| 4.0 excellent |
| 2Pac All Eyez on Me |
| 40 Watt Sun The Inside Room |
| 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| Addaura Burning for the Ancient |
| Aeroc Viscous Solid |
| AES Dana Memory Shell |
| AFX Hangable Auto Bulb EP |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes |
| Agrypnie F51.4 |
| Airs Rainclouds over the Remains of Hope |
This album is unarguably interesting. The black metal/shoegaze wave that has been sweeping over the scene may have found an emergent voice in Airs. The atmosphere is unmistakably black metal, yet the guitar's shimmering and the ethereal vocals bring to mind Slowdive or the Catherine Wheel. The songs are lengthy and show some post rock influence. The only drawback is a lack of consistency. Track two seems as if the beginning was chopped off during production, and track eight doesn't belong on this album at all. Despite those flaws, this is a very nice listen and this could be one of the better acts in its genre with a little more cohesiveness.
edit: I just listened to Gloomlights, and it looks like Airs has decided to change directions. Their music has no black metal influence at all, and reminded me of Blink182. Very disappointing. |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune |
| Alda Tahoma |
| Alice in Chains Sap |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies |
| Alice in Chains Facelift |
| Altar of Plagues Mammal |
| Altar of Plagues Sol |
| Ametsub Linear Cryptics |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Only The Ocean Knows |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Hearts Of Light/Blossoms |
| Annorkoth Annorkoth |
| Annorkoth The Last Days |
| Holy shit! It's the black metal m83! |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do |
| Appalachian Winter Winter Eternal |
| Appalachian Winter Appalachian Winter |
| Appalachian Winter Ghosts of the Mountains |
| This is a really unique black metal venture. AW borrows alot of civil war era musical technique... from the way certain passages are chanted to flutes and fiddles. Eastcoast USBM at it's finest. It's very epic in some places where the folk metal almost transcends to viking metal. I can't explain exactly what happens in Patriarchs, but it's one of the strangest black metal songs I've ever heard. Any fan of black, folk, or even viking metal should definitely check this. |
| Arovane Ve Palor |
| Arovane Atol Scrap |
| Arovane Lilies |
| Arovane Tides |
| Asura Life2 |
| Asura Code Eternity |
| Ataraxie Anhedonie |
| Aurore Rien Telesthesia |
| Austere To Lay Like Old Ashes |
| Autechre Exai |
| Time to commit seppuku, MisterTornado. The album's really good, so at least you'll have something nice to listen to on your way out |
| Autechre Incunabula |
| Autechre Chiastic Slide |
| Autechre LP5 |
| Autechre Draft 7.30 |
| Autechre Cichlisuite |
| Autechre Anvil Vapre |
| Autechre Garbage |
| Autechre Oversteps |
| Bal-Sagoth Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne |
| Baroness Blue Record |
| Baroness Red Album |
| Bathory The Return of the Darkness and Evil |
| Bathory Twilight of the Gods |
| Battle Of Mice A Day of Nights |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach |
| Be'lakor The Frail Tide |
| Behemoth Demigod |
| Behemoth Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic) |
| Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond) |
| Belong October Language |
| Belong Colorloss Record |
| Biosphere Dropsonde |
| Biosphere Cirque |
| Biosphere Substrata |
| Bitcrush Epilogue in Waves |
| Bitcrush Of Embers |
| Fans of Lights Out Asia, Hammock, and m83 should check this out. |
| Black Dog Productions Bytes |
| Blindead Affliction XXIX II MCMXCVI |
| Blindead Autoscopia: Murder In Phazes |
| Blindead Absence |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase |
| Boards of Canada Hi Scores |
| Boards of Canada A Few Old Tunes |
| Bola Soup |
| Bonobo The North Borders |
| Bright Eyes Letting Off the Happiness |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
| Bruce Dickinson Accident of Birth |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var |
| Callisto Noir |
| Carach Angren Where the Corpses Sink Forever |
