| 4.0 excellent |
| (The) Slowest Runner (In All The World) We, Burning Giraffes |
Slowest Runner! In All the World
Lift Your Skinny Necks Like Giraffes To Heaven |
| (The) Slowest Runner (In All The World) The Flophouse Session |
| Classical/post-rock and it's very pretty and kind of Godspeedy-ish. |
| 200 Stab Wounds Piles Of Festering Decomposition |
| 200 Stab Wounds Slave To The Scalpel |
| 40 Watt Sun The Inside Room |
| A Pregnant Light Rocky |
| A Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory for the Sullen |
| A Winged Victory for the Sullen Atomos |
| Abigail Williams Becoming |
| Absu Tara |
| If thrash had stayed black and evil, this is what 90's thrash would've sounded like. Dynamic shifts between blasting black metal trems and thrash/speed riff and flurries of drum fills keep "Tara" a constantly shifting beast of blackened thrash menace. |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell |
| AC/DC Back In Black |
| AC/DC Powerage |
| AC/DC High Voltage |
| AC/DC Live |
| AC/DC If You Want Blood You've Got It |
if you want ac/dc you got it
it's a live ac/dc album so yeah you got it |
| AC/DC T.N.T. |
| Afterbirth In But Not Of |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| Agitation Free 2nd |
| rly good rly pretty krautrockin roll, man. |
| Agitation Free River of Return |
| Jazzy krautrock that pretty well fits in with what the younguns were doing in the post-rock scene at that point in time. There are moments here that remind me very much of GY!BE, which is nice to hear in one of the originators of that style. |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune |
| One of the best post-black/blackgaze/whatever albums ever released. |
| Alda Alda |
| Not as good as Tahoma as others have said, but it sounds as nice and autumnal as future releases despite not being nearly as fleshed out. |
| Alda A Distant Fire |
| Alda do Alda epic folky cascadian black metal. There's even some odd rockin black 'n' roll riffs in one song, which are an interesting nuance to their otherwise relatively straightforward wittr-y black-metal-with-acoustic-guitars style. |
| Aldheorte Where Gods Have Eyes To See |
| solid american atmo-black zaru-style aka lotsa blasts, lotsa double-kicks, one-track minded Transilvanian Hunger-esque all gas no pass m/// |
| Alkerdeel Slonk |
| Raw black metal with a whole lot of Leviathan worship in their gnawing winding trems and howling vocals, combined with the dark punky riffs of sludge metal. An abrasive 37-minute pummeling assault that feels a lot shorter than it actually is and is definitely the best black metal album of the year so far. |
| Alpha Male Tea Party Droids |
| It's like they took the groovy riffs from Pelican and the mathy post-rock from Cloudkicker and smashed them together. This riffs hard, has plenty of atmosphere, and is all-around fun. Get it. |
| Alvvays Alvvays |
| indie pop 4/5 |
| Alvvays Antisocialites |
| Alvvays Blue Rev |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God |
| Amorphis Skyforger |
| Amulets Blooming |
| ambient/drone/samples/post-rock |
| Ancient Death Sacred Vessel |
| Blood Incantation-core and one of the better ones. Old school meaty death metal riffs, decent drum sound, kinda proggy, death doom used to keep the structuring fresh. Hoping they keep on doing what they're doing because this rocks. |
| Ancient Death Demo 2024 |
| Angelcorpse The Inexorable |
| pulverizing burnt death metal. |
| Answer from Cygnus Cygnus |
| very hard-hitting black metal with only an atmospheric penchant for indulging in post-black-isms. |
| Anti (DEU) The Insignificance of Life |
| Some pretty good stuff here. Not as pretentious and "atmospheric" as the likes of Xasthur or Leviathan, Anti are more traditionally-aligned black metal. Lots of sad, buzzing tremolo and slow, brooding drums. The vocals themselves are more along the Xasthur-esque line of "depressing black metal," their vocalist doing basically whateverthehell he wants; black metal rasps, whispers, groaning screams and making sufficiently strange noises. All in all a good listen. Lots of melody and a great doomy atmosphere. |
| Antlers (DE) Beneath.Below.Behold |
| Aoria The Constant |
| Apes Lullabies For Eternal Sleep |
| twelve minutes of pulverizing deathgrind. |
| Apotheosis Farthest from the Sun |
| Basically symphonic black metal prog, meaning lots and lots of run-on goofy instrumental passages of symphonic black metal that just wind around and around until randomly transitioning into Limbonic Art-styled thrash riffs and aggressive bits. It's ridiculous, but great. The guy behind the band might be a edgy twit, but the songwriting is great. |
| Arch Enemy Tyrants of the Rising Sun |
| Angela was a BEAST. Peak Arch Enemy before they started going downhill, with an exceptionally solid live performance. They were never the best melodic death metal band, but they'd definitely produced enough bangers by '08 to have a great setlist--and this performance includes 18 songs. |
| Ardour Loom Demo |
It's like Fauna's Avifauna if you trade out the folky bits for post-rock. Really good
atmospheric/post-bm from the US. Really obscure demo, you can find a rough rip on youtube.
3.7/5 |
| Arnaut Pavle Transylvanian Glare |
| Punkthrone lives!!! [123] |
| Ash Borer Tour Rehearsal Demo |
| Assuck Misery Index |
| Asterisk* Dogma I: Death of a Dromologist |
| GRINDCORE. |
| Asunojokei Island |
| Axis of Light To the Great Unbearing North |
| Welcome back Black Cascade by the black metal band Wolves in the Throne Room, I've missed you! |
| Ayr Circling |
| Ayr Nothing Left to Give |
| Ayr Eternal Sustain |
| Azarath Diabolic Impious Evil |
| this is like if behemoth were good! |
| Ba'a Deus Qui Non Mentitur |
| epique french black metal. kind of post-rocky at times, frantic, with a guitar tone that makes its frantic leads cutting with melodicism. |
| Bad Religion Suffer |
| Bad Religion No Control |
| Balmorhea Balmorhea |
| Post-rock/classical/chamber/ambient using mostly piano/banjo/acoustic guitar. It's no crescendocore and it's barely post-rock; it's more just classical music orienting itself along similar lines as other "minimalistic" post-rock acts. |
| Balmorhea Rivers Arms |
| post-rock/modern classical/wow. Consistently like the most ones of the most consistent and prettiest post-rock/whatsit bands there is am are check check it. |
| Balmorhea All Is Wild, All Is Silent |
| post-rock classical RUELZ/5. Balmorhea continue to stay the course of rigid solidity, encapsulating the values of tranquil beauty with the utmost efficiency. Rabble rabble acoustic guitars. |
| Baroness Blue Record |
| Bastard Priest Vengeance...Of The Damned |
| Battles Mirrored |
| It jumps around like carnival music, grooves like post-rock, and does whatever else it wants for seemingly little reason. It's experimental mathy post-whatever that's just the right amount of controlled insanity to be wonderfully enjoyable. The crazy style does overstay it's welcome by a tad (at fifty minutes in length the whole shtick starts to get old), but aside from that, "Mirrored" is a wonderful little slice of "whatamievenlisteningtorightnow." |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach |
| Beach Bunny Honeymoon |
| Benediction Transcend the Rubicon |
| Bing and Ruth Tomorrow Was The Golden Age |
| I don't think there's much more you could want out of largely piano-oriented ambient music. At times, piano-work mimics ambient soundscapes with its frantic playing, giving almost a Stars of the Lid-esque feel, while other times mixing in with ambient droning noise and slow, mournful strings. This is what you want out of modern classical and ambient music. |
| Black Sabbath Heaven And Hell |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage |
| Black Sabbath Mob Rules |
| Black Sabbath The Dio Years |
| Blanck Mass Animated Violence Mild |
| If Blanck Mass's newest album "Animated Violence Mild" were a dance club the sign on the door would read GOOD VIBES ONLY! and I really appreciate the effort there. |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall In Middle-Earth |
| Blind Guardian At The Edge Of Time |
| Blockheads Shapes of Misery |
| Grindcore that is destructive in its power to be destroying |
| Blood Abscission I |
| This is just mgla for people who like melody in their mgla m/ |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History Of The Human Race |
| Blood Incantation Live Vitrification |
| Blood Spill Demo |
| vicious 80s death metal demo. Horrible production with reverb everywhere, huge lo-fi sound, nasty screams and pulverizing drums. Absolutely nasty demo. |
| Bloodbath The Wacken Carnage |
| Blue Noise Everyone Goes Away Eventually |
| Rough black metal screams, hazy expansive trems, and lots of screamo instrumentation. Blue Noise represents an interesting marriage and dual realization of the best aspects of both blackgaze and screamo. Found on a whim, this is probably one of the better releases of the year for me. |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars |
| Bolt Thrower Those Once Loyal |
| Riffs hard, grooves hard, m/'s hard death metal |
| Boris Dronevil -Final- |
My favorite part was when the guitarist in the second track accidentally left the feedback turned
up too high on his guitar, unknowingly allowing the walls of noise to rise up and consume them all
in a wave of crushing dissonance.
RIP Boris, you droned too close to the sun and melted your amps of wax.
And then they exploded and killed you. Thus is life. |
| Bosse-de-Nage All Fours |
| A contender. |
| Brambles Charcoal |
| Classical-instrument based ambient/post-rock/modern classical. Easily one of my favorite classical/ambient records. |
| Braveyoung We Are Lonely Animals |
| Brian McBride When The Detail Lost Its Freedom |
| ambient. Idk why I didn't have this rated since Brian McBride's ambient is great. |
| Brian McBride The Effective Disconnect |
| Pretty and rather simply-organized ambient. Different instruments wade in, fill up the void, and fade out. Repeat with different instruments over time. It's nice. |
| Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost |
| Quaint, chill, slightly goofy, kraut-lite 90s elevator music instrumental post-rock. |
| Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record |
| mellow jam post-rock that's life-affirming and nice and wholesome and I really like it OKAY. |
| Broken Social Scene Hug of Thunder |
| If music could be hugs this album would be big hugs. Big post-rock indie rock thunder hugs. |
| Brontide Artery |
| Fun! Groovy! Disco? No! Post-rocking! |
| BRUIT Apologie du temps perdu, Vol. 1 |
| Cadaver Discipline |
| Cadaveric Fumes Dimensions Obscure |
| death metal with that slight old-school crunchiness. Pounds for days (20 minutes). |
| Carcariass E-xtinction |
| do you like melodeath do you like tech death do you like The Chasm style prog death that's more concerned with jamming hard death metal RIFFS all day than doing anything else? Yeah, that's Carcariass's E-xtinction. Proggy tech melodeath jams, lengthy instrumentals, riffs all day yeppers |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated Side B |
| Causa Sui Euporie Tide |
| psyche/space/jam/kraut-rockin chill jams music album. |
| Causa Sui Return To Sky |
| Causa Sui From The Source |
| Caustic Wound Death Posture |
| caustic wound / caustic grind |
| Cave (USA-IL) Neverendless |
| while "krautrock revivalist" might be one of the most pretentious phrases in the English language, Cave's brand of psyche-y krautrock somehow lives up to expectations. |
| Cave (USA-IL) Psychic Psummer |
| while "krautrock revivalist" might be one of the most pretentious phrases in the English language, Cave's brand of psyche-y krautrock somehow lives up to expectations. |
| Century (SWE) The Conquest of Time |
| i think these guys like Dio. |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| Chris Watson El tren fantasma |
| I like trains an crickets an loudspeakers an field recordings. |
| Christicide Upheaval of the Soul |
Tired of that "experimental," pseudo-intellectual bologna that passes for "black metal"
these days? Christicide is the answer to your problem. No positivity, no hazy, uplifting
guitars--only straight, unyielding black metal.
Dynamic songwriting complimented by a slew of interesting riffs make this "orthodox" album
definitely worth the time of every black metal fan. |
| City of the Sun To the Sun and All the Cities in Between |
Idk why it'd seem like a good idea to combine flamenco with somber acoustic and almost-post-rock,
but "City of the Sun" are able to pull off the combination surprisingly well. It might seem like
there should be some tonal problems, given that hyperactive flamenco pieces like "La Puerta Roja"
often lead up to slower, atmospheric (and reverb-drenched) pieces like "Winter 2011," but
everything's so pretty and well-executed that these tonal shifts between tracks aren't as
bothersome as one would expect them to be. Despite being a tad long at sixty three minutes, "To
the Sun and All the Cities in Between" is a really solid compilation of different styles of mostly
acoustic music. |
| Clairvoyance Threshold of Nothingness |
| death metal. |
| Claude-Michel Schonberg Les Misérables - Original Broadway Cast |
| I dreamed a dream that Marius diedrWhen hope was high and this book worth readingrBut the Frenchmen come at nightrWith their voices soft as butterrAs they tear your hopes apartrAnd they turn this plot to shame |
| Clever Girl No Drum And Bass in the Jazz Room |
| Closet Witch Chiaroscuro |
| Cloudkicker The Discovery |
| Cloudkicker The Map Is Not the Territory |
| Cloudkicker ]]][[[ |
| Cloudkicker Portmanteau |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge |
| Cloudkicker Live with Intronaut |
| Aside from a few problems here and there, this is a fantastic live record. Three guitarists ftw. |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Converge can borrow my fancy suits because this suits my fancy. None for you, Nancy Drew. |
| Cretin Cretanic Grind Ambush |
| Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh |
| Dan Swano Moontower |
| Proggy Magic Melodes III: Funky Facsimile |
| Dark Forest (CAN) Land of the Evening Star |
| The Windir is strong with this one. OK not actually that strong, but some of the guitar leads have purposeful Windir-isms about them, which brings a wonderfully nostalgic feel to the music. When not channeling that band, though, Dark Forest like to be regular epic-lite black metal that's exceptionally solid and powerful. |
| Dark Fortress Tales from Eternal Dusk |
| a german melodic black metal band that really wanted to be from sweden. fun gothenburg-y riffs and otherwise nice black metal. |
| Dark Moor The Hall of the Olden Dreams |
| This is like if a Spanish Blind Guardian cover band got really into Finnish melodeath a la Children of Bodom/Ensiferum. |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done |
| Darkspace Dark Space III |
| Because it's Darkspice and it's pulverizing and suffocating and cold and it feels like you're being physically pounded by space radiation, feeling yourself being pulled apart by the void, and floating off into that infinite darkness. It's got good riffs and stuff too I guess. |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky |
| BLAK MATAL |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon |
| fine have it your way, i like your cooking i mean shitty buzzsaw guitars. they're fine now. infernal hails trve black metalll m//////// |
| Darkthrone Circle the Wagons |
| Dawn Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy) |
| Dead Can Dance Anastasis |
| Dead Congregation Promulgation of the Fall |
| Deadyellow What Was Left Of Them |
| This blackgaze album was recorded live so the drums sound a little bit too low in the mix and don't carry the more intense parts as well as they should--but outside that this is pretty great. It's pure deafheaven-core in the best way, and blasty blackgaze I'm actually excited analyze more critically. |
| Deafheaven Demo |
| Band is pretty great. |
| Deafheaven Libertine Dissolves/Daedalus |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Deafheaven Lonely People With Power |
| made you look. |
| Death Breath Stinking Up The Night |
| death 'n' roll band rips entombedcore rips . |
| Death Breath Let It Stink |
| death 'n' roll lives m/en |
| Death Toll 80k Harsh Realities |
| trve punky grind that can osdm with the best of entombedcore. |
| Death Toll 80k Step Down |
| It by "slapped" you mean "crushed by falling bulldozer" then yea this grind album slaps your whole body straight through the pavement. |
| Deathspell Omega Kenose |
| Deceased As the Weird Travel On |
| Des Ark Don't Rock the Boat, Sink the Fucker |
| Des Ark is an angel in humanized form. Like, a sassy angel. Yeah. |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech |
| Devin Townsend Devolution #2: Galactic Quarantine |
| Devin does a quarantine virtual live show and it's unsurprisingly a great performance, both from him and his various backing tracks (as well as pre-recorded performances from guest musicians). The setlist is pretty varied and includes a few old SYL songs as well as newer DTP cuts. |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki |
| All hail Townsend my dark lord and master. |
| Devin Townsend Project Ocean Machine: Live in Plovdiv |
| Devin is one of the best modern artists so of course another live album featuring some of his best material makes for a very good listen. |
| Diamond Head Lightning To The Nations |
| Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant |
| Dio Holy Diver |
| Directions Directions In Music |
| Friends Ken Brown (Gastr Del Sol, Tortoise), Doug Scharin (Codeine, June of 44), and James Warden got together to create the not-a-band "Directions" after the dissolving of Codeine and Brown's exit from Tortoise. Highly influenced by Tortoise's rather carefree approach to post-rock, "Directions in Music" is a rather forgotten entry into the early post-rock pantheon. It's rather straightforward pretty instrumental rock music; Scharin's light, jazzy drumming gives songs a quiet sense of energy and movement beneath Brown and Warden's equally casual melodic work. Outside of that basic description there's not a whole lot left to describe on Directions in Music. It's solid early post-Tortoise post-rock and is something fans of the style (and especially mellow music in general) should definitely appreciate. Maybe what makes the album most historically significant, though, is the band's use of aesthetic's here, rather than the music itself; held as more of a one-off collaboration between friends than a "real" band, the songs are all untitled and the musicians refused to have their pictures taken for use in promotion and album artwork--a sort of oath of anonymity of which later post-rock bands would continue to explore. |
| Dirty Three Dirty Three |
| Where yall plebs sleepin on this one? Post-rock needs more harmonica solos. |
| Disfear Live the Storm |
| I love this kind of straight fist-pumping, Motorhead-bred d-beat hardcore stuff. Uff. |
| Disfear Misanthropic Generation |
| D-beat crust punk. Kinda samey by the end, but consistently punchy nonetheless. |
| Disfear Everyday Slaughter |
| d-beat crust punk does physical harm |
| Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn |
| I like this one more! This one is better! Crescendooooooos! |
| Do Make Say Think Other Truths |
| Toast-rocks with trumpets. It's no Mogwhy but it'll do. |
| Dream Theater Images And Words |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| Druden Druden |
| true cascadian black metal excellency from one of the Threnos members. If you like black metal and yearn for the lush forests and snow-clad mountains of the pacific northwest: DRUDEN. |
| Duster Stratosphere |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson |
| Eggs of Gomorrh Rot Prophet |
| grindy war metal, pummeling BARRAGE of riff and blast. |
| Elder (USA-MA) The Gold and Silver Sessions |
| Electrelane Axes |
| Eliza and The Delusionals Now and Then |
| Eliza McLamb Going Through It |
| Ellis Born Again |
| Eluvium Copia |
| Dreamy modern classical/ambient. It do what it do. Pianos wow, ambience wow 4/5 uh such feels. |
| Eluvium Nightmare Ending |
| More textures more stuff more... pianos! I'm a sucker for ambient junk involving classical instruments. |
| Emancipator Soon It Will Be Cold Enough |
| Trip-hop/downtempo? Best evur. |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse |
| Riffs a lot. |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum |
| Ensiferum Iron |
| Ensiferum Victory Songs |
| Envy Alnair in August |
| SKRAMZ OF TRIUMPHANT TWINKLES. BE UPLIFTED. ACHIEVE. CLIMB. FLY. SOAR. BEGET NO DOUBTS. WE WILL SURMOUNT! |
| Envy The Fallen Crimson |
| The Alnair in August singles were fantastic so I have high hopes for this one. |
| Epica Consign To Oblivion |
| Equilibrium Turis Fratyr |
| Equilibrium Erdentempel |
Adding clean vocals to their epic folk of epic black metal style was a good decision.
Equilibrium: now with sing-along fun! |
| Esmerine If Only a Sweet Surrender to the Nights to Come Be |
| If Godspeed was only chamber music with a little krautrock. |
| Esmerine Dalmak |
| Esmerine Mechanics of Dominion |
| post-rock of the godspeedian chamber classical sort. |
| Esmerine Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More |
| chamber classical post-rock |
| Ethereal Shroud Lanterns |
| Uplifting life re-affirming atmospheric black-ish metal single from sput's own Ethereal Shroud. Eleven minutes of lite-Agallochian melodicism and a treatise against the void. |
| Fabrizio Paterlini Autumn Stories |
| Classical music. ambience and slow tunes. |
| Faceless Burial Grotesque Miscreation |
| The osdm worship and pummeling drum sound of Blood Incantation without the prog. Absolute ripper of an organic death metal sound. |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True |
| real talk why hasn't Darroh Sudderth sung power metal yet? |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors |
| Fair to Midland were a phenomenal heavy riffing prog band. Soaring vocals and powerful songwriting made for an unforgettable combination in the band's few later releases. |
| Falls of Rauros The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood |
| Falls of Rauros Vigilance Perennial |
| More lovely post-rock black metal from the Rauros boys. |
| False Untitled EP |
| How is this "overlong"???? Girl you cray cray |
| Fell Voices Untitled |
| Fell Voices II: We Learned How to Write RiffsrBlack metal band Fell Voices up their sound quality enough so we can finally hear their riffs properly, whilst still keeping their sound lo-fi enough to keep the noisy atmosphere intact. The better sound quality allows for a bigger influence on groove than before, which works well with their highly repetitive riffing. |
| Fenne Lily On Hold |
| Fenne Lily Big Picture |
| Filth Chasm Demo '21 |
| Blasted in the face for eight minutes by a deathgrinding war metal sewer demon. |
| Final Eclipse The Dark World |
| (probably?) the Death Fortress guys' new project, pummeling black metal. |
| Finntroll Vredesvävd |
| Finntroll scale back the goofiness for a more straightforward black/folk metal record on "Vredesvvd". |
| Finsterforst Zum Tode Hin |
| Viking metal hailz. Basically Bathory and Moonsorrow with the faster parts from Wintersun. Songs are fairly long-winded, but super solid takes on epic viking metal. |
| Fluisteraars Bloem |
| Fluisteraars Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking |
| For Tracy Hyde New Young City |
| the dreamiest of japanese dream pop. |
| For Tracy Hyde he(r)art |
| Forgotten Woods The Curse of Mankind |
| Early Burzum-y riffing mixed with lots of 2nd wave atmospheric black metal and an openness to quirkiness that feels ahead of its time for 1996. |
| Forteresse/Chasse-Galerie/Monarque/Csejthe Légendes |
| Foxing The Albatross |
| Frou Frou Details |
| Fugitive (USA-TX) Maniac |
| thrash lives once again |
| Fulci Opening The Hell Gates |
| Vocalist sounds like Nathan Explosion in real life, band sounds like if Dethklok were a real goofy osdm band. |
| Fulci Tropical Sun |
| Vocalist sounds like Nathan Explosion in real life, band sounds like if Dethklok were a real goofy osdm band. |
| Funeral Chic Superstition |
| blackened crust punk but make it pulverizingly evil. |
| Funeral Mist Salvation |
| Furia Huta Luna |
| Huta Luna is pretty classically divided between what are effectively its A and B sides; about 32 minutes of black metal, followed by one single 27-minute ambient track. The almost entirely fast A-side (read: blast beats and only ever blast beats) features a lot of shorter songs that sound like if Fluisteraars tried to do their own frantic Transilvanian Hunger. The ambient side is a big long piece with a whole lot of humming and droning ambiance, and not much more. Still! The black metal side is full of slicing melodies and a frantic tempo that just sucks you in and never lets go. Rips men/ |
| Fyrnask Eldir Nótt |
Kid tested tested; Noctus approved!
Only track I don't really dig is Saltrian. This is fantastic, dense atmospheric black metal. |
| Gallowbraid Ashen Eidolon |
| Garden of Shadows Oracle Moon |
| Old school 90's-style melodic death metal done excellently. Keyboards and harmonized guitars up the wazoo, lots of fun up-beat riffing, it does what most good melodeath tries to do; be death metal and be fun about it. |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Bloom and Breathe |
| Gavin Bryars The Sinking of the Titanic |
| I mean the Titanic sinking was sad and stuff but hey at least we got this out of the deal |
| Glenn Branca The Third Ascension |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers |
| More solid post-rock interspersed with that noisey drone chamber classical ambient that I love. Godspeed have opened up their style a little bit on Luciferian Towers, opting for some actual instrumental harmonies and arguably more coherent drone sections. It's a little bit different, but nothing really unexpected. |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage |
| Goldmund Corduroy Road |
| Atmospheric minimalist piano music with a little bit of ambient and a dab of post-rock. It's pretty very good, especially for what it is (just a piano by itself most of the time). It's a very slow record, so each individual keystroke contributes to the atmosphere, and it all works very well in creating a constantly melancholic mood. |
| Graves (NZ) S/T 7" |
| Graves (NZ) Fides Ad Nauseam |
| All hail Nails' successors. |
| Grole With a Pike Upon My Shoulder |
| filthy black metal punk! if you're not a true, you must be a DIE! |
| Grouper Hold / Sick |
| Sad, slow, reverby guitar-led emptiness. This is particularly dreary for Liz Harris and that makes it all the better. |
| Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo |
| ambient post-rock fuzzy feeling shoegaze dreamclouds of floating away. |
| Hammock Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow |
| Hammock Chasing After Shadows...Living with the Ghosts |
| Hammock Departure Songs |
| Hammock Oblivion Hymns |
| Tie me down, put anchors on my feet so I don't float away like a cloud in this dream. |
| Hampshire and Foat The Honeybear |
| Chamber classical ambient loveliness of joy. |
| Hans Zimmer The Lion King |
| Harmonia Deluxe |
| Atmospheric, 70's dorky melodicism. Krautrock. This one's really quite pretty and tranquil. |
| Harold Budd The Pavilion of Dreams |
| Smokey jazz. Such atmosphere. Many wow. |
| Harold Budd Avalon Sutra / As Long as I Can Hold My Breath |
Disc 1 is a wonderfully minimalist-y, mostly piano and string-based affair, whereas Disc 2 (a
sixty nine-minute track) features an hour's worth of droning instrumentation and repeated
melodies. Disc 1 is elegant in the simplicity of its implemented elements; different instruments,
be them synthesizer, saxophone, piano, etc, seem to come in just at the right moments to fill the
rather sparse space with something elegant and atmospherically fitting. I suppose that's the
benefit of minimalist--always having room to stick something else in where you need it. |
| Harold Budd / John Foxx Translucence / Drift Music |
| Fantabulous ambient musics. |
| Harold Budd and Brian Eno The Pearl |
| Attack of the Atmospheric Pianos II: Budd/Eno Boogaloo |
| Harold Budd and Brian Eno Ambient 2 - The Plateaux of Mirror |
| I mean it's basically just piano ambient but still. Piano sounds good, has good atmosphere, wow 4/5 omg |
| Hatchie Sugar and Spice |
| condensed synth pop; just add water! |
| Hatchie Keepsake |
| Hate Manifesto Herald of Triumph |
| Relentlessly pummeling blackened death metal. |
| Hatebreed Satisfaction Is The Death Of Desire |
| Hated Breathless Art |
| Hated are a Russian band that answer the age-old question: What would Death's Human sound like if it were thrashier? This is the answer to that question and it absolutely rips. |
| Havukruunu Kelle Surut Soi |
| I can only imagine that Quorthon would be proud of Havukruunu's continuing his legacy of epic viking metal. "Kelle Surut Soi" is epic pagan black metal with far more Bathory influence than one would typically expect of the style, which definitely helps set it apart from genre mainstays like Nokturnal Mortem and Moonsorrow. There are plenty of epic clean choruses, as well as bounding blasting black metal, with some notable thrash/early black metal riffs thrown in as well (thank you, Bathory). Easily one of the better black metal albums of the year. |
| Hazel English Real Life |
| Hierophant (IT) Great Mother: Holy Monster |
| Not as brilliantly brutal as the likes of Nails or The Secret, but it's close. Great dark powerviolence/crust/whatever punk of heaviness. |
| Hierophant (IT) Peste |
| This would've been in my top 20 of 2014 had I known it existed back then. Wonderfully loud, brutal power violence/crust/grind/hardcore whatever. |
| Hierophant (IT) Son of the Carcinoma |
| One new song and two remasters. Remasters sound fine and so does the new track. Aggressive and slightly dirty crust punk/whatever. |
| Holy Fuck Latin |
| indietronica krautrock. As much of a goofy jam as you'd expect. |
| Hope Drone Hope Drone |
Deafheaven without all the rather flamboyant parts. If you want something a bit grittier
than Sunbather then Hope Drone's s/t is your album. |
| Horseback Piedmont Apocrypha |
| Hypocrisy Virus |
| Ictus Imperivm |
| Ifernach The Green Enchanted Forest of the Druid Wizard |
| Ignite Our Darkest Days |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust |
| I like this more than Mayhem! :D Riffs! Blast beats!!! |
| Imogen Heap Speak For Yourself |
| Inanna Converging Ages |
| Riffs riffs riffs! Seventeen million years!!! |
| Inculter Fatal Visions |
| pedal-to-the-thrash-metal modern riff-o-rama Slayer worship. It's fast riffy nonsense and very catchy and solid. |
| Infernal Coil Within a World Forgotten |
o boyo boyo boy
it's like someone smeared mud over all the mics and it sounds wonderful |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down |
| Another Insomnium album, another fifty minutes of solid melodic death metal. Insomnium may as well be the definitive "one-trick pony" of melodeath, but their one trick is good enough to bear repeating. Their albums are still too samey and a bit too long--they're also as formulaic as 80's Metallicas', but they're similary as solid. |
| Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting |
| Nowhere near as powerful as Above the Weeping World, but still a very solid melodeath album. This album doesn't have as much staying power as AtWW, though, which definitely makes it harder to sit through for its full (fairly long) runtime. Given the band isn't known for their stylistic range, the saminess of their songs also makes it seem a lot longer than it really is. Still, it's great melodeath. |
| Internal Rot Mental Hygiene |
| Absolut grindcore |
| Into Eternity Buried in Oblivion |
| Iron Firmament Cascadian Tactics |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| Jacob Pavek Nome |
| modern classical piano ambient |
| Jeff Bridges Sleeping Tapes |
| I will never get a bad night's sleep from now on. |
| Jig-Ai Entrails Tsunami |
| The squealiest of pig squealy hentai goregrind. Jokes aside this sounds great, the mixing and guitar sound are both fantastic. |
| Johann Johannsson IBM 1401, A User's Manual |
| Modern classical. Never thought soundclips of some guy reading a computer manual from decades ago would've ever fit into a classical arrangement, but here we are. Johann's best work, probably. |
| Johann Johannsson Englabörn |
| Modern classical from JJ, one of the better modern composers in classical music. |
| John Fahey Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes |
| Some of Fahey's pieces might feel a little under-developed given how short they are, but they're no pretending his guitarwork wasn't absolutely fantastic. |
| John Williams Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
| Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society Automaginary |
| It's like the drone classical of Godspeed with krautrock-y droning instrumentals. It's that good kind of droning classical ambience. |
| Julianna Barwick Nepenthe |
| dreamy ambients |
| Kalmah Swamplord |
| Kalmah started their career on a high note. Some of the best melodeath out there by one of the best bands in the business. |
| Kalmah The Black Waltz |
| Kalmah They Will Return |
| Kalmah Swampsong |
| Yeah I mean Kalmah first four Kalmahs best Kalmahs this one Swampsong Kalmah one of the best Kalmahs. Melodeath. |
| Kamelot The Black Halo |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I |
You know when you're listening to the radio and you go out of range from a particular channel, and
a second channel begins randomly taking over the first? 'Program Music I' does that with modern
classical and post-rock, randomly glitching between the two, as well as generally combining them
at points. Both lengthy tracks reach their high points when their string instruments combine
with up-beat drumming to create a very uplifting, 'dancey' vibe. |
| Kasper Bjorke The Fifty Eleven Project |
| modern classical ambient drone |
| Katatonia Brave Murder Day |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day |
| Kill The Client Cleptocracy |
| punishing grind with a lot of fuzz on the guitar to make it extra noisy and violent. Simple as. |
| kj Ex |
| one of the better ambient records i'd heard from 2018. |
| Klage Dystopias Wiege |
| obscure atmospheric black metal gem. Driving melodic riffs that are as fuzzy as they are lulling, it's a great lo-fi bm sound as it functions both as frigid black metal and as background ambience. |
| Krallice Krallice |
| galactic wankery, embrace the cosmic trems of dick! |
| Krallice Years Past Matter |
| Krieg The Black House |
| Excellently mean, full of Darkthronian ice and youthful American aggression, "The Black House" is an excellent record and underappreciated example of well-done "early" USBM. Imperial's vocals are even nastier here than on later records, somehow, too. |
| Lagwagon Hoss |
| Leech If We Get There One Day... |
| Leech [US] Ten Black Hymns |
| Leegte Finis |
| modern atmo-black with a dsbm influence that lights up the same parts of my brain that blackgaze does without being blackgaze (it's influenced by the same dsbm that lots of blackgaze classically has been). Howling vocals set low in the mix rumble like almost ambient thunder for the duration too which is nice. My only complaint is the very short length of 24 minutes. |
| Leon III Antlers in Velvet |
| Les Big Byrd Eternal Light Brigade |
neo-psychedelic krautrock, it's a rock album sometimes with vocals, sometime with just jams.
it feels very authentically 70's despite its distinctly slick modern production. a very good
psych/kraut throwback. |
| Les Discrets Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées |
| Les Discrets Ariettes Oubliees... |
| Les Discrets Live at Roadburn |
| Fursy's voice is fantastic live and so is the rest of the band on this album. Les Discrets will be changing their style on upcoming albums, so this 'last hurrah' as a rock/metal outfit is a great one. |
| Less Than Jake Hello Rockview |
| Lethian Dreams Red Silence Lodge |
| Atmospheric female-fronted doom. Here, the female voice functions as another instrument, another layer to the wall of melancholy. At parts it sounds like Alcest, only better than Alcest. |
| Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life |
| Lost Horizon Awakening the World |
| Lowercase Noises This Is For Our Sins |
| Wonderful ambient music. There's even a wonderfully used banjo. |
| Ludovico Einaudi Divenire |
| Classical music with some ambients is like woah. |
| Lunar Aurora Elixir of Sorrow |
| better than that Burzum junk grandpa likes. |
| Lykathea Aflame Elvenefris |
| Lykathea Aflame is what happens when some Czech guys get big into None So Vile but also are more zen about personal existence. Brutal tech death with frantic drumwork and triumphant major scale melodies that was heavily influential to 00's tech death and beyond. |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| I want to dreeeeeeeeam! |
| Malignant Altar Retribution of Jealous Gods |
| Malignant Altar Realms of Exquisite Morbidity |
| Man or Astro-Man? Defcon 5...4...3...2...1 |
| Manegarm Manegarm |
| Just your run of the mill, very good viking folk metal album. |
| Manegarm Fornaldarsagor |
| viking metal folk time music album is very solid very fun good record m/ |
| Many Rooms There is a Presence Here |
| Not to take away from Many Room's own musical achievements, but the project feels very Grouper-y but with a bigger lean toward singer-songwriter-ing instead of just the lo-fi psy-folk Grouper so often employs. There's a lot of ambient and singer-songwriter (guitar, piano tracks) stuff going on, all with the same sort of somber minimalism Grouper fans should love. |
| Maria BC Spike Field |
| Maribou State Hallucinating Love |
| Marthe Further In Evil |
| HAIL BATHORY. HAIL BLACK METAL. |
| Maruja The Vault |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Master Master |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Max Richter The Blue Notebooks |
| Classical music that is m/ |
| Max Richter Songs From Before |
| I like modern classical in this vein, music that takes its time and plays with patience and silence and has almost an ambient feel to it. It's not too busy, and not too "full" a sound, but there's still always plenty going on at a given time. Melodies you can fall into. |
| Max Richter Memoryhouse |
| has classical instruments 4/5 wowratmospheres and wow good |
| Max Richter Recomposed: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons |
| Max Richter Sleep |
| I did it, I finished the whole thing. The long droning and slow classical instrumentation give an ambiance perfect for long stretches of gaming, in lieu of native soundtracks. Completely through a week during a Dark Souls 3 replay, Sleep made for a great alternative soundscape. |
| Maximum the Hormone Rokkinpo Goroshi |
| Wonderfully fun J-punk with enough stylistic shifts, general oddness, and downtuned nu metal riffs to keep everything constantly dynamic, a little bizarre, and wholly entertaining. |
| Maximum the Hormone Yoshu Fukushu |
| A about an hour in length "Yoshu Fukushu" is fairly long, but despite the runtime it's definitely not wanting of content. These guys are basically the Japanese equivalent to System of a Down--wildly chaotic, genre-twisting metal that can cover loads of territory and switch ideas on a dime, whilst constantly retaining a "fun" and often "silly" atmosphere, but amped up a few notches "because Japan". This is how down-tuned nu metal riffs were supposed to be used. |
| Maximum the Hormone Korekara no Menkata Cottelee no Hanashi wo Shiyou |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone |
| Megadeth Rust In Peace |
| The remaster is trash. Never listen to it. Original mix is fittingly rawer and has much better vocals. Dave's vox have always been a point of annoyance with me, but on the original mix he's much, much more tolerable since he's not as prominent in the mix as on the remaster, and he sounds a little rougher. It all works so much better on the original, it's like a reverse And Justice For All. |
| Mentor Guts, Graves and Blasphemy |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Robo-thrash ov trvth. I think this is my favorite Meshuggah next to Catch-33. It's very solid and very accessible in the way it presents its brand of technical thrashiness. Everyone knows by now that Meshuggah use polyrhythms and other weirdness but here they used their newfound weird take on thrash to create an album that feels like a "standard" metal record whilst actually being really unique and experimental. It's like, thinking back you realize how different the album is from anything else out there, but while listening it doesn't *feel* different. It's just really easy to absorb, despite how forward-thinking it was when initially released. |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| The entire album is chugged palm-muting and it's the most wonderful thing in the world. It's like getting locked in a cell next to a sentient angry bulldozer. |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
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| Metallica Ride The Lightning |
| Mgla Mdlosci and Further Down the Nest |
| Minami Deutsch Fortune Goodies |
| krautrockin krautrockin all the tiiiimmeee |
| Mistur Attende |
| Former Windir and Vreid contributors (and others) show they weren't quite done with the former band's unmistakeable epic melodic black metal style. Mistur is a solid band and fitting contributor to Valfar's undying legacy, despite not being quite as epic. |
| Mogwai My Father My King |
| The most Godspeed-y, weird Mogwai I've heard yet. |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast |
| Slide Guitar is Mogwai |
| Mol I/II |
| Unsurprisingly this is just a six-song compilation of the band's first two EPs. It's solid blackgaze that sometimes veers to the screamo side of things. |
| Monarque Lys Noir |
| Blastbeats and keyboards in a very well-done good way. |
| Monarque Jusqu'à la Mort |
| Moonsorrow Suden uni |
| epic pagan black metal viking finntroll nonsense |
| Moonsorrow Verisäkeet |
| Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja |
| Pagan/folk metal. Moonsorrow's probably the best band to ever do this. |
| Moonsorrow Voimasta ja kunniasta |
| black metal/folk funtimes of joy or whatever. I think there was an accordion in there somewhere, so that's cool I guess. 3.8/5 or something |
| Moonsorrow Viides luku - Hävitetty |
| Two pieces of lengthy folk bm. It's pretty good. Whatever. 4/5 |
| Mopok Carpathian Fullmoon Ritual |
| One of the best black metal releases of 2018. Mopok's newest EP is a no-frills thrill ride through a world of nasty black metal wonder. |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness |
| Morbid Angel Covenant |
| Morbid Saint Spectrum of Death |
| Morok Carpathian Fullmoon Ritual |
| Track 1 of "Carpathian Fullmoon Ritual" is a ride. Starts blasty, progresses into some punk-reminiscent sections, then lets the keyboards flow with a folky piano line and lets the keys twinkle on until the end--all atop rather raw, shriek-laden black metal. This sort of combination of hard-hitting, blast-driven and keyboard-y black metal continues for the second track. The ambient outro piece isn't very enthralling, but this is black metal so what do you expect. |
| Motorhead Inferno |
| Motorhead Bastards |
| Moura Axexan, Espreitan |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle |
| I think this is evil music. I think Mike Patton is possessed by demons who speak for him in many voices. |
| My Vitriol Finelines |
| rock n roll shoegaze machine album band |
| Myrkgrav Trollskau, skrømt og kølabrenning |
| Excellent folk bm. It's not exactly Windir, but it's in the same hemisphere. Treads well between catchy folkiness and srs metal. |
| Myrkskog Deathmachine |
| Myrkskog play pummeling blackened death metal with some slight industrial influences here and there. The last track is a full on industrial jam that often sounds like both a riffier and more computerized Samael. Imagine if Morbid Angel had heard this album; Illud Divinum Insanus might've ended up sounding decent. |
| Myrkskog Superior Massacre |
| Pummeling blackened death metal. |
| Nachash Phantasmal Triunity |
| Nachtmystium Instinct: Decay |
| Nachtmystium when they still knew how to riff, when their atmosphere was suffocating, and their psychedelic influences actually added something unique to black metal. This is one of the high points of USBM. |
| Nagelfar Hünengrab im Herbst |
| [I really need to re-listen to this in full] Super solid black metal with slight epic-ish tendencies. Sort of like Forteresse in orientation--lots of straightforward heavy blasting, driving double-bass rhythms, and lots of good-yet-simple melodic work. Solid mostly no-frills black metal is as solid mostly no-frills black metal does. |
| NAILS Abandon All Life |
| This album just punched me in the face, and I'm OK with that. |
| Nebelung Vigil |
| Nekromantheon Rise, Vulcan Spectre |
| Neu! Neu! '75 |
| Krautrock goes more melodic woaoaoah. |
| Nhor Within the Darkness Between the Starlight |
| Nightingale Nightfall Overture |
| Nightingale Retribution |
| Nihilist Nihilist 1987-1989 |
| Kinda sloppy, dirty and pummeling osdm and proto-Entombed. I actually like this more straightforward nasty death metal more than Entombed, even. |
| Nils Frahm Wintermusik |
| Modern classical. Much more diverse than some of his works ("Screws," specifically), "Wintermusik" is a fine example of modern classical music that doesn't take itself too seriously and actually uses that to add interesting nuances not present in most other modern classical works. There are some cheesy keyboard lines and other odd bits here and there that simultaneously make "Wintermusik" sound a little cheesy, but not so much that they feel jarring or out-of-place over the otherwise largely classical piano-centered music. |
| Nils Frahm Screws |
| modern classical piano music. Frahm creates atmosphere by doing extra than simply playing slowly; his decisive playing allows notes to softly rise from his instrument and then fade off into the distance, creating a sense of size in what feels like a palpably empty space. |
| Nine Covens On The Dawning Of Light |
| No/Mas Consume/Deny/Repent |
| deathgrind riffs riff riff riffs |
| NOFX So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes |
| NOFX Pump Up the Valuum |
| Punk rock punk rock punk rock punk rock punk rock punk rock punk rock punk rock punk rock |
| NOFX Never Trust a Hippy |
| NOFX Surfer |
| Nokturnal Mortum To the Gates of Blasphemous Fire |
| Symphonic black metal that's stuffed full of the kind of aggressiveness and heaviness most other bands in that field lack. |
| Novo Amor Birthplace |
| Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens-levels of pretty lush singer/songwriter chamber folk(??) music wowow. |
| Novo Amor Cannot Be, Whatsoever |
| more super sappy indie folk singer/songwriter nonsense from the Bon Iver-worship guy with the weirdly high singing voice. It's sappy, it's happy, uhhh yeah. |
| Obliteration Cenotaph Obscure |
| furious old school death metal with the punky drumming of the first wave. Fantastic modern dm album. |
| October Tide Rain Without End |
| man this rips, it's like proper death doom 90s Katatonia--Jonas Renkse's melodies are all over this. |
| Of Solitude and Solemn Starlight's Guide |
Old-fashioned doomy post-rock. Or is it post-rocky doom? It has slow guitars and lots of
great moody melodies--you get the idea. |
| Off With Their Heads Home |
| Olafur Arnalds Eulogy for Evolution |
| he makes cool sounds classical woaah 10/5 |
| Olafur Arnalds ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness |
| Classical modern things of music. |
| Olafur Arnalds Living Room Songs |
| Olafur Arnalds Island Songs |
| Olafur Arnalds can churn out a song a week and still strike gold without even trying. |
| Old Man's Child In Defiance of Existence |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Opeth Lamentations |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes |
| Opeth The Candlelight Years |
| Ophanim (CHE) Tämpelskläng |
| another Helvetic Underground Committee release from the Kvelgeyst, Ungfell (etc) guy. Powerful atmospheric black metal with prominent, often cathedraline, keyboards. |
| P.S. Eliot Introverted Romance In Our Troubled Minds |
| Pale Pale |
| Panopticon Panopticon |
| Panopticon Collapse (remixed and remastered) |
| Papir V |
| a little long, but peak krautrock |
| Paramnesia Ce que dit la bouche d'ombre |
This is basically old Ash Borer with better production values. If you liked that kind of
black metal, then this band is one to remember in the coming days. |
| Paramore Riot! |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes |
| Paramore After Laughter |
| Parlamentarisk Sodomi Har Du Sagt A Far Du Si Nal |
| Parlamentarisk Sodomi De Anarkistiske An(n)aler |
| Paysage d'Hiver Nacht |
| Paysage d'Hiver Winterkälte |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor |
| Very good. |
| Paysage d'Hiver Schnee |
| Pell Mell (USA) Interstate |
| Pell Mell play 90's post-rock like an indie band that just lost their vocalist; very chill, kinda quirky, guitar music that just kinda of melodically flows along for four minutes and then ends. It's quite nice, and even has a touch of that Tortoise-y krautrock influence. |
| Penguin Cafe The Imperfect Sea |
| The string section-heavy tracks almost feel like big box office soundtrack pieces in their grandeur, with the more somber piano-led tracks being some of the better in the style I've heard in a while. They might not be the real Penguin Cafe Orchestra, but Penguin Cafe's third album is definitely another fine addition to the Penguin legacy. Modern classical. |
| Penguin Cafe Handfuls of Night |
| penguin cafe doing more lovely chamber music. |
| Phoebe Bridgers Copycat Killer |
| Phoebe Bridgers If We Make It Through December |
| Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard |
| Pig Destroyer Painter of Dead Girls |
| Pompeii Loom |
| Pretty indie with some shoegazy post-rockiness that is so pretty and chill rrggggh 4/5 |
| Popol Vuh Letzte Tage Letzte Nachte |
| most other krautrock bands were instrumental just bc they were jelly of Popol Vuh's lovely ladies OwO |
| Poppy Ackroyd Sketches |
| Might be a bit long for a compilation of re-recorded material, but Poppy's never off-point with her pianism so that point hardly matters. Re-recording of previous works into piano-only pieces, along with some totally new songs in the same vein. It's quality piano-work you'd expect from Poppy Ackroyd. |
| Primal Horde Blood River |
| big small brain caveman chugga chugga HORDE DEATH METAL mmm/// |
| Profane Order One Nightmare unto Another |
| war metal! |
| Public Service Broadcasting Inform - Educate - Entertain |
| the bestest most wholesome public service krautrock indietronica |
| Public Service Broadcasting The Race For Space |
| Using NASA samples en lieu of vocals was a great choice, especially on tracks like Go! where they sync up perfectly with the music. Indietronica prog electronic music of wonderfulness. |
| Public Service Broadcasting White Star Liner |
| Pure Reason Revolution Eupnea |
| Rachel's Systems/Layers |
| Radagast An Earthly Sacrament |
| Excellent Cascadian-brand black metal/folk. Think similar to Fauna's "Rain," but in only twenty-three minutes. |
| Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| Wow this riffs a surprising lot. I expected hyper-acclaimed 90's hardcore to be a lot, idk, weirder and less riffy than this. Happily surprised; this is really solid punk. |
| Rhinocervs RH-07 |
| MELANCHOLIC DARKNESS. The third track is soooooo good. |
| Riot Fire Down Under |
| Riot Thundersteel |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality |
| Rotten Sound Exit |
| Rotten Sound Murderworks |
| crunch blast crunch blast crunch blast crunch blast crunch blast crunch blast crunch blast crunch blast crunch blast crunch blast crunch blast crunch blast crunch blast crunch blast crunch blast crunch blast crunch blast crunch blast crunch blast crunch blast |
| Rotten Sound Cycles |
| Rotten Sound Consume to Contaminate |
I hate this less than I love this. It's just grind but it's grind and it grinds grindily
4/5 |
| Rotten Sound Cursed |
| knock knock it's grindcore time it's time to grind rise and grind it's grindcore time. |
| Rx Bandits Gemini, Her Majesty |
| Sakanaction 834.194 |
| Samael Passage |
| Samia Scout |
| Samia Bloodless |
| Saor Roots |
| Saor Guardians |
| Sarita Idalia Life Eternal |
| better than that fucking Mayhem shit m/ |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe |
| SELVA eléo |
| Post-black metal/screamo with some sludge. Riffs and blasts. |
| Sepultura Arise |
| Basically all these riffs are just palm mutes but they're good palm mutes and they chug hrrd. Sepultura/5. Thrash Lives!!!1 |
| Sepultura Schizophrenia |
| One of the better thrash albums of the 80s. |
| Set Fire to Flames barn levitate |
| recorded in 2002, then re-recorded in 2005, then initially released on a compilation in 2016, then released as a standalone single in December of 2020, "ban levitate" is the latest content from Set Fire to Flames to see the light of day in quite a few years. "barn levitate" is an exercise in everything the ensemble were great at back in their heyday; at ten minutes in length, it's full of layered droning string instrumentation and incessant chiming bells--a collage of aural melancholies. |
| Shagor Sotteklugt |
| Shroud of Satan Litany to the Moon |
| super punky raw black metal with that minimalist melodicism |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust |
| Post-rock? Just going to 4/5 it bc who cares v pretty wow. |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur |
| Silencer (SWE) Death - Pierce Me |
| Skullcrusher Quiet the Room |
| Skyfire Mind Revolution |
| Slant (KOR) 1집 |
| Pure hardcore punk from korea. |
| sleepmakeswaves Love of Cartography |
| Slowdive Souvlaki |
| Slowdive Slowdive |
| slow gaze |
| Somn The All-Devouring |
| kinda sounds like Hope Drone moreso than Deafheaven, but I'm just gonna call it this year's Deafheaven because that'll rustle the bm nerds more. Aggressive blackgaze/post-black metal that's not the greatest thing ever, but a very promising debut. |
| Sonic Poison Eruption |
| Do you like Terrorizer? Deathgrind band Sonic Poison like Terrorizer! They like them a lot. So do I! I like Terrorizer a lot! |
| Soul Cycle Soul Cycle |
| Soul Cycle Soul Cycle II |
| Soundtrack (Disney) Tarzan |
| Soundtrack (Disney) Hercules |
| Soundtrack (Disney) Aladdin |
| I want the moon; I want to live on the moon!rAnd eat it in a pie, And keep it as a pet, And wear it like a gemstone in my hair |
| Soundtrack (Disney) Oliver & Company |
| Soundtrack (Disney) Lilo & Stitch |
| Soundtrack (Film) Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 |
| Fit perfectly with the film wooo weee this was like totes mah goats best soundtrack yo. Up with with like Muppet Treasure Island, dawg. |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space |
| I'm an art rock post-rock racecar driver flying in a stable orbit. All systems are a green. We are go for Spiritualization. |
| Spiritualized Let It Come Down |
| This is neo-psychedelia Pink Floydness but with modern Broken Social Scene's warm hippy huggy embrace. It's excessively positive, warm floaty symphonic rock nonsense that's rly nice. While I'm definitely not one for gospel music, the considerable gospel sections here weirdly fit into their whole uplifting shtick in a way that artistically feels like a natural progression of their sound. Because of course the weird pretentious psych band would have gospel choir singing. I am dumb for having doubted they would do that. r |
| Spiritualized Lazer Guided Melodies |
| i'm a psychedelic war machine |
| Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid |
| Droney Dreams of Dreamy Drones. |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline |
| Droney Dreams of Dreamy Drones II: Dronepocalypse - Attack of the Dreamclouds |
| State Faults Moon Sign Gemini |
| Steel Panther All You Can Eat |
| Stereolab Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements |
holy krautrock, Batman. This is like weird noisy 90's art pop(?) with all the rockin run-on's of
70's kraut jams. The female vocals also fill in with the music to make it an exceptionally pretty
record. |
| Suffocation The Close Of A Chapter |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
| Suldusk Lunar Falls |
| Fantastic spiritual dark folk with black metal undertones. Get lost in a celtic forest or w/e. |
| Sunken Livslede |
| one of the better black metal records of 2020 by far. |
| Supuration The Cube |
| Susanne Sundfor Self Portrait |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind |
| Swans To Be Kind |
| I'm just a little boy!rHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden |
| Tchornobog Tchornobog |
| Temisto Temisto |
| old school death/black all ripper no flipper |
| Tempel Wolf Hirschgeweihmaskeraden |
| infernal hailz Helvetic Underground Committee! Two black metal tracks, two folky interludes. Tempel Wolf is the HUC lads in another atmo-black project. Slightly folky, but less goofy than Kvelgeyst. The closest any of these projects has gotten to, say, WITTR. |
| Temple of Void Lords Of Death |
| Fantastic death/doom! Obnoxiously hard drumming and filthy chugs at the fastest tempo a death doom album can go. The sound engineering is basically perfect for a death metal album; the big heavy organic riffs and a loud thunderous kick drum and obnoxious snare sound wonderful even without any blast beats. I wish there were blasts, but the rhythms are so rude I don't even mind it. Temple of Void inject their slower tempos with the attitude of a much faster band to great effect. |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D |
| Terry Riley In C |
| minimalist post-minimal classical whatever. |
| The American Analog Set Know By Heart |
| The Beths Expert in a Dying Field |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra |
| happy metal sleepy metal meow meow meow. |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution |
| almost as good as Ocean Machine, definitely #2 for Devin's old solo albums. While it's not as hazy as Ocean Machine, it's definitely a brighter, more typically "happy metal" sounding record while still largely doing the same things instrumentally. |
| The Great Old Ones Al Azif |
| The Great Old Ones EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy |
| Not as natural, sounds more compressed as compared to the phenomenal Tekeli-Li. Which isn't to say it's a bad album, it's just not *as* good. Same post-black atmospheric Lovecraftian metal, just with production values that aren't as nice. |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There |
| The Necks Body |
| Jazz, rockin' krautrock, piano ambient. In that order, in one track, for 56 minutes. The stretch of krautrock where the pianist bangs the same chord for ten-minute is particularly entrancing, if not hilarious. The Necks have found a way to combine the layered piano ambient of Bing and Ruth with forward-moving krautrock and it's kind of wonderful. |
| The Night Flight Orchestra Aeromantic |
| The Nocturnes Aokigahara |
| Emma Ruth Rundle never disappoints. |
| The Oh Hellos The Oh Hellos |
| The Oh Hellos Through The Deep, Dark Valley |
| The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors |
| xDeathxgrindxcorex |
| The Samuel Jackson Five Easily Misunderstood |
| Taking more from earlier 1st-wave-ish post-rock, the Sam Jackson Five play a jazzy, horn and string-accompanied chill instrumental rock. Overall "Easily Misunderstood" is just a fantastic example of the genre. |
| The Secret Agnus Dei |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now |
| The Tubs Dead Meat |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our |
| There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright |
| Threnos By Blood and By Earth |
One of the fathers of the American Cascadian black metal scene. And, even though their time
together was short, they will remain to be known as both one of the finer and more
influential black metal acts from the last decade. |
| Thyrfing Thyrfing |
| Epic viking black metal akin-ish to Windir kind of? |
| Thyrfing Valdr Galga |
| This album is equivalent to a late-90's viking metal Dimmu Borgir. It's epic viking metal but with all the twinkly kinda-goofy epic keys of late-90's black metal, and it's really good. A lot more mid-paced than Enthrone Darkness Triumph, but the grandeur is definitely still there. |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor |
| Toh Kay The Hand That Thieves |
| Tortoise TNT |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die |
| Torture Hammer Dormant Horror |
| what death metalcore should actually sound like. |
| TotorRo Home Alone |
| [riffs in positivity] |
| Transcending Bizarre? The Serpent's Manifolds |
| so yeah weird kinda goofy symphonic black metal-y nonsense, further building upon the goof that was the final Emperor album, in a sense. |
| Trees of Eternity Hour Of The Nightingale |
| Trha Nvenlanëg |
| Trha novej qalhnjënno |
| slightly symphonic Paysage-core atmo black metal with a lot more punky undertones than you'd expect, especially for for Trha. One of the project's more streamlined and less experimental releases, which should figure given it's only their second release. |
| Trha endlhëdëhaj qáshmëna ëlh vim innivte |
in terms of runtime this album is actually more ambient than metal, which is kind of
significant for Trha at this point.
First track is ambient, second track is trad atmo-black, third track shifts between the two,
closer is mostly ambient then builds into that punky/hype synth-led scream-along bm he likes
to do so much.
Easily one of my favorite Trha records, with some of his best ambient tracks and melodic
work in general. |
| Trha Rhejde Qhaominvac Tla Aglhaonamëc |
| Trha goes back to mostly straight genre-work on this newest three-release dump of mostly straight black metal albums. rhejde... definitely has the most muffled and iciest sound of the three, and is also the most straightforwardly atmo-black as well. As if to really drive that home the first track even begins with trems and blast beats on a fade-in... |
| Trha enΩëcunna edëno£sa qud'lhëlh |
| black metal, two tracks, 16 mins each, muffled sound (literally turning knob on the low-end sound until it sounds like it's playing in the room above you), banging synth sections that make you want to flip tables but in a kvlt way. etc etc another banger atmo-black record with clear punk undertones, another winner from trha guy etc etc. |
| Trigg and Gusset Adagio for the Blue |
| Trist (GER) Hin-Fort |
| Tukaaria Raw to the Rapine |
| raw rhinocervs black metal cult |
| Turia Dede Kondre |
| Twilight Monument To Time End |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) White Lighter |
| Uada Devoid of Light |
| Melodic black metal with a lot of Darkthronian punkiness and melodeath thrown in. And lots of riffs. |
| Ulrich Schnauss Far Away Trains Passing By |
| Excellent downtempo album. Rather long, but these chill jams are worth. |
| Ulrich Schnauss A Strangely Isolated Place |
| some bastard child of downtempo beats, shoegazing guitar whines, and Hammock-y ambient filling. |
| Ulrich Schnauss No Further Ahead Than Today |
| Downtempo music with the upbeat joyfulness you'd expect from something almost more new-age-y. These are wonderful jams and i lov them. |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
| I CHANGE MY MIND. |
| Ungfell Es Grauet |
| Epic pagan fury! Melodic black metallll!!!!!!!!!!!!!! m// |
| Unleashed Midvinterblot |
| Unleashed might be a one-trick pagan death metal pony but they're still the best pony in show. Super accessible, riffy old school death metal. |
| Unru Split with Paramnesia |
| Ash Borer/Fell Voices II: Elekrieg Boogaloo |
| Vali Forlatt |
| Folk guitars of acoustic superiority. Oden be praised. |
| Vali Skogslandskap |
| Folk guitars of acoustic superiority. Oden be praised. [2] |
| Vampire Rex |
| black thrash liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiivesssssssss |
| Vektor Outer Isolation |
| Venenum Venenum |
| Vengeance (PL) Sewer Surge |
| Vermin Womb Decline |
Nasty pummeling grind with some of that dissonant death metal mixed in here and there (there
are some lengthy blast parts with non-grindy tremolo chord progressions). |
| Verwustung Soft Hands, Pale Moon |
| One great 20-minute slab of atmospheric black metal, drenched in ambience. |
| Vhol Vhol |
| Fridays may be for men but Darkthrone jams bands are for THE BOYS. |
| Vital Spirit In The Faith That Looks Through Death |
Canadian folk black metal of the american vein which combines pounding black metal riffs
and spaghetti western folk music to tell tales about Mexican heroes. While being a short
EP at only ~16 minutes long across four tracks there isn't much room to fully flesh out
the folk and black metal sections, respectively, a la Alda, but it does definitely
provide a nice example of a band using their ~4 min runtimes well, and makes me
exceptionally hopeful for a full-length from them in the future.
If you were looking for more cowboy black metal, this should be next on your
list. |
| Vorum Grim Death Awaits |
| Vorum Current Mouth |
| Walknut Graveforests and Their Shadows |
| Probably one of the best atmospheric black metal records. |
| Wardruna Runaljod – Ragnarok |
| Quite long and not totally consistent, but there's an aura Wardruna's folk music cultivates that, for the moment, makes up for both of these issues. |
| Warning Watching from a Distance |
| Wayd Decadance |
| slightly weird 90's-style technical death metal. Kinda up-beat, fun, proggy, with some jazz fusion flourish. There's enough saxophone to make a rivers of nihil fan jealous. |
| Wending Tide The Painter |
| This is way better than I remembered. Excellent affirmative blackgaze with uplifting melodicism and enough uptempo sections to scratch my itch for blasty music. Way too short, though. |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I |
| Loops of ambient disintegrations. For America! |
| William Ryan Fritch Revisionist |
| William Tyler Impossible Truth |
| Yeah more instrumental American Primitive whatever. Guitar musicianship is superb, writing is excellent, atmosphere is wow. More fine southerny guitar music. |
| William Tyler Modern Country |
| Actually listening to some American Primitive and it becomes a bit more pronounced the influence it had on post-rock music (and vice versa?). "Modern Country" is, more or less, seven tracks of quaint guitar-lead music backed up the kind of soft, jazzy drumming one often finds in post-rock. The combination makes the music much more atmospheric and pensive--though it does also contribute what one might call a "background music" feel. Still, Tyler's musicianship and detail are top notch, making for a very fine release. |
| William Tyler Goes West |
| William Tyler again channels classic-era John Fahey with yet another fantastic rendition of american primitivism. Get yer cowboy hats on and meet me in the tumbleweeds, city slicker. |
| William Tyler New Vanitas |
| if you like William Tyler's american primitivism, this is much of the same as his past work. |
| Windir Arntor |
| Windir 1184 |
| Windir Likferd |
| Windir Valfar, Ein Windir |
| Wintersun Wintersun |
| Wode Wode |
| Wode's debut album borrows from Storm of the Light's Bane about as much as Storm of the Light's bane did Swedish melodeath. While Wode's core might be firmly rooted in blast-happy, fiery black metal, its frequent melodic leads hearken back to Gothenburg moreso than Oslo. There are also the noted NWOBHM-style influences and the occasional metalcore-esque riff on top of the aforementioned melodeath-isms and straight-up black metal fury. Wode mix these ideas together to create an album that, mathematically, should sound pretty unique but (not to their detriment) somehow still sounds wholly black. 3.8/5 |
| Wolfbrigade Damned |
Hardcore/d-beat with bits of melodic hardcore thrown in. This kind of feels like what Motorhead
would've sounded like had they been a 90's punk band. The vocalist's gruff shouts remind of a
more aggressive Lemmy, and it feels like there's a very subtle rock'n'roll-ness present here
unrelated to just the vocals. Or maybe it's the vocals entirely. Who knows. I don't. I just
know this riffs--even if it is essentially just the same do-dodo-dodo drum pattern for 35 minutes. |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Demo |
| I prefer these rawer version of the Diadem songs, and the otherwise unreleased "Dagger of Amethyst Crystal" is a nice little Weakling ripoff. As someone who didn't like Diadem (or its remaster), this rawer presentation of WITTR's sound is quite more enjoyable by comparison. Excellent american black metal. |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade |
| Woods of Desolation Sorh |
| World's End Girlfriend Seven Idiots |
| Some of the last tracks are useless or annoying, but the rest are bizarrely wonderful in the oddest ways. They're ridiculous and crazy but endlessly fun and hugely enjoyable.rI'm between a 3.5 and a 4.0, but well-executed crazy gets bonus points, so 4.0. |
| World's End Girlfriend Story Telling Again and Again |
| Given the options to either gouge out my eyeballs with my thumbs or listen to this record again, I'd undoubtedly choose the latter every time. Interpret that as you will. |
| Wrekmeister Harmonies Then It All Came Down |
| Ambient/drone/classical/doom metal/noise. It's dreaming, pretty, spooky, scary, noisy, fluffy, ethereal, and something to get lost in. It's like a shifting dream, and you have no idea where it's going to go next. |
| Writhing Shadows Writhing Shadows |
| xSPONGEXCOREx How Tough Are Yah? |
| Honestly a really enjoyable, albeit short, listen. Never imagined Spongebob quotes would fit so nicely in hardcore music. |
| xSPONGEXCOREx Don't Mess With TexXxas |
| Look at all the peasants there are here. Oh, how adorable they are. |
| Yo La Tengo Fade |
| Yoo Doo Right A Murmur, Boundless to the East |
| do you like godspeed i lov godspeed do you like post-rock i loVe post-rock! |
| Yorushika だから僕は音楽を辞めた |
| the type of amplified hyper-positivity you'd expect from a Japanese pop rock band, in a lengthy but surprisingly consistent package. |
| Yumi Zouma EP III |
| Yumi Zouma Truth or Consequences |
| indie pop album that is one of the best albums of the year :--------) |
| Yuri Gagarin The Outskirts Of Reality |
| 3.5 great |
| ...and Oceans The Symmetry of I - The Circle of O |
| ...Of Sinking Ships ...Of Sinking Ships |
| 1349 Beyond the Apocalypse |
| !!! 666 !!! Metal Satan blast riffs thrash !!! 999 !!! |
| 1991 No More Dreams |
I like this noise ambient drone ssssssssstatic hsssssshhhh
It's pleasant eardrum background waves noise. |
| 200 Stab Wounds Manual Manic Procedures |
| 36 Fade to Grey |
| ambient piano jams. |
| 40 Watt Sun Wider than the Sky |
| Great but not quite as good or soul-crushing as their first record. |
| A Pregnant Light Death My Hanging Doorway |
| The third APL EP/demo, ?Death My Hanging Doorway? features twenty-one minutes of material spread across seven movements that all work together as one continuous piece. rIt?s about here in the band?s timeline where the project found its definitive ?style,? exchanging the previous lower-fi black metal aesthetic for the slightly more polished (emphasis on ?slightly?) style that would be used for almost all future releases under the APL moniker; fairly (less) reverby vocals, guitars and drums that, while both raw, balance well with each other in the mix. rWhile still not very inventive or dynamic in terms of structuring or riffing techniques, APL excel by continuing to make simple, catchy (kinda punky) riffs and melodies while also never staying in the same tempo or rhythm long enough to get boring. Even at this early point in the project?s timeline, APL showcased figurehead Damian Master?s ability to make great use of his own simple abilities.r |
| A Pregnant Light St. Emaciation |
| It's just early APL doing APL, a little more raw this time and the vocals (while still punky howls) fit in the background a bit better than usual, helping to better create the whole "black metal facade". The second track feels particularly black metal-y with its slow, repetitive melodic riffing--while still not losing its rock'n'roll edge. It's another solid ten minutes of material from a notoriously solid project, no surprise. |
| A Pregnant Light My Game Doesn't Have A Name |
| A lot of diversity, a lot of cool riffs and melodies. This guy knows how to slam post-punk, rock, and blast beats together to create something really cool. Not nearly as raw or echoey as his older stuff, but great nonetheless. Really surprised by the quality of this album. |
| A Pregnant Light Neon White |
| more goofy denim nonsense, more purple blackened punk. |
| A Pregnant Light All Saints' Day |
| It's a gooder album from the guy that puts out a lot of stuff. First two tracks lean toward his meaner black-ish/purple metal style while the third goes for a groovier, mid-paced and melody-heavy style. And then a pretty acoustic thingy to end it all. It's good and stuff. |
| A Pregnant Light Lucky All My Life |
| More solid purple metal from my man Damien. This sounds almost in a way more traditionally metallic than previous releases (in the vein of modern black metal, so to say), its melodic lead-work also feeling a bit different this time around. Still identifiably A Pregnant Light, but it feels fresh this time around, nuanced. Otherwise it's the same catchy/simple black/punk/rock as always, and solid as ever. |
| A Veil of Water Reminder |
| PIANO BULLBUCKY, Modern classical/chamber music that's basically all sappy pianos with a little bit of extra instrumentation or ambient or post-rock or whatever every once in a while to mix things up that tiny bit. But otherwise it's just your normal sappy piano bs. |
| A Wilhelm Scream Mute Print |
| A Wilhelm Scream Ruiner |
| A Wilhelm Scream Partycrasher |
| 'Wilhelm's back. |
| A.A. Williams As The Moon Rests |
| Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties We Don't Have Each Other |
| Abduction (UK) Existentialismus |
| Abhorrency Climax of Disgusting Impurities |
| war/death metal!!!! |
| Abigail Williams The Accuser |
| Abigail Williams stole Blake Judd's best riffs and made a record out of them. Kind of explains why Nachtmystium suck now, and I'm OK with that. |
| Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark |
| Abigor Fractal Possession |
Deathspell Omega worship technical bm. It's about what you'd expect from DsO, but with the
production style of a modern Mayhem album. As far as imitators go, though, Abigor definitely put
enough of their own spin on the style to make it weirdly their own, while obviously borrowing a
lot of their style from another band(s). |
| AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap |
| AC/DC The Razors Edge |
| AC/DC Let There Be Rock |
| AC/DC For Those About To Rock We Salute You |
| Acephalix Theothanatology |
| true death crust!!!!! |
| Acid Force World Targets In Megadeaths |
| Adabroc Eilean An Fhraoich |
| An Autumn for Crippled Children, Deafheaven, and Adabroc. 2013 is the year of pretty black metal cover art. |
| Adabroc Iolaire |
Adabroc: now with flutes! Seems like someone wanted to tap into the Saor fanbase, and it
worked. Melodic/atmospheric black metal with fast sections and slower melodic stuff. A lot
of good ideas here. |
| Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie Salero |
| ambient soundtrack music of Stars of the Lidness. Up and down strings and stuff woohoo. |
| Addaura Addaura |
| Addaura Burning for the Ancient |
| So much better than Turn of the Eternal Wheel. |
| Addaura ...And The Lamps Expire |
| Adramelech Psychostasia |
| Adrenalized Tales From The Last Generation |
| A thrashier 'Wilhelm Scream often flows back into basic melodic punk territory. |
| Aeon Spoke Aeon Spoke |
| Aephanemer Prokopton |
| Solid keyboard-y melodic death metal that reminds me a bit of Skyfire. |
| Afsky Sorg |
| This rules. Basic hella-treble simple riff bm. Cold and cutting. |
| Afsky Ofte Jeg Drømmer Mig Død |
| Drudkh more like Drought-kh get it, cus it's all dried out, like WitTR during wildfire season. |
| After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) |
| what if a melodeathxcore band got really into Destroy Erase Improve chugga chugs, the album: |
| Afterbirth Four Dimensional Flesh |
| Agalloch The White |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes |
| Agitation Free Malesch |
| krautrocking arabian jam-band-a-rama |
| Agriculture The Circle Chant |
| happy sappy blackgaze metal man |
| Agriculture Living is Easy |
| Agvirre _ _ _ _ _ _ |
| dynamic post-black metal. while the bm guitar sound is a tad too twinkly to hold much oomph, the overall composition and stylistic shifts are very well-done. |
| Ahamkara The Embers Of The Stars |
Excellent atmospheric/ambient black metal.
Wow such dark
Many riff
ambient
wow |
| Aidan Baker The Sea Swells A Bit... |
| Minimalist folk-drone thing. Slow tones, droning atmospheres, minimalism woah. It's OK I guess. |
| Akasha Canticles of the Sepulchral Deity |
| Akhlys The Dreaming I |
| Akira Kosemura Polaroid Piano |
classical/ambient
If you liked Grouper's "Ruins" album, this should also tickle your fancy. Minimalistic piano and
harp playing, with background noises for ambiance and that "real world" feel. It's too short, but
it's a pleasing little album. |
| Akrotheism Law of Seven Deaths |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde |
| Alcest Le Secret (2011 Version) |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme |
| Alcest Shelter |
| The drums ROCK! The bass ROCKS! And the guitar - ohhh, the guitar ROCKS! Check it out! CHECK IT OUT! |
| Alcest Kodama |
| Shoegaze/blackgaze? The structuring feels weird, like there's just something missing. Not enough screams, too. It's back to the "real" Alcest style, sure, but I don't even think it can compete with Voyages. |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct |
| Alchemist Lunasphere |
| Aldheorte Upon Dying Fields |
| Alghazanth Wreath of Thevetat |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| Alkerdeel Morinde |
| leviathan-worship black metal sludge |
| Alpha Male Tea Party Health |
| math rock post-rock it rocks m/ |
| Alraune The Process Of Self-Immolation |
| Altar of Plagues White Tomb |
| Altar of Plagues Tides |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury |
| A lot less black metal, a lot more atmosphere and experimentation. Essentially, this is what real "post-black metal" should sound like. This sounds virtually rnothing like White Tomb and I'm strangely OK with that. |
| Alterbeast Immortal |
| Fast, brutal, and FUN tech death. |
| Aly and AJ a touch of the beat gets you up on your feet... |
| exceptionally odd timeline where this is good, but at this point nothing should really rsurprise me anymore. |
| Amesoeurs Ruines Humaines |
| depressive proto-blackgaze I guess wew pretty OK gj Neige mmmmmmmm//////// |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising |
| A step down from the duo of Oden/Thunder God to be sure, but still a thunderous slab of Scandinavian melodic death metal. Hail to the Norsemen. |
| Amorphis Eclipse |
| Amorphis Silent Waters |
| Amulets Beneath the Surface |
| Anaal Nathrakh The Codex Necro |
| There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out. - Luke 13:28 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Her |
| The cleans are generally awful as always but thankfully they're not used prominently in every song. Lots of varied riffing and songwriting styles, flowing though black metal and death metal seamlessly into hardcore-inspired rhythms. It sort of reminds me of Sathanas-era Mayhem mixed with the intensity of Darkspace. |
| Anal Trump That Makes Me Smart! |
| Great meme, greatest meme. |
| Anal Trump To All the Broads I've Nailed Before |
| Anal Trump Make America Say Merry Christmas Again! |
| How about those department stores? |
| Anathema Weather Systems |
| Anberlin Cities |
| Ancient Death Ego Dissolution |
| Ancient Mastery Chapter One: Across The Mountains Of ... |
| atmospheric black metal with the goofy keyboards from The Final Countdown. It's an odd mismatch of styles, but its over-the-top camp somehow works because of course it does--this is black metal. |
| ANCST Abolitionist |
| solid black metal/hardcore. Kinda sounds at times like a more punky Heaven Shall Burn. Not amazing, but solid black metal with some punk riffing every now and again. |
| And Now The Owls Are Smiling Dirges |
| great shiny atmos bm |
| And So I Watch You From Afar The Endless Shimmering |
| This was actually pretty fun. Math-rock with some post-rock prettiness or w/e, doing exactly what music in the style should be doing. Fun instrumental rock jams. |
| Angelcorpse Exterminate |
| pulverizing burnt death metal. Not quite as good as The Inexorable. |
| Angst Skvadron Flukt |
This is like black 'n' roll-era Satyricon mixed with the weirdness of Thy Catafalque. "Flukt" is
filled with mid-paced groovy riffs and almost-dancy drumming with vocals that I could've sworn
actually belonged to Satyr. It's up-beat, it's fun, and it's black metal. Just like Thy
Catafalque, Angst Skvadron somehow make that weird combination work. |
| Animosity Animal |
| Deathcore that surprisingly isn't awful because it actually sounds like what death-core is supposed to be; death metal with hardcore. |
| Anneke van Giersbergen Drive |
| Absolute wholesome hype machine of a pop rock solo album. Anneke might not be much of a risk taker or avant-garde artist but Drive is a wickedly solid album regardless. |
| Anoice The Black Rain |
| ambient/classical/post-rock junk. |
| Anoice Into the Shadows |
| Anthrax Spreading The Disease |
| Anthrax Fistful Of Metal |
| thrashy speed metal that is fun and nice. 3/5 for music but +0.5 for speedy funness. |
| Antichrist (SWE) Forbidden World |
| thrash liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiives!! |
| Antigama Meteor |
| this deathgrinds my patuti like a cheese grater o boyo boy |
| Antlers (DE) A Gaze Into the Abyss |
| Antonymes There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay |
| ambient classical piano with strings and stuff ~minimalism~ (not the genre). |
| Aodon Portraits |
| Apes Lightless |
| Apparition (USA-CA) Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil State |
| Might be one of my favorite death metal albums of the year. Equal parts death and death doom, but grooving and mean. |
| Apparition (USA-CA) Subarachnoid Space |
| Arbor Lights Hatherton Lake |
| Happy post-rock that's not so positive that it makes you able to completely forget about the infinite void, but put off thinking about it for like half an hour. |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin |
| Arch Enemy Burning Bridges |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant |
| Archivist Archivist |
| the post-black equivalent of being given a dozen glazed donuts and told you have to eat them all in one 75-minute sitting. Some of the donuts have sprinkles, others have chocolate icing in addition to being glazed. Can you eat the entire dozen of these wonderful gifts of heaven in one go? Probably, but you're going to hate yourself afterward. Or in the case of this album, have significant post-black donut burnout. Still, glazed donuts, man. |
| Archspire Relentless Mutation |
| tech death purple haze shreds my way to heaven. Polymetric binomial riffs [ e x p a n s e ] trigger locked engage target destroyed. |
| Arizmenda Within the Vacuum of Infinity... |
| Arizmenda Without Circumference Nor Center |
| Black metal that feels like a broken mind unraveling. |
| Arkhtinn 最初の災害 |
| spacey atmos bm from Arkhtinn like always, but this time with a faster tempo. If you like fast Darkspace stuff, this is kind of like that. |
| Armagh Serpent Storm |
| This is kind of a mishmash of different 80s metal worship, from a lot of trad 80s metal, hints of speed, even some anthemic Bathory-isms and straight black metal blasting. This is the graves of the 80s etc. |
| Armagh Cold Wrath of Mother Earth |
| ROCK AND ROLL SPEED METAL ALL CAPS FUKIIN SPEEED |
| Arnaut Pavle Arnaut Pavle (Demo) |
| Raw crusty d-beat black metal. |
| Arnaut Pavle Arnaut Pavle |
| Asagraum Potestas Magicum Diaboli |
| No-frills melodic second-wave worship a la Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult and Sargeist. The fact that they're all talented women is more of a bonus on top of their generally tight songwriting. |
| Asagraum Dawn of Infinite Fire |
| More musically excellent second-wave worshiping black metal from the all-woman collective. The vox is an edgelord who hates immigrants and likes white nationalists, too, which also helps put Asagraum in line with many of their all-male contemporaries. |
| Ascended Dead Evenfall of the Apocalypse |
| Ascension Consolamentum |
| hail the orthodoxy hail black metal |
| Ascension With Burning Tongues (demo) |
| Ascension Under Ether |
Although sometimes sounding a tad like if Watain worshiped Thorns instead of Bathory,
Ascension's "Under Ether" is a solid slab of firey black metal orthodoxy. |
| Ashdautas Where the Sun is Silent... |
| Asunojokei A Bird In The Fault |
| blackgaze! |
| Asunojokei Wishes |
| japanese post-hardcore with a blackgaze tint. |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul |
| Ateiggar Tyrannemord |
| infernal hailz Helvetic Underground Committee! Better than the first EP, slightly more symphonic I think? And slightly better! |
| ATKA Untitled Album 1 |
| Pretty ridiculous grindcore. Extremely short songs and very hectic pacing allows them to experiment with different forms of aggressive punk while still keeping the sense that this is supposed to be a "grind" album. The band throw around bleep bloopy technical death metal riffs and then slam back into -core blasting, all while the vocalist growls, snarls, screams, and squeals seemingly at random. The diversity and consistent pacing is what really holds "Untitled Album 1" together, similar to a Wormrot record--and Atka definitely maintain a similar sense of humor. |
| August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill: A Holiday Album |
| Autophagy Bacteriophage |
| Autopsy Morbidity Triumphant |
| Autopsy Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts |
| Autumn Leaves As Night Conquers Day |
| Avast Mother Culture |
Avast, blackgaze database, has been updated.
A fantastic norwegian attempt at post-black metal, oftentimes like frozen deafheaven
punctuated with glistening post-rock instrumentals. |
| Avmakt Satanic Inversion of.... |
| I'm a sucker for mid-period Darkthrone worship but supergroup Avmakt do their imitation to such a perfect degree that it almost makes the project itself feel redundant entirely. It's good, but what's the point of worshiping Darkthrone to the point that you only see Fenriz staring back at you in the mirror? |
| Axis of Advance Strike |
| The death metal influence keeps this from being a typical war metal blastfest, featuring a lot of fun riffy mid- and slower-paced sections. There are fist-pumping epic power chords, rare atmospheric female cleans, and other little nuances that make Strike more than just another brainless war metal LP. And it rules, so there's also that. |
| Axolotes Mexicanos :3 |
Me estoy volviendo japonés
Creo que me estoy volviendo japonés
Realmente lo creo
It's spanish weeb power j-pop! |
| Aylwin The Arch Holder |
| Azarath Blasphemers' Maledictions |
| Babaganouj Clarity Restored |
| Balmorhea Constellations |
| Balmorhea go more classical than usual, but it's still Balmorhea doing what they do best. Which is to say, making pretty melodic music. |
| Balmorhea Stranger |
| Does this pretty chamber classical post-rock make me look fat? |
| Balmorhea Clear Language |
| More solid chamber music/classical/post-rock from Balmoreah. Pretty noises. |
| Bang On A Can All-Stars Music for Airports |
| An orchestral rendition of Eno's classic work, the Bang On A Can version is much more modern classical than it is ambient given its non-synthesized instrumentation. There seems to be a whole lot more instrumental detail added to this classical interpretation, which expands on the melodies and movements of the original work while still keeping a sense of ambience, albeit much less subtle and background music-y. Classical music with an ear toward ambience, and I think I like this a bit more than the original. |
| Bang On A Can All-Stars In C |
Bang on a Can try out Terry Riley's classic minimalist piece. It's an unsurprisingly skillful
reinterpretation using the 'Bang format. |
| bansheebeat Techo Deluxe |
| Revbro makes leet electro dance jams. |
| Bark Psychosis Codename: Dustsucker |
| Still just Talk Talk-obsessed, Bark Psychosis' second album is surprisingly superior to its more heavily lauded debut. |
| Baroness Red Album |
| Baroness Yellow And Green |
| Bastard Priest Ghouls of the Endless Night |
| crusty death metal Entombedcore! |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns |
| Bat For Lashes The Dream of Delphi |
| Bathory Nordland I |
| Bathory Nordland II |
| Battle Beast Unholy Savior |
| Cheesy female-fronted 80's worship hair/power metal that somehow does it all right. I'm not ashamed. |
| Battle Beast Circus of Doom |
| Battles Gloss Drop |
| Scientists are still unable to pinpoint what exactly Gloss Drop actually is; is it post-rock, neo-psychadelia, free form swing jazz, math rock, or some weird time-traveling thing that hasn't actually been invented yet? Nobody knows, and no words have yet been invented in the English language to adequately describe it. |
| Batushka Litourgiya |
| Batushka Panihida |
| Orthodox singing is used less frequently and is lower in the mix this time around but aside from that this is basically just TrueBatushka being TrueBatushka. Admittedly I think Bart's vocals were probably better, but not so much that it actually detracts from the music any. There are times where the harsh vocals feel a bit too prevalent in the music, and I wish Krzys would just shush for a second to let the instrumentals create more atmosphere, but that's also a kind of minor complaint. If you like Batushka you'll probably like this. |
| beabadoobee Beatopia |
| Beastmilk Climax |
| Beaten to Death Dødsfest! |
| this was OK fun goofy grindcore. they use melodic instrumentation like they're pretending to be an emo band, then ruin everything with gutterals and squeals in a really emotionally validating kind of way. |
| Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond) |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| I can't help but compare this to Rotting Christ. |
| Belenos Errances Oniriques |
| Belenos Yen Sonn Gardis |
| Bell Orchestre House Music |
| jazzy wazzy Tortoisecore post-rock for modern djentlemen (there's no djent). |
| Belphegor Goatreich-Fleshcult |
| I AM A CYBERKINETIC BAPHOMET. I AM THE GOAT MAN MAN GOAT. 3.5/5 |
| Belphegor Lucifer Incestus |
| this is just blast beats and blackened death but it's blackened death that sounds like black and death and goats m/ |
| Benoit Pioulard Lignin Poise |
| Swelling, droning pleasant ambient noises. Vapid noise for people of low culture and shallow taste. So, me. |
| Bestial Raids Master Satan's Witchery |
| War metal. Blast blast grind grind and there's that riff in "Angel of the Abyss" that's basically the opening riff to that one nu metal Slayer song except this one's better bc it's war metal. m/ |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Bewitched Pentagram Prayer |
| Bewitcher Cursed Be Thy Kingdom |
| Bewitcher Spell Shock |
| blackened speed rips just like the last one! |
| Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard and Soft |
| Billy Talent Dead Silence |
| Bing and Ruth City Lake |
| Not as good as "Tomorrow Was The Golden Age", but still fairly good ambient/classical. |
| Bing and Ruth No Home of the Mind |
| Not as great as "Tomorrow..." but still another solid piano ambient record by Bing & Ruth. |
| Black Breath Razor To Oblivion |
| Black Chamber Black Chamber |
| Jazz. Jazzzzzzzzzz. Something about downtempo? idk just grooves real smooth like. Smokey. |
| Black Country New Road For the First Time |
| Black Country New Road Forever Howlong |
| Black Curse Endless Wound |
| Black Curse Burning in Celestial Poison |
| Black Funeral Empire of Blood |
| Nasty, crude, old school American black metal fire. |
| Black Lycanthropy For Satan's Eternal Glory |
| the best Finnish black metal from Detroit. |
| Black Sabbath Master Of Reality |
| Yeah riffs heavy metal. |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Dehumanizer |
| Black Sabbath 13 |
| Blasfeme Black Legion |
| black metal that reminds a lot of old Woe (first two records) in the riff department. |
| Blasphemy Blood Upon the Altar |
| war mehtl death metal die fire satann |
| Blasphemy Gods of War |
| Riffs! War metal! Oden! Hail! |
| Blaze of Sorrow Absentia |
| Melodic black metal that's pretty OKAY. |
| Blazon Stone Hymns of Triumph and Glory |
| Blood Abscission II |
| Blood Command Cult Drugs |
| Blood Incantation Luminescent Bridge |
| Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere |
| They simplified the death metal riffing and complicated the structuring more in an old Opeth (Morningrise/Orchid) kind of way, not so much gradually flowing through sections so much as hard cutting between them. So while the Pink Floyd prog and Tangerine Dream synthwork sections might in themselves be pleasant experiences, the structuring around them doesn't make for the band's most compelling material. Particularly because the death metal riffing has been stripped down a lot, the riffs we're left with aren't very hefty or memorable, they sort of just fill in in a lot of places. |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh |
| Bloodbath Unblessing the Purity |
| Bloody Keep Rats Of Black Death |
| we're rats, we're the rats! |
| Blurry Lights A Romantic Dream |
| Bolt Thrower Realm of Chaos |
| Bolt Thrower War Master |
| Bolt Thrower Mercenary |
| Bongripper Satan Worshipping Doom |
| Bonobo Black Sands |
| Happy-ish songs for happy-ish people or whatever. Downtempo. |
| Bootlicker 1000 Yd. Stare |
| Boris Flood |
| THESE WAVES SOUND KINDA LOUD, DON'T YOU THINK? WHAT? WHAT?? Boris. |
| Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker- |
| This is kinda like "Flood" but meaner. Starts with a lot of sparse chord plucking, droney intro, slowly gets noisier until eventually becoming shortly rock-oriented, then noise again and droney fade away ending. It's loud, it's noisey, it's desolately pretty. It ams BORIS. |
| Boris Pink |
| Boris Präparat |
| Too irresponsibly happy/too responsibly sad. Too droney/not droney enough. Too short. Not enough feedback/too few people died. Boris is dead/All hail Boris. |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
| Born to Murder the World The Infinite Mirror Of Millennial Narcissism |
| It's like Anaal Nathrakh but without those stupid Ihsahn-wannabe clean vocals that ruin every single song. So I guess I mean it's nasty blackened grindcore stuff that doesn't suck and doesn't waste time on stupid ideas like using clean vocals. |
| Bosse-de-Nage III |
| Boygenius boygenius |
| Boygenius the record |
| Braveyoung Will The Dust Praise You |
| Braveyoung No Peace In This Mind |
It's basically just fifteen minutes of ambient drone, but I like Braveyoung so eh m/
--And as a prelude to their full-length, I think this works nicely as an anticipation-builder. |
| Braveyoung Misery and Pride |
| Sort of wonky structuring, but lovely minimalistic melancholic post-rock/modern classical nonetheless. |
| Brendon Small Galaktikon II: Become the Storm |
| THE KLOK LIVES |
| Brodequin Harbinger of Woe |
| very one-note brutal death metal in that it blasts for 31 minutes straight, but intense and good despite the lack of dynamics. |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People |
| I wanna be a rock an roll man but with post-rockin guitars ya know |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene |
| Broken Social Scene Beehives |
For a b-sides record this is pretty solid. Much more post-rocky than I expected, but then again
I'm not exceptionally well-versed in the band's discog, either. |
| Brontide Sans Souci |
| jammin post-rockin rockin rock |
| Brothers Of Metal Prophecy of Ragnarök |
| Brothers Of Metal Emblas Saga |
| Bruno Sanfilippo Pianette |
| Shorter, beautiful piano pieces. |
| Build And Release S/T |
| Slightly sludgy post-rock. The occasional rockin' sludge riff, lotsa twinklies. Fun. |
| Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze Offerings of Flesh and Gold |
| Bulldozer The Day of Wrath |
| These dudes like old Slayer a lot m/ |
| Burial Invocation Rituals of the Grotesque |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| C.B Murdoc Here Be Dragons |
| Tech death. This was fun. Lots of modern Meshuggah-isms but better than I actually like modern Meshuggah. |
| Cadaver Hymns of Misanthropy |
| this rocks. hella throwback to 90s proggy death metal but also with that odd norwegian dm side a la Darkthrone's Goatlord and Dodskvad. Very riffy, cool drumming, slight prog keeps it moving. |
| Caged Grave Gutless |
| It's like Nails but with fewer/shorter songs. m/ |
| Cain's Offering Stormcrow |
Although it reminds me of Kamelot heavily at times, it's really enjoyable power metal. Fast
riffs, excellent melodies, and not too many ballads--and when there are those slow ballady tracks,
they're always at least decent, if not generally "good." Good power metal album. |
| Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career |
| Can Tago Mago |
| krautrock psychadelic sound collage of grooving madness or someting. |
| Can Monster Movie |
| Can Can can-can? Yes! Can CAN can-can! Can-can, Can, can-can! rKrautrockin rock'n'roll let's play the same drum groove for ten minutes and just let the guitarists do whatever improve gold. |
| Caninus Now The Animals Have A Voice |
This is violence. This is true grind. Posers think it's funny but they all think
they're hot stuff till they jump in the pit and get attacked by pitbulls. And by
"attacked" I mean "slobbered on profusely." |
| Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back To Life |
| Cara Neir Stagnant Perceptions |
| Atmospheric/black/grind/punk yeah. |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Twentythree |
| I'm a head floating in a jar floating in a lab floating in a magic forest floating floating. Ambient. A m b i e n t . ~ ~ ~ |
| Carcariass Killing Process |
| Carcariass Sideral Torment |
| Carcariass Hell on Earth |
| Carcass Heartwork |
| Carcass Swansong |
| Caribou The Milk Of Human Kindness |
| im an goofy indietronica krautrockin boiiiii |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion |
| Some of the songs here are really good, whilst others are your typical "catchy chorus is the only redeeming aspect" pop songs with awkward lyrics, vocal rhythms, and cheesy backing vocals. When it's good it's really good, though. |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated |
| Carnal Tomb Embalmed in Decay |
| Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You |
| Case/Lang/Veirs Case/Lang/Veirs |
| Folky jams. Chamber folk chamber pop americanananana icy chill. |
| Caspian Hymn For The Greatest Generation |
| Cassandra Jenkins An Overview on Phenomenal Nature |
| Cassie (FIN) Old Light |
| Catamenia Eternal Winter's Prophecy |
| Causa Sui Summer Sessions Vol. 1 |
| psyche/space/jam/kraut-rockin chill jams music album. |
| Causa Sui Vibraciones Doradas |
| psyche/space/jam/kraut-rockin chill jams music album. |
| Causa Sui In Flux |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Inflikted |
| grade A himbo thrash metal. no fuss no muss no technicality no philosophy just riffs |
| Caveman Cult Rituals of Savagery (demo) |
| Caveman Cult Savage War is Destiny |
| Celer Xièxie |
| just more solid ambient from Celer. |
| Celtic Frost Morbid Tales |
| THRASH LIVVVVES. |
| Celtic Frost To Mega Therion |
| Celtic Frost Emperor's Return |
| Cenotaphe Monte Verità |
| Triumphant, melodic, Sargeist-core black metal. |
| Cenotaphe Chimères |
| Changeling III |
| very Black Cascade-y black metal, ffo WitTR. |
| Chapel of Disease Summoning Black Gods |
| Chapel of Disease The Mysterious Ways of Repetitive Art |
| Chapel of Disease ...And as We Have Seen the Storm |
| ...And As We Have Seen The Storm is like if Opeth got into 70s southern rock instead of Camel. Which is to say, it's prog-death with a lot of southern twang to its frequent prog rocking sections--which definitely makes it a fun and unique outing. |
| Chapel of Disease Echoes of Light |
| The metal tracks on here are mega hype, the dad prog is good but nowhere near as great as the metal tracks. The continued push toward 70s rock influence makes the metal tracks super fun, especially with those raspy Tribulation-y harsh vocals driving them along. The solos are also great in how classically rock'n'roll they consistently are. Now if the next record could just cut the dad prog or if Laurent could just get more confident in his singing, we'd be good. |
| Chappell Roan The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess |
| St. Vincent for dance pop zoomers. |
| Charly Bliss Guppy |
| Power pop. "Glitter" was featured on Welcome to Night Vale and is a definite jam, the rest not *as* much. |
| Charly Bliss Young Enough |
| Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hypnos / Flame |
| Chihei Hatakeyama Coastal Railroads in Memories |
| Watery, wavering, droney ambient. |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| It's solid neo-classicaly melodeath/power metal, but Alex's vocals get really cringey at points. |
| Christoph Berg Paraphrases |
| ambient classical with strings and pianos and stuff. |
| Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule |
GOREOOOSOOOPHOOOOOROOOOUUUUUOOGRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
death metal |
| Chthe'ilist Passage Into the Xexanotth |
| Chthonic Seediq Bale |
| symphonic black melodeath of triumphant glory! Eat your heart out, Cradle of Filth. |
| Chthonic Deity Reassembled In Pain |
| grimy death metal trio with one of the BLood Incantation guys. Too bad it's only thirteen minutes long; Paul bring this band back right NOW D: |
| Chuck Johnson Balsams |
| ambient Americana, pedal steel guitar, stretched out spaces, tumbleweeds a'blowin |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye |
| The adorbs cometh. |
| CHVRCHES Screen Violence |
| Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex |
| Romantic slowcore. |
| Circle Terminal |
| Krautrockkkkkk. |
| Circle of Ouroborus Viimeinen Juoksu |
| CoO go back to a more black metal style on "Viimeinen Juoksu" and mostly push their weird psychedelic post-punk influences to the background. The result is a fairly varied black metal record, going from icy atmospheric bm into those weird clean vox, into punky riffs, and back again. The biggest complaint I have about the album is its runtime; at barely over 30 minutes and with only one track over 5 mins in length, there's not a whole lot here to get sucked into. It's good, but I'd actually have preferred if the tracks were longer in order to be a little more fleshed out. |
| Cisnienie Radio Edit |
| Polish post-rock that kind of is and kind of isn't Godspeedian in its jazzy, experimental krautrocking meanderings. |
| Civerous Maze Envy |
| Clairo Live At Electric Lady |
| Clem Leek Lifenotes |
| pretty noises classical ambient post-rock or whatever. Wow such pret, much y woah. |
| Cloud Rat Pollinator |
| Cloud Rat Cloud Rat Redux |
| cloud rat punch up the production on the remaster of their debut and it rips a lot harder than the original. |
| Cloudkicker Fade |
| Cloudkicker Little Histories |
| Cloudkicker Solitude |
| Ben Sharp back on his game again. |
| Cluster Sowiesoso |
| Early ambient with lotsa pretty bird samples and pianos OoOoOoOoOo pretty/5. |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas |
| Code Error Code Error |
| Cold Earth (DE) Your Misery, My Triumph |
| Coldworld Melancholie² |
| Conan Blood Eagle |
| Concrete Winds Primitive Force |
| Contaminated (AUS) Final Man |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge Petitioning The Empty Sky |
| Converge You Fail Me Redux |
| Cor Scorpii Monument |
| Windir worship. Excellent fun epic folky black metal. |
| Cormorant Metazoa |
| Cornigr Relics of Inner War |
| Because RIFFS. Rawerish bm that is good because guitars! |
| Coroner Grin |
| Corps Fleur Corps Fleur |
| Cosmic Church Ylistys |
| Cosmophage Sidereal Malignancy |
| Couch Slut Contempt |
| We don't deserve Megan. Couch Slut pulverize and groove like they have no right to. Noise punk sludge whatever with a penchant for punky grooves that'd make Fenriz tear up. |
| Country Doctor Country Doctor |
| Courting Guitar Music |
| Cradle of Filth Midian |
| Craft Total Soul Rape |
| Craft Terror Propaganda - Second Black Metal Attack |
| Craft Fuck the Universe |
| Craft do a solid Darkthrone impression. |
| Creepmime Chiaroscuro |
| great 90's european technical death metal of the Atheist/Pestilence variety. |
| Cretin Freakery |
| old school grind to crumple your face!! |
| Cretin Stranger |
| old school grind to crumple your face. |
| Crimson Shadows Kings Among Men |
| Crimson Shadows is basically what happens when you apply melodeath vocals to a Dragonforce ripoff band. It's all fast, epic power metal with flashy (lengthy) solos, just like Dragonforce. The significant melodeath influence makes it different enough, though, to *slightly* stand out from the band it clearly rips off. And somehow being a melodeath band actually makes Crimson Shadows much better than Dragonforce, despite being as one-dimensional and repetitive. It's epic melodic death metal with power metal harmonies and solos, and a slight epic folk metal influence. "Kings Among Men" is a very fun, albeit simple, record and I really couldn't be more pleased with it. |
| Cruciamentum Obsidian Refractions |
| Crying Beyond The Fleeting Gales |
"Power Pop, Progressive Pop"
Kawaii. |
| Cryptum Vile Emergence |
| Cryptum Enter The Cryptum (demo) |
| Csejthe Reminiscence |
| Great atmospheric black metal. |
| Cul De Sac Crashes To Light, Minutes To Its Fall |
| Cul De Sac Death Of The Sun |
| Mellow post-rock. American primitivism or avant-folk elements, chill tunes. Late-night mellow jams. |
| Cul De Sac The Strangler's Wife |
| Cul De Sac's last album was a soundtrack, so it doesn't flow as well as a normal album would and it goes over quite a bit more musical territory than one would expect it to. There's the band's standard mellow post-rock/American primitivism-style folkish playing, then there are tracks of staticy noise and chaotic drumming. By the by, though, it all more-or-less adheres to the same low-key atmosphere so despite the random stylistic changes none of these tracks really feel out of place. It's not the most coherent record, but it's still solid material. Casual, slightly melancholic post-rock. |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy |
| Dakhma (SUI) Blessings of Amurdad |
| infernal hailz Helvetic Underground Committee! Dakhma engage in less misanthropic atmosphere on album number three and this time go for a much more straightforward black/death album that sounds like if Esoctrilihum had better mixing. They've leaned into a more death metal-oriented sound, with a larger influence on big stupid riffs and lumbering rhythms. It's a much clearer, heavier, and more fun record than any of their previous works. |
| Dakhma (USA) Suna Kulto |
| Two ~twenty-minute tracks of mostly furious raw black metal with a definite sludge edge. You can really hear the atmospheric sludge/post-metal influences in a lot of the chord progressions (especially during the slower sections) that works as sort of build-ups to following faster bits. They don't devolve into d-beat crust punk-ing very often, but there's some of that for good measure, too. Think of Dakhma as a rawer, less dynamic, and more black metal Oathbreaker (circa "Rheia"). |
| Dakhma (USA) Dakhma |
| Lo-fi blackened crusty goodness. |
| Damascus Heights |
| Dan Deacon Mystic Familiar |
| Danny Norbury Light In August |
Modern classical. Violins and junk. Not amazing, but given the length (63 mins) it serves as
perfect background music. For that, it gets a +0.5. |
| Danny Norbury & Ian Hagwood Faintly Recollected |
| It's like if you took GY!BE and removed pretty much everything sans the strings (their style of melody particularly reminds of the post-rock band). Mostly a string ambient album, "Faintly" evokes similar feelings to early Godspeed, using its minimalistic string performances to create feelings of lonesomeness and emptiness. Chimes ring and other noises might drone and reverberate in the background to fill up the void, but the same sense of loneliness never really leaves. It's a quiet album. There isn't a lot here, and yet in the same way, there is. |
| Dark Angel Darkness Descends |
| Dark Circles MMXIV |
| Dark hardcore, dark hardcore m/ m/ m/ m/ |
| Dark Forest (CAN) Aurora Borealis |
This is your face :-|
this is your face on pagan canadian black metal >:-D |
| Dark Moor The Gates of Oblivion |
| Dark Tranquillity Character |
| Dark Watcher Dark Watcher |
| Gameofmetal did a black metal yeehaw and it's good! |
| Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult Saldorian Spell |
| Summation: blast blast blast blast punk riff blast blast blast blast punk riff blast blast blast blast punk riff blast blast blast blast punk riff blast blast blast blast punk riff black metalllllllllll! |
| Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult Necrovision |
| More of the same from the black metal band with the best name--which is to say, fairly unadventurous-yet-exceptionally-solid second wave black metal. The punk grooves are still occasionally there, the Mayhem-i-ness comes and goes, and that heavy bassy sound pounds you the whole way through each blast section. Onielar is also probably still the best woman black metal vocalist out there. Riffs. |
| Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult Hora Nocturna |
| Standard second wave black metal music. Inherently melodic, constantly blasty. Fun for the whole family. |
| Darkest Hour Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation |
| A tad long for a metalcore album just doing At The Gates worship, but still quite good for just ATG worship. |
| Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin |
| Children of Bodom vocals plus In Flames riffs plus American metalcore equals Darkest Hour. It's essentially an American take on melodic death metal, with all the NWOAHM-core flare you'd expect from such a band in 2005. Fortunately for Darkest Hour, they don't lean too far into the metalcore sound beyond a little riffing here or gang vocals there, completely avoiding the pitfalls of the genre. |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us |
| Darkest Hour The Mark of the Judas |
| darkest hour start their career as an early At the Gates imitator. their take on metalcore-ized melodic death metal seems a bit too frantic at times--like the vocalist was struggling to control the reins the whole time--but otherwise it's a solid "american metal" interpretation of melodeath. |
| Darkest Hour The Eternal Return |
| Darkness Everywhere To Conquer Eternal Damnation |
| melodic death metal lives!!!!!!! |
| Darkspace Dark Space I |
| It's good but holy balls is it long. The band only seem to waver between two styles; super fast tremolo riffs with super simple chord progressions, and militaristic mid-paced chugging palm-muted riffs. Add keyboards over those two styles and Darkspace somehow manage to write a 70-minute record using just those two ideas. It's really quite amazing, but it's difficult to sit through because it all just gets old. Like Oh, we're doing some blast beats? I wonder what'll happen nex--oh we're chugging now? Didn't see that coming! |
| Darkspace Dark Space III I |
| Darkthrone Sardonic Wrath |
| Punkthrone liiiiiiiives. |
| Darkthrone The Cult Is Alive |
| cus we are black metal paunks! |
| Darkthrone Total Death |
| As of writing this is my favorite Darkthrone album. While it feels a bit generic now, their brand of punkish black metal was probably ahead of the game back in '96. "Total Death" might be excessively predictable with it's practically binary mid-paced blast bm/punky grooving shtick, but the writing is solid and the production is fairly good (in that's it's very fitting). This is just no frills, fun, riffy metal. |
| Darkthrone Panzerfaust |
| The vocals are too loud (obvsly), it's too samey, and a bit boring. Darkthrone's slow riffing has never been that exciting and they do that a lot here. Thankfully there's also a bit of punky riffing, which shakes things up every now and again and makes it a bit more interesting. Not amazing, but still pretty decent. |
| Darkthrone Plaguewielder |
| Not as punk grooving or as consistent as Total Death, but Plaguewielder is a nice callback to the band's more black metal-focused earlier works--while still adding in a dash of their "modern" influences here and there, too. It's actually pretty fun to hear black metal Darkthrone with better production values--the clarity of which also makes it easier to pick out the different influences this band's style has had on others; opening track "Weakling Avenger" is rife with Satyricon-isms and closer "Wreak" in many parts sounds like an obvious precursor to Wolves in the Throne Room's "Two Hunters." |
| Darkthrone Sempiternal Past - The Darkthrone Demos |
| the soulside journey tracks sound better here as necro demos. |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance |
| Oh hey look what I found. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPvOi6s_uDo |
| Darkthrone Old Star |
| ROCK AND ROLL |
| David Darling Cello Blue |
| Cello ambient/modern classical. It's interesting to hear a cello used as the driving force in an ambient album, as opposed to being used simply to add nuance to the background. |
| Dayluta Means Kindness When You're Young You're Invincible |
| pretty OK post-rock. |
| Dead Congregation Graves of the Archangels |
| Dead To A Dying World Elegy |
| Deaf Center Pale Ravine |
| 3.5-4.0 ambients of melodic melodious ambience |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda |
| Evensong you can't take the roads to judah to bermuda bc judah refers to a train line and the rtrains don't run under water jesus do you people even pay attention at all i mean come on. you'd rtake the road to judah then get off at the coast and sunbathe on the boat on the way to new rbermuda which is not like old bermuda btw bc they renovated the place since you were there last. rSo what i'm saying is first is the road to judah then the sunbathing then bermuda. Then when ryou're there you can enjoy the sight of the lovely tunnel of pecan trees from your bedrooms' rwindows and go sunbathing (obvsly). It'll be like living in a dream house, and when it's over ryou'll keep reminding yourself to please remember forever, and try not to get vertigo at the idea rof leaving. |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love |
| So you take the Road to Judah to reach your New Bermuda, where you look upon the Sunbathers and contemplate the failures of your Ordinary, Corrupt, Human Love. |
| Deafheaven Black Brick |
| Deafheaven From the Kettle Onto the Coil |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns |
| Death Human |
| Deathspell Omega Si Monvmentvm Reqvires Circvmspice |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum |
| Deathspell Omega Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum |
| Deathspell Omega Mass Grave Aesthetics |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Deathspell Omega Drought |
| Decapitated The Negation |
| Deceased Supernatural Addiction |
| Deceased Fearless Undead Machines |
| Deicide Deicide |
| Deicide Legion |
| Deliriant Nerve Uncontrollable Ascension |
| Deliriant Nerve Contaminated Conscience |
| Delving Hirschbrunnen |
| very good kraut-y psyche-y post-rock. |
| Dephosphorus Ravenous Solemnity |
| Depresy ...And There Came the Tears with Christ |
| Depresy A Grand Magnificence |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Agonie |
| tl;dr this rules. |
| Desolation Realm Desolation Realm |
| Norwegian-style death metal, which is to say it's recorded to sound akin to Darkthrone, which is to say it's very purposely lo-fi and echo-y like Soulside Journey. Timeghoul/Blood Incantation-y death metal. Very pummeling drumming. |
| Destiny Potato Lun |
| Destruction Sentence Of Death |
| Black thrash liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiives! |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II |
| DevilDriver The Last Kind Words |
| Devin Townsend Terria |
| Devin Townsend Infinity |
| some of these are bangers and some of these aren't bangers idk, DTP is better. |
| Devin Townsend Devolution Series #1 - Acoustically Inclined, Live |
| acoustic Dev is good Dev. |
| Devin Townsend Lightwork |
| Devin Townsend Nightwork |
| Devin Townsend Powernerd |
| Dev has fun making another kinda goofy metal record that is maybe slightly better than Lightwork. Still a bit too safe, a bit too clean, but the songwriting's otherwise solid and Dev's vocals are always great. |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| Diabolical Masquerade Nightwork |
| It gets best when it gets into that weird epic folky territory. Otherwise, it's just good melodic black metal. |
| Diabolical Masquerade Ravendusk in my Heart |
| Diabolizer Khalkedonian Death |
| Diabolizer Apokalypse |
| Diabolizer Murderous Revelations |
| Dif Juz Extractions |
| Post-punk without vocals apparently sounds a lot like almost-post-rock. Utilizing many different instruments (sax, harmonica, piano, flute...), Dif Juz made their first album really expansive in its sound and really pretty to boot. Some of the wobbly guitar sounds and texturing would later be used in shoegaze, and the drum/bass rhythm in "Marooned" is so quaintly casual it sounds like something off a Tortoise record. |
| Dio The Very Beast Of Dio |
| Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing |
| Disfear Soul Scars |
| good d-beat crusty punk but not as good as some of their other albums. |
| Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor |
| Disillusion Alea |
| Dispirit Separation |
| This is the best demo they've done so far. The cacophony of "Odylic Void" is crushingly abyssic, and the eleven-minute reverb-laden (almost post-rocky) doom build-up in "Funeral Frost" to a tense black metal crescendo are both equally fantastic. |
| Dispirit Enantiodromian Birth |
| this is much more aggressive and clearer than most of the previous Dispirit material, while still retaining that foggy, almost suffocating feel that only a lo-fi live recording can yield. It's much more black metal-oriented for sure, and there are even some real Weakling-isms sprinkled throughout, which definitely makes it a necessity for any John Gossard fanboys. |
| Dissection Maha Kali |
| I like Reinkaos-melodeath Dissection, so an EP with Maha Kali on it isn't something that will inherently turn me off. The re-recording of Unhallowed definitely is leaps and bounds inferior to the original, but it's still not a bad track. As a "second wave black metal throwback" track it'd be alright, and as a Dissection track it's more than that. |
| Dissection The Somberlain |
| Dissection Reinkaos |
| Dissection Where Dead Angels Lie |
| Division Speed Division Speed |
| blackish thrash liiiiiiiiiiiiives! |
| Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet |
| Probably one of the most consistent discogs in post-rock music, Do Make Say Think don't put out bad albums. Their albums aren't the best in the genre, but each is an exceptionally solid example of jazzy, Tortoise-style instrumental post-rock. "& Yet & Yet" is pretty fab. |
| Do Make Say Think Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead |
| Weird experimental super jazzy post-rockin somethingorother. Groovy. |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust |
| It's pleasant, but the band isn't known for abusing crescendos a la Godspeed so there's less to really grab you. It's consistently pleasant post-rock, quite a few steps above your basic "background music," but it still doesn't have that extra oomph to earn it that 4/5. Still really quite good, though. |
| Dodheimsgard Supervillain Outcast |
| Goofy Thorns-y industrial-lite black metal. Some of the electronic beats from Addicted! sound like Devin Townsend lifted them straight from this album. |
| Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current |
| Dodsengel Mirium Occultum |
| norwegian black metal band that wants you to know that they really really dig old school Mayhem, like a lot. |
| Dodsferd Fucking Your Creation |
| Dodskvad Krønike I |
| Dodskvad Krønike II |
| Dodskvad Krønike III |
more lo-fi Norwegian death metal adjacent to both Desolation Realm and Obliteration. Riffs
for days*, drums rock, Soulside Journey vibes.
*twenty minutes |
| Dodsrit Mortal Coil |
| melodic black metal/crust punk. The blasting black metal sections are great, but some of the painfully simplistic punk riffing really feels like a hindrance and should've been re-tooled. |
| Dodsrit Nocturnal Will |
| Dog Fashion Disco Sweet Nothings |
| Dora Jar No Way To Relax When You Are On Fire |
| Doro Force Majeure |
| Draghkar At The Crossroads of Infinity |
| Drautran Throne of the Depths |
| Symphonic northern hyperblast |
| Drave Terroir |
| black metal Quebecois |
| Drawn and Quartered Extermination Revelry |
| Drawn Into Descent The Endless Endeavour |
| 2019 essential depressive blackgaze deafheaven/woods of desolation |
| Dressed In Streams The Search for Blood |
| The noisiness of this black metal gives it a really "full" sound and great atmosphere. MooschriS and his superior bm knowledge strike again. |
| Drudkh Blood In Our Wells |
| On first listen: Much of an improvement since Autumn Aurora. It's mostly the same stylistically, but with more of its own identity now; it doesn't sound just like Burzum worship anymore. The atmosphere and general production sound are better, the melodies are better, and the songwriting is, relatively speaking, much more adventurous. Woohoo for tempo changes! |
| Drudkh Forgotten Legends |
| 3.5 but it could go up. Good fuzzy atmosphere, melodies wow. Atmospheric black metal woah. Drudkh ufff /soundoff |
| Drudkh Estrangement |
| Ukraine/5 black metal. |
| Drudkh The Swan Road |
| Drudkh/Paysage d'Hiver Somewhere Sadness Wanders/Schnee (IV) |
| Paysage is Paysage (read: rly gud), modern Drudkh is modern Drudkh (read: decent enough tho no 'Blood In Our Wells'), and three tracks are three tracks. If this split makes me think anything, it's that I really want another Paysage d'Hiver release because the fourth entry into his "Schnee" series is as good as probably anything else he's put out. More staticy wind samply programmed drummy arctic blasts of winter darkness. Nineteen minutes of fun in the dead winter sun. |
| Drumcorps For the Living |
| 12 minutes of cyber metalcore |
| Dry Cleaning New Long Leg |
| Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia |
| Dumal The Lesser God |
Dumal play a style of melody-laced black metal heavily reminiscent of Mgla. While not highly
original (and neither are Mgla), Dumal's own take on the style is done with surprising skill and
effectiveness (for a largely copycat band). While a bit long at 52 minutes (and I definitely zone
out a little somewhere near the middle), "The Lesser God" is still a fairly competent and
noteworthy addition to USBM.
Also Mgla Mgla Mgla Mgla Mgla Mgla Mgla Mgla Mgla Mgla Mgla Mgla Mgla Mgla Mgla Mgla Mgla Mgla
Mgla Mgla Mgla Mgla Mgla Mgla. :-]
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| Duster Contemporary Movement |
| Duster Together |
| Dustin O'Halloran Lumiere |
| more piano-based-string-added-classical-bologna. It's all fancy and sht. Pinkies out. |
| Dying Fetus Descend into Depravity |
| Dystopia (NL) De Verboden Diepte I... |
| black metal a la Fluisteraars with more atmospheric clean vox. |
| Dzo-nga Thunder In the Mountains |
| I didn't know saor was coming out with a new album |
| Earth and Pillars Earth I |
| Trist - Hin-Fort -esque atmospheric black metal. Blasting vaccum of space. But with like, trees and stuff. |
| Ebony Tears Tortura Insomniae |
| Ebony Tears Handful of Nothing |
| like the missing link between At the Gates and Soilwork-style melodeath. |
| Echtra Sky Burial |
No longer simply devoted to the ritual of repetition, Echtra experiments this time around by
creating a more organic and enveloping atmosphere through instrumental layering and
drastically improved songwriting. Where the band's previous works used repetition to create
an atmosphere of spiritual transcendence, they never really went anywhere, whereas
Sky Burial not only pulls the listener in to its spiritual world, but takes them on a
journey through it. This music moves and grows, changes.
Easily the best material released under this moniker. For fans of folk, drone, and ambient
music. |
| Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow |
| Efrim Manuel Menuck Plays "High Gospel" |
| singer/songwriter, ambient, drone, post-rock, field recordings, experimental jibber jabber. If you've listened to any Godspeed side-projects or affiliated works, you probably have an idea of what you're in for with a Menuck solo album. More unbelievably weird singing, more experimentation, and more ADD when it comes to choosing a style and sticking with it for more than one track. Although definitely stylistically all over the place, Menuck still knows how to turn screechy whistling sounds into pleasing ambient music. Friggin somehow, I don't even know. |
| Eggs of Gomorrh Outpregnate |
| El Ten Eleven El Ten Eleven |
| Quirky post-ROCKS! |
| El Ten Eleven Banker's Hill |
| jamming these dang goofy dupe electronical post-rockin jams like they think they're Devin Townsend's Addicted with those bass boomin pop jams or huh? |
| Elder (USA-MA) Dead Roots Stirring |
| Elderwind Fires |
| epic melodic black metal. |
| Electrelane Rock It to the Moon |
| ~~~ KRAUTROCKIN psych trip mindwhirl ~~~ |
| Elffor Unholy Throne Of Doom |
| Darkspace-y atmospheric black metal with more keyboards. There are little flourishes of creativity here and there (little bit of flutes, a bagpipe solo, etc) that help distinguish "Unholy Throne Of Doom" despite its influence on treble-heavy guitars low in the mix and lack of interest in real riffing. |
| Ellis Nothing is Sacred Anymore |
| Ellis No Place That Feels Like |
| Elskavon Skylight |
| Ambient and stuff chill noises. |
| Eluveitie Slania |
| Eluveitie Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion |
| Eluvium Talk Amongst the Trees |
3.0-4.0
Happy warm sad enveloping ambients of space. And time. |
| Eluvium When I Live by the Garden and the Sea |
| Eluvium An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death |
| Piano musics. It's not as engaging as his ambient stuff, but it's well-crafted piano-based music that serves well as background/relaxation music. It is a bit difficult to make piano arrangements unenjoyable, though, given the inherent beauty of the instrument. Still, 3.5/5 |
| Eluvium Static Nocturne |
| Waves of static upon waves of ambience. At times the rushing white noise sounds like the wind near the beach, the sound of lapping waves or pounding rain almost discernible amidst that constant wooshing sound. There's often just enough melody bleeding through to give this that sense of atmospheric awe Eluvium's so noted for, and combined with the runtime this makes for an interesting exercise in slowly evolving atmospheres. |
| Eluvium The Motion Makes Me Last |
| Eluvium Shuffle Drones |
| 23 ~32 second ambient drone vignettes meant to be shuffled to create a shifting, never-ending drone piece. It's a novel concept and works fairly well, despite the highs of each piece never lasting long enough. Still, though, Eluvium's Eluvium and Eluvium knows how to make pretty ambient. |
| Eluvium (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality |
| Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs |
| downtempo whatever. Melodies and chill tempos and whatnot. |
| Emancipator Dusk to Dawn |
| Emerald Weapon Part II: Earth Encrypted |
| A nice improvement from the first EP. The sound here is noticeably tighter and the band seem to have a better idea where they want to go with their sound. |
| Emily Jane White They Moved in Shadow All Together |
| ethereal dark folk amaze wow |
| Emily Jane White Alluvion |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Some Heavy Ocean |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium |
| Emperor Emperor |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
| Emperor Reverence |
| Symphonic Satan horns of blast beating Satans. |
| En Attendant Ana Principia |
| Enforcer Death By Fire |
| Enforcer From Beyond |
| Enisum Arpitanian Lands |
| Black metal of epic ambient whatever |
| Ensiferum From Afar |
| Enslaved Eld |
| all day every day blast beats. |
| Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi |
| idk why people hype up early Immortal when this band writes the book on blasty atmo-black and goes just as if not harder. also eat shit borrzum, enslaved were always better! |
| Enthroned Towards the Skullthrone of Satan |
| black metal blast beats all day all night all right all right m// |
| Entombed Uprising |
| Entombed Morning Star |
| Entombed Serpent Saints: The Ten Amendments |
| death 'n' roll liiiiiiiiiivesssss |
| Entombed Wolverine Blues |
| Entombed go more into their death'n'roll sound but really in a lot of ways just sort of backslid into 80's Sepultura. Petrov's growl-shouts have a noticeably Max Cavalera-esque-ness to them, which is also paralleled by the subtle hardcore influences in the rest of the instrumentation. |
| Entombed DCLXVI: To Ride Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth |
| death 'n' roll liiiiiiiiiivesssss |
| Entombed Hollowman |
| Entropia (PL) Vesper |
| Envy From Here To Eternity |
| Envy Recitation |
| Envy Atheist's Cornea |
| Protest Sputnik! Occupy review! Post freedom for comment! We will not silenced go into the night! We will stand are Independence Day! |
| Epica Design Your Universe |
| Epica The Quantum Enigma |
| Epica The Holographic Principle |
| Epica Omega |
| it didn't need to be such a long album as it's fairly stylistically and tonally consistent the whole way through, but at the end of the day Omega is just Epica doing Epic, solid symphonic metal as always. |
| Epica The Alchemy Project |
| Erebus Enthroned Temple Under Hell |
This makes up for the new Sargeist being butts. Definitely makes up for it. No frills
black metal with tons of blast beats. Hail Satan. |
| Esmerine Aurora |
| Esmerine Lost Voices |
| post-rock of the godspeedian chamber classical sort. |
| Eternal Autumn The Storm |
| In Flames-worship melodeath. Very Iron Maiden riff, such gotenburg, wow. |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Chaotic Beauty |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow A Virgin and a Whore |
| Ethereal Shroud They Became the Falling Ash |
Certified ZARU-FRESH: 75%
Despite the faster, blast-driven sections suffering a tad from an insufficient recording setup,
Ethereal Shroud's sophomore effort really shines during its slower, more melodic (and even "epic")
sections--which make up the majority of its third (and 25 minute) closing track. Given the
songwriter's previous successes with his even more melodic project(s), this effective show of
melodic songwriting really shouldn't have been as much of a surprise as it was. Shame on
me. |
| Eucharist Mirrorworlds |
| Nothing fancy--outside of some single bass pedal rhythms a-typical of melodeath--just solid guitar work, accessible rtracks, and fun, up-beat tempos. Melodic death metal. |
| Evil Army Evil Army |
| damn this rips, thrash lives. |
| Evil Army Violence and War |
| Evilfeast Elegies of the Stellar Wind |
| Evilfeast / Uuntar Odes to lands of past traditions |
| great pagan/atmospheric black metal split. |
| Exhibition The Last Laugh |
| Exhumed Horror |
| Deathgrind for a better tomorrow. |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone |
| This is night pretty post-rockin crescendo-ish-core tho it does feel like the crescendos never really reach true peaks. Just kinda going going goin for 40 minutes. Still tho good album. |
| Exquirla Para Quienes Aún Viven |
Toundra and Nino de Elche did the fusion dance and created super Spanish Alcest? While some of
this might sound like straight plagiarism of Alcest's shoegazier content, it's
done so well and with enough personal flourishes that it doesn't seem bothersome at all.
"Exquirla" sounds like if you were to take the shoegaziness of Alcest and mix it together with
traditional Spanish music in place of black/metal. |
| Extreme Noise Terror Retro-bution |
| crusty grind babies o3o |
| Extreme Noise Terror Being and Nothing |
| another good deathgrindy album from ENT |
| Exulansis Sequestered Sympathy |
| black/doom of quality. zaru 3.5-approved |
| Faceless Burial Multiversal Abattoir |
| Faceless Burial Speciation |
| Faceless Burial At the Foothills of Deliration |
| Falkenbach Heralding - The Fireblade |
| Falkenbach Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty |
| Falkenbach ...Magni Blandinn Ok Megintiri... |
| Falkenbach ...En Their Medh Riki Fara... |
| Falkenbach Asa |
| Epic folk/bm/folk bm like always, and like always it rules. |
| Fallujah Nomadic |
| False Portent |
| Farsot IIII |
| The goodness of the riffs or album or w/e permeated the alcohol-induced fog which clouded my mind upon my attempt to listen, here. I suppose that, given my current stupor, that such an impact on my psyche should be regarded as significant. Thusly so, I have bestowed upon this record a lofty (relatively speaking) 3.5. |
| Farsot 042103Freitod |
| Faust Faust IV |
| I guess krautrock disproves that whole "Germans aren't funny" thing, eh. Weird happy experimental rock music from Germany is fun. Idk just listen to it. |
| Faust “Daumenbruch” |
| faust make a da improv krautrock ??? |
| Felled The Intimate Earth |
| american black metal of the olde european folky sort. |
| Feminazgul No Dawn for Men |
| Fen Epoch |
| Fen Carrion Skies |
| yeah Fen is like Wolves in the Throne Room without the blast beats but more of the melodies and Agalloch-ian-ness. |
| Fenne Lily Breach |
| Fin The Furrows of Tradition |
| Seems like a lot of Blut Aus Nord influence going on here, but whereas BAN are generally weird, Fin just sort of adapt BAN's odd sense for melodic playing into a more standard black metal style. "The Furrows of Tradition" isn't exceptionally exceptional black metal, but it has fairly solid songwriting and the obvious BAN influence actually helps set it apart stylistically, while still clearly showcasing borrowed ideas. Songwriting-wise this is sort of like Yellow Eyes, but much less twisty, if that makes sense. |
| Final Eclipse Interminable Darkness |
| Finntroll Trollhammaren |
| Trolls. |
| Finntroll Nattfödd |
| TROLLS! [2] |
| Finntroll Jaktens tid |
| Finntroll Ur jordens djup |
| Finntroll Nifelvind |
| Great, fun folk metal (as per usual). |
| Finntroll Blodsvept |
| Finsterforst Rastlos |
| Finsterforst Zerfall |
| At times it feels like Finsterforst are trying to move away from their Moonsorrow worship, and then they just go and hit you with a 32-minute slab of viking metal like the whole thing was a huge misdirect. Fine, ya got me. It's still a fairly solid viking metal record, and quality Moonsorrow copycat'ing is almost always a good thing so there's not really much to complain about here. |
| First Aid Kit Stay Gold |
| First Fragment Dasein |
| Fweedle dleeleeee *melodeath riff* squeebleeooreeedldldldldldl x56 minutes. |
| Flesh of the Stars Mercy |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles |
| Fleurety Min Tid Skal Komme |
| Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The LSO Promises |
| piano ambient saxophone jazz minimalism hashtag BrianEno hashtag spiritualjazz hashtag MusicforAirports |
| Fluisteraars Dromers |
| It's drudkh-core black metal but better bc fluisteraars are not as boring as drudkh :-) |
| Fluisteraars De Kronieken Van Het... - II - Nergena |
| Forefather Steadfast |
| Forefather The Fighting Man |
| Forest Like a Blaze Above the Ashes |
| lo-fi, very reverby and raw atmospheric black metal. Lots of noise in the mix allows for those guitar chords to fill up space and create an icy atmosphere. Definitely more second-wave-esque than later Burzum, but definitely also taking heavily from that band's stylings, as well.rThere's a track with no drums, just a noisy repetitive guitar line, and a track with a great hypnotic riff that sounds like the inspiration for Rhinocervs. The clean vocal track wasn't great, but it was at least as atmospheric as anything else here. Great noisy cold lofi olde 90's black metal. |
| Forest Mysticism Hearken |
| low-rate low-class budget-bin depressive or something black metal from the guy from Woods of Desolation OF COURSE IT'S PRETTY GOOD. |
| Forest Swords Compassion |
| this is weird glitchy electronical dance ambient dub neo-psychadelia. Mouthful of nonsense means this is rly cool pls check it out. |
| Forhist Forhist |
| Forhist is explicitly just Vindsval doing a "what if Blut Aus Nord was regular black metal" and it's as good as you'd expect. The weird guitar tone and winding riffs are still there, but more streamlined and overtly melodic now. Normally when a band devolves to conventionality you generally expect some neutering of artistic breadth or appeal to mainstream formatting, but for a Vindsval project this inversion ironically feels less like a collapse and more like a natural metamorphosis. |
| Forndom Daura Dura |
| Minimalist tribal folk. |
| Forteresse Métal Noir Québécois |
| Forteresse Les Hivers De Notre Epoque |
| Forteresse Par Hauts Bois Et Vastes Plaines |
| Slow atmospheric black metal in the vein of Burzum, but more satisfying in its ambience. |
| Forteresse Crepuscule d'Octobre |
| Forteresse Thèmes pour la Rébellion |
They only really know how to do one type of rhythm guitar riff, they only really seem to
know how to go one speed (hint: fast), and their songs are basically fueled by their melodic
leads, but they're still pretty good at doing what they're doing--even if they are kind of a
one-trick pony. Kinda hard not to dig all the double bass and fast riffing even if they are
all typical "slow chord progression black metal style riffs" given how wicked almost-epic
they sound. Sort of like an angrier, all business WitTR without all the fooling around with
ambience and spiritualism. |
| Four Tet New Energy |
| ambient house musik. Electronical jams. |
| Four Tet Three |
| Fractal Gates The Light That Shines |
| Solid melodic death as per usual from Fractal Gates. |
| Freedom Call Beyond |
Let's play a Metal song. Let's shout for a Heavy sound. Oh, with euphoria. Take off for a
crazy flight! And we'll dance... Bang your head or die! |
| FRITZ Pastel |
| Uptempo noise pop power poply goodness, no filler all bubbly killr. |
| From the Mouth of the Sun Hymn Binding |
| ambient/chamber music |
| Fucked Up Year of the Horse |
| "Year of the Horse" is an interesting post-hardcore concept album of four tracks ranging from 19-26 minutes each, encompassing a lot of different styles of music. There's a lot of aggressive post-hardcore, which winds its way into western cowboy music, rock operas and beyond. It's kind of a lot. |
| Fucked Up One Day |
| Full of Hell and Merzbow Full of Hell and Merzbow |
| Fuming Mouth The Grand Descent |
| Funeral Mist Hekatomb |
| Hekatomb might be Funeral Mist's first album in almost a decade, but it wastes no time plunging right in to the wall-of-blasts style one would expect of the band. Hekatomb show the group are still in top form despite their previous lack of activity. Album pummels. |
| Funeral Throne Threshold |
This is some pretty excellent riffy, melodic, not-quite-kvlt-but-pretty-krieg bm. The riffs
wow, the epic wow, melodies woah. 7/10.
https://exitiumprods.bandcamp.com/album/threshold-2 |
| Furia Grudzien Za Grudniem |
| Heavy bm with some of that fancy clean prog playing here and there. Solid bm. |
| Future Islands People Who Aren’t There Anymore |
| Fyrnask Bluostar |
| Fyrnask Fórn |
| Fyrnask does weird atmos bm like Fyrnask always does. Which is to say, "well done." |
| Gabor Szabo Dreams |
That feel when you listen to lots of post-rock and then realize you actually just liked 60's
lounge jazz the whole time. |
| Gadget The Great Destroyer |
| Galaktik Cancer Squad The Gathering |
| Gang of Youths Angel in Realtime |
| Gates of Ishtar At Dusk and Forever |
| Gates of Ishtar A Bloodred Path |
| melodeath |
| Gates of Ishtar The Dawn of Flames |
| If you've ever thought "Well hey I want some epic-ish melodic death metal that sounds a little bit obsessed with Storm of the Light's Bane" well do I have a record for you. |
| George FitzGerald All That Must Be |
| Dancy electronic music idk fun jams. |
| Geotic The Anchorite |
| ambient/post-rock that's really cozy and nice. |
| Gezan 狂(KLUE) |
| noise rock/art rock with some obligatory psyche/kraut nonsense. It's another bonkers Japanese rock album. |
| Gia Margaret There's Always Glimmer |
| Gia Margaret Mia Gargaret |
| Glass Beach The First Glass Beach Album |
| Glenn Branca The Ascension: The Sequel |
| this is good no wave/totalist/drone/post-rock and it's quite enthralling how these droning, noisy pieces evolve (or don't) over time and suck you in. It's also aggravating how they almost immediately devolve into being just hypnotic noise that can make your head hurt. It's almost the opposite of krautrock; instead of repetitive drum-led rhythms slowly evolving over time, these pieces go through changes so slowly it's hard to parse when and how they actually occur. Sonic gaslighting, essentially. It's a good album, but I don't know if I want to hear it again any time soon. |
| Gloosh Timewheel |
| Gloosh Sylvan Coven |
| a russian atmo-black metal band that is neat and cool and good and MUSHROOM mm// |
| Gloryhammer Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards |
| Intercosmik fantasy DnD metal ov trvth. |
| Gnoomes Mu! |
| ~ Psychedelic trancy shoegaze ~ |
| Goatwhore Blood For The Master |
| Goatwhore Constricting Rage of the Merciless |
| God Is an Astronaut A Moment of Stillness |
| Not the best toast rock post-rock or the biggest, but boy o boy do it do it do it goodly. |
| God Is an Astronaut Far from Refuge |
| post-rock. Probably a 4 on more listens. |
| God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut |
| God Is an Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun |
| 3.5-4.0 God Is an Astronaut have a style distinctly their own and while they're more of a one-trick post-rock pony in that regard, Age of the Fifth Sun still shows them putting out quality material. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! |
| they have films play behind them on a screen at their live shows I think, so "widescreen" is probably just a more artsy way of saying "cinematic" which is also what people call certain kinds of pretentious post-rock. so it'll sound like godspeed. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor No Title as of 13 Feb 2024 28,340 Dead |
| Goldmund Sometimes |
| this is basically just some dude playing the piano slowly for forty minutes 7/10 gj. |
| Goldmund The Time it Takes |
| Golgothan Remains Perverse Offerings To The Void |
| Good Night and Good Morning Narrowing Type |
| ~ slowcore ambient chillgaze. ~ |
| Gorephilia Embodiment of Death |
| morbid angel worship death metal that goes immensely. |
| Gorephilia Severed Monolith |
| death metal morbid angel-core. |
| Gorephilia In The Eye Of Nothing |
| Gorgoroth Pentagram |
| Interesting black metal riffs, and some of the only real osbm I enjoy production-wise for some reason. The vocals aren't my thing, but the songwriting makes up for them. |
| Gorguts Considered Dead |
| Gorguts Colored Sands |
| Gorod Leading Vision |
| Gorod A Perfect Absolution |
| Gorod The Orb |
| Gosudar Morbid Despotic Ritual |
| Grandbrothers All the Unknown |
| Grave Declaration When Dying Souls Scream Praise |
| it's basically old dimmu borgir |
| Grave Pilgrim Grave Pilgrim |
| black metal that's suspiciously Rhinocervs-y but not as necro. |
| Great Grandpa Plastic Cough |
| Great Grandpa Patience, Moonbeam |
| Greg Haines Digressions |
| Classical instruments used to create almost ambient music. It's sort of kind of like Stars of the Lid, but with less subtle instrumentation; the pianos and strings are loud and obvious here. With all that goes on in any given segment the music feels very "full," which helps to give it that droning "ambient" feel. Music to get lost in. |
| Grotesque The Black Gate is Closed |
| An intro track, a real thrashy dm track, and an ambient outro track. Super lo-fi muffled osdm that would have a harder time passing as a decent demo if the riffs on "Blood Runs From the Altar" weren't so neat. For a demo, this is pretty great. |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill |
| Grouper Ruins |
| Grouper Paradise Valley |
| Liz Harris takes her guitar in a cleaner direction to create ten minutes of beautifully reverby slowcore. |
| Groza Unified In Void |
| Groza The Redemptive End |
| Groza Nadir |
| Gudsforladt Possible Realms |
| Gulch Burning Desire to Draw Last Breath |
| Gulch Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress |
| hardcore-leaning metalcore that, while good, could use a faster tempo. More frantic tempo shifts and a drastic powerviolence influence would really benefit Gulch's excellently pummeling guitar and drum sounds. |
| Gutless Mass Extinction (demo) |
| crunchy osdm |
| Gutvoid Breathing Obelisk |
| Gwynbleidd Nostalgia |
| Habak Mil Orquideas En Medio Del Desierto |
| neo-crust lives |
| Hades Archer Penis Metal |
| Hades Archer The Curse Over Mankind |
| Hades Archer Temple of the Impure |
| Haken Affinity |
| Anathema prog with more riffs and djent. |
| Haley Heynderickx Seed of a Seed |
| Hammock Asleep in the Downlights |
| The awkward vocals are a problem, but not a huge one. They hold back what could've been a much better EP, but they aren't bad in themselves. The problem is that they're not worked in a way that makes them actually fit with the music--rather, they feel sort of just dropped on top without being mixed to fit the super dreamy atmosphere. |
| Hammock The Night You Caught on Fire |
| Hammock ambient Hammock tunes Hammock chill Hammock ten-point-five-minutes Hammock! |
| Hammock Floating World |
| Solid Hammock two-track EP is solid. Eight-and-a-half minutes across two songs isn't much, but Hammock never really fail to be at least pretty good, and this EP is just that. More dreamy ambient music in a small bite. |
| Hammock Universalis |
| Hammock Elsewhere |
| Hampshire and Foat Galaxies Like Grains of Sand |
| Lounge jazz ambient chillout music. |
| Hampshire and Foat Saint Lawrence |
| Hangedup Hangedup |
| Hangedup Kicker In Tow |
| excellent godspeedy post-rock. |
| Hannes Grossmann The Radial Covenant |
| Bandcamp is wonderful for finding music.rFun tech death. It's a bit experimental, which makes it even better. I also agree with Wolfers about the Obscura comparisons. This is much more focused songwriting, while still remaining inventive and catchy. |
| Harakiri for the Sky Arson |
| Punkified vocal shouts, melodic blackgazey instrumentation, and like twenty minutes of unneeded runtime. I'd rather just listen to A Pregnant Light because while Harakiri's vocalist now kinda sounds like Damian Master, at least Master knows how to be concise with his releases >_> |
| Harmonia Musik von Harmonia |
| Krautrock is fun. Harmonia's "Musik von Harmonia" is also fun. It's kraut-tastic! |
| Hasslig Apex Predator |
| Hatchie Giving the World Away |
| Hate Eternal King of All Kings |
| the second Hate Eternal album is pretty much the same as the first, if a little less good. Same unga bunga time, same unga bunga place. Riffs and blast beats, thirty-three minutes. |
| Hate Eternal Conquering the Throne |
| Nothing really sticks out in this wall of scrunchy crunchy riffing blast beating madness. It's sort of just a big block of death metal nonsense that goes on for half an hour and then ends; it could be arranged in any order since no track seems to have any structural distinctness and they're all stylistically almost exactly the same. It's sort of like the epitome of unga bunga death metal; no thoughts, no organization, just riffs and blast beats. |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World |
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| Havok Time Is Up |
| thrash l i v e s . Now I DO dig it! :D :D :D :D |
| Havukruunu Havulinnaan |
| "Havulinnaan" is what you get when you listen to too much Immortal and Moonsorrow, then go write an album. Havukruunu perfectly marry the fast, thrashy and embellished riffs of Immortal with the epic chords of Moonsorrow, making for a fast, powerful pagan black metal record. |
| Havukruunu Uinuos Syömein Sota |
| Havukruunu Kuu Erkylän Yllä |
| Haxprocess The Caverns Of Duat |
| Haxprocess are a progressive death metal band that wants you to think they're a typical modern prog death band without noticing the Opeth they keep trying to sweep under the carpet. The last track in particular opens with up-beat drumming and folky harmonized guitaring that is unmistakably Orchid. Otherwise it's a lot of very obvious hello fellow children do you also like Blood Incantation because I'm pretty sure the second track also rips off a prominent melody from Vitrification of Blood (Pt. 1). |
| Hazel English Never Going Home |
| Hazel English Just Give In / Never Going Home |
| Hazel English Wake Up |
| her earlier dream pop-y stuff was better, but this is still a quaint indie pop album. |
| Hazel English Summer Nights |
| Heartsounds Until We Surrender |
| Heartsounds Drifter |
| Not as good as their first record, but still really enjoyable, yet simple, pop-punk/metal. |
| Heartsounds Internal Eyes |
| pop punk metal riffs. The instrumentals are as solid as the vocals are awkward, which is to say, very much (as always). Neither vocalist can relied upon to sing on-key all the time, but they their songwriting is otherwise so catchy and riffy that it hardly matters that much. |
| Heatmiser Mic City Sons |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know |
| Hegemony Demo MMXVI |
| war metal black/death that doesn't suck wow |
| Helios Eingya |
| Helios Yume |
| 3.5-4.0 idk it's happy warm ambient with happy warmness and it's hard for me to be objective about music that's meant simply to create this sort of atmosphere and illicit this type of emotional response. But it's good, yeah? |
| Hellbringer Dominion Of Darkness |
| Thrash lives! |
| Hellcrash Krvcifix Invertör |
| Helleruin Devils, Death and Dark Arts |
| Hellripper The Manifestation of Evil |
| black thrash lives, etc. |
| Hellripper Coagulating Darkness |
| Black metal speed thrash go! |
| Hellripper Complete and Total Fucking Mayhem |
| Sput ate my soundoff. This is old school first wave-y black metal slash speed metal. It's got the speedy metally good time-i-ness of Motorhead mixed with the constant pounding drums and echo-y harsh growls of Bathory. It's basically a more fun speed metally Bathory. It's a fun album. |
| Hellripper The Affair Of The Poisons |
| black thrash rips yeah hellripper liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiives |
| Hellripper Warlocks Grim And Withered Hags |
| Hermodr Forest Sky |
| Take the depressive black metal of Woods of Desolation and smash it into the calm melodicism of Agalloch. Distorted vox a la early WoD, slow melodic work that reminds much of Agalloch and early Of Solitude and Solemn. It's black metal without all the energy or up-tempo riffing, with melodic Agallochian leads its main focus. Basically if you want something calming, yet still vaguely head-bangable and in the same universe as traditional black metal. |
| Hey! Hello! Hey! Hello! |
| power pop from one of the Wildhearts guys. There's not much more to say than that; it's wildly optimistic and power-chorus-oriented power pop with dual male/female vox. If you need a brain off; head empty power jam, this is it. |
| Hibria Defying the Rules |
| Come to Brazil we have power metaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllll!!!! |
| Hierophant (IT) Mass Grave |
I don't like the vocal shift away from punk shouts toward death growls, and the production also is
a bit lacking--not that it sounds bad by any means (the sound quality is quite high here), but
rather that the cleaner, more high-quality sound doesn't really suit a band that's supposed to be
about grit. I really think a rawer sound (akin to their previous stuff) would've made much of
Mass Graves sound more aggressive and powerful. As-is, though, I think it's fine. Not as good as
I'd hoped, but still a respectable release.
I will say, however, that this is just another in a long line of punk/grind bands that have sort
of wacky production this year--Rotten Sound, Nails, Wormrot, and now Hierophant. I don't know
what's going on but I don't like it. |
| Hiraes Dormant |
| welp I GUESS we know where all the good Arch Enemy songs went now. |
| Hiroshi Yoshimura Music For Nine Post Cards |
| Seeing this is from the 80's makes more sense, given how Ambient 1: Music for Airports-esque it is; this is like the lullaby, quiet jazz piano version of Eno's early Ambient series. The tracks never really go anywhere; they're mostly just led by slow, atmospheric keyboard notes. It's nice, and definitely fits Eno's original definition for "ambient music". |
| Holy Seclusion MMXIV |
| Buzzing crunchy foot-tappin' short-but-sweet hardcore. |
| Holy Fuck Deleter |
| more indietronic-kraut |
| Holy Moses Strength Power Will Passion |
| even in the modern era Holy Moses' old school thrash style can still rip. |
| Holy Moses Terminal Terror |
| Sabina's growls on this album rip. The godmother of thrash liiiiiiiiiiiiives. |
| Holy Moses Reborn Dogs |
| infernal hailz to the thrash queen m//// |
| Holy Moses Invisible Queen |
| THRASH? LIVES! |
| Hood Rustic Houses, Forlorn Valleys |
| More minimalistic 90's post-rock melancholy that still solidly wades in indie rock. |
| Hood Outside Closer |
| Coolio pretty post-rock with vocals 3.5-4.0 |
| Horna Envaatnags Eflos Solf Esgantaavne |
| Horrendous Ecdysis |
| Horrendous Anareta |
| prog death that nicely veers into the harmonized melodicism of gothenburg at precicely the correct moments. |
| Horrendous Idol |
| Horrendous Ontological Mysterium |
| Howls of Ebb Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows |
| this is death metal for people who like orthodox black metal. |
| Hrsta Stem Stem in Electro |
| Human Serpent For I, The Misanthropist |
| I like that old time black meh-tol. |
| Hyperdontia Abhorrence Veil |
| Hyperdontia Nexus of Teeth |
| Hyperdontia Excreted From The Flesh |
| Hyperdontia Deranged |
| filthy enough! death metal |
| Hyperdontia Harvest of Malevolence |
| Hypocrisy The Final Chapter |
| Hypocrisy A Taste of Extreme Divinity |
| Hypocrite Into the Halls of the Blind |
| I Between Two Worlds |
| iamamiwhoami Blue |
| Ethereal voices an stuff man. Sings. Wow. Happy dance lady gaga eat your heart out girl friend. m/ |
| Ian Noe River Fools and Mountain Saints |
| Icxitonttli Terra Existence |
| shitty live recording of a black metal band disguised as a legit release, sounds great. |
| If These Trees Could Talk Red Forest |
| Ifernach Waqan |
| Solid 2-track black metal EP. |
| Ihsahn The Adversary |
| Ihsahn angL |
| Ildjarn Hardangervidda (with Nidhogg) |
| Almost new age-y cinematic ambient that puts Varg's prison synth work to shame. Doesn't really go anywhere, but "Hardangervidda" is still an endlessly pretty record. |
| Ildskaer Blod & Jern |
| black metal. wolves ildskaer throne room r |
| Imbaru Vigias |
| Neo-folk. Acoustic guitars, pianos, and all that jazz. |
| Imha Tarikat Kara Ihlas |
| The tremendous victorious shouts of Misthyrming, with less of the punch. If you were disappointed by the new Misthyrming's lack of bludgeoning glacial triumph, this is a decent replacement. |
| Immortal Bird Empress/Abscess |
Dynamic songwriting makes Immortal Bird's combination of various extreme metal styles fairly
effective. They run the gamut of guitar styles without letting any one idea overstay its
welcome, keeping "Empress?/?Abscess" interesting from start to finish. |
| Imogen Heap Ellipse |
| Impaled Nazarene Absence of War Does Not Mean Peace |
| black thrash liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiives etc |
| Imperial Crystalline Entombment Apocalyptic End in White |
| Imperial Crystalline Entombment aka north american Marduk hit pretty hard on their first album. |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| In Flames Clayman |
| In Flames Subterranean |
| Back when In Flames were fun and were good and stuff yeah. |
| In Flames The Mirror's Truth |
| For toeing that line between melodic death metal and melodic metalcore, In Flames's single/EP (whichever you consider it) is a surprisingly decent little record. Definitely more solid than the material that actually made it to the "A Sense of Purpose", the Mirror's Truth EP content sounds a lot like holdover material from the "Come Clarity" sessions, or even as slightly more transitional pieces between the two records. It's definitely not their best material but given the EP's brevity (about 13 minutes) and the accessibility of its four up-beat melodeath tracks, it's a fairly solid release. |
| In Flames Clayman (20th Anniversary Edition) |
| while the four re-recorded tracks aren't great, they're not bad enough to justify 1/5-bombing this special edition of the album. They sound like bad bonus track recordings by a melodic metalcore In Flames-ripoff band, but aren't wholly horrible. Nor do these tracks ruin the rest of the now-classic Clayman album, which has always been one of In Flames better-if-not-best albums. If there's any difference in sonic quality with the rest of the album (the whole thing has apparently been 'remastered'), then it's not particularly notable. |
| In Love With A Ghost Healing |
| Electronic downtempo that make u feel fuzzy. |
| In This Moment The Dream |
| Inanna Transfigured in a Thousand Delusions |
| Incantation Onward to Golgotha |
| Death metal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Incantation Diabolical Conquest |
| Incantation Mortal Throne of Nazarene |
| Inculter Morbid Origin |
| yeah thrash lives, it lives. |
| Inexorum Lore of the Lakes |
| the other guy from Obsequiae does melodic bm/dm very nicely. |
| Inexorum Equinox Vigil |
| Infernal Coil Burning Prayer of Infinite Hatred |
| Inferno (CZ) PARADEIGMA (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity) |
| suffocating, pulverizing black metal orthodoxy. |
| Inherits the Void Scars Of Yesteryears |
| Ink & Fire Execution of Spirit |
Ungfell-core black metal. Folky guitar leads woven into black metal rhythms mixed with
frenetic, punky drumming. |
| Insect Warfare World Extermination |
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| Insomnium Across the Dark |
| "Down with the Sun" is an absolute banger, but the rest is sort of just Insomnium being Insomnium, but not as effectively as on their previous records. I definitely find it odd that I don't much enjoy the follow-up to Across the Weeping World as one would expect, but what can you do? It just feels like normal melodeath at this point, lacking the oomph of earlier Insomnium, despite still being almost stylistically identical. |
| Insomnium Winter's Gate |
| melodeath pseudo-Crimson III. |
| Internal Rot Hack Session |
| Meaty grindcore with some osdm vibes too. Dirty blast nonsense wooooo |
| Internal Rot Grieving Birth |
Insect Warfare liiiiiiiiiiiiiives.
grindcore band |
| Intestine Baalism Banquet in the Darkness |
| ionnalee Everyone Afraid To Be Forgotten |
| Iress Flaw |
| dooming shoegazing post-metal |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| Iron Maiden Piece Of Mind |
| Iron Maiden's fun and the embodiment of 80's metal cheese. |
| Iron Maiden Killers |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere Back In Time |
| Iskald Shades Of Misery |
| fairly fun melodic black metal. |
| Istapp Blekinge |
| Istapp Frostbiten |
| pretty by-the-books melodic bm. It riffs pretty hard, takes a bit from melodeath here and there, and is pretty fun, though. |
| Ixachitlan Eagle, Quetzal, and Condor |
| Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall The Marfa Tapes |
| 2021 I started listening to Miranda Lambert so I guess that says a lot about where I am that i'm listening to country music now. |
| JAD Strach |
| Jade The Pacification Of Death |
| BLACK SUCKING DEATH. THUNDEROUS DOOM. THE CAVERNOUS SWIRLING FILTH OF DEATH DOOM, THE PUMMELING HATE OF BLACK DEATH. |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must |
| Jazziest post-rockingest jazzy post-rock electronica. |
| Jannick Schou Fasjil |
| Jannick Schou Against a Backdrop of Blue Hills... |
| Jardin de la Croix Circadia |
| jazzy math post-rock that does chugs hard sometimes. tweedle leedle leedle. |
| Jay Som Everybody Works |
| Greater-ish cute shoegazy loud quiet rockness. R e t r o. |
| Jay Som Anak Ko |
| Jean-Michel Blais Aubades |
| Jeff Rosenstock NO DREAM |
| Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat |
| alt-country good album |
| Jess Williamson Sorceress |
| singer/songwriter americana album that I apparently listened to and enjoyed at some point. |
| Jessica Moss Pools Of Light |
| classical/ambient? Efrim Menuck's partner plays music about as weirdly as you'd expect her to. |
| Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure? |
| Jesu Silver |
| Jesu Terminus |
| Joan Shelley Like the River Loves the Sea |
| Johann Johannsson Fordlandia |
| John Fahey The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death |
| John Fahey is a wizard man of american folk guitar magick h a i l s t o t h e w i z a r d |
| John Fahey Volume 6: Days Have Gone By |
| While Vol 6 might not be quite as strong in terms of its songwriting, it does stand out against some of Fahey's older releases by being a conceptually more unique work. Instead of simply revolving around Fahey's patented five-finger-picked acoustic folk pieces, "Days Have Gone By"'s tracks involve much more experimentation with space and atmosphere, incorporating slower bluesy riffs as well as various field recordings. While it might not be a truly superior work, it does showcase the influential guitarist growing as an artist and expanding the sound he would later be so heralded for. |
| John Fahey Blind Joe Death |
| John Luther Adams Become Ocean |
42 minutes of classical/ambient music that rolls and flows and rises and sinks again and again,
like an ocean wave washing over you. |
| Jonsi and Alex Riceboy Sleeps |
| ambient/classical/post-rock. Wowie wow. |
| Judas Iscariot To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding |
| High-octane hate blaster. Black metal. |
| Judas Iscariot Dethroned, Conquered and Forgotten |
| heckin aggressive fast, raw, kinda sloppy black metal from ya boi judas. |
| Judas Priest Defenders Of The Faith |
| Julia Jacklin Pre Pleasure |
| Juliana Daugherty Light |
| Julianna Barwick Healing Is a Miracle |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle |
The singer/songwriter genre is full of sad girls singing to acoustic guitars and pianos, but
"Sprained Ankle" still somehow sets itself apart from the rest. |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights |
| singer/songwriter sadgirl guitar music. Julien y u so sad :-( |
| Jungbluth Part Ache |
| Kaatayra Só Quem Viu o Relâmpago à Sua Direita Sabe |
| Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour |
| Kacey Musgraves Deeper Well |
| Kacy Hill Bug |
| Kaldeket Vitiate (Demo) |
| Kaldeket Déraciné (Demo) |
| Kallathon/Blue Hummingbird on the Left Camino de Guerra |
| Blue Hummingbird on the Left and Kallathon plow your face into the ground with a 2-track war metal split. Get u some black metal bulldozer action. |
| Kalmah For the Revolution |
| Solid but unadventurous melodic death metal under the brand of Kalmah. Definitely a dip in quality compared to their previous four records, but that kind of streak would've been hard to keep up anyway. |
| Kalmah 12 Gauge |
| Kalmah Svieri Obraza |
While neither of the following two tracks are as great as the opener "Hades", Kalmah's demo is
still surprisingly solid melodic death metal. Despite the slightly rougher demo quality to the
songs, the music is well-played and in a lot of ways sounds virtually indistinguishable from later
recordings on proper albums. The rougher mix sometimes even gives the more metallic parts some
appropriate grittiness--making Hades' faster sections sound much more like black metal, for
example. |
| Kalmah Seventh Swamphony |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music III |
| Kathleen Edwards Total Freedom |
| Katie Pruitt Expectations |
| Kauan Sorni Nai |
| atmospheric post-rock doom metal of fantastic wonderful melodiness. |
| Keaton Henson Romantic Works |
| Sappy classical music that, while probably interchangable with any soundtrack from any sappy indie romance flick, is still pretty good in itself. Despite being pretty sappy here and there. |
| Ketzer Satan's Boundaries Unchained |
| Black thrash liiiiiiiiiiivvvvvveeeeeeessssssssss. |
| Ketzer Endzeit Metropolis |
| black thrash liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiives! |
| Kill The Client Set for Extinction |
| Killing Face the Madness |
| Thrash metal is alive, it lives, riffs for days, etc etc |
| Killing Toxic Asylum |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard I'm In Your Mind Fuzz |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity |
| Heavy rockin heavy rock |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Infest the Rats' Nest |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Butterfly 3000 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of... |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Phantom Island |
| Kirottu Deity Embers |
| symphonic black metal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Knelt Rote Trespass |
| beaten to a pulp war/grind |
| Koi. Maelstrom |
| Happy beats. |
| Kokomo Kokomo |
| Koldovstvo Ни царя, ни бога |
| atmospheric depressive suffocatingly lo-fi black metal. It's got those Austere-y wailing vox and sounds real muffly, oooooo |
| Korpiklaani Voice Of Wilderness |
| Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough |
| Krallice Diotima |
| Krieg Transient |
| Super solid and fun black metal from Krieg. How solid this stuff was actually surprised me given I thought later Krieg wasn't supposed to be that good. Not as good as "The Black House" for sure, but definitely worth some checks. |
| Krieg Ruiner |
| Kriegsmaschine Altered States of Divinity |
| Fast fast fast raw aggressive black metal. |
| Krisiun The Great Execution |
| you can tell that krisiun are brazilian via their really obvious overtly masculine sepulturan swagger. And they reimagine a few Chaos AD riffs here and there. |
| Kultura kureniya Nekrofiliya |
| Kultura kureniya Polnoch v Novosibirske |
| Kuroi Jukai Kuroi Jukai |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| Kvist For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vike |
Not enough keyboard for them to be symphonic, but for barely post-Nightside Eclipse album, it
still shoulda been at least a little bit unique. And using a churchy keyboards definitely gets you
kvlt kred. Fairly melodic bm with keys for added melodic contrast. Blast beats. m/ |
| Kylie Minogue Fever |
| Kylie Minogue Aphrodite |
| Kylie Minogue Disco |
| Kylie Minogue Tension |
| La Dusseldorf Viva |
| La Mar La Mar |
| La Quiete 2006 / 2009 |
| Labradford Mi Media Naranja |
| Labradford Labradford |
| toast-rock mellow low-fat jammz |
| Lake Of Blood The Burial Grounds Sessions |
Lake of Blood pull themselves together and release an aggressive EP that hints at greater
things to come. |
| Lamb of God As The Palaces Burn |
| They're basically At The Gates smashed together with Pantera but still m/ |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Lamp of Murmuur Thunder Vigil and Ecstasy |
| Lamp of Murmuur Melancholy Howls in Ceremonial Penitence |
| You can only find this on slsk if you haven't acquired the cassette yet. It's pretty solid melodic raw black metal. |
| Lamp of Murmuur Chasing The Path Of The Hidden Master |
| Land Of Talk Life After Youth |
| Dreamy indie rock. Such pretty wow. |
| Lantlos Lantlos |
| Lantlos .neon |
| Lantlos Agape |
| Lantlos Melting Sun |
| But this one doesn't have These Nights Were Ourrrrrrrs how can it possibly be better than .neon???!!? |
| Lawrence English Cruel Optimism |
| Weird harsh often minimalistic ambient soundscapes. |
| Lazer Kitty SPIES |
| Dancey funtime yes beatz wow, happy much! |
| Leatherface Mush |
| it's motorhead goes melodic hardcore, or at least that's what their vocalist thinks he's doing. |
| Leech For Better or For Worse |
| Leech [US] Against Leviathan! |
| Les Big Byrd Iran Iraq IKEA |
| Less Than Jake Anthem |
| Less Than Jake Borders and Boundaries |
| Less Than Jake In with the Out Crowd |
| Less Than Jake GNV FLA |
| Less Than Jake See the Light |
| Lethe (NO) When Dreams Become Nightmares |
| Trip hop with Eluveitie's clean vocalist. Wow. |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful |
| Leucosis Pulling Down the Sky |
| Atmospheric, aggressive, epic, brooding, doomy, with a drop of folk. For fans of the Cascadian brand, Weakling, and the like. |
| Leucosis Leucosis |
| Leviathan The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide |
| I like this, but it's like 20 minutes too long. I really dig the inclusion of punk influences, too; given this is a fairly depressive bm album, those heavy punk grooves help mix it up every now and again. Wish there were more of them, actually. |
| Library Tapes Escapism |
| Classical almost-ambient minimals of joy! |
| Lichen Spear & Stone |
| US black metal that's got the feel of 00's USBM, like Leech but melodically less bombastic, a pinch of Wolves in the Throne Room rather than pure Cascadian-ism. |
| Lichmagick Lichmagick |
| Light This City Stormchaser |
| Light This City Terminal Bloom |
| Other melodeath bands btfo, Laura's back. |
| Lights and Motion Save Your Heart |
| Limbonic Art Legacy of Evil |
| This riffs so hard for symphonic black metal it should be illegal. |
| Lionoka Tides of Triumph |
TRUE NATIVE AMERICAN BLACK METAL
This is blackbraid for people who like real raw black metal; pagan black metal with
indigenous tribal music woven in. Rips! |
| Liquid Mike Liquid Mike |
| Liquid Mike Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot |
| power pop to start off your year right |
| Liturgy Aesthethica |
| in retrospect, Aesthethica is an interesting math rock/black metal hybrid that was weighted down more by the combination of its scatter-brained structuring and accompanying pretentious manifesto than the music itself. While this isn't a fantastic record, it is a successful blending of otherwise opposing genres that, at the time, had never really been done before. |
| Live Burial Unending Futility |
| Liza Anne Bad Vacation |
| indie pop power pop |
| Lo Moon Lo Moon |
| Pretty indie rock with Talk Talk-y nu jazzy vibes. |
| Loma Don't Shy Away |
| Long Distance Calling Boundless |
| Riffing metal post-rocks Pelican something something twinkles rules. |
| Long Fin Killie Amelia |
| Lonker See Hamza |
| psychedelic space rock |
| Lorenzo Masotto Aeolian Processes |
| piano/new age? w.e good jams. |
| Low C'Mon |
| Lowercase Noises Carry Us All Away |
| Sappy, slightly Godspeedian post-rock/ambient. It basically uses everything typical post-rock; pretty twinkly guitars, aesthetically pleasing up-beat sections that don't really go anywhere but sound pretty, ambient guitar droning, and the occasional droning violin in the background. |
| Lowercase Noises The Swiss Illness |
| Pretty ambient nonsense. |
| Lucifer (DE) Lucifer II |
| Lucifer (DE) Lucifer V |
| Ludicra Hollow Psalms |
| Ludovico Einaudi Elements |
| didn't have this rated for some reason. From what I can remember it's more solid modern classical. Largely piano-based music. |
| Lunar Aurora Of Stargates and Bloodstained Celestial Spheres |
Slightly symphonic black metal. 'Stargates' sounds slightly like a nastier Dimmu Borgir with the
sometimes-obnoxious keyboarding of Children of Bodom. It also riffs pretty nicely, which
definitely helps set it apart from other symphonic acts like Dimmu and Emperor, as opposed to
simply being another copycat. |
| Lunar Aurora Hoagascht |
| It's like Burzum but with more cool up-beat sections that are m/ and remind me of WitTR but only bc WitTR are known for doing that. It's good. |
| Lunar Chamber Shambhallic Vibrations |
| Lunar Shadow The Smokeless Fires |
| Lunar Shadow weave in a lot of extreme metal influences into their "trad metal" style, particularly 80's some speedy metal and blast beats here and there. |
| Lunar Spells Where Silence Whispers |
| Lunar Spells Demise of Heaven |
| Lunar Spells Sacraments of Necromantical Empires |
| Lunatic Soul Under The Fragmented Sky |
| Lunatic Soul Through Shaded Woods |
| Lund Quartet Lund Quartet |
Mostly instrumental jazz with some electronic/experimental/trip hop stuff going on. Smoky night
club music for a new century. |
| Lurker Of Chalice Lurker Of Chalice |
| Forgot to ever rate this but yeah rules. Black metal ambient woah riffs atmosphere ayyyye m/ |
| Lykhaeon Ominous Eradication of Anguished Souls |
| Lykhaeon Opprobrium |
| Macabre Omen The Ancient Returns |
| PAGAN BLACK METAL HAILZ FOAR VICTORY |
| Macabre Omen Gods Of War - At War |
| Hellenic epic black metal riffs of glory for the homeland! |
| Magnolia Electric Co Magnolia Electric Co |
| Majesties Vast Reaches Unclaimed |
| Maleficentt Night of the Crimson Stars |
| Malokarpatan Nordkarpatenland |
| Malokarpatan Krupinské Ohne |
| Man or Astro-Man? Intravenous Television Continuum |
| Man/Woman/Chainsaw Eazy Peazy |
| Hopefully an appetizer for a great eventual full-length, this is one of my (thus far) favorite "Windmill Scene" releases. M/W/C capture the slightly unhinged energy of early BCNR, but with the more conventional approach to melody of recent BCNR. |
| Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God |
| Manhunt (AUS) Manhunt |
| More grindcore for the lovely childrens. |
| Manhunt / Internal Rot Manhunt / Internal Rot |
| Grindcore. |
| Mania Mania |
| angry screams black metal rawr ra ra. It's that kind of raw lo-fi sound that just feels right, whereas most bands with that sounds generally don't click with me. |
| Mannequin Pussy Romantic |
| Mannequin Pussy Patience |
| MAQUINA. PRATA |
| Marduk Frontschwein |
| Marduk's straightforward hyperblast style gets a little old after 50 minutes, but even then "Frontschwein" is just more solid black metal from the WWII-obsessed band. There's also a surprising amount of groove and melodic work here. |
| Mare Cognitum Phobos Monolith |
| Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm |
| a bit long and dense, but another rewarding entry into Mare Cognitum's outer space black metal catalogue. |
| Maribou State Kingdoms In Colour |
| Marika Hackman Big Sigh |
| Marina The Family Jewels |
| Marina Electra Heart |
| Marina Froot |
| I am synthpop. |
| Martha Love Keeps Kicking |
| power pop punk!! |
| Maruja Knocknarea |
| Mason Lindahl Kissing Rosy In The Rain |
| Master Faith Is In Season |
| Master Unreleased 1985 Album |
| More nasty osdm played by teens that's still somehow nastier than a lot of the stuff grown men put out today. Master play fast, dirty, and with a flair for hardcore influences you don't often hear in death metal. |
| Max Richter From Sleep |
| "From Sleep" can't touch Richter's older works, but on its own is still a competent and coherent showcasing of his compositional skills, despite only being more-or-less a "greatest hits" of his longer 8-hour classical piece. |
| Max Richter Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works |
| Classical music. |
| Max Richter Voices |
| Maximum the Hormone Bu-ikikaesu |
| Not quite as good as "Yoshu Fukushu" or "Rokkinpo Goroshi", but still a solid slab of j-pop/power rock/alt-nu metal/pop punk. |
| Maximum the Hormone Mimi Kajiru Shinuchi |
| The new version of "Abara Bob" with its breakbeat section and nu metal riffing is partially a blatant ripoff of Slipknot, yet unsurprisingly MTH still do Slipknot better than Slipknot ever did. This might just be a re-recording of some more obscure tracks, but it's still just as solid and ridiculous as anything else MTH have ever done. Ridic punk rock/hardcore/metal/rap/power rock that changes styles fluidly at the drop of a hat and is always goofy fun. |
| Maybeshewill Fair Youth |
| Mayhem Live in Leipzig |
| Dead wasn't as experimental as Attila, but his vox still more or less became the definitive bm style. This is much rawer (obvsly) than Dom Sathanas, which definitely gives its tracks a bit of cruddy charm. I'm not as big on the earlier tracks, though. |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| Rating is for the "Instrumental Mix 1992" which I like more than the standard with-vocals version.rNot a fan of the vocals, but the "Instrumental Mix 1992" version fixes that problem whilst also making the instrumentation sound both much heavier and more power. The blasting feels frantic, and the slower sections actually feel slightly menacing and evil in this alternative mix. Can't say if the vocals would sound appropriate in this new version, though. |
| Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? |
| whoever remastered these records should be shot. |
| Melanie De Biasio Blackened Cities |
| Melechesh Djinn |
| Melechesh Sphynx |
| Melechesh Emissaries |
| Middle Eastern folky rhythms and melodies over black metal riffs--something not many other bands (of which I'm aware) have really tried. Melechesh have always been a fairly unique band because of their patently non-European take on the black metal genre, but their brand of folk-ish metal is just as fun as any of their European counterparts. While "Emissaries" is a bit long (55 minutes), it never really slows down, never finds itself lacking in content, and is a generally enjoyable experience from start to finish. If you don't mind the runtime, of course. |
| Mentor Cults, Crypts And Corpses |
| Mercyful Fate Melissa |
| Mercyful Fate Mercyful Fate |
| solid 80's heavy metal. BLACK METAL. |
| Mesarthim Isolate |
| Atmospheric black synth metal. It's like Summoning but I like it more. |
| Meshuggah Nothing |
| The original Meshuggah groove album is a bit dirtier than it's later reworked twin, which kinda gives it a bit more personality over it's eventually more crushing replacement. |
| Meshuggah I |
| Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse |
| Meshuggah The True Human Design |
| Meshuggah Nothing (Re-Release) |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Meshuggah None |
| Ancient Djent of the Coming Storm. That's an Amon Amarth reference, fyi. |
| Messiah Choir of Horrors |
| Metallica Master Of Puppets |
| Ride the Lightning is their best album. |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Mgla With Hearts Toward None |
| Mgla Exercises in Futility |
| this is my surprised face: :O can u tell im surprised? |
| Mgla Mdlosci |
| Slightly epic, melodic black metal. A two-track, eleven-minute EP that seems to get a lot of critical acclaim, and for good reason; despite its short runtime, "Mdlosci" *is* by all merits a very solid black metal release. It never really dips in quality at any point, partially due to its constant melodic lead playing which makes even the slower, less "intense" moments powerful by giving them an underling "epic" feel. |
| Mgla Further Down the Nest |
| Miasma Changes |
| Miasme perpetual.terminal |
| Midas Fall Evaporate |
| Midori Aratame Hajime Mashite Midori Desu |
| post-hardcore jazz/art rock album from weird Japanese band yepp |
| Midwife (USA) Luminol |
| dreamy shoegaze ambient pop album. |
| Midwife (USA) No Depression In Heaven |
| Miley Cyrus Something Beautiful |
| Milhaven Automata |
| Milhaven Milhaven |
| Mind Eraser Glacial Reign |
| Mind Eraser Cave |
| Miranda Lambert The Weight of These Wings |
| Miroist CURVE |
Djent tech djennnt! Think Cloudkicker but with moar duhJentz more technicals moar
moaaaarrrrrrr.
"It's like instrumental Periphery but without being bad!" |
| Mirrorring Foreign Body |
| Liz Harris is incapable of making bad music just as her voice is incapable of sounding bad. This might not be Grouper, but it's Groupery enough reverby almost-ambient to satisfy any Grouper/Harris fan. |
| Misery Index Retaliate |
| Misfits Walk Among Us |
| Mistcavern Into Twilight |
| do you guys like old Satyricon i like old satyricon i wonder if these guys like old Satyricon i think they might |
| Misterus Daydream II |
| About what you'd expect from a purple metal album; atmospheric black metal akin to slightly warmer blackgaze but without all the meandering post-rocking. It's not icy, but it employs all the other aspects of lo-fi atmospheric black metal, with enough real riffs to keep it interesting. |
| Mistur In Memoriam |
| Mithotyn Gathered Around the Oaken Table |
| Viking folk/melodeath. Is rly good the. |
| Mogwai Rock Action |
| Such mog, many wai, wow. |
| Mogwai 4 Satin |
| Charmingly warm, mostly quiet, post-rock. Or at least, the first two tracks are more on the ambient side. Stereodee, on the other hand, plays with building volume and gets a bit more rambunctious until building into about five minutes of somehow pleasing noise, and then ending in a charming little techno bit. Mogwai were always goofballs that way. |
| Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling |
| people at work called this elevator music ;_; which is actually kinda OK because this is pretty chill post-rockin' that's more on the "atmospheric background music" side than it is the "epic crescendos of epicness." |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will |
| Mogwai Les Revenants OST |
| Mol møl |
| Blackgaze that definitely likes to toe that line between black metal and screamo. |
| Mol II |
| Good post-black metal that sounds like post-black metal. It might just be coloring inside the lines, but at least it knows what picture it's supposed to be illustrating. |
| Mol JORD |
| Not perfect blackgaze, but it moves in some interesting directions for the genre, for sure. |
| Mol Diorama |
| Molde Volhal Into the Cave of Ordeals... |
| norwegian epic black metal that's rly fun and good and doesn't stretch itself thin at only 28 mins all killer no filler pagan furyness m/m/m/m/m/m/m/// |
| Molder Vanished Cadavers |
| Molder Engrossed in Decay |
| Monarque/Neige Et Noirceur Cantvs Maleficvs |
| I'm not that big on Neige Et Noirceur, but the Monarque tracks are fantastic. Cold, slightly melodic, atmospheric black metal of a quality I'd expect from Monarque. NEN's tracks are also pretty decent, just not my cup of tea. |
| Moon Ate The Dark Moon Ate The Dark |
| Modern classical. Ambient piano music. For the most part it's solo piano music with light ambient/noise used to fill space and create a whisper of an atmosphere; other times the ambient noise becomes more prominent, creating a harsh/melodic collage. The latter style doesn't always work, but the piano compositions are fairly well-done and well-produced (in terms of their sound quality). Not the best piano-based ambient I've ever heard--but it ain't bad neither. |
| Moon Ate The Dark Moon Ate The Dark II |
| Modern classical loveliness. Pianos, strings, wow. Such pretty, many classic woa |
| Moonknight Senmorta |
| Dirty, thrashy black metal. Straightforward and to-the-point. Hail. |
| Moonknight Discernment |
| Moonlight Sorcery Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle |
| this is just children of bodom sitting on dimmu's shoulders in a trench coat and you cannot convince me otherwise. |
| Moonlit Sailor We Come from Exploding Stars |
| super pretty kinda twinkly non-crescendocore post-rock. It's the kind of instrumental guitar music that just kinda goes around and does pretty things for a while, stops, and then does it over again in the next song. Structurally not that interesting and stylistically not much either, but it's pretty atmospheric twinklies and I like that. :3 |
| Moonsorrow Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa |
| Moonsorrow Jumalten aika |
| not the best Moonsorrow album but for viking metal it's still very good. Just not the goodest. |
| Moonstruck First Light |
| melodeath. pretty great In Flames worship. |
| Mopok In the Dungeons of Mind |
| Not as solid as the newest EP, but still fairly terrifying black metal. |
| Morbid Angel Formulas Fatal to the Flesh |
| Morbid Angel Domination |
| WHERE THE SLIME LIVE |
| Morbid Angel Gateways to Annihilation |
| Morbid Axe Grind Up Your Ass |
grindbutt buttgrind
CORE |
| Morbid Saint Destruction System |
| Mork Gryning Tusen ar har gatt |
| melodic black metal gem, as described. |
| Morphinist Geopfert |
| Finally Morphinist put out something really worth caring about. It's still the same pretty simplistic melodic black metal, but this time around it feels like everything is just the tiniest bit better in just the right ways. Everything seems to come together here where older releases just didn't mesh. It's not amazing by any means, but the two main tracks provide you with a good 24-minutes of solid melodic black metal. |
| Mors Principium Est Inhumanity |
| Mortiferum Disgorged from Psychotic Depths |
| Mortiferum Preserved in Torment |
| Mortual Altar of Brutality |
| death metal! |
| Mortuous Upon Desolation |
| Mossgiver Led By the Glowing River |
| great melodic atmo-black metal. |
| Mother of Graves Where the Shadows Adorn |
| Mother of Graves The Periapt Of Absence |
| Motorhead 1916 |
| Motorhead Ace Of Spades |
| Motorhead Overkill |
| yeah punkin riffs rockin roll! |
| Motorhead Bomber |
| Motorhead Iron Fist |
| Motorhead Another Perfect Day |
| Motorhead Orgasmatron |
| Motorhead Sacrifice |
| Motorhead Rock 'N' Roll |
| Motorhead Kiss Of Death |
| Motorhead We Are Motörhead |
| Motorhead Overnight Sensation |
| Motorhead Hammered |
| Motorhead Motörhead |
| Motstand Motstand |
| It sounds like Darthrone you guys rate it NOW |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar |
| Mourir Animal Bouffe Animal |
| sludgy french modern black metal |
| mr.phylzzz Fat Chance |
| disgusting energy, man was nuts live. noise rock for people who RIFF. |
| Murder Squad Ravenous, Murderous |
| swedish death metal supergroup playing Entombedcore featuring member of Entombed. Less thumpy drums rock my world slightly less but otherwise it's still great. m/ |
| Murder Squad Unsane, Insane and Mentally Deranged |
| swedish death metal supergroup playing Entombedcore featuring member of Entombed. Thumpy drums rock my world. m/ |
| Mutilation Barbecue Amalgamations Of Gore |
| big stupid chugs big stupid riffs big stupid death metal |
| My Beloved Force Feeding Love |
| Pretty noises! |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| shoegaze. Some of this is great; some other of this is not great. |
| My Useless Life Negative Memories |
| More of that "DSBM" that isn't awful. Very good stuff. |
| My Vitriol The Secret Sessions |
| also shoegaze alt rockin metal boys record band. |
| Mycorrhizae The Great Filtration |
| frantic melodicism yields an upwardliness of HYPE m/ melodic black metal ripper no zipper all chipper.r |
| Myrdal Helvíti |
| Myrkur Mausoleum |
Haunting cleans, haunting acoustic guitar (think: Ghost Reveries era Opeth), haunting pianos.
Amalie's black metal compositions might be underwhelming, but you can't say the girl doesn't have
a great singing voice. Pair her spooky singing with an equally spooky piano, add a Girls Choir
for extra spooky vocals, and Håvard's acoustic playing as an extra flourish, and you've got
yourself a surprisingly good listen.
I won't say this makes up for the sub-par "black metal" debut, but taken on its own "Mausoleum" is
a fairly good listen. Check it, for real.
http://myrkur.bandcamp.com/album/mausoleum |
| Myrkur Juniper |
| Myrkur channels her talents into a short two-track folk EP that's surprisingly good for a number of reasons. Previous releases showcased an inability to both properly record as well as generally write heavy metal music, which undercut Brunn's otherwise skillful melodic arrangements and general singing ability. This mostly acoustic EP, however, mostly serves to highlight her singing abilities--which were always the high point of her previous works anyway. "Juniper" is a short, mostly acoustic release that sees some of Myrkur's strongest material yet purely because it foregoes the electric guitar-driven passages that so undercut previous releases to leave only Brunn's wonderful melodic singing and simple acoustic picking. |
| Myrkur Folkesange |
| Nachash Eschaton Magicks |
| Nadja Queller |
| Yeah it's all good and stuff melody drones riff wow such atmospheric |
| Nadja Tangled |
| A thirteen-minute heavy metal Nadja EP. Thick textures, cool riffs. Nadja with blast beats. |
| Nadra Allir vegir til glötunar |
| Naglfar Diabolical |
| peak Naglfar riffage. Melodic black metal assault, usurpation of the wicked!!! |
| NAILS You Will Never Be One Of Us |
| Nameless Coyote Devoured by the Swirling Night |
| Nameless Mist Nameless Mist |
| Solid anarcho sorta-depressive black metal of an atmospheric sort. Kind of a cross-sectioning of burzum and modern atmo-black a la cascadian, maybe. |
| Nargaroth Jahreszeiten |
| Nasheim Solens Vemod |
| Nasheim Jord Och Aska |
| Nasum Helvete |
| I'm fond of grind that's a bit crunchier, but despite not having my preferred sound style, Nasum's "Helvete" definitely makes up for it with sheer riffage and blasts and junk. Grindcore. |
| Natural Snow Buildings The Night Country |
| Shimmering chimes and droning guitars with some lo-fi folk along the way. It's really minimalistic and pretty. |
| Nature Morte NMI |
| more nifty post-black metal. |
| Nebelung Palingenesis |
| Think: Fauna or Agalloch, but with only the acoustic parts. |
| Neckbeard Deathcamp SO MUCH FOR THE TOLERANT LEFT |
| Necrophagist Epitaph |
| Necrophobic Darkside |
| Swedish melodic bm riffs of SATAN. |
| Necrot Mortal |
| Negative Plane Stained Glass Revelations |
| Nekromantheon Divinity of Death |
| Nemesis Sopor Glas |
| It's like WitTR but with additional basic melodic riffing. Or something like that. |
| Nero di Marte Derivae |
| Take Ulcerate and move them two steps further toward atmospheric sludge, and away from their death metal axis. That is basically what you get here. Lotta post-metal, lotta atmosphere. |
| Nervosa Perpetual Chaos |
Mom can we go out for Bolt Thrower death metal
no we have Bolt Thrower death metal at home
The Bolt Thrower death metal at home: |
| Netherbird Into The Vast Uncharted |
| your basic solid melodic bm |
| Neu! Neu! |
| K R A U T R O C K . Krautrock jamming rock n roll . |
| Neu! Neu! 2 |
| Neurotech Evasive |
| Dancey dance dance of m/ |
| Nhor Whisperers to this Archaic Growth |
| nic and Old Soul Split |
Nic get their stuff together and release a great 20-minute side of aggressive post-
blackgaze. Old Soul prove their competence with a more screamo-influenced blackgaze sound.
Both bands are similar to Deafheaven, and both sides are great. Excellent split. rNow we
need some full-lengths from both bands. |
| Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep |
| instru-riff rockin jams. |
| Nightrage Insidious |
it's a solid melodeath album wooooooo
yeeeeeaaaaaaahhh |
| Nightrage Abyss Rising |
| This one actually rips. Nightrage might just be leftover At The Gates-y gothenburg worship, but Abyss Rising is solid high-energy melodic death metal with slicing melodies from start-to-finish. |
| Nightshade Wielding The Scythe |
| Nightwish Once |
| Nihilist Premature Autopsy |
| 8 minutes of purest lofi dirty death metal. Nothing surprising, just jams. |
| Niklas Paschburg Oceanic |
| Piano music. Great jams. |
| Nile Annihilation Of The Wicked |
| Nile Black Seeds of Vengeance |
| Nile Those Whom The Gods Detest |
| Nile What Should Not Be Unearthed |
| Nile Vile Nilotic Rites |
| Nils Frahm Solo |
| Pianos of piano... ing... ness. Pianoingness... osity. Yeah, that one. |
| Nimbifer Demo II |
| Raw screechy black metal of the no-frills, pummel-you-for-fifteen-ish-minutes sort. |
| Nite Cult Of The Serpent Sun |
| No/Mas Raíz Del Mal |
| Nocte Obducta Nektar - Teil 2: Seen, Flüsse, Tagebücher |
| Aggressive proggy melodic black metal. With hints of Dissection and Mayhem and maybe Immortal here and there sprinkled in. It'sa good album. |
| Nocturnal Departure Cathartic Black Rituals |
| you guys know I like darkthrone already m/ |
| Nocturnus The Key |
| Keyboardy tech death thrash that is good! |
| Nocturnus Thresholds |
| Experimental cosmic aural sonispheres. Particle doom wizardry. "Tech death". |
| NOFX The War on Errorism |
| NOFX Fuck the Kids |
| NOFX Home Street Home: Original Songs From Shit Musical |
| Noisem Cease To Exist |
| An absolute blast of death-thrash. |
| Nokturnal Mortum Lunar Poetry |
| Epic pagan black metal. Pretty good use of folk music and up-beat rhythms to create fun, epic bm. They use with those goofy 90's synthesized instruments that are simultaneously cheesy goofiness, and lo-fi kvlt. Knowing those fake instruments were the best that they could do with their limited funds somehow makes it better. |
| Nontinuum The Stars You Gathered, The Stars I Destroyed |
| Norther Mirror of Madness |
| Norther Dreams of Endless War |
| Norther Death Unlimited |
| Not On Tour All This Time |
| Nothing Tired of Tomorrow |
| Noveller Fantastic Planet |
| Ambient drones of noise and softness and nice wow |
| Novembers Doom The Novella Reservoir |
| Novo Amor Bathing Beach |
| Now, Now Threads |
| Happy sings |
| Nuclear Assault Handle with Care |
| Thrash? LIIIIIIIIIVES! |
| Nuclear Assault Game Over |
| Nuclear Tomb Terror Labyrinthian |
| Nuclear Tomb are so old school tech death that even their guitar production sounds like it's from 1990. From their weirdly rudimentary riffing to overt thrash influences, "Terror Labyrinthian" sounds like true old school early 90s tech death worship a la Nocturnus and Atheist in the best of ways. |
| Numenorean Home |
| This is probably everything "Moonlover" failed to be; aggressive, powerful blackgaze with a depressive bm lean. |
| Numenorean Adore |
| An odd pairing of post-black metal with melodic death and Gojira-style riffing. While it definitely opens up Numenorean's style to different songwriting policies, the heavy riffing often comes at odds to its more delicate black metal sensibilities, causing transitions between the two to feel very emotionally rough. An interesting fusion to be sure, but one that needs a bit more smoothing out. |
| Nunslaughter Hell's Unholy Fire |
| unholy riffs ov blasphemy, goofy vocals ov sillyr |
| Nusquama Horizon Ontheemt |
| Dutch atmospheric black metal supergroup. Nasty vox from Turia's leading lady make this a particularly visceral record (as per usual). |
| Nux Vomica Nux Vomica |
| Oak Pantheon Sol |
| Agallochian neo folk. |
| Oathbreaker Rheia |
| Stylistically some sort of amalgamation of punk and black metal with its own brand of experimental atmospheric influences to boot. I don't even know what that means, but it riffs and it blasts and it sounds like nothing else out there. |
| Obliteration Perpetual Decay |
| Obliteration Nekropsalms |
| Obscene (USA-IN) ...From Dead Horizon to Dead Horizon |
| crunchy death metal |
| Obscure Infinity Into the Vortex of Obscurity |
| Obsequiae Suspended in the Brume of Eos |
| Obsequiae Aria of Vernal Tombs |
| My spreadsheets say this is folk-ish bm and that I like it? Ok spreadsheet whatever you say fam. |
| Obsequiae The Palms of Sorrowed Kings |
| I think the melodic work here might be better but the black metal element of their sound has lost prominence in order to highlight the former. Basic give-and-take tradeoff. |
| October Tide Grey Dawn |
| while not quite as good as the debut, October Tide's sophomore album is another nice slab of katatonian death doom. |
| Octoploid Beyond the Aeons |
| fun folky prog melodeath. |
| Odium (NOR) The Sad Realm of the Stars |
| Symphonic black metal that sounds like if Wolves in the Throne Room... played symphonic black metal. The vocals and the keys sound like they were direct influences to WitTR with the vocalist almost sounding exactly like one of the Weaver brothers. Very solid, atmospheric 90's symphonic black metal. |
| Odraza Rzeczom |
| the new Mgla sounds pretty good. |
| Odz Manouk/Tukaaria Split |
| HAIL BLACK TWILIGHT |
| Of Feather and Bone False Healer |
| Of Feather and Bone Embrace The Wretched Flesh |
| Of Feather and Bone Adorned In Decay |
| Of Solitude and Solemn Of Solitude and Solemn |
| Ofermod Mystérion Tés Anomias |
| hail orthodox black metal |
| Olafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm Trance Frendz |
Trance Frendz is a rather quaint piano collab by two fairly well acclaimed modern classical
artists. It definitely can't compete with most works in either artist's back catalogs, but
it probably wasn't intended to. It's a rather simple album, probably just meant to be a fun
exercise in pianism between friends. In that way, it succeeds. It probably won't blow you
away if you've had at least a little bit of experience with piano-heavy [modern] classical
music, but don't let that stop you from checking out it or either artist's back catalogs.
Rating could go up upon further listens; it's just kind of hard to be objective toward piano
music when there's already so much of it out there. |
| Olan Mill Pine |
| idk it has modern classical ambient music sounds chill man. |
| Old Graves Long Shadows |
| Atmospheric black metal with a tinge of folkiness. I was expecting this to be just a 3/5 after hearing a track or two--but after actually listening to the thing it's surprisingly better than expected. It's solid melodic atmospheric black metal with some folky flair here and there to keep things interesting. |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God I |
| This grooves pretty hard. |
| Old Man's Child Born of the Flickering |
| Old Man's Child Vermin |
| Old Man's Child Revelation 666 |
| Old Man's Child The Pagan Prosperity |
| I love the big drum sound on this record--it really works with the riffs to create a nice groovy sound which is something you hardly ever get in black metal. The songwriting style is generally basic, though, so while a lot of this is fairly accessible melodic black metal, songs get repetitive fairly quickly. If you were to cut these songs down in length and remove maybe one repetition of the "chorus," I think they'd potentially be better. |
| Old Man's Child Ill Natured Spiritual Invasion |
| Old Nick Crisp Winter Dawn of my Night Moon |
| This is campy af black metal and I do enjoy it quite a bit. The goofy synth orchestral instruments, quirky drumming, and croaking vox make this band one big camp extravaganza. |
| Omegavortex Black Abomination Spawn |
| Omnium Gatherum The Redshift |
| Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows |
| Omnium Gatherum Beyond |
| Omnium Gatherum Grey Heavens |
| Omnium Gatherum The Burning Cold |
| More like Omnium Solid-um amirite hue hue hue. It's just solid melodic death metal with the sentimental melodies of Dan Swano, same as it's always been. |
| Oneida Success |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Kosmonument |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Valonielu |
| Orkun A. Archaic |
| ambient bliss! |
| Osi and the Jupiter Uthuling Hyl |
| nordic folk/ambient |
| Ossaert Bedehuis |
BLACK METAL
LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVES |
| Ossaert Pelgrimsoord |
| Ossaert deliver another win with this excellent black metal album. |
| Outre Hollow Earth |
| pummeling blackened death metal a la your favorite band Abyssal. |
| Outre-Tombe Repurgation |
| monster riffs ov death [metal] |
| P.L.F. Devious Persecution and Wholesale Slaughter |
| i am the grindcoreman i make the grumblies |
| Pale Chalice Negate the Infinite and Miraculous |
| Pretty straightforward bm. Nothing fancy, just treble and riffzzzz. |
| Pale Waves Smitten |
| Panopticon Collapse |
| Panopticon Roads to the North |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal |
| I hope this is better than Roads because it seems to have the potential. |
| Panopticon Revisions of the Past |
Both albums sound markedly better, but don't sound as good as they *should* due to the inferior
quality of their source materials. Still, that's not to say that Lunn's writing was bad, but just
that his recording resources were limited when these albums were initially recorded. Both albums
sound better than the originals, though, and that's what's important here. Marston and Morris are
wizards. |
| Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness |
| By now Austin's black metal style is well-established, and fairly unchanging. It's solid, but any of the tracks here feel like they could've come from either of the last two albums, and beyond little nuances here and there, there's not a whole lot to make individual songs stick out from one another, either. At this point it's just Panopticon doing Panopticon to varying degrees of success a la Drudkh, but it just kinda feels old by now.rThe second record is unique, but it's also not my cup of tea. The folk elements of this group have always been most effective when woven into lengthier pieces rather than when used on their own. Side B isn't bad, it's just not that well constructed or necessary. Austin should probably try mixing it up on his next record--especially in terms of basic song construction. Something more like Collapse would be nice right now in this project's timeline, and I hope to see more adventurous songwriting akin to that in the future. |
| Panopticon/Vestiges Split |
| Paramnesia Paramnesia |
Two twenty-minute slabs of cold, punishing atmospheric black metal. For fans of Ash Borer,
and all similar ripoffs. Definitely a band to keep an eye on in the future. |
| Parannoul After the Magic |
| Parannoul After the Night |
| trying to pull a Fishmans is ballsy but the nu king of shoegaze pulls it off. |
| Paranorm Empyrean |
| Parasite Inc. Time Tears Down |
| Very solid Hypocrisy-worship melodeath. |
| Parasite Inc. Dead and Alive |
| Patrick O'Hearn So Flows the Current |
| New age ambient music. It's really swell, promise. |
| Pausal Avifaunal |
| Who likes crappy ambient? Zaru likes crappy ambient. Is it true? I do I do I doo-ooooo. |
| Paysage d'Hiver Paysage d'Hiver |
| Paysage d'Hiver Im Wald |
| Paysage d'Hiver Die Berge |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need |
| A little overlong and the songs could also be trimmed a little bit, "What We All Come to Need" is solid Pelican being solid Pelican; Heavy rockin' "post-metal" riff barrages are followed by typically slower, post-rock-lite sludginess. The formulaicness of their music can get a little old, but at the end of the day their riffing is so solid it hardly matters. And there's really little to complain about given the 1-2-3 punch openers of Glimmer/The Creeper/Ephemeral, which is a helluva way to start a record even if it is heavily frontloaded because of it. |
| Pelican Forever Becoming |
| Pelican Arktika (live from Russia) |
| Pelican groove as hard live as one would expect. |
| Pelican Nighttime Stories |
| ROCK AND ROOOOOOOOLL |
| Penguin Cafe Orchestra Penguin Cafe Orchestra |
| Penguin Cafe Orchestra is easily the best penguin-affiliated musical assemblage there is. |
| Penguin Cafe Orchestra Broadcasting from Home |
| It's got that one song from Napoleon Dynamite (you know the one), and the rest is similarly cool. Woooo. |
| Penguin Cafe Orchestra Signs of Life |
| Penguins, Cafes, chamber folks, Orchestras. Such classical, much Covfefe, wow. |
| Pennywise All or Nothing |
| Pest Control Don't Test the Pest |
| crossover thrash liiiiiiiiiiiives! |
| Petrychor Apocalyptic Witchcraft |
Back to ye olde roots :D Atmospheric black metal with absolutely lovely acoustic sections and tons
upon tons of layering. Like always Tad's music is fairly busy, but it's the amount of activity
that makes it unique. If you dug Fauna's Avifauna, get on this asap. |
| pg.lost Versus |
| they 80's called and they want their aesthetic back |
| Phlebotomized Pain, Resistance, Suffering |
| Phlebotomized Clouds of Confusion |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps |
| Phrenelith Chimaera |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb |
| Pig Destroyer Head Cage |
| Pin-Up Went Down 2 Unlimited |
| I don't even know what this is but whatever. |
| Pinegrove Marigold |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Plini Sweet Nothings |
| Poldoore Waiting For The World |
| Instrumental hip hop/downtempo. Good music jams chill tunes. |
| Poloniumcubes One |
| Pretty piano music! |
| Popol Vuh Hosianna Mantra |
| Popol Vuh Nosferatu OST |
| krautrock that is pretty and fun. |
| Poppy Ackroyd Escapement |
| classical musics pianos strings wow |
| Poppy Ackroyd Feathers |
| classical pianos wow |
| Poppy Ackroyd Resolve |
| Poppy Ackroyd, Piano Wizard. |
| Porter Robinson Nurture |
| Portico Quartet Isla |
| Groovy, daddio. Jazz, man. |
| Praecognitvm Oris Resolutio Somnum |
| Pretty solid mostly fast atmospheric black metal. |
| Prehistoric War Cult Under The Sign Of The Red Moon |
| war metal go grrrrrr ruhh *blast beat* |
| Prison of Mirrors Prison of Mirrors |
| Prison Suicide 2016 Demo |
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| Profane Order Tightened Noose of Sanctimony |
| Profane Order Marked by Malice |
| Profane Order Slave Morality |
| War metal liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiives! |
| Punky Bruster Cooked on Phonics |
| Pure Wrath The Forlorn Soldier |
| Purity Renaissance Promo |
| Lo-fi black metal with a melodic edge and some synthy ambient passages for the pseudo-Burzum feel. But it's better than Burzum so that's nice too. |
| PVRIS Hallucinations |
| emotionally validating happy pop rock |
| Qrixkuor Three Devils Dance |
| Quadrupede Quadrupede |
| Quadrupede T O G O B A N |
| It's a jazzy mathy groovy electronic post-rocky rock party party! |
| Quo Vadis Day Into Night |
| Quo Vadis's second album is less like an independent album and more a thought experiment--a purposeful, experimental attempt to Frankenstein together a hypothetical followup record to Carcass's swansong record, "Swansong." Quo Vadis essentially sound as if they attempted to take the instrumental styles of Carcass's Heartwork and Swansong records and combine them, then add flares of modernity and standard Gothernburg influences to create an effective approximation of a hypothetical "next Carcass album." And they did a fairly good job of it, with even the vox sounding almost exactly like Jeff Walker. He should really have sued them for plagiarism. |
| Quo Vadis Defiant Imagination |
| Prog dm melody yeah. The band Brendon Small potentially ripped off when creating Dethklok, though his version was much less proggy. |
| Racing Glaciers Ahead Of You Forever |
| Happy Music for Happy People! |
| Racing Glaciers Racing Glaciers - EP |
| Racing Glaciers Caught in the Strange |
| Rafael Anton Irisarri A Fragile Geography |
| Droning ambient. Stars of the Lid. Strings. |
| Rafael Anton Irisarri The Shameless Years |
| Fuzzy, noisy-yet-melodic ambient. Dark, rumbling soundscapes of tension. |
| Ragnarok Nattferd |
| A great coalescence of the second-wave sound; encapsulating the main forces of the Norwegian scene up to the point of its release, "Nattferd" represents what would become the blueprint for basic second-wave black metal. While Ragnarok didn't even much new on their own on this first record of theirs, they did distill the basic elements of the black metal scene at large and bind them together in a tight, diverse package. |
| Rahu The Quest for the Vajra of Shadows |
| Rakta III |
| Rakta Falha Comum |
| Really good post noise psyche kraut soundscapes~~~ |
| Ratatat Classics |
| I think this is better than their first album? It's like the same way just improved a bit; it has character this time around. |
| Ratboys GN |
| Ratboys Printer's Devil |
| i like power poppin indie rock |
| Ratboys The Window |
| Raum The Event of Your Leaving |
| Grouper and friend challenge musical conventions by taking Grouper's sadlady on piano aesthetic and bumping it up with some other guy's ambient undertones. So it's Grouper with some more dreamy fuzzzzz permeating Liz's dreamy, layered vox. Great ambient rules/5 |
| Raum Daughter |
| Raventale Dark Substance Of Dharma |
Atmospheric bm about Tibetan mythology. Nasty vox and keyboard melodiez and riffzz.
I dig it and it doesn't even focus on blast beats! :O |
| Red Sparowes Aphorism |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope |
| Regina Spektor Far |
| Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats |
| Remete (AUS) Into Endless Night |
| More blizzardly atmospheric black metal from the Woods of Desolation guy, so ofc it's good. |
| Remi Wolf Big Ideas |
| Reptilian Perennial Void Traverse |
| Darkthrone/Obliteration-worship death metal that employ the niche technology of a good drummer who knows how to do single kicks. |
| Repugnant Epitome of Darkness |
| this is just papa emeritus and friends trying to be Morbid Angel. |
| Respire Denouement |
| Post-black/screamo. It's like a bleaker Envy but quite faster, with actual post-rock sections instead of just "twinkly guitars with slow drumming." Cool jams. |
| Reveal Doppelherz |
| Rhinocervs RH-11 |
| This has a much better, more suffocating sound than some of the other RH demos. Straight suffocating, vaguely melodic bm. |
| Rhinocervs RH-12 |
| Crushed by the weight of your own melancholy. |
| Ringare Under Pale Moon |
| Atmospheric black metal of the frigid keyboardy Paysage D'Hiver sort that was definitely recorded in a woodshed fifteen hundred miles from modern civilization. |
| Riot Rock City |
| Riot City Burn the Night |
| Riot City Electric Elite |
| Ripped to Shreds 亂 (Luan) |
| Ripped to Shreds 劇變 (Jubian) |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Ritual Carnage Every Nerve Alive |
| less death, more thrash. |
| Ritual Carnage The Highest Law |
| Thrash lives, death metal gives. dm riffs sound like Bolt Thrower so that's a clear m/ |
| Ritual Necromancy Disinterred Horror |
| Rivers of Nihil Monarchy |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name |
| Rolo Tomassi Live at Electric Ballroom |
| Rothadas Töviskert... a kísértés örök érzete.. Lidércharang |
| Rotten Sound Napalm |
| Grindcore. |
| Rotten Sound Species At War |
| GRINDCORE GRINDCORE GROROROROROROROR FIFTY CHARACTER LIMIT |
| Rotten Sound Abuse to Suffer |
| The vocals have a little less personality this time around but the rest is standard Rotten Sound; blasty blast riff riff groove groove blast riff blast groove. |
| Rotting Christ Theogonia |
| Rotting Christ Aealo |
| Rotting Christ Kata Ton Demona Eaftou |
| Runemagick The Supreme Force of Eternity |
| Runemagick play death metal that's just Amon Amarth for people who like Bolt Thrower. |
| Runic Liar Flags |
| Fun folk melodic death metal. |
| Rur Rur |
| Atmospheric black metal with a bit of reverb for synthetic atmosphere. Not too shabby, though it could've used more folk vocals. |
| Rush Moving Pictures |
| Prog ROCKS! today's Tom Sawyer weedo weedo weedo Haha m/////////// |
| Rush Grace Under Pressure |
| Rush Power Windows |
| Russian Circles Empros |
| Russian Circles Memorial |
| Russian Circles Guidance |
| post-rock/metal with lovely melodies, nice chugZ |
| Russian Circles Gnosis |
| Rust (SWE) Damned Hellish Voids |
| darkthronecore Ted-vox thrash metal of black metal DEATH! !!!! |
| RVIVR RVIVR |
| RVIVR Bicker and Breathe |
| punk rock fun rock rock |
| Sabaton Carolus Rex |
| more hypercheese power folk metal glory: now in Swedish! |
| Sabaton Heroes |
| extra cheese hyper masculine power ballad power metal |
| Sabbat Sabbaticult |
this is the graves of the 80s (and 90s) infernal hailz trve old school black metal!!!!!
Sabbat return and they still rip, go figure. True old school rough-sounding first wave black
metal. |
| Sacramentum Far Away from the Sun |
| Sacramentum The Coming of Chaos |
| very solid melodic black/death |
| Sacred Son Sacred Son |
| Blackened meme metal hyperblast. Memes be darned, this blasts enough for me to get behind. trolololol |
| Sacrilege (UK1) Behind the Realms of Madness |
| 27 minutes of nonstop punk RIFFZ. Crust/thrash or w/e. Riffs for days. |
| Sacrilege (UK1) Within the Prophecy |
| crusty thrash metal Bolt Thrower crusty thrash metal Bolt Thrower crusty thrash metal Bolt Thrower crusty thrash metal Bolt Thrower crusty thrash metal Bolt Thrower crusty thrash metal Bolt Thrower crusty thrash metal Bolt Thrower crusty thrash metal Bolt Thrower crusty thrash metal Bolt Thrower crusty thrash metal Bolt Thrower crusty thrash metal Bolt Thrower crusty thrash metal Bolt Thrower crusty thrash metal Bolt Thrower crusty thrash metal Bolt Thrower crusty thrash metal Bolt Thrower crusty thrash metal Bolt Thrower crusty thrash metal Bo |
| Sacrilege GBG The Fifth Season |
| SotLB-worship melodeath. |
| Sadhaka Terma |
| Do you like all that Cascadian jazz? Ya? Then here you go bud. |
| Sadist Tribe |
| this sounds like if the guys from Coroner decided to play death metal and also one of their guitarists pulled a Colin Marston and decided to make goofy synths his whole ~thing~. It's great; the goofy symphonic metal aspects make their tech thrash/death style sound endearingly odd. |
| Sadist Firescorched |
| sadist continue to answer the question: what if prog metal were good. |
| Sadistic Ritual Visionaire Of Death |
| Sadistic Ritual The Enigma, Boundless |
| Sadness Leave |
| Sadness Circle of Veins |
| Sadness I Want to Be There |
| Sadness continues to work from his base of depressive black metal to meld his style with blackgaze and create an interesting brand of fuzzy, depressing, epicly uplifting blackened post-metal. |
| Sadness Rain Chamber |
| Sadness _____ |
| Sadness continues to expand blackgaze in unique ways by uploading songs they wrote three years ago. Someone on RYM said that "orange love" sounds like an Andrew WK track and that's just about the most perfect summation of that track I think anyone could give. Those synths have no right to go that hard, straight fist-pumping dancegaze. |
| Sadness Our Time Is Here |
| Sadness Kiss in October (2017) |
| Saidan Jigoku: Spiraling Chasms of Blackst Hell |
| uplifting melodic black metal a la Leech. One of the better black metal albums of 2021 thus far. |
| Saidan Onryo II: Her Spirit Eternal |
| Saidan Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity |
| Sailboats Demo |
| very loud screamo with blast beats. two song demo, unfortunately the only one. |
| Saint Pepsi Hit Vibes |
| Sakanaction Sakanaction |
| Sakanaction Adapt |
| Samael Solar Soul |
| Samael Reign Of Light |
| Samia The Baby |
| Sankara Total Liberation of the Human Race |
| Capitalist-stomping war metal memery that's unironically pretty good. |
| Saor Forgotten Paths |
| Sarah Davachi All My Circles Run |
| Ambient drone modern classical. Droning music for strings, synth, and piano. |
| Sarah Jarosz Polaroid Lovers |
| Sargeist Unbound |
Icy cold black metal that uses its melodic edge to weasel in overtly head-banging, fist-bumping
grooves every now and again, despite its super serious facade. Which is to say, Sargeist know how
to be krieg and still have fun. |
| Sarr Ávitun |
| Depressive-tinged black metal that's got those rolling rhythms of Drukh and atmospherics of WitTR. Short EP but good EP. |
| Satan Court in the Act |
| Satan Life Sentence |
| Satan Atom by Atom |
| Satyricon Nemesis Divina |
| Black metal. |
| Saxon Shore Luck Will Not Save Us From A Jackpot Of Nothing |
| Pretty post-rock that's too short. Non-crescendocore. Happy musics. |
| Scalp Black Tar |
kids: mom can we have some new Nails songs
mom: we have new Nails songs at home
new Nails songs at home: |
| Screeching Weasel My Brain Hurts |
| Seabuckthorn Turns |
Atmospheric sleepy reverby neo-folk. Soft strumming, thumping drums so delicately,
such spacious, much spiritual, wow. |
| Sean McCann Ten Impressions For Piano And Strings |
| Stars of the Lid. Strings. LOUD NOISES. Pianos. Drone. Classical music. 3.7/5 |
| Seefeel Quique |
| Seefeel's "Quique" uses really repetitive ambient bits and slowly builds on them over the course each song by adding and removing little nuances. Each song is repetitive but you can feel the changes as they happen, which makes them feel more hypnotic than tiring. It sort of blends into the background, but that's kind of the point. Eat your heart out, William Basinski. |
| Seizures The Sanity Universal |
| Sepulchral Curse Abhorrent Dimensions |
| Sepulcre Ascent Through... (demo) |
| Sepulcre Cursed Ways of Sheol |
| Sepultura Chaos A.D. |
| Dunno why I didn't have this one rated since it ruelz. Sepultura moved well into groove metal with this one, but those thrash riffs are still there. |
| Serment Chante, O Flamme de la Liberte |
| A more Paysage-y Forteresse from the Forteresse guy. |
| Serpent Column Endless Detainment |
| Serpent Column is a guy wanting to play Converge while also wanting to play black metal and musing this quandary aloud whilst the Old El Paso taco commercial plays in the background. por que no los dos? the little girls asks. Hey yeah why not. |
| Shadows (CL) Out for Blood |
| Ghost if they were Chilean and had riffs. |
| Shagor Lyksalver |
| Shame (UK) Songs of Praise |
| Sharon Van Etten Are We There |
| Shining (SWE) IV - The Eerie Cold |
| Shitfucker Suck Cocks In Hell |
| Nasty punky Celtic Frost/Bathory worship black metal. No comment on the band name or artwork. |
| Shores of Ladon Eindringling |
| Pretty straightforward atmospheric black metal. Fast, long-winded riffs scrunched into 7-minute mini-epics. It's like Ash Borer on a diet. |
| Shores of Ladon Lupercal |
| Melodic second wave worshiping black metal that's not so much a blizzard as it is a clear winter day. |
| Shores of Ladon Witterung |
| Siege Drop Dead |
| Sielunvihollinen Hautaruhtinas |
| olde black metal riffs of olde blackened metallic riffing. |
| Sielunvihollinen Ruhonkantaja |
| Melodic black that kinda feels like what mid-period Darkthrone would've sounded like if they'd listened to melodic hardcore ibstead of Celtic Frost. This is borderline melo punk in a lot of places which makes it feel very unique for its unashamed punk influences, which definitely also make it a very fun record. |
| Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape |
| Sigh Scenes from Hell |
| Goofy avant-symphonic black metal nonsense. |
| Sigh In Somniphobia |
| Sigh Graveward |
| Sigh Heir to Despair |
| Silent Whale Becomes a Dream Canopy |
| Toast rock classical wall of the ambient. Like and Share if you love toast! |
| Silent Whale Becomes a Dream Architeuthis |
| Shimmering tremolos of prettiness. Sparkle sparkle. |
| Silvanthrone Silvanthrone |
| Sinister Diabolical Summoning |
| Sirom The Liquified Throne of Simplicity |
| Skagos Ast |
| Skelethal Of The Depths... |
| solid debut from Skelethal a death metal band that I think is good. There are some early Edge of Sanity vibes on here in weird places, some familia types of chord progressions and odd up-beat drum rhythms. |
| Skelethal Unveiling the Threshold |
| Skelethal Within Corrosive Continuums |
| No-frills death metal. There's some interesting punky drumming that keeps the style fresh, as well as the The Chasm-y 13-minute instrumental riff-fest of a closer. |
| Skeleton Ordainment Of Divinity |
| blackened punk band Skeleton are now blackened black metal band Skeleton. Five tracks, twelve minutes of raw black metal that sounds like it was recorded on broken microphones. |
| Skogen (SWE) I Doden |
| Sky Ferreira Night Time, My Time |
| Skyfire Spectral |
| Skyforest A New Dawn |
| Slaegt The Wheel |
| Slaegt Goddess |
| Slant (KOR) Vain Attempt |
| Slayer Show No Mercy |
| Woah check it out I like a thrash album that's not Metallica?!?!??? Stop the presses! This is good olde school thrash speed metal Venom-worship and that's totes fine. The screechy guitar solos don't work as well here as they would under Slayer's later 80's style, but they're not that big of an issue, either. This is thrash when thrash was still F.U.N.. |
| Slift Ummon |
| Slough Feg Down Among the Deadmen |
| Slough Feg Atavism |
| Slow Meadow Costero |
| Ambient piano string music with some slight electronics. Lovely! |
| Slow Pulp Moveys |
| Slowdive Just for a Day |
| Shoegaze and a lil bit of ambientce woah. Chillgaze, dreams, slow tempo adjectives. Great job! |
| Snapped Ankles Hard Times Furious Dancing |
| Snet Mokvání V Okovech |
| Snowday As We Travel |
| Sobs Telltale Signs |
| Sobs Air Guitar |
| Sodom In The Sign Of Evil |
| Fairly crudely put-together thrash metal with harsh vocals and some extreme metal drumming. This would be a 3/5, but I'm a bit of a sucker for those throwback punk grooves. BLACK METAL THRASH ATTACK! |
| Softcult Year of the Rat |
| Softcult Year Of The Snake |
| Softcult See You In The Dark |
| Soilwork Steelbath Suicide |
| Soilwork The Chainheart Machine |
| At the Gates-worship at its finest, maybe, but still just standard melodeath. Soilwork had the benefit of being exceptionally aggressive for ATG-y melodeath tho, which definitely makes their music more powerful. And on 'Chainheart they were still "pure", not yet beginning to flirt with clean vocals a la the ever popular In Flames. |
| Soilwork A Predator's Portrait |
| While I'm no fan of clean vox in melodeath and Soilwork use the same basic thrash-beat drum rhythm in basically every song, "A Predator's Portrait" is still hella aggressive and solid melodeath. Definitely better than most of In Flames "metal" albums, too. |
| Soilwork The Panic Broadcast |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite |
| This is getting ridiculous. Even the cheesy parts are well-executed. |
| Solbrud Jaertegn |
| Black Cascade Black Cascade Black Cascade |
| Solbrud Vemod |
| Shameless Black Cascade worship, but when WitTR's last album was kind of underwhelming, anything better is a delight. And Solbrud are pretty effective at emulating WitTR's organic take on atmospheric black metal. |
| Sonic Poison Combat Grind |
| Sophie Hutchings Becalmed |
| Piano/ambient. Yowza Yowza Bo-Bowza. Highly original soundoff I wrote all by myself. |
| Sophie Hutchings Night Sky |
| Piano/ambient. Yowza Yowza Bo-Bowza. Copy pasta soundoffs what is this lazytown |
| Sophie Hutchings White Light |
| Piano/ambient. Yowza Yowza Bo-Bowza. Same soundoff thrice on a roooll!! |
| Sophie Hutchings Wide Asleep |
| Piano/ambient. Yowza Yowza Bo-Bowza. Same soundoff x4 woooooop |
| Sophie Hutchings Yonder |
| Sophie's great at what she does, which is play piano v well and make pretty musics. ~ Modern classical ~ |
| Sophie Madeleine Love Life Ukulele |
| Sorrows Threads |
| Ambient. Pounding. Bleeding ears. Fifteen minutes. Interesting. |
| Soup (NOR) Remedies |
| Post-rock/prog rock with some singing. I'm usually not one for vocals in my post-rock, but Soup's vocalist sings sparsely enough that he only adds to the downbeat atmosphere when he actually shows up. The rest of the music sort of blends between pretty instrumental proggy jams and full-blown post-rock. It's an interesting combination and Soup do it rather well. In a year with not all that much post-rock to talk about this is definitely a great find. |
| Spectral Lore Ετερόφωτος |
| Spectral Wound Infernal Decadence |
| Do you like Sargeist? Because this is how you get Sargeists. It's uh, cold icy mean black metal with absolutely no frills at all. The frills, they have been shattered off. Because of all the ice. So what we have is black metal that's icy and totally uninventive because all its frills are gone. That's not a bad thing necessarily, unless you're someone who likes frills. Then it might be a bad thing. But otherwise this is pretty non-frill-necessary black metal that makes me really want to change into some thicker socks. |
| Spectral Wound A Diabolic Thirst |
| very solid no-frills, to-the-point melodic-ish black metal. |
| Spectral Wound Songs of Blood and Mire |
| spectral wound or Spectral WOOOOOOOOOOOOO nd |
| Speglas Time, Futility & Death |
| Spider God Skugglösa ljuset |
| Spider God Possess the Devil |
| Spider God does it again, this time dipping their toes into a "metalcore" album. Which is to say, it's melodic black metal that loves playing with Nightwish-y pop metal riffs as much as it also borrows from Converge. And it rocks! |
| Spiritualized Pure Phase |
| Spiritualized Amazing Grace |
| definitely a misstep for Spiritualized as it lacks the artsy bombast that made the band so intriguing in the first place, but as a more stripped down project it's not bad on its own, either. "Amazing Grace" is Spiritualized at their most "straightforward" and rock-oriented, still stuffed full of 70s cheese but not as atmospheric or instrumentally expansive. |
| Spiritualized Everything Was Beautiful |
| Spopielony Legendy |
| nifty chill dark/ambient |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent |
| St. Vincent MassEducation |
| Stam1na Stam1na |
| Prog metallic tech thrasher boyo comin with the riff. |
| Stand Atlantic Skinny Dipping |
| State Faults Resonate/Desperate |
| State Faults Clairvoyant |
| Screamo/post-rock. The post-rock guitar layering and atmospherics give this band a melodic and emotional heft that most screamo just never manages to arrange. |
| Stefan Wesołowski Rite of the End |
| Somber string ambient noise. |
| Stephen Sanchez What Was, Not Now |
| Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup |
| Not wholly post-rock, but not a whole lot else, either. Goofy electronics and kraut-rocking rhythms backed by English/French vocals and the occasional straight rock track. |
| Stereolab Peng! |
| Stereolab Mars Audiac Quintet |
| Stereolab Dots and Loops |
| yeah i guess this is more good 70's vibe-ing chill-rock with them french lady vox. |
| Stormkeep Galdrum |
| pretty decent atmospheric black metal. the production isn't quite jagged enough to really grab you that hard, but the instrumentation is nice. |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black |
| Stress Angel Bursting Church |
| old school death thrash lives |
| Strigae I:Collision |
| Darkspace-worship-particle physics-themed-atmospheric-black-metal. Although heavily influenced by the cold outer space sterility of Darkspace, Strigae take pains to make their music much more melodic while still maintaining a sense of the atmospheric void. It's much more "speeding through a bright nebula" than being "sucked into a wormhole", which definitely allows it to stand on its own against its forefather. |
| Strung Out Exile In Oblivion |
| Strung Out Transmission.Alpha.Delta |
| SubRosa (US) More Constant Than The Gods |
| Suffering Hour In Passing Ascension |
| Suffocation Pierced From Within |
| Suffocation Human Waste |
| Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten |
| Suffocation Blood Oath |
| Sufjan Stevens The Ascension |
| Sufjan Stevens Javelin |
| SuidAkrA Signs for the Fallen |
| Sulphur Aeon Swallowed By The Ocean's Tide |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway |
| Sun of the Blind Skullreader |
| This is great atmospheric black metal. It's basically Darkspace minus all the blast beats but the lack of higher-tempo sections allows it to create an even better atmosphere. The subtle electronic elements (which remind me of Passage-era Samael) are really nice, too. |
| Sun Worship Surpass Eclipse |
| Sun Worship Elder Giants |
Sun Worship get their act together and release a fantastic debut LP. They've tightened up
their sound this time around and now sound similar to an early Ash Borer or other (albeit
dirtier) Cascadian band. Three fairly straightforward and mostly fast black metal tracks
are followed by one dark ambient outro and together make this debut a very memorable
release.
If you like fast, slightly dirty black metal with slow chord progressions and a whole lot of
riff
repetition, then Sun Worship's debut Elder Giants is definitely something to look into. But
hey, you should be checking it out anyway. |
| Sunami Demonstration |
| Beatdown hardcore that wants to beat u up woah im scared oWo |
| Sunami Sunami EP |
| Big dumb beatdown hardcore that's riffy and has a good tone I guess. |
| Sunami/Gulch Split |
| i turn off my brain and let the ooga ooga punk riff go dun dun dun haha |
| Sunless Ylem |
| Sunset In The 12th House Mozaic |
| Sunwatchers Oh Yeah? |
| krautrocky jazz psych jam nonsense |
| Sunwolf Beholden To Nothing And No One |
Such doom
many ambient
femal sings
wow |
| Superorganism Superorganism |
| Indietronica cutesy super group boop boop |
| Supuration Incubation |
| Susanne Sundfor The Silicone Veil |
| Svalbard One Day All This Will End |
| Svalbard It's Hard to Have Hope |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? |
| Svalbard The Weight of the Mask |
| Svart Crown Profane |
| This has that crunchy Portal-style guitar sound, and the playing style is similar as well. So if you like Portal you might like this. |
| Svartidaudi Flesh Cathedral |
| BLACK METAL ICELANDIC. |
| Svffer Lies We Live |
| Thrash livez |
| Svrm Занепад |
| yeah fine w/e spirit this rules yeah. blackgaze that's not very gazey but has that blackgaze lead thing going on. Mostly fast blasty stuff that's not too fast. Yeah. |
| Swampbeast Offering of Chaos, Lamenting in the Blood of Man |
| Swans The Seer |
| my world is a roadblock hurtling through space / my universe is an ocean blazed to glass from sand / an apocalypse immeasure an old man looking into the black black staring yelling THE GRASS AINT ALWAYS A GREENARRRR |
| Swans Leaving Meaning |
I like it and it's pleasing but in this part of their career Swans does ring like a band
that gets accolades for basically just doing krautrock at a time when people don't know
what krautrock is, and see Swans as absolutely unique and sonically genius when
realistically they are the opposite. A band whose cult acclaim saw a resurgence during
their revival and now leads people to believe they're more different than they really
are.
Sonically Leaving Meaning is just Gira mumbling and repeating lines that bumble along to
equally repetitive and tranquil drum lines that slowly evolve over their typically 7-
minute runtimes. There are nuances of folk and other experimental stuff woven in there,
but artistically that's what krautrock always was anyway--repetitive, fairly chill,
experimental rock. And Swans is exactly that. And while I believe that modern Swans is
good, the amount of acclaim they get feels rather odd, and feels as if most people
applauding them might have little other knowledge regarding the style of music they
actually now play. |
| Sweven (SWE) The Eternal Resonance |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! |
| Clearly no Toxicity, "Steal This Album!" is still a competent record in its own right. Nowhere near as solid, but there are plenty of Toxicity/s.t-level tracks here. |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| Taake Nattestid Ser Porten Vid |
| Taake's first album feels almost like a subtle subversion of "kvlt" black metal. Sure, it has the super treble-y raw production values, tons of fuzzy riffs, and melodies that are buried in the mix, but it also gets noticeably odd every now and again. They will suddenly play a catchy riff, bang out an up-beat punky drum beat, or casually bang a tambourine in the background (or whatever approximates a tambourine sound), as if to subtly throw off the "kvlt" vibe with something more akin to funness. Whatever the reasons, Taake's first album contains enough frigid blasting and Darkthronian punk riffs to be kvlt, while containing enough new personality to set itself apart from the rest of the pack, albeit in a slightly funny way. |
| Tagefolket Lad Asketid Begynde |
| Do you like Nattens Madrigal? Then you should check this. It's black metal that sonically is very NM-y. Two tracks, ~16 minutes. Thin guitar, audible bass, very norwegian riffing and occasional clean folky singing. |
| Tall Ships Impressions |
| Emotion-core indie rock with post-rocky ~atmospherics~. Sort of akin to the emotional melodicism of Anathema, but more indie rock than art/prog. Really pretty tho wow. |
| Tankard Zombie Attack |
| Tardigrada Emotionale Ödnis |
| Tardigrada Vom Bruch bis zur Freiheit |
| Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix |
| Tenacious D best band in the world, Tenacious D they get all the girls. Tenacious D best guitar play ing, Tenacious D wow how can they sing. |
| Terrorizer Caustic Attack |
| Terzij de Horde In One Of These, I Am Your Enemy |
| Testament The New Order |
| Testament The Ritual |
| Testament First Strike Still Deadly |
| Testament The Formation of Damnation |
| Th' Faith Healers Lido |
While the vocals are definitely the not the greatest, Th' Faith Healers are at their best when
pretending to be a noisy jam band. Their combination of grooving krautrock and up-beat noise rock
made them--and this album in particular--significant in the development of experimental early
post-rock. Definitely a fun, rockin' record. |
| Thantifaxath Thantifaxath |
| Thaw Earth Ground |
| The American Analog Set From Our Living Room To Yours |
| The American Analog Set The Golden Band |
| The American Analog Set Promise of Love |
| The American Analog Set The Fun of Watching Fireworks |
| The Appleseed Cast The Fleeting Light of Impermanence |
| indie post-rock wew! |
| The Armed Untitled |
| The Beths Future Me Hates Me |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed |
| I liked TBDM when their melodeath was just straight swedeath At the Gates plagiarism. The rasps were neat, the production was rough, it's no frills melodeath without all the NWOAHM-isms. |
| The Black Twilight Circle Desert Dances and Serpent Sermons |
| I'm not a huge fan of the Shataan/Kallathon pieces, but the Volahn/Arizmenda tracks are great--particularly Volahn's. With all the Southern-ish rock and Native American folk influences found throughout most of the tracks, they really weren't kidding by calling this "Western black metal." |
| The Body and Braveyoung Nothing Passes |
| The Caretaker Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage 1 |
| lo-fi sad tape music. I don't want to forget :''( |
| The Chasm The Spell of Retribution |
| The Chasm The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow |
| The Crown Cobra Speed Venom |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie |
| The Dwarves Blood, Guts, and Pussy |
| old school raunchy punk whatever is fun. wewwww |
| The Evpatoria Report Golevka |
| Post-rock |
| The Evpatoria Report Maar |
| Post-rock |
| The Fucking Champs III |
| A weird hodgepodge of mostly instrumental different guitar things; math rock, some thrashy chugs, ambient guitar noodling. What's significant is that a lot of this album--specifically the metal riffing and chuggy sections--would be lifted stylistically when some members would later write Weakling's seminal "Dead As Dreams" record. Anyone who's listened to Weakling should immediately hear the similarities to The Fucking Champs on III, down to the slow melodic sections and even the guitar tone. |
| The Fucking Champs IV |
| the fucking riff machines. |
| The Fucking Champs V |
| the fucking riff machines. |
| The Fucking Champs VI |
| the fucking riff machines. |
| The Great Cold The Great Cold |
| Post-metal with a dash of black metal. |
| The Great Old Ones Cosmicism |
| The Halo Effect Days of the Lost |
| old in flames and Dark Tranquillity guys make the album that In Flames should've done after Colony. The rhythm guitars aren't as energized as one would hope, but the melodies are particularly great. |
| The Hellacopters High Visibility |
| The Hellacopters Overdriver |
| The Hotelier Goodness |
| The Innocence Mission Befriended |
| The Innocence Mission Hello I Feel the Same |
| The Innocence Mission Sun on the Square |
| The Innocence Mission See You Tomorrow |
| The Menzingers Chamberlain Waits |
| pretty OK punk rock. |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past |
| The Menzingers After the Party |
| The Menzingers From Exile |
| The Morningside The Wind, The Trees And The Shadows... |
| The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation Roadburn |
| I can hear their haunted voices wailing through the Aether. |
| The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas |
| The Mountain Goats Bleed Out |
| The Notwist Vertigo Days |
| very good indietronica or w/e music album one of the better albums of the year so far maybe. |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine |
| The Samuel Jackson Five Same Same, But Different |
| The Samuel Jackson Five Goodbye Melody Mountain |
| The Sight Below It All Falls Apart |
| Gooderish dreamy-ish ambient music. Synths woah. Static wooshing yeah. |
| The Sonora Pine II |
| The Sonora Pine I |
| More odd 90s post-rock/indie. |
| The Sun's Journey Through The Night Demo II |
| Furious black metal that spends six months out of the year vacationing in a haunted house playing ambient music. |
| The Sword Warp Riders |
| The Verve A Storm in Heaven |
| The Vomiting Dinosaurs Exoplanets |
| death/grind. Riffs in space, tiny arms, can't reach the bass. |
| The Wildhearts Earth vs. The Wildhearts |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Horses in the Sky |
| Thespian An Open Canvas |
| I hear this guy kicks puppies. |
| Thormesis The Sixth |
| Thormesis might feel like a sort of discount-Saor given its similar approach to growly epic black metal, but "The Sixth" definitely establishes the band as being well worth a check regardless of similarities to other more popular groups. This is exceptionally solid epic black metal. |
| Thorns Thorns |
| Their unique guitar tone and approach to rhythm were an undeniable influence on black metal--latter-era Mayhem and Satyricon to be specific. Snorre basically infected every band he touched, and not in a negative way. |
| Thy Catafalque Sgùrr |
| Weird, riffy, dancey, experimental black-ish metal with electronics. It's a fun time. |
| Thy Catafalque Geometria |
| Thy Catafalque Vadak |
| Thy Catafalque XII: A Gyönyörü Álmok Ezután Jönnek |
| Thy Serpent Death |
| Atmospheric, melodic, black. |
| Thyrane Travesty of Heavenly Essence |
| One of the first black metal bands I ever liked. Symphonic black metal with lotsa fun riffz. |
| Thyrfing Vansinnesvisor |
| Thyrfing Urkraft |
| Tides of Man Young and Courageous |
| Although a bit long, "Young and Courageous" is a competent and fairly fun attempt at post-rock. At times it even reminds of Cloudkicker (especially with its whining leads). Good post-rock worth another listen 3.5-4.0. |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 |
| darkened noisy piano ambient machine. |
| Tim Hecker Dropped Pianos |
| Take the infinitely desolate pianos and ambience of early Godspeed/Silver Mt. Zion and stretch them into an album. Distant and hopeless. |
| Tim Hecker Anoyo |
| Tim Hecker No Highs |
| I feel haunted by these spaces |
| Titus Andronicus The Most Lamentable Tragedy |
| There's enough really good material here to make a solid, normal-length punk record, but I feel that all the theatrical tracks pull the rest of the album down--not so far as to make it unenjoyable, but a lesser album still. Still, the theatrics do work to remind the listener that this is, in fact, a concept record with an important theme. |
| Todd Terje It's Album Time |
| Tom Petty Full Moon Fever |
| Tomb Mold The Bottomless Perdition |
| Filthy raw dm that I like for some reason. |
| Tomb Mold The Bottomless Perdition / The Moulting |
| Tomoyoshi Date Otoha |
a smashing good time eh pip pip.
Mostly minimalist piano music (slight strings here and there), often with field samples in the
background to create that Godspeed-esque sense of drama and human "realness." At times it almost
gives one the image of a solitary person sitting on a busy city street, amidst the rushing of cars
and general bustle of the city, quietly tapping away on their keys, separate from the skyscrapers
and busy lives around them, yet still seemingly a part of it all. |
| Tonight Alive What Are You So Scared Of? |
| pop punk? |
| Tonight Alive The Other Side |
| Toronto (SWE) Under Siege |
| hail speed, hail punk. |
| Tortoise Standards |
| Totale Vernichtung Ritualmordlegenden |
| A lot of d-beats, a lot of black metal. It's black metal but fun? Idk man, just go with me on this one. |
| Totaled Lament |
| Black metal / crust punk. It's about as crunchy as you'd expect a modern osdm-throwback band to be, which makes the blast-beat-loaded album much more aggressive and loud than you probably would have expected from a black/crust record. It also feels very death metal-y, with mostly only the vocals pushing it more into black metal than death. The biggest fault I can think of for "Lament" is the lack of punk-oriented structuring, in that all the songs are over 4 minutes, which is a bit long for anything crust punk-related and leads to many of these tracks feeling a lot longer than they need to be. If these songs were shorter but more numerous, I think this would've been a much more solid record. |
| Tower Shock to the System |
| Sarabeth Linden's vocals absolutely rip on Tower's second album, with 39-ish minutes of thundering 80s trad metal worship. |
| Transcending Bizarre? The Four Scissors |
| Weirdly industrial kinda goofy experimental symphonic black metal. |
| Trap Them Crown Feral |
| Trespasser (SWE) ἈΠΟΚΆΛΥΨΙΣ |
| smok i'm going to class warfare your face (stab) if you don't delete that shit i stg |
| Trest Sorginak |
| Trha tálcunnana dëhajma tun dejl bënatsë abcul’han dlhenisë ëlh inagat.. |
| Trha lhum'ad'sejja |
| outside of the second track, pretty much everything else on this album is fantastic. the synth work combined with the rhythm at 2:30 in the third track is phenomenal, as is also the section at 6:10 in the 4th track. The closer has some EDM drum beats woven in with the more EDM-y synths, which is also an interesting thing to shove into a black metal record I guess. |
| Trha §ºanωë Aglivajsamë Cá Nëlh¶iha |
| I think the guitars could've been brought out in the mix a little bit--especially during some of the faster parts--but otherwise the mixing sounds pretty OK. It's not as icy and noisy as early releases, but it's otherwise a retvrn to a more traditionalist second-wave atmoblack sound, and this time it features some actual riffs. Three tracks, fifty minutes, it's pretty concise despite the runtime and single twenty-two-minute closer. |
| Trha ∫um'ad∂ejja cavvaj |
| yeah it's trha yeah it's black metal yeah it's kinda whimsy yeah it's great. |
| Trha monta ana also |
| Tribulation The Horror |
| Tribulation The Children Of The Night |
| Tribulation Down Below |
| Another solid deathrock Tribulation album that sounds kinda like if Dark Tranquility and Dissection hung out together at the back of a Baroness show. Interpret that as you will. |
| Tricot 3 |
| Super fun Japan-o-math rock extravaganza. Is lovely I loves itt. |
| Tricot 10 |
| Truchlo Strzygi Pora Umierać |
| Truchlo Strzygi Nad którymi nie czuwa żaden stróż |
| Tuber Desert Overcrowded |
| Heavy riffing post-rock. |
| Tuber Joyful Science |
| Turisas The Varangian Way |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision |
| Turnstile Glow On |
| Tvaer Uvær |
| Twilight Force Heroes of Mighty Magic |
| The mixing is kind of weird and it has a ridiculously long runtime, but "Heroes Of Mighty Magic" is otherwise solid cheese-filled folk/power metal. |
| Two People First Body |
| trip hop gloom |
| Tycho Dive |
| ambient downtempo woah. tycho dreamy waves woah. |
| Tycho Awake |
| Tzompantli Tlazcaltiliztli |
| Tzompantli Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force |
| uchu nekoko Kimi No Youni Ikiretara |
| japanese dream pop shoegaze chilljams |
| uchu nekoko 日のあたる場所にきてよ |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still |
| moving away from death metal fury toward a more atmospheric mathematic nightmare, Ulcerate feel less wild here but more purposefully precise. In specific, Saint Merat's performance feels much less improvised and much more purposefully rehearsed. That alone gives the music a clearly sense of direction, and makes its movements and progressions feel all the more powerful, the ambiance more crushing. |
| Ultha Belong |
| Ultha Floors of Heaven |
| Ultha All That Has Never Been True |
| Ulthar Anthronomicon |
| Ulthar Helionomicon |
| Ulthima Symphony of the Night |
| Ultra Silvam The Spearwound Salvation |
| dis feggin ruelz boys. second wave black metal with lots of first-wavey flourishes and random dashes of different influences that keep it moving and interesting. |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar |
| avant dance tracks woopy do |
| Ulvesang The Hunt |
| Pensively pondering pagan performances. |
| Undeath It's Time...To Rise From the Grave |
| Undeath More Insane |
| Undeath make the death metal equivalent of a caveman throwing a rock against a wall repeatedly for fun. |
| Uneven Structure Februus |
| Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire |
| Ungfell Tôtbringære |
| Ungfell Mythen, Mären, Pestilenz |
| EPIC PAGAN FURY. Not quite Windir, but a darn good attempt, though definitely more on the aggressive black metal side than strictly "folk black" or "pagan" metal. The folk metal flourishes give this otherwise mean black metal the oomph it needs to make itself feel special, and it works very well. |
| Ungfell Demo(lition) |
| Ungfell De Ghörnt |
err ma gerrd, de ghornt.
just as good as the previous album, albeit maybe slightly less fun? The kick drum still
rattles my skull with that trademark thunderous THUMP, so I'm happy. |
| United Nations United Nations |
| screamo/grind. Less refined than "The Next Four Years," imo, UN's first album is still an effective slab of blasty political punk nonsense. |
| United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures |
| angry screamcore riffs and yells a lot but it's pretty ok too i guess for a bunch of PUNKS. |
| United Nations The Next Four Years |
| blasty screamo-grind. The cleans and spoken-word bits are always kind of odd, but otherwise UN play a really solid brand of intense screamo. |
| Unleash The Archers Apex |
Basically instrumentally melodic death metal but with almost exclusively female power metal vox.
The instrumental work makes it constantly catchy, backed up by Hayes' fantastic vocals. Rly good
thanks. |
| Unleash The Archers Abyss |
| Unleashed Where No Life Dwells |
| Grandpas guitars m/ |
| Unru Als Tier ist der Mensch Nichts |
| Dirty black metal/doom. It's not an amazing record, but it's pretty solid. |
| Unru Die Wiederkehr des Verdrängten |
| I reviewed their first album back in 2016 and six years and a pandemic later, they've finally done another one. Let's just say it sounds better and is more along the vein of wittr's atmospheric black metal than Als Tier ist der Mensch Nichts. |
| Unto Others Mana |
| Ushangvagush Mntu |
| Ushangvagush Pestmo'qon |
| Uttertomb Nebulas Of Self-Desecration |
| the kind of old school-y death metal riffs and well-timed death doom tempo shifts that scratch that Blood Incantation itch, with some black metal folded in just for good measure. infernal hailz, chilean death metal supremacy! |
| Vacuous Dreams of Dysphoria |
| Vader De Profundis |
| Vader Litany |
| VADER! |
| Vader Revelations |
| Vader Solitude in Madness |
| Vafurlogi Í vökulli áþján |
| Another great Icelandic black metal release. Slightly dissonant, slightly melodic, standard for the Iceland sound. |
| Vallendusk Black Clouds Gathering |
| If you like Der Weg Einer Freiheit, you should like this a lot. |
| Vallenfyre Splinters |
| Vallenfyre Fear Those Who Fear Him |
| crusty crunchy entombedcore death metal lives m/ |
| Vampire With Primeval Force |
| Varathron Patriarchs of Evil |
| Am I the only one who finds the title of this album unintentionally tongue-in-cheek hilarious? Old dudes playing Hellenic black metal m/ m/ m/ |
| Vargrav (FIN) Netherstorm |
| Symphonic-lite black metal with the earthy growl and sense for ambiance of WITTR mixed with the symphonic-lite undertones of Kvist, wrapped around a firm core of Limbonic Art. |
| Vattnet Settler |
Vattnet Viskar sadly abandon the post-rock and ambient they experimented with on their debut and
put their focus solely on songwriting--to pretty great results. Where their first album had
absolutely HORRIBLE pacing and structuring and some fairly questionable production decisions,
'Settler' suffers from none of those. The mix is fairly trebly and not the greatest, but I'm
willing to ignore that given that these songs are, surprisingly, not jumbled messes of riffs but
actual songs that are actually enjoyable. Well done, boys. |
| Vehemence (FRA) Par le sang versé |
| French medieval melodic black metal a la Ulver though not as ear-splittingly treble-y. Just very solid meloblack. |
| Vektor Terminal Redux |
| Extra cosmic thrash in space. Enter the void of riffs. |
| Venenum Trance of Death |
| Vengeful Vengeful |
| Vermilia Katkyt |
| Despite not involving anyone from Ulver, Vermilia actually sounds like a competent tribute to that band's pagan black metal origins. And for a one-woman project, that makes "Katkyt" fairly noteworthy. |
| Vermin Womb Retaliation |
| 19 minutes of crunching guitar noises! |
| Verwustung Beyond The Watercolor Sunset, We Feel New Life |
| Vestiges The Descent Of Man |
| Vestigio Vestígios |
| Vhol Deeper than Sky |
| Vile Rites The Ageless |
| Vilkacis The Fever of War |
| The drummer from Fell Voices does a solo raw bm project. It's pretty good. |
| Vilkacis Beyond the Mortal Gate |
| Rekevic's pseudo-epic melodicism works wonderfully in raw black metal, go figure. |
| Vilkacis / Turia Split |
| Vilkacis and Turia threw about fifteen minutes over two tracks each into a great split of raw-yet-melodic black metal. The shrieked vocals echo through every track, and the similarly minimalistic riffing styles allow for simple leads to pierce above the chaos to let their melodies shine through. Vilkacis's side also echos a sense of droning repetition that quickly reminds one of Rekevics' time in Fell Voices, while Turia interestingly sounds a bit similar. This is just raw atmospheric black metal done right. |
| Vimur The Timeless Everpresent |
| Vindensang Alpha |
| Violet Cold Desperate Dreams |
| Take the lead melodies most blasty bm bands use and replace those with 80's dance synth melodies. The result is semi-dancey black metal that's fairly enjoyable-if-not-fairly-bizarre. I wish he would've used more dancey beats instead of seeming to stick to the blasts + synths formula, but even with that one idea being used to make up an entire record, 'Desperate Dreams' is still fairly enjoyable. |
| Viva Belgrado Flores, Carne |
| Viva Belgrado Ulises |
| Vogel (IS) Kallið |
| Icelandic metal band that sounds like Icelandic Opeth. |
| Void Omnia dying light |
| Riffs. |
| Volahn El Tigre del Sur |
| Black metal with Mexican folk music. Probably my favorite piece from Volahn so far. |
| Volcanic Queen Faith In Desire |
| Vreid Kraft |
| While the triumphant Windir-isms appear on occasion, Vreid is (unfortunately) an almost entirely different beast. On their first album, the former Windir-ians reconstituted their former act into something much more in the vein of typical 2nd wave black metal--punky riffing and all. In that way it's definitely a fun, grooving record and the melodic holdovers from previous group definitely help Vreid keep that little bit of Valfar's spirit intact. While this can't really compete with 1184 or Arntor, it still stands on its own. |
| Vukari En To Pan |
| Vukari Matriarch |
| Wake Sowing the Seeds of a Worthless Tomorrow |
edit: they remastered it and it's v nasty now m///
production is flat yeah but it's still OK grindcore. Definitely needs more buzzsaws tho.
This feels like The Secret but with less gripping production. |
| Wandar Zyklus |
| A little long-winded and not particularly unique, Wandar's "Zyklus" is still a solid slab of fast atmospheric black metal. |
| Wang Wen Invisible City |
| post-rock this is nice very nice thank you |
| Warp Chamber Implements of Excruciation |
| Waxahatchee Great Thunder |
| my girl Waxahatchee does piano ballads and acoustics like a person who is reasonably well capable of doing them effectively. Bing bong bing bong. |
| Waxahatchee Saint Cloud |
| Wayfarer World's Blood |
| We Stood Like Kings Berlin 1927 |
| Weary Eyes WWGBBYW |
| Wedrujacy Wiatr Tam, Gdzie Miesiac Oplakuje Swit |
| The Polish WittR. |
| Weekend Nachos Still |
| BROOT powerviolence hardcore punk riffs BANGS |
| Weltmacht And to Every Beast Its Prey |
| Featuring Krieg's Imperial on vox and Judas Iscariot mastermind Akhenaten's songwriting, Weltmacht's last release is solid rawer black metal. Repetitive and atmospheric a la Burzum, but still riffy. |
| Westkust Last Forever |
| Wharflurch Psychedelic Realms ov Hell |
| Wharflurch Shittier/Slimier |
| get in the boat loser we're going wharfing |
| When Woods Make Graves The Aroma Of Dead Witches |
| This is his best album. If you're going to listen to any of his albums listen to this one because this is his best album. Everything is fresh and you can actually tell all the riffs apart. |
| Whiplash Power and Pain |
| Whiplash Ticket to Mayhem |
| Whispered Shogunate Macabre |
| White Ward Futility Report |
| White Ward Love Exchange Failure |
| this is post-black metal with a sAxoPhOnE o3o wowow so kawaii |
| Whoredom Rife Dommedagskvad |
| Lulzy band name be damned, "Dommedagskvad" is just more super solid rifftastic second-wave black metal. |
| Whoredom Rife Winds of Wrath |
| Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed III |
| Inch by inch Wiegedood are figuring out how to write songs that don't just sound like mishmashes of 2nd wave covers songs. |
| Wild Pink ILYSM |
| Willamette Always In Postscript |
| ambient drone w/e |
| Willamette Echo Park |
| ambient drone w/e |
| Willamette Diminished Composition |
| Ambient drone classical Stars of the Lid rocks BAM WHAPPO POW Batman. |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops II |
Tide goes in, tide goes out. Tide goes in,tde goes out.
Tide gois in,tde goes out __ tide gois in,tde joes ouf
tid gois in,tde joes ouf __ tid gois in,tde josouf
tid gois in,tde josouf __ td gois intde josouf
tdgois intd- josouf __ tdgoi intd-josou
tdgoi/intd-josou __ tdgo/ind-josudo/
idjoso//joo//
oo |
| William Basinski The Deluge |
This is the same as Cascade, but with different effects influencing the piano melody at
different points. Toward the end the music fades to silence, then rises again with the
piano playing a completely different tune, which is then replaced by a classical outro which
too eventually fades away. The different use of dynamics and implementation of actual
songwriting (as opposed to playing virtually the same loops for 30-minutes) is what makes
this version slightly superior. |
| William Basinski The Deluge Live at Issue Project Room |
| Piano sounds and muffling and clearing and muffling and clearing repeating distorting repeating and then there's classical music or something and then more pianos over and over trademark William Basinski. |
| William Tyler and The Impossible Truth Secret Stratosphere |
| Wim Mertens Charaktersketch |
| Wim Mertens The Belly of an Architect |
| Wim Mertens When Tool Met Wood |
| Windir Soknardalr |
| Windswept The Onlooker |
| 2018's EP saw the Windswept project take their Drudkh-ian blueprint and reiterate it at slower tempos to emphasize the atmospherics of slower chords, whereas 2019's "The Onlooker" LP sees the band doing the exact opposite; it's all fast, all the time. Still the same Drudkh-y rhythms, same two-riffs-per-song-stretched-out-to-5-minutes-or-more-each-time, etc. Playing fast the whole time does make this particular record remind one more of, say Forteresse than Drudkh, and that's not a bad thing, as both projects are able to barrel along at full speed without much steam. While Windswept are a tad less effective at keeping their music interesting at those constant tempos than Forteresse, though, "The Onlooker" is still a nifty record. The fast progressions and melodies pull you in with a triumphant sort of atmosphere that slower music typically just can't do, though in the same way it's less earthy and hypnotic. As someone who likes fast black metal much more than the slower stuff, though, this is definitely an improvement over their last release. |
| Winterfylleth The Threnody Of Triumph |
| Winterfylleth The Divination Of Antiquity |
| Wishy Paradise |
| Wishy Triple Seven |
| Witchery Dead, Hot and Ready |
| Witchery Restless & Dead |
| With the End in Mind Thresholder |
| WitTR bm. |
| Witherscape The Northern Sanctuary |
| Within Temptation The Unforgiving |
| Woe A Spell For The Death Of Man |
| Woe Quietly, Undramatically |
| Wolf Alice Blue Weekend |
| Wolfbrigade Run With The Hunted |
| More fun, solid pounding d-beat punk. The slight melodic lines add a little diversity to the otherwise standard riffing and tempo (read: punky and fast). The same-y-ness of this type of punk tends to get old pretty quickly, but Wolfebrigade seem to know pretty well how to not over-extend themselves, making Run With The Hunted's 26-minute runtime feel just about perfect for the record. rDefinitely get on this record if you're looking for a good d-beat'ing. Puns. |
| Wolfbrigade Anti-Tank Dogs |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars |
| Woman Is The Earth Of Dirt |
| Woman Is The Earth Depths |
| Woman Is The Earth Torch of Our Final Night |
| 3.3/5 pretty good WitTR-worshipy synth-heavy atmospheric black metal. Not as thunderous as I'd have liked, but WitE have steadily improved their spund since going the more atmospheric route and their latest album is maybe their mosy enjoyable yet. At least in terms of recording quality, this is definitely their best. The drums sound much less muddled and actually feel on-time this time. |
| Woods of Desolation As The Stars |
| Woodsman Woodsman |
| Wordclock Heralds |
| Darker ambient with a definite dark jazz influence, leading to a very heavy "urban" or "city" feel. Not so much as in Bohren & der Club of Gore, but definitely palpable still. This is late-night music for sitting in park benches as the sky darkens and the city refuses to sleep--for watching the skyscrapers glow in the night. |
| Wormed Exodromos |
| vox are still the weakest link but wormed are otherwise a solid br00tal tech death band. |
| Wormed Krighsu |
| Brutal tech death? Squees brees and blast beeeeeeeoreeeeeats. |
| Wormrot Abuse |
| grind. |
| Wormwitch Wormwitch |
| wormwitch cut down their personality and streamline their style to create their most impactful albums yet. Their records before liked to dabble in different styles here and there which gave their songs a lot of variance, but also made their songwriting fairly inconsistent. On their s/t they've mostly boiled their sound down to something much more consistent and fleshed out, and that combined with a very mean production sound makes Wormwitch easily their best record by far. |
| Wormwood Arkivet |
| melodic black metal with some folk metal flourishes. While the instrumental side is great, the lack of lower-end sound in the mix makes the album feel kind of distant and cold in a way that doesn't really improve the album. It doesn't harm it very much, but I think a more earthy organic sound with more bass-y oomph a la Ungfell woud've benefitted the music much more. |
| Worsen Blood |
| Worst Party Ever Here, Online |
| emo pop punk for the soul |
| Wound Man Prehistory |
| More grindcore. |
| Wounds of Recollection You Were A Garden of Empyrean Light |
| pretty good "positive" blackgaze a la deafheaven. |
| Wraith (USA-IN) Absolute Power |
| blackened thrash? It lives. |
| Wraith (USA-IN) Heed the Warning |
| Thrash continues to live! Will it ever die? Or will it just DEI??? |
| Wraith (USA-IN) Undo The Chains |
| Thrash?! It lives?! |
| Wrekmeister Harmonies You've Always Meant So Much To Me |
| drone with some drone metal thrown in. [Mostly] Nice calm drone swells. |
| Wrekmeister Harmonies Night Of Your Ascension |
| Wrekmeister Harmonies We Love to Look at the Carnage |
| Wrekmeister Harmonies Flowers in the Spring |
| Wretched (USA-NC) Beyond the Gate |
| Wyrd Vargtimmen pt.II |
| Old school raw pagan black metal. |
| Wytch Hazel II: Sojourn |
| Wytch Hazel III: Pentecost |
| Wytch Hazel IV: Sacrament |
| X Japan Blue Blood |
| SPEED METALZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. |
| Xoth Invasion of the Tentacube |
Some sort of amalgamation of prog/tech/melodic death/thrash metal. Sort of like Vektor, but with
more of an obvious old schoolish technical death metal vibe, but still with some clearly black
metal sections as well. Lots of great melodic work, excellent songwriting, and a really original
sound that very casually flows through different sub-genres. Definitely check this if you enjoyed
the newest Vektor (or even if you didn't). |
| Xoth Interdimensional Invocations |
| Xoth Exogalactic |
| Xysma Deluxe |
| Entombed should be proud of this band's wonderful death metal pivot to Kyuss worship. Death 'n' hard rock, riffs all day. |
| Year of the Knife Internal Incarceration |
| Year of the Knife Dust to Dust |
| Year of the Knife No Love Lost |
| Yellow Eyes Silence Threads the Evening's Cloth |
| Yellow Eyes Hammer of Night |
| Not better than Deafheaven but still very good "melodic poseur bm." |
| Yellow Eyes The Desert Mourns |
| This was a surprise release. Woah. |
| Yellow Magic Orchestra Solid State Survivor |
| goofy-ass synthpop. |
| Ymir (FIN) Ymir |
| 90s bm worship that is quite solid if by the numbers. |
| Yndi Halda Under Summer |
| post-rock with vocals wow strings happy dreamy woah |
| Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside... |
| Yo La Tengo Painful |
| Yo La Tengo We Have Amnesia Sometimes |
| Yo La Tengo This Stupid World |
| Yorushika エルマ |
| not quite as bombastic as the previous record, but still exceptionally solid japanese pop rock. These two back-to-back records this year help establish Yorushika as one of the more exciting rock artists of the year, quite easily. |
| Yorushika Plagiarism |
| Yorushika 夏草が邪魔をする |
| Yppah Eighty One |
| trip hop fun dancey jammy tunes makea happy party time wooo wooo wooo! |
| Yume Bitsu Yume Bitsu |
| Ambient, casual post-rock. It goes where it goes and takes its time getting there. Background music. Think of a more casual Tortoise with less jazziness, in parts. |
| Yumi Zouma Willowbank |
| Yumi Zouma EP IV |
| it's more yumi zouma for the zouma obsessants (me) |
| Zeal and Ardor Wake of a Nation |
| Our boy's all grown up and playing doom metal :``) |
| Zhrine Unortheta |
| Black metal/death metal. The first track has an almost blackgazey Amesoeurs vibe to it, but the rest is mostly cavernous b/dm. Riffs. |
| Zoe Keating One Cello x 16: Natoma |
ATTACK OF THE FLYING CELLOS.
They zip! they zoom! they're out of this world! and they're coming for you!
crossover classical modern classical |
| Zoe Keating Into the Trees |
| modern classical crossover cello jams ov delight. |
| Zorn (USA-PA) Zorn |
| hail blackened punk! |
| Zyklon World ov Worms |
| Basically Myrkskog post-Myrkskog. Pummeling blackened death metal with some industrial sprinkled in. Not quite up to par with the two Myrkskog albums, but it's definitely a parallel album to "Deathmachine". |
| 3.0 good |
| ...and Oceans The Dynamic Gallery of Thoughts |
| symphonic black whatever |
| ...and Oceans The Regeneration Itinerary |
| 0 (Null) Null & Void |
| pretty good melodic/dsbm. If you can tolerate the long run-time (34 minutes), this one-track album can be a pretty enjoyable listen. |
| 100 Gecs 10,000 gecs |
| 1099 Young Pines |
| 1349 Hellfire |
| 2814 新しい日の誕生 |
| 65daysofstatic No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite... |
| this is the more post-rocky side of the NMS soundtrack. It's OK. |
| 65daysofstatic No Man's Sky: Soundscapes |
| 65daysofstatic more like 65 minutes of static amirite |
| A Diadem of Dead Stars Kingdoms Bathed In Golden Light |
| It's not Weakling or Wolves, but it's OK, despite having that awful programmed drum sound and clean vox. Guitar sound is pretty OK. Decent-ish black metal. |
| A Forest of Stars Beware the Sword You Cannot See |
| A Pregnant Light Live to Tell |
| A Pregnant Light Domination Harmony |
| A Pregnant Light Purple Pain |
| ~ P u R p L e M e T a L ~ |
| A Pregnant Light No Longer N 2 U |
| Main track is OK, remix is kinda pointless but aesthetically alright. |
| A.R. Kane 69 |
| The weird experimentation on top of noisey [pop?] rock definitely helped set the standards for later experimental rock and post-rock music. Their lo-fi, noisey, droney rock was pretty ahead of its time in '88. The droney, annoying vocals even seem to have been directly ripped off by Slint not too long after. That was a snarky comment. |
| A.R. Kane Lollita |
| Noisey, hazy, reverby, experimental, and pretty repetitive proto-shoegaze. It's interesting to hear the development of the trademark shoegaze sound. While the vocals are a bit lacking, instrumentally this EP is fairly solid, albeit a bit repetitive (though I'm fairly certain that was intentional, and I just don't appreciate it enough). |
| Abigail Williams Legend |
| Abigor Leytmotif Luzifer |
| It's good but it's not like "wow". |
| Abigor Kingdom of Darkness |
| The re-recorded first track has that suffocating Mayhem production style to it but the guitars are weirdly low in the mix. The other tracks are surprisingly better, though, despite the two middle pieces both being less than three minutes long (and they both rip!). Hail Abigor hail black metal hail decent EP/compilation records! |
| Aborted The Necrotic Manifesto |
| Aborted RetroGore |
| deathgrind grind grind gore grind grind carcass grrrr 3/5 |
| Absu The Third Storm Of Cythraul |
| A lot of this is very first-wave black metal-y in the vein of Slayer and other thrash bands, while other parts are pure second wave blasty goodness. It's fairly varied though here Absu do tend to keep more to the thrash side than the black. |
| Absu Abzu |
| Abyss (CAN) Heretical Anatomy |
| Abyss like to mix it up by being half Morbid Angel (or some other osdm idk) and Entombed, mixing normal blasty tremolo br00tal riffs with those crusty Entombed punk grooves. It's nothing huge, but it's a solid record and a pretty fun one at that. I don't know anything about real dm tho so who knows this probably sucks w/e. |
| Abyssal (UK) Denouement |
| Abyssal (UK) Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius |
| AC/DC Flick Of The Switch |
| AC/DC Who Made Who |
| ACxDC The Second Coming |
| Ada Rook Shed Blood |
| Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie Travels in Constants Vol 24 |
| Ambient modern classical. Sounds like reworkings of some Stars of the Lid stuff. Enveloping ambient with dreamy strings. If you want more later-era Sotl-style ambient, check this. |
| Addison Rae Addison |
| Aephanemer Know Thyself |
| instrumental melodeath! |
| Afgrund The Dystopian |
| goes hrrrrr mah dude deathgrind heyooo |
| Afsky Om Hundrede År |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues |
| punk rok! |
| Aglo Fixate & Disgrace |
| Agnes Obel Citizen Of Glass |
| singer/songwriter/folk? Something is OK here. |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Arc |
| Agriculture Agriculture |
| Ahab The Call Of The Wretched Sea |
| Dooooooooooooommmmmmmm. Could use more spooky keyboards. |
| Aidan Baker Green & Cold |
| Aidan Baker I Will Always and Forever... |
| Aidan Baker with Richard Baker Smudging |
It's not amazing ambient drone, but it's got those Nadja vibes and it creates a consistently nice
atmosphere. Background music, or music to space out to. To which to space out. Prepositions. |
| Ails The Unraveling |
| This kinda sounds like Weakling in some rly weird ways, and of course I'm the only person on the planet obsessed with Dead as Dreams enough to make such a silly comparison. Laurie Shanaman's screams really do sound like John Gossard at times, though. |
| Aisha Burns Argonauta |
| indie folk or good music sangs |
| Aksumite Vinegar Perimeter |
| The Aksumite project might or might not function as a refuge for simple riffs that couldn't fit anywhere else in the Damien Masters treasure trove of musical projects, but even then it's not that bad. More typical black metal/punk from Colloquial Sound Recordings, albeit in a much more minimalistic, stripped-down fashion. Fun simple songs with a decent selection of rockin riffs, groovin rhythms, and blasting tempos. |
| Alan Gogoll Boutique Bear |
minimal folk slash dude playing guitar by himself music. Technical proficiency yes, does
meaningful emotionally gripping or impacting songs not so much. But still pretty guitars play
well! |
| Alcest Le Secret |
| Allie X Girl With No Face |
| Altar of Plagues Mammal |
| Aly and AJ With Love From |
| Am I in Trouble? Spectrum |
| varied prog black metal, decent! |
| Amaranthe Amaranthe |
| Amaranthe Massive Addictive |
| Hail the kings and queen of hyper chorus pop metal! Weeoooweooowooooowooooo! |
| Amesoeurs Amesoeurs |
| It doesn't "wow" and it's stylistically a bit everywhere. |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World |
| Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods |
| Amon Duul II Wolf City |
| An Autumn Lost |
| An Autumn Hearts Of Light/Blossoms |
| An Autumn Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love |
| An Autumn All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow |
| Anaal Nathrakh Desideratum |
| Anagnorisis Beyond All Light |
| black metal. This is like brickwalled or compressed or w/e and doesn't sound as good as it should. Still fairly competent black metal, though. |
| Anal Stabwound Reality Drips Into the Mouth of Indifference |
| Anathema Distant Satellites |
| Anchors Bad Juju |
| Ancient Svartalvheim |
| In retrospect you can practically taste the Wolves in the Throne Room oozing from this record, or modern black metal in general. It's a pretty under-rated atmospheric black metal in that respect, I suppose. It's not amazing, but it represents a lot of the basic ideas that would later be adopted by "modern" bands. I mean seriously, add some synths and a lot of this could be straight up Cascadian stuff. |
| Ancient Trolltaar |
This album dedicated to all trolls who shed a tear. Unsung heroes! #MTGA (make trolls great
again!) BLACK METAL. Last track has cool groovy darkthronian punk riffs but otherwise this is
just basic olde school lo-fi melodic-ish black metal. |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Heirs |
| Andavald Undir Skyggðarhaldi |
| Andrea Belfi Natura Morta |
| pretty-ish, low-key background droney ambient (electro acoustic???) music. |
| Angrrsth Donikąd |
| Angrrrrrsth put out a decent black metal album, tho i don't really remember it. |
| Animosity Shut It Down |
| With no song over three minutes, Animosity's "Shut It Down" is essentially what the deathcore genre initially was and should've stayed; no-nonsense death metal with the abrasiveness and attitude of hardcore punk. The breakdowns aren't overused and are well-placed, riffs hit hard, and the vocals are snarled growls instead of pointless inhales. With such short runtimes the band never wastes time or drags any track out too long, preferring to hit hard and quit, in keeping with their hardcore roots. It's a decent album and a shimmering reminder of what deathcore could've been. |
| Anna Burch Quit The Curse |
| singer songwriter sangs Anna Burch decent music. |
| Antestor The Forsaken |
| HAIL THE TRUE GOD OV JUDEA. ALL PAGANS SHALL BECOME IGNITED.rIt's symphonic bm like old Dimmu but not quite as good. |
| Anthropic Architects of Aggression |
| saw these grind dads open for Primitive Man and Blood Incantation recently and they ripped live. Suffocation-style guttural vocals and Suffocation-y drum beats accompanying grindcore's commitment to blasting speed, it did sound better live but at least on this proper recording you can actually hear the guitar >_> |
| Antichrist (SWE) Sinful Birth |
| Antichrist Siege Machine Purifying Blade |
| Aosoth III - Violence & Variation |
| Apparition (USA-CA) Feel |
| Aptorian Demon Libertus |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine |
| Unlike on "Anthems" they actually got the vocal production for Angela's voice correct, going for a much more snarly, vicious sound than previously. While still clearly not her natural voice, the more aggressive sound fits wonderfully with the generally heavier sound Doomsday Machine has. And, unlike "Anthems," Doomsday Machine is way much more killer, much less filler. Angela's lyrics are always hit-or-miss ("Nemesis"), but the rest of the band really pulled themselves together to claw back up toward "Wages of Sin" levels of songwriting. Doomsday Machine definitely isn't as great as WoS, but it can at least try to compete. 3.3/5. Not very consistent melodic death metal, but still quite a few bangers. |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion |
| Angela's gargly vocal delivery is laughably cheesy, the melodies aren't that clear or prominent in the mix, and while it may be a little more solid than Wages of Sin, it never manages to hit anywhere near the previous album's highs. |
| Arch Enemy Deceivers |
| Frabjous day, it's pretty OK! |
| Arch Enemy Blood Dynasty |
| Archagathus Canadian Horse |
| goofy punk grind |
| Arizmenda Stillbirth in the Temple of Venus |
| Some really fine atmospheric black metal here and there, but it's not very consistent. Production's a lot cleaner this time around which definitely doesn't make it as hypnotic, but does make the melodies easier to appreciate. Mixed bag. |
| Arizmenda Beneath This Reality of Flesh |
| A R I Z M E N D A |
| Arizmenda Despairs Depths Descended |
| Arizmenda Spiders Lust in the Dungeon's Dust |
| Arkona (RUS) Во славу великим! |
| Russian folk/metal. The traditional Russian folk music is really nifty, but the metal side could've been a bit better/louder. Still though, folk metal! |
| Armagh Exclamation Po!nt |
| Arstidir Lifsins Hermalausaz |
| Art School Girlfriend Is It Light Where You Are |
| Art School Girlfriend Soft Landing |
| ARTS Graveside Summoning |
| this ams an angery noises black metal |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages |
| Astarte Doomed Dark Years |
| Astral Tomb Soulgazer |
| someone on RYM described this as a "Blood Incantation jam session" and I think that's a very polite way of saying their songwriting is kind of messy and wandering. It gets the job done, though; it's decent prog death that wears its influences very proudly and mostly checks all the boxes for what I want from Starspawn's little bro.rJust like Starspawn it starts off with its longest track (over 12 minutes!) and is loaded with long goofy song titles about outer space nonsense. Cool. Old school riffs, spacey ambient droning, now all they need to do is work on the songwriting a bit. |
| Astronoid Stargazer |
| Astronoid Air |
| No don't listen to them this is only pretty OK good not WOW good thx. |
| At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease |
| death metal melodic jams of riff! |
| At the Gates To Drink from the Night Itself |
| Better than the last album bc it actually feels energized this time around instead of just going through the motions. Still not amazing but it's At the Gates playing melodic death metal that sounds like it's not being played by old guys just so they can justify going on tour again and hey that's an improvement. |
| Ateiggar Us d’r Höll chunnt nume Zyt |
| infernal hailz Helvetic Underground Committee! symphonic black metal a la kvist, more black than symph m/ |
| Atheist Piece Of Time |
| Atheist Jupiter |
| Au Clair de Lune Au Clair de Lune |
| Au Clair de Lune Mysticism of Ecstatic Communion |
| early 2010's throwback blackgaze that's truly more hazy-gaze than black metal in the proper way. |
| AUA The Damaged Organ |
| Audiopain The Switch To Turn Off Mankind |
| Audn Farvegir Fyrndar |
| Atmospheric black metal that's pretty good! |
| Aurvandil Thrones |
| Autonoesis Moon of Foul Magics |
| Avalon Emerson & the Charm |
| Avantasia Ghostlights |
| Meatloaf power metal |
| Avatarium The Girl With The Raven Mask |
| Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But A Dream... |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go |
| Avslut Deceptis |
| some Naglfar-y 90's worship. Is pretty decent black metal. |
| Axeman Arrive |
| decent punkened black metal of punkened death. Of metal. Last track is kinda meh but the first track rules. |
| Axis of Light By the Hands of the Consuming Fire |
| Raw, harsh, melodic and a tad punky. |
| Axis of Light Northern Ascendancy |
| raw black metal. First track wasn't that great but the more melodic second track sort of made up for it. Still not nearly as good as their "By the Hands of the Consuming Fire" demo, though. I can't exactly explain why, but that EP's unlistenable rawness was somehow more appealing than the sound this EP has. |
| Azusa Loop of Yesterdays |
| thrashes post-hardcore harrrd too bad i don't like thrash much tho |
| BABYMETAL Metal Resistance |
| Bad Religion Christmas Songs |
| BADA Bada |
| experimental rock/post-rock/drone. Pretty good? |
| Bagg Tussa баґґтусса |
| Balmora With Thorns of Glass and Petals of Grief |
| remember in the early 2000's when core kids started sprouting up from the ground and ripping off melodeath? this is that melodic death metalcore. |
| Balmora Prologue |
| Barghest Barghest |
| Barghest create grim black metal that is sharp to the touch yet unabashedly melodic. |
| Bark Psychosis Hex |
| I appreciate the combination if different influences and sounds (the jazziness in particular), but currently this doesn't actually do a whole lot for me. It's nice post-rock but the vocals are annoying and I just can't get into it like it's average rating would suggest I should. Will revisit in time. |
| Bark Psychosis All Different Things |
| "All Different Things" is a real honest-to-goodness post-rock piece, using a pretty basic quiet/loud/quiet/loud dynamic and basically just repeating two different ideas over and over. It's relatively lush, reverby post-rock. It doesn't do much but it's still a pretty track. "By-Blow" plays with the quiet/loud as well, but gets a bit meaner and a lot louder. Pretty OK EP. |
| Barn Barn |
| Grooving death metal of the slightly tech/prog flavor. A young band that haven't yet learned the subtleties of song structuring or fat-trimming (runtime: 8 songs; 53 minutes), they've got a lot of potential moving forward. Their notably great drumming (great fills, very thumpy sound!) especially keeps their tracks interesting. If they could nail down the songwriting a little more and stop putting out excessively long albums they could really be another band to look forward to in the future. |
| Barn Owl Ancestral Star |
| Late night star-gazing ambient metal drone. |
| Barn Owl Lost in the Glare |
desert drone in a desert. Tumbleweeds. Lordepots is a robot with malfunctioning humor drivers.
Sunrises on the plains. The wide-open, barren spaces. |
| Barn Owl V |
| More late-night droney jams. |
| Barns Courtney The Dull Drums EP |
| They were great live even though I'm not really into their style. Accessible whatever-rock with fun tunes. |
| Baroness Purple |
| The production is awful and the album loses steam on its last two tracks, but otherwise this is just another solid record from Baroness. If there wasn't so much compression and it was a little more consistent it could've been about as good as Blue Record. |
| Baroness Gold And Grey |
| At this point it's just decent accessible sludge rock/metal-lite. The production is notoriously bad, Baizley's shout-singing is the same as ever only slightly more off-key, and there are way too many short tracks and interludes that make the whole thing feel kind of awkward. There are some great Baroness tracks here to be sure--as there are on every album of theirs--but in terms of consistency I'm not really feeling it here. |
| Basarabian Hills Groping In A Misty Spread |
| Bastard Grave Vortex of Disgust |
| Bastard Priest Under the Hammer of Destruction |
| Bat Wings of Chains |
| Bat Under the Crooked Claw |
| Bat For Lashes Lost Girls |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death |
| Bathory Bathory |
| Thrash liiiiiives! I've never been big on thrash or first-wave bm but dang if Hades doesn't go like a mf. |
| Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark |
| I've never been huge on thrash metal and this is a lot of thrash metal so a 3/5 isn't really surprising. |
| Bathory The Return of the Darkness and Evil |
| tru evil tru black metal thrash attack!!! Also a real defining proto-war metal album to boot. |
| Bathory Hammerheart |
| Bathory Twilight of the Gods |
| Battle Dagorath Cursed Storm of Ages |
| Decent Paysage D'Hiver ripoff black metal. The band doesn't quite get the atmosphere they were obviously trying to copy, but they're a decent band in and of themselves regardless. What they really need is a more "live" guitar sound and a much more appropriate drum sound (it's clearly computerized). Fix that computerized guitar tone, get a real drummer (or just bury the drums and everything else in static and reverb) and this band could really be something. As-is, though, 'Dagorath just don't quite achieve the intense atmosphere required for this type of music. |
| Battlecross Pursuit of Honor |
| Batyushka Апостол |
| The return of the true Batyushka! All fake christians and black metal larpers run in fear from the might of true russian orthodoxy. |
| Batyushka Батюшка |
| Bayside Cult |
| Be'lakor Coherence |
| Beach Bunny Emotional Creature |
| Beach Bunny Tunnel Vision |
| Beach Slang The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel |
| This punk is poppin'. That was a joke. Album is pretty decent. |
| Beartooth Disgusting |
| Bedsore Dreaming the Strife for Love |
| Belenos Spicilege |
| Belenos Kornog |
| Belong October Language |
| Fuzzy ambient |
| Belphegor Blutsabbath |
| Belphegor Pestapokalypse VI |
| Belphegor Bondage Goat Zombie |
| Belphegor The Last Supper |
| Belphegor The Devils |
| Ben Quad I'm Scared That's All There Is |
| Benediction Ravage of Empires |
| Besna Zverstvá |
| blackgaze of the mid-tempo sort, in that the refuse to use blast beats, of which I am not a notable fan. |
| Bestial Invasion Trilogy: Prisoners of Miserable Hate |
| thrash metal that's pretty competent and all-around organized but I don't like it that much anyway. Last track's legit, tho. |
| Bestial Mockery Evoke the Desecrator |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| Bewitcher Under the Witching Cross |
| Big Thief U.F.O.F. |
| Bill Orcutt Jump on It |
| Bjork Post |
| Avant-dance pop for aliens crash-landed in Iceland. |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| Bjork Vespertine |
| Bjork Debut |
| Everyone thinks of boy bands when it comes to 90s pop music, but in reality all those movements were simply derivatives of Bjork's infectious violently happy dance-pop. |
| Bjork Vulnicura |
| Black Breath Heavy Breathing |
| Black Breath Sentenced To Life |
| Angry deathy crunch punk sledgehammer. |
| Black Cilice Banished from Time |
| Super duper raw bm, but without all the noise as you'd expect from some (Axis of Light). I think the guitar sound could have a little more heft to it, but it's still not bad. Given how buried in the mix some of the melodies seem to be, I can see this being a grower of an album. There are some real jams on here, and some of the guitar work reminds me a little bit of Fell Voices (the rhythm chord progression at the end of "Channeling Forgotten Energies"). "Banished from Time" features some great atmosphere, as well, and the music gives you a real sense of "space." |
| Black Country New Road Ants from Up There |
| Black Country New Road Live at Bush Hall |
| Black Fast Starving Out the Light |
| Black Fucking Cancer Black Fucking Cancer |
Super serious band name? Check. Fantastic super evil Paolo Girardi artwork? Double check. 1349-
y Mayhemy blasty and occassionally punk groovin black metal? Check check, checkaroo! And then
add in a ton of nonsensical "eviiilll" guitar drone parts (some of which last like five minutes)
and you basically ruin what should've been a super solid no-frills black metal record.
The black metal here is particularly powerful and aggressive, and it's really a shame that there
are like fifteen minutes of filler guitar noise that slow the album down when it should've been a
nonstop barrage of riffs. Still tho, it's not that bad, even with the dumb noisy parts. |
| Black Howling O Sangue e a Terra |
| Black Midi Hellfire |
| Black Monolith Demo EP |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club B.R.M.C. |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 |
| 'Sabbath are at their best when playing groovy heavy rockin' tracks, not ballads. Inconsistent record, but not bad. |
| Black Sabbath Greatest Hits 1970–1978 |
| Black Sabbath Headless Cross |
| Black Sabbath Tyr |
| Black Sabbath Cross Purposes |
| Black Sabbath Forbidden (2024 Tony Iommi Remix) |
| Black Witchery Desecration Of The Holy Kingdom |
| Black Witchery Inferno of Sacred Destruction |
| Blanck Mass World Eater |
| Angry loud WOOMP WOOMP WOOMP DANCEPOCALYPSE NOISE VORTEX bleepo bloop twinkle happy rave NOISE. Ambient? |
| Blasphemy Fallen Angel of Doom |
| Blasteroid Crypts of Mind |
| You really like Revocation OK, I get it! |
| Bleed the Pigs Mind and Matter |
| DIY GIRL POWER RIOT CRUST |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch |
| Blood Incantation Interdimensional Extinction |
| Blood Incantation Timewave Zero |
| Space space wanna go to space yes please space. Space space. Go to space. I'm going to space. Oh boy. Atmosphere. Black holes. Astronauts. Nebulas. Jupiter. The Big Dipper. SPAAACCCCCE. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm going. Going to space. Where am I? Guess. Guess guess guess. I'm in space. rGetting bored of space. Don't like space. Don't like space. Wanna go to earth wanna go to earth wanna go to earth wanna go to earth. Wanna go to earth. Wanna go home wanna go home wanna go home wanna go home. Earth earth earth. Don't like space. Don't like space. It's too big. Too big. Wanna go home. Wanna go to earth. Wanna go to earth and listen to space ambient. SPAAAAAAACE AMBIEEEEEENT. |
| Blood Oath (CL) Lost In An Eternal Silence |
| Chilean technical death metal. They've got an obnoxious kick drum sound that makes it hard to listen to with headphones, otherwise pretty decent prog death ffo blood incantation and their ilk. |
| Blood Stained Dusk Dirge of Death's Silence |
| american symphonic black metal circa 2001. It's basically Emperor worship but also expecting any more from americans in 2001 would've been a bit much, I think. |
| Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage |
| Bloodbath Breeding Death |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery |
| Blurr Thrower Les Voûtes |
| Blut Aus Nord What Once Was... Liber I |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Sect(s) |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - The Desanctification |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy |
| Blut Aus Nord What Once Was... Liber II |
| Blut Aus Nord What Once Was...Liber III |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry |
| The production is weirdly treble-heavy in a way that is very unlike BAN, and the songwriting is equally straightforward and lacks the personality and weirdness the band is so easily known for. "Saturnian Poetry" feels like the work of an experimental band trying to force themselves into a more "typical" sound, and it just doesn't work. |
| Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen |
| Blut Aus Nord/Aevangelist Codex Obscura Nomina |
| Body Count Bloodlust |
| Boliden Landscape and Memory |
| techno/dub ambient (whatever). Beats, ambients, does both at same time. Woah. |
| Bolt Thrower ...For Victory |
| Bolt Thrower Honour - Valour - Pride |
| Bonehunter Children of the Atom |
| Book Of Sand Occult Anarchist Propaganda |
| Boris Akuma no Uta |
| "Introduction" is a great drone track and the closer ("Akuma no Uta") is a nice example of static-laced sludge rock, but otherwise Akuma No Uta is fairly underwhelming. The rest of the album is basically rockin' sludge, but the rhythm guitars are so low in the mix that they don't allow the rest of the album to be as rockin' as clearly intended. The drums boom and the lead guitar screeches over everything else, making the mix seem lopsided. It's frustrating because it's obvious these songs are pretty good; they just don't sound like it the way the album was organized. |
| Boris Heavy Rocks |
| Boris Heavy Rocks (2011) |
| Some of the rock is cool, some of the pseudo-post-rock is cool, that one song where they play pseudo shoegaze rock is cool, but then the rest is just a few points off the mark. |
| Boris NO |
| Bosse-de-Nage II |
| Bosse-de-Nage Further Still |
| Bosse basically took All Fours and just stripped out all the Slint-y post-rock and spoken word bits, leaving only the black metal side of their style. |
| Boston Boston |
| went back to scroll through this and realized i'd heard all of these songs before--and enough to "know" them--without ever intending to, just from second-hand listening over many years. Dad's a boomer, what ya gonna do. Songs aren't bad tho, despite all pretty much being worn out by now. |
| Brendon Small Galaktikon |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Ambient music for ambient people. Background bleep boop. |
| Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets |
| While I'm definitely not a big fan of Eno's goofy singing style, his instrumental work is fairly noteworthy--especially the more instrumental sections which reek of something almost akin to proto-post-rock. This is a slightly goofy, slightly genius record given is was released in '74. |
| Brian Eno Discreet Music |
| ambient |
| Brian Eno Thursday Afternoon |
| Like I said, I love me some Eno, but this is still fairly underwhelming given the guy's legacy. While starting fairly well with atmospheric, minimalist piano playing mixed with constant synths, it continues on along this same basic line for a solid hour. While the production is much warmer (thank you synthesizers) and welcoming than Ambient 1, it still doesn't end up providing any more content than that record. It sounds nicer, but it still didn't need to be an hour long. |
| Broken Social Scene Let's Try the After - Vol. 1 |
| BrokenTeeth The Letters |
| BRUIT The Age Of Ephemerality |
| Bruno Sanfilippo Piano Textures 1 |
| Piano ambient. Each track essentially takes a piano melody(s) and slowly adds different accompaniments; track one uses a sort of repeating synth melody, track two uses what sounds like an atmospheric saxophone, etc. While each piece is aesthetically pleasing (it's piano music), it's not especially gripping or emotionally weighted. It's just kinda experimental piano ambient and not much more. Which is fine, just don't go into this album looking for a whole lot of depth. |
| Bruno Sanfilippo Piano Textures 2 |
Piano ambient. It's basically just reverby piano music with rather simple synth lines in the
background. The synths regularly rise and fall in volume, but they don't change enough or make
any noticeable chord changes to create any sort of real crescendo. Structurally each song is
relatively the same--just piano and synth for like four minutes. It's a nice atmosphere, though,
despite the evident waste of potential.
I think he really could've done something interesting had he intended to create more than just
piano atmosphere music, but that's all he set out to do in the first place so you can't really
fault him for that, I guess. |
| Bruno Sanfilippo Upon Contact Reworked |
| classical ambients classical. |
| brutalism va ii |
| Techno. Beats. Short sentences. Kinda spooky. Dancefloor. Two words. Four songs. Beats again. Dance. Do you feel it. |
| Brutality Screams of Anguish |
| Buckethead Monument Valley |
| Bulldozer Neurodeliri |
| Bunker 66 Chained Down in Dirt |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var |
| You can really hear on this record where a lot of black metal bands got their ideas from. |
| Burzum Burzum/Aske |
| This is the quality of black metal you get when you sit in the basement dreaming about life on a cute farm in France all day instead of pounding beers and figuring out how to record properly. |
| Burzum Burzum |
| Burzum Aske |
| Butcher Bestial Fükkin' Warmachine |
| Butcher 666 Goats Carry My Chariot |
| Blackened speed metal goats |
| Cairdeas Fala Sons of the North |
| atmospheric black metal from Australia, about Scottish heritage. It takes instrumental inspiration largely from eastern european black metal (read as: drudkh, mgla) and unsurprisingly a specific Scottish band--Saor, obviously. It's not very adventurous or particularly moving material, but it triumphs as a decent additional iteration of this modern drudkh-but-triumphant sound. |
| Cairiss Fall |
| Can Soundtracks |
| pretty OK krautrock tho Can definitely aren't my favorite band in the genre. |
| Cannibal Corpse Bloodthirst |
| Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding |
| Cannibal Corpse Kill |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague |
| Cannibal Corpse Torture |
| Cannibal Corpse Violence Unimagined |
| Cannibal Corpse Chaos Horrific |
| Carbonscape Artistry of Exhaustion III |
| Lovely ambient/drone from Petrychor's one and only Tad Piecka. |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion: Side B |
| Carly Rae Jepsen The Loneliest Time |
| another mostly solid banger of an album from the nu queen ov dance pop |
| Carly Rae Jepsen The Loveliest Time |
| Carnage The Day Man Lost |
| lo-fi grindy death metal. Is OK. |
| Carnophage Matter of a Darker Nature |
| Death metal of the minor brutal/technical sort, for fans of that type of thing. Pretty decent! |
| Caroline Polachek Pang |
| Carpathian Forest Fuck You All!!!! |
| Caspian Waking Season |
| Castle Rat Into the Realm |
| Catamenia Morning Crimson |
| Causa Sui Free Ride |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Bestial Devastation |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Morbid Visions |
| Cave Sermon Divine Laughter |
| Cave Sermon Fragile Wings |
| Caveman Cult Barbaric Bloodlust |
| Cavern Womb Stages of Infinity |
| Celephais Becoming the Deceased |
| Celephais Tir n'a n'Og |
| Celer How could you believe me when I said I loved... |
ambient drone/whatever. These melodies are a bit happier, and therefore slightly more
aesthetically pleasing. Each track is basically just one idea repeated for ten minutes but w/e.
3/5 good enough ambient. |
| Celer Shima |
| slow-moving ambient drone. It does less than Stars of the Lid within the same timeframe, for which it loses points. Good as a more aesthetically pleasing white noise, though. |
| Celer Plays Schubert |
| Ambient. Someone took Franz Schubert's "The Trout" and turned it into a Celer track (if that even makes sense). Melodies melodies. |
| Cemetery Frost Frozen In Death |
| Cepheide De Silence Et De Suie (Demo) |
| Cascadian-inspired French black metal. The sound is really raw (obviously recorded live) and cavernous, and seems to sort of combine the instrumentation of Ash Borer and the raw recording sound of Fell Voices or even Xothist. rIn that regard this actually seems to be a fairly varied release, blending the styles and "feels" of the three aforementioned bands quite well, not necessarily making a style of their own, but owning the style in which they play. |
| Cerebral Rot Cessation of Life |
| Cerebral Rot Odious Descent Into Decay |
| Chainsword Born Triumphant |
| BOLT |
| Chairlift Moth |
| Oddly charming pop. |
| Chaotian Effigies of Obsolescence |
| Charli XCX Pop 2 |
| Charli XCX Charli |
| Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now |
| Charli XCX Crash |
| Charli XCX Brat |
| Charli XCX Brat and it's the same but there's three more… |
| Charlotte Gainsbourg Rest |
| dreamy pop with some idk disco-y throwback jams? And french. Lots of french. 3/5 fun album. |
| Ché Aimee Dorval Between The Walls and The Window |
| Che sings good. Country-esque bluesy(??) jams. |
| Chepang Chatta |
| Chihei Hatakeyama Grace |
| ambient drone pretty noises |
| Chihei Hatakeyama Void XI |
| Ambient. Droney, sleepy tones. |
| Christina Vantzou No.1 |
| Ambient classical wow. Orchestras, strings woah |
| Christina Vantzou No. 2 |
| Ambient classical wow. Orchestras, strings woah |
| Christina Vantzou No. 3 |
| Ambient classical wow. Orchestras, strings woah |
| Chrome Waves Chrome Waves |
| Earlier post-black metal. |
| Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! Get Lost, Find Yourself |
| CHVRCHES Love Is Dead |
| I was a bigger fan than most of their previous record, but "Love is Dead" is definitely a step down even from there. It's just an OK, passably pretty synthpop record with none of the oomph of any of their previous bangers. |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One |
| Cirith Ungol Forever Black |
| Civerous Decrepit Flesh Relic |
| Clandestine Blaze Falling Monuments |
| Clark The Last Panthers |
| ambient/drone/modern classical a little? This is a frustrating record due to its very shifting nature. There are many short tracks here, so there are many different ideas being played with, each rather briefly. It seems like half of the tracks involve darker, harsher-sounding ambient soundscapes--sort of 80's reminiscent, in places. The other tracks are far more melodic and less droning/noise-oriented. While both styles are rather well-done, the drastic tonal shifts from one track to another feel slightly odd. I feel like if Clark had focused more on one style instead of two (or made fewer tracks and worked on fully fleshing out the atmospheres/ideas in each), I think this would've been a much more solid record. Let's say, 3.3/5. |
| Clem Leek Rest |
| this is ok post-rock/ambient prettiness just not really that goodiness. |
| Cloud Rat Moksha |
| Cloudkicker Loop |
| Cloudkicker Woum |
| It's pleasant, but the songs aren't long enough and subsequently don't feel fully fleshed out. Ben why have you failed me |
| Cloudkicker Unending |
| ! U N E N D I N G ! |
| Cluster and Eno Cluster & Eno |
| Experimental ambient. Listening to the combination of noisy instruments on "One," it becomes pretty clear where Godspeed got a lot of their influence. |
| Cockpit Mission To Rock |
| Coffin Mulch Spectral Intercession |
| Coffin Rot A Monument To The Dead |
| Coffinworm IV.I.VIII |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Cold Body Radiation The Great White Emptiness |
| Coldworld Autumn |
| Concrete Winds Nerve Butcherer |
| Concrete Winds Concrete Winds |
| Condor (NOR) Unstoppable Power |
| black thrash metal attack! |
| Contaminated (AUS) Celebratory Beheading |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Converge The Dusk in Us |
| Converge make angries. |
| Converge Beautiful Ruin |
| Converge turn up the CORE. |
| Convulse World Without God |
| Cornigr Funereal Harvest |
| Coroner No More Color |
| Coroner Punishment For Decadence |
| Corpsegrinder Corpsegrinder |
| Cosmic Putrefaction At the Threshold of the Greatest Chasm |
| Cosmic Putrefaction The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers |
| Cosmic Putrefaction Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones |
| Cosmic Putrefaction Emerald Fires Atop The Farewell Mountains |
| Covet Currents |
| Pretty pink math rock. It never crescendos like post-rock, but just keeps on twiddling jazzily jazzily. |
| Covet technicolor |
| Covet catharsis |
| Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine |
| Cradle of Filth Vempire or Dark Faerytales in Phallustei |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast |
| FILTH |
| Cradle of Filth Thornography |
| Cradle of Filth Hammer of the Witches |
| Oh, I'm sure I'll find a way to hate it. |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast - Re-Mistressed |
| Cradle of Filth The Screaming of the Valkyries |
| Crawl/Leviathan CRAWL/LVTHN |
| The Crawl track is a nice twelve-minute mass of noisey creeping evil doom, while Leviathan's also keeps its tempo low and works more like a slightly melodic dsbm track a la early Woods of Desolation. The former piece is much better than the latter, but this is still a pretty OK split. |
| Crowbar Sever The Wicked Hand |
| Cruciamentum Charnel Passages |
| Cruel Force The Rise of Satanic Might |
| black metal thrash attack! |
| Cruel Force Under the Sign of the Moon |
| black thrash liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiives! |
| Cruel Force Dawn of the Axe |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile |
| Cryptworm Spewing Mephitic Putridity |
| Cult Of Fire Moksha |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner |
| Cultes Des Ghoules Spectres over Transylvania |
| Cultes Des Ghoules The Rise of Lucifer |
| Cursed II |
| Cursed I |
| Cursed III: Architects of Troubled Sleep |
| Cynic Focus |
| Daeva (USA-PA) Pulsing Dark Absorptions |
| Daeva (USA-PA) Through Sheer Will And Black Magic… |
| Dakhma (SUI) Hamkar Atonement |
infernal hailz Helvetic Underground Committee! On their second release Dakhma use a less
muffled sound to create a more conventional approach to black/death, albeit this time with
more ritual ambient. I like it less this time compared to the first! The guitars have the
winding grindy sound that sounds akin to what a lot of war metal bands go for, which I've
never particularly liked. Also it's 70 minutes long, which is a bit much considering the
general engineering not being to my liking in the first place.
