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5.0 classic
Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken...
Bathory Blood Fire Death
Black Sabbath Master of Reality
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Camel Mirage
Camel Moonmadness
Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Carcass Heartwork
Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
Converge Jane Doe
Cynic Focus
Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Death Human
Death The Sound of Perseverance
Deep Purple Machine Head
Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech
Devin Townsend Terria
Dream Theater Images and Words
Dun (FRA1) Eros
Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse
Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Gentle Giant Acquiring the Taste
Gentle Giant In a Glass House
Gojira From Mars to Sirius
Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick
Panopticon The Rime of Memory
You know when you can truly feel an album? This is one of those albums. Absolutely glorious stuff. Makes me look forward to seeing Panopticon live again next year all the more.
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
The Beatles Abbey Road
The Clash London Calling
The Doors The Doors
The Doors Strange Days

4.5 superb
Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark
Accept Restless and Wild
Accept Balls to the Wall
Acid Bath Paegan Terrorism Tactics
Aeon Zen Ephemera
This is definitely one of the finer prog metal releases of recent times, and certainly of this year so far too. Each song more or less sounds different to the other, and the way in which instrumental performance is co-ordinated in songs like "The Entity", "Life?" and "Rebuild the Ruins" reminds me (in a good way) of Myrath's debut album.
Aerosmith Toys in the Attic
Akercocke Antichrist
Akercocke Choronzon
Alcest Écailles De Lune
Alice Cooper Killer
Alice in Chains Dirt
Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue
Amiensus Reclamation: Part 1
This was one tasty album. So much going in but it's a thrilling listen from start to finish.
Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God
Amon Amarth Versus the World
Anathema Weather Systems
Angel Witch Angel Witch
Anglagard Hybris
Angra Angels Cry
Angra Temple of Shadows
Angra Holy Land
Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders
Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic
Annihilator Alice in Hell
Annihilator Never, Neverland
Anthrax Among the Living
Anvil Metal on Metal
Arkona (RUS) Goi, Rode, Goi!
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command
Atheist Unquestionable Presence
Atheist Elements
Atheist Jupiter
Atheist Piece of Time
Autopsy Mental Funeral
Autopsy Severed Survival
Avatarium Avatarium
Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Bathory Hammerheart
Bauhaus The Sky's Gone Out
Behemoth Demigod
Between the Buried and Me Alaska
Black Anvil Hail Death
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath
Blackfield Blackfield
Blondie Parallel Lines
Blood Ceremony Living With The Ancients
Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh
Blue Oyster Cult Blue Öyster Cult
Blue Oyster Cult Tyranny and Mutation
Blue Oyster Cult Secret Treaties
Bolt Thrower ...For Victory
Bolt Thrower Those Once Loyal
Borknagar Borknagar
Burzum Burzum
Burzum Aske
Burzum Det Som Engang Var
Candlemass Nightfall
Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding
Cannibal Corpse Butchered at Birth
Carcass Surgical Steel
Cathedral The Last Spire
Celtic Frost To Mega Therion
Celtic Frost Morbid Tales
Celtic Frost Monotheist
Cephalic Carnage Lucid Interval
Cirith Ungol King of the Dead
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Converge Axe to Fall
Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky
Converge When Forever Comes Crashing
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind
Coroner Grin
Coroner Mental Vortex
Coroner No More Color
Coroner Punishment for Decadence
Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast
Cradle of Filth Midian
Cradle of Filth The Principle of Evil Made Flesh
Cream Fresh Cream
Crowbar Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form
Cryptopsy None So Vile
Cult Of Fire Ascetic Meditation Of Death
One thing that made made fall instantly in love with this album is its very spiritual energy flowing throughout. You can feel the amount of effort being put into the production of the album and it's simply almost too good to be true. The mixture of evocative, sometimes atmospheric black metal and beautifully integrated eastern influences feels like the perfect musical combination. To be honest, the band's harsher side reminds me of both Borknagar and Burzum, whilst the eastern influences give the band freedom to roam in their own musical world. One of 2013's best extreme metal albums? For me, definitely.
Cult of Luna Vertikal
Cynic Traced in Air
Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy
Danzig Danzig
Danzig Danzig II: Lucifuge
Danzig Danzig III: How The Gods Kill
Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger
Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters
Dead Kennedys Bedtime for Democracy
Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Death Individual Thought Patterns
Death Symbolic
Death Angel The Ultra-Violence
Decapitated Winds of Creation
Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis
Decapitated Nihility
Deep Purple Deep Purple In Rock
Deftones Around the Fur
Deftones White Pony
Deftones Koi No Yokan
Deicide Deicide
Deicide The Stench of Redemption
Destruction Release from Agony
Devin Townsend Project Addicted
Devin Townsend Project Ghost
Diamond Head Lightning to the Nations
Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Dimmu Borgir Spiritual Black Dimensions
Dio Holy Diver
Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
Dismember Like an Ever Flowing Stream
Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane
Dodheimsgard A Umbra Omega
Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current
Dodheimsgard going out on a limb here. Sounds far removed from anything I heard on A Umbra
Omega but with more melody and harmony, especially in the vocal prowess on "Abyss Perihelion
Transition". Like with every other album, it's going to prove divisive (even amongst
experimental black metal fans), but it's truly a well-earned grower.

Edit: Had to push this up to a 4.5. Just had to.
DorDeDuh Har
Draconian The Burning Halo
Dream Theater Awake
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Drudkh Autumn Aurora
Dying Fetus Descend into Depravity
Dying Fetus Reign Supreme
Dying Fetus Destroy the Opposition
Earthless From the Ages
Edge of Sanity Crimson
Electric Light Orchestra Time
Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics...
Electric Wizard Dopethrone
Eluveitie Spirit
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Tarkus
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Brain Salad Surgery
Ensiferum Victory Songs
Ensiferum Ensiferum
Enslaved RIITIIR
currently writing a review for this album. I'm literally drunk with excitement.
Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini
Enslaved Isa
Enslaved Ruun
Entombed Left Hand Path
Epica Design Your Universe
Epica The Divine Conspiracy
Epica The Phantom Agony
Esoteric The Pernicious Enigma
Exivious Liminal
Falkenbach ...Magni Blandinn Ok Megintiri...
Falkenbach Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty
Fear Factory Demanufacture
Fear Factory Mechanize
Fields of the Nephilim Elizium
Such a hauntingly beautiful album, and it actually stays with you hours after you've stopped listening to the album itself. It's that memorable. Not just that, but McCoy's voice on here is incredible. Melodic overtones and gothic atmosphere make this one of the albums of the 90's for me.
Fields of the Nephilim Mourning Sun
Fish Raingods with Zippos
Its always refreshing for me to hear a Fish album, especially as he is one of my favourite solo musicians. This album has in particular so much variety its almost impossible to note every little thing that makes his music stand out so. The last six songs (contributing to a 25 minute opus called 'Plague of Ghosts') are maybe drawn out a little too long, but not enough to take away from the core values of this promising album by Fish. I sometimes wonder whether marillion or Fish is actually better.
Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles
Flotsam and Jetsam No Place for Disgrace
Focus Focus 3
Focus Hamburger Concerto
Focus Focus II
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters
Foscor Les Irreals Visions
Truly a fantastic album, and certainly one of 2017's finest albums. In a way it reminds me of Novembre's excellent "Ursa" record from last year, if only because of how passionate and otherworldly the listening experience feels. That said, the uplifting vocals and unique rhythm section work here have such an alluring charm, it's hard to detach yourself from the soundscape. Every song has its own little twist, but Les Irreals Visions details a transcendent style throughout which is hard for many bands to master. Hard to pick a highlight here, but I would say that "Altars", "Encenalls de Mort" and "Espectres al Cau" are some of the best examples of what Foscor do best on this album.
Frank Zappa Hot Rats
Gamma Ray Land of the Free
Gamma Ray Somewhere Out in Space
Genesis Selling England by the Pound
Genesis Foxtrot
Gentle Giant Octopus
Gojira The Way of All Flesh
Gong You
Gorguts Obscura
Green Carnation Light of Day, Day of Darkness
Hawkwind Warrior on the Edge of Time
Hawkwind Hall of the Mountain Grill
Hawkwind Doremi Fasol Latido
Hawkwind Levitation
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II
Iced Earth Night of the Stormrider
Iced Earth Burnt Offerings
Immolation Dawn of Possession
Immolation Here in After
Immolation Close to a World Below
Immolation Unholy Cult
Imperium Dekadenz Dis Manibvs
In the Woods... Strange in Stereo
Inter Arma Sulphur English
Katatonia Viva Emptiness
Lunatic Soul Through Shaded Woods
Lychgate An Antidote for the Glass Pill
This album is thoroughly brilliant from start to finish. The swathes of Gothic keyboards, progressive song structures, menacing vocal delivery, beautiful guitar work, it's all tightly packed into this 50-minute package-the sound of which is right up my alley. Sure, that may sound fanboyish, but I genuinely love this album having heard it three times already. It simply gets better and better. Highlights of this album could be any song really, but for me personally it's "Letter XIX" and "An Acousmatic Guardian" (Had to look up the definition of "Acousmatic") that really effectively convey this band's best musical talents to the listener.
Mare Cognitum Phobos Monolith
Moondog Moondog
My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans
Napalm Death Time Waits for No Slave
Negura Bunget Virstele Pamintului
Nevermore This Godless Endeavor
Nightwish Wishmaster
Nile Those Whom the Gods Detest
Opeth Watershed
Opeth Blackwater Park
Owl Orion Fenix
Pallbearer Foundations of Burden
Panopticon .​.​.​And Again into the Light
Pantera Vulgar Display of Power
Pink Floyd The Wall
Portishead Dummy
Primordial To the Nameless Dead
Repulsion Horrified
Return to Forever Romantic Warrior
Saor Forgotten Paths
Shape of Despair Monotony Fields
Sinistro Sangue Cassia
Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
Genuinely thought that this was a novel when I saw the title, but later found out that it was a new album by Steven wilson. I've no idea what my expectations for this are, because every album he's ever been involved in is interesting in some way. I think he was talking about doing a new PT album too, so this year he's being a busy, busy bee. Like every year.
Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Thantifaxath Hive Mind Narcosis
I don't know what this album is exactly, but it's blowing my mind.
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal
The Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
The Cranberries No Need to Argue
The Cult Electric
The Cult Sonic Temple
The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution
The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene
The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board
The Enid In The Region of the Summer Stars
The Gathering How to Measure a Planet?
The Gathering Mandylion
The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li
The Great Old Ones EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy
The Groundhogs Hogwash
The Reticent The Oubliette
One of the greatest prog metal concept albums I've heard recently. It's an emotional
conceptual journey through the life (and eventual death) of a Dementia patient and lyrically
really hits home to those who have known someone to suffer from the disease. It's constructed
and performed impeccably well, but it goes without saying you should pay as much attention to
the lyrics as the music in order to get the full experience.
The Ruins of Beverast Exuvia
Had to bump this up to a 4.5 eventually. Several isolated listens of this album whilst driving (mostly during night when traffic is virtually non-existent and the absence of light grows fonder), and I have to say it's confirmed my belief that The Ruins of Beverast has become one of my favourite black metal bands. Every song on this album is different from the rest, and whilst that's not saying too much given there's only six songs here, it's still a moot point.
The Ruins of Beverast The Thule Grimoires
Therion Vovin
Thurisaz Re-Incentive
Thy Catafalque Meta
Well now, here's an album that practically blows every other record of 2016 out of the water. Well at least it does for me. Utterly fantastic from start to finish. Full of creativity, versatility and finesse without ever confusing or frustrating its listener. I could pick any song from here and hail it as a highlight, but I think the third track (I know, too lazy to write the song titles out) and that monstrously progressive 20-minute behemoth both take the cake. I doubt I'll hear another album with the same replay value or timeless quality as this in all honesty, but that's just my opinion.
Van Halen Van Halen
Venenum Trance of Death
In the words of Varg Vikernes when he decided to cover Bathory's "War"...r'This is, huh, wow'.rNo but seriously, this is fantastic work. One of, if not the best extreme metal record of the year so far.
W.A.S.P. W.A.S.P.
While Heaven Wept Suspended at Aphelion
How this album has such a low rating is beyond me. It's a beautiful progressive metal album which is certainly one of the best of the year.
Wintersun Wintersun
Xerath III

4.0 excellent
(EchO) Below the Cover of Clouds
...and Oceans Cosmic World Mother
1349 Massive Cauldron of Chaos
A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You
A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart
A Forest of Stars Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
A.A. Williams Forever Blue
Aara En Ergô Einai
Aara Triade I: Eos
Aara Triade II: Hemera
Aara Triade III: Nyx
Abadir Mutate
Aberration Refracture
Abhorrent Decimation Miasmic Mutation
Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns
Aborted Engineering the Dead
Aborted Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage...
Aborted Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture
Aborted RetroGore
Abstracter Abominion
Absu Absu
Absu Abzu
Absu Barathrum V.I.T.R.I.O.L.
Absu The Sun of Tiphareth
Abyssal (UK) A Beacon In The Husk
AC/DC High Voltage
AC/DC Highway To Hell
AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
AC/DC Let There Be Rock
Acathexis Acathexis
Acathexis Immerse
Accept Stalingrad: Brothers In Death
Accept Metal Heart
Another great 80's album from Accept. They really do have a metal heart...
Accept Blood of the Nations
Acheron Kult des Hasses
Acid Bath When the Kite String Pops
Adimiron Et Liber Eris
Aenaon Mnemosyne
Aerosmith Get Your Wings
Aerosmith Aerosmith
Aerosmith Rocks
Aerosmith Draw the Line
Aeviterne The Ailing Facade
Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain
Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit
Agathodaimon Chapter III
Air Moon Safari
Akercocke The Goat of Mendes
Akercocke Renaissance in Extremis
Akhlys The Dreaming I
Akhlys Melinoe
Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde
Alcest Spiritual Instinct
Alice Cooper Dragontown
Alice Cooper Hey Stoopid
Alice Cooper Welcome To My Nightmare
Alice Cooper Love It To Death
Alice in Chains Facelift
Alkaloid Liquid Anatomy
Alkerdeel Slonk
All About Eve All About Eve
Allan Holdsworth The Sixteen Men of Tain
Allegaeon Elements of the Infinite
Allegaeon Apoptosis
One of the best progressive metal albums of the year. In a lot of ways this reminds me of Persephone's latest full-length but with more engaging musicianship and some riffs to lick your lips to. This may be the band's best.
Almyrkvi Umbra
Almyrkvi Pupil of the Searing Maelstrom
Altar of Plagues White Tomb
Alter Bridge Fortress
Amiensus Abreaction
Amnutseba Emanatism
Amon Amarth The Avenger
Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall
Amon Amarth The Crusher
Amon Amarth Fate of Norns
Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side
Amon Amarth Surtur Rising
Amon Duul II Yeti
An Abstract Illusion Woe
An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love
Beautiful album, very atmospheric, and epic in all the right places. It's certainly lifted my spirits that's for sure, although that's probably not what the band intended when making this album. Definitely one of the better albums I've listened to from this genre for a long, long while.
An Autumn For Crippled Children The Long Goodbye
Anaal Nathrakh The Codex Necro
Anaal Nathrakh Domine Non Es Dignus
Anaal Nathrakh Eschaton
Anaal Nathrakh Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Her
Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow
Anaal Nathrakh Vanitas
Anachronism Meanders
Anathema Judgement
Anathema The Crestfallen
Anathema Alternative 4
Anathema A Natural Disaster
And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures
Angelus Apatrida Hidden Evolution
Very solid, very consistent thrash metal album which will surely turn out to be one of 2015's stronger metal releases. No particular highlights here for me stand out because there's isn't one which is filler material. I do, however, think the album has a very fitting closer, even if a little long. Musicianship is solid, and vocals are nicely versatile, though they do at times remind me of Rob Jukes in his Exodus period.
Angra Rebirth
Angra Aurora Consurgens
Animals As Leaders Weightless
Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion
Anna von Hausswolff All Thoughts Fly
Annihilator King of the Kill
Anthrax Spreading the Disease
Anthrax Persistence of Time
Anthrax Worship Music
Anthrax Sound of White Noise
Antichrist (SWE) Sinful Birth
Antropomorphia Merciless Savagery
Anvil Forged in Fire
Anvil Hard 'n' Heavy
Aosoth V: The Inside Scriptures
Arabrot Who Do You Love
Arch Enemy Wages of Sin
Arch Enemy Black Earth
Arch Enemy Burning Bridges
Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine
Arch Enemy Stigmata
Arch/Matheos Winter Ethereal
A progressive metal album that doesn't try too hard? I'll take it.
Architects Hollow Crown
Architects Daybreaker
Archive Controlling Crowds
Ard Untouched By Fire
Happy to say this band's grown on me quite a lot, especially having seen them live last year. This album feels more fluid and cohesive than the debut effort, but the basics of the band's sound remains intact.
Area Arbeit Macht Frei
Arkona (RUS) Vozrozhdenie
Arkona (RUS) Vo Slavu Velikim!
Arkona (RUS) Ot Serdtsa K Nebu
Arkona (RUS) Khram
Armagh Exclamation Po!nt
Don't know what compels me to this album so much, it just feels warm and accessible enough to keep me wanting to replay. Musicianship is really seamless and even the vocals, as quiet as they are, somehow add to the experience. IT's an album that shouldn't excite me as much as it does.
Aronious Irkalla
Arstidir Lifsins Saga á tveim tungum I: Vápn ok viðr
Arstidir Lifsins Saga á tveim tungum II: Eigi fjǫll né firðir
Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation
Artificial Brain Infrared Horizon
Artillery By Inheritance
Artillery Terror Squad
Artillery When Death Comes
Artillery My Blood
Artillery Penalty by Perception
Asagraum Dawn of Infinite Fire
Ashen Horde Antimony
Ashenspire Hostile Architecture
Astronoid Astronoid
At the Gates Gardens of Grief
At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease
At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul
Atlantean Kodex The Course of Empire
Augury Illusive Golden Age
Austere Corrosion of Hearts
Autarkh Form in Motion
Autopsy All Tomorrow's Funerals
Autopsy The Tomb Within
Autopsy The Headless Ritual
Just heard 'Arch cadaver'...sounds pretty solid as always.
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil
Ayahuasca (DE) Beneath the Mind
I feel like this is what Sepultura should have sounded like post-Roots era. rOn a more serious note, what a barnstormer of a late 2018 release this is. I only found out about it a few weeks ago but damn, those Subterranean grooves are infectious and the whole hour-long piece is effectively monstrous in its delivery. I could care less for the brief deathcore flourishes here and there, but it's a generally well-written debut effort full of vigour and menace. This band is one to watch in the near future, that's for sure.
Bacamarte Depois Do Fim
Backxwash God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of I
Backxwash I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES
Baring Teeth The Path Narrows
Barishi Old Smoke
Savage, unrelenting, yet also hypnotic and draws you in with real menace. The final track is a damn good example of this band at its collective instrumental peak.
Baroness Blue Record
Baroness First
Baroness Second
Baroness First & Second
Baroness Red Album
Baroness Yellow and Green
BARST The Western Lands
Bathory Twilight of the Gods
Bathory Bathory
Bathory The Return of the Darkness and Evil
Bathory Nordland I
Bathory Blood on Ice
Batushka Litourgiya
Bauhaus In the Flat Field
Bauhaus Mask
Bauhaus Burning from the Inside
Bauhaus Bela Lugosi's Dead
Be'lakor Vessels
Be'lakor Stone's Reach
Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond)
Behemoth The Apostasy
Behemoth Evangelion
Behemoth Satanica
Behexen The Poisonous Path
This is definitely among the better black metal albums I've heard so far in 2016. Excellent sound, and some outstanding guitar work. It's not that versatile, but it sure does deliver the goods like few others.
Bekor Qilish The Flesh of a New God
Belphegor Blood Magick Necromance
Belphegor Lucifer Incestus
Belphegor Pestapokalypse VI
Beneath (IS) The Barren Throne
A very consistent, powerful death metal album. Some of the riffs may sound the same towards the end, but the technical solo work and solid instrumental performance makes for an excellent all-round impression. my personal highlights are "Chalice" and "Mass Extinction Codex".
Beneath (IS) Ephemeris
Benediction The Grand Leveller
Benediction Transcend the Rubicon
Benediction Killing Music
Bess of Bedlam Dance until the Crimes End
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence
Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me
Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus
Between the Buried and Me Colors
Between the Buried and Me Automata I
Beyond Creation The Aura
Beyond Creation Earthborn Evolution
Billy Cobham Spectrum
Billy Idol Billy Idol
Billy Idol Rebel Yell
Binah Phobiate
Biohazard Mata Leao
Biohazard State of the World Address
Bjork Vespertine
Bjork Post
Black Crown Initiate The Wreckage of Stars
Black Label Society 1919 Eternal
Black Label Society Mafia
Black Label Society Order Of The Black
Black Label Society Sonic Brew
Black Label Society The Blessed Hellride
Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell
Black Sabbath Vol. 4
Black Sabbath 13
Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Black Sabbath Mob Rules
Black Spiders Sons of the North
Black Stone Cherry Black Stone Cherry
Black Stone Cherry Folklore and Superstition
Black Trip Goin' Under
Blackberry Smoke The Whippoorwill
Blackfield Blackfield II
Blackfield Blackfield V
Blackmore's Night Fires at Midnight
Blackmore's Night Ghost of a Rose
Bleeding Through Dust to Ashes
Bleeding Through Declaration
Bleeding Through Portrait of the Goddess
Bleeding Through The Truth
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
Blondie Blondie
Blondie Eat to the Beat
Blondie Plastic Letters
Blood Ceremony Blood Ceremony
Blood Red Throne Affiliated With the Suffering
Blood Red Throne Altered Genesis
Bloodbath Breeding Death
Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery
Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage
Bloodbath Unblessing the Purity
Bloodbath Grand Morbid Funeral
Bloodshot Dawn Demons
Bloody Hammers Spiritual Relics
Very solid album, and particularly raises all the good points of a genre at risk of sounding outdated. The keyboards make songs such as 'At the well of the Nazareth' and 'The source' all the more exciting and evil-sounding to listen to, whereas the bass-heavy 'The transit begins' and 'Shiver' obviously favour heavy guitar sounds a la Pentagram (in the 80s), making for a rather unique sound.
Blue Oyster Cult Agents of Fortune
Blue Oyster Cult Spectres
Blue Oyster Cult Cultösaurus Erectus
Blue Oyster Cult Fire of Unknown Origin
Blue Oyster Cult Imaginos
Blues Pills Blues Pills
Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry
Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen
Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses
Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium – Nahab
Bob Catley The Tower
Bob Catley When Empires Burn
Bolt Thrower The IVth Crusade
Bolt Thrower Realm of Chaos
Bolt Thrower War Master
Bolt Thrower Honour - Valour - Pride
Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun
Boris Amplifier Worship
Borknagar Empiricism
Borknagar The Olden Domain
Borknagar Quintessence
Borknagar The Archaic Course
Borknagar Epic
Borknagar Fall
Boston Boston
Boston Don't Look Back
Botanist Ecosystem
Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal
A very different sound compared to what we've heard from BMTH in the not too distant past. In particular the production seems a lot more atmospheric and Sykes' vocals seem to have more of a range than usual. There are a lot of songs on here that I could say are the band's best: 'The house of wolves', 'Empire (let them sing)','Shadow Moses' and 'Crooked young', the latter of which making for a very nice sound using symphonic sounds and consequently giving off a classical feel. If this is the direction the band are heading in, I have no doubt that I will become a bigger fan than ever before.
Broken Hope Omen of Disease
Excellent album. Some very brutal and sometimes technical death metal here, though you have to try hard to find variation in some aspects of the band's sound. The vocals and drum rhythms are more or less the same all the way through, but the guitar and bass work is extremely well-executed, specifically on 'Ghastly', the title track and 'The docking dead'. I didn't realize this band were around for as long as they have been either.
Bruce Dickinson Accident of Birth
Bruce Dickinson Tyranny of Souls
Bruce Dickinson The Chemical Wedding
Burzum Filosofem
Burzum Belus
Burzum Fallen
California Breed California Breed
Camel Camel
Camel The Snow Goose
Camel A Nod and a Wink
Camel Rajaz
Camel Rain Dances
Camel Breathless
Camel Nude
Camel Harbour of Tears
Candlemass Ancient Dreams
Candlemass Candlemass
Candlemass King of the Grey Islands
Candlemass Tales of Creation
Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated
Cannibal Corpse Torture
Cannibal Corpse Bloodthirst
Cannibal Corpse Kill
Carach Angren This Is No Fairytale
Caravan For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night
Carcass Tools of the Trade
Carcass Symphonies of Sickness
Carcass Swansong
Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool
Cathedral The Carnival Bizarre
Cathedral Forest of Equilibrium
Cathedral The Guessing Game
Cathedral The Ethereal Mirror
Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction
Cattle Decapitation Terrasite
Cavalera Conspiracy Inflikted
Cavalera Conspiracy Blunt Force Trauma
Celeste Animale(s)
Cellar Darling The Spell
This band has come on leaps and bounds since the fairly lackluster debut. Consistent songwriting, progressive musicianship, beautiful inclusion of folk instrumentation (the brilliance of that mid-section during "Death", for example) and Anna Murphy's vocal delivery is spot on. The band also kill it live, as proven by their support slot to Katatonia earlier this year.
Celtic Frost Into the Pandemonium
Cephalic Carnage Exploiting Dysfunction
Cephalic Carnage Misled by Certainty
Ch'ahom Knots of Abhorrence
Chat Pile God's Country
Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper
Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll
Children of Bodom Hatebreeder
Children of Bodom Something Wild
Children of Bodom Halo of Blood
Chimaira The Age of Hell
Chimaira Chimaira
Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason
Chthonic 9th Empyrean
Chthonic Relentless Recurrence
Chthonic Seediq Bale
Cinderella Long Cold Winter
Cinderella Night Songs
Circle Terminal
Cirith Ungol Paradise Lost
Cirith Ungol One Foot in Hell
Cirith Ungol Dark Parade
Cistvaen At Light's Demise
Cloak of Altering Zero Devil
Cloud Rat Threshold
Clutch Earth Rocker
Clutch Blast Tyrant
Clutch Clutch
Clutch The Elephant Riders
Clutch Robot Hive/Exodus
Cognizance Malignant Dominion
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension
Colonel Claypool's Bucket Of Bernie Brains The Big Eyeball In The Sky
Condor (NO) Unstoppable Power
Confessor Condemned
Conjurer (UK) Mire
Conjurer (UK) Pathos
Constellatia Magisterial Romance
Contemplator Morphose
Converge No Heroes
Converge You Fail Me
Converge Bloodmoon: I
Cormorant Diaspora
Coroner R.I.P.
Corrosion of Conformity Wiseblood
Corrosion of Conformity Blind
Corrosion of Conformity America's Volume Dealer
Corrosion of Conformity Deliverance
Cosmic Putrefaction Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones
Cosmic Putrefaction The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers
Costin Chioreanu The Quest For A Morning Star
Cradle of Filth Vempire or Dark Faerytales in Phalluste
Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace
Cradle of Filth Existence Is Futile
Craven Idol Forked Tongues
Cream Disraeli Gears
Cream Wheels of Fire
Crestfallen Dusk Crestfallen Dusk
Crimson Shadows Kings Among Men
Crom Dubh Heimweh
Crosses Crosses
Crowbar Broken Glass
Crowbar Crowbar
Crowbar Equilibrium
Crowbar Life's Blood For The Downtrodden
Crowbar Time Heals Nothing
Crowbar Sever The Wicked Hand
Cruachan Blood on the Black Robe
Cruachan The Morrigan's Call
Cruciamentum Obsidian Refractions
Cryptic Shift Visitations from Enceladus
The best bits of Skaldic Curse, the avant-garde mannerisms of mid-era Gorguts and the rabid acceleration of Vektor? Oh yes please.
Cryptopsy Cryptopsy
Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh
Cryptopsy Whisper Supremacy
Cryptopsy And Then You'll Beg
Csejthe Reminiscence
Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway
Cult of Luna Cult of Luna
Cult of Luna The Beyond
Cult of Luna Vertikal II
Cult of Luna The Raging River
Cult of Luna The Long Road North
Cynic The Portal Tapes
D.R.I. Crossover
D.R.I. Dirty Rotten
D.R.I. 4 of a Kind
D.R.I. Dealing with It!
Daevid Allen Good Morning!
Danzig Deth Red Sabaoth
Danzig 6:66 Satan's Child
Dark Fortress Venereal Dawn
Dark Fortress Spectres from the Old World
Dark Funeral Dark Funeral
Dark Funeral Diabolis Interium
Dark Millennium Acid River
Darkest Hour Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora
Darkspace Dark Space III I
Darkthrone Soulside Journey
Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon
Darkthrone The Underground Resistance
Dawn of Ouroboros Velvet Incandescence
Dawnwalker House of Sand
This album is a breath of fresh air within post-metal AND progressive metal. A well-realized concept fulfilled through vibrant and versatile musicianship.
Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist
Dead Kennedys In God We Trust, Inc.
Deafheaven Sunbather
Death Leprosy
Death Scream Bloody Gore
Death Angel Frolic Through the Park
Death Angel Act III
Death Angel The Art of Dying
Death Angel The Dream Calls for Blood
Death Grips The Powers That B
Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death
Death Karma The History of Death & Burial Rituals Part I
Death. Void. Terror. To the Great Monolith II
Murkiest release of the year so far. Yes, we're only into the second month so such a statement seems daft, but it'll be hard to discover many albums that reach this level of menace. Takes a while to get used to and it's definitely an album to hear with earphones. Outside distraction will simply deviate your attention too easily.
Deathspell Omega The Synarchy of Molten Bones
Deathstars Synthetic Generation
Deathstars Night Electric Night
Deathstars Termination Bliss
Decapitated The Negation
Deceased As the Weird Travel On
Deceased Supernatural Addiction
Deceased Fearless Undead Machines
Decoherence Unitarity
Deep Purple Burn
Deep Purple Shades of Deep Purple
Deep Purple Deep Purple
Deep Purple Come Taste the Band
Deep Purple Perfect Strangers
Deep Purple Bananas
Deep Purple Rapture of the Deep
Deep Purple Now What?!
Def Leppard Hysteria
Def Leppard Pyromania
Deftones Diamond Eyes
Deftones Deftones
Deftones Adrenaline
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist
Deftones Gore
Degial Predator Reign
Deicide Legion
Deicide Once Upon the Cross
Deiquisitor Apotheosis
Delain Moonbathers
Demilich Nespithe
Demon King Vesania
Demonstealer The Propaganda Machine
Der Weg Einer Freiheit Stellar
Excellent album, though it took me a while to get into it. I think it's because of the first two songs, which I thought at first were a little too long for their own good, but then the rest of the album automatically impressed me and kept me hooked. With the exception of the brilliant final song, I prefer the two shorter tracks ("Einkehr" and "Verbund") to the lengthier material, but as a whole this is simply a well-written, well-performed black metal release.
Der Weg Einer Freiheit Finisterre
Der Weg Einer Freiheit Noktvrn
This band just keeps getting better and better. That final song is gorgeous.
Desecrator Subconscious Release
Desolate Shrine Deliverance from the Godless Void
Destiny Potato Lun
Destroyer 666 Wildfire
Destruction Infernal Overkill
Destruction Sentence of Death
Destruction Eternal Devastation
Destruction All Hell Breaks Loose
Destruction The Antichrist
Destruction Inventor of Evil
Dethklok Dethalbum II
DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand
DevilDriver Pray for Villains
Devin Townsend Physicist
Devin Townsend Infinity
Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient
Devin Townsend Project Ki
Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction
Devin Townsend Project Epicloud
Diablo Swing Orchestra Pacifisticuffs
Diabolical Eclipse
Diamanda Galas Broken Gargoyles
Parts of this LP are absolutely terrifying, but I guess that's the point.
Diamond Head Borrowed Time
Die So Fluid The World Is Too Big For One Lifetime
Die So Fluid Spawn Of Dysfunction
Dimmu Borgir For All Tid
Dio The Last in Line
Dioramic Supra
DIRGE (IN) Dirge
Dischordia Triptych
Dismember Indecent & Obscene
Dismember Dismember
Dismember The God That Never Was
Dissection The Somberlain
Dissimulator (CAN) Lower Form Resistance
I appreciate how the album cover reminds me of Tetsuo the iron man, as well as the fact that this music absolutely rips.
Djevel Tanker som rir natten
Dodecahedron Kwintessens
Dodheimsgard 666 International
Dodsrit Nocturnal Will
Donny Mccaslin I Want More
DorDeDuh Dar De Duh
Down NOLA
Down Down III: Over the Under
Downfall of Gaia Ethic of Radical Finitude
Draconian Turning Season Within
Draconian Where Lovers Mourn
Draconian Arcane Rain Fell
Drawn A New World?
Dread Sovereign All Hell's Martyrs
Dream Evil Dragon Slayer
Dream Evil The Book of Heavy Metal
Dream Theater Train of Thought
Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Dream Theater A Change of Seasons
Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Dream Unending Song of Salvation
Dreamwell In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You
At no point did I feel relaxed listening to this album.r...But I guess that's the point.
Drown (US) Subaqueous
Drudkh They Often See Dreams About The Spring
DSKNT Vacuum γ​-​Noise Transition
Dwaal Gospel Of The Vile
Dying Fetus War of Attrition
Dying Fetus Killing on Adrenaline
Dying Fetus Stop at Nothing
Dysgnostic Scar Echoes
Dyssebeia Garden of Stillborn Idols
Earthside A Dream In Static
Eight Bells Legacy Of Ruin
Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World
Elder (USA-MA) Omens
Electric Light Orchestra Face the Music
Electric Light Orchestra The Electric Light Orchestra
Electric Light Orchestra On the Third Day
Electric Light Orchestra Eldorado
Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record
Electric Light Orchestra Out of the Blue
Electric Wizard We Live
Electric Wizard Witchcult Today
Electric Wizard Black Masses
Electric Wizard Electric Wizard
Eluveitie Everything Remains As It Never Was
Eluveitie Slania
Eluveitie Helvetios
Elvenking Wyrd
Elvenking The Pagan Manifesto
The album Elvenking should have made after "The Winter Wake" in my opinion. It features everything that made the band's first three albums so unique whilst still retaining a melodic yet epic atmosphere, helped to become more relevant by intricate folk musicianship. My personal highlights are the amazing "King of the Elves" and "Twilight of Magic", though near enough every song on here is just as good in their own particular way.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Trilogy
Emperor IX Equilibrium
Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire...
