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5.0 classic
AZ Doe or Die
For the life of me I cannot figure how this is not a heralded classic of 90s rap. For me this is as close to a flawless hip hop record as it gets.
Between the Buried and Me Colors
Botch We Are the Romans
Breach It's Me God
hoooooooooOOOOOLY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCXXKKKkkkkkkkkk!!!
Corrupted Garten Der Unbewusstheit
Cryptopsy None So Vile
Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Incapacitants As Loud as Possible
ISIS Panopticon
Kyuss Blues For The Red Sun
maudlin of the Well Bath
MF DOOM MM.. Food
Nadja Thaumogenesis
Neurosis The Eye Of Every Storm
Neurosis Souls At Zero
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In
Oxbow Serenade In Red
Panopticon Collapse
Sigur Ros Takk...
Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions
Swans The Seer
Sweet Jesus.
Swans To Be Kind
The National High Violet
The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt
They Might Be Giants Flood
Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still
This wasn?t overhyped or overinflated. After multiple listens SIDABS just became more obviously the biggest leap forward Ulcerate have made since Everything Is Fire. They?ve a cemented a new morphology of death metal with a sound and style that is pretty inarguably theirs, and this record is them finally perfecting it.rHard to find anything to complain about with this.
Vampire Weekend Only God Was Above Us

4.5 superb
200 Stab Wounds Manual Manic Procedures
I think people are mistaking unconventional death metal songwriting for lack of talent. This is obviously super punk influenced and honestly I like that they make more room for the unfathomable amount of sick riffs on this sucker.
Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
Andrew Bird Break It Yourself
Arabrot Norwegian Gothic
Billy Woods Aethiopes
This is so good it makes it difficult to listen to other rap.
Billy Woods and Kenny Segal Maps
I think it is physically impossible for Billy Woods to miss, and he?s at his best with Segal. Slightly less dark and more ?traditional? than last year?s records, but equally poignant and potent.
Black Curse Burning in Celestial Poison
Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere
Bongzilla Weedsconsin
Cave Sermon Divine Laughter
Celtic Frost To Mega Therion
Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis
clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood
Coevality Multiple Personalities
Converge Jane Doe
Converge Axe to Fall
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind
Convulsing Perdurance
Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMNNNN DANIEL.rlike really doe like really doe
Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Darkthrone The Underground Resistance
Deafheaven Sunbather
Death Grips The Money Store
Dozer Drifting In The Endless Void
Dying Fetus Make Them Beg for Death
Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full
For such a gnarled, powerhouse sound they have on their own, Thou are ridiculously talented at tempering themselves to the different styles of their collaborators. Emma?s no slouch, and her presence is heavy throughout the sadly short record. Her desert-drone and haunting alto mixed with Thou?s murk shaved to a fine edge...potential AOTY, shoe-in for the top of the list.
Equilibrium Erdentempel
Equilibrium have not a shred of kvlt cred and their music is soaked in folk metal cliches like hurdy-gurdy and flute solos, but when it comes to consistently PRISTINE songwriting, hooks and melodies galore, all while being a ton of fun and quite frankly I could give a hoot less if they take themselves seriously, this album is a masterwork and "Uns'rer Floten Klang" is just...happiness in a tune.
Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter
Everything Everything Get to Heaven
Everything Everything Mountainhead
Fall Out Boy So Much (For) Stardust
Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel...
Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Foxing Foxing
Frigoris Wind
Funebrarum The Sleep of Morbid Dreams
Gatecreeper Dark Superstition
Geordie Greep The New Sound
Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
With the world social and political climate as it is, you figure GY!BE is gonna come out of their Montreal bunker for an album. The title is absolutely silly, but not surprising at all. What IS surprising is that this is easily their best since Allelujah, possibly better than that even.
GridLink Coronet Juniper
Grinning Death's Head Golden Dawn
fuzZZzzZZDktdssdhhhhsrjrreadhhvSHRRRRIIIIRJJGAAAKKAAHHGfrrrbrrrrzzz
High on Fire Cometh the Storm
Hop Along Get Disowned
Horda Form
Iron Monkey Spleen & Goad
ISIS Oceanic
ISIS Wavering Radiant
Jessie Ware That! Feels Good!
This is one of my most-listened records of the year and it's still absolutely fabulous. I've always loved Jessie but she's never made an entire album that's so delicious from top to bottom, dripping with ear candy and the classiest of innuendo.
