 3.0 |
| Weald and Woe The Fate of Kings and Men | 3.5 |
| Celestial Season The Secret Teachings | 3.0 |
| Defecto Duality | 2.5 |
| Atlases Woe Portrait | 3.5 |
| Epitimia Allusion | 3.0 |
| Korpsesoturi Korpskrist | 3.5 |
| Aphonic Threnody The Great Hatred | 3.5 |
| Chaos Divine Legacies | 3.5 |
| Maladie The Grand Aversion | 3.0 |
| Dysylumn Cosmogonie | 3.5 |
| Ixion L'adieu aux étoiles | 3.5 |
| Necrophobic Dawn of the Damned | 3.5 |
| Empress Premonition | 3.5 |
| Teramaze I Wonder | 3.5 |
| Yatra All Is Lost | 3.0 |
| Inferi (USA) Of Sunless Realms | 3.5 |
| In Cauda Venenum G.O.H.E. | 3.5 |
| DGM Tragic Separation | 3.5 |
| Frailty Tumši Ūdeņi | 3.5 |
| Briqueville Quelle | 3.5 |
| Trident (SWE) North | 3.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Endarkenment | 3.0 |
| Cryptae Nightmare Traversal | 3.5 |
| Lamp of Murmuur Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism | 3.5 |
| Toadeater Bit to ewigen daogen | 3.5 |
| Gorephilia In The Eye Of Nothing | 3.5 |
| Amiensus Abreaction | 4.0 |
| Nachtblut Vanitas | 3.0 |
| Sarcoptes Plague Hymns | 3.5 |
| John Petrucci Terminal Velocity | 3.5 |
| Raven Metal City | 3.5 |
| Plague Years Circle of Darkness | 3.5 |
| Uada Djinn | 3.0 |
| Ottone Pesante DoomooD | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic | 3.5 |
| Obsidian Kingdom Meat Machine | 3.0 |
| Nubivagant Roaring Eye | 3.5 |
| Night High Tides - Distant Skies | 3.5 |
| Lik Misanthropic Breed | 3.5 |
| The Infernal Sea Negotium Crucis | 3.5 |
| Idolatria Tetrabestiarchy | 3.5 |
| Tulkas The Beginning of the End | 3.5 |
| Hymn Breach Us | 3.5 |
| Anna von Hausswolff All Thoughts Fly | 4.0 |
| Fires in the Distance Echoes From Deep November | 3.5 |
| Finntroll Vredesvävd | 3.5 |
| Exist Egoiista | 3.0 |
| Darkened Kingdom Of Decay | 3.5 |
| Enslaved Utgard | 3.5 |
| Chrome Waves Where We Live | 3.5 |
| Ayreon Transitus | 3.0 |
| Deftones Ohms | 3.5 |
| All Them Witches Nothing as the Ideal | 3.0 |
| Second To Sun Leviathan | 4.0 |
| Morta Skuld Suffer for Nothing | 3.5 |
| Marche Funebre Einderlicht | 3.5 |
| Morwinyon Pristine | 4.0 |
| Lethian Dreams A Shadow of Memories | 3.5 |
| The Reticent The Oubliette | 4.5 |
One of the greatest prog metal concept albums I've heard recently. It's an emotional
conceptual journey through the life (and eventual death) of a Dementia patient and lyrically
really hits home to those who have known someone to suffer from the disease. It's constructed
and performed impeccably well, but it goes without saying you should pay as much attention to
the lyrics as the music in order to get the full experience. |
| Vous Autres Sel de Pierre | 3.5 |
| Dwarrowdelf Evenstar | 3.5 |
| Emyn Muil Afar Angathfark | 3.5 |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? | 4.0 |
| AOTY contender for sure. The lyrics here are bitter and honest about society's many issues, but fused with some of the strongest and most aspiring songwriting this band has ever written. Svalbard have been looming in my "curious" band section for a while now ever since I saw them live, but on this album surely they prove to be one of the frontrunners for the UK metal scene. |
| Crépuscule d'Hiver Par-Delà Noireglaces et Brumes-Sinistres | 3.5 |
| Proscription Conduit | 3.5 |
| Sunken Livslede | 4.0 |
| Dynfari Myrkurs Er Þörf | 3.5 |
| ANCST Summits of Despondency | 3.5 |
| Evoke (NO) Seeds of Death | 3.5 |
| Derek Sherinian The Phoenix | 3.5 |
| Raven Throne Viartańnie (Chroniki Źmiainaj Ciemry) | 3.5 |
| Fawn Limbs Sleeper Vessels | 3.5 |
| The White Swan Nocturnal Transmission | 3.5 |
| Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism | 3.5 |
| Gazpacho Fireworker | 3.5 |
| Khors Where the Word Acquires Eternity | 3.5 |
| Novae Militiae Topheth | 3.5 |
| Frowning Death Requiem | 3.0 |
| Void Rot Descending Pillars | 3.0 |
| Ordinance (FIN) In Purge There Is No Remission | 3.5 |
| Dephosphorus Sublimation | 3.0 |
| Korgull the Exterminator Sharpen Your Spikes | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Solitude | 3.5 |
| Raventale Planetarium II | 3.5 |
| Persekutor Permanent Winter | 2.5 |
| Noumena Anima | 3.0 |
| Unleash The Archers Abyss | 3.5 |
| Ulver Flowers of Evil | 3.5 |
| Uniform Shame | 3.5 |
| Titan to Tachyons Cactides | 3.5 |
| Spook the Horses Empty Body | 3.5 |
| Sharptooth Transitional Forms | 3.5 |
| Serpent Omega II | 3.5 |
| Self Hypnosis Contagion of Despair | 3.5 |
| Tomorrow's Rain Hollow | 3.5 |
| Skeletal Remains The Entombment of Chaos | 3.5 |
| Putrid Offal Sicknesses Obsessions | 3.5 |
| Pain of Salvation Panther | 3.0 |
| Orbit Culture Nija | 3.5 |
| Narrow Head 12th House Rock | 3.5 |
| Mercury Circle The Dawn of Vitriol | 3.5 |
| Katavasia Magnus Venator | 3.5 |
| Jupiterian Protosapien | 3.5 |
| Humavoid Lidless | 4.0 |
| What was missing from both Ithaca's latest release and most of Jinjer's discography, is basically on this album, amplified by some frenzied vocal work which strangely reminds me of Ram-Zet in their prime, and all finished off with manic keyboard/synth work. A lot of ideas dancing about, and if you don't like djenty riffs then at least part of this album will irritate you to no end...but this is still a brilliantly fresh debut in my mind. |
| Faceless Burial Speciation | 3.5 |
| Deathcave Smoking Mountain | 3.5 |
| Cult of Lilith Mara | 3.5 |
| Backxwash God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of I | 4.0 |
| Concrete (USA-NY) Free Us From Existence | 2.5 |
| Brimstone Coven The Woes of a Mortal Earth | 3.0 |
| Blues Pills Holy Moly! | 3.5 |
| Black Elephant Seven Swords | 3.5 |
| Thurisaz Re-Incentive | 4.5 |
| Wills Dissolve Echoes | 3.5 |
| Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition - Chapter II | 3.5 |
| Pig Destroyer The Octagonal Stairway | 3.0 |
| Venomous Concept Politics Versus The Erection | 3.5 |
| Necrot Mortal | 4.0 |
| Luna's Call Void | 4.0 |
| Atramentus Stygian | 3.5 |
| Incantation Sect of Vile Divinities | 3.5 |
| Ars Magna Umbrae Apotheosis | 3.5 |
| Nug Alter Ego | 3.5 |
| Primitive Man Immersion | 3.5 |
| Atrae Bilis Divinihility | 3.5 |
| Decoherence Unitarity | 4.0 |
| Vassafor To the Death | 3.5 |
| Nyktophobia What Lasts Forever | 3.5 |
| Year of the Knife Internal Incarceration | 3.5 |
| Steve Von Till No Wilderness Deep Enough | 3.5 |
| Valkyrie (USA-VA) Fear | 3.5 |
| Selbst Relatos de Angustia | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet | 3.5 |
| The Ruins Of Beverast / Almyrkvi Almyrkvi / The Ruins Of Beverast (Split) | 4.0 |
| Texas Murder Crew Everyone's Last Breath | 3.0 |
| Onslaught Generation Antichrist | 3.5 |
| Katalepsy Terra Mortuus Est | 3.5 |
| Judicator Let There Be Nothing | 3.5 |
| Heathen Beast The Revolution Will Not Be Televised... | 2.5 |
| Fall of Messiah Senicarne | 3.5 |
| Entry Detriment | 3.0 |
| Bedsore Hypnagogic Hallucinations | 3.0 |
| Spirit Possession Spirit Possession | 3.5 |
| Gaerea Limbo | 3.5 |
| Mystras Castles Conquered And Reclaimed | 3.5 |
| Eremit Desert of Ghouls | 3.0 |
| Zombi 2020 | 3.5 |
| Khthoniik Cerviiks Æequiizoiikum | 3.5 |
| Battle Dagorath Abyss Horizons | 3.5 |
| Lantern (FIN) Dimensions | 3.5 |
| Wino Forever Gone | 3.5 |
| Stygian Crown Stygian Crown | 3.0 |
| Them Moose Rush Dancing Maze | 3.5 |
| A.A. Williams Forever Blue | 4.0 |
| Rannoch Reflections Upon Darkness | 4.0 |
| Phoxjaw Royal Swan | 3.5 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Im Wald | 4.0 |
| Orgone (FRA) Mos/Fet | 3.5 |
| Ensiferum Thalassic | 3.5 |
| Two Face Sinner Spiritual Nemesis | 3.0 |
| Magick Touch Heads Have Got to Rock n' Roll | 3.5 |
| Maggot Heart Mercy Machine | 3.5 |
| Why yes, I do like to boogie to these tunes. The part of me that likes early Killing Joke is in love with some of these songs, but others do tend to get a bit ropey. |
| Lightworker Fury by Failure | 3.0 |
| Inexorum Moonlit Navigation | 3.5 |
| Bell Witch and Aerial Ruin Stygian Bough Volume 1 | 3.5 |
| Aversions Crown Hell Will Come For Us All | 3.5 |
| Convocation Ashes Coalesce | 3.5 |
| Exocrine Maelstrom | 4.0 |
| I don't know what it is about Exocrine, but they make this sub-genre so fun to listen to. And yes, I did enjoy those sax solos. |
| Hornwood Fell Cursed Thoughts - Part I | 4.0 |
| Hornwood Fell Cursed Thoughts - Part II | 4.0 |
| OHHMS Close | 3.5 |
| VoidCeremony Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional... | 4.0 |
| Acherontas Psychic Death - The Shattering of Perceptions | 3.5 |
| Fordomth Is, Qui Mortem Audit | 3.5 |
| Thecodontion Supercontinent | 3.5 |
| Bass?rBass indeed.rDrums too. rAnd one interesting concept to tie the songwriting together. |
| Fellwarden Wreathed in Mourncloud | 4.0 |
| A truly refreshing album. The production is ideal-seemingly shrouded in this hazy, cloudy sound but which vividly brings to mind a slow, graceful stroll alongside a foggy coastline (or alongside the lake district, apparently a direct source of songwriting inspiration for the album). It may be simplistic and straightforward in its approach, but it does everything just right and offers one of the calmest albeit seamless atmospheric black metal albums of the year so far. |
| Irae (PT) Lurking in the Depths | 3.5 |
| Purtenance Buried Incarnation | 3.0 |
| Ofermod Pentagrammaton | 3.5 |
| Eye of Nix Ligeia | 4.0 |
| Prophecy Productions keep putting out unique releases this year, and Eye of Nix's latest another one. Alluring vocals and really adventurous songwriting coupled with one of the cleanest albeit vicious rhythm sections I've heard in a black metal-related release all year, and yet the album still takes a few listens to truly get your head around. In a way it reminds me of what The Third and the Mortal were doing in the mid-90s but with more menace and heaviness to boot. |
| Atavist III: Absolution | 3.5 |
| Vile Creature Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm! | 3.5 |
| Last two songs are absolutely fantastic. The first three songs of the album are a confusing mess, trying to take the best bits of Thou and The Body but never quite coming to the stunning result the duo intended. If the musicianship makes you feel as sick as the album cover does, Vile Creature have delivered here. |
| Bishop Of Hexen The Death Masquerade | 2.5 |
| Hail Spirit Noir Eden In Reverse | 4.0 |
| Shadowflag In Asylum Requiem | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest | 3.5 |
| The Moon and the Nightspirit Aether | 4.0 |
| The Moon and the Nightspirit Metanoia | 4.0 |
| Kall Brand | 3.5 |
| This album can get a bit all over the place at times, and the vocals a little ropey, but generally it seems expansive and forward-thinking enough to carry the lengthier songs to a fine ending. That's without mentioning the often interesting and charming saxophone sections, which really come into their own whenever performed. This album is not without flaws, but also not without its charms either. |
| Aversio Humanitatis Behold The Silent Dwellers | 3.5 |
| Ulthar Providence | 3.5 |
| Xibalba Años En Infierno | 3.0 |
| Wolftooth Valhalla | 3.5 |
| Sorcerer Lamenting of the Innocent | 3.5 |
| Umbra Vitae Shadow of Life | 3.0 |
| Shatter Brain Pitchfork Justice | 3.5 |
| Revenge (CAN) Strike.Smother.Dehumanize | 3.5 |
| Okkultokrati La Ilden Lyse | 3.5 |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face | 3.5 |
| Nexion (IS) Seven Oracles | 3.5 |
| Naxen Towards the Tomb of Times | 3.5 |
| Khost Buried Steel | 3.0 |
| Keverra Keverra | 3.0 |
| Cro-Mags In the Beginning | 3.5 |
| Ignea The Realms of Fire and Death | 3.5 |
| Currents The Way It Ends | 3.5 |
| Cosmic Putrefaction The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers | 4.0 |
| Bleed from Within Fracture | 3.5 |
| Centinex Death in Pieces | 3.5 |
| Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant | 3.5 |
| Barren Womb Lizard Lounge | 3.5 |
| Antethic Mythographer | 3.5 |
| 156/Silence Irrational Pull | 3.5 |
| Above Aurora The Shrine of Deterioration | 3.5 |
| Hanging Garden Against the Dying of the Light | 3.0 |
| 16 Dream Squasher | 3.5 |
| Death Courier Necrotic Verses | 3.5 |
| Exhumed/Gruesome Twisted Horror | 3.5 |
| The Funeral Orchestra Negative Evocation Rites | 3.0 |
| Descend Into Despair Opium | 3.5 |
| October Falls A Fall of an Epoch | 3.5 |
| Esoctrilihum Eternity Of Shaog | 4.0 |
| Arstidir Lifsins Saga á tveim tungum II: Eigi fjǫll né firðir | 4.0 |
| Bait Revelation of the Pure | 3.5 |
| Astral Sleep Astral Doom Musick | 3.0 |
| Ashtar Kaikuja | 3.0 |
| Exgenesis Solve et Coagula | 3.5 |
| Sinisthra The Broad And Beaten Way | 3.5 |
| ACxDC Satan Is King | 3.5 |
| Horn Mohngang | 3.5 |
| Binary Code Memento Mori | 3.5 |
| Wolves Den Miserere | 3.0 |
| In the Company of Serpents Lux | 3.0 |
| Witchskull A Driftwood Cross | 3.5 |
| Werewolves The Dead Are Screaming | 3.0 |
| Winterfylleth The Reckoning Dawn | 4.0 |
| Shrapnel (UK) Palace for the Insane | 3.0 |
| Ritual Dictates Give In To Despair | 3.0 |
| Nyrst Orsök | 3.5 |
| Loviatar Lightless | 3.5 |
| Paradise Lost Obsidian | 4.0 |
| King Witch Body of Light | 3.5 |
| I Am Destruction Nascency | 3.5 |
| The Hirsch Effekt Kollaps | 3.5 |
| Helfro Helfro | 3.5 |
| Rotting Out Ronin | 3.5 |
| Goden (US) Beyond Darkness | 3.5 |
| The Ditch and the Delta The Ditch and the Delta | 3.0 |
| Cirith Ungol Forever Black | 3.5 |
| Bear Propaganda | 3.5 |
| Ba'a Deus Qui Non Mentitur | 3.5 |
| Abysmal Dawn Phylogenesis | 3.0 |
| Summon Helios | 3.5 |
| Sojourner Premonitions | 4.0 |
| Green Carnation Leaves Of Yesteryear | 4.0 |
| ...and Oceans Cosmic World Mother | 4.0 |
| Drought (ITA) Trimurti | 3.0 |
| Odraza Rzeczom | 3.5 |
| Secrets of the Moon Black House | 4.0 |
| Leagues better than the last album, and whilst the band may have alienated a few impatient fans, the musical evolution and progression is clearly well inspired and the end product is a fluent album which gives 100% without unnecessary cheese. "He is Here" has a beautifully aspiring chorus and "Earth Hour" is probably one of the catchiest songs the band have ever written. |
| Vuur & Zijde / Impavida Vuur & Zijde / Impavida | 4.0 |
| Haunting, unique, and thoroughly entrancing as every single song on this split between two forward-thinking black metal bands compels you to listen with no outside distraction. Songs by Vuur & Zijde are mostly psychedelic, beautifully ambitious pieces of work, the masterpiece that is "Zonnestorm" providing atmospheric vocal leads to enhance the sound. The Impavida songs on the other hand are not quite as charming but certainly engulfing. The sheer menace of "Gram" provides a chaotic listening experience whereas the monumental closer "Wahn & Stille" builds to a beautiful albeit crushing crescendo. A fine split by Prophecy Productions. |
| Forgotten Tomb Nihilistic Estrangement | 3.5 |
| With the End in Mind Tides of Fire | 3.5 |
| Cryptic Shift Visitations from Enceladus | 4.0 |
| The best bits of Skaldic Curse, the avant-garde mannerisms of mid-era Gorguts and the rabid acceleration of Vektor? Oh yes please. |
| Endless Forms Most Gruesome Endless Forms Most Gruesome | 3.5 |
| Old Forest Back into the Old Forest | 3.5 |
| Thrawsunblat Insula | 3.0 |
| Vader Solitude in Madness | 2.5 |
| Hyems Anatomie des Scheiterns | 3.0 |
| Black Pestilence Hail the Flesh | 3.5 |
| Irdorath The Final Sin | 3.5 |
| From The Vastland The Haft Khan | 3.0 |
| Glaciation Ultime Éclat | 3.5 |
| Together to the Stars As We Wither | 3.0 |
| Malist To Mantle the Rising Sun | 3.5 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Omens | 4.0 |
| Barishi Old Smoke | 4.0 |
| Savage, unrelenting, yet also hypnotic and draws you in with real menace. The final track is a damn good example of this band at its collective instrumental peak. |
| Dark Forest (UK) Oak, Ash & Thorn | 3.0 |
| The closest thing to a British Elvenking we'll ever get. |
| Blaze of Sorrow Absentia | 3.5 |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still | 4.0 |
| Can the drummer in this album please stop being so inhumanly brilliant?rThanks. |
| Fange Pudeur | 3.5 |
| Lustre (SWE) The Ashes of Light | 2.0 |
| Warbringer Weapons of Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| Cloven Hoof Age of Steel | 3.5 |
| Khora Timaeus | 3.5 |
| Aborted La Grande Mascarade | 3.5 |
| Ocean Chief Den Tredje Dagen | 3.5 |
| Titaan Itima | 4.0 |
| Testament Titans of Creation | 3.0 |
| WVRM Colony Collapse | 3.5 |
| WuW Rétablir L'eternité | 3.5 |
| Villagers of Ioannina City Age of Aquarius | 4.0 |
| Video Nasties Dominion | 3.0 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi | 4.0 |
| Thanatos Violent Death Rituals | 3.5 |
| Telepathy Burn Embrace | 3.5 |
| Sweven (SWE) The Eternal Resonance | 3.0 |
| It's not death metal, it's not conventional, but it also seems to be missing a lot of substance as well. I tried to get into many of the songs here but there's a sheer lack of oomph charging most of these songs which, aside from the obviously unique musical ideas at work here, lets the album down quite a bit. Maybe I am missing a trick, but it certainly doesn't feel like it for now. |
| Revulsion Enough To Bleed | 3.5 |
| Psychonaut Unfold the God Man | 3.5 |
| Omega Infinity Solar Spectre | 4.0 |
| Nekrovault Totenzug: Festering Peregrination | 3.5 |
| NAAT Fallen Oracles | 3.5 |
| Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion | 3.5 |
| Medico Peste ב :The Black Bile | 3.5 |
| Master Boot Record Floppy Disk Overdrive | 3.5 |
| Hexvessel Kindred | 4.0 |
| Dool Summerland | 3.5 |
| Disbelief The Ground Collapses | 3.5 |
| Calligram The Eye Is the First Circle | 3.5 |
| Benighted Obscene Repressed | 3.5 |
| Azusa Loop of Yesterdays | 3.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous | 3.5 |
| Ad Infinitum Chapter I: Monarchy | 3.5 |
| Nightwish HUMAN. :II: NATURE. | 3.5 |
| Wolfheart Wolves of Karelia | 3.5 |
| Duivel Tirades Uit De Hel | 3.5 |
| Aara En Ergô Einai | 4.0 |
| Skam Sounds of a Disease | 3.5 |
| Pure Reason Revolution Eupnea | 3.5 |
| Temple of Void The World That Was | 3.5 |
| Amnutseba Emanatism | 4.0 |
| Velnias Scion of Aether | 3.5 |
| Vinnum Sabbathi Of Dimensions and Theories | 3.5 |
| Aeternam Al Qassam | 3.5 |
| The Birthday Massacre Diamonds | 3.5 |
| Tethra Empire of the Void | 3.5 |
| Redwood Hill Ender | 3.5 |
| Grift Budet | 3.0 |
| Malokarpatan Krupinské Ohne | 3.5 |
| Burzum Thulêan Mysteries | 3.5 |
| Azure Emote The Third Perspective | 3.5 |
| Scarab Martyrs Of The Storm | 3.5 |
| Borgne Y | 3.5 |
| Ahna Crimson Dawn | 3.5 |
| An Evening With Knives Sense Of Gravity | 3.0 |
| White Stones Kuarahy | 3.5 |
| Wake Devouring Ruin | 4.0 |
| Nothing much to say about this, apart from the fact it rips. And then some. |
| Vredehammer Viperous | 4.0 |
| On the surface this is pretty simplistic stuff, but it's also a wholly solid and consistent collection of rattling death metal riffs and pulsating industrial explosions which bring to mind Samael at their best. Goes hard and then some. |
| Toundra Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari | 3.5 |
| Myrkur Folkesange | 3.5 |
| Tombs Monarchy of Shadows | 3.5 |
| Invocation (CL) Attunement to Death | 3.5 |
| Raspberry Bulbs Before The Age Of Mirrors | 3.0 |
| My Dying Bride The Ghost of Orion | 3.5 |
| Night Crowned Impius Viam | 3.5 |
| Lychgate Also Sprach Futura | 4.0 |
| This band continues to go from strength to strength, but I still didn't expect a Lychgate EP to come so soon after arguably the finest Esoteric release yet. Chandler really doesn't settle down does he? |
| Cianide Unhumanized | 3.5 |
| Irist Order Of The Mind | 3.5 |
| Insect Ark The Vanishing | 3.0 |
| Impiety Versus All Gods | 3.0 |
| Huntsmen Mandala of Fear | 4.0 |
| Sublime stuff, and yet it's also very laidback, fluent, and manages to make a gargantuan 80-minute runtime seem to fly by for all the intrinsic musicianship and progression happening here. Many songs aspire to truly great crescendos, often uplifting and warming but never in a way which overeggs the proverbial pudding, instead, the band rely on their individual talents and that well-honed songwriting to produce some damn fine post/sludge metal. One of the more unique releases of its kind this year. |
| Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions | 3.5 |
| Jonathan Hulten Chants from Another Place | 4.0 |
| Really pleasant surprise for me this was. I was already a fan of Tribulation but didn't quite catch on to what Hulten was doing in his spare time, and the result is this: A beautiful, atmospheric acoustic voyage through several different musical styles which ensures no song ever oversteps its mark. Short but definitely sweet, this is one of the more unique non-metal albums I've come across since 2020 started. |
| Haggard Cat Common Sense Holiday | 3.5 |
| Goats Of Doom Tie on Hänen Omilleen | 3.5 |
| Earth Rot Black Tides of Obscurity | 3.5 |
| Dwaal Gospel Of The Vile | 4.0 |
| Clouds (INT) Durere | 3.5 |
| Fluisteraars Bloem | 3.5 |
| Drown (US) Subaqueous | 4.0 |
| Skyforest A New Dawn | 3.5 |
| Saturnalia Temple Gravity | 2.5 |
| Dzo-nga Thunder In the Mountains | 3.5 |
| Angellore Rien ne Devait Mourir | 3.5 |
| Mariana Semkina Sleepwalking | 3.5 |
| Sightless Pit Grave of a Dog | 3.5 |
| Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Ascension | 3.5 |
| Sylosis Cycle of Suffering | 3.5 |
| Sepultura Quadra | 3.5 |
| Svart Crown Wolves Among The Ashes | 3.5 |
| Necrowretch The Ones From Hell | 3.5 |
| Shaam Larein Sculpture | 3.5 |
| Karg Traktat | 3.5 |
| Godthrymm Reflections | 3.5 |
| Giver Sculpture Of Violence | 4.0 |
| Dark Fortress Spectres from the Old World | 4.0 |
| Delain Apocalypse & Chill | 3.5 |
| Frayle 1692 | 3.5 |
| Blaze of Perdition The Harrowing of Hearts | 3.5 |
| Blasphemer The Sixth Hour | 3.0 |
| Big Scenic Nowhere Visions Beyond Horizon | 3.5 |
| God Dethroned Illuminati | 3.5 |
| Summon (PT) Helios | 4.0 |
| Obsidian Tongue Volume III | 4.0 |
| Leeched To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse | 3.5 |
| Moloken Unveilance Of Dark Matter | 3.0 |
| Lorna Shore Immortal | 3.0 |
| Panopticon/Nechochwen Panopticon / Nechochwen | 3.5 |
| Panopticon/Aerial Ruin Panopticon / Aerial Ruin | 3.5 |
| Yuri Gagarin The Outskirts of Reality | 3.5 |
| Kirk Windstein Dream In Motion | 3.5 |
| Nero di Marte Immoto | 3.5 |
| Annihilator Ballistic, Sadistic | 3.0 |
| Dominia The Withering Of The Rose | 3.5 |
| Catalepsia Inheritance | 3.5 |
| Death. Void. Terror. To the Great Monolith II | 4.0 |
| Murkiest release of the year so far. Yes, we're only into the second month so such a statement seems daft, but it'll be hard to discover many albums that reach this level of menace. Takes a while to get used to and it's definitely an album to hear with earphones. Outside distraction will simply deviate your attention too easily. |
| Grey Skies Fallen Cold Dead Lands | 3.0 |
| It's an interesting find this. A lot of it reminds me of Pallbearer (the melodic doom parts obviously) but later on the album takes on a braver progressive style, one which utilizes the more extreme components of the band's sound and twists otherwise traditional styles into more adventurous soundscapes-not unlike what Cormorant have been doing since they formed pretty much. As Trey said before, the clean vocals probably stand out as the worst aspect here, but the musicianship is unique enough to keep things fresh and enticing at least in my opinion. |
| Magnum The Serpent Rings | 3.5 |
| Thy Catafalque Naiv | 4.0 |
| Oxxo Xoox Ÿ | 3.5 |
| Porta Nigra Schöpfungswut | 3.0 |
| Horned Almighty To Fathom The Master's Grand Design | 3.0 |
| British Lion The Burning | 3.0 |
| T.O.M.B. Thin the Veil | 3.0 |
| Kaoteon Kaoteon | 3.5 |
| Ryte Ryte | 3.5 |
| OCEANS (DEU) The Sun and the Cold | 3.5 |
| Vaeok Vaeok | 3.5 |
| Midnight Rebirth by Blasphemy | 3.5 |
| Garganjua Toward the Sun | 4.0 |
| Swans Leaving Meaning | 3.5 |
| Sylvaine / Unreqvited Time Without End | 3.0 |
| Unreqvited Mosaic II: la déteste et la détresse | 3.5 |
| VVilderness Dark Waters | 3.5 |
| Kawir Adrasteia | 3.5 |
| Lotus Thief Oresteia | 3.5 |
| Kassad London Orbital | 3.5 |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race | 3.5 |
| Can Bardd The Last Rain | 3.5 |
| The Elysian Fields New World Misanthropia | 3.0 |
| Demoniac The Fire And The Wind | 3.5 |
| Bask III | 3.5 |
| Sunn O))) Pyroclasts | 3.5 |
| Nile Vile Nilotic Rites | 3.5 |
| Schammasch Hearts of No Light | 3.5 |
| Sarke Gastwerso | 3.5 |
| Esoteric A Pyrrhic Existence | 4.0 |
| Jinjer Macro | 3.0 |
| The Deathtrip Demon Solar Totem | 3.5 |
| Cannabis Corpse Nug So Vile | 3.0 |
| Angel Witch Angel of Light | 3.5 |
| Creeping Death Wretched Illusions | 3.5 |
| Coilguns Watchwinders | 3.0 |
| Caina Gentle Illness | 3.5 |
| Arx Atrata THE PATH UNTRAVELLED | 3.5 |
| Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark | 4.5 |
| Botanist Ecosystem | 4.0 |
| Runemagick Into Desolate Realms | 3.0 |
| Plateau Sigma Symbols - The Sleeping Harmony of the World Below | 3.5 |
| Profetus The Sadness Of Time Passing | 3.5 |
| Boris Love and Evol | 3.0 |
| We Lost the Sea Triumph and Disaster | 3.5 |
| Warish Down in Flames | 3.0 |
| Sibiir Ropes | 3.5 |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy The Correlation Between Entrance And Exit Wounds | 4.0 |
| Scarlxrd IMMXRTALISATIXN | 3.5 |
| Bleak Flesh ... And Save Us From Silence | 3.5 |
| The New Death Cult The New Death Cult | 3.5 |
| An interesting mix of modern day Wildhearts and early (debut particularly) Foo Fighters, with extra added melody in almost every aspect of the sound. Nice but the album feels quite short. |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts | 3.5 |
| Howling Giant The Space Between Worlds | 3.5 |
| The Great Old Ones Cosmicism | 4.0 |
| Goatess Blood and Wine | 2.5 |
| Dawn Ray'd Behold Sedition Plainsong | 3.5 |
| Municipal Waste The Last Rager | 3.5 |
| E-L-R Mænad | 3.5 |
| Dead Feathers All is Lost | 3.0 |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct | 4.0 |
| 1349 The Infernal Pathway | 3.5 |
| Coffins Beyond the Circular Demise | 3.5 |
| Cloud Rat Pollinator | 3.5 |
| Alter Bridge Walk The Sky | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen | 4.0 |
| Blackwater Holylight Veils of Winter | 3.5 |
| Advent Sorrow Kali Yuga Crown | 3.5 |
| Uneven Structure Paragon | 3.5 |
| Necronomicon (CAN) Unus | 3.5 |
| Rimfrost Expedition: Darkness | 2.5 |
| Negator Vnitas Pvritas Existentia | 3.5 |
| Unaussprechlichen Kulten Teufelsbücher | 3.0 |
| Sarcasm (SWE) Esoteric Tales of the Unserene | 3.5 |
| Lacuna Coil Black Anima | 3.5 |
| Alunah Violet Hour | 3.5 |
| Mortiferum Disgorged from Psychotic Depths | 3.5 |
| Profanatica Rotting Incarnation of God | 3.5 |
| Kadavar (DE) For the Dead Travel Fast | 3.5 |
| Aegrus In Manus Satanas | 3.5 |
| Sammath Across The Rhine Is Only Death | 3.0 |
| Gatecreeper Deserted | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Heart Like a Grave | 3.5 |
| Maieutiste Veritas | 4.0 |
| Reminds me a lot of Cormorant but with more emphasis on melancholy, the violin work particularly providing a nice classical backdrop for the extreme metal work to flow onto. "Vocat" is a sprawling centrepiece but this album from start to finish is some of the most accessible black metal work I've heard in recent times. |
| Toxic Holocaust Primal Future: 2019 | 3.0 |
| Exhumed Horror | 3.5 |
| In Mourning Garden of Storms | 3.5 |
| Nordkvade Visdom and Makt | 3.0 |
| Heaven's Club Here There And Nowhere | 3.0 |
| Vorna Sateet palata saavat | 3.5 |
| Bhleg Äril | 3.0 |
| Car Bomb Mordial | 3.5 |
| Netherbird Into The Vast Uncharted | 3.5 |
| DragonForce Extreme Power Metal | 3.0 |
| Vitriol (USA) To Bathe from the Throat of Cowardice | 3.5 |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum | 4.0 |
| Renounced Beauty Is A Destructive Angel | 4.0 |
| Another excellent find from Holy Roar records. Yes this is essentially a nostalgia trip to two decades ago when metalcore was making waves in the music industry, but you cannot deny the brilliant songwriting and memorable melodies at work here make for a well-rounded release. These guys should be bigger in the near future. |
| RAM The Throne Within | 3.5 |
| desert Fortune Favors the Brave | 3.5 |
| Mortem (NOR) Ravnsvart | 3.5 |
| Mars Red Sky The Task Eternal | 3.5 |
| Implore Alienated Despair | 3.5 |
| High Command Beyond the Wall of Desolation | 3.0 |
| Harborlights Isolation Ritual | 3.0 |
| DOTGIFFROMGOD approximation_of_a_human | 3.5 |
| Firebreather Under a Blood Moon | 3.0 |
| Endseeker The Harvest | 3.0 |
| Ecstatic Vision For The Masses | 3.0 |
| Copperhead Gazing in the Dark | 3.0 |
| Blood Red Throne Fit to Kill | 3.0 |
| Brutality Will Prevail Misery Sequence | 3.0 |