Employed To Serve Greyer than You Remember
Employed To Serve The Warmth Of A Dying Sun
Endalok Ur Draumheimi Viourstyggor
Ensiferum From Afar
Ensiferum Iron
Enslaved Below the Lights
Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi
Enslaved Frost
Enslaved Mardraum - Beyond the Within
Enslaved Monumension
Enslaved In Times
Enthroned Prophecies of Pagan Fire
Enthroned XES Haereticum
I was initially introduced to Enthroned's music via "Carnage in Worlds beyond", so it's fairly unsurprising that this album is musically similar. That's not a bad thing at all however, given how aggressive and powerful the musicianship is. Not only that, but the more complex likes of "Vortex of Confusion" and "Seven Plagues, Seven Wraths" really impressed me. The vocals for me are still weak in comparison but nonetheless suitable for this musical style.
Entombed Clandestine
Entombed Wolverine Blues
Entropia (PL) Total
Epica Requiem for the Indifferent
Erdve Vaitojimas
Esoctrilihum Eternity Of Shaog
Esoctrilihum Dy'th Requiem for the Serpent Telepath
So many brilliant black metal albums released this year, so little time to listen to them.rScrew that, I have ALL the time in the world.
Esoctrilihum Consecration of the Spiritus Flesh
Esoctrilihum Astraal Constellations of the Majickal Zodiac
Esoteric A Pyrrhic Existence
Eternal Storm A Giant Bound to Fall
Once again Transcending Obscurity comes up trumps with a brilliant effort this year. Eternal Storm are an intriguing band considering the line-up links to Persefone, but this stands on its own front with a real promising future.
Evergrey The Atlantic
Evile Enter the Grave
Execration (NOR) Morbid Dimensions
Exhorder Slaughter in the Vatican
Exocrine Molten Giant
Exocrine Maelstrom
I don't know what it is about Exocrine, but they make this sub-genre so fun to listen to. And yes, I did enjoy those sax solos.
Exodus Shovel Headed Kill Machine
Exodus Tempo of the Damned
Exodus Fabulous Disaster
Exodus Bonded by Blood
Exodus Exhibit B: The Human Condition
Exploring Birdsong Dancing in the Face of Danger
Reminds me of a gentler version of Oceans of Slumber but with increasingly hook-laden pop sensibilities, that don't err on the side of too much cheese. An interesting amalgam of inspirations.
Extreme III Sides to Every Story
From start to finish, this is an undoubtedly ambitious concept album which, if not immediately successful, was for Extreme a career-defining piece of work. Split into three parts, the album explores and covers a lot of musical ground. The first part has the most in common with Extreme's earlier material (but is still very reliable given the band's hard-working musical ethic), the mid-section is experimental and proves Bettencourt is more than just a talented guitarist, and the last three songs verge on progressive rock territory. It's a big album to take in, and will require more than one listen to enhance the whole experience, but is certainly a rewarding listen by the end.
Extreme Extreme II: Pornograffitti
Exumer Rising from the Sea
Eye of Nix Ligeia
Prophecy Productions keep putting out unique releases this year, and Eye of Nix's latest another one. Alluring vocals and really adventurous songwriting coupled with one of the cleanest albeit vicious rhythm sections I've heard in a black metal-related release all year, and yet the album still takes a few listens to truly get your head around. In a way it reminds me of what The Third and the Mortal were doing in the mid-90s but with more menace and heaviness to boot.
Eyehategod Dopesick
Fabricant Drudge To The Thicket
Faith No More Album of the Year
Faith No More Angel Dust
Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
Faith No More The Real Thing
Falkenbach Tiurida
Falkenbach ...En Their Medh Riki Fara...
Falls of Rauros Key to a Vanishing Future
Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology
Fallujah The Flesh Prevails
Fange Pourrissoir
Fates Warning Awaken the Guardian
Father Befouled Holy Rotten Blood
Fathomless Ritual Hymns for the Lesser Gods
Fear Factory The Industrialist
Fear Factory Obsolete
Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine
Felled The Intimate Earth
Fellwarden Wreathed in Mourncloud
A truly refreshing album. The production is ideal-seemingly shrouded in this hazy, cloudy sound but which vividly brings to mind a slow, graceful stroll alongside a foggy coastline (or alongside the lake district, apparently a direct source of songwriting inspiration for the album). It may be simplistic and straightforward in its approach, but it does everything just right and offers one of the calmest albeit seamless atmospheric black metal albums of the year so far.
Fen Winter
Fen Monuments to Absence
Feral Light Psychic Contortions
Finnr's Cane Elegy
Finntroll Jaktens Tid
Finntroll Nattfodd
Finntroll Nifelvind
Finsmoonth Affliction
Finsterforst Zerfall
This album reminds me of Moonsorrow in all the right ways. Plus, one of the songs are 32 minutes long and it really doesn't feel like 32 minutes.
Fires in the Distance Air Not Meant For Us
Firewind Between Heaven And Hell
Fish 13th Star
Fish Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors
Fish Internal Exile
Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac Rumours
Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony
Fleshgod Apocalypse Mafia
Fleshvessel Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed
Fluisteraars/Turia De Oord
Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape
Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose
Foo Fighters In Your Honor
Foo Fighters Wasting Light
Forbidden Forbidden Evil
Forbidden Twisted into Form
Foretoken Triumphs
Forteresse Thèmes pour la Rébellion
Frail Body Artificial Bouquet
Frank Zappa Waka/Jawaka
Frank Zappa The Grand Wazoo
Frank Zappa Joe's Garage
Free Tons of Sobs
Free Fire and Water
Fuath I
Full of Hell Weeping Choir
Full of Hell Garden of Burning Apparitions
Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation
Funeral for a Friend Hours
Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon
Fuoco Fatuo (ITA2) Obsidian Katabasis
Gamma Ray Power Plant
Gamma Ray Majestic
Garbage Not Your Kind of People
Garbage Version 2.0
Garbage Garbage
Garganjua Toward the Sun
Gary Moore Still Got The Blues
Gary Moore Dirty Fingers
Gary Moore Victims Of The Future
Genesis A Trick of the Tail
Genesis Nursery Cryme
Genital Shame Chronic Illness Wish
Wasn't sure what to make of the name of this project but I was pleasantly surprised to hear the type of experimental black metal that made Victory Over the sun's latest so damn good.
Gentle Giant The Power and the Glory
Gentle Giant Gentle Giant
Gentle Giant Three Friends
Gentle Giant Free Hand
George Kollias Invictus
George Thorogood and the Destroyers George Thorogood and the Destroyers
Ghost (SWE) Meliora
Gigan Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescence
Giver Sculpture Of Violence
Glassing From the Other Side of the Mirror
Glorior Belli Gators Rumble, Chaos Unfurls
Nice album. I particularly like the harshness of the vocals and the musicianship here often accompanies those vocals in the right sort of way. The mixture of blackened riffs and a southern rock tone throughout makes for an interesting sound, though at times this can wear a little thin if played on a repetitive basis. That said, the album is generally very consistent and in my opinion never quite lets up.
Godflesh Decline and Fall
Godflesh Streetcleaner
Godflesh Pure
Godflesh Post Self
Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage
Golden Earring Contraband
Golden Earring Moontan
Golden Earring Eight Miles High
Gong Expresso II
Gong Flying Teapot
Gong Angel's Egg
Gong Gazeuse! (Expresso)
Gong Shamal
Gong Acid Motherhood
Gong I See You
Gong Rejoice! I’m Dead!
Gorguts Colored Sands
Gorguts Considered Dead
Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity
Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate
Gorguts Pleiades' Dust
Grails Chalice Hymnal
Grand Funk Railroad Phoenix
Grand Funk Railroad We're An American Band
Grand Funk Railroad On Time
Grand Funk Railroad Grand Funk
Grand Funk Railroad Closer To Home
Grand Funk Railroad Survival
Grand Funk Railroad E Pluribus Funk
Grave Digger Excalibur
Grave Digger The Grave Digger
Grave Miasma Endless Pilgrimage
Gravesend Gowanus Death Stomp
Green Carnation Leaves Of Yesteryear
Green Day American Idiot
Grim Reaper Fear No Evil
Grima Tales of the Enchanted Woods
Grimoire À La Lumière des Cendres
Grinding Fortune Itch Relief
Groza The Redemptive End
Gryphon Red Queen To Gryphon Three
Guhts Regeneration
Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I
Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction
Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II
GWAR Ragnarok
Hail Spirit Noir Oi Magoi
Hail Spirit Noir Eden In Reverse
Haken Affinity
Haken Aquarius
Halford Resurrection
Halford Crucible
Hannes Grossmann Apophenia
It's like a less frenzied version of last year's impeccable "Liquid Anatomy" album, but with just as much of a "there's a party going on in my ears" impression.rI mean, it rules.
Hanoi Rocks Bangkok Shocks,Saigon Shakes,Hanoi Rocks
Hate Forest The Most Ancient Ones
Hate Forest Purity
Hate Forest Battlefields
Hate Forest Sorrow
Haunter (USA-TX) Discarnate Ails
Haunter (USA-TX) Sacramental Death Qualia
Hawk Eyes Everything Is Fine
Hawkwind In Search of Space
Hawkwind Quark, Strangeness and Charm
Heart Dreamboat Annie
Hegemone We Disappear
Heilung Ofnir
This is clearly an album that is supposed to be experience, not merely listened to. The whole thing is bizarre to those who have never really heard anything related to neofolk, ambient or dark traditional Nordic music, but giving it a chance may spurn you on to those styles. That said, it's a lot harder to get into than, say, Wardruna or The Moon and the Nightspirit. Several listens needed.
Heilung Futha
Heilung Drif
Hekseblad Kaer Morhen
Helga (SWE) Wrapped in Mist
Hell (UK) Human Remains
Hell (UK) Curse and Chapter
Hell Poemer Arcane Mysteries of Dead Ancestors
Hellhammer Satanic Rites
Hellish Form Deathless
Hellish Outcast Stay of Execution
Helloween The Time of the Oath
Helloween Walls of Jericho
Helloween Better Than Raw
Helloween The Dark Ride
Helms Alee Keep This Be the Way
Hexvessel Kindred
Hexvessel Polar Veil
High on Fire Luminiferous
Hissing Hypervirulence Architecture
Hooded Menace Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed
Hooded Menace The Tritonus Bell
Horn Retrograd
Hornwood Fell Cursed Thoughts - Part II
Hornwood Fell Cursed Thoughts - Part I
Hostsol L​ä​nge Leve Dö​den
Humavoid Lidless
What was missing from both Ithaca's latest release and most of Jinjer's discography, is basically on this album, amplified by some frenzied vocal work which strangely reminds me of Ram-Zet in their prime, and all finished off with manic keyboard/synth work. A lot of ideas dancing about, and if you don't like djenty riffs then at least part of this album will irritate you to no end...but this is still a brilliantly fresh debut in my mind.
Huntsmen Mandala of Fear
Sublime stuff, and yet it's also very laidback, fluent, and manages to make a gargantuan 80-minute runtime seem to fly by for all the intrinsic musicianship and progression happening here. Many songs aspire to truly great crescendos, often uplifting and warming but never in a way which overeggs the proverbial pudding, instead, the band rely on their individual talents and that well-honed songwriting to produce some damn fine post/sludge metal. One of the more unique releases of its kind this year.
Hypocrisy Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy The Final Chapter
Hypocrisy Abducted
Hypocrisy The Arrival
iamthemorning Lighthouse
Iced Earth The Dark Saga
Iced Earth Something Wicked This Way Comes
Iced Earth Horror Show
Ihsahn Das Seelenbrechen
Ihsahn Arktis.
Ihsahn The Adversary
Ihsahn Eremita
Illustrations In Vain
Illyria Illyria
Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy
Immolation Failures for Gods
Immolation Acts of God
Immortal Pure Holocaust
Immortal At the Heart of Winter
Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness
Immortal All Shall Fall
Immortal Bird Thrive On Neglect
Enjoyably consistent and solid mix of black metal-esque vocals, energetic instrumentation and just really nice progression from one song to the next. I'd never heard of this band before today, so it was a real nice surprise.
Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy
Imperium Dekadenz Procella Vadens
In the Woods... Omnio
In Vain (NO) Solemn
Incantation Dirges of Elysium
Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Infant Island Obsidian Wreath
Inferno (CZ) Gnosis Kardias (Of Transcension and Involution)
Inferno (CZ) PARADEIGMA (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity)
Ingested The Level Above Human
Inquisition Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
Inquisition Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar...
Insomnium Anno 1696
Inter Arma New Heaven
IQ The Wake
ISON Aurora
Beautifully haunting. Considering the guest musicians and vocalists here, the album is full of life and has this energetic presence which listeners absorb from the very first song.
ISON Stars & Embers
Ivar Bjornson and Einar Selvik Skuggsja: A Piece for Mind & Mirror
Ivar Bjornson and Einar Selvik Hugsjá
Jakub Zytecki Wishful Lotus Proof
Jambinai ONDA
James LaBrie Impermanent Resonance
Jeff Loomis Zero Order Phase
Jonathan Hulten Chants from Another Place
Really pleasant surprise for me this was. I was already a fan of Tribulation but didn't quite catch on to what Hulten was doing in his spare time, and the result is this: A beautiful, atmospheric acoustic voyage through several different musical styles which ensures no song ever oversteps its mark. Short but definitely sweet, this is one of the more unique non-metal albums I've come across since 2020 started.
Julianna Barwick Healing Is a Miracle
Kaipa In the Wake of Evolution
Kairon IRSE! Ujubasajuba
Kaleikr Heart of Lead
Kardashev Liminal Rite
Karybdis Samsara
Katatonia Tonight's Decision
Kauan Kaiho
Kauan Ice Fleet
Kayo Dot Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike
Kekal Envisaged
Khemmis Deceiver
Killing Joke MMXII
Klone Here Comes The Sun
Klone Meanwhile
Knifeplay Animal Drowning
Knoll As Spoken
Kosmokrator First Step Towards Supremacy
Kreator Violent Revolution
Krisiun Black Force Domain
Pretty awesome album. The solos here are definitely the album's highlight.
Kurokuma Born of Obsidian
La Fin The Endless Inertia
Lacuna Coil Unleashed Memories
Lamb of God Wrath
Lamp of Murmuur Saturnian Bloodstorm
Sometimes simple is good. And this is very good. very good indeed.
Lanayah I'm Picking Lights in a Field
A strange one this. I'm seeing tags for blackgaze and post-hardcore but it's both those things and neither of things at the same time. So much going on in this release and yet there's a real charm to it throughout.
Laster Andermans Mijne
Probably their most accessible sounding album, and somehow all the better for it. The melodies and grooves are so memorable here but result in what is mostly a fluent album, one which certainly warrants repeated listens if only to get you dancing time and time again. Probably.
Latitudes Old Sunlight
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III
Leprous Bilateral
Les Claypool's Duo de Twang Four Foot Shack
Leviathan Scar Sighted
Light Dweller Lucid Offering
Lingua Ignota Caligula
Locanda Delle Fate Forse le Lucciole non si Amano piu
Lotus Thief Gramarye
Lucifer Black Mass
Luna's Call Void
Lunar Chamber Shambhallic Vibrations
Lunatic Soul Impressions
Lurker Of Chalice Lurker Of Chalice
Lust Hag Lust Hag
Lo-fi with plenty of atmosphere a damn good bass tone. Awesome job.
Lychgate The Contagion in Nine Steps
Lychgate Also Sprach Futura
This band continues to go from strength to strength, but I still didn't expect a Lychgate EP to come so soon after arguably the finest Esoteric release yet. Chandler really doesn't settle down does he?
Macabre Omen Gods Of War - At War
Excellent album. These guys have done a stunning job both musically and conceptually here. Sure, it obviously draws many influences from the likes of Bathory (who doesn't in this sub-genre?), but the way in which atmospheric black metal is fused together with melancholic mood and flourishes of Pagan music simply collaborates for what is an hour of grandiose music. Any song here could be seen as a highlight, but my personal favourites would have to be "From Son to Father" and the epic two-part closer "Alexandros".
Machine Head Through The Ashes Of Empires
Machine Head Unto The Locust
Madder Mortem Red In Tooth And Claw
Magna Carta Cartel The Dying Option
Mai Mai Mai Rimorso
Maieutiste Veritas
Reminds me a lot of Cormorant but with more emphasis on melancholy, the violin work particularly providing a nice classical backdrop for the extreme metal work to flow onto. "Vocat" is a sprawling centrepiece but this album from start to finish is some of the most accessible black metal work I've heard in recent times.
Major Parkinson Blackbox
Malist Of Scorched Earth
Malthusian Across Deaths
Mammal Hands Gift From the Trees
Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm
Mary Halvorson Amaryllis/Belladonna
Mary Halvorson Belladonna
Mary Halvorson Amaryllis
Mastiff Plague
Mastiff Deprecipice
Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun
Mastodon Emperor of Sand
Mekong Delta Dances of Death (and other Walking Shadows)
Melechesh Enki
Meshuggah Immutable
Messa Belfry
Messier 16 iota
Messier 16 Death Poems
Metal Church The Dark
meth. Shame
Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 3 - A Fullmoon Madness
Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 2 - The Golden Orb
Mike Oldfield Ommadawn
Miles Davis Bitches Brew
Miles Davis Kind of Blue
Minenwerfer Feuerwalze
Minors Abject Bodies
Misanthropic Rage Hallucinatory Phenomena
Misery Index The Killing Gods
Misery Index Rituals of Power
Misha Sultan Roots
Misthyrming Algleymi
Mithras On Strange Loops
Mol JORD
Mol I/II
Monarch (FRA) Sabbracadaver
Monolithe Monolithe IV
Monolord Rust
Monolord No Comfort
Monotheist Scourge
Monster Magnet Last Patrol
Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja
Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky
Moonspell Extinct
Morgue Supplier Inevitability
Morwinyon Pristine
Motanka Motanka
I really enjoyed this. It's a real fresh sound, innovative thanks to the use of those Ukrainian folk instruments and the obvious prog metal influence, but I'm hearing subtle influences from post-rock and post-metal which really help the band in expanding their sound on this debut. One of the finest debuts of the year that's for sure.
Mountainscape Atoms Unfurling
Mourning Beloveth Rust & Bone
Muse Absolution
My Dying Bride The Thrash of Naked Limbs
My Dying Bride A Map of All Our Failures
My Dying Bride The Barghest o’ Whitby
My Dying Bride Feel the Misery
Nails Abandon All Life
Napalm Death Utilitarian
Nasheim Jord Och Aska
Nasum Human 2.0
Native Construct Quiet World
Ne Obliviscaris Citadel
Ne Obliviscaris Urn
Ne Obliviscaris Exul
Necrophagia Season of the Dead
Necrophagia WhiteWorm Cathedral
Necrot Mortal
Negative Plane The Pact
Negator Gates to the Pantheon
Negura Bunget Zău
Nekroí Theoí Dead Gods
I admit the vocals will prove divisive depending on how you like your death metal, but damn this is still invigorating stuff. There's a wide range of influences-some obvious, some not so-but to me it's a pretty fresh take on a sub-genre that has over the last few years been riddled with a severe lack of motivation. Ones to watch, and definitely one of the most thrilling extreme metal debuts of the year.
Nekrofilth Worm Ritual
Nervosa Agony
Nicole Saboune Miman
Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks
No Spill Blood Eye of Night
Noctule Wretched Abyss
Norma Jean Wrongdoers
Novembre Ursa
Nullingroots Shrouds of Celeste
Nullingroots Take Care
Numenorean Adore
Nurez Nachtlied
Nyktalgia Nyktalgia
Obituary Cause of Death
Obituary The End Complete
Obituary Slowly We Rot
Obituary World Demise
Obliterations Poison Everything
Obscura Akróasis
Obscura Diluvium
Obsidian Tongue Volume III
Obsidian Tongue The Stone Heart
Occultation Silence in the Ancestral House
This album has a rich, prominent tone rooted deep in gothic music which continually reminds me of Candlemass' 80s era. For that reason I quite like it, and the way in which this tone is carried out consistently from start to finish makes songs like the brilliant 'The Place Behind the Sky' and slow but dramatic closing title track. The band's name may be pretty obvious as to what one would expect (Is "Occultation" even an actual word?), but they more than make up for this with the musicianship.r
Odoacer There the Vultures Will Gather
Omega (ITA) Nebra
Omega Infinity Solar Spectre
Omnerod The Amensal Rise
Similar in execution to The Reticent's "The Oubliette" release, but in no way a carbon copy. One of 2023's better prog metal releases so far for sure.
Opeth In Cauda Venenum
Orange Goblin Thieving from the House of God
Orange Goblin Back from the Abyss
Oranssi Pazuzu Muukalainen Puhuu
Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi
Our Survival Depends On Us Melting the Ice in the Hearts of Men
Introspective doom with vocals that are perhaps too dramatic for some, but reaches for musical inspiration from many different sources. All in all a very interesting full-length effort from the same record label that gave us The Ruins of Beverast.
Overkill The Electric Age
Overkill White Devil Armory
Owl Nights in Distortion
I was pleasantly surprised with Owl's previous release, the "Orion Fenix" EP which consisted of one experimental doom 20-minute mammoth of a track. The dreamy melodies, seamless transitions and heart-stopping voyages into psychedelic darkness of that particular song are well-rehearsed on this latest full-length, but naturally attracts more conflicting dynamics whilst still trying out new ideas. One of this year's finest and most unique doom metal releases.
Pa Vesh En Maniac Manifest
Pa Vesh En Martyrs
Pagan's Mind Infinity Divine
Palace of Worms Cabal
Pallas (UK) XXV
Pallbearer Heartless
Palus Somni Monarch of Dark Matter
Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
Paradise Lost Tragic Idol
Paradise Lost The Plague Within
Paradise Lost Medusa
Paradise Lost Obsidian
Parkway Drive Horizons
Paysage d'Hiver Im Wald
Paysage d'Hiver Geister
Pearl Jam Ten
Pearl Jam Vitalogy
Pearl Jam Vs.
Penitence Onirique Nature Morte
Pentagram (CL) The Malefice
Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty
Persefone Aathma
Persefone Metanoia
Phlebotomized Clouds of Confusion
Pijn and Conjurer Curse These Metal Hands
One of the best collaborations I can think of in recent times. The musicianship here is brilliant and even at its heaviest moments the mood is strangely uplifting and each song leaves you feeling refreshed. Please don't let this project be a flash in the pan.
Pinkish Black Concept Unification
Poison Headache Poison Headache
Polymoon Chrysalis
Pool Kids Pool Kids
Portal Avow
Portishead Portishead
Prong Rude Awakening
Protest the Hero Fortress
Protest the Hero Volition
Publicist UK Forgive Yourself
Pupil Slicer Mirrors
Pupil Slicer Blossom
Pure Reason Revolution The Dark Third
Pure Wrath Hymn To The Woeful Hearts
Purson The Circle and the Blue Door
Qrixkuor Three Devils Dance
Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime
Rannoch Reflections Upon Darkness
Rannoch Conflagrations
Ratos de Porao Século Sinistro
Raventale Morphine Dead Gardens
The last track is lush. Whole album in general is very fluent and is a seamless combination of atmospheric black metal at its doomiest and funeral doom at its most beautiful.
Red Fang Whales and Leeches
Red Snapper Everybody is Somebody
Reeking Aura Blood And Bonemeal
Renaissance Scheherazade and Other Stories
Renaissance A Song for All Seasons
Renounced Beauty Is A Destructive Angel
Another excellent find from Holy Roar records. Yes this is essentially a nostalgia trip to two decades ago when metalcore was making waves in the music industry, but you cannot deny the brilliant songwriting and memorable melodies at work here make for a well-rounded release. These guys should be bigger in the near future.
Replicant Infinite Mortality
Revocation Revocation
Revocation Deathless
Revocation Netherheaven
Riverside Second Life Syndrome
Rolo Tomassi Grievances
Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory
Rosalie Cunningham Rosalie Cunningham
Rosalie Cunningham Two Piece Puzzle
Rotting Christ Kata Ton Demona Eaftou
Royal Thunder Crooked Doors
Rudimentary Peni Death Church
Sabaton Carolus Rex (Swedish Version)
Saevus Finis Facilis Descensus Averno
Sahg Delusions of Grandeur
Sahg Memento Mori
Sanzu Heavy Over The Home
Saor Guardians
Sarpa Mauta Tala
Satan Atom by Atom
Satan Cruel Magic
Satyricon Volcano
Savatage Sirens
Saxon Wheels of Steel
Scenario. When All is Said and Done
Scorpions Savage Amusement
Second To Sun Leviathan
Secrets of the Moon Black House
Leagues better than the last album, and whilst the band may have alienated a few impatient fans, the musical evolution and progression is clearly well inspired and the end product is a fluent album which gives 100% without unnecessary cheese. "He is Here" has a beautifully aspiring chorus and "Earth Hour" is probably one of the catchiest songs the band have ever written.
Sectioned Annihilated
SeeYouSpaceCowboy The Correlation Between Entrance And Exit Wounds
Selvans / Downfall Of Nur Selvans / Downfall of Nur
Septicflesh Titan
Septicflesh Codex Omega
Serpent of Old Ensemble Under The Dark Sun
Seth La Morsure du Christ
Setherial Nord
Seven Impale Summit
I'm not going to hide my love for jazz fusion and prog, but this is one juicy album.
Shape of Despair Return to the Void
Shattered Skies The World We Used to Know
Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible
Shylmagoghnar Transience
Shylmagoghnar Convergence
Another band going from strength to strength. A little heavier on the synths here, but doesn't take away from any of the magic that made the first two Shylmagoghnar albums so memorable and cohesive.
SikTh Opacities
SikTh Death of a Dead Day
Sinistro Semente
Sinmara Hvísl Stjarnanna
Sithu Aye Invent the Universe
Skaldic Curse Devourer
The comparisons to Vektor are inevitable, but by god this is still a face-melting album with
enough moments of forward-thinking progression to make it stand out in the crowd. The
Apocalyptic Witchcraft record label is becoming more and more interesting these days.
Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light
Skyclad The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth
Slabdragger Rise Of The Dawncrusher
Slayer Show No Mercy
sleepmakeswaves Love of Cartography
Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
Smothered The Inevitable End
Soilwork The Living Infinite
Sojourner Premonitions
Solitude Aeturnus Into the Depths of Sorrow
Soulfly Enslaved
Strange, I thought somebody reviewed this a few months ago?
Soulfly Savages
Southern Empire Another World
Sovereign Altered Realities
Spectral Lore/Jute Gyte Helian
Spectral Wound A Diabolic Thirst
Srefa Solstice
Static Abyss Labyrinth of Veins
Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip
Steve Hackett The Night Siren
Steven Wilson 4 1/2
Stolas Allomaternal
Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1
Strapping Young Lad Alien
Stratovarius Nemesis
Stray from the Path Anonymous
Striker City of Gold
Suffering Hour Dwell
Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning
Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam
Suffocation Hymns From the Apocrypha
Suicidal Tendencies Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies 13
Summon (PT) Helios
Sun of the Sleepless To The Elements
Sunken Livslede
Sunn O))) Life Metal
Ironically this sounds like the very opposite of life, but I don't believe I've ever listened to an album by Sunn O))) that ended up being so satisfying.
Sunset In The 12th House Mozaic
Svalbard It's Hard to Have Hope
Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better?
AOTY contender for sure. The lyrics here are bitter and honest about society's many issues, but fused with some of the strongest and most aspiring songwriting this band has ever written. Svalbard have been looming in my "curious" band section for a while now ever since I saw them live, but on this album surely they prove to be one of the frontrunners for the UK metal scene.
Svalbard The Weight of the Mask
Band is going from strength to strength. Always happy to hear a new Svalbard release and this hasn't disappointed me in the slightest.
Swallow the Sun When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light
Swans Children of God
System of a Down Toxicity
Talanas Reason & Abstract
Talanas The Waspkeeper
Teethgrinder Misanthropy
TesseracT Altered State
Textures Phenotype
The 3rd and the Mortal Painting on Glass
The Agonist Lullabies for the Dormant Mind
The Agonist Prisoners
The Algorithm Brute Force
The Amenta Occasus
The Anchoret It All Began With Loneliness
The Antichrist Imperium Volume II Every Tongue Shall Praise Satan
The Beatles Revolver
The Beatles Please Please Me
The Beatles With the Beatles
The Beatles A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles Beatles for Sale
The Beatles Rubber Soul
The Beatles Let It Be
The Black Crowes Shake Your Money Maker
The Black Crowes Amorica
The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers
The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed
The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual
The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack
The Body I have fought against it, But I can’t any longer
The Body I’ve Seen All I Need To See
The Body and Dis Fig Orchards of a Futile Heaven
The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist
The Clash The Clash
The Cult Love
The Cult Dreamtime
The Cult Choice of Weapon
The Dear Hunter Antimai
The Devil's Trade Vidékek Vannak Idebenn
Kinda reminds me of the quieter moments from Foscor's "Les Irreals Visions" but with added depth and a beautiful voice. One of the finer non-metal releases of 2023 for sure.
The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity
The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works
The Distillers Sing, Sing Death House
The Doors Morrison Hotel
The Enid Aerie Faerie Nonsense
The Enid Six Pieces
The Exploited Beat the Bastards
The Gathering Disclosure
The Gathering Always
The Gathering Black Light District
The Gathering Home
The Gathering Nighttime Birds
The Gathering if_then_else
The Gathering Souvenirs
The Great Old Ones Cosmicism
The Groundhogs Split
The Groundhogs Who Will Save the World? The Mighty Groundhogs
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta Amputechture
The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed
The Moon and the Nightspirit Metanoia
The Moon and the Nightspirit Aether
The Mothers of Invention Over-Nite Sensation
The Nefilim Zoon
The Order of Apollyon The Sword And The Dagger
The Ruins of Beverast Blood Vaults - The Blazing Gospels of Heinrich...
This is about the most blackened piece of music I've heard all year. It sometimes reminds me of early Candlemass and other times of very early MDB, but with a unique and original twist thanks to those well-orchestrated parts throughout. 'Malefica', 'A failed exorcism' and 'Ordeal' alone made me want to check these guys out more. The closer is a little underwhelming for me, but even then there's a sense of grandiosity and epic overtones.
The Ruins Of Beverast / Almyrkvi Almyrkvi / The Ruins Of Beverast (Split)
The Sword Age of Winters
The Wildhearts The Wildhearts
The Wounded Kings Consolamentum
The Zenith Passage Datalysium
Therapy? Troublegum
Thin (USA-NY) Dusk
This Gift Is A Curse All Hail The Swinelord
Thou Rhea Sylvia
Thou Magus
Thumos Symposium
Thy Art Is Murder Hate
Thy Catafalque Geometria
Thy Catafalque Naiv
Thy Catafalque Vadak
Thy Catafalque Alföld
Titaan Itima
Toadeater Bexadde
Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance
Tool Undertow
Touche Amore Stage Four
Transcending Rites Trinity and Ecstasy
Trap Them Blissfucker
Trautonist Ember
This is exactly the sort of album that marks the wide divide between those who love blackgaze and those who despise it. There's a certain je ne sais quoi to this release however, which sees the enigmatic duo channel a distinctive charm aesthetic straight from the heart of bands such as Laster and An Autumn for Crippled Children, whilst at the same time representing a neat fusion of blackened energy and soaring pop melodies. Not for everyone, but to be fair, this IS blackgaze.
Tribulation The Children of the Night
Tribulation Down Below
Triptykon Melana Chasmata
Triumvir Foul Triumvir Foul
Troll (NO) Drep de Kristne
Turbowolf Two Hands
Turilli / Lione Rhapsody Zero Gravity (Rebirth and Evolution)
Turisas The Varangian Way
Twisted Sister You Can't Stop Rock 'n' Roll
Twisted Sister Under The Blade
Type O Negative World Coming Down
Tyr Hel
Ufomammut Idolum
Ufomammut Ecate
Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still
Can the drummer in this album please stop being so inhumanly brilliant?rThanks.
Ulthar Helionomicon
Ulthar Anthronomicon
Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler
Ulver Nattens Madrigal
Ulver Perdition City
Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman
Unfurl Ascension
Unreqvited Beautiful Ghosts
Usnea Portals Into Futility
Utstott Hjorungavagr
Vader Tibi et Igni
Valborg Endstrand
Valborg Zentrum
Valdrin Throne of the Lunar Soul
Van der Graaf Generator World Record
Varmia Nie Nas Widzę
Veilburner Lurkers in the Capsule of Skull
Vein.fm Errorzone
Vein.fm This World Is Going to Ruin You
Vektor Terminal Redux
Vertebra Atlantis Lustral Purge in Cerulean Bliss
Vertebra Atlantis A Dialogue with the Eeriest Sublime
Victory Over The Sun Dance You Monster To My Soft Song!
This is the sort of avant-garde black metal I can really get behind. Plenty of twists and turns but still cohesive enough to warrant many, many repeat listens.
Villagers of Ioannina City Age of Aquarius
Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter
Vintersorg Till Fjälls Del II
Vircolac Veneration
Vital Spirit Still as the Night, Cold as the Wind
VoidCeremony Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional...
VoidCeremony Threads of Unknowing
Voivod Target Earth
Voivod Synchro Anarchy
Vokonis Odyssey
VOLA Inmazes
Volbeat Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies
Volur Death Cult
Volus Oathsworn Vengeance
Vouna Atropos
Voyager V
Voyager Ghost Mile
Vredehammer Viperous
On the surface this is pretty simplistic stuff, but it's also a wholly solid and consistent collection of rattling death metal riffs and pulsating industrial explosions which bring to mind Samael at their best. Goes hard and then some.
