| 5.0 classic |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory |
| Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill 2 |
| This soundtrack is a living thing. Akira Yamaoka is the king of atmosphere. There, I fucking said it. "You promised you'd take me there again some day... but you never did. Well, I'm alone there now, in our special place... waiting for you." |
| Alcest Kodama |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies |
| I want this shit played at my funeral. |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession |
| Bad Brains Bad Brains |
| This was the first (and thankfully last) album that I stole from a record store when I was living in FL as a kid. Got caught and grounded for a week but got to keep the CD because I said I lost it. Still have it somewhere in my old room. |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique |
| My mother's contribution to my insanity. She's probably the biggest and whitest Beastie Boy fan you'll meet. Anyways, I always throw this album on when I'm feeling down and need a pick-me-up. It's probably the funniest hip-hip album I've ever heard. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool |
| Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now |
| AOTY doesn't do it quite justice. I think this is the only album that has taken me away from 2020, that in itself is a massive success. Front to.back, a brilliant display of endurance from not only Charli but her incredibly talented crew of producers from PC music. Absolutely fantastic. |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Converge: too punk for the metalheads, too weird for punk kids. I'll be honest, I didn't get it when I heard this. Granted, I thought whitechapel was the most brootal thing on earth. "How could anyone like something this abrasive and this fast? The quality of every instrument sounds like someone recorded this with a $20 value brand mic. Sure, his lyrics are poetic but I can't even understand half of what he's saying. WHY DES EVERYONE LOVE THIS BUT ME?!"rSo what changed? Not much. It's still every one of those things. But.. I love this album like a son. You grow up and suddenly you realize you've been listening to the wrong stuff; that's just life. This album made me think outside of the box for the first time in my relationship with music. It was my rebirth into the more chaotic and progressive meaning of metalcore. |
| Converge You Fail Me Redux |
| A surprisingly great remaster of an already classic album from the godfather of metalcore bands. I'd give it a 6/5 if that were possible. |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| He went out the way he was born, a true progeny of musical excellence. Going through this album before the announcement of this death, I will admit that I found Blackstar to be a bit pretentious. But it's as if he knew our reactions. He knew that when he did pass, this would be intercepted and reevaluated in a different light. To be shared to millions like a last will and testament. So where do we go from here? Easy, spread the legend of Ziggy Stardust. Tell the world and those who didn't know his achievements. Because heroes get remembered, but legends .. they never die.rWe'll see you in the next life David. Rock on. |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Interestingly enough, I think this album can introduce many music fans who would like to get more acquainted with various noise/low-fi projects. I know it certainly did for me. |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Dopamine Dying Away In The Deep Fall |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full |
| Every Time I Die Radical |
| Extol Undeceived |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape |
| Fugazi Repeater |
| Giant Song |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace |
| Johnny Booth Firsthand Accounts |
| Johnny Cash At San Quentin |
| Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love |
| Kelly Bailey Half-Life 2 |
| Kelly Bailey Half-Life |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
| Leave hype out of the equation or not; To Pimp A Butterfly made it's mark in 2015 because Kendrick knew to truly create a classic, you must respect that what has come before and 1-up that shit. The production, the instrumentation, the interludes and track-listing: all flawless. But most importantly, the themes of this historical landmark. Deep, thoughtful and layered as fuck. This is what real hip-hop should sound like today. This is what people in the games should inspire to create. To answer his question: "Remember kid, there's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered but legends never die, follow your heart kid, and you'll never go wrong." King Kunta reign supreme. Long live the king. |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Lantlos .neon |
| McCoy Tyner The Real McCoy |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace |
| Minor Threat Out of Step |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart |
| I get it when people name Jane Doe or We Are The Romans the best metalcore albums of all-time, but honestly (for me at least) this and Controller are just as classic. |
| Misery Signals Controller |
| Modern Life Is War Witness |
| A new breath of air and reminder for hardcore fans of the old that punk still has surprises. So few albums of today's sound have the dedication or motivation that's represented in this 30-minute bar fight. |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| Another reason why I love you (but also still hate you because you're all asshats) sputnik: I would have never heard or understood how to listen to this album without you guys. Give yourselves a cookie. |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| One of the most treasured return to forms in modern rock and a staple in alternative rock. Fucking what do I say that hasn't already been said. Seriously, this is In Utero we are taking about here. This record is quite literally the retrospective of a sun on the verge of supernova. Waif me again. |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| Ojne Prima Che Tutto Bruci |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Replica |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| P.O.S Never Better |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| When I was a little fat boy growing up with heavily mainstream influenced friends in the 2000s era, this album was so foreign to me. I remember finding their first single 'Bloodmeat' and just thinking "How the hell do they do that??" It's probably the closest I've come to falling in love with a man's voice. |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| Rinoa An Age Among Them |
| Secede Tryshasla |
| I feel like a complete asshole for not giving this a shot when my buddy told me about how batshit crazy this thing was. Stop whatever you're doing, take some drugs, lay down and take it in. |
| Shai Hulud That Within Blood Ill-Tempered |
| Slice the Cake Odyssey to the West |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| This stupid nu-metal dogshit album is actually incredibly personal to me. As much as it pains me to admit this; without this album, I would have never been interested in heavy metal. This was one of those "turning point" kind of records. Something about this album always drags me back in. It's not a classic album, but it's THAT album that made me into the music fan I am today. |
| Strapping Young Lad City |
| Sweet Trip Velocity : Design : Comfort |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream |
| Touche Amore Stage Four |
| Touche Amore 10 Years / 1000 Shows: Live at... |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still |
| 4.5 superb |
| 7 Angels 7 Plagues Jhazmyne's Lullaby |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Anthology |
| A Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths of Rhythm |
| A Tribe Called Quest We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service |
| After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) |
| Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill 3 |
| Slightly ahead of the pack because this is where I started. "Monsters? They look like monsters to you?" |
| Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill |
| "The fear of the blood tends to create fear for the flesh." |
| Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill 4: The Room |
| "She was younger than me back then... She looked so happy holding her mother's hand... Here, I'll give it to you..." |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! |
| Liam Cormier of the Cancer Bats once said this, "Everyone will always remember Alexisonfire and Billy Talent as the two bands that brought heavy music to the forefront and broke that scene wide open in Canada." I would sum up this album like this: often duplicated, never replicated. There's really nothing that compares to this album in the post-hardcore landscape. It's loud, wild, and the most exciting thrill you'll experience outside of fucking. |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Andrew W.K. I Get Wet |
| PARRY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD PARTY HARD |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| Die Antwoord has ruined Ageispolis for me forever. So thanks for that. |
| Arcane Roots Melancholia Hymns |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security |
| Asche and Spencer Stay |
A mixture of Akira Yamaoka and Massive Attack, perfectly blended for your everyday trippy psychological quest.