Judas Priest Invincible Shield
Julie Christmas Ridiculous and Full of Blood
I waited literally 14 years for this album like some kind of Tool fan except I wasn?t disappointed
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music III
Klysma Death
I'm not even kidding, this is the best slam I've heard in a long time. An absolutely ridiculous feature list, bottomless riffs and gurgles, hysterical samples before the breakdowns...it's got everything. Top-to-bottom fun as fuck.
Laura Stevenson Wheel
Can this just leak so I can listen to it and be super happy?
Leeched To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse
Liturgy H.A.Q.Q.
Well that came out of nowhere and rocketed up my AOTY list real quick.
Machismo Severe Disconnect
I traded Sutcliffe Jugend for this and I?m not even sorryrI also bought a replacement copy for dirt cheap so it?s kinda cheatingrThis is one of the best power electronics releases I?ve ever heard why do the nasty die fasty
Mamaleek Come and See
Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God
Mastodon Blood Mountain
Mastodon Crack the Skye
Melvins Tarantula Heart
Merzbow Dust of Dreams
Genius-grade sound manipulation. Japanoise is best
Musk Ox Woodfall
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade
Excellent excellent pop-punk emo-whatever. I had no idea it would be this amazing, but I find it hard to hear imperfections in this.
Nadja Touched
Nadja Radiance of Shadows
Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
Ok we are all admitting this squeaked then? Good.rThis slams. The riffs and songwriting are consistently delicious and just as visceral as a younger ND. There?s definitely even some experimentation with slower and more programmatic sounds which I think they pull off FANTASTICALLY well, and I was surprised. rHell of an album, shoe-in for the AOTY list
Ne Obliviscaris Exul
Neurosis Through Silver In Blood
Obsidian Kingdom Mantiis
Old Man Gloom Seminar IX: Darkness of Being
Geezus can?t wait for the prequel if this slams this hard, one time fake-out album is cool but twice is god-tier insanity
Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi
Oxbow An Evil Heat
Oxbow King of the Jews
Panopticon Panopticon
Panopticon The Rime of Memory
I hate to just reiterate Coma but yeah, this feels like a culmination of everything Austin's done as Panopticon chiseled to a fine precision. Nothing against the last two records, but this definitely feels the most directed since Autumn Eternal. Better than Collapse? We'll see if nostalgia wins.
Rorcal Vilagvege
Shellac To All Trains
Slift Ilion
Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
First metal anything I ever heard was "Pulse of the Maggots", so fuck you, this is staying a 4.5.
Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine
Sulphur Aeon Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
SUMAC The Healer
Swans The Great Annihilator
Swans Children of God
SWARRRM こわれはじめる
Swarrrm?s always been pretty raucous and fun but this has no business being this pumpin? good, ?metal? AOTY so far (...until I finish the new Panopticon)
The Drones I See Seaweed
The Menzingers After the Party
hoping this boosts the average over Brand New'srAOTY
The Offering Home
Was NOT expecting this to riff and smash the whole way through, and definitely not as hard as this goes. Catchy and heavy in all the right places, equal bits tech-death and ?progressive? metal and the vocalist(s) are genuinely talented and display it on a wide yet cohesive spectrum. rJust an incredibly awesome record on the whole, actual rating like a 4.2-3
Thy Catafalque Naiv
Tyler, the Creator IGOR
Ulcerate Cutting the Throat of God
No idea what people can hear in this that warrants a 2.5 or lower. I get the band is SUPER hyped up but objectively I cannot see the justification. On just the first full listen this might be better than Stare.
Waxahatchee Tigers Blood
Wintersun Time I
Xiu Xiu OH NO
Ok, not the only one who got the preorder early then haharThis is so utterly fantastic. You?d expect a full album of duets to falter by diminishing either the band or the collaborators, but this is so brilliantly composed on the part of all parties involved. Equally a wonderful Xiu Xiu record and a showcase of them playing beautifully with the influence of others.
Zao Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest
Zao The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here
Genius Jesuscore crammed full of hooks. Every time I feel this doesn't deserve such a high rating, I fall in love with it again.
Zao The Crimson Corridor
Have not had an album I already loved grow on me this much in a long time. So much so I felt I needed to up my rating.

4.0 excellent
...and Oceans Cosmic World Mother
Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties We Don't Have Each Other
Aborted Vault of Horrors
Afsky Ofte Jeg Drømmer Mig Død
Afsky-sky muddafugga, Afsky-sky gaht damn (gotdamn)
Afterbirth Four Dimensional Flesh
Air Review Low Wishes
Alcest Spiritual Instinct
Altarage Succumb
Amenra Mass V
Archspire Bleed the Future
Armand Hammer We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
Artificial Brain Artificial Brain
ASAP Ferg Floor Seats II
WhaaaaaaatrI?ve always liked Ferg?s voice and flow, but this has NO RIGHT going as hard as it does. No filler tracks, a killer feature list, and I keep coming back to bump this again and again. rFire.
