| 4.5 superb |
| A Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths of Rhythm |
| AFI 336 |
| Alice Cooper Love It To Death |
| Alice Cooper Welcome to My Nightmare |
| Alkaline Trio Good Mourning |
| Alkaline Trio Crimson |
| Bane Don't Wait Up |
| Basement I Wish I Could Stay Here |
| Basement Colourmeinkindness |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death |
| Bathory Bathory |
| Bathory The Return of the Darkness and Evil |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors II |
| Billy Strings Turmoil and Tinfoil |
| Billy Strings Home |
| Billy Strings Renewal |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath |
| Blasphemy Fallen Angel of Doom |
| Blind Melon Blind Melon |
| Blind Melon Soup |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Brand New Science Fiction |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Carry On It's All Our Blood |
| Chain of Strength True til Death |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" |
| Citizen Youth |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Crosby, Stills and Nash |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Danny Brown XXX |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition |
| Das EFX Dead Serious |
| Dashboard Confessional A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar |
| De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising |
| De La Soul De La Soul Is Dead |
| Dead Boys Young Loud and Snotty |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Death Human |
| Defeater Travels |
| Defeater Lost Ground |
| Deicide Deicide |
| Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) |
| Digable Planets Blowout Comb |
| Dio The Last in Line |
| END (USA-NJ) From the Unforgiving Arms of God |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face |
| Entombed Clandestine |
| Erykah Badu Baduizm |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree |
| From Indian Lakes The Man With Wooden Legs |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Hatebreed Perseverance |
| Hieroglyphics 3rd Eye Vision |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust |
| In Solitude Sister |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind |
| Jack White Fear of the Dawn |
| Jason Isbell Southeastern |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint |
| Jay-Z Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life |
| JID The Never Story |
| JID The Forever Story |
| Judas Iscariot To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding |
| Judas Priest Stained Class |
| Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith |
| Judas Priest Painkiller |
| Judge Bringin' It Down |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| King Diamond ''Them'' |
| King Diamond Fatal Portrait |
| Leeway Born to Expire |
| Lords of the Underground Here Come the Lords |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface |
| Marduk Opus Nocturne |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals |
| Merle Haggard Swinging Doors and the Bottle Let Me Down |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Misfits Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood |
| Misfits Static Age |
| Misfits Beware |
| Misfits Night of the Living Dead |
| Misfits Bullet |
| Misfits Die, Die My Darling |
| Mobb Deep Hell on Earth |
| Morphine Cure for Pain |
| Nails Unsilent Death |
| Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere |
| New Found Glory Catalyst |
| New Found Glory Tip Of The Iceberg EP and Takin' It Ova! |
| New York Dolls New York Dolls |
| O'Brother The Death of Day |
| O'Brother Garden Window |
| Obituary Slowly We Rot |
| One Step Closer All You Embrace |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz |
| Paradise Lost Obsidian |
| Poison the Well You Come Before You |
| Poison the Well Tear From the Red |
| Poor Righteous Teachers Holy Intellect |
| Power Trip Nightmare Logic |
| Quasimoto The Unseen |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Saves the Day Can't Slow Down |
| Slayer Show No Mercy |
| Slayer Hell Awaits |
| Slayer South of Heaven |
| Sturgill Simpson Metamodern Sounds In Country Music |
| Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide To Earth |
| Suffocation Human Waste |
| Superheaven Jar |
| Terror One With The Underdogs |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You |
| The Band Stage Fright |
| The Damned Machine Gun Etiquette |
| The Damned The Black Album |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death |
| The Pharcyde Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish |
| The Sound From The Lion's Mouth |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke (Re-Issue) |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Title Fight Floral Green |
| Traveler (MO) Something Blue |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal |
| Van Morrison Astral Weeks |
| W.A.S.P. The Headless Children |
| W.A.S.P. The Crimson Idol |
| Waylon Jennings The Ramblin' Man |
| White Ward Futility Report |
| White Ward Love Exchange Failure |
| White Ward False Light |
| I have been following the Ukrainian experimental/atmospheric black metal outfit White Ward since the release of their 2017 albumFutility Report. The band have continued to wow me with every release, adding new colors and sounds to their rich auditory landscape. However, with this year?s False Light, I believe White Ward has supplied us with the full package. From the album art and supplemental visual materials, the record seems to reflect upon suburban decay and forgotten structures, a very possible meditation on their war-torn native country. All of this can be surmised before even hearing a single note of music.rThe music perfectly reflects the dystopian nature of first impressions. The band have kept the foundation of their powerful and sprawling black metal assault with loads of atmosphere and jazz noir saxophone inflections, but this time adding in influence of spacious, dark, and gothic neofolk akin to something like Current 93, Death In June, or King Dude. This inclusion adds unexpected dour clean vocals and dreary melodies accompanied by acoustic guitars. There is even a trumpet that sits somewhere between Miles Davis?s smoky fusion and Ennio Morricone?s masterful Spaghetti Western film scores. In summation, this album is not something I can truly describe in words. My best recommendation would be to pick it up on vinyl, sit down with it on the stereo, pour over the breathtaking photography by Lucas Deshazer, and get lost in the sonic journey. |
| Willie Nelson Shotgun Willie |
| Willie Nelson Phases and Stages |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason |
