| 3.0 good |
| 40 Watt Sun Wider than the Sky |
| A Lot Like Birds DIVISI |
| A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant |
| Abstract Void Into the Blue |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| Agalloch The White |
| Ahab The Boats of the Glen Carrig |
| Alcest Shelter |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children The Long Goodbye |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many |
| Archivist Archivist |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
| Ayreon The Theory of Everything |
| Bauda Sporelights |
| Be'lakor Vessels |
| Beast Modulus BEING |
| Bedowyn Blood of the Fall |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Bloc Party A Weekend in the City |
| Bloc Party Intimacy |
| Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun |
| Bosse-de-Nage All Fours |
| Bosse-de-Nage Further Still |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss |
| Children of Nova Impossible Landscape |
| Circa Survive The Amulet |
| Circa Survive Juturna |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go |
| Cloudkicker Little Histories |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension |
| Cormorant Earth Diver |
| Cormorant Diaspora |
| Cyanotic Tech Noir |
| Dan Terminus Automated Refrains |
| Dance Gavin Dance Afterburner |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence |
| Dir En Grey Arche |
| Dynfari The Four Doors of the Mind |
| Eidola To Speak, to Listen |
| Enmarta The Hermit |
| Evan Brewer Alone |
| Fifth Density Dominion of the Sun |
| Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful |
| Gygax Critical Hits |
| High on Fire Luminiferous |
| Holyarrow Oath of Allegiance |
| IIVII Invasion |
| Illyria Illyria |
| In Mourning Afterglow |
| Intronaut Void |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts |
| Kurt Travis There's a Place I Want to Take You |
| Leprous The Congregation |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight |
| Liturgy The Ark Work |
| Lychgate An Antidote for the Glass Pill |
| Mastodon Remission |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason |
| Moebius (ITA) Hybris |
Based on the theme and tone, Hybris feels like Moebius wanted to strap you into an infernal drilling machine and send
you on your way to the center of the earth. Over the course of the 50+ minute subterranean trip, you'll notice an
assemblage of familiar 2000s prog metal components holds the vessel together; dizzying labyrinths of metric
modulation/rhythmic layering, acid-drenched harsh vocals, tribal drum interludes, piston-like riffs, and a smattering of
atmospheric guitar leads for good measure. An even closer look reveals meticulous attention to detail, such as using
morse code to build long rhythmic compositions, and a truly astonishing performance by drummer Valentino Sanna.
Unfortunately, the entire run-length blurs together into what traveling underground in a drill machine is probably actually
like -- a long-winded and monochrome experience. The real weak link here is vocalist Matteo Guida's performance,
whose caustic delivery is appropriate, but woefully repetitive. Occasionally we're treated to some refreshing
instrumental virtuosity, ambient textures, or gojira-inspired vocal harmonies, but they're never more than 10 seconds
away from being snuffed out by a barrage of growls you swore you already heard 2 tracks ago.
Overall, it's perfectly fine to throw on for a couple tracks (Uranium and Coal have been on my math metal playlist for a
while) but that's about all I can stomach in one sitting.
For fans of: Meshuggah, Tool, and Gojira (in that order) |
| Moonspell Extinct |
| Mountaineer Sirens & Slumber |
| Mouth Of The Architect Dawning |
| Mutoid Man War Moans |
| Ne Obliviscaris Sarabande to Nihil |
| Nightwish Endless Forms Most Beautiful |
| October Tide Winged Waltz |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth Pale Communion |
| Palms Palms |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty |
| Periphery Clear |
| Pyramids A Northern Meadow |
| Rwake Rest |
| Sannhet Revisionist |
| Scale the Summit V |
| Septicflesh Titan |
| Show Me A Dinosaur Show Me A Dinosaur |
| Sigh Graveward |
| Slowdive Slowdive (LP) |
| Soen Lykaia |
| Source Return to Nothing |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning |
| TesseracT Polaris |
| Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail |
| The Caretaker Everywhere at the End of Time |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne |
| The Devil Wears Prada 8:18 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Faceless Autotheism |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| This Will Destroy You Another Language |
| Toothgrinder Phantom Amour |
| Toundra IV |
| Unprocessed Artificial Void |
| Unreqvited Mosaic II: la déteste et la détresse |
| Veil of Maya Matriarch |
| Wintersun Time I |
| xSPONGEXCOREx How Tough Are Yah? |
| Zeal and Ardor Devil is Fine |