Probably an underrated album for those who actually like this kind of stuff tho, so cheq it
out. |
| Dakhma (SUI) Passageways To Daena... |
| infernal hailz Helvetic Underground Committee! chaotic muffled savagery of black/death. Sounds in the vein of Portal/Impetuous Ritual with its windy winding guitars. Decent! |
| Damaar Triumph Through Spears Of Sacrilege |
| Angry Music for Angry People |
| Danny Norbury Dusk |
| soft classical music. Minimalism. |
| Dark Funeral Diabolis Interium |
| Dark Funeral Angelus Exuro pro Eternus |
| Dark Lunacy The Diarist |
| Melodic death metal 3.3/5. The inclusion of occasional choral cleans, regular cleans (woman), and additional instruments (strings, is that an accordion in one song?) definitely help set this album apart from other more generic melodic death metal--despite the metal side of the instrumentation being fairly basic melodeath. This is a fine record, it's just a little too long for my taste at 58 minutes. If you were to cut about 15 minutes off the runtime this'd be much better. 3.3/5 |
| Dark Millennium Ashore the Celestial Burden |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery |
| Darkestrah Epos |
| Pagan black metal wew. 33 minute track going between Drudkh-ian repetition, folk melodies, and acoustic. Pretty decent. |
| Darkspace -I |
| Darkthrone Soulside Journey |
| Darkthrone Goatlord |
| dark throne goat LORD |
| Darkthrone Ravishing Grimness |
| Darkthrone Hate Them |
| Darkthrone F.O.A.D. |
| Darkthrone Dark Thrones and Black Flags |
| Darkthrone Arctic Thunder |
| Groovy rock jams black metal Fenrizzzzzzzz! |
| Darkthrone Eternal Hails |
| Darkthrone Astral Fortress |
| Darkthrone It Beckons Us All |
| Daughter Music From Before the Storm |
| artsy background music video game soundtrack post-rock art pop dream pop #post-rock |
| David Darling Gratitude |
| Cello ambient/modern classical. |
| Day Wave The Days We Had |
| Daydream Plus Escape At Your Own Pace |
| Dead Blue Sky Symptoms of an Unwanted Emotion |
| Dead Congregation Purifying Consecrated Ground |
| this is an old school death metal EP |
| Dead Congregation Sombre Doom |
| Death metal |
| Dead To A Dying World Litany |
| violiny doom sludge black metal. It's OK, but it's not really my thing. Pretty tho! |
| Deaf Havana All These Countless Nights |
| Deafest Glen and Precipice |
| OK instrumental melodic black metal. Those programmed drums can get annoying, but outside of that there's not much to complain about here. Not exceptionally strong material, but still a mostly aesthetically pleasing listen. It sounds rather amateurishish, but that's always been a part of black metal's charm, and that doesn't really harm this release, either. |
| Deafheaven Infinite Granite |
| deafheavmen do 'a the shoegaze m/ |
| Dean Mcphee Four Stones |
| Guitar ambient. Reverberating notes to fill up the void. |
| Death Symbolic |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Stop the presses I liked a hip hop album ! |
| deathcrash Return |
| deathcrash Less |
| Deathevokation The Chalice Of Ages |
| Deathhammer Evil Power |
| For not being Vektor these guys are pretty not awful. I mean, for a thrash band, that is. |
| Deathhammer Electric Warfare |
| Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis |
| Decapitated Carnival Is Forever |
| Decapitated Anticult |
| The guitar tone is as cool as ever, the riffs are (generally) as cool as ever, and the rdrumming and structuring are as basic as ever. If Vogg wants to keep my attention past the first chorus of any of his tracks, he needs to let his drummer off the leash and actually try to write an interestingly organized song for once. It's these repetitive verse-chorus structures that take his songwriting from hard-hitting to mind-numbing.rThere are a few saving graces, though--"Never" and "Earth Scar" at least sound like they could've been partial hold-overs from the Organic Hallucinosis era in terms of their style and quality. The rest of the album sort of wobbles the line between passable and meh ("Anger Line"). I suppose there are enough riffs here (the blatant Soilwork-sounding track that is "DeathValuation") to warrant a 3/5, so here you go. |
| Decrepit Birth Polarity |
| Defacement Defacement |
| Defeated Sanity Prelude to the Tragedy |
| Defeated Sanity Chronicles of Lunacy |
| Deicide Once Upon the Cross |
| Delice Sillage |
| the "comfy synth" of blackgaze. It's like blackgaze that fits Brian Eno's intention for ambient music; that its energy allows it to be listened to both passively or actively. It doesn't demand much of the listener, but is a generally pleasant listen for a atmosphere-heavy blackgaze album. |
| Demilich Nespithe |
| Demolition Hammer Tortured Existence |
| it's thrash im givin it a thrash/5 aka a three-out-of-five-total-points. |
| Demonaz March of the Norse |
This surprisingly good. Demonaz's voice reminds a bit of Peter Tagtgren's clean voice.
Hmmm. What was I talking about? Oh yeah, Demonaz. This is no kvlt blak mehtul--hell, it's
hardly black to begin with--but that doesn't mean it isn't a highly enjoyable listen. Which
it totally is. Get it. |
| Demonical Death Infernal |
| This is really, really good old school Swedish death metal. |
| Departure Chandelier Antichrist Rise to Power |
| Good very minimalistic black metal. Slight keyboard usage gives it that little extra bit of melody and atmosphere to fill up space. Decent album. |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Unstille |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Noktvrn |
| Desaster The Oath of an Iron Ritual |
| black thrash metal attack! Revenge of the Nergal Vox: These Grooves Don't Run! (German Invasion Pt. 2). 3.3/5 |
| Desecresy The Doom Skeptron |
| Desecresy Chasmic Transcendence |
| Despised Icon Day Of Mourning |
| Desultory Into Eternity |
| Desultory Bitterness |
| proto-melodeath, understated melodic death metal. Pretty decent. |
| Desultory Counting Our Scars |
| Dethklok Dethalbum III |
| Most of this album has already leaked. Get on that, sheeple. |
| Dethklok The Doomstar Requiem |
| Not enough Toki |
| Dethklok Dethalbum IV |
| Deuil Acceptance/Rebuild |
| Deuter Koyasan |
| new age classicals ambients woahowoah. Good cheesy background music music, tho this kind of music (especially the flute-lead stuff) can get old kinda quickly. |
| Devil Master Ecstasies of Never Ending Night |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand |
| DevilDriver DevilDriver |
| DevilDriver Pray for Villains |
| Devin Townsend Physicist |
| Strapping Young Lad-lite and an album Devin clearly didn't want to make very much, Physicist is a mixed bag of good-to-lukewarm Devin Townsend material. It's not bad, but you can tell he wasn't really into it. |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient |
| Devin Townsend Empath |
| Devin Townsend The Puzzle |
| "wot is this" an experimental album mega collab collage that evolved from his guitar drone improves into something huge and even more random than per his usual outings. |
| Devin Townsend Snuggles |
| this ambient guitar drone with Che vox is gonna rip men m// |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud |
| The most OKiest Townsend album so far. |
| Devin Townsend Project Z2 |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence |
| Many people compared this album to Devvy's older solo material, so it makes sense that I wouldn't like it [that much] given I've been a much bigger fan of his DTP material. Some of the tracks are fine, but other pieces just sound like b-sides. Maybe on the next album he shouldn't actually let the other members have a say, and just do it all himself again. He seems to be more successful that way. |
| Devin Townsend Project Sky Blue |
| Devoid of Thought Outer World Graves |
| Devouring Star Antihedron |
Black metal/doom? Slow black metal. Really solid production values: powerful guitars, just
enough roughness on the vocals, drums don't sound stupid and are fairly present in the mix. Not
really fast enough for my liking, but with a great sound like this it's hard to not find the album
at least aesthetically appealing. |
| Devouring Star The Arteries of Heresy |
| Black metal! Crushing void groooooooooooooooooooar |
| Diabolic Oath Oracular Hexations |
| Dies Irae Sculpture of Stone |
| Dif Juz Huremics |
| Instrumental post-punk. Not as big and melodic as "Extractions," but even still it's a quaint little experimental four-track EP. Lacking the grandeur of the aforementioned LP, this more stripped down sound features a lot more influence on guitar twiddling and its more rock-based sound feels like a real jumping-off point for more minimalistic, casual early post-rock like Tortoise. These songs sort of just groove along, slowly adding and removing elements, fiddling with the guitars, often adding bits of noise that fade in and out, slowly transitioning across each of their ~3-6 minute runtimes. "Cs" is definitely the highlight given its much more experimental--almost goofy--sound. |
| Different Sleep Forget It |
| Too much weirdo electronic stuff I don't really like. Makes me feel like I'm trying to be a club kid, idk. Not my typical jam but aesthetically pleasing and well-organized enough so 3/5. |
| Dimension Zero He Who Shall Not Bleed |
| Dimmu Borgir Spiritual Black Dimensions |
| Dio Master Of The Moon |
| Dio The Last In Line |
| Rock 'n' Roll |
| Dio Killing The Dragon |
| Dio Dream Evil |
| Dire Straits Dire Straits |
| Discordance Axis Jouhou |
| Dishammer Vintage Addiction |
| Disincarnate Dreams of the Carrion Kind |
| Dispirit Rehearsal At Oboroten |
| First track is long and brooding, second is much more concise and aggressive. Definitely excited for debut LP, expected sometime around 2019. |
| Dispirit 111112 |
| Dissimulator (CAN) Lower Form Resistance |
| Disturbed The Sickness |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists |
| Divine Heresy Bleed the Fifth |
| Do Make Say Think Stubborn Persistent Illusions |
| Over seven years since their last album, "Stubborn Persistent Illusions" is unsurprisingly typical of DMST both in its style and quality. DMST have always been a relatively solid post-rock act, neither throwing duds nor homeruns, and this album is no different. It doesn't further the genre at all, but is just yet another competent addition to the band's discography. |
| Dodecahedron Dodecahedron |
| Twisty teeth-gnashing black metal ov dungeons and dragons. |
| Dodecahedron Kwintessens |
| They've got that same discordant dissonant twisty riffing black metal thing going half the time, but this time they've also added spooOooOOOoky atmospherics, too. Not as weirdly atmospheric as, say, Teethed Glory and Injury, but regardless I'm still finding comparisons. Definitely less riff-oriented than the debut, but the added experimentation makes up for it, despite it largely loosing steam in the latter half. |
| Dodheimsgard Satanic Art |
| Slightly symphonic a la Dimmu Borgir, slightly avant-garde, and very much Mayhem-reminiscent. Fairly raw late 90's black metal: File under "ist krieg". |
| Dodsferd Spitting With Hatred the Insignificance of Life |
| Dodsferd Diseased Remnants Of A Dying World |
| Dodsferd Wrath |
| Dodsrit Spirit Crusher |
| Black metal crust punk. The vocals are kind of shrill and annoying and put me off a bit, but otherwise this is just pretty solid black metal/crust. |
| Doedsmaghird Omniverse Consciousness |
| Dola Czasy |
| slightly psychedelic dark post-metal. |
| Downfall of Gaia Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay |
| It's nice that Downfall of Gaia have transitioned into black metal, but their take on the genre isn't spectacular. Actually, their take on the genre instrumentally is fairly solid, but the way the album sounds just doesn't cut the mustard; while competently organized, the bass drum sounds clumsy thunking around in the background, and the guitars have this sort of sterile-yet-raw sound to them that makes them feel rather neutered. These riffs should be hard-hitting, but they're not. If the production would've been a bit clearer, "Aeons" definitely could have been a noteworthy black metal record. As-is, though, it's just kind of decent. |
| Downfall of Gaia Ethic of Radical Finitude |
| Downfall of Nur Umbras de Barbagia |
| Atmospheric folk black metal of epicness. Those hyper-shriek vocals really hurt my ears and those drums sound a bit clunky, but everything else is fine here. Production's fine, riffs fine, structures wow, many folk flutes, woah. |
| Dragged Into Sunlight Terminal Aggressor II |
| The band make no money off digital/physical sales of this or any other album so don't give their label any money xoxo thx |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage |
| DragonForce The Power Within |
| DragonForce Maximum Overload |
| They're moving in the right direction, definitely. There are some really great moments here, contrasted with a lot of super cheesy or just generally 'meh' stuff. If they could learn to cut the fat they could potentially be power metal contenders. |
| Dragonlord Black Wings Of Destiny |
| Dragonlord Dominion |
| Drain (USA-CA) Living Proof |
| Drawn and Quartered Hail Infernal Darkness |
| Drawn and Quartered Return of the Black Death |
| Dream Unending/Worm Starpath |
| Dripping Decay Festering Grotesqueries |
| Dropdead 2nd LP |
| power vio-lence |
| Drown (US) Subaqueous |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora |
On first listen: Monotonous riffing and not a great atmosphere--this sounds like a more
melody-oriented and less raw Burzum, but without the atmosphere that justified Varg's
playing the same riff for five minutes at a time in the first place. Thankfully, they
improved on this style on their later stuff. |
| Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel |
| Not as good as Addaura. |
| Drudkh They Often See Dreams About The Spring |
| It's pretty and kind of atmospheric, but when every track has like two riffs and they're played on repeat for nine minutes, it gets kinda old, epic atmosphere or no. This might be a sort of comeback for Drudkh, but eh, idk. black metal. |
| Dryad The Abyssal Plain |
| Dua Lipa Dua Lipa |
Your standard pretty varied-but-not-notably-enthralling pop album. It's inoffensive and
has a lot of good songs, but on the whole feels like just another pop album, albeit more
solid than one would expect. |
| Dua Lipa Radical Optimism |
| Dua Lipa Radical Optimism (Extended Versions) |
| An improvement! |
| Dudal Dudal |
| Dum Dum Girls Only in Dreams |
| Duster Duster |
| Dying Fetus Wrong One to Fuck With |
| it grind it groove, it have icky click kick drum sound :--/ |
| Dying Fetus Make Them Beg for Death |
| Dying Wish Fragments of a Bitter Memory |
| Dzo-nga Five Treasures of Snow |
| You know I'm alla bout dem blast beatz--especially when it comes to Darkspacey melodic black metal like this--but I'll be darned if the musicianship and production aren't good enough to keep me interested without much in the way of a rhythm section. Those bass licks are pretty swell, too. If you ever wanted a more melodic, more black metal-y Sutekh Hexen, then this is for you. |
| Ea A Etilla |
| Earth Hex: Or Printing In the Infernal Method |
| Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull |
| Earth Hibernaculum |
| Echtra Paragate |
| Edge of Sanity The Spectral Sorrows |
| Edge of Sanity Unorthodox |
| Edge of Sanity Nothing But Death Remains |
| Efrim Manuel Menuck Pissing Stars |
| experimental post drone w/e rock. OK. |
| Einvigi Yö Kulje Kanssani |
| Eisflammen В стихии... |
| depressive-ish atmospheric black metal. It doesn't really grab me, but it's OK. Such melody, many scream, wow. |
| El-Ahrairah El-Ahrairah 2009 Demo |
| El-Ahrairah The Blessing |
| El-Ahrairah El-Ahrairah |
| A drastic change from their earlier super-noisy raw bm demos, El-Ahrairah's self-titled rdebut is more or less an exercise in slow songbuilding; each track seems to take one idea--rone or two main riffs, one drum rhythm--and slowly build on it over 2-4 minutes, repeating rit again and again. As the tracks proceed different elements such as a synth melody or rharmonized guitar part are added to make the tracks feel as if they are slowly growing as rthey proceed. While slowly building tracks might sound like a nifty idea, it's not very rwell handled on this album. The songs are too short to really build up to anything rinteresting (they don't build to anything at all; they generally end playing the same rrhythms with barely anything different than when they started), and the rhythms and riffs rthey use generally aren't that noteworthy, either. rTaken individually, these are pretty decent tracks, but as a full album they become slightly raggravating. You basically know what the next three minutes of each track will sound like rafter hearing the first riff cycle or the first 15 seconds. |
| Elsa Hewitt Cameras From Mars |
| Eluveitie Everything Remains As It Never Was |
| Embers Shadows |
| Emerald Weapon Emerald Weapon EP |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Electric Guitar 1 |
It's basically just half an hour of experimenting with guitar sounds like feedback, reverb, and
droning. It's atmospheric, but it feels more like was just Emma just experimenting with different
ideas rather than trying to make a serious album. That said, it's still pretty enjoyable for what
it is. |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death |
| Dark singer/songwriter. Good, but not as great as "Some Heavy Ocean." ~3.3/5 or so. |
| Emma Ruth Rundle On Dark Horses |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full |
| Encircling Sea A Forgotten Land |
| END (USA-NJ) The Sin of Human Frailty |
| Enforced War Remains |
| Enmarta The Hermit |
| dark ambient drone with some violins and stuff. |
| Ensiferum Thalassic |
| Enslaved Frost |
| Enslaved Vertebrae |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| Enthroned Tetra Karcist |
| Enthroned Prophecies of Pagan Fire |
| Entombed Stranger Aeons |
I've never been one for crunchy peanut butter, but this makes me queasy in a good way.
Death metal. 3.2/5. |
| Entropia (PL) Ufonaut |
| Black metal/sludge metal/whatever. The production is kind of clunky which makes it weirdly inferior to Vesper. The songwriting's still probably as good, but it just sounds kind of awkward. |
| Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead |
| Enya A Day Without Rain |
| It's Enya. Synths an melodie an reverbbb but even still it's only kind of eh?? |
| Enya Watermark |
| I like Enya now. Enya's cool. 3.3/5 |
| Enya Dark Sky Island |
| New age music I definitely listened to and sort of remembered. Enya is good! |
| Epic45 May Your Heart Be The Map |
| pretty noises post-rock. |
| Epica The Divine Conspiracy |
| Epica Aspiral |
| Equilibrium Rekreatur |
| Escuela Grind Indoctrination |
| Escuela Grind Memory Theater |
| Esoctrilihum Inhüma |
| Esoctrilihum The Telluric Ashes of the Ö Vrth Immemorial Gods |
| A lot of good death/black riffs, but the length definitely puts me off a bit. |
| Esoctrilihum Eternity Of Shaog |
| Esoteric Metamorphogenesis |
| Eterknight Winter's Calling |
| Epic folk metal that wants to be like Windir or Wintersun but isn't put together well enough but is still OK? |
| Ethereal Shroud Absolution|Emptiness |
| Evanescence Fallen |
| Evanescence The Open Door |
| Everything Everything Get to Heaven |
| Everything Everything Mountainhead |
| Evile Enter the Grave |
| this is pretty not-terrible for thrash even if it is just generic "ripoff all the classic bands" metal heyooooo...... 3/5 |
| Evile Hell Unleashed |
| Ex Confusion Embrace |
| Ex Deo The Immortal Wars |
| Ex Deo as a band is like if the Kataklysm bros finally ponied up and just admitted they wanted to be a melodeath band the whole time. "The Immortal Wars" features all the current members of Kataklysm, their trademark thick, catchy riffs and Iacono's easily identifiable growls combined with a heaping helping of Gothenburg riffs and not overpowering symphonic instrumentation. Ex Deo seem to balance their melodic and brutal riffing styles about as well as Edge of Sanity, and use their symphonics as a supplemental source of additional melody, rather than as a focal point (unlike Septicflesh). This is solid, heavy melodeath, and probably the kind of stuff Kataklysm should've been writing all along (since they're better at it). 3.3/5 |
| Exhumed To The Dead |
| Exodus Bonded by Blood |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence |
| Fabrizio Paterlini Now |
| piano music |
| Falkenbach Tiurida |
| Fall Out Boy PAX AM Days |
| Falls of Rauros Believe in No Coming Shore |
| Production on the last album was lush and made everything sound great and atmospheric; the lo-fi sound here doesn't do much for the music. It's still an OK album, though, but far below what it should've rightly been. |
| False Untitled |
| Recorded live, I think the production suffers from a lack of clarity between the instruments--rthere are a lot of great keys and leads that simply get buried in the mix that could've been rbrought out and fully exploited with a normal recording setup.rThat being said, this is still a pretty good 60-minute slab of keyboard-prominent atmospheric rblack metal. When they're not blasting with furious riffs and great backing keys, they're jamming rthrough a groovy mid-paced riff or trudging through doomy buildups. rIf you're going to listen to a female-fronted black metal band this year, make it False. |
| False Hunger |
| Not long enough, production not great, not icy chilllll but still good enough? Black metal. |
| Father Befouled Immaculate Pain |
| Fathomless Ritual Hymns for the Lesser Gods |
| demilich worship will never die (but you will) |
| Fauna Rain |
| Fazerdaze Morningside |
| dream pop! |
| Fear Factory Mechanize |
| Feist The Reminder |
| Feist Metals |
| There isn't actually any metal on this album. ;_; |
| Feist Multitudes |
| Fell Voices Regnum Saturni |
| You guys just aren't listening to it loudly enough. Crank it up and get smothered by that choking abyss. BLACK METAL. |
| Feminazgul The Age of Men Is Over |
| Fennesz and Sakamoto Cendre |
| Feral Season Rotting Body in the Range of Light |
| Fight Cloud We'll Be Alright |
| mathy post-rock, or posty math-rock? It has vocals. Chill tunes that go dwoop dweep bloodloodlooo |
| Filth is Eternal Find Out |
| Fimbulwinter Servants of Sorcery |
| Fire In The Cave Fire In the Cave |
| Fires in the Distance Echoes From Deep November |
| melodic doom death that is good except for the random modern metalcore-style breakdowns that for some reason exist here. |
| Fishmans Long Season |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Mafia |
| Hyperblasting can't cover up a lack of interesting songwriting. Nor can it improve an At the Gates cover song (like, really?). |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Opera |
| Floor Jansen Paragon |
| Flourishing The Sum of All Fossils |
| post-metal/hardcore experimental death metal. |
| Flourishing A Momentary Sense of the Immediate World |
| Fluisteraars Luwte |
It doesn't feel like it has enough angry black metal energy to make it as good as it should
be, and it's a bit too repetitive. Cut some of the repetition, make the guitars sound a
little less clean (and a little harsher?), and this could be pretty great. Good riffs, good
ideas, just not a stellar final product. |
| Fluisteraars De Kronieken van het Verdwenen Kasteel I: Harslo |
| Flying Saucer Attack Flying Saucer Attack |
| Fuzzy experimental lo-fi shoegaze with ambient stuff too. Early post-rock sound. The shoegaze-y stuff is alright, but I definitely forgot I was listening to this album at all a few times. The ambient pieces were really great, though, which is why this is a 3/5 instead of a 2.5/5. |
| Fogweaver Fogweaver |
background soundtrack to a Dungeons and Dragons session. Casual dungeon synth jams.
Chamber ambient? Sure. |
| Forest Of Harambe Under The Sign Of Harambe |
| Forgotten Silence KaBaAch |
| Forgotten Silence Vemork Konstrukt |
| Forgotten Spell The Necromancer Demo |
| raw af black metal that's always been kinda clunky and disorganized in a "I'm not sure if they're playing in-time with each other or not because of all the static" kind of way. But despite the constant wooshing noise there's also constant melodic work that somehow slices through the fog and gives Forgotten Spell a real sense of identity and musical heft. |
| Foxes (UK) The Kick |
| Fractal Gates Altered State Of Consciousness |
| Freedom of Fear Nocturnal Gates |
| Pretty decent technical melodeath. I don't think it's fantaaaaastic, but it's solid fun sweepy swoopy melo-tech. |
| Freedom of Fear Carpathia |
| Friisk …Un Torügg Bleev Blot Sand |
| Fripp and Eno No Pussyfooting |
| From the Mouth of the Sun Woven Tide |
| modern classical/ambient/with a dash of post-rock. Walls of droney classical, then some pretty guitar, then some idontknowwhatelse. Varied, but not totally engrossing. |
| Frostnatt Når Vinteren Kommer |
| Fruit Bats The Pet Parade |
| Fuath I |
| It's got too much reverb and treble, I think. It has a sort of faux lo-fi sound similar most bedroom laptop bands, which makes it feel less natural. Aside from the production, though, it's pretty decent no-frills atmospheric black metal. Tremolo riffs and melodies and ten minute songs all day every day. Nothing amazing, but still pretty good. |
| Fuck the Facts Pleine Noirceur |
| Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy |
| this was pretty OK noisy punk junk. The noise is dumb and the deathcore fake black metal screams are dumb, but aside from those this was OK. |
| Full of Hell Garden of Burning Apparitions |
| Funebrarum Beneath the Columns of Abandoned Gods |
| Funebrarum The Sleep of Morbid Dreams |
| Funereal Presence Achatius |
| Furia Płoń |
| Black metal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111 |
| Furia Nocel |
| The length makes it more of a slog, but content-wise this is another solid release from Furia. |
| Furia Halny |
One 19-minute song of weirdo bm with lots of clean interludes.
RYM says I gave this a 3/5 but I don't remember listening to it. Prob a drunk rating, but RYM is
the law. |
| Fvnerals The Light |
| Female sings, drone, atmosphere, wow. A lack of real climaxes robs this of its potential, but it's still an enjoyable listen and something you can definitely get sucked into. |
| G.L.O.S.S. Demo |
| This is much better than "Trans Day of Revenge." Edgier, angstier, punkier, more riffy, more gooder. 3.3/5 |
| Galaktik Cancer Squad Celestia |
| Gallhammer Gloomy Lights |
| doomy black metal that borrows from every second wave band from Varg's yowls to Darkthrone's Celtic Frost plagiarism. |
| Gama Bomb Speed Between The Lines |
| Garbage Version 2.0 |
| GARDSGHASTR Slit Throat Requiem |
| Gatecreeper Gatecreeper |
| Gatecreeper Sonoran Depravation |
| Gatecreeper Deserted |
| Gatecreeper An Unexpected Reality |
| Gatecreeper Dark Superstition |
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| Gaunt Demo |
| Gehenna Seen Through the Veils of Darkness |
| Genocide Pact Genocide Pact |
| Germ Wish |
| Get Rad Say Fuck No To Rules, Man |
| Get Rad Choose Your Own Adventure |
| Get Rad I Can Always Live |
| Punk is as punk does, fast, hard, and with little care for your eardrums. |
| Gezan with Million Wish Collective Anochi |
| Ghost (SWE) Prequelle |
| Ghost Bath Self Loather |
| I didn't care enough to turn it off but was fairly happy when it was not playing anymore. |
| Giulio Aldinucci Borders and Ruins |
| I listen to ambient drone or whatever. Ambient drone or whatever is cool. |
| Glaciation Sur les Falaises de Marbre |
| Heil Neej and his Circus of Fantastic Flying Frenchmen. |
| Glass Casket We Are Gathered Here Today... |
| Deathcore parentage, more death metal from a different angle than anything punky or remotely chug-obsessed like the bands that would come after it. |
| Glossolalia Gold in the Throat |
| raw black metal from the rhinocervs gang. |
| Glume Main Character |
| Goatwhore Carving Out The Eyes Of God |
| Carving Out A Slice of Gouda. Black trash cheese liiiiiiiiiiiiives!!!! |
| God Is an Astronaut The End of the Beginning |
| Gojira Fortitude |
| Goldmund All Will Prosper |
| piano reinventions of Civil War folk songs. Pretty as Goldmund's releases always are, but that's about it. And that's totally fine for an album like this. The songs are nostalgic and reek of a melancholy only capturable through piano. |
| Good Weather for an Airstrike A Home for You |
| Ambient music. Piano, synthesizer. Quiet sounds. Background noises. |
| Good Weather for an Airstrike A Sense Of Uncertainty |
| Good Weather for an Airstrike Summer |
| Goolagoon Patrickviolence Demo |
| Crust/grind/crossover Sponge metal of death. m/ |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity |
| Gottesmorder Gottesmorder |
| Graceless Where Vultures Know Your Name |
| Grandma's Cottage Grandma's Cottage |
| Grave Into the Grave |
| Grave Infestation Carnage Gathers |
| GraveRipper Seasons Dreaming Death |
| Gravesend Preparations for Human Disposal |
| Great Cold Emptiness Immaculate Hearts Will Triumph |
| whimsical sparkly blackgaze, tho maybe the guitars could use a little boosting. |
| Green Day Saviors |
| GridLink Orphan |
| Grimes Art Angels |
| Pop music that gets less solid the more you jam it, tho it is jammable ifyouknowhwatimean (i don't know what that means). |
| Grotesque Incantation |
| Grotesqueries Vile Crematory |
| Grouper Water People |
| The first track features a larger influence on allowing the guitar to create the atmosphere and draw the attention as its reverby notes boom around the space and Liz's voice sort of slides through the fog. The second track essentially the opposite, turning down the guitar to allow her voice to take center stage. I think her voice works better in this style when it's downplayed more in the mix, making "Water People" the better track. While neither are bad, "Moving Machine" leaves me a little bit underwhelmed. 3.3/5? |
| Grouper Grid of Points |
| Ruins Pt 2 isn't quite as great as the original, but it's still Grouper being Grouper, and Grouper doesn't really write bad tracks. "Grid of Points" just isn't her best, nor most developed, album. It's a bit too short and feels like smoke slipping through your fingers, gone before you realize it (Despite the Grouper-y imagery, this is not, in this case, a good thing.). |
| Gruesome Silent Echoes |
| Gudsforladt Friendship, Love and War |
| Gulaggh Vorkuta |
| As music this is horrible. As terryfing aural art, there's probably little better. Blast this on Halloween and watch the anxious looks of passerby. |
| Gutted (USA) Bleed for Us to Live |
| trve old school death metal, the kind of which osdm revivalism is really based--most nu-osd (tomb mold) sounds exactly like this. |
| Hail Spirit Noir Fossil Gardens |
| Hakobune & Nobuto Suda 幽霊の庭園 (Garden Of Ghosts) |
| ambient droning prettiness of waves. |
| Halfway Line Halfway Line |
| Hammock Everything and Nothing |
| Good, but way too long and not dreamy or ambient or engaging enough to really keep me interested for that long. For their more ambient-oriented music the length works fine, but for their more post-rock-y stuff it kind of drags. And this album in particular doesn't hit as hard as their previous works, exacerbating the problem a little. Still, it's a Hammock album, and Hammock don't make bad albums. |
| Handgemeng Ultraritual |
| Harakiri for the Sky Harakiri for the Sky |
| Harakiri for the Sky Maere |
| it's an insomnium album with blackgaze vox, no riffs, and twice the runtime for no reason. |
| Harold Budd Lovely Thunder |
| Hate Eternal I, Monarch |
| Hate Eternal Phoenix Amongst The Ashes |
| Hate Eternal Infernus |
| Hate Eternal Upon Desolate Sands |
| Hath Of Rot And Ruin |
| death metal is cool i like death metal |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Havohej Dethrone the Son of God |
| Havok V |
| Thrash lives. |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor |
| Hearse The Last Ordeal |
| Heaven In Her Arms White Halo |
| Heilung Ofnir |
| Helen The Original Faces |
| Grouper's shoegaze/dream whatever band. Lo-fi and got them dreamy vox. 3.0-3.5 I think. |
| Hellbringer Awakened from the Abyss |
| you guys like slayer I like slayer. Slayer! SLAYER ! SLAYER!! |
| Hellcrash Demonic Assassinatiön |
| Hellcrash Inferno Crematörio |
| Helloween Straight Out of Hell |
| Hellripper Black Arts and Alchemy |
| black speed metal attack EP goes fast |
| Hellwitch Syzygial Miscreancy |
| Hemotoxin When Time Becomes Loss |
| they took the loud drum sound from Tomb Mold and stuck that into a Death worship album thinking I wouldn't notice! |
| Herakleion Necroverse |
| HIM Dark Light |
| Hiss Tracts Shortwave Nights |
| Holy Moses Disorder of the Order |
| Holy Moses Satan's Angel |
| HOME (FL) Odyssey |
| bleep bloop 80s nostalgia chillwave |
| Honey Revenge Retrovision |
| Hood Cold House |
The *Bark Psychosis-style experimental/post-rock. Was never a big fan of Bark's out-of-tune vocal
style, so I'm unsurprisingly not much a fan of Hood's, either. Annoying vox aside, though, "Cold
House" is pretty OK post-rock.
*It's either Bark Psychosis or The Evpatoria Report that I'm thinking of. Whichever, you know
what I mean. |
| Hood British Radars |
| It took over 20 years for the "British Radars" single to actually make it to print. The result is pretty unsurprising: it's some pretty standard pre-post-rock post-rock. Off-key vocals, lots of amateurish instrumentation in a lo-fi sound setup, and some weird collisions of acoustic strumming and electronic beats. That early post-rock/dream pop/indie scene was weird, man. |
| Hooded Menace The Tritonus Bell |
| i'm a old school death doomer, call me a death boomer |
| Hop Along Painted Shut |
| While its faults are endearing, they're still faults. Rock 'n' roll. |
| Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog |
| Hoppin along but prettier this time but still just about as enjoyable as before? |
| Hoplites Ψευδομένη |
| Hoplites Τρωθησομένη |
| Horn Verzet |
| Horna Kuolleiden Kuu |
| Black metal with a discernibly old-school orientation, mixing the melodic tendencies of earlier acts but also with a penchant for punkiness and grooving riffs. |
| Horse Lords Comradely Objects |
| Horseback The Invisible Mountain |
| Hostsol Länge Leve Döden |
| Hour of Penance Cast The First Stone |
| can't touch the tech death from last year, but it's OK. |
| Hulder Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry |
| Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut |
| Hum Inlet |
| alt grunge shoegaze metal yeah. m/ gazes gloomily m/ |
| Human Corpse Abuse Xenoviscerum |
| Human Remains Using Sickness as a Hero |
| Hungry For Hands I Was Hungry For Hands |
| Hungry Ghosts Alone, Alone |
| Hyperdontia Hideous Entity |
| Hyperion (SWE) Seraphical Euphony |
| melodic black death metal w/e |
| Hypocrisy The Fourth Dimension |
| Hypocrisy The Arrival |
| Hypocrisy Worship |
| Hypocrite Edge of Existence |
| I Hear Sirens Stella Mori |
| Icon For Hire Scripted |
| IDYLLS The Barn |
this snarly punk junk is cray. It's like if Converge had a sense of humor, or if Mr.
Bungle played nasty hardcore. |
| Ifing Against This Weald |
| Ignite A War Against You |
| It's not Our Darkest Days II, but it's OK by its own right. |
| Ihsahn After |
| Ihsahn Das Seelenbrechen |
| Ihsahn Arktis. |
| Ihsahn Amr |
| It's an Ihsahn album, but maybe with more of an influence on cleans this time? It has riffs when it wants to riff, and it has cleans when it wants to clean. I'd rather Ihsahn kept these two facets of his style separate, though, as they seem to work better when kept further from each other. Heavy portions often get thrown off by awkward melodies from the cleans, and the clean vocal work seems best when the rest of the song is focused around them, and not just figuring out a way to swing back into the harsh vox. Still, it's Ihsahn, so you'll like it if you like him. |
| Ihsahn Telemark |
| Illyria The Carpathian Summit |
| A very scattered record of mostly Alcest-influenced post-rock and atmospherics, screamo and post-hardcore(?), melodic/progressive death metal riffing, and flourishes of post-black metal. At over seventy minutes in runtime across eleven tracks there's a lot of content here, and the band feel more content to devote individual songs to playing individual styles rather than creating a more coherent avant-garde style blended through all the tracks. There are songs that feel more post-rock and emo, some devoted to that proggy death metal riffing, and some to post-black metal. All are fine in themselves, but taken as one big record they all feel rather under-appreciated and underdeveloped. There are a lot of interesting ideas here that really deserve to be fleshed out individually on their own releases, rather than be smooshed together for one record. |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness |
| Immortal Battles in the North |
| Good, but needed to be colder and a little more diverse. As-is, this is a fairly modern-sounding icy bm album (for 1995) that's for the most part one-speed riffing (read: fast). It kinda feels like Immortal heard Transilvanian Hunger and liked what Fenriz did with the "one idea for an entire album" concept, but split across more tracks and a shorter runtime. The result is that Battles in the North try a bunch of different riffs all played at the same speed, with songs feeling very structurally similar to one another, and not much fleshed out due to how short they typically are. On the one hand everything here definitely runs together, while the record is short enough (35 mins) for that sameyness to not really get to the point of actually being annoying. It really does feel like they tried to do Darkthrone's TH but "with more riffs!" which definitely sounds like something Abbath would say. 3.3/5 not quite a 3.5. |
| Immortal Blizzard Beasts |
| hey guys wanna play some morbid angel i like morbid angel now morbid angel's cool |
| Immortal Damned In Black |
| Immortal Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism |
| Immortal All Shall Fall |
| Immortal Northern Chaos Gods |
| seems like Demonaz knows how to imitate Abbath about as well as Abbath knows how to imitate Immortal, since outside of the vox this sounds exactly like an Abbath-Immortal album. They do the fast stuff, they do the mid-paced mini-epic stuff. Nothing's really different this time. I suppose the seasons change, empires rise and fall, but Immortal are, well, immortal. |
| Immortal Bird Akrasia |
| Immortal Bird's combination of death metal with elements of black metal and hardcore gives the band a very unique style. Add in Rae Amitay's growls and "Akrasia" has even more trouble fitting into any one genre comfortably. Pretty good debut. |
| Immortal Bird Thrive On Neglect |
| Imperial Crystalline Entombment Ancient Glacial Resurgence |
| In Cauda Venenum G.O.H.E. |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain |
| In Flames Colony |
| In Flames Come Clarity |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose |
| In Flames Clayman 2020 |
| In This Moment Beautiful Tragedy |
| Inanimate Existence Clockwork |
| Inanna Void of Unending Depths |
| Incantation Upon the Throne of Apocalypse |
| Incantation Dirges of Elysium |
| Indigo De Souza I Love My Mom |
| Indigo De Souza Any Shape You Take |
| Infant Annihilator The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution |
| Infant Island Obsidian Wreath |
| i'll listen to this again but first listen didn't think it was that hot, tho ftr i've never been a screamo guy either. |
| Infester To the Depths... In Degradation |
| Inquisition Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar... |
| black metal. Riffs as always and the vocals are noticeably less froggy this time around. Still as repetitive as ever, though, and it still gets real old real fast. |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow |
| Insomnium Heart Like a Grave |
| insomnium do solid melodic death metal music but at this point I'd rather they go back to writing riffs instead of just ~atmospherical~ riffless melodicisms. |
| Insomnium Songs of the Dusk |
| Internazionale The Pale and the Colourful |
| Spooky ambient background beep boop synth hssshh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [OUTER SPACE!] |
| Invocation (CL) "The Archaic Sanctuary" (Ritual Body Postures) |
| Iron Chic Not Like This |
| Iron Chic You Can't Stay Here |
| punk rock rock 'n' roll! |
| Iron Maiden The Number Of The Beast |
| Isengard Vårjevndøgn |
| JAD Ból |
| Jadu Heart Derealised |
| Japanese Breakfast Soft Sounds From Another Planet |
| Dream poppy singer/songwriter sadperson huggles. |
| Japanese Breakfast Jubilee |
| Jeff Rosenstock WORRY. |
| Oh hey this one doesn't suck. |
| Jeff Rosenstock SKA DREAM |
| Jefre Cantu-Ledesma In Summer |
| Ambient drone for the whole family. Field recordings of birds, light drum beats, screeching noises, wow. |
| Jenny Lewis The Voyager |
| Quaint and pretty, though not too compelling, indie/alt. |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures |
| Job For A Cowboy Ruination |
| Johann Johannsson The Miners' Hymns |
| Not one of JJ's most emotionally gripping modern classical works, but still a respectable release for the late composer. |
| Johann Johannsson Virðulegu Forsetar |
Basically an exercise in minimalism and reinvention; Johannsson takes essentially the same melody
and reinvents it again and again, rising and falling, for an hour. The time between crescendos as
well as their respective heights changes over time as the composer plays around with ambience and
reinvention. While it's a very aesthetically pleasing listen--it's a great, faux-dramatic melody-
-it isn't a very gripping listen, given that it is essentially just the same thing over and over
again. For droney orchestral background music this is fairly good, but as a work meant to be
actively enjoyed it's a bit lacking. |
| Johann Johannsson Orphée |
| This is fairly disappointing for a Johann Johannsson album. The songs are fairly short (relatively, given some of his previous work) and don't feel like they're given much room to breathe and really go where they need to go. While very pretty, these individual pieces feel more like snippets rather than finished arrangements. If these shorter pieces had been recorded to flow into one another, they might've felt cohesive as an album and resulted in a much more fulfilling record, but as-is this sort of just feels unfinished. It's a far cry from the likes of "Englabrn" and "IBM 1401." |
| Johann Johannsson Drone Mass |
| droning choir noises |
| John Fahey & Cul de Sac The Epiphany Of Glenn Jones |
| The American primitive is interesting, albeit tiring when played for as long as it is on this album. The darker, more atmospheric pieces are much more interesting but don't appear enough, and Fahey's weird spoken-word bits are unusual and interesting, but also sort of weird to hear go on and on. It's an interesting album for sure. |
| Jonathan Coulton Thing A Week Three |
| Jonathan Coulton Thing a Week Four |
| Judas Priest Stained Class |
| Judas Priest British Steel |
| Judas Priest Painkiller |
| Judas Priest Screaming For Vengeance |
| Judas Priest Sin After Sin |
| Judas Priest Killing Machine |
| Julia Kent Delay |
| Classical musical cellos of music |
| Kacey Musgraves Same Trailer Different Park |
| Kalendae Kalendae |
| Kalmah Palo |
| Modern Kalmah doing the same thing modern Kalmah's been doing since they switched from melodic overload neo-classical melodeath into more simplistic standard riffy melodeath years ago. It's good, I guess, but nowhere near as bombastic or excited as their first four albums. |
| Kamelot Silverthorn |
| Doesn't suck! |
| Kampfar Kampfar |
| Kansas Leftoverture |
| Kara-Lis Coverdale Grafts |
| Minimalist ambient with tape loops. Collage of repetition. More going on than a William Basinski piece. Weird. |
| Keep of Kalessin Reclaim |
| This EP has Attila on vocals so unsurprisingly the guitar tone and style, and drum sound all sound like Thorns/Mayhem. It's not as good as either, but as an imitation it's pretty OK. |
| Kekht Arakh Night & Love |
| Kekht Arakh Pale Swordsman |
| Kelly Lee Owens Kelly Lee Owens |
| pretty pop ambient techno. I'm not much a fan of the more techno (repetitive) tracks, but the ambient pop on here is really good. Owens' voice and use of ambient textures go together fantastically, and her instrumental work is fairly noteworthy in general. |
| Keosz Be Left to Oneself |
| Background ambient drone. Slow-moving, minimalist soundscapes. Rain pattering, sub bass quietly rumbling. Good for filling up your soundspace. |
| Kero Kero Bonito Time 'n' Place |
| i am the twee pop |
| Kesha Gag Order |
| Kid Koala Music To Draw To: Satellite |
| Soothing ambient with female sangs. It's much too long and lacks much in the sense of emotional heft and crescendo, but as chill ambient it serves its purpose, which is just fine. |
| Kidnapped Nowhere Is Sterile |
| powerviolence grindcore gotta go gotta go fast fast fast can't go slow can't slow down fast fast fast where are we going what are we doing going on going on gotta go to Speedville going on the speed train going fast fast fast writing songs writing riffs going fast going real fast gotta blast gotta blast beat all day all day couple minutes just a couple minutes real fast going fast fast fast real fast |
| Kidnapped Disgust |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana |
| Retro Rock on Fantasy Island is a solid slab of rock of the olde school. Not as funky fresh as its predecessor in Nonagon Infinity, but still a bee bop a ree bop rhubarb pie jam and a half. |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Fishing For Fishies |
| kj wake |
| Chill ambient. Soundscapes, minimalism wow. |
| KMFDM Kunst |
| Knife Heaven Into Dust |
| Kolga Demo |
| Krahnholm Granting Death |
| 3.3 your basic black metal album ye |
| Krallice Go Be Forgotten |
| It feels like their magic left them some time ago. |
| Krallice Demonic Wealth |
| Krallice Crystalline Exhaustion |
| on their more conventionally recorded follow-up to Demonic Wealth, Krallice continue to go the WITTR route of emphasizing synthesizers and atmosphere in the mix over their guitars, which gives it a more conventionally atmo-black feel. To emphasize this further, the twisting guitar harmonies of olde krallice have also mostly been toned down, though their old avant-prog compositional flourishes are still to be found, just more restrained. The guitar compositions are less wild and structurally the band sound a lot more purposeful in their direction, but this also robs the band of the things I mostly liked about them in the past; wild avant-prog twisting bm riffing and generally weird songwriting. This is krallice doing their trad atmo-black arc and while it's very atmospheric and hypnotic, the riffs aren't very prominent in the mix and don't have as much oomph as I'd have preferred. It's still fairly decent though, if a little lackluster. |
| Krallice Porous Resonance Abyss |
| Krallice Inorganic Rites |
| Krigsgrav Fires in the Fall |
| Kruelty Untopia |
| Kuxan Suum Kinich Ahau |
| Kuxan Suum Kuxan Suum |
| Kvelertak Splid |
| Kvelgeyst Alkahest |
| Kvelgeyst Blut, Milch und Thränen |
| Kyle Bobby Dunn Ways Of Meaning |
| Kylie Minogue Light Years |
| Kylie Minogue Impossible Princess |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster |
| Lady Gaga Mayhem |
| after quite a few boring albums in a row gaga's finally got her head back in the game. |
| Lagwagon Hang |
| Lake Of Blood Omnipotens Tyrannus |
| Some great ideas here, but the album over-all just seems to run a bit too long, and also suffers from a few weaker tracks. If you removed maybe two of the weaker songs and cut down the record by half an hour, this record would've been much better. |
| Lamb of God Ashes Of The Wake |
| Lamb of God Wrath |
| Lamp of Murmuur The Burning Spears Of Crimson Agony |
| Lamp of Murmuur Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism |
| Lamp of Murmuur Submission and Slavery |
| Lamp of Murmuur Punishment and Devotion |
| Lana Del Rey Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd |
| Lantlos Wildhund |
| Laster Wijsgeer & Narreman |
| Laster De Verste Verte Is Hier |
| Laster Ons Vrije Fatum |
| black metal. Good enough wooo? |
| Legendarium Death's Hand In Yours |
| Less Than Jake Losing Streak |
| Less Than Jake Silver Linings |
| Letheria III Mockery |
| Pretty decent death/black metal with enough thrash riffs and d-beats to make it a fairly fun listen. |
| Leucosis III |
| Liam MMIX |
| Lifeless Dark Who Will Be the Victims? |
| Crust thrash that's certified 100% Fenriz Approved. |
| Light Bearer Silver Tongue |
| Light This City Remains Of The Gods |
| pvre american melodeath. |
| Light This City Facing The Thousand |
| melodic death metal. Riffs or w/e. |
| Light This City The Hero Cycle (Re-Issue) |
| Decent melodic death metalcore. Can't hold a candle to the band's later outputs, but "The Hero Cycle" is still a decent starting point for the band, and even shows off some of their hardcore/metalcore influences, which makes gives them a little bit of nuance compared to the usual rabble of At The Gates ripoffs. |
| Lightning Bug A Color of the Sky |
| Lights Midnight Machines |
| Lights' voice is much better suited to a mostly acoustic setting. I could listen to this sappy pop junk all day. |
| Liturgy Renihilation |
| You can download this from their bandcamp page for $6.66. Lol. |
| Liturgy H.A.Q.Q. |
| I'll throw one of my patented Zaru 3.5 "is decent"'s on this bad boy just for the h*ck of it right now. This is way better than Ark Work, a bit better than Aesthethica, and somehow actually an enjoyable record--despite still having all of the flaws of those two aforementioned records. This is basically just a better Aesthethica and at this point that's pretty nice. |
| Living Gate Suffer As One |
| Lizzy McAlpine Five Seconds Flat |
| Lizzy McAlpine Older |
| Locrian Return To Annihilation |
| Locrian Infinite Dissolution |
| It could've been another Rooted Teeth and Injury had it had a bit more meat to it. It's an album that wants to do black metal, ambient, and electronic, but sort of skims on some and doesn't really climax anywhere, or how much power to any of its pieces. It works as a decent ambient record, but it could've been so much more, which is disappointing given the potential here. |
| Lorde Pure Heroine |
| Lorde Melodrama |
| Loth Apocryphe |
| yeah so this is like if Drudkh wanted to be hippies. Pretty OK Fauna-lite. Black metal. |
| Lotus Thief Gramarye |
| Low Hey What |
| LowCityRain LowCityRain |
| Herbst's vocals haven't quite found how to hit their mark on LowCityRain, but they're still fairly OK for what they are. Dancy post-punk coldwave wooo. It's happy sad dance time. |
| Lucifer (DE) Lucifer IV |
| Ludicra The Tenant |
| Luna Mortis The Absence |
| prog-ish power metal/melodeath. |
| Lunar Mantra Genesis |
| ambient blast beats blast beats blast beats oh hey some double bass m/ |
| Lunatic Soul Walking on a Flashlight Beam |
| Luneth Luneth |
| Lvthn Adversarialism |
| Rawer treble black metal. The vocals sound slightly distorted/muffled/slightly tinny because of the rawness, which makes them fit pretty well with the rest of the mix. |
| Lykhaeon Tanz der Entleibten |
| Mabe Fratti Pies sobre la tierra |
| ~ ambient pop drone classical art ~ it's OK. |
| Madonna Ray of Light |
| Aesthetically pleasing downtempo pop, but not much more than that. The album's much too long and it never really goes anywhere particularly interesting. There are a few standout tracks here and there, but for downtempo this is, imo, rather lackluster. It all sort of just blends together into this mishmash of chill Madonna toonage that never tries (or succeeds) to distinguish itself from anything else. |
| Madrost The Essence of Time Matches No Flesh |
| Tech thrash death metal riffs. |
| Maggie Rogers Don’t Forget Me |
| Magrudergrind II |
| With no political samples and a less "fun" sound quality that's not heavy or crunchy enough to be "Rotten Sound" level brutal, Magrudergrind's "II" is a pretty OK grind/power violence record, but not much more. What personality their previous album had has been scrubbed away in favor of a more "no frills" approach to grind. The result is a much less fun record that simply doesn't sound vicious enough to warrant the change in sound in the first place. It's OK grind, but unfortunately not much more. :-( |
| Malevolence Malicious Intent |
| malevolence embody most of the goods and bads of modern metalcore, meaning they use some nice meaty riffs but then ruin most songs with poorly-performed and contextually ill-fitting clean vocals. |
| Malist Of Scorched Earth |
| Malthusian MMXIII |
| Malum Legion |
| Finlandcore, AKA black metal bands that sound like Sargeist. It's your standard second-wave, melodic-ish black metal. Lots of d-beat drumming, standard riffing, blasts, etc. It's not particularly inventive for the style (read: it isn't at all), but it's still solid-ish. Nothing fantastic, but pretty OK. |
| Mammoth Grinder Underworlds |
| Mammoth Grinder Cosmic Crypt |
| they ditched the slududududge for straight dm. Which is OK-ish. |
| Mannveira Von Er Eitur |
| Black angry noisy noise of angry noisy noisiness. |
| Manon Meurt Manon Meurt |
| Mare Cognitum The Sea Which Has Become Known |
| Mare Cognitum An Extraconscious Lucidity |
| Marina Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land |
| Marsen Jules The Empire of Silence |
| Background ambient. Classical. Noise. |
| Marsh Dweller The Weight of Sunlight |
| Black metal mixed with melodic death metal with growly vocals reminiscent of Saor or Panopticon. Kinda like Panopticon but with even more melodeath. |
| Maruja Tir na nÓg |
| Marxthrone A Blaze In The Western Sky |
| Workers unite! Hail comrades! Hail black metal! |
| Massimo Volume Lungo i bordi |
| Massimo Volume take Slint's post-rockiness and spoken-wordedness and make them their own. Their brand of spoken post-rock rocks the house down, but I was never a fan of Slint's vocals in the first place, and neither am here. |
| Massimo Volume Da qui |
| Massimo Volume take Slint's post-rockiness and spoken-wordedness and make them their own. Their brand of spoken post-rock rocks the house down, but I was never a fan of Slint's vocals in the first place, and neither am here. |
| Massimo Volume Il nuotatore |
| i like it when he talk italiano to the pretty guitaros mama mia post-rock |
| Master Saints Dispelled |
| Master's Hammer Ritual |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mastodon Crack The Skye |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round The Sun |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| Maximum the Hormone Kusoban |
| Yeah good enough. Not nearly as solid as their later stuff, but at this point you can just chalk it up to MtH still figuring out how to distill their brand of j-punk wonkiness into something more powerful. Thankfully they did, but even as unfocused as it is, "Kusoban" is still a fun record. |
| Maximum the Hormone Zawa...Zawa...Za..Zawa......Zawa |
| punk rock! MTH. |
| Maximum the Hormone Tsume Tsume Tsume/F |
| I don't like the Freiza song or "Tsume Tsume Tsume" that much. Standard Maximum The Hormone nutso hardcore punk that goes every which way. Just not as good this time. |
| Mayhem Wolf's Lair Abyss |
| The drum sound sucks and the guitar sound isn't amazing. But hey, it's Mayhem, so I suppose this is the best it's gonna get. |
| Mayhem Chimera |
| Mayhem Deathcrush |
| Mayhem Ordo ad Chao |
| black metal. I like how muffled and suffocating the production is here. Stylistically not my favorite thing, but the production is definitely unique. |
| Mayhem Esoteric Warfare |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Alive |
| Mayhem Daemon |
| Mayhemic Toba |
| Mefitis Emberdawn |
| your basic standard solid black metal mmm/// |
| Meg Myers Sorry |
| pop rock w/e. Some songs are like WOAH whereas others are like... woah? |
| Megadeth United Abominations |
| Melanie De Biasio No Deal |
| Melechesh As Jerusalem Burns...Al´Intisar |
| Melt-Banana Cell-Scape |
| Melt-Banana Fetch |
| Melt-Banana 3+5 |
| Memoriam Requiem For Mankind |
| Mentor Wolves, Wraiths and Witches |
| Merciless Unbound |
| Mercyful Fate Don't Break The Oath |
| Merkaba Bones of the Sacred Forest |
| Post-black metal with lots and lots and lots of reverb. It makes it sound booming and quite pretty, actually. Unique in that sense, although it's truthfully not much different than the other post-rock-meets-blast-beats experiments. |
| Merkaba Continuum |
| Mesarthim TYPE III |
| Eighteen minutes of keyboard-heavy atmospheric black metal, this time with outer-space chugz. Kinda just wish the band would've released these lengthy one-track EPs as just one album, but w.e. Band are good enough at what they do. |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep of Reason |
| I really really hate that guitar tone. It has an almost squeaky sound to it, like someone's rubbing two pieces of evil leather together. Squeeko squee squuhhh uhhh squuun. That, and by now everything Meshuggah do sounds beaten-to-death, and there's nothing stylistically interesting here but the same thing they've been doing before, but with none of the nuances that made any of their previous albums unique. |
| Messa Belfry |
| Bluesy Sabbath-y doom, sludge metal jams w/ female vox. |
| Message to Bears Carved from Tides |
| Sentimental ambient pop bs that's good enough. |
| Metallica ...And Justice For All |
| Mgla Groza |
| Midnight Satanic Royalty |
| Midnight Rebirth by Blasphemy |
| FUCKING SPEED AND DARKNESS |
| Midnight Let There Be Witchery |
| Midori Shimizu |
| Miley Cyrus Plastic Hearts |
| Mingle Harde Mongol Horde |
| Mirrorthrone Carriers of Dust |
| Misanthropy The Ever-Crushing Weight of Stagnance |
| Misotheist Vessels By Which The Devil Is Made Fl |
| Mist of Misery Severance |
| Misthyrming Algleymi |
| Mithras Behind the Shadows Lie Madness |
| Mithras Worlds Beyond the Veil |
| Mithras Forever Advancing... Legions |
| Mithras On Strange Loops |
weird kind of melodic death metal with hella riffs but it only hella riffs every once in a while,
and is otherwise inconsistent imo so it's not that great.