| Betraying the Martyrs Rapture | 3.5 |
| Asagraum Dawn of Infinite Fire | 4.0 |
| Cellar Darling The Spell | 4.0 |
| This band has come on leaps and bounds since the fairly lackluster debut. Consistent songwriting, progressive musicianship, beautiful inclusion of folk instrumentation (the brilliance of that mid-section during "Death", for example) and Anna Murphy's vocal delivery is spot on. The band also kill it live, as proven by their support slot to Katatonia earlier this year. |
| Ereb Altor Järtecken | 3.5 |
| The Agonist Orphans | 3.0 |
| Urn Iron Will of Power | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear | 3.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire | 3.0 |
| Graveyard (ESP) Hold Back the Dawn | 3.5 |
| Monolord No Comfort | 4.0 |
| Belenos Argoat | 3.5 |
| Disillusion The Liberation | 3.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence | 3.5 |
| (EchO) Below the Cover of Clouds | 4.0 |
| Visceral Disgorge Slithering Evisceration | 3.5 |
| Crypt Sermon The Ruins of Fading Light | 3.5 |
| Atlantean Kodex The Course of Empire | 4.0 |
| Haunter (USA-TX) Sacramental Death Qualia | 4.0 |
| SednA The Man Behind The Sun | 3.0 |
| Nightfell A Sanity Deranged | 3.5 |
| Sur Austru Meteahna Timpurilor | 3.5 |
| Raventale Morphine Dead Gardens | 4.0 |
| The last track is lush. Whole album in general is very fluent and is a seamless combination of atmospheric black metal at its doomiest and funeral doom at its most beautiful. |
| Noekk Waltzing in Obscurity | 3.5 |
| Cognizance Malignant Dominion | 4.0 |
| Mizmor Cairn | 3.0 |
| Foscor Els Sepulcres Blancs | 3.5 |
| Black Cilice Transfixion of Spirits | 3.0 |
| Toadeater Codex | 3.5 |
| Elvenking Reader of the Runes – Divination | 3.5 |
| Pharmakon Devour | 3.5 |
| Crimson Moon Mors Vincit Omnia | 3.5 |
| Culted Vespertina Synaxis... | 3.0 |
| Hope Drone Void Lustre | 3.5 |
| WRVTH No Rising Sun | 3.5 |
| Visions Of Atlantis Wanderers | 3.0 |
| Wear Your Wounds Rust on the Gates of Heaven | 3.5 |
| So much better than anything off WYW's first two albums. |
| Vulvodynia Mob Justice | 2.5 |
| Unprocessed Artificial Void | 3.5 |
| Uniform and The Body Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back | 3.5 |
| Sanction (NY) Broken In Refraction | 3.5 |
| Tarja Turunen In The Raw | 3.5 |
| Imperium Dekadenz When We Are Forgotten | 3.0 |
| Pijn and Conjurer Curse These Metal Hands | 4.0 |
| One of the best collaborations I can think of in recent times. The musicianship here is brilliant and even at its heaviest moments the mood is strangely uplifting and each song leaves you feeling refreshed. Please don't let this project be a flash in the pan. |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Infest the Rats' Nest | 3.5 |
| Jambinai ONDA | 4.0 |
| Humanity's Last Breath Abyssal | 3.5 |
| Hesitation Wounds (LA) Chicanery | 3.5 |
| Here Lies Man No Ground To Walk Upon | 3.5 |
| Essence of Datum Spellcrying Machine | 3.5 |
| Domination Inc. Memoir 414 | 3.5 |
| Death SS Rock 'n' Roll Armageddon | 3.0 |
| Crown the Empire Sudden Sky | 3.0 |
| Crobot Motherbrain | 2.5 |
| HammerFall Dominion | 3.0 |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind | 3.0 |
| All Out War Crawl Among the Filth | 3.5 |
| Agenda Apocalyptic Wasteland Blues | 3.5 |
| Sacred Reich Awakening | 3.5 |
| Isole Dystopia | 3.5 |
| Russian Circles Blood Year | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Atonement | 3.0 |
| Devourment Obscene Majesty | 3.5 |
| Anticosm The Call of the Void | 3.5 |
| Finsterforst Zerfall | 4.0 |
| This album reminds me of Moonsorrow in all the right ways. Plus, one of the songs are 32 minutes long and it really doesn't feel like 32 minutes. |
| iamthemorning The Bell | 3.5 |
| Suicidal Angels Years of Aggression | 3.5 |
| Phobia Generation Coward | 3.5 |
| Grima Will of the Primordial | 3.5 |
| Zed Volume | 3.5 |
| Wormwood Nattarvet | 3.5 |
| Vulture (DE) Ghastly Waves & Battered Graves | 4.0 |
| So much fun. Yes, the OTT vocals and 80s-obsessed production won't be for everybody, but an album like this is surely designed for entertainment and the band are a very self-aware collective, so they know EXACTLY who's going to like this and who isn't. That said, this is a gleeful 40+ minutes of unapologetic cheese and I personally wouldn't have it any other way. |
| Valis Ablaze Render | 3.0 |
| Throes (USA) In The Hands Of An Angry God | 3.5 |
| Surya (UK) Solastalgia | 3.5 |
| Scott Stapp The Space Between The Shadows | 3.5 |
| Turilli / Lione Rhapsody Zero Gravity (Rebirth and Evolution) | 4.0 |
| Mirror (CYP) Pyramid of Terror | 3.5 |
| Kapala (IND) Termination Apex | 3.5 |
| The St Pierre Snake Invasion CAPRICE ENCHANTÉ | 3.5 |
| Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition - Chapter I: War, Horrid War | 3.5 |
| The Negative Bias Narcissus Rising | 3.5 |
| Misthyrming Algleymi | 4.0 |
| Northlane Alien | 3.0 |
| Lacrimas Profundere Bleeding the Stars | 3.5 |
| Kryptos Afterburner | 3.0 |
| Gorilla Treecreeper | 3.0 |
| Disentomb The Decaying Light | 3.0 |
| Rosalie Cunningham Rosalie Cunningham | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia | 3.5 |
| Bloody Hammers The Summoning | 3.5 |
| Bloodred Hourglass Godsend | 3.5 |
| Bad Breeding Exiled | 3.5 |
| Ashbringer Absolution | 3.0 |
| This album has a consistently warm, alluring charm to it, using nice organic, acoustic instrumentation to balance the (not so heavy) atmospheric black metal parts which wear their influences on their sleeves. That said, I feel this album has a very thin sound and for that reason feels mostly incomplete, despite the dwindling melodies offering quite an inviting sensation. It's nice to sit and hum along to whilst daydreaming, but that's pretty much it. |
| Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance | 4.0 |
| Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology | 4.0 |
| Wormed Metaportal | 3.5 |
| Lingua Ignota Caligula | 4.0 |
| Torche Admission | 3.5 |
| Arctic Sleep Kindred Spirits | 3.0 |
| I liked the first few songs, if only because of their warmth and expansive soundscapes...but then the rest of the album unfolded in the same way, and there's only so many similar versions of opener "Meadows" that I can listen to before it gets really repetitive. There are golden moments, but it's often music fit for slumber rather than wonder. |
| False Portent | 3.5 |
| Immortal Bird Thrive On Neglect | 4.0 |
| Enjoyably consistent and solid mix of black metal-esque vocals, energetic instrumentation and just really nice progression from one song to the next. I'd never heard of this band before today, so it was a real nice surprise. |
| We Never Learned To Live The Sleepwalk Transmissions | 4.0 |
| Victims The Horse and Sparrow Theory | 3.5 |
| Valley of the Sun Old Gods | 3.0 |
| Nebula Holy Shit | 3.0 |
| TheNightTimeProject Pale Season | 3.0 |
| Tar Pit Tomb Of Doom | 3.5 |
| Stonefield Bent | 3.5 |
| Memoriam Requiem for Mankind | 3.5 |
| Unto Others Mana | 3.5 |
| Serpent Of Gnosis As I Drink from the Infinite Well of Inebriation | 3.5 |
| Pinkish Black Concept Unification | 4.0 |
| Organectomy Existential Disconnect | 3.5 |
| Nekroí Theoí Dead Gods | 4.0 |
| I admit the vocals will prove divisive depending on how you like your death metal, but damn this is still invigorating stuff. There's a wide range of influences-some obvious, some not so-but to me it's a pretty fresh take on a sub-genre that has over the last few years been riddled with a severe lack of motivation. Ones to watch, and definitely one of the most thrilling extreme metal debuts of the year. |
| Motanka Motanka | 4.0 |
| I really enjoyed this. It's a real fresh sound, innovative thanks to the use of those Ukrainian folk instruments and the obvious prog metal influence, but I'm hearing subtle influences from post-rock and post-metal which really help the band in expanding their sound on this debut. One of the finest debuts of the year that's for sure. |
| Lvcifyre Sacrament | 3.5 |
| Howling Sycamore Seven Pathways To Annihilation | 3.0 |
| Majestica Above the Sky | 3.5 |
| The first half is an impeccable mix of Freedom Call and mid-era (90s) Helloween/Gamma Ray. The second half overdoes the cheese. |
| Slough Feg New Organon | 3.5 |
| Extrema Headbanging Forever | 3.0 |
| Batushka Hospodi | 3.0 |
| I mean this isn't awful. And I also couldn't care less about which version of Batushka this is. But yeah, let's all focus on everybody's day in court rather than which musical direction both parties have taken. |
| Abbath Outstrider | 3.0 |
| Chernaa Empyrean Fire | 3.5 |
| Burning Gloom Amygdala | 3.5 |
| Bokassa Crimson Riders | 3.5 |
| Beastwars IV | 3.5 |
| Amulet The Inevitable War | 3.5 |
| Abrahma In Time For The Last Rays Of Light | 3.5 |
| Heilung Futha | 4.0 |
| Stille Volk Milharis | 3.5 |
| Yellow Eyes Rare Field Ceiling | 4.0 |
| Nocturnal Breed We Only Came for the Violence | 3.0 |
| Abyssal (UK) A Beacon In The Husk | 4.0 |
| Eskapism Ancient Songs of The Wind | 3.5 |
| Ars Veneficium / Ulvdalir In Death's Cold Embrace | 3.5 |
| Hate Auric Gates of Veles | 3.5 |
| Ingested Call of the Void | 3.5 |
| Nucleus (USA-IL) Entity | 3.5 |
| Crom Dubh Firebrands And Ashes | 3.5 |
| Xentrix Bury The Pain | 3.5 |
| Firespawn Abominate | 3.5 |
| Skaphe and Wormlust Kosmískur Hryllingur | 3.5 |
| Black Crucifixion Lightless Violent Chaos | 3.0 |
| Vortex of End Ardens Fvror | 3.5 |
| This Gift Is A Curse A Throne of Ash | 3.5 |
| Spirit Adrift Divided by Darkness | 3.5 |
| Sabbath Assembly A Letter of Red | 3.5 |
| Rendezvous Point Universal Chaos | 3.5 |
| Pelican Nighttime Stories | 3.5 |
| Mol I/II | 4.0 |
| Gaahls Wyrd GastiR - Ghosts Invited | 3.5 |
| Mental Cruelty Inferis | 3.0 |
| Kull Exile | 3.0 |
| Look, I know this project features members past and present of Bal-Sagoth, but that doesn't stop me from thinking of this release as little more than a second-rate Cradle of filth. It's decent but honestly unremarkable. |
| Alpha Wolf Fault | 3.0 |
| Earth Full Upon Her Burning Lips | 3.0 |
| Death Angel Humanicide | 3.5 |
| Enthroned Cold Black Suns | 3.5 |
| Call of the Void Buried in Light | 3.0 |
| Aseethe Throes | 3.5 |
| Nibiru (ITA) Salbrox | 3.0 |
| Handful of Hate Adversus | 3.0 |
| Skaldic Curse Devourer | 4.0 |
The comparisons to Vektor are inevitable, but by god this is still a face-melting album with
enough moments of forward-thinking progression to make it stand out in the crowd. The
Apocalyptic Witchcraft record label is becoming more and more interesting these days. |
| Verwoed De Val | 3.5 |
| Saint Vitus Saint Vitus (2019) | 3.0 |
| Encoffination We Proclaim Your Death O' Lord | 3.0 |
| October Tide In Splendor Below | 3.5 |
| Bethlehem Lebe Dich Leer | 3.0 |
| Full of Hell Weeping Choir | 4.0 |
| Valborg Zentrum | 4.0 |
| Father Befouled Holy Rotten Blood | 4.0 |
| Dreadnought Emergence | 3.5 |
| Bewitcher Under the Witching Cross | 3.5 |
| Methadone Skies Different Layers of Fear | 3.5 |
| Warforged I: Voice | 3.5 |
| The last few songs are incredible. The middle section of the album is where all songwriting sense flies out the window and you're left with a mess of multiple ideas-interesting though they may be-which don't culminate in something engaging or at least sensible, for want of a better word. I get this will be in many end-of-year album lists, but for me, it's missing some sort of glue to hold everything together. An inconsistent 75 minutes could have been narrowed down to a monumental 45 minutes here. |
| Suspiral Chasm | 3.5 |
| Abnormality Sociopathic Constructs | 3.5 |
| Big|Brave A Gaze Among Them | 3.0 |
| Arch/Matheos Winter Ethereal | 4.0 |
| A progressive metal album that doesn't try too hard? I'll take it. |
| Nyss Dépayser | 3.5 |
| The Well Death and Consolation | 3.5 |
| Spotlights Love and Decay | 3.5 |
| Sunn O))) Life Metal | 4.0 |
| Ironically this sounds like the very opposite of life, but I don't believe I've ever listened to an album by Sunn O))) that ended up being so satisfying. |
| Lee McKinney Infinite Mind | 3.5 |
| Fractal Universe Rhizomes of Insanity | 3.5 |
| Danko Jones A Rock Supreme | 3.0 |
| Deiphago I, The Devil | 3.0 |
| Ringworm Death Becomes My Voice | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth Berserker | 3.5 |
| Lord Vicar The Black Powder | 3.5 |
| Stellar Master Elite Hologram Temple | 3.0 |
| Time Lurker/Cepheide Lucide | 3.5 |
| Kampfar Ofidians manifest | 3.0 |
| Helms Alee Noctiluca | 3.5 |
| Manegarm Fornaldarsagor | 3.5 |
| Cirith Gorgor Sovereign | 3.0 |
| Whiskey Ritual Black Metal Ultras | 3.5 |
| Helheim Rignir | 3.0 |
| Lord Dying Mysterium Tremendum | 3.5 |
| Belzebubs Pantheon of the Nightside Gods | 3.5 |
| Hypoxia Abhorrent Disease | 3.0 |
| Murg Strävan | 3.5 |
| Arstidir Lifsins Saga á tveim tungum I: Vápn ok viðr | 4.0 |
| After the Burial Evergreen | 3.5 |
| Allegaeon Apoptosis | 4.0 |
| One of the best progressive metal albums of the year. In a lot of ways this reminds me of Persephone's latest full-length but with more engaging musicianship and some riffs to lick your lips to. This may be the band's best. |
| Mephorash Shem Ha Mephorash | 3.0 |
| I'm going to get called hypocritical for making this point, but every single song on this album feels twice as long as they should be. Nonetheless, epic atmosphere and sinister musicianship is the order of the day, even if there's not much to get stuck into for fans of more "challenging" black metal. |
| Neoandertals Neanderthal Parallax | 2.5 |
| Inter Arma Sulphur English | 4.5 |
| Ketzer Cloud Collider | 3.5 |
| Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult Mardom | 3.5 |
| Inferi (USA) The End of an Era | Rebirth | 3.5 |
| Theories Vessel | 3.5 |
| Waldgefluster Mondscheinsonaten | 3.5 |
| Tempel (NO) Tempel | 3.5 |
| Saver They Came with Sunlight | 3.0 |
| Waste of Space Orchestra Syntheosis | 3.5 |
| Sermon Birth Of The Marvellous | 3.0 |
| Raised By Owls Dreadful | 3.0 |
| Numenorean Adore | 4.0 |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan | 3.5 |
| Kings Destroy Fantasma Nera | 3.5 |
| Hell Fire Mania | 3.5 |
| Heaume Mortal Solstices | 3.5 |
| Green Lung Woodland Rites | 3.0 |
| Chrome Waves A Grief Observed | 3.5 |
| Brutus (BE) Nest | 3.5 |
| Black Vulpine Veil Nebula | 3.5 |
| Aoratos Gods Without Name | 3.5 |
| Blindead Niewiosna | 3.0 |
| Laster Het wassen oog | 3.5 |
| Suffering Hour Dwell | 4.0 |
| Wormwitch Heaven that Dwells Within | 3.5 |
| GGGOLDDD Why Aren't You Laughing? | 3.0 |
| Antropomorphia Merciless Savagery | 4.0 |
| Exumer Hostile Defiance | 3.0 |
| Latitudes Part Island | 3.5 |
| Mord'A'Stigmata Dreams of Quiet Places | 3.5 |
| Dwarrowdelf Of Dying Lights | 3.5 |
| Triumvir Foul Urine of Abomination | 3.5 |
| Nordjevel Necrogenesis | 3.5 |
| Ellende Lebensnehmer | 3.5 |
| Vltimas Something Wicked Marches In | 3.5 |
| Magic Circle Departed Souls | 3.5 |
| Ultar Pantheon MMXIX | 3.5 |
| Whitechapel The Valley | 3.5 |
| Usurper Lords Of The Permafrost | 3.5 |
| Ashen Horde Fallen Cathedrals | 3.5 |
| Obsidian Sea Strangers | 3.5 |
| Perversor Umbravorous | 3.5 |
| Woorms Slake | 3.0 |
| Wheel (FIN) Moving Backwards | 3.5 |
| Truth Corroded Bloodlands | 3.0 |
| Zohamah Spread My Ashes | 3.0 |
| Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard Yn Ol I Annwn | 3.5 |
| Oozing Wound High Anxiety | 3.5 |
| Herod Sombre Dessein | 3.0 |
| The Drowned God I'll Always Be The Same | 3.5 |
| Devil Master Satan Spits On Children Of Light | 3.5 |
| Contrarian Their Worm Never Dies | 3.5 |
| Cartographs Wilt and Blossom | 3.5 |
| Bellrope You Must Relax | 3.5 |
| Acathexis Acathexis | 4.0 |
| Abyssic High The Memory | 3.5 |
| Hannes Grossmann Apophenia | 4.0 |
| It's like a less frenzied version of last year's impeccable "Liquid Anatomy" album, but with just as much of a "there's a party going on in my ears" impression.rI mean, it rules. |
| Children of Bodom Hexed | 3.5 |
| Misery Index Rituals of Power | 4.0 |
| Ataraxie Résignés | 3.5 |
| Bergraven Det Framlidna Minnet | 3.5 |
| The Raven Age Conspiracy | 3.0 |
| Sinmara Hvísl Stjarnanna | 4.0 |
| Equipoise Demiurgus | 3.5 |
| Mystifier Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia | 3.5 |
| Tyr Hel | 4.0 |
| Phobonoid La Caduta Di Phobos | 3.5 |
| Nasheim Jord Och Aska | 4.0 |
| Primitive Man / Hell (USA) Split | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time | 3.5 |
| Unpopular opinion time....rI enjoyed The Astonishing as much as I did this effort, but Distance Over Time feels more like a musical comeback for the band. |
| Ghost Iris Apple of Discord | 3.0 |
| King Apathy Wounds | 3.5 |
| Rhapsody of Fire The Eighth Mountain | 3.5 |
| The Moth Gatherer Esoteric Oppression | 3.0 |
| Candlemass The Door To Doom | 3.5 |
| Un and Coltsblood Coltsblood / Un | 3.5 |
| Saor Forgotten Paths | 4.5 |
| Yeruselem The Sublime | 3.5 |
| Windswept The Onlooker | 3.5 |
| Vanum Ageless Fire | 3.5 |
| Sofy Major Waste | 3.5 |
| Rotting Christ The Heretics | 3.5 |
| Minors Abject Bodies | 4.0 |
| Soen Lotus | 3.5 |
| The Sabbathian Latum Alterum | 3.5 |
| Our Survival Depends On Us Melting the Ice in the Hearts of Men | 4.0 |
| Introspective doom with vocals that are perhaps too dramatic for some, but reaches for musical inspiration from many different sources. All in all a very interesting full-length effort from the same record label that gave us The Ruins of Beverast. |
| Nekrofilth Worm Ritual | 4.0 |
| Mastiff Plague | 4.0 |
| Labirinto Divino Afflante Spiritu | 3.5 |
| Kaleikr Heart of Lead | 4.0 |
| Ithaca The Language of Injury | 3.5 |
| Endon Boy Meets Girl | 3.0 |
| Evergrey The Atlantic | 4.0 |
| Ayahuasca (DE) Beneath the Mind | 4.0 |
| I feel like this is what Sepultura should have sounded like post-Roots era. rOn a more serious note, what a barnstormer of a late 2018 release this is. I only found out about it a few weeks ago but damn, those Subterranean grooves are infectious and the whole hour-long piece is effectively monstrous in its delivery. I could care less for the brief deathcore flourishes here and there, but it's a generally well-written debut effort full of vigour and menace. This band is one to watch in the near future, that's for sure. |
| Diabolical Eclipse | 4.0 |
| Deserted Fear Drowned by Humanity | 3.0 |
| Crystal Lake Helix | 2.5 |
| Carnal Forge Gun To Mouth Salvation | 3.0 |
| Sojourner Empires of Ash | 3.5 |
| Arckanum Kostogher | 3.5 |
| Downfall of Gaia Ethic of Radical Finitude | 4.0 |
| Seer Vol. 6 | 3.5 |
| Drottnar Monolith I | 3.0 |
| Panopticon The Crescendo of Dusk | 3.5 |
| Impureza La Iglesia Del Odio | 3.0 |
| Sacred Son Sacred Son | 3.5 |
| Dracena Infernal Damnation | 3.5 |
| Hermodr Forest Sky | 3.5 |
| Robin Trower Bridge of Sighs | 3.5 |
| Pensees Nocturnes Grand Guignol Orchestra | 3.0 |
| Thronum Vrondor Ichor (The Rebellion) | 3.5 |
| Astronoid Astronoid | 4.0 |
| Arcturus La Masquerade Infernale | 3.5 |
| Imperium Dekadenz Meadows of Nostalgia | 3.5 |
| Imperium Dekadenz Procella Vadens | 4.0 |
| Helevorn Aamamata | 3.5 |
| Hecate Enthroned Embrace of the Godless Aeon | 3.5 |
| Swallow the Sun When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light | 4.0 |
| Flotsam and Jetsam The End of Chaos | 3.5 |
| Dust Bolt Trapped in Chaos | 3.0 |
| Trollfest Norwegian Fairytales | 3.5 |
| OOMPH! Ritual | 3.0 |
| Kadinja Super 90' | 3.0 |
| Imperium Dekadenz Dammerung der Szenarien | 3.5 |
| Imperium Dekadenz ...Und Die Welt Ward Kalt Und Leer | 3.0 |
| A Pale Horse Named Death When The World Becomes Undone | 2.5 |
| So, so uninspired and uninteresting. The band didn't even try this time. At least the album's book-ended by two of APHND's strongest songs (title track and "Dreams of the End") but that's not enough to raise the album out of such stagnation. Consistency? Here there be none. |
| Nyktalgia Nyktalgia | 4.0 |
| Lahmia Resilience | 3.5 |
| Malevolent Creation The 13th Beast | 2.5 |
| Drudkh Handful of Stars | 3.5 |
| Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow | 3.5 |
| Soilwork Verkligheten | 3.5 |
| Wolfhorde Hounds of Perdition | 3.0 |
| Legion of the Damned Slaves of the Shadow Realm | 3.0 |
| Impaled Nazarene Vigorous And Liberating Death | 3.0 |
| Impaled Nazarene Road to the Octagon | 3.5 |
| Impaled Nazarene Manifest | 3.5 |
| Impaled Nazarene Pro Patria Finlandia | 3.5 |
| Impaled Nazarene All That You Fear | 3.5 |
| Impaled Nazarene Absence of War Does Not Mean Peace | 3.0 |
| Phlebotomized Deformation of Humanity | 3.5 |
| Impaled Nazarene Nihil | 3.5 |
| Impaled Nazarene Rapture | 3.0 |
| Festerday Iihtallan | 3.5 |
| Rosetta Sower of Wind | 3.5 |
| Impaled Nazarene Latex Cult | 3.5 |
| Impaled Nazarene Suomi Finland Perkele | 3.5 |
| Impaled Nazarene Ugra-Karma | 3.5 |
| Impaled Nazarene Tol Cormpt Norz Norz Norz | 3.5 |
| Demilich Nespithe | 4.0 |
| Yith Dread | 3.0 |
| Conjurer (UK) Mire | 4.0 |
| Silent Planet When the End Began | 3.0 |
| Wang Wen Invisible City | 3.5 |
| OHHMS Exist | 3.0 |
| Nothgard Malady X | 3.5 |
| Lucifer's Child The Order | 3.0 |
| Languish Unworthy | 3.5 |
| LANDMVRKS Fantasy | 3.5 |
| In the Woods... Cease the Day | 3.5 |
| Internal Bleeding Corrupting Influence | 3.5 |
| Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream | 2.5 |
| I'm sometimes a very serious, boring person when it comes to music, and I think my rating of this album reflects that.rI mean, yeah, I didn't get anything out of this other than a gimmicky experience. |
| Haken Vector | 3.5 |
| Four Stroke Baron Planet Silver Screen | 3.5 |
| Erosion (CAN) Maximum Suffering | 3.5 |
| Warrel Dane Shadow Work | 3.5 |
| Cancer Shadow Gripped | 3.5 |
| Cognitive Matricide | 3.0 |
| Azusa Heavy Yoke | 3.5 |
| Disturbed Evolution | 1.5 |
| I mean, is there any surprise that this is my lowest rated album of 2018?rProbably not. |
| Avast Mother Culture | 3.5 |
| Architects Holy Hell | 3.5 |
| Baring Teeth Transitive Savagery | 3.0 |
| SuidAkrA Cimbric Yarns | 2.5 |
| Anomalie Integra | 3.0 |
| Psycroptic As The Kingdom Drowns | 3.0 |
| Cult Leader A Patient Man | 3.5 |
| Einherjer Norrøne Spor | 3.0 |
| Evoken Hypnagogia | 3.5 |
| Third Storm The Grand Manifestation | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic | 3.5 |
| The Algorithm Compiler Optimization Techniques | 3.5 |
| Selvans Faunalia | 3.0 |
| Sounds far removed from what this band did on the split with Downfall of Nur. With that in mind, this is pretty bizarre stuff and most of the time sounds like a cheesy, folksy version of mid-to-late 90s Cradle of Filth, with some unconvincing transitions from epic black metal riff sections to atmospheric, pagan-infiltrated musicianship. Still decent, but a bit hodge-podge too. |
| Wolfheart Constellation of the Black Light | 3.5 |
| Un Sentiment | 3.5 |
| Sylvaine Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone | 3.5 |
| Mirrors for Psychic Warfare I See What I Became | 3.5 |
| Rodent Epoch Rodentlord | 3.0 |
| Outer Heaven Realms of Eternal Decay | 3.5 |
| Fluisteraars/Turia De Oord | 4.0 |
| Leonov Wake | 3.5 |
| Hate Eternal Upon Desolate Sands | 3.5 |
| Helrunar Vanitas Vanitatvm | 3.5 |
| Gevurah Sulphur Soul | 3.5 |
| Crimson Throne Of Void & Solitude | 3.5 |
| Bonehunter Children of the Atom | 3.5 |
| Binah Phobiate | 4.0 |
| Bloodbath The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn | 3.5 |
| A Storm Of Light Anthroscene | 3.0 |
| Skalmold Sorgir | 3.5 |
| Satan's Satyrs The Lucky Ones | 3.5 |
| Polyphia New Levels New Devils | 3.0 |
| Pijn Loss | 3.5 |
| Gouge Away Burnt Sugar | 3.0 |
| Gama Bomb Speed Between The Lines | 3.0 |
| Earth Ship Resonant Sun | 3.0 |
| Beartooth Disease | 3.0 |
| Bloodtruth Martyrium | 3.5 |
| Beyond Creation Algorythm | 3.0 |
| Aeternus Heathen | 3.5 |
| Vanhelgd Deimos Sanktuarium | 3.5 |
| Set and Setting Tabula Rasa | 3.5 |
| Terrorizer Caustic Attack | 3.0 |
| House of Atreus From the Madness of Ixion | 3.5 |
| Orkan Element | 3.5 |
| High on Fire Electric Messiah | 3.0 |
| Carpe Noctem Vitrun | 3.5 |
| Author and Punisher Beastland | 3.5 |
| Infestus Thrypsis | 3.5 |
| A Forest of Stars Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes | 4.0 |
| Windhand Eternal Return | 3.0 |
| One Tail, One Head Worlds Open, Worlds Collide | 2.5 |
| Revocation The Outer Ones | 3.5 |
| Slow Crush Aurora | 3.5 |
| Vreid Lifehunger | 3.5 |
| SUMAC Love In Shadow | 3.5 |
| Siege of Power Warning Blast | 3.0 |
| Pig Destroyer Head Cage | 3.5 |
| Rebel Wizard Voluptuous Worship of Rapture and Response | 3.0 |
| Madder Mortem Marrow | 3.5 |
| These guys should be bigger in the progressive metal realm than they actually are. Everything just...fits so nicely. Undeniably heavy albeit smooth grooves, a vocal range proving so much more versatile and eccentric than you'd expect, melodies that haunt you for minutes on end...these aspects and more make Madder Mortem's latest full-length stand out in a year of already great prog metal-related records. A few "slower" songs stopped me from rating this higher in all honesty (I'm looking at you, "Stumble On"), but generally this is Madder Mortem pulling out all the stops once again.rStop listening to Oceans of Slumber guys, seriously get on this instead. |
| Anaal Nathrakh A New Kind of Horror | 3.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle On Dark Horses | 3.5 |
| Dodsrit Spirit Crusher | 3.5 |
| Horrendous Idol | 3.5 |
| Besra Anhedonia | 3.0 |
| Aborted TerrorVision | 3.5 |
| Stillbirth Annihilation of Mankind | 2.5 |
| Voivod The Wake | 3.5 |
| Oh Voivod, when will you stop being so damn awesome? |
| The Black Queen Infinite Games | 3.5 |
| Forming the Void Rift | 3.5 |
| Electric Citizen Helltown | 3.0 |
| Attan End Of | 3.5 |
| The Crotals Horde | 3.5 |
| Brant Bjork Mankind Woman | 2.5 |
| The Skull The Endless Road Turns Dark | 3.5 |
| Forn Rites of Despair | 3.5 |
| Toby Driver They Are the Shield | 3.5 |
| Dysylumn Occultation | 3.5 |
| Conan Existential Void Guardian | 3.5 |
| Pantheist Seeking Infinity | 3.0 |
| Grave Digger The Living Dead | 2.5 |
| It's woefully average, but hey, at least we can all enjoy "Zombie Dance" for what it is, right?r...Right? |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Great Escape | 3.5 |
| Deicide Overtures of Blasphemy | 3.5 |
| Bosse-de-Nage Further Still | 3.0 |
| Archgoat The Luciferian Crown | 3.5 |
| Irreversible Mechanism Immersion | 3.5 |
| Cloak of Altering Zero Devil | 4.0 |
| Owl Nights in Distortion | 4.0 |
| I was pleasantly surprised with Owl's previous release, the "Orion Fenix" EP which consisted of one experimental doom 20-minute mammoth of a track. The dreamy melodies, seamless transitions and heart-stopping voyages into psychedelic darkness of that particular song are well-rehearsed on this latest full-length, but naturally attracts more conflicting dynamics whilst still trying out new ideas. One of this year's finest and most unique doom metal releases. |
| Malthusian Across Deaths | 4.0 |
| Iron Void Excalibur | 3.5 |
| Satan Cruel Magic | 4.0 |
| Infera Bruo Cerement | 3.0 |
| Monstrosity The Passage of Existence | 3.5 |
| Krisiun Scourge of the Enthroned | 3.5 |
| Morne To the Night Unknown | 3.5 |
| Cauldron New Gods | 3.0 |
| Stoned Jesus Pilgrims | 3.0 |
| Wombripper From The Depths Of Flesh | 3.5 |
| Trappist Ancient Brewing Tactics | 3.5 |
| GIMME A BEERrGIMME A BEERrGIMME A BEERrGIMME A BEERretc, etc. |
| Thou Magus | 4.0 |
| Mantar The Modern Art of Setting Ablaze | 3.5 |
| Jungle Rot Jungle Rot | 3.0 |
| Innumerable Forms Punishment in Flesh | 3.5 |
| Haunt (USA-CA) Burst into Flame | 3.5 |
| Arabrot Who Do You Love | 4.0 |
| Carnation (BE) Chapel of Abhorrence | 3.5 |
| Born to Murder the World The Infinite Mirror Of Millennial Narcissism | 3.5 |
| Axis of Despair Contempt for Man | 3.5 |
| Time, The Valuator How Fleeting, How Fragile | 3.5 |
| Omnium Gatherum The Burning Cold | 3.5 |
| Motorowl Atlas | 3.5 |
| Manes Slow Motion Death Sequence | 3.0 |
| Hadal Maw Charlatan | 3.5 |
| Leeched You Took The Sun When You Left | 3.5 |
| Jesus Piece Only Self | 3.5 |
| The Five Hundred Bleed Red | 3.5 |
| Exocrine Molten Giant | 4.0 |
| KEN mode Loved | 3.5 |
| Annisokay Arms | 2.5 |
| Mare (NO) Ebony Tower | 3.5 |
| Black Tusk TCBT | 3.5 |
| Hostis Hostis | 3.5 |
| Integrity/Krieg Split | 3.5 |
| Soreption Monument of the End | 3.5 |
| Urarv Argentum | 3.5 |
| Taphos Come Ethereal Somberness | 3.5 |
| Petyr Smolyk | 3.5 |
| Fukpig Bastards | 3.5 |
| Uniform and The Body Mental Wounds Not Healing | 3.5 |
| Finnr's Cane Elegy | 4.0 |
| The Evil The Evil | 3.0 |
| Axegrinder Satori | 3.0 |
| Atavisma The Chthonic Rituals | 3.5 |
| Amarok (USA-CA) Devoured | 3.0 |
| Vein.fm Errorzone | 4.0 |
| With the End in Mind Unraveling; Arising | 3.5 |
| Talons We All Know | 3.5 |
| Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light | 4.0 |
| Street Dogs Stand For Something Or Die For Nothing | 2.5 |
| Shylmagoghnar Transience | 4.0 |
| Purgatory (USA-NE) Cold Side Of Reality | 3.5 |
| Maggot Heart Dusk to Dusk | 3.5 |
| Epica Epica vs Attack on Titan Songs | 3.5 |
| Lesser Glow Ruined | 3.5 |
| Birds in Row We Already Lost the World | 3.5 |
| The Agony Scene Tormentor | 3.5 |
| Consistently powerful and punchy in its delivery, with sometimes added atmosphere to make songs such as "Hand of the Divine" all the more visceral. It's almost like the Gothenburg scene of the early 00s but with a modernized thrust up the proverbial hole. |
| Scars on Broadway Dictator | 2.5 |
| Violet Cold Sommermorgen (Pt. III) - Nostalgia | 3.5 |
| Decline of the I Escape | 3.5 |
| Thou Rhea Sylvia | 4.0 |
| Redemption Long Night's Journey Into Day | 3.5 |
| Existem Mantle | 3.5 |
| The Lion's Daughter Future Cult | 3.5 |
| I'm getting strong Septicflesh vibes (Revolution DNA and Sumerian Daemons era mainly), but this latest album has more of an abrasive edge, particularly regarding the metal parts. Another intriguing album from Season of Mist. |
| Runemagick Evoked From Abysmal Sleep | 3.5 |
| Khorada Salt | 3.5 |
| Mutilation Rites Chasm | 3.5 |
| Distorted Harmony A Way Out | 3.5 |
| Oubliette (USA-TN) The Passage | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata II | 3.5 |
| Obscura Diluvium | 4.0 |
| Firtan Okeanos | 3.5 |
| Black Fast Spectre of Ruin | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love | 3.5 |
| Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury | 3.5 |
| Sear Bliss Letters From The Edge | 3.5 |
| Borknagar with Trombones is the best description I can come up with. That aside, "Abandoned Peaks" is one of the most unique black metal songs I've heard in 2018. Rest of the album plods a little but is generally soothing and consistent in its delivery. |
| Witchskull Coven's Will | 3.5 |
| Bongripper Terminal | 3.5 |
| Witch Mountain Witch Mountain | 3.5 |
| Lucifer (DE) Lucifer II | 3.5 |
| Raven Throne I Miortvym Snicca Zolak | 3.5 |
| Raum Kingdom Raum Kingdom | 3.0 |
| The Antichrist Imperium Volume II Every Tongue Shall Praise Satan | 4.0 |
| Ingested The Level Above Human | 4.0 |
| Gruesome Twisted Prayers | 3.0 |
| Drug Cult Drug Cult | 3.5 |
| Dopethrone Transcanadian Anger | 3.0 |
| Immortal Northern Chaos Gods | 3.5 |
| Ancient Lights Ancient Lights | 3.0 |
| Rongeur An Asphyxiating Embrace | 3.5 |
| Kontinuum No Need to Reason | 3.5 |
| Impending Doom The Sin and Doom Vol. II | 3.0 |
| Galactic Empire Episode II | 3.0 |
| Black Orchid Empire Yugen | 3.5 |
| Owl Orion Fenix | 4.5 |
| Bad Wolves Disobey | 3.0 |
| ASG Survive Sunrise | 3.5 |
| Abraham Look, Here Comes The Dark! | 3.0 |
| Vanhelga Fredagsmys | 3.5 |
| Marduk Viktoria | 2.5 |
| Craft White Noise and Black Metal | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Bad Witch | 3.5 |
| Embrace Of Thorns Scorn Aesthetics | 3.5 |
| Hoth Astral Necromancy | 3.5 |
| Moonreich Fugue | 3.0 |
| Cor Scorpii Ruin | 3.5 |
| Lizzy Borden My Midnight Things | 3.5 |
| Progenie Terrestre Pura starCross | 3.0 |
| Void Of Silence The Sky Over | 3.0 |
| Abstracter Cinereous Incarnate | 3.5 |
| Nervosa Downfall Of Mankind | 3.0 |
| Trautonist Ember | 4.0 |
| This is exactly the sort of album that marks the wide divide between those who love blackgaze and those who despise it. There's a certain je ne sais quoi to this release however, which sees the enigmatic duo channel a distinctive charm aesthetic straight from the heart of bands such as Laster and An Autumn for Crippled Children, whilst at the same time representing a neat fusion of blackened energy and soaring pop melodies. Not for everyone, but to be fair, this IS blackgaze. |
| Witchsorrow Hexenhammer | 3.5 |
| Ommadon Ommadon | 3.0 |
| Lik Carnage | 3.5 |
| Knelt Rote Alterity | 3.5 |
| Hundred Year Old Man Breaching | 3.5 |
| Exmortus The Sound of Steel | 3.5 |
| Dylan Carlson Conquistador | 3.0 |
| YOB Our Raw Heart | 4.0 |
| Split Cranium I'm The Devil and I'm OK | 3.5 |
| Sectioned Annihilated | 4.0 |
| Here Lies Man You Will Know Nothing | 3.0 |
| Micawber Beyond the Reach of Flame | 3.5 |
| Jonathan Davis Black Labyrinth | 3.0 |
| Baptists Beacon of Faith | 3.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Prequelle | 3.5 |
| Face Off Massive | 3.5 |
| Wayfarer World's Blood | 3.5 |
| Candlemass House Of Doom | 2.5 |
| Bleeding Through Love Will Kill All | 3.5 |
| Uada Cult of a Dying Sun | 3.5 |
| Svalbard It's Hard to Have Hope | 4.0 |
| Necros Christos Domedon Doxomedon | 3.0 |
| Acherontas Faustian Ethos | 3.5 |
| Gazpacho Soyuz | 3.5 |
| Grayceon IV | 3.5 |
| Alkaloid Liquid Anatomy | 4.0 |
| At the Gates To Drink from the Night Itself | 3.5 |
| Kekal Deeper Underground | 3.0 |
| Chrch Light Will Consume Us All | 3.0 |
| Skinless Savagery | 3.5 |
| Hegemone We Disappear | 4.0 |
| Aborted Fetus The Ancient Spirits of Decay | 2.5 |
| Angelus Apatrida Cabaret de la Guillotine | 3.5 |
| Summon (PT) Parazv Il Zilittv | 3.5 |
| The Body I have fought against it, But I can’t any longer | 4.0 |
| Solstice (UK) White Horse Hill | 3.5 |
| Blackwater Holylight Blackwater Holylight | 3.5 |
| Ivar Bjornson and Einar Selvik Hugsjá | 4.0 |
| Aura Noir Aura Noire | 3.5 |
| Wrong (USA-FL) Feel Great | 3.0 |
| Valis Ablaze Boundless | 3.5 |
| Shields Life In Exile | 3.0 |
| Riot V Armor of Light | 3.5 |
| LLNN Deads | 3.5 |
| Hollywood Burns Invaders | 3.5 |
| Cancer Bats The Spark That Moves | 3.0 |
| Boss Keloid Melted on the Inch | 3.5 |
| Gozu Equilibrium | 3.5 |
| The Dali Thundering Concept Savages | 3.5 |
| Crone (DE) Godspeed | 3.5 |
| Blood Tsunami Grave Condition | 3.5 |
| Face Down Mindfield | 3.5 |
| Ihsahn Amr | 3.0 |
| Bong Thought and Existence | 3.5 |
| Thy Catafalque Geometria | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Epitaph | 3.5 |
| Varathron Patriarchs of Evil | 3.5 |
| TotalSelfHatred Solitude | 3.0 |
| Inferi (USA) Revenant | 3.5 |
| Dark Buddha Rising II | 3.5 |
| King Goat Debt Of Aeons | 3.5 |
| Melvins Pinkus Abortion Technician | 2.0 |
| Master Boot Record Direct Memory Access | 3.5 |
| Altar of Perversion Intra Naos | 3.0 |
| Skeletal Remains Devouring Mortality | 3.5 |
| Hands Of Despair Well of the Disquieted | 3.5 |
| WuW Rien ne nous sera épargné | 2.5 |
| Nightmarer Cacophony of Terror | 3.0 |
| Heilung Ofnir | 4.0 |
| This is clearly an album that is supposed to be experience, not merely listened to. The whole thing is bizarre to those who have never really heard anything related to neofolk, ambient or dark traditional Nordic music, but giving it a chance may spurn you on to those styles. That said, it's a lot harder to get into than, say, Wardruna or The Moon and the Nightspirit. Several listens needed. |
| Myrkraverk Nær Døden | 3.0 |
| Monotheist Scourge | 4.0 |
| Hemelbestormer A Ring Of Blue Light | 3.0 |
| Grave Upheaval (untitled) | 3.5 |
| Eagle Twin The Thundering Heard (Songs of Hoof and Horn) | 3.5 |
| Dautha Brethren of the Black Soil | 3.5 |
| Corrupt Moral Altar Eunoia | 3.5 |
| Balmog Vacvvm | 3.0 |
| Will Haven Muerte | 3.5 |
| Underoath Erase Me | 2.5 |
| Twitching Tongues Gaining Purpose Through Passionate Hatred | 3.0 |
| Ondt Blod Natur | 3.0 |
| Mol JORD | 4.0 |
| Jeremy Irons and the Ratgang Malibus Surge Ex Monumentis | 3.0 |
| Crisix Against the Odds | 3.5 |
| Chaostar The Undivided Light | 3.5 |
| Caliban Elements | 3.0 |
| GosT Possessor | 3.5 |
| Barren Earth A Complex of Cages | 3.5 |
| Armored Dawn Barbarians in Black | 2.5 |
| La Cachette Antiphonary For Songful Ghosts | 3.5 |
| Immortal All Shall Fall | 4.0 |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness | 4.0 |
| Immortal Damned In Black | 3.5 |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter | 4.0 |
| Immortal Blizzard Beasts | 2.5 |
| Autokrator Hammer Of The Heretics | 3.0 |
| Immortal Battles in the North | 3.5 |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust | 4.0 |
| Immortal Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism | 3.5 |
| Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness | 4.0 |
| Winterfylleth The Hallowing of Heirdom | 3.5 |
| Messa Feast for Water | 3.5 |
| Kalmah Palo | 3.5 |
| Deathwhite For a Black Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Primordial Exile Amongst the Ruins | 3.5 |
| Ascension Under Ether | 3.5 |
| Augury Illusive Golden Age | 4.0 |
| Lychgate The Contagion in Nine Steps | 4.0 |
| Soul Dissolution Stardust | 3.5 |
| Memoriam The Silent Vigil | 3.0 |
| Willetts has now got the Chris Reifert effect. Musically, this sophomore effort is pretty inconsistent. Some songs are such a hard slog through tried-and-tested riffs that you'll be likely wondering why the band even bothered releasing this so soon after the debut's release in the first place. When the album gets good however, as with the album's last four songs, they demonstrate a clear source of inspiration. Oh well. |
| Mournful Congregation The Incubus of Karma | 3.5 |
| The Absence A Gift for the Obsessed | 3.5 |
| Demonical Chaos Manifesto | 3.5 |
| Axel Rudi Pell Knights Call | 3.0 |
| Veiled (USA-PA) Black Celestial Orbs | 3.5 |
| The Crown Cobra Speed Venom | 3.5 |
| Gravehill The Unchaste, the Profane, & the Wicked | 3.0 |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name | 3.5 |
| Susperia The Lyricist | 3.0 |
| Morbosidad Corona De Epidemia | 3.5 |
| Rites of Thy Degringolade The Blade Philosophical | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I | 4.0 |
| Thy Antichrist Wrath of the Beast | 3.5 |
| Rapture (GR) Paroxysm of Hatred | 3.5 |
| Lurker Of Chalice Lurker Of Chalice | 4.0 |
| Pestilence Hadeon | 3.0 |
| Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic | 4.5 |
| Atomwinter Catacombs | 3.0 |
| Ataraxy Where All Hope Fades | 3.5 |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 4.0 |
| Andrew W.K. You're Not Alone | 3.0 |
| Vexes Ancient Geometry | 3.0 |
| Turnstile Time and Space | 3.5 |
| The Osiris Club The Wine-Dark Sea | 3.5 |
| Huntsmen American Scrap | 3.5 |
| Giver Where the Cycle Breaks | 3.5 |
| American Nightmare American Nightmare | 3.0 |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay | 3.5 |
| Immolation Shadows in the Light | 3.5 |
| Immolation Harnessing Ruin | 3.5 |
| Immolation Unholy Cult | 4.5 |
| Horn Retrograd | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Firepower | 3.5 |
| Drudkh They Often See Dreams About The Spring | 4.0 |
| Black Moth Anatomical Venus | 3.5 |
| Blaze Bayley The Redemption of William Black... | 3.0 |
| Immolation Close to a World Below | 4.5 |
| Immolation Failures for Gods | 4.0 |
| Immolation Here in After | 4.5 |
| Immolation Dawn of Possession | 4.5 |
| Dodheimsgard 666 International | 4.0 |
| Ikuinen Kaamos Fall of Icons | 3.5 |
| Ikuinen Kaamos The Forlorn | 3.5 |
| The 3rd and the Mortal Painting on Glass | 4.0 |
| Ilsa Corpse Fortress | 3.5 |
| Phantom Winter Into Dark Science | 3.5 |
| Slugdge Esoteric Malacology | 3.5 |
| Maladie ...of Harm and Salvation | 3.0 |
| Scumpulse Rotten | 3.5 |
| Usurpress Interregnum | 3.0 |
| Apostle of Solitude From Gold to Ash | 3.0 |
| Destroyer 666 Call of the Wild | 3.5 |
| Windhand/Satan's Satyrs Split | 3.5 |
| Angra Ømni | 3.5 |
| My Silent Wake There Was Death | 3.0 |
| Malum Night of the Luciferian Light | 3.5 |
| Howling Sycamore Howling Sycamore | 3.5 |
| Eternal Torment Blind to Reality | 3.5 |
| Erdve Vaitojimas | 4.0 |
| Crescent (EGY) The Order of Amenti | 3.0 |
| Azziard Metempsychose | 3.5 |
| Visions Of Atlantis The Deep & The Dark | 3.0 |
| Visigoth Conqueror's Oath | 3.5 |
| Primal Rite Dirge Of Escapism | 2.5 |
| Perpetrator Altered Beast | 3.5 |
| Harakiri for the Sky Arson | 3.5 |
| Good Tiger We Will All be Gone | 3.5 |
| Philip H. Anselmo and The Illegals Choosing Mental Illness As A Virtue | 3.0 |
| Crucifyre Post Vulcanic Black | 3.0 |
| Apophys Devoratis | 3.5 |
| Accuser The Mastery | 3.5 |
| Black Label Society Grimmest Hits | 3.5 |
| Legend of the Seagullmen Legend of the Seagullmen | 2.0 |
| Aquilus Griseus | 3.5 |
| Shining (SWE) IV - The Eerie Cold | 3.5 |
| Peste Noire Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor | 3.5 |
| Bloodbark Bonebranches | 3.5 |
| Ihsahn Eremita | 4.0 |
| Ihsahn The Adversary | 4.0 |
| The Atlas Moth Coma Noir | 3.5 |
| Harm's Way (USA-IL) Posthuman | 3.5 |
| The Ugly Thanatology | 3.5 |
| Long Distance Calling Boundless | 3.5 |
| Ash Ra Tempel Schwingungen | 3.5 |
| Iced Earth Incorruptible | 3.5 |
| Iced Earth Plagues of Babylon | 3.0 |
| Human Serpent For I, The Misanthropist | 3.5 |
| Orphaned Land Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs | 3.5 |
| Tribulation Down Below | 4.0 |
| Monolithe Nebula Septem | 3.0 |
| Hooded Menace Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed | 4.0 |
| In Vain (NO) Currents | 3.5 |
| Faal Desolate Grief | 3.5 |
| Agrimonia Awaken | 3.5 |
| Interesting mix of blackened sludge, post-metal and an altogether crusty production value. Sort of reminds me of the more melodic side of Bolzer and Black Anvil's latter day material, though the more lengthy compositions here stand out as a different aspect compared to those two bands. Perhaps not gripping enough for me to warrant a higher rating, but certainly provides music for thought. |
| Mammoth Grinder Cosmic Crypt | 3.5 |
| Portal ION | 3.5 |
| Mare Cognitum The Sea Which Has Become Known | 3.5 |
| Yhdarl Loss | 3.5 |
| Arkona (RUS) Khram | 4.0 |
| Spectral Lore/Jute Gyte Helian | 4.0 |
| Abysmal Grief Blasphema Secta | 3.0 |
| Heidevolk Vuur Van Verzet | 3.5 |
| Virvum Illuminance | 3.5 |
| Sortilegia Sulphurous Temple | 3.5 |
| Haunt (USA-CA) Luminous Eyes | 3.5 |
| Inquisitor Stigmata Me, I'm in Misery | 3.5 |
| Almyrkvi Umbra | 4.0 |
| Of Mice and Men Defy | 3.0 |
| Lihhamon Doctrine | 3.5 |
| Silent Descent Turn To Grey | 3.0 |
| Ignis Haereticum Autocognition Of Light | 3.5 |
| Infected Dead Archaic Malevolence | 3.5 |
| IAMFIRE From Ashes | 3.5 |
| The Faceless In Becoming a Ghost | 3.5 |
| Cane Hill Too Far Gone | 3.0 |
| The Erkonauts I Shall Forgive | 3.5 |
| Embrace the Dawn The Effigist | 3.5 |
| A Night in Texas Global Slaughter | 3.0 |
| Iced Earth The Crucible of Man | 2.5 |
| Iced Earth Framing Armageddon | 3.0 |
| Iced Earth The Glorious Burden | 3.5 |
| Mgla Presence | 3.5 |
| Hamferd Támsins likam | 3.5 |
| Bloodshot Dawn Reanimation | 3.5 |
| Iced Earth Horror Show | 4.0 |
| Iced Earth Something Wicked This Way Comes | 4.0 |
| Iced Earth The Dark Saga | 4.0 |
| Iced Earth Burnt Offerings | 4.5 |
| Iced Earth Night of the Stormrider | 4.5 |
| Iced Earth Iced Earth | 3.5 |
| Inquinamentum 8342 | 3.5 |
| Watain Trident Wolf Eclipse | 3.0 |
| Melankoli Wind | 3.5 |
| Shining (SWE) X - Varg Utan Flock | 3.0 |
| The second song is terrible on this album, but then both covers at the end as well as "Jag Ar din Fiende" and "Mot Aokigahara" are really good, well-written in my opinion. Overall, it's an album that fares just above average weighing the inconcistency of it all. |
| Sinistro Sangue Cassia | 4.5 |
| AntimateriA Valo aikojen takaa | 3.0 |
| Gjendod Nedstigning | 3.5 |
| Murmuure Murmuure | 3.0 |
| Ian Anderson Homo Erraticus | 3.5 |
| Ian Anderson Rupi's Dance | 3.5 |
| Sorxe Matter & Void | 3.5 |
| Opium Warlords Droner | 3.0 |
| Nekrasov The Mirror Void | 3.0 |
| Gnaw Cutting Pieces | 3.5 |
| Friendship (JPN) Hatred | 3.5 |
| Scour Red | 3.5 |
| Acid Witch Evil Sound Screamers | 2.5 |
| Toothgrinder Phantom Amour | 3.0 |
| Nortt Endeligt | 3.0 |
| Sons of Apollo Psychotic Symphony | 3.5 |
| Sect No Cure For Death | 3.5 |
| Polaris The Mortal Coil | 3.5 |
| Nullingroots Into the Grey | 3.5 |
| Dan Terminus Automated Refrains | 3.5 |
| Ba'al In Gallows by Mass | 3.5 |
| The Atomic Bitchwax Force Field | 3.5 |
| Evilfeast Elegies of the Stellar Wind | 3.5 |
| Iperyt The Patchwork Gehinnom | 3.0 |
| Midnight Sweet Death and Ecstasy | 3.5 |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Pacifisticuffs | 4.0 |
| Thaw Grains | 3.5 |
| Feared Svart | 3.5 |
| Atrocity Masters Of Darkness | 3.5 |
| Jess And The Ancient Ones The Horse and Other Weird Tales | 3.5 |
| Intervals The Way Forward | 3.5 |
| Deinonychus Ode to Acts of Murder, Dystopia and Suicide | 3.5 |
| Eldamar A Dark Forgotten Past | 3.0 |
| War Possession Doomed To Chaos | 3.5 |
| Tetragrammacide Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix | 3.5 |
| Psychedelic Witchcraft Sound of the Wind | 3.0 |
| Lo! Vestigial | 3.5 |
| Audn Farvegir Fyrndar | 3.0 |
| Lento Fourth | 3.5 |
| Degial Predator Reign | 4.0 |
| Dawn Ray'd The Unlawful Assembly | 3.0 |
| Complete Failure Crossburner | 3.5 |
| Begerith A.D.A.M. | 3.5 |
| Witherfall Nocturnes and Requiems | 3.5 |
| We Came As Romans Cold Like War | 3.0 |
| Vuur In This Moment We Are Free - Cities | 3.5 |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead Disomus | 3.5 |
| Quicksand Interiors | 3.5 |
| Statues No Grave, No Burial | 3.5 |
| No Warning Torture Culture | 3.5 |
| The King Is Blind We Are the Parasite, We Are the Cancer | 3.5 |
| Impureza La Caída de Tonatiuh | 3.5 |
| The Dark Element The Dark Element | 3.0 |
| Entheos (USA) Dark Future | 3.5 |
| Damned Spring Fragrantia Chasm | 3.0 |
| Act of Defiance Old Scars, New Wounds | 3.5 |
| 10 Years (How to Live) As Ghosts | 3.0 |
| Taake Kong Vinter | 3.5 |
| Aetherian The Untamed Wilderness | 3.5 |
| Godflesh Post Self | 4.0 |
| Aosoth V: The Inside Scriptures | 4.0 |
| Merkabah (PL) Million Miles | 3.5 |
| Electric Wizard Wizard Bloody Wizard | 2.5 |
| Desolate Shrine Deliverance from the Godless Void | 4.0 |
| Threat Signal Disconnect | 3.5 |
| W.E.B. Tartarus | 3.5 |
| Cruciamentum Paradise Envenomed | 3.5 |
| Lustre (SWE) Still Innocence | 3.0 |
| Adimiron Et Liber Eris | 4.0 |
| Blaze of Perdition Conscious Darkness | 3.5 |
| Kawir Exilasmos | 3.5 |
| Cold Cell Those | 3.0 |
| Inconcessus Lux Lucis The Crowning Quietus | 3.5 |
| All Pigs Must Die Hostage Animal | 3.5 |
| Black Mare Death Magick Mother | 3.5 |
| Biblical The City That Always Sleeps | 3.5 |
| Antiversum Cosmos Comedenti | 3.5 |
| Antarktis Ildlaante | 3.5 |
| Zaius Of Adoration | 3.5 |
| Veil of Maya False Idol | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Red Before Black | 3.0 |
| Stick to Your Guns True View | 3.5 |
| Perturbator New Model | 3.5 |
| Red Mountains Slow Wander | 3.5 |
| Nothing More The Stories We Tell Ourselves | 2.5 |
| My Ticket Home Unreal | 3.5 |
| IDYLLS The Barn | 3.5 |
| Hollywood Undead Five | 2.0 |
| The Great Discord The Rabbit Hole | 3.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord Deus Salutis Meae | 3.5 |
| Katla Móðurástin | 3.5 |
| Major Parkinson Blackbox | 4.0 |
| Forgotten Tomb We Owe You Nothing | 3.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn | 4.0 |
| Amenra Mass VI | 3.5 |
| Bell Witch Mirror Reaper | 3.5 |
| Ophis The Dismal Circle | 3.5 |
| Yellow Eyes Immersion Trench Reverie | 4.0 |
| Sorcerer The Crowning of the Fire King | 3.0 |
| GWAR The Blood of Gods | 3.0 |
| Throane Plus une Main à Mordre | 3.5 |
| Iron Monkey 9-13 | 3.5 |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence | 3.5 |
| Hallatar No Stars Upon the Bridge | 3.5 |
| Pylar A Ella Te Conduce La Sagrada Espyral | 3.0 |
| Altarage Endinghent | 3.5 |
| Vassafor Malediction | 3.5 |
| Sarke Viige Urh | 3.5 |
| Exhumed Death Revenge | 3.5 |
| Kroh Pyres | 3.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Heaven Upside Down | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem | 3.5 |
| Nesseria Cette érosion de nous-mêmes | 3.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers | 4.0 |
| Dreadnought A Wake In Sacred Waves | 3.5 |
| Primitive Man Caustic | 3.5 |
| Vacivus Temple Of The Abyss | 3.5 |
| Pagan Altar The Room of Shadows | 3.0 |
| Unsane Sterilize | 3.5 |
| Archspire Relentless Mutation | 3.0 |
| Acephalix Decreation | 3.5 |
| Radio Moscow New Beginnings | 3.5 |
| Pentakill II: Grasp of The Undying | 3.5 |
| Neck of the Woods The Passenger | 3.5 |
| Monolord Rust | 4.0 |
| The Bronx The Bronx (V) | 3.5 |
| Kublai Khan TX Nomad | 3.0 |
| Helpless Debt | 3.5 |
| Dyscarnate With All Their Might | 3.5 |
| Cripper Follow Me: Kill! | 3.0 |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant | 3.5 |
| Arch Enemy Will to Power | 3.0 |
| Arkaik Nemethia | 3.5 |
| Celeste Infidele(s) | 3.5 |
| Primus The Desaturating Seven | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven | 3.5 |
| Ufomammut 8 | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun | 3.5 |
| King Parrot Ugly Produce | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Cold Dark Place | 3.5 |
| Nibiru (ITA) Qaal Babalon | 3.5 |
| Process of Guilt Black Earth | 3.0 |
| With the Dead Love from With the Dead | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers | 3.5 |
| In Twilight's Embrace Vanitas | 3.5 |
| Kauan Kaiho | 4.0 |
| Vulture Industries Stranger Times | 3.5 |
| Gigan Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescence | 4.0 |
| Ensiferum Two Paths | 2.5 |
| Myrkur Mareridt | 3.5 |
| Usnea Portals Into Futility | 4.0 |
| Atrox Monocle | 3.5 |
| Grift Arvet | 3.5 |
| Ruby The Hatchet Planetary Space Child | 3.5 |
| Septicflesh Codex Omega | 4.0 |
| Poseidon (UK) Prologue | 3.5 |
| Dawn Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy) | 3.5 |
| Portrait (SWE) Burn the World | 3.5 |
| Morbid Evils Deceases | 3.5 |
| Gravdal Kadaverin | 3.5 |
| Cannabis Corpse Left Hand Pass | 3.0 |
| Bonehunter Sexual Panic Human Machine | 3.5 |
| Triggerfinger Colossus | 3.5 |
| Sasquatch Maneuvers | 3.5 |
| Oceans Ate Alaska Hikari | 3.0 |
| Paradise Lost Medusa | 4.0 |
| The Hirsch Effekt Eskapist | 3.5 |
| Leprous Malina | 3.5 |
| Crimfall Amain | 3.5 |
| Inanimate Existence Underneath a Melting Sky | 3.0 |
| Sannhet So Numb | 3.5 |
| Akercocke Renaissance in Extremis | 4.0 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Finisterre | 4.0 |
| Sinmara Within the Weaves of Infinity | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit | 4.0 |
| Ian Anderson Divinities: Twelve Dances with God | 3.0 |
| Ian Anderson Walk into Light | 2.0 |
| Violet Cold Anomie | 3.5 |
| Sons of Crom The Black Tower | 3.0 |
| Attic Sanctimonious | 3.5 |
| Beneath (IS) Ephemeris | 4.0 |
| Incantation Profane Nexus | 3.0 |
| Cormorant Diaspora | 4.0 |
| Pyrrhon What Passes for Survival | 3.5 |
| Witch Vomit Poisoned Blood | 3.5 |
| Nexul Paradigm of Chaos | 3.5 |
| Loviatar Loviatar | 3.0 |
| Origin Unparalleled Universe | 3.5 |
| Wage War Deadweight | 3.0 |
| Volumes Different Animals | 3.0 |
| Shade Empire Poetry of the Ill-Minded | 3.5 |
| Make Them Suffer Worlds Apart | 3.5 |
| Less Art Strangled Light | 3.5 |
| Freakangel How The Ghost Became | 2.5 |
| Ewigkeit Cosmic Man | 3.5 |
| Hundred Suns The Prestaliis | 3.0 |
| Dead Cross Dead Cross | 3.5 |
| Adagio Life | 3.5 |
| Abhorrent Decimation The Pardoner | 3.5 |
| iamthemorning Belighted | 3.5 |
| The Kindred Weight | 3.5 |
| Hypocrisy End of Disclosure | 3.5 |
| Hypocrisy The Arrival | 4.0 |
| Hypocrisy Catch 22 | 3.0 |
| Toxik Breaking Class | 3.5 |
| Marty Friedman Wall of Sound | 3.5 |
| Hypocrisy Into the Abyss | 3.5 |
| Hypocrisy Hypocrisy | 4.0 |
| Hypocrisy The Final Chapter | 4.0 |
| Hypocrisy Abducted | 4.0 |
| Hypocrisy Osculum Obscenum | 3.5 |
| Hypocrisy Penetralia | 3.5 |
| Wintersun The Forest Seasons | 3.0 |
| ROSK Miasma | 3.5 |
| Temple of Void Lords Of Death | 3.5 |
| Prong Zero Days | 3.0 |
| Byzantine The Cicada Tree | 3.5 |
| In This Moment Ritual | 2.5 |
| Tau Cross A Pillar Of Fire | 3.5 |
| Sun of the Sleepless To The Elements | 4.0 |
| Primitive Man Fear/A life of turmoil | 3.0 |
| Obscurity Streitmacht | 3.5 |
| Enfold Darkness Adversary Omnipotent | 3.5 |
| Jute Gyte Oviri | 2.5 |
| Weregoat Pestilential Rites of Infernal Fornication | 3.5 |
| Vintersorg Till Fjälls Del II | 4.0 |
| Boris Dear | 3.5 |
| Petyr Petyr | 3.0 |
| Necrot Blood Offerings | 3.5 |
| Khost Governance | 3.0 |
| Circle Terminal | 4.0 |
| Execration (NOR) Return to the Void | 3.5 |
| Eoront Another Realm | 3.5 |
| Divine Element Thaurachs of Borsu | 3.5 |
| Broken Hope Mutilated And Assimilated | 3.5 |
| Beastmaker Inside the Skull | 3.5 |
| Vokonis The Sunken Djinn | 3.5 |
| Slaughter To Prevail Misery Sermon | 3.0 |
| River Black River Black | 3.5 |
| Orden Ogan Gunmen | 3.0 |
| Karkaos Children of the Void | 3.5 |
| Doyle Doyle II: As We Die | 3.0 |
| Conveyer No Future | 3.0 |
| The Acacia Strain Gravebloom | 3.0 |
| Ellende Todbringer | 3.5 |
| Huntress Starbound Beast | 3.0 |
| Ereb Altor Ulfven | 3.5 |
| Melvins A Walk With Love And Death | 3.0 |
| Limbonic Art Spectre Abysm | 3.5 |
| Stone Sour Hydrograd | 3.5 |
| The Amenta Occasus | 4.0 |
| Helloween 7 Sinners | 3.5 |
| Helloween The Dark Ride | 4.0 |
| Helloween Better Than Raw | 4.0 |
| Helloween Master of the Rings | 3.5 |
| Helloween Chameleon | 2.5 |
| Helloween Pink Bubbles Go Ape | 2.5 |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II | 4.5 |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I | 4.5 |
| Dying Fetus Wrong One to Fuck With | 3.5 |
| Father Befouled Desolate Gods | 3.5 |
| Impetuous Ritual Blight Upon Martyred Sentience | 3.5 |
| Igorrr Savage Sinusoid | 3.5 |
| Carach Angren Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten | 3.0 |
| Dephosphorus Impossible Orbits | 3.5 |
| Antichrist (SWE) Sinful Birth | 4.0 |
| Witheria Infinite Recollection | 3.5 |
| Volur Ancestors | 3.5 |
| Tombs The Grand Annihilation | 3.5 |
| Schammasch The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite | 3.5 |
| In Reverence The Selected Breed | 3.5 |
| Entrails (SWE) World Inferno | 3.5 |
| Gravetemple Impassable Fears | 3.5 |
| Ensnared Dysangelium | 3.5 |
| Endon Through The Mirror | 3.5 |
| Vallenfyre Fear Those Who Fear Him | 3.5 |
| A Trust Unclean Parturition | 3.0 |
| Timeworn Luminescent Wake | 3.5 |
| Eighteen Visions XVIII | 2.5 |
| Samsara Blues Experiment One with the Universe | 3.5 |
| Rise Against Wolves | 3.0 |
| Martyr Defiled Young Gods | 3.0 |
| Kingdom of Giants All the Hell You've Got to Spare | 2.5 |
| In Hearts Wake Ark | 3.0 |
| Higher Power Soul Structure | 3.5 |
| Progenie Terrestre Pura oltreLuna | 3.5 |
| Foscor Les Irreals Visions | 4.5 |
| Truly a fantastic album, and certainly one of 2017's finest albums. In a way it reminds me of Novembre's excellent "Ursa" record from last year, if only because of how passionate and otherworldly the listening experience feels. That said, the uplifting vocals and unique rhythm section work here have such an alluring charm, it's hard to detach yourself from the soundscape. Every song has its own little twist, but Les Irreals Visions details a transcendent style throughout which is hard for many bands to master. Hard to pick a highlight here, but I would say that "Altars", "Encenalls de Mort" and "Espectres al Cau" are some of the best examples of what Foscor do best on this album. |
| Merrimack Omegaphilia | 3.5 |
| The Birthday Massacre Under Your Spell | 3.5 |
| Klabautamann Smaragd | 3.5 |
| Mutoid Man War Moans | 3.5 |
| Tengger Cavalry Die On My Ride | 2.5 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World | 4.0 |
| SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes? | 3.5 |
| Triumvir Foul Spiritual Bloodshed | 3.5 |
| Acherontas Amarta (Formulas of Reptilian Unification Part II) | 3.5 |
| Tod Huetet Uebel N.A.D.A. | 3.5 |
| Below the Sun Alien World | 3.5 |
| Emyn Muil Elenion Ancalima | 3.0 |
| Solstafir Berdreyminn | 3.0 |
| Scale the Summit In a World of Fear | 3.0 |
| The Monolith Deathcult Versus I | 3.5 |
| Amiensus All Paths Lead to Death | 3.5 |
| Au-Dessus End of Chapter | 3.5 |
| Dodsengel Interequinox | 3.0 |
| Ulsect Ulsect | 3.5 |
| Sabbath Assembly Rites of Passage | 3.0 |
| Obelyskkh The Providence | 3.5 |
| Loss Horizonless | 3.0 |
| Foreseen (FIN) Grave Danger | 3.5 |
| Empusae Lueur | 3.5 |
| Dynfari The Four Doors of the Mind | 3.5 |
| Crypt Rot Embryonic Devils | 3.5 |
| All Hell The Grave Alchemist | 3.0 |
| The Voynich Code Aqua Vitae | 3.0 |
| Voyager Ghost Mile | 4.0 |
| Saule Saule | 3.5 |
| Motionless in White Graveyard Shift | 2.5 |
| No Sin Evades His Gaze Endless Disconnect | 3.0 |
| Andy James Exodus | 3.5 |
| John Frum A Stirring In The Noos | 3.5 |
| Ho99o9 United States Of Horror | 3.5 |
| Employed To Serve The Warmth Of A Dying Sun | 4.0 |
| Earth Rot Renascentia | 3.5 |
| Earth Electric Vol.1: Solar | 3.5 |
| Nargaroth Era of Threnody | 3.0 |
| Hell (UK) Curse and Chapter | 4.0 |
| God Dethroned The World Ablaze | 3.5 |
| Ajattara Lupaus | 3.5 |
| Hell (UK) Human Remains | 4.0 |
| Helix Wild in the Streets | 3.5 |