Astral Tomb Soulgazer
Atvm Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless
Autopsy Morbidity Triumphant
Bat For Lashes The Haunted Man
Bayside Interrobang
Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation
Bell Witch Future's Shadow I: The Clandestine Gate
Between the Buried and Me Colors II
Bidirna Dhamani Brihot Buru
Esoteric 2-piece brutal death metal from India, with bits of eastern influence in the drums and structure. Super super cool, looking forward to more material from these guys.
Big|Brave Vital
Big|Brave nature morte
Big|Brave A Chaos of Flowers
Black Curse Endless Wound
Blanck Mass Animated Violence Mild
Screw you PO)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))t$y
Blaze of Perdition The Harrowing of Hearts
Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Rejecting Obliteration
Blood From The Soul DSM-5
Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race
Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen
Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Boris NO
Borknagar True North
Brand of Sacrifice Lifeblood
I have no idea how to rate this, because on one hand completely obnoxious deathcore, but on the other hand ALSO completely deliciously obnoxious deathcore
Brodequin Harbinger of Woe
Candy (USA) It's Inside You
Candy (USA) Flipping
Cannibal Corpse Violence Unimagined
Cannibal Corpse Chaos Horrific
This is surprisingly great considering the boots it had to fill. It might even have a bit more staying power than Violence Unimagined, but time will tell.
Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
Cavalera Conspiracy Schizophrenia
lol I get being mad at the concept but at least listen to it first. Re-recordings are notorious for being disgracefully bad,
but I mean.. Max was 17 when he wrote this. I suppose experience won over old age this time because this is an utter
improvement on the original in almost every way.
Cave In Heavy Pendulum
Celtic Frost Monotheist
Chat Pile Cool World
Chelsea Wolfe Abyss
Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun
Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
Church of Misery Born Under A Mad Sign
CHVRCHES Every Open Eye
clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned
I would be amazed if this wasn?t mostly taken from the cutting room floor of TEAATB, but it?s so easy to ignore that when this is so damn solid and beautifully arranged. Don?t call it a B-sides.
Converge You Fail Me
Converge The Dusk in Us
Cryptosis Bionic Swarm
Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear
CZARFACE and MF DOOM Super What?
Darkest Hour Perpetual | Terminal
Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger
Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon
Darkthrone Soulside Journey
Darkthrone Arctic Thunder
Death Grips Exmilitary
IM GONNA TAKE IT AROUND FOR A BIT AND I DONT CARE IF YOU GIVE A SHIT... PUUUNK!!!...
BIIIIIYAAAATCHHH!!!!!
Deftones Ohms
Ah, another Sputnik study in ?What?s worse?: Worshipping a band no matter their quality of output, or being a whiny dick just because a band has that kind of clout??
Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future
Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked
Desolate Shrine Deliverance from the Godless Void
I know it's just the Greek name for those weird triplets that share an eye in the Disney Hercules movie, but I can NOT stop reading "The Graeae" as "The Grease" and it really ruins this whole album for me
Dissimulator (CAN) Lower Form Resistance
This is fantastic! The proggy parts and especially the vocoder reminds me a bit of Focus-era Cynic
Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current
Dvne Voidkind
Einsturzende Neubauten Rampen
Eluvium Copia
The soundtrack to falling in love and dancing away in eternal slow circles.
Eluvium Nightmare Ending
END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face
Enterprise Earth Death: An Anthology
Whaaaaat I did not expect this to be good after The Chosen was total butt but this is really really solid
Eternal Storm A Giant Bound to Fall
Every Time I Die Radical
Everything Everything A Fever Dream
Everything Everything Raw Data Feel
I will happily say this is their best since Get To Heaven, the songs seem to have stronger identities. Shark Week is an
absolute banger.
Exsanguination Burial Rites
Flotsam and Jetsam Blood in the Water
Fluisteraars Bloem
Forest of Tygers I Will Die of Violence
Fossilization Leprous Daylight
Frail Body Artificial Bouquet
Full of Hell Garden of Burning Apparitions
Full of Hell Coagulated Bliss
Genesis Owusu Smiling with No Teeth
Genesis Owusu Struggler
Genocide Organ Remember
I'm wearing Adam Thomas' old band's shirt and I'm 4'ing GO while playing a l337 noisehead. I have never been banned and to date no one has physically fought me
Gigan Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus
Gospel The Loser
Grave Miasma Abyss of Wrathful Deities
Gulch Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress
Hauntologist Hollow
He Is Legend White Bat
Hooded Menace The Tritonus Bell
Hoplites Π​α​ρ​α​μ​α​ι​ν​ο​μ​έ​ν​η
Horrendous Ontological Mysterium
Hyperdontia Harvest of Malevolence
This is fantastic. I randomly found Nexus of Teeth used the other week and it lived in my car stereo for a good minute.
Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion
Immortal Bird Sin Querencia
Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy
Incantation Unholy Deification
Incapacitants Default Standard
One of the better Incapacitants releases, (the lower end the better with these two IMO) marking it high among the annals of Japanoise itself. Severely underrated here, apparently.
Insane (SWE) Victims
ISIS In the Absence of Truth
James Blake Overgrown
Japandroids Celebration Rock
drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drudkh
Job For A Cowboy Moon Healer
Johnny Booth Moments Elsewhere
JPEGMAFIA I Lay Down My Life For You
JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown Scaring the Hoes
Jute Gyte Unus Mundus Patet
Adam's best and most accessible black metal record in years. I always look forward to new BM Jute Gyte and this was a particularly happy surprise. If y'all Pitchfork black metallers are worshiping Liturgy's "sacred number" shit just know Jute Gyte did it first and better.
Kanye West Yeezus
Killer Be Killed Reluctant Hero
This rating may change but I?m giving it the benefit of the doubt because it?s fun as heck
Kim Gordon The Collective
Cannot believe Kim Gordon made a better Gazelle Twin album than Gazelle Twin
Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue
Korgull the Exterminator Built to Kill
Maybe I'm a little generous with my 4s but this absolutely rips. If you like speed metal or blackthrash or just fast riffs get on this immediately.
Leprous Pitfalls
Lilla Veneda Primordial Movements
Lingua Ignota SINNER GET READY
Macabre Demise Awakening
Gotta love death metal that?s crushing and satisfyingly old-school gory while still having a strong thread of neck-snapping groove.rFans of death metal are sleeping on this for 2020
Madlib, Meyhem Lauren and DJ Muggs Champagne For Breakfast
Mastodon Leviathan
Mayhem Daemon
Melvins Working with God
meth. Shame
Metharoma Pipe Dreams (Through The Alley)
MIKE Burning Desire
Miscreance Convergence
Misthyrming Algleymi
Mizmor and Thou Myopia
Monkey3 Welcome to the Machine
Mono For My Parents
Nadja Skin Turns To Glass
Nadja Desire in Uneasiness
Neck of the Woods The Annex of Ire
Necrot Lifeless Birth
Necrowretch Swords of Dajjal
Neurosis Given To The Rising
Neurosis Honor Found In Decay
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Carnage
This is MILES better than Ghosteen. Honestly we all know we?re probably not getting the punk-ish Blixa Cave anymore, and as far as his work with Warren this is a fantastic entry.
Norma Jean All Hail
Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me
Occultum Apokatastasis
Om Advaitic Songs
Oxbow Thin Black Duke
Oxbow Love's Holiday
Panopticon Roads to the North
Panopticon Autumn Eternal
Panopticon .​.​.​And Again into the Light
I appreciate the idea of having a black metal ?side? and an acoustic folk ?side? for a record, but it?s clear that Panopticon flourishes most when Lunn focuses on songcraft and not which of his influences is at the forefront.
Pathology Reborn to Kill
Lol I?ve always enjoyed Pathology as a gem in a dungheap of slam, but this actually genuinely rips
PeelingFlesh Slamaholics, Vol. 2
PeelingFlesh The G Code
Pensees Nocturnes Douce Fange
Pestilectomy From Vulnerable To Funeral
I may be a sucker for slam, but this is surprisingly solid and already one of my favorite records for 2022.rStreaming: https://youtu.be/w7bhWmx3ydsr
Prof Horse
The most fun hip-hop album of the year so far, featuring both Redman AND Mr. Meth, and I had to add it to the database. SAD.
Protest the Hero Palimpsest
Prurient Casablanca Flamethrower
Best he?s done since Frozen Niagara Falls, definitely better than the average rating it?s sitting at as of this typing.
PUP Morbid Stuff
Pupil Slicer Mirrors
I first found this labeled as experimental death metal which is a lol, but it definitely is a fantastic amalgam of odds and ends from hardcore/grind/metal. Probably most comparable to Converge if you want to shoehorn it, but generally pretty singular as well.
