| 4.5 superb |
| Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties Routine Maintenance |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset |
| AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People |
| AJJ The Bible 2 |
| Alkaline Trio Is This Thing Cursed? |
| All Time Low Don't Panic: It's Longer Now! |
| Straight up the best pop punk album of the 2010s. All killer, no filler. |
| Amorphis Under the Red Cloud |
| Anthrax Among the Living |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| Armored Saint Raising Fear |
| Artificial Language The Observer |
| As Paradise Falls Save Yourself |
| Aspherium The Fall of Therenia |
| Aspid Extravasation |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul |
| Avatarium The Girl With The Raven Mask |
| Back Up Kid Day Dreamer |
| Bad Religion No Control |
| Bad Religion Generator |
| Bad Religion Suffer |
| Ball Park Music Every Night The Same Dream |
| Battlecross Rise to Power |
| Bearings (CAN) Nothing Here Is Permanent |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Black Matter Device AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS |
| absolutely fucking slaps dick into the next century |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth |
| Blind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Side |
| Blind Guardian A Night at the Opera |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State |
| Blood Command Cult Drugs |
| Bone Thugs-N-Harmony E 1999 Eternal |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Brockhampton SATURATION II |
| Camel Moonmadness |
| Camel The Snow Goose |
| Can't Swim This Too Won't Pass |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled |
| Chapel of Disease ...And as We Have Seen the Storm |
| Chat Pile God's Country |
| Christian Death Only Theatre of Pain |
| Cobra Skulls Agitations |
| Colosso Obnoxious |
| Coroner Mental Vortex |
| Crabhammer Peer Pressure at a High School Party |
| Cradle of Filth Midian |
| Cyborg Octopus Learning To Breathe |
| Dark Moor The Hall of the Olden Dreams |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| Dead! The Golden Age of Not Even Trying |
| Death Angel The Evil Divide |
| I was just expecting a solid jam, but this is actually a stellar thrash album and probably DA's best release since their debut. |
| Denzel Curry Imperial |
| Denzel Curry Zuu |
| Destrage A Means to No End |
| Desultory Through Aching Aeons |
| Dio Holy Diver |
| Dire Peril The Extraterrestrial Compendium |
This is the best power metal record I’ve heard in years...and, believe me, I’ve listened to
a lot of power metal records. |
| Direct Hit! Wasted Mind |
| Earth Rot Renascentia |
| Emarosa 131 |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face |
| Eternity's End The Fire Within |
| Every Time I Die A Colossal Wreck // Desperate Pleasures |
| Desperate Pleasures might be my SOTY. A full length of this caliber is a hard 5 |
| Every Time I Die Radical |
| Exodus Tempo of the Damned |
| Firelink Firelink |
| Foxing Nearer My God |
| Frontierer Oxidized |
| Gatecreeper An Unexpected Reality |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Gloryhammer Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Gonemage Sudden Deluge |
| Gotsu Totsu Kotsu Where Warriors Once Dreamed a Dream |
| GridLink Longhena |
| Hail the Sun Wake |
| Hail the Sun Culture Scars |
| Hail the Sun New Age Filth |
| Hail the Sun Divine Inner Tension |
| Haken Vector |
| Hath Of Rot And Ruin |
| Hazzerd Misleading Evil |
| this absolutely fucking destroys. god-tier thrash metal. how did this not get more attention?? |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood |
| Heart Dreamboat Annie |
| Heyrocco Teenage Movie Soundtrack |
| Horrendous Idol |
| Houseguest High Strangeness |
| Hyperion (SWE) Seraphical Euphony |
| I the Mighty Satori |
| I the Mighty Connector |
| I the Mighty Karma Never Sleeps |
| I the Mighty Where the Mind Wants to Go / Where You Let it Go |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 1 |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 2 |
| In Dread Response Heavenshore |
| Insomnium Winter's Gate |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time |
| Jade Bird Jade Bird |
| Jeff Rosenstock POST- |
| Jetty Bones Old Women |
| Outstanding indie pop EP. The hooks and melodies on this thing are immaculate. Easily one of the best projects of the year. |
| Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues |
| Joywave How Do You Feel Now? |
| Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny |
| Khemmis Hunted |
| King Buffalo The Burden of Restlessness |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of... |
| King Goat Conduit |
| King Goat Debt Of Aeons |
| Klimt 1918 Dopoguerra |
| Kostnateni Úpal |
| Highly original black metal release. |
| La Dispute Panorama |
| Last Dinosaurs Wellness |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Leprous Malina |
| Leprous Pitfalls |
| Let's Eat Grandma I'm All Ears |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor |
| Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo and Youth |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Second Helping |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Gimme Back My Bullets |
| Make Them Suffer Old Souls |
| Make Them Suffer Worlds Apart |
| With "Worlds Apart," Make Them Suffer prove once again that they can simply do no wrong. |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace |
| Megosh Apostasy |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Millencolin True Brew |
| Misery Signals Controller |
| Molly Tuttle Crooked Tree |
| Mother of Millions Artifacts |
| Movements Feel Something |
| Mutoid Man War Moans |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us |
| Necropanther Eyes of Blue Light |
| Night Verses Into the Vanishing Light |
| Oathbreaker Rheia |
| Obliteration Cenotaph Obscure |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill |
| Persefone Spiritual Migration |
| Perspective, A Lovely Hand to Hold What Not to Do |
| Pierce the Veil Selfish Machines |
| Power Trip Manifest Decimation |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese |
| is it luck is it luck IS IT LUUUCCCCKK ba doo ba da doo bop |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste |
| Psychotic Waltz Bleeding |
| Pusha T DAYTONA |
| Pyramaze Disciples of the Sun |
| Rainbow Rising |
| Rainbow Kitten Surprise How to: Friend, Love, Freefall |
| Razor Shotgun Justice |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Revocation Deathless |
| Rhapsody of Fire Tales from the Emerald Sword Saga |
| Rimfrost Rimfrost |
As far as "Immortal worship" is concerned, Rimfrost's self-titled release is just about as good as
it gets. Fantastic riffs, great vocals, and an excellent production job result in this being a
legitimate contender for AOTY. |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Rising (DK) Sword and Scythe |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 |
| Saidan Onryo II: Her Spirit Eternal |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy |
| Sepultura Arise |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun |
| Shakey Graves Can't Wake Up |
| Shokran Exodus |
| If there's such thing as an "essential" deathcore album, it sounds a whole lot like this. |
| Silverstein This Is How the Wind Shifts |
| Skeletonwitch Serpents Unleashed |
| Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light |
| Slayer Reign in Blood |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Slowdive Just for a Day |
| Smokey Robinson and the Miracles The Fabulous Miracles |
| Soccer Mommy Clean |
| This is extremely good. Please listen to it. It made me feel things. |
| Spellcaster Night Hides the World |
| Stand Atlantic Skinny Dipping |
| Sufferer Sufferer |
| Suffocation Pierced from Within |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Taylor Swift Fearless |
| Teenage Wrist Chrome Neon Jesus |
| The Birthday Massacre Walking With Strangers |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers |
| The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Garden Kiss My Super Bowl Ring |
| The Grand Astoria The Mighty Few |
| The King Is Blind We Are the Parasite, We Are the Cancer |
| The Lulls in Traffic Rabbit in the Snare |
| The Offering Home |
| A staggering achievement. This is everything metal should strive to be in the year 2019. |
| The Regrettes (USA-CA) Feel Your Feelings Fool! |
| The Sidekicks Happiness Hours |
| This absolutely slaps, ladies and gentlemen. Major Turnover vibes with an occasional punk edge. One of the best releases of the year. |
| The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine |
| The xx xx |
| The Zolas Tic Toc Tic |
| They Might Be Giants Flood |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Tigers Jaw spin |
| Touche Amore Stage Four |
| Trials This Ruined World |
| Uada Devoid of Light |
| Unearth The March |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm |
| Vaelmyst Secrypts of the Egochasm |
| Vektor Terminal Redux |
| Vendetta Brain Damage |
| Vexing Grand Reproach |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Weezer The White Album |
| Weezer Maladroit |
| whenyoung Reasons To Dream |
| Wishbone Ash Argus |
| Witchery In His Infernal Majesty's Service |
| This is it. Forget Terminal Redux, this is the best thrash metal album of the year. Raw, concise, and absolutely relentless, Witchery's latest and best offering to date is the all-in-one beatdown that 2016 was sorely lacking. It doesn't overstay its welcome, it never drops in quality, and it sure as hell doesn't fuck around. |
| Yawning Man Macedonian Lines |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 21 Savage, Offset and Metro Boomin Without Warning |
| A Day To Remember Common Courtesy |
| A Will Away Here Again |
| Abbath Abbath |
| Aborted The Necrotic Manifesto |
| Aborted RetroGore |
| Adrenalized Tales From The Last Generation |
| Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid |
| AFI Crash Love |
| AFI Burials |
| AFI The Art of Drowning |
| AJJ Can't Maintain |
| AJJ Good Luck Everybody |
| every ajj album rules and this one is no exception |
| ALAZKA Phoenix |
| Algiers The Underside of Power |
| All Get Out Nobody Likes A Quitter |
| All Get Out No Bouquet |
| All Hell The Grave Alchemist |
| Juicy, riff-laden mix of thrash, punk, and melodic black metal. Blackened Castlevaniacore. |
| All Human Teenagers, You Don't Have to Die |
| Alter Bridge Blackbird |
| Alteras Grief |
| American Head Charge The War Of Art |
| Andres (USA-CA) Strange Memories on this Nervous Night |
| AngelMaker/A Night in Texas Unholy Alliance |
| Anonymuz There Is No Threat |
| Anthrax Worship Music |
| Arcadea Arcadea |
| Arcane Roots Blood and Chemistry |
| Arcane Roots Heaven and Earth |
| Archspire Relentless Mutation |
| As It Is Okay |
| Astronauts, etc. Mind Out Wandering |
| Aversions Crown Xenocide |
| If there's a better deathcore album in existence, I haven't heard it. Early AOTY contender. |
| Bad Luck Drug Phase |
| Bad Religion True North |
| Baroness Purple |
| Bea Miller Aurora |
| Benighted Obscene Repressed |
| Black Royal Firebride |
Tasty slab of sludge with some mouth-watering riffs and a well-executed extreme metal edge. Cover art is
also cool as hell. |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell |
| Bleed from Within Uprising |
| Bleed from Within Era |
| Blind Guardian At the Edge of Time |
| Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror |
| Blind Guardian release another fantastic album by doing what they've always done. Every song ron the album is great in its own way, but highlights include The Throne and The Holy rGrail, the latter being one of my all-time favorite BG tracks. Will likely be one of the rtop 10 metal releases of the year. Highly recommended. |
| Blood Ceremony The Old Ways Remain |
| Blood Youth Beyond Repair |
| Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Brine Kill The Ill |
| Brockhampton Iridescence |
| Canadian Softball Awkward and Depressed |
| This is so fucking brilliant. Holy shit. I'm in love. |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion |
| Carnifex Slow Death |
| Carnosus Visions of Infinihility |
| Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now |
| Charly Bliss Guppy |
| Chevelle La Gárgola |
| Circa Survive The Amulet |
| Citizen As You Please |
| colourblind Move Like You |
| Cradle of Filth Hammer of the Witches |
| Creeper Eternity, In Your Arms |
| Crobot Something Supernatural |
| Crossfaith Zion |
| Cult Leader Lightless Walk |
| Currents The Place I Feel Safest |
| Cursive Get Fixed |
| Cybernetic Witch Cult Spaceous Cretaceous |
| CZARFACE and MF DOOM Czarface Meets Metal Face |
| Dark Tranquillity Atoma |
| Death Angel The Dream Calls for Blood |
| Death From Above 1979 Outrage! Is Now |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Delinquent Habits Here Come The Horns |
| Denzel Curry TA13OO |
| Destroy Boys Make Room |
| DevilDriver The Last Kind Words |
| DevilDriver Beast |
| Devilment Devilment II - The Mephisto Waltzes |
| Devilment The Great And Secret Show |
| Diviner Fallen Empires |
| Don Bolo BAHAMUT |
| Don Broco Priorities |
| Don Broco Technology |
| Dreamcar DREAMCAR |
| "Born to Lie," "The Assailant," "Do Nothing," and "Show Me Mercy" are 5/5 pop tracks. The rest of the record is very solid, though not exceptional. |
| Dyscarnate With All Their Might |
| Elder Brother Stay Inside |
| Eneferens The Bleakness Of Our Constant |
| Enterprise Earth Patient 0 |
| Envy On The Coast Ritual |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens |
| Exarsis The Human Project |
| Fates Warning Theories of Flight |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear |
| Father John Misty Pure Comedy |
| Fero Lux No Rest |
| Fiddlehead Between the Richness |
| Fields Of Elysium In Ancient Contemplation |
| Firelink The Inveterate Fire |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Veleno |
| Flobots Fight with Tools |
| Flobots Noenemies |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Foster the People Sacred Hearts Club |
| Tight, fun little indie rock record. Clearly not a grand artistic statement of any sort, but it's damn good for what it is. |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand |
| Frosthelm Pyrrhic |
| Frozen Soul Crypt Of Ice |
| Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy |
| Gerard Way Hesitant Alien |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous |
| Ghoul Dungeon Bastards |
| Glacial Tomb Glacial Tomb |
| Gloryful Cult of Sedna |
| Goatwhore Vengeful Ascension |
| Gold Fields Black Sun |
| Gomorrah (CAN) The Haruspex |
| Gotsu Totsu Kotsu Retributive Justice |
I'm honestly not too sure how to describe this album other than the fact that it's fantastic;
"Japanese Samurai death thrash with slap bass" is just about the best I can think of. But
regardless of what you want to call it, this shit absolutely rips and deserves infinitely more
love than it gets. |
| Greyhaven Empty Black |
| Gunship Gunship |
| Hail the Sun Secret Wars |
| Haken The Mountain |
| Harvey Danger Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone? |
| Hatebreed The Concrete Confessional |
After 2 decades of existence, this is finally the album Hatebreed were always capable of but never
could quite deliver. |
| Hayley Kiyoko Expectations |
| Heartist Feeding Fiction |
| Helstar Vampiro |
| Hooded Menace The Tritonus Bell |
| Humanotone A Flourishing Fall in a Grain of Sand |
| I the Mighty Oil In Water |
| Icarus the Owl Pilot Waves |
| Ice Cube Everythang’s Corrupt |
| In Aphelion Moribund |
| Inherits the Void The Impending Fall Of The Stars |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast |
| Iron Reagan Crossover Ministry |
| Jamiroquai Rock Dust Light Star |
| Job For A Cowboy Moon Healer |
| Johnny Booth Connections |
| Johnny Booth Firsthand Accounts |
| JPEGMAFIA Veteran |
| Kanye West Yeezus |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo |
| Katahdin No Longer Room For Us |
| Kataklysm Of Ghosts and Gods |
| Khemmis Absolution |
| Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Infest the Rats' Nest |
| Kingdom of Giants Ground Culture |
| Kreator Phantom Antichrist |
| Kvaen The Great Below |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| Lancer Second Storm |
| Lancer Mastery |
| Last Dinosaurs Yumeno Garden |
| Leftover Crack Constructs of the State |
| Lich King The Omniclasm |
| Light This City Terminal Bloom |
| Little Simz Grey Area |
| Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be Introvert |
| Lorde Melodrama |
| Lotus Eater (UK) Social Hazard |
| Mandroid Echostar Coral Throne |
This is absolutely killer; probably my favorite album of the year thus far. Fantastic
progressive post-hardcore, sort of like a heavier Hail the Sun or Coheed and Cambria. |
| Marina The Family Jewels |
| Martha Blisters in the Pit of My Heart |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Maul Seraphic Punishment |
| Meat Wave Delusion Moon |
| Medevil Conductor of Storms |
The second best debut album of the year. Gritty, thrashy NWOBHM from British Columbia
boasting
superb songwriting and vocals--"The Angel of Rain" is probably the highlight, along with
riff machine "An Empty Glass." Highly recommended. |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason |
| Michael Romeo War of the Worlds / Pt. 1 |
| Modern Space Flip for It |
| Monophonics Sound of Sinning |
| Monophonics It's Only Us |
| Morbikon Ov Mournful Twilight |
| Moron Police Boat on the Sea |
| Mors Principium Est Embers of a Dying World |
| Visceral, epic, engaging melodeath of the highest caliber. 2017 is already shaping up to be another fantastic year for metal. Don't miss this one. |
| Muncie Girls Fixed Ideals |
| Mutiny Within Mutiny Within |
| Mutiny Within Origins |
| Call it a comeback. Fiery, melodic, and a hell of a good time, "Origins" is the album rChris Clancy & company were always capable of releasing. If you like metalcore and/or rmelodeath, don't let this one slip through the cracks. |
| Napalm Death Apex Predator - Easy Meat |
| Narrow Head Satisfaction |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn |
| Neck Deep Life's Not Out To Get You |
| Necrot Blood Offerings |
| Nightmares For A Week Civilian War |
| Northern Ghost Happy : Sad : Depressed : Suicidal |
| Nuclear Formula for Anarchy |
| O'Brother Endless Light |
| Obscura Omnivium |
| Octaves Exact Change |
| Ondt Blod Finnmark |
| Incredibly fun and relatively accessible hardcore. Came into this expecting black metal due to the band name and album cover, stayed for the kickass riffs and insane energy. |
| Ordinance (USA) The Ides Of March |
| Origami Angel Somewhere City |
| Orion Sun Hold Space For Me |
| Mellow, hypnotic, spacey r&b. A smooth and pleasant listen that’s sure to put you in a good mood. |
| Orville Peck Pony |
| OU One |
| The pacing is a little bit weird, but there's some truly outstanding material on here. Fascinating album from front to back. |
| Our Hollow, Our Home Hartsick |
| Outline In Color Struggle |
| Overkill White Devil Armory |
| Pale Grey Lore Eschatology |
| Palisades Palisades |
| I'm probably overrating this a little bit, but these guys deserve an enormous amount of credit for the improvement shown here in comparison to their previous material. I really love the drum sound, too; far more tribal and visceral than the genre standard. |
| Parius The Eldritch Realm |
| Parquet Courts Human Performance |
| This shit is so good, holy balls. Kinda got a Cake-esque quirkiness with more of a punky vibe. Killer stuff. |
| Parquet Courts Wide Awake |
| Persefone Aathma |
| Pet Symmetry Vision |
| Pierce the Veil Collide with the Sky |
| Pierce the Veil Misadventures |
| I KISS THE SCARS ON HER SKIN I STILL THINK YOURE BEAUTIFUL / 5 |
| Playboi Carti Die Lit |
| Playboi Carti Whole Lotta Red |
| Jump out the house, jump out the house (What?)rJump out the house, jump out the house (What?)rJump out the house, jump out the house (What?)rJump out the house, jump out the house (What?)rJump out the house, jump out the house (What?)rJump out the house, jump out the house (What?)rJump out the house, jump out the house (What?)rJump out the houserJump out that bitch (What?), jump out that bitch (What?)rJump out that bitch (What?), jump out that bitch (What?)rJump out that bitch (What?), jump out that bitch (I jump out that bitch)rJump out that bitch (What?), jump out that bitch |
| Polaris The Mortal Coil |
BANGERS. BANGERS. BANGERS. BANGERS. BANGERS. BANGERS. BANGERS. BANGERS. BANGERS. BANGERS.
