| Frail Body Artificial Bouquet | 4.5 |
| Midas Fall Cold Waves Divide Us | 4.0 |
| Agriculture Agriculture | 3.0 |
| Olivia Rodrigo Guts | 4.0 |
| Trophy Eyes Suicide and Sunshine | 3.5 |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I | 4.0 |
| END (USA-NJ) The Sin of Human Frailty | 4.5 |
| Rorcal Silence | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Javelin | 4.5 |
| Great Falls Objects Without Pain | 4.5 |
| Travis Scott Utopia | 4.0 |
| The Otolith Folium Limina | 4.5 |
| Loma Prieta Last | 4.0 |
| Metro Boomin Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (soundtrack) | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Guardians | 2.5 |
| The Acacia Strain Failure Will Follow | 4.0 |
| The Acacia Strain Step Into The Light | 4.0 |
| DIIV Deceiver | 4.0 |
| Full Of Hell and Primitive Man Suffocating Hallucination | 3.5 |
| Paramore This Is Why | 3.5 |
| Chat Pile God's Country | 4.0 |
| Ashenspire Hostile Architecture | 4.5 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Innate Passage | 4.0 |
| Jambinai Apparition | 4.0 |
| Lorna Shore Pain Remains | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Color Decay | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Blood Year | 3.0 |
| Silent Planet Iridescent | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Gnosis | 3.5 |
| if you like Russian Circles you'll probably like this. fortunately for me, I like Russian Circles |
| Blindead Ascension | 3.0 |
| Dvne Asheran | 4.0 |
| Full of Hell Garden of Burning Apparitions | 3.5 |
| Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy | 4.5 |
| Wake Thought Form Descent | 4.5 |
| Gospel The Loser | 4.5 |
| Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love | 5.0 |
| PUP Waiting/Kill Something | 3.5 |
| PUP The Unraveling of PUPTheBand | 3.5 |
| Thou Hightower | 4.5 |
| Smoke Pigs was already the greatest song of all time and now it's even more so |
| Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers | 4.5 |
| Mizmor and Thou Myopia | 4.0 |
| Pusha T It's Almost Dry | 4.0 |
| Oh Hiroshima Myriad | 3.0 |
| Absent In Body Plague God | 3.5 |
| Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future | 4.0 |
| Sleigh Bells Treats | 4.0 |
| Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North | 3.5 |
| Ode and Elegy Ode and Elegy | 4.5 |
| Shadow Of Intent Elegy | 3.5 |
| Black Country, New Road For the first time | 3.5 |
| Black Country, New Road Ants From Up There | 4.5 |
| Hope Drone Husk | 3.5 |
| Toundra Hex | 3.0 |
| Aequorea Dim | 3.5 |
| SOM The Shape of Everything | 4.0 |
| Lantlos Wildhund | 3.0 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Noktvrn | 4.0 |
| Wiegedood There's Always Blood at the End of the Road | 4.0 |
| Shapeshifter (JPN) Dark Ritual | 3.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds | 3.5 |
| Impending Doom Hellbent | 3.0 |
| Trophy Scars Astral Pariah | 3.5 |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka | 4.0 |
| Plebeian Grandstand Lowgazers | 3.0 |
| Plebeian Grandstand Rien ne suffit | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence | 4.5 |
| The Weeknd Thursday | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 4.0 |
| White Ward Love Exchange Failure | 4.5 |
| Ethereal Shroud Trisagion | 5.0 |
| Turnstile Glow On | 4.0 |
| Trenches Reckoner | 3.5 |
| it's good but i'm not sure it's 11-years-in-the-making good. it's also a lot shorter than i would've liked. |
| Converge Bloodmoon: I | 4.0 |
| Shy, low Snake Behind The Sun | 4.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Always Foreign | 3.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Illusory Walls | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Radical | 4.5 |
| Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life | 5.0 |
| brb, crowdkilling my Zoom call |
| Invent Animate The Sun Sleeps, As If It Never Was | 3.5 |
| LLNN Unmaker | 4.0 |
| Thrice Horizons/East | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Infinite Granite | 4.0 |
| Lorna Shore Immortal | 3.5 |
| Lorna Shore ...And I Return to Nothingness | 4.0 |
| Foxing Draw Down the Moon | 3.5 |
| Nas NASIR | 2.5 |
| Musk Ox Inheritance | 4.5 |
| Panopticon The Crescendo of Dusk | 3.0 |
| Panopticon Panopticon | 3.5 |
| Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness | 3.5 |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light | 4.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God | 3.0 |
| Trna Earthcult | 3.5 |
| Olivia Rodrigo Sour | 4.0 |
| Vince Staples Vince Staples | 3.5 |
| Vince Staples FM! | 3.0 |
| Year of No Light Consolamentum | 4.0 |
| Pupil Slicer Mirrors | 3.0 |
| Bossk Migration | 2.5 |
| Taylor Swift Evermore | 4.0 |
| Amenra De Doorn | 4.0 |
| Hurry Up, Brothers All is Beautiful. I'm Okay to be Alive.. | 2.5 |
| Sleep Token Sundowning | 4.0 |
| LLNN Deads | 3.5 |
Peters out a bit in the second half and they could stand to rely a bit less on the :chug-octave
chords-more chugging" formula, but when this is at its best it's fucking pummeling. Armada,
Despots, and Deplete are standouts. |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] | 4.5 |
| Zao The Crimson Corridor | 4.5 |
| this bangs |
| Nina Simone Nina Simone Sings the Blues | 4.5 |
| Julien Baker Little Oblivions | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd After Hours | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd Starboy | 3.5 |
| Architects For Those That Wish to Exist | 2.5 |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us | 3.5 |
| Black Sheep Wall Songs for the Enamel Queen | 3.5 |
| Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna The Raging River | 3.5 |
| yep, it's a Cult of Luna album alright |
| Black Tongue Nadir | 4.5 |
| the one good deathcore album. like there's actually an artistic vision here |
| Portrayal of Guilt We Are Always Alone | 4.0 |
| This Gift Is A Curse All Hail The Swinelord | 4.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou The Helm of Sorrow | 3.0 |
| clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned | 5.0 |
| Gorguts Obscura | 5.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death | 4.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle On Dark Horses | 3.5 |
| Respire Black Line | 4.0 |
| PUP This Place Sucks Ass | 3.5 |
| pg.lost Oscillate | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Post Human: Survival Horror | 4.5 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full | 4.0 |
| Wake Misery Rites | 4.0 |
| Zeal and Ardor Wake of a Nation | 4.0 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Ellengaest | 3.0 |
| Wake Confluence | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (20th Anniversary Edition) | 4.5 |
| Greg Puciato Child Soldier: Creator of God | 4.0 |
| James Blake Before | 3.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Of Truth and Sacrifice | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Lament | 4.0 |
| Year of the Knife Internal Incarceration | 3.5 |
| Tyler Childers Long Violent History | 3.5 |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? | 4.0 |
| Deftones Ohms | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Ascension | 3.5 |
| Sunami Demonstration | 3.5 |
| 1-8-7 ON A P-I-G |
| Sunami Sunami EP | 3.5 |
| Fall of Efrafa Elil | 4.5 |
| Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Ascension | 3.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Shore | 3.5 |
| Kublai Khan TX Absolute | 3.5 |
| Kublai Khan TX Nomad | 4.0 |
| Movements No Good Left to Give | 3.0 |
| Ash Borer The Irrepassable Gate | 3.0 |
| Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed III | 4.0 |
| SUMAC Love In Shadow | 4.0 |
| The Body I have fought against it, But I can’t any longer | 3.5 |
| Birds in Row We Already Lost the World | 4.0 |
| Archivist Triumvirate | 3.5 |
| All Them Witches Nothing as the Ideal | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Solitude | 4.5 |
| PUP Morbid Stuff | 4.0 |
| Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket Den sorgligaste musiken i varlden | 3.5 |
| Zeal and Ardor Devil is Fine | 3.5 |
| Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens | 4.5 |
| Power Trip Nightmare Logic | 4.5 |
| Jesus Piece Jesus Piece | 3.5 |
| Haken Virus | 2.5 |
| Vein.fm Errorzone | 4.0 |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy The Correlation Between Entrance And Exit Wounds | 4.0 |
| Brutus (BE) Nest | 4.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet | 3.5 |
| Division of Mind Division Of Mind | 3.5 |
| Imperial Triumphant Alphaville | 4.5 |
| Taylor Swift Folklore | 4.0 |
| Batushka Panihida | 4.0 |
| Lingua Ignota Caligula | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven | 3.5 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts | 4.0 |
| The Acacia Strain It Comes in Waves | 3.5 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher | 4.5 |
| Make Them Suffer Worlds Apart | 3.0 |
| Tragedy Vengeance | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest | 3.5 |
| Wake Devouring Ruin | 4.5 |
| His Hero Is Gone Monuments To Thieves | 5.0 |
| Jesus Piece Only Self | 3.5 |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us | 4.0 |
| Ulthar Providence | 3.0 |
| Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist Alfredo | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 | 4.5 |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face | 4.5 |
| expectations met and exceeded. absolutely fucking slaps from front to back. |
| Stick to Your Guns True View | 3.0 |
| Storm{O} Finis Terrae | 4.0 |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say | 3.5 |
| Crystal Lake Helix | 3.5 |
| Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything | 3.5 |
| All Them Witches Dying Surfer Meets His Maker | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate The Coming of Genocide | 3.5 |
| Elephant Tree Habits | 4.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Omens | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still | 4.5 |
| Grails Red Light | 3.5 |
| Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue | 4.0 |
| The Pirate Ship Quintet Emitter | 4.5 |
| i know this isn't exactly revolutionary or anything, but i'm in week n of quarantine and it's snowing and this is just scratching an itch i didn't even know i had for beautiful, dark, winter-y post-rock |
| Old Man Gloom Seminar IX: Darkness of Being | 4.5 |
| Code Orange Underneath | 4.0 |
| Greet Death New Hell | 4.0 |
| The Body No One Deserves Happiness | 4.0 |
| Dealer (AUS) Saint | 3.5 |
| Dealer (AUS) Soul Burn | 3.5 |
| Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked | 3.5 |
| Frontierer Unloved | 4.0 |
| Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead | 4.5 |
| Nero di Marte Immoto | 4.0 |
| Caspian On Circles | 4.0 |
| SÂVER They Came with Sunlight | 4.0 |
| The Hope Conspiracy Death Knows Your Name | 4.0 |
| Pijn Loss | 4.0 |
| Pijn and Conjurer Curse These Metal Hands | 4.0 |
| Conjurer (UK) Mire | 3.5 |
| The Moth Gatherer Esoteric Oppression | 3.0 |
| All Them Witches ATW | 3.5 |
| Heaven In Her Arms White Halo | 4.0 |
| All Them Witches Effervescent | 3.5 |
| Gregory Alan Isakov That Sea, The Gambler | 4.5 |
| The Great Old Ones EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy | 3.5 |
| The Great Old Ones Cosmicism | 4.0 |
| James Vincent McMorrow Early In The Morning | 3.5 |
| Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket Det Onda. Det Goda. Det Vackra. Det Fula. | 4.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast The Fleeting Light of Impermanence | 4.0 |
| Rorcal Muladona | 3.5 |
| Burial Untrue | 4.5 |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood | 4.5 |
| Puig Destroyer Puig Destroyer | 4.0 |
| Mike Trout |
| Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark | 4.0 |
| Whitechapel The Valley | 3.5 |
| Kishi Bashi Omoiyari | 4.0 |
| Counterparts Nothing Left to Love | 4.5 |
| Norma Jean All Hail | 4.5 |
| Playboi Carti Die Lit | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada The Act | 3.5 |
| Microwave Death is a Warm Blanket | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear | 5.0 |
| JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs | 4.0 |
| JPEGMAFIA Veteran | 4.0 |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Bandana | 4.5 |
| Chance the Rapper The Big Day | 2.5 |
| Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology | 3.0 |
| Anderson .Paak Ventura | 3.5 |
| Oh, Sleeper Bloodied/Unbowed | 3.0 |
| It?s fun I guess. I like the production, especially on the guitars. Very punchy. Also, bands like these guys and Slant Plant would be so so so so much fucking better if they laid off, if not ditched entirely, the poppy clean choruses. |
| Lizzo Cuz I Love You | 4.0 |
| State Faults Clairvoyant | 4.5 |
| Jambinai ONDA | 4.0 |
| Cave In Final Transmission | 4.0 |
| KEN mode Loved | 4.0 |
| Hildur Gudnadottir Chernobyl (Music from the Original TV Series) | 4.5 |
| Denzel Curry Zuu | 4.0 |
| slaps |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated | 4.0 |
| Full of Hell Weeping Choir | 4.5 |
| Angels Gather Here is so fucking good ughhhhh |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion | 4.0 |
| Dead To A Dying World Elegy | 2.5 |
| Rosalia El Mal Querer | 3.5 |
| Portrayal of Guilt Let Pain Be Your Guide | 3.5 |
| Storm{O} Sospesi Nel Vuoto Bruceremo In Un Attimo | 4.0 |
| Copeland Blushing | 3.5 |
| Saor Forgotten Paths | 4.0 |
| Casey Love Is Not Enough | 4.0 |
| Denzel Curry TA13OO | 4.5 |
| Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center | 4.5 |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 4.0 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 3.0 |
| A Swarm of the Sun The Woods | 3.5 |
| Boygenius boygenius | 4.0 |
| A Swarm of the Sun Zenith | 3.5 |
| James Blake Assume Form | 3.5 |
| Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs | 4.0 |
| This Will Destroy You New Others Part Two | 4.0 |
significantly better than Part One (which wasn't bad, just underwhelming). 'Clubs' and 'Provoke'
are legit some of the best songs they've ever written. |
| Gregory Alan Isakov Evening Machines | 4.0 |
| Cult Leader A Patient Man | 4.0 |
| Silent Planet When the End Began | 3.0 |
| Outre Hollow Earth | 4.0 |
| Process of Guilt Black Earth | 2.5 |
| one of the more thoroughly average sludge albums I've heard in a while. Faemin is still GoAT |
| Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest | 3.5 |
| Twenty One Pilots Trench | 4.0 |
| Sheck Wes Mudboy | 3.5 |
| Mo Bamba confirmed hardest song of the decade |
| Entropia (PL) Vacuum | 4.0 |
| Fit for a King Dark Skies | 3.0 |
| The Story So Far Proper Dose | 3.5 |
| This Will Destroy You New Others Part One | 3.5 |
| it's really pretty, and there are absolutely some amazing moments on here, but it's missing the something-or-another that made Another Language and the S/T such great albums. |
| Lupe Fiasco DROGAS Wave | 4.0 |
| Noname Room 25 | 4.0 |
| Toby Driver They Are the Shield | 4.0 |
| Big Red Machine Big Red Machine | 3.5 |
| Modern Life Is War Tribulation Worksongs Vol. 2 | 3.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Tribulation Worksongs Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| Hozier Nina Cried Power | 4.0 |
| We Were Promised Jetpacks The More I Sleep The Less I Dream | 3.0 |
| Hell (USA) Hell | 4.0 |
| Travis Scott Astroworld | 4.0 |
| Thrice Palms | 3.0 |
| tbh I don't think I would have had as much of a problem with 'Hold Up a Light' if it hadn't been haphazardly dropped right between two of the best songs on the album |
| Travis Scott Rodeo | 4.5 |
| The Oh Hellos Eurus | 4.0 |
| Thou Magus | 4.5 |
| Foxing Nearer My God | 4.5 |
| Ok so this wasn?t on my radar at all, but this might actually be kinda big |
| Foxing Dealer | 3.0 |
| Florence and the Machine High as Hope | 3.0 |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love | 4.5 |
| Sleep Token Two | 4.0 |
The gimmick is fucking annoying (like, I read an interview with these guys that read like they were trying to
mimick the voice of a Deathspell Omega interview and god damn it was dumb), but the music is great so idk.