| Helix Walkin' the Razor's Edge | 3.0 |
| Labyrinth Architecture of a God | 2.5 |
| The Ruins of Beverast Exuvia | 4.5 |
| Had to bump this up to a 4.5 eventually. Several isolated listens of this album whilst driving (mostly during night when traffic is virtually non-existent and the absence of light grows fonder), and I have to say it's confirmed my belief that The Ruins of Beverast has become one of my favourite black metal bands. Every song on this album is different from the rest, and whilst that's not saying too much given there's only six songs here, it's still a moot point. |
| Ayreon The Source | 3.5 |
| Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy | 3.5 |
| Oxbow Thin Black Duke | 3.5 |
| Skyclad Forward into the Past | 3.0 |
| Les Discrets Prédateurs | 3.5 |
| Cloven Hoof Who Mourns for the Morning Star? | 3.5 |
| Wolfbrigade Run With The Hunted | 3.0 |
| Condor (NO) Unstoppable Power | 4.0 |
| Farsot Fail·Lure | 3.5 |
| Nightbringer Terra Damnata | 3.0 |
| Necrowretch Satanic Slavery | 3.5 |
| Deep Purple inFinite | 3.5 |
| Orm Orm | 3.0 |
| Firespawn The Reprobate | 3.5 |
| Necroblood Collapse of the Human Race | 3.5 |
| Fuoco Fatuo (ITA2) Backwater | 3.5 |
| Cut Up Wherever They May Rot | 3.5 |
| Craven Idol The Shackles of Mammon | 3.5 |
| Coltsblood Into the Unfathomable Abyss | 3.5 |
| Bereft (USA-WI) Lands | 3.5 |
| Bathsheba Servus | 3.5 |
| Artificial Brain Infrared Horizon | 4.0 |
| Alunah Solennial | 3.5 |
| Wolfheart Tyhjyys | 3.5 |
| Valborg Endstrand | 4.0 |
| Uneven Structure La Partition | 3.5 |
| Wear Your Wounds WYW | 2.5 |
| Trial (SWE) Motherless | 3.0 |
| Northlane Mesmer | 3.0 |
| Bungler The Nature Of Being New | 3.0 |
| Blood Youth Beyond Repair | 3.0 |
| Asira Efference | 3.0 |
| Blood Feast The Future State Of Wicked | 3.5 |
| Novembers Doom Hamartia | 3.5 |
| Hexis Tando Ashanti | 3.0 |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar | 3.5 |
| Possession (BE) Exorkizein | 3.5 |
| Azarath In Extremis | 3.0 |
| The Obsessed Sacred | 3.0 |
| Inferno (CZ) Gnosis Kardias (Of Transcension and Involution) | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand | 4.0 |
| White Willow Future Hopes | 3.5 |
| Falls of Rauros Vigilance Perennial | 3.5 |
| The Moth Gatherer The Comfortable Low | 3.0 |
| Steve Hackett The Night Siren | 4.0 |
| Allochiria Throes | 3.5 |
| Fange Pourrissoir | 4.0 |
| Venenum Trance of Death | 4.5 |
| In the words of Varg Vikernes when he decided to cover Bathory's "War"...r'This is, huh, wow'.rNo but seriously, this is fantastic work. One of, if not the best extreme metal record of the year so far. |
| Anomalie Visions | 3.5 |
| Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed II | 3.0 |
| R.I.P. In The Wind | 3.5 |
| Pallbearer Heartless | 4.0 |
| Lantern (FIN) II: Morphosis | 3.5 |
| Grails Chalice Hymnal | 4.0 |
| Aseethe Hopes of Failure | 3.5 |
| Obituary Obituary | 3.0 |
| Unreqvited Disquiet | 3.0 |
| Deitus Acta Non Verba | 3.5 |
| Our Hollow, Our Home Hartsick | 3.0 |
| Within the Ruins Halfway Human | 3.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse | 2.5 |
| Reaping Asmodeia Impuritize | 3.0 |
| OHHMS The Fool | 3.5 |
| Junius Eternal Rituals For The Accretion of Light | 3.5 |
| Darkest Hour Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora | 4.0 |
| Creeper Eternity, In Your Arms | 3.5 |
| Sinister Syncretism | 3.5 |
| Mutiny Within Origins | 3.0 |
| Woe Hope Attrition | 3.5 |
| Fen Winter | 4.0 |
| Dodecahedron Kwintessens | 4.0 |
| Eldamar/Dreams of Nature Split | 3.5 |
| Avoid The Light Spleen | 3.0 |
| Demonic Resurrection Dashavatar | 3.5 |
| Condemned His Divine Shadow | 3.5 |
| Evocation The Shadow Archetype | 3.0 |
| Lock Up Demonization | 3.5 |
| Planning for Burial Below the House | 3.5 |
| Pillorian Obsidian Arc | 3.5 |
| Havok Conformicide | 3.0 |
| Dread Sovereign For Doom The Bell Tolls | 3.0 |
| Blackfield Blackfield V | 4.0 |
| Grima Tales of the Enchanted Woods | 4.0 |
| Persefone Aathma | 4.0 |
| Power Trip Nightmare Logic | 3.0 |
| Deivos Endemic Divine | 3.5 |
| The Ominous Circle Appalling Ascension | 3.5 |
| Unearthly Trance Stalking The Ghost | 3.5 |
| Morta Skuld Wounds Deeper Than Time | 3.5 |
| Endalok Ur Draumheimi Viourstyggor | 4.0 |
| Au Champ Des Morts Dans La Joie | 3.5 |
| Sunlight's Bane The Blackest Volume: Like All The Earth Was Buried | 3.5 |
| Ocean Grove The Rhapsody Tapes | 3.5 |
| Horisont About Time | 3.5 |
| Disperse Foreword | 3.5 |
| Hark Machinations | 3.0 |
| Acres In Sickness and Health | 3.5 |
| Beyond The Black Lost in Forever | 3.0 |
| Crystal Fairy Crystal Fairy | 3.5 |
| Heart Jupiter's Darling | 3.5 |
| Heart Desire Walks On | 2.5 |
| Heart Bad Animals | 2.5 |
| Heart Heart | 2.5 |
| Heart Passionworks | 3.0 |
| Heart Private Audition | 3.0 |
| Heart Bebe Le Strange | 3.5 |
| Wolfchant Bloodwinter | 3.0 |
| Mord'A'Stigmata Hope | 3.5 |
| Frowning Extinct | 3.5 |
| Heart Dog & Butterfly | 3.0 |
| Heart Magazine | 3.0 |
| Heart Little Queen | 3.5 |
| Heart Dreamboat Annie | 4.0 |
| Hawkwind Onward | 3.5 |
| Hawkwind Blood of the Earth | 3.0 |
| Hawkwind Take Me to Your Leader | 3.0 |
| Hawkwind Distant Horizons | 2.5 |
| Gloson Grimen | 3.5 |
| Nidingr The High Heat Licks Against Heaven | 3.0 |
| Hawkwind Alien 4 | 3.0 |
| Hawkwind White Zone | 2.0 |
| Mors Principium Est Embers of a Dying World | 3.5 |
| Honestly, I thought the first two proper songs from this album were really bland, uninspired stuff. The cheesy symphonics didn't do much but annoy me even more, and the musicianship was too predictable to be called adventurous. Then somehow the band have a complete turnaround in terms of creativity and deliver one of the album's stand-out highlights, "Death is the Beginning". I think from this point on is where the band really show their strengths. At times I'm reminded of Karybdis in terms of musical technique and style, but this certainly turns out to be a very decent melodeath record. Pity that it starts in a boring way. |
| Hawkwind It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous | 2.5 |
| Hawkwind Electric Tepee | 3.0 |
| Hawkwind Space Bandits | 3.0 |
| Soen Lykaia | 3.0 |
| Hawkwind The Xenon Codex | 3.0 |
| Iron Reagan Crossover Ministry | 3.5 |
| Hawkwind The Chronicle of the Black Sword | 3.5 |
| Hawkwind Choose Your Masques | 3.0 |
| Horn Turm am Hang | 3.5 |
| Xandria Theater of Dimensions | 3.5 |
| Aborym Shifting.Negative | 2.5 |
| Emptiness Not For Music | 3.5 |
| The Flight of Sleipnir Skadi | 3.5 |
| Firewind Immortals | 3.5 |
| Fides Inversa Rite of Inverse Incarnation | 3.5 |
| Black Anvil As Was | 3.5 |
| Shaarimoth Temple of the Adversarial Fire | 3.5 |
| I really like the maniacal tone running throughout this album, but pretty much every song ends up being a little inconsistent, too much for me to rate it any higher. Songs like "The Hungry Omega", "Lord of Putrefaction" and "Ascension of the Blood Dragon" are great for a couple of minutes and then they seem to plod on towards the end. Then songs like "Fires of Molok" and "Faceless Queen of Bloodstained Dreams" are the flipside of this-they start out a little uninteresting, then finish on a high because of the former's beautiful outro or the latter's menacing mid-paced battery. The band do get it perfect on "Beast of Lawlessness", which for me is the stand-out highlight of the record. |
| Lord Vigo Blackborne Souls | 3.0 |
| Nicole Saboune Miman | 4.0 |
| Kosmokrator First Step Towards Supremacy | 4.0 |
| Gnaw Their Tongues Hymns For the Broken, Swollen and Silent | 3.0 |
| The Drip The Haunting Fear of Inevitability | 3.5 |
| Cerebral Fix Disaster Of Reality | 3.0 |
| The Great Old Ones EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy | 4.5 |
| BARST The Western Lands | 4.0 |
| Vipassi Śūnyatā | 3.5 |
| Emptiness Nothing but the Whole | 3.0 |
| The Last Ten Seconds Of Life The Violent Sound | 3.0 |
| Circle of Dust Machines Of Our Disgrace | 2.5 |
| Rise of Caligula Parading From Heaven's Descent | 3.5 |
| Code Orange Forever | 2.5 |
| Nasum Human 2.0 | 4.0 |
| Lustre (SWE) Blossom | 3.5 |
| Pain of Salvation In the Passing Light of Day | 3.5 |
| Hawkwind Church of Hawkwind | 2.0 |
| Hawkwind Levitation | 4.5 |
| Hawkwind PXR5 | 3.0 |
| Hawkwind 25 Years On | 3.5 |
| Hawkwind Quark, Strangeness and Charm | 4.0 |
| Archive Controlling Crowds | 4.0 |
| Hawkwind Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music | 3.5 |
| Not their best, but i still enjoy most of the songs here. Lighter than what they did before though if im honest. |
| Hawkwind Hall of the Mountain Grill | 4.5 |
| Hawkwind Doremi Fasol Latido | 4.5 |
| Hawkwind In Search of Space | 4.0 |
| Hawkwind Hawkwind | 3.5 |
| Laster Ons Vrije Fatum | 3.5 |
| Fall of Efrafa Owsla | 3.5 |
| Count to Altek A Seraphia Entwined | 3.0 |
| Saor Guardians | 4.0 |
| Havok Unnatural Selection | 3.0 |
| Probably the closest to average Havok will get. A lot of this is decent but unremarkable, especially when you compare to the previous two releases. |
| Havok Time Is Up | 3.5 |
| Another very strong thrash record. Production is more audible than on the band's debut but the formula is much the same, maybe a couple of songs demonstrate more complex musicianship but the rest is no-frills thrash pretty much. Highlights: "No Amnesty" and "D.O.A.". |
| Tardigrada Emotionale Ödnis | 3.5 |
| Havok Burn | 3.5 |
| A great, solid thrash debut done with real conviction and prowess. Reminds me at times of early Death Angel, in a good way of course. Best songs for me would be "Identity Theft" and "Category of the Dead". |
| The Haunted Versus | 3.0 |
| Perhaps more aggressive and straightforward than its predecessor, but Versus is still The Haunted going through their own motions. Solid and sometimes great as the music is here, it shares the same flaws with much of the band's discography in that the experience gets tiresome too quickly, resulting in a mixed bag of an effort once again. Songs do stand out-notably "Pieces" and "Trenches"-but they don't make up for an otherwise fairly average effort. |
| The Haunted The Dead Eye | 3.0 |
| I think a lot of focus on trying to attempt an overall "different" sound made this album feel like a mixed bag in the end. I mean, it's certainly promising most of the time and is as adventurous as The Haunted's previous two records, but it simply grows weary after the first few tracks have unfolded their fury. Not saying this is boring material, but it does require a few listens if you're looking to get something out of it. The only two songs which really stand out-and do so because they're excellently well-written-are "The Drowning" and "The Reflection" in my opinion. Everything else seems solid but largely unmoving. |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora | 4.5 |
| The Haunted rEVOLVEr | 3.0 |
| The Haunted One Kill Wonder | 3.5 |
| The Haunted Made Me Do It | 3.0 |
| The Haunted The Haunted | 2.5 |
| Hate Forest Sorrow | 4.0 |
| Hate Forest Battlefields | 4.0 |
| Hate Forest Purity | 4.0 |
| Hate Forest The Most Ancient Ones | 4.0 |
| Astral Path An Oath to the Void | 3.5 |
| Worm Ouroboros What Graceless Dawn | 3.0 |
| Witchery In His Infernal Majesty's Service | 3.5 |
| Spiritus Mortis The Year Is One | 3.5 |
| Ravencult Force Of Profanation | 3.5 |
| Kyy Beyond Flesh - Beyond Matter - Beyond Death | 3.0 |
| Entrapment Through Realms Unseen | 3.0 |
| Downfall of Gaia Atrophy | 3.5 |
| Death Fetishist Clandestine Sacrament | 3.5 |
| I like the weird, sort-of psychedelic musicianship and rough production here, they really make the songs as gritty as they are fluent. That said, I find the songwriting mostly repetitive here and wholly dependent on one singular main riff, which aren't that spectacular to begin with. Nonetheless, this album has some excellent moments, such as the notable melodic "Netherrealm" and that slightly disturbing opener "The Gifted Medium". |
| Camel of Doom Terrestrial | 3.5 |
| Ranger Speed & Violence | 3.5 |
| Whores. Gold | 3.5 |
| Sister Stand Up, Forward, March! | 3.5 |
| Sibiir Sibiir | 3.5 |
| Upon a Burning Body Straight From the Barrio | 3.0 |
| Memphis May Fire This Light I Hold | 3.0 |
| Megosh Apostasy | 3.0 |
| Ion Dissonance Cast the First Stone | 3.5 |
| HORNSS Telepath | 3.0 |
| Superjoint Caught Up in the Gears of Application | 3.0 |
| Dope Blood Money, Pt. 1 | 2.5 |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many | 3.5 |
| Trees of Eternity Hour of the Nightingale | 3.5 |
| T.O.M.B. Fury Nocturnus | 3.0 |
| Take Over And Destroy Take Over and Destroy | 3.5 |
| Ortega Sacred States | 3.5 |
| Urfaust Empty Space Meditation | 3.5 |
| NAAT NAAT | 3.5 |
| Hierophant (IT) Mass Grave | 3.0 |
| Albez Duz Wings of Tzinacan | 3.5 |
| Bolzer Hero | 3.5 |
| Wakrat Wakrat | 3.0 |
| Vorvan Once Love Was Lost | 3.5 |
| Starkill Shadow Sleep | 3.0 |
| Planes Mistaken for Stars Prey | 3.0 |
| Madder Mortem Red In Tooth And Claw | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens | 3.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Atoma | 3.0 |
| Dangers The Bend In The Break | 3.0 |
| Crowbar The Serpent Only Lies | 3.0 |
| Brutai Born | 3.5 |
| Annisokay Devil May Care | 3.0 |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct | 3.0 |
| Deathspell Omega The Synarchy of Molten Bones | 4.0 |
| Nullingroots Take Care | 4.0 |
| The Great Cold The Great Cold | 3.5 |
| Almyrkvi Pupil of the Searing Maelstrom | 4.0 |
| Onirism The Well of Stars | 3.5 |
| Illyria Illyria | 4.0 |
| Demonical Darkness Unbound | 3.5 |
| Selvans / Downfall Of Nur Selvans / Downfall of Nur | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis | 3.5 |
| Destrage A Means to No End | 3.5 |
| Manfred Mann's Earth Band Nightingales & Bombers | 3.5 |
| Earth and Pillars Earth I | 3.5 |
| Hail Spirit Noir Mayhem In Blue | 3.5 |
| Downfall of Nur Umbras de Barbagia | 3.5 |
| Seremonia Pahuuden Net | 2.5 |
| Oozing Wound Whatever Forever | 3.5 |
| Wovenhand Star Treatment | 3.5 |
| Noctem Haeresis | 3.5 |
| Mithras On Strange Loops | 4.0 |
| Lotus Thief Gramarye | 4.0 |
| Wardruna Runaljod – Ragnarok | 4.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh The Whole of the Law | 3.5 |
| Hobbs' Angel of Death Heaven Bled | 3.5 |
| Deathcult Beasts Of Faith | 3.5 |
| Black Table Obelisk | 3.5 |
| Witchskull The Vast Electric Dark | 3.0 |
| Winterfylleth The Dark Hereafter | 3.5 |
| Void of Vision Children of Chrome | 3.0 |
| Venom Prison Animus | 3.0 |
| Ultar Kadath | 3.5 |
| To The Wind The Brighter View | 3.5 |
| Suicidal Tendencies World Gone Mad | 3.5 |
| Wovenwar Honor Is Dead | 2.5 |
| Sons of Balaur Tenebris Deos | 3.0 |
| Seeker Loss | 3.5 |
| Monte Pittman Inverted Grasp of Balance | 3.0 |
| Serpentine Dominion Serpentine Dominion | 3.5 |
| Red Fang Only Ghosts | 3.0 |
| Dayshell Nexus | 3.0 |
| A Day To Remember Bad Vibrations | 3.5 |
| Giraffe Tongue Orchestra Broken Lines | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Transit Blues | 3.5 |
| Korn The Serenity of Suffering | 3.0 |
| Hanoi Rocks Two Steps From The Move | 3.5 |
| Hanoi Rocks Back to Mystery City | 3.5 |
| Hanoi Rocks Oriental Beat | 3.5 |
| Hanoi Rocks Bangkok Shocks,Saigon Shakes,Hanoi Rocks | 4.0 |
| HammerFall Crimson Thunder | 3.5 |
| HammerFall Glory To The Brave | 3.0 |
| Hawkwind The Machine Stops | 3.0 |
| Oathbreaker Rheia | 3.5 |
| Gong Rejoice! I’m Dead! | 4.0 |
| Warfather The Grey Eminence | 3.0 |
| Usurpress The Regal Tribe | 3.5 |
| True Widow Avvolgere | 3.0 |
| Thy Catafalque Meta | 4.5 |
| Well now, here's an album that practically blows every other record of 2016 out of the water. Well at least it does for me. Utterly fantastic from start to finish. Full of creativity, versatility and finesse without ever confusing or frustrating its listener. I could pick any song from here and hail it as a highlight, but I think the third track (I know, too lazy to write the song titles out) and that monstrously progressive 20-minute behemoth both take the cake. I doubt I'll hear another album with the same replay value or timeless quality as this in all honesty, but that's just my opinion. |
| In the Woods... Pure | 3.5 |
| Predatory Light Predatory Light | 3.0 |
| Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard Y Proffwyd Dwyll | 3.5 |
| In the Silence A Fair Dream Gone Mad | 3.0 |
| Kroh Altars | 3.5 |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn | 3.5 |
| Ancient Back To The Land Of The Dead | 3.0 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Muukalainen Puhuu | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires | 3.5 |
| Trap Them Crown Feral | 3.0 |
| Wild Throne Harvest of Darkness | 3.5 |
| VOLA Inmazes | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away | 3.5 |
| Truckfighters V | 3.0 |
| Tardive Dyskinesia Harmonic Confusion | 3.0 |
| Morphinist Giants | 3.0 |
| Sumerlands Sumerlands | 3.0 |
| Show Me A Dinosaur Show Me A Dinosaur | 3.5 |
| Aves Feathers | 3.0 |
| Sahg Memento Mori | 4.0 |
| Winterfylleth The Threnody of Triumph | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore Stage Four | 4.0 |
| King 810 La Petite Mort or a Conversation With God | 2.5 |
| Lordi Monstereophonic (Theaterror vs. Demonarchy) | 2.5 |
| Lies Abuse | 3.5 |
| Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks | 2.5 |
| Fire from the Gods Narrative | 3.0 |
| Summoning Lugburz | 3.0 |
| Dysrhythmia The Veil Of Control | 3.5 |
| Daniel Lioneye Vol. III | 3.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Garlands | 3.5 |
| Cover Your Tracks Fever Dream | 2.5 |
| Colosso Obnoxious | 3.5 |
| Ripper (CL) Raising the Corpse | 3.5 |
| Addaura Burning for the Ancient | 3.0 |
| Carcer City Infinite / Unknown | 2.5 |
| Barishi Blood from the Lion's Mouth | 3.5 |
| Coldworld Autumn | 3.5 |
| Opeth Sorceress | 3.5 |
| Any Given Day Everlasting | 3.0 |
| Allegaeon Proponent for Sentience | 3.5 |
| Arkhon Infaustus Orthodoxyn | 3.5 |
| Necronautical The Endurance at Night | 3.5 |
| Svvamp Svvamp | 2.5 |
| Ringworm Snake Church | 3.0 |
| SubRosa (US) For This We Fought the Battle of Ages | 3.5 |
| Darkher Realms | 3.5 |
| Iskra Ruins | 3.5 |
| Imperium Dekadenz Dis Manibvs | 4.5 |
| Horseback Dead Ringers | 3.0 |
| Caronte Codex Babalon | 3.5 |
| Baptism V: The Devil's Fire | 3.5 |
| Inquisition Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar... | 4.0 |
| XII Boar Beyond the Valley of The Triclops | 3.5 |
| Storm The Sky Sin Will Find You | 3.0 |
| Spirit Adrift Chained To Oblivion | 3.5 |
| Sodom Decision Day | 3.0 |
| Skeletonwitch The Apothic Gloom | 3.5 |
| Necromancing the Stone Jewel of the Vile | 3.5 |
| Meshiaak Alliance of Thieves | 3.5 |
| Lacertilia We’re Already Inside Your Mind | 3.5 |
| Hellions Opera Oblivia | 3.0 |
| Forevermore Integral | 3.5 |
| Delain Moonbathers | 4.0 |
| Deceptionist Initializing Irreversible Process | 3.5 |
| Countless Skies New Dawn | 3.5 |
| Monolithe Zeta Reticuli | 3.5 |
| Fyrnask Fórn | 3.5 |
| Head of the Demon Sathanas Trismegistos | 3.0 |
| Castle Welcome to the Graveyard | 3.5 |
| Big Business Command Your Weather | 3.5 |
| Valient Thorr Old Salt | 3.0 |
| Silent Planet Everything Was Sound | 3.0 |
| Russian Circles Guidance | 3.5 |
| Scour Grey | 3.5 |
| Jinjer King of Everything | 3.5 |
| If These Trees Could Talk The Bones of a Dying World | 3.5 |
| Herder Fergean | 3.5 |
| (hed) p.e. Forever! | 3.0 |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty | 4.0 |
| Harakiri for the Sky III: Trauma | 3.0 |
| Hammers Of Misfortune Dead Revolution | 3.5 |
| Gozu Revival | 3.0 |
| The Fall of Troy OK | 3.5 |
| Dust Bolt Mass Confusion | 3.0 |
| Denner/Shermann Masters of Evil | 3.0 |
| Cane Hill Smile | 2.5 |
| Capsize A Reintroduction: The Essence Of All Tha | 3.5 |
| Brymir Slayer of Gods | 3.0 |
| Black Crown Initiate Selves We Cannot Forgive | 3.5 |
| The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed | 4.0 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 3.5 |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach | 4.0 |
| Halford Halford IV - Made Of Metal | 3.0 |
| Akritas Akritas | 3.5 |
| Halford Crucible | 4.0 |
| Halford Resurrection | 4.0 |
| Orne The Tree Of Life | 3.5 |
| Green Carnation Light of Day, Day of Darkness | 4.5 |
| Halestorm Into the Wild Life | 2.0 |
| Halestorm The Strange Case Of... | 3.5 |
| Comedy of Errors Fanfare & Fantasy | 3.0 |
| Halestorm Halestorm | 3.5 |
| Vainaja Verenvalaja | 3.5 |
| Area Arbeit Macht Frei | 4.0 |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime | 4.0 |
| Throane Derrière-Nous, La Lumière | 3.5 |
| Buckethead Captain Eo's Voyage | 3.0 |
| Terra Tenebrosa The Reverses | 3.0 |
| Teloch Thus Darkness Spake | 3.5 |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica | 3.5 |
| SUMAC What One Becomes | 3.0 |
| Sarabante Poisonous Legacy | 3.5 |
| Nektar A Tab in the Ocean | 3.5 |
| Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth | 3.5 |
| GGU:LL Dwaling | 3.0 |
| Kekal Beyond The Glimpse of Dreams | 3.5 |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day | 4.0 |
| Guruh Gipsy Guruh Gipsy | 3.5 |
| Grave Desecrator Dust To Lust | 3.5 |
| Forteresse Thèmes pour la Rébellion | 4.0 |
| Defiled Towards Inevitable Ruin | 1.5 |
| Wo Fat Midnight Cometh | 3.5 |
| Sharp Weapons Sharp Weapons | 3.0 |
| Red Spektor Red Spektor | 3.0 |
| Poison Headache Poison Headache | 4.0 |
| Primitive Weapons The Future of Death | 3.5 |
| Planet Of Zeus Loyal to the Pack | 3.5 |
| Night Verses Into the Vanishing Light | 3.5 |
| Katalepsy Gravenous Hour | 3.5 |
| Heaven's Cry Outcast | 3.5 |
| Haast's Eagled II: For Mankind | 3.5 |
| Brutus (NOR) Wandering Blind | 3.0 |
| Be'lakor Vessels | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Grin Self Inflicted | 2.5 |
| Grinding Fortune Itch Relief | 4.0 |
| Myrath Legacy | 3.5 |
| Gojira Magma | 3.5 |
| Withered Grief Relic | 3.5 |
| Qrixkuor Three Devils Dance | 4.0 |
| The Poisoned Glass 10 Swords | 3.0 |
| Messa Belfry | 4.0 |
| Gutter Instinct Age Of The Frantics | 3.5 |
| Virus (NO) Memento Collider | 3.5 |
| Gevurah Hallelujah! | 3.5 |
| Germ Escape | 3.5 |
| Cough Still They Pray | 3.5 |
| Bright Curse Before the Shore | 3.5 |
| Behexen The Poisonous Path | 4.0 |
| This is definitely among the better black metal albums I've heard so far in 2016. Excellent sound, and some outstanding guitar work. It's not that versatile, but it sure does deliver the goods like few others. |
| Alaric End of Mirrors | 3.5 |
| Whispered Metsutan - Songs of the Void | 3.5 |
| Nervosa Agony | 4.0 |
| Napoleon Newborn Mind | 3.5 |
| Melvins Basses Loaded | 3.0 |
| Hesitation Wounds (LA) Awake For Everything | 3.5 |
| Flotsam and Jetsam Flotsam and Jetsam | 3.5 |
| Hellyeah Unden!able | 3.0 |
| Electric Citizen Higher Time | 3.5 |
| Dead Register Fiber | 3.5 |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us | 3.0 |
| iamthemorning Lighthouse | 4.0 |
| Sithu Aye Invent the Universe | 4.0 |
| Vektor Terminal Redux | 4.0 |
| Traffic Sound Traffic Sound | 3.5 |
| Behold... The Arctopus Skullgrid | 3.0 |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts | 3.5 |
| Birth Control Operation | 3.5 |
| Tombstoned II | 3.5 |
| Sylvaine Wistful | 3.0 |
| Schammasch Triangle | 3.5 |
| Mare Cognitum Phobos Monolith | 4.5 |
| Altar of Plagues White Tomb | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Subsume | 3.5 |
| Haken Aquarius | 4.0 |
| Polyphia Renaissance | 3.5 |
| Slice the Cake Odyssey to the West | 3.5 |
| Rorcal Creon | 3.5 |
| Nadja Sv | 2.5 |
| Exivious Liminal | 4.5 |
| Mortichnia Heir to Scoria and Ash | 3.5 |
| Ihsahn Arktis. | 4.0 |
| Desaster The Oath of an Iron Ritual | 3.0 |
| Campo Di Marte Campo Di Marte | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 4.0 |
| Aborted RetroGore | 4.0 |
| Mistur In Memoriam | 3.5 |
| Woods of Ypres Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light | 4.0 |
| Irkallian Oracle Apollyon | 3.0 |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust | 4.0 |
| Darkestrah Turan | 3.5 |
| Colonel Claypool's Bucket Of Bernie Brains The Big Eyeball In The Sky | 4.0 |
| Black Shape Of Nexus Carrier | 3.5 |
| Abhomine Larvae Offal Swine | 3.0 |
| Grave Miasma Endless Pilgrimage | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars | 3.5 |
| Batushka Litourgiya | 4.0 |
| Allan Holdsworth The Sixteen Men of Tain | 4.0 |
| Kvelertak Nattesferd | 3.5 |
| Haken Affinity | 4.0 |
| Goatess Purgatory Under New Management | 3.5 |
| Incite Oppression | 2.5 |
| From Sorrow To Serenity Remnant of Humanity | 2.5 |
| Filter Crazy Eyes | 3.5 |
| Eths Ankaa | 3.5 |
| Beastwars The Death of All Things | 3.5 |
| All Hail The Yeti Screams From A Black Wilderness | 3.0 |
| GWAR Battle Maximus | 3.5 |
| GWAR Bloody Pit of Horror | 3.0 |
| GWAR Lust in Space | 3.5 |
| GWAR Beyond Hell | 3.5 |
| GWAR War Party | 3.5 |
| GWAR Violence Has Arrived | 3.5 |
| GWAR We Kill Everything | 2.5 |
| GWAR Carnival of Chaos | 2.5 |
| Zhrine Unortheta | 3.5 |
| Vredehammer Violator | 3.0 |
| Ragnarok Psychopathology | 3.0 |
| Obsidian Kingdom A Year With No Summer | 3.0 |
| Necronomicon (CAN) Advent of the Human God | 2.5 |
| Inverloch Distance | Collapsed | 3.5 |
| The Body No One Deserves Happiness | 3.5 |
| Graves at Sea The Curse That Is | 3.0 |
| Gadget The Great Destroyer | 3.5 |
| Fuath I | 4.0 |
| Beastmaker Lusus Naturae | 3.0 |
| Cobalt Slow Forever | 3.5 |
| Sinistro Semente | 4.0 |
| O'Brother Endless Light | 3.0 |
| Novembre Ursa | 4.0 |
| Landscapes Modern Earth | 2.5 |
| Black Stone Cherry Kentucky | 3.0 |
| Crisix From Blue to Black | 3.0 |
| BoneHawk Albino Rhino | 3.5 |
| The Algorithm Brute Force | 4.0 |
| Deftones Gore | 4.0 |
| GWAR Ragnarok | 4.0 |
| GWAR This Toilet Earth | 3.0 |
| GWAR America Must Be Destroyed | 3.5 |
| GWAR Scumdogs of the Universe | 3.5 |
| GWAR Hell-O | 3.0 |
| Dun (FRA1) Eros | 5.0 |
| Artillery Penalty by Perception | 4.0 |
| Wormed Krighsu | 3.5 |
| Wolvserpent Aporia: Kala: Ananta | 4.0 |
| Sarke Bogefod | 3.0 |
| The Infernal Sea The Great Mortality | 3.5 |
| High Priest Of Saturn Son of Earth and Sky | 3.5 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Värähtelijä | 3.5 |
| Rotten Sound Abuse to Suffer | 3.5 |
| Gehennah Too Loud to Live, Too Drunk to Die | 3.5 |
| Leprous Bilateral | 4.0 |
| Criminal Fear Itself | 3.5 |
| Vintersorg Till Fjälls | 3.5 |
| Church of Misery And Then There Were None | 3.5 |
| Steven Wilson 4 1/2 | 4.0 |
| Anglagard Hybris | 4.5 |
| Air Moon Safari | 4.0 |
| Ivar Bjornson and Einar Selvik Skuggsja: A Piece for Mind & Mirror | 4.0 |
| Slabdragger Rise Of The Dawncrusher | 4.0 |
| Return to Forever Romantic Warrior | 4.5 |
| Ravens Creed Ravens Krieg | 3.5 |
| Ondt Blod Finnmark | 3.5 |
| Mondo Drag The Occultation Of Light | 3.5 |
| Latitudes Old Sunlight | 4.0 |
| For Giants You Are The Universe | 3.5 |
| Hacktivist Outside The Box | 2.5 |
| Hypno5e Shores of the Abstract Line | 3.0 |
| Hemelbestormer Aether | 3.5 |
| From Ashes To New Day One | 2.0 |
| Neal Morse The Grand Experiment | 3.5 |
| The Erkonauts I Did Something Bad | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Dig Deep | 3.5 |
| All Them Witches Dying Surfer Meets His Maker | 3.5 |
| Accuser The Forlorn Divide | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Incarnate | 3.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy | 3.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II | 4.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 4.0 |
| The Groundhogs Hogwash | 4.5 |
| The Groundhogs Who Will Save the World? The Mighty Groundhogs | 4.0 |
| The Groundhogs Split | 4.0 |
| Grim Reaper Rock You To Hell | 3.5 |
| Grim Reaper Fear No Evil | 4.0 |
| Grim Reaper See You In Hell | 3.5 |
| Great White Back to the Rhythm | 3.0 |
| Great White Let It Rock | 3.5 |
| Great White Psycho City | 3.5 |
| Great White Hooked | 3.0 |
| Great White ...Twice Shy | 3.0 |
| Great White Once Bitten.... | 2.5 |
| Great White Great White | 3.5 |
| Mortiis The Great Deceiver | 3.5 |
| Villainy Villainy II: Dim | 3.5 |
| Spektr The Art To Disappear | 2.5 |
| Seven Sisters Of Sleep Ezekiel's Hags | 3.5 |
| Destroyer 666 Wildfire | 4.0 |
| Ritual Chamber Obscurations (To Feast On The Seraphim) | 3.5 |
| Orthodox (ESP) Axis | 3.5 |
| Obscura Akróasis | 4.0 |
| Nachtlieder Nachtlieder | 2.5 |
| Costin Chioreanu The Quest For A Morning Star | 4.0 |
| The Lion's Daughter Existence Is Horror | 3.5 |
| Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule | 3.5 |
| Aluk Todolo Voix | 3.0 |
| Rotting Christ Rituals | 3.0 |
| Textures Phenotype | 4.0 |
| Monster Truck Sittin' Heavy | 3.0 |
| Karybdis Samsara | 4.0 |
| Holy Grail Times of Pride and Peril | 3.5 |
| Greenleaf Rise Above The Meadow | 3.0 |
| Ghostlimb Difficult Loves | 3.5 |
| Exumer The Raging Tides | 2.5 |