Pyrrhon Exhaust
Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch
Replacire The Center That Cannot Hold
The sheer amount of fantastic new death metal of all subsets burgeoning over the last couple years is absolutely refreshing
Run the Jewels RTJ4
Seputus Phantom Indigo
This is miles ahead of the debut, kept the creepy crusty style but with stronger songwriting, and the production is SO much less skeletal which helps a ton.
Shezmu À Travers Les Lambeaux
Sightless Pit Grave of a Dog
Slipknot Slipknot
Great record, I still enjoy Slipknot. Eyeless, (sic), and Wait and Bleed ftw.
Slipknot Iowa
Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind
By far the most solid album they?ve put out since Vol. 3, and if not for my overwhelming nostalgia for that record I?d say this is superior. Not a single sloppy track, plenty of ?back to basics? Knot with Corey doing some pseudo-raps actually along the lines of his self-titled flows. Whichever DJ stepped up to the plate killed this record, I?ve been saying they learned how to use Sid again but it could be Clown or Tortilla Face...? Even the ?ballads? have developed an eerie razor?s edge that finally sets them apart from Stone Sour in a distinct and appealing manner. rI?m a born Iowan so am I biased as hell? Yes. rDon?t give a fuck. Don?t ever judge me.
Spectral Lore Ετερόφωτος
lol y'all had me concerned, that ambient track isn't NEARLY as offensive as the slow fade ins/outs
Spectral Wound A Diabolic Thirst
Static Dress Rouge Carpet Disaster
Steel Train Steel Train
Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning
Suffocation Hymns From The Apocrypha
SUMAC May You Be Held
Of course this is divisive which is why I dgaf about the sub-4 average but I shall definitely do my part to boost it. More power to them on bringing new meaning to deconstructed. The record with Keiji Haino was a little too much but this hits a delicious sweet spot.
Swans Soundtracks for the Blind
Swans The Beggar
The Body I’ve Seen All I Need To See
The Body and Dis Fig Orchards of a Futile Heaven
The Breathing Process Labyrinthian
The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist
The Decemberists As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer
The Mars Volta Noctourniquet
The National Trouble Will Find Me
The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now
Timber Timbre Hot Dreams
Wow, this impressed much more than expected. Many stylistic throwbacks to pre-60's music, richly textured and satisfyingly gothic without eye shadow or tears.
Titaan Itima
Yeah yeah, I know its not released yet but its been streaming in full on the official Bandcamp for well over a week
now. rSuper solid. Unlike Kadingir and over a dozen tracks, now just one big mammoth. Definitely a lot more
clarity and variety throughout, and surprisingly a lot easier to get through in one sitting than Kadingir. Thick,
ominous, occultist black metal and promise of more
Toadliquor Back In The Hole
Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit
Tyler, the Creator Bastard
Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost
Tyler, the Creator Chromakopia
Typhoon (USA-OR) Sympathetic Magic
Undeath Lesions of a Different Kind
At the very least, 2020 has been a damn decent year for music. As expected, this rips.
Vit The Dry Season
Vredehammer God Slayer
I fuggin love this brand of metal, Chimaira-core or whatever you wanna call it. Between this and the new Daath we?re getting treated this summer. Really enjoyed their last record and this one is another step up.
White Lung Sorry
Whitechapel Kin
Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana
Worm Shepherd Ritual Hymns
Yves Tumor Praise a Lord Who Chews, But Does Not Consume...
Zao The Funeral of God
Zao Parade of Chaos
Zao Liberate Te Ex Inferis
Zao The Well-Intentioned Virus

3.5 great
...and Oceans As in Gardens, So in Tombs
3TEETH EndEx
Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark
Abominable Putridity Parasitic Metamorphosis Manifestation
Adele 30
Agreed that this is easily her strongest record, and wow there are some SERIOUSLY good songs on here. rTo Be Loved is her ultimate slow-smolder masterpiece, for real.
Afterbirth In But Not Of
Alcest Les Chants de L'Aurore
This is what post-black metal has always supposed to sound like. Somehow it still just does not blow my hair back the way Lantlos does?
An Autumn Lost
An Autumn Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love
Aquilus Bellum II
Already vastly overrated. This is fine but excessively long and SUPER monotonous.
Ash Borer Cold of Ages
Stop sounding off early you're getting my hopes up that it leaked.
Author and Punisher Kruller
Bayside There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive
Becoming The Archetype The Physics of Fire
Benighted Ekbom
Absolutely did not expect this to bang this hard but alrighty
Blaze of Perdition Upharsin
Boris Präparat
Borknagar Fall
Cabinet Hydrolysated Ordination
Cheers to whoever typed out this tracklist into the database
Carnifex Necromanteum
Chainsword Born Triumphant
Chat Pile God's Country
CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe
CHVRCHES Screen Violence
Clot Grief Tethers
Cognitive Abhorrence
Cognizance Phantazein
Conjureth The Parasitic Chambers
Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky
Conway the Machine La Maquina
This just barely misses a 4.0, but it's still some of Conway's best material

And that Luda verse was actually some heat
Cryptopsy As Gomorrah Burns
Cult of Luna The Long Road North
Daath The Deceivers
Darkspace Dark Space -II
Darkthrone Panzerfaust
Darkthrone Old Star
Darkthrone Eternal Hails
Darkthrone It Beckons Us All
Defeated Sanity The Sanguinary Impetus
Deicide Banished By Sin
Departure Chandelier Satan Soldier Of Fortune
Despised Icon Purgatory
I enjoy this a lot more as I listen to tracks a few times, but it still has so much room to be better. Feels a little empty at points, but who knows what I?ll think on listen #3
Devourment Obscene Majesty
Diabolic Oath Oracular Hexations
Dimphonic Strangeplayer
Better than the new Tool, not as good as Ohms. Flicks both switches though
Dragged Into Sunlight Terminal Aggressor II
Earl Sweatshirt Sick!
Enslaved Heimdal
Evil (JPN) Possessed by Evil
Eyehategod A History Of Nomadic Behavior
Surprised to be the first one here. I was hesitant for about two minutes, then BOOM the grooves caught me and I
found this thoroughly enjoyable. Mike sounds fantastic and venomous, and yeah just a great record, especially
being after 7 years.
Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts
Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds
Not really amazing by many means?definitely has some riffs but ultimately seems like it?s not soaring above the new wave of deathcore, only barely scraping the top.
Fit for an Autopsy The Nothing That Is
Fucked Up Year of the Horse
Part Decemberists-level rock opera complete with folk interludes, back out through thrash riffs, and finally into something resembling the post-hardcore FU is known for being. Somehow it all gels remarkably well.
Genghis Tron Dream Weapon
Goo Goo Dolls Miracle Pill
Certainly speckled with poorly-executed attempts at something they?re...just not, but overall I?m baffled by how strong the majority of these songs are. I listened to this on a whim and I keep finding myself enjoying several tracks over and over.
Gorod The Orb
Green Day Saviors
That brick was not easy to pass
Greg Puciato Child Soldier: Creator of God
?There?s some depth in here somewhere.?rYeah that pretty much nails my opinion.
Grey Aura Zwart vierkant
Haken Fauna
Have a Nice Life Sea of Worry
Hideous Divinity Unextinct
Humanity's Last Breath Välde
Immolation Acts of God
Impaled Nazarene Eight Headed Serpent
Infant Island Obsidian Wreath
Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions
Kauan Ice Fleet
Kayo Dot Plastic House on Base of Sky
This is, I think, a more cohesive and confident version of the Kayo we got on Coffins. rAlso, has anybody else noticed the acronym is P.H.O.B.O.S.?
Kayo Dot Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike
Knocked Loose You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
Krallice Demonic Wealth
Lantlos Wildhund
Liturgy 93696
Living Gate Suffer As One
Loathe (AUS) Null and Void
Yet another band just named Loathe, but they play a riff-heavy rendition of deathgrind that reminds me of one of my favorites, Mumakil (RIP)
Loathe (UK) I Let It In And It Took Everything
Malignancy ...Discontinued
Manic Street Preachers The Ultra Vivid Lament
Mastodon The Hunter
Midnight Rebirth by Blasphemy
Nadja Truth Becomes Death
Nadja Sky Burial
Nadja Queller
Nadja The Stone Is Not Hit By The Sun, Nor Carved With A
Nadja Sonnborner
Neaera Neaera
Nero di Marte Immoto
Neurosis Fires Within Fires
Nightmarer Deformity Adrift
Nile Vile Nilotic Rites
Orville Peck Bronco
Panopticon On the Subject of Mortality
Panopticon Social Disservices
Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
Pig Destroyer Head Cage
Putrid Pile Revel In Lunacy
NEW PUTRID PILE EVERYONE, IT?S ALL GONNA BE OKAYrDID I SAY OKAY I MEANT GROSS
Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork
Sanguisugabogg Tortured Whole
Scalp Black Tar
Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase II: Xenotaph
ScHoolboy Q Blue Lips
Septicflesh Modern Primitive
Shadow Of Intent Elegy
Skeletal Remains Fragments of the Ageless
Slift Ummon
Slipknot The End, So Far
Spectral Voice Sparagmos
Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve
Svrm Розпад
Swampbeast Seven Evils Spawned of Seven Heads
Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
Sweven (SWE) The Eternal Resonance
Taproot SC\SSRS
I am unironically digging this a lot. Definitely not what I was expecting, this almost reminds me of a scruffier PtH, some Deftones influences.