Sincerely looking forward to the inevitable full length. |
| Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep | 4.5 |
| Converge Beautiful Ruin | 4.0 |
| Split Cranium I'm The Devil and I'm OK | 3.5 |
| Freddie Gibbs Freddie | 4.0 |
| Mike Shinoda Post Traumatic | 3.5 |
| William Tyler Modern Country | 4.0 |
| Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts | 4.5 |
| Brian Fallon Sleepwalkers | 3.5 |
| Ben Howard Noonday Dream | 3.5 |
| The Armed Only Love | 4.0 |
| Kanye West ye | 4.0 |
| Pusha T DAYTONA | 4.0 |
| Lord Huron Vide Noir | 2.5 |
| Beach House 7 | 4.0 |
| Grouper Grid of Points | 2.0 |
| Mastersystem Dance Music | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner Be More Kind | 2.5 |
| Shakey Graves Can't Wake Up | 4.0 |
| Frontierer Orange Mathematics | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Epitaph | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Route One | 3.5 |
| Sleep The Sciences | 3.5 |
| J. Cole K.O.D. | 3.0 |
| This is okay. It's not as good as 2014FHD, which I unabashedly love, but it's a big step up from 4YEO. It absolutely doesn't deserve a sub-2.5 average, though. |
| Mol JORD | 4.0 |
| Wye Oak The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs | 4.0 |
| Winterfylleth The Hallowing of Heirdom | 3.5 |
| Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years Sister Cities | 4.0 |
| My Epic Ultraviolet | 3.0 |
| Mount Eerie Now Only | 3.5 |
| Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour | 3.5 |
| Sorority Noise Joy, Departed | 4.0 |
| The Republic of Wolves shrine | 3.5 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.5 |
| Job For A Cowboy Gloom | 2.5 |
| Job For A Cowboy Doom | 2.5 |
| Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me | 4.0 |
| All The Luck In The World A Blind Arcade | 4.0 |
| S. Carey Hundred Acres | 3.5 |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name | 4.0 |
| Direwolves The Great Year | 4.0 |
| a Direwolves release is, in fact, very good. surprise! |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 3.5 |
| Cave In Jupiter | 3.5 |
| Cave In Until Your Heart Stops | 4.0 |
| Vein.fm Self-Destruct | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 3.5 |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 4.0 |
| Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Baby Driver | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Black Panther The Album | 3.5 |
| Ludwig Goransson Black Panther (Original Score) | 4.5 |
| The KDot OST is getting a lot of attention (rightfully so, it's a great album) but man, people are sleeping on the movie score. One of the most surprisingly great scores I've heard in a pretty long time. Easily the best MCU score front-to-back (although that's not a really high bar to clear), it's exciting, diverse, and unique. Killonger's theme (especially the one from 'Burn It All') is a serious highlight - I can't remember ever hearing trap incorporated so seamlessly into a film score. Other standouts include 'Wakanda,' 'Ancestral Plane,' 'Waterfall Fight,' 'The Great Mound Battle,' and 'A King's Sunset.' |
| Erdve Vaitojimas | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Wait For Love | 3.5 |
| Sampha Process | 4.5 |
| The Atlas Moth Coma Noir | 4.0 |
| Portal ION | 3.0 |
| Atena Shades Of Black Won't Bring Her Back | 3.5 |
| it's not complex or anything but it slaps |
| Atena Possessed | 3.5 |
This is really generic djenty breakdown-obsessed chugcore, but the atmosphere is sick, it's
consistently catchy as fuck, and I love the production. Like, I could see bumping this to a 4. I'd
liken it to a (really well-written and performed) brocore version of Vildhjarta. |
| Rich Brian Amen | 3.5 |
| Pretty great stuff, especially for the debut album of an 18 year old who speaks English as a second language |
| Peach Pit Being So Normal | 3.0 |
| Locktender Friedrich | 4.0 |
| Mike Shinoda Post Traumatic EP | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Live | 4.5 |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing | 4.0 |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) A New Kind of House | 3.5 |
| Converge You Fail Me Redux | 5.0 |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) White Lighter | 4.0 |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition | 4.0 |
| Joey Badass B4.DA.$$ | 4.0 |
| Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness | 3.5 |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) Offerings | 4.0 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps | 4.0 |
| Big K.R.I.T. 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time | 4.5 |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights | 4.0 |
| Code Orange Forever | 3.0 |
| Citizen As You Please | 4.0 |
| Employed To Serve The Warmth Of A Dying Sun | 4.0 |
| Pile A Hairshirt of Purpose | 3.5 |
| Brockhampton SATURATION III | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years Burst & Decay | 3.5 |
| Leprous Malina | 4.0 |
| Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks | 3.5 |
| Glass Bones The Same Stories That Never Get Old | 3.0 |
| Heretoir The Circle | 4.0 |
| Tremendous improvement over the self titled. Good stuff. |
| David Bowie No Plan | 3.0 |
| IDLES Brutalism | 4.0 |
| Ufomammut 8 | 4.0 |
| Fort Atlantic Shadow Shaker, Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| ROSK Miasma | 3.5 |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision | 4.0 |
| The Classic Crime How to Be Human | 3.0 |
| SZA Ctrl | 3.5 |
| SZA Z | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z 4:44 | 3.5 |
| ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP | 4.0 |
| Yellow Eyes Immersion Trench Reverie | 3.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn | 3.5 |
| Polaris The Mortal Coil | 3.5 |
| Sufferer Sufferer | 3.0 |
| The Body and Full Of Hell Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light | 4.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana | 4.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland | 3.5 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity | 3.0 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 4.0 |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food | 3.5 |
| Joey Badass ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$ | 4.0 |
| Ghost Atlas All Is in Sync... | 3.5 |
| Angelo De Augustine Swim Inside the Moon | 3.5 |
| Zao Pyrrhic Victory | 3.5 |
| The Oh Hellos Notos | 4.5 |
| they're just completely incapable of writing bad music |
| Fever Ray Fever Ray | 4.0 |
| Lil Pump Lil Pump | 3.5 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Winter of Mixed Drinks | 3.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Greatest Gift | 4.0 |
| Celeste Infidele(s) | 3.0 |
| Jaden Smith Syre | 3.5 |
| wait why this is actually kinda lit |
| Au-Dessus End of Chapter | 4.0 |
| Ulver Sic Transit Gloria Mundi | 3.5 |
| Hesitation Wounds (LA) Awake For Everything | 3.0 |
| Converge No Heroes | 4.0 |
| Ingurgitating Oblivion Vision Wallows In Symphonies Of Light | 4.0 |
| Wormed Krighsu | 3.0 |
| Zao Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest | 4.0 |
| Converge The Dusk in Us | 4.5 |
| Balmorhea Clear Language | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers | 3.5 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Path of Eight | 3.5 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar The Endless Shimmering | 4.0 |
| this slap |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem | 3.5 |
| Kauan Kaiho | 4.0 |
| Mono / World's End Girlfriend Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain | 3.5 |
| Oh Hiroshima In Silence We Yearn | 3.5 |
| Manetheren Time | 3.5 |
| This Patch of Sky These Small Spaces | 4.0 |
wavering between a 3.5 and a 4 but it's really pretty so i guess it's a 4. i'm enjoying how
tasteful it is in terms of crescendos: they're there in some songs but they're not overbearing and
annoying |
| Caspian You Are The Conductor | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Lone Survivor OST | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence | 3.5 |
| Sunlight Ascending Leaving My Waiting Room | 3.5 |
| Counterparts You're Not You Anymore | 4.0 |
| Planning for Burial Leaving | 3.5 |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss | 4.0 |
| Sorrow Plagues Homecoming | 4.0 |
| wow this is, like, so much better than the self-titled. props. |
| Mastodon Cold Dark Place | 3.5 |
| Sacred Son Sacred Son | 3.5 |
I know that this is only really getting attention because the album art is basically a meme, but
there's actually a half hour of surprisingly solid atmospheric black metal buried beneath the
meme. |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse | 3.0 |
| Touche Amore Touche Amore | 3.5 |
| PUP PUP | 4.0 |
| PUP The Dream Is Over | 4.5 |
| Frightened Rabbit Recorded Songs | 3.5 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower and Dove | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven | 3.5 |
| Bereft (USA-WI) Lands | 4.0 |
| Hundred Waters Communicating | 3.5 |
| nothing,nowhere. Who Are You? | 3.0 |
so this is like a really weird mix of emo and R&B and I'm like 70% sure that I like it... like,
American Football with trap beats and then there's this white dude who's rapping sometimes. yeah
it's kinda weird |
| nothing,nowhere. Bummer | 3.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface | 3.5 |
| SUMA The Order of Things | 3.0 |
| Cranial Dark Towers, Bright Lights | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers | 4.0 |
| Departe Failure, Subside | 4.5 |
| Colour Haze Colour Haze | 4.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene | 3.5 |
| Brockhampton SATURATION II | 3.5 |
| Septicflesh Codex Omega | 4.0 |
| Amenra Mass VI | 4.0 |
| Meg Mac Low Blows | 2.5 |
| END (USA-NJ) From the Unforgiving Arms of God | 4.0 |
| wow so this fucking rips. I did not know that the Counterparts guy could do that with his voice. |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Finisterre | 4.5 |
| The National Sleep Well Beast | 3.5 |
| Jambinai A Hermitage | 4.0 |
| Jambinai Différance | 4.0 |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Every Country's Sun | 4.0 |
| Rosetta Utopioid | 3.5 |
| Neurosis The Word As Law (Remastered) | 3.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Hug of Thunder | 3.5 |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 4.5 |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club B.R.M.C. | 4.0 |
| SubRosa (US) For This We Fought the Battle of Ages | 4.0 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 3.5 |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 4.0 |
| Hundred Waters Currency | 3.5 |
| Trampled By Turtles Palomino | 3.5 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run | 4.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen The Rising | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Hope | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Nobody Sings Anymore | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Cope | 3.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 4.0 |
| The Hold Steady Separation Sunday | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town | 4.0 |
| The Afghan Whigs Black Love | 3.5 |
| Hella Hold Your Horse Is | 3.5 |
| Billy Bragg Life's a Riot With Spy vs. Spy | 3.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska | 4.5 |
| Converge I Can Tell You About Pain | 4.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell Live | 4.5 |
| Jason Isbell The Nashville Sound | 3.5 |
| Integrity Howling, For the Nightmare Shall Consume | 3.0 |
| The Devil and the Almighty Blues II | 4.0 |
| The Devil and the Almighty Blues The Devil and the Almighty Blues | 4.0 |
| The Horrible Crowes Elsie | 4.5 |
| Brian Fallon Painkillers | 4.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 4.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Señor and the Queen | 4.5 |
| Japandroids Near To The Wild Heart Of Life | 3.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 5.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Crack-Up | 3.5 |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us | 4.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Lore | 4.0 |
| Algiers The Underside of Power | 4.0 |
| Alcest Le Secret (2011 Version) | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 3.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony | 2.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn | 3.5 |
| Algiers Algiers | 4.0 |
| Vince Staples Big Fish Theory | 4.0 |
| Slowdive Slowdive (LP) | 3.0 |
| Vince Staples Prima Donna | 3.5 |
| Lorde Melodrama | 4.0 |
| This Patch of Sky Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine | 4.0 |
| Anathema The Optimist | 3.0 |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 3.5 |
| Grails Chalice Hymnal | 4.0 |
| Selvans / Downfall Of Nur Selvans / Downfall of Nur | 4.0 |
| Woe Hope Attrition | 4.0 |
| SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes? | 3.5 |
| Do Make Say Think Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead | 4.0 |
| Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet | 3.5 |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust | 4.5 |
| Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn | 4.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World | 4.5 |
| '68 Two Parts Viper | 4.5 |
| alt-J Relaxer | 3.0 |
| Sylvan Esso What Now | 3.5 |
| The Album Leaf Between Waves | 3.5 |
| Jason Isbell Here We Rest | 4.0 |
| Sarah Jarosz Undercurrent | 4.0 |
| Negura Bunget 'N Crugu Bradului | 3.5 |
| Hozier Hozier | 4.0 |
| Whiskeytown Pneumonia | 3.5 |
| Whiskeytown Stranger's Almanac | 4.0 |
| Solstafir Berdreyminn | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 3.0 |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.5 |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You | 3.5 |
| Sturgill Simpson High Top Mountain | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Goths | 4.0 |
| Do Make Say Think Stubborn Persistent Illusions | 4.5 |
| Linkin Park One More Light | 2.5 |
| Ulsect Ulsect | 4.0 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 4.0 |
| Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide To Earth | 4.5 |
| Sturgill Simpson Metamodern Sounds In Country Music | 4.5 |
| Scale the Summit In a World of Fear | 2.5 |
| Fugazi The Argument | 4.5 |
| Hierophant (IT) Mass Grave | 3.5 |
| Jason Isbell Something More Than Free | 4.0 |
| Jason Isbell Southeastern | 4.5 |
| Chris Stapleton From A Room: Volume 1 | 4.0 |
| Chris Stapleton Traveller | 4.0 |
| Father John Misty Fear Fun | 4.0 |
| The Steeldrivers The Steeldrivers | 4.5 |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited | 5.0 |
| Jamestown Revival The Education of a Wandering Man | 4.0 |
| Jamestown Revival Utah | 4.5 |
| Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy | 4.0 |
| White Ward Futility Report | 4.0 |
| whoa this is pretty dope y'all |
| The Black Keys Attack & Release | 4.0 |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Eternal Music | 3.0 |
| Thou Algiers | 4.5 |
| Thou Big City | 3.5 |
| Thou Only You Deserve Conceit | 3.0 |
| YG Still Brazy | 4.0 |
| Hey Rosetta! Second Sight | 4.0 |
| 10 Years The Autumn Effect | 3.5 |
| Hey Rosetta! A Cup Of Kindness Yet | 4.0 |
| Kenoma The Tides Will Prevail | 3.0 |
| The Glorious Unseen The Hope That Lies In You | 3.5 |
| NewVillager NewVillager | 3.5 |
| Tow'rs Grey Fidelity | 3.5 |
| The best thing these guys/gals have done is still the self-titled (specifically, 'Belly of the Deepest Love' is one of my favorite songs of all time), but this is definitely a really solid album. Definitely an improvement over The Great Minimum. |
| Low Roar Once in a Long, Long While... | 4.0 |
| Ghost Bath Starmourner | 2.5 |
| Not awful, but not amazing either. Brandon's soundoff is pretty on point: great moments screwed over by weirdly disjointed songwriting. |
| Uneven Structure La Partition | 4.0 |
| BOY Mutual Friends | 4.0 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.5 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 4.0 |
| J. Cole 4 Your Eyez Only | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 4.0 |
| Falls of Rauros Vigilance Perennial | 4.0 |
| Planning for Burial Below the House | 3.5 |
| this is just ok overall for me except Dull Knife, Pt. II is one of the best songs I've heard this year |
| Pallbearer Heartless | 4.5 |
| Sunless Urraca | 4.0 |
| Archivist Construct | 4.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Wanderer | 3.5 |
| Fen Winter | 3.0 |
| maybe it's because i listened to this in my car on the way to campus over three mornings but i don't really see a whole lot that's special here |
| Dodecahedron Kwintessens | 4.0 |
| Caspian The Four Trees | 3.5 |
| sleepmakeswaves Made Of Breath Only | 4.0 |
| Darkest Hour Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora | 4.0 |
| Braveyoung Misery and Pride | 4.0 |
| Sorority Noise You're Not As ____ As You Think | 4.0 |
| All Them Witches Sleeping Through the War | 3.0 |
| Manetheren The End | 3.0 |
| Sleep Token One | 3.5 |
| despite the news article shilling that's been going down with this here I've gotta admit that this actually pretty cool |
| Pillorian Obsidian Arc | 3.5 |
| Junius Eternal Rituals For The Accretion of Light | 3.5 |
| Max Richter The Blue Notebooks | 4.0 |
| Johann Johannsson Sicario OST | 3.5 |
| Johann Johannsson Arrival OST | 4.5 |
| Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around | 4.5 |
| Band of Horses Everything All the Time | 4.0 |
| Advent Pain & Suffering | 3.5 |
| Jose Gonzalez In Our Nature | 4.0 |
| Anderson .Paak Malibu | 4.0 |
| S. Carey All We Grow | 3.5 |
| Purity Ring Shrines | 4.0 |
| Phobocosm Bringer Of Drought | 3.0 |
| Suffocate For Fuck Sake Suffocate For Fuck Sake | 3.5 |
| Suffocate For Fuck Sake Blazing Fires and Helicopters... | 4.0 |
| Suffocate For Fuck Sake In My Blood | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many | 4.0 |
| Josh Garrels The Light Came Down | 4.0 |
| Ramin Djawadi Game of Thrones: Season 6 | 4.5 |
| ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron | 3.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service | 4.5 |
| Run the Jewels Meow the Jewels | 2.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 | 4.5 |
| Drake and Future What a Time to Be Alive | 3.0 |
| Blueneck King Nine | 3.0 |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE | 4.0 |
| Frank Ocean Blonde | 3.5 |
| Our Ceasing Voice That Day Last November | 2.5 |
| Our Ceasing Voice When the Headline Hit Home | 3.5 |
| ScHoolboy Q Blank Face LP | 3.5 |
| Kid Cudi Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven | 1.0 |
| Drake If You're Reading This It's Too Late | 4.0 |
| Drake Nothing Was the Same | 3.5 |
| Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo and Youth | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 | 4.0 |
| Desiigner New English | 2.5 |
| Isaiah Rashad The Sun's Tirade | 4.0 |
| Blueneck The Outpost | 3.5 |
| Jackson C. Frank Jackson C. Frank | 4.0 |
| All Them Witches Lightning at the Door | 4.5 |
| Zao The Well-Intentioned Virus | 4.0 |
| Setentia Darkness Transcend | 4.5 |
| Yellowcard Yellowcard | 4.5 |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" | 4.0 |
| Mortichnia Heir to Scoria and Ash | 4.0 |
| Blueneck The Fallen Host | 4.0 |
| Caspian Castles High, Marble Bright | 4.0 |
| Mustard Gas and Roses Becoming | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis | 4.5 |
| Cult Of Fire Life, Sex and Death | 4.0 |
| From Indian Lakes Everything Feels Better Now | 3.5 |
| Winterfylleth The Dark Hereafter | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Winter's Gate | 4.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Transit Blues | 4.0 |
| Wardruna Runaljod – Ragnarok | 4.5 |
| Passenger (UK) Young as the Morning Old As The Sea | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires | 3.5 |
| Alcest Kodama | 4.5 |
| Oathbreaker Rheia | 4.5 |
| Saor Guardians | 4.5 |
| Benjamin Francis Leftwich After the Rain | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore Stage Four | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million | 4.0 |
| pg.lost Versus | 3.5 |
| definitely better than Key but I think I just need to accept that these guys are never gonna make anything as good as their debut again |
| Racing Glaciers Don't Wait For Me | 4.0 |
| Racing Glaciers Ahead Of You Forever | 4.0 |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 4.5 |
| Damien Rice O | 3.0 |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn | 3.5 |
| Vukari Divination | 3.5 |
| Coldworld Autumn | 4.0 |
| Inter Arma Paradise Gallows | 4.5 |
| Oak Pantheon In Pieces | 4.0 |
| Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail | 3.0 |
| The Lumineers The Lumineers | 3.0 |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Parallel Lives | 4.0 |
| Terra Tenebrosa The Reverses | 3.5 |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey | 4.0 |
| Owen The King of Whys | 3.0 |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar | 4.5 |
| Night Verses Into the Vanishing Light | 4.0 |
| Racing Glaciers Caught in the Strange | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys El Camino | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys Rubber Factory | 4.5 |
| Wintersleep Untitled | 4.5 |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty | 2.5 |
| DJ Khaled Major Key | 3.5 |
| J. Cole 2014 Forest Hills Drive | 4.0 |
| Be'lakor Vessels | 4.5 |
| Loma Prieta Self Portrait | 4.0 |
| Departures Death Touches Us, From The Moment We Begin To Love | 3.0 |
| 65daysofstatic No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite... | 3.5 |
| King Apathy King Apathy | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Guidance | 4.0 |
| Wintersleep Welcome To The Night Sky | 4.0 |
| Gregory Alan Isakov This Empty Northern Hemisphere | 4.5 |
| Chevelle The North Corridor | 4.5 |
| Silent Planet Everything Was Sound | 4.5 |
| Gregory Alan Isakov ...with the Colorado Symphony | 4.5 |
| Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid | 3.5 |
| The Levellers Levelling The Land | 4.5 |
| The Black Keys Brothers | 4.5 |
| The Parlotones Stardust Galaxies | 2.5 |
| The Avett Brothers Emotionalism | 3.5 |
| The Parlotones Radiocontrolledrobot | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 4.5 |
| Mono For My Parents | 2.5 |
| Low Roar Low Roar | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 2.5 |
| Alabama Shakes Sound & Color | 4.0 |
| Gregory Alan Isakov The Weatherman | 4.5 |
| Drudkh/Hades Almighty One Who Walks.../Pyre Era, Black! | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. IV: Earth | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. III: Air | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. I: Fire | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. II: Water | 4.5 |
| The Great Cold The Great Cold | 4.0 |
| SUMAC What One Becomes | 4.5 |
| YOB The Unreal Never Lived | 4.0 |
| Vukari En To Pan | 3.0 |
| Vince Staples Summertime '06 | 4.0 |
| Vektor Terminal Redux | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 4.0 |
| Nechochwen Heart of Akamon | 3.5 |
| My Epic Viscera | 4.0 |
| Moonsorrow Jumalten aika | 4.5 |
| The Lumineers Cleopatra | 3.5 |
| Howls of Ebb Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows | 3.5 |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust | 4.0 |
| Triptykon Melana Chasmata | 4.0 |
| In Mourning Afterglow | 4.0 |
| Joy Wants Eternity The Fog is Rising | 3.0 |
| Gifts From Enola Gifts From Enola | 3.5 |
| Dustin Kensrue Thoughts That Float on a Different Blood | 4.0 |
| Overhead the Albatross Learning To Growl | 4.0 |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere | 4.0 |
| Graveland/Nokturnal Mortum The Spirit Never Dies | 2.5 |
| Chance the Rapper Coloring Book | 4.0 |
| Everything in Slow Motion Laid Low | 4.0 |
| Fink Hard Believer | 3.5 |
| Beyonce Lemonade | 4.5 |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation | 4.5 |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 4.5 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 4.0 |