| Cold Night For Alligators Course of Events | 3.0 |
| Graveworm Ascending Hate | 3.0 |
| Graveworm Fragments of Death | 3.5 |
| Graveworm Collateral Defect | 3.0 |
| Graveworm (N)utopia | 2.5 |
| Graveworm Scourge of Malice | 3.5 |
| Graveworm As the Angels Reach the Beauty | 3.5 |
| Graveworm When Daylights Gone | 3.0 |
| Grave Digger Return Of The Reaper | 3.0 |
| Grave Digger Clash of the Gods | 2.5 |
| Dream Theater The Astonishing | 3.5 |
| Borknagar Winter Thrice | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Dystopia | 3.5 |
| Wows Aion | 2.5 |
| Un The Tomb of All Things | 3.5 |
| Triumvir Foul Triumvir Foul | 4.0 |
| Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP | 3.5 |
| Mourning Beloveth Rust & Bone | 4.0 |
| Lycus Chasms | 3.5 |
| Himinbjorg Wyrd | 3.5 |
| Degial Savage Mutiny | 3.0 |
| Cloak of Altering Manifestation | 3.5 |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Arc | 3.5 |
| Abbath Abbath | 3.0 |
| We Lost the Sea Departure Songs | 3.5 |
| Sanzu Heavy Over The Home | 4.0 |
| Lithium Dawn Tearing Back the Veil I: Ascension | 3.0 |
| The Iron Son Enemy | 3.0 |
| Grave Digger The Clans Will Rise Again | 3.0 |
| Good Tiger A Head Full of Moonlight | 3.5 |
| The Casualties Chaos Sound | 3.5 |
| Grave Digger Ballads of a Hangman | 3.5 |
| Grave Digger Excalibur | 4.0 |
| Grave Digger Rheingold | 3.5 |
| Grave Digger The Grave Digger | 4.0 |
| Grave Digger War Games | 3.0 |
| Grave Digger Heavy Metal Breakdown | 3.5 |
| Grave Burial Ground | 3.5 |
| Grave Dominion VIII | 3.0 |
| Grave As Rapture Comes | 3.5 |
| Grave Fiendish Regression | 3.0 |
| Grave Hating Life | 3.0 |
| Grave You'll Never See... | 3.5 |
| Grave Into the Grave | 3.5 |
| Grand Funk Railroad Grand Funk Lives | 3.5 |
| Grand Funk Railroad Good Singin', Good Playin' | 3.5 |
| Grand Funk Railroad Born To Die | 3.0 |
| Grand Funk Railroad We're An American Band | 4.0 |
| Grand Funk Railroad Phoenix | 4.0 |
| Vastum Hole Below | 3.5 |
| Ur Draugr With Hunger Undying | 3.5 |
| Terzij de Horde Self | 3.5 |
| Monolithe Epsilon Aurigae | 3.5 |
| Extreme Noise Terror Extreme Noise Terror | 3.5 |
| Helheim rauniaR | 3.0 |
| Grave Ritual Morbid Throne | 3.5 |
| Diavolos You Lived Now Die | 2.5 |
| SikTh Opacities | 4.0 |
| Turbid North Eyes Alive | 3.5 |
| Pomegranate Tiger Boundless | 3.5 |
| Kind Rocket Science | 3.5 |
| Get Your Gun The Worrying Kind | 3.0 |
| Deville Make It Belong To Us | 3.0 |
| Culture Killer Throes of Mankind | 3.0 |
| Atena Shades Of Black Won't Bring Her Back | 3.0 |
| Baroness Purple | 3.5 |
| Swallow the Sun Songs from the North I, II & III | 3.5 |
| Revenge (CAN) Behold.Total.Rejection | 3.0 |
| Lunar Mantra Genesis | 3.5 |
| Secrets of the Moon Sun | 3.0 |
| Didn't really get much out of this in the end. Opener "No more Colours" and "Dirty Black" are really well-written, but the rest of the album in my opinion seems to fall flat. That's not including the fact that the vocals for the most part irritate me somewhat. The album's whole run-time is over 50 minutes, but it could easily have been more concise had the mid-section of the album (namely "Man Behind the Sun" through to "I took the Sky Away") been shortened a little. |
| Hades Almighty Pyre Era, Black! | 3.5 |
| Draconian Sovran | 2.5 |
| Awe Providentia | 3.5 |
| Vision of Disorder Razed To The Ground | 3.5 |
| Anomalie Refugium | 3.0 |
| Sunn O))) Kannon | 3.0 |
| White Widows Pact White Widows Pact | 4.0 |
| Saviours Palace of Vision | 3.5 |
| Intronaut The Direction of Last Things | 3.5 |
| Novelists Souvenirs | 3.0 |
| Manegarm Manegarm | 3.0 |
| Make Me A Donut Bright Side | 3.0 |
| Implore Depopulation | 3.5 |
| Earthside A Dream In Static | 4.0 |
| Gama Bomb Untouchable Glory | 3.0 |
| Ektomorf Aggressor | 2.5 |
| Average stuff basically. This album starts off promising enough, but gets old really quickly in my opinion. The standout highlight is "Evil By Nature" for me, every other song pretty much relies on the same monotonous chuggy groove. |
| Down I Go You're Lucky God, That I Cannot Reach You | 3.5 |
| Abigail Williams The Accuser | 3.5 |
| Zombi Shape Shift | 4.0 |
| VI De Praestigiis Angelorum | 3.5 |
| Tyranny Aeons in Tectonic Interment | 3.5 |
| This Gift Is A Curse All Hail The Swinelord | 4.0 |
| Corrections House Know How To Carry A Whip | 3.5 |
| Temple of Baal Mysterium | 3.5 |
| Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Exile | 3.0 |
| Pinkish Black Bottom of the Morning | 3.5 |
| Orkan Livlaus | 3.0 |
| Grave Out of Respect for the Dead | 3.0 |
| Abominor Opus: Decay | 3.5 |
| Mgla Exercises in Futility | 3.5 |
| We Hunt Buffalo Living Ghosts | 3.5 |
| Stories (AUS) The Youth to Become | 3.0 |
| So Hideous Laurestine | 3.5 |
| Shinedown Threat to Survival | 1.5 |
| Saxon Battering Ram | 3.5 |
| Gorod A Maze of Recycled Creeds | 3.0 |
| New Years Day Malevolence | 2.5 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Absolute Hope Absolute Hell | 3.5 |
| Counting Days Liberated Sounds | 3.5 |
| Conveyer When Given Time To Grow | 3.0 |
| Caligula's Horse Bloom | 3.5 |
| Abhorrent Decimation Miasmic Mutation | 4.0 |
| Killing Joke Pylon | 3.5 |
| Grand Funk Railroad E Pluribus Funk | 4.0 |
| Grand Funk Railroad Survival | 4.0 |
| Grand Funk Railroad Closer To Home | 4.0 |
| Grand Funk Railroad Grand Funk | 4.0 |
| Grand Funk Railroad On Time | 4.0 |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate | 4.0 |
| Gorguts Obscura | 4.5 |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity | 4.0 |
| Gorguts Considered Dead | 4.0 |
| Gorgoroth Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt | 2.5 |
| Gorgoroth Destroyer | 3.5 |
| Gorgoroth Under the Sign of Hell | 3.5 |
| Gorgoroth Antichrist | 3.5 |
| Another great Gorgoroth album which is at least on par with the band's debut, but the only thing that bothers me is the really short runtime-the album almost feels like it's about to end when in fact it's just started. "Sorg" is nice enough to end things with, but it didn't really strike me as the sort of "album closer", more like just another song to add to the rest here. So yeah, I guess you could say it's anti-climactic, but then "Gorgoroth" and "Possessed (By Satan)" seem to make up for it. |
| Gorgoroth Pentagram | 3.5 |
| Windhand Grief's Infernal Flower | 3.0 |
| Satan Atom by Atom | 4.0 |
| Tsjuder Antiliv | 3.5 |
| Sweat Lodge Talismana | 3.0 |
| Speedtrap Straight Shooter | 3.5 |
| Scythian Hubris in Excelsis | 3.5 |
| Dark Buddha Rising Inversum | 3.5 |
| Lucifer's Child The Wiccan | 3.0 |
| Horna Hengen tulet | 3.5 |
| A simplistic, raw black metal record which somehow never fails to be consistent in its delivery. The first two songs are notably the weakest, but from that point onwards the album seems to take a more maturer songwriting ethic into consideration, even improving on the vocals and general musicianship which is certainly rife in songs like "Puhdas" and "Sodan Roihu" amongst others. Whilst it does sometimes prove a little uninspired, the album should please fans of black metal if nobody else. |
| Gnaw Their Tongues Abyss of Longing Throats | 3.5 |
| Dead Lord Heads Held High | 3.0 |
| Christian Mistress To Your Death | 3.0 |
| Grave Pleasures Dreamcrash | 2.5 |
| W.A.S.P. Golgotha | 3.0 |
| Svalbard One Day All This Will End | 3.5 |
| Stratovarius Eternal | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit V | 3.5 |
| Ramming Speed No Epitaphs | 3.5 |
| Queensryche Condition Human | 3.0 |
| Trivium Silence in the Snow | 2.5 |
| TesseracT Polaris | 3.0 |
| Operation: Mindcrime The Key | 3.0 |
| Limb Limb | 2.5 |
| Kylesa Exhausting Fire | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda | 3.5 |
| Counterparts Tragedy Will Find Us | 3.5 |
| Blessthefall To Those Left Behind | 3.0 |
| Gong I See You | 4.0 |
| Black Tongue The Unconquerable Dark | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Abysmal | 3.5 |
| Black Breath Slaves Beyond Death | 3.5 |
| Gong 2032 | 3.5 |
| Annihilator Suicide Society | 3.0 |
| Gong Acid Motherhood | 4.0 |
| Gong Zero to Infinity | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive Ire | 3.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit | 2.5 |
| Gong Downwind | 3.5 |
| Gong Expresso II | 4.0 |
| Gong Shapeshifter | 3.0 |
| Gong Shamal | 4.0 |
| Gong Gazeuse! (Expresso) | 4.0 |
| Gong Continental Circus | 3.0 |
| Gong Angel's Egg | 4.0 |
| Gong Camembert Electrique | 3.5 |
| Gong Flying Teapot | 4.0 |
| Gong Magick Brother | 2.5 |
| Crossfaith Xeno | 3.0 |
| Golden Earring Tits 'n Ass | 3.0 |
| Gus G. Brand New Revolution | 3.0 |
| Golden Earring Love Sweat | 3.0 |
| Golden Earring Keeper of the Flame | 2.0 |
| Golden Earring N.E.W.S. | 2.5 |
| Golden Earring Cut | 3.0 |
| Golden Earring Prisoner of the Night | 3.5 |
| My Dying Bride Feel the Misery | 4.0 |
| Rudimentary Peni Death Church | 4.0 |
| Hate Eternal Infernus | 3.5 |
| Lychgate An Antidote for the Glass Pill | 4.5 |
| This album is thoroughly brilliant from start to finish. The swathes of Gothic keyboards, progressive song structures, menacing vocal delivery, beautiful guitar work, it's all tightly packed into this 50-minute package-the sound of which is right up my alley. Sure, that may sound fanboyish, but I genuinely love this album having heard it three times already. It simply gets better and better. Highlights of this album could be any song really, but for me personally it's "Letter XIX" and "An Acousmatic Guardian" (Had to look up the definition of "Acousmatic") that really effectively convey this band's best musical talents to the listener. |
| DorDeDuh Dar De Duh | 4.0 |
| Myrkur M | 2.5 |
| Fuck the Facts Desire Will Rot | 3.5 |
| Deiphago Into the Eye of Satan | 3.0 |
| Debauchery Fuck Humanity | 2.0 |
| Cruciamentum Charnel Passages | 3.5 |
| Bonehunter Evil Triumphs Again | 3.0 |
| Yuth Forever Freudian Slip | 2.5 |
| Amorphis Under the Red Cloud | 3.5 |
| Wearing Scars A Thousand Words | 3.5 |
| Tad Morose St. Demonius | 3.5 |
| Motorhead Bad Magic | 3.0 |
| Publicist UK Forgive Yourself | 4.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Space | 3.0 |
| Defeater Abandoned | 3.5 |
| Butcher Babies Take It Like a Man | 2.0 |
| Buried in Verona Vultures Above, Lions Below | 3.0 |
| Golden Earring No Promises...No Debts | 2.5 |
| Golden Earring Grab It for a Second | 3.0 |
| Golden Earring Contraband | 4.0 |
| Golden Earring To the Hilt | 3.5 |
| Golden Earring Switch | 3.5 |
| Golden Earring Moontan | 4.0 |
| Golden Earring Seven Tears | 3.5 |
| Golden Earring Eight Miles High | 4.0 |
| Golden Earring On the Double | 3.0 |
| Golden Earring Miracle Mirror | 3.0 |
| Golden Earring Winter-Harvest | 2.5 |
| Golden Earring Just Earrings | 2.5 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 4.0 |
| Mekong Delta Dances of Death (and other Walking Shadows) | 4.0 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 5.0 |
| Gojira The Link | 3.5 |
| Gojira Terra Incognita | 3.5 |
| Godflesh Hymns | 3.5 |
| Godflesh Us and Them | 3.5 |
| Godflesh Songs of Love and Hate | 3.0 |
| Godflesh Selfless | 3.5 |
| Godflesh Pure | 4.0 |
| Godflesh Streetcleaner | 4.0 |
| Goatwhore Constricting Rage of the Merciless | 3.5 |
| Goatwhore Blood For The Master | 3.5 |
| Goatwhore Carving Out The Eyes Of God | 3.5 |
| Goatwhore A Haunting Curse | 3.0 |
| Fear Factory Genexus | 3.5 |
| Lunatic Soul Impressions | 4.0 |
| Undead Prophecies False Prophecies | 2.5 |
| Pissgrave Suicide Euphoria | 2.5 |
| Locrian Infinite Dissolution | 3.5 |
| Destiny Potato Lun | 4.0 |
| Jungle Rot Order Shall Prevail | 3.0 |
| Ecstatic Vision Sonic Praise | 3.0 |
| Deathrite Revelation Of Chaos | 3.5 |
| Krisiun Forged in Fury | 3.5 |
| Jan Dukes de Grey Mice and Rats in the Loft | 3.5 |
| Old Wounds The Suffering Spirit | 3.5 |
| Northlane Node | 3.0 |
| Geddy Lee My Favourite Headache | 3.0 |
| Miss May I Deathless | 3.0 |
| Kataklysm Of Ghosts and Gods | 3.5 |
| Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction | 4.0 |
| Envy Atheist's Cornea | 3.5 |
| Dew-Scented Intermination | 3.5 |
| Dagoba Tales of the Black Dawn | 3.5 |
| This album gets better as it progresses-and I mean that quite literally. I mean, the first half of the album for me is simply average stuff, going through the motions as far as the band's musical capability is concerned, but then songs like "Born Twice" and "The Loss" rip through the stereo, and you're suddenly wondering where all this fight and vigour was with songs as lame as "The Sunset Curse" went. Nonetheless, that's pretty much it. If I'm being completely honest, it's the stale vocal delivery which really annoyed me and was the main reason why I couldn't quite get into the beginning of the album, but it's made up for by the excellence of "Sorcery" and "O, Inverted World". So in that respect, a fairly disjointed, inconsistent album, but one which by the end seems to be a pleasant surprise. |
| The Bunny The Bear A Liar Wrote This | 2.5 |
| Bhayanak maut Man | 3.0 |
| Being as an Ocean Being As An Ocean | 3.0 |
| Bacamarte Depois Do Fim | 4.0 |
| Roger Waters Amused to Death | 3.5 |
| Girlschool Take A Bite | 2.5 |
| The last of the 80s albums from Girlschool, which in all honesty is no better than the previous three records. Just as average, with a couple of decent, solid tunes ("Girls on Top", "Tear It Up") and the same annoying production. |
| Girlschool Nightmare at Maple Cross | 2.5 |
| A modest improvement over Running Wild, but like Play Dirty, still a very average album. The production is generally the one bad thing which drags this album's overall impression down for me, but there are some solid songs here-namely "Danger Sign" and "Back for More". |
| Girlschool Running Wild | 2.0 |
| It started with Play Dirty, the lack of any originality and vigour which made those first three albums so solid, but this seemed to have a full impact on Running Wild. The band at this point sounded really tired, bored with their own musical direction, and that's exactly why songs like "Do You Love Me?" (A Kiss cover but a really poor one nonetheless) and "I Want You Back", proving both lyrically and musically that the band were at a creative low. There are one or two decent tracks here-the title track and "Nowhere to Run" namely-but even they turn out to be average in the grand scheme of things. Certainly Girlschool's worst effort. |
| Girlschool Play Dirty | 2.5 |
| This is basically Girlschool at their most average, and what the band played on those first few great albums wasn't particularly special either (just really solid and well performed), so Play Dirty as a whole simply seems like a bit of a rehash of all the band's flaws. The 80s glam influence is undeniable (particular in regards to the production), but there are some good moments here, notably 'Breaking All the Rules' and the heavier riff moments of 'Burning in the Heat'. Aside from that, this represents the band going through the motions. |
| Girlschool Screaming Blue Murder | 3.5 |
| By far the stand-out highlights of this album are the title track and "Hellrazor", but the album in general does seem to be a little more 'diverse'. Not so much that the band are taking a deliberate turn in the opposite musical direction, but it's somewhat easier to identify the NWOBHM-influenced songs from the punkier, rockier tunes like "Take it from Me" and "It Turns Your Head Around". I actually like the vocals here for the most part, though the nasally delivery on "Hellrazor" is pretty annoying. All in all, another solid 80s output from Girlschool. |
| Girlschool Hit And Run | 3.5 |
| All in all on par with the band's debut, though I prefer the vocal delivery of this album and the instrumental performance of Demolition. Nonetheless, there's still some really decent hard rock/metal riffage going on here, specifically in songs like the title track and "The Hunter". |
| Girlschool Demolition | 3.5 |
| Failure The Heart Is a Monster | 3.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam | 3.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous | 3.0 |
| George Thorogood and the Destroyers The Hard Stuff | 3.5 |
| George Thorogood and the Destroyers George Thorogood and the Destroyers | 4.0 |
| Powerwolf Blessed and Possessed | 3.0 |
| Moondog Moondog | 4.5 |
| Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja | 4.0 |
| Amon Duul II Yeti | 4.0 |
| Solitude Aeturnus Into the Depths of Sorrow | 4.0 |
| Ulver Perdition City | 4.0 |
| Gentle Giant Civilian | 3.0 |
| Gentle Giant Giant for a Day | 2.0 |
| Gentle Giant The Missing Piece | 3.0 |
| Gentle Giant Interview | 3.5 |
| Gentle Giant Free Hand | 4.0 |
| Gentle Giant The Power and the Glory | 4.0 |
| Gentle Giant In a Glass House | 5.0 |
| Gentle Giant Three Friends | 4.0 |
| Gentle Giant Acquiring the Taste | 5.0 |
| Gentle Giant Gentle Giant | 4.0 |
| Author and Punisher Melk En Honing | 3.5 |
| Boris Amplifier Worship | 4.0 |
| Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman | 4.0 |
| Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy | 4.5 |
| edIT Crying Over Pros For No Reason | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 4.0 |
| Kairon IRSE! Ujubasajuba | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 3.5 |
| Genesis Calling All Stations | 1.5 |
| Genesis We Can't Dance | 2.0 |
| Genesis Invisible Touch | 2.5 |
| Genesis Genesis | 3.0 |
| Bjork Post | 4.0 |
| Genesis Abacab | 2.5 |
| Genesis Duke | 3.0 |
| Vattnet Settler | 3.5 |
| Sunset In The 12th House Mozaic | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith | 3.5 |
| Johansson and Speckmann Mask of the Treacherous | 3.5 |
| Gorgoroth Instinctus Bestialis | 2.0 |
| Demon Lung A Dracula | 3.5 |
| Deathhammer Evil Power | 3.0 |
| Shape of Despair Monotony Fields | 4.5 |
| Venomous Maximus Firewalker | 3.0 |
| Veil of Maya Matriarch | 3.0 |
| Tempel (USA-AZ) The Moon Lit Our Path | 3.5 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Holy War | 3.5 |
| Refused Freedom | 3.0 |
| Pitbulls in the Nursery Equanimity | 3.5 |
| The Ongoing Concept Handmade | 2.5 |
| Ol Drake Old Rake | 3.5 |
| No Consequence Vimana | 3.0 |
| Mutoid Man Bleeder | 3.5 |
| High on Fire Luminiferous | 4.0 |
| Major Kong Doom Machine | 3.5 |
| KEN mode Success | 2.5 |
| Iwrestledabearonce Hail Mary | 2.5 |
| Steely Dan Katy Lied | 3.5 |
| Hundredth Free | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic | 3.5 |
| Deadly Circus Fire The Hydra’s Tailor | 3.5 |
| Dawn of Azazel The Tides of Damocles | 3.0 |
| Honestly found this album a very mixed bag. Some songs I can't stand ("Vassalplasty", "The Odious Tides"), some I really enjoyed ("Irresistible Foe", "Controlled Burn") and others were just really strange to listen to "namely "Progeny of Pain" and "The Eagles Grasp"). I think the main flaw here is inconsistency, because some songs are really so much better than others, to the point where the actually stand out as being such. Nonetheless, it's decent for what it is but not much more. Some nice musical ideas thrown around, but by the end it leaves a little bit of underwhelming feeling, more so for those who expected this to be an excellent album. |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places | 3.5 |
| Lindemann Skills In Pills | 3.5 |
| The Obsessed Lunar Womb | 3.5 |
| Genesis ...And Then There Were Three... | 3.5 |
| Genesis Wind & Wuthering | 3.5 |
| Genesis A Trick of the Tail | 4.0 |
| Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway | 5.0 |
| Caravan For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night | 4.0 |
| Genesis Selling England by the Pound | 4.5 |
| Genesis Foxtrot | 4.5 |
| Genesis Nursery Cryme | 4.0 |
| Genesis From Genesis to Revelation | 2.5 |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien | 4.0 |
| The Order of Apollyon The Sword And The Dagger | 4.0 |
| Muse The Resistance | 3.0 |
| Gloryhammer Tales from the Kingdom of Fife | 3.5 |
| Hidden Orchestra Archipelago | 3.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
| Alcest Shelter | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend The Hummer | 3.0 |
| The Gathering The West Pole | 3.0 |
| The Gathering Souvenirs | 4.0 |
| The Gathering if_then_else | 4.0 |
| The Gathering Nighttime Birds | 4.0 |
| The Gathering Mandylion | 4.5 |
| The Gathering Almost a Dance | 2.5 |
| Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible | 4.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad | 3.5 |
| Mike Oldfield Ommadawn | 4.0 |
| The Divine Comedy Liberation | 3.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 3.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 3.0 |
| Gary Moore Bad For You Baby | 3.5 |
| Gary Moore Close As You Get | 3.5 |
| Gary Moore Power of the Blues | 3.5 |
| Gary Moore Scars | 3.0 |
| The Mothers of Invention Weasels Ripped My Flesh | 3.5 |
| Gary Moore Back to the Blues | 3.0 |
| Gary Moore Dark Days in Paradise | 2.5 |
| Weedeater Goliathan | 2.5 |
| The Mothers of Invention Over-Nite Sensation | 4.0 |
| Tau Cross Tau Cross | 3.5 |
| Goatsnake Black Age Blues | 3.5 |
| Sulphur Aeon Gateway to the Antisphere | 3.5 |
| Skyforger Senprūsija | 3.0 |
| Skinless Only The Ruthless Remain | 3.5 |
| Lucifer (DE) Lucifer I | 3.0 |
| Kaipa In the Wake of Evolution | 4.0 |
| Nibiru (ITA) Padmalotus | 3.5 |
| Maruta Remain Dystopian | 3.5 |
| Forgotten Tomb Hurt Yourself and the Ones You Love | 3.5 |
| Entrails (SWE) Obliteration | 3.5 |
| Cult of Endtime In Charnel Lights | 3.5 |
| Bell Witch Four Phantoms | 3.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Grievances | 4.0 |
| Tremonti Cauterize | 3.5 |
| Teethgrinder Misanthropy | 4.0 |
| Napoli Centrale Napoli Centrale | 3.0 |
| Siriun Siriun | 3.0 |
| King Parrot Dead Set | 3.5 |
| Carole King Tapestry | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 4.0 |
| Nekrogoblikon Heavy Meta | 2.5 |
| Some songs I just can't stand ("Atlantis", "Let's Get Fucked"), others I thought were really solid stuff (We've had Enough", "Bring Us More"). Basically, it's a slightly above average effort from Nekrogoblikon. I guess this won't change anyone's opinion of the band though-their gimmick seems to be growing bigger and bigger as the days roll by. |
| Leprous The Congregation | 3.5 |
| Klone Here Comes The Sun | 4.0 |
| The Darkness Last of Our Kind | 3.5 |
| In Hearts Wake Skydancer | 3.0 |
| Employed To Serve Greyer than You Remember | 4.0 |
| Haste the Day Coward | 3.5 |
| Coliseum Anxiety's Kiss | 3.5 |
| Reminds me quite a lot of 80s era Kiilling Joke (and maybe the latter era of that same band too), but in a good way and which never seems to get the point where this band are basically a copycat. There's a lot of neat little touches here and there in every song-but what particularly stood out to me was the very prominent bass work, and its solid collaboration with the sometimes gritty, sometimes melodious guitar style. To me what drags the album down a bit is how the vocals seem a little "off" at times, especially in the album opener and "Dark Life of Seduction", and "Comedown" just irritates me every time I listen to it. But this is mostly made up for by the eccentricity of songs like "Course Correction" and "Sharp Fangs, Pale Flesh". |
| Armored Saint Win Hands Down | 3.5 |
| All Tomorrows Sol Agnates | 3.5 |
| Paradise Lost The Plague Within | 4.0 |
| Fuzz Fuzz | 3.5 |
| Gary Moore Blues For Greeny | 3.5 |
| Gary Moore After Hours | 3.5 |
| Gary Moore Still Got The Blues | 4.0 |
| Mew And the Glass Handed Kites | 3.5 |
| Gary Moore After the War | 3.5 |
| Gary Moore Wild Frontier | 3.5 |
| Gary Moore Run for Cover | 3.5 |
| Gary Moore Victims Of The Future | 4.0 |
| Gary Moore Dirty Fingers | 4.0 |
| Gary Moore Corridors Of Power | 3.5 |
| Riverside Second Life Syndrome | 4.0 |
| Gary Moore G-Force | 3.5 |
| Gary Moore Back On The Streets | 3.5 |
| Gary Moore Grinding Stone | 3.0 |
| Garbage Bleed Like Me | 3.0 |
| Garbage Garbage | 4.0 |
| Gamma Ray Empire of the Undead | 3.5 |
| Gamma Ray Insanity and Genius | 3.5 |
| Gama Bomb The Terror Tapes | 3.0 |
| The vocalist had surgery before this album's production, so I guess the sub-par vocal delivery shouldn't be much of a shock. As it is though, the album is average albeit sometimes very decent thrash, a few songs for excellent listening. |
| Gama Bomb Tales From the Grave in Space | 3.5 |
| To me this is the band's best album by far, and that's probably because I think it's more concise than Gama Bomb's other albums. Just short enough to be enjoyed, and it doesn't overstay its welcome. Nothing out of the ordinary for this style of thrash either, but then that's exactly what Gama Bomb intended. Maybe. |
| Gama Bomb Citizen Brain | 3.0 |
| Gama Bomb Survival of the Fastest | 3.0 |
| Sarcofago I.N.R.I. | 3.5 |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 4.0 |
| Gryphon Red Queen To Gryphon Three | 4.0 |
| Roisin Murphy Hairless Toys | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 3.5 |
| SOHN Tremors | 3.5 |
| Ozric Tentacles The Yumyum Tree | 3.5 |
| Funeral for a Friend Chapter and Verse | 2.5 |
| Funeral for a Friend Conduit | 2.5 |
| George Kollias Invictus | 4.0 |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal | 4.0 |
| Macabre Omen Gods Of War - At War | 4.0 |
| Excellent album. These guys have done a stunning job both musically and conceptually here. Sure, it obviously draws many influences from the likes of Bathory (who doesn't in this sub-genre?), but the way in which atmospheric black metal is fused together with melancholic mood and flourishes of Pagan music simply collaborates for what is an hour of grandiose music. Any song here could be seen as a highlight, but my personal favourites would have to be "From Son to Father" and the epic two-part closer "Alexandros". |
| Invincible Force Satan Rebellion Metal | 3.0 |
| Galley Beggar Silence and Tears | 3.5 |
| Billy Cobham Spectrum | 4.0 |
| Six Feet Under Crypt of the Devil | 2.5 |
| Gruesome Savage Land | 3.5 |
| Fulgora Stratagem | 3.0 |
| Russian Circles Memorial | 3.5 |
| Drudkh A Furrow Cut Short | 3.5 |
| Dopethrone Hochelaga | 3.0 |
| Decent head-nodding sludge/doom, no more, no less. |
| Abominator Evil Proclaimed | 3.5 |
| Sworn In The Lovers / The Devil | 3.0 |
| Stream Of Passion A War of Our Own | 3.5 |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew | 4.0 |
| Sigh Graveward | 3.5 |
| Raven ExtermiNation | 3.5 |
| Poison Idea Confuse & Conquer | 3.5 |
| Native Construct Quiet World | 4.0 |
| Marriages Salome | 3.5 |
| Hollywood Undead Day of the Dead | 2.0 |
| Locanda Delle Fate Forse le Lucciole non si Amano piu | 4.0 |
| Gift Giver Shitlife | 3.0 |
| Deez Nuts Word Is Bond | 3.0 |
| The Atomic Bitchwax Gravitron | 3.5 |
| Antagonist A.D. Haunt Me As I Roam | 3.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Heirs | 3.0 |
| Abiotic Casuistry | 3.5 |
| Crom Dubh Heimweh | 4.0 |
| Zuriaake Afterimage of Autumn | 4.0 |
| Fudge Tunnel The Complicated Futility of Ignorance | 3.0 |
| Renaissance A Song for All Seasons | 4.0 |
| Fudge Tunnel Creep Diets | 3.5 |
| Just as good as the band's debut, but I think this album has a few more hook-laden songs, namely on opener "Grey" and "Grit" amongst others. The band made an official video for "Grey", and it seems to match the gritty nature of the song quite well. |
| Fudge Tunnel Hate Songs In E Minor | 3.5 |
| Well, it's nice to discover another band from my city (Nottingham). Listening to this debut album by Fudge Tunnel, I can see a lot of similarities to Clucth's early days and Acid Bath, but this certainly brings the grit and the riff power. I believe the album really picks up during the second half, as the first few songs didn't grab my attention as much. I like the more metallic, extreme side of songs like "Soap and Water" and "Tweezers" and that cover of Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" is pretty ace. Only thing that dragged the overall quality down a bit for me was how the vocals sometimes seem a little too restrained (not as prominent as the instrumentation if I'm honest), but it's generally a really good sludgy piece of music. |
| Hecate Enthroned Dark Requiems and the Unsilent Massacre | 3.5 |
| Drawn A New World? | 4.0 |
| Svartidaudi Flesh Cathedral | 3.5 |
| Fates Warning A Pleasant Shade of Gray | 3.5 |
| Freedom Call Land of the Crimson Dawn | 3.0 |
| Freedom Call Eternity | 3.5 |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson | 4.5 |
| Prevalent Resistance Eternal Return | 3.5 |
| Prevalent Resistance To Live Again and Dominate | 3.0 |
| Prevalent Resistance Dynamics of Creation | 3.0 |
| Fates Warning Awaken the Guardian | 4.0 |
| Grimoire À La Lumière des Cendres | 4.0 |