If you haven't seen the movie, seek it out. It deserves more attention just like it's awesome soundtrack. |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Atmosphere Seven's Travels |
| August Burns Red Messengers |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill |
| Bilmuri Eggy Pocket |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| Bjork Post |
| Bjork Vespertine |
| Black Monolith Passenger |
| An outstanding combination of my particular tastes in blackglaze injected with loud hardcore punk anger and heart-pounding post-rock atmosphere. I'll even say this; it's almost a powerviolent cover of Transilvanian Hunger with more open production choices. Color me grey, I'm fucking impressed. |
| Blindside Silence |
| Brockhampton SATURATION |
| Brockhampton SATURATION II |
| Brockhampton SATURATION III |
| Car Bomb Meta |
| Car Bomb w^w^^w^w |
| Car Bomb Mordial |
| Absolute powerhouse of an album, a wild ride from the first to last song. The melodic changes are a nice addition as well. Meta will stand as the example of how to return to something long lost undoubtedly, but this is definitely no failed followed up. |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity |
| Deathgrind on a brand new kind of playing field; that's what Cattle Decap accomplished here. |
| Century Red Giant |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood |
| clipping. Splendor and Misery |
| Cloudkicker Solitude |
| Clown Core van |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge The Dusk in Us |
| Converge I Can Tell You About Pain |
| I enjoy how these tracks complement each other the most. While 'I Can Tell You About Pain' can be seen as the quick, palate cleansing Converge bashing; it leads the listener perfectly into the subdued, sludgy surprise that is 'Eve'. Album hype engaged. |
| Converge Jane Live |
| Counterparts Tragedy Will Find Us |
| Counterparts You're Not You Anymore |
| Counterparts Nothing Left to Love |
| Counterparts A Eulogy for Those Still Here |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us |
| Darkest Hour Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation |
| Daughters Daughters |
| Death Grips Bottomless Pit |
| Probably the most angrily fun albums from DG since The Money Store. |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 |
| Deus Ex Machina A Collection of Fucky Instrumentals |
| Devil Sold His Soul Loss |
| Devil Sold His Soul Belong/Betray |
| Devil Sold His Soul Blessed & Cursed |
| Devil Sold His Soul Empire of Light |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic |
| "C-O-M-P-T-O-N, and the city they call Long Beach. Putting the shit together, like my nigga DOC; no one can do it better." Enough said. |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
More personal.
More depressing.
More raw.
Most important; Funnier.
Shady will fucking kill you. Sue him. |
| ERRA Impulse |
| By and large, this is what happens when you mix the old ways of metallic hardcore with some of today's progressive metalcore scene. Call it "djent" and throw this away if you really want, you'd be doing yourself a huge disservice. |
| ERRA Augment |
| A heavy and surprisingly varied sophomore album considering it sounds so similar to their debut. I guess if it ain't broke, why fix it? Hopefully next time around we'll see some more diversity in structure. It is, however, extremely disheartening to see that Alan Rigdon split from this band. My money is on where he goes next after Erra. |
| ERRA ERRA |
| Carson Slovak and Grant Mcfarland producing? Sold. |
| Extol Extol |
| Extol Burial |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth |
| In a sentence, this is a realistic vision of post-hardcore's evolution as it's members grow older. What is so mind blowing is the amount of accessibility spread across an album that's defined as experimental. |
| Fiona Apple Tidal |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse |
| Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds |
| Fleshkiller Awaken |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace |
| Gaerea Limbo |
| Garry Schyman Bioshock Score |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Luckily/unluckily (depending how high up the mountain you are), this was one of my first introductions to Post-rock. I can only compare it to learning to ride a bike for the first time. The adrenaline courses through your veins and you can't help but scream on top of your lungs that your king of the world. This album almost brought me to tears. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| My perfect day: You find me in my apartment in Orlando, re-reading Layer Cake for the 100th time, waiting for the burritos in the oven to finish cooking and listening to Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven. |
| Great Grief Love, Lust and Greed |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Greyhaven Empty Black |
| Greyhaven This Bright and Beautiful World |
| Handsome Boy Modeling School So ... How's Your Girl? |
| Hans Zimmer The Lion King |
| As far as which one is my favorite..... |
| Hans Zimmer Crimson Tide |
| .....it's harder to pick than you think. |
| Hartfield True Color, True Lie |
| Hopesfall Arbiter |
| Husker Du Metal Circus |
| In Vain (NO) Aenigma |
| Coated in both bleak darkness and blinding light, this massive prog-death record will break you down in tears. |
| Itto Pursuant |
| Seizure's emo little brother. https://ittochicago.bandcamp.com/ |
| Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater |
| John Carney Sing Street OST |
| Johnny Booth Connections |
| Johnny Booth Storyteller |
| Johnny Booth Moments Elsewhere |
| Johnny Foreigner Waited Up 'til It Was Light |
| Found this on someone's end of the decade list. The bright tones coming from the guitar on this album bring this dumb ass smile to my face every time. It's wild and chaotic yet somehow just melodic enough that any song could easily be a hit. |
| Joliette Principia |
| Absolutely amazing album from (what should be) a leading figurehead for the hardcore scene in Mexico. These guys could teach a thing or twenty to the chumps we have in America. |
| Justin Hurwitz Whiplash OST |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 |
| Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| If you ask me, this album is only rivaled by Yes' Close To The Edge. |
| letlive. Fake History |
| Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything |
| What would you do if you weren't afraid....................... |
| LSD and the Search for God LSD and the Search for God |
| Machine Head The Blackening |
| Madvillain Madvillainy |
| Martin O'Donnell Halo 3 OST |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| People don't give Broderick the due credit. |
| Melt-Banana Fetch |
| Misery Signals Absent Light |
| Mol Diorama |
| Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis |
| Periphery + faster, harder, groovier and way more room to grow as they continue to experiment = The Amanuensis |
| More Than Life Love Let Me Go |
| Mos Def Black on Both Sides |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn |
| Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar |
| P.O.S Audition |
| Pale Pale |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven |
| Periphery Periphery (Instrumental) |
| Phoxjaw Royal Swan |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Number nine: Thom, why are you trying to make me cry? |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It |
| Royce da 5'9 Book of Ryan |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| If the internet collective had it's own personality, this would more likely be it's favorite album. |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
Oh my.
My first trip from this album seemed like an slightly disappointing joint from one of modern's hip-hip aficionados. But to be honest, it was definitely the hype that almost killed it for me. On repeat listens, this album has grown on me immensely. Sometimes to the point where I prefer this album to their debut. I can't even count how many times I've laughed out loud to the lyrics on here; and that means a lot in my book. |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 |
| Satyr Locus |
Random find on bandcamp. If music is my fetish, this is my preferred nipple clamps.