Vulture (DE) Ghastly Waves & Battered Graves
So much fun. Yes, the OTT vocals and 80s-obsessed production won't be for everybody, but an album like this is surely designed for entertainment and the band are a very self-aware collective, so they know EXACTLY who's going to like this and who isn't. That said, this is a gleeful 40+ minutes of unapologetic cheese and I personally wouldn't have it any other way.
Vuur & Zijde / Impavida Vuur & Zijde / Impavida
Haunting, unique, and thoroughly entrancing as every single song on this split between two forward-thinking black metal bands compels you to listen with no outside distraction. Songs by Vuur & Zijde are mostly psychedelic, beautifully ambitious pieces of work, the masterpiece that is "Zonnestorm" providing atmospheric vocal leads to enhance the sound. The Impavida songs on the other hand are not quite as charming but certainly engulfing. The sheer menace of "Gram" provides a chaotic listening experience whereas the monumental closer "Wahn & Stille" builds to a beautiful albeit crushing crescendo. A fine split by Prophecy Productions.
Wake Devouring Ruin
Nothing much to say about this, apart from the fact it rips. And then some.
Wake Thought Form Descent
Walknut Graveforests and Their Shadows
Wallowing Earth Reaper
Wardruna Runaljod – Ragnarok
Wayfarer A Romance with Violence
Wayfarer American Gothic
Waylander Reawakening of Pride Once Lost
We Never Learned To Live The Sleepwalk Transmissions
White Widows Pact White Widows Pact
Wiegedood There's Always Blood at the End of the Road
Wilderun Epigone
Will Haven VII
Willow Smith Empathogen
Windhand Soma
A nice slice of sludgy, hypnotic doom. 'Evergreen' is beautiful and 'Woodbine' is powerfully heavy. I really like how the vocals sound so mesmerizing at times too, as on the album opener 'Orchard'.
Winterfylleth The Reckoning Dawn
Without Waves Comedian
Wo Fat The Conjuring
Wolf Devil Seed
I expected nothing less than a heavy, solid album full of fist-pumping riffs from Wolf. Nothing new, but "Devil Seed" proves they're as strong and belligerent as ever. 'Shark Attack', 'Surgeons of Lobotomy' and 'Frozen' are my personal highlights.
Wolvennest Temple
Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana
Wolvserpent Aporia: Kala: Ananta
Woods of Ypres Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light
Worm Foreverglade
Wounds of Recollection Warm Glow of the End of Everything
Wyrmwoods No Sun nor Moon
Xenoglyph Spiritfraud
Yellow Eyes Immersion Trench Reverie
Yellow Eyes Rare Field Ceiling
Yes The Yes Album
Ygg Ygg
YOB Our Raw Heart
Yoo Doo Right Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose
Yoth Iria As The Flame Withers
Zola Jesus Arkhon
Zombi Shape Shift
Zombi Direct Inject
Zopp Dominion
Zuriaake Afterimage of Autumn
ZZ Top ZZ Top's First Album
ZZ Top Tres Hombres

3.5 great
Heaume Mortal Solstices
SednA Last Sun
...and Oceans As in Gardens, So in Tombs
1349 The Infernal Pathway
156/Silence Irrational Pull
16 Dream Squasher
1914 Where Fear and Weapons Meet
40 Watt Sun Perfect Light
:Nodfyr: Eigenheid
A Constant Knowledge of Death Dissecting A One-Winged Bird
A Day To Remember Homesick
A Day To Remember Common Courtesy
A Day To Remember Bad Vibrations
A Lily Nocturne Thunder
A.A. Williams As The Moon Rests
Aara Phthonos
Abaddon Incarnate The Wretched Sermon
Abadir Ison
Abhorrency Climax of Disgusting Impurities
Abhorrent Decimation The Pardoner
Abigail Williams In the Absence of Light
Abigail Williams The Accuser
Abiotic Casuistry
Abnormality Sociopathic Constructs
Abominator Evil Proclaimed
Abominor Opus: Decay
Aborted The Archaic Abattoir
Aborted Global Flatline
Aborted Strychnine.213
Aborted TerrorVision
Aborted La Grande Mascarade
Aborted Vault of Horrors
Above Aurora The Shrine of Deterioration
Above Aurora Myriad Woes
Abraham Débris De Mondes Perdus
Abrahma In Time For The Last Rays Of Light
Abrams In The Dark
Abstracted Atma Conflux
Abstracter Cinereous Incarnate
Absu The Third Storm of Cythraul
Absu Tara
Abyssic High The Memory
Abyssic Brought Forth in Iniquity
Acausal Intrusion Panpsychism
Accept Breaker
Accept Objection Overruled
Accuser The Forlorn Divide
Accuser The Mastery
Acephalix Decreation
Acherontas Amarta (Formulas of Reptilian Unification Part II)
Acherontas Faustian Ethos
Acherontas Psychic Death - The Shattering of Perceptions
Acherontas Malocchio ​-​ The Seven Tongues Of Δαημων
Acid King Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere
Acid Throne Kingdom's Death
Acres In Sickness and Health
Act of Defiance Old Scars, New Wounds
ACxDC Antichrist Demoncore
ACxDC Satan Is King
Ad Infinitum Chapter I: Monarchy
Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
Ad Omega Aphelic Ascent
Adagio Life
Addaura ...And The Lamps Expire
Advent Sorrow Kali Yuga Crown
Aegrus In Manus Satanas
Aegrus Invoking The Abysmal Night
Aenigmatum Deconsecrate
Aeon Aeons Black
Aeon God Ends Here
Aeon Zen Transversal
Aerosmith Done With Mirrors
Aeternam Al Qassam
Aeternam Heir of the Rising Sun
Aeternus Heathen
Aeternus Philosopher
Aetherian The Untamed Wilderness
AFI Burials
Afsky Ofte Jeg Drømmer Mig Død
Afsky Om Hundrede År
After the Burial Wolves Within
After the Burial Dig Deep
After the Burial Evergreen
Afterbirth In But Not Of
Agathodaimon Blacken the Angel
Agathodaimon Phoenix
Agathodaimon Higher Art of Rebellion
Agathodaimon The Seven
Ageless Oblivion Penthos
Ageless Oblivion Suspended Between Earth and Sky
Ageless Summoning Corrupting the Entempled Plane
Agenda Apocalyptic Wasteland Blues
Aglo Build Fear
Agoraphobic Nosebleed Arc
Agriculture Agriculture
Agriculture Living is Easy
Agrimonia Awaken
Interesting mix of blackened sludge, post-metal and an altogether crusty production value. Sort of reminds me of the more melodic side of Bolzer and Black Anvil's latter day material, though the more lengthy compositions here stand out as a different aspect compared to those two bands. Perhaps not gripping enough for me to warrant a higher rating, but certainly provides music for thought.
Agrypnie Metamorphosis
Ahab The Coral Tombs
Those first few songs are really intoxicating in their atmosphere, but I feel like the album could stop there and be a brilliant EP rather than an album 20 minutes longer than it should be. Epic for sure but some sections in the second half of the album fail to carry the initial momentum of "Prof. Arronax Descent into the vast Oceans" through to the title track.
Ahleuchatistas Expansion
Ahna Crimson Dawn
Aisles Beyond Drama
Ajattara Lupaus
Akercocke Rape of the Bastard Nazerene
Akritas Akritas
Al-Namrood Worship the Degenerate
Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill
Alaric End of Mirrors
Albez Duz Wings of Tzinacan
Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme
Alcest Shelter
Alda A Distant Fire
Aldaaron Arcane Mountain Cult
Aldaaron Majestic Heights, Melancholic Depth
Alestorm Sunset on the Golden Age
Algebra Chiroptera
Alghol Night Eternal
Alice Cooper Dirty Diamonds
Alice Cooper Brutal Planet
Alice Cooper DaDa
Alice Cooper Pretties For You
Alice Cooper Trash
Alice Cooper School's Out
Alice in Chains Alice in Chains
Alkaline Trio Crimson
Alkaline Trio From Here to Infirmary
Alkaline Trio This Addiction
Alkaloid The Malkuth Grimoire
Alkaloid Numen
All Out War Crawl Among the Filth
All Pigs Must Die Hostage Animal
All Them Witches Dying Surfer Meets His Maker
All Tomorrows Sol Agnates
Allegaeon Proponent for Sentience
Allegaeon Damnum
Allochiria Throes
Allochiria Commotion
Alluvial Sarcoma
Alluvial Death Is But A Door
Almamegretta Senghe
Altarage Endinghent
Altarage Succumb
Altars (AUS) Ascetic Reflection
Altars Ablaze Life Desecration
Alter Bridge Walk The Sky
Altered Dead Returned to Life
Alunah Solennial
Alunah Violet Hour
Alunah Strange Machine
Alustrium A Monument to Silence
Amalekim Avodah Zarah
Amaranthe Massive Addictive
Amenra Mass VI
Amesoeurs Ruines Humaines
Amiensus All Paths Lead to Death
Amirtha Kidambi / Elder Ones New Monuments
Amoeba Split Quiet Euphoria
Amon Amarth Berserker
Amorphis Under the Red Cloud
Amorphis Halo
Amulet The Inevitable War
An Autumn For Crippled Children As The Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes
An Autumn For Crippled Children Closure
Anaal Nathrakh Passion
Anaal Nathrakh Desideratum
Anaal Nathrakh The Whole of the Law
Anathema Pentecost III
Anathema A Fine Day to Exit
Anatomy of Habit Black Openings
ANCST Summits of Despondency
And Now The Owls Are Smiling Dirges
And Now The Owls Are Smiling Epitaph
Andy James Exodus
Angel Witch As Above, So Below
Angel Witch Angel of Light
Angellore Rien ne Devait Mourir
Angelus Apatrida Cabaret de la Guillotine
Angra Fireworks
Angra Aqua
Angra Ømni
Anima Hereticae Ov Behest
Anima Hereticae Descended From The Mountains
Anima Morte Serpents in the Field of Sleep
Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many
Animals As Leaders Parrhesia
Annihilator Annihilator
Anomalie Visions
Antarktis Ildlaante
Ante-Inferno Antediluvian Dreamscapes
Anteloper Pink Dolphins
Antethic Mythographer
Anthrax State of Euphoria
Anthrax We've Come for You All
Anti-God Hand Blight Year
Antichrist Siege Machine Vengeance of Eternal Fire
Anticosm The Call of the Void
Antigama Whiteout
Antiversum Cosmos Comedenti
Antoine Berjeaut Chromesthesia
Anvil Juggernaut Of Justice
Aodon Portraits
Aoratos Gods Without Name
Aortes Devouring Gloom
Aparthiva Raktadhara Adyapeeth Maranasamhita
Aphonic Threnody The Great Hatred
Aphotic (ITA) Abyssgazer
Aphrodite's Child 666
Apophys Devoratis
Apparition Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil State
Aprilmist Homesick
Aquilus Griseus
Aquilus Bellum II
Arabrot Norwegian Gothic
Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion
Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant
Archgoat The Luciferian Crown
Architects Ruin
Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together
Architects Holy Hell
Archspire The Lucid Collective
Decent enough by tech death metal standards but I feel like some of these riffs and solos are forced in rather than flowing with the rest of the instrumentation in a natural way. It's mostly impressive musicianship that's on display here, with vocals a little too hesitant but still relevant for the most part. The first half of the album seems better written than the latter half.
Arckanum Kostogher
Arcturus La Masquerade Infernale
Ard Take Up My Bones
Argenthorns The Ravening
Argus (USA-PA) Beyond The Martyrs
Aristarchos Martyr of Star and Fire
Arkaik Nemethia
Arkhon Infaustus Orthodoxyn
Arkona (RUS) Lepta
Arkona (RUS) Slovo
Armored Saint Win Hands Down
Armored Saint Punching the Sky
Ars Magna Umbrae Apotheosis
Ars Magna Umbrae Throne Between Worlds
Ars Veneficium / Ulvdalir In Death's Cold Embrace
Arthur Brown Long Long Road
Artillery Fear of Tomorrow
Artillery X
Arx Atrata THE PATH UNTRAVELLED
Asagraum Veil of Death, Ruptured
Ascension The Dead of the World
Ascension Under Ether
Aseethe Hopes of Failure
Aseethe Throes
ASG Survive Sunrise
Asgrauw Façade
Ash Ra Tempel Schwingungen
Ashen Horde Fallen Cathedrals
Askeregn Brennende Åkres Gr​ø​de
Askog Varþnaþer
Asomvel Knuckle Duster
Asphagor Pyrogenesis
Asphodelus Sculpting From Time
Assumption Hadean Tides
Astodan Évora
Astral Moon Into Solar Abyss
Astral Path An Oath to the Void
Astralborne Across the Aeons
Astriferous Pulsations from the Black Orb
Astronoid Radiant Bloom
Astrosaur Portals
At the Gates The Red in the Sky Is Ours
At the Gates To Drink from the Night Itself
At the Gates The Nightmare of Being
Ataraxie Résignés
Ataraxy Where All Hope Fades
Ataraxy The Last Mirror
Atari Teenage Riot Reset
Atavisma The Chthonic Rituals
Atavist III: Absolution
Atavistia Cosmic Warfare
Atlantean Kodex The White Goddess (A Grammar Of Poetic Myth)
Very interesting album, which is naturally controlled by epic, ambitious atmospheres and a rhythm section which very rarely becomes dull and bland. The vocals however really don't seem to match the quality of the instrumentation, and thus it sounds a little mixed at times. As on 'Sol Invictus' and 'Twelve stars and an azure down', the guitar work is beautiful and the drum/bass work flows very well indeed, but shoddy vocals which prove considerably weaker unfortunately lower the quality a bit. This is however more than made up for with the brilliance of songs such as 'Hersiarch' and excellent closer 'White goddess unveiled', both of which written from the heart and soul.
Atlases Woe Portrait
Atlases Between The Day & I
Atomic Symphony HYBRIS
Aton Five Aton Five
Atrae Bilis Divinihility
Atrae Bilis Aumicide
Atramentus Stygian
Atrocity Masters Of Darkness
Atrox Monocle
Atsuko Chiba Water, It Feels Like It's Growing
Attan End Of
Attic Sanctimonious
Attic Return Of The Witchfinder
Au Champ Des Morts Dans La Joie
Au Clair de Lune Mysticism of Ecstatic Communion
Au-Dessus End of Chapter
Audn Vökudraumsins fangi
August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places
August Burns Red Phantom Anthem
August Burns Red Death Below
Aura Mortis Aion Teleos
Aura Noir Aura Noire
Auriferous Flame The Great Mist Within
Auriferous Flame Ardor for Black Mastery
Author and Punisher Melk En Honing
Author and Punisher Beastland
Author and Punisher Kruller
Autokrator Persecution
Autopsy Acts of the Unspeakable
Autopsy Macabre Eternal
Autopsy Shitfun
Autopsy Morbidity Triumphant
Autopsy Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts
Avandra Skylighting
Avast Mother Culture
Avatar Hail the Apocalypse
Avdagata The Faceless One
Avenade Our Raging God Unknown to Us
A real fresh sound this is. A lot of melodic moments which give way to this powerful albeit raw atmospheric twist which sees each band member giving 100%. The mammoth centrepiece that is "Separations" is an obvious highlight but I think of the album as a more consistent piece which is fluid if not always memorable.
Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare
Aversio Humanitatis Behold The Silent Dwellers
Aversions Crown Tyrant
Aversions Crown Hell Will Come For Us All
Aviations Luminaria
Awe Providentia
Axegressor Last
Axis of Despair Contempt for Man
Ayreon The Source
Azmari Maelstrom
Azure Emote The Third Perspective
Azusa Loop of Yesterdays
Azusa Heavy Yoke
Azziard Metempsychose
Ba'a Deus Qui Non Mentitur
Ba'al In Gallows by Mass
Ba'al Soft Eyes
Backxwash HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST...
I didn't get as much raw emotion from this album as I did the other Backxwash releases, but it still feels like game-changing stuff which can't really be pigeonholed into one meaningless sub-genre.
Bad Breeding Exiled
Bad Religion The Process of Belief
Baest Necro Sapiens
Bait Revelation of the Pure
Baptism V: The Devil's Fire
Baptists Bloodmines
Barishi Blood from the Lion's Mouth
Baron (FIN) Beneath the Blazing Abyss
Baroness Purple
Baroness Stone
Barren Earth A Complex of Cages
Barren Womb Lizard Lounge
Bask III
Bastard Feast Osculum Infame
Bastard Sapling Instinct Is Forever
Bathory Nordland II
Bathsheba Servus
Battle Dagorath Abyss Horizons
Battleaxe Burn This Town
Bauhaus Go Away White
Be'lakor Coherence
Bear Noumenon
Bear Propaganda
Bear Ghost Jiminy
Beartooth Disgusting
Beastmaker Inside the Skull
Beastwars The Death of All Things
Beastwars IV
Becoming The Archetype Children of the Great Extinction
Before The Dawn Stormbringers
Begerith A.D.A.M.
Begrime Exemious Rotting in the Aftermath
Behemoth Thelema.6
Behemoth Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)
Behemoth Pandemonic Incantations
Behemoth The Satanist
Bekor Qilish Throes of Death From The Dreamed Nihilism
Belenos Argoat
Bell Witch Mirror Reaper
Bell Witch and Aerial Ruin Stygian Bough Volume 1
Bellrope You Must Relax
Belore Artefacts
Belore Eastern Tales
Below the Sun Alien World
Belphegor Goatreich-Fleshcult
Belphegor Bondage Goat Zombie
Belphegor Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn
Belzebubs Pantheon of the Nightside Gods
Bend the Future Sounds so Wrong
Benediction Subconscious Terror
Benediction Scriptures
Benighted Carnivore Sublime
Benighted Obscene Repressed
Benighted Ekbom
Berator Elysian Inferno
Bereft (USA-WI) Lands
Bergraven Det Framlidna Minnet
Besra Transitions
Betraying the Martyrs Rapture
Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic
Between the Buried and Me Automata II
Bewitcher Under the Witching Cross
Beyond Grace Our Kingdom Undone
Bhleg Fäghring
Biblical The City That Always Sleeps
Big Business Command Your Weather
Big Scenic Nowhere Visions Beyond Horizon
Big|Brave A Chaos of Flowers
Bill Baird Eternal Space Bar
Bill Laurance Affinity
Billy Idol Whiplash Smile
Bilwis Hameln
Binary Code Memento Mori
Bio-Cancer Tormenting The Innocent
Biohazard Biohazard
Biohazard Kill or be Killed
Biohazard Means to an End
Birds in Row We Already Lost the World
Birds in Row Gris Klein
Birds in Row and Coilguns You and I in the Gap
Birth (USA-CA) Born
Birth Control Operation
Bizarrekult Vi Overlevde
Bizarrekult Den Tapte Krigen
Bjork Medulla
Bjork Fossora
Bl'ast! Blood!
Black Anvil As Was
Black Anvil Regenesis
Black Breath Slaves Beyond Death
Black Cilice Esoteric Atavism
Black Crown Initiate Selves We Cannot Forgive
Black Death Cult Diaspora
Black Elephant Seven Swords
Black Fast Spectre of Ruin
Black Label Society Catacombs of the Black Vatican
Black Label Society Grimmest Hits
Black Map Melodoria
Black Mare Death Magick Mother
Black Moon Mother Illusions Under the Sun
Black Moth Anatomical Venus
Black Orchid Empire Yugen
Black Orchid Empire Tempus Veritas
Black Pestilence Hail the Flesh
Black Pyramid The Paths of Time Are Vast
Black Royal Earthbound
Black Sabbath Sabotage
Black Sabbath Dehumanizer
Black Sabbath Tyr
Black Sabbath Cross Purposes
Black Shape Of Nexus Carrier
Black Sheep Wall Songs for the Enamel Queen
Black Sites Untrue
Black Spell Season Of The Damned
Black Stone Cherry Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Black Table Obelisk
Black Tusk TCBT
Black Tusk The Way Forward
Black Void Cult .​.​.​Even The Stars Have To Die
Black Vulpine Veil Nebula
Blackbraid Blackbraid II
Blackfield Welcome To My DNA
BlackLab In a Bizarre Dream
Blackmore's Night Shadow of the Moon
Blackmore's Night Under a Violet Moon
Blackmore's Night The Village Lanterne
Blackwater Holylight Blackwater Holylight
Blackwater Holylight Veils of Winter
Blackwater Holylight Silence/Motion
Blasphematory The Lower Catacombs
Blaze Bayley War Within Me
Blaze Bayley Circle of Stone
Blaze of Perdition Conscious Darkness
Blaze of Perdition The Harrowing of Hearts
Blaze of Perdition Upharsin
Blaze of Sorrow Absentia
Blaze of Sorrow Vultus Fati
Bleak Flesh ... And Save Us From Silence
Bleed from Within Fracture
Bleeding Through This Is Love, This Is Murderous
Bleeding Through Love Will Kill All
Blencathra II - On These Shores Where Nothing Now Stands
Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror
Blind Guardian The God Machine
Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Rejecting Obliteration
blink-182 Enema Of The State
Blodhemn Sverger Hemn
Blodtar Det F​ö​rtegna F​ö​rflutna
Blood Chalice The Blasphemous Psalms of Cannibalism
Blood Feast The Future State Of Wicked
Blood Incantation Starspawn
Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race
Blood Red Throne Nonagon
Blood Tsunami Grave Condition
Bloodbark Bonebranches
Bloodbath The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn
Bloodbath Survival of the Sickest
Bloodbather Silence
Bloodred Hourglass Godsend
Bloodshot Dawn Reanimation
Bloodthorn In the Shadow of Your Black Wings
Bloodthorn Onwards Into Battle
Bloodtruth Martyrium
Bloody Hammers The Summoning
Blue Ox Holy Vore
Blues Pills Holy Moly!
Blut Aus Nord Deus Salutis Meae
Bocc Dolça Mort en els Llims del Rec Comtal
Body Count Manslaughter
Body Void Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth
Body Void Atrocity Machine
Bokassa Crimson Riders
Bolt Gun The Tower
Bolt Thrower In Battle There Is No Law!
Bolzer Soma
Bolzer Hero
BoneHawk Albino Rhino
Bonehunter Sexual Panic Human Machine
Bonehunter Dark Blood Reincarnation System
Bonehunter Children of the Atom
Bong Thought and Existence
Bongripper Terminal
Bongripper Empty
Bongzilla Weedsconsin
Bonjour Tristesse Against Leviathan!
Borgne Y
Borgne Temps Morts
Boris Dear
Boris Heavy Rocks (2022)
Borknagar Urd
Born to Murder the World The Infinite Mirror Of Millennial Narcissism
Boss Keloid Melted on the Inch
Boss Keloid Family the Smiling Thrush
Bosse-de-Nage All Fours
Botanist VIII: Selenotrope
Brandon Seabrook In the Swarm
Breach Venom
Bright Curse Before the Shore
Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season
Briqueville Quelle
Broken Hope Mutilated And Assimilated
Brood of Hatred The Golden Age
Bruce Dickinson Tattooed Millionaire
Brusque BO​Î​TE NOIRE
Brutai Born
Brutus (BE) Nest
Bruxa Maria Build Yourself A Shrine And Pray
Burial Hordes Ruins
Burner It All Returns To Nothing
Burning Gloom Amygdala
Burzum Thulêan Mysteries
Burzum Hlidskjalf
Bythos Chthonic Gates Unveiled
Byzantine The Cicada Tree
C R O W N The End of All Things
Cadaver Shrine Benighted Desecration
Caged (USA-PA) From Roving About the Earth
Caina Gentle Illness
Cainan Dawn Lagu
Calderum Mystical Fortress of Iberian Lands
Calderum Lord Cramridor
Caligula's Horse Bloom
Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant
Caligula's Horse Charcoal Grace
Calligram The Eye Is the First Circle
Calligram Position | Momentum
Camel of Doom Terrestrial
Campo Di Marte Campo Di Marte
Can Bardd The Last Rain
Can Bardd Devoured by the Oak
Cancer Shadow Gripped
Candlemass The Door To Doom
Cannabis Corpse From Wisdom to Baked
Cannibal Corpse The Wretched Spawn
Cannibal Corpse Vile
Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life
Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague
Cannibal Corpse Gore Obsessed
Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain
Cannibal Corpse Chaos Horrific
Cannibal Corpse Violence Unimagined
Cantique Lepreux Le Bannissement
Canvas Solaris Chromosphere
Capsize The Angst In My Veins
Decent melodic hardcore album with virtually the right amount of heaviness and emotional passages. Highlights for me would be "Pale" and "Tension".
Capsize A Reintroduction: The Essence Of All Tha
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica
Car Bomb Mordial
Carathis The Moonstone Temple
Caravela Escarlate III
Carcass Despicable
Carcass Torn Arteries
Carnation (BE) Chapel of Abhorrence
Carnosus Visions of Infinihility
Carole King Tapestry
Caronte Codex Babalon
Carpe Noctem Vitrun
Carpet Collision
Cartographs Wilt and Blossom
Castle Welcome to the Graveyard
Catalepsia Inheritance
Cataleptic The Tragedy
Caterina Barbieri Spirit Exit
Cathedral Endtyme
Cathedral The VIIth Coming
Cave In Heavy Pendulum
Celeste Infidele(s)
Celeste Assassine(s)
Celestial Grave Vitriolic Atonement
Celestial Sanctuary Soul Diminished
Celestial Sanctuary Insatiable Thirst For Torment
Celestial Swarm Gateways to the Necroverse
Cell Press Cages
Centinex Death in Pieces
Ceremonial Bloodbath Genesis of Malignant Entropy
Chain Of Flowers Never Ending Space
Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean Obsession Destruction
Chamber (USA) Cost of Sacrifice
Chaos Divine Legacies
Chaostar The Undivided Light
Chapel of Disease Echoes of Light
Chasms Glimpse of Heaven
Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun
Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence
Chernaa Empyrean Fire
Chest Rockwell Mentis Oculi
Children of Bodom Hexed
Chimaira Resurrection
Chimaira Crown of Phantoms
Chrome Ghost House of Falling Ash
Chrome Waves A Grief Observed
Chrome Waves Where We Live
Chrome Waves The Rain Will Cleanse
Chronicle Where Chaos Thrives
Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule
Chthonic Mirror Of Retribution
Chthonic Takasago Army
Church of Misery And Then There Were None
Church of the Cosmic Skull There Is No Time
Cianide Unhumanized
Cicada the Burrower Blight Witch Regalia
Cinderella Still Climbing
Cinema Cinema Mj​ö​lnir
Circuit Circuit Body Songs
Cirith Ungol Frost and Fire
Cirith Ungol Forever Black
Cirith Ungol Half Past Human
Cirkeln The Primitive Covenant
City of Caterpillar Mystic Sisters
Civerous Maze Envy
Clairvoyance Threshold of Nothingness
Claret Ash Worldtorn: Anemoia
Claustrum Claustrum
clipping. CLPPNG
Cloak Black Flame Eternal
Cloak of Altering Manifestation
Close Your Eyes Line in the Sand
Closure in Moscow Soft Hell
Cloud Rat Pollinator
Cloudkicker Subsume
Cloudkicker Solitude
Clouds (INT) Durere
Cloven Hoof Who Mourns for the Morning Star?
Cloven Hoof Age of Steel
Clutch Pure Rock Fury
Clutch Strange Cousins From The West
Clutch Transnational Speedway League
Coathanger Abortion Plan C
Cobalt Slow Forever
Cocteau Twins Garlands
Code Augur Nox
Pretty good album indeed. I think sometimes the band sound a little too similar to Talanas or Enslaved for my liking, but for the most part they are doing the job just right. Clean vocals are very effective against a constant barrage of progressive black metal structures and sometimes epic atmospheres, though the cleans can be surpassed by the intensity of the growls.
Code Flyblown Prince
Code Orange I Am King
Coexistence Collateral Dimension
Coffins Beyond the Circular Demise
Coffins Sinister Oath
Cognizance Upheaval
Cognizance Phantazein
Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow
Coldworld Autumn
Coldworld Isolation
Coliseum Anxiety's Kiss
Reminds me quite a lot of 80s era Kiilling Joke (and maybe the latter era of that same band too), but in a good way and which never seems to get the point where this band are basically a copycat. There's a lot of neat little touches here and there in every song-but what particularly stood out to me was the very prominent bass work, and its solid collaboration with the sometimes gritty, sometimes melodious guitar style. To me what drags the album down a bit is how the vocals seem a little "off" at times, especially in the album opener and "Dark Life of Seduction", and "Comedown" just irritates me every time I listen to it. But this is mostly made up for by the eccentricity of songs like "Course Correction" and "Sharp Fangs, Pale Flesh".
Collage Moonshine
Collapse Black Sheep is Still Dreaming
Collider Excessively Worthwhile
Colosso Obnoxious
Coltsblood Into the Unfathomable Abyss
Comeback Kid Die Knowing
Comedy of Errors Time Machine
Complete Failure Crossburner
Conan Blood Eagle
Conan Existential Void Guardian
Concilium (PT) Sky Bvrial
Condemned His Divine Shadow
Conjureth The Parasitic Chambers
Constant Smiles Kenneth Anger
Contrarian Their Worm Never Dies
Contrarian Sage of Shekhinah
Convocation Ashes Coalesce
Convocation No Dawn for the Caliginous Night
Cor Scorpii Ruin
Corpus Christii The Bitter End of Old
Corpus Diavolis Elixiria Ekstasis
Corrections House Know How To Carry A Whip
Corrosion of Conformity Corrosion of Conformity
Corrosion of Conformity Animosity
Corrosion of Conformity In the Arms of God
Corrosion of Conformity IX
Corrupt Moral Altar Eunoia
Coscradh Nahanagan Stadial
Cosmicdust Tachyon
Cosmicdust Sadness
Cosmo Sheldrake Wild Wet World
Couch Slut You Could Do It Tonight
Cough Still They Pray
Counterparts Tragedy Will Find Us
Counting Days Liberated Sounds
Counting Hours The Wishing Tomb
Countless Skies New Dawn
Coven Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls
Cradle of Filth Damnation and a Day
Cradle of Filth Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa
Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder
Cradle of Filth Bitter Suites to Succubi
Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine
Craft White Noise and Black Metal
Craven Idol The Shackles of Mammon
Crépuscule d'Hiver Par​-​Delà Noireglaces et Brumes​-​Sinistres
Creatvre Eloge de l'ombre
Creeper Eternity, In Your Arms
Creeping Death Wretched Illusions
Crescent (EGY) Carving the Fires of Akhet
Cretin Stranger
Crimfall Amain
Criminal Fear Itself
Criminal Sacrificio
Crimson Moon Mors Vincit Omnia
Crimson Moonlight Abaddon
Crimson Throne Of Void & Solitude
Cripple Bastards Nero in metastasi
Crippled Black Phoenix Great Escape
Crisix Against the Odds
Cro-Mags In the Beginning
Crobot Something Supernatural
Crom Dubh Firebrands And Ashes
Crone Gotta Light?
Crone (DE) Godspeed
Crow Black Sky Sidereal Light: Volume One
Crowbar Obedience Thru Suffering
Crowbar Odd Fellows Rest
Crowbar Zero And Below
Cruachan The Middle Kingdom
Cruachan Pagan
Cruachan Folklore
Cruachan Tuatha Na Gael
Cruachan The Living and the Dead
Cruciamentum Paradise Envenomed
Cruciamentum Charnel Passages
Crucified Barbara In The Red
Crust (RUS) Stoic
Crypt Rot Embryonic Devils
Crypt Sermon The Ruins of Fading Light
Cryptae Nightmare Traversal
Cryptopsy As Gomorrah Burns
Crystal Coffin The Curse of Immortality
Crystal Fairy Crystal Fairy
Cult Leader A Patient Man
Cult of Endtime In Charnel Lights
Cult of Lilith Mara
Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear
Cunabula The Weight Of Sleep
Currents The Way It Ends
Cursebinder Drifting
Cut Up Wherever They May Rot
Cyborg Octopus Between the Light and Air
Cynic Ascension Codes
Cystic Palace of Shadows
D.R.I. Thrash Zone
Daevid Allen Now is the happiest time of your life
Daevid Allen Bananamoon
Dagoba Tales of the Black Dawn
This album gets better as it progresses-and I mean that quite literally. I mean, the first half of the album for me is simply average stuff, going through the motions as far as the band's musical capability is concerned, but then songs like "Born Twice" and "The Loss" rip through the stereo, and you're suddenly wondering where all this fight and vigour was with songs as lame as "The Sunset Curse" went. Nonetheless, that's pretty much it. If I'm being completely honest, it's the stale vocal delivery which really annoyed me and was the main reason why I couldn't quite get into the beginning of the album, but it's made up for by the excellence of "Sorcery" and "O, Inverted World". So in that respect, a fairly disjointed, inconsistent album, but one which by the end seems to be a pleasant surprise.
Dakhma (SUI) Blessings of Amurdad
Dan Terminus Automated Refrains
Danava Nothing But Nothing
Dance Gavin Dance Jackpot Juicer
Dantalion Fatum
Danzig 7:77 - I Luciferi
Danzig Circle of Snakes
Darius Jones Fluxkit Vancouver (It's Suite but Scared)
Dark Buddha Rising Inversum
Dark Buddha Rising II
Dark Buddha Rising Mathreyata
Dark Funeral We Are the Apocalypse
Dark The Suns Suru raivosi sydämeni pimeydessä
Dark The Suns Raven and the Nightsky
Darkened Kingdom Of Decay
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult Mardom
Darkest Hour Darkest Hour
Darkestrah Turan
Darkflight Entropy
Darkher Realms
Darkher The Buried Storm
Darkspace Dark Space -II
Darkthrone Hate Them
Darkthrone Ravishing Grimness
Darkthrone Panzerfaust
Darkthrone Total Death
Darkthrone The Cult Is Alive
Darkthrone Circle the Wagons
Darkthrone Sardonic Wrath
Darkthrone Eternal Hails
Darkthrone Astral Fortress
Darkthrone It Beckons Us All
Darkwoods My Betrothed Angel Of Carnage Unleashed
Dautha Brethren of the Black Soil
Dauthuz Vom Schwarzen Schmied
David Knudson The Only Thing You Have to Change is Everything
Dawn Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy)
Dawn Fades Ode
Dawn of Solace Flames of Perdition
Dawn Ray'd Behold Sedition Plainsong
Dawn Ray'd To Know The Light
Ddent Ex Auditu
De Arma Nightcall
De Profundis The Corruption of Virtue
Dead and Dripping Blackened Cerebral Rifts
I feel that album art. So intense. Just like the music.
Dead Cross Dead Cross
Dead Neanderthals Metal
Dead Neanderthals Specters
Dead Register Fiber
Dead Void Volatile Forms
Deadly Carnage Endless Blue
Deadly Circus Fire The Hydra’s Tailor
Deafheaven New Bermuda
Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Death Spiritual Healing
Death And Vanilla Flicker
Death Angel Humanicide
Death Courier Necrotic Verses
Death Engine Mud
Death Engine Ocean
Death Fetishist Clandestine Sacrament
I like the weird, sort-of psychedelic musicianship and rough production here, they really make the songs as gritty as they are fluent. That said, I find the songwriting mostly repetitive here and wholly dependent on one singular main riff, which aren't that spectacular to begin with. Nonetheless, this album has some excellent moments, such as the notable melodic "Netherrealm" and that slightly disturbing opener "The Gifted Medium".
Death Grips The Money Store
Deathbell A Nocturnal Crossing
Deathcave Smoking Mountain
Deathcode Society Unlightenment
Deathcult Beasts Of Faith
Deathrite Revelation Of Chaos
DeathSlaughter Passing Through the Valley of the Sodomites
Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia
Decapitated Blood Mantra
Decapitated Carnival Is Forever
Decayed Old Ghosts and Primeval Demons
Deceased Luck of the Corpse
Decembre Noir The Renaissance Of Hope
Decembre Noir Your Sunset | My Sunrise
Deception (NO) Daenacteh
Deceptionist Initializing Irreversible Process
Decipher Arcane Paths of Resurrection
Decline of the I Escape
Decline of the I Johannes
Decoherence Order
Deep Purple The Book of Taliesyn
Deep Purple Fireball
Deep Purple Stormbringer
Deep Purple Purpendicular
Deep Purple inFinite
Def Leppard On Through the Night
Def Leppard High 'N' Dry
Def Leppard Adrenalize
Defeater Abandoned
Defect Designer Neanderthal
Deftones Ohms
Deha Averses II
Deicide To Hell With God
Deicide Serpents of the Light
Deicide Scars of the Crucifix
Deicide Till Death Do Us Part
Deicide Overtures of Blasphemy
Deinonychus Ode to Acts of Murder, Dystopia and Suicide
Deitus Acta Non Verba
Deitus Irreversible
Deity's Muse Ennui (EP)
Deivos Endemic Divine
Delain Apocalypse & Chill
Deluge Ægo Templo
Demiser Through the Gate Eternal
Demon Lung A Dracula
Demoniac The Fire And The Wind
Demoniac (CHL) Nube Negra
Demonic Resurrection Dashavatar
Demonical Darkness Unbound
Demonical Chaos Manifesto
Den Der Hale Pastoral Light
Den Saakaldte Pesten Som Tar Over
Dephosphorus Impossible Orbits
Depravation IV:Letvm
Depressed Mode Decade of Silence
Derek Sherinian The Phoenix
Descend Into Despair Opium
Desecresy Deserted Realms
desert Fortune Favors the Brave
Desolate Shrine The Heart of the Netherworld
Destrage A Means to No End
Destroyer 666 Call of the Wild
Destruction Spiritual Genocide
Destruction Mad Butcher
Destruction Day of Reckoning
Det Eviga Leendet Reverence
Dethklok The Dethalbum
Dethklok Dethalbum III
Devastator (UK) Conjurers of Cruelty
Devenial Verdict Ash Blind
Devil Master Satan Spits On Children Of Light
Devil Master Ecstasies of Never Ending Night
Devil Sold His Soul Loss
Devin Townsend Project Z2
Deviser Evil Summons Evil
Devourment Obscene Majesty
Dew-Scented Intermination
DGM Tragic Separation
Diablation Par Le Feu
Diablo Swing Orchestra Pandora's Pinata
Diabolic Oath Oracular Hexations
Die So Fluid Not Everybody Gets A Happy Ending
Digir Gidim The Celestial Macrocosmic Scale and the Shimmering
Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli
Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon
Dio Sacred Heart
Dio Dream Evil
Dio Magica
Dio Killing the Dragon
Dio Master of the Moon
Dirge (FR) Hyperion
Disbelief The Ground Collapses
Disbelief Killing Karma
Disguised Malignance Entering the Gateways
Disillusion Ayam
Disimperium Grand Insurgence Upon Despotic Altars
Dismember Massive Killing Capacity
Disperse Foreword
Dispirited Spirits The Redshift Blues
Dissection Reinkaos
Dissentient Labyrinth
Distention Nothing Comes From Death
Distorted Harmony A Way Out
Divine Element Thaurachs of Borsu
Divine Heresy Bleed the Fifth
Divine Heresy Bringer of Plagues
Djevel Naa Skrider Natten Sort
Djevelkult Drep Alle Guder
Djunah Femina Furens
Dodsferd Wrath
Dodsrit Spirit Crusher
Doedsvangr Koinonia
Doldrey Celestial Deconstruction
Doldrum The Knocking, Or The Story of…
Dominanz Noxious
Domination Inc. Memoir 414
Dominia The Withering Of The Rose
Domkraft Seeds
Dool Summerland
Doomocracy Unorthodox
Dorthia Cottrell Death Folk Country
DOTGIFFROMGOD approximation_of_a_human
DOTGIFFROMGOD Digital Red
Down Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow
Down Down IV - Part I
Down Down IV - Part II
Down I Go You're Lucky God, That I Cannot Reach You
Downcross White Tower
Downfall of Gaia Atrophy
Downfall of Gaia Silhouettes Of Disgust
Downfall of Nur Umbras de Barbagia
Dracena Infernal Damnation
Draconian A Rose for the Apocalypse
Draconian Under a Godless Veil
DragonForce Valley of the Damned
DragonForce Sonic Firestorm
DragonForce The Power Within
Dragonlord Black Wings Of Destiny
Draugnim Verum Malum
Dreadnought A Wake In Sacred Waves
Dreadnought Emergence
Dreadnought The Endless
Dream Evil Evilized
Dream Evil United
Dream Evil In The Night
Dream the Electric Sleep American Mystic
Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite
Dream Theater The Astonishing
Dream Theater Distance Over Time
Unpopular opinion time....rI enjoyed The Astonishing as much as I did this effort, but Distance Over Time feels more like a musical comeback for the band.
Dream Theater A View from the Top of the World
Dreariness Before We Vanish
Drew McDowall Agalma
Dropdead Dropdead 2020
Drott Orcus
Drott Troll
Drown In Sulphur Dark Secrets of the Soul
Drowned Procul His
Drudensang Tuiflsrijtt
Drudkh A Furrow Cut Short
Drudkh Handful of Stars
Drudkh All Belong To The Night
Drug Cult Drug Cult
Druid Lord Relics of the Dead
Dryad The Abyssal Plain
Duivel Tirades Uit De Hel
Dumb Waiter Gauche Gists
DunkelNacht Sombre Nuit
Dvne Etemen Ænka
Dvne Voidkind
Dwaal Never Enough
Dwarrowdelf Of Dying Lights
Dwarrowdelf Evenstar
Dying Fetus Purification Through Violence
Dying Fetus Wrong One to Fuck With
Dymna Lotva The Land Under The Black Wings: Blood
Dynfari Vegferð Tímans
A very pleasant album to listen to, especially for those who love atmospheric black metal/post-rock/ambient, but the one thing which stopped from liking it any more was the fact that most of the songs never really exploded like I expected them to. That said, the highlights of the album itself are definitely in the three-part title track at the end, combining wispy atmosphere and slight psychadelic flourishes into a half-hour opus. That's essentially as ambitious as Dynfari get here.
Dynfari The Four Doors of the Mind
Dynfari Myrkurs Er Þörf
Dyscarnate With All Their Might
Dysrhythmia The Veil Of Control
Dysylumn Occultation
Dysylumn Cosmogonie
Dzo-nga Thunder In the Mountains
E-L-R Mænad
E-L-R Vexier
Eagle Twin The Thundering Heard (Songs of Hoof and Horn)
Eagles Eagles
Eagles On The Border
Eagles Hotel California
Early Moods Early Moods
Earth Primitive and Deadly
Earth and Pillars Earth I
Earth Electric Vol.1: Solar
Earth Rot Renascentia
Earth Rot Black Tides of Obscurity
Earthless Night Parade of One Hundred Demons
Earthrise Until We Rest Beneath the Winter Way
Earthshine My Bones Shall Rest Upon The Mountain
Earthside Let The Truth Speak
Eastern High Halo
Eave Fervor
Echushkya Twilight Murmuration
Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow
Ef We Salute You, You and You
Effluence Necrobiology
Einherjer Av Oss, For Oss
Einvigi Monokroma
Elastica Elastica
Eldamar/Dreams of Nature Split
Elder (USA-MA) Lore
Elderwind The Magic of Nature
Electric Citizen Sateen
Electric Citizen Higher Time
Elitist (DK) A Mirage of Grandeur
Ellende Todbringer
Ellende Lebensnehmer
Ellende Triebe
Ellende Ellenbogengesellschaft
Ellesmere (ITA) Stranger Skies
Elminster Palantíri
Elsiane E L S I A N E
Elvenking The Winter Wake
Elvenking Era
Elvenking Reader of the Runes – Divination
Embrace Of Thorns Scorn Aesthetics
Embrace Of Thorns Entropy Dynamics
Embrace the Dawn The Effigist
Emma Ruth Rundle On Dark Horses
Emma Ruth Rundle Engine of Hell
Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full
Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou The Helm of Sorrow
Empire State Bastard Rivers Of Heresy
Empress Premonition
Empress AD Still Life Moving Fast
Emptiness Not For Music
Empty Yard Experiment (E.Y.E.) Kallisti
Empusae Lueur
Empyrium Über den Sternen
Emyn Muil Afar Angathfark
Enabler La Fin Absolue Du Monde
END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face
Endless Forms Most Gruesome Endless Forms Most Gruesome
Endless, Nameless Living Without
Endon Through The Mirror
Endseeker Mount Carcass
Endstille DetoNation
Enfold Darkness Adversary Omnipotent
English Dogs Where Legend Began
Enisum Forgotten Mountains
Enshine Transcending Fire
Ensiferum Thalassic
Enslaved Blodhemn
Enslaved Vertebrae
Enslaved Utgard
Enslaved Caravans to the Outer Worlds
Enslaved Heimdal
Ensnared Dysangelium
Enter Shikari The Mindsweep
Enterprise Earth The Chosen
Entheos (USA) Dark Future
Entheos (USA) Time Will Take Us All
Enthroned Sovereigns
Enthroned Towards the Skullthrone of Satan
Enthroned Obsidium
Enthroned Cold Black Suns
Entrails (SWE) World Inferno
Entrails (SWE) Obliteration
Enuff Z'Nuff Enuff Z'Nuff
Envy Atheist's Cornea
Eoront Another Realm
Epica Epica vs Attack on Titan Songs
Epica Omega
Epiphanic Truth Dark Triad: Bitter Psalms to a Sordid Species
Epitaphe II
Equilibrium Erdentempel
Equipoise Demiurgus
Erdve Savigaila
Ereb Altor Ulfven
Ereb Altor Järtecken
Ereb Altor Vargtimman
Ereb Altor Eldens Boning
Eremit Bearer of Many Names
Eric Wagner In The Lonely Light Of Mourning
Ernia How To Deal With Life And Fail
Erosion (CAN) Maximum Suffering
Esben and the Witch Hold Sacred
Eskapism Ancient Songs of The Wind
Esoctrilihum Funeral
Essence of Datum Spellcrying Machine
Esthesis Watching Worlds Collide
Eternal Helcaraxe Drown in Ash
Eternal Rot Moribound
Eternal Torment Blind to Reality
Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter
Ether Coven The Relationship Between the Hammer and the Nail
Eths Ankaa
Eunuchs Harbour Century
Evanescence Fallen
Evanescence Evanescence
Evangelist (USA) Omen Ex Simulacra
This album really surprised me, though I didn't quite know what to expect before pressing play. For me the real problem here is how clouded everything sounds, but once you listen to the album a few times I guess you can get used to it. Musically it's pretty full on as far as the extreme metal part of the musicianship is concerned, and the background noises such as screeching violins, tinkling keyboards or orgasmic (?) female moans and wails add extra effect. I only wish the production could be a bit clearer to truly emphasize these little sounds.
Everest Queen Murmurations
Every Time I Die Low Teens
Evile Infected Nations
Evile Hell Unleashed
Evilfeast Elegies of the Stellar Wind
Evoke (NO) Seeds of Death
Evoken Hypnagogia
Ewigkeit Cosmic Man
Excarnated Entity Mass Grave Horizon
Execration (NOR) Return to the Void
Executioner's Mask Winterlong
Exgenesis Solve et Coagula
Exhorder The Law
Exhumed Death Revenge
Exhumed Horror
Exhumed To The Dead
Exhumed/Gruesome Twisted Horror
Existem Mantle
Exmortus The Sound of Steel
Exocrine Legend
Exodus The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A
Exodus Impact Is Imminent
Exodus Pleasures of the Flesh
Exodus Persona Non Grata
Extra Life The Sacred Vowel
Extreme Noise Terror Extreme Noise Terror
Exumer Fire and Damnation
Exumer Possessed by Fire
Eyehategod In the Name of Suffering
Eyemaster Conjuration of Flesh
Eyes (DK) Congratulations
Faal Desolate Grief
Face Down Mindfield
Face Off Massive
Faceless Burial Speciation
Faceless Burial At The Foothills Of Deliration
Faidra Militant : Penitent : Triumphant
Failure The Heart Is a Monster
Falaise After All This Time
Falkenbach Heralding - The Fireblade
Fall of Efrafa Owsla
Fall of Messiah Senicarne
Falls of Rauros Vigilance Perennial
Fallujah Empyrean
False Portent
Famyne II: The Ground Below
Fange Pudeur
Fange Privation
Far Beyond The End of My Road
Farsot Fail·Lure
Farsot Life Promised Death
Fates Warning A Pleasant Shade of Gray
Fates Warning Long Day Good Night
Father Befouled Desolate Gods
Fawn Limbs Darwin Falls
Fawn Limbs Sleeper Vessels
Fear Factory Digimortal
Fear Factory Archetype
Fear Factory Transgression
Fear Factory Genexus
Fear Factory Aggression Continuum
Feared Vinter
Feared Svart
Feed Me To The Waves Apart
Fell Ruin Cast in Oil the Dressed Wrought
Fen Carrion Skies
Fen The Dead Light
Feral Lord Vires in Absoluto
Festerday Iihtallan
Fides Inversa Rite of Inverse Incarnation
Fields of the Nephilim The Nephilim
Fields of the Nephilim Dawnrazor
Filter Crazy Eyes
Filth is Eternal Love Is A Lie, Filth Is Eternal
Finntroll Ur Jordens Djup
Finntroll Midnattens Widunder
Finntroll Visor Om Slutet
Finntroll Vredesvävd
Finsterforst Jenseits
Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel...
Fires in the Distance Echoes From Deep November
Firespawn The Reprobate
Firespawn Abominate
Firewind Burning Earth
Firewind The Premonition
Firewind Immortals
Firienholt White Frost and Elder Blood
Firtan Okeanos
Fit for an Autopsy Absolute Hope Absolute Hell
Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts
Five The Hierophant Through Aureate Void
Flames of Hell Fire and Steel
Fleetwood Mac Then Play On
Fleetwood Mac Tusk
Fleetwood Mac Tango in the Night
Fleetwood Mac Kiln House
Fleetwood Mac Future Games
Fleetwood Mac Bare Trees
Fleetwood Mac Mystery to Me
Fleetwood Mac Say You Will
Fleshgod Apocalypse Labyrinth
Fleshwater We're Not Here To Be Loved
Floating in Space Liftoff
Flooding Silhouette Machine
Flotsam and Jetsam The End of Chaos
Flotsam and Jetsam Flotsam and Jetsam
Flotsam and Jetsam Blood in the Water
Flub Dream Worlds
Fluisteraars Bloem
Fluisteraars De Kronieken van het Verdwenen Kasteel I: Harslo
Flyying Colours You Never Know
Focus X
Folterkammer (USA) Weibermacht
Foo Fighters One by One
For Giants You Are The Universe
Fordomth Is, Qui Mortem Audit
Foreseen (FIN) Grave Danger
Forevermore Integral
Forgotten Tomb Hurt Yourself and the Ones You Love
Forgotten Tomb We Owe You Nothing
Forgotten Tomb Nihilistic Estrangement
Forhist Forhist
Forlesen Black Terrain
Forming the Void Rift
Forn Rites of Despair
Fortid Narkissos
Foscor Els Sepulcres Blancs
Fossilization Leprous Daylight
Four Stroke Baron Planet Silver Screen
Four Stroke Baron Classics
Fractal Gates One with Dawn
Fractal Universe Rhizomes of Insanity
Fragment Soul Galois Paradox
Frailty Tumši Ūdeņi
Frank Zappa Chunga's Revenge
Frank Zappa Zoot Allures
Frank Zappa You Are What You Is
Frayle 1692
Free Heartbreaker
Freedom Call Eternity
Freedom of Fear Carpathia
Friendship (JPN) Hatred
Friisk …Un Torügg Bleev Blot Sand
Froglord Army of Frogs
From The Vastland Taurvi
Frowning Extinct
Frozen Dawn The Decline of the Enlightened Gods
Fuath II
Fuck the Facts Desire Will Rot
Fucked Up Oberon
Fudge Tunnel Hate Songs In E Minor
Well, it's nice to discover another band from my city (Nottingham). Listening to this debut album by Fudge Tunnel, I can see a lot of similarities to Clucth's early days and Acid Bath, but this certainly brings the grit and the riff power. I believe the album really picks up during the second half, as the first few songs didn't grab my attention as much. I like the more metallic, extreme side of songs like "Soap and Water" and "Tweezers" and that cover of Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" is pretty ace. Only thing that dragged the overall quality down a bit for me was how the vocals sometimes seem a little too restrained (not as prominent as the instrumentation if I'm honest), but it's generally a really good sludgy piece of music.
Fudge Tunnel Creep Diets
Just as good as the band's debut, but I think this album has a few more hook-laden songs, namely on opener "Grey" and "Grit" amongst others. The band made an official video for "Grey", and it seems to match the gritty nature of the song quite well.
Fukpig Bastards
Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy
Full of Hell Coagulated Bliss
Full of Hell and Merzbow Full of Hell and Merzbow
Funeral for a Friend Memory and Humanity
Funeral Harvest Redemptio
Funeral Leech The Illusion of Time
Funeral Oppression The Eternal Revival
Funeral Storm Chthonic Invocations
Fuoco Fatuo (ITA2) Backwater
Furia Huta Luna
Fuzz Fuzz
Fvnerals Let the Earth Be Silent
Fyrnask Fórn
Fyrnask VII - Kenoma
Gaahls Wyrd GastiR - Ghosts Invited
Gadget The Great Destroyer
Gaerea Limbo
Gaerea Mirage
Galdr Galdr
Galley Beggar Silence and Tears
Gama Bomb Tales From the Grave in Space
To me this is the band's best album by far, and that's probably because I think it's more concise than Gama Bomb's other albums. Just short enough to be enjoyed, and it doesn't overstay its welcome. Nothing out of the ordinary for this style of thrash either, but then that's exactly what Gama Bomb intended. Maybe.
Gamma Ray No World Order
Gamma Ray Insanity and Genius
Gamma Ray Empire of the Undead
Garden of Worm Endless Garden
Garoted Bewitchment Of The Dark Ages
Gary Moore G-Force
Gary Moore Back On The Streets
Gary Moore Blues For Greeny
Gary Moore After Hours
Gary Moore After the War
Gary Moore Wild Frontier
Gary Moore Run for Cover
Gary Moore Corridors Of Power
Gary Moore Power of the Blues
Gary Moore Close As You Get
Gary Moore Bad For You Baby
Gatecreeper Deserted
Gatekeeper (CAN) From Western Shores
Gates Of Doom Aquileia Mater Aeterna
Gateway Galgendood
Gatherers " ( mutilator. ) "
Gaupa Myriad
Gazpacho Soyuz
Gazpacho Fireworker
Gehennah Too Loud to Live, Too Drunk to Die
Genesis Trespass
Genesis ...And Then There Were Three...
Genesis Wind & Wuthering
Genghis Tron Dream Weapon
Gentle Giant Interview
George Thorogood and the Destroyers The Hard Stuff
Germ Escape
Gevurah Hallelujah!
Gevurah Sulphur Soul
Gevurah Gehinnom
Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam
Ghost (SWE) Prequelle
Ghost (SWE) Impera
Ghost Bath Self Loather
Ghost Brigade IV - One with the Storm
Ghost Iris Anecdotes of Science & Soul
Ghost Iris Comatose
GHOSTEMANE Anti-Icon
Ghostlimb Difficult Loves
Ghosts of Atlantis 3.6.2.4
Gillian Carter Salvation Through Misery
Trip back to the early 00's metalcore/post-hardcore/screamo/whateveryouwanttocallitcore scene, and for me, a really enjoyable listen.
Giraffe Tongue Orchestra Broken Lines
Girih Ikigai
Girlschool Screaming Blue Murder
By far the stand-out highlights of this album are the title track and "Hellrazor", but the album in general does seem to be a little more 'diverse'. Not so much that the band are taking a deliberate turn in the opposite musical direction, but it's somewhat easier to identify the NWOBHM-influenced songs from the punkier, rockier tunes like "Take it from Me" and "It Turns Your Head Around". I actually like the vocals here for the most part, though the nasally delivery on "Hellrazor" is pretty annoying. All in all, another solid 80s output from Girlschool.
Girlschool Hit And Run
All in all on par with the band's debut, though I prefer the vocal delivery of this album and the instrumental performance of Demolition. Nonetheless, there's still some really decent hard rock/metal riffage going on here, specifically in songs like the title track and "The Hunter".
Girlschool Demolition
Giver Where the Cycle Breaks
Givre Destin Messianique
Gjendod Nedstigning
Glaciation Ultime Éclat
Gleb Kolyadin The Outland
Gloosh Sylvan Coven
Gloryhammer Tales from the Kingdom of Fife
Gloson Grimen
Gloson The Rift
Gnaw Cutting Pieces
Gnaw Their Tongues Abyss of Longing Throats
Gnaw Their Tongues The Cessation Of Suffering
Gnipahalan I Nordisk Vredeslusta
Gnoomes Ax Ox
Gnosis (USA-FL) Omens from the Dead Realm
Goatess Purgatory Under New Management
Goats Of Doom Tie on Hänen Omilleen
Goatsnake Black Age Blues
Goatwhore Carving Out The Eyes Of God
Goatwhore Blood For The Master
Goatwhore Constricting Rage of the Merciless
Goatwhore Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven
God Alone (IRE) ETC
God Dethroned The World Ablaze
God Dethroned Illuminati
God Is an Astronaut Epitaph
God Is an Astronaut Ghost Tapes #10
Godeater Vespera
Goden (US) Beyond Darkness
Godflesh A World Lit Only by Fire
Godflesh Hymns
Godflesh Selfless
Godflesh Us and Them
Godflesh Purge
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers
Godsticks This Is What A Winner Looks Like
Godthrymm Reflections
Godthrymm Distortions
Gojira The Link
Gojira Terra Incognita
Gojira Magma
Golden Ashes (NL) A Lightless Christ Shuns The Crown Of Divinity
Golden Earring Prisoner of the Night
Golden Earring To the Hilt
Golden Earring Switch
Golden Earring Seven Tears
Golgata Tempel
Golgata Ur Eld Och Aska
Golgothan Remains Adorned in Ruin
Gong Camembert Electrique
Gong Downwind
Gong Zero to Infinity
Gong 2032
Gong Unending Ascending
They've done better albums, but Gong simply never seem to stop being creative, even 50 odd years after their formation. Sure, Daevid Allen will always be the godfather of this eccentric project, but it's a legacy that continues to glide from star to star.
Good Tiger A Head Full of Moonlight
Good Tiger We Will All be Gone
Gorephilia In The Eye Of Nothing
Gorgoroth Pentagram
Gorgoroth Antichrist
Another great Gorgoroth album which is at least on par with the band's debut, but the only thing that bothers me is the really short runtime-the album almost feels like it's about to end when in fact it's just started. "Sorg" is nice enough to end things with, but it didn't really strike me as the sort of "album closer", more like just another song to add to the rest here. So yeah, I guess you could say it's anti-climactic, but then "Gorgoroth" and "Possessed (By Satan)" seem to make up for it.
Gorgoroth Under the Sign of Hell
Gorgoroth Destroyer
Gorod The Orb
Gospel The Loser
GosT Possessor
Gozu Equilibrium
Gra Lycaon
Grab Zeitlang
Grabak Agash Daeva
Graceless Chants from Purgatory
Grails Anches En Maat
Grand Funk Railroad Good Singin', Good Playin'
Grand Funk Railroad Grand Funk Lives
Gravdal Kadaverin
Grave Endless Procession of Souls
Grave As Rapture Comes
Grave Into the Grave
Grave You'll Never See...
Grave Burial Ground
Grave Desecrator Dust To Lust
Grave Desecrator Immundissime Spiritus
Grave Digger Tunes of War
Grave Digger Rheingold
Grave Digger Heavy Metal Breakdown
Grave Digger Ballads of a Hangman
Grave Miasma Abyss of Wrathful Deities
Grave Pilgrim Molten Hands Reach West
Grave Pilgrim The Bigotry of Purpose
Grave Ritual Morbid Throne
Grave Upheaval (untitled)
Gravecrusher Resurrection of Deathly Visions
GraveRipper Seasons Dreaming Death
Gravespawn Scourge of the Realm
Gravetemple Impassable Fears
Graveworm Fragments of Death
Graveworm As the Angels Reach the Beauty
Graveworm Scourge of Malice
Graveyard (ESP) Hold Back the Dawn
Gravkvade Prolog
Grayceon IV
Great White Great White
Great White Psycho City
Great White Let It Rock
Great Wide Nothing Hymns for Hungry Spirits Vol. II
Greber Fright Without
Green Lung Black Harvest
Greg Puciato Child Soldier: Creator of God
Greg Puciato Mirrorcell
Grey Aura Zwart vierkant
GridLink Coronet Juniper
Grieving (UK) Everything Goes Right, All At Once
Griffon De Republica
Grift Arvet
Grift Dolt Land
Grim (JPN) Therianthropy
Grim Ravine Upon the Darkest Shores
Grim Reaper See You In Hell
Grim Reaper Rock You To Hell
Grima Will of the Primordial
Grima Frostbitten
Gruesome Savage Land
Gumm Slogan Machine
Guranfoe Gumbo Gumbo
Guruh Gipsy Guruh Gipsy
Gutter Instinct Age Of The Frantics
Gutvoid Durance of Lightless Horizons
GWAR Scumdogs of the Universe
GWAR America Must Be Destroyed
GWAR Violence Has Arrived
GWAR War Party
GWAR Beyond Hell
GWAR Lust in Space
GWAR Battle Maximus
Haast's Eagled II: For Mankind
Haavard Haavard
Habitants Alma
Hadal Maw Charlatan
Hades Almighty Pyre Era, Black!
Haggard Cat Common Sense Holiday
Hail Spirit Noir Mayhem In Blue
Haken Vector
Haken Fauna
Halestorm Halestorm
Halestorm The Strange Case Of...
Hallatar No Stars Upon the Bridge
Halphas Sermons Of The Black Flames
Hamferd Támsins likam
Hamferd Men Gu​ð​s Hond Er Sterk
HammerFall Crimson Thunder
Hammers Of Misfortune Dead Revolution
Hammock Departure Songs
Hands Of Despair Well of the Disquieted
Hands Up Who Wants To Die Nil All
Hanging Garden Skeleton Lake
Hanging Garden Neither Moth nor Rust
Hanging Garden The Garden
Hangman's Chair A Loner
Hannes Grossmann To Where The Light Retreats
Hanoi Rocks Oriental Beat
Hanoi Rocks Back to Mystery City
Hanoi Rocks Two Steps From The Move
Harakiri for the Sky Arson
Harakiri for the Sky Maere
Harm's Way (USA-IL) Posthuman
Harm's Way (USA-IL) Common Suffering
Hasslig Apex Predator
Haste the Day Coward
Hasturian Vigil Unveiling the Brac'thal
Hate Auric Gates of Veles
Hate Rugia
Hate Eternal Infernus
Hate Eternal Upon Desolate Sands
Hate Forest Hour Of The Centaur
Hatis Noit Aura
Haunt (USA-CA) Luminous Eyes
Haunt (USA-CA) Burst into Flame
Haunted Horses The Worst has Finally Happened
Haunted Shores Void
Havok Burn
A great, solid thrash debut done with real conviction and prowess. Reminds me at times of early Death Angel, in a good way of course. Best songs for me would be "Identity Theft" and "Category of the Dead".
Havok Time Is Up
Another very strong thrash record. Production is more audible than on the band's debut but the formula is much the same, maybe a couple of songs demonstrate more complex musicianship but the rest is no-frills thrash pretty much. Highlights: "No Amnesty" and "D.O.A.".
Havukruunu Kuu Erkylän Yllä
Hawkwind Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
Not their best, but i still enjoy most of the songs here. Lighter than what they did before though if im honest.
Hawkwind Hawkwind
Hawkwind 25 Years On
Hawkwind The Chronicle of the Black Sword
Hawkwind Onward
Hawkwind The Future Never Waits
Haxanu Totenpass
Hazel English Summer Nights
Head with Wings Without Intervention
Heart Little Queen
Heart Bebe Le Strange
Heart Jupiter's Darling
Heaven's Cry Outcast
Heavenward (USA) Pyrophonics
Heavy Temple Lupi Amoris
Hecate Enthroned Dark Requiems and the Unsilent Massacre
Hecate Enthroned Embrace of the Godless Aeon
Hegemon Sidereus Nuncius
Hegemone Voyance
Hasn't quite got the edge of its fantastic predecessor, but listening to this at the right time of day can still be quite the experience.
Heidevolk Vuur Van Verzet
Heimland Forfedrenes Taarer
Helevorn Aamamata
Helfro Helfro
Helheim Woduridar
Helicon God Intentions
Helix Wild in the Streets
Hell Fire Mania
Hell Militia Hollow Void
Hellbore Panopticon
Hellcrash Demonic Assassinatiön
Helleruin Devils, Death and Dark Arts
Hellions Indian Summer
Helloween Straight Out of Hell
Helloween Master of the Rings
Helloween 7 Sinners
Helloween Helloween
Hellripper Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags
Helms Alee Noctiluca
Helpless Debt
Helrunar Vanitas Vanitatvm
Hemelbestormer Aether
Henget Beyond North Star
Herder Fergean
Here Lies Man Ritual Divination
Here Lies Man No Ground To Walk Upon
Heresiarch Edifice
Heretic Cult Redeemer Flagellum Universalis
Heretoir Nightsphere
Hermodr Forest Sky
Herod Iconoclast
Hesitation Wounds (LA) Awake For Everything
Hesitation Wounds (LA) Chicanery
Hidden Orchestra Archipelago
High on Fire Cometh the Storm
High Priest Of Saturn Son of Earth and Sky
High Pulp Days in the Desert
Higher Power Soul Structure
Hilde Mistral Perdant
Himinbjorg Wyrd
Hinayana Shatter And Fall
Hiraki Stumbling Through The Walls
Ho99o9 United States Of Horror
Hobbs' Angel of Death Heaven Bled
Hollywood Burns Invaders
Holy Fawn Dimensional Bleed
Holy Grail Times of Pride and Peril
Homecoming Those We Knew
Homeskin Itch Ecstasy
Hope Drone Void Lustre
Horisont About Time
Horn Turm am Hang
Horn Mohngang
Horn Verzet
Horn Daudswi​ä​rk
Horna Hengen tulet
A simplistic, raw black metal record which somehow never fails to be consistent in its delivery. The first two songs are notably the weakest, but from that point onwards the album seems to take a more maturer songwriting ethic into consideration, even improving on the vocals and general musicianship which is certainly rife in songs like "Puhdas" and "Sodan Roihu" amongst others. Whilst it does sometimes prove a little uninspired, the album should please fans of black metal if nobody else.