Tegan and Sara Heartthrob
The Armed Ultrapop
The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works
The Killers Battle Born
The Obsessed Gilded Sorrow
The Smashing Pumpkins Aghori Mhori Mei
Thy Art Is Murder Godlike
Tim Hecker No Highs
Tiny Moving Parts Swell
A savvier Silverstein with occasional finger-tapping _(?)_/
To The Grave Director’s Cuts
Trivium What the Dead Men Say
Have never cared for Trivium, not even back in my newbie days when they were first dropping albums. For some reason I checked this out and keep coming back to it though...
Trivium In the Court of the Dragon
Tyler, the Creator Goblin
Tyler, the Creator Cherry Bomb
Ulthar Anthronomicon
Ulthar Helionomicon
Upon Stone Dead Mother Moon
Vended Vended
The best Slipknot album in 20 years. Before you call me reductionist, they were bound to get immediate comparisons even if they weren't their spawn or Griffin didn't sound like a clone of his father. There's a vague flavor of independence, but overall this is a page right out of the book that Knot wrote. They could absolutely have decided "We don't just wanna mimic our dads" but instead they made Iowa 2.0. . .and I'm not at all mad about it.
Vredehammer Viperous
White Stones Dancing Into Oblivion
Wilderun Veil of Imagination
Wormhole Almost Human
Wormrot Hiss
You Slut! Medium Bastard

3.0 good
An Autumn Everything
An Autumn Only The Ocean Knows
An Autumn The Light of September
An Autumn As The Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes
AngelMaker Sanctum
Baroness Yellow and Green
Becoming The Archetype Children of the Great Extinction
I will call this disappointingly decent. One or two tracks stand out but none are truly fantastic, and there?s a lot here that feels under-executed. Lots of trios sound massive but here you can really feel the absence of a fourth or fifth member.
Blanck Mass In Ferneaux
Blood Incantation Luminescent Bridge
Brand of Sacrifice Between Death and Dreams
Bring Me The Horizon POST HUMAN: NeX GEn
I don't.......hate this? Objectively it's pure sugary trash, but it really tickles that mid-2000s emocore spot. I'm a sucker for this kind of garbage because it's what I grew up on, so...grain of salt, yada yada. IF NOTHING ELSE this kicks the shit out anything Silverstein have done for the last decade.
Cattle Decapitation Terrasite
Chapel of Disease Echoes of Light
Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty
Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence
CHVRCHES Love Is Dead
If they had released this first, then followed up with ?Every Open Eye? there wouldn?t be anywhere near this level of album-trashing. Even ?Forever? isn?t terrible, it?s catchy and listenable which is sort of all you expect from dreamy synth-pop. The songwriting and electronics aren?t as mature or interesting here, fewer layers and simpler leads. It?s fine, it just seems regressive enough it probably speaks ill for future releases.rUpdate: ?Never Say Die? is trash I could make in my living room
Converge No Heroes
Cult of Luna The Raging River
Darkthrone Circle the Wagons
Demon Hunter Outlive
Demon Hunter make their 3rd consecutive album of weak singles and bland ballads but still manage to rip some entertaining metalcore riffs, probably courtesy of the still-fresh guitarist trade-ins from a few years back
Desolate Shrine Fires of the Dying World
Eidola Eviscerate
Entropia (PL) Total
Everything Everything RE-ANIMATOR
Flotsam and Jetsam I Am the Weapon
Fu Manchu The Return Of Tomorrow
People said the repetitive chorus structure on the new Priest was bad? Yikes. There are a couple really standout tracks but otherwise this was pretty underwhelming.
Godflesh Purge
Gojira Fortitude
Gravesend Methods Of Human Disposal
Great American Ghost Torture World
Vocals are A) irritatingly cheap metalcore style, B) super monotonous after awhile. Not to entirely crap all over this, but that definitely takes away a LOT from the overall effect.
Ihsahn Telemark
Ihsahn Ihsahn
Inter Arma New Heaven
This started promising like a sort of reined-in Portal, but then went downhill fast into weird...metal Nick Cave territory(?) I couldn't finish the last bit. I'll come back to it later but hrmm not caring for this as much as was expected.