I can't describe it any other way sorry lol |
| Save Us From The Archon Some Things We Carry, Always |
| Mix what post-hardcore has brought us in the past with some rough math rock velocity and you've got yourself one hell of an EP. I'm glad to have started here with this band and definitely look forward to more. I would elaborate that the reissue of this is a technical improvement, but I always seem to come back to this version. The crispness and barebones ascetic seems to be more pleasing to my ears and allows me to hear every note with that extra ... umphh. |
| Seizures The Sanity Universal |
| Think Converge if they recorded Jane Doe in a dark, decaying building that's suddenly caught fire. It might take a couple listens for some, but when this hits you; you might never listen to metalcore the same again. |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols |
| Shai Hulud Hearts Once Nourished With Hope... |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun |
| Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light |
| Slice the Cake Odyssey to the Gallows |
| I've never given this band a chance and I hate myself for it. |
| Slice the Cake The Man With No Face |
| Slice the Cake Other Slices |
| Slowdive Souvlaki |
| Snapcase Designs for Automotion |
| Soundtrack (Disney) The Rescuers Down Under |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Cyberpunk 2077: Radio, Vol. 1 |
| State Faults Clairvoyant |
| State Faults Resonate/Desperate |
| Static Dress Rouge Carpet Disaster |
| The Underoath album you wanted, finally coming out. |
| Svalbard It's Hard to Have Hope |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? |
| Sweet Trip A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D |
| Thank You Scientist Maps of Non-Existent Places |
| Thank you Spotify. Think Coheed locked in a closet with Clever Girl, you'll get the idea here. |
| Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail |
| The Armed Untitled |
| The Armed Only Love |
| It's loud and it's definitely not for everyone, but holy shit; this is the sequel to Fetch I thought I'd never get. |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed |
| The Callous Daoboys Die on Mars |
This ended of being one of my favorite albums of the year, even though it came out 2 years ago.
Underrated, and if you can't hear the violin I don't know how to help you. |
| The Chariot One Wing |
| The Chariot Long Live |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet (Redux) |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet |
| There are few (I mean like 2 or 3 few) deathcore albums that I still listen to from start to finish. The Contortionist's Exoplanet is a shining example of the right amount of atmosphere being injected into the rough chassis of this extremely rundown trend. I often revisit it's endless passages of emotion somehow liking it more and more. Seeing them leave this sound behind for a much more smooth rock orientation came as a bit pretentious but I have come to accept that even if they were to go back, what would we really be getting? Much like other bands, moving on in hindsight has made them even more spectacular and Exoplanet will always be the classic. |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me |
| The Cure Pornography |
| The Cure Wish |
| The Cure The Head on the Door |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation |
| The Ghost Inside The Ghost Inside |
| The Killing Tree The Romance of Helen Trent |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die |
| The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine |
| The Republic of Wolves shrine |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza III: Series of Unfortunate Events |
| This album was one of my my most dramatic changes in my music palate. I had never experienced such beautiful musical ideas being mixed together in such a finely tuned chaotic twister. This is Danza at their best. Most are in the right that this music can be pretty unoriginal to the veteran metalcore listener, but for me personally; this was my first intro to any of these elements. They are (and probably always will be) my favorite. Long live Danza, forever. |
| Therefore I Am The Sound Of Human Lives |
| Thom Yorke Anima |
| Thou Magus |
| Thought Industry Mods Carve the Pig |
| So I know what I'm listening to. But I still don't know what I'm looking at. rWait.... was that a harmonica? What the hell am I listening to? |
| Toby Fox Undertale OST |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By |
| Trenches Reckoner |
14 years later - Trenches still got it and Jimmy ryan still has a radical scream.
Maybe 2022 won't suck after all. |
| Trenches The Tide Will Swallow Us Whole |
| Turbonegro Apocalypse Dudes |
| Turnstile Glow On |
| Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy |
| Underoath Define the Great Line |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation |
| United Nations The Next Four Years |
| Weezer Weezer |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| White Lung Paradise |
| Wow, thanks spotify. This is some bold stuff and I'm loving every single minute of it. What's so interesting about this poppy blur of distortion and melody is that it can do this without becoming strenuous. I wouldn't say this is exactly the album everyone has been waiting for to bring punk back to it's knees but I'd argue that seamlessly bringing together beauty and brutality like this successfully is it's own reward. |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I |
| Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of "Twin Peaks" |
| I want the next Silent Hill game to be composed by Xiu Xiu. |
| Yes Close to the Edge |
| Sometimes you just don't know until you know. So yeah, this album is as classic as progressive rock gets. |
| Zao The Crimson Corridor |
| 4.0 excellent |
| A Plea for Purging The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell |
| A Plea for Purging The Life & Death of A Plea For Purging |
| Massive amount of repeatability on here. Certainly not their most full featured project, but a banger to go out on. |
| Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid |
Aesop Rock comes back with another golden album to add to his trophy room. Rock's menu includes some messier production, more minimalist instrumentals and lyrics staggering down a thin line between genius and insanity. So if this isn't your thing, best avoid it.
Also, an hour-long re-imagining of The Shining accompanied by an Aesop Rock album. Beautiful.? |
| After the Burial In Dreams |
| After the Burial Evergreen |
| Alabama Shakes Sound & Color |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| Alter Bridge AB III |
| Alter Bridge Fortress |
| Alter Bridge Blackbird |
| American Football American Football |
| A restless symphonic explosion of emotion, color and technical achievement. I'm glad to say it; this belongs in a museum. |
| Ampere Like Shadows |
| The fastest album I think I've ever listened to. I suggest an ear for powerviolence/thrashcore or you might be turned-off by this one. |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black |
| Take her first album, throw it in the blender. Okay now take a handful of heroin, ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine, alcohol and add to the mix. Add a handful of depression, a pinch of mental instability and a whole fuck ton of harassment from the outside world. Go to town. Here's the kicker; let it sit for 5 years. It's certainly far from perfect but I argue this something to remember. |
| Apparently We Fly Black Clouds vs Silver Linings |
| Even though the songs go a little longer than I want, this EP hits hard. Adorno Records 1/24 |
| Arcane Roots Heaven and Earth |
| Arcane Roots Blood and Chemistry |
| Arcane Roots Landslide EP |
| Architects Hollow Crown |
| Architects Nightmares |
| Atmosphere God Loves Ugly |
| August Burns Red Leveler |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places |
| August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill |
| August Burns Red Winter Wilderness |
| Bad Rabbits American Nightmare |
| Bea5t Empathy Is a Gift |
| Terrible name for a grindcore act, but this EP really shows some really interesting elements. Craig Owen's insanely intense vocals are definitely a highlight and really surprised me. Honestly, I don't think anyone thought he had this in him. |
| Beyonce Lemonade |
| Bjork Vulnicura |
| Another introspective look into the aftermath of Vespertine while coming to concussions with Bjork's mindset almost 14 years later. I will say that this staggers a bit in diversity compared to her trends in previous efforts but overall it succeeds as a well-composed and detailed album. |
| Black Panda Tanque de 98 octanos |
| Black Panda A la caza del U-666 |
| Black Star Black Star |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
| Brockhampton WILDFIRE, TRUMAN, DIANA |
| Brutus (BE) Burst |
| Brutus (BE) Nest |
| Brutus (BE) Unison Life |
| Bury Your Dead Cover Your Tracks |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion |
| Accomplishing what others have tried doing (or at least claim to try) for years. If you miss 80s pop like the rest of us, pick this one up. I personally can't wait to see what's next for Miss Jepsen. |
| Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction |
| Monolith of Inhumanity was probably the more diverse and forward thinking deathgrind albums of 2012. That might have ended up hurting this album. It's still the Cattle Decap that rips throats and asks questions later, just maybe a bit more predictable. Let's see what's next for these guys before we start jump out windows. |