Horndal Lake Drinker
Horndal Head Hammer Man
HORNSS No Blood, No Sympathy
Horrendous Idol
Horrendous Ontological Mysterium
Horse Lords Comradely Objects
Horsewhip Consume and Burn
Hostis Hostis
Hotel Lux Hands Across the Creek
Hotel of the Laughing Tree Faraway Friends
Hoth Oathbreaker
Hoth Astral Necromancy
Hour of Penance Regicide
House of Atreus From the Madness of Ixion
Howling Giant The Space Between Worlds
Howling Sycamore Howling Sycamore
Hrizg Damnatio Memoriae
Hulder Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry
Hulder The Eternal Fanfare
Hulder Verses In Oath
Human Serpent For I, The Misanthropist
Humanity's Last Breath Abyssal
Hundred Year Old Man Breaching
Huntress Spell Eater
Huntsmen American Scrap
Hussar All-Consuming Hunger
Hymn Breach Us
Hyperdontia Deranged
Hypocrisy Osculum Obscenum
Hypocrisy Penetralia
Hypocrisy Into the Abyss
Hypocrisy End of Disclosure
Hyrgal Hyrgal
I Am Destruction Nascency
I Am The Night While The Gods Are Sleeping
I Built the Sky The Quiet Place Away
I Killed the Prom Queen Beloved
IAMFIRE From Ashes
iamthemorning Belighted
iamthemorning The Bell
Ian Anderson Rupi's Dance
Ian Anderson Homo Erraticus
Ibaraki Rashomon
Iced Earth Dystopia
Iced Earth Iced Earth
Iced Earth The Glorious Burden
Iced Earth Incorruptible
Idle Ruin The Fell Tyrant
Idolatria Tetrabestiarchy
IDYLLS The Barn
If These Trees Could Talk The Bones of a Dying World
Ignea The Realms of Fire and Death
Ignis Haereticum Autocognition Of Light
Ignominy (CAN) Imminent Collapse
Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion
Igorrr Savage Sinusoid
IJdelheid Unholy
Ikarie Arde
Iku-Turso Into Dawnless Realms
Iku-Turso Ikuinen Kirous
Ikuinen Kaamos The Forlorn
Ikuinen Kaamos Fall of Icons
Ildaruni Beyond Unseen Gateways
Ildganger For Hver Tanke Mister Sj​æ​len Atter Farve
Ill Considered Precipice
Ill Tidings Hymns to Demise
Illudium Ash of the Womb
Ilsa Corpse Fortress
Iluiteq The Light Inside, The Dark Outside
Immolation Harnessing Ruin
Immolation Shadows in the Light
Immolation Majesty and Decay
Immortal Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism
Immortal Battles in the North
Immortal Damned In Black
Immortal Northern Chaos Gods
Impaled Nazarene Latex Cult
Impaled Nazarene Suomi Finland Perkele
Impaled Nazarene Ugra-Karma
Impaled Nazarene Tol Cormpt Norz Norz Norz
Impaled Nazarene All That You Fear
Impaled Nazarene Pro Patria Finlandia
Impaled Nazarene Nihil
Impaled Nazarene Manifest
Impaled Nazarene Road to the Octagon
Imperial Crystalline Entombment Ancient Glacial Resurgence
Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury
Imperialist Zenith
Imperium Dekadenz Dammerung der Szenarien
Imperium Dekadenz Meadows of Nostalgia
Imperium Dekadenz Into Sorrow Evermore
Impetuous Ritual Blight Upon Martyred Sentience
Impetuous Ritual Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis
Implore Depopulation
Implore Alienated Despair
Imprecation In Nomine Diaobli
Impure Wilhelmina Antidote
Impureza La Caída de Tonatiuh
In Aphelion Moribund
In Cauda Venenum G.O.H.E.
In Cauda Venenum In Cauda Venenum
In Flames Whoracle
In Flames Lunar Strain
In Flames The Jester Race
In Flames Colony
In Flames Clayman
In Flames Come Clarity
In Lingua Mortua Bellowing Sea - Racked by Tempest
In Lingua Mortua Salon Des Refuses
In Mourning Garden of Storms
In Mourning Monolith
In Mourning The Weight of Oceans
In Mourning Afterglow
In Mourning The Bleeding Veil
In Reverence The Selected Breed
In the Woods... Pure
In the Woods... Cease the Day
In the Woods... Heart of the Ages
In the Woods... Diversum
In Tormentata Quiete Krononota
In Twilight's Embrace Vanitas
In Twilight's Embrace Lifeblood
In Vain (NO) Currents
Inanimate Existence The Masquerade
Incandescence Le Coeur de l'Homme
Incantation Sect of Vile Divinities
Incantation Unholy Deification
Inconcessus Lux Lucis The Crowning Quietus
Inexorum Moonlit Navigation
Inexorum Equinox Vigil
Infected Dead Archaic Malevolence
Inferi (USA) Revenant
Inferi (USA) The End of an Era | Rebirth
Inferi (USA) Of Sunless Realms
Inferi (USA) Vile Genesis
Infestus Thrypsis
Infinity The Untamed Hunger
Ingested Ashes Lie Still
Ingested Call of the Void
Ingested The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams
Inherits the Void The Impending Fall Of The Stars
Inhuman Nature Under the Boot
Innumerable Forms Punishment in Flesh
Innumerable Forms Philosophical Collapse
Inquinamentum 8342
Inquisitor Stigmata Me, I'm in Misery
Insomnium Heart Like a Grave
Insomnium Argent Moon
Insomnium Songs of the Dusk
Integrity/Krieg Split
Inter Arma The Cavern
Internal Bleeding Corrupting Influence
Intervals A Voice Within
Intervals The Way Forward
Intonate Severed Within
Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions
Intronaut The Direction of Last Things
Invent Animate Heavener
Inverloch Distance | Collapsed
Invocation (CL) Attunement to Death
Invultation Feral Legion
Iohannes Jacob's Ladder
Ion Dissonance Cast the First Stone
Irae (PT) Lurking in the Depths
Irdorath The Final Sin
Irist Order Of The Mind
Irist Gloria
Iron Monkey 9-13
Iron Monkey Spleen & Goad
Iron Reagan The Tyranny Of Will
Iron Reagan Crossover Ministry
Iron Void Excalibur
Irreversible Mechanism Immersion
Isenordal Requiem for Eiréné
Iskald Nedom Og Nord
Iskandr Vergezicht
Iskandr Spiritus Sylvestris
Iskra Ruins
Isole Dystopia
Iterum Nata Trench of Loneliness
Ithaca The Language of Injury
Ivar Bjornson and Einar Selvik Hardanger
Ixion L'adieu aux étoiles
Izthmi Leaving This World, Leaving It All Behind
Jakob Sines
James Norbert Ivanyi The Sine Imitation
Jan Dukes de Grey Mice and Rats in the Loft
Jeremy Irons and the Ratgang Malibus Spirit Knife
Jess And The Ancient Ones The Horse and Other Weird Tales
Jess And The Ancient Ones Vertigo
Jesu Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came
Jesus Piece Only Self
Jethro Tull This Was
Jethro Tull The Zealot Gene
JFDR Museum
Jinjer King of Everything
Jo Quail The Cartographer
Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater
Job For A Cowboy Moon Healer
Johansson and Speckmann Mask of the Treacherous
John Frum A Stirring In The Noos
John Ghost Thin Air, Mirror Land
John Petrucci Terminal Velocity
Johnny Booth Moments Elsewhere
Jon Anderson Olias Of Sunhillow
Jonathan Personne Jonathan Personne
Jord Tundra
Jordfast Av Stoft
Jordsjo Salighet
Joyfultalk Familiar Science
Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith
Judas Priest Firepower
Judicator Let There Be Nothing
Junius Eternal Rituals For The Accretion of Light
Jupiterian Protosapien
Just Before Dawn A War Too Far
Just Mustard Heart Under
Kadabra Ultra
Kadavar (DE) For the Dead Travel Fast
Kaevum Natur
Kairo After Forever
Kall Brand
This album can get a bit all over the place at times, and the vocals a little ropey, but generally it seems expansive and forward-thinking enough to carry the lengthier songs to a fine ending. That's without mentioning the often interesting and charming saxophone sections, which really come into their own whenever performed. This album is not without flaws, but also not without its charms either.
Kalmah Palo
Kalt Vindur Magna Mater
Kamaal Williams Stings
Kamasi Washington Fearless Movement
Kamelot The Awakening
Kampfar Djevelmakt
Kampfar Til Klovers Takt
Kaoteon Kaoteon
Kapala (IND) Termination Apex
Karg Traktat
Karkaos Children of the Void
Kassad London Orbital
Kataan Kataan
Kataklysm Of Ghosts and Gods
Katalepsy Gravenous Hour
Katalepsy Terra Mortuus Est
Katatonia Tonight's Music
Katatonia The Fall of Hearts
Katavasia Magnus Venator
Katavasia Invoking the Spirit of Doom
Kathaaria To Be Shunned By All … As Centres Of Pestilence
Katharos (SWE) Of Lineages Once Forgotten
Katharos XIII Chthonian Transmissions
Katie Kim Hour of the Ox
Katla Móðurástin
Katla Allt þetta Helvítis Myrkur
Kauan ATM Revised
Kaunis Kuolematon Mielenvalta
Kavus Torabi The Banishing
Kawir Exilasmos
Kawir Adrasteia
Kawir Kydoimos
Kayleth Space Muffin
Keep Happy In Here
Keep of Kalessin Epistemology
Keep of Kalessin Katharsis
Kekal Beyond The Glimpse of Dreams
KEN mode Loved
KEN mode Null
KEN mode Void
Keres (ITA) Homo Homini Lupus
Ketzer Cloud Collider
Keys of Orthanc Of The Lineage Of Kings
Khandra All Occupied by Sole Death
Khold Svartsyn
Khora Timaeus
Khorada Salt
Khors Where the Word Acquires Eternity
Khthoniik Cerviiks Æequiizoiikum
Kikagaku Moyo Kumoyo Island
Killing Joke What's THIS For...!
Killing Joke Pylon
Killswitch Engage Incarnate
Kilter The Suspended Woman
Kind Rocket Science
King Apathy Wounds
King Crimson THRAK
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Infest the Rats' Nest
King Goat Debt Of Aeons
King of Asgard Karg
King of Asgard Svartrviðr
King Parrot Dead Set
King Parrot Ugly Produce
King Slender Gold Days
King Witch Body of Light
Kings Destroy Fantasma Nera
Kings Rot At the Gates of Adversarial Darkness
Kintsukuroi About Emotions
Kirk Windstein Dream In Motion
Kjellvandertonbruket Fossils
Klabautamann Smaragd
Knekelput Teloorgang
Knelt Rote Alterity
Kokoroko Could We Be More
Kold Intet Mere Er
KOLLAPS\E Phantom Centre
Kommandant Titan Hammer
Kontinuum No Need to Reason
Konvent Call Down The Sun
Korgonthurus XX
Korgonthurus Jumalhaaska
Korgull the Exterminator Sharpen Your Spikes
Korn The Paradigm Shift
Korn Requiem
Korpsesoturi Korpskrist
Kostas Panagiotou Tor
Kostnateni Úpal
Krieg Transient
Krieg Ruiner
Krigsgrav Fires in the Fall
Krimh The Eternal Return
Krisiun Forged in Fury
Krisiun Scourge of the Enthroned
Krisiun Mortem Solis
Kroh Altars
Krokodil (UK) Nachash
Krossfyre Rites of Extermination
Krvna The Rhythmus Of Death Eternal
Kultika Capricorn Wolves
Kungens Man Kungens Ljud & Bild
Kuolemanlaakso Tulijoutsen
Kuolemanlaakso Kuusumu
Kvad So Old
Kvadrat The Horrible Dissonance of Oblivion
Kvaen The Great Below
Kvelertak Nattesferd
Kylesa Exhausting Fire
La Cachette Antiphonary For Songful Ghosts
Labirinto Divino Afflante Spiritu
Lacertilia We’re Already Inside Your Mind
Lacrimas Profundere Bleeding the Stars
Lacuna Coil Black Anima
Lahmia Resilience
Lake of Tears Ominous
Lalu Paint the Sky
Lamp of Murmuur Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism
LANDMVRKS Fantasy
Languish Unworthy
Languish Feeding The Flames Of Annihilation
Lantern (FIN) II: Morphosis
Lantern (FIN) Dimensions
Lanterns on the Lake Versions of Us
Lantlos Wildhund
Laster Ons Vrije Fatum
Laster Het wassen oog
Late Night Venture V: Bones of the Extinct
Latitudes Part Island
Laura Veirs Found Light
Laveda A Place You Grew Up In
Le Prochain Hiver Talvi
Le Temps du Loup Leteo
Leaving Time II
Lee McKinney Infinite Mind
Leeched You Took The Sun When You Left
Leeched To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse
Lento Fourth
Leonov Wake
Leprous The Congregation
Leprous Malina
Les Discrets Prédateurs
Less Art Strangled Light
Lesser Glow Ruined
Lethian Dreams A Shadow of Memories
Licho Ciuciubabka
Lies Abuse
Light of the Morning Star Charnel Noir
Lightning Bolt Fantasy Empire
Lihhamon Doctrine
Lik Misanthropic Breed
Lik Carnage
Lilla Veneda Lilla Veneda
Limbonic Art Spectre Abysm
Liminal Shroud All Virtues Ablaze
Lindemann Skills In Pills
Lingua Ignota SINNER GET READY
Litosth Cesariana
Liv Kristine Vervain
Live Burial Curse of the Forlorn
Livgone Almost There
Living Hour Someday is Today
Livlos And Then There Were None
Lizzy Borden My Midnight Things
LLNN Deads
Lo! Vestigial
Lock Up Demonization
Locrian Infinite Dissolution
Long Distance Calling Boundless
Lonnie Holley Oh Me Oh My
Lord Belial Rapture
Lord Dying Poisoned Altars
Lord Dying Mysterium Tremendum
Lord Dying Clandestine Transcendence
Lord Vicar The Black Powder
Los Disidentes Del Sucio Motel Polaris
Lost in Kiev Rupture
Lotus Thief Oresteia
Lovebites Glory, Glory, to the World
Lovely Little Girls Effusive Supreme
Loviatar Lightless
Lower Automation Strobe Light Shadow Play
Lucifer (DE) Lucifer II
Lucifixion (USA) Trisect Joy of Pierced Hearts
Lucifuge Infernal Power
Lucifuge Monoliths of Wrath
Lucius Fox Solastalgia
Lunar Chalice Transcendentia: The Shadow Pilgrimage
Lunar Mantra Genesis
Lunar Spells Sacraments of Necromantical Empires
Lungtoucher The Ninth Incantation
Lurk Aegis
Lustre (SWE) Blossom
Lvcifyre Sacrament
Lvcifyre The Broken Seal
Lycus Chasms
M-Opus At the Mercy of Manannán
Machinations of Fate Celestial Prophecies
Machine Head Bloodstone And Diamonds
Mad Honey Satellite Aphrodite
Madder Mortem Marrow
These guys should be bigger in the progressive metal realm than they actually are. Everything just...fits so nicely. Undeniably heavy albeit smooth grooves, a vocal range proving so much more versatile and eccentric than you'd expect, melodies that haunt you for minutes on end...these aspects and more make Madder Mortem's latest full-length stand out in a year of already great prog metal-related records. A few "slower" songs stopped me from rating this higher in all honesty (I'm looking at you, "Stumble On"), but generally this is Madder Mortem pulling out all the stops once again.rStop listening to Oceans of Slumber guys, seriously get on this instead.
Madder Mortem Old Eyes, New Heart
Maere .​.​.​And The Universe Keeps Silent
Maggot Heart Dusk to Dusk
Maggot Heart Mercy Machine
Why yes, I do like to boogie to these tunes. The part of me that likes early Killing Joke is in love with some of these songs, but others do tend to get a bit ropey.
Magic Circle Departed Souls
Magick Touch Heads Have Got to Rock n' Roll
Magnum The Serpent Rings
Magnum Here Comes the Rain
Majestica Above the Sky
The first half is an impeccable mix of Freedom Call and mid-era (90s) Helloween/Gamma Ray. The second half overdoes the cheese.
Major Kong Doom Machine
Make Them Suffer Worlds Apart
Malakhim Theion
Malice Divine Everlasting Ascendancy
Malignament Hypocrisis Absolution
Malist To Mantle the Rising Sun
Malist Karst Relict
Malist As I Become Darkness
Malleus The Fires of Heaven
Malokarpatan Krupinské Ohne
Malokarpatan Vertumnus Caesar
Malthusian/Suffering Hour Time's Withering Shadow
Malum Night of the Luciferian Light
Mammoth Grinder Cosmic Crypt
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard Y Proffwyd Dwyll
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard Yn Ol I Annwn
Manbryne Interregnum: O pr​ó​bie wiary i jarzmie zw​ą​tpien
Manegarm Fornaldarsagor
Manfred Mann's Earth Band Nightingales & Bombers
Manii Innerst I Mørket
Mannveira Vitahringur
Mantar The Modern Art of Setting Ablaze
Maps Counter Melodies
Marbin Dirty Horse
Marche Funebre Einderlicht
Marduk Frontschwein
Great album for Marduk, though I think it would have been more beneficial to include fewer songs or shorter lengths. Highlights for me would be "Afrika" and "Doomsday Elite".
Marduk Memento Mori
Mare (NO) Ebony Tower
Mare Cognitum The Sea Which Has Become Known
Mariachi El Bronx III
Mariana Semkina Sleepwalking
Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor
Markgraf Hohenbaden
Marmozets The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets
Marrasmieli Martaiden mailta
Marriages Salome
Mars Red Sky The Task Eternal
Marty Friedman Wall of Sound
Martyrdod Elddop
Martyrdoom As Torment Prevails
Maruja Connla's Well
Maruta Remain Dystopian
Mary Halvorson Cloudward
Mask of Prospero Hiraeth
Massacre Resurgence
Master Boot Record Direct Memory Access
Master Boot Record Floppy Disk Overdrive
Mastiff Leave Me The Ashes Of The Earth
Mastodon Cold Dark Place
Mastodon Hushed and Grim
Mayhem Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando
Mélancolia HissThroughRottenTeeth
Me You Us Them Sound Confirms
Medico Peste ב :The Black Bile
Megadeth Youthanasia
Megadeth Dystopia
Melancholia Book of Ruination
Melankoli Wind
Melted Bodies Enjoy Yourself
Memoriam Requiem for Mankind
Memoriam To the End
Menace Ruine Nekyia
Mephorash Krystl-Ah
Mercury Circle The Dawn of Vitriol
Merihem Incendiary Darkness
Merkabah (PL) Million Miles
Merrimack Omegaphilia
Merrimack Of Grace and Gravity
Mesarthim Arrival
Meshiaak Alliance of Thieves
Mesmur Chthonic
Messa Close
Messa Feast for Water
Methadone Skies Different Layers of Fear
Methchrist Pestilential Warfare of the Black Flame
Metz Up On Gravity Hill
Mew And the Glass Handed Kites
Mgla Exercises in Futility
Mgla Presence
Micawber Beyond the Reach of Flame
Mice on Stilts I am Proud of You
Midnight No Mercy for Mayhem
Midnight Sweet Death and Ecstasy
Midnight Rebirth by Blasphemy
Midnight Let There Be Witchery
Milanku A l'aube
Milly Eternal Ring
Mimorium Route of Haeresis
Minami Deutsch Fortune Goodies
Minas Morgul Nebelung
MindAhead 6119 Part 1
Minenwerfer Alpenpässe
Minsk The Crash and the Draw
Mirror (CYP) Pyramid of Terror
Mirrors for Psychic Warfare I See What I Became
Misanthropic War Utter Human Annihilation
Miserere Luminis Ordalie
Misery Signals Ultraviolet
Misha Sultan Translucence
Misotheist For the Glory of Your Redeemer
Mist of Misery Severance
Mistral In the Throes of Losing Love
Mistur In Memoriam
Mithridatum Harrowing
Mizmor Prosaic
MMTH Infinite Heights
Mo'ynoq Dreaming in a Dead Language
Mo'ynoq A Place for Ash
Molassess Through the Hollow
Mondo Drag The Occultation Of Light
Mono Pilgrimage Of The Soul
Monolithe Epsilon Aurigae
Monolithe Zeta Reticuli
Monovoth Monovoth
Mons Veneris Inversados d'Um Abismo de Podridão
Mons Veneris Ascent Into Draconian Abyss
Monstrosity The Passage of Existence
Moon Tooth Phototroph
Moonlight Sorcery Nightwind: The Conqueror From The Stars
Moonlight Sorcery Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle
Moonreich Amer
Moonshade As We Set the Skies Ablaze
Moonspell Alpha Noir
Moonspell Hermitage
Moor Heavy Heart
Moozoonsii Outward
Morbid Evils Deceases
Morbid Evils Supernaturals
Morbific Squirm Beyond The Mortal Realm
Morbosidad Corona De Epidemia
Mord'A'Stigmata Hope
Mord'A'Stigmata Dreams of Quiet Places
Morgoth Ungod
Morgul Blade Heavy Metal Wraiths
Mork Katedralen
Mork Dypet
Mork Gryning Hinsides vrede
Morne To the Night Unknown
Morne Engraved With Pain
Mors Principium Est Embers of a Dying World
Honestly, I thought the first two proper songs from this album were really bland, uninspired stuff. The cheesy symphonics didn't do much but annoy me even more, and the musicianship was too predictable to be called adventurous. Then somehow the band have a complete turnaround in terms of creativity and deliver one of the album's stand-out highlights, "Death is the Beginning". I think from this point on is where the band really show their strengths. At times I'm reminded of Karybdis in terms of musical technique and style, but this certainly turns out to be a very decent melodeath record. Pity that it starts in a boring way.
Morta Skuld Wounds Deeper Than Time
Morta Skuld Suffer for Nothing
Mortal Thrall A Path To Fire
Mortem (NOR) Ravnsvart
Mortichnia Heir to Scoria and Ash
Mortiferum Disgorged from Psychotic Depths
Mortiferum Preserved in Torment
Mortiis The Great Deceiver
Mortiis The Smell Of Rain
Morwinyon Wastelands
Mossgiver The Song Among Branches
Mother of Graves Where the Shadows Adorn
Mother of Millions Orbit
Motorhead The World Is Yours
Motorowl Atlas
Motorpsycho Ancient Astronauts
Motorpsycho Yay!
Mountaineer Giving Up the Ghost
Mournful Congregation The Exuviae of Gods - Part I
Mournful Congregation The Incubus of Karma
Mournful Congregation The Exuviae of Gods - Part II
Mourning Dawn The Foam of Despair
Mr. Bison Seaward
Mulla جن
Municipal Waste The Last Rager
Murderdolls Women and Children Last
Murg Strävan
Muse Showbiz
Mutilation Rites Harbinger
Mutilation Rites Chasm
Mutoid Man Bleeder
Mutoid Man War Moans
My Dying Bride The Ghost of Orion
My Dying Bride A Mortal Binding
My Silent Wake Lost in Memories, Lost in Grief
My Sleeping Karma Atma
My Ticket Home Unreal
Myrath Legacy
Myrkur Mareridt
Myrkur Folkesange
Mysteria Mystica Aeterna The Temple of Eosphoros
Mystifier Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia
Mystras Castles Conquered And Reclaimed
NAAT NAAT
NAAT Fallen Oracles
Nabihah Iqbal Dreamer
Nachtmystium The World We Left Behind
Nameless Mist Lifeless
NAMI The Eternal Light of the Unconscious Mind
Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
Napalm Death Resentment is Always Seismic...
Napoleon Newborn Mind
Narrow Head 12th House Rock
Narrow Head Moments of Clarity
Nat Birchall Afro Trane
Nattehimmel Mourningstar
Nattverd I Helvetes Forakt
Naut Hunt
Naxatras IV
Naxen Towards the Tomb of Times
Naxen Descending Into A Deeper Darkness
Neal Morse The Grand Experiment
Nebelkrahe Ephemer
Nebulae Come Sweet De Lumiére
Nechochwen Kanawha Black
Neck of the Woods The Passenger
Necroblood Collapse of the Human Race
Necrofier Prophecies of Eternal Darkness
Necrofier Burning Shadows in the Southern Night
Necromancing the Stone Jewel of the Vile
Necromantia To the Depths We Descend...
Necromutilator Oath Of Abhorrence
Necronautical Slain In The Spirit
Necronautical The Endurance at Night
Necronomicon (CAN) Unus
Necropanther Betrayal
Necrophagous In Chaos Ascend
Necrophobic Dawn of the Damned
Necrophobic In the Twilight Grey
Necrot Blood Offerings
Necrovation Storm the Void / Starving Grave
Necrowretch Satanic Slavery
Necrowretch The Ones From Hell
Need Norchestrion: Α Song For The End
Needless The Cosmic Cauldron
Negativa (ESP) 04
Negator Vnitas Pvritas Existentia
Nekrogoblikon Power
Nekromantheon Visions of Trismegistos
Nekrovault Totenzug: Festering Peregrination
Nektar A Tab in the Ocean
Nekus Sepulchral Divination
Neo Inferno 262 Pleonectic
Nephilim's Noose Blood Chants of Impiety
Nero di Marte Derivae
Nero di Marte Immoto
Nesseria Cette érosion de nous​-​mêmes
Netherbird Into The Vast Uncharted
Netherbird Arete
Netherlands Kali Corvette
Netherlands Severance
Neurosis Fires Within Fires
Neurotic Machinery A Loathsome Aberration
Nexion (IS) Seven Oracles
Nexul Paradigm of Chaos
Nibiru (ITA) Padmalotus
Nibiru (ITA) Qaal Babalon
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away
Nick Johnston Child of Bliss
Night High Tides - Distant Skies
Night Crowned Impius Viam
Night Crowned Rebirth of the Old
Night Crowned Tales
Night Demon Outsider
Night Shall Drape Us Lunatic Choir
Night Verses Into the Vanishing Light
Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I
Nightfall At Night We Prey
Nightfell The Living Ever Mourn
Nightfell A Sanity Deranged
Nightmarer Deformity Adrift
Nightrage Abyss Rising
Nightwish HUMAN. :II: NATURE.
Nile Vile Nilotic Rites
Nine Inch Nails Bad Witch
Nine Treasures Awakening from Dukkha
Ninkharsag The Dread March Of Solemn Gods
Ninth Realm A Fate Unbroken
Nite Voices of the Kronian Moon
No Omega Shame
No Warning Torture Culture
Noctambulist The Barren Form
Noctem Haeresis
Noctem Credo Certe Ne Cras
Noekk Waltzing in Obscurity
Noeta Elm
Non Est Deus Legacy
NONE Inevitable
Nordicwinter Beneath the Fleeting Light
Nordicwinter This Mournful Dawn
Nordjevel Necrogenesis
Nordjevel Gnavhòl
Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me
Nostromo (CHE) Bucephale
Nothgard Malady X
Nothing Is Real The End Is Near
Novae Militiae Topheth
Novembers Doom Hamartia
Nubivagant Roaring Eye
Nucleus (USA-IL) Entity
Nug Alter Ego
Null (USA) Lore of a Sleeping Forest
Nullingroots Into the Grey
Nunslaughter Angelic Dread
Nunslaughter Red Is The Color Of Ripping Death
Nyktophobia What Lasts Forever
NYOS Waterfall Cave Fantasy, Forever
Nyrst Orsök
Nyss Dépayser
O ZORN! Vermillion Haze
Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros
Oathbreaker Rheia
Obelyskkh The Providence
Oberst Toil
Obscurity Streitmacht
Obsidian Kingdom Mantiis
Obsidian Sea Strangers
Obsidian Sea Pathos
Obsidious Iconic
Obtest Auka Seniems Dievams
Occult Burial Burning Eerie Lore
Ocean Chief Den Tredje Dagen
Ocean Districts Phantom Islands
Ocean Grove The Rhapsody Tapes
Ocean Of Grief Pale Existence
Oceano Incisions
OCEANS (DEU) The Sun and the Cold
October Falls A Fall of an Epoch
October Tide In Splendor Below
October Tide The Cancer Pledge
Odd Dimension The Blue Dawn
Oddarrang Oddarrang
Odium Humani Generis Zarzewie
Odraza Rzeczom
Oerheks Landschappsanachronismen
Ofermod Pentagrammaton
Offernat Where Nothing Grows
Ofnus Time Held Me Grey And Dying
Oh Hiroshima Myriad
OHHMS The Fool
OHHMS Close
ojeRum Music for a Lonely Moon
Okkultokrati La Ilden Lyse
Oksät Defiaent
Ol Drake Old Rake
Old Forest Back into the Old Forest
Old Growth (DE) Mossweaver
Old Man Gloom The Ape of God II
Old Wounds The Suffering Spirit
Olde Throne In the Land of Ghosts
Omega Infinity The Anticurrent
Omnium Gatherum The Burning Cold
Omnium Gatherum Origin
Omnivortex Circulate
On Thorns I Lay On Thorns I Lay
Once Human Scar Weaver
Ondt Blod Finnmark
Onirism The Well of Stars
Onsegen Ensemble Realms
Onslaught VI
Onslaught Generation Antichrist
Oozing Wound Whatever Forever
Oozing Wound High Anxiety
Opeth Pale Communion
Opeth Sorceress
Ophis The Dismal Circle
Ophis Spew Forth Odium
Opium Warlords Taste My Sword of Understanding
Orange Goblin Time Travelling Blues
Oranssi Pazuzu Värähtelijä
Orbit Culture Nija
Order The Gospel
Ordinance (FIN) In Purge There Is No Remission
Oreida The Eternal
Organectomy Existential Disconnect
Orgg Dimonios
Orgone (FRA) Mos/Fet
Origin Omnipresent
Origin Unparalleled Universe
Orkan Element
Orne The Tree Of Life
Oros Kau Thanatos
Orphalis As The Ashes Settle
Orphaned Land Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs
Orphans of Dusk Spleen
Ortega Sacred States
Orthodox (ESP) Axis
Osi and the Jupiter Stave
Ossaert Offerdier
Ottone Pesante DoomooD
OU II: Frailty
Oubliette (USA-TN) The Passage
Our Place of Worship is Silence Disavowed, and Left Hopeless
Out of the Mouth of Graves Shrines to Dagon
Outer Heaven Realms of Eternal Decay
Outer Heaven Infinite Psychic Depths
Outergods A Kingdom Built Upon The Wreckage of Heaven
Overkill Scorched
Oxbow Thin Black Duke
Oxxo Xoox Ÿ
Ozric Tentacles The Yumyum Tree
Ozric Tentacles Lotus Unfolding
Paganizer Beyond The Macabre
Pain of Salvation In the Passing Light of Day
Pallbearer Forgotten Days
Panda Riot Extra Cosmic
Panopticon The Crescendo of Dusk
Panopticon Panopticon
Panopticon Collapse
Panopticon/Aerial Ruin Panopticon / Aerial Ruin
Panopticon/Nechochwen Panopticon / Nechochwen
Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition - Chapter I: War, Horrid War
Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition - Chapter II
Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition Chapter III
Papangu Holoceno
Paranorm Empyrean
Parius The Signal Heard Throughout Space
Parkway Drive Atlas
Party Cannon Volumes of Vomit
Patricia Wolf See-Through
Patristic Apologetica
Pearl Jam Yield
Pearl Jam Lightning Bolt
Peklo Supostat
Pelican Nighttime Stories
Penelope Trappes Heavenly Spheres
Pentagram (CL) Eternal Life of Madness
Pentakill II: Grasp of The Undying
Perdition Winds Burning Spiritual Crypts
Perennial Isolation Portraits
Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan
Perpetrator Altered Beast
Perpetual Night Aconitum
Perturbator New Model
Perturbator Lustful Sacraments
Perversor Umbravorous
Peste Noire Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor
Pestifer Defeat of the Nemesis
Pestilence Exitivm
Pestilength Basom Gryphos
Pestilent Hex The Ashen Abhorrence
Petyr Smolyk
Phantom Winter Into Dark Science
Pharmakon Devour
Phew Phew Names
Phi-Psonics Octava
Phlebotomized Deformation of Humanity
Phobia Generation Coward
Phobonoid La Caduta Di Phobos
Phobophilic Undimensioned Identities
Phoxjaw Royal Swan
Phreneticum Der Stille Zerfall
Pia Fraus Evening Colours
Pig Destroyer Head Cage
Pijn Loss
Pil and Bue Special Agents
Pilgrim II: Void Worship
Pillorian Obsidian Arc
Pinkish Black Bottom of the Morning
Pitbulls in the Nursery Equanimity
Pixie Ninja Hypnagogia
Plague Rider Intensities
Plague Years Circle of Darkness
Planet Of Zeus Loyal to the Pack
Planning for Burial Below the House
Plateau Sigma Symbols - The Sleeping Harmony of the World Below
Plebeian Grandstand Rien ne suffit
PoiL Ueda PoiL Ueda
PoiL Ueda Yoshitsune
Poison Idea Confuse & Conquer
Poison Ruin Harvest
Polar Shadowed by Vultures
Polaris The Mortal Coil
Polica Madness
Polinski Telex from MIDI City
Polyphia Renaissance
Pomegranate Tiger Boundless
Porcupine Tree Up the Downstair
Portal ION
Portishead Third
Portrait (SWE) Burn the World
Portrait (SWE) At One with None
Portrayal of Guilt Christfucker
Poseidon (UK) Prologue
Possession (BE) Exorkizein
Pressure Points The Island
Prevalent Resistance Eternal Return
Primitive Man Caustic
Primitive Man Immersion
Primitive Man / Hell (USA) Split
Primitive Weapons The Future of Death
Primordial Exile Amongst the Ruins
Primordial How It Ends
Primordial Serpent Enlightenment Through Impurity
Profanatica Rotting Incarnation of God
Profanatica Crux Simplex
Profane Order One Nightmare unto Another
Profetus The Sadness Of Time Passing
Progenie Terrestre Pura oltreLuna
Pronostic Chaotic Upheaval
Proscription Conduit
Protest the Hero Palimpsest
Psychic Lemon The Unheimlich Kingdom
Psychic Temple A Universe Regards Itself
Psychonaut Unfold the God Man
Psychonaut Violate Consensus Reality
Psycroptic Psycroptic
Psycroptic The Watcher of All
Psygnosis Mercury
Pure Adult II
Pure Reason Revolution Eupnea
Purgatory (USA-NE) Cold Side Of Reality
Purson Rocking Horse
Putrid Offal Sicknesses Obsessions
Pyrolatrous Inveterate
Pyrrhon What Passes for Survival
Quicksand Interiors
Quicksand Distant Populations
Quiet Man The Starving Lesson
Qwalen Syvä Hiljaisuus
R.I.P. In The Wind
Radio Moscow Magical Dirt
Radio Moscow New Beginnings
Radio Supernova Paratiisi
Radiohead Kid A
Radiohead OK Computer
Radiohead The King of Limbs
Rafael Anton Irisarri Agitas Al Sol
Ragana Desolation's Flower
Raised Fist From the North
A very solid album with some outstanding ambitious tracks and some which are by comparison much less effective. That said my main problem with the album is how the vocals half the time feel too forceful as opposed to just seeming natural...but then I guess I should have expected that walking into a hardcore album. Nonetheless, the highlights are practically obvious for me-"In Circles" and "Depression" particularly impressed me.