ISIS Celestial
Jamie Lenman Devolver
Kanye West The Life of Pablo
Kanye West Donda
Kvelertak Splid
Lamp of Murmuur Saturnian Bloodstorm
Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun
Mastodon Emperor of Sand
Mastodon Hushed and Grim
Doesn?t drag so much as fall off at about the 1/3 mark. The singles, especially Sickle and Peace, are the clear highlights. Might be a bit of a grower, but this mostly blurs together.
Metallica 72 Seasons
Ministry Moral Hygiene
Ministry HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES
Album is ok but Goddamn White Trash is one of the best Ministry songs ever
Morta Skuld Creation Undone
Nadja Under The Jaguar Sun
Nadja Sv
Actual rating probably a 3.8, good to see a return to form. Aidan's always at his best building one 45-minute-long monolith and Leah needs to just be noisy as fvk. Comparable to "Thaumogenesis," but a little less organic and more...industrial?
Nocturnus AD Unicursal
I gotta say it the vocals are really awful like really really really really really awful
Obituary Dying Of Everything
Panopticon Kentucky
Prong State Of Emergency
Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman...
This sounds so boring and tired?a 3 purely for benefit of the doubt after one listen, but probably more like a 2.5 honestly. Josh Homme used to be such a riff god and this is almost devoid of them.
Red Handed Denial I'd Rather Be Asleep
I get the PtH influence for sure, but for some reason I think this is what I wish Silverstein would sound likerSolid mix of metalcore and big melodies
Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats
Rotten Sound Apocalypse
Sanguisugabogg Homicidal Ecstasy
Seputus Man Does Not Give
Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter
The Vaccines Pick-Up Full of Carnations
I've never been more confused by a band's trajectory...after two pretty great first records they released the dumpster fire of English Graffiti, then return with Combat Sports which I think is on par with their best. Then another pile of overproduced garbage with Back In Love City, before again falling back on their reverb-laden Britrock here. rDefinitely plays it safe, but we've seen what these guys consider "pushing the envelope" and it's not good.
Tool Fear Inoculum
Tribulation Where The Gloom Becomes Sound
Tyler, the Creator Wolf
Umbra Vitae Shadow of Life
Undeath It's Time...To Rise From the Grave
Underoath Voyeurist
Vader Solitude in Madness
Witch Vomit Funeral Sanctum
Zao (Self-Titled)
Zao The Splinter Shards the Birth of Separation
Zao Awake?
Zeal and Ardor Zeal and Ardor

2.5 average
An Autumn Eternal
An Autumn All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet
August Burns Red Death Below
Boris W
Dragged Into Sunlight WidowMaker
Frozen Soul Crypt Of Ice
Ingested The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams
Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers
Lamb of God Omens
PUP The Unraveling of PUPTheBand
Rotting Christ Pro Xristou
Slipknot All Hope Is Gone
Tyr Battle Ballads
Vaura Vista of Deviant Anatomies
Xenobiotic Mordrake
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito

2.0 poor
An Autumn The Long Goodbye
Celtic Frost Vanity/Nemesis
Decapitated Cancer Culture
Demon Hunter Exile
Distant Heritage
Enterprise Earth The Chosen
This has some particularly good moments, but also yeesh does it drag on for an unnecessary 70 minutes when it should?ve been 40.
IDLES TANGK
Kanye West ye
Obsidian Kingdom A Year With No Summer
Wintersun Time II
I'm normally pretty unswayed by production value but good grief this is like having Jari shove two laptops with the unmixed raw tracks playing directly into your ear canals

1.5 very poor
Black Country, New Road Ants from Up There
Honestly, what is so good about this? The songwriting is insanely boring, the songs are long but go nowhere, the singer is grossly off-key and completely absent of power or presence. I was gonna give this a 2.0 but nah it's worse than that. Absolute garbage.
Kanye West Jesus Is King
Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department

1.0 awful
Defiled Horror Beyond Horror
The only explanation I can think of for this is that the band has long since gone deaf and is going off muscle memory. Not only are the songs awful but the production on this should be prosecuted by law.
Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely XV
The horror of remembering this is 17 years old was nothing compared to realizing they had the gall to rerecord it. This is disgraceful.
Otep The God Slayer
There is no excuse for being this deep in your career and releasing music that is this outright awful. Somebody tell Otep that the croaky toad voice works for quick snippets, not entire verses. And why bother covering a song if you have to change the chorus because of a lawsuit?? And then also make it dull as cat litter..
Pestilence Levels of Perception
It definitely can be and is that bad. This is absolutely horrendous.
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