| James Blake The Colour in Anything | 4.0 |
| Fallujah Dreamless | 4.0 |
| Draugnim Vulturine | 4.0 |
| Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros PersonA | 3.0 |
| Sun Worship Elder Giants | 4.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 4.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Cocksure | 3.5 |
| Admiral Fallow Boots Met My Face | 3.5 |
| Trap Them Blissfucker | 3.0 |
| Amenra Mass II: Sermons | 3.5 |
| Amenra Mass I: Prayer I - VI | 3.0 |
| Cobalt Eater of Birds | 4.0 |
| Reigning Lions Very Few and Far Between | 3.5 |
| Show Me A Dinosaur Show Me A Dinosaur | 4.0 |
| holy fuck |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young | 4.0 |
| Cult Of Fire Čtvrtá symfonie ohně | 4.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit Painting of a Panic Attack | 4.0 |
| Eryn Non Dae. Meliora | 4.5 |
| Zhrine Unortheta | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Atomic | 3.5 |
| Plebeian Grandstand False Highs, True Lows | 4.0 |
| The Twilight Sad Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave | 3.5 |
| We Were Promised Jetpacks These Four Walls | 4.0 |
| There Will Be Fireworks There Will Be Fireworks | 3.5 |
| Tombs Savage Gold | 3.0 |
| Hamburger Helper Watch the Stove | 3.5 |
| Deftones Gore | 3.5 |
| Hammock Everything and Nothing | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner | 4.5 |
| Witchrist Vritra | 3.5 |
| Shroud of the Heretic Unorthodox Equilibrium | 4.0 |
| Mitochondrion Archaeaeon | 4.5 |
| Heresiarch Waelwulf | 4.0 |
| Diocletian Gesundrian | 4.0 |
| Mitochondrion Antinumerology | 4.0 |
| This Is Your Captain Speaking Eternal Return | 3.0 |
| Khors Night Falls Onto the Fronts of Ours | 3.0 |
| Bossk Pick Up Artist/Albatross | 4.0 |
| Woman Is The Earth Depths | 4.0 |
| Greytomb A Perpetual Descent | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hypnos / Flame | 3.5 |
| Bossk Audio Noir | 4.5 |
| Spokes Everyone I Ever Met | 3.5 |
| The Twilight Sad Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters | 4.0 |
| The Twilight Sad Forget The Night Ahead | 4.0 |
| O'Brother Endless Light | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Wilderness | 4.0 |
| They finally did something different. |
| Rorcal Creon | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Jomsviking | 3.5 |
| Woman Is The Earth Torch of Our Final Night | 4.0 |
| Broken Hands is one of the best tracks of the year so far. |
| My Latest Novel Deaths And Entrances | 4.0 |
| Friends In America What It Is To Be | 3.5 |
| Ragana Wash Away | 3.5 |
| Years Of Rice and Salt Nothing of Cities | 4.5 |
| Years Of Rice and Salt Service Bell | 4.5 |
| Gungor One Wild Life: Soul | 3.5 |
| Cobalt Slow Forever | 4.0 |
| Ivar Bjornson and Einar Selvik Skuggsja: A Piece for Mind & Mirror | 4.0 |
| this is awesome. it's basically Wardruna but metal. |
| Panopticon / Waldgefluster Panopticon / Waldgeflüster | 4.0 |
| ourfathers. Movements | 4.0 |
| There Will Be Fireworks Because, Because | 4.0 |
| Obsidian Kingdom A Year With No Summer | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. | 4.5 |
| Moving Mountains/Prawn Split | 4.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit State Hospital | 4.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight | 5.0 |
| Yndi Halda Under Summer | 3.5 |
| Kauan Sorni Nai | 3.5 |
| Fuath I | 3.5 |
| Tempest (Can) Tempest | 4.5 |
| Inanimate Existence A Never-Ending Cycle of Atonement | 3.5 |
| Hypno5e Shores of the Abstract Line | 4.0 |
| After the Burial Dig Deep | 4.0 |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo | 4.0 |
| Sorrow Plagues Sorrow Plagues | 2.5 |
| Kokomo Kokomo | 4.0 |
| Kokomo Monochrome Noise Love | 3.5 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Dead Roots Stirring | 3.5 |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone | 4.5 |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley | 5.0 |
| Wildernessking Mystical Future | 4.0 |
| Grieved Grieved | 3.5 |
| Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP | 4.0 |
| Conan Blood Eagle | 3.5 |
| Conan Revengeance | 4.0 |
| Nadra Allir vegir til glötunar | 4.0 |
| Rorcal The Way We Are, The Way We Were, The Way... | 3.5 |
| Rorcal Myrra, Mordvynn, Marayaa | 4.0 |
| Entropia (PL) Ufonaut | 4.0 |
| Radical Face Always Gold | 4.5 |
| Australasia Notturno | 3.5 |
| Vidian Transgressing the Horizon | 4.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Death To New Years | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever | 4.0 |
| Daughter His Young Heart | 3.5 |
| Daughter Not to Disappear | 4.0 |
| Daughter If You Leave | 3.5 |
| Foals What Went Down | 4.0 |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave | 4.0 |
| alt-J This Is All Yours | 3.5 |
| 65daysofstatic Wild Light | 3.5 |
| Young Magic Melt | 3.5 |
| Young Magic Breathing Statues | 4.0 |
| John Williams Star Wars: The Force Awakens | 4.5 |
| Yellow Eyes Sick With Bloom | 4.0 |
| Batushka Litourgiya | 4.0 |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal | 4.5 |
| 65daysofstatic One Time for All Time | 4.5 |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math | 4.0 |
| Rogue Wave Nightingale Floors | 3.0 |
| Make The Golden Veil | 3.5 |
| Caspian Live At Old South Church | 4.0 |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear | 4.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses | 4.5 |
| Family and Friends XOXO | 3.0 |
| Family and Friends Love You Mean It | 3.5 |
| Dark Captain Dead Legs & Alibis | 4.0 |
| SikTh Opacities | 3.5 |
| Tombstones Vargariis | 3.5 |
| this be some dope shit fam |
| Frank Turner Positive Songs for Negative People | 4.0 |
| Our Oceans Our Oceans | 4.0 |
| Falling Up Falling Up | 4.5 |
| Empyrium The Mill | 3.5 |
| Sarin (CAN) Burial Dream | 3.5 |
| This is literally Isis. The opening track is literally So Did We. The harsh vocals are literally Aaron Turner. rNot to say it isn't a good album, though. |
| Jon Foreman The Wonderlands: Dawn | 4.0 |
| Jon Foreman The Wonderlands: Darkness | 3.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Better Nature | 4.0 |
| ElisaRay ...on our stringed instruments | 3.5 |
| ElisaRay For the Creator of music... | 3.5 |
| ElisaRay All Creatures | 4.0 |
| Tow'rs The Great Minimum | 3.0 |
| Great moments, but there's just something... off about the songwriting. Like, I enjoy it while I'm listening to it, but as soon as the album's done I have a hard time remembering much about it. Not bad, but not nearly as great as the S/T. |
| Tow'rs Tow'rs | 4.5 |
| Belly of the Deepest Love is breathtaking. The rest is pretty damn good as well. |
| Hollow Wood Wallflower | 3.5 |
| Hollow Wood Seasons | 4.0 |
| After the Burial Wolves Within | 3.5 |
| Soilwork The Ride Majestic | 4.0 |
| Mgla Exercises in Futility | 4.0 |
| We.Own.The.Sky Earths Collide | 4.0 |
| solid af instrumental heavy post-rock jams. think less Russian Circles and more Toundra. |
| Intronaut The Direction of Last Things | 4.5 |
| Disturbed Immortalized | 1.5 |
| Radical Face The Family Tree: The Bastards | 4.5 |
| A lot of these songs are better than the songs that made the Family Tree LPs. Take that as you will. 'Nightclothes' is the best thing the man has ever written. |
| Radical Face The Family Tree: The Branches | 3.5 |
| Radical Face The Bastards: Volume Four | 4.0 |
| Radical Face The Bastards: Volume Three | 4.5 |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Red | 3.5 |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations | 3.5 |
| Hey Rosetta! Into Your Lungs (And Around in Your Heart and on | 4.0 |
| Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back | 4.0 |
| Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster Wires/Dream\Wires | 4.5 |
| Born of Osiris Soul Sphere | 3.5 |
| The Drowned God The Ebony Void | 4.0 |
| City and Colour Little Hell | 4.0 |
| City and Colour If I Should Go Before You | 4.0 |
| Abigail Williams The Accuser | 3.5 |
| City and Colour Bring Me Your Love | 4.0 |
| Cult Leader Lightless Walk | 4.0 |
| The Oh Hellos Dear Wormwood | 4.5 |
| oh my god flannel hipster jesus duo thank you for #blessing us with this album i love you |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda | 4.0 |
| The Hunts Those Younger Days | 4.0 |
| Fantastic indie folk jams in the vein of The Oh Hellos, The Head and the Heart, and Radical Face. Highly recommended. |
| So Hideous Laurestine | 4.0 |
| So Hideous Last Poem/First Light | 3.5 |
| Caspian Dust and Disquiet | 5.0 |
| Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Exile | 4.5 |
| so dope ugh, like a less monotonous Hexis (not that Hexis aren't awesome) |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 | 4.0 |
| Rivers of Nihil Monarchy | 4.0 |
| pretty much Fallujah without the super obnoxious production |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted | 4.5 |
| Enabler Fail to Feel Safe | 4.0 |
| Thurm Thurm | 4.0 |
| Kronos Arisen New Era | 4.0 |
| Enabler La Fin Absolue Du Monde | 3.5 |
| Disturbed Asylum | 2.5 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 1.5 |
| Disturbed Believe | 2.5 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 3.0 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 3.0 |
| Ghost Bath Moonlover | 3.5 |
| Josh Garrels Love and War and The Sea In Between | 4.5 |
| The Last Bison Quill | 2.5 |
| We Lost the Sea Departure Songs | 4.5 |
| The Seven Mile Journey Notes for the Synthesis | 4.5 |
| Little Chief Lion's Den | 4.0 |
| Jon Foreman The Wonderlands: Shadows | 4.0 |
| Hope Drone Cloak of Ash | 4.0 |
| seriously though, how dope is that artwork? |
| Whale Fall Whale Fall | 4.0 |
| Olafur Arnalds ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness | 3.5 |
| Olafur Arnalds Eulogy for Evolution | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras | 4.0 |
| Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Downbeat | 4.0 |
| Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Failed by Man and Machine | 4.0 |
| Archivist Archivist | 4.0 |
| General Grievous Oppression | 3.5 |
| Yanos Omega | 3.5 |
| Hive Destruction Hive Destruction | 4.0 |
| Through the Dark, Brown Deserts goes so fucking hard people, I mean damn son |
| Iselia Lost Star | 3.0 |
| Hey Rosetta! Seeds | 4.5 |
| Cult Leader Useless Animal | 4.0 |
| Rosetta Quintessential Ephemera | 3.5 |
| takes a big steaming dump on the last one |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places | 4.0 |
| Exgenesis Aphotic Veil | 3.5 |
| Mechina Acheron | 4.0 |
| C R O W N Natron | 4.0 |
| Dispatch Bang Bang | 4.5 |
| Of Monsters and Men Beneath the Skin | 4.5 |
| Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | 3.0 |
| The Oh Hellos The Oh Hellos' Family Christmas Album | 5.0 |
| without a doubt the best piece of Christmas music I've ever heard. good enough to jam out of season. |
| The Oh Hellos The Oh Hellos | 4.5 |
| The Oh Hellos Through The Deep, Dark Valley | 5.0 |
| Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Yield to Despair | 4.5 |
| how the fuck did I not know about this |
| Spook the Horses Rainmaker | 4.0 |
| Kontinuum Kyrr | 3.5 |
| Feared Synder | 3.5 |
| The Nepalese Temple Ball Arbor | 4.0 |
holy fucking shit
EDIT: ok it's growing off me a bit but it's still awesome |
| Tesa G H O S T | 4.0 |
| Will Haven Open The Mind To Discomfort | 4.0 |
| damn son them's some dank-ass riffs |
| Arcane Known/Learned | 4.5 |
| Jon Foreman The Wonderlands: Sunlight | 4.5 |
| thank you based foreman |
| Boris Asia | 3.0 |
| Envy Atheist's Cornea | 4.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Grievances | 4.0 |
| There aren't many bands that can switch between Dillinger-esque mathcore, strings-heavy post-rock, post-hardcore, electronic, and Altar of Plagues-ish post-black without sounding awkward and unfocused as all shit. In fact, Rolo Tomassi are the *only* band I've ever heard who can pull this off. |
| Ne Obliviscaris Sarabande to Nihil | 3.0 |
| Braveyoung Bloom | 3.5 |
| Abominor Opus: Decay | 3.5 |
| Flourishing Intersubjectivity | 3.5 |
| Coffinfish I Am Providence | 4.0 |
| Vattnet Settler | 4.0 |
| well holy shit ain't this an improvement |
| In Cauda Venenum In Cauda Venenum | 3.5 |
| Bosse-de-Nage All Fours | 4.5 |
| holy fucking shit, these dudes' drummer is absolutely fantastic. the music is pretty great too, I guess |
| Year of No Light/Bagarre Generale Year of No Light/Bagarre Generale | 4.0 |
| Eigenlicht Sacral Regicide | 3.0 |
| Pelican The Cliff | 3.0 |
| Sannhet Revisionist | 3.5 |
| Phantom Winter CVLT | 4.0 |
| Think Omega Massif with vocals. I mean, that's almost literally what this band is, both with regards to their membership and their sound. Given that I love Omega Massif, then, this is a pretty easy thing for me to get pretty enthusiastic about. |
| Red Apollo Altruist | 3.5 |
| Shakey Graves Nobody's Fool | 3.0 |
| Ad Nauseam Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est | 4.0 |
| Outre Ghost Chants | 4.0 |
| Sorrow Plagues An Eternity Of Solitude | 4.0 |
| Au-Dessus Au-Dessus | 4.0 |
| Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed | 4.0 |
| Il'Ithil Ia'Winde | 3.5 |
| Akhlys The Dreaming I | 4.0 |
| Earthmass Collapse | 4.5 |
| The Album Leaf Into The Blue Again | 4.0 |
| Steve Von Till A Life Unto Itself | 4.0 |
| Braveyoung We Are Lonely Animals | 4.0 |
| Inventions Maze Of Woods | 3.5 |
| Haste the Day Coward | 4.0 |
| Braveyoung Will The Dust Praise You | 4.0 |
| Thurisaz The Pulse of Mourning | 3.5 |
| Awake In Sleep Heights | 3.0 |
| Braveyoung No Peace In This Mind | 4.0 |
| Tides/Giant Split | 3.5 |
| Axis of Light L'appel du vide | 4.0 |
| Giant Song | 4.5 |
| Glaciation Sur les Falaises de Marbre | 3.5 |
| Antlers (DE) A Gaze Into the Abyss | 3.5 |
| Misthyrming Söngvar elds og óreiðu | 4.5 |
| Three Steps To The Ocean Migration Light | 4.0 |
| Wilderun Sleep at the Edge of the Earth | 3.5 |
| Kalpa (GR) Sequences* | 4.0 |
| Owl Cries Eyes of Paraffin Wax | 3.5 |
| Minsk The Crash and the Draw | 4.0 |
| Tidings Death Leaves a Bright Trail | 3.5 |
| El Altar Del Holocausto S H ∃ | 2.5 |
| Trna Pattern Of Infinity | 3.5 |
| All the Empires of the World Remains | 3.0 |
| Lord Huron Lonesome Dreams | 4.0 |
| Lord Huron Into the Sun | 3.5 |
| Lord Huron Mighty EP | 3.5 |
| Lord Huron Strange Trails | 4.0 |
| Vanessa Van Basten Disintegration | 3.5 |
| Tides Last Rites | 3.5 |
| Downfall of Nur Umbras de Barbagia | 4.5 |
| Izah Sistere | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart | 4.0 |
| Haethen Shaped By Aeolian Winds | 3.5 |
| Geologist reporting in to tell you all that the album's title is dumb: it's basically like calling this "Shaped by Windy Winds." |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 4.0 |
| We Are Oceans Woodsmoke | 4.0 |
| Minor Empires Minor Empires | 3.0 |
| Antarctic Antarctic | 3.5 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar | 4.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Heirs | 4.0 |
| Drudkh A Furrow Cut Short | 3.5 |
| Rorcal La Femme sans Tete | 4.0 |
| surprise Rorcal song/album: can I get a hell yeah |
| The Mountain Goats Beat the Champ | 3.5 |
| Departures Green Turns To Red, Then Turns To Gold | 4.0 |
| Lost in the Riots Move On, Make Trails | 4.0 |
| Lumbar The First And Last Days Of Unwelcome | 4.5 |
| Toundra IV | 4.0 |
| The Classic Crime What Was Done, Vol. 1: A Decade Revisited | 4.0 |
| Blacklisted When People Grow, People Go | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Salem | 4.0 |
| Botanist Hammer of Botany | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown | 4.0 |
| Irreversible Irreversible | 4.0 |
| It's sad that this is their final album, as they've been getting better with each subsequent release and this one continues that trend. It's probably the best post-metal I've heard out of 2015 so far. 'Fade' and 'Absent Help' are especially brilliant. |
| A Forest of Stars Beware the Sword You Cannot See | 3.5 |
| 10 Years Division | 3.5 |
| Dustin Kensrue Carry the Fire | 4.0 |
| Shakey Graves And The War Came | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Dark Bird Is Home | 4.5 |
| Sulphur Aeon Gateway to the Antisphere | 4.5 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Stellar | 4.0 |
| truly a stellar album har de har har el oh el |
| Unearth Watchers of Rule | 4.5 |
| Equilibrium Erdentempel | 3.5 |
| Finsterforst Mach Dich Frei | 3.5 |
| Ethereal Shroud They Became the Falling Ash | 4.5 |
| Ufomammut Ecate | 4.0 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 5.0 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 4.0 |
| Jay-Z The Black Album | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' | 4.5 |
| we got a bunch of fucking whiners here |
| Grouper Ruins | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 5.0 |
| I, Valiance The Reject of Humanity | 3.5 |
| A Swarm of the Sun The Rifts | 4.0 |
| Callisto Secret Youth | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 5.0 |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust | 4.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children The Long Goodbye | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Songs For Christmas | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Silver & Gold | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans | 4.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Sæglópur | 4.0 |
| SUMAC The Deal | 4.0 |
| Kerretta Pirohia | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.0 |
| Red (USA) Of Beauty and Rage | 4.0 |
| The Body and Thou You, Whom I Have Always Hated | 4.5 |
| Silent Planet The Night God Slept | 4.0 |
| Moanaa Descent | 3.5 |
| Musk Ox Woodfall | 4.5 |
| Deadwood Picturing a Sense of Loss | 4.0 |
| Thrice Red Sky | 4.0 |
| Thrice The MySpace Transmissions | 4.0 |
| Thrice If We Could Only See Us Now | 4.0 |
| Dustin Kensrue Please Come Home | 4.0 |
| Dustin Kensrue This Good Night Is Still Everywhere | 3.5 |
| Thrice Live At The House Of Blues | 4.5 |
| Thrice Anthology | 4.5 |
| Thrice Identity Crisis | 3.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.5 |
| Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth | 4.0 |
| Pray For Teeth From The Dry Edge Of The Shore | 3.5 |
| Nero di Marte Derivae | 4.0 |
| The Ghost Inside Dear Youth | 3.5 |
| Yellowcard Lift a Sail | 4.0 |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker The Discovery | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Little Histories | 3.5 |
| Avatar Hail the Apocalypse | 4.0 |
| Damascus When Last We Met | 4.5 |
| Steve Von Till If I Should Fall to the Field | 4.5 |
| Scott Kelly and the Road Home The Forgiven Ghost In Me | 3.5 |
| Mors Principium Est ...And Death Said Live | 4.0 |
| Mors Principium Est Dawn of the 5th Era | 4.0 |
| Mare Cognitum Phobos Monolith | 4.0 |
| Behemoth Xiadz | 3.0 |
| Behemoth The Satanist | 4.5 |
| Primordial Where Greater Men Have Fallen | 3.5 |
| Over The Ocean Be Given to the Soil | 4.0 |
| SubRosa (US) More Constant Than The Gods | 4.5 |
| Devil Sold His Soul A Fragile Hope | 4.0 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Belong/Betray | 4.0 |
| From Indian Lakes Absent Sounds | 4.0 |
| Fen Carrion Skies | 4.0 |
god damn, have they ever improved
EDIT: the deluxe edition has 38 minutes of extra music |
| Fallujah Nomadic | 3.5 |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God II | 4.5 |
| "The hijinks and shenanigans that took place during the release of this record hopefully provided their audience with a tiny glimpse into the misery I experience when working with these idiots." - Kurt Ballou on producing The Ape of God |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God I | 4.0 |
| Howard Shore The Lord of the Rings: Complete Trilogy | 5.0 |
| Howard Shore The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey | 4.0 |
| "On par with LotR, just like the movie."rson you say all you want about the scores but you need help if you think the movie is even close to the original trilogy |
| ERRA Moments of Clarity | 3.5 |
| Downfall of Gaia Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay | 4.5 |
| I'm definitely fanboying a bit here, but this is just as awesome as their debut, if a lot less crusty and a lot more blackened. |
| Mono You Are There | 4.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater | 4.0 |
| Hierophant (IT) Peste | 4.0 |
| this is the nastiest, filthiest shit I've heard all year. god damn son |
| Generation of Vipers Coffin Wisdom | 4.0 |
| TSiB-era Neurosis meets Amenra, except they're both way angrier than normal |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel | 4.0 |
| Earthmass Earthmass | 4.0 |
| YOB Clearing The Path To Ascend | 4.0 |
| Ghost Brigade IV - One with the Storm | 4.5 |
| Demon Hunter Extremist | 3.5 |
| Soilwork Beyond the Infinite | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 | 4.0 |
| Marissa Nadler July | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You | 3.0 |
| Giant Squid Minoans | 4.0 |
| We Were Promised Jetpacks Unravelling | 4.0 |
| Cult Of Fire Ascetic Meditation Of Death | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Old Pride | 3.5 |
| Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were | 4.5 |
| At the Gates At War with Reality | 4.0 |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Bloom and Breathe | 4.5 |
| Beyond Creation Earthborn Evolution | 4.0 |
| Yeah, the vocals aren't the greatest (they're not bad by any means, but they aren't great either), and the bassist/the production of the bass can get a tiny bit annoying at points, but these guys still remain one of the only tech death bands that I feel can actually write a coherent song. There's a huge amount of talent between all the members, and the riffs are spectacular. |
| Jakob Sines | 4.5 |
| this is going to be the best album ever |
| Eden Circus Marula | 4.5 |
| Falls of Rauros Believe in No Coming Shore | 3.5 |
| Rosetta Flies to Flame | 4.0 |
| Way better than their last one. Pegasus is an incredible track. |
| nic and Old Soul Split | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Man of Steel | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer The Last Samurai | 4.0 |
| The Body and Thou Released From Love | 4.0 |
| Thou The Sacrifice | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Language | 4.0 |
| This Will Destroy You Another Language | 4.0 |
| Irreversible Surface | 4.0 |
| A lot of people seemed to love 'Ashes,' but I had a few big gripes with it: namely, the songwriting seemed inconsistent, the blending of the myriad genre influences was really choppy at points, and the production was rough. 'Surface' fixes all three problems. |
| Darkspace Dark Space III I | 4.5 |
| Ghost Brigade Isolation Songs | 4.0 |
| Solstafir Otta | 4.0 |
| Toluca Memoria | 3.5 |
| Low Roar 0 | 4.5 |
| Maybeshewill Fair Youth | 4.0 |
| Intervals A Voice Within | 3.5 |
| Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis | 4.0 |
| Show Me A Dinosaur Dust | 3.5 |
| With Our Arms to the Sun A Far Away Wonder | 4.0 |
| Sleep Maps We Die For Truth | 3.5 |
| Septicflesh The Great Mass | 3.5 |
| Septicflesh Communion | 4.0 |
| Pallbearer Foundations of Burden | 4.0 |
| Dirge (FR) Hyperion | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Across the Dark | 3.5 |
| Morbus Chron Sweven | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 4.5 |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun | 4.0 |
| Valtari Hunter's Pride | 3.5 |
| Owl John Owl John | 3.5 |
| Teitanblood Death | 3.5 |
| Nux Vomica Nux Vomica | 4.0 |
| A must-listen for anyone who's a fan of the Buried Inside/Downfall of Gaia/Children of God school of crusty, blackened, atmospheric sludge stuff. |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 3.5 |
| Lord Mantis Death Mask | 4.0 |
| Alraune The Process Of Self-Immolation | 3.5 |
| PSOTY Fragments Of Uniforms | 4.5 |
| All the Empires of the World Sunscraper | 3.5 |
| Ahamkara The Embers Of The Stars | 4.0 |
| '68 In Humor and Sadness | 4.5 |
| sleepmakeswaves Love of Cartography | 4.0 |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails | 3.5 |
"It's really a shame this passes for prog in this day and age."
DAE le wrong generation??!? |
| Golgatha Somnium Attacca | 3.5 |
| Septicflesh Titan | 3.5 |
| Falls of Rauros/Panopticon Split | 4.0 |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here | 4.0 |
| Anathema Weather Systems | 3.5 |
| Lorelei Lore of Lies | 3.5 |
| Junius Days of the Fallen Sun | 4.0 |
| The Time of Perfect Virtue is pretty much the best thing ever. |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together | 4.0 |
| Anathema Distant Satellites | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Cult of Luna (EP) | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna Cult of Luna | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party | 4.0 |
| Swans To Be Kind | 4.5 |
| Saor Aura | 5.0 |
| Panopticon Roads to the North | 4.0 |
| so can this guy fucking drum or what |
| Clouds (INT) Doliu | 3.5 |
| Mingle Harde Mongol Horde | 4.0 |
| Gungor Beautiful Things | 4.0 |
| Chevelle La Gárgola | 4.0 |
| Cult Leader Nothing for Us Here | 4.0 |
| '68 Midnight | 3.0 |
| Direwolves Aegri Somnia | 4.0 |
| The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li | 4.0 |
| Dead Congregation Promulgation of the Fall | 4.5 |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere | 4.0 |
| Well, I have no fucking clue what album you guys have been listening to. |
| Lantlos Melting Sun | 4.0 |
| Locktender Rodin | 4.5 |
| Inventions Inventions | 3.0 |
| Sunlight Ascending All the Memories, All at Once | 4.0 |
| Clint Mansell and Kronos Quartet Noah | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Volition | 4.0 |
| Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X | 4.0 |
| Caleb McAlpine All Things New | 4.0 |
| The Unwinding Hours Afterlives | 3.5 |
| The Haxan Cloak Excavation | 4.0 |
| Alaskan Despair, Erosion, Loss | 3.5 |
| Fleshworld Like we're all equal again | 4.0 |
| Crosses EP II | 3.5 |
| Crosses EP | 4.0 |
| Crosses Crosses | 4.0 |
| The Body I Shall Die Here | 4.0 |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji | 4.5 |
| Thou Heathen | 4.5 |
| East of the Wall Redaction Artifacts | 3.5 |
| Caspian Hymn For The Greatest Generation | 4.0 |
| pg.lost Yes I Am EP | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... | 4.5 |
| Woods of Desolation As the Stars | 4.0 |
| Tempel (USA-AZ) On the Steps of the Temple | 3.5 |
| this is definitely one of the sexier instruMetal albums I've heard in a while |
| Horus Attis | 4.5 |
| https://soundcloud.com/andy-patterson-3/horus-attis --- Full album coming in 2015. |
| Scale the Summit The Migration | 4.0 |
| Grown Below The Other Sight | 4.0 |
| Hexis Abalam | 4.0 |
| Alcest Shelter | 4.0 |
| Switchfoot Fading West | 3.5 |
| There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright | 5.0 |
| Kwoon When The Flowers Were Singing... | 4.0 |
| Envy Insomniac Doze | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 4.5 |
| Benea Reach Possession | 3.5 |
| Everything in Slow Motion Phoenix | 4.0 |
| Aural Method When I Drifted I Heard a Faint Melody | 4.0 |
| My Epic Behold | 4.0 |
| Wedrujacy Wiatr Tam, Gdzie Miesiac Oplakuje Swit | 4.0 |
| My Epic Broken Voice | 4.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love | 4.0 |
| Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain | 5.0 |
| Year of No Light Tocsin | 4.0 |
| I was pretty lukewarm on this at first tbh, but it really gets better with time. I just came back to it for the first time in months, and it's really blowing me away. I fucking love the atmosphere that the dual-drummer setup lends the music. |
| Obscure Sphinx Void Mother | 4.0 |
| Falkenbach Asa | 4.0 |
| State Faults Resonate/Desperate | 4.5 |
| Blindead Absence | 3.0 |
| Celeste Animale(s) | 4.0 |
| Radical Face The Bastards: Volume Two | 4.0 |
| Radical Face The Bastards: Volume One | 3.5 |
| A Lot Like Birds No Place | 4.0 |
| Impending Doom Death Will Reign | 3.5 |
| this is straight up nasty |
| Patrons Of The Rotting Gate The Rose Coil | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent | 4.0 |
| Slice the Cake Other Slices | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Memorial | 4.5 |
| Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Regarde les Hommes Tomber | 3.5 |
| My Epic Yet | 4.5 |
| Mental Architects Celebrations | 3.5 |
| Fyrnask Eldir Nótt | 4.0 |
| Dustin Kensrue The Water and the Blood | 3.5 |
| If you (understandably) can't deal with overtly Christian lyrics, you probably will not enjoy this. If you grew up with CCM-ish music, however - even if you despise the never ending pit of stagnancy, sterility, and inoffensiveness that is the worship music scene - you are in for what is the best worship album since the David Crowder Band's "A Collision," and this may even be better than that. |
| Empyrium Weiland | 3.5 |
| Pelican Forever Becoming | 3.5 |
| well ain't this a pleasant god damned surprise |
| Alter Bridge Fortress | 4.0 |
| I think you mean MYLES ahead of ABIII |
| dangerkids collapse | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By | 4.0 |
| Ef Ceremonies | 4.0 |
| this is absolutely fantastic |
| Strike to Survive Yesterday's News | 4.0 |
| Gris Il Était Une Forêt... | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Subsume | 4.0 |
| Vali Skogslandskap | 4.5 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal II | 4.0 |
| Combine Vertikal (including The Flow Reversed) and Vertikal II into the single album they were meant to act as, bookended with the acoustic version of Passing Through, and you have yourself Cult of Luna's best album since SatH. |
| Moving Mountains Moving Mountains | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Origins | 3.5 |
| Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée... | 5.0 |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo | 4.5 |
| http://grahamkozak.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/whoa-neo01.jpg |
| Falkenbach Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty | 4.0 |
| Vattnet Vattnet Viskar | 3.5 |
| Vattnet Sky Swallower | 3.5 |
| Ulcerate The Coming of Genocide (Reissue) | 3.0 |
| Ulcerate Of Fracture and Failure | 4.0 |
| Autumn's Kingdom Autumn's Kingdom | 3.5 |
| Volcano Choir Repave | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Vermis | 4.5 |
| 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 5.0 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.0 |
| Locktender Kafka | 4.0 |
| Moving Mountains Waves | 3.5 |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma | 4.5 |
| All the Empires of the World Black Hand Meditation | 3.5 |
I've never really appreciated how great of a guitarist the guy in this band is, but if I could one day play
the acoustic half as well as he does on this EP I'll be ecstatic. |
| Atticus Ross The Book Of Eli OST | 4.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.5 |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Listen to the Color | 3.0 |
| Puig Destroyer Puig Destroyer EP | 4.0 |
| Sun Devoured Earth A Static Life | 3.5 |
| O'Brother Disillusion | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 3.5 |
| Maybeshewill To The Skies From A Hillside | 4.5 |
| This rating is more to recognize how beautiful a track the title track is more than it is for anything else. |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone | 4.0 |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony | 3.5 |
| Maybeshewill Not For Want Of Trying | 3.0 |
| Awake In Sleep Awake In Sleep | 3.0 |
| Rosetta The Anaesthete | 2.5 |
| god damn it I am not cool with this. |
| Recreant Recreant | 3.5 |
| Geology North | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers | 4.0 |
| Latterman No Matter Where We Go...! | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Fever Hunting | 4.0 |
| Latterman Turn Up The Punk, We'll Be Singing | 3.5 |
| Solace (CAN) Call & Response | 3.5 |
| Night Verses Lift Your Existence | 4.5 |
| Sed Non Satiata Mappo | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 5.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child | 4.0 |
| Fine Before You Came Sfortuna | 4.0 |
| Yellow Eyes Hammer of Night | 3.5 |
| Lustmord The Word As Power | 4.0 |
| Lo-Pro Disintegration Effect | 3.5 |
| Capacities There Is No Neutral | 3.5 |
| Amenra Mass III-II + IIII | 4.0 |
| Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros | 4.0 |
| This behemoth is, without a doubt, *the* hardcore album of 2013. |
| Black Sheep Wall It Begins Again | 3.5 |
| After the wholly unspectacular No Matter Where it Ends, BSW show us that they have still fucking got it with this wonderful, skull-crushing EP. |
| Joseph Arthur Our Shadows Will Remain | 4.0 |
| Joseph Arthur Redemption's Son | 4.0 |
| Joseph Arthur Junkyard Hearts, Vol. IV | 3.5 |
| Joseph Arthur Junkyard Hearts, Vol. III | 3.0 |
| Misery Signals Mirrors | 3.5 |
| Joseph Arthur Junkyard Hearts, Vol. I | 3.0 |
| Joseph Arthur Junkyard Hearts, Vol. II | 4.0 |
| Joseph Arthur Come To Where I'm From | 3.5 |
| Wardruna Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga | 3.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper The Titan | 4.0 |
| the last two tracks are really fucking awesome |
| Brett Dennen So Much More | 3.0 |
| Counterparts The Difference Between Hell and Home | 3.5 |
| As someone who gets annoyed every time a bunch of snobby assholes label something as overrated just because a bunch of users are really digging it, holy *shit*, are you people ever overrating this. |
| Misery Signals Absent Light | 4.0 |
| A Glimmer of Hope would have been their best song if they'd extended it. |
| Nosound Afterthoughts | 4.0 |
| Astronoid Stargazer | 4.0 |
| Damascus Heights | 3.5 |
| Walknut Graveforests and Their Shadows | 4.0 |
| Woe Withdrawal | 3.5 |
| Wyrd Huldrafolk | 3.5 |
| Wyrd Heathen | 3.0 |
| Ef Give Me Beauty... Or Give Me Death! | 3.5 |
| Tigers on Trains Grandfather | 4.0 |
| Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog | 4.0 |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus | 4.5 |
| Lurker Of Chalice Lurker Of Chalice | 3.5 |
| Askival Eternity | 2.5 |
| We.Own.The.Sky Glass/Nails | 3.5 |
| Pretty generic heavy post-rock, but the production is excellent and we.own.the.sky can actually create some really beautiful music. A halfway point between sleepmakeswaves and If These Trees Could Talk, with a sprinkling of Jakob-ish melodies. |
| Csejthe Reminiscence | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods | 3.0 |
| does this m/ |
| Palms Palms | 2.5 |
| this is straight up sexy rEDIT: and really disappointing |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 4.0 |
| The Body Master, We Perish | 3.5 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Dawning | 3.5 |
| Summoning Old Mornings Dawn | 3.0 |
| I don't get it |
| Heaven Shall Burn Veto | 4.0 |
| Saor Roots | 4.5 |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart | 4.0 |
| Misery Signals Controller | 5.0 |
| Enemies Embark Embrace | 3.5 |
| Caladan Brood Echoes Of Battle | 4.0 |
| Black Tongue Falsifier | 3.5 |
| hevy |
| An Isle Ate Her Phrenia | 4.0 |
| Omnium Gatherum Beyond | 3.5 |
| The Stalactites Dark Matters | 3.0 |
| Statuette Losing Roots | 4.0 |
| Panopticon/Vestiges Split | 3.5 |
| The Little Explorer Siderali | 3.5 |
| Corelia Nostalgia | 3.0 |
| Vallendusk Black Clouds Gathering | 3.5 |
| Loss of Self Demo | 3.5 |
| Wardruna Runaljod - Yggdrasil | 4.5 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.5 |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 3.5 |
| This Will Destroy You Tunnel Blanket | 3.0 |
| This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You | 4.5 |
| Barrow Though I'm Alone | 4.0 |
| The Appleseed Cast Illumination Ritual | 3.5 |
| Mouth Of The Architect The Ties That Blind | 4.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Vol. 2 | 4.0 |
| The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Volume I | 3.5 |
| Full of Hell Rudiments of Mutilation | 3.5 |
| Kvelertak Meir | 4.0 |
| Iron And Wine The Creek Drank the Cradle | 4.0 |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson II | 4.5 |
| All the Empires of the World CVRSVS | 3.5 |
| nic Demo | 3.5 |
| The worst name for a post black/blackgaze band since "..." |
| Portal Vexovoid | 3.5 |
| Mean Knowing | 3.5 |
| Inter Arma Sky Burial | 4.0 |
| pg.lost In Never Out | 3.5 |
| pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You! | 4.5 |
| Evergreen Refuge Weminuchia | 2.5 |
| Acres Acres | 3.0 |
| Hierophant (IT) Great Mother: Holy Monster | 3.5 |
| Sannhet Known Flood | 3.5 |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury | 5.0 |
| Leucosis Leucosis | 4.0 |
| Kongh Sole Creation | 3.5 |
| Terra Tenebrosa The Purging | 3.5 |
| Black Table Sentinel | 3.0 |
| Children of God We Set Fire to the Sky | 4.0 |
| Caspian Tertia | 3.5 |
| Manii Kollaps | 2.5 |
| O'Brother Basement Window | 3.0 |
| Sigur Ros Brennisteinn | 3.5 |
| Entropia (PL) Vesper | 4.0 |
| It isn't often that anyone gets the atmospheric black metal/post-metal/post-rock/shoegaze combo right but on the rare occasion that it does hapen it is truly beautiful to behold. Imagine a spacier Altar of Plagues with the occasional dropped-B sludge groove. It works: trust me. |
| Jurassic Penguin Home | 3.0 |
| Serious Beak Huxwhukw | 3.5 |
| O'Brother The Death of Day | 3.5 |
| Zozobra Savage Masters | 4.0 |
| Zozobra Harmonic Tremors | 4.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Hearts Of Light/Blossoms | 3.0 |
| The Republic of Wolves Varuna | 4.0 |
| Balance and Composure I Just Want To Be Pure | 3.0 |
| Windir Likferd | 4.5 |
| Lights Out Asia In The Days Of Jupiter | 3.0 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 4.5 |
| Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide | 3.5 |
| Immolation Close to a World Below | 4.5 |
| Mogwai Young Team | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Far from Refuge | 3.5 |
| Old Gray An Autobiography | 4.0 |
| holy fucking shit this is like the best thing ever |
| The Evpatoria Report Golevka | 4.0 |
| Paper Route Are We All Forgotten | 4.0 |
| Hope Drone Hope Drone | 3.5 |
| Radical Face Ghost | 4.0 |
| Daughter The Wild Youth | 4.0 |
| Of Solitude and Solemn Of Solitude and Solemn | 4.0 |
| Ash Borer Bloodlands | 4.0 |
| The improved songwriting and atmosphere of Cold of Ages without the slightly annoying production. This could stack up to be the best thing Ash Borer have put out to date. |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 3.5 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor | 4.0 |
| First impressions: this is kind of like a bridge between Paysage d'HIver's previous black metal demos and the crunchier, spacier work of Wintherr's other project, Darkspace. Offenbarung is one of the best songs of the man's career, and represents the first time I've ever had my foot tapping during a Paysage song. Ewig leuchten die Sterne is a slower, more atmospheric number, while Macht des Schicksals really, really sounds like Darkspace (good thing) and Schlüssel is closer to Paysage's earlier work, although it spend its second half on wind sounds. Overall, this is a god damned excellent demo/album/whatever and is, in my book, second only to Winterkaelte and the s/t. Time may see it raise above those. BY THE WAY I NOW HAVE RED LETTERS NEXT TO MY USERNAME AS SUCH I AM NOW A MAN OF AUTHORITY HERE ON SPUTNIK LISTEN TO MY OPINION YOU GOD DAMNED FOOLS no i am only slightly drunk like a 5.5/10 or some shit idk bro fukc i need to write a new review soon god damn it |
| Grails Doomsdayer's Holiday | 3.5 |
| Grails Burning Off Impurities | 4.0 |
| Grails The Burden of Hope | 3.5 |
| Caspian Waking Season | 4.0 |
| Do Make Say Think Other Truths | 3.5 |
| pg.lost Key | 3.0 |
| Ef Delusions of Grandeur | 4.0 |
| The Ascent of Everest How Lonely Sits the City | 4.0 |
| Rorcal Vilagvege | 4.5 |
| Basically, this is the polar opposite of Heliogabulus in terms of speed, conciseness, and aggression. It's also the most obscenely dark, crushing, and apocalyptic album of 2013 so far, and it's the most bleak thing I've heard in years. I mean, seriously: I don't know what the band were going through when they wrote this but I'm assuming it was some hella nasty shit. |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 4.0 |
| Lantlos .neon | 4.0 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.0 |
| holy god in heaven, this rips |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 4.0 |
| Aeternam Moongod | 4.0 |
| Ragana Unbecoming | 3.0 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 4.0 |
| Jarhead Beautiful Delusion | 4.0 |
| riffs |
| Kauan Aava Tuulen Maa | 3.5 |
| Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse | 4.0 |
| if I had .1-increment privileges this would be a 4.2 |
| P.O.D. Murdered Love | 3.0 |
| From Indian Lakes Able Bodies | 4.0 |
| Light Bearer Silver Tongue | 3.0 |
I fully expect to enjoy this, but I highly, highly doubt that it will deserve a 4.9 average.
EDIT: Holy shit, is this ever bloated. |
| Various Artists Whom The Moon A Nightsong Sings | 4.5 |
| Fucking hell, this is the best various artists compilation I have ever heard. Absolutely beautiful. |
| Negura Bunget OM | 4.5 |
| Pomegranate Tiger Entities | 3.0 |
| There are some great ideas at work here, but this album is both far too long and far too samey - always a bad combination - to warrant anything above a 3 in my book. |
| Encircling Sea A Forgotten Land | 3.5 |
| A City Sorrow Built Motions | 3.5 |
| This is a big improvement over Songs. |
| Hedvika The Evidence of Absence | 3.5 |
| Annorkoth The Last Days | 4.0 |
| Tenhi Kauan | 4.0 |
| Being as an Ocean Dear G-d | 2.5 |
| Mare Cognitum An Extraconscious Lucidity | 4.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 4.5 |
| Grown Below The Long Now | 3.5 |
| It starts out slow and it could use some tempo variation, but this is a great post-metal album with its share of "fuck yeah" moments. They just need to make more songs like "End of all Time" and fewer like "Trojan Horses". |
| The Black Heart Rebellion Har Nevo | 4.5 |
| This fucking rules and everyone should jam this. Now. |
| Finster Existenz | 3.5 |
| Nihill Verdonkermaan | 2.5 |
| Red (USA) Release the Panic | 2.5 |
| I've heard worse things in my days, but considering that Innocence & Instinct is one of my favorite alt rock albums of all time this is kind of depressing. That's not to say it's all bad: Red are still some of the best in the business at mid-tempo rockers with super catchy choruses (see "Glass House"), but the difference here is that the heavy tracks are utter shit. We know that Red can make awesome heavy songs (Feed the Machine, Out from Under, etc), but this is just sad. Also, there are not enough strings here. Howard Benson is a fucking bastard. |
| The Fall of Boss Koala Reference Points | 4.0 |
| Shroud of Distress Be Happy | 3.5 |
| Sore Eyelids Sore Eyelids | 4.0 |
| Side of Despondency The Main as Well That Is Not Very | 3.0 |
| Obsidian Kingdom Mantiis | 4.0 |
| Vaura Selenelion | 3.0 |
| Toundra III | 4.0 |
| Ok, so this fucking rules. |
| Torche Harmonicraft | 3.5 |
| Lil B Tears 4 God | 2.0 |
| ambient swag 100 trillion |
| Uneven Structure 8 | 3.0 |
| Uneven Structure Februus | 3.5 |
| Gallowbraid Ashen Eidolon | 3.5 |
| Reka II | 3.5 |
| Reka Renaissance | 3.0 |
| Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson Small Changes We Hardly Notice | 4.0 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Unstille | 4.0 |
| Everything in Slow Motion Red | 4.0 |
| Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson | 4.0 |
| Neil Halstead Palindrome Hunches | 3.5 |
| Generation of Vipers Howl and Filth | 4.0 |
| First Aid Kit The Lion's Roar | 3.5 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.0 |
| Matt Elliott The Broken Man | 3.0 |
| Landing Landing | 2.5 |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings | 4.0 |
| Jodis Black Curtain | 4.0 |
| Aaron Turner is the man. |
| Touche Amore/Pianos Become the Teeth Split | 4.0 |
| James Blackshaw Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death | 4.0 |
| this dude has some mad skills. also, did anyone else notice how you can constantly hear him breathing (heavily) when you listen to this? i didn't notice it until someone pointed it out to me. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA |
| Icarus the Owl Love Always, Leviathan | 3.0 |
| Ancients (UK) Star Showers On The Euphrates | 3.5 |
| Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God | 3.5 |
| Antestor Omen | 3.0 |
| Very solid melodic/progressive/idk black metal from a band with a very long and very interesting history. Also, I really, really want that artwork on vinyl. |
| Hell (USA) III | 4.0 |
| As usual, Hell do not disappoint. With each release, they also seem to be straying more toward an atmospheric black metal sound and less of the sludge style from I. |
| Grizzly Bear Shields | 3.5 |
| Grails Deep Politics | 3.0 |
| their earlier stuff is better |
| The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten | 4.0 |
| Finsterforst Rastlos | 4.5 |
| Mondrian Oak Aeon | 3.0 |
| This is better than most of the other instrumental post-metal startups you're gonna find out there, but it does suffer from a serious case of only-one-goddamn-tempo-itis. Weak 3.5/strong 3. |
| Fauna Avifauna | 4.0 |
| From Oceans To Autumn Oath Of Eternals | 4.0 |
| this album is so god damn pretty |
| The End Of Six Thousand Years Perpetuum | 3.5 |
| Gothenburg meets metalcore meets post-metal. The only really weak point here for me is that I'm not always a huge fan of the vocals (only at certain registers, though: they're usually good). |
| Capacities The Unexamined Life | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One | 4.0 |
| The Elijah I Loved I Hated I Destroyed I Created | 3.5 |
| Dirty Three Toward The Low Sun | 3.5 |
| This is my first experience with Dirty Three and it's giving me a bit of a GY!BE + post-Hex era Earth vibe. Good stuff. |
| Czar (USA-IL) Vertical Mass Grave | 3.5 |
| Consciousness Removal Project Tacit | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 3.0 |
| This is an irritating release for me: I absolutely adore a couple tracks on here, but there are an equal number of songs that bug the shit out of me. |
| Baulta That's My House You're Living In | 4.0 |
| Arrows In Her Leaving. | 4.0 |
| Sed Non Satiata Sed Non Satiata | 4.5 |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 4.5 |
| Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat | 3.5 |
| Fort Atlantic Fort Atlantic | 4.0 |
| This album is LEGEN - wait for it... DARY! Let Your Heart Hold Fast is an incredible track. |
| Frostseele Praekosmium | 3.5 |
| Atoma Skylight | 3.5 |
| Huldra Monuments, Monoliths | 4.0 |
| It certainly drags a bit and could do with better production and a tempo change now and again, but Huldra remain one of my favorite underground post-metal acts and this album only continues their streak of ripping off Isis and making it sound damn good. 3.5/4 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures | 3.5 |
| This one is a bit less structured than the other two: it just sounds like a bunch of dudes jamming in a room and having a fucking awesome time with it. |
| Paysage d'Hiver Nacht | 4.0 |
| Ben Howard Every Kingdom | 4.0 |
| be sure to also get the bonus tracks: one of them, "Under the Same Sun", is probably the best on the album. |
| Benjamin Francis Leftwich Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 4.5 |
| This is their best album after SatH. Also, the userbase at RYM can kindly fuck themselves: I mean, they're worse than us with their troll 1s. |
| Betrayal At Bespin Rains | 4.0 |
| Totally different from the debut, but still totally awesome. Lots of sax here. |
| General Lee Raiders of the Evil Eye | 4.0 |
| It might be short, but it's a massive improvement over the promising yet so-so "Roads." One of the better recent post-metal releases. |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 3.5 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 4.5 |
| Primordial To the Nameless Dead | 4.0 |
| Fences Fences | 3.5 |
| Lmfao Party Rock | 1.5 |
| Lmfao Sorry For Party Rocking | 1.0 |
| Solstafir Svartir Sandar | 4.0 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 5.0 |
| Horseback Half Blood | 3.0 |
| Paysage d'Hiver/Vinterriket Split | 3.5 |
| Desolate Shrine The Sanctum of Human Darkness | 4.0 |
| Melankoli Wind | 3.0 |
| Make a Change...Kill Yourself Fri | 3.5 |
| Living Sacrifice Death Machine | 4.5 |
| Death Machine is one of their best songs and gets me going like no fucking other |
| Aletheian Dying Vine | 2.0 |
| Sleep Maps Fiction Makes the Future | 2.5 |
| Drom Hectop | 3.5 |
| Grieved Samaritans | 4.0 |
I wish this were longer.
That's what she said. |
| Sundowning Seizures of the World | 3.0 |
| Above average post-metal that's not executed well enough to have its uninventiveness (which isn't a major issue in this kind of thing as long as the music is really good) overlooked. |
| Rhone Inter Sidera | 3.5 |
| Suis La Lune Riala | 4.0 |
| Dweller On The Threshold Dweller On The Threshold | 3.0 |
| Beyond Terror Beyond Grace Nadir | 3.0 |
| Birds in Row You, Me, and the Violence | 4.0 |
| O'Brother Garden Window | 5.0 |
| State Faults Head in the Clouds | 3.5 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 3.5 |
| Kowloon Walled City Container Ships | 4.0 |
| Evening Hymns Spectral Dusk | 4.0 |
| Beau Navire Lumens | 4.0 |
| The Catalyst Voyager | 3.5 |
| In Trenches Sol Obscura | 4.0 |
| holy fucking fuck, it's like Trenches meets Amia Venera Landscape meets Alpinistrfuck this rules |
| Night Hag (AUS) Confidence Man | 3.0 |
| Nuclear Summer Nuclear Summer | 4.0 |
| weird post-hardcore/post-rock/screamo/happy music hybrid. they call themselves "sunshine metal." I don't care what you call this, but trust me when I say that this is more than worth a listen. it's free, as well. rhttp://nclrsmmr.bandcamp.com/ |
| Abyssal (UK) Denouement | 4.0 |
| When Icarus Falls Aegean | 4.0 |
| how in the hell did I miss this? |
| Black Breath Sentenced To Life | 3.5 |
| Tesa IV | 3.0 |
| Daniel Rossen Silent Hour/Golden Mile | 4.0 |
| Dead End Alaska/Ostrov Family and Friends Vol. II | 3.5 |
| A Forest of Stars A Shadowplay for Yesterdays | 3.5 |
| Radical Face The Family Tree: The Roots | 4.5 |
| Dodecahedron Dodecahedron | 4.0 |
| VYGR/At Our Heels/Griever Split | 4.0 |
| VYGR puts out some pretty good sludge/post-metal, while At Our Heels and Griever contribute some pretty fucking awesome hardcore tracks. |
| Adrift Black Heart Bleeds Black | 4.0 |
| And you thought post-metal with balls ended with Times of Grace... |
| ISIS Live 6 (11/16/2007) | 4.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 4.0 |
| Abraham The Serpent, the Prophet and the Whore | 3.5 |
| We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth | 4.0 |
| whoa, this rules. potential 4.5 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix (Mankind) The Crafty Ape | 3.5 |
| 6 Degrees II | 3.0 |
| DorDeDuh Dar De Duh | 4.5 |
| It really is incredible that this album didn't get more attention around here, as it's easily the best black metal album of 2012. |
| Year of No Light/thisquietarmy Split | 4.0 |
| Departures Teenage Haze | 4.0 |
| Sunpocrisy Samaroid Dioramas | 3.0 |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | 4.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy | 4.0 |
| Winterfylleth The Threnody of Triumph | 4.0 |
| Ufomammut ORO: Opus Alter | 3.5 |
| Hammock Departure Songs | 4.0 |
| Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel | 3.5 |
| Lustre (SWE) Of Strength and Solace | 3.0 |
| Germ Loss | 4.0 |
| this is super weird. it's also super good. that is all. |
| One Direction Take Me Home | 1.0 |
| Wound Upon Wound Wound Upon Wound | 3.5 |
| An unholy mix of atmospheric black metal, death metal, doom metal, and post-metal. And riffs. So many riffs. |
| Veil (USA-MN) Sombre | 3.5 |
| Om Advaitic Songs | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar | 4.0 |
| Sinistro Sinistro | 3.5 |
| Hop Along Get Disowned | 4.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 5.0 |
| Thrice Beggars | 5.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.5 |
| Mutiara Damansara Pearls | 2.0 |
| Aaron Lewis The Road | 1.5 |
| Grace Cathedral Park In The Evenings Of Regret | 3.5 |
| Very, very pretty and relaxing, but it drags a lot. You've really got to be in the right mood to get all the way through this, but when the mood hits there's nothing better. |
| Lento Anxiety Despair Languish | 2.5 |
| There are a few standout tracks - namely "My Utmost For His Highest" and "Questions and Answers" - but for the most part, this is pretty average instrumental post-metal. Low 3. |
| Apator Masturbate in Praise of Black Satan | 1.0 |
| Latitudes Individuation | 4.0 |
| Some of the best post-metal riffs I've heard since Supercontinent's "Vaalbara." This is a big step up from Agonist: highly recommended. |
| Planks Funeral Mouth | 4.0 |
| If you dug Downfall of Gaia's latest, then this album is what you absolutely must listen to next. A fairly similar, very well-concocted blend of crust punk, black metal, and post-metal, albeit with a bit more of an emphasis on the crust side of their sound. Highly recommended. |
| Merkaba Bones of the Sacred Forest | 3.0 |
| Downfall of Gaia Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes | 4.5 |
| Amenra Mass V | 4.5 |
So a poor quality rip surfaced (160 kbps), and naturally, as I have no self control, I caved and listened to it. Surprise: it's the best album they've put out so far and probably the best post-metal release of the year. Yes, better than the most recent output of a certain little band on whose label Amenra were signed to in the past year. For the record, I did not expect that to happen, but hey. Also, this can only get better once A: a better quality leak surfaces, and B: once I buy the vinyl and hear the album's 5th track. And yes, this is all hyperbolic first impression bullcrap that you have every right to ignore and/or make fun of.
Also, @Nikkolae, thiz isn't the wrong art. It's the vinyl art, and the CD art is different. Also, fuck it. 5'd. |
| The Pirate Ship Quintet Rope for No-Hopers | 4.0 |
| Re1ikt Rivers Broke Through the Ice | 3.5 |
| Progressive metal with vague black and sludge metal flourishes. I normally hate the vocals on this kind of thing, but these are surprisingly good, and the riffs are killer as well. |
| Oak Pantheon From a Whisper | 3.5 |
| Yet another case of shitty cover art on a great atmospheric black metal album. Go figure. |
| Verdunkeln Weder Licht noch Schatten | 3.0 |
| Arbor The Plutonian Shore | 2.5 |
| This album irritates me. One moment it's a barrage of stellar riffs, screeching vocals, and progressive flourishes, and the next moment they're breaking out these godawful cleans and trying way too hard to be progressive and the whole thing just goes to shit. |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.5 |
| Everyone who has rated this already needs to die. rEDIT: Well, holy shit. |
| Sun Devoured Earth Sounds of Desolation | 3.0 |
| Really weird, experimental post-rock with sparse depressive black metal influences. It's sometimes really awesome, but there are a few really uneventful tracks that weigh it down. Nevertheless, this is still worth a listen if you're into this kind of thing. |
| Deafheaven/Bosse-de-Nage Split | 4.5 |
| I shouldn't love this as much as I do, but I do. Both sides are spectacular. Deafheaven put out one of the best covers I've ever heard and Bosse-de-Nage have a ridiculously talented drummer. |
| Celephais Tir n'a n'Og | 3.5 |
| Lunaire With the Same Smile as Those Days | 3.5 |
| Chrome Waves Chrome Waves | 4.0 |
| It may be kind of generic, but what can I say: I'm a sucker for post-rocky, emotional black metal. |
| Toluca Act I | 4.0 |
| An absolutely stellar atmospheric black metal/screamo/post-metal hybrid. It's a pity that it's only 25 minutes long, but the title suggests that these guys will put out more stuff sometime in the future so everything is ok, I guess. But seriously, this album is pretty short, it's a free download on their Bandcamp, and it's one of the most surprisingly awesome things to come out of the genre this year. You have no excuse not to get this. rhttp://toluca.bandcamp.com/album/act-i |
| White Ward Illusions | 3.0 |
| Signals From the Void Demos | 2.5 |
| Beauty of Sirin Taina Tsvetka | 3.0 |
| Cerna Restoring Life | 4.0 |
| Just some absolutely gorgeous instrumental black metal with some post-metal flourishes. Get it. |
| Astronoid November | 3.5 |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist | 3.0 |
| Echotide as our floodlights gave way to dawn | 3.0 |
| The Odious That Night a Forest Grew | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 3.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Only The Ocean Knows | 4.0 |
| It isn't even funny how much better in every single way imaginable this is than their previous efforts. |
| Desolate Oasis When Dreams Become Reality | 3.0 |
| Chronos Appalachia | 3.5 |
| In It None of That Matters | 4.0 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix No Sadness Or Farewell | 4.0 |
| Orrery Nine Odes to Oblivion | 3.5 |
| The Modern Post Grace Alone | 4.0 |
| I very much enjoyed this. It's up there with The Glorious Unseen as far as quality worship goes. |
| Rings of Rhea 2011 | 3.5 |
| Schematics For Gravity Schematics For Gravity | 3.5 |
| Cathedraal Voix Blanches | 3.0 |
| ISIS Temporal | 3.5 |
| Yeah, it might be a comp, but there's actually some really great stuff here, namely "Grey Divide," the Holy Tears remix, and the 20 Minutes/40 years acoustic version. |
| The Secret Agnus Dei | 4.0 |
| ManBearPig Ruined Emo | 3.5 |
| Cathedraal/Rings of Rhea/Schematics for Cathedraal/Rings of Rhea/Schematics for Gravity | 3.5 |
| Bien A Toi Diriger, Séduire, Convaincre | 4.0 |
| I'm not even sure what to call this, but it absolutely slays. |
| Foxes and Iselia Split | 3.5 |
| Nachtvorst Silence | 2.5 |
| Drowning Horse Drowning Horse | 4.0 |
| Enabler All Hail the Void | 4.0 |
| Black Shape Of Nexus Negative Black | 3.5 |
| Bosse-de-Nage III | 4.0 |
| whoa |
| Ostrov Noumenal | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth | 3.5 |
| Owen At Home With Owen | 4.5 |
| so much melancholy |
| Anberlin Vital | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Demo | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs | 4.0 |
| Gaunt Demo | 3.0 |
| Tomydeepestego Nero | 4.0 |
| The End of the Ocean In Excelsis | 3.5 |
| Direwolves Me From Myself, To Banish | 4.0 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.5 |
| Mumford and Sons Babel | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.5 |
| Yes, this does feel a bit incomplete, but the two songs are absolutely incredible. also, let's not forget that they are writing (and have been playing) completely new material - the two songs on here aren't "new" in the strictest sense of the word. This leads me to believe that they felt that these songs couldn't fit on an album with whatever they're creating now, but they wanted to get them out as studio recordings so they put this absolutely stellar release out. I believe that we can expect a "full length" 5th album within a year or two. Get psyched, bitches, but in the meantime, you can enjoy an absolutely brilliant record that stands strong with everything else this band has written. |
| August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill | 4.0 |
| ISIS Sawblade | 3.0 |
| Nate Hall A Great River | 3.0 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Empire of Light | 3.5 |
| The album art is some of the best of the year, and the music ain't half bad either. No, it doesn't have ranything as brilliant as Drowning/Sinking or An Ocean of Lights, but it's ridiculously consistent. |
| Ayr Nothing Left to Give | 4.0 |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis VS. | 3.5 |
| Tremonti All I Was | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy Cryptopsy | 2.5 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 2.5 |
| Swans The Seer | 4.0 |
| Becoming The Archetype I Am | 2.5 |
| Zao Liberate Te Ex Inferis | 4.5 |
| One Direction Up All Night | 1.0 |
| Eddie Vedder Into the Wild | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Pain of Mind | 3.0 |
| Rahu The Quest for the Vajra of Shadows | 3.5 |
| The Chariot One Wing | 4.5 |
I really, really hope that this is as good as everyone's saying it is.
EDIT: It's not quite the masterpiece some people are saying it is, and I'm not sure whether I like it more than Long Live or not, but it's still a ridiculously solid album. |
| Leech If We Get There One Day... | 4.5 |
| Best post-rock of 2012? It's entirely possible. |
| Yellowcard Southern Air | 4.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord What Once Was... Liber II | 3.5 |
| The Classic Crime Vagabonds | 3.0 |
| Project 86 The Kane Mutiny | 3.0 |
| Weakling Dead as Dreams | 5.0 |
| riffs for days and days and days |
| The Classic Crime Phoenix | 4.5 |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages | 4.0 |
| /fanboy |
| Kasper Rosa First Breath. First Blood. | 3.5 |
| Cult of Occult Cult of Occult | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Portmanteau | 3.5 |
| Glass Cloud The Royal Thousand | 3.0 |
| So Far As I Know Far From the Earth Beneath Your Feet | 3.5 |
| Musth Padjelanta | 3.5 |
| The album art may blow chunks, but rest assured that the music does not. |
| Miroist The Pledge | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker The Map Is Not the Territory | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Fade | 4.0 |
| bm sharp is my favorite person ever |
| Coastlines Life in Shifts | 3.5 |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering | 4.5 |
| Moving Mountains Foreword | 4.0 |
| I Create Complete Medley | 3.5 |
| Adrift for Days Come Midnight... | 4.0 |
| A well-executed mix of build-heavy atmosludge and stoner rock/metal makes for a compelling, if slightly bloated, listen. The vocals and atmospheres on this are excellent. Highly recommended. |
| Process of Guilt Faemin | 3.5 |
| A more-or-less death/doom band try their hand at making an atmosludge album, and for the most part it works. Sure, it does indeed get repetitive (in a bad way) throughout the middle of the album, and there's nothing especially original, but it has a pretty good atmosphere and the title track is bomb as hell. |
| Archives Decline | 4.5 |
| Hive Destruction Secretvm Veritas | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Doesn't Want Me As the Dust Settles | 3.5 |
| Here Lies a Warning Frontiers | 3.0 |
| Islands (AUS) Islands | 4.0 |
| Ignimbrite is always in the mood for some good, old-fashioned, 10 minute plus post-metal epics. It's also a free Bandcamp deal, so everyone should totally hit this up. rhttp://islandsaus.bandcamp.com/album/islands |
| Iron Throne Demo 2012 | 2.5 |
| Steve Von Till/Scott Kelly/Wino Songs of Townes Van Zandt | 4.0 |
| rules |
| Comity The Journey is Over Now | 4.0 |
| Sky Burial Where Four Rivers Flow | 3.5 |
| A City Sorrow Built Songs | 3.0 |
| Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today | 3.5 |
| Mesa Verde The Old Road | 4.5 |
| I don't know exactly where green tables play into this but I can say that this album is really, really good. |
| La Quiete La fine non è la fine | 4.5 |
| Ampere Like Shadows | 4.0 |
| Suis La Lune Heir | 4.5 |
| I've been on a mad European screamo binge recently and this EP tops most, if not all, of the stuff I've listened to. |
| Amenra/Hive Destruction Split | 4.0 |
| Both of Amenra's tracks appear, respectively, on Mass IIII and Mass III and needless to say, they're pretty awesome. Hive Destruction absolutely crushes. I need to get more from these guys. |
| Raein Nati da Altri Padri | 4.0 |
| Tenant (CAN) Planeris | 2.5 |
| Amenra/Hitch Split | 3.0 |
| Amenra are as excellent as ever, but Hitch are painfully boring. |
| Hessian Hessian | 3.5 |
| Dark and gritty hardcore that's crustier than sonic's mom. Recommended. |
| Amenra/Hessian Split | 3.5 |
| A Bunny's Caravan Draining Puddles, Retrieving Treasures | 4.0 |
| Funeral Diner/Raein Split | 3.5 |
| Sed Non Satiata Le Ciel De Notre Enfance | 4.0 |
| Ampere/Daitro Split | 4.5 |
| C R O W N The One | 3.5 |
| This Gift Is A Curse I, Gvilt Bearer | 4.0 |
| Ampere/Funeral Diner Split | 4.0 |
| Ampere's side is good. Funeral Diner's side is one of the best screamo tracks I've ever heard. |
| Wildernessking The Writing of Gods in the Sand | 4.0 |
| Vallendusk Vallendusk | 4.0 |
| Earthrise Eras Lost | 4.0 |
| Sudatsuga Blue Moon Saiyeed | 3.5 |
| Nous Etions Limbes | 3.5 |
| Them Thieves The Cabin | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 3.5 |
| With Daggers Widower | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer The Dark Knight Rises | 4.0 |
| Panopticon Kentucky | 3.0 |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes | 4.0 |
| Lights Out Asia Hy-Brasil | 4.0 |
| Athletics Who You Are Is Not Enough | 4.0 |
| Pitbull Rebelution | 1.0 |
| Jakob Dominion | 5.0 |
| Jakob Subsets of Sets | 4.0 |
| Jakob Cale:Drew | 5.0 |
| Jakob are the best active non-Godspeed post-rock band in existence and anyone who denies this is the antichrist. |
| DoomThrone Skeleton Veiled in Flesh | 1.0 |
| I Built The Cross Banish the Disconnect | 2.5 |
On one hand, it's kind of uncool that IBtC, on their Facebook page, told all their fans to
rate this EP on Sputnik. As we all know, this strategy was used by Deuce, and while I don't
think the dudes in this band come even remotely close to that guy's level of douchebag, it's
still not a cool strategy. On the other hand, even though I hold the same opinion of the
debut that I did when I wrote my review, these guys *do* have a ton of talent, so I'll
happily give this a chance. r*btw, guys: a 0.0 is NOT a real rating.
EDIT:
Well, I listened to it and my hats off to IBtC: it's nowhere near the level of terribleness
that was present on the debut, namely because of better production. Also, they can still
play the hell out of their instruments. However, song structures are still more or less
nonexistent, and this EP also receives very few points for originality. There are other
bands who do grindy death metal/deathcore much better. And finally, it was still uncool to
whore out the EP's Sputnik page on your Facebook. |
| Brain Drill Quantum Catastrophe | 1.5 |
| The Other Side of the Sky Rorschach | 3.0 |
| Cloudkicker A New Heavenly Body | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker ]]][[[ | 4.0 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 3.5 |
| Leaps and bounds better than the debut, mostly because Spencer now sounds only 50% annoying, as opposed to 200% like last time. I'm keeping this at a 3.5 for now, but it could be bumped. |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss | 5.0 |
| Darkestrah Epos | 4.0 |
| Memoria Death Calls the Islands | 4.0 |
| Can't Fake Nature High Tide/Low Tide | 3.0 |
| Patrick Watson Adventures in Your Own Backyard | 3.5 |
| Gorod A Perfect Absolution | 3.0 |
| Right Away, Great Captain! The Church of the Good Thief | 4.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Drought | 4.0 |
| Sinatra/I Kill Giants Split | 3.5 |
| William Bonney Good Vibes | 4.0 |
| Steady Hands The Earth Will Eat Today | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Living Things | 3.0 |
| Ashes Forever Love, Leave, Forget, Repeat. | 2.5 |
| Calvaiire Rigorisme | 4.0 |
| dredg El Cielo | 4.5 |
| The Power & The Glory Call Me Armageddon | 3.5 |
| Mgla With Hearts Toward None | 3.5 |
| Aldo Raine Welthass | 3.5 |
| Echoes (UK) With an Eye on the Shoreline and a Hand to the Sea | 3.5 |
| Enemy Noise No Control, No Parade | 3.5 |
| Love American Disquiet | 3.0 |
| Wreck and Reference No Youth | 4.0 |
| Earthmass Lunar Dawn (Keep, Relic, and Ritual) | 4.0 |
| Drapsnatt Skelepht | 4.0 |
| Austere To Lay Like Old Ashes | 3.5 |
| Huldra/Dustbloom Split | 4.0 |
| The Great Old Ones Al Azif | 3.5 |
| It's a sludge-tinged atmospheric black metal album about the Lovecraftian mythos. How in Cthulhu's name can this be bad? |
| Black Sheep Wall No Matter Where It Ends | 3.0 |
| Wodensthrone Curse | 3.5 |
| Rodha Raw | 3.0 |
| Life in Your Way Kingdom of God | 4.0 |
| Life in Your Way Kingdom of Darkness | 3.5 |
| Life in Your Way Kingdom of Man | 4.0 |
| Life in Your Way Kingdoms | 4.0 |
| brokeNCYDE Will Never Die | 1.0 |
| brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It! | 1.0 |
| Etienne Sin The Art of Stealing Hearts | 1.0 |
| Strike to Survive Sore Losers | 4.0 |
| Not to Reason Why The Book of Hours | 4.5 |
| this is absolutely beautiful. |
| Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster Exegesis | 4.0 |
| in a year during which heavyweights like Neurosis and Cult of Luna are due to drop records, it's nice to be reminded that some of the genre's most enjoyable stuff can come straight out of left field. |
| Verse Bitter Clarity, Uncommon Grace | 3.0 |
| Verse Aggression | 4.0 |
| A Thousand Times Repent Virtue Has Few Friends | 4.0 |
| I Built The Cross Bridging the Gap Between Heart and Mind | 1.5 |
| Rise and Fall Faith | 4.0 |
| The Blue Letter Love Is Not Control | 4.0 |
| Meanders Promo 2012 | 3.0 |
| An above-passable post-metal quickie. It's not really anything new but for a few intriguing jazz-y solos and quiet sections, but judging by the fact that this is merely a 3-track promo these guys could easily make something awesome in the near future. |
| Drudkh Estrangement | 4.0 |
| Gates (USA-NJ) You Are All You Have Left to Fear | 4.0 |
| Janus Nox Aeris | 3.5 |
| The Middle East The Recordings of the Middle East | 4.0 |
| Black Clouds Everything Is Not Going To Be OK | 4.0 |
| What The Blood Revealed Harbour of Devils | 2.5 |
| God's Own Prototype Fall apart, every time you feel like... | 3.5 |
| Unfold Cosmogon | 4.0 |
| Dirge (FR) Elysian Magnetic Fields | 3.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 4.0 |
| I came into this expecting to be disappointed because of my usual lack of affinity for most things prog, yet here I am eating my words cooked medium rare with a heavy shitcream sauce and a side of shit nuggets. |
| Thou/Hell Resurrection Bay | 4.0 |
| this is undeniably the most fucking m/ split of 2012 so far. also, the packaging itself is as well-executed and pretty as the music is m/ |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 4.5 |
| Taste the Void Sun's Heat | 4.0 |
| yet another band that's basically Amenra-style dark post-metal with a Converge fetish. however, I honestly could not care less about how many bands like this exist because they all tend to make awesome music, and Taste the Void are no exception. Also, "Between Walls" has the best breakdown of 2012. |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon | 4.0 |
| Heller Mason The Mess I've Made | 4.0 |
| feel-food acoustic folk. nothing original, but it's late and i'm tired and i'm writing a stupid essay about 'the role of context when considering war as a subjectively immoral entity' and this album makes me marginally more cheerful so i give not a single fuck about who this rips off as long as it's done well |
| Old Man Gloom NO | 3.5 |
| solid as hell. too many ambient bits though |
| Appollonia Crimson Shades | 3.5 |
| Symmetry (UK) This Is Not The End, It Is The Beginning, You... | 3.0 |
| Coprophagia Shitty Life | 1.0 |
| Deuce Call Me Big Deuce | 1.0 |
| Deuce The Two Thousand Eight EP | 1.0 |
| Selenites Animaltar | 4.0 |
| La Mar La Mar | 3.5 |
| Transmission0 Memory of a Dream | 4.0 |
| Sleeping Peonies s l o w l y d i s a p p e a r i n g | 3.0 |
| Deuce Nine Lives | 1.0 |
| Liam MMIX | 4.0 |
| Hypomanie Calm Down, You Weren't Set On Fire | 3.5 |
listen to the new Liam album. it's like this except way better.
EDIT: This gets better the more you listen to it. |
| Ufomammut ORO: Opus Primum | 4.0 |
| SPERO City of Tears | 3.5 |
| Vaiya Mudh | 3.5 |
| Torture Chain Time is but a Doorway to the Incinerator | 4.0 |
| Vali Forlatt | 4.5 |
| Huldra Signals From the Void | 4.0 |
| The March Crawl Space | 4.0 |
| Black Sea It's All About Our Silence | 3.5 |
| Ever Forthright Ever Forthright | 3.0 |
| Altar of Plagues/Year of No Light Split | 4.0 |
| Junius Reports From The Threshold of Death | 4.0 |
| Cyclopian Cyclopian | 3.0 |
| Iselia Life From Dead Limbs | 4.0 |
| Old Man Gloom Christmas | 4.0 |
| Kehlvin The Orchard of Forking Paths | 4.5 |
| Thou/Mohoram Atta The Degradation of Human Life | 4.0 |
| Thou/Moloch Tears that Soak a Callous Heart | 4.0 |
| Moloch's side is above average, but Thou. fucking Thou, man. |
| Thou/Haarp Reincarnation Prayer | 4.0 |
| Thou/Salome Our Enemy Civilization | 4.5 |
| Thou/The City is the Tower Dwell in the Darkness of Thought... | 3.5 |
| Thou/Kowloon Walled City July | 4.0 |
| it's been at *least* 5 whole months since Thou put something out, and their first after what is basically an extended hiatus by their standards does not disappoint. sweet Low and Soundgarden covers from both bands. |
| Thou/Cower War Is the Force That Gives Us Meaning: A Two Part | 4.0 |
| Cower's side is a pretty cool blend of progressive and sludgy hardcore, while Thou puts out some of the best songs of their career. Awesome split. |
| Hell (USA) II | 4.0 |
| songs are way longer than last time around and there's some cascadian bm shit in here. it rules hard |
| Three Steps To The Ocean Scents | 4.0 |
| Amber Amber | 4.0 |
| 7 Horns 7 Eyes Throes Of Absolution | 3.5 |
| 7 Horns 7 Eyes 7 Horns 7 Eyes | 2.5 |
| Locrian and Mamiffer Bless Them That Curse You | 4.0 |
| Ok, so this is pretty awesome |
| Train California 37 | 1.0 |
| Rwake Rest | 4.0 |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks | 4.0 |
| Exoskeleton Plutonian Herd | 1.0 |
| Darkspace Dark Space III | 4.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 4.0 |
| Coldworld Melancholie² | 3.5 |
| Grumblecunt I Piss Shit | 1.0 |
| Terra Tenebrosa The Tunnels | 4.0 |
| Tenhi Maaaet | 5.0 |
| Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal | 4.0 |
| Loss Despond | 3.5 |
| Irrwisch Irrwisch | 4.5 |
| this is pretty awesome. |
| Ignivomous Death Transmutation | 3.0 |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora | 3.5 |
| Dismember Like an Ever Flowing Stream | 4.5 |
| Cobalt Gin | 4.0 |
| The Body and Braveyoung Nothing Passes | 5.0 |
| [deleted stupid old soundoff]rThe apocalyptic sludge of ATWOTETTB mixed with the serene ambient/post-rock of Braveyoung's rrecent output. Of all the collaborations The Body has (have?) done over the past few years, this has rgot to be the most horrendously overlooked. |
| The Atlas Moth An Ache for the Distance | 3.5 |
| So Hideous To Clasp a Fallen Wish With Broken Fingers | 4.0 |
| Rise and Fall Our Circle Is Vicious | 3.5 |
| Vaiya Wintermoon | 3.0 |
| Vales Clarity | 3.0 |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis | 3.5 |
| Irreversible Ashes | 3.5 |
| Upon a Burning Body Red. White. Green. | 2.0 |
| Cult of Luna The Beyond | 4.5 |
| Rwake Voices of Omens | 5.0 |
| Zoroaster Matador | 2.5 |
| Zodiak Sermons | 4.0 |
| Wreck and Reference Black Cassette | 4.0 |
| Woe Quietly, Undramatically | 3.5 |
| Within the Ruins Invade | 3.0 |
| With Blood Comes Cleansing Horror | 2.5 |
| Winterhorde Underwatermoon | 2.5 |
| Winds of Plague Decimate the Weak | 2.5 |
| Windmills By the Ocean Windmills By the Ocean II | 4.0 |
| White Guilt White Guilt | 2.0 |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption | 2.5 |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile | 3.0 |
| Wheels Within Wheels The Shift | 3.5 |
| What The Blood Revealed 2007 EP | 3.0 |
| What The Blood Revealed 2009 EP | 3.5 |
| Weekend Nachos Torture | 4.0 |
| Weekend Nachos Worthless | 4.5 |
| Weezer Raditude | 1.5 |
| We Made God It's Getting Colder | 3.0 |
| We All Have Day Jobs The Parasite Aesthetic | 2.5 |
| Watchmaker Kill. Fucking. Everyone. | 3.5 |
| Waking The Cadaver Demo | 1.0 |
| Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler | 1.0 |
| Waking The Cadaver Beyond Cops, Beyond God | 1.5 |
| VYGR Hypersleep | 4.0 |
| Vreid V | 3.0 |
| Vordr II | 4.0 |
| Volumes The Concept of Dreaming | 3.5 |
| Vestiges The Descent Of Man | 3.5 |
| VESSL Goddess | 4.0 |
| Verwustung Beyond The Watercolor Sunset, We Feel New Life | 3.0 |
| Veins Veins | 3.5 |
| Vanguard Bring Hope | 3.0 |
| Vanguard Erek and Ivor | 2.5 |
| Uvikra Uvikra | 3.0 |
| Until Your Heart Stops Errors | 4.0 |
| Underneath The Gun Forfeit Misfortunes | 2.0 |
| Underneath The Gun The Awakening | 2.5 |
| Twisted Sister A Twisted Christmas | 1.0 |
| Trust Company Dreaming In Black and White | 4.0 |
| Trust Company The Lonely Position of Neutral | 3.5 |
| Trash Talk Plagues | 3.5 |
| Trap Them Seizures In Barren Praise | 4.0 |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 4.0 |
| Tortured Wasteland | 3.5 |
| Torture Chain Across Great Landscapes to a Legacy of Blood | 4.0 |
| Torsofuck As Semen Blends with Rot | 1.5 |
| Torsofuck Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy | 1.0 |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man | 3.5 |
| Timer Yet Here We Stand | 3.5 |
| Tides Resurface | 3.5 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Welcome to the Masquerade | 3.5 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The Flame in All of Us | 3.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Set It Off | 2.5 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Phenomenon | 3.5 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The Art of Breaking | 3.0 |
| This White Mountain A Night Of Terror Overcome | 3.0 |
| This Fires Embrace Redemption | 2.0 |
| This Fires Embrace Warrior Poets | 2.5 |
| Third Day Time | 4.0 |
| Third Day Revelation | 3.5 |
| The Word Alive Deceiver | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.0 |
| The Sword Warp Riders | 3.0 |
| The Sun Came Up Upon the Left And the Dreams so Rich in Color | 3.0 |
| The Showdown A Chorus of Obliteration | 3.5 |
| The Showdown Blood in the Gears | 3.0 |
| The Showdown Back Breaker | 2.5 |
| The Showdown Temptation Come My Way | 2.0 |
| The Secret Solve Et Coagula | 4.5 |
| The Killer and the Star The Killer and the Star | 1.0 |
| The Destro Harmony of Discord | 2.0 |
| The Classic Crime The Silver Cord | 4.0 |
| The Classic Crime Albatross | 3.5 |
| TesseracT One (Instrumental) | 3.5 |
| TesseracT Concealing Fate | 4.0 |
| TesseracT One | 4.0 |
| Switchfoot The Best Yet: Deluxe Edition | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot Oh! | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot Legend of Chin | 2.5 |
| Switchfoot New Way to Be Human | 3.0 |
| Switchfoot Learning To Breathe | 3.0 |
| Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot Nothing is Sound | 4.0 |
| Switchfoot Oh! Gravity. | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot Hello Hurricane | 4.0 |
| Switchfoot Vice Verses | 3.0 |
| Switchfoot Eastern Hymns For Western Shores | 4.0 |
| Sympathy Anagogic Tyranny | 3.5 |
| Sybreed Antares | 2.5 |
| Swallow the Sun Emerald Forest and the Blackbird | 3.0 |
| Swallow the Sun New Moon | 3.5 |
| Swallow the Sun Hope | 4.0 |
| Swallow the Ocean Swallow the Ocean | 3.5 |
| Svedhous Despair Poetry | 1.0 |
| Svart Crown Witnessing The Fall | 3.0 |
| Sun of the Blind Skullreader | 4.0 |
| Sum 41 Screaming Bloody Murder | 1.5 |
| Stronghold Cult of Remorse | 3.5 |
| Stereomud Perfect Self | 3.5 |
| State Radio Let It Go | 3.0 |
| Starfield The Saving One | 2.5 |
| Sonseed First Fruit | 1.5 |
| Sleepingdog Polar Life | 3.5 |
| Sleepingdog With Our Heads in the Clouds... | 4.0 |
| Skillet Alien Youth | 2.0 |
| Skagos Ast | 3.0 |
| Since By Man We Sing The Body Electric | 3.5 |
| Shadows of Paragon Shadows of Paragon | 1.5 |
| Sevendust Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow | 3.5 |
| Seven Sisters Of Sleep Seven Sisters of Sleep | 4.0 |
| Settle The Sky Now That We're Waiting | 3.0 |
| Steve Von Till A Grave Is a Grim Horse | 4.0 |
| Scott Kelly The Wake | 3.5 |
| Sanctus Real Say it Loud | 2.5 |
| Sanctus Real The Face of Love | 3.0 |
| Sacrificium Escaping the Stupor | 2.5 |
| Ruined Families Four Wall Freedom | 3.0 |
| Rorcal and Kehlvin Ascension | 4.0 |
| The Bob Hill Band The Golden Gate | 3.0 |
| Riley Armstrong Alive and Acoustic | 3.0 |
| Red Sparowes Aphorism | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 2.5 |
| Rational Animals Bock Rock Parade | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 3.5 |
| Protolith Light | 2.0 |
| Passenger (SWE) Passenger | 3.0 |
| Paramaecium Within the Ancient Forest | 3.5 |
| Papa Roach Infest | 2.5 |
| Papa Roach Metamorphosis | 1.5 |
| Tempest (Can) Solace | 4.0 |
| ok, so this is legit as fuck. best 9.8 minutes I've spent in a very long time. |
| Tempest (Can) Passages | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 3.0 |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark | 5.0 |
| Cogs and Sprockets Arms for the Poor | 3.0 |
| Jesuit Discography | 3.5 |
| Taproot Our Long Road Home | 3.0 |
| Taproot Blue-Sky Research | 4.0 |
| Burial Kindred | 4.5 |
| Richard and Linda Thompson Shoot Out The Lights | 3.5 |
| Stan Rogers From Fresh Water | 3.5 |
| Alpinist LICHTLAERM | 3.5 |
| Loma Prieta I.V. | 5.0 |
| Some Mistakes Glamorous Thoughts | 4.0 |
| Masakari The Prophet Feeds | 4.0 |
| Reka I | 4.0 |
| Reka III | 3.5 |
| JJ72 JJ72 | 4.0 |
| awesome vocals |
| Altar of Plagues Tides | 3.5 |
| Fugazi Red Medicine | 3.5 |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis | 4.5 |
| Demon Hunter True Defiance | 3.0 |
| This is way better than The World Is a Thorn, but they still have yet to rediscover their Triptych mojo. |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue | 3.5 |
| Detritivore Pakt | 3.5 |
| Lunar Aurora Hoagascht | 3.5 |
| If These Trees Could Talk Red Forest | 4.0 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.5 |
| Split Cranium Split Cranium | 3.5 |
| it's not the most original thing in the world, but this is still a satisfyingly intense collection of mildly old-school hardcore. also, it's nice to hear Aaron Turner at work again. Retrace the Circle is awesome. |
| ISIS Celestial | 4.5 |
| sleepmakeswaves sleepmakeswaves (US) | 4.0 |
| there's more bass here, especially on "i will write peace." it makes an already awesome sound even better. |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 4.0 |
| To quote some guy on last.fm... "This album sounds like Godzilla taking an explosive shit all over Periphery." |
| Black Veil Brides Rebels | 1.5 |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song | 4.5 |
| Cripta Oculta ...Do Passado | 3.0 |
| Axis of Light By the Hands of the Consuming Fire | 4.0 |
| Fire In The Cave Fire In the Cave | 4.0 |
| Over The Ocean Paper House | 4.0 |
| Fireflight The Healing of Harms | 3.0 |
| Forest In the Flame of Glory | 1.5 |
| Kehlvin Holy Cancer | 4.0 |
| These guys are brilliant: I can't wait for the new album. |
| Ictus Imperivm | 4.0 |
| Alpinist/Masakari Split | 4.5 |
| it's not even funny how awesome this split is |
| Matt Evans Senseless | 3.0 |
| Addaura Burning for the Ancient | 3.5 |
| It's a genuinely good album slightly let down by the fact that its production lacks a lot of punch (idk exactly how to describe it: "punch" was the closest I could come up with): badsically, the whole thing could be a bit more aggressive. But it's still a step up from the s/t, and I can see this being bumped to a 4 in time. |
| A Place of Owls Inviere | 3.5 |
| Skillet Collide | 4.0 |
| Skillet Comatose | 3.5 |
| Skillet Awake | 1.5 |
| Cerebrate Soul's Abyss | 4.0 |
| m/ filthy dm m/ |
| Right Away, Great Captain! The Eventually Home | 3.5 |
| Napalm Death Utilitarian | 3.5 |
| All the Empires of the World Old Gods, Old Worlds, Old Wounds | 4.0 |
| There's much more ambient noodling on here than there was on Return (which is arguably the better album), but Old Gods is still an absolutely wonderful surprise for what has been a fairly dull February. Strangely enough, out of the album's 7 tracks, only 2 of them ("The Lion" and "St. Peter," the former of which has some pretty damned awesome Jesu-esque singing and the latter of which once again brings into play the tortured shrieks of Return) are full-on post-metaltastic songs of the type displayed on Return and Blessings. The others are post-rocky tracks and ambient interludes that are a lot less boring than you might think. |
| Conan Horseback Battle Hammer | 3.5 |
| YOUWRETCH YOUWRETCH | 3.5 |
| god damn this rules hard and more people need to get it etc |
| Neurosis Souls at Zero | 4.5 |
| Rituals Rituals | 4.0 |
| bleak, atmospheric, slightly blackened post-metal that immediately brings to mind contemporaries like Year of no Light, Cult of Luna, and Amenra. it ain't unique, but I'll be damned if these guys aren't incredibly fucking good at making awesome post-metal. |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 3.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 3.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 4.0 |
| Neurosis The Word as Law | 3.5 |
| 12 Stones Anthem For The Underdog | 3.5 |
| 12 Stones Potter's Field | 2.5 |
| 12 Stones The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday | 2.5 |
| The Bear Romantic Firewood | 4.0 |
| Morning Teleportation Expanding Anyway | 4.0 |
| this rules hard, you should get it |
| Sam Roberts Band We Were Born In A Flame | 3.0 |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II | 3.5 |
| yessss |
| ISIS Mosquito Control | 4.0 |
| Decyfer Down Crash | 3.0 |
| Decyfer Down End of Grey | 3.5 |
| The Head And The Heart The Head And The Heart | 4.0 |
| The Frequency We Are the Same Machine | 3.0 |
| X (USA) Under The Big Black Sun | 3.0 |
| Beirut The Rip Tide | 4.0 |
| The Fray The Fray | 3.0 |
| The Fray How to Save a Life | 3.5 |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Gamma Knife | 3.0 |
| Sinat Hinam Sinat Hinam | 4.0 |
| MyChildren MyBride Unbreakable | 1.5 |
| a half point for the Halo song |
| MyChildren MyBride Lost Boy | 1.0 |
| The Nova Echo Voyager | 3.5 |
| Nest (FIN) Trail of the Unwary | 3.5 |
| Spook the Horses Brighter | 4.5 |
| Pulling Teeth Funerary | 3.5 |
| Project 86 Rival Factions | 3.0 |
| Project 86 Picket Fence Cartel | 3.5 |
| Plebeian Grandstand How Hate is Hard to Define | 3.5 |
| Pillar Fireproof | 3.0 |
| Pillar Where Do We Go from Here | 3.0 |
| Pillar The Reckoning | 3.5 |
| Pillar For the Love of the Game | 2.5 |
| Pillar Confessions | 3.5 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 4.5 |
| The Phantom Carriage New Thing | 3.0 |
| Petrychor Dryad | 4.0 |
| Petrychor Effigies and Epitaphs | 4.0 |
| Peter Gabriel Scratch My Back | 3.0 |
| Peste Noire L'Ordure a l'etat Pur | 3.0 |
| Pensees Nocturnes Ceci est de la musique | 4.0 |
| When Bitter Spring Sleeps/Panopticon Split | 3.5 |
| Panopticon/Wheels Within Wheels Panopticon/Wheels Within Wheels | 3.5 |
| Panopticon/Wheels Within Wheels II | 3.5 |
| Skagos/Panopticon Split | 3.0 |
| Panopticon Collapse | 4.0 |
| Panopticon On the Subject of Mortality | 3.5 |
| Panopticon Social Disservices | 3.5 |
| P.O.D. Greatest Hits: The Atlantic Years | 3.5 |
| P.O.D. The Warriors EP | 2.5 |
| P.O.D. The Warriors EP Vol. 2 | 3.0 |
| P.O.D. Fundamental Elements of Southtown | 3.5 |
| P.O.D. Satellite | 4.0 |
| P.O.D. Payable on Death | 3.0 |
| P.O.D. Testify | 3.5 |
| P.O.D. When Angels and Serpents Dance | 2.5 |
| Oskoreien Oskoreien | 3.5 |
| Ophis Withered Shades | 4.0 |
| Old Man Markley Guts N' Teeth | 3.5 |
| Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning | 3.5 |
| Oh, Sleeper When I Am God | 4.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire | 3.5 |
| Ocoai The Electric Hand | 3.5 |
| Obscure Sphinx Anaesthetic Inhalation Ritual | 3.5 |
| Noisear Subvert the Dominant Paradigm | 4.0 |
| Nile Annihilation of the Wicked | 3.5 |
| Nile Those Whom the Gods Detest | 3.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.0 |
| Nesseria Nesseria | 4.0 |
| Nembrionic Psycho One Hundred | 3.0 |
| ((Navtilvs)) Polaris* | 3.0 |
| Nails Unsilent Death | 4.0 |
| Nader Sadek In the Flesh | 3.5 |
| Mournful Congregation The Monad of Creation | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Wind's Poem | 4.0 |
| Mortal Treason A Call To The Martyrs | 3.5 |
| Mortal Treason Sunrise Over A Sea Of Blood | 4.0 |
| Morbid December Moon | 4.0 |
| Moradin Ancient Stone and Mystic Woods | 3.0 |
| Monvment I | 3.5 |
| Monogrim Realm | 3.5 |
| Moanaa Moanaa | 3.0 |
| MNMNTS The Good Life | 4.0 |
| Misery Chastain Awaiting the End | 3.0 |
| Mirror of Dead Faces Lamentation | 3.0 |
| The Mire Volume: I | 3.5 |
| The Mire Volume: II | 4.0 |
| Midnight Odyssey Funerals from the Astral Sphere | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 5.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 4.0 |
| The Matador (AU) Descent Into the Maelstrom | 3.5 |
| Mare Cognitum The Sea Which Has Become Known | 4.0 |
| Mare Mare | 4.5 |
| Mar De Grises Streams Inwards | 3.0 |
| Mammon Demiurge | 3.5 |
| Ludicra The Tenant | 3.5 |
| Lowercase Noises Carry Us All Away | 3.5 |
| Low Threat Profile Product #2 | 4.0 |
| Love American Love American | 3.5 |
| Living Sacrifice Conceived In Fire | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory EP | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 4.5 |
| Liam Two Years and a Fragment | 3.0 |
| Liam My Journey to the Sky | 2.5 |
| Liam Journey... Two Years and a Fragment | 3.0 |
| Lento Icon | 3.5 |
| Leech [US] Ten Black Hymns | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist | 4.0 |
| Lands Subtitles | 3.0 |
| Lands Emperor | 3.5 |
| Panopticon/Lake of Blood Split | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Untitled | 3.0 |
| L'elan Vital The Wink and the Gun | 3.0 |
| Chronos The Grips of Winter | 4.0 |
| Nahrayan The Beginning of the End/The End of the Beginning | 3.5 |
| Darker, heavy-hitting post-metal with a slightly faster feel than similar bands. The general song structures are best compared to Cult of Luna and the overall atmosphere to Amenra, but for a genre so infamous for having so many of its bands merely ripping off each other and the work of better groups, Nahrayan do some abnormally strong work to separate themselves from the crowd. The blackened, Zao-esque vocals are an especially nice touch to a surprisingly awesome little Bandcamp discovery that could easily end up being one of 2012's better post-metal records. rFor a good summary of the album's sound, check opener "Demons Without Face." - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jFRWPoEpmA |
| Natural Snow Buildings The Dance of the Moon and the Sun | 4.0 |
| Sun of Nothing The Guilt Of Feeling Alive | 4.0 |
| Ghost Ship Golden Girls | 3.5 |
| Virgin Black Requiem - Fortissimo | 3.0 |
| Shyy/... The Path Toward Forgetfulness | 3.5 |
| Shyy's side is okay if a bit forgettable, but ... rule pretty hard on here, contributing a winning combination of depressive bm, shoegaze, and awesome cleans. |
| All the Empires of the World Return | 4.5 |
| better than the debut, and Blessings was an excellent album. the vocals are a very nice addition. it's too bad that i found out about this so late: it might have had a pretty high spot on my 2011 list. |
| The Mire/Chronos Split | 4.0 |
| At All Times The Writhing Sea | 3.0 |
| Falloch Where Distant Spirits Remain | 2.5 |
| Abigail Williams Becoming | 3.5 |
| this rules hard, wtf just happened to this band. yeah, it's WitTR worship, but given that this is probably better than CL and that WitTR have hinted at abandoning black metal for good, i think we can make an allowance. |
| Suicide Silence The Black Crown | 2.0 |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed | 1.5 |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing | 2.0 |
| Scott Stapp The Great Divide | 1.5 |
| Creed Human Clay | 2.0 |
| Creed My Own Prison | 2.5 |
| Creed Weathered | 2.0 |
| Creed Full Circle | 2.5 |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow | 4.0 |
| Kutless It Is Well | 2.5 |
| Kutless Kutless | 3.5 |
| Kutless Strong Tower | 2.5 |
| Kutless Hearts of the Innocent | 3.0 |
| Kutless Sea of Faces | 3.0 |
| Kutless To Know That You're Alive | 2.0 |
| Kurouma 3 | 3.0 |
| Krieg The Isolationist | 4.0 |
| Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough | 3.0 |
| Koloss End of the Chayot | 3.5 |
| Kokomo If Wolves | 4.0 |
| Knut Challenger | 4.5 |
| Killing The Dream Lucky Me | 3.0 |
| Kids. Kids | 4.0 |
| Khoma The Second Wave | 3.5 |
| Kekal 1000 Thoughts of Violence | 3.5 |
| Kekal Audible Minority | 2.5 |
| Kehlvin The Mountain Daylight Time | 4.0 |
| Keep It Like A Secret Not With A Bang But A Whimper | 3.0 |
| Kausal In Dead Cities | 4.0 |
| Just Die! A Momentary Lapse In Positive Thinking | 4.0 |
| Junius The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist | 3.5 |
| Jon Foreman Fall and Winter | 4.5 |
| Jon Foreman Spring and Summer | 4.0 |
| Judges Demo | 3.5 |
| The Circle Ends Here Where Time Leaves The Rest | 3.5 |
| Iskra Iskra | 4.0 |
| Isis and Aereogramme In The Fishtank 14 | 3.5 |
| Infester To the Depths... In Degradation | 3.5 |
| Infest No Man's Slave | 4.0 |
| Indwelling And My Eye Shall Weep | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) If Not Now, When? | 2.0 |
| In Mourning Monolith | 3.5 |
| Impending Doom There Will Be Violence | 3.0 |
| Impending Doom Nailed. Dead. Risen. | 2.0 |
| Impending Doom The Serpent Servant | 3.0 |
| Immortal Souls Wintereich | 3.0 |
| Idol and the Whip Heavy Sleeper | 3.5 |
| Overmars/Icos Split | 3.5 |
| Thou/Human Intruder A Faire Quarrell | 4.0 |
| Short but sweet, the two bands contribute a single track each of crushing, monolithic, slightly blackened sludge. This is an insanely badass split. |
| Thou/Leech We Pass Like Night, From Land to Land | 4.0 |
| Thou/Black September Thrive & Decay [Split] | 3.5 |
| Thou put out one of the best tracks of their career, and Black September contribute a painfully average USBM song. Yay for imbalanced splits. |
| Hypomanie A City In Mono | 3.5 |
| Hurt Vol. II | 4.0 |
| Hungry For Hands I Was Hungry For Hands | 4.0 |
| The House of Usher On The Very Verge | 4.0 |
| House of Low Culture Edward's Lament | 4.0 |
| Horde Hellig Usvart | 3.5 |
| A Hill To Die Upon Infinite Titanic Immortal | 3.5 |
| Heretoir Heretoir | 2.5 |
| Hell (USA) I | 4.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Invictus (Iconoclast III) | 2.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) | 3.5 |
| Haste the Day Pressure the Hinges | 3.0 |
| Haste the Day Attack of the Wolf King | 3.5 |
| Haste the Day Dreamer | 3.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Crimson Tide | 4.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Gladiator: Music from the Motion Picture | 4.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | 3.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Black Hawk Down | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer The Simpsons Movie: The Music | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Sherlock Holmes | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Inception | 4.0 |
| Hands (US-ND) Give Me Rest | 3.5 |
| Grey Waters Below The Ever Setting Sun | 3.5 |
| Grayceon All We Destroy | 2.5 |
| Golgatha Strength of the World | 3.5 |
| yeah fr33. also i can honestly tell you that, having heard a preliminary demo of their next EP, these dudes are going places |
| God Mode Demo | 3.0 |
| God Harvest Demo 2011 | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.0 |
| Ghostlimb Infrastructure | 3.0 |
| The Ghost Inside Returners | 4.0 |
| General Lee Roads | 3.0 |
| Ganon As Above, So Below | 3.5 |
| Full of Hell Roots Of Earth Are Consuming My Home | 4.0 |
| From Oceans To Autumn The Flood/The Fall | 4.0 |
| Former Thieves The Language That We Speak | 3.0 |
| Forge of Clouds Forge of Clouds | 4.0 |
| Forest Like a Blaze Above the Ashes | 4.0 |
| Forest As a Song in the Harvest of Grief | 4.0 |
| For Today Portraits | 2.5 |
| For Today Breaker | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 3.5 |
| Flourishing The Sum of All Fossils | 4.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Hell on Earth | 3.0 |
| Fire Walk With Us Carriers | 4.0 |
| Fellsilent The Hidden Words | 3.5 |
| Fell Voices 08 Demo | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Mechanize | 3.0 |
| Fauna The Hunt | 3.5 |
| Fauna Rain | 3.5 |
| The Famine The Raven and the Reaping | 2.5 |
| Falls of Rauros The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood | 4.0 |
| Arctique Circles Golden Gloom | 3.5 |
| Old Silver Key Tales of Wanderings | 2.0 |
| Vektor Outer Isolation | 4.5 |
| Flyleaf Much Like Falling | 3.5 |
| Flyleaf Remember to Live | 2.5 |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf | 3.0 |
| Flyleaf Memento Mori | 2.0 |
| Baulta Deeply Sorry to Interrupt Your Megalomania | 4.0 |
| some excellent instrumental post-metal from Finland. Also, the artwork rules. get it now. http://baulta.bandcamp.com/ |
| When Bitter Spring Sleeps When Bitter Spring Sleeps | 1.0 |
| Liturgy Aesthethica | 2.0 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.5 |
| Hexis/As We Draw/Euglena Split | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 2.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 2.5 |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme | 3.5 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 3.5 |
| Alexi Murdoch Time Without Consequence | 4.0 |
| Wold Working Together For Our Privacy | 2.0 |
| Wold Screech Owl | 1.5 |
| Event Horizon 2011 Demo | 4.0 |
| Esoteric Paragon of Dissonance | 4.0 |
| Erik Mongrain Fates | 4.0 |
| Encircling Sea I | 3.0 |
| The Empire Shall Fall Awaken | 3.0 |
| Embers Shadows | 3.5 |
| The Effort Iconoclasm | 3.5 |
| Earth from Above Numbered With The Transgressors | 3.0 |
| Earth Extra-Capsular Extraction | 4.0 |
| Earth A Bureaucratic Desire for... | 4.0 |
| Earth Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars Live | 3.5 |
| Drain the Sky Haunted By Rivers | 3.5 |
| Amesoeurs Amesoeurs | 3.0 |
| Dopamine Dying Away In The Deep Fall | 4.0 |
| Disfear Live the Storm | 4.0 |
| Disembodied If God Only Knew The Rest Were Dead | 4.0 |
| Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless | 4.0 |
| Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing | 4.0 |
| DevilDriver Beast | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues | 3.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below | 2.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne | 3.5 |
| Deterior Primitive Circuitry | 2.5 |
| Desolate Shrine Tenebrous Towers | 4.0 |
| Departures Escaping | 3.5 |
| Departures When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted | 4.0 |
| Demon Hunter 45 Days | 2.5 |
| Demon Hunter Demon Hunter | 3.0 |
| Demon Hunter Summer of Darkness | 4.0 |
| Demon Hunter The Triptych | 4.0 |
| Demon Hunter Storm the Gates of Hell | 3.5 |
| Demon Hunter The World Is a Thorn | 2.5 |
| Demilich Nespithe | 4.0 |
| Lead Hands Lead Hands | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Black | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Indigo | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Red | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Yellow | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Orange | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Blue | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Violet | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter White | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Green | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) | 4.5 |
| Dead Poetic New Medicines | 3.5 |
| Dead Poetic Vices | 4.0 |
| David Crowder Band A Collision Or (3 + 4 = 7) | 3.5 |
| DDM Lucidity | 2.5 |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon | 3.5 |
| Dangers Anger | 4.5 |
| Damascus Salutations, Distant Satellite! | 3.0 |
| Damascus Of Whom I Always Think | 4.0 |
| Cryptic Forest Dawn of the Eclipse | 4.0 |
| Crowbar Sever The Wicked Hand | 3.5 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix I, Vigilante | 4.0 |
| Crimson Moonlight Veil of Remembrance | 4.0 |
| The Crimson Armada Guardians | 2.5 |
| Counterparts Prophets | 3.5 |
| Common Yet Forbidden The Struggle | 2.5 |
| Consciousness Removal Project The Last Season | 3.5 |
| Cogs and Sprockets The Black Friday EP | 3.5 |
| Cloaca Lassitude | 4.0 |
| Chotto Ghetto Walk is Godlike | 4.0 |
| Chuter Coma | 3.0 |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | 4.0 |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull | 4.0 |
| Castevet Mounds of Ash | 4.0 |
| Carbonscape Artistry of Exhaustion II | 4.0 |
| Carbonized For the Security | 4.0 |
| The more you listen to this, the more awesome it becomes. |
| Caleb McAlpine Science Fiction | 4.0 |
| Caina Temporary Antennae | 2.5 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 3.5 |
| Burzum Hlidskjalf | 2.0 |
| Burzum Daudi Baldrs | 1.0 |
| Burzum Belus | 3.0 |
| Burzum Fallen | 2.5 |
| Buried at Sea Ghost | 3.5 |
| Bossk/Rinoa Split | 4.0 |
| The Body All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To... | 4.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - The Desanctification | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord What Once Was... Liber I | 4.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God | 4.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Sect(s) | 3.0 |
| Black Ships Omens | 4.0 |
| Black Sea Somethings Cannot Be Mirrored | 3.5 |
| Black Math Horseman Wyllt | 3.5 |
| Justin Bieber My World | 1.5 |
| Justin Bieber My World 2.0 | 1.5 |
| Justin Bieber Under the Mistletoe | 1.0 |
| Beyond Creation The Aura | 4.0 |
| Better Days Songs About Drinking | 3.0 |
| Betrayal At Bespin Diary of a Dead Man Walking | 4.0 |
| Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation | 4.0 |
| Becoming The Archetype The Physics of Fire | 3.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Dichotomy | 3.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Celestial Completion | 3.5 |
| Battle Of Mice A Day of Nights | 2.5 |
| East of the Wall Split | 4.0 |
| Rosetta/Junius Split | 4.0 |
| Rosetta/Restorations Rosetta/Restorations Split | 3.0 |
| Rosetta/Balboa Project Mercury | 4.0 |
| Atrium Carceri Phrenitis | 3.0 |
| Ash Borer and Fell Voices Split | 4.0 |
| Korn The Path of Totality | 1.0 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. | 2.0 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.5 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 2.0 |
| Serj Tankian Elect the Dead | 3.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.5 |
| The Ascendicate To Die As Kings | 3.5 |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep | 3.5 |
| ARTS Vault of Heaven | 4.0 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 4.0 |
| Antestor The Forsaken | 3.0 |
| ...And The Earth Swarmed With Them The Fading Voice of the Old Era Speaks to Us, But | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Cities | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising | 3.5 |
| Amenra Afterlife | 3.5 |
| Alter Bridge One Day Remains | 2.5 |
| Alter Bridge Blackbird | 4.5 |
| Alter Bridge AB III | 4.0 |
| All the Empires of the World ...Will Be Laid To Waste | 3.5 |
| All the Empires of the World Last Rites | 3.5 |
| All the Empires of the World Blessings | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 4.5 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 4.0 |
| Alaskan Adversity; Woe | 3.5 |
| Advent Remove the Earth | 3.0 |
| Advent Naked and Cold | 4.0 |
| Aethyrvorous Demo | 3.0 |
| Adramelech Spring of Recovery | 4.0 |
| Adai Felo De Se | 4.0 |
| This is better than you. |
| Absu Abzu | 4.0 |
| Barrow Being Without | 4.0 |
| U2 The Joshua Tree | 4.5 |
| U2 Achtung Baby | 4.0 |
| U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind | 4.0 |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | 3.0 |
| U2 No Line on the Horizon | 2.0 |
| Twilight Twilight | 3.0 |
| Twilight Monument To Time End | 4.5 |
| Trenches The Tide Will Swallow Us Whole | 4.5 |
| Thou Demo | 3.0 |
| Thou Malfeasance/Retribution | 3.5 |
| gotta groove hard gotta have sludge riffs |
| Thou The Retaliation of the Immutable Force of Nature | 4.0 |
| Thou To Carry A Stone | 4.0 |
| 2 songs, 11 minutes, and so much dirty Louisiana sludge riffage. Words cannot express my love for this band. |
| Thou Through the Empires of Eternal Void | 4.0 |
| In a massive world of incoherent excuses for cover albums, Thou bring the riffs in this standout Black Sabbath cover EP. Seriously, this thing riffs so hard. |
| Thou Baton Rouge, You Have Much to Answer For | 3.5 |
| Thou To The Chaos Wizard Youth | 3.5 |
| if I smoked I would take fatty bong rips to Witch Cunt every day |
| Thou The Archer and the Owle | 3.5 |
| It just goes to display the awesomeness that is Thou in that even when they release a "filler" record (2 songs were on Summit, 3 are covers, and only 1 is new), it is completely awesome. |
| Thou Tyrant | 4.0 |
| Thou Peasant | 4.0 |
| Thou Summit | 4.5 |
| The work ethic of Thou never ceases to amaze me: in a mere 4 years as a band, they've put out 21 splits, EPs, and albums, not a single of which is bad. Their 3rd full-length is no exception: the most experimental and unique record of Thou's extensive discography, Summit is the summit (yee) of the band's work thus far. Here's to many more years of constantly pumping out consistently awesome sludge. |
| The Waters Deep Here Sunden | 4.0 |
| The Red Chord Prey for Eyes | 3.5 |
| The Red Chord Clients | 2.5 |
| The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors | 4.0 |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine | 4.5 |
| Red (USA) End of Silence | 3.5 |
| Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct | 4.5 |
| Red (USA) Until We Have Faces | 3.0 |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline | 4.5 |
| Tephra Tempel | 2.5 |
| Tephra A Modicum Of Truth | 3.0 |
| Irreversible Light | 2.5 |
| Battlefields Entourage of the Archaic | 3.0 |
| Battlefields Agassiz | 4.0 |
| Battlefields Thresholds Of Imbalance | 3.0 |
| Supercontinent Vaalbara | 4.0 |
| Rorcal Monochrome | 3.0 |
| Rorcal Heliogabalus | 4.0 |
| Overmars Affliction, Endocrine...Vertigo | 4.5 |
| Overmars Born Again | 4.0 |
| Mortification Scrolls of the Megilloth | 4.5 |
| Underoath Act of Depression | 1.5 |
| Underoath Cries of the Past | 2.0 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 4.0 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 4.5 |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean Meridional | 4.0 |
| The Chariot Music Of A Grateful Heart | 2.5 |
| The Chariot Everything Is Alive, Everything Is... | 3.0 |
| The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars | 2.5 |
| The Chariot The Fiancee | 3.0 |
| The Chariot Long Live | 4.0 |
| Throats Throats | 4.0 |
| Kerouac/The Long Haul Split | 4.0 |
| Pariso/Kerouac Split | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun | 3.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut A Moment of Stillness | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut The End of the Beginning | 3.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 4.0 |
| Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... | 3.5 |
| Red Sparowes The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein... | 3.0 |
| If These Trees Could Talk Above the Earth, Below the Sky | 3.5 |
| Irepress Shaolin Knights (Single) | 3.5 |
| Irepress Sol Eye Sea I | 4.0 |
| Mono Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined | 4.0 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 3.5 |
| Russian Circles Enter | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Station | 3.5 |
| Russian Circles Geneva | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Empros | 4.0 |
| Old Man Gloom Seminar III: Zozobra | 4.5 |
| Zozobra Bird of Prey | 4.0 |
| Cave In White Silence | 4.0 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 5.0 |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends | 5.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| Kerouac Cold and Distant, Not Loving | 4.5 |
| Krypts Open the Crypt | 4.0 |
| Krypts Krypts | 3.5 |
| This is some really prime material that would be that much better if it were expanded into a full album. |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire | 5.0 |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All | 4.5 |
| Portal Swarth | 3.5 |
| Impetuous Ritual Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence | 4.0 |
| Mitochondrion Parasignosis | 4.5 |
| Textures Dualism | 2.5 |
| Textures Silhouettes | 2.0 |
| Eryn Non Dae. Hydra Lernaia | 4.0 |
| Deftones Back to School (Mini Maggit) | 2.5 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Deftones Deftones | 4.0 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Atheist Jupiter | 4.0 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 4.5 |
| Immolation Providence | 3.5 |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus | 1.0 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 4.5 |
| Cryptopsy The Unspoken King | 1.0 |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 4.5 |
| B.M. Sharp Music is Tight | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Beacons | 4.5 |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Loop | 3.5 |
| Callisto Ordeal Of The Century | 3.5 |
| Callisto Noir | 4.0 |
| Callisto True Nature Unfolds | 3.5 |
| Callisto Providence | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead | 3.0 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.0 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 3.0 |
| William Fitzsimmons Until When We Are Ghosts | 4.0 |
| William Fitzsimmons Gold In The Shadow | 2.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.5 |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 4.5 |
| Buried Inside Chronoclast | 5.0 |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger Total Body Workout | 1.0 |
| Austrian Death Machine A Very Brutal Christmas | 3.0 |
| Tourniquet Where Moth and Rust Destroy | 2.5 |
| Living Sacrifice In Memoriam | 4.0 |
| Living Sacrifice The Infinite Order | 4.0 |
| Zao The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here | 3.5 |
| Zao Awake? | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying A Long March: The First Recordings | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Beneath the Encasing of Ashes | 2.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Home | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red August Burns Red | 2.0 |
| August Burns Red Looks Fragile After All | 2.5 |
| August Burns Red Lost Messengers: The Outtakes | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Messengers | 2.5 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Leveler | 3.5 |
| Shining (NOR) Blackjazz | 3.5 |
| Tombs Path of Totality | 3.0 |
| Latitudes Agonist | 3.5 |
| Il Velo Di Maya Horizons and Gravity | 3.5 |
| Ashes and Iron Silens | 4.5 |
| Arms of Ra Arms of Ra | 4.0 |
| Long Distance Calling Long Distance Calling | 3.0 |
| Jakob Jakob | 4.0 |
| Jakob Solace | 5.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Gangs | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.5 |
| Periphery Periphery (Instrumental) | 3.5 |
| Periphery Icarus | 3.0 |
| Periphery Periphery | 3.0 |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild | 4.0 |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) | 4.0 |
| After the Burial Rareform | 3.0 |
| After the Burial In Dreams | 3.5 |
| Veil of Maya [id] | 2.5 |
| Born of Osiris A Higher Place | 2.0 |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 4.5 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 2.0 |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence | 4.0 |
| All Shall Perish This Is Where It Ends | 3.5 |
| Rinoa An Age Among Them | 4.0 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Blessed & Cursed | 4.5 |
| Bossk .3 | 4.0 |
| Bossk .1 | 4.5 |
| Bossk .2 | 4.0 |
| At The Soundawn Shifting | 2.5 |
| Mahumodo Waves | 4.0 |
| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow | 4.0 |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo | 4.5 |
| Lunar Aurora Andacht | 4.0 |
| Paysage d'Hiver/Lunar Aurora Split | 4.0 |
| The two Paysage tracks are good (if typical and slightly unexceptional, but still good) fare for the project, with cold, wintery atmospheres and some of the best vocals in modern black metal. The Lunar Aurora track, on the other hand, is easily one of the best black metal tracks I have had the pleasure of hearing in an extremely long time. It's difficult to describe exactly why this 20-minute behemoth is so awesome, so just give it a listen and find out for yourself. |
| Paysage d'Hiver Paysage d'Hiver | 4.5 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Winterkälte | 5.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| 40 Watt Sun The Inside Room | 4.0 |
| Warning Bridges | 4.5 |
| Warning Watching from a Distance | 4.5 |
| Anthrax Worship Music | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en | 3.0 |
| Slayer World Painted Blood | 2.5 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 3.5 |
| Metallica Beyond Magnetic | 3.5 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 3.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.5 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 3.5 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.0 |
| Metallica Load | 2.0 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 1.5 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.0 |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu | 1.0 |
| Banner Pilot Heart Beats Pacific | 4.0 |
| Relient K Five Score and Seven Years Ago | 3.0 |
| Relient K Let It Snow, Baby... Let It Reindeer | 3.0 |
| Relient K Forget and Not Slow Down | 3.5 |
| The National Boxer | 4.5 |
| The National High Violet | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Wither | 2.0 |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity | 2.0 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 2.5 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 3.0 |
| Behold... The Arctopus Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning EP | 3.0 |
| Behold... The Arctopus Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning | 3.0 |
| Behold... The Arctopus Skullgrid | 3.0 |
| Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Sol Niger Within | 3.0 |
| Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Sol Niger Within V3.33 | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Alive | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah Rare Trax | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Nothing (Re-Release) | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah None | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Psykisk Testbild | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah Selfcaged | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah The True Human Design | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah I | 5.0 |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Nothing | 2.5 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.0 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 4.0 |
| Jesu Silver | 4.5 |
| Jesu Why Are We Not Perfect? | 2.5 |
| Jesu Christmas | 3.5 |
| Jesu Infinity | 3.0 |
| Jesu Ascension | 3.5 |
| Godflesh Streetcleaner | 4.5 |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind | 3.0 |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky | 3.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Witness | 5.0 |
| The Carrier No Love Can Save Me | 4.0 |
| The Carrier Blind To What Is Right | 3.5 |
| Manners Apparitions | 3.5 |
| Defeater Lost Ground | 5.0 |
| Defeater Travels | 4.0 |
| Defeater Dear Father | 2.5 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 3.0 |
| Black Sheep Wall I Am God Songs | 4.0 |
| Admiral Angry Albania | 3.5 |
| NOTE: This is a legit album, but it never got officially released for various reasons. As such, it has neither artwork nor song titles (there are 21 tracks). |
| Admiral Angry Buster | 4.0 |
| Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Deaden The Fields | 4.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything | 4.5 |
| The Glorious Unseen Tonight the Stars Speak | 3.5 |
| this is like worship/CCM/jesus is my friend music except that it doesn't suck. to be quite honest, it's actually pretty good. |
| Year of No Light Ausserwelt | 4.5 |
| Across Waters More Light Is Never Ending | 4.0 |
| Strategic Silence And I Can Finally Hear The Voices | 3.5 |
| Strategic Silence Contemplations | 2.5 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor aMAZEzine! | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ [Vinyl] | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 4.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | 3.0 |
| Mogwai Earth Division | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People | 3.0 |
| Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling | 3.0 |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will | 3.5 |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story | 4.0 |
| Time To Burn Is.Land | 4.5 |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites | 4.0 |
| Rosetta Wake/Lift | 4.5 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 4.5 |
| Amenra Mass III | 4.0 |
| It is absolutely hilarious to listen to the robot voice on my iPod's voiceover thingy say, "The Pain. It Is Shapeless. We Are Your Shapeless Pain - AmEEnruh" |
| Amenra Mass IIII | 4.0 |
| Omega Massif Geisterstadt | 4.0 |
| Omega Massif Karpatia | 4.5 |
Look at your Pelican album. Now look at Omega Massif's Karpatia. Now back to your Pelican album... Now back
to Karpatia. Sadly, that recent Pelican album isn't Karpatia, but if they got an interesting drummer and amped up
the desolation they could *sound* like Omega Massif. Look down. Back up again. Where are you? You're in a
MOSH, jamming to the music that Pelican could sound like. What's in your hand? Back to me. I have it. It's a
hollow slab of volcanic rock, emanating music that's brimming with crushing riffs and dark atmosphere. Look
again. The rock is now Karpatia! Anything's possible when your instrumental post-metal crushes as hard as
Karpatia and isn't lazy and sterile like recent Pelican. I'm in a MOSH. |
| Fall of Efrafa Inle | 4.0 |
| Light Bearer Beyond the Infinite: The Assembly of God | 4.0 |
| Light Bearer Lapsus | 3.5 |
| dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy | 1.5 |
| Rishloo Eidolon | 4.0 |
| Rishloo Feathergun | 3.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 3.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.0 |
| The Ocean Precambrian | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric | 3.0 |
| The Ocean Heliocentric | 2.0 |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms | 4.0 |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke | 4.0 |
| Fields of Locust Subtopia | 4.0 |
| Earth Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version | 4.5 |
| Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull | 4.0 |
| Earth Hex: Or Printing In the Infernal Method | 3.5 |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I | 4.0 |
| Corrupted Se Hace Por Los Suenos Asesinos | 3.5 |
| Corrupted Garten Der Unbewusstheit | 4.0 |
| Isis/Melvins Isis/Melvins Split | 3.5 |
| Boris New Album | 2.5 |
| Sunn O))) Black One | 4.0 |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions | 3.5 |
| Khanate Clean Hands Go Foul | 2.0 |
| Pelican Pelican | 4.0 |
| Pelican Pink Mammoth | 3.0 |
| Pelican March Into the Sea | 4.0 |
| Pelican Ephemeral | 3.5 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 4.0 |
| Pelican Australasia | 4.0 |
| Pelican City of Echoes | 2.5 |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need | 3.0 |
| ISIS The Red Sea | 4.0 |
| ISIS SGNL>05 | 4.0 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 5.0 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 4.5 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.5 |
| Mouth Of The Architect The Violence Beneath | 4.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Quietly | 4.0 |
| Blindead Affliction XXIX II MCMXCVI | 4.5 |
| Cult of Luna Fire Was Born | 4.5 |
| Cult of Luna Salvation | 4.5 |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway | 5.0 |
| Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom | 4.0 |
| A Storm Of Light As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us... | 2.5 |
| Neurosis Locust Star | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Sovereign | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun | 4.5 |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood | 5.0 |
| Neurosis Times of Grace | 4.5 |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets | 4.5 |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm | 4.5 |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising | 4.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.5 |
| Opeth Heritage | 3.0 |
| Primordial Redemption at the Puritan's Hand | 4.0 |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini | 2.0 |
| October Falls A Collapse of Faith | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit | 3.5 |
| Fen Epoch | 3.5 |
| Altar of Plagues White Tomb | 4.0 |
| Altar of Plagues Mammal | 4.0 |
| Frontier Demo | 4.0 |
| Fell Voices 2010 Tour CD-R | 4.0 |
| Fell Voices Fell Voices | 3.5 |
| Fell Voices Untitled | 4.0 |
| Ash Borer 2009 Demo | 4.0 |
| Ash Borer Tour Rehearsal Demo | 4.0 |
| Ash Borer Ash Borer | 4.5 |
| Lo-Ruhamah Lo-Ruhamah | 3.5 |
| Lo-Ruhamah The Glory of God | 4.0 |
| Alda Alda | 3.0 |
| Alda Tahoma | 4.0 |
| Threnos By Blood and By Earth | 4.0 |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand | 4.5 |
| Enmerkar Starlit Passage | 4.0 |
| Aldrlag Demo | 3.0 |
| Addaura Addaura | 3.0 |
| Lantlos Agape | 4.0 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 4.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Lost | 3.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Everything | 2.0 |
| Cold Body Radiation The Great White Emptiness | 4.0 |
| Cold Body Radiation Deer Twillight | 3.0 |
| Sleeping Peonies Ghosts, and Other Things | 4.0 |
| Leviathan True Traitor, True Whore | 2.5 |
| Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 4.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 4.0 |
| Nameless Coyote Devoured by the Swirling Night | 4.0 |