| Cattle Decapitation The Harvest Floor |
| Cave In Until Your Heart Stops |
| Cave In Antenna |
| Cave In Jupiter |
| Cave In Beyond Hypothermia |
| Charli XCX Charli |
| A surprising 180 from someone I swore would fall off after her first couple hits. Many albums try to mimic that A E S T H E T I C of a bladerunner-esq future, but I think this is one of the very very few pop albums to really get it right. rFavorite track; "Click". That track is FUCKING HARD.r |
| Charli XCX Pop 2 |
| clipping. CLPPNG |
| It took me a bit longer to get the feel of this project and I still feel the features on this are garbage, but Clipping. is definitely something to check out if you want something more challenging to listen to. It's glitchy, chaotic and a fuck ton of fun. |
| clipping. Wriggle |
| Clown Core Toilet |
| Counterparts Private Room |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner |
| First time giving this band a chance and I'm definitely liking what I hear. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness |
| Danny Brown XXX |
| Darkest Hour The Human Romance |
| Darkest Hour So Sedated, So Secure (Re-Issue) |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
| Das Oath Das Oath |
| Further proving that my musical tastes come directly from soundtracks in Tony Hawk games. Goddammit. |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want |
| David Bowie The Next Day |
| DEAD KIWIS Systematic Home Run |
| Dead Poetic New Medicines |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| I feel as though my thoughts on this album have changed as time has gone on. I still think it's a very good post-rock/black metal-ish album and the title track is a banger of a song. |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death |
| Each track feels has more weight and aggression, thanks to the intricate layers of noisy beats with new additions of distortion-drenched guitars which complement DG sound perfectly. My only gripe lies with its repetitive nature of how various tracks flow as the album progresses. Thankfully, I think this was corrected in their following release. |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Deftones Ohms |
| Destrage The King Is Fat'n'Old |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence |
| Drowning Pool Sinner |
| Drug Church CHEER |
| Duran Duran Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) |
| Dying Wish Fragments of a Bitter Memory |
| Just look at their band logo. You know exactly what you're getting into. |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| Some of the most depressed people on earth are comedians. |
| Engineers Engineers |
| Envy The Fallen Crimson |
| Everything Everything Get to Heaven |
| The greatest hits of pop's past and hopefully, it's future. |
| Everything Everything Arc |
| Fear Factory Obsolete |
| 90's industrial/metal personified. Demanufacture has some beautiful tracks but this is Fear Factory at their best by far. |
| Fear Factory Mechanize |
| Resurrection and rejuvenation. It's about damn time. |
| Fit for an Autopsy Hellbound |
| Fit for an Autopsy Absolute Hope Absolute Hell |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts |
| FJORT Couleur |
| FKA Twigs LP1 |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor |
| Frank Sinatra Nothing But the Best |
| I think this specific collection is where you'll find Sinatra's truly best work because producer Charles Pignone was a true fan of the man. I'd kill just to get this on LP, but fortunately the CD does the job just fine. |
| Freescha Kids Fill The Floor |
| Frontierer Orange Mathematics |
| It's faster, rougher, noisier and denser than all 4 Danza albums combined. Sign me up. |
| Frou Frou Details |
| A purely pop/electronic project that doesn't hold off from being varied and outspoken. Still waiting for the announcement of Details pt.2. Any day now. |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Bloom and Breathe |
| An excellent mix of post-rock and emo landscapes. These guys have a lot of room to grow but I'll be definitely looking forward to their next release. |
| Genesis Owusu Smiling with No Teeth |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous |
| Ghost Atlas Gold Soul Coma |
| A more emotional and alternative rock album from Jesse Cash that shows this kid is no fluke. |
| Goura Death Crowns |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Haste the Day Coward |
| The great "last chance" record. Easily accessible to every kind of metalcore fan and layered with some ballsy production choices, Haste does the impossible. Remind relevant. |
| Hath Of Rot And Ruin |
| Head Automatica Decadence |
| Easily some of the catchiest stuff Daryl has ever done, but still, it's fun. 4.2/5 |
| Heart in Hand A Beautiful White |
| Heart in Hand Only Memories |
| Hesitation Wounds (LA) Hesitation Wounds |
| A short little post-hardcore/powwerviolent-esq collab project. Favorite track: A. Smith. |
| Holding Patterns Endless |
| Injury Reserve Floss |
| Look Mama I Did It is pretty high up there for my favorite album closers, no question. |
| Ion Dissonance Cast the First Stone |
| A destructively-strong closer for one of the best years metalcore has had in recent memory. Ill Will still leaves me dizzy. |
| It Prevails A Life Worth Living |
| Ithaca The Language of Injury |
| Ithaca They Fear Us |
| Jean Dawson CHAOS NOW* |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures |
| Jimmy Eat World's In Utero. rules. Could have had a more-inspired second half however. |
| Joey Badass ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$ |
I don't see why some are giving this average scores. This is no average effort. There's
a debate for the poppy route Joey has taken in his sophomore effort, this I can agree
with. But it's clear that Joey has set his sights on building his own legacy as a
premier rap artist with this LP. The album was an incrediblely fun listen and has a lot
of depth when it's comes to Joey's views since his last album. My favorite tracks
"Temptation" and "Rockabye Baby" feature some of his finest instrumental work since his
first mixtape years. For something that I was going to pass on because I didn't have
much confidence in it, I'm glad I took it on. 4.1/5 |
| Joji Slow Dancing in the Dark |
| Justin Hurwitz La La Land OST |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| The album title says it all. This is Kayne at his best; grim, passionate and unforgiving. |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. |
| Kevin Abstract American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster |
| Lantlos Melting Sun |
| Les Discrets Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées |
| Like Moths to Flames No Eternity in Gold |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Out of all the nu-metal trash I listened to in my childhood, this is the only one I can revisit without hating myself. It's a solid rock album smothered in 2000s-era angst without being overbearing or pretentious like it's debut. |
| Lizzo Cuz I Love You |
| Lorde Melodrama |
| Make Them Suffer Neverbloom |
| Michael Giacchino The Batman |
| Mike Morasky Portal 2: Songs to Test By OST |
| Video games' Tryshasla, on a particular selection setting. |
| Misery Signals Misery Signals |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet |
| The first time I've ever preordered a spotify playlist lol |
| Mol JORD |
| Monuments (UK) Gnosis |
| N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton |
| Nancy Sinatra Boots |
| Because I'm a sucker for those goddamn boots and this goddamn album. |
| Napoleon Newborn Mind |
| Finally. A metalcore album in 2016 that actually sounds like it's giving a damn. However, I won't be giving it a perfect score. It sounds way too cleanly produced for my ears and the lyrics made my eyes roll on more than a couple of occasions. Again I really liked this album. In this current -core climate, this should satisfy most fans and raise the bar for similar artists a little higher. |
| Narrow Head Satisfaction |
| Neck of the Woods Neck of the Woods |
Neck of the woods can best be described as a menacingly dark metalcore band disguised as a melodic
death metal outfit. They can start a mosh just fine, but they have a much greater grasp on
progression than your run-of-the-mill As I Lay Dying drone. I prefer their more striped back
production as well. Favorite track: Two Smokes. |
| Nirvana Bleach |
| A grunge footnote that refused to entertain most at release, but as more and more time goes on; it finds its value vastly underrated. Through the noisy, unpolished rust that lingers on every single track to the sadistic lyrical content that would turn any soccer mom green, this album sets out to clear new space for the rush of creativity and destruction to come. |
| Norma Jean Meridional |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath |
| Norma Jean Redeemer |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child |
| Norma Jean All Hail |
| Now, Now Saved |
| Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros |
This is easily one of my favorites from 2013. A hellish mix of hardcore throat-ripping punk and hypnotic black metal/post-metal, it left me dazed and wanting more. The sludgy parts actually through me off a bit when I had picked up their debut a couple years previous, but (in my opinion) are the some of best parts of this album.
Saw them live recently: I can confirm that their lead singer, Caro, is fucking insane. |
| Oathbreaker Maelstrom |
| Oathbreaker Rheia |
| I acquired two nose bleeds over the course of this album. All hail Oathbreaker. |
| Oceans Ate Alaska Lost Isles |
| Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning |
| Oh, Sleeper When I Am God |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire |
| Old Gray Slow Burn |
| My first time listening to Old Gray and what an incredible album to be my first. 'like blood from a stone' might be angsty af but the pay off at the very end is so goddamn sweet. |
| Oliver Tree Ugly Is Beautiful |
| P.O.D. Greatest Hits: The Atlantic Years |
| Palm Reader Braille |
| Parkway Drive Horizons |
| I'm not much for breakdowns, but I can guarantee you will bang your head harder than you've ever thought possible when 'Boneyards' hits. |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile |
| If you're wondering where you should START listening to metalcore, this might be the best and most accessible place to start. |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Polyphia Inspire |
| Porcupine Tree Up the Downstair |
| A great progressive rock showcase drenched in that psychedelic atmosphere that made early-Porcupine Tree so hypnotic and interesting. Favorite tracks: Synesthesia and Fadeaway. |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| A refreshing and creative follow up to one of my defining classics, PTH takes a somewhat melodic turn with this album. From start to finish I was hooked on how much clearer the production was compared to their earlier work. Overall, this album impressed me way more than I thought it could. |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest |
| Pusha T DAYTONA |
| Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct |
| Revocation Teratogenesis |
| A catchy little death metal EP that continues to show David Davidson's machine-like technicality, while also improving some minor production chops to boot. |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels (Instrumentals) |
| Secret Band Secret Band |
| Sectioned Annihilated |
| Seu Jorge The Life Aquatic Featuring Seu Jorge |
| Bowie himself on Seu Jorge's covers: "Had Seu Jorge not recorded my songs in Portuguese I would never have heard this new level of beauty which he has imbued them with." |
| Shai Hulud Misanthropy Pure |
| Sithu Aye 26 |
| Grab yourself a beer, Mortal Kombat (or what ever preferred fighting/combat game thing) and this EP. Profit. |
| Slayer God Hates Us All |
| Sleigh Bells Treats |
| Slice the Cake Live At Home |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Sloan One Chord to Another |
Fun fact: Chris Murphy served as music coach for all of Sex Bob-omb's music (performed by the actors) in Scott Pilgrim vs The World.
Some of the slower stuff feels too much like a Beatles's cover band, but when they pick up the pace; this is where the album shines brightest. |
| Slowdive Slowdive (LP) |
| Snapcase End Transmission |
| Spielbergs Distant Star |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue |
| Svalbard One Day All This Will End |
| Taken With Regard To |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny |
| The Afterimage Lumière |
| If you've been waiting for another band to listen to while Erra is working their shit out, this is definitely a good alternative. |
| The Artificials Parables of the Human Spirit |
| Coming off the last album, many of my complains have been removed. The mixing is spot on and there are these bits of ethereal passages .. holy shit those bits sound just like a MS album. These guys don't just deserve to be big, they sound HUGE. |
| The Arusha Accord The Echo Verses |
| The Arusha Accord Juracan |
| the dark pane pt 2 is probably the best song they've ever written and they've written a lot of these bangers |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers |
| The Contortionist Language |
| The Crimson Armada Guardians |
| The Dangerous Summer Mother Nature |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie |
| The Devil Wears Prada Transit Blues |
| I wonder if we'll get anymore of those tragic puppet love stories this time around? Album rules. |
| The Devil Wears Prada ZII |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Ghost Inside Returners |
| If this qualifies as "brocore", then every 90s-00s era metallic hardcore callback must just be my imagination. They may not be able to reinvent the wheel but this album still kicks ass 6 years later. |
| The Ongoing Concept Handmade |
| The Ongoing Concept Saloon |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega |
| I see your points but really, this is worth a 1? in 2012?? This was far from the worst album that year. |
| Thom Yorke Suspiria |
| Tim Hecker An Imaginary Country |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man |
| Turnstile Time and Space |
| Tycho Dive |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) |
| United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures |
| Veil of Maya Eclipse |
| Combining both technical wizardry and new abridged style of melody, Veil Of Maya puts out a monstrous LP that holds a bit more than it can carry. |
| Vein.fm Errorzone |
| Volumes Via |
| Whitechapel The Valley |
| Whitechapel Kin |
| William Basinski Lamentations |
| Zao The Well-Intentioned Virus |
| 3.5 great |
| A Day To Remember Homesick |
| A Plea for Purging Depravity |
| A Plea for Purging A Critique of Mind and Thought |
| Aegaeon Being |
| After the Burial Dig Deep |
| A refreshing return of pace from a band stricken by heavy tragedy. Also, air horns. |
| Alien Ant Farm ANThology |
| Alter Bridge One Day Remains |
| Amy Winehouse Frank |
| 10 year old Tommy found out that jazz was music and actually not a type of supermarket-bought chicken when this album came out. In retrospect, it's a fair album with a lot of truly extraordinary moments from both Amy and her appetite for carnage. Problem is, you might have to dig pretty far to find those gems. |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us |
| Architects Ruin |
| Ariana Grande Sweetener |
Every feature on this album sounds terrible; but mixing some trap beats with those extra-showy vocals works on more levels than I would have thought. Not saying that this is going to be remembered as some 2010s pop classic but, I can say this is the best material Miss Grande has put out.
Stand-out tracks: God is a woman, no tears left to cry, blazed |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Portals |
| Only a handful of albums (in my mind) can successfully pull off having a keyboardist in a deathcore band. This one wins the lot. |
| Beartooth Sick |
| Beyonce Beyonce |
| Breaking Benjamin Saturate |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal |
| Bring Me The Horizon giving a fuck. Sleepwalking is an instant rock classic imo. |
| Britney Spears In the Zone |
| Brockhampton Iridescence |
| Brockhampton Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine |
| Bury Your Dead Bury Your Dead |
| Carnifex Die Without Hope |
| "So, are you into Deathcore? No? Okay, then you shouldn't be listening to this." Yes and no. But for deathcore, yeah this is quality. |
| Carnifex Until I Feel Nothing |
| Cattle Decapitation Ten Torments of the Damned |
| I find it disturbing that some are calling this a weak goregrind album; it's a fun powerviolence EP you normies. |
| Cattle Decapitation Death Atlas |
| Childish Gambino Because the Internet |
| Childish Gambino EP |
| Chiodos Illuminaudio |
| Chuck Person Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 |
| Code Orange Forever |
| Comeback Kid Die Knowing |
| Comeback Kid Symptoms + Cures |
| Converge Y2K |
| I could listen to the Disintegration cover over and over and over and over and it would never get old. Such a cool spin on a classic. |
| Coronado Awake |
Bought this years ago and felt nostalgia for that old MS sound so I put it on. The vocals were mixed a little high but overall an enjoyable listen to fans of the melodic hardcore scene. Favorite track is probably 'Decay'. Killer lead up to a very slick solo.
Dude links his bandcamp header to Rick Astley. This motherfucker. |
| Currents The Place I Feel Safest |
| Cypress Hill Black Sunday |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II |
| Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification |
| Dance Gavin Dance Tree City Sessions |
| Dance Gavin Dance Mothership |
| Danny Brown Old |
| Darkest Hour Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora |
| Darkthrone Old Star |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda |
| A good follow-up, but definitely a step down considering the nature of their last album. I wasn't disappointed, more or less confused why they chose to play it safe. |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part I: Niggas on the Moon |
| The Bjork samples don't bother me much. The back half of this album on the other hand doesn't have nearly the ideas as the first. |
| Death Grips Government Plates |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web |
| Def Leppard Hysteria |
| Drake Take Care |
| A fair album that was bumpy every step of the way. |
| Drake If You're Reading This It's Too Late |
| Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits |
| Ultimately this is just a compilation of his biggest hits but Marshall also gives us 3 solid new tracks, including one of my favorite post-Eminem Show tracks. |
| Eve 6 It's All In Your Head |
| Extol The Blueprint Dives |
| FACT KTHEAT |
Coming back to this album a year after it's release, I notice more that it throws punches like a successor to their 2012 album Burundanga. Problems still range from overly-simple instrumental arrangements in the back half of the album and odd production flubs, but overall I still enjoy FACT in the raw.
I can seriously say that 'Wait' was one of the best singles that came out that year; video and all. |
| FACT burundanga |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails |
| Fallujah Nomadic |
| Fallujah Dreamless |
| Fallujah The Harvest Wombs |
| Fear Before Art Damage |
| Being pummeled down to the ground has never felt so good. Dare I say, it feels progressive. I'm just now starting to listen to Fear Before (The March of Flames) but I can understand why they have such high prestige and extremely loyal fans in the hardcore community. |
| Fear Factory Archetype |
| Even though this album suffers from a bit of a lull in production quality, this was the comeback Bell desperately needed. |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture |
| It's a damn good album with some amazing guitar work. I just don't think this album was FF at their best. |
| Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters |
| Fit for an Autopsy Hell on Earth |
| For Today Ekklesia |
| For Today Portraits |
| Haste the Day Burning Bridges |
| While this album has a lot of issues with following the plague of modern metal on the radio, it's overall worth the time if you want something willing to keep it more entertaining in structure. |
| Hesitation Wounds (LA) Awake For Everything |
| Infant Annihilator The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch |
| Infant Annihilator The Palpable Leprosy Of Pollution - Instrumental |
| It Prevails Perdition |
| J. Cole 2014 Forest Hills Drive |
| JG Thirlwell The Venture Bros: The Music of JG Thirlwell |
| "They hit me with a truck." |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American |
| A great alternative rock/ emo cocktail that literally anyone can get into. |
| Job For A Cowboy Genesis |
| Joji BALLADS 1 |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. |
| Leftovers from TPAB sessions, which is good if you look at it like just a compilation of B-sides. The title says it all so this isn't exactly accessible. Overall, I really enjoyed the unpolished and raw production, especially on tracks like 5/28 and 9/21. The standout however is 6/30 for sure. I'm loving that hook that keeps coming back "I can't explainnnnnnn!" Catchy as fuck. |
| Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies |
| kj wake |
| A straight-forward yet densely layered ambient project that takes you on a journey, as most ambient records do. So grab some of your dankest and have fun on your trip bruh. |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| My original copy on CD has been scratched, scrapped, burnt, and spit on and yet I still hold on to it. It's certainly not the worst rap-rock albums, but it's for sure the most memorable. |
| Lorde Pure Heroine |
| Lorna Shore Psalms |
| Lorna Shore Flesh Coffin |
| Make Them Suffer and Oceano thrown in a blender, but you know.. not the regurgitated shit they play these days. |
| Lorna Shore ...And I Return to Nothingness |
| Love Lost But Not Forgotten Upon the Right, I Saw a New Misery |
| Found this on spotify while totally not doing drugs. |
| Luna Flore Bloom EP |
| Memphis May Fire The Hollow |
| Memphis May Fire Memphis May Fire |
| Misery Signals Mirrors |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge |
| Neck Deep Life's Not Out To Get You |
| Nine Inch Nails Add Violence |
| Nine Inch Nails Not the Actual Events |
| Noise Trail Immersion Womb |
| Noise Trail Immersion Symbology of Shelter |
| Now, Now Threads |
| Oh, Sleeper The Titan |
| Parkway Drive Atlas |
| Place Called Home Eternal Sunshine |
| Grating vocals but the last couple songs really take this to another level. Adorno Records 2/24 |
| Protest the Hero Volition |
| Red (USA) Until We Have Faces |
| Reflections The Color Clear |
| Reflections exi(s)t |
| Revocation Empire of the Obscene |
| A great debut from literally out of nowhere. Some songs could use a bit of polish and trail off a bit in the latter half but if you look close into what David Davidson is trying to accomplish, it's certainly more impressive than you're average tech-death record. |
| Rise Against Endgame |
| Rolo Tomassi Hysterics |
| Shai Hulud Just Can’t Hate Enough X 2 - Plus Other Hate Songs |
| New Shai Hulud album on the horizon? HYPE 2016 TO MAX |
| Shores of Elysium Entity In The Void |
| Sia 1000 Forms Of Fear |
| A small treasure that shines it's way into the public's heart. This has talent written all over it, but originality unfortunately is far and between if you've been anywhere near her far superior contemporaries like Imogen Heap and (imo..) more recently Grimes. Time will tell if Sia can take her strengths in this album and shape them into something for her next project. |
| Skillet Collide |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind |
| Snapcase Bright Flashes |
| Deserves more love. |
| Soundtrack (Film) Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Witcher 3 - The Wild Hunt |
| Taylor Swift Folklore |
| Texas in July Bloodwork |
| The Armed Ultrapop |
| I like this alot. Well, for maybe a month. I dunno, maybe because of how solid the singles were, there was a lot of space. Then the album dropped; I've maybe ran through it twice??rIt's good, it's just not as vast as Only Love and as groovy as Untitled. |
| The Artificials Heart |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual |
| The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars |
| The Chariot The Fiancee |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board |
| The Fall of Troy OK |
| Fine I'll be that guy; the perfect release for 4/20. My ears weren't ready for "Suck-o-matic". The wonky production still gets pretty messy at times but I enjoy the return the rougher, raw quality of Thomas Erik's vocals. I recommend a casual number of repeats, not that I really need to tell anyone here that. |
| The Ghost Inside Get What You Give |
| The Hope Conspiracy Death Knows Your Name |
| The Ongoing Concept Again |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza II: The Electric Boogaloo |
| Thy Art Is Murder Hate |
| tobyMac Welcome to Diverse City |
| Toothgrinder Schizophrenic Jubilee |
| Travis Scott Rodeo |
| Travis Scott Astroworld |
| Trivium Shogun |
| Trivium In Waves |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence |
| Tyler, the Creator IGOR |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| United Nations United Nations |
| Upon a Burning Body The World Is Ours |
| Veil of Maya Matriarch |
| A pretty intense album only held back by the addition of radio-friendly clean vocals and predictability. |
| Vince Staples FM! |
| Great beats, great bars; but yeah, it kinda just ends. |
| Volumes The Concept of Dreaming |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile |
| Banging out a couple flaws from their previous effort and boasting a more coherent production, Whitechapel seems to be untouchable in the deathcore scene. However, refusing to change gears towards substance in favor of more loud breakdowns, this album is a bit of an enigma to me. Two options are now presented to these musicians: Keep winding the key or change it up. |
| Whitechapel Whitechapel |
| Within the Ruins Creature |
| Within the Ruins Invade |
| You Will Always Dependent, Reliant |
| Zao Awake? |
| Zao Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest |
| Zao The Funeral of God |
| 3.0 good |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart |
| Adele 21 |
| After the Burial Wolves Within |
| All That Remains Overcome |
| Aly and AJ Into The Rush (Deluxe Edition) |
| Pre-Miley Cyrus was actually pretty nice. I still listen to Chemicals React with no regrets. |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together |
| Architects Daybreaker |
| Architects Holy Hell |
| Arrival of Autumn Harbinger |
| Melo-dethish-metalcore in the vein of Trivium and even moments that emulate The Black Dahila Murder. It's a great trip down memory lane, but that's about all you'll get. |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse |
| Astronoid Air |
| The ambitious mix of layered progressive elements with black-metal/gaze elements works in more ways than I thought at first glance, but the repetitious structure and noticeably mediocre clean vocal mix brought down the entire experience for me. I am definitely keeping an eye for their next release if they can address these issues. |
| Beartooth Disgusting |
| Beyond the Shore Ghostwatcher |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season |
| It's not the worse metalcore album I've heard. Certainly one of the most popular. Damn shame. |
| Chelsea Grin Eternal Nightmare |
| Chelsea Grin Evolve |
| Childish Gambino Camp |
| Chiodos Devil |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech |
| Dance Gavin Dance Artificial Selection |
| Darkest Hour Darkest Hour |
| Dope Life |
| ERRA Moments of Clarity |
| In short, it's predicable as hell. Losing their lead guitarist was definitely a strike across the board, but losing their beastly vocalist signifies Erra's fall into mediocrity. |
| ERRA Drift |
| Milk and cookies that expired about a day ago = what I picture when listening to this album. |
| Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High |
| Falling in Reverse Coming Home |
| Falling Up Crashings |
| Fear Factory Genexus |
| Fear Factory Aggression Continuum |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Process of Human Extermination |
| For Today Breaker |
| Frontierer Unloved |
| House of Pain House of Pain |
| Infant Annihilator The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening |
| Iwrestledabearonce Hail Mary |
| J. Cole K.O.D. |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo |
| Certainly more appealing than Yeezy's last attempt to best himself, Kayne West steps up to home plate with his 7th studio album with some interesting results. On one hand, this is West at his most familiar. Kanye is like a little brother that has absolutely no filter at family get-togethers; he's hysterical. Many fans of The College Dropout days will enjoy the back-half of the instrumentals on this record too. "Real Friends" is by far his best work in years.rOn the other hand, the majority of this sounds completely smashed together with half-baked ideas littered throughout. Songs can sound muddy, under-produced or even lazily cut together. I find it hard to believe much went into this record when he reports that this album was his "most expensive to date". In my opinion, it's his most pushed. |
| Kanye West Graduation |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (2009) |
| Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks |
| Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter IV |
| A guilty pleasure for me. I can't even begin to explain it. |
| Linkin Park Reanimation |
| Lower Definition Moths |
| This album contains it's fair share of typical rehashed post-hardcore ideas and breakdown sparklers but its low-quality production approach actually carries it farther than most. Not to mention, this frontman's clean vocals will leave you hypnotized. |
| Machine Head Unto The Locust |
| Make Them Suffer Old Souls |
| Make Them Suffer Worlds Apart |
| I'm glad they've finally taken to the new sound instead of being half-in/half-out like their last album. The cleans still take some getting use to. I enjoyed Louise's more subdued approach but I can hear the new singer adds more weight to the sound they are going for. I think the production is entirely too clean and some of the electronic swells sound mixed a little too high. rOverall, I think this album works for what it is. That's more than I can say about everyone else in the deathcore camp who've decided to changed their sound this year. |
| Megadeth Dystopia |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Milk Teeth Sad Sack |
| A catchy listen and produced proficiently better than their current contemporaries, definitely a plus. BUT, the lyrics can be borderline shit on some tracks. Unless their suppose to be taken sarcastically, they sound like your everyday angst-filled 13 year old who listens to Nevermind way too much. |
| Miss Fortune A Spark To Believe |
| Miss May I Apologies Are for the Weak |
| Miss May I Monument |
| Monuments (UK) Phronesis |
| Mudvayne The New Game |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal |
| Pink Guy PINK GUY |
| I laughed. |
| Polyphia Muse |
| Poppy 3:36 (Music To Sleep To) |
| Porcupine Tree On the Sunday of Life |
| It's noisy, messy and has been seen as a dud-debut to many on this site, but I kinda dug it. This album still brings some moments of the same odd brilliance that their other classics would later claim. |
| Post Malone beerbongs and bentleys |
| Protest the Hero Pacific Myth |
The first post-Arif PTH release has me nervous that one of my favorite bands from my high school years might have finally dropped the ball. The way this was distributed has no effect on my score, I just simply found nothing of note on this EP.