| Csejthe Reminiscence | 4.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves Love of Cartography | 4.0 |
| Walknut Graveforests and Their Shadows | 4.0 |
| Jakub Zytecki Wishful Lotus Proof | 4.0 |
| Elderwind The Magic of Nature | 3.5 |
| Addaura ...And The Lamps Expire | 3.5 |
| Threnos By Blood and By Earth | 3.5 |
| Skaur Skaur | 3.5 |
| Pure Reason Revolution The Dark Third | 4.0 |
| Wedrujacy Wiatr Tam, Gdzie Miesiac Oplakuje Swit | 3.5 |
| Utstott Hjorungavagr | 4.0 |
| clipping. CLPPNG | 3.5 |
| Minsk The Crash and the Draw | 3.5 |
| Sabbat The Dwelling | 3.5 |
| Tribulation The Children of the Night | 4.0 |
| Flames of Hell Fire and Steel | 3.5 |
| Ygg Ygg | 4.0 |
| Dynfari Vegferð Tímans | 3.5 |
| A very pleasant album to listen to, especially for those who love atmospheric black metal/post-rock/ambient, but the one thing which stopped from liking it any more was the fact that most of the songs never really exploded like I expected them to. That said, the highlights of the album itself are definitely in the three-part title track at the end, combining wispy atmosphere and slight psychadelic flourishes into a half-hour opus. That's essentially as ambitious as Dynfari get here. |
| Bosse-de-Nage All Fours | 3.5 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children The Long Goodbye | 4.0 |
| Akhlys The Dreaming I | 4.0 |
| Acid King Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere | 3.5 |
| Shining (SWE) IX: Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, ends. | 3.5 |
| We Are Harlot We Are Harlot | 3.0 |
| Turbowolf Two Hands | 4.0 |
| Like A Storm Awaken the Fire | 3.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures | 4.0 |
| Kollwitz Dissonance | 3.0 |
| Hellions Indian Summer | 3.5 |
| Ghost Iris Anecdotes of Science & Soul | 3.5 |
| Gehennah Metal Police | 3.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Lore | 3.5 |
| Death Engine Mud | 3.5 |
| Royal Thunder Crooked Doors | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' | 3.0 |
| Kaevum Natur | 3.5 |
| Bloodthorn Onwards Into Battle | 3.5 |
| Bloodthorn In the Shadow of Your Black Wings | 3.5 |
| Torrid Husk Caesious | 3.0 |
| Alkaloid The Malkuth Grimoire | 3.5 |
| Troll (NO) Drep de Kristne | 4.0 |
| Galdr Galdr | 3.5 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 3.5 |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death | 4.0 |
| Death Grips The Powers That B | 4.0 |
| Hell Poemer Arcane Mysteries of Dead Ancestors | 4.0 |
| Thy Grief The Frozen Tomb Of Mankind | 3.5 |
| Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun | 4.0 |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Pandora's Pinata | 3.5 |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... | 3.5 |
| Transatlantic The Whirlwind | 3.5 |
| Macabre Omen The Ancient Returns | 3.0 |
| Hammock Departure Songs | 3.5 |
| Hoth Oathbreaker | 3.5 |
| Schizoid Lloyd The Last Note In God's Magnum Opus | 3.5 |
| Vallendusk Black Clouds Gathering | 3.5 |
| Vallendusk Vallendusk | 3.5 |
| Bjork Vespertine | 4.0 |
| Bjork Medulla | 3.5 |
| Jakob Sines | 3.5 |
| Morgoth Ungod | 3.5 |
| Stolas Allomaternal | 4.0 |
| Lightning Bolt Fantasy Empire | 3.5 |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted | 4.0 |
| Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter | 4.0 |
| Dodheimsgard A Umbra Omega | 4.5 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Stellar | 4.0 |
| Excellent album, though it took me a while to get into it. I think it's because of the first two songs, which I thought at first were a little too long for their own good, but then the rest of the album automatically impressed me and kept me hooked. With the exception of the brilliant final song, I prefer the two shorter tracks ("Einkehr" and "Verbund") to the lengthier material, but as a whole this is simply a well-written, well-performed black metal release. |
| Ufomammut Ecate | 4.0 |
| Rosetta Flies to Flame | 3.5 |
| Toundra IV | 3.5 |
| Very lush atmosphere, a lot of things going on here-often at the same time. I would prefer it if there were vocals on some of the tracks-particularly the first two and "Belenos"-but I guess that's just asking too much from a band who obviously focus on delivering some of the most interesting post-metal influenced they can conjure. It's just that there were moments throughout the album where I felt a good usage of vocal delivery could elevate the effectiveness of the instrumentation, so that a greater first impression would ensue. Nonetheless, there's some excellent songwriting here, and by far my favourite song of the whole album is "Viesca". |
| Psycroptic Psycroptic | 3.5 |
| Oceano Ascendants | 3.0 |
| Kayleth Space Muffin | 3.5 |
| Fathoms Lives Lived | 3.0 |
| Moonspell Extinct | 4.0 |
| Europe War of Kings | 3.0 |
| Falling in Reverse Just Like You | 3.0 |
| Thy Light No Morrow Shall Dawn | 3.5 |
| Grabak Agash Daeva | 3.5 |
| Obtest Auka Seniems Dievams | 3.5 |
| Obtest Tukstantmetis | 3.0 |
| Vihan Messu Liittona Pimeyteesi | 3.5 |
| Black Star Riders The Killer Instinct | 3.0 |
| Bio-Cancer Tormenting The Innocent | 3.5 |
| Gentle Giant Octopus | 4.5 |
| Ghost Bath Moonlover | 3.0 |
| Aphrodite's Child 666 | 3.5 |
| Free Heartbreaker | 3.5 |
| Free Free at Last | 3.0 |
| Nullingroots Shrouds of Celeste | 4.0 |
| Frank Zappa Thing-Fish | 2.5 |
| Frank Zappa Francesco Zappa | 3.0 |
| Frank Zappa The Man from Utopia | 3.0 |
| Frank Zappa You Are What You Is | 3.5 |
| Frank Zappa Sleep Dirt | 3.0 |
| Frank Zappa Joe's Garage | 4.0 |
| Frank Zappa Studio Tan | 3.0 |
| Frank Zappa Zoot Allures | 3.5 |
| Frank Zappa The Grand Wazoo | 4.0 |
| Frank Zappa Waka/Jawaka | 4.0 |
| Frank Zappa Chunga's Revenge | 3.5 |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats | 4.5 |
| Frank Zappa Lumpy Gravy Primordial | 2.5 |
| Jon Anderson Olias Of Sunhillow | 3.5 |
| Enslaved In Times | 4.0 |
| Acherontas Ma-IoN 'Formulas Of Reptilian Unification' | 3.0 |
| The Agonist Eye of Providence | 3.0 |
| Solefald World Metal. Kosmopolis Sud | 3.5 |
| Ghoulgotha The Deathmass Cloak | 3.0 |
| Desolate Shrine The Heart of the Netherworld | 3.5 |
| Death Karma The History of Death & Burial Rituals Part I | 4.0 |
| Setherial Nord | 4.0 |
| Melechesh Enki | 4.0 |
| Confessor Condemned | 4.0 |
| Carach Angren This Is No Fairytale | 4.0 |
| Voyager V | 4.0 |
| Archgoat The Apocalyptic Triumphator | 3.0 |
| Torche Restarter | 3.5 |
| Statues Together We're Alone | 3.5 |
| Ensiferum One Man Army | 3.0 |
| Shattered Skies The World We Used to Know | 4.0 |
| Keep of Kalessin Epistemology | 3.5 |
| Hawk Eyes Everything Is Fine | 4.0 |
| Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor | 3.5 |
| Feed Her to the Sharks Fortitude | 2.5 |
| Enter Shikari The Mindsweep | 3.5 |
| Callisto Secret Youth | 3.0 |
| The Banner Greying | 3.5 |
| Atari Teenage Riot Reset | 3.5 |
| Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror | 3.5 |
| Winds of Genocide Usurping the Throne of Disease | 3.5 |
| Forbidden Green | 2.5 |
| Forbidden Twisted into Form | 4.0 |
| Forbidden Forbidden Evil | 4.0 |
| Focus X | 3.5 |
| Focus Mother Focus | 3.0 |
| Flotsam and Jetsam No Place for Disgrace | 4.5 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Labyrinth | 3.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Say You Will | 3.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Time | 2.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Behind the Mask | 2.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Tango in the Night | 3.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Mirage | 3.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Tusk | 3.5 |
| Ingested The Architect of Extinction | 3.0 |
| Marduk Frontschwein | 3.5 |
| Great album for Marduk, though I think it would have been more beneficial to include fewer songs or shorter lengths. Highlights for me would be "Afrika" and "Doomsday Elite". |
| Sick Feeling Suburban Myth | 3.5 |
| Lord Dying Poisoned Altars | 3.5 |
| Angelus Apatrida Hidden Evolution | 4.0 |
| Very solid, very consistent thrash metal album which will surely turn out to be one of 2015's stronger metal releases. No particular highlights here for me stand out because there's isn't one which is filler material. I do, however, think the album has a very fitting closer, even if a little long. Musicianship is solid, and vocals are nicely versatile, though they do at times remind me of Rob Jukes in his Exodus period. |
| Thy Darkened Shade Liber Lvcifer I: Khem Sedjet | 3.5 |
| Ascension The Dead of the World | 3.5 |
| Dominanz Noxious | 3.5 |
| Wolfheart Winterborn | 3.5 |
| Raised Fist From the North | 3.5 |
| A very solid album with some outstanding ambitious tracks and some which are by comparison much less effective. That said my main problem with the album is how the vocals half the time feel too forceful as opposed to just seeming natural...but then I guess I should have expected that walking into a hardcore album. Nonetheless, the highlights are practically obvious for me-"In Circles" and "Depression" particularly impressed me. |
| Psychostick IV: Revenge of the Vengeance | 3.0 |
| Sylosis Dormant Heart | 3.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Mystery to Me | 3.5 |
| Enabler La Fin Absolue Du Monde | 3.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Penguin | 3.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours | 4.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac | 4.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Heroes Are Hard to Find | 3.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Bare Trees | 3.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Future Games | 3.5 |
| Behemoth The Satanist | 3.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Kiln House | 3.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Then Play On | 3.5 |
| Firewind Few Against Many | 3.0 |
| Firewind The Premonition | 3.5 |
| Firewind Burning Earth | 3.5 |
| Firewind Between Heaven And Hell | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Transgression | 3.5 |
| Fear Factory Archetype | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Z2 | 3.5 |
| Wayfarer Children of the Iron Age | 3.5 |
| ZOM Flesh Assimilation | 3.0 |
| Full of Hell and Merzbow Full of Hell and Merzbow | 3.5 |
| Darkspace Dark Space III I | 4.0 |
| Cretin Stranger | 3.5 |
| Taake Stridens hus | 3.5 |
| Walking Dead On Broadway Aeshma | 3.0 |
| The Skull For Those Which Are Asleep | 3.5 |
| Mariachi El Bronx III | 3.5 |
| Bloodshot Dawn Demons | 4.0 |
| Aversions Crown Tyrant | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Sonic Highways | 3.0 |
| Usnea Random Cosmic Violence | 3.0 |
| Today Is the Day Animal Mother | 3.5 |
| Fen Carrion Skies | 3.5 |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God II | 3.5 |
| Execration (NOR) Morbid Dimensions | 4.0 |
| Einherjer Av Oss, For Oss | 3.5 |
| The Deathtrip Deep Drone Master | 3.5 |
| Decent, traditional black metal with so-so vocals. The musicianship however is spot on for this sound, and the twisted nature of "Dynamic Underworld" and "A Foot in each Hell" works very well. |
| Weedeater Sixteen Tons | 3.5 |
| SSS Limp.Gasp. Collapse | 3.0 |
| Soen Tellurian | 3.5 |
| Skalmold Med Vaettum | 3.5 |
| This is a very powerful record as far as instrumentation is concerned, but the half-hearted vocals slightly ruin the experience for me. Nonetheless, most songs here feature a very sound transition between aggressive, more solid metal sounds to quieter albeit just as intense passages. Highlights for me would be "Ao Vori" and "Meo Drekum". |
| Ratos de Porao Século Sinistro | 4.0 |
| Skyharbor Guiding Lights | 3.5 |
| Krokodil (UK) Nachash | 3.5 |
| Obsidian Kingdom Mantiis | 3.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel | 4.0 |
| Liv Kristine Vervain | 3.5 |
| In This Moment Black Widow | 3.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater | 3.5 |
| Ghost Brigade IV - One with the Storm | 3.5 |
| Flyleaf Between the Stars | 3.0 |
| Bloodbath Grand Morbid Funeral | 4.0 |
| Black Crown Initiate The Wreckage of Stars | 4.0 |
| Machine Head Bloodstone And Diamonds | 3.5 |
| Faith No More Introduce Yourself | 3.0 |
| Eyehategod Dopesick | 4.0 |
| Eyehategod In the Name of Suffering | 3.5 |
| Torch Runner Endless Nothing | 3.0 |
| Solbrud Jaertegn | 3.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Desideratum | 3.5 |
| Necrophagia WhiteWorm Cathedral | 4.0 |
| Occultation Silence in the Ancestral House | 4.0 |
| This album has a rich, prominent tone rooted deep in gothic music which continually reminds me of Candlemass' 80s era. For that reason I quite like it, and the way in which this tone is carried out consistently from start to finish makes songs like the brilliant 'The Place Behind the Sky' and slow but dramatic closing title track. The band's name may be pretty obvious as to what one would expect (Is "Occultation" even an actual word?), but they more than make up for this with the musicianship.r |
| Krieg Transient | 3.5 |
| Inter Arma The Cavern | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry | 4.0 |
| While Heaven Wept Suspended at Aphelion | 4.5 |
| How this album has such a low rating is beyond me. It's a beautiful progressive metal album which is certainly one of the best of the year. |
| Obliterations Poison Everything | 4.0 |
| Nero di Marte Derivae | 3.5 |
| Orange Goblin Back from the Abyss | 4.0 |
| Manes Be All End All | 3.0 |
| Hellish Outcast Stay of Execution | 4.0 |
| Obituary Inked in Blood | 3.0 |
| Empty Yard Experiment (E.Y.E.) Kallisti | 3.5 |
| Dioramic Supra | 4.0 |
| Devilment The Great And Secret Show | 3.0 |
| Crobot Something Supernatural | 3.5 |
| Revocation Deathless | 4.0 |
| Capsize The Angst In My Veins | 3.5 |
| Decent melodic hardcore album with virtually the right amount of heaviness and emotional passages. Highlights for me would be "Pale" and "Tension". |
| Beyond Creation Earthborn Evolution | 4.0 |
| Baptists Bloodmines | 3.5 |
| Amaranthe Massive Addictive | 3.5 |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter | 3.0 |
| Extreme Waiting for the Punchline | 3.0 |
| Extreme III Sides to Every Story | 4.0 |
| From start to finish, this is an undoubtedly ambitious concept album which, if not immediately successful, was for Extreme a career-defining piece of work. Split into three parts, the album explores and covers a lot of musical ground. The first part has the most in common with Extreme's earlier material (but is still very reliable given the band's hard-working musical ethic), the mid-section is experimental and proves Bettencourt is more than just a talented guitarist, and the last three songs verge on progressive rock territory. It's a big album to take in, and will require more than one listen to enhance the whole experience, but is certainly a rewarding listen by the end. |
| Extreme Extreme II: Pornograffitti | 4.0 |
| Rings of Saturn Lugal Ki En | 3.5 |
| Exhorder The Law | 3.5 |
| Exhorder Slaughter in the Vatican | 4.0 |
| Evile Skull | 3.0 |
| Evanescence Evanescence | 3.5 |
| Enuff Z'Nuff Enuff Z'Nuff | 3.5 |
| Ravencult Morbid Blood | 3.5 |
| Entombed Same Difference | 2.5 |
| Entombed Wolverine Blues | 4.0 |
| Entombed Clandestine | 4.0 |
| Entombed Left Hand Path | 4.5 |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | 4.0 |
| The Sword Age of Winters | 4.0 |
| Godflesh A World Lit Only by Fire | 3.5 |
| Witch Mountain Mobile of Angels | 3.0 |
| 1349 Massive Cauldron of Chaos | 4.0 |
| Nachtmystium The World We Left Behind | 3.5 |
| Khold Til Endes | 2.5 |
| Iron Reagan The Tyranny Of Will | 3.5 |
| Wo Fat The Conjuring | 4.0 |
| Bastard Sapling Instinct Is Forever | 3.5 |
| Xerath III | 4.5 |
| War of Ages Supreme Chaos | 3.5 |
| Threshold For The Journey | 3.5 |
| White Empress Rise of the Empress | 3.5 |
| Nonpoint The Return | 2.5 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 4.0 |
| Marmozets The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets | 3.5 |
| Jeremy Irons and the Ratgang Malibus Spirit Knife | 3.5 |
| Decapitated Blood Mantra | 3.5 |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain | 3.5 |
| Crucified Barbara In The Red | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Language | 3.5 |
| Enthroned Obsidium | 3.5 |
| Enthroned XES Haereticum | 4.0 |
| I was initially introduced to Enthroned's music via "Carnage in Worlds beyond", so it's fairly unsurprising that this album is musically similar. That's not a bad thing at all however, given how aggressive and powerful the musicianship is. Not only that, but the more complex likes of "Vortex of Confusion" and "Seven Plagues, Seven Wraths" really impressed me. The vocals for me are still weak in comparison but nonetheless suitable for this musical style. |
| Enthroned Towards the Skullthrone of Satan | 3.5 |
| Enthroned Prophecies of Pagan Fire | 4.0 |
| Ensiferum Unsung Heroes | 2.5 |
| 'In my Sword I trust' is one of the worst Ensiferum songs I've ever heard, so time will tell if this album justifies the hype it seems to be getting. |
| The Enid Six Pieces | 4.0 |
| The Enid Touch Me | 3.5 |
| Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire... | 4.0 |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium | 4.0 |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk | 5.0 |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse | 5.0 |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Brain Salad Surgery | 4.5 |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Trilogy | 4.0 |
| Arch Enemy War Eternal | 3.0 |
| Ufomammut Idolum | 4.0 |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Tarkus | 4.5 |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Emerson, Lake & Palmer | 4.5 |
| Hellhammer Satanic Rites | 4.0 |
| Elvenking The Pagan Manifesto | 4.0 |
| The album Elvenking should have made after "The Winter Wake" in my opinion. It features everything that made the band's first three albums so unique whilst still retaining a melodic yet epic atmosphere, helped to become more relevant by intricate folk musicianship. My personal highlights are the amazing "King of the Elves" and "Twilight of Magic", though near enough every song on here is just as good in their own particular way. |
| Elvenking Era | 3.5 |
| Elvenking The Scythe | 3.0 |
| Elvenking The Winter Wake | 3.5 |
| Elvenking Wyrd | 4.0 |
| Earth Primitive and Deadly | 3.5 |
| Mutilation Rites Harbinger | 3.5 |
| Midnight No Mercy for Mayhem | 3.5 |
| Dark Fortress Venereal Dawn | 4.0 |
| Bolzer Soma | 3.5 |
| Wovenwar Wovenwar | 3.5 |
| Wolf Devil Seed | 4.0 |
| I expected nothing less than a heavy, solid album full of fist-pumping riffs from Wolf. Nothing new, but "Devil Seed" proves they're as strong and belligerent as ever. 'Shark Attack', 'Surgeons of Lobotomy' and 'Frozen' are my personal highlights. |
| Striker City of Gold | 4.0 |
| Origin Omnipresent | 3.5 |
| Upon a Burning Body The World Is My Enemy Now | 3.5 |
| Heartist Feeding Fiction | 3.0 |
| Godsmack 1000hp | 2.5 |
| Empress AD Still Life Moving Fast | 3.5 |
| Darkest Hour Darkest Hour | 3.5 |
| Code Orange I Am King | 3.5 |
| Crimson Shadows Kings Among Men | 4.0 |
| Black Trip Goin' Under | 4.0 |
| The Haunted Exit Wounds | 3.5 |
| Betraying the Martyrs Phantom | 3.0 |
| Aeon Zen Ephemera | 4.5 |
| This is definitely one of the finer prog metal releases of recent times, and certainly of this year so far too. Each song more or less sounds different to the other, and the way in which instrumental performance is co-ordinated in songs like "The Entity", "Life?" and "Rebuild the Ruins" reminds me (in a good way) of Myrath's debut album. |
| In Flames Siren Charms | 3.0 |
| King 810 Memoirs of a Murderer | 3.0 |
| Not quite as bad as people are making out, but that doesn't change the fact that this album-and band-are over-hyped. Half of the songs are little better than a sub-par Emmure/Slipknot crossover style yet the other half are somewhat experimental and, dare I say it, unique. The dark-tinged "Take it" and "Devil don't Cry" largely eclipse the monotony of songs like "Best Nite of my Life", and closer "State of Nature" succeeds in ending the album on a relative high. A mixed album which will undoubtedly divide fanbases in the near future, but which is also sort of career-defining. |
| Pallbearer Foundations of Burden | 4.5 |
| Electric Light Orchestra Balance of Power | 2.5 |
| Electric Light Orchestra Time | 4.5 |
| Electric Light Orchestra Out of the Blue | 4.0 |
| Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record | 4.0 |
| Electric Light Orchestra Face the Music | 4.0 |
| Electric Light Orchestra Eldorado | 4.0 |
| Opeth Pale Communion | 3.5 |
| Electric Light Orchestra On the Third Day | 4.0 |
| Electric Light Orchestra The Electric Light Orchestra | 4.0 |
| Eagles Hotel California | 3.5 |
| Eagles On The Border | 3.5 |
| Eagles Eagles | 3.5 |
| Wolvhammer Clawing Into Black Sun | 3.5 |
| Serpent Venom Of Things Seen & Unseen | 3.5 |
| Martyrdod Elddop | 3.5 |
| Incantation Dirges of Elysium | 4.0 |
| Corrupt Moral Altar Mechanical Tides | 3.0 |
| Bastard Feast Osculum Infame | 3.5 |
| Axegressor Last | 3.5 |
| ACxDC Antichrist Demoncore | 3.5 |
| Nunslaughter Angelic Dread | 3.5 |
| Vanna Void | 3.5 |
| Samoans Rescue | 3.5 |
| Overkill White Devil Armory | 4.0 |
| King of Asgard Karg | 3.5 |
| Ill Nino Till Death, La Familia | 2.5 |
| It's average for the most part, certainly, but there are some nice moments to be found here. The solos in "Not alive in my Nightmare" and "Are we so Innocent" are pretty decent, and some songs are obviously better than others. I was expecting more of a prominent latin influence in this album (though I haven't heard any of the band's more recent work), and the monotonous metalcore style is just here to stay, it seems. |
| (hed) p.e. Evolution | 2.5 |
| Blues Pills Blues Pills | 4.0 |
| Electric Citizen Sateen | 3.5 |
| Annisokay The Lucid Dream[er] | 3.0 |
| The Amity Affliction Let the Ocean Take Me | 3.0 |
| Alestorm Sunset on the Golden Age | 3.5 |
| Monarch (FRA) Sabbracadaver | 4.0 |
| Dream Evil In The Night | 3.5 |
| Dream Evil United | 3.5 |
| Dream Evil The Book of Heavy Metal | 4.0 |
| Dream Evil Evilized | 3.5 |
| Dream Evil Dragon Slayer | 4.0 |
| Dragonlord Black Wings Of Destiny | 3.5 |
| Dragonlord Rapture | 3.0 |
| Return from the Grave Gates of Nowhere | 3.5 |
| DragonForce The Power Within | 3.5 |
| DragonForce Ultra Beatdown | 2.5 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 3.0 |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm | 3.5 |
| DragonForce Valley of the Damned | 3.5 |
| Rude Soul Recall | 3.5 |
| The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li | 4.5 |
| Burzum The Ways of Yore | 2.5 |
| Black Anvil Hail Death | 4.5 |
| Winter Into Darkness | 3.5 |
| Beneath (IS) The Barren Throne | 4.0 |
| A very consistent, powerful death metal album. Some of the riffs may sound the same towards the end, but the technical solo work and solid instrumental performance makes for an excellent all-round impression. my personal highlights are "Chalice" and "Mass Extinction Codex". |
| Cannabis Corpse From Wisdom to Baked | 3.5 |
| Radio Moscow Magical Dirt | 3.5 |
| Powerman 5000 Builders of the Future | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party | 3.0 |
| In Hearts Wake Earthwalker | 3.0 |
| HORNSS No Blood, No Sympathy | 3.5 |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool | 4.0 |
| Equilibrium Erdentempel | 3.5 |
| Godflesh Decline and Fall | 4.0 |
| Body Count Manslaughter | 3.5 |
| Beartooth Disgusting | 3.5 |
| Allegaeon Elements of the Infinite | 4.0 |
| Corrosion of Conformity IX | 3.5 |
| Down Down IV - Part II | 3.5 |
| Down Down IV - Part I | 3.5 |
| Down Down III: Over the Under | 4.0 |
| Down Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow | 3.5 |
| Down NOLA | 4.0 |
| Torch Runner Committed To The Ground | 3.5 |
| Sargeist Feeding the Crawling Shadows | 3.0 |
| Serpentine Path Emanations | 3.0 |
| Nightfell The Living Ever Mourn | 3.5 |
| Trap Them Blissfucker | 4.0 |
| Ume Monuments | 3.5 |
| Structures Life Through a Window | 3.0 |
| The Socks The Socks | 3.5 |
| Misery Index The Killing Gods | 4.0 |
| Deathstars The Perfect Cult | 3.0 |
| Hour of Penance Regicide | 3.5 |
| California Breed California Breed | 4.0 |
| Bane Don't Wait Up | 3.0 |
| Avatar Hail the Apocalypse | 3.5 |
| Septicflesh Titan | 4.0 |
| Vader Tibi et Igni | 4.0 |
| Dissection Reinkaos | 3.5 |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane | 4.5 |
| Dissection The Somberlain | 4.0 |
| Opium Warlords Taste My Sword of Understanding | 3.5 |
| Dismember Dismember | 4.0 |
| Dismember The God That Never Was | 4.0 |
| Dismember Massive Killing Capacity | 3.5 |
| Dismember Indecent & Obscene | 4.0 |
| Dismember Like an Ever Flowing Stream | 4.5 |
| Discharge Discharge | 2.5 |
| Discharge Shootin Up the World | 3.0 |
| Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing | 4.5 |
| Coven Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls | 3.5 |
| Enthroned Sovereigns | 3.5 |
| Pilgrim II: Void Worship | 3.5 |
| Dread Sovereign All Hell's Martyrs | 4.0 |
| Nocturnal Breed Napalm Nights | 2.5 |
| Ringworm Hammer of the Witch | 3.5 |
| Anette Olzon Shine | 3.0 |
| Lacuna Coil Broken Crown Halo | 3.0 |
| Nexilva Eschatologies | 3.0 |
| Hirax Immortal Legacy | 3.0 |
| The instrumentation here is very good, but the vocals drag the quality down a bit. They're not absolutely terrible, but for this style of metal the vocalist should adopt a different vocal delivery. |
| Lost Society Terror Hungry | 3.0 |
| Black Label Society Catacombs of the Black Vatican | 3.5 |
| Archspire The Lucid Collective | 3.5 |
| Decent enough by tech death metal standards but I feel like some of these riffs and solos are forced in rather than flowing with the rest of the instrumentation in a natural way. It's mostly impressive musicianship that's on display here, with vocals a little too hesitant but still relevant for the most part. The first half of the album seems better written than the latter half. |
| Triptykon Melana Chasmata | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 4.0 |
| Ageless Oblivion Penthos | 3.5 |
| Diamond Head Death and Progress | 2.5 |
| DevilDriver Pray for Villains | 4.0 |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand | 4.0 |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us | 3.0 |
| Sonata Arctica Pariah's Child | 3.5 |
| Vampire Vampire | 3.5 |
| SlavEATgod Skyline Fission | 3.5 |
| The Wounded Kings Consolamentum | 4.0 |
| Dirge (FR) Hyperion | 3.5 |
| Cripple Bastards Nero in metastasi | 3.5 |
| Savage Messiah The Fateful Dark | 3.5 |
| Nashville Pussy Up the Dosage | 3.0 |
| Kayser Read Your Enemy | 3.0 |
| Issues Issues | 2.0 |
| Intervals A Voice Within | 3.5 |
| De La Tierra De La Tierra | 2.0 |
| Comeback Kid Die Knowing | 3.5 |
| Crosses Crosses | 4.0 |
| Blackberry Smoke The Whippoorwill | 4.0 |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together | 3.5 |
| The Sorcerer A Graveyard of fallen dreams | 3.0 |
| Kampfar Djevelmakt | 3.5 |
| Iskald Nedom Og Nord | 3.5 |
| Hexis Abalam | 3.0 |
| Hail Spirit Noir Oi Magoi | 4.0 |
| Conan Blood Eagle | 3.5 |
| Black Mare Field of the Host | 3.0 |
| Benighted Carnivore Sublime | 3.5 |
| Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation | 4.0 |
| Vortice Host | 3.5 |
| Throwdown Intolerance | 3.0 |
| Skull Fist Chasing the Dream | 3.5 |
| Band has obviously been listening to a lot of 80s metal for inspiration, and there's a lot of proof in each of this album's nine songs. Nothing wrong with that though because instrumentation is very solid and catchy all the way through. The vocalist for me brings the quality down a notch or two, but I think you can get past that by considering how well done the solos are in songs such as the title track and "Sign of the warrior". |
| Polar Shadowed by Vultures | 3.5 |
| I Killed the Prom Queen Beloved | 3.5 |
| Les Claypool's Duo de Twang Four Foot Shack | 4.0 |
| Butcher Babies Goliath | 2.5 |
| Illustrations In Vain | 4.0 |
| Battleaxe Burn This Town | 3.5 |
| Kuolemanlaakso Tulijoutsen | 3.5 |
| Lamentations of the Ashen EKIMMV | 2.5 |
| Acheron Kult des Hasses | 4.0 |
| Dethklok Dethalbum III | 3.5 |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II | 4.0 |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum | 3.5 |
| Destruction Spiritual Genocide | 3.5 |
| Destruction Day of Reckoning | 3.5 |
| Destruction D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N. | 3.0 |
| Destruction Inventor of Evil | 4.0 |
| Destruction Metal Discharge | 3.0 |
| Destruction The Antichrist | 4.0 |
| Destruction All Hell Breaks Loose | 4.0 |