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BANGERS. BANGERS. BANGERS. BANGERS. BANGERS. BANGERS. BANGERS. BANGERS. BANGERS. BANGERS. |
| Power Trip Nightmare Logic |
| Pripjat Sons Of Tschernobyl |
| Propagandhi Victory Lap |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest |
| Psychotic Waltz A Social Grace |
| Punching Swans GAMESHOW |
| Pusha T It's Almost Dry |
| PVRIS White Noise |
| Queensryche Condition Human |
| For the first time in 21 years, Queensryche sound like Queensryche. |
| Queensryche The Verdict |
| Rachael Sage Myopia |
| Raised Fist From the North |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| Rest Among Ruins Fugue |
| Revocation Great Is Our Sin |
| Rise Against Revolutions per Minute |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 |
| El-P says "notice me senpai." This is objectively the greatest album ever recorded. |
| Saidan Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity |
| Saosin Along the Shadow |
| Secret Band LP2 |
| Secret Shame Dark Synthetics |
| Sepultura Quadra |
| Set to Stun SET TO STUN and The Desperado Undead |
This is a complete clusterfuck in the best way possible. It's bizarre and largely
nonsensical, but almost impossibly entertaining nonetheless. Metalcore on bath salts. |
| Shadow of the Colossus End Game |
| Shannon And The Clams Year Of The Spider |
| Shinedown The Sound of Madness |
| Sick of It All Death to Tyrants |
| SikTh Opacities |
| Silverstein I Am Alive In Everything I Touch |
| Skeletonwitch The Apothic Gloom |
| Slaughterer The Conjuror of Realities |
| Slayer Christ Illusion |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Soilwork The Ride Majestic |
| Spanish Love Songs Brave Faces Everyone |
| Doesn’t quite reach the heights of its predecessor, but still might be the best emo you hear this year. |
| Squid Bright Green Field |
| STOMACH BOOK STOMACH BOOK |
| Stortregn Impermanence |
| Story of the Year Page Avenue |
| Subsignal A Poetry Of Rain |
| Sunburst Fragments of Creation |
| This is easily the best power metal album of 2016's first quarter. Awesome, awesome stuff. |
| Swervedriver Mezcal Head |
| Tech N9ne Special Effects |
| Temples Sun Structures |
| The Absence Coffinized |
| one of the year’s best metal records. stellar melodic guitar work and a juicy, listenable mix. great stuff |
| The Agony Scene Tormentor |
| The Anchoret It All Began With Loneliness |
| The Bamboos Night Time People |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Abysmal |
| The Cars The Cars |
| The Fall of Troy OK#2 |
OK#2 is literally just OK with production that isn't really shitty. In other words, it's the best
thing The Fall of Troy have put out in a decade. |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound |
| The Gaslight Anthem History Books |
| The Ghost Inside Dear Youth |
| The Glorious Sons Young Beauties and Fools |
| The Great Discord The Rabbit Hole |
| The Haunted Strength in Numbers |
| The Lurking Fear Out Of The Voiceless Grave |
| The Menzingers After the Party |
| The New Age Placebo |
| The Nietzsche The Parnassus |
| The Parlor Mob Cry Wolf |
| The Sere Always the Cold Moon EP |
| The Struts Everybody Wants |
| The Thoughtlife Monsters & Revelations |
| The xx I See You |
| The Zenith Passage Cosmic Dissonance |
| Theophonos Nightmare Visions |
| Loses some steam on the back end, but the first 15-20 minutes of this are absolutely unreal. |
| They Might Be Giants Lincoln |
| This Wild Life Petaluma |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere |
| Thulcandra Ascension Lost |
| Thy Art Is Murder Dear Desolation |
| Tiny Meat Gang Bangers & Ass |
| To Speak Of Wolves Find Your Worth, Come Home |
| To The Grave Global Warning |
| As filthy and heavy as it gets. Deathcore should always be produced like this. Vocalist is an animal too. |
| Too Close to Touch Nerve Endings |
| Too Close to Touch Haven't Been Myself |
| Too Close to Touch I'm Hard to Love, But So Are You, Vol. 1 |
| Definitely a poppier sound than TCTT's previous releases. However, when the songs are as solid as these, I really couldn't care less about the genre. Whether post-hardcore or not, this EP shows that the band still has an ear for hooks and melodies. |
| Toothgrinder Nocturnal Masquerade |
| Torche Admission |
| Total Downer Caretaker |
| Tove Lo Queen of the Clouds |
| Tove Lo Sunshine Kitty |
| One of the best pop records of the year. Easily her best since Queen of the Clouds. |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence |
Trivium's best record to date. Boasting surprisingly tight and energetic riffs coupled with the
best vocal performance of Matt's career, this is a damn good slice of modern metal. Don't sleep on
this just based on the Trivium name. The new drummer's an absolute stud, too. |
| Trophy Eyes Chemical Miracle |
| Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy |
| Unearth Darkness in the Light |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend |
| Veldes Flameless |
| Venom Prison Erebos |
| Vince Staples Big Fish Theory |
| Viscera (UK) Obsidian |
| Vulkan Technatura |
| Warbringer Woe to the Vanquished |
| Warbringer Weapons of Tomorrow |
| Weeping Sores False Confession |
| Weezer Pacific Daydream |
| Though something of a regression from last year's phenomenal "White Album," "Pacific Daydream" is another solid release from the pop rock legends. It's sure to satisfy long-time fans, at the very least. |
| Weezer OK Human |
| While She Sleeps Brainwashed |
| White Reaper The World's Best American Band |
Hell of a good time. Groovy and concise,
White Reaper deliver riffs and energy in
spades. |
| Whitechapel Whitechapel |
| Wilderun Veil of Imagination |
| Wolf and Bear Everything Is Going Grey |
| Wormrot Voices |
| YG Still Brazy |
| Young the Giant Home Of The Strange |
| Zornheym The Zornheim Sleep Experiment |
| 3.5 great |
| '68 Two Parts Viper |
| Abscession Rot of Ages |
| Aephanemer Prokopton |
| AFI AFI (The Blood Album) |
| AFI Decemberunderground |
| Amorphis Queen of Time |
| Angels and Airwaves The Dream Walker |
| Angelus Apatrida Hidden Evolution |
| Angerot The Profound Recreant |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many |
| Anthrax For All Kings |
| Anti-Flag American Spring |
Surprisingly relevant, catchy and ultimately enjoyable. Perhaps their best work to date;
certainly their best in the last decade or so. Some of the best mainstream punk you'll find
in 2015. Highly recommended. |
| Arcane Roots Melancholia Hymns |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together |
| Ariana Grande Sweetener |
| As Paradise Falls Digital Ritual |
| Astronoid Air |
| Astronoid Astronoid |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
| Aversions Crown Tyrant |
| Bad Omens Bad Omens |
| Bad Rabbits American Nightmare |
| Bayside Interrobang |
| Be'lakor Vessels |
| Best Coast California Nights |
| Black Fast Spectre of Ruin |
| Black Sites In Monochrome |
| Blessing A Curse Satisfaction for the Vengeful |
| Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth |
| Blind Guardian The God Machine |
| Boston Manor Welcome to the Neighbourhood |
| Brent Walsh 7 |
| Brian Fallon Painkillers |
| Byzantine To Release Is to Resolve |
| Carousel Kings Charm City |
| Charli XCX Charli |
| Chevelle The North Corridor |
| Children of Bodom I Worship Chaos |
| Chiodos Devil |
| Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! Get Lost, Find Yourself |
| Code Orange Forever |
| Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun |
| A surprisingly fun, cohesive, and ultimately enjoyable release from a band that desperately needed a change of scenery. |
| Courting Grand National |
| Cradle of Filth Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay |
| It's a tad long-winded and inconsistent, but this is nonetheless a solid continuation of CoF's late-career resurgence. |
| Crobot Motherbrain |
| DaBaby KIRK |
| Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification |
| Dance Gavin Dance Mothership |
| Dark Forest (UK) Oak, Ash & Thorn |
| Some really great stuff here. The guitar work is extremely reminiscent of Blind Guardian, which is the highest of compliments imo |
| Dark Moor Project X |
| Dayshell Dayshell |
| Dead Heat World At War |
| Death Spells Nothing Above, Nothing Below |
Frank Iero continues the trend of ex-MCR members making the best argument against a reunion. I
wouldn't say this is better than everything the band released, but it's certainly more
interesting; I'll take that any day. |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked |
| Depeche Mode Spirit |
| DevilDriver Winter Kills |
| Dimman Songs and Tales of Grievance |
| Some great stuff here. Transitions can feel a bit forced and sudden, but that?s not unexpected on a debut. Clean vocalist is clearly very talented and often complements the songs beautifully, though I think those moments would hit harder if employed a bit more sparingly. Heavier parts remind me at times of Dyscarnate. |
| Direct Hit! Brainless God |
| Dirty Heads Dirty Heads |
| Disperse Foreword |
| Don Broco Automatic |
| Dream State Primrose Path |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka |
| Echelon The Brimstone Aggrandizement |
| Emery Eve |
| Enterprise Earth Embodiment |
| A slight step down from Patient 0 in terms of energy, variety, and production, but the guitar work is some of the best I've ever heard from the genre. Vocals are fantastic as well. Definitely worth a listen, at the very least. |
| Eternity Forever Fantasy |
| Exhorder Mourn the Southern Skies |
| Eye of Purgatory The Lighthouse |
| Falseta Thought Process |
| Fastball Step Into Light |
| Father John Misty God's Favorite Customer |
Despite containing some of Tillman's best tunes, God's Favorite Customer is extremely front-
loaded, barely limping across the finish line. |
| Feed Her to the Sharks Fortitude |
| Fight the Fight Fight the Fight |
| Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back |
| First Fragment Gloire Eternelle |
See, this is the kind of tech death I can get behind. If you're gonna be masturbatory, go all the fuck out. Throw in swing
breakdowns and slap bass solos. Some flamenco sections, too. Sure. Fuck it |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts |
| Flagman The Ladybug Dilemma |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse King |
| Foo Fighters Sonic Highways |
| Frank Iero and The Future Violents Stomachaches |
| Gatecreeper Sonoran Depravation |
| Gemini Syndrome Memento Mori |
| Ghost (SWE) Prequelle |
| Glass Beams Mirage |
| Great Collapse Neither Washington nor Moscow... Again |
| Haken Fauna |
| Hamburger Helper Watch the Stove |
| Hatebreed The Divinity of Purpose |
| Hatebreed Supremacy |
| Havok Time Is Up |
| Icarus the Owl Rearm Circuits |
| Ice Nine Kills The Predator Becomes the Prey |
| Ice Nine Kills Every Trick in the Book |
| Some technicality has been lost here in comparison to previous releases, but significantly improved vocals and an awesome concept lead to this being INK's best release to date. |
| Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream |
| Very difficult record to rate. Like every INK release, this thing has some absolute, undeniable bangers (first three songs, Axe-Mas, IT is the End). However, the other half of the record is relatively pedestrian and unmemorable. I'm sure I'll be returning to the aforementioned songs pretty often, but I can't see myself listening to this from front to back with any sort of regularity. |
| Inculter Fatal Visions |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls |
| holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit I WILL NEVER DOUBT YOU AGAIN holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit |
| Jack White Lazaretto |
| JID The Never Story |
| JID DiCaprio 2 |
| This is his best, most consistent project to date. And the scariest thing? I think he’s only going to get better. |
| JID The Forever Story |
| Joyce Manor Million Dollars To Kill Me |
| Judas Priest Firepower |
| 28 years later, a worthy follow-up to one of metal's premier records. Though rFirepower isn't a perfect album, it's a testament to the ageless, genre-defining rpower of the grizzled metal gods. |
| Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers |
| Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life |
| Kreator Gods of Violence |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster |
| Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence |
| Larry and His Flask This Remedy |
| Lil Uzi Vert Luv Is Rage |
| Lil Yachty Let's Start Here. |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Logic Under Pressure |
| Machine Head Bloodstone And Diamonds |
| Mass Deception Redemptions |
| McCafferty Yarn |
| Meat Wave The Incessant |
| Megan Thee Stallion Fever |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Millencolin Kingwood |
| Millencolin Home From Home |
| Millencolin SOS |
| Misery Signals Absent Light |
| Modern Baseball Holy Ghost |
| Modern Baseball Sports |
| Mr. Big Lean Into It |
| Mr. Plow Maintain Radio Silence |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love |
| Neck Deep The Peace And The Panic |
| Night Demon Darkness Remains |
| Nightwish Endless Forms Most Beautiful |
| Nothington In the End |
| Once Human The Life I Remember |
| Pain of Salvation In the Passing Light of Day |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out |
| Phase IV Phase IV |
This is interesting. Best description I can muster is post punk with death metal vocals. Bass guitar-driven, sparse, and
contemplative. Drifts into a mid-tempo haze fairly quickly, but this isn't necessarily to the album's detriment. The closer is
stellar. |
| Pigeon Pit Feather River Canyon Blues |
| Pressure Cracks Pressure Cracks |
| Protest the Hero Volition |
| PVRIS All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell |
Though darker, more ambient, and more mature than its predecessor, PVRIS' sophomore
album is plagued by homogeny and a general lack of memorability throughout much of its
run time. Nonetheless, though it's not the truly special release that the band is
clearly capable of releasing, the record manages to steer clear of the dreaded
"sophomore slump." It's worth checking out, at the very least.
Recommended tracks: "Heaven," "Half," "No Mercy" |
| Queensryche Queensryche |
| Ravencult Force Of Profanation |
| Red Sun Rising Polyester Zeal |
| Refused Freedom |
| Rejuvenation Crystalline |
| Rest, Repose Rest, Repose |
| Rich Brian Amen |
| Rico Nasty Nightmare Vacation |
| Rings of Saturn Ultu Ulla |
| Rings of Saturn finally deliver the record rthey always had in them. Though by no rmeans devoid of the mindless technicality and rendless chugging that plagued the rband's earlier releases, Ulta Ulla channels rthese elements into a cohesive, fun, rand instantly replayable LP. In other words, rthis is the first RoS record that can rbe played in full without inducing a dull, rthrobbing pain in the listener's rfrontal lobe. Good shit. |
| Rings of Saturn Lugal Ki En |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason |
| Rise Against Endgame |
| Royal Coda To Only a Few at First |
| Saosin Saosin |
| Satan Cruel Magic |
| Seaway Vacation |
| Sebastian Bach Give 'Em Hell |
| Seether Poison The Parish |
| Septicflesh Codex Omega |
| Sepultura Machine Messiah |
| Shinedown Leave a Whisper |
| Sick of It All The Last Act of Defiance |
| Silverstein Dead Reflection |
Though it doesn't live up to the absurdly high bar set by its singles, Dead Reflection
is another quality late-career release from the Canadian veterans. With that being said,
beginning the album with its 4 best and heaviest tracks was a highly questionable move. |
| Silverstein A Shipwreck in the Sand |
| Slayer Diabolus in Musica |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind |
| Slugdge Esoteric Malacology |
| Soilwork Verkligheten |
| Soreption Jord |
| Soulfly Ritual |
| Spanish Love Songs No Joy |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent |
| Steven Page Discipline: Heal Thyself, Pt. II |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1 |
| Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide To Earth |
| Symphony X Underworld |
| Taravana Prevail |
| Temples Volcano |
| Terror The 25th Hour |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack |
| The Charm The Fury The Sick, Dumb & Happy |
| The Devil Wears Prada Transit Blues |
| The Fall of Troy OK |
| The Garden Haha |
| The Haunted Exit Wounds |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The Neighbourhood I Love You. |
| The Sword Used Future |
| The Unguided And The Battle Royale |
| The Wonder Years Sister Cities |
| Theophonos Ashes in the Huron River |
| Thornhill The Dark Pool |
| Thy Art Is Murder Human Target |
| To Speak Of Wolves Dead in the Shadow |
| Trivium Shogun |
| Turnover Good Nature |
| Twenty One Pilots Vessel |
| Twilight Force Tales of Ancient Prophecies |
| This would be at least a 4 if not for those goddamn interludes. |
| Unearth Extinction(s) |
| Extinctions certainly isn?t Unearth?s best album, but it?s nonetheless one of the best rmetalcore albums you?ll hear this year. Even on their weaker projects, Unearth still wipe rthe floor with most of their contemporaries. There are some undeniable bangers on this rthing. |
| Vader The Empire |
| Vein.fm Errorzone |
| Vesta Collide New Obsession |
| This is very quietly one of the best metalcore records of the year. Great vocals, riffs, hooks, and atmosphere. Don't let it slip through the cracks. |
| Vince Staples FM! |
| Though charismatic as ever, Vince says very little of note throughout this project's brief 22 minute runtime. However, in the immortal words of Sputnik user lg433, "these beats go stupid hard." |
| Volbeat Beyond Hell/Above Heaven |
| Wage War Blueprints |
| Waka Flocka Flame Flockaveli |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
| Weezer The Black Album |
| Whitechapel Mark of the Blade |
Whitechapel have always been one of the better bands in the deathcore scene, but Mark of the Blade
is on a completely different level. Probably their best album to date and one of the best
deathcore releases in quite a long time. |
| Wifisfuneral Boy Who Cried Wolf |
| Wintersun Time I |
| Witherfall Nocturnes and Requiems |
| Young Lions Mr. Spaceman |
| Young the Giant Young the Giant |
| Young the Giant Mind Over Matter |
| Yung Gravy Sensational |
| 3.0 good |
| A Day To Remember Bad Vibrations |
| A Lot Like Birds DIVISI |
| Alestorm No Grave But the Sea |
| Alkaloid Liquid Anatomy |
| All Out War Give Us Extinction |
| All Time Low Future Hearts |
| Anti-Flag American Fall |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us |
| Architects Holy Hell |
| Ashland Wildfire |
| Asking Alexandria The Black |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare |
| BABYMETAL BABYMETAL |
| Bearings (CAN) Blue in the Dark |
| Beartooth Disgusting |
| Black Anvil As Was |
| Blindboss Our Tribe |
| Blood Red Throne Imperial Congregation |
| Bring Me The Horizon Sempiternal |
| Brockhampton SATURATION |
| Bullet For My Valentine Venom |
| Bury Tomorrow Earthbound |
Now on their 4th full-length release, Bury Tomorrow yet again fail to deliver an album that lives
up to the hype. Earthbound is probably the band's best record to date, but it's still a largely
generic offering saved only by surprisingly interesting production and the occasional above-
average riff. 3/5 |
| Capital Cities In A Tidal Wave of Mystery |
| Captain, We're Sinking The King of No Man |
| Cloudkicker Beacons |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension |
| Comeback Kid Outsider |
| Crisix From Blue to Black |
| Crossfaith Xeno |
| Dance Gavin Dance Artificial Selection |
| Dayseeker Dreaming Is Sinking /// Waking Is Rising |
| Dayseeker Origin |
| Decapitated Anticult |
| Demolition Train Unleash the Hordes |
| DevilDriver Trust No One |
| Doja Cat Planet Her |
| Dope No Regrets |
| Downtown Boys Full Communism |
| Draconian A Rose for the Apocalypse |
| Dream On Dreamer It Comes and Goes |
| Extinction Level Event The Catalyst |
| Failure Anthem First World Problems |
| Fetty Wap Fetty Wap |
| Fleshwater We're Not Here To Be Loved |
| Future I Never Liked You |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam |
| Haken Affinity |
| Halestorm The Strange Case Of... |
| Hands Like Houses Unimagine |
| Haunt (USA-CA) Burst into Flame |
| Havok Unnatural Selection |
| I See Stars Treehouse |
| Ice Nine Kills Safe Is Just a Shadow (Rerecorded) |
| Iced Earth Incorruptible |
| Invent Animate Heavener |
| Iron Maiden Senjutsu |
| Issues Headspace |
| J. Cole 2014 Forest Hills Drive |
| Jimmy Eat World Surviving |
| Johnny Booth Moments Elsewhere |
| Kanye West Donda |
| Kero Kero Bonito Bonito Generation |
| Killswitch Engage Incarnate |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Murder Of The Universe |
| Kingdom of Giants All the Hell You've Got to Spare |
| Korn The Serenity of Suffering |
| Kyle Smyle |
| one of the songs samples hentai so I feel somewhat obligated to 5 this |
| Kyle Light Of Mine |
| Lacuna Coil Delirium |
| Lady Gaga Joanne |
| Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang |
| Lil Pump Harverd Dropout |
| Lil Uzi Vert Lil Uzi Vert vs. The World |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter V |
| Logic Bobby Tarantino |
| Logic Bobby Tarantino II |
| Marianas Trench Astoria |
| Marilyn Manson Heaven Upside Down |
| Mayday Parade Black Lines |
| Meek Mill Championships |
| Meshiaak Alliance of Thieves |
Pretty solid, but doesn't offer a whole lot more than by-the-books thrash. The production is
sterile, too. |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Metallica Load |
| Moon Tooth Chromaparagon |
| Morbid Angel Kingdoms Disdained |
| Mutiny Within Synchronicity |
| My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys |
| Offset (ATL) Father Of 4 |
Offset's solo record has a handful of genuinely great tracks, but is marred by an excessive
run time and a lackluster second half. |
| Once Human Evolution |
The curiously titled "Evolution" largely manifests itself as an excercise in stagnation. It's a record that finds itself
weighed down by mid-tempo mediocrity from the very first track and never fully recovers, with songs often
bleeding into one another without much distinction. There are some solid riffs and grooves scattered throughout
"Evolution," but it's overall a noticeable step down for Once Human. |
| One Step From the Edge Beneath the Surface |
| Opeth Sorceress |
| Panic! at the Disco Death of a Bachelor |