| Carach Angren Death Came Through a Phantom Ship |
| Carach Angren Lammendam |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Interloper |
| Casino Versus Japan Whole Numbers Play the Basics |
| Ceephax Cro Magnox |
| Wow, I didn't expect this. Awesome album. |
| Cerna Restoring Life |
| Cobalt Gin |
| Cold Body Radiation The Great White Emptiness |
| Coldworld Melancholie² |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast |
| Cradle of Filth Midian |
| Cryptic Wintermoon The Age of Cataclysm |
| Csejthe Reminiscence |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal |
| Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom |
| Cult of Luna The Beyond |
| CunninLynguists Dirty Acres |
| CunninLynguists Southernunderground |
| CunninLynguists Will Rap For Food |
| Current 93 Black Ships Ate the Sky |
| Current 93 Soft Black Stars |
| Current 93 Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre |
| Current 93 Earth Covers Earth |
| Current 93 Imperium |
| Current 93 Sleep Has His House |
| Cynic Focus |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Dammerfarben Herbstpfad |
| This album was largely ignored on sputnik this year. It is popular on certain blogs, but it appears that the name Dammerfarben has yet to make itself heard on this website. It is a shame, because they have released two fantastic albums which deserve more coverage then they've been getting. If you enjoy Wyrd, Finsterforst, or Drudkh you will enjoy this. It's available for free download, so there's no reason not to check Dammerfarben out. Highly recommended. |
| Dargaard In Nomine Aeternitatis |
| Dargaard The Dissolution of Eternity |
| Dargaard Rise and Fall |
| Daylight Dies Idle |
| Daylight Dies No Reply |
| Daylight Dies Lost to the Living |
| Daylight Dies A Frail Becoming |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah |
| Death Leprosy |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Delarosa and Asora Agony Part 1 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Unstille |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Der Weg Einer Freiheit |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Agonie |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant |
| Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst |
| Dissection The Somberlain |
| Doom VS Aeternum Vale |
| Doom VS Dead Words Speak |
| Dr. Dre 2001 |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic |
| Draconian Turning Season Within |
| Draconian Where Lovers Mourn |
| dredg Leitmotif |
| dredg Catch Without Arms |
| Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel |
| Drudkh Microcosmos |
| Drudkh Estrangement |
| Drudkh Forgotten Legends |
| Edge of Sanity The Spectral Sorrows |
| Ef Ceremonies |
| Ef I Am Responsible |
| Einherjer Norwegian Native Art |
| Eluveitie Spirit |
| Eluveitie Slania |
| Eluvium An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death |
| Elvenking Heathenreel |
| Emeralds Does It Look Like I'm Here? |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
| Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire... |
| Enabl.ed Dips33 EP |
| Encircling Sea Écru |
| Encircling Sea A Forgotten Land |
| Enshine Origin |
| Ensiferum Iron |
| Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi |
| Enslaved Eld |
| Enslaved Mardraum - Beyond the Within |
| Enslaved Monumension |
| Enslaved Ruun |
| Enslaved Vertebrae |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Children of the Dark Waters |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Chaotic Beauty |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Before the Bleeding Sun |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow A Virgin and a Whore |
| Exivious Liminal |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence |
| Falconer Falconer |
| Falconer Northwind |
| Falconer Chapters from a Vale Forlorn |
| Fall of Efrafa Tharn |
| Fall of Efrafa Elil |
| Falls of Rauros Hail Wind and Hewn Oak |
| Fallujah Nomadic |
| Fallujah The Harvest Wombs |
| Fauna Avifauna |
| Six 4s in a row. What else needs to be said? |
| Fen Dustwalker |
| Fennesz Plus Forty Seven Degrees... |
| Flourishing The Sum of All Fossils |
| Forest Stream Tears of Mortal Solitude |