| Destruction Cracked Brain | 3.0 |
| Destruction Release from Agony | 4.5 |
| Destruction Eternal Devastation | 4.0 |
| Destruction Mad Butcher | 3.5 |
| Desecrator Subconscious Release | 4.0 |
| Krisiun Black Force Domain | 4.0 |
| Pretty awesome album. The solos here are definitely the album's highlight. |
| Culted Oblique to All Paths | 3.0 |
| Ideas here are interesting but the main problem is that most of the songs are drawn out for too long. The first half of both 'Brooding Hex' and 'Illuminati' are brilliantly executed but at some point the instrumentation becomes rather stale, and though this does indeed suit the doom sub-genre rather well, there could have been a stronger emphasis on power and surprise than simple repetition. That said, 'March of the wolves' and 'Transmittal' are monolithic in atmosphere. |
| Truckfighters Universe | 3.5 |
| The Vintage Caravan Voyage | 3.5 |
| Rotting Out The Wrong Way | 3.5 |
| Rosetta The Anaesthete | 3.5 |
| Reflections exi(s)t | 3.5 |
| A lot of promise on show here, especially in regards to the way in which melody and brutal technical musicianship is intertwined. "Lost Pages" has a wonderful ambient section and the solos throughout "Stories through the storms" and "My Cancer" are well executed. I think the main problem here is the band's lack of focus sometimes as structures becomes too clogged up with unnecessary additional dynamics or electronic interludes. |
| Magoa Topsy Turvydom | 3.0 |
| Impending Doom Death Will Reign | 3.0 |
| Feared Vinter | 3.5 |
| Breach Venom | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Wolves Within | 3.5 |
| Skindred Kill the Power | 3.0 |
| Def Leppard Slang | 2.5 |
| Deceased As the Weird Travel On | 4.0 |
| Deceased Supernatural Addiction | 4.0 |
| Deceased Fearless Undead Machines | 4.0 |
| Deceased Luck of the Corpse | 3.5 |
| Death Angel The Dream Calls for Blood | 4.0 |
| Death Angel Killing Season | 3.0 |
| Death Angel The Art of Dying | 4.0 |
| Death Angel Act III | 4.0 |
| Death Angel Frolic Through the Park | 4.0 |
| Death Angel The Ultra-Violence | 4.5 |
| A Day To Remember Common Courtesy | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Sardonic Wrath | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Hate Them | 3.5 |
| Daevid Allen Now is the happiest time of your life | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Ravishing Grimness | 3.5 |
| Daevid Allen Good Morning! | 4.0 |
| Slayer Show No Mercy | 4.0 |
| Daevid Allen Bananamoon | 3.5 |
| Monolithe Monolithe IV | 4.0 |
| Selim Lemouchi And His Enemies Earth Air Spirit Water Fire | 3.0 |
| Interesting in parts, but this album just has a 50/50 balance of good psychedelic music and boring ambient sections which frankly left me hovering over the skip button. Maybe with the band's next album they can come up with something truly unique, but the debut album is simply above average at best. |
| Endstille Kapitulation 2013 | 3.0 |
| Decent, solid black metal for me but just way too repetitive to be enjoyed. |
| Cult Of Fire Ascetic Meditation Of Death | 4.5 |
| One thing that made made fall instantly in love with this album is its very spiritual energy flowing throughout. You can feel the amount of effort being put into the production of the album and it's simply almost too good to be true. The mixture of evocative, sometimes atmospheric black metal and beautifully integrated eastern influences feels like the perfect musical combination. To be honest, the band's harsher side reminds me of both Borknagar and Burzum, whilst the eastern influences give the band freedom to roam in their own musical world. One of 2013's best extreme metal albums? For me, definitely. |
| Code Augur Nox | 3.5 |
| Pretty good album indeed. I think sometimes the band sound a little too similar to Talanas or Enslaved for my liking, but for the most part they are doing the job just right. Clean vocals are very effective against a constant barrage of progressive black metal structures and sometimes epic atmospheres, though the cleans can be surpassed by the intensity of the growls. |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love | 4.0 |
| Beautiful album, very atmospheric, and epic in all the right places. It's certainly lifted my spirits that's for sure, although that's probably not what the band intended when making this album. Definitely one of the better albums I've listened to from this genre for a long, long while. |
| Evangelist (USA) Omen Ex Simulacra | 3.5 |
| This album really surprised me, though I didn't quite know what to expect before pressing play. For me the real problem here is how clouded everything sounds, but once you listen to the album a few times I guess you can get used to it. Musically it's pretty full on as far as the extreme metal part of the musicianship is concerned, and the background noises such as screeching violins, tinkling keyboards or orgasmic (?) female moans and wails add extra effect. I only wish the production could be a bit clearer to truly emphasize these little sounds. |
| Celeste Animale(s) | 4.0 |
| Tad Morose Revenant | 3.5 |
| Pretty good album, even if every song pretty much follows the same formula. It's essentially an album full of punchy powerful songs and soaring vocals, just like consistent power metal should be. Not sure why it's labelled here as "progressive" power metal (I myself can't see where the progressive part comes in), but it'd definitely consistent as a power metal album. A few weak tracks on here such as 'Follow', 'Ares' and 'Absence of light' disappointed me a little, but that's probably only because they're overshadowed by stronger songs such as excellent opener 'beneath a veil of crying souls' and 'Within a dream'. |
| Seeker Unloved | 3.0 |
| Bad Religion The Process of Belief | 3.5 |
| The Cult Beyond Good and Evil | 3.5 |
| Converge Halo in a Haystack | 2.5 |
| Cirith Ungol One Foot in Hell | 4.0 |
| Cirith Ungol Paradise Lost | 4.0 |
| Cirith Ungol King of the Dead | 4.5 |
| Cirith Ungol Frost and Fire | 3.5 |
| Chimaira Crown of Phantoms | 3.5 |
| Chimaira Resurrection | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Halo of Blood | 4.0 |
| Inquisition Obscure Verses for the Multiverse | 4.0 |
| Smothered The Inevitable End | 4.0 |
| Toxic Holocaust Chemistry of Consciousness | 3.5 |
| "Simply Thrashtastic! Vol.1".rBut yeah, seriously, this is nice, solid, blackened thrash, and nothing else. |
| Deicide In the Minds of Evil | 3.0 |
| Glorior Belli Gators Rumble, Chaos Unfurls | 4.0 |
| Nice album. I particularly like the harshness of the vocals and the musicianship here often accompanies those vocals in the right sort of way. The mixture of blackened riffs and a southern rock tone throughout makes for an interesting sound, though at times this can wear a little thin if played on a repetitive basis. That said, the album is generally very consistent and in my opinion never quite lets up. |
| Sepultura The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart | 2.5 |
| Reptilian Death The Dawn Of Consummation And Emergence | 3.0 |
| Decent album here with solid instrumentation, but there is very little variety and a lack of truly memorable moments. The band used to be parodic, yet on this album seem to attempt a more serious take on Technical/Brutal death metal. |
| NAMI The Eternal Light of the Unconscious Mind | 3.5 |
| East of the Wall Redaction Artifacts | 3.0 |
| Good, but this album is essentially a mixed bag. Some songs are instrumentally brilliant, whereas others simply get lost in themselves far too quickly and as a result have no sense of direction. The vocals are okay, sometimes even brilliant, but too often seem to take away from the focus on the musicianship. It also suffers from the fact that the vocals appear a little too low in the mix, so what you're really hearing is an unbalanced sound. That said, the songwriting here is very consistent and near enough every song manages to regain its excellent musical quality because of that. My personal favourite song would be the instrumental 'A negligible senescence', though only because it focuses on instrumentation. |
| Close Your Eyes Line in the Sand | 3.5 |
| Avatarium Avatarium | 4.5 |
| Atlantean Kodex The White Goddess (A Grammar Of Poetic Myth) | 3.5 |
| Very interesting album, which is naturally controlled by epic, ambitious atmospheres and a rhythm section which very rarely becomes dull and bland. The vocals however really don't seem to match the quality of the instrumentation, and thus it sounds a little mixed at times. As on 'Sol Invictus' and 'Twelve stars and an azure down', the guitar work is beautiful and the drum/bass work flows very well indeed, but shoddy vocals which prove considerably weaker unfortunately lower the quality a bit. This is however more than made up for with the brilliance of songs such as 'Hersiarch' and excellent closer 'White goddess unveiled', both of which written from the heart and soul. |
| Argus (USA-PA) Beyond The Martyrs | 3.5 |
| Cathedral The Carnival Bizarre | 4.0 |
| Cathedral The Ethereal Mirror | 4.0 |
| Burzum Sol austan, Mani vestan | 2.5 |
| Borknagar Epic | 4.0 |
| Borknagar The Archaic Course | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Lightning Bolt | 3.5 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Hate | 4.0 |
| Within the Ruins Elite | 3.5 |
| Windhand Soma | 4.0 |
| A nice slice of sludgy, hypnotic doom. 'Evergreen' is beautiful and 'Woodbine' is powerfully heavy. I really like how the vocals sound so mesmerizing at times too, as on the album opener 'Orchard'. |
| Pentagram (CL) The Malefice | 4.0 |
| The Ruins of Beverast Blood Vaults - The Blazing Gospels of Heinrich... | 4.0 |
| This is about the most blackened piece of music I've heard all year. It sometimes reminds me of early Candlemass and other times of very early MDB, but with a unique and original twist thanks to those well-orchestrated parts throughout. 'Malefica', 'A failed exorcism' and 'Ordeal' alone made me want to check these guys out more. The closer is a little underwhelming for me, but even then there's a sense of grandiosity and epic overtones. |
| Earthless From the Ages | 4.5 |
| Broken Hope Omen of Disease | 4.0 |
| Excellent album. Some very brutal and sometimes technical death metal here, though you have to try hard to find variation in some aspects of the band's sound. The vocals and drum rhythms are more or less the same all the way through, but the guitar and bass work is extremely well-executed, specifically on 'Ghastly', the title track and 'The docking dead'. I didn't realize this band were around for as long as they have been either. |
| Bl'ast! Blood! | 3.5 |
| Asomvel Knuckle Duster | 3.5 |
| Stray from the Path Anonymous | 4.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots High Rise | 3.0 |
| Onslaught VI | 3.5 |
| Red Fang Whales and Leeches | 4.0 |
| Oceano Incisions | 3.5 |
| Northlane Singularity | 2.5 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Hellbound | 3.0 |
| Eyes Set to Kill Masks | 3.0 |
| Decent enough by Metalcore standards, but the vocals here really distract me from the (sometimes) brilliant heaviness on tracks such as 'Killing in your name' and 'Surface'. At least it's an improvement over the last few rubbish Metalcore albums I've had the pain of listening to. |
| Ihsahn Das Seelenbrechen | 4.0 |
| Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire | 3.0 |
| Circles Infinitas | 3.0 |
| The Browning Hypernova | 2.5 |
| Bloody Hammers Spiritual Relics | 4.0 |
| Very solid album, and particularly raises all the good points of a genre at risk of sounding outdated. The keyboards make songs such as 'At the well of the Nazareth' and 'The source' all the more exciting and evil-sounding to listen to, whereas the bass-heavy 'The transit begins' and 'Shiver' obviously favour heavy guitar sounds a la Pentagram (in the 80s), making for a rather unique sound. |
| Bear Noumenon | 3.5 |
| AFI Burials | 3.5 |
| Blue Oyster Cult The Revölution by Night | 2.5 |
| Blondie The Hunter | 2.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack | 4.0 |
| Sahg Delusions of Grandeur | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate | 3.0 |
| Protest the Hero Volition | 4.0 |
| Monster Magnet Last Patrol | 4.0 |
| Brainticket Celestial Ocean | 1.5 |
| A Storm Of Light Nations to Flames | 3.0 |
| Shining (SWE) 8 ½ - Feberdrömmar i vaket tillstånd | 3.5 |
| English Dogs Where Legend Began | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal II | 4.0 |
| Trivium Vengeance Falls | 3.0 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By | 3.5 |
| The Safety Fire Mouth of Swords | 3.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
| Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros | 3.5 |
| Nekrogoblikon Power | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers | 4.0 |
| James LaBrie Impermanent Resonance | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks | 4.0 |
| Diamond Plate Pulse | 3.0 |
| Korn The Paradigm Shift | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King | 2.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet | 2.5 |
| Soulfly Savages | 4.0 |
| Scar the Martyr Scar the Martyr | 3.0 |
| Architects The Here and Now | 2.5 |
| Architects Ruin | 3.5 |
| Architects Nightmares | 3.0 |
| Alter Bridge Fortress | 4.0 |
| Scar the Martyr Revolver | 3.5 |
| Jesu Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater | 3.0 |
| Carcass Surgical Steel | 4.5 |
| Arch Enemy Khaos Legions | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Super Collider | 2.5 |
| Satyricon Satyricon | 2.5 |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill | 3.5 |
| Aerosmith Just Push Play | 2.5 |
| Aerosmith Nine Lives | 2.5 |
| Aerosmith Get a Grip | 3.0 |
| Aerosmith Done With Mirrors | 3.5 |
| Aerosmith Rock in a Hard Place | 2.0 |
| Aerosmith Night in the Ruts | 3.0 |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 4.0 |
| Aerosmith Draw the Line | 4.0 |
| Aerosmith Rocks | 4.0 |
| Aerosmith Aerosmith | 4.0 |
| Aeon Aeons Black | 3.5 |
| Revocation Revocation | 4.0 |
| Iwrestledabearonce Late for Nothing | 3.0 |
| The Defiled Daggers | 3.5 |
| Sirenia Perils of the Deep Blue | 2.5 |
| Autopsy The Headless Ritual | 4.0 |
| Just heard 'Arch cadaver'...sounds pretty solid as always. |
| Black Sabbath 13 | 4.0 |
| Blackmore's Night Dancer And The Moon | 2.5 |
| Destruction Infernal Overkill | 4.0 |
| Destruction Sentence of Death | 4.0 |
| Volbeat Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies | 4.0 |
| TesseracT Altered State | 4.0 |
| Suicidal Tendencies 13 | 4.0 |
| Repulsion Horrified | 4.5 |
| No Omega Shame | 3.5 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna The Beyond | 4.0 |
| Clutch Robot Hive/Exodus | 4.0 |
| Clutch The Elephant Riders | 4.0 |
| Clutch Clutch | 4.0 |
| Clutch Transnational Speedway League | 3.5 |
| Clutch Strange Cousins From The West | 3.5 |
| Clutch Blast Tyrant | 4.0 |
| Clutch Pure Rock Fury | 3.5 |
| Cathedral The Guessing Game | 4.0 |
| Bulldozer The Day of Wrath | 3.0 |
| Beyond Creation The Aura | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.5 |
| Negator Gates to the Pantheon | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement | 3.0 |
| Deep Purple Now What?! | 4.0 |
| Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy | 4.0 |
| Purson The Circle and the Blue Door | 4.0 |
| Purson Rocking Horse | 3.5 |
| Voices From The Human Forest Create A Fugue Of Imaginary | 3.5 |
| Cathedral The VIIth Coming | 3.5 |
| Cathedral Endtyme | 3.5 |
| Cathedral Forest of Equilibrium | 4.0 |
| Cathedral The Last Spire | 4.5 |
| Sodom Epitome of Torture | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Cult of Luna | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy And Then You'll Beg | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy Whisper Supremacy | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh | 4.0 |
| Cruachan Tuatha Na Gael | 3.5 |
| Clutch Earth Rocker | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 3.0 |
| Bruce Dickinson The Chemical Wedding | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... | 3.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings | 3.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 3.5 |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster | 4.0 |
| Anathema A Fine Day to Exit | 3.5 |
| Anathema Judgement | 4.0 |
| Anathema Alternative 4 | 4.0 |
| Anathema The Crestfallen | 4.0 |
| Anathema Pentecost III | 3.5 |
| Borknagar Quintessence | 4.0 |
| Borknagar Urd | 3.5 |
| Borknagar The Olden Domain | 4.0 |
| Borknagar Empiricism | 4.0 |
| Borknagar Borknagar | 4.5 |
| Bolt Thrower Honour - Valour - Pride | 4.0 |
| Bolt Thrower Those Once Loyal | 4.5 |
| Bolt Thrower ...For Victory | 4.5 |
| Rotting Christ Kata Ton Demona Eaftou | 4.0 |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite | 4.0 |
| Voivod Target Earth | 4.0 |
| Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance | 4.0 |
| Stratovarius Nemesis | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) | 4.5 |
| Genuinely thought that this was a novel when I saw the title, but later found out that it was a new album by Steven wilson. I've no idea what my expectations for this are, because every album he's ever been involved in is interesting in some way. I think he was talking about doing a new PT album too, so this year he's being a busy, busy bee. Like every year. |
| Helloween Straight Out of Hell | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 4.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 4.0 |
| A very different sound compared to what we've heard from BMTH in the not too distant past. In particular the production seems a lot more atmospheric and Sykes' vocals seem to have more of a range than usual. There are a lot of songs on here that I could say are the band's best: 'The house of wolves', 'Empire (let them sing)','Shadow Moses' and 'Crooked young', the latter of which making for a very nice sound using symphonic sounds and consequently giving off a classical feel. If this is the direction the band are heading in, I have no doubt that I will become a bigger fan than ever before. |
| Bolt Thrower In Battle There Is No Law! | 3.5 |
| Bolt Thrower War Master | 4.0 |
| Bolt Thrower Realm of Chaos | 4.0 |
| Steeleye Span Rocket Cottage | 3.5 |
| Mostly Autumn Music Inspired by The Lord of the Rings | 3.0 |
| Renaissance Scheherazade and Other Stories | 4.0 |
| Benediction Killing Music | 4.0 |
| Benediction Organised Chaos | 2.5 |
| Benediction Subconscious Terror | 3.5 |
| Benediction Transcend the Rubicon | 4.0 |
| Benediction The Grand Leveller | 4.0 |
| Angra Aqua | 3.5 |
| Angra Fireworks | 3.5 |
| Angra Temple of Shadows | 4.5 |
| Angra Rebirth | 4.0 |
| Angra Holy Land | 4.5 |
| Angra Aurora Consurgens | 4.0 |
| Angra Angels Cry | 4.5 |
| All About Eve All About Eve | 4.0 |
| Portishead Portishead | 4.0 |
| Portishead Dummy | 4.5 |
| Necrophagia Season of the Dead | 4.0 |
| My Dying Bride A Map of All Our Failures | 4.0 |
| Parkway Drive Atlas | 3.5 |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1 | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth The Manticore and Other Horrors | 3.0 |
| Just had a look at the album's wikipedia page, and it seems that the album is only 50 minutes long. So its not going to be as dreadfully long as Cradle's last two albums. It might still suck though... |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.5 |
| Acid Bath Paegan Terrorism Tactics | 4.5 |
| Acid Bath When the Kite String Pops | 4.0 |
| The Gathering How to Measure a Planet? | 4.5 |
| The Gathering Home | 4.0 |
| The Gathering Black Light District | 4.0 |
| The Gathering Always | 4.0 |
| Garbage Beautiful Garbage | 3.0 |
| Garbage Version 2.0 | 4.0 |
| Garbage Not Your Kind of People | 4.0 |
| Gamma Ray Majestic | 4.0 |
| Gamma Ray Somewhere Out in Space | 4.5 |
| Gamma Ray Power Plant | 4.0 |
| Gamma Ray No World Order | 3.5 |
| Gamma Ray Land of the Free | 4.5 |
| Gallhammer Ill Innocence | 3.0 |
| Gallhammer Gloomy Lights | 3.0 |
| Gallhammer The End | 2.5 |
| Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon | 4.0 |
| Funeral for a Friend Tales Don't Tell Themselves | 3.0 |
| Funeral for a Friend Memory and Humanity | 3.5 |
| Funeral for a Friend Hours | 4.0 |
| Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation | 4.0 |
| Free Fire and Water | 4.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Vanitas | 4.0 |
| Free Free | 3.0 |
| Free Tons of Sobs | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters One by One | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters | 4.5 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 4.0 |
| Focus Focus II | 4.5 |
| Focus Hamburger Concerto | 4.5 |
| Focus Focus 3 | 4.5 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Mafia | 4.0 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles | 4.5 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony | 4.0 |
| Fish 13th Star | 4.0 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 4.0 |
| Fish Raingods with Zippos | 4.5 |
| Its always refreshing for me to hear a Fish album, especially as he is one of my favourite solo musicians. This album has in particular so much variety its almost impossible to note every little thing that makes his music stand out so. The last six songs (contributing to a 25 minute opus called 'Plague of Ghosts') are maybe drawn out a little too long, but not enough to take away from the core values of this promising album by Fish. I sometimes wonder whether marillion or Fish is actually better. |
| Fish Internal Exile | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 4.0 |
| Finntroll Visor Om Slutet | 3.5 |
| Finntroll Nifelvind | 4.0 |
| Finntroll Nattfodd | 4.0 |
| Finntroll Midnattens Widunder | 3.5 |
| Bruce Dickinson Skunkworks | 3.0 |
| Bruce Dickinson Balls to Picasso | 3.0 |
| Bruce Dickinson Tattooed Millionaire | 3.5 |
| Fields of the Nephilim Dawnrazor | 3.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst MMV | 1.5 |
| Finntroll Jaktens Tid | 4.0 |
| Bruce Dickinson Tyranny of Souls | 4.0 |
| Bruce Dickinson Accident of Birth | 4.0 |
| Fields of the Nephilim Mourning Sun | 4.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine | 3.5 |
| Fields of the Nephilim Fallen | 2.0 |
| The Gathering Disclosure | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy Cryptopsy | 4.0 |
| Fields of the Nephilim Elizium | 4.5 |
| Such a hauntingly beautiful album, and it actually stays with you hours after you've stopped listening to the album itself. It's that memorable. Not just that, but McCoy's voice on here is incredible. Melodic overtones and gothic atmosphere make this one of the albums of the 90's for me. |
| Fields of the Nephilim The Nephilim | 3.5 |
| Enslaved RIITIIR | 4.5 |
| currently writing a review for this album. I'm literally drunk with excitement. |
| Dark Funeral Diabolis Interium | 4.0 |
| Dark Funeral Dark Funeral | 4.0 |
| D.R.I. Dealing with It! | 4.0 |
| D.R.I. Thrash Zone | 3.5 |
| D.R.I. 4 of a Kind | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Sever The Wicked Hand | 4.0 |
| D.R.I. Dirty Rotten | 4.0 |
| D.R.I. Crossover | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Time Heals Nothing | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form | 4.5 |
| Crowbar Odd Fellows Rest | 3.5 |
| Crowbar Obedience Thru Suffering | 3.5 |
| Crowbar Life's Blood For The Downtrodden | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Equilibrium | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Crowbar | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Broken Glass | 4.0 |
| Cream Wheels of Fire | 4.0 |
| Cream Fresh Cream | 4.5 |
| Cream Disraeli Gears | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Obsolete | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Mechanize | 4.5 |
| Fear Factory The Industrialist | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Digimortal | 3.5 |
| Exumer Possessed by Fire | 3.5 |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture | 4.5 |
| Faith No More The Real Thing | 4.0 |
| Faith No More We Care a Lot | 3.0 |
| Falkenbach Heralding - The Fireblade | 3.5 |
| Falkenbach Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty | 4.5 |
| Falkenbach ...Magni Blandinn Ok Megintiri... | 4.5 |
| Falkenbach ...En Their Medh Riki Fara... | 4.0 |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime | 4.0 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 4.0 |
| Faith No More Album of the Year | 4.0 |
| Corrosion of Conformity Corrosion of Conformity | 3.5 |
| Corrosion of Conformity Wiseblood | 4.0 |
| Corrosion of Conformity Blind | 4.0 |
| Corrosion of Conformity Animosity | 3.5 |
| Corrosion of Conformity Eye For An Eye | 3.0 |
| Corrosion of Conformity In the Arms of God | 3.5 |
| Corrosion of Conformity Deliverance | 4.0 |
| Corrosion of Conformity America's Volume Dealer | 4.0 |
| Epica The Phantom Agony | 4.5 |
| Exumer Rising from the Sea | 4.0 |
| Skunk Anansie Black Traffic | 2.5 |
| Chthonic Seediq Bale | 4.0 |
| Chthonic Takasago Army | 3.5 |
| The Exploited Beat the Bastards | 4.0 |
| Chthonic Relentless Recurrence | 4.0 |
| Chthonic Mirror Of Retribution | 3.5 |
| The Exploited Fuck the System | 3.5 |
| The Exploited The Massacre | 3.5 |
| The Exploited Death Before Dishonour | 3.0 |
| Exodus The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A | 3.5 |
| Exodus Shovel Headed Kill Machine | 4.0 |
| Exodus Tempo of the Damned | 4.0 |
| Exodus Force of Habit | 3.0 |
| Exodus Impact Is Imminent | 3.5 |
| Exodus Fabulous Disaster | 4.0 |
| Exodus Pleasures of the Flesh | 3.5 |
| Exodus Bonded by Blood | 4.0 |
| The Exploited Punks Not Dead | 3.5 |
| Exodus Exhibit B: The Human Condition | 4.0 |
| Evile Infected Nations | 3.5 |
| Evile Five Serpent's Teeth | 3.0 |
| Even though Evile's core faults are still evident in this album (too close to the overall thrash movement) there is some classic material here, as on the acoustic 'In Memoriam'. A brilliant album for 2011. |
| Evile Enter the Grave | 4.0 |
| Evanescence The Open Door | 3.0 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 3.5 |
| Epica Requiem for the Indifferent | 4.0 |
| Epica The Divine Conspiracy | 4.5 |
| Epica Design Your Universe | 4.5 |
| Epica Consign to Oblivion | 3.0 |
| couple of weak songs,but other than that this album is epic! |
| Blood Red Throne Altered Genesis | 4.0 |
| Blondie Autoamerican | 3.0 |
| Blood Red Throne Affiliated With the Suffering | 4.0 |
| Blondie Plastic Letters | 4.0 |
| Blondie Parallel Lines | 4.5 |
| Blondie Eat to the Beat | 4.0 |
| Blondie Blondie | 4.0 |
| Bleeding Through The Truth | 4.0 |
| Bleeding Through Dust to Ashes | 4.0 |
| Bleeding Through This Is Love, This Is Murderous | 3.5 |
| Bleeding Through Portrait of the Goddess | 4.0 |
| Bleeding Through Declaration | 4.0 |
| Black Label Society Shot to Hell | 3.0 |
| Black Label Society The Blessed Hellride | 4.0 |
| Black Label Society Sonic Brew | 4.0 |
| Black Label Society Order Of The Black | 4.0 |
| Black Label Society Mafia | 4.0 |
| Grave Endless Procession of Souls | 3.5 |
| Black Label Society 1919 Eternal | 4.0 |
| Billy Idol Whiplash Smile | 3.5 |
| Billy Idol Rebel Yell | 4.0 |
| Billy Idol Billy Idol | 4.0 |
| Biohazard Reborn In Defiance | 1.5 |
| Arch Enemy Stigmata | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Ruun | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Monumension | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Mardraum - Beyond the Within | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Isa | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Frost | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Eld | 3.0 |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu | 1.0 |
| Enslaved Blodhemn | 3.5 |
| Angel Witch As Above, So Below | 3.5 |
| Enslaved Below the Lights | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini | 4.5 |
| Ensiferum Iron | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising | 4.0 |
| My Dying Bride The Barghest o’ Whitby | 4.0 |
| The Enid Aerie Faerie Nonsense | 4.0 |
| Ensiferum From Afar | 4.0 |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum | 4.5 |
| The Enid In The Region of the Summer Stars | 4.5 |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 4.0 |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 4.0 |
| The Agonist Once Only Imagined | 3.5 |
| The Agonist Prisoners | 4.0 |
| Dying Fetus Stop at Nothing | 4.0 |
| Dying Fetus Purification Through Violence | 3.5 |
| Accept Blood of the Nations | 4.0 |
| Accept Predator | 2.0 |
| Accept Death Row | 1.5 |