| holy balls stop rating albums before they're even leaked god damn |
| Paranorm Empyrean |
| Pearl Jam Lightning Bolt |
| Picturesque Back to Beautiful |
| Pink Guy Pink Season |
Rec Me Intelligent Cancer Never thought I'd start to take an interest in cancer, but do
ya know? Kinda weird that I'm finally starting to explore cancer in a serious and
analytical matter. A couple of prerequisites to start. Im looking for records that
exemplify some sort of mind cancerous themes or autistic choices, be it through
production or the lyricism. Also I would prefer stuff that avoids the cancerous tropes
of the cancer. Other than that, its fair game. List is cancer I have considerably
enjoyed |
| Polaris The Death of Me |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway |
| Rhapsody of Fire Into The Legend |
| Rise Against The Black Market |
| Rising (DK) Oceans Into Their Graves |
| Royal Blood Royal Blood |
| Serenity in Murder The Eclipse |
| Shadow Of Intent Melancholy |
| Shadows illuminate |
| Sheck Wes Mudboy |
| Shinedown Attention Attention |
| Silent Planet When the End Began |
| Silk Sonic An Evening with Silk Sonic |
| Silver Talon Decadence and Decay |
| Slayer Repentless |
| Slayer is as Slayer does. While there's nothing groundbreaking here, it's nowhere near the disaster many expected. Repentless won't change anybody's mind about the band, but longtime Slayer fans such as myself will find a lot to like here. All in all, a solid release and a worthy addition to a legendary catalog. |
| Sleeping With Sirens Let's Cheers to This |
| Sorority Noise You're Not As ____ As You Think |
| Soulfly Archangel |
| Spellcaster Under the Spell |
| Spider God Black Renditions |
Most of these covers feel a bit one-dimensional and half-baked, but Stay is one of the most emotionally
evocative black metal tracks I've heard in years. |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 2 |
| Stone Sour Hydrograd |
| Story of the Year Wolves |
| Stray from the Path Only Death Is Real |
| Fuck y'all, this is loads of fun. Certainly not some grand, articulate political statement, but it's clearly not trying to rbe. As far as pissed-off rap metal is concerned, you could do a hell of a lot worse than these guys. |
| Sylosis Cycle of Suffering |
This thing gets off to a hell of a start and has some great moments scattered throughout, but devolves into a sort of
homogeny that wears out its welcome fairly quickly. |
| System of a Down Protect The Land/Genocidal Humanoidz |
| Taylor Swift Red |
| Temples Hot Motion |
| Testament Brotherhood of the Snake |
| The Animal In Me Words & Actions |
| The interplay between the male and female vocalists is great, and the male vocalist's screams are actually very solid and invoke a lot of energy. Not a terribly unique band by any stretch, but this is a well-above-average metalcore release. Definitely a lot of fun. |
| The Cab Symphony Soldier |
| The Charm The Fury A Shade of My Former Self |
| The Parlor Mob Dark Hour |
Nowhere near the quality of Cry Wolf, but there’s nothing outright bad. Makes for decent background music and
has a few nice moments here and there. |
| The Raven Age The Raven Age |
| The Word Alive Dark Matter |
| The xx Coexist |
| The Zenith Passage Solipsist |
| Thrice Palms |
| Thrown into Exile Safe Inside |
| Tiny Moving Parts Swell |
| Toothgrinder Phantom Amour |
| Tove Lo Blue Lips |
| Tove Lo Lady Wood |
| Trivium Silence in the Snow |
| Twenty One Pilots Blurryface |
| Volbeat Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies |
| Vredehammer God Slayer |
There's some cool stuff here, but these guys really struggle to sustain momentum and write
consistently engaging songs. Many tracks start off with a killer riff or two before meandering
aimlessly for a few minutes and anticlimactically fading out. The opener, From the Abyss, is a
perfect example of this. |
| Wage War Deadweight |
| Weezer The Red Album |
| Weezer The Teal Album |
The covers of Billie Jean and Sweet Dreams are extremely well done. Everything else is pretty bland and
uninteresting, albeit decent and inoffensive. |
| Wheel (FIN) Moving Backwards |
| While She Sleeps You Are We |
| Whitechapel Our Endless War |
| Wifisfuneral Ethernet |
| "Juveniles" is a certified banger, but the rest of this largely blends into a mid-tempo slog. There are some good ideas, and Wifi has a solid flow throughout, but there's not a whole lot here that's truly memorable. Certainly better than your dime-a-dozen trap project, but Wifi has shown himself to be capable of better. |
| Zao The Well-Intentioned Virus |
| Zealotry The Last Witness |
| Zulu A New Tomorrow |
| 2.5 average |
| Acrassicauda Gilgamesh |
| Adele 25 |
| Alien Ant Farm Always and Forever |
| All Get Out Kodak |
| American Head Charge Tango Umbrella |
| Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman |
| As It Is The Great Depression |
| As Lions Selfish Age |
| Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King |
| Avenged Sevenfold The Stage |
| Beartooth Aggressive |
| Black Veil Brides Wretched and Divine |
| Bo Burnham Inside (The Songs) |
| Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn |
| Bullet For My Valentine The Poison |
| Cairo Knife Fight The Colossus |
| Cardi B Invasion of Privacy |
| Combichrist This Is Where Death Begins |
| Crystal Lake True North |
| Dead Cross Dead Cross |
| Deftones Gore |
| Despised Icon Beast |
| Eidola To Speak, to Listen |
| Elwood Stray Gone With the Flow |
| Eminem Kamikaze |
| There are some duds, of course, and I'm not a biggest fan of the derivative, minimalist production, but this is light years ahead of Revival. It's hard not to view it through the lens of that disaster (and therefore overrate it), but regardless of the standard by which it's viewed, Kamikaze is an enjoyable, respectable release. |
| Employed To Serve Conquering |
| Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold |
| Gojira Fortitude |
| Good Tiger We Will All be Gone |
| Halestorm Into the Wild Life |
| Havok Conformicide |
| Havok V |
Modern thrash at its most derivative and uninteresting. Lyrically, V is more tolerable than Conformicide, but that
album at least had some undeniable riffs. Also, the first song lifts the intro from Blackened so blatantly that it’s
almost comical. |
| Hopesfall Magnetic North |
| Hundredth Rare |
| J. Cole K.O.D. |
| Joywave Content |
It's not unlistenable by any means, but Content is devoid of almost all the bouncy energy
that made Joywave's debut such a joy to listen to. A patient listener will find a few
worthwhile moments, but it's hard to recommend a project this tepid and directionless. |
| Justin Bieber Purpose |
| Kanye West ye |
| letlive. If I'm the Devil... |
| Light the Torch Revival |
| Despite a crisp and enjoyable (albeit predictable) performance from Howard Jones, Revival is marred by tired songwriting, bland production, and an overarching lack of purpose. |
| Lil Uzi Vert Luv Is Rage 2 |
| Logic Young Sinatra IV |
Extremely inconsistent project. There's a great record buried in here somewhere, but there
are simply too many tracks of vastly disparate quality. |
| Make Them Suffer How to Survive a Funeral |
| Megadeth Dystopia |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Miseration Black Miracles And Dark Wonders |
| Some tasty stuff here and there, but the dreadful clean vocals make this difficult to recommend. |
| Motionless in White Reincarnate |
| Nas NASIR |
| Obliterate Impending Death |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty |
| Rise Against Wolves |
