| 4.5 superb |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World |
| Amorphis Tales from the Thousand Lakes |
| Anathema Distant Satellites |
| Ancient Settlers Our Last Eclipse |
| Can't believe I questioned these vocals to begin with. Suit the album to a tee. They lend to a different take on standard melodeath you hear. Edit: This is incredible |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine |
| Ash of Ashes Traces |
| Nothing like progcore whatsoever. Its epic pagan Skaldic Metal with varied memorable anthems each with a tasty folky hook. Inspired song writing throughout. |
| Before The Dawn Stormbringers |
| The new vocalist is Voice Of Finland 2022 finalist Paavo Laapotti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V-yVBX0eZQ |
| Belore Eastern Tales |
| Black Anvil As Was |
| Have to leave a soundoff on my 2017 AOTY. The layered vocals instantly elevate this above most other melodic black metal. The interesting song writing and heavybutclean production makes it so easy to listen to and return to |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage |
| Can Bardd The Last Rain |
| Coldworld Melancholie² |
| Counting Hours The Will |
| This is a superb melodic metal album. Gripping from start to finish. For fans of Katatonia, Anathema and Dark Tranquillity. |
| Counting Hours The Wishing Tomb |
| Cradle of Filth Live at Dynamo Open Air 1997 |
| Cradle of Filth The Principle of Evil Made Flesh |
| Cradle of Filth Hammer of the Witches |
| Cradle of Filth Midian |
| Cradle of Filth Damnation and a Day |
| Cradle of Filth Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay |
| Currents The Death We Seek |
| Dark Tranquillity Moment |
| Dark Tranquillity Character |
| Deicide Once Upon the Cross |
| Devilment The Great And Secret Show |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence |
| Dimmu Borgir Spiritual Black Dimensions |
| Dimmu Borgir Abrahadabra |
| Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon |
| Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia |
| Disillusion Ayam |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
| Enisum Seasons Of Desolation |
| Enslaved Vertebrae |
| Enslaved Heimdal |
| Floydian and Pethian, Enslaved continue to explore new territories of haunting, hypnotic, expansive progressive blackened metal. Everything has its correct placement with the title track the perfect closer. |
| Ewigkeit Battle Furies 2.017 |
| This 2017 re-recording of Mr Fog's 1997 album is better than it sounds. Symphonic melodic black metal of the type of that era sounds fresh and interesting somehow. I?ve never heard the original but I don?t think I need to. |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime |
| Farsot Fail·Lure |
| An underappreciated gem of black metal. A perfectly atmospheric, progressive Immortal if you can imagine that |
| Fear Factory Archetype |
| Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine |
| Fear Factory Obsolete |
| Gehenna First Spell |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach |
| Gross Reality Return to Ruin |
| This album caught my attention in the last 2 songs on first spin. That was months ago and since then it has grown and grown to one of my fav albums of the year. Progressive thrash would be best descriptor. Great concept, inventive songwriting with shifts during and between songs. The vocals also play a massive part in this being an awesome release. |
| Hatebreed Hatebreed |
| Hoth Oathbreaker |
| Ibaraki Rashomon |
| Idolatrous Sorrow on Midgard |
| In Flames Foregone |
| In Mourning Garden of Storms |
| In Mourning The Bleeding Veil |
| ...in the darkest hour before the dawn, I close my eyes... |
| In the Woods... Cease the Day |
| In Vain (NO) Currents |
| Insomnium Heart Like a Grave |
| Insomnium Winter's Gate |
| Insomnium Across the Dark |
| INVICTUS (CAN) Unstoppable |
| This is peak modern groove metal with every song having an interesting hook and riffs hard |
| Iron Maiden A Real Dead One |
| Prowler into Transylvania into Remember Tomorrow is some of the best Maiden Ive ever heard. This rips. |
| Iron Maiden Live After Death |
| Iron Maiden The X Factor |
| Judas Priest Nostradamus |
| Judas Priest Painkiller |
| Kampfar Djevelmakt |
| Katatonia Brave Murder Day |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies |
| Lunar Aurora Hoagascht |
| Machine Head Catharsis |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction |
| Megadeth Youthanasia |
| Metallica The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited |
| Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 1 - In Tartarean Chains |
| Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 3 - A Fullmoon Madness |
| Mist of Misery Unalterable |
| Heir of Misfortune and Desolation are essential dsbm listening. |
| Mist of Misery Absence |
| Mist of Misery Severance |
| Moonlight Sorcery Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle |
| Nechochwen Heart of Akamon |
| Nightwish Imaginaerum |
| Nordgeist Frostwinter |
| Supreme black metal from Siberia. Atmospheric, epic and relentless with tremolo melodies that sweep and shift to craft memorable songs. |
| Northlane Node |
| Northlane Mesmer |
| OCEANS (DEU) The Sun and the Cold |
| Omnium Gatherum Beyond |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Orbit Culture Rasen |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Parkway Drive Horizons |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Pure Wrath Ascetic Eventide |
| Mesmerizing atmospheric black metal. The pacing lets the melodies take full effect and makes for a very powerful debut |
| Rotting Christ The Heretics |
| Sepultura Beneath the Remains |
| Sgaile Traverse the Bealach |
| Shadow Of Intent Elegy |
| Soilwork Natural Born Chaos |
| Solution .45 For Aeons Past |
| Sonus Mortis Of Red Barren Earth |
| Im not across all of this guys work and Hold This Mortal Coil was quite good but it doesnt compare to this stellar album. Symphonic prog black/death metal where everything just clicks |
| Soulfly Omen |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien |
| Sun of the Sleepless To The Elements |
| TesseracT Polaris |
| The Breathing Process Labyrinthian |
| Not to be put off by the branding of this as deathcore. Its much more than that. Long time Dimmu Borgir fans would like this as I did. Crushingly heavy, epic and majestic. |
| The Kovenant Nexus Polaris |
| The Moor Ombra |
| This Ending Crowned in Blood |
| Melodic death metal done right with that beautiful combination of powerful drumming and majestic tremolo riffs |
| Thy Art Is Murder Godlike |
| Thy Catafalque Meta |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man |
| Together to the Stars An Oblivion Above |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar |
| Various Artists Nativity in Black - A Tribute to Black Sabbath |
| Vindland Hanter Savet |
| Windir 1184 |
| Windir Likferd |
| Within Temptation The Silent Force |
| Woods of Ypres Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light |
| 4.0 excellent |
| ...and Oceans As in Gardens, So in Tombs |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark |
| Abigail Williams In the Absence of Light |
| AC/DC Live |
| Aetherian At Storm's Edge |
| Ages (SWE) Uncrown |
| Aktaion Above Empires |
| Alaya Thrones |
| Alcest Kodama |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| Amiensus Abreaction |
| Amon Amarth The Great Heathen Army |
| An Abstract Illusion Illuminate the Path |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here |
| Anette Olzon Strong |
| Arch Enemy Khaos Legions |
| Arch Enemy War Eternal |
| Arch Enemy Deceivers |
| Arkona (RUS) Kob' |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| Batushka Litourgiya |
| Becoming The Archetype Children of the Great Extinction |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata II |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors II |
| Birds Of Tokyo Birds Of Tokyo |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Blackbraid Blackbraid I |
| Blackbraid Blackbraid II |
| Blaze Bayley War Within Me |
| Blood Abscission I |
| Blood Red Throne Nonagon |
| Killer groove death metal in the vein of Once Upon the Cross |
| Bloodred Hourglass Your Highness |
| Bloodred Hourglass Godsend |
| Bloodred Hourglass How's The Heart? |
| Bolt Thrower Those Once Loyal |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal |
| Brymir Voices in the Sky |
| Bury Tomorrow Black Flame |
| Caliban The Opposite From Within |
| Caliban The Undying Darkness |
| Caliban Dystopia |
| Can Bardd Devoured by the Oak |
| Cattle Decapitation Terrasite |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Bestial Devastation |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Morbid Visions |
| Celtefog Sounds of the Olden Days |
| Chapel of Disease Echoes of Light |
| Chapel Perilous The Tower of Silence |
| Chimaira Resurrection |
| Coldplay X&Y |
| Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder |
| Credic Vermillion Oceans |
| I'm aware how much this sounds like Dark Tranquility but it's still great in its own right. Grows on each listen |
| Crematory Inglorious Darkness |
| Crystal Coffin The Curse of Immortality |
| Dan Swano Moontower |
| Dark Forest Land of the Evening Star |
| Dark The Suns Suru raivosi sydämeni pimeydessä |
| Dark Tranquillity Atoma |
| Death Leprosy |
| Defacing God The Resurrection of Lilith |
| A gothic take on melodic death metal with female death growls. Solid riffs and drumming with a synths haze is ably met with quality songwriting. |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Descend The Deviant |
| Devin Townsend Project Z2 |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| Diabolical Raw Elegy of Fire Dusk |
| Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli |
| Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst MMV |
| Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current |
| DorDeDuh Har |
| Drag Me Out Demons Away |
| Huh this is solid. Apparently not well liked but no idea why. It has great melodies, hooks and vocals. |
| Drown In Sulphur Dark Secrets of the Soul |
| Druids Of Eld A Day Of Sorrow |
| Duskmourn Of Shadow and Flame |
| Duskmourn Fallen Kings and Rusted Crowns |
| Excellent melodic death metal slab with folk influences. No filler and enough song variety to stand out from like albums. The Windir worship on In The Chamber of Incantation is a nice touch. |
| Dwarrowdelf The Fallen Leaves |
| Dzo-nga Thunder In the Mountains |
| Elderwind The Colder The Night |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium |
| Enisum Moth's Illusion |
| Enslaved Ruun |
| Enslaved Utgard |
| Equilibrium Renegades |
| ERRA ERRA |
| Esoctrilihum Dy'th Requiem for the Serpent Telepath |
| Album is a complete beast. The drumming, vocals, arrangements and that hellish guitar tone |
| Eternal Storm A Giant Bound to Fall |
| Ethereal Shroud Trisagion |
| Evoking Winds Towards Homestead |
| Evoking Winds Your Rivers |
| Ewigkeit DISClose |
| Faith No More Album of the Year |
| Farsot Life Promised Death |
| Fathomage Autumn's Dawn, Winter's Darkness |
| Fear Factory Digimortal |
| Feed Her to the Sharks Fortitude |
| Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds |
| Fractal Gates The Light That Shines |
| Fractal Gates One with Dawn |
| Shimmering melodeath from a notable exponent of the mid tempo electronics infused variety |
| Freedom of Fear Nocturnal Gates |
| Ghost (SWE) Prequelle |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Ghosts of Atlantis 3.6.2.4 |
| English melodic extreme metal that has symphonic elements of Vortex era Dimmu Borgir and Septic Flesh and gothic elements of Devilment |
| Ghosts of Atlantis Riddles of the Sycophants |
| God Forbid IV: Constitution of Treason |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Green Carnation Leaves Of Yesteryear |
| Haliphron Prey |
| Hatebreed Rise of Brutality |
| Helioss Contre ma lumière |
| Heretoir Nightsphere |
| Hollow Decay The Frozen Trail |
| The streak of fine 2022 melodeath continues, this time a release of guitar oriented collection of songs which gives a nod to a lot of influences, but the Belakor shift on Regain is too obvious. Apart from that its an excellent debut. |
| Hoth Astral Necromancy |
| Ihsahn Arktis. |
| Ihsahn Eremita |
| Illdisposed 1 800 Vindication |
| Illvilja Endless Rivers |
| Another outing of intriguing atmospheric bm hymns from Illvilja. So sinister and so good |
| Illvilja The Absence of Light |
| Mid-paced atmospheric black metal powered by double bass drumming and haunting vocals. Highly recommended. |
| Illvilja The Bitter Longing |
| Illvilja Where No Sorrow Dwells |
| The Old Icelandic word "illvilja" in English means ill-willed, evil-minded which is the perfect moniker for Hakan Eriksson's atmospheric black metal music. Prolific with another album but the quality is maintained with haunting melodies drenched in doomy atmosphere. |
| Illyria Take Me Somewhere Beautiful |
| Immortal War Against All |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter |
| Imperium Dekadenz Dis Manibvs |
| Imperium Dekadenz Into Sorrow Evermore |
| The melodic wall of guitars hover and flow to great effect. Ive enjoyed their output for a long time but this is a culmination of their sound, and is very satisfying. |
| In Mourning Live in Valley Sound Studio |
| In Mourning are immense in this forum as well. Neat collection of songs to play |
| In the Woods... Diversum |
| In Vain (NO) Aenigma |
| In Vain (NO) Solemn |
| Incarnia Proclamatoin |
| Insomnium Songs of the Dusk |
| Insomnium just write better melancholic melodeath songs than anyone else and this EP is further proof. |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun |
| Insomnium Anno 1696 |
| Invent Animate Heavener |
| Iron Maiden A Real Live Dead One |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World |
| Isole Anesidora |
| The combination of the clean singing, melodies and overall gothic doom atmosphere combine so well. Parts remind of The Unknown by The Vision Bleak. |
| Judas Priest Invincible Shield |
| Jungle Rot A Call To Arms |
| hey nice chugs |
| Kampfar Mare |
| A continuation of the frosty black metal Kampfar have made a career from. This one is almost their peak release with these evil melodic stompers. |
| Karnivool Asymmetry |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day |
| Katatonia Sky Void of Stars |
| Kingdom of Sorrow Behind The Blackest Tears |
| You won't find Gods law in the Devils land - You don't get mercy from a desperate man |
| Lahmia Into The Abyss |
| Lamb of God Killadelphia |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
| Led Zeppelin Remasters |
| Legacy of Emptiness Over the Past |
| A beautifully balanced and flowing melo-black album with memorable songs and memorable moments within songs |
| Machine Head Of Kingdom And Crown |
| Mask of Prospero Hiraeth |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? |
| Megadeth The World Needs a Hero |
| Megadeth Dystopia |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! |
| Mercyful Fate Don't Break the Oath |
| Metallica Load |
| Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 2 - The Golden Orb |
| Miseration Black Miracles And Dark Wonders |
| Miss May I Curse of Existence |
| Moonlight Sorcery Piercing Through the Frozen Eternity |
| Finnish symphonic/melodic black metal thats catchy and a breath of fresh air for the genre. Atmosphere, song arrangements and superb playing make this an impressive debut. |
| Mortality (AUS) Structure |
| Motley Crue Shout at the Devil |
| Motley Crue Girls, Girls, Girls |
| My Silent Wake Lost in Memories, Lost in Grief |
| Nattehimmel Mourningstar |
| Necronomicon (CAN) Unus |
Some top tier blackened death riffing. The opener is dubious but the rest of the album is superb. Not to be
underestimated |
| Night Crowned Hädanfärd |
| Nightbringer Hierophany of the Open Grave |
| Nightwish Once |
| Nightwish Dark Passion Play |
| Noctule Wretched Abyss |
| I don't care much for Serena's other band but this is really solid post black metal. Engaging guitar playing and flow |
| Northlane Obsidian |
| Northlane Mirror's Edge |
| Odium (NOR) The Sad Realm of the Stars |
| Old Man's Child Born of the Flickering |
| Omnium Gatherum The Burning Cold |
| Omnium Gatherum Origin |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Orbit Culture Nija |
| Orbit Culture Shaman |
| Pearl Jam No Code |
| Pearl Jam Vs. |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy |
| Pearl Jam Give Way |
| Persefone Lingua Ignota: Part I |
| Prefer this to the previous outing and into this direction of the band. They've cut the fat and executed a tight piece of modern melodeath that retains some progressive elements |
| Primordial Imrama |
| Pull Down the Sun Of Valleys and Mountains |
| Pure Wrath The Forlorn Soldier |
| Pure Wrath Sempiternal Wisdom |
| Purest of Pain Solipsis |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Rammstein Zeit |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Unlimited Love |
| Ringare Of Momentous Endless Night |
| Exquisite synths black metal. Addicted to this one. |
| Rivers of Nihil The Work |
| Ruadh Sovereign |
| We Will Rise Again is the best of this excellent melodic folk BM debut. |
| Ruadh The Rock of the Clyde |
| Saor Origins |
| Satyricon The Shadowthrone |
| Septicflesh Titan |
| Sepultura Schizophrenia |
| Sermon Of Golden Verse |
| Shade Empire Omega Arcane |
| Silverchair Diorama |
| Skyforest Aftermath |
| Skyharbor Guiding Lights |
| Slayer Divine Intervention |
| Slytherin When the Darkness Comes |
| Sodomisery The Great Demise |
| Sodomisery Mazzaroth |
| Meloblack riff fest that doesnt outstay its welcome. Has necessary variety in its guitar melodies with slight synths over a booming rhythm section |
| Soilwork Stabbing the Drama |
| Soilwork Overgivenheten |
| Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad |
| Sulphur Aeon The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos |
| Sworn A Journey Told Through Fire |
| Sylosis A Sign of Things to Come |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Tersivel To the Orphic Void |
| Not familiar with the band's previous work but this sounds like an atmospheric Gojira with some Persefone and even RoN. The songs are all quality esp the more up-tempo Weeping Iron Tears and Shivering Deadly Cold |
| The Amity Affliction Not Without My Ghosts |
| The Antichrist Imperium Volume III: Satan In His Original Glory |
| The Committee Utopian Deception |
| The Mark Of Cain Ill At Ease |
| The Ruins of Beverast Blood Vaults - The Blazing Gospels of Heinrich... |
| The Vision Bleak The Unknown |
| The Vision Bleak Weird Tales |
| This Ending Needles of Rust |
| This White Mountain The Final Sorrow |
| This 49 minute piece of atmospheric/melodic black metal flies through its runtime and thats a very good sign of an excellent album. It is vicious, beautiful and energising at various stages but most importantly interesting throughout. |
| Thy Catafalque Vadak |
| Times of Grace Songs of Loss and Separation |
| A classy piece of work by Adam D and Jesse. The bluesy ballads and heavier tunes evoke latter day Alice In Chains for a reference in feeling. Best are Rescue, Far From Heavenless, Medusa and Currents |
| Tomahawk Tomahawk |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tryglav The Ritual |
| Ugly Kid Joe As Ugly as They Wanna Be |
| Ugly Kid Joe America's Least Wanted |
| Unto Others Mana |
| Vreid Wild North West |
| Wallachia Monumental Heresy |
| Weight of Emptiness Withered Paradogma |
| White Ward False Light |
| Within Temptation The Heart of Everything |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana |
| Wormwood Nattarvet |
| 3.5 great |
| ...and Oceans Cosmic World Mother |
| 1914 Where Fear and Weapons Meet |
| 1914 The Blind Leading the Blind |
| A Somber Funeral Summertime Sorrow |
| AC/DC Who Made Who |
| AC/DC The Razors Edge |
| Adimiron Et Liber Eris |
| Aeon Winds Stormveiled |
| Aeon Winds Night Sky Illuminations |
| Aeons Confer Zero Elysium |
| Aeons Confer Symphonies of Saturnus |
| Aeternam Ruins of Empires |
| Aeternam Moongod |
| Aether Realm Redneck Vikings From Hell |
| Aether Realm Tarot |
| Agathodaimon The Seven |
| Akiavel Væ Victis |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct |
| Aldaaron Majestic Heights, Melancholic Depth |
| Alice Cooper Raise Your Fist and Yell |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged |
| Alkaloid Liquid Anatomy |
| Alkaloid Numen |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| Almucantarat Weightlessness |
| Amiensus Reclamation: Part 1 |
| Amon Amarth Berserker |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns |
| Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall |
| Amorphis Queen of Time |
| Amorphis Under the Red Cloud |
| Amorphis Silent Waters |
| Anakim The Elysian Void |
| Anathema The Optimist |
| Ancient Wisdom A Celebration in Honor of Death |
| And Now The Owls Are Smiling Dirges |
| Anette Olzon Rapture |
| Anima Hereticae Ov Behest |
| Annorkoth The Last Days |
| Apeiron (DE1) Voiceless Prophet |
| Aquilus Griseus |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant |
| Arch Enemy The Root of All Evil |
| Architects The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit |
| Architects For Those That Wish to Exist |
| Arcturus Arcturian |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security |
| As The World Dies Agonist |
| Asagraum Potestas Magicum Diaboli |
| Stumbled across this one and glad I did. Ferocious black metal played by two talented musicians. I didn't find it derivative but melodic, well paced and absorbing |
| Asagraum Dawn of Infinite Fire |
| Aspherium The Embers of Eternity |
| Asterean Cosmorama |
| Astrophyte 2192 |
| At The Altar Of The Horned God Heart of Silence |
| Atoma Skylight |
| Audioslave Audioslave |
| Austere Corrosion of Hearts |
| Avslut Deceptis |
| Balance Breach Abyzmal |
| Battlesword Towards the Unknown |
| Thundering (melodic) death metal. FFO early Amon Amarth |
| Batushka Raskol |
| Be'lakor The Frail Tide |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach |
| Before The Dawn Rise of the Phoenix |
| Before The Dawn Deadlight |
| Before The Dawn The Ghost |
| Before The Dawn My Darkness |
| Belore Journey Through Mountains and Valleys |
| Belore Artefacts |
| Belphegor Blood Magick Necromance |
| Belphegor Totenritual |
| Belphegor The Devils |
| Belzebubs Pantheon of the Nightside Gods |
| Biohazard State of the World Address |
| Bipolar Architecture Metaphysicize |
| Black Crown Initiate Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape |
| Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Bleed from Within Shrine |
| Bleeding Gods Dodekathlon |
| Bloodred Hourglass Heal |
| Starts to get really good at We Form the Broken and from there it?s really engaging melodeath |
| Borgne Temps Morts |
| Borknagar Winter Thrice |
| Borknagar True North |
| Borknagar Borknagar |
| Bury Tomorrow Cannibal |
| Bury Tomorrow The Union of Crowns |
| Burzum Fallen |
| Burzum Belus |
| Caelestra Black Widow Nebula |
| Caliban Ghost Empire |
| Caliban Zeitgeister |
| Carcariass Afterworld |
| Carpe Tenebrum Mirrored Hate Painting |
| Celtefog Deliverance |
| Chimaira The Age of Hell |
| Chimaira The Infection |
| Chthonic Seediq Bale |
| Claret Ash Worldtorn: Anemoia |
| Cnoc An Tursa The Forty Five |
| Cold Insight Further Nowhere |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
| Coldworld The Stars Are Dead Now |
| Coldworld Isolation |
| Coldworld Wolves and Sheep |
| Conflict (RUS) Decision Code |
| Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine |
| Crownshift Crownshift |
| Cryptosis Bionic Swarm |
| Cult of Lilith Mara |
| Cursebinder Drifting |
| Daath The Hinderers |
| Daath The Deceivers |
| Daniel Cavanagh Monochrome |
| Dark Fortress Spectres from the Old World |
| Dark Fortress Stab Wounds |
| Dark Millennium Acid River |
| Dark The Suns Raven and the Nightsky |
| Raven with the mighty Paavo Laapotti is the highlight |
| Dark Tranquillity Projector |
| Dark Tranquillity Construct |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction |
| Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void |
| Darkthrone Soulside Journey |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon |
| Dawn Ray'd To Know The Light |
| Daylight Dies Dismantling Devotion |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda |
| Death Symbolic |
| Death Spiritual Healing |
| Decaying Days Fire of a Thousand Suns |
| Decembre Noir A Discouraged Believer |
| Deception (NO) Daenacteh |
| Deep Purple Machine Head |
| Def Leppard Pyromania |
| Def Leppard High 'N' Dry |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deicide Serpents of the Light |
| Deitus Irreversible |
| Deserted Fear Doomsday |
| Dessiderium Aria |
| Destinity In Continuum |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand |
| DevilDriver Outlaws ‘til the End: Vol. 1 |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| Diamond Head Lightning to the Nations |
| Diamond Head Lightning to the Nations 2020 |
| Dimmu Borgir For All Tid |
| Dimmu Borgir Alive In Torment |
| Disincarnate Dreams of the Carrion Kind |
| Dismal Euphony Autumn Leaves: The Rebellion of Tides |
| Domination Campaign A Storm Of Steel |
| Down NOLA |
| Draconian A Rose for the Apocalypse |
| Dzo-nga The Sachem's Tales |
| Eard De Rerum Natura |
| Earth Crisis Destroy the Machines |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson |
| Eldamar The Force of the Ancient Land |
| Eldamar A Dark Forgotten Past |
| Elderwind Fires |
| Elderwind The Magic of Nature |
| Elffor Frostbitten Pain |
| Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire... |
| Enshine Singularity |
| Enshine Transcending Fire |
| Enslaved RIITIIR |
| Enslaved E |
| ERRA Cure |
| Esoctrilihum Consecration of the Spiritus Flesh |
| Esoctrilihum Eternity Of Shaog |
| Came back to this after really getting Dy'th Requiem For The Serpent Telepath. Equally tasty blackened death dripping with atmosphere. 5th and 6th Passages slay so fkn hard. |
| Esoctrilihum Urionhsol (Seven Demons) |
| Eternal Deformity The Beauty of Chaos |
| Evil Drive Demons Within |
| Ewigkeit Cosmic Man |
| Ex Deo The Immortal Wars |
| Exanimis Marionnettiste |
| Exgenesis Solve et Coagula |
| Exhorder Defectum Omnium |
| Exist Immortal Exist Immortal |
| Extinction In Progress Shades Of Pale |
| Fall of Serenity Open Wide, O Hell |
| Fallujah Empyrean |
| Far Beyond The End of My Road |
| Fear Factory Mechanize |
| Fear Factory Aggression Continuum |
| Feed Her to the Sharks Savage Seas |
| Fen Monuments to Absence |
| Finsterforst Jenseits |
| Fires in the Distance Air Not Meant For Us |
| Fit for a King The Hell We Create |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse King |
| Flotsam and Jetsam Doomsday for the Deceiver |
| Fossilization Leprous Daylight |
| Freedom of Fear Carpathia |
| Frozen Dawn The Decline of the Enlightened Gods |
| Upbeat melodic black metal that focusses on guitar driven momentum. Catch glimpses of influences like Dissection and Megadeth halfway through Wanderer of Times |
| Gaahls Wyrd GastiR - Ghosts Invited |
| Gaahls Wyrd The Humming Mountain |
| Gaerea Mirage |
| Gaerea Limbo |
| Gates of Ishtar The Dawn of Flames |
| Gates of Ishtar At Dusk and Forever |
| Gehenna Adimiron Black |
| Genus Ordinis Dei The Beginning |
| Ghastly (FIN) Mercurial Passages |
| Ghost Brigade IV - One with the Storm |
| Gloosh Sylvan Coven |
| Gloosh Timewheel |
| God Seed I Begin |
| Godeater Vespera |
| Gojira Magma |
| Gorgoroth Instinctus Bestialis |
| Gory Blister Reborn from Hatred |
| Graceless Chants from Purgatory |
| Grave Miasma Odori Sepulcrorum |
| Grave Miasma Abyss of Wrathful Deities |
| Graveworm Killing Innocence |
| Haimad The Return |
| Hamara Ivory Tower |
| Hammer of Dawn Uzil |
| Hanging Garden The Garden |
| Harakiri for the Sky Maere |
| Harakiri for the Sky Arson |
| Hatebreed Perseverance |
| Hatebreed The Divinity of Purpose |
| Hatebreed Supremacy |
| Haunted By Silhouettes The Last Day On Earth |
| Haunted By Silhouettes No Man Isle |
| Heaven Shall Burn Of Truth and Sacrifice |
| Heavenwood Abyss Masterpiece |
| Hecate Enthroned The Slaughter of Innocence, A Requiem for the Migh |
| Helrunar Vanitas Vanitatvm |
| Heretoir The Circle |
| Hexvessel Polar Veil |
| Hooded Menace The Tritonus Bell |
| Hulder Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry |
| Hulder Verses In Oath |
| Hurakan Via Aeterna |
| Hyperion (SWE) Seraphical Euphony |
| Hypocrisy Hypocrisy |
| Hypocrisy Worship |
| I Am The Night While The Gods Are Sleeping |
| Ihsahn Das Seelenbrechen |
| Ihsahn Amr |
| Ihsahn Ihsahn |
| Illyria The Carpathian Summit |
| Imminence The Black |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness |
| Immortal All Shall Fall |
| Immortal Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism |
| Imperium Dekadenz Meadows of Nostalgia |
| Imperium Dekadenz Procella Vadens |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| In Mourning Afterglow |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine |
| In the Woods... Omnio |
| In Vain (NO) The Latter Rain |
| In Vision Manuscript |
| Incantation Diabolical Conquest |
| Infected Rain Ecdysis |
| Innersphere Omfalos |
| Inquisition Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar... |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World |
| Insomnium Argent Moon |
| Invent Animate Greyview |
| Invent Animate Stillworld |
| Invent Animate The Sun Sleeps, As If It Never Was |
| Iron Altar Promethean |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind |
| Jari Lindholm Trajectories |
| Judas Priest Ram It Down |
| Kalmah Swamplord |
| Kampfar Til Klovers Takt |
| Kampfar Profan |
| Kampfar Heimgang |
| Kampfar Fra Underverdenen |
| Kardashev Liminal Rite |
| Kataan Kataan |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance |
| Kauan Ice Fleet |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent |
| Killswitch Engage Incarnate |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage |
| King Diamond The Spider's Lullabye |
| King of Asgard Svartrviðr |
| Kingdom of Sorrow Kingdom of Sorrow |
| Krigsgrav Fires in the Fall |
| Kvaen The Great Below |
| Lacuna Coil Black Anima |
| I'd recommend listening to this from track 4 onwards. Big grooves catchy and harsh & cleans add depth |
| Lahmia Resilience |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Lantlos Melting Sun |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Lightlorn At One With The Night Sky |
| Limbonic Art Moon In The Scorpio |
| Limbonic Art Legacy of Evil |
| Lock Up Demonization |
| Lord Belial Rapture |
| Lord Dying Mysterium Tremendum |
| Lucifer (DE) Lucifer I |
| Lumen Ad Mortem Upon The Edge Of Darkness |
| Brooding atmospheric black metal with vicious vocals and meandering guitars and excellent accompanying drumming. Multiple listens reveals the strong songwriting along the lines of WITTR |
| Lumnos Ancient Shadows of Saturn |
| Lunarsea Earthling/Terrestre |
| Lustre (SWE) Wonder |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes |
| Machine Head The More Things Change... |
| Malist In the Catacombs of Time |
| Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm |
| Marianas Rest Auer |
| Has become a go-to album for the sorrowful melodies that you'd expect from Finnish melodic death doom with songs like White Cradle and Fear Travels Fast. Found the vocals abrasive on the first track but much better integrated in the remainder of the album. |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mechina Conqueror |
| Megadeth Cryptic Writings |
| Megadeth Hidden Treasures |
| Mercyful Fate Melissa |
| Mesarthim The Degenerate Era |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct |
| Metallica Six Feet Down Under |
| Metallica S&M2 |
| Metallica 72 Seasons |
| Methedras Human Deception |
| Midnight Odyssey Shards of Silver Fade |
| Midnight Oil 20,000 Watt R.S.L |
| Miss May I Deathless |
| Mist of Misery Fields of Isolation |
| Mist of Misery Shackles of Life |
| MMXX Sacred Cargo |
| Mohrkvlth A-dreñv Ar Vrumenn |
| Mol Diorama |
| Monuments (UK) In Stasis |
| Moonspell Wolfheart |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness |
| Mortal Sin Mayhemic Destruction |
| Morwinyon Wastelands |
| Motley Crue Theatre of Pain |
| Motley Crue Motley Crue |
| Motley Crue Too Fast for Love |
| Nailed To Obscurity King Delusion |
| A flowing coherent piece of doomy melodic death metal in the sphere of Exgenesis, Enshine and October Tide. Uncage My Sanity the premier track here. |
| Naxen Descending Into A Deeper Darkness |
| Nazxul Iconoclast |
| Nazxul Irkalla |
| Neaera Neaera |
| Neaera Ours Is The Storm |
| Nechochwen The Ancient Pulse |
| Necrophobic Mark of the Necrogram |
| Necrowretch Swords of Dajjal |
| Negative Plane Stained Glass Revelations |
| Negator Vnitas Pvritas Existentia |
| Negura Bunget OM |
| Nelecc The Stars |
| Netherbird Arete |
| Neurotech Ave Neptune |
| Nevermore This Godless Endeavor |
| Night Crowned Rebirth of the Old |
| Only 1 of the 4 songs is original but a reminder of how good these guys are |
| Night Crowned Tales |
| Nightbringer Ego Dominus Tuus |
| Nighted Absence |
| Nightwish HUMAN. :II: NATURE. |
| Niphredil The Final Star |
| Nordjevel Gnavhòl |
| Northlane Alien |
| Novelists C'est La Vie |
| Novembre Ursa |
| Nuclear Winter (ZWE) Seagrave |
| Nyktophobia What Lasts Forever |
| Oak Pantheon The Absence |
| Obituary Dying Of Everything |
| Obsequiae Aria of Vernal Tombs |
| Ocean Of Grief Nightfall's Lament |
| Oceans of Slumber Oceans of Slumber |
| Old Forest Black Forests of Eternal Doom |
| Old Forest Dagian |
| Old Forest Back into the Old Forest |
| Old Forest Mournfall |
| Old Man's Child Ill Natured Spiritual Invasion |
| Olio Tahtien Takana Spectral Katharsis |
| Omega (ITA) Nebra |
| Omnium Gatherum Grey Heavens |
| Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows |
| Omnium Gatherum Slasher |
| On Thorns I Lay Threnos |
| On Thorns I Lay On Thorns I Lay |
| Opera IX The Gospel |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth Sorceress |
| Opeth Pale Communion |
| Orbit Culture Redfog |
| Ov HELL The Underworld Regime |
| Overkill Feel the Fire |
| Overthrone The Path of Destruction |
| Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon |
| Ozzy Osbourne The Ultimate Sin |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light |
| Pantera Reinventing the Steel |
| Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition - Chapter II |
| Damn I missed this last year. The vocals here are wicked. |
| Pearl Jam Riot Act |
| Persefone Aathma |
| Phinehas The Fire Itself |
| Playgrounded The Death of Death |
| Polaris Fatalism |
| Primordial To the Nameless Dead |
| Profanum Profanum Aeternum Eminence Of Satanic Imperial Art |
| Prognan Naši Životi Više Ne Postoje |
| Psychonaut Unfold the God Man |
| Pure Wrath Hymn To The Woeful Hearts |
| Finally gets interesting at 4:25 in ?Presages from a Restless Soul?. The vocal harmonies and leads add depth to the bm compositions that allows the listener to really immerse into the sound. The elongated riffs return not long after to balance it back out. The rest of the album is also solid with the ensuing songs comprising many interwoven parts including symphonic midpaced passages and twin guitar leads. Not as immediate as his previous works. |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
| R.E.M. In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 |
| Rannoch Conflagrations |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Return of the Dream Canteen |
| Regnat Horrendum Shadows Of The Last Battle |
| Rise of Avernus Eigengrau |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory |
| Rotting Christ Rituals |
| Runeshard Shadowbane |
| Satyricon Now, Diabolical |
| Satyricon The Age Of Nero |
| Satyricon Nemesis Divina |
| Schammasch Hearts of No Light |
| Septicflesh Codex Omega |
| Septicflesh The Great Mass |
| Septicflesh Modern Primitive |
| Serpentine Dominion Serpentine Dominion |
| Shade Empire Poetry of the Ill-Minded |
| Shadow Of Intent Reclaimer |
| Shemhamforash Aether |
| Shining (SWE) X - Varg Utan Flock |
| Shining (SWE) IX: Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, ends. |
| Shylmagoghnar Transience |
| Shylmagoghnar Emergence |
| Sigir Rainmaker |
| Sinistral King Serpent Uncoiling |
| Skalmold Ýdalir |
| Skid Row Skid Row |
| Slayer Reign in Blood |
| Slugdge Esoteric Malacology |
| Slytherin The Path We Choose |
| Solid atmoblack in the Summoning style> leagues better than Tales of Hogsmeade which was a misstep |
| Sodom Persecution Mania |
| Soilwork Figure Number Five |
| Soilwork Verkligheten |
| Sojourner Empires of Ash |
| Sojourner Premonitions |
| Sojourner Perennial |
| Solefald The Linear Scaffold |
| Solitude Aeturnus Through the Darkest Hour |
| Solstafir Otta |
| Sonus Mortis Hold This Mortal Coil |
| Soulfly Dark Ages |
| Soulfly Prophecy |
| Soulfly 3 |
| Tree of Pain is the standout song on this album. The story behind it and the way it's delivered with the sadness and anger is touching. Gives chills. One of their best songs no doubt. |
| Soulmass Selling Rubicon by the Pound |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger |
| Spectral Lore Ετερόφωτος |
| Spellsword Night of the Grail |
| SpiritWorld Deathwestern |
| Starforger Wreath of Frost |
| Stark Denial Covenant of Black |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black |
| Suicidal Tendencies Prime Cuts |
| Suicidal Tendencies How Will I Laugh Tomorrow If I Can't Even Smile Today? |
| Sulphur Aeon Gateway to the Antisphere |
| Sulphur Aeon Seven Crowns and Seven Seals |
| Sur Austru Obârşie |
| Swallow the Sun Moonflowers |
| Sylosis Conclusion of an Age |
| Synthetic (UK) Clepsydra: Time Against Infinity |
| Target (CHL) Deep Water Flames |
| Te Ruki Marako Te Ruki |
| Tempel Wolf Hirschgeweihmaskeraden |
| Temple of Dread Beyond Acheron |
| TesseracT Sonder |
| TesseracT One |
| TesseracT War of Being |
| Testament The Formation of Damnation |
| Testament Demonic |
| Testament The Gathering |
| Testament Low |
| Textures Phenotype |
| The Absence From Your Grave |
| The Absence Riders of the Plague |
| The Breathing Process Todes Krone |
| The Design Abstract Metemtechnosis |
| The Doors The Best of The Doors |
| The Ember, The Ash Fixation |
| A criticism of this is that it's disjointed. I don't think so. Actually a pretty skillful amalgamation of sounds. In all a powerful piece that sounds huge. |
| The Halo Effect Days of the Lost |
| The Last Oblation Ascend |
| The Mark Of Cain This Is This |
| The Mosaic Window Plight of Acceptance |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| The Ruins of Beverast Exuvia |
| The Ruins of Beverast The Thule Grimoires |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Sun's Journey Through The Night Crawling Nebula Of Dismal Light |
| The Vision Bleak Carpathia |
| Theosophy Towers Of Dark Pantheon |
| Thou Shell of Death Witchery |
| Thulcandra Fallen Angel's Dominion |
| Thurisaz Scent of a Dream |
| Thurisaz The Cimmerian Years |
| Thy Catafalque Naiv |
| Thy Catafalque Alföld |
| Thy Kingdom Will Burn The Void And The Vengeance |
| Tomahawk Mit Gas |
| Tomarum Ash in Realms of Stone Icons |
| A varied and compelling slab of subgenre black metal. The drumming is the immediate feature but theres plenty of subtleties to be found throughout |
| Tool Ænima |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| Torchbearer Death Meditations |
| Triptykon Melana Chasmata |
| Trivium Shogun |
| Turisas Battle Metal |
| Turisas The Varangian Way |
| Tyr Valkyrja |
| Tyr Battle Ballads |
| Unbowed (CAN) Through Endless Tides |
| Unreqvited Stars Wept to the Sea |
| Unreqvited Beautiful Ghosts |
| Vader Welcome to the Morbid Reich |
| Valdrin Effigy Of Nightmares |
| Valtari Titans Call |
| Valtari Hunter's Pride |
| Vanir Sagas |
| Best to attack this album 3 or 4 songs at a time to appreciate the different personalities of each. Ultimately its solid crunchy melodeath |
| Vanum Realm of Sacrifice |
| Varathron Patriarchs of Evil |
| Vehemence Helping the World to See |
| Vehemence (FRA) Ordalies |
| Venom Prison Erebos |
| VEXED (UK) Culling Culture |
| Violet Cold Empire of Love |
| VOLA Witness |
| Vorga Beyond the Palest Star |
| Vredehammer Violator |
| Vreid Pitch Black Brigade |
| W.E.B. Colosseum |
| WAIT (USA) The End of Noise |
| Wake Thought Form Descent |
| Walg III |
| Wallachia Shunya |
| Warrant Cherry Pie |
| Watain The Agony and Ecstasy of Watain |
| Weeping Silence Isles of Lore |
| Wesenwille II: A Material God |
| Whitesnake Whitesnake |
| Winterfylleth The Reckoning Dawn |
| Wizardthrone Hypercube Necrodimensions |
| Getting a strong Bal-Sagoth vibe on this as well as Turisas which works surprisingly well |
| Wolfheart Wolves of Karelia |
| Wolfheart Constellation of the Black Light |
| Words of Farewell Inner Universe |
| Worm Foreverglade |
| Worm Shepherd Ritual Hymns |
| Wormlight Nightmother |
| Wormwood Arkivet |
| Very melodic black metal filled with sweeping trems. The Slow Drown towards the end of the album is the high point. |
| Wormwood Ghostlands - Wounds From A Bleeding Earth |
| Yoth Iria As The Flame Withers |
| Zonaria Arrival Of The Red Sun |