RAM The Throne Within
Ramming Speed No Epitaphs
Rammstein Zeit
Ranger Speed & Violence
Rapture (GR) Paroxysm of Hatred
Rapture Star Dark Cosmic Web
Rat King (USA-WA) Psychotic Reality
Raven ExtermiNation
Raven Metal City
Raven Throne I Miortvym Snicca Zolak
Raven Throne Viartańnie (Chroniki Źmiainaj Ciemry)
Ravencult Morbid Blood
Ravencult Force Of Profanation
Ravens Creed Ravens Krieg
Raventale Planetarium II
Ravenwiek Barren Grounds
Red Mountains Slow Wander
Red Usurper Abandon
Redemption Long Night's Journey Into Day
Redwood Hill Ender
Reflections exi(s)t
A lot of promise on show here, especially in regards to the way in which melody and brutal technical musicianship is intertwined. "Lost Pages" has a wonderful ambient section and the solos throughout "Stories through the storms" and "My Cancer" are well executed. I think the main problem here is the band's lack of focus sometimes as structures becomes too clogged up with unnecessary additional dynamics or electronic interludes.
Regal Worm Worm!
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Ascension
Reliqa I Don't Know What I Am
Remina Strata
Remote Viewing Modern Addictions
Rendezvous Point Universal Chaos
Replicant Malignant Reality
Resin Tomb Cerebral Purgatory
Return from the Grave Gates of Nowhere
Revenant Marquis All the Pleasures of Heaven
Revenge (CAN) Strike.Smother.Dehumanize
Revocation The Outer Ones
Revulsion Enough To Bleed
REZN Solace
Rhapsody of Fire The Eighth Mountain
Ricinn Nereid
Rile Pessimist
Rings of Saturn Lugal Ki En
Ringworm Hammer of the Witch
Ringworm Death Becomes My Voice
Riot V Armor of Light
Ripper (CL) Raising the Corpse
Rise of Caligula Parading From Heaven's Descent
Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth
Rites of Thy Degringolade The Blade Philosophical
Ritual Chamber Obscurations (To Feast On The Seraphim)
Ritual Clearing Penitence
River Black River Black
Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name
Rivers of Nihil The Work
Riverwood (EG) Shadows And Flames
RLYR RLYR
Robin Trower Bridge of Sighs
Robocobra Quartet Living Isn't Easy
Roger Waters Amused to Death
Roisin Murphy Hairless Toys
Rongeur An Asphyxiating Embrace
Rorcal Creon
Rorcal Silence
Rorcal and Earthflesh Witch Coven
Rosa Faenskap Jeg Blir Til Deg
Roseneath Shine
Rosetta The Anaesthete
Rosetta Flies to Flame
Rosetta Sower of Wind
ROSK Miasma
Rostro Del Sol Blue Storm
Rotten Sound Abuse to Suffer
Rotting Christ The Heretics
Rotting Out The Wrong Way
Rotting Out Ronin
Royal Coda To Only a Few at First
RPWL Crime Scene
Ruadh Eternal
Ruadh 1296
Ruby The Hatchet Planetary Space Child
Rude Soul Recall
Ruin Lust Dissimulant
Runemagick Evoked From Abysmal Sleep
Runemagick Beyond the Cenotaph of Mankind
Runespell Shores of Náströnd
Russ Lossing Folks
Russian Circles Memorial
Russian Circles Guidance
Russian Circles Gnosis
Rymden Valleys and Mountains
Ryte Ryte
Sabbat The Dwelling
Sabbath Assembly A Letter of Red
Sabhankra Death to Traitors
Sacred Reich Awakening
Sacred Son Sacred Son
Sacred Son The Foul Deth Of Engelond
Sacrilegia Sold Under Sin
Sadus The Shadow Inside
Saigon Blue Rain Oko
Saille V
Salacious Gods Oalevluuk
Samoans Rescue
Samsara Blues Experiment One with the Universe
San Leo Aves Raras
Sanction (NY) Broken In Refraction
Sanguine Glacialis Maladaptive Daydreaming
Sanhedrin (USA-NY) Lights On
Sannhet So Numb
Saor Origins
Sarabante Poisonous Legacy
Sarathy Korwar KALAK
Sarcasm (SWE) Esoteric Tales of the Unserene
Sarcofago I.N.R.I.
Sarcoptes Plague Hymns
Sarcoptes Prayers to Oblivion
Sarke Viige Urh
Sarke Gastwerso
Sarvekas Woven Dark Paths
Sasquatch Maneuvers
Satan Earth Infernal
Satan's Satyrs The Lucky Ones
Saturnus The Storm Within
Satyr Totem
Saule Saule
Savage Messiah The Fateful Dark
Saviours Palace of Vision
Saxon Battering Ram
Scale the Summit V
Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase II: Xenotaph
Scar the Martyr Revolver
Scarab Martyrs Of The Storm
Scarcity Aveilut
Scarlxrd IMMXRTALISATIXN
Schammasch The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite
Schammasch Triangle
Schammasch Hearts of No Light
Schizoid Lloyd The Last Note In God's Magnum Opus
Schizophrenia (BE) Recollections of the Insane
Scitalis Doomed Before Time
Scott Stapp The Space Between The Shadows
Scour Grey
Scour Red
Scumpulse Rotten
Scythian Hubris in Excelsis
Sea Mosquito Igitur
Sea of Shit Self Titled
Seabreather Impermanence in Light
Sear Bliss Letters From The Edge
Borknagar with Trombones is the best description I can come up with. That aside, "Abandoned Peaks" is one of the most unique black metal songs I've heard in 2018. Rest of the album plods a little but is generally soothing and consistent in its delivery.
Second To Sun Voices of Obscurantism
Second To Sun Nocturnal Philosophy
Secret Shame Autonomy
Sect No Cure For Death
See You Next Tuesday Distractions
Seeker Loss
Seer Vol. 6
SeeYouSpaceCowboy Coup de Grâce
Selbst Relatos de Angustia
Selbst Despondency Chord Progressions
Self Hypnosis Contagion of Despair
Senyawa Alkisah
Sepiroth Condemned to Suffer
Septicflesh Modern Primitive
Sepulchral Curse Abhorrent Dimensions
Sepultura Quadra
Seputus Phantom Indigo
Seraphic Entombment Sickness Particles Gleam
Seremonia Neonlusifer
Sergeant Thunderhoof This Sceptred Veil
Sermon Of Golden Verse
Serotonin Syndrome Seed of Mankind
Serpent Of Gnosis As I Drink from the Infinite Well of Inebriation
Serpent Omega II
Serpent Venom Of Things Seen & Unseen
Serpentine Dominion Serpentine Dominion
Set and Setting Tabula Rasa
Seven Sisters Of Sleep Ezekiel's Hags
Severoth By the Way of Light
Shaam Larein Sculpture
Shaarimoth Temple of the Adversarial Fire
I really like the maniacal tone running throughout this album, but pretty much every song ends up being a little inconsistent, too much for me to rate it any higher. Songs like "The Hungry Omega", "Lord of Putrefaction" and "Ascension of the Blood Dragon" are great for a couple of minutes and then they seem to plod on towards the end. Then songs like "Fires of Molok" and "Faceless Queen of Bloodstained Dreams" are the flipside of this-they start out a little uninteresting, then finish on a high because of the former's beautiful outro or the latter's menacing mid-paced battery. The band do get it perfect on "Beast of Lawlessness", which for me is the stand-out highlight of the record.
Shade Empire Poetry of the Ill-Minded
Shade Empire Sunholy
Shadowflag In Asylum Requiem
Shaidar Logoth Chapter III: The Void God
Sharptooth Transitional Forms
Shatter Brain Pitchfork Justice
Shattered Hope Vespers
She Said Destroy Succession
Shining (SWE) 8 ½ - Feberdrömmar i vaket tillstånd
Shining (SWE) IX: Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, ends.
Shining (SWE) IV - The Eerie Cold
Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad
Shit and Shine New Confusion
Show Me A Dinosaur Show Me A Dinosaur
Shrezzers SEX and SAX
Shroud of Bereavement A Beautiful Winter
Shy, low Babylonica
Sibiir Sibiir
Sibiir Ropes
Sick Feeling Suburban Myth
Siege of Power This Is Tomorrow
Sielunvihollinen Helvetinkone
Sigh Graveward
Sigh Shiki
Sightless Pit Grave of a Dog
Sightless Pit Lockstep Bloodwar
Sigillum S Coalescence of Time: Other Conjectures on Future
Sign Language (USA-OH) Madison and Floral
Sign Of Evil Psychodelic Horror
Sigur Ros Valtari
Sigur Ros ÁTTA
SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes?
Silent Drive Fairhaven
Silent Skies Nectar
Silhouette (FRA) Les Retranchements
Silurian (MN) End of Ordovocia
Silversun Pickups Physical Thrills
Sinister Syncretism
Sinister Downfall The Last Witness
Sinisthra The Broad And Beaten Way
Sinmara Within the Weaves of Infinity
Sister Stand Up, Forward, March!
Sisyphean Colours of Faith
Skalmold Med Vaettum
This is a very powerful record as far as instrumentation is concerned, but the half-hearted vocals slightly ruin the experience for me. Nonetheless, most songs here feature a very sound transition between aggressive, more solid metal sounds to quieter albeit just as intense passages. Highlights for me would be "Ao Vori" and "Meo Drekum".
Skalmold Sorgir
Skam Sounds of a Disease
Skaphe and Wormlust Kosmískur Hryllingur
Skaur Skaur
Skeletal Remains Devouring Mortality
Skeletal Remains The Entombment of Chaos
Skeletonwitch The Apothic Gloom
Skepticism Companion
Skindred Union Black
Skindred Babylon
Skindred Roots Rock Riot
Skinless Only The Ruthless Remain
Skinless Savagery
Skinshape Nostalgia
Skull Fist Chasing the Dream
Band has obviously been listening to a lot of 80s metal for inspiration, and there's a lot of proof in each of this album's nine songs. Nothing wrong with that though because instrumentation is very solid and catchy all the way through. The vocalist for me brings the quality down a notch or two, but I think you can get past that by considering how well done the solos are in songs such as the title track and "Sign of the warrior".
Skyforest A New Dawn
Skyharbor Guiding Lights
SlavEATgod Skyline Fission
Slayer World Painted Blood
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of the Last Human Being
Slice the Cake Odyssey to the West
Slimelord Chytridiomycosis Relinquished
Slog Divination
Slough Feg New Organon
Slow Crush Aurora
Slow Crush Hush
Slowdive Everything is Alive
Slugcrust Slugcrust
Slugdge Esoteric Malacology
Smoulder Violent Creed of Vengeance
So Hideous Laurestine
Sodomisery Mazzaroth
Soen Tellurian
Soen Lotus
Sofy Major Waste
SOHN Tremors
Soilwork Verkligheten
Sojourner Empires of Ash
Solefald World Metal. Kosmopolis Sud
Solstafir Endless Twilight of Codependent Love
Solstice (UK) White Horse Hill
SOM The Shape of Everything
Somniate We Have Proved Death
Somnuri Nefarious Wave
Sonata Arctica Pariah's Child
Sons of Apollo Psychotic Symphony
Soothsayer (IRE) Echoes Of The Earth
Sorcerer Lamenting of the Innocent
Soreption Monument of the End
Sorry... Innocence.Love.Sadness
Sortilegia Sulphurous Temple
Sorxe Matter & Void
Soul Blind Feel It All Around
Soul Dissolution Stardust
Soul Dissolution SORA
Soulfly Totem
Sound of Ceres Emerald Sea
Spaceships Ruins
Spectral Lore Ετερόφωτος
Spectral Lore 11 Days
Spectral Voice Sparagmos
Speedtrap Straight Shooter
Speglas Time, Futility & Death
Spelljammer Abyssal Trip
Spider God Ett främmande språk
Spider God Fly In The Trap
Spire Temple of Khronos
Spirit Adrift Chained To Oblivion
Spirit Adrift Divided by Darkness
Spirit Adrift Enlightened In Eternity
Spirit Adrift Ghost At The Gallows
Spirit Possession Spirit Possession
Spirit Possession Of the Sign ...
Spiritbox Eternal Blue
Spiritus Mortis The Year Is One
Split Cranium I'm The Devil and I'm OK
Spook the Horses Empty Body
Sporae Autem Yuggoth ...However It Still Moves
Spotlights Alchemy for the Dead
Spotlights Love and Decay
Squint Wash Away
Srd Vragvmesiton
SRSQ Ever Crashing
STABSCOTCH Prison Jar
Stalker Black Majik Terror
Static-X Machine
Static-X Cannibal
Static-X Shadow Zone
Static-X Start A War
Statues Together We're Alone
Statues No Grave, No Burial
Staurophagia Spaceforming
Stealing Sheep Wow Machine
Steeleye Span Rocket Cottage
Steely Dan Katy Lied
Stellar Circuits Sight To Sound
Steve Hackett The Circus and the Nightwhale
Steve Von Till No Wilderness Deep Enough
Stick to Your Guns True View
Stille Volk Milharis
Stiu Nu Stiu New Sun
Stomach Parasite
Stone Sour Hydrograd
Stonefield Bent
Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion
Why are people even rating this album yet? To my knowledge there hasn't been a leak for this album...besides, i've pre-ordered it. It deserves that at least.
Stormkeep Tales of Othertime
Stormruler Sacred Rites & Black Magick
Stortregn Impermanence
Stortregn Finitude
Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad
Stratovarius Eternal
Stream Of Passion A War of Our Own
Stress Angel Punished by Nemesis
Strychnos A Mother's Curse
Stuck Freak Frequency
Stuporous Asylum's Lament
Submotile One Final Summit Before the Fall
SubRosa (US) For This We Fought the Battle of Ages
Subsignal A Poetry Of Rain
Subterranean Disposition Individuation
Succumb XXI
Suffocate For Fuck Sake Fyra
Sugar Horse The Live Long After
Sugar Horse Waterloo Teeth
Suhnopfer Nous sommes d'hier
Suicidal Angels Years of Aggression
Suicidal Tendencies The Art of Rebellion
Suicidal Tendencies World Gone Mad
Sulphur Aeon Gateway to the Antisphere
Sulphur Aeon Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
SUMAC Love In Shadow
Sumerlands Dreamkiller
Summon Helios
Summon (PT) Parazv Il Zilittv
Sun of Nothing Maze
Sunchild Exotic Creatures and a Stolen Dream
Sundrowned Become Ethereal
Sunlight's Bane The Blackest Volume: Like All The Earth Was Buried
Sunn O))) Pyroclasts
Sunrot The Unfailing Rope
Suns of the Tundra The Only Equation
Sunwatchers Music Is Victory Over Time
Suotana Ounas I
Sur Austru Meteahna Timpurilor
Sur Austru Obârşie
Surut Surut
Surya (UK) Solastalgia
Suspiral Chasm
Svalbard One Day All This Will End
Svart Crown Wolves Among The Ashes
Svart Crown Les Terres Brûlées
Svartidaudi Flesh Cathedral
Svartsyn Requiem
Svdestada Candela
Svrm Занепад
Swallow the Sun Songs from the North I, II & III
Swans Leaving Meaning
Swans The Beggar
Sylosis Dormant Heart
Sylosis Cycle of Suffering
Sylvaine Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone
Sylvaine Nova
Sylvaine Eg Er Framand
Sylvatica Cadaver Synod
Sympathy Pain Swan Dive
Taake Stridens hus
Taake Kong Vinter
Taake Et hav av avstand
Tad Morose Revenant
Pretty good album, even if every song pretty much follows the same formula. It's essentially an album full of punchy powerful songs and soaring vocals, just like consistent power metal should be. Not sure why it's labelled here as "progressive" power metal (I myself can't see where the progressive part comes in), but it'd definitely consistent as a power metal album. A few weak tracks on here such as 'Follow', 'Ares' and 'Absence of light' disappointed me a little, but that's probably only because they're overshadowed by stronger songs such as excellent opener 'beneath a veil of crying souls' and 'Within a dream'.
Tad Morose St. Demonius
Tad Morose March of the Obsequious
Take Over And Destroy Take Over and Destroy
Tallies Patina
Talons We All Know
Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Oscillating Forest
Tanukichan Gizmo
Taphos Come Ethereal Somberness
Tar Pit Tomb Of Doom
Tar Pond Petrol
Tardigrada Emotionale Ödnis
Tardigrade Inferno Arrival of a Train
Tarja Turunen In The Raw
Tarot To Live Forever
Tau Cross Tau Cross
Tau Cross A Pillar Of Fire
Taubra Therizo
Tausendstern Der Leuchtturm
Teeth Of The Sea Hive
Teethgrinder Dystopia
Telenova Stained Glass Love
Telepathy Burn Embrace
Telesterion Epopteia
Teloch Thus Darkness Spake
Telos Delude
Tempel (NO) Tempel
Tempel (USA-AZ) The Moon Lit Our Path
Temple Of Angels Endless Pursuit
Temple of Baal Mysterium
Temple of Dread Hades Unleashed
Temple of Void The World That Was
Temple of Void Lords Of Death
Temple of Void Summoning the Slayer
Tentacult Lacerating Pattern
Teramaze I Wonder
Teramaze Sorella Minore
Teramaze Flight of The Wounded
Terminalist The Crisis as Condition
Terra Builder Solar Temple
Terrestrial Hospice Caviary to the General
Terror Cell Caustic Light
Tersivel To the Orphic Void
Terzij de Horde Self
Terzij de Horde In One Of These, I Am Your Enemy
Tess Parks And Those Who Were Seen Dancing
TesseracT One
Tethra Empire of the Void
Tetragrammacide Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix
Tetragrammacide Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From the Arachneophidian Qur'an
Thanatomass Hades
Thanatos Violent Death Rituals
Thank You Scientist Plague Accommodations
Thaw Grains
The Absence A Gift for the Obsessed
The Afghan Whigs How Do You Burn?
The Agonist Once Only Imagined
The Agonist Days Before The World Wept
The Agony Scene Tormentor
Consistently powerful and punchy in its delivery, with sometimes added atmosphere to make songs such as "Hand of the Divine" all the more visceral. It's almost like the Gothenburg scene of the early 00s but with a modernized thrust up the proverbial hole.
The Algorithm Compiler Optimization Techniques
The Amenta Revelator
The Answer Lies in the Black Void Thou Shalt
The Antlers Hospice
The Arrival Note Vol. 2
The Atlas Moth Coma Noir
The Atomic Bitchwax Gravitron
The Atomic Bitchwax Force Field
The Bad Plus The Bad Plus (2022)
The Banner Greying
The Bardic Depths What We Really Like in Stories
The Beremy Jets Devastation
The Birthday Massacre Diamonds
The Birthday Massacre Under Your Spell
The Black Dahlia Murder Abysmal
The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous
The Black Mysteries ...And the Opening of the Shadowy Sepulchre...
The Black Queen Infinite Games
The Body No One Deserves Happiness
The Body and Big|Brave Leaving None But Small Birds
The Bronx The Bronx (V)
The Callous Daoboys God Smiles Upon the Callous Daoboys
The Casualties Chaos Sound
The Church The Hypnogogue
The Circle Of Awakening
The Contortionist Language
The Contortionist Clairvoyant
The Cranberries Roses
The Crotals Horde
The Crown Cobra Speed Venom
The Crown Royal Destroyer
The Cult Beyond Good and Evil
The Dali Thundering Concept Savages
The Darkness Last of Our Kind
The Deathtrip Deep Drone Master
Decent, traditional black metal with so-so vocals. The musicianship however is spot on for this sound, and the twisted nature of "Dynamic Underworld" and "A Foot in each Hell" works very well.
The Deathtrip Demon Solar Totem
The Defiled Daggers
The Devil Wears Prada Transit Blues
The Dillinger Escape Plan The Dillinger Escape Plan
The Distillers Coral Fang
The Distillers The Distillers
The Divine Comedy Liberation
The Doors Waiting for the Sun
The Doors L.A. Woman
The Drip The Haunting Fear of Inevitability
The Drowned God I'll Always Be The Same
The End (NOR) Why Do You Mourn?
The Enid Touch Me
The Erkonauts I Did Something Bad
The Erkonauts I Shall Forgive
The Erkonauts I Want It To End
The Ever Living Artificial Devices
The Exploited Punks Not Dead
The Exploited Troops of Tomorrow
The Exploited The Massacre
The Exploited Fuck the System
The Faceless In Becoming a Ghost
The Fall of Troy OK
The Fierce and the Dead News from the Invisible World
The Five Hundred Bleed Red
The Flight of Sleipnir Skadi
The Flight of Sleipnir Eventide
The Foreshadowing Forsaken Songs
The Gathering Beautiful Distortion
The Gorge Mechanical Fiction
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy A Cult That Worships A God Of Death
The Great Cold The Great Cold
The Haunted Exit Wounds
The Haunted One Kill Wonder
The Hirsch Effekt Eskapist
The Hirsch Effekt Kollaps
The Hirsch Effekt Solitaer
The Hirsch Effekt Urian
The Holy Family Go Zero
The Hyena Kill A Disconnect
The Infernal Sea The Great Mortality
The Infernal Sea Negotium Crucis
The Kindred Weight
The King Is Blind We Are the Parasite, We Are the Cancer
The Lion's Daughter Existence Is Horror
The Lion's Daughter Future Cult
I'm getting strong Septicflesh vibes (Revolution DNA and Sumerian Daemons era mainly), but this latest album has more of an abrasive edge, particularly regarding the metal parts. Another intriguing album from Season of Mist.
The Lion's Daughter Skin Show
The Lion's Daughter Bath House
The Magus Βυσσοδομώντας
The Mist From the Mountains Monumental - The Temple of Twilight
The Monolith Deathcult Versus I
The Mosaic Window Plight of Acceptance
The Mothers of Invention Weasels Ripped My Flesh
The Negative Bias Narcissus Rising
The Negative Bias The Seven Seals of Saligia
The New Death Cult The New Death Cult
An interesting mix of modern day Wildhearts and early (debut particularly) Foo Fighters, with extra added melody in almost every aspect of the sound. Nice but the album feels quite short.
The Obsessed Lunar Womb
The Ocean Pelagial
The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic
The Ocean Holocene
The Ominous Circle Appalling Ascension
The Omnific Escapades
The Osiris Club The Wine-Dark Sea
The Otolith Folium Limina
I'm getting the same vibes with this album that I did with the latest releases from Volur and Eight Bells. And that's a good thing.
The Pneumatic Transit Forbidden Trinkets
The Ritual Aura Heresiarch
The Sabbathian Latum Alterum
The Silver (US) Ward of Roses
The Skull For Those Which Are Asleep
The Skull The Endless Road Turns Dark
The Slow Death Siege
The Socks The Socks
The Spirit Of Clarity and Galactic Structures
The St Pierre Snake Invasion CAPRICE ENCHANTÉ
The Sun's Journey Through The Night Worldless
The Ugly Thanatology
The Veldt Entropy is the Mainline to God
The Vintage Caravan Voyage
The Well Death and Consolation
The White Swan Nocturnal Transmission
The Wildhearts The Wildhearts Must Be Destroyed
The Wise Man's Fear Atlas Ruinica
Thecodontion Supercontinent
Bass?rBass indeed.rDrums too. rAnd one interesting concept to tie the songwriting together.
Them Moose Rush Dancing Maze
Theophonos Ashes in the Huron River
Theories Vessel
Theosophy Bleeding Wounds of the First and the Last
Theotoxin Fragment: Totenruhe
Therapy? Hard Cold Fire
There's A Light A Long Lost Silence
Therion Leviathan II
They Grieve To Which I Bore Witness
Third Storm The Grand Manifestation
This Gift Is A Curse A Throne of Ash
This White Mountain Icons of the Melancholy
Thorn Evergloom
Thornhill Heroine
thoughtcrimes Altered Pasts
Threat Signal Disconnect
Threnos By Blood and By Earth
Threshold For The Journey
Threshold Dividing Lines
Throane Derrière​-​Nous, La Lumière
Throane Plus une Main à Mordre
Throat We Must Leave You
Throes (USA) In The Hands Of An Angry God
Thron Dust
Thronum Vrondor Ichor (The Rebellion)
Through the Eyes of the Dead Disomus
Thulcandra A Dying Wish
Thulcandra Hail The Abyss
Thundering Hooves Radiance
Thurnin Útiseta
Thy Antichrist Wrath of the Beast
Thy Art Is Murder Holy War
Thy Darkened Shade Liber Lvcifer I: Khem Sedjet
Thy Grief The Frozen Tomb Of Mankind
Thy Light No Morrow Shall Dawn
Thyrfing Vanagandr
Tideless Eye of Water
Tides of Sulfur Apathy Chasm
Time Lurker/Cepheide Lucide
Time, The Valuator How Fleeting, How Fragile
Timeworn Luminescent Wake
Timor Et Tremor Realm of Ashes
Tiny Blue Ghost Between the Botanicals
Titan to Tachyons Cactides
Tithe (USA) Inverse Rapture
To The Wind The Brighter View
Toadeater Codex
Toadeater Bit to ewigen daogen
Toadliquor Back In The Hole
Toby Driver They Are the Shield
Tod Huetet Uebel N.A.D.A.
Today Is the Day Animal Mother
TodoMal A Greater Good
Toehider I Have Little to No Memory of These Memories
Tomahawk Tonic Immobility
Tombs The Grand Annihilation
Tombs Monarchy of Shadows
Tombs Under Sullen Skies
Tombstoned II
Tomorrow's Rain Hollow
Tongues Forml​ø​se Stjerner
Tony Martin Thorns
Torch Runner Committed To The Ground
Torche Restarter
Torche Admission
Torpor (UK) ABSCISSION
Totenmesse Fiktionlust
Touche Amore Is Survived By
Toughness The Prophetic Dawn
Toundra IV
Very lush atmosphere, a lot of things going on here-often at the same time. I would prefer it if there were vocals on some of the tracks-particularly the first two and "Belenos"-but I guess that's just asking too much from a band who obviously focus on delivering some of the most interesting post-metal influenced they can conjure. It's just that there were moments throughout the album where I felt a good usage of vocal delivery could elevate the effectiveness of the instrumentation, so that a greater first impression would ensue. Nonetheless, there's some excellent songwriting here, and by far my favourite song of the whole album is "Viesca".
Toundra Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari
Toundra Hex
Toxic Holocaust Chemistry of Consciousness
"Simply Thrashtastic! Vol.1".rBut yeah, seriously, this is nice, solid, blackened thrash, and nothing else.
Toxik Breaking Class
Traffic Sound Traffic Sound
Transatlantic The Whirlwind
Transilvania Of Sleep And Death
Transit Method The Madness
Trappist Ancient Brewing Tactics
GIMME A BEERrGIMME A BEERrGIMME A BEERrGIMME A BEERretc, etc.
Trees of Eternity Hour of the Nightingale
Tremonti Cauterize
Trepas Les Ombres Malades
Trepidation Festering Unfaltered Hatred
Tribe Of Pazuzu Blasphemous Prophecies
Tribunal (CAN) The Weight Of Remembrance
Trident (SWE) North
Triggerfinger Colossus
Triumvir Foul Spiritual Bloodshed
Triumvir Foul Urine of Abomination
Triumvir Foul Onslaught to Seraphim
Trivium The Sin and the Sentence
Trolldom Av Gudars Ätt​.​.​.
Trolldom I Nattens Sken
Trollfest Norwegian Fairytales
Truckfighters Universe
Tsjuder Antiliv
Tsjuder Helvegr
Tulkas The Beginning of the End
Turbid North Eyes Alive
Turnover Myself in the Way
Turnstile Time and Space
Tuscoma Gu​-​cci
Twin Drugs In Now Less Than Ever
Tyr Battle Ballads
Tyranny Aeons in Tectonic Interment
Tzompantli Tlazcaltiliztli
Uada Cult of a Dying Sun
Uada Crepuscule Natura
Ueldes Foreverer
UFO UFO 1
UFO The Visitor
UFO Walk on Water
Ufomammut 8
Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis
Ulfud Of Existential Distortion
Ulrika Spacek Compact Trauma
Ulsect Ulsect
Ultar Kadath
Ultar Pantheon MMXIX
Ultar At the Gates of Dusk
Ulthar Providence
Ultramarine Send and Return
Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP
Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar
Ulver Flowers of Evil
Ulvik Cascades
Ume Monuments
Un The Tomb of All Things
Un Sentiment
Un and Coltsblood Coltsblood / Un
Unaussprechlichen Kulten Häxan Sabaoth
Unearthly Trance Stalking The Ghost
Unendlich Misanthrope Divine
Uneven Structure La Partition
Uneven Structure Paragon
Unfelled Pall of Endless Perdition
Uniform Shame
Uniform and The Body Mental Wounds Not Healing
Uniform and The Body Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back
Universally Estranged Dimension of Deviant Clusters
Unleash The Archers Abyss
Unprocessed Artificial Void
Unpure Prophecies Ablaze
Unreqvited Mosaic II: la déteste et la détresse
Unsane Sterilize
Untamed Land Like Creatures Seeking Their Own Forms
Unto Others Mana
Unto Others Strength
upcdownc Duel
Upon a Burning Body The World Is My Enemy Now
Ur Draugr With Hunger Undying
Urarv Argentum
Urfaust Empty Space Meditation
Uriah Heep Chaos & Colour
Urne A Feast On Sorrow
Ushangvagush Pestmo'qon
Usurper Lords Of The Permafrost
Usurpress The Regal Tribe
Uzlaga The Might of Waves
Vacivus Temple Of The Abyss
Vacuous Dreams of Dysphoria
Vaegtlos Aftryk
Vaeok Vaeok
Vahrzaw In The Shallows Of A Starlit Lake
Vainaja Verenvalaja
VAK (SWE) The Islands
Vale (USA-PA) A Senseless Procession
Valis Ablaze Boundless
Valkyrie (USA-VA) Fear
Vallendusk Vallendusk
Vallendusk Black Clouds Gathering
Vallendusk Heralds of Strife
Vallenfyre Fear Those Who Fear Him
Valravn The Awakening
Valve Thermoclines
Vampire Vampire
Van Halen Women and Children First
Vananidr Beneath the Mold
Vanden Plas The Empyrean Equation of the Long Lost Things
Vanhelga Fredagsmys
Vanhelgd Deimos Sanktuarium
Vanna Void
Vanum Ageless Fire
Varathron Patriarchs of Evil
Varmia Bal Lada
Varmia Prolog
Vassafor Malediction
Vassafor To the Death
Vastum Hole Below
Vastum Inward To Gethsemane
Vattnet Settler
Vehemence (FRA) Ordalies
Veiled (USA-PA) Black Celestial Orbs
Velnias Scion of Aether
Vemod The Deepening
Venefixion A Sigh from Below
Vengeful Spectre 殞煞 二 Vengeful Spectre II
Vennart Forgiveness and The Grain
Venom Prison Erebos
Venomous Concept Politics Versus The Erection
Venus Obscured Until Observed
Venusberg Cardinal Atlas Of Dungeons
Ver Apparitions of the Past
Verberis The Apophatic Wilderness
Vermilia Ruska
Vermin Womb Retaliation
Might just be the most chaotic thing I've listened to this year.
Verminous Serpent The Malign Covenant
Veruta Forked Tongue of Fire
Verwoed De Val
Verwoed The Mother
Vessel of Iniquity The Doorway
Vessel of Iniquity The Path Unseen
Veter Daemonaz Muse of the Damned
VI De Praestigiis Angelorum
Viande L'Abime Dévore les Âmes
Victims The Horse and Sparrow Theory
Vihan Messu Liittona Pimeyteesi
Vildhjarta Måsstaden Under Vatten
Vile Creature Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!
Last two songs are absolutely fantastic. The first three songs of the album are a confusing mess, trying to take the best bits of Thou and The Body but never quite coming to the stunning result the duo intended. If the musicianship makes you feel as sick as the album cover does, Vile Creature have delivered here.
Vile Haint Sacrificial Baptism in Murky Waters
Vile Ritual Caverns of Occultic Hatred
Villainy Villainy II: Dim
Vinnum Sabbathi Of Dimensions and Theories
Vintersorg Till Fjälls
Violet Cold Anomie
Violet Cold Sommermorgen (Pt. III) - Nostalgia
Vipassi Śūnyatā
Vipassi Lightless
Virus (NO) Memento Collider
Virvum Illuminance
Viscera (UK) Carcinogenesis
Visceral Disgorge Slithering Evisceration
Visigoth Conqueror's Oath
Vision of Disorder Razed To The Ground
Vitriol (USA) To Bathe from the Throat of Cowardice
Viva Belgrado Cancionero de los Cielos
Vltimas Something Wicked Marches In
Voices From The Human Forest Create A Fugue Of Imaginary
Void Paradigm Ultime Pulsation | Demain Brûle
Void Wraith II
Voidescent Dust And Embers
Voivod The Wake
Oh Voivod, when will you stop being so damn awesome?
Vokonis The Sunken Djinn
VOLA Witness
Volcandra Border World
Volur Ancestors
Vomitheist Nekrofvneral
Vorga Striving Toward Oblivion
Vorga Beyond the Palest Star
Vorna Sateet palata saavat
Vortex of End Ardens Fvror
Vortice Host
Vorvan Once Love Was Lost
Vosbud Heklugjá
Vous Autres Sel de Pierre
Vredensdal Resurrecting the Wolf
Vreid Lifehunger
Vulgaris Asundre
Vulture Industries Stranger Times
Vulture Industries Ghosts From The Past
Vuur In This Moment We Are Free - Cities
VVilderness Dark Waters
W.E.B. Tartarus
Wailin Storms The Silver Snake Unfolds
Waldgefluster Mondscheinsonaten
Waldgefluster Dahoam
Waldgefluster Unter Bronzenen Kronen
Walg IV
Wampyrinacht Night of the Desecration
Wanderer (MN) Indulgence of the Unreal
Wang Wen Invisible City
War of Ages Supreme Chaos
War Possession Doomed To Chaos
Warbringer Weapons of Tomorrow
Warcrab The Howling Silence
Warforged I: Voice
The last few songs are incredible. The middle section of the album is where all songwriting sense flies out the window and you're left with a mess of multiple ideas-interesting though they may be-which don't culminate in something engaging or at least sensible, for want of a better word. I get this will be in many end-of-year album lists, but for me, it's missing some sort of glue to hold everything together. An inconsistent 75 minutes could have been narrowed down to a monumental 45 minutes here.