| Royal Thunder WICK |
| Saviour Let Me Leave |
| Saviour Shine and Fade |
| Shadow Of Intent Reclaimer |
| Sinsaenum Echoes of the Tortured |
| Ski Mask The Slump God Stokeley |
| Slaughter To Prevail Kostolom |
| Frustrating listen. Songs often connect with a big riff or two before devolving into generic breakdowns and some truly bizarre vocal passages. Difficult album to rate.r |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| Spellcaster Spellcaster |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue |
| Stone Sour Meanwhile In Burbank... |
| Svalbard The Weight of the Mask |
| Terror Live By The Code |
| The Chronicles of Israfel A Trillion Lights, Tome II |
There's some really solid stuff here (a number of guitar leads and choruses, the Middle-
Eastern breakdown in "Goddamned"), but the product as a whole is brought down by
excessive length, awful mixing, and a few complete duds. The instrumentation is often
quite good and the vocals have their moments, but Tome 2 as a whole is far too
inconsistent to truly leave a lasting impression. Also, that's one of the worst album
covers of the year. |
| The Flatliners New Ruin |
| The Gospel Youth Always Lose |
| Always Lose isn't a bad record, but it's so silky smooth and inoffensive that it slips in one ear and out the other. |
| The Neighbourhood Wiped Out! |
| The Raven Age Darkness Will Rise |
| There's certainly nothing offensive about The Raven Age's debut LP, but then again, perhaps that would've been preferable to this 75-minute snooze fest. |
| The Zolas Ancient Mars |
| Threshold Legends of the Shires |
| Travis Scott Astroworld |
| Trivium Vengeance Falls |
| Vampire Weekend Contra |
| Vince Staples Vince Staples |
| bbbbbbboooooooorrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnngggggggggggggg |
| Waterparks Double Dare |
| We Are Harlot We Are Harlot |
| Witch Fever Congregation |
| 2.0 poor |
| Andy Black The Shadow Side |
| Black Veil Brides Black Veil Brides |
| Crossfaith Ex_Machina |
| Crown the Empire The Resistance: Rise of the Runaways |
| Danny Worsnop The Long Road Home |
| Devin Townsend Empath |
| Drake Views |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time |
| Halsey Badlands |
| Higher Power 27 Miles Underwater |
A frustrating hodgepodge of truly stellar riffs and some of the least engaging Deftones worship you’ll ever hear. The
choruses on here are just dreadful. So disappointing. |
| I See Stars New Demons |
| Ibaraki Rashomon |
| Issues Issues |
| Kanye West Jesus Is King |
| Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign Vultures 1 |
Legendary rapper and producer Kanye West, rapidly approaching status of cultural persona non
grata, releases fourth consecutive mid as fuck album. Tough scene. |
| Like Moths to Flames The Dying Things We Live For |
| Lupe Fiasco DROGAS Light |
| Meghan Trainor Title |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct |
| Nicki Minaj Queen |
| Most of this is boring and completely unnecessary but there are a few bangers so uhhhhh here’s a 2 |
| Pearl Jam Gigaton |
| this sure is an album! it’s got guitars and drums and even vocals |
| Pierce the Veil The Jaws of Life |
| Rain City Drive Beautiful Death |
| Rhapsody of Fire Legendary Years |
There's nothing inherently "wrong" with the actual music on this record, but there was
simply no reason to re-record these songs. The originals are flawless and hold up perfectly.
Hard to see this as anything more than a cynical cash grab. |
| Shinedown Threat to Survival |
| By switching up their style, Shinedown simultaneously impress and disappoint on their 5th studio ralbum. To put it simply, some ideas work and some just plain don't. Personally, I'm glad that they rchose not to release "Amaryllis Part 2," and I believe that this direction has promise, but there rare some obvious and glaring growing pains here. Still, it's a somewhat catchy and occasionally enjoyable album with rsome solid hooks and great individual tracks (Asking For It, Cut the Cord, It All Adds Up). |
| Sleeping With Sirens Feel |
| Sonata Arctica Pariah's Child |
| Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department |
| Toxik Breaking Class |
"Breaking Class" is a window into the soul of a band stripped bare of its passion and
ethos. |
| Vanna Void |
| Varials Pain Again |
| I don't think I've ever heard a record as uneventful and derivative as this unending midtempo slog of boring metalcore riffs and monotonous vocals. There's absolutely no reason to listen to this, like, ever. |
| Weezer Van Weezer |
| Wintersun The Forest Seasons |
| Jari sounds like a pack a day smoker and the guitar tone is fucking garbage. 5/5 AOTY |
| 1.0 awful |
| (hed) p.e. Stampede |
| What in the goddamn fuckin hell am I listening to? This is a war crime. Someone needs to get sent to The Hague. |
| Aborted Fetus Goresoaked Clinical Accidents |
| Why did I choose to listen to this? Even when compared to the generally low standards for the genre, this is an atrocity. |
| AJR The Click |
| Bring Me The Horizon That's the Spirit |
| ASnideReturns: Metallica - Master of Puppets: 3/5 |
| Bring Me The Horizon Music to Listen to... |
| BryanStars Follow Your Dreams |
| Buckcherry Fuck |
| ChugChugWob Redemption |
| Danzig Danzig Sings Elvis |
| Desiigner L.O.D. |
| Emmure Speaker Of The Dead |
| Falling in Reverse Fashionably Late |
| Forest Of Harambe Under The Sign Of Harambe |
| Fronzilla Party People's Anthem |
| Thought Attila was bad? You ain't seen nothin' yet! |
| Hollywood Undead Day of the Dead |
| Iced Earth A Narrative Soundscape |
| This is dangerously, dangerously close to so bad it's good territory. |
| Inquisition Black Mass for a Mass Grave |
| nazi scum pedo scum nazi scum pedo scum nazi scum pedo scum nazi scum pedo scum nazi scum pedo scum nazi scum pedo scum nazi scum pedo scum |
| Kelly Clarkson Piece by Piece |
| Kim Petras Slut Pop Miami |
Hard to think of an artist who squandered their early-career promise as quickly and decisively as
Kim Petras. |
| King 810 Proem |
| Lukas Graham Lukas Graham (Blue Album) |
ayyy let's keep that straight 1 average going boys
@hurricanslash This album contains "Strip No More." Every other song could be another iteration of fucking
Stairway to Heaven and it would still be a 1. |
| Meghan Trainor Thank You |
| Metallica St. Anger |
| Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus |
| Nav (CAN) Emergency Tsunami |
She get to the nut like a sunflower seed / That pussy wet, thought that lil' ho done peed / Dumb head, I don't think she can
read / Got a headache, give this bitch some Aleve |
| Neurotic November Anunnaki |
| Six Feet Under Graveyard Classics IV: The Number Of The Priest |
| Spodermen Spoder Senses |
| still better than the new fall out boy |
| Suicide Silence Suicide Silence |
| Sunterra Reborn |
| Thallahu Akbar DJihad EP |
| The Agonist Five |
| This is a fucking atrocity; easily one of the worst albums of the year. The band responsible for Prisoners is dead and gone. The vocals, especially the gutturals, are horrendous, the instrumentation is uninspired and amateurish, the bass is nonexistent, and the songwriting is bland and insipid. |
| The Black Eyed Peas The Beginning |
| The Bunny The Bear The Stomach for It |
| Tory Lanez Alone At Prom |
| This one is mystifying. Incredibly misguided 80s production that sounds like total ass. Vocals are shockingly bad. What are we doing here? |
| will.i.am #Willpower |
| Young Thug BEAUTIFUL THUGGER GIRLS |
| this is lil uzi's world and thugger is just living in it |