| Four Tet Pause |
| Four Tet There is Love in You |
| Fridge The Sun |
| Fridge Eph |
| Gang Starr The Ownerz |
| Gas Zauberberg |
| Gas Königsforst |
| Gas Pop |
| Global Communication Pentamerous Metamorphosis |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright |
| God Is an Astronaut Far from Refuge |
| God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut |
| God Is an Astronaut The End of the Beginning |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Gorgoroth Pentagram |
| Gorgoroth Antichrist |
| Gorgoroth Under the Sign of Hell |
| Gorguts Considered Dead |
| Graveland Memory and Destiny |
| Gridlock Further |
| Gridlock Trace |
| Gris Il Était Une Forêt... |
| Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat |
| I can't believe these are B-Sides to DADDUAH. This is just as good, if not better. If 2013 ended today, this would probably be my AOTY. |
| Grouper A I A |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill |
| Gwynbleidd Nostalgia |
| Hammock Stranded Under Endless Sky |
| Hammock Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow |
| Hammock Chasing After Shadows...Living with the Ghosts |
| Hammock Oblivion Hymns |
| Helios Caesura |
| Hol Baumann Human |
| Huldra Monuments, Monoliths |
| I Am Robot and Proud Touch/Tone |
| I Am Robot and Proud The Electricity in Your House Wants to Sing |
| Ihsahn angL |
| Ihsahn The Adversary |
| Ihsahn Eremita |
| Ikuinen Kaamos The Forlorn |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay |
| In Flames Clayman |
| In Flames Colony |
| In Flames Whoracle |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans |
| In Vain (NO) Aenigma |
| I predict seeing this on many a year-end list. their strongest work by far. |
| In Vain (NO) The Latter Rain |
| Inferi (FIN) Shores of Sorrow |
| Insomnium Across the Dark |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow |
| Interpol Antics |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth |
| ISIS Celestial |
| Jatun Jatun |
| Jatun Blanket Of Ash |
| Jedi Mind Tricks The Psycho-Social |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell |
| Jega Geometry |
| Jesu Jesu |
| Jesu Conqueror |
| Jesu Silver |
| Judas Iscariot Of Great Eternity |
| Judas Iscariot Distant In Solitary Night |
| Judas Iscariot Heaven In Flames |
| July Skies The English Cold |
| Kalmah Swampsong |
| Kalmah Swamplord |
| Kalmah The Black Waltz |
| Kalmah 12 Gauge |
| Kauan Lumikuuro |
| Kauan Kuu.. |
| Kauan Pirut |
| Kettel Unreleased (2002-2012) |
| Kettel and u-Ziq have both released unreleased material albums this year. Hopefully RDJ is next. |
| Kettel My Dogan |
| Kettel Myam James - Part 2 |
| Kettel Through Friendly Waters |
| Kettel Cenny Crush |
| Khoma All Erodes |
| Khoma A Final Storm |
| King Apathy The Elk |
| Klabautamann Der Ort |
| Klabautamann Merkur |
| Kona Triangle Sing a New Sapling Into Existence |
| Krallice Krallice |
| Krallice Years Past Matter |
| Lantlos Agape |
| Lantlos Lantlos |
| Last Days Sea |
| Lifelover Konkurs |
| Light Bearer Silver Tongue |
| This website is ruled by trends. The new Darkthrone release is a shining example of that. Once so many people had rated the album a 5, it became difficult for anyone to rate it negatively. Alot of people who didn't even like the album rated it a 4, or 3.5, to be conservative. It couldn't possibly be a 2, because to so many others it was flawless. It is difficult to rate something without taking everyone else's opinions into consideration. This album has fallen foul to another trend, and the trend here is to dislike the album. Give the first and last track respect, and disregard the remainder. Well, I disagree. The entire album is fantastic. There are no bookends, every track is great. Light Bearer embraces the "post-" aspect of their music, and they take time to build crescendos and develop atmosphere. To the impatient, this causes the album to appear drawn out and boring. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you haven't listened to this, I hope you will disregard the trendy negativity and listen to it with an open mind. You will not be disappointed. |
| Lights Out Asia Hy-Brasil |
| Lights Out Asia In The Days Of Jupiter |