Warforged The Grove | Sundial
Warrel Dane Shadow Work
Waste of Space Orchestra Syntheosis
Wayfarer Children of the Iron Age
Wayfarer World's Blood
Waylander The Light, The Dark and the Endless Knot
We Hunt Buffalo Living Ghosts
We Lost the Sea Departure Songs
We Lost the Sea Triumph and Disaster
Weald and Woe The Fate of Kings and Men
Weald and Woe For the Good of the Realm
Wear Your Wounds Rust on the Gates of Heaven
So much better than anything off WYW's first two albums.
Wearing Scars A Thousand Words
Wedrujacy Wiatr Tam, Gdzie Miesiac Oplakuje Swit
Weedeater Sixteen Tons
Welkin (SGP) Emblems of Valour
Wells Valley Achamoth
Weregoat Pestilential Rites of Infernal Fornication
Wheel (FIN) Moving Backwards
where mermaids drown Reminisce
Whiskey Ritual Black Metal Ultras
Whispered Metsutan - Songs of the Void
White Empress Rise of the Empress
White Flowers Are You
White Moth Black Butterfly The Cost Of Dreaming
White Stones Kuarahy
White Stones Dancing Into Oblivion
White Void (NO) Anti
White Walls Grandeur
White Ward Debemur Morti
White Ward False Light
White Willow Future Hopes
Whitechapel The Valley
Whom Gods Destroy Insanium
Whores. Gold
Wild Throne Harvest of Darkness
Wilder Maker Male Models
Will Haven Muerte
Wills Dissolve Echoes
Windhand/Satan's Satyrs Split
Winds of Genocide Usurping the Throne of Disease
Winds of Tragedy Hating Life
Windswept The Onlooker
Wino Forever Gone
Winter Into Darkness
Winter's Breath Stories Left Behind
Winterfylleth The Threnody of Triumph
Winterfylleth The Dark Hereafter
Winterfylleth The Hallowing of Heirdom
Witch Mountain Witch Mountain
Witch Ripper The Flight After The Fall
Witch Vomit Poisoned Blood
Witchery In His Infernal Majesty's Service
Witchskull Coven's Will
Witchskull A Driftwood Cross
Witchsorrow Hexenhammer
With the End in Mind Unraveling; Arising
With the End in Mind Tides of Fire
Withered Grief Relic
Withered Verloren
Witherfall Nocturnes and Requiems
Witheria Infinite Recollection
Within the Ruins Elite
Wizardthrone Hypercube Necrodimensions
Silly, bombastic, but also very fun to listen to. Hearing this live should be an absolute blast.
Wo Fat Midnight Cometh
Wode Burn in Many Mirrors
Woe Hope Attrition
Woe Legacies of Frailty
Wolf King Path of Wrath
Wolfbastard Hammer the Bastards
Wolfheart Winterborn
Wolfheart Tyhjyys
Wolfheart Constellation of the Black Light
Wolfheart Wolves of Karelia
Wolfheart King of the North
Wolftooth Valhalla
Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars
Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven
Wolves in the Throne Room Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge
Wolvhammer Clawing Into Black Sun
Wombo Fairy Rust
Wombripper From The Depths Of Flesh
Wooden Veins Imploding Waves
Wormed Krighsu
Wormed Metaportal
Wormlight Nightmother
Wormwitch Heaven that Dwells Within
Wormwitch Wolf Hex
Wormwitch/Sadistic Ritual Split
Wormwood Nattarvet
Wormwood Arkivet
Worn Mantle Hole
Wovenhand Star Treatment
Wovenwar Wovenwar
Wraith (USA-IN) Undo The Chains
Wretched Fate Carnal Heresy
Written In Torment Black Command
WRVTH No Rising Sun
WuW Rétablir L'eternité
WuW L'orchaostre
WVRM Colony Collapse
Wyrgher Panspermic Warlords
Wytch Hazel III: Pentecost
X.Y.R. Aquarealm
Xalpen Sawken Xo'on
Xandria Theater of Dimensions
Xenosis Paralleled Existence
Xentrix Seven Words
Xentrix Bury The Pain
XII Boar Beyond the Valley of The Triclops
Xiu Xiu Ignore Grief
Holy hell, this may just be the most unsettling album I've heard so far this year. I love stuff like that. Bonus points for the homemade music videos too, they're a strange yet fitting accompaniment for sure.
Xoth Exogalactic
Yakuza Sutra
Yaotl Mictlan Sagrada Tierra del Jaguar
Yatsu It Can't Happen Here
Yautja The Lurch
Year of No Light Consolamentum
Year of the Knife Internal Incarceration
Yeruselem The Sublime
Yes Time and a Word
Yhdarl Loss
Ynkleudherhenavogyon Honan Bleydh II
Yoo Doo Right A Murmur, Boundless to the East
Ysyry Mollvun Ysyry Mollvün
Yuri Gagarin The Outskirts of Reality
Yves Jarvis The Zug
Zaius Of Adoration
Zanias Chrysalis
Zeal and Ardor Zeal and Ardor
Feels like this is the album where Manuel Gagneux finally realizes his vision, the other two albums to me were a little off the mark but still ambitious. This latest effort is a real humdinger, every song has its own little charm. One of the year's more unique releases for sure.
Zed Volume
Zhrine Unortheta
Zombi 2020
Zombi Liquid Crystal

3.0 good
SednA The Man Behind The Sun
(hed) p.e. Forever!
10 Years (How to Live) As Ghosts
16 Into Dust
A Night in Texas Global Slaughter
A Reason To Travel Concrete Sunrise
A Storm Of Light Nations to Flames
A Storm Of Light Anthroscene
A Trust Unclean Parturition
A.C.T. Heatwave
Abbath Abbath
Abbath Outstrider
Abhomine Larvae Offal Swine
Abhor (ITA) Sex Sex Sex (Ceremonia Daemonis Anticristi)
Abhoria Abhoria
Abigail Williams Becoming
Abraham Look, Here Comes The Dark!
Abysmal Dawn Phylogenesis
Abysmal Grief Blasphema Secta
Abysmal Grief Funeral Cult of Personality
Abythic Eden of the Doomed
Accept I'm a Rebel
Acherontas Ma-IoN 'Formulas Of Reptilian Unification'
Acres Burning Throne
Act of Impalement Infernal Ordinance
ADAM SUN
Addaura Burning for the Ancient
Aerosmith Night in the Ruts
Aerosmith Get a Grip
Aetherius Obscuritas A Sors Sz​ü​rke Pora
Aidan Baker Gauge Amber Tones
Aiwass The Falling
Akitsa Credo
Akraia Mistress
Albion (UK) Lakesongs of Elbid
Alchemy of Flesh Ageless Abominations
Alexandra Grimal Refuge
Alexandra Spence Blue Waves, Green Waves
Alice Cooper Along Came a Spider
Alice Cooper The Last Temptation
Alice Cooper Constrictor
Alice Cooper Special Forces
Alice Cooper From the Inside
Alice Cooper Lace and Whiskey
Alice Cooper Alice Cooper Goes to Hell
Alice Cooper Easy Action
Alkuharmonian Kantaja Shadowy Peripherals
All Hail The Yeti Screams From A Black Wilderness
All Hell The Grave Alchemist
All Them Witches Nothing as the Ideal
Alpha Wolf Fault
Alpha Wolf/Holding Absence The Lost & the Longing
Altar of Betelgeuze Echoes
Altar of Perversion Intra Naos
Aluk Todolo Voix
Amarok (USA-CA) Devoured
American Grandma Rare Knives of Light
American Nightmare American Nightmare
Amesoeurs Amesoeurs
Amon Amarth The Great Heathen Army
An Evening With Knives Sense Of Gravity
Anaal Nathrakh A New Kind of Horror
Anaal Nathrakh Endarkenment
Ancient Back To The Land Of The Dead
Ancient Lights Ancient Lights
Ancient Wisdom A Celebration in Honor of Death
And So I Watch You From Afar Heirs
And. Almost Nothing
Andrew W.K. You're Not Alone
Anette Olzon Shine
Anneke van Giersbergen The Darkest Skies Are The Brightest
Annihilator Set the World on Fire
Annihilator Metal
Annihilator Suicide Society
Annihilator Ballistic, Sadistic
Annisokay The Lucid Dream[er]
Annisokay Devil May Care
Annotations Of An Autopsy II: The Reign of Darkness
Anomalie Refugium
Anomalie Integra
Antagonist A.D. Haunt Me As I Roam
Anthrax Fistful of Metal
Anthrax Stomp 442
AntimateriA Valo aikojen takaa
Any Given Day Everlasting
Aorlhac Pierres Brûlées
Apocryphos Phantoms Received
Apostle of Solitude From Gold to Ash
Apostle of Solitude When The Darkness Goes
Arch Enemy War Eternal
Arch Enemy Will to Power
Archgoat The Apocalyptic Triumphator
Archgoat Worship the Eternal Darkness
Architects Nightmares
Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
Archspire Relentless Mutation
Archvile King À La Ruine
Arctic Sleep Kindred Spirits
I liked the first few songs, if only because of their warmth and expansive soundscapes...but then the rest of the album unfolded in the same way, and there's only so many similar versions of opener "Meadows" that I can listen to before it gets really repetitive. There are golden moments, but it's often music fit for slumber rather than wonder.
Arm's Length Never Before Seen, Never Again Found
Arms and Sleepers Former Kingdoms
Artillery B.A.C.K.
As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire
Ashbringer Absolution
This album has a consistently warm, alluring charm to it, using nice organic, acoustic instrumentation to balance the (not so heavy) atmospheric black metal parts which wear their influences on their sleeves. That said, I feel this album has a very thin sound and for that reason feels mostly incomplete, despite the dwindling melodies offering quite an inviting sensation. It's nice to sit and hum along to whilst daydreaming, but that's pretty much it.
Ashbringer We Came Here to Grieve
Album could be so much better if those vocals were to improve. A lot of this reminds me of the latest album from We never learned to live, but the obvious black/sludge/post-metal edges make it stand out much more musically. But yeah, vocals are a real inconsistent aspect.
Ashley Paul I am Fog
Ashtar Kaikuja
Asira Efference
Astral Sleep Astral Doom Musick
Astrophobos Corpus
At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement
At the Gates With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
Atena Shades Of Black Won't Bring Her Back
AthanaTheos Cross. Deny. Glorify.
Atomwinter Catacombs
Audn Farvegir Fyrndar
Autokrator Hammer Of The Heretics
Automatic Excess
Avandra Prodigal
Aves Feathers
Avoid The Light Spleen
Axegrinder Satori
Axel Rudi Pell Knights Call
Axioma Sepsis
Ayreon Transitus
Azarath In Extremis
Ba'a Egrégore
Baazlvaat An Old Forgotten Text
Bad Breeding Human Capital
Bad Wolves Disobey
Balmog Vacvvm
Bane Don't Wait Up
Baptists Beacon of Faith
Barbarian Viperface
Baring Teeth Transitive Savagery
Battalions King of a Dead World
Batushka Hospodi
I mean this isn't awful. And I also couldn't care less about which version of Batushka this is. But yeah, let's all focus on everybody's day in court rather than which musical direction both parties have taken.
Beach House Become
Bear the Mammoth Purple Haus
Beartooth Disease
Beastmaker Lusus Naturae
Bedsore Hypnagogic Hallucinations
Behold... The Arctopus Skullgrid
Being as an Ocean Being As An Ocean
Belgrado Intra Apogeum
Bell Witch Four Phantoms
Below A Silent Sky Walls of Light
Belphegor Necrodaemon Terrorsathan
Belphegor The Devils
Besra Anhedonia
Bethlehem Lebe Dich Leer
Betraying the Martyrs Phantom
Beyond Creation Algorythm
Beyond The Black Lost in Forever
Bhayanak maut Man
Bhleg Äril
Bhleg Ödhin
Big|Brave A Gaze Among Them
Big|Brave Vital
Big|Brave nature morte
Biohazard Urban Discipline
Biohazard New World Disorder
Biohazard Uncivilization
Bipolar Architecture Depressionland
Black Cilice Transfixion of Spirits
Black Crucifixion Lightless Violent Chaos
Black Eucharist Inn of the Vaticide
Black Fucking Cancer Procreate Inverse
Black Label Society Shot to Hell
Black Magnet Body Prophecy
Black Mare Field of the Host
Black Sabbath Headless Cross
Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy
Black Sabbath The Eternal Idol
Black Star Riders The Killer Instinct
Black Stone Cherry Kentucky
Black Tongue The Unconquerable Dark
Blasphemer The Sixth Hour
Blaze Bayley The Redemption of William Black...
Blessthefall To Those Left Behind
Blind Seagull Personal Decay
Blindead Niewiosna
blink-182 Dude Ranch
blink-182 Neighborhoods
Blondie Autoamerican
Blood Incantation Timewave Zero
Blood Red Throne Fit to Kill
Blood Youth Beyond Repair
Bloodletter Funeral Hymns
Bloodphemy Blood Sacrifice
Bloodshed Walhalla Glory to the Sacred Land
It's ok, but I can't stop thinking of Moonsorrow with extra cheese and annoying nasal vocals.
Bloody Hammers Songs Of Unspeakable Terror
Bloody Head Perpetual Eden
Bonehunter Evil Triumphs Again
Boris Love and Evol
Boris W
Borknagar Winter Thrice
Bosse-de-Nage Further Still
Bottomless The Banishing
Brimstone Coven The Woes of a Mortal Earth
Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It...
Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings
British Lion The Burning
Bruce Dickinson Balls to Picasso
Bruce Dickinson Skunkworks
Brutality Will Prevail Misery Sequence
Brutus (NOR) Wandering Blind
Brymir Slayer of Gods
Buckethead Captain Eo's Voyage
Bulldozer The Day of Wrath
Bummer (USA-MO) Dead Horse
Bungler The Nature Of Being New
Burial Clouds Last Days of a Dying World
Buried in Verona Vultures Above, Lions Below
Bushman's Revenge All the Better for Seeing You
Caliban Elements
Call of the Void Buried in Light
Callisto Secret Youth
Camel Stationary Traveller
Camel Dust and Dreams
Can't Swim Thanks but No Thanks
Cancer Bats Dead Set on Living
Cancer Bats The Spark That Moves
Cane Hill Too Far Gone
Cannabis Corpse Left Hand Pass
Cannabis Corpse Nug So Vile
Cannibal Corpse Gallery of Suicide
Cannibal Corpse Red Before Black
Capra Errors
Carach Angren Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten
Carcass Reek of Putrefaction
Carma Ossadas
Carnal Forge Gun To Mouth Salvation
Cauldron New Gods
Cavernlight As I Cast Ruin Upon...
Celestial Season The Secret Teachings
Celestial Season Mysterium I
Cephalic Carnage Anomalies
Cephalic Carnage Xenosapien
Cephalic Carnage Conforming To Abnormality
Cerebral Fix Disaster Of Reality
Chaosbay 2222
Cheem Guilty Pleasure
Chepang Swatta
Children of Bodom Blooddrunk
Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever
Chrch Light Will Consume Us All
Christian Mistress To Your Death
Ciemra The Tread of Darkness
Circles Infinitas
Cirith Gorgor Sovereign
Cloakroom Dissolution Wave
Coffin Nail The Hanged Man
Coffinborn Cadaveric Retribution
Cognitive Matricide
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade
Coilguns Watchwinders
Cold Cell Those
Cold Cell The Greater Evil
Cold Night For Alligators Course of Events
Come to Grief When the World Dies
Comedy of Errors Fanfare & Fantasy
Conveyer When Given Time To Grow
Conveyer No Future
Copperhead Gazing in the Dark
Corrosion of Conformity Eye For An Eye
Corrupt Moral Altar Mechanical Tides
Cosmograf Heroic Materials
Count to Altek A Seraphia Entwined
Cradle of Filth The Manticore and Other Horrors
Just had a look at the album's wikipedia page, and it seems that the album is only 50 minutes long. So its not going to be as dreadfully long as Cradle's last two albums. It might still suck though...
Creeping Flesh ...And Then the Bombs Came
Crescent (EGY) The Order of Amenti
Cripper Follow Me: Kill!
Crisix From Blue to Black
Cross Vault As Strangers We Depart
Crossfaith Xeno
Crowbar The Serpent Only Lies
Crown the Empire Sudden Sky
Crucifyre Post Vulcanic Black
Crypta Echoes Of The Soul
Cryptae Capsule
Cult of Eibon Black Flame Dominion
Culted Oblique to All Paths
Ideas here are interesting but the main problem is that most of the songs are drawn out for too long. The first half of both 'Brooding Hex' and 'Illuminati' are brilliantly executed but at some point the instrumentation becomes rather stale, and though this does indeed suit the doom sub-genre rather well, there could have been a stronger emphasis on power and surprise than simple repetition. That said, 'March of the wolves' and 'Transmittal' are monolithic in atmosphere.
Culted Vespertina Synaxis...
Culture Killer Throes of Mankind
Cursetheknife There's A Place I Can Rest
Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us
Daedric Chamber Reverence of the Gods
Damned Spring Fragrantia Chasm
Dangers The Bend In The Break
Daniel Lioneye Vol. III
Danko Jones A Rock Supreme
Dantalion Time to Pass Away
Danzig Danzig 4
Dark Forest (UK) Oak, Ash & Thorn
The closest thing to a British Elvenking we'll ever get.
Dark Tranquillity Atoma
Dawn of Azazel The Tides of Damocles
Honestly found this album a very mixed bag. Some songs I can't stand ("Vassalplasty", "The Odious Tides"), some I really enjoyed ("Irresistible Foe", "Controlled Burn") and others were just really strange to listen to "namely "Progeny of Pain" and "The Eagles Grasp"). I think the main flaw here is inconsistency, because some songs are really so much better than others, to the point where the actually stand out as being such. Nonetheless, it's decent for what it is but not much more. Some nice musical ideas thrown around, but by the end it leaves a little bit of underwhelming feeling, more so for those who expected this to be an excellent album.
Dawn Ray'd The Unlawful Assembly
Dayshell Nexus
Dead Feathers All is Lost
Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire
Dead Lord Heads Held High
Dead Summer Society Decades
Deadly Circus Fire Extinction
Death Angel Killing Season
Death Bells Between Here and Everywhere
Death SS Rock 'n' Roll Armageddon
Deathhammer Evil Power
Deathstars The Perfect Cult
Deathwhite For a Black Tomorrow
Deathwhite Grey Everlasting
Decembre Noir Pale Serenades
Deep Purple Who Do We Think We Are
Deep Purple Slaves and Masters
Deep Purple Abandon
Deez Nuts Word Is Bond
Defy The Curse Horrors Of Human Sacrifice
Degial Savage Mutiny
Deicide In the Minds of Evil
Deiphago Into the Eye of Satan
Deiphago I, The Devil
Denner/Shermann Masters of Evil
Denouncement Pyre Forever Burning
Dephosphorus Sublimation
Desaster The Oath of an Iron Ritual
Deserted Fear Drowned by Humanity
Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows Destroy Rebuild
Destruction Cracked Brain
Destruction Metal Discharge
Destruction D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.
DevilDriver Dealing With Demons I
Deville Make It Belong To Us
Devilment The Great And Secret Show
Devin Townsend The Hummer
Diabolic Night Beneath The Crimson Prophecy
Diamond Plate Pulse
Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst
Dimphonic Horriplex
Dio Lock up the Wolves
Dirt Forge Interspheral
Discharge Shootin Up the World
Disentomb The Decaying Light
Disillusion The Liberation
Diskord Degenerations
Dodsengel Interequinox
Dold Vorde Ens Navn Mørkere
Domination Campaign Onward To Glory
Doom Beach Burden
Dopethrone Hochelaga
Decent head-nodding sludge/doom, no more, no less.
Dopethrone Transcanadian Anger
Dornenreich Du Wilde Liebe Sei
Doyle Doyle II: As We Die
Dragged Under Upright Animals
DragonForce Inhuman Rampage
DragonForce Extreme Power Metal
Dragonlord Rapture
Draken Draken
Drama Noir Nightfall Upon the Asylum
Dread Sovereign For Doom The Bell Tolls
Dread Sovereign Alchemical Warfare
Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events
Dream Theater Octavarium
Dream Theater Systematic Chaos
Dream Theater Dream Theater
Drottnar Monolith I
Drought (ITA) Trimurti
Drowse Wane into It
Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel
Dry Cleaning Swampy
Duivel Heiligschennis
Dust Bolt Trapped in Chaos
Dust Bolt Mass Confusion
Dylan Carlson Conquistador
Earth Full Upon Her Burning Lips
Earth Ship Resonant Sun
East of the Wall Redaction Artifacts
Good, but this album is essentially a mixed bag. Some songs are instrumentally brilliant, whereas others simply get lost in themselves far too quickly and as a result have no sense of direction. The vocals are okay, sometimes even brilliant, but too often seem to take away from the focus on the musicianship. It also suffers from the fact that the vocals appear a little too low in the mix, so what you're really hearing is an unbalanced sound. That said, the songwriting here is very consistent and near enough every song manages to regain its excellent musical quality because of that. My personal favourite song would be the instrumental 'A negligible senescence', though only because it focuses on instrumentation.
East of the Wall A Neutral Second
Eat Your Heart Out Can't Stay Forever
Ecstatic Vision Sonic Praise
Ecstatic Vision For The Masses
edIT Crying Over Pros For No Reason
Einherjer Norrøne Spor
Ekrom Uten N​å​digst Formildelse
Eldamar A Dark Forgotten Past
Electric Citizen Helltown
Electric Wizard Let Us Prey
Eluveitie Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion
Elvenking The Scythe
Emma Ruth Rundle EG2: Dowsing Voice
Emptiness Nothing but the Whole
Emptiness Vide
Emyn Muil Elenion Ancalima
Encoffination We Proclaim Your Death O' Lord
Endezzma The Archer, Fjord and the Thunder
Endon Boy Meets Girl
Endseeker The Harvest
Endstille Kapitulation 2013
Decent, solid black metal for me but just way too repetitive to be enjoyed.
Ensiferum One Man Army
Enslaved Eld
Entrapment Through Realms Unseen
Entry Detriment
Envy Seimei
Epica Consign to Oblivion
couple of weak songs,but other than that this album is epic!
Epica The Alchemy Project
Epitimia Allusion
Eremit Desert of Ghouls
Escuela Grind Ddeeaatthhmmeettaall
Europe War of Kings
Evanescence The Open Door
Everything But the Girl Fuse
Evile Five Serpent's Teeth
Even though Evile's core faults are still evident in this album (too close to the overall thrash movement) there is some classic material here, as on the acoustic 'In Memoriam'. A brilliant album for 2011.
Evile Skull
Evocation The Shadow Archetype
Ex Deo The Thirteen Years of Nero
Exist Egoiista
Exnun Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
Exodus Force of Habit
Extrema Headbanging Forever
Extreme Waiting for the Punchline
Extreme Cold Winter World Exit
Exumer Hostile Defiance
Eye Flys Eye Flys
Eyes Set to Kill Masks
Decent enough by Metalcore standards, but the vocals here really distract me from the (sometimes) brilliant heaviness on tracks such as 'Killing in your name' and 'Surface'. At least it's an improvement over the last few rubbish Metalcore albums I've had the pain of listening to.
Faith No More We Care a Lot
Faith No More Introduce Yourself
Falling in Reverse Just Like You
False Gods Neurotopia
Fathoms Lives Lived
Fearing Destroyer
Feed Them Death Negative
Ferum Asunder​/​Erode
Fire from the Gods Narrative
Firebreather Under a Blood Moon
Firewind Few Against Many
Fit for an Autopsy Hellbound
Fleetwood Mac Heroes Are Hard to Find
Fleetwood Mac Penguin
Fleetwood Mac Mirage
Fluisteraars Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking
Flyleaf Between the Stars
Focus Mother Focus
Foehammer Monumentum
Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Foo Fighters Sonic Highways
Fornhem Stämman Från Berget
Frank Zappa Studio Tan
Frank Zappa Sleep Dirt
Frank Zappa The Man from Utopia
Frank Zappa Francesco Zappa
Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 Viva Las Violence
Free Free
Free Free at Last
Freedom Call Land of the Crimson Dawn
From The Vastland The Haft Khan
Frowning Death Requiem
Frozen Soul Crypt Of Ice
Fudge Tunnel The Complicated Futility of Ignorance
Fulgora Stratagem
Full Of Hell and Primitive Man Suffocating Hallucination
Funeral for a Friend Tales Don't Tell Themselves
Funeral Winds Stigmata Mali
Gaahls Wyrd The Humming Mountain
Galactic Empire Episode II
Gallhammer Gloomy Lights
Gallhammer Ill Innocence
Gama Bomb Survival of the Fastest
Gama Bomb Citizen Brain
Gama Bomb The Terror Tapes
The vocalist had surgery before this album's production, so I guess the sub-par vocal delivery shouldn't be much of a shock. As it is though, the album is average albeit sometimes very decent thrash, a few songs for excellent listening.
Gama Bomb Untouchable Glory
Gama Bomb Speed Between The Lines
Garbage Beautiful Garbage
Garbage Bleed Like Me
Gary Moore Grinding Stone
Gary Moore Back to the Blues
Gary Moore Scars
Gates to the Morning Walk Between Worlds
Geddy Lee My Favourite Headache
Gehennah Metal Police
Genesis Duke
Genesis Genesis
Gentle Giant Civilian
Gentle Giant The Missing Piece
Get Your Gun The Worrying Kind
GGGOLDDD Why Aren't You Laughing?
GGU:LL Dwaling
Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous
Ghost Bath Moonlover
Ghost Iris Apple of Discord
Ghoulgotha The Deathmass Cloak
Gift Giver Shitlife
Gjendod I Utakt Med Verden
Gloomer Embrace the End
Gloop Crayon Sun
Gnaw Their Tongues Hymns For the Broken, Swollen and Silent
Goatwhore A Haunting Curse
Godflesh Songs of Love and Hate
Godhead Machinery Masquerade Among Gods
Godhead Machinery Monotheistic Enslavement
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'
Golden Ashes (NL) In The Lugubrious Silence Of Eternal Night
Golden Earring Grab It for a Second
Golden Earring Cut
Golden Earring Tits 'n Ass
Golden Earring Miracle Mirror
Golden Earring On the Double
Golden Earring Love Sweat
Golgotha (ESP) Mors Diligentis
Gonemage Astral Corridors
Gong Continental Circus
Gong Shapeshifter
Gorilla Treecreeper
Gorod A Maze of Recycled Creeds
Gouge Away Burnt Sugar
Gozu Revival
Grand Funk Railroad Born To Die
Grave Dominion VIII
Grave Hating Life
Grave Out of Respect for the Dead
Grave Fiendish Regression
Grave Digger War Games
Grave Digger The Clans Will Rise Again
Grave Digger Return Of The Reaper
Gravefields Tetragrammaton
Gravehill The Unchaste, the Profane, & the Wicked
Graverape Horrors of Life Eternal
Graves at Sea The Curse That Is
Graveworm Ascending Hate
Graveworm Collateral Defect
Graveworm When Daylights Gone
Great Cold Emptiness Immaculate Hearts Will Triumph
Great White Back to the Rhythm
Great White ...Twice Shy
Great White Hooked
Green Lung Woodland Rites
Greenleaf Rise Above The Meadow
Grey Skies Fallen Cold Dead Lands
It's an interesting find this. A lot of it reminds me of Pallbearer (the melodic doom parts obviously) but later on the album takes on a braver progressive style, one which utilizes the more extreme components of the band's sound and twists otherwise traditional styles into more adventurous soundscapes-not unlike what Cormorant have been doing since they formed pretty much. As Trey said before, the clean vocals probably stand out as the worst aspect here, but the musicianship is unique enough to keep things fresh and enticing at least in my opinion.
Grieve (FIN) Wolves of the Northern Moon
Grift Budet
Grin Phantom Knocks
Gruesome Twisted Prayers
Gruzja Koniec Wakacji
Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy
Gus G. Brand New Revolution
GWAR Hell-O
GWAR This Toilet Earth
GWAR Bloody Pit of Horror
GWAR The Blood of Gods
Hail Conjurer Earth Penetration
Hail Spirit Noir Mannequins
Hakanai Decreation
Halford Halford IV - Made Of Metal
Hallucinate From The Bowels Of The Earth
HammerFall Glory To The Brave
HammerFall Dominion
Handful of Hate Adversus
Hanging Garden Against the Dying of the Light
Harakiri for the Sky III: Trauma
Harborlights Isolation Ritual
Hark Machinations
Haust Negative Music
Havok Unnatural Selection
Probably the closest to average Havok will get. A lot of this is decent but unremarkable, especially when you compare to the previous two releases.
Havok Conformicide
Hawkwind Stories from Time and Space
Hawkwind The Xenon Codex
Hawkwind The Machine Stops
Hawkwind PXR5
Hawkwind Choose Your Masques
Hawkwind Space Bandits
Hawkwind Electric Tepee
Hawkwind Alien 4
Hawkwind Take Me to Your Leader
Hawkwind Blood of the Earth
Head of the Demon Sathanas Trismegistos
Heads For The Dead The Great Conjuration
Heart Magazine
Heart Dog & Butterfly
Heart Private Audition
Heart Passionworks
Heartist Feeding Fiction
Heaven's Club Here There And Nowhere
Hebosagil Yössä
Helheim rauniaR
Helheim Rignir
Helix Walkin' the Razor's Edge
Hellevaerder In de Nevel van Afgunst
Hellions Opera Oblivia
Hellwitch Annihilational Intercention
Hellyeah Unden!able
Hemelbestormer A Ring Of Blue Light
Here Lies Man You Will Know Nothing
Hermit Knight Once
Herod Sombre Dessein
Hetroertzen Phosphorus Vol I
Hexis Abalam
Hexis Tando Ashanti
Hexis Aeternum
Hiems Stranger in a Wasteland
Hierophant (IT) Mass Grave
High Command Beyond the Wall of Desolation
High on Fire Electric Messiah
Hirax Immortal Legacy
The instrumentation here is very good, but the vocals drag the quality down a bit. They're not absolutely terrible, but for this style of metal the vocalist should adopt a different vocal delivery.
Horned Almighty To Fathom The Master's Grand Design
HORNSS Telepath
Horseback Dead Ringers
Howling Sycamore Seven Pathways To Annihilation
Hundred Suns The Prestaliis
Hundredth Free
Huntress Starbound Beast
Huronian Beyond Frozen Heights
Hyems Anatomie des Scheiterns
Hypno5e Shores of the Abstract Line
Hypocrisy Catch 22
Hypocrisy Worship
Hypoxia Abhorrent Disease
Ian Anderson Divinities: Twelve Dances with God
Iced Earth Framing Armageddon
Iced Earth Plagues of Babylon
Ihsahn Amr
Illyria Take Me Somewhere Beautiful
Immortal War Against All
Impaled Nazarene Rapture
Impaled Nazarene Absence of War Does Not Mean Peace
Impaled Nazarene Vigorous And Liberating Death
Impending Doom Death Will Reign
Impending Doom The Sin and Doom Vol. II
Imperium Dekadenz ...Und Die Welt Ward Kalt Und Leer
Imperium Dekadenz When We Are Forgotten
Impiety Versus All Gods
Impureza La Iglesia Del Odio
In Flames Siren Charms
In Flames Reroute to Remain
In Hearts Wake Earthwalker
In Hearts Wake Skydancer
In Hearts Wake Ark
In Slumber While We Sleep
In the Company of Serpents Lux
In the Silence A Fair Dream Gone Mad
In This Moment Black Widow
Inanimate Existence Underneath a Melting Sky
Incantation Profane Nexus
Infera Bruo Cerement
Infera Bruo Rites of the Nameless
Ingested The Architect of Extinction
Inner Missing Dead Language
Insect Ark The Vanishing
Interpol The Other Side of Make-Believe
Intig Vilsen
Invincible Force Satan Rebellion Metal
INVSN Let the Night Love You
Iperyt The Patchwork Gehinnom
Irkallian Oracle Apollyon
Isole Anesidora
Iterum Nata From the Infinite Light
Iwrestledabearonce Late for Nothing
Jadu Heart Derealised
Jeremy Irons and the Ratgang Malibus Surge Ex Monumentis
Jinjer Macro
Jinjer Wallflowers
Jinjer is an example of a band I have tried so hard to get into, but each successive release just brings about a cloud of disappointment. The best thing I have to say about this album is that it's a tad more coherent than Macro, but the album really dwindles in terms of excitement after the first four songs.
Jonathan Davis Black Labyrinth
Jungle Rot Order Shall Prevail
Jungle Rot Jungle Rot
Kadinja Super 90'
Kampfar Ofidians manifest
Kataklysm Goliath
Kayser Read Your Enemy
Kekal Deeper Underground
Ketha Wendigo
Keverra Keverra
Khost Buried Steel
Khost Governance
Killswitch Engage Atonement
King 810 Memoirs of a Murderer
Not quite as bad as people are making out, but that doesn't change the fact that this album-and band-are over-hyped. Half of the songs are little better than a sub-par Emmure/Slipknot crossover style yet the other half are somewhat experimental and, dare I say it, unique. The dark-tinged "Take it" and "Devil don't Cry" largely eclipse the monotony of songs like "Best Nite of my Life", and closer "State of Nature" succeeds in ending the album on a relative high. A mixed album which will undoubtedly divide fanbases in the near future, but which is also sort of career-defining.
King Woman Celestial Blues
King's X Three Sides of One
Kings of Mercia Kings of Mercia
Kita Tyhjiö
Kollapse Ar
Kollwitz Dissonance
Korn The Serenity of Suffering
Korpiklaani Jylhä
Korpituli Pohjola
Kroh Pyres
Kryptos Afterburner
Kublai Khan TX Nomad
Kull Exile
Look, I know this project features members past and present of Bal-Sagoth, but that doesn't stop me from thinking of this release as little more than a second-rate Cradle of filth. It's decent but honestly unremarkable.