That one riff in "When the Stars Align" is the best dm riff of 2016 by leaps and bounds tho. |
| Mitochondrion Parasignosis |
| Mitski Puberty 2 |
| there's a whole lotta St. Vincent goin on in here. |
| Mizmor This Unabating Wakefulness |
| Atmospheric black metal! Doom! Darkness! One fourteen-minute piece of ugly grrrrr'ing meanness. |
| Mogwai Rave Tapes |
| Monarque Fier Hérétique |
| Standard second-wave black metal and a decent debut album, but a mere echo of the majesty of future release "Lys Noir". |
| Mono Pilgrimage Of The Soul |
| Moral Collapse Moral Collapse |
| Morbid December Moon |
| Morbid Angel Blessed Are the Sick |
| Morbid Saint Swallowed By Hell |
| Mork Gryning Fasornas tid |
| Morphinist Nebulae |
| Morphinist The Arcane Session |
| Morphinist The Wormhole Session |
| Mors Principium Est The Unborn |
| Mors Principium Est Liberation = Termination |
| Mors Principium Est Dawn of the 5th Era |
| Mortal Decay Sickening Erotic Fanaticism |
| Mortal Embodiment Unbounded Emptiness |
| Mortuary Drape Tolling 13 Knell |
| Mortuary Drape Buried in Time |
| Mortuous Through Wilderness |
| Mourir Disgrâce |
| Mourned Lost in Ire |
| Mourned mostly cut the deathcore and put out an almost straight death metal album. There are still some deathcore-isms remaining--mostly in attitude--but if you didn't know any better you might not pick up on them at all. Decent death metal album. |
| Mr. Bungle The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny |
| Mree The Middle |
| MUNA About U |
| MUNA Saves The World |
| MUNA Muna |
| Municipal Waste Hazardous Mutation |
| Municipal Waste Electrified Brain |
| Mushroomhead XIII |
| Mutilation Rites Harbinger |
| N R C S S S T Schizophrenic Art |
| Pretty much generic post-black metal that doesn't really throw any punches. If you took the basic blue-print for post-black metal and made a record out of it, you'd get this record. It's upbeat, it's shiny, there are a lot of twinkly guitar leads, it doesn't focus on black metal tempos, and there are fairly good vocals, but there's not enough variation or experimentation here to give the record its own personality. This is one of those bands that have the potential to do something really cool if they would only break from their derivative writing styles, throw caution to the wind, and be adventurous. In that sense, they're definitely a band to look for in the future, but they're only OK right now. |
| Nachtmystium Assassins: Black Meddle Pt.1 |
| Nachtmystium Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. 2 |
| Nachtmystium Silencing Machine |
| Nader Sadek In the Flesh |
| Nadja Tabernanthe |
| Nadja makes noise for 28 minutes and it's pretty nice. |
| Naglfar Sheol |
| Naglfar Pariah |
| Naglfar Harvest |
| Naglfar Ex Inferis |
| Nahemah A New Constellation |
| NAILS I Don't Want To Know You |
| Nails/Full of Hell Split |
| Full of Hell are OK, Nails track is typical modern Nails ultra heavy brocore. This is like 4:20 long with only 3 tracks so who really cares. Good enough w/e. |
| Naked City Naked City |
| Avant-jazz grindcore. So that's a thing. Definitely a "thing." |
| Napalm Death Enemy of the Music Business |
| Napalm Death Scum |
| Napalm Death Fear, Emptiness, Despair |
| Napalm Death Harmony Corruption |
| Napalm Death Death by Manipulation |
| My grindcore brings all the boys to the yard, and they're like BRAGARAGGAOOOOAAAASHAAAA. |
| Napalm Death Nazi Punks Fuck Off |
| Napalm Death get it |
| Nasum Human 2.0 |
| Grindcore. Idk if it's the production or this Spotify stream but this album makes me feel like I constantly need to pop my ears, it's just kinda weird. |
| Neckbeard Deathcamp White Nationalism is for Basement Dwelling Losers |
| It is bad, but that's the point. But people have also eaten up worse ub3r kr13g 0bscvr3 black metal so i don't see how this can be held as worse. Especially when this actually serves a purpose as a work of art. |
| Necrodeath Defragments of Insanity |
| NECRONOMIDOL Strange Aeons |
| Weeb cover aside, "NECRONOMIDOL" are a competent J-rock/pop/metal project. Their metallic side takes obvious pages from the likes of X Japan, with the popiness of general J-pop/rock music. OK music 4 animu fans. |
| Necropole Ostara |
| I remember this little thing from back in the day. Fun little raw black metal EP. Triumphant riffs and pummeling bass drums of glory! |
| Neil Cicierega Mouth Moods |
| Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings The Flood |
| alt-country folk sings good wow. |
| Nemesis Sopor Firmament |
| Nervosa Agony |
| Nervosa Downfall Of Mankind |
| Neupink Fluorescent Art |
| nic Demo |
| Nietzu Farewell to the Stranger |
| good black metal with Cynic-style distorted cleans that I don't like as much. 3/5 |
| Nifelheim Devil's Force |
| More goodish first-wave-y-ish black metal. Dec album 3/5. Can't really improve upon Dethtrasher's soundoff so I won't even try. |
| Nifelheim Nifelheim |
| First wave-y black metal. Nifelheim are an interesting group that weave that line between the first and second waves of black metal--not because they were genre pioneers or anything, but just because their largely first wave-influenced (often proto-thrashy a la Bathory) style often finds itself bleeding into more the developed second wave sound (the change in blast beating style, heavier use of double bass, Darkthrone-y riffs, etc.) that was popular when the album was actually released. rThe proto-thrashiness makes the album feel like a fun throwback (especially given it came out in the heart of the second wave movement) and the vocals are particularly nasty (albeit a little too loud and overbearing). I've never been huge on the first wave sound, but for early-style black metal, Nifelheim's first record is a fairly good one. |
| Nifelheim Servants of Darkness |
| Probably the best of their first three albums, "Servants of Darkness" is more standard Nifelheim. It's largely first-wave black metal with some second wave nuances (some Dissection-y and Wattain-y melodic work, greater use of blasts) and the typical punk attitude. Still not the best thing ever but also lot more fun than most second wavers were at the time, which definitely earn Nifelheim some points. If you like that early Bathory sound, Nifelheim apparently don't disappoint. |
| Nightbringer Terra Damnata |
| Nightingale Alive Again |
| Nightingale The Breathing Shadow |
| Nightrage Sweet Vengeance |
| Slaughter of the Plagiarism. This would've been a 3.5/5 but I'm a stickler for good/no cleans in my melodic death metal. The cleans aren't good and they have no reason to be here, especially when you already have Tomas Lindberg on the mic. |
| Nightrage Wearing a Martyr's Crown |
| Nightrage return with a fitting addition to the melodic death metal legacy. Harsh vox, screaming guitarz, lots of drumz and the occasional acoustic good melodeath does make, and Nightrage a good melodeath band does...are..is..verb. |
| Nightwish Dark Passion Play |
| Nightwish Endless Forms Most Beautiful |
| Nile Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka |
| Nile Ithyphallic |
| It's Egyptian penis joke-themed technical death metal. It's about as disjointed and painful as you'd expect from a band not used to attempting humor. |
| Nils Frahm Encores 2 |
| the piano music is fine but could you knock it off with the beep boop electronics already |
| Nils Frahm Day |
| No Trend More |
| NOFX Ribbed |
| NOFX Punk in Drublic |
| NOFX White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean |
| NOFX Wolves in Wolves' Clothing |
| NOFX Coaster |
| Noisem Blossoming Decay |
| Non Est Deus Impious |
| Notches High Speed Crimes |
| "Sloppy" is a good way to put it. It's got that raw amateurish feel that's weirdly endearing and makes it that little bit more relatable and fun. It's not hugely solid, but it's great for what it is. |
| Nothing The Great Dismal |
| Noumena Absence |
| Novembers Doom Into Night's Requiem Infernal |
| Novo Amor Collapse List |
| Nox Formulae The Hidden Paths to Black Ecstasy |
| When it goes fast it's pretty good but all the slower stuff lacks the atmosphere and spoopyness to feel "occult" or atmospheric at all. It's only when the guitars style flying that the music adopts a slightly clouded, atmospheric feel. |
| Nuclear Assault Survive |
| Nucleus (USA-IL) Entity |
| Nuovo Testamento Love Lines |
| O' God the White Whale Never Knows Best |
| Oathbreaker Oathbreaker |
| Caro's gonna eat your face! Caro's gonna EAT YOUR FACE! Hardcore or metal or whatever its hard to type after caro bit my face off |
| Oathbreaker Maelstrom |
| Crust/sludge. A lot of these riffs sound straight-up ripped from Mastodon's first two albums ("Origin" sounds like its riffs were lifted almost directly from "Leviathan"), and similar to early Mastodon Caro's vocals are equally raw and (imo) fairly annoying. Despite having some definitely meh vocals, though, the band does know how to riff--even if like a third of their riffs are actually just Mastodon co-ops. It's nice, crusty sludge metal hardcore. If the vocals would've been better, (as on "Rheia") this would've been a fantastic debut. |
| Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros |
| Obituary Frozen in Time |
| Obituary The End Complete |
| Obliteration Black Death Horizon |
| Obolus (US) Demo |
| Obolus (US) Lament |
| Ever wondered what those atmospheric black metal bands would sound like if their songs were sliced down into concise, no-frills pieces of no more than seven minutes, max? This is what that sounds like. |
| Obscura Omnivium |
| Of Feather and Bone Bestial Hymns of Perversion |
| Off With Their Heads In Desolation |
| Old Graves Like Straining Boughs |
| Old Man's Child Slaves of the World |
| One Of Nine Eternal Sorcery |
| Opeth Orchid |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Opeth Pale Communion |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum |
| Opeth The Last Will and Testament |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Värähtelijä |
| black metal psychadelic whatever Swans. Too much slow not enough black. |
| Orchid Chaos Is Me |
| screamo power violence blast beats rage! I don't like the old school production values or else I'd have this rated way higher. Vicious punkkkk. |
| Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! |
| I think I like this one more than Chaos Is Me, but I'm still not big on skramz. Still tho, if you like skramz this is the skrammiest skramz pv hardcore puhnk, so prob worth a check or two, especially given its fifteen minute runtime. |
| Oskoreien Oskoreien |
| Osserp Els Nous Cants de la Sibil·la |
| ostraca Enemy |
| Blacked-emoviolence-gaze wew! |
| Outer Heaven Realms of Eternal Decay |
| Outer Heaven Infinite Psychic Depths |
| Outre-Tombe Nécrovortex |
| Ovlov Buds |
| Ozzy Osbourne Black Rain |
| Pan American Cloud Room, Glass Room |
| like really minimal-y, super chill ambient. It do. |
| Pan.Thy.Monium Dawn of Dreams |
| Pan.Thy.Monium Khaooohs and Kon-Fus-Ion |
| Panopticon On the Subject of Mortality |
| Panopticon Social Disservices |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light |
| Panopticon/Wheels Within Wheels II |
| Panphage Drengskapr |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling |
| Paramore This Is Why |
| Paysage d'Hiver Einsamkeit |
| Keyboard synth dark ambient. While the first two tracks are largely keyboard/synth and wind/nature samples, the third piece takes a more ritualistic direction, adding drums, and Wintherr's unmistakable shrieked vocals in the background. While not necessarily fantastic dark ambient, it's about what you should want from a black metal mastermind. 3.3/5 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Die Festung |
| Paysage d'Hiver Kristall und Isa |
| Weirdly enough I think the shorter runtimes really harm the atmospheres and pacing of these tracks. Paysage is best when chugging through slow-burning epics, whereas here a lot of these shorter pieces run the same tempos and feel really samey. The ending piece, "Kalte" feels the most Paysage-y, with its 12-minute runtime and more traditional format. |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis |
| Pelican Flickering Resonance |
| Pendant Make Me Know You Sweet |
| More like just fuzzy white noise with some synthy drone underneath. Doesn't really go anywhere but it's nice. |
| Perfumed Saturnine Angels Saccharine Curses Exhaled in the Wind |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Pestilence Spheres |
| Pestilence Testimony of the Ancients |
| Pestilence Hadeon |
| decent tech-y death. |
| Petrification Sever Sacred Light |
| Petrychor Effigies and Epitaphs |
| Pharmacist Flourishing Extremities On Unspoiled Mental Ground |
| Phobophilic Enveloping Absurdity |
| Phrenelith Desolate Endscape |
| Phrenelith Ashen Womb |
| Pig Destroyer Explosions in Ward 6 |
| Their first album isn't very nuanced or stylistically interesting, but it's still dirty grind that hits you like a sledge hammer. |
| Pig Destroyer Book Burner |
| Production is too flat and passionless. It doesn't sound heavy or abrasive, unlike their older stuff. |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pissgrave Malignant Worthlessness |
| i listened to a band called piss grave today |
| Pizza Death Reign of the Anticrust |
| Plebeian Grandstand Lowgazers |
| Plini Handmade Cities |
| Poldoore Blind Eyes |
| Hip hip hop |
| Popol Vuh Agape – Agape |
| Portrayal of Guilt We Are Always Alone |
| Possessed Seven Churches |
| Never been a big fan of ye olde school dm/bm or thrash for that matter, but this is OK. It's thrashy enough that it makes up for the awkward drumming and timing, and heavy and aggressive enough (vox r wow gud) to make up for the fact that it's largely thrash metal. Death metal m/ |
| Power Trip Manifest Decimation |
thrash metal trash metal woopaloopadoo
thrash metal trash metal howabout yoooou |
| Power Trip Nightmare Logic |
| Thrash metal that isn't awful, wow! Might more-or-less utilize Evile's philosophy of trying a bunch of styles and never really backtracking, but it's still solid thrash, if only that. |
| Predatory Light Death and the Twilight Hours |
| Predatory Void Seven Keys To The Discomfort of Being |
| Primitive Warfare Extinction Protocol |
| deathgrindy war metal. Detractors should be sent to the shadow realm |
| Profanatica Wreathed in Dead Angels |
| Progenie Terrestre Pura starCross |
| I'm in outer space! SPACE! SPACE |
| Promise and the Monster Feed The Fire |
| Good indie folk/dream pop/art whatever, but not great indie folk/dream whatever. |
| Propagandhi Victory Lap |
| melodic political thrash punk rock |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Ronnie Dio was here. |
| Pseudogod Deathwomb Catechesis |
| Public Service Broadcasting The Last Flight |
| Pure Reason Revolution Hammer & Anvil |
| Pure Reason Revolution Coming Up To Consciousness |
| Pyrolatrous Teneral |
| Solid no-frills thrashy black metal. At 52 minutes over 9 songs it's a bit long for music as one-dimensional as it is, though, which makes it a bit to sit through. The riffing styles are fairly diverse for "standard" black metal, though, taking a dash of Krallice or a sprinkle of Inquisition here or there to mix it up just enough for you to go "ooo, neat." |
| Pyrrhon The Mother of Virtues |
| Qualia Vignettes |
| Short, pretty, post-rock movements. |
| Rachel's Handwriting |
It's simple classical music with one 14-minute desolate ambient/post-rock track. While the rest
of the album isn't exceptionally exciting, "Full on Night" definitely pioneers the same kind of
desolate, empty post-rock sound (filled with train samples, no less) that GY!BE became famous for
fleshing out a few years later. 3.3/5 |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Much better than "The Bends" due to its experimentation (especially with electronic elements), but even Radiohead's style still isn't that enthralling. It really feels like that one pretentious album with all the flair and all the potential that just never delivers. There's a fun electronic bit here or there ("Treefingers"), but other than that I'm still yet to be impressed by these gods of indie-whatever rock music. |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Rafael Anton Irisarri Sirimiri |
| You're flying low over the barren fields of some scifi wasteland. And, somehow, still finding beauty in that desolate expanse as the machines hum and drone around you. |
| Rainbow Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow |
| Rainbow Long Live Rock 'N' Roll |
| Ramihrdus The Sorrow of the Evergreens |
| Rammstein Mutter |
| Rammstein Sehnsucht |
| Rammstein Untitled |
| Rammstein is Ramm-fine. Hue hue hue |
| Ratatat Ratatat |
| On the one hand it's a super chill, casual electronic album that's really easy to listen to. On the other hand, it's not a very gripping listen; it ends up being like most post-rock and ambient out there that is nice to listen to, but doesn't feel like it has much substance. There are no "wow" or that's cool!" moments that would justify a higher rating. It's a pleasing listen, but it's sort of just *there*. Excellent background music, though. |
| Ratatat LP3 |
| Pokemon. That is the joke. |
| Re-Buried Repulsive Nature |
| DEATH METAL! |
| Rebecca Black SALVATION |
| Red Fang Red Fang |
| Red Fang Murder The Mountains |
| Reeking Aura Blood And Bonemeal |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch |
| some of these are good some are not. Stuck between 2.5 and 3. /soundoff |
| Regional Justice Center Freedom Sweet Freedom |
| Regurgitation Tales of Necrophilia |
| Rhinocervs RH01 |
| Rhinocervs RH02 |
| Rhinocervs RH-08 "Untitled 1 & 2" |
| Rhinocervs RH-13 |
| Richard J. Birkin Vigils |
atmospheric classical with a little post-rock? While this album definitely sounds gorgeous, the
songs themselves seem to be too short and under-developed. This is the same problem Johann
Johannsson's "Orphee" had; each song seems to find an interesting idea or style but just sort of
ends before really capitalizing on it, hitting a crescendo, or really doing anything other than
sort of just *going along*. Individually these songs are great, but over the course of an album
the wasted potential becomes fairly obvious--and almost grating.
Still, though, if you want some super pretty [mostly] modern classical music, this is worth a
check. ~3.3/5 |
| Rina Sawayama Sawayama |
| 90s girl group and pop rock-worshiping dance-pop album that doesn't want to fully commit to replicating any one style or theme for a more cohesive package |
| Rina Sawayama Hold the Girl |
| Rippikoulu Musta Seremonia |
| Ripping Corpse Dreaming With the Dead |
| Rivers of Nihil The Work |
| Rivers of Nihil Rivers of Nihil |
| Rorcal Vilagvege |
| Rose Gray Louder, Please |
| Rotten Sound Apocalypse |
| Ruin Lust Demo 2011 |
| Ruin Lust Ruin Lust |
| This rules guys come check out the swirling darkness m/ |
| Rush 2112 |
| Saaad Deep/Float |
| Sabbat Envenom |
| Sacred Son The Foul Deth Of Engelond |
| Sacrilege GBG Lost in the Beauty You Slay |
| Not as good as the Storm of the Light's Bane-y "Fifth Season," but still a competent melodeath album. |
| Sadist Above the Light |
| Sadist Something to Pierce |
| Sadness Otro |
Woods of Desolation worship-y, sentimental-melody-driven depressive black metal. If you want some
black metal with melodies that could make even a new-age pianist go "awwww", then Sadness is for
you. 3.3/5 |
| Sadness Rain |
| Depressive atmospheric black metal with a lot of rain samples for added background noise. Kvlt. |
| Sadus A Vision of Misery |
| i like how by their third album Sadus had heard that "technical death metal" was a thing, so they just decided to do that too. yeah who needs thrash anyway m/// |
| Sadus Illusions |
| old school technical thrash/death metal. Never been that much into tech thrash so 3/5 not bad wew riffs screams heckin drum fills m/ |
| Sallow Moth Deathspore |
| Samael Ceremony Of Opposites |
| Samael Above |
| Samael Exodus |
| Cool black metal-made-industrial-ish reworkings, daddio. |
| Samael Lux Mundi |
| Sanguine Eagle Shores of Avarice |
| Sannhet So Numb |
| post rock sludge metal black no vocals yeah it's music alright. |
| Sarah Longfield Par Avion |
| Sarah Longfield Kikiria |
| Dancey Sarah is dancey. Bah duh bah autotune bum bum bloop. |
| Sarah Longfield Collapse // Expand |
| She sweeps and dleedle leedles all day ery day. It's technical jazzy melodic noodling every which way, but not in any sort of aurally offensive way. It's just kind of "there", not really going anywhere in particular. Still, it sounds pretty. So there's that. |
| Sarah Longfield Disparity |
| Sarah's not the best writer, but people had wanted her to do a clean-vocal jazzy/tech guitar album for some time now and, as one of those people, I enjoy "Disparity." It's dreamy layered vocals and sweepy fiddly guitars with the occasional jazz bit and saxophone (synthed or real idk) which sometimes gives it a sort of World's End Girlfriend vibe. It's a fun little ditty. |
| Sargeist Let The Devil In |
| Melodic black metal of the old school, not the Gothenburg brand. Pretty good stuff, though samey music like this always kind of grates on me--thus the 3/5. |
| Sarkrista Sworn to Profound Heresy |
| Sarpanitum Blessed Be My Brothers |
| Satan Suspended Sentence |
| Satan Cruel Magic |
| Satan Earth Infernal |
| Satanic Surfers Hero of Our Time |
| Satyricon Dark Medieval Times |
| this is a lot of slow Darkthrone but without enough guitar bite or cool riffs. |
| Satyricon Now, Diabolical |
| Satyricon The Shadowthrone |
| Lite [symphonic] black metal with keys. At this point Satyricon were sort of doing a "slower Emperor with fewer keys" kind of thing. It's not bad, but it doesn't sound "big" enough to have the punch you feel it should have. |
| Savage Necromancy Savage Necromancy |
| War metal! I think it could've sounded more aggressive, but the general production they've got going (particularly the guitar tones) is really good for war metal. |
| Scalp Domestic Extremity |
| Scar Symmetry The Unseen Empire |
| Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase I: Neohumanity |
| SELVA Doma |
| Selvans Saturnalia |
| Septicflesh The Great Mass |
| Sepulcher Panoptic Horror |
| Sepulchral Curse Crimson Moon Evocations |
| Sepultura Morbid Visions |
| black thrash death metal attack come to Braziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil |
| Sepultura Kairos |
| Serpentine Dominion Serpentine Dominion |
| Melodicy dm with the "attitude" of modern metal/metalcore. The shorter song lengths definitely help keep George's rather one-dimensional delivery from becoming stale or ever overstaying its welcome. The shorter lengths also help keep songs energetic and moving--something from which melodic death metal especially benefits. This is short and to the point, full of riffs, and no filler. Double plus good super metal super group. |
| Seven Spires Emerald Seas |
| while not exceptionally consistent, "Emerald Seas" is a fun symphonic/power metal album mostly carried by Adrienne Cowan's fantastic vocals. |
| Seventh Wonder The Testament |
| Shape of Despair Monotony Fields |
| Shining (SWE) X - Varg Utan Flock |
| Shining need to cut the dramatic nonsense and stick to blasting and their trademark heavy grooving riffs, but even with their standard silliness rVarg Utan Flock" is still a fairly competent black metal record. I've never been huge on Shining and their silliness, but this is fairly good. |
| Show Me A Dinosaur Plantgazer |
| While the first two tracks start very strongly, the album kind of loses steam afterward. Opener "Sunflower" starts particularly well, mimicking the mid-paced uplifting blackgazing of deafheaven with stunning accuracy. And then it kinda just keeps going, but not as effectively, making me progressively lose interest. The rhythm guitar also doesn't pack much punch, making the few black metal sections have much less bite than they really should to have a meaningful impact. It's not bad by any means, but it probably could've been shorter. |
| Shrouded Infinity Through Caverns Unknown |
| Sielunvihollinen Tuhontuoja |
| Sigh Infidel Art |
| Sigh essentially took the folky symphonic goofiness of Emperor and slammed it into the caveman riffs of Celtic Frost/Darkthrone to make a riffy, goofy black metal album. So it's exactly what you'd expect from a Japanese band ripping off Darkthrone. |
| Sigh Hangman's Hymn |
| SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes? |
| Silent Whale Becomes a Dream Requiem |
| post-rock swells are SWELL. |
| Sinister Feeling Sinister Feeling |
| Sinmara Aphotic Womb |
| I C Y . C H I L L . I C E L A N D I C . B L A C K . M E T A L . K V L T . [black metal] |
| Sinmara Within the Weaves of Infinity |
| Icelandic black metal |
| Sinmara Hvísl Stjarnanna |
| Sinmara/Misthyrming Split |
| Not Misthyrming's strongest material, but an adequate 2-track split of theirs with Sinmara. Black metal. |
| Sixpence None the Richer This Beautiful Mess |
| Skagos Anarchic |
| First track is a 4.2/5rSecond track is a 2.5/5rNext time they should make sure that each piece has the same recording sound before releasing it. Track 1 has perfect production and sounds wonderfully professional, whereas track 2 sounds extremely sloppy and is nowhere near as well-recorded as the previous track. |
| Skeletal Remains The Entombment Of Chaos |
| Skeletal Remains Fragments Of The Ageless |
| Skeleton Skeleton |
| Skeletonwitch Beyond the Permafrost |
| Skeletonwitch Breathing the Fire |
| Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light |
| Skullsmasher Rocket Hammer Brain Surgery |
| Skyfire Timeless Departure |
| Slaegt Ildsvanger |
| DARKTHRONE PUNKTHRONE |
| Slaegt Domus Mysterium |
| Slave Agent Silent Universe |
| Slayer Seasons In The Abyss |
| Slayer Hell Awaits |
| Slayer Haunting The Chapel |
| Slayer South Of Heaven |
| I get the reasoning behind softening their sound after the aggressiveness of their previous album--essentially just to prove that they could--but that still doesn't really work for me. Hearing Tom try to add more melody to his singing is nice in a "good for him" kind of way, but combined with the less powerful guitar sound these changes don't really mesh with what's still a pure thrash metal record. It kinda sounds like Reign with the edges rounded off a tad, which was what made this band so important in the first place. At least the guitar tone is the same, and the kick is still thumpy. |
| Slayer Christ Illusion |
| Slayer Repentless |
| LIVE FAAST. ON HIIIGH. REPENTLES. LET IT RIIIIDE. I cannot stop laughing at the abruptness of that riff change and those lyrics in the title track, but I find them charming in a silly metal way. Slayer is Slayer. |
| Slimelord Chytridiomycosis Relinquished |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Snorlax II |
| They're out here now naming death metal after gat dang pokemans! |
| Soccer Mommy Color Theory |
| Sodom In War And Pieces |
| Sofia Kourtesis Madres |
| Soilwork Natural Born Chaos |
| This is where Soilwork started to blend into the alt metal movement of the time, rubbing the edges off their melodic death metal sound in favor of something with more mainstream appeal (which to say, less harsh harsh vox and more cleans). Got about halfway through and was bored to tears, though. Definitely the beginning of the lull period in the band's history. |
| Soilwork The Ride Majestic |
| Never been huge on Soilwork or melodic death metal with vocals, and this kinda proves that point. Soilwork may have gotten their heads back in the game since The Panic Broadcast, but since then they haven't really progressed their style noticeably at all, so they're just basically just like a less dramatic Scar Symmetry. Still an enjoyable band, but the basic back-to-back harsh/clean/harsh/clean vocal styles and endless Gothenburg riffing just kinda get old after a while. |
| Soilwork Verkligheten |
| Way more alt metal power rock than I'd prefer in my melodeath, but it's still not a bad album. |
| Solar Temple Fertile Descent |
| very Drudkh-y black metal with a lot of psychadelic ambience thrown in. "Fertile Descent" is two 15+ minute epics of mostly repetitively hypnotic black metal a la Drudkh that even uses the same types of chord progressions to make their similarities to the Ukrainian group even more obvious. After wandering along at a rather rolling pace for a while, the band typically slows into weird psychedelic ambiance, then speeds up and continues the rolling black metal rhythms anew. The second track, "White Jaw" also features a brief foray into punk with some nice d-beat drumming, but unfortunately it doesn't last very long. Pretty decent album, though I've never been big on Drudkh's brand of playing the same riff for five minutes, so I'm unsurprisingly not gaga over Solar Temple, either. That said, don't let my bad opinion of Drudkh keep you from this band :-p |
| Solicitor Spectral Devastation |
| Sonic Syndicate Sonic Syndicate |
| Inoffensive "modern" melodeath that had me surprised by how much it didn't make me want to drop-kick a puppy 3/5. |
| Sophie Madeleine Silent Cynic |
| Sorcier Des Glaces Sorcier Des Glaces |
| Stylistically this is all over the place from atmospheric bm to Alcest-y shoegaze to straight Venom thrash riffing. The one-song (50 min) version is curious because of these wild stylistic transitions, but the proper multi-song version probably works much better. |
| Sorrow Plagues Homecoming |
| This is way better than the first album. Rhythm guitars still have that ambient-in-the-background feel most of the time, but the lead work has drastically improved. The melodic leads have an almost melodeath influence in their energy and prominence, which helps set Sorrow Plagues apart from most other bedroom blackgaze acts. 3.3/5 |
| Sorrows Sorrows EP |
| Sorrows Lethe |
| Spacemen 3 The Perfect Prescription |
| Spectral Voice Eroded Corridors of Unbeing |
| Spectral Voice Sparagmos |
| Spider God The Killing Room |
this is true crime black metal
this is spider goooooooooood |
| Spirit Possession Spirit Possession |
| Squid Bright Green Field |
| St. Vincent Marry Me |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy |
| I like St. Vincent but I don't like, likelike this album. Weirdo pop music that I feel isn't that consistent. |
| St. Vincent Masseduction |
| Though I do love Annie's weird funky guitarwork, it's her more somber tracks that are her better compositions. "Happy Birthday, Johnny" is a gut-wrencher of a piano ballad, and similarly piano-y "New York" while bit more humorously tongue-in-cheek goofy. I love piano nonsense though so I'm a bit biased toward those tracks. Either way, MASSEDUCTION is good fine addition to Annie's discog. 3.3/5? |
| Starer 18° Below the Horizon |
| Starer Starer |
| Starer The What It Is to Be |
| Starer Wind, Breeze, or Breath |
| Starer Remorse Defines Me |
| Starer Waking |
| Steve Roach The Passing |
| Another long-form ambient piece by Steve Roach. It's pretty, dreamy atmospheric background music. It goes and goes and goes, changing little/not at all as it creeps along its 59-minute runtime. You can listen to the first five minutes of melodic ups-and-downs on repeat for an hour and lose little to nothing instead of listening to the other 55 minutes of the piece. It's music you can sleep to, work to, zone out to, go about your day to. Eventually your subconscious forgets you're even hearing it, just like the humming of your nervous system or the running of blood in your ears. So it's Steve Roach doing Steve Roach and it's whatever you want it to be. |
| Stormkeep Tales of Othertime |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien |
| Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad |
| Stress Angel Punished by Nemesis |
| Subsonic Eye Nature of Things |
| Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning |
| Suffocation Suffocation |
| Suffocation Despise the Sun |
| This is death metal? OK, m/ m/ m/ m/ |
| Suffocation Hymns From the Apocrypha |
| Sun Worship Sun Worship (demo) |
| Sun Worship Pale Dawn |
| black metal. Not as good as the last album, but OK. Vocals are kinda weird. |
| Sunless Urraca |
| Sunnata Climbing the Colossus |
| Sunrise Patriot Motion Black Fellflower Stream |
| Suppression The Sorrow Of Soul Through Flesh |
| Supuration Cube 3 |
| Surut Surut |
| Susanne Sundfor Ten Love Songs |
| Susanne Sundfor Music For People In Trouble |
| Fantastic singer, but I wish her music would get a bit more... impassioned? Some of her tracks ("Mountaineers") play with loudness and atmosphere much more effectively than others, and this results in not only better songs but more passionate performances from Sundfor as well. This is the kind of album I want to rate higher because the artist's singing is so fantastic and the instrumentation so pretty, but I just don't love the songs enough. Hrm. 3.3/5. |
| Suss Ghost Box |
| a charming guitar-ambient album with american primitive/country influences. you don't hear that every day but it's nice nonetheless. |
| Sutekh Hexen Luciform |
| Sutekh Hexen Larvae |
Take some minimalistic black metal, some dark ambient, some fuzz, and some noise, and smash
them together. The resulting mass of misanthropic noise is this album. Or this band,
rather. |
| Sutekh Hexen Behind the Throne |
| Second track had less black metal than I'd have hoped, but the first track was entertaining. |
| Sutekh Hexen Become |
| A two-track EP of blackened noise. This is black metal buried under layers of buzz and distortion. After drowning out most of the coherence of the instruments, what we're left with is 28 minutes of angry, droning noise. If you listen closely enough you can hear some riffs beneath the almost constant wailing vocals, and if you listen even more intently you can almost hear what are probably actual drums. rThe first track, "Five Faces of Deacay" appears to be a rather fast black metal piece, whereas "The Voice : The Void" seems to take a slower, more "atmospheric" route. rIf you like your black metal angry, noisy and barely coherent, then this is for you! |
| Svarta Havet Månen Ska Lysa Din Väg |
| Svartidaudi Revelations of the Red Sword |
| More melodic, but not quite as good as Flesh Cathedral. |
| Svdestada Candela |
| Svffer Empathist |
| Swallow the Sun New Moon |
| Sweet Trip Walkers Beware! We Drive Into The Sun / Stab/Slow |
| Sylvan Esso What Now |
| This is electronico pop music I found while catching up on my Welcome to Night Vale. |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| System of a Down Protect The Land/Genocidal Humanoidz |
| t.A.T.u. 200 km/H In The Wrong Lane |
| Taake Hordalands Doedskvad |
| Taake Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik |
| Talk Talk It's My Life |
| It's pop. It's rock. It's whatever. |
| Talk Talk The Colour of Spring |
| Not as good as the albums to follow, but "The Colour of Spring" is still fine, super chill art pop. |
| Tankard Chemical Invasion |
| Tape Loop Orchestra Go Straight Towards the Light of All That You Love |
| Droning ambient with stuff in the background. Not wholly engaging or full enough, but still pretty OK. |
| Tape Loop Orchestra The Invisibles |
| Droning ambient with stuff in the background. Not wholly engaging or full enough, but still pretty OK. |
| Taravana A Visible Chill |
| Rating #1200. Cool bm-ish-ness of melodies. |
| Tardigrada Widrstand |
| Taylor Swift Folklore |
| Teethgrinder Nihilism |
| blast blast grindcore blast crunchy crunch. Need to revisit tho. |
| Teitanblood Purging Tongues |
| Teitanblood Death |
| DEATH METAL |
| Tentacult Lacerating Pattern |
| Tenue Territorios |
| screamo/blackgaze in one 29-minute track. It's OK! |
| Terra Deep Inamorata |
| Terrifier Trample the Weak, Devour the Dead |
| Terzij de Horde A Rage of Rapture Against the Dying of Light |
| Testament Practice What You Preach |
| Testament Souls of Black |
| Testament Demonic |
| Testament Low |
| Thantifaxath Sacred White Noise |
| Thaw Thaw |
| The Album Leaf In A Safe Place |
| This is some of the cutest, most laid-back casual twinkly post-rock I've ever heard. It's also kind of emotionally uninteresting and on a critical level, relatively boring for the genre. Still tho: twinkles and cuteness. 3/5 |
| The American Dollar A Memory Stream |
| Piano-y post-rock. It's good, but it hits me less hard than Mogwai. |
| The American Dollar The Technicolour Sleep |
| background post-rock. It's a good time--not a great time, but a good one. A 3/5 good time. Laid-back, woah. Melodies huuuahh. |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For Disappointment |
| The Banner Frailty |
| hardcore punk. Angry noises. |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| The Beach Boys Sunflower |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma |
| this is OKAY melodeath if you like your melodeath with heaps of american metalism and bad skremz vox instead of good melodeath raspsps like on the previous better album. There are also breakdowns now and while they don't actually harm the songwriting at all I'm still docking points for it on principal. |
| The Caretaker Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage 2 |
| Big band nostalgia tape loop ambient. Usually time moves on without us, but for The Caretaker, he'll move on without time. |
| The Chasm Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm |
| The Chasm Conjuration of the Spectral Empire |
| The Chasm Procession to the Infraworld |
| the drums on this are so fucking atrocious they can almost be written off as intentional parody. |
| The Crown Crowned in Terror |
| The Crown Royal Destroyer |
| I am the death metal band !! |
| The Dear Hunter Antimai |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne |
| Respectable, but a definite step down from the Zombie EP. |
| The Devil Wears Prada ZII |
| The Dirty Nil Fuck Art |
| The Duskfall Frailty |
| The Grindmother Age Of Destruction |
| The HIRS Collective We're Still Here |
| The Hyacinth Act Our Sympathy |
| ambient whatever. |
| The Japanese House Good At Falling |
| The Lay Llamas Ostro |
| The Menzingers Hello Exile |
| The Necks Three |
| The Night Flight Orchestra Aeromantic II |
| The Oh Hellos Eurus |
| o hai hello. folk tunes |
| The Order of Chaos Night Terror |
| What you'd expect from a power/thrash hybrid; flashy guitars, flashy vocals, flashy solos. It's catchy and fun, and a little bit cheesy--especially lyrically--but it's a nice EP. And performing both harsh and clean vocals, Amanda Kiernan is a strong vocalist whose talents are definitely better served in this project than Into Eternity; TOoC actually seem to really be single-minded in the direction of their songwriting, which helps meld the power/thrash, and clean/harsh styles together rather seamlessly. |
| The Pillows Happy Bivouac |
| The Secret Disintoxication |
| Angry crust that's too erratic and Converg-y. Not bad, but definitely the precursor to the much darker and more organized "Solve Et Coagula." |
| The Secret Luce |
| Someone listened to early Lamb of God once and decided to make a band :3 Nasty crusty metal/core stuff. |
| The Secret Lux Tenebris |
| this is crush, but not blast. Disappoint. |
| The Spirit Of Clarity and Galactic Structures |
| The Sundays Blind |
| The Tubs Cotton Crown |
| The Wonder Years The Upsides |
| OK pop punk. Vocals are kind of annoying and this album is vastly inferior to the two albums that would follow it. Band aged very well, at least. |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven |
| Maybe I'm pining for a heavily biased sense of infatuation I have with The Greatest Generation, maybe I'm just too old. Idk, but "No Closer to Heaven" seems like the same band as before, just quite a few steps down. It's the same style, but I just can't be assed to care this time for some reason. |
| They Dream By Day Limbo |
| The problem with a post-rock/ambient record like this isn't its production or style so much as it is its runtime--with five songs, the album only runs for 11 minutes. All of these tracks feel like snippets rather than fully developed pieces, and it's sort of aggravating to know how good this project could be if songs were just given room to breathe properly instead of being relegated to what are essentially two-minute atmospheric interludes. |
| Thorns Trøndertun |
| MAYHEM. |
| Thorr's Hammer Dommedagsnatt |
| rotten 90's death doom. For headbanging slowly. Tho the studio tracks are all fairly raw in the first place, the final (live) track has my favorite atmosphere, "Mellom Galgene's" fuzz and even dirtier guitar booms working to fill up all the space and create something a little more suffocating. That, and it reminds me a lot of future Dispirit tracks, which is always a plus. |
| Three Trapped Tigers Silent Earthling |
| that jazzy math rock/post-rock hybrid woooo. |
| Thulcandra Fallen Angel's Dominion |
| Obvious Dissection worship/plagiarism that just doesn't stand up to the former black metal masters. Worth a listen if you enjoy a hit of nostalgia every now and again, but not very spectacular on its own. |
| Thulcandra Under a Frozen Sun |
| Thulcandra still feel like Dissection's little (almost identical) brother, but they still implement enough modernity to the classic bm/dm style to make it sound a little fresh in subtle ways. They continue to rip off old Dissection riffs and melodies while putting their own little spins on them, but they never really write anything that feels compelling on their own; if I really like a track, it's because "that one riff" is ripped straight from SotLB from a song I also like, not purely because Thulcandra can write excellent riffs on their own. It's good, ya know, but it can't hold a candle to the real Dissection--but I suppose it works as a means to scratching a very specific itch. |
| Thulcandra Hail The Abyss |
| Thyrane Hypnotic |
| OK blackened cyber industrial metal jams. |
| Thyrane Black Harmony |
| pretty OK riffy late-90's symphonic black metal. Unfortunately it relatively pales in comparison to the group's later industrial black metal efforts. |
| Tim Hecker Konoyo |
| Timeghoul Panaramic Twilight |
| Timeghoul Tumultuous Travelings |
| Timeghoul 1992-1994 Discography |
| toe For Long Tomorrow |
| I mean post-rock drums melodies yeah but does it blend? Not with me, it dun't. |
| toe Hear You |
| Post-rock elevator music. It's generally pleasing but it never makes any lasting impact on you. You listen to the whole thing and when done aren't able to explain from memory what you just heard. |
| Together to the Stars As We Wither |
| Together to the Stars The Fragile Silence |
| Toluca Act I |
| Toluca Memoria |
| Tomb Mold Primordial Malignity |
| Their first demo was a bit more dirty and lo-fi which made it sound much harsher (which I liked), but Primordial Malignity isn't bad for dirty-ish death metal. Cool riffs, man. Cool. Riffs. |
| Tomb Mold Manor of Infinite Forms |
| Tomb Mold Cerulean Salvation |
| Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance |
| For those nervous about the Moldybois putting out another new album so quickly: fear not; the band's as solid as ever. I'm not huge on their old school death metal style (or osdm in general), but this at least is up to par (if not slightly better than?) with their previous releases. |
| Tomb Mold Aperture of Body |
| Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit |
| there's this odd muffling sound on the drums that makes the snare have this clompy snap to it that sounds both slightly sloppy and also too loud in the mix. I don't like it and it just really grates on me the whole record. Otherwise this is fine proggy death metal. I don't mind them trying to go more Blood Incantation-y and also do the "what if heavy osdm was also prog" thing, but the aforementioned mixing (why are the guitars so low compared to the drums?) leaves something to be desired. |
| Tombs Savage Gold |
| Torche Harmonicraft |
| The first half of this album is fantastic but then it kinda peters out. Happy sludge metal? |
| Torn The Fuck Apart Kill. Bury. Repeat. |
| very faithful Cannibal Corpse and Hate Eternal worship. Solid chunk of death metal. |
| Torso Build and Break |
| PUNK ROCK |
| Tortoise Its All Around You |
| Tortoise Beacons of Ancestorship |
| Torture Rack Barbaric Persecution |
| Torture Rack Primeval Onslaught |
| Totem Skin Still Waters Run Deep |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me |
| Toughness Black Respite of Oblivion |
| Toxic Holocaust An Overdose of Death... |
| Toxic Holocaust Hell on Earth |
| Toxic Holocaust Evil Never Dies |
| black thrash liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiives! |
| Toxic Holocaust Chemistry of Consciousness |
| old school blackened thrash/crossover. Fun jams riff riff riff |
| Toxik Death Sepulchral Demons |
| Tragedy Vengeance |
| Sludgy punk vox melodic punk! |
| Tragedy Tragedy |
| hardc0re punk r0ck |
| Trap Them Seizures In Barren Praise |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft |
| Trha mã Héshiva õn dahh Khata trhândlha vand... |
| Trha Vat Gëlénva!!! |
| somehow clearer than much of the previous discog, but still having that nice round muffle over everything. Tho it also must be pointed out that "vat g?l?nva!!!" does forget itself at times, the uplifting synth and melodic work from Sadness occasionally bleeding through to make you forget which project you're currently hearing--although this small change of style does also allow Trha to expand itself slightly beyond its typical lo-fi atmoblack/dungeon synth style. vat g?l?nva!!! is the most I've enjoyed a Trha project in a while now, it's a lot more straightforward riffy black metal, but still with the unorthodox "stapling-together of riffs" compositional style that reminds more of the start-stop nature of grindcore than traditional black metal. |
| Trha Im Ëmat Gan Líeshtam Namvajno |
| Trha alëce iΩic |
| Trha av◊ëlajnt◊ë£ hinnem nihre |
| Trha nêbamΩejn |
| Triangulo de Amor Bizarro Salve Discordia |
| Weird shoegazey rock junk |
| Tribal Gaze The Nine Choirs |
| Tribulation Hamartia |
| Tribulation Sub Rosa In Æternum |
| Trip the Witch Trip the Witch |
| Triptykon Eparistera Daimones |
| Triptykon Melana Chasmata |
| Triste L'Hiver Faire un geste |
| It's black metal with weird 80's new wave(?) popiness. It's weird... but not at all as surprising as I would've expected. It's not an amazing album, but it does a lot right and surely shows a band going in the right direction. Tighten up the screws, add some more variation to the black metal riffing, and this could be very interesting in the future. I mean, more than it is now. |
| Trna Pattern Of Infinity |
| Take all the long, drawn-out hypnotic black metal sections from WitTR and Cascadian bm and make a 40-minute instrumental album out of them. That's basically what's going on here. The lack of vocals definitely makes the longer/repeated sections a little more difficult to sit through, but if you're looking for some long-winded atmospheric bm, then you should definitely look into Trna's debut. It's not like WitTR are going to put out a bm record any time soon, anyway, so you might as well. |
| Truchlo Strzygi Gwiezdny Demon |
| Truckfighters Universe |
| Tsjuder Helvegr |
| Twice Fancy You |
| dec pop music *o* |
| Twilight III: Beneath Trident's Tomb |
| It's out there. Go get it. |
| Twilight Trident Death Rattle |
| Basically the b-sides of their last album, these three pieces are actually fairly good. I don't really feel like going back to "Beneath Trident's Tomb" to compare, but on memory alone these sound fairly strong compared to the content that actually made it to the finished LP. Not "Monument to Time End" strong, but well-produced, adequately structured, good sounding black metal. 3.3/5 |
| Twilight Fauna The Year the Stars Fell |
Lo-fi, super reverby atmospheric-ish black metal with banjo acoustic moments. Banjos, because why
not. At this point I don't really care how amateurishly Twilight Fauna might play their
instruments (and oh boy, you can tell he's no master banjo player), since they've been able to
release a record that is not only listenable, but is enjoyable to boot. The black metal's loud
and noisy and the banjo-playing is really rudimentary, but it's organized alright and is just
messy enough to work. This is surprisingly OK given the rest of the project's highly
disappointing back catalog of atmospheric mumbo jumbo.
edit: I think I like the black metal portions because they remind me a lot of Dispirit. So you
should check out Dispirit if you like the way this noisy junk sounds. Or just in general. Check
Dispirit. DISPIRIT. |
| Two People Second Body |
| Tycho Epoch |
| Aesthetically pleasing, but not much else? |
| Tyranny Aeons in Tectonic Interment |
| CRUSHING DEATH OF DOOOOOOOOOM. |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire |
| Ulcerate The Coming of Genocide (Demo Comp) |
| This brings teh br00tz like some death metal frankenstein of old Cryptosy and Suffocation. |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All |
| Ulcerate Vermis |
| Yo guys this leakkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Ulcerate Cutting the Throat of God |
| Ultha Converging Sins |
| A bit too weighty and meandering, but hard-hitting when it wants to actually hit. Black metal. |
| Ulthar Cosmovore |
| Ulthar Providence |
| Ulver Kveldssanger |
| Unadulterated hippy garbage for norwegian forest nymphs. Whatever, 3/5. |
| Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X |
| Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP |
| Exceptionally long experimental/post-rock. While good, it's still a lot to take in. |
| Ulver Sic Transit Gloria Mundi |
| wizard pop majick |
| Undergang Misantropologi |
| Undergang De syv stadier af fordærv |
| Underling Crows |
| rawer-rish post-bm that was better raw the first time. Much better than the icky EP that followed. |
| Universally Estranged Reared Up In Spectral Predation |
| (progressive) death metal a la Blood Incantation. Thumpy drums, old school unga bunga riffs. The point of distinction here from other osdm Blood Incantation/Timeghoul imitators is that this band/solo artist mostly writes groovy prog death in under four-minute tracks as opposed to the traditional 6-12+ epics. |
| Universally Estranged Dimension of Deviant Clusters |
| (progressive) death metal a la Blood Incantation. Thumpy drums, old school unga bunga riffs. The point of distinction here from other osdm Blood Incantation/Timeghoul imitators is that this band/solo artist mostly writes groovy prog death in under four-minute tracks as opposed to the traditional 6-12+ epics. |
| Unlucky Morpheus Unfinished |
| japanese Epica goes kinda hrrd |
| Unreqvited Disquiet |
Unreqvited set out to be this year's Ghost Bath--and they succeed. Thankfully, their sound
quality and songwriting are much more consistent and well-balance, making them a bit superior to
last year's depressive blackgaze darlings. |
| Unru Demo MMXIII |
| UnSun The End Of Life |
| Upon Stone Dead Mother Moon |
| Urfaust Einsiedler |
| I guess this is OK? atmospheric black metal. |
| Urfaust Trúbadóirí Ólta an Diabhail |
| Atmospheric black metal. |
| Urfaust Empty Space Meditation |
| hey there are harsh vox this time wooo. Almost makes up for how annoyingly one-dimensional the non-harsh vox are. |
| Vader The Beast |
| Vader Tibi et Igni |
| Slaaaye---VADERRRRRRR! Death thrash jams. |
| Vader The Empire |
| riffs yeah. blast o. death metal mmhmm. vaders yep. |
| Valdrin Throne of the Lunar Soul |
| Vales Clarity |
| Valkyrja Contamination |
| i used to dig this black metal way back in the day boyo. |
| Vampire Vampire |
| black thrash liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiives! |
| Vampire Weekend Only God Was Above Us |
| Vansidian Reflecting the Shadows |
| this is good melodic death metal but it's also power metal, so, hmmmm |
| Vanum Burning Arrow |
| Vanum's style previously wasn't very gripping, and neither is their second release; the Burning Arrow EP. This album seems to take a bit more from the Ash Borer side, adding more prominent synth lines and that distinctive modern Ash Borer guitar sound (imo). It's not a particularly balanced sound, which is the main problem Vanum has. During slower sections both guitars are able to shine next to each other, doing whatever melodic work they feel like, but during faster sections their tremolo riffs lack heft and don't really pull the songs along like they should. While the Krallice-iness of the twin guitarring is an interesting addition to their sound, it doesn't really do much for them as a black metal act. I suppose this release sounds better than the debut production-wise, but there's still a bit that could/should be tweaked so as to make Vanum as powerful as they ought to be. |
| Vanum Ageless Fire |
| Varathron The Crimson Temple |
| Vastum Hole Below |
| Vastum Orificial Purge |
| Vastum Inward To Gethsemane |
| Vaticinal Rites Cascading Memories of Immortality |
| Vattnet Demo |
| Ved Buens Ende Those who Caress the Pale |
| Vein.fm Errorzone |
| Nu metal metalcore. The down-tuned pounding of Slipknot and the frantic violence of hardcore, with barely any clean singing nonsense or repetitive breakdowns. Vein essentially took all the good parts of two generic styles and just smashed them together in a way that yields a surprising amount of success. |
| Vemod (NO) Venter pa Stormene |
| pretty good atmospheric bm but the ambient tracks are too long and too meh. |
| Vemod (NO) The Deepening |
| Vengeful The Omnipresent Curse |
| Vengeful Karma MMXIII |
| Venom Welcome to Hell |
| Venom Prison Erebos |
| Venom Prison listen to a lot of Lamb of God and then do a deathened metalcore album that is pretty good. |
| Venomspitter Venomspitter |
| Vermilia Ruska |
| Verwoed De Val |
| Verwoed The Mother |
| Verwustung When Light Broke the Stars, Humanity Rejected Us |
| VI De Praestigiis Angelorum |
| Vicious Blossom You Breathe Inside Of Me |
| Victory Over The Sun Nowherer |
| I hate microtonal sounds but I don't completely hate this microtonal black-ish metal, take that however you will. |
| Viikate Unholan urut |
| Vile Gash Deluded |
| dirty punk |
| Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter |
| Vintersorg Cosmic Genesis |
| Fun-ish prog/epic-ish folk metal. I feel like the songs are a bit repetitive with their influence on power choruses, and the long 50-minute runtime is also a bit of a bummer. I'm not huge on the cleans, and they kind of get old after a while. They're good cleans, but the constant "epic dramatic folk singing" gets a bit grating after a while. That, and there's not enough black metal/bm riffing here. |
| Violet Cold Magic Night |
| Virvum Illuminance |
| melodic tech death with lots of flashy stuff and some interesting ambient stuff. Noodles and shreds for days but not one of the better tech death albums from this year. But I'm not even huge on dm so what do I know this is prob a 4/5 lmao. It's fun tho so cheq it. |
| VoidCeremony Threads of Unknowing |
| Volahn/Xaxamatza Gods of Pandemonium |
| 3.3/5 black metal. I like it when Volahn write songs like this and the Xaxamatza side isn't too shabby, either. Solid jams. Hail Black Twilight. |
| Volcanic Queen Lumyth |
| Volcanic Queen The Structure of Hidden Fire |
| Noisy but not noise, loopy but not looped. Noisy ambient sound manipulation music. There's always something going on, some type of melodicism working underneath varying levels of static noise, and the occasional (too loud) electronic beat. |
| Volcanic Queen Moments Captured in a Different Light |
| ambient dream fuzz |
| Vreid Lifehunger |
| Vysoké Čelo Űrutazás |
| ambient space folk IN SPACE. Queue for a re-listen. |
| Waldgefluster Dahoam |
| War Ripper Hellstorm |
| black thrash liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiives! |
| Watain Lawless Darkness |
| Watain The Agony and Ecstasy of Watain |
| Watchtower Concepts of Math: Book One |
| The instrumental side of Concepts of Math is fun technical thrash, but vocally and lyrically this EP isn't quite as enjoyable. The vocals remind of Bruce Dickinson crossed with Dave Mustaine's cheesy nerd lyrics. I get it; you like numbers and decimals. |
| Waxahatchee American Weekend |
| I really dig the intimate lofi-ity, but I feel like it still could've been better. Still tho Waxahatchee best hatchee. |
| Waxahatchee Cerulean Salt |
| This one was the least good of the trilogy, but it totes as still good. |
| Waxahatchee Ivy Tripp |
| This one's bouncy and happy hey! Dig dig dig it. |
| Waxahatchee Out in the Storm |
| Wayfarer American Gothic |
| Weald and Woe Far From the Light of Heaven |
| Weezer Weezer |
| When Woods Make Graves This Patch Of Dirt Where Nothing Grows |
| I like how "ghostly" and thin everything sounds on this record. The drum machine sound is still awful but the overall sound and songwriting is pretty decent. |
| When Woods Make Graves This Forest That Will Eclipse The Sky |
Three tracks that weren't included on This Patch Of Dirt Where Nothing Grows were
rewritten/rerecorded and slapped together for this LP. This guy doesn't seem to disappoint,
even if all of his songs have that "guitar plugged directly into computer" sound and the
drums are obviously programmed. WWMG continue to try combining the driving riffs of WitTR
with some of the fuzzy atmosphere of Paysage D'Hiver. Consistently good material. |
| When Woods Make Graves This Light That Decays |
This time, WWMG slows things down a bit and tries his hand at much more straightforward WitTR
worship, employing a Two Hunters-heavy atmospheric style of treble-heavy lo-fi-ish black metal.
While definitely lifting most of its ideas from Two Hunters, "This Light that Decays" is still
fairly competent on its own. Sure, its use of chimes and minimalist guitar-lead ambient passages
are basically plagiarism, but when everything is suffocated under loads of treble and synthetic
noise, it still kinda feels like its own thing. Or at least, it feels "its own" enough to not
feel like a complete plagiarism attempt. It's not fantastic atmos bm, but for what it is it's
pretty OK. If you can get past the really poor guitar sound (lo-fi, treble-heavy, lots of reverb
and a really echoy tin sound), the songwriting's actually pretty decent. |
| When Woods Make Graves Mellifluous Throes |
| Whirr Distressor |
| Whirr June |
| Whirr Pipe Dreams |
| White Stones Dancing Into Oblivion |
| This came to my attention when looking for more proggy death metal and I noted that one of the first tracks had a nice, groovy heavy metal riff. Turns out this is just Ihsahn with more death metal-y vocals; it's just groovy prog metal. Not a bad thing either. FFO of Tribulation and all that other prog/metal with growled vocals type stuff. |
| Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed |
2.5-3.0
It's good-ish but it's not like you know "wow bm" but rather just "bm" without the "wow"
part ifyouknowwhatImean. There's just something about the production that just doesn't do
it for me. It's one of those times where something is just "off" by a tiny bit to make you
not like it, though you think you reasonably should like it. |
| Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed II |
| black metal it's OK, but it rips off other bands and isn't that good. |
| Wife Standard Nature |
| Glitch hop. Surprisingly good material from an artist whose previous works never really did it for me. Glitchy melodic electronic junk. |
| Wildernessking The Writing of Gods in the Sand |
| Wildernessking Mystical Future |
| William Basinski Cascade |
| It sounds like a tape playing the same sad piano melody bobbing in the waves of the ocean, submerging and reemerging, muffling and clarifying, again and again. |
| William Fitzsimmons Lions |
| Wim Mertens Struggle for Pleasure |
| Windhand Soma |
| Windswept Visionaire |
| 3/4 of Drudkh do another side project that sounds very much like Drudkh, but without the fast parts; Windswept's "Visionaire" features two 10+ minute pieces of mid-paced Drudkh-ian atmospheric black metal, or more simply "Drudkh without the fast parts". It's melodic and hynoptic, but given the band use even fewer dynamics than their notably repetitive father project, "Visionaire" finds itself being highly samey after a while--there are only so many times you can listen to the same riff be played before it starts to grate on you, no matter how atmospheric or pretty it all is. Still, though, Windswept is the Drudkh boys being Drudkh boys, and if those darn Drudkhs can do anything it's slap together two riffs and make a listenable black metal track out of them, and they definitely do that here. Yeehaw. |
| Winterfylleth The Dark Hereafter |
"The Dark Hereafter" is a bummer for multiple reasons:
1. It's too short.
2. Quite a bit of the runtime either isn't new material or isn't Winterfylleth's material.
3. They did a cover of one of the most boring black metal-era Ulver songs, and didn't make it any
more interesting.
4. Seriously why did they record an almost perfect impersonation instead of injecting themselves
into the track?