| Accept Objection Overruled | 3.5 |
| Accept Eat the Heat | 1.5 |
| Accept Russian Roulette | 2.5 |
| Accept Metal Heart | 4.0 |
| Another great 80's album from Accept. They really do have a metal heart... |
| Accept Balls to the Wall | 4.5 |
| Accept Restless and Wild | 4.5 |
| Accept Breaker | 3.5 |
| Accept Accept | 2.0 |
| Accept Stalingrad: Brothers In Death | 4.0 |
| Dying Fetus War of Attrition | 4.0 |
| Dying Fetus Killing on Adrenaline | 4.0 |
| Dying Fetus Destroy the Opposition | 4.5 |
| Dying Fetus Descend into Depravity | 4.5 |
| Divine Heresy Bringer of Plagues | 3.5 |
| Divine Heresy Bleed the Fifth | 3.5 |
| Cephalic Carnage Conforming To Abnormality | 3.0 |
| Cephalic Carnage Xenosapien | 3.0 |
| Cephalic Carnage Misled by Certainty | 4.0 |
| Cephalic Carnage Lucid Interval | 4.5 |
| Cephalic Carnage Exploiting Dysfunction | 4.0 |
| Cephalic Carnage Anomalies | 3.0 |
| Bloodbath Unblessing the Purity | 4.0 |
| Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage | 4.0 |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh | 4.5 |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery | 4.0 |
| Bloodbath Breeding Death | 4.0 |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 4.0 |
| Baroness Red Album | 4.0 |
| Baroness First & Second | 4.0 |
| Baroness Second | 4.0 |
| Baroness First | 4.0 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 4.0 |
| Eluveitie Helvetios | 4.0 |
| Eluveitie Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion | 3.0 |
| Eluveitie Spirit | 4.5 |
| Eluveitie Slania | 4.0 |
| Eluveitie Everything Remains As It Never Was | 4.0 |
| Electric Wizard Let Us Prey | 3.0 |
| Electric Wizard Electric Wizard | 4.0 |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone | 4.5 |
| Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics... | 4.5 |
| Electric Wizard Black Masses | 4.0 |
| Elastica Elastica | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Images and Words | 5.0 |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Awake | 4.5 |
| Draconian A Rose for the Apocalypse | 3.5 |
| Draconian The Burning Halo | 4.5 |
| Draconian Arcane Rain Fell | 4.0 |
| The Doors Other Voices | 2.5 |
| The Doors L.A. Woman | 3.5 |
| The Doors Morrison Hotel | 4.0 |
| The Doors The Soft Parade | 3.0 |
| The Doors Waiting for the Sun | 3.5 |
| The Doors Strange Days | 5.0 |
| The Doors The Doors | 5.0 |
| Disturbed Asylum | 2.5 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 2.0 |
| The Distillers Sing, Sing Death House | 4.0 |
| The Distillers The Distillers | 3.5 |
| The Distillers Coral Fang | 3.5 |
| Dio Master of the Moon | 3.5 |
| Dio Killing the Dragon | 3.5 |
| Dio Magica | 3.5 |
| Dio Angry Machines | 2.0 |
| Dio Strange Highways | 2.5 |
| Dio Lock up the Wolves | 3.0 |
| Dio Dream Evil | 3.5 |
| Dio Sacred Heart | 3.5 |
| Dio The Last in Line | 4.0 |
| Dio Holy Diver | 4.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst | 3.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir For All Tid | 4.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir Spiritual Black Dimensions | 4.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia | 4.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli | 3.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant | 4.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon | 3.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Abrahadabra | 2.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 4.0 |
| Die So Fluid Not Everybody Gets A Happy Ending | 3.5 |
| Die So Fluid Spawn Of Dysfunction | 4.0 |
| Diamond Head Lightning to the Nations | 4.5 |
| Diamond Head Borrowed Time | 4.0 |
| Blackmore's Night Autumn Sky | 2.5 |
| Blackmore's Night The Village Lanterne | 3.5 |
| Blackmore's Night Under a Violet Moon | 3.5 |
| Blackmore's Night Shadow of the Moon | 3.5 |
| Blackmore's Night Ghost of a Rose | 4.0 |
| Blackmore's Night Fires at Midnight | 4.0 |
| Biohazard Means to an End | 3.5 |
| Biohazard Uncivilization | 3.0 |
| Biohazard New World Disorder | 3.0 |
| Biohazard Urban Discipline | 3.0 |
| Biohazard State of the World Address | 4.0 |
| Biohazard Mata Leao | 4.0 |
| Biohazard Kill or be Killed | 3.5 |
| Biohazard Biohazard | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction | 4.0 |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Terria | 5.0 |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Physicist | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech | 5.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Infinity | 4.0 |
| Deicide In Torment in Hell | 1.5 |
| Deicide Insineratehymn | 2.5 |
| Deicide Till Death Do Us Part | 3.5 |
| Deicide The Stench of Redemption | 4.5 |
| Deicide Scars of the Crucifix | 3.5 |
| Deicide Serpents of the Light | 3.5 |
| Deicide Once Upon the Cross | 4.0 |
| Deicide Legion | 4.0 |
| Deicide Deicide | 4.5 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Deftones Deftones | 4.0 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 4.5 |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 4.0 |
| Def Leppard Adrenalize | 3.5 |
| Def Leppard High 'N' Dry | 3.5 |
| Def Leppard On Through the Night | 3.5 |
| Deep Purple Rapture of the Deep | 4.0 |
| Deep Purple Bananas | 4.0 |
| Deep Purple Abandon | 3.0 |
| Deep Purple Purpendicular | 3.5 |
| Deep Purple The Battle Rages On... | 2.0 |
| Deep Purple Slaves and Masters | 3.0 |
| Deep Purple The House of Blue Light | 2.5 |
| Deep Purple Perfect Strangers | 4.0 |
| Deep Purple Come Taste the Band | 4.0 |
| Deep Purple Stormbringer | 3.5 |
| Deep Purple Who Do We Think We Are | 3.0 |
| Deep Purple Fireball | 3.5 |
| Deep Purple Deep Purple | 4.0 |
| Deep Purple The Book of Taliesyn | 3.5 |
| Deep Purple Shades of Deep Purple | 4.0 |
| Def Leppard Pyromania | 4.0 |
| Def Leppard Hysteria | 4.0 |
| Deep Purple Machine Head | 5.0 |
| Deep Purple Deep Purple In Rock | 4.5 |
| Deathstars Synthetic Generation | 4.0 |
| Deep Purple Burn | 4.0 |
| Decapitated Winds of Creation | 4.5 |
| Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis | 4.5 |
| Decapitated Nihility | 4.5 |
| Decapitated The Negation | 4.0 |
| Decapitated Carnival Is Forever | 3.5 |
| Deathstars Termination Bliss | 4.0 |
| Deathstars Night Electric Night | 4.0 |
| Death Symbolic | 4.5 |
| Death Spiritual Healing | 3.5 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 5.0 |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore | 4.0 |
| Death Leprosy | 4.0 |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns | 4.5 |
| Death Human | 5.0 |
| Dead Kennedys In God We Trust, Inc. | 4.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters | 4.5 |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | 4.5 |
| Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist | 4.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Bedtime for Democracy | 4.5 |
| A Day To Remember Homesick | 3.5 |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone Circle the Wagons | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Dark Thrones and Black Flags | 2.5 |
| Darkthrone F.O.A.D. | 2.5 |
| Darkthrone The Cult Is Alive | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Total Death | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Panzerfaust | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger | 4.5 |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone Soulside Journey | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky | 5.0 |
| Danzig Circle of Snakes | 3.5 |
| Danzig 7:77 - I Luciferi | 3.5 |
| Danzig 6:66 Satan's Child | 4.0 |
| Danzig Danzig 4 | 3.0 |
| Danzig Deth Red Sabaoth | 4.0 |
| Danzig Danzig III: How The Gods Kill | 4.5 |
| Danzig Danzig II: Lucifuge | 4.5 |
| Danzig Danzig | 4.5 |
| Cynic Focus | 5.0 |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy | 4.5 |
| The Cult Choice of Weapon | 4.0 |
| The Cult Dreamtime | 4.0 |
| The Cult Sonic Temple | 4.5 |
| The Cult Love | 4.0 |
| The Cult Electric | 4.5 |
| Cruachan Folklore | 3.5 |
| Cruachan Pagan | 3.5 |
| Cruachan The Morrigan's Call | 4.0 |
| Cruachan The Middle Kingdom | 3.5 |
| Cruachan Blood on the Black Robe | 4.0 |
| The Cranberries Wake Up and Smell the Coffee | 3.0 |
| The Cranberries Bury the Hatchet | 2.5 |
| The Cranberries Roses | 3.5 |
| The Cranberries No Need to Argue | 4.5 |
| The Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? | 4.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Thornography | 2.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Bitter Suites to Succubi | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth From the Cradle to Enslave | 2.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 4.0 |
| Metal Church The Dark | 4.0 |
| Dying Fetus Reign Supreme | 4.5 |
| Cradle of Filth The Principle of Evil Made Flesh | 4.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Midian | 4.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Damnation and a Day | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast | 4.5 |
| Coroner R.I.P. | 4.0 |
| Coroner Punishment for Decadence | 4.5 |
| Coroner No More Color | 4.5 |
| Coroner Mental Vortex | 4.5 |
| Coroner Grin | 4.5 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.0 |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing | 4.5 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 4.5 |
| Converge No Heroes | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.5 |
| The Clash Cut the Crap | 2.0 |
| The Clash Combat Rock | 3.0 |
| The Clash Sandinista! | 3.0 |
| The Clash The Clash | 4.0 |
| The Clash London Calling | 5.0 |
| Cinderella Still Climbing | 3.5 |
| Cinderella Night Songs | 4.0 |
| Cinderella Long Cold Winter | 4.0 |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Blunt Force Trauma | 4.0 |
| Chthonic 9th Empyrean | 4.0 |
| Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason | 4.0 |
| Anvil Juggernaut Of Justice | 3.5 |
| Anvil Absolutely No Alternative | 2.5 |
| Anvil Worth The Weight | 2.5 |
| Anvil Pound For Pound | 2.5 |
| Anvil Hard 'n' Heavy | 4.0 |
| Chimaira Chimaira | 4.0 |
| Bauhaus Bela Lugosi's Dead | 4.0 |
| Boston Don't Look Back | 4.0 |
| Boston Boston | 4.0 |
| Anvil Forged in Fire | 4.0 |
| Chimaira The Age of Hell | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 2.5 |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk | 3.0 |
| Celtic Frost Morbid Tales | 4.5 |
| Celtic Frost Monotheist | 4.5 |
| Celtic Frost Into the Pandemonium | 4.0 |
| Prong Rude Awakening | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan The Dillinger Escape Plan | 3.5 |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Inflikted | 4.0 |
| Carcass Swansong | 4.0 |
| Carcass Reek of Putrefaction | 3.0 |
| Carcass Symphonies of Sickness | 4.0 |
| Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious | 5.0 |
| Carcass Heartwork | 5.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse The Wretched Spawn | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Gore Obsessed | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Kill | 4.0 |
| Candlemass From the 13th Sun | 2.5 |
| Candlemass Dactylis Glomerata | 2.5 |
| Candlemass Tales of Creation | 4.0 |
| Candlemass Nightfall | 4.5 |
| Candlemass King of the Grey Islands | 4.0 |
| Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus | 5.0 |
| Candlemass Candlemass | 4.0 |
| Candlemass Ancient Dreams | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Gallery of Suicide | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Butchered at Birth | 4.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Bloodthirst | 4.0 |
| Camel Harbour of Tears | 4.0 |
| Camel Dust and Dreams | 3.0 |
| Camel Stationary Traveller | 3.0 |
| Camel The Single Factor | 2.0 |
| Camel Nude | 4.0 |
| Camel Breathless | 4.0 |
| Camel Rain Dances | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding | 4.5 |
| Camel Rajaz | 4.0 |
| Camel A Nod and a Wink | 4.0 |
| Camel The Snow Goose | 4.0 |
| Camel Moonmadness | 5.0 |
| Camel Mirage | 5.0 |
| Camel Camel | 4.0 |
| Burzum Fallen | 4.0 |
| Burzum Belus | 4.0 |
| Burzum Hlidskjalf | 3.5 |
| Burzum Daudi Baldrs | 1.5 |
| Burzum Umskiptar | 2.5 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 5.0 |
| Burzum Filosofem | 4.0 |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var | 4.5 |
| Burzum Aske | 4.5 |
| Burzum Burzum | 4.5 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Imaginos | 4.0 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Fire of Unknown Origin | 4.0 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Cultösaurus Erectus | 4.0 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Spectres | 4.0 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Agents of Fortune | 4.0 |
| Black Spiders Sons of the North | 4.0 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Secret Treaties | 4.5 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Tyranny and Mutation | 4.5 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Blue Öyster Cult | 4.5 |
| Blood Ceremony Living With The Ancients | 4.5 |
| Blood Ceremony Blood Ceremony | 4.0 |
| Blackfield Blackfield II | 4.0 |
| Blackfield Blackfield | 4.5 |
| Black Stone Cherry Folklore and Superstition | 4.0 |
| Black Stone Cherry Black Stone Cherry | 4.0 |
| Black Stone Cherry Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Forbidden | 2.0 |
| Black Sabbath Cross Purposes | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Dehumanizer | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Tyr | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Headless Cross | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath The Eternal Idol | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath Seventh Star | 2.5 |
| Black Sabbath Born Again | 1.5 |
| Black Sabbath Mob Rules | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Never Say Die! | 2.5 |
| Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage | 3.5 |
| Architects Daybreaker | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 5.0 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 5.0 |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 4.5 |
| Parkway Drive Horizons | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal | 4.5 |
| The Black Crowes Shake Your Money Maker | 4.0 |
| The Black Crowes Amorica | 4.0 |
| Belphegor Pestapokalypse VI | 4.0 |
| Belphegor Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn | 3.5 |
| Belphegor Bondage Goat Zombie | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Pandemonic Incantations | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Grom | 2.5 |
| Behemoth Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic) | 3.5 |
| Belphegor Goatreich-Fleshcult | 3.5 |
| Belphegor Lucifer Incestus | 4.0 |
| Belphegor Necrodaemon Terrorsathan | 3.0 |
| Belphegor Blood Magick Necromance | 4.0 |
| Behemoth Thelema.6 | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Satanica | 4.0 |
| Behemoth Evangelion | 4.0 |
| Behemoth Demigod | 4.5 |
| Behemoth The Apostasy | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Let It Be | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale | 4.0 |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night | 4.0 |
| The Beatles With the Beatles | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Please Please Me | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour | 4.5 |
| Sabaton Carolus Rex (Swedish Version) | 4.0 |
| Moonspell Alpha Noir | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 5.0 |
| Anathema Weather Systems | 4.5 |
| Bauhaus Go Away White | 3.5 |
| Bauhaus Burning from the Inside | 4.0 |
| Bauhaus The Sky's Gone Out | 4.5 |
| Bauhaus Mask | 4.0 |
| Bauhaus In the Flat Field | 4.0 |
| Bathory Destroyer of Worlds | 2.5 |
| Bathory Blood on Ice | 4.0 |
| Bathory Nordland I | 4.0 |
| Bathory The Return of the Darkness and Evil | 4.0 |
| Autopsy Shitfun | 3.5 |
| Bathory Nordland II | 3.5 |
| Bathory Hammerheart | 4.5 |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death | 5.0 |
| Bathory Bathory | 4.0 |
| Autopsy The Tomb Within | 4.0 |
| Autopsy Severed Survival | 4.5 |
| Autopsy Mental Funeral | 4.5 |
| Autopsy Macabre Eternal | 3.5 |
| Autopsy Acts of the Unspeakable | 3.5 |
| Artillery My Blood | 4.0 |
| Artillery When Death Comes | 4.0 |
| Artillery B.A.C.K. | 3.0 |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence | 4.5 |
| Atheist Piece of Time | 4.5 |
| Atheist Jupiter | 4.5 |
| Atheist Elements | 4.5 |
| At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease | 4.0 |
| At the Gates The Red in the Sky Is Ours | 3.5 |
| At the Gates Gardens of Grief | 4.0 |
| Artillery Terror Squad | 4.0 |
| Artillery Fear of Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| Artillery By Inheritance | 4.0 |
| Arkona (RUS) Slovo | 3.5 |
| Arkona (RUS) Goi, Rode, Goi! | 4.5 |
| Arkona (RUS) Ot Serdtsa K Nebu | 4.0 |
| Arkona (RUS) Lepta | 3.5 |
| Architects Hollow Crown | 4.0 |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant | 3.5 |
| Anthrax We've Come for You All | 3.5 |
| Anthrax Volume 8: The Threat Is Real | 2.5 |
| Anthrax Stomp 442 | 3.0 |
| Anthrax State of Euphoria | 3.5 |
| Anthrax Fistful of Metal | 3.0 |
| Annihilator Metal | 3.0 |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine | 4.0 |
| Annihilator Remains | 2.5 |
| Annihilator King of the Kill | 4.0 |
| Annihilator Set the World on Fire | 3.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Passion | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World | 4.5 |
| Amon Amarth The Crusher | 4.0 |
| Arch Enemy Burning Bridges | 4.0 |
| Arch Enemy Black Earth | 4.0 |
| Talanas The Waspkeeper | 4.0 |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion | 3.5 |
| Anthrax Spreading the Disease | 4.0 |
| Anthrax Sound of White Noise | 4.0 |
| Anthrax Persistence of Time | 4.0 |
| Anthrax Among the Living | 4.5 |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy II: The Reign of Darkness | 3.0 |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy Before the Throne of Infection | 2.0 |
| Annihilator Never, Neverland | 4.5 |
| Annihilator Annihilator | 3.5 |
| Annihilator Alice in Hell | 4.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 4.5 |
| Angel Witch Angel Witch | 4.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow | 4.0 |
| Talanas Reason & Abstract | 4.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Her | 4.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Eschaton | 4.0 |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion | 3.5 |
| Why are people even rating this album yet? To my knowledge there hasn't been a leak for this album...besides, i've pre-ordered it. It deserves that at least. |
| Anaal Nathrakh Domine Non Es Dignus | 4.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh The Codex Necro | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall | 4.0 |
| Paradise Lost Tragic Idol | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth The Avenger | 4.0 |
| Alkaline Trio This Addiction | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio From Here to Infirmary | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio Crimson | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Facelift | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 4.5 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 4.5 |
| Killing Joke MMXII | 4.0 |
| Alice Cooper Along Came a Spider | 3.0 |
| Alice Cooper Dirty Diamonds | 3.5 |
| Alice Cooper The Eyes Of Alice Cooper | 2.5 |
| Alice Cooper Dragontown | 4.0 |
| Alice Cooper Brutal Planet | 3.5 |
| Alice Cooper The Last Temptation | 3.0 |
| Alice Cooper Raise Your Fist and Yell | 2.5 |
| Alice Cooper Constrictor | 3.0 |
| Alice Cooper DaDa | 3.5 |
| Alice Cooper Zipper Catches Skin | 2.5 |
| Alice Cooper Special Forces | 3.0 |
| Alice Cooper Flush The Fashion | 2.5 |
| Alice Cooper From the Inside | 3.0 |
| Alice Cooper Lace and Whiskey | 3.0 |
| Alice Cooper Alice Cooper Goes to Hell | 3.0 |
| Alice Cooper Muscle of Love | 2.5 |
| Alice Cooper Easy Action | 3.0 |
| Alice Cooper Pretties For You | 3.5 |
| Alice Cooper School's Out | 3.5 |
| Savatage Sirens | 4.0 |
| Bolt Thrower The IVth Crusade | 4.0 |
| TesseracT One | 3.5 |
| Cryptopsy Once Was Not | 2.5 |
| Alice Cooper Love It To Death | 4.0 |
| Alice Cooper Killer | 4.5 |
| Alice Cooper Hey Stoopid | 4.0 |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme | 3.5 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 4.5 |
| Akercocke Rape of the Bastard Nazerene | 3.5 |
| Akercocke The Goat of Mendes | 4.0 |
| Akercocke Choronzon | 4.5 |
| Akercocke Antichrist | 4.5 |
| The Agonist Lullabies for the Dormant Mind | 4.0 |
| Agathodaimon Higher Art of Rebellion | 3.5 |
| Agathodaimon Phoenix | 3.5 |
| Agathodaimon Chapter III | 4.0 |
| Agathodaimon Blacken the Angel | 3.5 |
| Aerosmith Get Your Wings | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Let There Be Rock | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell | 4.0 |
| AC/DC High Voltage | 4.0 |
| Absu Tara | 3.5 |
| Absu The Third Storm of Cythraul | 3.5 |
| Absu The Sun of Tiphareth | 4.0 |
| Absu Barathrum V.I.T.R.I.O.L. | 4.0 |
| Abigail Williams In the Absence of Light | 3.5 |
| Abigail Williams Becoming | 3.0 |
| Absu Abzu | 4.0 |
| Absu Absu | 4.0 |
| Aborted Strychnine.213 | 3.5 |
| Aborted Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture | 4.0 |
| Aborted Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage... | 4.0 |
| Aborted Global Flatline | 3.5 |
| Aborted Engineering the Dead | 4.0 |
| Aborted The Archaic Abattoir | 3.5 |
| Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns | 4.0 |
| ZZ Top ZZ Top's First Album | 4.0 |
| Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond) | 4.0 |
| The Nefilim Zoon | 4.0 |
| Jeff Loomis Zero Order Phase | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Youthanasia | 3.5 |
| Twisted Sister You Can't Stop Rock 'n' Roll | 4.0 |
| Gong You | 4.5 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Yield | 3.5 |
| Yes The Yes Album | 4.0 |
| Pallas (UK) XXV | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God Wrath | 4.0 |
| Landmine Marathon Wounded | 3.0 |
| Anthrax Worship Music | 4.0 |
| Van der Graaf Generator World Record | 4.0 |
| Slayer World Painted Blood | 3.5 |
| Motorhead The World Is Yours | 3.5 |
| Die So Fluid The World Is Too Big For One Lifetime | 4.0 |
| Obituary World Demise | 4.0 |
| Type O Negative World Coming Down | 4.0 |
| Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken... | 5.0 |
| Van Halen Women and Children First | 3.5 |
| Murderdolls Women and Children Last | 3.5 |
| At the Gates With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness | 3.0 |
| Electric Wizard Witchcult Today | 4.0 |
| Nightwish Wishmaster | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 5.0 |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip | 4.0 |
| Wintersun Wintersun | 4.5 |
| The Wildhearts The Wildhearts Must Be Destroyed | 3.5 |
| The Wildhearts The Wildhearts | 4.0 |
| In Flames Whoracle | 3.5 |
| Draconian Where Lovers Mourn | 4.0 |
| Bob Catley When Empires Burn | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite | 3.5 |
| Saxon Wheels of Steel | 4.0 |
| Killing Joke What's THIS For...! | 3.5 |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You | 4.0 |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy Welcome To Sludge City | 1.0 |
| If this band was toilet paper, I'd wipe my arse for eternity with it. |
| Alice Cooper Welcome To My Nightmare | 4.0 |
| Blackfield Welcome To My DNA | 3.5 |
| Alice Cooper Welcome 2 My Nightmare | 2.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 4.0 |
| Electric Wizard We Live | 4.0 |
| Skyclad The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth | 4.0 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.5 |
| Hawkwind Warrior on the Edge of Time | 4.5 |
| Voivod War and Pain | 3.0 |
| Helloween Walls of Jericho | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 4.5 |
| UFO Walk on Water | 3.5 |
| IQ The Wake | 4.0 |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin | 4.0 |
| W.A.S.P. W.A.S.P. | 4.5 |
| Huntress Spell Eater | 3.5 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 4.5 |
| Pearl Jam Vs. | 4.0 |
| Arkona (RUS) Vozrozhdenie | 4.0 |
| Therion Vovin | 4.5 |
| King Diamond Voodoo | 2.5 |
| Satyricon Volcano | 4.0 |
| Cancer Bats Dead Set on Living | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 4.0 |
| Arkona (RUS) Vo Slavu Velikim! | 4.0 |
| Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 Viva Las Violence | 3.0 |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness | 4.5 |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy | 4.0 |
| UFO The Visitor | 3.5 |
| Negura Bunget Virstele Pamintului | 4.5 |
| Kreator Violent Revolution | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Vile | 3.5 |
| Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi | 4.0 |
| Magnum Vigilante | 3.0 |
| Fish Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Ensiferum Victory Songs | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Vertebrae | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Vempire or Dark Faerytales in Phalluste | 4.0 |
| Turisas The Varangian Way | 4.0 |
| Van Halen Van Halen | 4.5 |
| Napalm Death Utilitarian | 4.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I | 4.0 |
| Finntroll Ur Jordens Djup | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Up the Downstair | 3.5 |
| Machine Head Unto The Locust | 4.0 |
| Lacuna Coil Unleashed Memories | 4.0 |
| Skindred Union Black | 3.5 |
| Tool Undertow | 4.0 |
| Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark | 4.5 |
| Twisted Sister Under The Blade | 4.0 |
| UFO UFO 1 | 3.5 |
| UFO UFO 2: Flying | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God | 4.5 |
| Bathory Twilight of the Gods | 4.0 |
| Draconian Turning Season Within | 4.0 |
| My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans | 4.5 |
| Grave Digger Tunes of War | 3.5 |
| Therapy? Troublegum | 4.0 |
| The Exploited Troops of Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| Genesis Trespass | 3.5 |
| ZZ Top Tres Hombres | 4.0 |
| Alice Cooper Trash | 3.5 |
| Wednesday 13 Transylvania 90210 | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 4.0 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.5 |
| Aerosmith Toys in the Attic | 4.5 |
| Cynic The Portal Tapes | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
| Bob Catley The Tower | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Torture | 4.0 |
| Carcass Tools of the Trade | 4.0 |
| Exumer Fire and Damnation | 3.5 |
| Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever | 3.0 |
| Katatonia Tonight's Music | 3.5 |
| Katatonia Tonight's Decision | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated | 4.0 |
| Primordial To the Nameless Dead | 4.5 |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy Dark Days | 1.5 |
| The Cranberries To the Faithful Departed | 3.0 |
| Accept I'm a Rebel | 3.0 |
| Celtic Frost To Mega Therion | 4.5 |
| Anvil Metal on Metal | 4.5 |
| Iced Earth Dystopia | 3.5 |
| Waylander Reawakening of Pride Once Lost | 4.0 |
| Waylander The Light, The Dark and the Endless Knot | 3.5 |
| Soulfly Enslaved | 4.0 |
| Strange, I thought somebody reviewed this a few months ago? |
| Tarot To Live Forever | 3.5 |
| Deicide To Hell With God | 3.5 |
| Falkenbach Tiurida | 4.0 |
| Napalm Death Time Waits for No Slave | 4.5 |
| Orange Goblin Time Travelling Blues | 3.5 |
| Helloween The Time of the Oath | 4.0 |
| Suicidal Tendencies Suicidal Tendencies | 4.0 |
| Suicidal Tendencies The Art of Rebellion | 3.5 |
| Static-X Start A War | 3.5 |
| Static-X Shadow Zone | 3.5 |
| Static-X Cannibal | 3.5 |
| Static-X Machine | 3.5 |
| Skindred Shark Bites And Dog Fights | 2.5 |
| Autopsy All Tomorrow's Funerals | 4.0 |
| Skindred Roots Rock Riot | 3.5 |
| Skindred Babylon | 3.5 |
| Obituary Slowly We Rot | 4.0 |
| Obituary The End Complete | 4.0 |
| Obituary Cause of Death | 4.0 |
| Yes Time and a Word | 3.5 |
| Mercyful Fate Time | 3.0 |
| Machine Head Through The Ashes Of Empires | 4.0 |
| My Dying Bride The Thrash of Naked Limbs | 4.0 |
| King Crimson THRAK | 3.5 |
| Nile Those Whom the Gods Detest | 4.5 |
| Overkill The Electric Age | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.0 |
| Scorpions Savage Amusement | 4.0 |
| Jethro Tull This Was | 3.5 |
| Nevermore This Godless Endeavor | 4.5 |
| Portishead Third | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan | 3.0 |
| Orange Goblin Thieving from the House of God | 4.0 |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick | 5.0 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.0 |
| Muse Absolution | 4.0 |
| Muse Showbiz | 3.5 |