KYOTY Isolation
Kyy Beyond Flesh - Beyond Matter - Beyond Death
Lacuna Coil Broken Crown Halo
Landmine Marathon Wounded
Last Rizla Noise Without Decay
Leaving Liminal
Legion of the Damned Slaves of the Shadow Realm
Leper Colony Leper Colony
Liber Null For Whom is the Night
Lightworker Fury by Failure
Like A Storm Awaken the Fire
Linkin Park The Hunting Party
Lithium Dawn Tearing Back the Veil I: Ascension
LLNN Unmaker
Locrian New Catastrophism
Lord Vigo Blackborne Souls
Lore Liege Dreams of a Forgotten Curse
Lorna Shore Immortal
Loss Horizonless
Lost Society Terror Hungry
Lotus Of Darkness Towards The Emerald Empire
Love Gang Meanstreak
Loviatar Loviatar
Lucifer (DE) Lucifer I
Lucifer's Child The Wiccan
Lucifer's Child The Order
Lunar Spells Demise of Heaven
Lunar Tombfields An Arrow To The Sun
Lustre (SWE) Still Innocence
Lysistrata Veil
Macabre Omen The Ancient Returns
Magnum Vigilante
Magoa Topsy Turvydom
Make Me A Donut Bright Side
Maladie ...of Harm and Salvation
Maladie The Grand Aversion
Malevich Trembling and Dowsed
Mamaleek Diner Coffee
Manegarm Manegarm
Manes Be All End All
Manes Slow Motion Death Sequence
Mantar Pain Is Forever and This Is the End
Marilyn Manson Heaven Upside Down
Martyr Defiled Young Gods
Medieval Demon Black Coven
Megadeth The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead!
Megosh Apostasy
Melvins Basses Loaded
Melvins A Walk With Love And Death
Memoriam The Silent Vigil
Willetts has now got the Chris Reifert effect. Musically, this sophomore effort is pretty inconsistent. Some songs are such a hard slog through tried-and-tested riffs that you'll be likely wondering why the band even bothered releasing this so soon after the debut's release in the first place. When the album gets good however, as with the album's last four songs, they demonstrate a clear source of inspiration. Oh well.
Memoriam Rise to Power
Memphis May Fire This Light I Hold
Mental Cruelty Inferis
Mephorash Shem Ha Mephorash
I'm going to get called hypocritical for making this point, but every single song on this album feels twice as long as they should be. Nonetheless, epic atmosphere and sinister musicianship is the order of the day, even if there's not much to get stuck into for fans of more "challenging" black metal.
Mercury Circle Killing Moons
Mercyful Fate Time
Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct
Miasmata Unlight: Songs of Earth and Atrophy
Misanthur Ephemeris
Misery Index Complete Control
Miss May I Deathless
Mizmor Cairn
Mizmor Wit's End
Model/Actriz Dogsbody
Moin Paste
Moloken Unveilance Of Dark Matter
Monolithe Nebula Septem
Monosphere The Puppeteer
Monster Truck Sittin' Heavy
Monte Pittman Inverted Grasp of Balance
Moodring Stargazer
Moonreich Fugue
Moortrieder Towards The Hills Of Triumph
Morag Tong Grieve
Moral Collapse Moral Collapse
Moribund Mantras .​.​.​Of Fathomless Depths
Morphinist Giants
Morrigan Anwynn
Mortem Agmen The Path to the Abyss of Evil
Mortuous Upon Desolation
Mosaic (DE) Heimatspuk
Mostly Autumn Music Inspired by The Lord of the Rings
Motorhead Bad Magic
Murmuure Murmuure
Muse Black Holes & Revelations
Muse The Resistance
Mutiny Within Origins
Mutually Assured Destruction Ascension
My Silent Wake There Was Death
Myrkraverk Nær Døden
Mystras Empires Vanquished And Dismantled
Nachtblut Vanitas
Nadja Labyrinthine
Napoli Centrale Napoli Centrale
Nargaroth Era of Threnody
Nashville Pussy Up the Dosage
Natalie Evans Movements
Near Death Condition Ascent From the Mundane
Nebula Holy Shit
Necros Christos Domedon Doxomedon
Nekrasov The Mirror Void
Neocortex Am Ende Des Feuers
Nervosa Downfall Of Mankind
Nexilva Eschatologies
Nibiru (ITA) Salbrox
Nibiru (ITA) Panspermia
Nidingr The High Heat Licks Against Heaven
Nightbringer Terra Damnata
Nightlands Moonshine
Nightmarer Cacophony of Terror
Nihil Invocation The Chaos of Our Lost and Evil Souls
Niht Arcanum
No Consequence Vimana
No Devotion No Oblivion
No Sin Evades His Gaze Endless Disconnect
Nocturnal Breed We Only Came for the Violence
Non Est Deus Impious
Nordic Frost Ov Blasphemy and Other Rites
Nordkvade Visdom and Makt
Norilsk Beyond the Mountains
Northlane Mesmer
Northlane Node
Northlane Alien
Northless A Path Beyond Grief
Nortt Endeligt
Notturno Inside
Noumena Anima
Novelists Souvenirs
Novice (MI) Sorrow & Surrender
Nubivagant The Wheel and the Universe
O'Brother Endless Light
Oak Pantheon The Absence
OAR The Blood You Crave
Obituary Inked in Blood
Obituary Obituary
Obituary Dying Of Everything
Obsidian Kingdom A Year With No Summer
Obsidian Kingdom Meat Machine
Obtest Tukstantmetis
Oceano Ascendants
Oceans Ate Alaska Hikari
Oddland Vermilion
Odyrmos Odyrmos
Of Mice and Men Defy
OHHMS Exist
Old Forest Sutwyke
Omination NGR
Ominous Ruin Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone
Ommadon Ommadon
Ondt Blod Natur
One with the Riverbed Absence
OOMPH! Ritual
Oozing Wound We Cater To Cowards
Opera Diabolicus Death on a Pale Horse
Operation: Mindcrime The Key
Ophe Somnium Nocte Mendaciis
Ophiuchi Shibboleth
Opium Warlords Droner
Orbit Culture Shaman
Orden Ogan Gunmen
Orkan Livlaus
Orm Orm
Osees A Foul Form
Our Hollow, Our Home Hartsick
OvO Ignoto
Pagan Altar The Room of Shadows
Pain of Salvation Panther
Pantheist Seeking Infinity
Parkway Drive Ire
Patria Hexerei
Patriarchy The Unself
Pearly Drops A Little Disaster
Pensees Nocturnes Grand Guignol Orchestra
Pensees Nocturnes Douce Fange
Perdition Temple Merciless Upheaval
Pestilence Hadeon
Pestilength Solar Clorex
Pestlegion Sathanas Grand Victoria
Petyr Petyr
Phantom Winter Her Cold Materials
Philip H. Anselmo and The Illegals Choosing Mental Illness As A Virtue
Pig Destroyer The Octagonal Stairway
Pile All Fiction
Planes Mistaken for Stars Prey
Plasmodium Towers of Silence
uhhhhh....yeah. This is certainly an album. A very left of field album.
Polyphia New Levels New Devils
Porcelain Porcelain
Porta Nigra Schöpfungswut
Porta Nigra Weltende
Post Animal Love Gibberish
Power Trip Nightmare Logic
Powerman 5000 Builders of the Future
Powerwolf Blessed and Possessed
Predatory Light Predatory Light
Prevalent Resistance Dynamics of Creation
Prevalent Resistance To Live Again and Dominate
Primitive Man Fear​/​A life of turmoil
Primitive Man Insurmountable
Primus The Desaturating Seven
Prize Horse Under Sound
Process of Guilt Black Earth
Progenie Terrestre Pura starCross
Prognan Sjene Nad Balkanom
Prong Zero Days
Psychedelic Witchcraft Sound of the Wind
Psychostick IV: Revenge of the Vengeance
Psycroptic As The Kingdom Drowns
Purtenance Buried Incarnation
Pylar A Ella Te Conduce La Sagrada Espyral
Queensryche Condition Human
Radiohead In Rainbows
Ragnarok Psychopathology
Raised By Owls Dreadful
Raspberry Bulbs Before The Age Of Mirrors
Raum Kingdom Raum Kingdom
Reaper (SWE) The Atonality Of Flesh
Reaping Asmodeia Impuritize
Rebel Wizard Voluptuous Worship of Rapture and Response
Red Fang Only Ghosts
Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
Red Spektor Red Spektor
Refused Freedom
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Exile
Reptilian Death The Dawn Of Consummation And Emergence
Decent album here with solid instrumentation, but there is very little variety and a lack of truly memorable moments. The band used to be parodic, yet on this album seem to attempt a more serious take on Technical/Brutal death metal.
Revenant Marquis Milk Teeth
Revenge (CAN) Behold.Total.Rejection
Ringworm Snake Church
Rise Against Wolves
Rise to the Sky Every Day, A Funeral
Rise to the Sky Per Aspera Ad Astra
Ritual Dictates Give In To Despair
Rodent Epoch Rodentlord
Rotting Christ Rituals
Royal Hunt Dystopia, Pt. 2
Runemagick Into Desolate Realms
Russian Circles Blood Year
Sabbath Assembly Rites of Passage
Sacral Night Le Diadéme D'argent
Sacrifire The Art Of Decay
Sacrilegious Crown Forbidden Vestiges of Veneration
Sacrilegious Impalement IV - Infinite Victor
Sacrimonia Anthems of Eclipse
Saint Vitus Saint Vitus (2019)
Sammath Across The Rhine Is Only Death
Sargeist Feeding the Crawling Shadows
Sarke Bogefod
Saver They Came with Sunlight
Scale the Summit In a World of Fear
Scale the Summit Subjects
Scar the Martyr Scar the Martyr
Secrets of the Moon Sun
Didn't really get much out of this in the end. Opener "No more Colours" and "Dirty Black" are really well-written, but the rest of the album in my opinion seems to fall flat. That's not including the fact that the vocals for the most part irritate me somewhat. The album's whole run-time is over 50 minutes, but it could easily have been more concise had the mid-section of the album (namely "Man Behind the Sun" through to "I took the Sky Away") been shortened a little.
Seeds Of Contemplation Contemplations on Hidden Meanings
Seeker Unloved
Selim Lemouchi And His Enemies Earth Air Spirit Water Fire
Interesting in parts, but this album just has a 50/50 balance of good psychedelic music and boring ambient sections which frankly left me hovering over the skip button. Maybe with the band's next album they can come up with something truly unique, but the debut album is simply above average at best.
Selvans Faunalia
Sounds far removed from what this band did on the split with Downfall of Nur. With that in mind, this is pretty bizarre stuff and most of the time sounds like a cheesy, folksy version of mid-to-late 90s Cradle of Filth, with some unconvincing transitions from epic black metal riff sections to atmospheric, pagan-infiltrated musicianship. Still decent, but a bit hodge-podge too.
Semblant Vermilion Eclipse
Sermon Birth Of The Marvellous
Serpentine Path Emanations
Serpents Oath Ascension
Sharp Weapons Sharp Weapons
Shields Life In Exile
Shining (SWE) X - Varg Utan Flock
The second song is terrible on this album, but then both covers at the end as well as "Jag Ar din Fiende" and "Mot Aokigahara" are really good, well-written in my opinion. Overall, it's an album that fares just above average weighing the inconcistency of it all.
Shrapnel (UK) Palace for the Insane
Siege of Power Warning Blast
Silent Descent Turn To Grey
Silent Planet Everything Was Sound
Silent Planet When the End Began
Siriun Siriun
Skin Tension Celebrant
Skindred Kill the Power
Skyclad Forward into the Past
Skyforger Senprūsija
Slaughter To Prevail Misery Sermon
Sleep Terror Railroad to Dystopia
Sleep Token This Place Will Become Your Tomb
Sleestak Harbinger
Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter
Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind
Slomatics Strontium Fields
Slowbleed The Blazing Sun, A Fiery Dawn
Sodom Epitome of Torture
Sodom Decision Day
Soen Lykaia
Soft Blue Shimmer Love Lives in the Body
Soft Kill Canary Yellow
Solbrud Jaertegn
Solstafir Berdreyminn
Sons of Balaur Tenebris Deos
Sons of Crom The Black Tower
Sorcerer The Crowning of the Fire King
Sorcia Lost Season
Spectrum Mortis Bit Meseri - The Incantation
SSS Limp.Gasp. Collapse
Staraya Derevnya Boulder Blues
Starkill Shadow Sleep
Stellar Master Elite Hologram Temple
Steve Lacy (USA-CA) Gemini Rights
Steven Wilson The Harmony Codex
Just not feeling this tbh. It sounds as generic as Steven Wilson can get but the songs with Ninet Tayeb do stand out in a good way, plus there's a few moments in the album that bring me back to when I first heard LightBulb Sun.
Stone Temple Pilots High Rise
Stoned Jesus Pilgrims
Stories (AUS) The Youth to Become
Storm The Sky Sin Will Find You
Stormruler Under the Burning Eclipse
Strigoi Viscera
Strigoi Bathed in a Black Sun
Structures Life Through a Window
Stygian Crown Stygian Crown
SUMAC What One Becomes
Sumerlands Sumerlands
Summoning Lugburz
Sunn O))) Kannon
Superjoint Caught Up in the Gears of Application
Superlynx Electric Temple
Susperia The Lyricist
Sweat Lodge Talismana
Sweven (SWE) The Eternal Resonance
It's not death metal, it's not conventional, but it also seems to be missing a lot of substance as well. I tried to get into many of the songs here but there's a sheer lack of oomph charging most of these songs which, aside from the obviously unique musical ideas at work here, lets the album down quite a bit. Maybe I am missing a trick, but it certainly doesn't feel like it for now.
Sworn In The Lovers / The Devil
Sylvaine Wistful
Sylvaine / Unreqvited Time Without End
Sympuls-e Immensity
T.O.M.B. Fury Nocturnus
T.O.M.B. Thin the Veil
Tableau Mort VIsio In Somniis
Tardive Dyskinesia Harmonic Confusion
Teitan In Oculus Abyss
Temple of Katharsis Macabre Ritual
Terra Tenebrosa The Reverses
Terrorizer Caustic Attack
TesseracT Polaris
Testament Titans of Creation
Tetrarch Unstable
Texas Murder Crew Everyone's Last Breath
The Acacia Strain Gravebloom
The Agonist Eye of Providence
The Agonist Orphans
The Amity Affliction Let the Ocean Take Me
The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma
The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate
The Breathing Process Labyrinthian
The Brian Jonestown Massacre The Future Is Your Past
The Clash Sandinista!
The Clash Combat Rock
The Cranberries To the Faithful Departed
The Cranberries Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
The Dark Element The Dark Element
The Devil Wears Prada Space
The Ditch and the Delta The Ditch and the Delta
The Doors The Soft Parade
The Drin Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom
The Elysian Fields New World Misanthropia
The Ember, The Ash Fixation
The Evil The Evil
The Exploited Death Before Dishonour
The Flower Kings By Royal Decree
The Funeral Orchestra Negative Evocation Rites
The Gathering The West Pole
The Great Discord The Rabbit Hole
the hatch shape of raw to come
The Haunted The Dead Eye
I think a lot of focus on trying to attempt an overall "different" sound made this album feel like a mixed bag in the end. I mean, it's certainly promising most of the time and is as adventurous as The Haunted's previous two records, but it simply grows weary after the first few tracks have unfolded their fury. Not saying this is boring material, but it does require a few listens if you're looking to get something out of it. The only two songs which really stand out-and do so because they're excellently well-written-are "The Drowning" and "The Reflection" in my opinion. Everything else seems solid but largely unmoving.
The Haunted Made Me Do It
The Haunted rEVOLVEr
The Haunted Versus
Perhaps more aggressive and straightforward than its predecessor, but Versus is still The Haunted going through their own motions. Solid and sometimes great as the music is here, it shares the same flaws with much of the band's discography in that the experience gets tiresome too quickly, resulting in a mixed bag of an effort once again. Songs do stand out-notably "Pieces" and "Trenches"-but they don't make up for an otherwise fairly average effort.
The Intersphere Wanderer
The Iron Son Enemy
The Last Ten Seconds Of Life The Violent Sound
The Monolith Deathcult V3 - Vernedering: Connect the Goddamn Dots
The Moth Gatherer The Comfortable Low
The Moth Gatherer Esoteric Oppression
The Necromancers Where The Void Rose
The Obsessed Sacred
The Offering Seeing the Elephant
The Poisoned Glass 10 Swords
The Raven Age Conspiracy
The River A Hollow Full of Hope
The Safety Fire Mouth of Swords
The Sorcerer A Graveyard of fallen dreams
The Telescopes Growing Eyes Becoming String
The Voynich Code Aqua Vitae
Theatres Des Vampires In Nomine Sanguinis
TheNightTimeProject Pale Season
Therion Leviathan
Thirdface Do It With A Smile
Thou Art Lord Daemoniorum
Thragedium Lisboa Depois De Morta
Thrall Schisms
Thrawsunblat Insula
Thron Pilgrim
Throwdown Intolerance
Thumos The Course of Empire
Thy Darkened Shade Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya
Can't really get behind the high rating for this. Too long for its own good and despite some passages really gaining momentum ("Veneration for the Fireborn" in particular) it didn't really stick with me as I expect it to.
Together to the Stars As We Wither
Toothgrinder Phantom Amour
Torch Runner Endless Nothing
Torrid Husk Caesious
TotalSelfHatred Solitude
Toxic Holocaust Primal Future: 2019
Trap Them Crown Feral
Trial (SWE) Motherless
Trivium Vengeance Falls
Trna Istok
Truckfighters V
True Widow Avvolgere
Truth Corroded Bloodlands
Tumulation Haunted Funeral Creations
Tuskar Matriarch
Tusmorke Hestehoven
TV Priest My Other People
Twitching Tongues Gaining Purpose Through Passionate Hatred
Two Face Sinner Spiritual Nemesis
Uada Djinn
UFO UFO 2: Flying
Umbra Vitae Shadow of Life
Unaussprechlichen Kulten Teufelsbücher
Underdark (UK) Our Bodies Burned Bright On Re​-​Entry
Unreqvited Disquiet
Upon a Burning Body Straight From the Barrio
Urn Iron Will of Power
Urne Serpent and Spirit
Usnea Random Cosmic Violence
Usurpress Interregnum
Utopia (UK) Stalker
Uzumaki (USA) Examination Linguistics
Valborg Der Alte
Valient Thorr Old Salt
Valis Ablaze Render
Valley of the Sun Old Gods
Vanum Legend
Veil of Maya Matriarch
Veil of Maya False Idol
Venom Prison Animus
Venomous Maximus Firewalker
Vesperian Sorrow Awaken the Greylight
Vestindien Null
Vexes Ancient Geometry
Video Nasties Dominion
Vio-Lence Let the World Burn
Virta Horros
Visions Of Atlantis The Deep & The Dark
Visions Of Atlantis Wanderers
Vnder A Crvmbling Moon II: Aging & Formless
Voak Verdrängung
Void Of Silence The Sky Over
Void of Vision Children of Chrome
Void Rot Descending Pillars
Voivod War and Pain
Volumes Different Animals
Vredehammer Violator
W.A.S.P. Golgotha
Wage War Deadweight
Wakrat Wakrat
Walking Dead On Broadway Aeshma
Warfather The Grey Eminence
Warish Down in Flames
Watain Trident Wolf Eclipse
We Are Harlot We Are Harlot
We Came As Romans Cold Like War
Wednesday 13 Transylvania 90210
Werewolves The Dead Are Screaming
When Hearts Wither This Is Where It Ends
Whore of Bethlehem Ritual of Homicide
Why Bonnie 90 In November
Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed II
Wilt (DE) Into Nothingness
Windhand Grief's Infernal Flower
Windhand Eternal Return
Wintersun The Forest Seasons
Witch Mountain Mobile of Angels
Witchskull The Vast Electric Dark
With the Dead Love from With the Dead
Within the Ruins Halfway Human
Wolfbrigade Run With The Hunted
Wolfchant Bloodwinter
Wolfchant Omega : Bestia
Wolfhorde Hounds of Perdition
Wolves Den Miserere
Woorms Slake
Worm Ouroboros What Graceless Dawn
Worm Shepherd Ritual Hymns
Wothrosch Odium
Wovenhand Silver Sash
Wrong (USA-FL) Feel Great
Xibalba Años En Infierno
Yatra All Is Lost
Yith Dread
Young Lions Make a Rainbow and Put It in the Sky
Zeal and Ardor Wake of a Nation
Zeit (DE) Ohnmacht
Zohamah Spread My Ashes
ZOM Flesh Assimilation
Zorya Mystic Lament

2.5 average
(hed) p.e. Evolution
84 Tigers Time In The Lighthouse
A Pale Horse Named Death When The World Becomes Undone
So, so uninspired and uninteresting. The band didn't even try this time. At least the album's book-ended by two of APHND's strongest songs (title track and "Dreams of the End") but that's not enough to raise the album out of such stagnation. Consistency? Here there be none.
Aaron Turner To Speak
Aborted Fetus The Ancient Spirits of Decay
Aborym Shifting.Negative
Aborym Hostile
Accept Russian Roulette
Acid Witch Rot Among Us
Acid Witch Evil Sound Screamers
Aerosmith Nine Lives
Aerosmith Just Push Play
Alice Cooper The Eyes Of Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper Raise Your Fist and Yell
Alice Cooper Zipper Catches Skin
Alice Cooper Flush The Fashion
Alice Cooper Muscle of Love
Alice Cooper Welcome 2 My Nightmare
Annihilator Remains
Annisokay Arms
Anthrax Volume 8: The Threat Is Real
Anvil Pound For Pound
Anvil Worth The Weight
Anvil Absolutely No Alternative
Arch Enemy Khaos Legions
Archers of Loaf Reason In Decline
Architects The Here and Now
Armored Dawn Barbarians in Black
At The Altar Of The Horned God Heart of Silence
Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold
Bathory Destroyer of Worlds
Behemoth Grom
Benediction Organised Chaos
Bishop Of Hexen The Death Masquerade
Black Sabbath Never Say Die!
Black Sabbath Seventh Star
Blackmore's Night Dancer And The Moon
Blackmore's Night Autumn Sky
Blondie The Hunter
Blue Oyster Cult The Revölution by Night
Brant Bjork Mankind Woman
Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit
Burzum Umskiptar
Burzum Sol austan, Mani vestan
Burzum The Ways of Yore
Butcher Babies Goliath
Cadaveria Silence
Candlemass From the 13th Sun
Candlemass Dactylis Glomerata
Candlemass House Of Doom
Cane Hill Smile
Carcer City Infinite / Unknown
Ceremonial Worship Seven Gateways to Eternal Misanthropy
Chelsea Grin Self Inflicted
Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?
Circle of Dust Machines Of Our Disgrace
Code Orange Forever
Concrete (USA-NY) Free Us From Existence
Converge Halo in a Haystack
Cover Your Tracks Fever Dream
Cradle of Filth From the Cradle to Enslave
Cradle of Filth Thornography
Crobot Motherbrain
Cryptopsy Once Was Not
Crystal Lake Helix
Culted Nous
Cultus Sanguine Dust Once Alive
Darkthrone F.O.A.D.
Darkthrone Dark Thrones and Black Flags
Death Goals A Garden of Dead Flowers
Deep Purple The House of Blue Light
Def Leppard Slang
Defecto Duality
Deicide Insineratehymn
Demon Head Viscera
Demons Under the Western Heel
Diamond Head Death and Progress
Diavolos You Lived Now Die
Dimmu Borgir Abrahadabra
Dio Strange Highways
Discharge Discharge
Disturbed Asylum
Dope Blood Money, Pt. 1
Draconian Sovran
DragonForce Ultra Beatdown
Eighteen Visions XVIII
Ektomorf Aggressor
Average stuff basically. This album starts off promising enough, but gets old really quickly in my opinion. The standout highlight is "Evil By Nature" for me, every other song pretty much relies on the same monotonous chuggy groove.
Electric Light Orchestra Balance of Power
Electric Wizard Wizard Bloody Wizard
Elegeion Plight of the Heretic
Ensiferum Unsung Heroes
'In my Sword I trust' is one of the worst Ensiferum songs I've ever heard, so time will tell if this album justifies the hype it seems to be getting.
Ensiferum Two Paths
Entombed Same Difference
Evile The Unknown
Almost like they decided "Infected Nations" was their best album and made the riffs as monotonous as they could. A few good songs but the vocals unfortunately make everything stodgy to listen to. It's not the worst they could have come up with but this feels like a band far removed from the one I saw live several months ago.
Exumer The Raging Tides
FACS Still Life In Decay
Feed Her to the Sharks Fortitude
Fiddlehead Death is Nothing to Us
Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse
Fleetwood Mac Behind the Mask
Fleetwood Mac Time
Forbidden Green
Frank Zappa Lumpy Gravy Primordial
Frank Zappa Thing-Fish
Freakangel How The Ghost Became
From Sorrow To Serenity Remnant of Humanity
Funeral for a Friend Conduit
Funeral for a Friend Chapter and Verse
Gallhammer The End
Gary Moore Dark Days in Paradise
Genesis From Genesis to Revelation
Genesis Abacab
Genesis Invisible Touch
Girlschool Play Dirty
This is basically Girlschool at their most average, and what the band played on those first few great albums wasn't particularly special either (just really solid and well performed), so Play Dirty as a whole simply seems like a bit of a rehash of all the band's flaws. The 80s glam influence is undeniable (particular in regards to the production), but there are some good moments here, notably 'Breaking All the Rules' and the heavier riff moments of 'Burning in the Heat'. Aside from that, this represents the band going through the motions.
Girlschool Nightmare at Maple Cross
A modest improvement over Running Wild, but like Play Dirty, still a very average album. The production is generally the one bad thing which drags this album's overall impression down for me, but there are some solid songs here-namely "Danger Sign" and "Back for More".
Girlschool Take A Bite
The last of the 80s albums from Girlschool, which in all honesty is no better than the previous three records. Just as average, with a couple of decent, solid tunes ("Girls on Top", "Tear It Up") and the same annoying production.
Goatess Blood and Wine
Godsmack 1000hp
Golden Earring Just Earrings
Golden Earring No Promises...No Debts
Golden Earring Winter-Harvest
Golden Earring N.E.W.S.
Gong Magick Brother
Gorgoroth Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt
Grave Digger Clash of the Gods
Grave Digger The Living Dead
It's woefully average, but hey, at least we can all enjoy "Zombie Dance" for what it is, right?r...Right?
Grave Pleasures Dreamcrash
Graveworm (N)utopia
Great White Once Bitten....
Grivo Omit
Grorr Ddulden's Last Flight
GWAR Carnival of Chaos
GWAR We Kill Everything
Hacktivist Outside The Box
Hail Conjurer Satanic Phenomenology
Hawkwind It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous
Hawkwind Distant Horizons
Heart Heart
Heart Bad Animals
Heart Desire Walks On
Heathen Beast The Revolution Will Not Be Televised...
Helloween Pink Bubbles Go Ape
Helloween Chameleon
Holy Death (USA-NV) Deus Mortis
Hot Milk The King and Queen of Gasoline
Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream
I'm sometimes a very serious, boring person when it comes to music, and I think my rating of this album reflects that.rI mean, yeah, I didn't get anything out of this other than a gimmicky experience.
Iced Earth The Crucible of Man
Ill Nino Till Death, La Familia
It's average for the most part, certainly, but there are some nice moments to be found here. The solos in "Not alive in my Nightmare" and "Are we so Innocent" are pretty decent, and some songs are obviously better than others. I was expecting more of a prominent latin influence in this album (though I haven't heard any of the band's more recent work), and the monotonous metalcore style is just here to stay, it seems.
Immortal Blizzard Beasts
In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape
In Flames Battles
In Flames I, the Mask
In This Moment Ritual
Incite Oppression
Infected Rain Ecdysis
Iwrestledabearonce Hail Mary
Jakub Zytecki Remind Me
Jute Gyte Oviri
KEN mode Success
Khold Til Endes
King 810 La Petite Mort or a Conversation With God
King Diamond Voodoo
Kingdom of Giants All the Hell You've Got to Spare
Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks
Kowloon Walled City Piecework
Labyrinth Architecture of a God
Lamentations of the Ashen EKIMMV
Landscapes Modern Earth
Last Year's Tragedy Amongst Lions
Lesath There Is A Profound Sense In Which We Are Isolated
Licht- Und Schattensaiten Wetterleuchten
Limb Limb
Locrian Ghost Frontiers
Lordi Monstereophonic (Theaterror vs. Demonarchy)
Luminous Vault Animate The Emptiness
Lungtoucher Sin Eater
Maladie For We Are the Plague
Malevolent Creation The 13th Beast
Marduk Viktoria
Megadeth Super Collider
Monasterium Cold are the Graves
Motionless in White Graveyard Shift
Myrkur M
Nachtlieder Nachtlieder
Nadja Sv
Nadja Luminous Rot
Necronomicon (CAN) Advent of the Human God
Nekrogoblikon Heavy Meta
Some songs I just can't stand ("Atlantis", "Let's Get Fucked"), others I thought were really solid stuff (We've had Enough", "Bring Us More"). Basically, it's a slightly above average effort from Nekrogoblikon. I guess this won't change anyone's opinion of the band though-their gimmick seems to be growing bigger and bigger as the days roll by.
Neoandertals Neanderthal Parallax
New Years Day Malevolence
Nocturnal Breed Napalm Nights
Nonpoint The Return
Northlane Singularity
Nothing More The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Numb.er Regressions
One Tail, One Head Worlds Open, Worlds Collide
Orthodox (ESP) Proceed
Pale Waves Unwanted
Persekutor Permanent Winter
Pissgrave Suicide Euphoria
Polyphia Remember That You Will Die
Prediction The Unholy Flame
Primal Rite Dirge Of Escapism
Rimfrost Expedition: Darkness
Roots of the Old Oak The Devil and His Wicked Ways
Sanguisugabogg Tortured Whole
Saturnalia Temple Gravity
Satyricon Satyricon
Scars on Broadway Dictator
Seer of the Void Mantra Monolith
Sepultura The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart
Seremonia Pahuuden Net
Shades of Deep Water Cold Heart
Silent Runners Statues & Ornaments
Sirenia Perils of the Deep Blue
Six Feet Under Crypt of the Devil
Skindred Shark Bites And Dog Fights
Skunk Anansie Black Traffic
Spektr The Art To Disappear
Stillbirth Annihilation of Mankind
Street Dogs Stand For Something Or Die For Nothing
SuidAkrA Cimbric Yarns
Superorganism World Wide Pop
Svvamp Svvamp
Tengger Cavalry Die On My Ride
The Browning Hypernova
The Bunny The Bear A Liar Wrote This
The Cranberries Bury the Hatchet
The Devil Wears Prada ZII
The Doors Other Voices
The Gathering Almost a Dance
The Haunted The Haunted
The Ongoing Concept Handmade
The Sound That Ends Creation Unicorn Laser Bubblegum City
Tony Tears Pains
Trivium Silence in the Snow
Truth Cult Walk The Wheel
Undead Prophecies False Prophecies
Underoath Erase Me
Vader Solitude in Madness
Valac Howls of Infinite Horror
Vidres A La Sang Fragments de L'Esdevenir
Vulvodynia Mob Justice
Wear Your Wounds WYW
Weedeater Goliathan
Woorms Fatalismo
Wovenwar Honor Is Dead
Wows Aion
WuW Rien ne nous sera épargné
Xibalba Hasta La Muerte
Yuth Forever Freudian Slip

2.0 poor
Accept Accept
Accept Predator
Aerosmith Rock in a Hard Place
Annotations Of An Autopsy Before the Throne of Infection
Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King
Black Sabbath Forbidden
Butcher Babies Take It Like a Man
Camel The Single Factor
De La Tierra De La Tierra
Debauchery Fuck Humanity
Deep Purple The Battle Rages On...
Dio Angry Machines
Disturbed The Sickness
Fields of the Nephilim Fallen
Fight the Fade APOPHYSITIS
From Ashes To New Day One
Genesis We Can't Dance
Gentle Giant Giant for a Day
Girlschool Running Wild
It started with Play Dirty, the lack of any originality and vigour which made those first three albums so solid, but this seemed to have a full impact on Running Wild. The band at this point sounded really tired, bored with their own musical direction, and that's exactly why songs like "Do You Love Me?" (A Kiss cover but a really poor one nonetheless) and "I Want You Back", proving both lyrically and musically that the band were at a creative low. There are one or two decent tracks here-the title track and "Nowhere to Run" namely-but even they turn out to be average in the grand scheme of things. Certainly Girlschool's worst effort.
Golden Earring Keeper of the Flame
Gorgoroth Instinctus Bestialis
Halestorm Into the Wild Life
Hawkwind Church of Hawkwind
Hawkwind White Zone
Hollywood Undead Day of the Dead
Hollywood Undead Five
Ian Anderson Walk into Light
Issues Issues
Legend of the Seagullmen Legend of the Seagullmen
Lustre (SWE) The Ashes of Light
Melvins Pinkus Abortion Technician
Story of the Year Tear Me to Pieces
The Clash Cut the Crap

1.5 very poor
Accept Eat the Heat
Accept Death Row
Annotations Of An Autopsy Dark Days
Biohazard Reborn In Defiance
Black Sabbath Born Again
Brainticket Celestial Ocean
Burzum Daudi Baldrs
Defiled Towards Inevitable Ruin
Deicide In Torment in Hell
Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst MMV
Disturbed Evolution
I mean, is there any surprise that this is my lowest rated album of 2018?rProbably not.
Genesis Calling All Stations
Shinedown Threat to Survival

1.0 awful
Annotations Of An Autopsy Welcome To Sludge City
If this band was toilet paper, I'd wipe my arse for eternity with it.
Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu
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