| Limbonic Art In Abhorrence Dementia |
| Limbonic Art Ad Noctum - Dynasty Of Death |
| Lone Lemurian |
| Loscil Submers |
| Loscil Sketches From New Brighton |
| Loscil Endless Falls |
| Lovesliescrushing Ghost Colored Halo |
| Lovesliescrushing Voirshn |
| Lovesliescrushing Glissceule |
| Lurker Of Chalice Lurker Of Chalice |
| M83 M83 |
| Mael Mordha Gealtacht Mael Mórdha |
| Manetheren Time |
| wow |
| Masta Ace Take A Look Around |
| Matmos The West |
| Matmos' best |
| Maybeshewill Not For Want Of Trying |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone |
| Melankoli Wind |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Midas Fall Wilderness |
| This album is beautiful. |
| Minsk Out of a Center Which is Neither Dead nor Alive |
| Mithotyn King of the Distant Forest |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Mono One Step More and You Die |
| Mono For My Parents |
| Mono You Are There |
| Morgion Cloaked By Ages, Crowned In Earth |
| Mournful Congregation Tears from a Grieving Heart |
| Mournful Congregation The June Frost |
| Mourning Beloveth Dust |
| Mourning Beloveth A Disease for the Ages |
| Mourning Beloveth Formless |
| the 1984 references were pretty cool. |
| Mouse on Mars Iaora Tahiti |
| Mouth Of The Architect Time and Withering |
| mum Finally We Are No One |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| Myrkgrav Trollskau, Skromt og Kolabrenning |
| Nas Stillmatic |
| Near The Parenthesis Music for the Forest Concourse |
| Near The Parenthesis Of Soft Construction |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| October Falls The Plague of a Coming Age |
| October Tide Grey Dawn |
| Odium (NOR) The Sad Realm of the Stars |
| Of the Wand and the Moon :Emptiness:Emptiness:Emptiness: |
| Of the Wand and the Moon Nighttime Nightrhymes |
| Omega Massif Karpatia |
| Omnium Gatherum The Redshift |
| Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows |
| Omnium Gatherum Beyond |
| Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven |
| ~lol~r |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Valonielu |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below |
| OutKast Stankonia |
| Oval Pre/Commers |
| Oval Szenariodisk |
| Oval Ovalprocess |
| Pallbearer Demo 2010 |
| Pan American Cloud Room, Glass Room |
| Pelican City of Echoes |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... |
| Pelican Australasia |
| Persefone Truth Inside the Shades |
| Persefone Shin-Ken |
| Persefone Spiritual Migration |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Plaid Double Figure |
| Plaid Not for Threes |
| port-royal Afraid to Dance |
| port-royal Flares |
| Portal Swarth |
| Portico Quartet Isla |
| Prefuse 73 One Word Extinguisher |
| Primordial Storm Before Calm |
| Primordial To the Nameless Dead |
| Primordial Spirit the Earth Aflame |
| Procession (CL) To Reap Heavens Apart |
| Proem Socially Inept |
| Proem Among Others |
| Proem You Shall Have Ever Been |
| Proem A Permanent Solution |
| Progenie Terrestre Pura U.M.A. |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Raison D'Etre Requiem for Abandoned Souls |
| Raison D'Etre Within the Depths of Silence and Phormations |
| Raison D'Etre In Sadness, Silence and Solitude |
| Raison D'Etre Metamorphyses |
| Rapture Silent Stage |
| Rapture Futile |
| Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn |
| Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... |
| Rhapsody of Fire Symphony of Enchanted Lands |
| Rhapsody of Fire Power of the Dragonflame |
| Russian Circles Enter |
| Russian Circles Station |
| Sadistik The Balancing Act |
| Sadistik Flowers for My Father |
| This is the best indie-hop act since Personal Journals. Or maybe since First Born. |
| Sage Francis Human The Death Dance |
| Saturnus Veronika Decides to Die |
| Saturnus Saturn in Ascension |
| Saturnus Martyre |
| Savath y Savalas Folk Songs for Trains, Trees, and Honey |
| Saxon Shore Be a Bright Blue |
| Seefeel Quique |
| Shape of Despair Angels of Distress |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
| Skagos Anarchic |
| Skepticism Alloy |
| Sleep Dealer The Way Home |
| Sleep Dealer Shadows Of The Past |
| Sleeping Peonies Ghosts, and Other Things |