edit: Came back to this after a long break from anything remotely close to PTH. I like this more than I did, but it still feels lacking in it's bass presentation; one of the biggest reasons PTH stood out over other then and current metal-ish-core-ish bands. |
| Protest the Hero A Calculated Use of Sound |
| Red (USA) End of Silence |
| Rings of Saturn Lugal Ki En |
| Rings of Saturn Dingir |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason |
| Soundtrack (Film) Silent Hill The Movie Soundtrack |
| Soundtrack (Film) Twister |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed |
| Taylor Swift 1989 |
| Taylor finally ditches her country boots in favor of a sexier pair of high heels. The result, however, leaves me unhinged. My biggest issue is that repeated listens soured the flavor of this record much faster than anything else I've heard recently on the radio. Catchy beats yet bland and irritating hooks are the name of the game here. It still has more value than anything else in her current discography but 1989 certainly won't be remembered as the album that took 2014. |
| Texas in July One Reality |
| Texas in July Texas in July |
| The Acacia Strain 3750 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic |
| The Devil Wears Prada Space |
| The Devil Wears Prada The Act |
| Thisismenotthinkingofyou Restessness |
| This is probably the loudest mix I've heard in emoviolence so far. Adorno Records 3/24 |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace |
| Three Days Grace One-X |
| Thy Art Is Murder Dear Desolation |
| Thy Art Is Murder / The Acacia Strain / Fit for an Autopsy The Depression Sessions |
| tobyMac Momentum |
| Tyler, the Creator Wolf |
| Upon a Burning Body Red. White. Green. |
| Volumes No Sleep |
| Whitechapel Mark of the Blade |
| Cleans on a Whitechapel record. Oh my. (They're actually pretty good.) |
| 2.5 average |
| A Day To Remember Common Courtesy |
| A Day To Remember Bad Vibrations |
| Adele 25 |
| Adele 19 |
| Architects The Here and Now |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise |
| As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire |
| Asking Alexandria From Death to Destiny |
| Beartooth Aggressive |
| Blessthefall Witness |
| Born of Osiris Soul Sphere |
| Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... |
| Bring Me the Horizon Amo |
| Brockhampton Ginger |
| Bury Your Dead Beauty and the Breakdown |
| Chelsea Grin Desolation Of Eden |
| Chelsea Grin My Damnation |
| Code Orange I Am King |
| Dope No Regrets |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2 |
| Emmure Goodbye To The Gallows |
| Evanescence Fallen |
| Fall Out Boy PAX AM Days |
| Falling in Reverse The Drug in Me Is You |
| Fear Before Fear Before |
| Disappointment comes in all shapes and forms. For Fear Before (The March Of Flames) it's in the form of a lame duck who use to be a mighty lion. You can find some hidden gems like "Fear Before Doesn't Listen To People Who Don't Like Them" but overall this was not the comeback album everyone expected from these experimental giants. |
| For Today Immortal |
| I See Stars The End of the World Party |
| I See Stars 3D |
| Joji In Tongues |
| Justin Bieber Purpose |
| It's passable music written by a popstar. That doesn't mean that liking it is required. |
| Justin Timberlake Man of the Woods |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2 |
| Kanye West Yeezus |
| An absolutely polarizing record is the best way to sum this album up. Maybe Yeezy should take down a couple mirrors in his mansion and get back to the serious business he is so desperately trying to scream at us. |
| Kanye West ye |
| Killswitch Engage Incarnate |
| I dunno. Maybe KSE and the whole melodic-metalcore scene just doesn't do it for me anymore. |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent |
| Lady Gaga The Fame |
| Lady Gaga Born This Way |
| Lady Gaga Joanne |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight |
| You can definitely blame the fact that Linkin Park changed their style or the fact that the lyrics are more emotionless than Kevin Costner's acting. I think this album was just a product of two things: hype and age. I can still find some songs enjoyable but overall, I'm sure this is the album they want you to forget the most. |
| Linkin Park Living Things |
| Lost In The Echo is worth a look if you want to see what old and new LP smashed together would sound like. That's about it though. |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party |
| I can recognize that this album has traits that appeal to more people than the other post-rapcore LP albums. But if you ask me, all they did was trade their glossy production for a more angst-driven garage esthetic instead of working towards an album facing their biggest issue; creativity. |
| Linkin Park Live In Texas |
| Loathe The Things They Believe |
Eh, well. An interesting set of tracks. I dunno, maybe I just like shit my little brother could make on his MacBook (lol)
But to say this is not just one or two of the members making some compilation of b-sides from 2018-19's writing process to hold over fans who REQUIRE MOAR LOATHE OMGG ... is pretty weak to me. |
| Lorna Shore Immortal |
| Lorna Shore Maleficium |
| Miley Cyrus Bangerz |
| This could have been worse. I've certainly listened to worse. |
| Miss May I At Heart |
| My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| I get it, I do. But to me, while many here and far claim this album was Nirvana's most ambitious, I thought it stood out as a bland and commercial medal of completion. While the first few tracks on here are promising and have the hooks, the album goes down in a hail of mediocrity midway through. Many fans will defend this album (even more so than Bleach for some ungodly reason.. seriously that album is a thunderstorm of emotion), but nothing here makes me feel that passion and fire that Kurt and crew brought in their earlier and future endeavors. |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out |
| Papa Roach Infest |
| Parkway Drive Ire |
| I've heard worse from other bands who decide to change up their style in favor of melody, however, it's sad coming from one of the last bearable metalcore acts in the mainstream's public eye. This album will solely depend if you can accept that Parkway is getting older. |
| Red (USA) Release the Panic |
| Run the Jewels Meow the Jewels |
| Run the Jewels Blockbuster Night - Part II |
| Sleepwave Broken Compass |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter |
| Suicide Silence The Black Crown |
| The Armed Perfect Saviors |
| It always hurts to see your favorite aspects of a band you love disappear. But I hope this works out for them and they blow up. |
| The Crimson Armada Conviction |
| The Ghost Inside Dear Youth |
| The Ongoing Concept Places |
| Three Days Grace Life Starts Now |
| Thy Art Is Murder Holy War |
| Toothgrinder Nocturnal Masquerade |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin |
| Underoath The Changing of Times |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption |
| Bringing nothing new to the table but more endless breakdowns, this deathcore act might finally be all out of ideas. |
| Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement |
| Within the Ruins Elite |
| Within the Ruins Phenomena |