Despite those pretty glaring faults, Winterfylleth's newest output isn't that bad. In fact, it's
fairly decent--crappy Ulver cover aside. It's solid-ish epic/folk/black metal; it's just not
amazing, and there's not enough original material to make it as good as previous outputs. |
| Wintersun Time I |
| A Song of Winter +4/5rLand of Snow and Sorrow 3.3/5rTime 3/5r |
| Wintersun The Forest Seasons |
| The synths and fancy symphonic crap is too loud in the mix--as everyone else has noted--and really underplays the power of the guitars, making a lot of this sound like cheap symphonic black metal. It's rather aesthetically pleasing music but the mix makes it feel so boring it's easy to forget you're even listening to it, and tracks don't have any impact on you after they've finished--especially since they're basically all SLOOOOOW. The guitars just sort of fuzz in the background as the songs slowly roll along for ten minutes each. This isn't horrible but it's definitely poorly mixed, has lots of pacing problems, and a serious shortage of actual riffs. It seems really obvious how quickly they just slapped these songs together now. :| |
| Witch In Her Tomb Maleficus Maleficarum |
| This is stupidly short, but exceedingly good. Really raw and abrasive, yet also unabashedly melodic at points. Very good thing yes. |
| Witchery Symphony for the Devil |
| Witchfinder General Friends Of Hell |
| Witchfinder General Death Penalty |
| With the End in Mind Tides of Fire |
| I think the bass is too loud and overpowers the guitars too much, but otherwise it's good cascadian black metal. |
| Witherscape The New Tomorrow |
| It's basically a more prog metal-ish Nightingale with a dash of death metal vocals for good measure. It's not amazing, but if you liked Swano's stuff before you'll dig this. |
| Wodensthrone Curse |
| Woe Withdrawal |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage |
| I don't know, man. I don't know. |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite |
| The individual tracks are nice, but they don't seem very cohesive when it comes to the compiling of this album. This makes sense since each track is basically just a reinvention and expansion of the synth, keyboard, and guitar melodies from Celestial Lineage and not wholly new works themselves. Because each track comes from a different origin they all seem fairly different, and this is what makes them not seem very cohesive together. If certain ideas from certain tracks had been fleshed out into truly their own pieces not simply based on old CL ideas, then Celestite might have been more functional as a standalone ambient record. As-is, though, it's still alright--just nothing amazing because nothing really feels completed. It's just the same melodies from CL expanded enough to justify calling them each their own respective new tracks. The original melodies were of WitTR quality, though, so even reinvented the product is at least aesthetically pleasing, if only just that. |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana |
| the guitars sound like old wittr but they're lower in the mix and have no emphasis on the rhythm now, it's all about atmospherics, which does not make for a very compelling atmo-black album of the wittr sort. |
| Wolvhammer The Obsidian Plains |
| Wolvhammer The Monuments of Ash and Bone |
| Woods of Desolation The Falling Tide |
| Worm Foreverglade |
| Wormrot Dirge |
| Wormrot Noise |
| Wormrot Voices |
| Biquette the grindcore goat may be gone, but grind will live on. #makegrindgreatagain |
| Wormrot Hiss |
| Wormrot Abuse (Deluxe Reissue) |
| Wormwitch Heaven that Dwells Within |
| Wormwitch Wolf Hex |
| Wormwood The Star |
| Wounds of Recollection Warm Glow of the End of Everything |
| Wrathprayer The Sun of Moloch: The Sublimation of Sulphur's... |
| X Japan Art of Life |
| X Japan Jealousy |
| The speed metal is great, but all the cheesy 80's hair metal influences makes me cringe. |
| Xasthur Subliminal Genocide |
| Xenoblight Procreation |
| XO Heart |
| Begins on a rather awkward foot sounding more like MBV than anyone (at this point) would really like, but after a few tracks the band seem to find their footing and rip off on their legendary forefathers a little bit less. It's no Loveless by any means, but it's still pretty enjoyable shoegaze. |
| Xothist Simulacrum |
| Yellow Eyes Sick With Bloom |
| It just doesn't give me that "oomph" like their other releases did. Same winding riffs and chaotic rhythms, but not as much grabs you this time around. |
| Yellow Eyes Stillicide |
| Not as good as The Desert Mourns, but still a fairly good bm EP. |
| Yellow Eyes Immersion Trench Reverie |
| I dunno this is like OK black metal? If you've jammed Yellow Eyes before you should know exactly what you're in for since their style has changed almost 0% since their first release; this is slightly technical (read: hectic sounding) black metal with lots of sharp melodies and chord changes. Yet again, it feels like Krallice if Krallice actually wanted to play simple black metal. And, yet again, I don't like it as much as their previous few works. |
| Yellow Eyes Rare Field Ceiling |
| Yellow Eyes Master’s Murmur |
| Yellowcard Southern Air |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss |
| Yndi Halda's oft-beloved debut may be an incredibly pretty example of string-filled crescendo-y post-rock, but it just feels homogeneous to me. It's like they took a half dozen different stereotypical post-rock-isms and stretched them all out into a sixty-minute record without deviating from the central style, adding new ideas, or experimenting at all. While some of the melodies are great, it all feels very "safe" and predictable. It's pretty, sure, but on repeated listens it just kind of sounds... dull. Which is weird given I love post-rock like this and apparently gave their second record ("Under Summer") a 7/10. Screw me, right? |
| Yorushika Magic Lantern |
| Young and in the Way I Am Not What I Am |
| Young and in the Way When Life Comes to Death |
| Ysyry Mollvun Ysyry Mollvün |
| Yumi Zouma Yumi Zouma |
| Yumi Zouma II |
| Yves Tumor Experiencing the Deposit of Faith |
| Huh. Ambient or something. Huh. |
| Yvette Young Acoustics |
| Yvette got them mad finger pickin' skills. |
| Zeal and Ardor Devil is Fine |
It's a fun--albeit kinda dumb--record. Described as "American slave and black metal" the
record features mostly chants and bluesy "slave" singing with metal moments woven in for
points of contrast and climax. There's just something evil about the visions this music
conjures up--of black men on a chain gang singing soulful odes to Satan, or their wishing
death upon holy men, and it makes the record so strangely satisfying. While the metal
moments aren't spectacularly arranged (and could've been a bit louder in the mix, tbh), they
serve their purpose of highlighting the vocals fairly well. It's a short record, but it's
satisfying in a really weird way just because of how "out there" it is, conceptually. |
| Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit |
| Zyklon Aeon |
| Zyklon-B Blood Must Be Shed |
| The kind of hyper blasty bm that actually needs better-than-lo-fi production values to have the impact it clearly wants to--and should--have. |
| 2.5 average |
| A Diadem of Dead Stars The Mist Bearer |
| WitTR worship with some chanting vocals to make it a little bit different than your standard cookie-cutter Cascadian band. Decent beginning point for a band that obviously wants to take their beginning style and add new influences to make a style their own. If they expand upon and diversify their style through future release, they could be a band to watch out for. They need to heavily grow their style, though. |
| A Pregnant Light The Feast of Clipped Wings |
This has all the elements of APL that I like, but presented in a much more lo-fi/raw/amateurish
way than that to which I'm used, which definitely takes away from the experience. Back in 2011,
APL was still finding its footing and--I presume--figuring out how best to record its music. If
this'd been recorded within the last year or so, I'm sure it would've been much better. But, as
is, it's simply a snapshot of the early days of a project that would become so much better in
time. And I'm OK with that. |
| A Pregnant Light Devotion Unlaced |
| The mixing on this album is so weird; on the first track the drums (the toms and the bass drum) thump louder than anything else, driving the guitars into the background. On later tracks the opposite occurs with them pushed way into the back with the guitars then too loud. Musically it's pretty solid, but as a package it's a bit inconsistent sonically. "Devotion Unlaced" feels like a compilation of b-sides from different sessions that nobody bothered to re-mix in order to make them feel cohesive. |
| Abigail Williams In the Absence of Light |
| Absinthe Syncope Lucid Dreaming On 4g's of Dilaudid |
| AC/DC Ballbreaker |
| AC/DC Stiff Upper Lip |
| AC/DC Blow Up Your Video |
| AC/DC Fly On The Wall |
| AC/DC Power Up |
| Acronym June |
Every track seems to take one individual idea or one beat and slowly evolve it over the course of
five-ish minutes. There's little to tie the tracks together because they all seem to use, more-
or-less, the same structuring, which gets old pretty quickly. Decent ambient. |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere |
| This has everything an Agalloch album should have, organized like an Agalloch album should be, but it just doesn't work. For some reason it's like a mimic of the band, lacking the soul of the original. By all rights this should be another great Agalloch record but for some reason it just doesn't move me at all. |
| Alghazanth Behind the Frozen Forest |
crude raw bm but that's never really been my bag. On the plus side, they got much better
with time. |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence |
| The peak of deathcore? is still just a weak modern recreation of Slaughter of the Soul with even less bearable vocals. |
| Altarage The Approaching Roar |
| Amon Amarth Jomsviking |
| I don't even think I like any of the songs here. This sounds like a band at their limit running completely on the last few fumes they have left. The production doesn't let the music sound as epic as Twilight, or as melodically impacting as Oden, and the material isn't even as good as that on Deceiver (which wasn't that good to begin with). Amon am dissapoint. |
| Amon Amarth Berserker |
| Amon Amarth walk the line of complacency with their brand of arena rock-friendly, Viking-themed melodic death metal. It's utterly unsurprising and uninventive at this point, but never dull enough to really justify turning off. There are a few tracks here that will undoubtedly succeed as fist-pumping shout-alongs for the band's live set and at this point in their career that seems to be more-or-less what putting out new albums is overtly for--producing a handful of extra bangers (or banger-lites, more specifically) for their setlists. I'm not really mad at them for going this route--rather just disappointed in the band for not trying their best when we already know they their "best" is releasing classic melodeath records. |
| Amon Amarth The Great Heathen Army |
| Anaal Nathrakh The Whole of the Law |
They keep opening up their style a little more on each album--it would seem--but their
experimentation with different styles doesn't seem to produce very satisfactory results. A lot of
their subtle shifts into melodic black/death metal come off as half-hearted emulations, their
Emperor/Ihsahn-esque clean vocals continue to sound both silly and bizarrely out of place, and
their influence on all-out blasting grind seems to continue to wane.
You can't knock a band for trying to expand past their roots, but when Anaal Nathrakh have always
been at their best when practicing teeth-gnashing black/grind, it's hard to not wish they'd
regress just a little.
tl;dr Not as evil as Constellation, not as brutal as Necro, and with songwriting far below Hell is
Empty. It's "whatever." |
| Anaal Nathrakh A New Kind of Horror |
| These guys really wanna be Emperor so bad and it's kind of sad considering who they used to be as a band. |
| Anal Cunt 40 More Reasons To Hate Us |
| When A.C. are actually trying to be a halfway decent grindcore band they mostly succeed, but their purposefully under-developed songwriting makes even passable tracks annoying in their extreme brevity. These tracks are even short by most grindcore standards, which makes actually sitting through the constant start/stops every fifteen sections fairly difficult. I just kinda wish they would've taken their trolling to another level by taking themselves seriously for one record before Putnam's death, because at least then they would've had one record utilizing their actual potential, if only as a joke. |
| Annorkoth The Last Days |
| KEYBOARD BLACK METAL! |
| Arch Enemy Will to Power |
"Amott told Rock Hard magazine in January that Loomis... has not contributed to the
songwriting on the group's new disc."
What the hell is the point of having a big name like his even there, then? Gonna be
another 2/5 play-it-safe cookie cutter trashfire.
actual review: So AE still aren't firing on all cylinders and this is still fairly
generic melodic death metal (even for AE), but it's still a notable improvement from
the cookie-cutter-because-we-don't-care-anymore album "War Eternal." This is like a
poor man's Rise of the Tyrant; not really worth talking about, but there are some cool
moments here or there. |
| Arkhtinn III |
| atmospheric bm but yeah ok. |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| this is about as stereotypically play-it-safe toughguy metalcore as you can get. Production is butts, vox are tryhard br00tal masculine, instrumental side sounds like it was built in a computer. They might not spam breakdowns like more generic metalcore bands of the same era, but their general sound doesn't put them that far above the rest of the pack, either. |
| Ash Borer Bloodlands |
| Ash Borer The Irrepassable Gate |
Yet again they take Ash Borer's furious bm and water it down with crappy atmospherics and mixing
that doesn't make any sense. Why can I barely hear the rhythm guitar at all at some points? Why
does it sound so thin, so low, and barely contribute anything other than just fuzzing in the
background most of the time? Why is the lead guitar the only instrument that seems to matter?
When it was announced that Randall Dunn (the guy who produced every WitTR LP since Two Hunters)
was going to produce, I assumed we'd get a nice, balanced clean sound a la a more aggressive
WitTR. But alas, the mixing is just as unwieldy as on their last two releases. As an upside, the
band have peeled back some of the theatrics from Cold of Ages (excessive atmospheric junk, clean
female vocals) in an apparent attempt at getting back toward a more raw black metal style.
So hey, baby steps. |
| At the Gates Gardens of Grief |
| At the Gates At War with Reality |
| It feels bored. It feels tired. Like they had some good songs, but then got lazy and forewent any studio magic to make their guitars sound forceful. |
| Barghest The Virtuous Purge |
| Bat For Lashes The Bride |
| Passable but nowhere near as interesting as her older stuff. |
| Bathory Requiem |
| Batushka Raskol |
| Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest |
| looking forward to track 4, How to Pwn Catholics Haha Swag |
| Bhang Khang 2011 Demo |
| Dirty, raw bm/sludge/powerviolence/whatever. For a crappy demo it's pretty OK. |
| Black Sabbath Forbidden |
| blink-182 California |
| Too much pop, not enough punk. It's only 42 minutes but with 16 tracks it seems much longer. |
| Bloodbath The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn |
| Remember when Bloodbath's style of gritty osdm felt genuine and not artificial? |
| Blut Aus Nord Ultima Thulee |
| I really don't like this harsh-sounding early BAN. I don't know why, but their sound just does not stick with me at all. This might be a classic by its own merits but I just don't jive with it at all, ya dig? Black metal. |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta I - Fathers Of The Icy Ages |
| Bonny Light Horseman Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free |
| the album just goes on and on and on, why |
| Borknagar Winter Thrice |
| I don't know what specifically (besides some obvious layering) they do to make Vortex's clean vocals sound the way they do, but I don't like the result. They feel too clean, too polished to be truly "human". Or at least, too perfect to sound pleasing in a metal context. The rest of the music is fine, but the album just feels like the Vortex Show, with his vocals being an obvious focus due to their weird perfect sound. The combination of their being a distraction with the sort-of genericness (if that's even correct?) of the rest of the music robs it, initially, of much enjoyability. It all just feels too sterile. |
| Broken Social Scene Let's Try the After - Vol. 2 |
| Brutus (BE) Burst |
| This is just pop punk masquerading as shoegaze post-metal. I see what you're doing, Brutus! I see it! |
| Bull Of Heaven 329: She Is as the Nights Are Horrible, Pt. 1 |
crappy drone ambient for 38 minutes. Does an Earth-esque kind of rock drone for the first half,
does some Stars of the Lid-type ambient junk for a while, then goes back to more Earth-ier simple
drone toward then end. It's not bad, but the repetitive rock instrumentation never seems to go
anywhere or evolve at all--unlike Earth--which makes it less interesting than it could've been--
especially since it's just one long song. It's aesthetically pleasing but little else. |
| Burzum Daudi Baldrs |
| Burzum Belus |
| Cannibal Corpse Butchered At Birth |
| Cannibal Corpse Hammer Smashed Face |
| Celer Bell Tower |
| Ambient drone tape music. Eat your heart out, William Basinski, because this is basically a William Basinski album. It's just a short ambient melody looped for twenty-six minutes. But unlike Basinski's works, this one doesn't explode, or decompose, or sound like it's being plunged underwater at random/non-random intervals, so it's actually just the same melody over and over again for almost half an hour. As ambient music I suppose you could make an excuse for this, but I'm not going to. Nah, pass. Not the best Celer/William Basinski album. Exceptionally listenable, but not engaging at all--even for ambient drone/tape music. |
| Celer Infinite set |
| Ambient drone tape music or whatever nonsense. OK *this* one is basically William Basinksi, but drawn out for two hours. So it's OK, but not engaging or meaningful enough to warrant my going and saying "Hey did you hear the new William Basinski album that's not actually by Basinski but by this one dude called Celer?" It's OK, mind you, just not much more than that. It's the same melody that is varied slightly in each iteration, slightly enough that if you fast forward through the track it'll seem like there's some diversity to the music, but if you actually sit and listen to it it feels like just the same thing over and over again. Not much more than background music. |
| Celer Two days and one night |
| Ambient. More sound sampling, beach sounds, etc. It's still largely just background ambient, though. |
| Celtic Frost Into the Pandemonium |
| Cepheide Respire |
| Fell Voices/Ash Borer-lite. Suffers from the same thing Paramnesia does, which is a lack of gripping songwriting. There are no "wow" moments here, just a lot of OK ones. It's pleasing enough, but it never pushes to be different, and never does its own standard atmospheric bm style well enough to really set itself apart from any other bands doing the same things. If you want more Cascadian-worship, though, this should be on your radar. |
| CFCF Radiance & Submission |
ambient with some post-rock twinkly pseudo-inspirational melodies and use of spaciousness in
atmosphere. It's simple music and I can see why some of it got put on random "chill out" Spotify
playlists, but as far as coherent ambient records go, this isn't one of the best. It's wonderful
for quiet, almost-minimalist background music, but the stylistic shifts between tracks (many of
which are rather short, and seem underdeveloped) makes the whole thing seem a tad directionless.
There were a lot of good ideas presented here, but many of them could've been done more justice if
they'd been fleshed out more. This is fine for what it is, but with all the
ambient/classical/post-rock junk I've heard, I can't really say this is "that good."
So 5/10; aesthetically pleasing pretty sounds, but not a whole lot of depth. |
| Charly Bliss Forever |
| Chepang Jhyappa |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk |
| Christian Fennesz and Jim O'Rourke It's Hard for Me to Say I'm Sorry |
| ok noisy ambient that then gets less noisy. |
| Clandestine Blaze City Of Slaughter |
The slow stuff's boring but when Mikko actually starts upping the tempo it gets interesting-ish.
Too bad for me there's a lot more slow than fast on here, and very little in terms of atmosphere. |
| Cloud Rat Cloud Rat |
| Grind with a tiny bit of emo influence here or there. Vocals are not great; need to be more aggressive. Instrumentally solid, though. |
| Code Orange The Hurt Will Go On |
| This is some straight nonsense hardcore. Slow heavy core with random electronic interruptions and even more random sampling. Those two things ruin the flow of the tracks and take away the intended intensity of the music. Kinda no point in this style. Their electronics and sampling are goofy, but the rest of the band isn't goofy enough to warrant such silliness. Y'all ain't System of a Down or Mr. Bungle, so btfo. |
| Coke Jaw S/T |
"Garage rock" in that it sounds like some guys in a crappy punk band fooling around on their
instruments in their garage, probably recorded haphazardly with a tape recorder set in front of
one of the amps. It's not awful, but it's nothing to really care about, either. |
| Cold Body Radiation A Clear Path |
| it's shoegaze that's too dreamy and not enough attention-grabby. |
| Coldworld Isolation |
| Converge I Can Tell You About Pain |
| This is OK metal/core. |
| Convulse Cycle of Revenge |
| the way this album starts out with its prog death metal grooves sounds exactly like the blueprint for the latest Tomb Mold record. While not a very consistent release, Convulse to at least try to do something unique with the death metal + prog formula. |
| Cradle of Filth From the Cradle to Enslave |
| This is weird and I kinda dig it but at the same time it's Cradle of Filth being even weirder than Cradle of Filth usually is and I kinda don't dig it, ya dig? There's sympho bm stuff on here, a hardcore punk track, and a godam techno remix bit. Standard CoF complaints abound: guitars not loud enough, vocals too high in the mix, symphonics overbearingly cheesy at points, etc. That main keyboard melody in the title track (you know the one) is perfectly used, though. Super spoopy. I at least give the band props for taking risks, obviously having fun with it and doing... whatever... with this album, though. |
| Cradle of Filth Bitter Suites to Succubi |
| Critical Defiance Misconception |
| Cryptopsy The Book of Suffering - Tome II |
| Cultes Des Ghoules Henbane |
| The atmosphere is good, but I was never that much into Mayhem and Darkthrone, so take this rating with a grain of salt. |
| Cyanamid Stop the World |
| proto-grind. It has blasts. |
| Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void |
| Dark Tranquillity Moment |
| Darkest Hour The Human Romance |
| Darkspace Dark Space -II |
| Deathspell Omega The Synarchy of Molten Bones |
| This is Deathspell Omega and usually I like that but this one just doesn't grab me like Fas and Drought. Idk why, but with a sound so eclectic as this it's either hit or miss with me. This one is as of now more miss than hit, relatively speaking. black metal. |
| Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia |
| Decapitated Blood Mantra |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Stellar |
| The shiny production and really unusual sense of saminess throughout make this really difficult to sit through, and engage you at all. It has riff, but they don't strike you significant at all. |
| Destroyer 666 Call of the Wild |
| Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst |
| Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli |
| There's just nothing that moves me about this record, at all. It's all just personality-less, sterile symphonic black metal. Utterly devoid of any emotion at all. Ugh. |
| Dimmu Borgir Eonian |
| Symphonic singalong Nightwishian black metal, or something that's striving to be that. The problem is that Dimmu don't seem to know how to keep up the energy to make whole songs sound like that, so some songs have the cool choruses, some have riffs that are actually interesting, and some have neither. I think that "Interdimensional Summit" is about the closest they get on "Eonian" to writing a consistent song in this vein, given it sort of sounds like Dimmu Borgir but with all the cheesy symphonic oomph of Nightwish. It's better than Abrahadabra maybe, but only because that album was degenerative trash. |
| Disco Inferno Summer's Last Sound |
| Instrumentally alright, the vocalist's talk-singing is fairly annoying and amateurish. The songs are also pretty repetitive (the second track is basically the same melody for six minutes), which definitely restricts them from really spreading their wings much. Still, not awful music, just kinda boring early post-rock/post-punk/whatever. |
| Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless |
| Disillusion The Liberation |
| Disma The Graveless Remains |
| Old school death metal that's pretty OK but not really my bag, you dig? |
| Disturbed Indestructible |
| Downfall of Gaia Atrophy |
| The production really hinders how hard these riffs should hit, and as-is there's simply no viciousness at all. The whole record feels fairly neutered for black metal. It might be more streamlined and lack the clumsiness of "Aeons", but that album still hit a bit harder despite its awkwardness. |
| Dragged Into Sunlight/Gnaw Their Tongues N.V. |
| It's surely a step back in the right direction for DiS, but it's still nowhere near as filthy or brutal as their debut. It sounds like some combination of their two albums, with some Gnaw Their Tongues tacked on for whoyknowswhy. It's surely a step up after Widowmaker, but given that album pushed the band three steps backwards, this one step forward still leaves much to be desired--of both collaborating groups. |
| Dragonlord Rapture |
| Drudkh Handful of Stars |
| Echtra A War for Wonder |
| Echtra Burn It All Away |
| Elathan Atreup Ed Al Dadinrete |
| It's OK atmospheric black/folk metal, but I really hate programmed drums that sound like that and the really heavy bedroom quality of the production. But songwriting wise this is probably fairly solid. :-0 |
| Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire... |
| riffs sure but no atmosphere, and annoying 90's synthed instruments bleh. Production stinks, too. |
| Enslaved E |
| Despite being "prog" (whatever that even means), Enslaved still write fairly linear music. There's a lot of reliance on typical verse/chorus dynamics, a lot of unnecessary repetition of fairly uninteresting riffs for long periods of time (because ~prog~), and also quite a few notably poor transitions between harsh and clean vocal sections. It's not exactly complicated music, it's not catchy, and there's not a whole lot of worthwhile content around--heck, given how many run-on instrumental ~prog~ sections there are on "E", you could even argue there isn't that much "content" here in the first place. Now, I've never been a huge fan of Enslaved and am clearly not enamored with progressive music, but this is still--at the end of the day--fairly formulaic, uninteresting music. Sure the clean bits and melodic work is pretty, but outside that there's not much meat on these bones. |
| Escuela Grind Ppoowweerrvviioolleennccee |
| Escuela Grind Ggrriinnddccoorree |
| Escuela Grind Ddeeaatthhmmeettaall |
| Exodus The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A |
| Fallujah Dreamless |
| I like what they're doing but not how they're doing it. |
| False Light False Light |
| punk woo! |
| Fauna The Hunt |
| Feist Pleasure |
| Feist! Not as good as her other albums but it's OK. |
| Fireworks Oh, Common Life |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony |
| Full of Hell Coagulated Bliss |
| Full of Hell Broken Sword, Rotten Shield |
| Full of Hell and Nothing When No Birds Sang |
| Furia W Śnialni |
| G.L.O.S.S. Trans Day Of Revenge |
| Gavin Bryars Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet |
An old man sings the same song/an orchestra plays the same crescendo reinterpreted a little
different each time. It evolves slowly so the changes are hard to pick out whilst listening, and
that's what makes the record fairly boring; it's just the same thing over and over. It's a
wonderfully nice melody, but heard again and again underneath the 25-second same voice sample gets
grating on the nerves. If the voice had been recorded dozens of individual times or tampered with
in the studio to sound different and change slightly along with the music, this might've been a
more enjoyable and artistically fulfilling release. |
| Ghost Bath Moonlover |
| Gnaw Their Tongues Eschatological Scatology |
| Goat the Head Strictly Physical |
| A mildly interesting progressive metal album rooted in death metal. It's much more groovy progressive riffing than death metal guitar-work, and the vocals aren't death growls so much as death singing--vox does his best melodic growl-impersonation of Steve Tucker covering Baroness. It's odd and it sometimes works, but on the whole it's not super consistent or compelling. Still interesting tho! |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust |
| Death metal prog. The riffs go bring jin dun dun ju ringa dong ding ding banana phone, but I've never been much into this type of dm. |
| Green Day Dookie |
| every track sounds the same and and has the same tempo, making even the "classics" here sound horribly dated and bored. For pop punk this isn't a very lively record? |
| Harold Budd La Bella Vista |
| For piano music it kinda bugs me how simple and atmosphere-less this album is. I expect a little more emotional depth from Budd releases, and this is kind of lacking it. The piano playing is nice, pretty, and simple, but that's pretty much all that's here. It works if you want some classy background music, but if you want something more atmospheric just go back to Ambient 2 or The Pearl. |
| Haunter (USA-TX) Sacramental Death Qualia |
| i am now the sacrificial wines, the stones laid upon the altar, and all the prog death riffs for baphomet to munch praise SATAN |
| Hermodr The Scent of Autumn |
| A 21-minute atmospheric bm song. The melodies are nice, but the production is too trebly and the pace never changes. It's just slow, plodding black metal that's totally melody-based but never feels like it goes anywhere. Sure the melodies are decent and the clean guitars are pretty, but when the drum style and tempo never change, it gets kinda boring--especially after twenty minutes. |
| Hope Drone Cloak of Ash |
| Major step down from their first album. The songs are all much too similar and for a record that's >70 minutes long that's a big problem. The production doesn't leave much room for emotional input by the band, either, exacerbating that problem further. What they should've done was take that 77 minutes of music and mix and cut it all together into a maximum of 50 minutes across, say, four or five tracks. Their first album succeeded by having varying runtimes which aided its flow and diversity, but this feels like a wall of 10-minute tracks, compiled without Darkspace's level of finesse. |
| I Fight Dragons Cool is Just A Number |
| "No One Likes Superman Anymore" is a jam, but the rest is just inoffensive pop rock. |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay |
| Immolation Atonement |
| Death metal band Immolation can riff for sure but the production is kinda stale and the emotionally minimal gruff vocals are also fairly uninteresting. Still, "Atonement" was surprisingly not as bad as I'd expected it to be. |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter |
| black metal riffs immortal riffs Immortal but it's still Immortal. |
| In Flames Whoracle |
| In Flames I, the Mask |
| Infest No Man's Slave |
| Oh wait I don't actually like pv woops. |
| Inquisition Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical... |
| Frog man can write riffs for days but when each song basically revolves around repeating one main riff for 3-4 minutes with little else in the way of songwriting personality it gets samey real quick. Using only one guitar definitely makes Inquisition sound unique, but that doesn't really make up for how it feels to be beat over the head with the same basic idea song after song. |
| Iron Lung Sexless // No Sex |
| Jaga Jazzist Starfire |
| Jaga yeah Jazzist yeah jazzy yeah rockin ye but good eh naht much. |
| Jeff Rosenstock We Cool? |
| Job For A Cowboy Doom |
| I AM THE DEATHCOR! |
| Job For A Cowboy Gloom |
| Job For A Cowboy Demonocracy |
| Job For A Cowboy Moon Healer |
| Judas Iscariot Heaven In Flames |
| basically the rawness of Burzum mixed with some of the speed and conventionality of more typical second-wave black metal. It's a little too crude and repetitive, though, and doesn't have much oomph. |
| Judas Priest Sad Wings Of Destiny |
| Jute Gyte Birefringence |
| More coherent 'traditional' songwriting is present this time around, with the two lattermost tracks favoring weird ambient over metal. "Dissected Grace" definitely channels shoegaze music, albeit more atonally and noisy. It somehow sounds like a more chaotic My Bloody Valentine, and that's at least a little commendable. I've always really disliked the microtonality of Jute Gyte, but the more conventional attempt at songwriting here was definitely more to my liking. |
| Kamelot Poetry for the Poisoned |
| Kesha Rainbow |
| Stylistically this is all over the place, but it's still a fun-ish record. The more serious tracks are more than a bit cheesy, but Kesha finds herself at her best when she's at her silliest, it seems. This is surprisingly OK. |
| Kiesza Crave |
| Knoll Interstice |
| It's like full of hell but more deathgrind which is fitting since like FoH I also don't like this!!! |
| Krallice Hyperion |
| Krallice Prelapsarian |
| black metal. Wth happened |
| Krallice Loüm |
| Yeah OK that was kind of annoying. Better than the last album, though! The inclusion of a different vocalist made Loum a little fresher for Krallice, and Retrogenesis in particular rips. The rest is sort of just Krallice being Krallice but without any melodic hooks or notable riffs. r |
| Krallice Wolf |
| Ever the experimenters, black metal band Krallice on their newest EP play around with the idea of not being good. |
| Krallice Psychagogue |
| Kriegsmaschine Apocalypticists |
| The drumming's groovy, the guitars have that nice malevolent technical DSO vibe, but the pacing is utterly stagnant. It's all mid-paced black with no changes in tempo and not much in the way of crescendo; "Apocalypticists" is essentially black metal that uses its mathy grooves to create an unsettling atmopshere but then never goes anywhere with it. Sure it's kind of like Deathspell Omega and Blut Aus Nord, but with no changes in dynamics or tempo you know ahead of time how each track will end; essentially the same way it began--and that's just no fun for music like this. While I understand that making the music more dynamic *would* make them look more like just another DSO clone and that keeping to one tempo makes them look more like an artistic inversion of that group (and thus the point of the record), but on "Apocalypticists" the guys from Mgla just don't make that point in a very engaging way. |
| Kvelertak Endling |
| Lady Gaga Joanne |
| "Million Reasons" might be mindless piano drivel, but the rest of the album is surprisingly decent. Bouncy catchy pop hey, Gaga still decent. |
| Lady Gaga Chromatica |
| Lake Of Blood As Time and Tide Erodes Stone |
| Lamb of God Lamb Of God |
| Lamp of Murmuur Saturnian Bloodstorm |
| Oops! All Immortal riffs. |
| Lana Del Rey Chemtrails Over The Country Club |
| Lana Del Rey Blue Banisters |
| I can listen to NFR! and, aside from 2-3 tracks, be immediately be sucked into the delicate beauty of the album. This, however, feels universes apart, and I struggle to care about any individual song, verse, or chorus. I understand that Blue Banisters and 'Chemtrails are more in line with her traditional artistic style, but they just don't hold water against even some of the lesser tracks on NFR!. |
| Laura Marling Semper Femina |
| Laura Marling has a great voice, sure, and her music is super chill and comforting, sure, but it also doesn't do anything for me and is super boring. Sorry :-( |
| Leucosis Liminal |
| While some of their earlier post-rock leanings are still intact, Leucosis are in 2017 a mostly standard black metal affair. The production is alright and so is the writing, but it's still not quite as interesting as their older material. Still, worth a listen. |
| Leviathan Howl Mockery At The Cross |
| Black metal. The sound quality on this album is pretty hit-or-miss; because Wrest seems to insist on using one guitar track on most songs, there's often a lack of a real rhythm section to certain songs. "Lycanthropus Rex" features some frantic playing of higher tremolo notes whilst the drums bang out a blasty tempo, but the frantic lead doesn't do anything but sort of screech at the front of the mix. It's weird moments like this that hold back "Howl" in terms of sound quality, not really its songwriting in general; generally speaking, Leviathan is very solid songwriting-wise. Being a black metal artist, though, I guess Wrest felt obligated to screw up the sound of his early work on purpose somehow.rA lot of the stuff on "Howl" is great, nihilistically claustrophobic one-man black metal, but there's enough "meh" mixed throughout to really hold the release back. Still, though, there's a lot of greatness here. |
| Liturgy The Ark Work |
When everything comes together it all crescendos so very well, but outside of those brief
and far-between moments, it's mostly just a jumbled mess. There's a track here or there
that's interesting in itself, but then a handful of tracks afterward that just seem
pointless. If the band would continue this style on the next album and really hammer out
the kinks and hone their songwriting skills they could create a really interesting piece
of experimental math metal--but I think by now HHH has established that they and their
posse simply aren't interested in doing that. |
| Liturgy Origin of the Alimonies |
| Lvthn Eradication of Nescience |
| Marduk Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered |
| Marduk Iron Dawn |
| Marduk Viktoria |
| Has a noticeably old-school production style to give it that sort of more raw, amateurish feel, but the band's style doesn't really work to complement the way their instruments now sound. Marduk's rampant blasting comes off as less abrasive and powerful than on previous records, essentially robbing their music of all momentum and force. If they were a punk band this might've worked, but despite how fun "Werwolf" is the rest of the album simply isn't up to snuff. |
| Maruja Connla's Well |
| why's there british rap in my post-rock shut uppp! |
| Mayhem Psywar |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! |
| Megadeth Greatest Hits: Back To The Start |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Metallica St. Anger |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct |
| faster songs pls thank you |
| Mgla Age of Excuse |
| Michael Snoxall "Spooks." |
| needs more haze on the vocals to fit with the guitar, but it's not that bad. |
| Miserere Luminis Ordalie |
| Mitski bury me at makeout creek |
| Mizmor Yodh |
| atmospheric black metal/doom. Better than the new Ash Borer LOL good enough. |
| Mizmor Cairn |
| Mom Jeans/Pictures of Vernon/PDATH NOW That's What I Call Music Vol. 420 |
| This is punk. This is okay. |
| Mono Requiem For Hell |
| It's pretty but can I actually remember much of it outside of just shimmery tremolos 24/7? Can't say I can. |
| Moral Collapse Divine Prosthetics |
| Morbid Angel Heretic |
| Morgul The Horror Grandeur |
| This album starts out as nice symphonic black metal without much goofiness, lo and behold, the further you get the more goofy it also becomes. By the end of the album Morgul are playing symphonic black metal with all the chugging and power chords you'd expect of modern dumb symph bm, and the band also use a lot of rhythms that might be mistaken for industrial metal, which definitely doesn't help improve the music, either. Hit or miss record. |
| Mors Principium Est Seven |
| Myrkgrav Takk Og Farvel; Tida Er Blitt Ei Annen |
| The folk instrumentation (especially the instrumentals) are great, but the change in production makes the metal half of Myrkgrav's sound much less powerful this time around. Not only that, but there seems to be far less black/death metal to be found, with much more influence put on clean folk metal singing instead. While good, this straight folk metal style is far less epic and powerful, which really holds the album back. Unfortunately it would seem that "Takk og Farvel" is not at the same level as the fantastic "Trollskau." |
| Myrkur Mareridt |
| Myrkur is getting an idea of where she wants to be as an artist, as well as where her strengths currently lie. While "Mareridt" is still a slightly disorganized record, you can really feel how the pieces are starting to come together into an honestly cohesive and identifiable sound for the artist, despite this time sounding more like Enya-meets-Chelsea Wolfe, rather than Ulver. The clear homages to Wolfe do make this in parts feel a bit less original, but Myrkur more often than not put enough of their own spin on tracks like "Funeral" (which features Wolfe on vox) and "The Serpent" to still feel like their own. This is a good, all-around step forward for Myrkur. The writing still isn't fantastic (it's fairly derivative) and stylistically it jumps around a bit, but it's on the whole a generally good record. Which is a very welcomed surprise. |
| Myrkur Ragnarok (Original Soundtrack) |
| as a soundtrack this probably works fine as an accompaniment, but as a standalone record it's pretty uninteresting and doesn't go anywhere. |
| Myrkur Spine |
| it's not bad but the metal moments either feel shoehorned into the primarily ethereal darkwave songs, or just kinda pleasant-but-nothing-more on the primarily metal tracks. The metal moments feel more like an obligation to the original folk/metal shtick of the project moreso than a real natural, logical songwriting direction. Either the two halves should be better workshopped together, or focused on each individually. |
| Mystical Fullmoon From the Southern Lands... |
| Your standard 1997 black metal demo that sounds both intentionally raw and as if it's being played by a band not fully comfortable with the material, or how to properly tune their instruments. The band play a style of black metal sort of reminiscent to early Satyricon with its constant use of background keyboards and tendency to keep everything slow-to-mid-paced, but also instrumentally has an almost early Opeth feel as well. The demo flows like any of the 10+ minute tracks from Orchid, kind of just going on and on randomly until deciding to stop. Black metal like this doesn't have that much need of proper structuring, though, so this definitely doesn't hold the album back. It's not great at all, but it's not a bad little demo, either. It's just simple sloppy black metal (albeit with some actually great shrieks). |
| Nachtmystium Worldfall |
| Repetitive but OK I guess. |
| Nadja Sv |
| Napalm Death Utopia Banished |
| Nargaroth Spectral Visions Of Mental Warfare |
An hour-long LP of which half the music is either made up of needless ambient or
instrumental fillers. With only twenty seven minutes of actual heavy metal spread across
three tracks we can only wonder as to why this LP runs almost an hour in total. The black
metal, while sparse, is slow, melodic and reminiscent of Burzum--while not the most
interesting musically the tracks are still a rather enjoyable listen. In the end this album
lives by its melody-driven black metal sections but stalls and dies by the utter uselessness
of many of the included ambient tracks. If anything, "Spectral Visions of Mental Warfare"
is worth listening to for the three tracks that contain actual instrumentation, with maybe
one or two of the ambient tracks being interesting enough to not put you to sleep or turn
you off from the record completely. God knows why this ended up being more than forty
minutes in length, though. |
| Nathan Derr itsudattakke |
| Negative Plane The Pact |
| NOFX Self Entitled |
| NOFX First Ditch Effort |
| Nuclear Assault The Plague |
| Olan Mill Land Cycle |
| 10 tracks spread across 32 minutes doesn't leave much room for individual ambient pieces to explore very far. That said, many of these pieces don't feel fully fleshed out, but rather like flirtations or experimentations with single ideas. Much like Johann Johannsson's "Orphee", this is aesthetically pleasing music but not very deep compositionally. For what it is, though, it's OK. And it definitely shows Olan Mill's potential if his style was given a bit more room to breathe. |
| Opeth Sorceress |
| Sorceress contains thirteen songs-only about four of which I thought were noteworthy. I'm not sure of the math at this point, but I feel like it points toward this being about a 5/10, maybe a little more. :-/ |
| Oval 94 Diskont |
| Pitchfork said this was one of the best ambient albums ever made, but I'm just kind of annoyed with it. Super glitch-oriented sound that's more annoying than you'd expect it to be. |
| Panopticon Kentucky |
| Panopticon The Rime of Memory |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty |
| "Each take is worse; he's slowly learning how to un-play the guitar." |
| Peste Noire Aryan Supremacy (Demo) |
| nazi punks nazi punks nazi punks. I mean what can you say; it's crappy lo-fi black metal played by fifteen year olds. On that note, this doesn't sound much worse than some kvlt lo-fi black metal played by adults, so I guess it has that going for it. Not a bad demo by any means; I'm just thankful I don't speak French so I can only cringe from the NS lyrics indirectly via google translate, and who really has time for that? |
| Petrychor Makrokosmos |
| Pissgrave Posthumous Humiliation |
| The vocals seem like they were purposesly degraded to sound even filthier than the rest of the music, which makes them stick out from the general "feel" of the instrumentation and throws off the immersion. Otherwise it's decent death/grind, but the instrumentation also isn't formatted in a way that makes it particularly disgusting or aggressive; in a lot of ways it sounds like dated osdm, which doesn't hold up very well today. A lot of these riffs are fine, but there's not enough oomph to make really feel violent or powerful. In addition to that, there's not a whole lot of variation to the album, making every song sort of just blend together into a 43-minute void of crappy vocals and basic dm riffing. 5/5 best band |
| Portal Seepia |
| angry scrunching guitar noises and a sleep-talking cookie monster with some cool riffs thrown in. |
| Primordial Exile Amongst The Ruins |
| Got bored and turned it off halfway through. It's folk metal without the folk, pagan bmoneytech without the bm. And the vox are really aggravating without any pagan bombast to back then up. |
| Rachel's Music for Egon Schiele |
| Idk I got kinda bored with this one. Chamber classical isn't much my thing, I'm starting to think. While I do love piano music, there's not a whole lot else going on in the piano-heavy tracks to really engross the listener. I like more ambient in my piano pieces so while the musicianship and composition here are both OK, the music's just not much my cup of tea. |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead The Bends |
The whole record is just a few degrees off from being interesting. It reeks of 90's rock in
the worst ways with its faux-attitude-y vocals and sappy clean guitars. The vocals aren't
enjoyable at all, and nothing else about the music really "does it" for me. I feel like a
lot of this should be fairly good, but nothing ever clicks. Maybe it's the production, I
don't know.
I don't know if Radiohead inspired this kind of music, but this the kind of junk I assume
guitarbros play whilst sitting under trees on their college campuses as they attempt to
serenade the ladiez. |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Still don't get it. The whole time I just keep thinking how I could be listening to Sigur Ros. |
| Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da |
| Revenge (CAN) Deceiver.Diseased.Miasmic |
| war metal more like luke WARm metal ha ha ha |
| Rhinocervs RH-15 |
| Not everyone can be great at ~dark ambient~ |
| Rorcal La Femme sans Tete |
| First track's a waste of electronic noise, second track is half a waste but with a cool Rorcal sludgefest in the middle, last track has that Teethed Glory and Injury thing going. Not great but it's OK. |
| Rotting Christ Pro Xristou |
| Samia Honey |
| Sanguine Eagle Storm Mysticism |
| Satyricon Volcano |
| This is like a caricature of black metal. |
| Satyricon Rebel Extravaganza |
| You can really feel Snorre's influence on Satyricon's new style, with all of his weirdness injected into their riffs. But while Thorns was a great band, Snorre's influence gets muddled in Satyricon's attempt to mix that weirdness with a more minimalistic black 'n' roll, creating a sometimes-grooving, totally uninteresting record. Which is hard to imagine, given how stylistically unique "Rebel Extravaganza" actually sounds. It's a fresh sound, sure, but at the same time it's so uninteresting so as to sound stale. Just split the difference and listen to latter-era Darkthrone and Thorns separately instead of this haphazard mishmash of the two. |
| Satyricon The Age Of Nero |
| Schammasch Triangle |
| black metal Behemoth ambient. Not really my jam. |
| Sepultura Roots |
| Sepultura A-Lex |
| Sepultura Machine Messiah |
| That one time they actually tried to play hardcore was cool, but then they never ever touch on that idea again and just go back to same old same old groove metal modern Sepultura'ing. And man, we've all heard this before. This is easily a step down from Kairos, which is easily their best modern album. |
| Serpent Noir Erotomysticism |
| Sigh Shiki |
| i don't listen to Sigh for the black metal i listen to Sigh for Dr. Mikannibal's sax and gutterals but there aren't any here :---( |
| Slayer God Hates Us All |
| Slayer Diabolus In Musica |
| Dude 1998 Slayer was a bangin nu metal band. It's ironic that the best tracks on this so-hated record are the more nu metal-y ones rather than the typical Slayer thrash pieces. Still not a good record, but it's interesting to know Slayer were secretly one of the best nu metal bands. |
| Sleep Jerusalem |
| Almost fell asleep to this while driving thanks Sleep for almost getting me killed u da best xoxo |
| Sleep Party People Sleep Party People |
| Weird-gaze. I don't get it, and those Donnie Darko bunny masks creep me the hell out. |
| Sleep Token One |
| Sleep Token Two |
| Sleeping Peonies s l o w l y d i s a p p e a r i n g |
| Twinkle twinklecore. Has potential, but doesn't realize it. |
| Sleeping Rabbits Some Demos |
add blast beats
otherwise ya know it's a decent demo |
| Sleepwalker (JPN) 5772 |
| lofi noisy sort-of black metal with grind or something that has more noise than quality most of the time and isn't that great. |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| I don't think we'll ever know if the title was supposed to be ironic or not, but it's hilarious regardless. |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind |
| So Hideous Laurestine |
| It feels like it's just the same crescendo built to over and over again, to the point where that crescendo doesn't even feel like a "real" crescendo and each peak feels like a tease rather than a proper climax. It's pretty "cinematic" post-rock with growled vocals, but it doesn't really do much outside of be pretty and grandiose. |
| Solefald World Metal. Kosmopolis Sud |
| Sonata Arctica Pariah's Child |
| Power metal is usually cheesy but this album gave me milk farts. |
| Sorrow Plagues Sorrow Plagues |
| St. Vincent Krokodil |
| Stellar Descent Fading |
Layered droning 67-minute atmospheric black metal one-track album of atmosphericalness.
It's cool that it slowly evolves over the course of an hour, but it's way too trebly and,
while using the same rhythms repeatedly to create a hypnotic atmosphere is a nice idea, the
patterns the drums seem to use for the majority of the runtime are really annoying, and
actually distract from the atmosphere rather than add to it. I can see why someone
interested in really lengthy atmospheric black metal might like this, but if you're not
totally willing to surrender yourself completely to the music for an hour, this probably
won't sit that well with you. Still, it's atmospheric and hypnotic, and after a while you
might even forget about those obnoxiously repetitive cymbal hits. The disappointing thing
here is knowing that this *could've* probably been pretty effective hypnotic black metal had
the production (ie. the uber-trebly sound) not been so abrasive and the drums been a little
better. The melodic layering really is pretty good and the record evolves rather well, but
it's the production that makes this just not as good as it feels like it should've been.
If Hammock had released this album, it would've been closer to a 4/5. |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing |
The songwriting's still kinda crap but for deathcore this isn't complete garbage. Drum-and-vocal-
oriented mix, sure, but hey at least it's not *all* breakdowns!
Achievement get: Not Complete Failure! |
| Sunn O))) Life Metal |
| decent enough drone metal, but even for drone or ambient this still gets boring very quickly. Small doses are better. |
| Svartidaudi Untitled |
| has more of an influence on atmosphere than crushing riffs ov ice, and is coincidentally not that interesting. Decent, but they've obviously done better. |
| Sylvaine Wistful |
| This is leaps and bounds ahead of what Myrkur tried to do, but even then it's kind of... I don't rknow, directionless? There are never any "wow" moments, or anything particularly noteworthy in rterms of quality here. This is basically a female-fronted Alcest ripoff that comes not only with ruber clean reverby twinkle guitars, but also a very noticeably Neige-esque approach to singing--rboth the clean vocals and harsh vocals reek of Neigism. While that does make Sylvaine's harsh rvocals interesting (she pretty effectively copies Neige's banshee shriek), they're not good r*enough* to really help the music be any more interesting. rI mean this is OK but I'm haven't been too big on Kodama this year either, so maybe this rtwinklegaze is just wearing off me idk. |
| Taylor Swift Lover |
| Taylor Swift Evermore |
| Taylor Swift Midnights |
| on the upside Swift has finally learned how to edit for time, with Midnights running over 15 minutes shorter than the previous album. On the downside, that 15 minutes seems to have accidentally been all the bangers, since the rest of the album has virtually none. Midnights is an aurally pleasant yet ultimately uninteresting exercise in alt-pop--sans the abysmal "Vigilante Shit", easily the worst Swift song I've personally ever sat through. |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Abysmal |
| I was never a huge fan of the band's At The Gates-y less melodic take on melodeath so I've never loved any of their stuff like I have some of their contemporaries' and Abysmal is definitely no exception to this. It's pretty OK melodeath but it's just not an amazing representation of what I like about the genre. Still, if you liked the band before this album should definitely not be a disappointment. |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous |
| Just because they released the title track doesn't mean you should give it a zero rating,rTBDM have crafted a melodic death metal sound that no one would mistake for anyone butrthem. They have a formula and they deviate from it time to time but they are the bestrAmerican melo-death band of our time, disagree all you like but go see them live theyrwork so hard, never stop touring and just keep the machine running, they have betterralbums than others but have never put out one that wasn't quality music. |
| The Riverdales Storm the Streets |
| The Ruins of Beverast Takitum Tootem! |
| Dark tribal music with some electronics and...?? Not amazing but I like where they were sort of going with it. |
| The Sun Came Up Upon the Left And the Dreams so Rich in Color |
| They Might Be Giants The Spine |
| Thokk A Trance for the Ever-Toiling Witch |
| I'm not really into the dungeon synthy/dark ambient with shrieks bits, but the other pieces are solid fuzzy old school with melody black metal... with old Abbath-style shrieks. It's pretty OK; woulda been better without the ambient, though :p |
| Titus Andronicus A Productive Cough |
| Take the pub and clear out all the punks, and what's you're left is A Productive Cough. It's the end of the night and the band are wasted, but they're still plugging along like champs. They're not taking any requests, but they're doing their best as they lurk onward playing heartland rock and hearty shout-alongs. It's not what you'd normally want, but it's 2 a.m. and you should've been home hours ago, so you really shouldn't be one to complain. Just clap whenever they finish a song; you'll make them feel good about themselves. |
| Toby Driver Madonnawhore |
| This is like Talk Talk but with more talk and less Talk. And slowcore or w/e. And less appropriate atmosphere for the vocals, which makes the vocals sound out-of-place with the rest of the music, or the music out-of-place with the vocals. His vocals often sound out-of-sync with the music, and also out-of-tune, which could've been remedied given a better musical setup to complement his vocals more effectively. |
| Torture Killer Swarm! |
| a Finnish Six Feet Under ripoff band got Chris Barnes to do vocals for their Finnish Six Feet Under ripoff band and it's slightly more competent from then-equivalent American Six Feet Under worship band, Six Feet Under. |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse |
| Touche Amore Stage Four |
| Trap Them Blissfucker |
| Trivium In Waves |
| Trivium In the Court of the Dragon |
| Trna Lose Yourself to Find Peace |
| They made the production more trebly to probably make it sound more black metaly, but that sort of just made it sound worse, given it's supposed to be pretty post-rocky atmospheric black metal. The change in sound feels like it was meant to take the strengths and weaknesses of their first album and flipped them: where on "Pattern of Infinity" the black metal portions sounded nicely reverby and clear, the clean sections felt lacking; on "Lose Yourself to Find Peace" the clean sections sound much clearly and pretty, but the more trebly sound robs the metallic sections of their sense of atmosphere and power. It's still an OK album, but here's hoping the band find out a way to more effectively Frankenstein themselves together a more cohesive, best of both worlds batch of songs for album number three. |
| Trna Earthcult |
| Basically if you took the black metal chords and post-rock of deafheaven and used just those two songwriting modes to fill out +10 minute tracks, for over an hour. The production values are great, the guitars are clean and powerful, but because the band are instrumental and don't actually put a lot of influence on leadwork (it's pretty buried in the mix whenever there is one), everything sort of blends together. No individual sections, melodies, or riffs stand out, none of the music ever really crescendos... it sort of all just rumbles along ad nauseam. They have the potential to be cool, but their songwriting style is so constricted that their shtick just gets really old really fast. You listen to one of these ten-minute pieces and think "Huh that was OK", start up the next track and get the exact same thing, and promptly turn it off. |
| Unreqvited Mosaic II: la déteste et la détresse |
| Vacuous In His Blood |
| Vale of Pnath Accursed |
| This is technical death metal by way of metalcore Abigail Williams. VoP have added inauthentic black metal influence to their tech death style in the same way early Abigail Williams smushed metalcore together with symphonic black metal; by adding derivative melodic death/core riffing and raspy vocals--in VoP's case, also adding some subtle latter-era Dimmu Borgir-isms as well, as if to just increase the cheese level. This isn't bad technical death metal music per se, but for people who have heard enough black metal to identify the influences, these new changes in style just seem inauthentic, like the band only grasped the bare bones of the style they were clearly trying to emulate. It doesn't really make the music bad so much as very very distracting, and despite being OK at executing "fun" tech death it's something that I just can't get over. |
| Vanum Realm of Sacrifice |
A dude from Ash Borer and a dude from Fell Voices make a Drudkh-esque black metal album. But it's
not that gripping a listen, sort of like the last few Drudkh. |
| Vargrav (FIN) Reign In Supreme Darkness |
| Vattnet Vattnet Viskar |
| Verwustung I First Saw You On That Snowy Night And |
| Verwustung Tunnel Ghosts |
| Volcanic Queen Innocence of Those Who Perished |
| Paysage D'Ambient music. It's like black metal with all the black and none of the metal. |
| Vomir and Tanner Garza Give Up The Ghost |
| There's a layer of droning ambient music under the harsh static fuzz, but the static's too abrasive and the ambient not clear enough to really give you that sense of dreamy hopelessness ambient like this is supposed to give you. That last minute or so when the fuzz cuts out is nice, but that doesn't make up for the ear-stabbing 18 minutes before it, especially the first half where the ambience can barely be perceived at all. |
| VRTRA My Bones Hold a Stillness |
| black metal/doom. Compositionally solid, but I don't really like the production. For music as spiky as this is, it needs a bit more actual spikiness in its sound. Crank up the crunchiness of the guitars, make those riffs stab me in the face pls. |
| Vukari Divination |
| black metal. For some reason this one just doesn't click with me. |
| Waking The Cadaver Beyond Cops, Beyond God |
| Generic Suffocation-ripoff death metal/core. The breakdowns lack real punch and the squealed vocals are still annoying, but neither of those two things are really done frequently enough to become bothersome like they are in other brutal dm/core bands. This one for sure doesn't deserve the negativity it gets, regardless how generic it is. And I mean generic or not, the vocals have that nice gravely thing going on, and the riffs are fairly OK, so it's pretty easy to sit through. |
| Waldgefluster Meine Fesseln |
| Does nothing for me. |
| When Woods Make Graves Whispers From The Black Lake |
| This one was pretty OK but I wish he would space out his releases a little more in order to make sure that every album is actually unique and to make sure that his songwriting is all there. The sound on this album is pretty good (I like the more "organic" sounding guitars; he should probably stick with that in the future), the vocals are still kinda meh, and the drum machine sound is still iffy. It has a few decent riffs, though, and in general is pretty inoffensive. The mixing does make it kinda hard to differentiate one section or set of riffs from the next, though, which is ultimately the downfall of most of his releases--no sections really stand out. It's just tremolo tremolo tremolo, garbled screams and bad drum mixing. |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile |
| William Basinski A Shadow in Time |
| While the second track is fine for ambient drone and the first track features Basinski's classic (and honestly well-done this time) melancholic tape loop shtick, "For David Robert Jones" suffers because of the inclusion of a repeated saxophone line early into the track. While the inclusion of a sax into Basinski's usually tape-only style is interesting for the artist, it makes the track utterly unlistenable as an ambient/drone piece; the end of the sax loop is marked by one long note/chord (whatever) which sounds very out-of-tune and goes completely against the atmosphere of the rest of the track. There's this melancholic ambient piece wavering in and out, a saxophone playing atmospherically (or trying to) overtop, and then all of a sudden a screechy "merrrrrrrp" comes out of nowhere and ruins the drone. While the rest of the song is actually another great example of Basinski's style working correctly, that saxophone completely ruins it every time it loops back around. This is really a shame, too, not only because it makes the track grating on the ears, but because "A Shadow in Time" is a fairly good song on its own, but is now marred by its partner. If you could get rid of that stupid sax--or at least the ending note--this could've been a great release. :| |
| Within Temptation Bleed Out |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven |
| The tinny guitar tone doesn't fit the music and the production is really questionable in parts. There are times where riffs fall flat because they simply lack the oomph that a more natural sound would've given them, or the rhythm guitar is turned down low in the mix for no reason. While previous albums had really organic sound and full atmosphere, "Thrice Woven" just lacks that kind of depth. The album does help WitTR expand their sound a little bit (there are a few second wave-y/punk riffs, and spoken word sections by Steve Von Till), but its sound presentation unfortunately doesn't do it any favors. |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge |
| Woman Is The Earth This Place That Contains My Spirit |
| Atmospheric USBM. Driving guitars, synthesizers, and blast beats drenched in reverb. But it's all kinda clunky in the production department. |
| World Of Pain End Game |
| OK slam or death metal or hardcore or w/e. Actually not horrible woah. |