| Sol Invictus Trees in Winter |
| Sol Invictus The Hill of Crosses |
| Solar Fields Altered - Second Movements |
| Solar Fields Extended |
| Solar Fields Movements |
| Solar Fields Blue Moon Station |
| Sombres Forets La Mort du Soleil |
| Sombres Forets Royaume De Glace |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Squarepusher Square Window |
| Squarepusher Budakhan Mindphone |
| Squarepusher Big Loada |
| Squarepusher Selection Sixteen |
| Squarepusher Go Plastic |
| Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid |
| Stars of the Lid The Ballasted Orchestra |
| Summoning Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame |
| Summoning Oath Bound |
| Summoning Old Mornings Dawn |
| Susumu Yokota Sakura |
| Swallow the Sun Emerald Forest and the Blackbird |
| Swallow the Sun Hope |
| Swallow the Sun Ghosts of Loss |
| Telefon Tel Aviv Fahrenheit Fair Enough |
| Telefon Tel Aviv Map of What Is Effortless |
| Telefon Tel Aviv Immolate Yourself |
| Tenhi Airut: Aamujen |
| Tenhi Saivo |
| The Advisory Circle As The Crow Flies |
| The American Dollar A Memory Stream |
| The American Dollar The Technicolour Sleep |
| The American Dollar The American Dollar |
| The Cure Faith |
| The Cure The Head on the Door |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me |
| The Dead Texan The Dead Texan |
| The Flight of Sleipnir Saga |
| The Flight of Sleipnir Algiz + Berkanan |
| The Great Old Ones Al Azif |
| The Mire Glass Cathedrals |
| The Morningside The Wind, The Trees And The Shadows... |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death |
| The Ocean Aeolian |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| Thurisaz Circadian Rhythm |
| Thursday Full Collapse |
| Thursday No Devolucion |
| Thursday Common Existence |
| Thy Catafalque Microcosmos |
| Thy Catafalque Rengeteg |
| Thy Light No Morrow Shall Dawn |
| Thy Serpent Forests of Witchery |
| Tim Hecker Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again |
| Tim Hecker An Imaginary Country |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 |
| Tipper The Seamless Unspeakable Something |
| Tipper The Critical Path |
| Tombs Winter Hours |
| Tombs Path of Totality |
| Tortoise Tortoise |
| Tortoise Standards |
| Trespassers William Different Stars |
| Trespassers William Having |
| Tycho Dive |
| u-Ziq Lunatic Harness |
| u-Ziq Tango N' Vectif |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire |
| Ulcerate Vermis |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun |
| Vagrond Temporal |
| Vali Forlatt |
| Vallendusk Vallendusk |
| Ved Buens Ende Written In Waters |
| Vindensang Alpha |
| Vindensang Terminus: Rebirth in Eight Parts... |
| Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter |
| Vintersorg Orkan |
| Vintersorg Cosmic Genesis |
| We Lost the Sea Crimea |
| Whirr Distressor |
| Windir Soknardalr |
| Winterfylleth The Mercian Sphere |
| Winterfylleth The Threnody of Triumph |
| Wintersun Time I |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade |
| Woods of Desolation Toward the Depths |
| Woods of Desolation As the Stars |
| Woods of Ypres Pursuit of the Sun & Allure of the Earth |
| World's End Girlfriend Starry Starry Night Soundtrack |
| World's End Girlfriend Ending Story |
| World's End Girlfriend Farewell Kingdom |
| Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| Wyrd The Ghost Album |
| Wyrd Vargtimmen pt.I |
| Wyrd Heathen |
| Xela For Frosty Mornings and Summer Nights |
| Yasume Where we're from the Birds Sing a Pretty Song |
| Year of No Light Ausserwelt |
| Year of No Light Nord |
| Zodiak Sermons |
| 3.5 great |
| 1349 Hellfire |
| 1349 Beyond the Apocalypse |
| A Storm Of Light And We Wept The Black Ocean Within |
| A Storm Of Light Forgive Us Our Trespasses |
| A Storm Of Light As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us... |
| Aenaon Extance |
| Aeroc R+B=? |
| Aerosol Airborne |
| AES Dana Perimeters |
| AES Dana Aftermath |
| AES Dana Leylines |
| AES Dana Pollen |
| Akercocke Choronzon |
| Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken... |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme |
| Alda Alda |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains |
| Alrakis Alpha Eri |
| Altar of Plagues Tides |
| Amenra Mass V |
| Ametsub The Nothings Of The North |
| Ametsub All Is Silence |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Everything |
| Arovane Icol Diston |
| ASC Out Of Sync |
| ASC The Astral Traveller |
| ASC Nothing Is Certain |
| ASC Time Heals All |
| Asura 360 |
| Asura Lost Eden |
| Autechre Untilted |
| Autechre Move Of Ten |
| Autechre Peel Session |
| Autechre Peel Session 2 |
| Autechre Envane |
| Autechre Anti |
| Autechre Quaristice |
| Autechre L-event |
| Bal-Sagoth Battle Magic |
| Bal-Sagoth Atlantis Ascendant |
| Bal-Sagoth The Power Cosmic |
| Bathory Nordland II |
| Bathory Nordland I |
| Bathory Blood on Ice |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone |
| Behemoth Evangelion |
| Behemoth The Apostasy |
| Behemoth Satanica |
| Behemoth Pandemonic Incantations |
| Behemoth Grom |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Bibio Mind Bokeh |
| Biosphere Shenzhou |
| Biosphere N-Plants |
| Bitcrush In Distance |
| Bitcrush Shimmer and Fade |
| Bitcrush Collapse |
| Blindead Devouring Weakness |
| Boards of Canada Twoism |
| Boards of Canada Boc Maxima |
| Boards of Canada Closes Volume 1 |
| Bola Fyuti |
| Bright Eyes A Collection Of Songs Written And Recorded '95-'97 |
| Callisto Providence |
| Callisto True Nature Unfolds |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Hydroponic Garden |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Twentythree |
| Clad In Darkness Amidst Her Shadows |
| Cloudkicker Subsume |
| Cobalt Eater of Birds |
| Cradle of Filth Damnation and a Day |
| Cult of Luna Cult of Luna |
| Current 93 Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain |
| Dark Moor Tarot |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Talk about a hype album! This is alright, but nothing new. There's better blackgaze out there. |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore |
| Death Spiritual Healing |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum |
| Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia |
| Dimmu Borgir Spiritual Black Dimensions |
| Dornenreich Her Von Welken Nächten |
| Draconian The Burning Halo |
| Draconian A Rose for the Apocalypse |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion |
| Drudkh Handful of Stars |
| Drudkh Songs of Grief and Solitude |
| East of the Wall Redaction Artifacts |
| Edge of Sanity Unorthodox |
| Ef Mourning Golden Morning |
| Einherjer Odin Owns Ye All |
| Eluveitie Helvetios |
| Eluvium Lambent Material |
| Eluvium Static Nocturne |
| Eluvium Nightmare Ending |
| Elvenking The Winter Wake |
| Elvenking Wyrd |
| Emeralds Emeralds |
| Emeralds' self-titled release seems to be a declaration of new identity for the project. With this release, Emeralds takes theri second tentative step into ambient tinged with progressive electronic reminiscent of Tangerine Dream. This album is comparable to Does It Look Like I'm Here? but is perhaps not as successful in capturing the sound that Emeralds achieved on their next album. This is a worthwhile listen for fans of Emeralds' later work. |
| Emeralds What Happened |
| Emeralds The Overlook |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium |
| Encircling Sea I |
| Ensiferum Unsung Heroes |
| Enslaved Blodhemn |
| Entropia (PL) Vesper |
| Do you use sputnik? Want realistic album ratings? If so, subtract a half star from each album and you're in business. |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Saivon Lapsi |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care |
| Falconer Armod |
| Falconer Among Beggars and Thieves |
| Falls of Rauros Into the Archaic (Demo) |
| Fauna The Hunt |
| Fennesz Black Sea |
| Fennesz Hotel paral.lel |
| Flourishing A Momentary Sense of the Immediate World |
| Forest Stream The Crown of Winter |
| Forgotten Tomb Songs to Leave |
| Forgotten Tomb Springtime Depression |
| Four Tet Dialogue |
| Four Tet Everything Ecstatic |
| Four Tet Pink |
| Four Tet 0181 |
| Fridge Semaphore |
| Frigoris Wind |
| Frosttide Awakening |
| Gallowbraid Ashen Eidolon |
| Gas Gas |
| God Is an Astronaut Origins |
| God Is an Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun |
| Gorgoroth Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam |
| Grey Waters Below The Ever Setting Sun |
| Gris Neurasthénie |
| GZA Beneath the Surface |
| Hammock Asleep in the Downlights |
| Hecq Horror Vacui |
| Helios Moiety |
| Helios Unleft |
| Helios Ayres |
| Ikuinen Kaamos Fall of Icons |
| Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy |
| In Mourning Monolith |
| In Vain (NO) Mantra |
| Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations |
| Nothing but clean vocals? I hope this is a Damnation kind of situation. |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| Iron Maiden Killers |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Visions of Gandhi |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Violence Begets Violence |
| Jega Spectrum |
| Jega Variance |
| Jesu Ascension |
| Jesu Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came |
| Jex Thoth Blood Moon Rise |
| Judas Iscariot Thy Dying Light |
| July Skies The Weather Clock |
| July Skies Dreaming of Spires |
| Kalmah Seventh Swamphony |
| A 5 should have no stand out tracks. Every track should be of consistent quality. If just a few tracks stood out, it wouldn't be a 5. |
| Kauan Tietäjän Laulu |
| Kettel Smiling Little Cow |
| Kettel Volleyed Iron |
| Kettel Myam James - Part 1 |
| Kettel Whisper Me Wishes |
| King Apathy Eine Momentaufnahme - Der Rest ist nur Einsamkeit |
| Klabautamann The Old Chamber |
| Klabautamann Our Journey Through the Woods |
| Krallice Diotima |
| Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough |
| Last Days These Places Are Now Ruins |
| Last Days The Safety of the North |
| Limbonic Art Epitome Of Illusions |
| Loscil Plume |
| Loscil First Narrows |
| Loscil Triple Point |
| Lovesliescrushing Bloweyelashwish |
| Lovesliescrushing Tiny Shiny Stars |
| Lovesliescrushing Girl. Echo. Suns. Veils. |
| Lovesliescrushing Chorus |
| Lovesliescrushing Glinter |
| M83 Digital Shades Vol. 1 |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth |
| M83 Oblivion (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |
| Manegarm Legions of the North |
| Probably the best Viking Metal album of the year so far. |
| Matmos The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast |
| Matmos A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure |
| Matmos The Marriage of True Minds |
| This is Matmos' most experimental foray so far. Glitch often gets bogged down when musicians attempt to stay within the confines of accessibility. The Marriage of True Minds was created without such reservation - it is coarse, abrasive, and whimsical to the extreme, and that is the very philosophy of glitch. There is very little consistency to the album; the tracks are short, disparate forays into various concepts that once ended are dismissed and a new direction is taken. There are fleeting moments of brilliance that come to rapid fruition, but they then wilt just as quickly. This hasn't gotten very much play from me this year, but neither has it fallen completely out of circulation. A worthwhile listen for an old fan, but not an appropriate introduction for someone trying to get into Matmos' work. |
| Matryoshka Zatracenie |
| Matryoshka Laideronnette |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Minsk With Echoes in the Movement of Stone |
| Miserere Luminis Miserere Luminis |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Morgion Among Majestic Ruin |
| Mourning Beloveth A Murderous Circus |
| Mouse on Mars Autoditacker |
| Moving Mountains Waves |
| mum Smilewound |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v |
| Nas It Was Written |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Near The Parenthesis Japanese For Beginners |
| Near The Parenthesis L 'Eixample |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Nirvana Incesticide |
| Noumena Anatomy of Life |
| Obscure Sphinx Void Mother |
| October Tide Tunnel of No Light |
| October Tide A Thin Shell |
| Of the Wand and the Moon Shall Love Fall From View? |
| Of the Wand and the Moon Lucifer |
| Olafur Arnalds For Now I Am Winter |
| Omega Massif Kalt |
| Omega Massif Geisterstadt |
| Omnium Gatherum Stuck Here on Snakes Way |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Kosmonument |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Muukalainen Puhuu |
| Oval Dok |
| Oval Wohnton |
| Oval Calidostópia! |
| Markus Popp (of Oval) went to Brazil and recorded this 16 track collaboration with seven artists that he had never met before over a ten day period. Each day Popp would show up at the Goethe Institute and would be introduced to a South American singer participating in the project. They'd spend the remainder of the day recording, and Calidostopia! is the cumulative effort of those seven recording sessions. He utilized previously recorded and unreleased material in the production of this album. The album was then released for free, funded by the Goethe Institute and the Cultural Foundation of the State of Bahia. Only a producer as talented as Popp could possibly pull something like this so smoothly and naturally. The Oval aspect of the release is what primarily concerns me, however I am not disappointed that glitch takes the passenger seat here. It's not something I would normally seek out, but it's very cool for what it is. |
| Panopticon Collapse |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need |
| Pelican Forever Becoming |
| Pelican Deny the Absolute/The Truce |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
| Pink Floyd More |
| Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds |
| port-royal Dying in Time |
| Portal Vexovoid |
| Primordial Redemption at the Puritan's Hand |
| Procession (CL) Destroyers Of The Faith |
| Proem Burn Plate No. 1 |
| Proem Negativ |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Raison D'Etre Lost fragments 2CD |
| Raison D'Etre Enthralled by the Wind of Loneliness |
| Raison D'Etre The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium |
| Red Sparowes The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein... |
| Red Sparowes Aphorism |
| Rosetta The Anaesthete |
| Russian Circles Memorial |
| Sage Francis Li(f)e |
| Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost |
| Sigur Ros Von |
| Skagos Ast |
| Sleeping Peonies Rose Curl, Sea Swirl |
| Solar Fields EarthShine |
| Solar Fields Origin #01 |
| Solar Fields Reflective Frequencies |
| Solar Fields Origin #02 |
| Sombres Forets Quintessence |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside |
| Squarepusher Do You Know Squarepusher |
| Squarepusher Ufabulum |
| Squarepusher Hello Everything |
| Squarepusher Just a Souvenir |
| Stendeck Sonnambula |
| Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam |
| Summoning Lugburz |
| Sun of the Blind Skullreader |
| Susumu Yokota Symbol |
| Swallow the Sun New Moon |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| The American Dollar Ambient Three |
| The American Dollar Awake In The City |
| The American Dollar Atlas |
| The Cure Three Imaginary Boys |
| The Cure Boys Don't Cry |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds |
| The Cure Wish |
| The Morningside TreeLogia (The Album As it is Not) |
| The Morningside Moving Crosscurrent of Time |
| The Notwist Shrink |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric |
| Thranenkind/Heretoir Wiedersehen - Unsere Hoffnung |
| Threnos By Blood and By Earth |
| Thurisaz The Cimmerian Years |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided |
| Tipper Tip Hop |
| Tipper Broken Soul Jamboree |
| Tipper Wobble Factor |
| Tipper Holding Pattern |
| Tool Opiate |
| Tortoise A Lazarus Taxon |
| Trespassers William Cast |
| Twine :reference: |
| Tycho Sunrise Projector |
| u-Ziq Royal Astronomy |
| u-Ziq In Pine Effect |
| u-Ziq Chewed Corners |
| Ulcerate The Coming of Genocide (Reissue) |
| Ulcerate Of Fracture and Failure |
| Ulver Blood Inside |
| Ulver Svidd Neger OST |
| Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X |
| Vaura The Missing |
| Vintersorg Jordpuls |
| Vintersorg The Focusing Blur |
| Vintersorg Visions From The Spiral Generator |
| Vreid Welcome Farewell |
| Warning The Strength to Dream |
| Whirr Pipe Dreams |
| Whirr June |
| Winterfylleth The Ghost Of Heritage |
| Woods of Desolation Sorh |
| World's End Girlfriend Seven Idiots |
| Wyrd Kammen |
| Wyrd Rota |
| Year of No Light Tocsin |
